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As 25,000 global experts descend on Washington, D.C., this week for the first International AIDS Conference in the United States in 22 years, they face some sobering statistics: 3 percent of all residents in the nation's capital are infected with the HIV virus.
And with 7 percent of all black males HIV-positive, the city has a higher infection rate than African countries like Ethiopia, Nigeria and Rwanda.
The world might be winning the war on AIDS -- 2.7 million had HIV in 2010, down from 3.2 million a decade earlier -- according to UNAIDS, but the United States, alongside Eastern Europe, still sees new infections.
Nearly 1.2 million Americans are now living with HIV/AIDS, an all-time high, with nearly 50,000 new infections every year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Even with last week's FDA approval of the preventive drug Truvada and antiretrovirus therapies that have virtually eliminated the transmission rate from mother-to-child, a large U.S. population has not reaped the good news.
African-Americans, who represent 14 percent of the U.S. population, account for the largest group, or 44 percent of all new HIV infections and deaths in 2009, according to the Foundation for AIDS Research.
"There is still no cure for AIDS and the fact that we have reduced transmission rates has generated a lot of excitement," said Gail Wyatt, associate director of the UCLA AIDS Institute.
"Our challenges have to do with disparities we have always seen between those who can afford health care and those who are not in the health care system," she said. "We are talking about affordable care and who gets treatment and which populations are disenfranchised and have not gotten care and have no insurance. The same issue has not gone away with the availability of new treatments."
Overall, African-American men represent 70 percent of all new infections in that group, a rate six and a half times that of Latino men or black women, according to the Foundation for AIDS Research.
The rate for heterosexual black women was 15 times the rate of white women and more than three times that of Latinas.
Some say America has a lot to learn from Africa in the fight against HIV/AIDS. But Wyatt argues that little attention has been paid to the U.S. crisis.
"An important point is that we are outsourcing our funds to Africa to stem the tide thousands of miles away, while we ought to provide the same concentrated efforts in America," Wyatt said. "Our policies need to take care of those at home and not be siphoned off."
The biggest obstacle has been getting those who are most at risk tested. African-American communities are plagued with the highest unemployment and crime rates and the fewest number of health resources.
"You need to create a different system to testing people, to make them feel comfortable being tested," Wyatt said. "When the [AIDS epidemic] first started, there was no need to get tested because there was no treatment. There were no clinics available or doctors they know or are comfortable with. These are barriers to care in a vulnerable community."
The highest infection rate is among men 13 to 29 who have sex with males, according to the CDC.
"It's an extreme concern and it's been overlooked for a long time," said Wyatt's colleague, Dr. John Williams, a professor of psychiatry at UCLA's AIDS Institute.
Some blame homophobia in the African-American community for preventing males from coming out about their sexuality and infecting female partners.
But, Williams said, the reasons are "more complex."
"There is a subset of men who are bisexual and not disclosing and also a group of men who fluidity across sexuality at different times in their lives," he said. "Incarceration is also a huge problem for black men."
He and Wyatt point to the gay white community that convinced the federal government to raise money in the fight against AIDS when the epidemic came to the national forefront in the mid-1980s. They have "served as a model for the rest of the world," they said.
Such efforts have not been replicated in the African-American community, which needs its own leaders and to be able to "heal themselves," Williams said.
Cornelius Baker, senior adviser for the National Black Gay Men's Advocacy Coalition, said poverty, culture and behavior contribute to new infections.
"For men in the African-American community, broadly, a high level of unemployment persists ... 15 to 30 percent, double or three times the national average. When you have an environment of that kind of endemic poverty, it certainly facilitates more drug use and sex work and almost a futility of life," he said.
"Prevention is an act of protecting your future. If you are in a culture that doesn't believe it has a future, than what becomes important is that moment and the decision to have unprotected sex."
In impoverished communities such as Washington, D.C., there might be access to health care but a lack of "health literacy," Baker said.
People don't get regular check-ups.
As for younger men, "they don't think anything is going to happen," he said.
And in a compact city like Washington, where there is little economic mobility, the virus circulates more virulently.
"These men don't have more sex or more drug use than their white, gay, counterparts, but they are in an environment that has more disease, more poverty and more HIV present in the community," Baker said. "They may have only one partner, but there is a greater likelihood, he has HIV."
Washington is a city where most have access to health coverage, but there are no hospitals in the African-American neighborhoods. "Few doctors are based past 16th Street in Northwest [D.C.]," Baker said. "People have to travel all the way across city to go to doctor."
He argues that the African-American community is no more religious and socially conservative and than U.S. Catholics.
"The difference is that the Catholic Church may condemn using birth control, but women have enough economic opportunities to ignore it," Baker said. "The challenge for young, black, gay men is not that there is a greater level of homophobia, but they are dependent on their families and communities for their survival."
Numerous African-Americans have helped lead the way, Baker said. The first significant bill was enacted by Gov. Willie Brown of California in 1972, followed by other black leaders in Washington, D.C., Chicago and New York City.
President Obama lifted a ban on travel visas for those who are HIV positive, making this week's U.S. conference possble.
"This concept that black people haven't been major partners or homophobia paralyzes us is false," Baker said.
Still, the statistics speak volumes and AIDS experts say more strategies need to address the rising number of HIV infections in these communities.
"Getting more and more people aware of their status is critical," Baker said. "Getting people to the treatment they deserve is not only a fundamental public health, but a fundamental human rights goal."
As for young African-American men, he added, "we have to prove to them that their lives matter."


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this thread is great! here's one more
British heavyweight boxer David Haye is currently in the UK TV show "I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here" where he stripped off in the Australian jungle for a shower. His bum pics have excited over 300 comments in the Daily Mail from women - and men - who want more .... Here's why ...
^^^^^Thanks biff for the link and pics - that man is so damn HOT!
If we're going down the reality TV route, check out these images of contestant Luke Scrase as he appeared in the latest series of "Big Brother UK". He was a bit of a dickhead in my opinion but let me have my way with his awesome ass and ALL will be forgiven!!!
Here's another one from the front
I wonder if he knows that flashing his bum like that has turned him into a gay icon overnight ... There are now over 400 comments on that Daily Mail (or should that be Daily Male) article ...
http://jmedia6.justusboys.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=678569&stc=1&d=1331503 358
What a winning combination - the hottest ass on this thread attached to the hottest guy on this thread!!! I want him and his tight butt...and I want them NOW!!!
ah ... So you want Adam Ayash, eh ? ...
However, with you having kindly ID'd him, I've carried out a bit of research. I understand he is not gay and that he doesn't fully get his front or back "jewels" out for pictures. As stunning as he is, he's gotta lose a few points on both counts I'm afraid....
He's 'King of the Cam' on TheCamGuys if you want a 'live' show but even for $9.99 a minute you don't get to see any jewels, as far as I know, just flexing and posing ... possibly something to do with the site claiming to be "non-pornographic" ... Not sure if you think posing is worth forking out that much for, but there you have it if you want it ...
Incidentally, the guy on the left (The Jock Next Door) used to be at the FratPad under the name Clayton.
The position this guy is in you should see a good bulge.
Look at the size of those
^ oh my goodness YES!!! So good!
Hockey players butts drive me nuts!
I've seen some hot threads in this forum butt this one is really hot.
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SISD announces new website
Sweetwater ISD has launched a new website that will provide important information to parents and community members. The site can be found at http://www.sweetwaterisd.net. Changes in the new site include a comprehensive calendar with event information for all Sweetwater campuses in one convenient place. Users will be able to subscribe to the calendar from within their own personal information managers or view the entire calendar on the web. The site will also have current news on the front page as well as a sports journal that will have up-to-date scores and information on all SISD teams. Parents will still be able to link to Family Access from the new site to view their child's actual grades, attendance, cafeteria meals status, and other information. Sweetwaterisd.net will also have up to date cafeteria menus, Parents Make The Difference! newsletters and current school policy information. A special section called the Superintendent's Corner will provide information from Mr. Terry Pittman, SISD Superintendent, about events and matters important to our schools. Communication is key to the success of children in their education and the new website will provide just one more avenue for that important communication to take place. Visit www.sweetwaterisd.net to find out more about SISD schools.


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Why grill Google over web dominance? It has none
Nobody wants Chocolate Factory chocolate any more
Open ... And Shut Google chairman Eric Schmidt was recently hauled before the US Senate to answer antitrust inquiries. After all, Google dominates the online search market, with 64.8 per cent of the market in August 2011, according to comScore (and much higher market share, according to Net MarketShare), and increasingly abuses that power to disadvantage competitors and hurt consumers, according to some.
But among Google's trifling defenses - "Competition is just a click away" - is one very real fact: Google no longer has a lock on search. In fact, it has been steadily, even dramatically, losing market share for years.
In the traditional search market, Google is king. But that market is increasingly playing second fiddle to a host of other new online services, which may not be designated as "search," per se, but fulfill much of what Google used to do. As Schmidt declared (warning: PDF) in his testimony:
Google faces competition from numerous sources including other general search engines (such as Microsoft's Bing, Yahoo!, and Blekko); specialized search sites, including travel sites (like Expedia and Travelocity), restaurant reviews (like Yelp), and shopping sites (like Amazon and eBay); social media sites (like Facebook); and mobile applications beyond count, just to name a few.
Some will see this as disingenuous, designed to mask Google's dominance by painting the search market in broad strokes. Indeed, this is a common tactic in antitrust cases, where defendants try to define their relevant markets as broadly as possible, to make their particular share tiny in comparison.
But in the case of Google, it's actually true and it's doubtful that Schmidt and the Google executive team like it very much. Google may own the "index search market," but think about where people go to search for people (Facebook or LinkedIn), facts (Wikipedia), restaurants (Zagat - now owned by Google), Yelp, OpenTable, travel (Kayak, Travelocity, Expedia, Orbitz) and property (Zillow, Realtor.com) to name just a few. It's not Google. It's to the apps or services that specialize in a particular area.
So while it's true that Google's stranglehold on mobile search and associated ad spending is near 100 per cent, according to recent reports, it's equally true that most of the "search" consumers do on their mobile devices isn't the kind that Google controls. Just thinking through my searches yesterday on my smart phone, I used Facebook and Orbitz extensively and Google just once.
Nevertheless, some like Chris O'Brien of the Mercury News take a "sky is falling" approach to Google's continued dominance of traditional index search. This despite startups - even directly competitive startups like Blekko - apparently feeling no concern over Google's market share, and happily competing with Google head on or by carving out yet another corner of search that Google can't dominate with its aging index search approach.
And so Google is spending. A lot. It's spending away its profit in order to compete with the new kids on the search block like Facebook. Google took on a new chief executive, Larry Page, to make itself more nimble against these Lilliputian search competitors, competitors that have grown increasingly large even as Google has doggedly focused on its page rank approach to search.
Google remains an impressive company, one that dominates a particular category of the search market. But make no mistake: Google is increasingly losing the larger search battle as it is late to the party in social and other aspects of search. The US Senate, proving that it's never too late to be behind-the-times, has called Google on the carpet for old news, just as the US government got around to punishing Microsoft for its dominance after it had already lost its hold on the future.
Google may be guilty of many things, but search dominance is no longer one of them, however much the executive team in Mountain View may wish it otherwise. ®
Matt Asay is senior vice president of business development at Strobe, a startup that offers an open source framework for building mobile apps. He was formerly chief operating officer of Ubuntu commercial operation Canonical. With more than a decade spent in open source, Asay served as Alfresco's general manager for the Americas and vice president of business development, and he helped put Novell on its open source track. Asay is an emeritus board member of the Open Source Initiative (OSI). His column, Open...and Shut, appears twice a week on The Register.
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Technology is changing everything for the music industry and artists themselves. But while CD sales are falling, it's also, conversely, a great time to be an artist. It's never been easier to create music, to collaborate, to find and engage directly with your own audience.
But here's the problem - with so much music available, how do you cut through the noise and find that audience? Here are 5 quick tips from Dave Haynes, VP Business Development at SoundCloud (Our lovely downstairs neighbours), to get you thinking!
1. Create every day
In today's new music economy it's all about engaging with your fans and getting your ideas (not necessarily yourself) out there. And fans want content, not just marketing messages about that album you spent the last 6 months working on. With all the tools available today you can (and should) be creating and sharing something meaningful every single day. Some ideas are:
- Make a really nice Instagram photo from the studio, some backstage footage posted to Vimeo or Youtube.
- Use the SoundCloud app to record a dedication to some of your best fans or drop some hints about some secret shows you have coming up
- Run a fan contest to create ideas for your next record sleeve or throw a remix contest on SoundCloud
- Don't be shy about creating a schedule. The best bloggers always have at least one or two blog posts in reserve for when they're away. If you're delighting your fans every day then you're going to reap the rewards2. Network, network, network!
Gone are the days when you could just setup a Myspace page and point your fans there. You need to get your music in front of people no matter where they're hanging out. This is where SoundCloud can help. Simply upload your audio, grab one of our good-looking players and make sure it's everywhere. And by everywhere, I mean:
- Post a link to Twitter
- Post a player to your Facebook wall
- Create a rather nice looking Facebook tab with all your latest tracks. Rootmusic is a great tool for this
- Send out a SoundCloud link (or player embed code) to music bloggers and journalists. Here's a handy guide on how to send out promos
- Think about building a mobile app – a good option is Mobile Roadie
3. Own and control your own website.
While your audience might be in lots of different places, you still need to own and control one URL that is the definitive place on the web where people should come and find out more about you - even if that URL just points to all the different places on the web where you are.
If you haven't already bought a domain then it's cheap and easy to do so via services like Go Daddy. And again, even if you're not planning on using it immediately then it's always a good idea to buy it so that no-one else can.
Not every musician knows how to build their own website from scratch (and nor should they be expected to) but nowadays there are a number of awesome services that can do that for you. Here's just a few:
- Flavors.me makes it easy to create a great looking page which aggregates your other web presences (eg. SoundCloud, Flickr, Vimeo, Last.fm, Twitter, Facebook).
- Virb - gives you everything you need to build a great looking website that's really simple to update.
- Tumblr - popular and very simple to use, Tumblr is a cross between blogging and tweeting, and it's easy to post everything from photos to videos to music
4. Cross-promote
If you're going to cut through the noise, then you're going to need some allies. Bands and musicians have always benefited from teaming up with other bands on the live circuit – it's how you get your first audience. And the same principal applies in the digital world.
- Write about a blog post about a band that you love, embed some of their music instead of your own for a change. Chances are that your fans will like them too
If you're already buddies with other bands, do an acoustic version of one of their tracks and get them to respond. If you have 2,000 twitter followers and the other band has 2,000 twitter followers then there's a good chance you'll double your money. Headliner.fm is a service that takes that concept even further, go check them out when you get a spare moment.
5. Stop wasting money on promo CD's
Don't hand someone a promo CD at an event – it will almost always end up in the bin. And not because the person doesn't want to hear your music - but because these days, CDs are simply inconvenient.
Instead, spend that 2 minute window being interesting (and interested in the other person), getting their business card and sending them a link to your music via email later on. Better still, why not print off a bunch of fantastic little Moo Minicards with a link to your digital sampler on SoundCloud!
The same logic applies if you've got some music to give away to everyone who shows up for one of your gigs. Have someone walking around collecting email addresses. Anyone who signs up gets a nice little Moo card with that special link to download your music. And it's better for the environment!
Dave Haynes is VP Business Development at SoundCloud, our lovely friends and downstairs neighbours at MOO HQ.
SoundCloud is a leading online audio platform, enabling over 3 million musicians and audio creators to share their sounds free from anywhere to everywhere.
For more information on online music sharing, Dave recommends reading Seth Godin, Derek Sivers, and HypeBot.
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Although Michelle Zimmerman serves as captain of Tolland High School's tennis team, her favorite playing partners aren't her teammates. She and a friend started "ACE Tennis," a program for special needs students.
Community service is one of Zimmerman's greatest passions. As a student council member, she organized the school-wide Thanksgiving food drive last November, increasing donations by creating a competition between homerooms. She is also a leading participant in Volunteers In Service In Our Neighborhood, or VISION, a high school student organization designed to give back to others.
"My college essay was about my grandmother," Zimmerman said, "who is 91 now and lives with our family, suffering from dementia. She always took care of me, but now the roles have reversed."
Her grandmother has reason to be proud. Zimmerman's awards include the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference 2012 Scholar-Athlete award for Tolland High girls and the Rensselaer Polytechnic Award for excellence in mathematics. Math is her planned major this fall at The College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass., after which she hopes to become an actuary.
"I never had valedictorian as my goal," said the top student out of about 220 in Tolland High's senior class. "I just wanted to do my best."


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Information Disclosure Policy
Information Disclosure Policy
I. The Policy
1. The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is committed to making information about its programmes and operations available to the public. UNDP considers public access to information a key component of effective participation of all stakeholders, including the public, in the human development process. UNDP recognizes that there is a positive correlation between a high level of transparency through information sharing and public participation in UNDP-supported development activities.
2. UNDP's Information Disclosure Policy (hereinafter referred to as the "Policy") is intended to ensure that information concerning UNDP programmes and operations is available to the public, except for limited information that is deemed confidential as set out in this Policy. As a custodian and steward of public funds, UNDP is directly accountable to its UNDP/UNFPA Executive Board comprising United Nations (UN) Member States, and indirectly accountable to their parliaments, their taxpayers, and the public in donor and programme countries. Public access to comprehensive and timely information held or generated by UNDP will continue to facilitate the transparency, accountability and national ownership of UNDP programmes and operations. To the extent that much of UNDP information is already available to the public through various means, including through the UNDP corporate website and individual Country Office websites, this Policy codifies existing principles, practices and procedures.
3. The Policy has been developed taking into account major UN intergovernmental statements and conferences, including the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development (1992), the Copenhagen Declaration and Programme of Action of the World Summit for Social Development (1995), the Millennium Development Goals of the UN Millennium Declaration (2000) and the Plan of Action of the World Summit on the Information Society (2003).
4. For the purposes of this Policy, information is defined as printed or electronic materials that provide knowledge about UNDP activities, including, but not limited to, programmes and operations of UNDP.
5. This Policy applies to UNDP and to those associated Funds and Programmes administered by UNDP, namely, the UN Women, the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF), and United Nations Volunteers (UNV). This Policy is available on the UNDP corporate website, as well as the websites of Country Offices and the associated Funds and Programmes.
6. Compliance with this Policy shall be the responsibility of the respective Resident Representative in a Country Office, heads of Bureaux at Headquarters, and the Executive Coordinators of UNDP's associated Funds and Programmes.
II. Public Access
7. The package of information enumerated in paragraph 8 is available on UNDP websites. Country specific documentation is available from the appropriate Regional and central Bureaux and/or Country Office websites. If the information is not available on UNDP websites, the public can contact the office of the Resident Representative in the country, the appropriate Regional or central Bureaux at UNDP Headquarters, or other sources, e.g., depository libraries, UN bookstores and other UN agencies, depending on the nature of the information required.The Resident Representative in a Country Office, the heads of Bureaux at Headquarters, and the Executive Coordinators of UNDP's associated Funds and Programmes are responsible for ensuring that requests for information from the public are addressed.
8.1 Information about UNDP Country Programme Management:
a) Standard Basic Assistance Agreements
b) Common Country Assessments/ United Nations Development Assistance Frameworks (CCA/UNDAF)
c) Country Programme Documents or "One Plan" Documents
d) Country Programme Action Plans and Annual Work Plans
e) Project Documents
f) Project Performance Reports
g) Resident Coordinator Annual Reports
h) Evaluation Reports
For further details of each type of information material above see Annex I.
8.2 Information about UNDP Operations:
a) UNDP/UNFPA Executive Board
b) UNDP Executive Office
c) UNDP Financial information
d) UNDP Procurement
e) UNDP Staff
For further details of each type of information material above see Annex I.
9. The information enumerated in paragraphs 8.1 and 8.2 is available in at least one of the three working languages of UNDP (English, French and Spanish), depending on the official/working language of the Country Office publishing the information. Documents presented to the UNDP/UNFPA Executive Board for formal adoption, are available in English, French and Spanish.
10. This Policy recognizes that crisis, conflict or humanitarian disasters and special development situations pose particular challenges in terms of Country Office relations with Governments and other stakeholders. The fundamental principle that applies to information disclosure in these situations, or in communities with heightened levels of political, social and cultural tensions, is transparency. However, UNDP recognizes that in certain situations, sensitive information relative to the political/economic contexts will remain confidential. In these instances, there are usually other documents/frameworks relating to UNDP country programme management or operations that are available to the public, such as Security Council resolutions mandating a UN mission or UN needs assessments.
11. Current practice and principles of confidentiality
While UNDP is committed to have an open and transparent disclosure system in place, there are legal, operational and practical considerations that are necessary to preserve the organization's interests, as well as those of its staff and its various partners. The exceptions below in sub-paragraphs (a)-(g) are in line with those adopted by the UN Secretariat, many UN Member States and international organizations, and are limited to what is necessary to preserve essential and legitimate public or private (e.g. personal privacy) needs. Information under the following categories is deemed confidential and not available to the public:
(a) Information received from or sent to third parties, under an expectation of confidentiality.
(b) Information whose disclosure is likely to endanger the safety or security of any individual, violate his or her rights, or invade his or her privacy;
(c) Information whose disclosure is likely to endanger the security of Member States or prejudice the security or proper conduct of any operation or activity of UNDP;
(d) Information covered by legal privilege or related to access to internal audit reports;
(e) Internal inter-office or intra-office documents, including e-mails and draft documents;
(f) Commercial information where disclosure would harm either the financial interests of UNDP or those of other parties involved;
12. Abusive, excessive or vexatious requests may be denied.
III. Review/appeal process
13. If all resources enumerated under paragraph 7 have been exhausted and the requester of information does not obtain the desired information, or if the information requested is denied for reasons that appear inconsistent with the spirit of this Policy, the requester may write to the Legal Support Office , making a case for reconsideration. Requests should be directed to:
The Director, Legal Support Office
United Nations Development Programme
304 East 45th Street, FF-803
New York, NY 10017
Email: email@example.com
14. Every request will be acknowledged. The requester is entitled to a response from Legal Support Office within 45 calendar days of receipt of the request.
15. In the event that the requester is not satisfied with the response from the Legal Support Office and a request for a document remains denied in whole or in part, the requester may ask for a review of this determination by the Information Disclosure Oversight Panel (hereinafter referred to as the "Panel"), providing reasons for the appeal (see section IV). Requests for appeals should be directed to:
The Secretariat, Information Disclosure Oversight Pane
lUnited Nations Development Programme
One United Nations Plaza, DC1-1905
New York, NY 10017
Email: email@example.com
16. Every request for appeals will be acknowledged. The Panel shall review the denial of requests to disclose a document or portion of a document to a member of the public, and provide a final determination generally within 45 calendar days of receipt of the appeal but never later than 60 calendar days.
17. If an agreeable solution is not forthcoming within the Panel, the Panel will make recommendations to the UNDP Administrator on the outcome that would be most consistent with the application of the Policy. The Administrator will have the authority to make the final decision, taking into consideration the recommendations of the Panel.
IV. Information Disclosure Oversight Panel
18. The Panel's mandate is to oversee the implementation of the Information Disclosure Policy and to consider and review appeals relating to information disclosure.
19. The Panel's primary function is to review appeals submitted to it and to determine whether UNDP's Information Disclosure Policy has been properly applied. Determinations shall be guided by the principle of seeking amicable solutions in the context of the request and the parties who may be affected by the release of the information.
20. The Panel may also develop, as appropriate, more detailed mechanisms and procedures for the review of denied requests, review the implementation of the Policy and providerecommendations on changes which should be made, as well as re-examine the Policy annually in light of operational and other changes within UNDP.
21. The Panel consists of five members, all appointed by the UNDP Administrator in consultation with UNDP Bureaux: three UNDP professional staff members and two individuals from non-governmental organizations, one who is a national of a UNDP programme country and one from a donor country, each appointed in his/her personal capacity. UNDP's Chief of Staff or his/her Deputy, and the Director of the Office of Audit and Investigations will serve as ex-officio members of the Panel. The Chair of the Panel will be selected from amongst, and by, the Panel members.
22. Members will serve for a term of two years, which may be extended for another term at the discretion of the Administrator. Appointments will be made at the expiry of the term of a member any time during the course of the year or when a vacancy arises.
Criteria for selection of Panel members
23. Members will be selected on the basis of the following criteria: keen understanding of UNDP policies, structures, programmes and operations at Headquarters and Country Office levels; knowledge of programmes and operations of UNDP's associated Funds and Programmes; thorough knowledge of, and familiarity with, information disclosure and access to information policies; and proven ability to work with UNDP partners.
24. The Panel will meet virtually or in situ whenever there is an appeal for review. The Panel may also meet to consider policy matters related to information disclosure and/or other ad-hoc issues, as necessary.
The role of the Office of Communications
25. The Office of Communications will serve as the Secretariat to the Panel.
Annex I
Type of information normally available to the public through UNDP websites:
8.1 Information about UNDP Country Programme Management:
a) Standard Basic Assistance Agreements
UNDP's relationship with the Governments of programme countries is legally established and governed by the Standard Basic Assistance Agreement (SBAA).
b) Common Country Assessments/ United Nations Development Assistance Frameworks (CCA/UNDAF)
The CCA/UNDAF sets the framework for the operational activities of the UN system in many programme countries. This is a Government-originated document prepared by representatives of the Government in consultation with the UN Country Team, which is led by the UN Resident Coordinator. A contribution to the country's analytic work and the UNDAF are mandatory products, unless there is only one UN agency resident in the country, or the country is in or emerging from a crisis situation, in which case the UN contribution may be to support a post-conflict needs assessment. Completed UNDAFs and CCAs are available on UNDP Regional Bureaux websites and on the United Nations Development Group website.
c) Country Programme Documents or "One Plan" Documents
Based on the UNDAF approved by the Government and the UN Country Team and the UNDP Strategic Plan, dialogue with the programme country Government results in the Country Programme Documents, which is prepared by the Government in consultation with and with support from the UNDP Country Office. This document identifies key goals and opportunities for UNDP support to national programmes and priorities, as approved by the Executive Board. After its approval by the Executive Board, the final Country Programme Document will be made available online to the general public through the respective Regional Bureau websites and/or Country Office website, or through the office of the Resident Representative in programme countries. The "One Plan" is a common programming framework agreement between the Government and a number of participating UN organizations to enhance the inclusiveness and coherence of the collective programmatic response of the UN system in a given country. UNDP contributes to the "One Plan" within the scope of the Country Programme Document approved by the Executive Board for the particular country. The "One Plans" are made available to the public through the respective UNDP Country Office websites, the UN Development Group website and the participating UN organizations' websites.
d) Country Programme Action Plans and Annual Work Plans
Based on the Country Programme Document approved by the Executive Board and in collaboration with the Government, a UNDP Country Office will develop a Country Programme Action Plan, which further details the programme design, the major results expected and the strategies for achieving these results, and clarifies the arrangements for programme/project implementation and management. In addition to the Country Programme Action Plan, the Annual Work Plan sets out the Country Office's objectives and priorities for the year. The Country Programme Action Plan together with the Annual Work Plan constitutes the formal agreement between UNDP and the Government to execute the Country Programme.
e) Project Documents
Project documents, or Country Programme Action Plans, in combination with the Annual Work Plans, constitute the legal agreement between the programme country Government and UNDP to implement a project.
f) Project Performance Reports
These include Annual Review Reports, Country Office Results Reports, Assessment of Development Results, Project Annual Review Reports, Project Quarterly Progress Reports and Outcome Evaluation Reports, if an outcome is evaluated.
g) Resident Coordinator Annual Reports
Annual reporting of UN-system activities to the UN Secretary-General and stakeholders.
h) Evaluation Reports
Evaluations of UNDP programmes and management responses to evaluations, where they exist, are available online at the Evaluation Resource Center's public database and/or the Evaluation Office website.
8.2 Information about UNDP Operations:
a) UNDP/UNFPA Executive Board
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Based on the Fish and Potato Pie recipe, I luxe up this version by using asparagus and salmon other than green peas and eggs. Needless to say, it's wolfed down in a jiffy!
Here are the other versions of potato pies that kids would love:
Chunky Chicken and Potato Pie
Another version of Chicken and Potato Pie
Fish and Potato Pie
Happy weekend!
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16 Oct 2012
Friday, 4 December 2009
5 comments:
- worldwindows said...
Hmmm...smoked salmon for me please.
- 5 December 2009 at 09:47:00 GMT+8
- 550ml jar of faith @minchow said...
Ooh agree with worldwindows! Smoked salmon would be a divine addition to what's already a smokin hot pie!
- 5 December 2009 at 21:46:00 GMT+8
- CUMI & CIKI said...
luxe me up baybeh! hehe
- 7 December 2009 at 12:49:00 GMT+8
- Paprika said...
Mmmm this looks like something I wouldn't be able to stop eating! :-)
- 7 December 2009 at 14:03:00 GMT+8
- babe_kl said...
world windows & minchow, yes smoked salmon would lend a better flavour but i only hv salmon in my freezer
c&c, you already did ya
yes Paprika :D
- 8 December 2009 at 14:50:00 GMT+8
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Thousands of search and rescue crews attend a memorial service May 5, 1995, in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, after an explosion killed 168 people and injured hundreds more April 19, 1995.
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OKLAHOMA CITY — Before Sept. 11, there was April 19 — when a truck bomb sheared away one side of a federal building in middle America and proved that anyone, anywhere, can be attacked.
The combination of two tons of fertilizer and fuel oil in Oklahoma City destroyed the notion that people content to live far from the nation's biggest cities and tallest buildings wouldn't be targets of terrorism.
As the nation prepares to observe the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, many Oklahoma residents are still coping with the fear or anxiety set off by the earlier bombing. When a Molotov cocktail blew up alongside an Oklahoma City home this summer, people's thoughts and talk instantly turned to the 1995 explosion.
"Every time you see a bombing on TV, you think of the Murrah building," said Tom Kight, who didn't learn that his stepdaughter was killed in the attack until five days afterward. "I've lived with anxiety. You see some of the bombings, whether it's Afghanistan or Iraq, you're going to flash back."
Al-Qaida's attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, killed nearly 3,000 people in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania. Timothy McVeigh's bombing of the nine-story federal building, in retaliation for a 1993 government raid on a religious compound in Waco, Texas, killed 168 people in Oklahoma City, including 19 children at a day care.
The Molotov cocktail explosion this summer illustrated again how sensitive people in Oklahoma City are to any potential threat, said Susan Winchester, whose sister died in the federal building attack.
"I think we've experienced firsthand that it's not something to take lightly. You immediately put your memories and experiences into play," she said. "You realize it's something that is very, very real and something that can happen. If you're in a place where you've not gone through that, you might not take it as seriously. You know that it can happen."
In the latest case, authorities say a 15-year-old boy was playing with Molotov cocktails before the fatal fire that killed an elderly couple. Shirley Ferguson, 72, whose neighbors were the ones killed, said anyone is vulnerable.
"I'm sure it could happen again. I hope it doesn't, but the way the world is today, you never know," she said. "It makes me concerned about the evil that's around."
Ferguson's daughter, Sherie Asbell, 53, said the emotional impact of the Oklahoma City bombing and the firebombing in her mother's neighborhood are "too closely related."
"That brought a lot of fear back to me," Asbell said.
"It can happen anytime — anybody, anytime," said neighbor Bob Bosse, 64. "You just hope that it won't."
McVeigh, an army veteran, was convicted of federal murder and bombing-related charges in the Oklahoma City bombing. A co-conspirator, Terry Nichols, was convicted on federal and state charges and is serving multiple life sentences. McVeigh was executed on June 11, 2001 — three months before the attacks targeting the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
On Sept. 11, Richard Williams felt an awkward kinship with New York and Washington. Williams, who needed 150 stitches to close wounds on the right side of his body after the Oklahoma City bombing and lost dozens of colleagues and friends in the attack, said he "got that same, sick gut feeling those people got on April 19th."
"My first reaction was to pick up the phone and call my fellow survivors, people I knew. Here was that same feeling of understanding what those people were beginning to go through," he said.
Williams, 65, who was at a business meeting in the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building at 9:02 a.m. on April 19, 1995, said little things can still put people on edge.
"Hardly a day goes by in Oklahoma where we don't hear something about the bombing," he said. "Just to hear a fire engine, or a loud noise, or a sonic boom from Tinker (Air Force Base near Oklahoma City), any one of those things can trigger an emotion."
As the 10th anniversary of Sept. 11 approaches, "I know what they're ready to go through, physically and mentally, and that brings anxiety for me," said Williams, who has since retired and is living near Houston. "You see more and more (9/11) documentaries. It brings back that sickness, that sick feeling you get in your gut because it makes you relive it, but I think that's part of the healing process."
Winchester, whose sister Margaret Clark was killed in the Murrah building bombing, said she has benefited emotionally from a memorial erected at the site of the blast — something victims in New York and Washington don't yet have.
"Any time something like that happens now, I think there is compassion from anyone in Oklahoma, particularly anyone directly involved in the bombing here," she said. "There's just a very personal side of knowing what those people are going through."
Kight, 72, said that despite the time that has passed, the pain has stuck with him.
"Our memories as we get older, they fade to a certain degree," Kight said, "but I've got a picture in my mind that never (goes away)."
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Both Germain and Berry hail from Massachusetts and are accomplished race team mechanics. Between the two of them, they have won four Supercross Championships with riders Ernesto Fonseca and John Dowd. Both Germain and Berry had stepped away from the big leagues for a few years, but have figured out a way to jump back in, and in the process, have given two riders another shot. We sat down with Kenny Germain to find out exactly what the deal was with Velocity3 Racing and what they hope to accomplish this year.
Racing X: Kenny, what's happening? Your team is a new name in the pre-season hype. What is your program all about?
Kenny Germain: Well, Brian Berry and I have been friends forever. We were two guys from New England that were on the tour for many years. Brian spent most of his career as Dowd's mechanic and I was Ernesto Fonseca's mechanic for the majority of his career. After our riders retired, we both found our way back home. I opened a business in New England called Performance Tuning, and have helped out a bunch of local riders over the years. But then last year, in what was kind of a last minute deal, I went back to work for a pro team. I worked with Josh Hansen at Hart and Huntington for Supercross, and it was great to be back on the circuit again. Last year at the Vegas Supercross, I met someone who wanted to do a team, and we started talking. Brian and I have always talked about starting a proper team, and it just went from there! Our team owner is Sara Rosson, and the proper team name is Velocity3 racing. And the three is for the three of us!
The Velocity3 Racing setup at Anaheim 1.
Simon Cudby photo
Well, it is great to see another team here in the pits, as it means two more riders get a ride and some support. What are your goals with the team?
Well, it is not easy at all, and it takes money to get the ball rolling, but it is our goal to build a team that is around for the long haul and that is self sustaining, and similar to a Factory Connection or Hart and Huntington setup. We have some good backers that have helped us get off the ground and we are really trying to build this program. Brian and I had a great relationship with Yamaha, so they have been a big help right out of the gate. But we are building for the future and we wanted to start out with riders who are capable of top ten finishes in the 450 class, as those are important for sponsors. A top ten rider in the 250 class just does not get the attention that the 450 guys get. We think we represent a really good value for prospective sponsors, and with our guys. Brian and I can build the bikes, and we will have some really good equipment.
How are things set up on the team? Who does what?
Well, Brian and I are equal partners in the team and Sara is the team owner. Brian handles a lot of the management stuff, while I serve more of a role of technical director. But we are 50/50 on things as much as possible and we both have our hands in many aspects of the team.
Do you have a race shop?
Yes, we are running out of my shop in Ludlow, Massachusetts. It is basically Velocity3 Racing DBA, Performance Tuning, which is my business. It also works well for us being a Supercross team, as I can focus on my other business and local stuff in the summer time, when things are busy back east. But during the winter, there is not much going on, so traveling to Supercross is perfect!
How are you guys handling the sponsorship end of things? It has become very tough to secure high level sponsors.
Definitely. Brian Berry is working really closely with Terry Beal on the marketing for the team. Terry is handling most all of our marketing stuff, and we are all hoping for some big steps forward as the season moves on.
Lets talk about your New England tie in. What about any of those riders?
We would love to have some of our local New England fast guys, but we needed some top ten guys in the premier 450 class, and right now, there is no one at that level from the region. Kiniry is from New York, but that's as close as we could get. However geography did not really effect our rider decisions, we just wanted to make sure we had two guys that could finish inside the top ten. But I would love to be able to get some extra support and help out a guy like [Jimmy] DeCotis, and hopefully in another year we will have some room for a 250 guy as well.
Bobby Kiniry (pictured above) and Kyle Chisholm make up the Velocity3 Racing team.
Simon Cudby photo
Can you give me an idea of how much it costs to run a team like yours?
Oh man, there are so many variables, its hard to say. But it is not far fetched to easily spend over a million bucks. But it really depends on what level you go to, and how much you have to pay your riders. If you have a 18 wheeler, that is a whole separate deal, as they are expensive and you have to hire a driver. If you have a straight truck or Fun Mover type, then it can be a bit cheaper. We are working out of a straight truck but have plans for an 18-wheeler as soon as we get things in order. It also depends how much equipment you carry, and how much of a crew you have. But once you have semi, you should expect to spend a million and up, and depending on if you are also paying rider salaries.
What are your short term goals this season?
Our goals the riders are to be in the top ten in the consistent basis. The biggest goal is to get the team on solid footing for the future. Bottom line: we got a late start, as things finally came together for testing the first week of December. We hit the test track at South of the Border with Kiniry and then came west and have also been using the Yamaha test track. But the riders are happy with the bikes with the limited time we had to get going, and we are still testing and improving with every day.
Who are your sponsors?
Number one sponsor was Yamaha. They are the main help, other than Velocity3, which is where a lot of our funding comes from. But we also get help from a lot of our friends at the following companies – Dunlop, Motoseat, Pro Taper, STS Motorsports, Motomaster, Ride Engineering, Ironclad, ARC, Works Connection, Hinson, Dr. D, Yamalube, Matrix, Renegade, Twin Air, Supersprox, Athena, GET, Cycra, GYT-R, 360 Unlimited and DID and Dubya.
Well, thank you. It is tough, but both Brian and I are up to it, and we have been around long enough to know many of the pit falls that can pop up. We are really looking forward to building this team for the long haul.


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Vice President of the East Baton Rouge Redevelopment Authority Mark Goodson is part of panel discussion at the Smart Growth summit downtown Tuesday that will delve into the issue of redeveloping neglected and abandoned properties.
The Redevelopment Authority says in 2009, East Baton Rouge Parish had some 6,500 adjudicated parcels of land. That's somewhere between 2 and 3 percent of all the parcels in the parish. The Authority is currently conducting a study in tandem with the Center for Community Progress to bring that information up-to-date. The numbers, however, are projected to be similar.
Goodson says Baton Rouge should take a more robust approach to code enforcement to reduce blight like Atlanta, Portland, and even New Orleans already have.
GOODSON: We've seen that they have taken a pro-active approach to code enforcement meaning they actually have code inspectors out there driving the streets and citing people on the spot.
If the property owners continue to be irresponsible and won't improve their property – fix their roof, cut the grass, whatever – then the city, as they do now, can do that for them. The difference is right now when the city-parish does that they place a lien on the property but nothing happens beyond that to enforce the lien.
So what those other communities have done is they've put the appropriate legislation and policies in place to be able to foreclose on that lien to say, "Okay, if you're not going to pay the lien, well, then we can foreclose and we can ultimately take your property."
And what we've seen in those other cities is that it becomes, one, a sustaining initiative because the fees generated from the fines is enough to pay for the efforts but also you a dramatic uptick in code enforcement solutions.
WESTERMAN: Are there particular areas in the city-parish that are the focus of redevelopment rather than other areas?
GOODSON: We, the Redevelopment Authority, one of our very first programs we called "Community Improvement Plans". We did five neighborhood-scale redevelopment plans in areas that we looked at and saw had the highest concentrations for poverty and blight, and then we zeroed in on specific neighborhoods. That was in concert with FutureBR.
That plan took into account all the planning work that we had done and then sort of broadened it to say there are three real areas of focus for urban redevelopment: Old South Baton Rouge, the area between downtown and LSU; Mid-City, which is a large area between downtown and Airline Highway; and then North Baton Rouge, which encompasses Scotlandville, the airport, Zion City.
WESTERMAN: Talking about FutureBR, that plan specifically mentions constructing infill on two scales: large multi-phase projects and small, parcel-by-parcel projects. Is there a preference on how the parish would like to redevelop property?
GOODSON: Again, I can really only speak really from the Redevelopment Authority's standpoint. No, I think they're equally important. They're just two difference scales of development, and I can give you some examples of what we've done.
So, we purchased earlier this year a large 200-acre tract that's commonly known as Smiley Heights to do a large, what we're calling urban village, mixed use development that will be anchored by a new workforce development charter high school as well as the new east campus for Baton Rouge Community College. That's going to have a huge catalytic effect on the surrounding distressed areas. But just as important are the, you know, vacant lots in Scotlandville that we've been able to clean up and transfer or donate to Habitat for Humanity. They're just different scales but you have to be able to adjust the type of investment to what the community needs and what's realistic for the market.
WESTERMAN: Can you tell me a little bit about how infill and redeveloping these areas will fit into the overall plan of the development of Baton Rouge?
GOODSON: Yea. When you look at all of the issues that FutureBR tries to tackle – traffic, economic development, crime – a lot of that can be touched by urban redevelopment and infill.
So, you know, so much of our traffic stems from we've got a million people in the city of Baton Rouge and the population is 250,000 – that's a lot of people driving in from somewhere else. If we can provide affordable and attractive residential opportunities within the city, that's going to have a huge effect on how many people are driving in town and out of town, every day during rush hour. Showing people again the value of living in the city and making it as attractive to live, work and play is really, I think, the core message of FutureBR and what we're all about.
WESTERMAN: Mark Goodson with the East Baton Rouge Redevelopment Authority, thank you so much for speaking with me.
GOODSON: Thank you, my pleasure.


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Jean-Louis Pons [1]
Comets are wispy and ethereal — balls of gas and dust that often make a single appearance before disappearing into deep space, or that vaporize if they pass too close to the Sun. Yet in the 18th and 19th centuries, these bits of cosmic flotsam were highly prized. Many astronomers scanned for comets night after night, often for decades. And if they found one, it brought medals, rewards, and fame.
No comet hunter was more proficient than Jean-Louis Pons, who was born 250 years ago tomorrow.
Pons was born to a poor family, so he received little formal education. At age 27, he was hired as a porter at the University of Marseilles. The astronomers there gave him lessons, and he soon began scanning the skies — eventually using telescopes he built himself.
Pons discovered his first comet in 1801 — but it wouldn't be his last. And as the discoveries piled up, his fame spread. Marseilles made him an assistant astronomer, and a few years later he was appointed director of a new observatory in Tuscany. When that observatory failed, he became director of another, in Florence.
And all the while, he kept on finding comets. In all, he's credited with discovering or co-discovering 37 of them — more than any other person in history.
Today, most comets are found by automated searches, or by orbiting spacecraft, and the discoveries seldom make headlines. With rare exceptions, comets no longer bring fame and fortune to those who find them.
Script by Damond Benningfield, Copyright 2011
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- History of Astronomy [4]
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Seth Walder (@SethWalderNYDN) tweeted at 0:18 PM on Thu, Nov 08, 2012:
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So you've succumbed to the dark side of the blowhard SOJF's who get more satisfaction ripping every move and spewing doom and gloom?
Personally, I want to hear that from Ryan.
I also want to hear that the players feel the team will and should make the playoffs
That is Rex Ryan, no more giving into the media, the dumbasses on talk radio, Joe Namath and his recently deployed agenda, and any fan out there...
Did Miami suck? Yep, it completely ruined a nice stretch the team had been on since the Houston game.
Hopefully it was an aberration and they show up and get the job done this weekend, there is still far too much season left, and the team is only one game out of the playoff picture.
Ray, in all seriousness, I am glad to see you back. Hope everything is OK.
Equally glad to see you haven't changed one bit.
He's not a terrible coach, like the others, you're overreacting.
What players are regressing? Don't want to hear about Sanchez, there is more to it, I've always said, I want to see a full year. The team has been dealt a raw deal in terms of injuries.
I get the D didn't make a stop when it needed it, but compare our D against the elite offensive teams we've played so far, and compare that overall performance with any other team that have played them
What is a joke, is the crying out on this forum and elsewhere. Rex didn't decide to wake up one day and suck, the AFCCG's two years ago weren't a mirage, **** happens, teams struggle, injuries happen, teams present different challenges each week, the Miami game was a bad loss, but you know who deserves blame? The players and the ST's, and Westoff, because of our ST's the team was faced with a fast 17-0 deficit, and had to completely scrap their game plan, and had to do it with injuries up and down the RB depth chart, as well as players still going through growing pains at WR, as well as several breakdowns in pass protection on the OL. The OL in that Miami game had one of its worse game of the season, but the injuries at RB had a lot to do with it, blitz pick-up was lacking, especially on the CB blitzes.
I can go on, but what's the use, half of this board could care less, they refuse to see anything past their spite, their anger, and their nose, and especially, their agenda and schticks for those to who it applies.
It isn't easy to win in the NFL, this isn't fantasy sports!
We as a fan base can't cry FIRE him after every game.
For me, Rex shouldn't change one bit, and I'm comfortable with his current public demeanor, he knows the team is in a hole, he knows they haven't met expectations, I can see the angst in him on the sideline, during the Miami game, things aren't going as planned, but I also see a team and a locker room that still seems to be together, that still believe in Rex and are still playing hard. I see execution being a problem, youth and transition on a roster littered with injuries, depth players having to step up to play bigger roles, and sure, there is a handful of players that are not playing up to expectation.
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Imogene is the story of a moderately successful New York playwright who stages a fake suicide attempt in order to win back her ex-boyfriend — only to end up being forced into the custody of her gambling-addicted mother. Starring Annette Bening, Matt Dillon, Darren Criss and Kristen Wiig.
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"Jerusalem: Chronicles From the Holy City"
Guy Delisle
Montreal: Drawn & Quarterly, 2012
336 pgs, $24.95
Canadian cartoonist Guy Delisle's latest effort, "Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City," is a mix of his earlier diary, journalism and travel comics and it features the strengths and weaknesses of each of those genres. Delisle draws "Jerusalem" chronologically with most diary entries, anecdotes and examinations filling between one and five pages. He uses a subdued color palate heavy with blues, browns and grays and only rarely bold contrasts, a soft and compelling visual touch. He draws a rough, organic line that is familiar and welcoming, and his characters are mostly drawn with a generalist pen that allows an everyman engagement to Delisle's cartooning. The exception is how he draws himself as a quick scratch with dots for eyes.
"Jerusalem" starts with a telling illustration of two maps that situate the volume's geography. The first shows Palestine/Israel on a map of the world. The second is a regional map with lines between Syria and Jordan and Syria and Lebanon, but only dotted lines define Israel's borders. Israel has never declared its borders, making Delisle's a clever portrayal, but he also includes the occupied Syrian Golan Heights as part of Israel. "Jerusalem" has several such moments where Delisle's innocence of all things Palestine and Israel offers both missteps and insights. We are sometimes so immersed in contexts we are familiar with that we cannot get the perspective necessary to see very simple and obvious things that an outsider would understand at first glance. Often though, the outsider might not "get" it at all.
Delisle's story starts with the flight to Ben Gurion airport. His partner works for Médicins sans Frontières (MSF) and will be based in Jerusalem for a year. He surveys the airport in admiration, "The airport is ultra-modern," he notes. "A year here will be a nice change from our usual Third-World destinations," (8). MSF provides them with housing in Beit Hanina, East Jerusalem, and Delisle is awoken by the Muslim call to prayer early the first morning. He uses the opportunity to have a good look at their apartment and finds remnants of previous tenants, all of whom were expatriates like himself (11-12). The observations are amusing, but they point to a recurring theme in "Jerusalem": Delisle is first and foremost informed about Palestine and Palestinians by the European expatriates - NGO employees, journalists and diplomats - and Israelis he encounters rather than by Palestinians (15, 17, 32-33, 38-41, 73, et al.). He takes this to an (unintentionally) absurdist level in his four tours of the southern West Bank city of Hebron. The first is with a European guide and Palestinian driver from MSF (116-121), the second with a French woman living in Hebron (189-90), the third with the left-wing Israeli group Shovrim Shtika ("Breaking the Silence," 281-286) and the last with right-wing Israeli settlers (305-312). Four tours of a Palestinian city and only in the first are Palestinians allowed to even participate somewhat in telling their own story. Gayatri Spivak famously asked, "Can the subaltern speak?" Delisle mostly answers this "No." This is both an ethical failure and an insightful look at how people - especially though not exclusively from the Global North - learn about Palestine and the Palestinian liberation struggle without hearing from Palestinians.
Delisle's at times brings a specifically North American reading of Palestine. He starts his first trip to West Jerusalem with a panel titled "Going West" illustrated with a horse-drawn covered wagon (23). The horse-drawn covered wagon is an archetypical image from the European settler colonization of Turtle Island and its eventual transformation into North America. It's hard to think of a better image to show leaving the indigenous Palestinian area and heading to the Israeli settler society in West Jerusalem. Delisle arrives in West Jerusalem and notices immediately the infrastructural disparity between Palestinians and Israelis. "Ah! Real sidewalks," he draws, "Ah! An outdoor café!" (25). The public parks and "garbage cans that aren't overflowing" starkly contrast with East Jerusalem's "nonexistent sidewalks, cratered roads" and other infrastructural poverty that "didn't look anything like [the Jerusalem of] the travel guides," (14). He bonds with Nikolai, a Danish expat, over contempt for the East Jerusalem infrastructure while walking with his children one evening. "It isn't much of a neighborhood, is it?" says Nikolai as he looks around. "There's trash everywhere!" As Nikolai, Delisle and the children walk together, Delisle notes, "We hit it off instantly," (34).
"Jerusalem" at times suffers from poor translation (either from Delisle's original French text to English or from Arabic to Delisle's pencil). "Arab minivans" (18) are later correctly called "Arab minibuses," (23). Throughout the text, Delisle calls the hijab (a headscarf) a "veil" (58, 62, 136, et al.). But he himself makes veils (niqabs) from hijabs by removing the faces of women wearing them. Delisle's generalist line and panels with numerous small characters (49, 213, et al.) explain the lack of faces in some instances. But Delisle often draws women with hijabs larger than characters without hijabs, including some wearing other head coverings, yet still lacking a face (18, 43, 58, 62-64, et al.). It happens enough to consider it a pattern. Who is doing the veiling here?
Delisle is an Orientalist cartoonist well beyond his veiling of Muslim women. He draws Palestinian children playing with toy guns running around the neighborhood. "Given the context," he reflects, "I'd probably give them Lego bricks instead," (68). Sure, children playing war (or even playing armed resistance) is viscerally unsettling, but how is this worse in the Palestinian context? Delisle's home context is a history of settler colonialism including massacres of First Nations people. Surely, Canadian settler society children playing with guns is at least as troubling as Palestinian children doing the same. Instead, "given the context," Delisle Orientalizes Palestinians and, much less frequently, to Israelis. Indeed, Delisle contrives a context that limits his imagination. In one sequence, Delisle and the Alliance Française are organizing comics events in a few Palestinian cities. "Who knows?" Delisle says, "Maybe we'll discover the next Marjane Satrapi?" (191). Will they "discover" - Europeans inevitably "discover," never "encounter" - an Azeri Iranian socialist from urban secular Muslim society now living in France? Or is it that Satrapi, as opposed to say, Chris Ware or Harvey Pekar, is famous and from "that part of the world"?
This is classic travel writing, a genre that rivals anthropology in Orientalist production. Delisle's obvious talent for observation means he occasionally subverts Orientalism, too. He draws Passover with a tongue-in-cheek panel saying "Passover (Jewish Easter)," (240). He then illustrates a fun (if, um, imprecise) description and engagement of Passover through his culturally Christian eye, providing a bridge to engage traditions that are not his own (240-241). Contrast this with his portrayal of a Palestinian neighbor's wedding in Beit Hanina where men were dancing together (76-77). "I don't know how much beer I'd need to drink to dance with one of these mustachioed guys," he says while looking down from his window. "What a strange party." He's clearly poking fun at his own perceptions and discomfort, but it is still the Palestinians that are othered. Examples of othering abound such as when he is deeply unnerved by a Palestinian operating a bulldozer in West Jerusalem, invoking a single 2008 attack (52-53), but is merely annoyed when confronted by armed Israeli soldiers (187-188) despite Israeli soldiers offering a decades-long and ever present deployment of violence (suspended and spectacular, both of which Delisle witnesses).
Delisle is perhaps at his best when illustrating the whimsical and mundane (or things that should be mundane, but aren't). A tremendous sequence starting on Yom Kippur effectively builds drama, struggle and comedy into a narrative of trying to sketch (78-82). It's an exceptional piece of cartooning even in such a quality volume as "Jerusalem." He later crosses the Qalandiya checkpoint (now the major interchange between Jerusalem and Ramallah) on foot for the first time and both gains and offers a window into the bewildering and dehumanizing experience of crowded lines, bars, turnstiles and armed Israeli soldiers that is a daily experience for many Palestinians (104-105). It is another mundane activity, getting from point A to a nearby point B, that is full of drama because his encounter with Israel's apartheid - checkpoints being part of hafrada (Hebrew for separation) - infrastructure. Another exemplary sequence is one of his sketching trips. He spots a turtle, imagines his children's joy about his return with the turtle, marks the spot and goes off to sketch. Upon his return the turtle has departed, he searches and calls for it (234-235). It's a simple, effective and very funny sequence and it brings to life beautifully the minor hopes, successes and failures of daily life.
Delisle's prior ignorance of Palestine can also produce powerful sequences. He visits a small Bedouin village south of Hebron and, like all first-time visitors, is shocked by the level of persecution. The Israeli Army blocks the roads and demolishes their homes, and Israeli settlers harass and attack the community (125-128). It's a deeply moving sequence that ends with two poignant landscape panels of Delisle's van leaving and an Israeli military helicopter flying over. He is also surprised by the Israeli media's political discourse. While reading the paper, he reflects, "If you're used to more restrained criticism of Israel and its government, it's almost shocking," (134-135). He somewhat overstates the case, but it's both a beautifully drawn - the voyeuristic journalists in silhouette especially - and informative anecdote.
Delisle captures well the intensity, urgency and distant (though close geographically) horror of Operation Cast Lead, Israel's December 2008 - January 2009 attack on the Gaza Strip (158-172). Delisle writes primarily from Jerusalem or, as ever, from expat informants, but does a superb job describing Cast Lead's asymmetry as well as his horror at both the war and the normalcy of Jerusalem life while Gaza was attacked just a few dozen miles down the road. He describes well this detachment from both the war and the normalcy in two panels depicting a Gregorian calendar New Year's celebration for expats (161). The first shows a night-time gathering through a window at a short distance. The second zooms out to a scene full of somber darkness while the New Year's countdown completes.
He follows Cast Lead with one of "Jerusalem's" strongest sequences depicting the return to peace for Israelis and the continuation of war for Palestinians. Nikolai and Delisle are at the beach with their children right after Cast Lead. Relaxing in their beach chairs in a panel straight from a Corona commercial, Nikolai observes Israeli military planes in the sky. "How come they're flying towards Gaza? I thought the operation was over." Delisle replies, "There's still a few airstrikes here and there," (175). It's very powerful cartooning.
"Jerusalem" sometimes offers a keen outsider's insight. Late in the book, Delisle is traveling in the West Bank. and struggling with the map, "It's hard to tell if it's in the West Bank, since the maps don't show the separation wall. Looking at them, you'd think Greater Israel was already a done deal," (289). This is a moment of forehead-smacking clarity, something painfully obvious to an outsider, but very often lost to closer observers caught in the paradigm of one state/two state solutions and the :viability" of an independent Palestinian state. Mostly, the insight challenges the perception of "Greater Israel" as a project of a peripheral, fundamentalist and extreme Israeli right wing, not as something already accomplished by mainstream Israeli political parties and 130 years of Zionist colonization of Palestine.
"Jerusalem" provides a series of illuminating, entertaining and infuriating stories. Delisle proves once again that he is an immensely talented and innovative cartoonist and storyteller. His political analysis leaves much to be desired, his Orientalism is unforgivable and he regularly mangles history. For readers unfamiliar with Palestine, it will offer a lot of new and challenging content if mostly from the comforting voices of Westerners. Yet, his talent for capturing the everyday trials of life and his efforts to illustrate trauma, violence and normalcy, as well as showing how so many people learn about Palestine, still makes "Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City" an easily recommended volume.


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Don't eat the art. Let the art eat you. Or something like that. The Art Institute presents a collection on an uncommon theme, but one ripe for examination: food in visual art. As a signifier of wealth, nature, bounty, and in later years, commodification and capitalism, it's a broad field that's helpfully navigated thanks to incisive accompanying commentary.
Art and Appetite is showing at the Art Institute of Chicago until January 27.


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(Lindsay Schallon/StyleBistro) The Butter London team created three separate nail looks for the Nicole Miller runway show.
While Nicole Miller's fall 2013 runway designs may have been borrowed from the boys — think tailored pantsuits, structured jackets, and JT-esque fedoras — the three separate manicures created for the show sure were not. (Anyone else picturing grimy guy nails right now? Ick, yeah, none of that!)
"The whole collection is very tomboy, it's about girls who dress like boys," said manicurist Katie Hughes, who is Butter London's global color ambassador. "There are a lot of autumnal colors but with a lot of bright pops going through that. We wanted to do three different nail looks to complement the slight different feels throughout the collection."
For the first look, Hughes choose "Stag Do," a slate blue creme with a slight green shimmer. "This is for that slight tomboy effect," she said. "It's goes well with the more tomboy outfits."
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For the second look, she used "Royal Navy" as a base and layered it with "Wallis," a metallic olive gold. "The olive goes with more of an evening-y type wear," Hughes said.
As for the third and final look, Hughes painted on two coats of "Royal Navy," and, to give the look an element of embellishment, she added a geometric triangle on the middle finger.
"This was for the outfits that were a bit more rock 'n' roll, that have that cool London feel about them," she said. "[The triangle's] made to look like a stud, but it's just drawn on with a little eyeliner brush."
The yet-to-be-named chrome shade Hughes used for the design was custom-made for Nicole Miller's show and will be available this summer!
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New Hampshire residents may be in line for millions of dollars thanks to a settlement between the state Insurance Department and John Hancock Life Insurance Co.
New Hampshire is one of six states that entered a regulatory settlement with the company and John Hancock Life and Health Insurance Co. over unpaid life insurance benefits, according to Banking Commissioner Roger Sevigny.
The lead states in the settlement also include California, Illinois, Michigan, North Dakota and Pennsylvania. The settlement is expected to result in "many millions of dollars" more per year paid to residents, Sevigny said.
An investigation found that for years John Hancock selectively used the Social Security Administration's Death Master File database to end benefits payments but didn't use the database to find deceased policyholders or their beneficiaries, Sevigny said.
The settlement requires the company to use the database, or something similar, on a monthly basis to determine if any of its policy holders have died and to then make reasonable efforts to find and pay their beneficiaries. The company also agreed to make a $13.3 million payment to be shared among the states involved in the investigation, Sevigny said.
He said John Hancock cooperated willingly with state investigators and the settlement is similar to one signed by Prudential Life Insurance Co., MetLife, Nationwide and AIG earlier this year.
"This is a good day for insurance consumers. I am pleased that John Hancock has joined its industry peers and has agreed to implement improved business practices that will undoubtedly place more life insurance proceeds into the pockets of beneficiaries," Sevigny said.
Settlement to bring millions in life insurance benefits to N.H. residents
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There are still bugs in the game, but i will fix it all in the actual game with, hopefully, a health bar. In the real game you will be able to attack your enemies and maybe even drive some of the vehicles!
Master chief has landed on halo and he is weaponless... yup our hero has no weapon(In this Demo). So he must run through the covenant alien race without using his gun. The marines will tell you what to do along the way with in game messages. I hope you enjoy.
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Hello and welcome to my new Tamahotchi ID L log, I have been wanting to creat a log for a while now and have decided that this time, I am going to make this log work, I stopped logging in my other ones because I did not have much time and was busy with other projects, but now I am back and am ready to start loggin again.
I promiss that I will post at least 3 pictures everytime, except when my IPhone is broken, because it keeps playing up, however I am getting a IPhone 4s soon.
I will always try to make the log interesting and fun for all my readers, I will also always try my best to reply to all your emails, and feel free to pm me of you want me to start to log about different tamagotchi's.
14th August 2012
Makiko had had a baby with Mametchi from the date place. After having a awesome date with him, she gave birth to a wonderful bouncing baby (Momoiritchi). After playing and spending a Mother and Daughter moment, Momo decided to sleep. Makiko took advantage of the moment to depart leaving little Momo in my care.
I gave Momo really good care and it wasn't long until she evolved into Paletchi. Momo then decided to change her icons from the tree and houses to the apples. She also wanted to play a few games to try and get enough money to redecorate the house. We played several games and then decided to download a few items onto the ID L. She was so happy and thanked me for hours for getting new items for her. We visited the park and then she decided to go to sleep.
This morning we woke up at 7:00am. It was time to get up and head of to school. I didn't take her with me today but just before I left I saw that she had changed into Sabosabotchi, the same character that her Mother was. I hope I don't get a Makiko again. Although it was nice having her she isn't my favourite character and I want to collect all of the 2 hapy stamps. Variety is the spice of life after all. We didn't do much today because I did not get home till late. I did take a photo though.
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Cobre Valley Institute of Technology (CVIT) is proud to announce that the Electrical and Instrumentation Program students completed their first college course, ELT 110 Electricity and Electronics.
This course introduces students to basic principles of electricity and electronics theory with a heavy emphasis of industrial applications. This course is one of 10 that students are required to complete in two years in order to earn a Certificate of Proficiency.
While enrolled in CVIT courses, high school students are not required to pay tuition. CVIT also pays for books and program supplies. After high school graduation, students will be encouraged to continue with their studies to earn an Associate of Applied Science Degree in Electrical and Instrumentation Technology.
There are 13 students from Globe, Miami, and Superior currently enrolled in CVIT's Electrical and Instrumentation program. For more information on CVIT Programs, contact Beata Tarasiuk at 928- 425-9654, x164.
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Clinical Exposures: Pulmonary thrombosis due to idiopathic main pulmonary artery disease
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Within the next 24 hours, the owner had noticed that the dog was having breathing difficulties and occasional coughing episodes. He took the dog to his veterinarian. The dog's vaccinations were current, and it was receiving a monthly heartworm preventive. The veterinarian's physical examination had revealed increased respiratory effort. A complete blood count had revealed a lymphopenia and a mature neutrophilia consistent with a stress response. A serum chemistry profile had revealed mildly elevated alkaline phosphatase activity (263 IU/L; normal = 0 to 140 IU/L).
The dog had been discharged from the clinic, but during the next 24 hours its respiratory signs had worsened, so the owner had returned the dog to the veterinarian. The second physical examination had revealed severe respiratory stridor with weakness and listlessness. Substantial pulmonary and cardiac abnormalities were identified on thoracic radiographs (Figures 1A & 1B). That same day, the veterinarian referred the dog to the Virginia Tech teaching hospital.Evaluation and treatment


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Celtic FC surprised many by reaching the last 16 of the UEFA Champions League but it is less of a shock that their supporters won over an army of new admirers.
Even in defeat, FC Barcelona midfielder Xavi Hernández was moved to say: "The stadium is a marvel, the fans, the people, how they support their side. It is an example for every team." With two-time European Cup winners Juventus in Glasgow on Tuesday, I have picked my own top five UEFA Champions League games at Celtic Park. For sheer drama and excitement, these will take some beating. Let me know what you make of my choices using the comments box at the foot of the page.
07/11/2012: Celtic 2-1 FC Barcelona
Celebrating the club's 125th anniversary on the eve of the match, manager Neil Lennon felt "something special" might be in the air. Yet considering the Scottish champions had lost to an added-time Jordi Alba goal at the Camp Nou, few expected Celtic to win back on their own patch – especially without striker Gary Hooper and captain Scott Brown. However, Victor Wanyama's first-half header and substitute Tony Watt's composed late finish gave Celtic one of their greatest European nights and reduced the watching Rod Stewart to tears.
03/10/2007: Celtic 2-1 AC Milan
The European champions left Glasgow in defeat after Gordon Strachan's team plundered a late winner. What had been a cagey group-stage affair exploded into life on 61 minutes when Stephen McManus bundled the ball over the line to put Celtic ahead. Kaká levelled from the spot seven minutes later but, driven on by another full house, the hosts' Scott McDonald found the net in the penultimate minute after Dida failed to hold Gary Caldwell's shot.
29/08/2007: Celtic 1-1 FC Spartak Moskva (agg: 2-2, Celtic win 4-3 on penalties)
Goalkeeper Artur Boruc was the hero as Celtic qualified for the group stage after an epic third qualifying round tussle with Spartak. With the sides level at 1-1, and with both having missed penalties that would have decided the tie inside 120 minutes, the game went to a shoot-out. Shunsuke Nakamura surprisingly missed for Celtic, yet Boruc denied Yegor Titov and Maxym Kalynychenko to ensure the Hoops progressed.
21/11/2006: Celtic 1-0 Manchester United FC
Few games can match this one for late drama. United had dominated possession without scoring when Nakamura curled a wonderful free-kick past Edwin van der Sar with ten minutes remaining. Sir Alex Ferguson's charges could have equalised in the final minute when they were awarded a spot kick, but Boruc saved Louis Saha's effort. That meant that Celtic, under one of Sir Alex's former pupils – Strachan – advanced from their group to the last 16 for the first time.
31/10/2001: Celtic 4-3 Juventus
Two spectacular strikes from Chris Sutton and a virtuoso display from Lubomír Moravcik inspired Celtic to this heroic showing in their maiden UEFA Champions League campaign. Alessandro Del Piero gave Juventus the lead before goals from Joos Valgaeren and Sutton fired Celtic in front. Although David Trezeguet equalised, Henrik Larsson's penalty and a stunning Sutton volley restored the Hoops' two goal-advantage. Trezeguet halved it but could not deny Celtic victory – though they still exited the competition owing to FC Porto's win against Rosenborg BK.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - South Carolina running back Marcus Lattimore is the Southeastern Conference offensive player of the week.
Alabama cornerback Dee Milliner earned the defensive honor while Missouri punt return man Marcus Murphy is special teams player of the week.
The SEC named its winners Monday.
Lattimore rushed for 110 yards and two touchdowns against Vanderbilt in his first game back from an October knee injury.
Milliner deflected four passes and had a 35-yard interception return in the Crimson Tide's win over Michigan.
Murphy returned two punts for touchdowns against Southeastern Louisiana.
Tennessee guard Zach Fulton is the offensive lineman of the week.
Mississippi end C.J. Johnson and Arkansas end Chris Smith shared defensive line honors. Tailbacks Todd Gurley of Georgia and T.J. Yeldon of Alabama are co-freshmen of the week.


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Aboriginal and academic leaders have criticised rugby league commentator Warren Ryan, branding his alleged racism as belonging in the ''dustbin of history''.
Ryan has resigned from the ABC after he and fellow commentator David Morrow were stood down pending an investigation into allegations Ryan used the term ''old darky'' during the call of the Sydney Roosters-Canterbury match two weeks ago.
He claims the remark, which has effectively cut short a career spanning more than two decades at the station, was a quote from Gone with the Wind.
He has refused to apologise, saying no offence was intended and ''there is no appeasing those who are determined to be offended''.
But Jenny Munro, indigenous campaigner and founder of Redfern's Tent Embassy, said citing the 1930s film was ''no justification for being racist''. ''We thought that language had been consigned to the dustbin of history. It really is an offensive term, going back to the time when we were called half-castes. That's just as insulting as darkies,'' she said.
''We've had this offensive language thrown at us for a long time and white Australia needs to understand how insulting it is.''
Ken Macnab, president of the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Sydney, said sensitivities around offensive remarks are particularly heightened given Attorney-General George Brandis' proposal to to scrap sections of the Racial Discrimination Act that restrict racist insults and hate speech.
''The context of it, I guess, is that there is this Australia-wide debate,'' Dr Macnab said.
''No doubt [Ryan] had the film in mind, but it was a poor choice of words and capable of giving offence. If you describe someone in offensive terms, you give offence.''
Greens MLC David Shoebridge advises extreme caution when using literature as a defence. ''There is undoubtedly room to use literature to emotively describe and illustrate events in the modern day, but it's not appropriate to revive racist quotes simply because they have a place in literature,'' he said.
''Anyone in media should take enormous care before they pull a quote out of context to illustrate something on the sports field.
''You might be using a phrase that in your own mind is neutral and inoffensive but you need to be aware of how it may be perceived by an audience.''
Ryan, a premiership-winning coach who made a successful transition to the media, has made no apologies for the slur. ''The ABC has suspended me pending an investigation, so I have resigned to save them the trouble of conducting it,'' he said.
''I have outlined my reasons for not wanting to continue there in a letter to them. As for the injustice done to David Morrow in standing him down, he wasn't even listening when I was comparing a blow-up on the field between the ref and a player to a scene in the film Gone with the Wind.
''The word used to describe the character was a direct quote from the film. There was no offence intended, so I won't be apologising. It would be insincere.''
The ABC said it is yet to receive a letter of resignation from Ryan and that no further comment will be made until its investigation is complete. Both Ryan and Morrow have received letters from the ABC regarding their investigation. However, it is understood neither Ryan or Morrow have replied to the report.
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Light Roasted Pumpkin Seeds Recipe
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- 2 cups fresh pumpkin seeds
- 5 teaspoons butter, melted
- 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1/8 to 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- Preheat oven to 250°. In a bowl, toss pumpkin seeds with melted butter and Worcestershire sauce. Mix remaining ingredients; toss with seeds. Spread evenly in a 15x10x1-in. pan coated with cooking spray.
- Bake until seeds are lightly browned and dry, 45-60 minutes, stirring occasionally. Cool completely before storing in an airtight container. Yield: 2 cups.
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"I love fall because it means pumpkins. I roast the seeds after carving our pumpkins. I realize that this recipe deals with seeds that you purchase. But I tried it with the hulls and it worked okay. If using already shelled seeds, I would cut down the butter by 1 tsp., though."
"This recipe is a tradition here at ou house after the pumkins are carved. We have tried other recipes but everyone agrees this is still the best one."
"I only had one cup of pumpkin seeds so I used 3TB butter, 1 tsp. W. sauce, 1/2t. garlic powder, 1 tsp. salt, 1/2t. sugar, and 1/4t. cajun seasoning. They are excellent! Will make again!!!"
"In the interest of heart healthy I replaced the butter with olive oil; the results are fantastic. This is a snack that is elevated from (still wonderful) buttery/salty/crunchy to savoury with just a hint of zip from the pepper. I have one more pumpkin to carve before the end of this week and those seeds will be prepared using this recipe again!"
"Looks like a great recipe can't wait to try it.Anniejones"