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Jul 3
Paul Wachter Contributor
AOL News Surge Desk
Since the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico began more than two months ago, other countries have offered to assist with the cleanup effort. But until Tuesday, Washington had not taken them up on the offer.
Now, the State Department says it will accept assistance from 12 countries and international organizations, of which only one, Japan, has been identified.
According to Foreign Policy magazine, the United States has previously declined offers to help from Canada, Croatia, France, Germany, Ireland, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Republic of Korea, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United Nations.
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Jul 3
Schwarzenegger’s Plan to Slash Pay Sparks Outrage
By Hugh Collins | AOL News
More than 200,000 workers’ salary could be slashed to the federal minimum — or $7.25 an hour — until the state produces a budget.
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Jul 3
Giving Proper Gravestones to Negro Leagues Players
from: New York Times | July 1, 2010 Via…AARP Bulletin
COLUMBIA, Mo. — Only something so heavy could lighten their burden. Three men gripped a 150-pound headstone around the edges, lugged it 40 feet across the grass and lowered it into the dirt.
“Got it?” the anesthesiologist asked, tilting the slab in gently.
“Yeah. Yeah, over here,” the insurance man said.
They rose from their knees, brushed off their hands and stood back from the grave.
“Big Bill Gatewood,” the historian said with a sigh.
For almost 50 years, William M. Gatewood lay in obscurity in an unmarked grave here at Memorial Park Cemetery. But that ended Tuesday, when three baseball fans continued their quest to locate every former Negro leagues player without a headstone and do their share to right the wrong.
Gatewood was a star pitcher and manager in the early Negro leagues who is credited with giving James Bell his nickname, Cool Papa, and teaching Satchel Paige his hesitation pitch. Gatewood died in Columbia in 1962 with no one to arrange for a grave marker.
On Tuesday, he became the 19th player for whom the Negro Leagues Grave Marker Project has provided a headstone. The project volunteers track down unmarked graves, raise money for headstones and install them, often with their own hands.
“These were great ballplayers who don’t deserve to be forgotten, but they have been,” said Dr. Jeremy Krock, a 52-year-old anesthesiologist from Peoria, Ill., who began the effort seven years ago. “A lot of these guys, by the time Jackie Robinson made it, they were way past their prime. It was too late for them. And not having a marker on their grave for people to remember them only made it worse.”
Krock was joined at the gravesite Tuesday by Larry Lester, a Negro leagues historian from Kansas City, Mo., and Dwayne Isgrig, a customer service representative for a St. Louis insurance company. They convened under the beaming sun in central Missouri, drawn to Bill Gatewood’s grave by baseball, Negro leagues history and purposeful regret.
Since 2004, the remains of Highpockets Trent (Burr Oak Cemetery outside Chicago), Steel Arm Taylor (Springdale Cemetery, Peoria), Gable Patterson (Greenwood Cemetery, Pittsburgh) and other baseball pioneers have been tracked down and memorialized by the group.
It raises money for the $700 headstones primarily through members of the Society for American Baseball Research, although after hearing about the effort, some in baseball have quietly written checks, including the Chicago White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf, the former commissioner Fay Vincent and the former player, manager and coach Don Zimmer.
At the annual symposium of SABR’s Negro Leagues Research Committee on July 15 in Birmingham, Ala., Sap Ivory — a first baseman for the local Black Barons from 1958 to 1960 — will get a headstone above his nearby grave.
The group’s primary targets now include two members of the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., Pete Hill and Sol White, among about 20 more on its growing list. Hill’s remains have yet to be found, and White is buried in an unmarked group grave at Frederick Douglass Memorial Park on Staten Island.
Jul 3
Berry Shortcake
Recipe by: Christopher Idone | from The Best of Christopher Idone
Yield: Serves 8
INGREDIENTS
For the syrup
* ½ cup sugar
* ½ cup mint leaves
For the shortcake
* 2 cups all-purpose flour
* 1 tablespoon sugar
* 1 tablespoon baking powder
* 1 teaspoon salt
* 5 tablespoons unsalted butter, chilled and cut into small bits
* 1 cup heavy cream
For the filling
* 3 pints strawberries or combination of strawberries, raspberries, and blackberries
* ½ pint heavy cream, whipped
Directions
Prepare the syrup: In a heavy small saucepan, bring the sugar and 1 cup cold water to a boil over high heat, stirring with a wooden spoon until the sugar dissolves. Continue to boil, without stirring, for 5 minutes, then remove from the heat. Crush the mint leaves and add to the syrup. Cool completely, then strain and discard the mint leaves.
Prepare the shortcake: Preheat the oven to 350°F.
In a large bowl, sift together the flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt. Using your fingers, work the butter into the flour mixture until it looks crumbly.
Stir in the cream and mix just until it is absorbed and the dough is no longer sticky and releases from the sides of the bowl.
On a lightly floured surface, flatten the dough into a 1-inch flat cake. Cut into 8 equal wedges. Form each wedge into 1-inch-thick rounds. Place the shortcakes on an ungreased baking sheet. Bake for 25 to 35 minutes until golden.
Prepare the berries: Wash, hull, and slice the strawberries, then place in a bowl and add the other berries, if using. Add as much of the mint-infused syrup as you like and toss. Let stand for 10 minutes.
Using a serrated knife. cut the shortcakes in half crosswise and place them on individual serving plates. Divide the berries onto the bottom half, replace the tops, and serve with the whipped cream.
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Jul 3
An herb and garlic butter makes a flavorful coating for this popular vegetable
Yield: 8 servings
INGREDIENTS
* 8 ears of corn
* salt and freshly ground black pepper
For the herb butter
* 5 tbsp butter, softened
* 2 tsp fresh lemon juice
* 1 tsp Dijon mustard
* 1 garlic clove, finely chopped
* 1 shallot, finely chopped
* 1 tbsp finely chopped chives
* 1 tbsp chopped parsley
* 1 tbsp chopped basil
* 1 tbsp chopped mint
Directions
1. To make the herb butter, mix all of the ingredients together with a rubber spatula until combined. Transfer the butter to a sheet of waxed paper. Wrap the waxed paper around the butter and shape it into a roll, twisting the ends of the paper to seal. Refrigerate for at least 1 hour to firm the butter.
2. Bring a large pan of unsalted water to a boil. Discard the husks and the silky threads from the corn. Add the corn to the boiling water and cover the pan.
3. Once the water has returned to a boil, turn off the heat and cover the pan. Let the corn stand for 5 minutes.
4. Carefully remove the corn from the water with kitchen tongs and place on a serving platter. Cut the chilled butter into 8 rounds. Serve the corn with the herb butter.
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