Apparently Canadian Geese aren’t supposed to be hanging out in Virginia in huge numbers — eating wine makers’ grapes. This episode for our Road Trip series follows Jackson Landers, a writer and hunter who is focused on Invasive Species in their many forms. In this video we hunt (although not in a normal hunting style, hunters — this was for culling, not for sport) some geese on a winery and make burgers.
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This is the second anniversary post in our series, TwitterPowerhouses, which focuses on the contributions of people who’ve helped to expand, influence, and redefine how we view social networking.
“Twitter’s arrival as a cultural force happened by steps, not a single breakthrough event.” When co-founder Biz Stone uttered those words to the Financial Post, we couldn’t have agreed more. From its big splash at SXSW in 2007 to the first off-Earth tweet from the International Space Station, the success has been exciting. But, there is no doubt that the use of Twitter during protests against Iran’s Presidential Election in 2009 was a huge turning point for the site.
As NPR’s Terri Gross points out,
Fourteen months later, when the U.S. State Department asked Twitter to delay a planned network upgrade to help safeguard the rights of Iranians voicing their dissatisfaction over the 2009 presidential election in Iran, condemning both the process and outcome of the election, it was the beginning of what Stone had
By Kate Steffens, Chocolate Expert for Menuism.com
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Major innovations have taken place in the chocolate industry in the past few years. From edible, playable records to chocolate that doesn’t melt, there’s a whole world of high-tech chocolate waiting to be discovered.
Virtual Reality Chocolate
Cadbury recently introduced an “augmented reality” candy bar experience through a partnership with UK app company Blippar, which created an interactive game for its candy bars. How it works: when consumers point a smartphone at a Cadbury chocolate bar, the camera “recognizes” the packaging and launches a short game called Qwak Smack. Look out for this technology stateside, because many American companies are catching on.
Ice cream giant Ben and Jerry’s iPhone app and scannable carton lids with “Moo Vision” interactive technology enables you to invite friends to a nearby Scoop Shop, locate the nearest retail location and even find nutritional information on your favorite flavors.
Chocolate Records
Scottish baker and chocolatier Ben Milne wanted to figure out a way to help his friend’s band promote the release of their new
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The following entry and photographs are taken from the new book KENYA, by Michael Poliza & Friends now available from teNeues publishing.
As a child, I dreamed of traveling to Africa. When I pictured this distant continent in my mind's eye, I saw rolling hills and lonely Acacia trees. In fact, I think this savanna scenery is what most of us envision when we think of Africa. The classical example would be the Masai Mara National Game Reserve in southwestern
A new year: a fresh start. Gone are the roasts, the cookies, the cocktails, those glorious hallmarks of the holiday season; we’re going healthy, and we’re loving it. Here are 10 dishes we’ll be making all year long — dishes so good we’ll be raising our glasses (of water) to give a hearty “cheers!”
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With another loaf of Baker’s Bob’s amazing bread in hand, I arrived at cowgirl Denise Morrison’s home perched up high in the hills of Los Alamos, CA. During my stay I learned that Denise is the consummate turkey whisperer, which is a little disconcerting after we deep-fried a 20-pounder the day before. Every morning, on her way down to tend to her draft horses, a flock of wild turkeys range freely and eat right out of her hands. Their relationship is so unique that it seemed like they followed us as we rode through the
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For once, you are hearing about a monster talent before the Kool Kids.
That’s because Break Mirrors is close to a secret. Blake Mills recorded his debut CD in a friend’s studio in 2009, when he was 22. He released it — in the summer of 2010 — on a tiny label and sold it only at Mollusk, a surf shop in Venice,
Buried in the “controversy” over Bradley Cooper’s selection as People magazine’s most recent Sexiest Man Alive is a little known fact: If you had polled American Muslim women the winner would have been — wait for it — Jon Stewart.
Every Monday through Thursday, thousands of Muslim women across the country eagerly tune in to Comedy Central to watch The Daily Show — ok, let’s be real — we’re really tuning in to check out Jon. With his great hair, fine Armani suits, intelligence, and deadpan delivery, what’s not to love? Plus, he speaks truth to power, often on social justice issues and current events that impact minorities, including the American Muslim community. He gets it.
Look, sometimes it’s tiring being a Muslim in
An abhorrent rally Saturday night in Jerusalem’s Shabbat Square featuring haredim, that is, ultra-Orthodox Jews, wearing yellow stars and simulated concentration camp uniforms brings to mind Walt Kelly’s observation in the classic Pogo comic strip, “We have met the enemy and he is us.”
“It’s like how it started with the Nazis — very slowly,” said one of the ultra-Orthodox demonstrators, an American Yeshiva student named Salomon Hoberman, steadfastly insisting on his and his cohorts’ right to discriminate against and even physically abuse women and girls.
It is important to recognize that this latest misuse of Holocaust imagery and Nazi analogies did not occur in a vacuum. In 1995, posters of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in a Nazi uniform were displayed at right-wing Israeli demonstrations opposing any political accommodation with the Palestinians. In December of 2004, Gaza strip settlers compared Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s decision to pull out of Gaza to the Holocaust and announced that they would start wearing orange stars in protest. Eight months later, Israeli soldiers were confronted in the Gaza settlement of Kerem Atzmona by Jewish children with yellow stars of David pinned on their chest, intentionally evoking images of Jews being deported to their death by the Nazis.
More recently, in May of 2010, a group of left-wing Israeli, Palestinian and Polish activists, including one Yonatan Shapiro, a former Israeli Air Force pilot, sprayed the words “Liberate all ghettos” in Hebrew and “Free Gaza and Palestine” in English on remnants of the Warsaw Ghetto.
No one should be surprised, therefore, when the ultra-Orthodox, some of whom have long compared Israel to Nazi Germany at anti-Zionist demonstrations in New York and elsewhere, chose to up the ante by employing ever more provocative and evocative tactics.
Even more troubling than Saturday’s rally is the silence of so many ultra-Orthodox religious leaders in its
Think of It’s About You as the Tree of Life of rock-docs: a movie so in love with atmospherics and self-examination that it completely loses track of its subject.
As rock documentaries go, It’s About You, ostensibly a film about John Mellencamp by photographer Kurt Markus and his son, Ian, is both insubstantial and self-indulgent. While the Markuses had an all-access pass to film Mellencamp as he performed and recorded on the 2009 tour (with Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson) that ultimately produced his 2010 album, No Better Than This, that was as close as they ever got. You never even see Dylan or Nelson.
According to Markus’ voice-over narration, Mellencamp invited Markus to film the tour – and he and his son decided to shoot it on Super-8, as well as with digital and still cameras. While criss-crossing the country, Mellencamp stopped to do some rootsy recording – simple microphones, reel-to-reel tape decks – in places like an Alabama church and the original Sun recording
As the Republican primaries begin, a foundering Newt Gingrich has announced he will publish eight never-before-released books, adding to his already impressive body of policy treatises, polemics and alternative history novels. The new books are summarized here by the author.
A Good Explanation
Widely respected public figure Newt Gingrich is hired to advise the mortgage giant Freddie Mac, an organization now known to have played a role in the United States’ economic collapse. For his services, Gingrich is paid $1.6 million. Asked about the large sum and questionable nature of the work, Gingrich explains that he provided advice in his capacity as a “historian.” This satisfies pretty much everyone.
The Happy Place
A poor, inner-city school decides to adopt one of Newt Gingrich’s boldest policy proposals, hiring all of its 784 children as part-time
What did I miss?
For seven days I didn’t have salt, meat or CNN. My mornings began without Morning Joe or Morning Edition; I saw sunrise on a mountain hike, not with a clicker in my hand. My daily hour devoted to the New York Times was given over to stretching. Pilates replaced
Kabul – Bibi Sadia and her husband Baba share a humble home with their son, his wife and their two little children. An Afghan human rights advocate suggested that we listen to Bibi’s stories and learn more about how a Pashto family has tried to survive successive tragedies in Kabul.
Holding her three-year-old granddaughter in her arms, Bibi adjusted her hijab and launched into a narrative that began during the Soviet occupation. The mujahideen had asked Baba to bring them medicines two or three times a week for those injured in the war. For each batch of medicines that Baba delivered, the mujahideen paid him a small sum of
The chance to learn something new, have genuine experiences with locals, and get value for money: Are we asking too much out of our trips? After so many years of limited travel thanks to tightened budgets Baby Boomers are raring to hit the road, the air and the seas again.
But before we plunk down thousands of dollars on our next expedition, we owe it to ourselves to take some time to figure out exactly what we want and don’t want out of our travels. Otherwise, you could find yourself booked on an overpriced excursion that eats up all your annual vacation time, going someplace you’ve never wanted to visit.
The risk of that happening is huge: you’ve got friends and family telling you where to vacation; thousands of itineraries, tours, cruises and destinations to choose from; and the Internet, guidebooks, The Travel Channel, magazines and newspaper travel sections that further confuse you with so much information. Where’s a traveling Boomer to start?
You should know what you want before you even start browsing all these
We all have a friend (who has a friend) that stays in a bad marriage just because he (or she) can’t afford the alimony that often comes along with ending the relationship. For those living in a ship-wrecked marriage, help may be on the way. If proposed alimony reform is passed by the Florida Legislature, for many it may no longer be “cheaper to keep her.”
In response to sweeping reforms in other states (most recently Massachusetts and New Jersey), legislators in Florida (one of which ironically is now going through his own divorce) have recently introduced parallel bills in the Florida House and Senate that are intended to bring what many perceive to be antiquated laws concerning alimony into the 21st century.
Key provisions of the bills would limit the maximum duration of alimony based on the length of marriage; terminate alimony at full retirement age (currently 66); and cap alimony at no more than 20% of the payer’s net monthly income. The most important change — particularly for the millions of (predominantly) men serving as indentured servants to their former spouses — is its retroactive nature, allowing a spouse the ability to go back to court to modify his or her existing orders of support in line with the parameters of the new
The Republican presidential race actually begins Tuesday night. It is worth remembering that this is the first time we will hear from the voters—that everything up to this point, while presented as The Campaign, was actually a long, voter-less preseason consisting primarily of candidates, politicos, donors and reporters talking amongst themselves.
No one knows what these first voters will do. We do know that whatever they convey, however, it will depart significantly from The Campaign Narrative so far. The “front-runner” will definitely not be Herman Cain, for example, since he isn’t even running now that the real race is
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GLENDALE, Ariz. — Brandon Weeden threw for 399 yards and three touchdowns to Justin Blackmon in their final collegiate game, leading No. 3 Oklahoma State to a 41-38 overtime win against Andrew Luck and No. 4 Stanford in a wildly entertaining Tostitos Fiesta Bowl on Monday night.The most anticipated postseason game outside of the AllState BCS National Championship, the Fiesta Bowl was an impressive offensive show, two of the nation’s best teams trading big plays and scores.
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Oklahoma State (12-1) came up with the last one on Quinn Sharp’s 22-yard field goal in overtime to win its first BCS bowl game, earning the right to stake claim at being No. 1 in The poll should Alabama beat LSU in the BCS title game.”Our team rallied. Every time we got down, they just found a way to come back,” said Cowboys coach Mike Gundy, who dedicated the victory to the four people who died in the Nov. 17 plane crash that killed Oklahoma State women’s basketball coach Kurt Budke and assistant Miranda Serna.The Cowboys, who never led until the final play, were fortunate to get a chance in overtime.After getting the ball back with 2:35 left in the fourth quarter and the score tied, Luck drove the Cardinal within field goal range in the closing seconds. Stanford couldn’t finish it off, though. Redshirt freshman Jordan Williamson hooked a 35-yard field goal wide left as time expired, then missed from 43 yards in overtime.Williamson was sobbing in front of his locker after the game and didn’t speak with reporters.”In the end, we lost, and I’m as much to blame as anyone,” Luck said.Luck hit 27 of 31 passes for 347 yards and two touchdowns in his final game before heading to the NFL. Stepfan Taylor ran for 177 yards and a pair of scores, and the Cardinal (11-2) had 590 yards — nearly 200 more than Oklahoma State — but couldn’t pull out their second straight BCS bowl victory.”Our kids played hard,” Stanford coach David Shaw said. “They just didn’t finish the game.”
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Usually balanced, Oklahoma State had just 15 yards rushing on 13 carries, but Weeden made up for it, completing 29 of 42 passes and the three scores to Blackmon, who had eight catches for 186 yards.After the game, Blackmon said he will skip his senior season to enter the NFL draft. He is expected to be selected high in the first round.Weeden threw what he thought was the game-winning touchdown pass in overtime, a 25-yarder to Colton Chelf. But the celebration was put on hold after officials put the ball just inside the 1-yard line after a video review.Oklahoma State didn’t go for the touchdown, instead setting up the field goal attempt by Sharp, who sent the Cowboys rushing onto the field after his kick went through the uprights.”I think coast to coast, people have a lot of respect for Oklahoma State football,” Gundy said. “What a great job by our players to battle back all night.”The Fiesta Bowl needed a pick-me-up game after the year it had.Last year’s game was a dud on pretty much all accounts. Connecticut had trouble filling its allotment of tickets and keeping up with Oklahoma — a 44-10 rout — leading to a big dip in the ratings.Not long after that, the bowl got tangled in controversy, nearly losing its BCS status following financial improprieties that were uncovered and led to the firing of executive director John Junker.This matchup figured to be the ticket to match the golden jackets worn by Fiesta Bowl officials.Oklahoma State has an electrifying offense — second in scoring, third in total yards — run by the 28-year-old Weeden and featuring Blackmon, the two-time Biletnikoff Award winner.The Cowboys also came in with a chip on their shoulder, believing they should have gotten a shot at the BCS title game instead of it being a rematch of the field-goal-kicking Game of the Century earlier this season between Alabama and LSU.Finishing a tantalizingly close .0086 behind the Crimson Tide in the BCS standings, Oklahoma State had plenty to prove, with booster T. Boone Pickens saying the Cowboys should get first-place votes in The poll with a Fiesta win and a loss by LSU in the title game.Across the field was Stanford, another one-loss team that could have a legitimate beef with the BCS system.The Cardinal lost to eventual Pac-12 champion Oregon and crushed nearly everyone else with an offense that was top-15 in scoring and yardage. Stanford also has Luck, the two-time Heisman Trophy runner-up and all-but-certain No. 1 overall NFL pick, complemented by a powerful running game that’s as good as any anywhere.The Fiesta Bowl had a pretty good lead-in, too: Oregon’s wild, 45-38 win over Wisconsin in the Rose Bowl presented by Vizio.Stanford was the only team to live up to the billing in the early going.Manhandling Oklahoma State’s defense up front, the Cardinal had 225 yards by early in the second quarter and led 14-0 after Luck hit Ty Montgomery on a 53-yard touchdown pass and Jeremy Stewart ran for a 24-yard score.Oklahoma State’s offense was stranded in the desert early: Weeden threw an interception on his first pass, the Cowboys had 27 yards while failing to score in the opening quarter for the first time this season and Blackmon was nowhere to be found.That changed in the second — and quickly.Blackmon caught his first pass by splitting the middle of Stanford’s defense for a 43-yard touchdown catch, then showed off his power on the next, brushing off a defender like a jacket over his shoulder before racing for a 67-yard touchdown that tied it 14-all.Two big catches, 110 yards and the offensive show was on.Stanford answered with an 80-yard drive in eight plays, capped by Taylor’s 4-yard touchdown run. The Cardinal left too much time, though, and the Cowboys raced down the field for Weeden’s first career rushing touchdown, an ugly-but-effective 2-yarder that made it 21-all at halftime.Stanford opened the second half with a yard-churning drive for a 6-yard touchdown pass from Luck to Zach Ertz to put the Cardinal up 28-21.Oklahoma State had a great opportunity after recovering Geoff Meinken’s fumble at Stanford’s 4-yard line, but had to settle for a field goal. After a Stanford field goal, Weeden found Blackmon for a third time, on a 17-yard crossing pass that tied the game at 31.Taylor put Stanford up 38-31 with 4 1/2 minutes left, ducking behind Stanford’s massive offensive line for a 1-yard touchdown. Oklahoma State answered quickly, moving 67 yards in less than two minutes to tie it on Joseph Randle’s 4-yard touchdown run.Luck seemingly had the Cardinal in position after moving 63 yards, but Williamson couldn’t come through, sending the game to overtime, where the Cowboys celebrated by mobbing each other in front of the OSU student section — and then again on the field after the replay and Sharp’s kick.
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Note: Do not read on if you have not seen Season 2, Episode 15 of “Pretty Little Liars,” entitled, “A Hot Piece Of ‘A.’”
It’s been one TV month (four real ones) since Hanna, Emily, Aria and Spencer sat dirtied in party dresses at the Rosewood Police Dept, suspected of homicide.
Now, they’re picking up trash while donning far less fashionable, but equally filthy orange jumpsuits as a group of grammar school children play jump rope and chant a rhyme about liars that sounds exactly like last season’s finale. Subtle.
The other big girls picking up trash aren’t fans of the “Pretty Little Liars.” They gossip within earshot of the foursome about how they got community service “for tampering with evidence” even though “the cops think they killed someone” thanks to Spencer’s lawyer mom.
Soon enough, it’s clear Emily and Spencer are not on good terms. They start talking about making “a deal with a rattlesnake,” the snake being “A” and the deal being Emily’s idea about handling with “A.” Deep metaphor.
Apparently feeling the vibe of their jumpsuits, the argument turns physical and the girls are soon on top of each other, rolling around in the trash they’re supposed to be picking up.
Officer Garrett looks on creepily through his aviators, eating nuts.
Hanna is talking to her mom in the kitchen and the two offer a helpful catch up about what happened last with the blond “little liar,” for those who weren’t watching the nine-hour marathon before the Season 2 winter premiere on Monday night. Turns out Hanna may have stopped her father’s wedding to Isabel — at “A’s” request via talking doll — but, her mom says, “You didn’t stop the marriage.” Tom and Isabel got hitched anyway in a courthouse and Kate is sadly Hanna’s evil step-sister.
Hanna’s mom asks her if she can at least try to be civil with
Some believe that our past defines us. Others would say that being too precious with our past inhibits us from making a better future. The truth probably lies somewhere in the middle. I’ve never been great at balancing the
The first 12 years of my career were spent writing songs about loss and longing, so in some way I suppose I owe the fact that you are even reading this on The Huffington Post to my own unhappiness. Historically, I have felt most at home in heartbreak, both in art and in life. It’s largely what I knew growing up, so everything else felt foreign and wrong as an adult. For years, people being kind to me felt
A Conversation With Timothy B. Schmit
Mike Ragogna: Timothy, let’s talk about your album Expando. Why “Expando”?
Timothy B. Schmit: The word itself came from a mobile home I used to live in when I was a
In this country, homophobia runs rampant. We are constantly hearing stories of bullied teens committing suicide because they are ashamed to exist in a world where they feel they will never be accepted because they are gay. In the old days, people, both gay men and women, were forced to marry into heterosexual relationships in order to maintain some sort socially acceptable faade. Even today, although major progress has been made when it comes to acceptance of LGBT people, there are still plenty hiding from their true
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