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Hi folks, I had a hankering for animal crackers. Artificial ingredients give me hives, and my son is allergic to nuts, so I don't buy cookies. I googled "animal cracker recipes," but I really didn't want to shape a gazillion little cookies, so I used one of the recipes, and just spread it in a jelly roll pan. They came out ok, but not quite what I was looking for (used oatmeal, and they looked a little lumpy - I know it's because they weren't meant to spread). Do you have a cookie recipe that would kind of taste like animal crackers, but doesn't need to be rolled and shaped? Thanks! |
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Don't have a copy-cat recipe, but I do have a process note. You might try rolling the dough into a 1-1/2 or 2-inch log (or several short logs, depending on how much dough the recipe makes), wrap it in waxed paper/parchment paper/plastic wrap (your choice) and refrigerate for an hour or so, until it's well chilled. Now you can cut the dough log with a sharp knife into thin rounds (a thin flat metal bench knife/bench scraper works really well for this task if you happen to own one). I would also dock (pierce with a fork) each round to help keep them flat while baking. If memory serves me, lemon is the identifying flavoring in animal crackers. -Grainlady |
- Posted by sleevendog (My Page) on Tue, Apr 8, 14 at 7:20
Just what i was about to suggest. Especially letting them rest in the fridge at least a couple hours. But is it not the cute shapes that give that special flavor? ; ) Most cookie/crackers need the edges and the poke in the middle to give the baked crisp. The nook and cranny theory. The poke to keep from puffing too much. When i see a coarse grain or oat in a copy-cat recipe i like to give it a run in the spice grinder. I also remember lemon. My nieces are 21 and 24 so it was probably 12 yrs ago when we made copy-cats. Not in my pepperplate/computer but i do have them at home in my handwritten book... It seems 90% of the FDA recall list are undeclared dairy and nuts. Factories that process multiple snacks back to back tend to contaminate each other. |
Thanks a lot. It did cross my mind to roll, chill & slice the dough, but I wanted them "now" :). I wouldn't have known the importance of poking them, so that is a good tip. I don't have lemon extract - wondering if a squeeze of lemon, or some lemon rind would do, as I always have lemons? I did use some allspice and vanilla. The King Arthur recipe (I didn't use that one) feedback says the "princess cake and cookie flavor" is key, but that has artificial ingredients. Sleevendog, I would like your recipe if you find it, thanks. So the three good modifications I would try next time are to add lemon, roll/chill/slice, and poke. Thanks! |
- Posted by sleevendog (My Page) on Tue, Apr 8, 14 at 10:21
I'll find it. I know exactly where it is. You might want to think ahead, prep ahead, and make a big batch, once you find something he likes, and freeze some rolls. Quick thaw and bake fresh. Takes a bit to get a good mix that is good. I have whole meyer lemons in the freezer that i grated last night over roasted chicken just out of the oven and it was fab...and over the white bean salad. (i just learned that tip here a few weeks ago) I have lemon, lime, and orange concentrate i recently purchased, though not used yet...forget i have it. If he has a favorite flavor it would be worth looking for it. |
I've never bought meyer lemons, but just saw them the other day at TJ's - great idea - I'm roasting chicken this afternoon! I always have homemade cookies in the freezer since I don't buy any. If I kept them on the counter, they would get eaten way too fast. This way, the kids (well not just the kids lol) just defrost a couple after dinner or something. |
You can make your own lemon concentrate by reducing the juice a little at a low temperature, then freezing in an ice cube tray, or even just a bottle in the fridge if you'll use it up fast. If your ice cube tray isn't sealed, it'll evaporate more in the freezer, but it becomes sticky when all the water's gone, so it's best to unmold into a zipper bag or airtight container at some point. It's wonderful stuff. This blog has some simple instructions for making homemade extracts (concentrated, infused alcohol)>. |
Interesting, and thanks for the link! |
- Posted by sleevendog (My Page) on Wed, Apr 9, 14 at 14:17
I freeze in ice cube trays also. In the fall after all the harvest...with fresh chopped herbs, then transfer to zip-locks. All out of that. I add it to the finish of soups and such all winter. But now have the frozen meyer lemon. Interesting. The recipe i found must have been from a grocery checkout magazine just before their visit....'make familiar snacks from scratch!' The chocolate version was just a note at the end...replace some of the flour with 3 tbsp cocoa powder and dot/press each cookie with a 'tiny' choc chip. "no lemon, just vanilla" 1 cup granola oats ground, -must mean i used what i always have and ground them in my spice grinder. +note at end said "try brown sugar next time"... The only one i have used since is the cheez-nip. |
Here is a link that might be useful: KingArthur recipe
Thanks, I did see the King Arthur one, but skipped it because of the princess cake & cookie flavor, but if I just use lemon & vanilla instead, I'll try that one next time. |
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My latest box of goodies came from Midway today, an in it was a .45 mag carrier for the 7-round XDS mag that accompanied it.
To my surprise, the mag carrier also worked for the shield mags - it was a bit snug, but still easy to extract. So I ordered another one for my Shield (I would not use one for both the .45 and the Shield, as the Shield mag is a "stack and a half" and will likely cause the carrier to stretch so that the .45 mag may lose its snug fit.)
The carrier is here:
El Paso Saddlery Single Mag Pouch Single Stack Mag Leather Russet
It's currently out of stock but the black one is available. I thought I would pass this along, as finding a mag carrier for the shield is not easy.


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Neutral Safety Switch
If I wire up the bike so the clutch always has to be pulled in while starting... are there really any downsides to disabling/bypassing the neutral safety switch.
Currently, the bike either has to have the clutch pulled in or be in neutral to start. |
Why would you want to wire the bike like this? The original set up is better, IMHO. |
Good point. I'll keep it intact.
I like N start on my bikes and wouldn't disable it. Just pointing out a possibility. |
On my Old Beemer I've had the green light on constantly because of wires tied together and clutch switch wired together and I've had them all working or one of them working. Seems I go through something with these every few years. Currently only the neutral switch works. If I had the money I'd buy a clutch switch but consider it not a necessity.
Then I should probably state that I sometimes consider lighting and brake lights not a necessity too. |
... or the kickstand safety, or the turn signals, or the mirrors, or the gauges.
The ancient peoples had as much fun without these things. |
Actually I do consider rear view mirrors a necessity. If I have had stuff apart and forgot to put them back on, has happened, I find it very uncomfortable to ride with out the view to the rear.
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Hello, I've been lurking here for a bit and recently I've been asked to help resolve some landscaping issues in my community. The problem is with the "islands" in our cul-de-sacs. Currently they a pretty barren with half dead dirt and grass, and some have 3"-4" maples. These areas do not have irrigation so I am trying to figure out some combination of low plants and ground cover that would be low maintenance and tolerant to sporadic rainfall. I live in the Kansas City area so we have hot summers (sometimes with extended drought periods) and cold winters. My first thoughts would be to get rid of the grass completely, and maybe go with some short bushes with mulch or some sort of ivy ground cover. Adding in some color in the form of flowers would be an extra bonus. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I haven't been able to find any good resources for these types of areas. |
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Would they be exposed to road salt? Do you want it to obstruct views? Baptista Australis likes gravel and is a Nitrogen Fixer native to the great plains. Purple Prairie Clover is another one that bees like. In general plants that like beaches like roadsides and median strips (because of road salt) Virginia Rose has flowers and Fall fruit, and tolerates dry conditions and road salt. Beach Plum likes road salt and produces fruit. American Holly has winter interest with evergreen leaves and red fruit. Bearberry is a salt and drought tolerant ground cover that produces edible fruit (although I've never got it to take) An area contained by road on all sides would be a great place to put a slightly "weedy" vine like Trumpet Vine. |
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Did any of you 'zonies catch this show? I missed it last night, but might try to see it Saturday.Valley PBS station puts spotlight on 'Craft Beerâ - The Dish with Jess Harter - EastValleyTribune.com
I saw it. It was a nice overview although I take issue with the premise that craft beer is the new wine. Beer is. It is not the new anything. It stands on its own. The show was divided into 3 parts with fund raising segments in between. The first portion was an overview of the craft movement as it relates to the local AZ scene. There were segments filmed in Papago, Four Peaks, and Santan. There were some factual problems with the history. The old Ben Franklin misquote is draggedout yet again. The second segment was Andy Ingram from Four Peaks explaining the craft brewing process. This was one of the most cogent and complete 20 minutes on the process as I have seen. An excellent overview for the beginner and a graet review for the experienced. The final segment was the Dogfish Head Palo Saint Morron is a piece they have been running in other PBS markets as well as the Ancient Dinner Beer Pairing Fund Raiser.
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Dumfries and Galloway, 9 miles from Kirkcudbright
No. of Bedrooms | 7 |
Sleeps up to | 14 |
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Orroland Lodge is a large Victorian shooting lodge found on the enchanting Orroland estate in the hills of South West Scotland and a stone's throw from the shore. The estate has the best of its surroundings and features a private loch, wildflower meadows, unique landscaped gardens, grand wooded walks and unspoilt grassy fields. Enjoy the blissful peace and quiet, panoramic sea views and the company of the local wildlife.
Orroland Lodge comfortably sleeps up to 14 guests in 5 twin bedrooms and 2 double bedrooms with en-suites (one can be adapted into a sixth twin room). A well equipped kitchen awaits its guest with an Aga cooker, an electric one, 2 dishwashers and a breakfast table. The dining room has plenty of space with a table that can seat up to 30 and the large drawing room has an atmospheric open fire. There are 3 bathrooms and 3 shower rooms in the property. With the amount of space, privacy and freedom that Orroland Lodge has to offer; it is an ideal location for group holidays, wedding receptions, family reunions and parties. There are also two cottages at Orroland for larger parties.
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Eighteen months have passed since Robert Kubica made his Formula One debut as BMW Saubers third driver. Since then Kubicas time in the cockpit has been full of surprises.
Not only was he swiftly promoted to a race drive after the departure of former champion Jacques Villeneuve, but he has also celebrated a podium finish and walked away from the most spectacular crash Formula One racing has seen in years. Its no wonder then that BMW Sauber have signed him for another year
Q: How do you feel you have progressed over the last 18 months?
Robert Kubica: I have always tried to do my best and I guess I have improved - in this sport you always have to take it a step further. Obviously, I have done enough to stay with the team for 2008.
Q: What do you think you have learnt about driving and about life in general?
RK: About driving - I am improving and I can say that Ive got a wider view on the things that happen in the car and I am more open about how to work with the tyres and with the set-up. Away from driving - there have been quite a few lessons!
Q: Does it matter to you who your team mate is? Does it make a difference?
RK: Honestly, it can make a difference. I have a good relationship with Nick (Heidfeld) and I am happy that he is staying because it gives a kind of security and consistency. Personally, I can say that in the past I have had good relationships with all my team mates.
Q: What do you think about the Lewis Hamilton-Fernando Alonso relationship at McLaren? Is it a healthy situation for a team?
RK: I think it is very healthy. Because when you have two top drivers competing against each other, it pushes the performance of the team forward, especially when you are fighting for the championship. Of course, I can only see it from the outside - and from there it looks healthy.
Q: Have you ever been in a similar situation?
RK: No, not really - but then again your team mate is always the first guy you want to beat. This is Formula One, a sport at the very top of the competition scale.
Q: You have known Hamilton for years
RK: I know Lewis pretty well since karting and other single-seater series, but lately we have not talked a lot because this is a very intense environment where time is a scarce commodity.
Q: Did you have any reason to doubt that BMW Sauber would prolong your contract?
RK: There are always doubts because you never know what might happen in real life. But I was pretty confident that they would keep me, and pretty sure that there wouldnt be a bad surprise for me. There is still a mountain of work ahead of us to achieve what we are here for - to get on top of everybody.
Q: The team made the announcement this week, but when did you actually sign the contract?
RK: We signed something between Canada and Indy. I am not joking. Ask Mario (Theissen).
Q: How long have you signed for?
RK: It is team policy to decide from year to year
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Q: The F1.07 looks to be improving at every race. Are you satisfied with the performance of the car?
RK: The good thing with the F1.07 is that its performing quite well everywhere - from the slow track of Monaco to the high-speed tracks of Indy and Montreal - so we are much more consistent than last year.
Q: The teams third place in the constructors championship looks secure, but what about you - where would you like to end up?
RK: Ah, we dont know where we will finish. True we have a good chance we could finish where we are, but there are still six races to go. And for myself? I dont think that there will be big changes in the drivers championship, so I am not looking at that so much but focusing more on getting the best out of each race still to come.


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Museo Lázaro Galdiano
Located off the typical tourist route in Salamanca, the little-known Museo Lázaro Galdiano displays more than 12,000 works of art formerly owned by the eponymous Spanish collector José Lázaro Galdiano. Originally established in 1951, the museum is housed in an early-20th-century Neoclassical palace that was completely renovated in 2004. Inside, 37 rooms contain art and artifacts ranging from medieval armor and ancient Italian bronzes to Valencian glasswork and 16th-century Limoges crystal. Paintings include pieces by El Greco, Hieronymus Bosch, Francisco de Zurbarán, and Diego Velázquez. One room is devoted entirely to works by Francisco de Goya.
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The little ruckus some weeks ago between aboriginal clans about who had primacy at the Konongwootong memorial, and detail about what actually happened at what's known as the Fighting Hills massacre, highlight the importance of always going back to original sources.
It's no surprise that over time stories are often "improved" in the retelling and that modern media has scant regard for truth, tending to embellish facts in an effort to rise above competing clatter.
A good example today of surmising and speculation being peddled as fact is the message on the little memorial at Port Fairy which says "thousands of aboriginal people were massacred in the area of Port Fairy between 1837 and 1844". We'll come back to this monument later.
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Beginning this week, customers of the Microsoft Advertising Exchange will have a clearer view into the inventory available in our marketplace. I want to share some thoughts on this exciting step forward.
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Consumers are continuously inundated with statistical information, from which car to purchase, which candidate one should vote for, and whether or not a new cancer treatment is effective. To understand the story the data is telling, a sound background in statistics is necessary. This course will introduce students to the application of statistics in diverse fields. We will extract the story from data using graphical and numerical methods, cross tabulations of categorical variables, and use the computer to efficiently perform computations and construct graphs. Statistical methods are motivated through real data sets. Topics include measures of central tendencies and dispersion, chi-squared tests, regression, normal distributions, and sampling.
Dr. Morrell has a Ph.D. in statistics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He had been a faculty member at Loyola almost 30 years. In addition to teaching undergraduate statistics, Dr. Morrell works with researchers at the National Institute on Aging to study how various characteristics of people change as they age. Dr. Morrell has been an advisor of first year students for many years.
This course is designed to provide a general overview of the journalism world, from print, to broadcast, and online. Students will learn about the history of journalism, how past and current journalists tell compelling and informative stories across mediums, and the technological and ethical challenges they face on a daily basis. Students will leave with a better understanding of what the field of journalism is about and the opportunities available in this field.
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It's for reading okay don't be silly it's just a poem :)
Thank you for so many wonderful emails.
Thank you for letting me write to you.
Thank you for loving me as I know you did.
Thank you for being on msn just once.
Thank you for everything.
I'm sorry I let us out.
I'm sorry for all the mean things I ever said to you, I never really meant them.
I'm sorry I couldn't be stronger for you.
I'm sorry I let you down again.
I'm sorry we never got our true chance of happiness.
I'm sorry for everything.
I love the way you let me be me.
I love the way you sent me so many emails.
I love the way you spoke french to me.
I love the way you tried to make everything right for me.
I love everything.
I hate the loving lies we told.
I hate the ending that we have.
I hate the way you just left (and again)
I hate the endless emails that made us up.
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Hey, look, *Generic* Gladiator Cards I could possibly use for Jugula!
JUGULA is the the latest publication from Tomahawk Games (the creator of SAGA). I bought JUGULA at Historicon 2014 and only am just now wrapping my head around it. The thing is that isn't really "a gladiator combat simulation. It … Continue reading →


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National Geographic: Behind all the fanfare around this week's UN Climate Summit, which will bring 120 heads of state to New York on Tuesday, looms one big question: Will the nations of the world agree on a path to avoid the most dangerous consequences of climate change, such as dramatic sea-level rise and extreme droughts and storms?
The answer will not come during the official summit. This week's event is not a negotiating session for the next international agreement; that will happen in December 2015, when countries that are signatories to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change meet in Paris.
But it's looking increasingly likely that the next big international agreement on climate change will not be a legally binding treaty like the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which required developed countries to reduce greenhouse gases by specific amounts (and which was rejected by the United States and, more recently, Canada).
Nor will the next global climate deal likely require the deep reductions in greenhouse gas emissions that scientists say would be necessary to prevent catastrophic impacts from global warming, according to current and former Obama administration officials and other observers of ongoing international climate negotiations.
There are lots of reasons why a treaty is unlikely, beginning with the near certainty that the U.S. Senate would not ratify one. [Continue reading...]
Ahead of UN Climate Summit, global treaty on warming looks unlikely
War on ISIS will be long and difficult, top defense officials tell Senate
McClatchy reports: In their first public briefing since President Barack Obama laid out his new strategy for defeating the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, the nation's two top defense officials on Tuesday provided few details of their plans and no guarantees of success.
Instead, in response to questions from members of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, laid out a litany of likely obstacles to the president's plan that were daunting in their breadth.
There is no guarantee that Iraqi military forces can be reconstituted to become an effective force against the Islamic State, they said. There's no certainty a U.S.-trained Syrian force will choose to fight the Islamic State ahead of the government of President Bashar Assad, they said.
Indeed, the chances of success are far less in Syria than in Iraq, Dempsey said, as Hagel nodded agreement. "Five thousand alone is not going to be able to turn the tide," Hagel said, referring to the number of Syrian rebels likely to be trained under a proposed U.S. program.
Even the pledge that no American soldiers would engage in ground combat operations seemed tenuous. Dempsey said he could foresee circumstances where American advisers would join Iraqi troops, for example, if the Iraqis tried to recapture Mosul, in what he called "close combat advising."
"If we reach the point where I believe our advisers should accompany Iraqi troops on attacks against specific targets, I will recommend that to the president," Dempsey told the committee. [Continue reading...]
Disquiet inside #Israel's Capitol Hill fortress
JTA reports: If the results of a recent focus group and polls are any indication, the gap is growing between Congress and young Americans when it comes to support for Israel.
Polls conducted in late July by Gallup and the Pew Research Center found that support for Israel is weaker among younger Americans and Democrats than among Americans generally. Add to that the results of a recent focus group culled from 12 congressional staffers — a small but very influential cohort — and pro-Israel activists are worried about the long-term sustainability of broad U.S. support for Israel in Congress.
Last Friday, a select group of Jewish institutions was sent a confidential summary of the staffers discussing the recent Gaza conflict. The tone of the summary, which was obtained by JTA, was one of alarm.
"Congress is supposed to be our fortress," wrote authors Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi and Meagan Buren, the founder and a former top aide, respectively, at The Israel Project. "While Israel faces Hamas tunnels, it appears that the negativity and lack of support among young people is tunneling its way into congressional offices, even while the congressmen and senators remain steadfast on the surface." Mizrahi and Buren left The Israel Project in 2012.
Among the statements the dozen congressional staffers agreed on: "Israel attacked Gaza in a wild overreaction." "It's Groundhog Day every 18 months, perennial conflict, doesn't seem like anyone wants peace anymore." [The Israeli government is] "not peace loving."
Several JTA interviews with staffers for pro-Israel lawmakers suggested that the Mizrahi report's conclusion is on target.
"On the Hill and with some people with whom I have spoken who are robust Israel supporters, people are concerned if not angry," one of the staffers, a Democrat, told JTA. [Continue reading...]
Can Congress rein in the spies?
David Cole writes: On Tuesday, Senator Patrick Leahy introduced the revised USA Freedom Act, a bipartisan bill to rein in the National Security Agency's collection of telephone and Internet records. If Congress enacts Senator Leahy's bill in its current form, it will mark the most significant reform of US intelligence gathering since the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, enacted in the 1970s in response to the Church Committee's revelations of abusive spying practices on political dissidents and activists.
This time, of course, the calls for reform were sparked not by a congressional inquiry, but by information leaked by Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor who risked criminal prosecution and de facto banishment to let Americans know what its most expansive spy agency was doing to their rights in the name of their security. In December 2013, six months after Snowden's first revelations, the president's own expert panel recommended changes to the NSA program. In May, the House passed an earlier version of the USA Freedom Act, which unfortunately had been watered down at the behest of Obama administration officials in secret last-minute negotiations. Senator Leahy's bill would significantly strengthen the House bill.
Leahy's bill comes not a moment too soon. Two reports issued on Monday bring into full view the costs of a system that allows its government to conduct dragnet surveillance without specific suspicions of wrongdoing. In With Liberty to Monitor All, Human Rights Watch and the ACLU make a powerful case that mass surveillance has already had a devastating effect on journalists' ability to monitor and report on national security measures, and on lawyers' ability to represent victims of government overreaching. And the same day, the New America Foundation issued Surveillance Costs, a report noting the widespread economic harm to US tech companies that NSA surveillance has inflicted, as potential customers around the world take their business elsewhere. [Continue reading...]
Senate blocks aid to #Israel
Politico reports: In the end, the Senate couldn't even agree to deliver emergency aid to one of the United States' closest allies.
A last-ditch effort to deliver aid to Israel during its war with Hamas died on the Senate floor, as Republicans blocked the proposal over concerns that it would increase the debt.
After Senate Republicans blocked Democrats' $2.7 billion border aid package, which also included $225 million for Israel's Iron Dome missile defense system and $615 million to fight Western wildfires, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid tried to split off the Israel and wildfire money as a standalone bill, hoping to put aside the dispute over border funding and appeal to Republicans' deep ties to Israel.
Sen. Mark Udall calls for #CIA director John Brennan to resign
Huffington Post: Following reports that Central Intelligence Agency employees improperly accessed computers used by U.S. Senate staff to investigate the agency, Sen. Mark Udall (D-Colo.) on Thursday called for the resignation of John Brennan as CIA director.
"After being briefed on the CIA Inspector General report today, I have no choice but to call for the resignation of CIA Director John Brennan," he said in a statement. "The CIA unconstitutionally spied on Congress by hacking into Senate Intelligence Committee computers. This grave misconduct not only is illegal, but it violates the U.S. Constitution's requirement of separation of powers. These offenses, along with other errors in judgment by some at the CIA, demonstrate a tremendous failure of leadership, and there must be consequences."
According to a CIA Inspector General's Office report first obtained by McClatchy, agency employees in 2009 hacked Senate computers being used to compile a report on the agency's infamous detention and interrogation program — a move that some critics have characterized as a significant breach of the separation of powers. Brennan has apologized to Senate intelligence committee leaders, including Chairwoman Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), who took the floor earlier this year to excoriate the agency for skirting the law and attempting to intimidate Congress. [Continue reading...]
Senate Leader: U.S. can do more 'protecting Israel' (destroying Gaza)
Politico reports: The Obama administration's $225 million request to aid Israel during its war with Hamas may not be enough, warned Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Monday afternoon.
At the request of Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, Senate Democrats folded $225 million for Israel's Iron Dome missile defense system into a larger bill that offers $2.7 billion in emergency funding to deal with the influx of Central American migrants to the southern border. But Reid said Israel will need even more help from the United States if the war in Gaza continues, demonstrating the need to pass the funding package this week ahead of a five-week congressional recess.
Reid predicted that Hagel's aid request for Israel may turn out to be "only temporary" given the steep costs associated with operating Iron Dome, which picks off Hamas's rockets at a price-tag of $62,000 per missile, according to Reid.
"We should not give the Israeli people the minimum amount of aid and then cross our fingers and hope it all works out in the future," Reid said. "We can do better and need to go further in protecting Israel."
After CIA gets secret whistleblower email, Congress worries about more spying
McClatchy reports: The CIA obtained a confidential email to Congress about alleged whistleblower retaliation related to the Senate's classified report on the agency's harsh interrogation program, triggering fears that the CIA has been intercepting the communications of officials who handle whistleblower cases.
The CIA got hold of the legally protected email and other unspecified communications between whistleblower officials and lawmakers this spring, people familiar with the matter told McClatchy. It's unclear how the agency obtained the material.
At the time, the CIA was embroiled in a furious behind-the-scenes battle with the Senate Intelligence Committee over the panel's investigation of the agency's interrogation program, including accusations that the CIA illegally monitored computers used in the five-year probe. The CIA has denied the charges.
The email controversy points to holes in the intelligence community's whistleblower protection systems and raises fresh questions about the extent to which intelligence agencies can elude congressional oversight. [Continue reading...]
British members of parliament accuse Israel of war crimes
"The United States Senate is in Israel's camp," said Senator Lindsey Graham as on Thursday evening the Senate expressed its unanimous support for Israel's assault on Gaza.
What's new? As Pat Buchanan once said: Capitol Hill is Israeli occupied territory.
Servile elected representatives, obsequiously following the directions of the Israel lobby might be business as usual in Washington, but that's not how democracy works everywhere.
Some of Israel's top supporters say it's time to end U.S. military aid
Eli Lake reports: Elliott Abrams — a former deputy national security adviser to President George W. Bush and a leading pro-Israel writer and policy analyst — told The Daily Beast, "My view is over time it would be healthy for the relationship if the aid diminished. Israel should be less dependent on American financial assistance and should become the kind of ally that we have in Australia, Canada, or the United Kingdom: an intimate military relationship and alliance, but no military aid."
That is also the view expressed by leading Israeli politicians. Naftali Bennett, Israel's minister of economics and the leader of the right-wing Israel Home party, said in 2013, "Today, U.S. military aid is roughly 1 percent of Israel's economy. I think, generally, we need to free ourselves from it. We have to do it responsibly, since I'm not aware of all the aspects of the budget. I don't want to say, 'Let's just give it up,' but our situation today is very different from what it was 20 and 30 years ago."
Today Israel is prosperous. In 2000, the country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was $124.9 billion. In 2013, the Israeli GDP was $291.3 billion. And that is before Israel has seen any real revenue from the fields of natural gas it recently discovered. The country has become so prosperous that legislation is now before the country's Knesset to create a sovereign wealth fund, a state-owned investment vehicle designed to invest the surplus revenue Israel collects from selling its natural gas.
"I have heard discussions of a sovereign wealth fund, by which the Israelis mean they want to handle the revenues carefully the way Norway does and not waste them," Abrams said. "But I do not believe a country that has a sovereign wealth fund can be an aid recipient."
Abrams was careful to say he did not favor cutting the military aid while Obama was still president. "Were there a reduction now, it would be attributed to administration hostility to Israel and be seen as a weakening of U.S. support," he said. "It should be done only in a context of robust American political support and close relations between American and Israeli leaders." [Continue reading...]
The hawks' playbook for opposing an Obama nuclear deal with Iran
Foreign Policy reports: Though the United States has yet to secure a final deal to restrain Iran's nuclear program, an influential pair of hawks in Washington have already devised a way for Congress to unravel any potential agreement after the ink is dry.
The plan, obtained by Foreign Policy, calls on Congress to oppose the lifting of financial sanctions on Iran until it proves that its entire financial sector, including the Central Bank of Iran, has sworn off support for terrorism, money-laundering, and proliferation. Some of those topics haven't been part of the ongoing U.S.-led talks with Tehran, which means that linking sanctions relief to those conditions after a deal is made would likely drive the Iranians off the wall, say experts. Tehran would likely see any such measures as moving the goalposts and as evidence that the United States wasn't genuinely interested in backing up its end of the deal.
The two authors of the plan — Mark Dubowitz, the executive director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a Washington think tank, and Richard Goldberg, the former senior foreign-policy advisor to Illinois Republican Sen. Mark Kirk — each played pivotal roles in shaping the Iran sanctions debate in the past year. Rather than blowing up an historic agreement, they both insist the paper is simply a guide for how to keep sanctions in place that will deter and punish Iran if it doesn't comply with a final deal.
Whatever their motivations, the detailed strategy document is of keen interest to advocates on both sides of the Iran debate given the immense political clout its authors enjoy on Capitol Hill and the significant role Congress will have in approving, modifying, or rejecting a final deal.
"This plan will elicit a lot of support on the Hill," said Suzanne Maloney, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. "They have an enormous amount of sway on the Hill on the issue of sanctions, both because of their expertise and their energetic efforts to advance their case." [Continue reading...]
Sen. Wyden releases details of backdoor searches of Americans' communications
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., released the following statement in response to a letter provided by the Office of Director of National Intelligence, which details the number of backdoor searches performed by U.S. intelligence agencies. As this response makes clear, intelligence agencies are searching through communications collected under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act – an authority that Congress intended to be used to target foreigners – and are deliberately conducting warrantless searches for the communications of individual Americans.
"The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has now responded to my longstanding question regarding warrantless searches for Americans' emails and other communications, and I appreciate the candid and straightforward nature of their reply.
When the FBI says it conducts a substantial number of searches and it has no idea of what the number is, it shows how flawed this system is and the consequences of inadequate oversight. This huge gap in oversight is a problem now, and will only grow as global communications systems become more interconnected. The findings transmitted to me raise questions about whether the FBI is exercising any internal controls over the use of backdoor searches including who and how many government employees can access the personal data of individual Americans. I intend to follow this up until it is fixed.
While intelligence officials have often argued that it is impossible to estimate how many Americans' communications are getting swept up by the government under Section 702, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has noted that the NSA acquires more than two hundred and fifty million Internet communications every year using Section 702, so even if US communications make up a small fraction of that total, the number of U.S. communications being collected is potentially quite large. The scale of this activity seems to be something that could be conducted pursuant to probable cause warrants, particularly given the exceptions that are included in the bipartisan bicameral legislation that I and others have proposed.
I and other reformers in Congress have argued that intelligence agencies should absolutely be permitted to search for communications pertaining to counterterrorism and other foreign threats, but if intelligence officials are deliberately searching for and reading the communications of specific Americans, the Constitution requires a warrant. The bipartisan, bicameral legislation that I and other reformers have supported would permit the government to conduct these searches pursuant to a probable cause warrant or emergency authorization, and it would include an exception for searches for individuals who are believed to be in danger.
Last week the House of Representatives voted 293-123 to require a warrant for these searches, and I'll be urging my colleagues in the Senate to follow suit. Reformers believe that it is possible to protect Americans' security and American liberty at the same time, and the American public expects nothing less."
The full ODNI response is available here. The letter came in response to a question by Sen. Wyden during an open hearing of the Senate Intelligence Committee on June 5.
In surprise vote, House backs NSA limits
The Hill reports: A proposal to block intelligence agencies from conducting warrantless and "backdoor" searches of U.S. communications passed in the House late Thursday night.
Adopted 293-123, with one member voting present, the amendment to the 2015 Defense appropriations bill would prohibit the search of government databases for information on U.S. citizens without a warrant. It would further cut off funding for the CIA and National Security Agency to build security vulnerabilities, or "backdoors," into domestic tech products or services for surveillance purposes. Rep. Dan Lipinski (D-Ill.) was the only member to vote present.
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), the chief sponsor of the bipartisan amendment, said it would limit the controversial NSA spying.
"The American people are sick of being spied on," Massie said. [Continue reading...]
Iraq's Maliki: I won't quit as condition of U.S. strikes against ISIS
The Guardian reports: A spokesman for the Iraqi prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, has said he will not stand down as a condition of US air strikes against Sunni militants who have made a lightning advance across the country.
Iraq's foreign minister, Hoshyar Zebari, on Wednesday made a public call on al-Arabiya television for the US to launch strikes, but Barack Obama has come under pressure from senior US politicians to persuade Maliki, a Shia Muslim who has pursued sectarian policies, to step down over what they see as failed leadership in the face of an insurgency.
Dianne Feinstein, the chair of the Senate intelligence committee, told a hearing on Wednesday that Maliki's government "has got to go if you want any reconciliation", and Republican John McCain called for the use of US air power but also urged Obama to "make very clear to Maliki that his time is up". [Continue reading...]
Washington and Tehran's shared interests in Iraq
Robin Wright writes: On Monday, Iran and the United States, along with envoys from Britain, China, France, Germany, and Russia, will meet again in Vienna to work on specific terms for a nuclear agreement. The talks resume just as Washington and Tehran suddenly find that they have common cause in preventing Iraq's abrupt disintegration. For both, their longtime strategies toward Iraq appear to be failing, as a few thousand thugs in the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) burn their way across the country.
Washington and Tehran have started using the same language. President Obama, in his remarks on the South Lawn of the White House on Friday, said, "Nobody has an interest in seeing terrorists gain a foothold inside of Iraq, and nobody is going to benefit from seeing Iraq descend into chaos." An hour later, Iran's Foreign Minister, Javad Zarif, told me, by telephone, from Tehran, "It is in the interest of everybody to stabilize the government of Iraq. If the U.S. has come to realize that these groups pose a threat to the security of the region, and if the U.S. truly wants to fight terrorism and extremism, then it's a common global cause."
Obama said that Washington is "going to pursue diplomacy" across the region. Zarif told me that he'd been working the phones with Iraq's neighbors for the past two days. Obama warned of the dangers of the Sunni extremists trying to "overrun sacred Shia sites." Iran is the world's largest Shiite country, and its interests in Iraq are focussed on protecting the Shiite plurality that was long dominated by a Sunni minority.
Twitter pundits are already speculating about the potential for de facto coöperation between the countries. Among the scenarios: U.S. drones striking ISIS targets and, in effect, providing air cover for Iranian Revolutionary Guards dispatched to help hold back the ISIS jihadis, who have been pushing toward Baghdad. In our conversation, Zarif denied reports that Tehran has already dispatched battalions of Revolutionary Guards to aid and protect Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's government, but its élite Quds Force has long had a presence — in various forms — inside Iraq. [Continue reading...]
The Guardian adds: The US should "sit down and talk" with Iran over the crisis in Iraq, top Republican senator Lindsey Graham said on Sunday.
Graham, a leading foreign policy hawk, also attacked President Barack Obama for what he said was his "delusional and detached" response to the crisis.
NSA reform bill finds few allies before Senate intelligence committee
The Guardian reports: Senators on the intelligence committee expressed deep doubts about curbing the National Security Agency's broad data collection powers as the upper legislative chamber begins to consider a landmark surveillance bill that passed the House last month.
Lawmakers attacked the USA Freedom Act as insufficiently protective of both privacy and national security as intelligence and law enforcement officials, who now back the bill, conceded that under its provisions they would still have access to a large amount of US phone and other data.
Deputy attorney general James Cole told the Senate intelligence committee on Tuesday that the bill allows the NSA to collect information "two hops", or degrees removed from a targeted phone account. "It gives us the prospective collection, it gives us a wider range of information that we wouldn't have under normal authorities," he said.
That account bothered three Democratic privacy advocates on the panel – Oregon's Ron Wyden, Colorado's Mark Udall and New Mexico's Martin Heinrich – but most of the consternation shown by the panel came from the opposite direction, indicating that a surveillance bill whose privacy protections have been largely weakened will still face a difficult road in the Senate.
The panel's leaders, Democrat Dianne Feinstein of California and Republican Saxby Chambliss of Georgia – both of whom remain staunch advocates of the bulk domestic phone metadata collection that the bill is aimed at ending – feared that restricting the volume of data to which the NSA has access will leave the US vulnerable to a terrorist attack.
In some cases, the panel, charged with overseeing the intelligence agencies and preventing abuse, advocated greater authorities for the surveillance agency than the NSA itself requested. [Continue reading...]
The House committee on intelligence needs oversight of its own
Rep. Rush Holt and Steven Aftergood write: Who watches the watchmen?
In the U.S. House of Representatives, the answer to that question – in theory, at least – is the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI), which is charged with overseeing the nation's spy agencies: the National Security Agency, the Central Intelligence Agency, and more.
HPSCI was created in 1977 in the wake of Nixon-era surveillance abuses to serve as a powerful counterbalance to the spy agencies' inclination to spy on everyone, everywhere, all the time.
Because of the sensitive nature of HPSCI's work, the committee usually meets in secret, deliberates in secret, and even passes legislation in secret. But all this secrecy creates a problem: How do we know that HPSCI is, in fact, watching the watchmen effectively?
Last year, all the world learned it wasn't. As the explosive revelations from Edward Snowden and others demonstrated, the intelligence community had been collecting the communications of essentially every American.
Now, for the first time since Snowden's disclosures, HPSCI has brought its annual intelligence authorization bill to the House floor, where it quickly passed by a vote of 345-59 on Friday morning. This should have represented an opportunity for a dramatic overhaul of the intelligence community and for some critical examination of HPSCI's own role. But it appears that HPSCI has lost sight of its founding principles – that it is, in effect, choosing allegiance to our nation's spies, rather than to the law-abiding citizens who are being spied upon. [Continue reading...]


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I guess I'm just wondering what people mean, exactly, by calling this yeast extremely clean and neutral. My original impression was that it wouldn't be imparting much to the beer in the way of flavor, but I've made 4 or 5 batches with it, and it seems to me that 1056 has quite a noticeable flavor--very earthy, almost like dirt. Or does "clean and neutral" just mean that 1056 doesn't contribute much in the way of esters and/or diacetyl? I swear I caught a wiff of that earthy note in a bottle of Mirror Pond Pale Ale the other day.... BYW, I'm growing to dislike that note. Does the Safale yeast (US-05) give it, too? What about Nottingham? I've got a pack of 1272 in the fridge that I'll be using next, but I'm curious about these others. Thx!
1056 and US-05 are usually flavor neutral, earthy and dirt might be something else in your beer.
Agree with eastoak, I've never gotten dirt from 1056 / US05. I have gotten peach and other fruity characters when started /fermented a little too cool...
What hops did you use? Some of them can give you that character/flavor. Also, how about reading up about the yeast before you just use it?? Wyeast has plenty of info online about their strains.
I suppose it could be the hops--Nugget and Willamette.
You can definitely get 'earthy' (dirt?) from both Nugget and Willamette.
Clean and Neutral are comparative terms. Compared to most other yeast, it is a very subtle flavor profile and generally doesn't do anything crazy even outside its optimal temp range. Any "big" flavors from malt or hops will overshadow it. And +1 for Willamette tasting "earthy." and +1,000,000 on the fuggle
Charlie Bamforth claims it throws acetylaldehyde, but I've never noticed it. I would definitely describe 1056 (along with US-05 and WLP001) as "clean".
I would definitely call Chico/1056/US-05 clean. Even at relatively high temps (up to mid 70's), it doesn't throw many esters, phenols, or fusels. I have heard the same thing about "peachiness" around 60, but haven't tried that low myself. Other strains are much less forgiving (particularly in the 70's). Another +1 for Willamette being earthy (I happen to really like it, and always use it in place of Fuggles, which I don't care for).


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How can i describe an airport in detail for my A Level descriptive work?
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The key to describing something this large and complex is to first taxonomize the subject, dividing it into its layers and levels of operation. In your case, for example, first separate the airport's functions by making an outline of chapters or paragraphs (depending on the size of the assignment) demonstrating the layers, as thus: Passenger areas, staff areas, maintenance/storage areas, freight/baggage areas, navigation/radar areas, runways and runway maintenance area, etc. Then take each area and split it up into its component parts. Since we as laymen are most familiar with the terminal of an airport, especially its passenger areas, you might divide that area by arrival accommodations, departure accommodations, waiting accommodations, etc. The waiting accommodations can be divided into seating areas, refreshment areas, shopping areas, etc. Do this with each subsection, going into more and more detail as you progress (food, liquor, vending machines vs. served food, etc.) Supplies/objects to the plane might include food, fuel, crew, baggage, freight (mail, UPS, etc.), and finally passengers (first class, handicapped, etc.). The maintenance and storage areas (hangars away from the terminal) might require some research. This task could end up book-length.
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Lungomare Daniele Manin 18The Liberty hotel is located in the main centre of Viareggio, on the sea-front on the Promenade, the main leisure spot of the town. All the main restaurants, pubs shops are only a few steps far from here. The rooms are spacious and equipped with ensuite bathroom, air-con, tv, telephone. A rich breakfast buffet is served every morning and is included in the price. If you want to go further afield, the bus station is just a 2-minute walk away and bikes can be rented from the hotel's 24-hour...
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Can GameStick lead an Android invasion of our living rooms?
The inside story of PlayJam's Kickstarter-funded portable console, and how it plans to shake up console business.
The inside story of PlayJam's Kickstarter-funded portable console, and how it plans to shake up console business.
Slower than expected production leads to a delay.
New microconsole firm believes it can disrupt the console business with low price hardware and software.
Microconsoles have the potential to disrupt the market and expose the limitations of home consoles, writes Tadhg Kelly.
PlayJam has unveiled a new pad design and docking station for its forthcoming portable Android console, GameStick.
The year is barely a week old, and yet already something momentous has happened. While many of us are expecting it to be the year when Microsoft and Sony bring out new machines and try to get their platform stories moving toward perihelion, it seems that other companies were thinking differently. We already knew about the Ouya, of course, and the rumours about Valve making a dedicated machine for Steam have been circulating for a while.
Casual game network PlayJam has launched its own Kickstarter campaign, aiming to raise $100,000 to fund its diminutive $79 Android console. Resembling a USB drive, the GameStick will come with a Bluetooth controller, 1GB of RAM and 8GB of flash memory. The console will plug directly into your TV's HDMI slot, and can be stored in the controller for travel.