I eat ALOT of beans. they make up most of my meals except when i am eating BBQ.
what i want to know is...... what are the taste and texture difference between kidney beans.... runner beans....pinto type beans etc.
i keep hearing that kidney beans and pinto beans are 2 different families.
i eat mostly pinto type beans and have only had kidney beans from a can.
what the differences will be from the pinto bean?
i dont want a bean that has a potato flavor. i have heard that some beans have a taste like that.
Except when you are eating BBQ? That is one time when they will be on my menu for sure. It is pretty hard to explain in words how one bean is different than another. In my opinion, canned beans that have been rinsed and heated taste pretty much like ones cooked from dried. If you taste then from a can, you can tell if you want to cook the dried kind. In order to cook dried beans, most people soak them overnight but it isn't necessary to go to that much planning or to take that much time and trouble. Kidney beans can be cooked directly from dried to finished in a little under a hour and a half in most cases. You probably already know that the older the dried bean, the longer it may take to cook through.
While some beans do have a "potato" flavor, please note that this is not the flavor of plain potatoes.
Think of the best potato you ever tasted and multiply it by a factor of four or more. It is not just a potato flavor, but a complex, rich flavor with a buttery hint that is excellent in plain bean soup and which marries well with rice.
If you limit your selection of beans to kidney and pinto, you are missing out on a lot of great flavors.
Some beans have a "meaty" flavor, some have a buttery consistency, such as the "speckled butter bean" a great favorite in the south, also known as the "Florida" butter bean.
For years they were difficult to find outside the south (a lima bean was a poor substitute) but now several online vendors carry them.
I consume a fair amount of beans and always have at least five or six varieties (or more) on hand.
Read the info at Rancho Gordo's website for each variety of bean.
There has been extensive discussion on this forum in earlier threads.
I recommend the Good Mother Stallard and the Snowcap beans - don't let the "potato flavor" put you off.
Unfortunately, when the bean picking season ends, sometimes the supply of a certain variety is limited and they go rapidly because some people (like me) have been waiting and order as soon as they appear.
In my opinion, canned beans that have been rinsed and heated taste pretty much like ones cooked from dried.
I'm not sure I can agree with this.
yes Norm.... i dont eat beans with BBQ because they are a meal in themselves.... and one distracts from the other.
Hi thanks for your comments. i have had good mother stollard and others like that.
i love the rancho gordo beans i didnt know about the other website.
the reason i was asking about the flavor of kidney beans is because the black turtle beans look so good.... i was wondering how their flavor differed from pinto beans.
Kidney beans are probably my least favorite of all beans I've tried and it's largely for textural reasons. I don't pick them out of anything but they never make it into the pot if I'm cooking. Pinto beans I love. The taste and the texture. Black beans are tasty too but it's a bit of generic term, there are several types with their own characteristics. Actually, I've never had a bean I dislike (although they seem to dislike me and usually cause me and those around me a bit more discomfort than I would like ) but some fall further down the list than others. I currently have a bag of dried adzuki beans I was gifted that I'm trying to decide what to do with. I want to bypass the traditional sweet stuff and do something savory but haven't made up my mind what I'm going to do yet.
My great-aunt used to say a meal with no beans is not a meal. I think that might be overstating the case, but I do have them three or four times a week.
Black ("turtle"), pinto, flor de mayo, flor de junio and peruano ("Peruvian") are the common ones here. I'm also passingly familiar with the kidney, navy and black-eyed sorts, as well as lima beans, soybeans etc. which are treated quite differently.
I think there's quite a bit of difference between these varieties. Taking pinto as a baseline, you might consider the flor de mayo/junio varieties as smaller, milder versions. Peruanos are almost like a crossover between these and lima beans in both taste and texture. Black beans have a stronger, earthier flavor, kidneys are markedly less flavorful (and taste sort of ketchupy to me) and I just don't like the other two in the sort of cooking I do, although they're probably excellent in the cuisines that developed alongside them.
Horses for courses: Blacks for refritos, pinto and its cousins for everything else, peruanos if you like a firmer, waxier consistency (and are okay with sickly pale cooked beans), kidneys if you can't get real beans where you live.
My position on cooking beans is pretty much the opposite of Norm Matthews here: I won't touch canned (consistency and flavor both seem "off" to me), and I boil dried beans in salted water, then soak them overnight, then change the water, rinse and cook the heck out of them with the usual spices, aromatics and pork products, 4 hours at least. This is what slow cookers are for, guys. Toss in diced tomato and some coarsely chopped cilantro for the last half-hour or so.
Some cookbooks say soaking in salted water will prevent the beans from hydrating properly; my experiments say this is nonsense and produces inferior flavor. I can only surmise this is a misguided attempt at limiting sodium intake.
Some other books say you need to handle the cooked beans gingerly as they're very delicate and likely to burst. Then they direct you to take some of the beans out, run them through the blender and add the puree back to the soup. I guess you can do that if you like doing extra work. I just let the soup boil down to a good consistency.
I too am not fond of canned beans. I keep a few on hand for emergencies, but tend to find them a little slimy with a too-soft texture. Also, some beans, like kidney beans, are canned with sugar and have a distinctly sweet flavor which I find odd after years of cooking them from dry.
The biggest discovery for me about cooking beans was discovering the research showing that hard water can be a culprit with beans that take forever to cook. (yes, old beans can be problematic too, but, I don't store them very long) Now that I use filtered water I have better results. I only do a short soak, maybe an hour, sometimes none. I do add a dash of freshly toasted and ground cumin along with my salt for cooking many types of beans. -I like the flavor.
I knew I was going to catch heat for mentioning canned beans but I did so for the purpose of saying that it is a way of tasting a small amount of a variety of bean one had not had in order to get an idea of how it tasted without cooking a batch from scratch.
I've had an ongoing experiment with small amounts of dried beans that I purchased in '08, '09 and last year.
Some I cooked immediately, or within a few months, some I simply stored in bags and some I vacuum packed.
So far I have cooked three batches of the stored beans and the vacuum packed beans, side by side and by golly, the vacuum packed "old" beans turned out much like the more recently purchased beans (same variety).
The beans stored in just a bag, in a canister, did not soften after prolonged soaking and cooking. Little marbles in the pan.
From now on I'm going to vacuum pack all my beans as this certainly seems to have prolonged the life of the ones I treated this way.
The ones from '08 did take longer to cook but eventually softened completely. The ones from '09 were just like the fresh ones.
I forgot to add that I keep my beans in canning jars that I vacuum seal with the foodsaver jar attachment. I started doing this as a way to prevent pantry moths. I like lots of kinds of beans and have limited storage space, so I don't buy large quantities of any one type and tend to not keep them more than a year or so. But, I would like to just add that vacuum sealing has given me good results. -The jars also have a very attractive appearance with all the varied colors and sizes.
I currently have a bag of dried adzuki beans I was gifted that I'm trying to decide what to do with. I want to bypass the traditional sweet stuff and do something savory but haven't made up my mind what I'm going to do yet.
Try cooking with some cut-up buttercup squash and maybe a little seaweed - kelp or alaria (aka wakame). A little good tamari added to finish when they're cooked is good - if you like tamari. Miso might also be good when finished cooking, but I've never tried it.
eta: Butternut squash might work as well as buttercup but, either way, it should be good sweet flavorful squash.
I like this SpaghettiWestern. It's like my feeling about beans and chili, quite apart from any competition rules about beans in chili, I prefer beans separately, and not on the side but at another meal.
I share your distaste for kidney beans but you might try the Camellia beans from Lousiana, the red beans used in red beans and rice. I was surprised to learn they are kidney beans but they are quite different than any I've had otherwise. If the Cajun influence has crept over to CTex from here in the SE portion of the state, you may be able to find them at that Fiesta on I-35 in Austin. Other red beans you might try would be rojos pequenos from Central America and red silk beans from El Salvador.
I've had good luck with beans from the bean dispensers/bins at Whole Foods. Just recently made a Texas version of Feijoada with some black turtle beans from there that was very good. It's a way to sample beans without having to pay shipping costs or buy more than you want for a sample. I'm pretty sure I've seen Flor de Mayo and Peruano there.
I also second the Florida Speckled recommendation. Never liked limas till I tried those.
You should also consider fava beans.
I suppose something could be determined by comparing canned red kidney beans to canned pintos or canned black beans, but the murky flat flavor of canned beans makes any taste test suspect.
The best way to compare beans and find out which are your favorites or which go best in certain dishes is to use good quality fresh dried beans. I love certain beans and find others to be a bore, either in taste or texture or both. For many years living in New Mexico I ate nothing but Pinto beans. Now I have several other types that are my favorites. Pintos are wonderful for refried beans because they are actually a very soft bean and get rather melty. If you like a firm bean that holds its shape, there are plenty of other choices. In most all bean dishes that specify pintos I now use Rattlesnakes or pink beans.
I hated red kidney beans when all I knew was canned or improperly cooked beans. Now they are one of my favorites; they hold their shape well, and have a wonderful texture and flavor. I buy the dark red kidney beans from Purcell Mountain farms, and they are excellent. I haven't tried those Southern iconic Camellia beans, but I would like to. I am guessing that in the south there is high turnover, so perhaps they are fresher there even though they are bagged. Unless you buy beans where other people buy lots of them, getting stale ones is to be expected.
Good Mother Stallard are also one of my favorites. Black beans have a very distinct flavor and they hold their shape well, but they take a longer time to cook than some other beans. My experience is that they are often undercooked, especially when used in salads.
I keep my beans in jars, and try not to buy more than I can use in three or four months; since we cook a pot of beans almost once a week, they are gone before they get stale.
Even within one kind of bean the flavor can vary depending on the variety. For instance, twenty years ago I bought some Agate pinto bean seeds and grew them. Those were the best pinto beans I ever tasted. But maybe there are other varieties of pintos that are better.
In looking up Agates I came across this Texas Commercial Vegetable Grower's Guide which reports, "Pinto bean varieties currently grown in Texas include: Agate, Bill Z, Cinnabar (D81125), Flint, Olathe, Othello, Pindak, Pinray, UI 114, and UI 116." That's just in Texas and just pintos.
eta: The soil and its fertility could have as much, or more, to do with taste than a particular variety.
WOW guys ! thanks for all the great comments. I havent been near the computer for a few days so i havent checked back to see if there were more comments posted.
i guess the only way that i am gonna really know how beans differ in variety is to keep trying them all.
i have been keeping a notebook on all the varieties of beans that i make. i make them pretty much all the same way so i can judge what taste and texture i like best.
i dont soak beans anymore.... i use my crock pot and put them in with just water and bones.....no meat on the bones.... just the bones silt open by my butcher to expose the marrow. then dried chilies, mexican oregano, a tiny bit of wrights liquid smoke, smashed garlic cloves and a half of an onion.... not chopped just cut in half and still attached at the top.
i dont want any onion pieces in my beans. i want the flavor but not the bits of garlic and onion itself.
i know this sounds weird but... after much trial and error i have found that THIS is the way i like beans.
cooked in this savory broth they absorb..... and throwing off their own bean broth to boot.
then i season them when they are done with whatever kind of seasonings i feel like at the time.
they come out SOOOO good that i have to fight myself not to eat huge quanities of them at one sitting.
think i am going to actually try some good dried kidney style beans and see how i like them.
i use to live in New Orleans years ago and i am very familiar with the Camellia beans. their red beans are lovely.
i make beans ALOT... so even though i have alot in my house..... i use them up quickly.
i'll have to try ordering from that purcell mountain website... they sure have a big selection.
My favorite bean is cannellini/"white kidney" beans. I think it's the rich, buttery texture and heady aroma that does it. I've never thought about how to describe the flavors of various dried beans before--I'll have to start paying more attention. I love them hot, cooked with garlic and sage and drizzled with good olive oil--preferably with lamb shanks, though even a piece of garlic-rubbed bread would be enough. In the summer, I'll toss cooked-and-cooled bean with diced onions, tomatoes, cucumbers, parsley, olive oil, and lemon juice (and/or whatever other fresh vegetables and herbs I might have that day). Great with grilled seafood.
For a change of pace, I like to use chick peas for their slightly sweet, nutty flavor. I cook the dried ones. I feel like I read a few books that said they take forever to cook, but for me, they're actually faster than other beans (I find black beans to be the slowest of the ones I cook regularly). I presoak in salted water, which I suppose can't hurt.
Not really. I've paid more for beans that are from small producers and with limited availability in the US.
Spanish Rinons, Zolfini and Coco Nano from Italy.
I am a regular customer/consumer of Rancho Gordo beans, and definitely consider it worth the extra time and expense to order them.
I'm not saying that you can't get beans anywhere that taste as good as those from RG, but my personal experience has definitely been in that direction.
It's not just the "organic" thing that seems to me to be the difference; but rather, the fact that RG beans are so fresh. Even organic beans can take considerable time to package, ship and sit on grocery shelves, you know.
If you are a person that adds a lot of seasoning to your beans, you might not notice the difference so much. But RG beans are so good that all you need to do is to simmer them in water with a little garlic and salt and they're wonderful.
I've got some pretty terrific bean recipes - my most treasured being charro beans from a famous restaurant in Nuevo Progreso just across the Texas border. It calls for quite a long list of additions and seasonings. For that recipe, I can just go to my local grocery store and buy pintos from the big bulk bean bin. The charro beans are better when I make them with RG pintos, but not so much so that it's worth the extra cost and trouble.
But if all you want to do is to cook and serve them simply, so that the unadorned flavor of the bean itself comes shining through, for my money, you can't beat Rancho Gordo beans.
For that $5.50 we get enough beans to last our family of 6 through two meals.
Still a bargain in my book.


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(CNS): Local defence attorney Steve McField, who is representing a former John Gray High School teacher accused of indecent assault, said the students making the allegations were "vicious little girls" who thought their teacher was a "creepy paedophile" and had made up lies to destroy him. As the case against the teacher came to a close Thursday, McField told the jury that "many lies" had been told during the trial and children can be the most vicious liars of all.
The teacher, who had taken the stand, had denied all the allegations made by the three students, who were 11 and 12 at the time the assault was said to have happened. The girls had accused the teacher of touching them inappropriately in ways that made them uncomfortable during a class at the end of January last year. But the teacher told the court that he was late with a mock exam that he needed to prepare for older students at the time, so that day he hadn't paid much attention to the class and had left them to get on with a task he had set while he prepared the exam paper.
Although the girls had spoken about the allegations with each other, each one had told different people separately before making reports to the police. One told a friend and then the school counsellor, another her mother and then the police, while the third girl told her friends that she had been touched as well before she reported it to the counsellor; and then they all went to the police — all of which happened over a five-day period.
The girls gave accounts that the teacher had touched their breasts and one said he had brushed his hand along her inner thing toward her pubic area. The touching, she said, could almost have been accidental but she said it made her uncomfortable.
The teacher categorically denied touching them at all. When asked under cross-examination if it was possible that the girls could have been mistaken about accidental touching, he insisted he did not go near them and had no physical contact.
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But McField insisted his client was telling the truth and that he had not touched them. He said his client was a strict teacher who had threatened the children with detention and calling their parents, so they and their friends had fabricated a story to get him in trouble.
He pointed to allegations that one of the girls made that they had caught a glimpse of the word porn in the browser on the teacher's computer and a disappearing image of a bed on the screen as he closed down the machine. McField said this was the "worst lie" told to embellish their false story, as forensic analysis of the computer showed no evidence that the teacher had looked at any pornography on it.
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The Shenmue series has a huge cult following with good reason. It is one of the most immersive games I have ever played. And it was amazingly gorgeous and epic, particularly for its time. It was first released for the Dreamcast in 1999/2000 depending which side of the Pacific you lived on.
Shenmue is the brainchild of game creator Yu Suzuki, also known for the Virtua Fighter series, Virtua Cop and more. Thinking about it, maybe he has always had a thing for graphic innovation.
The game takes place in Yokosuka, Japan. The 3D virtual world is just wonderful. I really felt like I was exploring 1980's Japan. The environments are incredibly interactive. I remember you could open each drawer/door of the dresser in the protagonist Ryo's room. The vending machines Japan is notorious for were also interactive. You could buy drinks or even collectible toys, though not some of the more bizarre offerings you may have heard about in Japan, like worn panties.
The behaviour of the NPCs was also very interesting. The game kept track of time and at different times of day, the characters would be going about different things in their daily lives. Shops would open and close at different times. The seasons changed. It was a gorgeous, realistic world.
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The control system was diverse. There was so much you could do in the game. There was the 3rd person exploration mode which was perhaps a bit like the 3D Zelda games without the ability to attack. There was the fighting mode which is similar to the fighting in the Yakuza games. There was the Quick Time Event or QTE mode. This happened sometimes during action sequences of the story wherein you must push a certain button or button combination before time was up. On top of these common modes, there were also a few mini-games to be played throughout the game. You could go to an arcade and play some games there, including darts, Hang On, and Space Harrier, a couple of Yu Suzuki's old games.
The game begins with Ryo walking into his father's dojo to find his father battling a Chinese man named Lan Di. Lan Di is demanding the whereabouts of some mirror. Lan Di ends up taking Ryo's father's life and injuring Ryo. And so begins Ryo's quest for revenge.
If martial arts, an open interactive world and 80's Japan are your thing, I think you will enjoy this one.
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Hello Couragemakers and welcome to episode 77 of The Couragemakers Podcast!
I want to begin this episode with a trigger warning. In this episode, we discuss childhood sexual abuse and very briefly suicide. The most important thing is for you to take care of you, so if you need to skip this episode, please do.
This week, I had the absolute privilege of interviewing Hazel Katherine Larkin.
Hazel Katherine Larkin is a mother, writer, teacher, activist, actor, and academic. Her daughters are 13 & 15, of mixed Irish and Indian heritage, and inspire her to be the best version of herself. Hazel has written for stage, screen and publication in Ireland, Singapore, Malaysia, and Dubai, and her memoir Gullible Travels was published at the end of 2015. She has designed and delivered workshops for women and children in a variety of disciplines including personal development, language arts, mental wellness and recovery, and sexuality and consent. She has also devised the first series of workshops ever available in Ireland for midwives and birthworkers around the provision of trauma-informed support for women who have survived sexual abuse. Hazel is a survivor of child sexual abuse, and she writes and speaks about this, and has devised a series of lectures for medical students around the long-term effects of child sexual abuse. Her first loves - Story-telling and Theatre – inform the production and performance all her work. Hazel is currently a PhD candidate researching transgenerational trauma, with particular regard to sexual abuse. Hazel also works with an agency for single parents in Ireland, influencing opinion and policy, and is also a founding member of MAM – Mothers Artists Makers
In this episode we really dive into Hazel's story. Hazel shares the realities and the struggles of being a truthteller, her experiences of recovery and therapy and how she learned there is no overnight magical transformation, but instead there are lots of small magical steps.
Hazel shares how being a truthteller has been imperative in sharing her own experiences of surviving childhood sexual abuse, great wisdom about telling the truth in stages and the importance of empirical truth.
We dive into the nuances of the #MeToo movement: how we have the choice whether we disclose and to who, how it is enough to draw strength from nodding your head with other people coming forward and the importance of believing yourself when it's hard.
As Hazel says, one of the most isolating things about sexual abuse is feeling like you're the only one. This episode is a reminder that you are not alone. Hazel shares advice on what to do if you've never disclosed or talked about your experiences and want to start dealing with them, fantastic advice on choosing a counsellor/therapist who works for you and some book suggestions which I've added at the end of this episode.
Hazel is a true gift to the world and I am so happy this conversation exists in the world. Hazel says in this episode that her job as a human being is to be the most useful human being she can be and this episode is testament to that.
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Tummelisa (da: Tommelise) är en saga av den danske författaren H.C. Andersen, publicerad första gången 1835.

Handling
En kvinna får med hjälp av ett förtrollat vetekorn en flicka som endast är hög som en tumme.

Tummelisa, som flickan kallas, sover i ett valnötsskal och blir en natt då hon sover bortrövad av en padda. Paddan vill nämligen att den lilla miniatyrflickan ska bli hennes sons fru. Som tur är får Tummelisa hjälp att fly från paddorna, men blir istället fånge hos en skalbagge. Efter att ha undsluppit även den finner hon skydd från den kalla vintern hos en åkermus. Hon får av åkermusen rådet att gifta sig med deras granne, en mullvad som Tummelisa finner motbjudande att äkta och hon försöker åter att fly sitt öde. I mullvadens håla hittar Tummelisa en skadad svala och hon bestämmer sig att ta hand om svalan tills den frisknar till. När våren kommer lyckas Tummelisa fly från hålan, flygande på svalans rygg. De flyger till ett annat land, där Tummelisa möter en fe-kung. De blir förälskade, gifter sig och Tummelisa får sina egna fe-vingar.

Filmatiseringar
Tummelisa finns i ett antal versioner som animerad film, däribland Don Bluths Tummelisa från 1994.

Se även
Tummeliten
FVM/CVM Tummelisa

Externa länkar
 Tommelise - faksimil av originalutgåvan, i Danmarks litteraturarkiv

Konstsagor
Verk av H.C. Andersen
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OHCHR	| October, 2015 March, 2016 | Sri Lanka
In the wake of a recent OHCHR report, Neville de Silva examines the challenging situation faced by Sri Lanka's newly elected government over the investigation into purported human rights abuses.
Sri Lanka has been trapped, to use a current cliché, between a rock and a hard place. It might still squeeze its way out thanks to its one-time virulent Western critics turning more benevolent at the Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council after the change of political guard in the island earlier this year.
Still it will not escape unscathed, even though the new government in Colombo is more pro-Western than its China-leaning predecessor and has been assiduously cultivating Washington and the West since Maithripala Sirisena ousted Mahinda Rajapaksa as president last January and Ranil Wickremesinghe enhanced his position as prime minister following parliamentary elections in August after seven months in a caretaker role.
At the heart of Sri Lanka's current troubles is a report from the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights that investigated allegations of war crimes and violations of international law and other abuses that occurred during the military conflict between the Sri Lankan state and the secessionist Tamil minority rebels, the Tamil Tigers.
This report, released during last month's 30th Session of the UN Human Rights Council, is consequent to a US-led resolution in 2014 calling for an independent investigation into widespread allegations of abuse by both the Sri Lanka security forces and the Tamil Tigers, particularly during the last stages of the war, which ended with the military defeat of the rebels in mid-May 2009.
In a stinging indictment of the actions of the security forces and the Tamil rebels, High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein told a Geneva press conference that their 'investigation has laid bare the horrific level of violations and abuses that occurred in Sri Lanka'. He recommended that Sri Lanka establish a special court to try the 'horrific' abuses through specific legislation by integrating international judges, prosecutors, lawyers and investigators. This court will have an injection of international expertise at different levels—hence the term 'hybrid' used to describe it.
CONDEMNATION: UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein spoke of the 'horrific level of violations' exposed by the UNHRC investigation
Even before the Geneva drama could reach its denouement on 30 September, President Sirisena, his prime minister and foreign minister were already patting themselves on the back for having salvaged the country from what would have been a highly critical report by the High Commissioner for Human Rights and an antagonistic international community (read 'Western').
President Sirisena told a media conference that the report was 'a thousand times' less harmful than it would have been had he had not come to power in January and had the government not begun addressing human rights and governance issues, and initiated moves towards reconciliation with the Tamil community.
Both the president and Prime Minister Wickremesinghe stressed that it was their government that prevented the names of several persons-presumably those suspected of committing human rights violations-appearing in the report, though they did not say how this was achieved.
What seems to have been overlooked or consciously avoided is that this report was initially to be presented to the UN Human Rights Council at its March sessions. So it would have been ready some time earlier. It was Sri Lanka, with the help of Washington, that sought a delay in the presentation of the report until the September meeting of the Council. Is the government claiming that persons had been named in the original report but their names were dropped after Sri Lanka interceded?
That does not square with the observation of High Commissioner al-Hussein, who asserted that the report was an investigation into human rights issues and not a criminal investigation, and that it has tried to identify the patterns of violations of international human rights and humanitarian laws not only during the last phase of the armed conflict but in the whole ten-year period covered by the investigation and even before. It was not a judicial process intended to identify the guilty.
Given this seeming contradiction or, at best, difference of opinion, it is incumbent on the government to say how and at what point of time it managed to persuade the High Commissioner's office to drop the naming of names.
While Sri Lanka's leaders were in a self-congratulatory mood, in Geneva the US, which had been responsible for three resolutions critical of Sri Lanka, was still engaged in putting the final touches to a resolution that is expected to win the universal approval of the Council's member-states that might or might not leave sufficient space for Sri Lanka to extricate itself with a bloodied nose.
If it is going to free itself and is depending on Washington, which had placed Sri Lanka in this position to begin with by internationalising the issue as never before, the optimism of the Sri Lankan leaders might well be misplaced.
At the time of writing, I have seen the first draft of the resolution that the US has said it will move at the butt end of the Council's session after consultations with core Council members and Sri Lanka itself.
Although the resolution as it now stands avoids mention of the contentious 'hybrid' court urged by High Commissioner al-Hussein, the operative paragraphs cited below do retain key elements of that recommendation. The last clause in operative Para 4 calls upon the Sri Lankan government to 'involve international investigators, prosecutors and judges in Sri Lanka's justice processes'.
Takes note of the new Government of Sri Lanka's commitment to undertaking a comprehensive approach to transitional justice incorporating the full range of judicial and non-judicial measures, including, inter alia, criminal prosecutions, truth-seeking, reparations, institutional reforms and other guarantees of non-repetition;
Encourages the new Government of Sri Lanka to respect its positive commitment to bolster and safeguard the credibility of these justice processes by engaging in broad national consultations with the inclusion of victims and civil society, including non-governmental organizations, from all affected communities that will inform the design and implementation of these processes, as well as assistance from international experts and the international community throughout the process, and to ensuring strong and effective witness and victim protection measures are in place;
Welcomes the government's recognition that accountability is essential to uphold the rule of law and build confidence in the people of all communities of Sri Lanka in the justice system, takes note with appreciation of the Government of Sri Lanka's proposal to establish a Judicial Mechanism with a Special Counsel to investigate allegations of violations and abuses of human rights and violations of international humanitarian law, as applicable; and affirms that credible transitional justice process should include independent judicial and prosecutorial institutions led by individuals known for integrity and impartiality; and calls upon the Government of Sri Lanka to involve international investigators, prosecutors and judges in Sri Lanka's justice processes;
Encourages the Government of Sri Lanka to review and, where required, reform domestic law to ensure that it allows for prosecution of the full range of crimes under domestic and international law involving violations and abuses of human rights and violations of international humanitarian law;
CRITICAL SITUATION: The Supreme Court (l), zenith of Sri Lanka's judicial structure, has been declared 'unfit for purpose' in a report by the OHCHR in Geneva (r)
Therein lies the rub. What precisely is meant by 'involve'? A clear definition of what it entails is crucial to what will soon turn into an intense debate within and outside Sri Lanka.
There are those who would argue that the resolution, if it retains the current wording when eventually presented to the Council, does not go far enough and that a domestic mechanism even with some international input would not suffice to obtain justice for the victims and for punitive action against those who might be guilty of gross violations of law. They would want either a full-fledged international inquiry or at least the international component of the judicial process to be the dominant player.
John Fisher, Geneva Director of Human Rights Watch, articulated this latter position when he argued that the proposed hybrid court 'should contain a majority of international judges and have an international prosecutor to best insulate the court from improper political and other influences'.
The International Crisis Group reacting to the recommendation to set up a hybrid special court said: 'This recommendation merits particular endorsement by the Human Rights Council, given that the government's resistance to international participation in investigations, witness protection or trials invites doubts about its ability to achieve its own stated goals of justice, accountability and reconciliation and undermines the trust of survivors and witnesses whose testimony will be crucial.'
HEROES OR VILLAINS?: Despite claims of human rights abuses, some see the Sri Lankan military as war heroes for defeating the LTTE
Closer to home, the Tamil Nadu State Assembly passed a resolution urging the New Delhi government to back a call for an international investigation. 'The Tamil Nadu assembly requests the Government of India that if the US takes a stand supportive of Sri Lanka (at the UNHRC), then India must take diplomatic efforts to change that,' the resolution stated, underscoring the continuing support of the southern Indian state for their ethnic brethren in Sri Lanka.
In Sri Lanka's Tamil-speaking north and east, 19 civil society organisations called for an international investigation in which international jurists were predominant, while the Tamil diaspora, resident particularly in the west, also supported the al-Hussein recommendation for international participation.
The London-based Global Tamil Forum said in a media statement: 'GTF is in full agreement with the report, which stated, "A purely domestic court procedure will have no chance of overcoming widespread and justifiable suspicions fuelled by decades of violations, malpractice and broken promises", and supports the establishment of a "hybrid" Special Court, integrating international judges, prosecutors, lawyers and investigators.
'Member states must ensure that the forthcoming resolution at the UNHRC clearly articulates the need to include substantial participation of international personnel at each stage of the investigation and trial process.'
Hardly had the High Commissioner's report reached the public domain when the battle lines began to be drawn in Sri Lanka. The first to fire a shot across the bows was Namal Rajapaksa, son of the former president Mahinda Rajapaksa and parliamentarian who castigated the UN official for 'insulting' Sri Lanka's judicial system, which he had described as unfit and too politicised to undertake the tasks ahead.
Sri Lanka's former ambassador to the UN in Geneva, Dr Dayan Jayatilleke, who steered a resolution at the Council sessions in 2009 that defeated Western attempts to castigate Sri Lanka and win majority support from the then council, described the on-going efforts as being offered a 'poisoned chalice'.
Former president Rajapaksa, who would be centre-stage in any possible criminal investigation as he was defence minister and commander-in-chief of the defence forces during the crucial period, joined the battle, saying he would not help any hybrid court, while one of his strong allies and leader of the National Freedom Front called for a parliamentary debate on the UN report within a week.
The real battle would begin only after the Sri Lanka issue is discussed at the Council on 30 September and a resolution adopted unanimously or by vote.
If the resolution calls on Sri Lanka to inject a foreign judicial element into what was intended to be a purely domestic inquiry with international advice and assistance, then the Sirisena-Wickremesinghe government will have a real battle on its hands.
Whether the opposition to a hybrid judicial process will remain essentially vocal and not be played out on the streets of Colombo will depend largely on what role international jurists and investigators are assigned in the process.
There are several factors to be considered. Firstly, the government must learn to speak in a single voice. Prime Minister Wickremesinghe has said that no decision has been taken with regard to the hybrid court recommended. Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera says all options are on the table, suggesting that the game has not ended in Geneva, but the words suggest that Colombo might throw in the towel.
But even before the decision has been made, cabinet spokesman Rajitha Senaratne told a media briefing that massive frauds and corruption that had been perpetrated under the guise of prosecuting a war would also receive the due attention of the Hybrid Special Court to be established.
Either Senaratne was jumping the gun, which as cabinet spokesman he has been prone to do on occasion, or the government has already decided to capitulate and go along with its new-found friends in the West who are preparing their Trojan horse.
This, however, is to go back on manifesto pledges made by Maithripala Sirisena when he threw his hat into the ring to contest his one-time leader Rajapaksa in the January presidential election. Sirisena's manifesto expressed the intention to address issues of accountability through a national independent judicial process.
Shortly after Sirisena came to power the Tamil Guardian wrote: 'Mr Sirisena made it clear during his election campaign and in his manifesto that he would not allow any Sri Lankan citizen who fought against the LTTE to be handed over to face international justice. Instead, vowing to clean up Sri Lanka's image on the international stage, Mr Sirisena promised a domestic inquiry into any allegations of war crimes.'
President Sirisena's position and insistence on a domestic inquiry is clear enough or was when trying to cajole and entice the voting public. It might be mentioned that he was a cabinet minister under Mahinda Rajapaksa during the bitter years of the anti-separatist war, as were several others who are now holding cabinet or deputy minister positions in the Sirisena government.
To safeguard their political future as most of them come from the majority Sinhala south, they are likely to be distressed, to say the least, with any internationalised judicial process that is going to try Sri Lankan political leaders or its soldiers. The latter are treated and greeted as war heroes for defeating, after almost 30 years, a ruthless and implacable enemy that was responsible for hundreds of terrorist attacks that killed many thousands and destroyed property.
While there might be some support in the Sinhala majority south for a domestic inquiry, it will strongly resist any international role in such a judicial process, particularly because of the double standards adopted by powerful western nations and multilateral institutions maintained with western funds.
A local English- language newspaper, The Island, expressed the valid concerns of the Sri Lankan people: 'The UNHRC extols the virtues of reconciliation which, it says, it wants to promote. Regrettably, the manner in which it has chosen to handle Sri Lanka's post-war issues does not help foster reconciliation. For it has, owing to its prejudices, failed to act impartially. It is seen to be a handmaiden of some meddlesome world powers notorious for using human rights as a political weapon to force smaller countries like Sri Lanka to toe their line. Ironically, while being putty in the hands of some world powers, it laments political interference with Sri Lanka's state institutions like the judiciary! Its decision to defer the war crimes report on Sri Lanka at the behest of some member states sympathetic to the new government here is a case in point.'
The prestigious Sunday Times newspaper, in a hard-hitting editorial on 20 September, sent a warning to both the government and the international community (the West), even as the major Western powers were engaged in an exercise to infiltrate international expertise into Sri Lanka's internal affairs. It said:
'The US, the West and the so-called International Community that spearheaded this hot potato in the first place, are now finding it on their own laps. Holding a Government accountable to a "domestic mechanism" with a time-table is one thing, but once you expand it to a quasi-international investigation you are going to open up old wounds. This was not Cambodia. If they think North-South reconciliation is possible while valiant commanding officers who risked their lives for the unity and sovereignty of this country are going to be thrown to ravenous wolves, that is a serious error of judgement on their part.
'The UNHRC says it speaks for the victims. There are more than 20 million victims of that bloody insurgency living in this country today reaping the benefits of peace. Neither the UN experts nor Prince Zaid lived through those harrowing times here. For those Governments that support the present Government, the under-currents are not to be underestimated. They are paying for short-sighted policies in West Asia. If they are interested in this Government's longevity what they have done is placed a time-bomb under its seat.'
There are concerns both legal and political. Some legal experts contend that Sri Lanka's constitution does not allow the creation of such special courts as recommended which allow the involvement of foreign elements in the judicial process.
Article 4 of the Constitution states that the judicial power of the people shall be exercised by Parliament through the courts, tribunals and institutions created and established or recognised by the constitution or created and established by law.
If the judicial power of the people, which is an intrinsic element of sovereignty, is to be eroded by the intrusion of foreign elements into its judicial process, it would be perceived as an assault on the country's sovereignty, even though Foreign Minister Samaraweera might argue that the concept of sovereignty is being twisted by some to serve selfish ends.
If those who hold this legal opinion are correct, then the setting up of the envisaged hybrid court would require a constitutional amendment that has to be approved by the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court, the apex body in the country's judicial structure which the UN report has castigated as politicised, corrupted and unfit for purpose, might well declare that such a critical constitutional amendment requires not only a two-third majority in parliament but approval by the people at a referendum.
If indeed a constitutional change is required and the Supreme Court rules in favour of a referendum as well, it is hardly likely to receive the approval of the people, who will be extremely wary of supporting any meddling with the judicial process that could lead to international players dominating the court or even be seen to be domineering.
Equally, a majority of the public is unlikely to support a court consisting of international players that will try unnamed political and military figures who the people hold in high esteem for defending the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the country.
The government will not dare test the popular will on an issue such as this, which it is hardly likely to survive.
If, by enticing Mahinda Rajapaksa loyalists in the United Peoples Freedom Alliance-in which the main constituent is the Sri Lanka Freedom Party- away from him with ministerial posts and other perks and privileges, the Sirisena-Wickremesinghe duo thought that Rajapaksa would quietly fade into the sunset, they are now preparing, unwittingly perhaps, to hand over a dangerous weapon that will reinvigorate a dispirited opposition and frame Rajapaksa once more in the popular mind.
Moreover, many of those who crossed over to Sirisena's side did not do so on principle but due to political expediency and personal gain. Would they continue to remain where they are if called upon to vote for a court that is essentially being put together to try some of those who are considered war heroes?
As the Sunday Times editorial rightly said, the so-called Western friends are putting a time bomb under the seat of this government, except that it seems more like a minor nuclear weapon for its repercussions will spread beyond Sri Lanka's frontiers.
There was an old American pop song titled 'September Song'. Could Geneva turn out to be a September swansong?
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First of all let me write that no one love's IndyCar racing more than I do! Now that this is clear. Here I go. Ok I get it IndyCar. Was today April 1st? The real schedule is coming out tomorrow right? Why is it that I feel when IndyCar talked of us losing races such tracks as, Pocono, Iowa, Toronto, Texas in the upcoming 2015 season. This was done with IndyCar knowing full-well we weren't losing anything, just shuffling dates. Did IndyCar really think that the IndyCar fan was going to see these tracks still on the schedule today and breath a collective sigh of relief? By the looks of the post I have read by the fan's, this could be further from the truth. Personally I am thankful for us getting back a great race, as well as a great spectator turnout we can look forward to in Brasil. But after this race. IndyCar just looks like the 2014 season sans Houston, and Toronto double-header. Below is what the new season all boils down to.
24 weeks of racing with 16 weekends of what we love, out of a 52 weekend year!
MARCH: We start off the season with two races total.
RACE ONE: Starting March 8, At the Autódromo Internacional Nelson Piquet Brasília, Brazil. It is then another three weeks till our next race in St Pete.
RACE THREE: Starting April 12 at NOLA Motorsports Park Avondale, LA. One week later, and we are in Long Beach.
MAY: We have Four races in the month of May. With huge gap between races.
RACE SIX: May 9 Grand Prix of Indianapolis Indianapolis, IN. Three weeks off between Indy road course race, and the Indy 500.
NOTE: The start of the IndyCar season will have started with 6 road, or street courses. And this is before we get a taste of our first oval race, at the Indianapolis 500.
RACE SEVEN: May 24 Indianapolis 500 Indianapolis, IN. One week off until race at Belle Isle which will be our only double-header of the season, and in reality killing two races, with one weekend stone!
AUGUST: Three races during the month of August, with last race of the season being at Sonoma. And ending labor day weekend.
RACE SIXTEEN: Aug. 23 Pocono Raceway Long Pond, PA. One week off between Pocono Raceway race, and until Championship race.
RACE SEVENTEEN CHAMPIONSHIP RACE: Aug. 30 Sonoma Raceway Sonoma, CA Season ends!
In regards to having our championship race at Sonoma, and our season ending in August. Personally if I had my way this what I would have done. Obviously some traditions are made to be broken in IndyCar, and we find that out specifically at the Indianapolis 500 on a yearly basis. Having said that. What would have been terribly wrong with cutting a deal with the city of Long Beach, to change our race date to Labor day weekend August 30, 2015? We are talking a difference in temperature of about 10 degree's F. between April, and August. Surely if we can race in the dessert heat of Fontana in June. It would be feasible that we could also race in the beautiful temperate climate of Long Beach in August.
Next to the Indy 500, we all know that Long Beach GP is IndyCar's cash cow. We also know it is the closest race we have to racing in a Monaco type setting on our calendar. For 40 years, we have for the most part selling out this track, and bringing in sometimes over Two-Hundred thousand fans on our race weekend. What would it hurt the city of Long Beach to bend a little, just to give us a break?
Long Beach would give the people in the surrounding area's of Los Angeles, and Orange county a great weekend getaway. This brings in more people booking hotel's, feeding themselves at local establishments, and really giving our television viewer, TV network, and sponsor's a great sendoff, to the end of our IndyCar season. Now this may be a bit far-fetched. But maybe that is our problem? IndyCar needs to think outside the box, and be willing to take some risk!So here it is.What if we put on a double-header weekend at Long Beach. The track opens on Thursday, and not much goes on Friday, giving our teams and driver's ample time for practice, and qualifying. We could stage race #1 on Saturday night under the lights. With the publicity this would bring, we could expect even more late minute people clamoring for Sundays daytime race tickets. Double race, double points, and double the excitement in a waterfront setting along the shoreline of Long Beach. Now that's what I call a IndyCar Championship Grand Prix!
In conclusion: IndyCar instead chooses a venue like Snorenoma, to whisk us all into a Thanksgiving type coma on Labor Day weekend. The word "Championship" before the word Gopro Grand Prix of Sonoma isn't going to bring in anymore people to our race. Not at a track that already reaps in its money, and fills the stands from a NASCAR race prior to our's in 2015. By August in Sonoma it is hot, and dusty. And the track will be filled with the carnage of IndyCar driver's trying to make passes, in the impassable. All while trying to win a championship. Come on IndyCar, its bad enough we have to wait almost seven months between our last race of the season, and your hiatus. Now you have given us five more months to wait for 2015 season. Then six more months of to the end of a season. Just so we can wait for the new 2016 schedule to come out that hopefully gives us all that we want!


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The Healthy Indiana Plan is a health-insurance program for qualified adults. The plan is offered by the State of Indiana, and is also known as "HIP 2.0." It pays for medical costs for members and could even provide vision and dental coverage. It also rewards members for taking better care of their health. The plan covers Hoosiers ages 19 to 64 who meet specific income levels. See below if your 2017 income qualifies.
The Healthy Indiana Plan uses a proven, consumer-driven approach that was pioneered in Indiana. HIP 2.0 builds upon the framework and successes of the original Healthy Indiana Plan.


On May 15, 2016 at approximately 10:35 p.m., Loveland police officers responded to the Pizza Hut at 237 E. 29th St. on the report of a robbery. When the officers arrived, they were told that a man had entered the store shortly before 10:35p.m., presented a handgun, and demanded money. The man immediately left on foot with an undisclosed amount of cash. The man was described as white or Hispanic, approximately 5'10" tall, and 150 pounds. He was wearing a black hoodie, black ski mask, and black pants. Neither photos nor video are available.


Over the last three weeks, College FootBlog has provided preseason power rankings for the ACC and Big Ten. Earlier this week, College FootBlog broke down the SEC East (see link). The SEC has been known for being the best conference in college football, and for good reason–the last two national champions have come from that conference. We now take a look at what we expect from the much deeper SEC West Division.
1. Alabama: Even though the tide lose several key defenders including both starting corners and All-American linebacker Rolando McClain, head coach Nick Saban has more than enough talent to put another sound defense on the field in 2010. People outside of Tuscaloosa will know the name Dre Kirkpatrick after this season. The sophomore corner has the size (6'3″ and 190 lbs.) and skills to be the Tide's next All-American defensive back. On offense, Bama has the top running back tandem in the nation with Heisman Trophy winner Mark Ingram and sophomore Trent Richardson, who rushed for over 100 yards and two TDs in last year's BCS National Championship. Wide receiver Julio Jones will be an NFL first rounder next spring if he chooses to leave early, and quarterback Greg McElroy enters this season with big-game experience. The running game and Saban's ability to coach up the defense make the Tide the front-runner to not only win their division, but also challenge for another BCS National Championship.
2. Arkansas: As quarterback Ryan Mallett goes, so will the Razorbacks. Mallett, who goes 6'7″ and 238 lbs., should only improve his draft stock by sticking around another season in Bobby Petrino's offense. The Heisman hopeful will look to build on last years numbers of over 3,600 yards passing with 30 TDs compared to only seven picks. Defensively, the Hogs must improve and a couple of new coaches on that side of the ball and the return of cornerback Isaac Madison, who missed last season due to injury, should help a secondary that finished 99th in the nation against the pass, giving up just under 250 yards per game through the air.
3. LSU: Les Miles will have a pretty young team, but he has recruited extremely well. The Tigers must replace a couple of key weapons on offense, including WR Brandon Lafell, but they have a stable of big, physical receivers like 6'5″ Terrence Tolliver and and 6'3″ Rueben Randle. Quarterback Jordan Jefferson must be more consistent this season, but with a full season under his belt and the talent he has at WR, he should take a step forward this fall. Stevan Ridley looks like he will take over the starting running back spot with the departure of Charles Scott, but the Tigers will split carries among a few running backs. Defensively, LSU lost two-sport star Chad Jones, but they have some decent depth and athleticism in the secondary, including freshman safety Craig Loston. The schedule is not in LSU's favor, though, as they go on the road to face Auburn, Florida, Arkansas and North Carolina.
4. Auburn: Head coach Gene Chizik silenced all who criticized his hiring from lowly Iowa State in last year's off-season. The new head coach led the Tigers to an 8-5 record and gave Alabama all they could handle in the Iron Bowl before losing to the Tide 26-21. On offense, the Tigers return running backs Ben Tate and Onterrio McCalebb and four of their five starters on the offensive line that combined for the nation's 13th best running game in the country in 2009. Add to the mix, junior college transfer quarterback Cameron Newton and a deep and talented receiving corps, and Auburn could easily move up the power rankings in a hurry this fall. Defensively, the Tigers gave up 30 or more points in seven games last season. That must change if they want to challenge Bama for the SEC West, but Chizik is known for his defenses, and with a year under his belt and another solid recruiting class should provide much better results this fall.
5. Ole Miss: Although quarterback Jevan Sneed did not perform well last season, throwing 20 picks, he was still a leader on a Rebels' squad and replacing him will be easier said than done. Whoever assumes the starting job at QB will be inexperienced and unproven. By far the biggest hit on Houston Nutt's offense, however, is the graduation of do-everything RB/WR Dexter McCluster. The Rebels' defense, along with the electric play of McCluster, was what kept them in games last season, and the good news for the fans in Oxford is that several key defenders, including mammoth NT Jerrell Powe who weighs in at 340 lbs. Powe will attempt to lead another top 25 defense, like the Rebs' fielded last season. Even with a stout defense, the key losses on offense will prove very difficult to overcome, and staying afloat in what is probably the toughest division in all of college football (SEC West) will probably make a .500 season a difficult task.
6. Mississippi State: Second-year coach Dan Mullen will have his work cut out for him again competing in this division. The Bulldogs lose their running back from last season, Anthony Dixon, and that loss will hurt. Robert Elliott is the front-runner for the starting RB spot, but replacing 1,300 yards will be difficult to pull off. A major reason for the Bulldogs' 3-5 SEC record from last year was their pass defense, which was 11th in the conference. It doesn't help the Bulldogs that instead of Vanderbilt this season, they pick up Georgia. Coach Mullen should have an improved product on the field this season, but that will not necessarily translate into a better SEC record in 2010.


Paul Rudd and Seann William Scott are two of the funniest men and most likeable stars around so it's no surprise they're a laugh riot as a pair of idiot slacker salesmen.
After crashing their energy drink company truck while pie-eyed, they're sentenced to 150 hours of community service mentoring kids.
Rudd co-wrote the strong, witty, gag-packed script for this hilarious tale.
Christopher Mintz-Plasse and rap star Bobb'e J Thompson score well as the troublesome kids they're lumbered with, Jane Lynch delivers some of the best lines as the head of community service and Elizabeth Banks is a welcome, appealing presence as Rudd's girlfriend.


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News? What the heck?
FRED RYAN
SHAWVILLE, QC | When the news is delivered to us -- daily via air-waves, paper or device -- are we getting the news? Or are we given an interpretation of the news? Take this fall's federal election -- big news. What we received were the election results, but inevitably delivered to us as an opinion, and as a car-wreck: the result was an unstable minority government, radical regional divisions, under-performing leaders.
There seem just as many reasons to see the election as a good one: two-thirds of Canadians voted; climate remediation was given majority support -- but not to a single party which could then easily "deny and delay". Voters spread their support so that climate change becomes part of every party's approach to every issue. Canadians chastised the Liberals for obvious reasons and chastised the Conservatives for -- being too conservative. Interpretations are many -- but our major media presented mainly negatives.
Or take the railway strike just over. It inevitably top story -- but always in terms of the problems, discomforts and threats it was causing. As if it would last until Christmas, the strike was reported strangling retailers "at their busiest time," and threatening the grain harvest by a propane shortage (which never happened, CBC now admits). We heard repeated cries for back-to-work-legislation. What the heck? Did we hear why the workers were striking, what were their problems, how did this loss of pay affect their lives, their ability to buy propane for their stoves? Nope, no news there.
Or, again, our new government has a new cabinet, and Christina Freeland's the star -- front page news, over and over. She has the crucial inter-provincial affairs portfolio. She did such a great job as foreign minister, renegotiating NAFTA -- she took it from the negotiators, strode into the room, and made the deal -- that's the "news" we get. Is it news?
What the heck, there is no "new NAFTA".
Mexico and Canada have agreed to points, but there is no treaty. In fact, there will not be one, given American domestic politics. Ms Freeland's great job? India? Relations with China? Yes, she was at the barricades (metaphorically) supporting the US's regime change in Venezuela and Bolivia. The Americans were impressed with Freeland on the metaphorical barricades.
So with CBC blending entertainment and news reporting (listen how often the CBC on-air describes its work as "stories", "telling our stories", "today's stories", and so on.) What the heck? Every kid is told to "stop telling stories -- tell the truth!" "Stories" are the open door for fake news. The story is that Freeland's a new star, a celebrity. The why is the missing journalism.
: So corporate media needs profits, big ones. Forget reporting; forget just the facts, ma'am. Stories are easier and quicker than on-the-ground journalism. So Canadians will get stories and we'll continue tsk-tsking about phoney news and slight-disinformation. We'll stay proud of our national media. What the heck, why?
john@johnmahoney.com
Copyright © 2019 Fred Ryan/Log Cabin Chronicles 12.11.19


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By Giovanni Verga
Translated by J.G. Nichols
Life in the Country quantity
Published in 1880, one year before Verga's influential novel The Malavoglias, Life in the Country first marked his stylistic shift towards the verismo school of Italian realism. The collection's centrepiece, 'Rustic Honour' ('Cavalleria rusticana') – which was famously adapted into a play by the author before becoming an opera by Mascagni – tells the tale of Turiddu, a poor young man who returns from military service and finds himself embroiled in adultery and a feud with a rival.
Also including the well-known stories 'She-Wolf' and 'Foxfur', Life in the Country captures, in an objective, non-judgemental prose, the difficult conditions and personal struggles of the peasant class in his native Sicily at the turn of the twentieth century.
Contains: 'A Reverie', 'Jeli the Herdboy', 'Nasty Foxfur', 'Rustic Honour', 'She-Wolf', 'Bindweed's Lover', 'The War of the Saints' and 'Crackpot'.
Part of 101-Page Classics series of Great Rediscovered Classics
SKU: 9781847497710 Categories: 101-Page Classics, Italian Classics, Short stories Tags: 101 pages, Cavalleria rusticana, Classic, countryside, Italian, Italian Literature, literature, Malavoglias, realism, Rustic Honour, Short Stories, Sicily, translated fiction, Verga, vintage
I love Life in the Country, for reasons to do with undemonstrative compassion and self-abnegating understanding – qualities as abiding in great art as they are sporadic in day-to-day existence.
Paul Bailey
Giovanni Verga (1840–1922) was an Italian novelist, short-story writer and playwright, celebrated for realistic depictions of rural Sicily in the newly unified Italy.


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FabFitFun rakes in $80M more in VC funding
Corinne Ruff @corinnesusan
Lifestyle subscription service FabFitFun announced Wednesday that it raised $80 million in Series A funding led by Kleiner Perkins. Existing investors, including NEA and Upfront Ventures also participated, according to a company press release.
The new funding will go toward expanding membership offerings, evolving the platform as a marketing partner and launchpad for brands, and global expansion, the company said.
Kleiner Perkins General Partners Mood Rowghani and Mary Meeker will join the company's board, the company also said.
FabFitFun has come a long way since its humble beginnings in 2010 as a digital magazine. Three years later, it began its four-times-a-year seasonal subscription service, which notably rose in popularity thanks in part to engagement on Facebook. The company has since capitalized on its attention on the social media platform, adding Facebook live video programming to its content mix in September 2018.
Those efforts appear to be paying off so far. In November, the company announced it hit 1 million subscribers. Hitting metrics like this is one indicator of still untapped growth in the eyes of investors.
"FabFitFun has emerged into an exciting and entirely new distribution channel that brings retail to the platforms where consumers are most engaged," Rowghani said in a statement regarding the funding news. "The company's personalized connection with its community allows brands to better understand and interact with consumers — establishing a long-term relationship rather than simply a transaction."
These days it seems like just about every retailer and brand under the sun has a subscription or boxed service of some kind. Think Rent the Runway Unlimited, J.C. Penney's Big and Tall box or even BarkBox for pets. But depending on the category, retailers and brands offering subscriptions have struggled with notoriously high cancel rates and challenges with the reverse supply chain. But as a seasonal service and media company, Co-CEO Michael Broukhim has said he views the company as more akin to companies like Netflix, Amazon Prime and Spotify, all easy signups for consumers because of their value.
Backing from Kleiner Perkins is also a big win. The firm is known for its deep pockets and savvy investments in businesses like Blue Nile, Dollar Shave Club, Stripe, Airbnb and many others. Between 2008 and 2018, the firm made 28 investments in the retail space, making it the fourth most active VC firm to invest in the category, according to information provided to Retail Dive from Pitchbook.
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Dress codes, stated or unstated, have always been a pertinent definition of women in their social or professional lives, the variables being culture, political environment, religion, and social norms. But very often these controls loosen out and take different forms and shapes as women become accepted for their competence, creativity, maturity and leadership qualities and of course qualifications. If that be so, women have the sound sense to choose what to wear, when and where. Trust women!
At the institution I was teaching in, from where I retired a year ago, the management gave me a list of specifications that included a dress code for staff and faculty to adhere to diligently. Men had it easy- light coloured shirt and pants, a tie when the weather was comfortable and shoes. The versatile sari was the chosen dress for women, with the blouse having a 'decent' neckline and the sleeves covering the upper arm. The management had reached this consideration with the noble purpose of giving the women staff status, dignity and acceptance in their profession. "Women are taken seriously in a sari."
Most women in my department were more than happy to bring out their wide-ranging folds of saris from hibernation, but quietly groused that they would be happy to wear something more 'comfortable' as draping oneself in a sari for six hours in a day could be tiresome. A few months down the line, a group of well qualified young women joined the institution. They immediately objected to the dress code as they had never owned or worn a sari their entire lives! The management, to accommodate them,( they couldn't let staff of such high value slip away because of a dress code) changed the regulations to say that pants and women's shirts would be allowed with a formal coat when the weather allowed. This encouraged other young women staff in the institution to expand their wardrobe. Soon status, dignity and acceptability were thrust on us for the quality of our work, if not for what we wore. Most heads of departments were women anyway.
The students who otherwise had the versatility of young, modern clothes came under the scrutiny of the dress code too. The girls were required to wear loose trousers or midi skirts with long tops that covered their hips. Salwar kameeze was an option. Jeans and high heels were taboo. The management believed this would give the girls a sense of decency and protection. It also gave the institution a sense of professionalism. But anomalies came along in the form of Sri Lankan and African students who made their own fashion statement. The management looked away as these foreign students were a great asset to the institution, monetarily and prestigiously. Soon everyone agreed that the African students with their colourful and snug fitting attires that enhanced their lineal bodies were the best dressed! The local students did not waste time to fall into step and dress codes remained on paper.
I am reminded of my daughter's English School Physical Training teacher in Kuwait who wore shorts and a sporty shirt while training high school students, boys and girls, in a conservative country that demanded strict dress regulations for women. She was much loved and respected amongst staff, students and parents for her diligent work and the decorum she maintained. In fact she never compromised her sporty attire even into the eighth month of her pregnancy with a very visible bump and no one complained or remarked adversely.
And fifty years ago my geography teacher who wore tight short skirts, sleeveless tops and high heels was voted the best teacher in school for conducting the most creative and interesting classes. Geography was every ones favourite subject! We loved the way she dressed too!
At a show put up by the students of Fashion and Apparel Design department, a student had a slogan by the designs he had created. It said, "wear your Attitude". I asked him If this would ever happen. His reply: "it's already here. It's going to flavour our work and social spaces completely."
I graduated from Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi in 1971 with a major in Political Science Hons. Thereon I completed a few courses in the field of teaching as I had a great passion for that profession. I have had the opportunity to work in schools and colleges in India and abroad during the course of thirty years. Teaching has taught me lessons on life in more ways than I can count. I have grown and matured as a person in the many class rooms I have been in. A teacher inspires, builds imagination and shapes the character and calibre of her students, and instills in them the love of learning. I have gained the same being a teacher.
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Q: How to set Python Path in Unix? I am having Unix machine. I have to install python 2.7.14.
I downloaded python 2.7.14 from official website in the following directory.
/home/vivek/

Now I went inside the python directory and have done the following step.
./configure
make
make install

Everything was Ok.
But When I am checking the python version I get this.
Python 2.6

How to fix it. Can anyone please help?

A: You can add an alias named python with the path:
for example:
alias python "write the path to python version"
 alias python2.7 "/usr/local/bin/python"
 alias python3.6 "/home/vivek/python_dir/python"

this way you can write python2.7 to activate 2.7 ver
this way you can write python3.6 to activate 3.6 ver
and so on
you can also name alias as python
i find it easier to follow what i'm doing with labeling the version in the alias name .

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