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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) - Officials in Alabama's bankrupt Jefferson County approved a deal on Thursday with European Depfa Bank Plc to cut interest charges on about $162 million of the county's school debt.
Although the "plan support agreement" saves only about $1 million a year for the county, which in 2011 filed a $4.23 billion municipal bankruptcy, the resolution passed by the Jefferson County Commission said the deal would bolster the county in talks to hammer out a broader adjustment plan with its Wall Street creditors.
Home to Birmingham, Alabama's biggest city, Jefferson County was primarily driven into what is the biggest bankruptcy ever by a U.S. local government by massive sewer system debt now estimated at $3.2 billion.
Some creditors and county officials are meeting privately to work out a possible plan likely to require reductions in interest rates and other concessions by creditors such as JPMorgan Chase & Co. The plan is needed for Jefferson County to exit bankruptcy protection. The county filed for bankruptcy in November 2011.
Jefferson County said the Depfa debt was among its costliest and had carried an interest rate of 3 percent over Libor since a 2009 default. Jefferson County Manager Tony Petelos said the new rate was 75 basis points lower.
In addition, he said, the county agreed to repay its Depfa debt faster than scheduled, including an accelerated payment of $20 million this year.
A representative of Depfa, based in Dublin but supervised and supported by the German government, did not immediately respond to an inquiry for comment on the agreement.
Separately, Jefferson County won dismissal on Thursday of a lawsuit by Birmingham's city government against the closure on December 31 of in-patient care at Cooper Green Mercy Hospital.
As part of severe cost cutting, which has seen current fiscal year spending shrivel by $107 million to $205 million, county officials eliminated in-patient care at Cooper Green used mostly by poor people in Birmingham.
(Reporting by Melinda Dickinson.; Writing and additional reporting by Michael Connor in Miami. Editing by Andre Grenon)


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Due to a number of factors (illness, real life work, school holidays and at least one unexpected trek through the Amazon in search of the fabled golden skull of Mezzakin the Unwise) these predictions will be a more compact and bijou affair than usual. Compact and bijou – can you tell I've been dealing with estate agents recently? Anyway, with that preemptive disclaimer out of the way and my cocktail cabinet fully stocked, let's do the whole "predicting predetermined pretend pugilism" thing!
A Diva's PPV match featuring two women who can wrestle! Not only that, but Tamina has now progressed to the upper echelon of the WWE Women's Division – a distinction shown by the fact she now has a surname. This could be a really enjoyable match, assuming they are given the time to tell a proper story, and they keep the interference (and hilarious fart jokes) to a minimum. It's no secret that we love Beth here in the Bunker, but we're both agreed that it's time for a change in the run up to Wrestlemania, and that Tamina will take the belt tonight.
Rae's Prediction: Tamina Snuka
Andrew's Prediction: Tamina Snuka
This is apparently an Ambulance Match, so promises to be pretty brutal at least. Kane has experience in this type of match, in fact I've still fond memories of his Ambulance Match with Shane McMahon from Survivor Series 2003.
As for who's going to win, Cena is always the obvious choice for winning a PPV match, and I have to agree that he's probably going to win here. Unless they want Kane to interfere in the Rock-Cena match at Wrestlemania they have to bring this feud to an end soon.
Rae's Prediction: John Cena
Andrew's Prediction: John Cena
Definitely the better of the two Chamber matches on paper, the only wrestler in this match that I'm not a fan of is R-Truth. The idea of Jericho wrestling in the match and overtaking HHH as having the highest number of entries is pretty cool, and Kofi is bound to replicate RVD and Morrison's spidermonkey antics from previous years. Add to that great wrestlers like Punk and Ziggler and this has the chance to be the best match on the card. As for winners, Rae has decided that Jericho will win, which is very possible. I personally think that Punk will retain here though, just because I think they'll have him as champion at Wrestlemania. Having said that, if Rae is right that does open up the chance for Punk to get his rematch at 'Mania, so I'll be happy either way.
Rae's Prediction: Chris Jericho
Andrew's Prediction: CM Punk
Well, talk about extremes (and no, I don't mean XTREME! because the match takes part inside "Satan's Prison") You have three really talented wrestlers in this match, people I'd be happy to watch wrestle any day of the week, in Daniel Bryan, Cody Rhodes and Wade Barrett. You have Big Show who has a role to fit and plays it well – the giant who punches people in the face will always be worth a look. And then… well… yeah, you've got the other two. Santino isn't the worse wrestler in the world, and he's ridiculously over with the crowd, so I've no real objection to him being in there for a while. Khali on the other hand, is a frankly bizarre choice for the match, and I can only hope that he'll be the last to enter, only for everyone to hit their finishers and eliminate him within an minute.
As for the winner, Rae says Barrett will win (which would be amazing) but I think Bryan will retain. He needs a decisive title victory/defence and this is the ideal time. Let him go into Mania as champion to wrestle Sheamus and make everyone happy. Please?
Rae's Prediction: Wade Barrett
Andrew's Prediction: Daniel Bryan


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WASHINGTON — Pregnant women are being advised by the government to eat more fish, but there won't be any labels or signs to let them know which fish have low mercury levels and are safest for dinner.
Without a labeling requirement, the draft advice issued Tuesday by the Food and Drug Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency is unlikely to clear up confusion among shoppers about what seafood pregnant women, young children and other vulnerable groups should avoid. Rather they'll have to rely on memory — should they avoid swordfish? Yes. What about salmon? That's OK.
Consumer groups have sued the agency, saying the warnings over the last decade haven't been clear enough about what fish could pose a risk, and it's hard for people to remember what's good and what isn't. Those groups asked for labels on packages or at fish counters.
For most people, accumulating mercury from eating seafood isn't a health risk. But for a decade, the FDA has warned that pregnant or breastfeeding women, those who may become pregnant, and young children avoid certain types of high-mercury fish because of concern that too much could harm a developing brain. Fish can absorb small amounts of mercury, a neurotoxin, from streams and oceans — and some varieties of seafood harbor higher levels.
Echoing their earlier advice, the agencies said this population should not eat shark, swordfish, king mackerel and tilefish from the Gulf of Mexico because of the mercury content and advised limiting white albacore tuna to six ounces a week.
The FDA says the update is an attempt to get pregnant women to eat more fish, since many types of low-mercury seafood are good sources of omega-3 fatty acids important for brain development. The benefits of seafood are greater than the risks, said Stephen Ostroff, the FDA's acting chief scientist.
The advice echoes the 2010 Dietary Guidelines, which say that pregnant women should consume at least 8 ounces and up to 12 ounces — or two to three servings — of a variety of seafood per week.
"Emerging science now tells us that limiting or avoiding fish during pregnancy and early childhood can mean missing out on important nutrients that can have a positive impact on growth and development, as well as on general health," Ostroff said.
The advisory says many of the most commonly-eaten fish are lower in mercury, including salmon, shrimp, pollock, tilapia, catfish, cod, flatfish, haddock and canned light tuna.
The FDA said it did an analysis of more than 1,000 pregnant women in the United States and found that 21 percent of them ate no fish in the previous month, and most of those who did eat fish ate far less than the recommended amount.
The seafood industry has said the government shouldn't look at mercury by itself, but at the overall benefits of seafood.
Jennifer McGuire of the National Fisheries Institute says the advice shows that the FDA has "begun the process of setting the record straight that fish should be a pregnancy staple."
FDA and EPA said they will take public comments, seek the advice of the FDA's Risk Communication Advisory Committee and conduct a series of focus groups before making the advice final.
Included in the draft is a table giving consumers more information on levels of omega-3 fatty acids and mercury in certain fish, allowing shoppers to assess for themselves which fish are best. But the table does not include a recommendation for how much mercury is too much.
According to the table, orange roughy and marlin have levels of mercury that are significantly higher than other fish, but are not on the do-not-eat list for pregnant women and kids. The agencies say they are taking comment on whether those two should be included in the warning list.
Sarah Klein of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, one of the groups that filed suit against the FDA, says the extra information is helpful but could still be confusing.
"What remains to be seen is how FDA plans to inform consumers of that advice," Klein said. "How can consumers be expected to retain this information when they are in the middle of grocery shopping?"
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Following last month's major coal-ash spill in Harriman, Tennesse, a West Virginia lawmaker has introduced legislation to set federal standards for storing the toxic waste produced by burning coal.
Introduced in the House by Democrat Nick Rahall, the Coal Ash Reclamation and Environmental Safety Act of 2009 would impose design, engineering, and performance standards on all surface impoundments that are constructed to hold coal ash, a mixture of water and fly ash that contains poisonous elements.
No federal standards currently exist, an absence that Rep. Rahall said in a press release was responsible for the collapse of an impoundment wall that resulted in more than a billion gallons of coal ash slurry spilling over more than 300 acres in Harriman, Tenn.:
"It is impossible to write off the disaster in Tennessee as a freak accident. The absence of national standards for coal ash has resulted in environmental damage and threats to human health throughout the country - not just last month, or last year, but for decades, and as far as we know this may be just the tip of the iceberg," Rahall said.
As the Monitor's Mark Clayton reported last week, there are hundreds of such ponds of coal-ash slurry nationwide. Many are leaching toxic metals into groundwater, and many others have walls that are thought to be degrading.
The Washington Post's Juliet Elperin explains how, even though the many in government have viewed coal ash as potentially toxic for almost three decades, no action has yet been taken to regulate it at the federal level:
Congress initially raised the prospect of regulating coal ash as a hazardous waste in 1980, but regulators moved slowly until March 2000, when the Environmental Protection Agency said it planned to designate it a "contingent hazardous waste." After electric utilities protested that such a move would cost billions, however, then-EPA administrator Carol M. Browner reversed herself and determined that coal ash amounted to a solid waste. The agency pledged to issue regulations on the matter nonetheless, but it failed to do so in the eight years since President Bush took office.
But that could change, even without Rahall's bill. The Associated Press reports that, during her Senate confirmation hearing Wednesday, Lisa Jackson, Obama's pick for EPA chief, said that she would immediately assess the hundreds of coal-ash disposal sites to determine if her agency needs to issue regulations.
Pressure to regulate coal waste is also coming from ordinary citizens. On Friday, according to a press release emailed by the PR firm Kelley Campaigns, Harriman residents Sarah McCoin and Tom Gizzard arrived on Capitol Hill with mason jars containing some of the sludge that had befouled their town. The press release notes that they have met with Sen. Lamar Alexander, Rep. Lincoln Davis, and five members of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee staff.
The pair also handed out black hats, reading "Filthy Coal," a play on the white "Clean Coal" caps – handed out by coal industry representatives – that were ubiquitous at events during the 2008 presidental campaign. The two said that there is no such thing as clean coal.
Also calling for regulation is Erin Brockovitch, the legal clerk who famously compiled evidence that a Pacific Electric & Gas facility had sickened nearby residents. Writing in the Huffington Post, a liberal news and opinion website, Ms. Brockovitch writes:
The infrastructure handling coal fly ash in the U.S. is old and needs to be replaced. Can we worry about the cost of replacing the old with the new when health and safety and the environment depends on it? We can see that contamination moves through air, land and water. Can we sit back and wait for communities to get sick when we can prevent it now?
Science usually lags behind the law. But in this case, law lags behind science because coal fly ash handling is not regulated as it should be. And we have a pretty good grasp on the fact that Coal Fly Ash is not healthy.


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The world's top technology companies continue to jostle for position in the rapidly evolving digital landscape. Today, global management consulting firm Booz & Company released its second annual ranking of the world's top 50 Information and Communications Technology (ICT) companies that provide the building blocks to increasingly digital businesses. There was a shake up at the top of the rankings: Microsoft was bumped out of the top spot, dropping to #3, Oracle held fast at #2, while IBM leapfrogged from #3 to claim the top spot, fueled by its strong product and service portfolio and global presence.
"This volatility is not surprising given the vast changes sweeping this sector. Digitization is a business imperative and these companies are being forced to rapidly transform their business models, product portfolios, service offerings and global footprints in order to stay one step ahead of their clients' needs. Add to this financial pressures in an uncertain economy, and the fact that boundaries are gone and more players are competing for overlapping, converged markets, and it's no wonder new winners are emerging," says Henning Hagen, partner at Booz & Company.
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"This market is going through dynamic changes; primarily because so many companies are expanding and reshaping their portfolios and pushing for global scale and reach at the same time. As a result, many smaller IT service providers are under pressure, being acquired or disappearing completely. On the other hand, 'digital first' players like Amazon are coming in with integrated solutions or compelling cloud offerings. We will see even more convergence in the future, and the winners will be those who can build integrated solution ecosystems around an innovative software or hardware core," says Florian Groene, a principal at Booz & Company.
In addition to assessing financial performance, portfolio strength, go-to-market footprint, and innovation and branding for company rankings, the study also identifies six business models to create value in the ICT industry. This analysis reveals that players that base their value creation approach on innovation (like Apple and Google), global sourcing (such as Infosys), and digitization models (including SAP) are the most successful financially, followed by large market consolidators such as Oracle.
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Inspired by the fact that today is Father's Day in Australia and that I have just seen one of the saddest movies of all time, my next blog is dedicated to my grandfathers.
I was blessed to have four grandfathers, although I only really knew one of them well enough to write anything about with any real heartfelt emotion.
My paternal grandfather died when I was 10 years old and I curse my childhood memories sometimes, as they are not rich with any memories of him. What I do recall are only fractured scenes, like from a movie that you saw years ago and only remember snippets of. He left an indelible impression on me though, and his death caused my father such an outpouring of grief. I vividly remember being told to go to my father's bedroom one afternoon, only to be told that Grandad Ward had passed away in hospital earlier that day. I shall never forget my father's tears. For a child my age, it was an especially poignant moment for me.
Herbert Ambrose Ward was a quiet man, a somewhat serious man, and a bit of a loner I think. The opposite of this was his enormous sense of humour. He really enjoyed a good joke and liked to play pranks from time to time. My childhood memories of going to visit my grandparents are marked by the fact that he spent much of his time away from the hustle and bustle of noisy visitors and us over zealous grandchildren, preferring to stay in the kitchen preparing the pot for tea or going outside to tend to his garden.
Born 5 August 1910, in the market town of Bungay, he was the first-born son of Arthur Ward and Barbara Hargreaves. Having served in the Boer War Arthur was a strict, austere man who my father remembers, kept a rifle in his hallway by the front door! This is quite ironic of character given that Arthur gave his son the name Ambrose, from the surname of the man who ran his favourite local drinking establishment.
|Herbert Ward, doing what he loved most
Herbert was a keen cinemagoer and he loved film all his life (one of all-time favourite actresses was Mary Pickford). During the war years he kept a diary of films he showed the troops at Barracks, as part of his service with the Royal Army Service Corps was with the Army Kinema Services. An electrician by trade before the war, Herbert's love of cinema won out and despite taking on a post-war job at Beccles Maltings, he worked in the evenings and weekends as a Projectionist at both the Regal Cinema and the Beccles Cinema in Saltgate.
I do recall visiting Grandad in the Projection Room after I had been with my father to see a film at Beccles. He would take me up the back stairs and we would enter this dark, pokey room filled with cigarette smoke and I would be deafened by the loud, clacking sound of film running through the reels.
My parents divorced when I was still quite young and my father married the second daughter of Frank William Denson and Mildred Alice Leach. Frank was born 18 April 1914 in Beccles, the son of William Denson and Frances Lillian Leon.
|Frank Denson (left), taken at Beccles Museum
opening ceremony in 1975
My childhood memories of him is with a pipe permanently in his mouth. He looked stern and serious on first glance, but he was funny too. He liked to tell me about local affairs, more of a historical nature than current. Frank is a renowned Beccles historian and Borough Archivist, and for many years worked at the Museum. He has spent many years of his life transcribing and researching the history of the town. Frank is still very much alive, having celebrated his 97th birthday this year.
My maternal grandfather passed away one year before I was born and my grandmother married again two years later. By this time I was about 18 months old.
I grew up hearing countless stories about Percy Preston, not all of them very flattering. My mother certainly missed him terribly when he died (and, naturally, still does 44 years on), not least because their relationship was not always smooth sailing.
Percy could be a hardened man, made bitter from his war experiences, but he also possessed a heart of gold, which endeared him to many local townsfolk of Bungay.
(What struck me when I started researching the family history was that both my grandfathers were born (and lived during their formative years) in the same street of Bungay! If they knew one another back then, I was never made aware of it.)
|Percy Preston, with his wife Lilian
Percy was the first-born son of Percy Preston (senior) and Ellen May Jolly, born 29 September 1913. Better known to everyone as Pat, he was well known in the town for his participation in the Salvation Army Band, and, in his post-war years, for his job as Dust Collector in Bungay, and Café owner in Cross Street. Percy would open his doors for anybody in need of a cup of tea and a plate of bacon & eggs. Lorry drivers would detour off the main road to Bungay based solely on Percy's goodwill reputation around the district.
Since researching the family history in-depth I have acquired Percy's army records and set about meticulously researching each individual service he completed. What unravelled was a gallant and sometimes heart-wrenching story.
From his pre-war service in Dacca, India to his capture at Dunkirk in 1940, his years spent in a Prisoner of War Camp on the Polish borders to his rehabilitation in 1943, and finally to his Medical training at Aldershot and subsequent service with the Ambulance Trains in Epsom, county Surrey, Percy spent a total of 29 loyal years in the British Army.
My grandmother married two years after Percy had passed away. This is the grandfather I remember best of all, and spent the most amounts of quality time with. I remember him for all sorts of different things, such as his tobacco (Drum), his use of Blycream and Old Spice, his love of Westerns (especially John Wayne movies) and reading crime novels. He worked hard all his life, and was not afraid of getting "stuck in" wherever he was needed.
Alf "Buster" Sampson, with my mother Denise
Alfred James Sampson was born 3 July 1926 in Mettingham, county Suffolk and was the first-born son of James Sampson and Alice Trett. James Sampson ran a farm in Mettingham and all of his sons helped out, and none were adverse to the hard graft. I have many happy childhood memories of Grandad digging and planting in the allotment patch that he lovingly kept. He was always outdoors, getting his hands (and his clothes!) dirty and muddy, and frequently getting wet!
At the beginning of this blog, I mentioned I had been to see a sad movie today. It was called 'Red Dog' and it tells the true story of a red Kelpie who travelled the length and breadth of North-West Western Australia (the Pilbara Region) in the 1970s. One place he called "home" from time to time was Dampier.
When my Grandad, better known to everyone who knew him as "Buster", emigrated to Australia in 1978, he worked harder than ever. Taking on a job in Dampier, he would be away from the family home for weeks at a time. Dampier was a hot and unforgiving place, a mining town, and a man's man territory. Alf seemed to fit right in, and he made many firm friends over the years.
I sorely wish I had known each one of my grandfather's better. Growing up, I would say the females of the family were a stronger influence and presence in my daily life. My grandfathers taught me to remain quiet inside, to feel strongly about something but not to act out in a gregarious way or be driven by material possessions. Also, they each possessed a fabulous sense of humour, each one of them loving to share a good joke and have a hearty laugh. It may sound daft but I always associated the men in my childhood like the company BP – they were the "Quiet Achievers" in my life!
So I end this blog by saying "Happy Father's Day" to my dear father and to the fondest memory of each one of my grandfather's – Percy (Pat), Herbert, Frank and Alfred (Buster).
You are all missed and you are all loved. I hope this blog will do each one of you a small piece of justice.


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TEWKSBURY -- A federal magistrate judge Thursday sided with the owners of Motel Caswell, the Rte. 38 motel which the office of U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz had sought to confiscate and sell due to what prosecutors have described as a history of drug crime activity.
The trial, which took place in November, was presided over by U.S. Magistrate Judge Judith Dein. Had she sided with prosecutors, the property would have been sold, with the proceeds split between federal government and the Tewksbury Police Department.
"It's a complete victory for the Caswell family and the protection of private property rights," said Scott Bullock, senior attorney for the Arlington, Va.-based Institute for Justice.
For more on the Caswell ruling please read Friday's edition of the Lowell Sun or visit www.lowellsun.com.
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GREENWOOD, S.C. – The Georgia College women's soccer team (3-6, 2-1 PBC) held their own against a stingy Lander University squad (7-1-1, 2-1-1 PBC) Wednesday night, equaling the Bearcats through 90 minutes before surrendering a goal in the 96th minute to fall, 1-0.
Lander's Sarah Piechocki executed on a penalty kick just over five minutes into the extra period.
Despite the loss, GC performed exceptionally well in their second Peach Belt Conference (PBC) contest away from home, the loss snapping a two-game conference win streak.
PBC Goalkeeper of the Week Taylor Cornelius (Dacula, Ga.) turned in a solid performance between the pipes, stopping all eight shots in regulation before coming up short on a penalty kick in overtime.
GC was out-shot in the game, mustering just seven compared to 19 from Lander. The Bearcats also dominated on corner kicks 6-0.
Reigning GC Athlete of the Week Ashley Veilleux (Monroe, Ga.) managed one of the Bobcat's shots-on-goal, while Tatum O'Keefe (Buford, Ga.) registered the other.
Head coach Hope Clark and her squad will have to bounce back quickly after the tough loss, as they head to Clayton State University (3-5, 0-3 PBC) Saturday, Oct. 1 to take on the Lakers at 5 p.m. The Lakers most recently faced North Georgia tonight.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, two-time winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at www.twitter.com/BobcatSports and www.facebook.com/gcbobcats for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCBobcats.com for more information, and to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GC Athletics Hall of Fame.


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Redknapp ready to recruit
QPR boss Harry Redknapp is still looking to add players to his squad in a bid to secure Barclays Premier League survival.
Redknapp saw his side seal an unexpected 0-0 draw at home to former club Tottenham with a show of grit and determination keeping Spurs at bay. But despite now taking four points from their last two league games Redknapp is aware that he needs to improve his squad as they look to retain their top-flight status.
When asked if current form could mean he does not spend in the January transfer window, Redknapp said: "I think if you think that is going to happen we would have a rude awakening at the end of the year. We need to strengthen the squad, we are short in certain areas."
Reports surfaced earlier in the week that Rangers had had a bid for West Brom forward Peter Odemwingie rejected but, although Redknapp admitted he was interested in the Nigerian, he was unsure on the progress on any negotiations.
"We made an enquiry for Odemwingie," he said. "I don't know whether (chief executive) Phillip Beard has put an offer in but he was a player we spoke about and he was a player I was interested in. There is every chance we have made an offer but I haven't spoken to him (Beard) today but there is every chance an offer could have gone in."
One player who Redknapp did confirm he was looking into signing was Spurs midfielder Jake Livermore. The 23-year-old England international has struggled to break into the Tottenham side on a regular basis and his former boss wants to take him to Loftus Road.
"Livermore, yes. We are doing a deal to take Jake on loan," he said. "I like Jake, I'm a big fan of Jake's. He is a good young player and it will be a good experience for him."
However, Spurs boss Andre Villas-Boas had a different take on the potential deal for Livermore. "There is nothing confirmed yet," he said. "I think when we announce it it will have to be official form all three parties."
Villas-Boas said his side had been targeting the three points before kick-off but knew grabbing a goal against a strong defensive line-up would be difficult. "Obviously we wanted to win to make sure we profit fully from the weekend's games," he said.
"After their win against Chelsea it was important to try and get the first goal and unlock them in some way. It is difficult to break them down and only if you score is it possible to find more spaces."


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Team Khokhlova/ Novitski no longer exists
On April 29, at the capital's sports center "Mechta" (Dream), 2009 European champions and World bronze medalists in ice dancing Yana Khokhlova and Sergei Novitski were awarded the "Distinguished Master of Sport" titles. That same day, the athletes told their coaches they'd no longer be skating together – Novitski is wrapping up his elite career due to health issues, whereas Khokhlova will try herself with a new partner.
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The next day, the "SE" correspondent met with the skaters at the house of their coaches Alexander Svinin and Irina Zhuk.
Novitski arrived before his partner, and it was apparent that end of his career, which we've discussed even back in late March at Turin world championships, is still a sore subject for the skater.
"I just don't know what to do now", he said. Yana and I got such a warm reception when we were coming out to receive out "distinguished master of sport" pins… I thought then that his attitude of the fans is worth a lot. That alone makes me want to go on skating.
On the other hand, I understand very well that I just can't guarantee being able to continue training the way elite skating requires. My problems began back in 2006, when Yana and I got into a serious car accident two weeks before the Calgary World championships. I even needed to have my knee operated after returning from Canada. Obviously, age makes all practices harder anyway. The injury is especially acute during competitions, when emotional stress is added to the physical.
Theoretically, I'd like to remain in figure skating, perhaps as an organizer as opposed to a coach. For now, I'm just not ready to make any decisions regarding the rest of my life. I keep going to the rink and training a bit, just to stay in shape."
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"Yana and Sergei let Irina and me know that the Turin World championships will be their last competition together back in early March", recounted Svinin. "We agreed it was a sensible decision, as Sergei indeed couldn't train "all out" through the last season.
Irina and I tried to safeguard him, all the while fully realizing that was not how one prepares for the Olympics. Correspondingly, we couldn't hope for a high result.
In the end, Yana and Sergei couldn't even complete the world championships, as Novitski's injury got worse following the Original Dance.
Upon returning to Moscow, Sergei did heal up a bit and rested up; he even told Irina and me he wouldn't mind skating for another seasons. However, this wouldn't satisfy anyone – not Yana, not us, and not the skating federation. If we're talking about continuing to skate together, we have to plan for four years, toward the Sochi Olympics.
Continuing to skate just to make it into top ten in the world is, in my opinion, unacceptable for a team of Khokhlova/ Novitski's caliber. They have already achieved things that I, for example, never managed as an athlete. Few do. To continue progressing, though, one needs to ramp up, continually increasing the load. Moreover, the competition continues to move forward fast. No one can tell what that would do to his health. As coaches, we cannot accept such a responsibility
As for Khokhlova, it's too early to talk about her leaving us for other coaches, as there is no clear picture just yet. There are only intentions. One can only be sure that if Yana does continue to skate, she'll go on representing Russia.
Honestly, we didn't do anything to find another partner for Yana, since she didn't inform us of her intention to go on skating. Also, there aren't many male dancers available. Choosing someone almost always breaks up another team. Russian doesn't even have many strong teams now. It was easier back when we skater ourselves – there was always five or six replacements for anyone even at the elite level.
Obviously, any coach hopping is always painful, now just as then, often resulting in complete breaks in any relations between athletes and their former coaches. Irina and I never planned to say, "Better you belong to nobody!" but frankly we were a little hurt that Yana never even consulted s about going to America to try out in Shpilband & Zueva's group.
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On April 11, Khokhlova flew out to Detroit to see Igor Shpilband and Marina Zueva, the world's best coaching duo based on their Olympic results. The skater was in luck – Zueva and Shpilband's two strongest teams, Tessa Virtue/ Scott Moir and Meryl Davis/ Charlie White, the top medalists at both the Olympics and Worlds, were skating in shows; therefore, the ocahces weren't too busy in Detroit.
Khokhlova decided to go there largely out of desperation – she had no hope of finding a suitable partner in Moscow, whereas Shpilband and Zueva worked with a Lithuanian skater Deividas Stagniunas. Together with the American Katherine Copely, he represented Lithuania at various international competitions since 2006; at 2009 Europeans, the duo closed out the top ten, being eighth in both Original and Free dances.
Last seasons, Lithuanian government refused to grand Copely citizenship (depriving the team of going to the Vancouver Olympics); later, Katherine sustained an injury and decided to end her career.
I called Zueva in Detroit before Khokhlova's trip to the US. Marina confirmed that Shpilband and she agreed to look at Yana with a new partner, and then added,
"There is another possibility here – my son Fedor. Even in Vancouver, I've been approached by fairly influential people back from the Russian federation to see if I'd be interested in having my son represent Russian in ice dancing. The talk, though, was mainly about a partner for Oksana Domnina. Fedor is a bit tall for Khokhlova."
Zueva's son Fedor Andreev used to be Canadian junior champion, training with Dick Callaghan, one of America's best specialists. In 2005, the skater sustained a back injury while attempting to learn the quad; he then decided to quit skating and switched to auto-sport for two years. In 2007, though, he came back to ice.
From that time one, Andreev continued to skate in some national events as a single skater. In his free time, he worked quite a lot training ice dancer.
The week Khokhlova spent in Detroit was quite busy. The skater would spend two or three hours a day skating with Stagniunas, and then the same amount of time skating with Andreev.
At the end of the week, it turned out Yana couldn't return to Russia as planned given that all trans-Atlantic flights were canceled due to the Icelandic volcano. Correspondingly, another week emerged for experimenting on the ice.
By then, both Shpilband and Zueva realized that Khokhlova and Andreev not only look very natural together, but, despite Fedor's advanced age of 28, have quite a lot of potential
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Khokhlova returned to Moscow to late April, bringing along a DVD with the recordings of her "American" practices with both partners as well we partially ready dances with Andreev – Fedor learned the compulsory "Golden Waltz" in addition to the program fragments that Shpilband has put together to different music.
Next, the recordings were shown to the specialists from the Russian figure skating federation, including Olympic champion and the ISU technical committee president Alexander Gorshkov, team consultant Tatiana Tarasova and the two-time ice dance world champion Oleg Ovsiannikov. They all came to a unanimous decision – a possible project of the ice dancing duo Khokhlova/ Andree is worth the effort.
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I managed to talk on the phone to Igor Shpilband, who went on a week-long vacation to Florida immediately after Khokhlova left Detroit.
"Now it's up to them", said Shpilband on the phone. "I think Fedor will need some time to come to a final decision. It's not up to Marina and me – Fedor is an adult, and we are talking about four years of his life here. As a coach, I look forward to working with this team. No question, I'd love to do it, not least because ice dancing has never seen anything like it before."
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This week Í will give you a link to: the Andrew Peterson Society
The website is dedicated to the Swedish emigrant Anders Pettersson, who moved to America from Sweden in 1850, and changed his name to Andrew Peterson.
Andrew Peterson was born on October 20th 1818 in Vastra Ryd parish, Ydre in the county Ostergotland. His parents, Petter Jonsson and Ingrid Samuelsdotter, were farmers in Sjoarp.
Andrew worked as a farm hand on other farms in the area, but after his father's death in 1846 he moved back to Sjoarp to take over the farm.
Andrew Peterson in front of his first shanty, a simple log cabin, in Minnesota back in 1855.


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Formed in 1917, shortly after the United States entered World War I, the 89th Infantry Division participated in several major military battles. In World War II, the "Rolling W" division landed in France in January 1945 and quickly advanced to the German front. In March 1945, it joined the Third Army's assault on the Rhineland, crossing the Sauer, Moselle, and Rhine rivers that same month. On April 8, the 89th captured the town of Eisenach and subsequently advanced farther into Thuringia and into neighboring Saxony, where it took the city of Zwickau on April 18, 1945.
On April 4, 1945, the 89th overran Ohrdruf, a subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp. Ohrdruf was the first Nazi concentration camp liberated by US troops in Germany. A week later, on April 12, Generals Dwight D. Eisenhower, George S. Patton, and Omar Bradley visited Ohrdruf to see, firsthand, evidence of Nazi atrocities against concentration camp prisoners.
The 89th Infantry Division was recognized as a liberating unit by the US Army's Center of Military History and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1988.
Casualty Figures
Casualty figures for the 89th Infantry Division, European theater of operations:
- Total battle casualties: 1,029
- Total deaths in battle: 325
Division Nickname
The 89th Infantry Division's nickname, the "Rolling W," is based on the division's insignia. Created during World War I, this insignia utilized a letter "M" inside a wheel. When the wheel turns, the "M" becomes a "W." The letters "MW" signify the Midwest origin of the troops who formed the 89th during World War I. The division was also known as the "Middle West" division, another variation on its origin.


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It was Pele who referred to soccer as "the beautiful game." Last night I had the pleasure of attending a match that lived up to this billing. The match, at RFK stadium in Washington D.C., featured two giants of European football, Barcelona and reigning European champs, A.C. Milan. Exhibition matches between teams of this calibre tend to show soccer at its best. Players have no fear of losing, so they play with great flair. And defenders who are about to be beaten don't always feel compelled to foul their tormenter as he flies by. That was the case last night. In the first half, I sat behind Milan's goal and marvelled at the exquisite, silky skills of Barcelona's Javier Saviola (Argentina), Ronaldinho (Brazil), Marc Overmars (Holland), and Ricardo Quaresma (Portugal). This international quartet shredded A.C. Milan's vaunted defense, led by Italian superstars Maldini and Nesta. In the second half, Milan launched a furious assault on Barcelona's substitute, but Barcelona held on thanks to spectacular goalkeeping and some luck.
The final result was Barcelona 2, A.C. Milan 0. Unfortunately, if they play again, say in March, the result will probably be 0-0 with Milan winning on penalty kicks. Here is the Washington Post's account of the match.
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Next to acting, careers in movie directing and producing are some of the most popular jobs in film -- in large part because directors and producers have creative control and can reap large rewards from their efforts.
The Work of Movie Directing and Producing
The director is responsible for every aspect of a motion picture production, from set design to music to cast decisions, and leads the cast and crew during filming to achieve a successful final production. In most large movies, there are layers of assistant directors, who work directly with technicians and cast members. All directors must ultimately answer to the executive producer, who has the final say on the production.
The producer manages the business and financial aspects of a movie, including everything from script selection to budget development to hiring and firing. Producers are the entrepreneurs of a film production. It is the producer who decides which screenplay gets made, how much money can be allocated, and who should direct it. In larger productions, a bevy of associate, assistant, and line producers work for the executive producer to coordinate the activities of writers, directors, managers, and agents.
Directing and producing can be stressful work, with long and irregular hours and pay, and the need to adhere to budgets and union rules.
Directors and producers enter the field in a myriad of ways. Many directors might start as actors or screenwriters, or get formal training as a direcor in a film program.
Producers might begin in stage management, or work first as a director. Producers may have degrees in arts management or nonprofit management.
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Posted on May 01, 2015
Happy May Day and In Home Elderly Care
The month of April has drawn to a close and we are another month further into the spring season. May 1st is called May Day in many cultures and is celebrated with dancing, festivals and flowers. May Day marks the midway point between a solstice and an equinox and is a celebration of spring.
May Day is an ancient holiday that originated to celebrate the re-birth of springtime and has been considered in many countries as a national holiday. Some use May Day as a day of political protests, a day for honoring organized labor, and a day for feasting and celebrating. In the United States, May Day is primarily used to celebrate nature.
A traditional way to celebrate May Day is to create maypole by digging a deep hole for a long piece of wood or a branch that's about ten feet tall. Fresh flowers attached to the pole and some ribbons can bring on extra springtime feel. Have friends and family weave ribbons that are attached to the top in a maypole dance. These dances can be researched online if not already familiar and can be fun to participate and watch!
In some cultures, it is common to start a bon fire to celebrate May Day. It was believed that the fire could ward off evil spirits and protect them as they entered the new spring season. While it might not be safe to create an actual bonfire, a simple campfire in a portable fire pit could represent the tradition and still be warm and festive.
As with many holidays, May Day is a reason to go out dancing. It is tradition to dance in spring. Pair up the dancing and try some new moves with fresh May punch. This punch is made with fresh strawberries, white wine, soda water and lemonade to taste. May punch can also be made substituting the wine with white grape juice. Traditionally the punch is poured over woodruff and shared with friends to ring in May Day.
A wonderful way to celebrate May Day is to bring some bright flowers into the home. Spread the floral sunshine with loved ones by way of May Day baskets. Traditionally a basket of flowers are left anonymously on neighbors' doorsteps for them to discover. If caught, they can claim a kiss! A fun spin for children is to create a May Day "basket" with a plastic cup filled with popcorn, puffed cheeseballs or other dry snack treats mixed with candy. The fun is in the surprise, so don't get caught!
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Digital Paintings: Featurebationby Simran Singh Gleason
"Featurebation," wow, great word. I guess what I mean by this is the practice of building up images using every feature you can get your hands on. And, of course, the natural thing to do when you get a new program & start playing with it.
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A vocal body of liberal Catholics and anti-Papists call Stanford home.
In a 2000 essay entitled "Fortress Vaticana," religious studies professor Thomas Sheehan wrote derisively of Cardinal Ratzinger, suggesting his work was "third-rate," "sloppy," and theologically "vulgar."
English professor Tobias Wolff has blamed the Church's problems on its pursuit of "visions of cohesion and power."
Both Sheehan and Wolff denied involvement in the decision not to invite Ratzinger, but Prof. Elizabeth Bernhardt, director of the Stanford Language Center, recalled voicing her concerns. In the event an official invitation had been extended, she said, "I would just have smoke coming out of my ears." She also said she would have protested, but added that academic freedom is "a really important thing we all have to hold."
Having taught a course on resistance to the Nazi regime, Bernhardt said she could not as a "matter of conscience" have condoned a visit by someone who joined the Nazi war machine. During World War II, such participation was mandatory.
Bernhardt said she opposed Ratzinger's "ridiculous stances" on birth control and the ordination of female priests. Furthermore, Ratzinger's title—Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith and Morals—was a legacy from the Inquisition.
Most worrisome, the pastor at the campus parish seems to have helped scuttle the proposal:
She also suspected that the event's intent was to "embarrass" the Catholic Community. Fr. LaBelle agreed, saying that the event—far from an "open forum"—would have been designed to stir controversy in a kind of "staged argument."
I am reminded of the passage in More's Utopia where he berates the English aristocracy for poorly educating their people and then punishing them for committing the crimes for which their lack of education has prepared them. If these Stanford professors and their like prattle on about the vulgarity and ignorance of American Christianity, they should acknowledge that acts like the refusal of a venue to a future pope ensure that American religious discussions remain at a crassly elementary level.
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Chester Regional Medical Center could face Medicare penalty
Chester Regional Medical Center is one of 13 hospitals in South Carolina facing a possible 1 percent cut in Medicare payments because of the rates of infections patients pick up there.
Hospitals are rated on a 1-to-10 scale. Those with a rating of 7 or above face the penalty. Chester Regional Medical Center's preliminary rating is an 8.
In a statement, Chester Regional Medical Center officials said the current Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services report includes only one year of data. The final report will based on two years of data and the medical center is "optimistic that two years of data will demonstrate our quality care and no penalties."
According to its statement, Chester Regional Medical Center has eliminated the incidence of central line infections over the past 18 months.
A central line-associated bloodstream infection occurs when germs, usually bacteria or viruses, enter the bloodstream through a central line. Health care providers must follow a strict protocol when inserting the line to make sure the line remains sterile, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Patients who get a central line infection usually have a fever, and might also have red skin and soreness around the central line. If this happens, health care providers can do tests to see there is an infection.
Chester Regional Medical Center said it has also reduced catheter-associated infections to zero over the past 30 months.
These infections usually occur in the bladder or kidney. Germs do not normally live in these areas; but are introduced via a urinary catheter.
Chester Regional Medical Center said it has implemented "numerous best practices" such as hourly rounds of patients and regular meetings to review potential safety concerns to reduce the number of preventable complications.
Other best practices include stressing simple guidelines – don't insert catheters into the bloodstream unless it's absolutely needed, remove when they are not needed and take extra steps to ensure a sterile environment when inserting and maintaining catheters.
Chester Regional Medical Center is also participating in the Carolinas Centers for Medical Excellence and the South Carolina Hospital Association's Partnership for Patients, two quality improvement initiatives.
About one-quarter of hospitals nationwide – 761 overall – face the penalties under the federal Hospital-Acquired Condition Reduction Program. The effort is aimed at reducing avoidable complications from hospital stays, which it estimates impact one out of every eight patients nationally.
The only S.C. hospital Medicare listed as assured of a penalty – those with ratings of nine or above – is Chesterfield General Hospital in Cheraw.
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lily of the valley
and hellebores.
They all smelled so amazing together.
The basket actually took quite a while!
After starting with some older pussy willow branches that I tried soaking to soften them, I got some new ones instead and they were much easier. Just a few little touchups...
and it was finally done.
There were some little pieces for leftovers, which I always love
and a little arrangement for another room.
Then time to use these candies, stickers and confetti
for another Martha Stewart project:
crepe paper carrots. And an egg-shaped strawberry lemonade cake with JELL-O beans.
Such different size strawberries!
Confession: there was a cake toppling on the way to the party, but my Mom's Easter bread stayed intact until after the egg hunt
but Mila slept through dinner.


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A new Recirculating Spreader-Feeder from Flexicon evenly distributes powder and bulk coatings onto food products as they pass between the unit's longitudinal discharge hopper and its lower collection hopper.
The fully mobile unit is positioned so that a wire conveyor belt with items to be coated, passes immediately above the unit's lower collection hopper, as a uniform curtain of the coating material descends from the upper discharge hopper.
A centerless auger along the bottom of the longitudinal collection hopper feeds material into the intake adapter of a side-mounted flexible screw conveyor that moves the material at a 75 degree incline into a horizontally-oriented conveyor positioned above a longitudinal discharge hopper.
The horizontal conveyor has multiple discharge ports to apportion material across the length of the discharge hopper, and automatically starts and stops to maintain a preset fill level in the hopper. A small-diameter rotating agitator along the bottom of the hopper promotes uniform discharge through an adjustable screen that spans a gap along the hopper bottom.
The conveyors employed are reportedly able to move both free- and non-free-flowing materials, including products that pack, cake, smear or degrade, with no separation of blended products such as seed mixes and spice blends, regardless of disparities in bulk density or particle size.
Suitable for food and other sanitary applications, the system features all-stainless construction including motors and vibrators, and quick-disconnect fittings for thorough, rapid wash down.
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CENTER VALLEY, Pa. -- Lehigh Valley's Department of Continuing Education has announced a new curriculum for its project management certificate program that allows participants greater flexibility for completion. The program consists of four modules that can be taken consecutively for a Penn State certificate or independently to satisfy either a desire for a particular skill or recertification requirements. Each module includes instruction in Microsoft Project 2010 as a capstone to the principles learned.
The series, which begins Feb. 21, includes modules on Introduction to Project Management and Initiating the Project; Project Planning; Executing, Monitoring and Controlling the Project; and Controlling then Closing the Project. The cost is $549 per module and includes all textbooks and course materials. Classes will be held at the Center Valley campus, 2809 Saucon Valley Road, Center Valley, PA 18034.
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New poster here, although I've been following JustBento and JustHungry for awhile now.
For some reason, I have quite a lot of oatmeal stocked in my pantry (instant version). Is there any other way to cook oatmeal other than just putting hot water and sugar on it? I'm quite getting tired of that taste, but I don't want to just throw away those oats..
try varying the taste with added ingredients or spices? You could throw in some cinnamon or vanilla if you like it sweet. Or use hot milk instead of water. Try adding raisins, dried apricots or other fruit, fresh or frozen berries, banana chunks...I often eat mine with ready berry soups that you can buy from the shop - just prepare the oatmeal and pour berry soup over it (mix if you want to). Or add spoonful of fruit or berry jam and mix.
Quite common way to eat oatmeal where I live is to add small chunk of butter on top of it and let it melt, and then pour some milk on the edges. But I prefer the fruit/berry version!
You can also use ready oatmeal in baking, just add that in bread or roll dough! That's what is quite often done with leftover oatmeal here. You could also add it without preparing it first, I'd imagine...at least you can do that with normal oats.
I often grint oat in coffe-mill and use instead of part of flower for different recipes
Um - you do put salt in it don't you? It's pretty nasty without salt. The traditional Scottish way to eat it is like this: mix your oatmeal with water and salt (I use about 1/2 teaspoon salt to say 1/4 - 1/3 cup oatmeal and a bit less than a cup of water) then bring it to the boil while stirring to prevent lumps, then simmer it until it's cooked, still stirring. This will take different amounts of time depending on the type of oats. Some even benefit from soaking overnight first, although there are also oats that cook almost instantly. Then you pour it into a plate and pour milk on and eat it. For a treat use cream instead of milk. I myself like about a teaspoon of brown sugar sprinkled on too, but my Scottish stepmother used to shudder at that. My sister-in-law puts yoghurt on it, and people (not Scottish traditionalists) mix in all sorts of dried fruit when cooking it too.
People also cook it with milk instead of water, and I guess you could use coconut milk too, although I've not tried it.
You can also make muesli, e.g. http://www.healthyfood.co.nz/recipes/2007/january/how-to-cook-toasted-mu..., but some people find eating it quite hard work.
But you can use it in baking. There are plenty of recipes around for muesli bars and what-have-you. Also added to the topping of a fruit crumble.
there's also this New Zealand and Australian traditional biscuit:
You can pretty much replace some of the flour in most biscuit or slice recipes with oatmeal for a nuttier flavour and more texture.
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Hmm, I haven't actually tried putting salt in my oats. Maybe it's already incorporated in instant oats?
Thank you very much for the links! I'll try some of these out.
It's also very good as an alternative to breadcrumbs when frying things. Fish that has been dipped in flour, then egg and then rolled in oatmeal before frying is lovely, particularly the oilier fish.
Oooh that sounds like a wonderful idea! Thanks for the suggestion.. I wonder if it's good for breading shrimp or chicken as well...?
I'm sure chicken would be good with an oatmeal crumb, and shrimp fried in oats seems popular enough to be a celebrated Chinese-Malay dish http://masak-masak.blogspot.com/2005/09/crispy-oat-prawns.html
is it the kind that dissolves in cold liquids?
i use that a lot for adding some fiber, iron and other good things to baked goods that are made with white flour- pancakes, muffins, mushipan... for example 2 tbsp in a little orange juice for 6 mushipan as a sweet breakfast.
if the dough of your recipe is on the dry side, dissolve them in a little liquid first to avoid lumps. liquid things like pancake of waffle batter won't mind if you just throw in the dry stuff (if you've got the same kind as i do).
i also drink it dissolved in cherry juice as a liquid midnight snack when i can't sleep. maybe it's just a placebo, but i think it makes me sleep well, which oats are supposed to do..
I think that if instant oatmeal (1 minute) was soaked overnight it would just disintegrate, but it usually works pretty well for rolled or steel cut (Irish/Scottish) oats. But as said above you can basically add anything to oats and it will be just fine.
I like mashed overripe banana with any of the following: blueberries, coco powder, or walnuts. If you add dried fruit while you are cooking, the fruit will rehydrate and sweeten the oats, I like cranberries and/or raisins. Or if you are like me and have a large stock of mashed pumpkin (I have quite a few bags in the freezer from cooking one pumpkin in the fall), you can spice it up like pumpkin pie. I really don't add sugar to any of these, since there is enough sweetness from the fruit.
You could also look for oatmeal cookie or oatmeal bread recipes. Those usually don't call for instant oatmeal, but I'll bet there are a few recipes that do. Instant oatmeal could also be used for Cranachan, though the results wouldn't be as good as using non-instant.
(there are loads of easy recipes for Cranachan on the web)
Using the instant oatmeal as a breading ingredient is a good idea. You could also try throwing a couple of spoonfuls into meatloaf or meat patties. And if the packets are flavored, that could make for an interesting and tasty alternative. And for some crunch, you could try making the instant oatmeal as usual, but sprinkle the top with another dry cereal and fruit.
I've also used instant oatmeal in a pinch in oatmeal cookies, when I ran out of regular rolled oats. Works just as well! Just cut back on the salt in the recipe since there's usually some salt added to instant oatmeal.
If it's a flavored oatmeal it's even better in the cookies! ^^
I use oatmeal quite a bit.
- we add chopped dried fruits and nuts to oatmeal for breakfast.
- in my meatballs instead of crackers
- in breads I substitute a cup of oatmeal (instead of flour)
- Gently toast the oats and use them as a topper for yogurt.
- You can also make oatmeal flour if you have some sort of grinder. Coffee grinders work well. But you can't use just oat flour in most recipes. You need to mix it with wheat flour. (Wheat flour has gluten, oat doesn't.)
- In cookies
My favorite "healthy" cookies are these:
1 c. butter
1 1/4 c. sugar
3 tbsp. molasses
2 eggs, beaten
3 tsp. vanilla
1/2 c. wheat germ
1 1/2 c. flour (whole wheat pastry)
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. baking soda
3 c. rolled oats (use the instant oatmeal here...)
1 c. raw sunflower seeds
Cream together butter, sugar and molasses until very light and fluffy. Add eggs and vanilla. Beat well. Sift together flour, salt and baking soda. Stir in oats, sunflower seeds and wheat germ. Drop by rounded teaspoon onto ungreased baking sheets, 1 1/2 to 2 inches apart. Bake 12 to 15 minutes at 350 degrees. Let cool a few seconds before removing.
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Try using spices like Garam Masala or Tandoori to make your oatmeal a savory dish instead of sweet. I always add a bit of Garam Masala to my oatmeal instead of cinnamon, it gives it a great flavor. Also try brown sugar instead of white sugar (especially if you can get real brown sugar, not white sugar with molasses) to give a different flavor. Even using a bit of molasses instead of sugar gives a different flavor.
Oat chocolate chip biscuits, my all perpouse comfort food. st add a cup or so of oats and a quater cup of chocolate chips to your favourite biscuit recipie.
Oat topped fruit crumble, fairly self explanitory.
Bean burgers (400g pureed kidney beans, 100g oats, mix them together and make into burger shapes)
Earl grey porridge
Home made muesli
The possibilities are endless...
Sorry, I'm a bit obsesse with oats, always have been. They can be used in place of bread crums or cornflakes in most recipies.
There's also http://www.scottishrecipes.co.uk/cranachanrecipe.htm
One of my favorite breakfasts is sweet rice porridge or oatmeal with walnuts, a chopped medjool date, and tons of cinnamon.
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I always cook my oatmeal/porridge in milk or soymilk. Makes it so much tastier and creamier than water, in my opinion. =)
You only have to be careful to not cook acidic food/flavorings with the milk, such as pomegranate syrup or some jams, otherwise the milk will curdle and turn really nasty!
Add those flavorings only after cooking, as a topping.
As a sweetener, I've tried maple syrup, honey and sugar beet syrup, all quite tasty.
In addition to the sweetener, I like to add a bit of one of the following flavorings, at the end of cooking:
- cocoa powder
- matcha powder
- grated orange or lemon zest
- amaretto (bittersweet almond liqueur, yum!)
- spice mix of cinnamon, cloves, cardamom, coriander
I usually make brown bread with oatmeal. Or I add it to meatball mix instead of bread crumbs.
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In Bosnia, 20 years aft er a war of ethnic cleansing, mixed-ethnicity families swim against the stream of nationalist separatism that insists all Bosnians should be neatly sorted into ethnic categories. When asked about their experiences, however, mixed families in Sarajevo during fieldwork from 2011 to 2012 repeatedly insisted that they were just "ordinary," "normal" families. In this article, I look closely at an ordinary evening in the life of one such family, examining how they achieve this atmosphere of everydayness within which ordinary kin relationships are sustained despite the volatility of diff erences in ethnic and religious affi liation. Using a conversation analytic approach and building on the work of ordinary ethics theorists, I argue that the sense of being an ordinary family is an accomplishment constituted through active intersubjective work.
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Achieving the Ordinary
Everyday Peace and the Other in Bosnian Mixed-Ethnicity Families
Keziah Conrad
Acoustic Startles in Horror Films
A Neurofilmological Approach
Valerio Sbravatti
The acoustic blast is one of the most recurrent sound devices in horror cinema. It is designed to elicit the startle response from the audience, and thus gives them a "jump scare." It can occur both in the form of a diegetic bang and in the form of a nondiegetic stinger (i.e., a musical blare provided by the score). In this article, I will advance the hypothesis that silence plays a crucial role in contemporary horror films, both perceptually, since it leaves the sound field free for the acoustic blast, and cognitively, since it posits the audience in an aversive anticipatory state that makes the startle more intense. I will analyze the acoustic startle using a neurofilmological approach, which takes into account findings from experimental sciences in order to better understand the relationship between physiological and psychological factors that make such an effect possible during the filmic experience.
Reversing the world—What austerity does to time and place
Theodoros Rakopoulos
Instead of taking for granted that austerity is unidirectionally associated with Europe, the anthropology of austerity should be paying attention to the situatedness of its effects. The levering potential that a comparative analysis of austerity allows is precious, for it opens new critical perspectives on our understanding of temporal and geographical consciousness. An antipode of perspective invites a more historical analysis of a phenomenon that unsettles the conceived understandings of Europe's position.
Agony and the Anthropos
Democracy and Boundaries in the Anthropocene
Amanda Machin
The Anthropocene diagnosis, in which humanity has become a disruptive geological force, indicates an irresolvable political paradox. The political demos is inevitably and necessarily bounded. The Anthropocene, however, heralds the anthropos—the globalized more-than-human identity. The anthropos challenges the maintenance of political boundaries, yet any robust response to ecological predicament must be underpinned by a decisive demos. This article, informed by theories of political agonism, suggests that this paradox importantly provokes ongoing political contestation of the inevitable yet contingent exclusions from politics and the proper place of political boundaries in the Anthropocene. The article concludes that the Anthropocene diagnosis provides an opportunity for a lively democratic politics in which the demos is always prompted to reimagine itself and asks, who are "we" in the Anthropocene?
Ambivalent Anticipations
On Soldierly Becomings in the Desert of the Real
Thomas Randrup Pedersen
What if war is not hell? What if war is not entertainment? What if war is, instead, the stuff dreams are made of? What is one then to anticipate of one's tour of duty in a war zone? In this article, I interrogate anticipations in relation to soldierly becomings through deployment to Afghanistan. Based on ethnographic fieldwork with Danish combat troops, I explore the uneasy coexistence of two anticipatory plotlines: 'the passion' and 'the desert'. The former depicts the tour of duty as a heroic adventure driven by desire for real combat, while the latter casts deployment as an anti-heroic misadventure imposed by the dull reality in theatre. I argue that anticipation can harbour ambivalent, even antagonistic, yet simultaneous expectations of what might come. I show that anticipation is further blurred, as our anticipatory horizons are tied not only to our unsettled plotlines of becoming but also to our being's existential imperative.
The anthropology of austerity
An introduction
Theodore Powers and Theodoros Rakopoulos
This introduction posits that austerity is an instantiation of structural adjustment programs (SAPs) and thus must be revisited in two ways, involving its historical and geographical rendering. First, anthropological accounts should think of austerity in the long term, providing encompassing genealogies of the concept rather than seeing it as breach to historical continuity. Second, the discipline should employ the comparative approach to bring together analyses of SAPs in the Global South and austerity measures in the Global North, providing a more comprehensive analysis of this phenomenon. We are interested in what austerity does to people's temporal consciousness, and what such people do toward a policy process that impacts their lives. We find, in this comparative pursuit, instead of Foucauldian internalization, dissent and dissatisfaction.
Anticipating Relations
Beyond Reciprocity and Obligation in the Ger Districts of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Elizabeth Fox
In the outskirts of Ulaanbaatar, known as ger districts, a growing number of rural-to-urban migrants live without access to formal urban infrastructure or regular incomes. Under these challenging material conditions, personal networks take precedence, providing and regulating access to employment and meat provisioning. Looking beyond discussions of anticipation among migrants focusing on the goals of migration, I interrogate the role of anticipation in the making and maintaining of relational networks. Existing analyses of such networks in Mongolia have generally relied on idioms of reciprocity or obligation. Focusing instead on material transfers and transactions among ger district residents reveals such networks to be more ambiguous and prone to failure than notions of reciprocity or obligation can easily accommodate. This article argues that the productive contradiction within the concept of anticipation – encompassing both expectative waiting and pre-emptive action – can illuminate new aspects of these relations and networks in action.
Guy Lurie
This article unveils a virtually unknown chapter in the history of judicial diversity in Israel. During its first 20 years of existence, between 1948 and 1968, only three Arab judges were appointed. Then, within two years, between 1968 and 1969, Israel appointed three additional Arab judges. Two interconnected changes account for this small increase in judicial diversity. First, in the 1960s, the Arab legal elite began to exert pressure on Israeli officials to appoint Arab judges. Second, perhaps partly due to this pressure, the Judicial Selection Committee made having a diverse judiciary a top priority. This historical example teaches us that without outside pressure, the Judicial Selection Committee does not look on diversity as an important consideration, using the merit system of appointment as an excuse for its failure. Indeed, up to the present day, the Israeli judiciary has relatively few Arab judges.
An Arab University in the State of Israel
Challenges, Obstacles, and Possibilities
Nohad 'Ali and Rima'a Da'as
The notion of having an Arab university in the State of Israel is exceedingly controversial, but also of great value and political and cultural significance. Can such a dream become a reality in a state that defines itself as Jewish, as well as democratic? This article discusses the vision of establishing an Arab university, including the previous attempts to establish one, the barriers and obstacles encountered, the reality of inequality of academic rights, and how this dream might actually be brought to fruition. The creation of an Arab university could represent an important step in serving the needs of Israel's Arab citizens, promoting their status in the state, and protecting their identity, culture, and even existence.
Bongani Nyoka
This article attempts a preliminary discussion of the three clusters of Archie Mafeje's work. While Mafeje called for 'non-disciplinarity', as against 'interdisciplinarity' or 'disciplinarity', this article makes a case for why he should be read as a revolutionary sociologist. In so doing, the article pieces together some of the key elements of his oeuvre. The article consists of four main parts. The first part provides some background and contextualises this article. The second part deals with Mafeje's programmatic critique of the discipline of anthropology and other social sciences. The third part discusses his work on land and agrarian issues in sub-Saharan Africa. The last section focuses on his work on revolutionary theory and politics, with specific reference to his assessment of the responsibility of the African intellectual.


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Roberto Mancini might finally get to sign Atletico Madrid striker Falcao - for Monaco!
Ex-City boss Mancini has been tipped to take over at the Ligue 1 club following his Blues exit.
And goalkeeper Danijel Subasic has claimed the ambitious club are 90 per cent certain to sign the Colombian goal machine.
Subasic claims he has been told the striker will head up a major summer recruitment programme by the principality club's billionaire Russian owner Dmitry Rybolovlev, following their promotion back to Ligue 1.
Subasic told Croatian daily Sportske Novosti: "I'll tell you what I heard: Falcao is already 90 per cent Monegasque!
"He will appear in Monte Carlo in a few days and officially become our player.
"That's what they told us, with the only doubt being that he could sign for Real Madrid, which at the moment does not look likely.
"If he does not go to the Bernabeu, he will come to us in the principality. Let's wait for confirmation once it happens.
"I know the owner is not going to save, he has announced that in the summer he will spend more than 100million euros (£84.6m) on players."
Colombia international Falcao is third in the Primera Division scoring charts this season with 28 goals, behind only Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, and also scored twice in last season's Europa League final.


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Sunless tanning is a practical alternative to sunbathing. Find out how sunless tanning products work, including possible risks and how to get the best results.
Don't want to expose your skin to the sun's damaging rays, but still want that sun-kissed glow? Consider sunless tanning products. Understand how these products work — and the importance of applying them carefully and correctly.
Sunless tanning products, also called self-tanners, can give your skin a tanned look without exposing it to harmful ultraviolet (UV) rays. Sunless tanning products are commonly sold as lotions, creams and sprays you apply to your skin. Professional spray-on tanning also is available.
The active ingredient in most sunless tanning products is the color additive, dihydroxyacetone (DHA). When applied, dihydroxyacetone reacts with dead cells in the skin's surface to temporarily darken the skin and simulate a tan. The coloring typically wears off after a few days.
Most sunless tanning products don't contain sunscreen. If a product contains sunscreen, it will only be effective for a couple of hours. The color produced by the sunless tanning product won't protect your skin from UV rays. If you spend time outdoors, sunscreen remains essential.
Sunless tanning pills, which typically contain the color additive canthaxanthin, aren't safe. When taken in large amounts, canthaxanthin can turn your skin orange or brown and cause hives, liver damage and impaired vision.
Topical sunless tanning products are generally considered safe alternatives to sunbathing, as long as they're used as directed.
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A Colorado Democratic state lawmaker is apologizing for a comment he made about rape after conservatives lambasted him for the remark, saying in a statement that he is "deeply sorry."
State Rep. Joe Salazar argued last week, during a Colorado House debate concerning concealed-carry permits on college campuses, that guns bring with them the possibility of shooting the wrong person "if you feel like you're gonna be raped, or if you feel like someone's been following you around or if you feel like you're in trouble when you may actually not be."
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He apologized with multiple uses of the word "sorry" on Tuesday, a day after saying he was "deeply sorry if I offended anyone."
"I want to reiterate my point from yesterday; I am deeply sorry," Salazar said in a statement sent to POLITICO. "The words I said near the end of a 12-hour debate are not reflective of the point I was trying to make. I am a husband and father of two girls. I care deeply about their safety, and I would never question a woman's ability to discern a threat. My larger point was about how more guns on campus don't mean you're more safe. I used a bad example. Again, I'm sorry."
In an earlier apology, he sought to clarify his debate comments, according to a Monday statement posted by FOX31 Denver, the Fox affiliate.
"We were having a public policy debate on whether or not guns makes people safer on campus," he said in part on Monday. I don't believe they do. That was the point I was trying to make. If anyone thinks I'm not sensitive to the dangers women face, they're wrong...Again, I'm deeply sorry if I offended anyone with my comments."
Last Friday, Salazar said during the debate that women have a number of options if they feel threatened.
"It's why we have call boxes, it's why we have safe zones, it's why we have the whistles. Because you just don't know who you're gonna be shooting at," Salazar said during the debate. "And you don't know if you feel like you're gonna be raped, or if you feel like someone's been following you around or if you feel like you're in trouble when you may actually not be, that you pop out that gun and you pop … pop a round at somebody."
That statement sparked outrage in the conservative blogosphere and on Twitter, as some likened Salazar to onetime Senate hopeful Todd Akin, a Republican whose own comments about rape sank his campaign in Missouri last summer.
"This "feel like you're going to be raped" nonsense is as poorly-worded as the "shut that whole thing down" drama from last fall," charged conservative commentator Dana Loesch in a post at RedState.com, referencing Akin's comments. "If Democrats don't swiftly condemn this, I see this used as a tactic to showcase the vast lack of respect Democrats have for a woman's right to self defense."


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May 13, 2006
JACKSONVILLE, Tenn. _ The Lipscomb Bisons baseball team will be out to prevent the sweep Sunday against North Florida after losing both ends of an Atlantic Sun doubleheader Saturday afternoon at Harmon Stadium.
The Bisons fell 7-1 in game one as they managed five hits against two North Florida pitchers. Je Papelbon, 5-4, threw eight innings and gave up all five hits and the one earned run while walking one and striking out eight. Je Papelbon closed out game one for North Florida.
The Bisons run came in the second inning when Zac Miller hit a solo home run to left field, his seventh of the season.
North Florida scored three runs in the first, one in the second, two in the sixth and one in the seventh.
Robby Smithson started for the Bisons and picked up his first loss of the year to go with four wins. He gave up 10 hits in 5.1 innings and allowed six runs, all earned. He walked four and struck out two. Paul Piennette faced one batter in the six inning before giving way to Brandon McClurg who have up five hits and one earned run in 2.2 innings. He struck out two and walked two.
In game two the Bisons fell 13-6 in a slugfest that featured a combined 23 hits.
After spotting North Florida five runs in the first inning the Bisons responded with three runs in the second. Miller led off with a single followed by a walk to Caleb Joseph. After Ryan Price popped up to the third baseman, Eric Abend reached base on fielding error by the shortstop. Whit Reed, the hero of Wednesday's game with Vanderbilt, then singled through the left side to score both Miller and Joseph. Patrick O'Rourke walked and Nathan Sensing reached base on a fielder's choice that scored Abend.
The Bisons tied the game at 5-5 with two runs in the fifth. O'Rourke started off with a single up the middle. After Sensing flied out to right field, Tadd Brewer doubled down the left field line. Ryan Mitchell, who has hit safely in his last 18 games, singled to score O'Rourke and Brewer.
The Bisons gave up eight runs in the sixth inning to give North Florida a 13-5 lead. In the ninth they tried to rally one last time, scoring one run. Reed singled through the left side. O'Rourke doubled down the left field line. Sensing walked to load the bases. Brewer flied out to right field for the sacrifice scoring Reed.
Matt Schnelly, 4-6, started for the Bisons. He gave up four hits and five runs, two earned. He walked three and struck out two. Charles Williams pitched 2.1 innings, allowing six hits and seven runs, four earned. He struck out two and walked two. Ryan Carroll closed out the game, giving up two hits and one run in 2.2 innings. He walked one and struck out one.
Reed and O'Rourke each had two hits. Abend slammed his first double of the season for the Bisons.
The Bisons, 21-29, 10-16, close out the their last Atlantic Sun road series of the regular season Sunday against North Florida, 34-20 overall, 20-9 in the conference.