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Can International Law Be an Obstacle to Peace? Some Thoughts on Taiwan's East China Sea Peace Initiative
I had the privilege today to attend a conference in Taipei today discussing the "East China Sea Peace Initiative". The ECSPI is Taiwan's proposal to reduce and maybe even eliminate the confrontation between China and Japan in the East China Sea over the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands. The ECSPI is not all that complicated. 1) Shelve Territorial Disputes;and 2) Share Resources Through Joint Development. There is more to the proposal (but not much more). President Ma of Taiwan put his personal imprimatur on this initiative with a speech this morning.
As it was a conference sponsored by a foundation closely linked with the Taiwan government, no one at the conference had much to say that was critical of this initiative. Of course, no scholar or speaker I saw today came from China os it is hard to know what they might have said. But there is nothing wrong or objectionable to the ESPCI.
What's interesting about the "shelve disputes" strategy is that eschews the formal legal resolution of particular questions and suggests plowing forward despite sharp differences on legal rights and obligations. For instance, the ECPSI recommends "joint conservation and management" of the living (mostly fish) and non-living resources (mostly hydrocarbons) of the East China Sea. Yet this proposal is preceded by a fairly long statement of the justness of Taiwan's legal claim to sovereignty over those same resources.
"Never compromise on sovereignty," President Ma recommended today, but he also then suggested that countries can share and develop resources each country believes it has sovereign legal rights over. Isn't this really compromising on sovereignty, while at the same time denying you are compromising on sovereignty?
The idea that we can shelve (in this case) legal disputes in international relations is not one that originated with Taiwan, but it is not surprising that Taiwan is the country proposing this strategy. After all, Taiwan itself is the living embodiment of the success of avoiding legal resolution of complex sovereign claims. In its relations with China, it has agreed to shelve the question of Taiwan's ultimate legal status in favor of increasingly close economic and other relations. Interestingly, this approach would also eschew international arbitration or judicial resolution of these arbitral disputes, since such legal proceedings would adjudicate, rather than shelve, the sovereignty issues. In reality, this approach suggest international law, which defines rights and obligations, is an obstacle to peace, rather than a facilitator of it.
I do hope Japan and China consider the Taiwan ECSPI. But I have my doubts as the viability of continuing to "shelve" questions about sovereignty. At some point, these questions will re-emerge and the "joint development" will actually result in giving up sovereign resources. Some more stable equilibrium is probably needed. My guess is that China feels the time for a new equilibrium is getting closer.
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Very interesting perspective Julian. Thank you.
I believe this joint development vision is in place between Japan and Korea with respect to the contested delineation issues (Dokdo/Takeshima). Not sure it has been a formula for success. I think that China and Japan is a much harder sell given the enmity and regional competition between them. Taiwan's proposal might well be seen as trying to curry favor with Beijing rather than as a neutral proposal. It is basically the let us make money idea, but the difficult issues if management as well as exploitation if the resources in contested areas with ambiguous lines of sovereign authority are difficult to paper over. I hope everyone can go short of war on all these, but I am pessimistic.
Taiwan's proposal IS trying to curry favor with Beijing, and simply reproduces positions Beijing used to hold, when it was weaker. It's quite typical of Ma to proffer an out of date solution to a problem.
Since China's claim has no basis in history or international law, and China appears not to want or to be able to negotiate, I very much fear with Benjamin Davis that this can only end in armed conflict.
Note further that in Chinese expansionist propaganda, the Senkakus are connected with the equally unsupported claim to Taiwan, and with the coming claim to Okinawa, about which various hints and remarks have been dropped over the last few years. This context is often missing from discussions of the Senkakus problem in the media and online. This is another reason why Japan does not want to engage in a camel's-nose-in-the-tent solution like shared sovereignty/shelved sovereignty.
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"Kickback is caused by one thing only: the part gets bound up allowing the blade to throw it out like sand from under a car tire.
The very first thing is to have the saw tuned right. Blade parallel to the miter slot, and rip fence parallel to the blade. (Set them up in that order)
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Elizabeth Winthrop Alsop grew up in a rambling house, surrounded by woods, and with a stream nearby for catching crayfish. With no television until she was twelve, she and her five brothers would make up all sorts of imaginative games. Their home was filled with books to feed that imagination. Among her favorites were C.S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia, P.L. Travers' Mary Poppins, as well as books by Laura Ingalls Wilder and Charles Dickens. Both her parents loved to read, and her father was a journalist.
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"My father read aloud from Shakespeare—he made us take parts and read from plays in the evenings sometimes… Reading was like breathing."*
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One of her more recent chapter books, Counting on Grace, is no fantasy but based on the harsh realities for children working in New England textile mills 100 years ago. Grace is one of her teacher's best students, though a bit of a trouble-maker, yet it's needed and expected that she go work with her mother and sister in the town mill with all its dangers. What happens in the course of just a few months after a reformer secretly comes to town changes Grace's life and those she cares about.
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Birth name: Elizabeth Winthrop Alsop
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Welcome to my blog on God and Country. My name is Diane Rufino and I am the Deputy Coordinator of the NC Tenth Amendment Center and the leader of the Eastern North Carolina Tea Party. I also volunteer with the National Center for Constitutional Studies (founded by Dr. Cleon Skousen) and with the Patriot Institute. I am proud to stand up for the values and principles that our Founders established in our founding documents and for this reason I am dedicated to the work of Michael Boldin's Tenth Amendment Center and to the Tea Party movement. A subset of individuals will always stand up for Liberty, just as they did during the grand progression of human rights starting with the Magna Carta and ending with the Boston Tea Party on December 16, 1773. That simple and peaceful act of civil disobedience by the Sons of Liberty ultimately led to the American Revolution and the creation of an independent and free United States. The Sons of Liberty, our original "radicals," give us inspiration that the quest for maximum human rights and proper constraints on a government that is already showing signs of tyranny are noble causes worth giving up some time and energy to promote.
I am a scientist, teacher, attorney, and a writer. I received my Bachelors of Science degree in Biochemistry from the University of Pennsylvania and my Masters degree in Pathology from Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons. I graduated from Seton Hall Law School and had the last two of my four children while being a student. Judge Andrew Napolitano was my Constitutional Law professor. When the recession hit North Carolina in 2009, I lost my job and when it became clear that I would likely be unemployed for awhile, I decided to do a few things. The first was something I had wanted to do for awhile – get a Masters in Teaching. I also decided to do two things that I felt would make me a better citizen – study the Bible and study our founding history and founding documents. Every day I learn something new. As I get older, the proper perspective becomes clearer. The selfishness of youth wears off and you begin to see what's truly most important in life. Studying history, I've come to love and appreciate this country more. That is, I've come to appreciate the "idea" of this country. This country has been blessed in so many ways, with the gifts of so many extraordinary people, and we have been squandering, ignoring, and trying to villanize those gifts for too long. The new America that people are trying to re-create is certainly nothing to be proud of. If they succeed, then the "shot heard around the world" will be nothing more than a faded dream.
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Climate Change a 'Fabrication'? Ask a Wintering-Over Hummingbird, or Check out Your Daffodils
On my Yahoo home page today, there was a picture of the globe, and an instant poll asking me to check one of two choices: Yes or No, Do you believe global warming is a real threat?
I don't usually waste my time on these things, but there was that tantalizing link to "See the results," and you had to vote to see them, so I voted.
Having recently looked at some depressing satellite images of the pathetically reduced Arctic ice from this past summer, read an account of the rapidly melting glaciers in the Himalayas (sometimes known as the Earth's third polar region), and read some really frightening articles about the plumes of methane erupting from the Arctic sea floor and the Siberian and North American tundra, I of course voted "yes."
The results, though, of the 214,849 other people who participated in that ballot, were 51% yes and 49% no.
Who are these "no" voters? What are they watching, reading, or, for god's sake, what are they seeing when they walk around outside (or maybe they never do that)?
I walked out my door yesterday here in southeastern Pennsylvania, and saw the daffodil shoots poking up two inches above the unfrozen ground in our front garden--something they usually start to do in early March!
The grass on our lawn is green! Usually at this time of year, if it's not covered in snow, it's all brown, frozen solid by a couple weeks of hard frosts, but this year, the ground has never frozen at all.
Now I know that local climates can vary wildly, but first of all, the word was that the US northeast was actually going to be getting colder in the near term, because the melting polar water was supposedly going to be pushing the Gulf Stream, which has for millennia warmed the eastern coast of North America, out to sea. But this year, because of the record melting of the Arctic sea ice, the Jet Stream has shifted northward, and the whole of the Lower 48 in the US is missing the usual arctic blasts that get pulled down here when the Jet Stream dips southward during the winter months.


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The deal may not even be eligible for Pinellas County's bed tax dollars Dunedin's mayor promised the team (without actually asking the county first)!
Now, I'm no attorney, but according to the county's Capital Projects Funding Program guidelines, the Blue Jays' offer to extend their lease by 25 years - in exchange for major expansions of their training facilities - is not long enough to meet the county's minimum requirements.
So, if I'm reading the guidelines right...it's time for the city of Dunedin to not just go back to the drawing board on this deal, but also time for the city to bring county commissioners into the loop...at least if it expects the county to help pay for it.
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See the data table of asset class return, risk, and correlation data here, for 4 time periods:
For a previous post on some asset allocation thoughts, see what the Talmud recommends here.
Some thoughts and commentary:
-Gold is the best performing asset class in the last 5 and 10 years. Yet over long periods, gold offered sub-standard, fixed-income like returns with the volatility of equities, with a real return of about 2%.
-German government bonds (bunds) offered a slightly lower yield but a more attractive risk/reward than US Treasuries, with a real return of about 1.5% to 4%. The recent low semi-deviation (downside risk) on bunds is stunning, as it is close to zero (much lower than Treasuries).
-Investment grade fixed income (FI), whether US or global, offered an attractive risk/reward ratio and low downside risk, over all periods, with a real return of 2% to 4.5%. Surprisingly, the semi-deviation of these diversified bond indices is lower than that of Treasuries, for all periods of time! So diversified bond indices have done much better than developed world stock indices for 5 and 10 years. For the last 20 years, they came close to matching the S&P 500 but with much lower risk (semi-standard deviation).
-For the last two decades, high-yield fixed income (junk bonds) has been a much better proposition than any equities (investors take equity risk but with more downside protection), with a real return of 4% to 6%.
-Fine art is a poor investment, in that its real return is low at 1% to 3%, but the volatility and semi-standard deviation are high. However, fine art offered some of the best option-like returns if you possess good artist selection ($1,000-$10,000 pieces can return 30%+ a year for decades, if the right piece is chosen, like a Van Gogh held from 1930 to 1980, a Picasso held from 1950 to 2010, or a Francis Bacon piece held from 1960 to 2005).
-US equities at -2% to 6.5% real returns almost always have beaten EU equities (at -5% to 2%), but EM equities do stunningly well with a real return of 5% to 10% (if your stomach can handle the down markets - also note that the track record for EM equities is short, only from 1988).
-Commodities have done well in the last decade with real returns of 8%, but have a poor track record from 1970 with real returns of ~1.5%.
-Regarding correlations, fine art as an asset class is least correlated with the other asset classes. Commodities are correlated with gold and EM equity to some degree. The bonds are correlated mostly to bonds, with the exception being HY FI, which has a high equity correlation and weaker correlation to normal bonds. Cash (US T-bills) and gold are negatively correlated, so when the USD weakens, gold prospers, and vice-versa. Real estate has a moderate correlation to HY FI and equities.
-Caveat lector: Statistics, which represent populations of data, can vary considerably based on starting points and ending points of the data sample, but some trends are perceptible. Also, it's important to note that statistics (averages, standard deviations, etc.) in financial datasets may be non-stationary, which means that they aren't stable and change over time. What that means: future performance and correlations may be quite different than past ones.
The only other publication that I know of that tracks this data is the Morningstar Ibbotson SBBI book. Also the Dimson/CSFB Global Investment Returns Yearbook is worth checking out.
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Urine does not normally contain any bacteria in it. The presence of significant numbers of bacteria in urine is called "bacteriuria". Finding bacteria in the urine can mean there is an infection somewhere in the urinary tract (cystitis, urethritis, prostatitis, pyelonephritis).
Bacteria in the urine may be due to a failure to collect a urine sample properly. A clean and dry (preferably sterile) container should be used for collecting a urine sample. A midstream urine specimen is needed. Before collecting your urine, perform proper genital hygiene. For more accurate test results, several urine tests are needed.
If bacteria are found in the urine, it is necessary to identify them to choose the right treatment. A urine culture is performed. A urine sample is kept under the conditions that allow the bacteria to grow. With this test, the type of bacteria, as well as their antibiotic sensitivity, is identified.
Bacteria from the colon may contaminate the urine as well. If so, the bacteria move from the anus to the urethra, then enter the bladder and go up. This way of bacteria spreading to the urinary tract is called the ascending route of bacterial infection. This especially applies to women due to their anatomy. As for the descending route, bacteria enter the urine because of a kidney infection.
Generally, only one type of bacteria is found when a urine sample is analyzed. If several types of bacteria are found, bacterial contamination due to an improperly collected urine sample needs to be ruled out. If so, a second urinalysis is needed.
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Generally, patients with bacteriuria exhibit other clinical signs as well. Yet, bacteria may be found in the urine of a person exhibiting no other symptoms. This condition is referred to as asymptomatic bacteriuria.
The most common symptoms of bacteria in the urine are having to urinate frequently or painful urination, lower abdominal pain, foul-smelling urine, and blood in the urine. The urine may be cloudy, have a whitish or reddish color, or contain flakes.
If the infection is located in the bladder or urethra, the body temperature normally does not rise. If the infection has spread to the kidneys, the patient's body temperature may rise. If so, the patient may also develop dull back pain, nausea or vomiting.
It is usually difficult to identify the symptoms of bacteria in the urine in children. Children may experience a fever, loss of appetite or irritability, but the cause cannot be identified. Another symptom of bacteria in the urine of children is involuntary urination.
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SNL head writer Seth Meyers recently waxed poetic about that "sexy" Secretary in the pages of GQ magazine. On Saturday's new SNL episode, teen heartthrob Justin Bieber reaches out to Clinton in as crass a way as possible.
The sketch opens with the line, "and now, a sexy Valentine's Day message from Justin Bieber to you …" before getting to the offensive highlight.
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Students Help to Build a Future for Tsunami Victims
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Faculty of Architecture Hosts Banda Aceh Design Studio
On Boxing Day morning in 2004 Chyntia Aryani was at her family home near the harbour in Banda Aceh, a small city on the north-western tip of the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
It was a Sunday morning, but the suburbs were fuller than usual with visitors in town for the holidays. "At 8am, we felt the earth quake", Aryani says. "Fifteen minutes later the wave came. Everyone ran, it was really crowded and no-one had any idea what was happening."
The Tsunami killed both her parents and destroyed her home. "I lost half of my memory there," says Aryani, who has lived in Banda Aceh, the capital of the Aceh province, since she was a child. Aryani now lives with her two brothers and two sisters in a home further inland, near Syiah Kuala University, where she studies architecture.
Aryani is speaking to Uni News in the forecourt of the University of Sydney's Architecture Faculty. Three of her fellow architecture students from Syiah Kuala, and a handful of final year architecture students from the University of Sydney, are scattered on the chairs around her.
The have just come from an intensive design studio class where they have been pouring over walls which are covered in plans for dormitories, small shared houses, clinics, mosques and sports fields. They are all draft designs for a Rotary Youth Centre (RYC) that will be built some 8km from Banda Aceh, on what is now a large rice field.
The RYC will eventually accommodate 500 university students, and include a small village for orphaned children (called "Gampong Anak"), along with a variety of community facilities such as a medical centre and a range of spaces for students to socialise, cook and study.
The project will go a small way to rebuilding Aceh, the district which bore the brunt of the Tsunami's devastation, and where hundreds of thousands either perished or were displaced. Schools were destroyed, teachers went missing and thousands of children were orphaned.
As the Australian students present their ideas for the village in the studio workshop, the Indonesian students fill them in about the appropriate shapes for roofs in that part of Indonesia, the right orientation to ensure a mosque faces Mecca, and the need to keep male and female bedrooms separate.
"I wasn't too sure how it would work, but everyone's been really happy to speak up and learn from eachother," says Dr Peter Armstrong, a lecturer from the Architecture Faculty who is overseeing the project. Armstrong has been involved for nearly a decade in aid and reconstruction projects in South-East Asia, including schools in Cambodia and other projects in Laos and Timor. Getting students involved in real-life projects such as this one is a great "teaching vehicle", he says.
The project was initiated by the Turramurra Rotary Club, which chose a design by final year University of Sydney architecture student Nicole Bowller to be the site's masterplan. Her plan extends the single natural water channel through the site by creating a circular series of canals that would diffuse any sudden rush of water.
"I designed it so the impact of a [future] Tsunami would be lessened. Using the soil that I dug from the waterways as landfill also means I can put the buildings on higher levels so they can be protected, without having to bring in expensive in-fill."
Rotary has so far raised over $1 million towards the project. It has also sponsored the students' visit to Australia - in between working on the plans for the Youth Centre and sitting in on design lectures at the University, Rotary representatives have been showing them Canberra, the Blue Mountains and (of course) the Sydney Opera House.
"Everyday we learn something different about how people live here, how they study and learn architecture," says Aryani's friend Vida Asrina. She is impressed with the household recycling here: "we all throw everything in the rubbish together," she says, However she thinks Indonesian buildings have the edge when it comes to disabled access.
Aryani, who now lives with her four brothers and sisters near her University in Banda Aceh, says she hopes she will be able to work on the centre when she returns home and graduates. She'd also like to see it become not just a home for Indonesian students, but for students from other countries who want to experience her culture.
The ship above was dumped five kilometres inland after floating over the Mosque.


text: Fiction's about what it is to be a human being. David Foster Wallace, February 21, 1962 September 12, 2008 I wont spend much time talking about the recent suicide death of David Foster Wallace. Its a sad thing when someone that talented takes their own life. A commentator on National Public Radio said it best, I think, when he noted that the rest of us cant help but worry after something like this happens. What did Wallace see in the world that we didnt? Right. I, for one, wont spend much time worrying about that living in fear defeats the whole point of living, I suppose. I returned late Monday night from a five-day trip to Presque Isle, Me. Thats right, Vacationland and I enjoyed every minute of it. The drive to Presque Isle takes about 12 hours, and its quite a haul for someone like me who has trouble sitting still for 12 seconds, let alone 12 hours. But my girlfriend is good company, and doesnt mind it when I play various air instruments to the soundtrack provided by my iPod. Yes sir, I am a master at playing drums, piano, guitar and the upright bass to songs like Slow Ride, Black Water and Gimme Shelter and I can also rap along to every verse of the Wu-Tang Clans classic Pinky Ring. Needless to say, I find these long drives challenging, and they often ruin my vacation especially during an election like this when my blood pressure runs high every time Sarah Palin opens her mouth... This time was different, though, as I made a concerted effort to ignore the news every time it came on. And it worked! Rather than worry about what was happening on the campaign trail, or wonder who was winning the Sign Battle in New Yorks 20th congressional district (Treadwell is carrying a huge lead, by the way if you drive around and count the election signs, there are about four treadwell signs per Gillibrand sign. This does not bode well for the incumbent), I focused on the local news in Maine, which I found quite refreshing and someone optimistic. No matter what the outcome of Election 2008, it will be remembered as the year the vice grip that partisan politics had on Washington finally loosened. The theme in Maine parallels the national theme Republican candidates throughout the state are distancing themselves from the Bush Administration (for obvious reasons), and some are even alligning themselves with their Democratic rivals. I know, I know... they all want to get elected, so theyre doing whatever it takes to get votes. But trust me, its better than the non-stop bickering you usually get during an election year. And its getting people to think about Americas two-party system and its all-to-numerous flaws. Its good to be back in New York, though, and out of Red Sox Nation. I hate the Patriots, and was forced to watch the Jets throw away what should have been a solid victory among rabid Patriots fans who have already forgotten last seasons Super Bowl loss theyre now talking about their historic regular-season winning streak that extends back to 2006. Now I have to cheer for Buffalo. Thanks a lot, Favre. Chris Morris is the news editor at Denton Publications. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com


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Putting Glass Walls on Pennsylvania Slaughterhouses So We Can
See Behind Closed Doors
B.C. Natural Chicken
Address: 2609 U.S. Rt 22, Fredricksburg, PA 17026
Establishment No.: p493
USDA Inspection Report: 18 Aug 2011
Code: 03J01
Violation: 381.65(e), 417.2(c)(4)
Citation: On 08/18/2011, at approximately 0738 hours, while performing ISP task 03J01 Zero Fecal on one of the randomly selected ten birds on the east evisceration line, I observed fecal material inside the tail area. There were three spots approximately 1/4" in size, dark brown in color and had a thick consistency. I took immediate regulatory control action by stopping the east evisceration line and notified Mr. (Evisceration Supervisor) and Ms. (QA Technician) of the noncompliance. I observed the establishment implement immediate corrective action. I notified Mr. (First Processing Manager) and Mr. QA Manager that an NR would be issued for this noncompliance. This is a failure of the establishments HACCP Plan CCP # 1B as well as 9 CFR 381.65(e) and 9 CFR 417.2(c)(4). The establishment has received both written and oral notification of this noncompliance. Failure to meet regulatory requirements could result in additional administrative action as described in 9 CFR part 500. Please refer to NR # 0114-2011 to which no preventive measure has been given in writing for preventive measures which were either not implemented or were ineffective.
381.65(e) Poultry carcasses contaminated with visible fecal material shall be prevented from entering the chilling tank.
417.2(c)(4) List the procedures, and the frequency with which those procedures will be performed, that will be used to monitor each of the critical control points to ensure compliance with the critical limits
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Money Saving Tips: Easy Way to Freeze Strawberries
Are you looking for some simple ideas to save money? We have simple solutions that you can easily apply to your lifestyle to save money!
I love strawberries! I get a little excited when they are in season because the quality improves and the prices drop. When you find fresh strawberries for a great price during these spring and summer months, you can stock up your fridge and your freezer. (This tip comes in handy to help fresh strawberries stay fresh longer.) We've shared lots of recipes that use strawberries (see below) and you can freeze some for later too! Frozen strawberries are great for smoothies.
Here's an effective way to freeze strawberries:
After washing and cutting the tops off your fresh strawberries, put them in ice cube trays [cup cake tins work too] and stick them in the freezer for a few hours. When they're frozen, put the berries in a freezer container [a plastic bag or a rigid container works] to store long-term.
This will help them freeze individually before you put them in a freezer container. If you freeze them all together in a bag after washing and cutting them, they tend to stick together.
You can also lay them out on a cookie sheet or a platter [not touching each other] and freeze them that way. The point is that they don't touch while they're freezing so you have individual frozen strawberries!
Strawberries freeze without losing quality for about 8-12 months.
I like to make freezer jam with cheap strawberries too. Homemade is the best!
More Strawberry Recipes:
- Strawberry Cream Cheese Stuffed French Toast Recipe
- Strawberry Spinach Salad Recipe
- Strawberry Shortcake on a Stick
- Chocolate Strawberry Shortcakes
- Simple Strawberry Shortcake
- Strawberry-Lime Topping
- Strawberry Cream Puff Pie
- Lemon Berry Pie
- Strawberry Yogurt Cake
- Strawberry Cheesecake
- Basic Cheesecake Recipe with Strawberry Topping
- No Bake Cheesecake Recipe
- Cheesecake Stuffed Strawberries
- Red, White & Blue Strawberries
- Chocolate Covered Strawberries
- Pretzel Jello Pie
- Strawberry Daiquiri Cupcakes
- 3 Ingredient Good-till-the-last-bite Strawberry Pie
- Strawberry Cheesecake Cupcakes
- Cheesecake Crescent Rolls
- Strawberry Whip Cream Cake
- Strawberry Swirl Cheesecake Ice Cream
- Strawberry Spinach Smoothie Recipe
- Strawberry Yogurt Lime Smoothie
- Strawberry Shakes
- Easy Homemade Strawberry Lemonade Recipe
- Homemade Fruit Roll Recipe
- Pudding Fruit Salad
- Strawberry Cheesecake Popsicles
- Tres Leches Cake
- Breakfast Grilled Cheese
- Simple Fruit Dip
Read about an effective way to freeze grapes.
See more money saving tips.
Thanks for the tip. Does this also help them not to lose their texture? I find that everytime I have frozen srawberries, they are mushy when they are thawed.
Beth, I just use this trick because it helps me freeze the strawberries without them clumping up together. Sadly, they are still mushy when thawed, but I mostly use them for fresh fruit smoothies, so it makes no difference to me 🙂
Genius! I don't have freezer space for big trays but I do have lots of ice cube trays left from making baby food. 🙂
Seems this would work for any fruit cut up or even berries. Even if it was a couple in each cube you would only have small clusters and not big clumps.
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Federal Hockey League: Whalers exlode in second period to bury Warriors
DANBURY -- This is one the Federal Hockey League's resident band of Canucks will want to Jean-Rene Forget.
Bad puns aside, the Akwesasne Warriors' prospects of serving the Danbury Whalers with a rare home defeat Friday night looked good when Forget scored with five minutes left in the first period to slice an early 2-0 deficit in half. They were better still when FHL points leader Pierre Dagenais tied things at 2-2 on a power play rip from the right circle four minutes later.
But the Warriors, it turned out, were toast -- au revoir -- with the sounding of the first period horn, the Whalers exploding for a five-goal, two-goaltender second period en route to a 7-3 rout of the FHL's reigning champs in front of 2,639.
"We came out and we played the first 10 minutes of the game the way we planned it," said Whalers coach Phil Esposito. "Then all of a sudden, for some reason, the guys just decided we're up two goals, we're going to start doing the stupid things...I came into (the locker room) and went a little bit ballistic in between periods and we came out and we responded."
James Sanford struck for a pair of power play snipes from the point amid the second period barrage, James Kirkwood added two goals of his own and Andrew Willock tallied a goal and three assists as the Whalers (24-19-2-1; 77 points) beefed up their lead over Akwesasne and Brooklyn in the race for the league's third and final home-ice invite to the playoffs.
"I'm sure it (gives us an edge)," Esposito said of his team's latest victory over a potential playoff foe. "It gives the guys the confidence that they can beat these teams. As long as we do what we're supposed to do, we're going to be fine."
Stalwart netminder Peter Vetri stopped 29 Akwesasne shots to earn his 19th win. Bill Newson, who played against the Whalers last week as a member of the Delaware Federals, scored on an expertly executed redirect in his first night in a Danbury sweater. Matt Houli's first goal gave the Whalers their 2-0 edge midway through the first period.
Records: Akwesasne 18-18-4-1; Danbury 24-19-2-1.
Goals: A -- Jean-Rene Forget, Pierre Dagenais, Kris McCarthy; D -- James Kirkwood 2, Matt Houli, James Sanford 2, Bill Newson, Andrew Willock. Assists: A -- Sylvain Deschaletes 2, Dagenais; D -- Chris Seifert, Willock 3, Sanford, Matt Moffat. Shots on goal: A -- 32; D -- 39. Goalies: A -- Adam Thompson (15 saves on 20 shots), Alexandre Vincent (17 saves on 19 shots); D -- Peter Vetri (29 saves).


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Published: 2003/12/29
by Mike Gruenberg
Phil Spector Christmas Album
After a long hot summer, most of us look forward to the cooler temperatures that come with the Fall season. Although for many of us this time of year represents a return to school, which may or may not be the most exciting aspect of the season, September nevertheless represents a new beginning. To me, I have always looked forward to this time of year because I know that my favorite holiday, Thanksgiving is not that far away.
The reason I find Thanksgiving so appealing is that it is a "no pressure" holiday. Well, almost no pressure. You don't have to exchange gifts, which eliminates my most dreaded activity that is shopping at the mall. You get to eat great food. If you're a football fan, you usually get to see some exciting games. You get to see family and friends, which may explain the partial pressure, but all in all it's a pretty good time for all the participants.
At every family gathering there is your preverbal Aunt Harriet. She's the one who firmly plants a kiss on you while at the same time pinches your cheeks. That wouldn't be so bad, but the worst part is her inability to understand that her cooking/baking skills have seriously eroded over the years. Quite frankly, those skills were not too good to begin with, but in those days, Aunt Harriet's now dearly departed husband, Morty was able to pitch in and cook part of the meal, which constituted the food that everyone ate willingly.
This year, Aunt Harriet due to old age has confined her activities to bringing her Chocolate Surprise Cake to the festivities. It sure looks good, but you cannot judge a book by its cover! After a festive meal, her cake really does not look that bad. The frosting looks great and wouldn't that cake taste good with a cold glass of milk or freshly brewed coffee? You ask yourself, "how bad could it be?" Common sense dictates that we learn our lessons from history. If history has taught you anything about her cake, it is that it's aftertaste will be with you for many weeks. It has also taught you that once you take a bite and realize your error, she will undoubtedly sit next to you and watch you finish the whole thing under her supervision.
You are torn between your loyalty and respect for your Aunt Harriet and your inability to withstand your stomach being pumped out at the local hospital. Sentimentality wins out over common sense and you take the first bite. The rest is history as you lamely try to excuse yourself from the table ignoring the eagle eye of your Aunt Harriet. How difficult it is to try to extricate whatever morsels of food have unwittingly fallen into your mouth as you promise yourself never to eat anything prepared by this well intentioned, but inept person ever again.
For me, once Thanksgiving is over the rest of the year couldn't pass quick enough. I don't like to shop, I don't like holiday music and I don't like crowds. Inevitably, all those wonderful sights and sounds are rolled up into one uncomfortable ball as I trudge though the mall each year in the quest to find gifts for the family and friends. In trying to understand my dislike for the aforementioned activities, I realized that I like to give gifts, so shopping for those gifts shouldn't be a problem. Looking for gifts either by myself or with my wife is also a fairly nice activity so that also shouldn't be a problem. Crowds can be avoided by shopping at times when the stores are least crowded so that too should be overcome with a minimum degree of difficulty. That leaves the final problem that I cannot control.
I don't mind hearing "Jingle Bell Rock" once or even twice. I occasionally like "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" by Bruce Springsteen. I can tolerate "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" by Brenda Lee in moderation. However, the assault on my senses to hear these tunes over and over and over again in my car on countless stations, in the mall, in the parking lot, in the rest room, in my doctors' office really is a bit much for me. Much like Aunt Harriet's' cake, the first bite as the first listening is fine until you realize that you have to eat the rest of the cake and that you have two more months after Thanksgiving to hear these insipid tunes.
But wait, there is hope! In 1963, legendary music producer Phil Spector assembled his many groups at Gold Star Recording Studios in LA and produced the quintessential holiday album entitled "A Christmas Gift for You" on the Philles label. Among the groups represented on this album were, "The Crystals," "The Ronettes," and "Bob B. Soxx & The Blue Jeans." Spector backed up his groups with the best session musicians. Among the players in the band were people like Leon Russell, Tommy Tedesco, Hal Blaine and Sonny Bono
To me the most important singer on this album was Darlene Love, whose voice has been heard on hit records for the last forty years. More recently, you can see her playing the role of Danny Glover's wife in the Lethal Weapon movies.
The first cut of the album on Side 1 is Darlene's rendition of the Irving Berlin classic, "White Christmas." You cannot get tired of hearing her sing this tune. Equally as excellent to Darlene as a singer is Ronnie from the "Ronettes". The group sings "Frosty the Snowman" in true Phil Spector "Wall of Sound" fashion. Of course, two true highlights of this album are Ronnie's rendition of "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" and "Sleighride" which both would be a joy to hear over and over in any mall. Hearing it would probably put me in a better mood to shop.
I would be remiss not to mention the contributions of "The Crystals". The arrangement that appears on Spector's album of "Santa Claus is Comin' to Town" is the version that Springsteen copied for his record many years later. Another tune sung by "The Crystals" is "Rudolph the Red-Nose Reindeer" and it still sounds great.
Phil Spector, along with legendary songwriters Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich wrote "Christmas" for this album with Darlene Love as the lead singer for the assembled multitude of singers and musicians. You cannot sit still or not tap or your feet to this tune. To me, this song is rock n' roll history at it's best. On the final track of the album, Phil and the artists perform "Silent Night." Phil speaks and may be a bit over mellow dramatic on this cut as he thanks everyone on the record and thanks the record buying public for their support, but it's true Phil type of stuff. I cannot think of any other record producer who would have the guts or the ability to actually situate themselves on the album and make it work.
If you can find the original album released in December 1963 on the Philles label, then you have a true collectible item. In 1972, Apple Records, largely as a result of Phil working on "Let It Be" for "The Beatles" re-released the Christmas album. In 1974, Warner Brothers Records launched a new label for Phil and the Christmas album was re-re-released. In 1975, Phil Spector International was established and yes, you know what was re-re-re-released. However, for this version a true stereo mix was evident. In actuality, the beauty of Phil Spector recordings are the mono versions and although stereo is the choice in most recordings, I submit that Phil's productions sound best in mono. Whatever version you are able to buy will be most satisfying.
I normally spend a few hours writing my "In My Life" column for Jambands. This particular writing exercise took a bit longer because I listened to my mono version on an LP import on Chrysalis Records of the Phil Spector Christmas album more than once which proves that holiday music can be a fulfilling experience.
I would like to wish all the people at Jambands and all the people who read our columns and reviews a happy and healthy holiday season.


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For over 30 years, Best Friends Animal Society has been running the nation's largest no-kill sanctuary for companion animals and building effective programs to reduce the number of animals entering shelters. Best Friends' mission is to create a time when there are No More Homeless Pets. Community programs in Kanab, Salt Lake City, Los Angeles, and New York promote adoption, and offer spay/neuter services and educational programs. A network of shelters across the country dedicated to the no-kill mission have partnered with Best Friends. By working together we can Save Them All.
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Year-round recreational opportunities are centered on the 91-mile Lake Flaming Gorge and the famed Green River. There is a wide range of active pursuits to fill your days, or you can just sit back and take in the breathtaking scenery and watch the abundant wildlife.
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The town of Moab's unique combination of beautiful red rock scenery, Arches and Canyonlands National Parks, and the cool waters of the Colorado River has made it one of the most sought after destinations in the American southwest.
Let Moab be your base camp for world famous mountain biking, hiking, canyoneering, four wheel driving, or river trips of any length and experience level.
For a more relaxing visit grab your camera and enjoy the scenery along Moab's three Scenic Byways and in our national and state parks.
Welcome to Utah's San Rafael Country (Emery County), home of the San Rafael Swell filled with color and contrast: From majestic snow capped peaks to desolate desert badlands, from Native American rock art to dinosaur fossils, from sinuous canyon gorges winding a thousand feet below you to awe inspiring buttes and mesas towering thousands of feet above you.
San Rafael Country (SRC) has it all... well, everything but crowds and traffic jams. Heck, SRC is bigger than Delaware and Rhode Island combined, and still has not one single traffic light.
SRC is blessed with areas so magnificently scenic that they rival in beauty to Utah's famous National Parks. SRC's fantastic scenic variety, friendly locals, affordable lodging & restaurants, four State Parks, and best of all, NO CROWDS! Sure, you'll see other people. In fact, you might see a few dozen vehicles during the peak season.
If you're one of those people who's tired of taking a vacation elbow-to-elbow with thousands of visitors and if you're looking for a vacation experience that is getting harder and harder to find? Then get off the beaten path... we're closer than you think.
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Meet Kristen McMillin. She is at her breaking point...
Save Me Harry
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- Published: 29 Oct 2012
- Updated: 30 Oct 2012
- Status: In Progress
Brooke and Harry have been best friends for a long time. Harry gets the opportunity to leave for the X factor but he doesnt want to leave Brooke because of the boys at school who emotionally and phiscally hurt her. Stay tuned to see how Brooke does while Harryis gone and what happens when he comes back!
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