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Fruit Stays Fresh For Longer in Corrugated Trays
Corrugated trays keep fruit fresher and safer than reusable plastic crates (RPCs) and can significantly reduce contamination from pathogenic and spoilage microorganisms, according to scientific research. The research by the University of Bologna found that corrugated trays ensured better quality packed fruits and a longer shelf-life, reducing fruit microbial cross contamination. This decreases the risk of food-borne illnesses and increases fruit shelf life, contributing to the fruit's freshness, scent, appearance and taste.
Microbiological contamination of fruit and vegetables is a major concern for retailers. Contamination can have two characteristic effects. In case of pathogen bacteria, food safety is at risk. In the case of spoilage bacteria, it will have an impact on shelf life. In both cases, the role of packaging can be critical.
The research was led by Professor Rosalba Lanciotti at the University of Bologna's Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences. It looked at the exchange of microbes between produce and packaging and vice versa. The study was particularly interested in how differences in packaging materials can influence the cross contamination.
The results revealed statistically significant differences in the microbiological quality between produce packed in (RPCs) and corrugated trays.
The researchers packed peaches in deliberately contaminated packaging, both corrugated trays and RPCs, with the same number of Escherichia coli, Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Pseudomonas spp. and they then measured the transfer of the microorganisms to packaged fruit. The tests showed that the fruit reached contamination levels generally associated to fruit spoilage 48 to 72 hours earlier in plastic crates than in corrugated trays.
All peaches were washed with tap water, then sterilised with a sodium solution, rinsed with sterilised water and then air dried before entering the tests. Contributing factors such as the temperature during storage, the length of time before sale, and the superficial damage on each peach were also taken into consideration. The results of the tests showed that all of them influenced the microbial transfer from packaging material to fruit, but the transferring of the spoilage microorganisms considered was always lower for corrugated trays.
The tests also showed that in some conditions during the trials (i.e. high storage temperature) up to 95% of the peaches packed in RPCs were contaminated with E. coli after 48 hours when packaged in deliberately contaminated plastic crates. By contrast, the E. coli contamination level never exceeded 25% of the peaches packed in corrugated contaminated with the same levels of microorganisms.
The tests enabled Professor Lanciotti and her team (mainly Dr Francesca Patrignani, and Dr Lorenzo Siroli) to conclude that peaches packed in corrugated reach consumers in a safer and fresher state than those in plastic crates.
Jan Gramsma, FEFCO's Market and Environment Director, says the tests were just one of the many confirmations that corrugated is cleaner and safer. "When it comes to preventing microbiological contamination, the science is in no doubt: corrugated board is far superior to RPC," he points out. "Both the European Food Safety Agency and the US Centre for Disease Control and Prevention say fresh produce can be a source of contamination leading to foodborne Illnesses. Until now, we did not have undeniable proof that packaging was a factor. Our message to retailers is simple and clear: corrugated keeps produce fresh and safe."
The research comes as other concerns have been raised recently over the hygiene of RPCs. Last November, the Department of Food Science at the University of Arkansas showed that typical industry cleaning procedures failed to sanitise RPCs. The research team led by Dr Steven Ricke found Salmonella cells on the crates even after cleaning. He noted that bacteria hide in the cracks and crevices of the crate's surface, making it harder for industrial sanitisers to reach them. Dr Ricke said industry claims that crates are "99.5%" clean after sanitisation sound impressive, but that the missing 0.5% could hold millions of cells.
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ET's Nancy O'Dell caught up with Morris on the red carpet of the 2019 ACM Awards, where she talked up about her whirlwind month since releasing her new album, GIRL, and the possibility of writing new music with the country music legend. "This is all incredible". Urban and Bryan also lead the list of five nominees for Artist of the Year, along with Chris Stapleton, Jason Aldean, and Kenny Chesney.
While this wasn't the first time Lambert, 35, has sung the updated rendition of the hit song, she has never done so with Shelton present - seemingly shading the "Voice" judge in front of his longtime girlfriend Gwen Stefani in the process. Host Reba McEntire introduced Lambert, the most rewarded artist in ACM awards history, as "32-time ACM award victor, Miranda Lambert".
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The star-laden three-hour show marked an upbeat return to celebrating country music after last year's awards assumed a sombre note following the October 2017 mass shooting, also in Las Vegas, that killed 58 people at a country music festival. No women were nominated for songwriter of the year.
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Q: Custom UTI Not opening in App I am trying to create a new document UTI for my App so that people can share points of interest with others. From what I can understand on SO, Tutorials, and from Apple's documentation, you need to do the following:

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*Create a Document Type in the .plist

*Create an Exported UTI that corresponds with it

*Use the method: -(BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application
didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions

From what I understand, as long as you did those right, you should be able to open the file through Mail without any problems. Unfortunately it isn't working for my own custom UTIs. I DO see my App in the list of "Open with..." in Mail, but when I select it, my App doesn't open at all. It just dosen't do anything at all not only when the App isn't open, but when the App is open. Mail stays up and nothing happens at all. I also checked the console using "Organizer" and there is absolutely nothing that happens.
Originally I thought my plist was wrong, so I tested opening a public UTI (I added the com.adobe.pdf document type) and my app launched just fine (though it promptly crashed because I don't actually support PDFs ;)). But the point was that it launched without any problem.
The only thing I can think of that might be a problem is HOW I am creating the file. I am creating the file in an email by the use of this method (also in the App to export):
MFMailComposeViewController *picker = [[[MFMailComposeViewController alloc] init] autorelease];
[picker setSubject:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"My place: %@",POIName]];
[picker addAttachmentData:customPOIData mimeType:@"application/customPOI" fileName:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@.icp",POIName]];
[picker setMessageBody:@"Check out this great place I found!" isHTML:NO];
[picker setMailComposeDelegate:self];
[self presentModalViewController:picker animated:YES];

Is there anything wrong with that?
Also, here is my plist code:
CFBundleDocumentTypes:
<key>CFBundleDocumentTypes</key>
<array>
    <dict>
        <key>CFBundleTypeIconFiles</key>
        <array/>
        <key>CFBundleTypeName</key>
        <string>Custom POI</string>
        <key>CFBundleTypeRole</key>
        <string>Viewer</string>
        <key>LSHandlerRank</key>
        <string>Owner</string>
        <key>LSItemContentTypes</key>
        <array>
            <string>com.imadev.icp</string>
        </array>
    </dict>
</array>

UTExportedTypeDeclarations:
<key>UTExportedTypeDeclarations</key>
<array>
    <dict>
        <key>UTTypeConformsTo</key>
        <array>
            <string>public.data</string>
        </array>
        <key>UTTypeDescription</key>
        <string>Custom POI</string>
        <key>UTTypeIdentifier</key>
        <string>com.imadev.icp</string>
        <key>UTTypeTagSpecification</key>
        <dict>
            <key>public.filename-extension</key>
            <array>
                <string>icp</string>
            </array>
            <key>public.mime-type</key>
            <string>application/customPOI</string>
        </dict>
    </dict>
</array>

Thanks a lot for any help!!
-Mark

A: I finally figured out what was wrong by pulling apart all the code.
When I change "public.filename-extension" to a string and not an array of strings it works. Don't ask me why... I think it's strange we can't use an array of file extensions. But apparently that was it.
Any ideas as to why that happened?

A: In my case, I could keep filename-extension as an array without problems. Instead, it was the 'public.data' that was the issue. I switched to 'public.image' and then had jpg, jpeg, and png as file extensions, and it suddenly worked.

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President's marks as manager take hit in new CNN/ORC poll
CNN Political Unit
Washington (CNN) - Only four out of 10 Americans believe President Barack Obama can manage the federal government effectively, according to a new national poll.
And a CNN/ORC International survey released Monday morning also indicates that 53% of Americans now believe that Obama is not honest and trustworthy, the first time that a clear majority in CNN polling has felt that way.
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According to the survey, conducted last Monday through Wednesday, 40% say the President can manage the government effectively. That 40% figure is down 12 percentage points from June and is the worst score Obama received among the nine personal characteristics tested in the new poll.
"A lot of attention has focused on the President's numbers on honesty in new polling the past three weeks, but it looks like the recent controversy over Obamacare has had a bigger impact on his status as an effective manager of the government, and that may be what is really driving the drop in Obama's approval rating this fall," CNN Polling Director Keating Holland said.
Does being an effective manager count more than honesty?
"Just ask Bill Clinton, whose overall approval ratings remained high during and after the Monica Lewinsky scandal because three-quarters of all Americans thought he could get things done, even though only about one in five said he was honest," Holland added.
Obama's woes are not limited to honesty and his managerial skills. Fifty-six percent say he is not a person they admire, and an equal number say he does not agree with them on important issues. Fifty-six percent also say he does not inspire confidence, and 53% don't view him as a strong and decisive leader. All of those figures are all-time records for Obama in CNN polling.
There is a silver lining in the poll for the President: He's still seen as someone who cares about ordinary Americans, six in 10 say he has a vision for the country's future, and seven in 10 say he is likable–his best attribute of the nine items tested in this poll. But the numbers are down for both admiration and likeability.
"It's clear that views of Obama as a person - once his strong suit - have taken a hit in October and throughout 2013," said Holland.
The poll was conducted November 18-20 for CNN by ORC International, with 843 adult Americans questioned by telephone. The survey's overall sampling error is plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.
- CNN Political Editor Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report.
Filed under: Polls • President Obama
Brad Scott
He lied to deceive and to achieve a goal that was not overwhelmingly supported. PERIOD. Trust is gone. POOF
November 25, 2013 08:08 am at 8:08 am |
I remember comments regarding Obama being vastly different 4 years ago as compared to now...many young people have either changed their way of thinking or now understand who this president really is. I say this knowing comments on the internet do not matter.
FubarObama
Lies lies and more lies
"He's still seen as someone who cares about ordinary Americans"
I'm an ordinary American, and I don't think he cares one whit for me. He promised not to raise taxes on the middle class, the lower part of which I am a member, and then saddles me with the crushing burden of Obamacare.
Goodbye G.O.P!
Obama's 'problem' in this poll is the unprecedented racist obstruction of his administration by republicans, and his misguided attempts to try to meet them in the middle ground that no longer exists.
vcobbs
I think 53% that believe Obama is not honest and trustworthy is waaayyyy to low by now!!
Well obviously this proves that a majority of Americans are now racist.
I lost all respect for President Obama when he gave millions of illegal aliens work visas at a time of record unemployment. President Obama continues to lie to the American people and only seems concerned about pandering to special interest groups instead of doing what is right for the people of the United States.
"There is a silver lining in the poll for the President: He's still seen as someone who cares about ordinary Americans, six in 10 say he has a vision for the country's future"
Not sure this is a silver lining. Many of those who say he has a vision probably do not like it. The blogs are full of people that believe he has a plan to "wreck the US", "make it communist", etc. These kooks probably said he has a vision. Take them out and there probably is only a small hard core of DEMs left. The people who think he has a vision are on the far left and far right. Those in the middle see him as incompetent and ineffective with little vision.
bob_lawbla
Even though I do not like, support or listen to this liar in chief, I still don't believe these CNN polls. I find it hard to believe there are still that many Kool-aid drinkers who think he's doing a decent job.
You know when CNN releases a poll saying 1 in 4 Americans, what they really mean is 1 in 4 CNN drones does not trust the president. Which translates to 1 in 10 actual Americans trust the president.
Ha ha, you guys like these polls, why don't you give the president credit for Iran deal too, Why do you over mislead the country with these polls you run everyday. When things are good, you run them like every two months or so, but when things are not looking good, you run them everyday. Why do you like making the President look bad all the time.
Even in personal life if your caught telling a lie it takes a long long time to regain any trust from those around you. My parents would tell me, "it takes a thousand truths to regain the trust after one lie." The problem here is that we are being asked to trust the government with our most private records..health. I have no trust that the government is capable of that sort of security of my records.
Zondar
He was never qualified for the job as President. The majority of America is finally becoming less enamored with the IDEA of Obama and is finally looking at the SUBSTANCE of Obama as President.
And they're not liking what they see. Finally.
It's hard to trust someone who tells the same lie over and over, especially when it's on video. Obama is getting everything he deserves.
If CNN, MSNBC and ABC reported real news to their low – information fans, Obama would be impeached. What real news, you wonder? Try "Fast and Furious," "Benghazi," "Black Panther's at polling booth," "$17.8 TRILLION in national debt," "Black unemployment."
Government Waste Rules
CNN please "moderate" this article immediately. Everyone in America trusts the Obama administration implicitly.
How many of those CNN polled already drank the Tea?
Jack 63
Just as "manager"? Oh c'mon!
That poll is a just blatantly unfair Cnn.
When it relates to government to manage things, we have a huge population to get things done. How many Americans may have great ideas to turn our country around? Though it never gets the attention of our leaders (Congress) because we have so many people to each congressperson. The one way to help get things done in Washington is to increase the number of Congressperson for so many people. Then afterwards, good ideas will reach our lawmakers. The problem with this to increase the number of congressperson per person is that the US Constitution would need to be changed. Now I am not sure the exact numbers; however, I will bet there was much lower number of Americans per congressperson at the founding of our nation. Great things happened back then.
As our population grows, this makes our "figurative" ship bigger. Then just like turning a large ship 180, it will require lots of energy. The same can be said of turning the direction of our nation 180 (that can be a ship called the USS America) it will take all hands on deck. I believe it does not matter who is President. We have such a large enough number of people, that it will take more energy from other identities to change things. This includes the media and other Americans to help turn our ship 180. Then only then we may say that the US is heading in the right direction in more ways than one.
This is mostly due to the NSA fiasco and the Healthcare system mishap.
Joshuab
This guy is a joke and has no credibility anymore
Eleanor Fitzgerald
Why all this poll taking? Who trust the polltakers? The overall trust in the political parties and all three branches of government seems to be at an all time low right now With the ongoing ludicrous sequester, the secret TPP "Nafta on Steroids" agreement that the Administration hopes to slip through Congress with an up or down vote with no discussion in December, the dreaded "Chained CPI", the Citizen's United decision of the Supreme Court, and the ongoing mess in the Middle East, why should any American, except the one percenters who seem to profit from it all, , be jumping up and down with joy?
Washington Nearsider
People don't trust President Obama?
I can't imagine why...
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Lockdowns and travel bans make no sense, new testing strategy needed: Dr Gagandeep Kang
Dr Gagandeep Kang spoke to TNM about the concern over reinfection amid Omicron, vaccine efficacy and why it's important to vaccinate the vulnerable and elderly on priority.
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Noted virologist Dr Gagandeep Kang said that she is not surprised that India has detected two cases of the Omicron variant. "The fact that the person from Bengaluru had no travel history underlines the fact that the variant may have been around in India for weeks. The important thing for us to understand is how much the virus spreads, how severe the disease it causes, and how we can protect people," she said in an interview to TNM.
Although there have been reports suggesting that Omicron causes three times more reinfection than the Delta variant, Dr Kang said it's not a cause of worry. "I am not worried about reinfections. All coronaviruses reinfect. As long as the reinfections are mild, that's not something we need to worry about," she said, adding, "What we need to worry about is what happens to people who have not been vaccinated and get infected. And we don't have data to tell us about that."
As far as vaccine efficacy goes, she said that scientists at the moment don't have a clear understanding on how resistant Omicron is to the COVID-19 vaccines. "But if we look at how vaccinations work in all variants so far, vaccinations protect. It protects to varying extents. If we look at an unvaccinated person, a doubly vaccinated person, a triply vaccinated person and an infected and vaccinated person, who is best off? Best off is the infected and vaccinated person. After that the triply vaccinated person, after that the doubly vaccinated person. And the worst off is the uninfected and unvaccinated person," she said.
Dr Kang said that India needs to double vaccinate all vulnerable people above the age of 60 at a war footing. She also said that even if India decides to give booster doses, the population above 60 years should get it first. "Boosters should go to elderly first. Most health care workers are young and relatively healthy people. This is why I think the elderly should get priority for two doses and three doses."
She also said lockdown or even shutting down schools, colleges and offices is not the way forward. "How will you prevent transmission with a shutdown? It is an asymptomatic infection, do you then shut school forever? We cannot stop asymptomatic transmission forever, the only way then is to stop people from coming into contact with each other forever, that is not sensible. Healthy children are best able to handle the virus. Detecting clusters and slowing down transmission rates is the way."
"Lockdowns were fine when we did not have the tools we have now, when the aim was to flatten the curve. Now we have vaccines, drugs, medical interventions, so we need to plan our current strategy based on tools we have today and not based on reactions last year. Lockdowns make no sense, travel bans make no sense. Testing before and after travel makes sense, the entry of new variants into the country will be slowed down and there is time to learn more about the variant," she also said.
Dr Kang advocated that India needs a new testing strategy in place, where we use more rapid antigen tests to identify people who were in contact with a COVID-19 patient and are vulnerable. "The rapid antigen tests will not tell us whether we are infected with variants, but it will tell us quickly if people are infected. The strategy can be to quickly do a rapid screen of everyone in touch with a patient."
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Per-Anders Persson (born 7 March 1953) is a Swedish bobsledder. He competed in the two man event at the 1988 Winter Olympics.

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This is a Recipe for making at home crispy and delicious Rice – Lentil Roll Pakore or Chawal-Masoor Ke Pakode. This Pakore recipe makes the use of Masoor Dal, Cooked Rice and Potatoes as the main ingredients to prepare a tasty snack, starters dish or an add-on to the main course meals.
Boil the Potatoes, peel them and shred them, mash the Green Chilies and Ginger, prepare Bread Crumbs, chop the Coriander leaves.
In a Pressure Cooker cook the Rice and Lentil separately.
Mix the cooked Rice, Lentil, mashed Potatoes, green Chilies-Ginger, Bread Crumbs, Lemon Juice, chopped Coriander leaves, Salt and prepare a Dough. Prepare 12 medium sized Pakode Rolls from the Dough.
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Lay out the two halves of the roll or bagel. Spread the inner side of each with pesto.
Layer the mozzarella, tomato, spinach, beet, alfalfa sprouts and bell pepper, covering with the other half of the roll.
Lately, I have been changing up my usual sandwich routine. Out is my favorite 7-Grain bread and in are thin-style rolls and bagels (a mere 3 WW points!). And instead of just deli meat and cheese on my rolls, I am piling them high with veggies.
This sandwich, my Super Veggie Sandwich, is one of my new favorite lunches.
It starts with a thin roll – actually a bagel, in this case. But a roll would work too – spread with a thin layer of pesto. Then it's topped with fresh mozzarella, tomato, spinach, beets, alfalfa sprouts and bell pepper. That's a lot of veggies (and they taste so good together).
I love how this relatively light sandwich doesn't feel like it's a relatively light sandwich. I mean how could it when it's so thick and bold in your hands? Seriously. It seems practically indulgent.
The recipe details one way to make this, but you could totally get creative. Toss in some cucumber slices, add a slice or two of prosciutto or trade the alfalfa sprouts for bean sprouts – or whatever else you can imagine.
What about your favorite sandwich? What's in it? What's the bread? And why do you love it so?


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6. If Bach did it twice, he must have meant it!
(i) at the exact centre of the Schübler Chorale Preludes - the Preludes which define the walk of a Christian, and (ii) towards the end of the last fugue in the Art of Fugue which, alas, is unfinished, because he died ... but not before placing his musical signature in notes (Bb - A - C - B natural) in this collection of fugues in which he displayed all his amazing contrapuntal skills.
Therefore taking this hypothesis let's look at some more pairs of 'did he mean it'.
An obvious example is his set of 48 Preludes and Fugues.
He wrote the first 24 to demonstrate that the tuning of a keyboard should be such that music could be played in any key.
Did he mean it? Yes, by composing a second set.
Look at the 24th Fugue subject in B minor in the first set: you'll see that he has all twelve semitones. (This was 150 years before Schoenberg's 12-note music!) ... although, of course Bach used more than 12 notes to be able to achieve this ultimate chromaticism.
Did he mean to use all twelve notes of the chromatic scale - or was it an accident? If he meant it, then he would have a quasi-12-note 'subject' somewhere in the second set of the 48.
In 1733 he designed his own logo.
Count the number of letters, the number of figures and the number of dots.
I can't remember where I found this, but the writer said that he couldn't think why Bach chose the year 1733 to do this.
Of course, you know why!
He later designed another logo which is now used extensively for Bach's music, although not everyone understands why.
Here it is as Bach designed it. What can you see?
With colour added, it's clear what JSB did - for, as we've noted elsewhere, he was a composer who could write music not only going forwards but also backwards (retrograde).
a mind-blowing example of Bach's mathematical skills.
Even though these Preludes are based on the same chorale melody, they are of different lengths.. Each has its first section repeated.
The Prelude for manuals only has 72 bars if the repeated bars are not counted, but 100 if they are.
The Prelude with (double) pedals has 54 bars if the repeated bars are not counted, but 75 if they are.
Well, you may think, that must be a coincidence – unless, of course, he's done it again.
Yes, he has, in his Mass in B minor.
The number of complete bars in one Prelude can be divided into the other.
The number of incomplete bars in one Prelude can be divided into the other.
In other words, the lengths of the two Chorale Preludes, with and without repeats, are proportionally identical.
But there is one more mathematical delight to be gotten from these two Chorale Preludes which are based on the 130th Psalm.
55 in the Double Pedal version.
or 1.4 to one decimal point.


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Saudi Arabia may go nuclear because of Obama's Iran deal
Daily Beast: President Obama wants an agreement with Iran to prevent a Middle Eastern nuclear arms race, but it's pushing Saudi Arabia toward its own nuke program.
Complex double game: Iran supporting Assad and al-Qaeda?
Al Arabiya: Since the uprising erupted in Syria— both Tehran and Damascus have been playing a masterful political game with the United States and other Western powers by arguing that Assad's regime is being targeted by terrorist enemies like al-Qaeda and its affiliations.
An Iranian 'moderate' exposed
New Republic: Everyone thought Iran's foreign minister was a pragmatist. They were wrong. Zarif's memoir "A Conversation with Mohammad-Javad Zarif, Iran's Former Ambassador to the United Nations", has just been published in Tehran.
How to deal with a nuclear Iran
Bloomberg: During the next six months, the U.S. and its negotiating partners will try, in the words of President Barack Obama, to persuade Iran to agree on a "peaceful nuclear program," including a "modest enrichment capability," that leaves it short of the ability to produce nuclear weapons.
How to solve Obama's Iran dilemma
Politico: President Obama puts the chance of translating this interim agreement into a comprehensive deal to ensure that Iran cannot build a nuclear weapon at less than 50 percent. The Iranian deputy foreign minister believes that may be high.
Lord Carlile: Iran and the Straw agenda
Politics Home: Lord Carlile of Berriew, a leading member of the British Parliamentary Committee for Iran Freedom (BPCIF) was opposed to Jack Straw's recent trip to Iran and favours economic sanctions instead.
Jack Straw under fire for his appeasement of ayatollahs in Iran
NewsBlaze: The Foreign Office and Parliament should not accept Mr Straw's apparently limited concern for the murderous mullahs. Amnesty International said on 17 January Iran had carried out 40 executions since the beginning of 2014, with at least 33 carried out in one week alone.
UK Parliamentary delegation urges caution and realism on Iran
Huffington Post: Of course Rouhani is Iran's current Ayatollah-sanctioned President and should have every good reason to be at such a prestigious forum; however the man addressing Davos appeared only to share the real Rouhani's appearance.
Financing death: Iran's 'War on Drugs'
UPI: This controversial drug control program, financed both bilaterally and via the UNODC, has enabled the regime in Tehran to carry out a "killing spree of staggering proportions" as Amnesty International puts it.


In BUTCHER, levels are short, hectic, adrenaline filled blasts of unapologetic violence. The game is clearly heavily inspired by 90's FPS titles and it certainly does them proud over the course of its 21 levels. There are 5 areas, with four levels each: Ironworks Facility, Old Military Base, Jungle Outpost, Volcano Research Station and The Last City. The game crescendos with an almighty boss fight with The Guardian. Each area presents new challenges. The game is drenched in this really cool almost industrial like aesthetic from the start. You start with just a shotgun and a chainsaw. As you progress the enemies get tougher, but luckily your arsenal does as well. Before you know it, you'll be shooting away with grenade launchers, assault rifles, flamethrowers and rail guns. One really cool thing with Butcher is that weapon wise the game doesn't go overboard. There's enough to keep you interested, but not so much that you don't have a clue what to pick next in the heat of the moment. As for the enemies themselves, these upgrade to a wide selection of trigger happy humans, helicopters, running dogs and so on.
The game throws you in at the deep end. It's kill or be killed here. And it's not just the enemies you have to worry about. Your environments start attacking you too. Moving saws, erupting lava…there's even bloody fish attacking you here. But the game does give you a choice on difficulty. For full disclosure, I completed the game on Casual. There is also Hard, Harder, The Hardest and Impossible. As you go up the difficulties your health decreases and Medkits and Armour stop existing in your blood soaked vicinity. Yikes. But don't be put off by its brutal difficulty tag line. BUTCHER is absolutely awesome. Even when you die you learn something for your next run. And because levels are quite short, the frustration of getting shot in the face is short lived, literally.
I had and am still having an absolute blast on BUTCHER. I actually loved it so much that I completed it in one go. On Casual, my game time clocked in at 1 hours 45 minutes. But let's be fair, Casual doesn't really count. So I'm going again on Hard. Make no bones about it, there is a ludicrous amount of replayability here. Different difficulties, collectibles in the form of skulls, leaderboards, speed runs and much more. It's all so well put together. BUTCHER knows what it is and it doesn't bother you with a 10 hour story. It doesn't need to. It gives you a gun and a chainsaw, and sends you to the wolves with a smile on its disturbed, bloody face. And you won't be able to help yourself, but to keep coming back for more.
BUTCHER is a brutal burst of blood soaked carnage. Enjoy.
S_M_Punk is really an all rounder. A powerful cocktail of fighting, platforming, FIFA and tag teaming sees Punk hold valuable gaming knowledge across the board. Complete with his love of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, comics and slash horror games, Punk is a unique gamer who sounds about 15, but is actually 32.


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Hollywood dipping toes into virtual reality worlds
LOS ANGELES (AP) � Virtual reality is creeping into our world.
Once seen as a tool for alien-blasting gamers, movie studios, television producers and artists are now adopting the technology, which immerses people in faraway realms using bulky goggles, house-sized domes, and smartphones.
Entering a virtual world means that users who look left, right, up or behind experience an alternate environment, even when they're sitting in a theater or on a couch.
It means a horror movie can be promoted with a haunted house tour featuring a mass murderer who can spring from anywhere. Or a shark documentary enhanced by the sensation that you're being circled by predators.
Airlines try to save time with speedier boarding process
DALLAS (AP) � Airlines are trying to save time by speeding up a part of flying that creates delays even before the plane leaves the gate: the boarding process.
This summer travel season, Delta plans to preload carry-on bags above passengers' seats on some flights. Southwest wants to get families seated together more quickly.
Airlines have tinkered with different boarding systems almost since the days of Orville and Wilbur Wright, who tossed a coin to decide who would fly first aboard their biplane. Plenty of people have offered ideas for improvement, but no perfect method has ever emerged.
Intel buys into chips powering cloud computing, smarter cars
NEW YORK (AP) � Intel is buying chip designer Altera for about $16.7 billion in cash to expand its reach into new chip markets that are powering the wireless revolution, smarter cars and more.
The deal is the biggest in Intel Corp.'s 47-year history. It is the latest in an industry that is looking to acquisitions to boost lackluster sales and cut costs. Sales are falling for personal computers because people are increasingly turning to smartphones and tablets.
Pool industry touts water savings in California drought
ORANGE, Calif. (AP) � Leigh McDonough stood in her backyard on a hot spring day and listened to the steady shush-shush-shush of two garden hoses filling her new pool and hot tub with water. Her family installed the 21,000-gallon pool despite a state mandate to cut overall water consumption by 25 percent amid a crushing, four-year drought.
McDonough, however, wasn't worried: She was told her pool would actually help save water that would otherwise go to her lawn.
It's a mantra being pushed by the California pool and spa industry in recent months, as water conservation campaigns have placed residential pools and other conspicuous water users in the crosshairs.
US consumer spending flat in April as income, savings rise
WASHINGTON (AP) � U.S. consumers held back from spending more in April, deciding instead to channel income gains into savings.
Consumer spending was flat in April � the weakest performance in three months � after a revised 0.5 percent increase in March, the Commerce Department reported Monday. The March advance had been the biggest gain since last August. Personal income rose a healthy 0.4 percent.
US manufacturing growth accelerates for 1st time in 6 months
WASHINGTON (AP) � U.S. manufacturing growth accelerated in May for the first time in six months, propelled by more new orders and an increase in hiring.
The Institute for Supply Management, a trade group of purchasing managers, said Monday that its manufacturing index rose to 52.8 last month, from 51.5 in April. That's the highest reading since February. Any reading above 50 signals expansion.
US construction jumped 2.2 percent in April
WASHINGTON (AP) � U.S. construction spending climbed in April to the highest level in more than six years, fueled by healthy gains in housing, government spending and non-residential construction.
Construction spending advanced 2.2 percent in April to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $1 trillion, the highest level since November 2008, the Commerce Department said Monday. Spending had risen a more modest 0.5 percent in March.
Many health insurers go big with initial 2016 rate requests
Dozens of health insurers want price hikes well beyond 10 percent for their individual coverage next year, as some juggle higher-than-expected costs and rising prescription drug expenses.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina is seeking a roughly 26 percent premium increase, while plans in Illinois and Florida, among other states, are asking for hikes of 20 percent or more, according to preliminary rate information released Monday on the federal government's HealthCare.gov website.
NetJets names new CEO in midst of labor dispute with pilots
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) � Berkshire Hathaway's NetJets unit named new leaders Monday in the midst of an ongoing contract dispute with its pilots union.
NetJets, which sells partial ownership interests in business jets, said Jordan Hansell is stepping down as chairman and CEO.
A group of NetJets pilots protested outside Berkshire Hathaway's annual meeting in May because they object to the concessions NetJets has been seeking since 2013 in contract talks
KFC sues Chinese companies for online rumors about its food
BEIJING (AP) � Restaurant operator KFC said Monday it filed a lawsuit against three companies in China whose social media accounts spread false claims about its food, including that its chickens have eight legs.
The case filed by China's biggest restaurant operator comes as the government intensifies a campaign to clean up rumors on social media. Internet marketers have been convicted of trying to manipulate online sentiment on behalf of clients by posting false information about competitors or deleting critical posts.
Malaysia Air CEO says carrier could break even by 2018
The new CEO of Malaysia Airlines said the ailing carrier could break even by 2018 after cutting staff, selling surplus aircraft and refurbishing its international fleet.
Christoph Mueller said Monday that the airline is trying to sell two of its A380 super jumbo jets and has gone ahead with its previously announced plan to cut 6,000 of its 20,000 staff.
The remaining 14,000 employees have been offered jobs in a new company that is being set up to take over the legacy Malaysia Airlines business.
High court: Bankrupt homeowners can't void second mortgage
WASHINGTON (AP) � A unanimous Supreme Court ruled Monday that homeowners who declare bankruptcy can't void a second mortgage even if the home isn't worth what they owe on the primary mortgage.
The justices ruled in two Florida cases that bankrupt homeowners can't "strip off" a second loan even if they are underwater on the first loan.
Both cases involved property owners who were allowed by lower courts to nullify second loans held by Bank of America. The Atlanta-based 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed both cases, but Bank of America said the rulings conflicted with Supreme Court precedent.
Google tries to demystify privacy controls with new approach
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) � Google is making its privacy controls easier to find and understand in an attempt to make the more than 1 billion users of its digital services more comfortable about the personal information that they give the Internet's most powerful company.
The simpler approach debuting Monday features a redesigned "My Account" hub where all of Google's key privacy controls can be found. Accountholders can also undergo a check-up that will break down which of the company's various services are gathering information about them. A new site at http://privacy.google.com will also address a variety of issues in a question-and-answer format.
Disney CEO succession path cleared as CFO Jay Rasulo resigns
LOS ANGELES (AP) � The Walt Disney Co. said Monday that its chief financial officer, Jay Rasulo, will resign at the end of June, clearing the path for another top executive, Tom Staggs, to succeed Bob Iger as eventual CEO.
A new chief financial officer was not immediately named Monday, but Rasulo, 59, will serve as an adviser to assist in the transition.
Barton Crockett, a media company analyst with FBR Capital Markets & Co., said the move is clearly related to succession planning, something Disney has managed poorly in the past, especially with the resignation of Michael Eisner in 2005 following a shareholder revolt.
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The Dow Jones industrial average rose 29.69 points, or 0.2 percent, to 18,040.37. The S&P 500 index added 4.34 points, or 0.2 percent, to 2,111.73. The Nasdaq composite climbed 12.9 points, or 0.3 percent, to 5,082.93.
Benchmark U.S. crude fell 10 cents to close at $60.20 a barrel in New York. Brent crude, a benchmark for international oil used by many U.S. refineries, fell 68 cents to close at $64.88 in London. Wholesale gasoline fell 2.1 cents to close at $2.042 a gallon. Heating oil fell 2.4 cents to close at $1.926 a gallon. Natural gas rose 7 cents to close at $2.649 per 1,000 cubic feet.


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Ely commuters protest over 'eye-watering' £5,000 season ticket to London after New Year price hike
Harry Rutter
harry.rutter@archant.co.uk
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Ely commuters protest against £5,000 rail season ticket.
Ely commuters have returned to work sour-faced this morning after finding out their season ticket to London has increased - topping the £5,000 barrier.
This is the first time the price has increased so much at one, and the season ticket price has climbed 32 per cent since 2010 making it £5,152.
Within eight years, the price of the Ely to London season ticket has risen two times faster than people's earnings – forcing Britain's rail commuters to spend up to five times more of their income than their European counterparts.
Alex Mayer, Labour MEP, joined campaigners outside Ely rail station to slam the New Year price hike.
Alex said: "It is time to stop the great Tory Train Robbery – the Government is failing passengers.
"Ely commuters have been hit again and again by eye-watering rail fare rises and we need to be encouraging people onto trains - not putting obstacles in the way.
"British commuters spend five times more on train travel than elsewhere in Europe.
"Labour would bring our railways into public ownership; this would mean capped fairs, more reliable services and more investment. It's time to put passengers first not for profit."
The Government has said the way fares were calculated was "under review".
A spokesman told the BBC that they "carefully monitor how rail fares and average earnings change".
Fares are going up by an average of 3.4 per cent - the largest increase for five years.


This is a simple and beautiful salad, and a staple at potlucks and luncheons in my area of the country. You can vary the ingredients according to your taste and what you have in your fridge, and you can dress it up a bit with fresh herbs, Gorgonzola cheese—whatever makes your skirt fly up! The standard ingredients in most layered salads are lettuce or spinach (or both!) hard boiled eggs, crumbled bacon, grated cheese, green onions, and green peas, which are layered in a pretty glass bowl so the layers can be seen in all their colorful beauty.
But the true sign of a layered salad is what goes on top: an incredibly simple dressing, which is spread evenly over the top so as to "seal in" the ingredients below. After that, it's refrigerated, then tossed on site just before serving.
This is perfect for a Labor Day picnic! The perfect cool, crisp complement to all the grilled meats.
Here's what you need. You can switch up the ingredients, add in things that excite you, change the variety of cheese—the world is your oyster!
If you have a clear glass bowl, grab it. If not, any ol' bowl will do. Start with a layer of chopped iceberg.
Sprinkle on some kosher salt and plenty of freshly ground black pepper.
Next comes a layer of baby spinach.
And another sprinkling of salt and pepper. This seasoning is important; it'll give the salad more flavor once it's all tossed together.
Then slide the shell right off.
Then I just give it a rough chop. You can neatly slice the eggs if you're into that kind of thing, or you can dice them finely. But I'm sort of a rough chop kind of girl.
While you've got the knife in your hand, go ahead and chop up the bacon, too.
Make a nice layer of eggs, then a layer of bacon.
Hard boiled eggs + Bacon = TruLuv4Evr.
Here's a little trick I do: since I want the ingredients to really show on the outside of the bowl, I concentrate them around the perimeter, then fill in the center with more lettuce or spinach.
And throw them over the top.
And sprinkle those over the tomatoes. Color is bursting from the bowl!
Next comes a layer of grated cheese; I used sharp cheddar, but you can use Swiss, mozzarella, colby-jack…whatever you'd like! Just please grate your own. Please? Please please please please please?
And next, one of the definite signs of a true Layered Salad: a generous layer of frozen (and partially thawed) green peas.
And now for the weirdness. Combine sour cream and mayonnaise in a bowl.
Add a tablespoon or two of sugar. This is totally optional, and can be left out. But I really like what the sugar does to the dressing—doesn't make it overly sweet, just gives it a little dimension.
Note: this is going to wind up being the dressing for the salad, so you can dress it up however you'd like. Fresh herbs would be nice, or just a little garlic.
I'm a purist, though. For this salad, I like things plan. Let the salad ingredients—not the dressing—take center stage!
Mix it together till smooth, then pour it over the top of the salad.
And bring the spoon out to the edges to seal in the ingredients below.
And that is IT, my dears. Now cover it with plastic wrap and store it in the fridge for a few hours. That's one of the beauties of this salad: make it beforehand and you'll have plenty of time to paint your nails, do your hair, apply a rejuvenating mask, wax, self-tan, and try on eight different outfits before the picnic.
When it's party time, garnish the top with a little of whatever leftover ingredients you might have: a little egg, a little bacon, a sprinkling of peas. Then just toss it at the party and add a little color to everyone's plate.
I love this salad, but haven't made it for years. I'll have to make it again soon.
Love all the salt and pepper! So many people don't season their salads and it makes them SO much better.
You lost me at peas!
A salad that's pretty too – perfect!
Ree, I agree, layered salads are so fun to make and view, especially in a glass dish such as the one here.
La salade est très belle!
Yummmm….guess I've got an idea for dinner tonight now :). Thanks Ree!
How do I toss it without salad ending up all over the counter or floor?
Can't wait to make it! I think my kids might even eat it thanks to the bacon and egg!
–>That looks delicious and so pretty. It would be a great way to use up my home-grown tomatoes too.
I hate mayo. What about greek yogurt?
Someone brought this to my last cookout, and oh my. My husband (who HATES peas) couldn't eat enough. It's my new favorite side dish.
My Mother makes this salad for every church potluck or event. She calls it, "The Seven Layer Salad" or changes the number of layers in the title to how many different items she puts in it. I love this salad! It is the one thing that my children will eat at these dinners. Sometimes you do know what little old ladies cook?!?!?!?!