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Right-wing media dishonestly reacted to Secretary of State John Kerry's signature to the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) by promoting the National Rifle Association's conspiracy theory that the treaty -- which aims to stem the flow of weapons to human rights abusers -- would threaten gun rights and require the United States to create a civilian gun registry.
In fact, the treaty only regulates the international trade of arms and explicitly affirms the right of a nation to regulate domestic firearm ownership "pursuant to its own legal or constitutional system." As the American Bar Association noted in an analysis that found the treaty to be consistent with the Second Amendment, "the treaty would not require new domestic regulations of firearms."
Still, Fox News continued its checkered coverage of the ATT, promoting baseless conspiracy theories about the treaty.
On September 25, Fox host Heather Nauert reported on Fox & Friends that "gun supporters are opposing part of [the ATT] because it requires the United States government to adopt a new civilian gun tracking system, and that could sidestep the Second Amendment":
THE UNITED NATIONS -- On the day the Arms Trade Treaty was scheduled to face a consensus vote by 193 countries, ending the years-long process to establish an international agreement to curtail arms trafficking to nations torn by conflict, I listened to a member of the Liberian delegation explain his country's concerns. "We wanted a much tighter treaty," he said, referring the large group of African countries most affected by the global black market arms trade. "Those of us who live in countries devastated by civil war very clearly understand the need for a strong regulatory framework to deter non-state actors from getting weapons. This is why we wanted a mechanism for risk-assessment, and why we wanted penalties."
Without the view from Liberia, it's hard to understand yesterday's headlines about the General Assembly's approval of the treaty. Which is why during two weeks of negotiations last month, African delegations could often be seen chatting with media from around the world. On the last day of the conference especially, the North Lawn building buzzed with reporters seeking perspectives. There were Russian and Arab TV crews, Japanese magazine journalists, and writers from at least half a dozen African publications. The U.S. media presence, hailing from the world's largest arms exporter, was harder to find. Which is to say, it was nearly impossible to find.
In two weeks of commingling with ATT delegates and observers, the only American reporters I met were Ginny Simone, the face of NRA News, and Richard Johnson, a freelancer who has covered the U.N. since Brezhnev, most recently for an obscure website called South-South News. "In terms of media, it's gotten pretty sleepy around here," said Johnson, before recounting the glory days of the 1970s. "Now it's more about Twitter than press conferences. The institutional media only flocks when North Korea does something, or there's drama in the Security Council."
This lack of media presence was reflected in the pages of the nation's largest newspapers, which largely ignored the treaty negotiations. The Washington Post was a no-show. So was The Wall Street Journal. The Los Angeles Times reported from the West Coast on a State Department press release and published a story on the treaty's passage credited to "Times Staff and Wire Reports."
Lapping the field, The New York Times published three full-length reports with a U.N. dateline, two news briefs, and a table-setting piece at the start of the treaty conference. The paper benefits from investing in a full-time UN beat reporter, Neil MacFarquhar, as well as a New York-based foreign desk writer who covers the body, Rick Gladstone; the LA Times, by contrast, dispatches a New York-based reporter when they deem it necessary.
None of the major broadcast networks appear to have found the treaty worthy of even a passing mention on their airwaves. Nor did CNN, the cable network historically most interested in world news. The only major cable news channel to show up was Fox News, which relied so heavily on NRA talking points for its anti-treaty coverage that the dishes on its sat-truck outside the UN gate reminded one of turrets on an enemy tank.
The dearth of media interest runs counter to the last month's historic events, as the U.N. finally capped two decades of study groups and negotiations spanning most of the continents. On Tuesday 154 countries defied the National Rifle Association and voted yea on a treaty with aspirations to do for global arms flows what a similar majority of Americans wants done for the domestic gun market: put regulations in place to stop zealots, criminals, and terrorists from acquiring weapons and wreaking havoc. The resulting treaty is not perfect, but represents what advocates call a crucial first step in staunching the flood of lethal weapons to conflict sites around the world.
National Rifle Association News investigative reporter Ginny Simone suggested that the NRA may have influenced Iran's attempt to block the enactment of the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty.
Simone's claim that that Iran "all but came out and named the NRA" during a speech against the treaty on March 28 comes as a number of commentators and news outlets are noting that the few opponents of the Arms Trade Treaty include Iran, North Korea, Syria and the NRA.
On March 28, after a week of negotiations on a treaty with the stated aim of preventing the diversion of weapons to human rights abusers, Iran, Syria and North Korea made a last minute move to block a vote to adopt the treaty. The treaty could still be adopted at a later date by a vote of the U.N. General Assembly.
In covering these developments, Carol Giacomo, a foreign affairs expert and member of The New York Times' editorial board, noted that the NRA joins rogue nations in its opposition to the treaty:
But the conclusion reached on Thursday was stark: On one side, opposing the new pact, were three of the world's pariah states - Syria, Iran and North Korea. On the other side, favoring the new pact, was ... everybody else.
The opposition included the conservative Heritage Foundation and the National Gun Rifle Association. As usual they ginned up dark visions of how any limits on conventional arms sales would deprive Americans of their weapons, which is totally false: The Obama administration bent over backwards to make sure the treaty excluded domestic sales and, in any event, as the American Bar Association affirmed, the treaty did not and could not infringe on Americans' constitutionally-guaranteed Second Amendment Rights.
The NRA and its lobbying arm, the NRA Institute for Legislative Action, have so far remained silent on the negotiation outcome - even though the NRA fiercely lobbied against the adoption of the treaty during negotiations. On July 27, 2012, the day a previous round of negotiations stalled, the NRA issued a celebratory press release that took credit for "killing the U.N. ATT."
Simone, however, addressed the most recent developments during the March 28 edition of the NRA News' Cam & Company show on the Sportsman Channel:
SIMONE: You know earlier today everybody said, "We're pretty sure it's gonna pass." They were saying earlier on that maybe there be problems with India. But it looks like that's been ironed out. And then all of a sudden right after lunch they came back and said it looks like there's problems with Iran. And then more we started talking to people the more the list got longer to include North Korea and Syria. And it was really interesting, Iran's statement. They all but came out and named the NRA, Cam. They said it didn't like the treaty because it favored the constitutional protection of gun ownership for one country. It didn't name the country. You got to be sure they were talking about the U.S.
The National Rifle Association's fearmongering over the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty has reached a zenith, with its media representatives claiming that passing the treaty would result in "192 other countries to tell[ing] us what our gun control laws ought to be," while not passing the treaty would result in "even more of a threat when it comes to our Second Amendment."
Negotiations are currently taking place on the treaty, which aims to prevent the diversion of weapons to human-rights abusers in order to reduce the estimated 500,000 deaths that occur worldwide each year as a result of armed violence.
While the NRA routinely trumpets - and fundraises off of - the baseless conspiracy that the treaty is actually an Obama administration plot to disarm Americans, the text of the treaty proposal plainly states that it seeks to regulate the international trade in arms and not nations' domestic gun policies. Far from meddling in America's domestic gun affairs as the NRA claims, the treaty actually seeks to implement on an international scale arms trade standards already in place in the United States.
The latest claims from the NRA on the treaty came during the March 19 edition of the NRA's Cam & Company show on the Sportsman Channel when NRA News investigative journalist Ginny Simone interviewed Fox News contributor and NRA advisor John Bolton. During that interview, Bolton and Simone suggested that while it would be a disaster for the Second Amendment if the treaty were enacted, it would be even worse if it wasn't.
SIMONE: But you know John, they claim this is the final conference. So here's a what if. What if it doesn't get by this conference? And what if it doesn't get by the General Assembly and the U.N. decides, or the countries, the member states at the U.N., decide to go outside? Is that even more of a threat when it comes to our Second Amendment?
BOLTON: Well I think it is. And it actually allows more freedom for those who have an international control agenda to pursue.
The latest cover story from the National Rifle Association magazine America's 1st Freedom pushes a baseless conspiracy that a proposed United Nations treaty to prevent the diversion of weapons to human rights abusers will be used by "the minions of tyrannical and thieving governments" to achieve "total disarmament of freedom-loving people all over the world."
In reality, the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) seeks to address the fact that as many as 500,000 people are killed in armed violence each year worldwide by implementing -- on an international scale -- arms trade standards that are already used in the United States.
The piece, titled "Siege," was authored by gun advocate David Kopel and shares pages in the February 2013 edition of America's 1st Freedom with an unhinged article by NRA executive vice president Wayne LaPierre that calls upon Americans to buy firearms to ensure their "survival."
Despite Kopel's claim that U.N. officials will deviously interpret the ATT to disarm civilian populations and ultimately "destroy much of what remains of lawful gun ownership," the treaty explicitly disallows such interference by the U.N. in the sovereign affairs of nations. The latest draft of the ATT expressly prohibits the imposition of domestic firearms regulations upon parties to the treaty by "[r]eaffirming the sovereign right and responsibility of any State to regulate and control transfers of conventional arms that take place exclusively within its territory, pursuant to its own legal or constitutional systems."
National Rifle Association president David Keene made a February 16 appearance on conspiracy theorist Gary Franchi's television show as part of his media tour to oppose strengthening gun laws. Franchi is involved in the 9/11 Truth movement and believes the government is secretly building FEMA concentration camps that will be used to round up American citizens.
Franchi interviewed Keene about his belief that President Obama may use the Newtown school massacre to aid in the passage of the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty.
Franchi is a well-known and avid conspiracy theorist. During the 2012 election cycle, Franchi was the head of Revolution PAC, a pro-Ron Paul group. He made headlines when NBC News reported on his extensive history of promoting outlandish conspiracy theories.
As explained by NBC, Franchi was the founder of the Lone Lantern Society, a group that supports "'the birth of freedom and the death of the New World Order,' a secretive elite that is supposedly trying to set up a world government." The Lone Lantern held numerous demonstrations calling for a new investigation of 9-11.
In a 2008 interview with former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge, Franchi asked if Ridge endorsed the idea of a "new investigation for 9-11" based on the idea that there may have been a "controlled demolition of the World Trade Center." (During the conversation, Franchi also asks Ridge about the "North American Union," the conspiracy that the governments of America, Canada, and Mexico are secretly planning to merge; a hypothetical North American currency union; and whether he is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Bilderberg Group, the Trilateral Commission, and the Bohemian Grove.)
Franchi has also repeatedly endorsed the paranoid conspiracy that the government has been building FEMA concentration camps to imprison political opponents. He produced two separate documentaries on the subject, titled Camp FEMA: American Lockdown and Enemy of the State: Camp FEMA Part 2.
According to a 2010 report by the Southern Poverty Law Center, Franchi was a "regular speaker at Patriot conferences, offering a familiar diet of fears of globalist plotters," warning against a cabal of bankers and elite organizations that secretly control governments.
A November 19 article in The Hill repeated the false claim that the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty -- a proposal to crack down on the supply of weapons to human rights abusers -- poses a threat to private gun ownership in the United States.
In a piece that relied entirely on a House Resolution filed in opposition to the ATT, Hill reporter Pete Kasperowicz also credulously repeated suggestions that the treaty could impact assistance to Israel and Taiwan. In fact, both of these claims are contradicted by the text of the proposed treaty itself and by basic United Nations procedure.
Throughout the entire article, Kasperowicz does not cite any authorities to provide deeper context for the ATT, relying instead on the text of the House Resolution filed by Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA), which is quoted at length. From The Hill:
The resolution, whose main sponsor is Rep. Mike Kelly (R-Pa.), argues that the ATT does not recognize the right of American citizens to keep and bear arms, and thus threatens to undermine the Second Amendment of the Constitution.
The ATT's draft preamble clearly "reaffirm[s] the sovereign right and responsibility of any State to regulate and control transfers of conventional arms that take place exclusively within its territory, pursuant to its own legal or constitutional systems." Furthermore, the Department of State has also declared that the United States will oppose any final treaty that contains "restrictions on civilian possession or trade of firearms otherwise permitted by law or protected by the U.S. Constitution."
The right-leaning Heritage Foundation has thrown cold water on the revival a conspiracy theory pushed on Fox News by contributor Dick Morris and the National Rifle Association that the United Nation's Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) is actually a sinister Obama administration plot to eliminate the right of private individuals to own a firearm.
During a Heritage Blogger Briefing, senior research fellow Ted Bromund stated, "I don't think that the ATT is a gun confiscation measure for a variety of reasons. First, because I don't regard that as within the bounds of possibility in the United States and secondly, because that is not what the text says."
Bromund's assessment is correct. The stated goal of the treaty is to regulate the international trade of firearms in order to prevent the diversion of arms to human rights abusers, and the most recent version of the treaty's text expressly prohibits the regulation of firearm ownership within sovereign nations.
The preamble of the July 26 treaty draft clearly "reaffirm[s] the sovereign right and responsibility of any State to regulate and control transfers of conventional arms that take place exclusively within its territory, pursuant to its own legal or constitutional system." Furthermore, the Department of State has stated that it will oppose any treaty that contains "restrictions on civilian possession or trade of firearms otherwise permitted by law or protected by the U.S. Constitution."
Despite convincing evidence that the treaty seeks only to regulate international trade -- and that any treaty limiting rights granted by the United States Constitution would be considered invalid -- the conspiracy theory persists. Morris, who has pushed theory on Fox News, and NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre, both dedicated space in their latest books to advance the claim.
The Associated Press and CNN recently debunked an op-ed featured at The Daily Caller that suggested a recent ammunition purchase by the Social Security Administration evidenced an Obama plot to kill American citizens en masse. The bizarre theory is hardly the first conspiratorial idea to be promoted on the opinion page of The Daily Caller.
For months the National Rifle Association and Fox News have been pushing the fringe conspiracy theory that a proposed United Nations Arms Trade Treaty puts Second Amendment rights at risk. Now Mitt Romney is bringing that claim to the presidential campaign, parroting it on the stump.
As ThinkProgress reported, during a town hall event in Ohio yesterday, Romney said:
ROMNEY: Turning to the United Nations to tell us how to raise our kids, or whether we can have the Second Amendment rights that our Constitution gave us, I mean, that is the wrong way to go, right? Do not cede sovereignty. I'm happy to talk there. I'm not willing to give American sovereignty in any way, shape or form to the United Nations or any other body. We are a free nation. We fought for freedom and independence. We are going to keep freedom and independence.
But contrary to the conspiracy spun by the NRA and Fox and now repeated by Romney, the ATT only seeks to regulate the international import and export of conventional and small arms, and is not aimed at domestic gun regulation governed by U.S. sovereignty. Furthermore, the U.S. Department of State has stated that it will not enter into any treaty that contains "restrictions on civilian possession or trade of firearms otherwise permitted by law or protected by the U.S. Constitution. There will be no dilution or diminishing of sovereign control over issues involving the private acquisition, ownership, or possession of firearms, which must remain matters of domestic law."
The idea that the United Nations can determine "whether we can have the Second Amendment rights that our Constitution gave us" germinated at the National Rifle Association in the mid-1990s when CEO Wayne LaPierre began to speciously warn of "global gun grabbers."
But despite an utter lack of explanation by its pushers about how the U.N. could use a treaty to trump the United States Constitution, the conspiracy has survived over the years and has reached its zenith as ATT negotiations are finalized.
In the first week after negotiations began on July 2, Fox News featured seven appearances by opponents of the treaty compared to zero appearances by proponents. Instead of offering a cogent critique of the ATT, each guest has instead delved into conspiracy theory. Indeed, there are stark similarities between Romney's Wednesday warning and the commentary of Fox News contributor Dick Morris who claimed on July 5 that the ATT "will take the gun control issue away from the Congress and give it to the United Nations as part of an international treaty."
Romney's ATT comments were not the first time that Fox News served as the conduit between factually vacant right wing theories and the Republican presidential campaign. On Monday, Fox News deceptively edited and then hysterically promoted comments made by President Obama about small business owners. The false narrative found its way into Romney's campaign by Tuesday afternoon.
THE UNITED NATIONS -- It was during one of several extended delays on day five of the Arms Trade Treaty talks that the chief of the British delegation, a jovial veteran diplomat named Jo Adamson, turned to me and wanted to know if I'd ever watched The Benny Hill Show.
"You know the musical theme when Benny gets chased around by the police and they speed up the film?" she asked. "I want to make a video of that song playing over Tuesday's scene of musical chairs."
The idea was a happy diplomatic warrior's response to the comedic low-point of the negotiations' disastrous first week, in which 193 national delegations, eager to begin a long-planned attempt at regulating the global conventional arms trade, were forced to choreograph a globe-spanning seating shift to accommodate two Palestinian observers, debate over whose status had made a train wreck of the agenda and preempted the speeches of several foreign ministers in town for the opening session. Adamson wasn't the only UN diplomat with experience taking such chaos in stride. Anyone who has been around Turtle Bay and Geneva long enough knows the ATT won't be the last UN effort to strengthen global security to be threatened by soul sucking stretches of procedural purgatory.
The fact that the ATT conference's first week lent itself so easily to Benny Hill spoofs is a good place to begin considering the massive gulf separating the actual treaty being negotiated by consensus at the UN this month, and the Iran-directed Second Amendment-eating Golem of conservative imagination. The hysterical screeching of so much right-wing opposition to the ATT is the product of many things, but direct experience with the inner workings of the UN system does not appear to be among them.
"Everyone who has spent any time here knows we're lucky if we can get a time frame for debate worked out," said Robert Zuber of Global Action to Prevent War, who has 20 years experience with the UN and supports the passage of a treaty. "This idea that a UN treaty concerning international arms flows could somehow override the Constitution or the Supreme Court, this idea that it will lead to UN police marching down the streets taking people's guns away -- everyone here knows it's beyond ludicrous."
That the ATT is no opening salvo in a global gun-grab -- a charge made in various forms recently by National Rifle Association CEO Wayne LaPierre, The Washington Times, Dick Morris, and a number of others appearing on Fox News -- does not mean the talks are without stakes. National delegations and NGOs are gathered in New York through July 27 to address a lack of common international standards guiding the import, export, and transfer of conventional arms and munitions. As Amnesty International activists have dramatized by handing out bananas in Times and Trafalgar Squares, more rules govern the inter-state trade of fruits and vegetables than tanks and machine guns. Just over 50 nations regulate international arms dealers inside their territory according to the Arms Control Association; only half of those have any sort of penalties for breaking national laws. ATT proponents maintain that a treaty is the first step in shrinking the booming international black and grey market arms trade that fuels civil conflicts, arms warlords and criminal syndicates, and facilitates the breaking of arms embargos. According to an Oxfam report, countries operating under arms embargoes have succeeded in importing more than $2.2 billion worth of arms and ammunition since 2000.
The Obama administration is a relatively conservative actor on the ATT spectrum, and its reversal of the previous government's rejection of the ATT was predicated on the final treaty language being approved by consensus. U.S. presence at the conference is supported by major human rights and development NGOs, leading U.S. defense contractors, active and retired senior military staff, and a number of civic and religious groups such as the National Council of Churches.
Among the array of U.S. civil society and industry groups involved in the ATT process, the National Rifle Association has distinguished itself by issuing a decade-long stream of misinformation that has clouded Americans' understanding of the issues. It is a pattern of willful obfuscation that has defined the gun group's posture as an international actor since before plans for the talks were announced under the Bush Administration. Indeed, the rebirth of the NRA as a profitable organization following its brush with bankruptcy in the mid-90s tracks closely with the history of UN activity around the illicit trade in small arms and light weapons.
The right-wing media spent Wednesday stoking fears about the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) following reports that Iran was selected to serve on the 15-nation "Bureau/General Committee" of states during the treaty negotiations. Curiously, the same news organizations that engaged in Iran fearmongering have also uncritically promoted the National Rifle Association's opposition to the treaty. In fact, the positions of Iran and the National Rifle Association on the Arms Trade Treaty are remarkably similar: Both entities oppose a treaty that regulates the international import and export of small arms.
According to the United Nations, "Bureau" states will "assist the President in the general conduct of the business of the Conference and, subject to the decisions of the Conference, shall ensure the coordination of its work." Considering that Iran's and other "Bureau" members' conduct will be "subject to the decisions of the Conference," it hardly appears that Iran would be able to single-handily hijack negotiations.
Whatever role Iran plays in the negotiations, the ATT will not lead to domestic regulation of firearms in the United States -- as the NRA vacuously warns -- because the United States will not agree to a finalized treaty that places "restrictions on civilian possession or trade of firearms otherwise permitted by law or protected by the U.S. Constitution."
But the opportunity to include Iran in fearmongering surrounding the treaty was too much for the right-wing media to pass up.
The National Rifle Association, an organization with a well-documented history of baseless fearmongering, may have outdone itself with the release of a new fundraising video series that features hysterical depictions of current events. Whether it is the threat of Mexican drug cartel violence in the United States, the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty negotiations, or even civil unrest that occurred in England in 2011, the NRA wants you to be scared and send cash fast. After all, warns Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre, "everything we love about America, all the freedoms our forefathers fought for, all of it is under attack by Barack Obama."
Fox News has featured seven appearances by opponents of a proposed United Nations Arms Trade Treaty since a conference discussing it began on July 2, and none by the treaty's supporters. Treaty backers say it is essential for curtailing the illegal arms trade that keeps guns flowing to human rights abusers.
Even Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly isn't buying National Rifle Association CEO Wayne LaPierre's outrageous claims that a yet to be finalized United Nations treaty to regulate the import and export of small arms worldwide will strip Americans of their Second Amendment rights and cause American citizens "to be added to that pile of dead people left defenseless by the [United Nations'] policies."
The NRA has repeatedly offered such false and conspiratorial claims in response to the treaty, claims which in the past have been echoed on Fox. But during today's interview, Kelly repeatedly pushed back on LaPierre's talking points.
After LaPierre made the false claim that the proposed treaty "says to people in the United States turn over your personal protection and your firearms to the government," Kelly attempted to steer him back to reality by suggesting the treaty is about "global arms sales" not "domestic sales." On multiple occasions she urged him to justify his baseless claims.


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Cooking oil spray (butter flavored) 1-1/2 cups cooked ham, diced 6 cups cooked sweet potatoes 2 eggs, beaten Milk 1-1/2 tablespoons lemon juice 1/2 teaspoon salt
Spray the sides and bottom of a 10-skillet with cooking spray and add the ham. Stir 2 minutes over medium heat until ham has slightly browned. Whip potatoes until smooth, then combine the potatoes with the beaten eggs, milk, lemon juice and salt; again whip thoroughly. Mix potatoes with the browned ham and any pan drippings. Turn the ham and potato mixture into a 2-quart casserole that has been sprayed on the bottom and sides with the cooking spray. Cover and bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes; then remove cover the last 15 minutes. Serve hot to 5.
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A friend of mine showed me this picture. Handy guide to those who wanna know what piracy is. (Don't know who did it in the first place, so sorry for lack of credits. On the other hand, I'm sure he understand that I wasn't stealing the picture, I was just pirating it…)
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allanonmage @Archbob, @Zambani : yep, that's what my professor said too.
@Aw: yeah… I think it's too late to nip that one in the bud…. But you are 100% right. The bank should properly authenticate its users, not the other way around.
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Aw Sargon, There's actually is no such thing as "identity theft". When people say "identity theft" they mean to say "fraud". But "identity theft" makes it seem like it's the person being impersonated's problem, not the bank's problem.
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Jake Birkett LOL @ the fake money idea, good one. I'm gonna start printing it tomorrow.
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Zambani People, you miss the point. In theft, the use of the item or information is no longer available to the original owner.
In piracy, the item is still available to the original owner.
Piracy deprives the owner of controlling how his/her product is used in the market place.
If I sneak into the back of a movie theater without paying and watch a movie, very few would consider that as theft in the normal sense. However, we all know that my actions are still illegal because it deprives the theater owner the right to determine who gets to watch their film. And I'm sure if I pay them they would let me watch.
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Why not? :-) All the problems in the world could be solved if poor families could just print cash when they needed it.
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Warm new potato salad with bacon & blue cheese
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Prep: 10 mins Cook: 40 minsSkill level
Serves 4This French-style main meal salad with roasted new potatoes makes a fabulous lunch
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- 289
- protein
- 11g
- carbs
- 25g
- fat
- 17g
- saturates
- 7g
- fibre
- 0g
- sugar
- 5g
- salt
- 1.65g
- 500g salad potatoes, halved
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 2 red onions, each sliced into 6 wedges
- 4 rashers smoked back bacon, trimmed and cut into large pieces
- 140g mushrooms, sliced
- 1 tbsp wholegrain mustard
- 1 tbsp red wine vinegar
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- Heat oven to 220C/fan 200C/gas 7. Place the potatoes in a roasting tin, then rub with 1 tbsp oil and a sprinkling of salt. Roast for 20 mins, then add the onion wedges to the tin, giving everything a good shake. Roast for 20 mins more until the potatoes have turned a deep golden brown and the onions have caramelised and softened. Leave to cool slightly.
- Heat a non-stick frying pan. Dry-fry the bacon until crisp. Add the sliced mushrooms, then fry for 5 mins more until they have softened.
- Meanwhile, make the dressing. Whisk the mustard, vinegar and remaining 1 tbsp oil with a splash of water. Place potatoes, onions, bacon and mushrooms in a large bowl with the salad leaves, pour over the dressing, then toss well. Divide between 4 plates, then crumble over the blue cheese.
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Had this for dinner last night - used room temp stilton for the cheese, but other than that I kept to the recipe. Really enjoyed the mixture of flavours and textures, the sweetness of the onions off set the creamy stilton, firm smokey mushrooms and salty crunchy bacon perfectly. I found this to be nicely balanced as the potatoes (roasted with very little salt), salad leaves & dressing diluted the saltiness well. Would recommend, will make again and again.
Tried this yesterday and followed the recipe exactly. Its lovely and so easy to do. I tasted it first before adding the cheese, and found it a tad salty so didn't include any cheese in the end.
I think the less salt put in with the potatoes would be better as the bacon is also salty. Will add this recipe to my collection.
This was very tasty but rather salty (maybe less cheese would have helped). Will probably make again though as it was a nice light dinner without feeling like I am just having a bowl of lettuce. I was surprised how well the flavours went together. 3 stars seems a little mean but its not quite at 4 star level - 3.5 stars!
I make this recipe even lower fat by spraying the onions and potatoes with 1 cal spray oil before baking - I bake them together for the full 40 minutes as the onions are more caramalised. I also use a shop bought low fat Honey & Mustard dressing - much easier and really tasty. I mix all the hot ingredients together with a couple of tablespoons of the dressing and pile on top of mixed rocket salad and cherry tomatoes. If you have any left, allow the hot mixture to cool down before adding to salad ingredients and boxing up to take for lunch the next day - it's just as yummy cold. Leave out the cheese if you want a really low fat dish, but a few small sprinkles won't hurt too much - YUMMY!!!
I would've given this a higher mark if it wasn't for the roasted new/salad potatoes. I keep giving them a try but really don't like them so in future will make this with roasted potato & garlic croutons made with maris pipers, or equivalent, or even ciabatta croutons perhaps. Added a tspn of honey to the dressing too to cut through the acidity and doubled the amount of bacon.
Made this exactly according to the recipe and it was DELICIOUS! The combination of flavours worked beautifully and the quantities of each ingredient was just right with no one flavour overpowering the others. A definite winner and a warm salad that I will be making again and again. A perfect light lunch!
As a big fan of warm salads I had high expectations of this one. But, honestly, it seems to me that there were too many flavours. Individually, all the components are lovely, (and the cooking smells of roasting onions and frying bacon were gorgeous!) but with all the other ingredients on the plate, it was a little too much.
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MONTEREY, CA (July 21, 2013) - The Michael Jordan Motorsports team carded another outstanding top-five finish this past weekend during the 2013 AMA Pro National Guard Superbike Championships at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in Monterey, CA. MJM's Danny Eslick raced his Jordan Suzuki GSX-R1000 to an impressive fourth-place result as the U.S.-based series shared the paddock with visiting MotoGP. As a result, the MJM team had shorter practice sessions than normal and only one Superbike race instead of the usual two.
The limited track time did not, however, daunt Jordan Suzuki's Eslick. After qualifying fifth for the weekend, Eslick put his head down at the start of the 23-lap Superbike race. Getting a good start on his Jordan Suzuki GSX-R1000, Eslick turned in a smart, consistent performance to bring home his seventh top-five result of the year.
"This was a really good weekend for us," said Eslick. "We got off to a good start with the first practice session on Friday. I really had a good feeling about my Jordan Suzuki GSX-R1000, which is something I've been struggling with. I was hoping to get on the front row in final qualifying, but that didn't quite work out. But overall, we got a decent start in the race and then I just turned laps out there by myself. It was good to get another top-five finish and now we'll go to Miller and try to get on the podium."
National Guard Jordan Suzuki teammate Roger Hayden started the weekend on an extremely positive note by qualifying a very impressive second. In Sunday's race, he got a great start on his Jordan Suzuki GSX-R1000 and was running in second when bike issues forced him to opt out of the race early.
"It was really a great weekend until we had some bad luck," said Hayden. "The Jordan Suzuki GSX-R1000 felt good and we were quickest in practice on Friday. In the race, I had just pulled into second and I picked up the pace and was pulling away from the other guys pretty fast. But then I started having problems. It's just a bummer because we had a good bike and the Jordan Suzuki team has been working really hard. We'll put this behind us and focus on Miller in two weeks."
In the 600cc classes, National Guard Celtic Racing Suzuki's Corey Alexander brought home his fifth AMA Pro SuperSport podium of the season. Alexander overcame a red-flagged race, turning in a strong performance to finish third. National Guard Celtic Racing Suzuki teammate James Rispoli also had a good weekend, finishing eighth in AMA Pro Daytona SportBike.
"It's been a great weekend," said Alexander. "Hats off to the National Guard Celtic Racing Suzuki team. The guys have been working hard to give me a Suzuki GSX-R600 that's been great all weekend. It was a great race overall and now I just need to come back and be a little more aggressive at Miller."
In the 2013 AMA Pro National Guard Superbike Championship series rider point standings, Eslick moved up to fourth, while Hayden is currently fifth. In AMA Pro Daytona SportBike, Rispoli is fifth, while Alexander leads AMA Pro SuperSport East. The Michael Jordan Motorsports team's next event of the 2013 AMA Pro National Guard Superbike Championship series is at Miller Motorsports Park in Tooele, UT, the weekend of August 2 - 4, 2013.
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Enterprise 2.0: A sea of change
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McAfee coined the term Enterprise 2.0 in his book describing how social networks can help organizations deliver more powerful results.
Speaking at a recent conference with business CIOs, McAfee observed that CIOs spoke of Enterprise 2.0 like it was a "no-brainer." Their challenge now was to get the rest of their workforce behind it.
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CIC Awards in 2014
This is a discussion on CIC Awards in 2014 within the Latest Hunting News forums, part of the Hunting Forums - Main category; CIC Awards in 2014 by Johann-Hendrik Mohr The CIC awards the following prizes: Markhor Award, Edmond Blanc Prize, Photographic Prize, ...
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CIC Awards in 2014
by Johann-Hendrik Mohr
The CIC awards the following prizes: Markhor Award, Edmond Blanc Prize, Photographic Prize, Hunting in Art Prize and the Literature Prize. These prizes have proven to be a valuable instrument to present internationally hunting, the CIC and sustainable use. They also support good hunting practices.
Although all CIC-Prizes are highly valued in the conservation community, the CIC Markhor Award is internationally the most recognized prize. It honors a conservation project of multinational relevance that links the conservation of biodiversity and human livelihoods through application of sustainable use principles.
The CIC Markhor Awards of the recent years have drawn the international attention to the honored projects and the local people involved and makes their conservation success through sustainable use worldwide visable. This is the most important value of the prize. An international jury headed by the CIC president select the winner from the nominated candidates. The award is granted every two years at the occasion of the Conference of Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).
The prize was awarded for the first time in 2008 to the Niassa National Reserve in Mosambique, which is the largest conservation area in the country funded through sustainable hunting tourism and to the Selous-Niassa Wildlife Corridor which links the Niassa Reserve with Tansania's Selous Game Reserve.
In 2010 the prize was handed over in Nagoya, Japan to the Torgar Conservation Program (TCP) of the Society for Torgar Environmental Protection (STEP) in Pakistan. They host the rare Markhor mountain goats, which were saved from near extinction by sustainable hunting tourism. In 2012 the winner came from Africa. The Namibian Communal Conservancies Program was honored with the prize in Hyderabad, India.
The next CIC Markhor Award will be handed to the winner in Seoul, South Korea at the 12th Conference of Parties of CBD October 2014. Next year also the CIC Photographic Prize will be awarded and handed over to the winner during the 2014 General Assembly in Milan, Italy. The Award Selection Criteria will be published in the near future and then the second most important part of the process should start: the search for appropriate candidates.This article first appeared in the bi-monthly e-newsletter of African Indaba. Get a free subscription.
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If I asked you for your ultimate set of maneuvers that shaped the Bobcats roster the day after the NBA Draft, would Ben Gordon, Michael Kidd-Gilchrist and Jeff Taylor be your additions? Not many if any would have said "Yes, please!" Incredibly, the second overall pick wasn't traded, not to any of the 5 teams with standing offers, not to Cleveland for the 4th and 24th or whatever was being offered. The Bobcats stood pat on both of their picks. At press time, Adam Silver is still calling names and it remains to be seen if they trade back in for another second rounder, but it's unlikely.
I'm not as disappointed as many of the regulars to our draft chat. I don't think that Rich Cho took the night off or that Michael Jordan had much of anything except to approve what his front office team had come up with. Michael Kidd-Gilchrist isn't the overall second best player but he might be just what the Bobcats need. All Chad Ford said in his analysis was "Hardest Worker in the draft." He takes pride in his defense and scores enough to seem like he's got some offensive game. But no one will accuse the Bobcats of stealing the draft. This isn't like a Kevin Durant to Greg Oden's Anthony Davis, but the Bobcats got a "character," "motor," guy to play at small forward, which may be exactly what they wanted all along.
The dreams of getting Thomas Robinson at #4 after trading away Gana Diop, Tyrus Thomas and the #2 pick and getting some other pile of goodness were dashed for many. That's what MKG will represent unless he really takes over and impresses fans on a #2 Overall pick level. It won't matter if he lands somewhere in the middle. Those pissed off will be waiting to say "I told you so," those that are happy will be waiting excitedly for Gilchrist to take over the reigns of the team and end up an All-Star. Middle ground here does no one that loves a narrative any good, whatsoever.
I'm happy with the pick, but I question it. Bradley Beal was supposedly the second best available and the one everyone wanted to move up to get, but not bad enough for the Bobcats.
I'm wrestling with what could have been and what is. The trade scenarios that were batted about ever since the lottery made the roster-baters drool. Multiple first rounders?! James Harden?! Getting rid of a bad contract or two?! Who wouldn't want that? But Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, to me, isn't a disappointment. No ticker-tape parades down Tryon street tomorrow, that's for sure. But Bobcats fans shouldn't damn this front office and their decision making. They took the best player that fit exactly what they needed, which is a little bit of everything.
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I took this picture the day after an extraordinarily windy Halloween night. A couple of Sundays prior, my son organized a team of us to clear this path and I wanted to survey any damage done to our work. His gathering us together and traveling 25 miles to complete manual labor on property he doesn't own exemplifies what this land and my mom means to him – what it and she means to us all. There is no way to number the times we hiked this path with her. And on this day after Halloween hike, the sound of my lone feet crunching the blanket of leaves underneath reminds me of her, makes me long for her by my side, hand in hand for support as our feet crunch leaves at a slower more deliberate pace.
It's been almost three months since we lost her. Unbelievable! It seems just yesterday she was helping me raise my son while I worked days I longed to spend with him. But if I had to leave him with someone, she was always first choice. And this land served as his ultimate playground. When technology was on the cusp of overtaking outdoor play for kids, my son romped these hills making paintball forts, camp fires and home videos.
For the time being, I'm fortunate enough to enjoy this land on a daily basis. Ronnie and I sold our house and have moved in with dad. I've left what has been traditional work for me and am spending my days caring for the both of them. I'm blessed that they are in good enough shape to spare me for 30 minutes here and there to walk this path. On this particular day after Halloween hike, I wait for the peace that solitude usually brings, but the rhythm of those dang leaves crunching underfoot breeds memories of her final days and what she endured. I stop and take this picture. In the silence, I push those painful thoughts aside, for I witnessed her suffering first hand and find no comfort in revisiting them. Instead I focus on paintball forts, camp fires, home videos and the unpretentious woman who made it all possible.


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Last month in this space we provided a brief overview of the fats and oils used to prepare foods and what they mean to our bodies. This month we discuss the fun part — how to use them in everyday cooking.
First, determine which fat or oil is best suited for the intended use. Is the purpose of the fat to keep veggies from sticking in a sauté pan or will it provide the "flake" in a great pie crust? Second, decide which flavor is important. Will the fat or oil be central to the flavor of the dish, as in a cold dressing, or would you prefer that the fat add very little flavor to the dish in order to let other ingredients shine?
One basic way to categorize fats and oils to help determine their proper use is based on how, or if, the fat or oil is refined. Naturally refined cooking oils undergo a mechanical (as opposed to chemical) process that generally involves filtering and straining, or heat and pressure, to remove impurities and improve stability. Refined oils have fewer nutrients and less flavor than their unrefined cousins but they also have a higher smoke point and longer shelf life. Naturally refined oils such as safflower, sunflower and peanut are most commonly used for medium high (350-400 degrees) and high heat (400-495 degrees) cooking.
Other cooking oils are unrefined. These "whole" oils maintain their distinctive flavors and tend to have a higher nutritional value, deeper color and more pronounced fragrance. They also generally have a shorter shelf life and lower smoke point than refined oils. They are most commonly used for low (275-325 degrees) and medium heat (325-350 degrees) cooking and for cold applications such as salad dressings.
Cooking with fat involves heat and that is where the "smoke point" comes in to play. When an oil or fat begins to smoke, it starts to degrade and its flavor and nutritional value change. The exact smoke point of any given oil depends upon many factors such as how it was refined, age and storage conditions, so as a cook it is important to know when an oil is reaching its smoke point. In a sauté pan, oil is ready for cooking and just below the smoke point when ripples appear on the surface.
Cooking with fat and oil also involves flavor, since fats both have and carry flavor. Butter tastes rich and creamy, which is great for sauces and gravies. Unrefined extra virgin olive oil usually is bright and fruity, which is perfect for dressings and dipping. Extra-virgin coconut oil, with its heady smell and flavor, is great in curries while refined coconut oil has less flavor and is ideal for many baking applications.
Even with all this information, we are still amateurs. How do professional chefs think about and use fats and oils? For an answer, we asked Gabriel Schuenemann, chef and co-owner of The Alder Wood Bistro in Sequim. Gabriel began by telling us about rice bran oil, which the restaurant recently began using in place of peanut oil for all of its high-heat cooking applications. Rice bran oil is both less potentially allergenic than peanut (very important when cooking for others!) and flavor neutral, while maintaining a higher level of antioxidants and nutrients than many other refined oils. Gabriel also likes to use this oil in dressings, mixed with unrefined extra-virgin olive oil. He explained that since the essence of unrefined oils is so strong, using one-third unrefined and two-thirds "neutral" oil mixture ensures the flavor of the dressing doesn't overwhelm the delicate flavor of the salad.
Gabriel's other piece of advice is that, "People should not be afraid of pork fat." Real lard, produced by rendering pork fat, provides the perfect "flake" in a pie or pastry crust and many people find it to be the very best oil for frying. Natural lard is even healthier than real butter, with about 20 percent less saturated fat and nearly double the amount of mono-unsaturated fat. Gabriel renders his own pork fat, which he is able to do because he worked with a local farmer to obtain this specialty product. The downside to this advice is that Gabriel uses real lard, which is hard to come by.
Unfortunately real lard went out of fashion after the Civil War when Proctor & Gamble decided to market cottonseed oil as Crisco using a new hydrogenation process that utilized toxic chemicals to produce oil in a solid form. Most industrial lard sold by grocery stores today is hydrogenated and full of trans-fats. Real lard is best obtained from a farmer who raises hogs and it still takes work to track down. The good news is that there are farmers on the peninsula who have begun to make "non-industrial" pork and pork products available to individual consumers, a trend we hope to see increase.
So the next time you're pondering oil and fat at the grocery store, remember to avoid the hydrogenated choices and steer toward the unrefined and naturally refined options — your body can tell the difference. Until then, eat well and be well.
Mark Ozias and Lisa Boulware are owners of The Red Rooster Grocery. Reach them at columnists@sequim gazette.com.