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Most travellers pass through the Allgäu spa town of Füssen on a day trip from Munich to the Romantic castles of Neuschwanstein and Hohenschwangau nearby.
This is both a shame and a mistake. The castles and the landscape they stand in is remarkable and the views they afford well worth the visit. But for a forewarned visitor they form but part of a much richer experience, including a medieval monastery, castle and basilica, a mixed Gothic and Baroque streetscape and a country church of rare cultural significance – to say nothing of the area’s appeal for cyclists and hikers. The Allgäu custom of adding paintings to houses’ outer walls can also be observed here.
Taken as a whole Füssen, at the foot of the Alps and only 5km from the Austrian border, is the ultimate postcard experience for visitors prepared to linger two or three days. It offers the striking sight, at least in summer, of the metallic blue-green river Lech, something worth a photograph for those prepared to make the short stroll to the bridge at the south end of the old town. A little further on are the falls for which the place was probably named.
The area was settled when the Roman military road Via Claudia Augusta crossed the Alps nearby, but it was not until the 9th century that a company of Benedictine monks appeared to venerate the regional saint St Mang, who died in Füssen about 750. His remains, buried in the early medieval basilica, have gone missing but 10th century frescoes below the church still preserve the saint’s memory.
In the mid-19th century Schloß Hohenschwangau was updated and Schloß Neuschwanstein was built at Hohenschwangau nearby, based on drawings by a set designer for Wagner’s patron, the Bavarian king Ludwig II. Neuschwanstein was never completed and, despite being Germany’s most photographed castle, is one of the smallest and one of the least characteristic. But its Romantic appeal is undimmed and a fitting legacy of one of the least practical of kings. The lives of Ludwig and his forebears are covered by the adjacent museum and combination tickets for this and the castles are available.
But the town has its own castle, Hohes Schloß, with the illusions of trompe l’oeil windows outside and a rare wooden carved and coffered ceiling in the Rittersaal inside. It was built for the prince-bishops of Augsburg but now houses part of the Bavarian state art collection, one of the best places to appreciate Füssen’s overall cultural significance. A medieval view of the town, a short pictorial life of St Mang and a section of Romantic paintings are among the galleries. The castle’s gate tower, which dominates the town, offers superb all-round views of the town, the river, the surrounding lakes and the Alps.
The town’s other cultural site is the Kloster St Mang, now Füssen’s museum, with Roman remains, Romanesque architecture and exhibits of the town’s violin, lute and guitar manufactures.
The 18th century Rococo Wieskirche is nowhere near as well recognised as Neuschwanstein but world heritage listing by UNESCO accords it much greater significance. The stucco work and frescoes and the purity of style give the church’s interior its precious quality and artistic status. It commemorates a 1738 miracle in which a wooden carving of Christ was seen to weep and was built to house the later pilgrimage place.
Füssen can be reached by regional train from Munich (about two hours) or Augsburg. Other connections from Munich are available by changing from Lindau-bound services at Buchloe. Each evening from mid-April to mid-October the Deutsche Touring Romantische Straße bus service arrives from Munich, departing northward again early next morning. The bus also stops at Wieskirche (15-20 minutes) and Hohenschwangau both ways.
But to really appreciate the Wieskirche and its location travellers should use the regional OVG buses, which depart from the rail station. The services vary and some links involve a change at the Steingaden fire station, so a careful timetable check is recommended. These buses also provide a service to the Hohenschwangau castles and the Tegelbergbahn cable car at Schwangau, one of several lifts in the district supporting the popular summer hiking and winter sports trade and providing the ultimate panorama of the district.
A Füssen free guide is downloadable in the Culture Encounters section below.
The tiny town at the foot of the Alps has its own medieval castle and Baroque monastery as well as being the jumping-off point for visits to the nearby Romantic castles of Schloß Neuschwanstein and Schloß Hohenschwangau. A short ride from Füssen is the Wieskirche, a UNESCO-listed Rococo pilgrimage church. This concise guide includes all castles, sites, churches and museums as well as the essential services and transport information necessary to visit these treasures. Hyperlink access to accommodation websites included.
The 2018 Raven Guide to Aachen, city of Charlemagne, is available for free download now. Even earlier than the Romans, the local hot springs was highly valued, but 1200 years ago the Frankish king who set up his court there, leaving buildings that still stand and making Aachen eventually the centre of an empire. Charlemagne's church, which grew to become the present cathedral, was one of the first world heritage sites.
The new Raven guide to the Thuringian town, birthplace of Bach, with its museum of the life of the great composer, history of car manufacture and one of Germany's best preserved medieval castles, is now available for travellers for free download. Eisenach, as a hiding place of Martin Luther early in his revolt against the established church, also played a key role in the Reformation.
More than 500 years after Martin Luther's Reformation, Raven Guides presents its free guide to the place where it all began. The town now known as Lutherstadt Wittenberg was the cradle of the religious movement that threw off the the structures of the Catholic church and shaped now ideas and ways of worship, but also more than a century of bitter conflict that shaped Germany forever. Key sites associated with this revolution have become listed world heritage monuments, including Luther's house, the church where his revolt began, and the place he preached.
The layout of the UNESCO heritage-listed old town and a range of Baroque and medieval architecture makes Bamberg one of Germany’s most beautiful cities. The 5-page guide covers the Romanesque cathedral, the opulent episcopal palace the Residenz and the old town hall in the middle of the river – summaries of 35 historic sites and museums in all. Information on essentials for travellers, tours, parks and musical performances. Hyperlink access to further tourist information and accommodation websites.
The Roman Trier was at one time second only to Rome. It was home to one of the most powerful Roman emperors, Constantine the Great, as well as Karl Marx. Signs of its past greatness remain, including the ancient city gate Porta Nigra, Roman baths, an amphitheatre and Constantine’s former imperial palace, plus the buildings of the medieval city. This guide of 7 pages includes more than 30 sites and museums, with essential services, transport links, transit services, tours and hyperlink access to further tourist information and accommodation websites.
Completely walled with more than 40 towers, the cobbled pedestrian streets of the Romantic Road town above the Tauber valley are little changed since the 17th century. The 4-page guide includes 17 sites and museums and an excursion to the Franconian open-air museum at nearby Bad Windsheim. Essential services, transport links, food and tours with hyperlink access to further tourist information and websites for many of the town’s small accommodation houses.
The Stadtschloß palace was the first Prussian royal residence and palaces and pavilions eventually multiplied in extensive parklands. This guide of 8 pages covers the many sites, chiefly the Rococo palace Schloß Sanssouci, the Dutch quarter Holländisches Viertel, the Russian colony Siedlung Alexandrowka and its Orthodox church, 10 museums, the Nikolaikirche, the surviving ornate city gates and the Baroque streetscapes. Essential services, transport links and fares, accommodation, food and tours with hyperlink access to further tourist information and accommodation websites.
The medieval streets, archways and buildings of this former Roman camp remain. One of Germany’s classic Gothic cathedrals, several medieval churches, rare Gothic tower houses and one of Germany’s oldest bridges combined to justify the city’s world heritage listing. Information on essential services, transport links and urban transit services and fares plus listings of travel essentials are part of this 6-page guide. Almost 30 sites and museums, including the nearby Walhalla gallery of great Germanic figures of history, with hyperlink access to accommodation websites and further tourist information.
The prince-bishops who controlled Würzburg for centuries built wealth, power and influence expressed in Baroque by their huge palace the Residenz. Their medieval castle still commands the city, reached by an ancient stone bridge. This 7-page guide includes more than 30 grand residences, churches, museums and galleries, including one of Europe’s prominent Jewish museums. Essential services, transport links, transit services and fares, food and tours plus hyperlink access to accommodation and further tourist information websites.
This 4-page guide to the city of three rivers includes the Baroque cathedral of St Stephan, with one of the world’s largest organs, the fortress Veste Oberhaus and the well preserved old town. In all there are 13 sites and museums, including the exhibits of Passau’s Roman past and glass manufacture. Details of essential services, transport links and urban transit services including fares, accommodation, food, tours and views. Hyperlink access to further tourist information and accommodation websites.
This short guide covers a tiny medieval walled town, left in its unchanged state by a royal decree and now a favourite of artists and a small number of travellers. Dinkelsbühl’s walls and many Gothic and Renaissance buildings keep its historical atmosphere alive and its small hotels, pensions and restaurants complement this scene. Essential services and transport information are included with hyperlinks to most accommodation.
The wealth and influence of the city’s powerful families brought the Renaissance to Germany at a time when Augsburg was also the centre of key events of the Reformation. First a Roman settlement, it also has some of Germany’s oldest remains and is known for its many onion-domed towers and magnificent works of art. This 6-page guide includes more than 30 sites and museums plus essentials, transport links and fares, accommodation, food and tours with hyperlink access to further information websites.
The most common description for Heidelberg is Romantic. This comes from its valley location, half-ruined castle, and the towered stone bridge across the Neckar. But this 8-page guide also explores the city’s cobbled streets in search of the essence of the city – Germany’s oldest university, the churches that are monuments to its religious struggles, and its restaurants and cafes. Find out about the funicular railway that makes the climb to the castle – and vantage points above the city – much easier, and several of the budget hotels and private hostels that help make accommodation in Heidelberg affordable. The 2017 Raven Guide to the Romantic charms of Heidelberg is downloadable free here now.
The medieval town has a colourful array of half-timbered houses, Romanesque churches and the Kaiserpfalz, one of Germany’s oldest palaces. Its ancient Rammelsberg mines are partly responsible for the town’s world heritage status. The 5-page guide covers 19 sites and museums, a town walk, Rammelsberg tour and an excursion to the nearby half-timbered Harz town Wernigerode. Information on transport links plus listings of travel essentials and hyperlink access to further tourist information and accommodation websites.
Trade made Lübeck the centre of the Baltic and the red-brick Gothic old town its merchant wealth built is now UNESCO world heritage-listed. Its churches, town houses and civic institutions are preserved and restored. In 7 pages this guide describes the commercial and civic culture of the city through summaries of 30 sites, museums and galleries. Information on travel essentials, transport links and transit services including fares, tours, parks, views and food. Hyperlinks to further tourist information and to websites for city accommodation.
A concise but detailed Berlin travel guide of 31 pages including separate sections for the districts Mitte, Prenzlauer Berg, Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg (with Neukölln), Schöneberg-Tempelhof, Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf and Spandau, with local food and accommodation and quick guides to essential services. A summary of all transport links with Berlin and urban transit services including fares. Summaries of more than 50 museums of history, art and culture, more than 60 historic sites and information on all major performance groups including orchestras, opera and theatre. Included are a short history of the city with guides to walking sections of the Berlin Wall and its memorials, the city’s historic precincts, churches and public buildings, parks, views, tours and cruises. In the text are hyperlinks to websites for accommodation houses and further information.
A guide in 6 pages to one of Germany’s oldest cities including its UNESCO world heritage monuments, the ornate Renaissance town hall and the giant Roland figure, plus 10 other sites. Among 17 Bremen museums summarised are some of Germany’s leading houses of art and the remarkable Übersee-Museum, with exhibits of the wonders of the continents touched by Bremen’s worldwide trade interests. Essential services, transport and city transit details and tours, complete with hyperlink access to further tourist information and accommodation websites.
The palaces of Baroque Dresden with their museums and galleries, highlighted by the two Green Vault museums, are among the most remarkable in Germany. This 11-page guide covers 18 palaces, monuments and other sites and 30 museums as well as information on essential services, accommodation, tours, parks and views, food and performing arts. Details of excursions to the medieval city of Meissen, centre of European porcelain, the summer palaces of Pillnitz and Moritzburg, and the fortress of Königstein are provided. Hyperlink access to further tourist information and accommodation websites.
This 8-page guide to the port city includes the unique Speicherstadt, centre of the former free port, and a range of 25 sites, ships, museums, monuments and churches that reflect Hamburg’s maritime and trading traditions. Essential services are listed with a choice of tours, the city’s best views and parks. Information on transport links and urban transit services including fares plus listings of travel essentials. Hyperlink access to further tourist information and accommodation websites and a guide to Hamburg music including the city’s opera.
Modern Nuremberg has preserved or restored many walled and historic areas, including the Kaiserburg, the castle of early imperial assemblies that today provides a view over the old town. The city’s leading late medieval citizens were some of the best known German personalities. This 8-page guide includes 20 buildings, streets and monuments plus 14 museums. These include the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Germany’s leading cultural history museum, and the courts of the post-World War II war crimes trials. Essential services, transport links, transit services, tours and hyperlink access to further tourist information and accommodation websites.
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This 6-page guide to the historic city contains summaries of 10 sites including Stuttgart’s castle complexes, Schloß Solitude and the magnificent palaces of nearby Ludwigsburg. A listing of 10 museums and galleries, a guide to essential services, tours and the city’s extensive parks. Information on transport links and urban transit services including fares, accommodation, food and views. Hyperlink access to further tourist information and accommodation websites and a guide to performance art.
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Unbeknownst to most Red Hot Chili Peppers fans, bassist Flea voices ”The Wild Thornberrys”’ manic Donnie on Nickelodeon. Here, on the Paramount lot, he lays down vocals for the June 13 Rugbabies-meet-Thornberrys film ”Rugrats Go Wild.” Bruce Willis may voice the Rugs’ pooch Spike, but Flea’s ”yuckatychuckatyluckaty” steals the show. ”There’s definitely a part of me that is completely him,” says the father of one. ”It’s also the most bizarre, strangest job I’ve ever had.” This coming from a man who’s sheathed his privates in a gym sock.
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Introduced in 1965, the Martin D-35 featured a unique, 3-piece back (wings are Brazilian, center is East Indian Rosewood). Brazilian rosewood was becoming harder to acquire and the three piece backs allowed the use of smaller pieces with no noticeable tone loss. Bob Johnson, who was hired in 1962 as a computer expert, later becoming a vice president of the company, came up with the idea of a three piece back, since Martin had a surplus of 6 inch sections. After a new bracing pattern was worked out, the D-35 was born! A favorite of Elvis, the D-35 was outselling the popular D-28 model within a few years of it's release.
The Martin 1970 D-35 was one of the last Martin's to use Brazilian Rosewood, resulting in a significant price drop in all models featuring Brazilian Rosewood. Brazilian Rosewood was, and is the most highly regarded wood for back and sides and was primarily used on the early pre-war guitars that we all love. Known for rich basses and crystal clear highs, as well as it's gorgeous figuring. This particular guitar has a wonderful crisp, dry tone. Very reminiscent of a 50's D28. Lots of definition and clarity with this one! With a sitka spruce top, it still remains highly responsive, perfect for fingerstyle players, or flatpicking lead lines.
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The West Virginia Division of Natural Resources (DNR) has announced a 14% reduction of its fleet.
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Keto Irish Soda Bread
This Keto Irish Soda Bread recipe is the most crusty keto bread loaf with a dense, tough crumb filled with crunchy walnuts and sugar-free cranberries.
It has all the taste and texture you expect, with only 3.2 grams of net carbs per slice. Plus, this low-carb keto bread recipe also has a dairy-free option.
Is Irish Soda Bread Keto?
No, traditional Irish Soda Bread is made of wheat flour and buttermilk. Two ingredients that are very high in carbs.
Also, some soda bread versions include added dried fruits like raisins and added sugar, increasing the carbs and making your blood sugar levels spike very quickly.
What’s Keto Irish Soda Bread?
It’s a low-carb quick bread recipe with a dense, crumbly crumb similar to the classic St Patrick’s day bread made of wheat, minus the carbs.
How To Make Keto Irish Soda Bread
The recipe for this keto bread is pretty simple and basic. All you need are the ingredients below:
- Almond flour – for a better texture, color, and results, use ultra-fine blanched almond flour as I always recommend in any of my keto recipes. Of course, almond meal can be a valid substitute for this bread since it’s already dense, making the batter much drier.
- Egg protein powder or any unflavored protein powder you have on hand. In fact, adding protein to your bread make the crust ultra-crispy, thicker as you would expect from a real bread recipe.
- Baking powder – I know that regular soda bread doesn’t use baking powder at all, but since you are working with low-carb flour, you have to adapt the chemistry of the recipe a bit to work out well.
- Baking soda
- Egg white – you can use large eggs and split egg white from egg yolk or use egg white from packaged egg white.
- Melted butter or olive oil or melted coconut oil for the dairy-free option.
- Unsweetened almond milk
- Apple cider vinegar
Making Keto Buttermilk
Since regular buttermilk is high in carbs, you will make your own by mixing almond milk, apple cider vinegar, and melted butter or olive oil.
Stir in a mixing bowl, set it aside for 10 minutes until it curdles and thickens slightly.
Whisking Dry Ingredients
In another bowl, whisk all the dry ingredients: almond flour, protein powder, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
Whisk very well until the protein powder is fully distributed through the almond flour.
Protein powder tends to form lumps, so if you don’t whisk the dry ingredients well enough, the bread crumb will show clusters of dry powder in it.
Stirring In Liquid Ingredients
Now, pour the liquid ingredients onto the dry ingredients and stir with a spatula until the batter becomes thick.
It should stay moist and quite wet. It’s not a dough that you knead by hand.
Fold in any add-ons you like or skip if you don’t feel like it.
I like to stir in sugar-free cranberries and toasted chopped walnuts.
Shaping The Bread
First, preheat the oven to 350°F (180°C).
Line a cast iron pan or a baking sheet with parchment paper and lightly spray olive oil on the paper.
I also had great success using a pizza pan with holes, as seen in the picture below. It diffuses heat better and makes the bottom of the bread ultra-crispy.
Using the spatula push down the mass of dough onto the paper. Oil your hands with olive oil and rub. Shape the bread into a wide disc, not too tall, or it will take ages to bake. Mine is 6-inch wide (15cm) to give you an idea.
Carving The Cross
Finally, oil a knife blade and draw a cross on top of the bread.
It’s a bit tricky because the bread batter is sticky. Move the blade from side to side to increase the width of the cross, as seen above.
Bake the soda bread
Bake in the center rack of the oven for 30 minutes or until the top is golden brown and crusty.
Insert a pick in the center of the bread. It should come out clean or with a few tiny crumbs on it but not wet. If wet, bake it for an extra 10 minutes.
Stop the oven, open the door halfway, and keep the bread inside for 40 minutes to cool down gently. It will keep baking on the inside.
Fillings For Low-Carb Irish Soda Bread
There are different ways to enjoy Irish soda bread.
The most classic version has no sweetener or add-ons.
But if you like it sweet, you can try some of the below add-ons:
- Sugar-free cranberries – they mimic the classic dried raisins added in Irish Soda bread pretty well with a nice chewy texture.
- Chopped nuts like walnuts, pecans, or almonds or great keto option.
- 2-3 tablespoons of keto sweetener for a sweet flavor.
This almond flour Irish Soda Bread is a delicious keto breakfast bread on its own or topped with some of the toppings ideas below:
- Peanut butter
- Cream cheese
- Sugar-free chia seed jam
- Almond butter
- Cheese slices
This Irish Soda bread can be stored at room temperature for up to 4 days, wrapped in a clean kitchen towel.
You can freeze the recipe in slices and thaw each slice the day before at room temperature.
More Keto Bread Recipes
Below I listed some more delicious keto low-carb bread recipes for you to try.
Have you tried my Irish Soda Bread with almond flour? Share a comment or review below!
Keto Irish Soda Bread
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- 3 cups Almond Flour ultra fine is the best
- 3 tablespoons Protein Powder
- 1 teaspoon Baking Powder
- ½ teaspoon Baking Soda
- 3 large Egg Whites
- 2 tablespoons Melted Butter
- ⅓ cup Almond Milk
- 2 teaspoons Apple Cider Vinegar
- ½ teaspoon Salt
- ⅓ cup Sugar-Free Cranberries finely chopped
- ⅓ cup Chopped Walnuts finely chopped
- 2-3 tablespoons Crystal Sweetener
- Preheat oven to 350°F (180°C). Line a cast iron pan, baking sheet, or pizza pan with holes with parchment paper. Slightly oil the paper with olive oil. Set aside.
- In a small mixing bowl, whisk almond milk, apple cider vinegar, and melted butter (or olive oil). Set aside for 10 minutes until it slightly curdles.
- In another large mixing bowl, whisk almond flour, unflavored protein powder, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and sweetener, if used. Whisk well until no lumps of protein powder can be seen.
- Pour the milk mixture and egg white onto the dry ingredients and stir with a spatula until a thick, heavy but wet batter forms. It should be dense but moist and wet.
- Fold in any optional adds-on like chopped walnuts and sugar-free cranberries and stir to incorporate.
- Using your spatula push down the batter on the prepared baking sheet.
- Oil your hands very well with olive oil and rub the dough to shape a 6-inch-wide disc (20cm) 2-inch tall (5cm). The bread won't rise or expand in the oven so the shape you give now matters.
- You don't have to smoothen the loaf by rubbing or pressing, keep it rough and bumpy for a real Irish bread aspect.
- Oil a knife blade and shape a cross on top of the bread – the dough is very sticky, so it's a bit challenging, but again, it doesn't have to be perfect.
- Bake for 30-40 minutes in the center rack of the oven or until golden brown and a pick inserted in the center comes out clean or with tiny little crumbs on it.
- Stop the oven, open its door halfway, and let the bread cool down for 40 minutes before releasing it on a cooling rack at room temperature.
- Cut into slices of about (45g, 1.5oz) and top with butter, cheese, peanut butter, or plain as a side to a soup.
- Store the bread wrapped in a clean kitchen towel at room temperature for up to 4 days or freeze slices for later in an airtight container or zip lock bags. Thaw the day before at room temperature.
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I just cut into this a few minutes ago. I tried a piece because, well, I had to test it! It is fabulous! Tastes just like regular soda bread that I make every year (this time keto). Subs: sour cream instead of milk mix, 2eggs instead of 3 egg whites. The only thing I will change next time (and there will def be a next time!), I would leave out the walnuts. I like walnuts but they seem out of place in soda bread. But anyway, thank you – it is amazing!
Is there something I can substitute for the protein powder?
Not really, it’s what brings all its crispiness to the bread. You can use egg powder, but you have to add protein in a form.
Hi Carine. Making this now. I had a problem with your mixture to make buttermilk – didn’t work for me with either the butter or olive oil. Are the proportions correct? I used another method of heavy cream w/the vinegar in the same proportions you have here and that thickened very nicely after 10 minutes. Hope this works with the bread. I did add both sf cranberries and chopped walnuts and placed dough on a slightly oiled piece of parchment paper in a cast iron pan. I did not find the dough overly sticky though (with oiled hands). I really hope this comes out because I made someone else’s recipe last night and it was too crumbly and not able to cut in slices like a bread. I will let you know in a few hours. I hope it becomes a 5 star!
It’s the apple cider vinegar that makes the milk thickened, but don’t expect a thick buttermilk either. Anyway, even without this step, the bread should come out pretty well.
Delicious recipe! I finally feel like I haven’t missed out on the festivities this year by using your recipe. I made a few substitutions: I used sour cream in lieu of the curdled almond milk since it was easier, though it probably added a few more carbs. Also, I used 2 whole large eggs & caraway seeds. Came out great!!
I am so happy for you! thanks for trying my recipes, XOXO Carine
Hi Carine, Is there any reason why you can’t use whole eggs or just 2 eggs?
Yes, egg white makes bread crispier, whole eggs turn the bread soft
This looks interesting to try. Can I use egg white protein powder, which I have on hand? Also, can I leave out the erythritol and just use Stevia to sweeten?
I have dried raspberries on hand. Would they work in this recipe?
Thank you for all your hard work. I enjoy your recipes.
Greetings from Southern California
Yes that’s the protein powder used in this recipe and dried raspberries sounds lovely too. Enjoy
Mine is in the oven now I tripped and fell over a slip cover. I have to to keep my leg up. So I needed something easy to make While I sit down
I got injured on Wednesday night, (tripped on the couch slipcover. A hidden hazard).
I’m totally out of any low-carb bread. So I went through my recipes and chose this one
I read the tips this time. Last time, I went straight to the recipe. So I see what you mean about egg white protein powder in your recipe. So glad I had everything to make it

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Wasn’t raising a child tough enough already? Now, in the coronavirus age – with schools closed and children learning at home – we suddenly have added an additional challenging role to the mix: teacher. It’s a responsibility that comes with no how-to manual, and certainly no 1-800-number to call for help.
So what should caregivers know about how to do it? How do they teach when they’re also a parent – balance between too much help and too little? And are there practical tips – lessons from science – that parents and caregivers can use to make the experience work for all parties involved?
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Wasn’t parenting tough enough already? Now, in the coronavirus age – with schools closed and children learning at home – we’ve suddenly have added an additional challenging role to the mix: Teacher. It’s a responsibility that comes with no how-to manual, and certainly no 1-800-number to call for help.
So what should parents know about how to do it? How do they teach when they’re also a parent – balance between too much help and too little? And are there practical tips – lessons from science – that parents can use to make the experience work for all parties involved?
Well, Dr. Pamela Cantor has some. Pam is Founder and Senior Science Advisor of Turnaround for Children. And as you’ll hear, by focusing on what she calls the three R’s – relationships, routines, and resilience – science can show parents ways not only to help their children learn, but also how we all can come through this period stronger and better connected.
Chris Riback: Pam, thanks for joining me. I appreciate your time.
Pamela Cantor, M.D.: Thank you Chris.
Chris Riback: If you could help parents suddenly get their Master’s in education, what would the key takeaways be that they should know?
Pamela Cantor, M.D.: It might surprise you, but everything that I would say to a parent is what I would say to a teacher and that is that the primary task right now is really wrapped up in how we are going to manage the stress that this experience of the COVID crisis is causing. There really is nothing more powerful than a deeply felt attuned human relationship in driving stress down and driving all kinds of other skills and capabilities up.
So, what I will be saying to teachers, what I will be saying to leaders who are reopening schools is that they have to prioritize creating conditions where relationships are deep and strongly felt and the environment is safe with all kinds of opportunities for belonging. I think we have to do that even with our physical distancing and we’re going to have to do it in spades when we come back to school.
Chris Riback: Needless to say, these are stressful times and in any given household, you might have parents working or not working, limited computer access and space to work. Children may be feeling anxious about the virus and miss their teachers and friends and a social life. We all kind of remember what a social life used to be. Is stress always a bad thing for children, for their development and learning?
Pamela Cantor, M.D.: Stress is not always a bad thing. In fact, mild and moderate levels of stress actually help us prepare for a recital or a test.
When we experience stress, a hormone called cortisol streams through our bodies and our brains. It produces that familiar fight, flight, freeze, feeling that we all get where our heart is thumping and the hair stands up on the back of our neck. That kind of stressful feeling is actually normal. But when we have high levels of stress, and that stress is not buffered by a trusted adult, cortisol can actually have effects on the parts of the brain that are involved in focus, attention and emotion.
Chris Riback: And so some cortisol OK, maybe even potentially positive. Too much cortisol for too long, not so good.
Pamela Cantor, M.D.: What’s interesting about our stress response system is that it is really a balance between two hormonal systems. One is the system that is involved with cortisol release, but the other is a really important hormone called oxytocin, and this is the hormone that controls feelings of love, trust, and safety.
Oxytocin can actually protect us from the harmful effects of cortisol. It can help children manage stress. And it can actually help children become resilient to future stress. Relationships that are strong and positive actually trigger the release of oxytocin, and this is what enables children when they have the presence of a trusted adult to actually manage stress, and even build the muscle of resilience.
Chris Riback: So let’s talk about building that muscle, and let’s talk about what’s going on in many households. How can learning occur during these conditions?
Pamela Cantor, M.D.: I’ve been thinking about that a lot, Chris, and there are three things that I think are actually possible to do today, if we put our focus on the importance of relationships, the importance of routines and order and the importance of building resilience.
Those are the three things that I think are most important to do today. And they can be done at home. And when kids go back to school and we’re talking about preparing for reentry to school, I’ll be talking about the same things, relationships, routines, and resilience. So let’s take the first one. Relationships.
Chris Riback: Give me some examples. What are some of the experiences that parents and children can do at home that are wonderful experiences that can help really develop those relationships?
Pamela Cantor, M.D.: Well, a lot of life in the home is lived around the kitchen and whether it is learning how to cook or being able to generate a treasured new family recipe, there are all kinds of projects that can happen around creating meals. Meals can also happen in different rooms where kids create an environment to make a meal a very, very special experience.
I’ve heard about people creating tents in their houses and creating meals inside tents, so there’s a tremendous amount of creativity that can be applied to meal time and that can involve everybody.
The other thing that I’ve been hearing about, believe it or not, are cleaning projects, home improvement projects, painting a room, a particularly fun color. These kinds of things are things that give an opportunity for kids to exercise their creativity and their agency and at the same time do things that are tremendously helpful to the family as a whole.
Chris Riback: And just to be clear, when you’re making the food, cooking the meal in the tent in the house, no campfires though, right Pam?
Pamela Cantor, M.D.: I think we have to leave out the campfires… but we can keep spirit of campfire.
Chris Riback: Fine. Well keep the spirit but lose the actual campfire.
Pamela Cantor, M.D.: Another really important thing is exercise. Everybody talks about how important it is to exercise, but I think maybe it isn’t fully understood that any rhythmic activity, singing, dancing, or exercise calms the brain. So those activities are things that parents and kids can do together. And we can create time for that in the day.
Chris Riback: That’s very helpful on relationships. What about routines?
Pamela Cantor, M.D.: So when I talk about routines, I’m talking about something that’s really a property of the brain, and that is: It loves order. It loves to be able to predict what’s going to happen next. So if we create a plan for the day, if we make posters that enable us to have a bit of a schedule, if we chart successes and things that we’ve accomplished, all of those things take a very unpredictable time in our lives and make it more predictable and that makes the brain happy and calm.
Chris Riback: That has to be essential at a time like this when, as you just note, all of our routines have been blown up.
Pamela Cantor, M.D.: Exactly. And one of the things that I’ve been hearing about are kids really stepping up and taking a leadership role in figuring out what kind of day they’re going to build. Not just having the parents do that, but having the kids do that as well. Because we have to have in any day things that give us hope and things that convince us that we can actually find fun and even a silver lining.
If you think about parents going off to work, kids going off to school, big chunks of the day are spent away from one another. And I think that there are these incredible opportunities now to deeply know one another, to have each other’s back and to take care of each other. We can use meal times to talk about the issues that are going on for kids to be able to ask questions, for parents to come to those times with answers that they’ve prepared in advance.
And don’t be surprised if you’re a parent hearing the same question over and over again, because the kinds of worries that kids have, they have every day with things that they’re hearing about every day. But then when we speak about the kinds of routines that we can have at home, we can create a daily plan for the day that includes sure schoolwork, but also time for fun, games, puzzles, things that parents and kids can do together. We can even make lessons fun because when kids are doing their lessons at home, maybe an older sibling joins or parents engage in the lessons with their kids.
Chris Riback: What about the people who say that it’s good for kids to understand that sometimes you don’t have control that, that things happen and we can’t always know what’s going to happen next. And this is a good learning opportunity on that front. Is there truth to that?
Pamela Cantor, M.D.: I think there are reasons to believe that the experience of COVID is going to be a set of life lessons for all of us. But I wouldn’t want to think that the way for children to learn the value of order and predictability and constancy in their environment is by turning their life upside down. What I’d rather say is that the way we’re all going to face this very, very scary time is to do everything we can to create safety and security for each other.
And in doing that, we and our children will build muscles that tell us that we can cope, that we can surmount this, and every now and again find something special and of value in it. I’m not saying this because I want to underestimate how disruptive this is for kids and how challenging it is for adults.
But I do think that in the stories of anyone who has ever surmounted a really challenging period, they haven’t done it alone. They’ve done it with people who had their back and who believed that it was possible to surmount the crisis. That’s what I hope happens for kids and their families and their teachers today.
Chris Riback: What about the third R? Resilience. How should we think about that?
Resilience is an amazing quality in humans. You know every time we hear about somebody who has faced incredible adversity and gone on to do incredible things, we’re always struck by this. How did they do that? And sometimes we make the mistake of thinking that some people just have that quality, like as if we were talking about the color of their eyes. That it’s a trait. But resilience isn’t a trait. Resilience is a muscle and it’s a muscle that can be built and one of the particular ways that resilience does get built is when we have to face things.
So the value of a challenge is that it gives us an opportunity to build that muscle, but nobody builds resilience by themselves. They build resilience with and through the connection to others. That’s how they find their strength and that’s how they find their ability to surmount a crisis.
There are some particular things though that all of us can do to help support the building of resilience. One of them is to build certain foundational skills. There actually are foundational skills that lead to resilience and one of them is regulation – regulation of thought, regulation of behavior, regulation of emotion, but the way we learn how to regulate these qualities is through co-regulation. It’s with another person, a person who’s modeling, a person who’s helping us deal with the feelings that we have. So the way it’s said in the scientific literature is that all regulation is co-regulation. That’s how we learn it. And regulation is the fundamental building block for resilience.
Now, there are some other things that can help in the building of resilience too. One of them is reflective practice like meditation or journaling. Another has lot to do with limiting exposure to media so that you are not continuously making yourself frightened and taking care of yourself, paying attention to physical wellness and emotional wellness. The things that we were talking about having to do with exercise and other rhythmic activities. All of these things support building that muscle of resilience.
Chris Riback: Pam, when you talk about relationships and the importance of establishing them, particularly in these times, when you talk about routines and the importance of building those routines, when existing routine has been taken away and the opportunity to build resilience, are those parallel tracks? Are those three areas that run independently, or are they connected within the brain and with kids?
Pamela Cantor, M.D.: What sits underneath the Three Rs – relationships, routines, and resilience – is an understanding about the nature of the human brain. The brain is actually a dynamic living structure made up of tissue that is the most susceptible to change from experience of any tissue in the human body. And they’re really just three things that you have to know about brain development: the astounding malleability of the brain, experience dependent growth, and the role of context. The fact that context, the environments, experiences, and relationships of our lives actually drive the development of the brain.
So what does all of this have to do with the Three Rs? Well, the fuel for brain development comes from relationships. The brain is an electrical structure. The thing that makes neurons move and the brain become wired is the effect of relationships on the brain. Think of the routines as helping to support the wiring, think of resilience as an end goal, a complex and tremendously important skill.
Chris Riback: Pam, along with this crisis creating opportunity, this crisis of course is also creating a great deal of despair and loss and personal loss and human loss. How do you counsel, how do you guide children and families through that at this time?
Pamela Cantor, M.D.: One of the things that concerns me the most about this period is just how many kids and families are going to know someone who has been lost to COVID, or who actually experiences the loss of somebody in their family because of COVID. And these are things that are tremendously difficult experiences and they take a long, long time for people to recover from.
One of the most important things is to communicate about them. So, if families are beginning to hear about losses in relatives or losses in their communities, they can’t avoid the subject. When they sit down and talk to children, they really have to talk to them about the sadness, about the idea that sadness, as horrible as it is, does get better over time. That it’s important to think about the person, and to remember the person, because there’s a real tendency to avoid these kinds of subjects, and to think that you’re protecting children from something by not talking about these things when all you’re really doing is leaving them alone with their feelings.
So whenever there is an experience of loss, whether it’s outside the family or inside the family, proactively creating opportunities to talk about loss, to talk about the fact that we all grieve and we all feel pain, but we do recover and it just takes time. And if the person is somebody from inside the family, we have to let memories happen. We have to remember them together.
We have to remember the positive things. We have to laugh together and we have to cry together. That’s what grief is. But it does get better with time.
Chris Riback: Pam, can I ask you about learning and learning in the household and the times that we are in? No one knows when this crisis will be over and when kids will be able to return to school and their parents to jobs if they still have jobs. How can learning occur under these conditions?
Pamela Cantor, M.D.: Learning can occur in so many different kinds of settings. If you think of our lives and think of where we have learned the biggest lessons of our life, only some of them have actually happened in school and many of us might say that most of them have happened outside of school. One of the things that concerns me right now is this idea of being behind. If your child had to be hospitalized for an illness and let’s say they had to be hospitalized for six months and they were out of school. What would you be telling them?
Would you be wanting them to work on their multiplication tables in the hospital so that they didn’t fall behind? Or would you be telling them that you have confidence that they’re going to be able to catch up on schoolwork, but that the most important thing they need to do right now is to focus on getting well?
The analogy that I’m drawing here is that the way to think about learning in the context of COVID is to actually think about being creative about what is most important to do, to face the situation that we’re in, not to act as if it isn’t happening and to apply the same kinds of requirements to kids and to teachers as if this extraordinary event weren’t happening. That strikes me as really unfair to the adults and really unfair to the kids.
What’s really going to happen here is that schools are going to have to adapt to the fact that learning hasn’t happened in the same way. That’s really what’s going to happen. And if it’s happening to all of us, then we aren’t going to apply some standards to some kids and not to others because everybody is going to be affected by this.
Chris Riback: Pam, what would you say to kids who are going through this?
Pamela Cantor, M.D.: Chris, one of the things that I would most want a student to feel today is that this is an extraordinary time in their lives. That it is a time for them to pull out their resources and creativity and strength that are likely going to be with them for the rest of their lives. I want to give you an example. My husband and I both experienced traumatic events right at the time we were supposed to go to college. All of our plans got disrupted. His as well as mine.
And when I think back to that experience and think about what it meant and what it shaped in my life, the fact that I didn’t go to college when I thought I would – when I compare that to what the experience did in terms of strengthening me, enabling me to have the privilege of growing up, in certain ways, a little earlier, these experiences are things that shouldn’t be wasted. They are extraordinary opportunities for strength, for virtue, and for generosity. Those are qualities that not only build resilience, they are muscles we’ll have for the rest of our lives.
Chris Riback: Pam, I hear what you’ve said about what the schools are going to have to do, and I hear what you are saying really to the children and to the kids. Talk for a moment to the parents. When a parent is put in the role or takes on the role of helping teach their child, should the parent think of her or himself as a parent or a teacher? Because I assume they’re different things.
Pamela Cantor, M.D.: I guess what I would hope parents are thinking right now at home might be more like a coach. What I mean when I use the word coach is a person who sees what a child is capable of and believes in the strength, the skill, the capacities that that child has and sometimes even sees them before the child sees them.
So, you could call that good parenting, you could call it coaching. But what you’re really doing is using your belief in a young person and letting them borrow that courage from you, that belief from you to step up and do things that they might have thought that they weren’t actually able to do. What I’m saying is that I don’t think the job of a parent necessarily is only to protect. And today more than ever, I think we need each other.
So, it wouldn’t surprise me at all to see young people figuring out how to do their learning day, figuring out how to create a routine for the day, figuring out how to take some of the pressure off a parent. And then the reverse of that, that a parent figures out, maybe not perfectly, how to help a child work through a math problem or an English lesson and maybe they laugh at the fact that the parent isn’t perfect at it and they figure out how to solve it together. But the kinds of feelings that those kinds of experiences are going to engender for families are just more important than, do I think as a parent that I’m a good teacher? Hopefully I’m good enough.
But the more important thing is that my child knows that I’m in it with them and that I have confidence that we’re going to be able to figure this out together.
Chris Riback: That strikes me as such an important concept for any parent, particularly in a situation like this where everything is disrupted, it has to be our first and natural inclination to protect, to make that component of parenting become prominent. But that phrase that you used to help children, enable children, give them the opportunity to “borrow that courage” from you could be just as important if not more important than the protection element.
Pamela Cantor, M.D.: That is what I’m talking about. And I think it’s a really important thing for kids to see their parents in their humanness. Sometimes kids really do think that we have the answers, and that we don’t make mistakes, and somehow or other we were always good at whatever we were good at. And how great would it be for kids to be able to see a parent doing something that they’re just not familiar with like being a teacher and that the child says to them, “No, no mom, you’ve got to do it this way. My teacher did it this way,” and they figured that out and then they solve it together.
Chris Riback: Why is seeing the humanity of a parent – why is enabling, empowering the child almost to help bring the parent along – why is that so important?
Pamela Cantor, M.D.: The reason it’s so important is because children discover their belief in themselves by being leaders of something, by being able to show their skills. When we protect kids and when we are demonstrating all of the things we know to kids, one of the byproducts of that can be that children just don’t feel that they’re ever going to be as capable as you or as strong as you or as knowledgeable as you. And to be in a situation where up is down and down is up and that maybe our kids will have the answers and maybe our kids will create humor and fun in the day.
There are so many triumphs in that for growth and belief in oneself and identity development. All of these things come from being able to see yourself as an agent, as an active member of a family that can actually solve things that are important.
Chris Riback: Pam, the idea that you just gave that we can’t act and we can’t go forward as if school is happening. I’m hearing you say, there are all sorts of learning that can occur – incredibly important learning, powerful learning that can occur.
But it’s going to occur differently and it’s going to occur with our emphasizing the things that ought to be emphasized within these times and within the circumstances that we have. Not trying to act as if some other set of circumstances is going on, adjust to the times and incredible powerful learning can still occur. Am I hearing you correctly?
Pamela Cantor, M.D.: That’s exactly what I’m saying. We can’t apply the same standards as if school has been happening all of this time. So what I would like to see teachers do is to drive the stress down, express confidence that in different ways we’re going to catch up that what’s happening on the learning front is happening to everybody. But we can’t minimize the fact that vulnerable children and children with fewer resources are going to be experiencing this in a much tougher way.
So, I think there is going to have to be tremendous attention to the supports for vulnerable children so that they have a fair shot at catching up and ultimately, they will. But we have to pay attention to those supports.
One of the things I hope for out of this crisis is that the kinds of changes that many of us have known needed to happen in 21st century education right now those things are non-negotiables. Because we need learning environments that not only address the issues of stress, we need learning environments that develop the skills of capable self-directed learners and that develop academic competencies.
Those are environments designed for whole child development but today we can start to do many of those things in our own homes.
Chris Riback: It really sounds like for parents, for children, for educators, there’s no reason to waste the opportunity that comes with this crisis.
Pamela Cantor, M.D.: There is no reason to waste the opportunity. And there is a tremendous importance to seeing the opportunity. Because the components of whole child development involve relationships. They involve a sense of belonging, they involve supports, skill building and instructional experiences. If you think about those five things, they can all happen at home and they have to happen when kids return to school, hopefully in a school and classroom that is designed for the development of the whole child.
Chris Riback: Pam, thank you. Thank you for helping think through this time for parents, for educators and for children.
Pamela Cantor, M.D.: Thank you Chris. It’s been a pleasure to talk to you.

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I look forward to soft shell crab season every year and if it’s on a menu, I’m gonna eat it (see exhibit #1). When I detailed my love of these fragile crustaceans, my New York “mom” Susan shared this fabulous recipe that she adores and one that her husband obsesses over.
Finding fresh soft shell crabs at retail was a little bit of a challenge but The Lobster Place in Chelsea Market saved the day, putting aside six of them and cleaning them for me so I wouldn’t have to kill the little guys on my own.
I had never made soft shell crabs on my own so I was a little nervous, but the recipe Susan provided was very straight forward and I even made a few additions of my own! The key to this dish is the butter sauce and almonds….it really makes this dish! I made them gluten-free (like I always do) with gluten-free breadcrumbs and you couldn’t tell a difference!
One big and very important tip…..make sure to dry them completely before sautéing so the water and oil don’t mix together and create a disastrous and messy kitchen.
- 2 Eggs
- 2 cups gluten-free breadcrumbs
- 6 soft shell crabs, cleaned (ask your fish monger to do it for you)
- 1 bunch asparagus, cut on the bias into 1 inch pieces
- 5 ears fresh corn, cut off cobb
- 1 pint cherry tomatoes, cut in half
- 1/4 cup slivered or crushed almonds
- 1 stick butter
- 1/4 cup Worcestershire Sauce (gluten-free)
- Olive Oil
- salt and pepper
- Blanch corn and asparagus (separately because they have different cooking times) and then sauté in olive oil
- add tomatoes for a few seconds, season with salt and pepper and set aside to cool
- create egg and gluten-free breadcrumb dredge and then season the crabs with salt and pepper and coat in the egg and then breadcrumbs and set aside
- place butter, olive oil and worcestershire sauce in a pan over medium heat and saute crabs in pan till browned
- remove crabs from pan and brown almonds (add more butter, oil and worcestershire sauce if needed)
- spoon corn, asparagus and tomato mixture onto plate, place soft shell crabs on top and spoon almond and sauce on top


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Calling this item "pricey" is an understatement.
Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen have designed a $55,000 bag for their fashion line, The Row. Yes, you read that right. $55,000.
Only 12 of the black patent crocodile leather backpacks were made, and each had different adornments – like the prescription pills that cover this one!
Artist Damien Hirst helped the twins shape the controversial creation, which will be released on Dec. 12 — and a portion of their hefty price tag will be donated to UNICEF.
The 26-year-olds have had a successful year with their bags so far, selling out a $39,000 alligator purse in July.
"[It was] the first thing that sold off the shelf," Ashley says about their summer sale.
What do you think of their new bag? Is it glamorous or over-the-top? Sound off in comments!


Irresponsible is the only term that adequately describes Citron's front-page story on graffiti, which one expert in the story calls a "benign form of rebellion." The extensive piece even includes a photo of one of these implied heroes defacing an RTD bus.
The story would have us believe that Robin Hood is back--only, this time, his trusty longbow has been replaced by an aerosol can, glass cutter and felt-tipped pens, and now he "shares" with rich and poor alike.
I wonder by what logic the territorial scrawlings of the gangs are examples of hostility toward society, while equally unattractive defacements committed by overprivileged air-heads can be classified as "art." Can we expect a follow-up story extolling the talents of all the "artists" who dump fast-food wrappers and general trash along our streets and highways?
In fact, if Citron and (apparently) The Times find defacement of private property a valid art form, why not invite "Never," "Drone," "Vector" and all their friends down to Times Mirror Square and let them paint your private property?


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Windows Live OneCare 2.0 will feature improved anti-virus, backup and management capabilities, Larry Brennan, lead product manager for Windows Live OneCare, told SCMagazineUS.com on Wednesday.
Amidst internet speculation as to the official release date, web retailer Amazon.com set the product's release date for Nov. 15.
The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant released a beta version in July, which included enhancements, such as support for multiple PCs on local area networks and home network management.
Microsoft offers the program, which covers up to three PCs, for a yearly fee of $49.95. Current subscribers will be notified that Live OneCare is available for download at no additional cost.
Brennan told SCMagazineUS.com today that the solution will add an option that allows multiple PCs to backup data on one device.
“One thing we're seeing is that an increasing number of homes have multiple PCs and those tend to be constantly on and constantly connected to the internet,” he said. “It's something that has a lot of value for small businesses, and of particular interest to them is the multi-computer backup.”
OneCare Live has faced mixed reviews since its May 2006 release. Researchers at AV-Comparatives, an Austria-based organization managed by security expert Andreas Clementi, rated the program last in a comparative test with similar products from more than a dozen anti-virus developers.
“Windows Live OneCare is supported by our Malware Protection Center, and one focus there is making sure that we address the most current threats first,” he said. “[Anti-virus product comparisons] that test the real world threats are places where we've performed very strongly, and we've also seen an increase in our scores in recent months.”


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At a time when our country seems divided by extremism, American Gospel draws on the past to offer a new perspective. Meacham re-creates the fascinating history of a nation grappling with religion and politicsâfrom John Winthropâs âcity on a hillâ sermon to Thomas Jeffersonâs Declaration of Independence; from the Revolution to the Civil War; from a proposed nineteenth-century Christian Amendment to the Constitution to Martin Luther King, Jr.âs call for civil rights; from George Washington to Ronald Reagan.
Debates about religion and politics are often more divisive than illuminating. Secularists point to a âwall of separation between church and state,â while many conservatives act as though the Founding Fathers were apostles in knee britches. As Meacham shows in this brisk narrative, neither extreme has it right. At the heart of the American experiment lies the God of what Benjamin Franklin called âpublic religion,â a God who invests all human beings with inalienable rights while protecting private religion from government interference. It is a great American balancing act, and it has served us well.
Meacham has written and spoken extensively about religion and politics, and he brings historical authority and a sense of hope to the issue. American Gospel makes it compellingly clear that the nationâs best chance of summoning what Lincoln called âthe better angels of our natureâ lies in recovering the spirit and sense of the Founding. In looking back, we may find the light to lead us forward.
Praise for American Gospel
âIn his American Gospel, Jon Meacham provides a refreshingly clear, balanced, and wise historical portrait of religion and American politics at exactly the moment when such fairness and understanding are much needed. Anyone who doubts the relevance of history to our own time has only to read this exceptional book.ââDavid McCullough, author of 1776
âJon Meacham has given us an insightful and eloquent account of the spiritual foundation of the early days of the American republic. It is especially instructive reading at a time when the nation is at once engaged in and deeply divided on the question of religion and its place in public life.ââTom Brokaw, author of The Greatest Generation
About: In American Gospel (literally meaning the "good news about America"), New York Times bestselling author Jon Meacham sets the record straight on the history of religion in American public life.
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Paul Johnson was the absolute right man for Georgia Tech in 2008. He was bold and brash, which Chan Gailey demonstrably hadn’t been, and he was different in a way that tantalized. Could a coach who didn’t feature the forward pass in the 21st century win big in a major conference? For two seasons, Johnson could and did.
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Born Javon Nickson Sowemimo (Jay Show) grew up with music in his blood. As a Royal Nigerian, American born rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, and hit maker, the Penn State graduate is rising to the top.
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So I'm a really inexperienced player, but decided it'd be fun to go ahead and try playing in a SR2012 tournament (probably my first mistake).
I had my 35 point list ready, or so I thought, and right before the tournament started I heard we needed reinforcements for the first scenario. I had no idea about reinforcements, this being my first SR. Since I only had the models for my 35 point list, I had to withdraw. So word to the wise, read the "Player Responsibilities" section of the rules and p. 9 before showing up. When the EO says 35 point SR2012 tournament he really means a 35/42 point SR2012 tournament.
I thought I could learn how the tournament worked simply by showing up to a 35 point tourney with a 35 point list and playing in it, and I was dead wrong.
SR2012 is not for casual players or beginners. I'll probably stick to journeyman leagues for now since they don't require 37 pages of additional rules. (or maybe they do and I'm in for yet another unpleasant surprise...)
I think a simple fix for this problem would be to include the reinforcements in the required list size; as in, "This Sat. we're having a 50/60 SR2012 Tournament." A new player would see two numbers and ask the right questions. (besides "What the hell am I thinking entering a 50 point tournament?") If I had known to bring a 42 point list I would have been able to play. Granted, this only matters for the uninitiated but everyone was a first timer once.
Any snark is purely intentional.

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There are many chat on the web about cash when it requires internet dating, and correctly so. We are in a recession, so men and women are a lot more frugal when considering spending money – but we still want to be personal. Exactly what does this suggest just? Is it ok to utilize a coupon on a romantic date? Is it possible to forgo supper and just grab a glass or two or coffee? Is-it ok to separate the balance on a primary go out? When should you provide to pay for?
After are several solutions to these quick concerns, with directions for capitalizing on your own dating experience despite your income:
You shouldn’t pull-out a Groupon on first day. While i am all about offers, its in poor taste to utilize a two-for-one discount on an initial date. Should you decide’d quite perhaps not spend a lot money, ask to go for a walk or for a cup of coffee. I’m not against discounts while matchmaking, but i believe it’s a good idea to wait patiently until such time you’re multiple times in just before perform.
Dinner or something like that more affordable?
It isn’t remarkable to ask a lady out for a costly meal throughout the very first time, so I you shouldn’t suggest achieving this. First, she does not understand you so she actually is most likely maybe not willing to make much time beforehand unless you’ve had some very nice conversations ahead. Make the safe path to suit your day and your pocketbook – ask the girl
If you have had several times and discover your self some strapped for money, its a great time to generate some imaginative choices into the dinner and products schedule. Check your neighborhood report free of charge events around area, recommend a bike ride and picnic, or plan a romantic meal served by you! There are numerous low-cost choices.
You have just finished your own dinner therefore the check arrives. You don’t grab it, and neither really does she. This is often shameful. My information? Anyone who does the inquiring really does the paying. If she requested you around but won’t grab the check, provide to divide the bill. Should you questioned the girl on, pay your own credit card. When you’re spending whenever, or not getting a “thank-you” for when you perform, politely ask this lady if she will find the the next time about. And do not make use of the “we kept my wallet at home” excuse. Make certain you come prepared to every go out with some money and a credit or debit card, in the event. Relationships must be reciprocal.

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