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Massive peanut recall! Check your foods! »
Right now might be the only time ever that folks with peanut allergies are looking at the rest of us thinking, "Haha, suckers!" If you haven't heard, there's a massive peanut recall afoot, and it affects a lot of fancy vegan peanut products.
A whole bunch of products made in by Sunland, Inc between March 2010 and Sept. 24, 2012, might be infected with salmonella! So far 35 people in 19 states have gotten sick, and the FDA and CDC are all over it. TWO YEARS worth of products? WTF, Sunland?!
The full list of recalled products is on the FDA's website, but here are some that vegans are likely to have bought! If you've got these in your cupboard, either just chuck them or go to the FDA site for more details if that seems wasteful! The good news is unless you're a tiny child (nice work reading the blog!) or real old or have a compromised immune system, salmonella isn't too serious.
- Trader Joe's, Arrowhead Mills, Cadia, Kirkland, Natural Value, Naturally More, Sprout's, & Sun Harvest peanut butter
- Sprout's tahini & almond butter
- Justin's Nut Butters—anything with peanuts!
- Luna & Larry's Coconut Bliss Chocolate Peanut Butter flavor
- Peanut Butter Newman-O's (yes, they're vegan)
- Earth Balance Natural Almond Butter and Flaxseed
- Anything with the Sunland name on it
[Photo by Yogma via Flickr]
∞ posted at 08:51 by reportingrzurer
Americans eating feces-filled fish! Yum yum! »
Love to eat dead water animals? Well, enjoy some pig and geese shit with your tasty tilapia carcass! YUM YUM.
Yep, Americans are consuming insane amounts of dead fish that were raised on feces in China (where, according to Bloomberg, 27 percent of the seafood Americans eat comes from). Check it out:
At Chen Qiang's tilapia farm in Yangjiang city in China's Guangdong province, which borders Hong Kong, Chen feeds fish partly with feces from hundreds of pigs and geese. That practice is dangerous for American consumers, says Michael Doyle, director of the University of Georgia's Center for Food Safety. 'The manure the Chinese use to feed fish is frequently contaminated with microbes like salmonella,' says Doyle, who has studied foodborne diseases in China.
On a sweltering, overcast day in August, the smell of excrement is overpowering. After seeing dead fish on the surface, Chen, 45, wades barefoot into his murky pond to open a pipe that adds fresh water from a nearby canal. Exporters buy his fish to sell to U.S. companies.
So, not only are your dead fish being fed shit, they're actually being raised in it, too. Well, the ones who even survive the ordeal and make it into your shitty dinner. Pro tip for home cooks: just douse with extra fresh lemon juice to cover up that shit stank! Oh, and maybe get a tetanus shot? And also, a barf bag?
And it's not just fish! Shrimp, one of the absolute worst things you can eat if you give a shit about the environment or AMAZING SEA TURTLES (Indonesian shrimp trawlers kill 26 pounds of sea creatures for every 1 pound of shrimp they collect! ONE POUND. Please read Eating Animals for more fun facts like this!) is feeling the funk, too. It all starts at Ngoc Sinh Seafoods Trading & Processing Export Enterprise in Vietnam (8 percent of the shrimp Americans eat comes from Vietnam), where dead shrimps are stored in water that's deemed "not safe for drinking" and "workers stand on a dirty floor sorting shrimp one hot September day. There's trash on the floor, and flies crawl over baskets of processed shrimp stacked in an unchilled room in Ca Mau."
Seriously, someone get me to Long John Silver's for a basket of deep-fried salmonella STAT! USA! USA!
[H/t to genius news juggernaut Eve Batey for the awesome/awful link!]
∞ posted at 10:45 by laurahooperb
Your government hates you: meat recalls forever »
What is going on with meat inspection? In the past month, there've been seven recalls due to listeria contamination, three because of E. coli, and three for salmonella, nearly 36,723,700 pounds of food, almost of it meat. The number's sort of enormous thanks to Cargill's recall of 36 million pounds of "ground turkey products" on Aug. 3 because of salmonella contamination. Disgusting.
How does this contamination even happen? The Centers for Disease Control have a section on food-borne illnesses that's pretty helpful, though their explanation for how foods become contaminated isn't super-illuminating:
Many foodborne microbes are present in healthy animals (usually in their intestines) raised for food. Meat and poultry carcasses can become contaminated during slaughter by contact with small amounts of intestinal contents. Similarly, fresh fruits and vegetables can be contaminated if they are washed or irrigated with water that is contaminated with animal manure or human sewage.
Right, we know that, CDC. It'd be nice to know how the shit-water gets to the produce, or how the carcasses come into "contact with small amounts" of unexpressed poop. Over a century since The Jungle exposed the horrible conditions of the meatpacking industry and people are still getting shit teeming with bacteria in our food. You think after another 100 years the agriculture industry will stop making us sick?
∞ posted at 08:30 by seriousmeaveness
Backyard chickens are making children sick. Seriously, kids are being hospitalized. Yay, urban homesteading! Yay, Salmonella! »
The next time of your locavIDIOT friends is all, "OMG I totally want backyard chickens and in related news I am a total idiot!" you can be all, "READ THIS FIRST,
IDIOT friend."
Salmonella isn't just for factory farms anymore, folks! Thas right:
Infected chicks and ducklings have sickened 71 people—more than half of them younger than 5—in a growing multistate outbreak of salmonella that now involves two different strains of the bacteria.
Eighteen people were hospitalized with "SEVERE DIARRHEA." In related news, that's totally the name of my punk band. Also: EW GROSS.
Will backyard chickens make you and your children sick with the shits? And maybe worse? We'll let this chicken answer for us:
∞ posted at 10:06 by laurahooperb
Pre-Thanksgiving food recalls for best tableside conversation »
Which government administrations love you, baby? Yeah, the FDA and the USDA, that's right. Hence they've released these four recall notices just before Thanksgiving to keep you from spending the long weekend in bed, or heaven forbid the hospital. Hooray!
First, Krunchers! Inc. recalled all bags of Jay's brand original potato chips produced on a certain date because whoops, 180 of them contain a "milk allergen." What that milk allergen is exactly that snuck into the potato chips, the FDA and Krunchers! aren't saying, but it's some kind of milk product, so read about the details of the 180 affected bags of chips and act accordingly.
Second, following Bravo Farms' recall of its Dutch-style Gouda last week, the company is now recalling ALL OF ITS CHEESES. The Centers for Disease Control fully found E.Coli O157:H7 in their Gouda, which led to testing of the entire Bravo Farms plant, where the CDFA found more E.Coli O157:H7 and Listeria monocytogenes. Cheese is so awesome!! Should anyone we know and/or love eat this brand of cheese, let them know they can either return it to the place of purchase, or just throw it away.
Update: These cheeses are also sold at Whole Foods, and apparently Bravo Farms cheese is usually of such high quality they all have a "distributed by Whole Foods" sticker on their packaging as well. Wherever there are animal products, there's a risk of bacterial infection. Barf.
Speaking of bacteria, Calabro Cheese recalled 57 pounds of "Calabro All Natural Rotolini Mozzarella & Prosciutto," lot number 3190, as they may be contaminated with, what? Lysteria monocygenes! Oh man, Lysteria is all over the place this week! This "possible contamination" was discovered by the USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service, rather than the FDA, because it contained a meat product—any food item involving meat, poultry, or processed egg products is regulated by the USDA through the FSIS. This'll be the site to let you know about any risk of illness through dead turkey this week, too. Of course you don't care, but maybe you want to keep your weirdo relatives from getting sick and having to stay at your house for an extra week.
Worst of all, Artisan Confections Company has had to recall 33 cases of Dagoba Organic Chocolate New Moon Rich Dark Chocolate 74 percent cacao 0.32 oz squares because of a Salmonella contamination risk. MAN is it frustrating when vegan products like this line of Dagoba chocolates come into contact with Salmonella, which is a bacteria of exclusively animal-origin. Where did it come from? That's a question for the third-party manufacturer, I suppose; regardless, anyone with the New Moon squares is asked to call Artisan Confections Consumer Relations at 866/ 608.6944 between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. EST.
And now you have your Thanksgiving conversational topics! Maybe, in case the conversation starts to drag even with all this exciting news, you might want to look up the effects of E. coli, Salmonella, and/or Listeria illnesses on the body, to really get things going again. People love to hear exactly how their food is going to kill them while they're eating it! That's what holidays are for.
∞ posted at 13:44 by seriousmeaveness
Wherever you are, your government hates you »
Not a joke. In England, after slashing health and welfare benefits, the new government is writing policy on "obesity, alcohol, and diet-related disease"; namely, "an overhaul of public health." To advise them, the government has asked experts in different areas of obesity, alcohol, and diet-related disease, including: Cancer Research U.K.; the Faculty of Public Health; the CEO (Jeremy Beadles) of the Wine and Spirit Trade Association; Diageo; Unilever; Mars; Kellogg's; PepsiCo; KFC; and McDonald's. British public health policy: it's just like ours! Which is to say, the mighty businesses get to strike all the legislation they don't like, work in sneaky little loopholes so they can continue to sell their demon "food" unfettered by silly regulations, and do it with the approval of the government AND public health advocacy groups! Win-win-win, suckers!
Currently 30 percent of North Korean residents are "substantially undernourished," but every single country save China and South Korea does not want to donate food because the PRK's government is all nuked up. AHAHA sorry fellow human beings; your government eats up all your food and hordes money you will never see, makes selling or trading your own food illegal, and refuses to shut down its nuclear program despite 30 percent of you already starving! And not one wealthy country that could give you food or the supplies to grow your own will, because we're all playing a game of nuclear-chicken with your dictator-leader! I guess you'll just have to rely on the underfunded U.N. World Food Program.
Those lovely reuseable plastic-composite shopping bags all the grocery and drugstores sell now? Some of them are full of lead. YES. Thanks for the Q.C., government! Glad you're looking out for us as we try to avoid using terrible animal-murdering never-decomposing plastic bags! Solution: canvas. Just use bags made of recycled canvas and you and the environment and the cotton-harvesters will be all right.
And here are your FDA recalls from last week (Nov. 9 to 13)! As the majority of these are non-vegan, maybe let your meat- and cheese-eating pals know about them. And sleep well at night knowing how much lower your risk of bacterial illness is.
- Orval Kent company recalled 23 products (listed here) containing cilantro that might have been contaminated with—Salmonella! These products were distributed nationwide.
- Whoa, do not buy any Mauri Gorgonzola cheese, vegetarians and/or omnivores! Any of this cheese with a sell-by date between Jan. 1 through 27 came from a lot that tested positive for E. coli! If you already have some, "return the cheese to the place of purchase or dispose of it in a closed plastic bag and place in a sealed trash can to prevent people or animals, including wild animals, from eating it." Here's the best part: it didn't get tested until after a bunch of people got E. coli O157:H7 poisoning after an October "Cheese Road Show" at Costco stores in Colorado. Now, the Mauri Gorgonzola tested positive for a different strain of E. coli—i.e., not the one that sickened the Cheese Road Show samplers—but considering IT'S STILL E. COLI, don't eat it.
- Oh look! A different company, Bravo Farms, has a Dutch-style Gouda cheese that ALSO "may have" tested positive (?) for E. coli O157:H7, just like the Gorgonzola!, and even better, this cheese is sold at Costco stores in Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and Southern California, as well as non-Costco California retail stores! Honestly, just stay the hell away from cheese, everyone.
- One more for the road: Three types of New Braunfels Smokehouse brand smoked, ready-to-eat turkey breast—2,609 pounds!—are being recalled because they may be contaminated with Listeria, the cleanest-sounding bacteria.
Thanks for strictly enforcing those safety standards, FDA! Man it is great to live in a country whose government cares so much about its citizens' health and safety.
∞ posted at 15:55 by seriousmeaveness
Farmers markets, consumer warnings and political scandal in your egg-recall update! »
The Humane Society wants us to know that eggs from the farmers market can come from hens treated just as terribly as hens that supply eggs for supermarkets. Many of you are probably like, "duh," but before I became vegan, I was unaware of this sort of thing. I even assumed "organic" automatically meant humane! But it's just not so. Side note: that was actually why I initially became vegan, because if you don't go directly to the farm, you just don't know how the animals are treated. But I can't be running around on farms everyday just so I can eat omelets! I've got work to do and dance moves to perfect!
Last week, the Humane Society sent letters to California's farmers markets asking them to forbid the sale of eggs from caged hens: "To increase food safety, improve animal welfare, and to meet the expectations of their consumers, we hope California's farmers markets will stop allowing their well-earned 'halo effect' to extend to companies and products that don't deserve it." LGBT Compassion regularly protests the live-chicken vendors at Heart of the City Farmers Market—did you know that these hens aren't protected by California's poultry slaughter laws?
Of course cage-free doesn't necessarily mean the hen can go outside or anything silly like that, but they generally* do have enough room to spread their wings and actually move in general. And as the Humane Society points out, "cage-free" also means safer, according to the last 10 studies on the subject.
In other egg-recall news, New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand says consumer notification systems in food-recalls are plain janky. She says it's imperative for their health that people get up-to-date information and they should be notified within 24 hours of any recall. I'm going to have to cosign this movement as I was talking to friends just last weekend who had heard jackshit about the egg recall. Dang it! I love most of my friends! I don't want them to die from Salmonella!
Does anyone else remember the E. coli outbreak in spinach in 2006? When I went to Whole Foods around then, every single bag of spinach had an E. coli warning—have they done that with the eggs? I don't know, I don't buy eggs, but I doubt it. And you know why? Politics!
That's right, in the world of food safety, corruption abounds. A survey released yesterday by the Union of Concerned Scientists showed that almost half of the scientists and inspectors at the federal agencies in charge of food safety say big business and congress has interfered in their work. This was a problem under the Bush administration and apparently there's been little improvement under Obama. From the LA Times:
"What we found is that action is needed to curtail interference in science, both political and that driven by the private sector," said Francesca Grifo, director of the Scientific Integrity Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists. "We have two very different agencies giving very identical responses, and this suggests the need for broad reform."
Inspectors responding to the survey reported pressure from their own agencies to make problems disappear and to help offending companies remain open even when there are clear violations. So basically, we're screwed! Business over safety, that's the American way.
Speaking of business and corruption, Grist had a good piece yesterday about the crazy egg empire of Jack DeCoster. DeCoster owns Wright County Egg, one of the egg factories subject to the recall, and according to Grist writer Tom Philpott, he's "one of the most reviled figures in industrial agriculture." DeCoster views violating food safety laws as no big deal, and paying fines as another part of doing business. OMG this guy rules! Wright County Egg is only the ninth-largest egg producer in the U.S. BUT! DeCoster may very well be numero uno of the egg market! BUT! It's very confusing! Philpott tries to get to the bottom of it:
[There are] four large egg producers—DeCoster Family Farms (Wright County Egg), Hillandale Farms, Ohio Fresh Eggs, and Quality Eggs of Maine—which [are] controlled by or have extremely intimate links with Jack DeCoster. The Cal-Maine list of the largest U.S. egg producers puts the hen flocks of DeCoster Family Farms, Hillandale, and Ohio Fresh at 9 million, 14 million, and 7.6 million, respectively. It doesn't list Quality Egg of Maine, but the Boston Globe says it keeps 5 million hens…. [T]hat amounts 35.6 million hens under management by companies owned by or tightly linked with DeCoster—more than 10 percent of the nation's total flock (340 million).
Philpott is not done yet but I'll keep you updated. God bless his tireless soul!
I know our vegan readers don't buy eggs, but many of our friends and loved ones do. One thing we can do is get them hip to the farmers market jive and tell them to always ask egg vendors if the hens are cage-free, and to ask farmers market organizers if they allow eggs from caged hens. I find that even when omnivores don't care how animals are treated, many of them are über-scared of food-borne illnesses so the increased danger caused by small cages is a good thing to make them aware of. Everybody now: BABY STEPS!
*This is an update. Cage-free doesn't necessarily mean they can spread their wings or anything superfluous like that. FYI.
[Top image from Animalvisuals.org; click to see full chart. Bottom from Grist]
∞ posted at 12:35 by youtalkfunny
Lax food safety standards make veganism a safer choice »
"Food safety" is totally conceptual, right? Like "equal rights for all humans," everyone's all for it in theory, but in practice it just…isn't.
The forced labor camps in Iowa where all the Salmonella-eggs came from had "pits beneath laying houses where chicken manure was piled four to eight feet high" and "hens that had escaped from laying cages [were] tracking through the manure." Not to mention the "meat and bone meal" chicken feed tested positive for Salmonella AND was kept in bins full of holes! Want to feel worse? Read all the stories on Chow's list of the terrible history of the DeCoster farms.
Or, OK, leave off the half-million recalled eggs; maybe they were some kind of huge outlier. An FDA inspector hadn't seen the inside of one of those chicken-prisons in at least six years, anyway. How's the meat industry doing? Very poorly, is the answer! They've fought every change to every regulation, claiming that they follow all the rules and new ones are unnecessary. Now a super-rare strain of E. coli has appeared in ground beef from Cargill, but the American Meat Institute says that they're so busy working on preventative measures, which would be blown all to pieces if the Dept. of Agriculture dared to list this new scary E. coli as an illegal substance in ground beef. Even though it has already make people sick, and forced a recall of 8,500 pounds of Cargill ground beef—no no, it's not THAT bad! Shut up and listen to the nice executives, FDA.
And if you don't eat meat: how about some honey from China? It's full of delicious antibiotics! Not that China has time to worry about one company's scam; it discovered that 402 tons of imported dairy products—99.8 percent of total dairy imports!—were full of Enterobacter sakazakii, plus "excessive amount of nitrites, zinc and total bacterial count." Wait, E. sakazakii has "historically high case fatality in infants," up to 80 percent, and the aforementioned "dairy products" were POWDERED MILK FORMULA? That people FEED THEIR INFANTS? Way to go, every country involved in this disgusting scandal, which include Australia, France, New Zealand, Singapore, Taiwan, the U.S., and of course China: you are all reprehensible. [news links via Tom Scocca]
Of course it's safer—and more humane, but duh—not to eat animal products, but for how much longer? If we don't change our methods of food production, the world is fucked. The animal-borne bacteria will get into our produce because giant farms aren't careful with their runoff, and we'll all perish of some kind of horrible E. coli/Salmonella hybrid. Good luck out there, everyone.
∞ posted at 10:53 by time-for-naps
Fake meats and smug vegans, elephant geniuses, killer snakes, your very own puppies AND MORE in today's link-o-rama! »
Pugs becoming men, men becoming wolves: Werepug Bar Mitzvah!
They are few, but crucial: Your vegan events!
Fun times at the San Francisco Public Library! On Saturday, Mar. 6 from 2 to 3 p.m. at the Noe Valley branch (451 Jersey St. at Castro Street) Maya Donelson will host a workshop on rooftop gardening. And on Tuesday, Mar. 9 from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Bernal Heights branch (500 Cortland Ave. at Moultrie Street), you can learn all about urban composting. Both events are free and open to the public.
On Thursday, Mar. 11 Blood and Sunshine will release their latest E.P., Change Is in the Weather, at 9 p.m. at Thee Parkside in San Francisco. Why should you care? First, because half the band, Joseph Macrino, is vegan and loves your Vegansaurus. Second, because he and James Brennan (the other half of the band, no doy), have decided to plant a tree for every 200 miles they travel on tour. See how much they love the environment? A LOT, is how much. The show costs $6, which in this economy is basically nothing, so go already!
Next Saturday, Mar. 13 from noon to 2 p.m. the PETA Pack—which includes Friend of Vegansaurus' Cinnaholic—is having a bake sale in front of the PETA Oakland office, at 538 Grand Ave. The proceeds will benefit PETA's Investigations and Rescue fund.
Also on Saturday, Mar. 13 is the next meeting of the Bay Area Vegetarians book club! The book is Slaughterhouse by Gail Eisnitz; be at Vegi Food at 2085 Vine St. (at Henry Street) in Berkeley at 1 p.m. to discuss it. RSVP here.
Farm Sanctuary's California Country Hoe Down is coming! Friend of Vegansaurus' Melisser (of Sugar Beat Sweets) went in 2008 and had a great time, and photos from 2009 look pretty great as well. Tickets are on sale for the May 1 through 2 event right now, and I hear they go fast, so if you're interested you should probably buy them soon.
Help the great state of Indiana end live bait dog training by sending an email to Natural Resources Commission and Governor Mitch Daniels. This practice is seriously vile: people throw a wild-caught coyote or fox into a pen with a pack of dogs to "train" the dogs for hunting.
It is lengthy, and debatably important: Your vegan weekend reading!
Well fuck, salmonella's been found in MORE FOOD. This time it's in hydrolyzed vegetable protein that was made in a Basic Food Flavors plant in Las Vegas (Woo!). I guess HVP is a food, however much it dyslexically looks like HPV? Anyway, the products being recalled include some from Follow Your Heart, so be safe and check your packaging, OK?
Problem: we're all Fat and awful. Solution: extrapolate results from experiments on fruit flies, because science!
But Michael Markarian, president of the Humane Society Legislative Fund, believes in a "pathway to end animal testing" and needs your help making this a priority for lawmakers.
If food is religion, then vegans are obviously terrible, self-righteous proselytizing zealots. "It's just food," after all.
WHO WANTS A PUPPY? Uh, me! AND YOU! Get over to the East Bay SPCA, they have pit bull puppies right now! [thanks, Brittney of Eye on Blogs!]
Vice interviews the Rosaire family, who run a circus-cum-exotic-animal-sanctuary. Vice would like you to know that this issue is not as simple as "circuses are bad, free the animals," you small-minded PETA assholes.
Meanwhile, elephants are proving themselves even smarter than anyone thought, most recently at math. Probably elephants have greater math skills than me, because they weren't societally conditioned to hate and fear it.
According to a survey by Canadian bacon company, 43 percent of respondents would rather eat bacon than have sex. Ugh, that's cool 'cause I'd rather not have sex with you bacon-crazed grossies. Arguably, this is a reason against moving to Canada.
Shamu is too depressed over Tilikum killing that lady to Tweet anymore.
You're kidding—poop from all the animals crammed into "megafarms" is a major pollutant? It's causing huge environmental problems? And agricultural interests are fighting every effort to regulate the disposal of all this poop? I AM SO SHOCKED RIGHT NOW.
Continuing the fucked-up news, the Grayson County Humane Society/SPCA shelter in Leitchfield, Ken., was broken into last week. The perpetrator(s) "brought a very cat-aggressive dog into the office, beat her severely, and then released two cats from their cages." the perpetrator(s) took money from the shelter and left; the dog killed the cats. Here is further information about the crimes and donating to the organization.
Hey everybody! Starting today, it's open season on wild Burmese pythons in Florida for the next six weeks! If you have a Florida hunting license, you can chop a snake's head off with a big knife! It's totally cool, though, because thanks to irresponsible snake-buyers, Hurrican Andrew, and participants in Florida's "active exotic animal trade," plus the pythons' crazy-high fertility, there are snakes EVERYWHERE, ruining Florida's natural ecosystem and begging to be murdered. Anyway, they are naturally vicious—one time a family pet got out of its cage and strangled a toddler! KILL 'EM ALL BANG BANG BANG.
Never mind Florida, actually, let's go to Argentina! Buenos Aires is now bursting with veg restaurants, and it sounds (and looks!) goddamn amazing.
Less fancy but still reportedly delicious is Chipotle's Garden Blend burrito. Holy shit they charge $3 for guacamole at this Chipotle in New York, I am SO SORRY you guys.
Thanks to officials in the Obama cabinet, the U.S. government supports the international ban on Atlantic bluefin tuna. Sorry, sashimi-crazies. May I suggest learning to enjoy vegan sushi? It is delicious and environmentally friendly!
Smokey and Petra, two lops, make Oscar predictions!
Cow philosophy: thought-provoking, or obnoxious wanking? Really, you tell me; I can't decide whether it's an interesting way to make point, or if I just want to slap the dude because the answer is so obvious, even asking is angering. UGH.
Poor old Knut: first he's the tiny star of screen and song; then he's reviled as "anti-social" and "dangerous;" now the Berlin Zoo is trying to mate him with his first cousin, which PETA Germany advises against because of the extra risk of their offspring inheriting genetic abnormalities. Just neuter him, and it'll be all right, they say! But: "The castration of Knut would cause dismay among his fans around the world and would reduce his market value." I think the first problem here is referring to the procedure as "castration," but what do I know, I'm a lady.
A fox-hunt-supporter got too close to a "gyrocopter," the blades of which vertically split his head in two. The world has lost another hero, you guys.
Jonathan Kauffman likes Enjoy Vegetarian more than I do, but not nearly as much as Laura does. But that bitch likes everything and I am always in a bad mood/have indigestion, so can you really trust either one of us? (hint: probably not)
Emily Stokes is the most put-upon reporter on the Financial Times staff: she had to eat at a vegan restaurant with Jonathan Safran Foer, where the food was awful and JSF was smug, telling her about how he wouldn't even use his own fork to move the meat off his plate when it was served to him in a Ukranian restaurant 10 years ago. I feel like this opportunity might've been better appreciated by Mark Rowlands, who seems like less of a sourpuss. Bourdain, of course, is the same old big-talking doucheface he's always been.
JSF "shuns" fake meat (including seitan, which, what?); Anneli Rufus think it's "like having sex with a blow-up doll." PLEASE PLEASE tell me what you think, I AM DYING TO KNOW. For reals, let's discuss.
Call us names/ask us out: this week we criticized the trope of the Vegan Boy, and got all huffy about rabbit-killing (again).
∞ posted at 16:14 by time-for-naps
Another salmonella-related meat recall »
What is this doing taking up an entire post? Bill Marler reported on an outbreak of salmonella montevideo on Marler Blog—which "provid[es] commentary on food poisoning outbreaks and litigation"—on Friday, an entire day before the USDA actually announced the recall of 1.24 million pounds of meat, is what. Obama Foodorama is rightly pissed about this, especially considering that this is a Class 1 outbreak, meaning infection could have serious consequences (read: death).
Ha ha SO CUTE. You know how salmonella outbreaks occur? Animal poo gets into the food. Exposure to high temperatures destroys the bacteria, but the recalled products this time are all salamis, which are cured meats—meaning, they don't get cooked! Enjoy your salmonella sandwiches, fellow citizens! Something like 184 of you in 38 states already have.
Thanks, USDA, for taking such good care of us all. The only thing that makes me feel safe about food anymore is that I eat vegan, and even then it's iffy.
∞ posted at 08:01 by time-for-naps


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Mapelli, M; Huwyler, C; Mayer, L; Jetzer, P; Vecchio, A (2010). Gravitational waves from intermediate-mass black holes in young clusters. Astrophysical Journal, 719(2):987.
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Massive young clusters (YCs) are expected to host intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) born via runaway collapse. These IMBHs are likely in binaries and can undergo mergers with other compact objects, such as stellar mass black holes (BHs) and neutron stars (NSs). We derive the frequency of such mergers starting from information available in the Local Universe. Mergers of IMBH-NS and IMBH-BH binaries are sources of gravitational waves (GWs), which might allow us to reveal the presence of IMBHs. We thus examine their detectability by current and future GW observatories, both ground- and space-based. In particular, as representative of different classes of instruments we consider Initial and Advanced LIGO, the Einstein gravitational-wave Telescope (ET) and the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). We find that IMBH mergers are unlikely to be detected with instruments operating at the current sensitivity (Initial LIGO). LISA detections are disfavored by the mass range of IMBH-NS and IMBH-BH binaries: less than one event per year is expected to be observed by such instrument. Advanced LIGO is expected to observe a few merger events involving IMBH binaries in a 1-year long observation. Advanced LIGO is particularly suited for mergers of relatively light IMBHs (~100 Msun) with stellar mass BHs. The number of mergers detectable with ET is much larger: tens (hundreds) of IMBH-NS (IMBH-BH) mergers might be observed per year, according to the runaway collapse scenario for the formation of IMBHs. We note that our results are affected by large uncertainties, produced by poor observational constraints on many of the physical processes involved in this study, such as the evolution of the YC density with redshift.
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It's one of the most unlikely match-ups in the regional semifinals in quite some time.
La Salle and Colerain, both of whom are hitting their stride at the right time, are just minutes away from getting underway in their Division I regional final showdown at the Cintas Center on the campus of Xavier University.
Colerain ended the regular season 9-13 and entered the postseason as a No. 22 seed, but have shocked many, including St. Xavier and Withrow, on the way to reaching the regional tournament for the first time since 2010.
The Cards are led by senior Milton Davis and junior Kiere Bennie. Davis in averaging nearly 23 points per game in the postseason. Bennie has really sparked his team since returning from injury Jan. 18 in a win over Hamilton. The Cards are 9-5 since his return compared to 4-8 without him.
As for the Lancers, they may be the only team hotter than Colerain. Dan Fleming has his team on a 10 game winning streak and the Lancers have won 14 of their last 16 games. Their only two losses came to Walnut Hills and Moeller.
Junior Jeffery Larkin has been the spark for the Lancers of late. The guard scored 26 points in a sectional final victory over Elder and is averaging over 17 points this postseason.
The Lancers have the postseason experienced with coach Dan Fleming – who took the Lancers to a state title just two seasons ago – and what may be most important in the end; the defensive intensity it takes to win a pressure packed contest like this one.
Colerain can't get overwhelmed when the Lancers attack and if the Cards can withstand the pressure they stand a very good chance of pulling another upset. If not, look for the Lancers to reach the Elite 8 with a matchup of Walnut Hills or Springboro ahead.
Tip just two minutes away
6:15 update
Fast action the first two minutes. Couple turnovers later and Larkin gets the Lancers on the board followed by a Colerain turnover and a La Salle turnover. Nerves early maybe? 2-0 Lancers with 6:55 to play in the first quarter.
6:18 update
More turnovers for both teams early and I mean a lot of turnovers. Larkin with four early, Connor Speed with three and Davis for the Cards with his team's only points. 7-3 Lancers with 4:48 to play in the first.
6:22 update
It's the Jeffrey Larkin show right now. The junior has six of the Lancers' nine points. Colerain can't handle the La Salle defensive pressure right now as they just had to call a TO after struggling to get the ball over the half-court line.
6:25 update
Milton Davis gets to the free throw line for the Cards and make one of two. 9-4 La Salle leads with three minutes to play in the first.
6:29 update
La Salle's Blake Simpson and Colerain's Kelvin Cook knocked heads, looks like Simpson may be bleeding, but either way we are under an officials timeout with the Lancers leading 11-4 with 1:49 to play in the first.
6:33 update
We are underway again. Eric Southers with a strong drive for La Salle to extend the lead to nine, followed by a Colerain turnover.
6:36 update – End of first quarter
Lancers lead Colerain 13-4 at the end of one. Larkin with eight points for La Salle and Davis with all four of Colerain's points. Pressure has been an issue for Colerain. Coach Kevin Higgins needs to make some quick adjustments before his team is in a large hole it's unable to climb out of.
6:39 update
Bryan Porter for two, CJ Reed for two and one gives Colerain the first five points of the second quarter to cut the lead to 13-9. Tim Bell answers with two for the Lancers to make it 15-9. Milton Davis answers for the Cards with the basket plus one, free throw no good. La Salle leads 15-11 (deep breath).
6:43 update
Connor Speed gets a basket and one to extend the lead to 18-11. Milton Davis goes to the line for two for Colerain. First one good, second one short. Lancers lead 18-12. Timeout La Salle with 4:56 to play in the first half.
6:46 update
Speed for two, Larkin for two made it 22-12, but CJ Reed answered for two for the Cards to make it 22-14 with 2:30 to play in the first half.
6:50 update
Porter knocks down two free throws for the Cards as they are now in the bonus. La Salle 22-16 with 1:30 left in the half.
6:52 update -Halftime
Larkin drops in a three-pointer to put the Lancers up 25-16, but the Cards answer with two from Reed to make it 25-18 which is where we stand at the half.
According to my records, Larkin leads the Lancers with 13 points, Speed is next with 8 while Bell and Southers each have two.
For Colerain, both Reed and Davis have seven and Porter has four.
7:00 update
Other interesting notes: Colerain was just 1-8 from 3-point land in the first half, while the Lancers were 2-6. Cards shot just 35.3 percent from the floor and La Salle shot at a 45.8 percent clip. Biggest difference thus far: La Salle with a 9-1 advantage on points off of turnovers.
7:02 update
Second half underway
7:04 update
CJ Reed for two cut the lead to five but Connor Speed answers for La Salle with a 3. 28-20 Lancers with 6:11 to play in the third quarter.
7:09 update
Larkin goes for two to extend the lead to 10. Kiere Bennie misses two free throws for the Cards, but Davis is fouled shooting a 3 and drains all three to cut the lead to seven, 30-23. La Salle turns it over with 3:54 to play in the third quarter.
7:10 update
Davis with a 3. Larkin answers with a lay-in. 32-26 La Salle. Colerain turnover.
7:14 update
Tim Bell with four straight for the Lancers. Colerain gets two free throws from Porter and multiple turnovers to give the Lancers a 36-28 lead with 1 minute to play in the third.
7:19 update – End of third quarter
Tim Bell with a tip in at the buzzer to give the Lancers a 38-28 lead entering the fourth. Just eight minutes away from a trip to the Elite 8 and a matchup with either Walnut Hills or Springboro Friday back here at the Cintas Center. Turnover are killing the Cardinals right now and have all game long.
7:24 update
Cards cut the lead to nine after a Kiere Bennie free throw. Milton Davis at the line for two, misses the first and makes the second. La Salle 40, Colerain 32 with 6:10 to play.
7:27 update
Cards cut it to six with a Kelvin Cook lay-in but La Salle answers with five straight by Larkin to make it 45-34 with 4:02 to play. Larkin has 22 points according to my notes.
7:29 update
Milton Davis with an and one to cut the lead to 45-37 with 3:57 to play.
7:33 update
One Bennie free throw makes it La Salle 45, Colerain 38 with 2:17 to play.
7:35 update
Tim Bell for two for the Lancers makes it 47-38 with 1:28 to play. This one is all but wrapped up if the Lancers can make their free throws and hold on to the ball.
7:37 update
Bennie for two cuts the lead to seven with 1:16 to play. TO Cards.
7:40 update
Cards playing hack-a-Lancers as Larkin is at the free throw line. First one good, second one good. 49-40 Lancers. Bennie with a missed lay-in, Lancers ball with 45.7 to play.
7:42 update
Larkin makes two free throws to make it 51-40. Porter at the line for the Cards, misses his first, makes second. 51-41 with 35.2 to play.
7:44 update
La Salle leads 53-43 with 21.0 to play. TO Cards.
Final: La Salle 55, Colerain 43
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Rethinking the U.S. criminal justice system
Doctors with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation sterilized nearly 150 female inmates from 2006 to 2010 without required state approvals. Critics say officials targeted women deemed likely to return to prison.
For some families, seeing an image of their incarcerated relative for the first time in years has sparked renewed hope and revived dormant family connections. For others, the photographs are a shocking reminder of the length of time some inmates have been held in isolation.
For years, inmates held in security housing units at four California prisons were not allowed to have their picture taken. See what they look like now that the ban has been lifted.
Here are some key things to understand about juvenile solitary confinement in the U.S. and the efforts to reform it.
Gov. Jerry Brown signs a bill that protects prisoners in county jails, state prisons and other detention centers, after medical abuses were uncovered.
California Senate unanimously passes measure to ban sterilizations for birth control purposes in all state prisons, county jails and other detention centers.
In a blow to the New York City Department of Correction, federal investigators sharply criticized jail officials for using extreme violence and excessive solitary confinement against adolescent inmates at the city's massive East River complex.
On Sunday's episode of "Last Week Tonight with John Oliver" on HBO, the comedian host devoted almost 18 minutes to a segment critiquing the U.S. prison system, including solitary confinement.
The California State Auditor blasted federal and state oversight of sterilization surgeries for female prison inmates, finding numerous illegal surgeries and violations of the state's informed consent law.
This graphic novel tells the story of Ismael "Izzy" Nazario and the time he spent as a teen in solitary confinement in New York City's Rikers Island jail.
Considered a model facility, the Santa Cruz County Juvenile Hall still places youth in 23-hour isolation, sometimes for days on end. But amid a national debate over juvenile solitary confinement, Santa Cruz could serve as a guide for reform.
At New York's Rikers Island jail, hundreds of minors spend long stretches locked in solitary confinement, despite evidence that it can lead to mental illness and suicide.
Legislation introduced by state Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson would limit sterilization surgeries in all state prisons, county jails and other detention centers to prevent possible abuses in the future.
Our documentary caps a year of reporting about juveniles inmates held in solitary confinement.
The state Senate Health Committee unanimously approved SB 1135, which would ban the sterilization of inmates for birth control purposes.
Michael Montgomery of The Center for Investigative Reporting and KQED, who has covered the California prison system for years, explains why the fundamental issues at the state's toughest prisons have yet to be worked out.
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"hello, my name is lucas, i'm a 29 year old brazilian. for the last 3 years i've been really happy living in barcelona and that's why i'd like to say goodbye being grateful to the city in a special way. i hope you enjoy it."
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One of Autumn/Winter 2012's key trends is looking like something we like to call Futuristic Goth. Or Glam Goth - but things from the future are just cooler aren't they?
With this in mind we've selected some of our favourite pieces from New Look's Autumn/Winter range for this season, so we can start saving up for our must-have buys.
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Founding members of the African Business Aviation Association (AfBAA) convened for the first of the organization's biannual board meetings in Rabat, Morocco, last week to discuss continued activity and strategy. Among its goals for this year is the commissioning of a study into the framework of business aviation in Africa that will be used to support future planning.
AfBAA also plans to host a regional symposium in the third quarter and publish a white paper in May that will "further enhance the association's commitment to advocacy through in-depth research and provision of realistic solution-based propositions."
AfBAA used the opportunity of its gathering to meet separately with Aziz Rebbah, Morocco's minister of equipment and transport, and officials from the country's civil aviation authority to discuss the business aviation landscape in Morocco. "Through advocating the importance of business aviation as an economic driver to key [regulatory authorities] we can increasingly make government bodies aware of the significance of business aviation," said AfBAA chairman Tarek Ragheb. "In this case we were able to demonstrate our committed dynamic approach and received an extremely positive response from the Moroccan authorities, who recognize the value of the community in Morocco and further afield on the continent."
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Protein Diet May Prompt Weight Loss
Though all the women lost about 16 pounds each, those in the higher-protein group lost more body fat and retained more lean muscle than those the high-carb group. "However, when we did a follow-up four months later, we found the higher-protein group continued to lose weight while the high-carb group had plateaued and lost no additional weight," says Layman.
The researchers also found that the higher-protein group had lower blood sugar levels, making them less prone to type 2 diabetes.
However, those eating the more typical high-carb diet had lower cholesterol levels. At the study's end, their "bad" LDL cholesterol levels dropped 16% and their total cholesterol was down 12% -- that's nearly twice as much as those getting more protein. Layman notes there was no change in triglyceride levels in the high-carb group, but the higher-protein eaters averaged a 22% decrease.
These mixed results left one noted nutritionist with mixed feelings.
"This is certainly interesting and stresses the need for us to reassess where our focus should be in determining exactly how much we should be consuming of protein, carbohydrates, and fat," says Alice H. Lichtenstein, DSc, professor of nutrition at Tufts University and vice chairwoman of the nutrition committee of the American Heart Association.
"However, what concerns me is that in this study, they provided all the food for four weeks so they could make sure the participants that were getting more protein got very lean meat. They also received intensive counseling for the next six weeks ... and they still didn't have as good cholesterol reductions as those eating what is a typical diet," she tells WebMD. "If you tell someone to eat seven servings of beef a week, I doubt they will be as careful in choosing the leanest cuts of beef, and as a result, they may consume even more saturated fat and dietary cholesterol. What's more, if I was counseling someone to eat more protein to get leucine, I would stress baked or broiled fish, nonfat dairy products, and legumes."


text: September 4, 2011 Drew, I'm not sure what to say to you. I have thought about writing to for months, years now maybe, but I didn't know what I could say that would be constructive, or if I even wanted to say something constructive to you. I don't want to pretend that your fears are unbased, that I forgive you or that I have somehow separated in my mind who you are from what you do. I haven't Drew, and when I look at you I do see the soldiers who bulldoze homes and murder children, and murder the fathers and mothers of children. That's the whole point of the uniform, right? To make you indistinguishable? But you are distinguishable Drew. I look through your photos on Facebook and I can't stop crying, and I am forced to remember that the men and women standing next to you in uniform have friends at home looking through their Facebook photos and crying too. Its easy when immersed in the struggle for things to seem simple. I often tell people that there is nothing complicated about US imperialism, and I firmly believe this so on the levels of history, economy and even morality. But it's not true on the level of Facebook, on the level of memories and friendships and the pain of knowing that someone you love is doing something horribly wrong. You should know that in some ways you have made this war as complicated for me as I make it for you. I don't know why you are in Afghanistan Drew. You say that you "have no regrets, because with this place came the kind of knowledge that would be impossible if you languished in safety." What makes me so angry about this is that it's only about you. What difference does it make to the people whose country you are occupying what you have learned from the experience? Can you really be so selfish as to value your own learning process over the lives of other human beings? To talk about "languishing in safety" as if it were the only alternative to imperialism is equally frustrating. Are we "languishing in safety" when we stand side by side with Palestinians, Iraqis and Afghans fighting or freedom, justice and human rights? I don't want to preach at you Drew. I don't want to tell you that it's not too late, that you can still go AWOL and refuse to submit to their orders. I have always known you have the courage to resist - the question is whether or not you are willing to face up to your own responsibility as a comrade and a human being. You say that we "find ourselves on opposite sides of this wall that others have built for us," but the truth is that we build this wall every day with our choices and actions. There is no US imperialism without its military, and there is no military without its soldiers. I was not born on this side of the struggle, I chose it, despite the fact that most of my family stood staunchly on the other side. Every day you make a choice too - to fight a rich man's war or to put down your gun and begin the real fight. At the end of the day, the choice is always yours. You are a free man Drew, and with freedom comes responsibility. Only you can absolve yourself of the crimes you commit. In struggle and solidarity, and with hope to soon stand arm and arm again against injustice and oppression, -M lettersfromhome afghanistan warfare friends regrets palestine


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(Statewide) The Massachusetts Breast Cancer Coalition (MBCC) will be holding their annual Against the Tide swim, walk, run, kayak fundraising event again in 2013. The morning event consists of competitive and recreational swim, kayak, walk, and run components, as well as an Aquathlon consisting of a competitive 1-mile swim and your choice of a competitive 5K or 10K run. The Metro Boston Against the Tide event will be held at DCR's Hopkinton State Park on Saturday, June 22nd. The annual Cape Cod Against the Tide event will be held at DCR's Nickerson State Park on Saturday, August 17th. Both events start at 7:00am and end at 12:00 noon. Please visit www.mbcc.org/swim [2] or call 800-649-MBCC for more information and to register.
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Rte. I-495 (north or south) to exit 21A, Main Street Hopkinton. Travel on Main Street until the third traffic light located at the heart of downtown Hopkinton. Turn left, traveling North on Route 85. Proceed approximately 2 miles to the Hopkinton State Park entrance on the right (do not enter the Field Office on the left).
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The Commonwealth Transportation Board on Wednesday approved an $11.4 billion Six-Year Improvement Plan that provides funds for statewide road maintenance and hundreds of transportation projects.
Several area projects are included.
The approved funding is $800,000 more than what was proposed. The plan budget also tops the 2012-17 plan by the same amount.
Most of that increase, according to a statement from Gov. Bob McDonnell, comes from public and private funding for the $940 million Interstate 95 express lanes project that will extend modified HOV lanes into Stafford County. The express lanes will carry a toll for vehicles with fewer than three people.
"The six-year program advances projects that will relieve congestion in the most heavily traveled areas of the state and improve numerous roads and bridges throughout Virginia," McDonnell said in a statement. "The program also supports a better multimodal system, moving more people with fewer cars."
Cord Sterling, a member of the CTB and the Stafford Board of Supervisors, said the Fredericksburg District is one of the better-funded areas in the state.
"We've got some major projects we're moving on," he said.
But, he added, there still isn't enough money to go around.
"We have more projects than we do resources," he said.
In the six-year program, primary roads got the biggest chunk of the highway budget at $2.8 billion, followed by the interstates at $1.7 billion, according to VDOT documents.
The Fredericksburg area has scores of projects in the six-year plan, most of which carry over from previous years.
One of Stafford's key projects is the planned new Interstate 95 interchange at Courthouse Road, an estimated $175 million project.
The project benefited by getting millions that were allocated for the controversial I-95 Rappahannock River Crossing.
That project included plans to improve the U.S. 17 interchange, add feeder roads along I-95 and add a parkway, potentially with a toll, from the Fredericksburg rest area on I-95 to the Gordon Road area of State Route 3.
Spotsylvania supervisors, who oppose the parkway, successfully derailed the River Crossing project. It has been shelved, at least temporarily. About $2 million is still set aside for the project, Sterling said.
Two other major Stafford projects are included in the plan: the estimated $50 million U.S. 17 widening and the Falmouth intersection reconstruction, estimated to cost nearly $25 million.
Key Spotsylvania projects in the plan include the State Route 3 widening and the Spotsylvania Courthouse bypass, both of which are currently under construction.
Spotsylvania's third-track and Virginia Railway Express station projects are also included in the six-year plan.
The third-track project is estimated to cost $32 million. The station will cost $3.425 million. The projects are being paid for by VRE, CSX and Spotsylvania, as well as state and federal grants.
Fredericksburg also has several projects in the state's six-year plan, including the canal bridge replacement on Fall Hill Avenue and the I-95 bridge replacement on the same road.
The canal bridge project will cost up to $3 million.
Work is slated to begin in January and will run through November. Fall Hill will be closed to through traffic during the project.
The I-95 bridge project, with an estimated $36.6 million price tag, is still in the design phase.
Also during Wednesday's meeting, the CTB approved a $4.2 billion fiscal 2013 budget for the Virginia Department of Transportation.
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same here no difficulties whatsoever...it runs here ever since Mozilla put it into the auto-update queue.
Like Phone Man suggested most likely a problem with one of the add ons.
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Windows 8.1 Pro x64
No problems here with 3.6.10
A clean firefox profile with no addons might fix the problem
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W7-Enterprise + WS-2008 (Converted to Workstation)
Problem solved, FF 3.6.10 is working
hi !
i made a BIG mistake !
i have several Firefox-versions in different folders.
but i run Firefox on a RAM-disk, so i upgraded and then copied the whole folder from harddisk to RAM-disk.
then all my problems started...
since Firefox upgrades in the folder it´s started from, the upgrade was done on the RAM-disk !
i didn´t realize that so i actually down-graded, from 3.6.10 to 3.6.9.
everything would have been ok if i had copied in the other direction instead, from RAM-disk to harddisk.
the folder on the harddisk was named Firefox 3.6.8 but contained 3.6.9 which has caused problems before,
that´s why i have used an older version instead.
so actually it was the dowgrade to 3.6.9 that caused all my problems, not 3.6.10.
i also have the folder with all settings for Firefox on the RAM-disk, which may have contributed to the problems since that folder contained settings for 3.6.10 after my downgrade.
anyway, i´m running 3.6.10 now and so far i haven´t noticed any problems at all,
i recoved from "sleep" about an hour ago without problems.
thanks for all replies, it helped knowing you didn´t have any problems, that lead me to check what version i was actually using.
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(2/12) NOTICE: Upcoming Detour
Small detour to begin construction on February 12, 2014 for MetroRapid
Due to upcoming construction of a MetroRapid stop on Cesar Chavez, a detour (to the Lance Armstrong Bikeway detour) will be constructed. Detour construction should last approximately 3 weeks. The detour will be in place for the duration of construction on the Central Library and 2nd Street Bridge Project, which is scheduled for completion in 2016. Please see the map and description below for full detour information.
A detour on the Lance Armstrong Bikeway (LAB) was constructed on October 22, 2013 due to the construction of the Central Library Project and the 2nd Street Bridge.
The portion of the LAB along Cesar Chavez is closed. A detour was constructed beginning from the existing driveway at the Seaholm Plant to San Antonio Street. The portion of the Shoal Creek Trail that connects the LAB to 3rd Street was closed beginning October 22, 2013. Bicyclists are asked to use the detour on Cesar Chavez Street and bicycle lanes on San Antonio Street while the detour is in effect.
The detour will be in place for the duration of construction on the Central Library and the 2nd Street Bridge Projects. The Central Library is scheduled to be complete in 2016. The picture below shows the full detour.
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The Lance Armstrong Bikeway was first proposed to Austin City Council on December 3rd, 1998. City Council was slated to approve a development agreement with Computer Sciences Corporation to construct office buildings (now occupied by Silicon Labs) on either side of the site of Austin's future City Hall. Second Street was beginning to be imagined as a pedestrian-friendly street and "a possible crosstown bicycle highway" was proposed as a compliment, connecting East Austin to West Austin through a vibrant downtown.
The "crosstown bikeway" concept was embraced by Mayor Kirk Watson and a number of City Council members, and worked into a project by City Bicycle Program staff with support from City management. The Friends of the Lance Armstrong Bikeway convened to advance the project, composed of Eric Anderson, Ellie Fowler, James Lochhead, Chip McCormick, Craig Nasso and Robin Stallings. Numerous neighborhood associations, private businesses and other groups supported the project. A grant for the project was awarded in 2000 through the Statewide Transportation Enhancement Program. Construction on the bikeway began in June 2007.
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Language : English
Status in Home Country : 5 Volume [Complete]
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Genre(s) : Comedy, Drama, Ecchi, Gender Bender, Romance, School Life, Shoujo
Other title : Ai Ore! – Love Me!, Love Me! – The Princess of the Boy High School and the Prince of the Girl High School
Manga info : Baka-update
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Because Shinjo Mayu stopped her job relationship with Shogakukan, she continued her incomplete manga in Asuka and called it Ai Ore! This can be considered a continuation of Ai wo Utau Yori Ore ni Oborero! or even as a second series.
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Part of an occasional examination of repertory The work: Gustav Mahler, Symphony No. 9 Who will perform it: Dallas Symphony Orchestra, led by music director Jaap van Zweden. Also on the program, Leopold Stokowski's orchestration of Bach's Passacaglia and Fugue … Continue reading
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Definition of carbolic soap in English:
carbolic soapSyllabification: car·bol·ic soap
Disinfectant soap containing phenol.
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I wanted to post today about certain methods of pre-writing that will enable you to help with unblocking writers block when you're looking for the perfect blog post to write.
Free writing
This is a process that a lot of writers use to warmup and begin to generate ideas. The guidelines are write write write for 5-15 minutes about anything that comes to your head. Write write write. Don't think about spelling, grammer, sentences, just write. If you get stuck reread the last 2 words you wrote.
What's the purpose of free writing? The purpose is to write all the ideas that come to your mind to produce ideas without listening to your inner honcho(voice). The honcho is the one that will stop you and say "that's a dumb idea" "no one is gonna like that". Free writing will help you not listen to the your inner honcho. After you're done, read what you wrote and underline the ideas that go together.
This is a perfect way to turn your thoughts into ideas and ideas into words and words into writings. What does "blog population" mean. Sometimes you may write nonsense but within the nonsense you can find a pool of words that make sense together that you can use later.
Free writing laser targeted
In laser free writing, you have the ability to focus your thoughts on a particular subject as you write. Choose a subject that is the focus of your blog, or your weekly writing series. You can also chose something that you wrote in non-laser free writing. This will give you the ability to generate narrow ideas, more polished, structured and discover a topic.
Brainstorming is another type of idea generation that works by freely writing ideas about a topic. The purpose is to have some ideas to choose from. Write everything about a particular topic including words, phrases, sentences, details.
After brainstorming your ideas, look at what you've written, circle any interesting ideas that can be developed upon further. Many bloggers use this technique to narrow down a subject. They brainstorm, get ideas and then brainstorm again to narrow the focus of the writing.
There is a popular method of writing or gathering ideas called clustering or sometimes called mind mapping. If you do a search of mind mapping you will find many tools surrounding this subject in order to gauge your ideas and make them flow.
To begin this method, you simply take an idea or topic normally one word. Add it to the center of the paper. Then allow your mind to make relations/branches to that word. While writing the branches, put lines extending from the main word.
Asking questions
If you look at the blogger space. You will see many people doing interviews online via Skype, Google Hangouts, written and podcasts. The purpose of this is to interview people and ask questions. They get answers to questions by asking and getting answers.
Reporters use this technique often to answer questions and gain insight into what they are seeking which most times is who? What? Where? When? Why? How?
Recently Nathan Barry held a hangout with online veterans such as James Clear, Corrbett Barr and Brennan Dunn. He asked them questions such as how they got started, building their email list, and making relationships with followers.
What do you think the main motivation was for him asking these questions? Do you think he wanted to see if they could speak? Do you think it was to see them smile or maybe to hear their laugh. Not at all, the drive for the questions is to get answers to what he needed. It was an information gathering session to gain more insight into their world of online business. The questions and answers were very good and informative.
So after the hangout, Nathan now has a lot of information at his disposal that if he wanted to, he could write several articles with specific subjects. It could give him various subjects to write about based on the questioning. If he wanted to, he could perhaps publish an ebook which he is good at, and he could definitely provide people with a list of tips to building an online business from today's experts.
These are many of the ways of getting ideas via questions.I would like to hear of some of the ways you get questions in the comments below.


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Definition of pancreatin in English:
pancreatinSyllabification: pan·cre·a·tin
Pronunciation: /ˈpaNGkrēətn, ˈpan-, ˌpanˈkrēətn /
A mixture of enzymes obtained from animal pancreases, given as a medicine to aid digestion.
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- Look for a product that contains proteases (protein-digesting enzymes), such as pancreatin, papain and bromelain, and follow label directions.
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Nathan Beaulieu and Joonas Nattinen were called up by the Montreal Canadiens yesterday. Head Coach Michel Therrien mentioned last night that both of the young players would be in the lineup tonight when the Habs face the Toronto Maple Leafs. So, what role will the pair of rookies play tonight?
Beaulieu has been up here before. Last year he played six games in a Habs sweater, and he also suited up with the big club five times earlier this year. He has combined for three points in those eleven games, and is also a plus seven.
Beaulieu is an offensive minded defenseman. He is an excellent skater and puck mover, and that is exactly what the Habs will be expecting from him tonight. Aside from P.K. Subban and Andrei Markov, no Habs defender has been consistent at getting the puck to the Canadiens speedy forwards. That is where Beaulieu steps in. He will play on the third pairing, likely with Francis Bouillon and be counted on to add speed and skill to the Canadiens defense.
My guess is he replaces Raphael Diaz, whether the Swiss defenseman is sick or not. Apparently Diaz missed practice yesterday with the flu, and if he can not play, Beaulieu simply takes his spot in the lineup. Even if Diaz is good to go, I still think he sits in favor or Beaulieu.
Why? Because, Diaz is supposed to be a puck mover that can get the puck out of the defensive zone with a nice pass, but he hasn't done that all year.
It is pretty simple to predict where Nattinen will fit in the lineup. He is a fourth line center without a doubt. That is basically the role he played with the Hamilton Bulldogs and he will continue to do so in Montreal. Nattinen uses his size and grit to play a solid defensive game, and could be counted on to kill penalties as well.
I can see Nattinen on a line with Travis Moen and Michael Bournival. Therrien will use them frustratingly sparingly while Daniel Briere and Rene Bourque watch the other team get chance after chance on Carey Price.
Beaulieu had a Gordie Howe Hat Trick in his last game with the Bulldogs. I don't expect that kind of a performance from either of these players, but they can fill roles and help this team defeat one of their oldest rivals tonight if used properly.


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Tips 4 Job Interviews
Tips for job interviews in time of crisis and in a country of pretty little moral values:
- Leave your honesty at home.
- Lie and be confident while doing it.
- Smile and nod your head yes.
- Expect the best.
- Accept the worst.
- Keep smiling.
- Never mention your punk-rock, or any other similarly humiliating influences.
- Lower your standards
- Lick some ass.
- Suck some cock
- Never lose the smile.
Follow these tips and you'll have that job in no time.
Oh, and remember, keep smiling.
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Just a quick straw poll really
The school is looking into VLEs and MLEs. I'm being pushed every which way but loose into finding solutions and I've been pricing up the Microsoft one today (£30000! Wow!)
We've had pitches from Digital Brain (£4000 pa at least) and Capita (£7000 pa) and are going to get salesmen from RM pitching Kaliedos (I've already made my thoughts known on that one :P) and a company who will do us a Moodle solution soon (e4education probably).
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Austrian Rugby Team Dances Naked in Lithuania
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Because it's Saturday, and it's slow, how about some naked dancing rugby players? You probably heard about this story already, where the Austrian national rugby team tried to get over their 48-0 loss to Lithuania by staging a mass striptease in the capital Vilnius. But now there's a full SFW video.
Apparently the worst investigation ever was conducted to figure who these guys were, after it was first assumed they were just a huge drunken bachelor party - which is more or less what a rugby team is when they're not on the field anyway.
Ultimately Lithuanian rugby federation President Aleksandras Makarenka was tracked down to confirm who the dancing idiots were. "Yes, these were the men we played against on Saturday ... I guess the defeat could have prompted them to do that."
Yes, defeat, or way too many beers.
There was also talk that Lithuanian authorities might charge the team with hooliganism, because of their group striptease, but by then the team had already left the country.
Keep up the excellent work Lithuanian police. You're making your country proud.
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A Welsh love spoon is an ornately carved spoon traditionally made from a single piece of wood by young men, especially in Wales, as a token for their sweethearts, to show their affection and intentions.
The earliest surviving example, displayed in the Welsh Folk museum in Cardiff, dates from around 1667, although the tradition probably dates back long before that.
The love spoon originated from the 'cawl' (soup) spoon. Over generations, decorative carvings were added to the spoon and it lost its original practical use and became a treasured decorative item to be hung proudly on a wall. Certain symbols came to have specific meanings: a horseshoe for luck, a cross for faith and marriage, or hearts for love.
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