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|A few of my favorite cookbooks from 2011. Some are missing because I've loaned them out and people refuse to give them back.
I received more cookbooks in the last 12 months than I can ever hope to review. Below are the ones I did review however which will have a permanent place on my bookshelf. And I've given honorable mention to a handful of books that I love, but for whatever reason didn't have a chance to fully review. They are good enough to mention here though, because I think you'll like them too.EOT; $vvm_blogEntry['entryExcerpt'] = <<
I received more cookbooks in the last 12 months than I can ever hope to review. Below are the ones I did review however which will have a permanent place on my bookshelf. And I've given honorable mention to a handful of books that I love, but for whatever reason didn't have a chance to fully review. They are good enough to mention here though, because I think you'll like them too.EOT; $vvm_blogEntry['entryMore'] = <<
Good to the Grain
Kim Boyce out to create recipes based around whole grain flours like quinoa, kamut, and teff. She tempers these flavors with sweeteners like dark brown sugar, molasses and honey, plus plenty of salt. Boyce doesn't get preachy about the health benefits of whole grains. Heck, with the amount of butter, eggs, sugar, and cream in her recipes, you can tell she values flavor above all else. I appreciated the level of specificity in the directions. Things like turning the sheet pans halfway through the baking time, or looking for a specific color or consistency. Chapters are organized by type of flour, a great layout for such an ingredient-focused cookbook. With Good to the Grain, you can buy a bag of rye flour and use it for Rustic Rye Dough for tarts and galettes, Crumble Bars, and Soft Rye Pretzels, among other recipes.
Ruhlman's Twenty
In Ruhlman's Twenty the "twenty" stands for twenty chapters which identify and describe fundamental techniques Michael Ruhlman feels every cook needs and should use. Alongside the techniques described, he provides recipes that showcase and provide practical application for each fundamental technique. The first chapters include "think," "salt" and "water." Chapters continue for things like sauces, vinaigrettes and poaching, but also ingredients like eggs, butter and onions. Recipes range from citrus cured salmon to butter poached shrimp, and coq au vin to a whiskey sour. Ruhlman has distilled down years of professional training, plus advice and technique from the world's top chefs and delivered them in a concise and practical format that teaches you the fundamentals while giving you practical applications for this knowledge.
In Bitters: A Spirited History of a Classic Cure-All, author--and former Seattleiite--Brad Thomas Parsons aims to stir up a bibulous tale using equal parts history, current cocktail trends and distinctive recipes. Making homemade bitters is becoming a trend for many adventurous home cooks and cocktail enthusiasts. With a book like Bitters, it's easy to get enthusiast about the prospect of getting your hands on some gentian root, high-proof spirits and horehound to cook up an aromatic and tongue tingling brew. With Parsons' extensive research on the subject and his intriguing recipes--including ingredients such as pear, key lime, coffee, pecans, and charred cedar--you are halfway to lining your home bar with little vials of homemade bitters. In addition to recipes for bitters, there are recipes for over 70 cocktails, ranging from the essential bitters cocktails like the Manhattan and Sazerac, to old guard cocktails such as the Seelbach and Martinez and several new cocktails like the Red Carpet Reviver and The Bitter Handshake.
If there is a cult of salt lovers, Mark Bitterman is its guru. Bitterman is a gifted writer who weaves the history of salt and salt production into biographies of salt varieties and their applications. He believes salt is a natural, whole food intimately tied to a place and a way of life. And his mission is to make you think differently about salt, and empower you to make food that is better in every way. Salted includes a guide to over 150 types of salt, with descriptions and suggested uses listed for each salt, along with tasting notes. These are often hilarious, since some descriptors include wild horse sweat, campfire, candied egg, buttermilk, and San Francisco mist.
Craft Beers of the Pacific Northwest
Lisa Morrison's Craft Beers of the Pacific Northwest is a beer lover's guide to Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia. Morrison introduces you to off-the-beaten path breweries like Skookum Brewery in Arlington and Terminal Gravity Brewery in Enterprise, Oregon, in addition to the stalwarts of Pacific Northwest craft brewing such as Deschutes Brewery, Pike Brewing, and Pyramid Brewing. There's advice for "don't miss" beers, along with great background information about the breweries and pubs. In the "Beer 101" section, you get an overview of the brewing process. There is also information about the key factors in making great beer, beer styles, and a helpful glossary.
Cook's Illustrated
The Cook's Illustrated Cookbook--from the producers of the PBS show America's Test Kitchen, magazines Cook's Illustrated and Cook's Country, plus 70 or so cookbooks--is a behemoth of a cookbook containing over 2,000 recipes--for everything from pad thai to pot roast and spring rolls to croissants. Throughout the book are illustrations for how to break down a chicken, devein shrimp, or prepare artichoke hearts. There are also valuable recipe shortcuts throughout. The reason I love this book is that recipes from America's Test Kitchen always work. On average, their recipes take six weeks and 65 tests to develop. In headnotes they explain things like why they chose Yukon Gold potatoes over other varieties for Potatoes Lyonnaise, how to prepare eggplant so it doesn't make your vegetable lasagna mushy, and why using vodka in their foolproof pie crust recipe ensures the flakiest crust.
Kitchen Counter Cooking School
Seattle author Kathleen Flinn spent a year with volunteers of varying ages and social and economic backgrounds who all had one thing in common: None of them could cook. In The Kitchen Counter Cooking School, Flinn recounts the various cooking classes she led with the volunteers, and shares valuable tips, tricks, and recipes. While this isn't exactly a cookbook, each chapter includes "recipes" at the end. Some are detailed ingredient lists and instructions, while others are general techniques. For vegetables, Flinn gives instructions for five different ways to cook vegetables--sauté, stir-fry, roast, steam, and grill--and lists which vegetables work best for each technique. Throughout the book detailed information about nutrition--like how to read labels--and facts about food additives, food waste, and health problems that will make most readers want to break out the vegetable peeler and stockpot before they've even reached the last page.
Momofuku Milk Bar
Christina Tosi, of the David Chang empire of Momfuku restaurants, has just written her first cookbook, Momofuku Milk Bar, where she shares recipes for the baked goods New Yorkers line up for in droves. Things like cereal milk ice cream, candy bar pie and kimchi & blue cheese croissants. She gives you recipes for the "mother doughs" many recipes are built on, "crunches" and crumbs" that make Milk Bar desserts so irresistible, techniques for the chewiest cookies, and permission to experiment, since some of the worst mistakes are the most delicious.
Vij's At Home
Vij's restaurant in Vancouver, B.C., is well regarded as one of the region's best and most inventive Indian restaurants. Owners and husband/wife team Vikram Vij and Meeru Dhalwala released their second cookbook, Vij's at Home, to share recipes tailored for the home cook. Recipes in Vij's at Home are about half vegetarian and half carnivorous. There are half a dozen chutneys, staples like paneer and eggplant raita, vegetarian dishes such as eggplant and paneer pate, and over a dozen vegetable curries. The chapters on poultry and meat include lamb, beef, goat, pork, chicken, and duck. There is even a recipe for roasted crickets. It's in the seafood chapter, since they are in the same family as prawns. Sometimes the recipe headnotes are longer than the recipe, as they often include valuable tips and tricks, serving suggestions, and possible substitutions.
Homemade Soda
In Homemade Soda, author Andrew Schloss has created over 200 recipes for homemade fizzes, cream sodas, herbal elixirs, and more, that range in complexity and difficulty, but deliver on flavor and fun. Homemade sodas can be as simple as pureeing or cooking some fruit and sugar, and adding some store-bought seltzer, or as complex as brewing ginger ale and adding yeast to the bottle to create carbonation. Schloss introduces readers to ingredients like burdock root, birch bark, and sassafras and sweeteners like agave syrup. Most recipes however, call for ingredients easily found on supermarket shelves. The introduction of Homemade Soda includes a history of sodas from the time that water was first carbonated to the rise of bottled sodas like Coca-Cola. Schloss explains the ins and outs of carbonating at home with various yeasts and offers troubleshooting tips.
Food Lovers' Guide to Seattle
Local author Keren Brown has long had her finger on the pulse of the Seattle
restaurant scene, thanks to her popular blog Frantic Foodie and her Foodportunity networking events. In her new book, The Food Lovers' Guide to Seattle, she has encapsulated the Seattle food scene with a compact yet informative book. She includes foodie favorites like Le Pichet and Harvest Vine, but also points readers to discoveries further afield, like Punjab Sweets in Kent and Frost Doughnuts in Mill Creek. The book is divided into five chapters according to the geographic regions of the city: North, Central, South, West Seattle, and Downtown. Each chapter begins with some background and history of some of the neighborhoods in that region. Chapters are further organized by sections for Specialty Stores and Markets, Food Lovers' Faves, and Landmark Eateries.
Good Fish
Local chef and author Becky Selengut's latest book Good Fish is equal parts sustainable seafood primer and cookbook. There are recipes for seafood favorites like crab mac-and-cheese, shrimp cocktail and fish tacos (with wine pairing suggestions for each recipe), tips on buying fresh versus frozen seafood, how to buy and store seafood, and the best way to prepare everything from oysters and salmon, to char, sardines and squid. With Good Fish, Selengut teaches readers how to shop for and prepare fish that has been sustainably raised or caught, and to eat more variety of fish and shellfish. Selengut's skill as a teacher shines through in sidebars on everything from thawing fish to searing scallops. There are even how-to videos at goodfishbook.com with great demonstrations on how to fillet a fish, shuck an oyster, cook and clean Dungeness crab, devein a shrimp, wok-smoke a fish, and more.
Book Larder
OK, so this isn't a cookbook recommendation, but IS worth mentioning in this "Best of" list. Book Larder, a new bookstore at 4252 Fremont Ave., is the city's first cookbook store. Inspired by similar stores in London, San Francisco, and Vancouver, the Book Larder hosts cooking demos, cooking classes, and authors visiting Seattle with new cookbooks. The store is the longtime dream of owner Lara Hamilton and the late Kim Ricketts. Hamilton started working for Kim Ricketts Book Events last year, and has since become the owner of the company. The bookstore is a new venture, but the popular "Cooks & Books" author series has been bringing chefs and cookbook authors to Seattle for years.
Ebooks and Cooking Apps
It probably goes without saying that I LOVE cookbooks. There are more cookbooks in my house than any other kind of book. My sweet husband gifted me with an iPad for my birthday last year though, and I am finding it to be a very useful tool in the kitchen. I just prop it up on the countertop, tap and scroll to access a nearly endless supply of recipes. With more and more great electronic versions of cookbooks available and many great cooking apps. You can read about a few of my favorites, like Epicurious, How to Cook Everything, Allrecipes, Martha Stewart, Ratio, and Gourmet. Since I wrote that piece however, a slew of new apps have been released. I have recently downloaded the Dorie Greenspan app and Mario Batali's app. And other than the \$50 price tag, I hear The Professional Chef app from the Culinary Institute of America is amazing. What are some of your favorite apps?
Honorable Mention:
It was quite a year for cookbooks but I am but one woman with a weekly column. I wasn't able to write full reviews for every cookbook I fell in love with over the last year. I'd like to at least give a shout-out to the following books that I am currently working my way through, and may even be able to review in the coming months. They are definitely worth checking out:
Seasonal Cocktail Companion
Seattle author and cocktail maven Maggie Savarino has a written a cocktail recipe and DIY book with a seasonal approach.
Cook This Now
Melissa Clark's column, A Good Appetite, in The New York Times is a trusted resource for great recipes.
Nancy Silverton, of LA bakery and restaurant fame, has released a cookbook from her famed restaurant Mozza. I love me some Italian food.
Oxford Companion to Beer
This seminal beer book is the definitive resource for suds lovers.
Art of Living According to Joe Beef
Joe Beef is a popular restaurant in Montreal, often referred to as the Paris of North America. This book is packed with hearty, drool-worthy recipes.
Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams at Home
These recipes will change the way you make ice cream at home. Forever. OK, maybe a little dramatic...
Modernist Cuisine
I can't write a column about cookbooks without at least mentioned Modernist Cuisine once. It's an important book for anyone interested in food and cooking, and its future. Thankfully, Seattle Weekly's own Seattle Food Geek reviewed the book here.
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Images on a real estate website show the golliwog in a bedroom of Ridge's Auckland home, which goes to auction on February 22.
The word "Black" is written in vertical lettering on a wall in the same bedroom.
Kellands agent Martin Dobson said the golliwog was not deliberately placed or staged in marketing shots. "I didn't even notice it," he said.
In August the sale of golliwog dolls at Auckland Airport created a furore when Outkast rapper Big Boi tweeted a picture of them.
The toys became associated with the racial insult "wog" in the 1940s and have been banned in some countries.
But Race Relations Commissioner Joris de Bres said it was up to Ridge if she wanted keep golliwogs in her home.
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Thomas Venclova, professor of Slavic languages and literatures at Yale University, will lecture today on "The 'Konigsberg Text' of Russian Literature and the Konigsberg Cycle by Joseph Brodsky," at 4:30 p.m. in Bowl 5, Robertson Hall on campus.
Venclova is the winner of the Lithuanian National Prize for Poetry in 2000 and is the author of several books of poetry and essays. This Eberhard L. Faber Class of 1915 Memorial Lecture is being presented by the Slavic languages and literatures department and by the Council of the Humanities .
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I am not given to "Yardleyesque" type manuscripts here.
Let me think of a way to describe it that fits those.
For starters, I beleive wisdom lies in the word of the Lord.
Progressives beleive wisdom lies in the halls of Harvard!I do beleive that today, it is to the left of left of center.
Progressivism is a general political philosophy advocating or favoring gradual social, political, and economic reform.[1] Modern Progressivism emerged as part of a more general response to the vast social changes brought by industrialization.
It is left of center in the political spectrum and is to be contrasted with conservatism on the right and the revolutionary left, the former generally resisting changes it advocates and the latter rejecting its gradualism.
And I think the movement is towards the "New World Order" & "Social Democracy."
I don't beleive in either.
I beleive in American exceptionalism!!!!!!!
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Right of "center" or Left of "center" all depends on where you stand when you are looking.
Bill Davis
Those folks had a good gig as long as no one was paying attention, had it worked for their candidacy they would just as easily have run as lefty's.
In SD I am considered a moderate: In WA I am a RWer . It's not hard to be to the right of most folks in this state, but you should know that though you have a different starting point.
I strongly agree in personal responsibility.
I believe in the 10 commandments though I haven't been inside a church for worship in ?? years. I pretty much agree with SD's abortion law after they overturned the zealotry.
I think 8 for 8 is a good motto. No one should enjoy the fruits of someone else's labor unless those folks decide they want to share, but the earner's should determine how much.
That's pretty much it - not real hard to take that test .
McCain, Dole (who you left out), McGovern (though he is the litmus test for liberal nuts) were all certified war heroes - McCain being different because his line has been on the public teat for generations. Each of these individuals have received a lot of love from the voters but as time has gone by that has gotten old - none should make any HOF for their legislative endeavors, along with the folks you mention.
Marvin S
Everyone's friend is No One's friend
Someday your life will flash before your eyes. It's your responsibility to make sure it's worth watching!
I'm personally don't like abortion. Neither do I like the shrillness on either side of the argument.
I am for background checks on firearm purchases from gun shows but not for the banning and confiscation of firearms.
I am for personal responsibility and that was a good part of my job when I was a social worker. It was largely aimed at getting people to be responsible for raising their children and to take responsibility for the quality of their own lives. I believe marriage is a serious long term commitment. I've been married to the same woman 45 years.
I despise the take over of our government by the monied interests. A 73,000 page tax code is proof the people are not in control.
I dislike filling out reams of paperwork for every little public action that you and I decide to take.
I believe taking up arms against my country is a treasonous act as defined in the Constitution.
I think that is pretty darn conservative, if you ask me.
I don't want to feed an ugly dog!
Marv--I sent you a PM.
I don't want to feed an ugly dog!
Take abortion. Nothing is Constitution governing it(I think Franco would agree). The arguement of the "right to privacy", is the most illogical arguement I can imagine. Originially ruled, a child could get an abortion WITHOUT parental knowledge or consent. Yet I could not even so much perform and exam or clean their teeth without parnetal consent. Furthermore try to write a child a percription for anything but birth control pills. As far as the schrillness on the subject, the Constitution does guarantee the right to free speach.
As far as social workers helping someone take responsibility, I have no idea how anyone can make someone take responsibility. Only by there being consequences for action can there be any incentive to take responsibility. Last communiction with a social worker went like this. "Well can you give her JUST ONE MORE CHANCE? My response was HELL WILL FREEZE OVER BEFORE SHE GETS IN THIS CLINIC AGAIN!.
You say you despise the takeover of the gov. by monied interests. I despise the takeover of our gov. by ANY SPECIAL INTEREST, be they black, white, union, I think you get my message. I despise those who would single out any minority be they black, white or the top 1% as if they should not enjoy the same rights and freedoms as any other. You cite the 76,000 pages of the tax code as if it only benefits a certain special interest. On the contrary, it only goes to show that the concept of an income tax is a TOTAL FAILURE and is by its very nature unworkable.
You say that you are for background checks at gun shows. I may be wrong but I have heard that they are already required. If they are in fact not then WHAT GOOD DO YOU THINK THEY WOULD DO? Do you really have any facts to show that such action would reduce illgal use of guns. Just another law that does nothing but push paperwork. Being a conservative, I WANT FEWER LAWS, NOT MORE. I want to repeal laws not make more.
Simply put government is not in, nor has ever been, nor will it ever be in the charity business. IT IS IN THE BUSINESS OF RULES, REGULATIONS, TAXES, DEPENDENCE AND CONTROL!! Reagan was so right when he said that if someone showed up and said the were from the Gov. and there to help you, then you should bend over because you were about to get it!
These are what I call conservative views.
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Don't know the process of how you pick the stories, but I have enjoyed them all and wnat to thank and wish the authors a Very Merry Christmas. I know the newsletter did the story thing last year and this year and I have enjoyed and looked forward to seeing them each day. Please keep up the tradition of 12 Days of Christmas. I just read the last entry and it has touched my Christmas spirit strongly and I would like to wish that author and her husband a from the heart Thank you for thier caring and sharing their love of children.
Thank you so much - I'm glad you enjoyed my story and happy that it touched your Christmas Spirit - The stories are all true stories and written from the heart of each and every contributor.
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Broomstix: Story, art, magic and craft!
Story, art, magic and creative activities for families to share and do.
Making Mini Altars
For many, the Summers Solstice is a time for Sun, Sea and Sand, the longest day and the official start of summer in the West--a good time to create a shadow box altar to honor this turn of the wheel.
Before we get started, I want to tell you why shadow boxes are important. They are not only seasonal reminders of our 8 holy days, but they take concentration and focus. By thinking about the elements that go into the box, you are also centered on the meaning of each box. What represents Beltain? Should I include a maypole? What can I use from my environment to honor the gods at Imbolc? (The image below is a Beltane altar--in miniature!--and made from clay, beads and found objects.)
Beyond this, shadow boxes can be your actual altar when there is no room for one that's full size. Some folks live in apartments, or shared houses where space is precious. In those conditions, it may be hard to find so much as a window ledge for magical use. Shadow boxes can sit on a nightstand, a dresser, a shelf, or even be hung on the wall. They can hold many special symbols in a very small space…sacred space. Plus they are simple to do and full of personal meaning.
Have fun creating your own! To create my Summer Solstice mini altar, I used a shadow box purchased at a craft store, but a shoebox or mailing box will do just as well. By using a box you already have, you are also recycling! I went onto the Internet and looked up images for "ocean". I selected one that showed both sea and sand. (If you don't have a computer at home, or one with a color printer, you can use a picture from a magazine. This time of year they are full of ads which feature the shore). The reason I chose my image is that my Irish tradition believes magic is greater "betwixt and between" – something that is neither one thing nor another. A photo that shows land and water is neither land nor water but in-between. (Think of dusk and sunrise the same way – neither night nor daytime, but in-between). I actually made 2 copies of the picture, and used parts of the second to finish the sides of the box. I cut strips that lined up with the full image, making sure that I didn't have sand up where the sky should be, etc. The finished product made me feel like I was looking out of a window.
Next, I found a picture of a sea goddess and placed her on the line between sea and sand. I used Venus, goddess of love, because she was born of the ocean. In my image she's standing on a seashell half. However, you can use any goddess that feels right to you, or no images at all, if you wish.
For my altar, I made something by myself. It wasn't hard. I went to the craft store and bought a small bag of tiny spools, and a small piece of wood tile. Four of the spools, glued to the wood piece, because altar legs, and four more spools because the "pole" holders (actually, blue toothpicks!) around the altar. But! If you have no wood or means to get any, that's OK! Get a stiff piece of cardboard and fold it so that it forms sides. These sides will be the legs. By folding a small ridge at the end of each leg, you'll have a place to glue your altar onto the bottom of your shadow box. You can use a piece of old lace, sheet or even gauze to cover the altar. I glued four "poles" around the altar and decked them with blue ribbons. To me, it represents the four corners of the Earth, sacred space, and the element of "air". (I like using the four elements in my boxes, even if only one is the main theme. In this one I have moss for "earth", seashells for "water", and a nice, large crystal in the background for "fire").
On the altar, in front of it, or around it, you can place any items and symbols that have meaning for you. I live in New Jersey, a place known for its shore, so I used lots of shells – long ones for the God and round ones for the Goddess. I also had little dollhouse bottles, so I used one to represent water and another for salt. If you don't live in a coastal area, shells can be found in any craft store, or you can use items from your own area. Are there white pebbles near your home? You can actually make an altar out of pebbles, and create things to place upon it--from white paper birds to clay or tissue flowers and things found in Nature. You can even write a prayer request on a small piece of paper, roll it up and tie it with string or thin ribbon (just like a scroll) and place IT on the altar. This is something each member of your family can do.
by Katharine Clark, Beltane altar by Claude Swinburne
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>> View the C-SPAN2 broadcast of inauguration events live online
beginning at 8 a.m., Tuesday, Jan. 20 and continuing through the day.
View inauguration across UTSA campuses Jan. 20
By Omar Hernandez
Public Affairs Specialist
(Jan. 16, 2009)--Millions will watch as Barack Obama takes the oath to become the first African-American U.S. president, just one day after Martin Luther King Jr. Day. UTSA students, faculty and staff members can be among those viewers at a number of sites around the campuses beginning at 9 a.m., Tuesday, Jan. 20 and continuing throughout the day. The swearing-in is scheduled for 10:30 a.m.
Today's headlines
- La Prensa Foundation is newest member of UTSA Lone Star Society
- UTSA alumna Jordan Kaufmann wins $50K for new stent-graft start-up
- UTSA begins new way-finding sign installation this summer at Main Campus
- USA Today: UTSA long jumper Tyler Williamson rescues three-year-old boy
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The UTSA Inclusion and Community Engagement Center will host two inauguration viewing sites:
- University Center Denman Room (2.01.28), 1604 Campus (Free lunch will be available at 11 a.m. on a first-come, first-served basis until the supply is exhausted.)
- Student Activities Center, Durango Building first floor, Downtown Campus
The inauguration ceremonies and related events (from C-SPAN2) will air on UTSA information flat-screens and TV monitors with closed captioning, courtesy of the UTSA Office of Distance Learning and Academic Technology (DLAT). Additionally, DLAT will provide the C-SPAN2 feed online.
Note: Because high traffic is expected on the Internet, the stream could be interrupted or slowed occasionally. Windows Media Player is required for viewing. UTSA PCs already have the software installed. For viewing on a Mac, download the software at the Microsoft Web site.
For more information about the viewing sites, contact the Inclusion and Community Engagement Center at (210) 458-4770.


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Slow cooking results in moist pork and tender sweet potatoes swimming in a savory sauce.
Those who shy away from lima beans may like their subtle flavor in this hearty stew. If you prefer, you can substitute butter beans or sweet soybeans.
To ensure even cooking, be sure to cut the pork into pieces of the same size.
The pork and sweet potatoes can be cut the night before, wrapped separately in plastic wrap or plastic food-storage bags and refrigerated.
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It's the 'Automatic Teller Machine' Machine!
It's the 'Automatic Teller Machine' Machine!
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split. - Robert E. Howard
Damn' my feeble brain.
"The dark side clouds everything. Impossible to see, the future is. But this I am sure of - do their duty the Jedi will." --Yoda from Attack of the Clones.
You're lucky. I have to buy premium (for a V-8) and I think I'm at $4.62 per gallon now.
That means, regular would be $4.42.
I doubt there's anywhere in San Diego County that's still under $4 gallon.
I watched a special on CNN which reports that 40% of Brazil's autos operate on sugar cane ethanol (our ethanol is perhaps misappropriately "corn focused.") Perhaps most of our mainland environment is not well-suited to growing sugar, and that crop does better in the Caribbean and the Southern Tropics?
But it was reported that sugar-based ethanol was a better product than corn-based fuel.
GM is also working out the bugs on a 40 mile battery that works in conjunction with an ethanol hybrid engine, which only switches over after the 40 miles. It's a really easy recharge (3 hour), too.
I think that in 5 years, almost none of us will be driving gasoline engine cars.
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gas just hit 4.00 a gal regular here in texas, yes it is getting crazy.
and We're back in 3..2.. ..
[FONT=Arial]"The streets will flow with the blood of the nonbelivers!" Corn Julio[/FONT]
"Same as it Ever was.." repeat as neccessary..
I know they grow a lot of sugar cane in Florida. The rest of the U.S. gets some sugar from there, though some of it is from sugar beets.
So isn't ethynol just fermented vegetables or fruits? and you can make it from just about anything?
Didn't Master-Blaster make methane from pig sh*t?
"Ohh, maxi big da fish! Well dat smells stinkowiff"
"No time to discuss this as a supercommittee.... I am not a supercommittee!"
Gas here just dropped to $3.99 after hovering at $4.17 for a few weeks. I expect it to rise again in the next week.
[FONT=Arial Narrow]MOM, THROW DOWN SOME MONEY! THE ICE CREAM MAN IS COMIIING!!!![/FONT]
Different kinds of veggies / plants make better ethanol than others. Sugar is supposedly the best.
40% of Brazil's cars use sugar ethanol. They drill for their own oil for regular gasoline. The country imports ZERO barrels of foreign oil! Gas prices are affordable across the board there, though ethanol costs less than regular, and is thus preferable to many Brazillians.
They have that bikini wax, and now THIS! A superior country!
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Must be nice to be able to thumb their noses at the rest of the world, especially the Arabs.
It would be nice to see the Arabs have to sell off their golden guilded palaces because nobody wants to buy what they have anymore. Then sell them food which they can't grow themselves at obscene prices, and get our money back. Though with their money they already own a lot of things including power and influence in the U.S.
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Hydraulic Fracturing (Fracking) is one of the most destructive energy processes practiced today. EPA reports show that fracking is the second-biggest contributor of U.S. Greenhouse gases. Contrary to gas and oil company propaganda, this drilling process is unsafe, unclean, and not a form of renewable energy. The truth is fracking is poisoning our air, water, ground water, and now it's poisoning us.
Fracking (or hydraulic fracturing) is a process of drilling for oil and natural gas from shale rock underneath the earth's surface. A high-pressure mixture of toxic chemicals, water, and sand is injected deep underground.
Communities worldwide are concerned about the effects of fracking on their health, land, and water. While it is happening in 34 states across the country (where in some communities residents can actually light their tap water on fire), it is currently unregulated in California, with no warning to communities.
There is no safe fracking:
- Up to 8 million gallons of water are used to frack a single well; one well can be fracked 18 times; this means that one well requires potentially 150 million gallons of water
- 90% of wells in the United States are currently being fracked, that's over 800,000 wells
- 596 chemicals (known carcinogens) are pumped into the earth each time a well is fracked. Many of these chemicals are undisclosed under the trade secret provision protecting energy companies' proprietary "recipes"
- On average, 330 tons of chemicals are used per fracking operation
The millions of gallons of toxic wastewater produced cannot be processed by wastewater treatment. If the steel/cement casing of a well cracks from the pressure the toxins seep into the water aquifers that we drink from. Exploding wells, dwindling ecosystems, toxic sink water, sicknesses and deaths of animals and even humans are not uncommon reports coming from US communities who have been subjected to fracking. The latest report comes from Columbus, Ohio where they experienced 12 earthquakes last December because of local fracking operations.
- Watch a video we created about fracking and community rights
- Hear Shannon Biggs speak at the Global Frackdown
Our work: assisting communities to assert their right to say "NO"
The Community Rights Program is working with communities throughout California (such as San Luis Obispo, Culver City, and San Diego) to pass rights-based ordinances that BAN fracking at the local level and elevate citizens' rights to decide if they want fracking in their community, not corporations or the state.
Fracking is an issue of community rights - not regulations. Under our current structure of law, communities are not allowed to decide whether or not fracking is right for them. We are working to change that by writing new laws that assert community rights and subordinate drilling companies (and state agencies) to local, democratic rule.
The path for these cutting-edge laws has already been paved by dozens of other US communities, including the city of Pittsburgh, PA, who worked with The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) to pass a rights-based law banning fracking in November 2010.


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Family: Laridae, Gulls and Terns view all from this family
Description ADULT Has dark gray back and upper wings, except for white trailing edge and black wingtips with white "window" on outer primary and white tips to others. Plumage is otherwise white. Bill is yellow with red spot on gonys, and eye has yellow orbital ring. JUVENILE Juvenile and first-winter are mottled brown overall with dark primaries and dark tail, and pink-based dark bill. By second winter, has mainly dark gray back, although wing coverts remain mottled brown; plumage is otherwise white, except for dark tail. Third-winter resembles adult, but with some dark feathering on tail and upper wing coverts, and little or no white on otherwise dark wing tips.
Dimensions Length: 24-27" (61-69 cm)
Habitat Common resident on Pacific coast and seldom found inland. Nests colonially on islands and at other times seen on beaches, rocky coasts, or feeding at sea.
Observation Tips Easy to see within its coastal range.
Range Northwest, California, Western Canada
Voice Utters a kyaah call.
Discussion Bulky, large-billed gull. All birds have pink legs. Two subspecies recognized: southern wymani has darker upperparts and paler eyes than northern occidentalis. Sexes are similar.


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Family: Tyrannidae, Tyrant Flycatchers view all from this family
Description ADULT Has mainly graybrown upperparts, darkest on head and particularly noticeable as mask through eye. Wings are dark, but with hint of subtle pale wing bars and pale fringes to inner flight feathers. Tail is blackish. Throat and breast are gray-buff, grading to orange-buff on belly and undertail; underwing coverts are flushed peachy orange. JUVENILE Similar, but plumage is browner overall and wing feather fringes are orangebuff.
Dimensions Length: 7-8" (18-20 cm)
Habitat Widespread and common summer visitor (mainly Apr-Aug) to a wide range of open habitats, including deserts, grassland, and tundra, across much of western North America. Present year-round in southwestern U.S., but most birds winter further south, mainly Mexico.
Observation Tips Easy to see in open habitats.
Range Northwest, Southwest, Mid-Atlantic, New England, California, Rocky Mountains, Plains, Alaska, Western Canada, Texas
Voice Song is a strident, whistling pi'weer, pi'weepÖ; call is a sharp pe-eer.
Discussion Subtly attractive flycatcher with a relatively long tail. Often perches conspicuously on wires or dead branches. Typically catches flying insects during aerial sorties from favored perch, and commonly feeds on insects caught on the ground; sometimes also feeds on berries. Often uses manmade structures for nesting. Sexes are similar.


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The following listing is not comprehensive, and is intended to outline some general subjects in the collection. Please contact the Academy Archives or see Finding Aids for additional information about the collections.
Manuscripts and Special Collections
The Academy Archives' largest and most significant collection of papers is that of Frank L. Boyden, Headmaster of Deerfield Academy from 1902-1968. It contains biographical material, photographs, writings, personal and professional correspondence with hundreds of individuals and organizations, and other material. Some other special collections include the papers of Helen Childs Boyden, wife of Frank Boyden and longtime Deerfield science teacher, the papers of legendary Deerfield hero Thomas Ashley; Orra White Hitchcock's Herbarium parvum, pictum, and various others.
Student Life
Student Life includes class records such as Commencement and Baccalaureate speeches and programs, Convocation material, and reunion related records. Material related to extracurricular life, such as scrapbooks and memorabilia provide a more personal view into the world of Deerfield Academy students. In addition, there are programs, photographs, and other records of performing arts, campus entertainment, and student organizations.
Academic Life
Academic life material includes general information on faculty groups, committees and individuals. Some files include personal papers such as class notes, publications, and correspondence. Other material consists of exams, student papers, records about special programs, and various departmental records.
Buildings and Grounds
Buildings and grounds files contain photographs, architectural drawings, official correspondence and other records which document the growth and change of the campus and its buildings.
The Athletics Collection consists of records related to all sports at the school including photographs, schedules, administrative material and other records.
The Archives houses complete runs of the student newspaper, The Scroll, starting in 1927; the Deerfield Alumni Journal, starting in 1944, and the Pocumtuck yearbooks starting in 1928. The Archives also has many other student newsletters and small magazines that have been published from 1910 to the present, as well as official Academy publications such as course catalogs and view books, and the varied creative and academic writings from our own Deerfield Academy Press.
Administrative Records
Administrative records provide information about specific office functions as well as the overall operation of the Academy. These include records from the Head of School, Dean of the Faculty, Registrar, Alumni and Development, Business Office, and others.
Audiovisual Collection
A unique resource to Deerfield Academy history, the Audiovisual Collection contains hundreds of films, videotapes, reel to reel tape recordings, audio cassettes, vinyl LPs, CDs, and DVDs. Content includes athletics, performing arts, special Academy speakers, and oral histories.


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I am a wife to a very supportive and loving guy I met in college. Over the past 30 years we have lived as a military family in Europe and the US, but retired in the state of North Carolina. We have 3 adult children, one special angel and 4 amazing grandkids. I love crafts dealing with fabric and paper, but am currently enamored with cardmaking. By day, I teach in a private school and by night I play on my computer or with my craft supplies. I am blessed to be a part of two great design teams so that my inspiration is on-going.
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Edsel's Designer Took Flop in Stride
Roy Brown was the lead designer of the Edsel, a much-hyped car of the 1950s that turned into a byword for failure.
Mr. Brown, who died Feb. 24 at age 96, was a longtime Ford Motor Co. employee who also led the design team for the 1955 Lincoln Futura concept car, which became a model for the Batmobile used on TV's "Batman."
But it is the Edsel that became Mr. Brown's most famous legacy, despite—or because of—its epic downfall. The car was unveiled amid an advertising blitz in 1957 in which Ford trumpeted its innovative design and mechanical elements, and projected sales of 200,000 a year or more.
Consumers failed to get the message. Critics compared the model's most distinctive styling element, a vertical grille with a large oval in the center, to a horse collar or a car sucking a lemon. Early models had reliability issues. Perhaps more important, a recession damped demand for midsize cars.
Just over 100,000 Edsels sold over three model years. Mr. Brown's design became one of the scapegoats in a decadeslong debate over what killed the Edsel.
Mr. Brown was transferred to Ford's British operations, where he had success with the Cortina model, and then returned to a senior design position at Ford.
Born in Hamilton, Ontario, and educated in Detroit, Mr. Brown went to work as a stylist for Cadillac in 1937. He joined Ford after World War II, during which he was stationed at Fort Knox in Kentucky.
In the 1950s, Ford worked on what it called internally the "E Car"—E for experimental—to be priced between its low-cost Ford and more upscale Mercury badges. More than 6,000 names were considered for the car before it was named after Henry Ford's son, Edsel.
When Mr. Brown exhibited his first clay model of the car to top management, he was greeted with a standing ovation. But the adulation was short-lived. "The Edsel was oversold by Ford as the revolutionary car of the future," said Matt Anderson, a curator at the Henry Ford, a museum in Dearborn, Mich.
Ford announced it was suspending production in 1959 amid losses estimated at $250 million. Time magazine said "Edsel was the wrong car for the wrong market at the wrong time." Mr. Brown, who proudly drove an Edsel Pacer for decades, liked to call it "Ford's most successful failure."
Legions of Edsel collectors stayed loyal, and starting in the late 1960s formed clubs that now have members in 48 states, Canada and elsewhere. Restored Edsels can go for upward of $100,000.
"The Edsel got a bad rap. It's a beautiful car," said Robert Meyer, proprietor of Edsel World in Fort Myers, Fla., which deals in Edsels and Edsel parts. "Young people today love the outlandish design elements."
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I sampled their wares at Perelandra a month ago. I found out they were moving close by at that time as well. Whoo hoo!Awesome. I had their ice cream at Atlantic antic, and it was so good I took their business card to order from them directly. I never bothered, so I'm happy they decided to move close.
Yep. Having that play table is nice. My 2 run right for it when we go in.It was small; more like a little table with toys and crayons and possibly a foam thingy next too it. It kept my kid occupied for quite a while. And I could eat my icecream in peace.


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I know a few of you in the past have made donations to my cancer walk. I would like to invite you to once again help me out. My goal this year is $2,000.00 and I have reached that the past two years in part from donations from some of the fine forum members here on SSG. Thank you in advance
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New York, NY | November 19, 2012 – The Toy Industry Association (TIA) kicked off the holiday shopping season today by announcing the 84 finalists for the prestigious 2013 Toy of the Year Awards (TOTY). Between now and January 13, 2013, toy lovers of all ages can visit ToyAwards.org to vote for their favorite playthings in 12 categories – from e-Connected and Innovative to Educational and Outdoor toys – and sign up to win exclusive prize packages!
"Each year, TOTY celebrates the creative spirit of the toy industry and honors the joy that toys and games bring to kids of all walks of life," said Carter Keithley, TIA president, at a New York City press conference unveiling the nominees. "We are proud to announce that the TOTY Awards will once again support the inspiring work of the Toy Industry Foundation, which annually delivers one million toys and games to deserving children around the world."
This year's finalists – representing 69 unique products or properties from 46 companies – were selected from nearly 650 nominees submitted for consideration. Nomination committees comprised of academics, journalists, toy trend experts, play therapists, toy inventors and designers, and toy retailers narrowed the field to the slate of finalists that were introduced today.
"The toys in the 2013 TOTY line-up emphasize play value, originality and innovation across all market sectors," said Stacy Leistner, TIA vice president of strategic communications. "To elevate the excitement surrounding the awards, this year we are introducing the 'People's Choice Award.' The winner in this category will be selected exclusively by votes received on our ToyAwards.org website. It will be the public's choice of the most popular plaything of the year!"
Five ballots – for consumers, mass retailers, specialty retailers, media, and TIA members – were launched during the press event and will remain open through January 13, 2013. These ballots will be weighted and used to determine each of the category winners. The overall "Toy of the Year" award will be selected based on votes received from journalists and bloggers, retailers and TIA members. [See the finalists in each category below]
The winners will be announced during the awards ceremony on Saturday, February 9, 2013 as the kick-off to the 110th American International Toy Fair.
2013 Hall of Fame Inductees Join Toy Industry Icons
Also announced today were the next inductees into the esteemed Toy Industry Hall of Fame. Judith (Judy) Ellis, founder and chair of the nation's first baccalaureate program in Toy Design at the Fashion Institute of Technology, and the late Russ Berrie, former chief executive and chairman of Russ Berrie & Company, will be recognized for their outstanding contributions and service to the toy industry during the TOTY Awards ceremony in February. [See related press release for more detail.]
More information about the TOTY Awards (including product images and descriptions), the Toy Industry Hall of Fame, the Toy Industry Association and the Toy Industry Foundation can be found in the online press room www.ToyAwards.org /Press. The TOTY Awards program is the annual Toy Industry Association-administered event in support of the inspiring work of the Toy Industry Foundation.
About the Toy Industry Association (TIA)
TIA is the not-for-profit trade association representing all businesses involved in creating and bringing toys and youth entertainment products to kids of all ages, representing more than 550 companies who account for approximately 85% of domestic toy sales. Toy safety is the number one priority for the toy industry. TIA has a long history of leadership in toy safety including the development of the first comprehensive toy safety standard more than 30 years ago, and working with government, consumers and industry on ongoing programs to ensure safe and fun play. For more information, please visit www.toyassociation.org or www.toyinfo.org.
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Toys developed for boys of any age
An app-cessory or other physical toy that interacts with a smartphone, tablet or gaming device
Animal Planet Wildlands by NukotoysFurby by Hasbro, Inc.Kurio7 by Techno Source, a division of LF Products (a Li & Fung Company)Life of George by The LEGO GroupSkylanders Giants™ by Activision Publishing, Inc.Sphero® by OrbotixStoryBots™ Starring You® StoryBooks by JibJab Media Inc.
Toys that help children to develop special skills and knowledge through play
Children's board, card, CD-ROM or electronic game formats. (NOTE: All electronic games must have an ESRB "Early Childhood" rating)
Toys developed for girls of any age
Toys developed for infant children and toddlers (ages up to 36 months)
Toys that utilize innovative design, technology, or manufacturing processes to enhance play value
Toys designed for outdoor play
Toys developed for preschool-aged children (aged 3-5)
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'I decided to photograph the master of the 'cello from the back, in a partially restored abbey in Prades … lost in his music. For me, the bare room conveys the loneliness of the artist, at the pinnacle of his art, and also the loneliness of exile.' (Karsh)
Lauded for his interpretation of Bach's suites for unaccompanied cello, Casals was the leading cellist of his day, greatly influencing cellists and violinists who followed him. He refused to perform in Hitler's Germany and voluntarily went into exile in Prades in the French Pyrenees (where he instigated a chamber music festival) as his uncompromising stance against the dictatorship of the Franco regime. Finally he resided in Puerto Rico in Central America. He was awarded the United States Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1963. Karsh said he had never photographed anyone before or since with his back to the camera but with Casals it seemed just right.


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No, it's not. I also use it in lakes from my kayak's both casting and trolling. It's just that a 200 - 300 grain shooting head type sink tip will really get down. Because of this on smaller, less flow rivers you will be striping line as it goes down and accross. It is ideal for this. Put it this way if you don't have a Streamer Express yet, I would get one. Everyone who posts likes them. It is specific but you will like it greatly for that. B.T.W. like a shooting head you can cast a country mile with them but, with the handling belly it handles better.
For a regular sink tip you can always just loop on 12' of type 3 or 6 shooting taper material anyways.
I have the SA Wet Tip Express, and it's a great line that casts extremely well. I use it a lot for stream and pond/lake fishing of streamers and it does exactly what you need. It's also great for woolly buggers and nymphs, or really pretty much any flies you want to get down quickly in moderately shallow water. The streamer express has intermediate line in the middle so that you can strip the fly in without having it rise towards the surface too much.
So if you're looking for a strictly streamer line, then the Streamer Express would be a good choice. But if you're looking for a better all-around line, then I'd go for the wet tip express.
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Is this line specifically designed for moving water drifting as in drift boat, canoe etc.? I'm guessing that it sinks as soon as it hits the water. I'm also guessing that this type of presentation could also be made using weighted flies. What do you think? You mentioned that you really enjoyed using this line. Thanks for the input.
I have a couple each of SA Mastery, Streamer Express, full sink, wet tip, etc.
What specifically is your question ?
Are you wading ? Fishing from a boat ?
How large is the river ? flow, cfs ? depth ?
Unless its a very large & deep river or you are fishing from a drift boat you probably don't want the streamer express. I love that line (streamer express) but use the wet tips.........not "wet tip express" the most by far for river smallies and pike in average flows and wading.
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I've enjoyed using my full sink Mastery line in stillwaters and am interested in getting a sink tip for river fishing. I have been considering S.A. 's "Streamer Express" and the "Wet Tip Express".
Is anyone using either of these S.A Lines? I want to purchase a new line for stream fishing and don't quite understand the concept of the Streamer Express. It has an intermediate running line which sounds good for stillwaters or pounding the banks from a moving boat but obviously would not mend very well for nymphing or dead drifting. I love to fish streamers but perhaps my original interest in this line is misplaced and I would be better served by using the Wet Tip Express. Anyone with experience who can offer positive or negative feedback on these lines?
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One of the portions of my job as an academic is to secure funding to enable the research that I would like to happen to be done. I'm lucky to find myself a member of a project that has been funded under the AHRC's "Digital Transformations" banner: my colleague and office-mate Tim Crawford [*] (once part of the Early Music revolution, late of The Parley of Instruments) is leading a team from a number of Universities in a three-year project in "Transforming Musicology".
The project has multiple components; among other things, we'll be looking at methods for digitizing and interrogating historical source materials, including manuscripts and printed music, as well as relating those to modern performance artifacts; we'll be looking at the perception of music in context, trying to understand the compositional use and listener recognition of leitmotives (as in Wagner opera, but also in film scores); and we'll be trying to characterise the effects that social media, broadly considered, have had on the production, consumption and study of music itself.
On this last point, I have funding available for a PhD studentship. The award covers University fees, and provides a tax-free stipend (starting at £15,700) for three years, at the end of which the expectation is that there would be a sufficient body of research to write up as a dissertation for the award of a PhD. The full advert has all the details, but broadly I'm looking for someone who is sufficiently interested in the topic of music and social media to work at it for three to four years, has good computational knowledge and skills (Common Lisp programming experience definitely wouldn't hurt, but isn't necessary) and has training or relevant experience in music or social science. Does that sound like you? Please apply now! (Not sure? I'm happy to discuss the studentship or the project with anyone: just send me an e-mail).
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GLORY 4 Tokyo Moved, Combined With DREAM 18 On NYE
- Written by Rian Scalia
Well, the rumors have been swirling throughout this week since GLORY 3 Rome on what would happen with GLORY 4 Tokyo - Grand Slam. We finally have some concrete information from GLORY's press conference that just happened in Tokyo.
GLORY 4 Tokyo will be moved from its original date of December 2 and will be combined with the DREAM 18 event on December 31. This includes the Grand Slam tournament, which is a 16 man, one night, heavyweight tournament.
Details from the press conference include that the show will be around seven hours and will feature 15 GLORY kickboxing fights and 7-9 DREAM MMA fights. The event will be broadcasted on SkyPerfectTV in Japan, although the format in which it will be broadcasted has not been decided on yet. For the North American broadcast, Marcus Luer is meeting with broadcasters next week and says that GLORY is vigorously pursuing a wide international broadcast of the event.
Anyone who purchased tickets for GLORY 4 Tokyo on December 2 can get a full refund and buy tickets for December 31 from the same distributors.
No fights have been announced yet, but GLORY says that fights will start being announced weekly, soon. Thanks to Tony Loiseleur for the live updates from the press conference.


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Stop The Overuse Of Antibiotics on Factory Farms
A GROWING THREAT TO PUBLIC HEALTH — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that at least 23,000 Americans die every year from antibiotic-resistant bacteria, and warns that the widespread overuse of antibiotics on factory farms is putting our health at risk.
If you are like most Americans, you or someone in your family has been prescribed antibiotics to treat an illness. Maybe it was a simple ear infection, or strep throat. Or maybe it was something potentially life-threatening, like pneumonia or a post-surgery infection.
We assume that when we get an infectious illness the antibiotics our doctors prescribe for us will make us better. But what if they didn't? Medical experts, including from the World Health Organization, are warning that if we don't stop the overuse of antibiotics, they could stop working — with potentially grave consequences for public health.
Despite these warnings, many factory farms are giving antibiotics to healthy livestock every day. Why? Crowded and unsanitary conditions, along with other practices used on factory farms can put animals' health at risk.
But, instead of treating sick animals with antibiotics when they get an infection, many farming operations just distribute antibiotics to all of their animals as a preventative measure. Factory farms also discovered that giving animals a regular dose of antibiotics made them gain weight faster. And now, up to 70% of antibiotics sold in the United States are for livestock and poultry.
Antibiotics are meant to be given in precise doses to treat specific types of infections. When they are used on a daily basis by farming operations, it increases the likelihood that all kinds of bacteria, including the ones that make people sick, will develop resistance, and our life-saving medicines won't work.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, "each year in the United States, at least 2 million people become infected with bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics, and at least 23,000 people die each year as a direct result of these infections." And a recent study found that unless action is taken, these infections would kill more people worldwide by 2050 than cancer does today.
The calls for action from the public health community are growing louder, and more urgent. For instance, World Health Organization officials said: "Without urgent, coordinated action by many stakeholders, the world is headed for a post-antibiotic era, in which common infections and minor injuries which have been treatable for decades can once again kill."
Doctors are also overwhelmingly concerned. In a poll released by WISPIRG and Consumer Reports, 93% of doctors polled said they were concerned about the practice of using antibiotics on healthy animals for growth promotion and disease prevention. In addition, 85% of doctors polled said that in the last year, one or more of their patients had a presumed or confirmed case of a drug-resistant infection.
WISPIRG is organizing the public to push for change. We've collected more than 100,000 petitions from citizens and families, built a coalition of more than 20,000 doctors and members of the medical community, and enlisted the support of farmers who raise their livestock without antibiotics.
Large farming operations and the drug industry have resisted change, and have so far blocked efforts in Congress and from government agencies. But now, we're working to convince big restaurants to pressure these farms to change their practices.
In March 2015, we helped convince McDonald's to stop serving chicken raised on our life-saving medicines. Shortly after, Tyson Foods, a major chicken producer and McDonald's supplier, followed suit. Then, in October, we convinced Subway, with more restaurants than any other chain in the United States, to make a commitments to stop serving any meat raised on antibiotics, starting with chicken by the end of 2016.
These were huge victories to protect public health, but now, other major chains need to take action. That's why we're focusing on KFC — the largest chain of fried chicken restaurants in the world.
KFC recently took a step in the right direction by updating their antibiotics policy, but it's not strong enough to fully protect our life-saving medicines. So we're calling on KFC to go further — and if they do, it could lead to a majority of the U.S. chicken industry raising their chickens without medically-important antibiotics.
Unsurprisingly, the industry is fighting back, trying to confuse consumers with misleading arguments about whether these commitments mean sick animals won't get treatment. But we know that's not true, and not the problem here. The problem is that farms are giving antibiotics to animals in their daily feed as a preventative measure — not just to treat sick animals. That's why our call is for meat raised without the routine use of antibiotics.
With thousands of Americans dying, and millions more getting sick from antibiotic-resistant infections every year, it's time for more chains to follow the lead of Subway, McDonald's, and many others.
If we don't take decisive action soon, we could face a world in which life-saving antibiotics no longer work. This is why we need your help today.
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Family: Picidae, Woodpeckers view all from this family
Description ADULT MALE Has mostly black upperparts with subtle white barring down the center of the back, and on flight feathers and outer tail feather. Face is mainly black but with yellow crown and white stripe behind eye (linking to back) and white facial stripe. Throat and underparts are white with dark barring on flanks. ADULT FEMALE Similar, but crown is speckled white (not yellow). JUVENILE Similar to adult female, but with some dull yellow on crown.
Dimensions Length: 8 1/2" (22 cm)
Habitat Widespread, but generally rather scarce in old-growth pine and spruce forest. Mostly resident, but nomadic to a degree outside the breeding season in search of food, visiting burned woodland with standing dead trees.
Observation Tips Presence detected by the call, or discovery of fallen bark at base of tree.
Range Plains, Western Canada, Great Lakes, Northwest, New England, Alaska, Mid-Atlantic, Rocky Mountains, Southwest, Eastern Canada
Voice Utters a sharp wik or pik.
Discussion Stocky, medium-sized woodpecker with three toesótwo forward-pointing, one pointing backward (apart from Black-backed, all other North American woodpeckers have four toes). Not unduly wary, but unobtrusive and easily overlooked. Feeds mainly on wood-boring beetles, located by drilling and bark-stripping. Sexes are separable with care.