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In the BBC documentary A Tudor Feast, historian Ruth Goodman and three archaeologists undertake the difficult work of preparing an elaborate meal using authentic recipes from the Tudor Period, and using only the original techniques, ingredients, and kitchen implements that were available in 1590. Broken into four fifteen minute(ish) segments, here’s A Tudor Feast, parts I, II, III, and IV.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.

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  1. A woman running for VIce-President of Student Life at the University of Calgary put these posters up above the urinals in the men’s washrooms.
    Her parents must be so proud.

  2. On a similar note, after a woman attending Georgetown (a Catholic university) law school testified at a hearing held by Nancy Pelosi that it’s too expensive to have sex without mandated coverage, Craig Bannister at CNS News hauls out his calculator and the world’s smallest violin:

    But, back to this woman’s complaint that she’s spending $3,000 for birth control during her time in college.
    “For a lot of students, like me, who are on public interest scholarships, that’s practically an entire summer’s salary,” she complains.
    So, she earns enough money in just one summer to pays for three full years of sex. And, yes, they are full years – since she and her co-ed classmates are having sex nearly three times a day for three years straight, apparently. At a dollar a condom if she shops at CVS pharmacy’s website, that $3,000 would buy her 3,000 condoms – or, 1,000 a year. (By the way, why does CVS.com list the weight of its condom products in terms of pounds?)
    Assuming it’s not a leap year, that’s 1,000 divided by 365 – or having sex 2.74 times a day, every day, for three straight years…

    h/t

  3. It is good to see that the empty and pointless position of “VP Student Life/Issues/Partying” hasn’t gotten any more relevant since I was an undergraduate.
    At least her entire torso is covered. That’s a nice change.

  4. The Violator In Chief:

    If government-mandated health insurance is upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court after the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) case is argued in March 2012, the Institute for Justice warns in its amicus brief that there will be dire and predictable threats to individual liberty and voluntary relations that have been the foundation of American contract law for centuries.
    Constitutional law professor Elizabeth Price Foley, who is the executive director of the Institute’s Florida Chapter and who co-authored IJ’s brief, said, “The individual mandate violates a cardinal rule of contract law—to be enforceable, all agreements must be voluntary. The Framers understood this, and would never have given the federal government the power to force individuals into lifelong contracts of insurance. The Court should not allow the government to exercise this unprecedented and dangerous power.”
    As IJ’s brief shows, the principle of mutual assent, under which both parties must consent for a contract to be valid, is a fundamental principle of contract law that was well understood during the Founding era and is still a cornerstone of contract law today…

    Related: 72% of All Americans Deem Obamacare Mandate Unconstitutional.

  6. @ EBD at February 28, 2012 10:07 PM
    I wonder what the reaction would be from the female side if a man put posters in the womans toilets with the caption ” Great snatch sister”. I can guess.

  7. @ jg at February 28, 2012 10:13 PM
    “perpetrators of the crime be brought to justice as soon as possible”.
    Will never happen. No US soldiers will be tried by Afghanistan. If Obama tries to persecute them at home for something like that it would severely damage his chance of re-election and I doubt even he is that stupid.

  8. This comment was posted in another section. I believe it is important, so I have taken the Liberty (while I have it) to c&p to Readers Tips:
    The Alberta guvament wants to control homeschoolers.
    Where is bethesda guy tonight?
    “I realise this is off the current topic but I am hoping you may re-post something about what the good first minister, Her Oneness, is up to Bill 16 in Allberta that will change the education act.
    The main cause for concern is Section 16 of the Bill. Along with other section of Bill 2, section 16 undermines the authority that parents have over the education of their children. Under the current legislation (the School Act, revised in 2000), the corresponding section (3-1) reads this way:
    Diversity in shared values: All education programs offered and instructional materials used in schools must reflect the diverse nature and heritage of society in Alberta, promote understanding and respect for others and honour and respect the common values and beliefs of Albertans.
    Under the new bill, the wording will change:
    Diversity and respect: All courses or programs of study offered and instructional materials used in a school must reflect the diverse nature and heritage of society in Alberta, promote understanding and respect for others and honour and respect the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the Alberta Human Rights Act.
    It is clear that this section means to impose a specific curriculum on all parents and all schools since recent decisions by the Human Rights Tribunals based on the Alberta Human Rights Act have restricted religious thought and freedom of expression.”
    posted by Orwellian Allison Watch

  9. @ bluetech
    Alberta is catching the same disease BC and Ontario have. Nothing is off topic under readers tips. Good tip.

  10. peterj…I copy/pasted that comment from someone that didn’t know how to use Readers Tips.
    Will Albertans fight that bill?
    As far as I know homeschoolers in Ontario still have freedom to teach their own faith and values.

  11. “and the Alberta Human Rights Act.”
    That statement is redundant to the paragraph and does not belong. That is unless it is meant to supercede the Canadian preamble (rights Etc) and provide a UN/EU latch. Teaching the UN/EU dogma becomes the LAW

  12. Politicians really should be required to pass an IQ test before running and their staff should have to pass one before being hired…unfortunately, there’s no such thing as a ‘common sense test’…otherwise 99% of the politicians in every country or organization would be unemployed..which isn’t such a bad thing.
    On the brighter side, would I get a $500 deduction for a beard ? and isn’t that sexist ? or would some women get a deduction too ?
    And it’s a little too early for April 1st…although it looks like a bit of fun someone carried a tad too far…
    http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/staffer-refers-mustache-bill-committee-without-congressmans-consent_632956.html
    Staffer Refers Mustache Bill to Committee, Without Congressman’s Consent
    3:54 PM, Feb 28, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPER
    The American Mustache institute earlier today made this surprising announcement:
    After barnstorming the Nation’s Capitol in support of the proposed Stache Act (details and white paper here), the office of of [sic] Maryland 6th district U.S. Rep. Roscoe Bartlett informed the American Mustache Institute that the congressman has begun the process of ensuring the‘Stache Act becomes law by passing the proposal to the House Ways and Means Committee for study — an essential first step for tax legislation.
    The surprising thing is not that a congressman—Rep. Bartlett, a Republican—would support the creation of another tax loophole. “The Stache Act (Stimulus to Allow for Critical Hair Expenses) aims to earn a well-deserved $250 annual tax deduction for every Mustached American for expenditures on mustache grooming supplies,” the website reads.
    Instead, it was odd that Bartlett would even participate in what clearly seems to be an elaborate parody of Washington, D.C., think tanks and advocacy groups—and Congress. (The group is, after all, holding a rally on Capitol Hill on April 1.)
    So I called Bartlett’s office to see if something so silly could possibly be real. Sure enough, it is—but there’s a wrinkle: Congressman Bartlett was never aware that the bill had been referred to the committee in his name.
    “Congressman Bartlett has referred their proposal to the Ways and Means Committee, without commenting on the merit of the bill,” Lisa Wright, Bartlett’s press secretary, told me. The House Ways and Means Committee, Wright explained, has jurisdiction since the Stache Act is a tax bill.
    Wright was then asked that since Bartlett referred the bill with comment, would she be able to comment on her boss’s opinion of the proposed legislation. “Congressman Bartlett merely referred it without recommendation,” Wright told me after a big pause.
    Indeed, Wright conceded, when asked whether it’s a waste of the congressman’s time to be toying with legislative stunts like this one, that Bartlett actually knew nothing about the bill he supposedly had referred to the House Ways and Means Committee.
    “I did not raise it with him,” Wright admitted. “Actually it’s a staff referral . . . I did it, I referred it.” When asked whether Congressman Bartlett knew about the referral, Wright sheepishly said, “I don’t think I told him yet.”
    This sort of action, say staffers on the Hill, is almost unheard of “unless there is some sort of special relationship between the staffer and the boss, which it doesn’t sound like there is in this case,” a senior House aide says.

  14. This has become my new go-to site for news…
    My love of my life lives in Ontario, and my news channel is now in Canada as well.
    Kate, if I were not already occupied…..

  15. A bleak picture of apparently dying Europe.
    Can it be said that social engineering should be made a crime against humanity?
    Relatively few “social scientists” socialist/fascists and very rich socialists should be made the criminals, together with a lot of those that went to school for a long time and made it their hobby to screw lives of millons of working stiffs.
    The New World
    http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2012/02/28/20742/#more-20742
    “….It’s a devastating picture of blighted youth….dooming dreams….“a perfect storm”, the confluence of the bankruptcy of the welfare state, demographic collapse and globalization….
    Youth flees never to return. The same may be said of the European Welfare State.”

  19. It’s not really a good idea to piss off the guys with the guns..but Queen Mooch the last doesn’t care who she issues her proclamations to…just as long as she doesn’t have to follow them herself…and of course, she’s front and centre in the ‘action’…
    The ‘healthy mess hall’ idea isn’t a bad one, not at all, but you can be guaranteed this will follow into the field…where a combat soldier can burn through 4,000-6,000 calories a day…then again, none of the ‘officers’ making these decisions has ever BEEN in the field…except on a guided tour.
    http://cnsnews.com/news/article/army-dietitian-touts-warning-labels-desserts-and-fried-foods-mess-halls

  21. If you remember the video of Kira Davis, from Feb 25 of this year posted by Cjunk. http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/019402.html#comments
    I’ve sent her a note with the SDA address that she is popular here. Just received her reply, she writes:
    “Thank you! I too am a Canuck (PEI), although I’ve been an American for many years now. Glad to see there is still some sanity in the Great White North. Thanks for sharing!”
    Kira Davis [kiradavis422@gmail.com]

  22. what have we become ???
    between the rampant political correctness and this lunacy, we’re on the downhill slide to the point when someone will come to do us violence and we won’t know how to respond…and thus endeth the Empire (and Canada is still a token part of it)
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/9097017/Firemen-refused-to-go-in-3ft-deep-lake-as-man-floated-face-down.html
    …A witness who dialled 999 described begging the first fireman on the scene to help Mr Burgess, but he refused because the water was above “ankle deep”.
    Instead, emergency crews waited for a specialist water rescue team to arrive, meaning that Mr Burgess was not taken out of the lake until 28 minutes after the alarm had been raised. He was declared dead in hospital. …
    …“The officers were trained to go into ankle deep water, which is level one, so we waited for level two officers, who can go into chest high. One of the police officers told me he would like to go in the water and I advised him in the strongest terms not to.” Mr Nicholls’s superior, Tim Spencer-Peet, said he had been happy with the watch manager’s decision-making. …

  26. Take the survey and let the Alberta government know it isn’t their job to define culture.
    Here is a couple of the proposed strategies:
    The level and frequency of the cultural experience in schools should be increased. Many groups felt culture should
    be embedded in the Alberta curriculum as a core subject
    “Make culture a higher priority within and across all Alberta government departments so that there is a shared
    responsibility for culture policy, goals and outcomes”
    http://www.culture.alberta.ca/CultureForum2012/

  31. PET Cemetery Report.
    Our latest Robo-Comment*: H/T Pierre Poutine*(sic).
    More cuts/”axes”/”slashes” to the left-liberal arts.
    …-
    “Human Resources Minister quietly axes student job centres”
    “Corrections Canada slashes temp-worker program as budget cuts loom”
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/

  32. Ontario will not support Oil Sands and blanes Alberta’s wealth on his problems at home.
    It would be interesting to see what would happen if Alberta/Saskatchewan did NOT give “transfer” dollars to Ontario and Quebec … the only two places that hate the Oil Sands … yet, if they do not get the payments, they will fall so far into debt that it will make Greece look good.
    Don’t Ontario and Quebec NOT KNOW where most of Albetra’s wealth comes from? I say omit Ontario and Quebec and give it to the others or keep the money in Albetra … at least for one year so they know what will happen. We do not complain of the auto industry in Ontario – the biggest user of the oil – or for the manufacturing indistry that supplies Albetra Oil Sands with items needed.

  35. re: Maz2’s tip, it’s fairly clear that the world moves much faster than the Federation of Students and the NDP’s Human Resources critic. There are many job websites on the internet, many of those also give resume and cover letter samples and advice. Many post-secondary programs include as part of their communications curriculum lessons and instruction on writing resumes and cover letters. My Fiancee’s first class through SIAST’s OH & S program had resume and cover letter writing as the first assignment.
    I have to agree with the Human Resources minister – the summer jobs program is moving with technology, and those that can’t access websites can be served at Service Canada centers with an internet connected computer and bookmarked job banks sites. Good that HR is making intelligent cuts and good that Gloria Galloway is so on the ball (news release was a month ago).

  38. Justin weighs in on Pierre Poutine,he really is a twit.
    Justin Trudeau, MP ‏ @justinpjtrudeau
    Quebecers are rightly disgusted that an election-fraud related phone was registered to ‘Pierre Poutine’ on ‘Separatist St’ in Joliette, Qc.
    ————
    This is from his twitter account,I don’t know how to create a link to it,but he’s twitting a lot,some in French. I’m sure that most of it is rather profound.

  39. BTW,Bob Rae has said that Elections Canada needs more money for investigation of the robocall BS.
    Smart move,he’s courting (corrupting) the investigation team with a subtle bribe.

  45. ‘Nother O’bust.
    “The Energy Department’s loan portfolio has come under scrutiny of late, however, following the failure last year of solar cell manufacturer Solyndra, which went bankrupt despite a $535 million loan guarantee from the government.”
    How many now?
    …-
    “Hybrid maker Bright Automotive goes bust”
    “Hybrid vehicle maker Bright Automotive has announced plans to close, blasting the Department of Energy for failing to finalize a loan that the firm says would have kept it afloat.
    In a letter dated Tuesday to Energy Secretary Steven Chu, Bright CEO Reuben Munger and COO Mike Donoughe said they were withdrawing their application for a $314 million loan and winding down their operations. The executives claimed they had been strung along for the past few years as the government insisted on increasingly stringent loan requirements.
    “The actions — or better said ‘lack of action’ — by your team means hundreds of great manufacturing and technical jobs … and thousands of indirect jobs in Indiana and Michigan will not see the light of day,” the letter said.
    The Indiana-based company was founded in 2008 …”.
    http://money.cnn.com/2012/02/29/autos/bright_automotive/index.htm?section=money_latest

  46. PET Cemetery Report.
    No Momons wanted. Keep Out.
    By Order. Bishops Jack & Joe Smith.
    …-
    “National Post: Jonathan Kay on posthumous baptism: A Mormon heaven for us all”
    “In a Republican presidential campaign marked by controversies over birth control, moon bases and the proper means of transporting a dog, it was perhaps inevitable that incantations spoken on behalf of the dead would get their turn: In a gesture widely covered by the U.S. media, Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel has called on Mitt Romney to denounce the Mormon practice of posthumously baptizing non-Mormons — Jewish Holocaust victims, in particular. Here in Canada, former Canadian Jewish Congress president Bernie Farber is publicizing the issue. In an op-ed (see below), he writes that “the effort at posthumous conversion stings our collective Jewish soul.”
    Such posthumous baptisms take place in large baptismal fonts in Mormon temples. Mormon volunteers read out a list of names gathered from a genealogical database, and each dead person is vicariously “baptized” by dunking another volunteer (the stand-in) into the water. At this moment, up in Mormon limbo, the soul of the deceased non-Mormon in question becomes alert to the baptism, and then has the option of “accepting” it. No soul is “coerced” into everlasting Mormonhood, the idea goes: If you want to stay out of Mormon heaven, you can …”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2852761/posts

  47. Ici Quebec.
    …-
    “Quebec anti-corruption squad descends on Montreal-area mayor”
    …-
    “Westmount’s most wanted: Man who dared feed squirrels targeted in elaborate stakeout
    “On that day, your Honour,” Officer Armand Morin explained, “I was assigned to an unmarked car, and I was asked to see if Mr. Klepper was still feeding the animals””
    …-
    http://www.nationalpost.com/index.html

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