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Ever wish you could find out whether someone actually opened that email you sent, or whether they just ignored and trashed it? A service called Bananatag can tell you—but if you find that a little creepy, we've got the lowdown on how to protect yourself too.
How Bananatag Works
Think of Bananatag like iMessage or BBM for your email: when you send someone a message, you can track it to see if and when they read it, and if they click the links you put inside. It's actually nothing new: email marketers have been using the same tracking techniques for a long time, to tell how many people open their newsletters, click the links inside, and so on.
So how does it work? Bananatag embeds a small, 1 pixel by 1 pixel transparent image in each email, hosted on their servers. When you open the email, Bananatag knows that unique image has been accessed, and can then tell the sender their email has been opened. Similarly, it turns links into short links that head back to its server so they know when they're accessed (but keeping the original text of the link intact).
Bananatag is available as a Chrome or Firefox extension for Gmail, a plugin for Outlook, or use it with any other web client using a simple tweak to your contact's addresses. It's free for 5 messages a day, but $5 a month gives you unlimited tracking.
How to Avoid Being Tracked
Using a service like Bananatag could be useful for a number of reasons, but it's also creepy to think that your friends could be tracking the emails they send you this very same way. Luckily, there's an easy way around it: if you get an email that asks you to display images, just reject your mail client's request to display them. Obviously you can't do this for every email (since some will have pictures you want to open), but if you get an email that makes no mention of images but asks you to display them, that's a hint that the sender may be using a service like Bananatag.
More importantly, don't ever click a link in an email if you don't know where it goes. Hover over the link and check its destination in the bottom left corner of your window first. If the link text doesn't match the link that shows up in the bottom corner, that link is going somewhere else. Bananatag isn't out to get you; they just want to track your clicks, but other evildoers can use this same trick to get into your bank account, PayPal account, or something similar, so it's a good rule to follow. If the link text goes somewhere you trust, copy and paste it into your browser's address bar instead of clicking on it.
Bananatag is an interesting service with some worthwhile uses, but we could understand why one might find it creepy, too, so the techniques it uses are good to be aware of. You can't protect yourself fully (unless you never open images in emails), but it's good to be on the lookout should a service like this become more popular with, say, increasingly nosy friends. Hit the link to see more about the service.
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Good morning.
The nature of the news today has made the subjects of our early posts unfortunately grim:
-- Dozens Dead After Iraq's Bloodiest Day This Year.
-- 13 Reported Dead, 10 Injured After Pickup Crashes In Texas.
-- If Not For Jammed Gun, Officers' Sharp Eyes, More Might Have Died In Aurora.
We will look for ways to lighten things up a bit as the day continues.
Meanwhile, some of the other stories making headlines include:
-- "NCAA To Announce Penn State Sanctions." (Morning Edition)
-- "Syria Says It Won't Use Chemical Weapons To Stop Rebellion." (The New York Times)
-- "Beijing Rains Kills 37, Raise Infrastructure Debate." (The Associated Press)
-- "Bulgarian Police Widen Suicide Bombing Probe." (CNN.com)
-- Selloff In Spanish Bonds Underscores Fears "That The Country May Need A Formal Bailout." (The Wall Street Journal)
-- "Ernie Els Wins British Open After Adam Scott Collapse." (The Associated Press)
-- Bradley Wiggins Is First Brit To Win Tour De France. (BBC News)
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The narrative of your life "is yours to write," Toni Morrison told
members of the class of 2005 at Princeton University's Baccalaureate
service on Sunday, May 29. "And I urge you," she continued, "don't
settle for happiness because it's not good enough anymore."
"There is serious, hard and ennobling work to do, and bit by bit, step
by step, you can change the things that need changing," said Morrison,
the Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities, in an address that
explored human reactions to "the perception of chaos" and how the
seniors should approach their future with an ethical compass.
Baccalaureate, an interfaith worship service, dates to 1760 and is one
of Princeton's oldest traditions. Held in the University Chapel, it
includes prayers and readings reflecting the diversity of religious
life at Princeton. A "sermon" or address is given by a speaker chosen
by the president after discussion with class leaders.
Morrison is a writer who has redefined the modern American novel and
American literature itself, said President Shirley M. Tilghman in her
introduction of the speaker. Winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in
1993, Morrison also is an accomplished teacher who has been a professor
at Princeton since 1989.
Morrison cautioned the seniors to be vigilant about analyzing the
messages the world gives them and rejecting labels and assumptions.
"The dire prophecies that win our attention," she said, "are those with
bank accounts large enough or photographs sensational enough to force
debate and outline corrective action so we can decide which war or
famine or political debacle or environmental crisis is intolerable
In reacting to these forces, "We can ... meet the unknown, confront
the chaos with our own humanity," she said. "Princeton has offered you
instruments, knowledge, strategies of critical thought, contact with
others, instruments to inform your choices and shape your negotiations."
"You are a citizen in a community and a person like no other on the
planet," Morrison said. "No one has your exact memory but you. ...
What is now the limit of human endeavor is not the limit of intelligent
endeavor. And what is now known is not at all what you are capable of
She encouraged the seniors, as they build their life stories, to be creative, assiduous and original.
"Although you don't have complete control of the story of your life,
you can nevertheless create it. Although you will never fully know or
successfully manipulate all the characters who surface or disrupt your
planned plot, you can respect the ones who do by paying them close
attention and doing them justice.
"The theme you choose may change or elude you, but being your own story
means you can always set the tone. It also means you can invent the
language to say who you are and how you mean in the world. Of course I
am a storyteller and therefore an optimist, a firm believer in the
ethical bend of the human heart, a believer in the mind's appetite for
truth and its disgust with fraud. I'm a believer in the power of
knowledge and the ferocity of beauty, so from my point of view your
life is already artful -- waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art."
The Baccalaureate service was Webcast live and will be available for later viewing on this site. End-of-the-year activities will continue with Class Day on Monday and Commencement on Tuesday.


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Big 4 cell phone carriers to team in ads against texting-while-driving
NEW YORK The country's four biggest cell phone companies are set to launch their first joint advertising campaign against texting while driving, uniting behind AT&T's "It Can Wait" slogan to blanket TV and radio this summer.
AT&T, Verizon Wireless, Sprint and T-Mobile will be joined by 200 other organizations backing the multi-million dollar ad campaign.
The campaign is unusual not just because it unites rivals, but because it represents companies warning against the dangers of their own products. After initially fighting laws against cell phone use while driving, cell phone companies have begun to embrace the language of the federal government's campaign against cell phone use by drivers.
AT&T and Verizon have run ads against texting and driving since 2009. In 2005, Sprint Nextel Corp. created an education program targeting teens learning to drive.
- Study shows disturbing reality of texting while driving
- Device prevents texting while driving
- Shocking Stats on Texting While Driving
"Every CEO in the industry that you talk to recognizes that this is an issue that needs to be dealt with," AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson said in an interview. "I think we all understand that pooling our resources with one consistent message is a lot more powerful than all four of us having different messages and going different directions."
Beyond TV and radio ads, the new campaign will stretch into the skies through displays on Goodyear's three blimps. It will also include store displays, community events, social-media outreach and a national tour of a driving simulator. The campaign targets teens in particular.
AT&T calls texting and driving an "epidemic," a term it borrows from the federal Department of Transportation. The U.S. transportation secretary has been on a self-described "rampage" against cell phones since his term began in January 2009.
Stephenson said texting while driving "is a deadly habit that makes you 23 times more likely to be involved in a crash." The figure refers to a 2009 government study of bus and truck drivers. It isn't based on crashes alone, but on the likelihood the drivers showed risky behavior such as lane drifting or sharp braking, sometimes culminating in a crash.
The unified ad campaign comes as some researchers are starting to say that, while texting and driving at the same time is clearly a bad idea, it's not contributing measurably to an increase in traffic accidents. The number of accidents is in a long-term decline, and the explosion of texting and smart phone use doesn't seem to be reversing that trend.
In the 2009 government study, texting, email and surfing on the cell phone was a factor in about 1 percent of crashes, well below epidemic levels.
"There's no question that phone use is causing crashes. But so far, it doesn't appear to be adding to the overall crash problem," says Russ Rader, a spokesman for the Insurance Institute of Highway Safety, which is funded by the insurance industry. The institute's analysis is based in part on comparing accident rates before and after states enact bans on hand-held cell phone use while driving. Most states ban cell phone use at least for some drivers; 39 states and the District of Columbia ban text messaging for all drivers.
James Sayer, a research scientist at the University of Michigan's Transportation Research Institute, has suggested that the debate over driver distraction "needs to address far more than cell phones. Only addressing the 'new' forms of distraction will have limited impact in terms of total lives saved." Sayer made the remarks in a presentation to the National Transportation Safety Board.
Nonetheless, the cell phone industry and the federal government have focused their attention on cell phones.
The government's Distraction.gov site singles out cell phones as the greatest danger among all sources of driver distraction. In an interview last year with The Associated Press, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said that in 2010, 3,092 lives "could have been saved if someone had the sense to put down their cell phone."
That figure is based on a misunderstanding of the department's statistics, which showed that 3,092 people were killed in crashes involving distractions of all kinds, including eating, drinking, fiddling with the car stereo and talking to passengers. The number of deaths in 2010 that the Department of Transportation attributes to cell phone use was 408, or 1.2 percent of the total traffic death toll.
That figure could be an undercount, though, as it's hard for police to figure out after a crash if a cell phone was involved. Sayer suggested that the real share of traffic deaths caused by cell phones is 3.5 percent.
In campaigning against the use of their products, cell phone companies are in the company of liquor makers, which include discrete reminders not to drink and drive in their advertising. However, drunk driving remains a far bigger killer than cell phone use, accounting for 10,228 traffic deaths in 2010, or 31 percent of the total.
"We have people using our technology, and when they use our technology it has some rather traumatic impacts on society," Stephenson said in the interview. "I think it's a logical place for us to engage."
The four-way industry collaboration around the "It Can Wait" campaign will last until September, Stephenson said, but could continue if the partners agree.


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Intoxication occurs long before someone passes out.
Each person responds differently to the effects of alcohol based on mood, setting, physical health, and tolerance.
- Intoxication is the point at which alcohol depresses the central nervous system so that mood and physical and mental abilities are noticeably changed.
- The legal definition of intoxication is a Blood Alcohol Content (BAC) of .08.
Tolerance is completely unrelated to a person's BAC. BAC is the amount of alcohol in one's system based on weight, number of drinks, and the period of time during which alcohol is consumed. Tolerance, on the other hand, refers to the experience of lesser effects of alcohol at the same BAC and can be highly dangerous.
It is suggested that a person not exceed a BAC of .056, as this is the point where the positive, relaxed, euphoric effects of alcohol are experienced. When a BAC of .056 is exceeded, the negative, depressant effects of alcohol begin to increase.
A BAC of .06 - .10 is considered the point of diminishing returns. Typically a person at this BAC will begin to experience the following:
- Impaired judgment, inappropriate behavior (such as drinking competitively or annoying others)
- Impaired coordination (stumbling, swaying, staggering, or loss of fine motor skills, distance acuity, or glare recovery)
- Slurred speech
- Diminished senses (speaks louder, cannot hear as well as normal, vision is not as clear, glassy, unfocused eyes)
- Slowed mental processing (can only do one task at a time, forgetting things, lighting more than one cigarette at a time, or losing their train of thought, cannot listen well, follow conversations well, or understand what others are saying)
- Intensified emotions (overly friendly, laughing intensely, displaying mood swings)
- Lowered inhibitions
Some people may become significantly more affected at lower BACs, whereas others at similar BACs may not appear to show symptoms due to developed tolerance.
Remember, there are no absolutes.


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The latest Google Doodle commemorative logo pays tribute to Ada, Countess of Lovelace (1815–52) — better known as Ada Lovelace — a computer pioneer who did her pioneering a century before the computer revolution got under way in earnest. It appears on the 197th anniversary of her birth.
Ada is often referred to as the first computer programmer, but that's perhaps an inaccurate dumbing down of her role in computing history. The daughter of Lord Byron — an absentee father whom she didn't know — she was an admirer and collaborator of Charles Babbage, the genius who designed the Difference Engine and Analytical Engine, mechanical computers he wasn't able to build. Modern admirers, however, have built functioning Difference Engines and are planning to build an Analytical Engine.
Her notes on the Analytical Engine include a table documenting an algorithm for calculating Bernoulli numbers, hence the "first programmer" label. You can debate whether it counts as a program or not, especially since the computer in question was never built. And people who know more about Babbage's work and Ada's notes than I do continue to debate how significant her contributions were. (Babbage himself praised the originality of her work and said she spotted a major mistake in his Bernoulli calculations; maybe we should pay tribute to her as the first debugger.)
Whatever Ada's role in the history of programming, she grasped the importance of Babbage's inventions and understood that math was only part of it: she theorized, for instance, that the Analytical Engine might be used to write music. That was a pretty profound thing to realize in the 1840s, many decades before anyone successfully built a computer, let alone one that could compose a tune.
It's good to see Ada on Google's home page today, where she's shown writing her "program" with a quill — with her notes curling into the Google logo alongside the computers that descended from the Difference Engine and Analytical Engine. The last machine shown: a modern laptop playing music, thereby fulfilling Ada's Victorian vision — as computers around the world do every day.


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Sounds like lots of great stuff is in store- looking forward to more 🙂
I love this Amy! Can't wait to read all about this! Awesome series I will be in tuned for sure! Thanks!!
I'm really looking forward to it! Thanks Amy!
So looking forward to this! I stumbled across your blog and timing is everything! I'm a new blogger and am really excited to learn all I can!
Looking forward to the great series!!
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Sounds fun! Can't Wait! Smiles, Jill
This is fabulous! It amazes me how much of a community bloggers truly are.
This is fabulous! It amazes me how much of a community bloggers truly are.
This is fabulous! It amazes me how much of a community bloggers truly are.
I am really excited about your series Amy. If you every get the time I would love to have a similar series about Etsy shops. Just a thought.
Really looking forward to this. It is very good of you to share your tips.
I am already stoked about this series Amy!!!
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How fun – I love this series already! Can't wait to read along 🙂
Thanks for this blog series. It is quite impressive post.
So excited for this series. I recently wrote a post about my blog "goals" (http://acasarella.blogspot.com/2012/03/oh-grow-up.html) and your list of motivations is so very similar. I'll definitely be back!
Would LOVE it if you could share this on my link party Serenity Saturday
Natasha xx
I am trying so hard to hit 1000 followers. i've been stuck in the 900's for WAYYYYYY too long. Looking forward to these posts!
Great series! I really enjoyed reading the other posts too. I am a new follower on GFC and Linky Tools. Cant wait to see the rest of the series, and congrats on the upcoming blogaversary!
Thanks for creating and sharing this series.
Thanks for sharing all the great tips! I just started blogging at the end of last year and love to hear advice from people that have done well so far. I'm a new follower too 🙂
Thanks again!
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You have a lot of great articles here. I hope I remember to come back for the ones coming up.:)
Thanks! I'm looking forward to the rest of the series.
I really enjoyed what you have posted so far!
Great series so far! Thanks for posting and Happy Anniversary! I've pinned this series, too.
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Happy Anniversary! This is so timely for me as I am trying to take our little family blog and grow it into a ministry and hopefully supplemental income. I so can't wait to read all the posts!
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Hi, I'm visiting from Handy Man, Crafty Woman! I love this series idea – thank you! I'm your newest follower and look forward to reading more of the Growing Your Blog posts.
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I just read all of the series posts up to today, Amy and they were a great source of information for a blogger with a blog less than 1 month old. Thanks for sharing what you've learned along your 1 year journey!
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Like many of the above commenters, I too am a new blogger. This series has been very helpful to me. Earlier in the series you wrote about the importance of your blog's first impression. If you have a spare minute, I'd love to hear your first impressions regarding my blog. Any suggestions for areas I could improve upon would be greatly appreciated. (My email is listed under my profile)
Thanks for any feedback you might have time to share!
Just coming aboard here for your blog session – exciting! I am also thrilled to see that you DANCE! Yeah! My hubbie and I do too, well, a bit anyway, but we love every little bit that we can do. I just signed on as a Linky follower, and would very much enjoy having you stop by my way too. It's a great new tool!
I just became a follower! Looking forward to learning some tricks!
I just came across this series on Pinterst, and am so glad that I did! I also just became a follower. I love your page, your insight and your writing. I've only been blogging for a few months and have just been pretty much winging it, so I gained a lot of valuable insight by reading this series. Thank you!
Thank you for this series. I am going through it now. I'm completely a baby blogger. Just started in January, and I can really relate to your introduction. It starts off as something small to benefit your family and inspire friends, but as you see the numbers grow, you begin to dream bigger. The catch is that I want to keep my priorities straight and my true intention at heart. Keeping a balance is critical, and I'm trying to figure it out now. It's helpful to read what you have to say about how to grow it. Now, to find the time while keeping it all centered on the important stuff.
Congratulations on the growth of your blog! I'm looking forward to the series and will definitely be tuning in.
Great tips! Thanks for sharing! We just hit 100 followers yesterday! Eeek! It's exciting. I hope you get to 1000 soon! We just helped a bit with that and are your newest followers! 🙂
This was fabulous! I went back and read all your other posts and learned so much! Thanks for doing this post and I wish I had known about it when you originally posted them – I would have loved to have taken part in the Q & A session! I'm really trying to build my blog up – my goal is to reach 50 by the end of March. (I just started linking to parties about a month ago and have tripled my followers in that month – YEAH!) I would love for you to "hop" over IF you have the time!
Thanks again for the great information!
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I just came across this. I can't wait to catch up on all the posts. I'm new myself and trying to build my blog 🙂
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Your info is so great….it needed to be shared!
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Thanks for posting this series! I am also a new blogger and found your tips very helpful!!!
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Hello Amy I came across your blog from Pinterest. I read every post in this series and found it very helpful thank you so much for sharing. I am your newest follower. I can not wait to see all of the arts and crafts you share
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Thank you for this series! It's great to see other bloggers reach out in supporting one another.
Really enjoying your blog!
Love these tips. I've just started to blog and while I love it there's just so much I don't know! Pinned for future reference 🙂
I have enjoyed your series and will be linking to many of these posts in April at The Domesticated Princess. Thanks for sharing all of your knowledge with fellow bloggers.
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Thakkali Kuzhambu Using Black Night shade seeds | மனத்த தக்காளி – தக்காளி குழம்பு
Thakkali Kuzhambu is very famous in my home town.I had Thakkali Kuzhambu recently in Saravana Bhavan they used Manatha thakkali vathal in it.The tastes was really good.So I wanted to make this kuzhambu at home.It came out so well and taste delicious.
For Thakali Kuzhambu,Choose ripe tomatoes for good taste.
I used Manatha Thakkali vathal.You can use fresh manatha thakkali also.If u didn't get the manatha thakkali then compensate it with mustard seeds and fenugreek seeds,for tempering.
3 Ripe Tomatoes
A hand full Mantha thakkali vathal / Black night shade Seeds
1 Medium Sized Onion,chopped
Few Curry leaves
1/4 cup Tamarind Extract
2-3 tbsp Gingerly Oil
1/4 tsp Turmeric Powder
Salt as needed
To Grind:
2 and 1/2 tbsp grated Coconut
1/2 tsp Fennel Seeds
1/2 tsp Cumin Seeds
1 tsp Coriander Seeds
1 tsp Roasted Gram dal
2 dry Red Chillies
- Mash the tomatoes and keep aside.
- Roast the grinding ingredients and ground it until fine paste with little water.
- Heat oil in a kadai and fry the manatha thakkali till golden brown.
- Add onion and curry leaves,fry them along with the manatha thakkali.
- Add the mashed tomatoes and fry,till the raw smell goes.
- Add turmeric powder and salt.
- Add tamarind extract and let it to cook well.
- Add the grounded paste and mix well.Cover and cook for few minutes or till the gravy becomes thick.
Here is the Thakkali kuzhambu is ready.Serve it with hot rice/idly.
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Illinois Lawmakers Hope To OK Gay Marriage In Jan.
by John O'Connor, AP Political Writer
SPRINGFIELD, Illinois (AP)—Two Illinois lawmakers said Thursday that they will seek to legalize gay marriage when the General Assembly reconvenes early next year and said support for gay marriage has been rapidly gaining speed since President Barack Obama spoke in favor of it earlier this year.
The push by Rep. Greg Harris and Sen. Heather Steans, both Chicago Democrats, comes just 18 months after the state started allowing civil unions for same-sex couples.
The legislators declined to detail the status of roll-call votes in each chamber during a conference call with reporters. But Harris has previously said he wouldn't bring a bill to the floor without assurances that there are enough votes to pass it.
"We're in striking distance of being able to get it done," Stearns said.
Harris and Steans played major roles in bringing civil unions for domestic partners to Illinois. Voters in four other states either endorsed gay marriage or repudiated bans on it in the November election.
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel calls it a legislative priority. A poll for Southern Illinois University in September found 44 percent of Illinois voters support same-sex marriage, up 10 points from just two years earlier.
"It's very straightforward," Harris said. "We treat all couples with the same respect and dignity in the eyes of the law and we protect the rights of religious institutions to either consecrate or not consecrate marriages within their faith as they see fit. It's very important that government not involve itself in religion on either side of the issue."
However, the Catholic Conference of Illinois opposes the measure and a conservative Christian group's lobbyist says he considers passage now to be a bigger stretch than advocates believe.
Stearns soft-pedaled Thursday when asked if the move to propose legislation signaled that supporters predict victory.
"That's a dangerous game, but that's the goal. We really do want to get a bill to the governor in January…," she said.
Nine states currently allow gay marriage. Harris and Steans said an Illinois law, which would take effect July 1, would recognize same-sex marriages from other states, and those who have entered civil unions in Illinois could apply for a marriage license with no fee for the first year.
Generally, legalized marriage for same-sex couples give them greater rights regarding taxes, insurance, freedom from privacy restrictions that heterosexual couples have.
Camilla Taylor, marriage project director for Lambda Legal, which is representing 25 couples in a lawsuit opposing the state's gay-marriage ban, said the announcement Thursday "brought hope to thousands of same-sex couples across Illinois."
"Illinois same-sex couples and their children need the freedom to marry now, and it's encouraging that our elected officials agree," Taylor said.
While backed by prominent Democrats, the issue is not strictly a partisan one. Opponents to civil unions in 2010 included some southern Illinois Democrats, while some suburban Republicans supported it.
The Rev. Bob Vanden Bosch, lobbyist for Concerned Christian Americans, predicts a close vote but said passage would surprise him.
"Marriage is not something government has instituted. Marriage is something that's instituted by God," Vanden Bosch said. "People, rather than conforming their lives to the law of God, want to conform the law to their lives."
The Catholic Conference of Illinois, which represents 3.8 million Catholics in the state, has produced a "marriage toolkit" it's distributing to churches and schools outlining the church's position on the issue.
"Nature gives us two sexes for a reason; that's why marriage is unique," conference executive director Robert Gilligan said. "As much as this can be a religious issue, same-sex marriage goes against nature."
The contest for votes in the next three weeks promises to be heated, even as the plan battles for attention among a laundry list of major issues facing lawmakers in the six-day "lame duck" session before a new General Assembly is sworn in. Among the other issues under consideration are plans to fix the pension system, provide driver's licenses to immigrants, legalize medical marijuana and close budget shortfalls.
"We are dedicating our efforts to leaving no stone unturned in helping them" secure passage, said Bernard Cherkasov, chief executive of Equality Illinois. "Our members and supporters by the thousands will be contacting lawmakers."
Harris claims it's been happening already, and some formerly stubborn attitudes among his colleagues have been changed by constituents.
"One of the things that moves them is when they've known the family and they've known three generations of the family and the parents, the grandparents and the kids come in and say, 'Why would our state treat our lesbian granddaughter with less respect than our straight grandson, and how can you support that?'" Harris said. "That's very compelling."


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By: Chuck Colbert/TRT Reporter–
The global response to the worldwide AIDS epidemic continues making remarkable progress in HIV prevention, improved treatment, and reduced AIDS-related deaths, a new report says, holding out hope and the possibility for the end of AIDS.
"The global community has embarked on an historic quest to lay the foundation for the eventual end of the AIDS epidemic," stated the United Nations in its latest report on the global AIDS pandemic. "This effort is more than merely visionary. It is entirely feasible."
The report was released on Tuesday, November 20, in advance of World AIDS Day Saturday, December 1.
But unsafe sexual behavior, intravenous drug use, stigma, discrimination, and misinformation remain as formidable challenges in stemming a disease that, entering its fourth decade, has claimed nearly 30 million HIV-related deaths.
Since the beginning of the epidemic more than 60 million people have contracted HIV. But there is evidence that the AIDS pandemic is waning.
"Results," the title of a 48-page report issued by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), shows a dramatic 50 percent decrease in new HIV infections across 25 low- and middle-income countries, mostly in Africa, the continent most affected by HIV.
Altogether, new infections globally fell to 2.5 million last year, down from 2.6 million, which represents a 20-percent decrease from 2001.
"The pace of progress is quickening," said Michel Sidibé, executive director of UNAIDS in a statement. "What used to take a decade is now being achieved in 24 months."
Better yet, in some countries with the highest prevalence of HIV in the world, rates of infection have been reduced dramatically since 2001. For example, in Malawi the infection rate dropped by 73 percent. In Botswana, the rate is down 71 percent, with similar decreases reported in Namibia (down 68 percent), Zambia (down 58 percent), Zimbabwe (down 50 percent), and South Africa and Swaziland (down 41 percent).
Declining numbers of HIV infections in children is a particularly encouraging finding of the report. Half the global reductions in new HIV infections in the last two years have been among newborns.
Last year, for instance, 330,000 children worldwide were infected with HIV, down from 370,000 in 2010 and 43 percent fewer than in 2003, according to UNAIDS.
Yet too many youth in the United States continue to become infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, and few are tested. That's one overarching take away point from a new report out by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, whose release was also timed ahead of World AIDS Day.
Young people between the ages of 13 and 24 in the U.S. account for more than a quarter of new HIV infections each year (26 percent); and 60 percent of these youth living with HIV are unaware they are infected, according to the CDC's Vital Signs report, released on Tuesday, November 27.
The most-affected young people are young gay and bisexual men and African-Americans.
The analysis looked at the latest data on HIV infections, testing, and risk behaviors among young people.
Overall, an estimated 12,200 new HIV infections in the U.S. occurred in 2010 among young people aged 13-24, with young gay and bisexual men and African-Americans hit harder by HIV than their peers. In 2010, for example, 72 percent of estimated new HIV infections in young people occurred in young men who have sex with men.
By race/ethnicity, 57 percent of estimated new infections in this age group were in African-Americans.
"That so many young people become infected with HIV each year is a preventable tragedy," CDC Director Dr. Thomas R. Frieden told reporters during a telephone conference call this week to discuss the findings. "All young people can protect their health, avoid contracting and transmitting the virus, and learn their HIV status."
Despite recommendations from CDC and the American Academy of Pediatrics that call for routine HIV testing of youth in medical settings, the analysis showed that 35 percent of 18-24 year olds have been tested for HIV, while only 13 percent of high school students – and 22 percent of sexually experienced students – have ever been tested.
Gay and bi men remain at risk
Despite the encouraging statistics globally, UNAIDS also expressed concerns about specific populations most at risk for HIV. One group is men who have sex with men.
"Go to any capital city in the world, men who have sex with men are significantly more likely to have HIV – on average 13 times more than the general population," the "Results" report states, adding, "As global HIV prevalence trends appear to have stabilized, there is disturbing evidence suggesting that global HIV prevalence among men who have sex with men may have increased between 2010 and 2012."
And the report states, "People who inject drugs are the worst off: Evidence from 49 countries shows that their risk of being infected with HIV is 22 times higher than the general population."
Overall, in 2011, an estimated 34 million worldwide are living with HIV, according to UNAIDS, at the same time 2.6 million people became newly infected, with 1.7 million deaths. The death rate, moreover, is down 24 percent from 2005 and is nearly six percent below the rate in 2010.
There is some particularly good news about HIV prevention, as the "Results" report shows that sub-Saharan Africa has cut AIDS-related deaths by one third in the last six years and increased the number of people on antiretroviral treatment by 59 percent in the last two years alone.
The report shows in fact that antiretroviral therapy has emerged as a powerful force for saving lives – an estimated 14 million life-years, including 9 million in sub-Saharan Africa, according to the report.
In the last two years the numbers of people accessing treatment has increased by 63 percent globally.
However, the report notes, some seven million people worldwide do not have access to this life-saving HIV treatment, including 72 percent of children living with the virus.
"We are scaling up faster and smarter than ever before," said Sidibé, a native of Mali who has served as under-secretary-general of the United Nations since January 1, 2009. "It is the proof that with political will and follow through we can reach our shared goals by 2015."
Sidibé was referring to ten specific targets pledged in a 2011 United Nations Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS: Intensifying Our Efforts to Eliminate HIV and AIDS.
The targets are outlined and discussed in "Global Report," a 108-page UNAIDS document, released on the same day as "Results."
Among those goals are to reduce HIV sexual transmission and reduce transmission among people who inject drugs – both by 50 percent.
Two other targets include eliminating new infections among children and substantially reducing the number of mothers dying from AIDS-related causes.
Additional goals are to provide anti-retroviral therapy to 1.5 million people, reduce the number of people living with HIV who die from tuberculosis by 50 percent, close the global AIDS resource gap, and reach annual global investments of $22 billion to $24 billion (measured in US currency) in low- and middle income countries.
Still other targets aim to eliminate gender inequalities and gender-based abuse and violence and to increase the capacity for women and girls to protect themselves from HIV.
The elimination of stigma and discrimination against people living with or affected by HIV is another goal, along with eliminating travel and residence restrictions for people living with HIV.
Dr. Bernhard Schwartländer, director for Evidence, Innovation, and Policy at UNAIDS, sounded an upbeat tone about reaching the goals.
"I am optimistic that with the progress we're seeing we can actually achieve the targets we set last year," he told reporters during a telephone conference call Tuesday, November 20.
Schwartländer holds a doctorate in medical epidemiology. Prior to joining the United Nations, he was the director of infectious disease epidemiology at the Robert Koch-Institut in Berlin.
Nonetheless, prevention programs for groups of people who are most at risk – sex workers, drug users, and men who have sex with men – are too limited, the UNAIDS report says.
And yet education efforts aimed at teaching about safer sex practices, including the use of condoms, and the prudence of having fewer sexual partners has shown success in some countries, such as Kenya, Malawi, Niger, Mozambique, Namibia, and Zambia
But in other countries risky sexual behavior has increased – namely the Ivory Coast, Guyana, and Rwanda.
Guyana, Haiti, Lesotho, and Rwanda, for instance, report statistically significant increases in men having sex under the age of 15. Haiti and Lesotho report a similar statistically significant finding for women having sex under the age of 15.
At the same time condom use by men has decreased by a statistically significant measure in the Ivory Coast, Uganda, Benin, and Burkin Faso. The same results hold for condom use by women in Ethiopia and Uganda.
The report notes another challenge in stemming the spread of HIV – a stepped up effort to offer men circumcision, which in trials has shown to be effective in the preventing some new infections from women to men.
UNAIDS acknowledges the challenge in getting people to change their behavior.
"It involves knowledge, motivation, and choices, which are influenced by sociocultural norms, as well as risk assessment in relation to immediate benefits and future consequences. It involves both rational decision-making and impulsive and automatic behavior," according to the report.
More money would also help. The report says that only five percent of HIV funding in the worst-hit nations was spent on programs aimed at changing behavior, including the promotion of condom use.
© Copyright. Chuck Colbert. All rights reserved.


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If you're invited to a Super Bowl party and aren't quite up to speed about Sunday's big game, join the club. This blogger's a Buffalo Bills fan and tries to kind of tune out around this time of the season because, after all, it brings back some painful memories.
But it is the big story of the weekend, and The Two-Way knows it needs to be covered in some way. So here we go with three things you could drop into the conversation if you're invited to watch the game with friends or family and need to sound sort-of knowledgeable:
-- "John's older by 15 months." Something even those who don't care about the game at all have probably heard about by now is that the two teams are coached by brothers, which hasn't happened before at the Super Bowl. Jim Harbaugh coaches the San Francisco 49ers. John Harbaugh coaches the Baltimore Ravens. Bonus nugget: their dad, Jack, coached at Western Michigan University.
-- "Kaepernick might as well be a rookie." San Francisco quarterback Colin Kaepernick wasn't given the starting job until the 10th game of the season. This is only his second year in the league and the Super Bowl will be only the 10th time he's started an NFL game. Bonus nugget: Kaepernick, who's 25, won't be the youngest starting QB in Super Bowl history. The Miami Dolphins' Dan Marino was 23 when he started Super Bowl XIX in 1985.
-- "The Ravens overcame incredible odds to get here." NPR's Mike Pesca dug up some fascinating numbers for Morning Edition. "Take the most dire moments in the in the Ravens' post-season run," Mike said. Those include trailing the Denver Broncos by a touchdown with 30 seconds left, falling behind in New England (where the Patriots almost never lose if they're ahead at halftime) and a game against the Colts that wasn't decided until the last moment.
Baltimore's cumulative chances of winning all three games, according to the numbers crunchers : About 1 in 950. The data gurus say the Ravens are, by a factor of about 2 to 1, the least likely team to have ever reached the Super Bowl after facing such difficult situations. Bonus nugget: The Bills' preseason odds of winning the Super Bowl were 60-1. But let's not think about the Bills just now.
For more coverage of the Super Bowl, you might consider checking our friends at:
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And there's also:
-- "Are NFL Football Hits Getting Harder And More Dangerous?" (On the Shots blog)
-- "The Super Bowl No One Cared About." (On The Picture Show blog)
-- "A Quest For Real Beer, Without The Gluten." (On The Salt blog)
-- "Wacky Super Bowl Ads Are Already Getting Serious Play." (Our earlier post)
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Mariners - 000 000 100 - 1 9 2 Red Sox - 000 000 30x - 3 12 0Blake Beavan, in only his fourth major league game, matched pitches with Josh Beckett for six innings -- and it was Beckett (7-7-1-1-7, 118) who blinked first.
Mike Carp led off the seventh with a solo home run for Seattle, his second dong of this series (and of the year) -- but the Red Sox answered in their half. The seventh inning has been the magical frame this season. It's the inning in which the Red Sox have scored the most runs (93) and allowed the fewest runs (33).
Beavan retired the first two batters, but Jason Varitek (barely able to lay off a few high fastballs) singled to center. Marco Scutaro then doubled down the right field line; Varitek would have scored and tied the game, but a brain-dead fan reached out and grabbed the ball, and Tek could advance only two bases.
Jacoby Ellsbury saved the day by lining a single to center, scoring both runners and giving Boston a 2-1 lead. That was the end of Beavan's (6.2-9-3-0-4, 104) night. Dustin Pedroia singled off David Pauley -- his first-inning double extended his hitting streak to 20 games -- and Ellsbury took third. On Aaron Laffey's 1-2 pitch to Adrian Gonzalez, the Muddy Chicken took off for second. The ball got way from catcher Josh Bard and Ellsbury scored easily.
Daniel Bard got in and out of a huge jam in the eighth. After Dustin Ackley singled, Bard walked Justin Smoak on four pitches. Adam Kennedy dropped down a bunt, and Bard threw to third. Kevin Youkilis was off the bag and umpire Eric Cooper said Yook did not get his foot on the base in time for force Ackley. (The replays looked like Youkilis DID get the out, but he did not gripe when the safe call was made.)
So the bases were loaded with no outs and Bard trying to protect a 3-1 lead (and his 23-inning scoreless streak). Carp flew out to Carl Crawford in shallow left-center. Jack Cust struck out looking at a slider after swinging and missing a 99-mph fastball. Franklin Gutierrez grounded out to third. The Bard has not allowed a run in two months (May 23).
Jonathan Papelbon allowed a leadoff single and stolen base in the ninth, but got two pop-ups and a strike out (Ackley) to give Seattle its 14th straight loss (tied for the worst skid in team history).
The Red Sox improved to 15-3 in July (best in MLB). The win was also the 1,000th victory of Terry Francona's managerial career; the first 285 of those wins were with the Phillies. (His 28 post-season wins with the Red Sox are not included in that career total.)
Earlier in the day, the A's beat the Yankees 4-3, so New York dropped to 3 GB.
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Having won the Felix/Lackey match-up, there is no reason why the Red Sox should not sweep this series.
They are 14-3 in July, while the Mariners have lost 13 games in a row, one shy of the franchise mark set in 1992. In the 13 losses, Seattle is batting .214 and has been outscored 72-31.
AL East: Athletics/Yankees at 1 PM.


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It's our fourth year of this fine blog, and we Sons have decided it's time to shatter the fourth wall. So, here we go...
Other Dodger blogs have done this sort of event thing before, inviting their readers to all sit together in a big block at a Dodgers game, which is very cool. But we Sons figured that a more appropriate event for our particular readership community would be to have us congregate at a bar to watch a Dodger game together on television. (Instead of dealing with the logistical mayhem of pre-game ticket distributions, we'll be able to focus our energies on enjoying drinking with some of you. Winner, winner, chicken dinner.)
We are proud to announce the first-ever Sons of Steve Garvey event, which we have named "SoSG FEST 2010". We're hoping to bring some of our most loyal and vocal readers together on the afternoon of Saturday, July 31, 2010, at a secret location in Los Angeles.
Drinks will be served. Appetizers will be consumed. Prizes may be awarded. And the Dodgers @ Giants game (televised on Fox) will be shown on television. We are really appreciative and grateful of our readers, so we want to subsidize a portion of this event. All we ask is that you bring a healthy liver, a little bit of cash, and a snarky attitude, and come watch the game with some of the Sons.
Here's how this is going to work: If you are interested in attending this event, send us an email with your SoSG screen name and a brief paragraph on why you think you should be invited. We unfortunately do not have space for everyone at this event, but we also hope that this isn't the last SoSG Fest--so don't be dismayed if you don't make the cut on this one, as we're hoping to have more of these in the future.
Entries will be judged by a subset of the Sons, who will make their capricious and arbritrary decisions based on the quality of their entry email, the quality and quantity of the entrants' comments on this site to date, and potentially other criteria that they will decide on the fly. Bribery might be seen favorably by the judges, but is not necessary. All decisions are final. "Winners" (and I do use that term liberally) will be emailed with separate instructions on the event location and time.
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In a wide-ranging conversation about women and leadership, Princeton President Shirley M. Tilghman and professor Anne-Marie Slaughter said there is still much that can be done in the workplace and in American society to support equality for women.
During the Feb. 22 event in Richardson Auditorium, Tilghman talked with Slaughter, the Bert G. Kerstetter '66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs, about her recent cover story for The Atlantic, "Why Women Still Can't Have It All." The article, which Slaughter noted went viral with 2 million page views on theatlantic.com, details her decision to leave her two-year post at the U.S. State Department and the struggles that women face when balancing careers and family.
"These issues were basically put on the table 40 years ago. Why are we still having this conversation?" Tilghman asked Slaughter, referring broadly to the feminist movement.
"Because we have not fixed it. We don't have male-female equality and we won't have until we have, what I think of as, the next wave of the revolution," Slaughter said. "We need the next wave of an equal rights revolution."
Slaughter noted the enormous strides women have made in achieving leadership roles in the United States, citing as examples Tilghman and other female presidents of Ivy League universities. But she said there is a ways to go, particularly in certain sectors of power, noting the dearth of women CEOs at Fortune 500 companies.
"We are stuck because we have formal equality, but we don't have substantive equality," Slaughter said.
"I had heard over and over again, which was part of what made me want to publish the article, is everybody saying you can have it all. But what we see [in real life] looks very different," said Slaughter, who was the first woman to serve as director of policy planning at the State Department from 2009 to 2011. "I want to say to women, 'you can do this,' but we collectively have to make a bunch of changes to make it easier."
While all women may encounter struggles juggling work and family, Slaughter acknowledged that effective solutions may look different across the income scale. For poor or middle-class women, it may be access to affordable, quality daycare near their jobs. For women with higher incomes, flexible work schedules can have a big effect.
"Inevitably, when young women ask me for advice about balancing family and work, the first thing I say is to train yourself to be guilt-free," Tilghman said on a personal note. "Get yourself into a mind lock that says when I'm at work I'm not sitting there feeling guilty because I'm not at home and ditto the other way around."
Among other recommendations discussed were: the United States adopting a mandatory paid maternity leave policy; managers who emphasize employees' results rather than long hours in the office; and employers supporting more fluid career cycles, where parents can reduce workloads when their children are young and ramp up their careers again later in life.
Tilghman and Slaughter said universities can be a model in some ways. Princeton has adopted a number of family-friendly policies to support faculty, staff and graduate students. Among undergraduate students, Tilghman appointed a steering committee that issued a 2011 report related to women's leadership on campus.
While the conversation was focused on the lives of women, Slaughter emphasized that men are an essential part of this issue.
"I'd love to have men reclaim that idea, that really standing for the equality of men and women is for men as much as it is for women," Slaughter said. "We can call ourselves feminists in the same way we might call ourselves civil rights activists or people who stand for equality wherever we can find it."
She added that in an era where many households have two working parents, family-friendly policies help both male and female caregivers, which is good for society as a whole.
"This is not really men and women, this is about caregivers period. If you have children, men or women, and you have to take a substantial amount of time for care, you are systematically disadvantaged [in the workplace]," Slaughter said.
During a question-and-answer session, some of the 535 audience members made up of students, faculty, staff, alumni and community residents sought insights from Tilghman and Slaughter based on their experiences.
On the flipside of the issue, a mathematics graduate student said she had misgivings about employers who she thought actively recruit her because she is a woman. As long as women and men are held to the same standards, Slaughter said she had no qualms about supporting women in this way.
Tilghman said her "epiphany" came when a senior woman scientist nominated her to the National Academy of Sciences. The then-39-year-old Tilghman initially rebuffed the nomination, thinking it was only because the academy wanted to include more women.
"She was furious with me. She said, 'Shirley, for God's sake, being a woman in science has been a disadvantage for you your whole life. For once, take advantage of it,'" Tilghman said, followed by laughter from the crowd.
Sophomore Stephanie Rigizadeh asked Tilghman and Slaughter what they would do differently if they could go back to their college days. Both women advocated studying different subjects and joining organizations that may be out of one's comfort zone.
"I texted my mom immediately afterward to tell her they had just answered my question," Rigizadeh said with excitement after the event. "Tonight has been great to see so many of my friends being inspired by the conversation."
At the start of the evening, senior Catherine Ettman and junior Caroline Kitchener of the Princeton Women's Mentorship Program recognized Tilghman for her work as a woman leader and woman in science.
Kitchener recalled once asking Tilghman, who will step down as president in June, about the state of feminism on campus.
"As for feminism at Princeton, she told me it was up to me and to every other undergraduate to create it," Kitchener said. "President Tilghman … you asked us to create feminism here at Princeton and here we are. Thanks for the advice."
The event, which preceded the University's annual Alumni Day celebration on Feb. 23, was sponsored through collaboration with Princeton's Office of the Vice President for Campus Life, the Office of the Alumni Association, the Women in Leadership Steering Committee, the Office of Career Services, the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies and the Women's Center.


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I am still encased in the wonderful bliss of Norway. Although my body seems to be back in Weimar, I seem to have left my mind, spirit and most importantly, my heart in Norway.
The vacation was stunning, rejuvenating and just what I needed. I kept asking myself why did it take me so long to get to Norway. Then I asked myself "do I ever want to leave?"
Of course my camera and I worked overtime and I was so in my element, feeling good to be concentrating on other motives than food. I lugged almost all my camera equipment almost everywhere with me, the different lenses, tripod and all – no, I certainly did not regret it.
The pictures will keep me company for a long time. I am sorting through all +450 pictures and am trying to pick the best so I can share this breathtaking country in the proper justice it deserves. I so want you all to see what I experienced and I want you to hold your breath just the way I constantly was holding mine at every turn we took, every tunnel we came out of and every mountain we crossed.
July seems to be the perfect month to travel to Norway. The country is bursting with juicy ripe fruits like strawberries, raspberries and cherries. We indulged pleasurably, buying the fruit from vendors selling them on makeshift tables and stalls on the side of the narrow roads.
On our road trip through Norway we were lucky enough to stay at two camping places that were cherry orchards and enjoyed picking the sweet, ripe red jewels straight from the trees – for free.
But all those stories in my next post.
Before I left, cherries were just making their appearance at the markets and I could not resist buying a few bags full. While most of them were eaten straight out of the bowl, I did manage to play around with an idea I had been developing ever since I made the tahini dark chocolate cream for my Studmuffin Macarons.
Dark chocolate and tahini were such an explosive combination that I knew they would make a few interesting dessert and sweet treats. As cherry season always clicks in the clafoutis craze in my kitchen, I wanted to take the classic cherry clafoutis and give it my own twist.
This recipe intermingles flavors of the Middle East with a traditional French dessert. Sweet cherries are hugged by a rich and luscious batter made with dark chocolate, browned butter, ground almonds and tahini. No your hips will not thank you for this one but trust me every other part of you will be craving for more.
Dark Chocolate Cherry and Tahini Clafoutis
Printable version of recipe here
Serves 6
600g cherries, washed and unpitted
160g butter, melted
180g sugar
75g flour
65g dark chocolate (70% cocoa), melted
150g ground almonds
2 eggs
150 ml milk
50g almond slices
2-3 tablespoons Tahini
handful of sesame seeds
pinch of fleur de sel
- Pre-heat the oven to 200 degrees C. Brush either 6 ramekins (ca. 125 ml) or one larger form with some of the melted butter and evenly sprinkle about 40g sugar, then divide the cherries into the form/s.
- In a saucepan heat 80g butter on low heat and gently brown. It should be a light golden color and wonderfully aromatic. Set aside to cool slightly.
- Mix together flour, 100g sugar, ground almonds and fleur de sel in a large bowl. In a separate bowl whisk together eggs and milk, then together with the melted butter, melted dark chocolate and tahini pour over the flour-ground almond mixture. Fold the mixture together to incorporate the ingredients into a thick batter. Pour over the cherries.
- Mix the remaining 80g melted butter, almond slices and sesame seeds together and pour over the clafoutis.
- Bake the clafoutis in the oven for 20-40 minutes, depending on the size of your forms.
- Serve warm with a scoop of vanilla ice-cream or simple indulge in it pure with just a fork.
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The sweetness is beautifully complemented by the nuttiness of the tahini. Very moreish and dangerously good. This is one to be savored, forkful for forkful, each bite giving you a whole new flavor dimension. The cherries are not pitted for a reason. Not only will they stop you from devouring the clafoutis, which you really will want to do, but also they add a sensational flavor. The cherry pits add a faint bitter almond flavor as they come from the same family as the almond. The ground almonds in the recipe mirror this offering flavor and texture.
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Located on the island of Hispaniola, the site of Columbus' first landing in what would be known as the Americas, Haiti is known for its turbulent history, its religious culture that intermingles Christianity and Voudou, and its visual artists, whose work captures the country's vitality and volatility. Edouard Duval-Carrié, one of the foremost Haitian artists working today, makes paintings and sculptures that translate Haitian culture into modern terms.
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10:55 a.m. ET: Declaring that Olympic and Paralympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius "has made a case to be released on bail," a South African magistrate on Friday set the stage for Pistorius to be set free while he awaits trial on the charge that he murdered his girlfriend.
Chief Magistrate Desmond Nair announced that news after spending nearly two hours discussing the case, South African law and the history of bail. During that long ruling from the bench, Nair said Pistorius had "failed to show this court that there's a weakness in the state's case" against him. But, Nair added, the state's case is not "so strong and watertight" that it's obvious Pistorius would decide he "needs to flee or evade his trial."
Nair said he does not consider the world famous athlete to be a flight risk, that the prosecution did not produce evidence that he has a "propensity to commit violence" and that there's no evidence Pistorius would try to "interfere with the state's witnesses."
After a short adjournment following the announcement, Nair ruled that the bail would be set at 1 million South African rand (about $112,000), of which Pistorius would have to put up 100,000 rand ($11,200) in cash. Pistorius was also ordered to hand over his passport, stay in South Africa and not enter any international airports.
Following the hearing, reports The Guardian, Pistorius "left the magistrate court in a truck ... chased by reporters on motorcycles." His next court date is June 4.
For much more, here's our original post and our earlier updates:
7:10 a.m. ET: We're due to learn this morning whether South African Olympic and Paralympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius will be granted bail as he awaits trial in Pretoria on a charge of premeditated murder in the Feb. 14 shooting death of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp.
As NPR's Ofeibea Quist-Arcton tells our Newscast Desk, "the defense and prosecution have delivered their closing arguments" in a bail hearing that has lasted four days and at times felt like a trial. Pistorius, she notes, says he thought Steenkamp was an intruder and killed her by mistake at his home. The prosecution has offered evidence that it believes shows he knew what he was doing — including a neighbor's account of shouting coming from the house before shots were fired.
There's much more about the case in our previous posts.
The 26-year-old Pistorius, known as the "blade runner" because of the carbon-fiber prosthetic legs he uses, is the first double amputee to have participated in a Summer Olympics and is a Paralympics champion. Steenkamp, 29, was a model and aspiring reality TV star.
We'll be updating.
Update at 9:23 a.m. ET. Pistorius Has "Made A Case" To Be Released On Bail:
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It's unclear why, but Chief Magistrate Desmond Nair just adjourned the hearing for what he indicated might be about five minutes. Moments before, he had said that prosecutors had presented enough "circumstantial evidence" to merit considering the charge of premeditated murder as he debates whether to grant bail.
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Osteria Nino: A Taste of Rome in Burlington, MA
I don't know much about the restaurants in Burlington (although I know you should definitely go to Sichuan Garden / Baldwin Bar in nearby Woburn) but now I can recommend at least one place to eat. Osteria Nino near the Wegman's in Burlington is a solid osteria serving popular items from Rome and beyond.
The breading on the fried calamari is nice and light, they're served with a tangy fra diavolo sauce.
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