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Organizations we considered were large and small non-profits such as Save The Redwoods, UNEP/The Billion Tree Campaign (now run by Plant for the Planet), American Forests, Arbor Day, Trees for the Future and Trees Forever. There are many others that actively promote sustainable forest management and conservation to protect our ecosystems. Our campaign promised to plant trees, which is what Green Belt Movement will do with our donation.
We had intended to plant trees in the USA, but Africa, once predominantly rainforest like South America is today, is in dire need of help. Less than 5% of their original forests remain due to global demand and exploitation of natural resources. Africa has suffered the most from climate change because of desertification – the rainy seasons are shorter and the droughts more frequent. Not to mention the poverty issue.
The founder, Professor Wangari Maathai (1940-2011) was a Noble Peace Laureate and was awarded the Goldman Prize for her work. She also helped found UNEP and their Billion Tree Campaign.
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*Global warming is the result of excess greenhouse gases and carbon dioxide (CO2) is a major greenhouse gas. As trees grow carbon dioxide is removed from the air, storing carbon in the trees and soil, while releasing oxygen into the atmosphere.
**Forests clean our atmosphere by filtering airborne particles, CO2 and other greenhouse gases.


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A "regional economic power." That's how ANIMA, the Euro-Mediterranean Network of Investment Promotion Agencies encompassing 70 governmental agencies and international networks, described Israel in its January 2010 Mediterranean Investment Map. The report analyzed the economies of the 27 European Union countries as well as 9 "partner countries."
And who can argue. Touting an annual GDP growth rate around 5% for the years 2004 to 2008, Israel was also ranked 27 out of 132 countries in the World Economic Forum's Global Competitiveness Report last fall. It ranked 9th for innovative capacity.
In the 2008 World Competitiveness Yearbook by IMD, Israel comes in 2nd for the number of scientists and engineers in the workforce. No other country in the world spends more on research and development as a percentage of GDP than Israel. Since the year 2000 it has hovered around 4.5%, or twice the average of OECD member countries.
I am not an economist, but I have to wonder why US taxpayers are doling out $3 billion a year in direct military aid to a "regional economic power." In August 2007, a Memorandum of Understanding between the US and Israel was signed committing the US to give, not loan, $30 billion to Israel over 10 years. US taxpayers are directly funding close to 20% of Israel's annual defense budget. No wonder Israel is able to invest in R&D!
To help put these figures into perspective, a new web site was launched last week that illustrates how your state is contributing to the Israeli defense budget, and what could have instead been done with the money. At www.aidtoisrael.org I learned that my home state of Texas will give more than $2.5 billion over the ten year period. For the same amount, over 2 million people could have been provided with primary health care.
At the 2007 signing ceremony for the $30 billion giveaway, then Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns, stated, "We consider this 30 billion dollars in assistance to Israel to be an investment in peace." But peace isn't exactly what we've gotten for our money.
Instead our tax dollars continue to pay for advanced weaponry used to maintain an illegal occupation, culminating a year ago in the Israeli attack on Gaza with US-made F-16 fighter jets, US-made Apache helicopter gunships, US-made naval combat ships, US-made hellfire missiles, US-made tanks and armored personnel carriers, and US-made white phosphorus shells.
Every cent we give Israel is in violation of the Foreign Assistance Act, which specifically prohibits aid to countries that "engage in a consistent pattern of gross violations of internationally recognized human rights." Sales of US weaponry made to Israel are in violation of the Arms Export Control Act, which restrict their use to legitimate self-defense.
But weapons we do continue to sell, and aid we do continue to give. And if that weren't enough, we also provide Israel with special conditions. Unlike all other countries receiving military aid from the US, Israel receives its entire bundle in a lump sum during the first 30 days of the fiscal year. The money sits in an interest bearing account at the Federal Reserve, the interest going to Israel, of course, until 74% of it is funneled back to US weapons manufacturers in the way of purchases for the Israeli Defense ministry. Israel is free to use the remaining 24% to purchase "in house" weapons systems, an arrangement afforded to no other recipient of US military aid.
While we may here some calls to freeze (or limit or curb) settlement construction, and as of late, for an end to the siege of Gaza, one subject no one on Capitol Hill dares to touch is this massive military aid package given to Israel. The new self-proclaimed "pro-peace pro-Israel" lobby, J-street, has said the subject is not up for discussion.
But some are starting to question our "special relationship" with Israel.
On February 9, Intelligence Squared, the British debate forum, held a debate in New York City - home to the country's largest Jewish community - asking if the "US should step back from its special relationship with Israel." Prior to the start of the debate, audience members cast their votes electronically, with 39% in favor, 42% against and 25% undecided.
Arguing for the motion were British author and New York Times columnist Roger Cohen and Colombia professor and author Rashid Khalidi. Former US ambassador to the EU Stuart Eizenstat and former Israeli ambassador to the US Itamar Rabinovich argued against. Cohen spoke of US aid to Israel:
"What also makes the relationship special is the incredible largess that the United States shows towards Israel, over the past decade, $28.9 billion in economic aid. And on top of that, another $30 billion in military aid, that's almost $60 billion. That's 10 times the GNP of Haiti that is being gifted to a small country. Now, I ask you, to what end is this money being used. Ladies and gentlemen, we would submit that it ends often inimical to the American interest."
Following the debate, the audience once again voted on the resolution, this time with a slight majority in favor, 49% for, 47% against and 4% undecided.
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This winter, the West has been slammed by wet weather. Heavy rains have pummeled California, and the Rocky Mountains are getting buried with snow.
That's good news for the Colorado River, where that moisture hints at a possible springtime boost for massive reservoirs that have been crippled by drought. Climate scientists, though, say the 40 million people who use the river's water should take the good news with a grain of salt.
Snow piled high in the Rockies is crucial for the Colorado River — a water lifeline for people from Wyoming to Mexico in an area commonly referred to as the Colorado River Basin. Before water flows through rivers, pipelines and canals to cities and farms across the region, it starts as high-altitude snow. In fact, more than two-thirds of the river begins as snow in Colorado. This year, snowfall totals are well above average, but climate scientists say the winter is far from over and conditions could change bringing less precipitation.
"Everybody is so eager to make an early call on this," said Brad Udall, a water and climate researcher at Colorado State University. "Invariably, you'll get caught with your pants down if you think you know what's going to happen."
The Colorado River is in crisis, shrinking at the hands of climate change. A 23-year "megadrought" has created the region's driest conditions in 1,800 years. That has created a yawning supply-demand imbalance for a multibillion-dollar agriculture sector and large cities — such as Denver, Phoenix, Salt Lake City, Las Vegas and Los Angeles — that depend on the river's water.
More eyes are now turning to the snow-laden mountains that keep the river flowing and help to fill the nation's two largest reservoirs, Lake Mead and Lake Powell. Those reservoirs have dropped to historic lows — jeopardizing hydropower for millions of people and threatening the need for costly modifications to the towering dams that hold the water back.
Meanwhile, mountain snow totals are off to a promising start. Around Snowmass in Colorado the snowpack is 130% of average for this time of the year. The Roaring Fork watershed, which includes Aspen and Snowmass, makes up only 0.5% of the landmass in the Colorado River Basin but provides about 10% of its water.
In other nearby mountain ranges, snow totals are between 140% and 160% above average. Even if those numbers persist until spring, the severity of the Colorado River's drought means many more years of heavy snow are needed to make a serious dent in the low water levels.
"It's great to see a big snowpack," Udall said. "We would need five or six years at 150% snowpack to refill these reservoirs. And that is extremely unlikely."
The long view
A string of wet years is unlikely because of rising temperatures driven by climate change, Udall said. Since 1970, temperatures in the Colorado River Basin have gone up by three degrees Fahrenheit. Those higher temperatures have already caused a 15% drop in streamflows across the region.
Warming has driven a raft of worrying environmental changes across the region. In recent years, scientists have sounded the alarm about soils drying out. The ground has become parched and soaks up snowmelt before the water has a chance to reach the places where people divert and collect it.
Already, Udall said, winters with 90% of average snowpack have led to only 50% spring runoff because thirsty soil acts like a sponge.
Even the concept of "average" has changed due to warming temperatures. In spring 2021, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shifted how it calculates averages for all of its data.
Every 10 years, NOAA moves the three-decade window that it uses for averages. But the rapidly accelerating effects of climate change mean the current window from 1991 to 2020 sticks out from previous 30-year periods because it includes the hottest-ever period in America's recorded history.
Because of that, snowpack data tells a somewhat deceptive story. For example, if snowpack is at 130%, the number would appear substantially lower if current totals were compared to normal snowpack going back further than 30 years.
"Man, we need to continue to plan for the worst here," Udall said. That's what we've seen the last 23 years. That's what these warming temperatures continue to tell us."
Tough to plan
Planning has become much harder as shifting baselines make the future of water availability less predictable.
Cynthia Campbell, who has advised the city of Phoenix on water law for over a decade, knows this firsthand. The nation's fifth-largest city gets more than one-third of its water from the Colorado River.
"Our worst case scenario, from our perspective, is that we have to be in the habit of annually looking to the mountains to see what is the precipitation," Campbell said.
She said reservoirs should function as a buffer against the fluctuation of dry years and wet years. But with reserves shrinking to never-before-seen lows, cities around the arid West can only plan one year at a time.
"That's just not enough time to make changes that you would have to make," Campbell said with a nervous chuckle. "But that is where we are. So, in some ways, it might be our worst nightmare."
Campbell and Phoenix residents are not alone in their hand-wringing.
As supply shrinks, the seven states that use water from the Colorado River have been caught in a standoff over how to reduce demand.
Water allocation across the basin is governed by a 1922 legal agreement that hasn't been substantially rewritten to meet the needs of a changing region. Some experts suggest that agreement — the Colorado River Compact — should be replaced to meet the modern demands of a region with sprawling fields of crops and booming urban populations.
As the drought has worsened, states have agreed on a patchwork of tweaks to prop up reservoirs and stave off catastrophe, but they have been unable to reach a deal for larger, more permanent cutbacks of water use.
At meetings about the river's future, delegates from the seven states — including Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and California — are quick to talk about the need for a collaborative solution to their collective problem but are reluctant to commit to sacrificing portions of their own shares.
The current managing guidelines for the river expire in 2026, and states are mostly focused on drawing up a new agreement before then. Policy analysts and water managers have hinted that major cuts will have to come from the agricultural sector, which uses more than 70% of the Colorado River's water.
Making water supplies last
In the meantime, cities have had to get creative to stretch finite quantities of water for their growing populations. Those efforts have not been changed by this winter's strong mountain snow or the rain that drenched California for days, causing major flooding and widespread damage.
"One storm is not going to change the game whether we get a wet year or not," said Adel Hagekhalil, general manager of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. "We need to continue to focus on building the infrastructure we need to create local water supply."
The district supplies drinking water to 19 million people from north of Los Angeles to the Mexican border. The agency has undertaken a number of ambitious projects to reuse water that is already in the system.
One proposed facility in Carson, California, would clean up sewage to make it drinkable. The treatment setup is projected to cost $3.4 billion to build. Once completed, it would cost $129 million to operate each year. That new facility aims to redirect up to 150 million gallons back into the municipal water supply in and around Los Angeles.
Water agencies in Nevada and Arizona plan to pitch in, helping pay for the project in exchange for some of Southern California's water. The hefty price tag is just one example of the many new infrastructure costs cities may incur due to climate change.
"We have to be ready," Hagekhalil said, "And it will be on us if we're gonna take the right actions today to invest and build the necessary infrastructure."
Elsewhere around the Colorado River Basin, governments have teased the idea of investing in other ways to augment existing water supplies. Last year, Arizona's then-governor Doug Ducey proposed a deal with Mexico in which the state would fund an ocean desalination plant on the Gulf of California. That would allow Mexico to use the newly-desalted water in exchange for some of Mexico's share from the Colorado River.
Inventive solutions like wastewater reuse and desalination have generated buzz among denizens of the region's parched cities. But water policy analysts say none of them can serve as a silver bullet for those who depend on the shrinking Colorado River. Instead, they say, significant cutbacks to demand are the only way to meet the challenges posed by climate change's impact on water supplies.
This story is part of ongoing coverage of the Colorado River, produced by KUNC in Colorado and supported by the Walton Family Foundation. KUNC is solely responsible for its editorial coverage.
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Brexit may be causing all sorts of uncertainty in Britain but it doesn't seem to be putting off foreign investors.
In a survey on corporate deal-making published Monday, consulting and accounting firm EY says Britain is the top investment destination in the world for the first time in the report's 10-year history — overtaking the United States, which has held the top spot since 2014.
The pound's fall since the June 2016 vote to leave the European Union has made British assets cheaper, but Steve Krouskos, a global vice chair at EY, notes Britain also remains an "open environment for foreign investors" even in the midst of the Brexit chaos. That culture, he said, is reinforced by the English language, a skilled workforce, and a strong technology base.
Those long-standing strengths have helped Britain recover as a place to do business since the shock of the June 2016 referendum, which saw the country narrowly vote to leave the EU. With so much uncertainty surrounding the future of the British economy, the country slumped down EY's rankings. In the October 2016 survey, Britain was as low as seventh.
There have been a number of high-profile investments in Britain over the past year, including Comcast's purchase of satellite broadcaster Sky for around 30 billion pounds (currently $39 billion) and Coca-Cola's takeover of Costa Coffee for near 4 billion pounds ($5.2 billion).
Krouskos said he hasn't encountered executives who want Britain to crash out of the EU without a deal and that the remainder are "split down the middle" between those who want the country to leave the bloc smoothly with a deal and those who want Brexit stopped.
Britain's exit from the EU, originally scheduled for March 29, has been delayed until Oct. 31, though it could happen sooner should British lawmakers back the withdrawal agreement that Prime Minister Theresa May negotiated with the EU. Following three defeats in Parliaments, May opted to ask for an extension rather than crash out of the bloc, a scenario that many politicians and business leaders say could lead to a deep recession as tariffs are slapped on British exports and other restrictions are imposed on trade.
EY found that global interest in mergers and acquisitions is at a 10-year high as managers try to adapt to technological change, with 59% of companies planning a deal in the next year, up from 52% a year ago.
The improvement appears at odds with a slowdown in the global economy. Last week, the International Monetary Fund cut its global growth forecast for this year to 3.3% from 3.5%, largely because of trade tensions, particularly between China and the U.S.
Krouskos said the mood among executives is better than the growth forecasts suggest.
"The increase in acquisition appetite is a clear indication that executives are focused on their pursuit of growth, underpinned by high expectations of their own future performance," he said.
"There is uncertainty in the market, but for many, disruption is driving M&A rather than stalling it — deals are a means to reshape portfolios at an accelerated pace and futureproof businesses."
EY surveyed 2,900 senior executives across 47 countries in February and March 2019.
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Scientists who study mushrooms often rely on help from talented amateurs. They outnumber scientists and are more likely to be in the right place at the right time. NPR science correspondent Richard Harris has this story of a photographer who helped rediscover a mushroom that hadn't been seen in the United States for more than a century.
RICHARD HARRIS, BYLINE: The man is Taylor Lockwood. We meet in the hills of West Virginia, where he has been prowling the countryside in a van he has converted into a camper, a photo studio and a workshop.
TAYLOR LOCKWOOD: You can see I've been over the hill with all the dust on my car. But I have my gear, workshop...
HARRIS: And a pullout kitchen, stove and pantry included. More about his workshop and his inventions in a minute.
LOCKWOOD: I'm in my Edison mode.
HARRIS: First, the back story. Growing up, Lockwood spent the 1970s playing electric violin and other instruments in bands out West. He worked as a contractor. And in 1984, while living on the Mendocino Coast in California, he fell in love with mushrooms.
LOCKWOOD: Outside my cabin were these beautiful mushrooms. And it was as if these mushrooms looked at me and said, Taylor, go out and tell the world how beautiful we are. And I said, OK, I'll do it.
HARRIS: Lockwood bought camera gear and became passionate about photographing mushrooms. One of his images is even on a U.S. postage stamp. He says sometimes he'd dig a hole next to a mushroom for his camera to get just the right angle.
LOCKWOOD: I wanted to see them as a frog would.
HARRIS: His passion for mushroom photography has taken him around the world. And what he has found and photographed doesn't just have artistic interest. He, like many other amateur mushroom hunters, works symbiotically with the professionals, the mycologists who study fungi.
LOCKWOOD: I might have hundreds or thousands of photos of things that are unnamed or unknown or, you know, might be known some other continent.
HARRIS: He made one of those memorable discoveries here in the Monongahela National Forest. A few years back, he came across something he'd never seen before - a mushroom that looked like tiny fingers wearing off-white gloves.
LOCKWOOD: Like most mushrooms, I saw it as natural beauty, and that's why I took a picture of it.
HARRIS: He posted that photo on a website called mushroomobserver.org, where professional and amateur mushroom experts meet to crowdsource information. This site is the brainchild of Nathan Wilson, another amateur who started the project in 2006 as a way to display his own mushroom pictures.
NATHAN WILSON: I told my friends about, it and they told their friends about it, and it has been successful beyond my wildest dreams. And it's got millions of images on it from over 100 countries, and it's great.
HARRIS: And it's not just pretty pictures; it's a valuable scientific resource.
WILSON: There are many more amateurs than there are professionals, and the professionals often end up relying on amateurs - or, quote, "amateurs."
HARRIS: Expert amateurs like Taylor Lockwood, who provide not just images but data. His West Virginia photo caught the eye of Amy Rossman, who, for many years, ran the federal government's National Fungus Collection. She recognized the distinct form of this mushroom but found only three records of it growing on plants in the United States.
AMY ROSSMAN: Two on rhododendron. That was from 1888 by Roland Thaxter in Tennessee. And 1915 was one from Maine. Those are the three in there.
HARRIS: A sample of this rare mushroom made its way to a graduate student in Scotland, who ran a DNA test on it and verified its identity, hypocreopsis rhododendri. Rossman says it's not just rare, it appears to have a bizarre lifestyle. It doesn't grow directly on wood. It's a parasite that lives only on another species of fungus that forms a crust on branches.
ROSSMAN: But the crust fungus itself is not very big, so you'd wonder, how could you get a parasite that's so much bigger than the thing it parasitizes?
HARRIS: One hypothesis is that it essentially uses the crust fungus as a straw and sucks up nutrients through it. It's hard to study since most of the time, fungi like the finger mushroom live hidden as tiny threads that run through their hosts.
ROSSMAN: They're not like plants. They don't come up at the same time every year, and so sometimes it can be decades between when a fungus fruits.
HARRIS: That is when it produces a mushroom cap. Rossman says that's why it's so valuable to have people like Taylor Lockwood poking around through the forest.
LOCKWOOD: So I'm going to wander over towards the...
HARRIS: He gave me a flavor of what it's like by taking me back to the spot where he found the specimen a few years back.
LOCKWOOD: Who knows where it could be at this point. But, you know, we can look around.
HARRIS: Yeah, let's see. Maybe there's something. As you said, this is - we're not exactly mushroom season, but my feet are sinking into the ground here, so it tells me at least it's wet.
LOCKWOOD: Oh, yeah, it's wet. It's wet. Oh, here's something.
HARRIS: He reaches down to get a close look at a downed branch that has turned a color you don't usually see in wood.
LOCKWOOD: This blue-green is chlorociboria. It's not fruiting now, but it shows the blue-green color of the fungi in here. And when it has little fruit bodies coming out, they're beautiful, blue-green little ears.
HARRIS: Lockwood has been drawn back to this spot for his latest effort. And this gets back to the story of his portable workshop. A few years ago, he decided still photographs weren't enough. He wanted to make time-lapse videos of mushrooms.
LOCKWOOD: When I do time-lapse, you find that there's lots and lots of life going around the mushroom - insect life and worms and all kinds of things like that.
HARRIS: His art involves not only photographing mushrooms over time, but also putting his camera in motion to create otherworldly videos. At a campsite, he sets up a curved track made out of PVC plumbing pipe and puts a motorized wooden camera platform on top.
LOCKWOOD: This is the dolly, and it's all handmade stuff - my little inventions.
HARRIS: He plugs the motor into some circuitry he's built so the platform moves at something slower than a snail's pace while the camera is set to take a photo every six seconds.
LOCKWOOD: So I'm just going to set this up and leave it. I can just leave this. And I'm going to put a marker here, and we'll just let it go.
HARRIS: This is a test run to try out new gear he's built. It may be weeks or even months before he finds the perfect mushroom to video. But at 74 years old, he's a patient man and happy to be out in the woods making discoveries and making beautiful images.
LOCKWOOD: I love the science, but, you know, I'm an artist at heart. And I love doing this. I love finding beautiful mushrooms.
HARRIS: And sometimes beauty and science intersect. Richard Harris, NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Thursday, November 24, 2005
Happy Thanksgiving!
A couple of weeks ago my sister-in-law Stephanie mentioned a pie she'd heard advertised on the radio that really appealed to her. It was an Apple Pear Chardonnary Pie. A week or so later when I was planning what to bring to their house for Thanksgiving dessert, I decided I would look for a recipe for something similar. Only problem was, what I remembered her saying was pear and hazelnut.
So I went looking on the web and found a number of recipes for pear and hazelnut tarts. I was thinking, "boy, this seems to be the flavor pairing of the moment". In fact, I found a bakery review that talked about the most popular item being the pear and hazelnut tart. I settled on a recipe for Hazelnut Frangipane Pear Tart which I originally found on an Australian recipe site, but I've linked to the Food Network recipe, which I found when looking for the Pate Sable recipe and which I think is the original.
As Bob said, when I was describing what had happened, this was serendipity. I went looking for something I thought I'd remembered (but I hadn't) and never would have dreamed up on my own (but I did) and found a really wonderful recipe that I will surely make again.
The recipe is not that difficult. The pate sable is easy to work with and making the frangipane is a snap. The hardest part is neatly slicing the pears and the most nerve-wracking part is removing the still hot tart from the pan (you must remove the ring and the bottom). I did lose one good-sized chunk of crust during this exercise, but I stuck it back on with a little jam and you could hardly tell.
This was my first experience with frangipane and I am sold! This variation using hazelnuts is really wonderful - the toasted hazelnuts are so fragrant and the roasted pears on top are the perfect complement to the sweet, nutty confection below. A nice little touch in this recipe is the thin layer of raspberry jam between the crust and the frangipane.
You know what the best part was? Stephanie bought that Apple Pear Chardonnary Pie - but she liked my tart better! :)
14 comments:
- Nic said...
Oh my, Cathy. That looks stunning!
- November 24, 2005 2:05 PM
- Monica Bedana said...
Hi, Cathy! I'm italian but I live in Spain, in Salamanca, a city with an important university and a lot of american students in its programmes of spanish as foreign language. My husband is a professor at the university and every year he celebrate the Thanksgivig with his student. I LOVE this celebration and your gastronomy in this occasion. I'm impatiently waiting for this cake's recipe! Muchos besos
- November 24, 2005 3:12 PM
- Cathy said...
Hi Nic - thanks! I have to admit I was thrilled with how it turned out. It was pretty and delicious!
Hi Cannella - I'm not sure how traditional this is for Thanksgiving, but with pears and hazelnuts it certainly is seasonal. I love the traditional foods for this holiday too - though I expect you'll find many different ideas of what is traditional! We usually have turkey with stuffing, mashed potatoes, butternut squash, rutabega, sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce and than pumpkin and/or minced meat pie(s) for dessert. This year we ate out at a restaurant (we just had dessert at my brother and sister-in-law's) and I missed many of my old favorites. I think I'm going to have to buy a big butternut squash this weekend! - November 24, 2005 9:36 PM
- Reid said...
Hi Cathy,
Happy Thanksgiving to you! That tart looks amazing! I can't believe it was as easy to make as you make it sound. Wonderful photo. =) - November 25, 2005 2:57 AM
- Cathy said...
Hi Reid! Happy Thanksgiving to you too and thank you! It really isn't difficult, but it does take a little time and makes a mess in the kitchen (you use the food processor and the mixer). It was worth it though!
- November 25, 2005 6:59 AM
- Stephanie said...
Cathy, your tart looks divine; clearly, you did an amazing job!
Hope you had a good Thanksgiving! - November 25, 2005 11:21 AM
Cathy, it's gorgeous!! Hope you're having a pleasant day after T-Day!!
- November 25, 2005 12:03 PM
- Nic said...
Hi again, Cathy. I put up a picture of your tart on Slashfood as a "food porn" entry, just fyi!
- November 25, 2005 3:51 PM
- Nupur said...
What a beautiful dessert! A treat for the eyes...Happy Thanksgiving weekend, Cathy.
- November 25, 2005 4:22 PM
- Joycelyn said...
hi cathy, happy thanksgiving! and what a fabulous looking tart - of course everyone preferred it ;)
- November 25, 2005 4:24 PM
- Cathy said...
Hi Kat - I think you'll really like it - let me know if you do make it!
Hi Stephanie - Thanks so much Stephanie! I did have a very nice Thanksgiving - hope your was great too! I have fallen behind on my blog reading, but I imagine you've got some great posts on your Thanksgiving dinner!
Hi Alice! - Thank you!! I had to work today, but it was a quiet day and I was able to quite a bit done. I have Monday off, so I've got a nice long weekend ahead!
Nic - thanks so much! I didn't realize you wrote for them. Someone there had posted the Greenwich Village Brownies a while back, so I became aware of the site then, but keep forgetting to check it out some more. I'll have to do that now that I know you're involved!
Hi Nupur! Thanks very much! I will enjoy my weekend - you do the same!
Hi Jocelyn! Thank you! Happy Thanksgiving to you as well. Actually, not everyone tried it. Some were just too stuffed and one of my brothers said he didn't like pears (?!?!?). Oh well - more for the rest of us! :) - November 26, 2005 12:02 AM
- tanvi said...
Goodness me, that looks divine! Pear tart is probably my favorite sort of tart, but I've never made it at home- seeing your tart has made me think that I must remedy that immediately! Happy (belated) Thanksgiving, Cathy!
- November 26, 2005 8:49 PM
- Cathy said...
Hi Tanvi - thanks so much! Hope you had a very happy Thanksgiving! You should give it a try - it really is not difficult and is well worth the effort.
- November 27, 2005 12:00 AM
- pinknest said...
i just made a hazelnut frangipane apricot tart and LOVED it! i think you might, too. yours looks beautiful!
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Brussels Sprouts and Parsnips with Balsamic Honey Glaze
Brussels Sprouts and Parsnips with Balsamic Honey Glaze
Makes 6 servings
Free From gluten and all top 8 allergens
Green vegetables are thought to bring affluence in the New Year, as they are the color of money. To triple the prosperity, I've combined them here with golden parsnip "coins" and finished with a luxurious sauce. Happy New Year!
2 lbs medium to large brussels sprouts
1 1/2 lbs parsnips, peeled and sliced into 1/2-inch thick rounds
6 tbsp + 1 tsp olive oil, divided
1 tsp kosher salt
1/2 tsp freshly ground black pepper
2 tbsp finely minced shallot (about 1 shallot)
1/4 cup balsamic vinegar
1 tbsp honey
1. Position one rack in the bottom third of oven and a second in the middle. Preheat oven to 450° F. Line 2 large baking pans with aluminum foil.
2. Trim any brown ends off sprouts and remove yellowed leaves. Cut each sprout in half lengthwise.
3. In a large bowl, combine sprouts and parsnips with 6 tablespoons of oil, salt and pepper, and toss well to evenly coat. Divide the seasoned vegetables between the prepared pans and spread into a single layer.
4. Place a pan on the bottom oven rack and the other on the middle. Roast 15 minutes. Stir vegetables, return to the oven, switching rack positions. Roast 10-15 minutes, until sprouts are crispy and browning and parsnips are turning golden.
5. Meantime prepare glaze by heating 1 teaspoon oil in a small pan over medium heat. Add shallots and cook 2 minutes, stirring often, until starting to brown. Add vinegar and honey, increase heat to medium-high and cook at a rapid simmer, stirring often, until syrupy and reduced by half, about 4 minutes.
6. Transfer roasted vegetables to a serving bowl, drizzle with glaze and toss to coat. Serve hot.
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Friday, January 25, 2013
Pallet Chicken Coop: Part One
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- Anonymous said...
I would love to have chickens! We are planning on getting out of the city (soon I hope) and having a small farm, with garden, possibly a pig or two, a few cows and chickens. Can't wait to see the rest looks like it is coming along great!
- January 25, 2013 at 9:58 AM
- Paula@SweetPea said...
This is such a fun project. I look forward to seeing your finished coop.
- January 25, 2013 at 11:04 AM
- Richella Parham said...
This is SO COOL! I look forward to seeing the finished product. And I'll be really interested in hearing about your adventures with your feathered friends! :)
- January 25, 2013 at 1:41 PM
- Foursons said...
I love that this is costing you next to nothing to make. I'm also very jealous of that enormous backyard you have!
- January 25, 2013 at 4:10 PM
- Myya said...
What a fun project. Nothing beats free supplies. Yaaay!
- January 26, 2013 at 2:22 AM
- Anonymous said...
I love your idea to use pallets! They are usually free and give an artsy look to things you create with them. I raise chickens too. Can't wait to see how it all comes together
- January 26, 2013 at 3:40 PM
- Cuevas77 said...
Check with your insurance carrier for a discount. When I was shopping around last year I was offered a "farmers" insurance because I had pig (we raise one each year and butcher, he gets fed any leftovers from the me, my mom and friends houses) and some fruit trees on my property. It was a nice discount!
- January 26, 2013 at 6:40 PM
- Lexie Loo, Lily, Liam & Dylan Too said...
What a fun project!
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The Meeting. 1* Naomi had a powerful relative named Boaz,a through the clan of her husband Elimelech. 2* Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, "I would like to go and glean grain in the field of anyone who will allow me." Naomi said to her, "Go ahead, my daughter." 3So she went. The field she entered to glean after the harvesters happened to be the section belonging to Boaz, of the clan of Elimelech. 4* Soon, along came Boaz from Bethlehem and said to the harvesters, "The LORD be with you," and they replied, "The LORD bless you." 5Boaz asked the young man overseeing his harvesters, "Whose young woman is this?" 6The young man overseeing the harvesters answered, "She is the young Moabite who came back with Naomi from the plateau of Moab.b 7* She said, 'I would like to gather the gleanings into sheaves after the harvesters.' Ever since she came this morning she has remained here until now, with scarcely a moment's rest."
8Boaz then spoke to Ruth, "Listen, my daughter. Do not go to glean in anyone else's field; you are not to leave here. Stay here with my young women. 9Watch to see which field is to be harvested, and follow them. Have I not commanded the young men to do you no harm? When you are thirsty, go and drink from the vessels the young people have filled." 10Casting herself prostrate upon the ground, she said to him, "Why should I, a foreigner, be favored with your attention?" 11c Boaz answered her: "I have had a complete account of what you have done for your mother-in-law after your husband's death; you have left your father and your mother and the land of your birth, and have come to a people whom previously you did not know. 12d May the LORD reward what you have done! May you receive a full reward from the LORD, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come for refuge." 13She said, "May I prove worthy of your favor, my lord. You have comforted me. You have spoken to the heart of your servant*—and I am not even one of your servants!" 14At mealtime Boaz said to her, "Come here and have something to eat; dip your bread in the sauce." Then as she sat near the harvesters, he handed her some roasted grain and she ate her fill and had some left over. 15As she rose to glean, Boaz instructed his young people: "Let her glean among the sheaves themselves without scolding her, 16and even drop some handfuls and leave them for her to glean; do not rebuke her."
17She gleaned in the field until evening, and when she beat out what she had gleaned it came to about an ephah* of barley, 18which she took into the town and showed to her mother-in-law. Next she brought out what she had left over from the meal and gave it to her. 19So her mother-in-law said to her, "Where did you glean today? Where did you go to work? May the one who took notice of you be blessed!" Then she told her mother-in-law with whom she had worked. "The man at whose place I worked today is named Boaz," she said. 20e "May he be blessed by the LORD, who never fails to show kindness to the living and to the dead," Naomi exclaimed to her daughter-in-law. She continued, "This man is a near relative of ours, one of our redeemers."* 21"He even told me," added Ruth the Moabite, "Stay with my young people until they complete my entire harvest." 22"You would do well, my daughter," Naomi rejoined, "to work with his young women; in someone else's field you might be insulted." 23So she stayed gleaning with Boaz's young women until the end of the barley and wheat harvests.
* [2:1] Kinship ties and responsibilities now become very important. Boaz is introduced as one of a group surrounding Naomi through her husband's kin who are expected to extend care. The particular term used here (moda', "relative") is picked up in 3:2; otherwise, most of the terminology about this responsibility to care will use the vocabulary of redeeming (go'el, "redeemer").
* [2:2] Israelite custom made provision for the poor, the widow, the stranger and the orphan to gather what was left behind by the harvesters, and instructed farmers not to cut to the edges of their fields, for the sake of these marginalized; Lv 19:9–10; 23:22; Dt 24:19–22.
* [2:4] The story brings Boaz upon the scene quickly, but he moves among his workers with the grace of a man of prominence, greeting them and being received with courtesy. The Hebrew blessing formulas used are frequent in Jewish and Christian liturgies.
* [2:7] The verse is somewhat garbled, but the points are clear that Ruth has been appropriately deferential in seeking permission to glean, and has worked steadily since arriving. Or perhaps she has waited patiently until Boaz arrives to gain permission.
* [2:13] Servant: only here is the language of servanthood used. Ruth has spoken with very deferential words to Boaz, but then seems to think that she has assumed too much.
* [2:17] Ephah: see note on Is 5:10.
* [2:20] For the first time, the story uses the Hebrew word go'el, "redeemer," for the responsibilities of the circle of kinship surrounding Naomi and Ruth and their deceased relatives. Involved are the recovery or retention of family land (Lv 25:25; 27:9–33; Jer 32:6–25), release of a relative from voluntary servitude to pay debts (Lv 25:47–55), and "redeeming blood" or vengeance, attested in passages which regulate such vengeance. No explicit connection is made elsewhere in the Bible between marriage responsibilities and redeeming.
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As chief law reform officer at the Malawi Law Commission, Dr Janet Chikaya-Banda oversaw a two-year constitutional review programme in 2004-6. In her timely account, she explains the importance of continuous, systematic law reform in young democracies and the role that it can play in upholding the credibility and effectiveness of the judiciary. She highlights impediments to the pursuit of democratic ideals articulated in the Malawi Constitution, the consequences of weak institutional commitment to law reform, and the vulnerability of the law in the face of a very powerful presidency. In her foremost recommendation, Dr Chikaya-Banda calls on the new government in Malawi to "move things on" by implementing – or at least debating openly – the recommendations of the constitutional review.
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As a longtime fan of Bruce Springsteen, I thought the Saturday night concert was superb. 3,5 hours wasn't enough for me. Best song? The Ghost of Tom Joad. The addition of Tom Morello to the band has been inspired. And for a ChCh lad, the dedication of My Hometown to ChCh was very moving. Can't wait for him to come back!
I want the t-shirt Murray Cammick is wearing... it's superb
as for the Springsteen concert, could I be the only person who thinks his version of Royales is pretty awful, it's neither clever, funny nor entertaining and I generally rate him quite highly
Thanks for the mention, Russell.
Individual songs will be up over the course of next week, as will a full non-interview version, and a full interview only version (probably 10m left on the cutting room floor).
As he'd done the night before, Springsteen kicked off with a solo blues interpretation of 'Royals'.
Ooh, he dropped an F-bomb, which didn't attract any sort of fuss, not like when Lorde said it.
It reminds me of Michele A'Court's brilliant piece on the subject of women in comedy. Why are lady comedians so sweary? They're not, says Michele. It's just that some people notice swearing a lot more when a woman does it. Fuckin' oats.
Saw Bruce on Saturday night at Mt Smart and the Saturday night before - in the Hunter Valley, Australia. Two different but amazing concerts that I wouldn't have missed for anything.
Huge apologies to Samuel Johnson for this, but I say, "When you're tired of Springsteen, you're tired of life."
I'll freely admit to not liking pretty much anything Springsteen has done musically, but the Royals cover is truly awful. I've witnessed some pretty lame attempts by touring artists to endear themselves to the home crowd but that one takes the biscuit.
I quite like this though - recommended by my teenage son... -
Thanks for posting my tune Russel, and I must commend you on choosing one of West Coast Fruit's tunes. The fellow responsibel for the sonic crafting also makes amazing collectable robots. Check this one out as a great example of his style:
Your mention of Murray Cammick , Howick in the 60s, Triggered me back to my teens in Howick , playing in a band - well trying to - Hauraki was where I heard all the good music , that and test listening to records - but not buying - in that shop in Lorne st - forgotten the name.
Couldn't wait to get out of Howick though. -
Hey Russell, thanks so much for giving my track" You Burn Golden" some exposure. Tis a tough world for the creatively minded out here ,and I am chuffed that you saw fit to mention it and post links. Thanks again and keep up the great work!
Dastardly Bounder, in reply to
The initial link wasnt working. A gallery of Michael's work: http://michael-day.deviantart.com/gallery/45983998
And utter madness from the Dastardly Bounder
Utter genius! Feel the burn when the acid really kicks in about the 7 minute mark. This is one track I'm definitely dropping into my sets* for now on.
* Disclaimer: I don't actually have 'sets" as such. I just listen to music on my computers by myself.
Love that Son Lux collaboration. Love it. A lot more than any offering of Bruce Springsteen's, to be honest, although certainly not quibbling with the dude's influence. And general "good guy" nature.
Peter Darlington, in reply to
* Disclaimer: I don't actually have 'sets" as such. I just listen to music on my computers by myself.
Well played.
Home Brew brouhaha brewing...A performance by award-winning band Home Brew was shut down early after a member of the group jumped from the stage and allegedly punched a teenager in the face.
Another member of the renowned Auckland-based hip-hop group then gave a "shout-out" on the microphone to the first-year university student left bloodied on the dance-floor.
The alleged attack unfolded at a toga party at Lincoln University on the outskirts of Christchurch overnight.
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I saw The Job Creator himself at the Rod Laver in Melbourne last year and felt my relationship with him had been consummated. So I kinda didn't have the need to see him in a much bigger, draftier venue. I must say, when the climax arrived, all the house lights went up and a 16 piece E Street went through "Born to Run" for the millionth time, it was a rock moment like few I've ever experienced. I know he's got more schtick than a Borscht Belt comic, but he's still a phenomenon. No one else in rock has used the artist/audience relationship in the way he has. And he has a mofo of a back catalogue.
I suspect his Royals cover (unlike the Saints) was worked out half an hour before going on. For a guy who drills his band like James Brown he's completely at ease winging it. The night we saw him the band did an unrehearsed Red Headed Woman because Bruce missed his wife and someone waved the right sign. That sort of thing makes an impression on a jaded punter.
I wonder how close to 80,000 individual fans it was when so many went twice , I was one of them and recognised a couple of others . Both nights were great and sunday was the better set in my mind , tho the crowd seemed more lively on saturday. The East stand especially looked subdued on sunday . I guess those who went only on sunday hoping to hear Born in the USA were disappointed . But it was fantastic to hear the full Born to Run album along with so many other hits . I wouldn't even call myself a big fan - until recently I hadn't bought (or even copied ) an album of his since The River , (and I don't remember much of that except it bored me) , but he rates as one of my favourite live performers .
Rich of Observationz, in reply to
Bruce wouldn't do that.
Russell Brown, in reply to
Home Brew brouhaha brewing…Those guys just cannot keep out of trouble.
I was going to sympathise with them -- I've been at gigs at Lincoln and they weren't pretty -- but it doesn't seem like the poor kid did anything to warrant it. Dick move.
Graham Reid over at elsewhere has had some interesting Springsteen playing this week, including a bootleg of a 1978 concert in LA. This was recorded one year before I saw him in concert in Cleveland, Ohio where he seemed to set the pattern for 3 hour+ long performances. Won a ticket in a contest run by a Toledo OH radio station after being in the country for 3 days--which was kind of fitting, seeing part of the reason why I journeyed to the US to start a doctorate was a desire to encounter the mythic America Springsteen was singing about.
I like how he draws on his extensive back catalogue, but not exclusively--unlike bands like the Stones who haven't done anything new for yonks. And he does seem genuine in his politics (can't imagine Jagger donating to the City Mission).No disgrace in leaving before the encore. Did so for Neil Young, after three hours of standing in a crammed space on sticky plastic.
Ian Dalziel, in reply to
80,000 individual fans
Them's Springsteenagers
thank you very much!;- )
Russell Brown, in reply to
I like how he draws on his extensive back catalogue, but not exclusively–unlike bands like the Stones who haven't done anything new for yonks.
This is a very good point. In general, I enjoyed hearing his new(er) stuff way more than his old stuff.
No disgrace in leaving before the encore. Did so for Neil Young, after three hours of standing in a crammed space on sticky plastic.
Well, you knew it was going to be four old dudes jamming for half an hour. But it bears noting that two of my highlights from that show were from his current album.
Ian Dalziel, in reply to
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Geoff, I see your article on Shirley Temple lookalike competitions is in a recent issue of New Zealand Memories magazine. (#106) -
Russell Brown, in reply to
* Disclaimer: I don't actually have 'sets" as such. I just listen to music on my computers by myself.
Well played.
Geoff Lealand, in reply to
Thanks, Ian. It was fun to write and I even got paid a modest sum. Hope it might winkle out another lovely old lady or two. I did a talk in Wellington last week and someone who was there told me about her father winning a contest in Rotorua as a four year old, curly-haired boy. It could make for another interesting twist on the story--the first Shirley Temple cross-dresser?
Simon Grigg, in reply to
in that shop in Lorne st – forgotten the name.
Taste Records, owned by the late Dave Perkins, bless his soul. It had a listening booth with extractor fans so you could get in the right state of mind to *understand* the music.
I managed the shop briefly when it moved to High Street.
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Epidemiologist Tony Goldberg was working with primates in Kibale National Park in Uganda. But, when he returned to his lab at the University of Wisconsin, he began feeling some pain in his nose.
That's when Goldberg discovered a tick inside his right nostril. Definitely not something that's cause for celebration, usually.
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There are two approaches to providing system calls and library interfaces that will work with multithreaded programs. One is to simply wrap all the appropriate code with mutexes, thereby guaranteeing that only one thread will execute any such routine at a time.
While this approach mostly works, it provides terrible performance. For functions that maintain state across multiple invocations (e.g. strtok() and friends), this approach simply doesn't work at all, hence the existence of _r interfaces on many Unix systems (see below).
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Office of the Press Secretary
April 22, 2008
Fact Sheet: White House Summit on Inner-City Children and Faith-Based Schools
"[T]he purpose of the summit is to highlight the lack of educational options facing low-income urban students. And we're going to bring together educators and clergy and philanthropists and business leaders, all aiming to urge there to be reasonable legislation out of Congress and practical solutions to save these schools – and more importantly, to save the children."
– President George W. Bush, 4/18/08
The White House Summit on inner-city children and faith-based schools will highlight the need to preserve the critically important educational alternatives for underserved students attending chronically underperforming schools. In his 2008 State of the Union Address, President Bush announced this summit as an opportunity to help increase awareness of the challenges faced by low-income students in the inner cities and address the role of non-public schools, including faith-based schools, in meeting the needs of low-income inner city students.
Panel I: Faith-Based Schools And The Common Good
Moderated by Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy Karl Zinsmeister, Panel I will highlight the impact faith-based urban schools have had in the education of youth in America's inner cities. For generations, America's faith-based urban schools have served many of this Nation's most disadvantaged students, including the children of recent immigrants and low-income minority families. Relying on contributions from families and donors instead of government aid, these schools have played an important role in the American story of upward mobility, educational opportunity, and civil rights.
Panel II: Practical Realities On The Ground
Moderated by White House Faith-based and Community Initiatives Director Jay Hein, Panel II will focus on the challenges increasingly facing faith-based urban schools. Faith-based urban schools have changed countless young lives for the better, providing students with the academic skills and moral grounding needed to succeed throughout life. Their contributions to families and communities are immeasurable. Tragically, however, these schools, due to a wide array of financial challenges, are under mounting pressure, forcing thousands to close their doors with potentially many more to follow suit.
Lunch Plenary: Educational Options And America's Cities
Moderated by Education Secretary Margaret Spellings, the lunch plenary will focus on the positive influence high-quality school choices have had on American communities. In addition to their value to students and families, faith-based schools and other public school alternatives contribute to America's cities more broadly. Safe, academically rigorous schools have a positive influence on community stability, employment, crime, and much more. Protecting such schools is in the interest of the citizens and leaders of neighborhoods, cities, States, and the Nation.
Panel III: Community Solutions
Moderated by Scott Hamilton, Panel III will focus on community solutions to keep faith-based urban schools strong. Despite the significant challenges it faces, this sector of K-12 education has numerous good-news stories that demonstrate that with energetic leadership, creativity, and commitment, faith-based urban schools can continue to thrive for generations to come.
Panel IV: Public Policy Options
Moderated by Ray Simon, Panel IV will discuss innovative public policies that help under-served communities. Government leaders have developed public policies that provide educational opportunities to disadvantaged children, including at faith-based schools that follow the Federal Government's and State Governments' constitutional and statutory rules governing the separation of church and state.
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