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- 4 Bosc pears
- 1 cup apple juice
- 1 cup cranberry juice
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 6–8 cloves
Baked Pears with Cranberry–Apple Reduction
Andrea Beaman
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This aromatic dessert is a great use for bountiful winter pears.
Yield: 4 servings
Preheat the oven to 400ºF. Cut a thin slice off the bottom of each pear. Pour the apple juice and cranberry juice into a medium roasting pan. Add the cinnamon stick and cloves, then arrange the pears upright in the pan. Roast, basting every 15 minutes, until tender, brown, and puckered, about 45 minutes. Remove from the oven and transfer the pears to serving plates. Drizzle the leftover roasting liquid over the pears. Serve.
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Plans in place to police the derby match
Date published: 26 April 2012
Football fans in Manchester are set for an exciting night of football with the arrival of the much-anticipated Manchester derby this Monday.
Plans are in place to police the derby match between Manchester City and Manchester United at the Ethiad stadium, Eastlands, which will kick off at 8pm.
Chief Superintendent John O'Hare said: "The derby match always creates a fantastic atmosphere and many thousands of fans will be out to enjoy what is a great occasion in the football calendar.
"As so much rests on this game, emotions will be running high and our main aim is to ensure the game is a safe and enjoyable experience for all fans.
"Greater Manchester Police is very experienced at policing football matches. We will have the appropriate number of officers and resources within the ground and the surrounding areas to both deal with any incidents and offer reassurance to the public.
"The rivalry between the clubs really adds something extra to this fixture and should be embraced, but we must also ensure that this is not used as an excuse by some individuals to become involved in disorder.
"We want fans to enjoy themselves, but at the same time, we want to make it clear to the minority who may be thinking of causing any trouble that we will clamp down hard on them. We want people to take responsibility for themselves and drink responsibly.
"We want to ensure that the city of Manchester, both of its clubs and its fans are remembered for the right reasons. We should celebrate the fact that the Premier League is coming to Manchester."
There will be additional police patrols in place in the city centre and around the ground and officers will be visiting pubs where the match is being shown live on TV.
Anyone caught with alcohol on the streets within the alcohol exclusion zone, stretching from the city centre to the stadium, will have it confiscated. In addition, anyone arriving at the stadium under the influence of excess alcohol will be refused entry.
Chief Superintendent John O'Hare continued: "Both Manchester United and Manchester City are supportive of the fact that anyone who is arrested in connection with causing trouble at the derby, runs the risk of being banned from entering their respective clubs again in the future.
"The game will also be televised so we take this opportunity to remind anyone watching at home that we are well aware that competitive tension and increased alcohol consumption can sometimes provoke abuse and violence at home.
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Prep time | 20 minutes |
Cooking time | 30 minutes |
Total time | 50 minutes |
This light, low-fat pot pie is perfectly complemented by a crisp, colorful garden salad.
4 c
Potato, cut into small cubes 2 Tbsp
olive oil 1 Tbsp
Eggless mayonnaise 1⁄2 tspn
Salt 1 1⁄2 Tbsp
Fresh parsley, finely minced 1⁄2 c
onion, diced 1⁄4 c
Carrot, diced 1⁄2 c
Celery, sliced 2 c
Cauliflower florets 1⁄2 c
Green beans, cut into 1-inch pieces 3 Tbsp
Garbanzo flour 2 Tbsp
Potato starch 1 Tbsp
Nutritional yeast 1⁄4 tspn
Ground thyme 1⁄4 tspn
Asafetida 1⁄4 tspn
Salt 1 Tbsp
Eggless mayonnaise 1 1⁄2 Tbsp
Bragg liquid aminos 1 tspn
Maple syrup or honey 1 tspn
Lemon juice 1 1⁄2 c
- Boil the potato until just tender. Drain and mash, then mix in 1 Tbsp. of the oil and the mayonnaise, salt, parsley, and pepper to taste. Set aside.
- Meanwhile, heat the remaining 2 tsp. oil in a nonstick skillet and sauté the vegetables covered on medium heat until tender. Add a little water if needed to prevent sticking and cook until well dried up. Set aside.
- For the gravy, combine the first 6 ingredients in a medium saucepan and toast on medium heat, stirring constantly, until light golden. Remove from the heat.
- In a medium bowl whisk together the mayonnaise, aminos, maple syrup, lemon juice, and water. Return the toasted ingredients to the stove on medium heat and add the wet ingredients, whisking well to combine.
- Cook until thickened to a gravy consistency, whisking constantly. (If the gravy comes out too lumpy, pour it into a blender and blend briefly, then reheat to thicken it.)
- Preheat the oven to 350°F. Place the sautéed vegetables in an 8x8-inch oiled baking dish and pour the gravy over the top. Carefully cover with the mashed potato, spreading evenly. Sprinkle with paprika. Bake for 20 minutes until heated through.
Nutritional Information Per Serving:
Calories: 190, Fat 5.1g (46 cal), Carbohydrate 31.5g (126 cal), Protein 4.4g (18 cal)
Added information: Saturated Fat 0.7g, Cholesterol 2mg, Sodium 514mg, Dietary Fiber 4.1g


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Last Saturday, the College of Charleston hosted the 4th annual BarCampCHS conference. Many of our Computer Science students attended this unique conference featuring a variety of speakers and topics. Unlike traditional discipline meetings, the content of BarCampCHS is decided not by the coordinators, but by the participators. It is a time to share and learn from those in your field, and even those who are not, as it encompasses everything from digital artists, entrepreneurs, writers, and designers. BarCampCHS boasts a community driven environment and a great opportunity to network and interact with old and new friends. Our students and faculty love it, and are already looking forward to next year! Thanks to Logan Edwards for the great pictures. Here are some highlights:
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Getafe struck a potentially vital blow in their bid to avoid relegation as they eased themselves five points clear of the La Liga relegation zone with an impressive 2-1 win at fellow strugglers Villarreal.
Luis Garcia Plaza's men went into the game on a five-game winless run that had threatened to throw them into the middle of a dogfight, but goals from Diego Castro and Abdelaziz Barrada mean they now have some breathing space.
Villarreal, highly fancied at the start of the season but still to recover from the loss of Giuseppe Rossi to injury, are three points above the bottom three, but should have taken more from this match.
They did equalise through Nilmar's penalty, but, having already missed one through Borja Valero, the Yellow Submarine may well consider this to be a chance missed.
With a three-game winless run of their own hanging over them, Jose Francisco Molina's side were always likely to start quickly and so it proved, with Cani working Miguel Moya from the edge of the box.
Castro strikes first
They were unable to get any momentum, though, and Los Azulones stunned them by taking a fifth-minute lead when Castro got on the end of Miku's pass and did the rest.
Villarreal's response was to win a penalty 11 minutes later when Michel wiped out Jaume Costa, but Valero was unable to find the space either side of Moya, hitting his penalty at him.
Nilmar then took aim and was foiled by the goalkeeper, but it took close to 30 minutes for the home side to fashion another chance, Marcos Senna hitting over from distance.
They would level before the break, however, with Nilmar doing the trick from the spot after drawing a foul out of Daniel Diaz.
Getafe keep going
But, if the home fans thought the goal would inspire more in the second half they were wrong, as Getafe started impressively. Michel's header was saved by Diego Lopez, before the keeper was at his best again to deny Miku.
Cani then missed a golden chance from six yards, and that proved to be crucial as Barrada ran on to Pedro Leon's pass to get the better of Lopez with 18 minutes remaining.
Castro could have wrapped things up for Getafe had he shown more composure when free in the box, but it did not matter as his side held on for a valuable win.


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Tighe Greenhalgh comes from a family of entrepreneurs and fell in love with the life at a young age. Seeing entrepreneurship as the path to fulfillment and freedom, it is his passion to make the joys of entrepreneurship accessible to more people. Although born in Philadelphia and raised in Kansas City, he married a Baltimore area native and they are expecting their first child due in February 2012. He has taken on a personal mission to make Baltimore "the place where people come do what they want to do."
Tighe has started and been partners in companies in several industries, from medical equipment to construction to non-profit. He currently works as President of Leawood Associates, an investment firm specializing in alternative investments and private placement offerings. He is co-founder of Think Big Baltimore, a conference series dedicated to strengthening the regional community of entrepreneurs, mentors, investors and service providers. He is a co-founder of the Tecosphere project, a redesigned venture capital fund. He sits on the Board of Directors for Acts 4 Youth, a non-profit that partners with urban communities to equip at-risk boys with foundational character traits and life skills.
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Harley Flack, founder of FlackVentures (FVI), is a dynamic and mindful thought leader. Harley has been deemed an innovator in ethics, mentorship, networking, financing, capital strategies, valuations and term sheet management as well as organizational development, government strategies, procurement strategies, sourcing, change methodologies, green business solutions, strategic planning and tactical initiatives. Most importantly, he understands working for the client. By evaluating Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for tracking, accountability, and sustainability, Harley then develops a balanced score card approach to provide transparency and tracking mechanisms that strengthen the linkages within government and the private sector.
As CEO of FlackVentures, Harley Flack studies measures, metrics and overall performance indicators of government and companies to lead and manage successful growth. Harley has worked with senior leadership of more then 200 Fortune 500 companies to create measurable results in diverse areas over the last two decades. He increased the overall revenue of a New York firm by 6X over a 4 year period. His support of the spending initiatives of a national senior living organization resulted in saving +7X on a corporate wide technology acquisition for over 30 facilities by developing methods for bundled acquisition of hardware and software along with competitively priced service contracts. Harley has set up work groups that have been involved in strategies dealing with national policy such as Sarbanes-Oxley and BRAC. He is currently working with government and business leaders to support initiatives relating to HealthCare, Real Estate Development and Early Stage Growth Initiatives. Specializing in business debt strategies and an expert in diagnosing overall Return on Investment (ROI), Harley Flack utilizes his talents and those of his team to provide immediate solutions and process improvements designed to grow, sustain and manage overall ROI.
Harley works with companies that are in early stage growth to develop successful ways to obtain next stage funding and organizational improvement. As a recognized thought leader, he has supported clean, efficient American energy initiatives. Through the Workforce Solutions business unit he supports job retention and job growth. Harley Flack understands that the new national incentives will create jobs and spur investment. These new initiatives will provoke business leaders to choose new capital investment strategies, fostering a keen understanding of depreciation and its correlation to business expenses. For the past 18 years, Harley Flack has worked with private sector businesses to bridge gaps with the public sector to provide jobs that sustain business growth.
Harley is a member of the Executive Board for the Trustees of the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra, serving as Vice-Chairman of the Orchestra and serves on the Executive Board of Directors for the Community Foundation of Anne Arundel County as Treasurer. He is on the Board of advisor to CFG Bank and very involved in local and national philanthropy. He attended the University of New England, Howard University and the University of Maryland.


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Ronald Poppo was blunt about the horrific Memorial Day weekend attack by Rudy Eugene that left him blind and disfigured. "He attacked me," Poppo said. "He just ripped me to ribbons. He chewed up my face. He plucked out my eyes. Basically, that's all there is to say about it." That recollection cam ... More >>
People love a good story. It's why when Rudy Eugene ate Ronald Poppo's face beneath the MacArthur Causeway on May 26, the whole world latched onto one cop's careless explanation: Bath salts drove Eugene insane.Cue public panic. In Miami, media blamed the mysterious compound -- often called synthetic ... More >>
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If the Heat wins tonight, it will be a citywide fist punch to the fart box of all the haters around the world. Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook can go back to wearing their lensless glasses in the obscurity of Oklahoma City. And Charles Barkley can quietly choke on his stupid diet meals.Miami can' ... More >>
About three weeks before Rudy Eugene took off all his clothes and chewed off Ronald Poppo's face, Miami Police had to subdue another naked man who went crazy in the Upper Eastside. Luckily, Andre Patterson didn't seriously hurt anyone and didn't end up dead. The incident occurred on the morning ... More >>
Ronald Poppo, the homeless victim of the face-eating attack, faces a long and expensive road towards recovery. But the international interest in the gruesome event has an upside: To date, around 2,000 Samaritans have donated approximately $75,000 to go to his medical care. We got that figure from La ... More >>
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Riptide used to get a sick kick out of driving over the Julia Tuttle Causeway and informing our visiting friends we were now directly above America's most infamous sex offender colony. Of course, that's no longer there, so instead we'll just take the MacArthur Causeway to the Beach and casually quip ... More >>
Ronald Poppo is currently in critical condition at Jackson Memorial Hospital after having large portions of his face chewed off by Rudy Eugene on Saturday near the MacArthur Causeway. However, it's not Poppo's first trip to Jackson Memorial Hospital after receiving near-fatal injuries in downtown Mi ... More >>
North Miami Beach mom Vivianne Perpignan remembers Rudy Eugene as just another good kid from the football team, who'd stop by her house while hanging out with her son Teddy. The Perpignans live on a residential street a five minute drive from North Miami Beach High, and the neighborhood feels like a ... More >>
People who knew face-eating Rudy Eugene before he became the "Miami Zombie" have been telling news outlets-- including this one-- that he was a good kid who must have been made insane by a drug binge. But Eugene previously had at least one extremely violent episode, when he was 22 years old. Ripti ... More >>
Nash Perez was driving his kids home from a Sunday afternoon at the Miami Children's Museum when a curious sight made him tap his brakes. A few hundred feet ahead, about midway up the sharp hill 395 climbs near the Miami Herald, a naked man was gesturing angrily at the cars whizzing past. Perez call ... More >>
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I have to agree, I am not sure what to make of that. Thanks for sharing. I will be laughing about it all day.
i'd say hilarious! :D but also with some sad, bittersweet undertones. really well made! have to admit i got really nervous for her when she put it/him in to the washing machine, what if he shrinks or becomes all unraveled..? O_o
I thought the same about shrinking...l then she SAT on the washing machine and another thought crossed my mind! I was relieved to see him in Paris afterwards
Interesting. Like a knitted short. Definitely is creative and shows anything can be knitted.
Well if you can't find the perfect man, knit one. Thanks for sharing. Ali x
Hmmmmm yes indeed!
I kept expecting him to need darning! Weird short, but in an okay way :D
How about choice D?...all of the above? but in an insanely different way! this either shows ingenuity or the need for therapy beyond the actual knitting...and if she's happy, isn't that ALL that matters? LOL...thanks for this!
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Wealthy Affiliate Training Center Section Page 3:
This is the third page which reviews the Wealthy Affiliate Training Center section. If you have not already done so, you can also check out page 1 and page 2 of the training center, which can be found at the bottom of the page in links. This will be the last page of the Wealthy Affiliate Training Center review.
Page 3 of the training center review will include web hosting, website development, and the accreditation courses.
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The web hosting section of the training center obviously covers everything hosting related. As I have mentioned before, there are not many other membership centers out there that include free hosting with your membership. many of them will claim to offer a free website pre-made for you, but then they throw in over a hundred dollars worth of hosting fees. Wealthy Affiliate does not do this, and there web hosting really is free. You can host your websites totally free at WA if you choose to.
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Inspiring Quilters, Stitch by Stitch
Here will be a place for us to see all the finished quilts we've done from the "Modern Mystery Quilt" project's weekly directions. What a fun journey this has been!
Susan, when I added each quilt to the slideshow, I saved it under the person's name, so if you double click on any quilt, it should take you to the original picture and show the person's name...hope this helps! I didn't find a way (well, quick way, anyway) to put a title under the slide, so this was about the best I could do!
Love the slide show! Only wish there was a way to label the quilts so we know who did them.
Betty, I like your quilting idea, and the binding really pops on yours, doesn't it? Neat ideas! I've added it to the slide show above! (Jeanne R, I got yours in, too - see page 2)
You are welcome, Patty! I'm glad everyone is enjoying it - can't wait to see even more of the finished quilts up there! Everyone, don't forget to click on page 2 - we've gone to a new page! If you click on the slide show, it will cycle through all of them. I'm still looking for the one that had the lines all the way through and connecting the circles-an original twist to our pattern. If this was yours, it has disappeared off our regular link, and I can't find it anywhere to upload - would you resubmit a picture for us so I can get it on the slide show? Thanks!
This is a great tool. We can see everyone's quilt. Thanks again for doing this for all of us.
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I watched a new Tom Cruise movie and enjoyed it... :>
Re-Watched Band of Brothers.
Truly a great piece of historical television.
I watched a new Tom Cruise movie and enjoyed it... :>
Stosstrupp 1917
German (Bavarian to be precise). Best movie about ww1 and about life in the trenches.
Mongol 6/10, good movie if only slow at times, but you have to know the story of Genghis Khan to enjoy it, don't think anyone without the knowledge of the man will learn from it
That and the cavalery charge by the end was bit of a fantasy
God bless America- 8/10
The Raid- 8/10 could have done without the good vs bad brother thing.
Started re-watching Star Trek Voyager.
I ****ing love star trek voyager.
Red Tails.
Not sure what to think about it. I don't really know a lot about the Taskagee pilots, but I wonder if this this movie is historically accurate.
No country for old men.
It´s okey but the ending... I didn´t understand what the hell happens or the meaning of whatever.
I watched 9th Company again... People rave how accurate it is, but it is not accurate at all. 6 men for 9th company died in the mooj raid, not the entire Company. All of it is dramatic liberal anti-war idiocy.
Another Earth - 7/10
Not quite sure what to make of this flick. It is good cinema and so on...but it sort of reminded me of expecting sugar in your coffee and getting nutri-sweet instead.
Definitely a curious little movie.
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom - 9/10
Great movie all in all, but the cave/temple scene could have been a little shorter in my opinion.
Captain America. 6/10 tad above average, maybe better on the 2nd watch or so.
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On Monday morning, Walker spokeswoman Ciara Matthews announced "we are not filing any specific challenges to any specific signatures today," which led to aflurry of articles repeating the claim. Monday was the deadline for Walker to file challenges to the recall petitions. "That put us in an impossible timeline," she said.
Walker's filing with the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board says his campaign has only been able to evaluate around 350,000 signatures, far short of the 540,000 minimum necessary for a recall.
However, Walker also asked the Boar to take into account the findings of the "Verify the Recall" initiative, a joint project between the Houston-based nonprofit "True the Vote" and the Wisconsin Tea Party groups, Grandsons of Liberty, and We The People of the Republic. However, it now appears that Walker and others are working to distance themselves from "True the Vote" and its parent group, the King Street Patriots.
Out-of-State Groups Review Signatures
Since early February, the groups involved in the "Verify the Recall" effort have been recruiting volunteers from around the country to enter the Wisconsin recall petitions into a massive online database.
The database was reportedly developed by "True the Vote," a project of the Texas Tea Party group King Street Patriots, which has been accused of a variety of voter suppression tactics, and is working with a national right-wing organization to purge voter rolls in several states.
Last month, the Texas-based King Street Patriots / "True the Vote" and the two Wisconsin Tea Party groups behind the Verify the Recall initiative asked the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board for the chance to officially challenge signatures. Their request was turned down, but they nonetheless continued to analyze the recall petitions and released their findings Monday.
Walker's campaign is also asking the Board to incorporate Verify the Recall's analysis of the recall petitions. The groups say that if the Board does not consider their analysis they may bring a lawsuit.
Walker Seeks Distance From Texas Groups?
Since January, the "Verify the Recall" effort had been described as "a joint endeavor" between "True the Vote" and the Wisconsin Tea Party groups (see here and here). However, in his filing with the Government Accountability Board, Walker only refers to the two Wisconsin Tea Party groups when describing the Verify the Recall effort -- the Houston-based "True the Vote" is not mentioned.
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Last week, the Democratic Party of Wisconsin filed a complaint alleging the Americans for Prosperity Foundation violated its charitable status by running ads supporting Walker's reelection. "True the Vote" and its parent group, the King Street Patriots, have previously been accused of violating their nonprofit status and state election laws (and for their defense attorney they hired James Bopp Jr., the anti-campaign finance crusader behind the infamous Citizens United case).
Finally, Walker might want to distance himself from "True the Vote" and King Street Patriots based on their alleged history of voter suppression.
King Street Patriots Accused of Voter Suppression
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After those elections, the Civil Rights division of the U.S. Department of Justice launched an investigation into the group and its voter intimidation efforts. Despite this, the King Street Patriots are seeking to expand the same initiatives that led to accusations of voter suppression. The group held a national summit last year featuring Andrew Breitbart to highlight their efforts to prevent "voter fraud," and pledged to recruit 1 million Tea Party poll watchers for the 2012 elections.
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Vadum also wrote Subversion Inc.: How Obama's ACORN Red Shirts are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers. The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, registered low-income voters, among other projects, and closed its doors in 2010. The invitation to the event from King Street Patriots says ACORN was a "criminal organization with the goal of the destruction of America and the installation of a totalitarian government."
The invitation also included a blurb from Vadum's book: "America is under siege by radicals who are determined to pulverize the U.S. Constitution, deliberately bankrupt the nation, destroy the electoral system, and drive the economy into the ground. Subversion Inc. isn't just the story of ACORN. It's the story of how community organizers just like President (Barack) Obama are undermining America from within."
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Nepal's vultures — decimated by medicine fed to the livestock they call dinner — are making a comeback thanks to their own chain of healthy-eating restaurants.
The drug-free diners have been set up across the country over the last four years to counter the use of diclofenac, a painkiller commonly administered to the cattle that are a mainstay of the scavengers' diet.
The latest, launched last year near the Annapurna mountain range in central Nepal, has led to a five-fold increase in the local population of the critically endangered bird, according to figures unearthed by my AFP colleague Deepak Adhikari this week.
See his story published by AFP on October 26 here.
Before the turn of the century, an estimated 300,000 vultures cruised the Nepali skies, but scientific studies say their numbers declined by more than 90 percent in just a few years.
Vultures feeding on carcasses treated with diclofenac die of kidney failure, often within 24 hours, says Bird Conservation Nepal.
Let's face it – vultures aren't the best loved species in the bird kingdom. Intrinsically linked as they are with death, the sight of this falconiformes circling above is about as welcome as a visit by the Grim Reaper at a nursing home.
And there is something distinctly unvirtuous about the idea of picking on the bones of the carcass of some poor soul which has met its end. Better the ferocious majesty of the eagle which swoops, kills and deserves its prey than the slavering shadenfreude of the vulture.
Even its name has become a staple insult in the English language to describe someone who benefits from another's misfortune.
So should we not celebrate its demise? Well, no.
The loss of a major scavenger – apart from being a zoological tragedy – is bad news for all of us.
In Nepal the demise of the vulture has led to a rise in rotting carcasses and a consequent increase in feral dogs and the spread of disease.
Yes, vultures are… well… vultures - but they also do a good job in protecting us from rabies, anthrax and tuberculosis.
BCN came up with the idea of "restaurants" where the birds could eat uncontaminated carrion, the latest of them set up in Kaski district.
In Hindu-majority Nepal, cows are considered sacred and killing them is strictly prohibited.
BCN buys old and terminally ill cattle and takes the animals to the restaurants' farms in community-owned forests where they are treated, if needed, with another, vulture-friendly painkiller.
They are allowed to die naturally and, once declared free of diclofenac, are skinned and taken to nearby jungle where they are left out to become the vultures' main course.
With around 860 bird species in a landscape that varies from fertile, semi-tropical plains to snowy Himalayan peaks, Nepal is a paradise for bird watchers.
It now has six vulture restaurants, and BCN says one project set up two years ago at Gaidahawa Lake, in the southern Terai plains, has seen numbers increase from fewer than 40 to as high as 282 at meal times.


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Minneapolis May Be on Verge of Secondhand Store Boom
Ordinance change opens the door to secondhand store clusters.
A 23-year old ordinance required at least 1,000 feet between secondhand stores in Minneapolis.
The ordinance was enacted when the shops were perceived as less than desirable. Attitudes have changed in regard to secondhand stores, especially in Minneapolis. The stores have become wildly popular. Seventy secondhand store dealers are now licensed in the city.
So the city council recently eliminated the space requirement for secondhand stores. It means these shops can open up right next to one another.
Advocates are now optimistic vintage store clusters will be created. Secondhand shoppers often enjoy visiting several nearby resale stores during one shopping trip.
The ordinance change enables clustering to occur.


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In defense of singletons
Posted on May 23rd, 2013
I love seeing pictures of my friends' growing families on their blogs and FB pages. Seriously, BABIES! Almost everyone I know is on #2 or #3 right now, it seems.
And then I wonder….how? Not the mechanics, but the sanity how and the money how and the energy how. Because even if another pregnancy wasn't a good bet at killing me, I don't know how I could do it. What's more, I don't have any desire to do it, and didn't, even when the perinatologist knowingly said, "You'll be back as soon as she says 'Mama' for the first time."
I said, "No, but thank you for all you've done." Because we both made it out alive and that was enough.
Other MILPs have spoken of their deep desires to have another child recently, and I want to reiterate this is all about my hangups and I'm pretty sure that based on a survey of my acquaintance, I'm the weird one. Because again, don't get me wrong: BABIES! But the caveat is other people's BABIES!
Someone told me once that most kids are not as hard as mine. I don't know if that's true, but I cling to that. I am pretty sure that on a Richter scale of easy-goingness, Pea wouldn't even register.
And the reality is that I've always wanted one child. Just one.
The annoying people do stop asking you, once your kid reaches a certain age, when you're going to give her a sibling.
(I am so embarrassed to remember, years ago, I did ask friends this once–their answer was a lot like mine: another would kill the mom–but in in my defense, they are super LDS.)
Instead, the question is, "Where are her brothers/sisters?" I've always said, "She's a planned only child." And no, that isn't enough to shut them up. Oh, she must want a sister or a brother. Yes, I say, sure. She also wants a puppy, and she doesn't have one of those, either. (That, for the first few years, was another thing I was pretty sure I couldn't manage at the same time as Pea without losing my sanity.)
Then they give me a look, the look that says I am an evil mother, and they either change the subject or tell me about how all ten of their children are best friends as adults.
Whatever. I could tell them stories about mine, but I don't. The short answer is: Pea's fine.
Mostly people tell me that my child is going to be selfish and unable to share because she lacks siblings. I'm not even going down that road. Suffice it to say she's always been generous (to a point; don't expect her to give you the last cupcake, although she might on a good day) and I'm not worried. Yes, I do wish she had someone else to play with when I'm trying to get things done.
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Irish Daily Star editor Michael O'Kane suspended with immediate effect
Irish Daily Star editor Michael O'Kane suspended with immediate effect
What's the betting that the captain gets thrown overboard as a quid pro quo for saving the ship?
Hardly going to stop printing vile crap now are they? One head will probably need to roll, mightn't be the top head though.
really really struggling to muster up much sympathy for anyone involved.
Frontline is covering this now too after the news
And here's Shatter making sure not to waste any old excuse to tighten the screws on media reporting:
Ireland is to introduce privacy laws on the back of the scandal over the publication of topless photographs of the Duchess of Cambridge.
Alan Shatter, Minister for Justice, Equality and Defence, has taken the dramatic decision to revive abandoned legislation amid the continued fallout from the holiday images of the Royals.http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...reland-1328588"It is clear that some sections of the print media are either unable or unwilling in their reportage to distinguish between prurient interest and the public interest," he said.
Worth remembering his row with the Indo and Fionnan Sheahan back in April over meetings with Lowry.
The Indo are on his case today again with a story about a attempt to evict a tenant renting one of his US properties
Rabbitte say he would 'need convincing'. Dont see it going anywhere tbh
Whole blogpost nicked and printed in today's Daily Mirror
Online Indo editor Noirin Hegarty has left IN&M.
Classy headline in tomorrow's Indo.
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U.N. to investigate treatment of Bradley Manning
A formal probe is launched following a Salon report on prolonged solitary confinement at Quantico
By Glenn GreenwaldTopics: WikiLeaks, Politics News
(updated below - Update II – Update III – Update IV – Update V - Update VI)
Both The Guardian and the Associated Press are reporting that the U.N.'s top official in charge of torture is now formally investigating the conditions under which the U.S. is detaining accused WikiLeaks leaker Bradley Manning. Last week, I described the inhumane terms of his detention at a Marine brig in Quantico, Virginia, including being held 23 out of 24 hours a day in solitary confinement for seven straight months and counting as well as other punitive measures (such as strict prohibitions on any exercise inside his cell and the petty denial of pillows and sheets). Manning's lawyer, former U.S. Army Major and Iraq War veteran David Coombs, thereafter publicly confirmed those facts, and then announced two days ago that efforts to persuade brig officials to allow more human conditions have failed, meaning it is likely that Manning will languish under these repressive restraints for many more months to come, at least.
In addition to confirming the facts I reported, Maj. Coombs added several disturbing new ones, including the paltry, isolated terms of Manning's one-hour-a-day so-called "exercise" time (he's "taken to an empty room and only allowed to walk," "normally just walks figure eights in the room," "if he indicates that he no long feels like walking, he is immediately returned to his cell"); the bizarre requirement that, despite not being on suicide watch, Manning respond to guards all day, every day, by saying "yes" every 5 minutes (even though guards cannot and "do not engage in conversation with" him); and various sleep-disruptive measures (he is barred from sleeping at any time from 5:00 am – 8:00 pm, and, during the night, "if the guards cannot see PFC Manning clearly, because he has a blanket over his head or is curled up towards the wall, they will wake him").
Although prolonged solitary confinement can unquestionably constitute torture (the surgeon and journalist Atul Gawande made the definitive, undeniable case for that last year in The New Yorker), I wasn't prepared to state based on what I could confirm that the treatment of Manning met the legal definition of torture (though it is clearly inhumane and certain to produce long-term psychological damage). That was because Manning wasn't subjected to the full-on sensory deprivation used at America's SuperMax prisons (his lawyer said "he can occasionally hear other inmates talk," though he cannot now) and did get the minimally required one hour a day of "exercise." But others have made the argument persuasively that this is torture.
Ralph Lopez chided me for my equivocation on that question, assembling ample evidence to support his view that the treatment amounts to torture. Digby made a strong case that "locking up someone who has not presented any kind of threat to other prisoners and who has not been convicted of a crime for months on end in solitary confinement under tight restrictions is torture." The psychologist and torture specialist Jeffrey Kaye made the same argument. The Atlantic's Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote: "I don't really see any argument for keeping Manning in these conditions, except a punitive one." And in the wake of my report, there have been several reports of the damage to Manning that is now apparent, including in The Guardian ("Bradley Manning's health deteriorating in jail, supporters say"), The Independent (Manning "in weak health and wracked with anxiety"), The Daily Beast ("The conditions under which Bradley Manning is being held would traumatize anyone"), and from his lawyer ("who says the extended isolation — now more than seven months of solitary confinement — is weighing on his client's psyche . . . . His treatment is harsh, punitive and taking its toll, says Coombs").
The U.S. is one of the world's most prolific practitioners of prolonged solitary confinement: unsurprising given that it enjoys the distinction of being the world's largest Prison State and the Western world's most merciless one. As NPR noted in 2006, there are roughly 25,000 prisoners in the U.S. kept in those conditions. But the vast, vast majority of them — unlike Manning — have actually been convicted of crimes. It is very rare (though, when it comes to Muslims accused of Terrorism, by no means unheard of) for these conditions to be imposed on people who have yet to be convicted of anything and never posed any threat to prison security. Prolonged solitary confinement is inhumane, horrendous and gratuitous even when applied to those convicted of heinous crimes, but the fact that it's being done to Manning here in order to "persuade" him to offer incriminating statements against WikiLeaks and Julian Asange makes it particularly repellent.
As is true for so much of what it does, the U.S. Government routinely condemns similar acts — the use of prolonged solitary confinement in its most extreme forms and lengthy pretrial detention — when used by other countries. See, for instance, the 2009 State Department Human Rights Report on Indonesia ("Officials held unruly detainees in solitary confinement for up to six days on a rice-and-water diet"); Iran ("Common methods of torture and abuse in prisons included prolonged solitary confinement with extreme sensory deprivation . . .Prison conditions were poor. Many prisoners were held in solitary confinement . . . Authorities routinely held political prisoners in solitary confinement for extended periods . . . All four [arrested bloggers] claimed authorities physically and psychologically abused them in detention, including subjecting them to prolonged periods of solitary confinement in a secret detention center without access to legal counsel or family"); Israel ("Israeli human rights organizations reported that Israeli interrogators . . . kept prisoners in harsh conditions, including solitary confinement for long periods"); Iraq ("Individuals claimed to have been subjected to psychological and physical abuse, including . . . solitary confinement in Ashraf to discourage defections"); Yemen ("Sleep deprivation and solitary confinement were other forms of abuse reported in PSO prisons"); Central African Republic ("As of December, there were 308 inmates in Ngaragba Prison, most of whom are pretrial detainees. Several detainees had been held for seven months without appearing before a judge"); Burundi ("Human rights problems also included . . . prolonged pretrial detention").
What's been most striking to me since I wrote that Manning article has been how the debate over detainee abuse has "evolved" — and not evolved — from the Bush years. Back then, Bush defenders were completely incapable of separating their opinions of the detainees from the question of whether the treatment was abusive and inhumane (these are Terrorists, so who cares what is done to them?). That has been the primary response to those defending the government's treatment of Manning as well (he's a Traitor!!) — except now, of course, it's found among many progressives: note how identical is the response from this front page writer of the liberal blog Crooks & Liars ("the meme o the day seems to be on Manning's so-called torture, to which I say 'boo hoo'") to that of The Weekly Standard ("Don't Cry for Bradley Manning") and RedState ("Give Bradley Manning His Pillow and Blankie Back"). This convergence is a perfect microcosm for how much our political discourse over such matters has transformed since January 20, 2009. At The Atlantic, Coates asked:
I think the worse part, is that very few people care what kind of conditions the incarcerated endure. We have essentially accepted prison-rape. The New Yorker piece asks is solitary confinement torture? I'd ask, even if it is torture, whether we even care?
Three years ago, many people who are conspicuously silent now loudly and continuously claimed they did care. Indeed, prolonged solitary confinement was one of the worst aspects of detention at Guantanamo, as many civil rights groups highlighted, but the type of glib and dismissive responses to such concerns back then ("'It's kind of like having their own apartment,' Camp 6 Guard, Guantánamo Bay Naval Station") is quite similar to what I've heard from people across the political spectrum in response to my Manning article.
As was true for the debates over War on Terror detainees, one's views of Manning are totally irrelevant to the issue here (that's aside from the fact that he's been convicted of nothing; is not, contrary to many claims, charged with espionage or treason; and what he's alleged to have done has resulted in no deaths). The only relevant issue is whether — after reading Gawande's New Yorker article — you believe that prolonged, 23-hour-a-day pre-trial solitary confinement is acceptable and humane treatment. It may or may not fall short of actual torture — it's good that the U.N. will now formally investigate that question — but either way, it's designed to degrade both Manning's psyche and resistance to incriminating WikiLeaks and is highly likely to achieve both.
* * * * *
Several related items:
(1) In early November, I reported that as part of the government's campaign to harass and intimidate anyone remotely connected to WikiLeaks or Manning, Homeland Security agents — without any warrant or shred of judicial authority — seized the laptop, cameras and memory sticks of 23-year-old MIT researcher David House when he returned to the U.S. from a vacation in Mexico. House's crime appears to have been that he visited Manning several times at the Quantico brig. Even after seven weeks, DHS refused to return his stolen goods, so the ACLU of Massachusetts demanded early this week on House's behalf that they be returned immediately, and the following day, they were sent back to him. But Jacob Appelbaum — the programmer who had his laptop and cellphones seized at the border without a warrant back in July — still has not had his possessions returned to him by the government. This outrageous practice — seizing and storing the electronic communications of American citizens with no charges or even any warrants — is not confined to WikiLeaks; many legitimate American critics of the government are subjected to this repeatedly when they re-enter the country, and I intend to write much more about this shortly.
(2) Julian Assange was interviewed yesterday on MSNBC by Cenk Uygur, and his response to Joe Biden's "high-tech terrorist" accusation — including a discussion of the definition of "terrorism" and to whom it does and does not apply — is well worth hearing:
(3) A comprehensive and helpful time-line of events relating to Bradley Manning and WikiLeaks has been assembled by FDL here.
UPDATE: After his last visit to Manning over the weekend, David House has written a comprehensive report of his discussions with Manning, particularly Mannings' statements about the conditions of his detention, many of which directly contradict claims by brig officials.
UPDATE II: Daphne Eviatar of Human Rights First compiles evidence and interviews experts to document that the treatment of Manning is "not customary."
Earlier today on BBC's Newshour, I debated Manning's detention with former Reagan Pentagon official Jed Babbin, who was also one of the key members of the Bush Pentagon's domestic propaganda program. He, needless to say, vehemently defended Manning's treatment; the debate was quite acrimonious; and I'll post it as soon as it's available.
For those in Canada: I'll be on the CBC tonight, on Mark Kelley's Connect, at 8:00 p.m, discussing Manning.
UPDATE III: Here is the BBC debate about Manning I did earlier today with Babbin.
UPDATE IV: Substituting for Dylan Ratigan today on MSNBC, The Washington Post's Jonathan Capehart conducted a very good interview with David House about the conditions of Manning's detention — highly recommended:
UPDATE V: The CBC interview I did last night on Manning is here; it's the first segment of the show.
UPDATE VI: The inhumane nature of Manning's detention is now generating media attention — as it should; here is the front page of msnbc.com this morning, with a link to this article:
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Alexandre Vauthier Fall 2012 Couture Collection
Alexandre Vauthier's fall 2012 showing at Paris couture week was filled with all the elements of couture, but what I loved about this collection is that the young designer maintained his signature saucy style along with wearable pieces. The collection was filled with the ever popular peplum trend, pant suit separates, deep v's and extremely high slits.
Models like Sui He, Hanaa Ben Abdesslem, and Jasmine Tookes were outfitted in neutral colored gold rimmed clutches and gold, nude, and white pointy capped toe Christian Louboutin heels and boots. Peplums were paired to perfection with unforgiving plunging necklines, high hemlines, and skinny trousers.
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Appleseed takes to the airwaves with its Old-Time Christmas Radio Hour
Vaudeville comic Jimmy Durante used to howl, "Everybody wants to get into the act!" When that act is produced by the Appleseed Productions' steering committee, just about everybody does get some moments on the boards.
Rewritten each time it appears, The Old- Time Christmas Radio House was launched in 1994 by Appleseed's first artistic director, C.J. Young, and popped up for several years in the 1990s before disappearing for at least a decade. Under new artistic director Mark Allen Holt, who appears briefly under a blonde wig and speaking in falsetto, it is back at Appleseed's stomping grounds, the Atonement Lutheran Church, 116 W. Glen Ave. This version allows time for 16 players, who capriciously are not identified with roles in the program. For most of the two hours it feels like an open-mike night.
Radio Hour purports to be a satire of small-town life as displayed on fictional radio station WHRT, in Redwing, somewhere in upstate, maybe even Central New York. Program notes trace narrative characters to Ithaca poet Kathryn Howd Machan, whose works were never published in a single volume. Machan, born in 1952, appears to have flourished about 20 years ago, and so there's some ambiguity about what's implied by "old time," especially as players appear in contemporary costumes. There are no bouffant hairdos or leisure suits. There is no attempt to mimic Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegone, but there are some cross-overs with the Greater Tuna franchise, minus the bigotry.
If action was set in, say, 1959, that would be one thing, but jokes about Bernie Madoff and Turning Stone Casino are contemporary. No one seems to have noticed that the color from semiprofessional small-town radio has been largely stamped out by predators like Clear Channel. They fire the locals (such as Syracuse's Jim Reith) and replace them with syndicated right-wing squawkers, like Rush and Hannity, who come cheap but still attract advertisers.
Secondly, despite the disdain Gothamites feel toward upstate (not funny!), we lack a tradition of bumpkin humor, perhaps because we're a blue state. Attempts by local broadcaster Dick Perry to find comedy in Otisco ("oh-tisk-er") Valley 30 years ago did not gain traction. Follow many country roads and you find sophistication, like organic farmers, vintners competing in international markets or the prize-winning pancake flour from New Hope Mills.
Most of the bits could happen anywhere, such as the comic dialogue between the high-falutin' sophisticate Gladys Fenner (Anne Fitzgerald), returned from France with her lapdog Macy, and stay-at-home mom Phidalia Gagnon (Cathy Greer-English), who has given birth to 19 children. It's like a scene from a Sinclair Lewis novel, only with barbed and sometimes naughty comments. When Philadia implies that Gladys might be too ingratiating to suitors, Gladys replies, "I might be open for business, but with all those kids you're a 24-hour Wal-Mart."
One local gag doesn't bother with the us vs. them of country and city. An ongoing advertisement, mellifluously read by Donnie Williams, is for Onondaga Gold, not a controlled substance but rather a mineral water siphoned off the edge of Onondaga Lake, "which should be discontinued if a rash develops."
Ed Mastin, who co-wrote the show with Tracy Martin, serves as a master of ceremonies. "Mr. Ed" is sometimes interrupted by a bumptious assistant, Lois Haas, who is hard on him while in character. As she is also Radio Hour's director, she seems to have been an easy task-mistress elsewhere. Her guidance is somewhere between lackadaisical and invisible. Too many numbers, both musical and spoken, feel weakly rehearsed and pacing is ragged. A telling moment came in Bernie Kaplan's recitation of Francis P. Church's 1897 editorial, "Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus," to tiny Althea Simmons (both doing well), when something heavy crashed backstage. Those in the audience buzzed back and forth, "Was that supposed to happen?," followed by successive yeses and nos.
In the show's single best passage, two costumed elves in Santa's workshop, named Bud and Lou (Tom Minion and Mastin), argue about the names of their fellow workers. It's a shameless adaptation of the immortal "Who's on First?" routine by Abbott and Costello, but it came across as zippy and flawless, an uncommon experience in The Old-Time Christmas Radio Hour.
This production runs through Saturday, Dec. 17. See Times Table for information.