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KARBALA, Iraq — Iraq's Sunni Arab vice president renewed his call for Sunni-led insurgents to quickly join the Shiite prime minister's national reconciliation effort, while a Shiite festival that drew millions of pilgrims was held without bloodshed Saturday.
Attacks around Iraq killed at least 12 people, including two gunmen and two would-be bombers. Seven apparent victims of sectarian killings, their bodies all showing signs of torture, also were found dumped on city streets and in a river.
During a meeting with community leaders from a predominantly Sunni Arab district in Baghdad, Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi said it was not too late to stop spiraling sectarian conflict, "as the rules of the game have been changed and problems can't be solved only by weapons."
"This is a call for the Iraqi resistance to think ... and sit around the negotiating table before it's too late," he told about 100 people at Islamic University in the Azamiyah neighborhood. "Differences will devastate Iraq and this division is not to our benefit."
Amnesty offered to some insurgents
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, who announced he will be visiting Iran on Monday for talks on security and bilateral relations, unveiled a 24-point reconciliation plan last month that he hopes will bridge the religious, ethnic and political divisions feeding Iraq's violence.
The plan includes an offer of amnesty to members of the Sunni Arab-led insurgency not involved in terrorist activities, and calls for disarming primarily Shiite sectarian militias.
But no major Sunni Arab insurgent group has publicly agreed to join the plan, and many Shiite militias are controlled by legislators themselves. Car bombings, mortar attacks and shootings have killed hundreds of Iraqis the past few weeks.
Amid worries about sectarian attacks, including an assault by snipers that disrupted a Shiite observance in Baghdad last month, a major security operation was mounted in the Shiite holy city of Karbala, 50 miles south of Baghdad, to protect Saturday's festival observing the birthday of Imam al-Mahdi, a 9th century religious leader.
In most Shiite Muslim sects, Mahdi is considered the last "imam," or leader of the Shiite community. The son of the 11th imam, Hasan al-Askari, he is said to have disappeared in the 9th century. But Shiites believe he is still alive and will one day return as a savior of mankind.
Security tightened for festival
Authorities imposed a four-day vehicle ban in Karbala, while thousands of Iraqi police and soldiers — backed by air support from the U.S.-led coalition — fanned out across the city to ward off potential suicide bombers.
Hundreds of people have died in suicide bombings and other attacks in Karbala since Saddam Hussein was ousted in 2003. Suspicion has fallen on Sunni Arab extremist groups, including al-Qaida in Iraq, which consider Shiites to be heretics and collaborators with the Americans.
Many pilgrims walk to Karbala from across Iraq. But while several attacks on processions heading to the city were reported in the days before the festival, the event itself passed off without violence and authorities lifted the vehicle ban Saturday afternoon.
Authorities estimated that 3 million to 4 million pilgrims from across the Arab world, as well as from Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nepal and India, attended the festival.
The "festival today ended without any incident," Minister of State for National Security Sherwan al-Waili said, thanking Iraqi and coalition forces.
But no day in Iraq goes by without violence.
Two roadside bombs planted near each other exploded as a police foot patrol passed in the northern city of Kirkuk, killing four people and wounding 16, police said.
Bomb wounds U.S. soldiers
A parked car bomb struck a U.S. military convoy in eastern Baghdad, killing at least two passers-by and wounding five, police said. The U.S. military said three coalition soldiers were wounded.
Police prevented a suicide car bomber from striking a police station near a mosque in northern Baghdad by shooting the driver before he could reach the building. But the explosives in his car detonated, killing an officer and wounding 10 civilians, the Interior Ministry said.
In the center of the capital, a bomb exploded as a man planted it by the side of a road, killing him and wounding another person.
Authorities found the bullet-riddled bodies of six people dumped on streets in Mahmoudiya, about 20 miles south of Baghdad, the army said. All had their hands and feet bound and bore signs of torture, a hallmark of sectarian killings that have escalated since a Shiite shrine was bombed in February.
Police also found an unidentified body in the Tigris River in Suwayah, 25 miles south of Baghdad. The blindfolded and bound body had been shot several times, Kut city morgue said.
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This cartoon by Bill Leak, published in today's Australian, isn't garden-variety media sexism. It's an appallingly ill-judged combination of callousness and racism surrounding the Christmas Island asylum seeker shipwreck disaster, and to make matters worse, there's a jocular rapeyness directed at the prime minister of this country.
Readers, I'm talking about this:
"A hell of a hammering"? It really does beggar belief that Leak could think of no better way to dramatise the political trials Gillard faces over Australia's asylum seeker policies than to show the prime minister as a distressed, brutalised object.
Depressingly, though, I almost suspect that Leak's editor at The Australian knew exactly how tasteless and dull-witted the cartoon was, and approved its publication anyway in order to court controversy, and hence, boost circulation and pageviews.
I really struggle to think of any other political cartoon that degrades the holder of the highest executive office in this country in such an ill-conceived, unfunny way. Imagery of shipwrecks and stormy seas has been used extensively in political cartoons in the past – especially in relation to asylum seeker issues – but even a besieged prime minister is usually depicted as a captain going down with his ship, flailing in the sea or clinging to a life raft. Not battered and bruised, on all fours. Not with a police officer standing there, coolly refusing to help.
This is the second time in two days the Australian media have disrespected the Prime Minister. Yesterday, actual airtime and column inches were devoted to gossipy speculation over whether the very publicly unmarried Gillard had finally got engaged, since she was spotted at a press conference wearing a large sparkly ring on her engagement finger.
When asked about the ring, Gillard made light of it. "We have got to that stage in a press conference where it's got a bit silly," she retorted.
"I have had that ring for a long period of time and I miscellaneously wear it on my left hand or my right hand, depending on how much handwriting I'm doing. … If it will make you feel better, I'll slip it back on to the right hand."
If a male prime minister were spotted without his wedding ring, would the Australian media interrupt a press conference about the National Broadband Network to ask him if he'd left his wife? Let journalists criticise Gillard's policies all they like, but to discredit them, and her, on the basis of her gender is appalling.

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Column | Pete Seeger had an uneasy coexistence with wealth
Pete Seeger, who died Monday, has been described as the "father" of American folk music.
Like the Coen Brothers' fictional portrayal of ne'er-do-well folk singer Lleywn Davis, Seeger looked the part of the progressive troubadour, oblivious to the worldly business of making money.
With his tattered work shirts and his left-wing politics, Seeger looked the part of the man of the people, a card-carrying member of the 99 percent.
This wasn't an act. But it's worth noting that Seeger was, in spite of his best efforts to eschew worldly success, a remarkably successful musical entrepreneur who made millions.
His first group, the Weavers, had a string of hits, including a recording of Leadbelly's "Good Night, Irene" that sold a staggering 2 million copies in 1950. Other hits soon followed.
Things fell apart, thanks to Sen. Joseph McCarthy's witch hunts. When Seeger was hauled before the House Un-American Activities Committee, he refused to answer, earning him a prison sentence that was later overturned.
The Weavers later reunited, but when the other members of the group wanted to record a song for a cigarette commercial, Seeger declined on principle.
Yet financial success would dog him far more tenaciously than McCarthy ever could.
By the mid-1960s, when Seeger's music had become the soundtrack of the civil rights movement, money was pouring in to his bank account, earning him a six-figure income.
In an amusing profile published in the New York Times in 1966, the paper of record described a man "who is most at home when working at hammering out songs of love between his brothers and sisters, and who never expected the hammer to turn to gold in his hands."
But it did, again and again.
Seeger, whom the Times described as having found "financial achievement more burden than blessing," discovered that every time he followed his heart and stuck to his principles, he made yet more money.
Still, he stuck to his guns. In 1979, he told Rolling Stone that "I still believe the only chance for the human race to survive is to give up such pleasures as … private profit."
But the profits kept piling up.
Seeger was exceedingly generous with his money and his time. Thanks to this war on his own wealth, Seeger escaped inclusion in the infamous "1 percent" (a good thing, too, given that he was active in the Occupy Wall Street protests). But he was dangerously, perilously close: a recent estimate of his net worth pegged it at $4.2 million, putting him just a couple million shy of that infamous percentile.
This accumulation of wealth would have been his greatest failure — perhaps his only failure.
The man who sang at hobo camps, labor halls and at union rallies just couldn't stop making money. An accidental entrepreneur and unwitting capitalist, Seeger was, despite his best efforts, the quintessential American success story.


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Focus Film's acquisition of the film "The Kids Are All Right" appears to be one of the most exciting deals to come out of the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. A cast filled with great names and a captivating premise has all the earmarks of great movie watching.
In the flick, two teenaged children to a lesbian couple get the idea to seek out their mysterious biological father and introduce him to their family. No simple task, given that they were conceived by donor artificial insemination.
This is no ordinary couple played by the fantastic Annette Bening and Julianne Moore. Moore especially has been marking up her recent resume with a wide range of comedic roles -- from her subtle turn in "A Single Man" to the straight-up hilarious returning role on "30 Rock." With Mark Ruffalo as the donor, you are not just talking about killer DNA potential for the kids, but great movie potential as well for the rest of us.
The subject matter too seems well overdue for comedic mining.
Lisa Cholodenko directed the feature from an original screenplay that she wrote with Stuart Blumberg. Focus was clearly impressed. Variety.com reports that negotiations went for 72 hours and ended at $4.8 million. Focus Features CEO James Schamus called the movie "an extraordinary gem."


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Further proof Bowie's a smart one: not only does he record his first album in a decade in secret, but the no-tour, no-interviews policy guarantees attention turns to the art and not the artist while listeners scan for clues to both. And he's already dropped tantalising clues aplenty. The cover - which gained fame/notoriety for blanking out his Heroes sleeve - refers to his period in Germany in the 70s, as did the first wistful single Where Are We Now? with its video of archival footage of Berlin before the wall came down. The second video/single The Stars (Are Out Tonight) - Bowie and actress Tilda Swinton in the self-referencing clip as a couple seemingly retired from celebrity but pursued by younger versions of themselves - warns of the fickle nature of fame. And who better to trust than Bowie (who co-wrote Fame with John Lennon almost 40 years ago) on that? Especially since he's been absent from the spotlight and watching the wheels go round.
However, the title track opener here features furiously skittering guitar from New York avant-jazzist David Torn. This places you at the difficult tail end of that Low/Heroes/Lodger trilogy in Berlin with its angularity, urgent energy and the raging lines, "First they give you everything that you want, then they take back everything that you have" before it sears out at the end with, "Here I am, not quite dying ... the next day ..."
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As an intro, it stands so far from the pre-album set-up of Where Are We Now? - although close in emotional tone to The Stars (Are Out Tonight) - that you are put on notice: Bowie's back from observing on the sidelines, and he's got something to say.
Much of this isn't easy. For the brutally confrontational and brittle If You Can See Me, he sounds like a man clinging on by bleeding fingernails while the world descends into chaos because of rapacious capitalism: "I am the spirit of greed, a lord of theft ... I'll burn all your books and the problems they make." Global politics viewed from the frontline appear on the glamrock-gone-sour sound of I'd Rather Be High ("than training my guns on those men in the sand"). Mortality and menace are scattered throughout from "when the sun goes down and the die is cast" on Dirty Boys with its brusque sax and guitarist Earl Slick's steel-wool sound, through the dissonant and dark throb of Love is Lost ("say goodbye to the thrills of life, where love was good") to the elegant desperation and orchestrated You Feel So Lonely You Could Die lifting its title from Elvis.
There's also stomping rock on (You Will) Set the World on Fire (about New York's 60s folkies), and the poetic spirit and vocal style of Scott Walker adopted for the gloomy ballad Heat.
Mostly this is lyrically dense Bowie (looking for a thesis topic?) going his own way without accessible singles - the familiar but unexceptional ballad Valentine's Day the most likely - and offering a few duffers (notably Boss of Me which aims for the heroic but is forgettable).
He's serious, angry, reflective, strident and not going gentle into that good night of a long retirement. In fact, aside from Where Are We Now? (a desperate grip on this fleeting moment with "as long as there's sun/rain/fire/me/you ...") he's raging against death and life with a rare and difficult passion.
Quite a ride - without a seatbelt.
Stars: 4/5
Verdict: Welcome to the world of Difficult David - it's a dark place
Click here to buy The Next Day by David Bowie.
- TimeOut / elsewhere.co.nz


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ESPN's Marc Stein reports that the NBA has fined the New Jersey Nets $50k for Jay-Z's visit to the Kentucky Wildcats locker room.
After Kentucky defeated North Carolina in the Elite Eight, the Jigga Man decided to survey his kingdom—the game was in Newark—and wished to talk to some of his subjects. This all started happily enough, reports the Louisville Courier-Journal:
"That in itself was a pretty nice experience to add on to (the Final Four)," Darius Miller said. "Going to the Final Four (is bigger) by far. But still, Jay-Z. It's crazy. This whole day has been crazy. I'm still taking it all in."
"I said, 'Oh that's Jay-Z!'" forward Terrence Jones said. "We all gave him a handshake and he came in the locker room, and we just kept screaming 'Jay-Z in the locker room!' He congratulated us, just said he was proud of us."
But apparently that constitutes contact with players who still have remaining NCAA eligibility. ("Do not bark up that tree, that tree will fall on you. I don't know why your advisors ain't forewarn you.") And that's exactly the kind of thing that got Danny Ainge fined $30k in 2007.
Sources: Nets, Jay-Z fined $50,000 [ESPN]
NCAA Notebook | Rap mogul Jay-Z gets backstage pass to Kentucky's locker room [Courier-Journal]


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There's no question that video needs to be front and central in the comms teams' mix.
We know how important good video, with compelling content that reaches out to its intended audience, is. But, there is a gap in the vital hands-on skills and knowledge needed to create and deliver quality films which make a difference and don't cost the earth.
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Former Dodgers pitcher Bob Welch has died after suffering a heart attack at his home on Monday, June 9, 2014, the Dodgers announced Tuesday. He was 57.
Welch pitched for the Dodgers from 1978-87, winning 115 games. He started game one of the National League Championship Series in 1978 and 1981, winning the first.
"The Los Angeles Dodgers are saddened to learn of the passing of Bob Welch," Dodgers president and CEO Stan Kasten said in a statement released by the team. "He was one of the greatest competitors to wear the Dodger uniform. Dodger fans will always remember his confrontation with Yankee great Reggie Jackson in Game 2 of the 1978 World Series, when the 21-year-old rookie struck out Jackson to end the game."
As a 21-year-old rookie, Welch was called on to close out game two of the 1978 World Series at Dodger Stadium. His final pitch ended a nine-pitch duel with Jackson to earn the save.
In game four of the series, Welch allowed a 10th-inning single to Lou Piniella that scored Roy White with the game-winning run.
As the starting pitcher in game four of the 1981 World Series, Welch suffered the ignominy of facing four batters without recording an out at Dodger Stadium. The Dodgers came back to win that game and eventually the series in six games.
Among all Los Angeles Dodgers pitchers, Welch ranks eighth in wins, seventh in strikeouts (1,292), sixth in losses (86), tenth in complete games (47) and seventh in shutouts (23). Welch ended his career with the Oakland A's from 1988-1994, winning game three of the 1988 World Series in Oakland. No pitcher has won more than 25 games since Welch won 27 for the A's in 1990.
Welch is survived by his children Dylan, Riley and Kelly.


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Host: Christopher Rose, Outreach Director, Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Guest: Samuel Thrope, Fellow, Martin Buber Society, Hebrew University
Anyone following the news today could be forgiven for thinking that Iran and Israel were natural enemies and had been since the latter was established in 1948. But before Iran's Islamic Revolution of 1979, the two nations had a close unofficial relationship that extended beyond economic and commercial ties. In 1962, Jalal Al-e Ahmad, arguably the most influential Iranian writer of the twentieth century, visited Israel on an officially sponsored visit and published a travelogue of his experience.
Guest Samuel Thrope, a writer currently based in Jerusalem, has just translated Al-e Ahmad's Safar beh Velayat-e Ezrael into English as The Israeli Republic, a fascinating look at a time when Iranian socialists looked at Israel as a possible model for what Iran could become—and how that vision soured after the 1967 Six Day War.
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Actress Naomi Watts is eyeing a career break in 2013 to spend time with family, insisting, "It's time to be home with the kids."
The Hollywood star was due to begin working on "Queen of the Desert," starring as writer Gertrude Bell alongside Robert Pattinson as British Army officer T.E. Lawrence.
However, Watts reveals the project is currently on hold, as she wants to be around more for her two young sons with actor partner Liev Schreiber.
She tells EOnline.com, "('Queen of the Desert') is still a way's off. I don't know yet. Hopefully, it will happen. I just can't travel again right now because I did a lot of traveling last year. It's been a big year and it's time for me to be home with the kids."
Watts admits her schedule will be hectic as she prepares for the upcoming Academy Awards ceremony, where she is nominated for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture (Drama) for her turn in disaster epic "The Impossible."
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Mother and Daughter Trapped in Brazil Custody Dispute Return Home
(NEW YORK) -- A Massachusetts mother and her 6-year-old daughter have returned home to the United States after being stranded in Brazil for nearly two months as a result of a tumultuous custody battle, according to their Facebook page.
Shauna Hadden, 33, of Agawam, Mass., took to Facebook to announce that she and her daughter, Ava, made it back Friday night.
"We are home!!!!!! Love you all thank you all," Hadden wrote on her Facebook page, "Trapped in Brazil." The page has received more than 12,000 likes.
Hadden said she got word that she could leave Brazil on Wednesday, when a federal regional judge there ruled that she and her daughter should be given back their passports, which they had turned over to police, according to a post on Facebook. Both Hadden and her daughter were also removed from the country's no-fly list, the post said.
Hadden took her daughter to Brazil on May 21 to visit the girl's father, Donizete Machado, whom Hadden divorced in 2009. When the mother and daughter arrived, Hadden says, her ex-husband went to court to get custody of Ava.
Although he was denied custody, a Brazilian judge ordered Ava's passport confiscated, Hadden said, adding that she surrendered her own passport as well when police came to her door.
Hadden, who has full custody of her daughter, said she planned a three-week trip to the South American country with Ava so the girl could meet her extended family and learn more about her cultural heritage.
"I was trying to do the right thing, what I thought was the right thing for Ava, and he hadn't seen her in four years," Hadden said.
When the two arrived in Brazil, "Shauna got a call from a man who lived in Machado's town telling her not to come," Shauna's mother, Linda Hadden, told ABC News. "Her ex-husband was planning to take Ava from her."
So instead of traveling to see Machado, Hadden says she chose to go north and stay with friends.
"That's when Machado got angry," Linda Hadden said. "He and his sisters started sending my daughter nasty messages, saying things like, 'You're going to have to stay in Brazil forever.' So Shauna decided to take her return flight home."
But Machado, who had bought the plane tickets, cancelled them when Hadden arrived in Brazil, she said.
While the U.S. State Department tried to get Hadden and Ava out of Brazil, Hadden grew increasingly concerned that she would not get her and her daughter's passports back before her travel visa expired Aug. 21.
"I have no documents here. I fear to even go in the car because if I get pulled over and I don't have my documents, ultimately they could throw me in prison because I'm undocumented," Hadden told ABC News in a Skype interview.
But after the judge ruled in her favor, Hadden posted pictures of herself and her daughter smiling and holding their passports on Wednesday.
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The Taliban are planning to set up shop in Qatar – but in a good way. They'll have a physical address that could open the door to serious peace talks on Afghanistan and spark hopes of future stability
In the long, miserable story of what was once called "the war on terror", it's hard to identify turning points. Since the foolhardy US invasion of Afghanistan in particular, it's been hard to find many gems of hope in that trash-heap of a war – until this month, that is.
The best we've been able to say about the Afghanistan war is that the NATO occupation has stopped the country – and region – sinking further into violence, has put some boots on the ground to help re-building the country, and it's been a base from which the US and its allies have been able to disrupt terrorist groups. (The worst is that it's been an invasion that continues to terrorise and provoke the region and take innocent lives).
In March the NZ SAS is due to come home from Kabul, but the Provincial Reconstruction Team will remain in Bamiyan for at least another two years. So this remains our war and our problem, one that has been calleda quagmire more times than I've had hot dinners.
Then, a couple of weeks ago came one of those passing news stories that wasn't much in itself, but may point to something much, much bigger: The Taliban was going to open an office. For politics. In Qatar. With international approval.
US leaders have been trying to get talks going with the Taliban for a while now, but there have been problems. At one point they thought they were negotiating with the Taliban No. 2, only to find out he was a Pakistani shopkeeper who took off with a pile of US dollars.
So, for one, an official Taliban office would mean 'the West' could be confident they were talking to the real McCoy. The Qatari office would also get the Taliban further away from Pakistani influence and provide a safe environment for meetings.
As the Christian Science Monitor reported:
"...it will provide a more direct means of communication and serve as a symbol that Afghan and Western officials are serious about negotiations."
Talks between the US and the Taliban began back in November 2010, and according to this fascinating report in Der Speigel, has done with the help of German diplomacy.
A rapport was struck between negotiators and talk of prisoner exchanges is underway; the US seems willing to take a punt and release a few Taliban leaders from Guantanamo to show the Taliban it's serious.
The Taliban's muted response to the video of US troops urinating on dead bodies – a spokesman said, ""We know that our country is occupied ... . This is not a political process, so the video will not harm our talks and prisoner exchange because they are at the preliminary stage." – could be read a sign of goodwill from its side.
And this statement a couple of weeks ago, while stressing the need for continued jihad, also assured that "we [The Taliban, claiming to represent "the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan"] have increased our political efforts to come to mutual understanding with the world in order to solve the current ongoing situation"
Could it be that this is the first step towards some kind of unity government that could hold the fractured, tribal country together?
The Taliban also seems willing to consider renouncing international terrorism and condemning Al Qaeda, which would allow the NATO and the US to claim some kind of political victory as they withdraw in 2014.
That's the crucial date. Western countries including New Zealand hope to leave some framework for a stable Afghanistan when they pull out in 2014 – the worst thing after these years of suffering would be for Afghanistan to again become a failed state and a destabilising factor for Pakistan, with its nuclear arms.
Afghanistan expert Michael Semple reckons the Qatar office is "a game-changer".
A process that leads to a reconciliation in Afghanistan, before NATO troops go home, might sound too good to be true. It might be too good to be true, in fact. But its chances now are better than they have ever been before.
But as our friends the Council for Foreign Relations point out:
The peace talks are riddled with challenges: the Taliban has sought the release of at least five senior Taliban leaders from the Guantanamo Bay prison; Afghan President Hamid Karzai remains wary of any talks that could sideline his government; and poor Afghan governance and safe havens in Pakistan continue to undermine a lasting solution.
Not to mention the political problems of it being election year in America, the need for NATO-wide support, how to negotiate Karzai's loss of control, the fact that any offer would have to be better for the Taliban than it simply waiting for the rest of the world to sod off...
But let's focus on the spark of hope to start the year. The Taliban now has an address and any chance for talk means a chance for peace. And that's good.
So keep an eye out for news of a prisoner release in the coming weeks or months – God willing, insh'allah. That's the sign that the next step is being taken.


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DEAR JOAN: I have a question about the beautiful Steller's jays in my yard.
About three years ago, the jays built a nest under my back deck, above my cement patio. There were four babies, all of them flew, and now, I believe, they still are flying around my yard. Each spring they bring an armful a day of nest makings and put it under where their nest was.
Such a curious thing. I don't think they're dumb enough not to be able to build a nest where their old one was in the rafters. Could it be a decoy? What are they doing?
This year is particularly crazy. There's so much debris right under where their nest was. Any enlightenment would be appreciated.
Kim C.
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DEAR KIM: It is not a decoy nest. I could find nothing in Steller's jay studies that indicate they do this sort of thing, but if they did, they would build the fake nest far from their real nesting site, and in the trees, not on the ground.
You say the pile is under where their nest used to be, so I'm guessing there is no nest there now. The very vocal jays are exceptionally quiet when building their nests, so as not to draw attention to them, and so leaving big piles of debris beneath them would be out of character. They also want private places for their nests, and if you have tall trees around, that would be their first choice.
So if it's not nesting material, what it is? I suspect it's a food supply. The jays are known for hoarding and hiding food, burying it in the ground, beneath piles of fallen leaves or inside tree cavities. They remember all of the places where they store food, and they hide them very well, making sure everything is covered. I think all that debris is hiding a large cache of food.
The jays you are seeing now could very well be the original pair and their offspring. They are monogamous and family groups often stay together.
DEAR JOAN: I was sitting in the backyard recently and heard a commotion in one of the big fir trees. There were about six hummingbirds and the same number of small brown birds. They weren't attacking each other but flying in and around the branches chasing each other and making lots of noise. This lasted about 10 minutes and then everything became quiet.
Can you tell me what this was all about?
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DEAR POLLY: It was about love. More specifically, about nesting and the protection of family.
I suspect that the hummers have nests in the area and they didn't appreciate interlopers in the area. Birds, like all creatures, including humans, stake out their territory and protect it.
As you can imagine, there is not a whole lot of damage small birds can inflict, so it's mostly a lot of posturing.
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The UC Cooperative Extension is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year, and to celebrate they are asking folks on Thursday to become a scientist for a day, make some observations on pollinators, water use and where your food comes from, and report back to them.
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Each year, three local churches team up to make Christmas brighter for children in Alamance County foster care.
MacedoniaLutheran, Blessed Sacrament Catholic and Holy Comforter Episcopal churches shop for gifts for foster children through the Foster Children�s Christmas Fund.
In September, the Alamance County Department of Social Services asked foster parents to help their children put together Christmas wish lists. Those lists are then handed over to church volunteers who do the shopping, adi Ann Creech with the Alamance County Department of Social Services.
�It�s really nice because it is what they want,� Creech said of shopping from the lists.
Sound like a worthy cause? If you think so, we hope you will support the Foster Children�s Christmas Fund through Love Enough to Share, the annual Times-News program that raises money for six local charities that we think do a great job helping during the holidays.
Along with the Foster Children�s Christmas Fund, Love Enough to Share benefits Residential Treatment Services of Alamance�s Santa�s Helper program, the National Alliance on Mental Illness� Operation Santa Claus program, Christmas Cheer, the Salvation Army Shoes with Love program, the Arc of Alamance County�s ArChristmas Fund
This year�s goal is $50,000. Every penny goes directly to the charities.
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City officials have been informed that Eric Kohles, Public Works Equipment Operator I, passed away this morning from injuries suffered in a mower accident Monday, August 16.
"I join with Public Works and Utilities Director Greg MacLean and all City employees in expressing our deepest sympathy to Eric's family and friends," said Mayor Chris Beutler. "Eric was a very dedicated, hard working employee. He was well-liked by his co-workers and supervisors and will be missed by all."
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The Presidential Debate's Biggest Loser: Big Bird
(DENVER) -- While President Obama and Mitt Romney were trying to tout their economic plans, the social media sphere was massively distracted by a big yellow bird -- Big Bird that is.
After Romney said, "I love Big Bird," but that he plans to cut funding for PBS anyhow, social media exploded with tweets about the Sesame Street character.
According to Twitter data, the words "Big Bird" were tweeted 17,000 times per minute and "PBS," the channel that airs Sesame Street, peaked at 10,000 tweets per minute. "Big Bird" was also the fourth highest-rising search term on Google.
Romney's comment sparked the hashtag #SaveBigBird, which was trending worldwide, and spawned at least three pro-Big Bird Twitter handles, @BigBird, @BigBirdRomney and @FiredBigBird.
The @BigBird handle, which sent out comments such as, "I guess I'm the 47%…" and, "Even Ernie is mad! :(," had nearly 14,000 followers one hour after the debate ended.
The @FiredBigBird handle went virtually viral, garnering 2,000 followers in two minutes. One hour after the debate, 16,000 people were following the account.
The @BigBirdRomney account, which had about 7,000 followers an hour after the debate, fired off nearly 50 tweets during the debate.
"Under Mitt #Romney, Sesame Street will become an extension of Wall Street," read one tweet.
"Under Mitt #Romney, Cookie Monster won't receive the care he needs to overcome his addiction," read another.
Sesame Street declined to comment on Big Bird's newfound political fame, saying that the show is careful to remain apolitical and noting that Big Bird is only six years old and, thus, does not understand politics.
The deluge of tweets were soon followed by an onslaught of .gifs, Tumblr images and blog posts. But despite the online explosion, Romney's intentions to cut funding to PBS are not new. He often mentions it as an example of how he will cut spending to shore up deficits and bring down the debt.
"I'm going to stop the subsidy to PBS," Romney said at Wednesday's debate. "I'm going to stop other things. I like PBS, I love Big Bird. Actually, [I] like you [moderator Jim Lehrer], too. But I'm not going to keep on spending money on things to borrow money from China to pay for."
Lehrer, who rarely spoke throughout the debate, was also mocked by the Twitterverse, inspiring the Twitter account @SilentJimLeher and propelling the moderator's name into the top trends nationwide.
And while Big Bird and PBS were the big winners -- or losers depending on how you look at it -- on Twitter, the first presidential debate was the most tweeted political event in U.S. history.
Shortly after Obama and Romney left the stage, Twitter spokeswoman Rachael Horwitz tweeted, "Tonight's debate was the most tweeted about event in US political history, topping the numbers from the RNC and DNC. #debates."
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Reorganization of University of Hawaii System Administration
Dobelle presents systemwide reorganization plan to university's Board of RegentsUniversity of Hawaiʻi
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During a special informational session of the University of Hawaiʻi Board of Regents on November 14, President Evan S. Dobelle presented his proposed plan for reorganizing the system administration. The Board is expected to take action on the proposed plan at their regular monthly meeting. The November meeting will be held on November 21 and 22 at Kauaʻi Community College.
In December of 2001, President Dobelle initiated an evaluation of administrative and non-instructional practices to examine how the University of Hawaiʻi System could best meet its goals and objectives. With that purpose in mind, and remaining true to the Strategic Plan, the reorganization focused on realigning reporting lines and responsibilities to increase effectiveness and establish direct communication with each campus.
"Although reviewing the structure and organization of the university system has been a lengthy process, the end result will yield more effective leadership throughout the institution," said Deane Neubauer, Interim Vice President for Academic Affairs. "This plan solidifies a genuine university system with multiple opportunities for all students."
Student achievement is central to the restructuring plan. Students will experience significant benefits through better coordination and facilitation of distance learning programs, increased utilization of the student information system, and greater emphasis on international experience through study abroad programs, and an increased international enrollment. One of the most important goals of the reorganization will be to produce a greater coherence in articulation and transfer of credits from one campus to another.
The reorganization will focus on eliminating some of the bureaucratic layering that has plagued the university system as well as creating more opportunities for innovation and continual adaptation to changing social and economic conditions. This configuration also permits campuses greater autonomy in fulfilling their portions of the strategic plan. The plan will be funded through system reallocation and elimination of vacant administrative positions.
UH Reorganization Highlights
· Creates Office of the President — Approved by the Board of Regents in July 2001. For the first time in 20 years, the dual function of President of the system and Chancellor of Mānoa is eliminated.
Creates or changes the following positions:
· Vice President for Research — responsible for system-wide coordination of research and training, policy compliance, and economic development.
· Chief of Staff — chief organizing agent for senior administration with particular attention to non-academic issues.
· Vice President for International Education — responsible for increasing emphasis on international experience and education through international partnerships, programs and international student enrollment.
· Community College Chancellors — redefines Community College Provosts as Chancellors and eliminates the Office of the Senior Vice President and Chancellor for Community Colleges.
· Council of Chancellors — reports directly to the President, with consultative lines of communication to the Chief of Staff and Vice President for Academic Affairs.
· Vice President of Student Affairs — relocates from Mānoa to the university system.
· Vice President for Policy and Planning — relocates from Mānoa to university system.


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My every day cooking is all about what I can make quickly but with the most flavour. I usually don't spend more than 20-30 minutes on preparing a meal during the week, and I'm not about to spend hours in the kitchen making lunch on a Saturday.
And I just can't stand the thought of eating boring food. I don't eat with the soul purpose of refuelling myself, I want to enjoy the tastes, smells & textures while I'm refuelling myself.
So when I saw this tasty little sandwich on The Barefoot Contessa, I literally went out to the shops as the credits were rolling to buy the ingredients I'd need. But of course, I did change it a little to suit myself.
And what could be more tasty than the tang of goats cheese, balsamic & garlic marinated sweet roasted red pepper, the musky, peppery taste of fresh basil leaves on doughy ciabatta.
The textures of creamy, crunchy and pillowy soft.
The smell of sharp vinegar and the clove-like fragrance of basil.
This thing packs a punch!
This probably takes me about 30-40 minutes to make (that's from start to finish. A good few hours less than the original recipe), but a lot of that is spent waiting for the oven to do stuff while I sit watching tv or whatnot. That's my idea of a good Saturday lunch!
You can buy marinated roast red pepper but I can't always find it when I'm looking for it, and roasting your own is so easy there's just no excuse not to. If you have a gas stove, you can simply char the pepper directly over the flame. If you're all electric like me, all it takes is some time under the highest setting of the grill (broiler) with a few turns, and Bobs your aunty. You have a roasted red pepper.
As for the marinating? Easy as dumping the peeled strips of still warm sweet red pepper flesh into a bowl of olive oil, crushed garlic, black pepper and balsamic vinegar. I don't even bother to let it marinade for a few hours the way Ina does. 10 minutes tops! I like to spoon some of the marinade onto the bread so I'm still getting all that good flavour in there.
You can use any goats cheese you like. Herbed, garlic or plain, crumbly or not, anything you can get your hands on will do.
The fresh basil is a must. The smokiness of this herb is just so perfect with the other ingredients you'll know if it was missing.
I also like to buy the small ciabatta rolls that are half-baked and that you pop into the oven for about 8 minutes. It's like you got it hot out the oven at a bakery. Perfect!
I don't get overly excited about sandwiches, but this is worth it :)
For 2 medium to large sized rolls
2 Ciabatta Rolls, medium or large, baked or half baked
1 large Red Pepper, washed
75g-100g Goats Cheese, plain, herbed or whatever you preffer
6 - 8 Fresh Basil Leaves, washed
1 medium Garlic Clove, crushed or finely minced
A few glugs of Extra Virgin Olive Oil (about 1/8 of a cup)
3-4 Tbsp Balsamic Vinegar
1/8 tsp Black Pepper, freshly cracked
- Put your oven grill or broiler to its highest setting
- Place the whole red pepper on a baking sheet
- Place the pepper under the grill or broiler, turning the pepper a few times until all sides are charred
- Remove from oven and leave to cool for 5-10 minutes, or until cool enough to handle
- Prepare marinade in a bowl by mixing together the olive oil, balsamic vinegar, black pepper and crushed garlic
- Peel the skin off the red pepper
- Remove the stem and core by simply pulling the stem out of the pepper
- Slice pepper open and scrape out seeds
- Cut into strips
- Place the still warm pepper flesh into the marinade and gently toss around to coat everything
- Set aside for about 10 mins
- If you're using half baked ciabatta rolls, follow the instructions on packaging to finish baking them
- (Once out the oven and cooled) Cut the ciabatta rolls in half horizontally
- Spread the goats cheese on bottom half of each roll
- Arrange the strips of marinated pepper on top of the goats cheese
- Put 2-3 leaves of fresh basil onto each roll
- Finish off by drizzling some of the pepper marinade onto the top half of each ciabatta roll
- Cover each sandwich with the top half of ciabatta
- Enjoy!
Adapted from Ina Garten's "The Barefoot Contessa"
Other Tips:
You can also assemble this on 1 large ciabatta loaf and then cut into portions
The pepper can be roasted and marinated a day before and kept in the fridge
Try adding slices of fresh tomato
You could also replace the roasted red pepper with marinated sundried tomatoes if you don't enjoy peppers
You can also use orange or yellow peppers, possibly a combination of all of them to add colour


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Return to 'Dawson's Creek': These People Don't Age (Except for One)
Believe it or not, it's been 15 years since Dawson climbed up a ladder and into Joey's bedroom, to the delight of millions of teens who were immediately swept into the melodramatic, wonderful, wordy world of "Dawson's Creek." Apparently, the entire cast has access to some sort of antiaging chamber, because they all look absolutely fantastic — if not better — than they did back in the day. Even the one who's gone gray is working it. Yes, we said gray. Click and see, people. — Caroline Kepnes, Yahoo! TV


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Greetings from the Big White Van (whom the rental company named 'Beth'),
So we're officially halfway into the instore tour. 5 down, 5 to go. SoCal is in the bag and we've made our way north where it feels like it's friggin October. Nobody told us it was going to be 55 degrees in August. We're cold. A shopping day is very much in order. Anything with sleeves is tops on the menu. We've switched from three Mexican meals a day to three Thai meals a day. Sonic Youth, Faust, Adam Franklin, Eric's Trip and Naked Raygun have dominated the stereo. We haven't played the Bass Fishing video game the the rental company gave to us. A fuse blew on Jay's amp. Twice. We got free t shirts. We got lost. The Big White Van's battery died. And that millionaire guy killed his model girlfriend.
Are you sorry you missed one or more of the free, all-ages shows Jay's been destroying? Well you should be. Cause they've been awesome. Amoeba Hollywood, Fingerprints, M-Theory, Streetlight and Amoeba SF were all packed to the gills with fans who certainly walked away satisfied. And Amoeba Berkeley, Jackpot, Easy St., Sonic Boom and Zulu should prove no different.
So if you see the Big White Van flowing through your town, be sure to follow it to the next stop for some ear-bending rock.
See yiz,
Jay, Steven, Billy, Mike and Beth