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Dear SOS: We recently had the most delicious Mac and Cheese at the Bistro in the Four Points by Sheraton Hotel in Bakersfield. Can you get this recipe for me?
Suzanne Wolfe
San Luis Obispo
Dear Suzanne: The Bistro was happy to share its recipe for this very rich take on the classic comfort food.
The Bistro's mac 'n' cheese with grilled chicken
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Total time: 50 minutes
Servings: 8 to 10
Note: Adapted from The Bistro at Four Points by Sheraton Bakersfield.
Macaroni base
1 (1-pound) box Cellentani (corkscrew) pasta
1/4 cup minced shallot (2 large shallots)
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 quart heavy cream
8 ounces Boursin Garlic and Fine Herb Gournay cheese, crumbled
1. In a large pot of salted, boiling water, cook the pasta to al dente according to the package instructions, about 10 minutes. Drain and set aside.
2. Heat a medium, heavy-bottom pot over medium-high heat until hot. Saute the shallots in the olive oil until lightly colored, then add the heavy cream. Reduce the heat to a gentle simmer and reduce by half, 8 to 10 minutes.
3. Whisk in the crumbled cheese until melted and incorporated, then stir in the pasta.
4. Remove from heat and reserve the base, still in the pan, in a warm place.
4 (6-ounce) boneless, skinless chicken breasts
2 tablespoon olive oil
Salt and pepper
2 teaspoon chopped fresh parsley
2 teaspoon chopped fresh rosemary
Drizzle the chicken breasts with the olive oil, and season each side of each breast with a pinch each of salt and pepper. Sprinkle over the chopped parsley and rosemary. Grill the chicken over moderate heat until the flesh is firm and the juices run clear, and a thermometer inserted reads 165 degrees. Remove from heat, cover and keep warm until needed.
Mac 'n' cheese assembly
1/2 cup diced pancetta
2 tablespoons oil
1/4 cup bread crumbs
Prepared macaroni base
Prepared chicken
4 teaspoons chopped parsley
4 teaspoons white truffle oil
1. In a medium saute pan, cook the pancetta in the oil over medium-high heat until crisp, 5 to 7 minutes
2. Strain the pancetta, leaving any fat in the pan.
3. Heat the pan with the fat over medium-high heat and sprinkle over the bread crumbs.
4. Saute the bread crumbs until darkened and toasted, about 1 minute. Remove from heat and drain the bread crumbs on a paper towel.
5. Heat the macaroni base over medium heat until hot, stirring frequently. While the base is heating, slice the chicken into strips.
6. Stir the chicken into the base, then stir in the crisp pancetta, parsley and white truffle oil, tossing to coat.
7. Divide the mac 'n' cheese among 4 serving bowls and top with the crisp bread crumbs. Serve immediately.
Each of 10 servings: 739 calories; 24 grams protein; 41 grams carbohydrates; 2 grams fiber; 53 grams fat; 29 grams saturated fat; 204 mg cholesterol; 2 grams sugar; 278 mg sodium.
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My older son was so excited when the Israeli bombing raids began. "Fireworks!" yelled Rami, 4.
"No," big sister Maryam, 6, replied. "That is fire-bombing." "No, it's fireworks, but a little bit different from what we used to see in Germany," he replied as Hasan, 2, took everything in, wide-eyed and terrified.
"OK, OK," conceded 6-year-old Maryam, wisely. "You are right." But I knew she was still far too young to understand fully.
My children used to talk about toys, "The Lion King" and books they were reading. Now they chat endlessly with each other about the war, bombings, shelling and the difference between F-16s and commercial jets. They want to know how many deaths or injuries occur after every strike.
This is the first war they have endured. They were born and raised in Germany, so they missed "Operation Cast Lead" in 2008-09 and "Operation Pillar of Defense" in 2012. We came back to Gaza one year ago because my mother was extremely ill (totally blind because of diabetes), and with the Rafah border consistently closed it's impossible to get someone in her condition to Cairo, let alone to Germany.
Since our return, my children are constantly asking questions. Why don't kids in Gaza have playgrounds? Why do children play in crowded streets? Why don't their peers have enough food? It breaks my heart to answer these questions, but at least I know how.
Since the war started, though, I'm stumped more and more often - and the questions are multiplying. What is happening, Mom? Why are they killing children? (Three of their young second young cousins - Ibrahim, Eman and Asem - died, along with a pregnant woman and four other children, when Israel fired missiles at their multi-family apartment building. No military target was identified.) Will we die, too? Why do they hate us? Don't they have children? Am I supposed to tell them that, yes, we could die at any time from an incoming shell?
Surely, I shouldn't tell them about 19 children of the Abu Jamei family who were killed when a missile fired at one person struck them all as they broke the Ramadan fast one recent evening. How can I explain that, yes, the soldiers who have killed so many children often have children of their own? How can I convince them that fireworks in Germany signify joy and celebration, while "fireworks" in Gaza cause death?
The most painful question they've asked me is a response to our neurotic nighttime habits. One night, I make all three sleep in the same bedroom with us, hoping to increase the odds they'll survive if a shell hits one of the empty rooms in our house.
But then the next night, I'll separate them, thinking that if I divide my children they won't all die in an attack. (Unless we're hit by a half-ton bomb, rather than artillery shell, in which case we'll all be killed, anyway.) These are the painful contortions I'd wish on no mother anywhere.
Yet mothers throughout Gaza make these decisions every night - and live with the consequences of one ill-fated move. But how am I supposed to answer when Maryam asks, "Why do we sleep somewhere different each night?" My children, as with all children in Gaza, will need therapy following this carnage.
Most, of course, will not receive it. They will enter adulthood remembering these days and the soldiers, F-16s and drones that were heedless of their nighttime cries and terror. Their mothers and fathers - unable to guard their children from these horrors - will need psychological help. And grandparents may have it worse of all, since the midnight terror this month feels terribly like the nights nearly seven decades ago when they were expelled from their homes in what became Israel, never to return.
Shammala, who was born and raised in Gaza's Khan Younis refugee camp, has a masters in human-resources management from Golden Gate University. She is married to a Palestinian German.
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Quick Trip for Slow Food with Silverseaby Janice Wald Henderson | 01.31.12
A new pre- or post-cruise land package option for foodies accompanies Silversea Mediterranean itineraries.
Pre-and-post-cruise land programs typically steer guests to major sites near embarkation and debarkation ports. Like Petra. Or the Great Wall of China. So it's news when a cruise line creates a land program exclusively devoted to food. Slow Food, at that.
Silversea Cruises' new "Slow Food Adventures in Tuscany" debuts on three Mediterranean voyages in 2012.
What is Slow Food? And why does something "slow" seem oxymoron-like paired with the word "adventure?" Fear not. This is an adventure. Of gastronomy. My favorite kind.
Slow Food is actually a grassroots worldwide movement, a lifestyle celebrating food made from sustainable, locally grown ingredients. The opposite of "fast food." It's about paying attention to what's on your plate and what its creation does for the planet. Slow Food advocates number in the thousands, with devotees in more than 150 countries. While not a card-carrying member, I thoroughly embrace the idea.
Silversea Cruises, in collaboration with Slow Food Italy, has designed a three-night program immersing guests into the culinary and cultural traditions of Tuscany. One or more members of the luxury line's culinary team will serve as guides – fitting for a food-minded land program. According to Silversea, their company may be the first to do so on such a pre-or-post-cruise program.
This trip unfolds with a scenic drive into the heart of Brunello, Tuscany's fabled wine region known for its "super Tuscans" (Italy's most coveted wines, made without following government rules dictating aging and blending).
Guests stay at Castello Banfi winery's exclusive Il Borgo hotel, nestled amidst vineyards and olive groves. Condé Nast Traveler named Il Borgo one of the hottest new hotels in the world in 2008. This elite hideaway has but 14 rooms and suites. Each is decorated differently. The rooms are lovely, more comfy and cozy than frou-frou. Flat-screen TVs, towel warmers and body lotion made from estate-grown Sangiovese grapes up the considerable luxury ante.
There's a modest fitness room and a swimming pool on a hillside overlooking the vineyards and surrounding hills. The pool setting is so spectacular, it looks like the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge would be here if they weren't in Mustique. (And it wasn't winter.)
Look at the web site and see for yourself. All the Castello Banfi estate photos are breathtaking. The grounds include a medieval castle, towering above lush forests and rolling vineyards. The castle was meticulously restored into a hospitality center, and includes a museum, taverna (casual restaurant) and wine bar.
The family-owned winery counts 7,100 acres; one-third is cultivated with vines. Some of the acreage is forest, filled with deer, pheasants, wild boar, mushrooms and truffles. Fruit trees and wheat fields also abound, making the estate nearly self-sufficient.
Castello Banfi has the highest levels of social and environmental responsibility. They hand-harvest grapes and have planted enough cypress trees over 25 years to shade the 50-mile route between Siena and Florence. They are devoted to biodiversity, including raising a herd of Amiata donkeys, a local breed that risked extinction. Water conservation and erosion control are other big winery commitments.
That's all wonderful, but what about the wines? Castello Banfi produces many notable bottles, including their high-scoring Brunello di Montalcino DOCG and Poggio all'Oro, a Brunello reserve, aged five years before release.
One full day of this Silversea land program is devoted to exploring Slow Food Italy-recommended vineyards, olive groves, farms and artisan food producers – ones that normally eschew visitors. Count on great wine tastings, and cooking classes to learn the art of true Tuscan cuisine, prepared with ingredients grown at the winery or nearby. Both the estate's professional staff and Silversea culinary experts instruct.
This three-night foodie fantasy is priced from $3,599 per guest (based on double occupancy). Prices include all transportation, transfers, guided sightseeing and some meals. That's pretty much everything - except for those super Tuscan bottles you want to bring home.
This land program is a pre-cruise option on Silver Wind's April 30 voyage (#2212) and Silver Spirit's October 22 sail (#5233). It's post-cruise on Silver Wind's April 17 voyage (#2210). (silversea.com has all the details.)
I wonder if other luxury cruise lines will begin offering food-and-wine land programs. With culinary shore excursions and onboard guest chef programs so hot on ships right now, my bet is that pre-and-post-cruise land programs for foodies are the new frontier.


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Personal fave Cathal Kelly brings it within this column profiling Alex Anthopoulos. Granted, Kelly could convince me that his cohort Griff would make an excellent GM with his writing, but in all seriousness, it's stories like these that have me believing the Jays are in good hands. The more I see and hear of Anthopoulos, the more I trust in what he's doing. Building, baby. Building.
Would the Jays really move Travis Snider? TSN's Daan (not a typo) De Kerpel would have you believe they might. It seems to me that this possibility has been kicked around and dismissed, but it's a scenario worth discussing, I guess.
While I'm vehemently against the idea, you'd have to think any deal would bring back an equivalent blue-chip prospect at a premium position for the team. Still, can't see it. I don't think De Kerpel is entirely off the mark, though - I do think AA longs to make one more major move, but I think it might involve dealing some of the young pitching the Jays have accumulated. It just makes too much sense.
Take a look at some of the names that could fill the rotation when Anthopoulos plans to roll out a competitive club: Marcum, Romero, Cecil, Morrow, Rzepczynski, Drabek, Jenkins, Mills, Ray....not to mention Litsch and McGowan, if they can get past injury issues.
And....there's the Chapman issue. I still think it's a longshot for the Jays....but you know that management has to have a plan in place if the scenario does come to fruition, right? The old saying goes that you can never have too much pitching, but it makes more sense for the Jays to capitalize by converting that surplus of arms into talent at positions otherwise lacking. Don't think AA is sleeping on this one....


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Staff Papers Vol 42 No 1 (March 1995)
- The Political Economy of Budget Deficits
- Restraining Yourself: The Implication of Fiscal Rules for Economic Stabilization
- External Shocks, the Real Exchange Rate, and Tax Policy
- Long-Run Determinants of the Real Exchange Rate: A Stock-Flow Perspective
- Relative Prices and Economic Adjustment in the United States and the European Union: A Real Story About EMU
- Determining the Value of a Financial Unit of Account Based on Composite Currencies: The Case of the Private ECU
- Supply-Side Effects of Disinflation Programs
- Shorter Papers Establishing Monetary Control in Financial Systems with Insolvent Institutions
- Use of Central Bank Credit Auctions in Economies in Transition
- IMF Working Papers
- IMF Papers on Policy Analysis and Assessment
External Shocks, the Real Exchange Rate, and Tax Policy
- International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.
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- January 1995
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Salvatore J. Vasta, Jr. of Croton-on-Hudson, a longtime member of the Croton Fire Department, died on Saturday, Nov. 11. He was 89.
A 73-year member and former captain of the Harmon Engine Company No. 3, Vasta married his wife Patricia In 1951, and together they raised nine children.
A master mason for most of his life, Vasta also served in the U.S. Navy during World War II and lived in Croton-on-Hudson his entire life. In 2008, Croton-Harmon High School presented Vasta with a high school diploma.
Vasta was also a member of IUOE Local 137, The Knights of Columbus, Boy Scout Troop 25, and The Holy Name of Mary Parish.
He is survived by his wife, Patricia; brother Frank; children: Sally (Robert); Thomas (Leslie); Robert (Kathy); Anthony (Carol Ann); Salvatore (Linda); Frank (Renee); Joseph (Pennie); Michael (Sharon), and Patricia; 15 grandchildren: Anthony, Kenneth, Jill, Robert, Mary-Katherine, Meredith, Benjamin, Christopher, Amanda, Madison, Mason, Nicholas, Ava, and Leeanna. Also, three great-grandchildren: Keegan, Makayla, Charlotte, and many nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by his sister Josephine, brother Angelo, and granddaughter Rachel Antunovich.
Visitation will be held on Tuesday, Nov. 14, from 1 to 3 and 5 to 8 p.m., at Edward F. Carter Funeral Home, 41 Grand St., Croton-on-Hudson. A Mass of Christian burial will be held at 10 a.m., Wednesday, Nov. 15, at Holy Name of Mary Church, Croton. Burial will follow at St. Augustine Cemetery in Ossining.
In lieu of flowers please make donations to Holy Name of Mary Church or the Boy Scouts of America.
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WikiLeaks email shows Justice official alerting Clinton team to House hearing
Another day, another WikiLeaks email leak. USA TODAY
WASHINGTON — A Justice Department official offered Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta a "heads-up'' last year to a pending congressional hearing where a Justice colleague was likely to be questioned about Hillary Clinton's email use as secretary of State, according to hacked communications released Wednesday by WikiLeaks.
In the exchange, Assistant Attorney General Peter Kadzik, writing on a personal email account, appears to alert Podesta to a House Judiciary Committee hearing later that day where the Justice Department's Civil Division chief was slated to testify.
"Likely to get questions on State Department emails,'' Kadzik wrote May 19. The message goes on to inform Podesta of an update in a Freedom of Information Act request for State Department communications that "indicates it will be awhile (2016) before the State Department posts the emails.''
Attached to the Kadzik communication was a message that appears to be forwarded by Podesta to various Clinton staffers, stating: "Additional chances for mischief.''
Kadzik also was the author of a letter earlier this week providing the Justice Department's response to questions posed by House and Senate leaders about the FBI's new review of recently discovered emails that could have a bearing on the previously closed investigation into Clinton's handling of classified information at the State Department.
"We assure you that the department will continue to work closely with the FBI and together, dedicate all necessary resources and take appropriate steps as expeditiously as possible,'' Kadzik wrote.
Attorney General Loretta Lynch had opposed FBI Director James Comey's decision last week to formally notify Congress of the email discovery, a move that rocked the presidential race in the last days of the general election.
The Justice Department did not immediately comment Wednesday on the WikiLeaks release.
Asked Wednesday about the relationship between Podesta and Kadzik, Clinton campaign spokeswoman Jennifer Palmieri characterized the communications as "stolen emails that haven't been authenticated."
She said the information was "leaked for the purpose of damaging our campaign.''


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SPARTANBURG, S.C. – UNCG landed 29 student-athletes on the 2013 Fall Academic All-Southern Conference team, the league office announced Monday.
With one fewer school in the league than last season, the 11 SoCon schools combined for 25 more honorees than last fall, with 329 student-athletes earning the distinction. That total is the second-most in league history, trailing only the 2010 fall season, which saw 345 student-athletes take the honor. Each of this year's 11 institutions had at least 22 honorees, representing the sports of football, men's and women's cross country, men's and women's soccer and volleyball.
A league-record 20 student-athletes have maintained perfect 4.0 cumulative grade point averages, including The Citadel's Eric Goins and Kristen Kessinger; Davidson's James Durling; Furman's Andrea Fisher; Georgia Southern's Emily Archer, Kym Coley, Thomas Hamilton and CaitlinTongco; UNCG's Noah DeAngelo, Zoe Fishman, Preston Ford, Eira Jensen and Jamie Simmons; Chattanooga's Skylar Brewer, Clare Latham and Patrick O'Brien; Western Carolina's Elyssa Mulheron; and Wofford's Vicky Hill, Justin Whitaker and Alissa Williams.
The previous record for 4.0 GPAs, 16, was set by the 2011 fall squad.
To be eligible for the academic all-conference team, student-athletes must carry at least a 3.3 cumulative GPA entering the fall season and were required to compete in at least one-half of their teams' competitions during the recently concluded fall campaign. In addition, the student-athletes must have successfully completed at least 24 credit hours in the previous two semesters.
The league's 11 women's soccer programs provided the most academic all-conference members with 93, followed by football with 62 and women's cross country with 55.
Among member institutions, Appalachian State led all schools with 39 members on the academic all-conference team. Elon was second with 36, followed closely by Wofford with 35.
Spartans on the SoCon Academic Team
Tyron Alston (men's cross country), Paul Chelimo (men's cross country), Joshua Crawford (men's cross country), John Elwood (men's cross country), Paul Katam (men's cross country), Noah DeAngelo (men's soccer), Preston Ford (men's soccer), Dustin Gamradt (men's soccer), Brian Graham (men's soccer), David Reittinger (men's soccer), Lukas Zarges (men's soccer), Morgan Freeman (volleyball), Emily McMurtrey (volleyball), Katherine Santiago (volleyball), Kelsey Sidney (volleyball), Shannon Hall (women's cross country), Meredith Hicks (women's cross country), Eira Jensen (women's cross country), Katherine Link (women's cross country), Kelly Montague (women's cross country), Lydia Saina (women's cross country), Chelsea Sumney (women's cross country), Shaina Sumney (women's cross country), Ashley Eddleman (women's soccer), Zoe Fishman (women's soccer), Lauren Lover (women's soccer), Jamie Simmons (women's soccer), Ashley Stokes (women's soccer), Chesney White (women's soccer).


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Sharing the Harvest
It is as harmless as a dove, as beautiful as a rose, and as valuable as flocks and herds. It has been longer cultivated than any other, and so is more humanized…for when man migrates, he carries with him not only his birds, quadrupeds, insects, vegetables, and his very sword, but his orchard also.
—Henry David Thoreau (Wild Apples, 1862)
If I had to choose one food whose flavor fully encapsulates the glory of fall, it would have to be the wild apple. One can close her eyes, take a bite, and know what it is to taste an autumn-blue sky accented by golden rods, deep purple asters, the lush of green pasture, and the first red leaves on the sugar maples.
Bob and I make plans with our friend Bernie for our annual fall cider pressing. Once the date is set, our job is to meander through the feral orchards gifted to us by the earliest settlers on our respective farms, sample each tree's offerings, and gather fruit. Our "pressing club" has one simple rule: No commercial apples. The best cider should capture the ethereal ambrosia surrounding an untainted orchard. That means foraging and mixing countless old varieties to balance sweet, tart and floral flavors, creating a glorious blend that honors our earliest agrarian predecessors, and nourishes us all winter long.
Trouble is, this year, there are hardly any apples to be found on our land. A late localized snowstorm that killed our blossoms and dampened our spirits at the start of the growing season haunts us yet again, thwarting our cider harvest. Bernie reports that he'll have ample apples to meet his needs for pressing. But we can hardly scare up a bushel. Our trees may have borne no fruit, but Bob and I notice apples glittering, untouched, on trees throughout the community—in abandoned pastures, road sides, and forest edges. I should feel buoyed by the abundant potential harvest surrounding me, but I don't. None of the apple trees sit on land owned by people I know. In order to access them, I will have to knock, uninvited, on the doors of strangers and request permission to gather the harvest.
I believe in the power of building community, of expanding resources and generating abundance by forging relationships. But believing something and practicing one's beliefs are two entirely different matters. I hate knocking on the doors of strangers. Upstate New York is a pretty conservative area. The cars outside the homes I must approach bear yellow ribbon magnets and jingoistic slogans. In an effort to blend in, our car is unadorned. But upon opening the doors, reusable shopping bags, apple cores, and stainless steel water bottles spill out on the ground around our barefooted family, belying our best efforts to conform to the norm.
With empty boxes in my trunk, I muster my courage and pull into the driveway of the first home where I hope to glean fruit. I knock on the door. A woman opens it partway and peers around the side. Her storm door remains closed to me. Her eyebrows are furrowed, leading me to believe that she is both annoyed and frightened by my unexpected appearance. I tell her where I live, explain my situation, and the absolute worst thing that can happen, does:
She tells me no. Politely.
Scarlet-faced from humiliation, I scurry back to the car and confront the expectant gazes of my girls, who are eager to begin picking. I tell them the bad news and watch their faces fall. Saoirse and Ula do not define winter by Christmas, or by presents. When the first hints of the cold season hit, they practically rupture with excitement over the prospect of cider and popcorn by the fire. The idea of depriving them this simple delight outweighs my faltering courage. With confidence, I tell them that, within 24 hours, I will find enough apples for the cider pressing.
I bring them back home for lunch, leave Ula with Bob for her nap, then persuade Saoirse to join me on my mission. I brush her hair and wipe food off her cheeks, unabashedly taking advantage of her youthful cuteness. Any person who tells me "No" will have to say it to her adorable face. We drive to the next house on my list. We both get out, remembering this time to put some flip flops on our feet. We are successful. Tossing the flip flops in the back seat, we grab our boxes and run barefooted to the beckoning tree. I shake the branches while Saoirse ducks. Then, using our hands and toes to find the drops in the tall grasses, we quickly gather over two bushels of apples.
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I sample one. It is scrumptious. With the taste of success now in my mouth, I abandon all reservations about asking for what I need. We ask everyone we meet if they know where we can find wild apples to harvest. The grandmother of one of Saoirse's friends gets in touch with a downstate resident who owns a second home nearby. The next day, all four of us gather in her front yard and fill my car until we can barely shut the door. Another neighbor directs us to some bordering old pastures, long abandoned but bursting with fruit. My dad sends us up the road to a spot near where he's been grazing sheep. Our goal for our cider pressing is six bushels of apples. By the end of the second day, the porch at the farm is piled with fourteen bushels. Then Bernie shows up. He's picked enough for himself, and, concerned that our apple dearth would leave us without enough cider for our family, he has picked for us, too. It is our largest apple harvest ever.
The bounty doesn't stop with the apples. Because word of our mission got out, our processing team of three expanded to nine. A second cider press appears on the scene, doubling our production speed, making it easy to ensure that everyone who contributed will have cider for their table. Tin cups are passed about as we share in the communion of our bounty, which is extra tasty this year—a perfect balance of sweet and tart, with delightful overtones of generosity and cooperation.
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When Chevrolet introduced their Astro van in 1985 they wanted the world to know a few things about it—there had never been anything quite like the Astro in all of the universe and it may or may not have been capable of flying through space. At least that is what we take away from this vintage commercial.
It's clear Chevy pulled out all of the stops with this commercial writing a dramatic Astro song and employing cutting edge technology to show the uniquely sized van planet moving through space with ease and successfully navigating a drive on the rings of Saturn.
Although this vintage advertisement now seems laughably dated, we are fairly convinced that even if the Astro wasn't quite as revolutionary as advertised this was likely the first depiction of a minivan flying through space the world had ever seen.


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SATURDAY, June 30, 2012 (HealthDay News) -- During hot weather, people who exercise outdoors need to take steps to avoid heat injury, according to the American Council on Exercise.
Staying hydrated is essential, and can be accomplished by drinking a large amount of fluids (until you're just short of feeling bloated) 30 minutes before exercising, drinking at least six ounces of fluids every 20 minutes during exercise and drinking beyond the point where you are no longer thirsty after exercise, Dr. Cedric Bryant, the council's chief science officer, said in a council news release.
Water is generally the best fluid, unless your exercise session lasts longer than an hour. In that case, a sports drink may be more beneficial.
Another tip from the council is to gradually adapt your body to exercising in hot weather. This usually takes 10 to 14 days and can greatly reduce your risk for heat injury. Once your body is acclimatized, you will sweat sooner, produce more sweat and lose fewer electrolytes, Bryant said.
The benefits of acclimatization include a lower body core temperature, a decreased heart rate during exercise and a reduced risk of dehydration.
Reducing your exercise intensity level during hot weather -- especially during the acclimatization period -- is another good idea, the council suggests. Also, don't wear rubberized sweat suits or any other clothing that is impermeable to water. This type of clothing prevents the evaporation of sweat from the skin, increasing the risk of heat injury, Bryant said.
Respect the conditions. In general, you should consider forgoing exercise when the temperature is above 90 degrees Fahrenheit and the relative humidity is above 60 percent.
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BEIJING -- When visiting friends in China's capital, environmental activist Wu Lihong must slip away from his rural home before sunrise, before the police officers watching his home awaken. He rides a bus to an adjacent province and jumps aboard a train just minutes before departure to avoid being spotted. In a neighboring province, veteran dissident Yin Weihong finds himself hauled into a police station merely for keeping in touch with old friends from the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy movement. While he's technically a free man, the treatment makes it virtually impossible to keep a job or have a normal home life. A quarter century after the movement's suppression, China's communist authorities oversee a raft of measures for muzzling dissent and preventing protests. They range from the sophisticated - extensive monitoring of online debate and control over media - to the relatively simple - routine harassment of government critics and maintenance of a massive domestic security force.
The system has proven hugely successful: No major opposition movement has gotten even a hint of traction in the 25 years since Tiananmen. President and Communist Party leader Xi Jinping seems intent on ensuring things stay that way. "It's extremely bad right now, much worse than in past years," said Yin, who spent several months in prison for his role as a student leader during the 1989 protests. "There's less and less space for civil society or, if you're like me, even to just live your life freely." Each year's anniversary brings a crackdown on dissent, but this year has been especially harsh, say dissidents and human rights groups. Lawyers and others taking part in even minor private commemorations have been detained. Outspoken relatives of those killed in the crackdown have been forced out of Beijing. Journalists, including those in the foreign media, have been issued stern orders not to report on unspecified sensitive topics around the June 4 anniversary, with warnings of dire consequences. "We are seeing a crackdown very large in scope," said William Nee, Amnesty International's Hong Kong-based China researcher. "What we have seen thus far under the Xi Jinping government hasn't been very good." Caught unaware and unprepared by the Tiananmen protests, China now anticipates, detects and chokes off political and social activism before it can challenge authorities. Despite a huge rise in prosperity and vast social changes, political activism and organization outside the control of the ruling Communist Party is strictly verboten. "The authorities are very careful to nip any potential dissent in the bud at the local level, the focus being on ensuring they can't link up and become a nationwide movement," said Human Rights Watch Asia researcher Maya Wang. Yin said China's rights conditions have deteriorated since party stalwart Xi Jinping's appointment as general secretary in late 2012. While going after corrupt officials, Xi has demanded strict ideological orthodoxy and pushed a campaign to denigrate liberal values such as Western-style constitutional democracy and the independence of the media. Government critics and public intellectuals face ever-more-intrusive harassment, Yin said. Liu Xia, the wife of imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, is under house arrest and constant supervision. An unknown number of others can leave home or work only with permission. Some veteran activists say the room for independent organization is tighter than it was in 1989. A limited number of nominally non-governmental organizations are permitted, but they operate only at the pleasure of the authorities and must confine themselves to non-political issues such as environmentalism, child welfare and workers rights. "It's OK to hold lectures and conferences, at least in principle, but you can't really conduct research and seriously delve into the topics," said Wu, an environmental activist from the eastern city of Wuxi who has endured more than a decade of harassment, including a three-year prison sentence on fraud charges he says were trumped up. Some degree of labor activism has been permitted, especially in the southern industrial heartland of Guangdong province, but the only legal unions remain under tight government control and strikes are extremely rare. Independent workers' rights activists are under constant scrutiny. Anita Chan, a China labor expert at Australia National University, said police are more frequently calling the activists in to "drink tea" - a form of low-level intimidation. And while religious activity is permitted under the auspices of party-controlled bodies, crackdowns have escalated against independent groups such as Protestant "house churches." In Zhejiang province alone, 64 churches were demolished, had their crosses removed or were threatened, according to Bob Fu, a former dissident and underground church pastor now based in Texas. Meanwhile, the state has developed increasingly sophisticated mechanisms of surveillance and censorship, taking advantage of technological improvements and a huge boost in domestic security spending. An army of young, computer-savvy censors checks social media and websites and removes content on sensitive topics. Users of social media such as the hugely popular microblogging and instant messaging applications Weibo and QQ must be registered and identified. Many foreign websites are blocked, including news outlets and Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. Those who care to make the effort can find technological workarounds, such as virtual private networks, but most Chinese appear content with the Internet that the government allows. The government has come down hard on some outspoken online opinion leaders, detaining many for so-called rumor mongering, including a well-known liberal commentator, Chinese-American investor Charles Xue. Wang, of Human Rights Watch, said the government is trying to compel people to censor themselves. "It's so that when people go about their business, they already consider the potential risks and make sure they don't even get close to the red lines," Wang said. Another standard control method is to restrict travel. Many critics of the government, including Wu and Yin, have been denied passports - both as a punitive measure and a means to keep them from addressing foreign audiences about China's problems. And while Wu can some ingenuity to visit his friends in Beijing, he said, "As soon as they find I'm gone, they send officers to bring me back. You try to adapt, but it takes a real toll on your family and on you psychologically." Shortly after The Associated Press interviewed him, Wu was taken from a friend's home and interrogated for 24 hours straight. Despite these efforts, China sees what many of what it calls "mass incidents" threatening social stability. One Chinese sociologist, Sun Liping, has estimated there are about 180,000 per year, ranging from organized marches to spontaneous protests and even violence sparked by anger over working conditions, corruption, environmental degradation and ethnic unrest. A premium is placed on quickly containing and dissolving such incidents, unlike in 1989, when protests were allowed to build up over more than a month. The government also has focused heavily on avoiding military force such as the tanks and troops that tore their way through citizen barricades to the heart of the protests in Tiananmen Square, leaving hundreds, possibly thousands dead. Instead, the government has vastly expanded its domestic security apparatus. Much of the effort has gone into improved training and equipment for the 1.5 million-member paramilitary People's Armed Police, the Chinese interior security force. Grassroots-level officials and public security department heads have undergone training in responding to unrest. Meanwhile, the party has tackled many of the major contributing causes of the 1989 protests, devoting funds and attention to fighting corruption, boosting employment and housing and even holding down pork prices. That has eliminated many sources of discontent, though many Chinese remain deeply cynical about corruption among the newly rich and political elites. "They realize that economic growth is not enough, so the whole strategy is to avoid cases of large-scale unrest through an entire social security package," said Joseph Cheng. --- AP reporter Kelvin Chan contributed to this report from Hong Kong.


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