Nesco 4808-47-30 18-Quart Roaster Oven with Nonstick Cookwell, Millennium Silver Review

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I received the oven very soon after placing my order.
Following the directions, I allowed the oven to ‘burn-in’prior to use.
I roasted two chickens as per directions and they turned out great.
The non-stick cookwell worked pretty well but there were a couple of areas where burned-on chicken did stick.
Next time, just to be sure, I’ll spray some non-stick cooking material to see if that cures this small problem.
Otherwise, I feel that this Nesco Roaster Oven does the job very well.

Nesco 4808-47-30 18-Quart Roaster Oven with Nonstick Cookwell, Millennium Silver Feature

• 18-quart oven roasts, bakes, and steams
• Extra-high domed cover ensures moist cooking
• Removable cookwell for easy cleaning
• Set heat by temperature or cooking style
• 1-year limited warranty

Nesco 4808-47-30 18-Quart Roaster Oven with Nonstick Cookwell, Millennium Silver Overview

Nesco’s 18-quart roaster oven roasts, steams, poaches, and even bakes all varieties of meat, poultry, seafood, and vegetables. Its extra-high domed cover seals in moisture and assists in self-basting. Heat is controlled by a dial on the front and can be set according to temperature (150 to 450 degrees) or cooking style (slow cook, cook, roast, bake, or steam). Detailed directions and recipes for all types of cooking styles and foods are included. The cookwell removes for cleaning, and the smooth exterior can be wiped clean with a damp cloth or sponge. The oven carries a one-year limited warranty. –Maile Bohlmann

Nesco 4808-47-30 18-Quart Roaster Oven with Nonstick Cookwell, Millennium Silver Specifications

Save your oven for pies and side dishes, and use this roaster to cook your turkey to moist perfection. The cookwell is removable and non-stick for the ultimate in clean up convenience. This oven also bakes and steams and is ideal for covered patios, RVs, cabins and garages.

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My Baby!!! – Dana Demerchant – Springfield , VT USA
I love Love Love!!! This product …. I use it for a second oven when needed ( I have a large family ) and I use it for the holidays … no more dry bird for me. I also purchased the air lid so not only do I not have a dry bird I don’t have ghost bird like some roaster ovens leave you with.

Not only would I buy this again I also own the 12 QT version that I use for side dishes.
Very Satisfied – J. Ray – Monroeville, Pa
My wife and I have 6 children, and this Roaster Oven is great for us with our need of large meals.

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They say that being melancholy is mere self-indulgence; that there is a bright side if one just ceases to turn away from it. That may very well be true. But in the immortal words of Jose Chung, “If I used your therapies to wipe away my pain I’d disappear.” (“Jose Chung’s Doomsday Defense”, Millennium)

My issues were actually solved long ago. Why do I continue to let them torment me?

For one thing, it’s what I’m accustomed to doing. It is a habit.

And admittedly, sometimes it is useful in getting attention.

Last of all, it’s that bin theory of emotional impressions that was the basis of my social psychology project. There is a bin in my mind labeled “Me” and it is stocked with memories and feelings and beliefs that make up my self-image. Even though the memories fade and I change my beliefs, the feelings are the last to go. In some sense the feelings are integrated into the very fabric of the bin.

Unlike yesterday, this is a much more personal recollection of the decade. Well, what a decade it has been! The one that is clearest in my memory, and definitely the decade that will shape my years to come. And so how was it for me? Well, that is a very good question, that could only properly be answered in a few years time as I look back and contemplate the happenings of the past ten years. But it has definitely been a decade of two halves. At the beginning of the decade, I started it in revelry on the streets of London. And by the end of the decade I also will be on the streets of London, but not as boisterous as I will be working the night shift. In between it has been an eventful ten years.

The first half of the 2000’s was spent studying and travelling. I studied far too frivolously and travelled far too hard, but I thoroughly enjoyed myself. I visited a war zone to reconnect with my family, I climbed temples in the jungle, taught English to kids and adults, nearly died in a desert and hiked across the lands of the Moors. And then in 2004, I made an about turn and decided to pursue filming with a vigour. I surprised everyone that knew, me, alienated quite a few of them and got stuck into the business of making films. Now, six years later, and with very little to show for that decision, the big question to ask myself of this decade is ‘has it been a waste of my life?’ After all, these are supposedly the ‘best years’, and if I fail in my quest to make a (decent) living out of writing and directing my own feature films, than I would have wasted those years on nothing more than a pipe dream.

Looking back can be almost as dangerous as looking forward. Fear grips our paths towards the future, regret litters our paths behind us. All that we really have is the present day, and the hum-drum safety net of work, eat, and sleep. And yet, as I look back, I think to myself that it has been an all right decade, but something has to give soon to make it a really spectacular one…

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One of the more popular type of posts on this blog, I note by my stats, are those dealing with the practical use of printers.

So, let it be known that today I completed the manual and installation of a new printer at our primary Circulation workstation.

We’d been using a Star SP542 dot-matrix receipt printer, as at the time we needed to get one, we were hoping to eventually get permission to print money receipts for fines (instead of expensive 19th century receipt books).  State auditors insist on sequentially-numbered receipts (it’s a rule, period, no debate permitted, so no use telling me reasons not to do it).  Thermal printing doesn’t hold up over time, so we needed receipts that would last if we did them for fines, etc.

Frankly, we’ve found the dot matrix to have cleaning problems — lots of cut paper scraps get into the works, and you have to remove the ribbon, then remove a plate and vacuum it out weekly to keep it from jamming up.

Anyway, since the money receipt printing has fallen through (don’t ask), we don’t need long-term printing.  We switched to a Star TSP650 (aka 654 the cutter model) printer, which uses only thermal paper, no ribbon.

The manual is at http://libcat.uafortsmith.edu/screens/man_starTSP650printer.html and it covers the setup for use with Millennium Circulation.

Now, the printer driver either lets you do very short slips with no graphics, or — as we selected — 200mm long slips with a big logo at the top, that are actually easier for everyone to handle.  Also, if somebody sticks them in the book pocket, it makes them easy to fish out.

Using 8 point font for legibility means the last digit of the year is cut off on each line.  A smaller font becomes too hard to read.  The actual date is printed in full at the top just under the logo, anyway, so the year should be obvious.

Since it doesn’t completely cut (“partial cut” meaning one little bit in the middle is left, so one tug will free it), the paper doesn’t leave little scraps, which should avoid a lot of cleaning problems.  No ribbon.

The “receipt” selection (instead of 200mm length) just runs out paper forever, until you turn it off.  Since the 200mm works well for us, we’ll stick with that for the time being.

We have under a month left until the end of the decade, and so how was it for you? Was it hell? Certainly if you look at world events we had major terrorist attacks in NY, Madrid, London, Mumbai and Bali littered amongst the multitude of events worldwide. We had massive natural disasters. The Tsunami and the 2005 hurricane season were the big natural disasters of the decade but let us also recall Cyclone Nargis, the Kashmir Earthquake. Bam in Iran and Sichaun in China also suffered from massive earthquakes. As a tail end note, Mozambique suffered from massive flooding at the beginning of the 2000’s .

Oh, and if you are in the west than look no further than the economic meltdown of the past two years. Plus we in the west elected some of the worst tyrants in recent history, who instigated more wars and suffering amongst the most destitute people on the globe. At least we are not in North Korea.

In the UK we seem to be quite happy to give over our hard won freedoms to governments and law advisors more interested in controlling the population instead of listening to it. So now we have CCTV up your backside (the cameras in my job can see me pick my nose), a new expensive compulsory ID Card system and a populace too scared to live because of the no-win no-fee parasites that bombard your cable television channels with cheap adverts, promising you the world (the money had to come from somewhere).

On a personal level we have also given up much of our individual freedom. Shackled by debt, the average UK resident is no better than the bonded labourers of the 19th century. Now striking has become a byword for treason despite the fact that is was here in the UK that led the industrial strike movement and the establishment of basic workers rights (we need more men like him).

And so, that’s it. The Noughties, the 2000’s, the beginning of the new Millennium and the 21st Century. Tomorrow, a more personal view…

The Girl who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson

Lisbeth Salander is a wanted woman. Two Millennium journalists about to expose the truth about sex trafficking in Sweden are murdered, and Salander’s prints are on the weapon. Her history of unpredictable and vengeful behaviour makes her an official danger to society – but no-one can find her. Mikael Blomkvist, editor-in-chief of Millennium, does not believe the police. Using all his magazine staff and resources to prove Salander’s innocence, Blomkvist also uncovers her terrible past, spent in criminally corrupt institutions. Yet Salander is more avenging angel than helpless victim. She may be an expert at staying out of sight – but she has ways of tracking down her most elusive enemies.

A slightly slow start to this, the second in the Larsson Millennium trilogy, but when it gets going it really takes off. Fast-paced and gripping it delivers on every count. Super stuff.

The early Church father Justin Martyr in his days said “That many Christians in his days did not hold to the view of Pre-Millennialism”.It has been a controversial subject throughout the history of the church.Part two will conclude tomorrow.

(Deut. 34: 1-4) “And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho.  And the Lord showed him all the land of Gilead, unto Dan.  And all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim, and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, unto the utmost sea.  And the south, and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees, unto Zoar.  And the Lord said unto him, This is the land which I sware unto Abraham, and unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, saying, I will give it unto thy seed: I have caused thee to see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not go over thither.”

  In their desperation to maintain the view that the church superseded Israel, Replacement Theologians have made all kinds of false claims respecting the land that God gave to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.  The popular view is to concede that the inheritance is the literal land of Canaan, but that the promises were fulfilled in Old Testament times.  Joshua 21: 43-45 is often quoted as if that text sets the matter at rest. 

    However, we cannot forget that the land was promised to each of the patriarchs as a personal possession (see Genesis 13: 15; 26: 3; 28: 13; 35: 12).   This promise was certainly never made good in their lifetime, for Stephen later affirmed that God “gave [Abraham] none inheritance in it, no not so much as to set his foot on: yet He promised that He would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when as yet he had no child” (Acts 7: 5). 

  Paul also refers to land of promise as the country in which Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob sojourned, dwelling in tents (Hebrews 11: 9).  From this it is evident that the patriarchs never received any fulfillment of the promise in their own lifetimes.  The promise must therefore be made good in resurrection.

  True, Paul declares that Abraham looked for “a city which hath foundations, whose builder and Maker is God” (Hebrews 11: 10).  However, this same city was later seen, in prophetic vision, descending to earth (Rev. 21: 2).  So there is no contradiction between the promise made to the patriarchs, and the ultimate realization of that promise as depicted in the New Testament.

  Regardless of what we today may think, the early Christians certainly believed that the land promises would be fulfilled during the Millennium.  Irenaeus writes:  ”If, then, God promised [Abraham] the inheritance of the land, yet he did not receive it during all the time of his sojourn there, it must be, that together with his seed, that is, those who fear God and believe in Him, he shall receive it at the resurrection of the just” (Against Heresies, V. xxxii. 2).

   What Moses saw from Nebo certainly confirms the fact that what God promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob was a literal alotment of land, and not a mere spiritual inheritance!  It is our firm belief that what God promised will be made good; and that we, who receive blessings with Abraham will surely inherit the world (Romans 4: 15) and judge angels (1 Cor. 6: 3).  In view of these promises, we await the time of our Lord’s return, with joy unspeakable.

These days I can’t help but feel like Frank Black, the tragic, glum-faced hero in Chris Carter’s classic TV series Millennium.

In the series, Frank is a retired FBI profiler obsessed with protecting his daughter Jordan from the  world’s evils. In his mission to rid the planet of serial killers and mass murderers, he reluctantly joins The Millennium Group, a secret society of criminal investigators allied with the FBI, only to find out later that the group has been corrupted by the very evil it is fighting.

It is a depressing series, and it got canceled after three seasons — proof positive that even serial killer-obsessed America has only a certain level of tolerance for the deeply morbid and the utterly bleak.

If there’s one thing I learned about that program, it’s that the fight against evil is almost always a lost cause.

I remember a friend who justified his being a gun freak to me in 2001 by noting the number of nuts out there who can kill me or my loved ones just because they can and can get away with it, or at most get a mere slap-on-the-wrist courtesy of our inept justice system. His talk left me dumbstruck. If only I had a credit card back then, I would’ve gone straight to Hahn in Ali Mall for a Remington M597 after that conversation.

Why not? It’s better to go down fighting, as they say in war.

Every time I look at my family, I am gripped with the disturbing conclusion that we are indeed at the mercy of the Jason Ivlers and Andal Ampatuans of this world. That unarmed, we are nothing but clueless little mice in the same cage with the snake just waiting to be swallowed. Preys waiting for the predator.

Fight fire with fire. Something must be done to level the playing field.

I’ve a credit card now, and Cubao is just a ride away from where I live and work, and my head is full of gunpowder as I try to come to terms with the vicious reality outside growing more vicious with every passing day.

Suicide Bombing

Al-Nisa (The Women) Sura 4: Verse 29 (Partial)

“… And kill yourselves not, for God is truly Merciful to you.”

People who are driven to despair are thus reminded to have faith in God’s mercy in the hope that they may be relieved of their suffering. Since suicide is prohibited, anyone who tries to facilitate it, or acts as an accomplice, is also liable to a deterrent punishment that may be quantified by the court while taking into consideration the material circumstances of the case. Commentators have, moreover, drawn a five-point conclusion from this verse as follows:

1. the obvious meaning is that suicide is forbidden;

2. the text also stipulates that ‘you may not kill one another’ nor facilitate suicide;

3. one may not undertake a task which is likely to cause his own death, even if it be in lieu of a religious obligation;

4. no one should deprive himself of the necessities of life to the point of self-destruction; and

5. the text covers cases of self-destruction regardless of the manner in which it is done.

The manuals of Islamic law are silent on the issue of suicide bombing, a disturbing phenomenon of our time that became frequent in connection with Israeli-Palestinian conflict, especially when Israel unleashed a new wave of aggression on the street processions of unarmed Palestinian youth in 2000-1. The aftermath of 11 September 2001 and more recently the horrendous violence in Iraq and Afghanistan, added new dimensions to the incidence of suicide bombing among Muslims.

Suicide bombing in the name of Islam is a ’sociopolitical phenomenon, not a theological one’. And any long-term solution to the problem must also address the causes that have brought so much pain and hopelessness to many Muslim societies.

It would be simplistic to lump the Palestinian suicide bombing with Al-Qaedah terrorist activities. One can hardly deny the genuine suffering of the Palestinian people and legitimacy of their struggle against sustained Israeli brutalities. It would appear equally simplistic, however, to equate suicide bombing with martyrdom and jihad. This is because suicide bombing contravenes two fundamental principles of Islam: prohibition against suicide, and deliberate killing of non-combatants. The argument that proceeds over reciprocity and retaliation is also flawed by the involvement of innocent non-combatants in suicide bombing.

Those who have raised the issue of ‘collateral damage’ in this context have also exaggerated their case, simply because non-combatants are chosen as the direct target of suicide bombing. They are, as such, neither collateral nor incidental.

The Muslim fighter who is motivated by the spirit of jihad enters the battle, not with the intention of dying, but with the conviction that if he should die, it would be for reasons beyond his control. Martyrdom in Islam does not begin with suicidal intention, let alone the linkage of that intention with the killing of non-combatants.

To justify suicide bombing under the banner of retaliation, or as a form of jihad, is therefore questionable, simply because it begins on an erroneous note, which goes against the essence both of just retaliation and justified jihad.

Compiled From:

“Shariah Law – An Introduction” – Mohammad Hashim Kamali, pp. 283-288

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Time to work off those extra pounds we put on yesterday and session in Brooklyn, NY’s one and only skate park tomorrow. LRNY is taking place tomorrow at 2:00PM in Owl’s Head park at the Millennium skate park A helmet is most likely required to skate the park so don’t forget yours. Take the R train to Bayridge Avenue and walk to the park. More information and directions on the above flyer and below.

Directions to the park via the MTA and car here.

Walking directions from the train to the park here.

Velocite Bikes has just released their updated price list. Now that they offer SRAM, I’ll deck out my Magnus with Red. It will be followed by a Millennium shortly after.

Isu 2012 mengingatkan saya akan beberapa tahun yang lalu, isu tahun 2000. So, di tengah ribut-ributnya kiamat tahun 2012, saya mensurutkan diri ke 13 tahun yang lalu. Mulai pertengahan dasawarsa 90an, kedatangan tahun 2000 begitu hangat menjadi topic. Sebagaimana isu 2012 yang dimanfaatkan beberapa orang menjadi buku, komik, pemancing hit blog, pengundang teman di situs jejaring social, begitu juga nasib kedatangan tahun 2000 CE ini.

Salah satu yang memanfaatkannya dengan baik adalah Chris Carter. Setelah sukses dengan The X-Filesnya, Fox menawari Carter untuk mengkreasi satu miniseri TV lagi. Dan Fox memberi kebebasan bagi Carter untuk membuat serial baru ini. Dan lahirlah Millennium.

Millennium - Frank Black

Mengambil nama dari mitos event yang sedang hangat-hangatnya waktu itu, Millennium merupakan serial drama thriller berbau horror. Menu utamanya adalah serial killer. Bumbunya adalah pergantian 1000 tahun masehi, kiamat, dan kedatangan Yesus kedua.

Pilot episode Millennium mencekat saya waktu itu. Pilot yang diproduksi 1996 ini ditayangkan di Indo sekitar awal 1998 di salah satu teve swasta. Jadilah Millennium menjadi serial yang saya tunggu-tunggu selain besutan Carter sebelumnya, The X-Files.

Yang menarik saya dari Millennium adalah serial ini begitu gelap dan suram. Tidak ada humor sama sekali. Millennium memberi saya pemahaman bahwa manusia punya sisi yang sama sekali gelap dan mengerikan –sesuatu yang bisa terjadi pada masyarakat di sekitar rumah kita.

Hal lain lagi yang menarik adalah tokoh utamanya, Frank Black –diperankan oleh Lance Henrikssen- adalah pensiunan agen special FBI yang menjadi konsultan/profiler pembunuh berantai. So, selain nggak tampan dan sudah lumayan berumur –di serial ini Frank Black berumur 49 tahun, ia punya keluarga dengan anak yang masih kecil –karena konon si Frank Black ini telat menikah. Jadilah, tokoh utamanya bukanlah seorang detektif tampan berjas, berbau wangi, dan suka menggoda cewek plus bersih-bersih jasnya kalo habis berantem. Frank Black layaknya orang biasa. Bahkan seperti tetangga saya yang sering minum wedang teh jahe di angkringan: pakaian biasa dan kadang berjaket.

Selain itu yang menarik dari tokoh utama ini adalah ia sudah berkeluarga. Berbeda dengan beberapa serial detektif dengan tokoh utama yang notabene masih lajang. Frank Black harus berusaha keras seimbang antara profesinya dan profesi sebenarnya sebagai kepala keluarga. Ia harus membagi perhatian antara Millennium Group tempat ia bekerja dengan Catherine dan Jordan –istri dan anaknya. Apalagi ada ancaman si Polaroid killer terhadap keluarganya yang clue-nya ditampilkan di episode 1 dan 2 season 1.

Season 1 yang penuh kegelapan mulai berubah pada season 2. Ini karena Chris Carter mau konsentrasi di The X Files Season 5 serta The X Files The Movie. Produser eksekutif diserahkan ke James Wong dan Glen Morgan yang pada season 1 hanya sebagai konsultan. Wong dan Morgan memberi humor pada season kedua ini. Lihatlah pada episode ‘Beware of The Dog’ di mana penduduk kota kecil yang didatangi Frank Black bersikeras bahwa Frank adalah sherrif baru mereka. Atau si Joe Yellow di ‘Sense and Antisense’. Atau ketika ramalan sebuah suku Indian ‘terpenuhi’ karena beberapa bison lepas dari kandang di ‘A Single Blade of Grass’. Atau sindiran terhadap salah satu aliran self-help di ‘Jose Chung Doomsday Defense’. Suasana yang di season 1 begitu gelap dan suram serta kaku dan kejam menjadi cair.

Perubahan yang memuaskan rasa penasaran saya adalah Wong dan Morgan sedikit demi sedikit mengungkap siapa sebenarnya Millennium Group ini –sesuatu yang benar-benar saya ingin tahu pada season 1.

Hix, sayang season 2 yang menarik ini benar-benar saya lewatkan. Mulai episode Monster saya kehilangan season 2. Mengapa? Karena saya waktu itu –akhir 1998- baru saja buka warung Pempek dan otomatis harus berkonsentrasi terhadap usaha baru saya ini. Dus, saya tidak tahu ada Lara Means –rekan kerja Frank- yang sempat dicemburui Catherine. Juga tidak tahu pada episode berapa –dan mengapa- rambut Catherine menjadi lurus.

Tiba-tiba setelah saya bisa duduk manis di depan teve, Millennium sudah menginjak di Season 3. Catherine Black sudah tidak kelihatan. Lalu siapa si Emma Hollis ini?

Alhamdulillah, di akhir 2009 ini saya bisa mendapatkan 3 season Millennium komplit-plit. Eh, cuma kurang episode ‘penutup’ serial ini yang malah merupakan episode keempat di The X Files season 7. Mulailah setiap malam saya nyicil 2 episode. Lumayan, rasa penasaran saya yang 11 tahun lalu hinggap bisa sedikit demi sedikit terobati.

Walaupun tidak sesukses The X Files, Millennium sempat menggondol beberapa award dan masuk beberapa nominasi penghargaan. Sayang, serial teve yang sempat menggaet fans fanatik ini ‘terpaksa’ dihentikan setelah season 3 karena menurunnya jumlah pemirsanya. Ajaibnya, beberapa fans fanatik merasa season 3 belumlah akhir dari petulangan Frank Black. Rame-rame, beberapa fans fanatik bikin script sendiri meneruskan serial ini, membuat Virtual Fourth Season –dan disebarkan di Internet.

Pada saat ini ditulis, saya baru selesai melihat episode 7 season 2. Millennium masih sangat menarik bagi saya. Selain sebagai seorang yang melewati pergantian 1000 tahun masehi tanpa terjadi apa-apa, eksplorasi kegelapan pikiran manusia serta mitos kuno adalah hal yang menarik bagi saya.

Un bellissimo giallo che si svolge tra gli scenari glaciali della Scandinavia. Per tutti coloro che non hanno letto il libro di Stieg Larsson si può dire, senza rovinare la sorpresa, che i protagonisti sono una giovane hacker Lisbeth Salander e un giornalista Mikael Blomkvist. E’ la prima avventura della trilogia Millennium dove facciamo conoscenza con una ragazza che porta sulla pelle piercing e tatuaggi e dentro di se porta atroci traumi. La sua storia si intreccia con le indagini di Mikael che deve, per conto di un ricco e anziano industriale di nome Ranger, trovare la giovane Harriet Ranger, sua nipote, scomparsa nel nulla 40 anni prima

Last night I caught the start of the evening ITN news which is something that I don’t normally do because I hate ITN with a passion. The reason for this being that it is pure tabloid journalism transferred onto TV. Are you interested in facts? Want to know what important events are happening in the world? Don’t watch ITN then, if you want a dumbed down version of events plus a load of unimportant crap that you would normally find in a trashy magazine presented and produced by halfwits who can’t get a job at a reputable news agency then ITN is for you.

OK, I may be being a bit harsh but twenty seconds into last night’s new broadcast they got my blood boiling again. The main story was quite rightly the horrendous floods in Cumbria. ITN’s headline? “The worst floods in Cockermouth for 1000 years“! Really? Is that a fact? That’s astounding! What is more astounding is that the people of Cockermouth have been meticulously recording river levels for a millennium. And that those records survive today. That’s quite unbelievable.

Actually what’s more unbelievable is that a supposedly reputable news agency are happy to put an untrue headline such as this in their news program. I’m sure that the producers had done their research and found that the Environment Agency had said something along the lines of “this type of weather is a once in a millennium event” which is complete bollocks in itself and anyone with half a brain would recognise it as such but the ITN team must have less than half a brain because they decided to take this generalisation literally.

Actually I think what annoys me more than the shoddy headline grabbing journalism of ITN is that there are enough people in the UK who watch this crap and blindly accept that what they say is the truth. Those floods of 1009 must have been quite something!

ISLAMIC  METHOD OF  SLAUGHTERING ANIMALS APPEARS RUTHLESS

Why do Muslims slaughter the animal in a ruthless manner by torturing it and slowly and painfully killing it?

The Islamic method of slaughtering animals, known as Zabiha has been the object of much criticism from a large number of people. One may consider the following points, which prove that the Zabiha method is not only humane but also scientifically the best:

1. Islamic method of slaughtering animal Zakkaytum is a verb derived from the root word Zakah (to purify). Its infinitive is Tazkiyah which means purification. The Islamic mode of slaughtering an animal requires the following conditions to be met:

a.    Animal should be slaughtered with sharp object (knife) The animal has to be slaughtered with a sharp object (knife) and in a fast way so that the pain of slaughter is minimised.

b.    Cut wind pipe, throat and vessels of neck Zabiha is an Arabic word which means ’slaughtered’. The ’slaughtering’ is to be done by cutting the throat, windpipe and the blood vessels in the neck causing the animal’s death without cutting the spinal cord.

c.    Blood should be drained The blood has to be drained completely before the head is removed. The purpose is to drain out most of the blood which would serve as a good culture  medium  for  micro  organisms.  The  spinal  cord  must  not  be  cut because the nerve fibres to the heart could be damaged during the process causing cardiac arrest, stagnating the blood in the blood vessels.

2. Blood is a good medium for germs and bacteria Blood is a good media of germs, bacteria, toxins, etc. Therefore the Muslim way of  slaughtering  is  more  hygienic  as  most  of  the  blood  containing  germs, bacteria, toxins, etc. that are the cause of several diseases are eliminated.

3. Meat remains fresh for a longer time. Meat  slaughtered  by  Islamic  way  remains  fresh  for  a  longer  time  due  to deficiency of blood in the meat as compared to other methods of slaughtering.

4. Animal does not feel pain The swift cutting of vessels of the neck disconnects the flow of blood to the nerve of the brain responsible for pain. Thus the animal does not feel pain. While dying, the animal struggles, writhers, shakes and kicks, not due to pain, but due to the contraction and relaxation of the muscles defecient in blood and due to the flow of blood out of the body.

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Umar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke says the summit just concluded in Rome has been helpful because it drew the world’s attention to the problem of world hunger, but it has also shown there’s still a long way to go to meet UN goals for improving food security worldwide…. From VOA. Full story

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french fries from millennium

mmm, Millennium!! i recently made a visit to the world’s finest vegan wonderland and here are the plates… this was the first time i tried the french fries are they are truly fantastic!

my friend's plate- tempeh something something..

everything was amazing.

my plate- forbidden black rice, curry something something..

i really loved all the flavours and the nutty black rice.

sweet potato tart with ginger ice cream

what a heavenly meal! to see more of my past millennium adventures you can go here.

Millennium
580 Geary Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
415-345-3900
www.millenniumrestaurant.com

Titolo originale: Flickan som lekte med elden

Regia: Daniel Alfredson

Cast:  Michael Nyqvist, Noomi Rapace, Annika Hallin, Per Oscarsson, Lena Endre, Peter Andersson, Jocob Ericksson, Sofia Ledarp, Yasmine Garbi, Johan Kylén, Paolo Roberto, Georgi Staykov, Hans Christian Thulin

Distribuzione: BIM, Svezia, 2009

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Un anno dopo gli eventi narrati in Uomini che odiano le donne, un giovane giornalista free-lance, Dag Andersson (Hans Christian Thulin), sta per pubblicare su Millennium, la rivista diretta da Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist), una scottante indagine sul mondo del trafficking, la tratta delle donne dall’Est Europa per scopi di sfruttamento sessuale. Tuttavia, prima della pubblicazione il giovane e la sua fidanzata vengono trovati brutalmente uccisi, così come Nils Bjurman (Peter Andersson) il terribile tutore di Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace). Tutti gli indizi sembrano dimostrare la colpevolezza della ragazza: la polizia si mette alla sua ricerca, ma Mikael, convinto della sua innocenza, inizia un’indagine parallela per giungere alla verità e scagionarla… Il tempo stringe e il passato tornerà inerosabilmente a galla…

So che non si tratta di un’ultima uscita, visto che la pellicola è nelle sale dal 25 settembre, ma purtroppo sono riuscita a vederla solo questa sera in rassegna, e non potevo non recensirla. 
Cambio alla regia per il secondo capitolo della trilogia tratta dai romanzi di Stieg Larsson. L’esordiente Daniel Alfredson sostituisce Niels Arden Oplev e la differenza si nota indubbiamente. Questa seconda pellicola della trilogia Millennium vede un’unica grande protagonista Lisbeth Salander, interpretata magistralmente da Noomi Rapace, davvero perfetta nel ruolo. La vediamo braccata dalla polizia, incastrata da gente senza scrupoli, decisa a salvarsi e a giungere alla verità come sempre da sola e senza ricorrere all’aiuto di nessuno, agendo come suo solito da guerriera solitaria. Rifiuta di chiedere aiuto anche a Mikael Blomqvist, l’unica persona che tiene davvero a lei e che non riesce a dimenticarla. Anche quando gli indizi puntano tutti contro di lei, lui è convinto della sua innocenza e inizierà una corsa contro in tempo per salvarla dalla polizia, dai reali assassini e, in un certo senso, anche da se stessa.

Lisbeth si mostra indistruttibile e combattiva, ma allo stesso tempo più fragile e più “umana”, svelando un lato di sè che nel primo capitolo non era venuto fuori e rivelando anche una serie di eventi e di particolari che riguardano il suo passato e che fanno comprendere meglio allo spettatore cosa si celi dietro quegli occhi così perennemente torvi e in guerra con il mondo. Al suo fianco ancora una volta Mikael, interpretato da Michael Nyqvist, meno presente rispetto all’indagine precedente e forse con meno mordente, ma sempre determinante, molto più della polizia, per la risoluzione del caso.

Il terzo e ultimo capitolo della trilogia, La regina dei castelli di carta, uscirà nelle sale nella primavera del 2010.

In definitiva una pellicola godibile, anche se sicuramente molto meno esplosiva e intensa del libro, così come della prima  pellicola della trilogia.

Conclusione: Consigliato.

Voto: 7

I ran into Joe Ullrich in October, four years after I had last seen him. He told me about some very difficult trials his family had endured, but he brightened as he mentioned the bountiful harvest God had blessed them with this year. Check out the size of those tomatoes in the photo! Joe felt God’s encouragement through this exceptional season of growth. Here is an excerpt of what he wrote:

Joe and Mary enjoy the bountiful harvest and the blessing of family.

Imagine needing a stepladder to care for and harvest your tomatoes. Imagine growing beets in your garden to almost the size of a volleyball and yet having their flesh sweet and tender. Imagine growing bell peppers nearly a foot long. Doesn’t that sound almost like stories we might hear in the Millennium, during the coming Kingdom of God? For us, God has blessed our garden produce greatly and has given us just the things I have spoken of this summer.

The tallest of our tomato plants were over eight feet tall before they began bountifully producing beautiful, juicy and tasty fruits of excellent quality. In one day Mary and I canned 50 quarts of juice. In our 30 plus years of gardening we have grown many beautiful tomato plants topping out at five to seven feet tall, but none came even close to growing as tall as the ones we have grown this year. At the time I am writing this, the tallest plant is nearly 11 feet tall.

Why did it produce so exceptionally well? Truly it was greatly blessed by God and has been used to greatly encourage us after some years of fiery trials that we have endured. The spiritual blessings that we have received greatly outweigh the physical blessings of the garden.

It was difficult not to break out in hymns and words of praise and thankfulness to God as we cared for and harvested from our garden. Our son told Mary he heard me talking to the tomato plants, but had he been close enough to hear me clearly, he would have known I was speaking to God, thanking Him and praising Him for His blessings.

I have told many that this was probably a “once in a lifetime” garden, but God only knows. Maybe next year will top this year. Maybe next year will be your year—you won’t know without trying. Gardening can be very rewarding, both physically and spiritually providing for our needs giving us a way of helping others. Growing plants helps us to better understand some of the scriptures. After all, our Father planted a garden eastward in Eden and gave Adam and Eve the opportunity to dress and keep it.

Joe and Mary Ullrich attend the Fairview Heights, Illinois, congregation of the United Church of God.

It’s nearly 10 years after millennium…where were you during millenium’s new year?.. were you expecting the world to end or did you expect life to become more exciting?

10 years..for some reason it is easier to think of things were didn’t have 10 years ago..like facebook, and ‘googling’, and maps on our mobiles..and oh…mobiles! not everyone had mobiles 10 years ago!

And what else?

What else we didn’t have before the millennium?

Did we have something we don’t have now? Are some things totally out of date? Like pagers.. )

Please share..this could turn into an interesting experiment!

Share here or on facebook..I then promise to organise all info in one interesting piece of design…so feel free to share images too…like your hair do back then.. ) post anything u like/ dislike about these 10 years…

I hope something interesting will come out of this… even if u do not wish posting anything enjoy contemplating about this!