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Will mining spoil a Colorado town's pristine landscape?
By Denise Kersten Wills | From Preservation | March/April 2008
Through a window of her home in Crested Butte, Colo., Glo Cunningham has a clear view of snow-capped Mt. Emmons, shrouded in clouds. Cunningham, director of the Crested Butte Mt. Heritage Museum, and other residents of the town affectionately call the mountain the Red Lady, because of the way it glows nearly scarlet when the light catches it just so. But lately it's what beneath the 12,392-foot-high peak that has her seeing red.
There lies one of the world's richest deposits of molybdenum, a mineral that strengthens metal alloys used to make an array of products, from construction equipment to aircraft and car parts. Today, molybdenum is in high demand, and two companies—Kobex Resources, Ltd., of Vancouver, British Columbia, and U.S. Energy Corp. of Riverton, Wyo.—are developing plans to mine 6,000 tons of the mountain's ore each day for at least a decade.
That prospect has alarmed environmentalists and others in Crested Butte, a turn-of-the-century silver-mining town that has become a tourist destination popular for skiing, fishing, and other outdoor recreation. In 1974, it was designated a National Historic District and this year one of the National Trust's Dozen Distinctive Destinations (see page 12).
Industrial truck traffic could overwhelm the community, says Bob Salter, mineral resources director for the High Country Citizens' Alliance, a conservation group. Another group, the Red Lady Coalition, hopes to buy out the mining companies' interest and end the possibility of mining in Crested Butte.
"This is the fourth time we've had this fight," says Cunningham, an original member of the citizens' alliance, founded the first time mining was proposed at Mt. Emmons, in 1977. Then, local activists stalled the planned mine until the early 1980s, when a glut on the global market sent the price of molybdenum plummeting. The issue arose twice more but never became a serious threat. Since 2001, however, the price has climbed from less than $3 per pound to more than $30.
The mining companies have been helped by an 1872 law designed to spur economic development in the West. The law prevents federal agencies from denying permits for mines on environmental or other grounds, and it has never been revised. The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill in November that would update the law to balance mining interests against other considerations, but at press time, the measure seemed unlikely to pass the Senate.
Water pollution tops the list of mine opponents' concerns, and they don't have to look far for examples of what could go wrong. An earlier mine on Mt. Emmons caused damage when the tailing ponds, which store waste material, collapsed and drained into a creek. The owners of the mine were required to build a water treatment plant that is still in operation. Just 10 miles away is a different mine that was named a Superfund site by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in 2005.
The current proposal for the molybdenum mine, which would be about three miles from Crested Butte, includes a nearby mill and tailings deposit at the headwaters of two creeks. Perry Anderson, a spokesperson for the mining companies, says the existing treatment plant on Mt. Emmons will ensure that water coming off the mountain is clean. In addition, he says, new technologies will minimize the risk of contamination.
Opponents question whether the existing treatment plant would be adequate, noting that the new mine would be much larger than the old one. Salter says research has shown that even with modern techniques, water pollution is virtually inevitable. Contaminated water could kill or drive away the mountain's wildlife—including elk, deer, black bear, and beaver—and hurt the farms and ranches downstream.
Outside Crested Butte, however, some residents are cautiously hopeful that a mine could bring much-needed economic stability without spoiling the environment. "It's tough in Gunnison County," says Mark High, a seventh-grade history teacher, of the less affluent areas outside Crested Butte. "I see a lot of kids who go through our system go off to college and they don't come back because there isn't a lot of opportunity around here." He feels better about the prospect of a mine, he says, knowing that environmentalists in Crested Butte would keep close tabs on it.
The mine would create some 250 jobs that would each pay around $70,000 a year—far more than most positions in tourism. Still, it's unclear how many mining jobs would go to locals. The companies have set a goal of hiring 85 percent of their workforce from within the county, but few residents have experience in mining, which has become a highly skilled occupation.
A bigger question is whether tourism and mining can coexist. "This is not an either-or proposition," Anderson argues. "Our mine is not coming in here to destroy or replace anything." In fact, he says, Crested Butte has "a real heritage of mining and ranching" that is worth preserving. "Today we're watching that heritage vanish," he says, as second-home buyers flock to the town.
Denis Hall, a writer who has lived in Crested Butte for 40 years, has reached the opposite conclusion. People come for the pristine natural environment, he says: "Tourists don't want to visit a place that is an industrial zone." Barbara Pahl, director of the National Trust's mountains/plains office in Denver, agrees. "Hard-rock mining creates a big mess," she says. "It could destroy the tourism."
Considering the scene outside her window, Cunningham sums up why she has fought proposals to mine Mt. Emmons for the past three decades. "My quality of life is at stake—the small-town community that I love and care about so much," she says. "I don't know any place like this."
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After serving nearly 32 years with Cumberland County, Chief Clerk Dennis Marion resigned Monday, effective Jan. 18.
Marion is leaving the county, because he has accepted an appointment as the acting deputy secretary of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services for the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare.
Commissioner Barbara Cross said the board accepted his resignation with deep regret, but said this is a great opportunity for Marion to deal with human-services issues and serve people at the state level.
"There is regret, there is enthusiasm, and there are opportunities ahead," Cross said.
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Syracuse, N.Y. -- The kid looked and looked and looked some more, and then made an observation to his father that was equal parts "Duh" and affirmation of the moment.
"Dad," he said. "I can't believe it. Everybody is watching every move he makes. Check it out."
He was speaking of Stephen Strasburg, the old-fashioned pitching phenom who'd made his way down the third-base line to officially begin Friday night's baseball happening at Alliance Bank Stadium. And it was true. Those folks who'd gathered in the seats near the Chiefs' bullpen had fixed their eyes on Strasburg as if he were a glorious sunset.
Each bend of a leg. Each stretch of an arm. Each wiggle of a wrist. Scrutinized, every one, by the happy gawkers.
"This," the son offered in a voice meant for a church pew, "is awesome."
And then, 20 minutes prior to the night's first pitch, Stephen Strasburg -- a Mona Lisa with a fastball who'd be properly placed behind velvet ropes -- began to throw. And if "awesome" is too strong a word to describe a warm-up session, "remarkable" isn't.
He began, Stephen did, by tossing flat-footed from 20 feet or so to his catcher, Carlos Maldonado, who was planted on the foul line . . . and he steadily backed his way out to nearly dead center field, snapping belt-high throw after belt-high throw with the same apparent effort that almost anybody else would use to part hair.
From there, Strasburg made his way to the mound in foul territory, just feet from the rubberneckers, and proceeded to paint with his array of fastballs and curves and changeups that forced Maldonado to merely squeeze his mitt and not move it. And while there were few gasps in the stands, there was a reverence . . . and no shortage of pointed camera phones.
"How," asked a guy who'd gaped at the movement and listened to the pop, "do you hit that?"
The answer was to be shortly provided because Strasburg would soon finish his session, stroll down to the Syracuse dugout -- strangely, to silence from the fans who seemingly couldn't figure out how to respond -- and prepare for that inaugural trot to a Triple-A mound.
And that answer was: You don't.
At least the Gwinnett Braves didn't. Not on Friday night when 20 of them flailed away at 65 Strasburg pitches and came up with one (1) ground-ball single to center field, one (1) walk and 18 routine outs (including six whiffs) across the young man's six innings on the hill.
Impressive? Stephen Strasburg's show, which was saluted by the sellout crowd with a standing ovation when it concluded with a strikeout of poor Gregor Blanco after he'd helplessly looked at an 81-mph bender to end that sixth frame, was something that could have been directed by James Cameron.
And with the first-place Chiefs (17-11) having rolled over Gwinnett 7-0, we can all return to baseball Pandora on Wednesday evening when Strasburg -- who also drove in two runs with a second-inning single and a fourth-inning bunt -- will next start for the Chiefs at ABS against Norfolk.
"It felt pretty good," admitted Stephen, whose shoulder and elbow were packed in ice, long after he'd stopped breezing by those bedazzled Braves batters. "I'm just trying to keep doing what I've been doing. I'm trying to build off what I learned in Harrisburg and trying to do it up here. And I was able to do that tonight."
One can argue that you'd have to go back more than a quarter-century -- to Nov. 26, 1983 -- for the equivalent in this town of what was unveiled on Friday on our north side. Because it was then, in the Carrier Dome with Colgate on the other side, that Dwayne Washington, who'd likewise come to us as a near myth, made his ballyhooed Orange basketball debut before an audience that would not soon forget his initial bow.
Similarly, those 13,766 in Friday's house -- a collection that represented the largest officially-counted throng in Syracuse's professional baseball history that dates to 1876 when Ulysses Grant was president and includes visits through the summers by the likes of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig and Satchel Paige and Henry Aaron and Willie Mays and Mickey Mantle -- will have an earful for their neighbors.
"I didn't know that," Strasburg said of his place in our annals' rarified air, "but thanks for the fact. That's pretty awesome. That's definitely something to tell my grandkids. To know that history . . . that's awesome."
Well, it is. But on Friday, this $15.1-million property out of San Diego State and headed soon for Washington with a right arm touched by the gods, was fairly awesome, too.
Take, for instance, that first inning that went 96, 97, 98, 98 (as in, miles per hour) . . . groundout. Followed by 97, 97, 90, 98, 99, 99, 82 . . . called third strike. Followed by 97, 97, 83, 81, 97 . . . swinging strikeout. Three up and three down with everything fired by Strasburg -- 4-1 with a 1.29 ERA in his six professional starts -- as nasty as a rusty pipe. And, yes, with more of same to follow.
"Bottom line is you can't really worry about what caliber hitters you'll be facing," he offered. "You have to worry about what's in your control. And that's executing pitches to the best of your ability. You know, good pitchers should get good hitters out. Bottom line."
That the 21-year-old Strasburg did . . . and before all those bodies, too.
"It's great to be pitching in front of a sellout crowd," Stephen said. "Everybody was really excited. And all of the players were ready to play."
And the fans were ready to look and look and look some more. They'll be back on Wednesday. And they'll bring their neighbors so they can see for themselves.
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Chevron (CVX) and Exxon (XOM) both reported earnings last week as the energy industry undergoes rising oil prices due to violence in Iraq.
Chevron's August 1 earnings report was positive with net income of $5.7 billion and earnings per share of $2.98. Earnings progressed from the second quarter of 2013 when net income was $5.4 billion and earnings were $2.77 per share. At $2.98, earnings per share soundly beat analysts' consensus estimate of $2.66. Rising oil prices helped the company to achieve total revenue of $55.6 billion for the second quarter, up from $55.3 billion in the second quarter of 2013. Upstream and downstream earnings reports were as predicted with little disruption from violence in Iraq.
On Thursday, July 31, Exxon also reported positive second quarter earnings results with earnings per share of $2.05 beating analysts' consensus estimate of $1.86. Net income for the second quarter was $8.8 billion, up from $6.9 billion in the second quarter of 2013. At $2.05, earnings per share for the second quarter were up $0.50 from the second quarter of 2013. In its second quarter earnings report Exxon stated total revenue for the quarter of $111.65 billion also aided by higher oil prices in the industry. The company did not report any major disruptions from violence in the Middle East.
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While oil production shows signs of struggling abroad, it does not appear to be significantly impacting the U.S. energy sector exemplified by strong earnings reports for the second quarter from Chevron and Exxon. Year-to-date Chevron is up 0.65%. Exxon Mobil is down 2.18% year-to-date just below the Dow Jones Industrial Average which is at -0.81%. The S&P 500 Energy sector overall has gained 8.02% year-to-date thru August 6.
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text: [Federal Register Volume 77, Number 74 (Tuesday, April 17, 2012)] [Rules and Regulations] [Pages 22666-22667] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 2012-9211] [[Page 22666]] ======================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------------- FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM 12 CFR Part 204 [Docket No. OP-1440] Payment System Risk Policy; Daylight Overdraft Posting Rules AGENCY: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. ACTION: Policy statement. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Board) has revised its Policy on Payment System Risk (PSR Policy) to modify the posting rules to conform with procedural changes to the redemption of separately-sorted savings bonds and to eliminate a reference to the contractual clearing balance program. DATES: Effective Date: The PSR Policy revisions concerning separately- sorted savings bond redemptions will take effect on April 11, 2012. Revisions related to the elimination of the contractual clearing balance program are effective July 12, 2012. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Susan V. Foley, Associate Director, (202/452-3596) or Jeffrey D. Walker, Manager, Financial Risk Management, (202/721-4559), Division of Reserve Bank Operations and Payment Systems. For users of Telecommunications Device for the Deaf (TDD) only, please call 202/263-4869. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: I. Background Posting Rules for Separately-Sorted Savings Bond Redemptions The Board's PSR Policy measures depository institutions' intraday account balances according to a set of ``posting rules'' that determine the intraday timing of debits and credits to institutions' Federal Reserve accounts for different payment types. Posting rules currently specify that EZ-Clear savings bond redemptions in separately-sorted deposits will post at 8:30 a.m. Eastern time or 5 p.m. Eastern time, depending on the deposit time. As announced by the Department of the Treasury on March 20, 2012 (77 FR 16165), effective April 11, 2012, Treasury is changing the procedures for financial institutions to transmit and receive settlement for redeemed definitive (paper) savings securities (savings bonds and savings notes) from the EZ-Clear system to an image-based securities process through the Federal Reserve Banks, and the EZ-Clear program will be decommissioned following the transition. The Reserve Banks will begin accepting redeemed savings bonds as electronic images on Monday, April 16, 2012. The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta will accept deposits of redeemed savings bonds in paper form, but the processing of the bonds will no longer be based on the EZ-Clear system. The posting rules for separately-sorted savings bond redemptions remain unchanged, except that references to the EZ-Clear system have been removed from the PSR Policy. Reference to the Contractual Clearing Balance Program Under the PSR Policy, each Reserve Bank has the right to protect its risk exposure from individual institutions by unilaterally imposing risk-control measures, including requiring an institution to maintain balances under the contractual clearing balance program.\1\ The Board, however, is amending Regulation D to eliminate the contractual clearing balance program on July 12, 2012.\2\ To conform to this amendment to Regulation D, the reference to clearing-balance requirements is being removed from the PSR policy. Instead, the PSR policy will reference the right of a Reserve Bank to impose balance requirements. Depository institutions may be eligible to earn interest on these required balances held in their Federal Reserve accounts.\3\ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- \1\ A contractual clearing balance is an amount that an institution contracts to maintain with a Reserve Bank in additional to any reserve balance requirement. \2\ 77 FR 21846 (April 12, 2012). \3\ 73 FR 59482 (October 9, 2008). --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Policy on Payment System Risk The Federal Reserve Policy on Payment System Risk, Section II.A. under the heading ``Procedures for Measuring Daylight Overdrafts'' and the subheadings ``Post at 8:30 a.m. Eastern time'' and ``Post at 5 p.m. Eastern time'' is amended with changes as indicated in italics. Procedures for measuring daylight overdrafts \4\ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- \4\ This schedule of posting rules does not affect the overdraft restrictions and overdraft-measurement provisions for nonbank banks established by the Competitive Equality Banking Act of 1987 and the Board's Regulation Y (12 CFR 225.52). --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post at 8:30 a.m. Eastern time: +/- Term deposit maturities and accrued interest +/- Government and commercial ACH credit transactions \5\ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- \5\ Institutions that are monitored in real time must fund the total amount of their commercial ACH credit originations in order for the transactions to be processed. If the Federal Reserve receives commercial ACH credit transactions from institutions monitored in real time after the scheduled close of the Fedwire Funds Service, these transactions will be processed at 12:30 a.m. the next business day, or by the ACH deposit deadline, whichever is earlier. The Account Balance Monitoring System provides intraday account information to the Reserve Banks and institutions and is used primarily to give authorized Reserve Bank personnel a mechanism to control and monitor account activity for selected institutions. For more information on ACH transaction processing, refer to the ACH Settlement Day Finality Guide available through the Federal Reserve Financial Services Web site at http://www.frbservices.org. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- + Treasury Electronic Federal Tax Payment System (EFTPS) investments from ACH credit transactions + Advance-notice Treasury investments + Treasury checks, postal money orders, local Federal Reserve Bank checks, and savings bond redemptions in separately sorted deposits; these items must be deposited by 12:01 a.m. local time or the local deposit deadline, whichever is later. - Penalty assessments for tax payments from the Treasury Investment Program (TIP).\6\ \6\ The Reserve Banks will identify and notify institutions with Treasury-authorized penalties on Thursdays. In the event that Thursday is a holiday, the Reserve Banks will identify and notify institutions with Treasury-authorized penalties on the following business day. Penalties will then be posted on the business day following notification. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post at 5 p.m. Eastern time: +/- FedACH SameDay service transactions + Treasury checks, postal money orders, and savings bond redemptions in separately sorted deposits; these items must be deposited by 4 p.m. Eastern time + Local Federal Reserve Bank checks; these items must be presented before 3 p.m. Eastern time +/- Immediate-settlement ACH transactions; these transactions include ACH return items and check-truncation items. Additionally, in the Federal Reserve Policy on Payment System Risk, Section II.G.1 under the subheading ``Ex post,'' the phrase ``clearing- balance requirements'' will be replaced with ``balance requirements.'' The new sentence will read ``Each Reserve Bank retains the right to protect its risk exposure from individual institutions by unilaterally reducing net debit caps, imposing (additional) collateralization or balance requirements, rejecting or delaying certain transactions as described below, or, in extreme cases, taking the institution offline or prohibiting it from using Fedwire.'' [[Page 22667]] By order of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, April 12, 2012. Jennifer J. Johnson, Secretary of the Board. [FR Doc. 2012-9211 Filed 4-16-12; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6210-01-P


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The décor inside of the restaurant has a rustic look with its unique imported wood from Vermont giving it a classy appearance. They offer full service as well as takeout and free delivery. Pita Grill delivers to Morristown, Morris Township, Morris Plains, Cedar Knolls, Florham Park, Harding Township, and will deliver catering orders to any town in Morris County. Their hours of operation are 11 a.m. to 11 p.m., 7 days a week.
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OH Magazine | Extra Credit: Ballroom Dance
Even couch potatoes can't avoid America's renewed love for dance as of late. Flip through the channels and you'll see celebrities waltzing. There's dance crews battling and young phenoms out to prove they not only think they can dance — they can make your jaw drop.
Oak Harbor's no stranger to the dance bug. A number of studios around town teach everyone from tots to seniors in the finer points of ballet, jazz and other traditional repertoire.
But if you want to dance like the stars, the moves to master come by the name of foxtrot, waltz, samba, jive, swing, tango and even cha-cha-cha.
"I think we'd forgotten about ballroom for a while," said Kathleen Mack, an Oak Harbor ballroom dance student. "We used to think that it was only for our grandparents' generation, but now everyone's realizing how fun ballroom can be."
Almost every Sunday the dance floor at the Oak Harbor Elks Club is a whirl of life as quarter turns are practiced and foot work is refined. Before stepping on to the hardwood, students lace up or buckle their dance shoes, all the while chatting up that week's events.
"Step, one, two, three! Turn, one, two, three! Great."
This cheerful chatter, happy dancing and colorful scene are all part of ballroom dance lessons offered by Dan Branscum, a dance enthusiast turned enthusiastic instructor.
Branscum himself began dancing a little over two years ago. After a year of attending social dance class in Seattle, he looked into stepping up to ballroom.
"With social dancing you get out there and move your feet and learn basic patterns," he said. "But I decided there was more to dancing than I was getting."
Mack said she likes the fact that ballroom dance is exercise that doesn't seem like exercise.
"I'm not the type to go to the gym and sweat on a treadmill," she said. "But I love to dance."
Right now, Branscum said his dance students, on the average, are in their 40s or 50s. And each new season of Dancing with the Stars brings a new crop of eager "hoofers" looking to cha-cha like the pros.
"I'd like to see more people of all ages come out and join in," Branscum said. "Dance is really for everyone."
Mack and Branscum want to remind people that they don't need a partner to learn — just get out and dance.
"It's loads of fun," Mack said.
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"Art"-ichoke with Salted Garlic Butter
As April rolls in, spring is coming to an end and it's time to take advantage of the last month or so of spring veggies before early summer. With a few new additions to our produce section, there is plenty to keep you busy in the kitchen. If you are looking for another hearty snack, consider sharing an artichoke or two with friends and family, or preparing the hearts as a tasty addition to your favorite salad.
We know this little veggie can be daunting to prepare, but have no fear, for we have advice from one of Austin's top bloggers, Elizabeth Van Huffel, who has made the process simple and easy with photos and instructions to lead you on your way. Elizabeth's blog, Local Savour, strives to incorporate 80 – 100 % of her ingredients locally and is a great resource for seasonal creations. If you are already familiar with the art of artichoke preparation, we've gone ahead and listed Elizabeth's favorite recipe below. Happy Eating!
in.structions for cooking artichoke:
Cut off the stem of the artichoke until there is about ¼ an inch left. Rinse and place in a double boiler, cooking about 20 minutes or until the base of the stem is fork-tender. If you do not have a double boiler handy, immerse your artichokes in a pot of water, making sure to cover the artichokes completely and boil using the same method above. Once fully cooked and tender, remove excess water and serve with salted garlic butter.
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3 tbsp of unsalted butter
½ tsp of sea salt
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11 Reasons We're in.Love with Local
Recently we reached 11,011 likes on Facebook (woo hoo!) To celebrate, we asked our followers to share with us the 11 reasons they love local food.
We are so blessed to be in a community that so wholeheartedly embraces the beauty that comes along with local, sustainable and seasonal food.
Y'all shared with us amazing lists (and photos!) that we can't help put pass them along. Take the time to read why our community loves local food, and please feel free to share your lists. The more the merrier.
- in.spires the community to make sustainable decisions
- in.corporates small businesses into larger economies
- in.volves the local population in the worldwide food movement
- in.timidates the big food corporations
- in.troduces new ways of thinking
- in.centivizes local entrepreneurs to follow through on their ideas
- in.creases awareness of the impact food has on our environment
- in.cludes opportunities for the community to become more self-sufficient
- in.toxicates the locals with unbelievably good craft beer
- in.justice is exposed when local food proves there is a better way
- in.novation proves to be in.finite when it comes to using real in.gredients
- Support
- Fresh
- Yummy
- Nofructosalicious
- Green
- Healthy
- Variety
- Seasons
- Community
- Sustainable
- Keeps Austin Weird!!!
- Love knowing the people who grew/raised my food
- It has taste unlike most mass-produced food
- The fresher the food the more nutrients I get in my body
- Support local economy
- Support people who are stewards of the environment
- Reduced carbon footprint
- No nasty GMO foods
- Opportunity for bulk purchases (as my salsa and canned tomato stash can attest)
- I have visited the farms and felt the dirt that nourishes me and seen for myself how the animals are treated
- Brings back good memories of childhood visits to my grandparents farm – sitting in the middle of the strawberry patch eating the berries straight off the plant (competing with my sister to see who would get through her row fastest), or shucking corn with my grandpa (and nibbling on a few ears)
- The friendships I have made with people I have met at the markets, at food swaps, and at restaurants and stores that carry local produce.
- Incredibly fresh
- Less fuel required for delivery
- Can meet your farmers!
- Seasonal
- Supports the local economy& Supports small farmers
- Fosters a close relationship with local community
- Encourages creative business models
- Encourages creative approaches to cooking
- Terroir!
- Allows you to experiment with interesting local produce (prickly pears! loquats!)
- Allows you ensure that everything you eat is ethically produced because you can trace the origins of everything on your plate.
- Local food = supporting local farmers/ local economy
- Less carbon in the atmosphere from moving around food!
- Local food is super fresh and delicious
- It ensures you're eating only what's in season.
- Fresh food is more nutritious!
- It's a step toward food self-reliance.
- There is more variety!
- Is free of GMOs!
- Represents Austin's food culture
- I love knowing where it came from, and visiting those places!
- Lastly, It feels great to make good choices about what you put into your body!
- Getting to know my farmers
- Often sustainably grown
- Fewer food miles (less carbon/water waste)
- Community
- Outdoor markets
- Supporting my home
- Fresh food
- Makes me food conscious
- Seasonal
- Often it's native to the region
- Supports education!
Wondering Localvore
- The colors
- Low carbon foot print
- Meeting the farmers
- Eating in season
- The price tag
- Promoting it
- Teaching it
- Growing it
- Community it creates
- Farmers markets
- The people involved
Planning a 100-Mile Thanksgiving Dinner
It's almost Thanksgiving! By now, the meal planning is probably in full-force and you're prepping yourself for a few days of serious family time. While out shopping for your holiday dishes, challenge yourself to go local. And if you're feeling up especially adventurous, consider shooting for a 100-mile Thanksgiving.
A 100-mile Thanksgiving means you're aiming for all your ingredients to be sourced from within 100 miles of your dinner table. Thanksgiving is a holiday based around seasonal feasting, so it seems like a good idea to shoot for fresh, local food.
If a completely local meal seems daunting, try to source one dish locally, or get your turkey from a local farm. If you're at a loss of where and what's available to you, check out Local Harvest, a website where you enter in your zip code and get a map of farms and local food sources nearby.
Live in Austin? The produce available to you will range from kale to poblano peppers. You can stick with traditional dishes, such as honey roasted sweet potatoes, or think outside the box and whip up some jalapeno cranberry corn bread. Being in the height of cold-weather crop season, we're lucky to have an abundance of produce at our fingertips. Filling your menu with local veggies will not only highlight the local food, it will also up the nutritional value of your dinner.
If you're shooting for local and can't find the traditional Thanksgiving foods in your region, consider shaking it up. We all live in a unique landscape with a food history all its own. Perhaps take this Thanksgiving as an opportunity to showcase the foods that symbolize where you live. Check out these unique menu ideas from five regions of the United States.
We also found this fantastic infographic that maps out localizing your Thanksgiving. There are plenty of resources out there to help you plan a local Thanksgiving. Have a fantastic holiday, and happy eating!
Don't Forget the Pie
This year we're offering some amazing locally made, artisanal pies from our friends: Cake & Spoon and the Pie Society. Ranging from traditional to haute, we've got confections that will wow your family and friends – or the co-workers (every office party needs pie!)
The deadline for orders is November 16th, and pies will be ready for pick-up the 20th & 21st. If you know you'll need your pie before then, we can accommodate early pick-up.
- Key Lime in Graham Cracker Crust – Cake & Spoon- a tart and refreshing classic. $30
- Texas Pecan – Cake & Spoon – a 100% local southern tradition. $32
- Apple – Cake & Spoon – made extra delicious with Texas apples. $30
- Cherry – Cake & Spoon – these ain't no canned cherries, totally fresh. $30
- Pumpkin – The Pie Society – can you have Thanksgiving without pumpkin pie? $26
- Buttermilk – The Pie Society – sweet, creamy, and dreamy – a southern classic. $26
- Pumpkin Pecan – The Pie Society – pumpkin pie + pecan pie = the perfect storm of holiday deliciousness. $26
- Orange You Glad We Said Cranberry – The Pie Society – tart cranberries, a secret blend of spices and just-squeezed orange juice simmered to perfection for a sweet and tangy pie. $32
- Austin Creme Pie – The Pie Society – sweet potato pudding, chocolate ganache, cinnamon whipped cream and a pistachio crust. Keeping it weird and delicious. $32
Orders can be placed in-store or online via PayPal by clicking the pies below.
If you have any questions please call 512-275-6357 or email and we'd be glad to help!
The Hunt for Seasonal and Local Gets Easier
Jessica Malsky:
Jessica's an Austin native with a passion for environmental issues and an unshakable commitment to improving sustainability. When she's not busy blogging for in.gredients, she loves studying ecology, thrift store shopping, bees, and riding bicycles!
Hello! I'm Jessica Malsky, the newest member of the in.gredients team. One of the things I've become most excited about in anticipation of the in.gredients store opening: it'll be so much easier to eat seasonal, local, organic/natural, produce. Let me clarify – it'll be easier to eat it because it'll be easier to find it! As I'm an eco-friendly kind of gal, it's been a personal goal of mine for some time to go local and organic, but it's been tough going.
I think we're all too familiar with the fact that the vast majority of produce available at most grocery stores isn't locally sourced (in part due to the constant consumer demand for non-seasonal produce) – something that kind of gets me down. What's more, I've found that even my favorite small, local grocery stores don't have a great selection of local and organic produce. Farmers' markets seem to be the best bet in the hunt for seasonal/local/organic. And while I adore farmers' markets, more often than not my schedule isn't compatible with market days and times (unfortunately). Can anyone relate?
So naturally, I'm really excited about the fact that when in.gredients debuts, it'll be like having a supplementary farmers' market on call 7 days a week. No joke! In fact, some of the farms with booths at Central Texas farmers' markets are the ones whose produce we'll be carrying. But the window of opportunity to get at these farm-fresh goodies will be significantly wider, so no fret if you can't make it to market day. Phew!
You could think of it this way: every day will be market day at in.gredients!
Seven Green Resolutions for 2012
The new year's almost here! Come up with a resolution for 2012 yet? As with any resolution, the key is to choose something feasible. A change you can make without major stress or strife is most likely to become permanent. If you don't have one in mind yet, here are some great "green" resolution ideas to make your new year a little (or even a lot!) more eco-friendly than the last:
1. Convert to cloth tissues: single-use, disposable facial tissues create a lot of unnecessary waste. Reusable tissues are easy to make out of old shirts or other soft fabrics. Wash them with your regular laundry and you've created no waste, and used no extra water (because your laundry has to be washed anyway!). Check out our post on cloth tissues for some extra insight.
2. Ban paper towels: Make your house a paper towel-free zone by converting to reusable rags for cleaning and cloth napkins for dining. It's an easy habit to pick up, and you'll cut down enormously on non-recyclable paper waste!
3. "Meatless Mondays": By choosing not to eat meat one day per week, you'll reduce your average meat consumption by about 14 percent. Doing so will lower your carbon footprint and may even improve your health! Learn more about Meatless Mondays here.
4. Start a compost pile: Another incredible way to cut down on household waste that your garden (if you have one) will thank you for! See our posts on urban composting and composting in Austin for some helpful tips to get you started.
5. Bike to work or school one day a week: Or take public transportation, or walk, or build a boat from old limbs and float down your local creek. Whatever you choose, it's always good to set a specific goal that's manageable for you. Weekly goals are good because they are easy to keep track of, and not overwhelming.
6. Start a garden: Spend less money at the store *and* eat healthy, fresh food. Yee haw! If you live in Central Texas, you may find this seasonal planting guide from Austin Organic Gardeners helpful in figuring out what to plant.
7. Share something: The simple act of sharing can save money and resources while fostering kindness in communities. You could share something you own, for example: a set of power tools or perhaps a skill you have like, for example, bicycle repair. Sharing's contagious too, so you're likely to start a trend with your friends and neighbors that'll be beneficial to you as well!
(image, starring our very own Chris Pepe: Patrick Lane Photography)
Recipe: Chicken Salad with Persimmon, Pecans, and Thyme
Here's an interesting (and timely) seasonal twist on a classic favorite: a chicken salad recipe from Healthy Green Kitchen that calls for persimmons and pecans. The beauty of this recipe: if you live in Central Texas, you can get all the "fixins" for this salad locally, because as y'all know, 'tis the season for persimmons and pecans! What's more, it's a great way to use leftover roast chicken or turkey!
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Basic package is $3850, which includes up to 8 hours of coverage, retouches, an online gallery and all the images in high resolution on a flash drive for you to print or post as you wish. Second shooter, albums, and additional hours are available.
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One of Pittsburgh's oldest buildings, the Fort Pitt Blockhouse in Point State Park is designated as an historic landmark. Take a look inside.
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Planning is already under way for the 23rd San Juan Island Children's Festival, scheduled for May 4. Committee members are needed to help with planning, organizing and coordination of the festival.
The only prerequisite to participate on the festival committee is a willingness and time to work as a team, and a commitment to creating a fun-filled festival dedicated to celebrating children. No special skills are necessary.
With exception of festival day itself, committee members typically volunteer about 6-8 hours per month, beginning in January.
An annual event, the Children's Festival celebrates children by providing creative, inter-active, educational, entertaining and playful activities.
For info about the festival or how to help, contact Island Rec Director Sally Thomsen, 378-4953, or visit, email@example.com.
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Phipps, a retired administrator from University Hospitals and the Case Western Reserve University Bolton School of Nursing, died June 23 at McGregor Home. She was 87.
"She had very high standards, but she was also very fair," said Carol Roe, who studied and worked for her. "She championed getting the input of the people closest to the patient's bedside: the staff nurses."
Raised in Detroit, Phipps graduated from Harper Hospital School of Nursing and Wayne State University. She earned a master's degree and a doctorate from the University of Chicago. She practiced and taught in Detroit, Illinois and California. She also joined the Medical Committee for Human Rights and helped it register voters in the South.
Phipps moved to Cleveland Heights in 1970 to join the Experiment in Nursing, a nationally funded program of dual jobs of teaching nurses and overseeing them at work. She became chairwoman of medical-surgical nursing at Bolton and director of the same field at University Hospitals. She spoke and wrote widely on the subject and co-edited many editions of "Medical-Surgical Nursing: Concepts and Clinical Practice."
In 1997, the Academy of Medicine of Cleveland named her nurse of the year.
As a young, unmarried woman, Phipps had given up a baby for adoption. The boy was raised as Charles Wintczak and found her about 15 years ago. She often visited him in New York City.
She also spent many holidays and summers with family in Port Huron, Mich. She liked to organize outings with friends to the Cleveland Orchestra, theaters, sporting events and more.
A memorial service is scheduled for 2 p.m. on Oct. 6 at Church of the Covenant. Survivors include her son, a brother and a sister. Maher-Melbourne handled her arrangements.


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Among the more interesting exhibits was that of a boot manufacturer (no, not from Oregon) that had a display of four boots on a wheel, which turned round and round much like a mill wheel. Except the water was in a tray beneath the wheel, to show the footwear's water resistance as each boot was partially submerged.
Also in the tray were a few goldfish (the booth people weren't sure why they were there either) that scattered every time the boot left the water, then scurried into the shallow space beneath the sole as each boot re-submerged.
They were, of course, using the boots for cover, instinctively protecting themselves from overhead dangers – like outdoor reporters with cameras.
But when I turned in the photo, a non-outdoor copy editor assumed the fish were instead running from the boot to keep from "being stomped on" and turned the photo 180 degrees from reality with a far different description in the cutline.
We smiled and shared our "goldfish moment" for years until his retirement.
Cut to present, a Christmas present to be exact, and one you can still give – to a fish.
For the next three Saturdays, Jan. 4, 11 and 18, the Tualatin Chapter of Trout Unlimited will be collecting your used (and non-tinseled, please) Christmas tree to shelter baby salmon and steelhead in a coastal stream. It's called "Cohoho" and a $10 bill should accompany your donation to help defray transportation costs from either Northwest Fly Fishing Outfitters, 10910 NE Halsey St. in Portland, or Royal Treatment Fly Fishing, 21570 Willamette Drive in West Linn. Hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
(That, incidentally, is about the same cost as the new Columbia Basin salmon, steelhead and sturgeon angling endorsement. And it will do just as much good for salmon and steelhead; on the coast, perhaps even more.)
Volunteers will take the trees to the Necanicum River on the coast and rope some of them into quiet winter backwaters, beaver ponds and wetlands, places where newly hatched salmon and steelhead spend their first few critical months of life. Most will be placed in late spring as the water drops and the needs for shade and structure become even more critical.
At some point next fall, before the first freshet, the ropes will be untied and the trees (branches also are "rescued" from landscapers' chippers) will simply be washed whimsically downstream to land where they may. It's not unusual to spot them out in the Necanicum estuary in all months of the year. Even there, they provide critical structure for salmon and steelhead.
Trees do double and triple duty. First, they provide shade and shelter, helping keep the water cool and protect the fish from predators such as mergansers. Later, as the branches decay, they become hosts for all sorts of waterborne organisms providing the base of an important food chain.
It's the ultimate in woody debris, nearly duplicating nature's pre-pioneer litany of deadfall, detritus and biological structure.
Yes, Christmas trees are indeed subject to a lot of herbicides and pesticides, but chemicals are used in the spring and have short half-lives. After all, if they're safe enough to be in the house around your kids, they must be all right for fish.
The program is in just its third year, so no tangible analysis (measurable adult returns, etc.) are available for another year or two. However, young fish respond from within minutes to a few hours and seek out the new shelter; adult coastal cutthroat trout by the hundreds gather with lamprey eels around the algal remains of old trees. Enthusiastic supporters want the effort expanded to other coastal streams.
And even, most importantly, to Metropolitan Portland and the Willamette Valley.
A Christmas tree, it turns out, is also a gift that can keep on giving.
Sturgeon retention: Anglers will get a shot at taking a legal-sized sturgeon home from Wednesday (New Years Day) through Jan. 19 in the Columbia River between Bonneville and The Dalles dams.
Retention sturgeon angling also opens Wednesday behind (upriver from) The Dalles and John Day dams and will continue for seven days a week until quotas of 300 and 500 fish respectively are taken.
The bag limit in all three areas is one sturgeon per day and two for the year. Sturgeon must be between 38 and 54 inches fork length to be retained in Bonneville Pool and 43-54 inches upstream of The Dalles Dam.
Retention sturgeon fishing will remain closed throughout the rest of Oregon in 2014.
Biologists said the reservoir behind Bonneville has enough sturgeon to allow 1,100 legals to be taken home. They expect a January retention catch of between 400 and 500 fish. Another retention season is possible in June and the January season might be extended if fewer fish are caught than expected.
Found: If you arrived at your favorite steelhead stream sometime very, very recently and discovered to your horror you didn't finish the trip with the pontoon boat and fishing gear you left the house with…
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On February 7th, Olive Garden wants you to drop off the kids at a My Gym before dining in their restaurant. Olive Garden will pick up the tab for the babysitting if you take your receipt from dinner back to the folks at My Gym.
There are two My Gym locations here in the DFW area. One in Colleyville and one in Frisco.


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"The members of the Bureau's Sex Crimes Unit are dedicated and compassionate professionals who care deeply about the victims involved and make every attempt to conduct thorough investigations," Chief Michael Reese said in a statement. "We remain committed to transparency and are willing to always pursue enhancements that benefit the Bureau and the community in which we serve."
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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- Like many victims whose houses suffered tornado damage, Linda Coleman was confused, flustered and about to give up trying to find out if she qualified for government aid to repair or rebuild.
But the state senator, whose district includes some of Birmingham's most tornado-stricken neighborhoods, kept pushing through the bureaucratic process until she hit paydirt: A $60,000 loan with a 2.56 percent interest rate to repair her damaged Smithfield Estates house.
Over 30 years, payments will be about $270 a month, she said.
Coleman's personal encounter with the federal government has spurred her to urge other victims to stay with the process -- even though she believes it is a complicated path.
"It's been slow and a real learning process, but it's a matter of sticking to it," Coleman said.
Only 4,200 of 43,000 distributed Small Business Administration loan applications have been returned, prompting the federal government to extend the application deadline from this past Monday to July 18. That's also the new deadline to file for a grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
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While 84,000 people have applied for FEMA grants, SBA's low-interest loans have been a hard sell.
There are several reasons for the tepid response: The process is confusing; victims are awaiting word from insurance companies about how much they'll get; and victims don't want to take out a loan.
What most victims don't understand, emergency management officials acknowledge, is how the FEMA and SBA applications are linked. Failing to apply for an SBA loan, even if a victim feels sure he doesn't qualify, may leave the victim out of luck for a FEMA grant. And applying for an SBA loan may give a victim access to a FEMA grant even if he has already received an "ineligibility" letter from FEMA.
Confusing? Coleman thinks so.
Like more than 28,000 Alabamians who applied to FEMA, Coleman received a letter from FEMA telling her she was ineligible due to having private insurance. FEMA will grant money -- up to $30,200 -- for uninsured property damage. FEMA also will pay the difference if a victim's insurance settlement is below damage costs.
When Coleman got the letter, her insurance company hadn't even been to her house, much less given her an indication of how much it would pay for damages.
"Like most people, I put the letter in a pile," she said. "It said I wasn't eligible, and that's the same thing in my community as being denied."
Later, she said, she read the letter all the way through and found that she could appeal. She also looked at the SBA packet that had been sent to her as a result of her FEMA application. The turning point came when she talked to an SBA representative walking through her neighborhood, encouraging people to apply for low-interest SBA loans of up to $200,000 for homeowners.
She applied, and said she has had a pleasant experience with the SBA.
Along the way, she learned that for some people, the SBA application can lead to a re-examination of eligibility for a FEMA grant.
She said she knew a lot of people who didn't want to take on a loan, and she believes they probably didn't understand that they might miss out on FEMA grant money if they don't apply to the SBA.
SBA spokesman Richard Daigle said an SBA application can be a "gateway" to a grant.
"If we are unable to approve a person for a loan, they are automatically referred back to FEMA," he said.
In deciding whether to approve a loan, the SBA looks at a person's ability to pay using a complex formula involving income guidelines and credit history.
Not getting approved "is not the end of the road," Daigle said. "It is the end of the road if you don't return the SBA application."
The SBA has so far approved 933 loan applications for $52 million. This includes loans not only to individuals for houses, but also to businesses, churches and nonprofits, which can receive up to $2 million. Renters can receive up to a $40,000 loan for personal belongings damaged by the tornadoes.
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Dave Waldon, who is living in his storm-damaged house with partial power and a tarp on the roof in Concord, said he doesn't know of anyone who has applied for an SBA loan. And he's in the middle of several blocks of major destruction.
"People don't have money, they don't want to take out a loan," Waldon said. "They get a check once a month and have to decide on paying bills and buying groceries."
With the new deadline extension, though, he might now consider an SBA loan as a backup plan. He got a check from his insurance company, but he said it's not nearly enough to repair his house.
Waldon's situation is the kind of scenario SBA officials point to as a reason to apply.
"You don't have to take the loan," Daigle said. "But don't be caught after the deadline realizing that you need one."
If insurance money comes in after the loan is given, the insurance money can pay down the loan.
Coleman said she's working to get the message out about the value of applying to the SBA. She has gone on radio to urge people to sign up. And she's urging churches in tornado-damaged areas to hold "Sunday Signups" for SBA loans.
"There's three Sundays left to the deadline," Coleman said. "I'm afraid there are going to be a lot of people with a cleared vacant lot and no way to rebuild."Join the conversation by clicking to comment or e-mail Oliver at email@example.com.