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I've given up drinking bottled water. It's so wasteful: Up to three quarts of water are used for each quart bottled. Also, it consumes 67 million barrels of oil annually on its journey from source to consumer, and sends 2 million tons of plastic bottles to landfills.
It's especially wasteful in arid country like the high-desert valley where I live in south-central Colorado. But that hasn't stopped Nestle, one of the world's largest producers of bottled water, from attempting to siphon off our scarce local groundwater.
The company plans to pump 200 acre-feet of water annually, enough to supply the yearly household needs of 400 to 600 families, from springs that pour into the Arkansas River. Nestle says it will pipe the water five miles to the nearest highway, load it into tanker trucks, and haul it uphill over the mountains to its bottling plant 130 miles away in Denver.
Like many Western rivers, the Arkansas is already over-appropriated: Every drop it carries, including some imported from river basins on Colorado's wetter Western Slope, is "owned" by a water user, most of them far away on the populous Front Range. The water Nestle is purchasing, however, is "native" to our valley and its rare springs.
In coming to Chaffee County, population 17,000, Nestle is following the pattern it has established in small rural communities from Maine to California: The company exploits our hunger for jobs, tax revenue and development.
In tiny McCloud in Northern California, for example, Nestle negotiated a contract with the local water district to extract and bottle 500 million gallons of spring water for a pittance, plus the right to use unlimited amounts of groundwater in operating its planned bottling plant, all without conducting a study of the environmental impacts. Local people opposed to the plan commissioned an independent report which concluded that the company's pumping plans would seriously endanger Squaw Valley Creek, crucial to the area's tourist economy, and would provide mainly low-wage and seasonal jobs. In 2007, the California Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling striking down the contract. But Nestle, which sold nearly $10 billion of bottled water that year, hasn't gone away.
Here in Chaffee County, the springs Nestle intends to pump flow into the most heavily used stretch of whitewater in the country. Nearly 230,000 people boated the Upper Arkansas in 2008, bringing an estimated $24 million to the local economy.
No one is suggesting Nestle's pumping would dry up the Arkansas River, but Chaffee County's commissioners must decide whether the company's plans promote the "general welfare" of our county's citizens and are consistent with protecting the county's environment, economy and communities. These criteria leave a lot of room for interpretation.
The company is proposing to pump water from a high-quality aquifer whose boundaries and recharge rates are unknown, although Nestle tells us it collects snowmelt and rainfall draining the drier, rain-shadow side of the valley.
Nestle points to data showing the historic average flows of the two springs are significantly higher than the amount the company plans to pump, and to its own pumping tests, which show no diminution in flow. But historic data may no longer be relevant: Climate models show our part of the world growing radically warmer and drier. Salida tallied just over 5 inches of precipitation last year, barely 50 percent of the historic average; this year, we've gotten a dismal 30 percent.
Moreover, Nestle's pumping tests spanned weeks, not years, after a winter with a record-high snowpack. This offers no assurances about what might happen over longer time spans, or during drought conditions.
True, the company must "replace" the 200 acre-feet a year it plans to export from the valley, but that water won't come from the same source, and as any trout knows, all water is not created equal. Water quality, nutrients and chemical "signature" vary widely.
As for jobs, after the pipeline and loading station are constructed, the company will have no employees in Chaffee County. It will pay an estimated $80,000 in property taxes, some of which is already being paid by current landowners.
Nestle talks a good line, employing feel-good words like habitat restoration, community involvement and money. But the company has not committed to anything, and it's clear from its figures that the vast majority of dollars will flow out of the county along with our groundwater.
Here in the West, we often say that water flows uphill toward money. I hope my county proves the exception to that rule. Susan J. Tweit is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org). She is a naturalist and the author of several books.


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Source: W.H. kept quiet on troop exit
The military service chiefs were in the dark about President Barack Obama's decision to withdraw 34,000 troops from Afghanistan until the day he announced it, a defense official said Thursday.
Although the White House had leaked that detail early Tuesday, "I don't think any of the chiefs knew that number," the official said, adding that it had not come up during any of their meetings or discussions before then. The official asked not to be identified discussing the internal workings of the administration.
While the chiefs of the Navy, Air Force, Army and Marine Corps might have been kept out of the loop, Marine Gen. Joe Dunford, the new U.S. commander in Afghanistan; outgoing commander Marine Gen. John Allen; and head of U.S. Central Command Gen. James Mattis would have been part of that discussion with the president, the official said.
Still, it took some of the chiefs by surprise as they sat in the front row during the president's speech, the official said. Although the Defense Department said the night of the speech that it was behind Obama's announcement, its announcement did not mention the service chiefs.
"This plan to continue drawing down our forces in a phased approach over the coming year was recommended by Gen. Allen based on a thorough assessment of the [International Security Assistance Force] campaign plan moving forward," Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said in his statement. "In consultations with the president and his national security team, I strongly supported Gen. Allen's recommendation and I believe the president's decision puts us on the right path to succeed in Afghanistan."
Even though the troop number came as a surprise, the service chiefs were not discussing another one, the official added. Ultimately, it is up to the president — as commander in chief — to make these kinds of decisions, the official said.
One thing the chiefs will discuss is how quickly the 34,400 troops are withdrawn, he said.
This article first appeared on POLITICO Pro at 2:15 p.m. on February 14, 2013.


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I can tell that Robert "Bobby" Dubac is a funny guy. He's got a sharp wit, and keen observational skills. But there's a certain rigid, practiced air to his comic stylings in this presentation of Inside the Male Intellect, a smirk-faced smugness that tends to detract from what is generally entertaining material. Inside the Male Intellect is a stage-play comedy about the battle of the sexes in which Dubac—black-clad and strutting—walks through a somewhat stiffly choreographed standup routine and segues now and then into a series of exaggerated characters that illustrate his points about the different aspects of the male intellect, all in an effort to understand women.
"Behind this curtain is the inside of my brain," he states at the start of his show. "This is the left side, my male chauvinistic side," he says, pointing to the dorm-room side of the stage, "and this is the female side." Over on that side is just a chalkboard, empty of any writing. Throughout the show, he will jump from one character to another in an attempt to gradually grasp "what women want." Each character adds a small facet to that understanding—honesty, communication, passion, sense of humor, and so on—by doing an extended standup routine and writing on the board. It's the old reliable kind of material we all love in our standup—biting observations about how men differ vastly from women and why we so often clash emotionally and psychologically and behaviorally.
And as I said, Bob is an often-wicked observer, offering knife-sharp commentary that cuts to the bone of the sexual-psychology mysteries. He often has his theater audience in the palm of his hand. In fact, I have a feeling Inside the Male Intellect is a more successful show when it's experienced live. On DVD, it's an odd beast: You can grasp that Dubac's writing is strong, and the humor should be connecting with you, but the presentation sometimes seems static and strangely uninvolving, despite very frequent cutting to an audience that's beside itself with laughter and the spirit of participation. The inherent freshness of a live show probably—hopefully—gives the production a spontaneity that the taped performance lacks.
All that being said, this cross between a standup act and a stage show offers many moments of bright wit that you can at least appreciate—if not laugh out loud with. I wouldn't mind catching the live show with my wife. But something's missing on the cold, digital surface of the DVD—this show needs the warmth of the stage.
Anchor Bay presents Inside the Male Intellect in a perfectly fine anamorphic-widescreen transfer of the show's 1.77:1 presentation. Taped before a live studio audience, the video production offers striking detail and depth, lending the presentation a real sense of immediacy. Colors are accurate and appealing, too. And blacks are inky. This is a really find video presentation, for what it is.
The disc offers both a Dolby Digital 2.0 track and a Dolby Digital 5.1 track, and both provide good presentations. The surround track is preferred, as it gives you a nice reproduction of what the stage experience must be like. Audience noise—laughter and applause—sits naturally in the surround speakers, and Bob's voice resonates through the entire soundfield, much like the "Concert Hall" ambient effect that some receivers offer. Dialog comes across naturally.
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Probably best experienced live, Inside the Male Intellect nevertheless offers some wry observational humor about the sexes. I wish that the man at the center of this one-man show had loosened up a little bit during the performance, because a lot of it comes across a bit archly
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To the surprise of investigating researchers, an animal model of Epstein Barr virus protected lupus-prone mice against development of the autoimmune disease. Earlier work had suggested that EBV might promote the development of autoimmunity.
"We were completely surprised. So, we redid the experiments, and the results came out the same," said Dr. Pelanda, lead author on the paper appearing online in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "We believe these findings could lead to therapeutic targets for lupus and other autoimmune diseases."
Epstein Barr virus (EBV) infects most people in the United States by the time they are adults. It causes mononucleosis in about 35 to 50 percent of those infected. Acute symptoms usually pass within weeks, after which the virus goes into a dormant state within the body. The infection persists for a person's entire life and can activate in some cases.
Although the virus infects the vast majority of adults, it is found in an even higher percentage of lupus patients, leading to the hypothesis that it may predispose people to autoimmune diseases.
EBV does not infect mice, but a related virus, gammahervesvirus 68, does and has a similar pattern of infection and symptoms. So Dr. Pelanda and her colleagues infected a mouse model of lupus with the virus. One hundred percent of the lupus model mice develop lupus by about one year of age.
In those mice infected with the gammaherpesvirus 68, however, antibodies associated with lupus did not increase, and actually decreased significantly in female mice. In kidneys, a major site of tissue damage in lupus, viral infection reduced tissue damage from 80 percent to 20 percent. Other measures of lupus, including activation of lymphocytes and dendritic cells, were also reduced in lupus-prone mice infected with the gammaherpesvirus 68.
"The virus inhibits the development and progression of lupus on many levels, from cellular to humoral and organ," said Dr. Pelanda. "For that reason, we believe it is affecting a basic mechanisms of autoimmunity."
The researchers do not know how the gammaherpesvirus inhibits lupus, but have begun a systematic series of experiments to evaluate several potential mechanisms.
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In a class action by California state prisoners on behalf of themselves and all present or future adult male felons in California state prisons or on parole, plaintiffs alleged constitutional violations in the manner in which the members of the California Adult Authority and other petitioners determine the length of detention and conditions of punishment for convicted offenders, and sought declaratory and injunctive relief. In the course of discovery pursuant to Fed. Rule Civ. Proc. 34 plaintiffs sought (1) Adult Authority files consisting, inter alia, of personnel files of all members and employees of the Adult Authority; and (2) prisoners' files, consisting of the files of every twentieth inmate in each state correctional institution. Petitioners, claiming that the Adult Authority files were irrelevant, confidential, and privileged, suggested that they should not be compelled to turn over the files without prior District Court in camera inspection. That court ordered the production of the documents without such review but limited the number of people associated with the plaintiffs who might examine the documents. Petitioners then filed a petition for mandamus to vacate the discovery order, which the Court of Appeals denied. Though recognizing a qualified governmental "official or state secrecy privilege," the court indicated that, contrary to the situation here, assertion of such a privilege had to be made with specificity by high-level Adult Authority officials. A somewhat similar course ensued with regard to the prisoners' files, ending with the Court of Appeals' denial of mandamus without opinion. Held: In the circumstances of this case - and particularly since less extreme alternatives for modification of the challenged discovery orders were available - issuance of the writ of mandamus is inappropriate. Pp. 402-406.
MARSHALL, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which all Members joined except STEVENS, J., who took no part in the consideration or decision of the case.
Karl S. Mayer, Deputy Attorney General of California, argued the cause for petitioners. With him on the briefs were Evelle J. Younger, Attorney General, Jack R. Winkler, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Derald E. Granberg, John T. Murphy, Jean M. Bordon, Deputy Attorneys General, and Edward P. O'Brien, Assistant Attorney General.
B. E. Bergesen III argued the cause for respondents. With him on the brief was Sidney M. Wolinsky.
MR. JUSTICE MARSHALL delivered the opinion of the Court.
Petitioners, defendants in a class action, sought issuance of writs of mandamus from the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to compel the District Court to vacate two discovery orders. The Court of Appeals refused to issue the writs. We hold that in the circumstances of this case - and particularly in light of [426 U.S. 394, 396] the availability of an alternative, less extreme, path to modification of the challenged discovery orders - issuance of the writ is inappropriate. We therefore affirm.
Seven prisoners in the custody of the Department of Corrections of the State of California filed a class action in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California on behalf of themselves and "on behalf of all adult male felons who now are, as well as all adult male felons who in the future will be, in the custody of the California Department of Corrections, whether confined in an institution operated by the Department or on parole." App. 370. 1 Among the defendants in the action are petitioners in this case: the individual members of the California Adult Authority, the Administrative Officer of the California Adult Authority, and the Director of Corrections of the State of California. Plaintiffs' complaint alleges substantial constitutional violations in the manner in which the California Adult Authority carries out its function of determining the length and conditions of punishment for convicted criminal offenders.
In the course of discovery, plaintiffs submitted requests for the production of a number of documents pursuant to Fed. Rule Civ. Proc. 34. Petitioners' subsequent two petitions for writs of mandamus were concerned with two classes of documents that were part of these requests. The first class, part of a series of requests first made in June 1973, and which will be referred to here as the "Adult Authority files," is generally composed of the personnel files of all members and employees of the Adult Authority, all Adult Authority [426 U.S. 394, 397] documents relating to its past, present, or future operation, and all memoranda written by the Chairman of the Adult Authority within the preceding five years. 2 The second class of documents with which we are concerned was first requested by plaintiffs in November 1973, [426 U.S. 394, 398] and will be referred to here as the "prisoners' files." Plaintiffs requested the opportunity to examine the files of every twentieth inmate at each California Department of Corrections institution, App. 234; the class of documents, therefore, is composed of the correctional files of a sample of the prisoners in the custody of the California Department of Corrections.
When presented with the request for the Adult Authority files, petitioners objected, claiming that the files were irrelevant, confidential, and privileged, and suggesting that they should not be required to turn over the files to plaintiffs without prior in camera review by the District Court to evaluate the claims of privilege. Plaintiffs moved, pursuant to Fed. Rule Civ. Proc. 37, for an order compelling discovery. App. 76. The District Court referred the matter to a Magistrate for findings and recommendations, and the Magistrate recommended that the District Court order production of the Adult Authority files without undertaking an in camera inspection of the files. The District Court accepted the Magistrate's recommendations and ordered the production of the documents. Seeking to limit distribution of the personnel files of the Adult Authority members and their employees, however, the District Court issued a protective order limiting the number of people associated with the plaintiffs who could examine those documents:
Petitioners sought review in this Court of the denial of both petitions. 4 We granted certiorari. 5 421 U.S. 987 (1975). [426 U.S. 394, 402]
The remedy of mandamus is a drastic one, to be invoked only in extraordinary situations. Will v. United States, 389 U.S. 90, 95 (1967); Bankers Life & Cas. Co. v. Holland, 346 U.S. 379, 382 -385 (1953); Ex parte Fahey, 332 U.S. 258, 259 (1947). As we have observed, the writ "has traditionally been used in the federal courts only `to confine an inferior court to a lawful exercise of its prescribed jurisdiction or to compel it to exercise its authority when it is its duty to do so.'" Will v. United States, supra, at 95, quoting Roche v. Evaporated Milk Assn., 319 U.S. 21, 26 (1943). And, while we have not limited the use of mandamus by an unduly narrow and technical understanding of what constitutes a matter of "jurisdiction," Will v. United States, supra, at 95, the fact still remains that "only exceptional circumstances amounting to a judicial `usurpation of power' will justify the invocation of this extraordinary remedy." Ibid.
Our treatment of mandamus within the federal court system as an extraordinary remedy is not without good reason. As we have recognized before, mandamus actions such as the one involved in the instant case "have the unfortunate consequence of making the [district court] judge a litigant, obliged to obtain personal counsel or to leave his defense to one of the litigants [appearing] before him" in the underlying case. Bankers Life & Cas. Co. v. Holland, supra, at 384-385, [426 U.S. 394, 403] quoting Ex parte Fahey, supra, at 260. More importantly, particularly in an era of excessively crowded lower court dockets, it is in the interest of the fair and prompt administration of justice to discourage piecemeal litigation. It has been Congress' determination since the Judiciary Act of 1789 that as a general rule "appellate review should be postponed . . . until after final judgment has been rendered by the trial court." Will v. United States, supra, at 96; Parr v. United States, 351 U.S. 513, 520 -521 (1956). 6 A judicial readiness to issue the writ of mandamus in anything less than an extraordinary situation would run the real risk of defeating the very policies sought to be furthered by that judgment of Congress.
As a means of implementing the rule that the writ will issue only in extraordinary circumstances, we have set forth various conditions for its issuance. Among these are that the party seeking issuance of the writ have no other adequate means to attain the relief he desires, Roche v. Evaporated Milk Assn., supra, at 26, and that he satisfy "the burden of showing that [his] right to issuance of the writ is `clear and indisputable.'" Bankers Life & Cas. Co. v. Holland, supra, at 384, quoting United States v. Duell, 172 U.S. 576, 582 (1899); Will v. United States, supra, at 96. Moreover, it is important to remember that issuance of the writ is in large part a matter of discretion with the court to which the petition is addressed. Schlagenhauf v. Holder, 379 U.S. 104, 112 n. 8 (1964); Parr v. United States, supra, at 520. See also Technitrol, Inc. v. McManus, 405 F.2d 84 (CA8 1968), cert. denied, 394 U.S. 997 (1969); Pacific Car & Foundry Co. v. Pence, 403 F.2d 949 (CA9 1968). [426 U.S. 394, 404]
When looked at in the framework of these factors, it would appear that the actions of the Court of Appeals in this case should be affirmed. What petitioners are seeking here is not a declaration that the documents in question are absolutely privileged and that plaintiffs can never have access to any of them. On the contrary, petitioners request only that "production of the confidential documents not be compelled without a prior informed determination by the district court that plaintiffs' need for them in the action below outweighs their confidentiality." Brief for Petitioners 77-78. Petitioners ask in essence only that the District Court review the challenged documents in camera before passing on whether each one individually should or should not be disclosed. But the Court of Appeals' opinion dealing with the Adult Authority files did not foreclose the possible necessity of such in camera review. Its denial of the writ was based largely on the grounds that the governmental privilege had not been asserted personally by anyone eligible to assert it, and that it had not been asserted with the requisite specificity. The court apparently left open the opportunity for petitioners to return to the District Court, assert the privilege more specifically and through responsible officials, and then have their request for an in camera review of the materials by the District Court reconsidered in a different light:
To the extent that the opinion below might be regarded as ambiguous, we are fortified in our reading of it by a recognition of the serious consequences which could flow from an unwarranted failure to grant petitioners the opportunity to have the documents reviewed by the trial judge in camera before being compelled to turn them over. Petitioners' claims of privilege rest in large part on the notion that turning over the requested documents would result in substantial injury to the State's prison-parole system by unnecessarily chilling the free and uninhibited exchange of ideas between staff members within the system, by causing the unwarranted disclosure and consequent drying up of confidential sources, 7 and in general by unjustifiably compromising the confidentiality of the system's records and personnel files. 8 In light of the potential seriousness of these considerations and in light of the fact that the weight to be accorded them will inevitably vary with the nature of the specific documents in question, it would seem that an in camera review of the documents is a relatively costless and eminently worthwhile method to insure that the balance between petitioners' claims of irrelevance and privilege and plaintiffs' asserted need for the documents is correctly struck. 9 Indeed, this Court has [426 U.S. 394, 406] long held the view that in camera review is a highly appropriate and useful means of dealing with claims of governmental privilege. E. g., United States v. Nixon, 418 U.S. 683, 706 (1974); United States v. Reynolds, 345 U.S. 1 (1953).
Insofar as discovery of the prisoners' files is concerned, it is true that the Court of Appeals' order denying the petition for a writ of mandamus with regard to those files was issued without any statement of reasons for the denial. However, there is no reason to think that by its order the Court of Appeals meant to foreclose petitioners from following precisely the same avenue with regard to the prisoners' files as it gave them the opportunity to follow with regard to the Adult Authority files.
We are thus confident that the Court of Appeals did in fact intend to afford the petitioners the opportunity to apply for and, upon proper application, receive in camera review. Accordingly the orders of the Court of Appeals are affirmed.
[ Footnote 2 ] The documents were specifically described in plaintiffs' requests numbered 7, 14, 15, 18, 20, 21, and 22:
[ Footnote 3 ] Title 28 U.S.C. 1651 (a) provides:
[ Footnote 4 ] While it has not yet come to trial, there have been additional developments in the underlying case during the pendency of the instant action before this Court. Since none of these developments are relevant to the resolution of the issue before us, we simply summarize them.
Subsequent to the filing of the petition for certiorari in the instant case, plaintiffs filed a second amended complaint in the underlying action in which they added allegations which led petitioners in turn to request the appointment of a three-judge District Court to hear the case. See 28 U.S.C. 2281. The single judge then hearing the case certified it to the Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit as one appearing to require the convening of a three-judge court. The Chief Judge appointed the three members of the court on October 28, 1975, several days before oral argument was held in the instant case. But soon thereafter plaintiffs amended their complaint once again. This subsequent amendment made the convening of a three-judge court appear unnecessary and the three-judge court dissolved itself, remanding the entire case to the single judge originally assigned to the case. Thus, as the matter now stands, the underlying action is being heard by a single-judge District Court.
[ Footnote 5 ] Subsequent to our grant of certiorari but before oral argument, plaintiffs represented to this Court that they "no longer seek any of the documents which are the subject of this appeal, because the trial of [the underlying] case in District Court will be completed before this Court is able to decide [the] issues before it." Memorandum of Respondents Concerning Mootness of Pending Matter 1-2. They therefore suggested that we hold this case moot. Plaintiffs never advised the District Court that they did not want the documents.
We deferred decision on the suggestion of mootness until after [426 U.S. 394, 402] oral argument. However, at oral argument counsel for plaintiffs stated that, because the trial date for the underlying action had been substantially delayed, they had changed their minds and did indeed want the documents. Tr. of Oral Arg. 38, 40-41. While no papers were filed here formally withdrawing the suggestion of mootness, plaintiffs' representations at oral argument, combined with the fact that the trial of the underlying action has not yet taken place, leave us with no indication that this case is moot.
[ Footnote 6 ] The use of extraordinary writs aside, it is only in narrowly defined circumstances, see 28 U.S.C. 1292, that the appellate jurisdiction of the courts of appeals extends to interlocutory orders.
[ Footnote 7 ] See Metros v. United States District Court for Dist. of Colo., 441 F.2d 313 (CA10 1971).
[ Footnote 8 ] See United States Board of Parole v. Merhige, 487 F.2d 25 (CA4 1973), cert. denied, 417 U.S. 918 (1974).
[ Footnote 9 ] Petitioners also assert, citing Ford Co. v. Department of Treasury of Indiana, 323 U.S. 459 (1945), and Edelman v. Jordan, 415 U.S. 651 (1974), that discovery of material which is actually the property of the State or its agencies is limited by the Eleventh Amendment. In view of our resolution of this case and the fact that petitioners did [426 U.S. 394, 406] not raise this issue either in the discovery proceedings in the District Court or in their petition for mandamus to the Court of Appeals we need not reach this issue. [426 U.S. 394, 407]
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Whose Town? is an innovative resource for teaching social studies. A fun and interactive digital resource which brings Edinburgh's history to life, it has been made available to all Glow users. It can be found in the Whose Town? Glow Group and accessed from the Glow National Site notice board. The resource is built on the City of Edinburgh's heritage collections and is linked to the Curriculum for Excellence second, third and fourth levels.
Whose Town? looks at Edinburgh's and Scotland's past from 1850s to the 1950s through the eyes of people who lived there. There are 14 real lives to discover – people who lived in Victorian times, at the beginning of the twentieth century, during the Second World War and in the Fifties. Archival material is collected in a digital box and hidden in an attic for pupils to uncover and examine. Each life is captured at a particular point in history, creating a snapshot of their life: a Life in a Box.
Whose Town? features two lives with direct connections to East Lothian. Florence grew up in an affluent Victorian household and enjoyed holidays at the West Pans seaside with her family. Luca Scappaticcio arrived in Scotland from Italy at the turn of the twentieth century and settled in Musselburgh where he established what is now S. Luca's of Musselburgh.
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PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Gary Woodland denied Brooks Koepka's bold bid at history and made U.S. Open memories of his own Sunday with two clutch shots, a birdie putt on the final hole and that silver trophy in his hands at Pebble Beach.
Yeah, he's got this.
Koepka, trying to match a 114-year-old record with his third straight U.S. Open, kept the pressure on until the very end. Woodland was just as unflappable and got better with each big moment he faced, whether it was a 3-wood from 263 yards or a lob wedge from the putting surface that will take its place with other big moments on the 17th hole of Pebble Beach.
Needing three putts to win, Woodland finished in style with a 30-foot birdie putt for a 2-under 69, giving him the lowest 72-hole score in six U.S. Opens at Pebble Beach and a three-shot victory over Koepka. He raised both arms in the air to salute the crowd, turned toward the Pacific and slammed down his fist.
"I never let myself get ahead," Woodland said. "Once that went in, it all came out of me. It's special to finish it off here at Pebble Beach."
Koepka had to settle for a footnote in history. He closed with a 68, making him the first player with all four rounds in the 60s at a U.S. Open without winning.
But he made Woodland earn every bit of his first major championship.
Clinging to a one-shot lead with more pressure than he has ever felt, Woodland seized control by going for the green on the par-5 14th hole with a 3-wood from 263 yards, narrowly clearing a cavernous bunker and setting up a simple up-and-down for a two-shot lead.
"The idea was to play for the win," Woodland said. "I could have laid up. That 3-wood separated me a little bit."
It was the shot of the tournament, until Woodland hit one even better.
He dropped the 5-iron from his hands when it sailed well to the right on the par-3 17th, the edge of the green with the pin 90 feet away over a hump. Up ahead on the par-5 18th, Koepka drilled a 3-iron just over the back of the green, leaving him a 50-foot chip for eagle to tie, with a birdie likely to do the trick considering what Woodland faced on the 17th.
Koepka chipped to 10 feet and narrowly missed the birdie putt. Woodland, unable to hit putter and get anywhere near the hole, opted to pitch it. He clipped it perfectly just over the hump, and it checked about 12 feet from the hole and trickled out to tap-in range.
"I was just trying to get it over that hump," Woodland said. "I thought it had a chance to go in, but it's not one I want over."
That effectively ended the U.S. Open.
Woodland, a 35-year-old who played basketball for one year at Washburn before taking a golf scholarship at Kansas, is immensely popular with his peers, many of whom gathered behind the 18th to celebrate his first major with him.
His biggest moment of the year wasn't any shot he hit. He starred in a viral video with Amy Bockerstette, a 20-year-old with Down Syndrome, during the Phoenix Open. Woodland invited her to play the par-3 16th, and Amy hit into a bunker, blasted onto the green and made the par putt, all the while saying, "You got this." That was the message she sent Woodland on Saturday night.
Woodland played conservatively down the 18th and made one last birdie that only mattered in the record book. He was aware that Tiger Woods had a 12-under 272 during his historic rout at Pebble Beach in 2000, and he topped him.
That birdie put him at 13-under 271 and earned him $2.25 million, the richest payoff in golf.
The difference was Woods won by 15 shots and was the only player under par. With a marine layer blocking the sunshine, and no significant wind at Pebble Beach all week, 31 players finished under par.
Koepka started four shots behind in his bid to join Willie Anderson as the only players to go back-to-back-to-back in the toughest test in golf. He made up ground quickly with four birdies in five holes.
"I felt like, 'We've got a ball game now,'" Koepka said.
He failed to get up-and-down from a bunker for birdie on the par-5 sixth, and missed a 6-foot birdie putt on the par-3 seventh. Still, he stayed within range, just like he wanted, knowing that anything could happen on the back nine of a U.S. Open.
Something wonderful happened to Woodland.
"Gary played a hell of a round today," Koepka said. "Props to him to hang in there. To go out in style like that is pretty cool."
Of the four other players who had a shot at three straight U.S. Opens, no one came closer than Koepka. He now has a victory in the PGA Championship and runner-up finishes in the Masters and U.S. Open.
Justin Rose was the only one who caught Woodland all day, with a birdie on the opening hole. Rose bogeyed from the bunker on No. 2 as Woodland birdied, and he never caught up. Rose fell out of the race with three bogeys in a four-hole stretch on the back nine. He shot 74 and shared third with Xander Schauffele (67), Jon Rahm (68) and Chez Reavie (71).
Woods birdied six of his last 12 holes and was never a factor. He tied for 21st, 11 shots behind.
More AP golf: https://apnews.com/apf-Golf and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports


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Old Davis Road at the east end begins at A Street and goes through Solano Field, past the Hyatt Place UC Davis. It continues past the Mondavi Center, links with a roundabout to California Avenue, heads south under I-80 and over the train tracks, passes the California Raptor Center (There are a bunch of awesome birds of prey housed here. C'mon. Where else nearby can you see a bald eagle?), crosses the Levee Road, and then finally crosses over the South Fork of Putah Creek. Further south, it ends at a T-intersection with Tremont Road.
In 2012, the Arboretum section of the road was rerouted through Solano Park Gardens and Solano Field, linking the Hyatt Place UC Davis more directly with downtown. The old path along the Arboretum became a foot and bike path, just like the previous stretch between California Ave. and Mrak Dr. did around 2000.
Out here is also the site of the radioactive beagle burying ground. See Center for Health and the Environment and EPA Superfund Sites.
There's also a great waste-water (sewage) treatment plant out there. Go by and see if the APS Digester is online! Maybe someone can give you a tour.
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2006-03-07 11:49:47 I spent my formative years in Davis. As a young dirty pre-teen in the early 1980's "we" played near the radio active beagle farm. There were many caged beagles there. They all looked the same...like clones! We used to joke about them being radio active. We did not know that there was much truth to the matter. We used to dream about letting them all out. —NeilSaweliew
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HIV/HCV coinfection: early glimpses of an interferon-free future and EuroSIDA incidence data
1 December 2012. Related: Conference reports, Hepatitis coinfection, HIV 11 Glasgow 2012.
Simon Collins, HIV i-Base
Amongst the most exciting advances in Glasgow related to preliminary results from early studies of interferon (IFN)-free studies that had just been presented at the 63rd AASLD liver disease conference in the US.
For more details, see the detailed report from AASLD by Tracy Swan later in this issue of HTB.
In Glasgow, Jürgen Rockstroh, from the University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany presented an over view of new treatment that started with results from two studies presented at the American meeting from small groups of patients with HCV monoinfection.[1]
In the first, 100% sustained virological responses at 12 weeks (SVR12) were reported for 25 treatment naive patients with HCV genotype 1. Additional, results for 9 prior null responders reported 9/9 achieving an end of treatment response and SVR12 in 3/9 with data available (results pending for the remaining 6/9) using a uridine nucleotide analogue (sofosbuvir, GS-7977) and an NS5A inhibitor (GS-5885), both in development by Gilead.The full study is a multi-arm study (at last count, 11 arms) in 95 patients including genotype 1, 2 and 3. [2]
In the second study, Kowdley and colleagues reported SVR12 rates of 99% in 79 treatment naive and 93% in 45 prior null responders, in a preliminary on-treatment analysis (always a caution), using a combination from Abbott of ABT-450/r (an HCV protease inhibitor boosted with 100 mg ritonavir), ABT-267 (an NS5A inhibitor) and/or ABT-333 (non-nucleoside NS5B inhibitor) ± ribavirin. The full study includes 571 patients (n=438 naive and 133 null responders). [3]
Both studies also included ribavirin in the combination, and importantly, the duration of treatment was only 12 weeks. Although HIV/HCV coinfection can be more difficult to treat (higher baseline HCV viral load, higher resistance) and will involve potentially complex drug interactions and overlapping toxicity with ART, these are very positive indications of future HCV treatment.
It is notable that these advances are being reported in the year when mortality studies have shown that since 2007, HCV has overtaken HIV and the leading cause of death in the USA. [4] This has lead to a US CDC recommendation to move HCV screening from "at risk" groups to universal testing for people born between 1945 and 1965. [5]
Many people with HIV/HCV coinfection have deferred HCV treatment with PEG-IFN and ribavirin due to the low response rates in genotype 1 and toxicity. Even after approval of bocepravir and telaprevir in 2011, which increased cure rates for genotype 1 from about 40% to 65%, treatment is still being deferred, as these directly acting antivirals (DAAs) require three times a daily dosing with food and a difficult side effect profile, plus continue to require PEG-IFN and ribavirin. Response rates in these studies were also dependent on multiple factors including age, gender, race/genetics (IL28B), liver condition (stage, HCV viral load) and comorbidities (obesity, diabetes, alcohol use).
Using either bocepravir and telaprevir with PEG-IFN and ribavirin is now recommended in European treatment guidelines (EACS, 2011) as the standard of care in HIV/HCV coinfection, although optimal duration of treatment has not been establish in coinfection. The talk also included a caution on the complexity of drug-drug interactions with ART that makes some HIV drugs contraindicated. The future is exciting though, with at least eight coinfection studies planned or underway, including new studies from Vertex, Boehringer Ingelheim, Tibotec, BMS, Gilead and Abbott.
The presentation also discussed the increase of sexually acquired HCV in HIV positive gay men (but also in HIV negative gay men, largely potentially undiagnosed). In the absence of spontaneous clearance, treating during acute infection is still often recommended because of the high cure rates even with PED-IFN plus ribavirin. It is a concern that neither spontaneous clearance nor successful treatment provides protection against HCV reinfection and several case reports include examples of successive treatment and reinfection.
Professor Rockstroh highlighted that the lack of evidence explaining the exact mode for sexual HCV transmission is an essential hurdle for effective HCV prevention, especially in the context of men who serosort to limit the chance of HIV transmission. While epidemiology studies report strong associations between sexual HCV transmission and recreational drug use, group sex and fisting, there are many cases of men who have contracted HCV through sexual contact without any of these risk factors.
Biopsy studies looking for the cellular and tissue targets would enable effective interventions that would reduce transmission risks based on the actual route of infection. HCV has a higher viral burden and viral turnover than untreated HIV, is predominantly a blood-blood transmitted infection, and remains infectious outside the body for far longer than HIV (which more rapidly is destroyed on contact with air).
While HCV levels may be detectable in semen at a higher level in HIV positive compared to HIV negative men, it has not been convincingly proven that exposure to semen is the route for sexual transmission. If this is not the case, then advice to use condoms, while popular with health workers for reducing other infections, might not be appropriate or effective at reducing sexual HCV transmission.
Two further oral presentations on HIV/HCV coinfection from the large EuroSIDA cohort were also included in the same conference session.
Ole Kirk from theCopenhagen HIV Programme, Copenhagen, Denmark, presented data on the incidence of HCV infection from 2002 to 2010 in EuroSIDA, with reference to different patient groups and identifying risk factors associated with HCV infection. [6]
EuroSIDA reported that 150 HCV acute infections (95 [63.3%] in MSM) occurred in 4295 patients during 18,928 person years of follow-up (PYFU), giving an overall incidence of 0.79 per 100 PYFU (95% CI: 0.67-0.92).Overall incidence by calendar year appeared stable between 2002 and 2007 at approximately median of 0.5 infections per 100 PYFU (varying between 0.36 and 0.82). However, rates were higher at 1.22 in 2008, 1.10 in 2009 and 2.34 (95%CI: 1.24 – 3.44)per 100 PYFU in 2010.
In multivariate analysis, IDU was associated with a higher incidence rate ratio (IRR) than MSM: 4.59 (2.40 – 8.80; p< 0.0001), South and East Europe both had higher IRR compared to Western Europe, respectively (1.98 [1.12 – 3.49]; p = 0.018 and 2.41 [1.41 – 4.12]; p = 0.0014). Calendar year per 2 years was also associated with a higher IRR (1.29 [1.19 – 1.39]; p <0.0001).
David Grint, from UCL, Royal Free Campus, London, presented data from EuroSIDA on the uptake of HCV treatment (PEG-IFN +/- ribavirin) over the 1998-2010 period. [7]
Approximately a quarter of almost 2000 people with HIV/HCV coinfection (n=456/1947; 23.4%) received HCV treatment over a median follow-up time of 107 months (IQR: 57 – 156).
The incidence of HCV treatment increased significantly from 0.29 (95% CI: 0.13 – 0.45) per 100 PYFU in 1998 to 5.26 (95% CI: 3.87 – 65) in 2007, but dropped to 3.73 (95% CI: 2.40 – 5.06) in 2009.Treatment incidence increased 11.0% (95% CI: 4.0 – 18.4; p = 0.0016) per 2 calendar years. Although treatment increased in all European regions, there were considerable regional differences.
In a multivariable model, factors associated with use of treatment included:CD4 cell counts greater than 350 cell/mm3 (incidence rate ratio [IRR]: 1.75 [1.37 – 2.23; p < 0.0001]); HIV viral load <500 copies/mL (IRR: 1.58 [1.18 – 2.12; p = 0.0023]); HCV genotype 3 (IRR: 1.55 [1.21 – 1.98; p = 0.0006), compared to genotype 1; and those from south (IRR: 1.99 (1.45 – 2.72; p <0.0001) and east central Europe (IRR: 1.61 [1.11 – 2.34; p=0.011), each compared to west Europe.HCV treatment was not associated with all-cause death (355 deaths, IRR: 0.81 [95% CI: 0.54 – 1.19; p=0.28]) or liver-related death (95 deaths, IRR: 1.0 [95% CI: 0.50 – 2.02; p=0.99]).
- Rockstroh J. New agents for hepatitis C and the challenges in treating coinfected patients.11th International Congress on Drug Therapy in HIV Infection, 11-15 November 2012.Oral abstract O241.
- Gane EJ et al. Once daily sofosbuvir (GS-7977) plus ribavirin in patients with HCV genotypes 1, 2, and 3: the ELECTRON trial. 63rd Annual Meeting of the American Association for the study of Liver Diseases (AASLD), 9-13 November 2012, Boston. Oral abstract 229.
- Kowdley KV et al. A 12-week interferon-free treatment regimen with ABT-450/r, ABT-267, ABT-333 and ribavirin achieves SVR12 rates (observed data) of 99% in treatment-naïve patients and 93% in prior null responders with HCV genotype1 infection. 63rd Annual Meeting of the American Association for the study of Liver Diseases (AASLD), 9-13 November 2012, Boston. Late breaker abstract LB-1.
- Ly KN et al. The increasing burden of mortality from viral hepatitis in the United States between 1999 and 2007. Ann Intern Med. 2012 Feb 21;156(4):271-8.
- CDC. Recommendations for the Identification of Chronic Hepatitis C Virus Infection Among Persons Born During 1945–1965. Recommendations and Reports. 17 August 2012 / 61(RR04);1-18.
- Kirk O et al. Increases in acute hepatitis C (HCV) incidence across Europe: which regions and patient groups are affected?11th International Congress on Drug Therapy in HIV Infection, 11-15 November 2012. Oral abstract O242.
- Grint D et al. Temporal changes and regional differences in treatment uptake of hepatitis C therapy in EuroSIDA.11thInternational Congress on Drug Therapy in HIV Infection, 11-15 November 2012. Oral abstract O243.


text: It's no secret that attacks are rising in numbers and complexity. So it should also come as no surprise that enterprises are having a challenging time keeping certain types of attacks at bay.These include DNS (Domain Name System) attacks, network layer Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks, and attacks on encrypted data.The attacks are costly: The typical annual tally, for those surveyed, is about $682,000. More than half of enterprises surveyed cited loss of productivity, 43 percent said they lost data, and 31 percent said they lost revenue as a result of these attacks. Additionally, organizations said attacks come with an additional price of lost customer trust, regulatory fines and theft of money or other goods.These grim statistics are the findings of a recent Applied Research survey commissioned by F5 Networks. The survey is based upon responses from 1,000 large organizations in 10 countries.The survey also found that traditional security technologies are not keeping up with the threat.For instance, 42 percent of respondents said they experienced a firewall failure due to network-layer DoS traffic load in the year, and 36 percent reported such a failing during application-level DoS attacks. Survey respondents didn't convey much faith that their security systems could parse traffic context well enough to protect against complex attacks any more sufficiently than "somewhat well."In an attempt to quantify the impact of these attacks, Applied Research combined survey results, including the top three most frequent, difficult, and high-impact attacks reported, to develop its version of the "Cyber Attack Index." According to their finding, DNS attacks ranked 100 percent, while network DoS came in at 98 percent, access of encrypted data 83 percent, misconfigurations 64 percent, and application layer DoS 48 percent on the index. Also noteworthy is that a large portion of security professionals are not familiar with commonly-known attack techniques among hackers and pen testers. More than 30 percent of respondents weren't familiar with directory traversal, cross-site request forgery, application layer DoS, cross-site scripting attacks.That lack of industry knowledge was touched on in another Applied Research survey released weeks ago. The 2011 Threat Management Survey, sponsored by Symantec, found that in addition to gaps in security technologies, lack of sufficient staffing -- and confidence in that staff -- poses the greatest challenges. In fact, a surprising 57 percent of the 1,025 surveyed said that they lack confidence in their IT security staffs' ability to respond to new and emerging threats.About half of those who lacked confidence said that insufficient security staff was a top factor. In total, 43 percent of organizations reported being "somewhat" or "extremely understaffed."In North America, the lack of staffing was more prevalent with 53 percent citing a staffing deficit.George V. Hulme writes about security and technology from his home in Minneapolis. You can also find him tweeting about those topics on Twitter @georgevhulme.


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The annual BlackBerry Live conference was kicked off Tuesday with the launch of a new 3.1-in. qwerty smartphone, the BlackBerry Q5, that's slated to go on sale this summer in emerging markets, but not in the U.S.
In addition to unveiling the Q5 phone, CEO Thorsten Heins announced that the qwerty BlackBerry Q10 will available from U.S. carriers starting in early June, not late May, as BlackBerry had previously said.
The Q10 device is already available in 14 other countries.
Also, the company said that the BlackBerry 10.1 operating system update, which ships on the Q10, is available for Wi-Fi download to the touchscreen Z10 starting Tuesday. The Z10 launched in February.
Heins said today that the BlackBerry 10.1 update won't reach U.S. Z10 users until later this month.
Despite some delays in releasing the 10.1 update and shipping the Q10 in the U.S., Heins struck an upbeat tone, noting that BlackBerry's most recent quarter was profitable, showing that the firm is recovering from months of lagging shipments and declining subscribers and sales.
"We are definitely in the race," Heins said.
"In one short year, we have brought this company to a profitable quarter. The most successful launch year for BlackBerry is well underway. It hasn't been an easy journey, but man, we have reached solid ground with this company," he added.
BlackBerry didn't announce its pricing plan for the Q5, and few specs were made available.
The company did say that the Q5 will be available in black, white, red and pink and will run BlackBerry 10, which includes BlackBerry Messenger videoconferencing capabilities.
BlackBerry Messenger is very popular in emerging Aisan markets, as well as in Europe. Gartner analyst Carolina Milanesi tweeted that the Q5 appears to be intended to serve markets where it can take advantage of Messenger's popularity with younger users.
After BlackBerry said that Q10 shipments in the U.S. would start in early June, Verizon Wireless tweeted it will deliver the smartphone in June, while Sprint said it will have the device available in "late summer."
During a keynote presentation, Heins also showed off a live video call from a BB10 smartphone to a console inside of a Bentley automobile that was driven onto the stage.
Noting that it is dangerous to drive with a video call on a car's console, BlackBerry said the BB10 software will shut off the video when the car is motion. The audio will continue running, he said.
Heins also said that BlackBerry World app store now has 120,000 apps, and a global network of 650 carriers that reach 175 countries.
The number of apps available for BB10 phones has been a major concern to analysts and to some corporate customers. The list of 120,000 apps remains far below the number of apps available from Apple's App Store and Google Play.
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SHREDDED by Charles O'Donnell
Series: n/a; standalone
Genre: Adult SciFi & Fantasy
Who can erase my existence from the mind of God?
Grace, a civil servant with a sordid past, wakes one morning to find that she's become a viral sensation: Her life has been hacked, woven into a lifestream, a full-immersion, 3-D, virtual reality experience that thrill-seeking stream riders can inhabit for a few dollars. Knowing that she's powerless to keep strangers from getting their jollies reliving her life, and fearing that her teenage son, Dylan, might stumble upon her explicit lifestream, Grace finds a shredder, an expert in the ways of the Worldstream, the nearly infinitely detailed record of data from the ubiquitous Internet of Things. He'll erase her lifestream and all of her data since the day she was born. Her life will be hers again, but she'll be outside of the Worldstream–and she can never go back.
About the Book
by Charles O'Donnell
n/a; standalone
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Publication Date
April 1, 2017
About Charles O'Donnell
Charles O'Donnell writes thrillers with high-tech themes in international and futuristic settings. He recently retired from a career of thirty-five years in engineering and manufacturing to write full-time, leveraging his decades of writing experience, mostly email, but, as Charles points out, "that counts."
His latest book, Shredded, is an expression of his fascination with the progress of technology to either augment reality or to replace it entirely, and his concern over the erosion of privacy in a world in which everything is shared online, and nobody reads the terms and conditions.
Charles lives with Helen, his wife, life partner and fellow paranoid in Westerville, Ohio.
Visit my website at http://www.charlesodonnellauthor.com
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Nevada Online Poker Rivalry Brewing
World Series of Poker Executive Director Ty Stewart [recently] experienced that pain.
Recently, Stewart made light of early troubles that befell Ultimate Poker, the first legal pay-to-play online gambling website in the U.S., which launched April 30.
First, Ultimate was caught using an unlicensed and much maligned service provider to identify new players. Then, a glitch in the website caused two 9 of spades to appear on the flop in a game of hold'em.
"I think the market is ready for a first-class product," Stewart told Case Keefer of the Las Vegas Sun while touting the World Series of Poker's planned Nevada-based pay-to-play website.
Last week, the World Series of Poker suffered its own glitch. The unlicensed website briefly went live, letting players gain access to the pay-to-play area.
Caesars Interactive Entertainment, which owns the World Series of Poker, caught the mistake, shut down the site, and notified Nevada gaming regulators.
The laughter you're hearing emanates from the corporate headquarters of Station Casinos, majority owner of Ultimate Gaming, which operates Ultimate Poker.


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recipe, more or less, before. But this is the version without so much rat in it.
A friend surprised me today by dropping off a basket of freshly picked strawberries, and if a pie/tart is what you are after then I think this is the perfect way to enjoy strawberries in their prime. The only thing new this time around is the tart shell (I have posted a tart shell recipe before). I don't buy vegan cream cheese on a regular basis so I hope the use of aquafaba makes this recipe more accessible. I think it made for a better shell as well--crisp and durable, yet tender and so very delicious.
Tart Shell (makes a 9" shell)
- 1 1/4 cup (200g) all purpose flour
- 1/2 cup (60g) icing sugar
- pinch of salt (or 1/4 tsp is using salt-free margarine)
- 1/2 cup (125g) cold vegan butter (or margarine, or half margarine and half vegetable shortening)
- 2 tbsp aquafaba
- 1 tbsp light coconut milk
1. Whisk together flour, icing sugar, and salt. Cut in fat with a pastry cutter.
2. Whisk together aquafaba and coconut milk, then add to flour mixture. Use a fork/your hands to bring together into ball.
3. Flatten into a disc and wrap in plastic. Refrigerate for an hour.
4. Roll out dough on a floured surface into a circle large enough to overhang the sides of your tart pan. Trim any excess along the outside bottom of the pan, then fold the overhang to the inside the pan. Press the dough smoothly and evenly into the pan.
5. Place in the freezer for 30 mins. Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
6. Blind bake the shell: line the shell with heavy duty aluminum foil. Fill with dried beans or baking weights. Bake for 15 mins (or until shell looks dry when you peel back the foil), then remove the beans and foil.
7. Reduce heat to 350 degrees and bake for another 8-10 mins, or until golden. Remove from oven and let cool.
- 6 cups fresh whole strawberries
- 1 cup sugar
- 3 tablespoons cornstarch
- 1/2 cup water
1. Mash enough of the berries to measure 1 cup. Place remaining berries in a large bowl.
2. In a medium saucepan, whisk together sugar and cornstarch, then gradually whisk in water and then crushed berries.
3. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly until mixture thickens and boils. Boil and stir 1 minute.
4. Cool for 10 mins, then pour over berries and gently turn to coat. Transfer to cooled tart shell and chill at least 3 hours or until set.
Terrible picture but great idea: a creamy topping is the perfect addition. This is rad whip from Vegan Pie in the Sky.
I'm not posting anymore, but all the recipes are here (for better or for worse) for reference.
Sunday, July 5, 2015
Friday, July 3, 2015
Chocolate Chip and Walnut Cookies
Makes 18-24 cookies
- 1 1/4 cups (200g) all purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp salt (omit if using salted margarine/butter)
- 1/2 cup (125g) margarine or butter
- 1/2 cup (105g) packed brown sugar
- 1/4 cup plus 2 tbsp (90g) white sugar
- 3 tbsp chickpea aquafaba
- 1 tsp vanilla extract (or maple extract)
- 1 cup chocolate chips
- 3/4 cup chopped walnuts
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line two baking pans with parchment paper.
1. Whisk together dry ingredients in a medium bowl.
2. Cream together margarine/butter with sugars in a medium bowl. Mix in aquafaba and extract. Add dry ingredients and mix until just combined.
3. Mix in chocolate chips and walnuts.
4. Drop heaping tablespoons of batter on to the prepared baking sheets. Flatten a bit with your fingers.
5. Bake in batches until golden. Smaller cookies will bake in 10-13 minutes, larger cookies in 12-15 minutes. I like to bake for 10 mins, then give the pan a quick rap in the counter to flatten the cookies, the return the pan to the oven to finish baking.
6. Let cool on the pan for 5 mins, then transfer to a wire rack until cool.
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The Los Angeles Lakers already have fired one head coach in this disappointing season, but general manager Mitch Kupchak isn't placing all the blame for the team's 17-24 start on the current one.
"Without a doubt, we have utmost confidence in Mike (D'Antoni) as a coach," Kupchak told ESPNLosAngeles.com in a phone interview Tuesday from Memphis. "I think if you spoke to him, his vision on Day 1 was dramatically different than it is today. It's the coach's job to adjust and to make changes. Sometimes a player is just not going to fit. Sometimes a coach has to make changes and compromise in the way he's done things and I think that's what Mike is going through right now is just the process."
The Lakers have hit the midway point of the season riding a three-game losing skid as some of the promises made in D'Antoni's introductory news conference in November are starting to ring hollow.
D'Antoni claimed the team should "easily" average 110-115 points per game under his guidance. They've crossed the 110-point threshold just eight times in the 31 games since he took over, going 5-3.
At the time of D'Antoni's hiring, Kupchak said the new coach's system was "more suited to the talent" on the Lakers than Phil Jackson's Triangle offense, and yet several players have had a difficult time fitting in -- Dwight Howard has sniped publicly about his lack of post-up and shot attempts, Pau Gasol has balked at accepting his role off the bench and free agent acquisitions Antawn Jamison and Jodie Meeks have both had to endure strings of DNP-CDs (Did Not Play -- Coaching Decision) under D'Antoni.
Yet, Kupchak said D'Antoni's shuffling of the roster is evidence that the coach is willing to change and try new things in order to try to start winning.
"It's not like he started a week or two ago trying to figure this thing out," Kupchak said. "He's been searching for combinations now for probably six to eight weeks. Understandably, I think the longer the season goes the more is at stake and the bigger hole you dig, the more dramatic your adjustments or your take on coaching has to become. I think that's what he's doing. He's grabbing every rabbit out of the hat trying to look for something that works."
While Kupchak is continuing to support the coach, the disappointment of the Lakers being out of the playoff picture with 41 games left to play is wearing on the Lakers' GM.
"You don't want to get too emotional one way or the other, but, we're halfway through now," Kupchak said. "Quite frankly, we've dug a hole and I think it's frustrating for everybody. It's certainly not what anybody or everybody expected halfway through the season."
Kupchak singled out the Lakers' effort, or lack thereof, as the most frustrating part to see.
"I'm a little bit concerned about our effort," Kupchak said. "I'd like to see better effort on the court. When the ball is not bouncing your way, when shots aren't going in, you just can't seem to get a break, the one thing you can control on the court is your effort and loose balls and running the floor, defending, offensive rebounding. I think back to the Miami game and I have that vision of LeBron (James) diving on that ball at midcourt. That's effort. It's natural when things get tough to hesitate and be unsure, lose confidence. That's one thing that we can't let happen. We have to maintain our confidence and our effort more than anything has to be at an all-time (high) to get through this period."
Kupchak is well aware of the Feb. 21 trade deadline looming if the team decides it needs to pursue a move if that confidence wanes and that effort fails to improve.
"We've got a little bit (less) than a month," Kupchak said. "Typically, it's unusual, although there was a trade today (between Memphis and Cleveland), it's unusual if things heat up five or four weeks out. Typically, as you approach the trade deadline, people get serious and they really begin to understand and know their team and they have a pretty good feel of what's out there.
"So, I don't think we're at the point where you say, 'It's time for a trade,' and a trade happens in 3-4 days. That's just not how this league works. I read somebody somewhere a week or so ago said, 'This is a deadline-oriented league,' and I think that's true even though there are exceptions. That's certainly one way to address the problem, to look into changing players."
What's tricky for Kupchak is that he's not convinced making a trade or signing a free agent would act as a cure-all for the Lakers' funk.
"Part of the frustrating thing about this season to date is that I just can't, or we just can't, put our finger on the problem," Kupchak said. "We mentioned a bunch of them and even getting through the injuries and the (roster) changes and the coaching changes and you just try look at the players and how they fit together, is there something that's missing? I could look at our group and nitpick and say that we could use something here or a better shooter there, but the bottom line is that the group as whole, we have not performed to the level of our ability.
"It's not like we don't have a player at a certain position and if we added a player -- an eighth guy or a ninth guy -- all of the sudden our record is going to go from 17 and whatever it is to 30-11. That's not going to happen by adding a bench shooter or a defensive player. You know what I mean? That's not going to happen. We're underachieving for other reasons, not because we're missing a bench player. Certainly you can add a bench player and become a better team, or hopefully a better team, but that's not the reason why our record is what it is. We should be better than our record says we are. But there's a saying in this league, and I'm sure you've heard this saying, 'You are what your record says you are.' "
The Lakers' record of just 2-7 over their past nine games says that the team is getting worse, but Kupchak believes it's just been more of the same.
"I'm not sure there have been recent struggles," Kupchak said. "We've struggled from Day 1. It's not like we played good ball and then all of the sudden the last three to four weeks, we're starting to struggle. We have struggled from Day 1 and it's frustrating for everybody."
That frustration will linger until the Lakers start to play up to their capabilities.
"We'll just have to figure it out," Kupchak said. "There's no end to this. It's not like if it's not figured out in a week it comes to a conclusion. It's just a process. We just got to keep on working at it and figure it out. It's basketball."


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Nokia Siemens Networks Aims for No.2 Slot in U.S. Market
Nokia-Siemens Networks is mounting an expansion drive in North America where the world's third-largest telecom equipment maker believes a spate of deal-making among mobile carriers will play out in its favor.
Chief Executive Rajeev Suri said deals by Japan's Softbank to buy 70 percent of Sprint Nextel Corp (NYSE:S) for $20 billion, and Deutsche Telekom's purchase of MetroPCS was an opportunity for NSN to grab new U.S. business.
"It's a long game. We have gotten from number 5 to number 3 in past few years, and now we will go target number 2," Suri said in an interview at Mobile World Congress.
NSN may soon see its ownership change because a 6-year old shareholder pact between partners Nokia and Siemens expires on April 1.
The German group is eager to exit but Nokia's priority is its handset business so it is unlikely to buy out Siemens.
Suri said it was not likely that Siemens and Nokia would reach a decision on the shareholder pact at its expiry date, but said the issue had no impact on the business.
"You have to ask them what they want to do," he said.
Nokia and Siemens declined to comment.
The company is much healthier than it was a year ago after a restructuring which included a cull of staff from 75,000 to 58,000 and sale of non-core assets. Operating and gross margins rose last year, and NSN actually contributed to co-parent Nokia's cash flow instead of being a drain.
In the U.S. market, Suri said Softbank's arrival could work to NSN's advantage because NSN could capitalize on its strong supplier relationship with Softbank in Japan to win more contracts at Sprint and Clearwire, which Sprint is in the process of buying.
When operators merge, they often rationalize their network gear suppliers so as to cut costs, putting contracts in play.
At T-Mobile, NSN and Ericsson are the primary suppliers of mobile gear, while at MetroPCS it's Ericsson and Samsung.
"I think they will consolidate suppliers," said Suri, opening up an opportunity for NSN to displace Samsung.
The group's renewed vigor in the United States - sales in North America rose 20 percent last year to 1.294 billion euros - could increase pressure on loss-making Alcatel-Lucent, the second-biggest network gear supplier in the U.S. market after Ericsson.
Suri is confident that NSN can cope with the fierce competition and stagnant spending by global telecom operators.
"I still believe the global market only has room for three long-term profitable companies that can thrive over the next few years," he said.
Few dispute that Ericsson and China's Huawei will be the top two, with NSN and Alcatel-Lucent vying for the third spot.
Suri said there might not be enough M&A to reduce the number of players and that some might just limp along not making money but still staying in the business.
"The strong are getting stronger and the weak are getting weaker," he said.
"Just look at LTE (4G) contracts being awarded in India, Russia, Japan, and elsewhere: the same players win."
Market research Dell'Oro said Ericsson earned $761.30 million in LTE radio access revenue in the fourth quarter, while NSN got $451.40 million. Huawei's share stood at $428.80 million, Alcatel-Lucent's $295.90 million, and Samsung's $132.10 million.
(Additional reporting by Arno Scheutze, Jens Hack, Ritsuko Ando. Editing by Jane Merriman)


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I have previously expressed my disgust over trophy hunting game like lions and elephants — people who post accounts of the thrill of killing a giraffe or rhino with a high-powered rifle. I simply do not understand the joy or power felt in these thrill kills. Nothing however quite prepared most of us for Idaho Fish and Game Commissioner Blake Fischer. Fischer shared photos of his hunting trip in Africa where he posed with a photo of a entire "family of baboons," including a baby, that Fischer massacred with a recurve bow. He gleefully reported that, while you are charged for killing large animals, "Baboons are free."
Fischer and his wife shot at least 14 animals in Namibia, including giraffe, leopard, impala, sable antelope, waterbuck, kudu, warthog, gemsbok (oryx) and eland. However, Fischer recounted how he wanted his wife to see him hunt "So I shot a whole family of baboons. I think she got the idea quick." Yup, so did the rest of us. The picture of wiping out a whole family of baboons to impress your wife (and then pose with the family) is horrifying to most of us.
We have previously followed the controversy over the shooting of "Cecil the Lion" by an American dentist Walter Palmer from Minnesota as well as subsequent controversies of a Idaho hunter taunting animal advocates and killing giant elephants for trophies.
Various former commissioners and current hunters denounced Fischer and called for his resignation.


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NEW YORK (AP) — Government health officials launched the second round of a graphic ad campaign Thursday that is designed to get smokers off tobacco, saying they believe the last effort convinced tens of thousands to quit.
The ads feature sad, real-life stories: There is Terrie, a North Carolina woman who lost her voice box. Bill, a diabetic smoker from Michigan who lost his leg. And Aden, a 7-year-old boy from New York, who has asthma attacks from secondhand smoke.
"Most smokers want to quit. These ads encourage them to try," said Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The CDC campaign cost $48 million and includes TV, radio and online spots as well as print ads and billboards.
The spending comes as the agency is facing a tough budget squeeze, but officials say the ads should more than pay for themselves by averting future medical costs to society. Smoking is the leading cause of preventable illness and death in the United States. It's responsible for the majority of the nation's lung cancer deaths and is a deadly factor in heart attacks and a variety of other illnesses.
Last year's similar $54 million campaign was the agency's first and largest national advertising effort. The government deemed it a success: That campaign triggered an increase of 200,000 calls to quit lines. The CDC believes that likely prompted tens of thousands of smokers to quit based on calculations that a certain percentage of callers do actually stop.
Like last year, the current 16-week campaign spotlights real people who were hurt and disfigured by smoking. Terrie Hall, a 52-year-old throat cancer survivor makes a repeat performance. She had her voice box removed about a dozen years ago.
In last year's ad there's a photo of her as a youthful high school cheerleader. Then she is seen more recently putting on a wig, inserting false teeth and covering the hole in her neck with a scarf. It was, by far, the campaign's most popular spot, as judged by YouTube viewings and Web clicks.
In a new ad, Hall addresses the camera, speaking with the buzzing sound of her electrolarynx. She advises smokers to make a video of themselves now, reading a children's book or singing a lullaby. "I wish I had. The only voice my grandson's ever heard is this one," her electric voice growls.
One difference from last year: The new campaign tilts more toward the impact smokers have on others. One ad features a Kentucky high school student who suffers asthma attacks from being around cigarette smoke. Another has a Louisiana woman who was 16 when her mother died from smoking-related causes.
The return of the campaign is already being applauded by some anti-smoking advocates, who say tobacco companies spend more on tobacco product promotion in a week than the CDC spends in a year.
After decades of decline, the adult smoking rate has stalled at roughly 20 percent in recent years. Advocates say the campaign provides a necessary jolt to a weary public that has been listening to government warnings about the dangers of smoking for nearly 50 years.
"There is an urgent need to continue this campaign," said Matthew Myers, president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, in a statement.
It would seem like a bad time for the CDC to be buying air time — the agency is facing roughly $300 million in budget cuts as part of the government's sequestration cuts in federal spending. However, the ad money comes not from the CDC's regular budget but from a special $1 billion public health fund set up years ago through the Affordable Care Act. The fund has set aside more than $80 million for CDC smoking prevention work.
Frieden argues that the ads are extremely cost-effective — spending about $50 million a year to save potentially tens of thousands of lives.
"We're trying to figure out how to have more impact with less resources," he said.
The ads direct people to call 1-800-QUIT-NOW. PlowShare Group, of Stamford, Conn., is again the advertising company that put the ads together.