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She led them back the way they’d come, retracing their steps over the blank stones, and then down another twisting corridor that had Corda wondering just how initiates came to be so much more familiar with the basement stores than mages.
“This will lead us into the repository,” Lily said, as they neared another ominous-looking door, this one much larger than the others, and carved from ancient, greyish wood, instead of cast in metal. “It’s where some of the Circle’s greatest treasures are stored.”
Corda wrinkled her nose. In her experience, the Circle usually liked to flaunt its riches… the ones that poured in from its curio shops and Tranquil cash cows, anyway. In any of the public chambers in the Tower, or the senior enchanters’ studies, it was hard to move for exotic novelties like enchanted skyballs, small Avvar statues, antique silver inkwells or paperweights from Orlais or Nevarra, or even artefacts with reputed historic significance. It was rumoured that, in Irving’s office, there was a dagger on the wall with a blade crafted from dragonfang. Such gifts, apparently, had been marks of honour during the occupation… or possibly just demonstrated the Orlesian appetite for the unusual, combined with the pleasing frisson of danger.
She glanced suspiciously at Lily. “The ones we’re not meant to know about, then?”
The girl said nothing, but she looked distinctly uncomfortable. Jowan shot Corda a reproachful glare, and she sneered at him.
“Well? Don’t tell me: anything even vaguely related to Tevinter gets shut down here. You know, not every piece of information we have from the Imperium is—”
“Some of it is evil,” Lily said hoarsely. “There are wicked things left down here. We should be careful.”
Corda scoffed. “Right. I’m sure it’s all positively dripping with blood magic.”
Jowan glared at her again, his brow pinched. “Corda! Please… can we just…?”
He gestured hopelessly to the door, the light above their heads pitching and fizzing against the shadows. Corda was preparing to say something cutting about his impatience, but then she turned her gaze to the door itself and, as she stepped closer, the full magnitude of its presence struck her.
It was a ghastly thing. Just looking at it made the back of her neck crawl. The timbers were silvered with age, making the door look almost ghostly against its dark stone surround. More carvings littered the stonework, but Corda saw none of the warding runes or glyphs that had been on the first door… none that she recognised, anyway. There were fewer geometric patterns, too: this didn’t look like dwarven work. Instead, tiny figures interlaced their way along the stone frame, contorted in apparent agony. She saw familiar motifs on the ancient planks… the sign of the Chantry’s sun, and the Sword of Mercy, and all manner of other religious self-flagellation.
Corda shuddered and, at her shoulder, Jowan pulled a face.
“It’s… horrible,” he murmured. “Why would they put something like this down here?”
“It’s called ‘the Victims’ Door’,” Lily said, with something a little like a trace of reverence in her voice. “It is built of two hundred and seventy-seven planks, one for each of the original templars. It serves as a reminder of all the dangers that those cursed with magic pose.”
Corda was already taking the rod of fire from its box. It woke quickly at her touch, and she cupped her hand around it, channelling her power into the thing until the tip crackled and blazed. She slipped a sidelong glance at the initiate as the flames began to coalesce, turning the rod’s grey surface first orange, and then white. The light danced over Lily’s face, highlighting the soft curve of her jaw, and the faint look of awe on her face.
“Huh,” Corda said meaningfully, allowing the rod to flare just a little brighter.
“How do you know all this, Lily?” Jowan asked admiringly.
Admiration…! Yes! Let us bow down to the people who lock us up, treat us like animals, and then call themselves ‘Victims’, because we are so terribly dangerous. Let us admire them, for they truly are something.
Andraste’s pimpled arse… I do not know how much more of this I can take….
“Oh, I’m no expert,” Lily demurred. “Initiates have to learn the Circle’s history if they are to work with templars and mages. I… just pick things up.” She cleared her throat, and nodded at the twisted carvings and elaborate keyholes. Three large bronze plates, each emblazoned with a Chantry sun, marked the mechanisms. “They’re bigger locks,” she said doubtfully. “But the rod of fire will work on them, won’t it?”
“I can try,” Corda said, squinting up at the door.
It took longer than before. She wasn’t sure whether it was truly harder, or whether she was just starting to get tired, but the rod seemed recalcitrant, and every gout of flame made her hands ache.
“There,” she said, satisfied as the last lock gave a sad little thunk.
Jowan gave a stifled yelp of excitement. “We’re in!”
“Almost,” Lily reminded him. “Now we just need to find our way into the phylactery chamber itself.”
The repository was the single most wonderful thing Corda had ever seen in her life. She could, she decided, have stayed there indefinitely and died happy. There were whole boxes of scrolls and tomes, and ancient Tevinter artefacts whose vague shapes seemed familiar from illustrations in manuscripts, but which Corda had never imagined she would actually see in person.
The single ball of magical energy that Jowan had conjured for them couldn’t even light a quarter of the chamber: shadows wreathed everything, falling in deep lines between the stacks and shelves, and turning the borders of stone and wood blurry. Corda couldn’t stop herself from moving towards one dark corner full of particularly interesting shapes—a series of jagged outlines and bulky forms swathed in dustsheets—and she pulled another small light from the air, letting energy swell into the pale ball. Once she could see what she was doing, she tugged the sheet free. It released surprisingly little dust, and she supposed the Tranquil probably swarmed down here on a regular basis, too, cleaning and keeping the artefacts inspected.
It didn’t really surprise her, though she felt a twinge of anger at the fact they knew this place so intimately. They were allowed down here, to handle and understand these antiquities… when real mages weren’t. Real mages, who hadn’t been neutered the way the Circle wanted to neuter Jowan, were judged not worthy of access to this wealth of material—and Corda found that unforgivable.
“Jowan!” she called excitedly, as she crouched beside a weathered stone statue in the rough shape of a hound seated on its haunches, its mouth open in a snarl. “Jowan, have you seen this? Look!”
He peered over at her and frowned. “Oh… yes, I’ve seen pictures like that. it’s one of those amplification devices, isn’t it? They were meant to triple the power of spells directed through them. I always wondered how they worked.”
Lily tugged at his elbow, her lips moulded into a dissatisfied pout. “Jowan, leave it alone… please? We should be looking for another door. I’m almost certain the phylactery chamber is on the other side of that wall. If we—”
“Really?” He looked at her with interest, a glimmer of imagination lighting in his face. “Lily, you’re so clever!”
The initiate looked confused, and Corda rolled her eyes.
“Jowan,” Lily insisted. “Please, let’s just—”
“No, you’re right! If the phylactery chamber is the other side of that wall, we could use this to amplify the rod of fire’s power, and blast right through the masonry! I don’t know why I didn’t think of that!”
He looked so pleased with himself: a greasy, sweaty kind of joy, like a small dog licking its nose as it whipped its thin tail. Corda massaged her forehead. She wasn’t sure if it was being down here that was doing it—in amongst all these old objects so filled with power—or the prolonged fear of being caught in this ridiculous plan that couldn’t possibly work… but her head was starting to hurt.
“Because it’s a stupid idea,” she said flatly. “Honestly, Jowan… you want to blow a hole through the wall? These walls are more than a foot thick! We’ve seen that. Anyway, even if it worked, we’d be knee-deep in templars in seconds. You think no one would hear? We still have to get out of here in one piece, remember.”
He looked crestfallen, and she sighed deeply. Lily pulled again at his arm, urging the three of them on through the repository’s packed aisles.
“Come on… I’m sure there’s another door. These chambers are like rabbit warrens. Let’s try over here.”
Corda grimaced as Lily dragged Jowan away, past the racks of artefacts, chests, and boxes. There was so much here…! She would have given anything for the time to spend looking through it all properly, and that thought made the regret and fear rise up in her again, because after today there would be no more Circle; no more studies, no more learning.
What was I thinking?
Corda wished fervently she hadn’t agreed to do this, and that thought then filled her with an uncomfortable, dark kind of shame as she looked at Jowan’s narrow figure loping clumsily down the length of the storeroom. It was selfish, to think that somehow her expectations of a comfortable, secure life were more important than his. They were the same, weren’t they? They wanted the same things. And no one wanted to be made Tranquil, especially without even being offered a choice.
Anyway, she’d come too far to turn back now.
With that realisation firmly embedded in her mind, Corda turned to follow the others. As she did so, the light above her spun lazily, catching at the glimmer of something on one of the shelves. She frowned, and peered in between two boxes of scrolls, her fingers moving hesitantly over the dry, crackling parchment. It was so tempting to just start unfurling one—just one scroll, or maybe just one book—and seeing what so-called ‘forbidden’ knowledge lay within. It couldn’t be that bad, could it? The restricted stacks in the library had a few Tevene texts, and several of those were written by former enchanters who had been branded apostate simply because of political schisms within the College. Everyone knew that, however much the Circle couched the explanations in terms of the danger of philosophical thought without context. Mages, the apprentices were taught, were too often apt to live solely in the realms of academia. This was one reason the Chantry’s structure helped them: it was a framework, not just of right and wrong, but of context.
Approved spells, systems of legal study… all ways to keep the true extent of our power from us.
Corda blinked. It was hard to come to terms with this new state of affairs, these new thoughts that reared up where, in the past, she had only had mild concerns. If, before, she had been wary of the templars’ rules and the leashes that mages allowed themselves to be subdued by, now she was a wildly snapping dog, straining at that tether, desperate to sink her teeth into the one responsible for her chaining.
Amazing, she thought, how fast everything could change… and how fast fear faded to anger.
Her hand closed on the object that had first attracted her attention: a small golden amulet, tucked between the boxes. The chain was delicate, with tiny, finely wrought links. It slipped through her fingers like silk, and from it was suspended a square gold pendant, set with a disc of what looked like onyx, perhaps an inch and a half in diameter. As she picked it up, Corda felt the power in the thing. It hummed beneath her skin the way the rod of fire had, but there was no dark core of control. The pendant didn’t need her to wrestle with it; instead it merely accepted her touch, and seemed to lengthen itself out in her fingers, like a cat responding to being petted. The onyx disc shone in the light she’d conjured, its surface looking almost oily, and the faint etchings of runes danced under her fingers. Corda knew very few Tevinter runes. Unlike the dwarven runic script that was simple to read—almost pictographic, in fact, and frequently used as waymarkers or signs for the illiterate—Tevene runes were complex, and a jealously guarded branch of academic study.
She thought one of the symbols resembled the Tevene rune for ‘life’, but it was hard to tell. It made sense, though: the pendant seemed to throb with its own living energy.
“Corda!” Jowan called, in that awkwardly hushed tone between trying to be quiet and trying to get her attention. “Corda, quickly! Lily’s found another door!”
Corda bit her lip, and slipped the pendant into her belt pouch.
After all, what harm could it do?
Lily stood triumphantly in front of a small door at the back of the repository, its surface etched with runes. Two heavy brass lockplates were set into the wood, and Corda frowned at them suspiciously.
“What about those? Are those more wards?”
“No… I’ve heard about these locks,” Lily assured her. “They use them on the vaults the lyrium potions are storied in, up on the fourth floor. They’re not warding glyphs. They can’t be—the door is primed with magic. It needs a password, and then it must feel the touch of mana.”
Corda pulled a face. “A password. Right. And do we have this password?”
Lily nodded enthusiastically. “Yes! Yes, I’ve spoken about this many times with Ser Maurais. One of his duties is to help in the distribution of the knights’ lyrium, and I have often aided the Revered Mother with the consecration.”
Corda didn’t bother to disguise her contempt. That the Chantry fed its watchdogs lyrium at all was questionable, in her mind, and to sit upon the sanctimonious tussocks of hypocrisy by pretending that mumbling a few words over the stuff made it the consecrated waters of the Fade, or whatever other rubbish they called it, was plain distasteful to her.
Lily wasn’t looking at her, however.
“Ser Maurais sounds very friendly,” Jowan complained snidely. “What were you doing talking to him about the vaults?”
Lily shrugged. “It came up in conversation. I… I believe he trusts me, that’s all. The password must be a portion of the Chant, and Maurais has often complimented me on my singing, so I suppose—”
“Oh, has he? Has he really?”
Corda sighed tersely. “If you two want to start bickering like an old married couple, that’s fine, but maybe it should wait until after we’re out of here? You can practice all you want then.”
They both looked chastened, and a little embarrassed, and she crossed her arms impatiently, nodding at the door. “Go on, then. Impress us.”
She did. Grudgingly, Corda had to admit that the portion of the Canticle of Andraste that Lily wove from the air was beautiful. It was something about the sword of the Maker, the tears of the Fade, and flames raining down from heaven, but the words weren’t important. The chant itself—a pure silver thread, shimmering and faultless—seemed to vibrate in the air and, as Lily sang, she put her hand to the door, and it was the closest thing to magic Corda had ever seen a mundane do. She glanced at Jowan, and saw he had tears in his eyes, his face suffused with softness and tender longing.
Does anyone have a bucket? I may puke.
Lily’s eyes seemed to refocus as she finished, and Corda felt the shift in the door.
“Quickly. It needs mana to undo the locks. Any spell will do.”
Corda frowned. “Fine.”
She drew a breath, and let electricity crackle from her fingers, the sparks caressing the locks and glimmering over the door’s runed surface. Slowly, the sound of pins clicking and tumblers rolling filtered through the stale air, and the locks thudded open.
The air that left the vault within was like the stale belch of hot air from an oven yet, rather than heat, the phylactery chamber seemed to exude a dark prickle of energy. It stirred the mana in Corda’s blood, whispered under her skin, and made her feel at once slightly nauseous, and vaguely light-headed. She turned to Jowan, ready to ask him if he felt it too, but he was practically hopping from foot to foot, his face clammy with excitement.
“We’re in! I can’t believe we’re in! Come on… let’s get a move on!”
The phylactery chamber was not as large as she’d expected. Oh, it was big enough… a long storeroom with a high, vaulted ceiling, and rack upon rack of shelves stretching away into the shadows. Every shelf held rows of vials in wooden stands, each little glass tube less than five inches long, their corks sealed with wax.
If the repository and the corridors and storerooms beyond had seemed clean, like places that were regularly dusted and inspected, this chamber felt like somewhere forgotten: a dank, dark archive full of information no one wanted to read.
Corda shivered, unsettled by the ranks of vials, and the faint pulse of magic that perfumed the air. She didn’t know anything of exactly how the templars preserved the blood they took from apprentices, or how it could be used to track those who absconded, but the whole place felt unwholesome. If blood really was the concentrated form of one’s essence—a person’s very identity—then it was as if every single one of those little vials was a soul crying out for freedom in the dark.
She hated thinking about it.
Above her head, the light she’d made faltered. She didn’t even remember them taking her blood. It had probably happened while the bandages were still on, when she lay under a canopy of wet sheets, waiting for the healers to see if they could save her. Corda had few memories of that time, and she didn’t want the ones she did possess.
She looked up at the racks that stretched away into the repository’s vaulted stone ceiling, and wondered at how easy it would be to destroy them all. Every tiny vial, every ugly leash the templars kept them on…. Pointless, of course, unless she also led every single apprentice in the Tower to freedom. The templars would merely take more blood and the students—as inured as they were to the systems the Chantry ruled by—would meekly submit.
A small voice of practicality at the back of Corda’s mind reminded her that, if they didn’t, they would probably be run through, but that hardly seemed to be the point.
“They’re alphabetised,” Jowan said with relief, already thumbing through the racks. “Look… the blasted Tranquil again, no doubt. Just the people you want for making lists of things. We should check for yours, too. You never know, it might still be here.”
Corda nodded absently, but Lily looked nervous.
“I don’t think so,” she said, hovering close to Jowan. “It was probably in the dispatch that went to Denerim yesterday. I know there were packages, and the Revered Mother had letters to send, so—”
“I’ll look anyway, if you don’t mind,” Corda said icily, passing the girl to get a small stepladder that rested against the far wall.
Lily looked glumly at her own feet.
Oh, yes. This is a fine time to regret your crimes, idiot. Just try to wait until we’re all out and safe before you succumb to remorse and fling yourself down in prayer, all right?
Corda shinned up the ladder, holding onto the racks for support. Row after row of vials shimmered ahead of her: dark blood with the glimmer of lyrium inside it, like the shining carapaces of so many black beetles. She loathed touching them. As her fingers skimmed the labels and the small sheaves of paper left at the end of each row—fastened to the racks, in true Tranquil fashion, by short lengths of string, so that nothing could be misplaced—she grew more aware of power these fragile things held.
It thrummed at her temples, and year after year of mages seemed to be at her shoulders: all of them, young apprentices bleeding out their essence, catalogued and numbered. No matter whether they were destined for greatness, or Tranquillity, or other terrible things… all who had passed before, and every child and young soon-to-be-Harrowed mage now in the Tower. She couldn’t stop thinking of that. People she saw every day—the snotty-nosed little kids, and the nervous young apprentices just starting their first lessons, and the older ones who gossiped incessantly—this was their blood. Their leashes. Their lives.
More than ever, Corda wanted to pull the entire rack down and smash everything, washing the chamber’s stone floor in a sea of blood. The thought simultaneously sickened and excited her, but the impulse faded as her fingers met the bare place on the wood where her phylactery should have been. An empty spot on the rack, a slight ring of dust… so, so close.
It struck home harder than she had expected, and she descended the ladder weakly, her brow furrowed.
“They shouldn’t do this to us,” she said, half to herself. “I mean, it’s practically blood magic, isn’t it? Talk about sodding hypocrisy.”
“What? No,” Jowan said quickly, still searching for his own vial. “That’s… well, it isn’t the same. I’m sure it can’t be. The Grand Cleric would never allow that.”
Corda shrugged, enjoying the look of offended hurt on Lily’s face. “Oh, I don’t know. They only say it isn’t because it’s them doing it, I bet.”
“That’s not true,” the initiate protested. “It’s something that’s done for safety’s sake… it’s not…. I mean….” She blinked furiously, evidently trying to find some argument that wasn’t undermined by precisely what they were doing, here and now. “Jowan told me you’ve studied the Spirit School,” Lily said, with surprising defiance. “Well, that’s often thought to be similar to blood magic.”
“It isn’t,” Corda said flatly.
“No, but— well, it’s how rumours get started, isn’t it? I mean, I heard someone spreading a rumour that Jowan was a blood mage! You can see how ridiculous that is.”
“Lily!” he exclaimed, almost falling over as he spun from the rack. “That’s—”
“Jowan?” Corda demanded, her back suddenly straightening and her arms dropping to her sides. “Is that true? Why didn’t you tell me?”
He gave her an oddly venomous glare in the dimness, his lips pressed tightly together. “Well, you’ve hardly been that interested in anything I have to say recently. Anyway, it isn’t true! It’s… it’s all because I’ve been sneaking around, meeting with Lily. I… I guess people must have seen me, and assumed I was doing something forbidden. You know what it’s like in this place.”
Corda narrowed her eyes. She didn’t like the sweaty desperation in his voice, but it wasn’t as if it was that unusual… and he had a point. Besides, she knew him. He would never have been that stupid.
Unthinkingly, her hand moved to her belt, her fingers touching the pendant that sat within.
“I think you’re both fools,” she muttered, with very little grace.
“You didn’t have to help us,” Jowan said sulkily, turning back to the racks. “You could just have got the rod of fire and left us alone.”
Corda snorted. “I could have. But I’d have got in trouble anyway. Besides… I wasn’t going to let you do this on your own. Idiot.”
And he was. Oh, he was such an idiot… but he was her friend. He had been, for the longest time. The only friend she’d ever had. And she wouldn’t have given that up for anything.
“I’ve got it,” Jowan muttered breathlessly, turning to face them.
Lily put her hands over her mouth, and Corda wasn’t entirely sure she hadn’t started praying.
Jowan held his phylactery out at arm’s length, as if he was afraid it would bite, and he turned it slowly in the light, watching the dark-stained glass twinkle.
“Such a small thing,” he murmured, as if entranced by the vial. “So fragile. It’s hard to believe it could be so important—or so easy to end its hold over me.”
Corda bit her lip. There was power everywhere in this room. Hers, and Jowan’s, and the amplified pulse of a thousand apprentices’ souls, suspended in these little tubes, all calling to her… all crying for freedom.
“Well,” she said hoarsely, “better get a move on, then, hadn’t you?”
Jowan flinched, and then seemed strangely dispassionate as he dropped the phylactery to the stones and crushed it beneath his leather-shod foot. The sound of glass crushing seemed awfully loud in the stillness, and Corda had the sense of a moment caught in time, a fleeting instant that hung over them all with a kind of breathless intensity. She saw it on Jowan’s face, too: a waxen, focused stare as he looked down at the smear of wet blood and liquid lyrium beneath his foot. He seemed to be holding his breath, unblinking and shivering slightly.
“It’s done,” she said quietly, wanting to break the spell of that strange quiet. “Let’s just get out of here.”
He glanced up and nodded quickly, immediately seeking Lily with an urgent gaze. “You’re right. Lily? We need to get to the boat.”
The initiate put her hand in his, and Corda turned away, leading them back to the door and the way they’d come.
She didn’t want to look back.
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BMonday may be the bleakest day of the year and it may not be, but it’s a good idea to have some precautions in place either way. For me, this always takes the form of food and its constant ability to rest. From there, it tends to be a very short step toward melted cheese: grilled cheese sandwiches, pizza, macchiatos, melted tuna… It’s no coincidence that many people’s favorite comfort food is basically an excuse to melt, stretch, and eat their cheese. No need to smile for the camera, but we can all still say, ‘cheese!“
Adjaruli khachapuri with chili pepper and spring onion butter (photo above)
Khachapuri is a Georgian leavened bread stuffed with cheese, eggs and butter. It’s usually served for breakfast, but don’t limit yourself – it’s welcome all day. The dough can be made the next day, and refrigerated overnight, ready to be shaped before baking. Use medium or even small eggs here, because eggs from large eggs will slip off of your already cheesy khachapures.
to equip 20 minutes
Proof 1 hr 30 min
cook 20 minutes
1½ tsp quick-acting dry yeast
Half a teaspoon of sugar
250 grams plain flour, plus more dust
100 gm greek yogurt
1 tablespoon olive oil
6 medium eggs, 2 times
Half a teaspoon of clove seeds
½ teaspoon nigella seeds
Salt and black pepper, plus ½ teaspoon ground black pepper for the cheese mixture
80g cream cheese
240g reduced moisture mozzarella, roughly grated
To prepare hot pepper and green onion butter
80g unsalted butter
2½ teaspoons Aleppo pepper
3 green onionsfinely chopped, trimmed
Put the yeast, sugar, and 1 1/2 tablespoons of warm water in a small bowl, stir until combined, and set aside for five minutes until they begin to form bubbles. Put the flour, milk, oil and the beaten egg in the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a dough hook, mix well, then add the clove seeds, half of the nigella seeds and three-quarters of a teaspoon of salt and mix. On medium high speed for 2 minutes, until just combined. Add the contents of the bowl of yeast and mix for five minutes, until the dough is smooth and begins to come out from the sides of the bowl into a single ball. Cover tightly, ideally with reusable kitchen wrap, and leave in a warm place to set for an hour and a half, until doubled in size.
Meanwhile, combine cream cheese and mozzarella in a small bowl with crushed black pepper, then divide into four equal pieces, roll each into a ball, place on a plate and chill in the refrigerator.
Preheat oven to 230°C (220°C fan)/475°F/gas 9, and place a large baking tray on the middle rack to preheat.
Once the dough has doubled in size, scrape it out onto a lightly floured work surface and knead to get the air out and bring it together into a smooth ball. Divide the dough into four equal sized balls, then roll each one into a 22cm x 17cm oval. Lubricate the entire surface with another scrambled egg, then roll it over the edges of the longer sides of each oval to make a cigar-like shape with an 8cm gap in the middle. Pinch the ends together, so that each piece now looks like a boat, then place one cheese ball in the exposed center of each boat. Brush the exposed edges of the dough with the remaining beaten egg, then carefully lift each khachapuri to the hot tray in the oven and bake for 13 minutes, until the cheese is bubbling and the bread is golden brown.
Remove the tray from the oven, then spread the hot cheese balls with a spoon. Crack an egg on top of each flattened cheese ball, sprinkle with salt on top and return to the oven for five minutes, until the egg whites are firm but the yolks are still runny.
Meanwhile, we prepare the hot pepper and green onion butter. Place a small saucepan over medium-high heat, add the butter, and once it boils vigorously, stir in the cayenne pepper. Remove the heat from the fire, and stir in the green onions and a pinch of salt.
Arrange the khachapuri on a large plate and sprinkle with the remaining ¼ teaspoon of the nigella seeds. Spoon 1 tablespoon of the hot butter mixture over each bread, and serve with the rest on the side for dipping.
Herby käsespätzle with caramelized onions
Spätzle are egg pancakes from southern Germany ( cheese Part of the name of this dish refers to cheese). It can get a little messy the first time you try to make it, but give yourself the challenge, and have everything ready and on hand before you start. The size of the dish you use is very important here, because the large surface area means you get plenty of delicious crunchy pieces. Thanks to Kristian Mackenzie, sister of Verena Lochsholler from the Test Kitchen, for sharing her recipe with us.
to equip 20 minutes
cook 40 minutes
serve 4 as a side
1 tablespoon olive oil
75 grams butter
1 large onionpeeled, thinly sliced (220 g)
Salt and black pepper
2 teaspoons thyme leaves2-3 garlic clovesPeeled and powdered (15 grams)
1¼ teaspoon cumin seeds, lightly crushed in a mortar
250 grams plain flour
2 eggs, to be beaten
160 ml sparkling water
½ tablespoon lemon juice
150 g gruyere, grated
7 tablespoons (20 g) finely chopped chives
8 tablespoons (30 g) coarsely chopped parsley
Place a medium, shallow, oven-proof skillet over medium heat, add oil, butter, onion and 1/8 teaspoon salt, and cook, stirring constantly, for 20-25 minutes, until slightly golden. Add the thyme, garlic and 1 teaspoon of caraway seeds and cook, stirring, for another three minutes, until fragrant, then remove from heat.
Meanwhile, make a Spätzle Mixture. Sift the flour into a medium bowl and stir in ½ teaspoon of the salt. Make a hole in the middle, then, using a wooden spoon, vigorously beat the eggs with sparkling water for 2 minutes, until large air bubbles appear and the mixture becomes smooth and shiny; The bubbles will keep the mixture light.
Fill a medium saucepan with one and a half liters of water, add one and a half tablespoons of salt and bring to a boil. Once it boils, reduce the heat to medium and let it simmer. Hold a large slotted spoon with medium or large holes over the pan, spoon it into the mixture, and tap the spoon against the side of the bowl of water (or use a small spoon to scrape the mixture through the holes), so it drops through the holes into the water. When is Spatzle They float to the surface, after about 10 seconds they are done, so lift them with a second perforated spoon, transfer them to a colander to drain and repeat with the remaining mixture.
Preheat oven to 240°C (220°C fan)/475°F/gas 9, and mix the gruyere, chopped chives and parsley in a small bowl. Stir cooked mabsoot with the warm onion mixture, add lemon juice and ¼ teaspoon black pepper. Remove the heat from the heat and stir in half of the Gruyere mixture. Sprinkle remaining Gruyere mixture, 1/4 teaspoon black pepper and 1/4 teaspoon caraway seeds on top, then bake for 12 minutes, until cheese and pasta are crispy and bubbling in places. Serve hot straight from the skillet.
Yogurt with grilled winter vegetables and chermoula
I once read a description of aligot as a “comfort food that sticks to your ribs,” which really stuck out to me because I told it like it is. This fondue-like mashed potato and cheese dish originates from the Midi-Pyrenees in France and might make sense after a long day in the mountains, but I’m sure a good stomping around in the garden would work too. . Traditionally, it’s made with tommy fresh, but for easy sourcing, I used comte and mozzarella instead. Replace root vegetables with cabbage or roasted cabbage, if you like.
to equip 35 minutes
cook 40 minutes
2 garlic clovespeeled and powdered
2 large green peppersFinely chopped, pulp and seeds removed if you don’t like a lot of heat (20 g)
90 ml olive oil
60 grams corianderCoarsely chopped fine leaves and stems
20g flat parsley leaves
1 teaspoon cumin seedsLightly toasted and finely ground in a mortar
1 teaspoon coriander seedsLightly toasted and finely ground in a mortar
3 teaspoons lemon juice
To roast vegetables
3 small carrots, trimmed, peeled and angled into 2 cm (350 g) thick slices
3 small parsnips, trimmed, peeled and angled into 2 cm (350 g) thick slices
3 small sweet potatoespeeled and angled into 2 cm (350 g) thick slices
3 tablespoons olive oil
500 gm red potatoesPeeled and cut into 3 cm pieces
10 garlic clovespeeled (50g)
230 ml double cream
2 teaspoons Dijon mustard
Salt and black pepper
200 g countyPeel off and discard, finely grated
150 gm mozzarella cheeseroughly grated
First, make the caramel. Place the garlic, pepper, and oil in a large food processor bowl and blend until almost smooth. Add the cilantro, parsley leaves, cumin, and coriander seeds, whisking four or five times until almost finely chopped but still green. Pour into a small bowl, add lemon juice and set aside.
Meanwhile, preheat oven to 240°C (220°C fan) / 475°F / Gas 9. Place all root vegetables in a medium bowl with 2 tablespoons oil, ½ teaspoon salt and a fine grind of pepper, tossing to coat then Arrange in a single layer on a large oven tray lined with greaseproof paper. Roast for 20 to 25 minutes, until tender, flakes, and charred in places.
While the vegetables are roasting, make the aligotes. Put 1 liter of water and 1 tablespoon of salt in a medium saucepan and bring to a boil. Add the potatoes and garlic and cook for 15 minutes until soft, then drain. Push the potatoes and garlic through the best setting of the potato pliers (if you don’t have whey, pass them through the molly, or mash them until very smooth). Return the puree to the hot skillet, but away from the heat, and stir vigorously with a wooden spoon until it comes together into a smooth ball. Put the pan on low heat, pour in the cream, mustard, half a teaspoon of salt and a fine grind of black pepper, and stir well until the mixture thickens until the consistency of a liquid mush. Vigorously beat the grated cheese one-third at a time, until everything is melted and the oligo mixture is shiny and pulled away from the sides of the pan in smooth strands when lifted with the spoon. Reduce the heat to very low and keep warm.
To assemble the dish, place a large ovenproof dish in the oven for five minutes, until heated through but not flaring. Remove from the oven, spoon three-quarters of it over the plate and place the grilled vegetables on top. Pour over half of the carmola and the rest of the oil, and serve hot with the rest of the caramola in a bowl and the rest of the cabbage for dipping on the side.

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Transport of poly-L-lysine into oppositely charged poly(acrylic acid) microgels and its effect on gel deswelling.
2008 (English)In: Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, ISSN 0021-9797, Vol. 323, no 1, 60-9 p.Article in journal (Refereed) Published
The interaction between poly-L-lysine (pLys) and oppositely charged poly(acrylic acid) (pAA) microgels (Ø approximately 80-120 microm) was studied by micromanipulator-assisted light microscopy and confocal laser scanning microscopy. The aim of this study was to investigate effects of peptide size, pH, and salt concentration on binding, transport, and distribution of pLys in pAA microgel particles and thereby also to outline the details of the gel deswelling in response to pLys binding and incorporation. Both peptide distribution and gel deswelling kinetics were found to be strongly influenced by the pLys molecular weight, originating partly from limited entry of large peptides into the gel particle core. Also pH was shown to influence both deswelling and pLys incorporation kinetics, with a decreased deswelling rate observed with increasing pH. These effects are determined by a complex interplay between the pH-dependence of both pLys and the gel network, also influencing volume transitions of the latter. Finally, salt concentration was shown to have a significant effect on both gel deswelling rate and pLys transport, with an increased electrolyte concentration resulting in decreased deswelling rate but also in an increased peptide transport rate within the microgel particles.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2008. Vol. 323, no 1, 60-9 p.
confocal microscopy, deswelling, kinetics, microgel, peptide; poly(acrylic acid), poly-L-lysine
IdentifiersURN: urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-86864DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2008.03.003ISI: 000256646600008PubMedID: 18402972OAI: oai:DiVA.org:uu-86864DiVA: diva2:127523

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Three lovely, happy customers and six beautifully adorned ears :-))
Thank you Amy, Rachel and Jenny Wren for making my earrings look so fabulous :-))
Yesterday I had the challenge of soldering the tiny cast bird onto a silver wire – to make a pin. The idea being, to give the illusion of a bird ‘flying’ out of the window of the cast house ring.
Am wondering if silently repeating ‘don’t melt, don’t melt, don’t melt’ in a mantra-like fashion and holding my breath count as technical notes at this point…
First I needed some silver wire and the aforementioned little bird (designed by my own fair hand… and a computer). Then I had to bury the wee bird in charcoal to protect it from the heat of soldering – thanks for that tip Lisa. It worked really well! Wee bird came out a bit mucky but none the worse for wear – and, most importantly, not in the least bit melted!! *breathes again
First I made a protective charcoal nest for the bird
held the the wire and solder in place
and applied some heat, et voila – a bird on a wire (albeit a bit of a wonky wire – but nothing a gentle tweak with a pair of pliers won’t sort out).
Next I had to decide on just the right length for the pin… too long I think….
bit shorter here but still a bit too long…
My work here is done ;))
Well, apart from making the rest of the installation that is… Watch this space…
Cleaning up the bottom of the CAD house ring…
Cleaning and polishing the inside of the little silver handmade house ring…
Making and soldering on ring shanks…
And trying settings for size… A hand woven silver and rose gold panel and a little dark grey pebble from our recent (mini) grand tour of Scotland. This one came all the way from Lower Largo ;))
Today I mainly worked on a CAD ring that will become part of an installation that I’m making (for the Handmade by Machines Exhibition at The Lighthouse at the end of June). Although, the ring itself may well make an early guest appearance at our end of year show first depending on its state of readiness.
(Am also hoping the piece may count towards my final unit: advanced jewellery manufacturing techniques too… as it definitely demonstrates several advanced techniques… as required… right?… Colin?? ;))
I started the day with a little silver house, which I designed several months ago, using CAD. The design is very much based on my handmade house rings – only much more symmetrical ;)) I also designed the wee bird on CAD at the same time as the house and handmade the round ring shank more recently.
The wee bird had a fat sprue, which had originally attached it onto the casting tree. I spent most of the morning filing this into a narrower, more elegant (I’d like to think) wire.
Next came the soldering…
I often love the unfinished, soldered pieces almost as much as the cleaned, final versions… maybe even more in fact. I love the pale green colour that appeared on the back of this house after soldering. I can just imagine some of my other house rings spray painted or enamelled to give a lovely distressed finish at some point. That’s the plan anyway. Although, I shall probably allow this one to remain clean as I do love the finish that it left the casting machine with – reminds me of a wooden hut or a clapboard house.
I pickled the house (somewhat reluctantly ;)) to begin the cleaning process.
Then filed off the edges of the newly soldered base and packed it away for the night with some of its housemates (I know!) ready to work on again in the morning.
This weekend is officially dedicated to putting my Design Boards together!! No more time left to procrastinate, though I’m sure I’ll still manage ;)) Listening to KC – And the Racket They Made – to set me off on the right atmospheric track ;)) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQaFxPeI1Vg&list=RDBQaFxPeI1Vg May have to put The Magnetic North on a loop later to really feel that Orkney spirit – the whole album mind, not just this one track – that would be a wee bit obsessive, even by my standards ;)) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tb2Ebf0gYI
In other news, this week has been full of making! The Graded Unit brooch continues unabated, despite my best efforts to melt bezels and completely forget how to saw in a straight line…
Wednesday and Thursday: Cutting and Piercing the Brooch BackFriday: Findings, Bezel Settings and Choosing the perfect ‘stone’
Step One: Findings (and finding that the ones I’d made earlier now seem just a little too small!) The remedy, in four easy steps…
1. Making the (difficult) decision that the brooch findings are just too dainty (difficult, because I now have to make a new set!) 2. Soldering the new (less dainty) findings together 3. Soldering new findings to brooch back (slathered with Argotect – to try to prevent too much firestain *crosses fingers*) 4. Cleaning up brooch back and admiring new elegant just-the-right-size findings ;))
to be continued…
The last few weeks haven’t been all about the Graded Unit (thankfully!). On my recent trip to Arran, I took some pieces from my current collection along with me, and had loads of fun shooting new images on a gloriously sunny beach :))
Here’s a tiny sneak preview – with added bonus image of my (as yet unfinished) graded unit brooch… posing as a ring for the occasion!With special thanks to my first-rate location team and models (without whom, none of this would have been possible) ;))
Tried to fit the old outer frame around the new woven panel… but it no longer seems to fit! no matter how hard I try to
hammer ease it into place…!Nothing for it but to make a new frame. Luckily I’m not working to a deadline… O wait… isn’t that the 1st of May fast approaching…! Quick, hand me that torch!Making the new frame from an already partially made prototype, hence the random angles…nearly there now…all ready to be cleaned up

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Lefty, the people’s champ, the golfer that all Southern Californians proudly root for has officially been named in a federal lawsuit involving insider trading. GASP!!
Multiple sources are coming out with the news and as much as we don’t want to believe it and as much as we’ve tried to ignore the writing on the wall, it’s finally been confirmed. What we know so far is that he’s agreed to cooperate which may help him avoid criminal charges and subsequent time in the clink. …but does that mean he’s admitting guilt? Does that mean that he is in fact guilty of insider trading? Does that mean he has basically gotten away from something we’ve seen other big names do time for (Martha Stewart *cough cough*)?
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Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan and Lakeville both easily passed requests for additional operating levy funds.
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In Inver Grove Heights, a $24.75 million bond referendum for facilities improvements scraped by, with 52 percent approval. More than a quarter of the money will go toward deferred maintenance, with improvements to athletic, academic and performing arts spaces also planned.
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Snyder said she believes that the district's recent strategies of more communication and financial transparency have "really paid off."
The new funding — which will cost the owner of an average-priced home $167 annually — will allow the district to avoid cuts in 2014-15, and "it's also going to put us on a better path" for the future, she said.
The district can now address "some of the class size issues that are so prevalent in our schools, so we're pretty thrilled about that," she said.
The district had 20 polling places this year, as opposed to only four sites in 2007, when a levy request failed by just 12 votes.
In 2007 and 2010, voters approved renewing existing levies but denied requests for new funding.
This year, "There weren't any lines. It was in and out, and people appreciated that," Snyder said.
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Inver Grove Heights Superintendent Dee Wells knows that passing the $24.75 million, 19-year bond referendum, which the district deemed necessary to update aging facilities, was a close call.
But, "It is 52 percent, and that is sufficient. And we are just very, very grateful," she said.
She believes this was "one of the first times we've been successful [with a levy request] on a first try," she said. The district hasn't passed a bond referendum since 2005, and technology levies were defeated in 2011 and 2012.
In June, the board approved putting a $31 million question on the ballot — but then they saw survey results indicating residents would be likely to support a lower amount, said Jason Mutzenberger, the district's director of business services.
As a result, the district reduced their request to the current figure, which will cost the average homeowner $77 more per year.
The new funding will be used to make improvements in four areas — arts, academics, athletics and security, Wells said. And more than one-quarter of the money will go to deferred maintenance projects, like new windows and roofs.
Though the board cut some items from the original request, "the package itself is still a huge step forward for our students," Wells said.


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For the current program period EU has dedicated a significant part of the European Regional Development Fund to achieve a low carbon economy. In Sweden these funds are partly managed by regional programs and partly by a national regional fund.
Climate Action Network has ranked Sweden as the EU country with the most ambitious climate politic. Money has been allocated to several energy projects that support companies’ and organizations to become more energy efficient.
The County Administrative board of Dalarna has for the last ten years actively worked with energy efficiency, not least as a Pilot region for green growth coordinated by Energy intelligent Dalarna in different sectors.
In the areas “Buildings” and “Small and medium enterprises” several energy projects are carried out, partly financed by the European Regional Development Fund.
When the program period has reached half-time an evaluation was made to build upon gained experiences.
This report is a part of the project EFFECT4buildings, financed by Interreg Baltic Sea Region, The project supports energy efficiency in buildings by financial tools and methods.
As a part of this we wanted to evaluate what kind of aid that is currently available to investigate if this can be used more effectively and to give recommendations for policy level.
EFFECT4buildings was implemented from 2017 to 2020 with the support from the Interreg Baltic Sea Region Program 2014-2020.
The project provides a decision support toolbox that includes means to calculate and plan the renovation projects most feasible and profitable way, as well as being able to convince financial decision makers so that the scope and return of investments would be clearly and convincingly presented.
The main target group is building managers in charge of public or privately owned building portfolio.
There were seven partner countries – Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Norway, Poland, Sweden.
The project was also a part of the implementation of the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region (EUSBSR), being a flagship project under policy area Energy and the horizonal action Sustainable development.


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A Russian military police car was blown up in the Syrian province of Deraa. Al Mayadeen journalist Khaled Iskef reported this on Twitter.
According to him, the incident took place on the road between the settlements of Al-Sahwa and Al-Musaifra. There is no information about the victims.
The Rybar Telegram channel, in turn, writes that a search is underway in Deraa for those responsible for the car bombing. The operation involves the Russian military police. It is clarified that the explosion occurred at a time when the convoy with the Russian military was returning from the site of the counter-terrorist operation in the Karak settlement.
On the eve, on November 11, it was reported about an attack by unknown persons on a Russian-Turkish military patrol in Syria. During the execution of the tasks of the military police of the Russian Armed Forces to escort the Turkish convoy in the area of the “Kabtan” post in the “Idlib” de-escalation zone, an explosion occurred, as a result of which equipment was damaged.

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Malaysian conglomerate Sime Darby Motors and BMW Group Malaysia open a 132 million ringgit ($33.5 million) engine plant for locally assembled vehicles and to support exports to regional markets including Vietnam and the Philippines.
Sime Darby Managing Director Dennis Ho tells reporters the plant will produce 10,000 units a year in a single shift.
The 91,493-sq.-ft. (8,500-sq.-m) engine plant is the first of its kind for contract manufacturer Sime Darby. Until now, locally assembled BMW and Mini models have used engines imported from Germany or Austria.
The new facility will assemble 3- and 4-cyl. gasoline engines, 4-cyl. diesel engines and 3- and 4-cyl. gasoline engines for plug-in hybrid vehicles. It is the second BMW engine plant in the region after Rayong, Thailand.
The new engine operation is alongside the assembly plant and regional parts-distribution center.
Ho says there is no compromise in the quality of engines being built at the plant in Padang Meha 233 miles (375 km) north of Kuala Lumpur. “The standards of the quality checks are similar to those used in Germany,” he says. “The parts and components are imported from Germany.”
BMW Group Malaysia CEO Harald Hoelzl says Malaysia plays a major role in BMW’s plans for Southeast Asia.
“In Malaysia, BMW has already successfully achieved a 15% increase in the deliveries of BMW, Mini and BMW Motorrad vehicles, with 3,000 vehicles in the first quarter,” he says.
Malaysian motoring analyst Paul Tan says the inclusion of diesel engines is interesting because BMW Malaysia no longer has diesel models in its lineup. “This means that the company is likely looking to introduce new oil-burning models soon,” Tan says on his website.
Sime Darby Chairman Abdul Aziz Wan Abdullah says the company aims to be the preferred contract-assembly partner for the most dynamic automakers in the region.
“We aim to produce more than 50,000 vehicles (including Mazda and Hyundai vehicles produced at the company’s Inokom plant), as well as the engine parts and components for the vehicles by the year 2020,” he says in a statement.

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Thursday evenings, 7:00 – 9:00 pm
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Friday mornings, 10:00 am to noon
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Thursday evening, November 3, 7:00 – 9:00 pm
Week 1 Thursday, September 29, 2005
Lecture 1 “Setting the stage”
Frank Cunningham, Ph.D.; Professor, Departments of Philosophy and Political Science, and former Principal of Innis College, University of Toronto
In 1955 the philosopher William Gaillie published an influential article called “Essentially Contested Concepts.” These are concepts central to any area of study or discourse (examples are “energy,” “time,” “life,” or “person”) which, though essential to thought and action, admit of many, conflicting interpretations about which there are ongoing debates. These debates, moreover, do not take place outside of the areas of thought and action to which they apply, but are implicated in controversies taking place within these very fields. “Democracy” is a prime example of such a contested concept. The nature of democracy, its value, and its relation to other contested political concepts, such as “rights” or “equality,” are subjects of debate or of cross-purpose argumentation both in political-theoretical circles and in actual political arenas themselves. What is more, there are contests over the very meaning of the term “democracy.” In this lecture, central positions taken on the meaning, nature, and value of democracy from the time of Aristotle to the present will be reviewed and the implications for political institutions and practices of adopting one position against others will be discussed relative to topics to be ddressed in subsequent lectures in the series.
Friday, September 30, 2005
Seminar: “The Meaning of Democracy”
An open discussion with Professor Cunningham, author of “Theories of Democracy: A Critical Introduction,” on the meaning of democracy and an exploration of democratic values.
Week 2 Thursday, October 13, 2005
Lecture 2 “The Impact of Globalization,”
Nisha Shah, Ph.D. (cand.); Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto
This lecture will overview contemporary processes associated with globalizatiton. In particular, attention will be devoted to the economic dimensions of globalization as manifested in international trade and finance. After detailing the definitions of and debates about globalization, the challenges raised for democracy will be discussed. What are the key challenges for democracy and what are the best ways to overcome them will be the main questions addressed in this lecture. I propose that how we seek to interpret and represent globalization determines how we construct the possibilities for democracy governance. Different models of ‘global’ democracy will be therefore be reviewed and assessed through an analysis of popular metaphors of globalization.
Friday, October 14, 2005
Seminar: “The Influence of Corporations”
Wade Rowland, Ph.D.; Adjunct Faculty, Trent University
An open discussion with the author of “Greed, Inc.: Why Corporations Rule Our World and How We Let It Happen.” The session will focus on the evolving nature of the modern, publicly-held business corporation and its role and influence in liberal democratic society.
Week 3 Thursday, October 27, 2005,
Lecture 3 “Democracy, Public Opinion and the Media”
Murray Seeger, educator, writer and journalist; Nieman Fellow, Harvard University.
Christine Stewart, former MP representing Northumberland County
Some 500 years after the Gutenberg invention that initiated the age of mass communications, democratic societies are flooded with news, information, opinion and amusement as never before. Gutenberg changed history, opened the path to universal literacy and democracy. Are we facing a comparable change in history behind the surge of modern communications technology?
The focus is sharpest on the dissemination of news by newspapers, magazines, books, radio, television and the Internet. Are these public media still performing their essential function of providing the information citizens need to make the best possible decisions in a democracy? There is emphasis on the status of the U.S. media, which often sets a pattern for other democratic societies.
In a brief presentation following Mr. Seeger’s talk, Christine Stewart will discuss the role and responsibility of an MP.
Friday, October 28, 2005,
An open dialogue on these matters with Murray Seeger and Professor Derrick de Kerckhove, Ph.D.; Director, McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology, University of Toronto
Week 4 Thursday, November 10, 2005
Lecture 4 “Democracy and Religion”
Dr. Gregory Baum, Professor Emeritus, McGill University; Catholic theologian and one of the architects of Vatican II Council
The Calvinist Reformation fostered democratic government in church and society and opened the door to capitalist development, while the Catholic and the German Lutheran Church remained largely identified with the feudal order. They wanted the princes to make responsible political decisions and expected the people to obey them. These Churches were seriously challenged by the democratic revolutions at the end of the 18th century, yet it took them a long time to rethink their position. The Catholic Church affirmed democracy, human rights and religious liberty only at the Vatican Council II (1962-1965). Under the impact of modernity, many Muslim religious thinkers are presently rethinking their tradition and find that democracy, human rights and religious liberty are sustained by the highest ideals of the Koran.
Friday, November 11, 2005
Seminar: An open discussion with members of the clergy, incl. Dr. Gregory Baum and the Reverend Ronald Kydd, Ph.D., Associate Priest, St. Peter’s Anglican Church, Cobourg
Week 5 Thursday, November 24, 2005
Lecture 5 “Democracy Multiculturalism and Education”
Professor Melissa Williams, Ph.D.; Professor, Department of Political Science, and Director, Centre for Ethics at Trinity College, University of Toronto
The principle of equality lies at the heart of ideals of democratic citizenship. Equal citizenship may or may not require some measure of economic equality – a worthy topic in its own right – but it clearly requires equality before the law and an equal capacity to participate politically. Historically, the construct “equal rights for all” has been interpreted as “the same rights for all.” But in recent decades feminists and “racial” or multicultural theorists and activists have argued that “equality” and “sameness” are not synonymous terms: sometimes we have to treat people differently in order to treat them as equals. This idea is not alien to Canadian democratic sensibilities; Canadians accept it and practice it much more readily than our neighbours to the south tend to do, probably because the historic legacy of bilingualism and biculturalism makes us more prone to accommodate than to suppress social and cultural differences. Still, the moral basis for “differentiated citizenship” needs to be articulated and justified, and its limits explored. How are the ideals of democratic citizenship and democratic equality rendered more complex in multicultural societies? How do the claims of cultural equality relate to claims for greater economic equality? Finally, given that democratic citizens are made, not born, how should our practices of democratic education acknowledge the multicultural character of our bodies politic?
Friday, November 25, 2005
Seminar: “Democracy and the Origins of a Public Culture”
Professor Caryl Clark, Ph.D.; Faculty of Music, University of Toronto and Janet M. Brooke, M.A.; Director, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen’s University
Caryl Clark: Drawing on musical examples of western European art music, the seminar will explore growing democratic ideals in public music-making, listening and spectatorship in London, Paris and Vienna during the long nineteenth century.
Week 6 Thursday, December 8, 2005,
Lecture 6 “The Canadian Scene”
Professor Simone Chambers, Ph.D.; Department of Political Science, University of Toronto
Friday, December 9, 2005
Seminar: “Quebec in or out of Canada? - Threat or Opportunity?”
Mrs. Gretta Chambers, CC, OC, BA, LLL, LLD, Chancellor Emerita, McGill University
An open dialogue on this topic, which will be considered from the perspective of a Quebecker.
Thursday, November 3, 7:00 – 9:00 pm
Lecture: “Astronomy in the Medieval Islamic World”
By popular request, Ingrid Hehmeyer, Ph.D., Professor, Ryerson University and the University of Toronto, returns to present a second lecture.

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Amazon Founder, Fmr. Miami Resident Under Fire Over Alleged Working ConditionsOnline retail giant Amazon is under fire for what is being called stressful and unrealistic working conditions.
Miami Signs QB Jack Allison To Grant-In-Aid AgreementMiami signed prominent quarterback recruit Jack Allison to a grant-in-aid agreement on Saturday.
Case Dropped Against Teacher Accused Of Having Sex With StudentCharges have been dropped against a South Florida teacher accused of having sexual relations with a student.
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Google has unveiled its official entry into the smartphone market for 2016, the Pixel and the Pixel XL. With both devices featuring top-of-the-line specs and features, the new flagship on the block is bound to be compared to current industry leaders, such as the Apple iPhone 7.
One of the things that are immediately noticeable from the two devices is the fact that they greatly resemble each other. Avid iPhone 7 fans were quick to note that with the Pixel, it appeared as if Google is once more channeling Apple's three-year-old design, instead of creating one for its own.
Once the relatively similar exterior is out of the way, however, the Pixel begins to take form, ultimately dominating its iOS rival. Hardware and specs-wise, the Pixel is a very difficult handset to beat, and Apple's iPhone 7 might just find itself on the losing end of the battle between its Android rival.
The Pixel is powered by the Snapdragon 821 processor, which is a significant improvement over last year's flagship chip, the Snapdragon 820. On the other hand, the iPhone 7 is equipped with the company's latest home-grown processor, the A10 Fusion chip.
While real-world comparisons of these two processors are yet to be formally done, the Pixel's chip seems set to stand toe-to-toe with the iPhone 7's extremely capable A10 Fusion chip. In other areas, however, the Pixel holds a clear advantage over its iOS rival.
These areas, such as the display, RAM and camera, give the Pixel a definitive edge. Display-wise, the Pixel packs a 1080p AMOLED display on its small frame, whereas Apple's iPhone 7 still features a rather outdated 720p IPS panel. When compared to the Pixel, the iPhone 7's display just looks downright inferior.
The Pixel also comes with 4GB of RAM, which is double that of the iPhone 7, which features 2GB of RAM. The cameras of the two devices, which both hover in the 12MP range, would most likely result in the Pixel's continued dominance over the iPhone 7. Real-world samples of the Pixel's camera are yet to roll in, but early reviews of the device's primary shooter have been very encouraging.
As for the iPhone 7, the device's camera is basically a tuned-down version of the powerful shooter in the iPhone 7 Plus, which featured the best that the Cupertino-based tech giant can offer. Unfortunately for the iPhone 7, its second-best camera is just not cut out to stand toe-to-toe with the Pixel, which is equipped with the best hardware that Google can equip the phone with.
One thing that truly makes the Pixel a better phone than the iPhone 7 is the fact that it was engineered to be the best device that Google can release to its consumers. The iPhone 7, on the other hand, is a toned-down version of Apple's real flagship device, the iPhone 7 Plus.


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Folk Music Ontario announced the grand prize and sub-category winners of the 20th annual Folk Music Ontario ‘Songs From the Heart’ songwriting competition, at The Folk Music Ontario Conference which took place at the Westin Bristol Place in Toronto, October 16-19, 2014. The 2014 grand... More
October 21, 2014
CU Artist in Residence, Ian Tamblyn, wins Folk Music Ontario award!
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MA in Music and Culture Graduate Colloquium
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Denis Lanctôt Wins Canadian GrandMasters Fiddling Lifetime Achievement Award
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Musik Ottawa 2014 coming soon!
* New! MA in Music and Culture with a concentration in Digital Humanities, details on the Graduate Studies page.
* Stream it Live! Listen to the weekly CKCU-FM radio program “Carleton Music Showcase” featuring our Music students every Tuesday afternoon, from 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. Click on the red radio! Podcast archives of past shows are here.
The Music programs at Carleton provide a solid grounding in the practice, analysis and history of European classical music from the Middle Ages to the present. In addition, they focus on more recently developed areas such as Canadian music, American music, computer music, composition, ethnomusicology, jazz, popular music, the sociology of music, and gender studies. It is possible to undertake performance in popular and traditional musics, and to study the theory and analysis of jazz and popular styles. Learn more.
All units in the School for Studies in Art and Culture (SSAC) have graduate programs at the Masters level (for more information about the Music and Culture MA please click here). As well, most full-time faculty members in the SSAC can supervise PhD dissertations through the Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture (ICSLAC). Please visit the ICSLAC site for further information.
“The Carleton Music and Culture Faculty” with talks by James Deaville, William Echard, Alexis Luko, Carolyn Ramzy, Jesse Stewart, Paul Théberge, and James Wright. 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., Friday, October 10, 2014, 100 St. Patrick’s Building. Reception to follow.... More
Associate Performance Instructor (Music) in the School for Studies in Art and Culture, Denis Lanctôt has been awarded the prestigious Canadian GrandMasters Fiddling Lifetime Achievement Award for 2014… Read more... More
MusikOttawa 2014 NAC 4th Stage, September 15, 2014, 7:30 pm, General admission: $25 Students: $15 Read a recent article in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences newsletter This Week @ FASS: http://carleton.ca/fass/2014/musikottawa-2014/ And for more information: http://musikottawa.com/... More


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