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To cum in someone's asshole right before they shit and then, when they start to take the shit, you lick the cum off of the end of the turd.
Geoff: Dude, my bitch asked me to lick the turtle when we were doing it, so I stomped her tits in the dirt.
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With the new milking season well under way and calving falling off, now is an ideal time for all dairy farmers to review the last few weeks and plan what is coming up next.
For those in their first season on a farm, it is important to get to grips with the local rainfall and temperatures.
It is vital to keep track of what you do. This requires discipline but is worth it. Notes in a simple, dated, exercise book or diary can help when reviewing meetings and making decisions. Sorting out an email system with folders also helps keep track of various business streams.
Now is the time to:
Discuss things with your partner, sharemilker, farm owner, or staff
Review what went well during calving and what you never want to repeat
Ask the farm owner what to expect during the next few months
Work out with staff what cover is required during the Christmas holidays
Discuss Trading Among Farmers with the farm owner if supplying Fonterra. Discuss the possible sharemilker milk payment scenarios should the shareholder opt to start trading shares for units in the Fonterra Shareholder Fund.
Record your decisions and, if necessary, get all affected parties to sign them.
Check your contract - is it signed?
If this is your last season sharemilking on a farm, start considering the options.
The perfect job is harder to uncover than before, so contact your banker and accountant and talk to people who will help advance your cause.
It is always good to see where you can lift your game.
All sharemilkers and others working in the dairy industry should consider entering the New Zealand Dairy Industry Awards.
They force participants to evaluate their business and help progression through the industry. The awards have three categories:
Sharemilker/equity farmer of the year.
Farm manager of the year.
Dairy trainee of the year.
Federated Farmers proudly sponsors the awards. Entries open on November 1 at www.dairyindustryawards.co.nz.

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Christians who believe that the return of Christ as promised in the New Testament (John 14:1-3, Matthew 24-25) is the next major event in the history of salvation. Although most Christian tradition includes this aspect, the Adventist faith is particularly related to the movement started by Baptist evangelist William Miller in the 1830s in the United States. It continues today in several denominations, but most prominently the Seventh-day Adventist Church with some 25 million adherents worldwide in 2005.
an Adventist church; the Adventist tradition; the history of Adventist urban mission in the late 19th century
by Monte Sahlin August 22, 2006
Seventh-day Adventists, the primary group that formed out of the great disappointment in the mid 1800's had 14.4 million members as of 2005 (not 25 million as stated elsewhere). Figure gotten from the official Seventh-day Adventist Church website www.adventist.org.
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I'm hoping to begin keeping bees in the very near future as I'm retiring in January and feel I'll finally have the time to devote to this new hobby. I'm concerned about the conditions in the Las Vegas area for beekeeping. Is it a viable endeavor given the long, hot summers? I live on 1/2+ acre in an area of town with a lot of horse properties. There is an orchard (Gilcrese (sp??)) just a few blocks away with about 40 acres of all type of fruit trees and vegetables.
Also, from my reading so far, the Top Bar style of hives seem to be the simplest to work with for a beginner. Any thoughts on this would be appreciated.
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The following were compiled from reports prepared by the Ukiah Police Department. To anonymously report crime information, call 463-6205.
UNDER THE INFLUENCE -- Caller in the 1000 block of South State Street reported at 6:17 a.m. Thursday that a woman in his car was under the influence of a controlled substance. An officer responded and advised both people.
INDECENT EXPOSURE -- Caller in the 600 block of South State Street reported at 10:59 a.m. Thursday that two transients were engaging in sexual activity near the Ukiah Cinema 6 sign. An officer responded but they were gone.
UNWANTED COUPLE -- Caller from a restaurant in the 700 block of South State Street reported at 12:12 p.m. Thursday that a couple was causing a disturbance and employees did not want to confront them.
MAN LIVING IN RV -- Caller in the 1100 block of West Church Street reported at 12:13 p.m. Thursday that a man appeared to be living in a motorhome he kept moving around the area, and recently dumped what appeared to be the waste tank. An officer responded and did not observe any violations.
SHOPLIFTER -- Caller in the 300 block of East Perkins Street reported at 2:22 p.m. Thursday that a man had stolen a basket full of groceries. An officer responded and arrested a 41-year-old man for burglary.
BARKING DOGS -- Caller on Calvert Court reported at 2:55 p.m. Thursday having an ongoing issue with two barking dogs and an uncooperative owner. An officer responded and left a note on the owner's door.
DOMESTIC BATTERY -- Caller in the 900 block of Low Gap Road reported at 4:55 p.m. that a girl and boy were finding in the cemetery and the boy tackled the girl. An officer responded and arrested a male juvenile for domestic battery, false imprisonment and vandalism.
RV BLOCKING VIEW -- Caller in the 600 block of Empire Drive reported at 5:15 p.m. Thursday that a large RV was blocking his view of the street when he pulls out of his driveway. An officer responded and the RV owner agreed to move it.
DOMESTIC BATTERY -- Caller in the 1000 block of Standley Street reported at 5:39 p.m. Thursday that a man grabbed a woman by the throat and held her against a wall. An officer responded and arrested a 32-year-old man for domestic battery and resisting arrest.
ASSAULT -- Caller in the 300 block of Leslie Street reported at 8:53 p.m. Thursday that four men were fighting and one man had a bloody face. An officer responded and took a report for assault.
MAN ON SIDEWALK -- Caller in the 500 block of West Mill Street reported at 9:26 p.m. Thursday that a man was lying on the sidewalk, not moving. An officer responded and arrested a 22-year-old man for being drunk in public.
CAMPERS -- Caller in the 200 block of Ruddock Avenue reported at 6:47 a.m. Friday that campers were at the end of School Street. An officer responded but the people were gone.
TRANSIENTS WITH CAMPFIRE -- Caller in the 100 block of South Orchard Avenue reported at 9:29 a.m. Friday that a group of transients had a campfire and the caller was worried that the building would catch on fire. An officer responded and advised the group, which put out the fire and moved on.
MAN AT BUS STOP DRINKING BEER -- Caller in the 12000 block of South State Street reported at 10:30 a.m. Friday that a man was sitting on a bench at the bus stop, drinking beer and making comments to passersby. An officer responded and said the man was not drunk and was heading home.
TRANSIENTS SET UP CAMP -- Caller in the 500 block of East Perkins Street reported at 12:02 p.m. Friday that transients had set up camp behind buildings there. An officer responded but the people were gone.
STUDENTS SPEEDING -- Caller in the 500 block of Capps Lane requested at 3:23 p.m. Friday to have extra patrols in the area during the Ukiah High School lunch break for cars speeding in the area.
911 HANGUP -- 911 call was placed and hung up at 6:27 p.m. Friday by someone in the 500 block of East Perkins Street who said that a "weird guy" was there, but had left, so the caller hung up.
UNDER THE INFLUENCE AT DENNY'S -- Caller at Denny's on Pomeroy Avenue reported at 6:48 p.m. Friday that a man was harassing customers inside the restaurant and kept coming in and out. An officer responded and arrested a Ukiah man for being under the influence of a controlled substance.
Those arrested by law enforcement officers are innocent until proven guilty. People reported as having been arrested may contact the Daily Journal once their case has been concluded so the results can be reported. Those who feel the information is in error should contact the appropriate agency. In the case of those arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of an intoxicant: all DUI cases reported by law enforcement agencies are reported by the newspaper. The Daily Journal makes no exceptions.
The Ukiah Daily Journal reserves this space to correct errors or make clarifications to news articles. Significant errors in obituary notices or birth announcements will result in reprinting the entire article. Errors may be reported to the editor, 468-3526.


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I am new here on this forum.
I am a girl, and I am 16 almost 17 years old.
I love star wars very much.
and I love to wear costumes.
so I thought, I am going to begin on a costume.
my favorites from the star wars movies are Boba Fett and the Empire.
are there more people on this forum who come from Holland??:D


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Can a computer program reproduce everything that happens inside a living cell?
Brian Hayes
Building a computer model calls for a multitude of choices and compromises in finding the appropriate level of detail. Take the case of carbohydrate metabolism, in which sugars such as glucose break down to yield water and carbon dioxide. At the most abstract level, this process becomes a single chemical equation:
which doesn't reveal much about what's actually happening inside the cell. A closer look would add dozens of intermediate steps. For example, the six-carbon glucose molecule is first split into two three-carbon pyruvate molecules, liberating energy that can be captured in the phosphate bonds of adenosine triphosphate (ATP).
Adding still more detail leads to a vast web of chemical reactions, as in the famous Metabolic Pathways poster devised by the late Donald E. Nicholson. And one needn't stop there. In principle a simulation could follow every individual molecule—or every atom, for that matter—as it passes through the cellular machinery. The Goldilocks strategy seeks a middle path between bland abstraction and pointless verisimilitude.
The authors of the WholeCell project chose to implement different parts of their model with different levels of detail. Certain key macromolecules are represented as distinct and identifiable entities. Smaller molecules are treated as aggregated quantities; the program keeps track of their numbers but not of their identity as individuals.
The distinction between these two modes of representation can be seen clearly in the sector of the model dealing with protein synthesis. Ribosomes, the large organelles where proteins are assembled, are represented as individuals; each ribosome has its own identity and history. Within the computer program, a separate block of memory is allocated to each ribosome. But the program has no representation for individual molecules of amino acids, the subunits that are linked together to form a protein. Instead the model merely keeps track of the quantity of each type of amino acid. There's a variable for counting all the alanine molecules, another variable for the lysines, and so on.
The WholeCell model is divided into 28 process modules, which correspond to major cellular activities such as replication of the genome, synthesis of protein and repair of damaged DNA. In addition, 16 data structures called state variables record the current status of various subsystems at every instant. The program begins by initializing the state variables to values appropriate to a "newborn" cell, just after cell division. Next, all 28 of the process modules are run for one second of simulated time. At the end of this interval the state variables are updated with the results of the calculations, and then the cycle repeats. The simulation continues until the cell completes its growth and divides. For M. genitalium this generation time is typically nine hours, or roughly 32,000 repetitions of the simulation loop. Running time for the program is about the same as the generation time.
The program is written in MATLAB. Source code is available on the project web page at http://wholecell.stanford.edu, along with a knowledge base of quantitative information that went into building the model.
Together with Covert, the principal authors of the software are Jonathan R. Karr and Jayodita C. Sanghvi, who are both graduate students in Covert's group. The model is described in a report published last July in Cell; the authors, in addition to Karr, Sanghvi and Covert, are Derek N. Macklin, Miriam V. Gutschow, Jared M. Jacobs and Benjamin Bolival Jr. of Stanford and Nacyra Assad-Garcia and John I. Glass of the Venter Institute.
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[quote user="thegreatone"][quote user="nycsportzfan"]Its that time again, the Weekly Mock Draft from everybodys favorite Sportzfan!!!lol WHat a WIN against NE! Just remarkable! The talent on this giants team , is litteraly from Top to bottom.. I mean, if they could ever stay healthy, they could have the most Talent from Top to bottom, hands down in the whole league.. Anyhow, i got us picking 28th this week, up from i think 26th last wk... And obviously, every round, i'm doing my mock with us picking 28th in that Round... I'm also giving us as i did last week, a 4th round COMP pick for barry cofield, as i think thats what we'll get for him... Lets do it!!
1. Micahel Brewster C Ohio St- Its clear, we still haven't solved our longterm C problem, as Baas has been good but not great, and injury prone, and i'd like him to move over to his natural G positon next yr and take over for soon to be ex giant(thanks for memories davie!), David Diehl.. Diehl is due to much money and will certainly be let go after this season.. I don't need to rant about Brewster because hes in a few of my prior mocks.. Hes a great C prospect, and i think will really help that Up the Gut running for us.. Hes a complete C with great size, technique and nastiness..Reminds me of Alex Mack...
2. Tj Mcdonald S U.S.C- I really like McDonald, and i don't know how much Doe KP will ask for when his FA'cy comes up, and we could simply use another S that can get after it against the Pass, but yet has the size to defend the run as well.. McDonald is right at the top of the Safety Class, but its not a great top heavy class, so i got him falling to end of RD 2 for us.. He Reminds me of KP kinda, but the KP before the Knee issues.. McDonald could have the career we thought KP was gonna have..(not that KPs been dreadful or anything, but u know what i mean)
3. Devin Taylor DE South Carolina- A athletic Freak! U put him on the field with JPP, and Kiwi, and Marvin Austin, and Linval, and Prince, and TT, and Rolle, and Jaquain WIlliams, and yada yada yada, and jesus!!lol Hes very Long obviously, and has gotten a pick in back to back yrs because of that length, and i could see him being a batted ball machine, and really help keep the stable of pass rushers filled for us, with OSI's future in question and Tuck another yr older..
4 Doug Martin RB Boise St- I see a bit of Ray Rice in Martin, and with Bradshaws feet issues and Jacobs probably out of here after the season, a RB could be usefull, and Martin runs hard, has pretty solid enough speed, nice low center of gravity, and can keep going after contact... Martin/Bradshaw/Scott as are future 3rb's... They could really be a beastly 3some..
4. Jerry Franklin LB Arkansas- As redeye does, i also just really like Franklins game.. With Goffs injury, we could bring in another MLB to challenge Greg Jones going forward, or possibly move Franklin to SLB, and Kiwi back to End.. Either way, Franklin is good value in the COMP picks of RD 4, and worth a shot...
5. Cameron Chism CB Maryland- Not sure if he makes it here, but its possible with a good class of CB's coming out, and i'm sure a heap of Jr's as well.. Chism is very underrated and has the Giant CB size, and very good speed and expierence.. His ball skills are above averege and to be honest, i'm surprised he dosen't get more attention, all though Maryland is having a horrific season..
6. Chandler Harnish QB No. Illinois- Spoken about him before, and hes back in this mock.. I like Chandler becasue of his versatility, with the ability to Run and throw, and he seems to have a bit of that "it" factor, and is worth taking a chance on, in my opinion..
7. Josh Chichester TE Louisville- A nice Sleeper pick, whos more WR then Blocking TE, but when u used to be a WR, that is usually how it works..lol hes got a ton of the physical tools, and room to add weight, and just on upside and potential, is worth a shot.. A intriguing guy....
this is interesting as there are a lot of guys i like around 28. lamaar miller,ta'amu,konz,allen,worthy hmm. yes i know you dont like to pick underclassmen but seeing as you and i arent psychics i dont care about accuracy but this is how id go.
1.Lamaar Miller RB Miami- miller is a great rb and is gaining steam every week it seems. We have to revamp our run game and that starts with the oline. Unfortunately it doesnt seem like our FO like interior linemen in round one. Jacobs has completely fallen off the reservation (oline hugely to blame) and bradshaw feet always seem to have some problem. Miller could be a major offensive weapon for us.(Alt: worthy)
2.Lucas Nix OG Pitt- same as last week. Big body, interior lineman, great potential.
3.Brandon Boykin CB Georgia- not really in giants mold but personally i dont like our mold. I want speed on the edges
4.TY Hilton WR FIU- same as last week. He will move up in the next few months but until then STEAL!
4.Lance Lewis WR ECU- there are alot of factors that will play into this pick. Nicks and cruz are gimmies unless one of them holds out. After that the field gets muddled. jernigan you can probably keep, but what a disappointing rookie year so far. MM will command big bucks, hixon might be done, barden needs to step it up. Lewis is a very good possession receiver and can make the tough catches. reminds me a lot of amani
5.Tyrone Crawford DE Boise ST
6.James Brown OT Troy
7.Moe Petrus C Uconn
[/quote] The Thing about T.Y Hilton that i think will make us not pick him is we just picked Jerrnigan whos similar in playing style, size, and even outta the same confrence..lol There basically the same player.. So, i'd be surprised if we took another player like that, and i would be surprised if we went WR twice, unless one was just to much value in the end rounds.. I like the value of Tyrone Crawford in RD 5, as a potentially solid rotational DE, all though, he might go earier, but if there in 5, good value..
Petrus and Nix would bring solid size and run blocking to the table, and would help that interior run game... As i told Santa, i'm not huge on Lamar Miller right now, because i feel he trys going around the contact more then through it, and in bad situations, when he should be plowing for the first down, i've seen that style by him cost his team, but the upside is tremendous... Solid, all though i'd do a few things diffrent.. I liked your last mock better...


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Obama "Responds" to Massachusetts Miracle
posted at 5:18 pm on February 13, 2010 by Dafydd ab Hugh
So the people have spoken, not just in Massachusetts but in Virginia, New York, and New Jersey; and via polling, throughout the rest of the country, with mounting majorities speaking out against virtually every element of Barack H. Obama's radical-revolutionary agenda. Voters and poll respondents reject "Obamunism" as an unAmerican government takeover of the economy, of health care, energy policy, manufacturing, technology, trade, banking, science, education, and the media.
The president has heard the cries of his people. Unlike the caricature of an aloof, unconcerned, disdainful king, the Obamacle actually responds to the will of the people — with the back of his hand:
With much of his legislative agenda stalled in Congress, President Obama and his team are preparing an array of actions using his executive power to advance energy, environmental, fiscal and other domestic policy priorities….
Mr. Obama has already decided to create a bipartisan budget commission under his own authority after Congress refused to do so. His administration has signaled that it plans to use its discretion to soften enforcement of the ban on openly gay men and lesbians serving in the military, even as Congress considers repealing the law. And the Environmental Protection Agency is moving forward with possible regulations on heat-trapping gases blamed for climate change, while a bill to cap such emissions languishes in the Senate.
The Obama administration insists it's perfectly normal for a president to abandon Congress and rule by decree:
White House officials said the increased focus on executive authority reflected a natural evolution from the first year to the second year of any presidency.
So when Barack Obama's EPA orders America's manufacturing, technology, and service sectors to stop using energy, hurling our economy into a death-spiral — in direct defiance of the expressed will of the American people, who overwhelming reject such revolutionary environmentalist schemes — that's no different from George W. Bush tapping phone calls from foreign terrorists outside the U.S. to parties inside the country, in order to prevent another 9/11 attack.
After all, process is all that matters, yes? Any use of executive power by Bush, no matter how limited, no matter how well supported by voters, gives a green light to Obama to order fundamental policy changes that Congress, by popular demand, has already rejected. Any fool can understand that!
By the way, I make no secret of the fact that I support repealing the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy (DADT) of allowing gays to serve in the military, but only if they don't ever let slip that they are homosexual. But Congress doesn't appear disposed to get rid of the policy. So isn't Obama's decision simply to stop enforcing it a perfect compromise?
No, it's even worse than the policy itself for two reasons: First, it's philosophically repugnant to keep laws on the books that are never enforced; Japan does that, as do many European countries. But it makes a mockery of rule by law.
Even worse, such an executive order (EO) is a devious trap laid for those service members gullible enough to believe B.O.'s grandiose promises of hope and change:
- Obama issues the executive order.
- Relying on the president's enunciation of his grand policy, thousands of gay servicemen "come out." They don't push their sexuality in their comrades' faces; but they do relax and stop sweating every word, lest the wrong pronoun sneak out; and they stop worrying that somebody might spot them in the mall and file an anonymous accusation.
- Everything goes well… until January 20th, 2013, when a Republican president takes over. He has the bizarre notion that legislation passed by Congress and signed by the president (Bill Clinton) is the law of the land and should be enforced… so he rescinds that EO and returns to enforcing the DADT law.
- Every one of those thousands who relied upon B.O.'s EO is quickly processed for discharge, based upon his or her own now-unguarded words, even if his unit is functioning just fine and was never disrupted by the admission.
Suckered by the Left… again!
One can imagine a similar problem with, e.g., Obama ordering severe limits on American businesses — in energy use, banking practices, executive pay, labor relations, taxes, thousands of new OSHA regulations, and so forth. Companies painfully adjust to the new rules as they're battered in the international market by competitors who don't have to live by such onerous and stupid regulations.
They finally find their feet, only to be sent reeling again when the parting on the left becomes the parting on the right — and the incoming president rescinds all those idiot EOs. In the long run, the restoration of commerce is vital; nevertheless, the to-ing and fro-ing makes for a completely unpredictable business climate, which devastates the economy.
And who should we blame — the president who freed American business from Obamunism, or the One who imposed it in the first place, knowing that even after it ended, its disruption would live on?
"Obamunism by decree" is both better than and worse than when enacted by Congress. On the one hand, it doesn't last as long; but on the other, it introduces an level of uncertainty into American culture and the economy that is intolerant, especially during a recession and a war; and it's a loud, insistant, and abrasive note of tyranny in American life.
But that's the Chicago way.
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"I am just so proud of this group of young ladies," Bauerle said. "They were determined to reach this goal from the first day of workouts and they never deviated from the plan. A team that works that hard and has that kind of discipline deserves success. This team is made up of a bunch of fighters, and they never flinched and they never backed down.
"I want our ladies to enjoy every moment of this. This is something that few student-athletes get to enjoy. This is as special as it gets. As long as I coach, I'll always want this for my squads because I know how good it feels and how it impacts the rest of their lives. This is something that can never be taken away. It's a pretty neat legacy."
"It's almost impossible to describe how incredible this feels," senior Allison Schmitt said. "We all love being a part of a team, and winning a team title means so much more than any individual title ever could. I am blessed to be a member of this team. This is a night that I will never, ever forget."
The title is the fifth in the program's history. Georgia won in 1999, 2000 (also in Indianapolis), 2001 and 2005, giving Bauerle-led teams titles in three different decades.
Bauerle was chosen as the National Coach of the Year for the sixth time. He earned previous honors in 1998, 1999, 2000, 2005 and 2006. Earlier this year, Bauerle was selected as the SEC Coach of the Year for the 14th time after leading the Lady Bulldogs to the conference title.
Georgia punctuated its victory by winning the 400-yard freestyle relay and breaking the NCAA and U.S. Open records. The team of Shannon Vreeland, Chantal Van Landeghem, Schmitt and Megan Romano stopped the clock in 3:09.40, eclipsing the 3:09.88 set by Cal in 2009.
Romano claimed second in the 100-yard freestyle with a time of 47.37 to pace Georgia. Schmitt came in fifth in 48.04, followed by Vreeland in seventh at 48.41. Van Landeghem won the consolation final for ninth in 48.21.
Lauren Harrington came in second in the 200-yard butterfly with a time of 1:54.39. Hali Flickinger followed in 13th at 1:56.46.
In the 1,650-yard freestyle, Amber McDermott touched in 15:52.52 to come in fourth, while Brittany MacLean finished seventh with a time of 15:54.63.
Annie Zhu went 2:06.69 in the 200-yard breaststroke to place fourth, while Melanie Margalis took 11th in 2:08.60.
In platform diving, Laura Ryan came in fifth with 294.65 points.
Kelsey Gaid placed 15th in the 200-yard backstroke with a time of 1:55.39.
The national title is the 39th in Georgia history for all sports. Gymnastics leads with 10, followed by men's tennis with eight, and swimming and diving, women's tennis and equestrian with five each.


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#21 Sun 02 Dec 07 5:56pm
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Re: jamies nans christmas pud
Ah Hadleigh - good to see someone values tradition
I'm not cooking puds myself this year - my eldest daughter is this years designated pudding maker, while my youngest is doing tge mincemeat for the mince pies.
#22 Sun 02 Dec 07 9:41pm
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Re: jamies nans christmas pud
My sister has sent me her version of my fathers christmas pudding.
My sister has sent me her version of my fathers christmas pudding, unfortunatly mine is still inacessable as we have boxed a lot of things up for decorating and as usuall are still not organised a month after the decorating has finished!!!!
My father was a wonderfull man and he had a passion for food, he originally got the recipe from a magazine and I beleive that it had originated a recipe by Micheal Berry, but I might be wrong there.
My sister has changed this recipe a little .
In my sisters version she boils the orange and lemon and then she 'blitz's' them in a food processor , I do not do this I simply use the grated zest and juices from the fruit .
She also chops the dried fruits in a food processor, I do not do this I chop them roughly by hand as I like the texture of slightly chunkier pieces .
I also notice that she only simmers the puddings for 3 hours as she feels that is long enough.. I simmer my pudding for longer(5 hours aprox, depending on the size of the pudding) so that it is fine kept on the shelf in a cool dry enviroment.
It is an interesting recipe, not as sweet as some and it does not have much flour in it, instead it has a large quantity of bread crumbs.
I do not like currants and so I make up the quantity with things like dried cranberries, dried cherries and sultanas. (very tasty!)
I have never tried making a gluten free version so I have no idea what it would turn out like, my sister seems to have worked something out and added so gluten free options to the recipe. This is not part of the original recipe that my father had.
This is the recipe that she sent me.........
Osc's christmas pudding
(The best christmas pud recipe ever!!)
To make 1 x 2 1/2pt Pudding Bowl
14oz soft breadcrumbs .....( gluten free substitute ground almonds)
2 oz plain flour ................(gluten free substitute polenta)
1/2tsp ground cinnamon
1/2tsp ground nutmeg
½ tsp ground allspice
4oz melted butter
3-4oz grated cooking apple
2oz grated carrot
6oz currants
6oz sultanas
11ozseeded raisins
3oz dried apricots (chopped)
2 oz dried prunes (chopped)
4 oz finely chopped mixed peel
3 oz glace cherries quartered
4oz blanched almonds finely chopped
1 lemon
1 oranges
1 tablespoon black treacle
2 large eggs
Generous glug of brandy
½ pt Guinness
Optional: add 2oz chopped figs and/or pecan nuts
1. Boil the whole lemon and oranges in a pan until soft and squidgy. Drain and blitz the whole fruits in a processor until pulped.
2. When preparing things like the cherries/mixed peel, prunes/apricots and figs, if you are using them. I save time and put them in the processor and give them a short blitz. I find that this gives the pudding quite a nice texture and saves time fiddling around cutting all the stuff up finely.
2. Mix all the other ingredients together, add the lemon and orange mix, pour in the brandy and Guinness, cover and allow to stand overnight in the fridge.
3. Fill your pudding bowls.
4. Cover with greaseproof paper circles on the top of the pudding mix and then cover the bowl with foil or greaseproof. Tie with sting if you wish.
5. Steam for approx 3 hours. The original recipe states it should be steamed for 5-6 hours but I don't do this. I believe 3 hours is ample time for the pudding to be cooked through and I steam for less time for smaller puddings.
6. After the pudding has cooled, change the greaseproof top. Reseal with foil and store in fridge until needed.
7. You may like to add a little more brandy to it before you use it as this helps keep it moist and of course adds to the flavour.
8. Cook on XmasDay for 2 hrs. If you have a slow cooker you can put it on the night before and it will be ready for when you need it. This also saves on cooking ring space.
9. You are able to microwave it but beware, my Dad did so and because he had put so much brandy in, it caught fire!!
10 Enjoy with brandy butter, fresh whipped cream or brandy sauce.
#23 Mon 03 Dec 07 9:33pm
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Re: jamies nans christmas pud
mummza wrote:
Osc's christmas pudding
(The best christmas pud recipe ever!!)
This looks a really good recipe. If you are following the gluten free route, you will have to omit the Guinness. You can buy gluten free ale in most supermarkets, so this may well make an acceptable substitute. Shop bought mixed peel may also be a problem as they can contain gluten.
Thanks for the comments to this. I have tried this recipe using 1/3 gluten free breadcrumbs to 2/3 ground almonds, gluten free flour and gluten free beer. The mixture was enough to fill 1 x 1.5pt pudding bowl, 1 x 1pt pudding bowl with enough left over for a small bowl. I steamed the small pudding on Sunday to see how it turned out and it was fab, quite light and really fruity. Thanks very much for an excellent recipe!
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Re: jamies nans christmas pud
Welcome to the forum Dan of Kent ,
I had never thought about guinness having gluten in it before. I have to admit that I have never realy thought about it.
I am also suprised about the peel having gluten in, I never knew that either.
I only ever buy the whole pieces of candied peel (never the cheaper chopped stuff ) ,the taste is generally fairly good and it has a better texture.
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I recently noticed that sometimes when you buy dried or candied fruit they add stuff to keep them from sticking together too much. Often rice flour.
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I bought some candied peel yesterday,( I bought it from a place called Julian Graves , www.juliangraves.co.uk ) , It tells me on the pack that it is... Dairy Free. Wheat Free , Gluten Free, Vegan and also vegetarian.
The peel that I bought was large slices of candied peel that you chop yourself, rather than the mass produced chopped variety that you see in most supermarkets.
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i made my fruit bread today and I ended up chopping the prechopped peel again anyways. I think the pieces are too big to be pleasant to bite on them. Am not too fond of the candied peel in general, but if I leave it out, the result is not the same. So I chop it very small to have the flavor without the unpleasant texture and the too-much-at-once effect
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hi guys ! Just wanted to say i have made the pudding in advance and it didnt keep very well :-( !!! So u really dont need to make it in advance !!!! I have made it a few weeks before christmas and it was perfect !!! Its the best christmas pudding recipe EVER !! Lol We love it in my house yet they hate any other christmas pudding lol !!!! I make it every year have done for long time now !! The 1st time i saw the recipe on the tv i ordered the dvd lol !!!! Hope you and your familys enjoy it as much as mine do !! Merry christmas to u and happy new year xxxxx
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I have this recipe on DVD and Jamie makes it on Xmas eve
but also says it can be made a week in advance. It is not a typical
Xmas pudding recipe but is the best I have ever tasted. It is also no
where near as heavy as traditional pudding that leave you feeling like
you have eaten a brick....... Hope this helps. Merry Christmas to you all
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Taste of Pequot, Arts & Crafts Fair on tap Saturday
The 19th annual Arts & Crafts Fair and Taste of Pequot took place on a cool Saturday, Sept. 14, at Trailside Park in Pequot Lakes, featuring a fall festival flair.
Rain held off until later in the afternoon for the event that featured handmade crafts from more than 50 arts and crafts vendors along the Paul Bunyan Trail and food from area restaurants. Participating local food establishments included Pequot Lakes Supervalu, Hungry Loon Cafe, Palmer's Grille at Deacon's Lodge, Pine Peaks and Giovanni's.
The event offered a petting zoo with alpacas from Foothills Alpaca Farm, as well as miniature horses, a goat and turkeys owned by Brad and Brenda Myers of Pequot Lakes; a hay bale maze; face painting; bungee trampoline; and a pumpkin hunt for pumpkins painted like bobbers.


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Chivaratanond, Sylvia. "Yoko Ono." In Bits & Pieces Put Together to Present a Semblance of a Whole: Walker Art Center Collections, edited by Joan Rothfuss and Elizabeth Carpenter. Minneapolis, MN: Walker Art Center, 2005.
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Since the early 1960s, Yoko Ono has been a seminal figure in avant-garde culture—her music, poetry, performances, films, sculpture, and paintings are inextricably linked to the development of Fluxus and Conceptualism. Her close associations with John Cage and La Monte Young led her to experiment with the "event score"—brief instructions that proposed mental and/or physical actions to be carried out by the reader. Lighting Piece (1955), one of her earliest Event Scores, directed the performer to "light a match and watch till it goes out." In the late 1950s, her practice extended to Instruction Paintings, which included traditional Japanese calligraphy and directions to the audience for completion of the work, such as walking or dripping water onto a canvas. Ono's notion of painting was twofold: instruction and realization, and enfolded audience participation and the use of language as a form of art. These innovations attracted the attention of George Maciunas, the founder of Fluxus and an important champion of her work.
The Walker Art Center's collection includes a version of Ono's Painting to Hammer a Nail, an Instruction Painting originally conceived in 1961. She made a number of realizations of this score, the first of which was exhibited in 1966 at Indica Gallery in London. The white-painted wood panel included a hammer that dangled from a chain along with a jar of nails placed on a chair. The directions for the piece asked the viewer to hammer a nail in the panel and then wrap a strand of hair around it. Although no hair remained on the piece, the work was deemed finished once the surface was covered with nails. The second version of the work, Painting to Hammer a Nail In (1961/1967), is made of stainless steel and glass and is inscribed to John Lennon, whom she had met in 1966 at the preview of her exhibition at Indica Gallery. The work can be read as a response to his suggestion that he hammer an imaginary nail into the panel, a conceptual proposal that echoed Ono's ongoing preoccupation with the importance of the idea of art over the physical object.
Performed as early as 1964 in Kyoto and as recently as 2003 in Paris, Cut Piece is an iconic work that unites Ono's conceptual practice with an immediate social event. A video of a 1964 performance at Carnegie Recital Hall documents Ono sitting motionless onstage as audience members take turns cutting off a piece of her clothing until she is stripped to her underwear. This work is as much a comment on collective responsibility as it is about the sexualized role of women in our society, exposing an intimate, and at the time unexplored, territory of the artist's own anguish in a public forum. In writing about this piece, Ono has said: "People went on cutting the parts they do not like of me finally there was only the stone remained of me that was in me but they were still not satisfied and wanted to know what it's like in the stone."1
In 1969, the newly married Lennon and Ono held the first in a series of antiwar demonstrations called Bed-Ins for Peace, in which they invited the media into their bedroom for a week to discuss their opposition to the Vietnam War. Because of their fame, their message of peace was wide-reaching, giving voice to what was on the minds of an entire generation at the height of this historic period. The Bed-Ins expanded Ono's practice to an international audience and transformed performance into a broad cultural and political statement. It also provided another layer to the artist's iconoclastic strategies of unifying her work in music, performance, and visual art. During the following year, the couple devised a multimedia campaign that included advertisements, billboards, posters, radio spots, and postcards that read: "War is Over! If you want it. Love and Peace from John & Yoko." Ono recently revisited their powerful public statement in a piece commissioned by the Walker: on a billboard in downtown Minneapolis she offered the simple message "Imagine Peace."
Yoko Ono, "Biography/Statement" (1966), reprinted in Jon Hendricks and Alexandra Munroe, Y E S YOKO ONO, exh. cat. (New York: Japan Society and Harry N. Abrams, 2000), 301. ↩
Chivaratanond, Sylvia. "Yoko Ono." In Bits & Pieces Put Together to Present a Semblance of a Whole: Walker Art Center Collections, edited by Joan Rothfuss and Elizabeth Carpenter. Minneapolis, MN: Walker Art Center, 2005.
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I don't get it. You have Matt Stafford. You can only play one of them.</p>[/quote]
I was probably never going to use Ryan unless Stafford loses his hot hand. Vick is a better fall back plan than Matt Ryan ( maybe/hopefully ) and I got Nate Washington off waivers which is really beneficial to Sharick cause he has Hasselbeck. I just hope I didn't make a mistake. A thing I loved about Matt Ryan is that he plays the rest of his games in a dome except 1 at Carolina. You definitely have the right kicker. lol
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ATHENS, Ga.
The No. 26 University of Tennessee women's cross country squad proved the pollsters right. As the league's only nationally-ranked program, the Lady Vols backed that up emphatically on Monday morning by cruising to the team title at the Southeastern Conference Championships at a very warm and humid University of Georgia Golf Course.
Tennessee accumulated 57 points to hold off second-place Georgia (95) and claim the third SEC women's cross country title in UT history, following triumphs in 1983 and 1990. Second-year Head Coach J.J. Clark's squad also ended a five-year run of titles by Arkansas, which was stymied in its attempt to bag an 11th trophy in 13 years as a league participant. Clark, who came to Knoxville after 10 years as cross country coach at the University of Florida, is the only conference women's coach to solve UA (UF, 1996 & 1997/UT, 2003) on the course since that school joined the SEC in 1991-92.
"It's a great thing for our program to be able to win the SEC championship in our second year together," Clark said. "I am extremely pleased with the way our team executed today, and we are excited because we believe we can be even stronger next year. Athletics Director Joan Cronan hired me and asked me to win with integrity, and that's what we are striving to do."
Arkansas, the preseason favorite, ran near the front as usual and managed to place third with 103 points. Kentucky, picked third in the
SEC Coaches Poll prior to the campaign, wound up fourth with 106, followed by Vanderbilt (107), Auburn (111), Mississippi State (162),
Florida (206), Alabama (230), South Carolina (254), LSU (319) and Mississippi (345).
Setting the pace for Tennessee for the third time in 2003 was junior Brooke Novak (Kaukauna, Wis.), who ran confidently to a third-place finish in a time of 21:58.45. That result earned her All-SEC accolades once more and gained her admission into an exclusive club of only seven Lady Vols who have made the all-conference squad three times or more. Novak now has finishes of 10th (2001), eighth (2002) and third (2003) in SEC action. Auburn"s Angela Homan took the individual title in a time of 21:49.76, while Brooke Patterson of Kentucky was second at 21:55.58.
"When I came to UT, I really wasn"t confident that we would win a conference championship in my four years here," Novak said. "The hiring of Coach Clark has been such a blessing, and we are fortunate to have some great girls on this team. We all worked really hard together and had a confident, but humble, attitude coming in. Today, we just took care of business, and now we get to go home with the trophy."
Joining Novak in the All-SEC club were sophomore Megan Cauble (Knoxville, Tenn.), who finished fifth in 22:09.20 and showed remarkable improvement over last year's 20th-place performance, and sophomore Mindy Sullivan (Lubbock, Texas), who placed 11th in 22:44.54 in the most brilliant outing of her young career. Finishing out the scoring for Tennessee were senior Lindsay Hyatt (Auburn, Calif.) and junior Elizabeth McCalley (Knoxville, Tenn.), who crossed the line in 17th and 20th, respectively, in 22:53.47 and 23:03.71. Hyatt, a transfer from Stanford, was running in her first conference cross country meet as a collegian, while McCalley posted her best SEC result to date following a 25th-place finish in 2001 and a injury-shortened race a year ago.
Also running but not scoring were redshirt freshman Katie Flaute (Dayton, Ohio) in 22nd at 23:09.73, sophomore Carly Matthews (Winston-Salem, N.C.) in 30th at 23:33.85 and senior Jessica Southers (Ashland, Ky.) in 61st at 24:48.49. Flaute's effort was her best-ever in a big meet, while Matthews' outcome was the initial time in 2003 that the Georgia Tech transfer's finish did not factor into the team's point total.
"It was definitely challenging without Felicia Guliford running today and without a big race from Carly, but Mindy Sullivan showed up big today," Clark said. "We knew it was in her, and she has trained very well, so it was good to see her in form. Brooke and Megan were consistent as always and set the pace for us. Lindsay was with them for a while and probably went out too fast, but she was tough and really surged at the end of the race.
"Elizabeth McCalley was patient and moved into contention late in the race, and Katie Flaute was very gutsy and was a pusher for us in keeping space between us and other teams. Overall, it was a solid performance by everyone"
Tennessee will now have two weeks in which to prepare for the NCAA South Regional in Auburn, Ala., on Nov. 15. As the Lady Vols enter that 6K competition at Indian Pines Golf Club, they will attempt to defend the 2002 region title they won on their home course at Lambert Acres Golf Club in Maryville, Tenn. At stake will be a trip to the NCAA Championships meet in Waterloo, Iowa, on Nov. 24.
Women's Team Finishes: 1. Tennessee (57), 2. Georgia (95), 3. Arkansas (103), 4. Kentucky (106), 5. Vanderbilt (107), 6. Auburn (111), 7. Mississippi State (162), 8. Florida (206), 9. Alabama (230), 10. South Carolina (254), 11. LSU (319), 12. Mississippi (345).
Lady Vol Finishers: 3. Brooke Novak (21:58.45), 6. Megan Cauble (22:09.20), 11. Mindy Sullivan (22:44.54), 17. Lindsay Hyatt (22:53.47), 20. Elizabeth McCalley (23:03.71), 22. Katie Flaute (23:09.73), 30. Carly Matthews (23:33.85), 61. Jessica Southers (24:48.49).


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Political Individualism. Considered historically and in relation to the amount of attention that it receives, the most important form of individualism is that which is called political. It varies in degree from pure anarchism to the theory that the State's only proper functions are to maintain order and enforce contracts. In ancient Greece and Rome, political theory and practice were anti-individualistic; for they considered and made the State the supreme good, an end in itself, to which the individual was a mere means.
Directly opposed to this conception was the Christian teaching that the individual soul had an independent and indestructible value, and that the State was only a means, albeit a necessary means, to individual welfare. Throughout the Middle Ages, therefore, the ancient theory was everywhere rejected. Nevertheless the prevailing theory and practice were far removed from anything that could be called individualism. Owing largely to the religious individualism resulting from the Reformation, political individualism at length appeared: at first, partial in the writings of Hobbes and Locke; later, complete in the speculations of the French philosophers of the eighteenth century, notably Rousseau. The general conclusion from all these writings was that government was something artificial, and at best a necessary evil. According to the Social Contract theory of Rousseau, the State was merely the outcome of a compact freely made by its individual citizens. Consequently they were under no moral obligation to form a State, and the State itself was not a moral necessity. These views are no longer held, except by professional anarchists. In fact, a sharp reaction has occurred. The majority of non-Catholic ethical and political writers of today approach more or less closely to the position of ancient Greece and Rome, or to that of Hegel; society, or the State, is an organism from which the individual derives all his rights and all his importance. The Catholic doctrine remains as always midway between these extremes. It holds that the State is normal, natural, and necessary, even as the family is necessary, but that it is not necessary for its own sake; that it is only a means to individual life and progress.
Moderate political individualists would, as noted above, reduce the functions of the State to the minimum that is consistent with social order and peace. As they view the matter, there is always a presumption against any intervention by the State in the affairs of individuals, a presumption that can be set aside only by the most evident proof to the contrary. Hence they look upon such activities as education, sumptuary regulations, legislation in the interest of health, morals, and professional competency, to say nothing of philanthropic measures, or of industrial restrictions and industrial enterprises, as outside the State's proper province. This theory has a much smaller following now than it had a century or even half a century ago; for experience has abundantly shown that the assumptions upon which it rests are purely artificial and thoroughly false. There exists no general presumption either for or against state activities. If there is any presumption with regard to particular matters, it is as apt to be favourable as unfavourable. The one principle of guidance and test of propriety in this field is the welfare of society and of its component individuals, as determined by experience. Whenever these ends can be better attained by state intervention than by individual effort, state intervention is justified.
It is against intervention in the affairs of industry that present-day individualism make its strongest protest. According to the laissez-faire, or let alone, school of economists and politicians, the State should permit and encourage the fullest freedom of contract and of competition throughout the field of industry. This theory, which was derived partly from the political philosophy of the eighteenth century, already mentioned, partly from the Kantian doctrine that the individual has a right to the fullest measure of freedom that is compatible with the equal freedom of other individuals, and partly from the teachings of Adam Smith, received its most systematic expression in the tenets of the Manchester School. Its advocates opposed not only such public enterprises as state railways and telegraphs, but such restrictive measures as factory regulations, and laws governing the hours of labour for women and children. They also discouraged all associations of capitalists or of labourers. Very few individualists now adopt this extreme position. Experience has too frequently shown that the individual can be as deeply injured through an extortionate contract, as at the hands of the thief, the highwayman, or the contract breaker. The individual needs the protection of the State quite as much and quite as often in the former case as in any of the latter contingencies. As to state regulation or state ownership of certain industries and utilities, this too is entirely a question of expediency for the public welfare. There is no a priori principle -- political, ethical, economic, or religious -- by which it can be decided. Many individualists, and others likewise, who oppose state intervention in this field are victims of a fallacy. In their anxiety to safeguard individual liberty, they forget that reasonable labour legislation, for example, does not deprive the labourer of any liberty that is worth having, while it does ensure him real opportunity, which is the vital content of all true liberty; they forget that, while state control and direction of certain industries undoubtedly diminishes both the liberty and the opportunity of some individuals, it may increase the opportunities and the welfare of the vast majority. Both individualists and non-individualists aim, as a rule, at the greatest measure of real liberty for the individual; all their disagreement relates to the means by which this aim is to be realized.
Nota bene, Joseph Sobran is a practicing Catholic (with what appear to be traditionalist leanings), a sharp critic of Israel and an award-winning columnist.
The Reactionary Utopian May 2, 2006http://www.sobran.com/columns/WHY DO WE NEED GOVERNMENT?by Joe Sobran About twenty years ago a very intelligent man, whom I'll call Robert (he's actually a sort of composite of several men), told me he was an anarchist. He didn't believe in any government, period. At the time I considered myself a conservative, with libertarian leanings. Much as I respected Robert, I believed in limited government under the U.S. Constitution -- but none at all? That was taking a good idea too far, I thought. Notice the illogic of my reaction. I was thinking of a philosophy as a matter of personal taste, as if you could draw an arbitrary line and stop there. "Would you prefer a little bit of government, a moderate amount, or a lot of it?" After a while (years, actually) it sank in that Robert wasn't just telling me what =quantity= of government he'd prefer. He was saying that the whole idea of it was wrong in principle -- no matter whether it was democratic, Communist, monarchist, Christian, or something else. He would agree that some are worse than others, but he insisted that all were wrong. Any government is a monopoly of organized force, inherently unjustifiable; and once accepted, it's bound to get out of control sooner or later. This notion is hard for Americans to grasp, let alone assent to. After all, we have what looks like a solid rationale for government in our Declaration of Independence, plus a practical plan for keeping it within due limits in our Constitution and Bill of Rights. True, American government has become a staggering tangle of laws, powers, regulations, and taxes, with recurrent wars, public debt, debased money, and countless other evils, but couldn't this be cured by returning to the Constitution? That's what I used to think. Besides, what would we replace the government with? Who would protect us from violent crime and foreign enemies? Who would coin the money? Who would pave the streets and fix the potholes? Others would ask who would feed the destitute, care for the sick and elderly, protect minorities, and cope with myriad other crises, emergencies, and easily imaginable disasters -- most of which, by the way, didn't use to be thought of as responsibilities of government. Everyone has a horrible fantasy that makes the actual horror seem (to him) worth putting up with. Read the label on a can of soup, and think how many laws and regulations the vendor has to comply with. The rationale for these is that the public has to be protected -- from what? Unhealthy ingredients of some sort, I suppose. But would we really be in any peril if there were no government enforcing these costly restrictions? Would it be in the seller'sinterest to poison his customers, even if there were no legal penalty for doing so? How often did that happen before all these laws were imposed? Roadside fruit stands are still unregulated. Are these dangers to the purchaser? The other day I was ticketed, and my car briefly impounded, when a policeman noticed that I was driving with a cracked windshield. My car had passed the required safety inspection and had the required sticker before some vandal had thrown rocks at it, so I thought I was legal. I wasn't hurting or threatening anyone; I posed no danger I could see. The cop was as polite as a man with a pistol can be, but as he ordered the car towed away I asked him quietly, "Just who are you protecting from me?" The answer was a vague mumble about "the public." Later I joked to friends that I'd been "carjacked." An armed man had seized my car, I explained. Of course he had a badge, a uniform, and some sort of "law" on his side, so I, not he, was the criminal. Heaven help me if I'd tried to defend my property. Self-defense would have been an even more serious offense. By submitting to force, I confined the evil to a mere nuisance. This time. "Carjacking" or "impoundment"? We now have two vocabularies for wrongs, depending on whether private persons or government agents commit them. This is the difference between "mass murder"and "national defense." Between "extortion" and "taxation." Between "counterfeiting" and "inflation." And so on. Other examples will occur to the astute reader. Do you smell a fault? No wonder Frederic Bastiat described government as "organized plunder." Yet for most of my life, I believed that social order depended on government. That is, I believed that freedom depended on force, and ultimately that a great good depended on a great evil. I'm afraid most people believe such things, and accept armed men in uniforms as their benefactors.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Read this column on-line at "http://www.sobran.com/columns/2006/060502.shtml".Copyright (c) 2006 by the Griffin Internet Syndicate, www.griffnews.com. This column may not be published in print or Internet publications without express permission of Griffin Internet Syndicate. You may forward it to interested individuals if you use this entire page, including the following disclaimer:"SOBRAN'S and Joe Sobran's columns are available by subscription. For details and samples, see http://www.sobran.com/e-mail.shtml, write firstname.lastname@example.com, or call 800-513-5053."
How do the anarchists reconcile Jesus' words to the Pharisees about rendering unto Caesar what is Caesar's with their ideology?
I don't see the problem. Jesus never specified what precise behaviors we are to render unto Caesar. As far as I'm concerned, we're to render nothing more than the Gold Rule.
I will refrain from stealing from Caesar. I will refrain from threatening Caesar's life and property to extract from Caesar the funds I require to advance my version of the public good. I will refrain from spying on Caesar. I will refrain from dropping bombs on Caesar.
I will refrain from incarcerating Caesar (except in self-defense). I will refrain from killing Caesar (except in self-defense).
Anarchy is simply that political condition under which Caesar, like the public he purportedly serves, finds himself bound by the Golden Rule now binding on the public. Frightening, isn't it?
Here is my take on this for what it's worth.Although anarchism sounds nice in theory it simply wouldn't work in practice. Man by his nature is social, he groups together with other men for mutual benefit. In order for the group to function it needs a leader. That leader will be the most powerful of the group or the one with the most supporters within the group (normally this same individual matches bot criteria). The most powerful group will then naturally continue to gain in power as more people join that group in order to enjoy the benfits of membership or are destroyed by that group as its enemies. Anarchist's would be fragmented and lack cohesiveness compared to the more pwerful group which has a definite leader and as a result its members are all going in the same direction. As a result anarchists will either be destroyed or amalgamated which is why you find no areas of the globe where anarchists live together (at least not important resource laden areas). If a country got rid of its government (not a realistic possibility in my opinion) and decided they were not going to replace it with another form of government but where all just going to do what they wanted society would disingrate ito divided individual pockets of people and as such would become easy prey to neighbouring governments who could deal with them one by one, also good luck trying to develop technology on the scale we have up to this point in a land full of anarchists pleasing themselves.Anarchism rejects society and seems to promote the individual over the group as a result anarchists will always be weak and isolated this is why it is neither a workable nor a desirable system.
Although statism sounds good in theory, it doesn't work in practice. In the 20th century alone, governments killed 170 million of their own people, not counting the millions upon millions they killed in interstate warfare. The most dangerous entity in any society is the state.
Anarchists don't dispute that man is social. Anarchists dispute your conflation of state and society. Of course, people willingly band together. They form families, friendships, clubs, churches, neighborhood watch associations, fraternal organizations, etc. These associations are all voluntary; the individual retains the freedom to secede. Group funding is accomplished through acts of charity and appeals to social conscience and familial love.
Governments--whether Christian or secular, monarchical, republican, fascist, communist or democratic--bar secession at the point of a gun. Governments fund their activies by means of threats, force and extortion.


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Pulaski Technical College concludes its 2013 Big Rock Reading Series with readings on Nov. 15 by poet Diana Reaves and fiction writer William Pittam, both Master of Fine Arts candidates at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.
Readings will begin at 10 a.m. in the RJ Wills Lecture Hall in the Campus Center, located on the college's main campus in North Little Rock. After the readings, there will be a question-and-answer with the authors. The event is free and open to the public.
Reaves grew up in southern Alabama and now lives in Fayetteville, where she is the 2013 Walton Fellow in Poetry and the 2013 Lily Peter Fellow in Poetry at the University of Arkansas. She writes about the loss of loved ones, the loss of belief in those we love, and also about the enduring and sometimes fragile connections between family and friends. Her poems have appeared in Tar River Poetry, Boxcar Poetry Review, and The 2River View.
William Pittam, of Staffordshire, England, is in the third year of his MFA at the University of Arkansas and is a recipient of the Walton and Lily Peter Fellowships for Fiction. His short stories, set in the United Kingdom, take the form of family or marital drama and explore philosophical themes, such as beliefs and the rituals that form them.
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Victim identifed in deadly attack at Springs apartment complex
Gregory Martin, father of two, is killed trying to stop a burglary
The victim of a stabbing at a Colorado Springs apartment complex has been identified as Gregory Dean Martin, 46.
Family tells KRDO Newschannel 13 that he is a father of two who was a maintenance worker at the Park Ridge Apartments where he was killed Friday.
Police responded to the complex, at 2618 Serendipity Circle West, just after 9 a.m. after learning that Martin had been stabbed after he interrupted a burglary.
Isaiah Jackson, 21, was arrested soon after and is being charged with first-degree burglary and first-degree murder.
Martin's sister said Martin was a father to a 19-year-old and 13-year-old and has a 3-year-old great-niece.
"He is loved by so many and his life was cut short by a heartless, senseless and gruesome act," said Lisa Martin-Manns.
Martin-Manns said her brother was athletic, mischievous, and a big Michigan Wolverines fan.
She said her family is trying to raise money to bring her brother's body back home to Ohio, where he was born and raised.
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Solly's Satirical Sing-a-long: "He's Up There With the Best, Scott!"
16 April 2013 , 11:59 AM by Elliott Dunn
This week, that ridiculously good looking 32 year-old Queenslander, Adam Scott, became the first Australian to win golf's ultimate prize: the US Masters. Which also meant he walked away from the hallowed turf of Augusta with a rather fetching green jacket. And about US$1.5m in the pockets of his carefully coordinated golf attire.
To properly mark the achievement in the crumpled little scorecard of history, Rafe Morris and Moochers Inc will bring take a groovy, horn-blowing swing at Pat Benatar's "Hit Me With Your Best Shot"... teeing it up as "He's Up There With The Best, Scott".
The steady hands of the Sing-a-long Lyricists will slice the words up wonderfully, but we welcome your contributions. Leave a comment on the blog or email 666breakfast (at) abc (dot) net (dot) au.
Listen in to Ross Solly's Breakfast to see where it all lands, after 7am this Friday on 666 ABC Canberra.
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Also, just because he's not enamored with bring back Spags doesn't mean that he has any particular love for Fewell. It just means he sees no particular benefit bringing in Spags, particularly in a situation where he would be Fewell's subordinate, as that may cause some discordance in the locker room.
Spags' defense was the best defense since Belicheat. Better than Fox, Lewis, Fewell - whoever - -just go look up the stats. Look at the way guys played for him. That's what counts. This defense is confused and players are under utilized. How many under achievers do we have for c sake? When Spagnuolo was here we had OVER achievers. Now we have under achievers.
I'd take him in a heartbeat over PF but don't think it will happen.
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Discussion in 'Pistons and NBA' started by FreshPrince22, Apr 23, 2007.
I'm pretty sure the Warriors would easily be beating the Magic right now.
How do we think the Pistons would be doing against them? The Warriors are playing great, and Detroit would clearly have little chance of stopping Baron, but I don't think they'd be slowing us down much either. No way we'd be sweeping them, but I think we could handle them in 5 or 6. I can't see the Warriors getting the consistent turnovers and crappy 4th quarter execution that have plagued the Mavs if the Warriors were going up against the Pistons instead.
Is it my imagination, or is Baron Davis slowly turning into B.A. Baracus?
The Baron of Davis Interesting read.
When did Nelson learn to teach defense? I bet a burning Cuban has a nice aroma.
PTI, did a bit about Biedrens FT and Chucksters golf swing. Which was more abhorant to watch. Chucksters golf swing is paraplegic looking.
A bit of controversy swirling around some of Dirk's most recent remarks:
Desperation. If you gotta call out the league MVP, you got problems. Viva Le Nash!
Hey...MVP's a regular season award isn't it?
And the playoff MVP so far is in the same series as Dirk, but on the other team (Baron).
Very true and Steve Nash is the "King of the regular season." I know a lot of us in here have a "hard-on" for this guy that is accumulating an abundance of individual awards. He also has argurably the most talented team on paper. However, can he get it done in the playoffs and actually get to an NBA Finals, remains to be seen. Two kinds of teams, the kind that make excuses and the kind that execute. Go Pistons!!!!!!!!!!!
I don't think Nash gets a fair shake for his playoff performances. 2 years ago, they got beat by the NBA Champs (San Antonio) in the WCF. It went 5 games. Last year, without Amare, they made it to the WCF again and lost to Dallas in 6. Top 4, two years in a row is nothing to sneeze at as far as playoff performances. The Pistons only did marginally better. We're talking about a guy who averaged 20+/10+ (points/assists) in those last two playoff years, shooting 50%+ from the floor, 90%+ from the line and 37%+ from beyond the arc. Now JWill and Tony Parker both won titles in that period, but can you honestly say you would take either of them over Nash (forget age)? The dude has been great consistently. With the Mavs looking at an early exit, The Suns really have to worry only about the Spurs in the WCF barring another series upset.
Hey Roscoe, I think this is strictly Nelson vs. Cuban. A little bit of history here. In previous GSW games against Mavs (GSW won all) Nelson says Cuban owes him 6 million and is suing Cuban to get it. And then, at start of season, Cuban wouldnt put up the Division championship banner in first games, but waited until they played GSW. So, it's sticking it more to Cuban, not Avery. Avery, Nellie and Pop all have a good, working-type relationship, so it's easy for them to see how each coach plays, Nellie has the players that Mavs cant match, they are good and he knows how to play them. I think the psychological effect this has on Kirk is surprising (to all but Avery and Nellie). Remember how he was in a major depression after loss to the Heat and took all summer to get over it? Anyway, if Nellie can pull this off I am sure it will feel better than the 6 million he will probably never get from Cuban
Ros you make some excellent points in regard to Steve Nash and his statistical prowess. I love Nash he is an unbelievable talent on a great team that everyone loves to watch. I dont think anyone can debate his success and his team's relative success. However, the NBA more than any other league or sport really emphasizes the attainment of a championship to really cement your legacy as a true legendary player. Steve Nash has not even been to an NBA Finals and may never be in his career. Now obviously I think we all agree that he is of a higher calibur than Williams and Parker, there is no debating that. In saying all that there is no reason why he can't at least make it to the Finals once. If he never makes it, it would be very hard for me to put him in the same breath as Isiah, Magic, or even Stockton. To me when you are an elite player what separates you from the other elite players is how well your team does ESPECIALLY in the playoffs. Also I would have to disagree as far as you stating that our run is marginally better than the Suns. We have been to the Conf. Finals 2 more times, acquired 2 conf. titles and 1 NBA crown. That to me sounds a whole hell of a lot better as far as I'm concerned. If Nash fails again this year to make to the Finals you might as well put him in the same class as a Tracy McGrady. Great player, no real team success. In saying all that I hope he makes it this year but I have to say I doubt it.
Does Nash play defense? I haven't seen it. He's really great at 50% of the game. So is Bruce Bowen. So was Dennis Rodman. So is Ben Wallace. Man, I'm having trouble thinking of defensive geniuses who don't have Titles...
He's not prolific. He doesn't exactly get lit up either. Probably puts him in top 10% of the league by todays NBA standards.
Fair enough. I admit that I don't really watch him much. I just assume he is bad because of his size. No doubt he is blowing away the guard he's playing against overall, but he really should have advanced further into the playoffs. The only reason I can think of, is that his defensive limitations are magnified in the playoff environment.
Cosigned @ TaShawn
In the '60s. It's kind of funny that he hasn't even tried to coach defense since... what? his last few years with the Bucks? and suddenly a terrible defensive team during the regular season, and probably the worst defensive personnel he's ever coached, is completely confusing one of the best offenses in the NBA. (That, and Avery Johnson's crush on Chokehouse, which doesn't seem to be abating no matter how many playoff games he costs them.)
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lol oh come on....we all love his rants when he's tearing the Jets to pieces but now he says something about us that isn't flattering and we're supposed to be pissed off....who cares???
Him, Kurt Warner, Skip Bayless, whoever....they're just making opinions. If it ain't Coughlin or Mara making the comments, I could care less about them because they have zero merit with regards to our football team.


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Leonardo DiCaprio is in Japan.
Lilly Collins is not. She is filming a movie though.
Madonna gets ready to record Unplugged with Miley Cyrus.
Malin Akerman is always with her son.
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So I sent the check out to Heilyser up in Canada for the OA vaporizer today!! Looking forward to getting it after doing lots of research and reading your replies on here!!
But, I have another dumb question...........how dangerous is the "residue" left on the frames/hive body after treatment?? I mean, can a person pick them up barehanded the day after treatment or is there a time frame?? I read about the grey residue left on the equipment and was just wondering if its safe!! Thanks!


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Excerpt: "Roger Goodell has floated the idea of expanding the playoffs by a team or two, and we know what it means when Goodell floats something: Hes either strongly in favor of it or hes taking public temperature of the idea.
Lets hope its the latter. This concept is severely undercooked.
Did you watch the games this past weekend? The action was subpar. Both No. 6 seeds stunk up the joint for the most part. The Bengals only hung in there on the scoreboard because the Texans kicked field goal after field goal. Vikings QB Joe Webb backup or not looked like someone who was just plucked off the street when throwing." Read more...


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Sounds about right
NBC news at work!
Sounds about right
"What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?" -Thomas Jefferson-
"Our rights come from our humanity and may not be legislated away -- not by a vote of Congress, not by the consensus of our neighbors, not even by agreement of all Americans but one." Judge Andrew P. Napolitano
That's freaking hilarious!!!!!!!!!
Enforcement, NOT Amnesty!!!!!!
"If theyre going to come here illegally, apply for & receive assistance through a corrupted Government agency encouraging this lawless behavior, work under the table & send billions of dollars each year back to their families in Mexico, while bleeding local economies dry, protest in our streets waving their Mexican flags DEMANDING rights, while I have to press 1′ for English, then they need to be shipped back to where they came from!" -Chad Miller
Now that isnt a lie that the Media is pushing there ....
hell they forgot pravda-- which would say--
"while the president of the united states was drinking cola the US went another 29 billion in the red with no end in sight!"
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#1 Sun 08 Oct 06 8:07pm
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catering for kids
I am putting together a buffet for children (5-12 years) I don't want to dish up chicken nuggets and pizza, I would like to serve something a little more interesting but need things that kids can eat with their fingers. Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions?
Thanks in advance,
#2 Sun 08 Oct 06 8:59pm
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Re: catering for kids
katebertwhiste, welcome to the forums
I would personaly serve the children the same as you would like to eat . I have never been a great belever in 'childrens food'. Many children will eat samosas and onion bajee, or other spicy items.
'pigs in blanket' would probably go down well.
you could do little bagle topped 'pizzas' they are a bit different.
What about BBQ chicken drumsticks.
mini things are always fun, by that just I mean smaller versions of things.
hope this helps.
#3 Mon 09 Oct 06 12:17am
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Hi, What about Chicken kebabs, you can add anything you want to, mushrooms, pepper or cherry tomatos.
#4 Mon 09 Oct 06 1:41pm
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why not just have lots of 'bits'; cold meats rolled up and on skewers, grapes and cheese sticks, bread, carrot, celery etc sticks, ...usual stuff really...
and why not have chicken nuggets?...just make your own...with parmesan breadcrumbs or something? the kids love stuff like that....
I always find it best to keep it simple, if it is a party, they are usually to keen to get on and play, and after all your hard work, it can be disheartening to see all the leftovers!
#5 Tue 10 Oct 06 3:20am
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I am a start-up and LOVED Jamies article on banning packed lunches. I'm a packed lunch alternative, where I provide healthy lunches to kids, but am running out of ideas that appeal to kids in that they arrive at school chilled/cold. Schools do not heat up the lunches, therefore, I have to ensure I provide items kids will eat cold. Chicken nuggets are a hit even though they are chilled, atleast for the majority. I also do, pasta salads, hummus and pita chips and all kinds of fresh veggies and fruits. Does anyone have any additional menu items they have found successful amongst kids in this setting? (Cold lunches).
Thank you!
#6 Thu 01 Feb 07 3:08pm
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katebirtwistle wrote:
I am putting together a buffet for children (5-12 years) I don't want to dish up chicken nuggets and pizza, I would like to serve something a little more interesting but need things that kids can eat with their fingers. Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions?
Thanks in advance,
#7 Thu 01 Feb 07 3:16pm
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Hi I am looking for ideas for healthy party foods for kids that they will actually eat! Trying to keep away from all the fried foods and want some different but fun ideas.
Many Thanks
#8 Thu 01 Feb 07 3:52pm
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Childerns food is different. They are new to this life, therefore they have not grown boored with the general life of tastes. They generally want clean food, with clear tastes. With clean food, I meen: Fish without skin and bones. Bread without alot of seeds in 'em.
For example, if you do burgers. If you decide to add onions into the meat, then mix them into puré, no onionpieces in the burger. Mix the meat as well, to truly remove any "gravel" from the meat.
However, it is a birthday party. And you cannot have the kinds beeing forced to eat their veggies, like you can at a normal dinnertable (which you should). This is food for kids that should make them go hyper. Don't destroy this for the kids, just because there is a social concience about the crap we have served them for 2 generations now.
Eating cucumbersticks and peeled carrots is rarley partyfood. And since you are here, then I am guessing that your kids have not grown up with healty food. Then they sure as herring won't like to get it on their birthdays.
Try to get them to enjoy good food, but take your time, and don't force it into them.
Let hamburgers rule kids birthdays.
#9 Thu 01 Feb 07 8:39pm
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Re: catering for kids
Homemade maccaroni and cheese/mini meatballs with dips/I make my own chicken strips with crushed cornflake crumbs/quesadillas/make your own foot long subs/fruit kabobs... my kids like it when I make little triangle sandwiches, one side whole wheat the other white or?? I have done puff pastry sticks, the longer the better. You can sprinkle cinnamon sugar or cheese or some herbs... but still have a few goodies too. Good luck, and have a great party!
#10 Sat 21 Apr 07 1:15pm
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For dessert I'd put together a platter of various finger sized peeled fruit pieces: banana, strawberries, melon, etc. Drizzle with a bit of milk (or white) chocolate or honey. Use little toothpicks for the children to choose the pieces they like. They don't eat very large amounts (most of the time!!) so if they can pick what they like, it helps to keep waste at a minimum.
My son will open a sandwich to see what's in it and then leave it if he doesn't like it or doesn't know what it is. I didn't teach him that or approve of it but he still does it. So I think it is a good idea to serve things that look simple and familiar, even though they might not be. Good luck! Let us know what you decide to serve.
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Hi folks! After almost three years of work, 3,924 code commits, and more than a dozen point releases since Nmap 5, I'm delighted to announce the release of Nmap 6! It includes a more powerful Nmap Scripting Engine, 289 new scripts, better web scanning, full IPv6 support, the Nping packet prober, faster scans, and much more!
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"Being on tour has been amazing and we're lucky because we have such a support system," Lauren of 5H explained. "No one is catty. Every time we go on, [Little Mix & Demi Lovato] say 'good show' or 'congrats you did a great job.' They always tell us they're rooting for us. It's a good kind of energy back stage—there's so much girl power!"
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So over half of our monitored rivers are too polluted for swimming, according to No swimming: 52% impure NZ rivers. That's unwelcome news especially as summer is rapidly approaching. Oh well, at least we can still head down to the local pool to cool off.
Actually, you may need to rethink that too. An early scene in Diary of a Wimpy Kid 3: Dog Days reminded me why I avoid public swimming pools. The movie showed a crowded pool and from the faraway expressions on many of the swimmers' faces you just knew they were emptying their bladders into the water.
Urinating in pools is just one unsavoury part of the communal bathing experience. Back when I used to venture into such facilities I also recall being grossed out by clumps of hair and sticking plasters drifting past in their unhygienic glory. I've also heard of toilet paper being found in a pool.
Luckily though, I've never witnessed a Code Brown - otherwise known as a floater. These are industry terms for poop in the pool, an event far more common that you would hope.
In the Scientific American blog How do germs get into the swimming pool? You might not want to know we learn a new term for such an incident: accidental faecal release (AFR for short) and discover that a study conducted by a US microbiologist found "the average bather releases 50 milliliters of urine and a liter of sweat per hour".
The New Zealand Herald article linked above says, "Health effects from swallowing water tainted with faecal micro-organisms or other bacteria can... include diarrhoea or vomiting, and infections of the eye, ear, nose and throat".
Swimming pools are public toilet bowls for many: survey opens with "If you're taking a refreshing dip in a pool with four other people, odds are one of you is urinating." This must be referring to the statistic quoted in Survey: Public swimming pools full of germs... and pee which revealed that "one in five Americans admit to using a public pool as a urinal." In New Zealand that figure is closer to one in four - actually I invented that factoid but I did always wonder what spawned the sign: "We don't swim in your toilet so don't you pee in our pool." Now I know.
I have a theory that there may be fewer bugs in traditional unheated outdoor swimming pools that the sun shines down on all day. But increasingly today public pools and some school pools are indoors and heated to the optimum temperature for bugs to thrive in - just like one gigantic petri dish.
In my unscientific opinion heated indoor pools are festering cesspits of infection - all of which must be great news for those people who think that, in the interests of fostering robust immune systems, germs should be embraced rather than shunned. To them I say: enjoy your swim but try to avoid the floaters.
What's your view about bugs in swimming pools? Are you opposed to swimming amongst the germs or are you made of stauncher stuff? What's the most revolting thing you've seen in a public pool?


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