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The University of Puerto Rico Alumni and Friends Abroad Association (UPRAA) is ma-

king history by presenting for the fi rst time ever in the Congress of the Uni-ted States the community based fo-rum ldquoPuerto Rico at its Political Cros-sroads A forum to discuss the political future of the islandrdquo

This is the fi rst time that a politi-cal discussion of this magnitude regar-ding the status of the island has been organized in Congress by a commu-nity group organization and not for a political hearing

The forum will be held Sept 13 in the Cannon House Offi ce Building on Capitol Hill in Washington DC It will start with a special presentation by Dr Edwin Meleacutendez director of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College (CUNY) in New York The forum will be moderated by Ray Suaacuterez senior correspondent of PBS

The event will have representati-ves from Puerto Ricorsquos three political parties and will include a welcoming remark Resident Commissioner Pedro Pierluisi of the statehood supporting New Progressive Party

Puerto Rico Secretary of State Kenneth McClintock will represent

his position in favor of statehood as a member of the New Progressive Party Popular Democratic Party Sen Eduardo Bhatia will represent the cu-rrent commonwealth status and for-mer Puerto Rican Independence Party Sen Manuel Rodriacuteguez Orellana will be representing the independence sta-tus

The event was coordinated and organized by UPRAA and is being sponsored by MicroTech and is being co-hosted by the National Puerto Ri-can Coalition (NPRC) and ASPIRA

UPRAA founded in 2003 as a nonprofi t organization represents alumni and friends of the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) educational sys-tem residing in the continental US The UPR educational system currently includes 11 campuses Aguadilla Are-cibo Bayamon Carolina Ciencias Me-dicas Cayey Humacao Mayaguez Ponce Riacuteo Piedras and Utuado

The association represents over 250000 graduates of these campuses residing in the states UPRAA was created to establish a strong network develop and conduct cultural initiati-ves and support charitable programs It has given more than $70000 on scholarships

4 Sept 8 - 14 2011The San Juan Weekly Star


Ronald Fernandez a professor of sociology whose curiosity about a daring $7 million armored car

robbery near his Connecticut home set him on a career path of scholarly investigation into the history of Ame-rican colonialism in Puerto Rico died Tuesday in West Hartford He was 67

The cause was esophageal can-cer

Dr Fernandez was a recently min-ted doctor of philosophy teaching at Central Connecticut State College in 1983 when the robbery took place in a Wells Fargo armored car depot close enough to his house that he was detoured on the way home by police barricades His ini-tial idea was to write a book about the psychology of the bank robber

But his research into the lives of the men identifi ed by the FBI as the masterminds of the heist all members of a militant Puerto Rican independen-ce group known as Los Macheteros led Dr Fernandez to a broader interest in the back story of the Macheterosrsquo cause the long and for most Ameri-cans obscure history of disenfranchi-sement on Puerto Rico a subject he knew little about despite growing up in New York City where about 800000 Puerto Ricans now live

Beginning with his 1987 book ldquoLos Macheteros The Wells Fargo Robbery and the Violent Struggle for Puerto Rican Independencersquorsquo Dr Fer-nandez wrote fi ve books about Puer-to Rico over the next decade One a

history textbook received an Ameri-can Library Association award The rest were deeply footnoted histories of American military and economic do-mination of a tiny island that has exis-ted in a kind of limbo since becoming a US possession in 1898 among the spoils of the Spanish-American War neither colony nor part of the union

The nearly 4 million residents of Puerto Rico are US citizens subject to federal taxes but they cannot vote in US elections They are represented by a nonvoting representative in Con-gress Tax and regulatory exemptions given to businesses based on the main-land raise perennial public complaints about environmental and economic exploitation

ldquoRonnie recognized that this was very much a hidden historyrsquorsquo said Martin Espada a poet and professor of English at the University of Massa-chusetts Amherst and a friend ldquoIt is not a history taught much at the high school or college level so he became the foremost authority in the English language on colonialism and the inde-pendence movement in Puerto Ricorsquorsquo

Besides being a history of the relationship between the United Sta-tes and what is offi cially known as its unincorporated territory ldquoLos Mache-terosrsquorsquo was among the fi rst published works to document FBI efforts in the 1960s and rsquo70s to infi ltrate and discre-dit lawful nonviolent independence groups in Puerto Rico

The San Juan Weekly Star Sept 8 - 14 2011 5

6 The San Juan Weekly StarMainland Sept 8 - 14 2011

Postal Service Is Nearing Default as Losses MountBy STEVEN GREENHOUSE

The United States Postal Service has long lived on the fi nancial edge but it has never been as close to the pre-cipice as it is today the agency is so low on cash that it

will not be able to make a $55 billion payment due this mon-th and may have to shut down entirely this winter unless Congress takes emergency action to stabilize its fi nances

ldquoOur situation is extremely seriousrdquo the postmaster general Patrick R Donahoe said in an interview ldquoIf Con-gress doesnrsquot act we will defaultrdquo

In recent weeks Mr Donahoe has been pushing a series of painful cost-cutting measures to erase the agencyrsquos defi cit which will reach $92 billion this fi scal year They include eli-minating Saturday mail delivery closing up to 3700 postal locations and laying off 120000 workers mdash nearly one-fi fth of the agencyrsquos work force mdash despite a no-layoffs clause in the unionsrsquo contracts

The post offi cersquos problems stem from one hard reality it is being squeezed on both revenue and costs

As any computer user knows the Internet revolution has led to people and businesses sending far less conventio-nal mail

At the same time decades of contractual promises made to unionized workers including no-layoff clauses are increasing the post offi cersquos costs Labor represents 80 percent of the agencyrsquos expenses compared with 53 percent at Uni-ted Parcel Service and 32 percent at FedEx its two biggest

private competitors Postal workers also receive more gene-rous health benefi ts than most other federal employees

The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee will hold a hearing on the agencyrsquos pre-dicament on Tuesday So far feuding Democrats and Repu-blicans in Congress still smarting from the brawl over the federal debt ceiling have failed to agree on any solutions It doesnrsquot help that many of the options for saving the postal service are politically unpalatable

ldquoThe situation is direrdquo said Thomas R Carper the De-laware Democrat who is chairman of the Senate subcommit-tee that oversees the postal service ldquoIf we do nothing if we donrsquot react in a smart appropriate way the postal service could literally close later this year Thatrsquos not the kind of de-velopment we need to inject into a weak uneven economic recoveryrdquo

Missing the $55 billion payment due on Sept 30 inten-ded to fi nance retireesrsquo future health care wonrsquot cause imme-diate disaster But sometime early next year the agency will run out of money to pay its employees and gas up its trucks offi cials warn forcing it to stop delivering the roughly three billion pieces of mail it handles weekly

The causes of the crisis are well known and immensely diffi cult to overcome

Mail volume has plummeted with the rise of e-mail electronic bill-paying and a Web that makes everything from fashion catalogs to news instantly available The system will handle an estimated 167 billion pieces of mail this fi scal year down 22 percent from fi ve years ago

Itrsquos diffi cult to imagine that trend reversing and pes-simistic projections suggest that volume could plunge to 118 billion pieces by 2020 The law also prevents the post offi ce from raising postage fees faster than infl ation

Meanwhile the agency has had a tough time cutting its costs to match the revenue drop with a history of labor contracts offering good health and pension benefi ts unde-rused post offi ces and laws that restrict its ability to make basic business decisions like reducing the frequency of de-liveries

Congress is considering numerous emergency pro-posals mdash most notably allowing the post offi ce to recover billions of dollars that management says it overpaid to its employeesrsquo pension funds That fi x would help the agency get through the short-term crisis but would delay the day of reckoning on bigger issues

Postal service offi cials say one reason for their high costs is that they are legally required to provide universal service making deliveries to 150 million addresses na-tionwide each week They add that a major factor for the post offi cersquos $20 billion in losses over the past four years is a 2006 law requiring the postal service to pay an average of $55 billion annually for 10 years to fi nance retiree health costs for the next 75 years

But the agencyrsquos leaders acknowledge that they must fi nd a way to increase revenue something that will prove far harder than simply slicing costs

In some countries post offi ces double as banks or sell insurance or cellphones In the United States the postal ser-vice is barred from entering many areas Still the agency is considering ideas like gaining the right to deliver wine and beer allowing commercial advertisements on postal trucks and in post offi ces doing more ldquolast-milerdquo deliveries for Fe-dEx and UPS and offering special hand-delivery services for correspondence and transactions for which e-mail is not

considered secure enoughMr Donahoersquos hope is to cut $20 billion of the $75 bi-

llion in annual costs by 2015 To do that he wants to close many post offi ces and slash the number of sorting facilities to 200 from 500 and trim the agencyrsquos work force by 220000 people from its current 653000 (A decade ago the agency employed nearly 900000)

The postal service has the legal authority to close faci-lities although community opposition can make the process diffi cult To placate critics and cut costs offi cials say they would seek to run some postal operations out of stores like Wal-Mart or to share space with other government offi ces

Cutting the work force is more diffi cult The agencyrsquos labor contracts have long guaranteed no layoffs to the vast majority of its workers and management agreed to a new no layoff-clause in a major union contract last May

But now faced with what postal offi cials call ldquothe equivalent of Chapter 11 bankruptcyrdquo the agency is asking Congress to enact legislation that would overturn the job protections and let it lay off 120000 workers in addition to trimming 100000 jobs through attrition

The postal service is also asking Congress for permis-sion to end Saturday delivery

Given the vast range of stakeholders getting consen-sus on a rescue plan will be diffi cult

Senator Susan Collins of Maine like many lawmakers from rural states vigorously opposes ending Saturday de-livery which would trim only 2 percent from the agencyrsquos budget Ms Collins the ranking Republican on the commit-tee overseeing the postal service said the cutback would be tough on people in small towns who receive prescriptions and newspapers by mail

ldquoThe postmaster general has focused on several appro-aches that I believe will be counterproductiverdquo she said ldquoThey risk producing a death spiral where the postal service reduces service and drives away more customersrdquo

The post offi cersquos powerful unions are angry and alar-med about the planned layoffs ldquoWersquore going to fi ght this and wersquore going to fi ght it hardrdquo said Cliff Guffey president of the American Postal Workers Union which represents 207000 mail sorters and post offi ce clerks ldquoItrsquos illegal for them to abrogate our contractrdquo

Senators Carper and Collins do back several of the pos-tal servicersquos main ideas to avoid default including recove-ring around $60 billion that some actuaries say the agency has overpaid into two pension funds Although the Obama administration is working closely with the senators to fi nd a solution it has signaled discomfort with the pension propo-sals questioning whether the postal service really overpaid

Meanwhile Representative Darrell Issa the California Republican who is chairman of the House Oversight Commit-tee says the pension proposals would amount to an unjusti-fi able bailout that would not solve the agencyrsquos underlying problems He is pushing a bill that would create an emer-gency oversight board that could order huge cost-cutting and void the postal servicersquos contracts mdash a proposal that not just the unions but Senators Carper and Collins oppose

Fredric V Rolando president of the National Asso-ciation of Letter Carriers warned of disaster if partisanship keeps Congress from acting

ldquoThis is about one of Americarsquos oldest institutionsrdquo he said ldquoIt survived the telegraph it survived the telepho-ne and we have to do everything we can to preserve it and adaptrdquo

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This has been the summer that liberal discontent with Obama has fi nally crystallized The frustration has been

simmering for a while mdash through centrist appointments bank bailouts and the defeat of the public option to name a few examples But it has taken the debt-ceiling standoff and the threat of a double-dip recession to create

a leftist critique of the president that stuckObamarsquos image as a weakling and sellout

on domestic issues now centers on his alleged resistance from the very fi rst days of his pre-sidency to do whatever was necessary to heal the economy The conservative repudiation of George W Bush boiled down to ldquohe spent too muchrdquo the liberal repudiation of Obama has settled on ldquohe didnrsquot spend enoughrdquo

The most common hallmark of the leftrsquos

magical thinking is a failure to recognize that Congress is a separate coequal branch of government consisting of members whose goals may differ from the presidentrsquos Con-gressional Republicans pursued a strategy of denying Obama support for any major ele-ment of his agenda on the correct assump-tion this would make it less popular and help the party win the 2010 elections Only for roughly four months during Obamarsquos term did Democrats have the 60 Senate votes they needed to overcome a fi libuster Moreover Republican opposition has proved immune even to persistent and successful attempts by Obama to mobilize public opinion Ameri-cans overwhelmingly favor defi cit reduction that includes both spending and taxes and favor higher taxes on the rich in particular Obama even made a series of crusading spee-ches on this theme The result Nada

Yes Bush passed his tax cuts mdash by using a method called reconciliation which can avoid a fi libuster but can be used only on budget issues On No Child Left Behind and Medicare he cut deals expanding gover-nment which the right-wing equivalents of Greenwald denounced as a massive sellout Bush did have one episode where he tried to force through a major domestic reform against a Senate fi libuster his crusade to privatize Social Security Just as liberals urge Obama to do today Bush barnstormed the country pounding his message and pressu-ring Democrats whom he cast as obstructio-nists The result Nada beyond the collapse of Bushrsquos popularity

Perhaps the oddest feature of the li-beral indictment of Obama is its conclusion Obama should have focused all his political capital on economic recovery

Itrsquos worth recalling that several weeks before Obama proposed an $800 billion sti-mulus House Democrats had fl oated a $500 billion stimulus At the time Obamarsquos $800 billion stimulus was seen by Congress pun-dits and business leaders just about every-body who mattered mdash as mind-bogglingly large News reports invariably described it as ldquohugerdquo ldquomassiverdquo or other terms suggesting it was unrealistically large even kind of por-nographic The favored clicheacute used to describe the reaction in Congress was ldquosticker shockrdquo

Compounding the problem Obama proposed his stimulus shortly after the Con-gressional Budget Offi ce predicted defi cits topping a trillion dollars Even before Oba-ma took offi ce and for months afterward ldquoeverybody who matteredrdquo insisted that the crisis required Obama to scale back the do-mestic initiatives he campaigned on especia-lly health care reform but also cap-and-trade fi nancial regulation and so on Colin Powell a reliable barometer of elite opinion warned you canrsquot have so many things on the table that you canrsquot pay for it allrdquo

Rather than deploy every ounce of his le-verage to force moderate Republicans whose votes he needed to swallow a larger stimulus than they wanted Obama clearly husbanded some of his political capital Why Because in the position of choosing between the agenda he came into offi ce hoping to enact and the short-term imperative of economic rescue he picked the former At the time this was the course liberals wanted and centrists opposed

On two subsequent occasions Oba-ma faced this same choice Last December he could have refused to extend any of the Bush tax cuts on income over $250000 Repu-blicans vowed to let all the tax cuts expire if he did so If Obama let this happen it would have almost fully solved the long-term defi cit problem while at the same time setting back the recovery by raising taxes on middle-class and low-income workers Obama decided to make a deal extending all the Bush tax cuts and also securing a progressive payroll tax cut and an extension of unemployment bene-fi ts both forms of stimulus that Republicans would never have allowed without an exten-sion of upper-bracket tax cuts in return

There is a decent argument that the pre-sident should have refused this deal But if you make that argument you have to accept the likelihood that nearly a million fewer jobs would have been created and that we would have been at risk of a double-dip recession back then Yet the liberal critics most exer-cised about Obamarsquos failure to secure more stimulus were for the most part enraged when he did exactly that Take Robert Reich the former secretary of labor under President Clinton Last November Reich pleaded for an extension of unemployment benefi ts calling the plight of the jobless our ldquosingle newest and biggest social problemrdquo When Obama made his bargain Reich called it ldquoan abomi-nationrdquo complaining that ldquothe bits and pie-ces the president got in returnrdquo mdash including the unemployment benefi ts previously dee-med vital mdash amounted to ldquopeanutsrdquo

And then this summer Obama let the GOP hold the debt-ceiling vote hostage to extract spending cuts I think he should have called the Republicansrsquo bluff and let them accept the risk of a fi nancial meltdown But the reason Obama chose to cut a deal is that calling their bluff might have resulted in ca-tastrophe And Obama made a point of back-loading the GOPrsquos budget cuts so as not to contract the economy He may have chosen wrongly but he chose exactly the priorities liberals now insist he ignored mdash favoring economic recovery over long-term goals

Liberal critics of Obama just like con-servative critics of Republican presidents ge-nerally want both maximal partisan confl ict and maximal legislative achievement In the real world those two things are often at odds Hence the allure of magical thinking

LETTERSYet Another Stupid Law

Anywhere on earth you can marry your stepsi-

bling Or stepchild Or stepparent Except perhaps for a handful of nutty Islamic countries And here Not in your lifetimes itrsquos incest get into the bedroom and itrsquos fi ve years in the slammer It was a Friday afternoon and legislators had run out of margaritas and were in sour mood

Crisaacutelida Martiacutenez San Juan

Essence of Penepeiacutesta Privatization

ldquoMarsquoam I realize yoursquore entitled to the service and that you paid for it but therersquos absolutely nothing I can do This is being handled by an outside company and Irsquove called them and Irsquove called them and they donrsquot do anything Itrsquos not my fault No I canrsquot tell you who they are itrsquos we who have the contract with them and we who have to deal with them and as you can see Irsquom doing the best I can please try to understand I can do no more We just have to waitrdquo

Casiopeia Martiacutenez San Juan

How Red Are Our HerringsNow that Mark Anthony and Jennifer Loacutepez are

splitting our politicians will have plenty to rattle about over the media I can just hear Silarsquos daughter going on and on over WOSO Radio come Wednesday

Belisario Badillo Hato Rey

Stereoscopy is Awesome For the uneducated among you thatrsquos 3-D Indeed

itrsquos an eyegasm if Irsquom allowed to make up a word Like color to black and white or the talkies to silent fi lms or those to stills Trouble is quality cinema has yet to be-nefi t I saw Sanctum Hollywoodesque cliffhanger non-sense but the visuals were out of this world I paid no attention whatsoever to the plot Irsquom not missing the new Harry Potter though wild horses wouldnrsquot drag me there if it were monoscopic

Mariano Marte Santurce

And the $800The new UPR President is paying a $16M federal

handout to some corporate octopus for exotic gear on the campuses to save electricity including solar panels at Riacuteo Piedras and little windmills at Humacao

It might help though to turn off air conditioning and lighting overnight during weekends and through

the monthlong Christmas recess Oh yes the fungus on the carpets Tiles Linoleum Wood even

Emilio Santiago Summit Hills

Bad FortuntildeoTo William Leffi ngwell

Perhaps TV doesnrsquot reach your faraway planet but

here the spectacle was grotesque surreal A mother and daughter beaten by police with those bone-breaking lead-cored nightsticks seated journalists maced po-int blank into the eyes at our hallowed Capitol Young shrimpy fellows squashed to the fl oor by mammothy riot squaders who then leisurely tortured them with electricity then a lieutenant kicked them into the groin again and again All on TV for the universe to witness Then Figueroa Sancha said itrsquos okay to do that to cap-tives ldquowhen their attitude continues to be aggressiverdquo When yoursquore pinned to the fl oor like that attitude is all yoursquove left spirit courage Soon enough your beloved Fortuntildeo congratulated the Superintendent for a job well done Torturing prisoners is a violation of the US Cons-titution And of the Geneva Convention Not even Pol Pot of Cambodia had the audacity to do it live on TV

Not long after that US Secretary of Justice Holder fl ew down to orchestrate a mass arrest of our police he pronounced them the most corrupt ever to shame the American nation That we ldquodeserve betterrdquo Irsquom not so sure Again Fortuntildeo congratulated Figueroa Sancha for a job well done And christened a Monument to the Po-lice in Puerta de Tierra surely superguarded to avert it getting wrecked

Fortuntildeo has endeavored to dismantle democracy here to bypass separation of powers by packing the PR Supreme Court with partisan hacks to then railroad through legislation oppressive and clearly un-Constitu-tional like when they violated Case and Controversy He has done likewise to deliberativeadministrative agencies the Board at Energiacutea Eleacutectrica the Council of Higher Education to renege on the agreement with the UPR students and crush them like roaches the youth and future of Puerto Rico

He has undermined Freedom of Speech and As-sembly by outlawing demonstrations that encumber Commonwealth bureaucrats Demonstrations are meant to be disruptive better that civil war no Elsewhere theyrsquore a democratic right

He fi red Commonwealth pater familias in the tens of thousands without remorse itrsquos not his job that there not be unemployment but that wages stay cheap for his moneyed underwriters Then he taxes oppressi-vely with nothing to show for it like where is the boo-dle going If you need to ask

Hersquos unrelenting on the UPR $800 that 10K fa-milies couldnrsquot afford this year and another 10K wonrsquot next year and so on till it reaches a quarter of a million households around the 2030rsquos and crime confl agrates as the dispossessed strive to shoot their way out of their misery with bullets or through it with dope and the

inevitable eventual police state like in George Orwellrsquos 1984 while the ensconced affl uent make real their dreams of genteel living

William Fortuntildeo might appear a democrat and a liberal to you if yoursquore to the right of Rafael Trujillo and Fulgencio Batista The rest of us we may take stock that Uncle Samrsquos watching over us from not too far Just countence our very own young skinny smiley Papa Doc and penepeacute macoutes (riot squaders in Creacuteole) And hope Jimmy Carter drops in for the 2012 election to help keep those restless blue fi ngers away from the ballot boxes

NATHAN ARBUNCLE SANTURCE

To William Leffi ngwell Your beef

over namecalling is well picayu-ne You charac-terize fascist as an insult Arenrsquot you being a bit parochial here My grandfa-ther a denizen of La Sardegna was a Mussolini hardliner that got a wartime bullet through his thigh for his trouble Call him a fascist and he wouldrsquove put his arm around your shoulder and had a Loumlwenbraumlu with you In his room were a pic of him with Il Duce and a banner of fascist Italy and sundry documents medals and awards He used to calmly ex-plain that fascism was represented by the fascio sticks rolled up together to make an ax that meant unity of a nation of a people that therersquos no other path to pros-perity and happiness of a nation than the will of all its citizens focused together and that democracy is a dumb chickencoop with its depressions and its crime and its instability That the best proof that Mussolini was never a dictator as alleged by the Americans is that he was removed by the Gran Consiglio Fascista something the German Reichstag was empowered to do to Hitler as well Now what name might we call you

Eleuterio Serpieri Santurce

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LETTERSDid it Again

Mari Braacutes after recei-

ving the fi rst Certifi cate of Citizenship of Puerto Rico September 14 2007

To Gov Fortuntildeo

The PR Socialist Par-ty was giving Gov Romero a hard time setting fi re to Sears and such nights and

then Carlos Gallizaacute warned of a Northern Ireland here if we became a state And Juan Mari Bras was fi rebranding on TV at every turn And Washing-ton was getting spooked Or so the penepeiacutestas fi gured

Then Mari Brasrsquos son was plausibly assassi-nated by the fellows whorsquod done such a good job for their equine boss at Cerro Maravilla And sub-sequently not a peep out of Mari ever again Nor Gallizaacute even

It all brings us back to today How on Godrsquos

green earth did you get the seemingly inexhaus-tible fury of the UPR student strikers to just fi zzle out in one afternoon Did activists suffer traffi c accidents heart attacks Or commit suicide like the macheteros Nothing has been heard How did you pull it

Fraacutegola Serpieri Santurce

Things in ProportionTo Teresa Livoti

First you say ldquoThere are defects that can be corrected in the womb and science has made great strides achieving such feats But this is diffe-rent from experimenting with human embryos to see what will result if anythingrdquo How pray tell do you think science makes the ldquogreat stridesrdquo Experiments experiments experiments

Then 900 are slaughtered yearly here for drugs and another so many sacrifi ced to the car lobby butchered on our roads because itrsquos gotta be automobiles rather than safe mass transit All

while the pols battle UPR students and stage po-intless status plebiscites and voice neverending frivolity And not a peep out of your hallowed church Why might you then fret over a clump of cells

Lastly donrsquot badmouth the Nazis the pre-cious darlings of Pope Pius XII who fi gured Hit-ler as the shield between the Vatican and godless communism


A Swords or Pistols

To William Leffi ngwell I do believe Sir yoursquore naught but a Scoun-

drel I tell you this today and you laugh In the XVIII century you wouldrsquove challenged me to a duel for it Jeffersonrsquos wording in the Declaration of Independence and other contemporary wri-tings must be considered in this light

Agustiacuten Manzano San Juan

The San Juan Weekly StarSept 8 - 14 201110

Sept 8 - 14 2011 11The San Juan Weekly Star

China Sought to Sell Arms to Qaddafi By ANNE BARNARD

In the fi nal weeks of Col Muammar el-Qaddafi rsquos battle with Libyan re-bels Chinese state companies offe-

red to sell his government large stoc-kpiles of weapons and ammunition in apparent violation of United Nations sanctions offi cials of Libyarsquos transi-tional government said Sunday They cited Qaddafi government documents found by a Canadian journalist which the offi cials said were authentic

The documents including a memo from Libyan security offi cials detailing a shopping trip to Beijing on July 16 appear to show that state-con-trolled Chinese arms companies offe-red to sell $200 million worth of rocket launchers antitank missiles portable surface-to-air missiles designed to bring down aircraft and other we-apons and munitions The documents in Arabic were posted on Sunday on the Web site of The Globe and Mail a Toronto newspaper

The Chinese companies appa-rently suggested that the arms be de-livered through third countries like Al-geria or South Africa Like China those countries opposed the United Nations authorization of NATO military action against Qaddafi forces in Libya but said they supported the arms embargo imposed by an earlier United Nations resolution

A rebel military spokesman Ab-dulrahman Busin said in an inter-view on Sunday that the transitional government would seek accountabi-lity through appropriate internatio-nal channels Mr Busin said that any country that had violated the sanctions would have poor prospects for busi-ness and other dealings with Libya an oil-rich country

ldquoWe have hard evidence of deals going on between China and Qadda-fi and we have all the documents to prove itrdquo he said adding that the re-bels have other evidence including documents and weapons found on the battlefi eld showing that arms were supplied illegally to Colonel Qaddafi rsquos forces by numerous other governments or companies ldquoI can think of at least 10 off the top of my headrdquo he said

Graeme Smith a reporter for

The Globe and Mail said that the do-cuments his newspaper posted were found by him in the trash in the Bab Akkarah neighborhood where many Qaddafi regime offi cials lived They were on the green letterhead of a go-vernment procurement department

State Department Pentagon and intelligence offi cials in Washington said Sunday that they were unaware of such dealings and would need more time to analyze the documents A se-nior NATO diplomat in Brussels dis-counted the report as highly unlikely but said he was not familiar with the documents cited in the article

Members of the United Nationsrsquo Libya sanctions committee said that nothing about arms dealings with Chi-na had been brought to their attention and noted that France had been accu-sed of air-dropping arms to some rebel units For their part rebels argued that the embargo resolution referred speci-fi cally to arming the Qaddafi govern-ment not them

As the documents surfaced on Sunday there were signs that normal life was returning to Tripoli the Libyan capital The rebels claimed progress in dealing with water shortages and res-toring telephone service

At the same time rebel forces mas-sed outside Bani Walid one of Colonel Qaddafi rsquos last remaining strongholds on Sunday preparing for a possible as-sault after the latest negotiations for a peaceful surrender of the town came to nothing

A rebel negotiator Abdullah Kan-shil said the talks broke down after Qaddafi loyalists insisted that the re-bels disarm before entering the town The Associated Press reported The rebels have seesawed between claims that an assault on Bani Walid was im-minent and that a negotiated settle-ment was nearly in hand

In Tripoli such drama seemed far away Traffi c police in white uniforms directed vehicles though with a fuel shortage sidelining many cars in long lines at fi lling stations the police pre-sence served more to show that gover-nment employees were trickling back to work than to deal with the minimal traffi c

The young rebels running chec-

kpoints throughout the city have see-med markedly less tense in recent days One checkpoint on Sunday was guarded only by the torso of a clothing-store mannequin wearing a refl ective yellow safety vest

Several pharmacies restaurants and clothing stores could be seen ope-ning on streets where a few days ago every storefront was shut New bi-llboards urged young supporters of the revolution to write only positive graffi ti on walls not insults to Colo-nel Qaddafi Celebratory shooting has lessened after offi cials pleaded with fi ghters to stop though one hospital volunteer said she recently saw the body of a 3-year-old girl who was ki-lled by a stray bullet while riding on her grandfatherrsquos shoulders

Libyan families have ventured out of doors in much greater numbers in recent days especially on Friday night when thousands of people went to a main square in the capital now re-named Martyrsrsquo Square to celebrate Little girls wore their best new dres-ses bought for the Id al-Fitr holiday and fl ashed the victory sign for family snapshots in front of Libyan fl ags

The director of the transitional councilrsquos stabilization team Aref el-Nayed said that confi dence in the secu-rity of the city was growing and that it would not be fi lled with bands of rebel fi ghters for long ldquoNone of the groups is intent on staying as armed forces in-dependent of the national army or the police and there is consensus on thatrdquo Mr Nayed told a news conference

Still the United Nations special envoy for Libya Ian Martin said in Tripoli that the proliferation of arms in the country was still ldquoa major con-cernrdquo

On Sunday in a series of news conferences rebel offi cials listed what they said were signs of improvement including supplies of bottled water ready to be distributed through mos-ques the return of civil servants to their desks and the reopening of banks

The minister of transportation Anwar al-Fitouri said that cellular and local landline phone service was wor-king again in the western mountains and the education minister Salim Su-leiman Sahli said that teachers would

begin work in one week to start prepa-ring for the new school year Mr Sahli said that in areas where fi ghting had kept the schools closed for months special textbooks would help students catch up on lessons over an eight-week period

Abdel Hakim Belhaj a rebel mi-litary leader in Tripoli told reporters that rebels in Bani Walid the loyalist stronghold southeast of the capital had raised their fl ag over the town and he called on the townspeople to come into the streets and demonstrate their su-pport for the new government It was not immediately possible to confi rm his claim and battlefi eld reports from both sides throughout the confl ict have been notoriously unreliable

The town is dominated by the Warfallah tribe which has long su-pported Colonel Qaddafi and rebels have speculated that he or his sons might be hiding there The rebel gover-nment said it had confi rmed the death of Colonel Qaddafi rsquos son Khamis who has already been reported dead at least twice before without independent con-fi rmation

CNN reported that another of the colonelrsquos sons Saadi told its co-rrespondent on Sunday that he was just outside Bani Walid and that he no longer saw any chance of a negotiated surrender of the town Meanwhile the colonelrsquos spokesman Moussa Ibrahim who has not been seen since the fall of Tripoli nearly two weeks ago claimed in a telephone call to Reuters that he was in Bani Walid and that the exhor-tations of the transitional council ldquoare not being heeded hererdquo

Mr Ibrahim said that Colonel Qaddafi was still in Libya and was well defended mdash but he said he did not know exactly where

Sept 8 - 14 201112 The San Juan Weekly Star

Reluctantly Europe Inches Closer to a Fiscal UnionBy LOUISE STORY AND MATTHEW SALTMARSH

It was a brief lesson from American history that served as a not-so-subtle suggestion for contemporary Europe When an offi cial from

a European central bank met recently with a fi -nancial offi cial in Washington his host pulled out the Articles of Confederation the 1781 precursor to the US Constitution to use as talking points

The message was clear join together in a stronger union or risk collapse

The story of Americarsquos failed early effort to operate as a loose confederation of 13 states is increasingly relevant for many European offi cials who are grappling with the drastic problems of their own fl awed 17-nation currency union The lack of strong central coordination of the euro zonersquos debt and spending policies is a key reason Europe has been unable to resolve its fi nancial crisis despite more than 18 months of trying

And that is why despite all the political obstacles Europe appears to be inching closer to a more centralized fi scal union that would even-tually turn the euro zone into something resem-bling a United States of Europe

ldquoIf todayrsquos policy makers want to suc-cessfully stay the course they will have to press ahead with structural changes and deeper econo-mic integrationrdquo Antoacutenio Borges director of the International Monetary Fundrsquos European unit said during a recent speech ldquoTo put the crisis be-hind us we need more Europe not less And we need it nowrdquo

Nothing happens quickly in Europe however For the most part such efforts are still being conducted behind-the-scenes and many of the ideas have yet to hit offi cial agendas or the public arena But several longtime fi nancial and central bank offi cials and staff members said the-re had been a substantial step-up in planning for a closer European fi scal relationship to match the unifi ed monetary union under which the euro zone has operated for more than a decade

For now offi cials are mainly talking in pu-

blic in generalitiesldquoThe crisis has clearly revealed the need

for strong economic governance in a zone with a single currencyrdquo Jean-Claude Trichet the depar-ting president of the European Central Bank said during a speech Monday repeating earlier calls for greater fi scal discipline ldquoI think that Euro-pean nations will create a confederation and we could then have a confederal fi nance minister whose mission would be the surveillance of the entire zone and who would be able to impose decisionsrdquo on governments in breach of euro zone rules

Offi cials who spoke anonymously becau-se their discussions are politically sensitive said a major overhaul of the way Europe conducts fi scal policy mdash coordinating government spen-ding taxes and defi cits mdash was likely to take a long time and require further changes in the trea-ties governing the euro But they pointed to the smaller changes that were already taking place as evidence that euro area fi nancial ministries see that they have little choice but to move together if they want to avoid a catastrophic breakdown of the euro zone

With the new bailout for Greece that was agreed upon by European leaders in July still awaiting approval from each country in the euro zone the fractionalized way that Europe runs fi s-cal decision-making risks setting off yet another crisis at each step along the way Every plan re-quires agreement among fi nance ministers and the Parliament of any member country can veto the deal

Many economists say that the Continentrsquos debt crisis which began in early 2010 with the threat that Greece might have to default on its loans could have been resolved far more quickly if there were some sort of central fi nancial body akin to the Treasury Department in the United States

ldquoIf they had the equivalent of the US Trea-sury then this treasury could have formulated proposals with the collective objective in mind rather than 17 national objectives competing

with each otherrdquo said Garry J Schinasi a former offi cial with the International Monetary Fund who now privately advises European central banks and governments ldquoInstead they fumbled around and took two baby steps forward and three backwardrdquo

The idea of a European Treasury that would enforce fi scal discipline on wayward countries while also having the power to spread EU wealth from healthier countries to ones struggling to pay their debts is fi ercely unpo-pular among voters in many countries Those in prosperous nations like Germany do not want to see their taxes used to bail out countries that borrowed their way into trouble And those in weaker nations are reluctant to allow outsiders to dictate how their governments spend their mo-ney and tax their citizens

Europersquos currency union has its roots in the agreement signed in 1992 known as the Ma-astricht Treaty That agreement set in motion the rules for creating the euro and for joining the euro zone A later agreement established the Eu-ropean Central Bank which manages interest ra-tes much like the US Federal Reserve

But the Maastricht Treaty stopped short of telling countries how to handle spending or taxa-tion leaving them loose rules on budget defi cits to follow mdash or break as many did even Germany and France in the early days of the euro

In the United States of course agreements between Congress and the White House on bud-get measures can be extremely diffi cult to reach as the fi ght over raising the US debt ceiling this summer demonstrated all too well

But the European process is even more arduous and drawn out Over the next month global fi nancial markets are likely to resume their volatility as fi nal negotiations on the Greek bailout continue in Europe The problems were highlighted Friday when talks between the Euro-peans the IMF and Greece were put off because Athens was coming up short in its plans for mee-ting budget targets for next year Stock markets promptly fell on the news

This week more challenges await The top court in Germany is scheduled to rule Wednes-day whether it is legal for that countryrsquos leaders to make such an agreement While it is expected to allow Germany to participate in the bailout the constitutional court could surprise the ex-perts And it could make it harder to adopt such agreements in the future

Offi cials in Finland are supposed to make a statement outlining their conditions for appro-ving the deal which will probably set the pat-tern for other countries seeking guarantees from Greece that their loans will be paid back

Later in the autumn new rules that would bolster the role of the European Commission as an independent arbiter of national fi scal pro-grams are due to be approved

The heavy lifting involved in approving the new Greece deal illustrates how diffi cult it would be to create a European Treasury

But that has not stopped some offi cials from calling for moves in that direction Last month Angela Merkel the German chancellor and Nicolas Sarkozy the French president pro-posed new fi nancial transaction taxes for the euro zone as well as standards for corporate tax laws so no country could lure businesses at the ex-pense of others with exceptionally low tax rates They also proposed that each country enshrine in its constitution rules that would limit defi cits a process that is now under way in Spain Portugal and elsewhere

Earlier in the summer Lorenzo Bini Smaghi a member of the ECBrsquos executive board joined the campaign among many private economists to introduce euro bonds to provide joint backing for a substantial share of the sove-reign debt of each member of the euro zone

Wolfgang Schaumluble the German fi nance minister told the newspaper Bild that he would like to see the EUrsquos treaty revised mdash an arduous process mdash to enable the Union to make common fi scal policies

An offi cial in the German Finance Minis-try who was not authorized to speak on the mat-ter publicly said the ministry was trying to avoid terms like ldquotransfer union euro bonds or fi scal unionrdquo because it would alienate too many vo-ters But he acknowledged that they saw such a union as both necessary and inevitable

ldquoYou could call it a fi scal union but the minister wonrsquot do thatrdquo the offi cial said ldquoWhat we are talking about is pooling our fi scal policy and doing to fi scal policy what wersquove done with monetary policyrdquo

To some extent leaders in Europe have already started down the path toward such a union Perhaps the most important step was the creation of the European Financial Stability Faci-lity which is funded by all the euro zone coun-tries and authorized to lend money to troubled countries in the currency union The facility will borrow money in the public markets much like the US Treasury does

The facility is a step toward euro bonds analysts said because it would be a pan-Euro-pean issuer But it is not replacing individual countriesrsquo bonds and it is allowed to borrow only a fi nite amount mdash currently limited to around euro440 billion or $630 billion mdash that many analysts say is not adequate to deal with all the countries at risk including Spain and Italy

The euro zone is also moving to increase oversight of countriesrsquo budget plans earlier in the process and to give the European Commission greater power to propose tough fi nancial penal-ties on countries that violate the fi scal rules in-cluding a withdrawal of some EU funds unless blocked by a large majority of members

If and when that happens said Graham Bishop an independent fi nancial analyst who has advised the British and European Parliaments it ldquowould be the moment of collective control of an errant state mdash the fi nal step toward a de facto po-litical unionrdquo



By TARA PARKER-POPE

When it comes to worries about food poisoning human food ty-pically gets all the attention But a

growing number of recalls of tainted foods in the past few years involve pet products

This week Merrick Pet Care of Ama-rillo Tex recalled 248 cases of its Doggie Wishbone pet treats because of potential contamination with salmonella And last month Nestleacute Purina PetCare issued a re-call after some bags of its Purina One Vi-brant Maturity dry cat food tested positive for salmonella Indeed over the past two years pet food makers have issued nearly three dozen recalls of pet food and dog treats like pig ears because of salmonella concerns

ldquoThe problem of salmonella in pet foods and pet treats even in pet supple-ments like vitamins is something people should be aware ofrdquo said Dr Casey Barton Behravesh a veterinary epidemiologist at

the Centers for Disease Control and Pre-vention

The most recent recalls were a result of salmonella detected during random tes-ting and not because of illness in animals or humans but experts caution that tainted food poses threats to both pets and people Last year the CDC reported that from 2006 to 2008 nearly 80 people including 32 children under the age of 2 were infected with salmonella as a result of coming into contact with dry dog or cat food marking the fi rst time human infections were linked to dry pet food Other recent salmonella outbreaks in humans have been linked to pig ears and pet treats made with beef and salmon

ldquoItrsquos important for people to know that after they feed their pets or give them treats they should wash their hands par-ticularly before they prepare food or baby bottles or before they eatrdquo said Dr Behra-vesh

Dried pet food typically is heated to high temperatures that kill bacteria before it is shaped into different shapes of kibble But dry food is not necessarily produced under sterile conditions and contamina-tion can occur at various stages in the pro-duction process veterinarians say Canned food by contrast is vacuum-sealed and sterilized but can be contaminated after it is opened if improperly stored or handled

Pig ears which are frozen cleaned and fl avored but not cooked may beco-me contaminated from the original animal carcass One study in Canada found that 51 percent of pig ears purchased at stores contained salmonella another study also found high rates of contamination 41 per-cent in pig ears sold in the United States according to a June report in The Journal

of the American Veterinary Medical Asso-ciation

ldquoWe know from past investigations that pig ears and similar treats that involve dried animal parts can be a risk for salmo-nella infection in peoplerdquo Dr Behravesh said

Raw meat including scraps and bo-nes obtained from butchers is another common source of salmonella exposure in pets In the June report 45 percent of com-mercial raw meat diets fed to greyhounds tested positive for salmonella

In the documented outbreaks invol-ving humans pets consuming the contami-nated food or treats often didnrsquot show visi-ble signs of food poisoning though often a petrsquos illness is never diagnosed by a ve-terinarian Symptoms of food poisoning in pets are similar to those in people and in-clude lethargy fever vomiting and bloody diarrhea that can last three to fi ve days

ldquoA lot of people donrsquot realize pets can

be just as vulnerable to these food-borne infections as we arerdquo said Kimberly May assistant director of professional and public affairs at the American Veterinary Medical Association Puppies and kittens as well as adult animals with compromised immune systems are most vulnerable

To lower the risk of salmonella expo-sure to both humans and pets the Ameri-can Veterinary Medical Association recom-mends avoiding raw food diets and storing pet foods properly Dry foods treats and vitamins should be kept in a cool dry pla-ce away from the kitchen area and food and water bowls should be washed often Individually packaged pig ears are less likely to be contaminated than those from bulk bins

Children the elderly and people with suppressed immune systems should not handle pet food or treats And hands should be washed before and after han-dling pet products

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Wine The San Juan Weekly Star14 Sept 8 - 14 2011

FEW things have made me as happy re-cently as the wine panelrsquos tasting of dry rieslings from Alsace Not only did we

absolutely love many of the wines but also the rieslings actually tasted pretty dry

Yes I know this seems a bit of a truism like remarking that the steak tastes like steak Why wouldnrsquot a dry riesling be dry But just about anybody whorsquos been following wi-nes from Alsace for a long time knows that in the past 20 years many historically dry whites have been made with more and more residual sugar often leaving the wines fl ac-cid cloying and out of balance These wines with no indication of sweetness on their la-bels have caused uncertainty and frustration among consumers and have turned many people away from Alsace

This tasting restored the excitement for me The parade of stony taut complex and at times majestic wines was thrilling If anybody disma-yed by recent history doubts the potential of Al-sace to produce wines of beautifully etched deli-neation the proof was in the glasses before us

Perhaps ldquodoubtrdquo is too strong a word Itrsquos not as if all Alsace whites had sweetened up Trimbachrsquos brilliant top rieslings Clos Sainte Hune (which some people regard as the worldrsquos greatest riesling) and the more affordable Cuveacutee Freacutedeacuteric Eacutemile have always been resolutely dry Other producers like Ostertag and Kreydenweiss have likewise sought to keep their wines dry unless of course the wines were designated as sweet

I canrsquot say the problem has ceased to exist Alsace whites still require consumers to be vigilant A few weeks ago I ordered a 2007 riesling Vieilles Vignes from Albert Boxler a producer whose wines I generally believe are going to be dry Wrong The wine was sweet too sweet in fact for the oysters I had orde-red and not entirely balanced

By contrast our No 1 wine in the blind tasting was the 2008 Boxler Sommerberg ldquoErdquo a magnifi cent wine with intense mineral and fruit fl avors so good it earned a rare four-star rating from the panel Was the wine dry It sure seemed dry At the least it was perfectly balanced The ldquoErdquo by the way indicates that the wine comes from a specifi c parcel high on the slope of the grand cru Sommerberg vine-yard Wines from a warmer site lower on the slope are designated ldquoDrdquo Either alas may be hard to fi nd outside restaurants

For the tasting Florence Fabricant and I were joined by Joshua Nadel the beverage director at Locanda Verde and the Dutch and Carla Rzeszewski the wine director of the Spotted Pig the Breslin and the John Dory Oyster Bar We wanted to focus on the most recent vintages and this led to a preponde-rance of 2008s and also a few less ambitious rsquo09s which were already on the shelves It might be that our tasting was a little mis-

leading as the rsquo08 vintage was conducive to high acidity which can mask residual sugar that might be more apparent in a vintage of lower acidity like 2007 Yet the vintage also illustrates how superb these rieslings can be when they are well balanced

Why did the wines from Alsace become sweeter In some cases no doubt mass-mar-ket producers and neacutegociants have intentio-nally catered to consumers who like a little sweetness even if they say they prefer dry wi-nes Many American producers do the same

Among more conscientious producers efforts to cut back yields to make wines of greater intensity and concentration can result in grapes of profoundly high sugar levels These producers also believe in intervening as little as possible in the winemaking so if the fermentation stopped before all the sugar had been converted into alcohol well they believed thatrsquos what nature intended Ma-king the wines dry might have resulted in absurdly high levels of alcohol in any case You could say these wines ended up sweet with the best of intentions

Now nothing is intrinsically wrong with sweet wines as long as two conditions are met First the sweetness should not come as a sur-prise The wines should be clearly labeled as such The German labeling system as arcane and complicated as it may seem ensures pretty much that you know what you are getting

Second as I suggested the wines must be balanced That is if a wine does contain residual sugar it must also contain suffi cient acidity to make it refreshing not fl at and fa-tiguing Not to belabor the comparison with German rieslings but they live in a lacy ethe-real world in which if the residual sugar is high the alcohol is low and with enough acidity the wines are delicate and crystalline In Alsace where the wines are much more powerful even wines with residual sugar can have a lot of alcohol which makes them feel bigger sweeter and more voluminous

To combat this lack of balance one of Alsacersquos greatest producers Zind Humbrecht has altered its viticulture over the last decade in an effort to produce grapes that achieve ripe-ness earlier with less sugar and greater acidity Olivier Humbrecht the proprietor along with his father Leacuteonard said in an e-mail that the transformation in the vineyard has paid off

ldquoWe have higher acid levels now than in the rsquo90s which makes no sense as the re-cent vintages were warmer and more preco-ciousrdquo he said

In the late 1990s Zind Humbrecht was always among the last in the region to har-vest With the viticultural changes he said Zind Humbrecht is today among the fi rst to start harvesting The estate also began in the last decade to include a discreet dryness sca-le or indice on each bottle with 1 represen-

ting dry and 5 high sweetnessThree Zind Humbrecht rieslings were

in the tasting (the estate offers a bewildering number of rieslings each expressing a speci-fi c terroir) and each made our Top 10 Our No 2 wine was the 2008 Zind Humbrecht Grand Cru Brand a rich golden wine with honeyed fl avors of minerals and fl owers It may have had a touch of residual sugar but it was so well balanced that it tasted dry to us Indeed it was an Indice 2 representing a wine that may not be technically dry but seems dry on the palate

Likewise our No 3 wine the 2008 Zind Humbrecht Heimbourg was also an Indice 2 This seemed lusher than the Brand with exotic fruit fl avors yet it too was superbly balanced and focused Rounding out the estatersquos three wines was our No 5 the 2008 Clos Windsbuhl This was an Indice 1 a dry savory wine that as Josh put it seemed like soil speaking through the wine

Because of our focus on recent vinta-ges we did not include the top Trimbachs in the tasting (2005 is the current release) We did have the 2008 Schlossberg Cuveacutee Sainte Catherine from Weinbach a wine that is not necessarily dry in every vintage The rsquo08 was a beautifully balanced complex subtle wine that danced lightly through the mouth despi-te its somewhat thick texture

This was a rare tasting in which the fi ve most expensive wines in the lineup fi nished in the Top 5 Our No 6 bottle the 2008 Eacuteleacute-ments from Bott Geyl was one of the least expensive bottles in the tasting at $15 and our best value It was rich yet light-bodied with enticing stony mineral fl avors

By any estimation Alsace is one of the planetrsquos greatest places to grow riesling Itrsquos thrilling for me to feel that they are restored as an option With the tasting lingering in my mind I recently got a bottle of 2008 Zind Humbrecht Clos Haumluserer riesling to drink at home with dinner The wine an Indice 1 was a dry complex minerally delight I will still be cautious with Alsace researching as best I can a particular winersquos style before a purcha-se But I will be hopeful

Tasting ReportAlbert Boxler Alsace Riesling $53 Grand Cru Sommerberg ldquoErdquo 2008Graceful and airy yet intense with majestic fl oral ripe fruit and stony mineral fl avors (Robert Chadderdon Selections New York)Zind Humbrecht Alsace Riesling $90 frac12Grand Cru Brand 2008Rich golden and deep yet dry and balanced with gorgeous honeyed fl avors of minerals and fl owers (The Sorting Table Napa Calif)Zind Humbrecht Alsace Riesling $55 frac12Heimbourg 2008Lush fl avors of exotic fruit citrus and fl owers yet well focused and structured (The Sorting Table)Weinbach Alsace Riesling Schlossberg $43 Grand Cru Cuveacutee Sainte Catherine 2008Slightly thick in texture but light in the mouth with savory fl avors of fruit spices and mine-rals (Vineyard Brands Birmingham Ala)Zind Humbrecht Alsace Riesling $85 Clos Windsbuhl 2008Dry tangy and refreshing with savory cha-lky fl avors (The Sorting Table)BEST VALUEBott Geyl Alsace Riesling $15 Les Eacuteleacutements 2008Rich and golden yet light-bodied with deep stony mineral fl avors (Winebow New York)Kuentz-Bas Alsace Riesling $16 frac12Tradition 2008Tart and taut with lingering fl avors of ripe peaches and mint (Kermit Lynch Wine Mer-chant Berkeley Calif)Barmegraves Buecher Alsace Riesling $26 frac12Rosenberg 2008Tightly wound with lively spicy fl avors of citrus and fl owers (The Petit Pois Corpora-tion Moorestown NJ)Hugel Alsace Riesling $19 2009Clean and dry with stony mineral and citrus fl a-vors (Frederick Wildman amp Sons New York)Weinbach Alsace Riesling $30 Cuveacutee Theacuteo 2009Rich and a tad hot with pleasant fl avors of minerals and mint (Vineyard Brands)

Alsatian Rieslings Return to FormAlsatian Rieslings Return to Form

15The San Juan Weekly Star Sept 8 - 14 2011 KitchenStuffed Vegetables for Late Summer

By MARTHA ROSE SHULMAN

Travel anywhere in the Me-diterranean region and you will fi nd stuffed vegetables

In Provence they tend to be fi lled with meat (a way to stretch leftover stews) but in the Middle East and Greece rice and grain fi llings prevail Regional cooks make abundant use of fresh herbs like parsley dill and mint

and sweet spices like cinnamon and allspice

Fragrant stuffed vegetables can be made ahead of the meal and served hot or at room temperature They donrsquot require a lot of patience to assemble mdash they just need a long simmer and then a rest to let the fl avors mingle and intensify Eat them as a main dish or a side and serve up leftovers for lunch

The fi lling for these irresistible stu-ffed eggplants is also good for pe-ppers and squash Substitute the

chopped fl esh of the summer squash for the eggplant and just use the rice and tomatoes for peppers Make these a day ahead for best results

2 12 to 3 pounds small or medium eggplantsSalt to taste1 12 pounds tomatoes grated on the large holes of a box grater3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil4 to 6 garlic cloves (to taste) minced12 cup uncooked long-grain or basma-ti rice12 cup fi nely chopped cilantro3 tablespoons fi nely chopped mintFreshly ground pepper to tasteJuice of 2 lemons12 teaspoon ground allspice12 teaspoon ground cinnamon14 teaspoon sugar3 tablespoons tomato paste

1 Cut the eggplants in half With a grapefruit spoon or a small knife remove the fl esh to within 12 inch of the skins

2 Sprinkle the eggplant shells with salt and let sit for 30 minutes while you prepare the remaining ingre-dients Chop the fl esh and steam for 20 minutes until tender

3 In a large bowl combine a third of the tomatoes the steamed eggplant 2 tablespoons of the olive oil all but 1 clove of the garlic the rice herbs and the juice of one of the lemons Season with salt and pepper

4 Oil a large fl ameproof casserole or an earthenware casserole set over a fl ame tamer Combine the remaining tomatoes olive oil allspice cinnamon lemon juice sugar tomato paste and re-maining garlic in the casserole Season to taste with salt and pepper Fill the eggplant shells with the rice mixture and arrange in the casserole in a single layer Add water if necessary to cover

By FLORENCE FABRICANT

There was plenty of warm sun-shine in the dry rieslings from Alsace These were not the

fi rst rieslings that suggested crab meat to me or the fi rst time that mellow crab meat suggested ries-ling Several weeks ago before the ballet at Lincoln Center I cleaned my plate of spaghetti tossed with crab meat tart-sweet cherry toma-toes arugula and bread crumbs at Nick amp Tonirsquos Cafe About a week later the recipe in hand I served it at home with Alsatian riesling for an elegant pas de deux

Adapted from Nick amp Tonirsquos Cafe ManhattanTime 45 minutes

1 cup loosely packed diced sourdo-ugh country bread13 cup extra virgin olive oil1 tablespoon chopped garlic2 pints cherry tomatoes (about 50)14 cup sliced garlic (5 or 6 cloves)Leaves from 6 sprigs fresh oregano chopped12 ounces spaghettiSalt and pepper2 tablespoons unsalted butter1 pound jumbo lump crab meat1 bunch arugula heavy stems remo-ved (about 2 cups) 1 Heat oven to 400 degrees Toss the bread cubes with 2 tablespoons oil and the chopped garlic Spread in a small baking pan and bake until

lightly browned about 15 minutes tossing from time to time Let cool2 Turn heat up to 450 degrees Place the tomatoes in a bowl add 1 tablespoon of the sliced garlic 2 tablespoons oil a pinch of chopped oregano and salt and pepper to taste Spread in a baking pan and roast about 10 minutes until the to-matoes start to burst Remove from the oven3 Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil and cook spaghetti until al dente Meanwhile grind the bread cubes in a blender to make crumbs Heat the remaining oil and the but-ter in a large sauteacute pan on medium heat Add the remaining garlic and cook until lightly colored Add the roasted tomatoes and their juices reduce heat to low and cook for a few minutes Fold in the crab meat and remaining oregano4 When the spaghetti is done remove a cup of the water and add to the tomatoes Drain the spaghetti and add it to the pan Adjust seaso-ning Fold in the arugula toss the spaghetti well transfer to a large warm bowl or individual plates dust with the bread crumbs and serveYield 4 servings

Spaghetti With Crab Meat Cherry Tomatoes and Arugula

about a third of the eggplant Bring to a simmer over medium-high heat cover tightly and reduce the heat to low Simmer 45 minutes to an hour until the eggplant and rice are tender Remove from the heat

5 Using two spatulas (the egg-plants are soft at this point) transfer the eggplants to a platter Bring the sauce to a boil If it is not already thick reduce until thick and fragrant Pour over the eggplants and allow to cool to warm or room temperature Theyrsquore good chilled as well Garnish with chopped fresh parsley or cilantro if desired

Yield Serves sixAdvance preparation These taste

even better the day after theyrsquore made they fi rm up in the refrigerator and are easier to handle They will keep for about four days in the refrigerator I like them cold

Nutritional information per ser-ving 193 calories 1 gram saturated fat 1 gram polyunsaturated fat 5 grams monounsaturated fat 0 mg choleste-rol 30 grams carbohydrates 6 grams dietary fi ber 32 milligrams sodium (does not include salt to taste) 4 grams protein

Eggplant Stuffed With Rice and Tomatoes

16 The San Juan Weekly StarSept 8 - 14 2011Kitchen

Pasta With Pasta With Green Green

Meatballs and Meatballs and Herb SauceHerb Sauce

Time 30 to 40 minutes2 cups fi nely chopped fresh basil 12 cup fi nely chopped fresh parsley 12 cup fi nely chopped fresh chives 1 thin slice white bread 14 cup milk 12 pound ground sirloin pork or lamb or a mixture Salt and black pepper 6 tablespoons olive oil 1 pound pasta Freshly grated Parmesan cheese for garnish

1 Mix together the basil parsley and chives Soak the bread in the milk for 5 minutes then gently squeeze any excess milk from the bread discard the milk Combine the bread with the

meat 1 cup of the herbs and some salt and pepper shape the mixture into 1-inch meatballs

2 Bring a large pot of water to a boil and salt it Put 2 tablespoons of the oil in a large skillet over medium heat When the oil is hot add the meatballs in a single layer (work in batches if neces-sary) Cook turning occasionally until brown on all sides 5 to 10 minutes

3 Cook the pasta in the boiling water until tender but not mushy While the pasta is cooking pureacutee 112 cups of the herbs with 4 tablespoons oil the garlic and some salt and pe-pper in a mini food processor or blen-der leave the sauce rough or add a litt-le water if you want it smoother Drain the pasta reserving about a cup of its cooking liquid Toss the pasta with the herb sauce and most of the remaining herbs adding the reserved liquid if the mixture seems dry Top with the meatballs garnish with Parmesan and the last of the herbs and serve

Yield 4 servings

Lemony Parsley-Lemony Parsley-and-Egg Soupand-Egg Soup

Time 30 minutes2 tablespoons butter 1 medium onion chopped 4 cups parsley (about 3 bunches) 6 cups vegetable or chicken stock Salt and black pepper 4 eggs 13 cup freshly squeezed lemon juice 12 cup heavy cream optional Sour cream for garnish optional

1 Put the butter in a large sau-cepan over medium-high heat When it melts add the onion and cook stirring occasionally until softened about 5 minutes Add the parsley and

cook stirring occasionally until it wilts 3 to 5 minutes Stir in about half the stock

2 Pureacutee the soup in the pan with an immersion blender or cool slightly pour into an upright blender and pu-reacutee carefully Return to the pan with the remaining stock Heat through over medium-low heat then season to taste with salt and pepper

3 Beat together the eggs and le-mon juice then slowly add about 1 cup of the hot soup whisking all the while Gradually stir the egg mixture back into the soup Taste and adjust the seasoning then stir in the cream if yoursquore using it or serve garnished with a dollop of sour cream if you like

Yield 4 servings

By MARK BITTMAN

Ratatouille as many now know thanks to the 2007 animated fi lm is the more-diffi cult-to-pronounce-

than-make dish of summer vegetables mdash tomatoes zucchini and eggplant primary among them The French verb touiller means ldquoto stirrdquo or ldquoto tossrdquo rata is an old-fashioned French military term for a mixed vegetable dish

So much for etymology The only trick in making this dish is to time the addition of each ingredient so that they all end up cooked to an appropriate de-gree when yoursquore done Eggplant must be cooked until itrsquos very soft even mushy (there are few foods worse than under-cooked eggplant) Zucchini however is

good when it still has a little bite to it (and it takes less time to cook) and tomatoes begin to break apart so quickly that you have to be careful if you want to avoid turning them into sauce Not that thatrsquos a bad thing necessarily mdash ratatouille is forgiving and totally soft ratatouille is actually fabulous

The recipe below is based on a Mi-nimalist recipe from 2005 called Ratatoui-lle ldquoSaladrdquo Itrsquos now no longer a salad I tweaked it by cooking everything all toge-ther (which is easier and helps the fl avors meld) instead of separately and by omit-ting a last-minute squeeze of lemon (which you can certainly add back if you like) But know that cold ratatouille is a treat some even think that itrsquos better when chilled and served the next day

Easy Ratatouille

Yield 4 to 6 servingsTime 30 minutesIngredientsbull 1 large or 2 medium eggplantsbull 13 to 12 cup extra virgin olive oilbull Salt and freshly ground black pepperbull 1 medium zucchini roughly choppedbull 1 medium onion roughly choppedbull 1 tablespoon fresh thyme leaves cho-ppedbull 1 tablespoon minced garlicbull 2 medium tomatoes (or 3 canned plum tomatoes drained) roughly choppedbull 12 cup minced fresh parsley or basil leaves for garnishMethod

bull 1 Trim the eggplant and cut it into 1-inch cubes If the eggplant is large soft or especially seedy sprinkle the cu-bes with salt put in a colander and let sit

for 30 to 60 minutes Rinse drain and pat dry

bull 2 Put the oil in large skillet and turn heat to medium Add the eggplant sprinkle with salt and pepper and cook stirring occasionally until soft and gol-den 15 to 20 minutes

bull 3 Add the zucchini and cook stirring occasionally until they soften about 2 or 3 minutes Add the onion and cook 1 to 2 minutes Add garlic and thyme and cook for 30 seconds Add the tomatoes and keep cooking until the to-matoes begin to break down another few minutes Remove the pan from the heat and sprinkle with salt and pepper Taste and adjust the seasoning if neces-sary garnish with the herb and serve immediately at room temperature or chilled

Sept 8 - 14 2011The San Juan Weekly Star 17 FASHION amp BEAUTY

By SUSAN JOY

SHOES have been getting more and more bonkersrdquo the stylist Annabel Tollman said marve-

ling at the fall crop of fuzzy furry frin-ged and whiskered footwear Seriously they could populate their own puppet show Itrsquos fun to imagine that tho-se pompom-toed Aperlai sandals were intentionally planned to be in sto-res just in time for this fallrsquos big-screen revival of ldquoThe Mu-

ppetsrdquo Thatrsquos Beaker on my left foot Animal on the right

But can you wear such fantastical creations

Actually theyrsquore not so scary once you get to know them ldquoA ladylike dress at risk of being a little anchorwo-man-ish with a basic pump looks da-ring and cool with an outreacute shoerdquo Ms

Tollman said The fashion blogger Lean-dra Medine a k a the Man Repeller has already laid down her plastic for a pair of Alexander Wang fur sandals She ad-vises that when it comes to statement shoes ldquoThere are no better acces-sories than simple jeans and a T-shirtrdquo Just let the shoes do all the talking

-

Fallrsquos Furry Feathery Heels

ldquo

By HILARY HOWARD

ARCH ANGELS Blink the chain of walk-in brow-threa-ding bars found in British

stores like Selfridges Harvey Ni-chols and Space NK has opened its fi rst branch in the United States at Henri Bendel With two cream-colo-red nappa leather chairs for clients the small salon also sells Blink pro-ducts like a soothing pure rose gel ($45) and eyebrow pencils in fi ve shades ($26) Eyebrow shaping costs $32 eyelash perming is $90 and a threading of the entire face is $110 Dread the thread Consider Chella Brow Tool Kit which comes with scissors tweezers a razor brush and comb tool and a shaping guide ($40 at chellacom)

DIGITAL SEPHORA If you like

the selection of cosmetics at Sepho-ra but arenrsquot wild about the storersquos thumping house music and mass-testing practices try its quiet free new iPad app whose magazine-like format combines beauty news from Sephorarsquos Facebook and Twitter feeds blog and YouTube channel and offers a layout customizable to said social media feeds and indivi-dual account information It also provides streamlined online shop-ping of course

LACQUER UP There are top-coats for nails and glosses for lips why not something wet and shiny for lashes Hourglass Cosmetics (hourglasscosmeticscom) has crea-ted Film Noir Lash Lacquer ($28 from your new Sephora app) a Vitamin E-enriched post-mascara formulation that promises to elon-

gate and volumize (Isnrsquot that what mascara is supposed to do) And Maybelline is celebrating the 40th anniversary of its best-selling Great Lash mascara with limited-edition designs by Max Azria Tracy Ree-se and Vivienne Tam on its easily recognizable pink and green tube Available at Targetcom starting Aug 14 and on Target shelves later in the month ($699)

Beauty Spots

-

The San Juan Weekly StarSept 8 - 14 201118FASHION amp BEAUTYLook Back in Envy The rsquo70s Take the Runway

By RUTH LA FERLA

ON ldquoThe Marc and Myra Showrdquo on SiriusXM radio the writer Bob Co-lacello recalled visiting Studio 54 in

the 1970s when Yves Saint Laurent strolled into the room Halston on glimpsing his idol sprang from his chair to embrace him Taking in the scene Truman Capote was heard to tell a companion ldquoYou have just witnessed one of the great moments in the history of fashion That is if you care about the history of fashionrdquo

That history reverberates today well beyond the confi nes of fashion in theatri-

cal revivals like ldquoFolliesrdquo the 1971 Sond-heim hit which opens on Broadway next month in radio broadcasts like ldquoMarc and Myrardquo and in new coffee-table volumes like ldquoIdolsrdquo a compilation of portraits by Gilles Larrain of the fl amboyant artists and scene-makers of the time

But the 1970s resonate most insistently on fashion runways through a proliferation of languid fall looks inspired by the greatest hits of Halston and Saint Laurent as well as those of style-world luminaries like Sonia Rykiel Rosita and Ottavio Missoni Claude Montana and Karl Lagerfeld whose fl uid dresses for the house of Chloeacute are still be-

ing emulated There were catwalk nods as well to a gallery of outsize personalities mdash Bianca Jagger Faye Dunaway Jacqueli-ne Onassis in her Isle of Capri period and Berry and Marisa Berenson among them mdash whose slinky wardrobes and gadabout ways have been lavishly documented

The rsquo70s have been revisited time and again in more recent decades but not with the conviction demonstrated on the runways of late Frida Giannini of Gucci Stefano Pilati of Yves Saint Laurent Marc Jacobs Massimiliano Giornetti of Ferraga-mo and Michael Kors were but a handful of designers to invoke the era of fl oppy-bow dresses chubby furs and slouchy hats fl a-red pants and slithery maxi-skirts intent it seemed on returning to a period of origina-lity and unfettered hedonism

Described by the writer Alicia Drake in ldquoThe Beautiful Fallrdquo a chronicle of the day as an era of debauchery ldquosans conse-quencerdquo the rsquo70s strike a romantic chord

People of that era were extreme ldquobut there was magic in their extravagancerdquo Marian McEvoy a fashion editor in Paris at the time told The New York Times in 2006 soon after the book appeared Colleen She-rin the fashion director of Saks Fifth Ave-nue suggested that younger people now may be looking back in envy on a storied generation of globetrotters and unregenera-te party animals

From a current vantage ldquopeople in the rsquo70s seemed a little more care-free a little less complicatedrdquo said Tory Burch whose fall collection abounded with period references including a tuxedo reminiscent of the infl uential Saint Laurent ldquosmokingrdquo a look her mother wore The rsquo70s were years ldquowhen women were coming into their ownrdquo Ms Burch said ldquoThey were a little freer in the way they dressed and lived their lives I wanted to celebrate thatrdquo

In this slide show a succession of fall runway looks that recapture the mood

The San Juan Weekly Star Sept 8- 14 2011 19

Prescribing Exercise to Treat Depression

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By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS

Can a stroll help ease depression That question preoccupied Dr Madhukar H Trivedi a profes-

sor of psychiatry at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas after several of his patients all suffering from serious depression mentioned that they felt happier if they went for a walk The patients in ques-tion were taking the widely prescribed antidepressants known as SSRIrsquos for selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors but not responding fully They remai-ned by clinical standards depressed Dr Trivedi and his colleagues began to wonder if adding a formal ldquodoserdquo of exercise would increase their chances of getting better

Certainly the possibility was wor-th investigating Clinical depression as anyone who has experienced or watched a loved one struggle with the condition knows can be stubbornly intractable Even if patients have been taking an antidepressant for months recovery rates tend to hover below 50 percent

In order to increase the odds of improvement doctors frequently add a second treatment mdash often another drug like lithium or an antipsycho-tic mdash to the SSRI regimen at some point Dr Trivedi said Most patients ultimately require at least two concu-rrent treatments to achieve remission of their depression he said Studies have shown that these secondary drug treatments help an additional 20 to 30 percent of depressed patients to impro-ve but the medications can be expensi-ve and have unpleasant side effects

Which prompted Dr Trivedi to look to exercise His investigation joins a growing movement among some physiologists and doctors to consider and study exercise as a formal medi-cine with patients given a prescrip-tion and their progress monitored as it would be if they were prescribed a pill

In this case Dr Trivedi and his co-llaborators who included researchers at the Cooper Institute in Dallas the Pennington Biomedical Research Cen-ter in Louisiana and other institutions recruited 126 people with depression

who had been using SSRIrsquos for a mi-nimum of two months without achie-ving remission None of the patients exercised

Dr Trivedi and his colleagues divided these volunteers into two groups One began a gentle aerobic exercise routine under the tutelage of Cooper Institute researchers which re-quired them to burn a certain amount of calories per session depending on their weight How the subjects expen-ded the energy was up to them Some walked for about 10 minutes a day on a treadmill or by strolling around the block at a pace of three miles an hour Others chose an equivalent easy cy-cling workout

The second group was more ener-getic walking briskly for about 30 mi-nutes a day at a pace of four miles an hour or the cycling equivalent a re-gimen that meets the current exercise recommendations from the American College of Sports Medicine

Each volunteer exercised for four months while continuing to take an antidepressant At the end of that time according to the study publis-hed recently in The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry 295 percent had achieved remission ldquowhich is a very robust re-sultrdquo Dr Trivedi said equal to or bet-ter than the remission rates achieved using drugs as a back-up treatment ldquoI think that our results indicate that exercise is a very valid treatment op-tionrdquo for people whose depression

hasnrsquot yielded to SSRIrsquos he saidAs with most scientifi c fi ndings

though there are caveatsOne is practical More patients

improved in the group that completed the longer brisker workouts than in the group assigned the easier exerci-se but more of them also dropped out of the study ldquoWe need to fi nd ways to support peoplersquos efforts to exerci-serdquo Dr Trivedi said ldquoItrsquos not going to be enough to casually say lsquoGo for a walkrsquordquo Exercise if itrsquos to be medici-nal in depression treatments will have to be monitored he said so it canrsquot be shrugged off

Even then many people will not respond Almost 70 percent of the vo-lunteers in this study did not achieve full remission Failure rates were parti-cularly high for women with a family

history of depression perhaps as a re-sult of some as yet unknown genetic quirk And women in that group who did recover were more likely to suc-ceed using the lighter exercise program than the more strenuous routine

Then there is the issue of a con-trol group whose members would have continued with their SSRIrsquos but not exercised This study did not have one making interpreting the results tricky said James A Blumen-thal a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Duke University who was not involved with this study but who has written extensively about exercise and depression Perhaps four additional months of SSRI treatment raised peoplersquos moods and the exercise was incidental ldquoEvidence is accumulating that exercise may be an effective treatment for depressed patients who are receptive to exercise as a possible treatment and who are able to safely engage in exerciserdquo he said But the evidence is by no means defi nitive

Still Dr Trivedi said although additional studies certainly are nee-ded therersquos no reason for people with unyielding depression not to talk now with their doctors about exercise as a treatment option ldquoSide effects are al-most nonexistentrdquo he said ldquowhile you get additional benefi ts in terms of im-provements in cardiovascular health and reductions in other disease risksrdquo things antidepressant drugs do not provide ldquoPlusrdquo he pointed out ldquothe cost profi le is very favorablerdquo Exerci-se as medicines go is cheap


Evidence of Heart Benefi ts From ChocolateBy NICHOLAS BAKALAR

An analysis of studies including more than 100000 subjects has found that high levels of chocolate

consumption are associated with a signifi -cant reduction in the risk of certain cardio-vascular disorders

The seven studies looked at the con-sumption of a variety of chocolate mdash can-dies and candy bars chocolate drinks coo-kies desserts and nutritional supplements

By many measures consumption of cho-colate was linked to lower rates of stroke coronary heart disease blood pressure and other cardiovascular conditions

But there was no benefi cial effect on the risk for heart failure or diabetes

Over all the report published Mon-day in the British medical journal BMJ showed that those in the group that consu-med the most chocolate had decreases of 37 percent in the risk of any cardiovascu-lar disorder and 29 percent in the risk for

strokeStill the lead author Dr Oscar H

Franco a lecturer in public health at the University of Cambridge warned that this fi nding was not a license to indulge and noted that none of the studies reviewed in-volved randomized controlled trials

ldquoChocolate may be benefi cial but it should be eaten in a moderate way not in large quantities and not in bingesrdquo he said ldquoIf it is consumed in large quantities any benefi cial effect is going to disappearrdquo

By GARDINER HARRIS

Yet another panel of scientists has found no evidence that a popular vaccine causes autism But despite the scien-

tistsrsquo best efforts their report is unlikely to have any impact on the frustrating debate about the safety of these crucial medicines

ldquoThe MMR vaccine doesnrsquot cause autism and the evidence is overwhelming that it doesnrsquotrdquo Dr Ellen Wright Clayton the chairwoman of the panel assembled by the Institute of Medicine said in an interview She was referring to a combination against measles mumps and rubella that has long been a focus of concern from some parentsrsquo groups

The panel did conclude however that there are risks to getting the chickenpox va-ccine that can arise years after vaccination People who have had the vaccine can de-velop pneumonia meningitis or hepatitis years later if the virus used in the vaccine reawakens because an unrelated health pro-blem like cancer has compromised their im-mune systems

The same problems are far more likely in patients who are infected naturally at some point in their lives with chickenpox since varicella zoster the virus that causes

chickenpox can live dormant in nerve cells for decades Shingles a painful eruption of skin blisters that usually affects the aged is generally caused by this Lazarus-like ability of varicella zoster

The government had asked the institu-te to review the known risks of vaccines to help guide decisions about compensation for those who claim to have been injured by vac-cines Legislation passed by Congress in 1986 largely absolved vaccine makers of the risks of being sued for vaccine injuries and forced those who suffer injury to petition the gover-nment for compensation

The government generally restricts compensation to cases involving children who suffer injuries that scientists deem to have been plausibly caused by vaccination including seizures infl ammation fainting allergic reactions and temporary joint pain But battles have raged for years over whether to expand this list with most of the fi ghting revolving around autism

Many children injured by vaccination have an immune or metabolic problem that is simply made apparent by vaccines ldquoIn some metabolically vulnerable children receiving vaccines may be the largely nonspecifi c lsquolast strawrsquo that leads these children to reveal their underlyingrdquo problems the report stated

For instance recent studies have found that many of the children who suffered sei-zures and lifelong problems after receiving the whole-cell pertussis vaccine which is no longer used but once routinely caused fevers in children actually had Dravet syndrome a severe form of epilepsy The fl ood of lawsuits over the effects of the whole-cell pertussis va-ccine was the reason Congress created the na-tional vaccine injury compensation program in the fi rst place and children who suffered seizures after getting this vaccine have been among the most well-compensated

In retrospect the whole-cell pertussis vaccine may have played little role in the underlying illness in many of these children other than to serve as its fi rst trigger

The Institute of Medicine is the nationrsquos most esteemed and authoritative adviser on issues of health and medicine and its reports can transform medical thinking around the world The government has asked the medi-

cine institute to assess the safety of vaccines a dozen times in the past 25 years hoping the institutersquos reputation would put to rest the concerns of some parents that vaccines cause a host of problems including autism It has not worked

Sallie Bernard president of SafeMinds a group that contends there is a link between vaccines and autism said the latest report from the Institute of Medicine excluded im-portant research and found in many cases that not enough research had been done to answer important questions

ldquoI think this report says that the scien-ce is inadequate and yet wersquore giving more and more vaccines to our kids and we really donrsquot know what their safety profi le isrdquo Ms Bernard said ldquoI think thatrsquos alarmingrdquo

Dr Clayton said ldquoWe looked at more than a thousand peer-reviewed articles and we didnrsquot see many adverse effects caused by vaccines Thatrsquos pretty remarkablerdquo

Vaccine Cleared Again as Autism Culprit

By SINDYA N BHANOO

Coriander (cilantro when the leaves of the plant are used fresh) is a po-pular spice widely used in Asian

Latin American and Mediterranean coo-king

Now researchers from the Universi-ty of Beira Interior in Portugal report that oil extracted from coriander seeds can kill bacteria related to food-borne diseases like E coli

Coriander oil has been used for cen-turies as a folk remedy for a number of ailments Researchers have also previously found that the oil may ease cramps aid in digestion soothe fungal infections and re-duce nausea

Although it was previously sugges-ted that the oil can act as an antibacterial agent this study is the fi rst to decipher

exactly how it doesThe researchers found that corian-

der oil is able to damage the membrane of bacterial cells This blocks the cell from es-sential processes like respiration and ulti-mately leads to the bacteriumrsquos demise the researchers report

They tested the effect of coriander oil on 12 bacterial strains including E coli salmonella and MRSA an antibiotic-resistant type of staphylococcus Most of the bacteria were killed by solutions con-taining less than 16 percent coriander oil they reported

With further testing the researchers believe that coriander oil might one day be more widely used as a food preservative to prevent bacterial contamination

The study was published in a recent issue of The Journal of Medical Microbio-logy

A Bacteria-Busting Oil Behind a Popular Spice

A Small Mammal Fossil Tells a Jurassic TaleSept 8 - 14 2011 21The San Juan Weekly Star SCIENCE TECH

By SINDYA N BHANOO

The split between placental mammals and marsupials may have occurred 35 million years earlier than pre-

viously thought according to a new stu-dy

Zhe-Xi Luo a paleontologist at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh and colleagues have discove-red a 160-million-year-old fossil in Chi-na that is the earliest known ancestor of todayrsquos placental mammals which include humans

He and his colleagues report their fi ndings of the fossil Juramaia sinensis in the current issue of the journal Nature

Until now the oldest known ances-tor to placentals was a small mammal that dates back about 125 million years to the Cretaceous period

The new fossil has a well-preserved skull with teeth intact Based on the teeth the researchers determined that the mam-mal was more closely related to modern placentals than to modern marsupials

About 90 percent of modern ma-mmals are placentals They provide nu-trients to their unborn young through a placenta that allows for extensive growth and development Marsupials by contrast generally have a shorter gestation period and give birth to relatively undeveloped young

The newly identifi ed mammal was small weighing less than a chipmunk Ba-sed on its claws it appears to have been an active climber ldquoThis was a skinny little animal eating insectsrdquo said Dr Luo ldquoWe imagine it was active in the night and ca-pable of going up and down treesrdquo

Its discovery helps reconcile fossil evidence and molecular analysis Modern molecular studies which use DNA to esti-mate dates of evolution also put the emer-gence of placentals at about 160 million years ago

ldquoThis hard rock evidence coincides and matches with the molecular evidence and gives us independent corroboration between fossils and DNArdquo Dr Luo said

By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD

One hallmark of Homo erectus a fo-rerunner of modern humans was his stone tools an advanced technology

refl ecting a good deal of forethought and dexterity Up to now however scientists have been unable to pin a fi rm date on the earliest known evidence for his stone tool-making

A new geological study being reported Thursday in the journal Nature showed that tools from a site near Lake Turkana in Kenya were made about 176 million years ago the earliest of their ilk found so far Previous da-tes were estimates ranging from 14 million to 16 million years ago

Although no erectus fossils were found with the Turkana tools a skull of that spe-cies was excavated last year in the same se-diment level across the lake This suggests that Homo erectus was responsible for these particular tools which were made with what scientists refer to as Acheulean technology The term connotes a type of oval and pear-shaped hand axes and other implements that were a specialty of early humans

American researchers at Lamont-Do-herty Earth Observatory at Columbia Univer-sity established the age of the Turkana tools by dating the surrounding mudstone with a paleomagnetic technique When layers of silt and clay hardened into stone this preserved the orientation of Earthrsquos magnetic fi eld at the time and an analysis of the periodic po-larity reversals and other records yielded the age of the site known as Kokiselei

ldquoI was taken aback when I realized that the geological data indicated it was the oldest Acheulean site in the worldrdquo said the lead author of the report Christopher J Lepre a researcher at Lamont-Doherty who also tea-ches geology at Rutgers University

The assemblage of hand axes picks and other cutting tools was collected mostly in the 1990s by French archaeologists led by Helene Roche of the National Center of Scientifi c Research in France Dr Roche a co-author of the paper had been steered to the site by Richard Leakey the Kenyan fos-sil hunter who had discovered just six miles away the Turkana Boy a young Homo erec-tus who lived about 15 million years ago and is the most complete early hominid skeleton found so far

In the journal article Dr Leprersquos group said that artifacts from an earlier and simpler technology Oldowan were found alongside the more advanced Acheulean tools The Ol-dowan tools were mainly sharp stone fl akes and roughly worked rock cores while the more sophisticated ones displayed signs of symmetry uniformity and advance plan-ning

The co-occurrence of Oldowan and Acheulean artifacts at the site the scientists said indicates that ldquothe two technologies are not mutually exclusiverdquo components of an

evolving cultural lineage It was possible that the Acheulean technology was either impor-ted from another location yet to be identifi ed or originated from Oldowan toolmakers in the vicinity

In either case the scientists wrote ldquothe Acheulean did not accompany the fi rst hu-man dispersal from Africa despite being available at the timerdquo

At about this time hominids generally thought to be Homo erectus mdash or possibly Homo habilis an earlier group mdash were li-ving in Eurasia in what is now the country of Georgia Their tools were Oldowan

So the archaeologists and geologists concluded that there may have been multi-ple groups of hominids ldquodistinguished by separate stone-tool-making behaviors and dispersal strategiesrdquo co-existing in Africa at 176 million years ago

Ian Tattersall a paleoanthropologist at the American Museum of Natural His-tory in New York who was not involved in the research said that rumors of much ear-lier Acheulean fi nds had been circulating for a long time ldquoand now we have it and the evidence is well documented the dating soundrdquo

The new fi nd Dr Tattersall said ldquois bound to open up the debate about the re-lationship between the appearance of the Acheulean and that of early African Homo erectus the earliest hominid known to have basically modern human body proportionsrdquo It is generally thought that erectus evolved about 2 million years ago

Although the authors suggested the possibility that more than one kind of ho-minid was making tools at the site Dr Tat-tersall said it was also conceivable that the Acheulean culture was born within the Ol-

dowan ldquoAfter all any cultural innovation has to be invented within some existing tra-ditionrdquo he noted ldquoAnd it was typically the case that old Paleolithic technologies survi-ved for long periods alongside the newrdquo

Dr Tattersall found it odd he said that ldquothe Acheulean evidently didnrsquot catch on widely for several hundred thousand years after it was invented possibly for the same reasons mdash whatever they are mdash that it took a really long time to be adopted at all widely in Eurasia even as African groups were evi-dently migrating outrdquo

Eric Delson a paleoanthropologist at Lehman College of the City University of New York said he was disappointed in the few pictures of the stone tools that were pu-blished with the report The illustrations des-cribed as hand axes and picks were ldquorather roughrdquo he said and ldquoin some ways appea-red to be intermediate between Oldowan and Acheulean tools which might be expected for the fi rst Acheulean artifactsrdquo

Dr Delson recommended that a more complete set of pictures and data of the collection would help demonstrate their Acheulean nature

Nonetheless Dr Delson said the new date for the earliest known Acheulean ldquomo-ves it back closer to the earliest Homo erectus and supports (but does not prove) the wides-pread view that erectus made the Acheulean at least at the beginningrdquo

But as he reviewed the researchrsquos im-plications for the role of Homo erectus in the spread of early humans out of Africa and across Asia or even possibly out of Asia and into Africa Dr Delson sounded the familiar lament of paleoanthropology ldquoEach new fi nd raises about as many questions as it helps to resolverdquo

Earliest Homo Erectus Tools Found in Kenya

The San Juan Weekly StarSept 8 - 14 201122modern loveJust the Two of Us When One Toddles

By JENNIFER BAUMGARDNER

SEVERAL years ago when my son Skuli was about 3 the two of us fl ew back to New York City early from vi-

siting relatives in the Midwest so I could attend a big bash for my friends Jenny and Sara Jane who were celebrating fi ve years together

It was a blazing hot July afternoon when we arrived at Kennedy Airport af-ter a long bumpy fl ight I threw our bags in Skulirsquos Sit rsquonrsquo Stroll which I used like a wheelbarrow when I traveled with him and slogged out to the long-term par-king lot with Skuli on my hip Our car a 17-year-old red Honda Civic shimmered in the heat

ldquoThis isnrsquot goodrdquo I thought One of the many quirks of my vehicle was that it wouldnrsquot start when parked in direct sun-light I fastened Skulirsquos car seat into the cauldron of the backseat and turned the key praying it would start Nothing I wai-ted two minutes Still nothing

ldquoWe should call someone to help usrdquo Skuli offered He was good at intuiting our next step

I called and soon a young guy arri-ved in a tow truck offering to jump our battery ldquoItrsquos not the batteryrdquo I said ldquoThis car doesnrsquot start in heat I have to wait until sundownrdquo

ldquoItrsquos the battery marsquoamrdquo he said After 10 minutes of fruitless jumping he offered to drive us to the nearest garage Feeling a familiar fi nancial panic I menta-lly calculated the mounting cost of this cri-sis and wondered if feting Jenny and Sara Janersquos relationship was worth the expense I decided it was We got home in time for me to shower and change drop Skuli at his fatherrsquos (where he spent occasional time) and head to the party

On a Brooklyn rooftop that night drinking restoratively I met Sara Janersquos mother A onetime single mother herself she asked me why I wasnrsquot dating and prodded me for stories about my life Af-ter each story she would shake her head and say ldquoBe selfi sh Jen Yoursquove got to be selfi shrdquo

I was used to unsolicited advice and offers of help The help I often and gratefu-lly accepted like an invite for Sunday din-ner or the used baby equipment my friends were always fi nding for me Often though I sensed not so much helpfulness as pity

ldquoIt must be so hardrdquo these friends said fl attening me into a stereotype

And it was hard I woke up in the night worried about bills anxious that Irsquod have someone to look after Skuli whi-le I was working I took him to parties not because he loved hanging out at adultsrsquo houses at 1130 pm but because it was that or Irsquod never socialize But I was happy Irsquod never felt so much love and indepen-dence at once

Back at the party I attempted to res-pond to Sara Janersquos mother As a single mo-ther I didnrsquot think I was selfi sh as much as self-full I had to rely on myself more than ever and yet my life was rich with friends Christine dropping by on the way home from work because she knew my door was always open saying ldquoyesrdquo to spontaneous invitations to the Bronx Zoo because Skuli and I didnrsquot have to negotiate anyone elsersquos schedule sleepovers at Gillianrsquos because we only needed one bed

It seemed to me that two-parent fami-lies often had homes that were more closed because they were less reliant on others whereas my friends and family showed up for me all of the time My younger sister Jessica a happily married mother marve-led at how much help from friends and fa-mily I marshaled

ldquoI guess Irsquom not afraid to askrdquo I said ldquoAnd of course people assume I need it which is kind of humiliatingrdquo

ldquoNot as humiliating as needing it even though you have a partnerrdquo Jessica responded

Jessica isnrsquot one of the condescending types but I gravitated toward single-pa-rent friends after Skuli was born We were the ones who always dropped our children late at school and got stern looks from the teachers We took our children to cocktail parties and readings because it was either that or we couldnrsquot go The single mothers I knew had scuffed shoes and our roots

were grown out from too much time bet-ween hair appointments

We were superfi cially bedraggled but fundamentally sturdy We were a crew of single mothers (and fathers) who had esca-ped bad relationships started businesses gone back to school all while taking care of our children mostly by ourselves And we shared a common currency a bracing com-bination of independence and terror

I felt lonely on occasions like Valentinersquos Day and Motherrsquos Day But the other days I felt this magical self-reliance combined with an interdependence that wedded me to the world

Heading into the subway one day I was struggling with getting Skuli in his stroller along with my heavy bags down the stairs when out of the corner of my eye I saw a thuggish-looking teenager walking toward me with a menacingly blank look on his face and his pants drooped He lea-ned over picked up my stroller and wi-thout a word carried Skuli down the two fl ights of stairs to the subway platform I sputtered a thank you He looked me in the eye and said in a soft voice ldquoI was raised by a single mom marsquoamrdquo

My friend Amy was raised by a single mother When she turned 30 her friends made a book for her each of us taking a page to extol her work ethic dance ability and generosity

Her motherrsquos page had a snapshot of the two of them taken when Amy was about 5 and her mother Karen was in her early 20s Karen pointing at a fl ower in front of them and Amy pointing up and away to something Karen canrsquot even see In the caption Karen wrote that it wasnrsquot the most fl attering photo of the two of them but it was a good example of their relation-ship She fi nished with the lines ldquoWe make a good team mdash wersquove been a good teamrdquo

The fact that her mother repeated the phrase slayed me but I was most struck by seeing my tough confi dent sunny friend cry as she read the words Like the rest of us single mothers and those who have been raised by them Amy knew the joy beauty and hard-earned satisfaction of be-ing a good team

And we also knew its limitations Days before that awful moment at JFK when my car wouldnrsquot start Skuli and I had been visiting my cousins at their lake cabin in Minnesota Their house was crawling with children and my cousin and

her husband appeared to have an attracti-ve invitingly healthy relationship

The children swam and hunted for minnows and played with toy cars And when it was time to leave Skuli threw him-self on the ground and cried ldquoNo I wonrsquot go I belong hererdquo

He had done the same thing a few weeks earlier at Amyrsquos house which had the same appealing constellation of happy and fun parents cool toys and siblings There was something about the joviality and regularity of those homes that he mis-sed in his own life mdash or it just felt right in some meaningful way that his 3-year-old self needed to assert

To me it hurt because I knew I belon-ged with him but I didnrsquot belong there and I wanted him to believe as I did that we were lucky that things had worked out as they did that our life together was unique and wonderful

ldquoBE selfi shrdquo That phrase echoed in

my brain But what did it mean Was it selfi sh to stay a unit of two because Sku-li would have to shoulder the burdens of my aging alone Or was it selfi sh to have a love life when I had a young child who needed me I could see it both ways and many more

It may have been just a coincidence but after that conversation in which Sara Janersquos mother told me to ldquoBe selfi shrdquo I be-gan dating again and before long I met the man who would become the father of my second child And later he would become my husband

Skuli has thrived in our nuclear fa-mily which is stricter and more constant than what he knew before I wonder some-times if he even remembers our former way of being Will he know to help a struggling mother with her stroller in 10 years

ldquoWe donrsquot spend as much time toge-therrdquo Skuli said to me one day while wal-king home from school We were holding hands and he had been telling me about his life in an alternative universe he calls Boneland ldquoYou spend a lot of time with Michael nowrdquo

I squeezed his handldquoRemember when we were just the

two of usrdquo Skuli asked ldquoand wersquod sleep together in the same bedrdquo

ldquoI do rememberrdquo I said ldquoWe make a good team Skulirdquo

Wersquove been a good team

One of the best areas for sur-fi ng in Puerto Rico is the coast of the municipality of

Aguadilla where professional sur-fers from all over the world fl ock to ride waves in beaches like Wilder-ness and Gas Chambers Then therersquos the star of this northwestern edge of the island the beach curiously known as Crash Boat The name is said to originate from the beachrsquos

former use by the United States Air Force It used to be a small port with a pier where rescue boats for dow-ned airplanes would dock The old pier still stretches out into the ocean enjoyed by beachgoers as part of the scenery

Its history aside Crash Boat is now a peaceful spot better known for the abundance of colorful fi shing boats strewn along its shore Being a

great locale for fi shing chances are you will run into local residents who make their living on the open waters of the Atlantic

Kayaking and snorkeling are popular activities here and seve-ral businesses conveniently located right on the beach rent out the pro-per equipment for these and other water activities Crash Boatrsquos south side meanwhile benefi ts from cal-mer waters perfect for wading and

relaxing Although crowded on the weekends and especially during the summer Crash Boat can also provi-de the ideal romantic setting for an evening stroll

The multi-faceted Crash Boat Beach said to be one of Puerto Ricorsquos ldquomost photographedrdquo locations offers visitors a variety of activities and views of unparalleled beauty that combined have given it its ico-nic status


Crash Boat BeachAguadilla

36 Hours in Portland OreSept 8 -14 201124 The San Juan Weekly Star

By FREDA MOON

WITH its celebrated bike culture and obsession with all things in-dependent and artisan Portland

is a small-scale metropolis with an outsize cultural footprint Spread across the twin banks of the Willamette River this provin-cial hub of the Pacifi c Northwest has more than its share of natural beauty and an ear-nest outdoorsy reputation But in recent years the city has emerged as the capital of West Coast urban cool earning it a tele-vision series IFCrsquos ldquoPortlandiardquo devoted to satirizing its aesthetic and progressive social bent Indeed Portland mdash whose nic-knames include Beervana and Soccer City USA mdash is easy to poke fun at Itrsquos also hard to resist

Friday4 pm

1) JAPANESE IF YOU PLEASEAdorning the hillside above the Rose

Gardens the fi ve-and-a-half-acre Japanese Garden (611 Southwest Kingston Avenue 503-223-1321 japanesegardencom $950) is less crowded than its photogenic neigh-bor Instead of being packed with people this elegant corner of the 400-acre Was-hington Park has fi ve distinct gardens mdash artfully designed ldquocompositionsrdquo of sand stone water fl owers and foliage mdash with views of Mount Hood On the third Satur-day of each month April through October a Japanese tea ceremony is presented at the Kashintei Tea House (1 and 2 pm)

6 pm2) SMALL PLATES

Continue your Japan-themed after-noon with a happy hour sake or shochu at one of Portlandrsquos proliferating izakayas Japanese-style pubs that serve small plates to accompany drinks Biwa (215 Southeast Ninth Avenue 503-239-8830 biwarestau-rantcom) is a low-light basement with bo-oming music concrete walls and a fanatical following Two-year-old Miho (4057 North Interstate Avenue 503-719-6152 mihopdxcom) in a remodeled Craftsman house on the residential north side mdash is less mo-ody with a patio and small plates priced in even-numbered increments ($2 $4 $6 and up) Opened in February Mirakutei (536 East Burnside Street 503-467-7501) is the newest dot on the izakaya map ser-ving delicate starters like Quilcene oysters with ginger sorbet ($5) and $9 three-sake fl ights

830 pm3) CLAMS AND CRABS

Tucked into a small storefront in a neighborhood of tidy lawns and German

beer gardens Cabezon (5200 Northeast Sacramento Street 503-284-6617 cabezon-restaurantcom) has the unaffected feel of a small-town restaurant A fi sh market by day seafood bistro by night the place has an easy sophistication the only distraction from the food mdash a seasonal menu of fresh-off-the-boat dishes like Totten Inlet mus-sels with Borlotti beans chorizo fries and unctuous rouille ($1350) and thin-brothed cioppino with Dungeness crab ($2050) mdash are colorful glass sculptures with fl owing tentacles that hang above the bar like psy-chedelic jellyfi sh

11 pm4) FUNERAL PARLOR PARTY

After dinner head to the retro Se-

llwood-Westmoreland neighborhood Window shop for tchotchkes at Stars An-tiques Mall (7027 Southeast Milwaukie Avenue 503-235-5990 starsantiquecom) or slurp Jell-O shots at the Cosmo Loun-ge (6707 Southeast Milwaukie Avenue 503-233-4220) For a less kitschy postd-inner drink settle into the attic at Cor-kscrew Wine Bar (1665 Southeast Bybee Boulevard 503-239-9463) Then listen to

live music at the Woods (6637 Southeast Milwaukie Avenue 503-890-0408 thewo-odsportlandcom) a former funeral home in a Mission-style 1929 building with gau-dy chandeliers and an Art Nouveau loun-ge Opened in 2009 this 3000-square-foot space draws musicians DJrsquos and per-formers from across the country On off-nights therersquos karaoke stand-up comedy and movie screenings

Saturday930 am

5) NORDIC BREAKFAST FEASTCome early to the perpetually packed

Scandinavian brunch spot Broder (2508 Southeast Clinton Street 503-736-3333 broderpdxcom) which serves atypical offerings like lefsa (a thin potato crepe) stu-ffed with goat cheese ($9) and Pytt I Panna which is Swedish hash with smoked trout ($11) Afterward walk off your Bloody Mary at Mount Tabor Park (Southeast 60th and Salmon Streets portlandonlinecom) a forest-covered cinder cone with sports courts open reservoirs and a statue of a former Oregonian newspaper editor by Gutzon Borglum the sculptor of Mount Rushmorersquos granite presidents

Noon6) ARTS AND CRAFTS

The 811 East Burnside Building houses an array of boutiques like Re-dux (No 110 503-231-7336 reduxpdxcom) an analog Etsy with products from some 300 artists including frames made from salvaged bike hardware the gallery-cum-specialty shop Nationale (No 112 503-477-9786 thenewnationalecom) and Sword + Fern (No 114 503-683-3376


swordandferncom) home to outsider art handmade housewares and vintage oddi-ties Walk over the Burnside Bridge to the Pearl District and the Museum of Contem-porary Craft (724 Northwest Davis Street 503-223-2654 museumofcontemporarycra-ftorg $3) which houses nearly 1000 wor-ks in clay fi ber glass metal and wood

2 pm7) WORTH THE WAIT

Donrsquot be daunted by the line at the taqueria iquestPor Que No (3524 North Mis-sissippi Avenue 503-467-4149 porque-notacoscom) You will be rewarded with an umbrella-shaded sidewalk table color-ful papel picado (perforated paper fl ags) strung between beams fi sh tacos ($350) and horchata borracha (rum-spiked rice milk $6)

4 pm8) BREWS CRUISE

Start your pedicab brewery tour (Rose Pedals Pedicabs 503-421-7433 rosepedalscom $60 per hour one or two people) with a sour beer tasting at Cascade Brewing Ba-rrel House (939 Southeast Belmont Street 503-265-8603 cascadebrewingbarrelhousecom) Next stop in at the tasting room at Upright Brewing (240 North Broadway No 2 503-735-5337 uprightbrewingcom) before taking the North Williams ldquobike highwayrdquo to the brand new Hopworks Bikebar (3947 North Williams Avenue 503-287-6258 hopworksbeercom) Ope-ned in June the cycle-centered organic brew pub has 75 bike parking spaces bike tools and energy-generating exercycles For sober sightseeing Rose Pedals also offers tours of the Willamette waterfront

630 pm9) PUT A BIRD ON IT

Join the sunset crowd at Skidmo-re Bluffs (also known as the Mocks Crest Property 2206 North Skidmore Terrace) a grassy expanse of hillside above industrial rail yards on the banks of the Willamet-te River On warm nights clusters of 20- and 30-somethings spread picnic blankets

and watch the sun slip beneath the West Hills For dinner sit at a communal table at Le Pigeon (738 East Burnside Street 503-546-8796 lepigeoncom) fl agship of the chef Gabriel Rucker Mr Rucker who was just named Rising Star Chef of the Year by the James Beard Foundation ser-ves French-infl uenced nose-to-tail fare like beef cheek bourguignon ($22) and veal sweetbreads with bread pudding ($26) from a hyperactive open kitchen Reser-

vations are a good idea If you canrsquot get in give Mr Ruckerrsquos newly opened Little Bird Bistro (219 Southwest Sixth Avenue 503-688-5952 littlebirdbistrocom) a try

9 pm10) CURTAINS

For dessert head up the street for a scoop of salted caramel ice cream at Lovelyrsquos Fifty-Fifty (4039 North Missis-sippi Avenue No 101 503-281-4060 lo-velysfi ftyfi ftycom) Or skip dessert and skirt past the black curtain at an unassu-ming Old Town storefront and pull up a stool at Central (220 Southwest Ankeny Street no phone) a new speakeasy with a moose head on the wall a converted windmill ceiling fan and a bartender who builds cocktails with the care of a perfec-tionist furniture maker For a quiet eve-ning catch a 3-D blockbuster or indie hit at the stylish modern Living Room Theaters (341 Southwest 10th Avenue 971-222-2010 pdxlivingroomtheaterscom) where yoursquoll fi nd a full bar and cushy seats

Sunday10 am

11) LOVABLE LUDDITESBen Meyerrsquos fi rst restaurant the be-

loved wood-fi red bistro Ned Ludd shares a name with the English weaver who ins-pired the anti-technology Luddite move-ment With his gorgeous new north-side restaurant Grain amp Gristle (1473 Northeast Prescott Street 503-298-5007 grainand-gristlecom) opened in December Mr Me-yer has found another outlet for his culi-nary craftsmanship and woodsy aesthetic At brunch look for the homemade lox on a house-baked soft pretzel ($8) or the do-ughy beignets with bacon caramel sauce ($3) on the ever-changing specials board

12 pm

12) RAILS TO TRAILSTake Highway 26 to Banks where

you can rent a bike at Banks Bicycle Repair amp Rental (14175 Northwest Sellers Road 503-680-3269 from $8 an hour) and ride Portlandrsquos rural answer to the High Line in New York mdash the Banks-Vernonia Bike Trail (oregonstateparksorg) a 20-mile route built on former train tracks Completed in Octo-ber 2010 the trail leads across two 80-foot-high trestles past farmland into forests up hills and through the nearly 1700-acre Stub Stewart State Park where therersquos a picnic shelter and dozens of trailsIF YOU GO

The Crystal Hotel amp Ballroom (303 Southwest 12th Avenue 503-972-2670 mc-menaminscom from $85) has 51 rooms mdash each inspired by a performance from the Crystal Ballroomrsquos 100-year history mdash a soaking pool and a hard-to-beat location

The second Ace Hotel (1022 Southwest Stark Street 503-228-2277 acehotelcom) to open in the country Portlandrsquos outpost of this trendy hotel chain has 79 rooms (from $95) recycled furniture Malin+Goetz bath products and free bike rentals Adjacent to the lobby is a Stumptown and the ldquoEuro-pean-style tavernrdquo Clyde Common

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26 The San Juan Weekly StarSept 8 - 14 2011ART

Internationally renowned award-winning artist Anaitteacute Vaccaro and her company MOUSAI announces

the launch details for ldquoA la Intemperierdquo (ldquoExotericrdquo) her latest digital scenography piece Commissioned by the Museum of Art of Puerto Rico this exhibition will run from September 16ndash17 2011 Guests will be taken on a whirlwind of music dance and art converged with beautiful and mysterious digital projections and scenic design adding a new dimension to the visual and performing arts MOUSAI re-defi nes artistic expression as we know it by transcending traditional projection de-

sign welding animation music sounds lighting and performers Visit anaittecom

ldquoA la Intemperierdquo will be accom-panied by breathtaking performances by contemporary dance company Andanza Surrounded by digital effects and cus-tomized animations the choreographed dance is specifi cally tailored for a vivid and enchanting spectacle The piece will be performed outdoors using the exterior of the museum as a set

Beyond the use of simple projec-tions digital scenography engages the au-diencersquos senses and intellect facilitating an emotional fully realized experience As Cirque du Soleil reinvented the circus MOUSAI is moving motion graphics for-ward to inspired new levels of entertain-ment

ldquoI make spaces come to life like a virtual paintingrdquo says Ms Vaccaro ldquoMy work submerges the audience into surre-alism Itrsquos a playground for the imagina-tion to drop in and run freerdquo

Combining her love of design and vi-sual effects with her background in tradi-tional painting Anaitteacute Vaccaro has re-in-vented an emerging medium Her artistic vision melds multiple arts disciplines to create an interconnected all encompass-

ing expression that transcends the still im-age and gives life to static structures

MOUSAI (meaning muses) were the goddesses of music song and dance and inspiration to poets Founded by the acclaimed Ms Vaccaro MOUSAI merges live performance with interactive video and music to tell mind-bending awe-in-spiring stories that can only be described as the physical manifestation of a dream

With Ms Vaccarorsquos remarkable ar-tistic vision backed by her hand-picked creative team of experts MOUSAI offers unparalleled digital scenography as well as set design motion graphics animation and visual effects services for a wide va-riety of events The company has created pieces for such high-profi le clients as Red Bull Ignition Creative Fo-cus Flying Fish Circus Astra Dance Company and Hammer Creative among others MOUSAI has per-formed in Los Angeles Las Vegas New York Puerto Rico and around the world

Unlike anything you have experienced before ldquoA la Intem-perierdquo at the Museum of Art of Puerto Rico (MAPR) will change the way you view the world

MOUSAI Dives Deep Into Your Imagination Bringing Your Wildest Dreams to life With Digital Scenography

MUSEUM OF ART OF PUERTO RICO SEPTEMBER 16TH ndash SEPTEMBER 17TH

o-e

By ADRIANE QUINLAN

Amir Wahib quit his job to look at clocks

It was 2008 and he was wor-king at a cabinetry shop near the Consoli-dated Edison building on Irving Place near Union Square ldquoI saw it from a different angle and I saw the clock on top so I liked it and I felt that I had found something niftyrdquo he said

What was ldquoniftyrdquo was his idea to paint every clock in the city At work he felt guilty when he wasnrsquot painting ldquoIt was my destinyrdquo

He quit and began walking the city in search of worthy clocks On a typical day he started at the Pier A clock in Battery Park hit the clock at Grand Central Termi-nal and then headed back downtown be-fore heading to his Harlem room to paint

At the Clock Tower Building he per-suaded two guards to let him study up clo-se ldquoFinally both of them they joined me on the roof to show me the great clock on top of this buildingrdquo

Though he showed his paintings mdash 21 in all mdash at Saint Peterrsquos Lutheran Church on Lexington Avenue in Novem-ber 2009 Mr Wahib lamented that ldquonobo-dy caredrdquo

So he moved back to Egypt ldquoI came hererdquo he said by phone from Cairo the other day ldquoBut my heart was thererdquo

His clock project remains uncomple-ted

Mr Wahib 42 says he is fascinated by New Yorkrsquos clocks because he believes they show the cityrsquos respect for history for mortality and most important for punctuality

ldquoOnce you respect timerdquo he said ldquoI

believe that you show you have a lot of things you are respectful ofrdquo

In Egypt where Mr Wahib now wor-

ks as a designer he fi nds that most people are late Mr Wahib is always on time and if a friend keeps him waiting he usually leaves after 15 minutes unless there is a very good excuse

ldquoThere a lot of things that help them to be late mdash most importantly the very bad traffi crdquo

There are not many public clocks in Cairo Mr Wahib has noticed

New Yorkers he says are much more punctual but not perfect ldquoNot all of them come from Switzerland and Germanyrdquo

But Mr Wahib also feels there is so-mething deeper about New Yorkrsquos clocks ldquoIt is something that refl ects the entire perfection that humans have reachedrdquo he said noting their regularity ldquoIt also has a lot of meaning for me because Irsquom always afraid to die before doing something very importantrdquo

ldquoStation at Battery Parkrdquo one of the many paintings by Amir Wahib

that feature clocks

A Painterrsquos Unfi nished Tribute to the Many Clocks of New York

By EDWARD WYATT

The Justice Department fi led a lawsuit to block the proposed $39 billion merger between

ATampT and T-Mobile USA on antitrust grounds saying a deal between the nationrsquos second- and fourth-largest wireless phone carriers would subs-tantially lessen competition result in higher prices and give consumers fewer innovative products

The lawsuit sets up the most substantial antitrust battle since the election of President Obama who campaigned with promises to revita-lize the Justice Departmentrsquos policing of mergers and their effects on com-petition which he said declined sig-nifi cantly under the Bush administra-tion

ATampT said it would fi ght the law-suit ldquoWe plan to ask for an expedited hearing so the enormous benefi ts of this merger can be fully reviewedrdquo the company said in a statement ldquoThe DOJ has the burden of proving alle-ged anti-competitive effects and we intend to vigorously contest this mat-ter in courtrdquo

ATampT said it had no warning that the government was going to fi le to block the merger because it has been actively involved in discussions with both the Justice Department and the Federal Communications Commis-sion since the proposal was announ-ced in March ATampT has indicated that it would consider some divestitu-res or other business actions to allow the deal to go forward

But Justice Department offi cials said that those discussions led it to be-lieve that it would diffi cult to arrange conditions under which the merger could proceed ldquoUnless this merger is blocked competition and innovation will be reduced and consumers will sufferrdquo said Sharis A Pozen acting assistant attorney general in charge of the Justice Departmentrsquos antitrust division

The Justice Department has broad authority to infl uence proposed deals On rare occasions the agency takes the aggressive step of suing to block a deal altogether as it is doing with ATampT and did earlier this year

with HampR Blockrsquos bid for the owner of TaxAct tax preparation software

Sometimes just the threat of legal action is enough to stymie a deal as in May when Nasdaq dropped its rival bid for the New York Stock Exchangersquos parent company In other cases the Justice Department will remain silent blessing a deal by default

ATampTrsquos promise to fi ght the suit could mean a potentially lengthy fi ght

Consumer advocacy groups cheered the announcement ldquoThis an-nouncement is something for consu-mers to celebraterdquo said Parul P Desai policy counsel for Consumers Union ldquoWe have consistently warned that eliminating T-Mobile as a low-cost option will raise prices lower choi-ces and turn the cellular market into a duopoly controlled by ATampT and Verizonrdquo

Harold Feld legal director of Pu-blic Knowledge a nonprofi t group said ldquoFighting this job-killing merger is the best Labor Day present anyone can give the American peoplerdquo But labor groups had generally supported the merger in part because a subs-tantial number of ATampT employees are members of the Communications Workers of America while T-Mobile is a largely nonunion company

Deputy Attorney General James M Cole said the department decided that among those adversely affected

would be wireless customers in rural areas and those with lower incomes He said he also believed that an in-dependent T-Mobile would be more likely to expand its business and add jobs while mergers often result in the elimination of jobs

The future of an independent T-Mobile is more of a question today however than before the merger with ATampT was announced Its parent com-pany Deutsche Telekom has said it does not want to continue to invest in the American wireless market prefe-rring to focus on the growth of its tele-communications business in Europe

Before ATampT announced its in-tention to buy T-Mobile there was consistent speculation in the wireless industry that a merger between T-Mo-bile and Sprint Nextel the third-lar-gest provider was in the works But such a deal looks unlikely in light of the arguments mustered by the Justice Department against the ATampT deal

Those arguments include the as-sertion that a combination that took the number of nationwide wireless phone providers down to three from four would harm competition becau-se the four nationwide service provi-ders already account for more than 90 percent of the mobile wireless connec-tions nationwide

The proposed merger has been a topic of robust debate in Congress where both houses have conducted committee hearings on the merger At one of them in May Randall L Ste-phenson the chief executive of ATampT tried largely unsuccessfully to convin-ce lawmakers that ATampT and T-Mobi-le should not even be considered as competitors

In subsequent congressional appearances he abandoned that as-sertion going back to the companyrsquos main talking point While the two companies are competitors plenty of other competition exists in local wire-less markets with most potential cus-tomers having a choice among at least fi ve providers

ldquoCertain critics may attempt to create a myth that only a few national competitors exist but wireless com-petition occurs primarily on the local levelrdquo Mr Stephenson said

But the Justice Department in its fi ling in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia ci-ted ATampTrsquos own arguments in earlier merger cases in favor of national com-petition

ldquoAs ATampT acknowledged less than three years ago during a mer-ger proceeding it aims to lsquodevelop its rate plans features and prices in response to competitive conditions and offerings at the national levels mdash primarily the plans offered by the other national carriersrsquo rdquo the Justice Department said in its lawsuit ldquoAs ATampT recognized lsquothe predominant forces driving competition among wi-reless carriers operate at the national levelrsquo That remains the case todayrdquo

The FCC is also reviewing the proposed merger considering how competition and the public interest would be affected by the transfer of licenses for wireless airwaves that the merger would entail

ldquoCompetition is an essential component of the FCCrsquos statutory public interest analysisrdquo said Julius Genachowski the FCC chairman in a statement ldquoAlthough our process is not complete the record before this agency also raises serious concerns about the impact of the proposed transaction on competitionrdquo

Both the FCC and the Justice Department have to approve the mer-ger and they usually coordinate their independent reviews in a way that results in the same conclusion For an antitrust case to fully wind its way through the court system could take years maybe more than a decade But ATampT would have to weigh the cost of that action against what it might cost it to get out of the T-Mobile deal

The FCC and the Justice De-partment have different standards by which they weigh the merger The FCC must consider whether a deal is in the public interest given the public assets ndash wireless airwaves or spec-trum ndash that would be transferred from one company to another The Justice Department must determine whether a deal violates the federal antitrust statutes which focus on whether a merger substantially reduces compe-tition


US Moves to Block Merger Between ATampT and T-Mobile


By CHRISTINE HAUSER and DAVID JOLLY

Concerns about the debt crisis in Euro-pe and global economic growth pro-pelled fi nancial markets downward as

investors in the United States returned from a three-day weekend

Wall Street took a tumble at the ope-ning of trading taking cues from markets in Europe and Asia Analysts said that the drop which hit fi nancial stocks particularly hard was a carry-over from last weekrsquos disappo-inting unemployment report in the United States and from news that major American banks were facing a federal lawsuit related to their handling of mortgage securities

The market turmoil of recent weeks showed no signs of letting up Gold rose to another nominal high and the Swiss authori-ties took action to weaken the franc which has soared because of its role as a haven

In morning trading in New York the Dow Jones industrial average of 30 stocks was down 24 percent or 27344 points to 1096682 The Standard amp Poorrsquos 500-stock index lost 25 percent and the Nasdaq com-posite fell 23 percent

The losses were reminiscent of those on Friday when the Labor Department reported zero job growth in the United States economy in August

ldquoFriday set the tone with the employ-ment reportrdquo said Michael A Mullaney vice president of the Fiduciary Trust Company

and markets in Europe and Asia picked up the pessimistic baton on Monday Debt con-cerns related to the euro zone particularly over Greece and Italy the bank lawsuits in the United States and worries about econo-mic growth were the biggest factors damping prices Mr Mullaney and other analysts said

ldquoWe are basically hard struck to fi nd out where the growth engines are going to come fromrdquo Mr Mullaney said

Bank shares were hammered in the United States Bank of America and Citi-group were each down more than 5 percent The fi nancial energy and industrial sectors each declined more than 3 percent

Concerns about the outlook for the global economy and the sovereign debt crisis that is haunting the euro zone have created conditions worryingly similar to those of the sell-off that followed the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008 Deutsche Bankrsquos chief exe-cutive Josef Ackermann said Monday

On Tuesday European shares initially posted modest gains after a withering retreat Monday that knocked more than 41 percent off the broad market But the momentum fa-ded in afternoon trading with the Euro Stoxx 50 index a barometer of euro zone blue chips down 18 percent and the FTSE 100 index in London barely holding onto its gains

Asian shares continued to lose ground Having fallen 19 percent on Monday the Nikkei 225 stock average in Japan sank an additional 22 percent on Tuesday taking it to 859057 po-ints its lowest close since April 2009

ldquoKey economic data continues to di-sappoint as global business sentiment sur-veys weakened further and the US emplo-yment report printed well below market expectationsrdquo analysts at Barclays Capital commented in a research note

ldquoIncreasing concerns over global growth appear to have halted the brief ra-lly in risk assets in the last week of Augustrdquo they noted and investors are likely to remain edgy and fi nancial markets volatile over the next few weeks

Policy makers voiced similar concerns on Tuesday

ldquoAsia will not be immune to a global slowdownrdquo said Tharman Shanmugarat-nam the fi nance minister of Singapore Reu-ters reported ldquoWe are already at stall speed in the US and Europe which means we are now more likely than not to see a recessionrdquo

In Zurich the Swiss National Bank said it was setting a minimum value of 12 francs

per euro and was prepared to spend an ldquounli-mitedrdquo amount to defend it The central bank was acting to help the countryrsquos exporters who fear being priced out of foreign markets by the strong franc

The euro immediately rallied rising as high as 124 Swiss francs from 111 francs late Monday The euro has traded as low as 103 francs this summer

Currency trading which had been rela-tively quiet was thrown into upheaval as the market sought a new equilibrium The euro rose against the dollar then fell back to $14083 from $14098 late Monday while the British pound fell to $16045 from $16118 The dollar rose to 7745 yen from 7689 yen and soared to 08546 Swiss francs from 07872 francs

Gold futures climbed more than 1 per-cent to $190120 an ounce in Comex trading

Government bond prices were lower with the yield on the United States 10-year note at 1949 percent

US Markets Drop Sharply After Big Global Sell-Off

By JOE SHARKEY

A LOT of frequent fl ier miles have been piling up in the 10 years since the te-rrorist attacks brought the domestic

airline industry to its knees in autumn 2001Airlines in the United States lost $55

billion and shed 160000 jobs during that de-cade But the industry has worked through the economic tumult A decade later the system is smaller in terms of capacity but itrsquos still in good working order Last year for example 7204 million people boarded airplanes in the United States slightly higher even than the 7191 million passengers in 2000

Two weeks ago at the annual conven-tion of the Global Business Travel Association in Denver Michael W McCormick the executi-ve director of the group hinted at a recovery

ldquoWersquore not seeing record profi ts but wersquore also not seeing the end of airline tra-vel as we know itrdquo he said ldquoSo have things changed for the betterrdquo

Good question Planes are more crow-

ded than ever but fares remain near historica-lly low levels Other than the airport security challenges however the one major difference from 10 years ago is all the extra fees airlines have added to base fares charging for things that used to be part of the ticket price

Last year for example domestic airlines raised $34 billion just from charges for chec-ked bags In 2007 the year before most airlines started charging extra for checking a bag the comparable fi gure was $4642 million

ldquoItrsquos the right way to price the productrdquo replied Doug Parker the chief executive of US Airways Like other airline executives Mr Par-ker is adamant that ancillary fees have become a permanent part of the fare structure mdash and that they actually make a lot more sense than say the fees that many hotels charge customers

In 2008 he said US Airways ldquoactually instituted charging for all drinks on board including sodas and waterrdquo he said The idea was dropped a few months later because of passenger resistance

While airplanes that have been fl ying

mostly full for over two years as capacity has been reduced to cut costs another inconve-nience has arisen To avoid paying to check a bag more passengers have been lugging more belongings onto already crowded pla-nes Some industry analysts have estimated that as many as 59 million extra bags are now being carried onto planes each year

Among the changes he predicted that all passengers can expect to see is a limit on extra checked bags by airlines and also by the Transportation Security Administration at its checkpoints ldquoItrsquos becoming a huge problem for them When you stand in line at the TSA you see that the line is because of all those bags going through not because of the people themselves being processedrdquo Mr Parker said

Also ahead is even further contraction in the domestic commercial aviation sys-tem Delta Air Lines for example recently announced that it would drop service to 24 small and midsize airports and US Airways said last week it was reducing service in Las Vegas by an additional 40 percent At the

same time airlines have been mothballing many 50-seat regional jets long the backbone of service at midsize airports

Over the last decade Mr Parker said the domestic airline business came to terms with the reality that it ldquohad gotten way overbuilt with too many hubs and too many airplanesrdquo

ldquoWersquore being much more rational not trying to chase market share wherever we can but instead doing what we do well and sticking to thatrdquo he said

Asked about complaints from travel managers that airlines donrsquot provide enough ldquotransparencyrdquo in showing optional fees clearly along with base fares Mr Parker said that busi-ness travelers were well aware of the panoply of extra charges especially those for checked bags Alone among the major carriers Southwest Air-lines does not charge for checking a bag

ldquoTo suggest that people donrsquot know about baggage fees is hard to embracerdquo he joked ldquoBecause if you havenrsquot heard about them Southwest will run an ad every couple of minutes to make sure you dordquo

Since Sept 11 Years of Change for Airlines

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HOROSCOPEAries (Mar 21-April 20)Smile on the world and it will surely (well hopefully) smile back Relax a bit and events will take care of them-selves A plan may have gone askew or awry but you still have reasons to be cheerful Be as fl exible as you possibly can and exercise Trust in the higher plan Your destiny is ordained and guided so be receptive and open to many good things Things happen for a reason

Taurus (April 21-May 21) Recent happenings may appear to be haphazard but you will soon see what is going on Luck has many manifestations So look on the bright side and be grateful for what is not happening Switch off from work for a minute or several Prepare to be surpri-sed about how lsquoon the moneyrsquo you have been Your hunches will pay off Your shrewd nature can now operate

Gemini (May 22-June 21) Control issues need have no place in your world Be self-monitoring but do not overdo it It would not do to become too focused on you Expand your horizons and open your eyes There is more to see in the big wide world so do not narrow your fi eld of vision too much Step out of the tunnel and look around Let your hair down a little You are great at the practical stuff

Cancer (June 22-July 23) Relax around the things about which you can do nothing You will be delighted with the turn of events You can afford to life a little more dangerously A game of truth or dare could get interesting Be honest with yourself Take a risk and prepare to win One chapter has closed and another is opening Do not stress or panic Things look good

Leo (July 24-Aug 23) There will be reason enough to celebrate before too long You can reach your full potential without trying too hard So relax and go for gold Never mind the chores and routines Life needs a bit of Craic after all Pleasant surprises await you so do not even try to understand the details Some things are better left unsaid Let the future look after itself

Virgo (Aug 24-Sep 23) Concentrate on the present Mellow out if your com-mitments are frantic and take action If you are bored to tears balance is the key Take things to the extreme if you are looking for excitement But be careful out the-re and avoid the burnout factor If you overdo it nowyou will have to compensate later Ration the madness and so prolong your enjoyment Do not forget to take some things seriously

Libra (Sep 24-Oct 23) A fl ippant attitude could damage relationships if you are not careful So do not take stuff for granted With the wind in your sails take fl ight into the future This is the optimum time to get your ambitions moving along nicely Be bright and breezy and stop hankering for what you cannot have Leave whatever is no lon-ger appropriate behind you The only way is up

Scorpio (Oct 24-Nov 22) Be gracious enough to admit it when someone has hel-ped you Support is yours so do not be afraid to ask for it and certainly do not withhold your appreciation when it is given Pull everything together and brace yourself You may have had a fright recently but you are more than able to cope Ask and ye shall receive Do not block the natural abundance heading your way The Universe will provide

Sagittarius (Nov 23-Dec 21)Someone may be slow to get back to you but be assu-red they are thinking hard Do not be hasty or in such a rush Changes will come about as and when they are meant to Remember the more work you have to do - the more you will get done A strange paradox but very true Do not be intimidated by your work load simply get on with it

Capricorn (Dec 22-Jan 20)Have confi dence in your innate abilities A rea-sonable plan of action will work well Go for it These are exciting times so do not miss out Try to stop fretting about your circumstances It is not the right moment yet Bide your time befo-re you act Reserve judgement and donrsquot be too hasty The correct approach will naturally reveal itself Prepare for a shake-up

Aquarius (Jan 21-Feb 19)Do not make defi nite plans as at this stage anything could happen Remain relaxed and open Flexibility will pay off - big style Rigidity will not serve you well at this point Steer a balanced middle course Do not run away use your intuition and take the initiative in love Freedom is fi nally yours for the taking Do not be a slave to fear

Pisces (Feb 20-Mar 20)It is about time to kick back and enjoy yourself You have passed a test with fl ying colours Phew Be nice to you for a change and take a break Perhaps reassess your priorities and give personal issues more atten-tion Be the true sunny character you know you can be There is no need to feel fenced in Life is for living-enjoy Leave the nonsense behind and place negativity fi rmly in the past

30 Sept 8 - 14 2011 The San Juan Weekly Star

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Saturday930 am









4 pm8) BREWS CRUISE






9 pm10) CURTAINS


Sunday10 am



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By ADRIANE QUINLAN



















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By JOE SHARKEY





















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By JOE SHARKEY





















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By JOE SHARKEY





















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