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Anyone who knows even a little about Sephardic customs (and I in no way claim to be an expert in such matters) knows that Kabbalah has had a major influence upon them. Often times, this influence came at the expense of older Sephardic customs and practices.
One such example of this is the different customs surrounding putting one's head down when saying nefilat apayim or tachanun. The customs concerning putting one's head down while reciting our supplicatory prayers not only differ between Sephardim and Ashkenazim but also differ amongst the Sephardim. Let us begin by citing the Hacham Shem Tob Gaguine's Keter Shem Tob:
"The custom (of the Spanish-Portuguese Sephardim) in London and Amsterdam, as well as (amongst the Sephardim) in Israel, Syria, Tograma, and Egypt is to lay ones head down on their left side (during nefilat apayim) at both shacharit and mincha. And amongst the Ashkenazim it is the custom to put one's head down on their right side during shacharit and on their left side during mincha." (KST, alef: ayin-alef)
According to the Keter Shem Tob, it seems as though the western and eastern Sephardim have the same custom in regards to laying one's head down during n''a. He explains in the lengthy commentary that he gives on this custom that the reason we go down on our left side is because we are bnei chorin and even when we are approaching G-d in supplication, we do it as sons of a king and free men. Hacham Gaguine sites the Geonim as the source for this custom, concluding his commentary by saying, "Therefore it is from these Geonim who have established for us the Sephardim to fall on our left side for n''a."
However, according to Hacham Hayyim David ha Levi in his Kitsur Shulchan Arukh Mekhor Hayyim, there is a much different custom amongst the Sephardim when it comes to putting one's head down:
"When one falls on his face it is the custom to bow to the left side. And there are those who say that one should bow to the right side. And the reason for bowing on the right side during Shacharit, for one who has tefillin on his left, is because of the honor of the tefillin. But at mincha or for one who does not wear tefillin on his left, he should bow to his left. And every person should accustom himself according to the customs of the congregation in the synagogue in which he prays, due to fear of disagreements. However, the Sephardic congregations do not have the custom to fall on their faces at all." (Kitsur Shulchan Arukh, Mekor Hayyim, pg. 54: gimmel)
It is the last sentence of this statement by H. ha Levi that is most important for our discussion. Although H. ha Levi opens his statement by saying the custom is to put one's head down on the left side, he concludes by saying the Sephardim don't put their heads down at all! This is a striking difference from what the Keter Shem Tob tells us is the normative Sephardi minhag. What is the source of this discrepancy? In a daily email I receive from a Moroccan community in Toronto called, Moroccan Daily Halahkha, there was a great explanation given about n''a that can help us better understand the difference between H. Gauguine and H. ha Levi:
"4. Nefilat Apayim – Putting Down One's Head
The original minhag in Morocco, as elsewhere, was to lean on one's left side and actually put one's face down while saying the prescribed supplications for Nefilat Apayim (according to our custom, Tehilim 25, "Ledavid elekha…"). However, more recently it has become customary among nearly all Sefaradim to simply sit and say the supplications without leaning or putting one's head down.
Any elder Moroccan ribi can attest that the original minhag in Morocco was to lean on one's left side and put one's head down for Nefilat Apayim. This was also customary in Tunisia, Syria and other countries. See Maran haHida (Kesher Gudal 19:463), Ribi Refael Barukh Toledano (Qisur Shulhan 'Arukh, Laws of Nefilat Apayim) and others. All this is in accordance with the statements of the Talmud and Shulhan 'Arukh, which state that one puts one's head down during Tahanun, though this is not required – it was simply the custom of Jews, dating at least from Talmudic times. See also Sidur Bet 'Obed.
The first source for the custom of not putting one's head down seems to be the Ben Ish Hai (Year 1, Perashat Ki Tisa §13), who says that the minhag in his city, Baghdad, was not to put one's head down at all. The reason he gives is that, according to the Zohar, it is dangerous to put one's head down if one is not at a high enough level of spiritual refinement and is not able to have the proper intentions (kavanot) during Nefilat Apayim. Since the days of the Ben Ish Hai, this custom has become prevalent among Sefaradim and most communities no longer put their heads down during Tahanun."
So here we have it! According the Zohar, one should not put one's head down for n''a. Although, it is interesting to note that it was not until the Ben ish Hai that the custom of not putting one's head down really started to become prevalent amongst the Sephardim. It is also interesting to note that the Keter Shem Tob makes no mention of the custom of not putting one's head down.
All of this discussion concerning the differences in custom's when saying n''a is really an example of the differences in how we think about our Judaism and Jewish observance. I really want to use this specific example to open up a broader question; what is authentic Mesorah? Not that I'm in any way trying to convince anyone to change their custom, nor am I trying to tell anyone that they have the wrong custom. But there is a very important ideological difference behind the two different customs described above. On the one hand, we have the Qabbalah as explained in the KST that was established by the Geonim. In my very humble opinion and limited understanding, this custom is meant to impress upon the worshipper that even when he or she is approaching G-d in supplication, he or she does it as a completely free person. We, from our own free will, choose to beseech our Master for forgiveness, meditating on the fact that G-d freed us from bondage to accept the yoke of Torah. This is what the Geonic custom impresses upon me. I feel it is both rational and philosophically compatible with our Torah. On the other hand, we have the Kabbalah of the Zohar as described by H. ha Levi and our Moroccan source. This custom makes the practice of putting one's head down for n''a something to be avoided because most people will not be on the correct "spiritual level." By doing this, the Zohar undercuts the important point that the Geonic custom seeks to get across to us, namely; the internalization of the spiritual and philosophical principles of Yetziat Mitzrayim (The Exodus from Egypt) and what that truly means for us as Jews. I don't believe it's about already being on the correct spiritual level before one can put their head down for n''a, rather, I believe it's about using the custom of putting ones head down for n''a to repent, contemplate, and ultimately transform us into the kind of ethical, moral, G-d fearing and spiritual human beings that G-d requires us to be. With that, I must say with all due respect, thanks but no thanks to the Kabbalah of the Zohar. I'll stay with the Qabbalah of the Geonim.
Tomorrow night is erev Yom Kippur. May the Master of the Universe inscribe us in the Book of Life and for a good, prosperous, and sweet new year. May this year be one of increased knowledge and dedication to truth.

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i have always wondered why stop having sex close to the wedding date, i just dont see a point when 9 out of 10 times i find it extremely good and fun
so maybe if i got why you choose to i could understand
i have always wondered why stop having sex close to the wedding date, i just dont see a point when 9 out of 10 times i find it extremely good and fun
so maybe if i got why you choose to i could understand
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Well I know for some people getting married in church, it's for religious reasons. I've heard that in those pre-marital classes, that they talk about how you shouldn't have sex before marriage. So some people wait as a "sacrifice".
Simple delayed gratification :)
No real reason.
Sory of a way to make the wedding night more "special" to some people I think. FI brougt up the idea.
We have no plans to do that. I agree...I don't see the point.
I brought this up to my FI and he laughed at me. So, we won't be doing this!! He gets really cranky after a few days and I do not want to deal with that one our wedding trip! He will probably have to go (GASP!) one whole day without DTD during our trip. He can't seem to keep his hands off when we are in a tropical locale! I think it must be the walking around half naked all the time....
FI laughed when I bought it up as well. Hmmm! We won't be doing that either! Different strokes for different folks! :/
we seriously considered it. i totally see the point, but i am very religious. here's how my deacon explained it:
say you buy someone the BEST gift in the world and you can't freaking WAIT to give it to them Christmas morning. well then, when they open it Christmas eve, the anticipation and excitement of waiting for Christmas morning is totally out the window and you just ruined the whole surprise.
well, it was something like that :) but i totally get it and am for it, we just aren't doing it!
I can see the deacon's point if the wedding night will be the first time...but if you have already given someone the BEST gift way before Christmas, it seems a little pointless to wrap it back up and give it to them again on Christmas like it's a brand new gift.
super ditto to meanyprice.
I havent done the dirty with my guy for 5 months!!! Do you think I will stop before the wedding?
5 months of waiting, missing and being horny.... so sorry no, I am going to do him as much as I can!
Religion. We believe (while it is fun & all that) it is a gift to give your husband/wife. A gift of love, becoming one. Something sacred husband and wife can share that is shared with nobody else.
We were togther 4 years, and abstained for 9 months before the wedding, since our first meeting with our priest.
That's my reason :)
But if you allready done it with the person, it is just like re wrapping and re gifting the gift.
And yes, it will be special anyway cause of all the emotions of the day.
I can see abstaining for religious reasons either for the whole relationship until marriage, or like chrisnscott, after a specific event (like the meeting with the priest) that makes you feel the need to abstain for the remainder of your relationship until marriage for religious reasons. I completely understand the reasoning for this, and it that's your choice, then I think it's awesome.
I don't really understand the non-religious waiting for like a week/two weeks/month. I mean, if that's your thing, then go for it, but it's just not mine. For us, if we were to wait that long, it wouldn't be as good the first time after waiting. We have had to wait for weeks/months before because he was deployed or at school, and it seems to take a couple times to get back in the groove.
I agree that it's special the first time you get married whether you've waited or not, simply because of all the emotions that go along with getting married.
Trust me it is special even if you have still DTD before the wedding, looking up at my husband smiling and being able to call him my husband was turn on.... How ever having my drunk little brother downstair talking politics with another friend wasnt that fun.
I joined this group (although stalking for awhile now) just for this topic:) FI and I abstained after becoming saved and rededicated ourselves to God. For non- religious reasons:
1) Communication- not having sex forces couples to find other ways to express intimacy, comfort each other, and just feel close. When we stopped having sex we realized it was used as a band-aid for alot of issues in our relationship. He had never learned how to express affection without sex. I needed him to learn other ways to say "I love and desire you"
2) Getting out of a rut- If you have been together and doing it for many years routine can set in and this "break" can spice it up your love life. It also gives you time to reflect on your own sexuality, we found so many needs we were not expressing to each other, we were just "doing it". The talking about it without actually having to do anything really gave us freedom to be honest because you don't have to have sex with this person right after your "gentle honesty"
3) Commitment- not having the blessing of this closeness with your partner can really reveal the level of your commitment to each other. When times get tough, is this the person I will turn to, is this the person I will want to be with even when we aren't comfortable? Now some argue why invite temptation, but frankly stuff happens and it is good to know your commitment is stronger than the stuff and on your wedding night you not only celebrate your union but accomplishing all this great stuff together, as a united front.
All that being said, sex is a miraculous comfort and blessing and staying away too long is dangerous, but each couple has to see what that is for themselves.
i agree with what you said lanolin i do think that being together can some times be seen as a way fix things or be close, an your right you don't need it for either to be resolved. i can see the anticipation of waiting
an by all means if you have never been together then i see why your waiting. i get that it is a specail gift only meant for the husband.
an i agree with the others that say there is no point in re-wrapping a gift that has been given.
which is why we are not doing that, purposfully , if we go without it well because to much is going on.
an i agree i think being together for the first time as husband an wife is magical regardless if you stop a few weeks before the wedding or not
Lanolin: I have spent months on in another country then my guy, all we ever done is talked, comforted and solved problems so the sex is a great thing now when we can do it.
We have always talked, we never started out as a love smitten couple, instead we were two friends growning closer and closer over time and trying to ignore it for 2 years.
Solving problems and show affection with out sex is what we are good at.
Mau: the fact that you two have that great connection is so heart warming:) Your wedding was lovely and I'm happy for you. I guess in the end it is what works best for the couple. Our communication has strengthened greatly but it took time and the going without helped us, but every relationship is unique and special.
Yes every relationship is unique, I how ever wouldnt start a relationship if I couldnt talk to the person. My turn on is the brain not the body.
I just want us to be DYING to tear each others clothes off.....so I think if we wait a while, it will be that much more special


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Biagio Anthony Anastasio, 98, formerly of Hamden, went to be with the Lord on Oct. 29, 2012. He passed away peacefully after a brief illness at the Wadsworth Glen Health Care and Rehabilitation Center in Middletown.
He was born Feb. 4, 1914 in New Haven, the son of the late Giovannina (Criscuolo) and Michele Anastasio. He was preceded in death by his beloved wife of 69 years, Mary Landino Anastasio, who passed in 2009, his brothers Andrew, Louis, Anthony, Gerald, Dominic and Salvatore Anastasio, his sister Rose Fusco, and his son Blaise Anastasio.
After training and perfecting his craft in beauty salons in large department stores in New York and Hartford for six years, Mr. Anthony, as he was known by his clients and colleagues in the hair styling profession, went into business with his brother Jerry in 1941 on Temple Street. Other brothers Dom, Anthony and Sal were also highly respected stylists in New Haven and Fairfield.
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He is survived by his daughter Jo-Anne Anastasia of Newton, MA; his son and daughter-in-law, Michael and Jaye Anastasio of Spotsylvania, VA; his daughter-in-law, Marianne (Raccio) Anastasio of Branford; his grandsons Michael Anastasio III of Fairfax, VA and Ion Sokhos of Newton, MA; and his granddaughter and son-in-law Krista and Bruce Petitt of Fort Drum, NY.
He also had 5 great grandchildren Jack, Shawn, Ashley, Luke and Lauren and many family members and friends in the New Haven area.
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Marriage Under Fire: Why We Must Win This Battle
- Monday, May 17, 2004
Stanley Kurtz, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, summed up the situation in a recent Weekly Standard article. He noted that if gay marriage is legalized, "marriage will be transformed into a variety of relationship contracts, linking two, three or more individuals (however weakly or temporarily) in every conceivable combination of male and female . . . the bottom of this slope is visible from where we now stand."46
We must all become soberly aware of a deeply disturbing reality: The homosexual agenda is not marriage for gays. It is marriage for no one. And despite what you read or see in the media, it is definitely not monogamous.
What will happen sociologically if marriage becomes anything or everything or nothing? The short answer is that the State will lose its compelling interest in marital relationships altogether. After marriage has been redefined, divorces will be obtained instantly, will not involve a court, and will take on the status of a driver's license or a hunting permit. With the family out of the way, all rights and privileges of marriage will accrue to gay and lesbian partners without the legal entanglements and commitments heretofore associated with it.
These are just a few reasons why homosexual marriage is truly revolutionary. Legalizing it will change everything, especially for the institution of the family.
2. Children will suffer most.
The implications for children in a world of decaying families are profound. Because homosexuals are rarely monogamous, often having as many as three hundred47 or more partners in a lifetime—some studies say it is typically more than one thousand48—children in those polyamorous situations are caught in a perpetual coming and going. It is devastating to kids, who by their nature are enormously conservative creatures. They like things to stay just the way they are, and they hate change. Some have been known to eat the same brand of peanut butter throughout childhood.
More than ten thousand studies have concluded that kids do best when they are raised by loving and committed mothers and fathers.49 They are less likely to be on illegal drugs, less likely to be retained in a grade, less likely to drop out of school, less likely to commit suicide, less likely to be in poverty, less likely to become juvenile delinquents, and for the girls, less likely to become teen mothers. They are healthier both emotionally and physically, even thirty years later, than those not so blessed by traditional parents.50
Social scientists have been surprisingly consistent in warning about the impact of fractured families. If present trends continue, the majority of children will have several "moms" and "dads," perhaps six or eight "grandparents," and dozens of half-siblings. It will be a world where little boys and girls are shuffled from pillar to post in an ever-changing pattern of living arrangements; where huge numbers of them will be raised in foster-care homes or living on the street, as millions do in countries all over the world today. Imagine an environment where nothing is stable and where people think primarily about themselves and their own self-preservation. And have you considered what will happen when homosexuals with children become divorced? Instead of two moms and two dads, they will have to contend with four moms or four dads. How would you like to be a new husband a generation later who instantly had four or six or eight mother-in-laws.
We must also consider a world of the future where immorality is even more rampant than today, where both unbridled homosexual and heterosexual liaisons are the norm. The apostle Paul described such a society in the book of Romans, referring apparently to ancient Rome. He wrote, "They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless" (Romans 1:29–31).
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19 August 2011, Annual development cooperation conference
Development cooperation: innovation is the key to the future
What kinds of innovation have shaped the Confederation's development cooperation? What are the main innovations today in our cooperation with partner countries and organisations? How can development cooperation based on partnership help find solutions to new challenges?
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"Farewell and adieu to ye fair Spanish ladies…" (Old sea chantey.)
The UES Artemis, (BB 1,) was indeed a futuristic looking vessel in many regards, and yet would have looked familiar to anyone who was familiar with the basic battleship design. It indeed had the shape of a sea going vessel, with a low profile on the water, and the shaping to not allow a radar signal to go directly back to its source. In fact, it was lower in profile than what had ever seen in the past, due to their being certain things that were no longer needed. There were no stacks on the deck, nor was there a tall radio tower. In space, such a tower would not be needed, yet it could rise up in an array planet side with a crow's nest if need be. In fact, the conning platform and the signal bridges were one tier higher than the top 16 inch batteries fore and aft. There was a platform on the back for hover vehicles and V-STOL capable flying crafts. In conning platform sat the command chair, and everything that one would expect on the command bridge, including the helm. However, on the aft section, the ship was not propelled in the water by screws, but by an impulse engine that gave it thrust which sat above the waterline. Yet, it could also function underwater in its submerged function. To either side of the aft rested the two warp engines designed for interstellar travel. The smaller vessels built before were used to test those engines, and, after a couple of near disasters, they had perfected the design to near perfect efficiency. The ship was the latest of the first battle flotilla of the Terra Commonwealth, which went with a fighter carrier, six missile cruisers, 12 destroyers, six CT, (cloaked torpedo,) cruisers, and a fighter and bomber wing on the carrier. Each terraformed planet that formed oceans, (Venus, Mars, and some of the moons of Jupiter and Saturn,) were at that point working on similar flotillas which would make up an entire fleet for the United Sol Federation. This flotilla, however, would be the first to penetrate the solar system and take a shakedown cruise around Proxima Centurai and back. Once done, they would then go to towards the closest yellow dwarf that their scientists said gave indications that there were planets around it. Even though it seemed like a normal ship's commissioning, the trip of the Earth Flotilla actually carried a significance equal to man's first steps on the moon between the Old Moon Kingdom and the establishment of the new kingdom.
The crew stood resplendent in their dress uniforms as they stood ready for the ship to sail off into the Pacific. Since it was still March, they were wearing their winter blues. The enlisted personnel wore their Cracker Jacks with the Dixie Cup hats, the back flaps, hats, and neckerchiefs were all colored in the branch they served. For example, if one was in direct ship service, (helm, navigation, mess, supply, quartermaster, etc.) it was marmalade, matching the color scheme of Princess Venus. If you were in engineering, medical, science, and such like, it was light blue. The ladies wore skirts. The marines were wearing the same thing as Marine Ceres, (except that he now wore a white X belt on his uniform, and a Napoleon style hat, marking him as an officer.) The naval officers wore navy blue dress shirts and pants or skirts depending, with branch colored stripes on the pants and around the hat that they wore. This was the site that covered the deck as she prepared to pull out. The only ones not out on the deck was the bridge crew, and they prepared the ship for its first space run. The only uniform that was unique was Princess Sailor Venus, wearing the same costume that she was given when Tom Reichmann first joined the team. She then said to her helmsman, "Mr. Bjorn, take us to port, one eighth impulse power."
"Aye, aye, your highness," he said, and the impulse engines gimbaled to the left, and then thrust as she lurched forward and then to the port. As the ship went, many of the crew started to break out in song, singing, "I'll sing you a song; a good song of the sea—away Rio! I'll sing you a song if you'll sing it with me, and we're bound for the Rio Grande."
The king and queen stood on the platform from which they had given their speech and watched her pull away. Serenity wrapped her arms around Endymion's and she began to snuggle up to him as she watched. "I so love when they pull out like that," she said, "I love their singing so much."
"That has been a time honored tradition for centuries," said Endymion, "They were actually trying to set at ease those that were left behind that they would come back."
Serenity's face then went long a touch, and he was forced to ask, "What's wrong, Dumpling Head?"
"They're going to do something no one in the solar system has ever done," she said, "That makes me nervous."
"Come now," he consoled, "You know that Venus can take care of herself. Remember: she was the first of us to awaken, so she can take care of herself."
"It's not just her, I mean, you know Usagi is up there too, and she's going with them."
"So is the rest of the flotilla—they all share the risks. You know the quartet is with them, as is Mars and Mercury. She is on the hospital ship, and they could not have better care in this galaxy…at least that we know of!"
"I wonder if this is what our parents felt when they landed on the moon for the first time."
"Well, I guess it equates, what they are about to do could make that seem like a small thing. It's okay."
They then turned to go to the hover carriage that was to take them back to the Crystal Palace, they could hear them singing yet, though it was fading as they went: "And it's away Rio—away Rio! It's fare ye well my pretty young girls, and we're bound for the Rio Grande."
Serenity then thought about the first moon landing, and she then remembered what they had to do to preserve it when the terraforming of the moon actually turned the Sea of Tranquility into just that! It now sits under a crystal dome at the bottom along with the undersea research center, set in such a fashion that water could not even moisten the moon sand, and it was so with every spot where they figured that there was going to be water. She was so glad they were able to preserve the sites, but she also hoped that they could commemorate this event just as well. She looked at the ship pulling away, and then she looked up and said, "Take good care of Usagi, everyone, and come back safe.
Once out to sea, the navigator, Kim-Soo-Lee, said, "What is the course, your highness?"
"Set a course for the north mid-Pacific and then prepare for the launch," was her reply, "We'll be in orbit in no time."
Some of the bridge crew looked nervous, and she said, "If they could get that carrier up there in orbit, we can do this. Just keep it sharp on helm, Mr. Bjorn—one wrong slip, we go into gimble lock, and we plunge into the Pacific."
Everyone became even more nervous, and Artemis, who was sitting on her lap in the conn chair, whispered to her, "I don't think that was all that encouraging."
Once in position, the vessel was brought about 180 degrees and she said, "Okay, now bring us up to one half impulse power, and then gradually bring it to full impulse. At that point, slowly gimble the impulse thruster up as high as it can go, then set it on auto gimble, and keep her steady."
This was done, and everyone on the ship felt the thrust. She then said, "Mr. Mambazo, (communications officer,) open up ship's intercom."
"Aye, ma'am," he said, and he hit the switch. Her voice could be heard to echo throughout the vessel, and she said, "This is Admiral Venus. All hands prepare for launch."
Everyone then went to either their bunks or to special seats to strap down and prepare for launch, save for the few that had to work certain stations in engineering in order to get the vessel space born.
As the ship picked up speed, the ship began to rise up on specially designed hydroplanes that would allow her to skim along at full speed, and also to remain stable as the ship launched. By the time they reached ¾ impulse power, there was a phenomenal wake being kicked up in back, but now the planes were now barely skim the water. This was unexpected, considering that it took full power to the UES Luna off the surface, and that she had two impulse thrusters aft to aid in this. The measurements showed that only one was needed for the Artemis, but they also figured that they would need full power to launch. Mr. Bjorn then said, "Your highness, we may have to try to launch now or we may lose her!"
She nodded to give the go-ahead, and he then gimbaled the thruster as hard as he could, and then just as quickly put it on auto. The nose of the ship began to arc upwards as the planes caught the air and then aided in the lift and stabilization of the craft. Despite this, the vessel was bobbing around gently as if they were still on the waves. The vessel quickly surpassed the sound barrier and it smoothed out some more as a result, but everyone was still on edge. They were able to achieve great speed at this point with only the now thinning atmosphere putting any resistance on the ship. At this point, the blue was thinning out and melting away as she gained great altitude swiftly. Then, just as fast, the inky black of space was all that could be seen, due to their location versus the location of the sun, which was overpowering all the other objects in the sky. They were now in space. The ride suddenly smoothed out completely and the command was then given to turn on the artificial gravity. Once at orbital level, Lieutenant Lee then set the course to catch up with and then rendezvous with the rest of the flotilla. The front plastic steel which made up the conn bridge's outer view to things was then polarized to block out some of the sun, and it was then that everyone was first able to appreciate the beauty of the Earth that had been reborn out of such a great disaster.
Mr. Mambazo then picked up a transmission, and it was Captain Francois Cousteau, (commander of the UES Luna when the queen was not on board,) saying, "Artemis, we have you in our sights, and we welcome you to the edge of the undiscovered country!"
"It was a bit of a bumpy ride, but here we are," said Venus, "Are we ready to test the warping engines?"
"The coordinates are set for Proxima Centuri, you your highness," said Cousteau, and then another voice cut in, saying, "Are you sure that bulky thing can keep up with us?"
It was Princess Mars on board the CT cruiser UES Hirawaka, on which the majority of the Space SEALs were stationed. She knew her ship was designed for speed, and she wanted to just give a little bit of a good natured ribbing to her old friend, but Venus had her own response, as she said, "Honey, this thing was rigged for speed!"
"Really?" said Mars, "Want to put a wager on it?"
"How about the winner gets a week of liberty call for the winning crew?" responded Venus.
"You're on!" Mars quickly answered. The announcement was then made to both crews, and there was a cheer on both vessels, each crew wanting this win. However Venus, to sweeten the pot, said, "The loser has to pull dock guard with the Shore Police for that week when we get back."
"I can't wait to see you out all night with the greenbacks," answered Mars, (referring to the green color of the Cracker Jack flap that marked them attached with Princess Jupiter. They were attached with the Marines to provide shore and ship security, and aid the Marines in that task.)
Another voice chimed in and said, "Then I will act as official witness to this, and I cannot wait to see the result."
It was Princess Mercury, in command of the hospital ship UES Nightingale, and she dearly wanted to be along for the trip, considering it was mainly her designs for the impulse and warping engines, as well as the subspace radio communication system. She wanted to be sure that the vessels could take the stress. The windows on the bridge were made of a substance that Mercury called plasteel, designed to be incredibly strong against weaponry and the pressure from inside the ship that would threaten to pop it like a balloon from the vacuum of space. They had tested the impulse engines by taking the vessels that had already been built and they had taken a trip out to the orbit of Pluto and back. In space, the impulse engines had no gravity or air to fight, so at full power, the vessels could make the round trip in two days. However, when one considered the location of the star they were heading for, all they had to do is set a course that took them below the Earth and out of the solar system. They would be the first humans ever to visit a star outside of the Sun. The ships all aimed and kicked in full impulse power, preparing for warp speed.
Lieutenant Lee set the course and Mr. Bjorn stated, "Ready to go on your command, your highness."
Venus had Mr. Mambazo open up to all the ships, and she asked, "Are all vessels ready?"
They all acknowledged her and said yes, and she then said, "Mr. Bjorn, take us to warp one."
He then hit the switch and then pushed a handle up to its first notch. The engines set on the aft port and starboards of all the vessels flashed, and with a blur, they were gone. The ships were now jumping the gap created by the warping effect, and the sound of the engines could be heard throughout the ship, becoming louder or softer depending on where in the ship one was, and then Venus said, "Take us to warp two, and gradually take us up to warp seven as we safely achieve each mark."
She knew that the bet was there, but safety was of the greatest concern. Any small miscalculation in the system, they could end up linking the warp, and creating a wormhole. God knows where they could have ended up at that point. It was smooth, but there was still that nagging feeling when one does something for the first time, especially something like that. However, they picked a target that was only four light-years away, so they should be back by the next day. (Warp speed is measured as follows: the warp number cubed is then multiplied against the speed of light. Therefore, warp two is eight times the speed of light; warp three is 27 times, and so forth. Thus, warp seven would put them 343 times the speed of light!) At that speed, they were expected to make it there in four and a half days or so. She asked, "Is everything as it should be?"
"Everything's reading as normal, and we are safely cruising," said Mr. MacFarlane, her first office, "It looks like a smooth trip."
"Let's hope so," she responded, "I am going to retire to my quarters. Mr. MacFarlane, you have the conn."
She got up and headed for her quarters, hoping all would be well. However, their actions were not unseen.
About three days into their trip, a vessel of another system passed by an area where the flotilla had passed, and their sensors went off like crazy. After a moment of analysis, they realized that it matched a warp signature, and they were about to pay it no mind. However, when they traced it back, they realized that it went back to a yellow dwarf star in an area of unexplored space. They had never thought to examine that area of the galaxy, because it was not all that interesting. However, when they put that star into their sensors, there was the signature of a planetary system in that area, and they were not sure what to think. At first they thought about just going there. Yet, they began to wonder if that was walking into trouble, considering that they did not know what they faced. Considering the size of the signature, it was either a massive vessel, or a whole fleet. Since they were only one ship, they did not want to get chewed up by whatever they were. Instead, they set course for their home world, looking to report this to the emperor. He would then decide what to do. It could be that they just got their legs underneath them as far as interstellar travel went, and if they were, they may not be able to match their empire. If that turned out to be the case, then the area was ripe for invasion.


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A guy wakes upp having a hangover, what did he do last night?
Finaly I got my thumb out of my ass and made something.
I once again tried out a new art style in the flash.
YES- the spelling sucks.
YES- It is inspierd by David Firth
Rated 5 / 5 stars May 4, 2008
FREAKIN AWESOME... no more mere words shall ever describe the awesomeness (not a word) that it contains... will you make a sequel??...
affraid not. Not doing much in flash these days.
But thanks a bunch. I love awesomeness. :)
Rated 5 / 5 stars November 11, 2008
that made me want my mother rock on my fucked up fellow
!!.?... come again please?
Rated 5 / 5 stars January 26, 2008
why the hell..
did he killed she?
and pissed on her?
and lol. ish that your voice? 4/5 man
Rated 5 / 5 stars November 11, 2008
nice animation
very good animation, and one question, isnt david firth the guy who made salad fingers and what not, cus i love his work
Yeah he is, take a looks at his valentine movie and you see the likeness.
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peeing was a good touch
that was definently not drinking to much. even if your dead ass drunk i dont think you could eat somebody's flesh and butcher them into mince meat but i dont drink anyway :P


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- Cast: Elijah Wood, John C. Reilly, Jennifer Connelly, Crispin Glover, Martin Landau, Christopher Plummer, Fred Tatasciore, Alan Oppenheimer, Tom Kane, Helen Wilson
- Director: Shane Acker
- Writers: Pamela Pettler, Shane Acker
- Producers: Timur Bekmambetov, Tim Burton, Dana Ginsburg, Jinko Gotoh, Jim Lemley
- Co Producer: Marci Levine
- Art Direction: Christophe Vacher
- Casting: Mindy Marin
- Editor: Nick Kenway
- Music: Deborah Lurie
- Production Designs: Robert St. Pierre, Fred Warter
When 9 first comes to life, he finds himself in a post-apocalyptic world where all humans are gone, and it is only by chance that he discovers a small community of others like him taking refuge from fearsome machines that roam the earth intent on their extinction. Despite being the neophyte of the group, 9 convinces the others that hiding will do them no good. They must take the offensive if they are to survive, and they must discover why the machines want to destroy them in the first place. As they'll soon come to learn, the very future of civilization may depend on them.
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- MPAA Warning: Violence and scary images
- Production Budget: $28 million
- Production Companies: Focus Features, Relativity Media, Starz Animation
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That strikes me as largely an illusion of freedom though. I know for a fact that the Old World Loremaster achievements were quite a bit harder to do, and I think that has a lot to do with how much better it is in Outland and Northrend with their zone-specific sub-achievements.
If you have ten quests left in all of Kalimdor, you might need to look over the quest offerings for the whole continent to figure out what more you can do. If, however, you know for a fact it's ten quests in Felwood that are holding you back, that goes a very long way to making it easier to get the achievement done.
Add to that that in my experience that the number of quests needed for the zone achievements is usually set at a pretty reasonable level. You'll need to really dedicate yourself to questing in a zone, but you'll by no means need to track down every single quest in the whole zone to get the achievement. I generally finished up the Northrend and Outland achievements with several questlines still in progress.
Finally, I beloeve the total number of quests required for Loremaster of EK and Kalimdor are being lowered for both Alliance and Horde, so again, this will be easier to manage post-Cataclysm.


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Chapters: 28/28
Fandom: X-Men: First Class (2011)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Erik Lehnsherr/Charles Xavier
Characters: Erik Lehnsherr, Charles Xavier, Wanda Maximoff, Pietro Maximoff, Emma Frost, Moira MacTaggert
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Erik is a Shark, Protective Erik, Parents & Children, Charles is a Teacher, Animalistic, Biting, Fluff, Fluff and Angst, Widowed (before the story starts), Elementary School
Erik used to be a shark. Now he's not, and has to figure out how to be a good human father to his twins. Charles is willing to help.
I devoured this during breaks @ work (the chapters are short) and every paragraph is squeal-worthy - it's so ridiculously cute! Erik is a shark! Wanda and Pietro are shark pups! Their daddy courts their teacher Charles! Go, just go.
Summary: Lightning flashes, carving the sky apart with jagged brilliance, and Erik gasps, his head falling back with a soft laugh as the answering thunder roars.
Rating: NC-17
My thoughts: This was really cute and hot. I like their relationship and it's a well written PWP.
Notes: Sex during a thunderstorm, electric powers
Title: Meta-Sexual (or How Deadpool Failed to Get Charles and Erik to Declare Their Undying Love For Each Other)
Author: IrenaK
Words: 2636
Rating: E
Link: http://archiveofourown.org/works/381903?page=1#comments
Summary: Nathan "Cable" Summers and Wade "Deadpool" Wilson temporarily…
The 'are you old enough to read this' questions that usually appear before the majority of the fanfiction I read are irrelevant now.
"You should smile more often, my friend," come the words out of thin air.
Erik's eyes lift from the novel he idly reads in his lap. Charles smiles across the table at him; he stares back blankly. "So you can be satisfied to know that your ridiculous pep-talks don't fall upon deaf ears?" he retorts dryly. His tone lacks its old harshness, though, and Erik knows it.
So does Charles, which is why he only smiles wider, the comment hardly phasing him, and shrugs a shoulder. "Well, yes, that too." He shifts in the cafe chair and folds his hands on the table. "I was thinking more on the lines of how your eyes light up when you smile, and your happiness is much more apparent. " Erik is silently regarding him, but Charles can hear the thoughts swimming in his head. He tosses him some wit to chew on. "That, and smiling is generally more favourable than scowling."
The metal bender scoffs and closes his book. He rests his arms on the edge of the table, loosely crossed. "I don't smile to please others, Charles," he corrects with a wayward gaze.
"No, you don't," Charles acknowledges quickly. He dares to move his folded hands closer to Erik's wrist. "Just to please me." And here, Xavier grins, because he has just heard the same thing in Lehnsherr's head; perhaps thought deliberately, though the telepath doubts it, given Erik's raised brows. Charles cannot bite down the doggish grin on his face.
A dry chortle pushes past Erik's lips. He looks down at their nearly-touching hands but holds no objection. "It's annoying when you do that," he quips, ducking his head and avoiding Charles' eyes.
The telepath's grin grows and he has to bite his lip to suppress the joy from wholly breaking out on his face. Then why are you smiling? he thinks, passing the words to Erik, whose attempts to hide his face have clearly failed. To Charles' delight, it only makes him smile more.
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Mole(mex) and Curry(India)have something in common
- Lori SF Oct 14, 2007 02:10 PM
Being a Mexican Food fan especially Mole all the types I thought this was interesting-
Really interesting, and though I never would have thought of the connection it certainly makes sense.
A some differences come to mind:
- mole sauces are typically cooked separately from the meat, though broth from the meat is used to thin the base.
- most Indian stews/curries recipes that I've tried, cook the meat with the spices. Some spice mixes are added at the end (garam masala). Other mixes are pureed and fried at the start of the dish.
- bread and nuts are a key thickener in moles. This is also true of some Spanish sauces (remesco, Catalan picada)
- I don't recall Indian recipes that use such thickeners. Seems the many Indian stews get their body from cooked down onions.
re: paulj
You mention that using nuts as a thickener is unique to Mexican moles. Not true. My sister-in-laws are all excellent Gujurati cooks (Gujurat is a state in Western India) and they all frequently use peanuts as thickening agents in their curries. In fact, when I am cooking Gujurati dishes for friends, I make a point of asking about peanut allergies: as many of our dishes contain peanuts but the taste is not obvious.
Well, I guess technically peanuts aren't a nut. But they are a common ingredient in Indian and Mexican cooking. Fascinating article, btw. My husband and I have long noted the similarities...and we both love both cuisines.
re: janetofreno
It should be noted that Peanuts are originally from Andean South America (Peru, Brazil etc.,) and were foraged by the various tribes... they made their way to Mexico (via the pre-hispanic trade routes).... where they were first cultivated intensively.... particularly in Central Mexico.
The Spanish brought the peanut to Europe (where it failed as a crop)... but most importantly to Africa where it became a crucial nutrient, but played a sinister role in the Slave Trade (it was one of the things the Spanish used as payment).... the Portugese soon thereafter also found sources of Peanut in their portion of the Andes.... and similarly used it to broker slaves.... and later brought it to their colony in Western India.
There was a point in history when Spain & Portugal were involved in a complex trading arrangement that ended bringing lots of products from the Indian sub-continent (mangos, tamarind etc.) to New Spain (Mexico) in exchange for Mexican products like Peanuts, Chiles etc.,
Curiously.... Indian cuisine is one that my parents really took to here in the U.S.... when we "splurged" at some Indian restaurant in the burbs... I think my Dad used to like pretending that Indian dishes were actually the Mexican dishes he missed the most..... Goat Curry was a proxy for Oaxacan style Goat Barbacoa, the Chickpea is in the spicy red stew... were Chickpeas in Adobo & Chicken Tikka was Chicken al Pastor etc., etc.,
re: paulj
northern Indian cuisine uses ground almonds as thickeners in kormas. Moghul cuisine.
e.g., http://www.whats4eats.com/recipes/r_m...
Very intriguing.
I'm not sure why I didn't make the connection when I figured out that the best way for me to approximate Spanish rice was to make a version of pilaf...
I am familiar with both cuisines and I have postulated about this, too. The flat breads, the roasting of spices, reliance on some of the same spices, using ground nuts in gravies, etc. Actually, it is really quite a coincidence how much the two cuisines have in common generally speaking. I agree with the author's references to the Muslim influence, but I think the indigenous cuisines have a lot in common besides that just as a coincidence.
Re paulj: bread would never be used to thicken and Indian gravy, but there are many traditional recipes for North Indian and Pakistani food that use nuts as a thickener. But most people use short cuts or don't make these that often.
Many traditional Mexican sweets are similar to Indo-Pak sweets, too. Both puddings and reduction sweets (reductions of milk cooked with sugar, or nuts fried and cooked with sugar).
The roasted and grilled meats of Indo-Pak cuisine are Mongol origin---the Mongols brought it to the Arabs, the Arabs brought it to Spain, the Spaniards brought it to Mexico.
Though N. Indian/Paki flat breads are made with whole wheat flour or a mix of white and wheat, and MX flour tortillas are traditionally white flour, they serve the same purpose. In addition, there is an Indo-Pak corn based flat bread (makai ki roti) that is eaten daily in some regions, and also used to accompany certain specific dishes.
Just uncanny, really.
re: luckyfatima
Thanks for the great further in depth comparison. Nice expansion on the article.
re: luckyfatima
in fact, luckyfatima, you might want to contact the authors of the article with your insights. i think they would appreciate it and it might start a really neat (chowish) dialogue!
The article while providing some very good information, and an intriguing story has many, many errors... and generally a wrong assessment as follows:
> Mole was NOT invented in the 18th Century by Nuns... a PARTICULAR recipe for Mole was derived at the Santa Clara convent for a special occassion... Mole Poblano. It happens to be one of the most popular & commonly served moles but it certainly wasn't the first, the only or the most important. This is a mistaken widespread belief held even in mainstream Mexico... embarrasingly echoed even by culinary luminaries like Patricia Quintana.
> Had the Mole been invented at Santa Clara in the 18th Century... why would it adopt the generic Aztec word for sauce as its name? Specially considering that many of the nuns at the convent were of European origin (some speculate they were primarily Catalan)... and Puebla was NOT home of Aztecs / Nahuatl speakers? Even more damaging are the writings of the Spanish Conquistadors (particularly Bernal Diaz) which describe that Moles were among the dishes served to them by the Aztecs. Pre-Hispanic Moles have the same basic structure as Contemporary Moles but with slightly different ingredients... before they were thickened with Pumpkin Seed, Peanuts & Masa... now they include Bread, Almonds etc.,
> With respects to Agua Fresca... there may be some similiarities but not necessarily any relationship. For one.... most of the foods in Mexico (& Spain) that have a strong Muslim connection have names derived from Arab... Almendra, Ajonjoli, Alambres etc., Agua Frescas have neither... further as early as the mid 16th Century... English pirates hanging out in the Yucatan waiting for Spanish Galleons documented the fruity, slightly alcoholic drinks they would come to know by as Cocktails (because they were typically adorned with colorful bird feathers)... Agua Frescas are simply an extension of Mexico's immense fruit surplus. Further damaging to this argument.... the Spanish Conquistadors also documented that they were served sorbets (nieves) made from snow brought down from the Volcanoes & Snowy Peaks surrounding Mexico City
> Finally the suggestion that roasting or grilling meats was derived from the Old World is also ridiculous in face of all the archeological evidence of Pre-Hispanic roasting & high heat griddling of meats... again not disputing similarities.
Now, with those mistakes aside... is there an Islamic connection to Mexican cuisine? Absolutely without a doubt. The Middle East plays a key role in the Spice Route & through conquest / invasion of Souther Europe (including Spain, Greece & Italy).... it connects East & West. There is no doubt that many requisite ingredients of the Mexican kitchen (the Holy trinity of spices.... Cumin, Cloves, Black Pepper... are derived from Al-Andalus)... however, the overall analysis that Moles & Mexican dishes in general are basically Middle Eastern dishes with a few new world touches is absolutely ridiculous... although has some basis.
Lots of mainstream Mexican cooking is the cookery of the Creoles (those of Spanish / European ancestry)... so things like the Mexican Rice, Fideos, Alambres etc., really would fit that thesis. However these represent less than 1% of what Mexican cuisine really is. The vast majority of Mexican cooking is based on Pre-Hispanic dishes that accomodate more economical substitue ingredients (Chicken instead of Turkey or Duck, Cilantro instead of Papalo., Cloves, Cumin & Black Pepper instead of Allspice etc.
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Thank you for your clarification EN. Your's was an equally fascinating read.
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I always learn so much from Eat Nopal.
I appreciate your post.
Funny, I have experienced so many different Mexican cuisines all over Mexico and from so many different ethnic groups but only recently I am interested in the historical aspects. My focuas has always been the architecture and art.. this makes a lot of sense just from what I know about art history.
I thought this was a pretty good website on the history of food for the different regions in Mexico-
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That is a pretty good website to gain some basic info and some basic theories... but the essays are all fairly superficial and not particularly academic. I highly recommend a subscribtion to Arqeologia Mexicana http://www.arqueomex.com/... also the various government publications on indigenous culture are extremely valuable... here is the government's main website on the topic http://www.cdi.gob.mx/
Overall... I find that people like Michel Fournier (a descendant of 19th Century French Barcelonnette immigrants) & Carlos Azcoytia (descendant of Spanish Civil War refugees)... are so indoctrinated in the official, post-Revolutionary discourse of Mestizaje (pushed vehemently by Jose Vasconcelos - the Intellectual pillar behind Mexico's nation building efforts in the late 1920's & 1930's - that they tend to filter their essays & available evidence to substantiate the nice, but impractical & undermining concept that Mexico is one giant Mestizaje / Fusion... and in the process they repeatedly undermine the not-modest contributions of Mesoamerica.... that is why I like to cross reference the more subjective extrapolations on Culinary & Cultural History with the more scientifically objective findings by the Anthropologists. And part of the bias is that they give a 100% weight to the Spanish account of how things came about... and are rarely in the indigenous villages speaking with people to find out the oral history. (I know some may balk at the idea that Oral History can be as accurate as Written History... but given that the surviving copy of the Popul Vuh was redacted Orally almost 100 years after conquest... and it has largely been validated by Archeologist findings at the various sites.... it shouldn't be discounted so easily)
Unfortunately... the history of Pre-Hispanic Mexican cuisine wasn't documented as thoroughly as the Roman... and further what did exist was burned by the Spaniards (save some of the few codices remaining in European museums)... and so Anthropology / Archelogy becomes our only hope for understanding the truth.
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thanks for the websites!!
Maybe you should start documenting or a blog..you would be great at this. I am appreciating the historical value more and more and I think it is important so we can value what is left of the indigenous people.
I am familar with the Huichol Indians where I once had a few meals with in Nayarit. It's a sad state of affairs what is going on there because of their exposure to all the toxins from the tobacco fields.
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Its funny you mention that... I am working on a website / blog. One of the interesting things is that the Internet / Modern Communications is really starting to benefit the effort to preserve & help the indigenous world.
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I am glad you are doing that, please let me know when you have it going. You have my email? If not I am have it published here. I want to do a blog on something different but my writing sucks!
Yes the internet can certainly be helpful for these issues and nothing like seeing it first hand too.
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Great contribution on this thread, Eat Nopal.
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great info eat nopal.
i was looking for your blog but can't find it...can u give the address?
so true about mole, it is a nahuatl origin word, why would it be Iberian?
re: luckyfatima
Its a work in progress... I am currently designing the site (stuck trying to figure out Dreamweaver)... but in a couple of months it should be up with 4 or 5 essays.... and a daily recipe... and I will then add to it over time.
re: Lori SF
Its very interesting that you mention architecture and art... because from what I have learned the fusion of the cuisines would likely have paralleled the history behind Tequitqui & other colonial art forms:
"On Saturday morning, festival participants met at the IOHIO office at 9:30 and boarded a bus for the Mixteca Alta region. The first stop was the hillside community of Santa María Tiltepec, where the village church, built before 1575 on pre-Hispanic foundations, is characterized by ornate carved decoration in the tequitqui style consisting of syncretistic motifs (Mexican and European) in low, mainly two-dimensional relief. As in other village churches, we were welcomed by male elders making brief speeches. After viewing a 16th-century footed baptismal font with feathered serpent motifs and a fine set of 18th-century retablos (reredos), we ascended the "west gallery" (coro alto), though at Tiltepec, with its unconventional orientation, this was actually at the south end of the building... "
A very compelling & intriguing way to look at the development of colonial Mexican cuisine is to compare it with the story behind the image of the Virgin of Guadalupe. Here is this painting that art historians consider to be in the same caliber as the European masters of the 16th Century... and it was painted by an Aztec scribe whose convert name was Marcos Cipac less than 10 years after the fall of Tenochtitlan. The Golden Ratio is there... the perspective, the technique, and you also see some Byzantine influence from the original Virgin of Guadalupe painting.... but Cipac also created something entirely new & unique... unlike any other painting of its time in Spain (or Florence for that matter).
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Look no further for the middle eastern connection; all you need to see is El Pastor.
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That is very different. By Al Pastor... I think you are referring to the ubiquitous Tacos al Pastor... with thin pork steaks marinated in an Achiote paste, & slices of onion roasted on Vertical spit... while basted by Pineapple juices. That dish has a very recent history in Mexico... there is another much more traditional dish that has a much longer history... I will explain briefly.
> Mexico received a bulk of the Catholic & Maronite ethnic groups primarily from Lebanon, Syria & Iraq during the breakdown of the Ottoman empire.
> In the early 1930's a well liked man of Iraqi ancestry invented the Taco Arabe in Puebla City. He basically invented a new type of flat bread... that is like a cross between lavash & a tortilla, he filled it up with marinated lamb from the Vertical spit & served it with Mexican style salsas.
> In the following decade someone in either Merida or Puebla (both cities have sizable Lebanese / Middle Eastern populations)... fused a traditional Mexican dish of grilled marinated pork steaks & pineapple... with the Vertical spit roasting technique and the rest is history.
> The more traditional dish is Cabrito al Pastor (Kid roasted horizontally over an open fire)- a regional specialty from Monterrey which was a city founded by Crypto-Jews and which to this day is full of Sephardic-Catholic-Indigenous syncretism
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I was indeed refering to the vertical roaster, a la schwarma. I believe the presence of said roaster and the overall style was an import from the middle east.
Again EN, thanks for all the input you give. Next time I travel to Alta California, I will be consulting you for recommendations.
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There is a picture in the plates of Diana Kennedy's My Mexico I think that shows a tandoor-like cooking vessel - that tortillas are slapt against - just like naan.
I think it is native to the west Mexican areas of Colima and Nayarit.


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JLM Sound, the DUMBO mastering facility founded by Joe Lambert, continues to expand. This week, Lambert announced that he has promoted Roman Vail to the post of Staff Engineer.
"When I opened JLMSound in 2008 I asked Roman to join me — he was my studio manager the last three years I was at Trutone in midtown," says Lambert. "I wanted to make the transition as smooth as possible, so keeping the team together was a big help. When you're a small company everyone does a lot of different tasks and Roman has been doing everything I've asked of him over the years. Since being at JLM Sound Roman has been doing more and more mastering sessions, so I've been wanting to transition him out of the management role to free him up to handle more session work.
"My workload has steadily increased and in the last year or so it's really exploded, making it's necessary to bring Roman along to handle the projects that I'm not able to do, as well as the clients that he has cultivated himself over the last couple of years. It also allows us to have different price options for people while still offering the quality of work and attention they expect."
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Since we last checked in with Nicolas Vernhes at Rare Book Room Studios in Greenpoint, he tracked and mixed on Spoon's Transference, recorded with Dirty Projectors and Bjork, mixed the Animal Collective movie Oddsac, and much more. Read on!
Most recently, Vernhes produced/engineered the upcoming Lia Ices record, which will be released in early '11 on Jagjaguwar, and a new record by Banjo or Freakout for release early next year on his own Rare Book Room Records. Also for Rare Book Room Records, Vernhes co-produced and mixed the new album by Sebastian Blanck, Alibi Coast. Check out Blanck performing album-opening track, "I Blame Baltimore" at Rare Book Room Studio HERE.
Vernhes also mixed Steve Wynn's new record for Yep Rock, engineered/mixed the new Versus album On the Ones and Threes for Merge, mixed the new Small Black record, New Chain for Jagjaguwar, produced/engineered the new So So Glos EP for Green Owl and recorded/mixed Endless Boogie's Full House Head.
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GREENPOINT, BROOKLYN – Ten years ago, Nicolas Vernhes moved his recording studio, The Rare Book Room, from Williamsburg to Greenpoint. Converting a deserted sewing machine factory, he built-out a studio to suit himself and naturally attracted artists of the same experimental ilk, including Animal Collective, Black Dice, Les Savy Fav, Fisherspooner and Deerhunter. Now, with newly expanded facilities for his label, Rare Book Room Records, Vernhes moves, again, into new territory.
In early March, fresh off a whirlwind recording session (seven songs in two days) with Deerhunter, Vernhes had just mixed the new Dirty Projectors record, and done eight days with Animal Collective. "They're making this crazy, psychedelic movie with their friend, Danny Perez, who's a great video artist and he's directing it," Vernhes says of Animal Collective. "We're working on the music with the goal of creating this great sonic experience, using lots of sound effects and sound-based moments of synchronization between sound and image. Some of it's literal, and some totally abstract."
Though he's in high demand as a producer/engineer and all-around sonic explorer, Vernhes is looking now to concentrate on building the record label he launched last year. The studio, he hopes, will operate more and more predominantly for label productions, and Vernhes more like a vanguard of new music.
"My record label grew out of a conversation with a friend, who'd pointed out that she saw a consistent novelty and interesting character to the bands I wanted to work with, that it was almost curatorial," Vernhes shares. "If you stepped back and looked at the overall work, you could see a level of experimentation stemmed from this general need to explore. She suggested that a compilation of some of the bands I'd worked with would make a great record."
That compilation, Living Bridge, was the first Rare Book Room Records release, and not only works extremely well as a (double) album, but also as a kind of historical swatch of this time and place in music. "I gave each band one day in the studio free to do whatever they wanted, to record one five-minute song," he explains. "An artist might not take the same risks on a record that they would when they're just invited to go in a room and make something. I think the context was freeing for them."
Vernhes created atmospheric glue out of sonic elements in the intros and outros of the songs, which would have already blended together well, but merge almost seamlessly through his cross-fading handiwork; Avey Tare to Telepathe to Palms to Samara Lubelski; Blood on the Wall to Silver Dice to Tara Jane O'Neil — each and all in fitting procession.
Since Living Bridge, Rare Book Room Records has issued two full-up records by exclusively signed artists — Lia Ices, a graceful Cat Power-like beauty of a voice, and Palms, a Brooklyn-meets-Berlin minimalist pop duo. Vernhes explains, "I figured I have all the tools to make a record and I've been doing that awhile, so why don't I also figure out how to get it from me to the audience? It's not simple, just like making a record isn't simple, but the complex aspects of it intrigue me."
So, what's been the most challenging aspect of making that progression to label owner? "The egg I still can't seem to crack is distribution," Vernhes attests. "I'd figured I wouldn't have to worry about it too much because the physical media is dwindling, but the fact is, it's still there. For all the music you can buy on the Internet, vinyl sales are up and some people still want to go to the store and buy a CD. RTI is the big vinyl manufacturer in California and I can't even open an account with them, they're so booked."
Vernhes made big progress recently, however, moving Rare Book Room Records into proper offices, adjacent to the studio, and hiring his first employee. Something about Vernhes wanting to do a label, wanting to spend the time and effort to learn the process makes me feel excited about music and what's to come. "Music is getting smarter, I think," he assures. "Maybe it's kind of like the third or forth iteration of an idea, and now it's way better than the same thing would have been a few years ago."
Visit www.rbrrecords.com to stream Living Bridge and tracks of Lia Ices' Necima and Palms' It's Midnight In Honolulu, and www.rbr-studio.com for more information and an equipment list.


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