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In an October 30 press release, the Federal Reserve Bank's Open Market Committee blamed the soft economy on a lack of government spending and announced it would continue the purchase of long-term federal debt and mortgage-backed securities indefinitely.
"Fiscal policy is restraining economic growth," the Fed's Open Market Committee (FOMC) concluded. The Federal Reserve support for "fiscal policy" as an economic cure — i.e., more government spending in an attempt to spur the economy through programs such as 2009's "Cash for Clunkers" — may prove the FOMC to be the last bastion of the hard-core Keynesian economic school still on the U.S. political spectrum.
The statement came just one day before even the liberal Brookings Institution admitted that Obama's Cash for Clunkers was an abysmal failure, where each "job-year" cost taxpayers $1.4 million. But the FOMC is still blaming the lackluster economy on the slight decreases in federal government spending over the past couple of years, and claimed that all economic growth has been a result of their monetary creation policy:
Taking into account the extent of federal fiscal retrenchment over the past year, the Committee sees the improvement in economic activity and labor market conditions since it began its asset purchase program as consistent with growing underlying strength in the broader economy.
The purchase of long-term debt and home mortgages has been termed "quantitative easing," the third such attempt by the Federal Reserve Bank since the financial crisis shook the nation in 2007-08, and the indefinite time of the program has led to the label "QE-infinity." The purchase of these debt instruments constitute a literal creation of money out of thin air, with just a few keystrokes of a computer. As such, they are by definition inflationary, though the upward pressure on prices in the U.S. market has been temporarily relieved by the foreign purchase of U.S. debt.
In a public statement, the Fed's Open Market Committee noted:
The Committee decided to continue purchasing additional agency mortgage-backed securities at a pace of $40 billion per month and longer-term Treasury securities at a pace of $45 billion per month. The Committee is maintaining its existing policy of reinvesting principal payments from its holdings of agency debt and agency mortgage-backed securities in agency mortgage-backed securities and of rolling over maturing Treasury securities at auction.
The Committee today reaffirmed its view that a highly accommodative stance of monetary policy will remain appropriate for a considerable time after the asset purchase program ends and the economic recovery strengthens. In particular, the Committee decided to keep the target range for the federal funds rate at 0 to 1/4 percent and currently anticipates that this exceptionally low range for the federal funds rate will be appropriate at least as long as the unemployment rate remains above 6-1/2 percent, inflation between one and two years ahead is projected to be no more than a half percentage point above the Committee's 2 percent longer-run goal, and longer-term inflation expectations continue to be well anchored.
The Federal Reserve also announced on October 31 that its "liquidity swap" arrangements with six foreign central banks would become a regular policy. Liquidity swaps are essentially giant loans to foreign central banks, presumably with U.S. taxpayer money, but without authorization from the U.S. Congress. The October 31 press release contained no information about the extent of the loans or details about the loan arrangements, a trend of secrecy revealed in congressional hearings back in 2009. In 2009, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke revealed his FOMC had loaned some $500 billion to foreign central banks without even consulting Congress, and incredulous congressional investigators such as Florida Democrat Alan Grayson asked Bernanke if it was consistent with the spirit of the U.S. Constitution for such sums (for example, $6 billion in loans to New Zealand, equating to over $1,300 for every man, woman, and child in that country) to be lent without informing Congress beforehand.
The idea of opening up the Federal Reserve to public scrutiny has seen a dramatic increase in support in Congress since that time. Last year, the House overwhelmingly passed the Federal Reserve Transparency Act by a 327-98 vote, though a vote was never held in the U.S. Senate. However, this year such a Senate vote may well come about.
Federal Reserve Transparency Act sponsor Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has announced a filibuster attempt on the nomination of Dr. Janet Yellen (to replace Bernanke as chairman of the Open Market Committee) unless Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid consents to a vote on the bill. "The American people have a right to know what this institution is doing with the nation's money supply," Paul wrote in a press release. "The Federal Reserve does not need prolonged secrecy — it needs to be audited, and my bipartisan Federal Reserve Transparency Act will do just that."
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Days after proposing a compromise on his contraceptive coverage policy, President Barack Obama sent a strong video message of support for women's right to make their own reproductive choices at a NARAL Pro-Choice America annual dinner Tuesday night.
"Tonight we celebrate the historic Roe v. Wade decision handed down 40 years ago, but we also gather to recommit ourselves to the decision's guiding principle: that women should be able to make their own choices about their bodies and their health care," the president said in a video at an anniversary celebration that also welcomed NARAL's new president, Ilyse Hogue.
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A gift of $872,000 from the estate of Lyle G. and Othella B. Christensen will be used to support Augustana's general endowment, the Lyle G. and Othella B. Christensen Scholarship endowment, and the proposed expansion and renovation of the Gilbert Science Complex.
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In Leaked Memos, U.S. Ambassador's Blunt Discussion of Rights Abuses, War Crimes, Corruption, Museveni's "Autocratic Tendencies"
The United States is concerned about possible Uganda army war crimes in its fight against the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), while using U.S.-provided intelligence. Remarkably, the U.S. ambassador even warned Uganda to let American officials know in advance when it intended to commit war crimes while battling the LRA, according to revelations in memos provided by WikiLeaks.
The U.S. has been providing Uganda with intelligence and about $4.4 million every year in equipment to fight the LRA. Nevertheless, Washington is now disillusioned with Yoweri Museveni and is hoping that the February vote will restore the shine that the country has lost --clearly indicating the Americans would like to see Museveni voted out-- a memo by the U.S. ambassador to Uganda, Jerry Lanier, states. The ambassador describes a Uganda president who has lost touch with political developments swirling around him including political rebellion within his own party.
The explosive revelations comes in several memos sent to Washington by ambassador Lanier; they were provided to media by WikiLeaks.
The United States now seems so concerned with human rights abuses under the Museveni government including in fighting the LRA that embassy officials are even investigating killings going back eight years ago. A December 17, 2009 memo by Lanier discusses a notorious 2002 execution of a prisoner, Peter Oloya, on alleged orders by Col. Charles Otema Awany, the head of Uganda's military intelligence in northern Uganda. "On November 3, 2009, Gulu District Chairman Walter Ochora told PolOff that he, Lt. Col. Otema, and President Museveni discussed an intercepted message on September 16, 2002, revealing plans by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) to liberate prisoners from Gulu central prison," states the Lanier memo. "Ochora said President Museveni ordered Lt. Col. Otema to go to the prison, secure the prisoners, and bring them back to the military barracks."
The reference to PolOff is to the political officer in the U.S. embassy in Uganda, Aaron B. Sampson. The prisoner, Oloya, was reportedly shot in the back and later buried after being beheaded, which is probably why the U.S. is now keenly interested in exploring the full nature of the government it supports in Uganda. What's more, Otema Awany was subsequently promoted and is now a Brigadier in the Uganda People's Defense Force (UPDF). The investigation of the Oloya killing by the United States officials and it's time frame is critical. Oloya was killed after July 1, 2002, when the Rome Statute, the instrument that created the International Court of Justice (ICC) came into effect. Uganda is a signatory to the statute.
The revelations are made today in the U.K. newspaper, The Guardian.
The U.S. is concerned that Uganda not use American-provided intelligence to commit war crimes while fighting the LRA and Lanier had sought verbal assurance from Crispus Kiyonga, Uganda's defense minister.
In a December 16, 2009 memo, Lanier also wrote that "Uganda understands the need to consult with the US in advance if the [Ugandan army] intends to use US-supplied intelligence to engage in operations not [governed] by the law of armed conflict. Uganda understands and acknowledges that misuse of this intelligence could cause the US to end this intelligence sharing relationship." The memo does not show that the United States directly warned Uganda against war crimes, which is referred to euphemistically in the memo as "operations not [governed] by the law of armed conflict."
Last year, Olara Otunnu, who is president of the Uganda People's Congress (UPC) political party and a presidential candidate, called on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate the Uganda army on war crimes allegations in the fight against the LRA. The ICC prosecutor, Luis Moreno Ocampo has been accused of pro-Uganda government bias. He had asked for documentation; ironically, the Americans, who have protected Museveni for decades, seem to be obliging.
Kiyonga had told ambassador Lanier that U.S. intelligence was being used in "compliance with Ugandan law and the law of armed conflict. This pledge includes the principles of proportionality, distinction and humane treatment of captured combatants."
Seperately, in an earlier memo last October 19, ambassador Lanier bluntly expressed frustration with the Uganda president, Museveni, writing to U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Johnnie Carson, who was about to visit Uganda: "The president's autocratic tendencies, as well as Uganda's pervasive corruption, sharpening ethnic divisions and explosive population growth, have eroding [sic] Uganda's status as an African success story." The ambassador noted: "Holding a credible and peaceful election in February 2011 could restore Uganda's image, while failing in that task could lead to domestic political violence and regional instability."
Lanier wrote to Carson, referring to the killings of civilians who had protested in Kampala when Kabaka Mutebi II, the Buganda monarch had been blocked by visiting a region of hsi territory by the Museveni government: "It is too early to tell whether the deadly September 10-12 riots in Kampala are the beginning of a massive and open-ended effort for political change in Uganda, or will lead to a more productive internal dialogue and a stronger democracy. The path of Ugandan politics over the next eighteen months depends largely on the President's vision and leadership. Your visit will be crucial in conveying US views and policy on Uganda and East Africa, and in raising the President's awareness about how seriously Western governments will be following the course of democracy in Uganda in the coming months."
Lanier was critical of the Museveni government, writing, in reference to the ruling party, the National Resistance Movement, which has held power since 1986: "The NRM's near total accumulation of power has led to poor governance, corruption, and rising ethnic tensions, a combination that threatens Ugandan 'democracy' and stability."
Yet prospects for the parties arrayed against Museveni also seemed daunting, Lanier observed: "Opposition political parties, however, are fractured, politically immature, and greatly outnumbered in Parliament. They control no government ministries, and are not skillful using either press or protest, their primary political tools. Nor can the opposition provide a coherent and attractive platform of proposals to counter the NRM. And it is by no means clear the opposition would improve governance in Uganda in any way. Currently, a coalition of all but one of Uganda's main opposition parties looks likely to nominate a joint opposition candidate for 2011, probably the leader of the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) Kizza Besigye, who lost to Museveni in 2001 and 2006. This coalition is demanding the dissolution of the partisan Electoral Commission constituted by Museveni, and the acceptance of specific electoral reforms. Since Museveni now appears unlikely to yield on either count, opposition parties and the government seem destined for another turbulent showdown as elections approach in early 2011."
But the ambassador devoted much of his criticism to the Ugandan leadership under Museveni, writing: "Museveni's heavy-handedness and the corruption of senior leaders have sparked dissent within the NRM. A group of NRM 'rebels' consisting of about 15 younger, mostly back-bencher MPs supports opposition demands for an impartial Electoral Commission and is critical of Museveni's unwillingness to hold senior NRM leaders -- such as Security Minister Mbabazi, Foreign Minister Kutesa, and Trade Minister Otafiire among others -- accountable for corruption allegations. Museveni also faces a challenge from some older party stalwarts -- generally the same senior NRM leaders accused of corruption -- who fought with him in the 'bush war' and want to succeed him as President. Press reports and anecdotal evidence suggest the President is increasingly isolated and unaware of the depth of resentment both within the NRM and among society as a whole."
Lanier also wrote: "Our message: Conducting free, fair and peaceful elections in February 2011 would reinforce Uganda's image as an African success story. Failure in this area could relegate Uganda to the list of unstable African nations, seriously jeopardize its future stability, and make it more difficult for the U.S. to continue as a strong security partner. To hold credible elections, Museveni must address the perceived partisanship of the Electoral Commission and make meaningful electoral reform within the next four months."
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Internet Catches Texas Senate Fudging Time-Stamps On Abortion Bill
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What with all that's going on in the world, you may have missed the news that the state of Texas was attempting to introduce a controversial bill that would close down a ton of abortion clinics. The bill had first failed to pass the state senate, but Governor Rick Perry demanded a special 30 day session which would bring the bill back up for debate. There was a deadline for the bill, which would have had to be voted on and passed on June 25th to become law, leading to a fairly impressive filibuster effort by Senator Wendy Davis. The entire thing was internet-y already, with scores of people tuning in live on YouTube to watch Davis go on, while Texas Republicans attempted to find procedural methods for ending her filibuster. It was all the more impressive due to various filibuster rules in Texas law, such as when Republicans complained that she had had someone assist in putting on a back brace, since by rule she wasn't allowed any assistance in standing straight up without leaning during her filibuster. #StandWithWendy trended on Twitter, a portion of the internet poured through Texas legislative rules for discussion points, and even President Obama was reportedly glued to YouTube.
In the end, Davis' efforts paid off, with her pushing her filibuster just long enough to delay a hurried vote from being taken before midnight. Liberals rejoiced, conservatives lamented. And then, dear friends, things got really strange.
In a desperate effort to pass a controversial bill that would shutter hundreds of abortion clinics in Texas, a slew of Twitter sleuths, including Circa's Anthony De Rosa and former Reuters social media editor Matthew Keys, discovered that the state legislature altered official state documents to show that the vote was passed before the midnight deadline.De Rosa and Keys managed to get screen grabs from the Texas Senate's page that detailed the proceedings of that particular bill. In the immediate aftermath, it listed the date of the vote being recorded as 6/26, which was past the deadline. Shortly after, and as of this writing, the page has been altered to show the vote being taken on 6/25, which would have been within the deadline. As Gawker notes, this is an extremely serious matter.
In actuality, the Texas state senate did not pass the bill, SB 5, in time—thanks to defeaning cheers from the gallery from supporters of State Senator Wendy Davis, who spent more than 10 hours filibustering a vote.
So what happened? Did someone tamper with official state documents? It would seem so, and that's a crime.And no, according to experts like tech policy analyst Kathy Gill, this is almost certainly not an innocent accident.
In order to change something like this, someone has to change the database. And things like votes and official times, they're often (usually?) automatically generated also.Now, you may not like abortion and you may not care for filibusters, but no matter what your ideology you had damned well better be against the bullshitting of the constituents. The internet certainly is, having already sprung an official White House petition to defend the filibuster and preserve proper voting procedure. But the real beauty of this story is that it's thanks to the internet that this was found out so quickly and spread in such a viral fashion.
In other words, changes like this are deliberate.
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Bradley Manning must face aiding-enemy charge, military judge rules in WikiLeaks case
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By Richard A. Serrano, Los Angeles Times
FT. MEADE, Md. — The judge in the court martial of Army Pfc. Bradley Manning on Thursday turned down a defense request to dismiss the most serious charge against him -- aiding the enemy -- setting in motion closing arguments in the first of a pair of high-profile cases against government leakers.
The decision by Col. Denise Lind means that Manning, 25, who provided the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks with more than 700,000 classified war documents, State Department cables, combat videos and other items, could ultimately be sentenced to life in a military brig with no possibility of parole if the judge finds him guilty of aiding the enemy.
The judge said the government had provided evidence that established Manning "actually knew he was dealing with the enemy" by providing WikiLeaks with material that he knew would be posted on the Internet and thus made available to Al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations.
"He was knowingly providing information to the enemy," Lind said.
Manning has pleaded guilty to 10 lesser charges for mishandling classified material and that alone could get him 20 years in prison. Even had the judge tossed out the aiding-the-enemy charge, Manning still would have faced 154 years in prison if convicted of all the other offenses, including espionage and stealing government property.
Thursday's ruling could have broad implications for other alleged government leakers, including former National Security Agency analyst Edward J. Snowden, because the judge here dimissed the defense's chief argument that Manning never purposely helped Al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations and assumed they could obtain much of the material on the Internet anyway.
Snowden, holed up for weeks inside a Moscow airport transit zone, faces criminal charges in federal court in Alexandria, Va. If he is ever forced to stand trial in the U.S., he could find similar problems in trying to mount a defense that he was only a whistle-blower publicizing government abuse and not an arm of the enemy.
In the Manning case, military prosecutors presented evidence that some of the material posted on the Internet by WikiLeaks and reported by news outlets around the globe ultimately reached Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and other terrorist networks.
The prosecutors said Manning was given extensive training and trained other soldiers on the importance of safeguarding classified material and he "should have known" and in fact "did know" that the enemy would benefit from the disclosures.
"He knew exactly what he was doing in exposing that information," said Capt. Angel Overgaard. "The enemy was looking for this specific information."
But Manning's lead attorney, David L. Coombs, said his client never had any "actual knowledge" the documents would assist terrorists. "The army does not know whether the enemy goes to WikiLeaks," Coombs told the judge this week. "We simply do not know."


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Planet under pressure: taking stock of scientific data
UNESCO will join with scientists, political leaders, academics, health specialists, representatives of other intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, the private sector and the media, at a conference in London from 26 to 29 March to take stock of the health of the planet. Over the four days, they'll examine the latest data on key indicators including climate change, declining biodiversity, food security and governance.
The "Planet under Pressure Conference" is considered a key event in the lead up to the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro (Rio+20, Brazil, 20-22 June, 2012), with participants identifying concrete ways for society to tackle planetary challenges and provide a scientific contribution to the UN Conference.
The Scientific Committee of Planet Under Pressure is co-chaired by Lidia Brito, Director of UNESCO's Science Policy and Capacity-Building Division, and Mark Stafford Smith, Science Director, of the Climate Adaptation Flagship of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO).
The Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, will address the meeting on the morning of 29 March. Wendy Watson-Wright, Executive Secretary of UNESCO's Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, will speak on the Director-General's behalf at the close of the event.
UNESCO, which is strongly engaged in preparations for Rio+20, has drawn a road map for the Conference. A brochure entitled From Green Economies to Green Societies contains information about UNESCO's work to promote sustainable development. The Blueprint for Ocean and Coastal Sustainability, an inter-agency set of ten proposals aimed at protecting a key resource for the future of the planet, has also been prepared.
UNESCO, the UN organization in charge of science, has long promoted sustainable development notably through the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, the International Hydrological Programme, the International Geoscience Programme and the Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Programme.
The Planet Under Pressure conference is organized by Diversitas, the International Programme of Biodiversity Science, the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change, and the World Climate Research Programme.
More information about UNESCO and Rio+20
Media contact: Agnes Bardon, UNESCO, +33(0)1 4568 1764; firstname.lastname@example.com
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Say "Super Bowl" to Philadelphia chef and restaurateur Jose Garces, and he instantly recalls winter Sundays growing up in Chicago. "While my dad and two brothers and I were watching a Bears football game, empanadas would just appear in front of my lap," he tells All Things Considered for the Found Recipe series.
Every Latin American country boasts its own empanadas — baked or fried pockets of dough stuffed with cheese, meat or some other filling. The empanadas Garces ate as a child reflected his family's Ecuadorean roots.
The chef has shared two empanada recipes with NPR: his mother's Empanadas de Viento, made with queso fresco (found here), and (below) his grandmother's Empanadas de Verde con Pollo.
Recipe: Empanadas de Verde con Pollo
(Green Plantain Empanadas with Braised Chicken)
Makes 12 empanadas
The plantains must be squeezed through a ricer twice to create a smooth dough and develop the starches. The small dough rounds can be refrigerated for a few hours if covered tightly with plastic wrap; same goes for the formed empanadas. But don't push the timing — the dough will begin to dry out and crack after 3 hours. Any leftover chicken filling is excellent in tacos or on a salad.
2 green plantains (about 1 pound)
Kosher salt
Chicken Filling
2 tablespoons unsalted butter
1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
1/4 pound boneless, skinless chicken thighs, coarsely cut into 1/2-inch pieces
1/4 pound boneless, skinless chicken breast, coarsely cut into 1/2-inch pieces
1/2 Spanish onion, diced small
1 tablespoon minced garlic (3 to 4 cloves)
1 teaspoon Spanish smoked sweet paprika
1 tablespoon achiote paste
2 tablespoons tomato paste
1 teaspoon whole cumin seeds, toasted and ground
1 cup chicken stock
1 small Yukon gold potato, peeled, diced small, and blanched
1/2 pound fresh English peas, shelled and blanched
1/4 cup minced fresh cilantro
2 tablespoons minced fresh flat-leaf parsley
2 scallions (white and green parts), minced
Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
1 1/2 quarts vegetable oil, for frying
Aji costeno, for serving
To peel the plantains, split the skins lengthwise with a sharp knife and soak in warm water until the skins are easily removed, about 30 minutes.
To make the dough, bring a large saucepan of lightly salted water to a boil and cook the plantains until they are soft, about 30 minutes. Remove from the heat and allow the plantains to rest in the water until they are cool to the touch.
Pass the cooked plantains through a ricer into a bowl. Rice the plantains a second time. Knead the resulting dough until it is very smooth, about 5 minutes. Allow the dough to rest at room temperature, covered with a damp towel, for 1 hour before making the empanadas.
To make the filling, heat the butter and olive oil in a cast-iron skillet over medium-high heat. Add the chicken, onion and garlic and cook until lightly browned, 8 to 10 minutes. Add the paprika, achiote paste, tomato paste, and cumin and cook for 2 to 3 minutes more. Add the stock, potato, peas, cilantro, parsley and scallions and season to taste with salt and pepper. Let the mixture cool to room temperature. Lift out the chicken meat, shred it and mix it back into the filling.
To assemble the empanadas, divide the dough into a dozen 1-inch balls. Using a manual tortilla press, a rolling pin or the heel of your hand, press each dough ball into a circle about 6 inches in diameter. Mound 2 tablespoons of the filling in the center of each round and fold over to form a half-moon shape. Use a dinner fork to crimp the outer edge. Alternatively, use a plastic empanada press from a Latin market.
To cook the empanadas, heat the vegetable oil to 350 degrees in a stockpot, using a candy or deep-fry thermometer to monitor the temperature. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
Fry the empanadas in batches until golden brown and crispy, 3 to 4 minutes each, turning once in the oil. Drain them on the baking sheet. Season to taste with salt before serving with aji.
Recipe from The Latin Road Home by Jose Garces. Copyright 2012 by Jose Garces. Excerpted by permission of Lake Isle Press.
When it comes to the Super Bowl, food is just as important as a big-screen TV on Super Bowl Sunday, which just happens to be four days away. Buffalo wings, if you can find them, nachos, seven-layer dip, pizza, all football game day favorites. But for Chef Jose Garces, football means empanadas.
JOSE GARCES: Growing up in Chicago on a cold winter day, typically on a Sunday afternoon while my dad and two brothers and I were watching a Bears football game, empanadas would just appear in front of my lap, and I would be like, wow, thank you.
CORNISH: Empanadas: baked or fried pockets of dough, stuffed with cheese or meat or some other filling. Jose Garces says they're basically turnovers And every Latin-American country boasts their own variety. Garces owns a number of restaurants, including Amada in Philadelphia. He's one of the Food Network's Iron Chefs and the author of "The Latin Road Home." His parents are from Ecuador. And for our Found Recipe series, Garces wanted to share the two types of empanadas he grew up with, starting with the one he enjoyed on those snowy football Sundays in Chicago.
GARCES: So my mom's empanadas were known as Empanadas de Viento, literally turnovers from the air. They're meant to be nice and light and airy. They're a flour-based dough and usually have a cheese filling. The shell gets all bubbly and crispy on the outside when it fries. Then it gets sprinkled with sugar, which makes it an even more heavenly vehicle for the savory, gooey cheese filling.
GARCES: The other empanada that I really like to go back to is my grandma's empanada. Her name is Mamita Amada. She's a 91-year-old gal. She lives in Ecuador. She grew up on the coast in Manabi. Very opinionated. She will be the first to tell you if things need salt, herbs or more aromatic vegetables. And she makes a fantastic Empanada de Verde, which is a green plantain-dough empanada.
GARCES: The plantains are cooked in water until they're almost falling apart. Then they're drained and riced. Once they're riced, they're filled with cheese, and then they're fried and they're crispy. And when I went to open Amada, which I named after my grandma Mamita Amada, I put Amada's empanada on the menu. I brought Mamita Amada to my prep kitchen with my prep staff and I asked her to make these empanadas.
Five to 10 minutes into it, I see her there and she's got the empanadas working, but she has a beer in her hand. She's having a great time with the staff. Five to 10 minutes later, she's rolling out 30 of these things at a clip. Her, just, attitude towards flavor and food has been a huge inspiration. And even at 91, you know, it just means to me that I can cook for a long time hopefully as well.
CORNISH: Chef Jose Garces. To find his recipes for empanadas, visit the ALL THINGS CONSIDERED page at npr.org.
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WEDDING-Lean, green: Easton talks weddings in 2009
Getting hitched in 09? Think lean, green, and customized for your nuptials, according to Lynn Easton Andrews of Charlottesville's venerable events planning agency Easton Events.
After leaving a television production career in New York City for the high-energy field of wedding planning, Andrews has worked in New York and Charlottesville's planning industry for nearly 12 years– planning over 200 weddings throughout her career. As the president of Easton Events, with clients in NYC and C'ville, Andrews– alongside her team of event planners Dickie Morris and Kennon Ibbeken– has planned weddings from the highest economic tiers to those of couples working with more modest budgets of around $35,000 to $40,000.
"The Easton team loves using the wonderful venues that abound in and around Charlottesville," says Andrews, "but have also planned weddings as far afield as Italy, in a villa out of a fairy tale to a private, ethereal affair amidst the beautiful gardens of a client's childhood home."
With the buzzwords of 2008 revolving around sustainability and economic instability, Easton offers brides three major tips and trends for weddings in '09.
Scrimping and Saving
Despite the current economic downturn, no bride should fear she'll have to have a bare bones event. The biggest trend in cutting wedding costs comes from the increase in the use of wedding websites, rather than sending out various mailed reminders. Still looking to cut costs? Using an iPod rather than live music during cocktail hour and skipping the traditional in-room gift bags allows brides to focus their economic energy on more memorable aspects of their wedding day.
Green weddings
With the increase of green living and a rising awareness of sustainable practices, brides are also looking to add some green into the traditional white-gloved affair. While some brides find the grandest ways of touting their green-ed wedding with hemp gowns and recycled silverware, there are many smaller but nonetheless effective ways to go green, according to Andrews.
"Most brides are now conscious of not wasting during their weddings," says Andrews. "A really big trend this year is in using recycled products and trying to offer transportation to guests."
Along with the increasing popularity of the wedding website– a paperless wedding trail is always a sustainable practice– Andrews recommends thinking local when choosing flowers and selecting vendors. Providing group transportation to guests, so that not every couple is driving from the ceremony site to the reception site needlessly is a growing green bridal trend.
The brand-ed wedding
The biggest trend for modern brides, however, lies in the details. According to Andrews, the little details that tie a wedding together are all the rage for 2009. Whether it be a themed wedding or just a unifying monogram or phrase, brides are packaging their day together in a profound way.
"We did a wonderful wedding where the bride's theme song was 'Signed, Sealed, Delivered,' so we went out and got antique stamps and postcards," says Andrews. "It's the concept of finding some element– whether you're doing a wedding on the sea, or there's something you love about UVA– in some way you want to create a thread through all the elements of the wedding."
If you're not "branding" your wedding, other trends seen by Andrews include the rising popularity of speciality drinks, the use of vintage cake toppers and dessert bars, providing late night food– grilled cheese sandwiches and mini hamburgers– for guests to chow down on between dances, and skipping guest favors in favor of contributing to charities instead.


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http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/dec/11/ofsted-unregistered-schools-inspectors-faithOfsted targets 'growing threat' of unregistered schools
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Ofsted has set up a team of inspectors to crack down on unregistered schools, some based around religious faith, with the education watchdog's head calling such establishments a "serious and growing threat" to the welfare of hundreds of children.
In a strongly worded and at times critical letter to Nicky Morgan, the education secretary, Sir Michael Wilshaw, warned that the number of children being educated in such unofficial schools was "far higher than is currently known" by authorities.
It is the second time in a month that the Ofsted chief inspector has written to Morgan to express alarm over the issue. In November, he said inspectors had found 15 unregistered schools educating about 800 children, some featuring squalid conditions or the apparent segregation of genders on religious grounds.
These were discovered after tipoffs and appear to have used loopholes involving home study clubs to avoid regulation. Some had an emphasis on Islamic or Jewish religious study, although some had no obvious religious affiliation.


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Some of you may be aware that James announced on his YouTube channel last week that he is publishing his second book (he penned the excellent World Atlas of Coffee back in 2014), it is a collection of his writings from his website over the years.
He explains that it will contain four sections covering the subject of speciality coffee and its development in the UK. Of course James' writings over the past thirteen or so years chart the time when our favourite subject grew from a niche laughed at by the industry to seeing the industry desperately try to keep up with the new standards set by the few.
The book is all set up and ready to go at James' expense and he has launched an indigogo campaign here to fund the publishing, which has reached 75% of its target in just four days!
There will only ever be one print run of what will be lovely cloth bound hardback books to compliment his Atlas, and those pre-ordering will receive a signed copy and a digital copy for £25. Well worth a read.


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Here's a … Something I threw together last night at around half past two in the morning, having spent the afternoon on a clandestine oak-planting mission. I really enjoyed getting into the perspective of these seedlings (which sprouted from acorns I harvested in the Autumn, potted in compost and placed on a South-facing windowsill, watering about once a week, or when the soil looked dry) – looking at the variables like light availability, soil quality, plant competitors, space to grow into etc. which differed considerably from site to site. I felt a bit like a parent checking out the local schools for my growing children and feeling the trepidation about all the hazards they might face as they did their best to establish themselves in the places I had chosen – a heavy burden of responsibility! I started to see the powerful hostility towards plants that grow without a permit (as it were) from the human occupiers of the landscape, so evident in the manicured gardens and close-cut lawns and even the parks, where every species and specimen has been pre-approved and allotted a certain space, the bounds of which it is not allowed to cross. I learned new respect for the hardships faced by all the wild, self-willed creatures that live over here – the guile and cunning they must employ every day simply to survive, the formidable challenge of finding a way to pry into hardened human hearts, fighting to turn individuals to their side so that they will spare the chancers they find and maybe even speak on their behalf to bring a measure of security to their lives.
It's crazy how little space you can find in densely populated suburban developments where you can say with some confidence that a sapling won't get strimmed, mowed, pulled up or cut down before it can reach maturity. I only found a few places, mainly around abandoned buildings, informal dumping sites and other areas that had obviously been 'neglected' (by humans) for many years. I'm also spreading the word to people who might actively want an oak tree somewhere on their property, and have a plan to offer seedlings to places with 'oak' in their names but no evidence of trees nearby. It'll be interesting to see if any of it takes root (har har). Already I'm getting a nice feeling of connection and groundedness thinking of the places where 'my' seedlings are growing, fantasising about what their future might hold, making plans to visit and help with their upkeep, watering, weeding etc… Anyway, here ya go:
Usually, as I go out and about on my way, I find myself looking at the empty spaces in the sky, trying to force fickle memory to conjure the vibrant beings that once filled them with explosions of greens and browns, roughs and smooths, thicknesses whiplike to sturdy and massive, all stretching outward, upward to fill a void of need; to fulfill a desire of plenty. But fighting to remember I am stumped, and it is so easy to let go and adjust to a newly impoverished reality.
Today, instead of reading loss and pain in these gaps I saw potential, promise. I began to look with the sight of the seedlings, buzzing away excitedly, snug by my side. They want a broken canopy and the greater strength of sunlight that follows, feeding their growth (amassing sap, sucker, bark, branch, cambium and heartwood) up into the space they're destined to fill. Such an awesome power contained in so small a body: the power to suck and blow, to draw up and transpire, to push down and roar up with the greatest strength I've seen on this Earth… The trees could reclaim the empty skies and heal these sickly desert-neighbourhoods so quickly. We can help them at first (if still convinced that we know best) but really all we need to do is stand back and let them hurl their bodies into the forms and patterns of their own choosing.
Speed and health, my little ones! I want someday to swing up into your rugged, green-staining arms and stoop to gather the tender fruits around your thickening trunks before old age finally topples me and I must lie down to merge alike with the bugs, the shrooms and the deep richness of the soil.


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Apparently some of you like seeing cool old movies in cool old movie theaters because when we posed the possibility of seeing Bullitt at the Redford Theater, 131 of you gave us a hell yeah and 42 said maybe. Now, the Redford Theater is a pretty big place, and it's a fair bet the old timer will be able to hold ya'll, but we don't know how they'll feel when over a hundred car nerds show up. Now, on with the details
Okay, so doors open at 7 pm and the movie starts at 8 pm. Redford isn't the nicest town in Detroit -- not terribly dangerous, but on the skeevy side. Rest assured though as the parking lots as seen below are guarded. You'll be treated to some really cool old-timey Chinese themed movie theater kitsch, so bring your camera if you're into that kind of thing. We'll be there early, but we haven't really figured out how we should identify ourselves as a group. Perhaps you all can come with something good, we'll run a reminder on Thursday with some kind of scarlet letter to point out the nerdliness.
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Whats even stranger is that none of the other Presidential hopefuls have dared to attack him this time.,, And once you see this shocking video you will understand exactly why. The fact that he chose to make this public now is no coincidence... Political experts argue that Trump is preparing to cash in on one of the biggest events of 2017. And if hes right, America will never be the same again.
Final Fantasy Type-0 is set within Orience, a land divided between four nations or "Crystal States". Each nation has crystals of power based on the Four Symbols, which are in turn their national emblems. The Dominion of Rubrum uses the Vermillion Bird Crystal, which controls magic; the Militesi Empire controls the White Tiger Crystal, containing the power of science and weapons; the Kingdom of Concordia uses the Azure Dragon Crystal, containing the power of Dragons; and the Lorican Alliance is home to the Black Tortoise Crystal, containing the power of shielding. Each nation has an academy, or Peristylium, to research and protect the country's respective crystal.[25] The crystals have the ability to mark humans as their countries' servants. These servants, called l'Cie, are branded with a symbol and are given a "Focus", a task to complete. While blessed with long life and the ability to transform into crystal, l'Cie are cursed to lose their memories over time.[26] The people of Orience also lose their memories of the dead so they will not be held back by any past regrets and continue strengthening their souls through conflict, a mechanism put in place by the crystals for the convenience of the deities who crafted them.[3][27] The main aim of many characters is to become Agito, a legendary figure who will appear and save the world from Tempus Finis, an apocalyptic event that will destroy Orience.[28] The main characters of Final Fantasy Type-0 are Class Zero, an elite group of 14 students from the Vermillion Peristylium. The first 12 are card wielder Ace, flute wielder Deuce, the archer Trey, magic-gun wielder Cater, the mace-wielding Cinque, scythe wielder Sice, whip wielder Seven, martial artist Eight, spearman Nine, katana wielding Jack, swordswoman Queen and dual pistol wielding King. The last two, Machina Kunagiri and Rem Tokimiya, double as narrators and the focus for the game's main subplot. Supporting Class Zero are their mentor Kurasame Susaya, and Arecia Al-Rashia, Class Zero's former mentor and the overseer for magical development at the Vermillion Peristylium. Other important characters from Rubrum are Khalia Chival VI, the current leader of Rubrum and headmaster of the Vermillion Peristyrium, and the l'Cie Caetuna. Multiple Militesi figures, led by Marshal Cid Aulstyne, act as the game's main antagonists. Other important characters include the Concordian queen Andoria, Gala, leader of the Rursus Army and the instigator of Tempus Finis, and Joker and Tiz, two mysterious figures who observe the events of the game. Marshal Cid Aulstyne leads the army of Milites against the other nations of Orience, launching a devastating attack against the Vermillion Peristylium and neutralising the Vermillion Bird Crystal using a crystal jammer. Class Zero, immune to the effects of the jammer, repel the invasion.[29] During the conflict Izana Kunagiri, Machina's older brother, is killed while on a mission for Class Zero. This event later creates a rift between Machina and Class Zero. Coordinated by Kurasame and Arecia Al-Rashia, Class Zero plays a key role in freeing Rubrum's territories and launching counterattacks in alliance with Concordia, while Lorica's capital is destroyed by a Militesi bomb. Concordia's queen then forces a ceasefire between the remaining nations.[30] During peace talks in the Militesi capital, Class Zero is framed for Andoria's murder, resulting in Concordia's puppet government and Milites launching a united assault on Rubrum.[31] During their flight, Machina storms off after clashing with Class Zero, and becomes a White Tiger l'Cie to protect Rem from his brother's fate before returning to them. The White Tiger Crystal's will eventually forces him to leave.[32] With help from its l'Cie soldiers and Class Zero, Rubrum destroys the forces of Concordia and Milites, uniting Orience under its flag.[33][34] This triggers the arrival of Tempus Finis, with the Rursus Army emerging from the magical fortress Pandaemonium to wipe out Orience's population.[35] Cid and Class Zero each travel to Pandaemonium: Cid attempts to become Agito and is transformed into the Rursus Arbiter by Gala, while Class Zero resolve to halt Tempus Finis. As Class Zero face the trials of the Arbiter, the Vermillion Bird Crystals offers them the chance to become l'Cie. Class Zero refuse the Crystal's offer and Rem is made a l'Cie in their place. Machina and Rem end up fighting each other in Pandaemonium: Rem is mortally wounded, and she and Machina turn to crystal. Severely weakened by the trials and demoralized at seeing Machina and Rem's condition, Class Zero are initially unable to defeat the Arbiter. Machina and Rem's spirits give them the strength they need to defeat the Arbiter and halt Tempus Finis. Fatally injured, Class Zero spend their final minutes imagining their possible post-war lives.[36] They are found by Machina and Rem, who have returned to human form and, along with the rest of Orience, are allowed to remember the dead. In a post-credits sequence, it is said that the Crystal States fall into turmoil as the Crystals lose their powers. Machina and Rem unite Orience and rebuild the world, and Machina records Class Zero's history before dying with Rem at his side.[27][37][38] A second playthrough reveals that Orience is trapped in a stable timeloop created by Arecia and Gala, the respective servants of the deities Pulse and Lindzei, as part of an experiment to find the gateway to the Unseen Realm.[38] Competing with each other to open the gateway using a different method, both failed and reset the world for another attempt. By the events of Type-0, the experiment had been performed over six hundred million times.[39]
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Since Creative Cloud 2014 launched on June 18, extension developers have been eager to migrate their extensions and panels to the new generation of Adobe apps. At this point in time, Extension Builder 2.1 does not support Creative Cloud 2014 when building Flash based extensions, and Extension Builder 3 preview 3 does not support Creative Cloud 2014 when building HTML5 extensions.
New developer tools will be released in the future. Meanwhile, it is easy to modify the current tools so that you can continue to use them to create extensions and panels for the new CC 2014 apps.
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August 31, 2010 in iOS Development (E)
[prMac.com] New York, NY - iPhone and iPad programming can be humbling for even the most experienced developer. For a new programmer, developing effective habits when starting out will reap tangible rewards. One of the most satisfying accomplishments for the first-time iPhone/iPad programmer is seeing his or her very own app in the iTunes App Store. However, there's a price! And that price is the time spent coding.
Gary Bennett, author of Apress's latest book "Objective-C for Absolute Beginners: iPhone and Mac Programming Made Easy," written for those who have never programmed before, shares his formula for success in four tips for brand-new programmers:
1) Learning to program is an interactive process. Code, code, and keeping coding. The more you code, the better you'll get. Like learning to play an instrument, you have to practice.
2) Be patient with yourself. You are going to have to spend time coding. Your program doesn't care if you are having a bad day or how many times you ask it to perform a task. Your program will do whatever you tell it to do. Often, what you think you've told your program to do and what it actually does are two different things.
3) You will really learn when you debug your programs. Spending time walking through your code to find out why it is not working the way you want is a learning process that is unparalleled.
4) It is highly recommended that you have a second monitor connected to your computer. As you step through your code, it is very helpful to watch your output window and iPad simulator on dual, independent monitors. (Apple hardware makes this easy. Just plug your second monitor in to the display port of any Intel-based Mac, with the correct mini display port adapter, of course, and you're able to have two monitors working independently from one another.) It is not required to have dual monitors, you will just have to organize your open windows to fit on your screen if you don't.
About Objective-C for Absolute Beginners: iPhone and Mac Programming Made Easy:
"Objective-C for Absolute Beginners: iPhone and Mac Programming Made Easy" teaches anyone who wants to learn to develop applications for the Mac or apps for the iPhone and iPad. No previous programming experience is necessary. Readers learn to think in programming terms, how to use Objective-C to build program logic, and how to write applications and apps. With over 50 collective years in software development and based on an approach pioneered at Carnegie Mellon University, the authors of Objective-C for Absolute Beginners have developed a remarkably effective approach to learning Objective-C.
Objective-C for Absolute Beginners: iPhone and Mac Programming Made Easy
By Gary Bennett, Mitch Fisher, Brad Lees
296 pages
Published August 31, 2010
Print Book Price: $39.99
eBook Price: $27.99
About the Authors:
Gary Bennett is president of xcelMe.com. xcelMe teaches iPhone/iPad programming courses online. Gary has taught hundreds of students how to develop iPhone/iPad apps, and has several very popular apps in the iTunes App Store. His students also have some of the best-selling apps in the App Store. Gary worked for 25 years in the technology and defense industries. He served 10 years in the U.S. Navy as a Nuclear Engineer aboard two nuclear submarines. After leaving the Navy, Gary worked for several companies as a software developer, CIO, and President. As CIO, he helped take VistaCare public in 2002. Gary coauthored "iPhone Cool Projects" for Apress.
Mitch Fisher is a software developer in the Phoenix, Arizona area. He was introduced to PCs back in the 1980s when 64K was a lot of memory and 1 Mhz was considered a fast computer. Over the last 25 years, Mitch has worked for several large and medium-sized companies in the roles of software developer and software architect. He has led several teams of developers on multi-million dollar projects. Mitch now divides his time between writing iOS applications and server-side UNIX technologies.
Brad Lees has more than 12 years' experience in application development and server management. He has specialized in creating and initiating software programs in real-estate development systems and financial institutions. His career has been highlighted by his positions as information systems manager at The Lyle Anderson Company; product development manager for Smarsh; vice president of application development for iNation; and IT manager at The Orcutt/Winslow Partnership, the largest architectural firm in Arizona.
To obtain more information, request press copies, or arrange an interview with Apress authors, please contact Lisa Lau at Apress or 212-460-0209.
Apress, Inc., part of Springer Science Business Media, is a technical publisher devoted to meeting the needs of IT professionals, software developers, and programmers, with more than 1,000 books in print and a continually expanding portfolio of publications. Apress offers a complete package of books on developing for the iPhone and Mac OS X. For developers who want to code games, create compelling user interfaces, or better get a handle on just what makes an App cool, Apress has books to suit. For more information about Apress, visit them online.


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As courageous state legislators enlist in the fight to repel the federal government's assault on the Second Amendment, the governor of one western state is telling a liberty-minded state representative to stand down.
Governor Gary Herbert of Utah recently called a pro-gun rights bill sponsored by a Utah state representative "an exaggeration" and encouraged the lawmaker to "adhere to the law."
This is not the level of support citizens of the Beehive State would expect from the man they elected to lead their state.
Herbert was specifically criticizing a measure offered by first-term Representative Brian Greene (R-Pleasant Grove). The bill is titled the State Supremacy Firearms Act.
Patterned after similar measures proposed in a dozen states, the Utah State Supremacy Firearm Act restores the walls of state sovereignty protected by the Constitution. Representative Greene provided The New American with an advance copy of the measure. The preamble of the legislation declares:
It is the exclusive authority of the Legislature of this State to adopt and enact any and all laws, orders, rules or regulations as may be deemed necessary regarding the manufacture, transfer, possession, ownership, and/or use of firearms within the State of Utah, and ... any federal action which attempts to impose limitations on firearms contrary to the Second Amendment of the Constitution of the United States, or the Constitution or laws of the State of Utah, shall be unenforceable in Utah.
Greene's bill goes beyond simply restating the fact of state supremacy in this area, however. It criminalizes participation by a federal agent in any federal disarmament program within Utah. Section 2 B declares:
Any official, agent or employee of the United States government who enforces or attempts to enforce any act, law, order, rule or regulation of the United States government upon a personal firearm, a firearm accessory or ammunition that is owned or manufactured commercially or privately in Utah and while the same remains exclusively within the borders of Utah shall be guilty of a third degree felony, and subject to imprisonment not to exceed five (5) years and/or a fine not to exceed five thousand dollars ($5,000.00).
State employees and officers are likewise prohibited from executing federal gun control laws:
It shall be unlawful for any officer or employee of this state, or any political subdivision, or any federal firearms dealer licensed under 19 U.S.C. Section 923 to enforce or attempt to enforce any act, law, order, statute, rule, or regulation of the federal government relating to a personal firearm, firearm accessory, or ammunition that is owned or manufactured commercially or privately in the state of Utah and while the same remains exclusively within the borders of the state of Utah.
At a rally in support of his bill held at the Utah State Capitol, Greene said, "The Utah Legislature knows what is best with respect to gun safety in our state."
Greene also shared with the rally a letter from the Utah Sheriffs' Association to President Obama that informs the president that "no federal official will be permitted to descend upon our constituents and take from them what the Bill of Rights — in particular Amendment 2 — has given them."
The last line of the letter from the sheriffs brought the seriousness of the message home.
"And we are prepared," the sheriffs wrote, "to trade our lives for the preservation of its traditional interpretation."
Governor Herbert doesn't like the sheriffs' bold stance against federal tyranny, either. Said Herbert about the sheriffs' letter to the president:
I think it was probably an emotional, knee-jerk reaction to the idea that Washington is somehow going to tell us what we're going to do. If we don't like the laws that are passed, if we don't like the executive orders, we have a process in place. Go to court. We don't have to have confrontations at the border. Go to court and we'll find out whether it's the law of the land or not, but Utah will adhere to the law of the land.
That statement displays a disdain not only for the constitutional sheriffs of the state of Utah, but a misunderstanding of the Constitution and the role of states in government.
First, going to court will never solve a constitutional crisis between states and the federal government because the federal courts are part of the federal government and have rarely sided with states in cases challenging federal usurpation.
Second, Governor Herbert's willingness to accede to federal attempts to curtail the right of citizens to keep and bear arms is likely founded on the so-called Supremacy Clause of Article VI of the Constitution.
Article VI declares, "This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof ... shall be the supreme Law of the Land ... any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding."
What Representative Greene (and other like-minded legislators) understands and Governor Herbert does not, however, is that Article VI protects federal laws made "in pursuance" of the Constitution. Laws made in violation of the Constitution deserve no such respect.
One sheriff reacted with surprise at the governor's dismissal of his and his colleagues' effort to fight federal gun control.
At a meeting of a conservative activist group, Davis County Sheriff Todd Richardson explained that the sheriffs' letter was aimed at shaping the debate rather than reacting to it after it was too late.
Richardson reminded the group that sheriffs swear an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States and they are therefore duty bound to prevent anyone — including the president and Congress — from executing any unconstitutional act.
In a statement to the Examiner, a spokesman for Governor Herbert wrote,
With respect to the issue of firearms generally: Governor Herbert is an ardent supporter of the second amendment and has recommended that the present conversation be driven by reason and logic, rather than emotion and politics.
Reason and logic are fine. In fact, the reason and logic of the Founders led them to include in the Constitution the right to keep and bear arms.
It is unfortunate for Utahans that Governor Herbert considers their attempts to uphold the Constitution emotional and political and refuses to support their right to nullify all attempts by the federal government to overreach its constitutional boundaries.
In responses posted online to the press conference where Herbert made these statements, some of his constituents let their governor know just how they feel about his feckless response to the federal government's gun grab. One commenter wrote, "Thank goodness our own revolutionary war proved that it doesn't take a majority to get the right thing done. He [Governor Herbert] sounds more like the weak-kneed British appointed governors of that time."
Given his opposition to ObamaCare and federal land ownership, Governor Herbert occasionally understands the need for states to stand up to unconstitutional federal acts. The right to bear arms is the right that protects all other rights, though, and Governor Herbert needs to quickly recognize that and get behind his fellow Utahans' effort to protect that right.
Related Articles:
Utah State Rep Introduces State Supremacy Firearms Act
Sheriffs Target Obama Gun Control, Vow to Resist
Photo of Gov. Gary Herbert: AP Images


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"Trim?" The lady smiles and asks.
"Cut." I smile and answer.
And know exactly what is coming.
She tries to hide the smirk on her face. Tries to keep a straight face and asks "Around half or one inch?".
I smile again and indicate somewhere on my upper arm. And wait, knowing what will come next.
But this lady is patient. Maybe she guesses I don't know even how much an inch is after all.
So she holds the ends of my tresses between her fingers to around an inch and holds them up in front of my nose.
"This much?" I can get that tone in her voice.
"No." I smile back. "This much". I point to my upper arm ... again.
And did not have to wait for long. She gasped. " This much?!!!".
I nod ... still smiling.
She looks horrified. "But how can you cut such long hair?! Girls would happily die to have such long hair!".
I did not have the inclination to tell her that beautiful tresses won't be of much use if you are already dead.
So I hold my tongue. And assure her they grow back very fast. She had nothing to worry ... I'll be back to meet her in three months again.
She still looked unsure. And I prayed.
I prayed that someday this ordeal will come to an end. Both for me and for those nice souls who feel so guilty everytime they have to chop off my long hair.
But that is the story. I have tried visiting different places where I might find people who would happily chop of my hair without feeling scandalised or as if I am asking them to cut my head instead of my hair.
I have even tried to befriend the Chinese lady D in our society ... invited her and her dog over to tea ... ok ... I invited her and she got the dog.
Hasn't helped. Only made her more caring after that.
And I so miss our childhood no nonsense barber who used to come over to our house. After Dadu ( grandad ) and all my uncles would get their job done, it was the turn of a long line of squirming, giggling and jostling grandchildren ... most of them girls.
Moina, the barber, would bring out his special big sized scissors that he kept for us, babu ghoro chua ( children of the big house ). He couldn't tackle the straight & adamant thick tresses of us kids otherwise. After snipping the scissors menacingly in the air a couple of times, he would reach out to grab one child after the other by the scruff and snip off in no time.
Which made me ask the other half sometime back " Will you take me to your barber the next time you go for a haircut?".
And have recently noticed that he has been getting his haircut on his way back from the office. Sigh! :-(
My recipe today is a simple stir fry of vegetables. I do not like to eat cold salads for a few reasons. The first being I do not like to eat anything cold. Food has to be piping hot for me when served.
Secondly, I do not like boiled vegetables ... so steaming or boiling and then munching on flavourless stuff is not for me.
And to make them tasty I have go overboard and dunk in bottled dressings that is best not eaten regularly.
So I stir fry. Just throw in the veggies of my choice in a little oil and toss them around. And use whatever flavour of seasoning fancies me. And love to much on the steaming hot yet crunchy veggies. :-)
This stir fry has no special seasoning except freshly ground black pepper. And instead of lemon juice or vinegar, I have thrown in some fresh tomatoes ... they gave whatever little tang was needed.
So dear Rush, here's your stir fry. :-)
Need : Vegetables of your choice cut into smallish cubes .... just make sure they are of the same size for uniform cooking,
finely chopped garlic, onion cut into big cubes ( check out the snaps for the exact sizes ),
freshly ground black pepper,
a little cooking oil ( olive or vegetable oil ) , salt and sugar to taste.
You can use butter if you want to ... it makes the dish wonderfully flavourful.
How to : Heat a little oil in a non stick or heavy bottomed pan. On low heat add the garlic. Wait for a while ... do not fry for long.
Increase heat and add the onions and the rest of the vegetables. Keep tossing and stirring on high heat.
Add salt and sugar and keep tossing ... they will cook in their own juices.
If you want to you can cover it for a while .... just make sure you lower the heat .... and the veggies don't turn soggy or burn.
Sprinkle some freshly ground black pepper and serve immediately.
This makes a great meal as is. Or you can combine it with some bread and soup too.
I served it with some fried chicken meatballs on the side ( I made them for the next recipe coming up ).
Enjoy all !! :-)
Other Stir Fries
Stir Fried Macaroni with Roasted Vegetables & Chicken
Stir Fried Chicken with Vegetables


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Creative Agent is a clean and modern HTML5/CSS3 theme, built on the Twitter Bootstrap framework. It is suitable for small businesses, creative portfolios, or personal sites. It is fully responsive, scaling to all screen and device sizes. Creative Agent uses jQuery powered filtering options for the work portfolio and is very customizable with multiple patterns and colors.
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- 11 HTML files
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All images in live demo by Ilya Schwarz.