Blake Shinn needed just 56.55 seconds to return to the winner's circle in a dream comeback from a life-threatening neck injury.
Shinn charged home on two-year-old first-starter Dawn Passage in the first at Randwick and immediately looked to the heavens after the winning post.
While not a religious man, Shinn told The Sun-Herald he was a big believer in fate and was delighted his five months of hard work to get back in the saddle was immediately rewarded.
The 31-year-old also pointed out that he booted home a winner on his first day back at work when he returned from a betting disqualification.
"You can't ask for a better start, it's the kind of start you can dream of,'' Shinn said.
A lot of things have happened the last five months, and it's all come together. I really believe things happen for a reason.
"A lot of things have happened the last five months, and it's all come together.
"I really believe things happen for a reason.
"When I think about my life and who I've become, there's someone looking down on me.
"We won the Melbourne Cup [on Viewed] by a whisker, missed out on a Golden Slipper winner [Sebring] because of suspension, came back and won the Slipper [on Capitalist], and I could have lost my life in a fall only to walk away with a broken neck.
"I remember I came back from my betting disqualification, and my second ride on my first day back I won on Tellora at Sandown.
"I won a race for Wendy Walter on her last day of training with I've Got The Looks, and that was a tribute to [the late] Guy Walter.
Shinn was speared into the turf during a Randwick trial in August and fractured his C1 and C3 vertabrae. Only two per cent of people who suffered his injury avoided being a quadriplegic.
Shinn went to bed at 10pm on Friday and gave himself a rare Saturday off from trackwork. He weighed in at 55.5kg, a comfortable weight for him he said.
"When I put my head on the pillow I said to myself, 'I can not have done any more to prepare myself for today','' Shinn said.
One member of the crowd yelled out ''welcome back, my boy'', as Shinn smiled upon returning to scale. Shinn kissed the hand of former Australian Turf Club board member Wilf Mula.
Gai Waterhouse has always been a big supporter of Shinn and praised the hard work he had put in to return.
"It just felt like I was coming back to work and I felt very calm and relaxed, not nervous – it felt like another day at the races, which is great,'' he said.
It was a rollercoaster week for one of the country's best jockeys as the family were forced to close down their stables in Victoria because of the cobalt saga. The Hope racing stable tweeted they were ''bursting with pride'' within minutes of Shinn kicking home Dawn Passage.
Dawn Passage and Shinn were camped in the middle of the pack before the gaps opened and the colt showed brilliant speed to put three lengths on his rivals.
Shinn gave Tom Melbourne a dream ride and looked the winner 300m out. He was the first jockey to ride Tom Melbourne when he arrived at Chris Waller's stable and recalled getting pipped on the post, so it was nice for both of them to redeem themselves.


Rivers and the Chargers took down Seattle in Week 2. Can the Packers do the same?
The Seahawks' secondary is getting all kinds of publicity leading up to this weekend's NFC Championship, and for good reason: they're really good. They've thoroughly flummoxed just about every top-flight quarterback they've faced, including Aaron Rodgers in Week 1. The Packers famously made the decision to avoid Richard Sherman entirely that day, cutting off half the field even more effectively than Sherman already does. It didn't work. The Seahawks were more than okay with the Packers avoiding half the field, and the Packers couldn't do enough on the half they alloted themselves to even put a small dent in Seattle's defense.
It won't be the same this time around, however. The Packers have already gone on record as saying they'll be going Richard Sherman's direction, and I think we'll see some new wrinkles that Mike McCarthy is cooking up this week, much like he did in preparation for the New England Patriots.
Asked how he would attack the Seahawks, Holmgren said that he would throw on first down and run on second because Carroll tends to have his big linemen in the game on first down and replace them with his pass rushers on second down.
"They're going to bring their 'quicks' in on second down," Holmgren said. "They substitute a lot on second down. When they go to their smalls, you run and try to get in third and short. Then you have a chance.
"That's what San Diego did (in a 30-21 Seahawks loss)."
A look at the play-by-play data from San Diego's Week 2 tilt with Seattle reveals this to be at least partly true. Overall (and not counting kneel downs), the Chargers called passes on 16 of their first down plays and runs on...17. But wait! There's more! During the Chargers' impressive first half, in which they outscored the Seahawks 21-14, they went with passes on 12 plays and runs on just seven. That may be more the approach Holmgren was hinting at.
Could it work? The Packers have the personnel to do so, but pass protection will be even more at a premium. If quick passing on first down is the answer, the biggest question will be pass protection.


Big Red Machine, born of the friendship of Bon Iver's Justin Vernon and The National's Aaron Dessner, is less a band than a large-scale collaboration involving dozens of musicians.
Justin Vernon and Aaron Dessner are music industry veterans by now: Vernon has been recording and performing as Bon Iver since the mid-2000s, Dessner as part of The National since the late '90s. Along the way, both have had many side projects — and about a decade ago, as part of a benefit album, the two collaborated on a song called "Big Red Machine."
Now they've extended that collaboration into a new band and full-length album, also called Big Red Machine — and the scale of this team-up extends far beyond the two of them, incorporating friends, famous musicians and unknown artists all pitching in on a new platform designed to encourage collaboration.
"This is all part of something we call People, a large collective and community of artists that's been collaborating for a long time — which is a way to sort of work together and publish music that's sort of outside of the traditional marketing bottleneck," Dessner explains. "Big Red Machine is really a community effort: I guess it involves almost 30 musicians. It does come out of our friendship, but it's really something that is deeply collaborative."
Dessner and Vernon joined NPR's Ari Shapiro from a People event in Berlin to explain how Big Red Machine was constructed, and why it often felt best to leave the songs sounding a tiny bit unfinished. Hear their conversation at the audio link, and read on for an edited transcript.
Ari Shapiro: The song "Lyla" has this thickly layered background of sounds: percussion, strings, bleeps and scratches. Can you tell me how this came together?
Vernon: It started with Aaron making a lot of beats on his iPhone on tour. On that song specifically, there were just ideas that we had: "We want this person to play on this section — I think they would really bring their heart and individuality to this part of the song." Usually we have them record too much stuff, and then we kind of edit it down and mix it all in.
Dessner: It's really coming from this place of making music from a communal standpoint, where we weren't trying to be the auteurs of anything. We were really kind of reaching out and embracing this process, leaving the songs open to possibility and interpretation, and kind of intentionally not finishing them. So that's why, I think, the record has that kind of wilder, unfinished, in-process feeling. And that's a lot of this People energy that we're trying to encourage.
Shapiro: Is there a tension between the desire to create something that's collaborative and the fact that everybody knows Bon Iver and The National? Some of these other musicians might not be as well recognized, and might kind of feel like they're operating in your shadow a little bit.
Vernon: I can speak to that. It's the opposite when we're here. I'm walking around just like everyone else, trying to do as much music as I physically can because that's my dream, that's my love. This is about giving people a different way to think, allowing them to see things in new ways where it's not about who's successful or who's the most popular or who made the most money or something. None of those things really play here. It has nothing to do with why we started playing music in the first place, and [is] very much a reaction to some of the things that have, frankly, made me and Aaron very uncomfortable in the years we've been so-called professional musicians.
Shapiro: I should explain — you talked about being "here" — we are speaking to the two of you in Berlin, where you've convened this gathering of musicians who might have collaborated virtually through this platform you've called People, but now this is an in-person meeting.
Vernon: Yes. And to be fair, or just fact check, we helped convene some of these people, but the community is so large now, there's no figureheads anymore. There's plenty of people here that I've never met or heard of, and now I'm starting new friendships with them as well. We just really feel like we're all in the mixing pot together.
Vernon: I know plenty of people who you might not be able to say are successful in the same way that you're saying me and Aaron are — however, they might be more satisfied on a daily basis than I ever am, because they've been able to navigate pressures and stay in their own cut. Me and Aaron, people know who we are and stuff, and frankly that's not way either one of us ever got into this business — and it's distracting. People start telling you you're really cool, and you get really tired of yourself after a while. So I really would mitigate that term, "success," in almost every way.
Shapiro: Just to help us understand what "rawness" sounds like in terms of the music we're listening to, is there a moment in a song that you can point to that might have been finished in a different way, in a prettier way, if you had been making a different kind of album?
Dessner: The song "Hymnostic" is kind of a gospel song, and that song is really fun to sing with as many people as possible. And anyone can sing it, you know?
Vernon: I think "Hymnostic" could have been done with fiddles and banjos, and it'd almost be better for that song. But we wanted to stick the song on there, so we kind of dressed it up to stand alongside its brothers and sisters, if you will.
Dessner: I think the idea is that every time we perform Big Red Machine music it should be different somehow — like, different people, different songs maybe, definitely different versions of the songs. We kind of want to preserve that feeling of possibility. It's less of a band and more of a collection of music that can be conformed. That makes it more exciting, I think.
BON IVER: (Singing) Come on, skinny love, just last the year.
SHAPIRO: ...And Aaron Dessner as in the band The National.
THE NATIONAL: (Singing) I need my girl.
SHAPIRO: They first collaborated 10 years ago, recording a song called "Big Red Machine" for a benefit album.
JUSTIN VERNON: (Singing) We're safe when the love would come in.
SHAPIRO: Now they've extended that collaboration into a new band and full-length album also called "Big Red Machine." And this collaboration goes way beyond two successful musicians. I recently spoke with them from Berlin. And Aaron Dessner explained that this album has dozens of contributors - friends, famous musicians and unknown artists all pitching in on a new platform that's designed to encourage musical collaboration.
AARON DESSNER: So this is all part of something we call People, which is really a large collective and community of artists that's been collaborating for a long time, which is a way to sort of work together and publish music that's sort of outside of the traditional marketing bottleneck. So Big Red Machine is really a community effort. I guess it involves almost 30 musicians. And it does come out of our friendship, but it's really, you know, something that is deeply collaborative.
BIG RED MACHINE: (Singing) Sign it. Print a new path. Mind it. Well, I would've rolled past. Climb it.
SHAPIRO: Aaron Dessner and Justin Vernon explained to me that sorting out who contributed what to the songs on this album is a bit like trying to unweave a quilt. Take the song "Lyla" with its layers of percussion, strings, bleeps and scratches.
VERNON: It started with just Aaron making a lot of, like, beats on his iPhone on tour. And we were just hanging out at his house. And on that song specifically, there were just ideas that we had. You know, we want this person to play on this section. I think they would really bring their heart and individuality to this part of the song. And usually we have them record too much stuff, and then we kind of edit it down and mix it all in there.
BIG RED MACHINE: (Singing) I'm already off your reservation.
DESSNER: It was really coming from this place of really making music from a communal standpoint where we weren't trying to be the auteurs of anything. We were really kind of reaching out and embracing this process, leaving the songs open to possibility and interpretation and kind of intentionally not finishing them. You know, so that's why I think the record has that kind of wilder feeling or unfinished, in-process feeling. And that's a lot of this People energy that we're trying to encourage.
SHAPIRO: Is there a tension between the desire to create something that's collaborative and the fact that everybody knows Bon Iver and The National? Some of these other musicians might not be as well-recognized and might kind of feel like they're operating in your shadow a little bit.
VERNON: I can speak to that. This is Justin. It's the opposite when we're here because I'm walking around just like everyone else, trying to do as much music as I physically can because that's my dream. That's my love. This is about giving people a different way to think, allowing them to see things in new ways where it's not about who's successful or who's the most popular or who made the most money or something. It's - none of those things really play here. It has nothing to do with why we started playing music in the first place and very much a reaction to some of the things that have frankly made me and Aaron very uncomfortable in the years we've been so-called professional musicians.
SHAPIRO: I should explain. You talk about being here. We are speaking to the two of you in Berlin where you've convened this gathering of musicians who might have collaborated virtually through this platform you've called People, but now this is an in-person meeting.
VERNON: Yes. Yes. And to be fair or just fact-check, we helped convene some of these people, but the community is so large now there's no figureheads anymore. And there's plenty of people here that I've never met or heard of. Now I'm starting new friendships with them as well. So we just really feel like we're all in the mixing pot together.
SHAPIRO: But is that a luxury that the two of you have having been so successful already?
VERNON: I know plenty of people who you might not be able to say that they're successful in the same way that you're seeing me and Aaron are. However, they might be more satisfied on a daily basis than I ever am because they've been able to navigate pressures and stay in their own cut. And oftentimes, when you're like me and Aaron, like, people know who we are and stuff. And frankly, that's never why we - either one of us ever got into this business. And it's distracting. And people start telling you you're really cool. And you get really tired of yourself after a while. So I really would mitigate that term success almost in every way.
BIG RED MACHINE: (Singing) Holy torch my perdition. How important you'll be. Why don't you lay it down right beside me? Won't you lay it all by me?
DESSNER: It was a little bit difficult to decide when they were done from a point of view of not wanting to finish them and the actual sound world of them. We kind of liked the rawness of it and how it felt when we were just making stuff and not really thinking about it. So as you start to mix something and master it - and some of those finishing elements that are part of, like, a traditional process, they felt a little alien to this record.
SHAPIRO: Just to help us understand what rawness sounds like in terms of the music we're listening to, is there a moment in a song that you can point to that might have been finished in a different way, in a prettier way if you had been making a different kind of album?
DESSNER: The song "Hymnostic" is kind of a gospel song. And that song is really fun to sing with as many people as possible. And anyone can sing it, you know?
VERNON: I think "Hymnostic" could have been done with, like, fiddles and banjos, and it'd almost be better for that song. But we wanted to stick the song on there, so we kind of dressed it up to stand alongside its brothers and sisters, if you will.
BIG RED MACHINE: (Singing) Winter cost you peace of mind now. Winter cost your valentine. Why won't you come back on the runner? Won't you come right backside? I'll be singing for your health. I'll be righteous; you'll see.
SHAPIRO: Does the fact that this was such a collective process involving so many different people make it difficult to perform live or to tour with it?
DESSNER: We - I think the idea is that every time we perform Big Red Machine music it should be different somehow - like, different people, different songs maybe, definitely different versions of the songs. And we kind of want to preserve that feeling of, like, possibility. And it's less of a band and more of just a collection of music that can be performed. And so it makes it more exciting I think.
SHAPIRO: Aaron Dessner and Justin Vernon, thank you guys so much.
VERNON: Hey, thanks so much for supporting People.
SHAPIRO: Their new collaborative album is called Big Red Machine.
BIG RED MACHINE: (Singing) Well, you are who you are. Well, you are who you are. Well, you are who you are. Well, you are who you are. Well, you are who you are. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


Change the Change: Rebuild the GOP: Talk Radio Running the GOP?
There has been a lot of talk lately in the media about the lack of leadership in the GOP and speculation that talk radio hosts including Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh are taking control and be coming party leaders. I disagree with the notion that conservative talk radio hosts are attempting to become party leaders and I would argue that the hosts are simply providing a voice of opposition to President Obama's policies.
Rush Limbaugh has consistently been cited as the leader of the talk show coup against Republican leaders, and that should come as no surprise when considering that Limbaugh has been the most-listened-to talk show host since the mid 1990's. Limbaugh has an estimated 14 million listener base and recently signed a contract earning him $38 million a year through 2016. Limbaugh has also stirred the most controversy since the inauguration of President Obama, stating that "he hopes Obama fails." The media has been swift in playing Limbaugh's quote and criticizing him for not giving the President a chance to prove himself, but it is Limbaugh who has not been given a chance to criticize the new President. Taken out of context, Limbaugh's statement does seem premature and irresponsible in the sense that all Americans are depending on President Obama succeeding as President for the good of the country, but Limbaugh's statement is perfectly clear in the view of Conservatives who do not want to see America transformed into a socialist country. Limbaugh's statement in its entirety is in defense of American ideals of democracy, capitalism, and the free market. Limbaugh made it known that if President Obama's policies are going to turn the country into a socialist county, that he hopes President Obama fails, and so do I. President Obama was elected with a record indicating that he was the single most Liberal Senator in the Senate and it is only natural that liberal policies are going to be implemented. Conservatives must have the opportunity to oppose the Liberal agenda and it is no surprise that we would want Liberal policies to fail.
Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity have been critical of the stimulus bill that President Obama has been exhaustively advocating. Sean Hannity hosts a syndicated radio program on hundreds of stations across the country and hosts an hour long program weekdays on the Fox New s Channel. Hannity has been opposed to the stimulus bill since President Obama began pushing for it, claiming that the bill is polluted with pork spending and will do very little to improve the economy. Limbaugh has dubbed the stimulus bill the "Porkulus" bill and urges Republican Senators daily not to vote for the bill. House Republicans stood strong and not a single Republican member of Congress voted for it.
Conservative Talk Show Host's opposition to liberal policies should not be seen as an attempt to exert control over the GOP and should be seen as constructive criticism. Conservative Talk Show Hosts are rallying the Conservative base and putting social issues back in the spotlight, allowing Republicans to shine. There is a visible lack of leadership in the GOP, but Limbaugh and Hannity are not trying to fill the positions, they are attempting to educate their listeners so that those listeners can then select the new leadership that can rebuild the GOP.
we all do it if we have political tendencies at all.
i think that rush limbaugh is incredibly caustic to a decent person's sensibilities. railing against political correctness out of spite is for teenagers. the man has suffered immense arrested development with regard to appropriate social behavior. he reminds me of no one more than that beastly little big man i went to high school with who lived to get a chuckle from his "friends" (those kids that pretended to like him so they wouldn't be his next victims, though often they were anyway) at the expense of the fat girl or the unpopular boy or the kid whose father committed suicide.
he's a hate-monger, and a peddler of deliberate mis-truths, and he deserves to be called out for it. i believe that a person fails in their civic duty when they unhesitatingly believe what this guy tells them, and even worse, laughs at his monstrous sense of humor. but some people like that in an entertainer... or their party leader.
i prefer to look for guidance from practitioners of love and respect, and people whose goal it is to aid others, not to step on their backs in the climb to personal success.
more on this later..if your open to the dialogue!
ee-gads... come to my place, we'll talk sinatra instead!
Limbaugh was not a wealthy banker before he became a radio host. He dropped out of college and worked his way up in the talk radio business. He eventually started his own broadcasting company. He is a self made millionaire.
Don't really listen to him, do you! In fact, I'd be willing to bet that you've never listened to him. I suggest you take the challenge and actually listen to him for one hour a day for two weeks or so. It might change your mind about him. Not necessarily about the political points he represents, but about him personally.


Čas je, da gre politika v stečaj!
Everyone who had an ownership or leadership role in a bankrupt company is prohibited from co-owning or leading another company, for 10 years after the end of the previous company's bankruptcy proceedings.
Bankruptcies in Slovenia can take decades, so the effective duration of the punishment may be much longer than 10 years.
Not only that, but people who had an ownership or leadership role in a bankrupt company up to two years before the bankruptcy are also subject to the same prohibition.
Is that ridiculous, or what?
Who on Earth is going to want to run a business in Slovenia?
Suppose a company is in trouble and needs new leadership. Who's going to come to its rescue, risking to lose all of their rights to do business in Slovenia, in case they fail?
Given this new law, the most prudent course of action for anyone who wants to establish a new business is to establish it outside of Slovenia. Slovenia is a tiny country, and it's part of the EU. There are several neighboring countries, only an hour's drive away, where you can found your company in a more sensible jurisdiction. There goes Slovenian tax revenue!
This makes me laugh at the ineptitude of Slovenian politicians, as well as feel fortunate for leaving. A country that makes these kinds of choices is on a road to self-defeat.


Will Developments Like Aldea Zama Shape The Future Of Tulum Real Estate?
Exciting things are happening in Tulum - growing tourism, a new international airport on the way and brand new developments like Aldea Zama for real estate buyers. Developments like this one are offering a new and innovative way to enjoy the best features of the area. The question is, will they shape the future of Tulum real estate?
- Land for sale - The property which is gaining the most attention in Tulum right now is that of land for sale. The reason for this is that Tulum is currently a very small town, located just down the road from the very successful markets of Cancun and Playa del Carmen; investment in land is the ideal way to "get your foot in the door" of a soon to be booming market. Aldea Zama offers beautiful lots in a very green setting ready to be built on.
- Condo options - For those who wish to take advantage of all the benefits of Tulum and Aldea Zama, but are not terribly interested in going through the process of having a home designed and built, there are also a few condo areas; developers have already started offering preconstruction sales on these condos. As always, condos also offer hassle-free maintenance.
- Modern infrastructure - What begins to distinguish Aldea Zama from just any land development is the extent to which it integrates modern infrastructure into its design. Wide access roads, urban infrastructure and the best of communications wiring (all underground for visual appeal) makes life in this beautiful setting convenient and visually attractive.
- Village center area - This is the point where Aldea Zama becomes something uniquely different. Within the development itself, a rustic-contemporary village center area will be included. Buildings constructed of natural materials like stone and wood, offering the rustic/raw atmosphere, will be home to trendy modern stores selling the biggest names of international goods. There will also be upscale cafes and nice boutiques.
- Location near town and beach - The location is an important factor as well; it is within close walking distance of the Tulum's current town center, which offers a quaint combination of handicraft shops, local restaurants and basic services. It is also a walk away from the beach. Tulum's beaches are considered to be among the world's top 10.
While items such as the location might be hard to emulate, there is good reason to believe that future developments in Tulum will keep looking to this direction, combining a natural atmosphere with modern convenience. In any case, those who buy sooner rather than later will be gaining excellent lifestyle for a great value.


The "anti-anti-Trump" position is something of a family tradition.
But now that it's clear he was wrong about Trump's staying power, Kristol is articulating an “anti-anti-Trump position.” As Kristol explained in a series of tweets on August 20, “I remain not pro-Trump, but I'm once again drifting into the anti-anti-Trump camp.” Kristol’s feelings about Trump have been going up and down like a yo-yo. How do we explain that?
Irving Kristol’s partial defense of McCarthy was hugely polarizing. As Commentary editor Norman Podhoretz would recall in his 1967 autobiography Making It, the “notorious” article made Kristol “for a while the most controversial figure in New York.” In philosophic terms, Kristol, in the manner of the political theorist Carl Schmitt, was setting up a basic friend-enemy distinction, allying himself (and the American people) with McCarthy against cosmopolitan liberals, seen as inherently untrustworthy.
William Kristol’s filial loyalty might be endearing if they were put in the service of a better cause than defending a demagogue and libeling Democrats as anti-patriotic. But something more can be said about the parallels between how the two Kristols supported McCarthy, Bush, and Trump.
Irving Kristol’s partial defense of McCarthyism was rooted in fear. As the historian Peter Novick noted in his 1999 book The Holocaust in American Life, the strident anti-Communism that Commentary magazine adopted in the early 1950s was rooted in no small part by a fear that demagogues like McCarthy might try to smear American Jews as pro-Communists. As Podhoretz himself observed, the editorial line of Commentary at the time Irving Kristol’s article was published was guided by “a secret program to demonstrate that not all Jews were Communists.” (Podhoretz was a Commentary contributor at the time and close to the staff, although he didn’t assume editorship until 1960). Irving Kristol had an extra reason to fear McCarthyism given his radical past as a youthful Trotskyist in the 1940s.
In 1952, Irving Kristol wanted to make sure the McCarthyite mob didn’t go after him. In 2015, William Kristol is trying to keep the Trumpite hordes at bay, appeasing them with his anti-anti-Trump position so they don’t turn their ire against him. The task of standing up to McCarthy was left to people other than Irving Kristol, just as the fight against Trumpism will have to be waged without the help of William Kristol.


The neighbour grows pine trees and the speaker has an apple orchard. One day, the narrator along with his neighbour decides to walk along the wall which separates their properties. Therefore, the narrator says something does exist in the nature that does not want a wall. The elves are tiny, mythical, supernatural beings from folklore. The poem centers on a wall that separates one neighbor from the other. The woman leans over to slide a piece of paper into one of the cracks, hoping her prayer will be heard in this city of Jerusalem.
The gaps I mean, No one has seen them made or heard them made, But at spring mending-time we find them there. It is the narrator who selects the day for mending and informs his neighbor across the property. Mending Wall by Robert Frost: Summary and Analysis Mending Wall is a dramatic narrative poem in forty-five lines of blank verse composed by the 20th century modern poet Robert Frost. Lines 9-22: The poet rehearses the mystery of the wall. It comes to little more: There where it is we do not need the wall: He is all pine and I am apple orchard. Each brick should be labeled with something that students do to keep others out, or reasons that students keep others away from them, emotionally or physically.
I let my neighbor know beyond the hill; And on a day we meet to walk the line And set the wall between us once again. But first, admire this really well-mended fence, not from New England, but from the north of Co. It seems as if nature is attempting to destroy the barriers that man has created on the land, even as man continues to repair the barriers, simply out of habit and tradition. The wall, the dispute, the different philosophies of the two neighbours — all these may hold more significance than it seems. What is the tone of the line? Due to their mysterious shape, the narrator and neighbor find it quite difficult to put them in their previous position.
Make a list of as many jobs that a fence can perform as you can — at least 10. So, the verbal paradox may be reflective of a thematic one within it. The narrator, a New England farmer, contacts his neighbor in the spring to rebuild the stone wall between their two farms. The speaker does not see the reason for the wall and shares his disbelief in the wall with his neighbor. This way they search for rabbits hiding under the wall to please their barking dogs. To each the boulders that have fallen to each.
Also, remember to quote selectively to support the points you make. Through this poem, he has tried to explore the way people isolate themselves physically and emotionally by building barriers like fences to derive a sense of safety. He asserts that the wall crucial in maintaining their healthy relationship. In our lives, where a wall acts as a hurdle for people like seemingly unsociable, it also helps respect the privacy of your neighbor. Moreover, he cannot help but notice that the natural world seems to dislike the wall as much as he does: mysterious gaps appear, boulders fall for no reason. Noted philosopher and politician uses the poem to preface her 2016 book, Justice Across Boundaries: Whose Obligations? The three predominant tones used are those of questioning, irony and humor.
What is the irony in the poem Mending Wall?
The wall is not only a physical boundary; it also symbolizes the barriers between the two in other aspects of their lives. They do so out of tradition, out of habit. Frost, however, imbues his words with so much meaning that the poem is an allegory; the characters and their situations symbolize the enigma of what it means to be human. Born on March 26, 1874, in San Francisco, began to take interest in reading and writing poetry while he was in his high school in Lawrence. He moved to Britain where he came under the influence of Irish and English writers like Thomas Hardy and W. A well-mended wall keeps in a friendly sheep Answer the following questions carefully paying particular attention to the detail of the poem and the effects of language and form. The poem also explores the role of boundaries in human society as mending the wall serves both to separate and to join the two neighbors, another contradiction.
Sisyphus, you may recall, is the figure in Greek mythology condemned perpetually to push a boulder up a hill, only to have the boulder roll down again. His neighbor will not be swayed. They want to confirm that the wall stands intact at least in their presence. The elves are tiny, supernatural beings from folklore and myth. On the other hand, the neighbor feels that the wall acts as a privacy barrier and privacy and distance are essential for relationships to work. But, since here there are no cows and only trees, there is no need for a wall in between. I see him there, Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.
He is not only isolating himself with a physical wall, but with a social wall as well. In the brief argument which follows, the narrator teases his neighbor about this situation; but the neighbor repeats an old motto which he has thoughtlessly accepted. The gaps I mean, No one has seen them made or heard them made, But at spring mending-time we find them there. Love Thy Stone-Faced Neighbor The narrator initiates the wall building each year, but he also questions its necessity. My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
Here are but a few things to think about as you reread the poem. But here there are no cows. There are no stanza breaks, obvious end-rhymes, or rhyming patterns, but many of the end-words share an assonance e. In this poem, which tells of the springtime ritual of mending such a wall, two kinds of Yankees-or men-- are dramatically contrasted. While he chooses to present himself as a modern man, far beyond old-fashioned traditions, the narrator is really no different from his neighbor: he too clings to the concept of property and division, of ownership and individuality. He moves in darkness as it seems to me, Not of woods only and the shade of trees.
It merely explains the view of the speaker that something wanted to keep the wall from being constructed so it crumbles from the natural action. Go through the Solved Questions Keywords — mending wall summary 6. Mending Wall is an example. But, it is precisely because he was such an individual and his voice so original that Frost became so beloved. It is in first person narrative and cast in a continuous fashion rather than being divided into stanzas to enhance the informal, conversational tone. Moreover, the annual act of mending the wall also provides an opportunity for the two men to interact and communicate with each other, an event that might not otherwise occur in an isolated rural environment. The fence suggests national, racial, religious, political and economic clashes and discrimination which disperses man from man and hampers the ways of cultivating good relationships.


How do I attach a install a heavy ceiling fan so it won't fly or fall off?
If you have access over the light (an attic, for example) this is what I'd do. Leave the existing electrical box in place that the old light attached to. Watch for wires and drill a 1/2 inch hole or remove the knock out in the center of the box at the top. Get the appropriate length of 1/8" running pipe thread; these come in lengths from 1/2" up to 3'. At the bottom of the rod in the box, attach a spreader bar with a threaded hole already in it to accept the 1/8" pipe thread of the rod. It may be in the fan/light kit or you might have to buy it from a light shop. Attach the spreader bar to the two screws in the box with the rod sticking up through the box into the attic.
Go up into the attic and place 2 - 2x4s, on edge, with the rod between them. Screw a plywood scab over the top into the 2x4s to keep them together and put the washer on top of the scab. Fasten these 2x4s across the ceiling joists or truss bottom cord. You will notice that the fan has a steel safety wire to help support it as well. This wire should be fastened to the 2x4s for safety. Now the weight of the fan is supported by the joists or truss. This will hold a very heavy fan.
If you have to make a large hole around the box, you can install a rosette around the box later. They come in a variety of sizes and designs, giving an easy fix to a messy hole.


Mummy: “Why do you enjoy Chuckle Millie?” Millie: “Because I have cake and she does fun stuff with me!” Homely Environment - I will start with this, as getting the setting right for Millie is priority. If she feels nervous, 'lost' or uncomfortable in her setting then she will not learn to her potential. Chuckles house is a home from home; it is lovely to be greeted with the cafe and an array of cakes in the entrance hall! Cake and more cake - cake plays a major role in Millie's happiness at Chuckles. The guarantee of a snack half way through her session gives Millie a purpose/'bribe' to learn and establishes a routine which helps her feel secure. It is also an opportunity for Millie to practise handling money. Opportunities to wriggle between learning, to use the scooter board, practise ball skills, bang on the drums. Opportunities to wriggle (and for it to be encouraged not frowned upon) are a must. Millie learns the most when she's on the go. The opportunities to wriggle are also a 'hidden' physio session. Working with a small number of children of a similar age - This has given Millie the chance to form friendships in a quieter environment at her pace. Having the support of adults at the snack time aids Millie to start a topic of conversation and allow her the opportunity to finish her sentence. In a busier environment with her peers many sentences are left unfinished as other children will have over talked her. The most precious time for Millie is spent at chuckles snack developing her social and communication skills. The small space - a small setting meant Millie quickly settled and got used to her surroundings. It is never busy and overwhelming. It also means there is less distraction for an already very busy little girl. In Millie's words 'Fun Stuff ' - Learning in a multi sensory way has taught Millie that learning is fun and as a consequence this has increased Millie's confidence to try new things which has seen Millie's ability to work independently 'rocket'! Games - Bringing a game home to play with her family allows Millie to come up with the ideas and teach us the rules! It also ensures we spend time doing something fun rather than the serious stuff! Inspired and calmer Mummy - Last July I felt overwhelmed, I knew Millie was struggling at school, but I didn't know how to sift through all of the unachievable expectations from school. How did I pick out the relevant bits to help her? Chuckles team have stripped it back to the basics, Millie over learns in a multi sensory way and has made steady progress as she learns all of the foundations to help her to read, write and understand numbers. I now know exactly what I should be teaching her at home, it is short, focused, achievable and fulfilling as I watch Millie make steady progression in her confidence, learning and independence. An ear - School hasn't always understood the physical, social, sensory challenges Millie faces before she can even pick up a pen to write, or open her mouth to give an answer. Sara and the Team have continued to liaise and educate school about a 'day in the life of Millie'. It is so very hard as a parent to remain emotionally unattached when trying to explain your child's difficulties and to get action from the school to help to provide the best for Millie. Sara has provided many a precious hour of hers to consolidate my thoughts and provide an action plan. Sometimes this has been enough for me to approach school alone other times I've needed Sara by my side to express my thoughts. This support is priceless and appreciated and meant so very much to us as a family. There are lots of professional organisations which will form fill and then offer some random advice before closing the case and their door to further advice and support. It has been so refreshing to be in the presence of the Chuckles team who will stop and listen and not clock watch or look over your shoulder, but who care and actually always carry out what they say they will do to help you. Alternative- Chuckles understand that Millie is an individual with lots of beautiful hidden strengths. Millie follows a programme of over learning in multisensory way and this approach allows Millie to sparkle and achieve. Through Chuckles, we have recently found the benefits of using aromatherapy oils to help Millie to settle to sleep quicker at night. Chuckles also use the oils to calm her during her Chuckle Education sessions. Holistic Approach - Chuckles incorporates physiotherapy, health, education, social and communication skills, for me having all of this provided under one roof is refreshing and for Millie it takes the stress out of having to go to numerous appointments at different venues and with different individuals which would be unsettling. Leaping Hurdles - Examples include: School told me Millie 'had no imagination '- Sara found Millie the means to express her imagination. A visual prompt to get her thoughts flowing, Mum to act as the scribe, and the results were amazing. Millie had a school topic about influential famous people in the past. How do you describe the past to a little girl who confuses today, tomorrow, yesterday. Sara taught Millie the 'Time Warp' song to perform! (which she did with great confidence and pride) Which is still being used at school to this day! Chuckles finds alternative, out of the box ideas to help Millie to leap with great height over these hurdles along the way. Examples of how Chuckles have helped educate school have been: about the types of pens Millie is best to write with; multisensory ideas; advice about promoting Millie's social and communication skills; suggestions about Millie's position of sitting in the classroom. They have provided equipment to borrow such as weighted blanket to help Millie focus in the afternoons. Chuckles have also been integral in providing advice to Millie's annual review. In a nutshell (I'm not very good at doing a nutshell) learning has become achievable and fun for both Millie and me. Chuckles has been a much needed supplement to help Millie to continue to blossom within mainstream school.


This article is about the Interstate highway in Colorado and Nebraska. For the Interstate highway in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, see Interstate 76 (Ohio–New Jersey). For the 1997 video game, see Interstate '76.
Interstate 76 (I-76) is an Interstate Highway that runs from Interstate 70 in Arvada, Colorado (near Denver) to an intersection with Interstate 80 near Big Springs, Nebraska. All but 3 miles of the road's route is in Colorado.
Interstate 76 begins at an interchange with I-70 in Arvada. From I-70, the freeway heads east to an exit at SH 95, known as Sheridan Boulevard. The route heads northeastward across US 287, known as Federal Boulevard, to an interchange with I-25. Running roughly parallel to the nearby Clear Creek, I-76 meets another interchange, with Interstate 270 in North Washington, Colorado, where the Clear Creek joins the South Platte River, which is crossed by I-76. After an interchange at SH 224, I-76 joins US 85 and US 6 at Brighton Boulevard. Past Derby, US 85 veers away from I-76 at Dayton Way. The combined routes of US 6 and I-76 head northeastward, crossing SH 2, named Sable Boulevard, before meeting an exit at E-470, a toll road. Past E-470, the freeway exits the Denver-Aurora metropolitan area.
Passing just west of Barr Lake, the freeway heads northeastward east of Brighton. Near Lochbuie, the freeway crosses SH 7 before crossing into Weld County. I-76 meets SH 52 in Hudson, the next city along the freeway. Past Hudson, the combined routes of US 6 and I-76 turn slightly eastward into Keenesburg, which is served by a business loop (I-76 BUS). I-76 then turns northeast and east into Roggen, where it meets County Road 73. The highway heads away from the farmland it was formerly running through and traverses a large grassland area. Just south of the Empire Reservoir, the freeway turns back east, crossing into Morgan County within circular fields. Heading east, I-76 heads into Wiggins, near which I-76 joins US 34. The three combined routes head east through farms.
The freeway heads east toward Fort Morgan, spawning another business loop that carries US 34 away from I-76. The freeway heads east into Fort Morgan, meeting SH 52, now running again near the South Platte River. Still running between the South Platte River to the north and its business loop to the south, I-76 heads just north of Brush, where it meets a cloverleaf interchange with SH 71. US 34 veers away from the business loop as I-76 turns back east, crossing over the business loop, which does not terminate at the freeway. I-76 BUS carries US 6 toward Hillrose. Bypassing that city, I-76 traverses northeast into Washington County, with farms to the north along the river and grasslands to the south. Passing the Prewitt Reservoir, the freeway heads into Logan County. Heading northeasterly, the route crosses SH 63, which serves Atwood. I-76 BUS then enters Sterling, which is near I-76. The business loops turns abruptly east within the city, carrying US 6. US 6 continues past the interchange with the business route.
In Nebraska, I-76 stretches just over three miles (5 km). It is signed as a north–south direction as opposed to the east–west designation in Colorado. Its entire route is located in Deuel County, parallel to the South Platte River and U.S. Highway 138. Its only interchange is at Interstate 80, numbered exit 102 based on I-80's mileage.
Until 1975, both the western segment of Interstate 76 and a portion of the eastern Interstate 76 were signed as Interstate 80S. In July 1976, the already-completed route, I-80S, was renumbered to I-76 in accordance with American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) policy to remove the letter suffixes from Interstate routes and to avoid the confusion of this route with Interstate 80. This prompted the replacement of around 500 signs in eliminating I-80S. The number, "76", has an association with 1876, the year Colorado was admitted as a state.
^ a b c d e Colorado Department of Transportation. "The History of I-76 in Colorado". Colorado Department of Transportation.
^ a b "Nebraska Highway Reference Log Book" (PDF). Nebraska Department of Roads. 2015. p. 190. Retrieved January 8, 2017.
^ Microsoft; Nokia (March 3, 2011). "I-76 in Colorado" (Map). Bing Maps. Microsoft. Retrieved March 3, 2011.
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You see your phone light up from the corner of your eye and instinctively reach for it. What started as a simple notification check snowballs into an hour-long session as you swipe through rows of notifications and scroll through endless social media feeds.
However, that's starting to change, and we could be at the precipice of a shift in how software is designed. Apple and Google are implementing new features aimed at curbing phone usage, and apps like Instagram are rolling out features intended to help you manage your time with the app better.
Tristan Harris previously worked at Google as a design ethicist, and he saw first-hand how developers worked to capture people's attention and hook them in. He was part of the infamous "Facebook Class" from Stanford. Led by instructor BJ Fogg, who oversaw the Persuasive Technology Lab, they studied how to "persuade users to take certain actions," according to Wired.com. The article stated that the class "developed the techniques to make ... apps and gadgets addictive" and that members of the class went on to create Instagram and design products at companies such as Google, Facebook and Uber.
Fogg told CNN that he disputes the characterization that his class taught people to create addictive technology.
Speaking about his time working at Google, Harris told NPR's TED Radio Hour that "at the end of the day, it was about capturing attention."
"You know, how would we hook people into spending more time on the screen or driving more page views or getting people to click on ads?"
After leaving Google in 2016, Harris went on to found a nonprofit that is now called the Center for Humane Technology, and he started the "Time Well Spent" movement.
"With Time Well Spent, we want technology that cares about helping us spend our time, and our lives, well -- not seducing us into the most screen time, always-on interruptions or distractions," Harris says.
The movement made waves in Silicon Valley and set in motion a sea change in the tech industry.
How are tech companies addressing the issue?
Apple was likely spurred to action after two major investors, Jana Partners and the CalSTRS (California State Teachers' Retirement System), urged the company to help fight phone addiction in children in an open letter to the board of directors at Apple earlier this year.
Apple responded with the introduction of tools in its new iOS 12 operating system aimed at informing and empowering users to better manage their smartphone usage and parental controls that allow parents to better monitor and control their children's phone time.
Screen Time is an activity dashboard that gives users a detailed breakdown of how much time they spend with each app, how often they pick up their phone and how many notifications they've received from each app. You're able to set daily limits, which lock the app after you reach your limit. Granted, the lock is easy to bypass; it's more of a reminder that you have reached your limit as opposed to a true barrier to use.
Parents, however, are able to set hard limits on the phones of their children, completely locking them out of apps or categories once they reach their allotted time.
"Consumers -- and parents in particular -- are up against teams of engineers and psychologists designing technology that's meant to keep us constantly engaged," said Christine Elgersma, senior editor of parent education at Common Sense Media. "Even with tools that tell us we're checking Twitter 100 times a day, we may still feel the same compulsion to check because of the way devices and apps are made."
Google has included similar tools in the upcoming version of Android Pie that it's dubbed "Digital Wellbeing," which is currently in beta testing. The tools offered by Apple and Google are almost mirror images of one another, but Google goes a bit deeper than Apple. For instance, the app icon is grayed out once users hit their limit, and to get around the app limit, users have to open the dashboard to manually remove it as opposed to simply clicking the ignore pop-up with iOS 12.
Google also offers a "Wind Down" feature to set at bedtime, which automatically puts the phone into Do Not Disturb mode and puts the entire screen in grayscale mode. No notifications will show up on your phone, and losing all color on-screen is certainly an incentive to put your phone away.
"These are band aids," Adam Alter, author of "Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked," tells CNN. "Instead of actually producing tech that's good for us -- that helps us live better lives -- these tools basically suggest that the tech itself can't be improved, so we're stuck with trying to discourage or curb usage."
Alter believes that the way technology is designed needs to be changed so that the addictive features are more consumer friendly and truly good for your well-being. However, he does not believe that change will happen anytime soon, even if these "companies have a moral obligation to minimize the harm they do."
Will new tools impact the bottom line?
Google makes most of its money through ads, and limiting screen time can potentially have an adverse impact on its profits. Still, the company is investing in Digital Wellbeing. Even if Google's products never get to the point of being friendlier to consumers, as Alter has suggested, Google has made a conscious decision to put profits at risk.
"We take our responsibility to our users and society very seriously and strive to build products that make people's lives easier, not detract from them," a spokesperson for Google tells CNN. "We have been working hard to add key capabilities right into our products, and our goal is to help users achieve the balance with technology they're looking for, with a focus around awareness of their current behavior, and controls to help them interact with their devices."
"At this point we know devices are here to stay, and we see that there are effects around how we use it," Elgersma says. "Instead of psychologists working to keep us hooked, what if we had child development experts involved in the development of tech kids are using, especially since those creating tech often aren't yet parents?
"What if we funded research and education around these issues so that the generations who are growing up online with devices were better equipped to use them responsibly and knew the proven, long-term effects of overuse? So, we all have an obligation for kids, but the responsibility should be shared more equally, starting with those who create the tech in the first place."
When is screen time a problem?
There are still no clear guidelines on what constitutes tech addiction, but it's a growing concern likely on the minds of parents everywhere as they see their kids' faces constantly glued inches away from a screen. And everywhere you go, you're all but guaranteed to see people buried in their phones.
"The term 'tech addiction' is itself empty," Alter says. "Tech itself is only the vehicle for hundreds of different experiences, some of which undoubtedly become addictive for some people. They vary considerably, so I prefer not to use a single label to describe them, though most are delivered on screens."
Apple and Google may be the two biggest culprits, as their products are the vehicles to deliver these experiences. However, Facebook deserves a fair amount of blame, as CEO Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged in a blog post earlier this year, directly referencing the Time Well Spent movement. The social network announced plans to roll out changes aimed at making interactions more meaningful.
"By making these changes, I expect the time people spend on Facebook and some measures of engagement will go down," Zuckerberg said. "But I also expect the time you do spend on Facebook will be more valuable. And if we do the right thing, I believe that will be good for our community and our business over the long term too."
Facebook and Instagram have begun to roll out features to better engage with their platforms, and users will soon have access to an activity dashboard, a daily reminder limit and more controls over notifications.
"What matters most in the long run is that people connect and share in meaningful ways on our platforms," Ameet Ranadive, Product Management Director at Instagram, tells CNN. "It's very important that people feel like the time they spend with Facebook and Instagram is time well spent."


Watching the news this election year, you'd think the vitriolic tone that pervaded our nation would make vitriol or vitriolic a contender for Dictionary.com's Word of the Year. They chose instead what you might consider a specific type of vitriol: xenophobia (explored in this issue of Make Your Point). Well chosen, Dictionary.com.
Literal vitriol is a certain sulphate of metal that's known for being corrosive (for damaging things by eating away at them). And figurative vitriol is a tone or feeling of sharpness, meanness, and harshness. If your words have vitriol, it's like they are acidic, bitter, dangerous chemicals.
So, someone or something vitriolic is very sharp, mean, and harsh.
1. Right before a noun, as in "a vitriolic thing" or "a vitriolic person."
Just the noun: vitriol ("VIT ree all").
Talk about vitriolic people, or people who speak or write in a vitriolic tone or style; vitriolic attitudes, feelings, and sentiments; vitriolic words, messages, accusations, discussions, and so on. Even entire events, campaigns, and periods of time can be vitriolic.
Alanis Morissette mellowed in subsequent albums, but we'll always love belting out those vitriolic lyrics in "You Oughta Know."
Leah Remini managed to inform the public, without vitriol, of the abuses and brainwashing inherent in Scientology.
Look away from the screen to explain the definition in your own words. You’ll know you understand what "vitriolic" means when you can explain it without saying "acidic" or "hateful."
What's something that people disagree about very, very strongly? Fill in the blank: "Sometimes you have to step away from the vitriolic debate over _____."
Example: "Sometimes you have to step away from the vitriolic debate over welfare."
First, try to recall from yesterday the literal meanings of "comma" and "illustrate" and the original meaning of "martyr." Answers appear at the bottom of this issue.
B. "to bring toward the center."
C. "to turn a profit."
2. The conversation grew vitriolic, leaving both of us _____.
1. "Comma" literally means "a piece which is cut off."
2. "Illustrate" literally means "to light up."
3. "Martyr" originally meant "a witness."


We'll see two general techniques applied to the traveling salesman problem. The first one, branch and bound, is a classical approach in combinatorial optimization that is used for various problems. It can be seen as an improvement of the brute force search: we try to construct a permutation piece by piece, but at each step we check whether it still makes sense to continue constructing the permutation (if it doesn't, we just cut off the current branch). The second one, dynamic programming, is arguably the most popular algorithmic technique. It solves a problem by going through a collection of smaller subproblems.
As we've seen in the previous modules, solving the traveling salesman problem exactly is hard. In fact, we don't even expect an efficient solution in the nearest future. For this reason, it makes sense to ask: is it possible to find efficiently a solution that is probably suboptimal, but at the same time is close to optimal? It turns out that the answer is yes! We'll learn two algorithms. The first one guarantees to find quickly a solution which is at most twice longer than the optimal one. The second algorithms does not have such guarantees, but it is known to work pretty well in practice.


Why Should You Use My Recipe?
I've been baking peach cobblers for years, and I've learned a few things to do -- and what NOT to do. The fact is that there's quite a big difference between a merely "good" peach cobbler and a truly great one.
The following recipe has been getting raves for a lot of years now, and I'm sure you'll get lots of praise when you bake it, too. Don't be put off by the long instructions. They may look intimidating, but they really aren't.
I'll walk you through every part of the process.
Let's face it. An outstanding peach cobbler comes down to only two things: great peaches (of course) and a knockout crust. Some people will overlook merely "average" peaches if they're topped by an incredible crust.
Here's how to make the best cobbler crust you ever tasted. I've looked all over the Internet and I have never seen a recipe and technique quite like the one I'm about to explain to you.
Mix the flour and salt in a bowl large enough for you to easily work your hands inside of it.
Chop the butter into pieces the size of marbles and drop them into the flour, and put in small pieces of the lard or shortening. Toss the butter and lard pieces in the flour, then begin to rub them into the flour with your fingers.
Here's the odd part: after you've mixed about half of the butter/lard, meaning you still have roughly half of the marble-sized pieces still in the flour, wet your hands at the tap, shake off the excess, then continue to mix the butter and flour with your fingers. You'll need to wet your hands 3 or 4 times while you're combining the flour and butter.
Leave some larger pieces of butter (about the size of peas) -- they will make your crust flaky.
Spoon about 5 tablespoons of the iced water in your flour, and then use a fork to slowly incorporate the water. It's okay to add more water. Most recipes don't include enough water. However, because you've wetted your hands with water you will notice that you won't need much more than the original 5 tablespoons.
Gather it into a ball and place it on plastic wrap. If there's a little bit on the bottom of your bowl that's still dry, it's okay. Press it onto the top of the ball of dough, wrap it up tightly and put it into the fridge.
I know, I know. Who has the time to make dough then chill it? But... hey... this step of chilling the dough is absolutely vital to making a phenomenal crust. The dough needs to chill for at least an hour, preferably two hours.
I usually make my dough in the morning, put it into the refrigerator, then later in the afternoon when I'm ready to make the cobbler, my crust-dough is ready to go.
If you're using fresh peaches, simply drop them into boiling water for about 30 seconds (this makes it easy to remove the skin) then slice them into a bowl.
If you're using peaches from the freezer, you'll want to let them come to room temperature.
Combine 1/4 cup of cornstarch with one cup of sugar. It's important to combine these before you add them to your peaches.
To four cups of peaches add the sugar/cornstarch mixture and stir carefully.
Squeeze half of a lemon into your peaches then grate about one teaspoon of the lemon rind (the yellow part, not the white part) into the bowl then combine well.
Spray your baking dish with Pam (makes it really easy to clean later, and even an older dishwasher will be able to clean the dish if you do this) then pour your peaches into it.
Now you're ready to make your lattice crust.
Lay out sheets of aluminum foil on your counter then cover with a light dusting of flour.
Remove the dough from the refrigerator, and press it into a flat disk with your hand. Using your roller, roll the dough from the center outward till it is about an 1/8th of an inch thick.
As you roll, you'll need to lift up the dough and sprinkle flour beneath it. I usually end up turning the dough a couple of times, to make sure it doesn't stick to the foil. You'll find that working with thoroughly chilled dough is so much easier than working with dough you just mixed!
Slice the dough into long strips, and lay them in a criss-cross pattern on top of your peaches in the baking dish.
In the "holes" created by the lattice-crust, put small pieces of butter. I usually just slice off a thin sliver of butter from a stick, then cut that into fourths. Each of these "fourths" goes into a hole.
Sprinkle sugar on your crust, then carefully sprinkle grated nutmeg and a little cinnamon onto the crust. It doesn't take much, but adding nutmeg to the top of the crust will really increase the delicious aroma when you take it out of the oven.
Then I spray my cobbler with Pam. This will make your crust glisten in the same way that an egg-wash will make it glisten. The only difference? It takes me about 10 seconds to spray it with Pam, and quite a while to beat an egg with ice water and paint it onto the crust. In my opinion, the Pam looks better and it certainly is easy.
Put your cobbler into the oven and set the timer for 45 minutes.
Depending on your oven, it may take as long as an hour—you're looking for the crust to become a delicious, crusty brown. After all, part of the charm of a cobbler is the texture contract of soft sweet peaches with crispy crust.
Serve it with vanilla ice cream, and get ready for the raves!
What size baking dish do you use for peach cobbler? How many servings does a recipe yield? Do you serve hot or cold?
Use a 13X9 baking dish. The recipe serves 12 -- 15 people. Cobblers are usually served room temperature, but if you can time the baking to serve it hot, then go for it! I always serve cobblers with vanilla ice cream.
Why do you not put crust on the bottom of your cobbler?
I've put a crust on the bottom before my cobbler before, but it gets soggy. I know that some people like these dumpling-like soft pieces, but I prefer it crispy on the top and avoid crust on the bottom.
If you like those soft pieces, then double the recipe and layer the bottom of your pan with the crust. Spoon the fruit on top then criss-cross the rest of the crust on top.
My peach cobbler crust is made, but the fresh peaches are still hard. Can they be used? Will they soften in baking process?
Hard peaches haven't ripened enough to make an excellent cobbler. But yes, they will soften as they bake. Increase the amount of spices to account for the lack of peach flavor.
Next time, wait until the peaches are barely ripe for best peach flavor when baked. Wait till they're perfectly ripe (able to indent the skin with a fingertip) for eating out-of-hand.
I've never made one like that before. But my guess is that you would bake the bottom crust first, then put the prepared (sweetened and spiced) peaches on top, then the top crust, then bake the whole thing.
A long time ago I knew a woman who would make two crusts, then roll one out and cut them into long slices then bake those on a cookie sheet till they wee crisp (like cookies.) Then she'd put those on the bottom of her baking dish then proceed as I mentioned above.
If you try it -- and it's successful -- write to me!
If I want a crust at the bottom, should I bake that first? and then do the filling?
You would need a pan that's larger than 9 X 13 if you double the recipe. Also, peaches extrude juice during baking so if your final cobbler comes to the top of the pan, place a jellyroll pan underneath it when you bake it to catch any drips.
Good luck with your cobbler! And thanks for writing.
If this is done in a 9 x 13 pan, how full is it for the finished product? Just curious as I am thinking about doubling and am trying to figure the size pan to use. Thanks!
Your adjustments were great! Sometimes when I have lots of peaches I'll up the size of my crust, too. Wish I had a pic of your beautiful cobbler.
Thanks so much for taking the time to write to me.
Ok.. this was the best cobbler recipe..i used fresh peaches, and a 9x13 pan. I wanted to be sure i had enough crust.. so i added 1/2 cup additional flour, bumped the butter 2 tbsp, and lard 1tbsp. I wanted to soften the crust a little and added 1 tsp baking powder and 1/3 cup sugar. I increased the baking time a little to get a good brown. It came out perfect and was delicious. I'd post a pic but can't figure out how!!
You can leave the lemon out since your friend is allergic. You'll still enjoy the texture of the crust, and those sweet peaches.
Thanks so much for reading -- and good luck with your cobbler.
Hi Buster! First of all, I want to start by stating that I enjoyed reading the instructions that you have posted. Thank you for taking the time to write such concisely, clear instructions. I cannot wait to try this. My grandmother had always made the thicker cobbler "dump" crust. Preferably for my family though, I wanted to try a thinner, sugary topping. We would like to try this out on a friend but she is deathly allergic to anything with citris acid or aspirin. Is the lemon necessary? Any thoughts or advice? Thank you from a Georgian peach born and raised!! Hope you have a wonderful day!
Yes, you can use canned pie filling. Arguably, the crust is the best part so... I say, go for it!
I have been looking for a recipe like this for a long time. I used to have a very old cook book with similar recipe. It got lost in a move. Had the best recipes. Thank you! It is a great crust!
Your comments have made my day! My grandmother loved to make cobblers, and the taste-memory I had of them is what lead me to put this recipe together. She made them willy-nilly so there was no recipe that I know of, so I had to experiment.
Anyhow, thank you... and here's wishing you a lovely Thanksgiving.
This was absolutely the best! Both the crust and the filling are wonderfully delicious and flavorful. It reminds me of the cobblers my grandmother used to make, and that makes me very happy. I can't wait to share this with family during holiday dinners. It'll definitely give pumpkin pie a run for the money this holiday season. Thank you so much for sharing!
What a nice surprise this early Sunday morning to find your comment. Thank you.
I would use 4 1/2 cups (ish) fresh peaches. In my view, 6 cups of peaches are too many for this crust recipe. Once you're using fewer peaches I think you'll like the peach-to-crust ratio.
I'm glad you've enjoyed it Fred -- thanks for taking the time to write to me.
I've made your peach cobbler about six times now. Great recipe! I usually use 12 fully ripe peaches which yields about 6 cups. When I bake the recipe in a 9" x 13" pan I seem to have too much juice for the amount of crust on top. Other recipes suggest pushing spoonfuls of dough into the peaches before adding the lattice crust. Do you buy this, or do you have other suggestions for increasing the crust to peach ratio?
Drain off the liquid if you're going to use canned peaches. I think 2 cans should be about right for this recipe.
If using canned peaches, do you use the juice also? How many cans would you say to use? Thank you for the recipe. I can't wait to try it.
Look just below "Final Touches" in the peach cobbler recipe. You'll see How To Freeze Fresh Peaches in blueprint. Click the blue print and the link will take you there.
Yes, absolutely! I've used this cobbler recipe with pears, plums, and nectarines. No other changes to the directions needed.
Can this cobbler be made with the fresh pears I prepared to freeze per your instructions, I had a wonderful year with my pears and I want to try different ways to use them. Anxiously waiting, Thank you so much for the freezing directions.
It means a lot to me that you'd take the time to tell me about your wonderful day.
Hey Buster,wanted to give you some feedback on the Peach Cobbler I made for my daughter's wedding rehearsal dinner about three weeks ago. I made two large ones to serve more than 50 people. By the time I got to eat, there were just scrapings in the bottom of the pans. The food was catered, but I chose to make the dessert. Several people wanted to know who made the dessert, and when I said I did, I got a request to make the same recipe for my niece's Wedding Rehearsal Dinner in July, and I'm so looking forward to it. Thanks again.
Your comments have made my day! Congratulations on the big event.
There isn't a bottom crust for a cobbler. The sweetened peaches are placed into a baking dish then the dough is cut and latticed on the top.
Good luck! And thanks for taking the time to write.
Is there a way to keep the bottom crust from getting soggy.. should I pre-bake the bottom crust first?
You've made my day! Thanks for taking the time to write.
This is delicious. Rolling it out and making the lattice was a snap. I haven't had old-fashioned peach cobbler in ages, and I can't believe I am the one who made it!!! Thank you so much for sharing.
Use a 13X9 baking pan. This recipe makes about 12 servings.
what is the serving size, and what kind of baking dish to use?
Yes, the bottom crust will be soft with no crunch at all.
I had another aunt who would put a few peaches into her pan, then a layer of crust, then bake that crust till it was brown (approximately 20 minutes or so) then she'd pour on the rest of her peaches (a lot!) then another layer of crust and bake THAT. The bottom layer would be soft, of course, but it would have a beautiful golden color.
if i use the crust on bottom add peaches then crust again, will the crust be soggy on bottom?
Good luck with your cobbler!
If when you taste them that you think "these could be sweeter" then add more sugar; if not, then the sugar you use for preserving them may be enough.
Err on the side of "too sweet" -- because the baking process will make them seem slightly less sweet.
I'm sure your cobbler will be a great success!
Hello there! Thank you for the recipe I am making it tomorrow! My question is that today I am preparing some peaches for the freezer... I am wondering if I use the one's I am preparing today for tomorrow's cobbler should I still add sugar and prepare as directed if I am using them tomorrow? They are ripe and are relatively sweet. I am still going to add a cup of sugar and lemon juice as you have indicated for freezing them... Should I still add more sugar tomorrow when I make the cobbler? Just want it to be perfect... It's for my Mom's birthday!!
When I have peaches that have lots of juice, I tend to spoon some of it off, so I'm only adding the cornstarch listed in the recipe. Adding more seems to make the peaches seem "slick" -- not sure how to describe it -- and so I'd rather add that extra peach juice to my orange juice in the morning, or (if I have a lot of juice) reduce it on the stovetop and put it on toast.
Thanks so much for taking the time to write to me!
I just froze some fresh peaches using your method and plan to make your cobbler soon! My peaches with the right amount of sugar added made a lot of juice! Have you ever needed to add more than 1/4 c. cornstarch to thicken during baking? I also like using tapioca. Looking forward to making your cobbler recipe! Thanks!
Yes, it works great to make the dough the day before, then bake it the day you plan to serve it.
Since you stated that it is best to make the cobbler the day you are serving the cobbler can I make the dough and keep it in the refrigerator the day before?
I'm so glad you enjoyed it. I plan to make a peach cobbler this weekend!
ThanK You for the cobbler recipe I cant wait to try it!!!
Do You have a recipe for Apple fritters?
The baking process doesn't improve the ripeness of peaches, of course. If I were you, I'd wait until you have enough ripe ones, then make this cobbler.
The best fruit desserts are always made from the ripest, best fruit you can find.
Hey Buster - What if my peaches aren't super ripe? I have a few ripe ones, but most of them are pretty hard. I'm under kind of a time crunch because I'm supposed to make this tonight (although reading your same day recommendation I might make it first thing in the morning). Will this turn out okay still? Do I need to add extra sugar or anything? Please let me know! Thanks!
I'm glad to hear about your success with the cobbler.
I always freeze fresh peaches -- not only do they make great cobblers throughout the year, but I like adding them to fruit salads and smoothies.
Thanks for taking the time to write to me.
I made this peach cobbler last weekend and it was excellent! I received rave reviews from everyone and several requests for the recipe. Thanks for sharing! I have a box of fresh peaches that I plan to put up using your "freezing peaches" advice, so that I can continue to make cobbler with fresh peaches throughout the cold season.
Thanks for answering so quickly, & for the good advice.
Yes, it's possible to assemble a cobbler, freeze it, then bake it later.
Here's the trick: after your dough has fully chilled, roll it out quickly. THEN toss your peaches with the sugar and corn starch. From this point forward, assemble quickly. What you want to avoid is having your freshly rolled out crust sit on wet peaches -- it can make it soggy.
Cover the cobbler with foil and put immediately into the freezer.
When you're ready to bake it, remove it from the freezer and put it (still frozen) into your PREHEATED oven, just like I've mentioned in the recipe. The cobbler will take longer to cook... though usually not much more than about 20 minutes or so.
I hope this helps -- and good luck!
I am having a family reunion & would like to assemble this cobbler, freeze it, & then cook it the morning of the Reunion. Do you think this will work, & would you happen to know what temp & how long?? Thanks!
Some flours do need a little extra water, so you may have put your finger on the issue.
Like you, I've noticed that when my crust looks a bit "ragged" when I'm rolling it out... it turns out even flakier than I could hope for. Julia Child used to write that she liked her crust to "look bad" when she was rolling it out -- this confirmed for her that she was about to make the best crust ever.
Thanks for your encouraging words. I love cooking and baking, and enjoy writing about this incredibly rewarding activity.
After thinking more about my dry crust problems, I'm now wondering if using White Lily A-P flour, which is lower in protein, might have made the difference. The instructions on the WL flour bag read "use 2 extra TBSPS. of WL flour per cup to equal one cup of regular all-purpose flour. I also had ALL my ingredients ice cold which made them very hard to work in together...wondering now if they were TOO cold! After I did manage to get it on the cobbler, though, it baked fine. The crust was SO flaky!!
Thanks for your prompt reply and helping so many people enjoy baking. Hope you decide to write a cookbook. I, for one, would be first in line to buy one.
The Chemists in the Kitchen say that the amount of water needed for making crust is dependent on the amount of moisture in the air. Sometimes when I make cobbler, I'll need 7 tbsp. of water... but there have been other times that I had to add another 2 or 3 tbsp. I wish I knew the full reasons for this, but I don't.
Here's how I gauge it: as I add in the water and carefully stir it into the flour, I try to gather it into a ball. If it will *mostly* come together, then I know it's ready to be wrapped and put into the fridge. While there, the moisture will continue to work its way through the flour. However, if my ball of flour falls apart, then I add another tbsp. or two of water, stir, then see if I can make it come together.
Be careful to avoid overworking the dough -- it can become tough.
I don't take my dough out of the fridge until I'm ready to roll it. It seems that I get a flakier, crisper crust that way.
Cobbler crust, like pie crust, is an art rather than a science. It sounds to me like you're on your way to becoming an expert.
I really appreciate that you've taken the time to write!
I've made your peach cobbler twice now and my husband and I think it's the best cobbler we've ever had. I had to use clingstone peaches yesterday, though, since freestones are not available in our area until July. They were still good; just not as good as freestones. I had one problem with the crust, though. I made it the day before, refrigerated it overnite, let it sit out awhile before rolling it out but it kept falling apart as I was rolling. It just didn't have enough water, I guess, but I had used about 7 tablespoons of ice water to make it, but guess I needed more, huh? I've always been very careful about using too much water. Any advice on this? I love reading all the comments.
Ahhh, fresh local peaches! I'm glad your cobbler was a hit! Thanks so much for sharing your story.
I made this today using peaches from a local farm, and it was DELICIOUS! We all loved it. Thanks for sharing your recipe and the techniques. The crust was fantastic.
Dewberries! Wow, I haven't heard about those since I was a child in the 60s. I wonder what happened to them? My grandmother made double-crust pies with them, and I loved their sweet-tart flavor.
As to your question about using canned cherries, it depends on whether they've been sweetened. Some cans are "cherries in syrup" and others are cherries without added sugar. I'm a big believer in getting out my spoon and trying them out. If they seem like they could use a dose of sugar, then I would add it till they're sweet like a dessert.
Thanks for writing -- you've made my day.
I'd like to help you, but I don't know what you mean.
Were they like large sugar crystals? If so, then those are called Sugar Crystals for Baking. They're about five times the size of regular sugar crystals, and add sparkle to the tops of sugar cookies, or cupcakes. I've seen them on cobblers, too... though that is rare.
Hi there...I'm going to really try this recipe asap...I just have a quick question...I had a peach cobbler at a restaurant and it had this sugar crystal hardened thing on top of the crust...I need that in my life lol...would u have any idea on how to make something like that?
I had an aunt who would layer dough then pour spiced peaches on top. She'd bake this until the crust browned, then she would pour more spiced peaches on top, then another layer of dough, then bake that till brown, then pour on more fruit, and so on. It would create soft dough layers, with the taste of browned crust.
Whether to use sheets of dough, or use a lattice structure, or drop the dough in spoonfulls... each baker does it their own way. I think cooks should try all sorts of ways, just to see if they might like the dough of their cobblers in a way that is different from what they're accustomed to.
Cool recipe. My mom did a similar but different one. She made the crust by hand and used lard and cold water. But she didn't refrigerate the dough. Also, she rolled it out into long strips, but put them down as sheets to cover, not as a lattice. She used canned peaches mixed with sugar and nutmeg, and poured some of it in the pan. Then she'd put in a layer of dough to cover, then some more peaches, another layer of dough, etc., finishing up with a dough layer to cover the whole pan. Again, no lattice structure. The result was a pie with soft crust layers in the middle, and a crisp dark brown crust on top, with peaches layered in as well. Delicious! In my family, no one ever makes lattice structure deserts, and cobblers are all made like this. They're all from Palestine and Ft. Worth, TX. I never see cobblers like this outside certain cultures /families like mine, have you?
The only substitute that I think (sort of) works is Splenda, which you use in place of sugar, and in the same proportions as the sugar called for in the recipe.
To be honest with you, I don't think anything is a substitute for sugar, in terms of taste. Splenda has an odd taste that reminds me of chemicals.
Anyhow, I hope the cobbler turns out for you!
I am planning on making this peach cobbler for Thanksgiving. Can you please tell me what I can use instead of sugar? I have a few family members that do not eat sugar and I need a good substitute. I am very excited to make this dessert.
SO good :) Very worth it. Thanks!!
Yes, same recipe different fruit.
I'm so pleased the cobbler was a hit -- thanks for taking the time to write.
I made this cobbler a couple of weeks ago with peaches from my farmers market. Delish!!! I had never made one but my boyfriend thinks he is quite an expert on them. It's his favorite dessert. He said this was the best one the ever had. I am making it with apples today. Do I just use the same exact recipe?
Love the story of how you've come to the recipe, and good luck impressing your boyfriend. This cobbler just might do the trick!
:D This recipe is just what i was looking for!!! Peach cobbler is my boyfriend's favorite, and i hope to impress him by baking the best cobbler he has ever had (and i have to compete against his amazing grandma) but i think the recipe will him over :) thanks a million!!!!
I'm making mine tonight. I'm hopeful!!
You use four cups of peaches. Since peaches vary in size, I'm unable to say how many fresh peaches.
Here's the easiest way: get a measuring cup, and begin slicing your (already peeled) peaches into it. Once you have four cups, you're good to go.
Hi! If I'm using fresh peaches, who many should I use?
Thank you Buster for your explanation. I will do as you say!!
A friend of mine always wonders why my cobblers taste better. She asks for "my secret" and I say: it's because you've believed that "the peaches are sweet enough as they are." This is true if you're eating them out-of-hand, but if they're in a dessert, well, you need to Make Dessert. And that means sugar. Yes, you can overdo it, but for this recipe -- using peaches you've put into the freezer -- following the directions will give you a fantastic-tasting cobbler.
A "Linda" already asked this question about the additional one cup of sugar when you freeze it and the juice of one whole lemon. I don't understand why you still add another cup of sugar and more lemon juice when making the cobbler when you already have put in one cupy of sugar and the juice to the four cups of peaches. Please advise.
Yes, this crust can be rolled out and simply laid on top of the peaches. Don't forget to slash a few holes in it for steam to escape (for a 9X13 pan: probably about 6 holes scattered evenly over the top).
I think a 9X13 is a great size for this cobbler.
Hi Buster... I am just wondering what size baking dish you recommend using? Thanks!
Corn starch can be tricky, but if you follow my recipe (mixing it with the sugar beforehand) you'll find it works great.
If you're using tapioca, then mix it with the sugar beforehand, and use the same amount as corn starch.
This was a fabulous recipe! I added a touch more sugar since my peaches were not overly sweet, and it was very very good! I double the crust recipe since I also had a large container of blueberries to use. Just wrapped it up in the fridge and will be using the extra dough to bake the blueberry cobbler off today! Of course the peach cobbler is LONG gone! Thanks so much for this recipe - it is a definite keeper! Enjoy everyone!!
I am currently in the process of making your cobbler recipe. I was wondering if you know how I can substitute tapioca for the corn starch in the recipe. I have never had a lot of success with corn starch. Thanks so much!
You can substitute margarine for the shortening/lard... or, you can simply increase the amount of butter that's called for.
This sounds great! The only thing is that I don't have lard OR shortening...is there anything I can use to substitute this? I can't wait to try it!
Thanks for letting me know about the cobbler -- serving it with peach ice cream is a fantastic idea!
I followed your advise; I prepped the entire recipe and added the crust just prior to baking. The cobbler was a huge hit! Instead of vanilla ice cream, I served it with Peach ice cream. It was delicious! Thanks so much.
I think it might make more sense to freeze those peaches from your neighbor. They will take up less room in your freezer, and when you're ready you can defrost them and make a cobbler whenever you're ready.
Hi Buster, I just found your page and this recipe sounds heavenly and can't wait to try it especially after reading all the rave reviews! Thank you for sharing!
I have a question for you: My neighbor (bless his heart) brought me a giantic bowl of already cut and peeled peaches from his orchard (probably about 10-12 cups worth). Can I make the cobbler then freeze it? I want to use the peaches before they go bad. Thanks for taking the time to help us all!
My concern is that the crust might become soggy from the juices of the fruit.
Here's a suggestion: make the crust dough, but don't roll it out. Make the fruit and put it into a 13X9 dish, cover with plastic wrap and put into the fridge. On the afternoon of your dinner party, you'll have everything ready to assemble and bake.
I love making this cobbler for dinner parties. I usually bake it in the middle of the afternoon, and have it on the counter when guests arrive. They love seeing a homemade dessert. I serve it at room temperature with ice cream, usually French vanilla.
I would like to make the cobbler the night before and bake the next evening for a dinner party, will that work?
So glad you enjoyed the cobbler!
And yes, this crust recipe works great for double-crust pies. The proportion of peaches to blackberries you mentioned is exactly right. Follow all directions and... you're good to go.
Thanks so much for letting me know how your cobbler turned out!
Sure, you can substitute cinnamon.
My parents "don't like nutmeg" but love my peach cobbler. When I told them there was nutmeg in it they were surprised. The amount should be *slight* -- enough to boost the flavor of the peaches, but it shouldn't taste of nutmeg. I know that might not make sense, but spices (ideally) should only enhance food.
Anyhow, to be clear, when I've made this cobbler and then realized (too late) that I didn't have nutmeg, I always use cinnamon with good results.
My family isn't to keen on nutmeg, could i substitute cinnamon with good results? Thanking you in advance.
I'm sorry. I just now read the previous post about using a variety of fruits. I understand that you just substitute the blackberries for the peaches and use the same ingredients--sugar, cornstarch, nutmeg and lemon juice/zest. Can't wait to give it a try!
Oh my word! This was amazing! Thank you for sharing and including your very detailed instructions. This is a keeper for sure. Would you happen to have a similar recipe using blackberries? Thanks again for this incredible recipe.