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The Wall Street Journal's editors share many observers' consternation over the Obami's latest war of words with Israel. The editors note that engagement is all the rage when it comes to Syria but not when it comes to the Jewish state. On the flap over building in Jerusalem, they write:
In a speech at Tel Aviv University two days after the Israeli announcement, Mr. Biden publicly thanked Mr. Netanyahu for "putting in place a process to prevent the recurrence" of similar incidents.
The subsequent escalation by Mrs. Clinton was clearly intended as a highly public rebuke to the Israelis, but its political and strategic logic is puzzling. The U.S. needs Israel's acquiescence in the Obama Administration's increasingly drawn-out efforts to halt Iran's nuclear bid through diplomacy or sanctions. But Israel's restraint is measured in direct proportion to its sense that U.S. security guarantees are good. If Israel senses that the Administration is looking for any pretext to blow up relations, it will care much less how the U.S. might react to a military strike on Iran.
As we've noted here before, the Obami's temper tantrum looks especially unwarranted given the particulars of this situation. ("Israeli anxieties about America's role as an honest broker in any diplomacy won't be assuaged by the Administration's neuralgia over this particular housing project, which falls within Jerusalem's municipal boundaries and can only be described as a 'settlement' in the maximalist terms defined by the Palestinians.") Perhaps this is a pretext for regime change (i.e., to go after Bibi). Maybe this is the undisciplined and very thin-skinned Obami demonstrating their lack of professionalism. Or maybe this is par for the course — courting our enemies while squeezing our friends.
Whatever it is, it's counterproductive. The Obami have made hash out of the U.S.-Israel relationship:
Israel's ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren, has told the country's diplomats there that U.S.-Israeli relations face their worst crisis in 35 years, despite attempts by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office to project a sense of "business as usual." Oren was speaking to the Israeli consuls general in a conference call on Saturday night.
And this certainly isn't going to move the ball ahead on the "peace process." As Bill Kristol put it on Fox News Sunday:
Why are there proximity talks instead of direct peace talks? Whose insistence is that? Netanyahu wants to have direct peace talks. That's the Palestinians who already are saying we can't have direct talks, we have to have only proximity talks. Then the U.S. wildly overreacts and now, of course, there are not even going to be proximity talks. So, fine. If that's what the Obama administration wants, there won't be these talks, which weren't going anywhere anyway.
It's difficult to see who could possibly be pleased with this performance — not skeptics of the peace process, not boosters of it, and certainly not the Israelis. For those enamored of processing peace, this must surely come as unwelcome news, for why would the Palestinians make any move at the bargaining table "when the international community continues to press for maximum concrete concessions from the Israelis in exchange for words more worthless than the air upon which they float away as soon as they're uttered." And as for the Palestinians, well they're delighted to have a president so infatuated with their grievances. They're once again learning the wrong lesson: fixation on settlements and obstruction gets them American support. What it won't get them, of course, is their own state.
If they're honest, those who vouched for Obama's superior temperament and his pro-Israel bona fides must be embarrassed. For those of us who suspected that this president lacked a fundamental attachment to Israel, critical national-security experience, and a full appreciation for why we don't have "peace" in the Middle East (it's not housing sites, especially ones clearly within the Jewish state in any future two-state deal), there's little comfort in saying, "We told you so."


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Firefighters responded to the fire around 5 a.m. and found the home fully involved, with flames shooting as high as 20 feet into the air.
Crews put out the fire before it spread to neighboring homes, but the house and its detached, two-story garage were extensively damaged.
The former owner of the property who ran a dental business out of the home, said he had spoken with the current owner who revealed the home was scheduled for demolition.
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New York police have denied being the source of reports on Monday that traces of Strauss-Kahn's DNA had been found on the clothes of a chambermaid who has accused him of trying to rape her in his luxury hotel suite.Investigators had so far given "no result and no information" about the DNA test results, the police said on Tuesday, following news reports earlier that the DNA tests had given a positive result.A spokesman from the New York Police Department denied that the results from the genetic testing had been released.On Monday a spokeswoman from the prosecutor's office would not comment on the report saying there would be "nothing until the trial."
Strauss-Kahn, the former head of the International Monetary Fund, faces sexual assault charges over the alleged attack on the 32-year-old maid at a New York hotel earlier this month.
He denies all charges and is currently on bail at a New York safe house.
The Wall Street Journal and France 2 television channel had reported that Strauss-Kahn's DNA matched traces of semen found on the collar of the maid's shirt, quoting sources close to the investigation.
Strauss-Kahn's lawyers have not commented on the reports.
'Rush to judgment'Garo Ghazarian, a criminal defence lawyer based in Los Angeles, California, cautioned if a DNA match was found it did not in itself prove guilt.
He noted that there are various explanations that could explain the presence of Strauss-Kahn's body fluids on the clothing, including a secondary transfer or a consensual sexual act."He [was] a guest in the room, and she is an employee of the facility.
"DNA is bound to be present in that room belonging to both of these individuals, but to take that and assume that there [was] a non-consensual encounter – if there was an encounter, to begin with - is a rush to judgment, in my opinion, and a mistake," he told Al Jazeera.Ghazarian also noted what he said was the exceptional speed with which the DNA results had been delivered. "There is doubt in the [legal] defence community as to the quick turnaround of the so-called DNA evidence and the match that they've made in just a few short days," he said.
'Personal nightmare'Strauss-Kahn, who is currently seeking a new home in New York while he awaits trial, has told his former staff how he is confronting a "personal nightmare."He has been rejected by one luxury residence because of his newfound notoriety and must soon leave his temporary apartment.
Strauss-Kahn is currently staying at the Empire Building at 71 Broadway, where management has apologised to residents and said the new arrival would be gone by "early" this week.Charges that he attempted to rape and sexually assault the chambermaid on May 14 forced him to resign as head of the International Monetary Fund last week.
They have also wrecked his chances of standing in next year's French presidential election, in which he was expected to be the Socialist Party's candidate.Strauss-Kahn again denied the accusations in an email message sent to IMF staff on Sunday in which he expressed "profound sadness" at the way he left his $450,000-a-year tax-free post."I deny in the strongest possible terms the allegations which I now face; I am confident that the truth will come out and I will be exonerated," he wrote."In the meantime, I cannot accept that the Fund - and you dear colleagues - should in any way have to share my own personal nightmare. So, I had to go."Strauss-Kahn's next court appearance is scheduled for June 6, when he is expected to enter a formal plea.
On Monday his lawyer, Benjamin Brafman, said his client would plead not guilty and that he was confident Strauss-Kahn would go free.The defence team has hired a posse of private investigators who, according to media reports, are already sifting through the 32-year-old accuser's personal history in New York and her native Guinea in West Africa.Prosecutors told Strauss-Kahn's bail hearing last week that they were also building a "strong" case in support of the accusations.
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Physicists have used smaller, room-temperature colliders for decades to study the atom. They once thought protons and neutrons were the smallest components of the atom's nucleus, but the colliders showed that they are made of quarks and gluons and that there are other forces and particles. And they still have other questions about antimatter, dark matter and particle mass they want to answer with CERN's new collider.
They hope the fragments that come off the collisions will show on a tiny scale what happened one-trillionth of a second after the so-called Big Bang, which many scientists theorize was the massive explosion that formed the universe. The theory holds that the universe was rapidly cooling at that stage and matter was changing quickly.
Some skeptics have expressed fears the high-energy collision of protons could imperil the Earth by creating micro black holes — subatomic versions of collapsed stars whose gravity is so strong they can suck in planets and other stars.
CERN and leading physicists dismiss the fears and maintain the project is safe.
The collider's teething problems are typical of complicated accelerators, but it has been especially frustrating to physicists from around the world, who already have been waiting for years to conduct their experiments on the machine.
Physics students are even more upset because they need data from experiments for their theses.
"It's very important to get data for students who are on short time scales," Gillies said. "For career physicists it's an issue but less of one."
Gillies told the AP that CERN management decided at the beginning of the year that it would not try to repair all parts of the collider this year.
"Otherwise, we would never have had a beam before halfway through next year," he said. "So we consciously took the decision that we'll start up at a lower energy and then we'll go in when the experiments have got data to get their teeth into and then we'll do the necessary repairs to get up to 7 TeV then."
Gillies said CERN experts have examined every one of the 1,600 superconducting magnets and each of the 10,000 electrical splices as well as copper protection to carry away any spillover current to prevent damage to the magnets if they heat up as happened on Sept. 19.
They decided some of the splices need to be repaired before the collider goes to full power, but that they can operate safely up to 5 TeV without further repairs now.
That has been set as the highest energy for the collider before its next shutdown for maintenance, probably in November 2010. Then the further repairs will be made so that the energy level can be ramped up.
"We've measured some of the resistance in the copper and it's higher than it should be," said Gillies. "It's very small resistance but it's there."
Another problem with the machine is the superconducting magnets, many of which have to be "retrained" to be able to handle energy up to 7 TeV. Training a magnet is done by applying higher and higher energy to each one until they can safely go up to the design level.
In the examination of the collider over the past year it has been found that some of the magnets have somehow become "detrained," so the process has to be repeated on each of them, Gillies said.
Gillies said he was aware some people have been questioning whether the collider would ever run as planned.
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Via Barry Ritholtz. This is why I like him.
The right wing has long embraced magical thinking. You can see it across a spectrum of thought: It is a short hop from believing that Supply Side Tax Cuts are self funding to all other manner of nonsense. From denying Evolution to managing Health Care costs to Global Warming, it is a continuum. Making no-plan invasions of other countries is the natural progression of such magical thinking. If your beliefs are righteousness enough, then the outcome is assured by a munificent deity.
As a personal belief system, that may be fine, but as government philosophy, it makes for horrific policy decisions.
I'll also add that it's bad for making investment decisions. Reality, by definition, is the most efficient market horizon. It's as hard to determine reality as it is to determine the correct price of a stock. No need to muddy the waters with extra artificially constructed belief structures.


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The states jobless rate rose to 5.7 percent last month, the Department of Employment and Workforce said in a news release. Thats up from 5.3 percent, which had been South Carolinas unemployment rate since April.
Aiken County unemployment rate saw an increase from 5.7 percent in June to 6.3 in July, according to the Department of Employment and Workforce website.
The jump was among the largest month-to-month increases in the country, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Two other states Georgia and Wyoming also had jobless rate increases of four-tenths of a percentage point. Tennessees rate went up by half a percentage point, BLS officials said.
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Over the last month, jobs in South Carolinas professional and business services and education and health services went down by 5,500. Leisure and hospitality jobs, along with construction jobs, were up by 1,600.
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Albright is still scheduled to attend this weekend's Asia Pacific Economic Community (APEC) foreign ministers meeting in Brunei but plans for Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak to come to Washington on Sunday are likely to scuttle the trip, they said.
"No decision has been made on the secretary's travel, but it's looking more and more like APEC won't be on the itinerary," said one senior official.
The official noted that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is due in Washington on Thursday for talks with President Bill Clinton at the White House, and that because Albright will participate in those talks, she would not skip the Barak meeting to go to APEC.
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Originally used mainly in warfare, flags were, and to some extent remain, insignia of leadership, serving for the identification of friend or foe and as rallying points. They are now also extensively employed for signaling, for decoration, and for display. Because the usefulness of a flag for purposes of identification depends on its blowing out freely in the wind, the material that is preferred is usually light and bears a device or pattern identical on both sides. Wording therefore tends to be excluded, and the simpler patterns are favoured. Any colours or devices may be used, but European usage normally follows the practice of heraldry in discouraging the juxtaposition of "metal" and "metal" (i.e., of yellow and white) or of colour and colour without "metal" interposed. The flag of the Vatican City state constitutes an exception to this rule.
Flags recognizable as such were the invention, almost certainly, of the ancient Indians or the Chinese. It is said that the founder of the Chou dynasty in China (c. 1122 bc) had a white flag carried before him, and it is known that in ad 660 a minor prince was punished for failing to lower his standard before his superior. Chinese flags had devices such as a red bird, a white tiger, or a blue dragon. They were carried on chariots and planted upon the walls of captured cities. The royal flag had, however, all the attributes of kingship, being identified with the ruler himself and treated with a similar respect. It was thus a crime even to touch the flag-bearer. The fall of the flag meant defeat; and the king would rarely expose his flag and his person together, the flag being normally entrusted to a general.
Flags had equal importance in ancient India, being carried on chariots and elephants. The flag was the first object of attack in battle, and its fall would mean confusion if not defeat. Indian flags were often triangular in shape and scarlet or green in colour, with a figure embroidered in gold and a gold fringe. If these and the Chinese flags had a common origin in the standards of ancient Egypt and Assyria (standards, in this sense, meaning solid objects, such as metal animals, attached atop poles), then they might have developed from the streamers often attached to the pole. This possibility gains some likelihood from the fact that some Indian flagstaffs were surmounted by a figure similar to that displayed on the flag itself. Mughal royal insignia included, however, other things besides the flag, more especially yaks' tails and the state umbrella. Flags seem also to have been used, in India as in China, for signaling, and there is an instance of a white flag being used as a signal for a truce as early as ad 1542. Indian and Chinese usage spread to Burma, Siam, and southeastern Asia. Flags with a background of white, yellow, or black silk are mentioned, with devices (an elephant, a bull, or a water hen, for example) embroidered on them in gold. A Siamese treatise on war gives the impression that the flags were unfurled as the march began.
Flags were probably transmitted to Europe by the Saracens. But Islām's prohibition of the use of any identifiable image as idolatrous influenced their design. They are often mentioned in the early history of Islām and may have been copied from India. But Islāmic flags are greatly simplified and appear to have been plain black or white or red. Black was supposed to have been the colour of Muḥammad's banner—the colour of vengeance. A black flag was used by the ʿAbbāsids in ad 746 (ah 129), the Umayyads choosing white by contrast and the Khawārij red. Green was the colour of the Fāṭimid dynasty and eventually became the colour of Islām. In adopting the crescent sign, however, about 1250, the Ottoman Turks apparently were reverting to an Assyrian sacred symbol of the 9th century bc and probably of greater antiquity than that. The crescent moon, with or without an additional star or stars, has since become the accepted official symbol of Islām.
In Europe the first "national" flags were adopted in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Many of the leaders of that time adopted the flag of their patron saint to represent their country. In England, for example, the cross of St. George was adopted in the 13th century. Toward the end of the Middle Ages, flags had become accepted symbols of nations, kings, organizations, cities, and guilds. Guild flags bore obvious devices. For instance, a black flag with three white candles represented the candlemakers of Bayeux, Fr.
Forms and functions.
In Europe, flags were subdivided according to their shape and purpose into standards, banners, guidons, pennons, and streamers. There were also many flags of a personal, family, or local significance that were of a different, and usually more complex, pattern. Of the main types, the standard was the largest and was intended, from its size, to be stationary. It marked the position of an important individual before a battle, during a siege, throughout a ceremony, or at a tournament. For the monarch it marked the palace, castle, saluting base, tent, or ship where he was actually present. Standards were also used at first by the greater nobles, whose personal insignia they bore. They were originally long and tapering toward the fly, ending in two points. Banners were square or oblong and were borne in action (as the standard was not) before royal and noble warriors down to the rank of knight banneret. These again bore the personal or family device. The guidon (a word derived from the French guyd-homme) was similar to the standard but was rounded in the fly or had two swallow tails, both rounded. Guidons were borne by leaders in battle who were of no more than knightly rank and so not entitled to display a banner. The pennon, a small triangular flag, was carried by each knight on his lance. One purpose of the pennon was to obviate accidents in much the same way as does a red flag tied to a long pole or rod that extends beyond the tailboard of a truck. But the pennon served also to strike terror into the enemy and to denote rank. The streamer (now known as a pendant, or pennant) was a long, tapering flag from 60 to 18 feet (18 to 5.5 m) long and about 24 feet (7 m) broad at the hoist, ending in two points. Because of its great length, almost its only use was at sea. In the 15th century it was flown from a pole rising above the fighting top, and later from the yardarm or topmast. It came eventually to distinguish the warship from the merchantman and, more specifically, the warship in commission from the warship laid up in harbour. The pennant is white in the British Royal Navy, with a St. George's cross near the hoist, and denotes a warship in commission, being hoisted when the captain assumes his command.
The flag, over the centuries, has developed many special uses. The black flag in days gone by was the symbol of the pirate. All over the world a yellow flag is the signal of infectious illness. A ship hoists it to denote that there are some on board suffering from yellow fever, cholera, or some such infectious malady; and it remains hoisted until the ship has passed quarantine. This flag is also hoisted on quarantine stations. The white flag is universally used as a flag of truce.
At sea, striking, or lowering, the flag denotes surrender. When the flag of one country is placed above that of another, the victory of the former is denoted; hence, in time of peace it would be an insult to hoist the flag of one friendly nation above that of another. Each national flag must be flown from its own flagstaff. To denote honour and respect, a flag is "dipped." Ships at sea salute each other by "dipping," i.e., by running the flag slowly down from the masthead and then smartly replacing it. When troops parade before a sovereign or other reviewing officer, the regimental flags are lowered as they salute him. A flag flying at halfmast is the universal symbol of mourning. A ship's signal of distress is made by hoisting the national ensign reversed, i.e., upside down.
National flags.
The colours and designs of national flags are usually not arbitrarily selected but rather stem from the history, culture, or religion of the particular country. Many flags can be traced to a common origin, and such "flag families" are often linked both by common traditions and by geography. The oldest European flags still in use are those that display the Christian cross, which was first extensively used in the Crusades. In addition to the British flag, the Union Jack, flags with crosses are used by Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Greece, and Switzerland. Following the introduction of heraldry into Europe in the 12th and 13th centuries, European royalty adopted coats of arms that soon became the basis of their flags. These heraldic devices have largely disappeared from modern national flags, but the colours used in the coats of arms are still the colours of the flags of Poland, Belgium, Germany, Spain, Hungary, Luxembourg, and Monaco. The flags of Austria and the tiny states of San Marino and Liechtenstein still display the heraldic devices themselves.
Among the better known of Europe's striped flags was the red-white-blue flag of the Netherlands. Because of its use in that country's long war for independence from Spain, the flag and its colours became associated with the concepts of liberty and a republican form of government. This association was greatly reinforced by France's adoption of the same colours, but with vertical instead of horizontal stripes, following the French Revolution of 1789. The newly independent United States' choice of these colours for the Stars and Stripes, however, was based on its former affiliation with Britain and the colours of the Union Jack. Other nations in Europe and in South and Central America selected tricolours of their own to express their adherence to the principles of liberty, equality, and fraternity as embodied in the French flag. The flag of the former Soviet Union was red with a yellow hammer and sickle, the traditional symbol of revolution for communists. China also adopted a red flag on the basis of that colour's communist associations.
In the Middle East the predominance of Islām has generally limited the choice of flag colours to the four traditional Muslim colours of red, white, green, and black. The flags of most Arab states use one or several of these colours in a tricolour format, although the star and crescent motif is present in the flags of Turkey, Algeria, and Tunisia. Other primarily Muslim countries, such as Pakistan and Malaysia, also use the star and crescent as a sign of their Islāmic faith. Almost all the flags of the sub-Saharan African nations were created in the late 1950s and '60s and bear strong family resemblances to one another. The two major categories are flags of member states of the British Commonwealth and those of nations formerly under French colonial control. The flags of the former French colonies tend to have vertical tricolours and are generally green-yellow-red, while the flags of the Commonwealth members have horizontal tricolours and often include green, blue, black, and white.
The flags of the countries of Asia present a remarkable diversity that is due largely to the development of distinctive national symbols before the era of European colonization. The one general pattern that may be noted is the use of a religious or political symbol against a background of a solid colour. There are flags featuring the Sun (Japan, Nepal, Taiwan), a wheel (India), the yin-yang symbol (South Korea, Mongolia), a dragon (Bhutan), and a sword (Sri Lanka). Australia and New Zealand use modified versions of a type of British flag, the blue ensign.
In the Western Hemisphere, Canada uses a maple leaf as a distinctive emblem of the nation. The former political union of five of the countries of Central America is commemorated by their retention of the old blue-white-blue Central American flag, which has been modified by each particular country. The common historical heritage of Venezuela, Colombia, and Ecuador is shown by the almost identical yellow-blue-red tricolour flags they use. Some other South American countries were influenced in their choice of flags by those of the United States or France.
Since World War II interest in flags has expanded beyond their creation and use. Political scientists, historians, sociologists, and others recognize them as artifacts expressive of the cultures of certain times and places. The scholarly study of the history, symbolism, etiquette, design, manufacture, and other aspects of flags is known as vexillology (from the Latin vexillum, "banner"). Such studies are fostered by many publications as well as by the International Federation of Vexillological Associations and its members.
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Very appropriate!
Har! Kind of straight-up for the editorial pages, Clay! Not that I disagree…
A picture is worth a thousand words.Dead on portrayal, just check out the latest from past Pentagon leaders, and current ones as well, on the very real threats from climate change, and these guys are not just taking about the long term, but immediate problems.
"Looking for Benghazi"
Marco! You in there Marco?
Could be the new right wing mascot.
"Unable to lie away the glacier sized holes in his Lysenko dogma"
What holes would those be?
Funny how I completely agree with this comic and then eight straight comments of vitriol. The evidence is entirely against global warming, but EVEN IF it were happening, the earth has gone through ice ages and heat cycles before… it's all utterly natural.
There are cycles, and then there are peaks. Please, keep trying to ignore the evidence. You're doing great so far. Your children will thank you for leaving them a hot, dirty world.
KZ71, yes, many such cycles have occured. It is not Man-Made climate change, but man's interference in the Earth's natural cycles that worry me. With human population over 7 billion eating, belching, farting, driving and adding tons on carbon-type emissions into the air every year, I think that Earth is quite aware of our presence, and is feeling it.
Climate change is real. No one is denying climate change. Man caused climate change is a lie Bennett supports.
Again you twist words. Man caused climate change isn't the issue. The tremendous acceleration of climate change is what man causes.
When an interesting take on climate comes along I tend to add a universal tidbit of information just to get it out there.
But anyone denying the truth at this point is not to be swayed by anything, period.
So I no longer try, but there are long term visual northern ice pack minimums and maximums going back to the 1500s
(among others) for those with inquiring minds.
The "deniers" must be winning the argument, so the libtoonists have to get more deranged. This reminds me of the kind of drawings second graders do of the "doodie-heads" they can't stand.
Can I send a copy of this to my local newspaper? They think climate change is a leftwing conspiracy.
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The three-headed monster that is Bubba Poole, Devontae Booker and Troy McCormick have all been impressive during training camp so far.
"We all got our good stuff about us," said Booker, a junior college transfer from Sacramento. "Troy is a speedster, while I can do both. So can Bubba. So we're just competing every day and getting after it."
Poole led the Utes in rushing last year with 607 yards and two touchdowns. McCornick is a lightning quick redshirt freshman who can take it to the house on any given play, while Booker is an explosive runner that may be the most talented of the three.
The competition in practice is bringing out the best in each player.
"We make each other better," said Poole. "The competition is definitely good for us. "As far as the depth though, I love that. With the quick tempo, we can get guys in there. We really won't lose a step."
"We all just compete and push each other," said McCormick. "It's just a friendly competition. We're just getting better as one on the field."
While it's still unclear if Kyle Whittingham is looking for one guy to carry the load or if he'll use more of a running back by committee, right now Bubba Poole appears to be in the lead.
"Bubba is probably the most steady of the backs," Whittingham said. "But the other two can be spectacular at times. They just have to be able to hold on to the football."


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Loved the approach that Jorg and Marita had when they were the chefs in residence, and the wood oven breads.
Now that they have reopened with a dim sum focus, pondering another road trip. Has anyone tried the new incarnation?
yeah, around 10 items on the menu in total, priced aound $5-7 each, some really nice dishes, and right sized for the price. the wood oven pizzas were also on offer, and those are very good as well. the dishes showed capable execution, subtle balancing of flavours, and good use of fresh ingredients. good food, well mannered staff, and of course that lovely room made for a great lunch.
re: shekamoo
Thank you. Looking forward to trying it again.
re: JennaBean
Jealous. Looks like an hour and a half...
re: justxpete
That's what I thought but I've had TERRIBLE luck with map estimates in the past. I never trust them! :-)
re: JennaBean
Maybe you drive too fast, or too slow? ;P
re: JennaBean
Give it two hours. If you are going up Airport Road/124, watch out for speed traps around Shelburne. Bonus points if you can post a menu!
re: Snarf
.Eigensinn Farm Garden and Wild Green Salad
.Charcuterie Board: Eigensinn Farm Smoked Ham, N'Duja, Haisai Bread and Eigensinn Farm Pickled Beans or Wild Leeks
.Eigensinn Farm Tomato Soup with Sun dried Tomatoes and Wild Leek Sour Cream
.Vegetarian Gyoza: Organic Tofu, Cabbage, Wild Garlic Chives, Carrots, Shitake Mushroom and Ginger
.Pork Gyoza: Eigensinn Farm Pork, Cabbage, Wild Garlic Chive, Shitake and Ginger
.Braised Beef Tongue in Miso and Sake with Bok Choy and Pickled Ginger
.Beef Heart Tartar with Haisai Bread
.Terrine from Smoked Georgian Bay Whitefish and Lake Trout with Green Asparagus Salad
.Stinging Nettle and Roasted Almond Ravioli with Nutmeg, Almond and Lovage Butter
.Panko'd Georgian Bay Whitefish with Wild Leek Aoili
Speck Wrapped Georgian Bay Lake Trout with Jerusalem Artichoke Puree and Chips
.Chervil and Chive Glazed Asparagus
.Eigensinn Farm Pork Steak with Wild Eigensinn Farm Mushrooms and Jus
.Wood Fired Oven Roasted Eigensinn Farm Piglet with Potato and Pea Puree
.Saugeen Country Kefir Mint Maple Ice with Wild Ginger Croc ant and Peach Puree
. Cheese Board: Grey Owl or Sauvagine, Walnut Raisin Bread and Fruits
.Lubecker Marzipan Dark Chocolate Ice-cream with Rhubarb Compote
from their FB page. we had most of these, so I was wrong to say only 10 items, this looks closer to 15
re: shekamoo
I'm not going to eat on Thursday!!! This is way more than what I was expecting!
re: shekamoo
Good scouting! Definite bonus points.
re: JennaBean
It's pretty brutal on a Friday in rush hour, I've done it then.
I'd say in the 2 hours range....
Friday's trek was a big hit and the bf loved his bday lunch. The drive was almost two hours and while it wasn't warm and sunny the lush country side was lovely driving.
We arrived a little before our 1 p.m. reso but it wasn't a big deal, because sadly, we were the only ones in the place and it remained that way the whole time we were there.
I had the following dishes:
Stinging Nettle and Potato soup
Pork Gyoza
Radish greens in dashi
Pork sausage
Panko whitefish
Speck wrapped trout
The speck wrapped trout was my far my fav dish. It was on top of the most velvety mound of sun choke puree I've ever had. I would have licked the plate but that might have been a bit much.
The dashi for the radish green was amazingly flavourful and the refreshing.
Well we enjoyed all of the dishes we had, I will say that in most instances, I could have used a wee bit more salt. That being said, I have low blood pressure and a love of maldon so I may be a hard person to please in this department!
On our way out we bought a loaf of wholewheat sourdough, some almond cookies (which the bf said tasted of Christmas) and a bottle of honey produced not far from the resto.
We plan on making the trek again for brunch sometime soon.
re: JennaBean
Thanks for posting this! Do you know what other stuff they retail here? Used to be some terrines, preserves, and their smoked fish.
re: JennaBean
Thanks for the write up. I will know I have found the right girl when she offers to take me to a place like this for my birthday :)
re: ylsf
I fell head over heels for my bf when he inivited me to his resto to make me my all time fav comfort dish - coq au vine. It was and still is to this day the best coq au vine I've ever eaten.
I blame the food/love connection fully on my grandpa, He was a chef and he's my fav person in the whole world. Food is a key element of love for me! :-)
re: JennaBean
Not sure if they still have it, (or if you've been there) but Richmond Station had a pretty good coq au vin for a while. I can't seem to find their menu, or even their website, for that matter.
re: justxpete
It's dropped off of google for some reason. I had to go to their facebook page to find the link.
I tried to email for a reservation. I typed in what I thought was the address, got the error message that, and when I checked the fb page, realized i had typoed. Frantically forwarded earlier note to correct address, then began to wait anxiously for confirmation, presuming that the Toronto rules were in play: if we don't acknowledge, you don't get in/ be cool or be cast out.
Very wrong on my part. The cutting edge does not require cutting wit, constant reinvention, or twitterfeed. The fact that the reviews that make it this far do not have reams of photos, intertable chat groups or the occasional grumblings of the 'not what it used to wannabes' seems to suggest that Haisai eschews the modern media experience in favour of feeding people food they will like. Three wary travellers of different vintages (and off-vintages, depending on your perception of the particular regions from which we hail) arrived for our non-confirmed (my bad probably, didn't ask for a reply, and we were welcomed without question) and were shown to the entry from which we were invited to select where we wanted to sit. We received and ordered the menu to share. I think there were around 12 dishes, which all utilized the flora and fauna from Eigensinn, and collectively were a good feed for three hungry gents.
I may expand upon this and talk about ingredients, presentation, etc, but at this point let me say presentation and flavours were rich, ingredients had that combination of fresh, local and not only sustainable but encouraged. The staff, who on the day consisted of Stadtlander family, treated the guests as if they were enthusiastically sharing family secrets to friends, really, in my mind, have the perfect understated way of letting people into their world.
For the reality cheque, the full menu costs somewhere around 100$, give or take and you should tip to reflect the intimacy of the experience. The wine list is good and well chosen, mostly Ontario, and the Sommelier's ability to explain the subtleties of the choices in terms of the dishes is pretty damned impressive (he also has the title of waiter, bus, bakery counter guy, and Tamworth herder). 2xmarkup on top of list or something like that.
For the area, the only comparable is Eigensinn, where the per person charge is multiply higher with the same ingredients. Or you can pay slightly more for bad chain food, or you drive through.
This is, of course, without mentioning the pizzas. Someone should talk about those.


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The populist imperativeJanuary 25,2014The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes.
John Maynard Keynes wrote that in 1936, but it applies to our own time, too. And, in a better world, our leaders would be doing all they could to address both faults.
Unfortunately, the world we actually live in falls far short of that ideal. In fact, we should count ourselves lucky when leaders confront even one of our two great economic failures. If, as has been widely reported, President Barack Obama devotes much of his State of the Union address to inequality, everyone should be cheering him on.
They wont, of course. Instead, he will face two kinds of sniping. The usual suspects on the right will, as always when questions of income distribution comes up, shriek Class warfare! But there will also be seemingly more sober voices arguing that he has picked the wrong target, that jobs, not inequality, should be at the top of his agenda.
Heres why theyre wrong.
First of all, jobs and inequality are closely linked if not identical issues. Theres a pretty good although not ironclad case that soaring inequality helped set the stage for our economic crisis, and that the highly unequal distribution of income since the crisis has perpetuated the slump, especially by making it hard for families in debt to work their way out.
Moreover, theres an even stronger case to be made that high unemployment by destroying workers bargaining power has become a major source of rising inequality and stagnating incomes even for those lucky enough to have jobs.
Beyond that, as a political matter, inequality and macroeconomic policy are already inseparably linked. It has been obvious for a long time that the deficit obsession that has exerted such a destructive effect on policy these past few years isnt really driven by worries about the federal debt. It is, instead, mainly an effort to use debt fears to scare and bully the nation into slashing social programs especially programs that help the poor. For example, two-thirds of the spending cuts proposed last year by Rep. Paul Ryan, chairman of the House Budget Committee, would have come at the expense of lower-income families.
The flip side of this attempt to use fiscal scare tactics to worsen inequality is that highlighting concerns about inequality can translate into pushback against job-destroying austerity, too.
But the most important reason for Obama to focus on inequality is political realism. Like it or not, the simple fact is that Americans get inequality; macroeconomics, not so much.
Theres an enduring myth among the punditocracy that populism doesnt sell, that Americans dont care about the gap between the rich and everyone else. Its not true. Yes, were a nation that admires rather than resents success, but most people are nonetheless disturbed by the extreme disparities of our Second Gilded Age. A new Pew poll finds an overwhelming majority of Americans and 45 percent of Republicans! supporting government action to reduce inequality, with a smaller but still substantial majority favoring taxing the rich to aid the poor. And this is true even though most Americans dont realize just how unequally wealth really is distributed.
By contrast, its very hard to communicate even the most basic truths of macroeconomics, like the need to run deficits to support employment in bad times. You can argue that Obama should have tried harder to get these ideas across; many economists cringed when he began echoing Republican rhetoric about the need for the federal government to tighten its belt along with Americas families. But, even if he had tried, its doubtful that he would have succeeded.
Consider what happened in 1936. FDR had just won a smashing re-election victory, largely because of the success of his deficit-spending policies. Its often forgotten now, but his first term was marked by rapid economic recovery and sharply falling unemployment. But the public remained wedded to economic orthodoxy: By a more than 2-to-1 majority, voters surveyed by Gallup just after the election called for a balanced budget. And FDR, unfortunately, listened; his attempt to balance the budget soon plunged America back into recession.
The point is that of the two great problems facing the U.S. economy, inequality is the one on which Obama is most likely to connect with voters. And he should seek that connection with a clear conscience: Theres no shame is acknowledging political reality, as long as youre trying to do the right thing.
So I hope well hear something about jobs Tuesday night, and some pushback against deficit hysteria. But if we mainly hear about inequality and social justice, thats OK.
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2011: Indoor - Redshirted for the Bulldogs.
2010: Cross Country Opened his Bulldog career by finishing 15th at the 8K Georgia Cross Country Invitational with a time of 25:15.11.
High School: Captured the 2008 GHSA A state cross country title after being the only competitor to break 16:00 (15:55.06)...Personal-best times of 15:43 (5k) and 9:39 (3200-meter run)...Valedictorian at Athens Christian and a member of the National Honors Society.
Personal: Born April 12, 1992...Son of Reg and Amy Bishoff, who both graduated from UGA...Older sister, Whitney, is a distance runner at Anderson University (S.C.)...Majoring in Nutrition.


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Carolina coin toss highlights dilemma for game officials
It's tough to piece together exactly what happened at midfield in Kenan Stadium on Saturday afternoon.
This much is sure: Carolina sent out four game captains: bandit Norkeithus Otis, tight end/linebacker Jack Tabb, safety Tre Boston and wide receiver Quinshad Davis.
Davis had met with UNC head coach Larry Fedora and received instructions on how to handle the pregame coin toss and the subsequent decision.
The quartet shook hands with referee Ron Cherry and the Middle Tennessee captains.
Cherry then began a pregame procedure which is tightly scripted by the ACC.
"It's almost like a prepared speech," ACC coordinator of football officiating Doug Rhoads said. "It's the same litany you go through every time. It's proscribed right out the NCAA mechanics manual — the language we use, the options we give."
He turned to the Middle Tennessee players and showed them the coin.
"Visiting captain, this is the head, and this is the tail," Cherry said.
As Cherry instructed, Middle Tennessee called it in the air: tails. The coin landed, showing a quarterback's-eye view of the center before the snap, the side of the ACC's official flipping coin denoted as tails — a little coin toss humor by the league.
"Captain," Cherry said, still following the script. "You have won the toss. What do you want to do? Kick, receive or defer?"
As the winners of the toss usually do, Middle Tennessee chose to defer, meaning they would make their choice, and receive the ball, to start the second half. That meant UNC got to choose.
Then things get a little fuzzy.
"It happened fast," Tabb said. "Quinshad said something. There was a miscommunication."
The general consensus is that Davis said, "We want to kick it that way," indicating the west end zone.
There's no question it was a mistake. Fedora gave Davis several contingencies, depending on whether the Heels won or lost the toss, including which end zone to defend in the event Middle Tennessee had chosen to receive the ball. Technically, Carolina had lost the toss, and it's likely that a confused Davis chose the end zone option instead of the "if they defer" option.
That's when Cherry broke away from the script, just as he's been trained to do.
"Are you sure?" Cherry asked.
Davis repeated himself.
For a third time, Cherry tried to save Davis from himself. He looked to all four Carolina captains. "Be sure now," he said. "They deferred."
Some combination of captains agreed with Davis' plan. Tabb claimed that Boston was the one who spoke up, saying, "kick it anyways."
Boston denied being the one to make the decision, but he offered, "I was trying to help Quinshad with what to do. He was just fumbling with his words. The referee was confusing all of us."
Still, the captains weren't able to correct the decision, because, as Boston pointed out, "Quinshad was the one that got the instructions from Coach."
The incident highlights a moral dilemma for a football official. It's important to make sure a player understands the implications of his decision, but how much leading is too much?
Players make mistakes on the field all the time. When does asking a player if he's sure become the equivalent of picking up a fumble and handing it back to a ballcarrier?
Rhoads wouldn't comment on the specific situation in Chapel Hill on Saturday, but he wants his officials to make sure the players are making informed decisions.
"You want that," Rhoads said. "You want them to get it right, and the way their coach wants it done."
While kickoff snafus are relatively rare, Rhoads said that players need a little leeway from officials about once a game. Choosing when to accept a penalty, or, in the case of multiple flags, which penalty to accept, is the most common area of confusion for players.
"You want them to have the best information," Rhoads said. "If there's a penalty on a turnover, you want to make sure they understand, 'If you want to keep the ball, you'll need to decline that penalty.'
"I always tell officials, our mantra about these things is 'Go slow. There is no rush. Make sure you explain it,'" Rhoads added.
That attitude even extends to ignoring penalties on occasion. Receivers and tight ends have a long list of technical rules about who can line up on the line, and who needs to take a step back.
"The first time, just tell the player, 'You're lining up offsides,'" Rhoads said. "The second time, you tell the coach, 'Your number 62 is lining up in the neutral zone, or your wide man is on the line.' All subsequent times, you penalize them. You don't want to make calls on slight variations of technical formation things."
Still, sometimes, despite the officials' best efforts, it's impossible to prevent a player from messing up. "We're not going to make the decision for him," Rhoads said.
And so North Carolina ended up kicking off to start both halves of Saturday's game.
"It was a miscommunication," Fedora said. "That's a big thing. It won't happen again."
If it does, Fedora can rest assured that the ACC officials will do their best to provide a safety net.


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That's my point exactly.You heard a story,about a magic bullet.That story was the crux of the Oliver Stone movie RFK,about HIS version of the Kennedy assination.It's actually,just a story,with no probative value,and no real ballistic evidence ,to give it any value.Just another "what if".
Kennedy and Oswald,not Ruby,were examined by the same Dr..Thats because,he was the only forensic medical examiner,the hospital had.
As far as believing everything they tell me,no I don't.I believe ony half of what I see,and almost none of what I read.,and nothing a politician says.I need multiple sources of credible informatin,before I form an opinion,as to the probable truth of any situation.
The only absolute truth is.....there is NO absolute truth.Almost ,no ,beyond the shadow of a doubt.
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Yes, Oswald, not Ruby, I got it mixed up. I don't know much more than what the movie and a few PBS/Science Channel specials told me. The Hollywood movie, JFK, which I'm sure had to be dramatized to sell tickets, is just that, a Hollywood movie. We'll never know the real truth. After awhile nobody will care anymore. I certainly don't, but it does leave me with a bad taste in the mouth so-to-speak.
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After parting ways with the Cleveland Browns earlier this offseason, former Maryland linebacker D'Qwell Jackson has signed a four-year deal with the Indianapolis Colts worth $22 million, multiple outlets are now reporting.
Of that $22 million, $11 million is guaranteed.
Over the course of his eight-year professional career, Jackson has amassed 824 tackles, 11.5 sacks, and eight interceptions. He led the NFL in combined tackles in 2008 and led the AFC in combined tackles in 2011.
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Snow Showers In Southern IndianaMarch 2nd, 2014 at 11:22 pm by Pamela Gardner under Weather
The very northern edge of the winter system is sitting across southern Indiana. Some locations may get an additional 1″ to 2″ of accumulation over the next couple of hours. Overnight the snow gradually moves out and colder temps take over. A winter storm warning continues in southern Indiana until 7am Monday.
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'The Bourne Legacy' Australian Premiere!
Jeremy Renner Bring His Rider Stunts To The Sydney Red Carpet…
Filming may have wrapped - but that certainly didn't stop Hollywood action hero Jeremy Renner showing off his newly learnt stunt-skills at the Australian premiere of 'The Bourne Legacy' last night!
Snubbing a stretched limo or blacked-out Bentley, the US superstar marked his arrival in Sydney by riding up the red carpet at The State Theatre on a motorbike!
Giving local 'Bourne' fans a peek at what's to come from the fourth flick in the franchise, the 41-year-old, who performed almost all the action-packed tricks on-screen himself, shunned the need for a helmet and leathers as he cruised past crowds in his suit.
"I enjoyed everyday of filming," the two-time Oscar nominee told MTV Australia of his new role as leading lad Aaron Cross.
And we're not surprised to hear it! As well as getting the chance to unleash his inner action junkie, the actor also got to star alongside the gorgeous Rachel Weisz.
Chatting about the pair's on-screen chemistry, director Tony Gilroy, who joined Jeremy on the red carpet told MTV Australia,
"It was kind of surprising to us.
"As we moved along we began to see some very encouraging signs about how they seemed together on camera and we leaned into it a little bit and felt there was real opportunity there."
But when it came to all the daring action scenes, Tony admitted he had a few reservations!
"I didn't have any back-ups, you can't send in a sub," he joked.
"So if Jeremy's doing something he has to be able to work the next day or the next week, so you're always monitoring his appetite to do stuff."
'The Bourne Legacy' hits cinemas across Australia August 16!
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In honor of the "Mad Men" season premiere, we recently ran a Houston Chronicle story in S.A. Life about what was going on in the world in 1964. But what was going on in our fair city? While Don Draper was celebrating a very dysfunctional Thanksgiving, San Antonians were also hunkered over their turkeys and reading […] [Read More]


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