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You can can butter.

Here’s what you do:

1. Heat pint jars in a 250ºF (120ºC) oven for 20 minutes, without rings or seals. One pound of butter fills slightly more than 1 pint jar. 11 pounds of melted butter fills 12 pint jars. A roasting pan works well for holding the pint jars while in the oven.

2. While the jars are heating, slowly melt butter until it comes to a boil. Use a large spatula to stir the bottom of the pot often to keep the butter from scorching. Reduce heat and simmer for at least 5 minutes. More simmer time lessens the amount of shaking required in Step 4. Place the lids in a small pot and bring to a boil, leaving the lids in hot water until needed.

3. Stir melted butter from the bottom to the top with a soup ladle and pour melted butter into heated jars through a canning jar funnel. Leave ¾” of head space in the jar, which allows room for the shaking process.

4. Carefully wipe off the jar tops. Add the lid and ring and tighten securely. Lids will seal as they cool. Once a few lids “ping,” shake the jars while still warm, but cool enough to handle easily. The butter will separate and become foamy on top and white on the bottom. In a few minutes, shake again, and repeat until the butter retains the same consistency throughout the jar.

5. While still slightly warm, put jars into the refrigerator. While cooling and hardening, shake again, and the melted butter will then look like butter and become firm. This final shaking is very important. Check every 5 minutes and give the jars a little shake until they harden in the jar. Leave in the refrigerator for an hour.

Canned butter should store for 3 years or longer on a cool, dark shelf.

http://www.dailypress.com/features/dp-life_edibles_0507may07,0,3410258.story

Tarceva (erlotinib)

Audience: Oncological, dermatological and ophthalmological healthcare professionals
OSI, Genentech and FDA notified healthcare professionals of new safety information added to the WARNINGS AND PRECAUTIONS sections of the prescribing information for Tarceva. Gastrointestinal perforation (including fatalities), bullous, blistering and exfoliative skin conditions including cases suggestive of Stevens-Johnson syndrome/toxic epidermal necrolysis, in some cases fatal, and ocular disorders, including corneal perforation or ulceration have been reported during use of Tarceva. The new safety information comes from routine pharmacovigilance activities of clinical study and postmarketing reports. Tarceva monotherapy is indicated for the treatment of patients with locally advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer after failure of at least one prior chemotherapy regimen. In combination with gemcitabine, Tarceva is also indicated for the first-line treatment of patients with locally advanced, unresectable, or metastatic pancreatic cancer.

Read the complete MedWatch 2009 Safety summary, including a link to the OSI Dear Healthcare Professional Letter, at:

http://www.fda.gov/medwatch/safety/2009/safety09.htm#Tarceva

You are encouraged to report all serious adverse events and product quality problems to FDA MedWatch at www.fda.gov/medwatch/report.htm

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Next step? No guns allowed for right-wing ‘extremists’
http://www.worldnetdaily.com ^ | May 08, 2009 | Drew Zahn

Posted on Friday, May 08, 2009 9:35:57 PM by luv2ndamend

Bill empowers attorney general to forbid firearms for those ‘suspected dangerous’

A new gun law being considered in Congress, if aligned with Department of Homeland Security memos labeling everyday Americans as potential “threats,” could potentially deny firearms to pro-lifers, gun-rights advocates, tax protesters, animal rights activists, and a host of others – any already on the expansive DHS watch list for potential “extremism.”

Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., has sponsored H.R. 2159, the Denying Firearms and Explosives to Dangerous Terrorists Act of 2009, which permits the attorney general to deny transfer of a firearm to any “known or suspected dangerous terrorist.” The bill requires only that the potential firearm transferee is “appropriately suspected” of preparing for a terrorist act and that the attorney general “has a reasonable belief” that the gun might be used in connection with terrorism.

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SECRECY NEWS
from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy
Volume 2009, Issue No. 37
April 23, 2009

Secrecy News Blog: http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/

Support Secrecy News
http://www.fas.org/sgp/donate.html

** SECRECY VS. SCIENTIFIC INTEGRITY
** MORE DECLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS ON TORTURE

SECRECY VS. SCIENTIFIC INTEGRITY

Following an August 28, 2008 explosion at the Bayer CropScience facility
in Institute, West Virginia, Bayer used official secrecy restrictions to
limit public awareness of the accident and to impede investigators from
the U.S. Chemical Safety Board, a congressional review found.

“Bayer engaged in a campaign of secrecy by withholding critical
information from local, county, and state emergency responders; by
restricting the use of information provided to federal investigators; by
undermining news outlets and citizen groups concerned about the dangers
posed by Bayer’s activities; and by providing inaccurate and misleading
information to the public,” according to an April 21, 2009 staff report
from the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

http://www.fas.org/sgp/congress/2009/042109supp.pdf

In testimony before Rep. Bart Stupak’s Oversight Subcommittee this week,
Bayer CropScience President William B. Buckner admitted that Bayer’s
secrecy practices were driven not only by “legitimate security concerns”
but also by “a desire to limit negative publicity generally about the
company or the Institute facility.” “We concede that our pursuit of
[secrecy protection] was motivated, in part, by a desire to prevent that
public debate from occurring in the first place,” Mr. Buckner said.

http://www.fas.org/sgp/congress/2009/042109buckner.pdf

While Mr. Buckner’s candor is unusual, his company’s instinctive reliance
on secrecy to help shape public perception is not. Such politically
motivated secrecy is a predictable and normal response to unwanted
scrutiny. Policymakers and others who aspire to an optimal degree of
transparency in government must anticipate such responses and deploy
countermeasures against them.

A new opportunity to help develop such countermeasures arises in a White
House policy on scientific integrity that is now under development, and
which would require public disclosure of most policy-relevant scientific
and technological information:

“Except for information that is properly restricted from disclosure under
procedures established in accordance with statute, regulation, Executive
Order, or Presidential Memorandum, each agency should make available to
the public the scientific or technological findings or conclusions
considered or relied on in policy decisions,” according to a March 9, 2009
statement from President Obama.

http://www.fas.org/sgp/obama/scientific.html

But how can the new policy ensure that only information which is “properly
restricted” by statute or regulation will be withheld from disclosure? What tools can be put in place against the inevitable political abuse of
secrecy authority? How can the new policy overcome the ordinary “desire
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information is needed, along with a reexamination of how such criteria are
exercised in practice. New oversight mechanisms and disclosure authorities
are needed to promote compliance. New appeal procedures would help to
adjudicate difficult or contested cases.

“We fully acknowledge the need for further guidance on what materials
should and should not be marked as SSI [sensitive security information],”
Mr. Buckner told Congress this week. In fact, further guidance and
improved clarity are needed all around.

In a Federal Register notice today, the Office of Science and Technology
Policy (OSTP) solicited public comment on the implementation of President
Obama’s memorandum on scientific integrity. “Comments from the public
will help the OSTP determine what should be included in these
recommendations. Respondents are invited to suggest: (1) Recommendations
that would be responsive to the aims of the President, (2) specific
implementing strategies, and (3) data and empirical evidence related to
the effectiveness of strategies to promote scientific integrity,” the
April 23 Federal Register notice said.

http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/2009/04/integrity.html

Public comments are due by May 13.

http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2009pres/05/20090511c.html

News Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Monday, May 11, 2009

Contact: HHS Press Office
(202) 690-6343
HHS Makes Funding Available to Strengthen Non-Profits, Faith Based Groups

Strengthening Communities Fund is Supported by American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

The Department of Health and Human Services today announced the availability of grants worth $50 million from the Strengthening Communities Fund, a new fund created by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The fund will strengthen nonprofit and faith-based organizations that aid families and communities who are struggling in the economic downturn.

The Strengthening Communities Fund (SCF) is divided into two parts. The Nonprofit Capacity Building program will make one-time, two-year awards of up to $1 million to lead organizations that will use the funds to support other faith-based or secular nonprofit organizations.

The State, Local and Tribal Government Capacity Building program will make one-time, two-year awards of up to $250,000 to state, city, county and Indian/Native American tribal governments. Governments will use these grants to strengthen nonprofit organizations and increase the nonprofits’ involvement in projects that help turn our economy around.

Grantees for both programs must provide at least 20 percent of the total approved cost of the project from non-federal funds. This match may be met by cash or in-kind contributions.

HHS’ Administration for Children and Families’ Office of Community Services will administer the SCF programs. Applicants interested in applying for funds should visit http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/recovery.html.

The activities described in this release are being funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). To track the progress of HHS activities funded through the ARRA, visit www.hhs.gov/recovery. To track all federal funds provided through the ARRA, visit www.recovery.gov.

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Note: All HHS press releases, fact sheets and other press materials are available at http://www.hhs.gov/news.

Last revised: May 11, 2009

[I did not check, but have heard on the radio, that we will not be able to track the funds for another year or so... granny]