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chefmom.com This fun craft is not only adorable when done, but it’s tasty too! Sit the kids down to make this fun spring project. Be sure to make extras for friends and family. Ingredients: Chow mein noodles chocolate chips or brick chocolate Jelly beans candy coated chocolate eggs marshmallow chicks peanut butter wax paper paper […]

thatsmyhome.com 1/3 C. shortening 1/3 C. butter 2 1/2 C. flour 3/4 C. sugar 1 egg 1 T. milk 1 t. baking powder dash of salt 1 t. vanilla Add shortening and butter to a mixing bowl. Beat with an electric mixer until softened and well blended. Add half of the flour, sugar, egg, milk, […]

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BANJARMASIN – Nihilnya kontribusi pengelolaan sarang burung walet terhadap pendapatan asli daerah (PAD), menjadi perhatian serius kalangan DPRD Kota Banjarmasin.
Read more about Walet Dikenakan Retribusi dan Pajak Pansus Segera Godok Raperda-nya …

Dunn County News, WI – Jul 23, 2014
By Dennis Weibel, Red Cedar Notebook

Last month, millions of people from around the world took part in the Internet vote to name seven new “Wonders of the World.” It seems that some folks were disappointed that only one of the original wonders was still in existence. They longed for a new list of wondrous architectural achievements, ones that could be viewed and visited in the 21st century.
Read more about Avian architects — Cliff swallows use materials ‘at beak’ to construct colonies of sturdy nests …

uhmc.sunysb.edu A 52 yo lawyer was referred to your office because of difficulty swallowing his own saliva. He had been in his usual state of health until 3 months ago when he began to have difficulty swallowing. He first noticed the problem with liquids and was still able to eat solids and semi soft foods, […]

The Herald – Aug 01 6:11 PM PAUL ROGERSON The man who presided over the breakneck expansion of Scotland’s biggest hotel group has left abruptly and without explanation. Peter Gray, who was chief executive of Kent-based Swallow Hotels, led an acquisition spree which has seen the group take over nearly 40 hotels north of the border since […]

RedNova – Jul 24 6:08 AM By Dan Sorenson, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson Jul. 24–Arizona’s burrowing owls aren’t an endangered species, and Greg Clark would like them to stay that way. With volunteer labor, borrowed backhoes, buried plastic 5-gallon buckets and PVC pipe, he’s been doing his best to build artificial burrows for the little owls. […]

Tahoe Daily Tribune – Jul 17 3:13 AM Susan Wood, The city’s airport woes are not over. Swallows have decided to take up residence in the rafters of the roof at the Lake Tahoe Airport, delaying the $60,000 replacement job and leaving the job up in the air. When construction crews hammered on the roof, a few […]

MH Ng, KH Chan, YC Kong – Biochem Int, 1986 – ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

The edible bird’s nest extract from Collocalia spp. was found to contain a glycoprotein which could potentiate mitogenic response of human peripheral blood monocytes to stimulation with Concanavalin A or Phytohemagglutinin A.
Read more about Potentiation of mitogenic response by extracts of the swiftlet's (Collocalia) nest. …

Portsmouth Herald News, NH – Aug 1, 2014
By Sue Kike
“Look up,and see things Fliying/between the day nigh swallows with
spools of dark thread sewing the shadows together” — From “Bat” by D.H. Lawrence

I first interacted with swallows — tree swallows in particular — when I worked at the Wells Reserve; beautiful flyers, insect eaters, however they were primarily the pesky birds that took over bluebird nesting boxes.
Read more about Sue’s Nature News: Swallows …