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MOSCOW: A Canadian boxer killed fighting with jihadists in Russia has emerged as a key contact who might have set the elder Boston bomber on his path to violent extremism.

In what could be a breakthrough in understanding how Tamerlan Tsarnaev – himself a skilled boxer – became radicalised and turned to violence, Moscow's respected newspaper Novaya Gazeta revealed his links with William Plotnikov, who was killed last July by security forces in the troubled southern Russian republic of Dagestan.

On several occasions during his visit to Dagestan last year, Tsarnaev met a terrorist of mixed Dagestani and Palestinian parentage, who was being watched by the Russian security services.

That man, Makhmud Mansur Nidal, had been under surveillance for six months as a suspected recruiter for Islamist insurgents fighting Moscow's rule in the region.

Tsarnaev, 26, died on April 19 during a shoot-out with US police in Boston. His brother Dkhokhar, 19, was hurt and eventually captured. The two allegedly detonated bombs near the finishing line of the Boston Marathon four days earlier, in an attack that killed three people and wounded more than 260.

There have been few clues as to who played the key roles in radicalising the older Tsarnaev brother, who is thought to have taken the lead in instigating the Boston attacks.

The new claims come from security officials in Makhachkala, the Dagestan capital, where the brothers' parents moved from the US and where Tsarnaev spent six months last year.

According to the report in Novaya Gazeta, Tsarnaev came to the attention of Dagestan's anti-extremism unit when he was seen "more than once" with Nidal, 19. A month later, Nidal was killed. He had been accused of being part of a group that organised a bomb attack in Makhachkala that killed 13 people.

Russian security agents found Tsarnaev had been linked to Plotnikov, an ethnic Russian citizen of Canada, whom they had interrogated in 2010 after he arrived in Dagestan, ostensibly to study Islam. Plotnikov gave a list of people in Europe and the US with roots in Russia's North Caucasus, with whom he had communicated via social networking sites. Among the names Plotnikov volunteered was that of Tamerlan Tsarnaev.

Plotnikov was released but by 2012 he had joined Dagestan's insurgents.

It is unclear whether Tsarnaev and Plotnikov met through boxing circles or only communicated online, but their life paths suggest such a meeting was possible. Both were keen amateur boxers with roots in Russia who turned to Islam after finding it hard to adapt in their adopted countries.

Tsarnaev also visited his aunt in Toronto, where Plotnikov lived with his parents.

Novaya Gazeta's source said the men communicated via a website associated with a non-government organisation called the World Assembly of Muslim Youth. That could not be immediately verified. Once the Russian security service, the FSB, established his links with Plotnikov and Nidal, he was watched closely.

"We pay special attention to foreign or ethnic Russian converts," said the source. "They are extremely ideological and psychologically vulnerable; they're more easily persuaded to do anything, even suicide bombing."

Two days after Plotnikov's death, Tsarnaev flew to Moscow, and the next day to the US.

"It seems that Tamerlan Tsarnaev came to Dagestan with the aim of joining the insurgents," said the source. "It didn't work out. First you need to contact an intermediary, then there is a period of 'quarantine' before they take someone. The insurgents check him out over several months.

"After Nidal and Plotnikov were destroyed and he lost his contacts, Tsarnaev got frightened and fled."

The information will intensify the debate over whether the FBI, Russia’s Federal Security Service or other agencies failed to exchange information on the Tsarnaev brothers.

Novaya Gazeta’s source said the FSB sent a request to the CIA last summer after Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s Dagestan visit, asking the US agency to track him, but got no response.

The FBI has said it received a similar request in 2011 - possibly after Plotnikov gave the Russian security services Tsarnaev’s name - and interviewed Tsarnaev several times, but found nothing "derogatory" and he ceased to be a priority.

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Normally David Goldman (“Spengler”) is astute, or at least astute enough to require serious thought in grappling with his arguments. But about this latest, I just don’t know where to begin. Courtesy of the opening anecdote, it appears to be an explanation of how, precisely, Rahm Emanuel is a “self-hating Jew” — not for still living in 1993 and believing in Oslo after its collapse (perhaps a subject worthy of critique without the petulant name-calling), but for “bashing Israel over settlements.”

To take issue with the present settlement policy, he says, requires “an ideological commitment to a secular sort of universalism that demands a fanatical sort of faith.” But there’s another reason to oppose the indefinite continuation of the present system, and it’s one that Goldman brushes up against with his sneering, over-confident final paragraph:

There simply isn’t any arguing with liberal Jews. The only solution is the Biblical one: in forty years, all of them will be dead, like the feckless generation of freedmen who left Egypt with Moses. Secular Jews have one child per family, Reform Jews 1.3, Conservative Jews 1.6, and modern Orthodox nearly 4. A new Jewish majority will form over the next forty years, and it will be religiously observant, close to Israeli thinking, and politically conservative.

The birthrate for Israeli Jews isn’t quite as low as that of American non-Orthodox, but it hovers, overall, right around 2 children per family; the overall Palestinian birthrate is, by most estimates, between 3 and 4. Even if those numbers are somewhat too high, as some claim, it doesn’t change the reality already present, as Michael Oren pointed out this May in Commentary:

Even if the minimalist interpretation is largely correct, it cannot alter a situation in which Israeli Arabs currently constitute one-fifth of the country’s population — one-quarter of the population under age 19 — and in which the West Bank now contains at least 2 million Arabs.

Israel, the Jewish State, is predicated on a decisive and stable Jewish majority of at least 70 percent. Any lower than that and Israel will have to decide between being a Jewish state and a democratic state. If it chooses democracy, then Israel as a Jewish state will cease to exist. If it remains officially Jewish, then the state will face an unprecedented level of international isolation, including sanctions, that might prove fatal. [Emphasis mine — JLW]

Does this mean that there’s no room for leeway because of natural growth in Israeli settlements? Not necessarily. But I still cannot grasp the mindset of those who ignore the demographic reality. At which point, the only case for the continued existence of a Jewish Israel in the face of those eventual numbers is that of the Israeli religious right: G-d gave it to us, all of it to us.

But to make that argument means that one agrees to place the case for Israel in strictly religious terms. So while we’re there, still speaking from a strictly Jewish perspective, it’s high time someone pointed out the other side to that argument, the more dangerous side: while there is a right to dwell in the land, there is no inviolable right to dwell in the land at a specific time before the Moshiach. There have been expulsions before.

We (American and Israeli Jews alike) would do well to recall that the G-d who spoke to Isaiah and Jeremiah, laying the case, essentially, for the Babylonian Exile, is far more concerned with widows, beggars, and orphans than with the precision of Temple sacrifices. The latter without the former is not enough to fulfill the Covenant.  It’s why it makes me sick to see “Orthodox” rabbis making the case that their “orthodoxy” is more than enough to compensate for their own disregard for human life.

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Perhaps I should add here, at the end of this, that I have a more or less constantly growing fear that I will outlive the State of Israel. In which case, it will be the response to that event, not the Shoah, which shapes the future of Judaism and Jewish life.  These two thoughts (“fears”?) color more or less all of my thinking on the politics of Israel.

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Radio Broadway Presents The Radio Hits of 1958

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Radio Broadway Presents The Radio Hits of 1958 will be presented on Monday, June 30 at 8 p.m. at The Town Hall, Times Square's landmark concert venue. The show will feature a cast of today's finest Broadway talent performing songs that topped the Billboard charts in the year 1958. Principal singers will include MAX VON ESSEN (Dance Of The Vampires, Jesus Christ Superstar, Les Miserables), JENNIFER HOPE WILLS (The Phantom Of The Opera, Wonderful Town, The Woman In White), NANCY ANDERSON (Wonderful Town, A Class Act), JOHN TREACY EGAN (The Producers, Jekyll & Hyde, The Little Mermaid), and LAWRENCE CLAYTON (The Civil War, Jesus Christ Superstar, Dreamgirls) with additional performers to be announced. The evening will be hosted by RAYMOND JARAMILLO McLEOD (Drama Desk Award nominee - Wonderful Town). American Idol's CONSTANTINE MAROULIS will be a special guest star. Since his memorable stint on Season 4 of American Idol, Constantine has starred in Broadway's The Wedding Singer as well as off-Broadway productions, released his own solo album, toured the country, and held a recurring role on CBS' daytime soap opera, The Bold and the Beautiful. Most recently, Constantine was host of this season's American Idol EXTRA on the Fox Reality Channel. Presented in the spirit of American Bandstand, complete with back-up singers, dancers and live band, this brand-new concert event will be a fun and energetic journey back to yesteryear that is sure to shake your bones and rattle your brains. Songs will include "Yakety Yak," "Who's Sorry Now," "At The Hop," "Great Balls of Fire," Elvis Presley's "Jailhouse Rock" and many more. In a unique twist, the cast will be joined onstage by some of the most celebrated "Regulars" from The Philadelphia Years of American Bandstand, including CARMEN JIMENEZ, MARLYN BROWN KERNAN, DIANE IAQUINTO CELOTTO and the longest-reigning Regular on the program (October 1956 to August 1961), JOYCE SHAFER ROTH. During the Philadelphia Years, there were twelve national dance contests and most winners received hundreds of thousands of votes from across the nation. These winners were, in effect, the American "idols" of their day. Also participating will be EDDIE KELLY, who was not only a prominent figure and quite famous in the nation at the time but has many "Bandstand" credentials over the years. He and his partner were the only Regulars to make cameo appearances on the successful television series, American Dreams, and has made significant contributions over the years in keeping the memory of American Bandstand alive. Tickets, priced $40 and up, are available by calling (212) 307-7171 or in-person at the Town Hall box office. The Town Hall box office is open from 12:00-6:00 p.m. Monday through Saturday. A limited number of $200 "VIP" tickets include premium seating and a private cocktail reception with the stars following the show. The Town Hall is located in Manhattan at 123 West 43rd Street between Broadway and Avenue of the Americas. Radio Broadway was co-founded by Raymond Jaramillo McLeod, Deborah Kym and David Weitzer. Following the June 30 premiere, the company plans to present various incarnations of the show - featuring a variety of Broadway stars and radio hit songs spanning all decades - in venues throughout the country. For more information, Click Here

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SYDNEY – Oct 31, 2013: Mazda Australia has extended its major sponsorship of the North Melbourne Football Club for a further three years.

Maintaining its long-standing sponsorship through to the end of the 2016 AFL Premiership season, Mazda – Australia’s top selling import brand – first partnered with North Melbourne in 1999.

At the end of the current agreement, Mazda will have been major sponsor at the club for 18 years - a record for North Melbourne and one of the longest current sponsorships in the AFL.

Since 1999, Mazda has experienced immense growth which in part can be attributed to its sponsorship of North Melbourne.

“When Mazda started its relationship with North Melbourne we were selling 27,000 cars a year and ranked just inside the top 10 selling car brands, now sales have almost quadrupled,” said Mazda Australia’s marketing director Alastair Doak.

“In 2013, thanks in part to our sponsorship with North Melbourne, we are approaching a record 105,000 sales and are one of the top three brands; and Mazda3 is Australia’s best-selling car*.

“This tells us that as a brand building exercise the sponsorship has worked and worked well.”

Similar brand values have seen the two business entities grow together.

“Mazda and North Melbourne share a common DNA; both are youthful, innovative, energetic, stylish and sporty. Sharing these attributes makes staying on as major sponsor an easy decision,” said Doak.

“Our research tells us that there is a direct correlation between our sponsorship of North, improved brand awareness and familiarity, and increased purchase intent – our partnership has inspired more people to buy a Mazda.”

During Mazda’s tenure as major sponsor, North Melbourne has delivered the 1999 premiership, it has developed a top-class training facility at its Arden Street home ground, increased its membership base to record numbers and maintained its focus towards finals football. Mazda is looking forward to the road ahead.

“The next three years will be exciting for both Mazda and North Melbourne, we both have our sights set on a bigger prize,” said Doak.

“Mazda wants to experience further sales growth as we launch an All-New Mazda3 next year, remain as a top three car brand and maintain its place as Australia’s number one full-line importer, while North is striving for a premiership. Together I’m confident that these goals are possible. We wish the club all the best for 2014 and beyond.”

North Melbourne is delighted to see the relationship with Mazda continue.

“To have a global brand like Mazda aligned with our club is something that has always been humbling for us,” North chairman James Brayshaw stated.

“Mazda has been incredibly loyal to this club over a long period of time and we value our relationship extremely highly.

“They have products of the highest quality and are run by people of the highest quality and it is an honour to be associated with them.”

*Mazda3 is Australia’s top selling car according to VFACTS figures recorded between January 2011 and October 2013.


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Comedian Mike Birbiglia brings an entirely new hour of his smart, comedic storytelling to more than 15 cities on his “Painfully True Stories” Tour. The tour kicked off October 12th in celebration of the release of his first book, Sleepwalk With Me And Other Painfully True Stories.

Over the past 10 years, Mike Birbiglia’s name has become synonymous with smart, comedic storytelling. Mike reached new heights in 2009, when his off-Broadway show, Sleepwalk With Me, became a critical and commercial success. The New York Times called it “simply perfect,” and Time Out New York named it “Comedy of the Year.” A favorite on Comedy Central, Mike has three stand-up specials, including his critically acclaimed one-hour special, “What I Should Have Said Was Nothing.” A regular contributor to The Bob & Tom Radio Show and This American Life on Public Radio International, Mike has also appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, The View, and The Late Show with David Letterman. In 2009 The Onion AV Club named Mike’s Comedy Central Records release “My Secret Public Journal Live” one of the “Best Comedy Albums of the Decade.” The Boston Globe has called Birbiglia’s storytelling, “as honest as any Richard Pryor confession, and as engaging and inclusive as an old Bill Cosby record.”

I remember the first time I saw him perform, I was literally laughing out loud! I can not wait to see him November 4th at The Variety Playhouse in Atlanta!  Get your tickets HERE!

Sleepwalk With Me And Other Painfully True Stories is available October 12th from Simon & Schuster. For more information on the tour, visit Mikes website!

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Wednesday, 28 November 2012

NEOM Rebalance Candle

NEOM Luxury Organics Rebalance: De-stress candle £39.50

"NEOM Luxury Organics candles are made using only vegetable wax and pure essential oils so they burn without releasing harmful pollutants, toxins or soot. They work as powerful holistic treatments as you breathe in the scented air so it is best to burn them for between 2-4 hours at a time.
Each candle has 3 wicks and burns for up to 50 hours (30% longer than standard premium candles). Burn time: 50 hours (3 wicks) and wax weight: 300g."

I have been lusting after a three wick NEOM candle for ages, so as  soon as I spotted a NEOM promotion on ACHICA, I ordered the Rebalance Home Candle. I also bought a bottle of the Real Luxury Body Wash and I will definitely review it on the blog too.

Unfortunately, the Rebalance candle isn't available from NEOM's website anymore, but there is plenty of other beautiful scents to choose from. There is something about NEOM candles that screams luxury and makes me want to have one in each room :) I love the simple, yet elegant glass jar and it looks really pretty on my dressing table.

The candle doesn't release toxins harmful pollutants or soot, so I can enjoy the beautiful scent without worrying about poisoning my body.  The Rebalance candle is a blend of Mandarin, Cinnamon and Clove and it is a very rich combination.  I really like it, but my husband isn't  a fan of this scent. It is very therapeutic and makes me feel less stressed and puts me in a very relaxed mood. When I read the back of the candle I noticed that it also helps to relief cold and flu symptoms. I really hope it does, because I can feel a cold coming after yesterdays shopping trip.

Are NEOM candles worth the hype? I think so! I fell in love with my first purchase and I will be buying more of their products in the future. There is actually a special Christmas candle available at the moment and it would be perfect for long, winter evenings.

Do you own a NEOM candle? What is your favourite scent?

  1. I am soooo tempted to get one! they look so nice and expensive. But I'm a student so I'm not sure my bank balance can stretch :( maybe after christmas!

  2. I've heard such amazing things about these candles, added to my xmas list!! xx

  3. I absolutely love NEOM candles I just can't get enough of them! =D

  4. These look really nice actually. But the price tag... ouchy! xx

  5. I keep seeing everyone blog about these and I'm dying to get one! They sound very luxe!

    Gillian x

  6. I'm obsessed with candles right now x

  7. I really want one but I can hardly justify the price of Yankee candles never mind a Neom one -sigh- a girl can dream though! x

  8. I thought I was the only blogger without a NEOM candle! Haha :) I really want one!

  9. I was actually just thinking about when candles started to become trendy on YouTube/beauty blogs no too long ago and wondering what the big deal was... but somehow, I've been lusting after one of these for such a long time now haha. I've bought into the hype mentally, now my wallet just has to catch on! :)

  10. Neom candles are gorgeous!

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A Life Saved by HIV Meds, and a Vow to Give Back

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September 23, 2013

Jimmy Mack

Jimmy Mack

If you read my blog on this website, you can see my history with this disease goes way back: I believe I was infected in 1983 or '84 and tested positive in 1987. I consider myself one of the more fortunate people living with HIV because I lived long enough to experience HAART and its side effects.

Sometime in 1996 or 1997, I received an AIDS diagnosis; my T cells dropped below 200 and I experienced many bouts of thrush and had several Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) lesions on my feet. But it was cryptococcal meningitis that finally landed me in the hospital. Lucky for me, I was able to add Crixivan to my AZT/3TC combo and everything started to change; even the KS disappeared on its own! I went through all the usual side effects associated with those meds: headache, nausea, explosive diarrhea, but I was just happy to be alive.

I went on to experience horrific side effects each time I had to change my regimen because my doctor thought I was developing resistance to my current HAART. Each time I changed meds, I was prepared for a whole new round of horrific side effects. This was my mindset in late fall of 2001, when I was told it was time to change meds again. I had just experienced living and working in Manhattan when the Twin Towers went down, so I wanted to put off switching meds until Christmas, when I could go home to Southampton and take a week off to experience the new side effects.

My brother Billy and his wife Leslie had a guest cottage behind their home in Southampton that I rented year round, so it was a safe place for me to rest and recuperate from whatever nasty side effects I would be experiencing. I knew full well that the first few days would be miserable, so I didn't start my new meds (which included Viracept) until the day after Christmas.

I took my first set with breakfast and then went next door to babysit my two nephews, Jimmy and Will, while Leslie and her mother went to the mall. Thankfully, things went south before they even left the house! Wee Will, who was 2 at the time, came to me while I was laying on the couch to announce: "Baba, me hungry." I struggled to get up to feed him but immediately realized I just couldn't! So I told him to run and get his Mom before she left and tell her Baba was sick. My head was throbbing as I heard him screaming: "Mama, Baba gick, Baba gick!"

Leslie came back and when she felt me she got out a thermometer and quickly determined I had a temperature of 104. I told her to call my doctor in Manhattan who in turn instructed her to give me aspirin and get me into a tub of cool water with ice packs under my armpits. My doctor said to call back in an hour when my temp should have gone down and let her know what it was. Sadly, Leslie had to call back to say my temp was now 105.5 and my entire body was covered in hives.

By then I was close to delirious, and not clear as to what was happening. Evidently, my doctor instructed Leslie that I was having a severe, life-threatening allergic reaction to one of my new meds and that she needed to call 911 and tell them they needed to get me to a hospital immediately! She was also told to get blankets ready as I was in a tub surrounded by tile and metal and that at 106, I was likely to go into seizures and once in seizures at that temp, my brain would not survive very long.

Moments later, two EMTs from the Southampton Volunteer Ambulance picked me up and whisked me to Southampton Hospital where I was put on a cooling bed and given massive amounts of steroids.

Jimmy Mack with his husband; they recently celebrated their first anniversary.

Jimmy Mack with his husband; they recently celebrated their first anniversary.

That year, I spent the entire vacation between Christmas and New Year's in that hospital, recovering from an allergic reaction to the HIV meds that was so severe that I nearly died. Oddly, as sick as I was, my hospital stay turned into an incredible bonding experience with my dad. My father and namesake was Chief of Radiology at that hospital for over 30 years and each day I was there, workers from all over the hospital stopped in my room to check on me and to tell me what a wonderful man my father was to work with. My dad and mom were both in Hope Town, Bahamas, at the time and so couldn't be there, but it felt like my dad was there with me! I always knew my dad was a great dad, but it was so wonderful to learn how loved he was by all of his coworkers at that hospital.

The whole experience was so surreal to me; having just witnessed the bravery, courage and compassion of the first responders who ran to the falling Twin Towers and then to experience it myself first hand! I vowed that if I ever moved back to Southampton, I would join the ambulance company that saved my life that day. Sure enough, after Manhattan, I did a two-year stint working in England and then my job relocated me to Southampton in 2004.

The day after Christmas, I went for my first meeting at the Southampton Volunteer Ambulance; in January of 2005, I was enrolled in EMT school and became an EMT in May. I have been a volunteer EMT with the Southampton Volunteer Ambulance ever since and have been able to save hundreds of lives myself. So now, not only do I think of myself as fortunate to be alive and healthy, but even more fortunate to be able to give back to the wonderful organization that actually saved my life!

Want to share your "Other Sides of HIV" story about dealing with side effects, good or bad? Write out your story (1,000 words or fewer, please!), or film a YouTube video, and email it to In the coming months, we'll be posting readers' "Other Sides" stories here in our Resource Center on Keeping Up With Your HIV Meds.

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The Broadway in Barking town centre is a performing arts venue and theatre presenting live music, dance, drama, comedy, variety, children's shows and lots more. This light, modern, flexible venue draws audiences locally and from across east London and west Essex. The Broadway is as renowned for its friendly welcome as it is for the quality and diversity of the shows and events it stages. Well known artists from TV and stage appear regularly, as well as top quality international acts. We always try to ensure our ticket prices are affordable so that as many people as possible can enjoy wonderful live entertainment.

As well as professional performances, our venue hosts many shows and events by community organisations. The Broadway organises its own particpatory events, working with local artists and companies. The venue is home to Barking Dagenham College Performing Arts faculty, giving students a wonderful opportunity to develop their craft in a real working professional theatre.The Broadway really is the cultural heart of the community.

The Broadway was originally the Barking Assembly Hall, designed in the 1930's as part of the Town Hall and completed in 1962. It was used sporadically for a variety of events from ballet to boxing. The London Borough of Barking and Dagenham recognised the need for a high quality performance venue in the borough. It joined forces with Barking & Dagenham College to redevelop the hall into the Broadway a professional theatre and a home for the college's highly successful department of performing arts.

The venue was modernised and redesigned by Tim Foster Architects and reopened in September 2004. The theatre includes a glass façade and foyer space, an auditorium with flexible seating, with a capacity of 341, which can be extended to 850 for a standing event.

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Through Friday, get to Kidrobot’s sample sale for 60-70% off some seriously playful outerwear and T’s.

Warning: Any x-mass gifts intended for your little brother, you might end up just keeping for yourself.

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Progress for Wates on Cardiff housing

Wates Residential has secured planning permission to build 353 homes across five sites in Cardiff.

Planning approval represents the first milestone following Wates’ selection as the City of Cardiff Council’s development partner in January 2016.

The Cardiff Living partnership aims to build 1,500 homes across 40 sites over the next 10 years. Of these, 600 will be council homes and 900 for private sale.

Plots so far approved include 192 homes at Willowbrook West in St Mellons, eight homes in Old St Mellons, 31 homes in Llanrumney and 16 homes in Llanishen.

The fifth site, at Braunton Crescent and Clevedon Road in Llanrumney, will be the first plot to be developed, with work on more than 100 new homes scheduled to start in February 2017.

Wates Residential managing director Joanne Jamieson said: “It is evident that there is an increased local need for housing in Cardiff and the council’s ambitious plans will significantly help to address this urgent demand. Securing planning approval for the first five Cardiff Living sites will enable us to kick-start the council’s regeneration strategy to invest in the city’s housing stock and create high-quality, energy efficient homes for the local community.

“The scale of investment being made in Cardiff is also a vital opportunity to bring positive benefit for the community, and with planning approval now achieved, we are focussed on putting into action our joint commitment with the council to train and employ local people.”

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Retro-bolting of existing routes is unacceptable!

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Sport sport sport. All of the cracks here are bolted - but were originally led on trad.

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Organic ketchup smackdown

First off, I must admit that I was rooting for the natural brand line. So I may have introduced a little bias from the start (this isn't a double-blind study by any means). I thought for sure it would whip the pants off of Heinz's Organic Ketchup, especially after the results of my last smackdown, where the major label failed miserably.

In any case, the two brands involved in this competition were Naturally Preferred Organic Tomato Ketchup and Heinz Organic Ketchup.

My first impression of the Heinz was, "who engineered this safety seal?" It took me about 3 minutes and a pair of kitchen shears to even be able to extract said Tomato Ketchup from the bottle. Very annoying.

Next up was color and texture. Naturally Preferred was a deep red, almost like tomato paste with a similar consistency. In other words, not exactly smooth. But it was thick. Heinz was the classically colored ketchup red with a very smooth consistency. Heiz totally won on appearance.

Now for the taste test. Naturally Preferred had a clean tomatoey taste, but a little too acidic. Not as bad as generic ketchup that tastes like downed tomatoes that have been sitting on the ground for a few too many days, but a little distracting.

[Note -- I'm used to eating Muir Glen Ketchup (not involved in today's smackdown) and I like it waaaay better than the overly acidic flavor of regular Heinz.]

Organic Heinz, surprisingly, had a much better flavor. At least one that tickled my memory taste buds of what good ketchup should taste like, but without the acidic aftertaste. The texture in the mouth was much better than Naturally Preferred (N.P.), but I preferred (ha!) the thickness of N.P. over the Heinz. It was too runny.

All in all, since both are manufactured from afar and distributed no where near where I live, they are even on meeting my "locavore" needs. Which means they get low points there. However, both are organic, so I'll still buy them if Muir Glen isn't available.

But, hands down, Organic Heinz won. Even though I was pulling for Naturally Preferred, I have to admit, it just didn't taste as good.

So, here are the results, in order, of today's Ketchup Smackdown:

1. Heinz Organic Ketchup
2. Naturally Preferred Tomato Ketchup

My preference including all brands mentioned are as follows:

1. Muir Glen Ketchup
2. Organic Heinz Ketchup
3. Naturally Preferred Tomato Ketchup
4. Heinz Ketchup (regular)

Now, I just need some tofu dogs...

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America’s Dangerous Tech Gap

The digital divide in this country is accelerating, with poor and minority kids still less likely to have access to critical tech tools, from laptops to the Internet. Chelsea Clinton on why this threatens all our futures—and how to tackle it.

09.24.12 8:45 AM ET

Although the term “digital divide” is generally associated with the 1990s, multiple digital divides still exist today.

“Digital divide” first referred to the unequal distribution of personal computers and Internet access in the mid-1990s after eye-popping technology growth. Between 1991 and 1996, the number of personal computers in the U.S. grew by more than 3,000 percent, from 300,000 to more than 10 million, and access to the Internet rose by more than 1,300 percent. In 1996, 64 percent of schools had access to the Internet, but students attending schools in poorer districts and in majority-minority schools were much less likely to have access to computers or the Internet; a majority of minority students had no computer with Internet access at home (PDF).

I know I was very lucky to have parents who understood how important technology was to my education—I remember when Santa brought me a Commodore for Christmas in 1987, and when my parents gave me a new computer for my birthday in 1993, just in time for the final push of 8th grade toward the real work of high school. That was the first time, too, I was lucky enough to use a computer in a class (math, not surprisingly).

Many families don’t have the resources my parents did to give their children computers at home—and many computers in schools aren’t the ones we read about as the latest models from Apple or Lenovo. In 2010, it was still true that less than half of minority households had access to computers with the Internet, versus more than two-thirds of white households, according to data from the Department of Commerce. Even though more than 90 percent of schools today have computers with Internet access, the computers are often too old to be compatible with current educational software and the Internet access often is slow and unreliable. Unfortunately, as in the mid-1990s, it is generally students in poorer and largely minority schools who have less access to the computers, software, and online learning tools that could possibly make a real difference in their education.

However, the technology access gap is not the only digital divide confronting students today. A central theme at the NBC Education Town Hall I co-moderated in Boston this month was that another digital divide is emerging: between those educators, parents and students re-imagining teaching and learning for the 21st century using technology, and those who are not. Boston Mayor Tom Menino spoke about “Tech Goes Home,” a program in Boston that fosters digital literacy for families, not just students, and gives students who participate the chance to take home a laptop with a built-in Internet connection. Joel Rose, founder of Teach to One, talked about how technology can enable personalized education, so that each student, every day, is challenged to reach his or her potential, with teachers then able to focus on the students who need the most help, not teaching to the average. Although there is not yet enough data on whether either of these programs is really making a difference, we know the current system is not working for our kids or our country.

Recent data shows why tackling the digital divides within the U.S. and between the U.S. and other countries is so critical. In the 2009 Program for International Student Assessment, U.S. students ranked 14th in reading and 25th in math compared with students in other industrialized countries. The Council on Foreign Relations Task Force on U.S. Education Reform declared earlier in 2012 that the U.S.’s failure to educate our students for the 21st century—including how best to use technology—poses serious threats to the U.S. economic growth and national security. The World Economic Forum (WEF) released its global competitive index in early September; the U.S. fell two spots in as many years and WEF cited an inadequately educated workforce as a key driver for the drop.

Technology is not a panacea for closing the achievement gaps within the U.S. or between the U.S. and other countries. We know there is no substitute for a great teacher. We know that children who attended prekindergarten are more likely to be productively employed at 25. But we also know that technology has to be part of any answer to preparing U.S. students for the jobs of the 21st century.

There are programs across the country that are starting to show real results, like in Mooresville, N.C., where giving a laptop to every child increases concentration in school, grades, and test scores. We need to learn from what is working and incentivize other districts to adopt what works. We also need to keep experimenting with technology and support bold ideas, something the Gates Foundation and the U.S. Department of Education’s Race to the Top are already doing. Finally, we have to make the necessary investments to close the digital divide that has persisted now for a generation—we need more laptops, universal high speed Internet access in schools, longer school-open hours to shrink the digital divide kids face during the hours and days they’re not in school and training for teachers so that they understand how best to use technology—and so they’re as fluent in tech speak as their students. We have to tackle all aspects of our digital divide or we risk failing more students and falling further behind in the global race to the top.


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What's the Food Like in North Korea?

The Hermit Kingdom’s citizens subsist on a relatively meager diet

For North Korea’s more than 24 million citizens, life can be a struggle. North Korea’s isolation and totalitarian regime has long been the subject of global scrutiny, earning it the nickname “The Hermit Kingdom” in the mid-nineteenth century after spurning relations with European powers infringing on East and Southeast Asia. The internet is widely inaccessible for citizens, contact with tourists is strictly limited, and there is essentially no independent broadcast media. Radio and televisions are locked into government stations, and it is against the law to listen to foreign broadcasts, which the government also blocks.

But what’s the food like?

For the vast majority of North Koreans, who have to subsist on an annual income of less than $2,000, the most commonly-eaten foods include boiled rice, porridge made from corn, and kimchi, with little to no protein (and that’s when there isn’t a famine). Other popular foods there include injo gogi bap, a sausage made from leftover soybeans; naengmyun, cold noodles made from wheat, buckwheat, and/or potatoes; bulgogi, thin-sliced, marinated, and grilled meat (also popular in South Korea); sinseollo, a DIY platter of raw vegetables, meat, and dumplings cooked at the table a la Korean barbecue; soondae, blood sausage made with ginger, sesame seeds, and small intestine of beef or pork; and tofu bap, fried tofu skin filled with rice. To wash it all down, they drink soju, rice wine with an alcohol content averaging about 23 percent.

If you plan on visiting North Korea anytime soon, however (and we’d advise against it), don’t expect to love the food; one visiting journalist called it “the worst food I’ve ever had in my life.”

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Houston Repeals ”LGBT Discrimination Law” That Allowed Transgendered People to Use Any Public Bathroom They Want

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Yes, there were other provisions of Houston’s HERO nondiscrimination city law, but the one that got the entire kit and caboodle repealed by a pretty high margin of voters involved one very, very simple premise: the idea that people who were born with girl parts use a female restroom, and people who were born with male parts use a male restroom.

Results showed 61% of voters said no to HERO, while only 39% voted to keep it.

By the way, proponents of this law outspent opponents THREE to ONE in advertising, and still it did not pass.

As Buzzfeed reported earlier this week, most voters in Houston didn’t even realize there were other provisions to the law or that it had much to do with discrimination per se.

Getting down to brass tacks, all people talked about was whether or not transgendered individuals, and in particular men who live and dress like women, would be allowed to use the women’s restrooms in public places in town.

“I haven’t heard it bans discrimination,” Cory Alters told BuzzFeed News as he waited for the bus on a blustery Friday afternoon. With four days remaining before the vote, Alters said he had only heard that the measure required letting men and transgender women into women’s bathrooms.

Bathrooms are the hot-ticket item — that’s what everybody is talking about,” he said. “I don’t want girls in my bathroom, and girls don’t want guys in their bathroom.”

One block down Travis Street, 44-year old Donna L., who refused to give her full last name, said the same: “I heard people saying pedophiles would be going into restrooms. That is the main thing everybody is talking about. I hadn’t heard anything else.”

Buzzfeed even interviewed a cop who was voting against. Why? Because adults follow children into bathrooms and assault them as it is, without HERO making access easier for some people to do so:

“I know it covers a lot of areas — veterans of course,” Sharome Robinson, a Houston Police Department officer told me while she waited for her bus near the agency’s downtown headquarters. “I’m for some of it, and against some of it. If I understand, part is about picking the restroom you want. I am a police officer, so males entering the restrooms, that does not sit well with me. It’s not legal now, but it still happens. People follow kids into bathrooms and assault them today. But if this passes, who would have the authority to stop them? If there is no longer any rule against it, who can question that person?”

“I am going to vote against it because of that reason,” she said. “All of the other good things go by the wayside.”

And that, right there, is a huge fear most people have with this law. That, and being made to feel uncomfortable in a bathroom because you have to share it with strangers of the opposite sex (regardless of how they dress and present themselves in public).

While Buzzfeed seemed to imply that people were ignorant for not realizing how awful discrimination is and how horrible the setback of repealing this law would be for the LGBT cause, the point appeared to be missed entirely.

Now, a rant.

The reality is, this law could have all kinds of glowing, wonderful things in it. This isn’t about how 61% of Houston voters are just merrily skipping around all day smiling about how great and wonderful discrimination is.

The problem here is how the definition of discrimination keeps getting blurred and screwed with. Not hiring someone on their merits and ability to do the job based on something totally unrelated like gender or age or disability or sexual preference or whether or not they like the color yellow? That’s obviously discrimination.

But when and how did the idea of discrimination get automatically linked to not allowing whoever says they are whatever to use whatever bathroom in public they want to?

The vote in Houston just proves that for most people, the line on this issue clearly gets drawn at the bathroom door.

A bathroom is not discriminatory. A bathroom cannot judge you. A bathroom is not about someone’s brain or how they perceive themselves in society. It is about someone’s excretory system and how it works.

Quite simply, it goes back to the beginning of this article: people born with girl parts should use a female restroom, and people born with male parts should use a male restroom.

The truth is, fewer people are as concerned about how “stigmatized” some middle-aged guy in a wig with gender issues feels when he’s not allowed into the girl’s bathroom, because most people are far more concerned about how traumatized, say, a six-year-old little girl might be if she runs into a grown man in a wig in the bathroom.

(Sorry, guess that wasn’t very politically correct, was it?)

And that’s before you even get to the part the cop mentioned about the potential for pedophiles to dress as women in order to gain easier access to victims in public restrooms. Pedophiles have preyed on victims in bathrooms. That is a thing that has happened in this society. What makes anyone think a pedophile wouldn’t use this law to their advantage? No one can say with certainty it wouldn’t go down just like the cop said it might.

Proponents thought focusing on the bathroom part of the law was ridiculous according to Buzzfeed. The Executive Director of the Texas ACLU was quoted as saying they weren’t going to “waste our precious dollars on talking about friggin’ bathrooms”…

Maybe they should take people’s bathrooms a little more seriously next time.

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  • BigGaySteve

    Stupid dikes like her make all the rest of GLBT look bad. She even suppenoed churches sermons before

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  • jim_robert

    The biggest oppressors today, by far, are the radical gay Nazis

    As evem ultraliberal Bill Maher said on Real Time, “I think there is a gay mafia. I think if you cross them, you do get whacked.”

  • whiteberry

    Put them all on an island and give them one bathroom!

  • Bubba T

    There is no “transgender.” There is only mental illness or ruse. The rats that push this bs want anarchy. What they don’t realize is they can’t hide once that anarchy has started. They have been labeled and will be dealt with accordingly.

  • Douglas Daniels

    The LGBT crowd are nothing but arrogant, flippant, self-absorbed, whinny, sniveling, intolerant chumps, that want to FORCE their ideas on the other 99% of us out here that are perfectly happy being men and women. Don’t congratulate each other too much, for the Federal Government is bout to step in through the bogus Supreme Court and make it the law of the land to be gay. Amazing how much the Supremes make law, a job not delegated to them by the Constitution. a

  • Albert Griggs

    When “alternative lifestyles” overtake the host culture, the host will die and take the “alternative” culture with it. Attempting to “equalize” these subcultures simply because MOMMY DEMANDS her little ….. CREATION …. be “accepted” does not change the fact they are non-viable SUB-cultures

    Where is the TOLERANCE for the belief systems that built the Civilization upon which you feed?.Show me the homosexual civilization. When the “alternate” lifestyle becomes mainstream,civilization DIES. The parasite cannot live without it’s healthy host body.

    homosexual TOLERANCE on parade:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1JQUG7doCE Prominent feminist and journalist Julie Bindel has openly called for putting all men in concentration camps and eradicating heterosexuality.
    They try and excuse their bigotry and frothing at the mouth hatred and hostility by chanting the bumper sticker slogan “We don’t have to tolerate intolerance”. So in one bumper sticker slogan they have claimed they can be as bigoted, hateful and intolerant as they like as long as they can label you the “bigot” which as leftists is easy to do since according to their ideology anyone who isn’t a leftist like them is automatically a “bigot”.

  • RobertFl

    The law should be simple, your physical identity determines where you whizz. I’d like to think any court would use that as the litmus test.

  • Phar Ma Doc

    Federal Department of Education just decided that a “transgendered” male student, who dresses and looks female, should be allowed to use the girl’s locker room to dress and shower, even though the school provided “her” with a private, separate changing and shower room just for “her” use, which was rejected because it made “her” feel “different and unaccepted.” If the school district refuses to comply they will lose funding.

    As a urologist I have been trained in gender-reassignment surgery (usually in babies with genetic abnormalities) so this issue is a simple matter to define – as stated in the article if you have boy genitals you are a boy and girl genitals you are a girl. In the past, anyone transgendered (“Sex-changed” in the old non-PC lingo) got mutilating surgery which was an irreversible and obvious statement as to which sex you appeared to be. Now, any confused kid can call themselves “transgendered”, have all their original plumbing and want to be considered as the opposite sex in all ways.

    Even the poster children of the movement, “Caitlyn” Jenner and “Chas” Bono have all their original plumbing. IF they are so serious, why would not a penis on a “woman” be so distressing that they would not immediately want it removed as the first step? Likewise for females – with implant procedures a functioning penis is not as difficult as in the past.

    As in Houston the public needs to rise up and state “Enough!!!” If I had a daughter in school in Chicago I would organize a mass boycott of all activities that require a locker room and showers, or even pull them all out of school. Hit them in the pocketbook is the only thing that will work.

  • Jolly Roger

    Listen to ME, you queer bastards; I was always tolerant of gays, but NOT ANYMORE, because this isn’t about “tolerance” of your sexual choices; now you’re ramming your twisted sexuality down my throat, and telling me that I have to live with it. Guess again.

    The next fag that talks to me is getting the living shit beaten out of him, and I’m going to claim in court that he grabbed my balls.

    And THAT is the only way to deal with this problem because they refuse to listen to anything else.

    • huntress

      Agreed! Enough is enough of this bs. Go to phucking shrink if you can’t figure out your d@mn gender and leave the rest of us alone. Psycho dimwits

    • sunshine

      Also agreed. I never hated them but I surely do now.

  • huntress

    Agree. Who the h*ll are the 39% whack jobs that didn’t vote for repeal?

  • D.Moore

    NO, that’s a big NO, they are simply promoting more sexual abuse. If feel different then go piss in the wind pervert’s. “We” as a collective need to say no to protect our youth

  • Jackal

    Let some Guy walk in on my wife he will get a beat down.
    start beating all GLBT down kick there ass they will go hide back in the closet


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The Dalles will be part of a national backpack giveaway campaign.

The Cellular Connection, the largest Verizon Premium Wireless Retailer in the U.S., in a joint effort with its customers, will be donating 100,000 backpacks full of school supplies to children through its School Rocks Backpack Giveaway. Last year, the company donated 60,000 backpacks.

More than 350 participating TCC stores across the U.S. are inviting local families to bring their children to the store between noon and 2 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 2 to pick up a backpack filled with pencils, paper, a pencil box, folders, glue and more. One backpack per child present will be given away on a first-come, first-served basis while supplies last.

The participating store in The Dalles is at 400 Mt. Hood St.; Suite 100. Each participating store will donate between 75 and 300 backpacks. All leftover backpacks will be donated to local schools.

“The backpack giveaway is a huge part of TCC’s ‘Culture of Good’ movement that’s all about making a positive impact on employees while benefitting the world,” said Scott Moorehead, president and CEO of TCC. “It’s how our company gives back to every community where we do business, and it involves every employee at every level. We’re honored to have the ability to give back to those who need it.”

The Dalles residents have joined the cause. Since the beginning of March, TCC customers have been given the option to round their purchases up to the nearest dollar with the difference going directly toward the School Rocks Backpack Giveaway.

In 2013, the National Retail Federation predicted the average person with children in grades K-12 would spend $86 on school supplies such as notebooks, pencils and backpacks. On top of that, nearly 16 million children in the U.S. live in poverty. TCC is doing its part to ensure that as many children as possible are set up for educational success.

To learn more about TCC, visit www.ecellular connection.com. Consumers can also find more information about the company at http://www. facebook.com/tcctalk and www.twitter.com/tcctalk.

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Newtown families offer contrasting ideas on gun safety in Hartford

Neil Heslin holds a photo of his son, Jesse Lewis, who was killed in the Newtown school shooting Dec. 14, while testifying at a legislative hearing Monday in Hartford.

Hartford – Even family members of Newtown victims couldn’t agree at the legislature’s gun violence prevention subcommittee meeting on Monday.

“I believe in simple, few gun laws. We have enough on the books,” said Mark Mattioli, the father of 6-year-old James Mattioli, who was killed during the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting Dec. 14.

About half of the audience, many of whom were wearing “another responsible gun owner” stickers, stood and applauded Mattioli.

Shortly afterward, Neil Heslin, the father of 6-year-old Newtown victim Jesse Lewis came forward with a framed photograph of himself and his son when Jesse Lewis was 6-months-old. Heslin said he dropped Jesse off at 9:04 a.m. at Sandy Hook Elementary.
“He gave me a hug and a kiss, and I gave him a kiss back, and he said goodbye, he said I love you, he said I love mom, too,” Heslin said. “We were supposed to go back and make gingerbread houses that day; we never made it. Twenty minutes after that my son was dead. There is no reason for it.”

Background checks for everyone who purchases a weapon, even if it is a resale, would be a place for gun legislation to start, Heslin said. A ban on high-capacity magazines and assault-type weapons also needs to be in place, he said.

Toward the end of his speech Heslin looked around the room and asked whether anyone there could explain why a person needs an assault-style weapon or high-capacity clips. The room was quite at first until one audience member said they weren’t allowed to respond. Then a handful of audience members said the second amendment was reason enough.

State Sen. Majority Leader Martin Looney, D-New Haven, quieted down the audience.

“I respect their opinions and thoughts, but I wish they would respect mine and give it a little bit of thought,” Heslin said.
A third parent of a Newtown victim spoke at the meeting.

“Noah was our 6-year-old force of nature,” said Veronique Pozner, mother of Noah Samuel Pozner. … “Never again will he feel the sunlight on his face and the companionship of a family who loves him.”

Pozner said she was lucky to have four surviving children.
“My two youngest made it out of Sandy Hook Elementary School that day,” she said.

Pozner said her daughter Sophia who is in second grade, told her that the number 14 will always be “unlucky” for her, so unlucky that Sophia is afraid of turning 14 years old.

She and her husband would like to see a comprehensive ban on assault weapons, no grandfathering of banned weapons, high-capacity magazine limits and firearm registration, she said.
“This is not about the right to bear arms, it is about the right to bear weapons with the capacity for mass destruction, speed kills …” Pozner said.

Carlos Soto, brother of Newtown victim and teacher Victoria Soto was supposed to speak at the subcommittee meeting, but was too nervous to come into the room, said Laura Asher a disaster relief chaplain assigned to Newtown families.
Asher read 15-year-old Soto’s testimony.

“She was getting ready to make gingerbread houses with students, but before they could start there that day it was interrupted for three minutes, and in those three minutes 20 kids and six adults lives were cut short by a Bushmaster assault rifle,” Asher read. “The second amendment gives us the right to bear arms, but in 1791 the writers of the Constitution weren’t thinking of assault rifles, but now the time has come to think about these issues.”

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Post-game breakdown, video: Seton Hall

Maybe it’s time to start thinking about UConn junior Shabazz Napier as a worthy Big East player-of-the-year candidate.

Napier has an uncanny ability to deliver whenever his team needs him. And his teammates respond to him.

“They feed off him and feed off his energy,” coach Kevin Ollie said.

Napier did it again Sunday in a 78-67 win over Seton Hall, scoring 18 of his 22 points in the second half and also finished with nine assists, a career-high six steals and four rebounds while playing 39 minutes.

“He realizes when we need him and he just steps up,” R.J. Evans ofSalemsaid.

UConn improved to 16-6 overall and 6-4 in the Big East. The Huskies are one of four teams with four league losses.

Marquette(8-2), Syracuse(8-2) and Georgetown(7-3) are ahead of the pack.

Here’s a post-game breakdown:

-- Evans, a Norwich Free Academy graduate, had one of his best Big East games. He provided a spark off the bench, finishing with six points and two rebounds in 13 minutes.

He hadn’t had more than four points since scoring nine against Fordham on Dec. 21.

“Coach Ollie just gave me confidence and told me to attack,” Evans said. “He put confidence in me and I just took what the defense gave me.”

Ollie appreciated the fact that Evans attacked the basket.

“R.J. does a great job,” Ollie said. “I put the word professional around his name because he’s always ready to play… He did a remarkable job attacking the rim and got some easy baskets for us.”

-- In the days leading up to the game, Ollie complained about the high number of three-pointers that his team has taken in the last two games. The Huskies attempted 45.

Against Seton Hall, they took 14, making five.

-- UConn out-scored Seton Hall from the foul line, 21-6. The Huskies converted 21 of 23 and the Pirates just 6-for-17.

“We had the right people taking them,” Ollie said.

Sophomore Ryan Boatright made all 10 attempts from the line. Napier went 5-for-6.

-- The road trip’s most valuable player might be Scott Kirkpatrick.

Who’s Kirkpatrick?

He’s the UConn team bus driver. He had to maneuver through the snow to get the Huskies to New Jersey on Saturday night. The trip took five hours and they finally arrived about 1 a.m.

At one point, the bus got stuck in a hotel parking lot in Hartford. The Huskies enjoyed their down time, playing in the snow.

“We had a little fun,” Evans said. “Then coach said to get back on the bus before you do something stupid.”

Napier and freshman Omar Calhoun wrestled in the snow. Napier declared himself the winner of the bout.

“I snuck up on Omar…,” Napier said. “Then he tried to slam me and it wasn’t happening.”

 -- For the first time, Napier talked about sitting out the first six plus minutes of the loss at St. Johns Wednesday. He was punished for an undisclosed violation of team rules.

It was a communication issue, according to Napier.

“I felt like I let the team down,” Napier said.

Napier more than made up for his mistake with Sunday’s terrific performance.

 -- The game featured two big runs.

The Pirates had a 16-0 spurt that helped erase a 13-point deficit late the first half.

The Huskies took the lead for good with a 28-8 run.

-- An active and opportunistic defense sparked the Huskies in the second half. They forced 16 turnovers overall, including 10 after intermission.

The backcourt of Napier and Boatright combined for 10 of the team’s 13 steals.

Seton Hall shot 44 percent after intermission.

-- Napier and Boatright combined for the play of the game.

On a breakaway, Napier tossed the ball off the backboard and a trailing Boatright dunked it home.

When asked if Ollie approved of the showboat play, Boatright replied: “He’s okay with what we do as long as we complete the play.”

Ollie said: “It’s something I wouldn’t do, but I’m fine with it.”

 -- The Huskies improved to 5-0 against Big East teams with losing records.

-- UConn had 16 turnovers, one shy of tying the season high.

-- Up next: UConn hosts Syracuse on Wednesday in Hartford.

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Colorful, Healthy, After-School Snack

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2012

Keeping up with after-school snacks is kinda hard for me. Especially because I want to try to make things healthy as much as I can around here. I don’t always succeed, but I’ve noticed that if healthy things are colorful, they are more interesting to my kids. :)

Frozen blueberries, small sweet peppers, frozen peas:

I’m missing the color blue in this rainbow of food…how ’bout a blue tablecloth? 😉

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Fruit Pizza and a Piano Recital

Wednesday, June 13th, 2012

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Our kids had their end-of-year piano recital at their piano teacher’s house a couple of weeks ago. It was so fun to see their progress. I made a fruit pizza for dessert. There are several yummy recipes online for fruit pizza. I just bought refrigerated cookie dough for the crust (it was so much easier!) and used cream cheese and powdered sugar for the frosting. Then I topped it with blueberries, kiwi, strawberries and raspberries. YUM! Definitely a taste of summer.

Mustache Monday: Tootsie Roll Style

Monday, February 28th, 2011

SO we had another Mustache Monday today. In addition to painting mustaches on our kids during the night, we made these tootsie roll mustaches as a family this evening. FuN and SiLLiNeSs! If you want to make some with your lovelies, watch this video to find out how. Have fun! (click on any of these images to view larger..)

Bread Cornucopias

Thursday, November 18th, 2010

I found this awesome idea today from The Idea Room and I was so excited to try it out with my kids. Instead of making normal size breads, we made mini-cornucopia loaves so the kids could participate.

After they came out of the oven, we stuffed them with butter, honey, brown sugar, cinnamon, etc.  It was so much fun!

Rainbow Snack

Friday, March 5th, 2010

For an after-school snack the other day, I decided to make little rainbows out of fruit with small bowls of cream cheese and marshmallow creme for dipping. They were eaten right up!


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Amorim steps up TCA battle

25th July, 2013 by Gabriel Stone

Amorim, the world’s largest cork manufacturer, is due to roll out its latest weapon in the battle against cork taint this September.

IMG_1478Working in partnership with a UK firm specialising in gas chromatography analysis , Amorim is developing an industrial-scale prototype which will allow it to test individual corks for the trichloroanisole (TCA) compounds responsible for “corked” wine.

The current gas chromatography system takes 14 minutes to analyse a single cork sample, making it impractical for large scale use outside the laboratory. Even so, Amorim’s 15 machines already allow it to test 16,000 samples in this way each month.

By contrast, the latest prototype is able to analyse one cork every 20 seconds, enabling Amorim to check up to 1.5 million of the 3.6 billion corks it produces every year.

“It’s not much but it’s a beginning,” acknowledged Amorim oenologist Paulo Lopes, who explained that the technology would initially be focused on the company’s highest quality corks.

Preliminary testing shows the machine’s ability to detect 100% of corks with more than 5 nanograms (parts per trillion) of TCA per litre, although this rate currently drops to 88% for corks with TCA levels of 5-2ng/litre, at which level the compound can still be detected by humans. However, confirmed Lopes, “We’re working to reach 100% on this range too,” as he highlighted the corks’ subsequent treatment by ROSA, an Amorim-patented steam treatment machine which, the company claims, eliminates any remaining TCA molecules perceptible to humans.

This latest effort to improve control of TCA comes on top of existing preventative, curative and quality control methods employed by Amorim.

As a result of improvements in the decade since other closures entered the mainstream, Lopes remarked: “Today we know TCA is not formed during production; it is a compound already found in the forests.”

As a result, Amorim is working to identify which cork forests have the highest levels of TCA in order to select their cork for stoppers accordingly.

Once harvested, a number of steps are taken to prevent mould – a precursor of TCA – from developing.

Firstly, the bark is left to dry on metal rather than wooden pallets. A modernised boiling system then cleans and flattens out the bark using regularly filtered water at a constant

The raw material dries before processing

The raw material dries before processing

temperature that circulates freely around the cork, with this same aeration allowing it to dry within a few hours rather than the weeks taken previously.

Early on in the grading process, the lower part of the cork bark, whose proximity to the forest floor makes it most susceptible to TCA contamination, is removed. The cork is also cleaned using peroxide rather than chloride, since chlorine represents a major component of the TCA compound.

In addition to human sensory analysis, further mechanical decontamination processes then take place depending on the type of cork being produced.

These include a vaporisation process before the corks are punched, which contributes a 40% reduction in TCA, and the INOS II water bath applied to discs for twin top or sparkling wine corks, which contributes a 70% reduction.

After the gas chromatography analysis, two types of Amorim’s patented ROSA steam treatment are employed: a more aggressive version for granulated corks and a gentler, longer process for whole-punched corks, which reduce TCA by 90% and 80% respectively, as well as removing other volatile compounds.

As a result of these combined processes, Amorim has managed to lower average TCA levels from 2.68ng/l to 0.54ng/l between 2003 and 2012 for its whole-punched cork stoppers. External data from the Cork Quality Council shows that its members reduced TCA by an average of 84% between 2002 and the first quarter of 2013.

Despite this thorough work being carried out by the cork industry, Lopes noted the challenge presented by ongoing TCA problems from other sources. “Today a big problem in contamination from flexi-tanks”, he highlighted.

Cellar contamination is also an issue, although data suggests that wine bottled under cork is less susceptible to this risk as a result of the material’s relative impermeability compared to synthetic cork, plastic-lined screw cap and the crown caps used for Champagne before disgorgement.

Despite stressing the need not to “become complacent about TCA”, Antonio Amorim, chairman of Amorim, noted: “the biggest challenge is to give consistency to cork.” However, he argued that this issue was not restricted to cork alone, adding: “People have to accept there is the same problem with other closures.”

Above all, Amorim warned against manufacturers claiming to offer a uniform closure solution. With his own company providing a range of options “from 2 cents to €2”, including the recently launched Helix, he concluded: “Different wines will take different corks – and probably even different closures.”

A full update on the latest developments within the closure industry will appear in August’s issue of the drinks business.

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  1. Marcelito says:

    Natural cork will always be a source of problems, even if they manage to erradicate anisoles by 100%, due to the enormous variatios in oxygen permeability between individual cork stoppers, leading to unpredictable, random oxidation.

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12th February, 2011

The Fair Trade Foundation and the Alliance For Responsible Mining join forces to challenge unsustainable gold mining industry in Colombia and Peru

Valentines Day will see the world’s first Fairtrade certified gold go on sale after a new partnership between the Fair Trade Foundation and Bolivian mining co-operative, Cotapata.

An estimated 15 million people work in artisanal and small-scale mines worldwide, often enduring appalling working conditions and exposure to highly toxic chemicals such as mercury. It has been estimated that 20 tonnes of toxic mine waste is created by the production of just one gold wedding band.

Fair Trade Foundation executive director Harriet Lamb said the reality of gold production was 'completely at odds with what consumers imagine'. ‘Consumers care about the conditions faced by miners. This is why Fairtrade and Fairmined gold has the potential to tackle unfair supply chains, improve working and environmental conditions, and deliver tangible and sustainable economic benefits to impoverished communities.'

Twenty jewellers, including heavy-hitters Garrard and Ingle & Rhode, have already agreed to sell the gold, which will go on sale from Monday in the UK. The Fair Trade Foundation hopes to roll it out in other countries over the coming months and aims to capture at least five percent of the gold jewellery market by 2026.

Currently, only one mine has been certified – the Cotapata mine in Bolivia – but more mines in Peru and Colombia are due to receive certification within the next couple of months. The Fairtrade minimum price for gold is set at 95 per cent of the London Bullion Market Association’s (LBMA) fix – the international agreed price for gold.

Currently, mining companies receive anywhere between 30 and 85 per cent of the LBMA fix. Miners will earn an additional premium of five per cent of the LBMA fix when they switch to mining without mercury or cyanide. ‘Now we are Fairtrade, we are receiving a premium,’ said Juana Pena Endara, Senior President of the Cotopata Mining Co-operative. ‘The first thing we will do is buy a smelter and some machinery so we can produce more.’

Manuel Reinoso Rivas, Vice Chairman of the ARM Board of Directors at the soon to be certified Oro Verde mine in Peru, said: ‘The Fairtrade premium really will bring huge benefits to our communities.’

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Art of Food

Thanks to Cincinnati Magazine I was able to attend the Art of Food Opening Night event at the Carnegie in Covington, KY! The Carnegie is a small art museum that also has plays and shows - last month I saw The Odd Couple in their theatre.

The Art of Food is an annual event where all the art in the gallery is food-related. Some of the art is made of food - some is just of food. For opening night they have a variety of chefs from the area make some very great tasting and pretty food!

The great thing about the Carnegie is that - except for opening night - it's FREE! So I urge you to head down there and check out the exhibit showing through April 15.

The night started out with Chef Matt from Virgils outside the Carnegie baking up fresh bread! That's a great way to start the night for sure.

Upstairs there was a DJ spinning some tunes...although they were a bit loud. (Art by Bill Ross - totally my favorite of all the artists - so fun!)

They had a food memory room where people could write food memories on the walls - there were some fun ones. Love this idea...

Here's another Bill Ross - so awesome!

Taste of Belgium was there as well - I didn't get to have any. The line was HUGE and they were really backed up!

There was also macaroni art - but this isn't like the stuff you made in 1st grade art class! The artist might be Birgit Ehmer...I'm not quite sure...hard to remember everything.

Savor was there offering a Mini Hot Brown and a truffle. Eh - not my favorite by any means...

Now right here is where my batteries died in my camera. Thankfully my friend Lou was there with her cell phone to save me!

Senate was serving up tuna poke - it was really good and had a kick to it. Not as good as the poke that Aqua had...but good stuff.

Another Bill Ross...a blue monkey and his cupcakes :-)

Eric Brass had a ton of cool art that was all made of food. My favorite was a HUGE Mona Lisa made of toast. It's FANTASTIC!

Chef Marc Bodenstein of Parkers in Blue Ash was there representing the Carriage House Farms. He served up a duck ham sandwich (duck cured like ham) and a salad with garlic aioli. That salad was AMAZING!

This horrible picture was the #2 on the best of list for the night and it was - no shocker - from Jean Robert. It was something with shrimp - I can't remember. Honestly it tasted kinda like tuna salad with shrimp - but let me rephrase - it tasted like the BEST tuna salad I ever had but with shrimp. It was damn tasty.

Now my award for best food all night hands down went to Chef Aaron Gardner of Jeff Thomas Catering in Ludlow. This was Shredded Chicken Mole on white cheddar, green chili macaroni & cheese. This was fantastic, delicious, comfort food. That's a big tortilla chip sticking out of it.

I tried mole one time in high school and hated it - so all this time I thought I hated mole. I told Chef Aaron he had changed my mind! And the macaroni and cheese was to die for! Thank you Chef Aaron!

There were a couple of dessert options - first up was Chef Summer Genetti from the Palace with Ovaltine Creme Brulee. There were these honeyed (I think) rice crispies on top that sort of took the place of the typical sugary crust. The sugar was there still but not really crunchy like when it's fresh served. It's hard when you're making hundreds of them! This was nice - especially if you're wanting something a little less chocolatey.

Last up we tried some cookies from Queen City Cookies. These truly are little pieces of art - and really tasty. The cookies were shortbread so not too sweet - then a THICK hunk of icing.

There was a lot of other food - but I couldn't get pics of everything. All in all the night was a big success. There were SO MANY people there! I have to say - it was crazy-crowded - kind of uncomfortable because it was very tight quarters and hot - but definitely overcrowded is good for the event!

I do have one word of advice for Chefs that do events like this in the future:

Make something easy to eat with one hand!!!! It's really hard to juggle a purse, a drink, a plate and a fork.

Thanks again to Cincinnati Magazine and the Carnegie for putting on such a great event. I definitely need to go back and check out the art again before April 15.

And also - be sure to enter the giveaway for Cirque de Soleil tickets!
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Tabloid Cheat Sheet: Jen And Brad Getting It On? Robert Issues An Ultimatum To Kristen?

It’s Wednesday, which means the week is half over and you’ve made it through hump day. But even more importantly, new ‘bloids just hit newsstands. Lest you have to actually buy them, here’s the juiciest and, uh, most ultra true stories from each.

  • Star Magazine has proof that Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston are having a secret love affair. As in, Jen’s driver has blown their cover. Supposedly, the ex-couple spent two hours at the Gramercy Park Hotel in New York City, trying their hardest not to get caught. Rumors are swirling that the two have been texting (perhaps, sexting?). Oh, and the driver took them for a spin around Manhattan in late April while they sipped Starbucks and chatted. Wait…this happened over a month ago and we’re just finding out? If you’re gonna spill the beans, do it quickly, dude. [StarMagazine]

  • Us Weekly just won’t get over Jon and Kate. Their cover story — the sixth in an effing row — is about how Jon ditched wifey on her 34th birthday to party with his mistress in Park City, Utah. Kate celebrated with the little ones with a trip to the “Ace of Cakes” kitchen, while Jon and Deanna Hummel got drunk and allegedly “reeked of pot.” This is such a dead horse. (See: the sucky ratings from last night’s “Jon and Kate Plus 8.”) Quit beating it. [UsMagazine]

  • According to OK! Magazine, Robert Pattinson has issued an ultimatum to Kristen Stewart to choose between him and her boyfriend. They say Rob is frustrated and has moved to New York to…fight for his leading lady? Yeah, like he won’t get the girl in the end. [OK!Magazine]

  • Looks like Hef’s ex “Girl Next Door” Kendra Wilkinson is preggers with NFL star Hank Baskett’s baby. They’ve been engaged since November and plan on getting married on the 27th of June at Hugh’s mansion in Holmby Hills. Hollywood keeps messing up that “first comes love, then comes marriage, then comes a baby in a baby carriage” thing! And doesn’t a wedding at the ex’s mansion sound awkward to you? [People]