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I had wanted drop down menus for some time. I just didn't know how. Then I saw Kari's instructions on how to create drop down menus in Blogger. It suddenly seemed possible. It was a big challenge. A big achievement. It seemed only right to share my experiences and learnings so others can feel empowered to make changes on their blogs.
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Enabling drop down menus has meant reflecting on my blog design and some consequent changes. Here is a summary of what has been happening:
- Changed search field and moved it up to top of side bar.
- Got rid of Foodie Blogroll and Aussie Food Bloggers Ring links.
- Moved labels to footer as a cloud instead of a list on the sidebar.
- Got rid of list titled 'search this blog'. (It duplicated what is now on drop down menus.)
- Changed colour of posts background from light green to white with watermark. (This was due to problems with margins so I may change it again. I quite like a solid white background though.)
- Added 'What will I cook tonight' to sidebar. This is a list of recipes I am planning to make (because my memory gets overloaded). I am finding it quite helpful.
- Updated favourite places to eat out in Favourites.
- Grouped Recipe Index sections to reflect the drop down menus, including rearranging the order in line with these new groupings.
- Created new sections in the Recipe Index sections - collations, vegan cheese, dividing desserts into warm and chilled, dividing baking with yeast into sweet and savoury. More to come.
- Rethinking categories in Reflections and Reviews. Not everything fits neatly but it is mostly done.
What is CSS?
Adding drop down menus required change to the blog CSS. I will pause here for novices like myself to explain what I understand CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) to be. If you are technically savvy, just move on to the next heading or correct me if I am wrong.
Whereas you populate a page with content using HTML, if you want to use the same style on many pages, it is best done in one place with CSS rather than using HTML on every page. For example, CSS covers fonts, colours, margins, lines, height, width, background images and many other styles we want on every page. Hence to install drop down menus on each page, you are far better off using CSS rather than adding them to every individual page. More about CSS here and here.
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If you are thinking about installing drop down menus, it is useful to read about best practice with drop down menus. Consider that not everyone likes them. They can be frustrating. They are hard to read on a mobile phone. I have had discussions about websites where colleagues had found drop down menus confusing.
Think carefully about what you really want in your drop down menus. Be strategic. Pick your very best or most useful links. Don't let the list get too long. (Gulp! My Recipe Index list could be shorter!) I really wanted drop down menus because my Recipe Index had grown so big. And I really liked the advice that every link on the drop down menu should also be available from the top level menu item (see below picture). Just in case people miss the drop down menus for technical reasons.
Illustration of what I mean by 'top level menu'. |
My reflections on installing drop down menus
Installing drop down menus was a lot of work planning and ordering the menu, altering the CSS and then dealing with the resulting changes. I am not going to tell you how to install drop down menus in Blogger. I am not expert in this area. But I am going to tell you what it involved, what problems I had and who can tell you how to do it.
Here is my list of tasks to be done to install drop down menus:
- Draw up a list of labels and corresponding links for your drop down menus. Decide whether you want to link to headings within the top level menu page or to link to another page. (Links within pages are called anchors. I have written more about what they are and how to create them in an anchors tutorial.)
- Get links updated and in good order. This was time consuming for me but useful for my blog.
- Write code with your own urls or links using help from others who have reproduced this code as listed below.
- Back up your blog. Cindy and Michael have good advice on how to back up your blog with Blogger. If everything goes horribly wrong when you do the drop down menus at least you have a copy of the code used by your blog previously to reinstall it (or ask someone else to).
- Take a screen shot. Then when you wonder how it looked, you can check back.
- Go into layout to Add a Gadget for your html (see above Instructions links). At this point I deleted my Pages menu from the top of my Page Layout. Later I regretted it - see Make it Mobile-friendly point below.
My menus looked odd after I added code into my page layout before going to the edit in the CSS section. |
- Add CSS code so that the menus become drop down ( (I used Kari's instructions at Bite Sized Thoughts). I have given a layman's description of CSS above to let you know that when you change it, you change it on every page. I was quite nervous at doing this.
- Format the colours and styles in the menus using the CSS code. NB Don't try and do this using the other Advanced Tabs in the Customise Templates pages as these are overridden by the CSS you have put in. My drop down menus were the same colours as Kari's when I first inserted them. I had to change the colours to my own style in the CSS code. Quite a few colours were changed before I arrived at ones that were mine and felt comfortable. If you want your own colours as soon as you insert CSS, you can look at the way that My Blogger Tricks or All She Cooks give the CSS code with places to insert colours. (NB a colour in html usually looks like #ff000). But even if you do put your own colours in, you still should check them by refreshing your blog to if they look right once online.
- Make it mobile-friendly (see Kari's instructions at Bite Sized Thoughts). This is where I really came unstuck and still haven't solved the problem. Drop down menus are not mobile-friendly because mobile phones don't have a mouse that will hover over menu to cause list to drop down. Kari's fix was to just have the top level menu showing. This just didn't work for me using her code. After some discussion, it seemed that maybe this was because I had deleted my initial top level menu rather than disabling it. I will look into this further when I have time. For now, my mobile view is less user-friendly due to lack of my menu. Apologies if this affects you. (And I would love to hear if people do use this menu.)
- Check formatting. My margins went awry when I added the CSS and I wasn't happy about this (see below picture). I made marginal improvements (yes that pun was intended) by removing the colour but it still looked a bit wrong. Kati suggested some additional code which allowed me to make the post margins narrower but also took the colour away altogether and left me with a faint watermark. It is still not perfect but I will live with it for a while. From searching the web, it seems that this might be due to the type of Blogger Template I am using
My blog with drop down menus as work in progress - colours not quite right and margins a bit wide on the green post background. |
- Test links. Check every link you have added on the drop down menu including top level menu items. When I did this I found all my links were broken. Once I added a small change (using ' instead of ") to the code, it worked.
- Back up blog again with the new code you have implemented. It would be terrible if your blog crashed now after all your work and you didn't have a back up. (Yes I am about to do this mysefl!!!)
- More problems? I will state the bleeding obvious (because I tend to forget it) and suggest you Google it. Someone else somewhere may have had the same problem and shared it. You are also welcome to leave a question in the comments here but as this post demonstrates, my expertise is limited.
Menu organisation alternatives
My desire for a drop down menu really grew out of my desire to make it easier to access my recipes. How to make my recipes easy to search is a continual dilemma. I use it a lot and I know others do. My Recipe Index is the most popular page on my blog, by a country mile!
Making everything fit into neat categories gives me headaches. With all the recent changes to categories, a few recipes are not fitting where they should. I have considered Recipage (such as used on Oh She Glows). I like how it sorts the recipes into many overlapping categories but I don't like how the links go to recipes only rather than the whole post.
Jac of Tinned Tomatoes reminded me that there are alternatives to the header drop down menus. She has a tutorial for a drop down menu index on the side bar of her blog (on Blogger). The advantage of her system is that it updates automatically based on labels ( think). Whereas I still manually update my index. An alternative way to organise your recipe index visually is using inlinkz which is explained by Miss Information. I have also seen some useful advice on How to Create an Automatic Recipe Page for WordPress Blogs.
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Google Reader update
I wrote about not being upset at Google Reader closing a while back. Now that Google Reader is a thing of the past, I thought I might just update you. I am still happy with life post-Google-Reader. I haven't signed up to any more blog readers.
I use my blogroll on the sidebar of my blog to keep up with some favourite blogs. It is as much as I can keep up with. It probably means I miss a few posts but I just don't have the time for them all. If I have been too busy to look for a few days I might look at what has been happening lately on some favourite blogs. There are a few blogs that probably should be on the list and aren't. However I do still visit other blogs when I see them as I travel the blogosphere or if they visit mine. So my sidebar is not the only place I look at blogs. I hope all Google Reader users have found new homes where they can be happy.
* If you want to see what my blog previously looked like in more detail than the screenshots I give in this post, you can get an idea by going to the National Library of Australia's Pandora archive where my blog is archived or just look at screen grabs of previous designs.


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NEW YORK (AP) - Microsoft is updating its Windows software for cellphones to accommodate larger devices and make it easier for motorists to reduce distractions while driving.
It's the third update to Windows Phone 8 software since the system's release a year ago. Devices with this update will start appearing in the coming weeks, and older phones will be eligible for a free upgrade, too.
Something that may appeal to motorists: a new Driving Mode will automatically silence incoming calls and texts so that you can focus on the road. You also can configure the feature to automatically send out a reply to say that you're driving.
It can be activated automatically when the phone is linked wirelessly with a Bluetooth device in the car, such as a headset. Apple has a Do Not Disturb feature for iPhones, but that needs to be turned on manually.
What the Driving Mode won't do, however, is block outgoing calls or texts. And there will be ways to override it. The feature won't stop a teenager from texting while driving, but it will help reduce distractions for those who want that, says Greg Sullivan, director for Microsoft's Windows Phone business.
The new update also will allow for better resolution to accommodate larger phones. Currently, the system supports a maximum resolution of 1280 pixels by 768 pixels, which is adequate for phones with screens no larger than 5 inches on the diagonal. But video and image quality degrades when stretched out on larger phones, such as a 6.3-inch Android phone from Samsung Electronics Co.
The layout for larger phones also will change. Phones may now sport a third column of tiles, for instance. Contact lists and other features will be able to fit in more information. That's a contrast to Android, where text and images simply get bigger with larger screens, without actually fitting in more content.
Microsoft's Windows Phone software holds a distant third place behind Apple's iOS and Google's Android, with a worldwide market share of 3.7 percent in the second quarter, according to research firm IDC. But shipments of Windows Phone devices grew 78 percent to 8.7 million in the April-to-June period, compared with the same time a year ago. The tile-based layout in Windows Phone is the inspiration for the Windows 8 software powering tablets and personal computers.
There are a few ways Microsoft Corp. will catch up to the iPhone and Android phones with the new update.
For the first time, Windows phones will have a rotation lock function, so that the screen won't switch back and forth between horizontal and vertical mode while you're curled up in bed. There also will be a central way to close open apps. Before, you had to go into each open app and press and hold the back button.
And Microsoft is launching a program to give app developers early access to the new software. Apple has had a similar program for the iOS software behind iPhones and iPads, while Google often has worked with selected developers on unreleased features.

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Jobs and the economy are big issues in this election. And from Alabama, we have a story of jobs coming from overseas to the U.S. European aircraft manufacturer Airbus is making a bold move into North America to compete in the largest market in the world for passenger jets.
The firm will build its first U.S. assembly plant on the Gulf Coast in Mobile, Alabama. NPR's Debbie Elliott reports the region has been working for years to attract Airbus.
DEBBIE ELLIOTT, BYLINE: The event declaring Mobile as the first U.S. site for Airbus was more like an early Fourth of July celebration than an industrial announcement.
STEVE MILLER: (Singing) Oh, oh big ol' jet airliner...
ELLIOTT: Music blared in a giant convention hall decked in red, white and blue while the crowd waved little American flags.
Airbus CEO Fabrice Bregier explained why Mobile would be the firm's new American home.
FABRICE BREGIER: The town is right, the talent is right and the time is right.
ELLIOTT: And if anyone needed clarification that Airbus was planting a foot on American soil, a short patriotic film drove the point home.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: This is a story. A story about people. A story about people from an American town...
ELLIOTT: Officials in Mobile have courted Airbus for nearly eight years. But their hopes appeared dashed last year when the European firm lost out to rival Boeing, in a bidding war for a lucrative Air Force contract. Yesterday, you could feel that cloud lift as politicians, like Mobile Mayor Sam Jones, took to the stage to welcome the $600 million investment that will bring a thousand jobs.
MAYOR SAM JONES: As Airbus lands here, we're now prepared to take off.
ELLIOTT: The plant will be at the site of the old Brookley Air Force base, closed in the 1960s. Airbus will ship sections of its A320 family of single-aisle planes from Europe to the Port of Mobile. They'll be assembled at the Brookley site.
Alabama offered more than $100 million of incentives to sweeten the deal for Airbus, a practice it started nearly 20 years ago to lure German automaker Mercedes Benz to the low-labor cost state.
Republican Governor Robert Bentley said this is another opportunity to showcase the state's workforce.
GOVERNOR ROBERT BENTLEY: And when those planes take off, Alabama's pride and workmanship will soar right along with them.
ELLIOTT: The comment is a not so thinly-veiled swipe at Boeing supporters who disparaged Alabama during the Pentagon bidding war, and now say the new Airbus plant will cost American jobs. Republican U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions, of Mobile, says that's just wrong.
SENATOR JEFF SESSIONS: It makes jobs in America. It doesn't reduce jobs. It enriches our competitive foundation for aircraft production, and can only be good for the whole country, not just Mobile.
LOREN THOMPSON: When Airbus builds a plant in Mobile, it will also be building a political constituency.
ELLIOTT: Loren Thompson is a defense analyst with the Lexington Institute, a conservative think tank.
THOMPSON: A political base in the local congressional delegations from Alabama and Florida - maybe some other nearby states too - and that will become very valuable when it decides to compete for the next big military aircraft program.
ELLIOTT: Already Florida officials believe they can give Airbus a leg up. State lawmaker Doug Broxson represents a district nearby in the Florida Panhandle that includes a large military workforce.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE DOUG BROXSON: And those people not only work on our bases, they retire here. And they're educated, they're young, they're energetic. And we have a ready made ability to service what they're doing.
ELLIOTT: The first Airbus planes are expected to roll off the Alabama assembly line in 2016.
Debbie Elliott, NPR News.
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Driver sentenced to 14 years in triple fatal DUI wrong-way crash
Frank J. Sundstrom, who was drunk and driving the wrong way on Interstate 95 on Dec. 11, 2012, when he caused a head-on collision that killed three women, offered a weepy apology to the victims' survivors Friday as he was sentenced in New London Superior Court to 14 years in prison.
"If I could give my life in exchange, I'd do it in a minute," said Sundstrom, 53, of Warwick, R.I. "I'd make my wife a widow."
Marjorie Minor, 90, of North Haven; her daughter, Barbara Prato, 63, of East Haven; and their friend, Tamara Nolin, 71, of Branford died at the scene of the horrific crash on the Raymond E. Baldwin Bridge. Nolin was driving her friends home from a birthday celebration at Mohegan Sun when their Nissan Maxima was struck head-on by Sundstrom's Oldsmobile Alero as he drove north in the southbound lanes of Interstate 95 in Old Lyme about three-tenths of a mile south of Exit 70. The crash occurred almost instantaneously as state police began receiving 911 calls about a wrong-way driver.
Sundstrom, who was critically injured in the crash and is still on crutches, had pleaded no contest in June to three counts of second-degree manslaughter with a vehicle and driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs. His blood alcohol level was 0.197 about 1½ hours after the 9:06 p.m. crash, and 0.14 after 3½ hours, according to Senior Assistant State's Attorney Mary Jean Kanabis. The legal level for driving is 0.08.
Incarcerated since he was arrested in August 2013 following a state police investigation, Sundstrom has been held in lieu of $750,000. He said he never tried to evade the charges. "I came to court willingly, knowing I faced a lengthy sentence," he said. "That's what a man does."
The women's survivors called on Judge Kevin P. McMahon to impose a 30-year sentence, the maximum allowed for the charges. One survivor walked out of the courtroom as Sundstrom began his apology and others rejected his remorseful words as they delivered victim impact statements to the court.
"Sorry won't bring my aunt back," said Nolin's niece, Tara Barros. "She's ashes and a grave in Old Saybrook."
Barros, who lives in the area, said she drives that stretch of the highway almost every day. She said her aunt, whose injuries included a broken neck, broken spine and a bone through her heart, probably had time to realize she was going to die that night.
"I can imagine how terrifying it was to die alone on that horrible and rainy night, her friends beside her also broken and dying," Barros said. "It's not a peaceful way to die."
McMahon, who had set the length of sentence following pretrial hearings with the prosecutor and Sundstrom's attorneys, Felicia A. Manni-Paquette of Pawtucket, R.I., and John C. Manni of Johnston, R.I., said he had not come up with a number based on the value of the victims' lives. The sentence was based, in part, on the circumstances of the case and the outcomes of other manslaughter cases. "We're just doing a process," he said. "We do realize drunk driving is a terrible thing. That's why I bring people in to watch these (sentencings). All I can do is pass on a sentence I feel is appropriate."
McMahon imposed the sentence of 30 years in prison, suspended after 14 years served, followed by five years of probation. He set several conditions of probation, including that Sundstrom be prohibited from drinking or using drugs, be required to use an interlock device if he is allowed to drive, undergo random drug and alcohol testing, serve a total of 300 hours of community service, attend sentencing hearings in other manslaughter cases and speak publicly once a year about the impact of drinking and driving. He also will be required to pay the women's survivors for any verifiable out-of-pocket costs associated with the crash.
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I don't feel that a roasted turkey dinner is complete without the cranberry sauce. Cranberry sauce is also an integral part of the leftover turkey sandwich . I prefer to make my own and it is so simple that there is no question that I am going to make it. Cranberry sauce keeps well in the fridge and you can easily make it the day before to lighten the load on the day of the big meal. I wanted to try a new cranberry recipe and I remembered seeing one made with red wine while looking for recipes last year. When I searched for it this year I came across this recipe for a cranberry sauce with pinot noir which sounded really interesting. The pinot noir cranberry sauce was a great success! The ginger and curry powder gave the cranberry sauce an amazing aroma and nice hint of the exotic to every bite without overwhelming it. Overall it was a well rounded and full bodied cranberry sauce.
Cranberry Sauce with Pinot Noir
- 1 tablespoon oil
- 2 cups cranberries
- 1 tablespoon ginger (grated)
- 2 cups Pinot Noir
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 tablespoons crystallized ginger (chopped)
- 1/2 teaspoon curry powder
- 1 pinch of Chinese five-spice powder
- Bring everything to a boil, reduce the heat and simmer until the cranberries burst and the sauce starts to thicken, about 10-15 minutes.


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Thank you for making 18 wonderful years of Service!
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The word that they're upset about. I never said on this show.What is he referring to? He did call Sarah Palin a "dumb twat" on the show. (See?)
It was in my standup act, which I consider the last bastion of free speech.The word, apparently, is "cunt," and he used it in his standup show. He tones it down a notch for HBO.
There's a reason people compare me to George Carlin — 'cause we're standup comedians.By the way, "twat" wasn't even on Carlin's original list of "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television." "Cunt" was. Later, Carlin expanded the list, and "twat" got on along with "fart" and "turd." It's like a late year in the history of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, when The Beatles and The Rolling Stones got in long ago, like 2002 and they're getting around to Gene Pitney and Brenda Lee. It's an analogy! I don't owe Brenda an apology. If people are too dumb to handle analogies, why do we even have democracy? Let's just make Obama king, stop talking about politics, and spend our lives dancing and singing.
Did you watch that Carlin clip? Astounding! Maher cites "people" who compare him to George Carlin. He doesn't dare claim the comparison sprang out of his own semi-bald dome. But I'll compare him to Carlin: Bill Maher is not at all as funny or perceptive as George Carlin. Now that's a comparison. What did those other people who compared Maher to Carlin say? I'd like to know, because I'd like to do a comparison comparison. I think mine is better.
Back to this quote from last night that I'm trying to analyze:
Rush Limbaugh likes to say he's a comedian.No, he doesn't! Rush's critics like to call him a comedian. When it suits their purposes. Other times they like to say he's the spokesman for the Republican Party. And that's what Rush likes to say. I listen to the show all the time, so I know what he likes to say. Unlike a lot of people who love to hate Rush and simply react to out-of-context quotes they've been fed.
But Rush uses humor. He likes to "use absurdity to illustrate the absurd."
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You know what, Rush, when you can stand up in front of an audience of 3,000 people all the time like I do and make them spill their fuckin' guts out and laugh their asses off for 90 minutes, you're a comedian.Rush doesn't do theater shows — which tend to be scripted with crafted jokes told one after the other — and let's grant Maher that Rush would be bad at that. But Rush does sit down at a microphone 3 hours a day, 5 days a week and hold the attention of not 3,000 people but many millions. For 20 years. Maher could not do that. These are different activities. Both deploy humor as they talk about politics, but they do it in a different way. Maher's bragging that he's doing much more than Rush... it's as off as the implication that he's as good as Carlin.
But you're not a comedian. And when you do that, I say, my rule: You get a little extra leeway.Each humorist can decide for himself how much leeway he's going to take. And people will decide whether to give it to him. He can't dictate a rule, except as a joke. You don't get the leeway because you do standup comedy (or a radio show using absurdity to illustrate absurdity). You get what people feel like giving you. And what we feel is a response to what you do. It's a mystery why we feel the way we do. We're not following any rules. It's a personal relationship, like love.
But if I offended women, I'm sorry. I don't have a problem saying I'm sorry.Oh, but you do, Bill. Because that is not an apology. It's easy to say "I'm sorry" in the sorry-if-you-are-offended form, i.e., a nonapology.
I don't know why women would want to align themselves with Sarah Palin. I don't know why an insult to her is an insult to all women, but if it is, I'm sorry.If... and obviously, you don't think it is. The joke — not a terribly good one, not anything that's going to make us spill our "fuckin' guts" out over— is that women shouldn't see Sarah Palin as one of the women who count. If we can isolate her over there with the bad people, we can call her a name that is specific to women: a "cunt." Is the use of a woman-specific insult something that switches the subject to all women? That is, is "cunt" like a racist epithet? If one black person is called the n-word, the topic ceases to be whether that one black person is a bad guy. Or is "cunt" like "dick"? If one guy is called a "dick," we stay on topic: the way that one guy is a "dick." I wrote "cunt," "dick," and "n-word," so you can see what my answer is. I'm for sexual equality... and abandoning the famously hurtful racial epithet.
So let humorists of all kinds select the language they want to use. Let them be gentle or cutting. There are all sorts of things you can do with words. There are no rules. There are no 7 dirty words for TV or extra leeway for extracting puke from 3,000 theater-ticket buyers. There is a mystery to using words to reach other human beings, and you're all on your own.


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NPR reported that: When new GOP presidential front-runner Newt Gingrich recently advocated a "humane" approach to addressing illegal immigrants in America, some conservatives questioned whether it would fatally damage the former House Speaker's campaign.
After all, Texas Gov. Rick Perry saw his bid for the GOP nomination falter in part because of his support for a program that allows children of illegal immigrants to pay in-state tuition at state colleges and universities.
But a new survey in Iowa of some of the most conservative voters in the nation ― that state's likely GOP caucus-goers ― suggests that a wider swath of Republicans than previously believed support changes to immigration law that would help young people, as well as businesses and foreign-born entrepreneurs.
The survey, released Tuesday, showed that just 16 percent of likely Iowa GOP caucus attendees surveyed for a coalition of conservative Republicans said they were "outright opposed to proposals" that would modernize and expand legal immigration.
"This survey demonstrates that while opinions are strong on tough enforcement for illegal immigration, it is not the top-tier, hot-button issue among Republican caucus-goers it's often made out to be," says John Stineman, spokesman for the coalition of Iowa Republicans who are working with Partnership for a New American Economy, a national organization that supports immigration reform and sponsored the poll.
"It's eye-opening," Stineman says, and "resets" perceptions of how Iowa Republican caucus-goers view the issue.
Stineman, a GOP strategist who is not working for any of the Republican candidates, said: "There is clearly an appetite for working to solve problems with our legal immigration system, and Iowa Republicans make that connection that doing so can help grow our economy."
Des Moines pollster J. Ann Selzer conducted the survey Nov. 16-19. Selzer conducts the respected Iowa Poll for the Des Moines Register and polls for Bloomberg News.
Reducing government spending and creating jobs "best reflects the mood" of caucus-goers this year, she says, and topped the list of issues important to Iowa Republicans. Fewer than half said that halting illegal immigration is a critical issue.
Social issues, including abortion, were seen by only 35 percent of those surveyed as critical this election year.
"This is a different year, this is a different mood, this is a different agenda," Selzer said.
Iowa Republicans, the survey found, overwhelmingly support tough border security, systems that verify the immigration status of new hires and punishment for businesses that hire those in the country illegally.
But they indicated in the survey that they are open to policies that help foreign-born young people educated in the U.S. to enter the workforce, as well as those that help companies hire seasonal and permanent employees for vacant jobs Americans are not filling.
They also expressed strong support for increasing opportunities for highly-skilled legal immigrants and entrepreneurs to come to the United States.
When asked about legal immigration, 57 percent of Iowa Republican caucus-goers surveyed said that it would be a "good idea" for the U.S. to expand legal immigration in a way that would create jobs.
"Likely Iowa caucus-goers separate concerns with illegal immigration from the potential opportunity of legal immigration," Selzer says.
There's an openness to modernizing the nation's visa policies, she says, including devising a temporary visa program for workers, both low- and high-skilled.
Of those surveyed, 83 percent described themselves as very or mostly conservative. Most had some college or a college degree, and skewed a little older.
"We all know that immigration can be controversial," Stineman says. "We wanted to dig a little deeper and get away from tired talking points."
Iowa Republicans get that immigration reform and visa reform can create jobs, he said.
What that means for Mitt Romney, recently overtaken by Gingrich in Iowa caucus polls as well as national polls, remains to be seen.
Romney has fashioned himself as a tough-on-illegal-immigration candidate, criticizing both Perry for his tuition stand and Gingrich for suggesting that illegal immigrants who have been here a long time, "paying taxes and obeying the law" should be allowed to stay.
The Partnership for a New American Economy describes itself as a bipartisan group of mayors and business leaders working to "raise awareness of the economic benefits of sensible immigration reform."
Its co-chairs include Steven Ballmer of Microsoft Corporation, Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York City, Bob Iger of the Walt Disney Co., and Rupert Murdoch of News Corp.


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March 22 is World Water Day! Today, Dr. Greg Allgood, vice president for World Vision water, writes about the miracles he's experienced along his journey with World Vision and P&G to provide 1 billion liters of clean drinking water. To mark this milestone, he announces new plans for the future of our work.
Do you believe in miracles? I do.
Earlier this month, we announced that Procter & Gamble (P&G) and World Vision have now provided 1 billion liters of clean drinking water together since we began our collaboration in 2007. We've worked together in 34 countries and have reached a breathtaking 6.5 million people with clean water.
We do this by providing people with P&G water purification packets. These are simple-to-use four-gram packets of powder that are added to dirty water to make it clean and healthy in just minutes. They work like a mini water treatment plant by using the same ingredients used in making water safe in the United States, but they can provide clean water for only 2 cents per person per day.
They are nothing short of a life-saving miracle for people who have to drink dirty water.
We've responded to emergencies, including the recent typhoon in the Philippines, the Haiti earthquake and cholera outbreak, the cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe, the earthquake in Chile, and floods in Mozambique. We've helped to keep children in school by reducing school absenteeism, and we've reduced the burden on women by giving them a tool to make water clean for their families.
One of the most miraculous experiences with the P&G packets occurred in the rural areas of coastal Kenya. The mother of one of the families, Zeinab, was very sick. She told me that she has AIDS. The power of clean water transformed her life by enabling her to get off her deathbed, become strong, and regain employment so she can provide for her family. Zeinab wants people to know that she is living strong and healthy even though she has AIDS because now she has clean water. She said it was good if I'd share the picture I took of her when she was so sick and after she regained her health.
Allison Tummon Kamphuis, my successor for the P&G Children's Safe Drinking Water (CSDW) program, and I donated the 1 billionth liter of clean drinking water to Sakira Ahmed and her son, Failu, in rural Ghana. Sakira gathers her drinking water from a pond, and her family frequently suffered from worms and parasites before the P&G packets. She was grateful to receive the donation from P&G and World Vision and be included in the millions of people who have received clean water.
One of the most significant things that occurred before I retired from P&G and joined World Vision was to help begin a collaboration between P&G and Walmart. This partnership started in the UK with Walmart's ASDA stores. During the campaign, every P&G product that is sold in ASDA triggers a donation to provide a person with one day of clean drinking water in the developing world.
And by every product, I mean a whole lot of different products, since P&G is the largest consumer products company in the world, with iconic brands like Pampers, Oral-B, Gillette, Venus, Always, Duracell, Pantene, Herbal Essences, Head & Shoulders, Olay, and many more. This effort has already generated tens of millions of days of clean drinking water, and the campaign that is running right now in the UK has a goal to donate 75 million days of clean water.
As one of the largest providers of the P&G packets, World Vision benefits from this P&G and Walmart campaign. In fact, partly because of this campaign, we're announcing today not only the 1 billionth liter, but a new effort to reach another million people with clean water in West Africa during the next year. Sakira and Ahmed and many other people in seven West African countries will receive the P&G packets with support from this effort. We'll provide 180 million more P&G packets this year in World Vision programs through one of the largest grants that P&G has provided for clean water.
Here's a new short video to celebrate our 1 billion liter accomplishment and plans to do more:
Why is this collaboration so important? Scale. The potential for massive scale. The kind of scale that can help end the global clean drinking water crisis. This effort brings together P&G, the largest consumer products company on the planet, with Walmart, the largest retailer in the world, to support the work of CSDW implementing partners like World Vision, the NGO providing more clean drinking water than anyone else. World Vision is already reaching one new person with clean drinking water every 30 seconds. And it's partnerships like this that will allow us to do even more and ultimately lead to solving the global water crisis.
Indeed, it will take a miracle and huge scale to solve the global water crisis. But I know we'll get it done. After all, it's just one more miracle in this story.
You can join our efforts to solve the global water crisis! Help us fund a variety of water projects like the P&G purification packets by making a one-time donation to our clean water fund!


text: The story begins when ace private eye Harry Goodman goes mysteriously missing, prompting his 21-year-old son Tim to find out what happened. Aiding in the investigation is Harry's former Pokémon partner, Detective Pikachu: a hilariously wise-cracking, adorable super-sleuth who is a puzzlement even to himself. Finding that they are uniquely equipped to communicate with one another, Tim and Pikachu join forces on a thrilling adventure to unravel the tangled mystery. Chasing clues together through the neon-lit streets of Ryme City—a sprawling, modern metropolis where humans and Pokémon live side by side in a hyper-realistic live-action world—they encounter a diverse cast of Pokémon characters and uncover a shocking plot that could destroy this peaceful co-existence and threaten the whole Pokémon universe.


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Kevin Clash: Making Elmo Come To Life
This interview was originally broadcast on December 15, 2011. Being Elmo premieres on the PBS program Independent Lens on April 5th.
When Elmo first appeared on Sesame Street, the little red monster had a deep voice and rarely laughed. But then puppeteer Kevin Clash started working with the furry red creature. Clash, now the senior puppet coordinator and Muppet captain on Sesame Street, further developed Elmo's lovable personality and started providing his trademark voice. Over the past 25 years, Clash has transformed Elmo into one of the most recognizable characters on Sesame Street.
Clash's story is told in the new documentary Being Elmo, which chronicles the puppeteer's journey from performing in backyard shows for his mother's home-based day care center, to working with Jim Henson and the rest of the Muppeteers, to becoming an integral part of the Sesame Street cast.
Both Clash "and" Elmo join Fresh Air's Terry Gross for a conversation about Sesame Street, performing with Henson, and creating educational material for preschool-aged children.
More On The Muppets And Sesame Street
The Origins Of Elmo
Clash describes Elmo as "a 3-1/2-year-old with a lot of energy [who] loves hugs and kisses, and loves to laugh."
Clash thought that a falsetto voice would work well for a toddler-aged puppet. "[When playing Elmo], I really go back to being me as a child growing up," Clash says. "I definitely pull back into my childhood and how I was as a child. When I started doing live shows, I would try the show out [on my mom's day care kids]. And if they crawled away, I knew it was something I should take out of the show."
Clash was barely a preteen when he started crafting his own puppets from scraps of material he found at his parents' house. His first puppet was Mickey Mouse, followed shortly by his own creations, who often danced and sang like the people Clash saw on TV.
"I grew up listening to Motown and watching commercials, so the live shows that I was doing [as a teenager], I really used all of that," he says. "All my puppets knew how to do The Bump and The Robot and all the dances that were out at the time. So I really was influenced by TV and music, and incorporated them into my live shows."
In high school, Clash started sewing puppets for the children's series Romper Room. He also started performing on local shows in Baltimore and on the television show Captain Kangaroo. After meeting one of the original Muppeteers, he was invited to join the Sesame Street float during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade. That's where he first met Jim Henson, The Muppets' visionary founder who died in 1990, and encountered the artistry of the puppets themselves.
"When I actually saw a Sesame Street Muppet, the fur was so thick and rich," he says. "And touching the eyes — I could just find plastic spoons and stuff [for my homemade puppets] — their eyes were really hard and the plastic was really hard, and that meant it could last. It was really amazing how they made the mouths, how they sewed the mouths together, it really blew me away. ... You can get so much looking at it on TV, but up close and being able to really examine it, it was a dream come true for me."
Being Part Of A Child's Life
Clash was asked to join the cast of Sesame Street as a puppeteer in 1984. Shortly thereafter, he started working with Elmo. The character began to catch on, and then became a hit.
"The research department goes out and watches the show with kids, to see how they react to certain characters," he says. "And Elmo just hit the charts as far as them really connecting to the little red monster. And not only laughing with him and enjoying him — but also learning what they're supposed to be learning from the specific curriculum that was in the scripts with him."
He says parents are sometimes a bit mystified that their children are so taken with the character — especially when their kids say "Elmo" before they say "Mom."
"I get that a lot," he says. "It's like, 'Do you know my child's first word was Elmo?' But they understand it, too. It's nice to be a part of their life with their child."
Clash says that children who visit the set of Sesame Street will often tell Elmo if they've gotten a new pair of shoes or a new brother or sister. And occasionally, they'll open up about other parts of their lives.
"The time that it really changed — when it really scared me — was when 9/11 happened," he says. "A lot of children were relocated from schools down in that area, and so they asked Sesame Street if some of the puppeteers and the characters could meet and greet these children. And [before Sept. 11] ... they used to come up and give Elmo a drawing of Elmo. And it was very scary to [now] see the children bringing up drawings of a tower and the planes hitting the towers. It's very hard for me, because I don't know what to say to them. I was there to entertain them and take them away from that."
Clash says he told the children that the events of Sept. 11 were really scary, and that Elmo was there for them.
"[And then I'd say], 'Give Elmo a hug and let's sing,' " he says. "I tried to pull them away from it as much as possible. Mommy and Daddy were there to explain a little bit more, and we're there to entertain and try and take them away from it."
Interview Highlights
On performing a Muppet character
"When you're a performer, once you go into the character, you don't think about yourself. It's pretty interesting because you're watching a TV that's showing you what the camera's shooting, and sometimes you forget that you're performing at the same time — and you tend to laugh at what you're doing ... It's something that happens because you are creating something and you're thinking about that character."
On Elmo's lovable personality
"All of us try to get some type of catchphrase or something that the puppet does to get you into the character. Like Jim Henson with 'Hi-ho, Kermit the frog here' or Fozzie saying, 'Wokka wokka' or Miss Piggy saying, 'Moi.' The laugh for Elmo was the hook for me to get to where Elmo needed to be."
On the Muppeteers remaining invisible
"We have a lot of children that will visit [the set of Sesame Street]. And what we've found is that they really don't care about us, about the puppeteers. They've watched these characters on the show, on TV for so long, that they're really like close friends. It's interesting. They really don't look at me when they see Elmo. They run to Elmo because it's a friend of theirs that they've been talking to and communicating with and singing with for so many years. We've found that the delusion is not broken by seeing us puppeteers. They see the characters in front of them. ... I get humbled by it all the time. The things that they tell Elmo, the expression on their face when they see their friend."
On Sesame Street characters
"I love the simplicity of Sesame Street characters. I love that [Elmo is] just an orange nose and two eyes and no tongue — just a black mouth — and you just find that by just the tilt of the head or looking up, it says something. There's an emotion there."


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The Chinese or lunar New Year is quickly approaching and I have been thinking about Chinese cuisine a lot. The word for oranges in Chinese is similar to the word for wealth and thus oranges are considered lucky for the New Year, which is great since orange chicken is one of my favourite dishes. Normally takeout orange chicken is battered and fried in a lot of oil but I prefer this lighter and healthier version where the chicken is simply sauteed and then tossed in a super tasty orange sauce! One of the best things about this recipe is that it takes less time to make than it takes to steam the rice, less than 20 minutes!
So nice and light, healthy and tasty!
Serve over steamed rice, quino or noodles and toss with some steamed vegetables like broccoli, peppers, peas, etc for a complete meal.
20 Minute Light Orange Chicken
A quick, easy, light and tasty Chinese orange chicken dish that is way better than takeout!
- 1 tablespoon oil
- 1 pound boneless and skinless chicken breasts or thighs, cut into 1 inch pieces
- 1/3 cup orange juice
- 3 tablespoons honey
- 3 tablespoons soy sauce
- 2 tablespoons rice vinegar
- 1 teaspoon chill sauce such as sambal oelek or sriracha
- 1 tablespoon orange zest, grated
- 1 clove garlic, grated
- 1 teaspoon ginger, grated
- 1 tablespoon water
- 1 tablespoon cornstarch
- 1/4 cup green onion, sliced (optional)
- Heat the oil in a pan over medium-high heat, add the chicken and cook until cooked through, about 2-4 minutes per side.
- Add the mixture of the orange juice, honey, soy sauce, rice vinegar, chill sauce, garlic, ginger and the mixture of the water and the corn starch, toss to coat and cook until the sauce thickens, about a minute.
- Remove from heat and serve garnished with sliced green onions.
Option: Add some vegetables to the mix such as broccoli, peas, peppers, etc.
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Journey of the Universe weaves together the discoveries of the evolutionary sciences together with humanities such as history, philosophy, art, and religion. The course draws on the Emmy-award winning film, Journey of the Universe, and the book from Yale University Press.
Journey explores cosmic evolution as a creative process based on connection, interdependence, and emergence. It examines a range of dynamic interactions in the unfolding of galaxies, Earth, life, and human communities. It investigates ways in which we understand evolutionary processes and the implications for humans and our ecological future.
The Journey course, thus, is based on a new integration that is emerging from the dialogue of the sciences and humanities. Journey tells the story of evolution as an epic narrative, rather than as a series of facts separated by scientific disciplines. This changes our perception so that we begin to see ourselves as an integral part of this narrative. By situating ourselves within this story we can better appreciate the complexity and beauty of processes such as self-organizing dynamics, natural selection, emergence, symbiosis, and co-evolution. As we discover these intricate processes of evolution, we awaken to the beauty and complexity of our natural environment at this critical juncture in our planetary history.


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An overview of the Making Tax Digital for VAT regulations.
Making Tax Digital for VAT (MTDfV) fundamentally changes the way in which businesses keep VAT records and submit VAT returns. At Clay Shaw Butler, we can provide guidance on the key aspects of MTDfV and the implications for your business in the Carmarthen area.
Over the coming years, the government will phase in its landmark Making Tax Digital (MTD) initiative, which will see taxpayers move to a fully digital tax system.
This factsheet outlines some of the key issues for businesses.
Making Tax Digital for Business (MTDfB) was introduced in the 2015 Spring Budget. The government's 'Making Tax Easier' document was published shortly after, and outlined plans for the 'end of the tax return'. It also set out the government's vision to modernise the UK's tax system, with digital tax accounts set to replace tax returns for ten million individuals and five million small businesses.
However, industry experts and those within the accountancy sector expressed concerns over the proposed pace and the scale of the introduction of MTDfB, and, as a result, the government amended the timetable for the initiative's implementation, to allow businesses and individuals 'plenty of time to adapt to the changes'.
MTDfB, starting with VAT will now be implemented from 1 April 2019, as summarised below.
From 1 April 2019, businesses will be mandated to use the MTDfB system to meet their VAT obligations. Under the new rules, businesses with a turnover above the VAT threshold (currently £85,000) must keep digital records for VAT purposes and provide their VAT return information to HMRC using MTD functional compatible software.
The new rules have effect from 1 April 2019, where a taxpayer has a 'prescribed accounting period' which begins on that date, and otherwise from the first day of a taxpayer's first prescribed accounting period beginning after 1 April 2019. The exception to this is a small minority of VAT-registered businesses with more complex requirements who will not be mandated to comply with MTD for VAT until 1 October 2019.
The six month deferral applies to businesses who fall into one of the following categories: trusts, 'not for profit' organisations that are not set up as a company, VAT divisions, VAT groups, those public sector entities required to provide additional information on their VAT return (government departments, NHS Trusts), local authorities, public corporations, traders based overseas, those required to make payments on account and annual accounting scheme users. HMRC expects that the deferral will apply to around 3.5% of mandated businesses.
HMRC is piloting MTD for VAT ahead of its introduction in April 2019.
Those businesses that fall within the scope of MTDfV will be required to submit their VAT returns using software compatible with the MTDfV regulations. Information will be extracted from the digital records in order to populate the VAT return.
There will be no changes to the statutory VAT return or payment dates. In addition, businesses who choose to submit VAT returns monthly or in a non-standard fashion will be able to continue to do so.
Under MTDfV, businesses must make use of functional compatible software to meet the new requirements. VAT returns will be calculated and submitted to HMRC via an Application Programme Interface (API). Submission can be from software, bridging software or API enabled spreadsheets.
HMRC acknowledges there will be different ways to do this. However, the transfer of data to HMRC, from the mandatory digital records to the filing of the return, must be entirely digital. HMRC has published VAT Notice 700/22: Making Tax Digital for VAT setting out requirements in more detail.
Under MTD, manual record keeping will not be acceptable. Specified records will have to be kept digitally, using 'functional compatible software.' This means a 'software program or set of compatible software programs which can connect to HMRC systems via an API' which must be capable of:
Records to be kept digitally are specified in the VAT Notice. They include 'designatory data'; the VAT account linking primary records and VAT return; and information about supplies made and received. Requirements are more extensive than at present, for example in relation to supplies made, where it will be necessary to record the different rates of VAT applicable. For supplies received, the amount of input tax to be claimed will be needed.
MTD is not completely paper-free, and it does not mean businesses are mandated to use digital invoices and receipts. Some records will still be kept in hard copy, such as the C79 import VAT certificate. However the actual recording of supplies made and received that must be digital. Where invoices and receipts aren't held digitally, they should be kept in hard copy as usual for VAT purposes.
The digital records required for MTD don't have to be held in one place or one program. Businesses can keep digital records in a range of different compatible digital formats. The use of spreadsheets is allowed, in combination with add-on MTD software.
If the information is prescribed as part of the 'digital journey', the mandatory submission process, it must transferred via 'digital link.' The new VAT Notice defines these.
A digital link is a transfer or exchange of digital data between software programs, products or applications. Where a set of software products is used, there must be digital links between them, and once data is entered into software, any further transfer or modification must be via digital link.
Manual data transfer is not allowed under MTD. An example would be noting details from invoices in one ledger, then using that handwritten information to update manually another part of the functional compatible software. Copying by hand or manual transposition of data between two or more pieces of software and 'cut and paste', or 'copy and paste' will not be acceptable in the long term. There are however some transitional arrangements (see below).
The VAT Notice outlines acceptable digital links, including:
For VAT return periods beginning between 1 April 2019 and 31 March 2020, penalties will not be charged if businesses don't have digital links between software programs. This means 'cut and paste' will be acceptable while businesses update their systems. However, from 2020, HMRC will penalise non-compliance.
The transfer of VAT return data to bridging software to make submission to HMRC must always be digital, and is excluded from the soft landing provisions.
HMRC is not providing software. It is currently working with software providers to get products on the market by the MTD start date, and will list recognised products on the gov.uk site as they become ready. An initial list can be found here.
If you already use accounting software and your supplier is not on this list, ask if and when they will upgrade products to be MTD-compatible.
Under MTDfV, only a small handful of businesses will be exempt. Please contact us if you believe your business may be exempt. Businesses will be able to make a right of appeal against a HMRC refusal of exemption.


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San Miguel de Cozumel
Cozumel is an island in the Caribbean Sea off the eastern coast of Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula, opposite Playa del Carmen, and close to the Yucatán Channel. The island is covered with mangrove forest which has many endemic animal species. Cozumel is a flat island based on limestone, resulting in a karst topography. There are a number of visitors to the island's balnearios, scuba diving, and snorkeling. The main town on the island is San Miguel de Cozumel. The islands belongs to Cozumel Municipality of the state of Quintana Roo, Mexico.
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New Orleans is a major United States port and the largest city and metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana. The New Orleans metropolitan area, (New Orleans–Metairie–Kenner) has a population of 1,235,650 as of 2009, the 46th largest in the USA. The New Orleans – Metairie – Bogalusa combined statistical area has a population of 1,360,436 as of 2000. The city/parish alone has a population of 343,829 as of 2010. The city is named after Philippe d' Orléans, Duke of Orléans, Regent of France, and is well known for its distinct French Creole architecture, as well as its cross cultural and multilingual heritage. New Orleans is also famous for its cuisine, music (particularly as the birthplace of jazz), and its annual celebrations and festivals, most notably Mardi Gras. The city is often referred to as the "most unique" city in America.


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Superstorm Sandy slammed into the New Jersey coastline late Monday, Oct. 29, hurling seawater at cities and towns along the eastern seaboard. In New York City, storm surge flooded tunnels, subway stations and parts of the city's electrical system. Sandy left at least 50 people dead in her wake in North America, and has put an estimated 8.2 million households without power in 17 states, according to the Associated Press.
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By JESSE WASHINGTON
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August 4, 2014
A new study shows that less than 5 percent of actors in top Hollywood films are Hispanic, and that Latinas are more likely than women of any other ethnicity to appear partially or totally naked on screen.
The study of the top 100 grossing films in 2013, by the University of Southern California's Annenberg school, found that the make-believe world of movies generally does not reflect what America looks like in real life.
About 74 percent of the actors in the study were white, compared with a U.S. population that's 63 percent non-Hispanic white.
Hispanics, who are 17 percent of the nation but had 4.9 percent of film roles, were the most underrepresented group on screen. That's despite the fact that Hispanics bought about 25 percent of all movie tickets and are more likely than any other group to go to the movies, according to the Motion Picture Association of America.
Black characters represented about 14 percent of those in the films, which is comparable to America's 13 percent black population. However, 17 percent of the films examined in the study did not have a single black speaking role, and half the films had a smaller percentage than the population, which indicates that a few movies with predominantly black casts balanced out the many movies with few black actors.
2013 was called a banner year for black actors, due to the success of films such as "Fruitvale Station," ''Lee Daniels' The Butler" and "12 Years a Slave," which made Steve McQueen the first black filmmaker to direct a best-picture winning film.
Hispanic stars such as the Dominican Zoe Saldana, the New York-born Puerto Rican Jennifer Lopez and the Spaniard Antonio Banderas appeared on the big screen.
Yet there has been no significant change since 2007 in the number of non-white actors in top films, said Stacy L. Smith, director of USC Annenberg's Media, Diversity & Social Change Initiative and author of the study being released Monday.
"The only obstacle here is imagination," Smith said in an interview.
She said that the number of black directors remained low — 6 percent of all directors in the study — and they were much more likely to use diverse casts. Hispanic directors were not counted.
"What we're seeing in the aggregate is very few folks not white and male being able to participate behind the camera," Smith said. "So the (on-screen) landscape remains primarily white and male. When you do have diversity behind the camera, things start to shift."
The study examined all 3,932 actors who spoke at least one word in the top 100 films of 2013. USC did similar counts in 2007-2010 and 2012.
Asians filled 4.4 percent of roles in 2013, compared with their 5.3 percent of the U.S. population. One percent of roles were played by "Middle Eastern" actors, less than 1 percent by Native Americans, and 1 percent by "other."
Almost 38 percent of Latina actresses appeared partially or fully naked on screen, the study said. That compared with 32 percent of white females, 24 percent of black females and 18 percent of Asian actresses.
"Latinas have this stereotype that we're sex symbols ... that we walk sexy and (have) this flavor," said Roselyn Sanchez, a Puerto Rican actress who has appeared in such films as "Act of Valor" and "Rush Hour 2."
She had no explanation for why Hispanics have so few movie roles. "It's not about talent," she said.
About 17 percent of Hispanic males were shown in "tight, alluring, or revealing clothing," the most of any group. Some 14 percent of Asian males, 13 percent of black actors and 8 percent of white actors were shown in similar attire.
Black males were more likely than those from any other group to be shown in a committed relationship, at 68 percent. Asian males were the least likely, at 29 percent.
Blanca Valdez, who runs a Hispanic casting agency in Los Angeles, said it's difficult for Latinos to audition for roles unless the call specifically asks for "diversity" or "multiethnic." That often keeps them out secondary roles such as the neighbor, the lawyer, or the bank teller.
She said some actors with Hispanic surnames who look white will only put their first name on their casting photographs, just to get a foot in the door.
But Valdez said things have been changing rapidly in commercials and television, with more calls than ever for Hispanic and "multiethnic" actors. She hopes that studios will "follow the money" since Latinos are such big movie fans.
"I hope this improvement continues," Valdez said, "because there's so much talent out there that doesn't get seen."
Associated Press journalist Edwin Tamara in Los Angeles contributed to this report.


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Sometime between 2 a.m. and 3 a.m. on Sunday, several hundred Israeli police officers in riot gear moved on a cluster of tents on a West Bank hilltop. Their target resembled the mainly Jewish campsites that pop up like mushrooms in the higher elevations of Palestinian territory, stippling the ridges that run from north to south across the striking biblical landscape. In the lexicon of a conflict that is fundamentally over land, the camps are called "outposts," a term Israelis use to differentiate these more spontaneous efforts from the state-sanctioned "settlements" that look more like suburban subdivisions. At last count there were more than 100 of each, though some of the outposts have made the transition to settlement, the tents replaced over time by trailers, and the trailers by houses. Technically illegal under the law of Israel, in practice the outposts are typically provided with power and water by the country's government and protected by the Israeli soldiers who have controlled the West Bank since 1967, the year Israel took the land with an ease that some Jews see as evidence of God's intention that they should have it.
All of which accounts for the unusual briskness with which the new campsite was dispatched in the darkness of early Sunday morning — the settlers were not Jews, but Palestinians. Not two days before, some 100 Palestinian activists had set up tents on Palestinian land just east of Jerusalem. They dubbed the campsite Bab al-Shams, or Gateway to the Sun, though the area appears on Israeli planning maps as E-1. It's the parcel that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Nov. 30 ordered be readied for transformation into an expansive Jewish settlement that diplomats and experts warned would, once built, effectively prevent the practical establishment of a Palestinian state, no matter that the U.N. had just recognized one in the airy realm of diplomacy.
(MORE: The West Bank's 2012: The Year of the Israeli Settlement)
In fact, it was the General Assembly's Nov. 29 vote making Palestine a nonmember state that stirred Netanyahu to announce what Daniel Seidemann, who heads an Israeli NGO dealing with conflict resolution in Jerusalem, called the "doomsday settlement" — apparently to demonstrate that Israel retains the power to render the notion of statehood moot by choking the West Bank with Jewish homes at its narrowest point. Currently, more than half a million Israelis live beyond the Green Line that defined the 1967 limits of Israel's territory, blocking Palestinian access to some 40% of the West Bank. As a practical matter, there's little Palestinians can do about it. Israel has the army, and Washington, in the phrase of President Barack Obama, "has got Israel's back." The weekend encampment aimed to make the most of that powerlessness.
"If we want peace, we have to resist — nonviolently, but resist — and counter Israeli facts on the ground with Palestinian facts on the ground," Mustafa Bargouthi, the Palestinian activist who helped organize the camp, tells TIME, a few hours after being arrested and deposited at the edge of Ramallah, the West Bank city. "They're allowing Israeli settlers to stay on Palestinian land, while at the same time within 48 hours they attack and remove us."
Israeli soldiers barred the international news media from witnessing the police sweep. Photographers who were already inside the camp recorded the action, which unfolded without significant injury to either side. The news blockade — a literal thing, as Israeli forces manned roadblocks on roads approaching the site — served to confirm that the Palestinian activists had mounted a potent demonstration. "It's in my view a very successful protest that is exposing the Israeli policy in many ways," says Hagit Ofran, who monitors settlements for the Israeli advocacy group Peace Now. "First of all, it puts E-1 back on the political agenda. Maybe it's because we're on the eve of elections, but the Prime Minister himself was responding to this provocation."
(PHOTOS: Palestinians Take to the West Bank's Streets in Protest)
Netanyahu, who finds himself facing an unexpected challenge from his right in the campaign that concludes Jan. 22, ordered the police action despite a Supreme Court injunction against demolition of the camp (an order authorities finessed by removing only the people; the tents were left standing). The Premier's election slate has seen its support significantly eroded in polls by the pro-settler Jewish Home party, a situation analysts say accounts for Netanyahu's pre-election flurry of promises to build additional housing units beyond the Green Line — 11,000 announced in a week, as many as in nine previous years combined. "We will not allow anyone to harm the contiguity between Jerusalem and Maale Adumim," Netanyahu said Sunday, naming the massive exurb that stands on the far side of the largely empty E-1 parcel.
The Bab al-Shams camp, named for an acclaimed novel by Lebanese writer Elias Khoury, aimed both to revive the international uproar over Netanyahu's announced plans and to highlight the legalistic double standards that Bargouthi and others refer to as apartheid. "When the [Jewish] settlers do the same thing it takes years and lots of trips to the Supreme Court before anything moves, and here in less than 48 hours they managed to kick all of them out!" Ofran tells TIME. "On top of all this, when they evict settlers, sometimes they're confronted with violence from the settlers. This is a very powerful contrast."
Indeed, the campsite and its prompt removal marked a watershed for a generation of Palestinian activists who have struggled to channel the transformative energies of the Arab Spring into their own conflict. The problem has been, in part, that mass rallies advertised as nonviolent can be undone by a couple of kids from refugee camps throwing stones — giving Israeli forces the excuse to fire tear gas and rubber bullets that turn the event into familiar scenes of melee. But the campsite protest was staged miles from a refugee camp, by activists trained in the discipline of nonviolent resistance.
The idea of establishing an "outpost" was also clever — a bit of jujitsu, maybe aikido, whatever finds an advantage in being the ostensibly less powerful force. And though the idea of conspicuously taking over hilltops had been tried by other Palestinian activists, those pioneers pitched their camps deep in the West Bank, in remote redoubts difficult for journalists to cover. But E-1 had been made prominent by Netanyahu's fresh announcement to build — in defiance of international outcry. And it straddles a four-lane highway just outside Jerusalem, where major international news organizations maintain bureaus.
"What happened the day before yesterday was the merging of all these nonviolent movements into one stream," says Bargouthi, who is a physician and Palestinian politician and not to be confused with Marwan Bargouthi, the jailed Fatah militant. "We merged all these groups from the village and the district level to the national level. And there will be a lot more creative ideas in the coming period."
PHOTOS: A New Gaza War: Israel and Palestinian Militants Trade Fire


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U-Wire University of Colorado at Boulder; Boulder, CO –
Every few weeks, a group of people — typically a dozen or so professionals, from Silicon Valley and Wall Street, academia and Hollywood — pay for the privilege of ditching their smartphones, laptops and tablets and spending a few days at a lodge in the California Redwoods for a "Digital Detox."
Deprived of their screens, they hike, swim and do yoga in a deliberate effort to reestablish some balance in lives that have tilted too far toward browsing, texting and tweeting.
Such getaways are increasingly common. Whether the organizer calls it a digital diet, disconnecting, detoxing, unplugging or going off the grid, it's part of a growing movement to help highly plugged-in Americans step away from technology and digital media.
Some hotels have experimented with packages for visitors who want to go tech-free. "Check-In to Check-Out" at the Lake Placid Lodge in the Adirondacks requires guests to leave their electronics at the front desk and replace them with activities such as cooking classes, fishing and reading a bestseller (hard copy). Marriott and Renaissance hotels in the Caribbean and Mexico set up tech-free areas called "Braincation Zones," where guests are encouraged to talk, read and play games.
For the past four years, an organization called Reboot has organized a National Day of Unplugging. For 24 hours beginning at sundown on the first Friday of March, participants pledge to take a complete break from the Internet.
Ironically, there are even apps you can download to unplug. One such program, called Freedom, blocks access to Internet on your computer for up to eight hours at a stretch. Another, called SelfControl, lets you block out specific websites for 24 hours at a time.
Steve Lambert, founder of SelfControl, says the real value of his app is that it makes users aware of their behavior — getting blocked every time they try to go to Facebook, for example, shows them how often they do it.
Similarly, Levi Felix, founder of Digital Detox, says the purpose of his tech-free retreats is not to completely wean people from technology, but rather to help them become "mindful" of their usage.
In 2011, more than 27 percent of Americans were "highly connected," defined as those who connect to the Internet from multiple locations and devices, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Nielsen reports that 60 percent of Americans own smartphones — giving them the constant ability to access the Internet, email and social media. That brings the expectation of always being online.
"The expectation that you are always reachable — that you will respond immediately to that beeping, buzzing and ringing of texts, emails and phone calls — has created a society of people who are on edge and overwhelmed," says Tanya Schevitz, a spokeswoman for the National Day of Unplugging.
"You see couples at dinner both texting someone else or scrolling through Facebook. That gets old," she said. And as the pull of technology puts a strain on personal relationships, she said, "people want to stop living through Facebook and Twitter and reconnect."
Felix agrees. "If we don't figure out how to live with each other, enjoy each other as humans in real life, then we continue down this path of always being on our screens," he said. "We're going to create a culture that's always lonelier, create a culture where our kids don't know how to have dinner with their family."
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Cry, Baby
Why is it, that on top of all the other discomforts and inconveniences of pregnancy - the heartburn, the back-ache, the farting (it's not just me, is it? It can't be), the disrupted sleep (what agent of Satan decided that pregnant women could not sleep on their backs? Side-sleeping is an unholy torture when the combination of belly weight and gravity constantly conspire to tip you over), the nauseau (more or less recovered from, but I still can't face a weird smell - and here I do not refer to my pregnancy farts, which are more noisy than smelly, but rather to things like, oh, say, peanut butter - without retching) - the forces of universe decided that one of the symptoms of hormonal unrest due to pregnancy should be extreme moodiness?
I don't want to cry about the fact that the cats scratched my brand-new rug, again, or about the play of light through my kitchen window, or about Ella Fitzgerald singing How High The Moon, or because I couldn't get the espresso machine to make me a decaf non-fat latte just by standing in front of it and yelling or because Britney Spear just keeps making things worse for herself. I don't want to cry, period. Crying gives me headaches, and if I get another headache right now it will probably just, you know, make me cry.
I also don't like being Her Bad Jekyll and Mother Hyde with my husband: I've been known, over recent days, to suddenly snap at him for, say, looking at me the wrong way or insisting upon making the gravy for the mashed potatoes or making puns that I don't get (although to be fair, I did laugh once I got it, like, two minutes later). He tolerates it, which only makes it worse, because his unquestioning acceptance of my psychotic condition just makes cry.
Feeling really fat while eating all the chocolates that a dear friend sent me also makes me cry (which, yes, I insist is a hormonal thing and not self-loathing, because most of the time I don't mind so much feeling fat, only, sometimes, when I'm eating handfuls of chocolates and getting a stomach-ache) but I keep doing it, because otherwise HBF would eat them and I would snap at him and then I would cry anyway, so I might as well skip the middleman and get the pleasure of the chocolate before I get weepy.
But the biggest headf*ck of all is that it's being really happy - which I am, these days - that has got me most constantly on the verge of tears. Feel Sprout kick? Eyes get wet. Listen to Wonderbaby sing ABC? Throat closes up. Watch HBF and Wonderbaby count the stars - which we can now see in abundance, outside the city - through her bedroom window? Choke back tears. Reflect upon my lovely family and my lovely life and the bright horizon that is constantly unfolding before us?
Sob. And smile.


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– Tim Giardina Suspended: No. 2 U.S. Nuke Commander Under Investigation (Huffington Post, Sep 28, 2013):
WASHINGTON — The No. 2 officer at the military command in charge of all U.S. nuclear war-fighting forces is suspected in a case involving counterfeit gambling chips at a western Iowa casino and has been suspended from his duties, officials said.
Navy Vice Adm. Tim Giardina has not been arrested or charged, Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation special agent David Dales said Saturday. The state investigation is ongoing.
Giardina, deputy commander at U.S. Strategic Command, was suspended on Sept. 3 and is under investigation by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, a Strategic Command spokeswoman said.
The highly unusual action against a high-ranking officer at Strategic Command was made more than three weeks ago but not publicly announced at that time. The command is located at Offutt Air Force Base near Omaha, Neb.
Air Force Gen. Robert Kehler, who heads Strategic Command, suspended Giardina, according to the command's top spokeswoman, Navy Capt. Pamela Kunze. Giardina is still assigned to the command but is prohibited from performing duties related to nuclear weapons and other issues requiring a security clearance, she said.
Kehler has recommended to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel that Giardina be reassigned, Kunze said. Giardina has been the deputy commander of Strategic Command since December 2011. He is a career submarine officer and prior to starting his assignment there was the deputy commander and chief of staff at U.S. Pacific Fleet.
DCI agents stationed at the Horseshoe Casino in Council Bluffs, Iowa, discovered the counterfeit chips, Dales said. He would not say when the discovery was made or how much in counterfeit chips was found, only that "it was a significant monetary amount."
Council Bluffs is located across the Missouri River from Omaha.
"We were able to detect this one pretty quickly and jump on it," Dales said. He declined to give specifics on how authorities determined that casino chips had been counterfeited or how Giardina might have been involved.
Strategic Command oversees the military's nuclear fighter units, including the Navy's nuclear-armed submarines and the Air Force's nuclear bombers and nuclear land-based missiles.
Kunze said Strategic Command did not announce the suspension because Giardina remains under investigation and action on Kehler's recommendation that Giardina be reassigned is pending. The suspension was first reported by the Omaha World-Herald.
Kunze said a law enforcement investigation of Giardina began June 16. Kehler became aware of this on July 16, and the following day he asked the Naval Criminal Investigative Service to begin a probe.
The suspension is yet another blow to the military's nuclear establishment. Last spring the nuclear missile unit at Minot Air Force Base, N.D., pulled 17 launch control officers off duty after a problematic inspection and later relieved of duty the officer in charge of training and proficiency.
In August a nuclear missile unit at Malmstrom Air Force Base, Mont., failed a nuclear safety and security inspection; nine days later an officer in charge of the unit's security forces was relieved of duty.