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Part 2: Chili Conquers the U.S.A.
Dallas County Jail Chili
Chili DeGolyer
Chili H. Allen Smith
Wick Fowler's Chili
Joe Cooper's Chili
Cincinnati-Style Chili
Whale Chili
The Great Chili con Carne Project Index
From its humble origins as various meat and chile concoctions in Mexico, the concept of chili crossed the border and further evolved in the Lone Star State, which now claims the bowl 'o red as its State Dish. But that was just the beginning.
Chili for the Masses
Given the popularity of chili in Texas, commercialization of it was inevitable. Somewhere between 1877 and 1882 (no chili historian seems to have figured this one out), William G. Tobin of San Antonio, Texas, produced (presumably in his home) the first canned chili, W .G. Tobin's Chili-Con-Carne. By 1884, he had constructed and was about to open the first chili canning factory, the Tobin Canning Company in San Antonio, but he died, and the factory project failed. Incidentally, the first printed chili recipe appeared in Mrs. Owen's Cook Book in 1880 (see "Part 1: The Evolution of Chili con Carne" for the recipe.)
Chili became very popular in the Texas jail system between 1890 and 1900, giving some people the idea that the dish originated behind bars. Chili historian Floyd Cogan gives us the reason: "How else could you take bad or cheap cuts of meat, add chile peppers, spices, and herbs and make them taste first rate?" According to Cogan, inmates rated the jails according to the chili that was served, and after serving their time they wrote back to the jails for recipes. "Some, we are told," added Cogan, "missed it so bad that they committed crimes just to get back in jail so they could once again have their fill of real Texas jail chili."
Basic Jailhouse Chili
Photo by Chel Beeson
The fame of chili con carne began to spread, and the dish soon became a major tourist attraction, making its appearance in Mexican restaurants all over Texas--and elsewhere. At the World's Fair in Chicago in1893, a bowl o' red was available at the "San Antonio Chili Stand."
Around this time, commercial chili powder was created, but history is unclear about who actually invented it. Some chili historians credit the invention of the red dust to DeWitt Clinton Pendery of Fort Worth, who began selling his own brand of "Chiltomaline" powder to cafes and hotels in the early 1890s. It was Pendery who noted in his advertising: "The health giving properties of hot chile peppers have no equal. They give tone to the alimentary canal, regulating the functions, giving a natural appetite, and promoting healthy action of the kidneys, skin, and lymphatics." Pendery's company, first called The Mexican Chilley Supply Company, later changed its name to Pendery's, and it's still open and selling chili powder (and many other spices) today in Fort Worth.
Other sources insist that it was William Gebhardt of New Braunfels, Texas, who produced the first packaged chili powder in 1894. Two years before, Gebhardt had opened a café in back of Miller's Saloon and discovered that chili was the favorite food of his customers. But chili was a seasonal food because homegrown chiles were available only after the summer harvest. Gebhardt solved the problem by importing Mexican ancho chiles so that he could serve the dish year-round.
At first, Gebhardt ran the chiles through a home meat grinder three times. Later, according to a description of the time, Gebhardt "concocted a chili powder in a crude mill by grinding chile peppers, cumin seed, oregano, and black pepper through an old hammer mill, feeding a little of this and a little of that to the mill. What came out was put in little-necked bottles and then packed in a box for retail." At first he called the product "Tampico Dust," but he later changed the name to "Gebhardt's Eagle Chili Powder."
In 1896, Gebhardt opened a factory in San Antonio and was producing five cases of chili powder a week, which he sold from the back of his wagon as he drove through town. He was also an inventor, and eventually patented thirty-seven machines for his factory. By 1899, Gebhardt had received U.S. trademark number 32,329 for his Eagle Chili Powder. The Gebhardt brand is still in existence today.
The turn of the century witnessed a surge in the popularity of chili. Hodge Chili was canned in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1905, and in 1908, Ike's Chili House opened in Tulsa, Oklahoma. That establishment is still open at 712 South Boston Street. Lou Priebe, a regular customer there (and also a judge at the Blue Grass Chili Festival) commented on the establishment: "Chili was the 'soul food' of the Okies. During the Depression, you could go into Ike's and get a bowl of chili for a quarter, and it was the main meal of the day."
William Gebhardt's own brand of chili was canned in San Antonio in 1908 (some say 1911), and "chile con carne" was first defined in an American dictionary in 1909, according to Joe Cooper. It was "a Mexican dish consisting of minced red peppers and meat." Another definition (not in a dictionary) referred to the bowl o' red as "the devil's soup," an allusion to the hot chiles in it.
Walker's Recipe Booklet, 1918
By 1917, Walker's Red Hot Chile con Carne was being canned in Austin, Texas--note the e in chile. During the following year, Walker's was producing forty-five thousand cans of chili a day. In 1921, Wolf Brand Chili was being canned in Corsicana, Texas.
Chili Spreads East
About this time, the popularity of the bowl o' red began to spread, and the first chili emporium opened in Cincinnati in 1922 (some say 1923), the Empress Chili Parlor. According to chili historian F. Starr, "Cincinnati chili was concocted in October, 1922, by a man who had never eaten a bit of Texas chili, and it has been made ever since by people immunized against it by geography and culture."
Indeed. The easterners began serving the chili in strange ways, which, of course, forever earned them the scorn of Texans. One-Way Chili was straight, Cincinnati-style chili. Two-Way was served with spaghetti under the chili. Three-Way added cheese on top. Four-Way added onions to the spaghetti and-cheese chili, and Five-Way added beans to the spaghetti base! The Empress Chili Parlor is still open today, serving the now-traditional Cincinnati chili.
Back in Texas, the chili queens were banned from selling in San Antonio in 1937 for health reasons--public officials objected to flies and poorly washed dishes. They were restored by Mayor Maury Maverick (a real name, folks--unbranded cattle were named after his dad) in 1939, but their stands were closed again shortly after the start of World War II.
Chili continued to be mentioned occasionally--and erroneously--as late as 1964, when William I. Kaufman, in his book, Recipes from the Caribbean and Latin America, wrote in his recipe for Fiesta Chili con Carne: "The best known of all Mexican dishes, chili con carne, may also be eaten with rice instead of beans."
The Texans, however, never forgot their culinary heritage, and in 1977 the Texas Legislature proclaimed chili con carne to be the "Official Texas State Dish." Incidentally, in 1993, the Illinois State Senate passed a resolution proclaiming that Illinois was to be the "Chilli [sic] Capital of the Civilized World," a move that outraged Texans.
During the 1980s, San Antonio began staging what they call "historic re-enactments" of the chili queens, complete with some of the original queens, such as songstress Lydia Mendoza, who serenaded the chili eaters. The "Return of the Chili Queens Festival," held each year in Market Square, recreates the era of the chili queens and celebrates the dish that, no matter what its origin, will live forever in the hearts, minds, and stomachs of Texans.
An Early, Classic Chili Poster
America's Official Food?
Chili lovers are never satisfied. Despite the fact that the bowl o' red is the Texas State Dish, a movement has been growing for about twenty years to have Congress declare chili con carne to be America's "official food." In 1984, Congressman Manuel Lujan of New Mexico introduced House Joint Resolution 465--the so-called "Chili Bill"--which contained ten instances of the word "whereas." Here are four of them:
"Whereas chili enjoys a universal popularity throughout the width and breadth of this great land that is unequal to other American foods," Lujan wrote, "and whereas chili is a succulent, distinctive blending of meats and spices that has economically nourished countless millions of Americans since its historic inception in the nineteenth century; and whereas chili is a truly egalitarian cuisine whose vast popularity prevails with American people of every economic and social stratum, unifying gastronomes and those with more proletarian palates as its devotees; and whereas chili is a definitive food whose hearty, committed character embodies the robust and indomitable American spirit, be it Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives in Congress Assembled, that chili be designated as the official food of this great Nation."
Since the Chili Bill's introduction, however, it has been simmering on Congress' back burner and has never been passed into law. But loyal chili fans try year after year with national publicity campaigns in hopes of getting the bill passed. In 1988, a campaign led by self-proclaimed World Chili Ambassador Ormly Gumfudgin--and supported by the International Chili Society and Maximum Strength Pepto-Bismol--attempted to obtain the signatures of one million chiliheads on a petition to support passage of the bill, which had stalled in the House for four years. Because more than 750,000 people attend chili cook-offs each year, Gumfudgin believed that the goal was obtainable. The goal was not achieved, however, but the bill continued its long stewing in the House of Representatives.
Another publicity stunt was staged in 1993, when the International Chili Society and Hyundai Motor America co-sponsored the twenty-three-city "Chili Across America" tour. That motorcade, led by a motorized stagecoach with a three-hundred-pound copper chili pot mounted on top, was designed to begin at the Capitol building in Washington. The final stop in the tour, appropriately enough, was the ICS World Championship Chili Cook-Off in Reno, with its $25,000 grand prize. It seems likely that the cantankerousness of Congress will match that of chili cooks all over the country, and that a final decision on our national dish will come long after this series is published.
Meanwhile, on January 23, 1993, a record crowd of thirty-five thousand chiliheads showed up in Greenway Plaza Park in Houston for the ninth annual Houston Post Go Texan Roundup Chili Cook-Off. And that was a local contest. So the public support for chili simply will not evaporate.
The recipes that follow reveal the developments of chili con carne, from jails to the chili historians--and the nearly infinite combinations of ingredients and amounts. And we just had to throw in the funniest, most fanciful chili recipe ever created: Whale Chili.
Chili philosopher John Thorne comments: "Texas prison chili got its good reputation from Sheriff Smoot Schmidt's truly fine recipe for the Dallas County Jail. Recently, however, a Texas prison chili contest was won by the Huntsville Penitentiary with a godawful recipe that called for twice as much cumin as chili powder and '2 handfuls' of monosodium glutamate. In Texas, this is called crime deterrence."
½ pound beef suet, ground
2 pounds coarsely ground beef
3 garlic cloves, minced
1½ tablespoons paprika
3 tablespoons chili powder
1 tablespoon cumin seeds
1 tablespoon salt
1 teaspoon white pepper
1½ teaspoons dried sweet (mild) chile pods (or paprika)
3 cups water
Fry the suet in a heavy kettle. Add the meat, garlic, and seasonings; cover. Cook slowly for 4 hours, stirring occasionally. Add the water and continue cooking until the chili has thickened slightly, about 1 hour. Serve plain or mixed with an equal portion of cooked pink or red beans.
Yield: 6 servings
Heat Scale: Medium
Chili historian Everett Lee DeGolyer was the owner of The Saturday Review of Literature, and was also, according to H. Allen Smith, "a world traveler, a gourmet, and the Solomon of the chili bowl." Here is the historian's recipe in his own words.
4 cloves garlic, chopped
1 onion, chopped
2½ cups fat rendered from beef suet
3 pounds center-cut steak (Trim and cut into cubes of less than ½ inch dimension. Lazy people
grind meat in a food chopper using only the coarse knife.)
2 cups water, or the liquid in which the chiles have been boiled
2 to 12 pods of chile colorado [New Mexican], according to taste. If you are muy fuerte, use more. 1 teaspoon of comino seeds (cumin in English, or kummel if you understand it better)
1 teaspoon oregano (marjoram)
1 teaspoon salt
Brown the garlic and onion in the fat, add meat, and cook until gray (not brown) in color.
Add 2 cups of water and let simmer 1 hour.
Take pods of dried chile, wash, stem, and remove seeds. Put to boil in cold water and boil slowly until the skins slip easily, usually 45 minutes. Rub the pulp through a colander or sieve to make a smooth paste. You should now have ½ to 3/4 cup of pulp. Chile powder, prepared commercially, may be substituted for the pulp at the equivalent of one heaping tablespoon of chile powder for 2 pods of chile.
Rub comino seeds and oregano to a powder, toasting if need be. Add chile pulp, comino, oregano, and salt to the meat and cook slowly for 1 hour.
Yield: 6 to 8 servings
Heat Scale: Varies
From the famous iconoclast and author of The Great Chili Confrontation, here's the recipe that infuriated Texans after it was published in Holiday Magazine in 1967. Smith had the gall to title his article "Nobody Knows More About Chili Than I Do." Once again, the directions are in Smith's own words.
3 pounds chuck, coarsely ground
2 or 3 medium onions, chopped
1 bell pepper, seeds and stems removed, chopped
1 or 2 cloves garlic
½ teaspoon oregano
1/4 teaspoon cumin seed
2 small cans tomato paste
1 quart water
Salt and pepper to taste
3 tablespoons [New Mexican] chile powder
2 cans kidney or pinto beans
Get 3 pounds of chuck, coarse ground. Brown it in an iron kettle. (If you don't have an iron kettle you are not civilized. Go out and get one.) Chop two or three medium-sized onions and one bell pepper and add to the browned meat. Crush or mince one or two cloves of garlic and throw it into the pot, then add about a half a teaspoon of oregano and a quarter teaspoon of cumin seed. Now add two small cans of tomato paste; if you prefer canned tomatoes or fresh tomatoes, put them through a colander. Add about a quart of water. Salt liberally and grind in some black pepper, and, for a starter, two or three tablespoons of chile powder. (Some of us use chile pods, but chile powder is just as good.) Simmer for an hour and a half or longer, then add your beans. Pinto beans are best, but if they are not available, canned kidney beans will do--two 15-17 oz. cans will be adequate. Simmer another half hour. Throughout the cooking, do some tasting from time to time and, as the Gourmet Cookbook puts it, "correct seasoning." When you've got it right let it set for several hours. Later, you may heat it up as much as you want, and put the remainder in the refrigerator. It will taste better the second day, still better the third, and absolutely superb the fourth. You can't even begin to imagine the delights in store for you one week later.
Yield: 8 servings
Heat Scale: Mild
Nowadays it's easy to re-create the chili that Wick used in the first cook-off against H. Allen Smith--just buy some of the famous Wick Fowler 2-Alarm Chili Mix. Or, you can follow the recipe below, which chili legend holds is Wick's original version that he cooked in Terlingua in 1967. Remember to remove the Japanese chiles and the chilipiquins before serving. If this chili is too hot, Wick recommended drinking a pint of buttermilk.
3 pounds chili-grind beef, mostly lean
1½ cups canned tomato sauce
Water as needed
1 teaspoon Tabasco sauce
3 heaping tablespoons chile powder
1 teaspoon oregano
1 teaspoon cumin seed or powder
2 onions, chopped
6 or more cloves garlic, chopped
1 teaspoon cayenne
1 tablespoon paprika
12 or more whole dried Japanese chiles (very hot)
6 to 8 chilipiquins (very, very hot)
3 tablespoons flour for thickener
Sear the meat in a large skillet until gray in color. Transfer the meat to a chili pot, along with the tomato sauce and enough water to cover the meat about ½ inch, mixing well. Stir in the Tabasco, chili powder, oregano, cumin, onions, garlic, salt, cayenne, and paprika. Add the Japanese chiles and chilipiquins, taking care not to break them open. Let simmer for 1 hour and 45 minutes, stirring gently at intervals.
About 30 minutes before the end of the cooking time, skim off any grease that has risen to the top. Mix the flour with a little water to make it liquid without lumps. Add this paste to ingredients in the pot and blend in thoroughly. Adjust salt and seasonings. Unless you are chili hungry at the moment, let the chili remain in the pot overnight, then reheat and serve. Freeze any chili left over. Serve with sliced or chopped onions and pinto beans on the side.
Heat Scale: Hot
Joe, the author of probably the best book ever written about chili, included his own recipe in With or Without Beans. "That which is to follow," he wrote, "represents many tedious, but gladdening, hours in the kitchen, not to mention countless pots of chili." Joe then presented three pages of description of his chili before revealing the recipe. He modestly stated that it should not be construed as the "best ever" chili, but rather one that satisfied the Coopers' appetites. "This recipe," concluded Cooper, "like most all worthwhile others, was conceived out of an uncertain past; born of a belief that no man can live long and prosper without good chili; reared in the confusion of trial and error; and now exists in maturity with the respect of neighbors and friends."
1/4 cup olive oil
3 pounds lean beef (never veal), hand-chopped into bite-sized cubes
2 bay leaves (if desired)
8 dry [New Mexican] chile pods or 6 tablespoons chile powder
3 teaspoons salt
10 cloves garlic, finely chopped
1 teaspoon ground cumin
1 teaspoon red pepper [hot Chile powder]
½ teaspoon black pepper
1 tablespoon sugar
3 tablespoons paprika
1/4 teaspoon cocoa (optional)
3 tablespoons flour
6 tablespoons corn meal
When the olive oil is hot, in a 6-quart pot, add meat and sear over high heat; stir constantly until gray--not brown. It then will have the consistency of whole-grain hominy. Add 1 quart water and cook (covered) at bubbling simmer 1½ to 2 hours.
Then add all ingredients, except thickening (flour and corn meal). Cook 30 minutes longer at same bubbling simmer. Further cooking will damage some of the spice flavors. Skim off the fat.
Now add thickening, previously mixed in some cold water. Cook 5 minutes to determine if more water is necessary (likely) for your desired consistency. Stir to prevent sticking after thickening is added. A fairly hot chili.
A Recent Illustration for aCincinnati Chili Cook-Off
This chili is often served over spaghetti and is then called chili-mac or TwoWay chili. According to Floyd Cogan, "The proper way to make chili-mac is to place cooked spaghetti (al dente) on a plate and cover it with chili, with grated Parmesan cheese on top."
2 pounds coarsely ground chuck steak
1 cup chopped onions
2 8-ounce cans tomato sauce
4 cloves garlic, minced
1/4 teaspoon powdered allspice
4 whole cloves, crushed
1 bay leaf, powdered
½ ounce unsweetened chocolate
3 tablespoons chili powder (or more for heat)
2 tablespoons cider vinegar
2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
½ teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1½ teaspoons sugar
2 tablespoons flower mixed with 1/4 cup water
Combine the chuck steak and the water and simmer for 30 minutes. Add the remaining ingredients except the flour mixed with water and simmer for 3 hours.
Add the flour mixed with water, bring to a boil, and cook for 5 minutes. Remove from the heat and serve.
In 1989, Sheldon P. Wimpfen, of Luray, Virginia, wrote that he had been a chili cook for fifty-five of his seventy-five years and that fact makes him an expert on the subject. He lambasted us for our "mistaken tales" about the origin of chili con carne. He enclosed as his evidence the first recipe ever used for chili con carne, dating from approximately 15,000 B.C. The ancient recipe which follows was invented by the Alaxsxaq Indians of the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes on the Bering Land Bridge. He apologized in advance for any insult to whale lovers and wrote, "that's just the way they cook up there."
3 tons red chile pods
1 medium (50-foot) blue whale, cubed to fingertip size using razor-sharp ulus (a native knife)
60 oogruk (seals), cubed to fingertip size using razor-sharp ulus
30 tons onions, chopped fine using razor-sharp ulus
1 ton garlic, minced using razorsharp ulus
100 pounds sea salt
600 pounds oregano
400 pounds cumin
Dig a bowl in the ice 40 feet long, 20 feet wide, and 10 feet deep. Place all ingredients in the ice bowl and mix well with dull ulus. Add water and fumarole-heated stones until the ice bowl is bubbling. Reduce heat and simmer for 2 weeks. Ladle leftovers into 5-gallon leather buckets and freeze in a glacier.
Yield: Enough to feed an entire tribe for a year
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Creating opportunity to develop a passionate, educated faith
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Jeniffer shares a room in Nashville, TN with a dramatically overweight Lop rabbit named Key Lime Pie. Though now fully committed to her speaking ministry, her past is jam-packed with weird and wonderful adventures.
She has traveled all over the world for various reasons, whether it was studying medicine in Ethiopia, climbing the mountains of San Jose in Costa Rica, biking across Italy or selling vacuums to penguins on the glaciers of Antarctica. She's worn many hats, having dissected everything from cow's eyes and sharks in the name of science, to jumping out of a plane, served as a youth pastor, participated in the world's largest leapfrog game (making it into the Guiness Book!), line-danced her way through two country music videos, acted onstage and on-screen, waitressed, pole-vaulted, worked as a jeweler, toured as tour chaplain with Stacie Orrico, and was part of the startup staff for Michael W. Smith's Rocketown (the disenfranchised youth ministry).
Jen proudly speaks about choosing to remain a virgin and the blessings of remaining pure. Lifestyle evangelism is not only her most passionate speaking topic, but also her manner of living. It is a topic that encompasses everything the body of Christ desires to impart to young people today---to live in such a way that those around you will be eternally impacted for the kingdom of God.
She has no tattoos, but she does have a B.A. from Taylor University--a degree in Premedical Biology with a minor in Theater Performance Arts--she's always enjoyed a wide variety of life experiences. Its through these experiences that she is able to connect with and relate to today's youth and bring to them a passion and desire to live life to the fullest as a beloved child of God.
From 2006-Present, Camps all around the US
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I've had the privilege of not only getting to watch Jeniffer's ministry at work, but getting to receive that ministry in my personal life through the time that she invested in me. Her mentoring heart, especially to teen and young adult girls, has been such an inspiration and changed so many lives. I can so clearly see how much she loves and cares for those girls regardless of who they are or how well she knows them. Her stance for purity and pursuit of the Lord has and will continue to impact various people through her speaking, her relationships with others, and her lifestyle.Autumn Crew
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Jeniffer is aware of the tough issues facing teens today. She address these issues with compassion and with the truth of God's word. I love hearing her speak about living in Christ because it's about a relationship with Jesus and how He continues to teach and grow her. She is real about her own struggles and victories and by sharing both she is approachable to teens of all different ages and to adults. Jeniffer is not afraid to speak truth but she is excellent at speaking it so the listener can hear. She expresses fun stories of her life that demonstrate her relationship with Christ. I have seen audiences smile, laugh, cry, rejoice, and sit to eat with her after she speaks. Her words bring encouragement, inspiration and acceptance and from this place the Holy Spirit is allowed to work on the hearts of those listening.Cindy Dunn
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If Hitler Was A Hippy
This weekend I finally got round to getting over to White Cube in Mayfair to see Jake & Dinos Chapman's 'If Hitler Had Been a Hippy How Happy Would We Be' exhibition.
An absolute spectacle in every room, from embellishing Hitler's original paintings, to the ridiculously detailed hell models – you have to see it while it's still there.
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The Law of One (The Ra Material)
|Don Elkins, Carla Rueckert, James Allen McCarty
|Original title
|The Ra Material: An ancient astronaut speaks
|Working title
|The Law of One
|United States, Louisville, Kentucky
|5 books
|Spirit writings, Occultism
|1984-present (Schiffer Publishing)
|229 pp. (Book I), 125 pp. (Book II), 178 pp. (Book III), 212 pp. (Book IV), 210 pp. (Book V)
|978-0898652604 (1st edition, 1st book)
|LC Class
The Ra Material (known as the The Law of One in later editions) is a collected series of transcripts, of more than 100 sessions, reputedly authored by a non-human intelligence named Ra,[1] claimed to be a group of individual souls at a "higher level of spiritual evolution" that were "channeled" by Carla L. Rueckert (McCarty) in the early 1980s.[2] The series presents commentary and transcripts of dialogue between Don Elkins and Ra, and was published between 1982 and 1998 by Schiffer Books. The publishers attribute the authorship to Don Elkins, Jim McCarty, and Carla L. Rueckert.[3]
The material makes further claims of Ra being of "extraterrestrial" origin, and that Ra had once visited ancient Egypt and assisted in the construction of the pyramids.[1][2][4]
The material offers its own metaphysical, cosmological and epistemological views based on its claim of the "Law of One".
Ra is claimed to be from the "Confederation of Planets in the Service of the Infinite Creator" and the books give an outline of a New Age description of the nature and evolution of consciousness; the concept of the soul (spirit, essence) is said to be reincarnating through these different levels or "densities": 1st density being "mineral consciousness", 2nd density being "vegetable consciousness and animal consciousness", and 3rd density being human life, self-reflective consciousness.[2]
The book argues that the goal of a soul is to "polarize" in one of two possible directions:[5] "polarizing to the positive" through identifying with others empathetically (labeled as "service-to-others"), or "polarizing to the negative" through Identifying the self as separate from others (labeled as "service-to-self"). Souls are said to "harvest" and proceed to the next level once they are properly "polarized". Being one of the main themes from the series,[citation needed] the time of such a harvest was interpreted as imminent in the decade of 2010 and above.[2]
It is said that the levels continue in "polarization" and "harvests" until the 6th density where life aims for "total reunification with all".[2]
Jay Kinney, editor of Gnosis: A Journal of the Western Inner Traditions, wrote that it was worth having a look at for its version of "higher worlds":
"Admittedly, channeled information from aliens tops most people's list of dubious sources, and I am not touting it as a revealed truth demanding our allegiance. Nevertheless the system is worth at least a few minutes' attention for its sophisticated version of the general doctrine of higher worlds".
Kinney also criticized the material as open to ethical misuse:
"The drawback of the Ra schema is that it is readymade for paranoid or moralistic abuse, inviting the too neat division of people into positive or negative categories, and projecting those polarized values in even starker fashion onto immaterial realms that are, for most of us, vague intuitions at best".[2]
See also[edit]
- ^ a b Andrew Ross (1991). Strange Weather: Culture, Science, and Technology in the Age of Limits. Verso. pp. 39–. ISBN 978-0-86091-567-6. Retrieved 6 February 2013.
- ^ a b c d e f Gnosis (Summer 1995). Introduction: Stairways to Heaven by Jay Kinney. Gnosis 36. Gnosis.
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Within this philosophy, one of the aspects most captivating to me was the concept of polarity. The simplest way of defining polarity would be to describe its nature. In the positive polarity, energy strives for expansion; while in the negative polarity energy gravitates into contraction. Each in direct opposition, yet interdependent upon the other to some extent, much like the workings of contrast between light and darkness in photography.


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LIVINGSTON, West Lothian
Leving's town, after a Fleming of that name who settled here about the time of Alexander I.
A parish with a village of the same name near the middle of the SE border of the county of Linlithgow. It is bounded NE by Uphall parish, E and SE by the county of Edinburgh, SW by Whitburn parish, and NW by the parishes of Bathgate and Ecclesmachan. On the SE the boundary follows the course of the river Almond from a point almost 1 mile due E of Livingston church, up to the junction with Breich Water, and then follows the course of the latter stream for 3 ½ miles, till near Auchinhard the parish of Whitburn is reached. From this it passes 5 furlongs NNW to the SE branch of Foulshiels Burn, down which it passes to the Almond and up the Almond to a point 2 ½ furlongs due W of Riddoch-hill, except at the N corner where it touches Brox Burn, the boundary is purely artificial and very irregular, the general shape of the parish showing two compact portions to the NE and SW, united by a narrow neck in the centre.
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Double Process – The Better Grunge HDR?
Double Processing
Readers familiar with this site know I am not a big fan of the "Grunge" Style of HDR. I don't say don't do it, it's just not my cup of tea (I think I have been watching Wheeler Dealer, the British show, too much this week, Mate!). Although I do admit I would like to have some fun playing with a grunge style but every time I do my "Fans" or my customers give it a big thumbs down and say they like my more natural or "As the eye sees" style of HDR. And I agree for the most part, I do what works for me.
But what if I were to do a Grunge style, what would it look like? Well, I don't think it would look anything like the Grunge presets in popular HDR programs. But how would I do it? With a little known technique that well started for me, as a mistake: Double Processing.
Double processing? What's that? Well quite simply, it is taking your image and running it through your tone mapping…Twice!
So let's take a look at a couple images from my portfolio down as I normally would do with pretty much my normal process in Photomatix Pro 4.1
The first one is from the old artillery bunkers above the Golden Gate Bridge and the Marin Headlands
The Next Image is from an abandoned filling station in Vista New Mexico.
Now let's see what these images look like using the standard Grunge Preset in Photomatix.
They certainly have that look. But they are just too Mid-toned for me. How about if we make them look surrealistic but with some better tonality throughout the image?
So how do we double process in Photomatix. It's really quite simple. If you are using the Standalone version, after you do your first round on normal tone mapping, you hit process and it applies the tone mapping. Usually at this point you hit save. Well instead, we just press the Tone- Mapping Button again and it takes the image right back into the tone-mapping screen and applies the previous settings again to the image. Or you could change them up a bit if you wanted to go for a different look.
If you are using Lightroom and the image gets taken back into Lightroom after the tone-mapping, simply export that single image again into Photomatix.
For mine, I just applied the same settings again (Strength 70, Saturation 70, Light Adjustments: Natural, Gamma -1.20)
Here are the results
Ok not bad, but let's take it just a bit further and bring in some more of the detail that the Grunge style has. We'll do that by using some different software. Topaz Adjust 5.
Have I told you how improved the new Topaz adjust 5 is? They have some REALLY useful presets and I've begun using some of them on standard images to make what I get in camera look more like what my eye sees when I am shooting. For this example, I just used the "Detail" preset in Topaz Adjust 5, Just to increase our detail and add a bit of edge contrast.
And there you have it, MY version of Grunge. Might not be your style, might not be something my customers would even buy. But it was fun and a different way to do things for those times you might want to go over the top a bit. Or if you've already been going over the top, a better workflow that may improve your images.
Okay, now where did I put my Cup of Tea mate?
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Anatomy of a Shoot – The Grab
Anatomy of a Shoot – The Grab
Sometimes…your best shot of the day is just a grab.
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I hadn't even pressed the shutter once on my trip and I was already pissed off. I was 100 miles from home and I left my wallet home. No money, No Credit Cards, No Drivers License. Luckily they didn't ask for ID at the Border Patrol Check Point ( No I wasn't crossing any border, we have Border Patrol Checkpoint within the state) It wouldn't have been fun sitting around while they checked my status.
Piss off point two. I was told there was some great germination of desert wildflowers out at Fossil Canyon ( Shell Canyon) in an area of the desert I don't normally go to. So I thought I should check it out for the coming weeks when the deserts (hopefully) come alive with beautiful wildflowers to bring a different andcolorful look to the often mono-toned desert landscape. So I drive 100 miles…and there is nothing, nada, zip, zero. I have no clue what they were talking about in a web piece I had read. It was as barren as I have seen.
So, I parked and ate lunch anyway and then decided to check out Shell Canyon since I have never hiked there before. It didn't look promising but I was there and nothing much else to do. Maybe there was some hidden gem up the trail. So after lunch I just grabbed my 5D and a 17-40 L Lens and nothing else for a quick walk into the canyon. Hopefully there would be something interesting. There wasn't. It was pretty run of the mill as far as desert canyons go. Pretty drab. NO plant life really to speak of. Not even any really interesting formations to shoot. So after about 1/4 mile I turn around and head out.
Pretty dejected on the way out, as I near the mouth of the canyon I see this light on a single rock. It looks pretty cool but I don't think much of it. But I stop and handheld, I fire off a 3 exposure +-2 set and I continue on my merry way.
I spent the rest of the day in Agua Caliente, a part of the Anza-Borrego desert that isn't visited by many but there are some nice areas of fish hook cactus, teddy bear chollas and agaves. It's early in the season so nothing spectacular for color but there was some beautiful light just before mountain sunset (Remember when shooting in a canyon or area surrounded by mountains that the sun will set behind those mountains about an hour or more before actual sunset) and I also was able to get a couple shots of coyote and jack rabbit which was nice. I'm usually not able to get as close as I did to them.
The day ended on a good note because for me, any day in the desert is a great day. This one was no different. The end of the day is always beautiful there. Even if there is nothing to shoot.
I got home and after dinner began to do my sort of the days shoot. I didn't shoot much HDR because there wasn't a need to. The light the rest of the day was quite beautiful but not super high in DR. So I processed a bunch of Black and White shots of cactus and the like. I got a few nice shots but nothing earth shattering. At the end I went back and processed that 3 shot I did at the mouth of the canyon.
I processed in Photomatix and the color image was nice but thenI took into Photoshop and I processed it using my convert to grayscale action I made…and there it was… that was the IT in it. There was the light you look for and it was at a point in the day where light is usually it's worst – Midday. It was just a quick grab when there was nothing else to shoot. But that was the shot of the day. The one that makes everything worth the effort. Light – Found
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Serving size: 1 chicken thigh with 1/3 cup sauce over 1/2 cup rice
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How would I make this with out a slow cooker. My husband and I don't have one.Dietitian comment: You can cook it in the oven at 350 degrees F for 1 hour. Remove from oven and place chicken on a plate. Add cornstarch and liquid to pan drippings and stir over stove top burner until thickened. Pour over chicken thighs.
This was very easy to prepare. We liked this recipe, however it was on the sweeter side. Next time I might add a little more Tabasco sauce to try and balance it more. Love the chicken thighs but may try the breasts or boneless pork chops next time.
I hate dark meat can I substitute chicken breasts for the thighs and if so how much chicken do I use? Boneless skinless chicken breasts. thanks!! Dietitian comment: Yes yiu can use 1-1/2 pounds boneless chicken breasts, which is 4-6 breasts depending on the size. After cooking the portion is ~2-1/2 ounces cooked chicken.
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Last week, the small town of West, Texas suffered a terrible tragedy when an explosion at a fertilizer storage facility ripped through the community. Approximately 200 people were wounded, and at least 14 lost their lives. Among these are many of the volunteer first responders who bravely sacrificed their own lives in order to protect …
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THE Kiambu county government has lifted a ban of change of land use. The ban was issued last year after completion of the land use zoning to guide proper utilisation of land.
Through a public notice issued by Administration executive Wilson Maroa, the county states that developers were advised that all applications for subdivisions, building plans, laying of fiber optic cables, change and extension of user and extension of leases must be submitted for vetting at respective subcounty planning offices.
The notice states that advertisement for change of user will be done on the instructions of the county government and at the applicants cost. The county government had halted all change-of-land-use transactions until they designate agricultural and commercial areas.
Land Eunice Kaloki said the temporary stoppage of change of user will protect tea and coffee, which have been seriously affected by the turning of tea and coffee estates.
"The temporary stoppage of change of user was aimed at safeguarding tea and coffee which had quickly being taken over by the booming housing sector in the county," she said.
The Institute of Surveyors of Kenya had last month denounced the move by some counties including Kiambu, Elgeyo Marakwet and Kajiado to halt the transactions as they sort out the mess in their land records and master plans.
However, Kiambu has established a ward-based service delivery structure to help with prompt service delivery across the county. The county's spokesman Machel Waikenda said: "The county is in the process of developing service delivery maps and profiles that will outline backlogs inherited from the various defunct local authorities and baselines as well as an assessment and confirmation of citizen needs."
Waikenda said this will culminate in well-integrated, coordinated and outcome-based operational plans to address ward profiles, service delivery backlogs and baselines and customer needs.


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Cheerful and sunny, the Parchment Check collection by Mackenzie Childs has a beautiful hand-painted check pattern with a blend of taupe, gold and aqua rimmed in bronzed stainless steel and finished with a ceramic colour glaze for a glossy finish. Prepare piping hot tea in this three quart tea kettle.
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Top 20 Songs: Week of March 31-April 6, 2013
There's been some major movement in the Loudwire Radio Top 20 Countdown this week, as Three Days Grace make the giant jump from No. 3 to No. 1, knocking out last week's chart-topper -- Halestorm's 'Freak Like Me' -- in the process. The two songs actually just swapped spots on the charts, with Papa Roach's 'Where Did the Angels Go' holding steady at No. 2 for a second consecutive week.


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Author David Blatner provides in-depth training on InDesign CS5, the print and interactive page layout application from Adobe, in InDesign CS5 Essential Training. The course shows how to create new documents with strong and flexible master pages, precisely position text and graphics, prepare documents for print, and export designs as interactive PDF or Flash SWF files. Exercise files are included with the course.
Okay, you have this InDesign CS5 file, but you need to send it to someone else who only has InDesign CS4. And unfortunately, you can look all you want in the Save As dialog box, but there's no Save As CS4 feature. What will you do? Well, the answer is not choose Save As, but choose Export. And in the Export dialog box, choose from the Format pop-up menu, InDesign Markup. That's IDML. Now, you may have heard of something in InDesign called an INX file.
But in InDesign CS5, IDML completely replaces INX. So wherever you've ever heard of INX, just put IDML in your brain now. So what is IDML? Well, it's a way to represent your entire file in sort of a set of XML files. You don't need to know the technical stuff, but it's technically a bunch of XML files that represent your file that you can then hand to an InDesign CS4 user. They can open the IDML file and it rebuilds the document in InDesign CS4. It's pretty clever. Now, of course, not all the features come along for the ride.
Any of your new InDesign CS5 features are stripped out when you open it in InDesign CS4. And there's another problem. This IDML file cannot be opened in InDesign CS3. Only InDesign CS4. So if you need to get something back to InDesign CS3, you'd have to save it out as IDML from CS5, open it into InDesign CS4, and then save out another IDML file, or in that case maybe an INX file, out of InDesign CS4, and open that file in InDesign CS3. Each of these will only go back one version.
Now, as it turns out, this IDML file is useful for other things as well, not just back saving. For example, every now and again I find a document that just acts a little strangely. Maybe a color shows up in the Swatches panel that you can't delete or maybe the pasteboard around the page gets really huge. Just some kind of weirdness that you can't explain. And often the easiest solution to this is to export the file to IDML and then open it back up again. Yes, you can actually open your IDML back up in CS5. It's not just for down saving to CS4.
Here let me show you. I'll save this out to my Desktop as an IDML file and now I'll go to the File > Open dialog box and simply grab that IDML file and open it. Now, it's going to open this document as an Untitled Document. It literally rebuilt the document from scratch, based on the instructions in that IDML file. But it seems to clear out any kind of garbage that might have snuck in along the way. Now, it's rare that you need to do this, but I'm telling you, it can really get you out of some weird jams.
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Animals Matter
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I read the story this morning by Brian Chasnoff about the woman who severs heads off dead dogs. And of course, like most people, I thought that her mother was ignoring what social workers might call clear warning signs that this young person might be disturbed. While she is not committing a crime, there are […] [Read More]
'People Training' offered with a certified dog trainer
If you want to train a dog, you have to be trained yourself in how dogs think and behave. Let's face it, even your dog knows that dog training is really people training in disguise. Any dog training classes you take are designed to show you how to best communicate and interact with their canines. […] [Read More]
Should people get compensation when their pet is killed?
If someone were to shoot your pet, you probably would receive compensation for the cost of the pet and perhaps even the cremation. But no state has ever awarded compensation for the "emotional loss" and "loss of companionship" for a pet. At least not yet. Vermont is considering a case right now where a man […] [Read More]
How to calm an anxious pet
Some pets naturally have nervous dispositions. Some may have real phobias to noises, like thunder and firecrackers. Just like people, our pets can develop anxiety disorders that may require behavioral modification, homeopathic remedies or prescription medicines to treat. If you have had pets most of your life, I am willing to bet that at some […] [Read More]
Search and rescue dogs sniff out survivor at Haiti UN Field Office
I was just watching CNN and the live report of the Urban Search and Rescue Task Force from Fairfax, Virginia, working with their dogs at the United Nations field offices in Haiti. I only had the television on for a few minutes while I had breakfast, but they were pulling a man out of the […] [Read More]
Turns out pet owners don't see sterilizing pets as a priority
In spite of our best efforts to promote spay/neuter, some pet owners don't see sterilizing pets as a priority. In a survey commissioned by PetSmart Charities, Ipsos marketing released some surprising trends by surveying 3,000 pet owners on various pet issues, from adoption to spay and neuter. • Of the unsterilized dogs and cats acquired […] [Read More]
Cold weather pet tips for dogs, cats, and feral cats
As the temperature plunges and winds whip up in South Texas, it's imperative that pet owners take extra steps to ensure the well-being of their dogs and cats. First rule: Keep pets inside during inclement and cold weather. While this may seem obvious, many people think just because a dog or cat has a fur […] [Read More]
Giving the 'Shirts off their Backs' for animals
This is no ordinary pets and people calendar. Women in Bulverde, Texas, have literally given the "Shirts off their Backs" for a special 12-month calendar to raise money for the Bulverde Area Humane Society. With funding down due to the economy, the organization decided it had to get creative in raising funds. So they found […] [Read More]
Unlikely Animal Friends: The Orangutan and the Hound Dog
This past weekend, I watched a great show called "Unlikely Animal Friends" on National Geographic TV. It featured wonderful stories of unlikely animal companions and their unique bonds of friendship, which may be surprising to some and uplifting for others. My favorite story was about an orangutan and hound dog who meet down by the […] [Read More]


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Innovative Acquires VTLS
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On May 30, 2014 Innovative acquired VTLS, a library automation solutions provider with customers in 44 countries. The combined companies will be led by Innovative CEO Kim Massana.
VTLS's offerings include well-known and respected library automation products including Virtua, VITAL, Chamo, and FasTrac. The acquisition by Innovative brings together its corporate resources with the special consulting and support expertise that VTLS has established internationally. As part of the transition, VTLS flagship products will be re-branded, incorporating the company name into the product name including VTLS-Virtua, VTLS-VITAL, and VTLS-Chamo Discovery.
The combined company will offer even greater resources to Innovative customers in solving the challenges of library automation, deepening customer support and product development capabilities worldwide.
Innovative now supports an installed base of over 2,400 library systems, totaling 9,500 libraries, in 66 countries. Corporate headquarters will continue to be located in Emeryville, CA, with other major offices in Blacksburg, VA; Syracuse, NY; Dublin, Ireland; Barcelona, Spain; Kuala Lumpur (Selangor), Malaysia; Noida, India; Madrid, Spain; and Taipei City, Taiwan. Innovative now employs more than 500 staff members, including 150 librarians.
A press release announcing the acquisition was issued on June 2, 2014.
Press Inquiries
Gene Shimshock, SVP, Global Marketing, Innovative, firstname.lastname@example.com or 510-496-3941
April Mitchell, Director of Marketing, Innovative, firstname.lastname@example.com or 510-496-3888
Things You Might Want to Know
While we can't answer all the questions you might have, we're providing some additional information below.
What are the benefits of the acquisition for VTLS customers?
What are the benefits of the acquisition for Innovative customers?
What role will current VTLS management have in the new company?
Will customers on the VTLS platform be required to migrate to Innovative products?
Who will be providing support to libraries using VTLS products?
Will Innovative continue to sell VTLS products?
Will there be a next release of Virtua and other VTLS products?
Will VITAL continue to be supported?
Will there be a migration path for customers on the VTLS ILS? What will happen to the "Open Skies" initiative and the upcoming release of web circulation for Virtua?
VTLS is currently performing consulting services for my library. Will these services continue?
I am a VTLS library. Who will I be working with going forward?
How does this move impact the earlier Polaris acquisition?
How can I keep informed of the progress the company is making during the transition?
Why the acquisition?
VTLS was seeking a corporate partner willing to invest in its commitment to creating scalable solutions to library technology challenges. Innovative was appealing because of its strategic commitment to growth and better serving the global library community.
What are the benefits of the acquisition for VTLS customers?
The acquisition will result in enhanced support for VTLS's established international customer base and diverse product suite.
VTLS customers will also benefit long-term from the pooling of knowledge and expertise of the combined product management and development groups.
What are the benefits of the acquisition for Innovative customers?
Innovative customers will likewise benefit from the pooling of knowledge and expertise.
Bringing the two companies together will allow Innovative to provide a new level of product development and support worldwide that will allow libraries to better serve their users.
What role will current VTLS management have in the new company?
Dr. Vinod Chachra, Founder and former VTLS President and CEO, has accepted a six-month interim role with Innovative as Vice President of Global Expansion. Reporting to Innovative CEO Kim Massana during this time, he will play a key role in ensuring a smooth transition of customers, technology and products globally, after which, he will be leaving Innovative to pursue other interests.
Other members of the VTLS sales and development teams will join the Innovative management group. VTLS's current offices in Blacksburg, Virginia, Barcelona, Spain, and Selangor, Malaysia will be retained and become Innovative centers for operations, along with Syracuse, New York, Dublin, Ireland, and Noida, India. Emeryville, California will remain the company's corporate headquarters.
Will customers on the VTLS platform be required to migrate to Innovative products?
No, customers can choose to remain on the VTLS platform. All VTLS products will continue to supported, including Virtua, VITAL, and Chamo.
Who will be providing support to libraries using VTLS products?
Innovative will continue to support to customers on the various VTLS products. Support phone numbers will remain the same for customers using VTLS products for the time being and we'll keep you informed if and when changes to support practices occur.
Will Innovative continue to sell VTLS products?
Yes, Innovative will continue to sell and support VTLS products.
Will the VTLS name continue?
The combined companies will operate as one "Innovative" company. However, the VTLS name will continue to signify the unique position of the product portfolio. Key product will be rebranded as VTLS-Virtua, VTLS-VITAL, etc..
Will there be a next release of Virtua and other VTLS products?
We plan to deliver a new release of Virtua that incorporates enhancements driven by contractual development and customer feedback related to key areas of functionality. We are currently evaluating the VTLS-Virtua product roadmap and will announce a target release date with preliminary enhancements list after we have a better understanding of the software and outstanding commitments.
Will VITAL continue to be supported?
VTLS-VITAL will continue to be supported for the foreseeable future. Innovative views Digital Asset Management as an important area of library operations. As with Virtua, we are still learning about the VITAL product, and we will announce more specific plans once we have a better understanding.
Will there be a migration path for customers on the VTLS ILS? What will happen to the "Open Skies" initiative and the upcoming release of web circulation for Virtua?
Yes. Innovative and VTLS have a shared vision of a cloud-based computing future and all customers will have a smooth path to a next-generation unified platform.
New products and apps in the pipeline will focus on mobile and web for Sierra, Polaris, and VTLS product lines. Along with new features and functionality, key features from Sierra, the Polaris ILS, and Virtua will merge as a cloud-based unified platform is developed over next few years.
We will be providing web-based circulation to our Sierra and Polaris customers later this year and we'd be pleased to provide similar functionality to VTLS-Virtua users. We will announce our plans once we've fully evaluated all of the product roadmap plans.
VTLS is currently performing consulting services for my library. Will these services continue?
Yes. Innovative intends to continue any currently active consulting projects for all our customers, regardless of which company originated the consulting agreement, and we will be reaching out to individual customers regarding those projects in the coming weeks. Beyond currently active projects, we are aware of several outstanding proposals for custom development work and consulting services, and we hope to be able to fulfill those as well. We are taking some time in the coming weeks to evaluate the capacity of the combined company to provide custom development and consulting services for our libraries over the next 12 months to ensure that our commitments to any custom development projects can be honored. We look forward to following up with specific customers regarding those proposed projects.
I am a VTLS library. Who will I be working with going forward?
For most of the VTLS libraries, you won't see a difference over the next few months. We're working hard to keep the customer service and sales organization operating smoothly. We'll proactively keep you informed if there are any changes as we move forward.
How does this move impact the earlier Polaris acquisition?
Our commitment to the Polaris ILS customers remains unchanged. We're currently working on a consolidated product roadmap that should be available in 60-90 days.
How can I keep informed of the progress the company is making during the transition?
We'll be updating our customers in several ways. Over the short term, we'll be updating this web page as we respond to questions and begin the process of integrating the two companies. In addition, Kim Massana will be providing updates in his blog CEO INN-Sights. All Innovative customers (including the new VTLS customers) will receive Innovative's monthly newsletter, INN-Brief. If you would like to make sure you are on our email list, email us at email@example.com and we'll be happy to add you.


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i made this myself....... im really gonna miss barlowgirl so i made this myself :P hope you like it :]
I find it so interesting how I can be so critical of myself and how others can also. I really like the example that Jesus gives to us...Isaiah says that He wasnt much to look at...He was afflicted, rejected, criticized, etc. And yet that didn't cause Him to waver in any way. John tells us that Jesus knew who He was, where He had come from, and where He was going, and that knowledge kept Him focused on what His purpose was. I think this is key for any of us who struggle with feelings of inadequacy when it comes to ourselves and whether or not we think that God can use us to accomplish His will. Knowing who we are (His), where we come from (He formed us in our mother's womb and prepared good works for us to do), and where we are headed (Heaven) will help keep us eternally minded and not focused so much on the natural.
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Oh! I would unto a Wild Wood go
And there seek the calming balm of indolence.
Oh I would into that Wild Wood go
And there let down my guard.
And there, on beds of moss will I,
Rest beneath the star filled sky.
And once that I am safely come
I will lay me down, light as innocence
Care-free as a lover's step
When hence to his beloved's arms he turns.
Oh the magic of a mind set free:
Free in the Wild Wood without a care to be.
But can I into the Wild Wood go
To seek and find that thing
Of which I do not know;
And be content?
And if into the Wild Wood deep I go
But find no peace,
Because my cares I could not leave,
Then sorrow lies within my soul
And I will pine and grieve.
May not it be there is no Wild Wood there for me?
Save over yonder mountains high.
But no one there may safely go
With hopes of safe return.
For it is but a spirit place
Where groves of fairy trees
Stand tall, beset by magic
Crowned with beauty, draped with webs
Upon which dew jewels sparkle,
Day and night, lit from within.
But you should know
About this place,
A place on which
Men hang their hopes.
But they like all their kind
Know not that simple hope
Does not a freedom bring,
Nor yet relief from fear and woe.
So if you would into the Wild Wood go,
Take care the burden which you bear
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More than a dozen Wichita Falls students took part in a free back-to-school shopping spree.
Seventeen kindergarten through 12th grade students were selected by the Salvation Army for the special spree.
Each was given an $80 Target gift card, which they used to buy paper, pencils and other school supplies.
"It's the difference between having things that they wouldn't get cause all their mother's,
actually, the two older kids are raised by their grandmother and she really has a tough time so it will be appreciated," says Sandra Taylor, who was shopping with her great granddaughters.
"So, we want to make sure that they have at least one set of clothes and all the supplies... everything new so that way they don't have to be embarrassed going to school on their first day," says Capt. Greg Shannon with the Salvation Army.
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Right... we have made a concrete base in the ground.about 5-6inches deep, could someone give me a blow by blow account of whats next, we want to use a hollow type breezeblock base, then what?..is it cement, then how does it get the best insulation?
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Shvuntz; go to the Forno Bravo Store. There you'll find the plans for building a WFO. The download is free and the information is invaluable. And any other questions i'm sure will be happily answered by others who have already or are currently building.This is a great site.
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Wow. They still make breeze blocks in the uk? That's long gone in the states. For those too young to remember:
My image search showed that "Breeze block" is UK for "Concrete block" in the US. Two nations divided by a common tongue. My mistake.
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I have downloaded the forno bravo info as suggested..it's really good, and I have printed it out, and put it in a ring binder..lots of pages of good info.
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DWTS' Mark Ballas Calls Fifty Shades of Grey "Relatable"
Who says Fifty Shades of Grey is "mommy porn"? It's Mark Ballas porn too, dang it!
The Dancing With the Stars pro was recently in England with his Season 14 runner-up partner, Katherine Jenkins. He told People he read E.L. James' sexy saga while flying back and forth from L.A. to the U.K. He called the book "relatable."
Read into that what you will, but Fifty Shades probably is more relatable than having to find a top hat and tails to be suitably attired for the Epsom Derby, which launched celebrations for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. Mark was Katherine's guest as the Welsh Wiggler sang for Queen Elizabeth and 130,000 other notable.
The queen talked to Katherine, who curtsied, Mark said, but he didn't get a real audience with Her Majesty. "I was just standing there, jaw-dropped," Mark told People of sipping champagne just six feet away from the queen. He called the queen "tiny and very extravagant, lovely and gorgeous. She looked amazing." He also added, "She's just a super cute grandma."
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Wardour Castle's somewhat remarkable evolution has in many ways mirrored the ups and downs of British history during the course of the last few centuries. Its creators were part of the network of aristocratic dynasties that provided much of the impetus necessary for imperialist expansion and nation-building that not only incentivised, but also made possible, the vast personal wealth needed to erect such lasting monuments to prestige, social one-upmanship, and vanity.
The history of Old Wardour Castle reflected the turbulence of the period. The first owners, the Lovel Barons, fought in the War of the Roses but on the losing side and forfeited the house in 1465, to be sold on to Lord Willoughby de Broke. By the 1520's, Wardour had descended through the generations to Willoughby's grand-daughter, Elizabeth, then the greatest heiress in England. A spirited and beautiful woman, she refused the marriage arranged by her guardian to his eldest son, John Greville, and chose instead his younger brother, Fulke.
By Tudor law, Wardour was now Fulke Greville's and in 1547 he sold it to Sir Thomas Arundel. The house and the estate remained with the family for four hundred years despite Sir Thomas' own unfortunate fate. Convicted of conspiracy to murder the Duke of Northumberland, he lost not only the estate but also his head. His more circumspect descendants retrieved Wardour from the Crown thirty years later and were made Barons in their own right. The Arundels fought for the Royalists in the Civil War. Surviving one siege, the second destroyed the castle and its owner the third Baron was forced to repurchase the property after its sequestration by Parliament. After imprisonment for five years, he returned home and honours with James II's accession in 1685. The Arundel family seat was not rebuilt for 125 years.
New Wardour Castle, commissioned by the 8th Lord Arundel in 1770 in celebration of his marriage to a Lincolnshire heiress and the reunification of two branches of the family, replaced Old Wardour Castle as the family seat and continued a fine architectural tradition dating from the Estate's record in the Doomsday book.
More recent history has witnessed uncertain times for many great English houses and the impact of socio-political change during the course of the last 100 years has been as marked in its effect on 'New' Wardour Castle as Cromwell's arsenal of canon and gunpowder was on its ruined neighbouring 14th century predecessor. That the mansion has survived at all is something of a miracle, given the demolition-prone fate of many of its contemporaries throughout much of the 20th century. Since World War II, Wardour's uses have been, arguably, more proletarian than that of a nobleman's family-seat. The house's use as a seminary and subsequent conversion to boarding school, following the post-war death of the last Lord Arundel, may well have saved the property from an ignomious end.
By the time of its purchase in 1961 by Cranborne Chase School, the building was close to ruin. Ravaged by dry rot, most of the roof and internal structure needed replacement, and extensive repairs were necessary to the badly damaged stonework. The school's ambitious restoration and development programme, grant assisted by English Heritage, undoubtedly saved the building - but at a cost: many of the alterations were far from sympathetic to the original buildings or landscape.
Particularly jarring were certain modifications wrought solely for practical purposes, including the insertion of a modern four storey staircase, partitioning of many of the state rooms, and concreting over most of the original stone floors. Worst of all, however, were the new extensions replacing the East Mews. An essay in '60s modernism, their breathtaking insensitivity destroyed at a stroke the building's coherence, integrity and overall symmetry.
In 1990, the school entered into pre-application discussions with Salisbury District Council about proposals to develop twelve houses in the Walled Garden. These proposals would have increased the total number of independent self-contained residential units on the estate to 17 and in general, they were sympathetically received by planning officers. Although a formal planning application for the twelve houses was never submitted, a planning application for 70 bedrooms and lecture hall was approved by Salisbury District Council subject to s106 legal agreement which was never signed. The proposed development never took place.
With the purchase in 1992 by the present freeholders, Wardour Estates Limited, a new policy was adopted: to reverse the previous unsympathetic alterations and restore the house and grounds as far as possible to realise the architects' original vision for the estate.
Over the years much has been written about Wardour Castle and its inhabitants. The circumstances surrounding its creation are well documented both in modern literature as well as recently conserved and catalogued Arundel family archive in the Swindon and Wiltshire records office.


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Returning all but two key players from the most successful team in program history, Eastern's 2011 women's soccer team has been rated 14th nationally in the NSCAA Division III pre-season national rankings. Under head coach Chris D'Ambrosio, Eastern ended with a 16-1-5 record, won its first regional championship and captured its second outright LEC regular-season title.
The Warriors were ranked No. 1 in New England for four straight weeks in 2010 -- their first-ever top regional ranking -- and as high as No. 8 nationally. They also remained undefeated through two rounds of the NCAA tournament.
The two key losses from a year ago were the club's top defensive and offensive players respectively --two-time LEC Defensive Player-of-the-Year and second-team All-America defender Lauren Hickey, and first-team all-conference forward and third-team all-region pick Taylor Buchanan (Ellington). Hickey graduated and Buchanan will miss the 2011 season after sustaining an ACL injury this summer.
Eastern is one of only three New England teams ranked among the pre-season Top 25. Williams is sixth and Wheaton 22nd.
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Pat pork dry with paper towels and season with salt and pepper. In an ovenproof skillet heat oil over moderately high heat until hot but not smoking and brown pork on all sides. Roast pork in skillet in middle of oven until a meat thermometer registers 155°F., about 20 minutes.
Transfer pork to a cutting board and cool completely. Cut pork into 1-inch-long strips and put in a small bowl. Add hoisin sauce and honey, stirring to combine, and season with salt and pepper.
Brush 1 crêpe lightly with plum sauce and cut into 4 wedges. Arrange 3 or 4 pork strips on each wedge parallel to 1 cut edge and top with 6 radish strips, 4 chive pieces, and some scallion strips. Roll up crêpe around filling into a come, tucking in pointed end as rolling. Make 31 more hors d'oeuvres with remaining crêpes, plum sauce, pork, and vegetables in same manner.


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