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Two years after Merkel left German borders open to more than 1 million migrants, the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) stunned the establishment by becoming the first far-right party to enter parliament in more than half a century.
The AfD won 13.0 percent of the vote – more than expected and one of many shocks on a night of drama that saw Merkel's conservatives get their worst result since 1949, and her main Social Democrat (SPD) rivals their worst since 1933.
Describing the far right's success as a test for Germans, Merkel insisted she had a mandate to govern – a formidable challenge as she has little choice but to cobble together a three-way coalition with a pro-business group and the Greens.
"Of course we had hoped for a slightly better result," a humbled Merkel said after her conservative bloc slumped to 32.9 percent of the vote – down from 41.5 percent at the last election in 2013.
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The euro EUR=E4 slipped around 0.4 percent in early Asian trading as it became clear the results would make forming a coalition tricky for Merkel.
Coalition building could take months as Merkel's only straightforward path to a majority in parliament would be a three-way tie-up with the liberal Free Democrats (FDP) and the Greens – an arrangement untested at national level.
The Social Democrats, who have served with Merkel's conservatives as junior partners in a "grand coalition" for the past four years, won just 20.6 percent of the vote, as nearly half of voters repudiated the two parties that have dominated Germany since World War Two.
SPD leader Martin Schulz said the party would refuse to rejoin a coalition and instead take up its position as the main opposition. The Social Democrats appear to have been hurt badly by being in government, making it difficult to distinguish themselves from Merkel's conservatives.
After shock election results last year, from Britain's vote to leave the EU to the election of U.S. President Donald Trump, leaders of Europe's establishment have looked to Merkel to rally the liberal Western order.
A pastor's daughter who grew up in Communist East Germany, she has acted as an anchor of stability in Europe and beyond. Now, she faces an unstable situation at home as she must form a coalition, an arduous process that could take months.


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Transitioning to a vegan lifestyle, for me, was about doing what was right for the animals, my own health and the environment all at the same time. I started investigating the ingredients in not only everything in my kitchen cupboards but also in my medicine cabinet and bathroom drawers. I discovered there were a lot of scary ingredients lurking in many of the skin care products I was using including my deodorant. Then one day I came across this startling statistic Over 60% of what you put on your body goes in your body. Meaning that the ingredients in your lotions, deodorants, perfumes, etc. actually are absorbed into your body tissues far beyond just your skin. Deodorants and lotions have even been found in biopsied breast tumors (although there is no link between the two it does illustrate that what you put on your body goes in your body).
The more research I did the more important it became to me that the products that I put on my body were natural, free of preservatives, dyes, aluminum and a most importantly their ingredient list doesn't read like a chemistry textbook. Over 3 years of testing I have come up with a list of some of my favorite and least favorite natural deodorants. I tend to use different ones based on the season as some are better at masking the stench of a southern summer than others.
I also polled the good folks over at the PPK to see what their favorite and least favorite natural deodorants were and the reviews were definitely mixed. Check out their perspectives for the best and worst natural deodorants.
Earth Science – Liken Plant in Herbal Scent *** this is my all time favorite. It offers complete protection even when the heat index is hitting 100 and the humidity is 70%. The scent is close to a baby powder scent so it isn't over powering. It is also long-lasting so you don't have to reapply it all day. This was the PPK runner up.
Jason – Tea Tree, Aloe Vera, Herbs & Spice, Wild Yam. As a product line I love Jason's natural deodorants. They have a great line of unisex scents that are long lasting and smell great.
Tom's of Maine – Calendula, Honeysuckle Rose, Apricot (long lasting and regular) Calendula and Honeysuckle rose are my two favorite scents from the Tom's of Maine line. I'm still not in love with the smell of apricot on me but I've actually received compliments about how great I smell when I wear it so I keep using it. My only problem is that in the summer you tend to have to reapply them several times a day, even if using the long-lasting variety. This was also the folks of the PPK's favorite and least favorite natural deodorant. I think it largely depends on the scent you are looking for, or if you're looking for a scent at all.
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I have trouble saying that these scents and brands weren't good because I think it came down to body chemistry more than anything else when trying these deodorants. They smelled great in the package but after wearing them for about an hour I absolutely hated the smell. But I still think they are worth a try and will probably go well on you, it just depends on how your body chemistry reacts with the natural scent.
Earth Science – Tea Tree/Lavender
Thai Crystal – I have personally never tried this one but the folks on the PPK forum either raved about it or said it was the worst thing they ever tried. So I'm putting it in the on the fence category. Personally, since I've been through so much trial and error I can't say that I'm going to try out the crystal but please let me know your experience if you do!
Jason – Naturally Fresh. I didn't understand the concept of a scentless deodorant but I decided to give it a try anyway, just in case there was something I was missing. Well I wasn't missing anything. This is nothing more than a moisturizer for your armpits. Since I have it around and it takes years to expire I just use it after I shave under my arms as a moisturizer at night but never when I'm actually looking for odor control.
Tom's of Main – Unscented. I had the same issue with this as I did with Jason's naturally fresh. I just don't see the point.
Alba – Tea Tree. The smell starts off good but once you start to work up a sweat this stuff turns from the scent of the gods to the hind part of Satan within minutes. This one was almost unanimously hated on the PPK by all who had previously tried it.


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- 2 cups (packed) fresh basil leaves
- 1 teaspoon coarse kosher salt
- 1/2 cup thinly sliced peeled carrots
- 2 cups small broccoli florets (6 ounces)
- 1 cup small cauliflower florets (4 to 5 ounces)
- 1 cup vegetable stock or vegetable broth
- 1/2 cup cooked cranberry beans or other winter beans or canned drained Great Northern or cannellini beans
- 1/2 cup (packed) fresh Italian parsley leaves
- 1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
- 3 cups olive oil
- 3 large fresh thyme sprigs
- 18 uncooked large shrimp (for first course) or 24 uncooked large shrimp (for main course), peeled, deveined, patted dry
Recipe Preparation
Bring large saucepan of water to boil. Add basil leaves and simmer 15 seconds. Using strainer or slotted spoon, transfer basil directly to blender. Add 1 teaspoon coarse salt to water in same saucepan and bring to boil. Add carrots and cook 5 minutes. Add broccoli and cauliflower, and cook until all vegetables are tender, about 5 minutes longer. Drain. Using slotted spoon, transfer vegetables to bowl of ice water and let stand until cold. Drain well. Add vegetables, vegetable stock, cranberry beans, parsley, and 1/4 cup oil to basil in blender. Puree until smooth, occasionally scraping down sides of blender with rubber spatula. Transfer pistou to medium bowl, and season to taste with salt and pepper. DO AHEAD Pistou can be made 1 day ahead. Cover and chill. Rewarm in microwave before serving.
Pour 3 cups olive oil into heavy large saucepan, and add thyme sprigs. Attach deep-fry thermometer to side of saucepan and heat oil over medium heat until thermometer registers between 165°F and 180°F. Sprinkle shrimp with salt and pepper. Add shrimp to hot oil and poach just until shrimp are opaque in center, adjusting heat to maintain temperature between 165°F and 180°F, about 8 minutes. Transfer shrimp to paper towels to drain.
Divide warm pistou among 4 or 6 plates. Top pistou with poached shrimp and serve.


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Fruity, Festive Pairings for a Party
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(Family Features) From pool parties to baseball games to backyard barbecues, this time of year provides a number of occasions to enjoy time with family and friends. This summer, take your gatherings to the next level with a fun and festive drink menu that reflects the fresh flavors of the season.
Today Americans are turning to wine more often than ever before, and the summer months are no exception. Barefoot Refresh, a refreshingly vibrant, light-bodied spritzer, is the perfect alternative for those quintessential summertime occasions. Available in five delicious blends that are perfect for sharing, these vibrant wines can be found at retailers nationwide.
Fruit Caprese with Sangria Spritz
Bring seasonal produce to the table by skewering mozzarella balls, watermelon, honeydew and other favorite summer melons. Sprinkle with balsamic vinegar, garnish with freshly cut basil and serve with a vibrant white wine spritzer, such as this recipe for Sangria Spritz.
- 1 green apple, diced
- 1 red pear, diced
- 1 lemon, cut in small pieces
- 1 rosemary sprig
- 2 ounces brandy
- 3 ounces simple syrup
- 1 bottle (750 milliliters) Barefoot Refresh Crisp White Spritzer
- Place fruit, rosemary sprig, brandy and simple syrup in pitcher. Cover and allow to marinate for 2 to 4 hours or overnight. When ready to serve, add chilled white spritzer to pitcher. Stir briefly. Serve over ice.
Shrimp Cocktail and Summer Lovin'
Kick off your summer event with a simple appetizer of chilled fresh-cooked shrimp dunked in tangy cocktail sauce. Bring out the flavors of this classic starter by serving with this recipe for Summer Lovin', a light and refreshing drink.
- 1 cup fresh seedless watermelon
- 6-8 large fresh strawberries, hulled
- 1 ounce simple syrup
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The 2001 Princeton Lectures on
Youth, Church, and Culture
Proclaiming the Gospel in a Wired World
Cell phones, email, MTV, the Web, Palm pilots, and pagers fill our lives and the lives of young people. Teens live in a world where "religious chat rooms and web sites act like spiritual supermarkets, offering an assortment of belief systems all within one click" (Newsweek, May 8, 2000). Whether you laud the changes technology has brought or long for yesteryear, there is no denying that today's wired world affects how we share the good news of Jesus Christ. Those who are engaged in ministry with youth are translators—charged with the daunting task of making connections for young people who are more familiar with gigabytes than with grace.
Rather than offering instructions on how to use e-‐mail, set up chat rooms, and design multimedia presentations, the 2001 Princeton Lectures on Youth, Church, and Culture examine the theological implications of modern technology and globalization. They help us to reflect on our modes of proclamation—not just preaching and worship but also storytelling, relationships, justice-‐seeking, service, teaching, and the daily practice of Christian life. They provide inspiration that will refuel us for bearing witness to Jesus Christ with youth in the wired world.
Thomas Beaudoin engages us in a provocative discussion of the relationship of the church to consumer media capitalism. He argues that consumer media capitalism functions strategically as an anonymous spiritual discipline, thus creating "theocapitalism." Beaudoin then proposes a tactical plan for Christian theology and pastoral ministry to contest the strategic discipline of theocapitalism. His lectures offer challenging insights on ministry in today's wired world as well as practical directives for discipling young people in this context.
Marva Dawn raises concerns about blind acceptance of contemporary fads and asks how we can teach youth to question their use of technology. The gospel, says Dawn, calls us to be hopeful realists about the wired world and enables us to de-‐idolize those elements of culture that begin to take primary place in our lives. She gives ten Christian practices that can help us to clear a space for the focal commitments of our faith in today's culture. Dawn then urges readers to take greater care in how they use words, and she provides insights from Luke's account of the walk to Emmaus (Luke 24) on how we might proclaim the gospel to young people.
Richard Osmer takes us on a rafting trip through the white water of globalization, exploring this cultural shift's influence on adolescents through the global media, the globalization of risk, and the new pluralism of globalization. Drawing on the research of the Princeton Project on Youth, Globalization, and the Church, he explains why we experience globalization as catching us up in currents of change that are beyond our control and discusses the practical implications for ministry with young people. Osmer calls the church to provide young people with three indispensable gifts for their white water journey: a creed to believe, a code for the road, and a dream to esteem. These gifts for the journey are developed out of the practices of catechesis, exhortation, and discernment found in Paul's ministry and are illustrated for today through case studies of two very different congregations.
Finally, Katherine Paterson blesses us with the gift of story. We are important, she persuades, not because we can teach our young people about the wired world or because we must warn them away from it, but because we are the church and we have a story to tell. Paterson explores how we might tell our story to the young who think they have nothing to learn from us. She challenges us to see the "invisible youth" by looking at young people as they really are and loving them as such. Perhaps, she notes, youth would welcome from us a vision of who, in God's sight, they really are, in a sharing of stories that illumine and heal.
May these lectures inspire you and equip you to proclaim the good news of Jesus Christ to the young.
Director of Leadership Development
Institute for Youth Ministry
2001 Lectures
- Celebrity Deathmatch: The Church Versus Capitalism?
- After Purity: Contesting Theocapitalism
- Technological Devices or Engagement in Practices?
- The "Humiliation" of the Word or Its Restoration?
- Riding the Raft: Ministry with Youth in an Age of Permanent White Water
- A Checklist for the Journey: Biblical Foundations of Ministry with Youth
- I Love to Tell the Story
- The Invisible Youth
Riding the Raft: Ministry with Youth in an Age of Permanent White Water
In this lecture, I want to explore with you the effects of globalization on adolescent faith. 1 I will be drawing on research that currently is being conducted by the Princeton Theological Seminary Institute for Youth Ministry. Over the past two years, the Institute has sponsored research teams in Japan, the United States, Germany, Ghana, South Africa, Russia, Argentina, and Paraguay. Although we are in the middle of this project, I will share with you some of the insights that emerged at our gathering last April. Prior to this meeting, each team had conducted interviews of adolescents between the ages of fifteen and seventeen in their particular country. The American team, headed by Kenda Dean and me, has interviewed close to 100 adolescents. The interviews conducted by all research teams explore topics such as young people's interaction with the media, their attitudes toward certain facets of globalization, how their religious community helps them understand and respond to globalization, and a variety of other topics. Each research team transcribed twenty-five interviews and identified common themes and issues. When the research teams gathered together last spring, we compared what we had come up with.
As I have thought back on this meeting, the one image that keeps coming to mind is that of people on a raft or in a canoe riding down a rapids-filled river. Some of you may have experienced this first-hand. You may even have taken your youth group rafting. Even those of you who have not probably can recall images from movies or literature that have dramatic scenes in which people jump from great heights into the rapids below. I remember the jump scenes in The Fugitive, The Last of the Mohicans, and Kiss the Girls. I also can recall dramatic scenes of canoes shooting thepage 82 rapids in Deliverance and The River Wild. Keep in mind an image of what it's like to be right in the midst of white water, drawing on your own experience or a movie. I'll be inviting you to come back to it several times over the course of the lecture. Your cue will be Run the Rapids!
Try it right now. Focus on what it feels like to move through a set of rapids with lots of white water. In your imagination, start on the near side, then enter the white water. Recall what it's like to be pulled through and out of the rapids. OK, Run the Rapids! My guess is that you experienced the feeling of being swept along in a current far stronger than you were. It didn't matter how hard you tried to back-paddle. Once the rapids had you in their grip, you were going down that river...unless you tipped over or crashed into some rocks. And even then you were still going to be swept along by forces more powerful than yourself.
This is how most of the world experiences globalization. They feel like they've suddenly been swept up in a current of change far more powerful than they are. They certainly can't control it. The best they can do is try and dodge the rocks and branches. And they're pretty sure that there is no way they can avoid being swept over the falls just up ahead. Even those of us who live in North American and western Europe and who are the beneficiaries of globalization often feel that we are caught up in currents of change that are way beyond our personal control.
Your young people know this feeling full well. Sometimes, it feels wonderful—the ultimate adrenaline rush. We're leaving the past behind—old racist stereotypes, old cultural chauvinisms, old religious conflicts. Sweep me away from all that, Sweet Jesus. Draw me irresistibly into this new global world where one of my best friends is from Russia, my teacher spends every summer in Africa, and I can get in a chat room with anyone from anywhere to talk about anything. But sometimes these powerful currents of global change feel threatening. This is especially true if you're from a country like Ghana, South Africa, or Russia, where globalization often feels like an invasion from the West, a flood sweeping over village life and destroying everything in its path—the way crops were grown and harvested, the cloth-weaving, the older moral codes. Even Japanese youth, living in a country with the second largest economy of the global marketplace, are painfully aware of what they are losing as they embrace globalization. The "island way" is slipping away. And as it departs, something very precious to Japanese culture and identity is being lost.
Obviously, the topic of globalization is bigger than I can deal with in one lecture—or even two. I can't even begin to do justice to the various page 83 insights that have emerged out of the Institute's research. What I can do, in a fairly focused way, is speak to the ways globalization is influencing adolescents in three areas:
- 1. The global media
- 2. The globalization of risk
- 3. The new pluralism of globalization
Before taking up the first of these, we need to pause for a minute and take care of a few preliminary matters. What do we mean by globalization? Drawing on the thinking of Roland Robertson and others, globalization can be defined as the process by which the world is being knit together into a single place by interconnected systems of communication, transportation, political organization, and economic exchange. 2 I want to make three brief comments about this definition. First, the key phrase is "interconnected systems." Globalization has to do with the connections created by computers, satellite communication, trade, and new political communities like the European Union. It's driven by the emergence of new systems of connection.
Second, globalization is not being defined here exclusively in economic terms. This is important, for some of the biggest supporters and critics of globalization use this term solely to describe the global marketplace. I think this sort of economic reductionism is a real mistake, because it misses global connections and flows taking place at other levels. For example, one of the most important facets of globalization is a worldwide revolution taking place in the family. Even in a country like communist China, where the government still exerts great control over the economy, we see this revolution taking place. In the Chinese countryside, sixty percent of all marriages are still arranged by parents. 3 In the large cities, such arranged marriages have virtually disappeared. People marry by choice; cohabitation is becoming more frequent; the divorce rate is climbing. You can't explain what is going on here exclusively in terms of the influence of a global economy. You have to think of changing perceptions of the role of men and women, of shifting cultural definitions of happiness and fulfillment. These are related to global cultural flows through the media and through study and work abroad. Globalization, therefore, has to do with interconnected systems emerging at many levels of life. When I use the term globalization, don't think exclusively in terms of the global marketplace.
Third, globalization points to changes that are comprehensive and far reaching. We are in the early stages of this process, but it already is obvious that the entire world is being reshaped by the new systems of connection that page 84 are the hallmark of globalization. We need to think in terms of the kind of major shifts that take place in civilizations relatively infrequently. Think of the fall of the Roman Empire and the rise of the medieval world or the collapse of medieval feudalism and the rise of the modern nation-state. We are at the beginning of a shift this comprehensive. This is why all of us experience globalization as catching us up in currents of change that are far beyond our control. We are living in an age of permanent white water, and the rapids have us in their grasp.
The Global Media
Let's begin by exploring the effects of the global media on youth. A cross-cultural comparative perspective is particularly helpful. Remember, I asked you to keep in mind an image of what it is like to be in white water. Well, it's time to bring it up. Since this is our own imaginary trip, let's move out of real time and slow things way down—like in The Matrix. I want you to slow things down so you can notice the ways you are surrounded by the white water. When you move through rapids in real time, things are moving too fast to really see the way the water is dancing all around you. Are you ready? OK, Run the Rapids! Let me guide you a bit. Look around. Notice the water cascading all around you. Slow things way, way down and focus on a single spray of water. See it dance and glisten as sunlight, air, and water swirl around in a sparkling Russian dervish. Pull a single droplet of water out of the air if you like. Now, hold on tight. We're going to move back into real time. Experience the water-dance as you really would. Feel the water slap at you and laugh at you as you're pulled back and forth by the powerful crosscurrents.
This is the way youth around the world experience the media, especially music. One of the most striking findings of our research was the universal influence of music on young people all around the world. They listen to it when they wake up, as they travel to school, while they do their homework, when they're hanging out with their friends, and before they go to bed. American youth regularly spend a part of their disposable income on CDs, and when they watch TV, it often is to tune in musical videos. Music cascades around them, and its rhythms and lyrics have almost an irresistible attraction. Like a powerful current, music pulls them into the global cultural flows of the entertainment industry. Much of the music listened to in other parts of the world originates in the United States and Great Britain. It is creating a global youth culture. It may well be that a young person living in Johannesburg or Moscow is more apt to recognize Britney Spears walking down the street than page 85 a neighbor who lives only a few blocks away. She's recognized everywhere—a global celebrity created by the global media.
Global cultural flows...like water down a river. Music isn't the only thing that flows through the global media. Movies and television programs also are a part of this cultural flow. The British sociologist Anthony Giddens shares the story of an anthropologist friend who studies village life in Africa. 4 On her first visit to a particularly remote area, she was invited into a local home for a meal and evening's entertainment. She was excited because she expected to see firsthand some of the traditional past-times of the isolated village. After the meal, the head of the household ceremoniously invited her to join the family in the living room for the evening's entertainment. He then proudly pulled out a video of Basic Instinct, which they proceeded to watch on the family's VCR. The movie had not yet even been released in video form in the United Kingdom.
Without question, one of the most powerful forces of globalization influencing young people all around the world is the global media. Those of you who work with youth will not be surprised by this. Let's listen to the words of some of the more articulate American youth whom we interviewed.
|Why do you like this particular group?
|I like Cory because I like his music. His music tells stories. I have been to his concerts, and I think he puts on a good show.
|What are his stories about?
|About growing up and high school and the high school scene and what life is about.
|Are his stories accurate?
|Some of them.
|Do you see your life in those stories?
|What would some of these messages be?
|Their songs talk about love and relationships, and families and different issues that all teens feel.
|Do you think this is a good thing?
|It's a good thing in the sense that it gives the teenagers something to think about, so they know how to react to certain situations.
|The Sixth Sense was basically just for entertainment purposes but with The Hurricane I can relate to him struggling to do something and it not necessarily working the way that he hoped.
As these excerpts indicate, young people are attracted to music and movies for two reasons: entertainment and models of life and love. Their comments were echoed by youth in other parts of the world. Entertainment we can probably live with. But models of life and love? What do you think?
The most sophisticated youth workers in other parts of the world are very critical of the influence of the global media on their young people. Some argue with great passion that the media communicates a view of life that is antithetical to the most cherished values of their country and their understanding of Christianity. They view the messages it sends about sex, individual freedom, the importance of money, and the use of violence to settle conflicts as having a negative influence. One of the most articulate of these youth workers, a leader of a para-church organization in Russia called Hosanna, argued that music is the single most powerful force seducing Russian youth into the materialism and hedonism of the global consumer marketplace. And she feels powerless to stem the tide. What do you think? The entertainment industry cascades around us and our young people all the time. Is she being too negative? Or, with the eyes of an outsider does she see something that we're too immersed in to notice? What happens when young people form their models of life and love—their moral code—through the global media? I will return to these questions in my second lecture.
Globalization and Risk
It's time to run the rapids again. This time you're not in the white water. It's out there, just in front of you. You can hear the water crashing. You can see the rocks and branches jutting up. What do you feel just before you run the rapids? If you've never been rafting, it's something like the feeling you have when you're climbing up the first incline of the largest roller coaster in a theme park. Try imagining that. Pause for a moment and Run the Rapids. What do you feel right before you enter the white water? For me, depending on how big the rapids are, it is a combination of fear mingled with excitement. There is an element of risk in shooting the rapids or riding a roller coaster. That is part of page 87 what makes them a perennial favorite of young people.
People who work closely with youth know that risk-taking and adolescence seem to go hand in hand. Many teens seem to thrive on taking risks. That's why you take them rafting or rapelling. But you also know that this risking-taking has both a good side and a bad side. Its bad side has to do with the foolish and self-destructive risks adolescents sometimes take—drinking and driving, jumping off a cliff into water of unknown depth, ingesting a synthetic drug produced in who knows what kind of lab. Its good side has to do with adolescents' willingness to take risks born of idealism: camping out in Tienniman Square, sitting in at a lunch counter in Greensboro, traveling to a country they know virtually nothing about to repair houses. Some say young people love risks because they're too young to know better. Others say it's because they haven't lost their ability to dream. Probably, they are both right. Unless this risk-taking drive of adolescence is met by a dream that taps into their idealism, then it all-too-often will turn negative or shallow. It is almost like the idea of a critical period in Erik Erikson's theory of development. 5 If adolescent risk-taking isn't nurtured by a dream during this critical period of their life, then the potential for growth and development is lost and is difficult to recapture later in life.
How does globalization affect adolescent risk-taking? For several decades, some of the more thoughtful sociologists around the world have been telling us that our experience of risk is changing. The older, modern way of thinking about risk has been turned completely upside down. We used to think that science and technology would reduce the risks to human life—allow us to grow better crops, eliminate diseases, and warn us of tornadoes and hurricanes. We now know that science and technology create a whole new set of risks that are more threatening than anything the human community faced in its past. The German sociologist Ulrich Beck coined the phrase "risk society" to describe our experience of manufactured risk. 6
Some argue that the globalization of the past two decades has intensified this experience of risk. 7 As globalization has created new systems of interconnection, the most threatening problems facing the world have become global in nature. An economic recession in one region affects other countries halfway around the world. As the Wall Street Journal once put it, Asia catches a cold and Silicon Valley sneezes. When the Chernobyle nuclear plant had a meltdown in the former Soviet Union, it did not merely threaten those who lived nearby. It threatened to spew out a radioactive cloud that placed many parts of northern Europe at risk. As science makes breakthroughs in the area of genetic research, a whole new set of risks is beginning page 88 to face the human race. We don't know the possible hazards of genetically altered foods. But we're already eating them. We don't know if our new knowledge of the human genome will be used to combat disease or will become the basis of designer-babies, enhanced athletic performance, or geno-terrorism.
Recall what you felt a few minutes ago when I asked you to place yourself in your mind's eye immediately before a set of rapids. What if you suddenly realize that these rapids are a lot bigger than anything you've ever handled before? The current is too fast, the drop-off too deep, and the rocks too big. Some would argue that this is how the human community experiences the risks of globalization. The speed of change is too fast and the problems too vast. This is one of the issues we wanted to explore in our interviews. What do young people think about globalization? Do they view it positively or negatively? What kinds of risks do they see it as creating? Do young people worry about these kinds of risks? What kinds of models do they use to think about these issues? How do they respond?
In the interviews with Americans, we found that approximately fifty percent could articulate global issues they worried about and could speak to the issues in some depth. Let's listen to several excerpts from our interviews:
|Let's see, I worry; I'm very concerned about the environment and what's been happening to it in Third World nations and in the United States and other developed nations just because business seems to be taking such a priority and people want to be getting ahead. The more money the better. Better products, higher salaries, and the economy will grow. I really value the mountain ranges, and the lush forests that are enormous, the great big trees, the clear oceans, the blue and white skies, and the stars, and I'm afraid that we're going to lose a lot of that. What I think about is that song "America the Beautiful." That's what I'm talking about. I'm afraid we're going to lose that not only here but in many other countries….
|I think that the world is pretty much disintegrating in the way it is, although it is perceived that it is being even better, and we're finding out more about science and technology, coming up with really neat computers and everything else, although what's really happening is that we're using up all our resources doing all these things. Once we page 89 run out of the resources, what will we do then? We turn to this science and computers and stuff and we find an answer, because one of the statistics that I have found is that we will run out of all natural resources within the next twenty years approximately. When that happens, what do we really do?
These are pretty articulate statements by fifteen to seventeen year olds. It is also important to point out, however, that approximately half of the Americans interviewed had little to say about these kinds of issues. Their thinking is captured well in the following excerpt:
|They (young people) don't really worry about world politics right now...they really aren't affected...or don't have a say...Yeah...they are worried about more immediate things...college...boyfriends/ girlfriends...going out... school...sports...
There is a lot packed into this statement—aren't affected, don't have a say, worried about more immediate things. One way of interpreting the difference between those who are reflective about global risks and those who are not is to see it developmentally. As young people grow older, their boundaries of social awareness expand and they become more aware of the problems facing the world. 8 No doubt, there is truth in this line of interpretation. But two important insights emerging in our research complement this sort of developmental perspective.
First, those young people who were most thoughtful about global risks were involved in some sort of community that raised these issues and helped them think about the issues. By far the most important of these in our research were religious communities whose youth groups consistently involved their young people in mission projects. It did not matter whether these mission projects were local or international. In addition to religious communities, schools also seem to play an important role in raising these issues and helping young people think about them. That's the first insight: the importance of communities in raising and addressing issues of global risk.
The second insight, however, is equally interesting. Everyday interaction with computers seems to provide many American youth with their primary model of globalization. A striking difference between the American youth and the youth interviewed by other research teams was the far greater interaction with computers found among the American youth. What was page 90 particularly surprising to me was the comparison with German and Japanese youth, who also live in relatively affluent, technologically advanced societies. Apparently, young people in these countries do not really use computers until they reach college or enter the business world. In contrast, virtually all of the American youth we interviewed interact with computers on a regular basis—for research, writing papers, e-mails, instant messages, shopping, and so forth. This intensive interaction with computers provides some American youth with their most important model of globalization. Here are a few representative excerpts:
|I think it means that like instead of being an entire world of people all spread apart, everyone no matter where you are, you're just like a button away, so you're always close.
|I think it is making everything more accessible. On the Internet you can get everything from it. Everything is so dependent on the computer if there was ever a problem I don't think people would be able to deal with it.
By and large, those young people who formed their image of globalization on the model of computer interaction were extremely positive toward globalization. Globalization is viewed as affording better communication, greater access to information, more opportunities to expand one's horizons, and less control by those in power.
When you placed these two findings side-by-side, I believe it underscores the important role of mission-oriented youth groups in helping young people understand and respond to globalization. At least in my reading of these interviews, youth participating in these groups seem to be far more reflective about global risks than those working with a model of globalization formed exclusively through their interaction with computers. They are aware of the issues; they are wrestling with them; they are beginning to imagine constructive responses. If adolescence is a time of risk-taking, on the one hand, and if globalization seems to present us with change that is too fast and problems too vast, on the other, it may well be that religious communities will play an all-important role in holding these together in the emerging global era. This is something I will return to in my second lecture.
Globalization and the Struggle with Pluralism
One of the findings of all the research teams—from Russia to Ghana, from the United States to Japan—was the struggle young people are having making sense of the new pluralism that globalization is creating. Make no page 91 mistake about it, the young people you are working with are experiencing pluralism in a wide variety of ways in their everyday lives. They are watching movies and TV, listening to music, eating food, and wearing styles of clothing that originate in other countries. They are friends or acquaintances with people who are from other parts of the world. They e-mail and enter chat rooms with people living outside the United States. Many have traveled abroad. At school, they are studying non-Western cultures and religions, and they are participating in international student exchanges and choir tours.
For many decades, social scientists have pointed to experience of pluralism as an important dimension of modern life. 9 Move to the city, and you almost inevitably are exposed to different races, cultures, and ideas. Globalization, however, has greatly expanded and intensified the experience of pluralism. In our interviews of American youth, there was a strong tendency to equate globalization with pluralism and to view this positively. Once again, let's listen to the actual voices of some of the youth we interviewed:
|Yes, I believe that globalization is a good thing. It limits ignorance. You are more exposed to different things, that can actually help because you know more about your surroundings.
|Yes, I think it is good.... It's like everybody in the world is interdependent upon one another...so they should be open to learn...different things. Like the United States should be able to accept Holland's views as well as Holland should be able to accept the U.S. views. They should be open to the different among them and be able to accept the people across the country who are different.
The positive assessment of tolerance and openness to different points of view expressed in both of these excerpts appeared again and again. At one point in the interview, we asked the young person how open people should be to influences from other parts of the world. The following comment is representative of the sort of responses we received:
|I think that really you should be wide open, but you shouldn't be open enough so that you lose your own identity, that you'll lose who you are, so that you won't lose your own culture, your own faith. You'll still have that group of people who you can identify with.
The struggle to be open, on the one hand, and to hold on to your identity, on the other, was a common theme in these interviews. It is one of the real challenges that the new pluralism of globalization poses to young people.
This is closely related to the difficulty all the young people had with what we might call "the truth question." Their experience of pluralism makes it very difficult to affirm one perspective or position as more true than others. We posed this issue by asking: How do you know which religion is true? Again, let's listen to some of their responses:
|Because, I think that each religion believes its own things and I don't think it is fair for me to say, "Your religion is bad, your religion is wrong because you don't believe in a certain something." It is up to the individual.
|Yes, if you are too relativistic you can have your own ideas. I have my own ideas and everyone's ideas are true to them. It is not well founded. I mean just from the logical point of view, if my ideas are true and your ideas are true and part of my ideas say that your ideas are false, there is no way you can come back to that. That's kind of becoming pretty popular because it is the easy way out. I think there are certainly some things that are objective truths. At the same time, I don't think that someone should close themselves off to other ideas. They should at least have exposure to them. Exposure to them doesn't mean accepting them. It means that they think about them. I think that it is very, very, very important.
The first of these excerpts is far more representative than the second. It is particularly nice because it holds together two responses that were very common in the interviews of all the research teams. "It's up to the individual"—the individual is the final arbiter of truth. It also describes fairness as the right of every religion to hold its own beliefs. In contrast, the second respondent is struggling with relativism. He portrays it as the easy way out and as avoiding the hard issue of affirming some perspectives as truer than others. Yet he still wants to affirm the importance of being open to perspectives that are different than your own.
Having read through nearly 100 interviews with Americans and having listened to my colleagues conducting research in other parts of the world, I am left with the strong impression that the new pluralism of globalization poses a major challenge to religious communities that still want to deal with page 93 the truth question. How do we affirm our young people's fundamental intuition about the importance of openness and tolerance without leaving them in a form of individualism or relativism that ultimately is inadequate? We need to do some fresh thinking about this issue.
Let me conclude this lecture by asking you to Run the Rapids one final time. You've just made it through the third set of rapids on the trip. Your arms ache; your back is sore; and you're soaked to the bone. You barely have time to catch your breath when you hear the sound of water crashing in a new set of rapids up ahead. Beyond that set of rapids is another and beyond that another still. On either side of the river, walls of sheer, smooth rock stretch upward. There's no place to land. There's not even a branch to hold on to. What are you thinking and feeling? Hold that thought, we will come back to it in our second lecture when we take up the importance of providing young people with a place to land in an age of permanent white water.


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Curious George has been a staple of kids' pop culture for over 70 years...and for the most part, even the most recent books, TV episodes and movies retain something of an old-fashioned sensibility. PBS Kids' ongoing animated series (2006- ) has remained a critical and commercial favorite and has spawned three direct-to-DVD features: A Very Monkey Christmas and A Halloween Boo Fest and Curious George Swings Into Spring. The latter is the subject of today's review and, though it's not exactly timely, is still worth a closer look before it gets too cold outside. Like the other two adventures, Swings Into Spring features simple animation, a leisurely piano-driven score, familiar characters and three upbeat pop song breaks.
Our story revolves around George and The Man With the Yellow Hat as they leave the city for a spring outing headlined by the local hot-air balloon festival. The doorman's faithful dachshund, Hundley, reluctantly comes along while his building's being cleaned, but the proper pup has yet to experience the wonder of "spring fever". Instead, he drags his feet during his short vacation while George and his owner do everything they can to make Hundley feel welcome and entertained. As the locals get their balloons ready, The Man With the Yellow Hat helps organize the festival events, George and Hundley meet some new friends and, eventually, the town has a brush with disaster when their brightly-colored balloons float away with a curious passenger still inside. Like the hot-air balloon ride at its center, this animated adventure is pleasant and occasionally exciting, but it definitely doesn't move very quickly.
Curious George Swings Into Spring isn't offensively bad or a total chore to sit through, but it definitely feels padded at just 56 minutes in length. The story just isn't very engaging, the three song breaks are lukewarm and even the ending just kind of fizzles out. But it does have a few cute and funny moments, while younger audiences may get a kick out of the things that bother anyone with a critical eye. Even so, I doubt most tykes will return to this one on a regular basis, making it more of a one-time curiosity than a durable addition to your ever-expanding kids' DVD library. Universal's DVD package makes the decision even easier, serving up a decent A/V presentation but nothing in the way of bonus features.
Not much to complain about here. The 480p, 1.78:1 transfer offers bright colors, decent image detail, consistent black levels and few digital imperfections to speak of. There's a pleasing texture to many backgrounds and landscapes, as well as no signs of excessive DNR or other digital eyesores. I did notice a bit of softness, some mild banding and several stray jagged edges...but the latter are almost expected with animated releases on DVD or Blu-ray. Overall, a good effort that kids of all ages will appreciate.
The audio is definitely a bit more reserved, though it's not necessarily a problem. This Dolby Digital 5.1 presentation offers crisp dialogue, robust music cues and even a bit of channel separation on occasion. Surrounds are limited to music cues and light background ambiance, though a little more power in this area would've some made the "bigger" moments more enjoyable. For what it is, though, I doubt many kids or parents are going to complain. Optional English SDH subtitles are also included during the movie.
Definitely a step down from A Very Monkey Christmas and A Halloween Boo Fest, this vanilla springtime adventure doesn't have a very engaging story or much in the way of replay value. While its relaxed pace, simple animation and jazzy score are more appealing than your average ADHD-riddled kids production, Curious George Swings Into Spring never picks up much speed and drags at just 56 minutes in length. Universal's DVD package doesn't offer much support aside from a decent A/V presentation, making this a disc that only die-hard Curious George fans will bother watching more than once or twice. Rent It.
Randy Miller III is an affable office monkey by day and film reviewer by night. He also does freelance design work, teaches art classes and runs a website or two. In his limited free time, Randy also enjoys slacking off, juggling HD DVDs and writing in third person.


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OTTAWA — On June 18, 1990, exactly 127 days after he walked out of the gates of a South African prison, Nelson Mandela entered Canada's House of Commons to thunderous cheers and applause.
He was led into the chamber by then-prime minister Brian Mulroney, whose leadership on the international stage against South African apartheid had been impressive.
It was one of the most memorable occasions ever to occur in the Commons, as both Mandela and Mulroney delivered speeches to a packed house.
"A historic moment is in sight," said Mandela, as he thanked Mulroney and Canadians from all walks of life for supporting South Africa's blacks.
"It will not be long now before we, as South Africans, stand up to proclaim that the apartheid fountainhead of racism throughout the world is no more and that political power has passed into the hands of the whole people."
"Never should racism in our country, from whatever quarter, raise its ugly head again. All of us as South Africans, both black and white, must build a common sense of nationhood in which all ideas of vengeance and retribution are impermissible."
In his speech, Mulroney told Mandela the world was "remarkably fortunate" to have a person of such "rare qualities" leading the movement for equality in South Africa.
"To emerge from prison after so long in incarceration and to retain an understanding of the concerns of your jailers is truly extraordinary," said Mulroney.
"To resume your life and your leadership with neither bitterness nor malice is a powerful compliment to the strength of your character and to the soundness of your values."
More than two decades later — with the death of Mandela, at age 95 — it's clear that Canada played a significant role in the international sanctions campaign in the years leading up to his release from prison.
And moreover, Mulroney never forgot the role played by Mandela in ending apartheid.
"In public life there are people and projects that you treasure," Mulroney said Thursday. "My work with Nelson Mandela is a chapter of mine that stands alone in my memory. I will never forget, and the world will never forget, how powerful was his impact. We grieve at his passing but are forever blessed by his legacy."
Mulroney expanded on his thoughts in a written statement released Thursday evening.
"A precious light has gone out in the world. Let us remember though, that nothing can extinguish the flame of freedom he lit in South Africa. Nothing will dim the power of his message of tolerance, of integrity, and statesmanship."
Over the years, Mandela and Mulroney became friends.
Theirs is a story of two men and two life experiences — one a black African lawyer who had been the imprisoned leader of an oppressed people, the other a white Canadian politician from a paper mill town on Quebec's north shore whose personal sense of morality was deeply offended by the systemic racism in South Africa.
"Canada was a leader within the Commonwealth, and a leader in the West," says Bernard Wood, who played a key role at the time.
Wood was head of the independent North-South Institute when Mulroney called on him in the fall of 1985 to reach out to other Commonwealth nations as his "personal representative" on how to impose sanctions on South Africa.
"It was very much driven by Mulroney's personal convictions," says Wood.
"He was passionate about this. He said to me, 'Every day, I wake up at 24 Sussex and I look across the street to the South African High Commission. And every day I get angry.'"
Starting in 1985, Mulroney spearheaded an aggressive Canadian push within the Commonwealth for sanctions to pressure the white South African government to end apartheid and release Mandela from the prison where he had been locked up for a quarter century.
That put him at odds with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who wrote to Mulroney: "Like you, I loathe apartheid and want to see it abolished at the earliest possible moment."
But Thatcher steadfastly opposed sanctions because she insisted they were "counterproductive."
Britain, with significant economic ties to South Africa, would be hurt by sanctions. She also argued that South Africans themselves would be harmed by further sanctions and that many blacks would lose their jobs, leaving their children to go starving — a consequence she described as "immoral."
But Mulroney wasn't buying it. He saw a nation where five million whites dominated 24 million blacks who did not have the right to vote and where racism was endemic.
"The very notion of South Africa's apartheid was anathema to me, and while I was under no illusions about Canada's economic strength in the world, I also knew that Canada's role was not unimportant," he later wrote in his memoirs.
"I viewed apartheid with the same degree of disgust that I attached to the Nazis — the authors of the most odious offence in modern history."
"I was resolved from the moment I became prime minister that any government I headed would speak and act in the finest traditions of Canada."
Mulroney and Thatcher had fierce internal debates, but Mulroney and his external affairs minister, Joe Clark, stuck to their guns on sanctions.
After a particularly critical August 1986 meeting in London that left an isolated Britain on the sidelines, Canada moved with other Commonwealth nations on 11 additional sanctions such as bans on new air links, new investment in South Africa and promotion of tourism to the country.
At the time, Canada was receiving no support from the United States administration, where President Ronald Reagan — in the dying years of the Cold War — also opposed sanctions and feared that Mandela and other leaders of the African National Congress were communists.
History now shows just how wrong Reagan was, and how Mulroney's instincts were right.
Once released from prison, Mandela rejected vengeance, ended apartheid as national leader, and was transformed into a global icon for peace and tolerance.
But in the 1980s, when he needed foreign friends the most, it was Mulroney's Canadian government who led the way.
Mandela never forgot it. The day after his release from prison in 1990, he spoke with Mulroney on the telephone.
"We regard you as one of our great friends because of the solid support we have received from you and Canada over the years," he told Mulroney, according to the Canadian prime minister's memoirs.
"When I was in jail, having friends like you in Canada gave me more joy and support than I can say."
Mandela said he wanted to return the favour by choosing Canada's Parliament as the first legislature to make a speech.
"Mr. Mandela, you can count on me getting a plane over there real fast," Mulroney replied.
Eventually, the two men forged a friendship that grew even stronger after they both left politics. On his annual business trips to South Africa, Mulroney made a point of visiting Mandela.
In 2004, the aging South African sent Mulroney a letter.
"You provided strong and principled leadership in the battle against apartheid," he wrote.
"This was not a popular position in all quarters, but South Africans today acknowledge the importance of your contribution to our eventual liberation and success."
Here is the statement issued Thursday by former prime minister Brian Mulroney:
"Surrounded by his family, the beacon that was Nelson Mandela slowly faded to eternal peace in a Johannesburg hospital last night. A precious light has gone out in the world. Mila and I join with Graca Machel, his devoted family, and the millions who loved him in every corner of our world, in mourning this giant of our times.
"Let us remember though, that nothing can extinguish the flame of freedom he lit in South Africa. Nothing will dim the power of his message of tolerance, of integrity, and statesmanship.
"It is hard to imagine how much poorer the world would be, were we not to have been blessed by the power of the life of Mandela – the Teacher of his people, a model for leadership everywhere.
"So, as we mourn, let us also rejoice that his example moved every Canadian to aim higher. That his legacy will continue to nourish the spirit of everyone who struggles for justice and freedom anywhere. That the dream of Nelson Mandela will never die."


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The State of Guanajuato, Mexico has over 572 companies with foreign capital registered and located in the state.
The following information has been translated from an article dated November 6, 2006, published in the newspaper Correo, by Vicente Ruiz, Link.
49% of these foreign companies in Guanajuato are involved in manufacturing, and 29% are commercial operations which together represent an investment greater than 1,000,000,000 (one billion US dollars).
Due to changes in laws regarding foreign investment in Mexico (in 1993, 1995, 2001), 90% of all economic activities in Mexico are completely open to foreign participation and investment.
Mexico's growing national economy, free trade agreements with 32 countries and geographic location provide great economic and logistics advantages to companies opening operations in Mexico.
In Guanajuato, 50% of all the foreign companies are located in the city of Leon (281), followed by Irapuato (71) Celaya (52), San Miguel Allende (31), Silao (26), San Francisco del Rincon (25), Guanajuato (19) and the rest (67) throughout the state.
Guanajuato occupies the first position for foreign investment of the all the Mexican states in the North-Central region.
Principal industries in Guanajuato that received direct foreign investment include:
- The automotive industry received US $ 874.2 million
- Processed food industry (concentrates, preserved products) received US $ 99.1 million
- Manufacture of paper, cellulose and derivatives received US $ 18.9 million
- Commerce of non-agricultural items received US $ 17.3 million
- Chemical manufacturing received US $ 15.9 million
- Clothing manufacturing received US $ 7.5 million
- Textile manufacturing received US $ 5.2 million
- Plastics manufacturing received US $ 5.4 million
- Food products received US $ 4.8 million
Who has invested in the State of Guanajuato, Mexico:
Country…. Investment (Millions of US dollars)…… %
United States of America……..1' 009, 214.00………..92.7
Holland………………23, 277.90………….2.1
Spain………………….18, 234.00………….1.7
Germany……………14, 267.30………….1.3
Denmark……………..4, 913.90………….0.5
Taiwan…………………4, 426.00………….0.4
Others………………..14, 549.60………….1.3
Total: USD $ 1' 088, 882.70 (Millions)
Related Links
Aumenta inversion extrañjera en el Estado de Guanajuato: SE (Spanish)
Secretaria del Economia de Mexico (English)
State of Guanajuato webpage (English-Spanish)


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Former U.S. Senator Sam Nunn is a member of The Concord Coalition's Board of Directors. He served as a U.S. Senator from Georgia from 1972 to 1996, and previously served as the Coalition's co-chairman from 1997 to 2001.
Raised in the small town of Perry in middle Georgia, he attended Georgia Tech, Emory University and Emory Law School, where he graduated with honors in 1962. After active duty service in the U.S. Coast Guard, he served six years in the U.S. Coast Guard Reserve. He first entered politics as a member of the Georgia House of Representatives in 1968.
During his tenure in the U.S. Senate, Senator Nunn served as chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee and the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. He also served on the Intelligence and Small Business Committees. His legislative achievements include the landmark Department of Defense Reorganization Act, drafted with the late Senator Barry Goldwater, and the Cooperative Threat Reduction Program, also known as the Nunn-Lugar program, which provides incentives for the former Soviet republics to dismantle and safely handle their nuclear arsenals. Senators Nunn and Richard Lugar were nominated for the 2000 Nobel Peace Prize for their work in conceiving, legislating and sustaining this important program.
Senator Nunn is the co-chairman and CEO of the Nuclear Threat Initiative, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization with a mission to strengthen global security by reducing the risk of use and preventing the spread of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons and to work to build trust, transparency, as preconditions to the fulfillment of the Non-Proliferation Treaty's goals.
In addition to his work with NTI, Senator Nunn has continued his service in the public policy arena as a distinguished professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at Georgia Tech and as chairman of the board of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC. He is a board member of The Coca- Cola Company and General Electric Company.
He is married to the former Colleen O'Brien and has two children, Michelle and Brian.


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The Arrested Development run of ten episodes that will air on Netflix is set to start filming tomorrow. We've been counting the days until the moment and it is finally upon us! Deadline reports that the entire original cast of Jason Bateman, Jeffrey Tambor, Portia de Rossi, David Cross, Jessica Walter, Will Arnett, Michael Cera, Alia Shawkat and Tony Hale will be returning along with Ron Howard in his capacity as a narrator. That's one character per episode, which may factor into the idea that each episode will focus on one of the Bluths, likely with multiple characters in certain episodes. (Could we get an episode all about the narrator, maybe?)
Production is expected to continue into the fall. Creator Mitch Hurwitz is open to an additional season if the first run proves successful. Netflix has said they'll release all ten episodes at the same time on an unspecified day in 2013.


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You Are What You Wheat
As part of our "Take 5 for Heart Health" campaign, LMC dietitian Laura Stepp was a guest on WIS-TV this week to talk about whole grains. Check out her interview and the great information she shared in the link below.
Here is a picture of Laura with WIS news anchor Dawndy Mercer Plank after the interview.


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I realized I haven't published a recipe in months and there's really no excuse for that. I prepared a lot of favorite dishes over the summer but never got around to photographing any of them. I'll just blame the general laziness of summer. I made homemade garlic hummus and grilled artichokes with lemon aioli and other 'sounds kinda fancy but really so simple' dishes and I really do have to be better about sharing.
So yesterday, I was craving one of my favorite comfort foods and I made it and I photographed it and oh my it was completely divine and satisfied my comfort food craving. My taste buds were in heaven but my waistline is a little annoyed – there is an ongoing battle between them you know.
Now that fall has arrived I'm sure you've got a few great comfort food recipes to share so let's have a party, mkay? Next Tuesday, right here.
Bring your favorite comfort food recipe to the Link Party on Tuesday and then we'll all take a nap afterward because that's the whole point of making these recipes, right?
Can't wait to see what you cook up!


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When I heard Nelson Mandela was dead I was in my car, just about to leave the grocery-store parking lot. I sat there for a few minutes and watched the news stream on my phone turn solid Madiba. And thought about what this man had meant to me, and so very many like me, and unlike me, and what his having been on this planet, and leaving it, will mean to us.
He is the last of the giants of the 20th century, often mentioned alongside Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. Like them, he fought and won great battles. Unlike them, he lived to see the world he came up in utterly changed. In doing so he became one of the most profoundly unifying figures of our time, or any time. His appeal crosses all party lines, from left to right; all political persuasions, from libertarian to communist; all races; all creeds. As he goes to his rest, aged 95, it's worth asking ourselves, again, how he did that.
Of course I never met Mandela. In the mid-1980s, like many students, I was taken with the battle against apartheid in South Africa. I read about him and Steve Biko and followed the shifts globally as the Commonwealth, led by Martin Brian Mulroney of Canada, ably aided by his UN appointee, Stephen Lewis, and dogged by the redoubtable Margaret Thatcher, wheeled to deal with this abscess in their midst. Eventually, economic sanctions were imposed. It was one of Mulroney's finest moments, perhaps his finest moment, as prime minister of Canada.
When Mandela was finally released from prison in 1990, following lengthy negotiations with the South African government that were kept secret even from his closest confidants, the world held its breath. South Africa at the time, as Mandela recounts in his autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom, was a powder keg. Tribal violence threatened to devolve into full-blown civil war. There were fears of reprisals, land seizures, the whole sad panoply of disintegration that had beset other African nations in which freedom movements had come to power.
Instead, Mandela forgave – as he had always forgiven his jailers, while digging lime on Robben Island. No one else could have pulled it off: Such was Mandela's stature as a founding father of the South African revolution, as the founder of the ANC's armed wing in 1961, as the man imprisoned for 27 years because of his belief in democracy and freedom for his people, that he did. He had the very rare gift of compassion with strength – or strength, with compassion – that makes a truly great leader.
His life story is a masterpiece; required reading. From it emerges a portrait, never grandiose, never self-flattering, of a man with an astonishing work ethic and physical resilience. Mandela loved boxing and athletics of all kinds; he loved books and the study of law. He was a devout Methodist; a devotee of Westminster-style parliamentary tradition; and a fervent admirer of Winston Churchill. He was never, temperamentally, a rabble-rouser or rebel. He was pushed, as the autobiography makes clear, reluctantly at every step of the way, towards greatness. His ambition was immense, but a good deal of that was directed inward. In his cell he studied, wrote and did push-ups. He constantly set goals for himself. The humiliations and abasements he endured and opposed without rancor – not because he was comfortable being a victim, but because he believed that to harbour hatred would damage and destroy him.
Can anyone be that perfect? Mandela never claims perfection or anything close to it. In fact the dominant recurring sub-text of his story is regret – that in choosing a life of political struggle, he was not present for his wife and children. That sentiment surfaces again and again. He wrote large sections of the book on Robben Island (at one point cutting the manuscript into pieces and burying bits of it around the prison yard, to prevent its discovery.) This sadness shines through in his unadorned, elegant, very clear prose.
In the summer of 1995, I happened to be in the U.K. on a fellowship, with a group of journalists from across the Commonwealth, many from central and southern Africa. We sat in a pub in London and watched South Africa defeat New Zealand's famed All-Blacks in the Rugby World Cup. It was a stunning upset – one that made my Kiwi colleague, Grant Bradley, cry, and my South African colleague, Charon Chetty, weep with joy. Many in the pub were weeping, in fact: It was the ultimate symbol of South Africa's triumph, Mandela's triumph, the greatness of his spirit, that he could don the jersey of an Afrikaner team, playing an Afrikaner sport, and become the magic that led them to victory. Invictus, the movie is called, Latin for unconquered. "In the fell clutch of circumstance," reads a verse of the poem by William Henley, "I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance, my head is bloody, but unbowed."
Not only unbowed: Under the crushing pressure of hatred and hardship, privation and long struggle, Mandela's spirit grew. That is his extraordinary example. That is his transcendent life. And that is why today, I think, so many who might normally disagree about so much, are sad and grateful, together.


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Former White House staffer Omarosa Manigault-Newman got closer to telling more about her experiences in the White House, saying that she was "haunted" by President Donald Trump's tweets "every single day."
On the second episode of "Celebrity Big Brother," housemate Manigault-Newman broke down and talked about her time as a member of Trump's administration, which she exited in December 2017. Two months later, the former "Apprentice" star is now appearing as part of another reality cast.
When fellow housemate and E! News Correspondent Ross Matthews asked why Manigault-Newman went to the White House with Trump she said, "I felt like it was a call to duty. I felt like I was serving my country, not serving him."
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With tears in her eyes and speaking in a whispered voice, Manigault-Newman talked about how Trump's tweets had affected her.
"I was haunted by tweets every single day," she said. "Like, what is he going to tweet next?"
Manigault-Newman said she tried to be the person to approach Trump and voice her worries, but "all of the people around him attacked" her. "It was like keep her away, don't give her access, don't let her talk to him," she said.
Manigault-Newman has pushed back against reports that she was fired. She appeared on "Good Morning America" in December to talk about her exit, saying she resigned after sharing some of her concerns with White House chief of staff John Kelly.
On "Celebrity Big Brother," the former communications director for the Office of Public Liaison went as far as saying, "It's not my circus, not my monkeys," explaining she has no more power in the White House.
But she added: "I'd like to say not my problem, but I can't say that because it's bad."
The most dramatic part of the clip comes when Mathews asked, "Should we be worried?" Manigault nodded. When he said he wants her to tell him it's going to be OK, she said, "No, it's gonna not be OK. It's not."
She looked down as she added, "It's so bad."
In a White House press conference Thursday, Press Secretary Raj Shah responded to the clip by reminding viewers Manigault-Newman "was fired three times on 'The Apprentice' and this was the fourth time we had to let her go. She had limited contact with the president while here. She has no contact now."
This season of "Celebrity Big Brother" has 13 episodes shown in 13 days over a course of three weeks. The premise of the show revolves around celebrities, called housemates, in a residence isolated from the outside world. The housemates are then voted out periodically. The winner of the show wins a sum of money that it is typically donated to a charity.


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Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Panna cotta is a dessert that I actually make quite often, even if I've only blogged about it once (Vanilla panna cotta with roasted rhubarb, back in June 2008). It's a good classic Italian dessert that can be served with a number of various toppings and seasoned to your liking.
Here's a rather non-Italian version that is imminently suitable for the festive season. It has a hint of spice in the form of cardamom, and it's much lighter, as some of the cream has been substituted with kefir. Sea-buckthorn berries are one of the new superfoods, and hugely popular and easily available in Estonia. A word of warning - if you taste the panna cotta mixture before you let it set, it may feel too heavy on cardamom. Don't panic, however - the sweet and sour apricot and sea-buckthorn sauce will nicely balance it out.
I like my panna cotta to be on the wobbly side, as they're supposed to be, and I often serve them in a nice glass. If you want a firmer dessert that will hold its shape even after you've turned it onto a plate, you can use some more gelatine.
Cardamom panna cotta with apricot and sea-buckthorn sauce
(Kardemonine kooretarretis aprikoosi-astelpajulisandiga)
Adapted from the Swedish COOP-website
Serves 4
3 gelatine leaves
200 ml whipping cream
2 Tbsp caster sugar
1 tsp ground cardamom
200 ml kefir
100 ml (7 Tbsp) smooth apricot jam
100 ml (7 Tbsp) sea-buckthorn berries
Seak the gelatine leaves in cold water for 5 minutes.
Season the cream with ground cardamom, then slowly bring into a boil in a small saucepan. Cook for a few minutes, then remove from the heat and pour in the kefir. Give it a stir.
Squeeze the soaked gelatine leaves to remove excess water, then stir and melt into the cream and kefir mixture, one at a time.
Pour the mixture into individual glasses or ramekins and place into a fridge to set for at least 5 hours.
Before serving, heat the apricot jam gently in a small saucepan. Fold in the sea-buckthorn berries, heat through. Cool a little, then spoon some on top of each panna cotta.
3 comments:
- szilla said...
Small sunshine in the dark winter thanks to the beautiful colour of the fruits :) Kefir is a very good idea, I usually use yogurt to make it 'lighter', but will try the kefir next time for sure...
- 4:40 pm, December 28, 2011
- szilla said...
I have warmed up this cold evening with some egg-liqueur in muffin :)
- 8:52 pm, December 28, 2011
- Scott at Real Epicurean said...
Sea Buckthorn is a great touch! I made gin and vinegar with it this year - the gin tastes delicious but the vinegar is *too* acidic.
This looks like a great use of its sharpness.
- 2:29 pm, December 29, 2011
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