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Sexual and reproductive health rights at the heart of gender equality, women's rights and women's empowerment beyond 2015: Lakshmi Puri
Opening remarks by Lakshmi Puri, UN Women Deputy Executive Director, at the 2013 EuroNGOs conference on "Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in the Post-2015 Agenda," on 24 October 2013 in Berlin, Germany.
Date: Thursday, October 24, 2013
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Good morning to you all,
Serge (Rabier), thank you for this introduction. I would like to thank you, as well as the whole EuroNGOs steering committee for inviting me to represent UN Women at this important conference.
Dr. Babatunde, it is always inspiring to hear your speak. I am pleased to join you here today – one more proof of the close partnership that UNFPA and UN Women enjoy as "sisters-in-arms" in the UN System.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
I come here today with warm greetings from our new Executive Director, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka. As you know, she does not only bring to her new position a distinguished political career – having been the Deputy President of South Africa, among other official positions – she is also known as a staunch advocate of sexual and reproductive health and rights. You can count on her and on UN Women to work hand-in-hand with all of you and with UNFPA in pushing this agenda forward.
A defining moment
This conference takes place at a strategic moment. The weeks and months ahead will be crucial for the elaboration of the post-2015 development agenda. More than ever, we need to come together as a community of advocates to ensure that gender equality, women's rights and women's empowerment are central to the new framework.
There have been many affirmations of the centrality of gender equality and women's empowerment to sustainable development. The Rio+20 outcome document, the report of the High-level Panel of Eminent Persons, the UNDG report "A Million Voices", among others, have all emphasized the importance of a strong focus on gender equality.
We are encouraged by these affirmations. But as the discussion moves into the intergovernmental arena, we need these many voices of support to be heard loud and clear by governments around the world. UN Women has been, and will continue to be, fully engaged in these processes.
Stand-alone gender equality goal
We are calling for a stand-alone gender equality goal and mainstreaming of gender perspectives in all other goals. The stand-alone goal needs to address the structural causes of discrimination and should tackle three core areas.
First, violence against women and girls must stop. Targets and indicators must address prevention, protection, prosecution and provision of services, but should also aim to change perceptions, attitudes and behaviours that condone and justify violence against women and girls.
Second, women and girls must have equal access to resources and opportunities. The skewed distribution of capabilities needs to be addressed with urgency to build women's economic and social security. This must include efforts to promote decent work, reduce women's time burdens, and provide access to health and education, energy, water and sanitation, as well as control over land and productive assets.
The third area we propose should encompass voice, leadership and participation. It should go beyond women's participation in national parliaments to include participation in public institutions at local and regional levels. Promoting equal decision-making in households and women's leadership in the private sector are equally important, as well as women's opportunities to engage in collective action.
Our proposed gender equality goal is grounded in existing government commitments. The targets and indicators we propose are in line with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, CEDAW, as well as the Beijing Platform for Action and of course the ICPD Programme of Action. We have also reflected recent gains, such as elements of the agreed conclusions of this year's session of the Commission on the Status of Women.
SRHR and the gender equality goal
Ensuring sexual and reproductive health and realizing reproductive rights is an integral part of these guiding documents and, therefore, of our proposed stand-alone goal. As we know, there is an inextricable link between sexual and reproductive health and rights and gender equality and women's empowerment.
This is clearly stated in CEDAW, which devotes major attention to reproductive rights. The link between discrimination and women's reproductive role is recurrent in the Convention. It also affirms women's right to reproductive choice. This has been reaffirmed in ICPD as well as in Beijing which also states women's right to "decide freely and responsibly on matters related to their sexuality […] free of coercion, discrimination and violence".
There is no doubt that the post-2015 development framework must recognize that the lack of control that women and girls have over their own bodies and sexualities is an egregious violation of their rights. It also accounts for some of the biggest constraints to achieving their rights and capabilities in other areas.
Sexual and reproductive health is one of the most transformative elements for the achievement of sustainable development in its three dimensions – economic, social and environmental. It has been included as an element of the High-Level Panel report.
Indeed, family planning has been a game-changer in the history of women's empowerment. Reproductive choices in the private sphere have enabled women to play a greater productive role in the public sphere.
Yet today, sexual and reproductive health still eludes too many women and girls. Every day, 800 women die from causes related to childbirth and pregnancy. More than 200 million women want—but lack access to—effective contraception. From Niger to Afghanistan, from Bangladesh to Tajikistan, girls continue to be forced to marry against their will – a clear violation of their reproductive rights and a devastating form of violence.
Accessibility, affordability, sustainability, quality, accountability, and availability of sexual and reproductive health throughout the life cycle without discrimination continue to be major issues. In addition, harmful traditional practices and the misinterpretation and misuse of traditions, customs and religion continue to hold back progress.
Lack of access to sexual and reproductive health contributes to gender inequalities, to discrimination, to violence and to disempowerment.
Many factors affect sexual and reproductive health outcomes—from women's level of education to women's participation in the labour market and in parliament. We need to address and promote them simultaneously.
Yes, we need to strengthen health systems. We need comprehensive sexuality education. We need gender-responsive and rights-based healthcare. But we also need to improve the legal and justice system, the education system, the political system, and the labour market and financial system to deliver for women and girls. This also entails re-thinking macroeconomic and social protection policies for women throughout the life cycle to take into account their reproductive role and the unequal and unpaid care burden disproportionately borne by women and girls.
Key processes ahead
To push this agenda forward, we need a systematic and coordinated effort from all of us. I see three key interlinked processes that we must influence and leverage.
First, intergovernmental processes to define the post-2015 development agenda are already underway. The Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals has been meeting and UN Women is part of the UN Task Team providing technical support to the Group. As the Group prepares to discuss gender equality in February, we must step up our engagement and advocacy for our stand-alone goal. We must also prepare for other intergovernmental processes that will unfold in the months to come.
Second, the next session of the Commission on the Status of Women in March 2014 will examine "challenges and achievements in the implementation of the MDGs for women and girls." This will be a critical opportunity to look both backward and forward – at achievements and gaps of the MDGs and also at how these gaps can be addressed in a new framework.
Third, 2015 will not only mark the deadline for the achievement of the MDGs and the start of our new development agenda. It will also mark the 20-year anniversary of the Beijing Platform for Action. Twenty years after its adoption, the normative force of the Platform for Action remains a highly relevant blueprint for the achievement of gender equality.
Beijing+20 will involve political, social, substantive and resource mobilization, as well as generation of a new momentum and commitment from the national and regional to the global level.
Comprehensive national-level reviews will feed into regional reviews in 2014. The process will culminate in March 2015, when the Commission on the Status of Women will undertake its review and appraisal of the implementation of the Platform. This review will examine current challenges that affect implementation and address opportunities for strengthening gender equality and the empowerment of women in the post-2015 development agenda.
UN Women will be playing a key role in coordinating Beijing+20 and in mobilizing governments, civil society, the United Nations system, the private sector, and other stakeholders. We intend to give strong visibility to Beijing+20 through a dynamic, forward-looking and engaging process.
We will put gender equality and women's empowerment at the top of the global agenda. Starting at CSW in 2014, we will focus every month on a specific critical area of concern of the Platform. We will bring together governments, civil society and other partners to recapture the "spirit of Beijing".
The interlinked processes of Beijing+20 and the elaboration of the post-2015 development agenda provide a once-in-a-generation opportunity to position gender equality and women's empowerment both as an important end in itself and as essential for the achievement of sustainable development. The alignment between these two processes is an opportunity we cannot afford to miss.
Role of civil society
As civil society, you play an essential role in participating and influencing these processes. Civil society and women's groups have made important recommendations towards the articulation of a new development framework. They echo calls for a set of goals that address all dimensions of sustainable development while prioritizing gender equality and human rights.
Civil society is arguing for a rebalancing of power relations; for the fulfilment of human rights; for overcoming exclusion; for ensuring equitable distribution and safe use of natural resources; and establishing participatory governance, accountability and transparency. The important issue going forward will be to create opportunities and spaces through which civil society will be able to advocate, lobby and influence the negotiations in support of their aspirations. You will need to do this with your governments and networks. And of course, UN Women will work with you to create these spaces of dialogue, discussion and influence-building.
We will be engaging through a number of mechanisms, including our Civil Society Advisory Groups at country, regional and global levels. We are already working with the Women's Major Group and with other networks and forums to create spaces of discussions and of productive dialogue.
My friends,
Today, I would like to pay tribute to all of you – leaders, activists, advocates, practitioners – for your unwavering commitment to this agenda. And I would like to call on you to continue to pursue our joint path towards the achievement of gender equality, women's rights and women's empowerment.
Let us be bold as we go forward together.
Let us envision a world where peace and human rights are the norm for women and girls, not the exception.
Let us envision a world where every woman and every girl has equal rights and opportunities.
Let us envision a world where women and girls all have access to sexual and reproductive health.
Let us envision a world where reproductive rights are protected, realized and guaranteed – and where women and girls have the means and autonomy to fully exercise those rights without fear of coercion, violence or harm.
This is the world we want for women and girls. This is the world we want for all.
Thank you.


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Yang leads UCSD's Athletic Training Department with the mission to provide the prevention, management and rehabilitation of athletic injuries for over 600 student-athletes from 23 intercollegiate teams.
Yang began her tenure with UCSD Athletics in 2007 as an assistant athletic trainer. Prior to joining the Triton family, she served two years as the head athletic trainer for the Sports Clubs program at UC San Diego.
Yang has also spent time at the United States Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, at Grand Canyon University in Phoenix and at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. While at the U.S. Olympic Training Center, she worked with athletes in several sports, including wrestling, gymnastics, weightlifting and speed skating.
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Angels acquire closer Huston Street from Padres
ANAHEIM, Calif. -- The Los Angeles Angels acquired All-Star closer Huston Street and prospect Trevor Gott from the San Diego Padres for minor leaguers Taylor Lindsey, R.J. Alvarez, Jose Rondon and Elliot Morris in a trade on Friday night.
Street (1-0) has 24 saves in 25 opportunities and a 1.09 ERA in 33 games this season.
"Were it not for the fact that we had the ability to control Huston for a year and two months, it would have been far more difficult to justify giving up the type of package that we gave up to get him," Angels general manager Jerry Dipoto said. "We had to get a guy like Trevor Gott included in the deal to replace some of that lost value.
"Huston's 30 years old, and arguably having his best season as a major leaguer," Dipoto added. "He's been one of the more consistent closers in baseball over time and one of the highest percentage conversion guys in the league for a number of years. I feel really strong about his character and what he brings to the clubhouse. It really deepens the back end of our bullpen and it gives us the opportunity to make games shorter."
Street was unavailable to the Padres during their 5-4 home loss to the New York Mets on Friday night. San Diego (41-55) is in third place in the NL West, 12 games off the pace.
"Losing is a miserable experience," Street said before the game. "I believe in the Padres' ownership. They want to win and they are not content with status quo.
"I blame the players for what's happened here."
In 10 major league seasons with Oakland (2005-08), Colorado (2009-11) and San Diego (2012-14), Street is 35-27 with 258 saves and a 2.87 ERA.
He has converted 109 of his last 117 save chances, the best mark in the majors in that span.
Street, fifth on the active list in saves and 31st overall, said the Padres were upfront with him regarding the trade talks.
"I asked questions and they gave me direct answers," said Street, who was acquired by the Padres after the 2011 season. "They were extremely honest, said they were fielding offers, and asked me to not be offended."
Gott, 21, has split this season between Single-A Lake Elsinore and Double-A San Antonio. In 39 combined relief outings, he is 2-4 with 16 saves and a 3.56 ERA.
He was chosen as a mid-season California League All-Star.
Lindsey, a 22-year-old second baseman, was the No. 37 pick by the Angels in the 2010 draft. In four-plus minor league seasons campaigns, he has batted .289 with 43 home runs and 209 RBI.
He was rated as the Angels' top prospect by Baseball America.
Alvarez, 23, has gone 7-4 with five saves in two-plus minor league seasons.
The 20-year-old Rondon was signed as an international free agent in January 2011. The Venezuelan infielder has played in 245 minor league games, batting .300 with 146 runs and 116 RBI.
Morris, 22, has appeared in 28 games -- 18 starts -- in the Angels system, going 7-6 with a 3.43 ERA.
Jay Paris in San Diego contributed to this report.
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GODSQUAD: 'Seeing God' about much more than the vision
So many readers have shared with me the one question they'd ask God. Thank you! Here's another selection, along with my comments. For the authoritative answers, you're going to just have to wait for The Boss to get around to you.
Q: When I was 5 years old, I was in the family car coming home from Brighton Beach in Brooklyn and I saw God in the sky. I would ask God, "Why I was able to see you and what did it mean?" (I've never seen Him again.) -- D.
MG: What did God look like? The problem with all theophanies (experiences of God) is that we never know if they're hallucinations or the real deal. The deeper problem with your story is that it changes faith from something you believe in and trust in and hope for into something you saw on the way home from the beach. By the way, did you eat a hot dog from a beach vendor before you saw God? Just asking.
Q: My question would simply be WHY? Why did you do it? Obviously, this human experiment didn't work out so well. Most of the world's problems have been and still seem to be centered around religious differences. I have no complaints about the awesome planet, though. -- J.
MG: So, let me get this straight: You're uncomfortable with the religions that produced Gandhi, Mother Teresa and Martin Luther King Jr., but you're quite comfortable with a planet that produces hurricanes, earthquakes and tsunamis? We need to talk.
Q: My question would be, "If you sent us guardian angels, why don't they protect abused children?" Suffering children tug at my heart. As a child, the only way I could sleep after thinking of them was to hope that the joy they felt in heaven after their deaths was so great that no memory of pain could exist. I still hope that. -- D.
MG: I still hope that, too. We know that God gave us free will, and that most of the evil we see is the result of our misuse of that freedom. To stop evil would mean that God would have to end free will, and free will is the foundation not only of goodness but also of love. Still, the evil done to children haunts my thoughts, as well. It is the worst thing we do. I would surely ask God with you, "How can you cope with our evil choices?"
Q: After much thought, I would ask God, "Did you create life on other planets?" -- B.
MG: Many of you asked this question, but personally, it's not a big one for me. I think it's actually half of the real question. The other half is, "... and do they know of You?" Or perhaps, "... and do they have baseball and golf and pizza?" From my perspective, if they don't have baseball, golf and pizza, I could care less if there's life on other planets.
Q: I would ask, "Why is there no credible, objective evidence of the existence of any god?" -- B.
MG: Once again, let me get this straight. You're sitting in front of God, it's your turn to ask a question, and you ask the God right in front of you, "Why is there no evidence that you exist?" I must be missing something.
Q: My question is, "What do you wish ME to do?" -- R.
MG: I know the answer! Do good things.
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Q: Do I need organized prayers to connect to You?
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Q: How are the saints and righteous people different from the rest of us?
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Q: If I'm hit by a truck and die crossing the street today without having made up with my wife, am I doomed?
MG: If you don't make up with your wife today, you may wish that you'd been hit by a truck.
Q: I know that more times of intense pain will come for me on earth. Will You walk with me?
MG: Yes, just don't walk too fast.
Q: How can I, such a lowly creature on a developing planet, be special in Your eyes, as my faith teaches me that I am?
MG: It's a balancing act. On the days you feel special, remember that you're just dust and ashes. On the days you feel like dust and ashes, remember that God made you just a little lower than the angels.
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JFK Air Traffic Control to Alitalia Flight 608: Uh, what did you see?
Alitalia to JFK: We saw a drone, a drone aircraft.
JFK to Alitalia: What altitude did you see the aircraft?
Alitalia to JFK: About 1,500 feet.
That was the harrowing exchange from March 4 between an air traffic controller at New York City's JFK International Airport and a commercial airliner about to land there.
The conversation and the close encounter take on an even more frightening aspect given the Obama administration's claim that the president is empowered in an "extraordinary circumstance" to deploy drones to assassinate targets within the United States.
Despite several days of investigation by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the FBI, there are still more questions than answers surrounding the drone sighting and the near collision over Queens in New York City, a borough with a population of over two million.
Some of the details of the event are known, however. When Alitalia Flight 608 was on its final approach about three miles from JFK runway 31R, the pilot saw a black drone powered by four propellers and about three feet in diameter. According to the pilot's account of the sighting, the drone flew within 200 feet of the plane full of passengers.
Questions: Who was controlling the drone? Why was it flying dangerously close to a commercial jetliner? Who owns the unmanned aerial vehicle? Who issued the license? Who knew of its flight path?
The FAA is the federal agency charged with issuing licenses for domestic drone controllers, but it claims it knows nothing about the drone in question.
The FBI says it's in the dark, too.
"The FBI is asking anyone with information about the unmanned aircraft or the operator to contact us," said Special Agent John Giacalone in statement released after the incident. "Our paramount concern is the safety of aircraft passengers and crew," he added.
Adrian Chen writing for Gawker wonders if the drone might be a hobby craft owned by an individual rather than one controlled by the state or federal government or law enforcement. There is some evidence pointing toward a privately-owned hobby craft as The Week reports that "JFK is just a few miles from Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, an airstrip frequented by remote-control plane aficionados. "Maybe one of those hobbyists decided to flout the FAA's rule that remote-controlled aircraft stay under 400 feet and stay in sight of the operator, who has to notify air traffic controllers if the aircraft will fly within three miles of an airport," adds the story.
There might be something to that, however; there are thousands of drones flying over the skies of cities and towns all over the United States without FAA licenses.
Domestic entities are supposed to obtain the FAA licenses, which will not be issued until 2015, despite efforts to accelerate that timetable.
Special exemptions from the 2015 license date are available from the FAA, however. For example, NBC reports that the Mesa Count Sheriff's Department has been flying drones since 2009 under one of these exemptions.
The never-ending "War on Terror" has helped drive rapid improvement in the technology propelling these drones, as well as the optics with which they are equipped. War is good for business and business is booming.
Data released by Teal Group, an aerospace and defense market intelligence analysis organization, estimates that "the global UAV market will nearly double over the next decade" to $11.4 billion.
While much of that money will be spent domestically, the Teal Group report indicates that the Asia-Pacific area will be the "second largest market, followed very closely by Europe.
As The New American reported last year, President Obama notified Congress that he intended to sell missiles to arm American-made Predator and Reaper drones owned by Italy, the United Kingdom, Poland, and other European countries.
A report published recently in Daily Kos describes the scope of the European drone market and the cost to U.S. taxpayers of arming the European drones.
[General Atomics and Aeronautics} has been contracted to provide drones for Italy, the United Kingdom, Poland, and other countries. Who pays for the drones that are shipped to foreign governments is probably the best kept secret of the entire program. The US maintains a Foreign Military Sales program that isn't very transparent. Billions of dollars worth of military equipment of all descriptions is delivered to a list of qualified countries, free of charge to them, billed to the US taxpayers. A partner program, Foreign Military Financing, helps countries pay for their military needs. It all adds up to lucrative business for military contractors.
How do billions of dollars of taxpayer money get sent overseas for the arming of the drones owned by foreign armed forces? General Dynamics and the fellow drone manufacturers have deep pockets and they throw that money around at election time, depositing millions into the campaign coffers of key congressmen.
A collaboration between Hearst Newspapers and the Center for Responsive Politics paints the pecuniary picture:
The drone makers have sought congressional help to speed their entry into a domestic market valued in the billions. The 60-member House of Representatives' "drone caucus" — officially, the House Unmanned Systems Caucus — has helped push that agenda. And over the last four years, caucus members have drawn nearly $8 million in drone-related campaign contributions....
House members from California, Texas, Virginia and New York on the bipartisan "drone caucus" received the lion's share of the funds channeled to lawmakers from dozens of firms that are members of the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International, Hearst and CRP found.
Eleven drone caucus lawmakers from California, where many aviation firms are located, received more than $2.4 million from manufacturers' political action committees and employees during the 2012 and 2010 election cycles, according to CRP tabulation of Federal Election Commission reports.
Eight Texas House members in the caucus received more than $746,000. And four caucus members from New York got more than $185,000 from companies connected to the business of unmanned vehicles.
The big winner of the drone manufacturer lobbying lotto was Representative Howard "Buck" McKeon (R-Calif.). According to the investigation, McKeon — cochairman of the House Unmanned Systems Caucus — received $833,650 in contributions from the drone industry.
Given the amount of money flowing between the drone makers and the lawmakers, it is odd that most Americans have never heard of the Unmanned Systems Caucus.
General Atomics, maker of the Predator drone, is among the top three all-time campaign contributors to Congressmen Calvert, Lewis, and McKeon.
In 2010 and 2012, General Atomics' PAC has paid out over $140,000 in donations to drone caucus members representing states located on the border with Mexico.
And, as Daily Kos reports:
In the 2012 election cycle, it was a donor of $504,950 to various political candidates. James Neal Blue [CEO of General Atomics] was also a contributor to various campaigns. The company PAC campaign donations broke down to 39% for Democratic candidates and 61% for Republican candidates. Notable on the list: Buck McKeon, the Republican representative from the Santa Clarita Valley district north of Los Angeles. He sponsored the 2012 and 2013 NDAA measures in the House. The entire political spectrum is included in the list of recipients, from Mitch McConnell, and John Boehner, to Sherrod Brown and Kirstin Gillibrand.
General Atomics isn't the only one greasing the skids, however. A PAC largely financed by Northrop Grumman contributed about $150,000 to 16 congressmen in the drone caucus who represent districts in California, Texas, Arizona, and Nevada.
Drones are becoming a part of American culture and millions of dollars are being spent by the manufacturers to make sure the law facilitates future flights.
The drone flight over New York City came within 200 feet of becoming a fiery tragedy. The lives of hundreds or thousands could have been ended by the collision of a commercial airliner with a drone nobody seems to know anything about.
American citizens are right to worry and are justified in demanding answers from those who have oversight into the use of these never-blinking eyes in the sky. Particularly when they come so close to killing innocent civilians and the federal government is ready to greenlight the launch of thousands more in the near future.


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SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) Rafael Nadal arrived in Chile on Friday and will test his injured left knee in competition for the first time next week after sitting out for seven months - the longest break of his career.
The 26-year-old Nadal will head off to the nearby coastal resort city of Vina del Mar, where he will play in his first event since losing in the second round of Wimbledon in June.
Nadal, who will try to win his eighth French Open title later this year, said the knee still bothers him and he may have to reduce tournament appearances.
``My knee is much better, and this is the most important thing now because there's no risk of a big injury,'' Nadal said at the airport in Santiago. ``But it's still bothering me, which will keep me from playing all the time, which I would like to do.
``You have to start somewhere. I think this is the right moment and the right place.''
Nadal is one of the best clay-court players in the history of the game. But he downplayed what might happen in Chile and at clay-court events in Brazil and Mexico later this month.
``It's been months - seven months - since I've competed,'' Nadal said. ``This will be my first time playing in a very long time. Anything can happen. I'll try not to let it happen, but you have to be prepared for everything and be patient.''
Nadal has appearances to make before he opens play, including a meeting with Chilean President Sebastian Pinera, who is a big sports fan.
Nadal's first test will come Tuesday in a doubles match with Juan Monaco, followed by his opening match Wednesday in singles.
``I'm here to give the best I have right now,'' Nadal said, ``and hope the knee holds up.''


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Irish Champ PotatoesUnless Mama Nature intended they be green by her own hand, I'm not big on green colored food for St. Patrick's Day. Don't get me wrong - I do think it's fun, especially if you have children who can appreciate a quirky green meal, or maybe even a spouse who won't mind the ribbing from their workmates. I love the color green, but I'm not generally too big on using green dye to color things green either. Well... there might be an exception or two, but essentially my menu of St. Patrick's Day meal ideas is more a mix of traditional Irish food, with Irish-American food, and, well... just good ole regular food that might fit the theme.
I've got a meat and potatoes eatin' man living in my house, so potatoes are always a staple under this roof, and I love having a variety of ways to serve them. Darina Allen, in her book, Traditional Irish Cooking, and whose method I used below, notes that potatoes, a definite staple in the Irish home, were often cooked in very large quantities, and it was the job of the man of the house to beat them smooth, usually with a heavy, wooden pestle called a beetle. As he beat the pot of potatoes, the lady of the house would add in the milk and whatever else was to be included, often cabbage, green onions, fresh chopped parsley, chives, or fresh peas, when in season. Oddly enough, despite having seven years on him, it was always the job of my little brother to beat the potatoes in our house. I guess our heritage has a strange way of trickling down unnoticed like that.
Champ, like its sister dish Colcannon, has stood the test of time, and is so commonplace that it is even featured in this old Irish nursery rhyme.
Often served in individual bowls, with a knob of butter melting in the center, Champ like Colcannon, is traditionally consumed by dragging the potatoes from the outside of the bowl into and through the well of melted butter. I'm telling you, as simple as it sounds, you gotta try that sometime. What sets Champ apart is the green onion infusion in the milk, and it really does impart the flavor into the potatoes, though sometimes parsley, chives and even fresh cooked peas are substituted. Champ is traditionally prepared for Halloween, where it is offered to the fairies, a dish of it being left out under a Hawthorne bush on Halloween night or All Soul's Day.
Next time that you buy one of those giant 15 pound bags of bargain potatoes, give Colcannon and Irish Champ a try. Can you ever really have enough mashed potato recipes anyway? Here's how to make them.
Adapted from Irish Traditional Cooking by Darina Allen
Recipe: Irish Champ Potatoes©From the Kitchen of Deep South Dish
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 40 min
Yield: About 4 to 6 servings
- 3 pounds baking potatoes (Russet, Idaho, Yukon Gold)
- 2 whole green onions, sliced
- 1-1/2 cups of half and half or milk
- 4 tablespoons butter
- Kosher salt and freshly cracked black pepper, to taste
Scrub and place whole un-skinned potatoes in boiling salted water. While potatoes are cooking, bring the milk to a boil and add the sliced green onion. Cook over medium heat, stirring regularly, for about 5 minutes. Remove from heat and set aside to allow onion to infuse in the milk.
After about 15 minutes, pour off all but about 1/3 of the water from the potatoes, cover, reduce heat and steam potatoes over medium heat until completely cooked and tender. Test with a knife. Drain and set aside until you can handle and peel them, add to milk and onion mixture, mash and beat until fluffy.
Add 3 tablespoons of the butter and cook and stir over medium low heat until completely warmed through, transfer to a hot serving dish with the remaining pat of butter melting in the center. Can also spoon into individual bowls and top each with a pat of butter.
Variations: Substitute 2 tablespoons of fresh chopped parsley or fresh chives to the milk, boiling for about 2 minutes only to retain the color. Can also mash about 1-1/2 cups of fully cooked peas in with the potatoes. Use leftover Champ to make Tater Cakes.
Can also be made ahead. Mix together (omit butter on top) and transfer to a buttered casserole dish; cover. To reheat, preheat oven to 350 degrees F, and bake covered for about 25 to 30 minutes; top with butter.
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Abi Grant is a successful young television sketch show writer. One night she is attacked in her London flat, while she is sleeping, by a complete stranger-who had waited for her to come home from the theatre.
The attack-an attempted rape-was violent and terrifying. But Abi manages to fight back and escapes from her home and goes upstairs to her landlady.
Post this incident the nameless man-who broke into her home via a window-is not to be arrested for next 12 years. In this long duration Abi's life collapses around her. She goes through a lot of ups and downs of life as well as the emotional trauma haunts her every now and then.It's not the same again for her to sleep alone in her own house feeling safe and sleeping sound !
How does she copes up with all this ? What happens to the rapist? Does he get identified? Does Abi get justice?
The book is a piece by piece record of Abi's life after this attack. A memoir of a sexual assault. What she goes through mentally, physically and financially. Though the novel's storyline is intriguing and the quote on the book from 'Coleen Nolen' says "This is a book every woman should read". I personally felt that the book loses its grip going forward. Slowly in the middle of the consequences Abi stops writing her story instead starts writing about the factors creating rape-culture, some digs at second wave-feminism et al. presenting unnecessary incidences which actually dilute the main plot. She also manages to write some humour in between the serious plot which sometimes is irrelevant to the mood.
Not that I don't recommend reading this book. Just that it disappoints through the middle of it. Like you know there are books in which you can skip few chapters and still you can connect to the story line without even feeling that you've missed something important. That applies to this one. So don't keep any high hopes.
It's a onetime read- Words Can Describe is helpful for victims and survivors-who will feel less alone.It also provides a set of guidelines about how to cope up with the trauma without feeling guilty about being attacked and what to do or not to do. Of course it depends on case to case basis but it can be taken as a suggestive write-up for dealing with the trauma and stress and get back to normal life yet again.
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You can learn more about Days for Girls by visiting their web site, but I wanted to mention two upcoming events. The first is local: we're having a Days for Girls sew-in at Home Ec Workshop on Sunday, Oct. 6 from noon til 5.
If you're not local and would like to join in, you can participate in the first-ever Days for Girls Global Sew-a-Thon, to be held on October 11, the International Day of the Girl. During the Sew-a-Thon, Days for Girls chapters throughout the world will be sewing for 24 hours straight. Chapters and individuals will sit down at their sewing machines for one massive, global effort to sew and assemble kits and win back days for girls and women everywhere.
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Sunday, May 17, 2009
Chapter Three - Sugar, Spice and all things nice...
I've been here for exactly three days and it took me about two and a half to figure all that out. It doesn't take a genius though. All you have to do is walk through the glitzy malls and see the way people look at the sari-clad women with their greasy, plaited hair to realise that they're more or less considered to be second-class citizens. They're even served differently. I went into a shop in MOE yesterday and asked for help from the friendly assistant. She obliged me with a toothy smile and the customary sing-song 'thank you ma'am' at the end of our exchange. The Indian lady who sought her help after me got no 'thank you', no 'ma'am' and no smile. Coincidence? I doubt it. Why wasn't I treated the same way? Probably 'cause of my British accent and Westernised dress-sense. Although I never paid much attention to my accent before, it suddenly seems to be my passport into the judgmental world of respect.
Today I've decided to be a little more adventurous in my solitary excursions and I'm braving the beach completely alone. Shopping is usually a pleasurable experience but until I get my first salary (I start teaching English to speakers of other languages in a couple of days), I'm as broke as a joke so I have to find cheaper ways to amuse myself. Living next to the beach is still a novelty for me as the closest thing to a beach in London is Southend - which, with its dilapidated pier and Essex location, isn't quite as appealing as Jumeirah Beach Park. So, I'm quite happy to just sit on the warm sand in my white linen trousers and long sleeved pale blue cotton top and absorb the atmosphere. All around me, children are squealing in the azure waters, teenagers are posing sexily in brightly coloured bikinis and old Arab women are a stark contrast to them in their white headscarves and long skirts, preparing hefty chunks of meat on metal barbecue skewers. I'm not usually such a billy-no-mates but I haven't exactly had enough time here to make friends yet. I know one girl out here – my best friend, Yasmine, has an older sister who lives here somewhere but I'm not meeting her until tomorrow. I don't really know her very well and she's a few years older than me, but hey, beggars can't be choosers and right now, if a palm tree offers to hang out with me I'll probably throw my arms around it and invite it out for some shisha.
I lay out my beach towel, sit down cross legged on it, roll up my sleeves and take out my book but it's actually more interesting to people watch. I still can't get over the way Muslims out here are so different from back in the UK. Back home, being the gross minority, they're all so united and overtly Muslim, if you know what I mean. Islam is a huge part of their identity and because they face a lot of difficulties getting accepted into mainstream society, they have this defensive nature. Here, it's so much more relaxed and you see girls in Hijab doing stuff you rarely see back home – like smoking shisha, hanging out with guys or going to concerts. I'm not sure why that is, but I'm guessing it has something to do with Hijab being more of a cultural piece of clothing than a declaration of faith or a religious statement.
I never used to notice stuff like that until I actually started wearing Hijab, which wasn't until… um, the day I boarded the plane to get here. In London, although there is a pretty diverse Muslim community, I never really felt like I was a good enough Muslim to be an ambassador of Islam – and trust me, in Hijab, you are. Everyone watches to see what you're doing and you get labeled 'that Muslim girl' rather than the Indian girl or the tall girl or any other part of your identity. When I was mulling over whether to move out here or not, I made a conscious decision to be a better Muslim if I did, and I guess this is my first step. After all the crap that happened, I felt like I had to do something to change but now, sitting here on the beach completely covered up and no chance of a tan, I'm wondering if I was a little too hasty in my decision.
Watching a group of girls and guys playing volleyball, I can't help but feel a slight twang of envy. Not because they're playing sports as I'm crap at all forms of physical exertion but because they're having such a great, social time while I'm sitting here alone, watching on like the outsider that I am.
"Hey, wanna join us?" a girl calls out, catching my gaze and probably noticing the desperation in my coffee brown eyes. She jogs up to me and I try not to ogle at her body in case she can see my stare through my cheap sunglasses and thinks I'm a lesbian or something. Her body is so golden, lean and toned that I make a spur of the moment decision to join the gym and start exercising.
"Okay," I reply without realising, my mind still thinking of ways I can fix up my wobbly body and before I know it, I'm in the middle of this group of ten girls and guys, trying to play volleyball. I don't hit the ball even once. It's pretty hard to, when the moment it comes in my direction I either run the other way or hold up my hands to shield my face. The opposing side is too kind to exploit their enemy's weakest link and try hard not to let the ball come my way, so for the rest of the game I end up just standing around wishing I wore stronger sunblock and trying not to check out the hot guy opposite me. Which isn't easy. He too has a golden body but instead of the usual coal coloured hair, his is a dark brown with tiny strands of honey. With his intense eyes and strong yet gentle hands, he is definitely bad news for me. So I make sure to prevent my tongue from hanging out or my saliva from dripping out of my open mouth and concentrate on the chubby, hairy guy at nine 'o' clock instead. Ugh. He really needs a wax.
Despite not really moving much (apart from flapping my arms around when the ball came near me), I feel exhausted when the game slowly rolls to an end. The Goddess, who I find out has a 'good name', X, but I prefer to call her The Goddess, saunters up to me and invites me to meet the group in the evening for some dinner and shisha. My tiredness disappears instantly and I agree quickly before the offer is taken away, like a child who has just been told she can have ice-cream for breakfast.
I hail a taxi home and begin a long, slow beautifying regime, images of Goldenboy haunting me the entire time.
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It takes me three hours to get ready. Three whole hours of showering, blow-drying (not that anyone can see my hair, but still, you never know, maybe there'll be a hurricane and my hijab will be whipped off, exposing flat, unkempt hair underneath), exfoliating, facialising and countless outfit changes. I eventually decide to go with my favourite jeans that actually make my legs look slim and a pretty, cream colored dress over it adorned with hot pink beads. Together with a pink headscarf and light, subtle makeup, I look pretty good. My new tan suits me and with a little bit of MAC bronzer, I look radiant and healthy.
The taxi drops me off at Reem al Bawadi, a Lebanese restaurant I've never been to before and makes the eatieries in Edgware Road look bland in comparison. As I walk up the short steps, I feel my heart pounding against my ribcage. There are plants and leaves hanging from the walls and ceiling, old Middle Eastern ornaments in every corner, live Arabic music as well as the faint hum of voices and fragrant whisps of apple shisha wafting through the air. The atmosphere is so warm and reminiscent of sticky summers in Beirut, that I slowly begin to relax and feel at ease.
In the far left-hand corner, I spot the group and I navigate my way around tables, chairs and glass shishas, praying that I don't knock one over, and approach the table. I feel slightly awkward as I mumble 'hi' in a timid voice but even that melts away as The Goddess jumps up, exclaims 'Sugar, hi, how are you?' in a loud, friendly voice and plants the customary kisses on my cheeks. I shake hands with everyone else (Hijabis here don't seem to mind shaking hands with non-related guys which is fine by me) and sit down at the nearest available seat. After I plant my big behind on the chair, bumping into my neighbour and almost knocking over a tall glass of a crazy looking fruit cocktail kinda drink, I realise I'm sitting next to Goldenboy.
"Ahlan," he says, smiling warmly. It's the first time he's spoken to me. He's wearing a black shirt with jeans, and he too has a beautiful tan that, against his shirt, looks simply delicious. His evening attire, along with the way he said 'Ahlan' in that accent, is all a bit too hot for me and I feel my face turning the same colour as my scarf. I've always had a thing for Arabs, with their sexy manliness and slightly dominating nature. My heart starts thudding again and I silently beg Allah not to let him hear it.
"Thanks," I reply stupidly, not knowing how else to reply to the greeting. Ahlan means 'welcome' right? He is obviously confused by my answer.
"Keefik enti?" he tries again, frowning slightly. Not with condescendence, but with befuddlement.
"Um… ana la atakallam al 'arabiya," (I don't speak Arabic) I answer sheepishly. In classical, Qur'anic Arabic. The Goddess, who overhears the awkward exchange, bursts into peals of laughter and explains something to the group in fast, incomprehensible Arabic and soon, they are all laughing.
'Sorry," Goldenboy says with a grin. "I thought you were Arab – you look Palestinian."
"It's okay," I reply with a shrug, secretly feeling thrilled. For some reason, I don't want him to know I'm Indian, and I don't want him to think I'm Egyptian either. I just want to be me, Sugar, without all these extra labels.
We don't say much else to each other throughout the evening, and although I'm glad to be with people other than my host family, it's hard trying to have fun when everyone around you speaks a language you don't understand, and never had any connection with outside the mosque. Sometimes, they look at my blank face and remember to translate jokes and anecdotes, and I force a laugh, losing a lot of the meaning and humour in translation.
That night, as I lie in my bed, the drum beats still ringing in my ears, I feel a sudden pang of longing for my friends back home. I miss Yasmine's quirkiness, Stephanie's craziness and Ellen's wit. I miss the comfortable feeling of knowing exactly who I am, where I am, what my existence on this planet means. But it's all my fault that I had to leave everything I had ever known.
Beneath the ache and the disorientation though, there lies a dangerous tingle of excitement. I fall asleep thinking of Goldenboy's beautiful, copper coloured eyes with the tiniest specks of amber. I fall asleep smiling.
17 comments:
This is my favorite character out of the 3. Please keep writing, it's thrilling.
- May 17, 2009 at 6:34 PM
Love it Ghostwriter, can't wait for the fourth chapter...
- May 17, 2009 at 9:57 PM
I like them all. :) chapter four please!
- May 18, 2009 at 11:39 AM
if she's from California, why would she use words like 'mate' when referring to a friend and kilometers when referring to distance? doesn't make sense.
- May 19, 2009 at 8:43 AM
- Ghost Writer said...
Thank you for your feedback anon... I will take your comments into consideration :)
- May 19, 2009 at 1:24 PM
my dad wants to read it!
- May 24, 2009 at 10:19 PM
- Ghost Writer said...
Lol, isn't it a bit too girly for him?!
- May 24, 2009 at 11:22 PM
He saw how glued to the screen and how I ran upstairs after dinner and refused desert just so I could come and read the rest of this!
- May 25, 2009 at 12:00 AM
- Danya A. said...
I think you should have "sad" in your reactions.
But interesting will cut it, for now :P
I think you're amazing.
- June 24, 2009 at 9:45 PM
- *~Ange~* said...
she is my fav so far! i can relate to her big time. especially with the big bum! lol
- September 10, 2009 at 12:41 PM
awesome story...i can totally relate to this character.....but all the characters are awesome:D!!
- January 17, 2010 at 10:08 AM
- Moh.xtron said...
LOVE your writing LOVE your humor and LOVEEEE your style(I'm soo forwarding this to everyone I know). Ok I'm an Arab(Emarati) who grew up in the UK, so i can defiantly relate to this character(cant highlight that fact enough lol), and whats interesting is I had a lot of the same feelings but didn't really express it much because i thought people wouldn't get me. I hope a lot of people read your writings soo they can understand my constant dilemma in life lol.
P.S. Mr. anonymous, brits say mate and belive it or not they can comprehend the usage of kilometers plus its mentioned that she was from the UK, so don't be smart and ask if shes from California.
lol again love ya and I wish I could've been part of something amazing like this =p
- March 27, 2010 at 6:01 AM
OMG i've just started reading this and i've been glued to my screen!! this is my favorite character so far and looking forward to reading more!!
- April 25, 2010 at 1:50 PM
- Fatima said...
why did she blow dry her hair if she wears a hijab.
- October 7, 2010 at 3:24 PM
- sogol said...
I love your style of writing. Its entertaining and fun to read. I grew up in dubai so I can relate to everything you have written. I disagree with some of the comments of your point of you being fabricated or bias. I do not see those things at all. What I see is reality. It is what it is and you have so perfectly explained it. good job!
- October 23, 2010 at 11:19 PM
- Yasmine said...
Wow!! Just started reading it and IM LOVING IT!! looks like Im gonna be going through the next chapters very quickly!!
About the blow dry...Since she's indian...dont they already have straight hair?...why would she blow dry...;)
- March 16, 2011 at 4:14 PM
Though the story is very catchy, but You have an amazing way of writing it. I lived in dubai till 2011, but never heard about this novel, came across by chance, very glad that i did!
- June 7, 2012 at 8:25 PM


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I've been waiting about 4 weeks for some data at work. They finally, after repeatedly broken promises, got it to me... yesterday. Which basically means I'm working this weekend, probably both days. Somehow my boss doesn't see their being four weeks late with the data as allowing me not to turn things around in the three days we committed to. My boss is not generally known as the "easy" boss.
Maybe a miracle will happen, and I'll finish early*, but it's not looking good for me to come today. I was really hoping they'd be delayed until Monday. I even had a new stove picked out for today.
I hope it's a good time. Please post photos for those unfortunates stuck indoors at a keyboard today. I am thankful to have had an actual job for two years in a row now, but their timing sucks.
*It's three primary files of 15 to 20 million records each that have to be merged with key files and then matched back to a database table unload, the purpose being to validate that the data corresponds to the database unload, showing accurate values where those values are "displayable" and those values that are "non-displayable" are blanked out. It's neither quick nor simple.


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Building permits are important in protecting your safety and the safety of those around you. The City of Modesto requires permits so that it can ensure that construction is being done properly and in accordance with all life safety requirements and all building codes.
Example: If you are planning on adding on a room to your house, you will need a permit to do the work. If you have a commercial building and need to make some building modifications, you will need a permit in order to complete the work.
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1. Submit Building Plans
For most projects, you will need to submit building plans. The requirements for submitting building plans varies by what type of project you are working on.
The following links contain specific requirements when submitting building plans:
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Note: You will be required to pay a Pre-Plan Check Fee at this time. Staff will inform you of the amount at the time you submit your building plans.
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Doncaster Racecourse is excited to announce the Brit Award winning band Rudimental will perform after racing on Saturday 1 July.
Rudimental will take the place of Mark Ronson who is unable to perform.
We have 15 pairs of tickets to give away.
Award winning drum and base band Rudimental rose to prominence in 2012 when their single 'Feel the Love' featuring singer John Newman, topped the UK Singles Chart.
In 2013, Rudimental's debut studio album Home debuted at number one in the UK Albums Chart and was also nominated for a Mercury Music Prize. Now established as one of the UK's biggest acts with platinum record sales and a BRIT award for their single 'Waiting All Night' the band is now enjoying a sell out tour!
Head of Marketing at Doncaster Racecourse, Abby Chandler, said "We are delighted that the multi- award winning Rudimental has agreed to step in and play Doncaster for the first time. We look forward to a fantastic evening of racing and music on our Construction Index race evening and wish Mark Ronson all the best as he takes some time out from performing."
"Our 'Sun Bets' Music Live nights are always a real highlight of our summer season and are the perfect event for race goers and music lovers alike often with one discovering a new found love of the other!" said Abby. "Our evening racing is a really enjoyable occasion for racing aficionados and also family and friends taking advantage of the long summer nights to spend quality time together."
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LOS ANGELES -- In Sydney 12 years ago, the U.S. women's water polo team took silver when the Aussies scored to win gold with 1.3 seconds remaining. In Athens in 2004, the Americans took bronze.
Four years ago in Beijing, the U.S. women again took second, this time when the Dutch scored the winning goal with 26 seconds to go.
These are the facts that everyone associated with the U.S. women's water polo knows by heart. This is why, when the 13-player U.S. team was announced Thursday at a ceremony at the LA 84 Foundation, the legacy building from the Summer Games here 28 years ago, the rah-rah video closed with this tag-line: "It's our time."
Time will tell, of course, whether this U.S. team will do what the three that came before it could not, whether it can meet the challenge coach Adam Krikorian has long set, which he reiterated Thursday in public, to rise to "competitive greatness."
He said, "It's about bringing your best when your best is needed."
What sets this team apart is that it is, truly, a team.
Under Krikorian, who took over after Beijing from Guy Baker, the players have come together to form a remarkably close bond.
Their unity could have come apart after the U.S. team got drilled at the 2011 world championships in Shanghai, the Americans ultimately finishing sixth.
Instead, they rebounded. At the Pan American Games a couple months later in Guadalajara, Mexico, they not only won to claim their Olympic qualifying spot, they did so in astonishing fashion, rallying from three goals down at halftime to knock off Canada for the gold medal in a penalty shootout. The final score: 27-26.
"We learned at the world championships how not to deal with adversity," Krikorian said, adding a moment later, "Two months later, we showed how to deal with adversity."
Goalie Betsey Armstrong may be the best in the world. She deflects such praise, saying Thursday: "I know these girls have my back. I have their back. It's a genuine relationship."
Heather Petri was one of the shooters in that Guadalajara penalty drama. "No nerves," she said. "It was awesome."
Petri and Brenda Villa will now be four-time Olympians. They will have been on all four U.S. water polo teams since 2000; that's when the International Olympic Committee opened the Games to women.
Villa, 32, was introduced Thursday as captain of the 2012 team. She has done it all with the exception of that gold medal. Indeed, she was named the FINA magazine female water polo player of decade for the years 2000-10.
Petri, who turns 34 in a month, said the medal can't become a grail unto itself. "It's attainable," she said but cautioning, "You stop making it about that." It's the journey, the practices, the time together, she said, calling the time between Beijing and London -- despite a serious injury -- "the lightest of my four years" and saying, "I find joy in the smallest little things."
Two sisters made the team: Jessica and Maggie Steffens. Jessica played on the 2008 team. Maggie turns 19 in two weeks. Jessica graduated from Stanford in 2009. Maggie starts there after the London Games.
There were no surprises in the roster unveiled Thursday. This was the team Krikorian has been going with for several months now.
It's a defensive-minded team.
It's a deep team.
It's a team that -- despite the presence of Villa -- doesn't rely on one outsized star to carry the load. On any given day, anybody on the U.S. team can beat you. That makes this team hard to scout, and difficult to prepare for.
NBC is prepared to show a lot of this team -- even before the Games, including a July 8 nationally televised game against Hungary to be played at Corona (Calif.) del Mar High School.
"We understand that on any given day," Krikorian said, "we can lose."
Then again, he said, and you know what he has to be thinking, "We can win."


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Adobe PostScript (AdobePS) printer driver (AdobePS) 8.6. is recommended for Mac OS 7.5.5 through 8.0; for Mac OS 8.1 and later, please upgrade to AdobePS 8.7.
AdobePS enables you to print documents from Macintosh applications to a PostScript printer.
AdobePS 8.6 features new printing options including:
- Soft Collate which enables you to print multiple collated copies of a document, as opposed to multiple groups of the same page.
- Soft Reverse Order which enables you to control the order in which document pages are printed for a particular print job. This feature prints the document
beginning with the last page.
- Poster allows you to enlarge pages to poster size and print them out on multiple sheets of paper which can be trimmed and taped together to create a poster.
- Manual Duplex which enables you to print your document double sided by splitting the print job into two segments and prompting you to reload the printed pages from the first segment before printing the second segment on the other side.
- Booklet allows you to create brochure-like printouts from your standard word-processing applications. A number of booklet sizes and shapes are possible, depending on how the output pages are oriented and folded.
Soft Collate and Soft Reverse Order do not require special printer hardware.
AdobePS 8.6 also provides printing over IP networks using lpr (line printer protocol) and Apple's PrintingLib and Desktop Printer Utility. AdobePS now includes in its installation Adobe's standard plug-ins Custom Page, Virtual Printer, and Watermarks.
This version of the Adobe PostScript printer driver is only for owners of Dutch versions of Macintosh computers who print to devices containing Adobe PostScript.
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A PostScript Printer Description (PPD) file for your printer.
Installation of this driver requires a PostScript Printer Description (PPD) file for your printer.
If you need a PPD file, do one or more of the following:
1. Most PostScript printers include a floppy disk that contains the PPD file for the printer. If you cannot find this disk, contact your printer manufacturer for a replacement.
2. Visit your printer manufacturer?s Web site or FTP site to obtain the PPD file.
3. If you work with a service bureau or print shop to create professionally printed documents, they may have the PPD file you need.
Your printer manufacturer is ultimately responsible for providing you with a PPD file. Neither Adobe nor your service provider is obligated to provide you with a PPD file.
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1. Copy the PPD file for your printer to the System Folder : Extensions : Printer Descriptions folder.
2. Double-click the AdobePS Installer icon.
3. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation.
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- In the Chooser, select the AdobePS icon,
- Select the printer you want to set up from the Select a PostScript Printer scroll box,
- Click Setup.
- Click Auto Setup.
Installing AdobePS 8.6 overwrites any previous version of AdobePS but does not overwrite other printer drivers (such as LaserWriter or PSPrinter).
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7 Ways to Fight Sugar Cravings
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Why Do We Crave Sugar?
There are many reasons why we go for sweet things.
"Sweet is the first taste humans prefer from birth".
Carbohydrates stimulate the release of the feel-good brain chemical serotonin. Sugar is a carbohydrate, but carbohydrates come in other forms, too, such as whole grains, fruits, and vegetables.
The taste of sugar also releases endorphins that calm and relax us.
The problem comes not when we indulge in a sweet treat now and then, but when we over-consume, something that's easy to do when sugar is added to many processed foods, including breads, yogurt, juices, and sauces.
How to Stop Sugar Cravings: 7 Tips to Use Right Now:
If you're craving sugar, here are some ways to tame those cravings:
• Give in a little. Eat a bit of what you're craving, maybe a small cookie or a small-size candy bar, Enjoying a little of what you love can help you steer clear of feeling denied. Try to stick to a 150-calorie threshold,
• Combine foods: Try combining the craving food with a healthful one for example, dip a banana in chocolate sauce, or mix some almonds with chocolate chips. This way, you'll satisfy a craving and get healthy nutrients from those good-for-you foods.
• Grab some gum. If you want to avoid giving in to a sugar craving completely, try chewing a stick of gum, "Research has shown that chewing gum can reduce food cravings.
• Reach for fruit. Keep fruit handy for when sugar cravings hit. You'll get fiber and nutrients along with some sweetness. And stock up on foods like nuts, seeds, and dried fruits.
• Get up and go. When a sugar craving hits, walk away. "Take a walk around the block or [do] something to change the scenery," to take your mind off the food you're craving,
• Choose quality over quantity. "If you need sugar, pick a wonderful, decadent sugary food. But keep it small. For example, choose a perfect dark chocolate instead of a king-sized candy bar and try to bite it slowly " Learn to incorporate small amounts in the diet but concentrate on filling your stomach with less sugary and [healthier] options."
• Eat regularly. Waiting too long between meals may set you up to choose sugary, fatty foods that cut your hunger,. Instead, eating every three to five hours can help keep blood sugar stable and help you "avoid irrational eating behavior."Choose protein, fiber-rich foods like whole grains.
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