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LOS ANGELES – Microsoft unveiled new games for its Kinect motion controller during its E3 press conference Monday, closing with a big reveal: Halo 4 will be released for the 2012 holiday season.
Fans will go gaga over the Halo announcements, which include the far-off sequel plus a remake of the first game called Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary, which will be released Nov. 15 of this year. But Microsoft spent the most time talking up new games and experiences for Kinect, its camera-based controller that also responds to voice commands.
Kinect Star Wars, which lets you slash robots with a lightsaber by waving your closed fists around, and Disneyland Adventures, a virtual version of the legendary theme park, were two of the major Kinect games shown at the conference. Microsoft also said hit indie game Minecraft would be released for Kinect this winter, and that it would unveil a series of tech demos called Kinect Fun Labs, which show new features for the innovative controller, with concepts similar to cool hacks done by gamers in the wild.
Microsoft also said it would bring live television to Kinect this year, letting you use your Xbox 360 as a DVR to record TV shows. Microsoft search engine Bing will be added to the game console, letting you search for content using your voice.
Overall, Microsoft's presser was light on new announcements. Instead, the company showed new videos and demos of games that it had previously tipped at prior E3 shows.
Wired.com's live-blog coverage of the event follows:
9:27 a.m. We are here! The briefing is scheduled to start in just a few minutes. There's a "content warning" on the big screens here at the Galen Center; we are warned that the videos we're about to see contain images of intense violence. Awesome.
9:30 a.m. The music has changed. That means it is starting, I think. "Everything is so green," Jason Schreier says sitting next to me. He has never been to an E3 before apparently. He missed the Cirque du Soleil thing where we were all in light-up ponchos.
9:31 a.m. Things kick off with a video of Modern Warfare 3. Oh no, it's actually a live demo. Somebody is on stage playing it. AHAHAHAH the controller got unsynced and it paused. Don't laugh, it's happened to you. Just not in the first two seconds of a Microsoft press conference. Unless you're Peter Moore.
9:33 a.m. The army men are swimming through water. Then they reach a checkpoint. "Checkpoint reached," it says.
9:34 a.m. They are swimming after a submarine. They plant something on it. They leave! They see the ruined Manhattan skyline. They've been in the Hudson River or something all this time. Gross. That's never gonna wash off.
9:36 a.m. Now the submarine is above the water and they are infiltrating it, shooting the other men. "Pow pow pow!" go their guns. The demo skips ahead to a new section, and water is filling the submarine. They find more men! They shoot them, too.
9:37 a.m. The army men jump in a big, inflatable, pool-toy raft and go zipping down the river, shooting with wild abandon. Navy ships and things are all over the place. Everything is either on fire now or was in the recent past. They steer the pool toy into a helicopter and it takes off. Majestic war music plays. The end!
9:41 a.m. Representatives for Infinity Ward and Sledgehammer intro the game, and then Xbox's Don Mattrick takes the stage to welcome us. On behalf of Microsoft, he'd like to thank the fans for making last year the biggest year in Xbox history.
9:43 a.m. Crystal Dynamics takes the stage to show us a demo of Tomb Raider.
9:45 a.m. This is the same demo that has been described in Game Informer, Official PlayStation Magazine, etc. Wired.com will have impressions of the Tomb Raider demo during E3 week. For now, the audience is watching as a young Lara Croft slowly moves her way through a scary-ass cavern, trying not to die.
9:50 a.m. The Tomb Raider demo comes to a close with Lara making a daring escape out of the tunnels of hell. She sees a sweet-ass pirate ship on the horizon as the demo ends.
9:51 a.m. Tomb Raider will be released in fall 2012, so don't hold your breath. Now, EA Sports President Peter Moore takes the stage to show us four EA Sports games that will feature Kinect support in 2012. People applaud. They must not be live-blogging this. Madden, Tiger Woods, FIFA will all have Kinect support.
9:52 a.m. Moore turns it over to BioWare's Ray Muzyka, who will talk about Mass Effect, and apparently how it will be integrated with Kinect? That seems to be the implication. Yes: It will support Kinect for voice recognition, he says. You'll be able to converse with characters in the game just by using your voice. "It's unlike anything else out there," he says. Let's find out ...
9:53 a.m. Wow. Apparently instead of selecting dialog options, you actually just say the line that's on-screen, and that'll select the dialog option. You can also use voice control to tell your combat buddies what to do in battle.
9:55 a.m. We'll see even more at the EA press briefing later today, he says. And now it's time to look at Ubisoft's shooter, Ghost Recon: Future Soldier.
9:57 a.m. You know, I would totally love to play a military game that actually was set to opera singers, instead of them just using them for their slow-motion trailers. Yves Guillemot of Ubi is onstage talking about how Ghost Recon will use Kinect.
9:58 a.m. You can use Kinect to assemble and disassemble your weapons, adding different parts in a futuristic motion and voice interface to add parts. You can use the voice commands "Optimize" and "Randomize" to automatically create the perfect gun for any situation, then test the guns out by holding your arms like you were holding the gun.
10:01 a.m. All future Tom Clancy games will use Kinect, Guillemot says. Xbox Live's Mark Whitten is now onstage to talk about the online service and what new features will be added to it.
10:02 a.m. Unveiling a brand new Kinect-enabled Xbox 360 dashboard. It's very elegant, lowercase text on a white background. Using voice, you can navigate through all your entertainment, from movies to music to games. This year, says Whitten, Microsoft will grow its entertainment catalog from hundreds of thousands of pieces of info to millions. YouTube is coming to Xbox Live, for example.
10:04 a.m. Bing is coming to Xbox with voice control. It will search Xbox, Hulu and other content providers to find the entertainment you're looking for. "Xbox Bing Lego," she says. A menu is instantly pulled up with every bit of Lego content on Xbox all pop up. Games, movies, etc. "Xbox Bing X-Men," she says, and every X-Men game and movie is found. "You say it, Xbox finds it," Whitten says.
10:06 a.m. LIve television is coming to Xbox 360, he says. They're partnering with TV providers around the world for it. Your Xbox will become a DVR. Launching in fall 2011.
10:07 a.m. Interesting how they're pushing voice control versus gesturing. They're not showing anyone using gesture controls to play TV and movies, just voice.
10:08 a.m. The president of Ultimate Fighting Championship is introducing UFC content on Xbox Live.
10:09 a.m. Phil Spencer of "Microsoft Studios" comes out. Maybe I'm behind the curve but is the division not called "Microsoft Game Studios" anymore? With any luck he is here to show us some actually unannounced videogames. Every single game, demo, experience they will show us right now is only on Xbox 360. He's starting with Gears of War 3.
10:12 a.m. Cliff Bleszinski takes the stage to play Gears of War 3 with his friend Ice-T. They start playing a new section of the campaign cooperatively, although we only see Clifford's screen on the big screen behind them.
10:15 a.m. The men shoot a giant monster in the eyeballs. It looks pretty painful for the monster. If I were to play this game I would want Ice-T as my partner, that is for sure.
10:17 a.m. Gears demo is over. Ice-T says he will reunite his rock band Body Count to do an original song for the game's Horde mode.
10:18 a.m. Oh, it's time for this Roman action game they teased last year. Let's see how this is.
10:19 a.m. Oh, gosh darn it. It's Crytek's Roman action game, alright, but apparently it's a Kinect game. I don't know how to feel about that. Apparently it's called Ryse.
10:20 a.m. Halo, the remastered edition for Xbox 360. Pretty new graphics, combined with "enhanced, updated" multiplayer maps. A "fully remastered campaign," whatever that means. Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary is coming Nov. 15, 2011.
10:21 a.m. Time to talk about Forza Motorsport 4, Microsoft's "vision for the future of racing." Apparently it will have Kinect voice, but also head-tracking, so you can turn your head to look around as you drive in first-person. Pretty neat.
10:24 a.m. Here's Peter Molyneux to talk about Lionhead's Kinect game. No, not Milo & Kate, the one you want! Fable: The Journey.
10:25 a.m. We begin the demo by riding a horse carriage in first person down a trail. We have to destroy creatures by firing magic at them with hand gestures. "Looks like it's on rails," observes Jason. The guy doing the demo does some crazy stuff with his hands to build up a giant magic spell. So you basically do the hand jive to cast magic. Coming in 2012.
10:28 a.m. Wow. Minecraft is coming to Xbox 360 and Kinect this winter.
10:29 a.m. Kinect Disneyland Adventures. They're re-creating the entire Disney park as a Kinect game. You can go to all the attractions, hang out with Disney characters and ride the rides. Two kids are onstage playing "Peter Pan's Flight." One kid slams into the wall and totally eats it. It is funny to me. These kids are doing a great job pretending to play this video.
10:32 a.m. And now it's time for another game that was unveiled here at the Galen Center during the Cirque du Soleil thing: Kinect Star Wars. The video shows flying creatures, hitting things with lightsabers, all the stuff you'd imagine. The lights come up for a live demo. "Lightsaber on!" says the guy onstage, exactly how a Star Wars character would say it if the movies were terrible.
10:36 a.m. Yes, so this is pretty much the first game everybody thought of back when they saw the Wii in 2005. Microsoft got done what Nintendo didn't.
10:37 a.m. Tim Schafer has arrived to show us Once Upon a Monster, Double Fine's Sesame Street game for Kinect.
10:40 a.m. It'll come out this fall. Now it's time for Kinect creative director Kudo Tsunoda.
10:43 a.m. Tsunoda introduces Kinect Fun Labs. You know all of those crazy Kinect hackers who've done experimental things with the device using the PC? Microsoft will be bringing several of those concepts to the Xbox 360, which all Xbox Live users will be able to try out. They show a bit of software that scans you and turns you into an Xbox avatar, scanning your clothing and face, too. A demo called "Kinect Sparkler" lets you take pictures of yourself and draw on the picture with your fingers. You can draw in 3-D, doodling on your image and then view it from different angles just by moving around.
10:47 a.m. You can scan in your own objects, creating a 3-D digital version of them in seconds that you can animate. These aren't games, they're tech demos that let you try these new concepts. Apparently Kinect Fun Labs is going live today, so go check it out while I'm stuck here writing about this conference.
10:48 a.m. Kinect Sports: Season Two Baseball, skiing, tennis, etc. Apparently the developer is Big Park. Six new sports. Golf, football also a part of it. Use voice commands to change your club. Adjust your body position to line up the putt. This could be really cool.
10:52 a.m. Football can be played with two players at once, one passing and the other catching and running.
10:53 a.m. Harmonix producer Kasson Crooker is here to show Dance Central 2. He brings out another Harmonix producer and they dance together. That's right, two-player simultaneous dancing, the one feature that the first game really lacked. They are really dancing up a storm.
10:56 a.m. This year, says Mattrick, Xbox 360 will go from being the No. 1 console in North America to the No. 1 console globally. He leaves us with "the dawn of a new trilogy for Xbox 360." Yes, that's right, Microsoft is announcing ... Halo 4. And, uh, apparently 5 and 6 too, if Mattrick's comment is to be believed. Holiday 2012 for No. 4, he says. Conference over!
Photos: Jon Snyder/Wired.com; screenshots courtesy Microsoft
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Ignoring Debt Limit Talks, Right-Wing Media Falsely Claim Obama Had "No Plan" To Reduce Deficit
Right-wing media have repeatedly claimed that President Obama had "no plan" about how to lower the nation's deficit and reach a compromise to resolve the default crisis. But Obama had reportedly agreed to specific reforms and spending cuts, including to entitlement programs, in talks with Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) before Boehner walked away from those negotiations.
Right-Wing Media Claim Obama Has "No Plan" For Deficit, Debt Ceiling Talks
Carlson: "Why Did [Obama] Then Ask For Primetime Coverage To Deliver A Political Speech And Give No Plan?" The July 27 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends featured several segments on the potential default crisis and ongoing negotiations over raising the debt limit. Fox & Friends co-hosts and Fox News contributors repeatedly claimed Obama gave "no plan" to lower the deficit and avoid default in his July 25 address to the nation and previous speeches on the default crisis. During the first segment, video was aired of an exchange between Fox News White House correspondent Ed Henry and White House press secretary Jay Carney. After the video was aired, co-host Gretchen Carlson claimed that in addressing the nation July 25, Obama delivered "a political speech and [gave] no plan." From the broadcast:
[start video]
HENRY: If you basically have this Boehner plan that you say can't get through the Senate, and you've got a Reid plan that the Republicans don't think you can get through the Senate or the House, and you're saying we want to compromise, what was the point of giving a primetime address to the nation without an Obama plan and say, "Neither of these other plans can work?"
CARNEY: OK, I understand the idea that there is not an Obama plan is like point number one --
HENRY: But there's not. There's not one on paper.
CARNEY: It's point number one on the talking points issue by the Republican party. I get it. OK?
HENRY: No, no, no. That's not a talking point. Show us the plan. It's not a talking point. That's unfair.
CARNEY: We have said -- first of all, the president put forward in detail his principles at George Washington University.
HENRY: Principles. Right, that's not a plan.
CARNEY: In quite a lot of detail. The president stood before you, I can't remember if you were here Friday night. Some of you weren't because you cut out early. But a lot of you were. And he put forward in detail with numbers what he's willing to do. He then referred from the podium to the fact that White House officials would be briefing in detail.
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CARLSON: See, it's a logical question. Because the President is not going to put anything on paper. That's ultimately clear right now. The second part of the question is, why did he then ask for prime-time coverage to deliver a political speech and give no plan? That is a legitimate question. Yesterday, we asked that of Gene Sperling, his economic advisor. Five hours before that particular press conference, we asked him what was new in that speech and he could not answer that question. [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 7/27/11]
Perino: "The White House Is Trying To Get Away With Saying They Don't Need To Put Out A Plan." Later during the July 27 broadcast, Carlson discussed negotiations surrounding the debt ceiling and potential default crisis with Fox News host Dana Perino. Carlson said that she thought Obama would have used his July 25 address to "announce his plan." Later, Perino claimed that "the White House is trying to get away with saying they don't need to put out a plan, but they can just undermine everybody else's." [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 7/27/11]
Ingraham: Carney "Was Incredulous That Reporters Were Asking Him About A Plan." Later on Fox & Friends, Fox News contributor Laura Ingraham claimed that Carney was "incredulous that reporters were asking [Obama] to have a plan." From the broadcast:
INGRAHAM: Look, the president's own press secretary yesterday, Jay Carney, was incredulous that reporters were asking him about a plan. You know, what is Obama's plan? He said, well, you mean we have to commit it to paper?
DOOCY: Darn it.
INGRAHAM: And we're like, yeah, we do have to commit it to paper. And I think you guys have touched on it -- even Democrats, independents, are saying okay, you're leaving it to us to slog through the details of these competing plans, we needed a little bit of leadership early on. And I think even some Democrats are questioning now the approach of hitting health care first, the stimulus first, and piling on all this debt when these problems were looming on the horizon for America now for many years.
CARLSON: Isn't this -- but isn't this a strategy, Laura, obviously, to not put anything on paper, because then you actually have to stand up to what you put on paper?
INGRAHAM: Defend it -- yeah. I think you're right, Gretchen. I think the strategy has backfired, though, because regardless of what you think about Harry Reid or even John Boehner, people are criticizing both of them -- they at least had the courage to put something down and to forge forward with a plan and a blueprint, same that can be said, of course, about Paul Ryan. I mean, he -- remember the other press conference, where the president looked down at Paul Ryan and dismissed his plan in the most cavalier and, I thought, very unprofessional manner. And now Paul Ryan, I think, is looking the most honest of the group in trying to tackle these entitlements. [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 7/27/11]
NRO's Goldberg: "The White House Says It Doesn't Want To Release A Plan Because It Will Be Held Accountable For Having A Plan." In a July 27 blog post, National Review Online editor-at-large Jonah Goldberg claimed that Obama "doesn't want to put forward a plan of his own." From the post:
It is an amazing thing that the press corps has taken this long to really pin the White House down on the simple fact that Obama is the one playing political games here, creating rules for others to follow while not following them himself. The public explanation for why he doesn't want to put forward a plan of his own makes as much sense to me as the Korean-language instructions for a photocopy machine. All I know is that the White House says it doesn't want to release a plan because it will be held accountable for having a plan, but no one should criticize the White House for not having a plan because they actually offered one verbally that was full of "specifics" nobody will specify and the Republicans are in the dark about. [National Review Online, 7/27/11]
But Obama Did Outline Specific Details Of Negotiations Made Before Boehner Walked Away
Obama: "We Had Offered Speaker Boehner ... Over A Trillion Dollars In Cuts To Discretionary Spending ... [And] An Additional $650 Billion In Cuts To Entitlement Programs." During his July 22 address on the default crisis, President Obama outlined several specific measures that he claimed he and Boehner had negotiated during their talks up to that point, including cuts to entitlement spending:
Good evening, everybody. I wanted to give you an update on the current situation around the debt ceiling. I just got a call about a half hour ago from Speaker Boehner who indicated that he was going to be walking away from the negotiations that we've been engaged in here at the White House for a big deficit reduction and debt reduction package. And I thought it would be useful for me to just give you some insight into where we were and why I think that we should have moved forward with a big deal.
Essentially what we had offered Speaker Boehner was over a trillion dollars in cuts to discretionary spending, both domestic and defense. We then offered an additional $650 billion in cuts to entitlement programs -- Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security. We believed that it was possible to shape those in a way that preserved the integrity of the system, made them available for the next generation, and did not affect current beneficiaries in an adverse way.
In addition, what we sought was revenues that were actually less than what the Gang of Six signed off on. So you had a bipartisan group of senators, including Republicans who are in leadership in the Senate, calling for what effectively was about $2 trillion above the Republican baseline that they've been working off of. What we said was give us $1.2 trillion in additional revenues, which could be accomplished without hiking taxes -- tax rates, but could simply be accomplished by eliminating loopholes, eliminating some deductions and engaging in a tax reform process that could have lowered rates generally while broadening the base.
So let me reiterate what we were offering. We were offering a deal that called for as much discretionary savings as the Gang of Six. We were calling for taxes that were less than what the Gang of Six had proposed. And we were calling for modifications to entitlement programs, would have saved just as much over the 10-year window. In other words, this was an extraordinarily fair deal. If it was unbalanced, it was unbalanced in the direction of not enough revenue. [White House, 7/22/11]
NYT Runs Graphic Showing Specific Offers Obama And Boehner Had Made Through July 22. In a graphic first published July 21, and updated several times since, The New York Times listed specific measures that both Obama and Boehner had reportedly offered in negotiations. According to the Times, both had agreed to $1.2 trillion in spending cuts, a $250 billion cut from Medicare, and an increase in federal tax revenue of somewhere between $36.2 and $36.7 trillion over a period of 10 years. From the Times:
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PITTSBURGH — Ray Shero made a lot of hometown fans happy when he pulled the trigger on the most significant trade of the opening day of the National Hockey League entry draft Friday.
Twenty-four hours after Jordan Staal rejected a 10-year contract offer from the Penguins, Shero traded him to Carolina for Brandon Sutter, defence prospect Brian Dumoulin and the Hurricanes' eighth-overall pick, which Pittsburgh used to select Portland Winterhawks defenceman Derrick Pouliot.
The trade announcement was greeted by a loud cheer from the many Penguins fans in the Consol Energy Center. While the 23-year-old Staal has been a popular player, fan sentiment turned against him quickly when news leaked out that he had rejected the long-term deal.
Rumours immediately began flying that he would be going to Carolina, where his brother Eric is a centre. Shero and Carolina GM Jim Rutherford began talking in mid-afternoon Friday and agreed to the deal just before the draft began.
"Jordan is an elite two-way player who possesses a rare combination of speed, size, scoring ability and defensive responsibility," Rutherford said. "For his young age, he has a wealth of NHL experience, including winning the Stanley Cup with Pittsburgh in 2009. And he is obviously a natural fit for our team in joining our captain, his older brother Eric."
Jordan Staal, 23, completed his sixth NHL season in 2011-12, posting 25 goals and setting career highs in assists (25) and points (50) despite playing in just 62 of Pittsburgh's 82 regular-season games. The Thunder Bay, Ont., native added six goals and three assists to lead the Penguins in scoring in their six-game, first-round playoff series against Philadelphia.
But Staal was stuck in a role as the No. 3 centre in Pittsburgh behind Evgeni Malkin and Sidney Crosby, who are merely two of the best players in the world when they're healthy.
There were no shortage of trade rumours circulating around the draft, including one improbable scenario which would have seen Canadiens defenceman P.K. Subban sent to Edmonton in return for the No. 1 overall selection in the draft.
In one of the more interesting deals, the Dallas Stars sent Mike Ribeiro to the Washington Capitals for Cody Eakin and a draft choice. The deal had some people wondering whether Bob Gainey might have had a hand in the decision because he traded Ribeiro from Montreal to Dallas for Janne Niinimaa, a defenceman who was well past his expiry date. In fact, the Stars had been shopping Ribeiro long before Gainey returned to the Lone Star State as an adviser.
Roberto Luongo, who has been reduced to a backup role in Vancouver, remained a member of the Canucks on Friday. Boston also held on to goalie Tim Thomas, who seems to be backing away from his plan to take a year off to spend more time with his family. Thomas has waived his no-trade clause.
Also staying put for the time being are Columbus forward Rick Nash and Anaheim's Bobby Ryan. The problem with moving these players is that their current teams are looking for value in return while the teams which covet them are looking for bargains.
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People keep getting married without finding out first what each other's ground rules are. But it's a touchy thing actually go through a checklist about all the things you might be forgetting to talk about. People don't want to hear the information that might knock them off the course they've got their heart set on. But maybe you really ought to clarify a few things in advance:
A commitment to fidelity, for example, is a crucial issue, but one that is rarely addressed, said Robert Scuka, the executive director of the National Institute of Relationship Enhancement in Bethesda, Md. "It's important to make those implicit assumptions about fidelity explicit," he said. "Once the commitment to faithfulness is made explicit, it becomes more difficult psychologically to engage rationalizations."Ah, you can imagine all those dreadful post-marriage conversations! Spouse #1: But we're married! That means you must be faithful to me! Spouse #2: So I'm supposed to go the rest of my life without ever having sex with another person? When did I ever agree to that? You crazy control freak!
IN THE COMMENTS: Internet Ronin starts things off -- as I anticipated someone would: "I thought the standard wedding vow to forsake all others was pretty explicit. Or maybe no one says that these days." Oh, I think they still say it. But here's my imagined post-wedding conversation for that:
Spouse #1: But you took a vow to forsake all others!
Spouse #2: When did I ever give you the slightest indication that I took vows seriously. Vows?! You continually amaze me with your repressive Puritanical mindset. Vows! It's like you're from the 18th century. Vow wow wow. I'm married to an insane control-freak dog. From the 18th century.


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Once again it is time to bring you all up to date on the latest from the Taricaya Research Center and, as usual, the problem is knowing where to start. Firstly I would like to report that we have had our 100th booking for 2007 and so we are on track to reaching our highest numbers in any given year since the center's conception in 2001. The large volume of volunteers is hugely satisfying as it means we can press on with our work and can advance in leaps and bounds. There is never a shortage of things to be done and new projects to initiate so I am very pleased that we continue to push forward full throttle. The continued high numbers has meant that we have been able to work on many projects in parallel again this month and there have been some great results from our three data collection studies: herpetology walks, butterfly traps and mist netting.
The herpetology database for the reserve is constantly increasing and we are updating our species list every month. A nocturnal frog hunt bore very fruitful as we split up and headed to the ever retreating swamps left around the reserve. As the dry season tightens its grip the depressions that traverse the reserve are losing their water and the once neck-high swamps are ever dwindling. Now the swamps are much smaller and shallower and the presence of smallish (!) black caiman in the depressions along the eastern limits of the reserve did not prevent volunteers helping us collect many specimens including a couple of new species of tree frog for our database. The river is also dropping as the rains stay away and it was with a tinge of regret that I took volunteers on the last caiman hunt until the rains return. The low water level makes driving at night dangerous with many hidden beaches and logs so we headed out for the last search of the season. Little did I know that my run of great findings on such excursions was to continue with yet another great capture. What appeared to be a regular capture of a black caiman shocked me for two reasons. Firstly I misjudged the size of the animal as a branch was partly covering its head, the caiman put up a fierce struggle and when I finally managed to lift it out of the water I was confronted by a 1.5m monster not the smaller individual I had expected. Then I was struck by how dark the skin was, black caimans are recognised by their dark stripes on a lighter skin but this male was almost completely black with only occasional pale markings. Back at the lodge I looked up references for this rare colouration and found that occasionally black caimans produce large quantities of melanin (dark skin pigment) that result in this rare appearance. So the caiman hunts finished on a high and we wait for the river to rise again later this year to continue investigating the crocodilians of Taricaya.
The butterfly traps have now been raised to a higher level in the canopy and whilst we seem to have fewer captures at this elevation we continue to capture new species for the reserve and after just a month of investigating we have 103 species of butterfly on record at Taricaya. This number will only continue to increase as we vary trap locations within the reserve utilising different types of forest and different levels within the canopy. These combinations coupled with the seasonality of some butterfly species will mean that the numbers will increase steadily throughout the first year of the study before starting to level off as we have found with the bird species of Taricaya.
This brings me neatly to the mist netting that I have started up again as a result of the conference in Venezuela last month. During the initial study of bird diversity around the reserve Mauricio and I ringed all the birds we captured and created a photographic catalogue for over 520 individuals. Now with two years past since our nets were first strung up I wanted to see how these birds have fared and whether they have actively moved around the reserve. To do this the nets needed to be placed in the same locations and recapture rates investigated. This basically involves looking for birds with rings to be captured again so we can see if they have migrated locally from other parts of the reserve or whether they have stayed in the same territory for the last two years. I was excited by the prospects of what I might find and accompanied by volunteers keen to learn we set up the nets in identical fashion to 2005. The only difference in this year's investigation is that the nets were to be used for just three days not five as the capture rate drops significantly after the third day as birds learn to avoid the nets and with so much else going on around the reserve five days seemed too long.
The first two transects have now been completed and there are some very interesting findings: firstly, capture rates seem to be consistently lower than two years ago and I can only speculate as to why. My initial reaction involves the weather as this dry season is incredibly hot and I recall two years ago the presence of many friajes (cold weather spells) that would have forced the birds to actively search for more food to avoid starvation due to heat loss. This increased activity would mean there was a greater chance that the wandering birds would fly into the nets. A second factor could be that we are starting earlier in the year than in 2005. Just a month's head-start could affect the results as there is still plenty of water present around the reserve and our two initial transects are not located near these temporary swamps where food might still be more abundant than elsewhere in the reserve. Either way the results themselves are very interesting and cause us to consider even more factors that might have influenced the initial findings and now these, our latest results. Nonetheless there were several recaptures of many species from wood-creepers to ant-birds and this is encouraging as our novel ringing technique has obviously not harmed the survival chances of the captured individuals. Secondly, for some of the smaller, food-specific species to have survived two years suggests a stable ecosystem with sufficient food available. July will see us take a break from the mist netting as the two week specials kick in and the turtle project will also occupy a lot of our time. But I would be remiss not to mention a great capture on the final day of the first transect as we caught a new species for the reserve, the Violaceous quail-dove (Geotrygon violacea). The list slowly increases and the sighting of a Purus (chestnut) jacamar (Galbalcyrhynchus purusianus) from New Farm Platform gave us another new species to add to the list.
On a slight aside Fernando and I received a request from the head of the local council for aid in clearing and rebuilding a damaged lookout area above Puerto Capitania in Puerto Maldonado. The area had become very overgrown and a site for some of the towns more unsavoury characters to loiter in the evenings and when we presented the request to the volunteers I was not in the bit surprised that they offered to give up their free time on a Saturday afternoon. Thus armed with machetes, paint, hammer and nails the whole group got to work and after just two Saturdays the area was restored to its former glory. Whilst this is not directly a conservation related activity it is very pleasing that we, at Taricaya, are recognised as an institution dedicated to helping others and that prominent figures in the area seek our help. As our reputation grows in our chosen field such good publicity cannot be sneezed at and once again our big-hearted volunteers gave more than could have been expected by sacrificing their day off two weeks in a row!
Well I shall wrap up this report and July will see the start of the turtle project, another trip to Tambopata and much more…..
Stuart Timson
5th July, 2007
Conservation Director,
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The Federal Trade Commission's decision not to pursue antitrust charges against Google raised a lot of eyebrows when it was handed down, and continues to do so today. But according to FTC chairman Jon Leibowitz, critics who feel the company was let off the hook are mistaken. He maintains the agency's decision was legally sound and a win for consumers, not Google.
"Under facts we found, all five of us, from liberal Democrat to conservative Republican, agreed that the evidence militated against an antitrust case," Leibowitz told Talking Points Memo. "The fact that we managed to have both Google and Google's rivals unhappy, in an odd way that's maybe unique to Washington, that puts us in the right place substantively."
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I've had my fair share of cheesesteaks since we moved to Philadelphia five years ago, the city famous for its cheesesteaks. Every time we have visitors, it's a must to treat them to a cheesesteak at one of our favorite places! I usually go for the traditional beef with onions and provolone, but most cheesesteak places have a buffalo chicken cheesesteak on the menu as well. While I was never super excited about the buffalo cheesesteak before, my feelings changed when I saw this easy and mouthwatering recipe over at Iowa Girl Eats. With football season fast approaching, these sandwiches would be perfect for game day, as well as something different from the typical buffalo chicken dip. Don't wait till the first football game though! You can whip these chewy, cheesy, and delicious sandwiches up tonight in about 20 minutes with a salad or some veggies on the side. Enjoy!
2 T. butter
1 sweet onion, sliced
1 lb. chicken breasts, sliced thin
salt and pepper
1/2 cup Frank's Buffalo Wing Sauce
8 slices cheese (I used provolone)
4 hoagie rolls
Preheat the oven to 250 degrees. Slice the hoagie rolls down the center, but not all the way through and set aside. Have four sheets of foil out to wrap up the sandwiches.
Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat and add the butter. Saute the sliced onions in the butter until golden brown, about 3-5 minutes. Season the sliced chicken with salt and pepper. Add the chicken to the skillet and cook until no longer pink. Add in the buffalo wing sauce (you can add more than the recipe calls for if you want) and stir to combine with the onions and chicken.
Separate the mixture into 4 piles in the skillet. Top each pile with cheese slices and cover the skillet with a lid so that the cheese melts. Remove the skillet from the heat and using a spatula, put each pile onto a hoagie roll. Wrap each hoagie tightly in foil and put them in the oven for about 10 minutes or until the bread is warm. Unwrap, cut in half if you wish, and serve.
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It's upfronts week, and we've already gotten a look at the upcoming fall schedules for NBC, Fox, and ABC. However, we've now got word on a couple of comic book series that weren't on any of said schedules. A Hulk television series has been in development at ABC for a while with Guillermo del Toro onboard as executive producer. ABC president Paul Lee had this to say regarding Hulk:
"Hulk is in development. It wasn't going to be ready this season, but we hope it's going to be ready for next season."
With word that Marvel might be planning a new Hulk movie with Mark Ruffalo following the stellar reaction to the character/Ruffalo's performance in The Avengers, many wondered what this meant for the TV series. It sounds like ABC is very much still game for the show, so I wouldn't be surprised if a Hulk movie is held until the studio sees how the TV series fares. Hit the jump for more, including word on The Punisher TV series.
If you weren't aware, ABC and Marvel are both owned by Disney, so the Hulk TV show and a potential Hulk movie are both under the watchful eye of the same company. I could definitely see the show premiering sometime next summer, or possibly as a cornerstone of the network's Fall 2013 lineup. Additionally, per THR, the pilot for a television series based on The Punisher is not moving forward. ABC Studios and Fox gave a put pilot commitment to the show, with Criminal Minds writer/producer Ed Bernero onboard, but they declined to pick the pilot up to series. So for now, it appears that The Punisher is dead.


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Passionfruit orchid tartlets
3 cups sweetened coconut flakes
1 egg white
4 egg yolks
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup passionfruit puree
4 tablespoons unsalted butter
Pinch of salt
36 micro orchids or 8 to 12 large orchids, fresh or candied
1. Preheat oven to 300 degrees. Thoroughly coat the inside of a tartlet pan with cooking spray.
2. Spread coconut on a baking sheet and toast in the oven -- tossing occasionally, for a consistent golden brown -- about 15 minutes.
3. In the bowl of a food processor, process coconut with egg white until finely ground and completely mixed. Press mixture into the bottoms and up the sides of the tart shells. Bake the shells until they just start to turn golden brown, 12 to 15 minutes.
4. To make the curd, mix yolks and sugar thoroughly in a medium saucepan. Add passionfruit puree, butter and salt. Put pan over medium heat and stir for about 15 minutes, until mixture thickens and begins to bubble.
5. Immediately spoon passionfruit curd into the tart shells or put it in a container, cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for up to 2 weeks. Top the tarts with candied orchids and serve. Makes 8 (3-inch) tarts or 12 (2-inch) tarts.
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Middle-Eastern tribal traditions get something of a pass in the Old Testament for patriarchs from Abraham to Solomon. Multiple wives, concubines, and the royal treatment do not exactly match up the Christian ideal of one man, one woman. Such were the expectations of the day, that aristocrats and the considerations of wealth and power overshadowed any sort of monogamous ideal. As I've read through Genesis in my daily lectio these past several months, I give thumbs down on Abraham's attempt at an heir through Hagar. Or Jacob fathering children through concubines–for him, four was definitely not enough.
I suspect that society's handling of child sexual abuse will continue to evolve, and we will see a future in which the 20th century will seem as quaint/weird/immoral as these aspects of Genesis strike us today. Part of that "qwi" will apply to the Church's handling of predator clergy and the bishops who covered up their crimes. I suspect that in future generations, people will condemn bishops deep in the cover-up as Israelites might look at Ishmael and his pagan wives. As for leaders like Pope Benedict who were slow to react to the magnitude of scandal, it might be more like how we view a practice like polygamy today.
We don't condemn Abraham, Jacob, and others for their multiple wives. But we don't imitate them either.
As both CDF head and pope, Joseph Ratzinger won't be condemned for not acting vigorously enough on sin within the ranks of priests and bishops. Is this right? I think so. According to the Church's teaching on natural law, the behavior of Solomon, David, Jacob, and Abraham in taking multiple wives was sinful. Abraham was rightly worried that the promised nation of descendants would never happen. Now, we know God is powerful enough that he could raise a nation from the very grains of sand on the seashore. But our Father in faith saw the need to be proactive. Did first wives Sarah or Leah carry resentments and bitterness? If so, the male authors of the Bible do not reveal. Was their behavior wrong? We have to say it: most definitely.
Indeed, the bishops themselves are largely blind to the sinful aspects of cover-up, and how that has contributed to an erosion of the Gospel and a weakening of the voice of Christ among believers and others. And how it has damaged victims, survivors, and their allies. Like it or not, Pope Benedict has been no Tom Doyle, no SNAP, no VOTF on this.
In another hundred years, we will likely be honoring the legacy of Joseph Ratzinger/Pope Benedict in the positive accomplishments of his service to the Church. The slow pace of realizing the deep, deep sin of the bishops will have been realized. But I suspect that other heroes will be cited–not the pope embarrassed by Ireland, Belgium, Germany, Australia, the US, etc..
Is this right? I don't know. Catholics would feel better about the papacy and the Church if it had been the pope leading the way, and not voices in the wilderness. But fallible human beings make flawed choices. Not everyone has the foresight for full clarity in this matter.


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I ate there only once, with Denveater, and while it was eerily empty (forebodingly so) save our party, I was mostly impressed with the food and service if not by the decor and location. Still, a lesser restaurant would have given up long ago, and I hope the minds behind El Olvido are scheming up another plan, this time with a better location. Because where else in Denver are you going for carne en su jugo?
Seriously, where else do people go? If you know another place in town to slurp down this Tepito classic, please email me or leave a comment below. All this talk about El Olvido is making me hungry.


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Yes, Virginia. There really are Obamacare death panels.
In 2009, in the lead up to the Democrat-controlled Congress' approval of Obamacare, aka the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) , Sarah Palin was ridiculed by the media for her warning that the bill's passage would mean the imposition of "death panels" on Americans.
It turns out she was right.
On November 22, 2011, a neurosurgeon who calls himself "Jeff from Chicago, Illinois" called into Mark Levin's radio show with startling information. Under Obamacare, patients who are 70 years old or older are to only receive "comfort care" instead of neurosurgery.
This is what Jeff said:
He had just returned from a seminar in Washington, D.C., (I believe Jeff was referring to the annual meeting of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, held in Washington, D.C., October 1-6, 2011), wherein he and other neurosurgeons were provided a document by HHS (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services) on what Obama's health care (PPACA) means for neuro-patients aged 70 and over. The document is Obama's new Health Care Plan for Advanced Neurosurgical Care, in which patients are now depersonalized by being called "units".
In Jeff's words: "If you're over 70 and come into Emergency Care for neurological reasons," e.g., a brain aneurysm or bleeding in their brain, and you've covered by Obamacare, "advanced neurosurgical care is generally not indicated" — you get just "comfort care."
The decision to undertake neurosurgery or not will be made by an Ethics Panel, comprised not of neurosurgeons but of administrators with no medical training. The withholding of neurosurgery to older
patients units is prompted by two factors:
- Neurosurgery is the smallest field in medicine.
- Neurosurgery is the most expensive of all surgeries.
This information presently is not published somewhere for citizens such as you and I to get hold of and read, but is discussed only within the neurosurgeons community — the American Association of Neurological Surgeons and the Congress of Neurological Surgeons. Mark Levin remarked that this information likely will be made available to the public after the November 2012 elections.
Help make this "neurosurgical death panel" go viral. Send this post to your e-mail list and post it to your Facebook page!
H/t my dear friend Barbara.
The American Association of Neurological Surgeons has issued a statement disavowing Jeff's claim that there is such a document denying advanced neurosurgery for patients over 70 years old. Here's the statement, but note the carefully parsed language: "The AANS and CNS are unaware of…"):
Contact: Alison Dye
January 10, 2012 (202) 446-2028
Neurosurgeons Condemn False Assertions Made About Health Reform Law on Mark Levin Show Refute Statements that the Law Would Ration Neurosurgical Care for the Elderly
Washington, DC – On November 22, 2011, an individual claiming to be a "brain surgeon" made several statements referencing neurosurgical care on a Mark Levin radio show segment. The American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) and the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) reviewed this segment and found that it contained several factual inaccuracies which we wish to clarify.
The AANS and CNS are unaware of any federal government document directing that advanced neurosurgery for patients over 70 years of age will not be indicated and only supportive care treatment will be provided. Furthermore, in conducting our own due diligence, the caller who identified himself as a brain surgeon is not actually a neurosurgeon, nor was there any session at the recent Congress of Neurological Surgeons' scientific meeting in Washington, DC at which a purported government document calling for the rationing of neurosurgical care was discussed.
Neurosurgeons are committed to providing timely, compassionate, and state of the art treatment for all patients — regardless of age — who have neurosurgical conditions. As such, we have requested numerous times that this podcast be removed from Mark Levin's website as it portrays inaccurate information which could potentially be harmful to the patients that we serve.
Notwithstanding the AANS/CNS denial, the plain truth is that for cost-effective reasons (health care costs mount in our older years), all government-run health care systems —
euphemistically sugar-coatedly called "single-payer" — necessarily entail medical rationing, otherwise called death panels. There are two examples in America already: Arizona and Oregon.
As recounted by Wesley Smith for The Weekly Standard, Jan. 31, 2011, the Arizona legislature cut its Medicaid budget because the state is in dire financial straits—a move approved by the Obama administration. The cuts led to canceling Medicaid coverage for organ transplant surgeries, and the death of a potential organ recipient.
Then, there is "Oregon, a decidedly liberal state…. In 1993, the Clinton administration gave permission to the Oregon Health Plan, the state's Medicaid program, to introduce rationing. The system involves a treatment schedule that lists 649 potentially covered procedures. The state pegs the number of procedures the state will cover to the available funds. Patients requiring procedures above the cutoff line are out of luck. As of October 2010, only the first 502 treatments were covered. But even that low number doesn't tell the full story of rationing in Oregon. The Oregon Health Plan also rations covered procedures under certain circumstances. Chemotherapy, for instance, is not provided if it is deemed to have a 5 percent or less chance of extending the patient's life for five years, meaning that a patient whose life might be extended a year or two with chemo may not receive it."
Smith reminds us that both the Arizona and Oregon examples "resulted from a single-payer health care system crashing into a budgetary brick wall. The real lesson here is that 'single payer' and 'death panels' go together like 'See's' and 'candy.'"
And so, despite the AANS/CNS's statement of denial, anyone with an average IQ knows that Obamacare does/will have rationing, which is another word for death panels.


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Posting an old interview that was published by South Asian Generation Next on 7th July 2010.
Gay, Proud and Successful: Sunil Prakash on his Life as a South Asian Hairdresser
What happens when your first-born son comes up to you and says, "I want to become a hairdresser"? Do you blink rapidly like a goldfish and wonder to yourself that maybe he is joking? Or, do you balk and then give in to your urge to scream?
Suave, sexy and a true gentleman, Sunil Prakash, the co-owner of 'The Lid Lounge', a high end salon in downtown Toronto, and a hairdresser himself, had the following reaction from his Indo-Canadian father: "Any idiot can cut hair!" Not one to take things lying down, he answered, "Well, if any idiot can cut hair, then you go cut mum's hair, and we'll see who's an idiot!"
With a far-away look in his eyes and a tiny smirk, he says, "I got cut off financially… I didn't know what [my father] was trying to do at that point… I got student loans, did my own thing… and (with some pride creeping into his voice) [have] been quite successful ever since." And, indeed he has, since his salon boasts of famous clientele like Shyam Selvadurai (author of Funny Boy).
Of course, becoming a hairdresser and admitting his desire for an alternative career (as a South Asian) was not the only concern for his parents. When asked if he had a difficult time 'coming out' to them, he glibly responds, "Yeah, absolutely… and, as a first-born son too!" He admits that his relatives back in India were more "okay" with it than his parents. He further goes onto explain why most South Asian parents may be reluctant to open up to the idea of homosexuality as a reality within the South Asian community, "Most South Asians here [in Canada] are immigrants or have come with an immigrant mentality, meaning, their socialization has sort of stopped… They are not socially current as Indians [in India] are. You go to India today and Indians of the same age as my parents are far more liberal. My dad left India in the 1950's and his Indian values are of that someone from the 50s. But (he adds hurriedly) [he is] all cool enough… now."
However, he admits that it wasn't easy for his two younger very-straight brothers either, "When they started to go out with their [girlfriends,] my parents started with 'These Canadian girls'. They had a problem with that too… I don't know why! (Laughs)" Thinking for a second, he offers an explanation, "Think about it. My father's Indian. Mother is from England. My brothers and I are all biracial. [We] are both of our parents and neither of our parents. They could relate to us on many different ways but in some ways they couldn't relate to us because we were slightly culturally different from them."
Talking about his partner, with whom he co-owns his salon, he says, "My partner and I have been together for twenty years… My parents really respect us for being together for so long. We owe the longevity of our relationship to the example which my parents set for us. And, my partner's parents have been together for… forever [as well]. We have pretty strongly rooted families… Time is a great leveler, so it all worked out in the end".
And, are you guys married? He shakes his head and replies, "By the time they changed the same-sex legislation, we had already been together for such a long time that [it didn't matter]… The commitment is to each other. [Marriage] would be an afterthought at this point".
Sunil ends with his words of wisdom that maintains its hold on me as I walk alone to the subway to catch my train back to Mississauga, "Never be afraid to be yourself. I haven't and it's worked out for me".
For more informaton on Sunil Prakash's salon, visit www.lidlounge.com
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Hi everyone,
I'm new here and I joined because my guinea pig was pregnant and I needed advice.
She's had the babies and they're all very healthy and happy.
Now I've found this part of the forum and I want to share my experience.
Long story short, I responded to an ad on CL by a woman claiming she had rescued 12 guinea pigs from a bad situation.
Many of them had babies and she needed to rehome them ASAP. I was looking to rescue a young male as a companion for my adult male.
I ended up with a pregnant female.
About the place...
When I got there, she showed me around. Her house was dusty and quite messy (not as bad as hoarders, but still not good.)
There were MANY animals. Loose rabbits all over the house - one of which she said was a male who just kept on mating with other loose females. No cages.
I know she had at least one dog.
Her entire sun room was C&C, wire play fences, wire mesh, and bird/rat cages filled with guinea pigs and bunnies living on the bare minimum...
Yellow hay, about 1-2 square feet per 2-5 GPs, filthy water, pellets only. One larger C&C on the floor looked like it was 4ft by 4ft and must have had like 15ish GPs in it.
The yellow hay doubled as the bedding mixed with a little pine-type bedding.
They were not socialized, stressed out, skittish and their cages looked like they hadn't even been swept up in over a month.
I told her that she needed help with the rescue effort and she should reach out to some local rescues (then I shared them with her.)
I am a stupid idiot and took home my guinea pig AND paid her a little extra to help with her "rescue efforts."
You can judge me, but I was trying to help at the time and all I knew was that I didn't want to buy from a pet store.
NOW she is posting to CL using the same photos from the "rescue ad" but now she is VERY clearly a BREEDER in the new ads!!
She's even advertising that they can live with bunnies.
She says she's been raising them for years - totally different story than she told me!
You can almost see what I'm talking about in her photos.
Here it is: https://atlanta.craigslist.org/atl/g...479360925.html
I would love it if we could put a stop to this.


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There's a story about American-vs-Russian ingenuity that claims NASA spent millions developing a pen that can write upside down, while the Russians merely used a pencil. Though false, there's a truth to it evident in this video of Russians defeating a traffic jam.
From what I can tell, the road crew has temporarily shut down the road in one direction in order to do some road work. This creates a jam on the other side. Rather than wait for the crew to pass, motorists merely start driving backwards in the direction they wish to travel to mimic forward-moving traffic.
It's one of those ideas that's so stupid it's genius.


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Venetian-style pasta
Nutrition and extra info
- Vegetarian
- kcal568
- fat15g
- saturates2g
- carbs97g
- sugars21g
- fibre7g
- protein17g
- salt0.74g
- 2 red onions, sliced
- 1 tbsp olive oil
Olive oilol-iv oyl
Probably the most widely-used oil in cooking, olive oil is pressed from fresh olives. It's…
- 200g pasta shapes
Pasta is the Italian name for Italy's version of a basic foodstuff which is made in many…
- 4 tsp balsamic vinegar
Balsamic vinegarbal-sam-ick vin-ee-gah
True Balsamic vinegar is an artisan product from Modena, in Emilia Romagna, Italy, and is made…
- 2 tbsp sultana
- 4 tsp caper, drained and rinsed well
Capers are the small flower buds of the Capparis shrub that grows in the Mediterranean. As they…
- 2 tbsp toasted pine nut
- 140g spinach leaves
Used in almost every cuisine across the world, spinach is an enormously popular green vegetable…
Start frying the onions in the oil in a non-stick frying pan – you'll need to cook them for about 10 mins until they're very soft. Meanwhile, boil the pasta.
Stir the vinegar, sultanas, capers and most of the pine nuts into the soft onions with some seasoning, then cook for 1 min more to soften the sultanas. Stir in the spinach with a splash of pasta water. Drain the pasta, then toss with the onion mix – the spinach should wilt as you do. Divide between 2 bowls, scatter with the remaining pine nuts and serve.
Recipe Tip
Making it into a pizzaSpinach & sweet onion pizza. Spread 2 small pizza bases with 4 tbsp caramelised onions from a jar. Scatter over the capers, sultanas and pine nuts. Top with 100g goat's cheese, then bake in a 220C/200C fan/gas 7 oven for 10-15 mins until crisp. Top with some spinach leaves and a drizzle of balsamic before tucking in.


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I just love Fed Cup photos.
Good luck getting the champagne out of your knickers, Kim.
Adorable Pavs.
Joyful Jarmila.
Quintessential Flavia.
Justine Henin: still retiring.
Boom boom pow.
Fed Cup faces.
It must be love.
Always have to do a double-take when I see Yanina smiling.
I could literally post pictures of Alize all day.
But I won't.
And Sveta has the last word.


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The turn-out of High Line supporters for Monday's Eastern Rail Yards Public Forum was great: more than 200 people rallied at Midtown's Red Cross in favor of preserving the entire High Line, including the Spur over 10th Avenue. Supporters wore red "Save the Spur" T-shirts and held signs during a presentation by The Related Companies, the designated developer at the rail yards.
The Spur, a portion of the High Line that crosses 10th Avenue at 30th Street, is still clearly under threat of demolition. Almost every speaker voiced strong support for preserving the entire High Line at the rail yards, including elected leaders US Representative Jerrold Nadler and New York State Assemblymember Dick Gottfried. Related gave no concrete answer as to why the spur would need to be torn down, only that the spur is "large and dark."
On a promising note, the building on the Western Rail Yards that was previously shown blocking the High Line's western views was not in the plans shown on Monday night.
With your help, we will continue to put pressure on the developer, the City, the MTA, and Governor Paterson. Please stay tuned to our E-mail Newsletter for updates on what you can do to help us Save the Spur.
Thanks to everyone who came out on Monday night to show that the Spur, like the rest of the historic High Line structure, must be preserved and integrated into the rail yards development.
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The Vampire Diaries Review: When Humanity Happens...Matt Richenthal at .
The Vampire Diaries delivered an outstanding midseason finale, an extraordinarily tight, tense episode that kept viewers guessing into each commercial break, building the suspense until a climatic daggering that pitted brother against brother and planted the seeds for a vengeful 2012.
But there was a rather big problem with "Homecoming:" It cheated.
First, there was the use of Katherine, as we've talked about for weeks in our Round Table. She's the epitome of a plot device at this point. Here, after last being seen as a snack for Mikael, she simply showed up and jumped right into Damon's grand plan. How did she get back to Mystic Falls? How did she possess any strength following her loss of blood? How much time has gone by since Mikael approached Damon and Stefan at the bar, and then Katherine returned, and they all formulated this scheme?
The show skipped right past all these key questions and just inserted Katherine where it was most convenient to move the story along.
Second, this was an example of manipulative storytelling. Writers can't purposely keep information from viewers and then fill us in later via flashback. That's cheating, that's a lazy way to pull off a big surprise, especially when you consider the most vital line of dialogue in the episode: when Klaus informed Katherine (posing as Elena) that his Hybrids would take out Damon if he were killed.
Look, we all know there are writers penning these stories. But strong storytelling hides the strings being pulled by these puppet masters. To depict the conversation above only partially, later filling in a vital blank, is a form of lying. We were shown an incomplete scene, based our assumptions on it, and then were told we actually lacked all the pieces of the puzzle. That's just bad writing.
Which irritates me to no end, as you can tell, because I absolutely loved everything else about "Homecoming!" I was on the edge throughout the hour, as one swerve followed another. Rebekah was bonding with Elena... then she was staked. Tyler was an evil, sired Hybrid... then he was actually a caring, complicated boyfriend. Klaus had finally aligned his army... then Mikael proved he could compel them.
I loved every twist and turn and legitimately had no idea where it was going - and I even loved where it went, with Stefan shocking us all by saving Klaus' life; Damon reacting with rage; Elena comforting him, actually seeming okay for once with the idea of letting Stefan go (!!!!!); and an emphasized focus on family, via the layered Salvatore brother relationship and the fact that, as his core, Klaus just wanted his back.
Due to Katherine and the misleading way the plots came together, though, I just didn't like how we arrived at those places.
Other highlights:
- How can Caroline even make the term "evil blood slut?" sound adorable?
- Remind me never to invite Damon to a party. I'm scared of how he'd RSVP.
- The Mikael vs. Klaus showdown, with the former pulling every Bad Daddy card in the deck and the latter reduced to tears? Beautifully done.
- How is it possible that no student would have asked Rebekah to the homecoming dance?!? Didn't all the football players see her cheers, flips and - gulp - splits?!?
- When did Tyler start hanging out with Dexter Morgan? That was some fine injecting, kid.
So that's all for 2011, Vampire Diaries fans. We now have a few weeks to debate all the possibilities going forward and for me to move past my issues with this finale. It shouldn't be too difficult, not with such an intriguing, revenge-based conclusion hanging over us.
And you know what they say about revenge, right? It's a dish best served... by hot, blood-thirsty vampires, as teased in this preview for 2012. I can't wait.
Matt Richenthal is the Editor in Chief of TV Fanatic. Follow him on Twitter and on Google+.


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Blogged By: De De Tillman
Media Credit: pannellctp
Source: The Golden Wings Quartet Website
Posted: Monday May 21, 2012 @4:10 p.m PST
The Golden Wings Quartet was established in 1970 in Tupelo, Mississippi. The members consist of James Parks, Toby L. Coker, and Tyrone Parks.
The Golden Wings Quartet has spread the gospel through songs throughout the United States and abroad. For over 30 years, the Golden Wings have enjoyed much success playing many major concerts, and most recently a recording on the Bobby Jones Gospel Show.
This is the group eighth recording and they have also shared the stage with Lee Williams and The Spiritual QC's, Evelyn Turrentine-Agee, George Dean and the Gospel Four, and others. The Golden Wings are best known for their smashing hit, "You Got To Leave It Here." They have released one project titled "Get In Touch" and in the process of releasing their second.
The group was awarded a Certificated of Outstanding Achievements and named 2002 New Gospel Quartet Artist of The Year by the National Association of Gospel Promoters in Atlanta, Georgia.
Keep Blessing Me: Live from Muskegon Heights, MI Tobey Coker (vocals); Michael Penson (guitar, background vocals); Alton Hollis (guitar); Ayatti Tippett (strings, horns, Fender Rhodes piano); Nicholas Jones (piano); Patrick Hopson (organ); Fred Edwards (drums); Cornelius Redman, Tyrone Parks (background vocals).
"You've Got To Leave It Here! Live In Concert" recording took place at the Temple of Compassion and Deliverance in Tupelo, Mississippi in 2004. It was initially recorded for the MARS Record label. The group is now on the LowRush Music label. LowRush released this video in 2006.
*I had the extreme honor of speaking to the warm, friendly, down to earth, spirit-filled Mr. James Parks of the group and looking forward to meeting him and the group when they perform Friday June 8, 2012 in San Francisco, California.
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