How To Slip The Skins Off Of Potatoes
Enough of that serious stuff for a minute. Here’s how to ‘peel a potato’ without much work. Dawn Wells (she used to play the part of ‘Mary Ann on Gilligan’s Island) shows us how to slip the skin off a boiled potato really easily. The skins just slip right off. And to think of the hours that I’ve wasted peeling potatoes. I need to go make some potato salad now.
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US, Britain & France Blast Gadhafi Defenses
*I totally feel for their citizens. It sounds to me like Gadhafi has some of his people either too terrorized into thinking for themselves – or – maybe he just bought them off. That cash only works for so long. The terrorism, that’ll work. Sounds like he’s been doing that for quite the while and a small segment of their society had just had enough.
By HADEEL AL-SHALCHI and RYAN LUCAS, Associated Press – March 20, 2011
TRIPOLI, Libya – Moammar Gadhafi vowed a “long war” as allied forces launched a second night of strikes on Libya on Sunday, and jubilant rebels who only a day before were in danger of being crushed by his forces now boasted they would bring him down. The U.S. military said the international assault would hit any Gadhafi forces on the ground that are attacking the opposition.
The U.S. military said the bombardment so far — a rain of Tomahawk cruise missiles and precision bombs from American and European aircraft, including long-range stealth B-2 bombers — had succeeded in heavily degrading Gadhafi’s air defenses.
The international campaign went beyond hitting anti-aircaft sites. U.S., British and French planes blasted a line of tanks that had been moving on the rebel capital Benghazi, in the opposition-held eastern half of the country. On Sunday, at least seven demolished tanks smoldered in a field 12 miles (20 kilometers) south of Benghazi, many of them with their turrets and treads blown off, alongside charred armored personnel carriers, jeeps and SUVs of the kind used by Gadhafi fighters.
A building in Gadhafi’s compound was hit and badly damaged late Sunday. An Associated Press photographer at the scene said half of the round, three-story building was knocked down, and smoke was rising from it. About 300 Gadhafi supporters were in the compound at the time. It was not known if any were hurt.
“I feel like in two days max we will destroy Gadhafi,” said Ezzeldin Helwani, 35, a rebel standing next to the smoldering wreckage of an armored personnel carrier, the air thick with smoke and the pungent smell of burning rubber. In a grisly sort of battle trophy, celebrating fighters hung a severed goat’s head with a cigarette in its mouth from the turret of one of the gutted tanks.
The strikes that began early Sunday gave immediate, if temporary, relief to Benghazi, which the day before had been under a heavy attack that killed at least 120 people. The city’s calm on Sunday highlighted the dramatic turnaround that the allied strikes bring to Libya’s month-old upheaval: For the past 10 days, Gadhafi’s forces had been on a triumphant offensive against the rebel-held east, driving opposition fighters back with the overwhelming firepower of tanks, artillery, warplanes and warships.
Now Gadhafi’s forces are potential targets for U.S. and European strikes. The U.N. resolution authorizing international military action in Libya not only sets up a no-fly zone but allows “all necessary measures” to prevent attacks on civilians.
But the U.S. military, for the time being at the lead of the international campaign, is trying to walk a fine line over the end game of the assault. It is avoiding for now any appearance that it aims to take out Gadhafi or help the rebels oust him, instead limiting its stated goals to protecting civilians.
But the U.S. military, for the time being at the lead of the international campaign, is trying to walk a fine line over the end game of the assault. It is avoiding for now any appearance that it aims to take out Gadhafi or help the rebels oust him, instead limiting its stated goals to protecting civilians.
At the Pentagon, Navy Vice Adm. William E. Gortney underlined that strikes are not specifically targeting the Libyan leader or his residence in Tripoli. He said that any of Gadhafi’s ground forces advancing on the rebels were open targets.
“If they are moving on opposition forces … yes, we will take them under attack,” he told reporters.
“We judge these strikes to have been very effective in significantly degrading the regime’s air defense capability,” Gortney said. “We believe his forces are under significant stress and suffering from both isolation and a good deal of confusion.”
A military official said Air Force B-2 stealth bombers flew 25 hours in a round trip from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri and dropped 45 2,000-pound bombs.
What happens if rebel forces eventually go on the offensive against Gadhafi’s troops remains unclear. Gortney would not say whether strikes would hit Libyan troops fighting back against rebel assaults.
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said late Sunday that the U.S. expects turn over control of the operation to a coalition headed by France, Britain or NATO “in a matter of days,” reflecting concern that the U.S. military was stretched thin by its current missions. Turkey was blocking NATO action, which requires agreement by all 28 members of the alliance.
Danish Defense Minister Gitte Lillelund Bech confirmed to The Associated Press that four Danish F-16s took part in missions over Libya on Sunday. “We are using military means, but there are also a lot of other means we can use to make sure that Gadhafi will not be running Libya in the future,” she said.
Sunday night, heavy anti-aircraft fire erupted repeatedly in the capital, Tripoli, with arcs of red tracer bullets and exploding shells in the dark sky — marking the start of a second night of international strikes. Gadhafi supporters in the streets shot automatic weapons in the air in a show of defiance. It was not immediately known what was being targeted in the new strikes.
Libyan army spokesman Col. Milad al-Fokhi said Libyan army units had been ordered to cease fire at 9 p.m. local time, but the hour passed with no letup in military activity.
Gadhafi vowed to fight on. In a phone call to Libyan state television Sunday, he said he would not let up on Benghazi and said the government had opened up weapons depots to all Libyans, who were now armed with “automatic weapons, mortars and bombs.” State television said Gadhafi’s supporters were converging on airports as human shields.
He called the international assault “simply a colonial crusader aggression that may ignite another large-scale crusader war.” “We promise you a long war,” he said.
Throughout the day Sunday, Libyan TV showed a stream of what it said were popular demonstrations in support of Gadhafi in Tripoli and other towns and cities. It showed cars with horns blaring, women ululating, young men waving green flags and holding up pictures of the Libyan leader. Women and children chanted, “God, Moammar and Libya, that’s it!”
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Tsunami: The Aftermath & Danger Level Radiation in Japan
Radiation near a quake-hit nuclear plant reached levels harmful to human health, Japan’s government said after two explosions and a fire at the crippled facility Tuesday.
I have friends that live in Japan. I have friends of friends that live in Japan. I’m worried about them. There’ve been reports of fake safety records at the Fukushima nuclear plant. What?? Did they not think that ‘someday’ the nuclear power plant would break down? Everything breaks down. It always does. It’s not a matter of ‘if’ something will break down but ‘when’ it’ll break down.
This is a report from the “TimesLive.co/za” online newspaper. Proper credit will appear at the end of the article:
“”Four of the six reactors at the Fukushima No.1 plant, 250 kilometres (155 miles) northeast of Tokyo, have now overheated and sparked explosions since Friday’s massive earthquake and tsunami knocked out cooling systems.”There is no doubt that unlike in the past, the (radiation) figures are at the level at which human health can be affected,” said chief government spokesman Yukio Edan.
Tens of thousands have already been evacuated from a zone within a radius of 20 kilometres (12 miles) of the 40-year-old plant, and Prime Minister Naoto Kan urged people living within 10 kilometres of that zone to stay indoors.
There was a danger of further leakage, Kan said.
“Please stay indoors, close windows and make your homes airtight,” Edano urged residents during a press briefing. “Don’t turn on ventilators. Please hang your laundry indoors.”
Higher than normal radiation was detected in Tokyo on Tuesday, but a city official said it was not considered at a level harmful to human health and the level fell later in the day.
Edano said at a briefing later Tuesday that the radiation level at the plant’s main gate had fallen sharply.
He said the earlier high reading might have been caused by contaminated debris from a explosion Monday rather than by a persistent leak.
Explosions hit the buildings housing reactors one and three Saturday and Monday. On Tuesday, a blast hit reactor two at the crippled plant and there was also an explosion at reactor four which started a fire.
The plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) said the blaze was extinguished later in the morning with the help of US troops.
Edano said the remaining two reactors at plant, five and six, had begun overheating slightly and were being closely watched.
The number-four reactor was shut for maintenance when the quake and tsunami struck last Friday, but “spent nuclear fuel in the reactor heated up, creating hydrogen and triggered a hydrogen explosion”, Edano said.
He said cooling seawater was being pumped into reactors one and three, which were stabilising. Reactor two was also getting cooling water but it was too early to say whether it was stable.
Radiation levels near the reactors as of mid-morning ranged from 30 to 400 millisieverts. A single dose of 1,000 millisieverts — or one sievert — causes temporary radiation sickness such as nausea and vomiting.
The government spokesman said radioactive substances might spread outside the 20-30 kilometre area around the plant but would dissipate the farther they spread.
The UN’s nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, said Tokyo had asked for expert assistance in the wake of the disaster caused by a quake now measured at a magnitude of 9.0.
But its chief Yukiya Amano said the crisis was unlikely to turn into a new Chernobyl.
The blasts have shattered buildings housing the reactors but have apparently not penetrated the steel and concrete containers surrounding the fuel rods, reducing the risk of massive contamination.
The continuing nuclear crisis has unnerved regional residents already struggling with the aftermath of the quake and tsunami.
“There are very few people out in the streets,” said Mako Sato, a cafe waitress in the town of Miharumachi just outside the evacuation zone. “They are either staying at home or in the evacuation centres.
“Since conditions surrounding the nuclear plant are so uncertain, I am worried. Food supplies are low and all that customers talk about is the quake and how scary it is, because we still feel aftershocks.”"
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