Wednesday, July 24, 2013

ABC's O'Brian named Al-Jazeera America president

NEW YORK (AP) ? Al-Jazeera America said Monday it will bring in a quartet of veteran U.S. television news executives, led by ABC's Kate O'Brian as president, to run the new cable news network and pinpointed Aug. 20 as the launch date.

Ehab Al Shahibi, executive director for international operations for Al-Jazeera and the man who has overseen development of the American outlet, is the interim chief executive officer.

Qatar-based Al-Jazeera, formed in 1996, has expanded quickly around the world but struggled to gain access to U.S. cable and satellite systems. At the beginning of this year, it bought former Vice President Al Gore's Current TV, giving the company access to some 50 million homes initially, and began to set up a network specifically for the U.S. audience.

O'Brian has worked at ABC News for three decades, and since 2007 has been the network's senior vice president for news, leading its breaking news coverage.

"She is a highly experienced and award-winning journalist who fully understands what Americans want to see and hear when they watch the news," said Mostefa Souag, acting director general of the Al-Jazeera Media Network. "Kate has the vision, tenacity and integrity to ensure that Al-Jazeera America will quickly become the success we expect it to be."

Three other Americans who have extensive experience in television news, but aren't working there currently, will join Al-Jazeera as senior vice presidents.

David Doss, a producer for news shows at ABC and NBC News who had most recently been producing broadcasts for Anderson Cooper at CNN, will be in charge of news programming.

Marcy McGinnis, currently teaching journalism at Stony Brook University, will be responsible for news gathering, similar to a job she held at CBS News a decade ago.

Shannon High-Bassalik has run local news operations, worked at MSNBC and most recently produced CNN's morning news show before it was remodeled. She will be in charge of documentaries and programs.

Al-Jazeera has announced that a handful of familiar names to American viewers ? Sheila MacVicar, Ali Velshi and Soledad O'Brien ? will be doing on-air work for the network. The network also has said it will air a regular newsmagazine, "America Tonight," on weeknights.

O'Brian started work at ABC more than 30 years ago as an intern at "20/20." ABC News President Ben Sherwood wrote to his staff on Monday that "I will miss the sound of her voice, urgent and measured, calling in the middle of the night, when news is breaking somewhere around the world."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/abcs-obrian-named-al-jazeera-america-president-201030033.html

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Friday, July 19, 2013

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Saturday, July 13, 2013

Brandts Church of the Brethren receives new pastor

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ST. THOMAS - The Rev. Roger K. Myers, Hollidaysburg, on June 16 was installed as senior pastor at Brandts Church of the Brethren, 8003 Brandts Church Road.

He and his wife, Lou Ann, are originally from the Hagerstown, Md., area.

Myers has 27 years of pastoral experience.

Ordained by the National Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches, Myers received a bachelor's degree in music education from Shepherd College, Shepherdstown, W.Va., and a master of divinity degree from Grace Theological Seminary, Winona Lake, Ind.

His vision for ministry is both evangelism and edification, according to scripture Matthew 28:19-20.

Source: http://www.publicopiniononline.com/living/ci_23648963/brandts-church-brethren-receives-new-pastor?source=rss

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Saturday, July 6, 2013

Batch cooking for babies and toddlers: Quiches, cakes and pur?es ...

Batch cooking: Quiches, cakes and pur?esKatie Bryson

Family food writer Katie Bryson shares simple recipe ideas for feeding your toddler that you can make-ahead in batches and pop in the freezer, saving you time and money.

Bake a batch of tiny quiches using ready rolled shortcrust pastry with a tuna and sweetcorn filling. You could chop and change the fillings to try out different flavours with your little one - salmon and dill, cheese and sundried tomato etc. They freeze well and could even double up as party canapes.

Teeny weeny tuna and sweetcorn quiches

Makes 24

You will need:

375g ready rolled shortcrust pastry
1 egg
75ml milk
80g tin tuna in spring water, drained
4 tsp tinned sweetcorn, drained
Parmesan cheese, finely grated

What to do:

1. Pre-heat the oven to 200C/180C fan and grease a mini tart tin with 24 holes.

2. Unroll the pastry and using a 68mm round cutter stamp out circles of pastry and press into the mini tart tin holes. Prick the bottom of each with a fork and then bake for 5 mins. If the pastry has puffed up a bit, gently pat it back into shape using the handle of a wooden spoon.

3. In a bowl combine the drained flakes of tuna with the sweetcorn, and in a jug lightly beat the eggs and milk.

4. Using a teaspoon drop a small amount of tuna and sweetcorn into each case, cover with a little of the egg and milk mixture then scatter with grated parmesan.

5. Return to the oven for 15-20 minutes until the filling is golden and the pastry cooked. Allow to cool and then carefully take out of the tin. Freeze in bags and take out and defrost a few at a time as needed.

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Use up those brown bananas and whip up a freezable batch of miniature banana and oat muffins - perfect for lunchboxes and a nice energy boost!

Mini banana and oat muffins

Makes 24

You will need:

200g self raising flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp bicarb soda
Pinch of salt
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp nutmeg
115g soft brown sugar sugar
50g rolled oats
2 medium eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 tsp runny honey
75g butter, melted
125ml milk
2 ripe bananas, mashed

What to do:

1. Heat oven to 190C, 170C fan and line a couple of mini muffin trays with cases.

2. Sift the flour, baking powder, bicarb soda, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg into a bowl. Add the sugar and oats and mix well.

3. In a second bowl beat together the eggs, vanilla extract, honey, butter and milk with a fork. Add the bananas to the egg mixture and stir.

4.Make a well in the dry mixture and add the egg mixture. Mix together roughly with a fork until well combined but not smooth.

5.Evenly fill your muffin cases with batter, then bake in the oven for 20-25 mins.

6.Once golden brown and firm remove from oven leave to cool for 5 minutes in the tin and then 5 minutes on a wire rack.

Seasonal fruits make delicious purees. Make in batches and freeze then either serve alone or stir into yoghurt or custard. You could even make the puree into a crumble for the rest of the family.

Apple, pear, raspberry and mint puree

You will need:

2 apples
2 pears
225g pack raspberries
Small handful of mint leaves

What to do:

1. Peel and chop the apples and pears and then cook gently in a pan with 4 tbsp water for around 10 minutes until soft. Add the raspberries and chopped mint leaves then cook for a few more minutes.

2. Remove from the heat and allow to cool before blitzing in the blender, then pushing through a sieve to remove the seeds if desired.

3. Pour into ice cube trays and freeze, then later turn out into bags and return to the freezer.

Plum and cinnamon compote

You will need:

400g punnet plums
100ml apple juice
1/2 tsp cinnamon

What to do:

1. Chop the fruit in half, remove the stones, then place in a pan with the apple juice, sprinkle with cinnamon and then heat gently until the fruit breaks down.

2. Allow to cool then blitz in a food processor until smooth. Pour into ice cube trays and freeze, then later turn out into bags and return to the freezer.

For more information about weaning, including what foods to give your child and when, check out the NHS guide.

Source: http://www.parentdish.co.uk/food/batch-cooking--for-baby-and-toddlers-quiches-cakes-and-purees-recipes/

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Tea party in Wigan for cancer charity

Tea party in Wigan for cancer charity

9:00am Saturday 6th July 2013 in North West

THERE will be a tea party at Belong Wigan, Millers Lane, Platt Bridge in Wigan on Saturday 10, between 2pm and 4pm.

The event is part of Marie Curie Cancer Care?s Blooming Great Tea Party campaign and there will be musical entertainment and a raffle.

Source: http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/northwest/10529404.Tea_party_in_Wigan_for_cancer_charity/?ref=rss

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Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Oh, #Florida!

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Photographs by iStockphoto. Photo composite by Natalie Matthews-Ramo.

The other day my friend Shannon called me asking for help. She said her women?s group was putting on a luncheon for a group from some other country. Each member of her group was supposed to sit at a table full of the visitors from, I don't know, Shteyngartistan or something, and somebody came up with the idea of arming the ladies with fun facts about Florida as icebreakers.

The problem, she said, was that the facts they?d compiled about Florida so far just weren?t all that fun. Leading industries, form of government, that kind of thing. Then she said, ?I was wondering if you ... ?

?You got a pen?? I asked. ?Take this down: In 1845, when Florida joined the Union as a state, the first state flag that flew over the capitol bore the slogan: ?Let Us Alone.? ?

I went on to tell her about Ochopee, the town with the nation?s smallest post office (it used to be a tool shed), and Carabelle, the town with the world?s smallest police station (a phone booth bolted to the side of a building), and Cassadaga, the town that has so many crystal balls per capita that it?s known as the ?psychic capital of the world.? I even mentioned Sweetwater, the town founded by a troupe of Russian circus midgets whose bus broke down.

I reeled off about a dozen oddball bits of Floridiana but avoided the really weird stuff?the nude biker gangs, the Wiccan Klan members, the convocations of furries who sometimes throw costumed parties at the beach.

Shannon jotted it all down, giggling, and thanked me. ?I knew I could count on you,? she said.

About the time Shannon called looking for fun Florida facts, the fine folks here at Slate approached me with a somewhat similar request. They wanted me to blog for a month about Florida, trying to explain why it?s both the Land of Flowers and the Land of Face-Eating Zombies. They picked me because I highlight both sides in my Twitter feed.

As that line on the first state flag demonstrates, Florida has been weird and contradictory and mule-headed for a long, long time. To me, it?s the most fascinating state of the 50, a place where the past is constantly tripping up the future even as new arrivals are always trampling what came before them.

We are the state of second, third, and fourth chances, the state where tragedy often wears the mask of comedy. When O.J. Simpson was acquitted of double murder, where did he go? To Florida, of course?and promptly got in trouble for driving his 30-foot powerboat too fast through a manatee protection zone.

Carl Hiaasen, who?s created his own subgenre of wacky Florida crime novels, always says he doesn?t make anything up?he just reads the papers. In Florida, the scams are always bigger and the politicians more likely to be rascals. We?re regularly ranked as the mortgage fraud capital, the pill-mill kingdom, the hotbed of Fix-A-Flat butt enlargers. In our tropical heat, tempers boil faster and a machete always seems to be in easy reach. The mosquitoes are more bloodthirsty than any Twilight vampire. Alligators will show up at your picnic to eat your burgers, then go off to wrestle a python or bite a police cruiser. Any second, the ground is liable to swallow you up as you sleep.

Is it any wonder we?re Fark?s favorite state, the only one with its own subject tag? Live here and you?ll never suffer an irony deficiency.

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I love it here. I?m a native Floridian married to another native Floridian. My ancestors arrived in 1850, no doubt looking for a good deal on waterfront condos. I grew up hunting in Florida?s forests, fishing in its lakes, canoeing its rivers. Since 1989, I?ve worked as a reporter for Florida?s largest newspaper, the Tampa Bay Times (formerly the St. Petersburg Times). I?ve rooted around in the attic of Florida history and written books about wetland-fillers, manatee killers and orchid smugglers.

Here?s the best story I know to give you a sense of what it?s like:

When I was 12, I was camping with my Boy Scout troop down by a river. While crossing the deepest part of the river, I lost my footing, and the current pulled me under. I remember the rippling water closing over me, the pitiless blue sky above. Even now, years later, I sometimes dream about this, struck by the beauty of what seemed like the last thing I'd ever see. Just before the river claimed me for good, I grabbed hold of a rope that was strung across one end of the swim area. To me this sums up?Florida: Surrounded by dangerous beauty, in over our heads, pulled along by powerful forces, desperately grabbing for any lifeline.

Source: http://www.slate.com/articles/life/florida/features/2013/oh_florida/florida_fun_facts_carabelle_cassadega_alligators_furries_crime_and_corruption.html

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