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Memorial United Methodist Church was the result of a merger between the Otterbein Evangelical Brethren Church and the Montrose Methodist Church.
In 1870 a group of Methodists banded together to form what was known as the Montrose Society. They met every two weeks in the Montrose School. The group later built a church in 1875. Since the church was not self-supporting it was associated with the St. Agnes Mission and later with the Asbury Methodist Church. In 1880 the church was destroyed by fire. The church was not rebuilt until 1892. In 1907 and 1908 a new brick building was erected to house the expanding congregation. By 1968 the Montrose congregation had once again outgrown its building. The current congregation as of 2001 has renamed the church Victory Temple.
The Otterbein United Brethren Church was organized as a "Home Mission" by the Reverend William Todd in October 1922. A permanent large tabernacle was built in 1924 to house the expanding congregation. Later, in 1927, a newer building was constructed (see photograph right). In conjunction with merger of the Methodist Church and the United Brethren churches, the Otterbein Evangelical United Brethren congregation merged with the Montrose Methodist Church congregation in 1968. Since 2001, the church is operating as Cavalry Temple Church.
The new church, built at 2701 Poplar Street, was named Memorial United Methodist Church.
Less than five years after Memorial United Methodist Church was built, a fire on January 28, 1973, destroyed all of the church building except the sanctuary. The congregation immediately made plans to rebuild and on February 24, 1974 a reconstruction service was held with Bishop Ralph Alton in attendance. On Sunday evening, October 10, 1976, Dr. Norman Vincent Peale presented Memorial United Methodist Church the Guidepost Church Award. Guidepost Magazine in its November 1976 issue said that Memorial church had earned and won the Guidepost Church Award for its courage and dedication after the tragic fire. Memorial United Methodist Church was called "the church that rose from the ashes."
In 2009, new office space, classrooms, conference room, and storage areas were added to the building.
Wesley and the early Methodists were particularly concerned about inviting people to experience God's grace and to grow in their knowledge and love of God through disciplined Christian living. They placed primary emphasis on Christian living, on putting faith and love into action. This emphasis on what Wesley referred to as "practical divinity" has continued to be a hallmark of United Methodism Today.
The distinctive shape of our theological heritage can be seen not only in this emphasis on Christian living, but also in Wesley's distinctive understanding of God's saving grace. Although Wesley shared with many other Christians a belief in salvation by grace, he combined them in a powerful way to create distinctive emphases for living the full Christian life.
Grace is central to our understanding of Christian faith and life.
Grace can be defined as the love and mercy given to us by God because God wants us to have it, not because of anything we have done to earn it. We read in the Letter to the Ephesians: "For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God--not the result of works, so that no one may boast" (Ephesians 2:8-9).
Our United Methodist heritage is rooted in a deep and profound understanding of God's grace. This incredible grace flows from God's great love for us. Did you have to memorize John 3:16 in Sunday school when you were a child? There was a good reason. This one verse summarizes the gospel: "For God so love the world that HE gave HIS only Son, so that everyone who believes in HIM may not perish, but may have eternal life." The ability to call to mind God's love and God's gift of Jesus Christ is a rich resource for theology and faith.
John Wesley, the founder of the Methodist movement, described God's grace as threefold:
Excerpt from What Every Teacher Needs to Know about Theology, 29-33. Used by permission.
Wesley understood grace as God's active presence in our lives. This presence is not dependent on human actions or human response. It is a gift--a gift that is always available, but that can be refused.
God's grace stirs up within us a desire to know God and empowers us to respond to God's invitation to be in relationship with God. God's grace enables us to discern differences between good and evil and makes it possible for us to choose good...
God takes the initiative in relating to humanity. We do not have to beg and plead for God's love and grace. God actively seeks us!
Excerpt from What Every Teacher Needs to Know about Theology, p. 31. Used by permission.
Paul wrote to the church in Corinth: "In Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them" (2 Corinthians 5:19). And in his letter to the Roman Christians, Paul wrote: "But God proves his love for us in that while we still were sinners Christ died for us" (Romans 5:8).
These verses demonstrate the justifying grace of God. They point to reconciliation, pardon, and restoration. Through the work of God in Christ, our sins are forgiven, and our relationship with God is restored. According to John Wesley, founder of the Methodist movement, the image of God--which has been distorted by sin--is renewed within us through Christ's death.
Again, this dimension of God's grace is a gift. God's grace alone brings us into relationship with God. There are no hoops through which we have to jump in order to please God and to be loved by God. God has acted in Jesus Christ. We need only to respond in faith.
Excerpt from What Every Teacher Needs to Know about Theology, p. 31-32.
This process of salvation involves a change in us that we call conversion. Conversion is a turning around, leaving one orientation for another. It may be sudden and dramatic, or gradual and cumulative. But in any case, it's a new beginning. Following Jesus' words to Nicodemus, "You must be born anew" (John 3:7 RSV), we speak of this conversion as rebirth, new life in Christ, or regeneration.
Following Paul and Luther, John Wesley called this process Justification. Justification is what happens when Christians abandon all those vain attempts to justify themselves before God, to be seen as "just" in God's eyes through religious and moral practices. It's a time when God's "justifying grace" is experienced and accepted, a time of pardon and forgiveness, of new peace and joy and love. Indeed, we're justified by God's grace through faith.
Justification is also a time of repentance--turning away from behaviors rooted in sin and toward actions that express God's love. In this conversion we can expect to receive assurance of our present salvation through the Holy Spirit "bearing witness with our spirit that we are children of God" (Romans 8:16).
Excerpt from The United Methodist Member's Handbook, p. 78-79.
Salvation is not a static, one-time event in our lives. It is the ongoing experience of God's gracious presence transforming us into whom God intends us to be. John Wesley described this dimension of God's grace as sanctification, or holiness. (Excerpt from What Every Teacher Needs to Know about Theology, p. 32-33).
Through God's sanctifying grace, we grow and mature in our ability to live as Jesus lived. As we pray, study the Scriptures, fast, worship, and share in fellowship with other Christians, we deepen our knowledge of and love for God. As we respond with compassion to human need and work for justice in our communities, we strengthen our capacity to love neighbor. Our inner thoughts and motives, as well as our outer actions and behavior, are aligned with God's will and testify to our union with God. (Excerpt from What Every Teacher Needs to Know about Theology, p 32-33).
We're to press on, with God's help, in the path of sanctification toward perfection. By perfection, Wesley did not mean that we would not make mistakes or have weaknesses. Rather, he understood it to be a continual process of being made perfect in our love of God and each other and of removing our desire to sin. (Adapted from Who Are We?: Doctrine, Ministry, and the Mission of the United Methodist Church, Revised: Leader's Guide by Kenneth L. Carder, Cokesbury, p. 46)
See http://www.umc.org for more information about The United Methodist Church.
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"Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't my own: under the influence of music I have the illusion of feeling things I don't really feel, of understanding things I don't understand, being able to do things I'm not able to do (...) Can it really be allowable for anyone who feels like it to hypnotize another person, or many other persons, and then do what he likes with them? Particularly if the hypnotist is the first unscrupulous individual who happens to come along?"
― Leo Tolstoy
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Why do societies collapse?
I think all of us have been interested, at one time or another, in the romantic mysteries of all those societies that collapsed, such as the classic Maya in the Yucatan, the Easter Islanders, the Anasazi, Fertile Crescent society, Angor Wat, Great Zimbabwe and so on. And within the last decade or two, archaeologists have shown us that there were environmental problems underlying many of these past collapses. But there were also plenty of places in
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Another little gem from The First Post folks this week: former Time Out editor recalls his time with Hunter S. Thomspon.
"....He arrived with his current girlfriend, a diminutive American rottweiler from whom he was clearly trying to escape - and did at every waking moment. From there on it was a descent into Gonzo madness, a blurred week of drink and drugs and sobbing women and 4am rescuing from other women's beds and more drink and more drugs. And no copy. Not the merest hint of a word...."
And what can you say after that?!
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Thursday, October 23, 2008
Haider was Gay
I knew it! There is just something the extreme Right cannot shake off when it comes to its "Charismatic" leaders and their love of authority, traditional values and intolerance for gays. Turns out half of them are batting for the other team!
Haider is one of those I tried to meet back in 2001, during research for my book 'Homeland'. Back then he deftly avoided me, although I did meet many members of his movement. I don't take pleasure in his death, but I can't for the life of me understand why those from the intolerant Right never seem to spot the queer in their midst (cf Nick Griffin and the BNP, Richard Barnbrook and his 'art' gay films) or those far worse (nail bombers, or the now-jailed paedophile leading America's National Alliance).
Haider's gay lover comes forward
The death of Joerg Haider (pictured) – the Austrian far-right politician who was killed in a car crash earlier this month – has resulted in the confirmation of the long-running rumour that he was a homosexual. First it was revealed that he had visited a gay bar on the night he died and now Stefan Petzner, the 27-year-old who recently became the leader of the right wing Alliance for the Future of Austria, has claimed that he enjoyed a "special relationship" with 52-year-old Haider.
He made his admission in an emotional interview on an Austrian radio breakfast show on Wednesday. "We had a relationship that went far beyond friendship. Joerg and I were connected by something truly special. He was the man of my life."
He went on to insist that Haider's widow, Claudia, did not object to his relationship. "She loved him as a woman. He loved her as a man. I loved him in a completely different and personal way. She understood that," Petzner said. However, the young man's sister Christiane suggested in a newspaper interview that Claudia Haider had not always been so understanding. "Sometimes Claudia was jealous because Stefan would spend more time with her husband than she did."
Clearly embarrassed by the revelations, party officials attempted to limit the political damage and cancelled forthcoming interviews with Petzner. Their attempts to prevent his radio interview being re-broadcast, however, were unsuccessful.
taken from The First Post.
Thursday, October 02, 2008
Michael Moore's incendiary bail-out!
Now, I have to say that I find the rotund chap from Flint, Michigan, both highly-entertaining and a tad annoying. But sometimes his anger-fuelled eye hits the nail right on the head.
There's no way in a million years (yet) that America is going to accept all his recommendations for salvaging the crisis of Wall Street. But in these uncertain times, it does make for a damn fun read. It does make you wonder, though, particularly those Reaganistas who argued the market was always best: what planet have the American people been living on for so long ("government = bad") and why hasn't anyone seen this coming?
Moore's 10 points to fix America.
Wednesday, October 01, 2008
Palin and the Shell-Shocked US
Psychoanalyst Coline Covington hits the nail bang on the head: Sarah Palin, the Republican Vice-Presidential candidate in the US elections is a phantom. An image. A dream; gossamer to protect the 'unviolability' of what Joe Bageant (author of Deerhunting With Jesus) so eloquently describes as America's inward-looking eye.
"The US is suffering from narcissistic shell-shock," writes Covington, detailing its response to economic collapse, as well as making comparisons to the reactions to 9/11.
"When the over-confident individual suffers a life blow that is beyond his control, his first response is usually to attempt to regain an illusion of control by blaming the 'other', whoever that 'other' might be. Then, as a consequence of projecting blame onto others, the individual becomes paranoid about anything 'other' or foreign and this in turn can be used to justify further attacks. Finally, he retrenches into the stronghold of narcissistic behaviour and its promise of safety in power."
Palin "deliberately perpetrated the image of the frontierswoman at a time when it is bound to be most appealing to members of a country that feels itself to be fighting against all the odds .... The frontier spirit is just what is needed. The American Indians have been replaced by the Iraqis, ecological concerns have been wiped off the slate altogether under the 'hand of God' approach, while the collapse of the financial markets can be understood as a temporary blip that simply needs tweaking to ensure continuing belief in a free market economy."
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Student-government leaders at the University of Colorado are conducting a two-day referendum in an attempt to muzzle academic freedom and deny fellow students the right to talk to Central Intelligence Agency recruiters who annually come to the campus.
Organizers of the anti-CIA drive failed to convince the local district attorney to indict the agency for what they claimed was the CIA's illegal activities in Central America. They also failed in their attempt to make citizens' arrest of CIA recruiters on campus. Instead, a few hundred students of the 20,000-member student body were arrested for interfering with campus business.


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Notice of Agreement to the Integration of Container Shipping Businesses [Shipping Line]
Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Ltd., Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Ltd., and Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha have
agreed, after the resolution by the board of directors of each company held today, and subject to
regulatory approval from the authorities, to establish a new joint-venture company to integrate
the container shipping businesses (including worldwide terminal operating businesses excluding
Japan) of all three companies and to sign a business integration contract and a shareholders
1. Background
Although growing modestly, the container shipping industry has struggled in recent years due to
a decline in the container growth rate and the rapid influx of newly built vessels. These two
factors have contributed to an imbalance of supply and demand which has destabilized the
industry and has created an environment that is adverse to container line profitability. In order to
combat these factors, industry participants have sought to gain scale merit through mergers and
acquisitions and consequently the structure of the industry is changing through consolidation.
Under these circumstances, three companies have now decided to integrate their respective
container shipping on an equal footing to ensure future stable, efficient and competitive business
The new joint-venture company is expected to create a synergy effect by utilizing the best
practices of the three companies. And by taking advantage of scale merit of its vessel fleet
totaling 1.4 million TEUs, realize integration effect of approximately 110 billion Japanese Yen
annually and seek swiftly financial performance stabilization.
By strengthening the global organization and enhancing the liner network, the new joint-venture
company aims to provide higher quality and more competitive services in order to exceed our
clients' expectations.
2. Overview of the new joint-venture company
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Contribution Ratio
Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Ltd. 31%
Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. 31%
Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha 38%
Amount of
Approx. 300 Billion JPY
(Including fleets, share of terminals as investment in kind)
Business Domain Container Shipping Business
(Including terminal operating business excluding Japan)
Fleet Size Approx. 1.4 Million TEU*, 6th in the market with approx. 7% of global
Notes1) Figures are as of October, 2016 excluding order book
Notes2) Source: Alphaliner
*TEU: Twenty-foot Equivalent Unit
3. Schedule
Agreement date: October 31st, 2016
Establishment of the new joint-venture company: July 1st, 2017 (planned)
Business commencement: April 1st, 2018 (planned)
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Manchester United 3 Arsenal 2
The last seven days have seen United progress in two cup competitions and reignite their attempt to gain an automatic Champions League place in the Premier League.
Lately, it had looked increasingly difficult for United to grab a coveted top four position. However, they have a new found belief and nothing is better than beating the Gooners and their manager Arsene Wenger along with damaging their hopes of winning the league.
In the past, it was usually a title decider between these two giants of the league but how those days have changed. The fact that Leicester City is the top team says a lot about how the pendulum is swinging as the normal top four clubs are slowly losing their stranglehold on the league.
The answer was yes, as was reflected in the squad: De Gea, Varela, Carrick, Blind, Rojo, Schneiderlin, Herrera, Mata, Lingard, Memphis and Rashford started the match and the bench was brimming with young talent.
De Gea and Rojo returned to the starting lineup in place of Romero and Riley. Rashford was handed his first Premier League start and on the bench, there was another academy youngster getting his first taste of first team football the versatile 18-year-old Dutch player Timothy Fosu-Mensah who can play in midfield or defence sat alongside James Weir, McNair, Pereira and Januzaj.
Arsenal got the game underway with United old boy Welbeck in the side and the last time he played at Old Trafford it was his winner that knocked United out of last years FA Cup.
The first chance fell to the visitors as Monreal beat the off side to face De Gea who was alert enough to block the shot. Let off for United who didn't seem comfortable with Carrick at the back in the opening exchanges.
Rashford showed his natural power and agility by weaving his way past two defenders and was tripped right on the edge of the penalty area. Memphis struck the resulting free-kick well enough to make Cech save on his line. Brilliant play by Rashford in the build up proving he has the confidence and temperament for the big occasion.
Carrick picked up United's second yellow of the match for a late challenge on Welbeck, which was taken by Ozil and had the crowd gasping as De Gea flapped the ball away from danger after a Sanchez flicked header, thankfully the linesman had raised his flag for offside.
The first came courtesy of a missed clearance by Arsenal following an early cross whipped in from the right by Varela and there was Rashford to calmly place the ball into the net to grab his debut goal.
Welbeck continued to haunt United by pulling a goal back for Arsenal just before the break with a sneaky header past De Gea.
Half time and United led 2-1 in a half that was illuminated by Rashford's finishing to make him the youngest player to score two goals for United in a Premier League match.
The home side got the second half underway attacking their favoured Stretford End. There was a worry for the home side straight away as goal hero Rashford was caught with a boot to his nether region and needed some treatment. When he saw Januzaj warming up, he soon returned to the pitch.
United struggled a little to get into the game in the opening minutes of the half as the visitors tried to take the game to them. It nearly paid off as a mix up between Blind and Carrick opened up a gap through the middle of the defence and if it wasn't for the covering pace of Rojo it could have ended in the equaliser.
Lingard earned United a free kick on the right and the ball was floated over to the far post where Schneiderlin had so much time to ready himself for a shot but he over elaborated and his effort was blocked.
The Red Devils eventually came alive again with some attacking play that deserved more than the end results produced with Memphis, Mata and Rashford involved in the majority of the attacks.
Arsenal kept plugging away and pulled another goal back after De Gea saved brilliantly from point blank range from Welbeck but Ozil was there to knock in the rebound.
The players were really getting stuck into the challenges and referee Pawson had a hard time keeping control of them. Van Gaal was unhappy and made his way to the touchline and demonstrated how he thought the Arsenal players were diving by literally falling to the ground backwards for the benefit of the fourth official. Comical, but great to see him off the bench remonstrating much to the delight of the crowd.
Arsenal still tried to get the game back on level terms but each time they played the ball into the area De Gea was there to tidy up. It was all frantic stuff as United frustrated the away side with keep-ball by the corner flag with Mata and Memphis combining well together.
Five minutes of injury time were added to the tension as the two old rivals fought for every ball and neither team wanted to give an inch. Pulsating stuff from both sides.
James Weir became the latest starlet to make his debut when he entered the fray for the last few minutes in place of goalscorer Herrera.
United held on to claim all the three points and dent Arsenal's title challenge and at the same time make up ground on Man City mostly thanks to man of the match Marcus Rashford, who once again proved that the young guns at United are worthy of a place in the first team.
The games are now coming thick and fast as the season enters its final bend so the return of injured players is going to be critical in how United's campaign ends. So as not to end the season empty handed again, United will need the mixture of experience and the energy of the younger players to carry them through to the finish line.
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Here is a very, very late addition to Sepia Saturday #354. The prompt photo brings to mind the tongue twister "She sells sea shells by the sea shore", which as I recently discovered was inspired by Mary Anning, the fossil collector, dealer and paleontologist from Lyme Regis in Dorset, who died almost 170 years ago, aged only 47. Mary began collecting as a young girl and made many important marine fossil discoveries in her relatively short life. She didn't receive a great deal of credit for her achievements back then but they have been recognised since. You can read more about her here using this link to the Lyme Regis Museum.
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I don't have any shop photographs that I haven't already posted, but I thought people might like to see some photos of my own small shell collection. I didn't know much about identifying the different types of shells, I just liked their beauty and pretty colours, their patterns and symmetry, and I still do. They include for example cowries, scallops (the fan shaped shells), paua shell, sea urchins, cones, conches and horns.
I've had some of these shells since collecting them as a child on the beaches of southern NSW, during our annual family camping holidays.
This large mother of pearl shell underneath the other three was given to me by my sister back in the days when she and her husband sailed around the Pacific islands en route from California to New Zealand in their small wooden boat.
I'm not sure where I found the fossil that looks like the imprint of two shells, but it may have come from a site at Pialligo near the Canberra airport, where fossil hunting and collecting is probably no longer possible.
I know some beaches these days have notices saying that collecting shells is not allowed, but hopefully this is not the case everywhere, and that shell collecting remains a simple pleasure for children fossicking along the shore line.


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… If you do research either as a teacher or an older student, the this program may just be what you need. I am a big fan of free software and there is a tremendous amount from which to choose in a variety of subjects but, until now, I had not seen a well thought out program for collecting research notes beyond using either the old index cards or an electronic version thereof. Enter ZOTERO! A free add on for the Firefox Web Browser which I might add is also free. (I have used MS Explorer, Apple's Safari, Google's Chrome and both Mozilla's Opera and Firefox. I keep them all installed on my computer so that I can check any HTML or web design to insure that my work is readable on the widest variety of browsers. After using all of them I prefer Firefox for browsing, but I digress.) Let's get back to ZOTERO.
ZOTERO is written by researchers for researchers and even though the target audience is the hardcore research community, one 5 minute perusal of the programs capabilities via their ZOTERO Demo will likely convince you that it this tool has applications in the homeschooling community as well. It could serve for lesson preparation particularly for unit studies but more likely the older students will find it a great tool for research projects and papers they are required to write. College bound students? I WISH I had this program when I was in college!
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It is tempting to compare TNT's new "Trust Me" to AMC's "Mad Men," but other than the fact that they both take place in advertising offices, the two shows have very little in common. "Mad Men" uses the advertising world as a window on the social and political changes of the early '60s. Hunt Baldwin and John Coveny, who created "Trust Me" (and have been writers on "The Closer") are former admen themselves; they chose the milieu to explore the creative process among a group of people with a collective-neuroses score high enough to maintain a smart and breezy comedy.
Which "Trust Me" promises to be. Starring Eric McCormack (late of "Will & Grace") and Tom Cavanagh ("Ed") as creative partners at a Chicago agency, "Trust Me" is a showcase for one of those male friendships currently known as a "bromance." (How we are going to explain ourselves, with our frenemies and bromances, to subsequent generations is simply beyond me.)
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A thick stickers are the rules: "play backwards!" Mixer and CEO Andreas Spreer followed with selected Tacet LPs a bold unconventional way: Instead of letting the needle from the outside run inside, he starts the tone arm near the label in the opposite movement. Why? Because the outer LP-region has the potential for greater dynamics. Ravel's "Bolero" was published by Tacet as a prime example. Here is an indulgence in Ravel's impressionistic tone paintings - created as the finest mixing sound in the score. If there is poetic art mixer, here it becomes an event.
Moussorgsky's music evokes a great procession through the gate, with the chanting of priests and the ringing of bell; the Promenade theme recurs for the final time to bind the entire suite together.
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Asie; The quiet trilling of muted biolins introduces the oriental plaint of an oboe.
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L'Indifferent; This is perhaps Ravel's most exquisite and self-revealing song.
Berlioz: Composed in 1832
Absence; This is a declamatory song punctuated by a recurring recitative in tempo
Sur les lagunes; This poem has also been set by Faure under the title of Chanson du pecheur, Berlioz has emphasised the fact of its being a boatman's song.
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(Woy Woy and nearby anyways. The title looked way better without the nearby bit.)
Did not go walkies this week. Too much slaving over a hot keyboard and not enough exercise. I'll get fat. Anyways, here's some boats to look at. How'd yer be spending yer working week out on the water on one of these?
Hard to tell with a boat this size if it's a commercial fishing boat or just belongs to a very keen amateur. Moored at Eulalia Wharf Davistown in 2007.
This one is definitely a commercial fishing boat. Belinda K moored off Brick Wharf Road Woy Woy in 2007.
Oyster farm boat moored at Empire Bay in 2006.
Jetty building pontoons moored just off Woy Woy Wharf, along side Brisbane Water Drive. 2006.
MV Gladstone at Gosford Wharf in 2006. She appears to be a picker-up of flotsam and jetsam from Brisbane Water's traffic lanes.
Could not post yesterday. Bloody ISP had some sort of fit. Either that or the whole internets was down. Then I forgot it was Saturday. My brain is going soft. Thank fuck nothing else is. Fucking hours it's taken me to do this post today. Sunday brain. See yer next week.


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Hi everyone. Just joined. I have 5 acres that I am working on and find myself doing much of it solo. My Mom lives with me but she can really only help with planting/transplanting, harvesting and preserving. I get the heavy work, in and out. One of my neighbors said to me once that I was the "haulingist" woman he had ever met. My property does have a slope so I've moved a lot with a small cart behind the lawnmower and two wagons, one without power other than mine and one that runs on gas. Thankfully I'm still reasonably healthy and when my back is bothering me, I rest.
I have spent some time identifying local businesses that do good work that I can hire for carpentry, clearing, etc. And there is a young man not far from my house who prefers to work contract and I can hire him for miscellaneous work when I have enough to make it worth both our time. The young man who maintains my small gas equipment is also available during the winter when his work is slow. Most folks around here grow food as a matter of survival and have for generations. So, when we get together we talk about how the garden is growing or who is doing what in their yards. When I had about 1.5 acres of my property cleared of miscellaneous plants and started planting fruit and nut trees it was the topic of active discussion around the table at the voting booth. My rainwater collecting also generated lots of dicussion for a while. While neighbors always volunteer to help, none of us ask very often. But it is good to know it is there.


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ADLINK Technology, a leading global provider of embedded building blocks, intelligent gateways and cloud/fog computing solutions that enable the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), announces the release of three ADLINK IoT gateway models supporting Intel® IoT Gateway Technology. The MXE-110i, MXE-202i, and MXE-5400i, based on the Intel® Quark™, Intel® AtomTM, and Intel® Core™ processors, respectively, further expand the scope of ADLINK's IoT gateway-based scalable computing platforms. From energy-saving applications to intelligent analytics, ADLINK's IoT gateways supporting Intel® IoT Gateway Technology provide the ideal IoT-ready industrial platforms for a wide variety of applications.
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Monday, 29 February 2016
Norway 2016 - MGP Reprises - In Sign Language
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Hi! My name is Paal Richard Peterson, I'm head of the Sign Language Department in NRK. Thank you for posting about out interpreting! Interpretation of artistic expression, as music, is to take personal choices based upon knowledge about the song and the receiver. Translation between two languages will never be a one-to-one relationship. An expression in written/spoken language, can be expressed in many ways in sign language and vice versa. The purpose is always to convey content, but also mood, emotion, style. But the interpretation shall never stand alone by itself without the original song. There should be consistency between the song and interpretation. We interpreted the song contest for the very first time this year, and will of course evaluate carefully the whole process.ReplyDelete
Nothing but the best quality responses here! Thanks for illuminating us on your craft, Paal. That makes absolutely perfect sense. Can't wait to see what you have on offer for next year, now!ReplyDelete


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Somehow it's almost 70 degrees today in Washington–in early March. In the spirit of the warm weather and with Spring Break just around the corner, I decided to dedicate this blog post to frozen yogurt–one of my favorite desserts. "Fro-yo" has become trendy over the past couple of years all across the country. We have a frozen yogurt place on what seems like every corner in downtown DC. St. Louis has its share of frozen yogurt too, but is much better known for its frozen custard.
If you've ever experienced a DC summer then you also know what it feels like in the summertime in St. Louis – unbearably hot and humid. There are really only a few things you can do: go to the pool, stay indoors, or go out for a cold dessert. Ted Drewes Frozen Custard is, without a doubt, the best place to go. It is a landmark spot in St. Louis, and has been a fixture in the city since 1930. It's also located on Historic Route 66, another reason it's worth checking out. Ted Drewes is family-0wned, and Ted Drewes Jr. himself is often spotted at Cardinals games and around St. Louis.
Ted Drewes is open almost all year round, but the most popular time to go is on weekend nights during the summer. It is ALWAYS crowded, with people of all ages, but the lines move quickly.
I like to go with my friends or family either after a night at the ballpark or just for fun. The building itself is a simple "ice cream" stand; there's nowhere to go inside and no chairs or tables outside. So people usually stand around and talk/eat in the parking lot or sit on the curb or on top of their cars. It's a very social dessert experience. Ted Drewes is also located a bit out of the way, which makes going there more fun and a special occasion.
The custard itself, though, is what draws the crowds. Frozen custard, when done right, is extremely thick. Ted Drewes is most famous for its concretes, which come in signature yellow cups and are so thick that they literally resemble the consistency of concrete.
The ultimate Ted Drewes "thing" is to turn your concrete upside down with the spoon inside. The custard is so thick and packed in that it doesn't even budge. I've tried it myself countless times, and it really works. Plus, if you ever go there, now you'll know why everyone is randomly turning their cups upside down. I recommend either the cookies and cream or the chocolate concrete. I like mine plain, but you can mix in all sorts of toppings.
Ted Drewes is one of the most "St. Louis" places there is, and no visit to the city is complete without stopping there. I'm getting hungry just writing about it.
Thanks for reading…I'll "see you" after Spring break! Until then, I'm going home to St. Louis! Can't wait 🙂


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Bottling and me; a hate, hate relationship
Since I have started doing "stuff" with my beer that I brew, I have begun to notice the need to revisit one of the more basic aspect of brewing; bottling. For me it's a rather contentious relationship. When I got into brewing, it was to have beer on tap. Nothing more.
With my recent misadventures in actually drinking the beer that I was bottling, I have noticed a significant difference in the product I get out of the tap and what I get out of the bottle. At first, I realized I had problems with oxidation. That was easy enough to solve, but now I appear to have problems with carbonation and with a metallic off taste.
First off, the way that I bottle is I take the brew from out of the secondary and put it into the keg. I add my 3/4 cup dex at this point. Once it's all filled up, I put some CO2 pressure on the keg to make sure it's sealed and shake enough to mix the dex and the brew. After this I use a party tap with a filling wand to fill the bottles. Easy enough.
There are a few holes I was able to locate in my process that may have caused the problems I am having;
1) Too much dex- For my latest brew, I dialed it down to 1/2 cup
2) Not rinsing - I use one-step and supposedly you are supposed to be able to do everything in "one step", but this might not be true as I have been doing that and I have flavor problems
3) Party tap - There might be something between the party tap and the wand that is causing an off flavor. I think the way to test this would be to resort to the bottling bucket
I am open to suggestions on anything that might be causing me problems here. I am going to slowly address each of these issues and see where I stand. Hopefully it's nothing serious because the beer I have been kegging has been good. Technically the bottled beer should be no different.
While so far it appears that I am the "loser" in this battle, the guys at MNB were kind enough to share their credit card information on their video so that I can get some of the parts that I need to make my brewery complete; it's mighty big of those guys to do that.


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"While iTunes lets you share libraries, play content on another Mac, and even synchronize some content from one iTunes library to another using Home Sharing, the app isn't designed to work with multiple users," McElhearn writes. "The solution could be a server version of iTunes, which would let households organize all of their family's media on one computer and allow each user to connect to this Mac to listen to music, view videos, and sync their iOS devices. Here are some ideas for how an iTunes server might work."
"If Apple were to create a server version of iTunes, the app would be similar to the current version of iTunes, managing all of the content on a single computer. It would also function as a conduit for media files so they can be transferred to and from the server and stored in the master library," McElhearn writes. "This would meet the needs of families with large amounts of media files, and eliminate the need to duplicate many of these files on different computers."
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I already have a long term health condition severe Chronic Fatigue Syndrome which means my immune system is not great. During the beginning of Jan 2016, I caught a really bad chest infection. Went to docs but was not give any medication. I did not improve so returned to docs about 2 weeks later because I had coughed up blood streaked phlegm. New doc prescribed Amoxicillin 500mg for a week and suggested Xray and referred to chest specialist . Continues coughing for months, don't know if it was viral or bacterial. Xray was clear, specialist sent me for CT scan in March. Chest Specialist said CT scan showed signs of pulmonary opacities in the base of lungs but did not offer any explanation except that I'd had a chest infection, no treatment provided. Further CT scan in July 2016 shows no change and specialist suggested lung function test for September 2016. Although I'm not feeling so bad at present, but I'm concerned that the chest infection has not cleared up properly.
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• Toll Quality CODECs & T.38 FAX-Use standard G.711 or G.726 Codecs for toll-quality or G.723.1 or G.729ab for low-bandwidth applications. T.38 FAX and FAX Bypass features allow high-quality fax. H.323v4, SIP Signaling-Deploy into any enterprise or carrier softswitch network with the leading call and session signalling protocols. Maximize Interoperability to create advanced multimedia and messaging services.
• IPSEC VPN, Encryption, & VLAN-Connect your telephone to IP and secure your calls with optional IPSEC. Choose DES/3DES or AES for encryption. VLAN tagging/stripping allows interfacing into your 802.1pQ network.
• Full ToIP Call Switching-Enhanced circuit-switched call routing allows user programmable and adaptive call handling based on hunt groups, caller/called ID, and time of day.
Connect with confidence using the SmartNode 4520 VoIP Gateway Router. Integrating a complete enterprise router with a full-featured Voice-over-IP Media Gateway offers the new standard in toll-bypass, remote/branch office connectivity, and enhanced carrier services. Perfect for the Remote office, Branch office, or PBX/Switch extension, the SmartNode 4520 integrates all your voice, FAX, and LAN traffic for seamless and secure networking.
With its FXS analog ports the SN4520 Series supports up to eight simultaneous calls, connects to any legacy telephone or PBX, and provides dial-tone, ringing, and caller-ID. When equipped with FXO ports, the local PSTN can be accessed enabling local calling, enhanced toll-bypass services, and fallback configurations. ClearConnect adaptive network monitoring ensures your call always gets connected even if the VoIP link goes down or becomes congested.
With dual 10/100 Ethernet ports, the SN4520 Series provides IP routing with guaranteed Quality of Service. Voice traffic is prioritized while LAN/IP traffic shaping permits efficient access to the Internet and corporate networks. As a complete enterprise router, the SN4520 supports DHCP, NAT, Firewall/ACL, and PPPoE clients. While IPSEC VPN and VLAN tunnel data while DES, 3DES or AES enables secure voice and data over the public network.
|Voice Connectivity
|2, 4, 6, or 8 FXS ports
• 2-wire Loopstart, RJ-11/12
• Short haul loop 1.1 KM @3REN
• EuroPOTS (ETSI EG201 188)
• Programmable AC impedence, feeding, and ring voltage; On-Hook Voltage 29VDC
• Caller-ID Type-1/2 FSK and ITU V.23/Bell 202 generation
|2 or 4 FXO ports
• 2-wire loop-start presented as an RJ-11/12
• 2.5kV line isolation Surge Protection: Voice Ports: Tip & Ring protected by 270 V side actor
• Off-hook and ring detection, Automatic line gain, Programmable ring count
• End of Call detection, Line drop, busy tone, battery reversal detection
• Hook-Flash Sending, H.245 Hook-Flash relay, DTMF send, detect, and relay
• Caller ID FSK CLI reception and relay (Bellcore/ANSI and ETSI/ITU), Call routing based on Caller ID
• Second dial-tone for two-stage DTMF dialing, Call routing based on DTMF numbers
|Data Connectivity
Dual 10/100 Full Duplex, Autosensing, Ethernet RJ-45
|Voice Processing (signalling dependent)
|Voice codes
• G.711 A-Law/µ-Law (64kbps)
• G.726 (ADPCM 40, 32, 24, 16 kpbs)
• G.723.1 (5.3 or 6.3 kbps)
• G.729ab (8kbps)
• Up to 8 parallel voice connections
• G.168 echo cancellation
• Carrier tone detection and generation
• Silence suppression and comfort noise
• Configurable dejitter buffer
• Configurable tones (dial, ringing, busy)
|Fax and Modem Support
• G.711 Fax- and Modem-Bypass
• T.38 Fax relay (9.6 k, 14.4 k)
|Voice Signalling
• H.235 secure RAS
• Fast-connect, early H.245
• Gatekeeper autodiscovery, Alias registration
• Overlap dialing
• Empty capability set (call transfer, hold)
• H.323v1 call transfer, hold
• Supported RFCs: 2806, 2833, 2976, 3261, 3263, 3264, 3323, 3325, 3515
• draft-ietf-sip-cc-transfer-02, draft-ietf-sip-cc-transfer-05 draft-ietf-sip-refer-02, draft-ietf-sip-replaces-01
• draft-ietf-sip-session-timer-04, draft-ietf-sip-session-timer-08
• Caller ID, CLIR (receive from PSTN)
• Support for proxy and redirect servers
• RFC2833: DTMF Relay, SIP INFO DTMF Relay, Fax-Bypass (G.711), T.38 Fax-Relay
• Session Timer, Record-Routing, Authentication
• Compression CODECs, Fax/Modem bypass
|Call Routing
• Virtual Interfaces
• Routing Criteria: Called party number (Destination) Calling party number (Source) Time of day, day of week, date
• Longest prefix match, wildcard match, regular expression match
• Number Manipulation Functions: Replace numbers Add/remove digits Regular Expressions
• Fallback Routing: Soft Fallback to alternative interface or Call Router table
|IP Services
• IPv4 router
• Static Routes, ICMP redirect (RFC 792), RIPv1, v2 (RFC 1058 and 2453)
• Static and dynamic NAT and NAPT
• DHCP server and Client
• Access Control Lists
• IPSEC AH & ESP Modes, preshared Keys
• AES/DES/3DES Encryption
|Quality of Services
• Traffic classification by ACL
• TOS and DiffServ labeling Configurable TOS/Precedence bits or DiffServ codepoints
• IEEE 802.1p/Q
• Traffic scheduling: Priority, Weighted fair queuing (WFQ), Hierarchical traffic classes
• Policing of traffic classes
• DownStreamQoS Dynamic restriction of inbound (downstream) TCP traffic to free bandwidth for voice packets.
• Improves voice quality in the receiving direction
• Web GUI
• Industry standard CLI with local console (CRJ-45, RS-232) and remote Telnet access
• TFTP configuration & firmware loading
• SNMP v1 agent (MIB II and private MIB)
• Built-in diagnostic tools (trace, debug)
|Operating Environment
• Operating temperature: 0 - 40°C
• Operating humidity: 5 - 80% (non condensing)
• CPU Motorola MPC875 @ 66 MHz
• Memory 32MB SDRAM/8MB Flash
• Power: External universal 100 - 240 VAC (50/60 Hz)
• Power dissipation: 4 - 12W model dependent
• EMC compliance: EN55022 and EN55024
• Safety compliance: EN 60950
• CE per RTTE 99/5/EC (EMC and LVD)
• FCC Part 15 Class A
Ordering Information
|Smartnode Dual FXO VoIP GW-Router; 2x10/100baseT, H.323 and SIP, External UI Power.
|SmartNode Dual FXS VoIP GW-Router; 2x10/100baseT, H.323 and SIP, External UI power.
|Smartnode 2 FXS & 2 FXO VoIP GW-Router; 2x10/100baseT, H.323 and SIP, External UI Power.
|Smartnode 4 FXO VoIP GW-Router; 2x10/100baseT, H.323 and SIP, External UI Power.
|Smartnode 4 FXS VoIP GW-Router; 2x10/100baseT, H.323 and SIP, External UI Power.
|Smartnode 4 FXS 2 FXO VoIP GW-Router; 2x10/100baseT, H.323 and SIP, External UI Power.
|Smartnode 6 FXS VoIP GW-Router; 2x10/100baseT, H.323 and SIP, External UI Power.
|SmartNode 4 FXS & 4 FXO VoIP GW-Router; 2x10/100baseT, H.323 and SIP, External UI Power.
|SmartNode 8 FXS VoIP GW-Router; 2x10/100baseT, H.323 and SIP, External UI Power.
Download here the Patton Smartnode 4520 series Datasheet
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Her Boy was originally titled Conscription, a reference to the WWI Draft Act. Upon America's entry into the war, widowed Effie Shannon refuses to allow her son to sign up for the Army. The boy is subsequently drafted, which pleases him but displeases Shannon, who illegally alters her son's birth certificate, making him appear to be under age. This would mean that the son was born at least ten months after his late father's death -- and thus it is that the boy is not only accused of being a "slacker," but of being a bastard as well. Finally aware of the damage she has caused, Shannon publicly confesses the truth, and in the last scene she looks on proudly as her boy marches off to the battlefields of France.
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work was beyond sucky, i had to be a waitress and by the end of the day i wanted to throw every tray of food i carried into the laps of the unsuspecting customers.
but lets not dwell.
today has been marvellous, so i've been celebrating with lots of tea.
i hope all you lovely people are having a fantastically lovely day?
go on, have a cuppa on me :)


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Former TV host Suhaib Ilyasi, who is turning director with '498A- The wedding gift' - a film on the misuse of dowry law - says he has not taken inspiration from his real life story for the film.
Ilyasi, 47, was booked under the same section many years ago after the death of his wife.
"I am a victim of 498A, so I can feel the pain one goes through. I realised how the law was misused in my case. How easy it was for my in-laws to use it against me to seek custody of my daughter.
"I wrote the story because it was coming from my heart. But it is not my story at all. My film is not an attempt to show my innocence," Ilyasi told .
Having started his career in TV with one of the most popular shows of '90s 'India's Most Wanted', Ilyasi became a household name on the small screen. But his life changed after his wife allegedly committed suicide and he was booked under the dowry section.
Ilyasi claims that '498A- The wedding gift' tells the story of his friend, who became a victim of the misuse of the law.
"I have been doing research on this film for last three years. There was a friend, who got married through social networking site. He came to know later that this woman was earlier married to three other men before tying the knot with him. His marriage turned into a sour affair after the woman started extorting money. He later committed suicide," he said.
Through this film Ilyasi hopes to see a new law under the same section to curb the misuse of the existing law.
The film also marks the acting debut of Ghazal maestro Ghulam Ali Khan. It also stars veteran actors like Farida Jalal, Alok Nath and Reema Lagoo.
"Though we don't have star power but we are confident that this film has the capacity to make an impact on the audience's mind. I have taken some of the best actors of the industry in the film with Ghulam Ali sahab, who will be acting for the first time. He is a stage person, so it wasn't a tough job for him," Ilyasi said.
The release date of the film is yet to be decided. Apart from this film, Ilyasi is also in talks with a channel to make a comeback on TV.
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Heifer International in Nepal is creating a strategic plan to improve lives in the country for the next 10 years. New Business Age ran a story on the impact and development of Heifer Nepal: "Currently, a project of USD 23.4 million is in its implementation phase. This programme targets a total of 138,000 households in 28 districts.... the project has already reached 68,207 households including 12,089 new families and 56,118 families through Heifer's approach of 'Passing on the Gift' under which direct recipient families pass on resources ranging from livestock, improved seeds to skills and knowledge to more needy families."
Two Heifer International volunteers traveled from California to Arkansas to learn more about how Heifer makes a difference in alleviating hunger and poverty. They took this knowledge back with them and spread the word at the Orange County Fair!
Eva Amurri Martino will be co-hosting Heifer International's Beyond Hunger: A Place at the Table event in Los Angeles, September 19th, 2013, at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles. Her mother, Academy Award-winning actress Susan Sarandon, will be honored at the event.
Did you know that women play a central role in Heifer International projects around the world? This post from Chicoer.com talks about Hillary Clinton and Laura Bush, who were both interviewed in separate issues of World Ark magazine.
Many churches help people around the world, like Montalba Christian Church in Texas, which has a collection jar in the church entryway to raise funds for Heifer International as part of the "Change the World" outreach program.


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Forward Danielle Schulmann Placed on 45-Day Disabled List
Sky Blue FC (2-2-1, 7 points) of the National Women's Soccer League has officially added forward Leah Galton to its roster, making the British international available for action this Saturday when the team plays a road fixture against the Western New York Flash (2-3-0, 6 points). Concurrent to the addition of Galton, Sky Blue FC has placed forward Danielle Schulmann on the 45-day disabled list after she suffered a right thigh strain during training last week.
Galton, 21, joins Sky Blue FC after finishing up her college education this past weekend at Hofstra University. She was acquired by Sky Blue FC after the team made her the no. 13 overall pick in the 2016 NWSL College Draft in January. The 2015 MAC Hermann Trophy semifinalist registered 122 points while at Hofstra, a program record. Her 48 goals were second most in school history, and the 26 assists on her college resume are tied for most ever in the Pride record books. A native of Harrogate, England, Galton earned Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) Player of the Year accolades for the past three consecutive years, the only player in CAA history to do so.
Prior to her injury, Schulmann played in three matches for Sky Blue FC, registering 42 minutes of action and one shot on goal. The Saddle River, N.J., native was originally acquired by Sky Blue FC by coming through the team's open tryouts in March.
Sky Blue FC is now on the road for its next two contests, beginning against the Western New York Flash at Sahlen's Stadium in Rochester on Saturday night. The team, which is currently riding a five-game unbeaten streak on the road, will then travel to the Chicago Red Stars before returning home to Yurcak Field on June 11th to host FC Kansas City at 7:00 p.m. Tickets for that match are available now.
Half-season, flex and individual tickets for Sky Blue FC are all on sale! For any questions regarding tickets, call the Sky Blue FC tickets department at 888-SBFC-TIX (888-723-2849), and a team representative will be happy to assist you.
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|Sour Cream Chocolate Chip Cookies
Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
Sift together flour, baking soda and salt. Set aside.
In mixing bowl, beat butter, sugars, and vanilla extract until creamy. Add eggs and beat until combined. Add sour cream and mix until blended. Stir in pecans and chocolate.
Drop by tablespoons onto silpat or parchment-lined baking sheets. Bake 12 � 15 minutes or until golden brown.
Makes about 40.
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After the gin. After the duck. After gingerly ducking into a taxi and putting myself 'to sleep' the night before the day after, there came The Morning.
Those Mornings are unforgiving. Uncomfortable and you always swear unrepeatable. Under pressure to advance further than pillow by midday I found my way to the couch. The prospect of sharing the morning with Senior Smug on Saturday Kitchen did not raise my hopes for the day, but did provide me the requisite distance from my bed to satisfy my Vitamin D-deficient conscience.
|James, Jeremy Clarkson has called the police.
It's time to move off his front lawn. No autographs today!
When I'm 'under the weather' it's not a favoured past time of mine to fraternise with those who could convincingly quip: "Top o the morning to you!" This is mostly due to the lack of leprechauns in my immediate friendship circle, but also due to the self-criticism such perksters tend to promote. So when I flicked across to find ex-model turned chef and sexy kitchen celeb, Lorraine Pascale, her legs, her smile, her interior design and not to mention her general existence prompted me to recoil with slovenly demi-judgement as to her apparent kitchen credentials. "Huuuummppfff...Sure she can cook" (grumbled in a grump-laden tone reserved for teenage years and adult episodes inspired by those teenage years).
|Life's famous formula of cupcakes + long legs really do equal happiness.
After tossing know-it-all rebukes around the living room on a one for you, one for me basis for the first 10 minutes, the oddest thing started to happened. When Lorainne removed her sticky glazed Asian ham from the oven whilst replacing it with trays of plaited French bread I didn't hate her. By the time those little cheesecake cups went in the fridge I thought maybe she and I could get along. And once the chorizo and thyme fougasse crisped up I decided I must get my butt out of these track pants and up to the book store to buy her book, Baking Made Easy. Immediately!
She's right, her recipes are easy. They work. They taste good. Boundaries pushed. No. Solid staples. Yes. Over the next week I glazed a sticky Asian ham…
And after reaching my ham consumption threshold I perfected a pizza base…
Then I took her recipe for banana bread and gave it a little Canadian makeover adding maple syrup, some additional vanilla paste, bi-carb soda for consistency and finally walnuts in place of pecans.
And then I started thinking again how good that sticky glazed Asian ham was …and how much I like sticky Asian ribs…and of course how you can find sticky ribs in China Town…and next about the prawn crackers served before sticky ribs…and before I knew it I was back in China Town where this inebriated cycle had begun the week earlier.
|Ready to be wrapped...
|I used the same dumpling mix four ways and each prep
method resulted in very different tasting parcels.
Averting my gaze from the front door of ECC Chinatown in fear of the accidental consumption of cocktails in the morning, I got every ingredient I needed at Loon Fung (42-44 Gerrard St, W1D 5QG, 020 7437 7332), meat and prawns included. It's crowded and busy and smelly and most of the shelves contain unidentifiable ingredients...collectively, this is for me the perfect Asian grocery store experience.
Sticking roughly to David's recipe (adding chili and upping the coriander) I shaped a variety of dumplings using both won ton wrappers (egg based) and dumpling wrappers (rice based). Steamed were great, fried absolutely the best and steamed then pan-fried some unnecessary gyoza like compromise I should probably have just committed to the fryer. Best tip, place your wrapper on a saucer and cup your hands around the dumpling while spinning simultaneously. Like Ghost in a Chinese kitchen.
Something I've picked up from my professional kitchen time: Use every part you can of your produce…don't waste it!
Make a master stock from the prawn heads by pan-frying them with ginger, garlic, lemongrass and chili before covering the red-coloured heads with water, adding coriander stems and simmering for 20-30 minutes. You can flavour the stock at any stage with soy sauce, fish sauce, chili oil…basically what ever you want the highlight flavours of your stock to be. Strain it and reduced the liquid by about a 1/3 to really maximise the flavour.
I used this reduced prawn stock and some left over glaze from my sticky Asian ham to make a mixed noodle dish with chicken, left over prawns and odds and ends from the vege drawer.
|Ready to be covered with water and simmered.
I used this reduced prawn stock and some left over glaze from my sticky Asian ham to make a mixed noodle dish with chicken, left over prawns and odds and ends from the vege drawer.
I'm not even sure at this stage what the moral of this post is. Is it that Experimental cocktails lead to experimental dim sum? That I shouldn't assume the length of a model's legs are in any way mathematically related to her culinary talents? I'm sticking with this one: The more cocktails and dim sum a girl consumes, the more likely it is that a modelling contract and budding television career will eventuate. Flawless logic.


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