download the latest version of Internet Explorer so you can have tabbed browsing?<<<
Not on your life, laughing as I say that.
I have Foxfire and it has tabbed browsing, my problem is that I keep opening new windows and fill them with tabs.
If you haven’t tried Fox Fire check it out, it beats both Explorer and Netscape. LOL, I have both of those too.
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/
LOL, so what is wrong with having the name backwards?
Firefox, is a smaller faster engine and even the old versions were better than the other two.
My opinion of course, along with many millions who agree.
Excellent site, crafts, make overs, recycle, ton of ideas and links, some is very sharp looking:
an example of why I hate hidden links, everyone of these go to a different blog, but you will need to come here for the link, as I am too tired to open all of them, so they can be posted....... getting off my soapbox..granny
prodigious list for a handmade thanksgiving
JC handmade: lavender/herb bags
crafting nature ideas
crafty fall roundup
sublime stitching: embroidered napkins
bella dia: handprint turkey softie
storque: patchwork trivet
table centrepiece
martha stewart: paper turkeys
plum pudding: nature sculpture
Amy Butler: fabric leaves pattern
maple leaf coasters
acorn wreath [pictured]
leaf votives (candle holders)
country living: oak leaf wreath
martha stewart: corn husk garland
felt napkin rings
napkin leaf prints
thanksgiving table runner
crochet acorn
soft acorn
martha stewart: thanksgiving table setting ideas :: fall garland
woolen wreath
thanksgiving papercraft
button napkin rings at craft stylish
brussel sprout wreath
clove necklace
http://whipup.net/2008/11/26/prodigious-list-for-a-handmade-thanksgiving/
[more hidden links, each to a site...]
mammoth list of festive tutorials
egg carton fairy lights
thrifted holiday trees
mini felt stockings
tomorrowland trees
woolly decorations
jingle mouse ornament
ice wreath
celestine knitted star
froebel star
no sew holiday ornament
woodland ornament
mitten ornament
gumdrop wreath
felt wool pomander
little house ornament
advent calendar
pocket advent calendar
blanket stockings
bird mobile
flower pinwheel
bunting flags
stars and hearts ornaments
teepee ornament
paper fortune cookies
easy ornament
festive tutorial roundup
ribbon pinecone ornament
advent calendar tutorial roundup
woolen wreath
owl ornament
fabric chain
stacked fabric trees [pictured]
santa lucia dolls
pyramid advent calendar
joke tree advent calendar
yoyo advent calendar
cookie sheet advent calendar
felt circle garland
modern paper ornaments
chandelier ornament
paper dove ornament
maddie bird ornament download
mitten ornament
recycled stars
yarn wrapped ornament
button ornament
owl ornament pattern
felt candy cane ornament
ice skate ornaments
peace dove ornament
gift wrapping
holiday tags
pom pom gift topper
recycled packaging
gift card boxes
Share and Enjoy:
http://whipup.net/2008/11/28/mammoth-list-of-festive-tutorials/
Gingerbread recipes, more hidden links to different sites and other good information.
http://bohemianrevolution.com/
MELAMINE CONTAMINATED FOOD PRODUCTS (09): WORLDWIDE EX CHINA
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A ProMED-mail post
http://www.promedmail.org
ProMED-mail is a program of the
International Society for Infectious Diseases
http://www.isid.org
In this update:
[1] Melamine in Chinese soybeans fed to organic French poultry
[2] US: revised melamine tolerable daily intake
*****
[1] Melamine in Chinese soybeans fed to organic French poultry
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008
Source: AFP [machine-trans., abridged, edited]
Chinese soybeans contaminated with melamine withdrawn from the French market
Christophe Courousse, communications director of
the cooperative Terrena in Ancenis
(Loire-Atlantique), told AFP on Friday: “One of
the 3 imported batches, of 293 tonnes, had a
rate of melamine of 116 mg/kg while the standard
[permitted maximum level?] is of 2.5 mg. All food
products made from these materials have been
removed from the market in early November”.
Soybean meal had been delivered, before the
chemical analysis, mainly to 127 organic farmers
in Pays de Loire through the Bio animal nutrition
(BNA), a subsidiary of Terrena a Mervent
(Vendee), which specializes in the manufacture of
organic food.
“The analysis of pork and laying hens show that
there is no danger to public health. Unlike
dioxin, melamine does not accumulate in the body.
There is no transmission in the food chain “,
AFP was told by Fréderic Andre of the Veterinary
Services Directorate in Vendee.
Soya cake with melamine has been used to
manufacture feed for farmers in 11 departments:
Loire-Atlantique, Maine-et-Loire, Mayenne,
Deux-Sevres, Vendee, Calvados, Eure,
Ille-et-Vilaine, Indre -et-Loire, Sarthe and Orne.
The company BNA announced its intention to sue
for fraud, adding melamine to “artificially
inflate the protein levels and increase the
selling price of the product”, said Courousse.
“The organic sector needs 18 000 tons of soybeans
while France produces only 4000 tonnes,” says
Courousse. Imports from China were due to poor
harvest in Brazil, the traditional supplier.
Controls on stored stocks have been carried out
following a warning from the European Union in
late October, recommending vigilance on imports
from China.
Meanwhile, the Ecocert agency, in charge of the
organic certification of imported soybeans, said
that the Chinese exporter had committed a “fraud”
which its control procedures was unable to
detect. [ECOCERT is an organic certification
organization, founded in France in 1991. It is
based in Europe but conducts inspections in over
80 countries, making it one of the largest
organic certification organizations in the world;
see
http://www.ecocert.fr/Contact.html
- Mod.
AS].
“Our certification covers a production method”,
AFP was told Jerome Viel, head of certification
at Ecocert. The body, which has an office in
Beijing, controls “practices” and checks the
“traceability”, but can not “guarantee” against
“frauds” such as the ones [suspected to have
been] committed by the Chinese exporter, he said.
There are many ECOCERT controls on the products
themselves, but they “address mainly pesticides,”
he explained.
Since that case, “we decided to increase the
Ecocert surveillance upon imports of organic soya
cake, whatever their origin,” he said.
According to Terrena, the Chinese supplier in
question is Hongliang, based in Dalian (Northern
China). Its export authorization in France has
been suspended by the Ministry of Agriculture,
said Ecocert.
For their part, European manufacturers of natural
soybean products have to specify in a statement
that the products, intended for human consumption
such as soy milk, soy desserts, Soy steaks etc.,
placed on the market, are not involved in the
melamine contamination problem.
—
Communicated by:
ProMED-mail rapporteur Susan Baekeland
******
[2] US: revised melamine tolerable daily intake
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008
Source: AP via Yahoo News [edited]
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081129/ap_on_he_me/infant_formula
FDA sets melamine standard for baby formula
Food and Drug Administration officials on Friday
[28 Nov 2008] set a threshold of 1 part per
million [=1.0 mg per kg] of melamine in formula,
provided a related chemical isn’t present. They
insisted the formulas are safe. [An FDA interim
safety/risk assessment on melamine and structural
analogues, published last month, established for
melamine a tolerable daily intake TDI of 0.63 mg
per kg of body weight per day. - Mod. AS].
snipped.................
The agency still will not set a safety level for
melamine if cyanuric acid is also present, he
said.
Both the new safety level and the amount of the
chemical found in U.S.-made infant formula are
far below the amounts of melamine added to infant
formula in China that have been blamed for
killing at least three babies and making
thousands ill.
“The levels were so low ... that they do not
cause a health risk to infants,” Sundlof said.
“Parents using infant formula should continue
using U.S.-manufactured infant formula. Switching
away from one of these infant formulas to
alternate diets or homemade formulas could result
in infants not receiving the complete nutrition
required for proper growth and development.”
Reacting to news of the contaminated formulas,
members of Congress, a national consumer group
and the Illinois attorney general have demanded a
national recall, something the FDA said made no
sense because it had no evidence suggesting that
the formula would be dangerous for babies at the
levels of contamination found.
After saying it made an error in its data, the
FDA on Wednesday [26 Nov 2008] produced these
results: Nestle’s Good Start Supreme Infant
Formula with Iron had 2 positive tests for
melamine on one sample; Mead Johnson’s Infant
Formula Powder, Enfamil LIPIL with Iron had 3
positive tests on one sample for cyanuric acid.
Separately, a 3rd major formula maker, Abbott
Laboratories, told the AP that in-house tests had
detected trace levels of melamine in its infant
formula.
Those three formula makers manufacture more than
90 percent of all infant formula produced in the
United States.
snipped............
The agency said it is continuing research on
animals to see the effects of ingesting both
melamine and cyanuric acid.
[Byline: JOAN LOWY and JUSTIN PRITCHARD]
—
Communicated by:
ProMED-mail Rapporteur Mary Marshall
[An emergency expert meeting on toxicological
aspects of melamine and cyanuric acid is to be
held 1-4 Dec 2008. The meeting is being convened
by the WHO in collaboration with FAO. The Chinese
authorities have been requested by the WHO to
provide information for the meeting. For
background, see
http://www.who.int/foodsafety/fs_management/melamine_expertcall.pdf
Mod.AS]
[see also:
Melamine - USA (02): traces in infant formula 20081127.3738
Melamine contaminated food products (08): worldwide ex China 20081120.3658
Melamine - USA: alert 20081116.3619
Melamine contamination, animal feed (04): China 20081114.3598
Melamine contaminated food products (07): worldwide ex China 20081114.3587
Melamine contaminated food products (06): worldwide ex China 20081105.3480
Melamine contamination, animal feed (03): China 20081031.3433
Melamine contaminated food products (05): worldwide ex China 20081030.3425
Melamine contaminated food products (04): Worldwide ex China 20081027.3391
Melamine contamination, animal feed (02): China 20081020.3326
Melamine contaminated food products (03): Worldwide ex China 20081020.3324
Melamine contaminated food products (02): Worldwide ex China 20081004.3129
Melamine contaminated food products - Worldwide ex China 20081002.3107
Melamine contamination, animal feed: RFI 20081001.3097
Infant kidney stones - China (04): WHO, international recall 20080919.2951
Infant kidney stones - China (03): melamine 20080917.2915
Infant kidney stones - China (02): Gansu, milk, melamine 20080912.2856
2007
Hi Everyone
This time we do an experiment trying for warp-free gessoed pages. - A trick that works.
And learn a little about gesso in the bargain:
http://web.mac.com/jwesolek/iWeb/lovethisjournal/Blog/Blog.html
See you there
jessica
Paradise Macaroons
Recipe courtesy Alton Brown for 12 Days of Cookies 2008
Prep Time:
30 min
Inactive Prep Time:
1 hr 30 min
Cook Time:
25 min
Level:
Intermediate
Serves:
approximately 3 1/2 dozen cookies
Ingredients
2 (7 to 8-ounce) packages sweetened shredded coconut
2 ounces sweetened condensed milk
Pinch kosher salt
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
4 large egg whites at room temperature
5 ounces granulated sugar
12 ounces semisweet chocolate chips
1 ounce vegetable shortening
2 ounces finely chopped dry-roasted macadamia nuts
Directions
Preheat the oven to 325
degrees F.
Combine the coconut with the sweetened condensed milk, salt and vanilla in a medium mixing bowl.
In the bowl of a stand mixer with a whisk attachment, beat the egg whites on medium speed until foamy.
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Paradise Macaroons
Recipe courtesy Alton Brown for 12 Days of Cookies 2008
Gradually add the sugar and continue to whip the whites until medium peaks form, 6 to 7 minutes.
Gently fold the egg whites into the coconut mixture. Scoop tablespoon-sized mounds onto a parchment-lined half
sheet pan and bake for 20 to 25 minutes or until golden brown. Immediately transfer the parchment with the
macaroons to a cooling rack. Cool completely before topping.
Fill a 4-quart pot with enough water to come 2 inches up the side, set over medium heat and bring to a simmer.
Combine the chocolate chips and shortening in a small metal or glass mixing bowl and set over the simmering
pot. Stir occasionally until melted, then remove from the heat.
Dip the cooled cookies in the chocolate mixture, sprinkle with the chopped macadamia nuts and place on
parchment paper to set, about 30 minutes.
Copyright 2008 Television Food Network G.P., All Rights Reserved
An Interesting article ...And a glimpse into another viewpoint on what is coming, or feared...granny
http://sharonastyk.com/2008/12/01/why-jewishfarmer/
[snipped]
If it is so damned hard to be a Jewish farmer, why do it? What on earth does it mean to be a “Jewish farmer?” In our case, we do it for several reasons. The first is that Judaism is an agrarian religion, one that prescribes ways of living ecologically and in relationship to the land. We believe those ways have value for us now and that it is no accident that so much of the Torah deals agricultural life - for us a sustainable agriculture isn’t just a good idea, it is an idea integral to our beliefs. Farming Jewishly is an expression of our faith.
We also believe that eating and living Jewishly require ties to the land - it means that Jewish farmers are needed to grow Jewish food, and Jewish eaters need to be connected to those farmers. Our first agricultural venture was our CSA, which may have been the only “Jewish themed” CSA in the US. Every Thursday evening, we delivered our customers (many of them not Jewish) not just food, but what we thought of as sustainable tools for Jewish observance. Our Sabbath begins on Friday nights, so on Thursday evenings we would provide our customers with a basket of fresh fruits and vegetables, fulfilling the obligation that the freshest, best and most special foods be served for the Sabbath. Thus, the first strawberries, or first arugula would be eaten on Shabbos.
Besides the produce, there was a bouquet of flowers, some cultivated, some wild. We are commanded to make our Sabbath table into an altar, and to beautify it. But how could we make a beautiful observance with flowers, sprayed with chemicals by inadequately protected laborers, then flown from Ecuador or Columbia to table? Instead, we gave our customer truly beautiful and natural local flowers, never sprayed. One week it was a huge bouquet of Peonies, later in the season, zinnias, baby’s breath, sunflowers and roses. Then came eggs from our chickens, and two loaves of Challah, made each week by my husband - much of what is needed to make the Sabbath both beautiful and celebratory, as we are commanded.
Sadly, the CSA came to an end when I became a professional writer - I simply couldn’t do both. I’ve still got hopes of putting up hoop houses and running a winter CSA, and taking up beekeeping and perhaps raising herbs for medicine and tea that like our moist soil and woodland areas. In the meantime, we’re livestock farming - raising kosher pastured, organic chicken and turkey, exploring sheep raising with a friend, and hoping to expand our goat project to help other people get small sized dairying going on in suburban neighborhoods. For the rest, we subsistence farm, concentrating on producing as much as we can of what we need in a place, reducing the amount of money we need to earn from our work and our soil.
For now, I’m recognizing that with young kids, producing a lot of our food, and writing, I can’t farm on the scale I’d like to. I’m not always sure whether it would be better for me to grow more food, to do more and talk less about it, but right now it feels more urgent to help other people get started on their journeys. But we’re still a Jewish farm. We still leave a portion of our ground fallow, still feed our animals before we feed ourselves, still glean our own garden and donate to local food pantries.
The other reason we’re Jewish farmers is this - we are especially concerned about Jews and food security in the coming years. Because Jewish culture is so urban, so disconnected from its agricultural traditions, Jews face a particularly hard transition in a food-insecure society. Our disconnection from our food system already has a price - as we have seen in the slaughterhouse scandals. Elderly Jews and those on a low income are already struggling in large numbers, because a kosher diet that includes traditional meats is generally much more costly than a typical American diet - I’ve heard anecdotal reports from Jewish neighborhoods of rapidly increasing claims for food stamps and WIC.
But if this is the beginning of a larger crisis, Jewish people are deeply vulnerable, both to scapegoating (as has happened many times in our history) but also to difficulty in adaptation. If, for example, urban food production becomes, as I think it is likely to, central to urban food security, most Jews are fairly far removed from their old country memories of gardens. And with few Jews in rural areas, and comparatively few farmers who care enough about Jewish urban neighborhoods (because of a shared cultural identity) to come into densely populated Jewish areas, access to food may be seriously challenging. In a transportation-tight society, Jewish populations will need access to kosher foods nearby - not shipped from thousands of miles away.
And while many Jews are highly ecologically literate and concerned about environmental issues, I personally have not found that many quite grasp how tenuous our present stability is. In the past, Jews have faced their crises best with a passport, leaving the dangerous lands for less dangerous ones. But a worldwide climate, fiscal and ecological crisis means that passports aren’t as useful a solution anymore. In the past, the way out of poverty and towards security have been the pursuit of education, and the high paying careers it could provide. The self-sufficiency of days when immigrant and European Jews were poorer has been left behind, as money has ensured our security better than land. But those things too may be changing - and yet, comparatively few Jews are preparing their children for self sufficiency.
Now I don’t have a crystal ball, and it may be that relying on old patterns may serve the Jews of today better than I anticipate. But one of the reason I’m a Jewish farmer is this - because I fear that if Jews don’t grow food, despite the inconveniences, difficulties and moral compromises required to be observant and agrarian, there will be real and serious Jewish hunger in the US. I wish very much that my rural corner of upstate New York could support a shul instead of an occasional minyan, that I could walk to Jewish stores and restaurants, have my kids go to school with other Jewish children, while also raising my chickens and eggs to sell to my Jewish neighbors, and sharing gardening projects together. And I’m sure there are some places where that is possible. But if I can’t have those things, I’ll content myself with connecting with rural Jews in other places who are just as alone, with my occasional minyan and the tiny group of Jewish homeschoolers who support one another. Because Jewish food security depends on Jewish farmers.
continued.