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 ML> I was doing adjunct at a local university, music faculty of
 ML> course, and the head of the department said that she was
 ML> empowered to offer me a permanent position if I finished my
 ML> master's, which was in English and abandoned over a decade
 ML> previously for my want of an advisor to help me finish my
 ML> final paper. I was also given the option of getting any other
 ML> post-BA degree IN ANY DISCIPLINE.
 NB> That does seem a bit overly over... but unfortunately believable...

Seems to parallel what Dirty Dave found in his academic
travels.

 NB> Credentials are often somewhat laughable

I know a guy who got a job at a certain university on the
strength of a Ph.D. Well, times got tough, and all the
full-time faculty were asked to do other things, such as
teaching Freshman Comp, which this guy refused to do,
whereupon some people, fed up with him, researched his
background and discovered he didn't have a Ph.D at all.
His defense: "well, I have two Master'ses," so some
obnoxious busybody dug around and discovered that that
claim was also false - in fact, he had about as much
graduate school as I did, with the same result. So he
got bounced altogether, but nobody would have stirred up
the mess if he hadn't refused to do the scut work that
his coworkers sucked it up and did.

 ... It makes a little more
 NB> sense to require someone to get some sort of a teacher's certificate
 NB> (or degree) in order to teach... although even that is less useful than
 NB> actual teaching abilities... ;)

I don't know what the proper criteria should be. Someone
recently made the commonsense suggestion that teachers
should be teachers and academics should be academics,
and they should be equals. I'm not sure that anyone is
going to act on that anytime soon.

Pickling Spice
Cat: ingredient, spice
Yield: 3/4 c

2 Tb whole black peppercorns
3 in cinnamon sticks, total length
2 Tb dill seeds
1 Tb hot red pepper flakes
1 Tb mustard seeds, any color
1 Tb coriander seeds
1 Tb celery seeds
4 bay leaves
1 Tb dried thyme leaves
1 Tb ground ginger
2 ts whole allspice berries
1 ts whole cloves
h - Optional ingredients
1 Tb mace
1/2 ts cardamom seeds (or 1 Tb pods)
1 Tb juniper berries
2 star anise pods

Put the cinnamon sticks and peppercorns in a
plastic bag and smash them with a meat tenderizer
or a hammer. Crumble the bay leaves into flakes
about 1/8" size. Mix all the ingredients together
and store in a tight jar.

Meathead Goldwyn, amazingribs.com

Pickling Spice
Cat: ingredient, spice
Yield: almost 1 c

2 Tb black peppercorns
2 Tb mustard seeds
2 Tb coriander seeds
2 Tb hot red pepper flakes
2 Tb allspice berries
1 Tb ground mace
2 sm cinnamon sticks
- crushed or broken into pieces
2 to 4 bay leaves, crumbled
2 Tb whole cloves
1 Tb ground ginger

Combine peppercorns, mustard seeds, and coriander
seeds in a small dry pan. Place over medium heat
and stir until fragrant, being careful not to burn
them; keep lid handy in case seeds pop. Crack
peppercorns and seeds in mortar and pestle or with
the side of a knife on cutting board.

Combine with other spices, mix. Store in tightly
sealed plastic or glass container.

ruhlman.com

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