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Tell Trump to Get Pyongyang to Negotiating Table Now
November 14, 2017 November 13, 2017 | Walter Pincus
Walter Pincus
Columnist, The Cipher Brief
"Trust" is not a word I would normally associate with what President Donald Trump says publicly, particularly in answering a question at a press conference.
"Subtlety" is also not a normal characteristic of this American president when discussing difficult diplomatic problems such as dealing with North Korea.
But I am prepared to cast my normal caution to the wind when it comes to wanting to believe a handful of phrases Trump uttered last week, when asked whether he'd seen success in his diplomatic strategy so far, and whether he believes direct talks with Pyongyang are a waste of time.
"I don't like talking about whether I see success or not in a case such as this," Trump responded with his usual patter, speaking alongside South Korea's President Moon Jae-In at last Tuesday's press conference.
He went on with his normal but wearisome war-like talk: "You know we sent three of the largest aircraft carriers in the world, and they're right now positioned. We have a nuclear submarine also positioned. We have many things happening that we hope, we hope – in fact, I'll go a step further, we hope to God we never have to use."
But he then took a turn: "With that being said, I really believe that it makes sense for North Korea to come to the table and to make a deal that's good for the people of North Korea and the people of the world. I do see certain movement, yes. But let's see what happens."
There it was, this presumptive U.S. world leader, who one month earlier undercut Secretary of State Rex Tillerson by tweeting that his top diplomat was "wasting his time trying to negotiate with Little Rocket Man," seeming to acknowledge "certain movement" when it comes to possible future talks with the Kim Jong-un regime.
When CBS's Margaret Brennan quickly followed up asking, "Direct talks, sir?" Trump responded, "I just don't want to say that. You can understand that."
There have been so-called Track II talks between the U.S. and North Korea over past decades indirectly involving Americans and representatives of the North Korean regime, despite having no diplomatic relations. Some informal Track II talks have actually led to direct, government-to-government negotiations and past agreements, although most of those arrangements did not survive.
I know of one current, Track II effort that has been meeting irregularly with Pyongyang representatives in various European countries, most recently last month. Several members of the group are former State and Defense Department officials who took part in a similar Track II effort that led eventually to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the nuclear agreement with Iran.
"It is right now a diplomatically led, economic-sanction buttressed effort," said Defense Secretary James Mattis on Oct. 10 at the Association of the U.S. Army. But he added that the Army has "got to be ready to ensure we have military options that our president can employ if needed."
This is the same Mattis who on May 28 said on CBS' Face the Nation, fighting in North Korea "would be probably the worst kind of fighting in most people's lifetimes. Why do I say this? The North Korean regime has hundreds of artillery cannons and rocket launchers within range of one of the most densely populated cities on earth, which is the capital of South Korea."
An October Congressional Research Service report lays out in detail how ugly a military confrontation could be, and why it's worth grabbing at diplomatic straws that may offer a way to calm the situation:
"Conservative estimates anticipate that in the first hours of a renewed military conflict, North Korean conventional artillery situated along the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) could cause tens of thousands of casualties in South Korea, where at least 100,000 (and possibly as many as 500,000) U.S. soldiers and citizens reside," the report reads.
"A protracted conflict—particularly one in which North Korea uses its nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons—could cause enormous casualties on a greater scale, and might expand to include Japan and U.S. territories in the region. Such a conflict could also involve a massive mobilization of U.S. forces onto the Korean Peninsula, and high military casualty rates. Complicating matters, should China choose to join the conflict, those casualty rates could grow further, and could potentially lead to military conflict beyond the peninsula," it adds.
If you accept the idea that the U.S. has an option to destroy with conventional weapons North Korea's nuclear capable missiles and bombs and the infrastructure that created them, think again.
Consider a recently-released, Oct. 27 letter to Congress from Rear Adm. Michael J. Dumont of the Joint Staff: "North Korea's nuclear weapons [are] located in deeply buried, underground facilities," Dumont wrote, explaining that the U.S. military could not reliably destroy them all through conventional bombing or missile attacks.
The only way to "locate and destroy – with complete certainty – all components of North Korea's nuclear weapons program" is through a ground invasion of that country, he added.
Dumont tried to assure the legislators that despite recent threats between Trump and Kim Jong-un, "We have not seen any change in the offensive posture of North Korea's forces, something we watch very carefully."
There is a mismatch between goals of the two adversaries: Trump wants denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula so Pyongyang cannot threaten its neighbors or the U.S.; and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un seeks those very same nuclear weapons and the means to deliver a warhead on the U.S. homeland to protect survival of his regime.
Talks are surely the only way to narrow that gap and could be a ray of diplomatic hope at a time when Congress is considering legislative action to check Trump's ability to launch a nuclear first strike without first informing lawmakers – though the actions lawmakers are taking amount to baby steps.
Congress has inserted language in the 2018 Defense Authorization bill that calls for the Trump administration to provide to Congress within three months of the bill's approval a report that would include "a description of operational plans and associated military requirements for the protection of United States' interests with respect to North Korea.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is also holding a hearing on the "Authority to Use Nuclear Weapons," spurred by Trump's "fire and fury" threat last August.
"A number of members both on and off our committee have raised questions about the authorities of the legislative and executive branches with respect to war making, the use of nuclear weapons and conducting foreign policy overall," Committee Chairman Bob Corker (R-TN), chairman of the committee, said last Wednesday,
"No human being, and certainly not President Trump, should be able to unilaterally launch nuclear weapons – the most destructive weapon ever invented by humankind – without provocation, without consultation and without warning," added Sen. Edward J. Markey (D-MA), a member of the committee. He's co-authored a bill that would "limit any American president's ability to conduct a nuclear first strike without prior authorization from Congress."
But neither of those legislative efforts seems assertive enough to block Trump from launching a nuclear first strike if provoked within the coming months, with Pentagon planning already complete on how to deal with North Korea militarily.
Successful negotiations for a compromise today seems unattainable, but a first step – freezing the current situation, with North Korea not doing more missile or nuclear tests and the U.S. halting joint military exercises with South Korea and Japan – is what is being proposed by China.
With pre-emptive or first strike attacks being discussed, whether nuclear or conventional, it is time to take any hints, even from Trump, that perhaps a diplomatic path is possible with regard to North Korea. Congress and the public as a whole should go beyond hearings and aggressively get behind it.
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Walter Pincus is a Columnist and the Senior National Security Reporter at The Cipher Brief. He spent forty years at The Washington Post, writing on topics from nuclear weapons to politics. In 2002, he and a team of Post reporters won the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. He also won an Emmy in 1981 and the 2010 Arthur Ross Award from the American Academy for Diplomacy. He can be reached at wpincus@thecipherbrief.com.
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The perspective the US is the only power able to and responsible for responding to Pyongyang relies upon as premise the view Asian nations are incapable of influence. The dynamics between Asian nations and the US have changed since the entrenchment of this view but does not bode ill for the US. Rather, opportunities are abundant. Geopolitical and economic changes allow neighboring states in Asia – Japan, S. Korea, Vietnam, Australia, Taiwan, India – to become equal partners to like US causes. US proactive assistance in building the self-defense postures of these nations will affect substantially the North Korean crisis in addition to the looming South China Seas crisis while limiting US exposure. Promoting a ground and sea environment in Asia militarily prohibitive enough to disrupt China's economic goals is key. The US is the superpower in Asia and globally however this is a handicap. In centralizing military power to US command, China has only to hamstring the US either economically or politically to cripple US and allied effectiveness. By enhancing the self-defense of allied Asian states, the US force multiplies itself. Unlike the situation in Europe where a single force comprised of multiple states create an advantage over Russian aggression, the Asian situation requires the opposite approach.
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ND students prove again that they are assholes and that the world should not forget that
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Will be available in the frozen food section of Jewel soon
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This story is probably just more bull brought to you by the media
1 in 5 millennials identifies as LGBTQ, according to new GLAAD survey
Posted on April 1, 2017 by DCG
Consider the source of this survey and their agenda.
From Sacramento Bee: Twenty percent of 18- to 34-year-olds self-identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer, according to a new survey conducted by Harris Poll on behalf of GLAAD.
The survey, conducted online, was conducted in early November and included 2,037 American adults. GLAAD released the findings in its "Accelerating Acceptance 2017" report.
The percentage of millennials identifying as LGBTQ far exceeds the percentages in other age groups — 12 percent of 35- to 51-year-olds, 7 percent of 52- to 71-year-olds and 5 percent of those 72 and older.
"This report shows a remarkable new era of understanding and acceptance among young people — an inspiring indication of the future. Though laws can be unwritten, hearts and minds in America have been changed for the better — and that is a reality less easily unraveled," said Sarah Kate Ellis, GLAAD's president and CEO.
In another question, 84 percent of millennials identify as "strictly heterosexual," according to the survey. Six percent identify as bisexual, 4 percent as asexual, 3 percent as strictly gay or lesbian, 2 percent as pansexual (not limited in sexual choice with regard to biological sex, gender or gender identity) and 1 percent as unsure or questioning.
Four percent of respondents identify as transgender and strictly heterosexual, accounting for the differences in percentages in the first two questions.
Again, larger percentages of older populations identify as strictly heterosexual — 91 percent or higher in all other groups.
The numbers in GLADD's report are far higher than other findings about the sexual orientation of the population.
According to a 2015 Gallup Poll, only 3.8 percent of the adult population identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender. Americans, however, estimated that 23 percent of the population was gay or lesbian.
A 2013 survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, found that 96.6 percent of adults identified as straight with 1.6 considering themselves gay and less than 1 percent identifying as bisexual.
A slew of other polls, outlined by HeatStreet, found the percentages between 3.4 percent and 8 percent.
This guy is an ass....
There you go
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The article doesn't explain ifs they think he is the greatest leader of all time or just this year. Either way, this is a marvelous example of what a PR agent can do. Shame on Theo for allowing an article like this to be published.
HAS ADVOCATED VIOLENCE AS A WAY TO OPPOSE TRUMP
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Such a loss would surely be the greatest calamity the state of Illinois has ever faced.
Sneed: Frustrated Senate president John Cullerton might not run again.
Someone please say it is not so.
Sen. President John Cullerton is considering not running for Senate again when his term ends. | Rich Hein
Sneed hears powerful Illinois Senate President John Cullerton (D-6th) has told some of his closest Senate colleagues he is so frustrated with the budget logjam, he is thinking about not running for re-election when his term is up in two years, according to two sources.
"Cullerton is stressed and frustrated by all the nonsense going on in Springfield and the ability to get things done," said a source who spoke to Cullerton.
"He indicated he is not going to pull the plug now, but he did say he was considering not running for re-election," said a state senator who asked to remain anonymous.
"Cullerton is highly respected by his colleagues, but if he isn't planning on running for re-election, his leadership spot is a coveted position," said a top Dem source who claims several state senators have already expressed interest in the job.
News of Cullerton's private intentions comes at a critical time in the state budget crisis. He and fellow Sen. Christine Radogno, a Republican, are working together to break the budget logjam by securing votes for the so-called "grand bargain" legislation.
Rahm says that plastic bags are good for the planet ......on February 1
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THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS HE RECENTLY RECEIVED FROM THE MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION. NEXT, EXPECT COOK COUNTY TO PUT THEIR OWN TAX ON BAGS.
Tom Hayden, major troublemaker and self-appointed hero is dead.
ALL THIS GUY WANTED TO DO WAS F--- WITH CPD. I HAVE TO ASK WHY? I KNOW WHY. HE WAS CUT FROM THE SAME CLOTH AS HILLARY.
MAY HE BURN IN HELL
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The need is "extremely urgent"
Meat should be taxed at the wholesale level to raise the price and deter consumption, says a new report from the UN's International Research Panel (IRP). This will (supposedly) save the environment and prevent global warming.
"I think it is extremely urgent," said Professor Maarten Hajer of Utrecht University in the Netherlands, lead author of the report. "All of the harmful effects on the environment and on health needs to be priced into food products."
Hajer and other members of the IRP assert that livestock creates 14.5 percent of the greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change.
Sneak the tax up on people
Rather than taxing the meat at the retail level (in supermarkets and shops), Hajer recommended taxing it at the wholesale level. "We think it's better to price meats earlier in the chain, it's easier," said Hajer.
"The evidence is accumulating that meat, particularly red meat, is just a disaster for the environment," agrees Rachel Premack, a columnist for The Washington Post's Wongblog.
"Agriculture today accounts for for one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions that promote global warming," says Premack, "and half of those agriculture emissions come from livestock."
"Agriculture consumes 80 percent of water in the US – most of that being for meat, says Premack. "… For a kilogram of red meat, you need considerably more water than for plant products."
"Meanwhile, Denmark is considering a recommendation from its ethics council that all red meats should be taxed," Premack continues. "The council argued in May that Danes were "ethically obliged" to reduce their consumption to curb greenhouse gas emissions."
The IRP report, which was released in May, "deserves serious consideration in the United States," said Premack.
He could have been president. It is remarkable how the media can recast someone in the best possible light.
Henry English, Black Panther and community organizer, who ran Black United Fund among other schemes, dead after crash at 73
CHICAGO (STMW) - Even in his 70s, Henry English was perpetually on his way to one event or another. A protest. An organizing meeting. A lobbying trip to Springfield to speak on behalf of the needy.
Mr. English was a dervish-like presence in Chicago's struggling neighborhoods for more than 40 years, a Black Panther leader who in the 1960s recruited a young Bobby Rush, an organizer for Mayor Harold Washington and the founder
John Kerry is full of it.
Of course his emails are secure. There is much more to this. This BS story was aimed right at Hillary Clinton.
It was breaking news on Tuesday and today the story can hardly be found.
Washington (CNN) Secretary of State John Kerry said that Chinese and Russian hackers are probably reading his emails -- and he writes messages assuming they are.
"It is very likely," Kerry said during an interview on the "CBS Evening News" Tuesday night when asked by host Scott Pelley if he thinks either nation is reading his email.
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Jesse Jackson is the biggest domestic terrorist in the USA today. He should butt out of this horrible event and go home. Maybe tend to his ex-con son.
Rev. Jesse Jackson calls South Carolina shootings 'domestic terrorism'
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The Rev. Jesse Jackson speaking at Rainbow PUSH Saturday.
Many came for comfort, others for ways to comprehend how a young white man could kill nine African-Americans out of hatred.
Hundreds sat in the pews of the South Side's Rainbow PUSH Coalition Saturday at a gathering filled with sadness for the men and women slain in a hate crime in South Carolina.
Theodore Dailey III, a Rainbow PUSH volunteer, said he felt a need to be with others to talk about the massacre in Charleston.
"It's good to come out and converse and just to have a discussion with individuals regarding what transpired," said Dailey, 59, of Hyde Park. "And hopefully what can happen in the future
The face of mental illness
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Another tyrant has slipped into public office.
BLOOMINGTON CITY HALL GOING After reporter FOR QUESTIONING MISUSE OF TAXPAYER MONEY. They want a restraining order preventing him from asking any more questions, his FOI card and his guns. Is this nuts or what?
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An extremely troubling assault on the Freedom of the Press is taking place in Bloomington, IL with Mayor Tari Renner at the center of an attempt to silence a local talk radio station and its morning show.
The mayor is unhappy with the station questioning a plan to have the city of Bloomington use some $8 million in taxpayer money to help finance the purchase of a block of buildings downtown. A developer reportedly has plans to turn the buildings into a hotel. In the meantime, the city has and is raising taxes on everything it can to cover a $3 million budget deficit while also giving the city manager a pay raise.
Last Friday Josh "Fistbump" Schmidgall, a reporter with Cities 92.9 FM's morning show hosted by Ian Bayne, was served with a restraining order, filed by Bloomington's Communications Director Nora Dukowitz. Earlier in the week, Schmidgall sought to get answers from Dukowitz at her apartment about the hotel project and the recent pay raise given to the city manager. When Dukowitz didn't answer the door, Schmidgall placed his business card on the door and left the premises.
At Tuesday night's city council meeting during public comments, Mayor Renner let slip that may have had some role in the restraining order, which seeks to bar Schmidgall from City Hall and to forfeit his Illinois Firearms Owner Identification Card (needed in IL to even touch a firearm legally), as well as his shotgun.
Renner said, "Nobody who is hired by our city has a right to be stalked by someone pretending to be a journalist...I wouldn't be a decent mayor if I let this kind of stuff happen, and I won't."
Earlier in the city council meeting, Mayor Renner gave his version of the incident and the restraining order. Renner reported to the council that the situation was a felony case, that there was an imminent threat of danger posed by Schmidgall, and that Schmidgall broke into the apartment building.
As local blogger Diane Benjamin pointed out, the City of Normal's police report for the incident disproves every point Renner made.
Renner and Dukowitz have been pressed by Cities 92.9's morning host Ian Bayne and his crew including Schmidgall for weeks regarding the pay raise and hotel project all while Mayor Renner and the city council - minus the board's lone conservative Kevin Lower - have been increasing utility fees, the city's amusement tax, gasoline tax and more.
Bayne and Schmidgall both say that no answers have been forth coming from City Hall or from the Communications Director Nora Dukowitz for weeks on end; with things getting to the point that City Hall staffers won't even talk to or schedule appointments with anyone representing 92.9.
Renner has had problems with the press in the past. Earlier this year, Renner got into a bunch of hot water and had to apologize after making vile comments on Diane Benjamin's blog.
Grand jury decision will reignite Ferguson unrest. Get ready!
Hammond Police Dept Break Through Vehicle Window and Taze Passenger
Are these people victims or were they trying to set the police
up? Why is the media pushing this story so hard?
Obama fights Ebola
Ebola outbreak: Barack Obama 'to pledge US troops to fight virus'
US President Barack Obama is to announce plans on Tuesday to send 3,000 troops to Liberia to help fight the Ebola virus, US officials say.
It is understood the US military will oversee building new treatment centres and help train medical staff.
There has been criticism of the slow international response to the Ebola epidemic in West Africa.
Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea are the worst-hit countries. The outbreak has killed more than 2,400 people.
More than half of those killed by the virus have been in Liberia. The World Health Organization (WHO) warned recently that the country could see thousands of more cases.
United Nations officials will discuss the international response to the outbreak at a meeting in Geneva.
US officials said the aim of the country's anti-Ebola initiative is to:
Train up to 500 healthcare workers a week
Construct 17 heathcare facilities, each with about 100 beds
Establish a joint command based in Monrovia, Liberia, to co-ordinate between US and international relief efforts
Distribute home healthcare kits to thousands of households
Conduct a home and community-based campaign to train local people in how to handle patients
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has appealed directly to Mr Obama for help in tackling the outbreak.
Several disease experts have welcomed the US plan, though some also question its focus on Liberia.
"We should see all of West Africa now as one big outbreak," says Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, quoted in The New York Times.
"It's very clear we have to deal with all the areas with Ebola."
On Monday, Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama said greater and faster outside help was needed.
Ebola spreads between humans by direct contact with infected blood, bodily fluids or organs, or indirectly through contact with contaminated environments.
Liberia at a glance:
Infrastructure devastated by a 14-year civil war
About 250,000 people killed in the conflict that ended in 2003
One doctor to treat nearly 100,000 people before Ebola outbreak
Ebola cases this year: 2,046
Ebola deaths this year: 1,224
Source: WHO
U.S. Government Says 'No Inflation' As Food Prices Soar
"In honor of his memory, we are requesting that no shots be fired. Put you guns away until tomorrow morning."
If you ask me, the above is an insult to what Dr. King stood for.
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L.A. sued by landlord group over coronavirus anti-eviction protections
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Posted: Jun 11, 2020 / 01:31 PM PDT
Updated: Jun 11, 2020 / 08:25 PM PDT
Southern California's largest landlord organization has launched a legal action against the city of Los Angeles aimed at stripping away protections from evictions during the novel coronavirus pandemic.
The Apartment Assn. of Greater Los Angeles, in the federal lawsuit filed Thursday, argued that the city's efforts to prevent evictions for those who can't pay due to the economic or health effects of the coronavirus violate landlords' 5th Amendment rights against government taking of their property without compensation. The lawsuit also targets a measure passed by the L.A. City Council to halt rent increases in more than 600,000 apartments covered by the city's rent stabilization program due to the pandemic.
New L.A. law allows tenants to sue landlords over …
Landlords nationwide brace for rent payment defaults …
L.A. has a coronavirus eviction ban, but landlords …
"If allowed to stand, the ordinances will not only continue to violate plaintiff's members' rights under both the California and United States Constitutions, but will continue to inflict massive and widespread economic damage on property owners and landlords throughout the city," said the lawsuit, which was filed in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.
The suit is the latest effort from landlord groups to attempt to overturn anti-eviction rules passed by local governments across the region in the wake of the coronavirus. In at least one case, the city of Upland rescinded its eviction protections under threat of litigation.
Read the full story on LATimes.com.


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The quality of education suffers where governments micro-manage education.
The skill set of successful politicians require neither experience nor expertise in teaching. Their horizons are invariably set by the electoral cycle of two to five years. Much of their policy is driven by the desire to attract votes at a coming election. Education policy is unduly influenced by a desire to attract votes. This encourages policies that sound exciting and profound, simple to encapsulate for people with a short attention span and attractive to people who have no expertise in the structure of education. The nuances of evidence-based policy are frequently lost, to the detriment of proposed policy.
The desire to influence voters results in continual reassessments of the fundamentals of education, without sufficient time to research fully the impact of changes before the next changes are proposed.
Over the last thirty years, fundamental curriculum and policy changes have increased in frequency. In the current environment, we see fundamental changes to aspects of education two or three times during a student's lifetime at school.
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Policy is implemented without having taken sufficient care to tailor policy to research and evidence.
The proportion of time available for teaching time has been considerably diminished, in favour of time needed to consider, learn and implement the new policy.
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NEW YORK — The dispute among United Methodists over recognition of same-sex couples has lapsed into a doctrinal donnybrook, pitting clergy who are presiding at gay weddings in defiance of church law against proponents of traditional marriage who are trying to stop them.
Since 2011, Methodist advocates for gay marriage have been recruiting clergy to openly officiate at same-sex ceremonies in protest of church policy. In response, theological conservatives have sought formal complaints against the defiant clergy, which could lead to church trials. One scholar has warned that Methodists are "retreating into our various camps" instead of seeking a resolution over an issue the church has formally debated since the 1970s.
"At this point, we have kind of come to the place where we know what the brute facts are," said Matt Berryman, executive director of Reconciling Ministries Network, which advocates for gay and lesbian Methodists. "Most folks, after 40 years of trying legislative solutions, realize they won't work. The way forward is to claim what we know to be true. And we're going to continue doing it in an aggressive way."
The intensity of the conflict was laid bare over the last several months, when the church tried, convicted and defrocked Frank Schaefer, a Pennsylvania pastor who presided at the wedding of his son to another man. Berryman said the case galvanized Methodists advocating for recognition of gay marriage, increasing donations to the group and traffic on Reconciling Ministries' online sites. Schaefer has since been traveling the country giving talks and sermons on gay acceptance.
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My Genre Identity Crisis
"What do you write?"
A simple question, and the first most people ask when you tell them you're a writer. Crime fiction, I say. But they usually want to know more. That's where it can get tricky. From the start, I called my first book a psychological thriller. It's how I pitched it to agents a couple years ago. After hearing the plot, one asked me, "Are the main characters gay?" "All of them except the dog," I said. Her quick forced smile told me she was neither amused nor interested. I moved on.
Should I have said upfront it was a gay thriller? Was the gay aspect a reason another agent expressed concern about "our ability to sell this work"? As I thought about it, gay protagonists did seem a rarity in current mainstream crime fiction. In Jonathan Kellerman's popular Alex Delaware series, the gay cop is almost a sidekick. What about other genres? And next I'm shifting gears with a ghost story, but the same main character. Switching genres within a series and a gay hero? Was I insane?
Some of these issues were addressed in New Orleans last month at the Saints and Sinners Literary Festival panel When Genres Collide: The Pros and Cons of Queer Category Labels. The moderator was award-winning mystery author and journalist John Morgan Wilson, and the four panelists represented a wide array of genres.
Michael Thomas Ford ("All genres except Lesbian Poetry")
Barbara Ann Wright (Lesbian Sci-Fi & Fantasy)
David Holly (Historical, Fantasy & Pagan Romance)
Rob Byrnes (Comic Romance & Crime Capers)
The session began with a sad tribute to America's oldest gay bookstore. Founded in 1973, Giovanni's Room in Philadelphia closed its doors on that very day. Yet another manifestation of the current flux in publishing, with the rise of Amazon, eBooks, and self-publishing? In traditional bookstores still open, the "rainbow flag" sections are disappearing, noted Ford, who began writing his My Queer Life series in the mid-90s. "And on the Internet there's so much. Genre labels are important for marketing and can help readers find books. But nothing will replace individuals hand-selling books."
Velvet and Swords
"I write humor and that's not even considered a genre," quipped Byrnes. "I didn't intend to write a gay romance," he said of his 2002 debut The Night We Met. But that's how his publisher sold it. A quick look at the plot reveals a story with more comedy than usually found in romance fiction. "Story is what you want to say," Ford added. "And plot is how you choose to say it."
All genres are subject to rules and conventions. But sometimes a gamer-changer comes along. Wilson mentioned Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley, which turned the mystery genre on its head by revealing the killer from the start. "Fantasy readers expect a strong story arc," explained Wright. "Also, somebody's gotta wear velvet and somebody's gotta use a sword." She also confessed to using caution when revealing her main characters as lesbians at fantasy conventions in conservative parts of the country.
A Double-edged 22
On the question of jumping genres, Byrnes said it could be difficult for readers. (I couldn't help but wonder if this applied to a writer that didn't have any readers yet.) Ford, who has won awards in numerous genre categories, talked about the importance of branding. As for his own genre switching, he referred to it as "a double-edged 22." What publishers usually want is for you to "do it again in blue." That doesn't appeal to all writers. "I like to twist genres," admitted Holly, who writes "totally out-there" fantasy books. As for being "pigeon-holed" into gay fiction, he cited tremendous support from his publisher Bold Strokes Books.
In a recent interview, Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Cunningham described his vision of a "post-gay fiction era" – in which sex and sexuality are simply facets of character' lives. "I've never written a novel about the deep fascination of a 23-year-old gay man with a perfect body and an IQ of 85. I will never write that character. And that's the kind of thing that has traditionally marked 'gay' fiction." I understand Cunningham's point. I've read those books, too. But I don't write them, and based on what I've read recently, I think he may be out of touch with current LGBTQ fiction – in its multitude of genres.
Michael Thomas Ford & Radclyffe
Books Save Lives
At the Lambda Literary Awards earlier this week, genre king Michael Thomas Ford was honored with the Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize, along with author and Bold Strokes Books publisher Radclyffe – my publisher, I'm proud to say! Nine fellow BSB authors were Lammy finalists in six different categories, with Andrea Bramhall's Clean Slate taking the award for Best Lesbian Romance. So not only am I in fine company, I've a feeling my genre identity crisis has been resolved – at least for the time being.
The Lammy Awards ceremony began with a video compilation of readers and writers who responded to Lambda Literary's project A LBGTQI Book Saved My Life. (Click Here for Video) The range of stories reflects the diversity of LGBTQ literature. Though I didn't see a crime novel mentioned, I was reminded of something John Morgan Wilson said at the genre panel. After writing seven books in his Benjamin Justice Series, putting his protagonist through ever more harrowing experiences, he received a letter from a 17-year-old reader who asked, "Are you ever gonna let him be happy?" Wilson took the question to heart and ended the series on an upbeat note. Who knows? Maybe a gay mystery novel has saved a life.
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An less-than average day got a lot better for Brooke Henderson on Friday at the LPGA Swinging Skirts in San Francisco.
She had opened play for the week at 71 (-1) and was looking to move up the leaderboard, but the conditions were not cooperating.
Battling cool and windy weather at the Lake Merced Golf Club, the Smiths Falls pro was two over par for the day by the time she reached the 12th hole. In typical Brooke fashion, she mounted a charge.
The 18 year-old made three birdies over the next four holes to turn the day around and match her score from round one. That put her is a share of 16th place at -2 overall, seven strokes off the lead of Haru Nomura but only four shots off second place.
Hamilton, Ontario's Alena Sharp (73-74) also made the 36-hole cut and is tied for 58th place.
Fellow Canadian Maude-Aimee Leblanc withdrew.
Sharp will tee off at 9:05 a.m. local time on Saturday alongside Austin Ernst. Henderson will be paired with Azahara Munoz. They tee off at 12:35 p.m.


China's telecom giant, Huawei, faces pressure from around the world over threats of national security. The US is in the advanced stages of its investigation against the Chinese company over alleged theft and trade secrets. Host Marco Werman speaks with Josephine Wolff, a cybersecurity policy professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology, about the reality of these Huawei concerns.


The river is a geographical and temporal space that carries along its passage, inscriptions of memory, settlement and culture. With a canoe as mode of transport and viewing platform, the observer is taken through an intimate and intensified space. Digital photography and collected ephemera are my raw material. These have been synthesized through various strategies to produce an autobiographical portrait of place. Choosing the 'frozen moment' still image as opposed to digital video, reinforces the stillness, reverie and peace within the experience.
The long wave rolled strips of digital imagery on aluminium, follow the rivers passage from journey's beginning to end. They highlight the experience of the paddle with its ephemera collections, observation of various habitations and personal memories threaded along a graphic river's path. The viewpoint of the canoeist shifts with the action of the oars giving, in some cases, the sense of a 270º spherical vision. Their installation suggests the flow of the river and the passage of the canoe within the exhibition space.


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There is now an emerging W3C standard spec, called Web Component Custom Elements, that enables developers to create their own custom HTML elements and register them with the browser parser. Mozilla has developed a library, named X-Tag, that makes the process of creating and working with custom elements super easy, check it out: X-Tags.org... Custom HTML templates are an advanced feature and are recommended for users familiar with custom coding. Contact your developer, or hire a Mailchimp Expert if you need assistance. In this article, you'll learn how to add a background image to your custom HTML template.
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What was it that finally brought Gatsby down? The title to this novel seems odd in relation to the way he finally passed: the "great" Gatsby killed over one woman's death, for which he accepted all blame even though he was innocent. His final demise could be credited to a dream that had soured, though he was so infatuated with achieving a long-desired aspiration that he would do anything to secure it. His dream of course was Daisy.
Similarly the character Winston smith, the main protagonist in George Orwell's '1984' ultimately sacrifices himself for a similar cause, an unattainable longing for freedom and the love of a woman, both novels share a common theme that is a society where social class takes all precedence. The greatest idealism within The Great Gatsby is the pursuit of happiness and dreams. Gatsby having been so desperate to achieve his dream that he placed every ounce of his effort into building himself into a strong economic and social figure.
The pursuit of this dream and the effect that it had upon him as a driving force and to have created and achieved as much as he did, shows the power of aspiration. However, this novel grows to be especially hedonistic in its portrayal of life, as it seems as though the majority have become hopelessly preoccupied with the acquisition of their own "happiness". To quote Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence of 1776 "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. This search for freedom and happiness naturally dates back to the absolute beginning of the American society to the time of the first colonial settlers. The first settlers were mainly religious refugees who had been driven to the "New World" by persecution. To these settlers America represented to them a new hope, a new life of freedom holding some promise of spiritual and material happiness. Even to those that were not especially religious, America still represented a great opportunity: a land of possibilities.
In these early days, material propriety and progress kept pace with the religious and spiritual goals of the time as the founders; the Puritans and the Quakers both approved of the advancement of industry. This however is quite paradoxical to the situation in Oceania in 1984, The majority of the populace is content with their situation of slavery and poverty, brainwashed into ignorance. Only a few individuals share the desire for liberation, known as "the brotherhood". The character Winston smith is a parallel with Jay Gatsby in that he is striving for the un-attainable.
Winston smith resents the authoritarian regime of the Party and tries to rebel, but is finally crushed in body and soul. Jay Gatsby fights against the social hierarchy, neglecting his physical and emotional needs and effectively destroying his personality, not living his life, simply living to become successful, in fact following the guidelines of society where physical pleasures were "evil", hard work and the achievements therein were regarded as indications of a good soul. The engine of the totalitarian state seems to be the common man's hunger for personal power.
Power is often exercised for its own sake and not seldom in destructive manners; rank is one of few true priviligies in totalitarian states. As Inner Party member O'Brien puts it in Nineteen Eighty-four: "We are the priests of power. [… ] Power is in inflicting pain and humiliation. " It is almost like power becomes more important than life itself; it becomes more important than ideological principles for sure. Power is often expressed through privilegies and wealth, even in communist states. However miserable life may be in a totalitarian state, the ruling class make sure their lives are the least miserable.
Corruption is common on all levels and the party elite wallow in luxuries. For instance, Joseph Stalin's standard of living was remarkably extravagant and probably exceded most Western presidents' and kings'. Milan Simecka, a dissident in communist Czechoslovakia, suggests in Our Comrade Winston Smith that this is the fundamental principle of totalitarian systems: the hunger for the fruits of power. Comfort, luxuries and other expressions of materialism have always been the engine in societies throughout history and why should totalitarian societies be different?
Totalitarian societies are more materialistic than other societies, even extreme consumption societies like USA. Creative arts and religion are restricted or even surpressed; utilitarianism and pragmatism leaven all through the totalitarian society. There are no such things as art or beauty as we know it, only insipid Party buildings and propaganda statues. Physical strength is idolised, athletics and body culture is encouraged. It is not a coincidence the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China have been so successful in various sports.


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Photos of Loneliness
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bottle to crush them finely on a chopping board.
2. Use a cast-iron pot to cook the pasta according to the instructions on the packet.
constant eye on the pot and don't try to multitask otherwise it will burn.
your pot and might differ from one time to the next.
you can count on one hand.
7. Once it is served up, top the pasta with shavings of pecorino or Parmesan cheese.
? You can also prepare this meal in a normal pot on a stove but it won't be as much fun.
Use cling film and a heavy object like a wine bottle to flatten your chicken breasts. Cover the chicken breast with the cling film and start hitting the meat gently, making sure they are even and the same thickness all over.
Season the chicken with salt and pepper, or your favourite braai spice and braai over medium coals for about 12 minutes until cooked.
On the side, braai your bacon in your grid until crispy. Also place the fresh pineapple rings on the grid for a few minutes until lightly charred.
While your chicken is on the braai, start making your sauce, heat the oil in your pan. Fry the garlic and ginger for 1 minute. Add the coconut milk, juice and rum. Let this simmer and reduce until your chicken is ready.
Build your burger by starting with lettuce, then tomato, then bacon, pineapple, chicken and lastly generously pour over your Pina colada sauce.
Use your food blender and combine all the ingredients together for your butter. So that will be everything except for the bread. If you do not have a blender or stick blender, use your sharpest knife, chop everything super fine and mix into the butter with the lemon juice and olive oil with a wooden spoon until it is a smooth mixture and everything is combined.This can be smooth mixture or you can leave a few bits of chunky olives and garlic in between.
Wrap the bread in a double layer of foil.
Now place this bread on top of your grid and toast the foil wrapped bread slow and easy over medium coals making sure to turn it often so that all the sides are evenly toasted and all the butter melted inside into the bread.
You want it crispy on the outside and soft and full of flavour in the inside. Serve straight from the fire.
The Braaibroodjie will always be the most ionic item on the menu at any braai. We are always trying out new ideas and tastes to reinvent this incredible food item.
Heat oil in your pan and fry the onions until soft.
Add the sugar and balsamic to the onions and let it simmer over low heat for about 15 – 20 minutes until the onions are sweet and sticky. Set aside to cool.
Use a food blender or your sharpest knife to chop your biltong.
Spread the outsides of the bread with butter.
Spread a nice thick layer of cream cheese on one side of the bread.
Top with caramalised onions and then biltong.
Lastly sprinkle the grated cheese over and cover with another slice of bread that is buttered on the outside.
Place the bread into a hinged braai grid and braai over medium heat, turning often, until the bread is toasted on the outside and the cheese melted on the inside.
It is well known that the braaibroodjie is the best addition to any braai. Then we also have the burger, which is the best complete meal to serve at a braai with friends. In this recipe I discovered this great gadget, a square meat press. And so the burger braaibroodjie was born.
Use your recently washed hands and divide the beef mince evenly into 6 heaps. Now use your square shaped burger press and shape the patties. Season generously on both sides with salt and pepper.
Use a hinged grid and braai the patties over hot coals for 8 -10 minutes until nice and crispy on the outside and medium on the inside.Let the patties rest for a few mintues while you prep the rest of the ingredients.
Spread the butter on the outsides of your bread. Now spread a layer of chutney, then your beef patty, topped with tomatoes, onions and cheese. Close the burger with the other slice of bread and remember, butter on the outside.
PLace the Burger Braaibroodjies carefully into your hinged grid and braai over very medium coals. You want the cheese to melt and the bread to toast. Turn the grid often to get the desired effect.
During the collection of recipes for the book Shisanyama, I received a number of versions of baked and braaied potatoes with cheese. This is my version, drawing inspiration from various solutions to the same problem, which is how to do some nice potatoes and cheese on the braai. To my mind, it's always easier to get potatoes soft with a bit of boiling in a potjie, as opposed to trying to bake them soft from scratch. By using your cast-iron potjie, you limit dishes and impart maximum flavour.
Wash the potatoes, add them to your potjie and boil in water until soft.
Now drain the water from the potjie but keep the soft-boiled potatoes in the potjie. Add the olive oil, butter, chopped onion, bell pepper strips, garlic, salt and pepper to the potjie and now stir-fry everything for a few minutes until some things become caramelised and golden brown.
Now use your wooden spoon or braai tongs and press on some of the potatoes so they burst at the seams, allowing some extra flavours to develop and penetrate the potatoes. Stir-fry for another minute or three.
If things at the bottom of the potjie get sticky and want to burn, add a bit of water, olive oil, beer, wine or stock and scrape lose anything sticky.
You now add the grated cheese and sprinkle paprika on top of that. Close the lid of the potjie and take the potjie off the fire. Add a generous helping of coals onto the lid of the potjie – as much as you can fit onto the lid – and wait a few minutes for the cheese to start melting. Once the cheese has melted, your potatoes are good to go!
This is one of those "excuse me?" recipes. People will think you have made a mistake when you tell them you are serving chocolate risotto for dessert. But don't be dissuaded by their disbelief, because serving this will make you stand out as a culinary genius – this recipe is a real showstopper. It's simple, easy to make, and most importantly, absolutely decadently delicious.
Any type of cookies, biscuits of wafer chocolates like Nutty Crust, or chocolate fingers like Kit-Kat or wafer biscuits.
Place all the ingredients for the risotto into your pot – you are basically making a soup with all the ingredients – and then add the risotto. Stir and mix everything together. The cocoa will drift a bit on top, but as soon as you add heat, everything will mix together.
Place the potjie on the fire and start cooking the risotto over very mild and medium heat. You do not have to stir all the time, but with ingredients like milk and cream, you need to stir more often than not.
Let this slowly cook and simmer, stirring more often than not, for 30-40 minutes. If you think you need a bit more liquid, add a bit of water. The risotto will become thick and creamy once cooked and ready.
While the risotto is still cooking, roast your coconut in a pan for a few minutes until golden brown. Now, grate the chocolate over the risotto, the same way you would do with parmesan cheese if this was a savoury recipe.
Dish up the risotto into your dedicated bowls or cups and sprinkle the roasted coconut over and serve with a cookie or biscuit of your choice.
In a world of uncertainty, there are always things you can be sure of. Bananas becoming too old to eat before you've got to them is one of those certainties. This might happen at home in your kitchen, but very often also happens in one of your food crates while touring or on holiday. When those brown spots of age appear on your bananas, this is your cue to make and bake a banana bread potjie – something absolutely fantastic.
1. Start off by peeling the bananas, cutting them into smaller pieces and mashing them with a fork.
2. In your no. 10 flat-bottomed potjie, mix the butter and sugar together until smooth. Add the eggs and mix well. This mixing can be done with a fork or a wooden spoon.
3. Now add the mashed bananas and lemon juice and mix well until you have a smooth batter.
4. Add the flour and baking soda and mix that in. Lastly add the milk and mix that through to form a smooth batter.
5. Put the lid on your potjie and bake the banana bread with the potjie on a stand on medium-hot coals, with some coals on top of the lid as well. It should take about 50 minutes until cooked and golden brown but if the heat is too high, it might be quicker, so check after 30 minutes so it does not burn.
Light a big fire and start prepping your marrow bones. Braai the marrow bones with the flesh side down for 3 – 4 minutes. Turn the marrow bones around and braai with the flesh side upwards. Season with salt and pepper and braai until the marrow starts to bubble and cook.
Remove from the braai and scrape braaied marrow from the bones into your pan.
Heat your pan and fry onion&garlic until soft with the marrow.
Season with salt and pepper and add the dijon mustard and muscadel or sherry. Let this simmer for a few minutes.
Add 1/2 cup white wine and 1/2 cup beef stock and let this sauce simmer and reduce until nice and thick and rich, while you braai your steak.
Slice your steak into strips and serve the steak dressed with the sauce.
We all agree on the cult status of braaibroodjies, or as the Queen refers to it, South African fire-toasted braai sandwiches. But there are also two other major players in the braai-bread market. They are of course roosterkoek – bread rolls baked on the grid – and potbrood, which is a bread baked in your potjie on the fire. What follows below drew inspiration from various submissions. And so, for our next magic trick, we're packing the flavour right into the dough and we're giving the rolls the brilliant benefit of some potjie taste!
1. Heat some oil in your fireproof pan and fry the chopped onion and bacon until cooked. You can also do this step on the stove in your kitchen.
2. Place the flour, yeast, sugar and salt into a mixing bowl and mix until well combined. Add the bacon, onion, cheese and oregano, and mix well.
3. Add a little bit of lukewarm water to the mixture and mix well, adding a bit more water at a time until you have what resembles a dough. You will need roughly one cup of lukewarm water for 500g of flour, but add a little more if you need to.
4. Use clean hands to knead the dough on a floured surface for a few minutes until it is soft and elastic.
5. Place the dough mixture back into your mixing bowl, leave it in a warm place, for example, the general vicinity of the fire or covered with a cloth in the sun. Leave it to rise for about 30 minutes.
6. After half an hour, knock down the dough, kneading for another few minutes.
7. Add olive oil to your no.10 flat-bottomed potjie, making sure the bottom and all the sides are coated in oil.
8. Shape the dough into balls, somewhere between the size of golf balls and tennis balls, and pack them into the potjie in a single layer.
9.Pour the cream over the dough balls and sprinkle any extra grated cheese you coincidently have lying around over that.
10.Now put the lid on the potjie and bake over medium coals, also adding a few coals to the top of the potjie lid. Don't be overly aggressive – bread has a tendency to burn.
So we all agree that a braaibroodjie is probably the best meal in the world. Then it just makes sense to make a dessert braaibroodjie. Now you can have braaibroodjies for starters, main meals and dessert.
Butter the outsides of all your bread slices. Turn the bread around and spread Nutella over the inside of 8 slices of bread.
Cover the Nutella slices generously with chopped chocolate and pecan nuts.
Cover the bread with the other slice of bread and braai in a hinged grid over medium heat. Turn often to make sure the chocolate melts evenly, and the outside of the bread is nice and toasted.
Just before they are done, mix the sugar and cinnamon together and sprinkle the sugar over the toasted bread. Toast on the fire again on both sides for 1 – 2 minutes.
Serve the chocolate braaibroodjies with ice cream, or just as is!
The mieliepap adds a great crunch and texture to this recipe. You are welcome to use any type of firm white fish, even left over snoek from your braai can work.
Let the fish cool down while you mash your potatoes and season it with salt and pepper.
Flake the fish and add to the mash potatoes. Add the parsley, lemon juice and zest and mix well to combine with a wooden spoon. Taste again to see if you should add more salt and pepper.
Sprinkle a clean surface with your maize meal and place a scoop of the potato and fish mixture on the surface. No dust the tops of these potato scoops with more maize meal.
Use your spatula to flatten the fish cakes and grill them over flames on your fire on your cast iron plate in a bit of oil over medium heat until the maize meal is brown and crunchy.
Mix all the ingredients together for the sauce and serve the fish cakes with the sauce.
normal supermarket hamburger rolls with no substance, as it keeps the focus on the mushroom.
1. Slice the rolls and spread cream cheese onto the bottom half of each roll.
2. Braai the mushrooms on medium-to-hot coals until nicely browned and fairly soft, for a total of about 6–8 minutes. Braai them for 3 minutes with the bottom (black) side facing downwards. Then flip them over, scoop a bit of garlic butter into each and then braai with the top (white) side facing downwards until they are soft. They turn quite easily and if you are gentle they will not break apart, so either an open or hinged grid is fine.
3. Put one mushroom on each prepared roll and crumble feta cheese over that.
4. The burgers can be eaten immediately and juices from the mushrooms will seep into the roll as you eat.
Very simply you mix chopped garlic and butter. If you have parsley on hand you chop that and mix it in as well. For 6 mushrooms you'll need 1–2 tots of butter, 1–2 cloves of garlic and ½ tot of parsley.
This is comfort food at its best! Serve it as a main meal or as a side to your boerewors or steak braai. Also note that I make this risotto in my own way, you first make a soup full of flavour, then add the risotto rice, and then let it simmer until thick and creamy.
Heat the oil in your potjie and fry the onion and garlic for a few minutes. Add the tomato puree and cherry tomatoes and this simmer for 5 minutes.
Add the chicken stock, season with salt and pepper and let the soup simmer for 10 minutes for the flavours to develop.
Add the cup of risotto, stir, and cover with the lid.
Let this pot simmer for 30 – 40 minutes until the risotto is thick and creamy and all the liquid is absorbed. You have to ift the lid and stir every 4 to 6 minutes, to prevent the rice from sticking to the bottom of the potjie.
When you are happy with the consistancy of the risotto, add the cheese, and mix well.
Serve with fresh basil, black pepper and your favourite braai food.
The traditional recipe for the iconic mieliepap tert consists of layers of pap, tomato, cheese and other delicious ingredients like bacon, mushrooms. In this case, I just mixed it all together, let the flavours combine, and in such a way you create this amazing flavour of pap and all the other ingredients together. Give it a try next time you are having.a braai.
First prepare your pap. Mix the pap, water and salt together, let the pap simmer on low heat for 30 minutes with a lid, stirring every now and then until the pap is cooked and a nice texture. Set aside.
In your black no.10 potjie,on the fire, heat the oil and fry the onion and garlic until soft. Add the bacon and fry until cooked. Then add the mushrooms and fry for a few minutes until soft and cooked.
Now add your cooked pap, break it up into pieces and mix everything together in the potjie.
Add the tomatoes, stir, then add the cream and grated cheese. Mix it lightly together and cover with the lid. Add coals on top of the lid and let the potjie bake over medium heat for 20 minutes.
Serve with your favourite braai meat and enjoy!
During my formative years of high school, my father expected me to start taking over part of the braai duties, like making the fire. As I progressed in my braai career, I was later even allowed to turn the grid, on his instruction from a chair of course. At that time my mother also started teaching me a few kitchen fundamentals, like how to make a lasagne. During this era of my life, one of our family's favourite restaurants served a pasta that I absolutely loved. So much so that at that young and inexperienced age I embarked on a research and development project to recreate that dish at home.
1. Place your classic three-legged potjie on the fire and boil the pasta in salted water until 80% done. The trick here is to not boil it all the way, as we're going to add it back to the meal later for a second round of cooking. Drain the partly cooked pasta from the pot and preserve some of the liquid in a cup.
2. Put the potjie back on the fire and add the oil, butter and chopped onion. Sauté the onion for a few minutes until it starts to get a nice colour.
3. Now add the chopped garlic, chopped bacon and mushrooms to the pot. Depending on the size of the mushrooms and how much you like to make extra work for yourself, you can either chop or not chop them. Stir-fry until the bacon and mushrooms are cooked.
4. While the bacon and mushrooms are cooking, scrape some coals from the fire and braai the 4 chicken breast fillets. You can season them with normal salt and pepper or your favourite braai spice. Chicken breast fillets take about 6 to 10 minutes to braai, so this meal is going to come together very nicely at the end!
5. Back to the pot: Once you are happy with the bacon and mushrooms, add the 80% cooked pasta from step 1 back to the pot and add the cream to it. Stir through paying specific attention to the fact that the pot should not run dry and burn. If at any stage the pot looks a bit dry, add some or all of the pasta water you preserved in step 1.
6. Once the chicken breasts are braaied, remove them from the fire and artfully slice them diagonally into strips. Now mix the chicken breast strips into the pasta.
If you're so inclined and attuned to the finer details, the meal can be finished with a drizzle of high-quality South African olive oil, fresh herbs and a squeeze of lemon juice.
A 'slider' is the culinary term for a miniature hamburger or more accurately, a small piece of meat served on a mini bread roll. Forming and braaing miniature little patties always seemed like far too much hard work to me, as both the preparation and the braaing would be complex. Boerewors was an easy solution to this. My other problem with sliders is that they are sometimes heavy on the bread and light on the meat. Again, this is something we can solve by simply not closing them with another piece of bread, thereby upping our ratio of meat to bread. Sherry, the original Old Brown type, is a very good value-for-money product to braai with, and one of the core ingredients of this recipe. The sweetness of the sherry complements the spiciness of the boerewors perfectly.
1. Cut the boerewors into pieces of about 6 cm each.
2. Put the pieces of meat into a bowl and pour the sherry over them. Cover the bowl and let the boerewors marinate in a fridge for a few hours.
3. Remove the boerewors pieces from the sherry and skewer them. It doesn't matter how many skewers you use as it's not a case of a skewer per person. Do not discard the sherry.
4. When the fire is lit, heat up a fireproof pan or potjie and sauté the chopped onion in the oil and butter for about 5 minutes. Add the garlic and sauté for another minute.
5. Pour all the sherry that the boerewors was swimming in into the pan or potjie with the onion and garlic and bring to the boil. Stir regularly and let this cook and reduce by half.
6. Put the marinated boerewors skewers in a hinged grid, close the grid and braai over hot coals for about 8 minutes until done. Give each side at least two looks at the coals, meaning you need to turn the grid at least three times in total.
7. During the braai, you or one of your braai party members can cut the baguette in thin slices (we want maximum meat-to-bread ratio so keep the slices thin).
8. Arrange the slices of baguette on a platter and give each piece some of the sherry and onion sauce.
9. When the boerewors is ready, take it off the fire, pull out the skewers and place a piece of braaied sherry-infused boerewors on each prepared slice of baguette.
Mix the flour, sugar and yeast together. Pour the lukewarm water over the flour and start to knead the mixture until you have a soft elastic ball of dough.
Place the dough in a warm place and let it rise to double the size.
Dust a clean surface with flour and knock down the dough for the 2nd time. Use your rolling pin or any heavy object and roll out the dough into a big rectangle.
Spread the butter over the dough, followed the cinnamon, sugar, nuts, raisins and finally drizzling some honey all over.
Use your hands and neatly roll op the rectangle, making sure to keep all the stuffing inside.
Cut the long log into smaller rounds, and place into your potjie that has been prepared with butter,oil or non stick spray.
Bake on the fire o medium hear with coals at the bottom and on top for about 30 – 40 minutes. until cooked inside.
Mix all the ingredients together for the sauce , and drip over the cinnabns.
The Braai Freedom Fighter does not play games. It's a robust burger with little interest in debate and it dominates your plate. You use 100% pure red meat (steak) to make the burger patties, and the sauce is made with the finest red ingredients known to braai kind – significant figureheads like red onions, red bell peppers, paprika, cayenne pepper and tomato. Even the stock we use to bring it all together is beef stock, stock from a red-blooded 100% red meat animal. If the ferocity of the Braai Freedom Fighter scares you, enjoy it with a dollop of fresh sour cream, as the two complement each other very well.
1. Heat the oil in a potjie and fry the onions and peppers for about 4 minutes until they start to soften, then throw in the garlic. Onions take longer to cook than garlic, so always fry onions before adding the garlic. This is general advice and is not only applicable to this recipe.
2. Add the chilli powder and paprika and toss to release their flavours. Then also add the tomatoes, tomato paste and beef stock, and mix to combine them all. Bring to the boil, close the lid and simmer until you start to braai the patties. Basically you want to let it simmer so that the flavour can develop while the fire burns down and you can start to braai. Check every now and then to stir the potjie and make sure it doesn't cook dry. You want the sauce to thicken but you don't want it to burn.
3. Making and braaing 100% beef patties is comprehensively described for hand-chopped burgers (page 28). In the case of the Braai Freedom Fighter I usually go for homemade machine-minced meat. It's a little less effort than hand-chopped mince but the Braai Freedom Fighter sauce is so dominant that you will barely notice the difference. Otherwise get good mince from your butcher.
4. Form the 1 kg of fantastic mince into four patties using your recently washed hands and braai over very hot coals for 8 minutes, turning only once. Grind or sprinkle sea salt and black pepper on both sides just before, or during the braai. The patties get no other binding ingredients or seasoning.
5. When you start braaing the patties, take the lid off the sauce and let it reduce to your liking, adding extra heat under the potjie if necessary to get it reducing more rapidly.
6. During the final minutes of the braai, toast the insides of the cut and buttered rolls on the grid over the coals for bonus points.
7. Assemble the burgers: Roll, patty, Braai Freedom Fighter sauce, dollop sour cream, chopped parsley.
Serve this Italian inspired meal as a snack before you start to braai your main course. This recipe is super easy, but looks very impressive. Friends and family will all be impressed and asking you for the recipe.
Place the garlic, thyme and salt into you mortar and use the pestle to make a smooth paste. Add the olive oil and mix well. I you don't have a mortar and pestle, chop everything together as finely as possible and add to the olive oil.
Spread the bread slices with garlic olive oil and lightly toast the bread slices on a grid over hot coals with the oiled side down.
Place the mixed tomatoes on the skewers and braai over hot coals until roasted and charred.
Make the tomato salad by chopping up the tomatoes, seasoning with salt, pepper, olive oil and balsamic vinegar.
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What is a Charitable Lead Trust
A charitable lead trust is a type of irrevocable trust designed to reduce a beneficiary's potential tax liability, upon inheritance.
BREAKING DOWN Charitable Lead Trust
A charitable lead trust works by donating payments out of the trust to charity, for a set amount of time. After that period expires, the balance of the trust is then paid out to the beneficiary. While this reduces the taxes owed by the beneficiary, once they inherit the remaining balance, it also presents them with other potential tax benefits, such an income tax deduction for charitable donations, and savings on estate and gift taxes. Additionally, it sets up a continuous way for the beneficiary and benefactor to make charitable contributions, without having to manually issue monthly payments.
These forms of trusts are generally set up during the process of estate planning, or during the writing of a will, when benefactors wish to reduce the possibles burdens beneficiaries would normally incur by receiving their inheritance. These trusts, which cost around $1,000 to set up, can be prepared by any attorney familiar with estate planning.
A charitable lead trust signifies a type of irrevocable trust that aims to reduce a beneficiary's potential tax liability upon inheritance.
These structures present beneficiaries with potential tax benefits, such an income tax deduction for charitable donations and savings on estate and gift taxes.
A charitable remainder trust is the polar opposite of a charitable lead trust, because instead of only making monthly payments to a charity, the trust can make a monthly payment to the beneficiary, as well.
What is a Charitable Remainder Trust
A charitable remainder trust is thought to be the opposite of a charitable lead trust. Instead of only making monthly payments to a charity, the trust can make monthly payments to the beneficiary, and in some instances, to the benefactor, as well. This amount must be set at a minimum of 5% and no more than 50% of the balance of the trust.
Unlike some trusts, a beneficiary or benefactor can continue making payments into the trust as time marches on. The benefactor may be eligible to take a deduction for the establishment of the trust. It can be funded with various assets such as cash, publicly-traded securities, qualifying stocks, and real estate.
Like the charitable lead trust, the charitable remainder trust lets beneficiaries take advantage of the donations that they are making. The maximum term allowed on this type of trust is 20 years, which effectively means that after the 20-year period has ended, the trust must pay out the balance to the charitable beneficiary, which may either be a public charity or a private foundation.
With a charitable remainder trust, these charities and foundations can be changed over time, unlike a charitable lead trust, which must adhere to the groups that were originally written into the language of the trust at its initial signing.
[Important: Charitable lead trusts may be structured to be "reversionary," where remaining assets revert to the individual who created the trust, or they may be "non-reversionary," where remaining assets funnel to a beneficiary other than the originator.]
A charitable remainder trust is a tax-exempt irrevocable trust designed to reduce the taxable income of individuals and support charities.
Trust Definition
A trust is a fiduciary relationship in which the trustor gives the trustee the right to hold title to property or assets for the beneficiary.
Irrevocable Trust Definition
An irrevocable trust cannot be modified, amended or terminated without the permission of the grantor's named beneficiary or beneficiaries.
Charitable Remainder Annuity Trust
A Charitable Remainder Annuity Trust - CRAT - is a type of gift transaction in which a donor contributes assets to a charitable trust.
Trust Fund Definition
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Qualified Trust
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MXA INTERVIEW: ROCKSTAR HUSQVARNA'S NEWEST RECRUIT STILEZ ROBERTSON
On Sep 18, 2019 Last updated Sep 18, 2019
Meet Stilez Robertson, Rockstar Husqvarna's newest factory rider.
The Bakersfield, California native, Stilez Robertson has been racing since he was four years old. Now the seventeen year old is living the dream as he just signed a three-year deal with the Factory Rockstar Husqvarna team. After riding for the Kawasaki Team Green program for the last eight years, it was a surprise to see Stilez switch teams towards the end of his amateur career. We ran into Stilez out at Fox Raceway and we were excited to get an interview with as he was putting in his first laps on the his new bike.
BY JOSH MOSIMAN
WHAT ARE YOUR PLANS FOR 2020? I raced in the B class this year, now going into 2020 I will be racing the A class at the amateur nationals. I'll be doing the Supercross Futures races to get my Supercross points, Freestone, maybe Daytona, Mammoth and Loretta's.
WHEN IS YOUR PLAN TO TURN PRO? We'll play it by ear and see how I'm riding, I wouldn't mind turning Pro after Loretta's and doing the last three Nationals next year, but we'll just have to see how it goes.
Stilez hopes to turn Pro at the final three rounds of Outdoors in 2020. He has a three-year contract with Rockstar that will last through the 2022 season.
WHAT IS THE BIGGEST DIFFERENCE YOU NOTICE SO FAR BETWEEN THE HUSQVARNA FC250 AND YOUR KAWASAKI? The biggest difference is probably the frame, just the flex coming into turns. I really like it though, it feels lighter when you're riding it. It's easier to lean over, we made a few changes and it tracks really well.
ARE YOU RIDING A MOD BIKE ON YOUR FIRST DAY? HOW IS THE POWER? Yeah this is a mod bike, it's the Amateur spec that Husqvarna has. It's really good, it revs super high and I haven't felt it sign off at all, it just keeps revving. I think I need to rev it even more. It's really good, it definitely has a lot of power.
Stilez is one of many young riders who live in the Bakersfield area. Ryder Difrancesco and Jett Reynolds are two more top amateur riders from the same city.
DO YOU STILL LIVE IN BAKERSFIELD FULL TIME OR DO YOU STAY IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA? I've been in SoCal when I'm training, but I still go to Bakersfield on the weekends if there's something up there and just to hangout with the family.
WHAT HAS BEEN YOUR MOST MEMORABLE RACE IN YOUR AMATEUR CAREER SO FAR? I really liked Monster Cup. Winning that was really big for me, I really like Supercross so just doing that in front of all those fans was super awesome. I won at my first Monster Cup by going 2-1 for first overall. In my first Monster Cup everyone watched me hit the Toyota Tundra.
Stilez finished his B-class year strong by winning the 250B class at the Loretta Lynn's Amateur National. Now he will race in the A-class until he turns Pro.
WHO DO YOU TRAIN WITH? I've been training with Ivan Tedesco. It's still up in the air if I will still work with Ivan, but hopefully we can make it happen.
HAVE YOU THOUGHT ABOUT TRAINING IN FLORIDA AT THE BAKER'S FACTORY? Yeah I would be down to do anything that benefits me.
Here is a photo of Stilez on his Kawasaki earlier in the year with his trainer, Ivan Tedesco.
WHAT DO YOU LIKE TO DO BESIDES RIDING? I like watching dirt car racing and I like to go to the skate park even though I'm not very good. Sometimes I like to go shoot trap with my friends. I also really like drag racing, I'm actually going to go to Georgia on October 16th to go watch a huge radial tire drag race. Radial tire means small tires and they have some gnarly cars, it's fun to watch.
ARE YOUR RACING MONSTER CUP THIS YEAR? No Monster Cup this year. I'm just going to go hangout and watch. If I'm feeling comfortable maybe I'll go shoot up to Ponca to do the MotoPlayground race, we're not forsure yet. Or maybe the do Fly National at Oatfield, we're just taking it day by day and getting comfortable on the bike.
Stilez was on the charge out at Fox Raceway.
ANY LAST WORDS? I'm really excited to try something different, it's been a long eight years at Kawasaki. They were all really good to me, but I'm excited to try something different.
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