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Nobody is suggesting that the actions of Anders Behring Breivik, the man suspected of bombing several buildings in downtown Oslo and then embarking on a shooting spree at an island youth camp, were acceptable — at least, not yet. But a disturbing number of people are stepping forward to defend Breivik's message, and to label him a violent but prophetic herald of the coming struggle between Muslims and Europeans.
Pat Buchanan, in a piece for The American Conservative, is the latest to declare that the real threat to Europe is not "native born and homegrown terrorism. That threat," he continues, "comes from a burgeoning Muslim presence in a Europe that has never known mass immigration, its failure to assimilate, its growing alienation, and its sometime sympathy for Islamic militants and terrorists."
The language of crisis and clash between the European (Christian) West and the "inexorably advancing" Muslim world is disturbing, to say the least. Like the American Family Association's Bryan Fischer, who joined the many voices denying the fact that Breivik is a Christian terrorist (because, of course, Christians cannot be terrorists), Buchanan claims that Europe's secular, civilized Christian culture is under siege. The invaders are barbaric, misogynistic and incapable of embracing our peaceful values. But we, as civilized Westerners, know better than to respond with similar violence , which is why Breivik is being denied the label of "Christian" and also why his lawyer is arguing that he is insane. Fischer even compared Breivik to Charles Manson.
Of course, suggesting that European governments do commit violence against their Muslim minorities when they deny them the right to build mosques or ritually slaughter their meat, to say nothing of the restrictions on face veils which send the clear message that visible displays of Muslim piety will not be tolerated, are not themselves acts of violence. They are attempts to protect European culture from the encroaching intolerance of Muslim society — because it is the Muslims, not the Europeans, who are intolerant.
Lest you think that these blatant displays of Islamophobia are contained within the radical right, take a look at Bruce Bawer's op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, where he fans flames of fear about Muslim minorities' ability to crush liberal European values. "Muslim gay-bashing is driving gays out of Amsterdam. Muslim Jew-bashing is driving Jews out of Gothenburg, Sweden," he writes. "There is reason to be deeply concerned about all these things, and to want to see them addressed forcefully by government leaders who care about the preservation of individual liberty and human rights."
None of these commentators will stand behind Anders Behring Breivik, for obvious reasons. But they are anxious to separate the cause from the man. They argue: just because this evil, non-Christian, potentially insane man decided to take his Islamophobia to a violent extreme, they reason, doesn't mean that Islamophobia isn't justified.
The one breath of fresh air in today's commentary is a piece for CNN by Stephen Prothero, who calls for Christians to denounce Breivik's religiously-fueled terrorism. "Christians have a responsibility to speak out forcefully against him," Prothero wrotes, "and to look hard at the resources in the Christian tradition that can be used to such murderous ends."
Where are these resources? We need look no further than the words of people like Pat Buchanan and Bryan Fischer.
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News flash: The Wall St. Journal is owned by Rupert Murdoch, a major purveyor of propaganda for the radical right.
Op-Eds in the WSJ aren't what they used to be. They have been slanted ever since Newscorps. took them over. For real business news and unbiased political analyses read the Economist or Forbes.
@ Michael M
"...he did hate multicultural people..."
What the hell are multicultural people?
You've cleary got this whole "I hate facism" thing going. I hate facism too. So, with this in mind, how do you feel about islam? Do you think it's a good thing?
Thank you for posting this. It is SHAMFULL.
regardless of his mental state
if you need the reasoning of why it wasn't an act of mental illness
here it is:
Psychotic episodes happen in the spur of the moment.
This attack was far to well planned to be one.
saying that it was only his mental illness would required you to ignore the fact that he was right wing, he did hate multicultural people, he did hate liberal people, etc.
all of this is completely true so there is no questioning the fact that all that hatred in his right wing ideology played a key role in causing him to do this.
I see a lot of people shitting on norway as a country and the mentally ill.
Stop that.
what you should be shitting on
is right wing ideology as a whole.
especially the bigotry, because that kind of hatred is what leads to this kind of thing.
I'm actually mentally ill and how he's trying to cop out and blame it on mental illness is disgusting me.
We already have it hard enough with shows like CSI making us all out to be monsters.
It sure doesn't help when people get to blame killing 76 people on it when it was clearly his hate that led him to do it.
all this proves is that this guy is just as much of a bigot as breivik.
how can anyone even try to justify mass killings.
you have to be one sick bastard to defend that.
Christianity is not man made.It is set into our very beings by our Creator because we are spiritual beings in the image of God.But we do have the choice to submit our wills to His or go our own ways.If we choose the latter our selfish nature will be dominant in our lives.No wonder we find it so easy to find fault all around us.
Henri...Your last comments gave me food for thought especially the last paragraph.I generally agree with what you said there too for I also do not believe in any religion invented and controlled by man.That is an excellent description of the problems man can give himself when he excludes what God has in His plan for us.You see ,Christanity is not a "religion" as is often used to describe it.It is a way of life which has been already set and created as part of our very beings by the One who created us.If we do not accept that and plan our existence to exclude that, of course we are going to are going to have huge problems.We do though have that choice as individuals which flows on into communities and governments and then countries and nations .All in all,everything starts with each individual who has an effect on others and therefore structures of our societies.You mentioned about having safeguards for governments which are run and controlled by men.I agree with that too.Each man in government is merely human who has the same problems as every other human including selfishness,greed,power, self- standing,ego etc.All will lead to wrong decision making and affects the whole country.Governments these days base almost all decisions on financial issues but then when they are not answerable to any other greater authority,what else can we expect.Moral issues are not the issues they should be.That is where we will dissagree because what greater authority is there than our Creator? Ch
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Friday, 13 February 2015
Sisters are doing it for themselves
The gym I go to is mostly used by students and, in the last year or two, I've seen many more young women lifting a lot of weight. This is good to see. They're strong, fit, dedicated and smart. They don't use steroids or pose in competitions in bikinis. They're just naturally strong (naturally meaning they've worked bloody hard for it).
But, perhaps inevitably, the media has picked up on this and sees it slightly differently. There are countless articles ostensibly praising women who lift, some even trying (failing) to be inspirational. But many of them carry the message that Strong Is Sexy. These are just a few examples I found in about ten minutes. There are many, many more.
This video features powerful women. They have clearly worked very hard for a long time. Does the title respect their hard work, laud their achievements and encourage them? Does it hell. The title is Strong Is Sexy. The captions says 'What happens to women when they lift big weights? They get sexy as hell! The long-awaited 3rd female-only California Strength weightlifting video, the weights keep getting bigger, the action is more intense, and the girls are hotter than ever!'
They're not girls, they're women. Sexist, patronising and infantilising women - that's the hat trick, well done you. This is a girl lifting weights (bless her). See the difference?
There's no mention of how much they're lifting, as there would be with male lifters.
There is another 'inspirational' video here, called 'Strong is the new sexy'. No. Strong is the new strong.
The Huffington Post had an article called Bodybuilding Women Prove That Fit Is Sexy with photo captions like Those Shoulders Would Definitely Look Hot In A Strapless Dress. Or under a comfy warm jumper in the winter.
In December the Daily Mail ran the article 'Women who lift weights now seen as 'attractive' by men'. According to them, 63% of men would rather date a girl that weightlifts and 74% say watching a girl use the bench is their favourite spectator exercise.
Yes, this is the Mail and they don't even say who ran the survey the stats came from. But the message clearly reflects common currency that women should get strong for men's pleasure. Gyms have mirrors so that you can check your technique and posture but when women look in them, it's the male gaze they see reflected back according to the media. And why have they put 'attractive' in quote marks? Do they disagree?
Of course we all want to be attractive to whoever we find attractive but this is about more than that. It's about reframing women's strength in a way that's acceptable to men. We can't just be strong. We have to be sexy too. And wear cute little gym outfits. Our strength is for men to perve over. Otherwise the poor little things might be threatened by us, emasculated by our biceps, quads and general awesomeness.
Building muscle is bloody hard work. For women, building upper body muscle is harder than for men. It takes a long time. You don't just have to go to the gym many times a week, every week, you have to eat right, sleep plenty, give up other things, learn about how to do it properly. There's a lot of sweating, grunting, swearing (just me?) and farting. Yes, when you squat, everything inside gets compressed and something's gotta give. Better out than in.
Most of the men at my gym who are serious lifters are great, very supportive of the women. But then, they know exactly what it takes to get strong. They're not scared of a woman who knows how to deadlift. How many of the Mail's 74% who want to wank over women bench pressing ever been anywhere near a gym themselves?
Health and fitness are something everyone should invest in if they can but for women, an extra layer is added, the pressure to be sexy and feminine. This is more likely to put women off than encourage them.
There are also lots of articles on line addressing women's alleged concerns that lifting weights will make them too big and 'masculine', explaining how to keep your muscles small and feminine.
Mixed messages. Big is sexy, but not too big, but here are some really big strong women who are sexy. Huh? Make your minds up.
To be clear: women don't have enough testosterone to get bulky and 'masculine' naturally. That takes serious steroid abuse. Here's a more detailed explanation.
Yes, this is just yet another example of sexism, of men trying to control women's bodies. But sometimes you just have to heave a sigh and call it like it is rather than letting it go.
Women work hard to get strong, they shouldn't have to hand that strength over to men, they should be able to own it.
For my gym buddy, the mighty Syasi, and powerhouse Carmen - you rock!
26 February: I just found this brilliant video about a woman bodybuilder in her seventies. That's what I want to be like when I grow up.
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Friday, 22 August 2014
Mother's Little Helper
Boots is selling a product called Kira Low Mood Relief which, it says, 'helps relieve the symptoms of slightly low mood and mild anxiety'. The product is targeted at women – the advert says it is 'inspired by women and their lives' (more specifically, middle class, first world women).
It is part of the Kira range of lady products and costs £15.99 for 30 day's supply. There is no male equivalent of the Kira range. It is presumably not named after Major Kira in Deep Space Nine.
What's in Kira Low Mood Relief?
The active ingredient is St John's Wort. There is some evidence that this is effective for mild depression although, as the NHS site points out, it has 'potentially serious interactions that can occur with other commonly used medications', for example the contraceptive pill, HRT, all depression medicines, blood thinning treatments, epilepsy treatments, HIV treatments and immunosuppressants. The active amount contained varies from product to product so research findings may not be relevant to any particular one.
There's nothing strictly illegal here, Boots isn't selling empty promises as it is with its collagen products (also for women) – as I wrote here.
But the contents are beside the point.
What is Low Mood?
The NHS web site describes low mood as including 'sadness, an anxious feeling, worry, tiredness, low self-esteem, frustration and anger'. But Kira Low Mood Relief is aimed at slightly low mood. In other words feeling a little bit glum, grumpy or not quite as perky as you did when you were twenty.
In the olden days, it would have been described as a touch of anomie, ennui, melancholia, black bile, feeling lugubrious or phlegmatic.
As the NHS points out 'Most people experience ups and downs in their life, and can feel unhappy, depressed, stressed or anxious during difficult times. This is a normal part of life. However, a low mood will tend to improve after a short time'.
Some people are naturally more Pollyanna than others. What's more, sometimes the only sane response to adult life is to howl at the moon.
The Pursuit of Happiness
This is the crux of the matter. No one feels happy all the time. No one wakes up every day feeling like Julie Andrews singing The Hills Are Alive.
Boots is trying to medicalise being alive, being human. Or more specifically, being female. It's telling you it's your right and duty to feel happy as Larry all the time. If you don't there's something wrong with you and, for £15.99 a month, the magic pills can fix you.
The marketing makes Kira Low Mood Relief sound like soma, the State-produced comfort drug in Brave New World. Kira LMR is the pill for every ill that doesn't really exist. It's Boots' way of trying to turn women into Stepford Wives, smiling vacantly as they buy their polenta. Because it really is for middle class women who want something that sounds 'natural'. Thank god for Boots giving a name to that vague feeling that life should be better that I get now and then. It's not just me, it's a real thing with science words and I can take a pill for it. It's not an existential crisis after all.
There is no automatic right to be happy all the time. Dis-ease is not a disease.
There's even some evidence that feeling low sometimes can be useful.
Marketing works on creating discontentment or fear and providing the solution. This is just one product but there is an increasingly pervasive sense that it is our duty to ourselves to be happy, productive little workers, parents, lovers and shoppers. Unrealistic expectations lead to disappointment. If that disappointment can be given a name and a product to fix it, the shareholders are happy.
I really am feeling glum, what can I do?
Get over yourself. The NHS is more humane than me and offers some sensible solutions that include exercise, healthy diet, sleep, less alcohol and talking through problems.
In other words, do all the boring, sensible things you know you should be doing. And, if the symptoms are more serious or persistent, see the doctor. But there's no money to be made in common sense advice. A cup of tea and a chat with your mates might help, so might a glass of wine, but Boots doesn't have tea shops or a license to sell booze. Major Kira would most definitely not approve.
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Tuesday, 15 July 2014
Mirage Men
A film by Mark Pilkington, Roland Denning, John Lundberg & Kypros Kyprianou
Based on the book by Mark Pilkington
85' plus extras.
£10 (available here)
I'm not much interested in conspiracy theories or UFOs. Government cover-ups and alien sightings are not my kind of weird. But people who believe the unbelievable definitely are.
In the early fifties, as the Cold War gained momentum, the CIA began to monitor and influence the huge growth in public interest in UFOs.
In the 1980s scientist Paul Bennewitz thought there was a government conspiracy to cover up alien crashes and close encounters. He spied on Kirtland Air Force Base and filmed what he 'knew' was UFO activity. He thought he was saving the earth from an alien invasion. What he was actually filming were secret military activities.
It was Richard Doty's job to mislead the UFO community for the government. He describes himself as a professional liar, so how much what he says in the film can be trusted is open to debate.
Doty was sent in to convince Benn he really did have evidence of aliens, with help from the NSA who went as far as making SFX to convince him. The plan was to discredit him so no one took him seriously and thereby protect what the government was really up to. The targeting of Benn coincided with the development of stealth plane technology.
Doty says he eventually tried to stop Benn who became increasingly paranoid and deluded – not surprisingly. Doty even told Benn (some of) the truth but Benn refused to believe him. Tell a believer the truth and they think it's a double bluff.
One of Doty's tactics was to make the believer think they were one of the 'chosen few' given access to secret information. William Moore, who was well-respected in the UFO community, thought Benn was being given disinformation but he was getting the truth. The 1947 Roswell crash had been pretty much forgotten by the public until Moore wrote about it, under Doty's influence.
The disinformation campaign was designed to appeal to prejudices and beliefs. As Doty says, he mixed truth with disinformation to make it more plausible, more appealing. According to Pilkington, belief in aliens and cover-ups is now self-sustaining with little need for government input.
The film interviews people on both sides. There are people who genuinely believe that human evolution has been manipulated by aliens, that the Vatican knows the truth and that cattle mutilations in Dulce, New Mexico in the seventies were done by aliens. Some of them believe the US media has long been used to make the public believe that aliens are purely fictional.
On the other side, there are ex-government agency men who talk about the disinformation campaign – apparently no one in America has to sign any kind of official secrets act.
The psychology of UFO believers and conspiracy theorists is fascinating. These are not stupid people. They are however all male with the exception of Linda Howe, a journalist targeted by Doty. This may be bias in the film-making but footage from conferences does appear to confirm a definite male bias in this particular delusion.
One question the film doesn't address is why so many people think aliens are targeting the USA. There's no mention of similar conspiracy theories in other countries for comparison.
The film raises some interesting questions. Was the US government cruel and possibly criminal to manipulate people, sometimes to the verge of a breakdown or were they just protecting national security? Governments have long used propaganda, especially in war time; is feeding belief in aliens any worse than other examples of lying to the public? Are we all entitled to the truth all the time no matter the consequences?
Is it a case of caveat emptor and do gullible people deserve to be taken in? If a government agent offers you 'secret' information, would you trust them? Some of the tactics used by Doty and others are pretty funny and, with the exception of Benn, is anyone really harmed?
The film illustrates well how people can become willing accomplices in their own deception. That applies to us all if the right buttons are pushed. We are all only selectively suspicious. Once someone starts believing in something and invests time and energy in it, that belief becomes emotionally weighted and part of identity. This makes it very hard to let go. It's like admitting a relationship is failing or giving up belief in a god.
Mirage Men is high quality, the interviews with believers, 'secret' agents and debunkers are balanced and unbiased. Or is it yet another piece of US government-funded propaganda to misdirect our attention? The truth is out there but once you start to question, be prepared to end up at a conference with a lot of very badly dressed and probably single men. As one conference attendee says: "It must be true – they don't have conferences about leprechauns".
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Sunday, 8 June 2014
Carry On, Regardless
Dr Peter Saunders, the Chief Exec of the Christian Medical Fellowship** has written a pamphlet called Live and Let Live, opposing assisted dying.
Dr Saunders has chosen his moment because Lord Falconer's Assisted Dying Bill will receive its Second Reading in the House of Lords on 18 July. Lord Falconer's proposals would apply only to terminally ill, mentally competent patients with strict legal safeguards.
These are some of the arguments Dr Saunders uses against changing the law. He makes no distinction between euthanasia, assisted suicide and assisted dying - legally, medically or morally. There is no detail on what assisted dying would involve, just fear-mongering and moralising. This is a complex issue but for the CMF it's just wrong, full stop, no debate.
Murder is against the ten commandments. Our lives belong to God not to ourselves so euthanasia, suicide and assisted suicide are wrong.
Patient autonomy, informed choice and doing what is in the patient's best interest are tenets of medical ethics. The pamphlet should really be called Live and Force to Live. The sanctity of life argument is concerned only with quantity, not quality.
There are plenty of Biblical examples of killing that is not wrong. There are plenty of wars and massacres sanctioned by God, who even got hands-on and slaughtered the first born of the Egyptians himself. Many religious people support capital punishment, particularly in the US. But then, it's easy to be selective with which bits of the Bible suit your argument.
Death is not the end. For non-believers, assisted suicide may be 'propelling them towards a judgment for which they are unprepared. This may be the worst thing we could ever do for them'.
By 'non-believers' he means non-Christians, so not just atheists but people who sincerely believe in other religions. There's always the chance of a deathbed conversion. We're all lost little lambs who can't be trusted to make our own decisions. This goes against ethical principles of patient autonomy and informed consent, which they're happy to apply in other areas of medicine, as long as they have the CMF stamp of approval.
The CMF and Dr Saunders cannot claim to represent all believers. The 2010 British Social Attitude Survey found that 71% of religious people agreed that a doctor should probably or definitely be allowed to end the life of a patient with a painful incurable disease at the patient's request.
Religious views, unlike the ten commandments, are not set in stone. They evolve constantly. In the past, the Church disapproved of inoculation, vaccination, quinine as an anti-malarial and the use of chloroform in childbirth. Just because a minority of believers currently oppose assisted dying does not mean that they always will. At some point, they will move on to some other area of medicine or scientific break-through and condemn that. They're fickle like that.
The CMF is also well out of step with society as a whole (not that this has ever bothered them). The 2010 British Social Attitude Survey found that 82% of the general public believe that a doctor should probably or definitely be allowed to end the life of a patient with a painful incurable disease at the patient's request.
A change in the law would put pressure on the vulnerable
This is the slippery slope argument; it is fear-based, not evidence-based. The way to stop something sliding down a slope is to build a wall across it. That's what a new law would do. It would also make it easier to identify and prosecute suspicious deaths.
People may feel obliged to die to relieve their families of a burden, especially in tough financial times, they claim. The new law is very specific about who can apply for assisted death; it would not be a free-for-all for anyone who wants to die or feels they should and would involve only a very small number of people. A 2013 report from Oregon shows that only 0.2% of deaths in that state were by assisted dying and this figure has been stable for six years.
The evidence (as opposed to the fear-mongering) shows that an assisted dying law has worked in Oregon for over 16 years. There have been no cases of abuse and no calls to extend the law beyond terminally ill, mentally competent adults. In addition, in Holland in the 1990s, doctors rejected around two thirds of patients who requested death.
Members of the medical profession and disability advocates oppose it because it is dangerous
The CMF pamphlet doesn't discuss the various and complex reasons why doctors and disability activists are opposed to assisted dying. They don't want a debate, they want to lay down the law.
As with abortion, doctors would not be forced to do it, there would be conscience opt-outs. For those medical professionals who see assisted dying as the final part of patient care, a new law would give them clear guidance so that they could be compassionate and humane without risking prosecution.
The 2007 British Social Attitudes survey found that 75% of people with a disability believed that a person with a terminal and painful illness from which they will die should be allowed an assisted death. There are genuine concerns among disability activists that need to be addressed sensitively through debate and careful legislation but the CMF don't say why it would be dangerous. They get out the pitchforks and flaming torches and whip the villagers into a frenzy of fear for their lives about a non-specific monster hiding in the barn. That's their MO.
The principle of double effect
This is treatment that may shorten life, for example large doses of morphine for pain relief that are also fatal. This apparently is not considered assisted dying because the effect is foreseen but not intended. You may have trouble getting your head round the difference because it's nonsense. But currently it's nonsense that keeps doctors on the right side of the law. It's not enough for patients and it's not fair on doctors.
Hospice and palliative care are better alternatives
The 2013 Oregon report found that 90% of people who requested assisted dying were already in hospice care. It's not an alternative to this care, it's part of it. For some people, hospice care is enough but others should have the choice of the time and the way their lives end so that they can die with dignity – not just for themselves but for their families too so that they can make the most of the time that remains.
At the moment, there is the option of going to Switzerland but this is expensive and thus excludes many people. It also means that people may die sooner than they want to for fear of not being able to get there when they really need to.
The CMF's position is not humane and it's not compassionate. Nor is it well-informed. CMF members, like anyone else, are entitled to their beliefs but in trying to foist them onto the whole population, its members want their own moral purity enforced at the expense of the suffering of others. As usual.
For more information:
The Dignity in Dying web site.
Classic Cases in Medical Ethics by Gregory E Pence (I used the 4th edition, 2004)
Easeful Death by Mary Warnock & Elisabeth Macdonald (2008)
Medical Ethics by Tony Hope 2004
Lord Falconer's Bill
**The CMF claims to represent over 4,000 UK doctors and around 800 UK medical students. I've written several pieces about them over the past few years. These are some of them:
CMF on gender reassignment surgery
CMF on mental illness
CMF on abortion
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Thursday, 13 February 2014
You've Never Had It So Good
Are people now softer than they used to be? Was the older generation a bunch of toughies who quietly got on with whatever life threw at them? Humans are resilient and adaptable. We wouldn't still be here if we weren't. No generation has all the Moral Fibre.
With all the reporting about the floods and bad weather, some people have been saying that we've become a bunch of Walter the Softies, we should suck it up and get on with it, Spirit of the Blitz and all that. It's a recurring theme, this is just the latest incarnation of it.
There is no way to make a meaningful comparison between the generations. Old people did without central heating, washing machines and other conveniences that make our lives easier. They got through the twentieth century wars. We have never had to cope with these conditions so there is no way of knowing how we'd respond.
What's more, they never knew any different. If you forced their living conditions on us we would not have their experience since birth so could not be able to cope instantly. A bit like if you put an urbanite down in the jungle and expected them to survive.
TV programmes where people have to live for a month like Victorians or whatever are rubbish because Victorians learnt from birth how to keep food with no fridge and entertain themselves in the evenings (hey everyone, let's gather round the piano and have a séance while coughing our lungs up from consumption).
A lot of people in ye olden days died young from disease, poverty, poor sanitation, failed harvests, childbirth etc etc so they weren't exactly made of iron. Do the ones who survived really want us to go back to those conditions to see who would be tough enough to make it? Or do they think that we should all shut up and be grateful that food isn't rationed? Check out the number of food banks and stop moaning that you have to wait longer for your pensioners bus pass and hitch a lift on a horse and cart like they did when you were a kiddie then, granddad.
When I was little we had no central heating, no phone and a beast of a washing machine that must have been a nightmare for my mum. People with more money probably had better stuff and easier living but does that make me tougher than them? I hate being cold. I'd have the central heating up high from October to April if I could afford it and didn't care about global warming. Was my mum softer than her mum because she didn't have to wash everything by hand and put it through the mangle?
The last time there were major floods, and during the war, there were only radio and newspapers. There may have been sensationalism to sell papers but there was a lot less of it and it was far from immediate. There were major floods in 1928, 1952 and 1953. In the last one, over 300 people drowned. In the Bristol Channel Floods of 1607 at least 2000 people died. At these times, most people had no idea if others were whinging or getting on with it.
There were no TV crews sticking a camera in someone's face in 1928 asking them how they felt and encouraging them to be devastated or angry to liven up the programme with some 'human interest' bollocks. During the war, it was all stiff upper lip, plucky little Brits and other propaganda to maintain morale. There are always whingers and copers but with social media, 24 hour TV news and so on, we are force-fed tragedy and adversity as entertainment. There's a lot less news in someone just getting on with it than in some old lady whose cat has been drowned and whose photos of her wedding to her recently dead husband have been destroyed. Or: 'So tell me, how do you feel about your drowned baby?'
Although there are many advantages to having more information, there is also the downside that we are being selectively fed factoids and told how to feel about them. For some reason, the floods in Northern Ireland have not made it onto mainstream news, for example. There is political capital to be made out of domestic disasters for all parts of the political spectrum, too.
As a sidenote, some are saying that if you're dumb enough or rich enough to live in a flood plain, what do you expect? This is ignorance based on the smugness of people living somewhere not flooded and the assumption that if they were flooded, they would cope just fine. It's the same mindset as the generational sneering.
I'm getting to the age where I could look at young people and say 'you've got it easy' and go into a Four Yorkshiremen routine. Are young people soft and lazy, do they have a sense of entitlement and need to be taught to have 'character' at school as some MPs are now saying?
Maybe. There is no metric to tell us. Perhaps all teens and twenty somethings are a bunch of jessies and I'm not as tough as my gran was with her outside loo and no hot running water and she was not as tough as my great gran with her twelve kids (who would probably have welcomed easily accessible contraception). If younger people are feeble, whose fault is that? Who brought them up that way?
The first half of the twentieth century was apparently some Golden Age of Character and Resilience, the yardstick against which we are all now being measured. But no doubt the ancestors of our grand and great grandparents would look at them and say 'You think you had it hard? Try coping with the Black Death or living through 1816, you feeble poltroons'.
If the Tories get their way, we will all soon be living in the world of our great grandparents with no functioning NHS or welfare state. Let's see who whines and who copes then. And by coping, I don't mean 'be rich enough not to care'.
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Thursday, 9 January 2014
Collagen Con
After Christmas, a lot of us make a resolution to lose weight and get fit. Some of us prefer to cheat and get the effect without the effort. One way to look better without exercise, diet or buying a corset is to improve the way our skin looks. We're all supposed to want healthier, clearer and, of course, younger-looking skin.
Boots is selling two products it claims will increase collagen. This is the company that sells homeopathic 'remedies' so can we trust them that these products will have any effect?
The short answer is NO.
What is collagen?
Collagen makes up about a third of the protein in the body; it's in bones, muscles, and organ tissues. In the skin, it acts a bit like scaffolding; along with keratin and elastin, it gives skin strength, elasticity and structure.
As we get older, the body makes less collagen. Women's bodies naturally make less than men's and lose it at a rate of about 1% per year. Women have naturally lost almost half of skin collagen by the time they're 50.
What are Boots selling?
Two products in particular are being widely advertised. They are Pure Gold Collagen and Active Gold Collagen. Both cost £35.99 for ten bottles. The recommended dose is 'drink 1 bottle per day for 4 weeks, preferably 8 weeks or longer for greater benefits'. Eight weeks' worth would cost over £200 and there is no indication that this would be enough to solve the problem forever or whether it needs to be taken indefinitely.
What are they claiming?
The claim for both Pure Gold and Active Gold is that they are 'based on a formula specifically developed to offer a unique combination of collagen and supplements for good absorption and bioavailability.'
The other ingredients are slightly different in each but both also contain zinc, copper, vitamin C, vitamin E, vitamin B6 and biotin.
Bioavailability means the quantity or fraction that is absorbed and can be used by the body.
Does it work?
It occurred to me that the body might not absorb collagen taken in this way. I asked Alastair Duncan, Principle Dietician at Guys and St Thomas' Hospital in London what he thought. He replied 'The collagen in the supplement will not work - it is a protein, and will be digested into amino acids which we'd get from everyday food. That leaves the vitamins and minerals - they might help in someone with an unbalanced diet, but you could buy these for a few pence'.
Are skin creams any more effective?
Boots also sell various skin products that claim to help with collagen loss, like this one or this one for pregnant women. Might they work any better? Not according to this doctor, who writes 'Most collagen molecules applied to the skin in lotion, cream or gel forms are far too large to be absorbed into the dermis - they merely lie on the surface and get washed or rubbed off. There are some companies that are selling micronized collagen which are meant to be small enough to be absorbed into the skin, but it is unlikely these micro molecules would be in any form useable by skin cells. It is also highly likely that any collagen that actually manages to penetrate the skin would be challenged by the body's immune system as a foreign body.'
Does it matter?
Although anti-ageing and skin products are now being targeted at men, it is still principally women who are the core market being touted the elixir of youth. As the population ages, this market is expanding. Boots is a trusted brand so people expect anything they buy there to work.
If anyone is prepared to waste £200 to look younger, then isn't it a case of caveat emptor? There's no evidence the products do any harm and they're not being forced on children as some parents do with 'alternative' medicine.
Boots are exploiting a niche in the market. It's what companies do if they want to make profits for the shareholders. They're not charities. No one forces a fish to swallow the baited hook. Fishermen could put a little tag on the lure saying 'Warning: may contain hooks' but the fish would still bite because they can't read. In the same way, most customers can't read between the lines and apply a bit of science to work out that they're being hooked on an expensive product that will do nothing for them.
As ever, the only things that helps protect skin and slow down ageing are tediously predictable: avoid sunlight and smoking, eat a healthy diet with plenty of fresh fruit and veg, exercise regularly. Unless Boots is planning to develop a sideline as a greengrocer, the only anti-ageing product they should be selling with a clear conscience is sunblock.
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Friday, 13 September 2013
La Rentrée à l'Ecole: Back To School - French Style
France is secular, which means total separation of Church and State. On September 9, the French Government launched its Secular School Charter to reaffirm secular values in the context of education.
I've translated the fifteen articles – it's been a while since I did any translation so there may be a few inelegant phrasings, but it's accurate in sense. Clarity is not always the main objective of official French syntax. The term laïque is not identical with secular but it's the closest we have in English.
As the new school year starts, the Charter shows how very far the UK is from any kind of secularism in a system where one in three state-funded schools are religious schools. These schools are paid for by all of us through our tax. In many schools, teachers can teach/preach according to the 'ethos' of the school and employers can legally discriminate against teachers whose lifestyles do not conform to that ethos, either in who they employ or who they promote. They can also select which pupils they accept; this is allegedly to give parents choice but effectively discriminates against parents who are not of the 'right' religion, or not religious enough, and who may have to send their children to schools far away. In many of these schools, there is compulsory worship. Schools of other religions exist and are allowed to impose their own ethos.
Homophobia, creationism and inadequate, moralistic sex education are permitted.
Former Archbishop Rowan Williams said 'A church school is a church'. Even though they claim to welcome everyone, these publicly-funded schools are the churches' main way of recruiting the next generation – something they desperately need to do as church attendance falls year on year and as poll after poll shows that an increasing number of us are indifferent to religion.
All young people should be free to make up their own minds what they do or don't believe and should be fully equipped to live in society, not just within their religion. They should be given full access to unbiased facts and taught that any idea can be – and should be – questioned.
Articles 3, 6, 11, 12 and 13 are the most relevant for comparison with UK schools. All bold is mine.
1 France is an indivisible, secular, democratic and social Republic. It assures equality for all citizens before the law throughout the whole of its territories. It respects all beliefs.
2. The secular Republic institutes the separation of religions from the State. The State is neutral with regard to religious or spiritual convictions. There is no State religion.
3. Secularism guarantees freedom of conscience for all. Everyone is free to believe or not believe. It permits free expression of convictions within the limits of respect for others and public order.
4. Secularism permits the exercise of citizenship, reconciling individual liberty with the equality and fraternity of everyone in the public interest.
5. The Republic ensures respect for all of its principles in its educational institutions.
6. Secularism in schools offers all students the conditions to develop their personalities, exercise their free will and learn how to be citizens. It protects them from all proselytizing and all pressure that would prevent them from making their own choices.
7. Secularism ensures students have access to a common and shared culture.
8. Secularism permits students freedom of expression within the operational limits of the school, and the limits of respecting republican values and pluralism of belief.
9. Secularism implies the rejection of all violence and discrimination, guarantees equality between girls and boys and is based on a culture of respect and understanding for others.
10. All staff must teach pupils the meaning and value of secularism along with the other fundamental principles of the Republic. They will monitor their application in the educational framework. They must tell parents about this charter.
11. Staff have a strict duty to be neutral: they must not reveal their political or religious beliefs while doing their jobs.
12. Learning is secular. In principle, no subject is excluded from scientific and academic questioning. This is to ensure that students are exposed objectively to the diversity of world views, and to the full scope of fact-based knowledge. No pupil may invoke a religious or political belief to challenge a teacher's right to deal with a subject on the curriculum.
13. No one may use their religion as an excuse for refusing to obey the rules of schools in the Republic.
14 Internal rules of public educational institutions about ways of living in different spaces defer to secularism. Pupils are forbidden from wearing symbols or clothes that show they belong to a particular religion.
15. Pupils contribute through their thoughts and actions to making secularism live in the heart of their academic institution.
The UK government is keen to open more religious schools. The French model will not be adopted here any time soon. For many children in this country, back to school means back to discrimination, propaganda and publicly-funded God.
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"Force" fame Vidyut Jamwal, whose career in Bollywood seems to have taken off in a big way, will soon be seen in Tigmanshu Dhulia's "Bullet Raja". And the actor is all praise for the director's professional and personal skills.
Vidyut, who will be seen in "Commando" that hits theatres April 12, has designed action sequences for himself in "Bullet Raja".
"Dhulia is one of the most genius directors. Besides production and direction, he has a knack for recognising the worth of a person. I am lucky to be working with him," the 34-year-old said here Thursday in an interview.
"'Bullet Raja' is Tigmanshu's film and I am lucky to be working with him. It is also an action film. I have shot for three days and still 15 days are left," he added.
Vidyut is yet to shoot with Saif Ali Khan and Sonakshi Sinha, the leads in "Bullet Raja".
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It's one of Hollywood's longest-running guessing games: Who will succeed Walt Disney Co. Chairman and Chief Executive Robert Iger? And it just got a little more interesting.
Anne Sweeney's announcement this week that she will step down as head of Disney's media networks, including ABC-TV, could help set up important moves on a corporate chess board as Disney prepares for bigger and more dramatic changes.
Iger agreed last summer to stay on as CEO through June 2016, 15 months longer than initially planned. That has extended the day of reckoning for choosing his successor, who many think will be either Chief Financial Officer Jay Rasulo or Thomas Staggs, who runs the theme park division.
Sweeney was not considered a top contender, but her departure could now give Iger an opportunity to test another executive in the TV division, where Iger himself earned his stripes. At a company like Disney, with 175,000 employees and $45 billion in yearly revenue, the board would typically consider outside candidates as well — as it did in 1984 when it hired Michael Eisner.
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"What you have to do in a situation like this is think the unthinkable," said veteran executive recruiter Stephen Unger, who has conducted a search for a Disney board member on behalf of the company. "Every option is on the table."
One name that has surfaced recently is Sheryl Sandberg, the powerhouse Facebook executive who joined the Disney board in 2010. Considered a rock star among professional women, Sandberg is probably best known for her 2013 bestseller, "Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead."
Sandberg, 44, has the kind of resume that might be useful at Disney, especially as social media and the Internet become increasingly important as entertainment portals. Before joining Facebook as chief operating officer, the Harvard graduate was a top executive at Google. She also has Washington experience — serving as chief of staff to former Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers — a valuable asset for a company with a big media portfolio.
People close to Sandberg dismiss media reports that she is a contender, although neither Facebook nor Sandberg is responding publicly to the speculation.
Whoever gets the job, Iger will be a tough act to follow. Since he took the reins of the Burbank entertainment giant in October 2005, the value of Disney's stock has more than tripled. Iger orchestrated Disney's multibillion-dollar acquisitions of Pixar Animation Studios in 2006, Marvel Entertainment in 2009 and Lucasfilm (with its "Star Wars" franchise) in 2012 — three deals that transformed the company and established robust content pipelines for years to come.
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What's more, Disney's core animation film division is riding high once again, with last year's "Frozen" on track to become the biggest-grossing animated film in history. The film has taken in more than $1 billion and is still playing in theaters four months after its release.
And there's more to come. Two of Iger's highest-profile projects are scheduled to debut six months before his planned departure. The Shanghai Disney Resort, a nearly $4-billion theme park project that Iger has been working on for more than 15 years, is slated to open by Dec. 31, 2015. That same month, the first Star Wars film in a decade is expected to hit theaters.
The contract extension ensured that Iger, 63, would be the CEO during those highly anticipated milestones.
Disney first announced in 2011 that Iger's tenure would end in 2015, keeping with Disney's penchant for long-range planning.
But more time isn't necessarily a good thing when it comes to a succession race, as evidenced by the contentious bake-off at Warner Bros. last year. In that case, three executives openly jockeyed for more than two years for the top job, triggering instability and competition. Within three months after Kevin Tsujihara took over as studio chief last March, rivals Jeff Robinov and Bruce Rosenblum left the company.
At Disney, succession is a fine art. Each year, senior executives must identify who would be the best candidates to replace them should such a move become necessary.
Sweeney announced this week that she would leave the company by January. Iger plans to quickly find a successor to run ABC and related units, including ABC Family, Disney Channel and ABC radio.
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On the same day of the murder-suicide by Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher another death occurred at an NFL facility. A member of the Cleveland Browns' grounds crew killed himself at the teams practice facility according to a team spokesman. The body of the man was found on Saturday morning. No additional details were provided by the Browns other then tht the man had been a good friend and outstanding employee. "This is a terrible tragedy," the statement said. "He will be missed by everyone in the Cleveland Browns organization." The Browns play in Oakland against the Raiders on Sunday.
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raggi: why does the method have to be defined there? this seems like a violation of rubys constant lookup, CompileSite -> Helper
raggi: i vote for the method being defined on Scope so that it has "normal" semantics
You'll have to look at this in the context of template engines:
A fast template engine will compile the template into plain Ruby. For instance:
Hello <%= world %> could be compiled into
"Hello #{world}". In order to evaluate such a template you could have something like this:
class Template
def render(scope, locals)
# You need the Kernel.eval because of a bug in JRuby
scope.instance_eval { Kernel.eval(@compiled_source, binding) }
This passes every test above. BUT: it's quite slow because Ruby has to parse the string every time. This can be fixed by defining it as method instead (and then render will call that method). But we still want it to be able to pass in any scope you want:
render(Request.new) and
render(Object.new) should still work. In order to do that we had two choices: define the method under Object (which is available everywhere) or define the method under Tilt::CompileSite (which you can include if you want fast rendering). And we don't want to pollute Object with tons of methods.
Currently, render basically looks like this:
class Template
def render(scope, locals, &blk)
if scope.respond_to?(:__tilt__) # this method is defined in CompileSite
compile! unless compiled?
scope.__send__(method_name, locals, &blk)
# instance_eval version above
This means that if you simply
include Tilt::CompileSite in your class,
render(YourClass.new) will evaluate several times faster.
So even though we define the method under Tilt::CompileSite, we want it to work like it was defined under whatever scope you pass in to #render. My first patch to fix the constant lookup wasn't quite optimal, because it ran the code under the constant scope of the first render call, so
render(Foo.new) + render(Bar.new) would both use Foo's constant scope. It wasn't perfect, but it was certainly better than having constant lookup relative to Tilt::CompileSite.
Your suggestion to define the method under each scope has a few disadvantages:
Object.new it will actually define the method on Object and thus pollute the namespace.
As far as defining a method on each scope class, for the most part, in real world scenarios, that wouldn't bother me, it'd get defined for each 'controller' that renders a given template. To me that's relatively reasonable, although I can see for something that was partial heavy, this could bloat.
I think this latest solution using instance eval in the metaclass is the better one out of the lot. The problem is, it bugs out on JRuby, RBX, and 1.9.1. JRuby has issues with ScopeB, it looks up Scope::B instead of ScopeB::B. RBX and 1.9.1 raise local jump errors because the yield context is dropped in the metaclass. I get the feeling Evans going to hate this... ;-)
Interesting stuff :-)
I should also mention that it currently defines different methods depending on the locals you pass in. It actually "unrolls" the locals so the source actually looks like this:
foo = locals[:foo]
bar = locals[:bar]
So if we define the method directly on the scope, it means that a total of L * S methods will be defined (where L is the number of variations of lvars and S is the number of variations of scope).
Yeah, I had a feeling you'd simplified that from the original. That's fine... :-)
Good work on the bug reports!
JRuby is weird. This works:
class Base
class_eval <<-RUBY
def hello
class << self
p Base.new.hello { 123 }
But this does not:
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def hello
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Wifi was very spotty.
I will never stay here again. Paid 180 for a dirty room. The whole hotel reeks of cigarette smoke. This hotel isn't worth the stop.
It needs some type of breakfast for the money as it is a bit pricey for the amenities
Location and staff
Beds were clean but very uncomfortable (cheap) Parking lot light shown right into room all night
very convenient close to most places of interest and rooms were comfortable
don't like the entrance and have to be more careful with the linen in room, had a visible stain . When traveler arrives to hotel no real exit you have to come out thru same entrance and it's very narrow.
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The rooms were comfortable and the place was clean.
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Very clean older motel. Very well maintained.
Quiet and comfortable
Could use a little upgrading. Some things looked worn.
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Kind of noisy right next to the road.
Location was great, beds were very comfortable, owner was friendly. There is a microwave and refrigerator in the room.
No shampoo in bathroom. Not a big deal; just inconvenient when I realized it was not there.
The television was inoperable.
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Roasted Chicken in Dry Spice Rub
Dry Spice Rub: I am including here the year-round recipe and all its uses, as a party favor of sorts, from me to you: it will be your little secret in a jar. For Passover: Skip whatever spices might not be available and double up on the ones you can find (I find most of them, no problem). I can see you recoil at the sheer size of this recipe, and of course, you can divide it, but I don't think you will: After you taste a dry-spice-rub roast chicken or roast turkey or roast anything, you'll be glad you have plenty on hand! I use this magical rub in countless dishes. It never fails me. I even roast turkey and capon with it. Buy larger spice containers or get them straight from spice bins. Since all ingredients are dry, I never have to worry about having to use it up quickly. I make a large batch, about a year's supply (it will last you just a few months if you use it as gifts for your delighted friends!) and store it just as I do spices, at room temperature, away from heat. Mine has no salt whatsoever, so that you might feel free to use it liberally with meat and poultry, and/or if you are limiting your sodium intake. Of course you can adjust the proportions any way you wish until you arrive at your favorite balance.
- Prep Time : 20 min
- Cook Time : 1 hour, 15 min
- Ready Time : 1 hour, 35 min
- 21/2 cups dry cilantro flakes
- 21/2 cups dry parsley flakes
- 11/4 cups paprika
- 11/4 cups oregano
- 2 tablespoons red pepper flakes
- 2/3 cup ground cumin
- 2/3 cup ground coriander
- 2/3 cup ground pepper
- 1/4 cup ground bay leaf
- 2/3 cup tamarind powder (skip on Passover)
- 2/3 cup turmeric
Mix all ingredients thoroughly. Store in perfectly dry and perfectly clean glass jars. You will need 3 to 4 tablespoons of the mixture for roasting a chicken, 8 servings salmon or tuna, a 3-pound London broil, 3 pounds thickly sliced tofu (add ¼ cup olive oil), or 8 chicken cutlets (add ¼ cup olive oil). Store it with your spices. Makes about 10 cups.
Dry -Spice-Rub Roast Chicken
Preheat the oven to 425˚F degrees. Rub 2 chickens thoroughly with 1/3 cup of the dry spice rub, and place them in a baking pan just large enough to fit the chickens snugly, breast side down. Bake 1 hour. Turn the chickens over, breast side up, and roast 15 more minutes. Serve hot. Don't bother reheating leftovers; it is delicious at room temperature too, making it a great choice for picnics.
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This really is simple and good. It does make a mess of your oven however. I try to always do it in the gas grill and use throwaway aluminum roasting pans.


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Prawn And Curd Cheese Mousses
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|Sieved cottage cheese/Low fat curd cheese
|225 Gram
|Plain unsweetened yogurt
|150 Milliliter (0.25 Pint)
|Chicken stock
|150 Milliliter (0.25 Pint)
|Dry white wine
|2 Tablespoon
|Powdered gelatin
|3 Teaspoon
|1 Tablespoon
|To Taste
|100 Gram
|Dill sprigs
|1 Tablespoon (For Garnish)
|Low calorie mayonnaise
|3 Tablespoon
|Lemon juice
|1 Tablespoon
|Dry white wine
|1 Tablespoon
1. Mix the cottage cheese with the yogurt and chicken stock; beat until quite smooth.
2. Put the wine and gelatine into a small bowl; stand in a pan of hot water and stir until the gelatine has dissolved.
3. Stir the gelatine into the cheese mixture, and add the chopped dill, salt and pepper to taste and the chopped prawns.
4. Spoon the prepared mixture into 4 or 8 lightly greased individual moulds (depending on size); chill until set, about 3 hours.
5. For the sauce, mix the mayonnaise, lemon juice and white wine together, adding salt and pepper.
6. Unmould 1 or 2 set mousses on to 4 small plates, spoon on some sauce and garnish with a sprig of dill.
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Sunday, April 1, 2012
New Cards
This first one is just my vintage style. I like the frame die and the crumb cake ink color.
Last month I bought this set of flower stamps with the matching punch. Of course it's still in the package so I was thrilled to use it today to make this card.
This is a beautiful stamp set. We heat embossed in silver. And I ended up ordering the shimmery white card stock.
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- Starr said...
Helene, these are wonderful, I have to admit that the 1st one is my fav. I love the frames and embossing. The framed piece is gorgeous!
- April 1, 2012 at 11:24 PM
- Sharon said...
Beautiful cards Helene & I am with Starr the 1st one is my favourite too!!
- April 2, 2012 at 12:16 AM
- craftattack said...
Great cards, all of them, but the first one is my fave! Valerie
- April 2, 2012 at 1:08 AM
- Brenda Brown said...
Fabulous work Helene and I agree with the others, number one is my favourite too.
hugs {brenda} xox
- April 2, 2012 at 1:21 PM
- 1CardCreator said...
Gorgeous Helene, especially the first one!
- April 2, 2012 at 3:33 PM
- Ali Manning said...
Great cards - I bet you had a great time making them with your stamping buddies :)
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- Sandi said...
Nice to get together with your group! Love your Easter blog bits :) I am sure you have had a lovely Easter with Sophine!! Hugs, Sandi
- April 9, 2012 at 7:11 PM
- Gerri Herbst said...
These are beautiful Helene...The first one is my fav. So happy you received the blog candy, hope you have fun with it! do take care, gerri
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Here is some photos of the sabatour or should say sabatours.
Look at all the dirty bastids, the culprits I see. No problem here, at least I didn't get branded myself. It was great time.
Dave I did a loop through Gander and didn't see any Honda dealer, I saw the old one but nothing else. Going to eat lunch with you if I could have found you.
I left St John's sometime this morning and only stopped for gas and again at Bishop's Falls for a look and road the rr for a little bit then jumped back on the TCH road to Deer Lake where I sit here in the Bar below the Driftwood Inn sucking down beers and the net. No much other than making miles, the falls where nice, looked like Black Horse following out of the gates, ah beer.
Will work on the updates here at the bar until they throw me out, this spot will be nice if the single girls start coming in, hope its as good as St John's.
Craig's wife Lisa reported to me that the best place for a women to meet a mate in for here to go to Anchorage, Alaska, like duh and the best place for a guy to meet his girl is St John's, that's exciting news. I shall return to my namesake town.
Had a little rain today and ran the gerb for the first time and it was good, like riding in a warm bath. I love this stuff, bad news is the pod charger seems to have crapped, I will survive.
Updates are coming, maybe I'll get to real time with some quality screen time here, we'll see.
I 'll lay up somewhere around town here tonight and hit Gros Morne tomorrow and up to the Viking grounds before the ferry to the mainland
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Healthy Whole Wheat Pancakes
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Whole wheat pancakes are made with whole wheat flour and buttermilk powder. Prepared with a batter of added egg whites and flavored with a dash of vanilla, the whole wheat pancakes are griddle cooked and are best served hot with honey drizzled over it.
|Whole wheat flour
|3 Cup (48 tbs)
|Buttermilk powder
|1⁄2 Cup (8 tbs)
|Baking soda
|1⁄2 Teaspoon
|Baking powder
|2 Teaspoon
|Skim milk
|2 3⁄4 Cup (44 tbs)
|4 Teaspoon
|Egg whites
|Apple juice concentrate
|1⁄4 Cup (4 tbs)
|Vanilla extract
|1 Teaspoon
1. Mix all ingredients together until smooth. Ladle pancake batter onto medium to hot griddle in 1/4 cup measurements. Turn when bubbles form on pancake.
2. Use this recipe for waffle batter by adjusting the consistency with water or whole wheat flour. Pour it into nonstick waffle iron. Cook
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