I am quite impressed by my wife when she gets a recipe and made it. I admitted that I have some fears that she screwed the recipe up in a big way. I knew her well than she thought. When I found out that she had made, I have to kneel down and pray for a delicious meal. I got an answer from my Divine Source.
At dinner time, I had tasted her miracle food. I like how it tasted and reminded me of good Bento from Rice Junkies in Portland, OR on Hawthorne. One of my favorite haunts there on Hawthorne. I am happy camper that she added the good white rice as a side dish so I can ladle good beef onto it. Yes, it did remind me of good Bentos I had eaten in the past. Now I want to visit Rice Junkies again with the garage door open. I already made a note to myself, not add any spicy sauce to my Bento like one I ruined last time but it is still tasty to my tongue but really cleared my sinuses.
She asked me if that is worth to make again. I answered, ?yes.? She told me where she get the recipe from?one of her FB friends. I have to admit this it tasted great on rice. I wish that she could cook more delicious meals often.
Note to myself: With this recipe, I personally preferred basmati or jasmine rice instead of ?white? rice, beef stock instead of consomm? unless I can make one, tone the saltiness down from soy sauce, use less amount. But what she is doing, she is doing great with the recipe. It is a mark of her pride in good delicious food. I have to confess: I found myself gobbling two bowls of that good one along with sambal oelek sauce. Still tasty.
Crock pot Beef and Broccoli 1 pound boneless beef chuck roast, or brisket, sliced into thin strips 1 cup beef consomm? (or beef stock) ? cup soy sauce 1/3 cup brown sugar, or honey 1 Tbsp. Sesame oil 3 garlic cloves, minced 2 Tbsp. Cornstarch 2 Tbsp. cooled sauce from the crock pot after being cooked. Fresh broccoli florets (as many as desired) Hot cooked rice (brown, white, jasmine or basmati rice, or riced cauliflower)
1. Place beef in a crock pot 2. In a small bowl, combine consomm?, soy sauce, brown sugar/honey, oil, and garlic. Pour over beef. Cook on low for 6-8 hours. (Beef done in 4 ? hours on low instead of usual hours.) 3. In a cup, stir cornstarch and sauce from the crock pot until smooth. Add to crock pot. Stir well to combine. (If your sauce is not thickening, try bringing your sauce to a boil on the stove top with the cornstarch mixture. Boil until your desired consistency is reached). 4. Add broccoli to the crock pot. Stir to combine. 5. Cover and cook an additional 30 minutes on high (the sauce has to boil for it to thicken). 6. Serve over hot cooked rice. According to my wife, her suggestion on broccoli, she likes to steam broccoli first before she add it to crock pot. ?
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Republican Representative Steve King got into a nasty exchange with ABC Univision host Jorge Ramos over a speech King gave last year in which he suggested America had the ?pick of the litter? when it comes to immigrants. King vehemently denied he had made the comparison, and insisted his comments were laudatory of legal immigrants, even as Ramos pressed him to apologize for his ?offensive and racist? remarks.
The comments in question were amde during a 2012 speech in Pocahontas, Iowa:
?You want a good bird dog? You want one that?s going to be aggressive? Pick the one that?s the friskiest?not the one that?s over there sleeping in the corner?You get the pick of the litter and you got yourself a pretty good bird dog. Well, we?ve got the pick of every donor civilization on the planet.?
Ramos directly confronted King about the comment, and King to immediately interrupted. ?That?s a mischaracterization,? King said. ?Did you watch the video? People write things on the internet all the time. But did you watch the video, the full video? That speech was about celebrating legal immigration. Anyone that understands the language and the culture knows that if they saw the video.?
For the next minute, the two talked over each other without pause, with King arguing that his comments were intentionally distorted for political gain.
?The speech?has been mischaracterized by people on the left,? he said. ?It?s been intentionally and dishonestly done so to drive wedges between people on the basis of race, and I think it?s a sin to do that, Jorge.?
?So from your point of view, you actually did not compare immigrants to dogs?? Ramos asked.
?I said that speech was about the vigor of legal immigration,? King said. ?It was a very complimentary speech and no, I did not do that.?
?I don?t think many people found that complementary,? Ramos said. ?It is not complimentary to compare a group of people to animals.?
?You know I didn?t do that if you watch the whole video,? King said. ?And I would challenge you to run the whole video on Univision. Run the whole video. Listen to the whole speech. Get a sense of what I was talking about rather than what the left wing blogs are doing. They are trying to divide us, instead of let us be unified as one people in this country.?
Watch the full exchange here, via ABC Univision:
[h/t Think Progress, ABC News]
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Syndicated columnist Pat Buchanan had some harsh words for Barack Obama?s address Friday concerning race and the George Zimmerman verdict.
Appearing on PBS?s McLaughlin Group, Buchanan said Obama?s comments were ?insidious? adding, ?The President has taken sides in what is becoming unfortunately a pretty nasty racial dispute in this country.?
JOHN MCLAUGHLIN, HOST: What?s the impact of President Obama?s statement about the Trayvon Martin case? I ask you Pat.
PAT BUCHANAN: I think it was insidious, John. First?
MCLAUGHLIN: Insidious?
BUCHANAN: Yeah, for this reason: President is stepping out politically, I guess, what he feels he ought to do. He?s identifying with the aggrieved community, with Trayvon Martin?s side of this argument, and he?s going all out. And he?s raising this racial profiling thing. He says it really goes on. Racial profiling had nothing to do with this case, and he?s implying that that?s why Trayvon Martin is dead. And he?s suggested that the African-American community, that if he had been white, you would have had a different result here. I think the President has taken sides in what is becoming unfortunately a pretty nasty racial dispute in this country rather than doing what he did at Gabby Giffords where he was magnificent.
CLARENCE PAGE, CHICAGO TRIBUNE: Would Trayvon have been stopped if he was white?
BUCHANAN: Well, let me ask you: would Al Sharpton have been down there if the victim was white?
PAGE: I?m glad Al Sharpton was there because, like I say, this case wouldn?t even have been investigated if it hadn?t been for the race angle.
BUCHANAN: You?re exactly right. I agree with you.
PAGE: The Stand Your Ground law?s been around since what, 2005?
BUCHANAN: This was self-defense.
PAGE: ?we?re getting a big debate on the thing.
BUCHANAN: But it?s got nothing, self-defense, Stand Your Ground had nothing to do with the decision.
PAGE: But the suspicion was there, it was enough for the prosecution.
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Scientists discover new variability in iron supply to the oceans with climate implicationsPublic release date: 19-Jul-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Catherine Beswick catherine.beswick@noc.ac.uk 44-238-059-8490 National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (UK)
The supply of dissolved iron to oceans around continental shelves has been found to be more variable by region than previously believed with implications for future climate prediction.
Iron is key to the removal of carbon dioxide from the Earth's atmosphere as it promotes the growth of microscopic marine plants (phytoplankton), which mop up the greenhouse gas and lock it away in the ocean.
A new study, led by researchers based at the National Oceanography Centre Southampton, has found that the amount of dissolved iron released into the ocean from continental margins displays variability not currently captured by ocean-climate prediction models. This could alter predictions of future climate change because iron, a key micronutrient, plays an important role in the global carbon cycle.
Previously assumed to reflect rates of microbial activity, the study found that the amount of iron leaking from continental margins (the seafloor sediments close to continents) is actually far more varied between regions because of local differences in weathering and erosion on land. The results of the study are published this week in Nature Communications.
"Iron acts like a giant lever on marine life storing carbon," says Dr Will Homoky, lead author and postdoctoral research fellow at University of Southampton Ocean and Earth Science, which is based at the Centre. "It switches on growth of microscopic marine plants, which extract carbon dioxide from our atmosphere and lock it away in the ocean."
Continental margins are a major source of dissolved iron to the oceans and therefore an important factor for climate prediction models. But until now, measurements have only been taken in a limited number of regions across the globe, all of which have been characterised by low oxygen levels and high sedimentation rates. The present study focussed on a region with contrasting environmental conditions in Atlantic waters off the coast of South Africa.
"We were keen to measure iron from this region because it is so different to areas studied before. The seawater here contains more oxygen, and sediments accumulate much more slowly on the seafloor because the region is drier and geologically less active," says Professor Rachel Mills, co-author at the University of Southampton.
The team found substantially smaller amounts of iron being supplied to seawater than measured anywhere before challenging preconceptions of iron supply across the globe.
The researchers also identified that there are two different mechanisms by which rocks are dissolving on the seafloor. They did this by measuring the isotopic composition of the iron, using a technique developed with co-authors based at the University of South Carolina.
"We already knew that microbial processes dissolve iron in rocks and minerals," says Dr Homoky, "but now we find that rocks also dissolve passively and release iron to seawater. A bit like sugar dissolving in a cup of tea.
"The fact that we have found a new mechanism makes us question how much iron is leaking out from other areas of the ocean floor. If certain rocks are going to dissolve irrespective of microbial processes, suddenly there are whole regions that might be supplying iron that are presently unaccounted for."
But how much can this one factor really affect changes in the Earth's climate? Dr Homoky explains: "Model simulations indicate that the presence or absence of iron supply from continental margins may be enough to drive Earth's transition between glacial and interglacial periods," he says. "Therefore these findings could certainly have implications for global climate modelling to what extent, is yet to be determined.
"Our study shows that the amount of iron coming off different margins might vary by up to ten thousand times. In some regions we are probably overestimating and in others underestimating the influence of sedimentary iron supply on the ocean's carbon cycle. The goal now is to refine this knowledge to improve ocean-climate models."
###
The study formed part of the international GEOTRACES programme (http://www.geotraces.org). The UK contribution was funded by the UK's Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), including the two UK-led research expeditions across the Atlantic Ocean.
Notes for editors
1. Reference:
Homoky, W. B. et al. Distinct iron isotopic signatures and supply from marine sediment dissolution. Nat. Commun. 4:2143 doi: 10.1038/ncomms3143 (2013).
2. The image shows a satellite-captured view of a productive ocean margin in the western South Atlantic Ocean. Visible milky-blue swirls of ocean colour are blooms of tiny phytoplankton taking up carbon dioxide in the surface ocean. These blooms are caused by ocean currents, which stir nutrient laden waters from the continental margins into the sunlit surface ocean. Rivers, like the South American Ro de la Plata or River Plate shown here, are an important source of nutrient-rich material to shelf systems. Credit: NASA http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view.php?id=75351
3. Dr Will Homoky is a NERC funded Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Southampton, and Professor Rachel Mills is the Principal Investigator at the University of Southampton leading on the NERC funded GEOTRACES programme.
4. GEOTRACES is an international programme, which aims to improve the understanding of biogeochemical cycles and large-scale distribution of chemical elements and their isotopes in the marine environment. Scientists from approximately 35 nations have been involved in the programme, which is designed to study all major ocean basins over the next decade. The UK is leading research efforts in the Atlantic Ocean, with funding provided by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC).
5. The National Oceanography Centre (NOC) is the UK's leading institution for integrated coastal and deep ocean research. NOC operates the Royal Research Ships James Cook and Discovery and develops technology for coastal and deep ocean research. Working with its partners NOC provides long-term marine science capability including: sustained ocean observing, state-of-the-art numerical ocean models, mapping and surveying, data management and scientific advice.
NOC operates at two sites, Southampton and Liverpool, with the headquarters based in Southampton.
Among the resources that NOC provides on behalf of the UK are the British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC), the Marine Autonomous and Robotic Systems (MARS) facility, the National Tide and Sea Level Facility (NTSLF), the Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level (PSMSL) and British Ocean Sediment Core Research Facility (BOSCORF).
The National Oceanography Centre is wholly owned by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC).
6. University of Southampton School of Ocean and Earth Science is based at the National Oceanography Centre Southampton.
Contact details
Catherine Beswick, Communications and Public Engagement, National Oceanography Centre, catherine.beswick@noc.ac.uk, +44 238 059 8490
The National Oceanography Centre has an ISDN-enabled radio broadcast studio.
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Scientists discover new variability in iron supply to the oceans with climate implicationsPublic release date: 19-Jul-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Catherine Beswick catherine.beswick@noc.ac.uk 44-238-059-8490 National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (UK)
The supply of dissolved iron to oceans around continental shelves has been found to be more variable by region than previously believed with implications for future climate prediction.
Iron is key to the removal of carbon dioxide from the Earth's atmosphere as it promotes the growth of microscopic marine plants (phytoplankton), which mop up the greenhouse gas and lock it away in the ocean.
A new study, led by researchers based at the National Oceanography Centre Southampton, has found that the amount of dissolved iron released into the ocean from continental margins displays variability not currently captured by ocean-climate prediction models. This could alter predictions of future climate change because iron, a key micronutrient, plays an important role in the global carbon cycle.
Previously assumed to reflect rates of microbial activity, the study found that the amount of iron leaking from continental margins (the seafloor sediments close to continents) is actually far more varied between regions because of local differences in weathering and erosion on land. The results of the study are published this week in Nature Communications.
"Iron acts like a giant lever on marine life storing carbon," says Dr Will Homoky, lead author and postdoctoral research fellow at University of Southampton Ocean and Earth Science, which is based at the Centre. "It switches on growth of microscopic marine plants, which extract carbon dioxide from our atmosphere and lock it away in the ocean."
Continental margins are a major source of dissolved iron to the oceans and therefore an important factor for climate prediction models. But until now, measurements have only been taken in a limited number of regions across the globe, all of which have been characterised by low oxygen levels and high sedimentation rates. The present study focussed on a region with contrasting environmental conditions in Atlantic waters off the coast of South Africa.
"We were keen to measure iron from this region because it is so different to areas studied before. The seawater here contains more oxygen, and sediments accumulate much more slowly on the seafloor because the region is drier and geologically less active," says Professor Rachel Mills, co-author at the University of Southampton.
The team found substantially smaller amounts of iron being supplied to seawater than measured anywhere before challenging preconceptions of iron supply across the globe.
The researchers also identified that there are two different mechanisms by which rocks are dissolving on the seafloor. They did this by measuring the isotopic composition of the iron, using a technique developed with co-authors based at the University of South Carolina.
"We already knew that microbial processes dissolve iron in rocks and minerals," says Dr Homoky, "but now we find that rocks also dissolve passively and release iron to seawater. A bit like sugar dissolving in a cup of tea.
"The fact that we have found a new mechanism makes us question how much iron is leaking out from other areas of the ocean floor. If certain rocks are going to dissolve irrespective of microbial processes, suddenly there are whole regions that might be supplying iron that are presently unaccounted for."
But how much can this one factor really affect changes in the Earth's climate? Dr Homoky explains: "Model simulations indicate that the presence or absence of iron supply from continental margins may be enough to drive Earth's transition between glacial and interglacial periods," he says. "Therefore these findings could certainly have implications for global climate modelling to what extent, is yet to be determined.
"Our study shows that the amount of iron coming off different margins might vary by up to ten thousand times. In some regions we are probably overestimating and in others underestimating the influence of sedimentary iron supply on the ocean's carbon cycle. The goal now is to refine this knowledge to improve ocean-climate models."
###
The study formed part of the international GEOTRACES programme (http://www.geotraces.org). The UK contribution was funded by the UK's Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), including the two UK-led research expeditions across the Atlantic Ocean.
Notes for editors
1. Reference:
Homoky, W. B. et al. Distinct iron isotopic signatures and supply from marine sediment dissolution. Nat. Commun. 4:2143 doi: 10.1038/ncomms3143 (2013).
2. The image shows a satellite-captured view of a productive ocean margin in the western South Atlantic Ocean. Visible milky-blue swirls of ocean colour are blooms of tiny phytoplankton taking up carbon dioxide in the surface ocean. These blooms are caused by ocean currents, which stir nutrient laden waters from the continental margins into the sunlit surface ocean. Rivers, like the South American Ro de la Plata or River Plate shown here, are an important source of nutrient-rich material to shelf systems. Credit: NASA http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view.php?id=75351
3. Dr Will Homoky is a NERC funded Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Southampton, and Professor Rachel Mills is the Principal Investigator at the University of Southampton leading on the NERC funded GEOTRACES programme.
4. GEOTRACES is an international programme, which aims to improve the understanding of biogeochemical cycles and large-scale distribution of chemical elements and their isotopes in the marine environment. Scientists from approximately 35 nations have been involved in the programme, which is designed to study all major ocean basins over the next decade. The UK is leading research efforts in the Atlantic Ocean, with funding provided by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC).
5. The National Oceanography Centre (NOC) is the UK's leading institution for integrated coastal and deep ocean research. NOC operates the Royal Research Ships James Cook and Discovery and develops technology for coastal and deep ocean research. Working with its partners NOC provides long-term marine science capability including: sustained ocean observing, state-of-the-art numerical ocean models, mapping and surveying, data management and scientific advice.
NOC operates at two sites, Southampton and Liverpool, with the headquarters based in Southampton.
Among the resources that NOC provides on behalf of the UK are the British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC), the Marine Autonomous and Robotic Systems (MARS) facility, the National Tide and Sea Level Facility (NTSLF), the Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level (PSMSL) and British Ocean Sediment Core Research Facility (BOSCORF).
The National Oceanography Centre is wholly owned by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC).
6. University of Southampton School of Ocean and Earth Science is based at the National Oceanography Centre Southampton.
Contact details
Catherine Beswick, Communications and Public Engagement, National Oceanography Centre, catherine.beswick@noc.ac.uk, +44 238 059 8490
The National Oceanography Centre has an ISDN-enabled radio broadcast studio.
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The Forensic Science Laboratory report has found organophosphorus, a compound is used in farm insecticides, in Oil samples collected from the school ...
Republican Representative Steve King got into a nasty exchange with ABC Univision host Jorge Ramos over a speech King gave last year in which he suggested America had the ?pick of the litter? when it comes to immigrants. King vehemently denied he had made the comparison, and insisted his comments were laudatory of legal immigrants, even as Ramos pressed him to apologize for his ?offensive and racist? remarks.
BUCHANAN: Yeah, for this reason: President is stepping out politically, I guess, what he feels he ought to do. He?s identifying with the aggrieved community, with Trayvon Martin?s side of this argument, and he?s going all out. And he?s raising this racial profiling thing. He says it really goes on. Racial profiling had nothing to do with this case, and he?s implying that that?s why Trayvon Martin is dead. And he?s suggested that the African-American community, that if he had been white, you would have had a different result here. I think the President has taken sides in what is becoming unfortunately a pretty nasty racial dispute in this country rather than doing what he did at Gabby Giffords where he was magnificent.![[ Back to EurekAlert! ]](http://www.eurekalert.org/images/back2e.gif){kind=small}
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