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Mozzarella Madness, Nut Theft, and More in Food Policy This Week
A roundup of news clippings we're reading that affect the way we eat.
Dairy Program Holding Up Farm Bill Progress
At first, it was cuts to SNAP, or the food stamp program, that kept the Farm Bill from progressing through the legislative process. Senate passed its version of the Bill with $4 billion in cuts, while the House's version passed with $40 billion in cuts. Now, sources close to the negotiations report that the two bodies have agreed on $9 billion in SNAP cuts. But a new hurdle has arisen—disagreement regarding a program that maintains consistent milk prices for producers. Price supports have been central to the dairy industry for decades, and farmers insist that the program is a safeguard and not a direct subsidy. But others are angered that SNAP is seeing cuts while producers receive "handouts" from the government. Negotiations continue this week.
Mozzarella, Cheddar are Most Available Cheeses in U.S.
According to new USDA data, mozzarella is the most available cheese in the U.S., at 11.5 pounds per capita. There was a total of 33 pounds of cheese available per capita in 2011, an increase of 0.2 pounds from 2010. The USDA's marketing arm for dairy, Dairy Management Inc., has invested resources in pushing cheese over the past few years. While demand other types of dairy such as full-fat milk and ice cream has fallen, cheese consumption has risen consistently since 1970. In that time, per capita cheese availability has tripled. The USDA attributes this rise in popularity in part to the import of cheese-heavy cuisines like Italian and Mexican.
Amidst Rising Prices, Nut Theft Plagues California Farmers
Throughout the Central Valley, a growing region in California that is among the most productive in the country, nuts are being stolen by the truckload. Demand for nuts such as almonds, walnuts, and pistachios has grown significantly in recent years. Along with this increased demand has come a rise in crop theft, with farmers sometimes losing hundreds of thousands of dollars of product. According the California Walnut Board, the price for that nut has tripled in the last five years, leading to a gold rush-like mentality among growers. Farmers recently formed a task force to investigate the crime spree and figure out ways for local law enforcement to work with farmers to protect their crops.
Food Hubs Help Small Farmers Break into Local Food Markets
Now that the fervor surrounding local food has spread across much of the country country, small farmers are looking for ways to enter into high-end markets and attract consumers eager for a taste of a local specialty. But often, those farmers lack the resources to independently seek out customers. That's why food hubs have gained popularity in many agricultural communities. Food hubs allow farmers to aggregate and distribute food together, lessening their individual costs and building partnerships with other local growers. The USDA estimates that there are about 240 food hubs across 40 states and D.C. Food hubs help to magnify the impact of buying local, because more farmers can invest in their communities rather than traveling to the nearest big city to hawk their products.
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Before I can tell you about this recipe, I need to ask you a few leetle questions. It will only detain you a minute or two, I promise, but it essential that we get some facts out in the open before we can proceed. I wouldn't want to lead you astray.
Do you flood your pancakes/waffles/French toast with so much maple syrup that you at times question whether they are simply a vehicle for your favorite sweetener, and have nothing to do with breakfast at all?
Do you wonder why, oh why, more desserts are not sweetened with this cozy ingredient, instead of granulated sugar, which is really so boring in comparison?
Have you tried to swap maple syrup for sugar in a dessert in the past, such as Pumpkin Pie, only to end up sorely disappointed that the maple flavor wasn't pronounced at all?
Come, sit down next to me. [Hat tip.] Pull up a chair, let's brew a strong espresso and stay for a while, because I have the dessert that you–and by you I mean we–have been searching for our whole lives.
There is no greater homage to the goodness of maple syrup than this Nutmeg Maple Pie (though I used a tart pan, because I am a rebel) from the New York Times archives. Yes, I worried that the nutmeg would distract us from the main event, too, yet it folded so eloquently into the final flavor, I entirely forgot it was there. I just knew there was something unrecognizably better. This tart is spectacular. It is breakfast, it is a late afternoon coffee break, it is calming, centering dessert after an elaborate dinner. It is that Thing, that recipe you've been searching for to bring to Thanksgiving this year, something so fall flavored, people won't realize they're breaking with tradition to eat it, but so innovative, you'll get a break from the predictable.
It is one of the best dessert surprises I've had in a good long while. And now, I'm off to bake the extra custard (because I had to be a rebel with the tart shell, which holds less) into a new crust. I can't wait.
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Nutmeg-Maple Cream Pie
Adapted from The New York Times
3/4 cup maple syrup
2 1/4 cups heavy cream
4 egg yolks
1 whole egg
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 9-inch pie crust or tart shell.
1. Par-bake pie crust: Preheat oven to 350°F. Line pie refrigerated pie shell with foil or parchment paper and fill with pie weights or dried beans. Bake 10 to 12 minutes or until beginning to set. Remove foil with weights and bake 15 to 18 minutes longer or until golden. If shell puffs during baking, press it down with back of spoon. Cool on wire rack. Lower temperature to 300 degrees.
2. Prepare filling: In a medium saucepan over medium-high heat, reduce maple syrup by a quarter, 5 to 7 minutes. Stir in cream and bring to a simmer. Remove from heat.
3. In a medium bowl, whisk together egg yolks and egg. Whisking constantly, slowly add cream mixture to eggs. Strain mixture through a fine-mesh sieve into a cup or bowl with pouring spout. Stir in salt, nutmeg and vanilla.
4. Pour filling into crust and transfer to a rimmed baking sheet. Bake until pie is firm to touch but jiggles slightly when moved, about 1 hour. Let cool to room temperature before serving.

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To celebrate Fathers Day 2014 we've put together a list of who we think are the Top TV Dads. Some may not be the perfect gent or the perfect family man, never the less, they've kept us entertained. Match your Father to his TV personality and discover his perfect Fathers Day Gift.
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By Traci Tamura and Thelma Gutierrez
The pursuit of the American Dream was what brought Soo (not her real name) to the United States from South Korea. It was 2001, when she befriended a group of people who offered her the chance to invest in a business opportunity in California. Soo jumped at the chance to live and work in the U.S. Shortly after Soo arrived in the States she realized that her friends were operating prostitution-related massage parlors. They took her ID and passport after bringing her up to San Francisco, where they told her she owed them $15,000. Her dream was slowly turning into a nightmare. She was left at a massage parlor and forced to prostitute herself to pay off the debt. The pain of having to sell her body against her will, and the treatment she received from clients, are still fresh in her mind. "They would like to choke me and people pulled my hair and hurt me. When I scream nobody hears and nobody comes," Soo remembers.
Soo tried to refuse prostituting her body but without her legal documents or English language skills, and not knowing where she was, she was vulnerable to their threats of being reported to the authorities and sent to jail. So she says she complied and was even beaten into submission if she tried to flee or seek help from the patrons. Soo and 30 other women were forced to work around 20 hours a day selling their bodies for the repayment of debts. If they didn't, there was a price to be paid. "In the beginning, I said no all the time and I got beaten a lot. Even with all of my bruises I still had to work. Sometimes, I would plead to my customers, even though I don't speak English. I'd try my best but I'd just plead with my customers. But they would just tell my manager and then I'd get into more trouble."
It's been five years since Soo was able to escape from her situation with the help of the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles, but the memories are just as vivid as if it was yesterday. When we sat down to talk to her about her experience, the anguish and pain are evident. The reason Soo decided to come forward and tell her story was to help others in her situation and give them hope that there is help out there. And her message to the men who are customers of these types of establishments: think of the women you are dealing with. "We are humans. We are not animals. I want to tell them we are not machines. It's so hard for me to live my life. It's very hard to live. Please think of us as your child. Just once think of us as your child."
Soo is still pursuing the American Dream but it's been altered now. The trauma she suffered being forced into sex slavery has taken its toll on her emotionally. Everyday continues to be a challenge for Soo, but she finds solace in her tiny apartment filled with rescue cats and dreams of having her own pet grooming business someday. For now, she is thankful for her freedom but is still held hostage to the memories.
Love them so very much, Al! You did amazing and we are both so exicetd about each one of these. Thanks again especially for being so open to the short notice! You're great!
CallmeLizza S / I completely undrastend you. My acne was located mostly on my face and I was lucky, but I followed in my cousin's footsteps who had bad bacne and cleared it up. Her method was purely holistic. She is a model so she needs to keep herself looking great and in shape to keep up with her agency's demands and the demands of the fashion industry. She went on a diet that was inspired by many nutritionists and Natural doctors she visited for her skin condition. She cut out many of the foods she has intolerances to. She cut out all nuts, dairy, most grains, and lowered any form of sugar to almost none. It's scary, but it worked and it also worked for me. To know yourself better go on a elimination diet to see what you are intolerant to. I persoanly don't eat fruits at all because I tend to breakout very easily from them. Yea i know FRUIT what! But it's sad and true. I eat many vegetables, however, to replace the vitamins in fruit and I also take a multivitamin. I eat no grains at all personally, but I don;t breakout if I eat a small amount (1 serving) a day of grain. It's my body, however, remember you'll have to experiment to get to know your own body and it's reactions.Pay attention to1)all fruit2)all nuts3)all grains4)all forms of sugar5)hydrogenated, refined, modified, or partially hydrogenated oils6)All Dairyand see how your body reacts to all of them when your on an elimination diet.It's not completely hopeless tho, you can use stevia for a natural sweetener as a replacement for sugar. Stevia is found in healthfood stores. It tastes best in teas. If you eat small amouts of sugar you'll be fine, but be careful.I basically eat grassfed beef of grainfed(less often when it's grainfed about 1 or 2 x a week), free range or hormonefree/antibiotic free chicken, wild seafood of all types ex.mackerel, salmon, some shellfish and likewise, etc, I also eat turkey(less often because expensive), and other forms of white meat such as lamb or rabbit(whatever floats your boat).I eat almost all veggies except potatoes because i dislike themI eat fruit very occasionally. I avoid the genus prunus family(apricots, peaches, cherries etc).. I usually go for apples, lemons(in my tea or lime), or berries if I ever do eat fruit.I also will eat junk maybe once a month but I keep it to once a month when i'm gonna go out with a friend, just don't junk out or your diet will be worthless in trying to help your skinBasically go to acne.org search the Paleo Diet. Explore that diet since MANY people have had success on that diet!GOodluck!
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The gaint hole is actually a diamond mine in Eastern Siberia near the town Mirna. It is 525 meters deep and 1.25 km in the diameter.
The following truck loader is one of the biggest in the world - lenth 13.36 meters, width 7.78 meters and height 6.65 meters.
This gaint machine appears just a small point in the next image.
The red arrow in the photo below is pointing to a huge truck.
The suction above the hole resulted in several helicopter crashes, so all flight above the hole is prohibited now.
A View from Satellite.
Kimberley Big Hole - South Africa
Apparently the largest ever hand-dug excavation in the world, this 1097 metre deep mine yielded over 3 tonnes of diamonds before being closed in 1914.
The amount of earth removed by workers is estimated to total 22.5 million tonnes.
Bingham Canyon Mine, Utah
This is supposedly the largest man-made excavation on earth. extraction began in 1863 and still continues today, the pit increasing in size constantly. in its current state the hole is 3/4 mile deep and 2.5 miles wide.
Great Blue Hole, Belize
Situated 60 miles off the mainland of Belize is this incredible 'geographical phenomenon' known as a Blue Hole. There are numerous Blue Holes around the world but none as stunning as this one.
At surface level the near perfectly circular hole is 1/4 mile wide, the depth in the middle reaching 145 metres. obviously the hole is a huge hit with divers. read more here.
Giant Drain Hole in Langelsheim (Germany)
Largest Drain Hole in the World - Glory Hole, Monticello Dam
A Glory Hole is used when a dam is at full capacity and water needs to be drained from the resevoir. This is the glory hole belonging to Monticello Dam in North California and it's the largest in the world, its size enabling it to consume 14′400 cubic feet of water every second.
The distance from the funnel to the exit point - which is situated in the south side of the canyon - is about 700 feet.
The hole can be seen at the top left of the photo above. if you were to jump in for some reason your slightly damp body would shoot out near the bottom of the dam (below).
Hole on Google Maps.
Diavik Diamond Mine, Canada
This incredible mine can be found 300km Northeast of Yellowknife in Canada. The mine is so huge and the area so remote that it even has its own airport with a runway large enough to accomodate a Boeing 737. it also looks equally as cool when the surrounding water is frozen.
Sinkhole, Guatemala
A sinkhole is caused when water (usually rainwater or sewage) is soaked up by the earth on a large scale, resulting in the ground collapsing.
These photos are of a sinkhole which occured early this year in Guatemala. the hole swallowed a dozen homes and killed at least 3 people.
Officials blamed the monster of a hole on a ruptured sewage pipe.


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Dark matter shapes the Milky Way
Dark matter was essential to create galaxies like the Milky Way. In part two of this series, Dr Karl explores the galaxy we call home.
Last time, I started talking about this mysterious stuff, dark matter, and then I got diverted into our Milky Way. The detour was relevant because dark matter was essential to create galaxies like our Milky Way.
We used to think that our Milky Way was just a boring middle-aged galaxy, with nothing new or exciting happening, and that had settled into a comfortable and humdrum middle age. But, in the words of Ann Finkbeiner, who wrote about the Milky Way in the journal, Nature: "the ... Milky Way ... galaxy was born in chaos and shaped by violence, (that) it lives in a state of turbulent complexity, and (that) its future holds certain catastrophe."
For example, we now know that in the centre of our galaxy is a mighty black hole, about four million times the mass of our Sun. Now a black hole is a big eater (it can gobble lots, which is why it gets to be so big), but it's not a fast eater. If too much stuff falls into a black hole, it can't all get inside at the same time, and some of it is bounced out before it falls in.
Something big and interesting happened to our black hole about 10 million years ago, and as a result, it squirted out huge jets of energy and created huge shockwaves. The net result was two enormous back-to-back bubbles of hot gas shooting out on each side of our Milky Way. They are very powerful — outlined by x-rays, and with accompanying gamma-ray jets. And they are huge — reaching out about 25,000 light-years away from the black hole.
Just for reference, our visible Milky Way is about 100,000 light-years across, and we are out in the suburb — also about 25,000 light-years from the black hole.
The shape of our Milky Way was dominated by the invisible dark matter, which makes up about 80 or 90 per cent of the mass of our galaxy. But Segue 1, a dwarf galaxy that hangs out with our Milky Way galaxy, has about 1000 times as much dark matter as regular matter. Other structures, such as globular clusters of stars, have virtually no dark matter. We are not sure what's going on here.
Speaking of dwarf galaxies, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds are also dwarf galaxies. There seem to be a few dozen of these dwarf galaxies associated with our Milky Way. But there may have been many more in the past. In the space just outside our Milky Way, there seems to be remnants of possibly hundreds of dwarf galaxies. What we see are many separate faint lines of stars that rise up out into space away from our Milky Way, and then loop back down into the body of our galaxy.
And there seems to be thin halos of stars extending way past the traditional boundaries of the Milky Way, reaching out some 300,000 light-years from the central black hole. The inner halo is made of quite old stars (say, about 11.4 billion years old) and it rotates in the same direction as our Milky Way. But the outer halo is made of even older stars and rotates in the opposite direction.
And of course, at various locations in our Milky Way, there are stellar nurseries, where gas is being made into stars at the rate of a few times the mass of our Sun every year. These tumultuous areas eject enormous amounts of ultraviolet radiation as well as huge amounts of regular matter in the form of solar winds. Some of the newborn stars are gigantic and die quickly in supernova explosions, while the slightly smaller stars expand into red giants, roughly the size of the orbit of the Earth around the Sun.
But in the fullness of time, our Milky Way galaxy will begin to run out of gas and so the stellar nurseries will shut down. The bigger stars burn brightly for a short time, while the littlies (say, one tenth of the mass of our Sun) can run along for up to a trillion years. But even they will eventually wink out, leaving only darkness, and perhaps lots of dark matter.
But what made the astronomers suspect that this dark matter existed? I'll talk more about that, next time...
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Princess Diana Photo, Never Seen Before, Hits Auction Block
The '80s-era snap shows the teenage princess-to-be lying across the lap of Adam Russell
She was one of the world's most photographed women, but now a new and unseen photo of the late Princess Diana is causing a stir nearly 16 years after her death as it goes to public auction.
The black-and-white photo shows a teenage Diana on a Swiss ski holiday lounging on the lap of a young man, who has been identified as Adam Russell, the great-grandson of former prime minister Stanley Baldwin. He is reading a book and resting it on Diana's shoulder.
A bottle of liquor rests on a window ledge above her head, creating an image that was certain to be unfit for a future princess, and is one that was marked "not to be published," according to Britain's Daily Mirror, which purchased the picture in Feb. 26, 1981 – just two days after the then-Diana Spencer was engaged to Prince Charles.
The photo was kept hidden in the paper's archives until it was purchased seven years ago by the private Caren Archive. It is now set for auction by RR Auctions in New Hampshire, and is being described as a "salacious teenage image of the future princess."
"This would certainly not be in the way the Royal Family would have Diana to have been presented," said Eric Caren, owner of the Caren Archive, to the Daily Mail.
Diana is thought to be 18 or 19 years old when the photo was taken. It is expected to sell for at least $1,200 – though there are reports it could go for several thousands of dollars.
Diana, who rose to become an international fashion icon and human rights activist, and who later split with Prince Charles, died at 36 in 1997 in an infamous Paris car crash. Her tragic death sent Britain and the world into mourning as her two sons, Prince William and Prince Harry, were left without a mother.


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Auditor cites resistance from City Hall
Luna says access to information has been an issue, points to obstruction law
Faulconer lettter asking when Development Services will provide information to Luna for audit
The independent city auditor — who is supposed to be a key player in San Diego's efforts to improve internal controls after its financial scandal — says he is facing issues with cooperation as he tries to do his job.
The problems surfaced at a meeting of the city's audit committee this month, to discuss a critical report about the Development Services Department regarding building permit fees.
"We had issues with access to information from the beginning," Auditor Eduardo Luna told the committee.
Luna is also preparing an audit of the city's real estate department, headed by Jim Barwick. According to a memo he wrote to city staff, Luna was informed during the process that his own office would be moved to a dilapidated location — and his budget would have to cover repairs.
The city's chief operating officer, Jay Goldstone, has noted the skirmishes.
"Mr. Luna's office seems very loose with its use of the charter or 'audit standards' when it does not get its way," Goldstone said. "They accused Mr. Barwick of retaliating against them when they were asked to relocate office space and Mr. Luna threatened the audit committee of impairing his independence if they did not approve his fiscal year 2013 budget request."
Luna denied threatening anyone. With Development Services, he said, he was only trying to get a response from a reluctant subject. Meetings were called off and information was withheld, he said.
"They were going to wait for us to issue the report, then seek to embarrass us by pointing out any flaws that were in the report," Luna said at the same committee hearing. "So, they were withholding information from us, ensuring we had an inaccurate report."
At one point, auditor access to Development Services computers was revoked. It was reinstated after Luna's office invoked the "Obstruction of the City Auditor" portion of the Municipal Code by email. Luna also cited the provision in a later meeting with top city officials.
"I was essentially being threatened with the prosecution of a misdemeanor, which really scared me," department head Kelly Broughton told the city's audit committee. "In 22 years at the city, I've never had anybody accuse me of a misdemeanor or any criminal activity."
The audit, released June 29, found that one out of five department billings reviewed were inaccurate — either with overbillings or underbillings of applicants. It found weak internal controls in the department's computer system put the city at risk of fraud. Namely, the fees issued to a developer or other building applicant could be changed by certain staffers without leaving a trace in the computer system.
In a rare move, the audit committee did not forward the completed Development Services audit to the full council. Instead, the committee called for more research, and some committee members urged Luna to tone down his audits or work with department heads in tailoring what they examine.
"I'd rather have you come back and say, 'you know we looked at this department and they did a really good job.' That's OK for this committee and the public to hear that," Councilman Carl DeMaio told Luna. "You will do more for the process of performance auditing in the City of San Diego when you do have those reports, because when you go to the next department they will be more cooperative. We really need to not see this as the auditor versus the department, but as a win-win."
Bulletproof safeguards
For decades, the San Diego city auditor was appointed by a majority of the City Council. The oversight program was not entirely effective.
In 2004, the city credit rating plummeted and multiple criminal and civil investigations were launched after a series of errors and omissions were discovered on city bond disclosures.
Months later, Proposition F asked voters to consider switching to a strong-mayor form of governance so one person could be held accountable in the future, and voters agreed.
The first such mayor,
Former city auditor John Torell quit in 2007 citing unwelcome pressure from Sanders. "Anyone selected by the mayor will be beholden to the mayor," Torell said after he resigned.
Sanders replaced Torell with Luna, a San Jose deputy city auditor.
Luna pledged to be independent of political influence when he arrived in San Diego in late 2007. The passage of Proposition C bolstered that objective. Under that measure, the auditor was to be appointed by the mayor for 10-year terms and report only to the council's audit committee.
"Unless San Diego has bulletproof audit safeguards, the public won't trust the city and neither will investors," campaign mailers said. "Measure C passes the test for true audit independence."
The measure was approved by 63 percent of the vote, and Luna won appointment to the newly-structured office in 2009.
'Significant disagreements'
Auditors by definition can be a pesky bunch. They ask pointed questions. They want documentation. They take up work time that could be spent doing work.
Luna acknowledges his efforts are not always welcome.
Soon after receiving his decade-long contract, worth $168,000 in its initial year, Luna began issuing reports critical of City Hall. He turned up problems in street repair, wastewater, a terminal-leave program and fire-rescue services, issuing numerous reports and dozens of recommendations.
Goldstone said in an email interview that department heads have a record of cooperating.
"Over the years since Mr. Luna was hired, there has been a close working relationship between management and the Auditor's Office, which for the most part has been very professional," Goldstone said.
Experts say auditors routinely get some level of push-back.
"It's like Dad searching your room," said Allan Bachman of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. "Even though there may be nothing to find, you feel it's a violation on a personal level."
Bachman, who audited companies and departments for more than 30 years, said he worked extra diligently when he encountered resistance from one of his audit subjects.
"Inevitably the auditor is going to get everything they need," he said. "And if they don't, their report is going to reflect that."
Andrea Tevlin, the independent budget analyst for the city, said most people she meets in her research attempt to influence her view of a particular program.
"I don't consider that pressure, I consider that information sharing," she said. "They should be trying to convince me of the soundness of their programs."
According to a report Luna issued earlier this year, department heads have adopted about two-thirds of the 450 or so suggestions included at the conclusion of his audits.
Audit Committee Chairman Kevin Faulconer said the animosity between Development Services and the Office of the City Auditor is the worst he's seen.
"This was unquestionably the one performance audit we've had since this committee started doing them where we've had the most significant disagreements on a wide variety of topics," he said.
Faulconer agreed with DeMaio that Luna should temper the tone of his audits. The committee should receive more feedback from departments on the audits' objectives early in the process, he said.
The Development Services audit will go before the committee again in September. Committee members have asked for more information about the seriousness of the audit's findings and options for replacing the department's computer system before discussing the audit's recommendations.
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Ocean County's Office of Emergency Management has established 3 regional shelters.
There are 3 Regional Shelter.
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Friends of Israel — Enemies Inside the Gates
Summary: Recently, political pressure has been brought to bear against a trades unionist for attempting to express his views about the events of 9/11, on Australia's publicly funded broadcaster, the ABC. This video redresses the balance, and makes it clear that Australia's prime minister is either ignorant, beyond belief, or she is putting the interests of nuclear, Apartheid Israel ahead of Australia's.
The unedited sound file of the Kevin Bracken Jon Faine conversation can be found on this Internet page:
My thanks to Debbie Menon, my trustworthy distributor; StevenM818 who gave me the heads up on the new NIST Freedom of Information revelations about the explosions. Sonja Karkar, Nick Irving and Debbie, again, for their always welcome advice, and to Nate Flach who always comes up with the goods when I need a video clip or some advice about them.
Clips from the following videos are included with the producers' kind permission:
WTC7 in Freefall: No Longer Controversial
The maker of this video, David Chandler is a Physics Teacher and more information on his work can be found at
David is also affiliated to: International Center for 9/11 Studies, Scientists for 9/11 Truth, and AE911Truth
9_11 Experiments_The Great Thermate Debate by Jonathan Cole, a professional engineer whose other work is also worth a look. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5d5iIo…
UA175 – the last 12 seconds by achimspok
I have been unable to get a reply from this excellent researcher, so if you see this: Thank you for explaining this so clearly, and I hope you don't mind me using the short excerpt.
The Murray Street Engine: Please refer to the following very well-researched article.
Google Street View: Those interested in checking out the location from which the "Twin Smokestacks" video was shot, should start off by typing in "Christopher Columbus Drive, Jersey City, NJ, United States" in Google Maps. Zoom in close keeping Interstate 78 in view, on the left (west), and find Brunswick Street. You'll see the smokestacks just to its right. Zoom in and move the view north and find 3rd Street and there is the roof where the cameraman stood; it is beside a vacant lot. 3rd Street passes under I78, and you can use the Street View function, from the elevated highway, to find the shots I've used in this video.
Please don't ask me how to use Street View, it takes me forever to remember, each time I return to it.


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As I've said before, I used to do curatorial work at a Lincoln/Civil War museum. The collection was large and had a lot of first-rate material, including a substantial amount of archival matter. At the same time, though, it had a small staff, and if you work at a small museum you wear a lot of hats. This combination of an extensive and significant collection with a small institution meant that I got some fantastic public history experience. I tried a little of everything.
One of the things I got to try was archival work. I'm not a professional archivist, not by any means. For a short time, though, our museum was without a full-time archival manager. During that interval, I got to fill in as a sort of substitute archivist, in addition to performing my other duties.
That period taught me a lot of things that came in handy when I went on to do research of my own in other collections. It's much easier to navigate a manuscript collection when you've seen firsthand how they're organized and maintained.
And I got to see how different types of researchers behave. On the one hand, I got to work with some first-rate historians. I got to help them assemble the material that went into their articles and books, and it was an absolute blast.
On the other hand, I got to deal with researchers who provided me with negative examples. I could fill several posts with these experiences, and I might do so. For the present, though, let me focus on the most irritating class of specimen I encountered. I like to call this type the "Unannounced Guest."
You can spot these folks from a mile away. They show up at your institution unannounced, without calling, e-mailing, or writing before they drive miles and miles to access your collection.
When they arrive, they're like wide-eyed kids in the wilderness. They don't know what they're looking for. They can't articulate the scope of their research, and it becomes obvious that they aren't familiar with your holdings. They can't explain what they want, and they don't know whether or not you've got it. You end up doing most of the legwork for them, trying to sort through vast amounts of material in search of…well, you're never exactly sure what.
They're almost guaranteed to be totally unfamiliar with the institution's research and duplication policies. All this is available online, of course, or could be obtained by contacting the place ahead of time. But they walk in cold, completely bewildered, and utterly unprepared.
In short, they're wasting both your time and their own. They're broadcasting the fact that they're either not serious about what they're doing, or that they're not competent to do it.
Ladies and gents, take this advice from somebody who's been on both sides of the vault door. In this day and age, you can easily get online and access contact information, hours, policies, and a description of holdings for most repositories. There is simply no reason for any researcher to walk into an institution unheralded, without any notion of what's there or how to find it.
Collection custodians are professionals, and they're usually overworked. Nothing will infuriate them like showing up out of the blue and throwing their entire working day out of kilter. (Even a simple phone call a few hours ahead of time can make a world of difference to a busy archivist.) And nothing will convince them that you don't have any business handling the materials in their charge like coming across as an inconsiderate doofus.
Your level of preparation isn't just important to the archivist, though. If you're serious about research, it should be important to you, too. There is so much to read, so much to digest, so much to consult, but your time in the collection is finite. You've got to make the most of it. You can't afford to squander it on a wild goose chase through an entire institution's holdings.
Your time as a researcher and the archivist's time as a professional are very precious, limited commodities. Use them both wisely.


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Clinical Trials
Phase 1 Dose Escalation Study of Autologous T-cells Genetically Modified at the CCR5 Gene by Zinc Finger Nucleases in HIV-Infected Patients
Sangamo Therapeutics
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Sangamo Therapeutics
First received: January 6, 2010
Last updated: March 11, 2015
Last Verified: March 2015
History of Changes
This research study is being carried out to study a new way to possibly treat HIV. This agent
is called a "Zinc Finger Nuclease" or ZFN for short. ZFNs are proteins that can delete
another protein named CCR5. This CCR5 protein is required for certain types of HIV (CCR5
tropic) to enter into and infect your T-cells. T cells are one of the white blood cells used
by the body to fight HIV. The most important of these are called "CD4 T-cells."
Some People are born without CCR5 on their T-cells. These people remain healthy and are resistant to infection with HIV. Other people have a low number of CCR5 on their T-cells, and their HIV disease is less severe and is slower to cause disease (AIDS).
Even with no detectable levels of HIV in the blood, HIV remains in some tissues in the body, primarily the gut tissue. HIV infects the CD4+ T-cells including in the blood and gut. The new treatment to be studied will involve removing white blood cell from the blood that contains CD4+ T-cells. The extracted CD4+ T-cells are then genetically modified by the ZFNs to be resistant to infection by HIV by removing the CCR5 gene from the surface of the CD4+ T cell where HIV enters the cell. Additional genetically modified cells are manufactured and then re-infused back into you. Researchers hope that these genetically modified cells will be resistant to infection by HIV and will be able to reproduce additional resistant CD4+ T-cells in your body.
Laboratory studies have shown that when CD4+ T-cells are modified with ZFNs, HIV is prevented from killing the CD4+ T-cells. On the basis of these laboratory results, thre is the potential that ZFNs may work in humans infected with HIV and improve their immune system by allowing their CD4+ T-cells to survive longer.
The purpose of this research study is to find out whether "zinc finger" modified CD4+ T-cells are safe to give to humans and find how "zinc finger" modified T-cell affects HIV.
HIV Infection
HIV Infections
Genetic : SB-728-T
Phase 1
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
Allocation: Non-Randomized
Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|A Phase 1 Dose Escalation, Single Dose Study of Autologous T-Cells Genetically Modified at the CCR5 Gene by Zinc Finger Nucleases SB-278 in HIV-Infected Patients Who Have Exhibited Suboptimal CD4+ T-Cell Gains During Long-Term Antiretroviral Therapy
Further study details as provided by Sangamo Therapeutics:
Primary Outcome Measures
- Safety - Treatment related adverse events [ Time Frame: 12 months after the first infusion ]
- Evaluate the long-term persistence and activity of CCR5 ZFN-modified autologous T-Cells [ Time Frame: 12 months after the first infusion ]
|Study Start Date:
|December 2009
|Study Completion Date:
|December 2014
|Primary Completion Date:
|December 2014 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Cohort 1
3 Subjects will receive a single infusion of 0.5-1.0 x 1010 SB-728-T
Each infusion will be 5-30 billion ZFN modified CD4+ T-cells
Cohort 2
3 Subjects will receive a single infusion of 2.0 x 1010 SB-728-T
Each infusion will be 5-30 billion ZFN modified CD4+ T-cells
Cohort 3
3 Subjects will receive a single infusion of 3.0 x 1010 SB-728-T
Each infusion will be 5-30 billion ZFN modified CD4+ T-cells
Cohort 4
Up to 4 HAART failure subjects will receive a single intravenous infusion of 0.5 to 3.0 x 1010 SB-728-T
Each infusion will be 5-30 billion ZFN modified CD4+ T-cells
Cohort 5
Up to 20 subjects with heterozygote CCR5 delta-32 mutation will receive a single intravenous infusion of 0.5 to 3.0 x 1010 SB-728-T. Cohort 5 subjects will undergo a structured treatment interruption 2 months following infusion in which their anti-retroviral therapy will be discontinued for 16 weeks. HAART will be reinstituted in subjects whose CD4+ cell counts drop to <350 cells/mm3 and/or whose HIV-RNA increases to >100,000 on three consecutive weekly measurements. At the end of the STI, subjects with a sustained detectable viral load will be reinstituted on HAART. Subjects with HIV RNA levels below the limit of detection will remain off HAART. Subjects with an undetectable viral load will remain off HAART until HIV RNA levels are detectable or their CD4 count drops below 350 cell/mm3 on three consecutive weekly measurements.
Each infusion will be 5-30 billion ZFN modified CD4+ T-cells
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Documented HIV infection prior to study entry
- Must be willing to comply with study-mandated evaluations; including not changing their antiretroviral regimen (unless medically indicated) during the study period.
- Must have received HAART therapy, and had undetectable viral loads for at least 1 year.
- HIV-1 RNA < 50 copies/mL obtained within 60 days prior to study entry performed with an ultrasensitive HIV-1 PCR assay.
- CD4+ T cell count >500 cells/mm3
- Heterozygous for the CCR5 delta-32 mutation
- On stable antiretroviral medication (no changes to treatment within 4 weeks of screening and willing to discontinue current antiretroviral therapy during the structured therapy interruption
- On stable antiretroviral medication (no changes to treatment within 4 weeks of screening and willing to continue on current antiretroviral therapy through week 8 after infusion
- CD4+ T cell count >350 cells/mm3.
- HIV-1 >1,000 copies/mL at screen and not responding to current antiviral therapy (i.e. HIV-RNA plasma levels > 1000 copies/ml after at least 12 weeks of stable, unchanged ARV therapy).
Cohort 1, 2 and 3 (Enrollment Completed)
Cohort 5:
Cohort 4
Exclusion Criteria:
- Acute or chronic hepatitis B or hepatitis C infection
- Active or recent (in prior 6 months) AIDS defining complication.
- Any cancer or malignancy within the past 5 years, with the exception of successfully treated basal cell or squamous cell carcinoma of the skin or low grade (0 or 1) anal or cervical dysplasia.
- Current diagnosis of NYHA grade 3 or 4 CHF, uncontrolled angina or uncontrolled arrhythmias.
- History or any features on physical examination indicative of a bleeding diathesis.
- Previous treatment with any HIV experimental vaccine within 6 months prior to screening, or any previous gene therapy using an integrating vector.
- Use of chronic corticosteroids, hydroxyurea, or immunomodulating agents (e.g., interleukin-2, interferon-alpha or gamma, granulocyte colony stimulating factors, etc.) within 30 days prior to enrollment
- Breast-feeding, pregnant or unwilling to use acceptable methods of birth control for 6 months following the last infusion of SB-728-T cells.
- warfarin or any other medication that is likely to affect platelet function or other aspects of blood coagulation during the 2 week period prior to leukapheresis.
- Active drug or alcohol use or dependence
- Serious illness requiring systemic treatment and/or hospitalization within 30 days prior to study entry.
- Recent vaccination or intercurrent illness (within 5 weeks prior to infusion)
- Have an allergy or hypersensitivity to study product excipients (human serum albumin, DMSO and Dextran 40).
- Subjects who are currently taking maraviroc or have received maraviroc within 6 months prior to screening.
- HIV-1 RNA >1,000 copies/mL at screen and not responding to current antiviral therapy
- CD4+ T cell count >350 cells/mm3
Cohort 4 only:
Contacts and LocationsChoosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision.Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the Contacts provided below.For general information, see Learn About Clinical Studies.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01044654
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|United States, California
|UCLA Center for AIDS Research and Education
|Los Angeles, California, United States, 90035
|Orange Coast Medical Group
|Newport Beach, California, United States, 92663
|Quest Clinical Research
|San Francisco, California, United States, 94115
|United States, Connecticut
|Circle CARE Center, LLC
|Norwalk, Connecticut, United States, 06851
|United States, Florida
|Orlando Immunology Center
|Orlando, Florida, United States, 32803
|United States, Missouri
|Central West Clinical Research, Inc.
|St Louis, Missouri, United States, 63108
|United States, New Mexico
|Southwest CARE Center
|Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States, 87505
|United States, New York
|Ricky K Hsu, MD, PC
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So it should come as no surprise that I've been thinking about making a summer raincoat.
I have exacting demands:
- Not a traditional trench - don't want epaulettes and buttons and buttonholes - too fussy for what I have in mind
- Must have one piece fronts and backs - no waist seams
- Semi-fitted - not swinging like the 1950s or maternity wear but loose enough to close without having to suck it in
- No Belts - sway back girls like me don't suit belted coats, we are forever adjusting the gathers and pleats at the back.
- Buttons are OK but not a million of them
- Double breasted - maybe
- Pockets - without a doubt
- Preferably just above knee length
- Lined in a fancy quilters cotton type of colourful fabric
- No zips - I have enough trouble putting in a 7" skirt zip let alone a 22" or longer coat one
3. Eurofashionweb Also downloadable, would have to lengthen this and I'm concerned the back pleat will be too swingy.
Then I found a German site simply called Pattern Company. Absolutely gorgeous stuff, all the usual and some really unusual pieces too. I'm guessing the instructions will be in German though.
4. I know it's belted but if left off do you think the coat moves into swingy mode?
6. Stunning, but as a raincoat?
7. Nearly there, but the belt is built in....and it's raglan sleeves so no easing required - yippee! Need to lengthen
A Danish company called Onion
8. Fairly traditional rain coat style, but the instructions are in Danish and that's a tad more difficult than German
9. This one has a tie at one side so I'm not too sure what it would look like open.
My usual - Vogue
10. Sandra Bettzina - Kimono sleeves but lots of darts.
Lots and lots to choose from and maybe some others I haven't even found yet. However, I have failed to mention one thing..... I should be doing this......
No room for sewing for the next few weeks. Ah well, by the time this lot is marked and sent away I'll have my raincoat fabric, pattern and sewing room back - and then, only then, will the sun be shining!
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THE four-letter word I most dislike begins with a 'C'. We've already had that debate on this blog.
But the most abused and misused four-letter word I can think of is 'rape'. There was a time, not too long ago, where it wasn't considered polite to mention rape in conversation. Too raw, too politically-charged, too obscene, 'dirty'.
The first time I realised that rape was not to be addressed with the 'r' word was while watching – forgive me – Home and Away. Carly, stumbling home to the caravan park, clothes torn and in tears, having been raped while out hitch-hiking. Not once in the weeks of soap drama that followed, not once during the ministrations of Tom and Pippa, the discussion among her friends, the investigation by the police, was the word rape used.
Carly was "attacked". It wasn't that the effects of rape were not tackled – so why was the word itself considered too profane for the largely teenage audience watching the show?
I don't think that's the case now, and well it shouldn't be. This country is coming down with men, women and children who have been raped and sexually abused. (The Rape Crisis Centre went so far as to use the word "endemic" last year about rape and child sexual abuse in particular here. While their figures can't be definitive – they can obviously only record the experiences of those people who actually contact their services – they are no less a national disgrace for that.) The very least they should be afforded is the right to use the correct, criminal term, loudly and publicly, for what has happened to them.
Today though we're looking at transcripts of gardai "joking" about how two women arrested on public order offences in relation to the Corrib pipeline protests should be told to give their names and addresses or be raped.
I read a comment online this morning that people are taking the "banter" between a couple of unidentified yahoos from Templemore a bit too seriously.
Let's just leave that stand and ferment there, shall we?
Is 'to rape' now an acceptable verb through which to express one's annoyance? Are you having a laugh?
We know the word still carries a powerful impact. The seriousness with which the courts treat cases of, thankfully rare, false allegations of rape indicates that this is not a word to be bandied about. And rightly so. But if the courts recognise that it's a criminal offence to falsely accuse someone of rape, how is it not clear to everyone that the effect of the word in the converse situation is similarly an act of aggression and an outrage?
What's in a word? Ask the women of Toronto who took part in a "Slut Walk" on Sunday to protest against a police officer's comment that women are putting themselves at risk of rape by dressing like "sluts". Ah, that old sane, rational, women-are-the-problem argument again.
So the women who took offence put on their fishnet stockings, stilettos and the most revealing clothes to march and chant:
Whatever we wear, wherever we go, yes means yes, and no means no.
They wouldn't "let it go". I don't think we should let this one go either.
As last week's rape post showed, people have understandably strong feelings on this issue. This comment thread is purely to discuss the the casual use of the word rape in the context of the Corrib gardaí case and the implications of this case, such as whether we can trust gardaí who talk about rape in that way to take actual rape cases seriously, or whether an investigation into garda conduct can be properly carried out by fellow gardaí. Any reference to last week's discussion of rape will not be approved. Nor will personal attacks, assumptions about other posters, or attempts to hijack the thread and devote it to other vaguely-rape-related issues. This is NOT a thread about false accusations of rape or their implications. And if you want to talk about how the Corrib gardaí were just having a laugh, there are plenty of other online spaces where you can do so. We reserve the right to not approve any or all comments.


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Yes, it really is a paradise, but somehow you tend to not even think about that tiny island -- all 34 kilometres of it lying out there in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Known well to east-coasters as a "honeymoon island," Bermuda still retains its "veddy" British atmosphere and attitudes, but with just enough Caribbean flavour to make life really interesting.
My Bermudian grandfather would extol the virtues of this precious jewel to my brother and me many, many moons ago, saying that the bougainvillea was in bloom all the time. We, of course, would wink at each other and think, oh yeah, sure -- he must be joking -- nothing is blooming in the winter, as we sat shivering in the snowy bowels of New England.
But it is true. Not only the bougainvillea is blooming, but hibiscus and jasmine and frangipani all flourish in Bermuda during the winter. Not exactly beach weather for the locals, but many tourists enjoy the invigorating temperatures at the myriad emerald and turquoise bays and coves. And, definitely, the sand is pink -- from a tiny micro-organism that turns to coral and is then ground up into sand from the ever-crashing waves. This exquisite piece of volcanic rock and coral owes its sub-tropical climate to its location just 483 km southeast of the Gulf Stream and this turns the island into a tropical paradise for about 10 months out of the year. Only January and February can bring cold winds and rough seas, the one exception being an occasional fall hurricane which passes near or over the Island.
I dispel immediately the usual erroneous propaganda that it's "much too pricey" for the ordinary person, because we managed to stay for 10 days in a superb old Bermuda house called "Tranquility House" for a very normal B & B price. Our hostess was delightful and we almost had the run of the large house located majestically on Harbor Road.
With a ferry stop five minutes away by foot, the ferry crossing to Hamilton takes about 10 minutes. Our wing of this packed-to-the-gills-with-English-treasures house included a large bed- sitting room with a bath and kitchenette. Therefore, we bought local groceries and made our breakfast every morning. That is, unless we wanted to take the ferry over to Hamilton (the capital) and breakfast in one of the newest and best restaurants we found -- Monty's on Front Street. Reasonable and with great food, the service was superb and fast, and the place was obviously run by a competent, savvy group of local Bermudians.
We bravely (maybe crazily) rented two scooters after taking a trial run around a parking lot and getting a thumbs-up from the owners. You cannot rent a car in Bermuda, nor would you really want to as traffic has increased tremendously and there appears to be more cars on the road than ever, even though the government still only allows one car per family.
Luckily, we managed to stay upright, but at around 35 km/h you do not have time to check out the scenery. It does, however, get you from A to B. And so on Day 2 we headed for Flatts Village to take in the aquarium, which has been expanded into a fascinating zoo and museum with gorgeous flamingoes and golden Tamarin monkeys among other exotic creatures such as a sleeping tree kangaroo. Loaded with information about the island, the sea, the fish, and the reefs, it is an absolute must on one's itinerary.
That evening we took the ferry over to Hamilton to enjoy the Lobster Pot which has morphed from a fine-dining spot for lobster in the '60s into a trendy sports bar still run by the original owner's children.
While the service was lacklustre, the half spiny lobster was to sigh for -- pure sea water spurting into one's mouth with every juicy bite. We also chose the spiny lobster on our last night when the up-scale meeting place, The Pickled Onion, offered a special of three courses for $35. This spot is trendy and bustling, with young folks crowding the bar, and manager Chris Morley has the formula for making guests feel at home: friendly servers totally up on the kitchen and superb food coming out of it.
This was a major treat out of all the restaurants we tried. The Hog Penny Pub that fed us the night we arrived is also right up there as it always has been -- reasonable, friendly service, great pub food, and comfortable tables where you can hoist your Guinness or London ale in relative peace and quiet.
Our third day, dawning blue and sunny, saw us on the large ferry to Dockyard at the extreme western end of the island. It's a lovely ride cutting through the turquoise waters, past the beautiful pink Princess Hotel -- looking much the same as she did in the '60s when I worked briefly for the manager, past grand houses built almost right on top of the water, and other boats and ferries coming and going.
The Royal Naval Dockyard, barren in the '60s, has been reborn into a most wonderful and busy bevy of shops, cafes, restaurants, businesses, a craft market, and is as beautiful and charming as anything imaginable. As a direct result of the independence of the English American colonies in 1783, Bermuda was developed as a strategic mid-Atlantic British Naval base and dockyard.
The Maritime Museum located in the fortress keep of the old Royal Naval Dockyard features six acres of grounds, eight historic exhibit buildings, and the Commissioner's House. This structure, built in the 1820s, was the first cast-iron building ever built and its girders and floor paving stones were sent from England while British convicts quarried hard limestone for the walls of the dockyard area.
After a 20-year, award-winning restoration, the house now features a range of fascinating heritage exhibitions from slavery to the Azores connection. After covering all this, we opted for the Frog & Onion Pub for a beer and sat happily in their colourful outside courtyard complete with umbrellas and calypso music pouring out from inside the pub. Their fascinating gift shop offered a sale, so Frog & Onion green mugs and red T-shirts were scooped up for various children and grandchildren.
I wanted to refresh my memory of the "swinging" Elbow Beach Surf Club back in the '60s. We booked a table in the Seahorse Grille and chose the two-course dinner, after having a good look around at the hotel which, in 1955, was $15 a day including three meals.
Almost all of the current "in" foods were on the menu including foie gras and beef tartare for starters and entrees of Arctic char with truffled honey and rockfish (grouper) on a potato patty with a sweet topping of beet seedlings and shredded radish.
Although the college kids' spring-break rampages here ended years ago, the hotel still has a young, trendy feel to it. Used as a storage building during the Second World War, it wears its years well, and has obviously weathered all of the hurricanes that have passed over the island for the last 60-plus years. And, the famous rum swizzles are still to yearn for, still made with two jolting shots of various island rums.
Touring the south shore is a requisite; one gorgeous turquoise beach and bathing or photo op after another with good access in all cases. Stone Hole Bay in Warwick where we once swam and fished was blown apart by hurricane Fabian in 2003, but the beach and fabulous swimming still exist.
I expect they will simply have to rename the beach -- perhaps something like Shattered Stone Bay. The fishing right there in the surf with only bread balls for bait can bring you a full pan of pompano for breakfast if you wish.
We were treated to a dinner at The Reefs in Southampton by local relatives and this place has only increased in beauty, sitting as it does on rocks and fitted into outcroppings of rocks at various levels. A premier dining spot, the first- level outdoor dining terrace is just above the surf washing gently on the pink sand.
The balmy breezes that evening belied the November date, but this is Bermuda. We all went for the watercress, pear, and candied walnut salad and ummed and ahhed at the crunchiness of the delightful melody of flavours. My rack of lamb sat on a bed of plantains with a mango chutney sauce and Jan's rockfish was laced with a ginger sauce to remember. This lovely restaurant and hotel are especially recommended for those wishing a superlative living/dining or honeymoon experience.
For the U.K.-lover or anyone else, this small but beautiful island is the perfect getaway, and 10 days will be sufficient to really take it all in. Bermuda's motto, "Quo Fata Ferunt" -- whither the fates shall lead us -- is very apt. Let it lead you to the "Isle of Devils" -- so called because of the exotic birds which screamed and dove at those first, poor shipwrecked sailors.
- Visitors from Canada must present either a valid Canadian passport, birth certificate or certified copy with photo ID.
- The Bermuda rental site -- www.bermudagetaway.com -- has several charming and wonderful accommodation possibilities.
Other good sites are: www.bermudarentals.com and www.bermudatourism.com.
My favourite place for a "real" Bermuda experience is the Grape Bay Beach Hotel which offers an off-season rate of $99 per night. Its beautiful private beach is one of the Island's little-known secrets.
- Frommers' Bermuda is a wonderful guide and always shares some of the best buys in accommodations, restaurants, and things to bring home. The website is also excellent: www.frommers.com/destinations/bermuda


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I recently had the chance to sit down with chef, cookbook author and CEO of Masterbuilt, John McLemore, for a delicious lunch here in Birmingham, AL. John was in town for the day on a media blitz, and I'm so thankful that he took the time to meet with me. Upon arriving, I was greeted by the entire gang - his wife Tonya, his daughter, his Social Media Specialist and even his pilot! We had a great time at lunch, and I immediately felt like I had known them for years...What a wonderful group of folks. We talked about all kinds of fun things - memories of his Memaw's Southern Fried Chicken, the story surrounding his most unforgettable meal, the strangest thing he's ever eaten (it was in China!) and even a visit with Paula Deen, in which she prepared an amazing breakfast spread for John and his family at her home.
I love that John's cookbooks have such a big focus on family. Flipping through his cookbook is like looking through a family album, filled with wonderful stories, photos and recipes. Masterbuilt is their family business, and was first started by his father back in 1973. When he was 19, John and his brother Don became part-owners with their father, and in 1998, John and Don became sole-owners of Masterbuilt.
Read on for more of my interview with John:
1. Where in the south did you grow up?
I was born in Hawkinsville, GA and moved to Columbus, GA at 6 years old.
2. Is there a particular family recipe that means the most to you?
MeMaw's Southern Fried Chicken. We used to fight over the skin! It's the only recipe that appears in both of my cookbooks.
3. What's the secret to the perfect southern fried chicken?
Soak the chicken in milk or buttermilk for at least 2 hours before frying.
4. Tell me about your most unforgettable meal.
It has to be the Steak & Lobster on my first date with my wife, Tonya! We had been lobstering down in the Florida Keys and had brought back tons of it. We cooked steak and lobster that night at my house. Tonya came over - on a blind date, set up by our mothers! - and the rest is history.
5. What family traditions centered around food do you look forward to most around the holidays?
Deep frying the Thanksgiving turkey. When I was 18 years old, I decided that I would deep fry the turkey. The women in the family were worried that it wouldn't turn out right and be ruined, so one family member decided she'd secretly make a roasted "back-up" turkey...just in case. On Thanksgiving day, my turkey was a major hit. The only reason that anyone ate the roasted turkey that year was because we ran out of the fried turkey! We've fried it every year since!
6. What are your favorite foods from childhood?
Dad's fish and hushpuppies, Catfish Fingers, Cheese Grits, and of course MeMaw's Southern Fried Chicken
7. Which recipes from your "DADGUM That's Good!" cookbooks make up your favorite tailgating menu?
Buffalo Wings, Fried Wings, Smokey Pimento Cheese Dip, Redneck Ribs, Southern BBQ Shrimp and Bacon Burger Dogs.
8. Which Masterbuilt product should be at the top of everyone's must-have list?
It's a close race between the electric smoker and turkey fryer.
9. What 5 items are always stocked in your kitchen?
Green beans, sweet tea, Butterball's cajun spice, apple cider vinegar and milk
10. What would people be surprised to find in your kitchen?
Three different popcorn machines...We are popcorn addicts!
11. What's the most unusual thing you've ever eaten?
Roasted beetle in China. Also - A deep fried PB & J sandwich.
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Are you watching Up With Chris Hayes? It's really good. There was a discussion last week about what the GOP will do if the economy speeds up its recovery. It was a good discussion of the bind that the Republicans face. Chris and others suggested that the GOP could declare victory, saying something like "we faced down the President during the debt ceiling fight and put the breaks on his runaway agenda, and now the job creators can get to work."
However the entire campaign rhetoric so far is either about the deficit, which stands in for how out-of-control Obama is supposed to have been, or about policies that go to benefit the "job creators" – dismantling Dodd-Frank, stopping the enforcement of environmental and labor regulations, cutting corporate taxes, etc. If the job creators are doing ok as a result of the GOP events of 2011, then that removes their main argument, which is that Obama's administration has stalled the recovery and a policy agenda further to the Right needs to be put into place.
I still think its a mistake to believe that the latest focus on "culture war" issues are the result of confusion by the GOP of how to message the economy – the issues are real, and have been developing in shock battles at the state level for some time.
With that in mind, three recommended readings on what has been happening. Here are the New Republic editors on the latest resurgence of the culture war: "Taken together, they start to look like a disturbing trend. Increasingly, what we are seeing from the right when it comes to women's issues is not conservatism but radicalism: a bid to roll back the gains and freedoms that feminism has managed to earn for women." Irin Carmon asks what are Republicans thinking? "Most of all, Republicans seem intent on proving that pro-choicers are correct when they accuse them of being more obsessed with policing women's sex lives than any actual policymaking." And here's Andrew Hartman on how the culture wars never went away.


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CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Gov. Matt Mead has selected an Arizona state senator to run the Wyoming Education Department.
Mead late Wednesday afternoon announced his choice of Richard Crandall, who co-owns two nutritional service companies.
The Education Department has a budget of about $1 billion a year and employs about 150 people.
Mead and the Legislature enacted a new law this past winter removing the statewide elected superintendent of public instruction as head of the Education Department. Instead, the department will be administered by a director appointed by the governor.
The change occurred in the middle of Superintendent Cindy Hill's four-year term. Hill is challenging the constitutionality of the change.
Crandall says that he'll let the superintendent situation take its own course and that he has a clean slate with everyone involved.