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In a press release today, ACN said "religious liberty of European standard" includes the legal recognition of Christian Churches in Turkey, especially in the areas of property ownership and the right to form priests.
The Catholic Church has no right to build churches or other buildings in Turkey since a restrictive law was passed in 1923. And in addition to there being no seminary in the country for future priests, the residence permits for foreign priests depends on the popularly influenced goodwill of the authorities. ACN points out that the killing of Fr. Andrea Santoro, last February, testifies to the increasingly common attacks on priests, attacks which are both open and hidden.
The organization's plea for religious liberty comes after a visit to ACN from Bishop Luigi Padovese, Apostolic Vicar of Anatolia, Turkey. Bishop Padovese told ACN that the Pope's upcoming visit to Turkey is being wrongly characterized as a direct attempt to convert Muslims. "The Pope is not coming to missionize, as the Turkish press claims, but to speak with Muslims, the Turkish government, and obviously with Catholics but especially with Orthodox Christians"
Padovese also stressed the importance of Benedict XVI's address at Regensburg as an appeal for a dialogue among religions. The Bishop's words underlined, in the opinion of ACN, the organization's duty to stand-up for the religious rights of Christians in Turkey.
The Apostolic Vicariate in Anatolia serves half of the territory of Turkey, with officially only 5.000 Catholics. Today out of a population of 63.5 million, there are 200,000 Christians in the country. In 1914, ACN noted, the Turkish population was about 30% Christian.
To honour the Pope's visit to Turkey, Aid to the Church in Need is preparing a Turkish edition of the "Little Catechism" of the Catholic Church. After being published as a book in 2004, the Children's Bible in Turkish is now available on-line.


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rhubarb chocolate hazelnut crumble
Author Notes: This recipe takes the humble crumble and turns it into a decadent and rich dessert. I can't remember where I originally saw it but it has evolved over the years into its current incarnation. Enjoy! —alovess
Serves 8
- 200 grams hazelnuts, skins removed, toasted
- 75 grams castor sugar
- 1/2 cup plain flour
- 75 grams unsalted butter
- 50 grams 70% dark chocolate, finely chopped
- 800 grams rhubarb, washed, cut into 5cm pieces
- 100 grams castor sugar
- 2 tablespoons dessert wine
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- zest of 1 orange
- Place rhubarb, 100 grams castor sugar, dessert wine, cinnamon, and orange zest in a medium ceramic dish. Cover with foil and place in 180 degree celcius oven for 30 mins.
- Remove foil and bake uncovered for 10 mins.
- Break up rhubard with a fork.
- Place hazelnuts, butter, 75 grams castor sugar, and flour in a food processor. Pulse until mixture resembles crumbs. Stir in chocolate.
- Spoon crumble mixture over rhubarb and bake for 15 mins until golden.
- Serve with a generous scoop of vanilla ice cream or thick cream.
- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Rhubarb

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Johnson to start first, Earnhardt last at Chicagoland
JOLIET, Ill. -- There are many reasons why Jimmie Johnson would make a statement by winning Sunday's Geico 400 at Chicagoland Speedway.
It's the opener of the 2012 Chase for the Sprint Cup.
It's the first race since NASCAR issued new aerodynamic rules that could define the 10-race title run.
It's one of five tracks that remain unconquered by the five-time Sprint Cup champion.
His primary motivation, though, is both sentimental and selfless: Delivering a victory that might be a crowning moment for crew chief Chad Knaus.
"I've been able to win at my home track and experienced that, and I know how cool that is, and I want that to happen for Chad," Johnson said. "I want to win here and let him experience things. It's been really cool to do that over the years at California."
So the native of Rockford, Ill., must have a sizable and supportive entourage on hand?
"No, he doesn't have many friends," Johnson deadpanned.
COVER STORY: Jimmie Johnson comfortable in his own skin
The Hendrick Motorsports driver was in a loose mood after Sprint Cup qualifying Saturday and with good reason: Johnson earned his second pole of the season and second at Chicagoland, topping Aric Almirola, Matt Kenseth, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Carl Edwards. Kasey Kahne, Regan Smith, Denny Hamlin, Clint Bowyer and Joey Logano.
That put six Chase drivers in the top 10, but Earnhardt will have to forfeit his position because of an engine change in his No. 88 Chevrolet after qualifying. NASCAR's most popular driver also started from the rear last month at Michigan International Speedway after crashing in practice but rallied for fourth in a backup car.
But the high-speed environs of Chicagoland are known for putting a higher premium on passing.
"I don't think we are super concerned," said Steve Letarte, crew chief for Earnhardt. "We had a great car in practice and qualified really well, so we showed we have good speed. Fortunately, this is a racetrack that there are multiple pit strategies, and it's not a really simple straightforward pit strategy to call. I think there will be a lot of opportunities to use our good pit stops and place on pit road to get back toward the front."
Before the team made the change, Earnhardt said he had a top-five car and his biggest competition would be "ourselves, probably. No. 1 is to make the right calls."
Chase drivers Martin Truex Jr. (18th), Jeff Gordon (19th), Greg Biffle (22nd), Tony Stewart (29th) and Kevin Harvick (35th) also will need to rebound after mediocre qualifying efforts.
They could find themselves behind the eight-ball for the next nine races if Johnson accomplishes his goal of earning "maximum points" for the first time at the 1.5-mile oval about an hour southwest of Chicago.
Though he earned his lone Nationwide Series victory at Chicagoland in its inaugural 2001 race, Johnson has a career best of second in NASCAR's premier series.
It's not for lack of trying: In eight of 10 starts at Chicagoland, Johnson has led double-digit laps in his No. 48 Chevy, including 39 last year, 92 in 2010 and 58 in 2009. Last year, it was fuel strategy that bit him, but it's also been driver errors, such as yielding the lead (and win) to Kyle Busch on a late restart in 2008.
"We've been real close," Johnson said. "Some things worked against us. (In 2008), I just did a bad job and got beat, so I've dropped the ball, but it's a track I've always enjoyed. I smile when I know it's coming up. I love the area, love the track."
There are more reasons to like his chances Sunday. Johnson is in the same car he drove to dominant wins at Dover International Speedway (leading 289 of 400 laps) and Indianapolis Motor Speedway (99 of 160).
"We don't want to hurt it, so it's just been sitting there waiting since Indy (on July 29) to be run again," he said. "So we're fortunate we can earmark cars that we like. I don't want to screw up the record this car has. It's been awfully good to us."
Some rivals have grumbled that's because of special rear-end suspension package that has aided with improving the car's aerodynamics that are critical at Chicagoland and four more 1.5-mile tracks in the Chase.
NASCAR issued a technical bulletin clarifying rear-end rules entering the Chase, but Johnson said "everybody's got (the setup) now anyway," so it wouldn't have an impact.
"The garage is a monkey see, monkey do world," he said. "It just takes one week to spot something in another car. Our guys usually figure out stuff first. If there are other ways to go about it that fit within the rules, we've been looking at it and working on it, and if one thinks someone has found an advantage, we'll have it the following week.
"It's how it works. It's tough to keep things under wraps and keep an advantage here when there are cameras floating around and spies in the garage. It's tough to keep something under wraps."
If he wins Sunday, Johnson acknowledges it'll be difficult to keep his team under the radar as it seeks its sixth title in seven seasons.
"I think a win sends a statement for sure," he said. "We're all going to find out soon. We all save our best cars and equipment for the final 10 races. We'll see how it all plays out. We can sit here and talk about it, but until that checkered flag falls Sunday, it's all a bunch of talk."
Qualifying results (with car number and mph):
1. (48) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 182.865.
2. (43) Aric Almirola, Ford, 182.636.
3. (17) Matt Kenseth, Ford, 182.334.
4. (88) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet, 182.07.
5. (99) Carl Edwards, Ford, 182.045.
6. (5) Kasey Kahne, Chevrolet, 181.971.
7. (78) Regan Smith, Chevrolet, 181.953.
8. (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 181.928.
9. (15) Clint Bowyer, Toyota, 181.855.
10. (20) Joey Logano, Toyota, 181.629.
11. (27) Paul Menard, Chevrolet, 181.616.
12. (1) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet, 181.525.
13. (2) Brad Keselowski, Dodge, 181.507.
14. (21) Trevor Bayne, Ford, 181.354.
15. (55) Mark Martin, Toyota, 181.257.
16. (22) Sam Hornish Jr., Dodge, 181.251.
17. (9) Marcos Ambrose, Ford, 181.05.
18. (56) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota, 180.989.
19. (24) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, 180.874.
20. (39) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 180.729.
21. (18) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 180.705.
22. (16) Greg Biffle, Ford, 180.524.
23. (47) Bobby Labonte, Toyota, 180.463.
24. (98) Michael McDowell, Ford, 180.276.
25. (95) Scott Speed, Ford, 180.21.
26. (83) Landon Cassill, Toyota, 180.12.
27. (13) Casey Mears, Ford, 180.048.
28. (42) Juan Pablo Montoya, Chevrolet, 179.94.
29. (14) Tony Stewart, Chevrolet, 179.892.
30. (51) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet, 179.671.
31. (30) David Stremme, Toyota, 179.575.
32. (31) Jeff Burton, Chevrolet, 179.569.
33. (87) Joe Nemechek, Toyota, 179.539.
34. (19) Mike Bliss, Toyota, 179.533.
35. (29) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 179.456.
36. (33) Cole Whitt, Chevrolet, 179.438.
37. (34) David Ragan, Ford, 179.265.
38. (93) Travis Kvapil, Toyota, 178.986.
39. (32) T.J. Bell, Ford, Owner Points.
40. (38) David Gilliland, Ford, Owner Points.
41. (10) Danica Patrick, Chevrolet, Owner Points.
42. (36) Dave Blaney, Chevrolet, Owner Points.
43. (26) Josh Wise, Ford, 179.164.
Failed to qualify
44. (23) Scott Riggs, Chevrolet, 178.271.
45. (91) Reed Sorenson, Toyota, 177.965.
46. (37) J.J. Yeley, Chevrolet, 177.942.
47. (49) Jason Leffler, Toyota, 177.713.
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Wind energy driving down consumer electric rates
Bumper crop under construction in 3Q shows U.S. tax incentive is working
WASHINGTON, D.C.-Wind energy is more affordable than ever, and new installations across the country are saving consumers money on their electric bills, as utilities rush to lock in long-term favorable rates.
"This is what a successful business looks like with stable tax policy. Utilities are locking in a great deal for their electric customers while it's available. We're keeping rates down all across the U.S., even in the heart of the South," said Denise Bode, CEO of the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), pointing to recent wind power purchases by the Southern Company in Alabama, Austin Energy in Texas, and Xcel in Colorado as examples.
The U.S. wind industry installed just over 1,200 megawatts (MW) in the third quarter, and about 3,360 MW on the year so far - but has more than 8,400 MW under construction. That is more than in any quarter since 2008, as the federal Production Tax Credit has driven as much as $20 billion a year in private investment.
"This shows what we're capable of: adding new, affordable electric generation," said Bode. "Traditional tax incentives are working. There's a lot of business right now, people are employed, and manufacturers are looking to expand here in the U.S."
The third-quarter results released today by AWEA indicate the year will finish strong, somewhere between the industry's high point of 2009 and the recent dip in 2010 amid turmoil in federal tax policy.
Years of technological innovations and an influx of U.S.-based manufacturing have driven down the cost of wind energy and saved further on transportation. Including incentives, which all forms of energy get, U.S. wind is now close to cost-competitive with all other energy sources - even shale gas at today's unsustainable prices.
Even so, policy uncertainty has many leading wind developers saying they have no projects scheduled for 2013, which is starting to threaten both development companies and the U.S. wind energy supply chain.
"In hard economic times we're delivering affordable power to ratepayers," Bode stressed. "A lot of people will be surprised by how inexpensive wind energy rates are now, because it's happened so fast." But she cautioned, "We could lose all these consumer benefits and a brand new, growing manufacturing sector if Congress allows the Production Tax Credit to expire."
Bode said she'll be asking lawmakers, "Do you want to raise rates on consumers in a bad economy by raising taxes on wind? Do you want to be the one to say that we just shut down a new manufacturing sector, and an industry that could support 500,000 jobs in less than 20 years, just as it was getting a foothold in the U.S. market?"
Data highlights:
Other highlights of the U.S. Wind Industry Third Quarter Market Report 2011 that AWEA released today include:
· The U.S. industry during the third quarter installed 1,204 megawatts (MW) of electrical generating capacity versus 671 MW during the same period last year, up 79%.
· Year-to-date installations of 3,360 MW exceeds installations as this point in 2010 by 75%.
· In the third quarter of 2011, Colorado installed the most new wind capacity, with 501 MW; then Minnesota with 103 MW; Oklahoma with 130 MW; West Virginia with 98 MW; and Texas rounding out the top 5 states with 88 MW.
· Over 2,000 MW of new construction were started during the third quarter, bringing total under construction figures to over 8,400 MW, one of the largest under construction figures since the height in 2008.
· Significant under-construction numbers were reported in numerous states: More than 1,200 MW are under construction in California; more than 800 MW in in Oregon; over 700 MW in Oklahoma and Iowa; and over 600 MW in Illinois, Kansas, and Washington.
· The U.S. wind industry now totals 43,461 MW of cumulative wind capacity, able to supply electricity to the equivalent of 10 million American homes and producing 3% of the nation's electricity through July of 2011.
State success stories:
ALABAMA: Alabama Power, a subsidiary of Southern Company, recently signed their first wind power purchase agreement with the Alabama Public Service Commission finding that wind was lower cost than procuring energy from its own resources:
"Specifically, the delivered price of energy from the wind facility is expected to be lower than the cost the Company would incur to produce that energy from its own resource (i.e. below the Company's avoided costs), with the resulting energy savings flowing directly to the Company's customers... In Staff's view, this information demonstrates that the Chisholm View PPA reflects an opportunity to procure rights to a cost-effective renewable energy resource that can be expected to yield positive net benefits to customers over its term."[1]
TEXAS: Austin Energy was recently approved for new wind projects and authorized to negotiate for additional wind project contracts, which now have comparable costs to current natural gas power.
"The Austin City Council today approved two new wind contracts totaling 291 megawatts (MW) and authorized Austin Energy to negotiate a third wind contract of an additional 200 MW.... The new projects are priced in the $35 to $45 per megawatt-hour range which is comparable to current and near-term pricing for natural gas power. These prices reflect a significant drop in power prices in general and in wind since 2008."[2]
COLORADO: Xcel Energy's recent testimony on their Limon II wind power purchase agreement found that:
"The net benefit (cost savings) of the Limon II PPA, over the entire 25 year term on a nominal basis, is projected to be nearly $278 Million, or nearly $102 Million on a net present value ("NPV") basis... These savings are a direct result of the very low wind prices currently available due to the expected expiration of the federal Production Tax Credit at the end of 2012...Since wind energy primarily displaces natural gas generated energy, reducing the quantity of natural gas purchases (displaced with fixed price wind purchases) acts as a hedge against future volatility of natural gas prices. By displacing natural gas with fixed priced wind energy, the Company has less exposure to potentially volatile natural gas pricing."[3]
The third quarter market report can be found here: http://www.awea.org/learnabout/publications/reports/AWEA-US-Wind-Industry-Market-Reports.cfm. AWEA member companies can access a members-only version of the report by logging on to the member center at awea.org.
AWEA is the national trade association of America's wind industry, with more than 2,500 member companies, including global leaders in wind power and energy development, wind turbine manufacturing, component and service suppliers, and the world's largest wind power trade show, WINDPOWER, to be held next in Atlanta, June 2-6, 2012. AWEA is the voice of wind energy in the U.S., promoting renewable energy to power a cleaner, stronger America. Look up information on wind energy at the AWEA website. Find insight on industry issues at AWEA's blog Into the Wind. Join AWEA on Facebook. Follow AWEA on Twitter
[1] https://www.pscpublicaccess.alabama.gov/pscpublicaccess/ViewFile.aspx?Id=6c2c2ee6-1a55-4ce7-b475-e68d4729aa61 September 9, 2011
[2] Austin Energy. Press Release. September 12, 2011
[3] Supplemental Direct Testimony & Exhibits of Kurtis J. Haeger, Public Service Company of Colorado. September 19, 2011. http://www.awea.org/newsroom/pressreleases/loader.cfm?csModule=security/getfile&pageid=11168


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Every employee receives a Form W-2 reporting annual pay and the taxes taken out. Include a copy with your tax return. Forms 1099 are equally important, maybe more so. See 1099 Or W-2?
Forms 1099 are a vital part of IRS computer matching. IRS computers check each one against your tax return. Here are key facts about the 1099s hitting your mailbox soon. See Watch Your Mail For 1099s.
1. Timing and Address. Businesses send out the forms by Jan. 31 for the prior year. There are many varieties, including Form 1099-MISC to report any payment of $600 or more. If you move, place a forwarding order with the Post Office. You'll want to see any forms the IRS sees. The information is reported to the IRS (and state tax authorities) based on your Social Security number.
2. Report Errors Immediately. Issuers must mail Forms 1099 to taxpayers by Jan. 31, but have until February 28 to send copies to the IRS. If there's an error, tell the issuer immediately. There may be time to correct it before it goes to the IRS. If the issuer has already dispatched it to the IRS, ask them to issue a corrected form. If you disagree with the information on the form but you can't convince the payer you're right, explain it on your tax return. See I'm Sending An IRS 1099: 1099 Are You Outta Your Mind?
3. Report Every One. Every Form 1099 includes your Social Security (or taxpayer identification) number. That's how the IRS matches Forms 1099 to your tax return. If you forget to report a payment, the IRS will send you a computer-generated notice with a bill for the tax. Every year the IRS sends millions of notices asking for more money based on matching 1099s.
4. Don't Ask. Keeping payers advised of your current address is a good idea, as is reporting errors to payers. But if you don't receive a Form 1099 you expect, don't ask for it. If you are expecting a Form 1099, you know about the income. Just report that amount honestly on your tax return. The IRS computers have no problem with that. See The Truth About IRS Forms 1099.
If you call or write the payer asking for a 1099, you may get an incorrect one or even may end up with two, one issued in the ordinary course (even if it never got to you) and one issued because you called. The IRS computer might end up thinking you had twice the income you really did.
Take these forms seriously. The IRS does.
Robert W. Wood practices law with Wood LLP, in San Francisco. The author of more than 30 books, including Taxation of Damage Awards & Settlement Payments (4th Ed. 2009 with 2012 Supplement, Tax Institute), he can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. This discussion is not intended as legal advice, and cannot be relied upon for any purpose without the services of a qualified professional.


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But tacking the chip, a postage-stamp size sticker, on a cell phone or other mobile device to counter the radiation is erring on the side of caution, the team behind the Bodywell Chip insisted at a Monday "Breakthrough Scientific Symposium" event in New York.
A panel convened by EZ Technologies, which makes the chip, warned that we may not know the full effects of cell phone waves, especially on more vulnerable children, for years. So why not take precautions?
"We don't want to look back years from now and say we should have done something," said EZ Technologies CEO Haim Einhorn, who prior to taking the helm of the company owned a real estate development firm in Florida. "We are providing peace of mind."
"Counteract Energy"
According to Bodywell, the Bodywell Chip contains an aluminum base coated with minerals and metals to counteract energy that might otherwise enter users' brains. Testing by Bodywell found that the specific absorption rate in "simulated brain fluids" containing salt, sugar and chemicals was lower when exposed to a device bearing the Bodywell Chip.
The Bodywell testing found a reduction in the specific absorption rate (SAR) from a Samsung Galaxy S III smartphone of 80 percent, and a reduction of 68.2 percent from Apple's iPhone 5 when used on the left side and 63.5 percent when used on the right side of the simulated brain fluids. Using a cellular-equipped iPad, the reduced SAR as measured by Bodywell testers was 34.8 percent.
The Federal Communications Commission has a maximum allowable SAR rate for phones approved in the U.S. -- 1.6 watts per kilogram -- and many phones come with a warning specifying how far from your face to hold them. But the FCC has not said that cell phones are dangerous.
"Any cell phone at or below these SAR levels (that is, any phone legally sold in the U.S.) is a "safe" phone, as measured by these standards," says the agency on its Web site.
Nachaat Mazeh of Beaumount Health System in Michigan, one of the Bodywell researchers, told us the chip does not absorb the radiation to keep it from humans but sends out its own frequency to counteract the possibly harmful waves.
"It enhances the simulated brain cells to reject some of the energy instead of absorbing," he said. Mazeh has a Ph.D in biomedical physics.
Formula from Widow of Austrian Scientist
EZ Technologies bought the formula from the widow of an Austrian scientist, the late Walter Zapf, who created chips to protect people from what he called "electromagnetic scattered radiation."
Bodywell said that because a patent was pending, the company would not go into specific detail on how the Bodywell Chip worked. But Mazeh said that even without its own power source, the chip, which sticks to a phone via adhesive, would not become outdated by increasingly complex phones and would not expire.
"We have done tests on chips that were 5 years old that still show reduction [in the SAR]," he said.
EZ Technologies' warranty, however, does not guarantee any reduction in SAR and is void if the chip is removed from the original device it is applied to. The warranty only covers "defects in materials or workmanship" found in the device. The Bodywell Chip and EZ Technologies Web sites both cite Swiss ownership, however no address or phone number for the company appears on either site, nor could one be found in Internet searches. Einhorn said he resides in Miami.
'Too Simplistic'
Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor James Lin of the University of Illinois at Chicago, who has written extensively on cell phone radiation, told us in a phone interview he was "intrigued" by the research on the SAR rate but was skeptical that the Bodywell Chip could perform as described in its promotional literature.
"It's too simplistic, he said. "From a technical perspective, from what I can read, it is not realistic."
After reviewing Bodywell's test data we provided to him, Lin told us in an e-mail that "I agree the reports showed some SAR reduction for the four devices, as measured [by Bodywell]. However, it is not obvious where the reduction originates. Was there any change in the quality of the signal, for example, used to enable phone conversation? If yes, the Bodywell Chip could be interfering with the wireless signal used for communication."
At the press conference, Einhorn, an Israeli native with a bachelor's degree in business administration from Tel Aviv University, said: "This topic has boggled the minds of some of the most impressive scientists out there. We are determined to establish our facts."
He likened cell phones to sugar substitutes and cigarettes, which for years were aggressively marketed as safe despite health concerns.
Panelist Moshe Einat, a Ph.D lecturer in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Ariel, located on the Israel-controlled West Bank, said "the riddle is still on" about whether cell radiation interferes with "orders and commands from the head to body which goes by currents. They are very small currents and there are claims that such currents may interfere with these very delicate natural body currents."
But he said scientific due diligence demands the assumption that there is harm.
"It is much easier to say yes than no," he said. "There is clearly no immediate effect, but the long-term effects are unknown."
Fear Factor
Jeff Kagan, a consultant and commentator on the wireless industry, said it was clear that this issue has been closely watched by manufacturers and carriers, "but there are two issues. One is safefy and two is market share.
"Every company is interested in both. After all, every executive in every company also uses these wireless devices. They would not use them if they believed that they are harmful. With that said, they also want to keep fear from boiling over. Fear can kill industries and companies, even wrong fear."
Kagan noted that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration banned the sugar substitute cyclamate in 1969, but later research showed cancer fears were unfounded and it is permitted in more than 100 countries, including in Canada, Australia and across Europe.
"These kind of ideas with chips that absorb radiation play into that fear, whether they work or not," Kagan said.


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Cliven Bundy II? Utah protesters prepare for new face-off
What needs to remembered here is that the Cliven Bundy supporters are actually trying to do away with public lands. Long ago – in the 19th century, some hunters, proto-environmentalists and others were conservationists. They sought to protect the habitat from mankind's incursions, so wildlife could flourish – eventually creating the National parks system in the 20th century. Now, anti-government types would tear apart the the various public parks system, privatizing much of it – with some remaining local county level parks torn apart by ATVs and off-road vehicles for their personal recreation. The extreme short sightedness of Cliven Bundy's followers would quickly exterminate many species of wild life that cling to life out in the West…including the wild horses that remain there. Remember this in conversations with friends about this in the coming days. ~ HfH
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By: John Glionna
Cliven Bundy II? Utah protesters prepare for new face-off with feds
This eye-blink of a town in the state's scenic southeastern corner bills itself as the "Gateway to Adventure." But this weekend it promises to be more like a launchpad for civil unrest.
A band of angry citizens plans to ride all-terrain vehicles onto closed-off, federally managed public land Saturday in protest against the federal Bureau of Land Management, which many say has unfairly closed off a prized area, cheating residents of outdoor recreation.
The ride, organized by San Juan County Commissioner Phil Lyman, is a gambit to assert county sovereignty over Recapture Canyon, known for its archaeological ruins, that BLM officials say has been jeopardized from overuse. The canyon was closed to motor vehicles in 2007, the agency said, after two men forged an illegal seven-mile trail. Hikers and those on horseback are still allowed there.
Lyman and his supporters want the BLM to act more quickly on a years-old request for a public right-of-way through the area. "You can't just arbitrarily shut down a road in San Juan County," he said. "If you can do that and get away with it, what else can you do?"
The revolt has received national attention, coming at the heels of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy's successful standoff last month against the BLM that suggests a rising battle across the West over states' rights on federally managed public lands. Tensions rose in Utah this week after two men pointed a gun at a BLM employee on a highway.
The Blanding protest is being spearheaded not by any citizen rancher like Bundy, but rather by an outspoken local public official — a sign of the growing frustrations in a rural county composed of nearly 90% public lands managed by the BLM. As a result, locals say, they have long been shut out of land-use decisions that that intimately affect their lives and economy.


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They burned fires in the streets (popularly regarded as an effective measure "to purify the air") and when this was interdicted as being too hazardous they took to the no less perilous firing of guns—which also, needless to say, had to be forbidden. They observed the recommendations of the College of Physicians to an almost absurd degree and were constantly scouring and whitewashing their houses, which they hardly dared to leave. When they ventured into the streets they covered their noses and mouths with handkerchiefs or sponges soaked in vinegar or camphor, and they carried pieces of tar in their hands or pockets and often garlic in their shoes. They walked in the middle of the street in order to be as far away as possible from the houses which might harbor sick persons, and they assiduously avoided talking with anyone, even with close friends. If a hearse appeared in the distance, they turned and walked in another direction.
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Already mortally afraid of contracting the fever, people became further disturbed when they saw that the doctors could not agree on how to treat it. In search of an effectual method of treatment, all the usual remedies having failed, Dr. Rush had taken recourse to purging with calomel, which in the past had been nsed with apparent success. With characteristic enthusiasm he lelf that he had "at last arrested the fatality" of the epidemic, and he informed the College of Physicians that he had found a "cure" for the disease.
The majority of physicians disagreed, and their opposition to their eminent and sanguine colleague was further intensified by his subsequent, equally exuberant, advocacy of copious bleeding (he did not hesitate to bleed patients almost to the point of exhaustion). The controversy between Rush and his opponents was not only extremely acrimonious; it was, unfortunately, conducted publicly. Both factions repeatedly aired their views in the press, and thereby added greatly to the distress of the already sorely harassed laymen who did not know where to turn for medical help.
The death toll mounted unabated. Whole families were swept away. In the first three weeks of August, 1793, there were 160 burials in Philadelphia; from then to the middle of September almost 600; in the last two weeks of the month more than 1,000.
The exodus proceeded at an even more rapid pace; probably more than one-third of the 50,000 inhabitants fled the stricken city. Philadelphia, the most populous and prosperous metropolis in the United States, the capital of the young American republic, took on the aspect of a ghost town. Many houses and shops were deserted and boarded up. Traffic was almost nonexistent, and in the empty streets "the hearse alone kept up the remembrance of the noise of carriages or carts. … "
All the city magistrates, with the exception of the mayor, deserted their posts: the governor had retired to the country because of illness; nearly all the state officers had gone; most, if not all, of the officers of the federal government were absent, and the President of the United States, "according to his annual custom, had removed to Mount Vernon." Government was virtually at a standstill.
In the middle of September the mayor called a meeting to discuss measures for the care of the city's indigent, whose situation was especially precarious. The meeting, to which the public at large had been invited, was poorly attended. But out of its deliberations there emerged a committee which gradually extended the scope of its activities to such an extent that it became the de facto city government.
The great burden was carried by the eighteen persons on this committee, who placed themselves entirely in the service of their fellow citizens. Their efforts were supported by the majority of the physicians, by many of the clergy, and by the elders of the African church, who marshalled the forces of their congregation, many of whose members rendered selfless service as nurses and gravediggers.
The situation continued to deteriorate. There was no letup in the spread of the lever and the death rate rose ever I aster. Two thousand persons perished in October. Business and commerce lagged, prices rose as provisions became scarce; the city was faced with the specter of famine. A spirit of utter despondency and fatalism took possession of even the staunchest. No ray of hope was anywhere discernible. How was it all going to end?
Was Philadelphia, in the eyes of the Reverend Heinrich Helmulh "by far the most luxurious and dissipated of North American cities," not indeed experiencing a divine visitation? Were not its citizens receiving deserved punishment for their drunkenness and lewdness, their pride, avarice and uncharitableness, their fraudulence and their quarrelsomeness? Had they not, in their sinlulncss and frivolity, even legalized theatrical performances and imported from "luxurious" Europe no less than seventy to eighty actors and actresses and other stage people?


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298 pp. By John Woodmorappe
Reviewed by Glenn R. Morton
Copyright 1996 G.R. Morton. This may be posted anywhere if it is unaltered and no charge is made. Charge can be made only if author permission is granted.
This article was originally published on Talk Origins and on Glenn Morton's website. It is provided here by permission of the author. Glenn Morton is not associated with Old Earth Ministries.
Judging by the number of citations, this book is far and away a reaction to R.A. Moore's 1983 article "The Impossible Voyage of Noah's Ark," Creation/Evolution 11:1-43 (130 citations). At every turn Moore's name and ideas are being countered or attacked. Respectively the second and third most attacked books were far behind Moore. These are: my book, _Foundation, Fall and Flood_ 1995, (29 citations) and I.R. Plimer's 1994 book _Telling Lies for God_ (28 citations). Usually, when my book was cited, attached to the citation are adjectives like "absurd", "naive", "compromising", "abysmally ignorant", "sloppy", "reckless disregard", "extremely inaccurate", "misleading", "tomfoolery" and "intentionally deceitful". Because of this, intellectual honesty demands that the reader of this review be notified of this possible conflict of interest.
Woodmorappe's book is an impressive attempt to defend the concept of a global flood in which the entire land biosphere was saved by the ark. One of the characteristics of anything Woodmorappe writes is an extensive bibliography and this book is no exception. The book is well documented, having an estimated 1400 references. This makes the book an excellent bibliographic source, for entre to the literature of any issue as one is reading it. The book lacks an index which is a serious impediment to the usefulness of the book for further study and research. One of the best things is that there are few issues concerning the Ark which are not addressed. Because of this, anyone with a serious interest in the ark and its problems, or a student of the creationist movement should obtain a copy.
Woodmorappe attacks the problems of the ark in a systematic fashion. He begins by calculating how many animals were on the ark. Woodmorappe uses the genera as the equivalent of the created kind. Taking one pair from each genera, living and fossil, he lists 7428 mammals, 4602 birds and 3724 reptiles on the ark. This totals to 15,754 animals on the ark. Amphibians and invertebrates like terrestrial snails are not on the ark. He spends very little space describing how these animals could have survived out in the turbulent flood waters.
Woodmorappe continues through the topics of living space, food and water requirements, waste removal, heating and ventilation, the gathering of the animals, manpower needed for the care of the animals and on to post flood problems such as the re-migration and the re-development of genetic diversity. Woodmorappe does a good job of addressing all the issues. But many of his solutions are less than satisfying.
Woodmorappe attempts to solve the feeding and care problems by comparing the ark to modern mass production farming methods. But there is no justification given to approaching the problem in this fashion. It is not clear that solutions applicable to the care of 8,000 hogs, requiring the same food, water and space, can be applied to 8,000 different animals each requiring a different set of food, water and environmental conditions. Every care and feeding problem is attacked by this approach. And yet he suggests that some of the snakes can be coaxed into eating inert food by stuffing snake skins with meat. He notes that pandas can survive on diets lacking bamboo, but a check of the references shows that the replacement diet is more time-consuming to create than bamboo. This type of feeding is precisely why so many have wondered whether Noah and company had sufficient time to feed thousands of animals.
When it comes to care on the ark, Woodmorappe enlists the aid of the animals themselves. According to Woodmorappe, prior to the flood, Noah had kept a menagerie and trained the animals to defecate and urinate on command into buckets. They were also trained to leave their pens for exercise and return to their cages on command. Snakes and bats were trained to take inert food. Birds were trained to take sugar water from pots. This, of course, makes Noah the greatest animal trainer in history. How much time Noah and his hired hands required to train 16,000 animals is almost incalculable.
Noah is also turned into a breeder par excellence. During the time of the menagerie, Noah was engaged in modern breeding in order to "maximize the heterozygosity of the recessive alleles" to avoid inbreeding depression after the flood (p. 194). If hibernation was a desirable trait, Noah was able to breed strains of animals which were more likely to hibernate (p. 133). He was able to acclimatize reptiles to the temperatures they would find on the ark ( p. 124) and breed a pair of Koalas who would accept dried Eucalyptus leaves. This type of solution is appealed to so often, it begins to take on the appearance of an ad hoc explanation.
Many of the solutions are of the nature of a "could be, might be". He suggests that the seeds of some plants were buried and then eroded back to the surface in order for them to survive the flood. He writes:
"The absence of light and the anoxic conditions of burial must have facilitated the dormancy of seeds until unearthed by late-Flood and post-Flood erosive events. Furthermore, the absence of oxygen tends to greatly prolong the viability of seeds which are viable only for short periods of time under normal subaerial conditions. Had carbon dioxide percolated through some of the Flood-deposited sediments, it must have also imposed a narcotic effect on many seeds, including at least some that would not otherwise have survived prolonged burial in a viable condition. For instance, the rubber plant (Hevea braziliensis) is notorious for the short period of viability of its seeds under normative conditions. Yet when narcotized by carbon dioxide, the seeds can survive in a viable state for at least several weeks and, if present in sufficient numbers, a few individual seeds out of a great number of initially buried may have survived the Flood year." p. 156.
Since CO2 is normally associated with volcanism and high thermal gradients, an explanation of where the CO2 came from would seem to be in order. None is given.
There are some serious drawbacks to the book. First, as noted in the disclaimer, Woodmorappe resorts to lots of name calling when he does not like an adversary's argument. Plimer is called Moore's "parrot" (p. 21), echo (p. 37). Moore is called "naive"; is accused of having "fantasies" and displaying "ignorance" Opponents "imagine" their arguments. All this name calling is a distraction from Woodmorappe's points.
Several arguments are not self-consistent. An example is the following:
"After raising some transparently absurd problems of snails and earthworms (animals not on the Ark) migrating to the Ark, Morton (1995, p. 69) then dusts off the old chestnut about the slow-moving sloth needing practically forever to reach the Ark from South America." (p. 60)
Thus one is left assuming that earthworms are not on the ark. But earlier in the book, Woodmorappe had appealed to earthworms as the agent for decomposing and handling solid waste (p. 34-35). And later, he says that snails were on the ark for food (p. 101). Inconsistencies like this abound throughout the book.
Another example of inconsistencies is on page 202 where in his discussion of the Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) he says that the DRB1 locus has 106 known alleles. Five pages later, he says it is 44.
Many of the arguments depend upon mathematical calculations which are not displayed, either in footnotes or appendices. This leaves the mathematically oriented reader wondering if the mathematics was correct. He claims that calculations show ark animals produced between 6 and 12 tons of airborne moisture. None of the assumptions are displayed to allow the reader to evaluate such a claim. Calculations of the heat production by animals in the ark are claimed to show that there is no problem with this issue, but the lack of calculations force the reader to depend upon the author for the validity of that statement.
Woodmorappe's tables are confusing, and abridged and because of this it is difficult to check out the mathematical accuracy of his arguments. For instance, in Table 1 he divides the animals on the ark into 8 weight divisions for each class: reptiles, birds and mammals. Thus one would think that there are 24 categories (3 X 8). Table 2 lists the same data for 25 orders, then abridges the remaining 61 land vertebrate orders (which means 61 categories). One can not figure out why this table is published. By the time the reader gets to table 4, which calculates the amount of food required to feed the animals for 371 days, Woodmorappe, giving only a reference, uses a totally unexplained equation (and we discover that there are 32 categories of animals. But these 32 categories are not explained and why there are now more than 24 categories, is also unexplained). Table 5, which calculates drinking water requirements, adds to the confusion by citing only 27 categories of animals which drink water. Either three categories don't eat food or five don't drink water.
Woodmorappe states (p. 27) that the urine could be drained overboard by gravity. He does not tell how this is possible from the lowest floor level which was below the water line. At one point he suggests that the animals could be trained to urinate and defecate upon command while someone holds a bucket behind the animal. Assuming that this can be accomplished for the largest quarter of the animals and that they need to be serviced three times per day, each person must service 125 animals per hour, 2 animals a minute. What a fun job that must have been.
Woodmorappe's treatment of the heat generated up by the animals is quite unworkable. He claims that reptiles give off no heat. This is not true. Their metabolism, while slower than mammals and birds does indeed give off heat. He uses units no physicist would approve of - Kg heat-producing biomass per cubic meter. If he gives a definition of how much heat is generated by such a unit, I have been unable to find it. Thus, it is impossible to verify his assertion that the animals would not overheat the ark. He relies on wind entering the upper level to cool and ventilate the ark. His calculation is merely wind speed times the window area. But anyone who has ever performed a fluid flow calculation will know that you can not calculate the problem in this fashion. Hydrodynamic equations must be used and friction taken into account. His method for calculating air flow is far too simple.
Woodmorappe claims that the animals respire 6 to 12 tons of airborne water vapor each day. He implies that the inside of the ark would have low humidity (another inconsistency). He writes:
"Morton (1995, p. 71) has embellished Moore's argument with the totally baseless charge that the Ark must have been 'anything but dry' inside. Of course, in order to preserve grain, it is necessary not only to dry it, but also to prevent moisture from seeping back into it. Even if Morton (1995) were correct about the wetness of the interior of the Ark, it need not have doomed the feedstuffs and seeds to ruin, as the materials could have been stored in water-tight containers." (p. 92)
Woodmorappe forgets that during the first 40 days and nights, when he opens the windows to ventilate the ark, he opens it onto a world which is raining. Rain forms when a layer of the atmosphere reaches 100% humidity. If the rain falls through an atmosphere that is less than 100% humidity, water will evaporate off of the raindrops, thus increasing the humidity of the lower atmosphere. If a rain lasts for several hours, the humidity at the surface will rise to nearly 100%. So during the flood we can expect nearly 100% humidity at the surface. Given this, the fact that 6-12 tons of water were exhaled into the already saturated air inside of the ark, requires that 6 to 12 tons of water per day during the 40 days of rain would condense onto the walls of the ark. Since this condensation would drip to the bottom floor. Without the water being pumped overboard, this would represent a puddle of water on the floor of the ark 7 centimeters (3 inches) deep. The Ark, even under Woodmorappe's scenario, would have been "anything but dry".
Animals outside of the ark were supposed to have survived in pockets of floodwater suitable to their requirements (whatever those requirements were). He appeals to gradual acclimatization of amphibians and fish to the salinity of the flood waters. But exactly how a global flood was able to gradually occur is unexplained. He has plankton be buried and then re-excavated to survive the flood.
To my suggestion that the carnivores when released, would start eating the few survivors of the Flood, Woodmorappe suggests that large numbers of carcasses which had been buried early in the flood were re-excavated and used as food for the carnivores. This would allow the prey species enough time to replenish their numbers. He cites several studies of carnivores eating carrion, but none citing cases of carnivores eating year-old carcasses.
The most interesting post-ark problem Woodmorappe discusses concerns the genetic diversity. Unfortunately, Woodmorappe appeals to a period of rapid mutation after the flood to restore genetic diversity. Very little justification for this is given. Having rejected the accepted rates of molecular clocks Woodmorappe is forced to talk about "mutator genes" which cause mutations, radioactivity and the mutagenic effects of a stressful environment (citing a creationist source). He refers to a "burst of mutations among Noah's immediate post-Flood descendants". This appeal to phenomenon with no apparent cause occurs far too frequently.
To his credit, Woodmorappe is the first creationist I know of to actually discuss the pseudogene problem. His attempted solution depends upon an article by Carlton (1995) which says that a retrovirus can turn a normal gene into a pseudogene. However, he does not explain why processed pseudogenes are found at the same locations in chimp, gorilla, gibbon and man but not on other species.
Some of the stranger claims of the book:
On page 43 and p. 93 he claims that hydroponic vegetables can be grown in total darkness on the lowest level of the ark.
On page 44 he claims "I now consider non-biological sources of flameless illumination. There are many references to 'luminous gems' in ancient literature, along with an apocryphal account of luminous pearls being used on the Ark."
On page 188 he writes: "Furthermore, a single pair of founders most definitely can have the same genetic diversity as fifty founders, and without any miraculous or unusual procedures."
Woodmorappe's book was interesting reading for an ark aficionado. Others may find parts a little too detailed for their likes. But anyone with a serious interest in these problems should own their own copy.
Glenn R. Morton
Postscript: Woodmorappe has responded to this review . Fairness requires that I give that reference. It can be found at:
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Because of an editing error, a graphic on Page 29 of the News section in the Aug. 30 edition of the Register was not accompanied by a key to points in the graphic. The omitted points are 1) A block of homes that Chapman University owns; 2) The area where Chapman is primarily expanding its campus; 3) the future location of the Musco Center for the Arts; and 4) Chapman's historic core, formerly Orange Union High School.
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So pit-to-pit is 21" but may I also ask how long the back length is? I'm considering to take this beaut on a cycle trip in Japan but I'm a bit worried my back would be exposed when I'm stretched out over a bicycle.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Arnold Schwarzenegger is to get a global policy institute in his name as he relaunches his action movie career following a seven-year stint at California Governor.
The University of Southern California on Thursday announced the establishment of the USC Schwarzenegger Institute for State and Global Policy at its Los Angeles campus.
USC and Schwarzenegger said in a statement that the new institute would focus on "the responsibility of leaders to transcend partisanship to implement policies that most benefit the people they serve."
The "Terminator" star put his action movie career largely on hold after being elected the Republican governor of California in 2003. But the 65 year-old former bodybuilder will reunite with Sylvester Stallone for "The Expendables 2" later in August and has five other movies in the pipeline.
Schwarzenegger's post gubernatorial career was the subject of much speculation as he prepared to step down in early 2011. Opinion was divided over whether he would run for a Senate seat, resume acting, or possibly join the administration of President Barack Obama in some capacity.
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2012-10-17, 13:47 | Link #20441 | |
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Location: Wonderland.
Age: 24
^ Reflecting a spell and using one aren't the same you know. While he can be beaten with a trick à la GREMLIN, he could partially reflect the wings of a Christian Archangel once and completely disintegrated a weaker level spell. Saints have 0 chance against him if they go the physical way (unless they go Kihara-kun too ), and apparently only certain type/level of magic can hit him.
Also what if he's not a LV.6? His wings are more than enough to curbstomp any Saint. Quote:
However, for the other known Saints, I don't think they're out of reach of Vol.15 Kakine (not counting his new powers and/or new wings). And Gunha is easily average Saint Level. Not to mention all of them can be potentially far above Saints if they get a hold of their own true potential ... because no matter how strong they can be, Saints are still bellow angels and Majin. The reason why, I included Mugino is because you can't just rush at someone enveloped with 10000 beams no matter how fast and physically strong you are But, hey, anyone can beat her if they have the patience to wait for her powers to run out. 100% Agreed
2012-10-17, 14:45 | Link #20443 |
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Age: 27
Somethings I need to mention:
- Magicians knows espers' weakness. In the opposite, espers don't know magicians' weakness. - Gunha barely reaches 2 times the speed of sound. Saints can go several times the speed of the sound enough to be called godlike speed while leaving ridiculous amouns of magical energy explosions as aftereffects. - Accelerator can'r reflect the spell, only turn it into basic energy. |
2012-10-17, 14:58 | Link #20444 |
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The in which level of this "power scale" would Fiamma fall?
On another subject, can Accelerator update his Persona Reality to redirect any newly encoutered spell A.K.A new vector? Wouldn't this give him a good chance against othinus? |
2012-10-17, 15:05 | Link #20446 |
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And if she gets Gungnir, Othinus would have a 100% of victory? I refuse to believe that she'll become "invincible" with Gungnir... I mean, Fiamma achieved la persona superiore a dio, and still lost, and let's not forget that Aleister crushed Fiamma easily
2012-10-17, 15:08 | Link #20447 | |
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On another note though, the character with the fastest movement speed in the series is Mjolnir, being almost Mach 37. Spoiler for Speed calculations for Mugino, Accelerator, and Mjolnir:
2012-10-17, 15:35 | Link #20449 | |||
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EDIT: Chapter 2 completed: Thor goes Fiamma (about being selfish) and ironically goes "Touma" on Touma when pointing out his flaws , you know about choosing (Touma to Accelerator II) . Last edited by Miraluka; 2012-10-17 at 15:55. |
2012-10-17, 16:01 | Link #20450 | ||||
Join Date: May 2011
Location: Wonderland.
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Or more exactly Thor's really cool. Mah, I already like that guy, he's got so much GAR emanating from him even though he looks like a girl
2012-10-17, 16:06 | Link #20452 |
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I love Touma's dilemma. Gremlin obviously wants Fraulein alive, and removing her from her prision undoubtedly helps their purpose. On the other hand, he cannot trust Ollerus and company not to kill her given the chance (we know he wouldn't, but Touma doesn't). Of course, being who he is, he cannot sacrifice Fraulein himself to save AC. His only choice gambling with Thor, despite the huge disadvantage he would put himself in. Well, if Touma's actions put Ollerus in a bad spot it would be just his fault, he should have sent Kaori to him if he wanted Touma's trust. Now, Thor is a bit too forceful, he is like: "C'mon, you let yourself be used by Levinia and Kagun, so why not by me?"... but I guess it worked. ... And speaking of him. He's supposed to be Thor, but he behaves more like Loki. |
2012-10-17, 16:11 | Link #20453 |
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Location: Dai Korai Teikoku
Theoretically, Accelerator can reflect ANYTHING as long as he can understand the concept and apply it to his powers. I figure that if he was set in the Harry Potter universe with his powers intact, he can reflect all the dark spells thrown at him.
2012-10-17, 16:40 | Link #20455 | |
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IF he was thrown into Harry Potter's world, he would die from Avada Kedvara... unless he identifies said spell with his wings... I guess? |
2012-10-17, 16:53 | Link #20460 | |
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In this great city of ours, one could eat a different sandwich every day of the year—so that's what we'll do. Here's A Sandwich a Day, our daily look at sandwiches around New York. Got a sandwich we should check out? Let us know. —The Mgmt.
Cauliflower sandwiches are a tricky sell, but the one on Animals' menu was hard to resist: curried cauliflower in large chunks, walnut paté, pickled onions, frisée, cucumber, mint and hot sauce (mayo made with puréed cauliflower).
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