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Kabul is a city on edge as the Afghan presidential election approaches. Suicide bombers and gunmen attacked an election commission office yesterday. They killed several workers and police officers. In the April 5th election, eight men are now vying to succeed President Hamid Karzai. The field narrowed today after the grandson of the country's last king dropped out of the race. He was not expected to do well.
NPR's Sean Carberry joins us now from Kabul. And, Sean, you were covering yesterday's attack. Give us a rundown on what happened and the consequences.
SEAN CARBERRY, BYLINE: Well, tactically, this was a typical so-called spectacular attack by the Taliban, which usually only involve a handful of militants but create a huge impact. In this case, two suicide bombs detonated outside the compound, and that created an opening for what we believe to be three gunmen to rush in, although there's some question about that number. But they went inside the compound and waged a three-hour shootout with dozens of Afghan police.
Police eventually killed the militants and freed some 70 Afghan workers in the election commission office. And this was a particularly brazen attack because it was in a block next to the presidential candidate Ashraf Ghani's house, a government ministry building and an army recruiting center. So there was a lot of security nearby. Taliban have warned that they would attack election officers and workers, and they've certainly been doing that over the last couple of months.
SIEGEL: Now, that was an attack on Afghans. Last week, gunmen killed nine people inside what was considered a very secure luxury hotel. One of the dead was a foreign election observer. Is the violence threatening the integrity of the elections?
CARBERRY: Well, in the wake of the attack on the Hotel Serena, two of the three international election monitoring organizations have pulled their people out of the country. Though, today, the U.S. ambassador and an Afghan election watchdog both said they don't think that will be a significant impediment to the legitimacy of the election. They say there are more qualified Afghan observers who will be on the ground, and there are more anti-fraud measures in place than the 2009 election. So they feel they won't be impacted by the withdrawal of the election observers.
In terms of security, Western diplomats and military officials have been saying they expected a serious increase in violence, and we're certainly seeing that. But they do argue Afghan forces are well organized and have solid planning in place to minimize the violence, but no one is denying that there will be significant violence on election day here.
SIEGEL: Well, how is the international community in general responding to the increased violence?
CARBERRY: Well, people are generally rattled by the attacks really going back to January, when 13 foreigners and eight Afghans were killed in a massacre at a restaurant in Kabul. And, again, while it was expected violence would spike in the weeks leading up to the vote, people didn't really expect the apparent intentional targeting of Westerners at the Serena, or the assassination of a Swedish journalist, Nils Horner, a couple of weeks ago. A number of NGOs have pulled some of their people out of the country, and those that are here are, frankly, more on edge than any time since I've been here.
SIEGEL: Sean, how is this affecting the Afghans themselves? Are there indications that, in light of this violence and intimidation, perhaps they might not vote?
CARBERRY: Afghans are generally defiant. They will not be deterred by security threats, they say. Most we've spoken to say they will go to vote in face of threats, though we talked to a few women and they seem much more hesitant to vote because of security concerns. Also, people universally say they have confidence that polling places in the urban centers will be safe, but rural areas will be more dangerous and some people in those areas probably will stay home.
They all agree that this is a critical election and Afghans should participate. But that said, they all express serious concerns about fraud and the legitimacy of the election. Fraud is heavily tied to security, and the less secure the area, the more likely there will be fraud. In a survey released today by an Afghan election watchdog found that only 25 percent of those polled are confident the elections will be free and fair, which is actually a significant drop from past elections.
SIEGEL: OK. Thank you, Sean.
CARBERRY: You're welcome, Robert.
SIEGEL: That's NPR's Sean Carberry, speaking to us from Kabul, Afghanistan. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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'Crimmigration' has become a critical "catch all" concept for legal scholars, criminologists, and sociologists alike. The concept describes the way two previously separate state control spheres – border control and crime control – influence each other and are part of the same control mechanism experiences and developments. This concept, for example, helps understand Trump's effort to legitimize the tightening of immigration policy. It refers to both the protection of American economy and jobs and the explicit intent to protect American citizens from terrorists, rapists, and gang members. For this IMER lunch seminar, Synnøve Jahnsen from Rokkansenteret will talk about the usefulness of crimmigration as a concept in other settings. She will draw on empirical examples from her research on prostitution and human trafficking, Norwegian labour market crime policies, and the policing of outlaw motorcycle clubs and youth gangs in Australia and Europe. She will also use the opportunity to promote her new co-edited book "Criminal Justice in the Era of Mass Mobility" and highlight some of the methodological challenges faced by researchers in her field.
A light lunch will be served. All welcome!
Synnøve Jahnsen is a postdoctoral research fellow at Rokkansenteret where she specializes in the sociology of law and criminal justice.
The question of migration is a multifaceted one. It impacts upon individual and social life long before a person's departure or the crossing of borders. Tuning in with pre- and post-departure perspectives from the African-European border zone, this seminar will argue that migration cannot be understood if addressed as a series of events or movements in the here and now. On the contrary, it must be seen in relation to the experiences and ideas that predate and at the same time reach beyond the temporal settings in which they unfold. For this IMER seminar, Knut Graw from the Institute for Anthropological Research in Africa at the Kathlieke Universiteit Leuven will elaborate on this argument in relation to Senegal as a case study.
Knut Graw (PhD) works at the Institute for Anthropological Research in Africa (IARA) and the Interculturalism, Minorities and Migration Research Centre (IMMRC) of the University of Leuven and, as associated researcher, at Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), Berlin. His current research focuses on the situation of Senegalese migrants in Southern Europe and the cultural dynamics and transfers in the African-European borderzone.
Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) work closely with refugees by providing services and assistance. However, refugees might also be subjected to misconduct by NGOs. In such a scenario, how can NGOs be held accountable for wrongful acts?
For this IMER lunch seminar, Marianne Nerland from the Faculty of Law at UiB will present preliminary findings from her PhD project which explores recourses available to refugees seeking justice against NGOs. By drawing on interviews conducted with refugees as well as aid workers in Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya, Marianne will argue that there are serious legal obstacles that refugees face when wanting to file complaints against NGOs. This case highlights the need for an enhanced structure for NGO accountability in refugee camps.
A light lunch will be served! All welcome!
Marianne Nerland is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Law, UiB
Since the refugee reception crisis in 2015, asylum seekers and refugees have often been at the centre of public and scholarly debate. However, the focus has frequently been on the problems they bring about for host countries. Less attention has been placed on asylum seekers' aspirations, dreams and plans after arrival. Yet these are meaningful to study given that aspirations can have a significant impact on people's future trajectories and hence, the ways they incorporate into their new homes. Furthermore, desire, despite having a strong agentic nature, is deeply entangled in the social structures and discourses that newcomers are surrounded by.
In this seminar, Zubia Willmann, will be presenting her article in which she explores how the aspirations of women who came to Norway as asylum seekers change over time, the elements that may be involved in such changes as well as how these women go about pursuing their aspirations. She draws on intermittent fieldwork for one and a half years (2017-2019) in which she followed women seeking asylum in Norway, from the stages in which they lived in asylum centres to the early stages of settlement in a Norwegian municipality.
A light lunch will be served! All welcome.
Zubia Willmann is a currently a PhD candidate at VID Specialized University, Stavanger with a project exploring how women seeking asylum in Norway go about starting their life in their new home. She has an interdisciplinary background, her main fields of interest being migration studies but also gender and religion studies among others. She has been recently a visiting scholar at the Migration and Diversity Centre at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. Zubia is also a member of the IMER Junior Scholars Network.
There is a deep-rooted cultural belief that encounters between strangers in local settings can bring about social change. Mette Strømsø, a researcher at the Sociology Department UiB, brings this aspect to the forefront in her study of local community initiatives established in the wake of the refugee influx in 2015. Mette will present her co-authored article with Susanne Bygnes whereby they strive to unpack the promise, inherent contradictions and transformative potential of the facilitated encounters in local communities where newcomers settled. The reference to Karen Blixen's short story Babette's feast indicate the cultural resonance of the promise in the facilitated encounters between newcomers and permanent residents.
Mette Strømsø is a researcher for IMEX at the department of Sociology, UiB. She holds a PhD in Human. Her research interests fall at the intersection of political geography and social and cultural geography, with a focus on everyday nationhood and especially the reconciliation between nation and diversity.
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A slew of new presidential polls released this week not only confirm a long-established gender gap among voters, but also suggest that the male-female preference divide in this year's presidential contest could hit historic levels.
It may surprise that that divide appears not driven by social issues and arguments over reproductive care or choices, analysts say, but largely by the national conversation over the size of government.
"On the fundamental question of whether you want a smaller government with fewer services, or a bigger government with more services, women and men are in a very different place," says Carroll Doherty of the , adding that women are far more supportive of the bigger/more equation.
"And that," he says, "is the fundamental question of this election."
How women — and men — come down on that question is more fundamentally tied to, or "correlated with," how they'll vote Nov. 6 than any issue Pew has found in more than three decades of polling, Doherty says.
"Social issues matter in the gender gap, but the real big dividing lines are what government should be doing for the poor, the elderly and the size of safety net," Doherty says.
That suggests that Romney's comments in a secretly recorded fundraiser — when he characterized "47 percent" of Americans as perceiving themselves as victims entitled to government support — have the potential to resonate widely in the presidential race.
And that Romney's failure to gain traction against Obama in national polls will ultimately have more to do with the size-of-government argument than any specific position the GOP has taken on the "women's issues" of abortion or birth control.
"There's very little gender gap on abortion," Doherty says.
A Look At The Numbers
Nationally, women likely to vote said they preferred Obama over Romney by a nearly 20-point margin, according to a Pew Research Center poll taken earlier this month and before the "47 percent" comments.
Social issues matter in the gender gap, but the real big dividing lines are what government should be doing for the poor, the elderly and the size of safety net.
Swing state poll results released this week suggest similar margins in Florida and Pennsylvania. An even wider margin was found by a Quinnipiac/CBS News/New York Times survey in Ohio, where 60 percent of likely female voters said they prefer Obama, and 35 percent picked Romney as their candidate.
Obama won the women's vote nationally by 13 points in 2008.
It's worth noting that female voters, as a group, haven't always preferred the Democratic candidate for president.
But you'd have to reach back to 1980 and 1984 to find elections when a majority of women voted for the Republican candidate, choosing Ronald Reagan over Democratic candidates Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale.
Still, even in those years, more women than men marked their ballots for the Democrats. And the gender gap, while varying in its size, has remained a constant.
In 2004, President George W. Bush, in his successful re-election run, enjoyed a big lead among men and only lost women overall by 3 percentage points.
Obama's strength with women is driven by those who are younger and single, but he is also outpolling Romney with married women overall by about 10 percentage points, according to Pew, and with married white women by a few percentage points.
And while Romney has consistently been favored by white married men, who drive his large lead over Obama with married men, he has been losing his edge with unmarried men.
GOP's White Flag?
After the Democrats were crushed in the 2010 midterm elections, when the GOP recaptured the U.S. House, Republicans were looking to capitalize on their success with women.
Exit polls suggested that GOP candidates attracted about 12 percent of women who voted for Obama in 2008, and female voters were almost equally split between Republican and Democratic candidates.
The Romney campaign has taken a few stabs at improving its standing with women. It has dispatched Romney's wife, Ann Romney, with direct appeals to women, most notably at the Republican National Convention when she declared " I love you women!" during her prime-time speech.
After the videotaped "47 percent" comments were disseminated online by the liberal magazine Mother Jones, the Romney campaign released an ad targeting young mothers and the national debt.
Running in swing states like Virginia, the "Dear Daughter" ad shows a young mother cradling a baby and noting that "your share of Obama's debt is over $50,000. And it grows every day." It notes the rate of women in poverty and the difficulty women have finding work.
Earlier this week, conservative bloggers criticized Obama spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter for comments she made during an interview on NPR member station WAMU, during which she suggested that women are more interested in "what's going to happen in the next four years" than in what happened over the past four years.
The conservative website Redstate.com posted this after Cutter's comments:
"For reasons that are unclear to me, the Romney campaign has essentially ceded the field in the fight for women who vote based on their sex organs rather than issues. I don't know how big that demographic is, but after one brief attempt with the job loss data for women under Obama nothing has been heard. In the meantime the Obama campaign is hammering home that Romney will defund Planned Parenthood and that will mean Armageddon for women's health because the only health care women ever need is an abortion."
Nothing For Granted
More than 60 percent of Obama campaign volunteers are women, Cutter said on WAMU, including a "Women for Obama" group that she asserted was "300,000 strong."
They are a "very powerful tool for us," she said, reaching women at home, at work, "conversation to conversation."
Though pollsters say the election isn't being driven by the issue of abortion, the nation's largest pro-abortion rights organization has launched its own effort to target women. NARAL Pro Choice America says it has identified through surveys female, pro-abortion rights "Obama defectors" — those who voted for Obama in 2008 but don't plan to this year.
They've identified 338,000 such women in 25 key counties in battleground states, says NARAL political director Beth Shipp. Those states: Colorado, Florida, Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, Ohio, Virginia and Wisconsin.
Most of the "defectors," Shipp says, are women who identify themselves as independents and between the ages of 18 and 39.
Their theory is that in a close election, in swing counties, a half a percentage point could make a difference.
"I think elections can turn on a dime," Shipp says. "Our polls show that President Obama is winning women, but not by the margin he won in 2008."
That's not really what other national and state polls show.
Nevertheless, in an electorate composed of a majority of women, and increasing percentages of single, nonwhite women, the gender gap appears destined to widen — perhaps enough by November, if the tide doesn't turn soon for Romney, to make history.
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I'm really excited to do this review for you all. This product applies both to makeup artists and personal makeup users. How to sanitize your makeup.
I find myself to be a bit of a germaphobe when it comes to my kit and applying makeup on others. I use palettes and spatulas for all my cream products. I never double dip my disposable applicators and I use alcohol with a vengeance. However, I always found it difficult to sanitize my powder products.
With powder products, bacteria usually doesn't penetrate beneath the top surface of the makeup. Never spray powder products with alcohol. This will ruin the surface of the shadow by producing a hard, cakey layer that will be difficult to scrape off. That means, all you have to do is take a tissue and wipe off the top layer of the product in order to sanitize it. However, when you have dozens of palettes with eyeshadows, blushes and the works...it's hard to get to sanitizing everything. It gets messy and you go through a lot of tissues...get a lot of makeup dust fall-out and it's overall a mess. This is me speaking from experience.
In the last year, I heard about the Beauty So Clean products. It's a spray or wipe that combines sanitizing agents with emollients in order to disinfect your makeup without messing up the surface. I was so excited to try this out! I actually purchased the Pro Size Sanitizing Mist and a Travel Size one for my kit.
I have extremely sensitive skin and I'm prone to eye infections and lip irritations. Those of you who have the same problems or who experience acne breakouts from makeup should pay close attention to this product. Cleaning your makeup brushes does not ensure that your makeup is clean. Bacteria transfer from our face to the brush and the makeup...as well as oils from our fingers. Sneezing and coughing can also infect your makeup.
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The website also gives a great example of how your product looks with and without sanitizing.
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Last summer when Save Our Schools exhibited the best in grassroots traditions and brought together a movement from within to challenge the many decades of failed accountability measures that now represent a multi-billion dollar status quo complex of testing and privatization efforts, the corporate foundation plutocrats, the ed industry bottom feeders, and the multinational testing corporations like Pearson and McGraw-Hill sat up and took notice.
Now after a long winter of online meetings and discussion among old and new steering committee members of SOS, it would seem that the status quo may have pushed itself into the driver's seat of SOS, even before the second year celebration can happen.
Now carrying the checkbook and controlling the website and managing the SOS database (via his significant friend, Betsy Angert) is Bob George. And who is Bob George? This is from his lengthy auto-bio posted last November, when he was vying for a position on the Steering Committee of SOS:
And what is Catapult Learning, LLC, pray tell? And why is that when I see the word "serve" and Catapult Learning together, that I think of old Twilight Zone episode, "To Serve Man?" Run--it's a cookbook!!
Could it be that Kanimits of Catapult have been feasting on Title I schools since before NCLB came to town, back in the day it was called Sylvan Education Solutions. With the 2002 introduction of NCLB's Supplemental Services and the unmonitored, unregulated billions in free money to ed industry insiders, tutoring mills and phonics farms like Catapult have cashed in like no other time in their history. From Education Next:
. . . .Jeffrey Cohen, president of Catapult Learning (the tutoring firm formerly known as Sylvan Education Solutions), says that he has seen letters sent out by the district that automatically sign children up for the district's program unless the parent affirmatively decides to go with a different provider. "There's not a level playing field," he says.
To overcome these obstacles, most large providers are going around the districts by beefing up their own marketing efforts. Some providers, like Catapult Learning, are running ads and touting their programs with leaflets or promoters who go door-to-door, to shopping malls, and, when allowed, to the school.
Before No Child Left Behind, about $2 billion was spent each year in the retail tutoring market, according to Educate Inc., a national tutoring company formerly known as Sylvan Learning Systems and Catapult Learning's parent company. Half of the tutoring providers were small local companies and individuals, while the other half were regional or national firms. In addition to the retail tutoring market, a few companies, such as Catapult Learning, made an effort to promote public-private partnerships in tutoring, but the marketplace was not well defined. . . .
Here is news of just one of the federal contracts worth millions that Catapult has enjoyed over the past decade. Test and punish has been very, very good for Catapult and Bob George, and it beats me why he would want to mess with a good thing. Why would he be leading an effort to bring down corporate education reform, when he makes his living from the continuation of the corporate education reform agenda?
After all, Catapult is moving up in the world, having in recent years become a partial property of the Carlyle Group, no less. Now that is some rarefied corporate air to be breathing! But, then, Carlyle knows that Catapult is an expanding company, now moving into Professional Development Services, such as providing PD to get your school up to speed on Common Core Adoption or Literacy First. Or how about those turnarounds! Recently Catapult was a major player for Georgia's big Turnaround Vendor Fair this past February. Catapult your way to privatization!!
And then there is the lucrative Specialized Services market. For instance, if you run a charter school and need to hire a school counselor for that Back to School Parents Night or that fifth year visit from the State, Catapult can handle it. After all,
It's a balancing act!Striving to focus on core academic issues—and at the same time, provide for the social, emotional, behavioral and other support services struggling students need. It's enough to stretch the resources of most schools.
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And then there is Catapult's reputation for delivering the kind of sub-standard services and products that we have come to expect when corporations prey on the poor and on the taxpayer. What does the research say about this most lucrative waste of taxpayer money. From a 2007 study:
The MPS studies found that students receiving SES did not perform as well as the matched samples. Further, no significant difference appeared among SES providers as determined by NALT annual reading gains. No provider serving 10 or more students produced achievement gains averaging close to 100 percent of expected academic growth indicated by national norms. For example, 561 students receiving Education Station services averaged 71 percent of a year's growth, while 92 students receiving Newton Learning services averaged only 67 percent of a year's growth. Overall, the average growth for SES students was only 66 percent of the national norm.
Efforts to distinguish among providers yielded little additional information. For all SES providers combined, the number of service hours did not significantly correlate with reading score gains. For students enrolled in Newton Learning and Kids Reading for Success programs, however, total service hours did correlate significantly with NALT gains. Interestingly, students in grades 3 and 7 who received services from Catapult Learning did less well than their matched sample, which outscored them by 19 points and 6 points respectively; conversely, grade 5 students enrolled in Catapult outscored the matched sample by 4 scale points. These differences, however, were not statistically significant.


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iOS is continuing to creep up on Android's smartphone market share, according to a recent survey by Nielsen. While iOS penetration remains a distant second to Android overall, survey respondents in the United States showed that 43 percent of recent smartphone acquirers purchased an iOS device, while new Android owners constituted 48 percent.
The percentage figures above are for "3 month recent acquirers," or survey respondents who got a smartphone in the last three months. Comparing the overall market share figures to the recent acquirer breakdown shows that Android is holding steady: 48 percent of both recent acquirers and smartphone owners in general have Android in this survey. In a survey from January 2012, 46.3 percent of all smartphone owners had Android phones. Only 32 percent of all smartphone-owning respondents now have iOS, compared to 30 percent in January.
The recent-acquirer balance has also shifted since Nielsen's January survey. At that time, 51.7 percent of 3-month recent acquirers had purchased Android phones and 37 percent had chosen iOS. In total, 49.7 percent of the mobile phone-owning public has smartphones, according to the survey.


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Geoffrey Dickens is the Deputy Research Director at the Media Research Center. He currently writes for all of the MRC's publications and outlets including MRC.org, Newsbusters.org, Notable Quotables and has contributed to past projects including MediaWatch and MagazineWatch. Dickens has made several appearances on radio talk shows around the nation. His articles have been featured on many websites including the Drudge Report. You can see them here.
Born and raised in Alexandria, Virginia this native Washingtonian briefly left the area to earn a degree from Indiana University's School of Journalism. When he's not monitoring the media's liberal bias, Dickens can be found rooting for his beloved Washington Redskins, Washington Wizards, Washington Capitals and Indiana Hoosiers.
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The shooting death of a 2-year-old girl in Kentucky at the hands of her 5-year-old brother has opened up yet another debate about gun control.
While no one favors the idea of 5-year-olds using weapons without supervision, there is no consensus on the appropriate age to start hands-on training with firearms.
"Many people who have firearms familiarize their kids with firearms early on, because they want them to know that this is not something to be trifled with," says Larry Pratt, executive director of Gun Owners of America, a gun rights advocacy group.
But while some hunters and other gun owners want to instill in their kids a sense of heritage and a healthy respect for safety, public health advocates believe there's little benefit in allowing any children to handle guns.
The American Academy of Pediatrics states bluntly in a policy statement that the best way to prevent firearm injury is to keep guns out of children's homes and communities.
"In terms of safety, why would you want these kids around incredibly dangerous products?" says David Hemenway, director of Harvard University's Injury Control Research Center. "It's hard to imagine how this increases safety at all — let's play with a dangerous product."
To keep children safe, Americans need to treat guns with the same care that they use when it comes to cars and swimming pools, says Dan Gross, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, a gun control advocacy group. But that won't necessarily be the result of any new laws or regulations.
"Decisions around guns should be looked at as an issue of parental responsibility," Gross says. "We think it's up to parents to make sure they're fully educated about the risks of guns around the home."
Not Common But Dangerous
The number of children unintentionally killed by firearms is relatively small — an average of about 125 per year, according to the Brady Campaign.
Of course, the total number of shootings is much higher. More than 3,000 children are treated for accidental shootings in emergency rooms each year.
Shootings are likely to inflict greater harm than other types of injuries. Half of the youths treated for gun injuries at two Colorado trauma centers required intensive care, compared with less than a fifth of those with other types of injuries, according to a study published last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Thirteen percent of those gun victims died, compared with fewer than 2 percent of the children injured in other ways.
Hemenway says it's much more difficult to find reliable data on the number of children who shoot other people, as opposed to how many children are shot. But his own research has shown that when children are shot accidentally, it's usually someone around their own age holding the weapon — or, often, older brothers.
Training To Avoid Accidents
Anyone who has been around children (especially boys) knows they are likely to pretend almost any object is a gun and will pretend to shoot people with it.
Small children and real firearms, therefore, are accidents waiting to happen.
Last month, a man in the Cincinnati area was arrested after his 3-year-old son shot himself in the arm while reaching for a loaded gun that was hidden under a bed.
Next week, Democratic Rep. John Tierney of Massachusetts intends to introduce a bill that would require gun makers to "personalize" weapons so that they will fire only for their owners. Such technology exists, but as with other gun restrictions, his legislation faces an uncertain future.
In the meantime, everyone from gun manufacturers to the Boy Scouts posts information on their websites related to gun safety for kids. For the most part, the tips involve common sense.
Keep weapons locked and unloaded, and keep ammunition secured elsewhere. Never point a gun at anyone else.
"There are still far too many parents in our country who think that just hiding the gun is enough," says Gross, the Brady Campaign president. "Parents think that children don't know where guns are hidden, or that their kids know better."
Gun clubs and groups such as the Boy Scouts and 4-H routinely offer firearms safety instruction to children. "Sometimes, the younger kids seem to pay attention better than the older kids," says Robert L. Weiman, who trains about 130 kids a year as a volunteer safety instructor at the Monticello Rod & Gun Club in Minnesota.
Minnesota, like a number of other states in recent years, has lowered the minimum age at which children can receive hunting licenses to 10.
Weiman says it makes no sense to him that 10-year-olds can hunt with adult supervision but aren't allowed to take his safety course until they reach their 11th birthdays.
"I know a lot of 10-year-olds personally who could go through that course with no problem at all," he says. "Ten-year-olds are as capable of understanding what we're teaching them just as well as a 12-year-old."
Marketing To Children
If states can't quite settle on the exact age at which they believe children can responsibly handle firearms, what has disturbed a number of people about Tuesday's shooting in Kentucky is the fact that Kristian Sparks, the 5-year-old who shot his younger sister Caroline, used a rifle known as a Crickett that had been given to him as a gift.
Keystone Sporting Arms, which manufactured the weapon, markets it as "my first rifle," offered in a range of colors and held in promotional materials by a cartoon cricket. Its website features a "kids corner" filled with pictures of young children holding weapons.
Those appear to have been taken down, and the company has refused to comment to reporters.
But Keystone is not alone in marketing firearms to children. Other gun makers run advertisements designed to appeal to children as well, in publications such as Junior Shooters.
In 2011, Keystone gave away 1,000 youth .22-caliber rifles to gun dealers and ranges that hosted First Shots introductory events sponsored by the National Shooting Sports Foundation.
"Keystone Sporting Arms believes in firearms safety and getting youth started with the right equipment to ensure the best experience," Bill McNeal, who co-founded the company with his son in 1996, said at the time.
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TULSA –– Members of the Knights on Bikes adamantly make it clear that they are not a "bike gang."
While they proudly wear a vest with a patch, they claim no territory like a traditional motorcycle club. Instead, as an extension of the larger ministry of the Knights of Columbus, the group is a family friendly organization that seeks to serve the Catholic Church and the community through a common interest in riding motorcycles.
It is a motorcycle ministry dedicated to improving the image of bikers, promoting safety and Christian values.
In April 2005, Raymond C. Medina in Fort Worth, Texas, founded Knights on Bikes as a way to further the work of the Knights of Columbus by organizing members who are also motorcycle riders. It is now an international group with chapters in more than 30 states and in Mexico, Canada and the Philippines.
Their motto is "In God We Trust and Ride," and they strive to address the spiritual and cultural needs of the Knights of Columbus and encourage faith, friendship and service.
Members demonstrate their faith in God through evangelism and fidelity to Catholicism and say supporting their priests and serving the church are integral aspects of their organization. Involvement in their local Knights of Columbus councils is assumed.
In Oklahoma, Mark Cearley is currently president of the Oklahoma Knights on Bikes. He told the Eastern Oklahoma Catholic, Tulsa's diocesan magazine, that when he was selected for the post, he felt "a little overwhelmed." He was already involved in several ministries through his parish, St. Pius X in Tulsa.
"Then I thought of the good friends and fraternal brotherhood that is the KOC. The Knights on Bikes is a great way for our order to be seen in the public, away from the church, and getting more men excited to join our brotherhood," he added.
Members serve the community through charitable works, while they enjoy camaraderie with their brothers in faith as motorcycle riders.
They ride in parades, visit nursing homes, raise money for the needy, help plan rallies and parades, as well as make themselves available to serve their local bishop, priests and parishes in various capacities.
In the Tulsa Diocese, headed by Bishop Edward J. Slattery, members have taken on a number of projects. They served as escorts for a fourth-degree Knights color guard in the Tulsa Christmas Parade the last two Decembers.
Oklahoma Knights on Bikes collected donations to benefit the family of Joey Pustajovski, a volunteer firefighter and a Knight, who died in the fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas, in April. Pustajovski left a wife and four children. Knights on Bikes in both Oklahoma and Texas were able to raise more than $4,000 for the family.
Cearley said the organization tries to schedule one ride a month so members can visit their brothers in other councils, cities and states.
Cearley believes that Knights on Bikes provides an outreach to Catholic men to help them grow in their faith. He was first a motorcycle enthusiast and then a Catholic. He joined a different group of Catholic motorcycle enthusiasts but said he and fellow members from the Tulsa Diocese became disenchanted with it because it strayed from solid Catholic foundations.
Then he became aware of Knights on Bikes, and for him and other riders it became a new outlet for ministering to others while enjoying a passion for riding.
"You do not have to have an expensive bike to ride or join us," explained Cearley. "You don't have to clean the bathrooms or go get pizzas. All you have to do to join is to be at least a first-degree Knight in your local Knights of Columbus Council — that's it! There are no dues with Knights on Bikes at this time; only a patch fee to cover expenses for having the patches and decals made."
Interest in the Knights on Bikes has grown considerably over the past year. Each month they continue to add new members. The group started with five members in February 2012 and now has 28 members statewide, with half of them from the Diocese of Tulsa.
"We are a growing group as evidenced by our membership numbers," said Cearley. "If you are interested, join your local Knights of Columbus then come and ride with us for a great experience and fraternal brotherhood."
Beecroft is associate editor of Eastern Oklahoma Catholic, the magazine of the Diocese of Tulsa, Okla.


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A Big Mac probably isn't your idea of Christmas dinner, but McDonald's is asking its franchisees to stay open on Christmas Day — a day when even Wal-Mart, which caught flack for opening on Thanksgiving evening this year, closes its doors.
"Our largest holiday opportunity as a system is Christmas Day," McDonald's COO Jim Johannesen wrote in one of two memos that was sent to franchisees and obtained by Advertising Age magazine. "Last year, [company-operated] restaurants that opened on Christmas averaged $5,500 in sales," he wrote.
Johannesen also said one reason behind the improvement in the chain's November sales figures was that 6,000 more restaurants were open on Thanksgiving Day (the company has around 14,000 in the U.S.), which boosted sales to the tune of an extra $36 million, Ad Age estimates. The article quotes unnamed company insiders who say that franchisees being open on Thanksgiving accounted for nearly 40% of the chain's November sales growth.
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Thanksgiving helped reverse a rare drop in McDonald's sales; in October, the company broke a nine-year streak of improvement and reported a decline of 1.8% in same-store sales.
After the announcement, one analyst told the Wall Street Journal he didn't have high hopes for a quick turnaround. "My expectation is we'd start to see some improvement by the middle of next year," he said. The company stumbled because it faced a combination of lukewarm interest in its slimmed-down dollar menu, increased competition from new, high-end products rolled out by Burger King and Wendy's, and rising food costs.
Being open on the 25th could be a giant Christmas present for the fast-food giant's investors. But what about the people stuck manning the fryers and the drive-through windows? Spokeswoman Heather Oldani told Ad Age that franchisees could elect to pay more to employees for coming to work on Christmas, but "when our company-owned restaurants are open on the holidays, the staff voluntarily sign up to work. There is no regular overtime pay."
For its part, McDonald's says it's doing this for you. Oldani told Ad Age, "Our restaurants will be open to serve our customers when and how they need over the holidays." (McDonald's did not respond to our request for comment.)
(MORE: McRib Fanatics and the Amazing Power of Limited Availability)
The burger chain might need to get its franchisees to open this Christmas to keep Wall Street happy, but it's doing so at a risky time in big-company labor relations among low-wage workers. Last month, a consortium of community groups in New York City called for a walkout by fast-food workers in protest of minimum and near-minimum wage, sometimes after years of service. A report issued earlier this year by the Food Chain Workers Alliance found that the median wage for fast-food workers is $9.65 an hour, and less than 14% of them makes what the group considers living wages.
Wal-Mart weathered its own share of criticism and protests when it announced plans to kick off Black Friday at 8 p.m. on Thanksgiving evening. A labor-union-backed group marshaled supporters who turned out for dozens of protests around the country, although predictions of a mass walkout didn't come to fruition.
For Wal-Mart and the various New York City fast-food outlets affected, the events didn't seem to have a measurable impact on sales; in fact, Wal-Mart sent out a press release saying this year was its best-ever Black Friday, thanks to aggressive pricing and guaranteed availability of hot gift items.
But the collective conversation about low-wage workers toiling away for ten dollars an hour while the rest of us are stuffing our faces with turkey and ham, tearing through gifts, or laying around in elastic-waist pants watching football has moved beyond the activist community and into the mainstream. So far, we still want to have our Big Macs on Thanksgiving and eat them, too. Will Christmas be a holiday too far?


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In this post, you are going to know how to install a Gaming keyboard splitter in Windows 7, 8.1, 10, 11, Mac, Linux, and Ubuntu means a full guide you will have.
In the first steps, you will know for Windows that's is most of the audience requests.
Gaming Keyboard Splitter is a software tool that allows multiple keyboards to be used on a single computer, which is particularly useful for gamers who need to control multiple characters in a game simultaneously.
This software is compatible with various operating systems such as Windows 7, 8.1, 10, 11, Mac, Linux, and Ubuntu. In this guide, we will show you how to install Gaming Keyboard Splitter on your computer.
How To Install Gaming Keyboard Splitter PC, Mac, Linux, Ubuntu?
Let's get started!
Method #1
- You can install it at this method, after downloading Gaming Keyboard Splitter you will find the file in .exe format on your computer in the folder "C:\Users\YourUserName\Downloads".
- "Double-click" to start the installation.
- If you are using Gaming Keyboard Splitter for testing purposes, we recommend starting it manually.
- By default, the Gaming Keyboard Splitter will install as a service and start with Windows.
Method #2 Windows 7
- Download the installation file.
- Start the installation and double-click the downloaded download file. This will start the installation process.
- Select the items that need to be installed and "click Next".
- You can also add the Gaming Keyboard Splitter source code to the installation.
- Set whether you want Gaming Keyboard Splitter to start manually or by boot.
- You can configure and restart the server when you want, but Gaming Keyboard Splitter will start every time the machine restarts.
- You can also configure what port to use. Make sure this port is open to external access before proceeding to the next step. Carefully select this setting that cannot change without re-installing.
- Be attention!
- In this step, you can configure Gaming Keyboard Splitter manually every time you sign in.
- When it completes, the main Gaming Keyboard Splitter Window will appear. You are now ready to configure it.
Method #3 Windows 8.1
Installing Gaming Keyboard Splitter on windows 8.1 can quickly use the built-in. You can access Gaming Keyboard Splitter via LAN, WLAN, or VPN outside your home network. However, you can set up any computer as Gaming Keyboard Splitter by installing "third-party" applications such as the installer.
- This step-by-step guide shows you how to download and install Windows 8.1 without installing third-party software or tools. I set up a Windows Gaming Keyboard Splitter on Windows 8.1.
- Files and folders share easily through an internal or external network via any built-in option.
- Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 come with built-in Internet Information Service features to install before use.
Method #4 Windows 10
To place the Gaming Keyboard Splitter in Windows 10.
Now double-click the install icon to install the Gaming Keyboard Splitter. It will start installing it. It will also ask for system permissions to allow the installer which will ask for "Yes" or "Not" to install Gaming Keyboard Splitter in windows 10.
- Click the Yes button to start the installation. Shows Wizard was requesting acceptance of the License Agreement.
- Click the button and agree to accept the License Agreement. It will load the needed data and show the installation options.
- Select the appropriate option to allow all users or active users and click the following button. The next wizard provides options for selecting input items.
- It is mandatory to install the Gaming Keyboard Splitter. You can keep some items selected or unselected according to your needs. After selecting input items, click the next "Button" to install the installation. The following wizard offers the option to choose the installation method and "Start Menu options".
- Now click the "Next Button" to proceed with the installation. Completes the installation and displays the final wizard with a success message.
- Now click the "End button" to stop the installer. It will also use Gaming Keyboard Splitter if you can keep the Gaming Keyboard Splitter on the start option currently selected. Default screen.
- See your installed software in the location: "C:/Program Files"
Method #5 On Windows 11
Firstly, you must download Gaming Keyboard Splitter on your PC and install it on your computer. Once complete and you open the software, you will see that it is empty. The editor relies heavily on the packages you will need to install.
You need to go to the tools and download the Control Package. Once you have that, you can download what you need and use the new UI. Getting the most out of it will speed up your code-making process.
Another primary downside of Gaming Keyboard Splitter is the process of finding all the packages that need to be installed. When you have finished repairing the large screen, you should be as accurate as you want.
You can use JSON files to change anything you like on the user interface. The installation setup of Windows 11 asks that do you want to install it or not so Click on Yes and run the installation file.
Window 11 Guidelines
You can download Gaming Keyboard Splitter from its official site. To install it in Windows 11, go through the following steps:
- Step 1: Open the downloaded ".exe" file from the download folder and start the installation process.
- Step 2: Select the location you want and "click" the following button to run it.
- Step 3: If you want Gaming Keyboard Splitter in your "right-click menu", check the checkbox and click the "option button".
- Step 4: Press the "install button"
- Step 5: Finish with the installation process.
Method #6 Install on Mac
Downloading Gaming Keyboard Splitter software on Mac is very simple and can be completed in a few steps.
- First, download the appropriate package for your processor.
- Then "double-click" on the downloaded ".exe" file, and it will release automatically.
- To start the software, "double-click" the bulk of the downloaded app.
Method #7 on Linux
Creating any file or folder is too difficult for Linux which is why there are going to install Gaming Keyboard Splitter for free and accessible. You can use the command-line interface (end) faster than those who are more skilled at typing commands. They do not allow new users because anything can always go wrong.
So it is better to use a graphics program (GUI) to do it. There are many alternative Software programs out there that can help you do this. But Gaming Keyboard Splitter is a full-fledged and free version that you can use. After that, you can easily run any command.
In this selection area, you can make sure you selected a file for running. On the right, a Window displays your location at the same place. You need to make sure you click on the folders in the appropriate window.
- Now, go to the place where you want to place software files (maybe default!).
- After that, it is about to be done
If you need to change file permissions, that's as easy as "right-clicking" on any files or folders.
You need to use it, and that's about it.
Method #8 Install on Ubuntu
To install Gaming Keyboard Splitter in Ubuntu, connect to the Internet and launch Ubuntu from the left menu bar. In Ubuntu, "click" the Search icon located at the "top right" of the window. In the search box, search for the name Gaming Keyboard Splitter.
From the search "results", click on the result representing that.
- Clicking on a search result shows detailed information about that result in a new window.
- This window contains an installation button that allows us to install the software.
- Click the "install button" to install it.
All done! you got all kinds of information you were looking for!
Gaming Keyboard Splitter is an excellent tool for gamers who want to control multiple characters in a game simultaneously. This software allows multiple keyboards to be used on a single computer, which is particularly useful for games like MMOs and MOBAs.
We have provided step-by-step instructions on how to install Gaming Keyboard Splitter on various operating systems such as Windows 7, 8.1, 10, 11, Mac, Linux, and Ubuntu. We hope that this guide has been helpful and that you can now enjoy gaming with multiple keyboards.


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To his enemies, he was the "Devil of Ramadi," an unseen terror who harried insurgents with his rifle during Operation Iraqi Freedom, often from an impossible remove. He served four tours of duty. He was credited with some 160 confirmed kills. He was awarded two Purple Hearts. He played a role in every major engagement in the Iraq war. To the 18,000 folks of Midlothian, Texas, a blue collar town just south of Dallas, Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle, 38, was invincible, revered, a local boy, a hero who'd seen and done things they couldn't imagine, and who then came back home to live among them again and to watch his children grow.
Kyle was a presence in Midlothian. And so was his truck, a souped-up honey that was unmistakable on the streets of the town — a black Ford F-350 with black rims, black window tint, huge knobby mud tires and an aftermarket grill guard befitting an armored riot vehicle. On Saturday, he rode it one last time.
A teacher's aide at an elementary school just a mile from Kyle's home had asked him to reach out to her son. Jodi Routh saw her son, an ex-marine, struggling with posttraumatic stress disorder and believed the war hero could help. And so some time on Saturday afternoon, Kyle and his buddy Chad Littlefield picked up Eddie Ray Routh, a tall and wiry 25-year-old, at his home in the Dallas suburb of Lancaster.
(MORE: Chris Kyle's Alleged Killer)
They would have driven down Highway 67 through Midlothian, past the Holcim cement kiln, with its smokestacks reaching hundreds of feet into the air like spires, and past the Gerdau steel mill, where rust-colored smoke dissipates into a pall over laboring excavators and mounds of scrap metal.
They left behind the flatlands and crossed west over the Brazos River, into that dry, rocky country, all low, cedar-scrub hills, post oak and cactus. A little after 3 p.m., according to court papers, they would have pulled through the sandstone-and-iron gate of Rough Creek Lodge and Resort, a tony, 11,000-acre (4,450 hectare) hunting preserve and conference center, where Fort Worth socialites, business types and politicians pay handsomely to bag bobcat, coyote, white-tailed deer, wild hog or pheasant in the hills and river bottoms. Kyle, Littlefield and Routh took a narrow, 3-mile (4.8 km) asphalt road to the lodge and let Rough Creek hand Frank Alvarez know they were headed to the firing range.
Kyle was a familiar sight; he'd begun hosting training camps at the lodge, giving civilians three-day crash courses in combat. It would have been another mile and a half (2.4 km) down a dirt road to the firing range, where Kyle had been known to fire Browning M2 machine guns into targets. It wasn't long after they arrived when, authorities believe, Routh turned his semiautomatic pistol on Kyle and Littlefield. Routh then took Kyle's truck and fled Rough Creek.
(VIDEO: 10 Questions with American Sniper, Chris Kyle)
By 4:50 p.m., employee Justin Nabours found the bodies, crumpled on the ground and covered in blood. He radioed the lodge for help, called 911 and started CPR.
Routh headed east on Highway 67 and stopped off at a friend's house in nearby Alvarado. He placed a call to his sister Laura Blevins and asked to speak to her husband Gaines. At around 5:45 p.m., Routh arrived at their house in Midlothian, according to court papers. Routh was "out of his mind," his sister said. He told them he "traded his soul for a new truck," that he'd just murdered two people "before they could kill him" and that "people were sucking his soul and that he could smell the pigs."
His sister told him he needed to turn himself in. At nearly 8 p.m., Routh arrived at the home he shared with his parents in Lancaster on Sixth Street. The police were already waiting. They tried to talk him down but Routh tore off in Kyle's Ford, through Lancaster, through Dallas. With that truck, he peeled back the hood of a squad car as though it were curled tin. The impact drove the truck's step bar into the oil pan, dislodging it. The Ford finally gave out when the motor burned up in the northbound lane of Interstate 35, near the Wheatland Road exit in Dallas. Routh was arrested on suspicion of two counts of capital murder.
The measure of Midlothian's grief can be seen in its response to Kyle's death. Midlothian cops pull guard duty at his home in a neighborhood of immaculate lawns and brick homes day and night. They watch over the Midlothian Funeral Home, where his body lies for now. They watch over Littlefield's home and warn reporters away.
(MORE: Chris Kyle, Author and Former Navy SEAL Sniper, Dies at 38)
Good-looking, thickly muscled and affable, Kyle was a memorable figure to everybody around town. To Robert Cunningham, he was the boy who slung sacks of deer corn into the back of Cunningham's pickup at Kyle's father's store, 4-K Feed. To Bob Price, he was the young man who rode saddle broncs with his son at a practice arena in Mansfield. Or did, anyway, until Price's boy broke his neck, which was right around the time Kyle broke his arm. Both recovered. To Dennis DeWeerde, proprietor of Ellis County BBQ, he was a friend and an unfailingly gracious customer who brought his family in for lunch after Sunday services. A banner draped across the front of the restaurant bears the Punisher-style skull that was the logo of Kyle's combat-training consultancy, Craft International, with the words, "Rest In Peace Chris Kyle/ Gone But Never Forgotten."
There was talk of a memorial service. The only problem was, they didn't think there was a building in Midlothian big enough to hold everyone who loved and admired him. So, they're all going to gather on Monday in Arlington's Cowboy Stadium, to say goodbye to the bronc-busting soldier who fought in hell on earth, a world away, only to die at home after his war had ended.
MORE: Don't Rush to Judgment on Ex-Navy SEAL Chris Kyle's Killing


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ACE Inhibitors/High-Dose Aspirin Interactions
This information is generalized and not intended as specific medical advice. Consult your healthcare professional before taking or discontinuing any drug or commencing any course of treatment.
Medical warning:
Moderate. These medicines may cause some risk when taken together. Contact your healthcare professional (e.g. doctor or pharmacist) for more information.
How the interaction occurs:
Aspirin may prevent ACE inhibitor from working.
What might happen:
Your ACE inhibitor may not lower your blood pressure enough.
What you should do about this interaction:
Let your healthcare professionals (e.g. doctor or pharmacist) know that you are taking aspirin. Your doctor may want to check your blood pressure while you are taking these medicines together. Your doctor may want to lower your dose of aspirin or change your blood pressure medicine.Your healthcare professionals may already be aware of this interaction and may be monitoring you for it. Do not start, stop, or change the dosage of any medicine before checking with them first.
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In my research, it has been all but impossible to pinpoint the complete list of Italian DOCG wines. Recently, I have been able to find six more, Moscato di Scanzo, Elba Aleatico Passito and Prosecco Superiore Conegliano Valdobbiadene, Prosecco Superiore Asolo And a two Marche DOCG's of Verdicchio of which there are designations for Verdicchio di Matelica and Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi Classico (and riserva) , bringing the list up to 47.
If anyone knows of any more DOCG wines, or if there is a list available that is more complete or accurate, please feel free to contact me. I have looked on the Italian Trade Commission site; they still list only 35 wines. Wikipedia lists 36 wines.Winecountry.it only lists 32 wines. Luca Zaia's website has nothing on the DOCG, but he's just the minister of agriculture, why would he need to have one? I guess having seven Facebook pages (one personal and six groups, sorry you have to be a member to follow the link) makes up for it. There's nothing to be found about it on the Italian Wine Merchants site, but then again, they make no claims to be the best educational site for Italian wines, just this statement, "Since 1999, Italian Wine Merchants (IWM) has worked diligently to demystify Italian wine through its detailed website and weekly E-letter, Wine Clubs, educational tasting events and a carefully selected portfolio of current and vintage Italian bottlings." But no demystifying by listing a current and complete DOCG list can be readily found on their site.
Update: Tomas E. of the Wikipedia Project wine also has this nifty document, where on pages 40-41 you can find the 41 DOCG wines listed.They also have yet to put up the Elba Aleatico Passito and the Moscato di Scanzo but by the time this gets posted, they might already have it updated. Thanks Tomas!)
The best site so far is in Italian, Agraria, which has 41. Please do not write me and tell me that they have 43 because that is what you counted. They have Moscato d'Asti listed separately, but it falls within the Asti DOCG, OK? Also at the end they list Vin Santo. At this time it is not DOCG. They also do not have the three new DOCG's (that I know of) listed on their site(as of March 22, 2009).
Update 2: Luca Zaia has brought in another DOCG for Prosecco. Read about his accomplishments and achievements here. Thanks to Laura De Pasquale for the info. And thank you, Dr. Zaia!
I fear I am missing something, but for the life of me, the byzantine workings of the Italian government and the folks who determine which wines will be awarded DOCG status eludes this most ardent researcher. I guess I haven't learned the secret handshake. Until then, we are at either 46 wines or 48, as of October 10, 2009, which have been given DOCG status. Here is the list, after the jump.
Complete Listing of Italian DOCG Wines (as of October 2009) : 47
Abruzzo (1)
Montepulciano d'Abruzzo "Colline Teramane"
Campania (3)
Fiano di Avellino
Greco di Tufo
Emilia Romagna (1)
Albana di Romagna
Friuli-Venezia Giulia (2)
Colli Orientali del Friuli Picolit
Lazio (1)
Cesanese del Piglio
Lombardia (5)
Oltrepo Pavese
Sforzato della Valtellina
Valtellina Superiore
Moscato di Scanzo (new)
Marche (4)
Vernaccia di Serrapetrona
Verdicchio di Matelica Riserva (new)
Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi Classico Riserva(new)
Piemonte (12)
Asti spumante - Moscato d'Asti
Barbera d'Asti
Barbera del Monferrato Superiore
Barolo (Chinato, as well, falls under this DOCG)
Brachetto D'Acqui o Acqui
Dolcetto di Dogliani Superiore o Dogliani
Dolcetto di Ovada Superiore
Gavi o Cortese di Gavi
Roero (Rosso & Bianco)
Sardegna (1)
Vermentino di Gallura
Sicilia (1)
Cerasuolo di Vittoria
Toscana (8)
Brunello di Montalcino
Chianti Classico
Elba Aleatico Passito (new)
Morellino di Scansano
Vernaccia di S.Gimignano
Vino Nobile di Montepulciano
Umbria (2)
Montefalco Sagrantino
Torgiano Rosso Riserva
Veneto (6)
Bardolino Superiore
Recioto di Gambellara
Recioto di Soave
Soave Superiore
Conegliano Valdobbiadene Prosecco Superiore (new)
Asolo Prosecco Superiore (new)


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Sunday, July 18, 2010
Coconut Bubble Tea
From the kitchen of One Perfect Bite...We spent the day panning for gold. Really! Each year the town of Cottage Grove holds a Bohemia Mining Day celebration to commemorate the discovery of gold in the area. The event is much like a county fair and it's a wonderful family activity. What is less known, is that while the mine is closed, there are still active claims in the area. That makes it possible for the more adventurous to pan for gold. Ever up to a challenge, Bob and I trekked into the area and did some panning. We found no gold, but had a wonderful day and burned a lot of calories. That, of course, meant a special sweet treat could be enjoyed without any feelings of guilt. We decided to spend the expended calories on large glasses of bubble tea. Now, I can't begin to tell you how a day in a Bohemian community led to a drink of Chinese origin. It just did. The drinks are cold and frothy and they just seemed like a perfect way to end the day. Bubble tea was created in Taiwan in the 1980's. It spread across Asia and made its way to Canada before finally reaching the United States. While the drink has a frothy texture, its called bubble tea because it contains pearl-sized tapioca balls, bobas, that are dispersed throughout the drink. The balls have very little flavor, but they are gummy and are sipped through an oversize straw to be chewed between sips of tea. The base of the drink is tea and it can have milk or fruit flavors added to it. I prefer the milk-flavored version. The tapioca pearls have little flavor of their own, so they are soaked for about 30 minutes in sugar or honey after being boiled. I found a recipe at the New York Times: Dining and Wine site that can be used to make a really nice bubble tea at home. If you're curious you might want to give it a try. Here's my version of the recipe.
Coconut Bubble Tea...from the kitchen of One Perfect Bite, adapted from The New York Times: Dining and Wine
1 cup light brown sugar
1 cup white sugar
2 cups tapioca pearls (1/4-inch wide)
For each bubble tea:
1/2 cup chilled tapioca pearls
1 cup crushed ice
1 cup coarsely chopped mango
3/4 cup coconut milk
1/4 cup milk
1 to 2 teaspoons fresh lime juice
1) Combine sugars and 2 cups of water in a medium saucepan. Bring to a boil. Torn off heat. In a second pot, bring 4 quarts of water to a boil. Add tapioca and cook until tender using time suggested on box. Drain. Mix tapioca with sugar mixture and chill.
2) To make a drink, spoon pearls into a large glass. Place ice, mango, coconut milk, milk and lime juice in a blender jar. Puree. When frothy, pour over pearls and stick in a wide straw. If straws are not available, serve with a spoon.
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64 comments :
- Brad said...
What a simple, practical looking drink. I think I'm going to have to hit the print button on this one. Thanks for providing such great, varied and mouth-watering ideas.
- July 18, 2010 at 2:13 AM
- Monet said...
While you might have not found real gold, this drink looks like it might be better! I love bubble tea, and anything with coconut makes me smile!
- July 18, 2010 at 2:16 AM
- Lucie said...
Mmmm! I love the combination of coconut milk and mango, must be delicious! A great treat after a day out in the sun. Thanks, Mary!
- July 18, 2010 at 3:03 AM
- Angie's Recipes said...
A very popular drink in Asia, and kids are so crazy for it...the addition of mango makes the drink so much more appealing!
- July 18, 2010 at 3:10 AM
- Bo said...
Too bad you didn't find Amy gold...Ive always loved bubble tea...but I've never made it at home.
- July 18, 2010 at 3:38 AM
- giorno26 ¸¸.•*¨*•. said...
Hi Mary,
questa è una bella idea... mi piacerebbe molto provare a fare questo " tea ", ma non sò se riuscirò a trovare la "tapioca".
Un abbraccio e grazie delle tue visite :-) - July 18, 2010 at 3:42 AM
- Linda Starr said...
I thought it was going to be a milkshake from the photo, I was fooled, did you get any gold?
- July 18, 2010 at 3:56 AM
- Sonia ~ Nasi Lemak Lover said...
I have never made this at home, but I wish to try out one day. Thanks for sharing Mary.
- July 18, 2010 at 4:34 AM
- J e l e n a said...
well it looks like even though you didn't find any gold you had a golden moment with this exotic drink...what an end of the day....
- July 18, 2010 at 4:38 AM
- Bakericious said...
Yummy beverage that cannot resist :0
- July 18, 2010 at 4:51 AM
- The Words Crafter said...
There's a restaurant just up the road from where I work that advertises bubble tea. I had no idea what it was-thanks for clearing that up. It actually sounds delicious! Thanks for the post! (Like Monet, I love anything with coconut)
- July 18, 2010 at 4:53 AM
- Lisa said...
I have been dying to try Bubble Tea for ages, but whenever I get the chance, it always turns out I'm short on money - no idea why lol That said...yours looks amazing and gives me a reason to make it without worrying about opening my wallet and seeing the lack of the dollar more I need :)
- July 18, 2010 at 5:09 AM
- Diane said...
I have never heard of bubble tea but one I now will certainly try. Diane
- July 18, 2010 at 6:02 AM
- cocoa and coconut said...
Bubble tea is hugely popular amongst my friends, funnily enough I've never tried it. Never to late to try!
- July 18, 2010 at 6:08 AM
- Deana Sidney said...
I like this idea.. sort of a drink dessert, isn't it? The texture must be fun to eat... and what a perfect dog days of summer drink!!
- July 18, 2010 at 6:09 AM
- Unknown said...
How interesting! I have read about similar Asian drinks, but this is my first acquaintance with bubble tea! I can't wait for summer!
Thanks again Mary! - July 18, 2010 at 6:15 AM
- From the Kitchen said...
That's a nice combination of flavors. I've seen the bubble tea in many places but haven't tried a glass. Maybe I will next time. And, next time, I hope you strike gold!
Bonnie - July 18, 2010 at 7:25 AM
- penny aka jeroxie said...
I love this drink. There are usually so many options. It is possible to make it at home if you can find the tapioca balls in Asian grocer.
- July 18, 2010 at 7:27 AM
It sounds so… delicious!
I used to live in Queens NY, I often stopped by China Town to enjoy a bubble tea that was sold in some of their local bakeries and cafes, it was my favorite summer cooler.
Coconut milk and Mango is very tempting pairing, I'll have to give it a try! Yum!
Thanks so much Mary! - July 18, 2010 at 7:34 AM
- Joanne said...
Perfect timing! I saw a guy walking down the street with bubble tea yesterday and had an INTENSE craving for it. It's been too long. My favorite flavor is coconut!
Panning for gold sounds like a fun way to spend a Saturday :P - July 18, 2010 at 7:34 AM
It sounds so… delicious!
I used to live in Queens NY, I often stopped by China Town to enjoy a bubble tea that was sold in some of their local bakeries and cafes, it was my favorite summer cooler.
Coconut milk and Mango is very tempting pairing, I'll have to give it a try! Yum!
Thanks so much Mary! - July 18, 2010 at 7:35 AM
- Biren said...
Too bad you did not find any gold but the tea sounds like a great idea. The mango puree must give it great flavor.
- July 18, 2010 at 8:22 AM
- Martha said...
Have heard of it but never tasted it -- it hasn't come to the prairie as yet!
- July 18, 2010 at 8:26 AM
- CaSaundraLeigh said...
Bubble tea is so much fun--I first tried it Boston a couple years ago!
- July 18, 2010 at 9:45 AM
- Vegetarian Yogini said...
...sorry to hear you found no gold :) Well, the tea looks delightfully fresh and rich, worth more than gold on a hot day!
- July 18, 2010 at 9:58 AM
- Umm Mymoonah said...
Sounds very interesting, we used to make something like this, we call it as payasam.
- July 18, 2010 at 9:59 AM
- Jen_from_NJ said...
My daughter loves bubble tea. Thank you for the idea! Have a wonderful day!
- July 18, 2010 at 10:05 AM
- ann said...
That sounds so good. I love using the big pearl tapioca too! I can't wait to try this. ann
- July 18, 2010 at 10:56 AM
- Gloria Baker said...
Really nice Mary, I love coconut look beauty! gloria huggs
- July 18, 2010 at 11:03 AM
- Lori said...
I like your version better because of tha mango. I love bubble tea drinks. I dont make them nearly enough. I just found some oversize straws at Joanne's (5o % off too!). Too bad you didnt find any gold- what fun! My kids would love that.
We have been really enjoying the summer this year. VBS, fruit picking, get togethers, crafts- all these things make summer wonderful. Thank you for thinking of me and remembering that. You are very thoughtful. - July 18, 2010 at 11:16 AM
- Priya Suresh said...
Feel like grabbing that glass, very tempting tea..
- July 18, 2010 at 11:31 AM
- Carla and Michael said...
Mango and Coconut! What a delightful combo for this tea. I've seen it made on FN's; Guy's Big Bite Show, though I've never tried it. I like your combination of flavors better than his.
- July 18, 2010 at 11:38 AM
- Sushma Mallya said...
Really love the tea and equally tempting drink as well
- July 18, 2010 at 1:02 PM
- Chele said...
Sounds like an interesting drink - a snack and a drink in one. Glad you had a great day panning for gold, I've always wanted tot ry my hand at it!
- July 18, 2010 at 1:15 PM
- Susi's Kochen und Backen said...
I've heard of bubble tea and have always been intrigued by it. The recipe sounds simple enough that I should give it a try!
- July 18, 2010 at 1:26 PM
- Crystal Sugar Cupcakes & Cakery said...
Thank you for the kind words of support, love your blog. Love the coconut in the tea!
- July 18, 2010 at 1:47 PM
- Baking is my Zen...sweet nibbles for the soul said...
Never heard of Bubble Tea. I may give this a try! The only thing holding me back are the tapioca pearls. Maybe I'll buy the drink in a restaurant first. And if I like it, then I'll make it. :)
Happy Sunday Mary!
Carmen - July 18, 2010 at 2:06 PM
- Julie M. said...
Mary, I'm so glad you were able to find the flowers. Thank you for the kind words.
Your trip to the gold mine seems have revealed a much better treasure than gold; this bubble tea looks delicious! Where did you find your tapioca balls? - July 18, 2010 at 2:55 PM
- Julie M. said...
Mary, I'm so glad you were able to find the flowers. Thank you for the kind words.
Your trip to the gold mine seems have revealed a much better treasure than gold; this bubble tea looks delicious! Where did you find your tapioca balls? - July 18, 2010 at 2:58 PM
- Ingrid said...
Love bubble tea love coconut as well! YummY!
- July 18, 2010 at 3:08 PM
- melissa said...
Thanks so much for the sweet comment you left me on my blog. A nice treat, to be sure.
I'm enjoying visiting here as well. Interesting to read your explanation of what bubble tea actually is. A store near here (since gone) sold the tea, but I never tried it.
Would love to make it at home...and I do have a box of tapioca! :)
Take care. - July 18, 2010 at 4:29 PM
- Jeanette said...
I have heard of bubble tea but never tried it. This looks so good. I am so glad you liked the mirror
- July 18, 2010 at 4:38 PM
- Katerina said...
So many exotic flavors. Simple and tasteful. Thanks for sharing it Mary.
- July 18, 2010 at 4:41 PM
- RV said...
Perfect way to chill out this summer. TH will love this drink.
- July 18, 2010 at 4:51 PM
- Colours and Textures said...
I haven't heard of this but it sounds fun.
- July 18, 2010 at 5:47 PM
- LittleRed said...
We have just returned from a two week vacation down the West coast and back up through the interior of Washington and Oregon....after a little dip into the Red Woods. My son brought along his gold pan to try his hand at panning. We stopped at few recreational gold panning spots but never found any gold. We really wouldn't know where to best dig a sample anyway. It was fun imagining what we might find anyway:) Now we are back and I feel like I need to go out and get a bubble tea. I love taro milk bubble tea....yumm
- July 18, 2010 at 6:34 PM
- oneordinaryday said...
Thank you for the information on the origins of bubble tea. We've just returned from our beach vacation, where there is a bubble tea shop on the boardwalk. I can't say I'm a fan, but I have been interested in how it came about so I'm happy to have the background.
- July 18, 2010 at 6:50 PM
- The Cilantropist said...
Both panning for gold and drinking bubble tea sound like a fun way to spend an afternoon! I love all types of bubble tea, although I have never tried coconut... I think the time has come. :)
- July 18, 2010 at 8:14 PM
- Velva said...
I am loving this bubble tea-how refreshing.
Your day sounded like a great day. What fun it would be to pan for gold. I know my son would really enjoy it. - July 18, 2010 at 8:41 PM
- A SPICY PERSPECTIVE said...
What a fun adventure! And the bubble tea looks delightful!
- July 18, 2010 at 11:01 PM
- My Little Space said...
What a fun trip! Too bad no gold was found but you found some yummy sweet treat after all! haha.... That is better than gold. The tea sounds really mouthwatering. This kind of tea is very popular over in Asia. yummm.... Hope you're enjoying your day.
Blessings, Kristy - July 19, 2010 at 12:22 AM
- Christine said...
While I've never been much of a fan for the commercial bubble teas, finding them too sweet, your recipe is one that I will save and tinker with to find the perfect balance for me. I'm a big fan of tapioca and love making tapioca pudding with just the barest amount of sugar. I know, weird.
We just drove by Cottage Grove on our way home from Portland today. We often stop in there for lunch on our comings and goings and really enjoy that historic little town. Had I known you were there ...
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- Deb in Hawaii said...
Bubble tea is very popular here. I like the coconut milk in this one. ;-)
- July 19, 2010 at 1:43 AM
- Jeannie said...
Looks refreshing! Bubble teas are very popular here and I love the coconut flavored ones very much, especially if the coconut milk is really fresh!
- July 19, 2010 at 2:12 AM
- scrambledhenfruit said...
I've heard of it, but never tried it. Sounds interesting with the little bites of tapioca. Perhaps it's time to be adventuresome! Thanks for sharing :)
- July 19, 2010 at 8:15 AM
- Beth @ DiningAndDishing said...
Bubble tea is not something I like very much but my little sister just adores it! And she loves coconut so I'm thinking this would be a perfect something to make for her :).
- July 19, 2010 at 4:37 PM
- M. said...
beautifully refreshing :)
- July 19, 2010 at 4:55 PM
- FoOd FaNaTiC said...
MMMMMM! This looks DELICIOUS! I will be trying it tonight! We were just in Thailand and the coconut milkshakes were AMAZING.. can't wait to try this!
- July 19, 2010 at 5:05 PM
- PranisKitchen said...
this is very new recipe to me looks so good.. sure will give a try.. i like the tapioca peals. we used to make sweet with this tapioca kheer .. good one Mary
- July 19, 2010 at 10:52 PM
- L'Chicken said...
You just made my week! I've always wanted to know how to make this!!!
- July 20, 2010 at 4:56 PM
- taste traveller said...
I had no idea you could make this at home. I got introduced to it in University by a classmate who drank it all the time in high school. She claims that the bubbles stick really well when you spit them! ;-)
- July 23, 2010 at 9:45 AM
- Terrianne, Call me Ree said...
Hi Mary, Long time no see. I hope you've been having a wonderful summer. Your bubble tea looks so delicious. I've always wanted to try it. I think it's fantastic I can make it at home. I love coconut. It's one of my favorite flavors! Thank you.
- July 23, 2010 at 2:33 PM
- Tia said...
I've tried to make the bubbles but they always come out with a hard center... :(
- January 8, 2011 at 1:23 AM
- Paulina said...
Mmm, so good. I used fresh pineapple instead of the mango & my tapioca pearls were smaller but it worked out anyway. My son loved it.
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