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Hi Folks,
You've all heard the stories that the Chinese actually invented spaghetti, the Spanish and Portuguese were the first to put the salt on bacalla, and that Sicilians are actually a mix between the 'original' Italians and invading Moors. Well, now the British are claiming proof that they invented Lasagna! More on that later . .
Melbourne News: FOLK VICTORIA SHOW
I will be performing a couple of solo sets,
impromptu, for Folk Victoria, next week, on Friday July 25th,
at The East Brunswick Club Hotel, singing a selection of my songs
including 'Familiar Ring', "Gift (One Iraqi Child)',
'Father', 'My Home Ain't In The Hall of Fame', 'Marching
With Martin Luther King Jr', 'Lower Jesus', 'Crop
Circles in My Marijuana', 'Shaddap You Face- Injubundji
Style' (the Aboriginal lyrics sing-a-long version,) plus many
others, and running through some of my original 3-character show,
circa 1979, that I've been asked to perform for the Troubadour
Birthday party next month. (Anyone who won't be able to make it
out to the party in Kynton, can catch an informal preview next
Friday week.) Julie Levy is doing the support along
with her fiddle player. She is a great singer-songwriter and was
a co-winner of the 'Songs of Tolerance' award at Port Fairy
Folk Festival this year. It promises to be a warm and creative
night. The details are as follows:
Friday July 25th
The East Brunswick Club Hotel
280 Lygon Street
East Brunswick
Start time 8.30
Door price: $8 / $6 conc.
Meals available from 6.30 to 8.15.
Enquiries: 9481 6051.
Hope to see some of you there. Come up and
say hello.
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Things Dissolve Better With Coke
Thanks to Carl Panuzzo for the following water
vs coke article. Carl also
shares my views that email activism is not another form of spam
but suggests
instead to:
" . . be encouraged by the work and worth of people power
. .
it's worth being annoyed a little now and enjoy the fruit of a
better
lifestyle later, than be complacent, out of people's faces and
have someone
else making decisions for you. Congratulations everyone who is
bothered to
keep perspective and motivation alive... "
Water vs Coke
WATER
1. 75% of Americans are chronically dehydrated.
2. In 37% of Americans, the thirst mechanism is so weak that it
is often
mistaken for hunger.
3. Even MILD dehydration will slow down one's metabolism as much
as 3%.
4. One glass of water will shut down midnight hunger pangs for
almost 100%
of the dieters studied in a University of Washington study.
5. Lack of water, the #1 trigger of daytime fatigue.
6. Preliminary research indicates that 8-10 glasses of water a
day could
significantly ease back
and joint pain for up to 80% of sufferers.
7. A mere 2% drop in body water can trigger fuzz short-term memory,
trouble
with basic math, and difficulty focusing on the computer screen
or on a
printed page.
8. Drinking 5 glasses of water daily decreases the risk of colon
cancer by
45%, plus it can slash the risk of breast cancer by 79%, and one
is 50% less
likely to develop bladder cancer.
COKE
1. In many states (in the USA) the highway patrol carries two
gallons of
coke in the truck to remove blood from the highway after a car
accident.
2. You can put a T-bone steak in a bowl of Coke and it will be
gone in two
days.
3. To clean a toilet: Pour a can of Coca-Cola into the toilet
bowl and let
the "real thing" sit for one hour, then flush clean.
The citric acid in Coke
removes stains from vitreous China.
4. To remove rust spots from chrome car bumpers: Rub the bumper
with a
rumpled-up piece of aluminum foil dipped in Coca-Cola.
5. To clean corrosion from car battery terminals:Pour a can of
Coca-Cola
over the terminals to bubble away the corrosion.
6. To loosen a rusted bolt: Applying a cloth soaked in Coca-Cola
to the
rusted bolt for several minutes.
7. To bake a moist ham: Empty a can of Coca-Cola into the baking
pan, wrap
the ham in aluminum foil, and bake. Thirty minutes before the
ham is
finished, remove the foil, allowing the drippings to mix with
the Coke for a
sumptuous brown gravy.
8. To remove grease from clothes: Empty a can of coke into a load
of greasy
clothes, add detergent, an run through a regular cycle. The Coca-Cola
will
help loosen grease stains.
9. It will also clean road haze from your windshield.
Info:
1. The active ingredient in Coke is phosphoric acid. Its pH is
2.8. It will
dissolve a nail in about 4 days. Phosphoric acid also leaches
calcium from
bones and is a major contributor to the rising increase in osteoporosis.
2. To carry Coca-Cola syrup (the concentrate) the commercial truck
must use
the Hazardous material place cards reserved for Highly corrosive
materials.
3. The distributors of Coke have been using it to clean the engines
of their
trucks for about 20 years!
(Ed. Note: A lot of good household tips there!)
FLASH!! JUST IN: COKE STORY DEBUNKED! (UPDATE)
(THE WATER PART IS TRUE AS FAR AS
I CAN TELL - OH WELL, IT WAS FUN THINKING WE HAD THE PERFECT SOLVENT
FOR AWHILE.)
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Britain May Have Had Lasagna Before Italy
The Associated Press
Jul 15 2003 9:24PM
LONDON (AP) - After a hard day's jousting, what a medieval English
knight needed was .... a plate of lasagna.
And he apparently could have it, according to British researchers who claim to have found a British recipe for lasagna dating from the 14th century - long before Italian chefs came up with the delicious concoction of layers of pasta topped with cheese.
``This is the first recorded recipe for a lasagna-based
dish,'' David Crompton, one of the researchers, said Tuesday.
``The Italian dish has tomatoes, which were only discovered two
centuries later in the New World.'' (more)
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Iraq's oil money would go to Iraqis
Tony Blair complained in Parliament that "people
falsely claim that we want
to seize" Iraq's oil revenues, adding that they should be
put in a trust
fund for the Iraqi people administered through the UN. Britain
should seek a
Security Council resolution that would affirm "the use of
all oil revenues
for the benefit of the Iraqi people".
Instead Britain co-sponsored a Security Council
resolution that gave the US
and UK control over Iraq's oil revenues. Guess what? There is
no UN-administered trust
fund.
Far from "all oil revenues" being
used for the Iraqi people, the resolution
continues to make deductions from Iraq's oil earnings to pay in
compensation
for the invasion of Kuwait in 1990.
('Let them eat lasagna,' Blair was overheard commenting.)
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President Caught In Another Lie.
JULY 14, 2003
This is just one more example of president Bush hiding one lie behind another.
07/15/03: During a press briefing at the Whitehouse with United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan on Monday, 07/14/03, our president continued to lie to the American people.
This latest instance of Presidential deceit relates to the reasons for the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
When questioned about his comments in the state of the union address relating to the now discredited claim that Iraq tried to buy Uranium yellowcake from Niger, the president said.
"The larger point is, and the fundamental question is, did Saddam Hussein have a weapons program? And the answer is, absolutely. And we gave him a chance to allow the inspectors in, and he wouldn't let them in. And, therefore, after a reasonable request, we decided to remove him from power, along with other nations, so as to make sure he was not a threat to the United States and our friends and allies in the region. I firmly believe the decisions we made will make America more secure and the world more peaceful."
This as clearly a lie by our president, "And we gave him a chance to allow the inspectors in, and he wouldn't let them in. And, therefore, after a reasonable request, we decided to remove him from power"
President Bush has rewritten history and provided a new reason as to why he ordered the US invasion of Iraq.
The actual circumstances were that the UN inspectors were in Iraq and the Iraqi government was providing unfettered access to UN weapons inspectors. UN inspectors were busy dismantling Iraqi missiles when they were instructed to leave Iraq, prior to the US - UK invasion.
Why will our main stream media not follow up on theses outrages untruths and insist that the president be held accountable for his lies.
The full text of the presidents remarks can be found here. The first site address is the White House's official website by the way.
(Full Text)
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For Americans
The President took the nation to war based
on his assertion that Iraq posed
an imminent threat to our country. Now the evidence that backed
that
assertion is falling apart.
I've joined over 330,000 other people in calling
on Congress to investigate.
If you are a US citizen or resident, please add your name to the
following
petition:
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recipe
This is a combination of the Vietnamese technique
of drying the rice first
to shorten cooken time and give it a broken-rice texture, with
the Mexican
technique of adding some tomatoes and vegetables to the pot while
steaming.
Ingredients:
1 cup long grain rice
1 1/2 cups stock or water
1 tomato, diced
1/2 carrot, diced
1 small onion, finely chopped
1 teas garlic
1/2 cup sultanas or raisins
1/2 cup mixed sesame seeds and sunflower seeds
sunflower, peanut or vegetable oil
method:
Wash rice. Strain and spread out evenly in a medium size bowl.
Leave for
about an hour until it has absorbed most of the water coating
it.
Toast the seeds and set aside.
In a small frypan, add a little oil, and saute the onion for a
minute, then
add the carrot and garlic for another minute, then add the tomato
and a
little salt. Stir for about 30 seconds. Don't let the tomato get
too mushy.
Place contents of the frypan into a blender with a little of the
stock or
water, just enough to move it around. Quickly blend for about
30 seconds.
You don't want a puree - keep everything chunky, but blended.
In a
saucepan, heat about three tbles of the oil and quickly saute
the rice until
it sizzles. Add one cup of stock or water, and the contents of
the blender.
Cover. As soon as it reaches the boil, turn heat down very low
and simmer
for 15 minutes. Check to see if it's cooked. Add sultanas or raisins
and
replace lid and set aside for ten minutes so that the rice continues
to firm
up in its own steam.
To serve: Place rice on plate. Sprinkle the mixed toasted seeds
over the
top. This is a festive looking dish in itself but goes wonderfully
with
Mexican Moles.
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