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Pride of Big Bend

Like most National Park Service units, Big Bend National Park is especially proud of its resources that are superlative—the biggest, the best, the most, the oldest, the first.  You may already know that Big Bend NP has more species of birds, bats, and cactus than any other unit in the National Park Service (NPS), demonstrating the park’s impressive biological diversity.

Here are some of Big Bend’s claims to fame, regarding fossils and geology:

  • Big Bend NP preserves a remarkably long and intact geologic record, spanning 130 million years. Most other parks, even those renowned for their fossil records and geology, cover a much shorter time span.

  • Big Bend is the only unit in the NPS where the Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary (K-Pg; formerly K-T) is exposed and can be observed.  These rocks were laid down 66 million years ago during the extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs and three-quarters of plant and animal species on Earth.

The K-Pg boundary is exposed in the badlands on the western side of the park.

  • Big Bend geology is extraordinarily diverse.  The park contains marine and continental sedimentary rocks, intrusive and extrusive igneous rocks, and metamorphic rocks.  This variety in the park’s geology supports the park’s biodiversity by creating changes in elevation, producing different soil types, and affecting the location of springs and watercourses, all of which provide a tremendous assortment of habitats for the park’s plants and animals.
  • Over 1200 different fossil species are known from the park, placing Big Bend in the top tier of “fossil parks.”
  • The world’s largest known flying creature of all time was found in Big Bend NP.  This is Quetzalcoatlus northropi, a pterosaur (flying reptile) with a 35-foot (10 meter) wingspan.

Big Bend's giant pterosaur on display at the Texas Memorial Museum.

  • Several species of dinosaur were discovered in, or are only found in, Big Bend NP.  These include horned dinosaurs (ceratopsians) such as Agujaceratops mariscalensis, Agujaceratops mavericus, and Bravoceratops polyphemus, and duck-billed dinosaurs (hadrosaurs) such as Gryposaurus alsatei.
  • Big Bend also has a tyrannosaur as big as the largest known Tyrannosaurus rex—it is probably a cousin of T. rex and a new species, but not enough of it has yet been found to positively identify it by name.
  • Another giant predator from the parks’ fossil record is Deinosuchus riograndensis—a 35-foot long giant alligator.  Fun fact:  we occasionally find dinosaur bones with Deinosuchus bite-marks, so we know they were eating dinosaurs.

Deinosuchus attacking a hadrosaur (artwork by Julius Csotonyi).

  • Big Bend NP contains the southernmost basin in the U.S., and its fossil record provides extremely important information on the evolution of mammal species on this continent.  Big Bend has produced fossils of the latest surviving primates prior to their extinction in North America about 40 million years ago.
  • At least 8 species of fossilized trees that are new to science were discovered in Big Bend NP.
  • At a site in the park 18 stumps of two species of flowering tree (Metcalfeoxylon and Agujoxylon) were found in their original growth positions.  This extremely rare “paleo-forest” is important because it allows scientists to reconstruct the ancient forest, by measuring spacing between the stumps and inferring tree height from the stump diameter.

Petrified stump in growth position, showing tree roots.

  • In 1940, legendary paleontologist Barnum Brown, of the American Museum of Natural History in New York, made the final fossil-hunting trip of his career to what is now Big Bend National Park.  His campsites and excavation localities are now considered to be historic sites.

Barnum Brown and R.T. Bird excavating dinosaur bones in Big Bend.

The 3 great North American mountain ranges meet in the Big Bend area:

  • Evidence of the Appalachian Mountains can be found to the north of the park, where distinctive white hogbacks are seen along Highway 385—these rocks were tilted by the same forces that created the Appalachians roughly 300 million years ago.
  • The Dead Horse Mountains in the park were uplifted as part of the creation of the Rocky Mountains roughly 65 million years ago.  Mariscal Mountain represents the southernmost expression of the Rockies within the U.S., although the mountain range continues south into Mexico.
  • Finally, starting about 17 million years ago, the Basin and Range mountain-building event caused the central portion of the park to sink, relative to the Dead Horse Mountains and the Mesa de Anguila, thus preserving the fossil-bearing deposits from erosion.

Big Bend has long been renowned among scientists for its remarkable fossils and geology, and now the Fossil Discovery Exhibit aims to share these with park visitors.


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  1. Awesomeness is the ultimate benchmark.  “Are we awesome?” covers people, systems, marketing, product dev … everything.
  2. Your internal culture is always manifested in your brand – especially in customer experience and product quality.
  3. If your brand appeals to both Hipsters and Republicans, you will be just fine.
  4. Institutional thinking produces sameness in your branding and marketing.  Sameness is also what you do when you have no differentiators.
  5. If you have no differentiators, you are not a brand – you are an entity.
  6. “Best kept secret” just means you suck at marketing.
  7. If you want mass market appeal, you will eventually have to sell to dumb people.
  8. A true message isn’t a slogan.  It’s an invitation.
  9. The relationship between a brand and an audience is just like a personal relationship.  It needs intimacy, validation and appreciation.
  10. If you can’t be awesome, can’t build something awesome, can’t treat other people awesomely, no amount of marketing can fix your brand.
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For medical providers, rare diseases are often edge cases they haven’t encountered in their education or previous practice.

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Confessional Exceptionalism

[Editor’s Note: This entry is part 7 of the Reformation Series.]

I believe in American Exceptionalism. No, I am not saying that the citizens of North America are intrinsically superior to any other people anywhere. We all are descendants of Adam, we all have inherited both condemnation and corruption from him. And we all bear the image of God, even as morally tattered as it is in its fallen state. Scripture speaks to this is a comprehensive sense, concluding, “For there is no difference” (Romans 3:22). In every nation there are individuals that rise above the mediocrity, or even the oppressiveness, of their surroundings to do amazing things in science, literature, athletics, art, and other areas of human endeavor.

What I am asserting is that the system of government and economics, the freedoms granted constitutionally have produced a culture that helps maximize human potential and helps democratize potential for “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” Our political environment—an environment that affects every other facet of human life both individually and corporately—is the result of decades, yea centuries, of discussion debate and battle to achieve the greatest possible orderly freedom for people in society.

The American experiment arose more than seventeen centuries after the axe was laid to the root of ceremonial, ethnocentric, civil religion promoted in first-century Judaism (Matthew 3:10). It arose more than fourteen-hundred years after the Constantinian change that led to another extended attempt to make religion thrive through its connection to the state. It arose about nine hundred years after Charlemagne practiced conversion through the sword, beheading thousands of Saxons, deposing them and disrupting their communities and families, and outlawing their religious practices before they would consent to be Christians. It arose about five-hundred-sixty years after the signing of the Magna Carta, a document that began the development of the rule of law even over the king, a principle that gradually expanded into more robust republican practices. It arose two hundred sixty years after the beginning of the Protestant Reformation initiating the democratization of religious knowledge and practice through the principle of sola scriptura. This generated fervent discussions of salvation by grace through faith and investigation of the nature of personal sanctification through hearing and reading the word. Such ideas naturally led to newly developed doctrinal ideas concerning the character of the church in its internal relations between ministry and laity and its external relation to the state. It arose after Balthasar Hubmaier, John Smyth, Thomas Helwys, Leonard Busher, and John Murton had written and suffered for their insistence on a believers’ church, liberty of conscience, and separation of church and state. It arose around one-hundred forty years after the Puritan migration began from England to New England seeking freedom for the church from an oppressive hierarchy and magistracy. It arose about one-hundred thirty years after the Puritan Revolution in England, a revolution that beheaded a king. It arose around one-hundred thirty years after Roger Williams wrote The Bloody Tenent of Persecution for Cause of Conscience and about one-hundred twenty years after John Clarke wrote Ille Newes from New England describing the persecution for cause of religious conviction in Massachusetts Bay. It arose within a generation after the First Great Awakening had produced such a multiplicity of evangelical denominations that a national church was impossible to establish but the ideal of self-government seemed eminently possible. It arose even as Isaac Backus’s protests gave new impetus to the Magna Carta principle of resistance to oppressive and arbitrary taxation.

It arose after intense political discussions occurred on the nature of self-rule for a nation such as those carried out in the context of theological ideas and enlightenment ideas in the Revolutionary generation. James Madison summed it up succinctly when he said that the American Constitution should not be seen as the “offspring of a single brain,” but “ought to be regarded as the work of many heads and many hands.” One might well add the phrase, “and many centuries and much righteous suffering.” Otherwise, the clear confidence with which the basic principle was set forth could never have been written: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.—That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”

This principle, worked out in the Constitution, and giving room for self-correction and legitimate expansion of its rights, constitutes, in my mind, the basis for American exceptionalism. The first evidence of this possibility of expansion and clarification came in the adoption of the first amendment: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

I also believe in confessional exceptionalism. As I have sought to demonstrate through this series on confessions, beginning with the early Christological formulations, doctrinal clarification has occurred through the labors of many centuries. Briefly, Trinitarian and Christological orthodoxy developed first. After some centuries, the Reformation brought about biblically grounded discussions and increased the clarity of the doctrine of salvation and the nature of biblical authority. Ecclesiological discussion emerged in that time frame with the rise of the Anabaptists and eventually the English Dissent movement within which English Baptists developed. The Westminster Confession embodied, to that point in the middle of the seventeenth century, the most mature, comprehensive, concise, and clear confessional expression of Christian orthodoxy and distinct Reformation doctrine.

The Second London Confession of the Baptists (1677, 1689) embraced those advantageous expressions of revealed truth and extended the doctrinal development into the area of ecclesiology. The full implications of the laying of the ax to the root announced by John the Baptist came to fruition in that expression of a believers’ church. The maturity of centuries of Christian exposition, formulation of doctrine, and efforts at giving clear expression to the New Testament model of the church were distilled in that confession. Not only did it serve the English Baptists in their defining themselves over against the established Anglican church, but also in their separation from other dissenting groups. This confession made its way to Boston by 1682 where it was deemed as fundamental to church union. It was the confession that defined “doctrine and practice” for the cooperative work of the Philadelphia Association. It was the forming doctrinal statement for the Charleston Association, served for the formulation of an abstract of doctrine for the Georgia Association and the Mississippi Baptist Association. Basil Manly, Jr. used it to write the Abstract of Principles for the founding of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. For two centuries, and beyond, Baptists found the Second London Confession as a clear, lovely, and comprehensive expression of those things most surely believed among us. The original publishers of the Confession stated, “Our whole design is accomplished, if we may obtain that justice, as to be measured in our principles and practice and the judgment of both by others, according to what we have now published; which the Lord (whose eyes are as a flame of fire) knoweth to be the doctrine, which with our hearts we most firmly believe, and sincerely endeavor to conform our lives to.”

Quite striking, therefore, is the phenomenon of Baptists saying that an adherence to this historic confession, a cordial investment in its doctrines as fundamental to ministry, disqualifies one from being able to make credible appointments to committees in Baptist life or cast a sound biblical vision for denominational mission. That is somewhat like saying that James Madison is unfit for evaluating the political implications of a proposed amendment in light of the intention of the Constitution.

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1- How the “fit” tests survive

Original Article: Lewis, G.D. et al., Science Translational Medicine 2, 33 (2010).

Visits to biochemistry labs are frequent in our lives. Often we give blood to know levels of different metabolites, such as glucose or cholesterol. Instead of looking at a handful of metabolites, a group of scientists from Harvard Medical School has screened more than 200 metabolites before and after exercise. Interestingly, the levels of 21 of these metabolites changed significantly following exercise. The study also showed significant differences between physically more fit and less fit individuals after exercise. Following exercise, more fit people had greater increases in the biological markers of fat-burning and had decreased oxidative stress -a state where the balance between oxidants and antioxidants shift towards damaging oxidant side. Hence, fit people can get better results following exercise by efficiently removing waste materials. Moreover, exercise increased the levels of “niacinamide”, a compound which modulates insulin sensitivity. This increase was more prominent in leaner individuals and was maximized in fast marathon runners after exercise. It has been long known that obese and less-active individuals had greater tendencies to develop Type II diabetes where insulin action is impaired due to decreased sensitivity of the body to this molecule. Understanding the biochemistry behind the exercise may lead to identification of small molecules mediating its beneficial effects. These molecules may then be used to boost up metabolism or treat diseases. Until then, it is best to exercise and stay fit.

2- Our scents make us targets

Original Article: Carey, A.F. et al., Nature 464, 66 (2010).

Are you avoiding spending time outdoors in summer evenings because most of your time has to be spent chasing away the unwelcomed attention of mosquitoes? If so, then you must be one of those “lucky” people whose perspiration contains a key chemical that makes you irresistible to the six-legged bug. Scientists at Yale University have identified a key chemical compound that is detected by one of the mosquitoes’ 27 smell-receptors in their antenna. These smell-receptors are tuned to detect the key chemicals from hundreds of meters away which make people who secrete large amounts of these key chemicals in their sweat vulnerable to frequent mosquito attacks. Depending on the species, usually only the female mosquitoes bite humans, mainly on their feet or lower legs. More importantly, mosquitoes carry several deadly diseases such as Malaria and West-Nile dengue fever. In fact, Malaria is one of the deadliest and the most neglected diseases, affecting more than 500 million people and killing more than 3 million every year, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa. Sadly, the majority of deaths occur among children. Therefore, these types of studies, far from being trivial, may in fact lead to a better understanding of those mosquito-borne diseases, and hopefully may lead to the production of more effective drugs both for the prevention and the cure of diseases as well as better mosquito repellents and traps.

3- We are not alone in our body: Genomes of microbes living with us

Original Articles: Qin, J. et al., Nature 464, 59 (2010) & The Human Microbiome Jumpstart Reference Strains Consortium, Science 328, 994 (2010).

New advancements in DNA sequencing technology allow scientists to sequence genomes of microorganism living in their natural habitat. Human body contains roughly ten times as many microbes as human cells. As part of Human Microbiome Project, scientists are decoding the DNA sequences of all microbes living in several parts of our body such as skin, mouth, gut, respiratory tract and urogenital tract. Two independent teams from US and Europe have produced the first results of DNA sequences of microbes living with us. The projects have initially focused on bacterial genomes but intent to sequence viral and fungal genomes as well. The US team has generated a set of 178 bacterial reference genomes and is aiming to generate many more. In the second project funded by European Union, scientists sequenced the entire microbial DNA in the gut instead of sequencing them individually. They have sequenced more than 3 million bacterial genes, nearly 150 times more than our own (humans have only ~20 thousand genes). Importantly they have found that bacterial species are different in healthy individuals compared to the individuals with inflammatory bowel disease. Throughout these projects, scientists are trying to reveal significant information about the role of different microbial species in health and disease states.

4- Seeing with the sound

Original Article: Yovel Y et al., Science 327, 701 (2010).

Bats, dolphins, shrews and swiftlets use sound waves for navigation and hunting. They emit short sonar pulses and listen to the echoes reflecting back from solid objects. Microsecond differences in the arrival times of echoes are coded by detector neurons and used as a main cue for positioning objects in an environment. This phenomenon is known as biosonar. A recent study published in Science reveals one unknown part of this perfect sound processing strategy. The study shows that bats do not center the sonar beam on the target. Instead, they aim to match the maximum slope of the beam to the target in order to increase the signal-to- noise ratio. Around the sharp edge, small variations of the target position can be detected as a clear signal change in reflected sound intensity. Furthermore, the researchers showed that if the environment is very noisy, bats could bias this critical point to increase amplitude of the echoes. As it turns, this powerful technique has already been employed by humans in engineering and used in various technological tools such as atomic force microcopy. Whether this strategy is used in general by other echolocating animals remains to be answered.

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In late June 2010, at the Glastonbury festival, the seeds were sown for Here We Magic’s latest album ‘A Different Ship’. The band was performing in the middle of the day, where groggy and sleepy-eyed passers-by floated by. From the stage, they could see two people at the front deeply absorbed in the music, exuding energy and emotion. The realization arrived shortly later that those two people were Thom Yorke and Nigel Godrich. A short time later Godrich went to a few of Here We Go Magic’s European shows and it was decided he would produce their next album. The album is ‘A Different Ship’ and it’s Here Wo Go Magic’s finest album to date. Three albums in, the band have undergone a metamorphosis from a lo-fi solo project of Luke Temple to being a fully formed band of stellar musicians. Here We Go Magic are: singer songwriter Luke Temple, guitarist Michael Bloch, bassist Jennifer Turner, drummer Peter Hale and then keyboardist Kristina Lieberson. 2012 has also seen the release of Kristina Lieberson’s anthemic girl-group pop of Teen. Their wonderful album is entitled ‘In Limbo’, released on the Carpark label.

‘A Different Ship’ sees the band join forces with Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich, creating in turn an utterly compelling indie rock landscape of sound. Godrich has effectively communicated Here We Go Magic’s hypnotic live vibe on tape. Says Temple: “That’s something Nigel is amazing at–knowing where to stop us, knowing the limits of the sound palette and how to let the space breathe.” The spark of spontaneity is clearly evident. Songs like ‘Over  The Ocean’, ‘I Believe In Action’ and ‘Made To Be Old’ were written in the morning and recorded the same afternoon. The band describe the central theme to ‘A Different Ship’ as an “unresolved tension between valuing being alone and valuing being connected”. Says Luke Temple: “The music is beautiful, but feels like it’s brittle and about to crack. It’s always suspended in between major and minor, happy and sad, trying to find that middle ambiguous place”. It’s clear on ‘A Different Ship’, the band have successfully found that middle ambiguous place, and the rewards are fitting.

‘Hard To Be Close’ is the band’s new single and is the first track on ‘A Different Ship’. Warm guitar tones and a gentle drum beat guides the song along. Temple sings ‘It’s hard to be close, it’s just a touch too much’ over a beautiful, simple melody. ‘Hard To Be Close’ is a folk pop gem, where Temple’s heartfelt vocals is the song’s central spark. The music video for ‘Hard To Be Close’ must be checked out, centering on three guys stuck in an elevator for a very very long time! The hypnotic ‘Make Up Your Mind’ is alive with a Godrichesque guitar soundscape of trance like chaos. An instant classic. The song is reminiscent of ‘Kid A’ era Radiohead. Temple sings ‘Don’t push, my space/human race, replace/Make up your mind!!’ over layers of synths, guitar and a driving bassline. An anthem for a generation. ‘Alone But Moving’ is a spaced out ballad. The song flows dreamily adrift in washed out electric guitars and synths, ‘It’s easier to witness a crowd from up above’. The song feels as if temple is singing high above, in a stratosphere disconnected from the universe. ‘I Believe In Action’ is the fifth track and one of the (many) standouts. A monstrous guitar riff is played over sublime funk dance beats. This is a song Radiohead strive for. Each element of the song collide together forming a multi layered opus of contemporary sound. The song is the soundtrack to crazed dance floors, bedroom headphone listening and outdoor arenas and festivals. This is the peak of the powers between HWGM and Nigel Godrich; that unknown dimension of the ambiguous place is tapped into here. Sensational.

The slow-paced psychedelic bliss of ‘Over The Ocean’ starts the second half of ‘A Different Ship’. The song contains great songwriting lyrics from Temple, ‘Silver dots marking, endless horizon/over the ocean, we’ll have a vodka.’ The vocals of Temple sounds of ‘reflected voices’ over the ocean and can feel the ebb and flow of the ocean water drifting slowly in and out. ‘Made To Be Old’ has an infectious guitar line that could be Lower Dens or DIIV. Humour can be found in Temple’s lyric of ‘The Swedish know music but do they know mine?’ Layered backing harmonies and an expansive sonic palette flows gorgeously amidst Temple’s vocals.

‘How Do I Know’ is sublime sunshine guitar pop. This song should be on every worldwide radio station, banging out of the speakers for the whole world to hear. Temple sings ‘How do I know if I love you/How do I know if I know you’ over an insanely catchy guitar pop sound. ‘How Do I Know’ is a true pop gem. The tempo slows right down on the album’s penultimate track, ‘Miracle Of Mary’. The song is intimate and direct, ‘I believe in Mary/She’s good enough for me/In her simple service and her calm delivery/I think I smell roses but none that I can see’. The lyrics evoke rich imagery embedded in beauty. The album closer is the album’s title track. Heavy reverb and building guitars with several tempo shifts sees ‘A Different Ship’ come to a close. The song’s closing lyrics paints imagery that best describes ‘A Different Ship”s fulfilling sonic journey: ‘Falling now forever, one planet with no surface/Anything still solid till the molten core?’

‘A Different Ship’ is out now on Secretly Canadian.

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IDGAF(ilet mignon): a plated dish

When I was preparing for season 10, I did cook with a lot of different kinds of meats and proteins. Lamb, duck, pork, chicken, scallops, fileting and then cooking with whole fish such as salmon, rainbow trout, black cod, I even practiced cooking ribeye for steaks. I never thought to practice with filet mignon. And as expected, that was the protein that actually eliminated me on the show. I had prepared Taiwanese styled noodles with langoustine, truffle, and yuzu, as well as a ginger butter-basted filet with maitake mushrooms. Yuzu and truffle combination being a bit weird aside, the main thing that eliminated me was that my steak was undercooked. Honestly speaking, I never cooked with any of those three ingredients before. My cooking style is primarily in baking and cooking with off-cuts because they are cheaper cooking options. I love taking inexpensive things and making them look expensive. So with ingredients that collectively cost more than my paycheck, beyond just being above my budget, they aren’t necessarily the things I am passionate about cooking. Hence the name for this dish.

For this filet mignon dish, I am keeping the filet the star. I am not going to use truffles or langoustines, since those were not the things that sent me home. However, I am going to be making essentially the dish I should have made with those three ingredients, just to better tie the three together. It will be a filet mignon with a mushroom reduction sauce, pea puree, blanched peas with roasted mushrooms, and sweet pea agnolotti. The truffle would play in the puree and the agnolotti, while the langoustine shells would go in the mushroom sauce, and the tail meat would be used as a garnish, with the peas and mushrooms. With this dish, there would be a more focal sauce, being the reduction sauce, and the peas tie the filet and langoustine together better. The agnolotti filling would have been another place for both the truffle and some chopped up langoustine meat to come into play.

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For the phyllo crisp:
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
3 tablespoons water
a pinch of salt
2 tablespoons melted butter

Create dough with flour, water, and salt. Infuse the thyme into the melted butter. Split dough into four pieces and roll out into flat disks. Brush three of the dough on one side with butter, and then stack together so that the top of the top layer and the bottom of the bottom layer are still dry. Roll out as thinly as possible, then transfer to a lined baking sheet. Cut into long strips and bake at 375 degrees F, while weighed down, for 15-20 minutes, or until browned and crispy.

For the sauce:
1/4 cup dried mushrooms
1 cup beef stock
2 tablespoons butter
1 bay leaf
1 clove garlic
3 tablespoons diced shallot

Rehydrate the mushrooms in warm beef stock. Fish out the mushrooms, and strain out the dirt. Sweat out shallot, garlic, and bay leaf in oil. Deglaze with the mushroom-stock and then add back in the diced rehydrated mushrooms, slowly reducing the liquid down on low heat. Finish with butter, then strain again, pressing to extract as much flavor from the solids as possible.

For the pea puree:
1 cup English peas
1 cup heavy cream (in four parts)
1 cup milk
3 tablespoons unsalted butter

Saute off the peas with salt and pepper first. Then hit with three parts of the cream and the milk and simmer until tender. Strain and transfer to a blender, pureeing while slowly adding in the cream first, then finishing with the butter. Pass through a sieve again to achieve an ultra fine texture.

For the pasta dough:
1 1/3 cups flour + more for dusting
2 eggs
a pinch of salt

Mix together. Rest then roll out to the second thinnest pasta setting on your pasta roller.

For the agnolotti filling:
1/3 cup pea puree
1/4 cup roughly chopped blanched peas
2 tablespoons mascarpone cheese or crème fraiche
a pinch of salt
1 egg

Mix together(without the egg) and transfer to a piping bag. Pipe into your prepared pasta dough, and seal with egg wash. Slice and fold into agnolotti and boil for 1-2 minutes. Finish off in the mushroom sauce.

For the peas and mushrooms:
1/2 cup English peas
1 cluster of hen-of-the-woods mushrooms, broken up

Roast the mushrooms in a 375 degree F oven for at least 10 minutes. Blanc the peas in heavily salted water for 1 minute then shock in ice. Warm up a pan with butter then saute both together with salt, pepper, and thyme to finish.

For the steak:
8-10 oz filet mignon

Heat up a cast iron. Once hot, add in the oil, then heavily season your steak with salt and pepper. Sear on each side for 3-4 minutes. Once you flip the steak, add in your butter, paprika, and thyme and baste the steak. Sear the steak on the edges as well, about 1 minute per side, just to seal in those juices. Rest for at least 5 minutes.

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  1. Virginia L. says:

    How aptly named! Love your sense of humor! This dish may have cut your time short in Season 10. But the half-cooked meat should NOT define your raw talent. Knowing how to use humble ingredients set you and the crowd apart. I am confident that you will ace any fancy ingredients given you the time, opportunities and $. This dish is total redemption! Cook/bake/rock on!

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Im based in the UK and a couple of years ago I agreed to write a small application for a local company. As it was supposed to be a quick small thing, we didnt have a formal contract in place (big mistake I know now in retrospect).

It quickly grew legs and i've spent the best part of the last two years supporting this free of charge in my free time when I get home from my full time job while juggling family and other commitments.

I can't find anything concrete to let me know where I stand legally, but I can't see an end in sight for this and really just want to get out of this.

Does anyone have any suggestions what I can do to get out of this? If it came to it, I would be happy to give the small amount of money I actually made from this back and call it quits, but I have no idea how to approach this.

  • The way that you worded this, that you are now supporting the application rather than writing it, makes it seem (to those of us who do this regularly) like you are "done", and probably (hopefully) have been "done" with writing the application for some time. You should make it clear to the client that support is not the same as development, and you expect to be paid for your time supporting the application. – livingtech Dec 10 '19 at 17:45
  • If the application is still not finished, that's another issue. In that case, you have a scope change. (I'm assuming the original project scope was not meant to be more than a year of work!) Since you have a day job, I think you can be fairly cavalier, and just say "what we've done already was the scope of what I'm willing to finish for the original X money. To continue adding Y features will cost Z." If they don't want to pay Y, and you really want to keep them happy, maybe offer to give back some money but you certainly deserve it. – livingtech Dec 10 '19 at 17:51
  • Thanks @livingtech - You're right - I did the work for another consulting company who engaged with the end client. From their analysis it was initially 4 weeks work, which was fine, but once I began the work, it quickly became clear that this was a much larger undertaking and the consulting company basically just left me to engage with the customer directly. The project is "done" and I was paid, but there are still bugs coming up which i've felt obliged to fix. Then there was a stack of additional work which the consulatancy just left me to engage with the customer directly again – Nick Dec 11 '19 at 12:35
  • In this case, maybe it would work to tell them your contract was with the original company, and you need a new contract to continue to do work for them. – livingtech Dec 11 '19 at 22:52
  • FWIW, I always continue to charge (but I try to work hourly whenever possible) for bug fixing. It's a part of the job. No free fixes here. – livingtech Dec 11 '19 at 22:53

The preferred action depends on what you want to achieve in the long term as well as the short term.

Since there is no contract, I would assume that you legally can walk away. Whether this is a good idea depends on how seriously this bridge-burning will impact you in the future.

Tell the client that you are no longer able to support the application and wish to negotiate a speedy exit that both parties can live with.

If they 'refuse', returning any money recieved releaves you of any ethical obligations.

Sometimes one can help them find a replacement. In this case, that should be avoided as the client is probably looking for someone free or cheap. You should not do their low-balling for them.

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If you have no contract, simply stop supporting it. There would be nothing legally obligating you to any support, let alone, free unlimited support.

I would notify the client that as of [X Date] (30 days) there will be no more support.

I would never return any money. You did the work, why on earth would you return money?

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