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Listen to Diplo’s 2013 Year-End Mix: Drake, Kanye West, Rihanna & More

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While Diplo spent a good chunk of 2013 honing his production skills on tracks for such pop superstars as Justin Bieber and Britney Spears, he always keeps in touch with the dance floor as a DJ.

Earlier this week (Jan. 2), Diplo used his weekly Diplo & Friends radio show on BBC Radio 1Xtra to combine both sides of his musical life with a two-hour year-end mix that features trap-heavy remixes from such marquee hit-makers as Jay Z, Avicii, Disclosure and more. After debuting the new mix on his show, the DJ/producer posted it to his Soundcloud page for your listening pleasure.

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At least 83 people have been killed and 176 wounded in two separate bomb attacks in the Iraqi capital Sunday morning, Iraqi officials said

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In the deadliest attack, a car bomb hit Karada, a busy shopping district in the center of Baghdad, killing 78 people and wounding 160, according to police and hospital officials. It struck as families and young people were out on the streets after breaking their daylight fast for the holy month of Ramadan.

The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the bombing in a statement posted online, saying they had deliberately targeted Shiite Muslims. The statement could not be independently verified.

At dawn Sunday, fire fighters were still working to extinguish the blazes and bodies were still being recovered from charred buildings. Many of the dead were children, according to Associated Press reporters at the scene. Ambulances could be heard rushing to the site for hours after the blast. An eyewitness said the explosion caused fires at nearby clothing and cellphone shops.

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Picture Booky Q & A

I've just discovered that an old Q & A that appeared on the site Little Literati is no longer online (due to Posterous's untimely demise) and so have received permission from the lovely Heather Thompson to re-post it here. The interview was done just prior to the publication of When I Was Small and I did like the direction the questions took.

WHO would you visit if you had a time machine teleporter?

Nobody famous,  I don’t think, although there’d be a great temptation to visit H.G. Wells around when he wrote The Time Machine just to freak him out.
Really, I’d like to visit my maternal grandmother as a little girl.  She grew up in and around Glasgow and immigrated to Canada after her father was killed in WWI. I’d like to meet her just before she set off for her new life. I was named for her and she for her mother and I’d love to know more about them both.

WHAT book had the greatest impact on you as a child?

The book that I loved the most may have been Joan Walsh Anglund’s Look Out the Window.  I still have my copy and if I try to work out what I liked about it, I suppose it comes down to identification.  I was very much a looking-out-the-window child.
I also really loved the "Just Mary" and "Maggie Muggins" stories by New Brunswick writer Mary Grannan.  They were quite magical stories but the books also resonated with me because they had belonged to my father as a child and were stories that he’d grown up listening to on CBC radio.  Clearly I have a sentimental attachment to the past.

WHERE do you think technology is taking the picture book?

Wonderful things are being done with iPad apps for picture books – Oliver Jeffers’ beautiful The Heart and the Bottle is an excellent example.  But I think that picture books will contain to thrive alongside their animated cousins.  The print copy of The Heart and the Bottle that I am saving with my store of books for future grandchildren is the one that will be cherished the longest.

WHEN did your passion for picture books begin?

I wrote any number of other things before coming to picture books and it was only after having my own child that I found myself reading the same picture books over and over and over and over.  It’s a good way to learn how a thing works.  Of course many people read picture books and think, “I could do that!” which is funny because you don’t come away from a night at the ballet and tell yourself the same thing.
I made up stories for my son for years before I got around to doing anything with them and it was only after interviewing a brand new children’s publisher that I suddenly got passionate about them.  I was working for the Vancouver Sun at the time and the publisher was Dimiter Savoff of Simply Read Books who had just produced an edition of Pinocchio that was one of the more beautiful books I have ever seen.  I gave him one of my little stories and hey presto he transformed it into a beautiful book.   Lucky me!  My third book with Simply Read is coming out this fall and like the others is illustrated by Julie Morstad and designed by Robin Mitchell-Cranfield and I can’t wait to hold a copy in my hand.

WHY do you think children connect with picture books so intimately?

Maybe it’s the wonderful Rosetta Stone sensation of un-locking the mystery of the text.  The first book I thought I could read was Goldilocks and the Three Bears, but of course I couldn’t read it at all but had simply memorized the text and could make it correspond to the image on the page.  The first word I ever read was “wagon.”  It was in a Dick and Jane reader (yes, I am that old!) and I can still recall the moment the letters suddenly became the word and how somehow the rest of the page aligned itself into a decipherable text in the moments after. Magic!

Bring Back The Crack in the Teacup

There's a very interesting conversation happening on twitter right now about Joan Bodger and the fact that her brilliant and devastating memoir The Crack in the Teacup is currently out of print. If you'd like to chime in on this discussion you can find me @saraoleary over on twitter. And if you feel inclined I'm looking for people to support a plea for bringing the book back into print.

Meanwhile, I dug out the review I wrote when the book was first published and here it is.

There is real life and there is storybook life, and I never expected the twain to meet. But in the person and works of Joan Bodger, they do. Joan Bodger, author, storyteller and gestalt therapist, has spent her life reading and telling stories, and the result is her new autobiography The Crack in the Teacup: The Life of an Old Woman Steeped in Stories (McClelland & Stewart, 412 pp., $34.99).
Bodger's name was already familiar to many readers because of her wonderful tale of a family's very personal quest, How the Heather Looks: A Joyous Journey to the British Sources of Children's Books (McClelland & Stewart, 249 pp., $29.99). To read the two books in tandem is to risk laying the heart bare to all the joys and sorrows of both childhood and parenting.
How the Heather Looks was first published in 1965. It was out of print for more than 30 years before it was brought out in a new edition. In the meantime, copies were passed hand-to-hand, illegally photocopied, borrowed and never returned. It had the dubious honour of being the book most often "retired" along with retiring children's librarians.
It tells of how, in 1958, Joan and her husband John took their children Ian (almost nine) and Lucy (two-and-a-half) on a trip to England. The couple had come into what Bodger calls "a modest windfall" and decided the children should have the opportunity to see the places of storybooks such as A Child's Garden of Verses, The Wind in the Willows, Swallows and Amazons, and Puck of Pook's Hill, among others.
It's a glorious idea, and halfway through reading the book I was ready to call the travel agent and book passage on a Cunard liner, modest windfall or no.
Their trip is lovingly described, an idyllic journey where the storybook characters resonate with meaning for the four family members. Ian, at nine, is curious and fearless, disappearing down country roads, scrambling over bluffs, shadow-jousting on the ramparts of castles. He is Puck, and King Arthur, and the boy narrator of Robert Louis Stevenson's verses all at once. Lucy, at two, dressed in practical corduroy overalls when all little English girls of the time wore little nylon dresses, red-haired and lovely, running down paths ahead of her parents, looking for Mrs. Tiggy- Winkle.
It is all achingly perfect and perfectly real at the same moment. And then, in Bodger's new afterword to the book, we read how, before the book was even published, the family had suffered the devastation of death and schizophrenia.
Wanting desperately to believe in the idyllic world where parents and children can travel into pages from storybooks brought to life, I almost had to make myself open The Crack in the Teacup,Bodger's autobiography. Can't I just leave them all on holiday? I wondered. Ian and Lucy forever children, Joan and John forever happily married.
Reading the autobiography was a completely different experience. Not that it wasn't an enjoyable read, because it was. Bodger writes of the events of her American childhood, how she was moved to join the army, her courtship and marriage and the birth of her children. It's all very interesting but not particularly extraordinary.
Now 77 and suffering from exhaustion and illness in the aftermath of completing her memoir, she shows that a life can equal much more than the sum of its parts. What lifts her book above the ordinary run of recollections is the relationship she has to myth and story. In the period when she was writing How the Heather Looks, her young daughter developed a brain tumor and her husband began showing symptoms of what would later be diagnosed as schizophrenia. He was institutionalized as a result of hallucinations and she was left alone with two small children.
Her brother-in-law refused her an advance from the family trust to enable her to attend library school because he said he'd noticed that in cases where the wife went to work, the marriage generally ended in divorce.
She was heartened to learn that one of the other mothers from her daughter's class, Betty Friedan, was also writing a book. She called her up, but Friedan said she was too busy to talk to every suburban housewife who called her. Still, Bodger wrote her joyous book about a "joyous journey." It strikes me as a remarkable achievement.
Bodger came through the devastation of her family and began again. She worked at nursery schools for the poor and in education and library studies. She reviewed children's books for the New York Times and became an editor in the children's division of Random House-Pantheon-Knopf.
She married a Canadian, moved to Toronto, trained as a gestalt therapist, started a storytelling group and became a tour leader for literary trips to England.
Bodger's genius lies in shaping her life into narrative. She writes: "There is a genre of fairy tale in which the hero or heroine must go through a door, or run through a forest, or face a dragon, or jump down a hole, not knowing the outcome." Sounds a lot like life.
The Crack in The Teacup is a brave book, free of self-pity or recrimination. It is one to learn from.
(article originally published Vancouver Sun, December 9, 2000)

Families, Literacy, and Family Literacy Day

It's Family Literacy Day and since it is a subject dear to my heart, I thought I would share a few links with you.
photo: Saskatoon Star-Phoenix
  • Kerry Clare's list of books for Family Literacy Day. Some beautiful books on this list but I'm especially fond of the work of Sheree Fitch. I've done school visits where Sheree has been a previous guest author and can testify to her being the hardest of acts to follow. (In one Q & A I was asked in the most reverent of tones: "Are you Sheree Fitch?" and I had to answer sadly in the negative.)
  • A little introduction to the works of literacy advocate extraordinaire Joan Bodger via Kathryn Kuitenebrouwer. (Read The Crack in the Teacup and How The Heather Looks in that order if you want your heart properly broken.)
  • A link to a previous post from here about Mother Goose and Joan Bodger, and an old article about the wonderful Mother Goose program from when I was writing for the Vancouver Sun. (Back in the days when my son asked me: why do you have your picture in the newspaper every week when you're not even famous?)
  • Something I wrote for Blog of Green Gables about getting boys reading.
The photo at right is from the first time I ever got my picture in the paper (just for hanging around the library as was my wont on a weekend). Some children were gathered up from the wonderful children's section at the Saskatoon Public Library to pose with former librarian Muriel Clancy. The photogenic boy on her lap is my younger brother. Many happy hours of my childhood can be credited to that library and all the doors it opened to me.


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Move over Meek Mills & Cassidy there’s a new beef in Hip Hop and it’s none other Soulja Boy wanting to put more than paws on Lil Scrappy.Not sure what sparked the beef other than some harsh tweets from Soulja Boy towards Lil Scrappy.It may have something to do with both men shared the same woman at some point.That woman would be none other than rapper Diamond who left Scrappy for Soulja boy as he pointed out in his tweet.

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>> Sunday, February 27, 2011

Last week was a scarf-filled week for some, though not for me. I missed a workshop on scarfing -- the art of wearing scarves. So scarfing wasn't the actual workshop topic, but it turns out scarfing can be an effective way to promote events when the speaker is an expert scarf-er (some women are very talented in the art of scarfing). And although not the main topic, scarves were displayed and discussed. Later in the week, I got in trouble for wearing a scarf at the archives. Well, I got in trouble before entering the archives as the security guard (very nicely) told me I had to remove my scarf and return it to my locker as "no scarves allowed" prevails in the archives (silk kerchiefs, however, are acceptable). That day was a little chilly.

My current work situation therefore curtails my scarf-wearing. But I really do like wearing and making scarves. I made my own version of Anna Maria Horner's infinity scarf with some voiles from her Little Folks collection. I adjusted the tutorial in a couple of ways: I chose voile for both sides, I used 9" cuts (rather than 18"), and I machine-sewed the scarf closed. I'm sure velveteen would make for a rich winter scarf, but I don't own any and the voile version is great year-round. I found 9" to be just fine: I can wrap the loop around 4 times and it takes up plenty of room as is. An 18" version seems like it would be ginormous (which could be a benefit). Finally, I lack the patience to hand-stitch anything. I therefore machine-stitched the very last step and used three parallel lines to make it look finished. Frankly, given the way the scarf loops around one's neck, it's hard to find, much less see, the sewn section. I've had this for a few weeks and love it.

Knitted Treats

>> Saturday, February 26, 2011

I don't knit. This frequently surprises people. I think the logic is that of the crafty folk out there, many knit, and therefore since I'm crafty I must knit.While my grandmother knitted and my mother knits, I never learned how to do so. Perhaps one day I will, but in the meantime I rely on the kindness of friends to provide me with lovely knitted items.

About a month ago, I saw these awesome wristwarmers. And wanted some. So I posted them on facebook and asked if any of my knitter friends might like to do a craft exchange. Michelle, a college friend who made me a lovely purple chenille scarf in college, volunteered to make me some, as soon as she finished her grading (she's a science teacher).

The grading was pretty quick because a couple weeks ago, my new wrist warmers arrived. When she asked me what color(s), I said no pink but any saturated colors would be fabulous. And she selected this lovely cranberry and deep yellow combination.

She also included a coordinating hat, made with fun variegated yarn. I love the braided-twisty part of the wristwarmers -- I'm sure there's a technical knitting term, but I'll work with descriptive words for now. I'm making Michelle a Lickety Split bag in return, and need to finish it.

Design Via Savvy Shopping

>> Sunday, February 20, 2011

Over the past 5 weeks, I've been inching my way towards a quilt for my sister and her husband. They got married in November but since quilt presents do not emerge fully formed with the press of a button, there was no chance that I would bring a wrapped present with me to the event. At that time, I had started collecting some fabric for it, but hadn't even settled on a design. The design changed a lot as I toyed with a lot of options and variations on those options. The only constant was the color scheme: red, black, and white. My sister has always loved this color combination and they used it for the wedding, so that decision was easy. Then, at a SE Michigan Craft Meetup, Emily told me about Lake Street Mercantile in South Lyon, MI. In early November, I went to check it out. Their collection has some modern fabrics alongside, shall we say, less modern fabrics. They also have a nice little sale room in which I found the black and white "big harlequin" print (above left) half-off. Anyone who knows my sister knows that she is an excellent bargain shopper and, indeed, takes immense pride in her shopping savvy. I decided to design the back of the quilt around this fabric.

My sister claims she only reads my blog when I post about travel (how she knows when this happens, I'm not quite clear. Perhaps my mother passes on the information). In any event, while I'm tempted to show the full front and back "flimsies" -- the pieced front and back before being quilted -- I'm going to stick to partial pictures of each. In the case of the front, the wrong side will have to suffice. I'm going to baste the quilt as soon as I finish posting, so hopefully I'll have a quilted and bound quilt to reveal soon. I may need to get some more fabric for the binding, however, as I forget how much fabric the binding of a big quilt requires.

Signs of Spring

>> Tuesday, February 15, 2011

I'm still wearing a coat, but I didn't need my hat or gloves over the past couple days -- either in the midwest or in DC. I spent a long weekend in Chicago and Ann Arbor, catching up with friends, taking care of a few things, and watching Stanford's women's gymnastics team eek out a win at Michigan. Go Card!

A little over a week ago, I sent this quilt across the country to California. While it was still cold over here, the quilt makes me think of spring. I made it last spring, out of some of the scraps and pieces from this quilt. "Signs of spring" refer less to the time of creation and more to how the bits of color offset the gray -- the "it" solid in quilting and home decor for the past few years.

I alternated between larger color blocks and smaller ones swimming in gray, offset with a little white. Other than the solids, I didn't add any other fabrics; it was fun figuring out what I could make with a set pile of fabric. I don't recall the exact dimensions, but it turned out to be something like 40" x 60".  It turns out a lot can emerge from a small pile of scraps.

The frogs and tiny mushrooms are some of my favorite little pieces in this quilt. I used lavender thread to quilt and created wavy lines every couple of inches -- all with a standard piecing foot.

A little Echino found its way into the quilt. I find the the warm pinks, oranges, and yellow striking against the cooler gray. I backed it with a layer of colorful flannel, the same flannel I used to back this quilt. This quilt stayed with me for about 9 months before its recipient materialized. I rather liked pulling it out and looking at it during that time, often thinking I should have made it just a touch bigger so I could keep it for myself.

But sometimes you meet friends of friends and they're just awesome. And these days, even if you don't see people all that often, facebook allows for staying in touch and knowing what's going on in other people's lives. I actually think the biggest benefit of facebook is staying connected with people who might otherwise fade away because of distance or business. And when Sadie was born, I just knew this quilt was for her; while I don't yet know her, I know her parents are fantastic, interesting, and engaging people who will raise a really cool daughter.

DQS Design Decisions

>> Thursday, February 10, 2011

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I first learned about Pojagi, a Korean patchwork style, from Victoria's blog. It uses the seams created by sewing 2 pieces of fabric together as a design element, rather than an unfortunate byproduct that needs to be hidden. Some DQS partner-stalking (all good-natured, of course), I realized that my partner seems to like Japanese fabrics and Asian-inspired design. I posted a question about Pojagi, since the finished product is different than a standard quilt. After receiving positive feedback and interest from DQSers, I decided to go with this new technique (for which Victoria handily posted a tutorial).

She recommends using thinner fabrics (e.g., muslin instead of quilting-weight cotton) and lighter shot cottons in particular. Shot cottons are solids woven with different colors in the warp and the weft, thus creating a more visually interesting solid. I found some blue, green, and grey options that I'm contemplating, though I'm still on the lookout for the right color. I think this is an "I'll know it when I see it" situation, and I've been drawn toward purples of late. Maybe purple with a touch of blue or grey? There's also something about green (thinking of spring?) that seems appealing as well. Decisions, decisions...

Inspiration From Below

>> Tuesday, February 8, 2011

A couple weeks ago I was walking by the new Newseum. It was a gray, rainy day, and was still drizzling as I walked past on my way to lunch with friends. In an effort to not wipe out, I paid more attention to the ground beneath my feet than I usually do. I noticed that the bricks were not standard-issue red or poured concrete. Rather they were these marvelous shades of purple, mauve, and orange.

After leaving the archives today, I went back to the Newseum with the primary purpose of taking pictures of these bricks. The color -- the dusky but saturated cool purples and warm oranges -- and layout both strike me as the foundation for a lovely quilt, perhaps made of solids or a combination of solids and shot cottons. Solids have really taken off as the basis for quilts lately, and it's a trend I'm really enjoying. I know my stockpile of solids has grown considerably over the past year, and I look forward to using them.

The Last Half-Dozen

>> Saturday, February 5, 2011

I've been plugging away at blocks for a quilt. They're 12"x12" string blocks, and I've learned that it takes me about 1 hour to make 2. I'm making 30 in total, and have 6 left to complete. By the end of the weekend, I should have them done, and if I'm diligent, may even have a quilt top pieced. Following a tip from Cara, I'm using scrapbook paper as the foundation of the blocks (I considered making her urban lattice quilt, but ultimately opted for a string quilt).

It's mostly black and white, with a splash of red -- in the center and randomly inserted into the blocks. I'm not totally sure about the random red strings, but I think they'll add a bit of interest to the overall quilt. Piecing the string blocks onto paper makes me excited to try out some other paper-pieced blocks. Until then, however, I've got 6 more blocks to finish...

Playing Around

>> Tuesday, February 1, 2011

I've got 2 major projects -- both overdue wedding gifts -- that top my to-do list. These strips will help make one of them. I'm a little over a third done with the blocks that will make the quilt top. It's been a little stop and go in terms of quilting. Some days the motivation is there, other days it flags. I'm getting accustomed to a schedule set by the hours archives and libraries are open -- a pretty standard work-day schedule but different than having a lot more control over my time and when I work. I'm hoping to get some more blocks done this week; I've learned that I can make about 2 12" square blocks per hour. When I get into a zone, that hour moves quickly.

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Wednesday, August 14, 2013

I've Got An Ice Box Where This Blog Used To Be

It's with a heavy heart that I report that the Weave's sister site, That's What She Said Bostonis signing off once and for all. For those of you who didn't get the chance to follow the hectic, hilarious, and often times all encompassing lives of the 5 post-grad Bostonains who ran the site, you really missed out on something special.

The site was nothing if not honest. The bloggers wore their heart on the keyboard and readers flocked there in droves. At no time was this more apparent than during Joe "Bromeo" Stevens' July takedown of Rolling Stone over their now infamous Boston Bomber cover photo. Joe captured the outrage of millions of New Englanders who felt the publication was glorifying the man responsible for terrorizing their city. His article was passed around the internet so much in the 24 hours after posting that it temporarily shut down the TWSS servers.

But without a doubt the best part about the That's What She Said experience was that the dialectic really made you feel like you were friends with the people writing the posts. Their comment section and twitter feeds were always engaging, and the self-awareness the writers possessed really made it clear that they were only there for one reason- they loved what it was they were doing.

Over the past two years I've been lucky enough to develop a friendship with the majority of their writers, despite only having met one of them in "real life" (and even that encounter becomes a little fuzzy somewhere between tequila shot 8 and 10). But that hasn't stopped us from collaborating on things like "Girl Talk With EB", a Q & A series the Weave ran with TWSS founder Elyse Bogacz, and "The I-95 Exchange", a back and forth free flowing sports conversation between Joe and I.

I also dropped a "Pros and Cons of Going Greek" column as a part of TWSS's "College Week" celebration last September.

There's no doubt in my mind that all five of them will go on to achieve future success in whatever it is they put their mind too, but for now, I've got this ice box where my favorite blog's URL used to be.

Thanks for the memories!

-fresh (@danye33)

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Meatball and Escarole Soup

I just love meatball soup and when you use the frozen prepared meatballs, it takes all the hard work out of it. Just heat up some broth, add meatballs and some veggies and you have a great complete meal. Here is one of my favorite ways to serve.

Meatball and Escarole Soup
Meatball and Escarole Soup

4 servings
315 calories per serving

24 frozen cocktail meatballs
8 c chicken broth
1 6.5 oz. can sliced mushrooms, drained
4 c cleaned and torn escarole leaves
1 c shredded or julienned carrot
Salt and pepper to taste
1 t garlic powder
1 T dry minced onion
½ t oregano flakes
½ t parsley flakes

Mix all together and bring to a boil. Lower heat and simmer 10 minutes.

Very Veggie Minestrone

You can taste the pepperoni in each and every bite and it makes this soup just a bit different from the usual minestrone. It’s a welcome change. All the veggies add up to a nice low cal soup that leaves plenty of calorie room open for adding a nice spoon of parmesan cheese 🙂

Very Veggie Minestrone
Very Veggie Minestrone

6 servings
206 calories per serving

1 T oil
1/2 c green bell peppers, chopped
2 cloves garlic, minced
5 c beef broth
3 c water
1 1/2 t oregano flakes
1 t thyme flakes
1/2 t garlic powder
1/2 t onion powder
2/3 c small pasta
1 lb. frozen mixed soup vegetables (including corn, peas, carrots, celery, onion), thawed and chopped
1 c frozen baby lima beans, thawed
15 oz. can diced tomatoes
1/2 c diced turkey pepperoni
3 c lightly packed escarole, rinsed and roughly chopped
Salt and pepper to taste
1/4 c chopped basil
Grated Parmesan cheese for garnish (not in calorie count above)

Heat oil in a soup pot. Saute peppers 3 minutes. Add garlic and saute another 30 seconds. Add broth, water and spices and bring to a boil then add pasta and cook according to package instructions minus 3 minutes. Mix veggies and beans and add to soup and bring back to a boil and cook 3 minutes. Stir in tomatoes, pepperoni, basil and escarole and simmer 3 minutes to wilt escarole. Garnish with cheese.

Sauteed Escarole with White Beans

I have a lot of recipes pairing white beans and escarole – but this one is just a bit more – this one adds extra veggies and the dish is totally different than plain old sautéed escarole. The creamy texture of the beans just goes great with the crisp zucchini and corn.

Sauteed Escarole with White Beans
Sauteed Escarole with White Beans

4 servings
210 calories per serving

2 heads escarole, rinsed well and chopped
2 oz. pancetta or bacon, chopped
1 zucchini, quartered and cut into julienne strips
1 garlic clove, minced
1 c frozen corn kernels , thawed
15 oz. can white beans, rinsed and drained
1 T red wine vinegar
1 t olive oil
Salt and pepper to taste
½ t garlic powder

Heat a large skillet and spray with Pam. Add escarole and cook 6 minutes to wilt. Remove and set aside. Cook bacon 2 minutes then add zucchini and cook 4 minutes. Add garlic and corn and cook 1 minutes. Add back the escarole then mix in parsley, beans, salt, pepper, garlic powder, vinegar and oil. Toss well and serve.

Sauteed Escarole

This is one of my favorite dishes at Italian restaurants. It may seem like a lot of escarole to start, but it cooks down a TON. My version is the super garlic version – feel free to tone it down by using half the recommended garlic !

Sauteed Escarole
Sauteed Escarole

4 servings
87 calories per serving

2 T olive oil
4 garlic cloves, minced
8 c cleaned and chopped escarole
Salt and pepper to taste
1/2 t garlic powder
OPTIONAL – 1/2 t crushed red pepper flakes

Heat the oil in a large skillet on medium high. Add minced garlic and saute for 1 minute, stirring constantly so that the garlic does not burn and get bitter. Add escarole a few handfuls at a time and mix every 30 seconds or so making sure all escarole comes in contact with the bottom of the pan so it heats and wilts. Once wilted a bit, add salt, pepper, garlic powder and red pepper flakes. Continue cooking 5 minutes or until to desired doneness. You can take it off while there is still some crunch to the larger pieces, or I like to cook it all down quite a bit and serve it very wilted and cooked.

Cavatelli with Escarole

This is one of my absolute favorites and I have made it many times. It’s a great meal to serve for guests as they do not feel like they are on a diet (just give them bigger portions) and you don’t have to break your 400 calorie habit when entertaining !

Cavatelli with Escarole
Cavatelli with Escarole

4 servings
359 calories per serving

8 oz frozen cavatelli
1 1/2 t oil
3 cloves garlic, minced
1/4 t crushed red pepper flakes
1 lb. escarole
1 can small white beans, drained and rinsed
1 c low fat chicken broth
1/4 t salt
1/4 t garlic powder
1/4 c grated parmesan cheese

Cook the cavatelli according to package instructions. Drain and keep warm. In a Dutch oven or large pot heat oil over medium high heat. Add garlic and red pepper and cook, stirring frequently, about 1 minute. Clean the escarole, trimming away any bad spots and getting rid of the tough outer leaves and then chop it or tear it into pieces about the same size you would make them for a salad. Add a handful of escarole at a time to the pot stirring until it is all mixed well. Cook 5 minutes. Add the beans and cook 5 or more minutes, or until the escarole is wilted. Add the broth and salt and garlic powder and cook 5 minutes. Add the cavatelli and cook a minute or so, just to heat through pasta. Remove from pan, sprinkle with cheese, and serve immediately.

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WTC Security Firm Held Its Meetings in Saudi Offices

There continues to be some limited interest in the many links between Saudi Arabia and the crimes of 9/11. Although many of those links point back to powerful people in the U.S., the mainstream media tends to focus the story on Saudi Arabia alone. That seems to be due to the fact that control of oil and gas resources in the Middle East is what really drives terrorism. Nonetheless, its important to continue revealing Saudi connections to 9/11 because they can help us understand what really happened. One very interesting link is that Stratesec, the security company for the World Trade Center and other 9/11-impacted facilities, held its annual meetings in offices leased by Saudi Arabia. That fact highlights the glaring lack of investigation into the men who ran Stratesec.

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Bloomberg is trumpeting "The Untold Story Behind Saudi Arabia’s 41-Year U.S. Debt Secret," but anyone who is scratching their heads at this non-revelation might well wonder 'Why Bloomberg?' and 'Why now?' Join James in today's Thought For The Day as he examines the latest volleys in the ongoing covert war between the Saudis and the US and the bigger picture of the battle for the global monetary system.
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Game of Thrones – The Recent Saudi Coup

The coup in Saudi Arabia becomes timely with the current renewed media attention about the 28 Pages.

There is no doubt that a transition is taking place in Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia’s internal struggles for power have been likened to HBO’s “Game of Thrones”. Unlike Western royal families, the Saudi Monarchy has not had a clearly defined order of succession. Within recent years, an ongoing Saudi coup is starting to take shape. Many internal elements are involved. Factions and vested interests exist not only among the Royal Family, but within the culture, religion, finance, corporations, demographics and their values, fiefdoms, clans, age groups, etc.

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(Note: The word “clan”, such as the “Sudairi clan”, is used in the video. “Clan” refers to each of the 22 or 24 wives of the founder of Saudi Arabia, Ibn Saud. Ibn Saud died in 1953. The Kings of Saudi Arabia have been a son from one of the different wives or “clans” of Ibn Saud.)

King Salman’s palace coup and the Saudi royal politics – (15 minutes)(May 2015)

How does this end?

Since 1980, we have militarily intervened at least 35 times in more than 27 countries. We keep bombing, we continue spending trillions of dollars, but we're no safer as a result.

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A. Lots of Lies and Coverups.

I have spent over 500 hours compiling information from news articles, government documents, and energy trade journals. These papers uncover an energy project that got out of hand. The news articles are sourced, (the headlines I added).

The short story. The largest oil and gas reserves are in Central Asia but are land locked. The US covertly supported and courted the Taliban to get a huge pipeline project through Afghanistan.. Clinton backed out after al-Qaeda terrorist attacks. Bush resumed negotiations, then threatened the Taliban with military action and planned an invasion before 9-11 occurred. Many believe that 9-11 was allowed to happen so no one would question the invasion of Afghanistan and the building of bases. Iraq was planned next. Letting 9-11 happen has been claimed by many people within the FBI and the administration. The pre-planned invasion of Afghansitan and Iraq are not theories, they are facts.

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Dick Cheney made Iraqi’s oil fields a national security priority before 9/11.

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Five months before September 11, the US advocated using force against Iraq … to secure control of its oil.

The Afghanistan war was planned before 9/11 (see this and this).   According to French intelligence officers, the U.S. wanted to run an oil pipeline through Afghanistan to transport Central Asian oil more easily and cheaply. And so the U.S. told the Taliban shortly before 9/11 that they would either get “a carpet of gold or a carpet of bombs”, the former if they greenlighted the pipeline, the second if they didn’t. See this, this and this.

The Ballad of Mohamed Atta - What's Myth? What is True?

The Ballad of Mohamed Atta – Vic Sadot at Last FM on “9/11 Truth & Justice Songs”. Great violin by Vic's buddy Eric Golub. This song was written after reading the Australian Broadcast Corporation interviews by Liz Jackson with Ralph Bodenstein & Volker Hauth who were buddies with Mohamed Atta in their college days. They simply could not imagine him being the person described in the US Press. Research by Daniel Hopsicker of Mad Cow News “Welcome to Terrorland” revealed a Mohamed devoid of religion & addicted to sex & drugs, who had Visas & US military training at Huffman Aviation & Pensacola Naval Base in Florida. What is myth? What is true? http://www.last.fm/music/Vic+Sadot/_/Ballad+of+Mohamed+Atta

Secret memos expose link between oil firms and invasion of Iraq By Paul Bignell

Secret memos expose link between oil firms and invasion of Iraq By Paul Bignell

Tuesday, 19 April 2011

Plans to exploit Iraq's oil reserves were discussed by government ministers and the world's largest oil companies the year before Britain took a leading role in invading Iraq, government documents show.

The papers, revealed here for the first time, raise new questions over Britain's involvement in the war, which had divided Tony Blair's cabinet and was voted through only after his claims that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.

The minutes of a series of meetings between ministers and senior oil executives are at odds with the public denials of self-interest from oil companies and Western governments at the time.

The documents were not offered as evidence in the ongoing Chilcot Inquiry into the UK's involvement in the Iraq war. In March 2003, just before Britain went to war, Shell denounced reports that it had held talks with Downing Street about Iraqi oil as "highly inaccurate". BP denied that it had any "strategic interest" in Iraq, while Tony Blair described "the oil conspiracy theory" as "the most absurd".

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ABC-News Alert: Female Suicide Bombers May Be Heading Here From Yemen

Buried at the very bottom of this article, which is obvious fear-mongering towards America's next target, Yemen, is something quite interesting in regards to the Kurt Haskell story:

Federal agents also tell ABCNews.com they are attempting to identify a man who passengers said helped Abdulmutallab change planes for Detroit when he landed in Amsterdam from Lagos, Nigeria.

Authorities had initially discounted the passenger accounts, but the agents say there is a growing belief the man have played a role to make sure Abdulmutallab "did not get cold feet."

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Venezuela oil 'may double Saudis'

Venezuela oil 'may double Saudis'

A new US assessment of Venezuela's oil reserves could give the country double the supplies of Saudi Arabia.

Scientists working for the US Geological Survey say Venezuela's Orinoco belt region holds twice as much petroleum as previously thought.

The geologists estimate the area could yield more than 500bn barrels of crude oil.

This assessment is far more optimistic than even the best case scenario put forward by President Hugo Chavez.

The USGS team gave a mean estimate of 513bn barrels of "technically recoverable" oil in the Orinoco belt.

Chris Schenk of the USGS said the estimate was based on oil recovery rates of 40% to 45%.

Petroleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA), Venezuela's state oil company, has not commented on the news.

However, Venezuelan oil geologist and former PDVSA board member Gustavo Coronel was sceptical.

"I doubt the recovery factor could go much higher than 25% and much of that oil would not be economic to produce", he told Associated Press news agency.

Suppressed energy breakthroughs: see for yourself and evaluate

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From time-to-time, mainstream news reports on energy-creation breakthroughs. The video links below will remind you and evoke the follow-up thought, “Why haven’t we heard more about these?”

For example, last year leading electromagnet expert and MIT professor Markus Zahn verified that the magnetic motor of Thane Hines did indeed create acceleration without any input of energy (and here). That is, once started, the magnetic motor speeds up on its own. In fact, the motor needs to be slowed or its acceleration will continue until the speed is so great that it breaks the motor.

Why haven’t we all heard of this?

Arab States Have Launched Secret Moves To Stop Using U.S. Currency For Oil Trading

By Robert Fisk | The Independent

In the most profound financial change in recent Middle East history, Gulf Arabs are planning - along with China, Russia, Japan and France - to end dollar dealings for oil, moving instead to a basket of currencies including the Japanese yen and Chinese yuan, the euro, gold and a new, unified currency planned for nations in the Gulf Co-operation Council, including Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait and Qatar.

Secret meetings have already been held by finance ministers and central bank governors in Russia, China, Japan and Brazil to work on the scheme, which will mean that oil will no longer be priced in dollars.

The plans, confirmed to The Independent by both Gulf Arab and Chinese banking sources in Hong Kong, may help to explain the sudden rise in gold prices, but it also augurs an extraordinary transition from dollar markets within nine years.

Iran dumps dollar for euro?

It would appear that Iran has 'dumped' the dollar:

"Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has ordered the replacement of the US dollar by the euro in calculating the value of the country's Oil Stabilisation Fund (OSF)."

Is this what it sounds like?

Here Is Why We Went To Afghanistan In The First Place (It wasn't 9/11)

August 20, 2009

John Foster, Toronto Star - A glance at a map and a little knowledge of the region suggest that the real reasons for Western military involvement may be largely hidden.

Afghanistan is adjacent to Middle Eastern countries that are rich in oil and natural gas. And though Afghanistan may have little petroleum itself, it borders both Iran and Turkmenistan, countries with the second and third largest natural gas reserves in the world. (Russia is first.)

Turkmenistan is the country nobody talks about. Its huge reserves of natural gas can only get to market through pipelines. Until 1991, it was part of the Soviet Union and its gas flowed only north through Soviet pipelines. Now the Russians plan a new pipeline north. The Chinese are building a new pipeline east. The U.S. is pushing for "multiple oil and gas export routes." High-level Russian, Chinese and American delegations visit Turkmenistan frequently to discuss energy. The U.S. even has a special envoy for Eurasian energy diplomacy.

Eager to Tap Iraq's Vast Oil Reserves, Industry Execs Suggested Invasion Jason Leopold TRUTHOUT

Eager to Tap Iraq's Vast Oil Reserves, Industry Execs Suggested Invasion

Friday 03 July 2009

by: Jason Leopold, t r u t h o u t | Report

Two years before the invasion of Iraq, oil executives and foreign policy advisers told the Bush administration that the United States would remain "a prisoner of its energy dilemma" as long as Saddam Hussein was in power.

That April 2001 report, "Strategic Policy Challenges for the 21st Century," was prepared by the James A. Baker Institute for Public Policy and the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations at the request of then-Vice President Dick Cheney.

In retrospect, it appears that the report helped focus administration thinking on why it made geopolitical sense to oust Hussein, whose country sat on the world's second largest oil reserves.

"Iraq remains a destabilizing influence to the flow of oil to international markets from the Middle East," the report said.


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A Lake in the Hills man accused of obtaining a deadly poison to kill his wife had secretly purchased a $20 million life insurance policy on her, according to new charges handed up Tuesday by a federal grand jury in Chicago.Edward F. Bachner, 36, was named by in a superseding indictment that lays out new evidence he engaged in a scheme to obtain Tetrodotoxin (TTX) for the purpose of kill his wife and collecting the sizable insurance proceeds. Initially, authorities suspected that Bachner had taken out a $5 million policy. Investigators say they have since found a paper trail linking the financial consultant to a premium payment on the much larger policy. The premium of almost $40,000 was made to a California company shortly before the murder-for-hire was to be executed, say authorities. (Download the Indictment)

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Bachner, according to court documents, initially denied any knowledge of the murder-for-hire plot. But when pressed he told agents "I was bored. I had no intent."

Bachner wasn't charged and arrested until on June 30, 2008, on federal charges that he possessed TTX. Authorities said they found six empty vials of the substance along with needles, syringes and a book that deals with the effective doses for poisoning people.

He was then indicted last summer on five counts of possessing a biological agent for use as a weapon and five counts of possessing a biological agent without any justifiable research or other peaceful purpose. According to federal prosecutors, "he has pleaded not guilty to those charges and remains in federal custody while the case is pending in Federal Court in Rockford. Today's superseding indictment contains those same charges and adds six new counts: one count of wire fraud alleging that Bachner engaged in a scheme to obtain TTX to kill his wife to collect $20 million in life insurance proceeds; one count of soliciting another in 2005 to commit a federal felony involving the use of force; one count of using an interstate facility for murder for hire in 2005; and three counts of filing false claims for federal income tax refunds."

Federal authorities said Bachner was a financial consultant by trade who formerly worked for his father's Naperville-based wireless communications firm. He allegedly posed as a doctor named Edmund Backer and ordered 98 milligrams of the substance also known as TTX at a cost of $7,056.

Bachner is scheduled to be arraigned on the superseding indictment at 11 a.m. Thursday, June 18, before U.S. Magistrate Judge P. Michael Mahoney in U.S. District Court in Rockford.

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Chief Keef gun video at firing range may mean jail

January 16, 2013 4:16:29 AM PST
Chicago rapper Chief Keef has been taken into custody after a juvenile court judge decided a video of him firing a semiautomatic rifle at a New York gun range was a violation of probation.

The artist, real name Keith Cozart, was sentenced last year to 18 months' probation after his conviction on aggravated unlawful use of a weapon charges for pointing a gun at police officers.

Judge Carl Anthony Walker said the video showed a disregard for the court's authority. Walker scheduled a Thursday sentencing hearing for the 17-year-old Cozart.

Defense attorney Dennis Berkson told Walker his client never took the gun outside the range and the target practice was supervised.

Chief Keef's first album, "Finally Rich," was released last year to mixed reviews.

County officials say Cozart has been taken to Cook County's juvenile detention center until his next court appearance.

Prosecutors said Cozart violated his probation in June when he visited a gun range in New York. He was prohibited by the judge from having any contact with firearms. Berkson argued Cozart fired a rifle on private property as part of a promotional video. He said that didn't violate the spirit of the judge's order.

But Judge Walker said it was no different than if Cozart handled a gun in a home. In that situation, he would have violated Cozart's parole, the judge said. Cozart, who was sentenced to 18 months probation in January 2012 for pointing a gun at Chicago cops, was handcuffed behind his back and taken out of the court Tuesday.

Cozart, who wore camouflage pants, a black-hooded sweatshirt and Timberland boots, did not address the judge or testify during the two-hour hearing.

Cozart was in the news last summer after another Chicago rapper, Joseph "Lil JoJo" Coleman, was shot to death on the South Side.

Coleman and Cozart, who were affiliated with rival gangs, were engaged in a war of words on the Internet at the time.

Cozart hasn't been accused of any wrongdoing in connection with Coleman's killing.

The Sun-Times Media Wire and the Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Travel and Adventure Show

January 26, 2013 9:10:03 PM PST
If you're looking to beat the winter blues with a sunny vacation, the Travel & Adventure Show should help.

It's at the Donald Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont on January 26-27, 2013, and it features a ton of experts. ABC7 is a sponsor of the show. Among the experts you can meet there is travel writer Pauline Frommer (, and she came into our ABC7 studio with tips on where you should travel this year.

Pauline's Tips: 4 hot travel destinations for 2013

1. China:

  • The Chinese government continues to devalue the yuan (to keep exports strong)
  • Example: from the company, you can get a fully guided tour of Beijing, Xian and Shanghai for 10 days (all lodgings, meals, tours, in-country transportation and a flight from San Francisco included) for $1499
  • Similar packages from such companies as Ritz Tours ( and China Focus (
  • Do the trip independently, and you can possibly spend even less.
2. Las Vegas

  • Hotel rates have fallen to new lows in recent months
  • You can get a super-luxurious suite of the type you'd pay $400/ night for in another city for as little as $139/ night
  • It's also not unusual to get a perfectly decent room for under $30 a night
  • Discounts on shows are common (try or the Tix4Tonight ( booths on the Strip), as are discounts on food
  • Pauline recommends getting a car, so you can see the stunning desert landscapes around the city and eat off the Strip, where the food is terrific and much less pricey

3. Dallas, Texas

  • 2013 marks the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy
  • The event will be commemorated tastefully, with special exhibitions and expert panels
  • With the TV show "Dallas" back on the air, you can see Southfork Ranch in person

4. Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland

  • In 2013, the historic walled city of Derry-Londonderry will be the UK's first "City of Culture," stage to 170 events, from massive, outdoor light spectacles, to star-studded theatrical performances to music fests (including the famed Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann, operating outside of the Republic of Ireland for the first time)
  • You might want to mix this with one of the extraordinarily well-priced air/ hotel packages we're seeing to Ireland this year
  • Example: 6 nights in luxury accommodations in Ireland, a rental car and air from Chicago for just $1062 per person with the company SceptreTours (; similar deals available from Brian Moore Tours International (, Aer Lingus Vacations ( and CIE (

Chicago Travel & Adventure Show (

Public Show Hours:
Saturday, January 26: 10 a.m. ? 5 p.m.
Sunday, January 27: 11 a.m. ? 4 p.m.
Donald E. Stephens Convention Center
5555 N. River Road
Rosemont, IL

Adults: $9 Online or $15 at the Door
Children under 16: Free
All children must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.

Pauline Frommer at the Chicago Travel & Adventure Show

Travel Writer, Frommer's Travel Guides and Creator of Pauline Frommer guidebooks

Saturday, January 26, 2013
12:30pm - 1:30pm
"What You Need To Know Before You Plan Your Next Vacation"
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Owners, contractors to meet over Pacifica cliff

January 6, 2010 5:19:03 PM PST
Owners of an evacuated apartment building that sits atop a crumbling Pacifica cliff may be asked to make some very expensive decisions when they meet with a contractor Wednesday.

Emergency work at the base of the cliff is now nearly complete, with crews placing hundreds of boulders there to prevent further erosion. Workers will now focus on the upper part of the cliff.

Owners of the 12-unit apartment building may decide whether to move it, or leave it where it is and insert metal support rods into the cliff.

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How being green can be affordable

April 23, 2010 4:25:36 PM PDT
Thursday was Earth Day and we all know we need to do a better job to be "greener."

But if you're not quite as sustainable or biodegradable as you'd like to be -- here are some things you don't have to do to be good to the planet!

To be good to your planet you don't have to:

  • You don't have to always buy organic (Instead: Eat seasonal and local food. Buy organic for dirty dozen, but not for clean 15. Try to waste less food.)

  • You don't have to be a vegetarian (Instead: Cut back. Eat smaller portions. Meatless Mondays. Replace red meat with chicken twice a week. Etc.)

  • You don't have to buy a hybrid (Instead: Don't idle. Take good care of car you have. Buy a small fuel-efficient car. Carpool. Telecommute once a week.)

  • You don't have to invest in solar panels (Instead: Buy green power from your utility. Save energy at home by doing x, y, and z.)

  • You don't have to buy green products (Instead: Cut back on consumption. Freecycle. Borrow. Etc.)
For more ideas and more information on the topic or to read more from Erin Carlson go to green.yahoo.com.

About Erin Carlson:
As Director of Yahoo! for Good, the company's Social Responsibility department, Erin Carlson's job is to inspire Yahoo!'s audience of over 500 million people to be more "green" in their daily lives through use of Yahoo! products. She holds a BA in Human Biology/Environmental Management from Stanford University and an MBA from the University of California at Berkeley.

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Edwards to Make Obama Case to White Working Class

Former Sen. John Edwards' endorsement of Democratic front-runner Sen. Barack Obama was timed to the political second.

Just when Obama faced bleak headlines, raising doubts about his ability to connect with white working-class voters after a substantial loss to party rival Sen. Hillary Clinton in West Virginia, the Illinois senator was able to trot out the one Democrat who might be able to help.

Even if the endorsement does nothing else for Obama, it has already helped him -- by changing the subject.

The Obama campaign had kept the news of Edwards' backing such a secret that many in the audience had no idea what was in store.

Presenting his former rival as an enthusiastic supporter at a Michigan rally, Obama is no doubt hoping Clinton will eventually follow Edwards' lead.

"The reason I am here tonight is because the Democratic voters have made their choice, and so have I," Edwards told the cheering crowd.

Before dropping out of the Democratic race, Edwards had cast himself as the angry white man of the primaries, and his populist message carried broad appeal among the white working-class voters Obama has found it toughest to reach.

Now, Edwards finds himself in a position to help his former rival.

In an interview on "Good Morning America" today, even James Carville seemed impressed.

Carville, a Democratic strategist and Clinton adviser, told Diane Sawyer that Edwards' Wednesday night announcement in Michigan "certainly helps in terms of psychology of the superdelegates," but that the power of the endorsement would only be truly tested in Kentucky's Democratic primary Tuesday.

"Obviously it is something that's good for Sen. Obama," Carville said. "I wish [Edwards] would have endorsed Sen. Clinton -- but I'm not sure how much it's going to translate into votes."

Takes Sting Out of W. Virginia Loss

Democratic strategist Tad Devine says the timing of the announcement matters as much as the endorsement.

"In presidential campaigns, timing is everything," Devine said. "The fact that Sen. Edwards would endorse Obama right after such a big loss in West Virginia is really important for Obama's gain, is Hillary Clinton's loss."

"Each candidate had made the pilgrimage to North Carolina, courting Edwards' endorsement," Devine said. "Aides to the former senator say he only made up his mind in the last couple days."

Edwards was coy on the late night circuit recently, when Jay Leno asked whether he had designs on the vice presidential spot on the Democratic ticket.

"I want to serve my country in whatever way I can," Edwards told Leno.

Obama shed no more light on a potential running mate Wednesday night as he made his his way back to Chicago.

"John Edwards is obviously somebody who would be on anybody's short list. But it is premature. I haven't won this nomination yet," Obama said.

At the very least, Edwards will hit the campaign trail in Kentucky and other states, trying to help Obama make the case where he needs it most: among white working-class voters.


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Flight Attendants Battle 'Carry-on Crunch'

They battle with bulky baggage every day and now flight attendants are fighting back against what they're calling the "carry-on crunch."

Passengers are hauling bigger bags into airplane cabins and trying to stuff them into overhead bins. The Association of Flight Attendants says the carry-on bag binge is out of control.

The group surveyed its members and found that 80 percent of flight attendants have reported cuts, bruises, sprains and strains as a result of dealing with items in the overhead bins. They say it's a safety threat to both flight attendants and passengers.

Just over the past two months, the survey found that half of all flight attendants witnessed a carry-on item fall out of the bins, sometimes injuring passengers.

"As the plane was taking off the bin opened up and out of the bin a bottle of liquor fell, landed, and hit an unsuspecting man in the head," Rene Foss, spokesperson for the AFA told "Good Morning America." "He was injured and we had to give him first aid."

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Foss and fellow flight attendant Bill McGlashen said they've seen it all, from a carry-on toilet to a home brewing kit for beer.

"We've had stories from senators, U.S. senators who have been traveling, who have been hit on the head," McGlashen said.

AFA President: Establish Reasonable Carry-On Limits

The AFA is lobbying the government to pass a bill before Congress that would make a universal maximum size for all carry-on bags.

"We now have compelling evidence that flight attendants and passengers are being injured by excess amounts of oversized carry-on items," Patricia Friend, AFA-CWA International President said on the group's Web site. "AFA-CWA has been urging Congress, government agencies, and carriers to establish reasonable carry-on limitations that will improve the overall safety, health and security of crew and passengers inside the aircraft cabin."

The group also launched a Web site called End Carry-On Crunch to encourage passengers to support the legislation.

According to Travelocity senior editor Genevieve Shaw Brown, it may take some time for travelers to adjust to such a restriction.

"I think it would benefit the flight attendant and passengers in the long run if there was one uniform size limit," Brown said. "The trouble is, in the short run, a lot of travelers are going to find themselves with carry ons that are too big, and they'll have to get smaller ones."

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Tough Year for Dictators

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WATCH 2011: Tough Year for Dictators

I used to play a kind of parlor game with friends on New Year's Eve, with each of us making predictions about the year ahead, what might happen in our neighborhood, our city, our nation and around the world. As a global news junkie and foreign editor at ABC News, I'd always throw in some potential global unrest or upheaval. Then others would vote on what guesses seemed most likely. We'd check back in a year's time and see how everyone did.

Sometime Sunday night I remembered those New Year's games and found myself imagining what friends would have thought had I offered any of the following "predictions" last Dec. 31:

Hosni Mubarak will fall from power -- and by midyear we'll see him in a cage, on trial in Cairo; Moammar Gadhafi will face a NATO bombing campaign -- and then meet his end on the hood of a car outside Tripoli; Osama bin Laden – living a short walk from a military garrison -- will be taken out by Navy Seals; And for good measure – the year's end will mark the end for Kim Jong Il.

I doubt anyone would have believed in or "voted" for any of these. And of course, I wasn't prescient enough to predict any of them, either.

2011 may already be known as the Year of the Protestor (see the Time's cover story last week), but it must also go down as one of the worst-ever years for long-serving tyrants.

2011 was only 14 days old when Tunisia's Zine El Abidine Ben-Ali was overthrown, after 24 years in power. Opposition groups rallied in Cairo 10 days later, and when they did a lot of cognoscenti insisted "Can't happen here – Egypt is different. Two and a half weeks later, Mubarak's three-decade rule was over.

Moammar Gadhafi had the Arab dictators all beat -- 42 years in power for him -- and for months Gadhafi bobbed and weaved his way around those NATO bombs, and the messy rebel movement. "All my people, they love me," he told ABC's Christiane Amanpour in February. But finally there he was on that car, set upon by a roadside mob, precisely seven months after the NATO mission began. Yemeni dictator Ali Abdullah Saleh hung on a bit longer, but he took a shrapnel wound and ultimately signed a deal to cede power -- another three-decade dictator biting the dust. Among this group, Bashar al-Assad of Syria looks like that rare thing -- a 2011 survivor.

While we're at it, not a great year for international terrorists, either. A New Year's prognosticator might have predicted bin Laden's demise, though it would have stretched a Hollywood screenwriter to imagine the way it really went down, the Seal team's stunning raid and capture of the man under cover of darkness and under the noses of the Pakistani military.

But there was another bonanza still to come for terrorist hunters: The man who had probably inspired more actual terror of late, Anwar al-Awlaki, had a bad year, too. He wasn't even born when Gadhafi took the reins in Libya, but they died a month apart, Awlaki at the hands of a drone attack on Sept. 30. Did anyone predict that?

Finally there came the bulletin at two minutes past 10 Sunday night, New York time: "North Korea says supreme leader Kim Jong Il has died."

I suppose, in the last days of this unprecedented year of global tumult, no headlines or late-night calls should surprise us anymore. And, of course, this was different 00 no revolution, just natural causes (apparently) -- but the implications are as profound as with any of the other stories. A 20-something dictator-in-training, now in charge of an utterly reclusive nuclear nation.

It's all enough to start you wondering what 2012 could possibly bring, and which malefactors stand in its crosshairs. But then I think, Wait … this crazy year isn't over yet …


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Injured Marine Finds Strength in Family

Every day like clockwork, firemen arrive at the Ellenville, N.Y., home of Marine Sgt. Eddie Ryan. But this not just a social visit -- they're here to work.

Ryan was injured in Iraq in 2005 during his third tour of duty. As part of an elite sniper team known as Reaper 6, Ryan was stationed on a rooftop in Ramadi when there was a breakdown in communication. He took two bullets to the head -- the victim of friendly fire.

The bullet that entered above his right eyebrow ripped through his brain, leaving him in grave condition.

"When we first got there, we did not expect him to survive," said his father, Chris.

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"My prayers were, let him hang on," said his mother, Angie.

"Hang on, and we'll get you home to the land that you fought for," his father remembered. "It's amazing the deals you work out with God, but he got through that."

But Ryan's next battle was just beginning. He spent the next 16 months in and out of hospitals. His injury left him with severely limited mobility. Veterans Affairs awarded him five days a week of physical, occupational and speech therapy, but his parents said that all of the help has not materialized.

"He's getting less than half," Chris Ryan told ABC News. "They're saying they can't provide the people."

Eddie Ryan's local VA currently provides him with one hour of physical therapy a week, five hours of speech therapy and two to three hours of occupational therapy. VA doctors have recommend that Ryan return to an inpatient facility to get full-time care, although his parents told ABC News that the primary doctor who made this diagnosis has never actually met their son. The VA however says that they have tried to schedule a meeting.

Ryan refuses to return to the VA, and his parents agree. "We don't ever want to see our kid in a VA hospital or any other facility again," said Chris. "If he can get his physical therapy here at home, he loves it here."

The Ryans are using their own money, along with money donated to them through fundraisers, to help their son get the care he needs. At great expense, they hired a personal trainer as well as music and massage therapists, but their son still needed more help.

That's when the firefighters stepped in.

Beginning in March, a group of 13 firemen organized themselves to come to Ryan's home in shifts so that at least two fireman were at Ryan's home each day to help him with his physical therapy. Led by Joe Morstatt, a veteran New York City firefighter and friend of Angie Ryan, the firemen take turns rotating his arms and legs to help him stay moving and to increase his range of motion, strength and flexibility.

"Eddie's 6 foot 1 and 240 pounds," said Angie Ryan. "He's a big boy. They come in and they keep his arms and legs moving so he doesn't cramp up."

In addition to this physical help, the firemen also provide Ryan with a friendship and brotherhood that in many ways echoes the spirit of the Marines. For Ryan, it has been just the medicine he needs. "They gave me my life back," he said.

And so this dedicated group of volunteer firefighters will continue to come to Ellenville for as long as it takes.

"To know this family, to know this brave Marine, is to want to always be there for him," said Morstatt. "I don't see an end to this. I see this as being, as long as they need us, we're here."

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Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Informed Consent: Cool PEG tube video edition

Here's a great Youtube video on PEG tube placement; it seems to be up as a marketing move by the company that made it. Is there any reason why patients and their families shouldn't always watch something like this in connection with informed consent for any procedure? BTW, I have no connection to Nucleus Medical Art, I just think it's a great video. Of course, it's not the whole of informed consent--someone contemplating PEG placement for a loved one with advanced dementia, for example, ought to be given data about whether PEG feeding actually increases lifespan. But videos like this are a great way to tell patients about procedures.

Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer Used to Create Human Embryonic Stem Cells

A international team including scientists from Oregon Health & Science University and the Oregon National Primate Research Center have just announced in Cell that they have successfully used somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) to develop human embryonic stem-cell lines. As I understand the paper, the team removed genetic material from the core of multiple oocytes from two different human donors, and replaced it with nuclear material taken from the skin cells of an embryo. Some portion of the eggs from each donor then proceeded to develop to the blastocyst stage, at which point their cells were plated and tested for pluripotency. Pluripotency was proven when the cells, injected into immuno-deficient mice, formed tumors containing tissue- and cell-types representing all three germ layers.This paper, then, is the most powerful proof of principle to date that we may one day be able to combine SCNT and embryonic stem-cell technologies to generate made-to-order, genetically-compatible replacement tissue for humans with diseases such as diabetes or Parkinson's.

It's important to note that the blastocysts were imperfect in various ways, and could not have successfully been implanted into a woman to make a child. (Members of the same team have not yet been able to create a cloned monkey embryo capable of implantation.) This has created some verbal problems that will no doubt be fodder for the culture wars. Strangely, the mostly-liberal National Public Radio is reporting that the scientists created and destroyed human embryos, while the mostly-conservative Wall Street Journal is saying that the team's achievement "is a long way from creating a human embryo."

Here's how I think of it: while the team used cloning technology to create human embryonic stem cells, they didn't exactly create and destroy a human embryo along the way; they created what they knew to be a faulty approximation of a human embryo, but one close enough to the real thing to generate pluripotent human embryonic stem-cell lines. (Think of the fact that human embryonic stem-cell lines can also be generated from parthenotes which are completely incapable of developing into embryos.)

Nonetheless, I'm pretty sure these scientists would have no problem with creating a perfect, and in principle perfectly implantable, human blastocyst--though they have no intention of implanting one, and no research oversight body anywhere would permit them to, even if they did. They want to generate tissue, and if perfecting human embryo cloning helps them do that, they will. Even if you agree with me that the toughest ethics questions aren't quite yet raised by this work, this work certainly implies that they'll be raised sooner or later.

Vermont Legislature Passes Physician-Assisted Suicide Law

The Vermont legislature has passed a new physician-assisted suicide law and is sending it to Governor Shumlin, who supports it and is expected to sign. The Oregon-style legislation will be the third such state law in the country and the first adopted by a legislature, as opposed to via popular referendum. The strange feature of this law, though, is that while it begins by mandating (in section 5283) a number of Oregon-like anti-abuse measures to make sure that the program doesn't help the wrong people to die by mistake (two different oral requests, 15 days apart; a written request for self-administered lethal medication signed by two disinterested witnesses; findings of terminality and capacity entered into the chart; and so on), most of these requirements sunset in 2016 in favor of the much shorter section 5289, which says only:

"A physician with a bona fide physician–patient relationship with a patient with a terminal condition shall not be considered to have engaged in unprofessional conduct under 26 V.S.A. § 1354 if:
(1) the physician determines that the patient is capable and does not have impaired judgment;
(2) the physician informs the patient of all feasible end-of-life services, including palliative care, comfort care, hospice care, and pain control;
(3) the physician prescribes a dose of medication that may be lethal to the patient;
(4) the physician advises the patient of all foreseeable risks related to the prescription; and
(5) the patient makes an independent decision to self-administer a lethal dose of the medication."

A subsequent section immunizes any physician from civil or criminal liability for any actions performed in good faith compliance with the law.

The legislators's assumption, according to press coverage, is that physicians will have developed adequate professional standards for physician-assisted suicide by 2016. I wonder whether the law's repeal of safeguards will really last, or whether the Vermont legislature will re-think the matter in the next year....

And I know, I'm supposed to say aid-in-dying, not physician-assisted suicide. But I'm an academic, not an advocate, and even though the term "suicide" scares some folks, and others argue that it's not really suicide if you're dying of a disease you didn't choose, my own view is that if you give a terminally ill person some pills with which she can kill herself faster than her underlying disease would have, you're assisting in her suicide. (Wow! On that one verbal point, I actually agree with Wesley Smith! Though, unlike him, I approve of physician-assisted suicide with appropriate safeguards, and think that the Oregon safeguards are appropriate. And I'm not a fan of slippery-slope arguments.)

Friday, May 3, 2013

Friday Not-So-Frivolity: Sherlock Holmes Alzheimer's edition

This is in fact a lovely sketch, funny at the start and then just plain moving. It's the final bit with which Mitchell & Webb closed their last show.

Friday Frivolity: Not Intolerant to Wheat Edition

Thursday, May 2, 2013

Our Voting Public: Uninsured revolt against the Anti-Christ behind the climate hoax edition

An April survey from Kaiser Family Foundation found that four in ten Americans (42%) are unaware that "Obamacare" is actually the law of the land. 12% thought the health reform measure had been repealed by Congress, 7% thought it had been overturned by the Supreme Court (which actually upheld the law in June of 2012), and 23% didn't know enough to say whether the law was in force or not. Overall, 49% of Americans didn't know enough to say whether the law will impact their own families--but, depressingly, the percentage of people lacking that knowledge was highest in the two groups the law is likely to benefit most: the uninsured (of whom 58% said they didn't know how the law would affect them) and the poor (56%).

Another poll--from PublicMind at Farleigh Dickinson University--shows that 29% of all Americans (18% of Democrats, 27% of Independents, and a whopping 44% of Republicans) believe that an armed revolution might be necessary in the next few years, in order to protect our liberties. An armed revolution. In the next few years. Another 5% of Americans aren't sure about that. Well, that's good, I guess; one doesn't want to decide these things too precipitously.

And in other polling news from what appears to be this planet, Public Policy Polling (a well-respected polling firm known for asking the occasional oddball or controversial question) has found (among many other amusing and/or scary things) that 58% of Republicans think global warming is a hoax, while 77% of Democrats disagree; and that 20% of Americans think vaccines cause autism, while 34% aren't sure.

And 20% of Republicans believe that President Obama is the Anti-Christ. Well, I guess we know why they think armed revolution might be necessary. Hope your health insurance covers gunshot wounds.


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Greeks begin rule over land of Israel

333 BC (About 2300 years ago)

The Greeks, under the leadership of Alexander the Great, defeated Persian armies in Macedonia in 333 BC. This marks the end of the Persian Empire. The Grecian Empire expands greatly in the following years.

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Students also work on their resumés, explore work opportunities in the area, and learn about health issues relative to performing. Invited professionals and guest choreographers participate in the program thereby sharing their dance experiences in all aspects of the dance profession.

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Department of English

The McMurry University Department of English provides students with the ability to conduct literary research and report their findings, a college-level acquaintance with literary traditions, improved critical reading, and an acquaintance with linguistics and language.

About the Major

The Department of English provides improved higher-level thinking skills manifested in writing and discussion. Two degrees and a minor are available: B.A. in English or a B.A. in English and Writing. Students can also choose to pursue a Minor in English.

Departmental Honors and Awards

Associated with the English Department are two organizations of interest to students: Sigma Tau Delta, a professional and national honor society for students of literature and language; and the Galleon, the literary magazine of McMurry University.

More information about the Honors program can be found on the Honors Program webpage.

In the Classroom

The Department of English is led by a group of dedicated, experienced faculty members. These faculty members are experts in:

  • American Literature
  • British Literature
  • Contemporary Literature
  • Composition
  • Children’s Literature
  • English Renaissance
  • English Romanticism
  • Film and Literary Classics
  • Literary Theory
  • Medieval English Literature
  • Rhetoric
  • Shakespeare
  • Writing Mechanics
  • and more!

Beyond McMurry

English students have gone on to:

  • Law schools
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Careers in publishing are also popular and the ability to think and write clearly are skills in high demand in the business world.