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Rand Paul: Israel Lobby Too Soft on Palestinians
He is flexible enough to blend knee-jerk isolationism with knee-jerk nationalism.
In theory, you might think that adding a dose of Rand Paul–style isolationism to standard Republican neoconservative militancy might result in a nourishing blend of a slightly more reflective brand of hawkish internationalism. In practice, it seems to have created an even more noxious brand of jingoism. Go ahead, read Paul's mindless op-ed for National Review online demanding a cutoff of all aid to the Palestinian Authority.
"Israel has shown remarkable restraint," Paul argues. "It possesses a military with clear superiority over that of its Palestinian neighbors, yet it does not respond to threat after threat, provocation after provocation, with the type of force that would decisively end their conflict." What kind of force would "decisively end their conflict"? Killing every single Palestinian man, woman, and child?
His op-ed proceeds to demand the cutoff of aid — which is opposed by AIPAC, for the obvious reason that it would create even more dysfunction and empower terrorists. Paul's bill does boast the support of the extreme right-wing group Zionist Organization of America.
Paul's gambit here is obviously to win over Republican hawks justifiably concerned he shares his father's kook foreign-policy ideology. His remedy is to embrace a different kind of kookery.


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Good looking job. Is there a space for drywall between insulation and furnace?
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Make sure your combustion is correct and boiler serviced at least annually. With correct combustion flame lifts off the burner a bit and will not touch surface of the burner as much. Bad combustion...
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Did you asked them for that ground shipping over email? For them to ship me a clamp meter is almost 90$ via UPS, which is a bit pricey for me. I am located in Toronto, Canada.
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How is the batter life on Amprobe NAV51?
Thanks, will take a look at Fp sc56 now
I cannot choose between 3 meters:
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I think he meant a 313A or 313D license, which is refrigeration license
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How long it takes to install a condensing furnace an air conditioning and remove old AC and old mid eff furnace. I know every job is different, but on average and two guys are working. And if you cut...
Sorry, been away for a while. Yes, i did look at the link you gave me and i did create an account.
Yes, eventually i would get into refrigeration, but no opportunities so far for me. Thank you...
Is your company looking for apprentices? :grin2:
Well, I have G2 and he has G3, so i got Contractor TSSA license. I put my ticket on the install and i agree unlicensed people should not work on equipment.
Our company does not have licensed refrig mechanics
No, Im not regiaereD as an apprentice, otherwise i would not start this topic. I work for a guy that is subcontractor for a company supplying us a job. So i dont think he reports any hours.
Thx for info, definatly will check this web out.
Yes, but dont you think im wasting my time and not putting my hours towards apprentice hours? Im sure u got yours 313A through apprentice, but how am i going to get one with company that mostly doing...
How are you going to achieve Journeyman? Are you in Union already, if yes, what company because im looking to get into union as well.
Thank you guys for your replyes. For you guys guys in union Toronto, how are you busy during a year. How many hours you are having on average?
I dont think anyone is slowing down because many people are getting ready for winter. I mean servicing heating equipment.
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A question here. What if you test voltage on 3 phase compressor that has a voltage slightly over 600 V and Fluke 116 is rated for 600 V only. Is it harmful to the meter? Just curious.
I don't think it is too easy to get to the union. :whistle:
I wish someday I am going to install this kind of system, in the long future. This job looks beutiful and really neat. Thanks for sharing these pics with us.
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I was making 12/hour one year ago, just out of school. Now working in this field almost a year i get 15/hour, which is not too bad so far. Btw Im located in Canada, Toronto.
Same thing as craiglist. Go to Kijiji.com, select your region and look for a HVAC listings in job section.
Kijiji is not a bad place to look for a job as well.
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Thank You for your reply. I already found a job with a HVAC Company 2 days ago.
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This particular album was, in my opinion, one of the best of the entire 90's decade for any musician. And it ranks as some of the best work of Ozzy's career. His distinct vocals combined with Zakk Wylde's guitar style to make a blended, natural sound that still sounds great and rocks years later. I highly recommend this for any rock fan, but it is an essential for fans of Ozzy.
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Jersey City Fireworks? Fuhgeddaboudit!
Animals in Jersey City can rest a lot easier this Fourth of July now that a planned fireworks display has been canceled because of a lack of funds. We're asking city officials to end all future fireworks displays and replace them with less costly, more entertaining laser light shows instead.
Fireworks sound like all-out war to dogs, cats, and wildlife and can have devastating consequences. Just ask J.J., the terrified dog Karin wrote about in her recent blog post. My dog, Henry, and I are planning to just chill at home this year and have our own little laser light show (which consists of him chasing a laser pointer). Good times.
You, too, can ensure that a good (and safe) time is had by everyone in your household by following these dog-and-cat-approved fireworks survival tips. And of course, Happy Fourth of July!
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God i hate when people shoot off fireworks after independence day or rev motorcycles or come by in loud vehicles it scares my dog Kelly to no end she runs into my room or my parents' room and hides behind the beds. oh and i completley agree with jeron. and please don't say stuff about NJ i live here. It's awesome. Don't hate it unless you've been here.
I live in Australia and in an area that gets a lot of thunderstorms in the Summer. I know this is off topic but they're relatable. My dog who is neurotic and clingy loves the sound the thunder makes. I think it all depends on how the owner reacts towards the dog when these things are happening i.e. if I acted scared and worried around my dog when there's thunder and lightening and believe me we get A LOT then he would react the same. But all I do is keep calm no matter how scared I get because they can get quite close to us and it is really scary when we have a massive tree that could fall on to our house at any point from the wind so that my dog stays calm. He's been with us 5 years now and not once does he get frightened by the noise. Nor does he when there are fireworks around which isn't as often as the thunder. OWNERS REMEMBER Keep your pet calm by simply holding them or having them lie down and pat them.
This is silly. First just because the writer likes laser shows better doesn't mean that the population as a whole agrees. Secondly laser shows are much more expensive than firework displays and every city isn't able to accommodate laser show. Lasers are also dangerous to animals and people if they are hit directly in the eye. The bottom line is. Fireworks are fine. If you have concerns about your pets then keep them indoors during the scheduled show. Problem solved


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China's Stocks Drop, Led by Steelmakers, Drugmakers; Banks Gain
China's stocks fell on Shenyin & Wanguo Securities Co.'s downgrade of the steel industry and concern health-care companies may be overvalued given their earnings outlook.
Baoshan Iron & Steel Co. and Hebei Iron & Steel Co. dropped at least 1 percent after Shenyin & Wanguo said steelmakers' profit margins may narrow. Jiangsu Hengrui Medicine Co. led a decline among health-care stocks, the second-best performer in the CSI 300 in 2010. Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd. and China Construction Bank Corp. added at least 0.4 percent after Citic Securities Co. said the central bank may adopt a more relaxed monetary policy to ease a shortage of cash at banks.
"A slowing of economic and corporate earnings growth in the third quarter looks certain as a result of tightening measures," said Zheng Tuo, president of Shanghai Good Hope Equity Investment Management Co. "Some of the slowdown may have already been priced into equities and there's a big possibility of a double-dip for the economy."
The Shanghai Composite Index, which tracks the bigger of China's stock exchanges, dropped 9.70, or 0.4 percent, to 2,560.25 at the close. The CSI 300 Index lost 0.6 percent to 2,742.73. China's markets were shut from June 14 to yesterday for the holidays.
The Shanghai gauge has dropped 22 percent this year on concern government measures to rein in housing prices and the European crisis will damp economic growth.
China's steelmaking industry was lowered to "neutral" from "overweight" by Shenyin & Wanguo analyst Zhao Xiange. Major steelmakers will have "slim" profit margins in the third quarter and the outlook for iron ore negotiations isn't optimistic, Zhao said in a report today.
Price Increases
Baoshan Steel, the listed unit of China's second-biggest steelmaker, dropped 1 percent to 6.07 yuan. Baosteel Group Corp., the second-biggest steelmaker, agreed to accept a 23 percent increase in iron ore prices from Rio Tinto Group and BHP Billiton Ltd., said research company UC361.com.
Hebei Iron & Steel Co., the listed unit of the biggest steelmaker, fell 1.2 percent to 4.02 yuan. Maanshan Iron & Steel Co. slid 1.2 percent to 3.42 yuan.
Jiangsu Hengrui Medicine paced declines for drugmakers, sliding 8 percent to 45.09 yuan and trimming its gain to 3.1 percent this year. Harbin Pharmaceutical Group Co. tumbled 8.9 percent to 20.23 yuan, its biggest loss since September 2008.
A measure tracking health-care stocks slid 5.8 percent today, the most among the 10 industry groups of the CSI 300. It had advanced 9.3 percent in 2010 as of the end of last week.
Drugmakers Earnings
Liu Xiaoming, an analyst at Guoyuan Securities Co., said investors were selling drugmakers after recent rallies pushed reported price earnings for the industry measure to 25 times, compared with 18 for the CSI 300.
Per-share earnings at Chinese health-care companies are expected to grow 23 percent this year, compared with 29 percent for companies trading on the Shanghai Stock Exchange, according to Macquarie Group Ltd.
A leading indicator for China jumped by the most in 14 months, adding to signs that the world's third-biggest economy is maintaining momentum as Europe's debt crisis threatens to undermine the global recovery. The measure gained 1.7 percent to 147.1 in April, compared with a revised 1.2 percent increase in March, The Conference Board said on its website on June 15.
"There have been so many increases in the reserve requirement ratio this year that even big banks are short of cash," said Hu Hangyu, a Beijing-based fixed-income analyst at Citic. "The central bank may make monetary policy a bit loose to guide the repo rates lower to a reasonable level."
Banks Gain
Industrial & Commercial Bank of China, the nation's biggest listed lender, added 1.4 percent to 4.23 yuan. Construction Bank, the second-largest, rose 0.4 percent to 4.82 yuan.
The seven-day repurchase rate climbed past the one-year deposit rate on May 27 and has remained there on all aside from four days since. The last time this occurred, in February, it lasted just two days. Fund shortages worsened after policy makers raised banks' reserve requirements three times this year and drained cash from the financial system through bill sales.
Chinese stocks may gain 15 percent in the "coming months" as concerns ease over an oversupply of shares and the economy withstands Europe's sovereign debt crisis, according to HSBC Holdings Plc's China strategist Steven Sun.
"Now is the time to look for 10 to 15 percent rebound in the coming months" as banks cut the amount of capital they planned to raise, Sun, Hong Kong-based equity strategist at HSBC, said in a Bloomberg Television interview. "The Chinese economy should continue to grow 9 percent in the second half. We're not forecasting a double-dip scenario, given the still robust exports and imports numbers, and also resilient consumption."
The following companies were among the most active in China's markets. Stock symbols are in brackets after companies' names.
Citichamp Dartong Co. (600067 CH) rose 3.8 percent to 9.01 yuan after the company said it canceled plans for a rights offer due to changes in the Chinese real estate market.
Meidu Holdings Co. (600175 CH), a Chinese property developer and manager of hotels, plunged by the 10 percent daily limit to 4.55 yuan after 376 million of its shares become tradable today.
Shanxi Sanwei Group Co. (000755 CH), a manufacturer of chemical products, added 1.2 percent to 7.77 yuan after saying it will invest 102 million yuan for a 51 percent stake in a venture that will produce coking-related products.


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Research Article
Adolescents and young adults with acute lymphoblastic leukemia have a better outcome when treated with pediatric-inspired regimens: Systematic review and meta-analysis†‡
Version of Record online: 3 MAR 2012
DOI: 10.1002/ajh.23149
Copyright © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
American Journal of Hematology
Volume 87, Issue 5, pages 472–478, May 2012
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Ram, R., Wolach, O., Vidal, L., Gafter-Gvili, A., Shpilberg, O. and Raanani, P. (2012), Adolescents and young adults with acute lymphoblastic leukemia have a better outcome when treated with pediatric-inspired regimens: Systematic review and meta-analysis. Am. J. Hematol., 87: 472–478. doi: 10.1002/ajh.23149
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R.R. and O.W. contributed equally to this work.
Publication History
- Issue online: 16 APR 2012
- Version of Record online: 3 MAR 2012
- Accepted manuscript online: 8 FEB 2012 06:06AM EST
- Manuscript Accepted: 30 JAN 2012
- Manuscript Revised: 7 JAN 2012
- Manuscript Received: 17 DEC 2011
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Survival of adults with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is inferior to that of pediatric patients. Strategies to improve the outcome of adult population are warranted. This study aims to evaluate the efficacy and safety of pediatric-inspired regimens given to adolescents and young adults (AYA), usually defined as 16–39 years, with ALL. Systematic review and meta-analysis of comparative trials of AYA patients with ALL given induction chemotherapy with either pediatric-inspired regimens or conventional-adult chemotherapy was conducted. Relative risks (RR) with 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were estimated and pooled. Our search yielded 11 trials, including 2,489 patients. AYA patients given pediatric-inspired regimens had a statistically significant lower all cause mortality rate at 3 years (RR 0.58; 95% CI 0.51–0.67). Complete remission rate after induction chemotherapy and event free survival were superior in the pediatric-inspired regimens arm (RR 1.05; 95% CI 1.01–1.10 and RR 1.66; 95% CI 1.39–1.99, respectively). Relapse rate was also lower in patients given pediatric-inspired regimens (RR 0.51; 95% CI 0.39–0.66) with comparable nonrelapse mortality between the two groups (RR 0.53, 95% CI 0.19–1.48). Pediatric-inspired regimens are superior to conventional-adult chemotherapy in AYA ALL patients. Further randomized controlled studies to investigate this approach in adult ALL patients are warranted. Am. J. Hematol. 87:472–478, 2012. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.


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CLEARWATER, Fla. - After the 2009 World Series had ended and the noise of an irritated public and his own self-doubt quieted a bit, Cole Hamels went home to his wife and new son. Caleb Hamels was born on the frantic afternoon of Oct. 8, when his father lasted just five innings in a division series loss to Colorado, and spent his first days in the world with a dad facing incessant adversity.
In November, when the Phillies pitcher was finally able to exhale and spend time with his first child, he was impressed by Caleb's resilience.
The baby stared at unfamiliar objects with fierce interest and approached challenges with a determination that struck his father as admirable. And after enduring the most serious setbacks of his athletic life, Hamels embraced the inspiration.


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text: 5. Coronado's Collapse You know the old Wall Street adage, right? Bulls make money, bears make money and biotechs selling pig parasite eggs get slaughtered. OK, OK. Maybe that's not the exact phrasing, but it certainly comes pretty close to describing what happened to Coronado BioSciences' ( CNDO) stock this week. Shares of Coronado tumbled 67% to $1.91 Monday after the company announced that its experimental Crohn's Disease treatment failed an important Phase II study. Coronado's drug, which is referred to as CNDO-21, contains the live eggs of a parasite found in the excrement of pigs (also known as Trichuris suis ova, or TSO). When swallowed, the eggs hatch and grow into tiny whipworms which were intended to stimulate a human's immune system and fight off inflammatory auto-immune diseases like Crohn's. Yes, it's absolutely disgusting to even think about let alone ingest. Nevertheless, you know what they also say: Any pig parasite egg in a storm. That is, if only Coronado's drug provided shelter from it, which, unfortunately, it doesn't, despite the company's best attempt to spin the sorry results in its favor. "These results support the potential of TSO to regulate the immune system in patients with Crohn's disease, particularly those with higher level of disease severity," said Coronado CEO Dr. Harlan Weisman. "We look forward to further analyzing the data from TRUST-I, along with the anticipated data from Dr. Falk Pharma's TRUST-II study in Crohn's disease, to identify the most appropriate development path for TSO." Mixed, mangled and entirely un-kosher metaphors aside, Crohn's symptoms of patients treated with CNDO-021 failed to respond any better than patients treated with a placebo. And as TheStreet's biotech ax Adam Feuerstein alertly points out, blaming negative study results on a higher-than-expected placebo response is typically the "lame excuse" offered when a drug simply doesn't work. Look. Weisman understands better than anybody the unenviable position he was put in. He's no dummy. However, he still had to offer his disappointed investors some kind of hope even though his so-called "path for TSO" now looks like a dead end. What else could he do while standing up there with pig parasite egg on his face? Prev 0 of 5 Next


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WEST HAM striker Demba Ba is being targeted by Everton boss David Moyes, according to reports.
The Daily Mirror claims Moyes is an admirer of the Hammers hitman, but the wage demands of the Senegalese player could prove a major stumbling block.
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By EDWARD WYATT
Published: December 10, 2001
On West Eighth Street in Greenwich Village, shoe salesmen stand forlornly on the sidewalk in front of Leather&Shoes.com, smoking cigarettes and staring blankly into the distance, wondering where all the customers have gone.
Down the block, Raja Chaani, the manager of India Imports, and two of his employees sit on stools in a sprawling space chock-full of leather jackets, silk scarves and Indian curios -- but devoid of customers.
Across the street, at Man Plus, Sonny Shahani and three other salesmen spend their time rearranging sweaters and calculating how much their commissions have fallen. And at House of Nubian, no one but a few Internet shoppers is buying Negro League jackets and hats, or buttons with pictures of black leaders like Malcolm X and Haile Selassie.
While it was expected that small businesses near the site of the World Trade Center would suffer from the terrorist attack on Sept. 11, which displaced 100,000 potential customers from office buildings in the area and thousands more from their homes, wider economic damage from the attack is still rippling outward from ground zero.
The national economy, of course, was already slowing before Sept. 11. But the attack sent shudders through small businesses, not only in New York City but also across the nation. Some economic forecasters say they believe a wave of business failures in New York and elsewhere could come soon after the first of the year, as retailers and other entrepreneurs succumb to the continuing lack of new business in what is traditionally their busiest season.
''I've been on this street for 15 years, and it's never been this bad,'' said Kawal Bhatia, whose family owns Leather&Shoes.com, a shoe and leather goods store at 22 West Eighth Street which, despite its name, does not have a Web site. ''In past years, no matter how bad it was the rest of the year, at least you knew you would cover all your losses with the holiday shoppers.'' But on a recent Friday, he said, ''I did $25 worth of business.''
Last week, Mr. Bhatia put up a new sign: ''Store Closing.''
Small businesses, including many retail establishments, account for two of every five jobs in New York City and roughly half of all jobs statewide, so the drought among small-business owners presages economic pain that is likely to spread far beyond Lower Manhattan. And while numerous grant and loan programs have sprung up to help small businesses recover from the disaster, business owners have complained, in a growing chorus, that the grants are too small to stem their losses and that loan agencies are not approving loans.
On Eighth Street between Fifth Avenue and Avenue of the Americas, for example, roughly two miles north of ground zero, businesses that depend on people who travel into the city to shop have been devastated. The block, the professed shoe district of Manhattan, has for decades served as a crucible for small businesses, a place where shoe and leather goods shops have mixed with funky clothing emporiums serving an eclectic mix of college students, tourists and New Yorkers in search of bargains. But tourists have stopped coming, and retail sales not just in the Village but across the city have been suffering.
Economists say it is too early to tell just how many small businesses are likely to end up closing or in Bankruptcy Court, but they say that the signs are not good.
''I think there is a strong likelihood that come the first quarter, small businesses that are holding on by the seat of their pants may not be able to hold on anymore without some outside assistance,'' said Ian E. Novos, senior director for economic consulting service of KPMG.
A report assessing the economic impact of Sept. 11 that was prepared for the New York City Partnership, by KPMG and SRI International, another consulting firm, predicted that for the next two years, small businesses' sales would continue to fall short of what was expected before the trade center attack. Employment among small businesses will continue to fall through the first quarter of next year, the report said.
During the recession of the early 1990's, in a downturn that was short-lived by historical standards, business failures in New York State peaked at more than 6,000 companies per year, according to Dun & Bradstreet. The failures involved less than 1 percent of the small businesses operating in the state. In 1997, the most recent year for which data is available, there were roughly 1.2 million small businesses operating in New York State, according to state statistics. (Federal data on small businesses, using different measurement criteria, put the number at about half that.)
The 1990's recession lacked some of the ingredients of today's problems -- most important a cataclysmic event that sent jobs streaming away from Lower Manhattan, immediately closed off spigots of corporate spending and sent consumers into a kind of anti-spending shock.
Since the disaster, the United States Small Business Administration has approved only about one in three applications for disaster loans. Those loans have provided $164 million to more than 2,000 businesses so far, but the approval rate is well below the rates of 50 percent to 64 percent that have followed other major disasters over the past decade.


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City New, New, New Nightlife License Proposed. Again.
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Yet another new proposal for a nightclub license is making the rounds at City Hall, this one supported by Jan Drago and David Della. The latest proposal, though substantially less restrictive than earlier ones, is still being opposed by club industry representatives, who say legislation passed last week by Sally Clark's neighborhoods committee makes the license redundant and unnecessary.
Here's the background: A week ago, Clark's committee adopted a package of legislation (read all about it here) that regulates, but does not license, large bars and clubs. The package has four main elements: It amends city law to allow the city to "abate" clubs that allow overcrowding; requires all clubs to come up with a written security plan that spells out how the club will deal with violence and crowding issues; proposes a new nightlife enforcement team; and directs the mayor to propose additional regulations (which, by the way, is how we got into this nightlife morass in the first place).
The latest iteration of the nightlife license, which Clark's committee will discuss at 6pm next Thursday (at High Point Community Center; meeting schedule and address here) would apply only to large (200-plus) establishments that serve booze after 10 pm, charge admission, and make most of their money from admission and booze. That rules out most bars, and limits the ordinance to the largest clubs. It also removes the unenforceable requirement that clubs monitor nearby sidewalks and parking lots for violence and litter; under the new ordinance, club owners would merely be required "to implement all reasonable measures to prevent violent criminal activity on the premises." And it puts off until later a new noise ordinance, which is being drafted by council staffers now.
So why does the nightlife lobby hate it? According to Seattle Nightlife and Music Association lobbyist Tim Hatley, the legislation overlaps with provisions that have already been adopted, and gives the city a tool to put clubs out of business (by denying or revoking a license). "Its still a license that can be yanked and a license that can be denied," Hatley says.
The council plans to vote on the first four elements of the package in full council Monday. Says Hatley of the long-running drama: "They should just vote on the entire package and let us just get on with our lives." Hear, hear.


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A third generation member of the legendary Carter Family (son of Janette Carter and grandson of A.P. and Sara Carter), Dale Jett carries on his family's music tradition. Hello Stranger, which also features the talents of Teresa Jett and Oscar Harris, provides the closest possible link to the Original Carter Family. Described as a "true Appalachian Americana experience," their performances blend traditional songs, historical facts, and stories about growing up within the "family circle."
The Importance of Being Earnest
Tim Sailer as Jack, Zoe Speas as Gwendolen, and Josh Innerst as Algernon in THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST. Photo by Michael Bailey.
Thursday, March 31, 7:30 pm
Doors open and pre-show music starts at 7 pm
Adults $10; Students free
Oscar Wilde's brilliant and wicked comic masterpiece defines wit and style. This "trivial comedy for serious people" is at once blissfully silly and outrageously shrewd. More than 120 years after its first performance, The Importance of Being Earnest continues to delight audiences with its playful language, charming characters, and biting look at contemporary society.
Thanks to the BRCC Cultural Affairs Committee for support of this American Shakespeare Center on Tour production.
Burn This
Friday – Saturday, April 22-23, 7:30 pm
Sunday, April 24, 3 pm
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Lanford Wilson's complex play probes deeply - with great dramatic and even comic effect - into the lives of four young adults coming to terms with a fatal boating accident. As Anna and Larry mourn their drowned roommate Robbie, they are joined in their Manhattan loft by Anna's boyfriend Burton and Robbie's terrifying, yet fascinating brother Pale. The four attempt to make sense of their lives, reconsidering their own identities and relationships in light of the recent tragedy. Randy Lilly directs this BRCC Student Production, presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York. Adult themes and language.
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Sunday, May 22, 3 pm
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Defensive much, Eli?*
"Erica and Josh in particular" didn't oppose endorsing Jamie Pedersen. Erica, Josh, Sarah Mirk, Annie Wagner, Dan Savage, and David Schmader opposed Pedersen. Everybody, that is, except Eli.
And while we did predict that Pedersen would be disappointing (particularly on issues of interest to renters, which turned out to be true), we didn't say it would be "corrupt." What we pointed out was that Pedersen would continue to work for Preston Gates & Ellis, a corporate law firm that lobbies the Legislature, while serving as a legislator, which struck us as a conflict of interest. (The actual endorsement expressed concern that Pedersen would be "too compromised and middle-of-the-road to be truly effective.") As for "annoying"—well, I don't know what that means, but I guess I was annoyed by Pedersen's contention that money has no influence on politics. I certainly stand by my vote for Stephanie Pure. As I imagine the entire rest of the editorial board, all of whom voted against Eli, does.
* Generally, we don't like to talk about our editorial endorsement process. However, since Eli brought this up, I feel compelled to respond. Having served on the Stranger's edit board, unlike Eli, for the last four years (and on the Weekly's edit board for two years before that) I can say that the process is always very contentious, and that heated arguments are extremely common.


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ATLANTA (AP) - Delta Air Lines is scheduled to report its third-quarter
earnings on Wednesday. According to analysts' projections, the Atlanta-
based carrier could make out a small adjusted profit for the three-month
Delta's president and chief financial officer, Ed Bastian, said Sept. 18
that Delta expected its third-quarter results to be in the range of break-
even to a modest loss.
The airline industry has been beset for an extended period by hefty fuel
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Minecraft's Title Update 14 is out now on PS3, tooWritten by: / / 2 Comments
Xbox 360 owners who happen to also play Minecraft on their console were treated to the release of the latest patch for the block-based world building game, but PlayStation 3 owners are now also able to download the update because Title Update 14 is out now.
Developer 4J Studios itself announced the availability of the title update on Twitter, writing:
Patch 1.04 (TU14) for #MinecraftPS3 is rolling out now in North America, Europe, Australia & New Zealand !
— 4J Studios (@4JStudios) March 27, 2014
It seems as though some patch applicants are having some trouble with one of the new features, which might be addressed in a future bug fix – 4J writes:
It seems people are not too keen on the robotic voice chat feature in PS3 Patch 1.04 ;)
We'll change that in a bug fix patch.
— 4J Studios (@4JStudios) March 27, 2014
Title Update 14 is Out Now, But What Does it Do?
In case you need to catch up on exactly what the new patch for Minecraft on Xbox 360 and PS3 does, here's the full feature list:
New items:
– Emerald
– Emerald Ore
– Block of Emerald
– Ender Chest
– Tripwire Hook
– Enchanted Golden Apple
– Anvil
– Flower Pot
– Cobblestone Walls
– Mossy Cobblestone Walls
– Wither Painting
– Potato
– Baked Potato
– Poisonous Potato
– Carrot
– Golden Carrot
– Carrot on a Stick
– Pumpkin Pie
– Night Vision Potion
– Invisibility Potion
– Nether Quartz
– Nether Quartz Ore
– Block of Quartz
– Quartz Slab
– Quartz Stair
– Chiseled Quartz Block
– Pillar Quartz Block
– Enchanted Book
– Carpet
New Features and Tweaks:
– Added new recipes for Smooth Sandstone and Chiseled Sandstone.
– Added new Mobs – Zombie Villagers.
– Added new terrain generation features – Desert Temples, Desert Villages, and Jungle Temples.
– Added Trading with villagers.
– Added Anvil interface.
– Added sideways log placement.
– Changed placement of half blocks and other blocks on half blocks.
– Changed placement of upside down stairs and slabs.
– Wooden Buttons and Wooden Pressure Plates can be activated with Arrows.
– Can dye leather armor.
– Can dye wolf collars.
– Can control riding a pig with a Carrot on a Stick.
– Added different villager professions.
– Villagers spawned from a spawn egg will have a random profession.
– Furnaces can use wooden tools as a fuel.
– Ice and Glass panes can be collected with silk touch enchanted tools.
– Nether mobs can spawn in the Overworld from Portals.
– Creepers and Spiders are aggressive towards the last player that hit them.
– Mobs in Creative mode become neutral again after a short period.
– Remove knockback when drowning.
– Doors being broken by zombies show damage.
– Ice melts in the Nether.
– Cauldrons fill up when out in the rain.
– Pistons take twice as long to update.
– Pig drops Saddle when killed (if has one).
– Sky color in The End changed.
– String can be placed (for Tripwires).
– Rain drips through leaves.
– Levers can be placed on the bottom of blocks.
– TNT does variable damage depending on difficulty setting.
– Book recipe changed.
– Boats break Lily Pads, instead of Lily Pads breaking Boats.
– Pigs drop more Porkchops.
– Slimes spawn less in Superflat worlds.
– Creeper damage variable based on difficulty setting, more knockback.
– Fixed Endermen not opening their jaws.
– Added new Host Options for flying, invisibility and invulnerability for remote players.
– Added teleporting of players (using the player menu in-game).
– Furnace will return an empty bucket when fueled by a bucket of lava.
– Updated Bonus Chest content with more items.
– Added new tutorials to the Tutorial World for new items and features.
– Updated the positions of the Music Disc Chests in the Tutorial World.
– Updated all texture packs and mash-up packs with new TU14 additions.
– Changed the gray wool texture for City Texture Pack to be more like a road surface.
– Fixed a crash with Maps in Item Frames which happened when players were in the Nether or The End
– Fixed Chest locks showing through walls at a distance
– Fixes a couple of crashes related to the player's banned level list
– Some lighting fixes
– Fix to Blazes so they go on fire before shooting fire charges
– Fix to allow drinking milk in Creative mode
– Fix to allow split screen players to see Splash Potion particles
– Fix to stop the held item being replaced with the first item in the Quick Select on exiting The End.
– Fixed an issue with throwing an Ender Pearl while travelling to The Nether or The End
– Fixed the active time for Wooden and Stone Buttons.
– Fixed a crash with Dispensers and Fire Charges
– Fixed a crash with local profiles in the Help & Options menu
– Corrected the leaves obtained using silk touch on Jungle trees
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SAN ANTONIO (August 15, 2014) San Antonio police have questions that need to be answered about the shooting death of a 12-year-old boy and the main one is where the 14-year-old boy who fired the shot got the handgun.
Julian Karnazuta-Gomez was shot in the head at around 2 a.m. Thursday
The 14-year-old boy told detectives that he found the gun in a ditch and was showing the weapon to his cousins at Julian's family's home in east San Antonio when it accidentally fired.
Julian's parents said they were unaware that a gun had been brought into their home.
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By: Dr. Jeff Masters , 6:23 PM GMT on June 03, 2008
An above average Atlantic hurricane season is on tap for 2008, according to today's seasonal forecast issued by Dr. Bill Gray and Phil Klotzbach of Colorado State University (CSU). The Gray/Klotzbach team is calling for 15 named storms, 8 hurricanes, 4 intense hurricanes, and an Accumulated Cyclone Energy (ACE) index 150% of normal--unchanged from their April forecast. These numbers are also the what the Atlantic has averaged since we entered a period of above-average hurricane activity in 1995. An average season has 10-11 named storms, 6 hurricanes, and 2 intense hurricanes. The Klotzbach/Gray forecast calls for an above normal chance of a major hurricane hitting the U.S., both along the East Coast (45% chance, 31% chance is normal) and the Gulf Coast (44% chance, 30% chance is average). The Caribbean is also forecast to have an above average risk of a major hurricane.
The forecasters cite the continuation of the above-normal hurricane activity period that began in 1995, the expected lack of an El Niño event, the continuation of above average sea surface temperatures and below average pressure in the eastern Atlantic, and slower trade winds (which result in reduced evaporative cooling of the ocean), as the justification for their forecast of an above average hurricane season. It's of interest to look at the activity maps for the four analogue years that had similar atmospheric and oceanic conditions in May: 1951, 1961, 2000, and 2001. The 1961 season was the nastiest of these four seasons, with two Category 5 hurricanes. One of those storms, the notorious Hurricane Carla, hit Texas as a mighty Category 4 hurricane with a 22-foot storm surge. The other three seasons had no hurricanes that hit the U.S.
Figure 1. Sea Surface Temperature departure from average from May 29, 2008. Caribbean SSTs are near average, but are much above average in the Eastern Atlantic. Image credit: NOAA.
How good are the CSU forecasts?
The CSU forecast team has been making seasonal hurricane forecasts since 1984. Based on predictions of a below average, average, or above average season, they have done pretty well over the past nine seasons. Eight of the past nine forecasts have been correct. Their only failure occurred in 2006, when they called for a very active season, and it was a normal year with 10 named storms, 5 hurricanes, and 2 intense hurricanes. A more rigorous way of determining forecast skill is to compute the mathematical correlation coefficient. A correlation coefficient of 1.0 is a perfect forecast, and 0.0 is a no-skill forecast. The late May CSU forecasts have a respectable correlation coefficient of 0.57 for predicting the number of named storms (1984-2006). This decreases a bit to 0.46 and 0.42 for number of hurricanes and intense hurricanes, respectively. These are respectable correlation coefficients, and the late May/early June CSU forecasts are worth paying attention to. This is in contrast to the December and April CSU forecasts, which have had a correlation coefficient near zero (and thus no skill).
Other forecasts
The British private forecasting firm Tropical Storm Risk, Inc. (TSR), issues monthly 2008 Atlantic hurricane season forecasts. Their June 2 forecast calls for a 53% chance of an above average season. This compares to the 65% chance of an above average season given by NOAA in their May 22 forecast.
Last blog entry for a week
This will be my final blog entry until June 11. With the tropics looking quiet for the next week, it's a good time to do some hiking in SW Montana. In my absence, I've arranged for a few "canned" blogs of mine to be posted. If there's anything stirring in the tropics, I've arranged for a guest blogger, Bryan Woods, to jump in. Bryan has done a great job over the past three years blogging on the tropics over at thestormtrack.com. Here's Bryan's bio:
Bryan received his BS in Meteorology from the University of Massachusetts in Lowell, MA in 2005, and his M.Phil. in Geology & Geophysics from Yale University in New Haven, CT in 2007. Bryan is currently a Ph.D. candidate at Yale where he is also the graduate and professional student body president.
Bryan has spent two summers working on a National Science Foundation (NSF) sponsored field micrometeorological research project in Atlanta, GA, studying evapotranspiration rates in urban forest canopies. Currently, Bryan's research is focused on combining wavelet techniques and aircraft data from the NSF/NCAR Gulfstream V to diagnose energy and momentum fluxes from atmospheric gravity waves. Bryan has spent the past three hurricane seasons writing blogs on the tropics for thestormtrack.com.
Jeff Masters
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Hundreds off mourrners farewell Bev Gallop, wife of the former WA Premier Geoff Gallop at her funeral in Perth
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Developing countries miss out on tax receipts worth more than the billions of dollars in foreign aid they receive because their own nationals put cash in offshore tax havens, British charity Oxfam said.
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Henrik Stenson smoothed a 3-under-par 36-31=67 in round two of the 98th PGA Championship at Baltusrol on Friday and holds the clubhouse lead of 6-under 134, one shot clear of Martin Kaymer.
Patrick Reed twirled a 5-under-par 33-32=65 in today's second round of the 98th PGA Championship to reach halftime at 5-under 135, up 34 spots on the live leaderboard to T2, tying the low round of the week with Jimmy Walker/R1, and one back of 36-hole clubhouse leader Henrik Stenson.
Martin Kaymer tacked on a 1-under-par 35-34=69 to his opening 66 to post 5-under 135 through two rounds of the 98th PGA Championship, good enough for Friday's early clubhouse lead.
Following a 40-minute weather delay, the second round of the 98th PGA Championship in Springfield, New Jersey, resumed at 8:55 a.m. ET. UPDATE: Afternoon tee times have been pushed back 45 minutes, beginning at 1:00 p.m.
Stephan Jaeger set a Web.com Tour scoring record with a 12-under-par 29-29=58 in the first round of the Ellie Mae Classic at TPC Stonebrae to claim a four-stroke lead.
In his first competitive round since winning the Open Championship with a stunning 63, Henrik Stenson hung up a 3-under-par 34-33=67 in his opener at the 98th PGA Championship.
Martin Kaymer is just a shot behind first-round leader Jimmy Walker after signing for a 4-under-par 33-33=66 in his opener at the 98th PGA Championship.
Robert Streb styled a bogey-free, 2-under-par 33-35=68 to open his week at the 98th PGA Championship, three strokes shy of the early pacesetter Jimmy Walker.
Russell Henley posted a bogey-free, 2-under-par 34-34=68 in his opening round at the 98th PGA Championship, good enough for a place inside the top 10.
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"Church giving reaches Depression-era lows," reports Katherine Burgess of Religion News Service:
Collection plates are growing even lighter as Protestant church member giving reached new lows in 2011, and tithing probably will not recover from the recession, according to a new report by Empty Tomb, a Christian research group.
The word "tithing" there is a bit of an overstatement, as Protestant church member giving wasn't anywhere near the levitical 10 percent even before the financial crisis of 2008 started destroying jobs, livelihoods and household incomes.
The percentage of a church member's income given to the church dropped to 2.3 percent in 2011 (the latest year for which numbers are available), down from 2.4 percent in 2010, according to the Empty Tomb study.
In 1968, church members gave an average of 3.1 percent of their income.
Giving has declined for four consecutive years, according to the report. The only other period of prolonged decline in giving per member was from 1928 through 1934, almost entirely during the Great Depression.
A big drop in church giving due to the Great Recession was entirely predictable. But the continuing decline of giving even during the recovery suggests something else is going on. Granted, this recovery has been sluggish and weak, struggling against the headwinds of political obstruction, sequestration, wastefully timed deficit-reduction and the chaos of perpetual threats of shutdown and default. Yet still, glacially slow job growth is still job growth — and if this decline in church-giving was purely an economic effect, then we ought to be seeing a corresponding slow resumption of church giving rather than this continuing decline.
My guess is that church-giving initially plummeted along with every other economic indicator in 2008, but then continued to decline because during the prolonged recession, church members lost the habit of giving to churches and acquired, instead, a habit of cutting back on church-giving in order to pay other bills. It's not like consumer debt, which dropped sharply during the first year of the Great Recession as households "deleveraged" in response to, or for fear of, layoffs, furloughs and reduced incomes. But consumer debt has rebounded — showing that this deleveraging was a temporary response and not a permanent change of habit. Church-giving has not rebounded, suggesting that this decline may be the new normal.
Empty Tomb cites 1968 as the Good Old Days of bountiful generosity and overflowing collection plates, but even then church-giving only accounted for 3.1 percent of household income. I think that reflects the reality — contrary to what most pastors hopefully preach on Stewardship Sunday — that church-giving comes from members "extra" money. It's not an expense that's factored into household budgets, but an option for some of the disposable income left over after that budget has accounted for all of its expenses.
That's a rational approach for most church members. After all, if you don't pay the electric bill, they may shut off the lights. If you don't pay the phone bill, they may cut off your phone. But you can still go to church even if you never put anything into the offering plate. Churches face the same free-rider problem that public radio has. Your local NPR station's programming is "made possible by the support of listeners like you," but you can always keep listening as long as enough of those other listeners are providing that support.
Empty Tomb's Sylvia Ronsvalle suggests that churches might begin reversing this decline in giving by "providing an authentic alternative to the consumer mindset." I'm not sure if I agree with that because I'm not sure what, if anything, that means.
On one level, I think that any church that fails to "provide an authentic alternative to the consumer mindset" ought to shut its doors for good. The gospel is not about seeking happiness by acquiring stuff. The gospel is actually an enormous hindrance to anyone seeking happiness by acquiring stuff (and vice versa). So, yeah, certainly churches ought to be, at a fundamental level, providing an authentic alternative to the consumer mindset.
But on another level, I think churches actually need to better understand and better address the concerns of "the consumer mindset."
Church-giving is an economic transaction. Donors expect something in return for their donations — not necessarily, and not mainly, something for themselves, but they want to see results. Giving to your church, like giving to any charity, is like hiring a contractor to do good on your behalf. You want to hire someone who will get the job done — someone you can trust to put the money to good and proper and effective use. That concern may be a kind of "consumer mindset," but it's one that churches should be honoring by earning and rewarding that trust.
A "consumer mindset" might also constructively remind churches that their donors are also, in a sense, their customers. And in recognizing that, they should remember what the Chamber of Commerce long ago forgot: that what's good for your customers is good for your business.
Too many churches have tacitly or explicitly been supporting the customer-killing economic policies of the Chamber of Commerce and other perverse business interests who see themselves in a zero-sum competition against the working people — their employees and customers — without whom they're unable to sell anything. The Dow Jones index has come roaring back to record highs after the Great Recession. Church-giving has not rebounded because employment and wages have not rebounded. Church-giving corresponds with the fortunes of the 99 percent, not with the fortunes of the 1 percent.
Churches ought to be fighting for the concerns of the 99 percent rather than the interests of the 1 percent. That's true as a matter of basic justice — which ought to be an essential aspect of Christian mission and identity. But it's also true as a matter of self-interest, because when the 99 percent suffers, so does church-giving. (And when the 99 percent thrives, the 1 percent will also do very nicely for themselves — even better than they're doing due to their current zero-sum strategy of rent-seeking plunder.)
Just look at the absolute dollar amounts in Empty Tomb's study:
In 2011, the 23 denominations researched by Empty Tomb received $22.94 billion. In 2010 they received $22.88 billion.
That's a lot of money, but let's put it in perspective. Those churches received about $23 billion in 2010. That same year American consumers lost $36 billion in "overdraft protection" fees and charges — a direct transfer of wealth from working people to the 1 percent that was more than 50 percent higher than total church giving for the Protestant denominations in Empty Tomb's survey.
That wealth-transfer from workers to bankers is expected to be somewhat less this year — down to about "only" $30 billion, thanks to opt-in regulations put in place by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Richard Cordray will be saving working Americans about $6 billion this year with just that one change. That's a $6 billion increase in that pool of "extra" money from which offering plates are filled. But are churches supporting the CFPB? No — they tend to be aligned with the political movement angrily opposing the agency and defending ever-greater wealth-transfers from workers to bankers. (And they're doing this, obscenely, in the name of "morality" and "values.")
Consider Anglican Archbishop Justin Welby's campaign to put payday lenders in England out of business. Welby is doing this, primarily, as a matter of justice and compassion for the working poor who are being preyed on by usurers. Most of those victims probably aren't Anglicans with perfect attendance records, and I've seen nothing to suggest that Welby or anyone else involved in this campaign is even slightly motivated by a concern for the effect that predatory lending has on church-giving. Yet surely predatory lending also does deter church-giving. It may have nothing to do with the motives for this campaign, but if Welby is successful, then Britain's working poor will have a bit more money in their pockets, and people with a bit more money in their pockets are more able to put some of it in the offering plate. People with empty pockets can't and won't ever do that.


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Walking into the Salty Dog Coffee Bar at the Port of Brookings Harbor is like walking into a coffee-lovers paradise.
The windows are draped with khaki-colored coffee bags, the smell of roast grounds lingers in the air, and the friendly chatter of customers as they talk and slurp from steaming mugs is a cozy sight.
"Whenever anyone comes here, whether they drink an espresso or fruit smoothie, I want them to say, That's good that's the best,'" co-owner Carla Gottlieb said.
Carla and Craig Gottlieb opened Salty Dog Coffee Bar April 1, after moving to Brookings from Sonora, Calif.
"Whenever we had a three-day weekend or some time off, we'd always travel up the Oregon coast," Carla said. "We loved Brookings and we loved the port. So when we finally decided to move, we chose to move here."
The couple decided to change the name of the coffee shop there before from Espresso Gallery to Salty Dog because "it represents the fishermen, surfers and all those who live on the ocean," Carla said.
That maritime atmosphere is well represented as surfboards, pictures of ship-wrecked vessels and the coffee bar's logo of a surfing black dog adorn the walls of the shop. A big couch at the back adds a touch of extra comfort, and free Wi-fi is available for customers.
"We've tried to make the place more homey and fun," Carla said.
The Gottlieb's have never owned a coffee shop before, but it's hard to tell as Carla expertly makes a crme brulee latte for a customer.
Their menu is staggering, with everything from the basic espresso to extravagant lattes, teas and fruit smoothies. Even the counter is loaded with bagels and baked goods from Cafe Kitanishi.
"Craig used to own a pawn shop in California and dealt with precious metals which was lucrative, but stressful," Carla said. "We wanted to do something fun and, here, we get to meet new people every day and have an awesome group of regular customers."
As the line of locals pours through the door, Carla cracks jokes with everyone and is always busy either making coffee, blending smoothies or greeting residents and tourists with a smile.
"We want to make this a fun, neighborhood place for people to come and meet friends," Carla said. "I heard the Espresso Gallery used to be a happening place, but business started to wane a bit. We want to build that vibe back up."
In an effort to do so, starting Memorial Day Weekend, the Salty Dog Coffee Bar will host live music from local talent every Friday and Saturday night from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.
According to Carla, the vibe also means becoming a part of the community.
"We can't get out much because we are working all the time, so instead we are doing two community-minded specials every week," Carla said.
Every Wednesday, the Salty Dog Coffee Bar will donate $1 to the South Coast Humane Society for every special wag-your-tail latte sold. And Fridays are now dubbed Food Share Fridays, where customers get 50 cents off drinks for bringing in a canned food item to be donated to the Brookings-Harbor Community Helpers Inc. Food Share.
Like the previous Espresso Gallery, Carla said the Salty Dog Coffee Bar will also feature local artists' works.
"As Craig says, this is really our customers' coffee shop we are just the care-takers for it," Carla said.
The Salty Dog Coffee Bar is located next to the boardwalk at the Port of Brooking Harbor. It's open seven days a week from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., with later times Friday and Saturday starting Memorial Day Weekend. For information, call (541) 469-3161.


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Beef Tongue Salad
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I was pretty not confident about this Beef Tongue Salad intially, but when I tried this the first time the accolades that flowed in was a bunch. This Beef Tongue Salad is just yum, give it a try to prove it yourself.
|Beef tongue
|1 Large
|Diced celery
|1 Cup (16 tbs)
|Diced apple
|1⁄2 Cup (8 tbs)
|Chopped pecans
|1⁄4 Cup (4 tbs)
|Hard cooked eggs
|4 , chopped
|Diced sweet pickles
|1⁄4 Cup (4 tbs)
Steam or boil tongue until tender; remove skin and roots.
Finely chop or put tongue through food chopper.
Add remaining ingredients, using enough salad dressing to moisten
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When I insert singlepics from my NexGen gallery in a post, they show up beautifully when I save as a draft. But as soon as I publish, the singlepics get stripped out and replaced by ugly white tabs. Here's an example: http://stormhorn.com/2010/12/18/for-the-birds/
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Suggestions that marine protected areas could help manage
possible future conflicts between fishers and sea lions need
to be acted on, Forest and Bird Otago Southland conservation
officer Sue Maturin says.
''Otago urgently needs some marine reserves. We are one of
the last regions in New Zealand not to have a marine
They were proven to increase fish numbers both inside and
outside reserves. ''So a network of reserves could help feed
both fishers and sea lions,'' she said, commenting on
research by former University of Otago scientist Amelie Auge.
Ms Auge's work proposed marine protected areas (MPAs) as a
way of managing increasing sea lion numbers along Otago coast
and fishing interests.
It would be ''fantastic'' if sea lions became well
established in Otago, because they were rapidly declining at
their home base in the Auckland Islands, due to the direct
and indirect impacts of fishing, Ms Maturin said.
''Their hold in Otago is precarious and we are concerned that
some are criminally shot, or deliberately harmed and ask that
this summer people report any suspicious behaviour around sea
New Zealand Sea Lion Trust chairman Steve Broni said the
trust applauded Ms Auge's suggestions of MPAs as a way to try
to allow for both a healthy sea lion population and a
sustainable fishery.
''Unfortunately ideas like marine reserves have met with
strong public opposition, despite the fact that we all
support and enjoy our terrestrial national parks.''
While it was important to maintain sustainable fisheries, a
breeding colony of New Zealand sea lions would be a huge
boost to the local ecotourism industry, which boosted the
local economy.
''There is no reason commercial and recreational fisheries
and ecotourism cannot all co-exist with a greater number of
sea lions.''
More recent science indicated it would be ''extremely
unlikely'' there would be 1000 sea lions off the coast by
''In recent years the number of sea lions on Otago Peninsula
is likely to have declined or spread away from their main
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