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Pu'er (sometimes spelled Pu-erh) is a complex tea with a huge following. It is the caipirinha of teas...drunken for centuries in its native land, and just now become ultra-popular to the outside world. The NYTimes recently had a good story on how farmers in Yunnan province are benefitting from the the rest of China and other countries discovering their native tea.
Pu'er originated in Yunnan but is also grown in neighboring Burma, Vietnam, and Laos. You may know it as the tea that's compressed into disks, bricks, or little dumpling-shaped cakes. Sheng Pu'er, also called green or raw Pu'er, is the kind most sought after by tea connosieurs. Like a good Bordeaux, it is aged for years, sometimes decades, and has a rich earthy taste that is particular to the land it grew on. Shou Pu'er is darker, oxidized after harvest to resemble the aging process Sheng Pu'er naturally undergoes. It can be drunken immediately, is much less expensive, but has a less complex flavor.
Yesterday Mark from The Hutong, a local cooking school/community space, invited me over for some tea. (He regularly holds tea appreciation classes at the school, and goes to tea regions in Yunnan and Anhui to source leaves for his own label.) Although I'm not the best at picking out the sublest flavors in tea, or even wine for that matter, I love the Sheng Pu'er he had me try. It was somewhat mellow but with a clean herbal taste that lingers in your mouth after swallowing. I could sip it all day.
Earlier this week Jacob and I went to Pure Lotus with two new friends, a vegetarian and a vegan, visiting from London. Pure Lotus, is consistently voted as one of the best vegetarian spots in Beijing, so we were excited to try it. The restaurant is spectacular in its design, with fountains, Buddhist art, and private rooms like fancy grottos. The four of us somehow got a private room with a long banquet table for ten.
The food, while good, was less impressive than the surroundings. Pure Lotus, like most vegetarian restaurants in China, prides itself on mock meat. Some dishes were delicious, like the juicy claypot "chicken" that tasted close to the real thing. Others we could have passed over, like stinky tofu with stir-fried greens and the bland pan-fried dumplings. The braised "ribs" (mock beef on wooden skewers) were pretty good. And I couldn't stop eating the litchis stuffed with tang yuan (glutinous rice balls), although the jumbo serving bowl filled with ice was a bit much for the 10 little litchies that came in it.
The most impressive part of the meal came at the end, when we got melon served in an enormous rustic dish filled with misting dry ice. I guess the whole dish was supposed to be very Zen-like, but we just had fun blowing on the mist, scooping and releasing the mist with our teacups, and snapping photos of our enlightened fruit.
Throughout dinner we drank a 90 rmb pot of Pu'er. It was nice, earthier than your average black tea, but probably not worth the hefty price. I much prefered the Shou Pu'er I had at The Hutong later. But one thing I did really liked about tea at Pure Lotus were the tiny tea cups. The double layers of glass did a decent job of insulating the tea, and they just look so good against the Zen-like tableware. And since I'm a sucker for aesthetics and fruit served on dry ice, I wouldn't hestitate to revisit Pure Lotus.
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A tree change at home is also the trend amongst celebrities - Jamie Oliver keeps chooks for fresh eggs and chef Stephanie Alexander encourages families to grow kitchen gardens. Here are 5 ways to have a tree change without leaving home:
Rent chooks in your back yard
You can now keep chooks in your backyard without the long-term commitment - by renting them! Yes, you can actually rent chickens and a coop while you decide whether they suit your family's lifestyle (and whether your kids really will eat eggs for brekkie each morning). Just get in touch with chook rental company: Book-a-Chook, owned by a Victorian family of four, will deliver a coop, two chickens, grain and feeding instructions to your home, while Sydney's Rentachook will turn up with two hens and a coop, giving you six weeks to decide if the chooks are set to stay or go.
Nurture a kitchen garden
Renowned chef Stephanie Alexander launched a national school garden scheme in a bid to change childhood eating habits and foster a love of fresh food, along with helping prevent obesity and diabetes in future adults. "These eight to 11 year olds are curious and have lots of energy. They love digging, watering and wheelbarrowing," says Stephanie. "They see the extraordinary result of things popping out of the ground - we don't have to lecture any of them about healthy food." Starting a kitchen garden at home is a great way to teach your kids where food comes from: just plant tomatoes, corn and potatoes on a patch of land near your kitchen door and supply your littlies with their own square of soil and trowel.
Grow a herb garden
To baby step your way to home grown food, begin with a herb garden. Jekka McVicar, herb supplier to Jamie Oliver and author of Jekka's Complete Herb Book (Simon & Schuster) says it's a fail-safe way to start your tree change from home. "Start off with chives. They're really easy," she says, advising planting four or five different herbs in a single trough using organic compost. "Basil is really good, so is mint. And rosemary is fantastic because it loves the Australian climate."
Start composting
Start a compost heap to chuck on weeds, old teabags, cut flowers and shredded utility bills - then, six months later, you'll have rich compost ready to sprinkle on to the soil in your kitchen garden. Keeping chickens is another way to complete the natural cycle and nourish the soil - the chooks will wolf down food scraps and produce veggie-boosting chicken manure to give veggies with more antioxidants to boost your children's growth.
Find a community garden
If you don't have a quarter acre block of your own, seek out a community garden, with most Australian cities now boasting communal veggie patches where you get to garden with your kids. "I'd say community gardening is almost becoming a movement," says Russ Grayson, spokesperson for the Australian Community Gardens Network. He's right - ten years ago there were only around 60 community gardens nationally, since then a few hundred have sprung up all over Australia.

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Designed by Bjarke Ingels Group, 1200 Intrepid is a LEED Gold office building shaped by the encounter between Robert Stern?s master plan of rectangular city blocks and James Corner?s iconic, circular Central Green Park.
The building?s double curved, pre-cast concrete façade bows inwards to create a generous urban canopy that responds to the ?shock wave? of the park?s circular running track, activity pods and planting vignettes – rippling outwards like rings in water to invade the building?s footprint. Shaped by the city grid, the cornice and remaining elevations return to the orthogonal design of the Navy Yard's master plan, forming the building's double curve and melding the neighborhood?s two dominant forms.
Photography: Rasmus Hjortshoj Referencing the Navy Yard?s maritime history while providing much needed natural light, a functioning periscope penetrates the core of the building, projecting views of the Navy Yard basin into the center of the elevator lobby. Visitors and employees can admire the mothballed ships sitting in the adjacent docks while embracing Central Green Park – connecting the building and its inhabitants to their surroundings.
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Architects: Bjarke Ingels Group
Location: 4747 S Broad St, Philadelphia, PA 19112, United States
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Breakaway at Gilman St., Berkeley, CA, Photo courtesy of: Joey Vela
Thinking back to late 1987, I remember first hearing the Maximum Rock 'N Roll - Turn It Around comp and taking a particular interest in Rabid Lassie's catchy track, Contragate. By the following year I started seeing Rabid Lassie shirts pop up in a lot photos as well as Rabid Lassie interviews in a few of the fanzines of the day. Next thing I knew I heard about a Rabid Lassie to Breakaway name change and more interviews were staring to pop up. That Northern California / Gilman St. area scene was booming and Breakaway were smack dab in the middle of it all.
By late 1988 early 1989 the word was out that Breakaway had a 7" coming out on Soul Force Records. I remember the ads, I remember sending off my order and also remember when the package from Soul Force reached my mail box. Undoubtedly, the Breakaway 7" had one of those classic late 80's, early Revelation style layouts loaded with great photos and clean graphics. I was nearly sold on them and I had yet to put the needle to the vinyl. Of course once I actually did get a listen, I was not let down and that 7" received regular rotation.
As the years went on I remember hearing nothing but good things about Breakaway's frontman, Joey Vela. He had the reputation as a good guy and as one of the few that stuck it out through the good and bad. Joey stayed straight edge while many of his counterparts left it behind and he also continued playing hardcore well into the 90's with Second Coming long after Breakaway had called it quits. To some, Joey would be considered one of the die-hards, to others, just another guy who was and still is very passionate about hardcore. Here's part one of his story… -Tim DCXX
Rabid Lassie at Gilman St., Berkeley, CA, Photo courtesy of: Joey Vela
How and when did you discover punk / HC and what are your earliest memories of it?
Like a lot of kids, my first real exposure to punk rock was through skateboarding. I was way into skating when I was really young and I started getting Skateboarder Magazine in 1979. They would have interviews and reviews of bands and the pictures of these bands were just incredible. There was so much energy in these pictures, everything was really raw and I just thought they looked really cool. I didn't know anything about the bands other than the image portrayed in the pictures. A couple years later, I started buying records of the bands I had seen in Skateboarder or picked up records that other skaters had told me about.
I remember when I was first really getting into it, there was a lot of media hype about how punk rock was brainwashing kids with subliminal messages and how it was basically destroying the youth. For a brief second, my parents actually bought into it. When I wasn't home, they went through my records and when they found the not so "hidden" messages scratched into the matrix, they freaked out. They had the big talk with me about how I had changed since I started listening to this music and they actually took away my records and said that I could get them back if and when I changed. Funny, they took away the records, but not any of the cassettes I recorded of the records and had no way of monitoring what I listened to when they weren't around. I never stopped listening to any of it and after a couple of weeks, I got my records back. It's funny looking back at that because it's not like my parents at all. They were really cool with the music and the scene and always had a welcome, open door with touring bands that came through and needed a place to stay just a few years later.
Full shot from back cover of Breakaway 7", Photo: Scott Schaffer
What was the Nor Cal / Bay Area scene like when you were first coming up and who were the big bands of the time?
I remember the first shows I went to and what a huge difference there was. The first show I went to was in Berkeley in 1983 to go see Fang. Back then, I don't think I owned anything that didn't have the Fang skull on it. My first show in Berkeley was NOTHING like the first show I went to out in San Francisco. Some of the kids I used to skate with, we talked one of their sisters into driving us to a show at The Mab. I had never been on Broadway before, none of us had. It was like something out of the movies. Flashing lights of all the surrounding strip clubs, adult book stores, police sirens, mobs of people everywhere, and some of the scariest skinheads and punks I had ever seen. Our friend's sister dropped us off a few blocks away from the club and told us she would pick us up after the show. So there we were, five little kids dropped off on Broadway, making our way back to the Mab. I can only imagine how scared we all looked. As we were walking by some of the strip clubs, the ladies working the doors tried to coerce us to go inside to see the peep shows, it was crazy. But it was exciting up there. You'd see some crazy stuff happen before even getting into the shows.
The Mab used to have two shows a night, the curfew show which was all ages and the late show which I think was 18 and over. Curfew shows ended at 10:00 and had the same bands as the late show. Really an ideal situation for us young kids. After that, we started going out there almost every weekend. A lot of the time, we didn't even know who was playing, we would just take the BART train out to the city, see the show, then head home. We also started going to other venues like Ruthie's Inn, the On Broadway, Club Foot, The Farm. A lot of great old spots.
Back when I first started going to shows, the scene was pretty violent. The SF Skins were a big deal and you would see some crazy shit happen at the shows. You really had to watch yourself. With risk of sounding like a bitter old man, it just seemed more real back then. It wasn't as easy, but that's just the times, you know? You couldn't go to the mall and buy punk records and it definitely wasn't the cool thing to do. I don't know, I'm sure everyone feels that way about when they first got into the scene regardless of what year. As far as who were the big local bands when I first started going to shows...Fang, Dead Kennedys, Code of Honor, Crucifix, Social Unrest. There were a lot of really good bands.
At what point did you decide you wanted to do your own band and how did Rabid Lassie come together?
My friends Trent and Ted had already started a band, and wanted to do another one and they asked if I wanted to sing. That was in 1985. I never set out to start a band, it just sort of happened. I'd say that Trent was the catalyst with starting me into singing in bands though. Trent is an amazing photographer and has documented a lot of our scene over the years with his pictures.
Joey with Rabid Lassie, Photo courtesy of: Joey Vela
Any stand out Rabid Lassie shows? If so, with who, where and why?
Oh man, there were so many great shows we played. It seemed like we played a lot of shows with some of our favorite local bands at the time. Clown Alley, Violent Coercion (Neurosis), Christ on Parade, some of my favorite punk bands to come out of Northern California. I used to love all the shows at New Method, that place was more like a community. I remember at one of the shows there, people were hanging out in the front outside, then all of the sudden, everyone came running in yelling for everyone to stay inside and they started to barricade the door. A couple guys wacked out on pcp were outside getting crazy. A lot of us ran upstairs and climbed out onto the roof to watch these guys break shit that should not be broken by any human, it was nuts. That was one of my favorite spots for shows though. Not so much about the bands playing as much as it was about the community - for the most part, everyone knew each other.
Later on, we played some amazing shows with Youth Of Today, Verbal Assault, a lot of the straight edge shows. I think for me though, my favorite shows were with local friends, Tyrranicide and Unit Pride. We always had a good time playing shows with them.
Give us the recording history of Rabid Lassie, demos, comp tracks, etc.
I think we recorded four demos and two tracks for the Maximum Rock 'N Roll - Turn It Around comp. When we recorded for the MRR comp, they asked us to record two songs, but requested one of the two be a song called Contragate. We weren't even into the song at all by that point and were looking to change our style a bit. The second song we recorded was heavily influenced by our local heroes, Clown Alley. That song was more of the direction we were heading in and that was the song we wanted on the comp. Of course they chose the song they wanted, and the other song was never used on anything or released on any demo.
At what point was the decision made to morph Rabid Lassie into Breakaway and what was the reason for the change?
It was kind of one of those things where we wanted to be taken more seriously and like I said before, we were changing our style a bit. We had a lot of different line up changes and it just seemed like a good time to make the change and kind of get a fresh start. Simply put, we just weren't the same band we were when we first started. Different style, different views, different people, we just wanted a name that fit the band better.
Rabid Lassie at Gilman St., Berkeley, CA, Photo courtesy of: Joey Vela
Sunday, November 29, 2009
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16 comments:
- ERIC SXE said...
Stoked again! Great to hear from Joey. A cool guy always with great bands. My band (Downshift) hung out with and played many shows with his 90's band Second Coming in addition to going skating. I got into the scene too late to see Rabid Lassie/Breakaway but I certainly did get a hold of their 7"s!
- November 30, 2009 at 1:27 AM
ALWAYS one of my fave bands! I loved both Rabid Lassie and Breakaway. Joey was an incredible singer. Although earlier Breakaway was a tigher band...when Unit Pride broke up and Tim Monroe and Pete Tisa joined the shows just became a blast!
Slapshot and Breakaway at Gilman....I still have it on VHS! Awesome show from the "Step On It" tour! Tons of footage of me and Korri Sabatini moshin' up front!
...and, in my opinion, Rabid Lassie's best show was still the 1st show I ever promoted. It was the Adolescents 2nd reunion show in '86, at the ON BROADWAY in SF. One of the best shows in SF in the mid 80's in my opinion. Rabid Lassie and Rat Pack (mystic records artists) were awesome! The band I sang for at the time, ANXIETY, had a good set. Gang Green were complete dicks, as their history potrays them! The Ad's were incredible! The Ad's and "GG" almost got in a fight after the gig backstage...crazy!
Rabid Lassie at New Method was always fun!
But Joey is right...this is when the west coast was dangerous.........
- November 30, 2009 at 2:37 AM
man, I wanted to keep my Fang records sooo bad, but I just could not keep records with such a dark story of murder attached to them.... How that dude got only like 7 years and then gets the band back together is just beyond distasteful.... and "Destroy the Handicapped" always bothered me, because of me having a brother with a disability.
But Breakaway, Unit Pride, soooo amazing!
- November 30, 2009 at 2:45 AM
- Fly on the Wall said...
Great to hear from Joey on Double Cross. He's got so many great stories. I remember catching notice of him in seventh grade, when he had a Black Flag sticker in his locker or on a textbook cover or something. "Who's that weird kid? What's Black Flag, a bug spray?"
I'll second the words of every old guy- Those were amazing times that will never be repeated. It was an honor to be part of it.
The Adolescent show was amazing, Jim. Hard to pick a favorite show, but anytime we played with Christ on Parade or Clown Alley was hall of fame for me.
- November 30, 2009 at 8:59 AM
- Fly on the Wall said...
one more thing, the second photo is by Unit Pride drummer Pete Tisa. fourth photo by Jef Barber (who sang for the first band named Unit Pride), and last photo by Murray Bowles.
- November 30, 2009 at 9:02 AM
Joey rules. He's got many great stories throughout the years. Tim check in with him more often.
- November 30, 2009 at 11:33 AM
- actionxjackson said...
much respect to joey. i've only met him through seeing second coming play. i had no idea he had been around so early in the bay area scene. my main interest and focus has been on the late 90's style hardcore, and the late 80's and early 90's are a blank piece of history for me as far as bay area hardcore is concerned. i would love to hear more stories from joey.
- December 1, 2009 at 3:28 AM
I agree Trent...Rabid Lassie and Clown Alley at either On Broadway or Gilman was a blast!
- December 1, 2009 at 6:25 AM
Great to hear from Joey. I could use several Vela installments on consecutive days. I always thoroughly enjoyed my face time with him.
I loved the Sentra with custom Sick Of It All graphics.
To this day I would put Joey's vocal on "This Town Rocks" up against Biff Byford's any day o' the week.
- December 1, 2009 at 12:11 PM
- Marc M said...
Dude had some cool shirts. :)
- December 1, 2009 at 1:13 PM
- Jose said...
"banned from the scene" :P
- December 1, 2009 at 2:08 PM
The only time I was ever really scared walking to a show was going from BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) to New Method on the Berkeley/Oakland border. But Broadway in SF had danger all around it as well!
- December 3, 2009 at 4:45 AM
- Scott T. said...
Good looking out, Jose.
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"So let me respectfully challenge Mr. Khan to consider these words from Dr. King: 'There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.'
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While she passes most of her time in Chalatenango proper where her family lives, and Soyapango where Carlos's childhood home is – Suegra sometimes goes to visit her childhood home which is in a town in the mountains of Chalatenango called San Luis del Carmen.
I visited there one afternoon when we went to El Salvador. Against all my gringa instincts which screamed that I needed a seat belt, I rode in the back of a Tío's pickup truck with my then one year old baby. They threw cushions from the sofa in to make the ride more comfortable. We rode up, up, up, stopped for some bony looking cattle to cross the road, and then up, up, up some more. San Luis del Carmen was very quiet. There was a pretty white church, typical Salvadoran-style cement block homes lining the road, the ever present chuchos aguacateros (street dogs), and a small store selling soda en bolsas and snacks.
Suegra's modest childhood home has been kept in good repair despite being over 50 years old, though no one inhabits it. The home sits on a fair amount of land – the trees in the backyard are heavy with coffee beans.
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Suegra went to San Luis during the feast day in December. During the festival, the town traditionally picks a "reina" (queen) … This year, the reina was one of the gringas.
I'm not quite sure what to make of this. I'm fascinated by the idea of an entire village that ten years from now may be made up of families that resemble my own. Part of me wonders if these girls know what they're getting into. It's one thing to marry a Salvadoran who has immigrated here – but quite another to marry a Salvadoran in El Salvador. My mind swirls with the compromises, sacrifices, and struggles they will face. Culture shock. Language barriers. Machismo. They are on his turf. They are on their suegra's turf. As romantic as it appears on the outside, the situation raises many concerns.
Honestly, I do laugh a little imaging the phone calls home. The parents expect information about when to pick their precious daughters up at the airport now that their volunteer assignment has come to an end. Instead, their daughter's voice sounding farther away than ever says, "Mom, Dad, I met someone here. I'm staying in El Salvador and getting married!" … Those poor gringo parents! …And then imagine when the parents go to El Salvador for the wedding. Will there be tears of joy or tears of sheer terror for what their daughter has done? (Oh wait, I'm just having flashbacks to my own wedding…jiji…)
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Has anyone here become more against religion over time? Before religion didn't really bother me, but whenever I see something religious now it pisses me off. If I found a bible, cross or some other religious figure I would probably end up burning it.
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I have been thinking about deleting facebook friends who show their religion too many times as well.
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Years ago, I did "Satanic" rituals to banish Jesus from my life. These rites actually involved spending considerable monies on a crucifix, then spitting on it during the recitation of some Crowley or LaVey or [take your pick it's all mumbo-jumbo]. Then I woke up. I said, daemon est deus inversus. The only thing one accomplishes through worship of Evil is the acknowledgment of Good. All worship is deluded. There is nobody there. You are allowed a certain superiority over the believers, though. While you rely upon science and reason, they cling to myth and superstition. You become, ironically, closer to the "Superior man" of Taoism.
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Have you found "Tao Te Ching" helpful in achieving what you want in life? Do you believe the claims made, i.e.
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The ordinary man keeps reaching for power;
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Setting up a wired connection is easy. However, you will not be able to connect to multiple devices in a wired connection.
After installing the 123.hp.com/envy5667 printer driver in your computer/laptop, click on the wired option to enable the wired connection. Connect the wide end of the Ethernet cable to the port, and connect the other end to the network router.
NOTE: Make note of IP address, mDNS (Bonjour) name and hardware (MAC) address. During the installation process, the program attempts to search for the printer in your network. If the search is unsuccessful, you can search the printer by entering its address, mDNS (Bonjour) name and hardware (MAC) address.
Follow the steps to obtain this information:
On the Control panel, select Print Report – – > Network Configuration – – > Click OK.
For HP Envy 5667 wireless printing, kindly follow the steps given in this article. Before setting up the wireless communication, insert the HP software CD and run the installation program (Full featured driver software is available at 123.hp.com/envy5667) . After inserting the CD, run the program and follow the onscreen instructions to setup a wireless network.
For Windows: When asked, Click Network (Ethernet/Wireless) and then carry out the instructions displayed on screen.
For MAC OS: Double Click on the HP Installer icon after inserting the CD, and follow the instructions to complete the process.
When prompted, users are requested to enter the network name and password.
Network Name/SSID: The network name is the name of your network name.
Security Passkey: WPS key or WEP passphrase are kept confidential for a wireless network, to prevent people from connecting to your wireless network without your concern.
How to test the wireless connection?
Once you setup your 123.hp.com/envy5667 wireless connection, it is important to test the connection to see if it's working. Complete the following steps to test your connection.
1. Switch on your Envy 5667 printer and stack papers in the tray.
2. Click on the Setup button.
3. Press the left or right arrow buttons to select Print Report. Click OK.
4. Select Wireless Test and click on OK.
When the test is finished, the Envy 5667 printer prints a report that has the results of the test. In case of any failure in the test, review the test to fix the problem. Run the test again to ensure that there are no issues with the wireless text report.
123 HP Setup ENVY 5667 – Cartridges
Work with cartridges
Check the ink level on your HP Envy 5667 printer to predict when to change your ink cartridge. The ink level on your HP printer can be seen from the printer's display panel. It shows an estimated ink level on the ink cartridge.
Check the ink levels status from the printer's display panel
- Go to the Home screen on the 123.hp.com/envy5667 printer's display panel and then tap on Ink Levels.
- After the above step, the current ink levels on your HP printer will be displayed.
Use single-cartridge mode
- If you want to use single cartridge and do not want to waste other two cartridges, then the HP Envy 5667 printer provides the option to single-cartridge mode.
- Activating this mode will enable your 123.hp.com/envy5667 printer to work on single cartridge either black or color.
- The single-cartridge mode is initiated when there is only one ink cartridge present in the carriage.
- Remove the plastic tapes from the ink cartridge by using pink pull tab.
- While the tapes are on the ink cartridge the printer cannot detect the ink cartridge installed on it.
How to set up Web Services using the HP printer software?
For Windows:
- Click open the HP Envy 5667 Printer software installed on your computer (You can download it from 123.hp.com/envy5667)
- Under the tab titled Print, Scan & Fax, select the ePrint Setup option. The HP ENVY 5667 printer's embedded web server opens up.
- Select Web Services.
- Go to the Web Services Settings section to click on Setup. Press Continue and then follow the instructions to agree to the terms of use.
- If asked, allow your HP Envy 5667 printer to check and install printer updates automatically.
- If you are using the proxy network setting while connecting to the Internet, do the following.
- Tap on Enter Proxy.
- Now, enter the proxy server settings in the appropriate fields and select Done.
- The printer prints an information page. By following the instructions on the page, users can finish the setup process.
For Macintosh (OS X):
- Open the 123.hp.com/envy5667 printer's embedded web server to set up and manage Web Services.
- Select the Web Services section.
- Under the Web Services Settings tab, click on Setup and then press Continue. Now, follow the on screen instructions to accept the Terms and Conditions.
- When asked, allow your printer to check for updates and install them automatically.
- Now, the Envy 5667 printer prints an information page. Go by the instructions on the page to complete the setup process.
How to setup web services using the HP ENVY 5667 printer's control panel?
Using the printer's control panel is probably the easiest way to set up and manage web services.
- Ensure your 123.hp.com/envy5667 printer is connected to the wireless network or an Ethernet cable.
- Tap on HP ePrint, or the print apps icon from the HP Envy 5667 printer's control panel.
- Choose the Yes option to agree to the terms and conditions of Web Services.
- Go to the Auto Update screen, and tap on Yes, to enable your Envy 5667 printer to look out and install product updates.
- After clicking Yes, the printer prints an information page. Follow the instructions on the page to complete the setup process.
How to set up Web Services using the embedded web server in Envy 5667?
- Open the embedded web service (EWS).
- Select the Web Services section.
- Under the Web Services Settings tab, tap on Setup, and then choose Continue.
- When asked, allow your Envy 5667 printer to check on updates and install them automatically.
- Now, the 123.hp.com/envy5667 PRINTER prints an information page. Go by the instructions on the page to complete the setup process.
HP Printer Guide
HP Printer Setup
HP Printer Drivers and Installations


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U.S. Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission
Hearing-Impaired Assistant Teacher Demoted Because of Disability, Federal Agency Charges
BALTIMORE – The Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington in Rockville, Md., one of the largest metropolitan Jewish community centers in the country, violated the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) when it demoted a nursery school assistant teacher because of her hearing impairment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it announced today.
The EEOC alleged in its lawsuit that even though Carole Schulman satisfactorily performed her job duties as a nursery school assistant teacher, the community center demoted her to a lower-paying position as a mail room clerk because of her hearing impairment. Schulman started working for the Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington in 2005 as an assistant teacher. With her cochlear implant in one ear, Schulman can hear high-pitched sounds, voices and noises, including hearing children laughing and talking.
The EEOC contends that the community center failed to provide a reasonable accommodation to Schulman, as the ADA requires, and instead demoted her based on its groundless belief that she could not perform her duties as an assistant teacher.
The ADA prohibits discrimination based on disability and requires an employer to provide a reasonable accommodation unless it imposes an undue hardship. The EEOC attempted to reach a pre-litigation settlement before filing suit in U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, Greenbelt Division, Civil Action No. ---
During Fiscal Year 2009, disability discrimination charges reached a record level of 21,451 -- an increase of 10 percent from the prior fiscal year.
Further information about the Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington is available on its web site, www.jccgw.org.
The EEOC enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. Further information about the EEOC is available on its web site at www.eeoc.gov.


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Liberal mega-donors try super PACs
The hand-wringing is officially over: Democrats have joined the super PAC game.
They might not be the Koch brothers or Sheldon Adelson, but wealthy donors on the left are finally answering the call in force and giving big bucks to Democratic groups such as Priorities USA Action and House Majority PAC.
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Fred Eychaner, president of Newsweb , has led the liberal charge since the beginning of September, giving $2 million to Priorities, $2 million each to House Majority PAC and Majority PAC (which supports Democratic Senate candidates), and $1 million to Women Vote.
Eychaner (pronounced eye-can-er) has given at least $11 million to Democratic candidates and causes thus far in 2012.
The grandaddy of Democratic mega-donors — billionaire financier George Soros — also stepped up, giving $1 million to Priorities USA Action and a $250,000 check to House Majority PAC in early October. Soros, who became a conservative target after contributing $24 million in 2004 to efforts fighting President George W. Bush, this year has pledged at least $4.3 million to various liberal outside groups.
Meanwhile, his son, Jonathan Soros, launched Friends of Democracy, "a super PAC to end all super PACs" earlier this year. Soros's super PAC has raised a total of $2.1 million since its founding and has spent $1.2 million mostly on direct mail.
Whatever the reason — President Barack Obama's attacks on big money donors and Wall Street, the 2004 failure to beat Bush or simply philosophical concerns about unlimited money in politics — rich Democrats simply weren't flocking to the super PACs and outside nonprofits the way Republicans embraced groups like Karl Rove's American Crossroads or the pro-Mitt Romney super PAC Restore Our Future. Those two groups have already raised about $164 million this cycle, and conservatives are expected to spend $1 billion in efforts to elect Republicans this year.
Priorities USA Action will most likely fall well short of its $100 million goal, having raised just less than $60 million in 2012. But things are trending up; Priorities raised a record haul of $15.2 million last month, and an additional $13 million in the first half of October.
Priorities's co-founder Bill Burton says the threat of a Romney win got the liberal money flowing.
"There's a small but committed group of donors that want to make sure Democrats are successful on every part of the ballot," Burton said. "People finally accepted that Mitt Romney could pose a serious threat to President Obama."
According to a POLITICO review of federal reports, some of the other mega-donors who wrote big checks in September and first two weeks of October include:
- Hedge-fund manager James Simons gave $1.5 million to Priorities, $1.5 million to Majority PAC and 500,000 to House Majority.
- S. Daniel Abraham gave $1.2 million to Priorities, 175,000 to Majority PAC and $100,000 to American Bridge.
- Hollywood producers Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg gave $1 million each to Priorities. Katzenberg also gave $25,000 to House Majority.
- Political consultant Alida Messinger gave $ 1 million to Priorities.
- Venture capitalist Vinod Khosla gave $1 million to Priorities.
- LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman gave $1 million to Priorities.
- Chairman of Jones Apparel Sidney Kimmel gave $1 million to Priorities.
- CEO of Zynga Mark Pincus gave $1 million to Priorities.
- Family Guy creator and new Oscar host Seth MacFarlane gave $150,000 to Majority PAC.


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I am now having problems with the latest ubuntu. On ubuntu 11.04 X doesn't work unless you boot and old kernel, and wifi doesn't work. This is from an upgrade, an installation might be different.
I then tried to install ubuntu 10.10 over it, as wifi worked before on 10.10. However, when installing new, the wifi doesn't work out of the box for 10.10, even though it worked for me when I upgraded to 10.10 from 10.04.
I would now recommend installing 10.04 LTS, upgrading to 10.10, and forgetting about 11.04. This should work perfectly.


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Rams Hold on to Defeat Blue Knights
Farmingdale State - 85, Mount Saint Mary - 76
Newburgh, N.Y. - The Farmingdale State men's basketball team had five double digit scorers in Saturday's 85-76 win at Mount Saint Mary. Junior guard Dyshaun Flournoy (Brentwood, N.Y./Brentwood) scored a team-high 20 points as the Rams improved to 7-5 overall and 6-1 in the Skyline Conference.
The game was tied 25-25 with 6:49 remaining before halftime until junior guard Joshua Smith (Deer Park, N.Y./Deer Park) hit a 3-pointer off Keith Nandin's (Queens, N.Y./St. Francis Prep.) pass, which sparked a 17-6 Farmingdale State run to close out the half. The Rams shot 50% (7-for-14) from behind the arc in the first half.
Trailing 65-57 with 11:45 to play, Mount Saint Mary (8-5, 6-2 Skyline) went on a quick 9-2 spurt to pull within one. The teams traded two point baskets until Nandin connected from three point range, giving Farmingdale State a 74-70 advantage with 4:50 remaining. The Blue Knights were fouled on their next possession and converted both free-throws before Nandin's layup brought the lead back to four. The Rams would pull away over the final two minutes, handing Mount Saint Mary their second Skyline loss of the season.
Smith scored 19 points and had six rebounds, while Nandin and senior guard John Dabney (Freeport, N.Y./Freeport) each tallied 14 points. Senior forward Jermaine Abraham (Brooklyn, N.Y.Wadleigh) recorded a double-double for Farmingdale State with 11 points and 10 boards.
The Blue Knights were led by freshman guard Joe Stabach (Staten Island, N.Y./St. Joseph by the Sea) who scored a game-high 22 points and shot 6-of-9 from three point range.
The Rams next will host Purchase College in Skyline Conference game on Tuesday, January 11th at 8:00 p.m.


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iBomber Attack — Free App of the Day
The iBomber series has all manner of explosion-oriented gameplay. From the original title, to iBomber Defense, to this new version that's all about attacking. We never knew just how much fun iBombing things could be. In this game, you get to steamroll your way through Europe in a tank! Take that, Europe. iBomber Attack is today's Free App of the Day!
Jump into your tank and get ready to blast your way around Europe in this action-packed tour of explosions! In iBomber Attack, there are over 20 bomb-filled missions to storm through. From destroying Navel dockyards, airfields and secret bases to gunning down legions of flame-throwing soldiers, this is iBombing at it's finest. If you're new to the series, this is a great (and free) way to jump in.
Collect gold to outfit your tank with all kinds of power-ups, such as bombs, bunker busters, mini-guns, flame throwers, rockets, airstrike's, supply drops & super boosts. Packed with quality gameplay, iBomber Attacks continues the tradition that made the original iBomber games big favorites.
Strap on that flak jacket and throw your helmet soldier, because you are getting yourself a free copy of iBomber Attack today for your iPhone and iPad!


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Easy From Scratch Basic Yellow Cake
I have been trying to find a good (from scratch) yellow cake recipe that's moist, tender and has good flavor. After months of searching, testing and tinkering I've finally found what I was looking for.
This is a combination of two recipes; one was a pound cake and the other was a yellow cake. All of the yellow cakes that I had tried were the fat and sugar cream method and it was just not giving me what I wanted in a cake. Then I came across a pound cake recipe that dumped everything in a bowl and beat it up. It turned out moist and tender but heavier of course than a yellow cake.
So I decided to try combining the two recipes and hit the nail on the head the second try. I've made three more since just to be sure it would come out the same each time and it does.
Here is the recipe. Be sure to read the recipe well before making...
Basic Yellow Cake
2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour (do not sift the flour)
1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
3 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1-teaspoon salt
1 1/4 cups milk
Vegetable oil
1 stick butter (not margarine), softened
1-tablespoon vanilla extract
3 large eggs
Preheat oven to 350°
Cut wax paper to fit the bottom of (3) 9 x 1 1/2-inch round pans. Spray the pans with cooking spray, place the wax paper in the pans and spray the paper.
In a large mixing bowl combine the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt, mixing well.
Measure the 1-1/4 cups of milk in a 2 cup measuring cup….then add enough vegetable oil to bring the liquid up to 1-1/3 cups.
Add the milk/vegetable oil mixture, butter and vanilla to the flour mixture and beat with an electric mixer on medium to medium-high speed for 2 minutes, scraping sides of bowl as needed.
Add the eggs and continue beating an additional 2 minutes. Pour batter into prepared pans.
Bake at 350° for 20 to 25 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted near center of cake comes out clean, or until cake springs back when touched lightly in the center.
Cool cakes on wire racks for 15 minutes; remove from pans and cool completely.
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PORTSMOUTH — Firefighters know how to have fun.
"Going to Blazes," a free exhibit that opens Feb. 1 at the Portsmouth Athenaeum's Randall Room, explores that theme and many others, including the legacy of the fires of 1802, 1806 and 1813, which reshaped the city center.
Co-curator Joyce Volk said before 1840, fires were fought by individuals, not professionals. The focus was on saving the contents of a house and trying to stop the fire from spreading, she said.
"The first thing you'd do was empty the house," she said. "Of course, not everything came back."
Fire societies were formed to protect fire victims from thieves, Volk said.
"Members were taken to the houses of all the other members and shown where the valuables were kept," Volk said. "Each one had to have two fire buckets, a big canvas bag to carry items in and a bed wrench to take apart the four-posters, because the bed hangings were usually the most expensive items in a house. The society had one man stationed at the door; you had to give the password, so strangers couldn't get in."
At one time, there were six such societies in Portsmouth. Two survive and continue to meet — the Federal Fire Society, founded in 1789, and the Mechanic Fire Society, which dates to 1811.
"The fire societies were drinking and dining societies," co-curator Sandra Rux said.
They still are, Volk says, pointing to the snuff box that the Mechanic Fire Society has passed around since 1821, and the Federal Fire Society's 1876 punch bowl, which will be on display for the Athenaeum exhibit.
Other exhibit items include an elaborate menu from an 1890 Mechanic Fire Society dinner presided over by famed brewer Frank Jones, society songbooks, a number of leather fire buckets, a map showing the areas of the 1802, 1806 and 1813 fires, a segment of one of the first wooden water pipes laid in the city in 1797 and a furniture brand, used to mark furniture so it could be returned to the owner after a fire.
Peter Lamb is a member of Portsmouth's Federal Fire Society. Members not only gather to socialize and are still required to own a fire bucket. Leon Arsenault, 92, of Freeport, Maine, has made many of the buckets for the current membership. Lamb and Arsenault will describe the process, showcase some materials and tools, and sprinkle in a little fire bucket history at the Athenaeum on March 14 at 7 p.m.
Lamb made his own bucket last year under Arsenault's tutelage.
"It was a real privilege for me to learn from Leon," Lamb said. "He has great skill and there are many subtleties working with wet leather, as well as the art of fine hand stitching. The real bonus was the wealth of stories Leon told from his long life in midcoast Maine!"
Co-curators Volk and Rux will give a gallery talk on April 20 at 11 a.m. at the Athenaeum.
Historian Richard Candee will discuss the Brick Act — passed after the 1813 fire — and its impact on the center city. Starting at 2 p.m. on May 11, he will lead a walk starting at the Portsmouth Athenaeum.
These events are free. Reservations required; call 603-431-2538.
Exhibit hours: 1-4 p.m., Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays through May 25. Opening reception will be held Friday, Feb. 1, 5-8 p.m. at the Athenaeum, 6-8 Market Square.
Rux, who is curator of the Portsmouth Historical Society, will talk about the Portsmouth fire of 1813 on Feb. 20 at 7 p.m. in the opening lecture of the 2013 program series, "Great Fires: Conflagrations that Reshaped New England." General admission is $10. Reservations required for the lectures. On March 20 at 7 p.m., Tracy Messer and Charles Strickland will give the second lecture in the series and show their documentary film on the Great Marlow Fire of 1941. Admission is $10 for the 7 p.m. Third in the series is the Isles of Shoals Fires, presented April 17 at 7 p.m. by Ann Beattie and Melissa Saggerer.
For more information, call 603-431-2538 or visit www.portsmouthathenaeum.org.


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Award shows take note: It pays handsomely to satisfy teen girls.
The American Music Awards drummed up 12.9 million viewers, a 32% bump over last year, marking the show's second-biggest audience in 11 years, according to preliminary numbers released by ABC on Monday morning.
While the network is likely relieved that its telecast wasn't a spectacular bomb like last year's show (and is probably curating gift baskets to mail to big draws like One Direction, Miley Cyrus, Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga, Justin Timberlake and Rihanna), let's look at what worked and what didn't Sunday night.
What worked:
Teenage Dreams. Of all the glowing figures ABC released this morning, one stood out the most. The telecast was up 86% in viewers ages 12 to 17, delivering a high not seen for the AMAs since 2004. It was quite obvious inside the Nokia Theatre that teens were the driving force of the show. One Direction pretty much only had to breathe and the venue erupted with bloodcurdling screams from young girls. The dreamy British boy band sent them into a fever pitch during its performance, which you could barely hear over the pandemonium. This energy carried on when pretty much any boy walked onstage, and it was only amplified if he had scruffy facial hair and sensitive eyes. Austin Mahone? Screams. Jaden Smith? Screams. Luke Bryan. Justin Timberlake. Imagine Dragons. So many screams.
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Pop heroines. This intense fandom, which I wrote about earlier, carried over to the smattering of pop heroines on the bill: Rihanna, Gaga, Swift, Cyrus and Ariana Grande. Rihanna showed up to collect the specially crafted Icon Award and run through "Diamonds," Gaga and R. Kelly did a witty mash-up of ABC's "Scandal" and "Trapped in the Closet" for a performance that scored a standing ovation, Swift continued to thank girls for sticking by her (and buying 6 million copies of her last record) and Grande won everyone over with a nervous speech as she won for new artist.
Yet it was Cyrus who had the crowd waiting to see what she would do. She opted to slightly tone it down for her closing performance, armed with only a cat-printed bikini and a backdrop of an awfully adorable kitten mouthing the words to her power ballad "Wrecking Ball." Once the kitten started crying, the crowd swooned. Who cares if young kids don't understand irony, there was a crying cat onstage. Cyrus knew what the crowd really wanted, and once the song ended and the camera panned, she turned around and did a quick twerk.
What didn't:
Pitbull as host. Everyone loves Mr. International, and no one looks better in a suit. But despite being the master of ceremonies, he didn't really move the show along the way a host should. Which is a shame considering that the laborious, three-hour telecast could have really used more of Pitbull's charm.
AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS 2013: Red carpet arrivals
Katy Perry's opening number. She was dressed as a geisha. It's not going over so well on the almighty Internet.
Speaking of weird racial overtones. In a show that celebrates the most tweeted about and downloaded pop stars, the night's few uncomfortable moments came courtesy of commentary on race. When Macklemore and Ryan Lewis accepted the award for favorite rap/hip-hop act, Macklemore made a plea against racial profiling, dropped a Martin Luther King Jr. quote and, because they were being beamed in from Florida, mentioned the shooting death of Trayvon Martin.
While its always great to see rappers stand for something, Macklemore has made a strange habit of speaking up about societal ills as he's collecting award show trophies. There's nothing wrong with using that platform, and it's encouraged. But when it sounds as rehearsed as his words did, no one needs it. Not even the audience was moved by his words, most looking around uncomfortably. It also didn't help that the pair beat out Kendrick Lamar for favorite rap album, but that's a point worth saving for the Grammys.
The weirdness continued when Timberlake mocked the accent of Rihanna's Barbadian mother, and before he was feted with favorite soul/R&B album, comedian Sarah Silverman offered this ironic quip: "There are three amazing nominees for favorite soul/R&B album tonight. One: a white kid from 'The Mickey Mouse Club.' Another: the son of the dad from 'Growing Pains.' And the other: a strong, soulful Caribbean woman of color. I don't know who will win, but I do know who should find this most ironic if she loses." After Timberlake won, he offered this equally odd response: "Growing up in Memphis, Tennessee, I can honestly say that's the first time I've ever been racially profiled by a white woman." Sigh.
The show's run time. Why is this show three hours? Seriously. Why? I understand shoving a dozen-plus performances into a telecast, but can't some of them get pared down to bumper numbers? Surely, there's at least an hour that can be trimmed here.
One more thing. Kesha, please stop whatever it is you keep doing onstage. Watch below for some afternoon embarrassment:
PHOTOS: Guide to the 2013 American Music Awards
PHOTOS: Highlights of the 2013 American Music Awards
American Music Awards: Performers stick to routine at AMAs


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Just went through all in this thread .... so TAR14 & TARI is filming right now ...WOW! The PROD Team become bigger and bigger ....While TARA3's finale is next week and TAR13 is also almost to the end .... now they are filming ....so RFF Detectives are also start to work ......... right?Soon later TARA4 is coming too ....
yeah, there could be spoilers out there right now we just can't find them. hopefully some more are found soon
So TAR 14? In Phuket?? Oh happy days!! Good job puddin!!
And as I expected it's all a shame
Why do I think I've seen them before?
Ahem. Auburn is Alabama, lol. And we just beat the pants off them today in football!
TOI is Tourismus Interlaken, and "care," I'm guessing, is the group or committee that's tasked with handling WRP.
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Review: Char West
Ninety miles north, Santa Barbara is Los Angeles's favorite weekend retreat; a red-adobe-tiled sliver of Spanish colonial buildings, emerald mountains, and sandy coves. Among the matchless Mexican food, epic hiking, and good surfing, there are a few great burgers hiding. This weekend, we traveled up the California coast to visit one that has been overlooked by time and taste buds.
Plenty of the Inland expatriates who reign in Santa Barbara, feigning local status after a four-year stumble through UCSB, like to run around proclaiming the burgers at The Habit are the best in town. I had The Habit's burgers at the popular State Street location a year ago but was not so impressed. (Still, I'll revisit The Habit now that A Hamburger Today guides my eating regimen.)
True Santa Barbara locals, however, know what Char West is capable of. There was a time when this shack held burger dominance in SB, with a few locations dotting the picturesque municipality and providing tasty char-grilled hamburgers, thick fries, and even thicker shakes. Then came a sad day; these beef-slinging shops started shutting down. We are blessed, though, that a hidden outpost still remains on the city's historic Stearns Wharf, which is tourist-crammed in summer and barren in winter. I believe Char West still has Santa Barbara's best hamburgers, cheeseburgers, and double burgers.
Char West clings to the wharf, lonely save for occasional day-trippers or die-hard fans making their way to the middle of the ocean. The shack's dramatic setting puts it in first-place for "Burger with the Best View Award," lingering low above the waters of the dark-blue Pacific. After a tiring day of ducking bullets and surfing the death-defying waters of gritty south-central Montecito, AHT drove over the rickety wooden boards that form the wharf, past a plethora of travelin' company from the Midwest, local fisherman casting their rods into the drink below, and lovers taking in sweeping coastal views.
As a longtime fan of Char West, whose decor features a wall-mounted harpoon, I knew to skip such menu options as clam chowder and fish and chips and to go right to the cheeseburger, which is what it's all about here. Sharing an outside table with an uncommonly mellow seagull, I was soon lost in thought, watching nearby sailboats bob in the bay. Seven minutes later, my cheeseburger was ready, straight from the char-fired grill. A plump sandwich with American cheese atop tomato, pickle, shredded lettuce, and a special sauce that tastes a little like Thousand Island but which is thicker and less tangy, the cheeseburger is wrapped in simple white paper and sports a nondescript but decent bun.
Biting into the Char West cheeseburger is awesome: A warm patty with slightly crispy sides contrasts with the cool lettuce and sauce; along with the other understated toppings, neither lettuce nor sauce overpowers the meat, instead doing their intended job of backing things up and providing a nice balance. The meat is the center of attention, its thin but delightfully dense span giving a mouthful of flavor and complemented by a just-slightly noticeable kiss from the charcoal grill. Char West almost has a more rugged In-N-Out feel, with fresh ingredients and a solid old-school patty. Like most things in Santa Barbara, though, it is more expensive.
I could easily eat two of these savory and delectable burgers*. However, like feeding the sea birds that sometimes gather around your table, eyeing your ground-beef prize with psychotic eyes, it is not recommended.
Location On Stearns Wharf, Santa Barbara. (Start at the end of State Street at Cabrillo Blvd., and keep going toward Hawaii, onto the wharf, past the dolphin fountain, for parking.)
Phone: None listed
Cost: Hamburger, $3.55; cheeseburger, $3.75
Short Order: Current titleholder of Burger with the Best View Award
* Thankfully I didn't, which allowed me to scarf some surprise sliders served at the Brad Pitt-stalking-paparazzi-saturated Casa Del Mar Hotel, at its party for tapas and Spanish wine in Santa Monica that night. Hmmmm, right after Tiny Hamburger Week. Coincidence?
Large photo at top and aerial photo of wharf from SantaBarbara.com
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The City of Scottsdale reserves the right to control the level of sound on any entertainment production presented on the property. Sound levels shall be adjusted to conform to all applicable laws and ordinances.
Due to the physical location of WestWorld, the complications of outdoor performances and wind changes, there can be significant challenges regarding sound levels with neighboring areas.
For more information, please call WestWorld at 480-312-6815.