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Barrow Borough Council is committed to providing a responsible waste collection service. Recycling is important because it reduces the amount of waste that we throw away and provides valuable products for manufacturing. This saves residents money by reducing the disposal costs and by providing an income to the Council.
We will provide you with boxes and bags for you to put your recyclable materials into.
Please note that recycling boxes are currently out of stock and there will be a 4 week delay. Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused.
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You should place your recycling containers at the curtilage (on the road or pavement outside your property) by 7am on the day of your collection.
Please be aware that brown bins are currently out of stock and we will not be delivering any until further notice.
The container will be placed inside the curtilage of your property (either the garden or yard) unless you give us instructions to leave it elsewhere. If we cannot gain access to your back yard we will not leave the container. We will try to deliver the container within 21 days of you making the request. We deliver on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. If we haven't been able to access your property we will try a second time on Friday.
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If you and other people living in your property are unable to place the containers at the curtilage we can offer an assisted collection.
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Please put paper in a separate box.
Please don't put things in plastic bags.
Please don't put building rubble, plastic bags or sacks in the bin.
If you placed your recycling containers at the curtilage of your property by 7am on the day of your collection and it wasn't emptied please report it to us.
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If you report a missed bin and it isn't collected within 72 hours please let us know.
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If you have any other things you would like to tell us about please use our feedback form.
The Council provides a number of recycling centres throughout the Borough.
Five different recyclable materials paper, glass, cans, cardboard and plastic can be placed in the same container and we will separate them.
Separate containers may be provided by charitable organisations for clothing, shoes and books at some recycling centres, these do not belong to Barrow Borough Council.
Please remember to rinse out glass, cans and plastic containers before recycling them.
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Waste issues are becoming increasingly important in the UK. In the past the waste management industry of the UK has traditionally pursued the cheapest method of waste disposal, known as land filling.
Barrow will run out of landfill space in less than eight years time, unless we continue to RECYCLE more of our Household waste. If we continue at the present rate it would take less than five years to fill Lake Windermere with Cumbria's household waste.
There are a number of things you, as a Borough resident can do to make a difference. Firstly, use these web pages to find out how you can RECYCLE your waste in the Barrow area. The links will give you details of services provided by the Borough Council and where you may take your waste for recycling.
However, there are many ways in which you can help Barrow to divert waste from landfill, not just through recycling.
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Sandy Isenberg, a former Lucas County commissioner and a former chairman of the county's Democratic Party, has filed a lawsuit against Northwest Ohio Cardiology Consultants Inc., claiming she slipped and fell as a result of the business' negligence.
Ms. Isenberg, who sued Monday in Lucas County Common Pleas Court, is seeking $250,000 for her medical treatment and pain and suffering after incurring knee, wrist, and lower back injuries.
Her complaint claims that she slipped and fell on March 10, 2003, at 2940 North McCord Rd., Sylvania Township.


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Women love a big strong man who can sweep them off their feet and carry them into the sunset — but you may be surprised to learn that one of the top female sex fantasies is to have that same big strong man begging for sexual release in the bedroom. The entire scenario revolves around you worshipping her body and begging for her attention. Why? She gets to be in control while enjoying total devotion from her man in the process. What more could she want?
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THE LITTLE MERMAID Receives Tokyo Premiere
by BWW News Desk BroadwayWorld.com Nov. 1, 2012Producer and President of Disney Theatrical Productions, Thomas Schumacher and Shiki Theatre Company announced today that they will continue their ongoing producing partnership with The Little Mermaid, which will open in Tokyo, Japan on Sunday, April 7th, 2013 at Shiki's Natsu Theatre.
Along with the critically-acclaimed productions in Holland and Moscow, The Little Mermaid in Tokyo will be one of three currently running premiere productions of an entirely original version of the show. The production is being helmed by a creative team including director Glenn Casale (Beauty and the Beast) with set and costume design by five-time Tony® Award winner, Bob Crowley (Tarzan, Mary Poppins, Aida). The score features the classic songs: "Part of Your World," "Kiss the Girl" and the Academy Award®-winning Best Original Song, "Under the Sea," composed by eight-time Academy Award® and Tony® Award winner Alan Menken and his longtime collaborator, the late Howard Ashman, as well as 10 new songs by Mr. Menken and lyricist Glenn Slater, with book by Doug Wright.
The Little Mermaid will mark the fourth collaboration between Disney Theatrical Productions and Shiki Theatre Company following the successful and current runs of Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King and AIDA.


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From the founding editor of The Idler, the celebrated magazine about the freedom and fine art of doing nothing, comes not simply a book, but an antidote to our work-obsessed culture. In How to Be Idle, Tom Hodgkinson presents his learned yet whimsical argument for a new universal standard of living: being happy doing nothing. He covers a whole spectrum of issues affecting the modern idler—sleep, work, pleasure, relationships—while reflecting on the writing of such famous apologists for it as Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Nietzsche—all of whom have admitted to doing their very best work in bed.
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"In these stress-filled times . . . we should all give ourselves the gift of reading this debut." — Library Journal
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His 2013/14 includes Bottom at the Metropolitan Opera, Leporello at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin, Enrico VIII Anna Bolena for the Opéra de Bordeaux and Talbot at Covent Garden. Future seasons see him return to the Glyndebourne Festival, the Metropolitan Opera, to Covent Garden and make his debuts at the Lyric Opera of Chicago.
In great demand on the concert platform, highlights have included engagements with the London Symphony Orchestra and Sir Colin Davis, Harding and Tilson Thomas; the Dresden Staatskapelle with Mackerras; the Los Angeles Philharmonic with Dudamel; the London Philharmonic Orchestra with Nézet-Séguin; the BBC Symphony Orchestra with Sir Andrew Davis; the Accademia Santa Cecilia with Pappano; and the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra with Langrée. This season his engagements include the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra with Gardner; the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra with Jurowski; L'Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique with Gardiner and his debut with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Dutoit.
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Jason Ruchaber is head of HAI's business valuation services and is a Partner in the Firm's Colorado office. Jason has more than 16 years of finance and valuation experience, the last twelve of which have been spent exclusively in business valuation and litigation consulting. Prior to joining HealthCare Appraisers, Jason was a Principal in Cogence Group, P.C., a boutique business valuation and litigation support firm located in Portland, Oregon. Jason has also worked in Standard & Poor's Corporate Value Consulting practice where he focused on intellectual property valuation and damages calculations.
Jason received a degree in Finance from the University of Texas at Austin, has earned the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation, and is an Accredited Senior Appraiser (ASA). He is a member of the CFA Institute, the Denver Society of Financial Analysts, the American Society of Appraisers, and the Licensing Executives Society International. Jason is a frequent speaker and author on healthcare valuation topics.


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For Steven Ancheta, the time is long past for more arguments about online education's merits and convenience.
The West Covina resident, who is enrolled in a fully online program for a bachelor's degree from Arizona State University, praised the experience and the chance for working people to take evening or weekend classes.
His positive view about online education was strongly supported in a new USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times poll. Among the registered voters who participated in the survey, 59% said they agreed with the idea that increasing the number of online classes at California's public universities will make education more affordable and accessible. However, 34% expressed fears that expanding online classes will reduce access to professors, diminish the value of college degrees and not save money.
For Ancheta, 21, an accounts manager at a telephone company who participated in the poll, the scheduling freedom of online classes "is a very pleasant alternative." Moreover, he said, "You can pull away the exact same amount of knowledge you can pull away from a traditional classroom."
The support for online education comes as government and university leaders nationwide are debating whether to expand those computerized classes that usually include videotaped lectures and digital chat rooms.
Gov. Jerry Brown has proposed giving the University of California and California State University systems each $10 million more next year to add online offerings, despite some faculty skepticism. Several California public universities have joined with such commercial providers as Coursera and Udacity for online courses that enroll thousands of students at a time.
Increasing online courses, as long as those classes are not mandatory, was favored across age ranges in the poll. Countering stereotypes that older people might fear technology, 60% of survey respondents over the age of 50 liked the idea while 58% of those between 18 and 49 said they did.
Such a broad response probably is due to rising familiarity with all sorts of technology, suggested Drew Lieberman, a vice president of Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research, a Democratic firm that conducted the poll with American Viewpoint, a Republican company.
"I think … this is becoming pretty standard operating procedure in both how we live and how education is accessed," he said. "The online world is less of a threat and becoming more of an accepted resource for all generations."
However, some poll respondents expressed concern that online classes will be marred by cheating. Opponents, such as Adriana Martinez of Anaheim, also think that online learning is inferior to face-to-face feedback from a professor and classmates.
"It's the lack of interaction more than anything," said Martinez, 23, who earned a Cal State Fullerton accounting degree two years ago and recently took online classes for a real estate broker's license.
The poll found substantial opposition to another possible campus change: increasing the share of students from other states and nations. Even though non-Californians pay much higher tuition, 57% of the poll respondents said that adding out-of-state students will squeeze out Californians and make UC and Cal State less affordable. Just 33% agreed with the position that more non-Californians will help support state universities without raising taxes.
The issue is focused at UC, which aggressively recruits out-of-staters for the additional $23,000 a year they must pay in addition to regular tuition. Those students are expected to make up about 10% of UC undergraduates across the system in 2013-14, but their presence will be much higher at UCLA and UC Berkeley, where non-Californians were 16% and 21% of undergraduates last fall.
Eric Smith, an insurance consultant from Carlsbad, said he worries that state campuses will treat out-of-staters as a "revenue generating machine" and leave less room for state residents such as his own four children, who range in age from 7 to 14. Cal State and UC may abandon their "core purpose to educate the people of California," said Smith, 40.
The poll found solid opposition to the governor's plan to withhold some state funding if UC and Cal State don't increase the percentages of students who earn degrees within four years by 10%. Just over half of respondents said that could lead professors to inflate grades and schools to lower graduation requirements; only 40% favored Brown's idea.
However, in a closer split, the survey showed 45% in favor and 42% against Brown's related proposal to freeze tuition for four years and to cut some funds if the campuses raise fees. After hearing arguments for and against the proposal, the bigger share of respondents agreed that it would make college more affordable for the middle class. The others said it would lower quality. (Tuition will not be raised next year above UC's current annual $12,200 for California undergraduates and Cal State's $5,500, not including room, board and campus fees. Financial aid is available.)
Overall, the survey showed that perceptions of higher education were not as badly shaken by funding cutbacks during the recent recession as some observers assumed. UC and Cal State were judged to be in "good shape" by 41% in the poll and in "bad shape" by 37%; 47% thought the schools were improving or staying the same, compared with 36% who believed things were worsening.
Costs remain a big concern: Only 38% said it was very or somewhat affordable to attend UC or Cal State, while 56% said it was "not too affordable" or "not at all affordable."
The poll, which interviewed 1,500 registered California voters by telephone, was conducted May 27 through June 2 for the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and the Los Angeles Times. The survey has an overall margin of error of 2.9 percentage points in either direction.


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When you are in a survival situation, every second counts. This blaze bar paracord bracelet is designed to quickly deploy. How quick you ask? Under 20 seconds! It is one of the better weaves I found for survival purposes, due to the fact you can get it apart so quickly and easily.
Follow this tutorial to make your very own blaze bar paracord bracelet and be at ease knowing you're a little more ready for an emergency situation.
This is my first instructable, and I am curious to know what you think. I will likely publish more tutorials here on instructables as well as my site, depending on interest. Let me know what you think in comments, either on instructables or on my site! I would also love project suggestions. I have gotten pretty good at paracord weaving, and hopefully, with giving clear instructions.
I have been trying out several different survival weave bracelets, and this is one of the best. I also like the tire tread paracord bracelet, the oat spike paracord bracelet, and the cobra paracord bracelet, which I currently have posted on my site.
Check out some of my stuff here: DIY Projects at DIYready.com
and if you are interested in Survival and Preparedness, I just put this together. Most have tutorials I wrote. All tested.
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I also have a super tutorial on making a How to Make A Paracord Belt Instructions there, an awesome quick deploy survival belt using Slatt's Rescue Weave, with tons of photos of the process. You end up with a belt that quickly allows you to access 100 feet of paracord. The weave is a little tricky, but once you get the hang of it, it takes only a couple of hours to make. Looks awesome. I am going to put a video up on that one as well.
The original post I did for this blaze bar weave is here: , Making a Blaze Bar Paracord Bracelet
I know that is a lot to say about my site, but if there is interest on instructables, I will be reposting these here. Wanted to give you the links for now. I just built this smokehouse out of pallets. Think I will post it next.
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To get started, attach your paracord to one side of your buckle:
Fold your piece in half and thread it through the buckle.
Pull the ends through the loop you made and pull tight.
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American Equity Investment Life Holding Co. (NYSE:AEL) delivered a profit and beat Wall Street's expectations, AND beat the revenue expectation. The revenue beat is a positive sign to shareholders seeking high growth out of the company.
American Equity Investment Life Holding Co. Earnings Cheat Sheet
Results: Adjusted Earnings Per Share increased 18.6% to $0.51 in the quarter versus EPS of $0.43 in the year-earlier quarter.
Revenue: Rose 127.43% to $438.9 million from the year-earlier quarter.
Actual vs. Wall St. Expectations: American Equity Investment Life Holding Co. reported adjusted EPS income of $0.51 per share. By that measure, the company beat the mean analyst estimate of $0.45. It beat the average revenue estimate of $333.34 million.
Quoting Management: David J. Noble, founder and Executive Chairman said: "Second quarter 2013 financial results were very satisfactory. Assets under management grew 4% from last quarter which includes sales of $1.1 billion. Our operating income per share, exclusive of the charge for the ELNY state guaranty fund assessments, grew 19% year over year and translated into an 11.1% return on average equity for the trailing 12 months. And most importantly, our investment spread for the quarter was 2.70% and we made significant progress investing our excess cash and short-term investments into higher yielding investments."
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Fri 14th Jun 2013 8:00amJim Hurt's Tamarindo Surf Report
Well, with rain forecasted this afternoon, tried an early paddleout at Pico and it was pretty fun. Sunny, glassy to semi-glass, only two guys out and a mild off shore blowing from the estero. Surf was running 2-4, with a few waves pushing 5 foot. Plenty of nice peaks inside, but only the occasional middles wave and then a rare one off the reef as the tide dropped. Fun overall... Photo: Longboard Mary at Rivermouth, by Fabian
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Monday, June 06, 2011
Persian Puff Pastry Cookies
These are the Yazdi Turnover Pastry with Cardamom (aka Sanbuseh) cookies from Silk Road Cooking. I made them a little while back and loved them! I think this is maybe only the second time I've ever bought/used puff pastry, since it's not exactly health food. But how cool that it's so easy to find vegan puff pastry at the supermarket! Don't they look beautiful and puffy?!
These cookies are stuffed with the most amazing filling EVER. I think I will have to make the filling and just eat it on its own. It's a simple but alluring combo of almonds, sugar, cardamom and rose water... somehow those few ingredients combine into a glorious hallelujah moment of tastiness. Once baked, the cookies are rolled (gently, now!) in powdered sugar and sprinkled with ground pistachios. Now I'm all jazzed up to find more excuses to make these again... they're that good!
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By Kim Ode Star Tribune (Minneapolis)
Cornbread may not have been front and center, but we suspect it also was a source of contention during the Civil War.
Or as it is also known: The War Between the Recipes.
Even today, Southerners maintain that not even a smidgen of sugar should besmirch their beloved cornbread. Northerners, ever girding themselves for winter, like their cornbread a little sweet.
Southerners call for bacon fat, while Northerners think butter is just fine. There are buttermilk camps and plain milk camps.
Then there are the doctorers, who can't help but stir in some diced jalapenos, shredded cheddar cheese, crumbled bacon, corn kernels, even dollops of jam.
In the end, though, it all comes down to the corniness of the cornbread.
Today's recipe combines the best parts of two great recipes, one from Cook's Illustrated and the other from Cook's Country, both under the umbrella of America's Test Kitchen (although perhaps not on speaking terms?).
In any case, the resulting cornbread uses 100 percent cornmeal (making it gluten-free) that gets a brief soak in buttermilk. It makes a good cornbread.
Then we added the kernels from a couple of ears of sweet corn, pureed and cooked down just a bit into a sort of "corn butter." It's an extra step, but vaults this good cornbread into the territory of great, and makes savvy use of this season's sweet corn.
The Cook's Country recipe works because the cornmeal softens in the buttermilk, making a moist bread with no graininess.
The Cook's Illustrated recipe works because pureeing the kernels avoids those weird chewy pockets in the bread, or corn that grows tough in the oven's heat.
The recipes split on the sugar question, but we sided with leaving out the sweetener. That's what a drizzle of honey is for, right?
If you have a cast-iron or other ovenproof skillet, please use that. But a regular 9-by-9-inch metal pan works well, too. Preheating either pan creates the crispest crust.
And if you want to swap in bacon fat for the butter, y'all go ahead.
After all, the idea is to ensure that a nation of cornbread of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth. Nor from our plates.
Fresh corn skillet cornbread
2 1/4 cups fine-ground cornmeal
2 cups buttermilk
2 ears of sweet corn, kernels cut from cobs (about 1 to 1 1/2 cups)
1/4 cup canola or vegetable oil
4 tablespoons unsalted butter, cut in 4 pieces
2 eggs, beaten
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Place rack in middle position. Place 10-inch cast-iron or ovenproof skillet or 9- by 9-inch metal pan in oven to preheat for 10 minutes.
In a large bowl, whisk together cornmeal and buttermilk. Set aside.
Process the corn kernels in a blender until very smooth, about 1 minute. Transfer to a medium saucepan and cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until thick and deep yellow, about 5 minutes. Remove from heat and set aside.
Carefully add the oil to the hot skillet and continue to bake until oil is just smoking, about 5 minutes. Remove from oven and add butter, carefully swirling pan until butter is melted. Pour all but 1 tablespoon of oil mixture into the cornmeal, leaving remaining oil mixture in pan. Whisk corn purée, beaten eggs, baking powder, baking soda and salt into cornmeal mixture until well-combined.
Pour mixture into the hot skillet and bake until top begins to crack and edges are golden brown, 20 to 22 minutes. Let cornbread cool in pan for 5 minutes. Place a plate over the top of cornbread, then carefully turn over the skillet until the cornbread releases. Then cover cornbread with a serving plate and flip it so it's right-side up. Serve warm.
Note: This recipe is adapted from recipes by Cook's Country and Cook's Illustrated. If making this with frozen corn, the small "shoepeg" variety works particularly well. Thaw before pureeing.
Variations: Stir in 1/4 cup chopped jalapenos, 3/4 cup shredded Cheddar or pepper jack cheese, or 3 to 4 slices cooked and crumbled bacon just before baking.
Makes 12 servings. Per serving: Calories: 230; Fat: 10 g; sodium: 400 mg; carbohydrates: 29 g; saturated fat: 3 g; Calcium: 77 mg; protein: 5 g; cholesterol: 43 mg; dietary fiber: 2 g.


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Investment under uncertainty with price ceilings in oligopolies
We study the impact of price cap regulation on the level and timing of investment in an oligopolistic (Cournot) industry facing stochastic demand. We find that a price ceiling affects investment decisions in two mutually competing ways: it makes the option to defer investment more valuable, but at the same time it reduces the incentive for firms to strategically underinvest in order to raise prices. We show that while sensible price cap regulation speeds up investment, a low price cap can be a disincentive for investment. There exists an optimal price cap independent of market concentration - the competitive investment price trigger - that maximizes investment incentives and in the long term increases industry installed capacity. This optimal price cap becomes less effective and less robust as the market becomes more competitive and as demand volatility increases. Errors in estimation of the optimal price cap have asymmetric effects: underestimation has more dire consequences than overestimation.
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Volume (Year): 33 (2009)
Issue (Month): 2 (February)
Pages: 507-524
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This Thursday is Veteran's Day, a time when Americans pause to thank those who have served the country and remember the sacrifices they have made. It's a chance for Americans to express their support for the troops serving today and show our gratitude for all that they do to keep us free and safe.
Well, as long as they don't disturb our precious right to relax in the slightest. Air Force Flyover Plan Draws Flak (WSJ-sub req):
The U.S. Air Force thinks the rough-hewn peaks of southwest Colorado and northern New Mexico make excellent surrogates for the treacherous mountain ranges in global hotspots such as Afghanistan. Some local residents beg to differ.
In a bid to provide Special Operations pilots more realistic simulations of wartime missions, the Air Force has proposed a vast new tactical training zone that stretches across 94,000 square miles of rugged terrain. Starting next year, commanders want to send C-130 transport planes and CV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft skimming across the region after dark at altitudes as low as 200 feet and speeds of up to 288 miles per hour. They envision three sorties a night.
The pilots would dart among the ridges and dip low over the rangeland, practicing the stealth needed for covert operations, said Col. Stephen Clark, wing commander at New Mexico's Cannon Air Force Base, which is pushing the proposal.
Pilots would be required to avoid cities in the zone, including Santa Fe and Taos in New Mexico and Aspen, Pueblo and Durango in Colorado. But communities and residents fighting the Air Force say that hundreds of low-altitude flights each year will spook cattle, scare children, rattle adobe buildings, create pollution and mar the tranquility they cherish.
So on the one hand you have an Air Force training plan that will better prepare pilots for conditions they will face in Afghanistan and likely save lives and on the other you have people who are unwilling to have their mellow harshed in any way. Air crews who put their lives on the line every day to protect and defend the country versus spoiled citizens who are outraged that they might ever have to sacrifice anything for anyone no matter how serious the cause. Geez, hard to decide who's in the right here.
Military officers say the fears are overblown. The Air Force already sends pilots zipping across the region, at times as low as 200 feet above the ground, though current regulations have the effect of limiting night sorties to a half-dozen well-surveyed routes, Col. Clark said.
Under the new proposal, pilots would be allowed to map their own routes through the tactical training zone, increasing the challenge and realism of the training, Col. Clark said. It would also tend to disperse the noise and disruption across a broader area. He said he doesn't anticipate that any one village or ranch would experience the aircraft overhead more than a couple times a month.
Col. Clark said the military has not measured noise levels of aircraft flyovers at 200 feet. For someone standing on the ground, aircraft at an altitude of 500 feet would create a sound exposure of 91 to 95 decibels, or "somewhere between a lawn mower and a chain saw," he said.
Having to put up with the sound of a lawn mower or chain saw for a brief period of time at most a couple of times a month knowing that the reason for the sound is to better train pilots for conditions they will face on the battlefield? No wonder these folks are so outraged.
Kathleen Dudley plans to throw herself into fighting the Air Force should commanders choose to move ahead. A writer in Mora, N.M., northeast of Santa Fe, Ms. Dudley said she and her husband were eating lunch on their deck recently when a military aircraft screamed overhead, flying so low "that we were looking into the eyeballs of a pilot bearing down on us."
"I was terrified," she said. "You don't hear or see them until they're upon you, and then it's like being in a war zone."
Yes, Ms. Dudley exactly like being in a war zone. Except ten seconds later the plane is gone and you and your husband are still sitting on your deck eating your precious lunch. Hope the PTSD isn't getting to you yet.
In fairness, there are some voices of reason among the citizenry on this matter:
"We always thank our servicemen and our veterans. We pray for their safety," said Chris Calvert, a former Air Force pilot who now serves on the Santa Fe City Council. "To then turn around and say, 'But we don't want to be inconvenienced in the least by your getting the training you need' is hypocritical."
Indeed it is.


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Rory McIlroy is a slight favorite to win the Championship British Open which begins on Thursday at Royal Liverpool. There is no question that McIlroy has the talent to win any event he enters but he faces some strong challengers including world #1 Adam Scott, #2 Henrik Stenson and of course Tiger Woods. Normally Tiger would be favored but he is coming back from injury and he has looked nowhere near his former self. He is still popular though so oddsmakers have him listed as the co-second choice along with Scott, Stenson and Martin Kaymer.
Here is a look at the tournament and British Open picks.
Top Contenders
In most majors you can put a lot of players in the "contender" category because all of the top players in the world are in the field. McIlroy is the favorite but you can make a case for McIlroy, Scott, Stenson and Kaymer. It is hard to make a case for Tiger based on how he played two weeks ago at Congressional when he didn't even make the cut. Also in the mix could be Justin Rose, defending champion Phil Mickelson and Graeme McDowell.
There are a few golfers who are listed just outside the top group who are way overdue for a big win. They are Jason Day, Lee Westwood and Sergio Garcia. You can get any one of those three at odds of about 25-1. I think you can put Dustin Johnson, Luke Donald, Matt Kuchar and Ian Poulter into this category as well and they are all about 30-1.
British Open Predictions
It would not surprise me to see McIlroy win but I still don't know if he can avoid mistakes. Adam Scott has a little more value and he has proven he can win big events. "I have fond memories of Royal Liverpool, it was my first top-ten at The Open and I hope this year I am again in the hunt on Sunday," said Scott. For a longshot, how about taking Angel Cabrera at odds of about 40-1? He finished 7th when this event was held at Royal Liverpool back in 2006 and he is coming off a win last week.
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Up to three times a day, Green Acres Ranch activities coordinator Colleen Julian leads a small group on horseback through a 75-minute, 3-mile trail ride in Temecula Valley Wine Country.
But weeks ago, the ride through shady pepper trees that featured views of surrounding mountains had to be re-routed when a neighbor erected a fence across the trail.
âThis is an example of what is being put up,â Julian said on a trail ride Friday, Sept. 27, adding that property ownersâ disdain for horses is threatening a lifestyle going back decades.
âItâs a huge concern.â
Itâs a trend occurring throughout Southwest Riverside County, said Lynn Mattocks, a Menifee resident and member of the Riverside County Trails Commission. Some newcomers donât like people riding horses along edges of their land because they feel their privacy is invaded, or are afraid of potential liability if an accident happens.
âAnd the next thing you know, theyâre out there putting a fence up,â Mattocks said.
Riverside County officials are preparing to adopt by yearâs end an ambitious blueprint for winery expansion. The countyâs Wine Country Community Plan would set the stage for a more than doubling of the 42 or so current wineries, and construction of posh resorts featuring hotels, restaurants and special event centers.
Largely hashed out by a 19-member stakeholder committee that had equestrians on it, the proposal seeks to integrate new and existing wineries with the established horse ranches to the south. And trails are an important feature of the plan.
That plan calls for preservation of existing trails as well as the addition of new ones.
Preservation is crucial, said Pat Ommert, a long-time area equestrian. The 83 year old said the Wine Country trail system has eroded somewhat after reaching an estimated 70 miles of trails at one point.
To hold on to what remains, equestrians are compiling records of established trail easements across properties.
Gil Pankonin, president of the Rancho California Horsemenâs Association, said they are also negotiating with wineries and other property owners to secure agreements for new easements to plug gaps in the network.
Pankon said making connections is critical. Without them, he said, riders âwill be able to go a mile and turn around and come back. How much fun is that?â
With connections, tourists will be able to ride multiple places and visit favorite wineries -- several of which have installed hitching posts, said Green Acres Ranch owner Margaret Rich.


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Note: It's time for another weekly Market Scene dispatch. Each Monday, one of our various correspondents checks in with what's fresh at farmstands, what's coming up, and what you better get while the gettin's good. This week, we hear from Louise Brescia, who you may know better around these parts as therealchiffonade. —The Mgmt.
I enjoyed strolling through the Marietta Square Farmer's Market in Marietta, Georgia, over the weekend. It has a street fair atmosphere in close quarters under tents. I was greeted by vibrant bouquets of bright flowers and striking sunflowers. This market is heavy on artisan products—they had everything from Old World-style baguettes (snagged one), goat cheese (that too), meat pot pies, decorated cupcakes and cakes, and several vendors with jams.
With peaches on the mind, I was happy to see several Georgia-grown stands. Choosing was a matter of who had the prettiest peaches for the best price. Ogeechee Peaches from Millen, Georgia, had beautiful peaches by the case for $35. First things first—to the car with the case then return for more strolling, tasting, oohing and ahhing.
Emily G's Jam of Love was irresistible, but I managed to stop myself at two jars. Raspberry Jalapeno, a combination of two of my favorite flavors and Roasted Pepper Jelly were tucked nicely into a small bag for the trip home.
Gorgeous artisan baguettes beckoned from Olde World Artisan Bread Co. Who was I to argue?? Goat cheese from Coles Lake Dairy in Carrolton, Georgia, was pristine white and fresh.
I grabbed some green tomatoes and some plums from one of the produce vendors and it was time to go home and create.
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Antonín DVOŘÁK (1841-1904) String Quartet No.12 in F major, Op. 96 'American' [26:40] Bedrich SMETANA (1824-1884) String Quartet No.1 in E minor 'From My Life' [26:32] Tokyo String Quartet rec. February 2006, Richard B. Fisher Centre for the Performing Arts, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York HARMONIA MUNDI HMU 807429 [53:21] Many, like myself, will be sad to hear of the Tokyo Quartet's disbanding in July 2013. This has been a reluctant decision for them after their longest serving members, the second violin Kikuei Ikeda and viola Kazuhide Isomura, decided to retire. Founded in 1969 at the Juilliard School of Music, and in existence for 44 years they have been at the top of their game, and they leave behind a legacy of very fine recordings. This CD of late romantic chamber music, by the two Czech composers Dvořák and Smetana, is their valedictory recording. What a way to bow out! In 1882, Dvořák accepted the post as director of the National Conservatory of Music in New York. For this he received an annual salary of $15,000, a considerable sum in those days. A year later in 1893, he took a vacation in Spillville, Iowa, where there was a Bohemian community. It was here that he composed his 'American' Quartet, Op. 96 in just fifteen days, in a burst of feverish creativity. He had not long completed his Symphony in E minor 'From the New World'. This Quartet was to become his most celebrated chamber work. Dvořák's motive for going to New York was ostensibly to imbibe American culture. Whilst there he researched African-American and Native-American music. These influences were absorbed into his 'American compositions' (the E minor Symphony, the Op. 96 Quartet and the String Quintet, Op.97). The Tokyo Quartet play the Dvořák with great ardour and commitment. The performance is imbued with warmth and intimacy. I listened to the performance several times in conjunction with the other recordings of this work in my collection. The work opens with shimmering strings ushering in the 'big tune' on the viola. I thought the Tokyo's sound was more immediate and vivid than the Prague Quartet (DG 463 165). They also achieve more warmth and expressivity in the beautiful second subject. The Panocha on Supraphon (SU 3815) delivers a more intense performance with more forward momentum, again in good sound. The Janáček Quartet (DG 474 010), making allowances for the age of the 1956 recording, are more sprightly. I love the way in the Lento movement that the violin melody is lovingly shaped against the accompanying strings by the Tokyo. As the movement progresses the dialogue between the four instruments opens out. Again, the Panocha captivates the listener with their lyricism and sheer passion. After the melancholic sublimity of the second movement, the final two movements are more upbeat and of a sunny disposition. At this point, I part company with the Janáček and Prague, in deference to the Tokyo and the Panocha who have the slight edge. The Tokyo Quartet offer great warmth and sensitivity, and an immediacy and intimacy which draws the listener in. However, the Panocha seem more irresistible in having all these qualities plus the added bonus of more clarity and definition, striking in the jaunty syncopations of the finale. Smetana is regarded as the father of Czech music. Apart from several minor works written in his youth, he composed only four substantial chamber works. 1874 was a momentous year for him. He had reached the landmark age of fifty and suffered encroaching deafness, which resulted in him resigning his post, forcing an early retirement. He moved to a village in north Bohemia, where he became dependent on his daughter and her husband. He was to spend his remaining years in composition. In 1876 he set to work composing his first string quartet. It was completed by the end of the year. Given the title 'From My Life', it is an autobiographical portrait. He charts the progress of his life from the joys of youth, love and art, to the final movement which speaks of his growing awareness of the deafness which was to shroud his life. By 1884 this was to result in a complete mental collapse, and the ending of his days in an institution. The quartet opens like the Dvořák with the shimmering strings heralding the viola tune, but this time it is cast in a darker vein. Dvořák had played the viola in the first private airing of the work, and it became a source of inspiration for his 'American' Quartet. The Tokyo Quartet play with passionate intensity, and deep conviction. The second movement is extremely well phrased and characterized. The ensemble is taut. The Dante Quartet on Hyperion CDA67845 do not have as much swagger here. The Tokyo conjures up nostalgia and yearning in the slow movement. There is real beauty of sound. Then we come to the finale which is well articulated. There is much sharper and clearer definition than in the Dante's performance, which sounds a little congested in parts. Then the music is interrupted with a high-pitched note which Smetana described as 'the fateful ringing of the high-pitched tones in my ears'. The opening viola theme is recalled and the quartet ends quietly and darkly. You feel, by the end of the work, that the Tokyo has taken you on a journey. These are compelling versions by the Tokyo Quartet of two masterpieces of Czech nationalistic composers. They stand up well in a competitive field where there is no shortage of excellent recordings. The eponymous Smetana Quartet were closely associated with the Smetana work. I listened to the Supraphon 1985 studio version (C37S-7339) and the BBC Legends live 1965 RFH performance. Whilst these are benchmark recordings, the Tokyo offers an alternative in state-of-the-art sound. Booklet notes and presentation are admirable. I definitely give the thumbs-up to this recording. Stephen Greenbank Masterwork Insdex: Dvorak 'American' quartet


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In Season: Ramps [1]
This time of year, I'm all eyes for ramps [5]—the garlicky, wild onions that are a sure sign of spring. The season is so fleeting and the supply so limited, that ramp-focused dishes are usually served as specials.
I caught my first glimpse of the allium over the weekend at Bittersweet [6], where chef and co-owner Olav Peterson showcased the vegetable in two dishes: a Parisian-inspired snails appetizer (pictured) with potato purée, sautéed ramps, and fried leeks; and the dazzling halibut cheeks with ramp-almond pesto and a succotash of sorts with spring squash and heirloom cherry tomatoes.
Other spots around town are using the spring bulb in equally exciting ways: At Elway's [7], chef Tyler Wiard, who says ramps are his favorite vegetable, creams, chars, smokes, and stirs them into flan, aïoli, and hollandaise. Inside Table 6 [8]'s kitchen, chef Scott Parker is considering ramp-speared scallops and black trumpet gnocchi. And Paul Reilly, chef-owner of Encore [9], envisions a dish of chicken-fried chicken livers and a BLT salad and ramp-yogurt ranch dressing.
Bonus: The best way to prolong the season is to pickle the vegetable. Look for these pickles to show up paired with rabbit or fish at Luca D'Italia [10] and even behind the bar in Second Home [11]'s bloody mary.
Bittersweet, 500 E. Alameda Ave., 303-942-0320
Elways's, 2500 E. First Ave., 303-399-5353
Table 6, 609 Corona St., 303-831-8800
Encore, 2550 E. Colfax Ave., 303-355-1112
Luca D'Italia, 711 Grant St., 303-832-6600
Second Home, 150 Clayton Lane, 303-253-3000


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The online world has so expanded the reach of authors and writers, by collapsing the publication and distribution functions into one, that we sometimes forget the challenge that the world of traditional publishing posed for certain groups who were long on literacy but short of funds. One such realm was the publication and distribution of commentary to religious texts for primary use by religious scholars and their students. For them, the printed book was paramount, but the ability to publish and distribute such books frequently encountered the problem of how to obtain the necessary funding to enable it to take place.
One prominent example is the world of rabbinic commentary in the Jewish tradition. Reaching back to preserved oral commentary from over two millennia ago, a rich literature continues to be produced by rabbis and their talmudic students. And therein lies the problem---no less than for a book publisher in the secular world, the iron laws of economic prevail. How could the rabbinic scholar who wished to publish cover the costs of production and distribution where his income is minuscule?
The solution was the phenomenon of the "prenumerantum" (more or less transliterated from the Yiddish word-- פרענומעראנטן--meaning "pre-subscribers").
In a fascinating article written (in Hebrew) by Avishai Elboim, a curator at the Tel-Aviv Municipal Library, the author describes a unique publishing ecology in place for hundreds of years. The "prenumerantum" was intended to recruit sponsors for the intended work. As described by Elboim, it worked this way:
"... [T]he names of the sponsors are listed at the back of the back. For most books, the list is by the geographic location of the subscribers and the list appears only in the first edition. This list is removed in any subsequent edition (and photocopy version) because it is not relevant for further distribution of the book."The upshot is that publication of religious commentary took on a collective nature that made the publication of the book a matter of widespread communal interest (without intending any sacrilege, this is functionally similar to the communal ownership of the Futbol Club Barcelona--better known as Barça to all of its supporters-- here).
A study published in 1975 attempted to identify all such lists of contributors and the study identified over 8,750 different communities, which encompassed over 350,000 individual contributors. This probably understates the actual number of individual contributors because often only the representative of the community listed his name, although contributions were usually collected from several members of the particular community. Redolent of the roadshow of today's IPO world, many authors went door by door, community by community, village by village, to secure contributions. (Given the subject matter of these books, one might think that the modern notion of the investor angel was invented here). Indeed, one well-known rabbi was famously advised in 1886 not to even begin writing the book until he had secured sufficient contributions. This prospective rabbinic author declined the advice,
"lest I humiliate myself and our rabbinic literature by going from city to city and knocking on doors, when most of those whom I would visit do not know books ... such that the author in their eyes is like a beggar who goes from door to door seeking a hand-out."Another famous rabbi collected money reluctantly, primarily from individuals of proven financial means. Even here, he viewed the process as problematic, insisting that he would not actually collect the funds until the book was published (how the publication was funded in such a situation was not described), lest there be any concern that he had violated the prohibition of "robbery". This could occur if he had taken the money in advance, but the contributor passed away before the book was published and the rabbinic author could not locate the contributor's heir to return the payment.
That said, one wonders how many other authors were deterred from writing a book of commentary, overwhelmed by the daunting task of obtaining the necessary individual contributions. The article does not indicate to what extent the tradition of the "prenumerantum" continues precisely in this form to this day.
It is this Kat's impression that the publication of Jewish religious commentary continues to be heavily supported by individual benefactors, although usually there is a small number of such financial contributors and their names appear at the beginning of the particular book. However, even here, such contributors are almost invariably identified by both name and city, the latter perhaps a residue of the previous custom. This Kat wonders whether there is a parallel to the "prenumerantum" in the publication of commentary in other religious traditions. Readers with any insight into this are encouraged to share it.
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