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Unfortnately my much excitement was soon diminished when after adding the layers of batter and Nutella I realised there was way too much mixture for the size pan the recipe gives but it was too late to remedy. Of course as expected the mixture over-flowed. My next incident came when it was time to turn out the cake and half was left in the pan. Luckily I was able to rescue the half from the pan in one piece and do some first aid patch work. Unbelievably I read online about others having similar problem with this recipe and someone had posted about using grease-proof paper to bandage her cake while it cooled and it amazingly reattached the two halves. At this stage I was willing to give anything a go to salvage my cake and guess what? It worked!!
I won't be defeated and I will be making this cake again but next time I will use my bigger loaf tin and also line the loaf pan. After its traumatic start this moist buttery cake swirled with luscious Nutella really delivered everything I imagined it would and more. The pics don't do the flavour or cake justice but we all have the odd baking disaster, you bake and learn!
1 ½ cups all-purpose flour, plus more for dusting
4 large eggs, at room temperature
2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
¾ teaspoon baking powder
¼ teaspoon salt
2 sticks unsalted butter, softened
1 ¼ cups sugar
One 13-ounce jar Nutella
Preheat the oven to 325°. Lightly grease and flour a 9-by-5-inch loaf pan, tapping out any excess flour. In a glass measuring cup, lightly beat the eggs with the vanilla. In a medium bowl, whisk the 1 1/2 cups of flour with the baking powder and salt.
In a large bowl, using a handheld mixer, beat the butter with the sugar at medium-high speed until fluffy, about 3 minutes. With the mixer at medium-low speed, gradually beat in the egg mixture until fully incorporated. Add the flour mixture in 3 batches, beating at low speed between additions until just incorporated. Continue to beat for 30 seconds longer.
Spread one-third of the batter in the prepared pan, then spread half of the Nutella on top. Repeat with another third of the batter and the remaining Nutella. Top with the remaining batter. Lightly swirl the Nutella into the batter with a butter knife. Do not overmix.
Bake the cake for about 1 hour and 15 minutes, until a toothpick inserted in the centre comes out clean. Let the cake cool in the pan for 15 minutes. Invert the cake onto a wire rack, turn it right side up and let cool completely, about 2 hours. Cut the cake into slices and serve.


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Choreography by: George Balanchine
Music by: Robert Schumann
Poignant and purely poetic, Robert Schumann's "Davidsbündlertänze" takes audiences back to a time of refinement in an arresting series of dances intimating this brilliant composer's oft troubled psyche.
Robert Schumann's "Davidsbündlertänze" was one of Balanchine's last major works. Against a setting inspired, in part, by the works of the 19th century German Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich, a series of dances unfolds for four couples. While not literally a biographical narrative, the ballet draws on the life of Schumann, its alternating moods suggesting the episodes of joy and depression that marked the composer's short career.
Schumann composed the 18 piano pieces that comprise the Davidsbündlertänze to celebrate his reconciliation with sweetheart Clara Wieck after a 16-month estrangement in 1837; the work was published, at his own expense the next year.
The title, which literally translates as "Dances of the League of David," refers to an imaginary society of artists created by Schumann whose members represent different aspects of his personality. Their common aim: to fight the Philistines, those who oppose art or innovation in the arts.


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home schooling my 3 ys old
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home schooling my 3 ys old
My 3yr old daughter had sevier ear infections from about 10mo. to 18mo. until the doctors finally decided to put tubes in. All their lolly gagging caused her to regress and be greatly delayed. She has gone through physical theropy, educational theropy, and speach theropy. We are not done with speach but she is out for the summer because when she turned 3 our First Steps program stepped down and the school system will step in when school starts back. She has caught up in every aspect acept her speach. Yes she can talk but some one that is not with her on a regular basis has to really listen and sometimes I even have to make her repeat herself. I started home schooling my 12yr old daughter in the 5th grade. This will make year 3 for her. BUT!!! I don't even know where to begin with my 3yr old. Can anyone help me ? I'm desperate!!! I want to start her on something this school year.
I praise God!!!
I don't usually like 'curriculums' for such a young age, because most tend to focus too much on reading/math skills and not enough on the whole child. A great starting book, though, is Teach Me To Do It Myself. It's a group of activities that use household objects and focus mainly on practical life skills for the preschooler. There are some reading and math skills presented, but everything is done hands on. The best part is, after introducing the activities, you can put a few on trays or mats around the room and let your child work at their own pace.
"The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."
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there are a lot of arts and crafts to help teach children of that age group
there's preschoolexpress.com rainbowpreschool.com
there's preschoolexpress.com rainbowpreschool.com
There are a lot off great resources out there, that you are eligible for. Talk to your old speech therapists about activities to do. Model good speech, no baby talk, and use touch cues, (touch your throat for K and hard G, touch your lips for P and B, stick out your tongue for L) Practice the sounds that she has a hard time with. Memory games with a sound theme are great. Let her suck on freeze pops to improve motor skills. YOu would be surprised what you can do with out a specialist. My sons all have speech problems. Depending on what state you are in you can homeschool and still get services at the school for free. Montessori Type curriculum are great for you, but don't worry about it, if it is only because of her hearing loss she will grow out of it with proper modeling.
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we started at age 2. We use Kumon, and we really love it. It's not a traditional curriculum. It's based on an enrichmnet program that has been exceptionally popular and effective in Japan for decades. It is self teaching (once the child learns to work from the dot to the star, the parent doesn't have to do very much).
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You are headed west on State Road 40. Your tummy starts to grumble. Now is the time to stop in Sterlings Restaurant in Astor.
You are headed west on State Road 40. Your tummy starts to grumble. Now is the time to stop in Sterlings Restaurant in Astor.
That's where News-Journal staffer Karen Gallagher and her husband, David, headed on a recent Sunday for comfort food in a relaxed setting.
Q: You get comfort AND comfort food?
Yes, Sterlings is a mainstay on State Road 40. The owners dubbed it "A Touch of Class in the Country."
The restaurant has an old-fashioned feel with old-school decor. There are deep booths and big round tables, along with lots of wood paneling, green plants and a large aquarium with goldfish. You'll feel at home the second you walk through the door and are greeted by the friendly staff.
It's a place where locals celebrate birthdays and anniversaries, where youngsters take Mom for Mother's Day.
Q: And the comfort FOOD?
Karen and David were there at midday Sunday, so the restaurant was full of diners and wonderful aromas. For $6.95, you can choose from Sunday's Family-Style menu of 18 entrees – from chicken and dumplings to beef tips over rice and beer-battered fish or seafood gumbo (the Sunday menu changes). The day they were there, the menu had a choice of 16 sides from which to choose, including pickled beets, fried cabbage, blackeye peas, fried corn on the cob and okra with stewed tomatoes, just to name a few.
You get two sides – and homemade dessert is included.
Q: So what did you choose?
Karen went for fried chicken livers with coleslaw and collard greens.
David chose the 8-ounce Charlie's Favorite Steak (sirloin) with green beans and mashed potatoes and gravy. As a bread lover, he added a biscuit to his order. Their server, who also is one of the cooks, made the biscuits that morning and was thrilled David gave her kitchen skills an A-plus for the "perfect" biscuit.
Their only complaint, which was minor, was that the coleslaw was too dry and could have used a little liquid "oomph" this day.
They were too full for dessert, even for a scoop of ice cream.
Q: And the cost?
With beverages and tax, the tab was $17.55.


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This event has been postponed from May 03, 2020 to Jul 12, 2020
This course features a winding path to the crest of bunker hill and a beautiful morning view of a spring sunrise over Clinton lake. A jaunt through the woods includes a chance to get your feet wet. After emerging from the trees you once again summit Bunker Hill, keeping your eyes open for Sky Clintie. After bounding down Bunker hill with the finish line in sight, your journey is complete and the celebration may begin. Snacks at the finish, awards for first three male and female finishers, and finisher's medals for all runners. Hope to see you there!
Not in the running for a first place finish? Not a problem! As we did last year, we will be giving out a "Time Prediction" award. This is an optional completion to see not who can run the fastest, but who has the most precision pacing prowess. Guess your time for the race and let me know by May 5th. Whomever runs closest to their predicted time wins! Interested? Here's the details:1) Anyone registered online for the Skyline Shuffle, or anyone who registers at packet pickup, may choose to go for the prediction award. There's no extra cost, and nothing special you need to do during registration.2) Email me (or tell me at packet pickup) your prediction for what time you will run the Skyline Shuffle in. I need to have the times in by May 5th-race day is too chaotic to be collecting predictions!3) (Here's the important one)-if you are going for the prediction run, you cannot run with a watch or electronic device capable of keeping track of time! After all, it's not much of a feat of precision pacing prowess if your Garmin is keeping track for you. (Remember-the time prediction is optional-if you want to run the race with your phone/mp3 player/GPS/microwave, we'd love to have you, and you're still eligible for the top three fastest men/women awards).4) We'll have the timer set up in a way so runners can see it as they cross the finish, but not sooner. (Hopefully. I need to think about how that'll work.)5) Whoever guesses closest to their actual time wins the prediction award. If two runners tie (e.g., two people each manage to be, say, three seconds off their predictions), the award will go to whoever was closest on a percentage basis (that is, the slower runner), though if that happens I'll make a second award and get it to the other runner as soon as possible :).
Just in case you never heard the legend of Sky-Clintie, the official mascot of the Skyline Shuffle 5K Trail Race:Back in the old Paleozoic days, when all of Kansas was a shallow inland sea, the skies above what is now Clinton Lake were filled with pterodactyls. It is said that a mutant descendant of these creatures still nests within Bunker Hill, emerging to hunt sometimes, from a secret exit in the ruins of the old school house. They call her "Sky-Clintie."


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("Fuck who did I offend, rappers"
"Sit back I'm about to begin")
[Verse 1: Big L]
I drive up and down Harlem blocks, iced-out watch
Knots in my socks, cops think I'm selling rocks
Pulling me over to see if I'm drunk, but I'm sober
They wouldn't fuck with me if I drove a Nova
Listen Columbo, you're mad because your money come slow
And what you make in a year, I make in one show
Now you wanna frisk me and search my ride
Call me all kind of names, try to hurt my pride
You're just mad cause I'm a young cat, pockets dumb fat
Talking 'bout, "Where the gun at?" I been there and done that
I'm through with that illegal life, I'm staying legit
I love to see cars come cruising by and playing my shit
I walk around with six thou' without a pistol, my whole clique's wild
I'm rich pal, no more sticks, I'm making hits now
I drink Cristal, I'm through breaking laws
I don't sell coke any more, I do tours
So get that flashlight out of my face
To bring me down, them Jakes will do whatever it takes
Word up, them Federals got my phone and my house tapped
Praying that I fall for the mousetrap, I doubt that
[Chorus: Big L]
Why do I end up in so much shit?
I done came way too far to be calling it quits
Jake wanna lock me up, even though I'm legit
They can't stand to see a young brother' pockets get thick
[Verse 2: Fat Joe]
Aiyo enough's enough, Federals try to set me up
Put me in cuffs and crush what I lust into dust
Plus, they want a nigga's soul, but they know
Big Joey Crack will never rat a cat that he know
For sure, death before dishonor, I left the streets alone
Since Tone deceased it almost killed his mama
So I'ma keep doing what I'm doing
Pursuing my dream till there's enough cream to start my own union
And show these kids how legit it is
Shit is real, I used to steal but now I own several businesses
So where's your witness that you claim to have
Saying that I'm taking half, extorting New York and not paying tax?
I'm laid back playing the role, laying the low
But it's the same old Joe so don't get KO'd
Hey yo, I'm gonna fry for what I never did
Or catch a heavy bid, why don't they just let a nigga live?
[Chorus: Big L] x2
("What would you do if a vicious enemy
Suddenly started coming at you
Armed to the teeth and ready to kill you?")


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Of those who are teaching, 72% are teaching in Iowa.
Many graduates found jobs through the All-Iowa Teacher Recruiting Fair held annually at UNI.
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We all know how craft beer history goes. Beer was great until the 19th century, when mass production of lagers took over the world, and American brewers put corn and rice in their beer to make it cheaper. By 1950, everyone was hypnotized by marketing into drinking the fizzy yellow beer. It looked bad, but... View Article


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From afar, France's military operations in Mali may look as if they're another attempt by a European power to save a former African colony from a rebel force and restore a democracy.
Only this time it is different.
The rebels in northern Mali are militant jihadists allied with Al Qaeda. And they control a territory about the size of Afghanistan that could become a haven for training global terrorists.
Last week, when the rebels suddenly advanced toward Mali's capital, France sent in fighter jets and troops with support from the United States, Britain, and other NATO allies.
Now the question is whether the two rebel groups – Ansar Dine (Defenders of the Faith) and Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) – should be defeated or simply contained.
The choice isn't easy. But after all of the West's struggles with Al Qaeda or its affiliates in Afghanistan, Yemen, and elsewhere, the best option for now should be containment.
This is not only because of war fatigue and budget woes in the West. Ever since 9/11, the actions of violent Islamists have turned off most Muslims. The Al Qaeda vision of a harsh theocracy that includes suppression of women and cruel punishment for social misdeeds has sown the seeds of its own destruction.
Violent jihadism, just like Soviet communism, can implode when contained. It relies on an ideology not grounded in humanity's hope for freedom and individual rights.
Any strategy in Mali to contain Ansar Dine and AQIM should rely first on the fact that the Muslims there are moderates, rejecting any radical, distorted view of Islam. As was done recently in Somalia, the people of Mali should be supported in putting the rebels on the defensive. And neighboring African countries, many of which are also threatened by AQIM, should send in forces soon to take over from the French. The West's presence in Mali must be not so visible as to give Al Qaeda an opportunity to recruit more followers.
The West should also not fear this latest outbreak of Islamic terror as much as help it implode on itself. This requires patience and diligence to help Mali build up its forces and recover from a recent coup. A separatist movement in the north by the Tuareg people needs to be resolved quickly as a Tuareg rebel group is aligned with AQIM.
Jihadists look for failed Muslim states with plenty of unguarded land. But once they gain a foothold, their methods of destruction are quickly seen. Nations can respond with limited military operations and other tactics of deterrence. They may not always work. The cold war had its failures and close calls.
Mali is the latest hot spot for testing the viability of radical Islam. By now, the world knows Al Qaeda's ways are not popular. That must be proved in Mali before AQIM further advances its vision of a caliphate across northern Africa.


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As if 67 moons weren't enough, scientists discovered 12 new ones orbiting the planet.
Take a look back at some of the biggest science stories of 2018.
Fireproofing Our Future through Better Design
Before a wildfire ever starts, there are ways to make homes and buildings safer.
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November is the month of Thanksgiving... at least in America. Here in Germany we celebrate it in October and only the really religious people care about it. Anyway - food is a good topic, so let's just do it!
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SEATTLE — It looked as if the Seattle demon was exorcised. As if a jump throw from 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick had vanquished it once and for all.
But it turns out that only woke it up.
After the improbable 26-yard touchdown pass to Anquan Boldin, the 49ers fell apart, the entire season crumbling under the weight of the best home-field advantage in football, and perhaps the best team in the NFL.
A fumble, two interceptions, a soft defense and untimely penalties squandered control of the game and the and seven-point lead midway through the third quarter. For most of the game, San Francisco was handling it all so well, building a 10-0 first-half lead. The 49ers had Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson running for his life. And Kaepernick ran, too, making headway against the best defense in the league.
All of a sudden, they were back in that familiar zone: spiraling in Seattle.
The Seahawks were having their way on both sides of the ball. And linebacker NaVorro Bowman, the team MVP, was knocked out with a gruesome injury. And the most raucous crowd since the Colosseum was in peak form.
But, no, this wasn"t the same 49ers team that made the last two trips to CenturyLink Field. Trained by eight weeks of must-win football, including road playoff wins, the 49ers mustered enough resolve to stay in the game.
The defense held Seattle to a field goal, keeping hope alive. It took Seattle"s best punch and, though wobbly, was still standing. As the 49ers drove down the field in the final minutes, needing a touchdown, it looked as if they would again work some late magic.
But Kaepernick"s second interception of the fourth quarter was tipped by Richard Sherman and intercepted by Malcolm Smith. The 49ers" Super Bowl dreams were killed. And the Seattle demon is still alive.


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Robo-advisors — a disparaging term for online advice platforms that some advisors fear will soon be eating their lunch — have become a topic of much advisor soul-searching and teeth-gnashing.
U.S. firms like United Capital are at the forefront of wealth managers seeking to head off the threat.
But the trend has also caught the attention of the highly developed financial planning community in Australia, whose Financial Services Council recently presented its Deloitte Future Leaders Award to Bree McDonough for her paper The Digital Revolution of Wealth Management. The concerns she addresses will have a familiar ring to U.S.-based wealth managers.
That is because Future Advisor, Wealthfront and Betterment have become well-established in the U.S. In a recent ThinkAdvisor interview, United Capital's Stephanie Bogan noted that Wealthfront has leaped from 0 to 10% of its clients being in the coveted over-50 demographic, demonstrating that online advice has become a genuine competitive threat.
"These startups," writes McDonough in her paper, "are replacing the traditional face-to-face, fee-for-advice models and further fragmenting the advice and distribution bundling. They commonly offer online tools and personalized accounts, then charge a fee for more sophisticated automation and/or scaled advice from advisors with screen sharing and live chat."
Imagine that: free advice, with the fee commencing for mere "sophisticated automation," all a prelude to a live chat with an advisor.
At one point in her paper, McDonough teases us with a future customer experience "offering live-like interactions with financial advisors … through holography" and secure exchanges through "biometric electronic signatures."
But the thrust of her paper focuses on today's wealth management experience, and it is her contention that client expectations now exceed current service models.
"Growing beyond face-to-face service, paper processes and fee for advice models, customers now live in a social economy with real-time, anytime, anywhere expectations," she writes.
For example, in Australia, like the U.S., the majority of people have a smartphone, and yet a minority of Australian businesses has mobile-optimized websites.
The implication is that wealth management firms must re-engineer their offerings across multiple channels lest they be relegated to the passé portion of a two-speed economy.
A poignant bit of data McDonough cites to emphasize this point is a comparison between Google searches for financial advisor with searches for do-it-yourself approaches. While financial advice searches in Australia a decade ago outnumbered the do-it-yourself searches tenfold, the former has steadily declined while the latter has steadily risen and now exceeds advice searches.
The Australian planner cites Delta Airlines as a global example of a successful transformation, from a firm that crawled out of bankruptcy and was voted one of the worst airlines in 2010 to a nimbler, digital-era firm voted best airline in 2012, sporting an iPad app and improved self-service kiosks targeting a more mobile population.
She also cites Australia's Commonwealth Bank, which went from stodgy institution with low customer satisfaction to agile business with a series of digital milestones: 7,000 new transactions opened via Facebook, $800,000 secured through Twitter, and many others, since the start of its digital initiative.
Wealth management firms similarly should undertake initiatives in big data to uncover predictive patterns and identify new opportunities to serve customers. An industry known for its products' complexity and lengthy interactions with clients could similarly look to Domino's pizza tracker mobile app as a model for speeding things up.
A greater use of metrics that shift performance in a more client-oriented direction — such as building a firm's stock of social media advocates — should further the digital transformation.
Social feedback processes are indeed a prime example of a contemporary environment that is cross-functional, horizontal and collaborative in comparison to wealth management's traditional top-down business model.
In an age that permits investors to get "'scaled-advice tools' where customers can get advice online, anytime at a lower cost," McDonough concludes that successful wealth managers are those who "re-engineer their businesses around today's connected customer."
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Ever since Murray won his maiden Slam last year there's been an eruption of speculation on what bearing this might have on his chances of success at this year's AO and, indeed, throughout the rest of 2013.
This isn't about the shrill, garden-variety hyperbole of the Brit press which might be expected to gather pace after a 76 year male Slam champion drought, nor that very committed periphery of fans that consider Fedal all too "mainstream" and seek to usher in the "edgier" age of 'Novandy' by any means necessary (it's of trifling significance, OF COURSE, that both Federer and Rafa were Slam winners in 2012 too).
But even beyond excesses like this (seriously, read it), our more acceptable appetite for "change" appears to have led many (I believe) to over-inflate their well-meaning prognosis of Murray's coming year.
Such an appetite is, of course, natural; change is exciting, inevitable and often challenges our most sacred tenets - witnessing it can be as hypnotic as it is traumatic.
But it should not be sought at any cost (I'd much rather see Vika/Masha step it up vs Serena the way, say, Stosur did in 2011 than see Serena hobble out of the event in the name of "change") and should always be grounded in reality.
Murray's success opposite Fed prior to Wimbledon last year was at the Masters (three set) level and born largely of frustrating Fed into errors. Yes, that's a gross oversimplification, but, as with all gross oversimplifications, has its basis in reality.
Yet anyone that's followed the evolution of his game - particularly (but not exclusively) after Lendl's involvement - will know that that somewhat threadbare characterisation is in need of revision.
He's still not, for my money, getting the free points he should with his 1st serve, but there can be no doubting his improved FH and more frequent attempts at shortening points.
The problem is many of those changes are optimisations rather than wholesale revision. Or to put it another way, adjustments bolted on to the edifice of his existing game, rather than some radical, fairy-tale attempt to rebuild his game from the ground up.
You could argue in similar terms of Wozniacki. While it's only right to exhort her to play with more aggression, it's rather silly to expect her to reemerge from a period of 'reorientation' as, say, Sabine Lisicki.
The facets of the game Murray grew up with, may continue to go through adjustments, but will remain, with very few exceptions, as organic to him as that glaring birthmark of his.
And therein lies the rub: for when the pressure is on, players will, almost without fail, default back to their old less-nuanced selves; stripped down of any and all intricacies they will, no doubt, have worked so hard to introduce.
It's just easier at that point in the game not to fight physics.
His previous Slam matches vs Federer have mostly seen the latter come out lightening fast smothering any rhythm Murray might have created right out of the blocks.
And TBH, a large part of Fed's focus will be on bringing exactly that about: to whip, carve and maybe even coax Murray into that pliable, more compliant version of opponent against which he's had so many wins at this level and can more comfortably close the remainder of the match out.
Of course the great expectation is that Murray's new 'enSlammed' status as well as his win at the OG will bolster him enough for him to see the occasion in an entirely new light: that such regression will either be minimal, or won't take place at all. His performance in the Wimbledon final does actually give us some confidence in that regard (though pretending Fed wasn't exhausted at the OG? Too far)
And it's certainly right to say he would/should now be disappointed at repeating the same mistakes against Fed (or anyone) at every Slam going forward (He can hardly be expected to be content with "just" another SF having already made a number of those playing pre-Lendl tennis)
But we need to stop pretending that he's turned into Optimus Prime - or even Ernests Gulbis.
Or that the nature of his matchup vs Fed has so radically changed as to render Murray the "overwhelming favourite".
He's not the overwhelming favourite. He may not even *be* the favourite.
It's still, at its core, the same battle of wills between Fed trying to impose himself on the one hand and Murray attempting to seize the initiative earlier on in the rallies - and not regressing into his comfort zone of passive, pre-Lendl tennis.
And if Fed's service at this event is anything to go by, that battle will be 50/50 at best.
If Murray wins, it'll be because he's successfully executed the gameplan that was custom built, and fine tuned to, both the strengths AND the limitations
of his, and only his game.
Not because he's turned into Robin Soderling.
Signed, a Murray fan.
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Up in Buffalo, the big question yesterday was around Stevie Johnson's inability to go in the Thursday practice due to a fall the Bills receiver had in practice on Wednesday. Johnson's momentum on running a fade route carried him off the field and onto a rubber track that rings the team's grass practice field. The change in surface caused the fall and while he tried to play after the incident, Johnson experienced some soreness from the fall yesterday that kept him out.
"He got tight yesterday," Bills Coach Chan Gailey explained to reporters yesterday. "He could've gone out there today, but we kept him out. We think he'll be back out [on Friday] and be back Saturday and be ready to go Sunday."
As of last night, the Bills plan to work Johnson back onto the field as soon as today, but of course the main goal is for their star receiver to play Sunday, not Friday. Johnson feels confident in his ability to play, "I could've went out there, but coach said, 'We'll sit you for this one ... so I have a couple of more days to get it right and then I'll be out there."
We fully expect that Johnson will be playing come Sunday, but it's something to at least track over the next few days as the Jets prepare for their home opener this weekend. Should Johnson unexpectedly be unable to go, it will only make the Jets coverage job easier as they deal with the spread offense of the Bills without their top option suiting up.


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Beware of Speculative "Sure Things"
You would be hard-pressed to find an analyst or pundit who isn't bullish on gold and oil and bearish on the U.S. dollar. The agreement is virtually universal: the dollar is doomed, and gold and oil are rocketing up with no end in sight.
My contrarian instincts suggest the universality of these views dooms them to be almost certainly wrong. The NASDAQ would never drop below 4,000 (2001 pundits), the Dow Jones Industrials were heading to 100,000 (2000 pundits) and oil would remain cheap for a decade (1999 pundits). In every case the "standard model" of the financial/ mainstream analysts was exactly opposite of what eventually transpired.
But rather than argue, let's look at some charts, courtesy of frequent contributor Harun I. Let's start with oil, which just hit a key Fibonacci level at $92/barrel:
There are three large charts today; please view them at www.oftwominds.com/blog.html .
Next, here is gold, which also sports some divergences which suggest the euphoric speculation might be getting a tad overdone:
The much-maligned dollar, meanwhile, has declined to a key Fibonacci level, suggesting it might rear up out of its torpor and maul the complacent dollar Bears:
We should recall here that oil derivatives and futures contracts far exceed physical oil. Which is just a polite way of saying that rampant speculation can power oil higher independent of actual inventories and supply/demand. The same is of course true of gold; speculation in gold-based instruments can be independent of physical demand for gold.
In times of euphoric bullishness, the "solid fundamentals" are always touted ad nauseum. Yet when the price plummets, the fundamentals remain more or less in place. Were the fundamentals of the petroleum business horrible on August 16 when oil dipped to $67/barrel? No. Are they now 37% better, a mere 10 weeks later, now that the price has risen $25 to $92/barrel? No.
Will the dollar be debased to 27? If Fed Chairman Bernanke drops interest rates back to 1%, perhaps it will. But in the meantime, we should be alert to the old nostrum that nothing goes up or down in a straight line. The buck has dropped in a nearly straight line, and gold and oil have skyrocketed in nearly uninterrupted moves up.
Call me contrarian (or worse), but the charts suggest to me that big reversals are coming due this week. Maybe they will be brief interruptions in a trend; nonetheless, being on the same side as 99.99% of all the pundits, analysts and experts usually buys a one-way ticket to stunning (and entirely unexpected) losses.
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- the title does not follow the wiki's naming conventions
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You should never copy-and-paste the content from one page to another. Always wait for staff to move the page, as this will preserve the history of who edited the page.
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30 June 2010
One Six Nine Cafe: Sydney's Best Cafe Opening Soon, Randwick (18 June 2010)
9 comments:
- Rita (mademoiselle délicieuse) said...
Wow, that's a big claim for somewhere that's not even open yet!
- June 30, 2010 at 9:52 PM
- Laura said...
Huge claim, i guess time will tell.
- July 1, 2010 at 9:39 AM
- john@heneedsfood said...
Hmmmm ... Sydney's best? We should all turn up with a notebook and a red marker.
- July 1, 2010 at 9:43 AM
- Adrian @ Food Rehab said...
Yes, hopefully they live up to the signage :) Let us know it goes.
- July 2, 2010 at 11:06 PM
- Anna said...
That's a big call. A big call with big expectations!
- July 2, 2010 at 11:12 PM
- joey@forkingaroundsydney said...
By the time they open, the sign will be removed from the window, so who will remember their bold claim? We will! Hehe.
- July 3, 2010 at 10:54 AM
- Simon Leong said...
hi mademoiselle délicieuse, time will tell but i think it's more like the best cafe in randwick. it's all in the marketing hehe
hi laura, time will definitely tell :-)
hi john, red marker poised and ready.
hi adrian, will keep you posted for sure. i'm hoping they make a good buttered raison toast for my morning breakfast run.
hi ladybird, i guess a case of aim for the stars to reach the moon :-)
hi joey, hehe that's right. i'm hoping to visit before SMH Good Living anyway do :-)
- July 4, 2010 at 3:34 PM
- Unknown said...
Hi All,
I am the owner of the soon to be open Cafe above, Yes it is a bold statement I agree, but I also agree with the above comment "reach for the stars reach the moon" no use saying I'm gonna be another mediocre Randwick Cafe...Randwick needs something different, something with quality food, GREAT Coffee, and a place to feel welcome. Will I be the best in Randwick? Absolutely! Will I be the best in Sydney we will see!
Hope to see you all there! Opening day somewhere around August 5.
- July 13, 2010 at 8:50 PM
- Simon Leong said...
hi One Six Nine, looking forward to the opening day for the best cafe in Randwick, if not Sydney ;-)
- July 17, 2010 at 9:42 AM
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Will and Kate were spotted on Friday leaving her family home in Bucklebury and heading for London, according to Us Weekly. This is the first we've seen of Kate since she went into maternity leave in mid-June and is the first sign that the royal baby is on its way. Take a look at how the city has been preparing for the occasion.
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Late-night comedy host Stephen Colbert grilled New York comptroller candidate Eliot Spitzer, asking the question on everyone's mind: "Shouldn't the job of comptroller go to someone who has shown a modicum of self-comptrol?"
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The beloved "Glee" star died from a mix of alcohol and heroin, according to authorities. Monteith's untimely death came as a shock to many, and those close to him found ways to pay public tribute.
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How China Gets Its Way
China's Search for Security
In 1955, when I began my graduate studies of China and its language, one of my fellow students at Columbia asked our professor, Nathaniel Pfeffer, whether the United States would ever recognize Beijing instead of Taipei as the capital of China. Pfeffer memorably replied that it would take a vehement anti-Communist, because only such a person could escape being called a Communist. He then caused hilarity in the class by suggesting that then Vice President Nixon could be such a man. In October 1967, five years before his presidential trip to China, remembered for his observation that the Great Wall certainly was great, Nixon wrote:
We simply cannot afford to leave China forever outside the family of nations, there to nurture its fantasies, cherish its hates and threaten its neighbors. There is no place on this small planet for a billion of its potentially most able people to live in angry isolation.
In their exceptionally interesting, articulate, and sometimes surprising study of the aims and conduct of China's foreign affairs, Columbia's Andrew Nathan and Rand's Andrew Scobell write, "Every American president since then [1972] has stated that the prosperity and stability of China are in the interest of the United States." Recalling Nixon's remarks in 1967, they note that wishes can lead to something unintended. Once Beijing joined with other nations to deal with international issues, it regarded the United States as its most dangerous threat. The authors suggest—but only in passing—that a Sino-American war is possible, and emphasize that while Beijing often behaves in ways acceptable to other countries,
the world as seen from Beijing is a terrain of hazards, stretching from the streets outside the policymaker's window to land borders and sea lanes thousands of miles to the north, east, south, and west and beyond to the mines and oilfields of distant continents.
A terrain, in short, often under the control of other powers to which Beijing is determined not to kowtow.
It is hardly surprising, therefore, that the authors highlight Chinese nationalism, which is based largely on never-to-be-forgotten humiliations at the hands of imperialists, and a determination never to be a victim again. Nathan and Scobell rightly insist that "nationalism remains the party's most reliable claim to the people's loyalty…. Nationalism unites all Chinese of all walks of life no matter how uninterested they are in other aspects of politics." Indeed. Some time ago at Oxford I saw several hundred of China's elite students picketing the visiting Dalai Lama as a "criminal."
The authors note that dissenters rarely venture into foreign policy. But—and this is one of their surprising insights—they see Chinese nationalism as built on contradictions:…
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Q: I'm due to have a baby in two months and I'd like to do as much as possible to go green for my little one. It wasn't really important to me before, but now I'm starting to see the bigger picture. I keep reading about awful pollutants all around us that can make her sick or lead to developmental delays or worse. I'm just starting to fully grasp that the choices we make vis-à-vis the environment today are going to be her problem to deal with in 20, 30 or 40 years. Needless to say, I have enough keeping me up at night (and that's without the four bathroom trips between midnight and 6 a.m.). Got any good ideas for things I can do for my baby right from the start?
A: Wow, you have a lot on your mind! You're looking for ways to go green for your new baby and I'd be happy to oblige, but before I do, let me just tell you this. Now that you are becoming a parent, you will worry a heck of a lot more than you used to, and it seems to me like you're getting quite the head start. First of all, remember that even when you'd like to control all the variables in your new baby's life, it's going to be impossible. To take a line from one of my favorite songs, "The only thing for certain is uncertainty." So just close your eyes, breathe deeply and know that life is full of unexpected surprises you can't control. Now, on to some things you can:
Use natural cleaners in your home. Now that baby's about to arrive, you're probably rushing around trying to make sure the house is spic and span for when baby arrives. But all the stuff you might be using to clean your house might be even worse for your baby than grimy dirt, not to mention, bad for you, my soon-to-be momma. Many cleaning products contain bleach, ammonia and numerous other toxic ingredients. Try switching to natural or organic cleaners, or check out this article for some homemade nontoxic cleaners that are just as effective.
Buy organic baby food. This one won't apply right away, since in the beginning your newborn will be breastfeeding or formula-feeding, but when it is time to start solids (usually 4-6 months), try to buy organic. A nice investment (if your mother-in-law is paying) is the Beaba BabyCook, which you can use to steam and puree organic fruits and veggies.
Use organic detergent to wash your baby's clothes. Better yet, wash your entire family's clothes with organic detergent. Many major brands of detergent contain potentially harmful chemicals. The organic versions are chemical-free and are just as effective in cleaning that diaper blowout you're bound to have. Try brands like Seventh Generation or Gaiam.
Choose organic toys. Your baby's modus operandum for interacting with the objects around her? Sticking them in her mouth, that is once she figures out where her mouth is. Many toys are made with harmful chemicals like BPA and PVC, and though you can't avoid all of them, consider getting a couple of eco-friendly toys that you know she'll definitely be sticking in her mouth — like her lovey or a favorite rattle or teether.
When it's nice out, take her outside. Though there may be plenty of harmful pollutants in the air outside, you'd be surprised to know that sometimes our indoor air quality is worse than the air quality outside. So why not take your little peanut out for a walk? Trust me — it'll do both of you good.
These are just a few things you can do to go green for your baby, but like I said, don't drive yourself crazy and remember that you can control only so much. The next line in that Darryl Worley song I told you about earlier? "You gotta hold on tight, just enjoy the ride." Amen, Darryl, Amen.
— Chanie
Editor's note: This column is very timely as our advice columnist Chanie just gave birth to a baby girl last week. The entire MNN staff wishes her a hearty congratulations.
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Masala Cuisine
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1906 Centre St. (near Shearer St.)
Phone: 514-287-7455
Website: www.masalacuisine.ca
Licensed: BYOB
Credit cards: Visa
Wheelchair accessible: One step up
Vegetarian friendly: Yes
Open: Mon.–Fri. 11:30 a.m.–2:30 p.m., Thur.–Fri. 6 p.m.–10 p.m.
Price range: Appetizers $1–$3, mains $10.50–$16, dessert $4
Masala Cuisine isn't a typical Indian restaurant. In fact, it may be better known as a cooking school. Catering to the Old Montreal midday crowd, it operated for a time out of a loft on Place D'Youville. Then it moved to a very large space, with seating for more than 100, at the edge of Griffintown. Then, with that building destined for condos, it relocated to cozy quarters in Point St. Charles a few months ago. What has remained consistent over the years is that it tends to be off the beaten path, both in terms of location and approach.
As more offices and condos crop up in the surrounding neighbourhood, Centre St. is in the midst of change. This particular strip now has several relatively new restaurant options in a row; and with Mexican, Indian and Portuguese (soon to open) on a single block, it seems there's some synergy supporting a dining scene. Masala has an inviting red-and-white storefront, while inside the exposed wooden beams, leather couch, crimson paint and large open kitchen give it a homey feel.
During the day, the focus is on serving lunch to the local office crowd. An evening meal is even more like dinner at someone's house. That someone is Ilyas Mirza. Originally from Lahore, he's been sharing his take on Pakistani and Indian cooking in this city for almost 20 years. His repertoire may be familiar, but his method of preparation tends toward the healthy, favouring lightening dishes up and making them less saucy than what's often available in town. So the food at Masala, like its setting, has a personal edge — approachable for anyone who is intimidated by the cuisine's hot-and-spicy reputation.
The menu is short and simple, hitting the main marks, from beef bhuna to shrimp masala, marinated overnight with spices and fried with tomato paste. We had two of the three appetizers, passing on the pappadum crackers. A shared order of dhal soup, which kindly came divided into two bowls, was full of the soft flavours of roasted spices and earthy lentils. Masala's veggie samosas, filled with peas and potatoes, were smaller and denser compared to the usual large, crusty packages bulging with ingredients. They came with yogurt raita and hot and sweet chili sauce for dipping (although they're unfortunately and unnecessarily presented in disposable plastic containers).
Offered in full or reduced portions, the main courses are where Masala's particular approach is more evident. Butter chicken, for instance, doesn't feature the thick, creamy, sweet, tomato-tinged sauce that's common in town. Instead, chunks of white meat are thinly coated in a yogurt and cream sauce, with a lovely bitterness coming from a generous amount of wilted methi leaves (better known here as fenugreek). Another highlight was palak paneer, a forest-green concoction of cooked-down spinach interspersed with patches of cheese. While the paneer wasn't homemade, the overall effect was one of freshness, with a wonderfully fluffy consistency.
Lamb korma brought chunks of meat in a non-cloying yogurt sauce with an appealing sourness. Sometimes I like the surplus of sauce, but on this hot night, with fans whirring at top speed in the room, I was happy to be eating in a place that eased up on the richness.
Sides got extra attention. The basmati rice was fragrant with black cumin, star anise, green cardamom and cinnamon. I also really liked a hearty dhal, cooked over low heat so that the pulses became almost puffy and finished with ginger and garlic. The nan bread itself was unimpressive, but did get a stamp of its own with a sprinkling of chilies and spices.
There is only one dessert, and it's a fun departure from the usual gulab jamun. Masala's chocolate cardamom cake is dense and moist, and the spice hovers after each bite.
There's nothing complicated about Masala. With its low-key attitude, it's simply a pleasant place for a meal, with a personable style of service and gentle personality in the style of food. I wouldn't go quite as far as calling it an anti-restaurant, but it's certainly an alternative restaurant among the city's Indian addresses.
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Last summer, a small berry from West Africa commonly known as "miracle fruit" challenged my perception of flavor. This soft, red, coffee bean–sized berry has little in the way of actual flesh, and the entire fruit is filled with large seeds that taste like an unripened green grape—slightly tart and sweet.
But once eaten, miracle fruit has a remarkable transforming effect, and with its addition, drinks and foods that would normally be perceived as exceptionally sour become noticeably sweet. This isn't to say that lemon juice turns candy-like when accompanied by miracle fruit, but acidic foods and drinks do develop less bite, and underlying layers of flavor become more perceptible.
But despite its ability to turn sour flavors sweeter, miracle fruit does not work like a traditional sweetener. The berries contain a glycoprotein that coats the tongue, changing the tastebuds' perception of acidity to sweet. The effect can last anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour. For maximum effect, Curtis Mozie, the sole commercial miracle fruit grower in the U.S., who sells the berries through his web site (miraclefruitman.com), recommends chewing the entire fruit for approximately 45 seconds to a minute, moving it continually through the mouth to ensure a complete coating of the palate before swallowing. Then taste a sour food or drink to experience the effect of the fruit.
The history of miracle fruit reaches back several centuries. In 1725, the French explorer Des Marchais noticed that West African natives would eat miracle fruit before consuming their traditionally sour foods. But the miraculous fruit didn't migrate beyond Africa until the early 20th century, when USDA employee David Fairchild introduced it to the United States. The fruit grew in small quantities at a USDA agricultural station in Puerto Rico without much fanfare until the 1960s, when a group of American businessmen tried to market miraculin, an extract of the fruit, as a food additive for diabetics. Buried by a regulatory quagmire, miraculin never made it to market, and miracle fruit faded back into obscurity in the U.S.
Today, however, miracle fruit is beginning to gain some attention from adventurous cocktailians. As a bartender, my first experiments with the fruit involved eating it before sampling different juices—orange, grapefruit, lemon, lime and pineapple—to see how the flavors would transform. I was particularly intrigued by how the glycoprotein alters the taste of grapefruit and lemon juice. Grapefruit juice becomes a slightly sharper version of orange juice, while lemon juice tastes similar to lemonade. Lime juice maintains a sharp edge and doesn't yield quite the depth of flavor that emerges in lemon juice, while pineapple juice becomes cloyingly sweet.
When it came time for actual cocktail experimentation, I chewed a miracle fruit and 45 seconds later drank a classic Corpse Reviver No. 2 (lemon juice, Lillet, pastis, gin and Cointreau). New layers of flavor surfaced, with pastis coming forward and the lemon's acidity taking a backseat. It was enjoyable and eye-opening, showing more of a savory side than usual, and I discovered a different interpretation of one of my favorite cocktails. But not all cocktails remain as balanced as the Corpse Reviver No. 2 under the influence of miracle fruit. For instance, miracle fruit can disrupt the delicate balance of an Aviation, which contains too little acid and just enough residual sugar in the maraschino.
While I don't expect miracle fruit to become a bar staple in the near future, it does offer bartenders and cocktail enthusiasts one more option in their repertoire of ingredients, and classic and new cocktails are perfect canvases for experimenting. But there are rules. Some may want to use miracle fruit to create drinks with multiple flavor profiles, while others may challenge themselves to re-interpret a classic cocktail, but in order to use miracle fruit successfully, a significant amount of acid or bitterness must be present in a drink's accompanying ingredients. Background flavors should also be carefully considered, because they may move into a starring role once miracle fruit enters the equation.
The most exciting challenge in creating miracle fruit cocktails can be trying to craft a balanced drink that remains harmonious as the miracle fruit takes effect. Achieving that balance can be tricky, so it helps to taste ingredients individually and separately when they are under the influence of the fruit. Using miracle fruit as a garnish—rather than mixing it into a cocktail—is also a good introduction to the ingredient, because it allows you to easily control the flavor profile of a cocktail, and to taste the drink with and without the magical powers of miracle fruit.
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Why do christians keep the old testament if they really don't follow it? They should just drop it, it really is a ridiculous book. I ask this question here on TA because I can't get an intelligent answer anywhere else. I always hear the same things in defense of the OT; only god knows the reasons, have faith that he knows what's best, things were different back then. And then, they don't even follow the rules clearly outlined. I found this letter and had to share it.
On her radio show, Dr Laura Schlesinger said that, as an observant Orthodox Jew, homosexuality is an abomination according to Leviticus 18:22, and cannot be condoned under any circumstance. The following response is an open letter to Dr. Laura, penned by a US resident, which was posted on the Internet. It's funny, as well as informative:
Dear Dr. Laura:
Thank you for doing so much to educate people regarding God's Law. I have learned a great deal from your show, and try to share that knowledge with as many people as I can. When someone tries to defend the homosexual lifestyle, for example, I simply remind them that Leviticus 18:22 clearly states it to be an abomination... End of debate.
I do need some advice from you, however, regarding some other elements of God's Laws and how to follow them.
1. Leviticus 25:44 states that I may possess slaves, both male and female, provided they are purchased from neighboring nations. A friend of mine claims that this applies to Mexicans, but not Canadians. Can you clarify? Why can't I own Canadians?
2. I would like to sell my daughter into slavery, as sanctioned in Exodus 21:7. In this day and age, what do you think would be a fair price for her?
3. I know that I am allowed no contact with a woman while she is in her period of menstrual uncleanliness - Lev.15: 19-24. The problem is how do I tell? I have tried asking, but most women take offense.
4. When I burn a bull on the altar as a sacrifice, I know it creates a pleasing odor for the Lord - Lev.1:9. The problem is, my neighbors. They claim the odor is not pleasing to them. Should I smite them?
5. I have a neighbor who insists on working on the Sabbath.Exodus 35:2. clearly states he should be put to death. Am I morally obligated to kill him myself, or should I ask the police to do it?
6. A friend of mine feels that even though eating shellfish is an abomination - Lev. 11:10, it is a lesser abomination than homosexuality. I don't agree. Can you settle this? Are there 'degrees' of abomination?
7. Lev. 21:20 states that I may not approach the altar of God if I have a defect in my sight. I have to admit that I wear reading glasses. Does my vision have to be 20/20, or is there some wiggle- room here?
8. Most of my male friends get their hair trimmed, including the hair around their temples, even though this is expressly forbidden by Lev. 19:27. How should they die?
9. I know from Lev. 11:6-8 that touching the skin of a dead pig makes me unclean, but may I still play football if I wear gloves?
10. My uncle has a farm. He violates Lev.19:19 by planting two different crops in the same field, as does his wife by wearing garments made of two different kinds of thread (cotton/polyester blend). He also tends to curse and blaspheme a lot. Is it really necessary that we go to all the trouble of getting the whole town together to stone them? Lev.24:10-16. Couldn't we just burn them to death at a private family affair, like we do with people who sleep with their in-laws? (Lev. 20:14)
I know you have studied these things extensively and thus enjoy considerable expertise in such matters, so I am confident you can help. Thank you again for reminding us that God's word is eternal and unchanging.
Your adoring fan.
James M. Kauffman, Ed.D. Professor Emeritus Dept. of Curriculum,
Instruction, and Special Education University of Virginia
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I'm curious of the whole "Jesus died because of YOUR sins" logic (the emphasis on "yours" usually).
So - christianity does not approve of reincarnation. How, or rather why, is exactly the "original sin" exactly inherited?
And if Jesus died somewhere around 2000 years ago, AND there is no reincarnation, how exactly is it YOUR (or anyone's who is living presently) fault that he died?
And to take one step further: let's just assume all the logic above makes sense (no reincarnation, yet someone died thousands of years ago because of a problem you are causing), well, if his death fixed anything (I also never understood why the blood sacrifice was needed), then isn't it time to just MOVE ON?
If his death really fixed everything, then aren't the people sin free now? Why do they (christians) go around telling "Jesus died because of YOUR sins" instead of enjoying the sin free existence that should be the case... it's time to move on if there's nothing more to fix there.
Still, I have never understood the logic behind ME being somehow responsible for how some fictional person decided to die thousands of years ago. Wouldn't it also be my fault if my grandad killed someone before I was born?
Thanks Steve,
I understand their idea of original sin, there will always be immoral people, what confuses me is that this "perfect" god seems to have made so many immoral decisions. Selling your daughter into servitude, that's not right, but god says you can do it. So I ask, was god wrong? If so the whole story falls apart, if no..I don't like god.
Think of christianity as a movie series. The OT is the first movie, it had some plot flaws and problems but it was basically a remake of all the other movies at the time so it wasnt very popular. Then came the sequal, the NT, which the die-hard fans of the OT rejected but appealed to a more general audiance but the premise of the movie existed solely on the plot flaws of the first movie. It is like watching only the second or third LOTR without watching the first. Nothing makes much sense and the movie crumbles into confusion. The xians need their OT to make their NT make sense because having your god die as a common criminal on a cross is not a good climax to a story if he didnt need to do it in the first place.
as for the whole immoral god thing, it helps if you can scare people into following you if buttering them up doesnt work. That and their mythology would be kind of lame if it there weren't any conflicts in it.
Hehe. I forgot about the Mormons, the other white meat. The Mormon Bible is really just a collection of fan fiction that someone organised and thought it was a good as the real thing.
This is brilliant...do you mind if I post it on my FB page? I'll of course give you all the credit.
Another similar referenc, not sure which came first the video or the letter.
Cheers Steve. Didn't know. Awesome though right?
Sure, go ahead. I can't take all the credit, though; there was a picture floating around TA with a caption that was basical what I said in a nutshell.
The OT prophecy is used to legitimize Jesus so the Xians can't drop the OT, would be sorta like throwing out the baby with the bath water.
Joseph was from the House of David, part of the prophecy, but Joseph isn't daddy so not sure why they keep pointing to that fact.