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The owner of West Virginia's Upper Big Branch coal mine is reportedly ready to pay slightly more than $200 million to settle civil and criminal claims resulting from the explosion that killed 29 people last year.
The settlement was fi, and some details were confirmed by NPR. A private briefing about the settlement is scheduled Tuesday morning for the families of the victims. A public announcement is set later in the morning.
The deal involves Alpha Natural Resources, the company that earlier this year. The Gazette reports that former Massey executives and managers are still subject to criminal charges as individuals. But the settlement apparently resolves some criminal liability incurred by Alpha as a corporate entity.
The Justice Department and the Mine Safety and Health Administration were severely criticized in 2008 when they approved a similar settlement in another deadly mine disaster also involving Massey Energy. In that deal, the government agreed not to seek criminal charges against high-level Massey officials.
Alpha spokesman Ted Pile declined to comment Monday night. A spokesman for U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin also declined to comment.
MSHA's Final Report On What Caused Explosion
The settlement resolves serious safety violations, citations and fines encompassing all of Massey Energy's mines, as well as civil and criminal violations directly related to the Upper Big Branch tragedy. Mine Safety and Health News, a trade publication, reports that the settlement includes $28 million in unpaid fines unrelated to the explosion.
The first citations and fines stemming from the disaster were set to be revealed Tuesday when MSHA issues its final report on the causes of the explosion. Sources familiar with that report say it includes more than 350 citations for safety violations and charges Massey Energy with engaging in a pattern and practice of putting production before safety.
Massey Energy insisted the explosion resulted from but three investigations of the disaster concluded the evidence doesn't support that theory.
Alpha has yet to issue its own report or conclusions.
The Gazette reports and NPR sources confirm that the settlement includes cash payments for the families of the 29 miners killed.
But some connected with the families were surprised and angered by news of the settlement.
'Doesn't Bring Justice'
"It's so wrong," says Judy Jones Petersen, a Charleston physician whose brother Dean Jones died in the explosion. Petersen is upset by what she sees as a release of some criminal liability for the deaths of 29 men in exchange for a $200 million payment. "It's so absolutely wrong on the very deepest level of what is moral and right."
Attorneys Rachel and Mark Moreland, who represent two families of Upper Big Branch victims, also reacted with anger.
"$200 million for the lives of 29 men certainly doesn't bring justice to the families of those dead miners," says Mark Moreland.
Moreland and attorneys for other families are engaged in mediation talks aimed at settling lawsuits against Alpha. Moreland says those talks and lawsuits will not be affected by the civil and criminal settlement with the Justice Department.
Investigations Cite Safety Failures
In a report released in October, the United Mineworkers of America called the Upper Big Branch explosion "industrial homicide" that "constituted a massive slaughter" at the nonunion mine. In June, MSHA issued preliminary conclusions saying Massey Energy kept two sets of safety records — one provided to federal regulators indicating that safety procedures were followed, and an internal set showing the opposite.
In May, an independent team of investigators appointed by former governor Joe Manchin and led by former mine safety chief Davitt McAteer cited what they called "deviance" in the safety culture at Massey.
All three investigations have said safety failures at the mine caused a small and normally benign methane gas ignition to erupt into a massive explosion fed by excessive coal dust.
The disaster is the deadliest in the mining industry in the U.S. in the past 40 years. Coincidentally, Tuesday is the anniversary of the nation's worst industrial accident, the Monongah coal mine explosion in West Virginia in 1907 in which more than 300 men and boys were killed.
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A silent vigil by Israeli Arab students at Haifa University on Nov. 16 in memory of Hamas' assassinated military commander was a clear sign that many Arabs in Israel hope to be recognized as "Palestinian Arab citizens" of the Jewish state, says a scholar.
Oded Haklai, a Queen's University political scientist born and raised in Israel, was referring to Ahmed Jabari, who was killed by an Israeli drone strike on the first day of Israel's current offensive in the Gaza Strip.
In an interview, Haklai – the author of Palestinian Ethnonationalism in Israel published recently by the University of Pennsylvania Press – said that more than 50 per cent of Israeli Arabs regard themselves as "Palestinian citizens of Israel."
The term 'Israeli Arab' is now associated with "state control of a national minority," said Haklai, who was in Toronto last week to deliver a lecture on this subject at a Canadian Friends of Peace Now forum.
"Among the educated elite of Arabs in Israel, 'Israeli Arab' is a derogatory expression," he added. "Among the Arab masses, 'Arabs in Israel' is the preferred term."
Haklai, a Hebrew University of Jerusalem graduate and a resident of Canada since 1998, said that Israeli Arabs who identify as Palestinians hunger for the day when Israel will be replaced by a binational state. They also consider Israel to be an imperialist western implant in the Middle East.
Due to such beliefs, more than half of the Jews in Israel claim that Israeli Arabs are Fifth Columnists, he suggested.
Palestinian Arab citizens of Israel demand major changes in Israeli society, Haklai said.
Voicing their demands through communal organizations, they want to be formally recognized as a national and indigenous minority and desire autonomous political institutions, a separate parliament and Arabic-language protection. They also want the Arab education system to be more autonomous.
In addition, they demand a proportional allocation of state resources for their community and proportional representation in state institutions and government.
Most importantly, they seek to de-Judaize Israel's "public space" so that Israeli national symbols like the Star of David flag and the Hatikvah national anthem are modified to reflect the fact that Israeli Arabs account for about 20 per cent of Israel's current population.
"They reject the idea that Israeli Jews are a national group and have national and historical ties to the land," he noted. "But they recognize a national Jewish identity in Israel."
According to Haklai, Israeli Arabs who subscribe to these ideas see themselves as a disaffected, though not subversive, minority.
In his estimation, their demands are likely to be rejected by Israel, with the result that Israeli society will become even more polarized than it is today.
"Their demands are a challenge, but not a threat, to Israel's Jewish identity," he said. "But Jews in Israel, as well as some people in the Israeli government, regard them as a serious threat."
Israeli Arabs will be in a better position to press for their demands if, as some demographers predict, they form one-third of Israel's population within 25 to 50 years. "They may get increased autonomy and more of a share of public resources," he said. "But I doubt whether their demand for de-Judaization will be accepted."
Their demands pose a threat to prospects for peace between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, he observed.
"They add another layer of complexity to peace talks," he said, adding that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's insistence that Israel be officially recognized as a Jewish state by the Palestinians is partially due to demands for a binational state on the part of some Israeli Arabs.
Claiming that the gap between Jews and Arabs in Israel will continue to grow in the future, Haklai said he doubts whether Palestinian Arabs citizens in Israel will resort to violence to achieve their aims.
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At present, he said, Israeli Arabs are second-class citizens because the financial allocations their communities receive from the government are proportionally less than those received by Jews.
Israeli Arabs, too, are the victims of discrimination in employment and housing, he pointed out.
Nonetheless, they are substantially better off today than they were in the 1950s or 1970s.
Israel should come to grips with this problem, ultimately its most urgent one, by taking affirmative-action measures to narrow the Jewish-Arab gap.
The electoral system should be modified so that the threshold for winning a seat in parliament changes from two to five per cent. If this happens, Israeli Arab extremists will most likely be shut out of the Knesset, he said.
Further, Israeli Arabs moderates running for office should be rewarded by being included in coalition governments.
And Israel should ensure that economic development takes place in the Arab sector. Currently, the Israeli government provides incentives to employers to hire Arabs, he said.
Haklai, a 40-year-old native of Jerusalem, said he began to delve into this topic after nationwide rioting broke out in Israeli Arab towns and villages in October 2000 in support of the Palestinian uprising in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
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Monday, November 28, 2005
(Non-)Canadian apple cake
Photo updated in August 2008. I've also added gram measurements for dry ingredients in addition to volume measurements.
This is my most faithful apple cake recipe – a recipe that has been with me for a lot more than a decade. Despite having tried numerous other apple cake recipes – some fancier, some humbler, some trickier, some simpler – this is the recipe I come back to most often.
In 1978, a book was published in Estonian, called "Maailma toite" or "Dishes of the world". It was a collection of numerous recipes collected from various sources and a small number of pictures. Chapters were listed according to regions or countries, each beginning with a small introductory paragraph about what people eat in the given country. I loved the book – I liked the descriptions of foods from faraway places that I could never visit in person (or that's how it seemed behind the Iron Curtain at the time), and reading about these foods gave me a sneak preview into the lives on the other side of than notorious 'invisible but definitely there' Curtain..
Once I reached my early teens, I had somehow already been bitten by the foodie bug, and I attempted cooking a number of the dishes. Some where huge successes, some were not. I can still remember the reserved enthusiasm that my Austrian carrot pure soup was met with. However, under the section "Canada" I came across a recipe for apple cake – Kanada õunakook. I fell in love with it then and there – and as I said, this has proved to be a long-term relationship. This is the cake that I bake most often. This is the cake that is often requested when we go to visit friends and relatives. This is also the cake that has caused me most embarrassment. I remember early on, my uncle J. had asked me to bring along my delicious apple cake to his birthday party. Somehow I ended up using only a third of the flour in the batter that time, but too inexperienced at the time to see that something was clearly wrong with it. The resulting cake was dense, hard and utterly bitter (the cinnamon overkill) and was sitting still pretty much untouched on the table at the end of the party. Luckily, I seem to have redeemed myself since then and restored my Domestic Goddess reputation.
As I said, this recipe was called "Canadian apple cake" in my book, and that's how my family knows it back home. During my years in Edinburgh, I've shared a kitchen with quite a few Canadians (Hi! Amanda!!! :), and although they all loved it, they couldn't really see why it was Canadian. Canadian or not, it's a delicious apple cake..
Canadian apple cake
(Kanada õunakook)
300 ml plain flour, sifted (165 grams)
0.5 tsp fine salt
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp cinnamon
100 ml sugar (85 grams)
1 large egg
50 grams of butter, melted
100 ml milk (100 grams)
ca 2-3 large apples, cored and cut into small cubes
4 Tbsp brown sugar
2 Tbsp plain flour
1 tsp cinnamon
2 Tbsp butter
Mix the dry ingredients. Mix the butter, milk, and egg, pour into the dry mixture and mix. Fold in the apple cubes. Pour the batter into buttered loose bottomed cake tin.
Mix the crumb ingredients with a knife, sprinkle over the cake.
Bake at 200-210˚C for 30-40 minutes, until a toothpick comes out clean and the cake is nice golden brown.
Let it cool slightly (although it's beautiful hot with a cold glass of milk). Sprinkle with icing sugar. Serve with vanilla ice cream, creme anglaise or on its own.
The moist apple pieces in the cinnamonny cake? And the cinnamonny caramelized crunchy topping?
Mmmmmmm!! I just thought of a way to Canadize this cake a bit, and maybe even make it live up to its name. What if I'd replace the brown sugar in the crumb mixture with maple sugar??? There's an idea for next time...
UPDATES: here are links to some other foodbloggers who have kindly tried - and liked - my apple cake:
4 December 2005: Anne over at Anne's Food
12 December 2005: Drstel at Baby Rambutan
14 December 2005: Zubaida over at Kitchen Culture
16 January 2006: Shalimar over at Wanderlust
16 January 2007: Joey over at 80 Breakfasts
14 April 2007: Nupur over at One Hot Stove
36 comments:
There is something about this cake that reminds me of american-style coffee cake. Maybe Canadians have something similar?! Maple syrup in the crumble? It seems a bit like a waste to me: how about omitting the sugar in the crumble and than dousing the finnished cake with the syrup while it is still warm?
lunarossa - 9:22 pm, November 28, 2005
this cake looks wonderful. may i know what size cake pan do you normally use for this recipe?
- 10:30 pm, November 28, 2005
that looks amazing :) does 'dl' in your recipe mean a cup? or is that a liquid measure?
- 3:19 pm, November 29, 2005
I have been visiting your site for a few weeks and it has become one of my favourites.
Since I am Canadian I will definitely have to try out your Canada Apple Cake recipe. - 3:46 pm, November 29, 2005
- Nefritite said...
Hei Pille,
I am gonna try this recipe - it looks delicious, yet the recipe is nice and simple!
ps. I made yesterday the carrot dish with feta cheese, which you wrote about a few days ago. It tasted really good! I wouldn't have thought of such a combination, but I learn something new every day...
Even my bf, who likes to have meat in his dinners, was impressed :)
Thanks for the inspiration!
Anita - 6:01 pm, November 29, 2005
- Pille said...
Lunarossa - your idea of dousing the cake with maple syrup sounds good. I might also try just a sprinkle of maple sugar on the finished cake next time. Or maybe sweeten the ice cream with some maple syrup..
Anon - I use either 20 or 22 cm springform tin, depending whether I cook it in Edinburgh or Tallinn:)
Anonymous - I must remember using millilitres instead of decilitres next time!!! Yes, it is a metric liquid measure. 1 dl is 100 millilitres or 0.1 litre alias just under half a cup.
Terri - thank you so much for your kind words, I'm pleased you like my site! Let me know how you liked the cake - and whether you thought it was suitably Canadian or not:)
Anita - you're spot on - this is a very simple, delicious and nice cake! Glad you liked the carrot dish - I've copied your comments to the carrot-feta story as well.. - 6:51 pm, November 29, 2005
Oh, this looks really good. I love apple cakes.
Paz - 3:56 pm, November 30, 2005
Dear Pille, the (incredibly) good side of the book clearly was that it was a milestone for your culinary career, but just as "Canadian" seems to be nothing more than a fancy name (according to what your flatmates say, I actually do not have any idea about what is typically Canadian except maple sirup...) there is nothing like an "Austrian" carrot cream soup... Poor girl. Interestingly enough we have many soup specialities - clear soups with little liver dumplings, savoury sponge cakes etc. in it, maybe cream soups have become popular during the past decades, but I would never consider them as typical for our cuisine. However, I like your recipe and - since I semm to owe it to my name ;-) I have to try every apple recipe I can get hold of. Big hug, angelika
- 6:15 pm, November 30, 2005
That is a really delicious looking cake...I can almost feel my teeth sinking into it! Guess it doesn't matter whether it is Canadian or not ;) But I love old recipe books that have such influence in culinary lives...those are the ones with real tales to tell :)
- 2:31 pm, December 01, 2005
- Pille said...
Anonymous - I've changed all decilitres into millilitres - hope it's less confusing!
Paz - we have a similar taste in cakes then! For everyday cakes, apple is my favourite, although rhubarb cakes in the spring and early summer are high on the list as well..
Angelika - thanks for the clarification on the carrot soup. I'll probably give that recipe a second chance when I go home in a fortnight - maybe my tastes have changed (back then I didn't eat any fish, onions, garlic and wasn't so fond of mushrooms, for instance. How tastes can change, eh!?)
Joey - indeed, although there are so many gorgeous cookbooks around (bought Claudia Roden's Arabesque and Sam & Sam Clark's Casa Moro last week, and Tessa Kiros' Falling Cloudberries today), some of the old ones can be just as dear to my heart despite of their simplicity and lackings in photography.. This book definitely opened up "culinary doors" for me.. - 5:55 pm, December 02, 2005
- Anne said...
I tried this last night, and yuuuuum! It was delicious! Thank you so much :)
- 7:48 am, December 04, 2005
- Pille said...
Anne - I'm so pleased you liked the cake!!!
- 4:53 pm, December 04, 2005
- Unknown said...
i made this today...and it is almost gone just a few hours later-- my 3 kids and husband devoured it. thanks for this! their only complaint: cake is too small mom :D
- 6:20 am, December 12, 2005
- Journal Actif said...
I'm making this cake TONIGHT ! It looks too good to suffer any delay in the making!
My 3 young boys will certainly thank you tomorrow when they see it on the kitchen table.
I'm not canadian from birth, I'm living here since 11 years now. I can see why it was said to be canadian. It looks like the kind of coffee cakes my very canadian neighbour (she's from New-Found-Land) makes often and serves when the 4 housewives of the street gather at her place around an afternoon coffee while the kids are napping.
If you don't mind, I'll post a picture of the cake on my blog and give the link to the recipe on yours. Is it OK? - 1:09 am, December 14, 2005
- Journal Actif said...
That was a great cake ! (notice I use the past here because there's no cake left of course, it was liquidated this moring at breakfast...)
Pille, I heard of your (non-)canadian cake on the Baby Rambutan blog. So you see, your cake recipe seems to very popular among food bloggers... - 8:17 pm, December 14, 2005
- Pille said...
Drstel and Zoubida - I am so happy you liked the cake! And Zoubida - thanks for clarifying the Canadian-ness of this cake;)
- 12:51 pm, December 19, 2005
I SHALL TELL YOU.. THAT MY FRIEND ASKED ME TO BAKE THE CAKE AGAIN. I gave her 2 slices and SHE WANTS MORE.. am making 2 this weekend.
2 or 3 from my links will do it too
Sha - 2:31 am, February 22, 2006
could you please tell me what ca means? it is written before 2 apples in the ingredients list.
- 1:16 pm, January 25, 2007
- Nupur said...
Pille, what a lovely recipe. I tried it with a combination of apple and pear (just what I had on hand) and it was so delicious! Thanks for sharing!
- 2:38 pm, April 14, 2007
- Lydia (The Perfect Pantry) said...
Just found this recipe this morning through Nupur's blog. Just the kind of thing I really love to prepare for a brunch party. Thank you!
- 3:00 pm, April 14, 2007
- Pille said...
Sha - thanks for sharing the recipe :-)
Anonymous - 'ca' is an abbrevation for 'circa' or 'about'. Hope that helps:)
Nupur - so glad you enjoyed this! It's great to see that somebody is using recipes from the archive, too, thanks!
Lydia - please do try this, it's delicious! - 2:44 pm, April 24, 2007
- coffeedreames said...
Hi there! Dropped by and saw this recipe. Wow, the crumb idea is great. Can't wait to try it. Will let u know how it turns out soon!
Btw, I can see from your pix that you used red apples - do you know if its any difference between these or the green Granny smith ones? Thanks! - 10:42 am, May 14, 2007
- Unknown said...
Hi there, thank you for your wonderful Apple Cake Recipe! It looks great! Any chance you could convert the measurements into cups and tablespoons? I'd love to make this cake but have no idea what 300ml of flour is?? Is that 1&1/2 cups or 300 grams? Sorry but just not used to these measurements in Australia. Thank you!
- 4:58 pm, July 29, 2008
- Pille said...
Loretta - it's much easier to provide metric measurements, as that's universal. A cup in the UK and US and Australia can vary from 240 ml to 260 ml, which is much more confusing.
An Australian cup is 250 ml, so 300 ml would be 1 cup and another 1/5th. 100 ml would be 2/5 of a cup.
Hope that helps. - 5:49 pm, July 29, 2008
i made this cake today and i'm sorry to say that it turned out really bad. i weighed 300 grams flour on my kitchen scale (not 300 ml - i thought ml was only used to measure fluids like milk) and as soon as i mixed it in i realised the liquid/moisture was too less! also the fat content (melted butter) is too less.
and sure enough the cake turned out to be tough, dry and rather biscuity (not in a good way). i think the flour measure should be closer to 150 grams, but i wouldn't try this cake out again. - 11:34 pm, July 29, 2009
- Pille said...
Rika - sorry to hear that your cake turned out badly. However - I take no blame for that, as it's clearly stated in the recipe that you need 300 ml of flour (100 ml of flour is about 55 grams, so 300 ml is 165 grams of flour - about half of the amount you used!)
I'm amazed how much confusion the millilitres and decilitres (1 dl = 100 ml; there are 10 decilitres to one litre) cause in non-European readers! A cup - widely used to measure both liquids and solds in the US - is also a volume measurement (one cup being about 250 ml), so how is that different from simply stating the exact amount of millilitres? Metric measurements simply make so much more sense to someone who has grown up with them :)
However, I have also provided a helpful Culinary Converter on the right hand side bar for any conversions you need to make. - 7:23 am, July 30, 2009
This recipe looks lovely, but the measures are very odd. Millilitres (or decilitres) are measures for LIQUIDS not dry goods such as flour and sugar. While places like the US use cups and tea/tablespoons for both liquid and dry measures instead of metric measures such as grams or ml, it's not as accurate as using the metric or weight measures (in fact large scale baking is usually done with weight measures in the US versus cups). But 250ml just doesn't make sense when you are talking about flour just as 250g wouldn't really make sense if you were talking about milk. This is why there is so much confusion about the measures you've listed. I hope that makes sense. I've grown up in the US, but now live in the UK so have both sets of measures to contend with quite often!
- 8:32 pm, September 23, 2009
- Pille said...
Shannon - yes and no :) I lived in a student dorm without kitchen scales for years, and baked all my cakes using a simple 100 ml measuring cup. In the US, a cup is used both for liquids and dry goods, and all one has to remember is that 1 cup = 250 ml. As easy as that. (What I was arguing here is that I cannot see how 1 cup of flour makes sense to Americans, but 250 ml doesn't - we're talking about the exact same thing!!!)
I've got no problems mesuring milk or water in grams, as we were taught in school that 1 gram of water = 1 millilitre. So I know that 1 litre of water weighs 1 kg (and equals 4 cups).
This cake works well enough if you use volumes - I'm not giving a recipe for macaroons or other cakes that need much more precision!
PS I now have kitchen scales, and most of my newer recipes state grams now. - 8:41 pm, September 23, 2009
- Ene-Mai said...
This is the second time I have made this easy yet yummy cake. Last week for an estonian choir I sing with Hapu Koor in Adelaide and tonight for an ozzie dive club meeting
- 10:18 am, April 13, 2011
- Svenja said...
This is the best apple cake that I've ever tasted! I made it when I got home from work, and as soon as it came out of the oven I couldn't stop picking bits off the crumble topping and eating them! I had a hot slice with some single cream, mmmmm :) I can tell that this recipe is going to become one of my all-time favourites.
- 10:37 pm, April 14, 2011
- Pille said...
Ene-Mai - thank you for your feedback and kind words about the cake. PS "Hapu Koor" is the coolest name ever for a choir :) :D
Svenja - thank you!!! So lovely to hear that this cake is still a hit in good old Edinburgh! - 10:20 am, April 18, 2011
- lagastronomista said...
Out of curiosity I tried it out myself and it makes one fine apple cake, Canadian or not.
- 9:33 pm, July 10, 2011
I believe the Canadian angle on this recipe might be that apples (tart McIntosh in particular) are abundant in eastern Canada in the autumn, so a forefather - or more likely a foremother! - probably originally baked this cake.
I will definitely try this. My current apple cake recipe (called 'Apple Dapple Cake") tastes great but never cooks evenly.
Love this site. I found it after googling 'piparkoogid'. I was born in Toronto but my parents (both now passed away) emigrated from Estonia->Sweden-Canada... and I find there are a number of Estonian dishes from my childhood that I crave and wonder about. Thanks for creating this connection for people like me. - Lana - 10:43 pm, October 31, 2011
- Esther said...
I baked this cake today for Christmas lunch! My father in law is the type of person that reads the dessert menu before looking at entres and mains AND he loves anything with apple, so if there is apple pie, apple struddle or apple cake In the menu he always goes for it. So I was a bit scared of cooking an apple dessert but guess what he said today to me, 'this is the BEST apple cake I've ever had' I felt so proud :) Thank you for the recipe!
- 10:05 am, December 25, 2012
- Pille said...
lagastronomista - thrilled to hear that!
Lana - I'm always glad to hear that another expat-Estonian has found Nami-Nami! Your theory re: the Canadianness of this cake might just be true..
Esther - I'm so happy that this cake pleased you - and your apple-loving dad! - 1:40 pm, December 26, 2012
- LaLy said...
Väga-väga lahe, et Eesti blogia on suutnud endale väikese fännbaasi tekitada :D ülimalt lahe ja ma proovisin ka retsepti järgi, väga maitsev (Y)
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I recently realized that I have not been participating in many food blogging events lately and I resolved to fix that. One upcoming event that caught my attention was the My Legume Love Affair event being hosted by Coco Cooks and this months theme was starters and desserts. I immediately thought about Japanese sweets with red bean paste and there were a few that were on my list of things that I wanted to try. At the top of my list was dorayaki which are essentially a pancake sandwich filled with sweet red bean paste. You should be able to find the sweet red bean paste at your local Asian grocery store or you can make your own red bean paste and it is pretty easy. The dorayaki are pretty simple to make as well. It is just a matter of making some pancakes and then sticking them together with the red bean paste in the middle. The dorayaki turned out really well! I don't know what it is about sweet red bean paste but I like it a lot and it went really well sandwiched between these pancakes. I also liked this pancake recipe as they came out nice and light and fluffy and perfectly golden brown.
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 cup water
- 1 tablespoon honey
- 1 cup flour
- 1/2 cup red bean paste (tsubushian)
- Mix the eggs and sugar.
- Mix the baking soda into the water and mix it into the eggs.
- Mix in the honey and flour.
- Heat a pan with a touch of oil.
- Pour enough batter to make a 4 inch diameter pancake.
- Heat until the surface starts to bubble and the bottom is golden brown, about 2-3 minutes.
- Flip the pancake and cook the other side until the bottom is golden brown, about 1-2 minutes.
- Make a sandwich out of two of the pancakes with red bean paste filling.
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American gourmets and lovers of Italian food products, your days as food smugglers are over.
No more stuffing your suitcases with delicacies bought in Italy, hoping the sniffer dogs at JFK or other American airports won't detect the banned-in-the-USA foodstuffs inside your luggage.
In the U.S., they're called cured meats, the French say charcuterie and in Italy, the word for cured-pork products is salumi.
Starting May 28, a four-decades-old ban on the import of many Italian salumi will be lifted.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced that the Italian regions of Lombardy, Emilia-Romagna, Veneto and Piedmont, and the provinces of Trento and Bolzano, are free of swine vesicular disease. Imports of pork products from those areas, says the USDA, present a low risk of introducing the disease into the U.S. The disease was first detected in the 1960s and can survive cooking and even long curing.
Up to now, only a few Italian pork products were approved for import to the U.S.: prosciutto di Parma and prosciutto di San Daniele, as well as mortadella — which was also banned until 2000.
Starting soon, as long as they receive USDA approval, hundreds of artisanal products will arrive on American tables. It's not yet clear, however, what standards the producers will have to meet and what the costs will be. But even without a ban, Italian cured meat producers must pay hefty fees as part of the process of getting certified for importation.
For centuries, Italians have been making some of the highest-quality cured meats in Europe. It's time to start learning some of their names: sopressata, a slow-cured dried pork, similar in appearance to salami; pancetta, bacon made from the pork belly, but unlike the American variety, which is smoked, Italian pancetta is cured in salt and spices; coppa or capocollo, made from pork shoulder or neck and seasoned with wine, salt and spice.
What's the secret behind the high quality of Italian salumi?
Many say it's the quality of the pigs, the climate where they're raised and what they're fed.
Every Italian region and province, and even many towns have their own distinctive salumi, many of them celebrated in weeklong folk festivals. There are fans of Coppa Piacentina or those who swear by Coppa di Parma; there's an infinite variety of salamis — from Brianza, Vicenza, Cremona and many more, spiced with garlic, juniper and myrtle berries, fennel and red wine.
One of the delicacies that may soon reach U.S. shores is salame di Felino, named after the small town of the same name near Parma.
According to the website , salame di Felino traces its origins to the Middle Ages. The oldest pictorial representation is found in the Parma Baptistery, where one can see two salamis draped over a saucepan. And in 1905, the wording "Salame di Felino" was officially included in the dictionary of the Italian language.
But what cured meat aficionados are most eagerly waiting for is the king of Italian salumi, culatello, a product of the flatlands of Zibello and neighboring towns near Parma — a product whose secret ingredient is the dense winter fog that hovers at a particular bend in the Po River.
Culatello dates back at least to the 15th century. It's made with the muscular part of the hind leg of pigs born, raised and slaughtered in the Emilia-Romagna and Lombardy regions.
The Italian poet Gabriele D'Annunzio, a culatello enthusiast, wrote in 1891, "It is aged only in the square of land surrounding Zibello, where the air of the Po is often humid and good for the mold that preserves this fatless cut of meat."
I first experienced culatello at the Trattoria La Buca di Zibello, a long-established restaurant run for four generations solely by women. A huge room is dedicated to curing the zibelli — hundreds hang from the ceiling. The women told me one of the key steps is a loving massage that helps salt penetrate the meat.
Culatello is an expensive delicacy even in Italy, and of the two culatelli produced by the same animal, one is always better than the other: It's said that pigs are animals of habit and always sleep on the same side, which ends up being the less tender of the two thighs.
But there are some cured pork products that won't soon be imported to the U.S. The region of Tuscany is still on the USDA-restricted list. So, you'll still have to travel there to savor wild boar sausages (my favorite) andfinocchiona of Siena, a fennel-flavored salami.
And then there's that most sinful of products (sinful for those who have to watch their cholesterol intake), lardo di Colonnata, the small town perched above the marble quarries of Carrara. That velvety white lard — pork fat from the back of the pig — is cured in marble vats. Locals claim it's the porous quality of the stone that's responsible for its unique, refined taste.
Buon appetito.
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CBHC can advise on the tax implications of separation and divorce, and offer practical guidance to individuals in Chelmsford and beyond.
It is an unfortunate fact of modern life that many marriages do not survive. When separation, divorce, or dissolution occurs, there will almost inevitably be some tax consequences.
The married couple's allowance has been withdrawn, except for those couples in which at least one spouse or civil partner was born before 6 April 1935. The allowance will cease at the end of the tax year in which separation occurs.
The Child Tax Credit is available to each former spouse or civil partner with one or more children living with him or her (ie, each spouse will be entitled to the credit, as a single parent, if one or more children live with him or her).
Maintenance payments
Maintenance payments qualify for tax relief only where a spouse or civil partner or former spouse or former civil partner was born before 6 April 1935 and only if they are legally enforceable. This will be the case if they are made under a court order, a Child Support Agency assessment, or a legal deed of separation. Such maintenance payments must be made to your divorced or separated spouse or civil partner (if they are not remarried, or have not entered into a new civil partnership) for the benefit of him or her or of your child under twenty-one living with him or her.
The maximum tax reduction available is £326 (2017-18).
Maintenance payments received do not count as taxable income.
Transferring assets
Assets transferred between spouses or civil partners in a tax year during which they have lived together, including the year of separation, are exempt from capital gains tax (CGT) and inheritance tax.
From the end of the year of separation until the decree absolute, the former spouses or civil partners are still regarded as connected persons for CGT purposes, and therefore all transfers between them will be treated for tax as if made at full market value, even if no consideration changes hands.
Thereafter, transfers will be treated as 'at arm's length' and therefore transfers will, for CGT purposes, be treated as disposals or acquisitions for only such amount as changed hands.
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You are, all of you, every single one of you who wrote, commented or reached out in any way in response to my last two posts, the most generous human beings. Your honesty about your own experiences, your candour in sharing what has and has not worked for you in tending to your children, and the warmth of your expressions of support and solidarity have been a sanity-saver during what has been a very difficult week. I have learn so much from you all, and I have felt embraced.
Thank you. THANK YOU.
Many of you have sent me links and book recommendations: Lady M sent me a whole list of relevant links (most of which were to the blog of the incomparable Mary P., who has been sending me tremendously helpful words of advice), and some of you referred me to posts that you've written yourselves on challenges similar to mine. I'm going to pull this all together and compile them for a resource page on these issues (broadly understood), so that I have them all in one place, and so that anyone else who finds themselves struggling with the remarkable and sometimes challenging changes that occur when baby becomes a turbo-charged toddler, and/or with issues pertaining to 'disciplining' small children, and/or simply feeling like a bad mother, can benefit from all of the tremendously helpful and reassuring information that you have shared with me. You have shared gold with me, people, so it's only fitting that I share it back. If you know of further resources - posts, book recommendations, helpful blogs, sources of advice and support - please leave a note about it here and I'll include it on the resource page.
It's the least I can do.
Again, thank you. A million times over.
(WonderBaby, note, is ambivalent about whether or not to feel gratitude for the support that you have provided to her bad mother. On the one hand, the well-being of her bad mother is necessary to her continued well-being. On the other, you have been encouraging her bad mother to resist her attempts at domestic domination. This, clearly, verges on the traitorous.
WonderBaby trusts that you will, in future, resist any and all urges to foment revolution within her household.)
(Her Bad Mother, obviously, hopes that the Mommyblogger Underground Revolutionary Movement in Support of Beleaguered Mothers Everywhere stays strong. But that's between us, 'kay?)
Not seen in photo: troops of the Republican Baby Guard, standing by to free their Imperial Leader from the restraining devices and redirection strategies of Bad Mother's Opposition Force.
This mothering shit ain't easy, but you all are making it a hella lot easier than it would otherwise be.
You rock.


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The PLU network offers access to a number of resources for students, faculty and staff from a variety of network devices. This guide will walk you through the necessary steps to get your devices connected to the PLU network. If you run into problems or have questions along the way, please do not hesitate to contact the help desk at 253-535-7525 or via email at firstname.lastname@example.com. We will do our best to get things working for you.
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- All persons connected to the University network are expected to abide by the Network Use Policy as well as all other applicable University policies. Failure to comply with these policies may result in the temporary loss of your network connection and/or other sanctions. Please take time to familiarize yourself with University policies found at https://www.plu.edu/helpdesk/policies.
- All devices on the PLU network must be registered before network access is granted. It is your responsibility to register your own equipment. Any malicious actions that has taken place using a device on the PLU network will result in disciplinary action for the user that the device is registered to.
- We are happy to assist you with networking problems; however, it is your responsibility to maintain your networked devices. Laptop computers are especially susceptible to damage from careless use. Ethernet cables can also be damaged by repeatedly being stepped on. If your Ethernet cable is not secured in place, pulling or tripping on it can cause damage to your computer, Ethernet card, or the wall jack. It is also your responsibility to regularly check for updates for your system. Downloading patches, upgrades, and utilities for your operating system will help to protect your machine from virus infections and malware and keep your computer running smoothly.
- PLU requires that a reliable anti-virus program be installed on any computer connected to the PLU network. For personal computers, you can use paid or free anti-virus software. If you're not sure where to start, I&TS staff provide a list of recommended free anti-virus software. Once the anti-virus software is installed, it is critical that you perform regular updates. More information on anti-virus programs is available at https://www.plu.edu/antivirus.
We recommend that a surge protector is used when using any power outlet on campus and that a USB drive is considered for transferring files to different machines. Printing is available from several locations on campus; however, each student will have a limited supply of free copies. When your free copies have been used, you may purchase additional copy points. As an alternative, we recommend that students consider purchasing their own printers in order to avoid additional charges. See Purchase Recommendations for more information.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — Boston's police commissioner complained to a Senate panel Wednesday that the Justice Department failed to share information on terrorism threats with local officials before the Boston Marathon bombing. A House committee chairman criticized the FBI for declining to appear at a House hearing on the same subject.
"There is a gap with information sharing at a higher level while there are still opportunities to intervene in the planning of these terrorist events," Police Commissioner Edward F. Davis III told the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
He said information sharing should be made a mission statement requirement for local Justice Department task forces on terrorism organized by the FBI.
Three people were killed and more than 260 injured by twin blasts near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on April 15.
Now, as then, law enforcement officials say information about threats known by one agency sometimes doesn't make it to another agency that may be in a position to prevent bloodshed. Davis, for example, repeated that his police department was unaware of information the Justice Department had prior to the bombings about Tamerlan Tsarnaev's six-month trip to Chechnya last year.
Tsarnaev was killed in a shootout with police days after the bombing. Since then officials have tried to assess whether he was influenced by Islamist radicals during the trip. His brother, Dzhokhar, pleaded not guilty Wednesday to a 30-count indictment in federal court in Boston.
Local police should know about residents who could pose a national security threat, Davis said, a sentiment echoed by several lawmakers.
Across the Capitol, the FBI came in for more criticism. Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, complained that the agency declined to testify at a hearing before the House Homeland Security Committee he chairs.
"It is this committee's responsibility to find out how we did not see it coming," McCaul said. "We are going to find out what happened, what went wrong and how to fix it."
FBI spokesman Paul Bresson said later that the agency had briefed the House committee on several occasions and would continue to do so, but that it also has a responsibility to "protect the integrity of the judicial process" in which the sole surviving suspect is being prosecuted.
"This involves ensuring both the government's ability to conduct a successful prosecution as well as protecting the rights of all parties involved, including the victims, their families and the defendant, who as it turns out, has a court appearance on the same day as this hearing," Bresson said.
Davis said the FBI was helpful after the bombings and pointed out that much has been done to improve information sharing and communications. But he said the "memorandum of understanding" that organizes the joint task forces should include a requirement to brief local law enforcement regularly on threats.
Michael Leiter, former head of the National Counterterrorism Center, agreed that task force rules make sharing information, some possibly classified, difficult.
Experts testifying at the Senate hearing said Boston's response to the attack actually was exemplary, in part because the city years ago built relationships and forged disaster plans among law enforcement, medical personnel and other responders. They said Congress should support similar efforts in other cities large and small.
"People are on a first name basis" in Boston's responder community, Richard Serino, deputy administrator for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, told senators. "The medical community has been linked in with public safety for years, not just since 2001."
Arthur L. Kellermann, a doctor and analyst for the RAND Corporation, said Boston's personnel had studied how their counterparts in London, Madrid and elsewhere had handled terrorist attacks.
"Boston's responders were both lucky and good, that's why so many victims survived," Kellermann said. "They were prepared to do a great job…. Everyone knew what to do. That's how disaster plans work."


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The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate availability of PHP 5.2.12. This release focuses on improving the stability of the PHP 5.2.x branch with over 60 bug fixes, some of which are security related. All users of PHP 5.2 are encouraged to upgrade to this release.
Security Enhancements and Fixes in PHP 5.2.12:
- Fixed a safe_mode bypass in tempnam() identified by Grzegorz Stachowiak. (CVE-2009-3557, Rasmus)
- Fixed a open_basedir bypass in posix_mkfifo() identified by Grzegorz Stachowiak. (CVE-2009-3558, Rasmus)
- Added "max_file_uploads" INI directive, which can be set to limit the number of file uploads per-request to 20 by default, to prevent possible DOS via temporary file exhaustion, identified by Bogdan Calin. (CVE-2009-4017, Ilia)
- Added protection for $_SESSION from interrupt corruption and improved "session.save_path" check, identified by Stefan Esser. (CVE-2009-4143, Stas)
- Fixed bug #49785 (insufficient input string validation of htmlspecialchars()). (CVE-2009-4142, Moriyoshi, hello at iwamot dot com)
Further details about the PHP 5.2.12 release can be found in the release announcement, and the full list of changes are available in the ChangeLog.


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ATLANTA (AP) — The clutch quarterback. The genius coach. The big-play defense.
The San Francisco 49ers are ready to start a new dynasty with a familiar formula.
Next stop, the Big Easy.
Colin Kaepernick and Frank Gore led San Francisco to a record comeback in the NFC championship game Sunday, overcoming an early 17-0 deficit to beat the Atlanta Falcons 28-24 and send the 49ers to their first Super Bowl since 1995.
Gore scored a pair of touchdowns, including the winner with 8:23 remaining for San Francisco's first lead of the day, and the 49ers defense made it stand up. A fourth-down stop at the 10-yard line denied Atlanta another stirring comeback after blowing a big lead.
"Everybody does a little," 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh said, "and it adds up to be a lot."
San Francisco (13-4-1) moves on to face Baltimore Ravens at New Orleans in two weeks, looking to join Pittsburgh as the only franchises with six Super Bowl titles. It could be a brother-vs.-brother matchup, too, since John Harbaugh coaches the Ravens.
Joe Montana led the 49ers to four Super Bowl wins and Steve Young took them to No. 5. It's up to Kaepernick and Co. to get No. 6.
"He just competes like a maniac all the time," said Harbaugh, whose much-debated decision to bench Alex Smith at midseason now looks like the best move of the year. "It's always the same when I'm looking in through the facemask."
The second-year quarterback, who runs like a track star, didn't get a chance to show off his touchdown celebration — flexing his right arm and kissing his bicep, a move that quickly became a social media sensation known as Kaepernicking.
But he shredded the Falcons through the air by completing 16 of 21 for 233 yards, including a 4-yard touchdown to Vernon Davis, and had them so worried about his running ability out of the spread option that Gore and LaMichael James had plenty of room.
Gore scored a pair of touchdowns, including the game winner with 8:23 remaining for San Francisco's first lead of the day. Davis scored the first TD for the 49ers on a 15-yard run.
"I take my hat off to Atlanta. They played hard. They've got a great team," Gore said. "But we fought, man. We fought and we deserved it."
The 49ers pulled off the biggest comeback victory in an NFC championship game, according to STATS. The previous NFC record was 13 points — Atlanta's victory over Minnesota in the 1999 title game, which sent the Falcons to what remains the only Super Bowl in franchise history.
In the AFC, the record is 18 points, when Indianapolis rallied past New England in 2007.
Harbaugh is hardly cool and collected like the 49ers' first Super Bowl-winning coach, Bill Walsh, but has pulled off a similar turnaround in San Francisco. The 49ers had eight straight years without a winning record before their new coach arrived from Stanford in 2011.
He immediately led San Francisco to the cusp of the Super Bowl, losing to the eventual champion New York Giants in overtime in last year's NFC title game, a bitter defeat at home set up by a fumbled return.
This time, the 49ers were the ones winning on the road to set up another celebration in the city by the bay, which is rapidly becoming the new Titletown USA. They'll try to follow the lead of the baseball Giants, who won the World Series in October.
"We've come full circle," said Denise DeBartolo York, part of the family that has owned the 49ers since their championship days, "and the dynasty will prevail."
Kaepernick guided San Francisco on a pair of second-half scoring drives that wiped out Atlanta's 24-14 lead at the break. Gore scored on a 5-yard run early in the third quarter, then sprinted in from 9 yards out for the winning score with 8:23 remaining after each team made crucial mistakes to ruin potential scoring drives.
On both of Gore's TDs, the Falcons had to worry about Kaepernick running it in himself. They barely even touched the running back on either play, and James scored pretty much the same way.
"I kind of figured that coming in and they showed that on film, so I assumed Frank and LaMichael were going to have a big day," Kaepernick said. "Frank ran hard today, and I can't say enough about him."
The top-seeded Falcons (14-4), in what appeared to be the final game for Hall of Famer-to-be Tony Gonzalez, tried to pull off another season-extending drive. But, unlike the week before against Seattle, they needed a touchdown this time.
They came up 10 yards short.
On fourth down, Matt Ryan attempted a pass over the middle to Roddy White that would have been enough to keep the drive going. But linebacker NaVorro Bowman stuck a hand in to knock it away with 1:13 remaining.
The 49ers ran off all but the final 6 seconds, not nearly enough time for Ryan to pull off his greatest comeback yet.
In the divisional playoffs, the Falcons blew a 20-point lead in the fourth quarter, the Seahawks scoring the go-ahead touchdown with 31 seconds remaining. But Ryan completed two long passes, setting up Matt Bryant's 49-yard field goal for 30-28 victory.
The Falcons came up short of their second Super Bowl, leaving the 1995 Braves as the city's only major sports champions. This one figures to hurt for a while.
"We didn't make the plays when we had the opportunity," Falcons coach Mike Smith said. "There were five or six plays, like in most hard-fought games, that make a difference. There were ebbs and flows and changes in momentum, and they made more plays than we did."
Kaepernick, who ran for 181 yards against the Packers the week before to set an NFL playoff record for a quarterback, didn't have much chance to use his legs against the Falcons. He broke off a 23-yard gain, but was thrown for a 2-yard loss the only other time he carried the ball.
But Kaepernick showed he's more than a runner. His favorite receiver was Davis, who hauled in five passes for 106 yards.
Gore carried 21 times for 90 yards, while James added 34 yards on five carries.
Ryan finished 30 of 42 for 396 yards, by far the best performance of his playoff career. But his postseason record dropped to 1-4, done in by two big miscues — an interception and a fumble — in the second half.
Julio Jones was Ryan's leading target most of the day, finishing with 11 catches for 182 yards and a pair of touchdowns. He hauled in a 46-yarder less than 4 minutes into the game, then made a dazzling grab in the left corner of the end zone for a 20-yard score. He got his left foot down, then planted his right foot about an inch inside the line — while cornerback Tarell Brown was all over him.
Ryan threw a 10-yard touchdown pass to Gonzalez with 25 seconds remaining in the first half after the 49ers had cut the deficit to 17-14. It seemed the home team had reclaimed the momentum heading to the locker room, but, amazingly, that would be its final score of the day. The 49ers quickly seized control on the opening possession of the second half, driving 82 yards in just seven plays for Gore's first TD.
"Coming out after halftime, the offense had to look at it like a shootout," Harbaugh said, "and the defense had to get stops any way we could."
After a nearly perfect first half, in which Ryan was 18 of 24 for 271 yards and those three TDs, the quarterback known as Matty Ice made a couple of crucial blunders.
First, he tossed a pass that was picked off by Chris Culliver, halting a drive in 49ers territory. Ryan ripped off his chinstrap in disgust.
Then, with the Falcons in scoring range for at least a field goal, Ryan failed to grab a shotgun snap, appearing to take his eyes off the ball before he caught it. The ball squirted away and Aldon Smith recovered for the 49ers at their own 37.
"Against a good team, you can't have those kind of mistakes," Ryan said.
San Francisco also squandered some chances. Struggling kicker David Akers clanked a 38-yard field goal try off the upright, and Michael Crabtree fumbled just short of the goal line, the ball stripped away by Dunta Robinson and recovered by Stephen Nicholas. But, after that big defensive stop with 13 1-2 minutes remaining, the Falcons went three-and-out.
The 49ers drove for the winning touchdown.
Atlanta took the ensuing kickoff and used up nearly all the clock while going 70 yards. The Falcons might have reclaimed the lead if Harry Douglas had been able to stay on his feet while hauling in a 22-yard pass.
The defender slipped, and so did Douglas, but he managed to make the catch even though Harbaugh thought it touched the turf. The coach challenged the call, and began screaming and hopping around in disbelief when the officials let it stand.
He was celebrating soon enough.
As for the 36-year-old Gonzalez, who said all year he was 95 percent sure this would be his final season, it sounded like the end.
"I've had such a great life," he said. "I wish it would've culminated with the Super Bowl, but it didn't."
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The Central Banking Theater of the Absurd
The astounding hubris of central bankers is comical, but the consequences of their actions are playing out as needless tragedy.
Resistance, Revolution, Liberation: A Model for Positive Change (print $25)
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We are like passengers on the Titanic ten minutes after its fatal encounter with the iceberg: though our financial system seems unsinkable, its reliance on debt and financialization has already doomed it.We cannot know when the Central State and financial system will destabilize, we only know they will destabilize. We cannot know which of the State's fast-rising debts and obligations will be renounced; we only know they will be renounced in one fashion or another.
The process of the unsustainable collapsing and a new, more sustainable model emerging is called revolution.Rather than being powerless, we hold the fundamental building blocks of power. We need neither permission nor political change to liberate ourselves. A powerless individual becomes powerful when he renounces the lies and complicity that enable the doomed Status Quo's dominance.
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Arthur Henry (A.H.) Reginald Buller was born August 14, 1874 in Moseley, Birmingham, England. In 1904, Buller was appointed the first professor of Botany and Geology at the University of Manitoba, one of the original six professors hired by the University. Buller served as Head of the Botany Department until his retirement in 1936. Buller won international recognition for his work on fungi and wheat rust. The drawings included in this digital collection were discovered by faculty of the University of Manitoba Botany Department in Dr. Buller's original map cabinet. They consist of hand drawn, inked, and watercoloured botanical diagrams and charts.


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Lance Armstrong to confess to doping
The interview, scheduled to be taped Monday and broadcast Thursday night on the Oprah Winfrey Network, will be conducted at Armstrong's home in Austin.
Citing an anonymous source, USA Today reported that the disgraced cyclist plans to admit to using performance-enhancing drugs but likely will not get into details of the allegations outlined in a 2012 report by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency that led to Armstrong being stripped of his seven Tour de France titles and banned for life from the sport.
Armstrong representatives, including his attorney Tim Herman, declined comment. The New York Times first reported last week that Armstrong was considering making a confession.
Armstrong, 41, who vehemently denied doping for years, has not spoken publicly about the USADA report that cast him as the leader of a sophisticated and brazen doping program on his U.S. Postal Service teams that included use of steroids, blood boosters and illegal blood transfusions.
Winfrey's network announced Tuesday that Armstrong agreed to a "no holds barred" interview with her.
A confession to Winfrey would come at a time when some of Armstrong's legal troubles appear to be clearing up.
Any potential perjury charges stemming from his sworn testimony denying doping in a 2005 arbitration fight with a Dallas promotions company over a contract bonus worth $7.5 million have passed the statute of limitations.
Armstrong faces a whistle-blower lawsuit filed by former teammate Floyd Landis accusing him of defrauding the U.S. Postal Service, but the U.S. Department of Justice has yet to announce whether it will join the case. The British newspaper The Sunday Times is suing Armstrong to recover about $500,000 it paid him to settle a libel lawsuit.
Armstrong lost most of his personal sponsorship -- worth tens of millions of dollars -- after USADA issued its report, and he left the board of the Livestrong cancer-fighting charity he founded in 1997. He is said to still be worth an estimated $100 million.
Livestrong might be one reason to issue an apology or make a confession. The charity supports cancer patients and still faces an image problem because of its association with its famous founder.
The New York Times reported Armstrong might make a confession in an attempt to return to competition in elite triathlon or running events, but World Anti-Doping Code rules state his lifetime ban cannot be reduced to fewer than eight years. WADA and U.S. Anti-Doping officials could agree to reduce the ban further depending on what new information Armstrong provides and his level of cooperation.
Armstrong met with USADA officials recently to explore a "pathway to redemption," according to a report by "60 Minutes Sports" aired Wednesday on Showtime.


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It's the little things that make me happy. Not just smiling. Truly happy. The little things that instantly make my eyes sparkle, my memories ramble and my step take a lighter beat.
A wine my grandfather served me on my last Christmas home that I spot on a menu in a restaurant downtown. The sound of the foam bubbling away after a cold beer is poured too fast in a glass. The crack of a spoon hitting the burnt sugar crust of a freshly made creme brulee.
Opening a book at the very first pages, heart and mind ready to dive in, wrapped around with words, images, and possibilities. Lifting one's head after a day at work and be greeted by the most beautiful sunset.
Little pleasures. Finding them in all things around us. Sometimes, it can be as simple as seeing a familiar food from childhood. Like smelts. I know, weird… I think the guy behind the fish counter at the market thought I was mildly eccentric when my eyes grew wide open at the sight of freshly caught smelt in his display.
The mere sight if these tiny little fish, bright of their silver and gold reflections, transported me back to my family's chalet in the Southern Alps of France. Every school holiday was spent there, skiing in the winter, hiking and swimming in the summer. Lots and lots of fishing too.
It was a place meant for simple things. Like a dinner made of pan fried smelts and a big salad. Food did not define every waking moment of our time together. Being together around the table breaking bread and passing plates did. Cousins, uncles, aunts, brothers and sisters. Food was the excuse to be a family, to argue and make up.
I remember my mother dipping the smelts in lemon juice, then breadcrumbs flavored with freshly cut herbs from the garden, and quickly pan searing them in a little olive oil. A good sprinkle of salt and pepper and we were good to go. The more people at the table and the bigger the pile of fish. And the bigger the sighs coming from the kitchen as my mom kept on cooking and cooking the tiny little things.
Pan seared smelts are not most refined dinner items but to me there are the heroes of family moments I cherish everyday. Hence the little skip in my heart when I spotted them at the market. I was sure not to find them again for a long while so I got more than enough for two dinners. I loved seeing my mom's eyes sparkle when I pulled a bag out of the freezer for us one evening.
I knew instantly where her mind had wandered. I recognized that little smile at the corner of her mouth. I could imagine the memories going through her head. I pulled out a skillet and started preparing dinner. She set the table and told me a few stories.
It was my turn to nurture her. Around something as simple as plate of tiny seared fish. The connection was solid and gave us room to add this moment to the memory bank. And our tastebuds…
Pan Seared Smelts:
Serves 4
2 pounds smelts (they usually come gutted and cleaned up but ask your fishmonger to do it for you if needed)
1 cup Panko style breadcrumbs (gluten free or not – your choice)
1 teaspoon of kosher salt
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground pepper
1/4 cup finely chopped thyme
juice of 2 lemons
4 tablespoons olive oil, divided
Rinse the smelts under cold water, dry thoroughly with paper towels. Reserve.
Place the breadcrumbs, salt, pepper and thyme in a large shallow plate. Place the lemon juice in another shallow plate.
Heat up one tablespoon of olive oil in a large skillet over medium high heat.
Dip about 1/4 of the smelts in the lemon juice, then toss in the breadcrumbs. Place them in the skillet in one single layer and sear for about 3 minutes on each side.
Repeat with the remaining smelts, lemon juice, breadcrumbs and oil. Serve immediately with a simple side salad.


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