As much of the country follows the Trayvon Martin case, activists in Chicago are hoping to bring some of that attention to Howard Morgan, a former Chicago police officer who was shot 28 times by white officers — and lived to tell his side of the story.
According to police, Morgan opened fire with his service weapon when officers tried to arrest him, which caused them to shoot him 28 times. His family, however, very much doubts those claims.
There’s new fuel for the fire that Apple’s working on technology for an updated TV set top box or TV platform.
Citing unnamed sources, tech writer Jessica Lessin (formerly of the Wall Street Journal), saysApple’s been meeting with cable companies to pitch a service that would let TV viewers to skip commercials.
That feature would be worked into a “premium” service Apple TV owners would buy into, the report says, adding that Apple would then pay networks when it occurred.
Legendary R&B singer Lester Chambers was attacked by a crazed woman Saturday night during a musical festival in Hayward, California.
The attack came after Chambers dedicated Curtis Mayfield’s hit “People Get Ready” to Trayvon Martin following the announcement of George Zimmerman’s acquittal of all charges related to Martin’s death.
With a “crazed look in her eye” the woman jumped on stage, yelled “it’s all your fault” and attacked the 73-year-old soul singer.
The 43-year-old attacker, Dinalynn Andrews Potter of Barstow, was tackled and subdued by people at the festival until police arrived. She was arrested for suspicion of battery and released with formal charges expected to be filed.
Chamber’s family stated that they plan to file charges against Andrews Potter for what they believe was a hate crime.
Chambers was taken to a local hospital. The attack left him with a large bruise near his ribs and walking with a cane. He is now resting at home.
An agent from Martin Literary Management has confirmed that juror B37 of the George Zimmerman trial has signed a deal to write a book about her experiences on the jury.
Sharlene Martin, a literary and media manager for the company, said that readers of B37′s book will come to understand why the jurors had no other option but to deliver a “not guilty” verdict in the case.
B37′s identity is still protected under the court order, but she will write the book with the assistance of her husband who is an attorney. It is unknown whether the juror will release her name or participate in any media coverage about the case or her book.
Many of us lead busy lives and everyone, especially those of us with families, is trying to get dinner on the table as quickly and easily as possible. Occasionally we fall back on using prepackaged meals from the grocery store or calling for takeout. Those meals have more fat, salt and sugar than we need, they produce a lot of garbage from the packaging and they are more expensive than cooking from scratch.
In these uncertain economic times, we need to look at our food costs and start to spend more wisely. Here are seven recipes that will cover your dinners for a week, with some leftovers for lunch. They are as quick as takeout, as easy as many processed dinners, and more economical and nutritious than either.
Chickpea Curry
My son eats a lot of tofu and I’m always encouraging him to add more legumes to his diet, so I decided on something with chickpeas. I had in my mind a recipe from Julie Sahni’s cookbook “Classic Indian Cooking” as a starting point and we made our own version. I had some dried Mexican chilies that Hugh had brought from his store. I’ve always rehydrated chilies, but Hugh put them in the bottom of a dry pan until they were fragrant, chopped them finely, added a bit of olive oil and then crushed them with a mortar and pestle until they made a paste. We had some leftover rice and carrots from the night before and tossed them in as well. You could add vegetables such as zucchini or cauliflower as well. Here is the full Chickpea Curry recipe.
Beans with Tomatoes and Swiss Chard
We actually ended up getting a number of meals from the Swiss chard I grew in my garden this summer, and I really enjoyed them. I had a good handful to harvest and I cooked them up with some fresh tomatoes and mushrooms for a quick, throw-together meal that was easy and cheap. All the measurements are approximate, and you can easily put together other legumes such as chickpeas or lentils, or other leafy vegetables such as kale or spinach. You can eat this as is, in a bowl, or serve it over pasta or rice. If you have any leftovers, you can eat them as a cold salad or add some liquid and puree it into a soup. Here are the step-by-step instructions for Beans with Tomatoes and Swiss Chard.
Vegetarian Chili
If you feel like a party, invite a few friends over and make this easy, delicious chili. Or better still, make it the day before and then you don’t have to do anything but heat it up when your guests arrive. I looked at lots of recipes for vegetarian chili, but in the end I adapted my regular meat-based chili because I like the seasonings. Without the meat to soak up the heat, I found the chili a bit too hot. I have reduced the amount of dried chili peppers by quite a bit, so if you like your chili on the spicy side you could increase it. Use the list of vegetables as a guideline, and feel free to toss in whatever you have on hand. I used kidney beans, but you could add some chickpeas or black beans, as well. If you do want meat in the chili, brown 1 1/2 pounds of ground beef before you add the other ingredients. The rest of the tricks for Vegetarian Chili are in the recipe.
Oriecchiette with Lentils, Onion and Spinach
I have a confession to make. In an attempt to make lentils more palatable for my husband, I did something I’ve never done before. I took a totally healthy vegetarian dish and added bacon. Not just any bacon, but some magnificent pancetta that my son brought from the store he works in. It was just a bit, but enough to elevate this dish from nice to delicious. Of course, you can always leave the bacon out. Here is the full recipe for Oriecchiette with Lentils, Onion and Spinach.
Dal and Pumpkin Soup
I’m a big fan of Nigel Slater and his book, “The Kitchen Diaries: A Year in the Kitchen,” which encapsulates his theories about food and cooking. I turned to the very front of the book and decided to make his New Year’s Day soup. Slater apparently has a tradition of making soup on New Year’s Day and I heartily approve. He calls this “a bowl of soup that both whips and kisses.” It seems like a pretty good meal to have as the weather gets colder, and we have the long winter before us. All the details for whipping up Dal and Pumpkin Soup are in the recipe.
Vegetable Salad: Carrots, Fennel, Radishes, Beets and Onion
Earlier this year, I reviewed “Vegetable Harvest” by Patricia Wells. This lovely winter salad was the first recipe I tried from the book. I had just been to the farmers’ market and bought an enormous bunch of radishes for 50 cents, so this recipe seemed fortuitous. You could serve this either as part of a family meal, or as a first course at a dinner party. It is quite colourful and attractive on the plate-and is really tasty. Whip up a lovely Vegetable Salad: Carrots, Fennel, Radishes, Beets and Onion using the recipe.
Mushroom Tofu Stew
Big chunks of meat and potatoes are usually what come to mind when you think about stew. But many university students either don’t have the money or the inclination to eat that kind of meal. I was looking for something that was vegetarian and would be hearty and nourishing while still being easy on the pocket book. And like all of the recipes in this series, you have to be able to make it all in one pot. This recipe fulfills all of those requirements, but, while delicious, I will freely admit that it isn’t the most beautiful dish I’ve ever made. Make Mushroom Tofu Stew using the recipe.
In the light of The Sopranos’ star James Gandolfini’s unfortunate recent passing, and the end of Mad Men’s sixth and penultimate season, there’s no better time to answer the most pressing question concerning those two shows. Who cheated on his wife with more women, Tony Soprano or Don Draper? To find out we’ll dive through the respective sordid pasts of these two legendary television philanderers, going back and forth one-fo-one chronologically between the shows. Because the Sopranos started first, we’ll start with Tony. Apologies if I’ve missed any; I did my best to scour through the episodes of both shows for every affair, no matter how brief, but these two characters didn’t make it easy.
Tony:
Irina Peltsin – One of the two longest extramarital relationships Tony is involved in over the course of the series, Irina is Tony’s comare from the pilot until the second to last episode of the second season when he attempts to break up with her, thinking she deserves to have a real life. She doesn’t take it well, breaking down and trying to kill herself, which will be the start of somewhat of a tradition for Tony’s mistresses. Tony sends Silvio over to her place to give her a nice $75,000 severance package and urge her to move on.
Don:
Midge Daniels – Like Tony, Don Draper is cheating on his wife from the get go. In the first episode we meet the bohemian artist Midge who seems fittingly more reminiscent of the late ‘50s than the ‘60s. Seemingly opposites, they nevertheless have a fairly good run, as one of Don’s longer extramarital affairs, lasting until the eight episode of the first season, when Don unsuccessfully tries to get her to go to Paris with him. Things don’t go well after that for Midge who shows up in a later season as a drug addict.
Tony:
Connie Desapio – Desapio is a receptionist at Barone Construction, a Soprano family operation which Tony spends some time at, based on legal advice to appear like he’s actually doing the job he claims to have. They have sex to pass the time in season two, episode 11, “House Arrest” until Tony goes back to Satriale’s eventually out of boredom.
Don:
Rachel Menken – Rachel, who initially hires the firm to create interest for her department store, was a very different kind of woman from Midge. She meets done in the series’ first episode as a client, and initiaully rebuffs Don’s advances, upon finding out that he’s married. They finally begin the affair in the tenth episode of the first season. She puts the kibosh on the affair in the 12th episode of the first season, when, after Don proposes running away to LA together, she realizes that he just wants to run away, but not necessarily with her.
Tony:
Gloria Trillo – Trillo is a car salesman who Tony meets in Dr. Melfi’s office in season three’s “He is Risen.” The most mentally unstable of Tony’s affairs, which is a dubious honor, she tries to provoke Tony into violent reactions. Tony breaks up with her because of this, and Patsy Parisi threatens her, telling her to never come near Tony or his family again. Later she hangs herself.
Don:
Bobbie Barrett – Barrett, introduced in season two’s “The Benefactor,” is married to and manages insult comic Jimmy Barrett, who Sterling Cooper recruits to appear in ads for Utz potato chips. Barrett is the only woman Don sleeps with that we know is married, and she affirmatively seduces Don, who makes a brief attempt to turn her down. The affair hits an awkward moment when Don and Bobbie are caught in a car accident together, but ends finally when Don finds out Bobbie has been gossiping about him behind his back.
Tony:
Valentina La Paz – La Paz is the other long-time Tony Soprano comare. She’s dating Ralph Cifaretto at the time that Tony and her get together after having lunch at Hesh’s house in season four episode “Mergers and Acquisitions.” Tony breaks up with Valentina towards the end of season five when he arranges to move back in with Carmela, after she suffers a serious burn injury. She, continuing a pattern, threatens to kill herself when he leaves.
Don:
Joy – In season two, episode 11, “The Jet Set”, Don takes a trip out to Los Angeles, where he meets a young woman, Joy, near the pool at his hotel. They attend a surreal dinner party and afterwards have sex. Later, she and her friends and her dad move to the Bahamas, while Don returns to reality in New York.
Tony:
Svetlana Kirilenko – Tony and Kirilenko, earlier comare Irina’s cousin and Junior’s nurse, have sex just once, as far as we know, in season four episode “The Strong, Silent Type.” She is far and away the most put together woman Tony cheats with on the show and she breaks off their relationship, though Irina later spills the beans to Carmela, helping to lead to Tony and Carmela’s separation.
Don:
Shelly – In the first episode of season three, “Out of Town,” Don meets a stewardess named Shelly on a flight to Baltimore. She invites him and Sal to dinner at the hotel at which they’re all staying and after their meal, one thing leads to another.
Tony:
Sonya Aragon – An exotic dancer Chris used to hang out with, Tony meets up with her in Las Vegas after Chris’s death in season six episode “Kennedy and Heidi.” They have sex, smoke weed, and take peyote.
Don:
Suzanne Farrell – Suzanne and Don first meet during a parent teacher conference in the second episode of season three while she’s Sally’s teacher. They meet several times before the relationship becomes romantic. She’s a bit of a hippy, and has a troubled brother who she cares for deeply. She falls for him and wants to go out together in public, something Don almost grants while Betty is out of town. The affair ends when Betty returns early and inquires about Don’s past which causes Don to call Suzanne to let her know it’s over.
Don:
Sylvia Rosen – It seemed like Don had finally become faithful with Megan, but his faith waned at the start of the most recent sixth season when it turns out he’s been having an affair with neighbor Sylvia. This affair was doubly nefarious because Don seemed to actually like Sylvia’s husband Arnold, and there aren’t very many people in Mad Men that Don likes. The affair came to a temporary end when Don was simply too cruel and Sylvia decides it’s over, but is rekindled when Don helps get Sylvia’s son out of serving in Vietnam.
Don:
Betty Francis – Yes, I almost forgot this but Don cheats on his second wife with his first wife.
Don takes a tight 8-6 victory, but with all the other people Don and Tony must have slept with before the shows started, who can possibly say what the actual score might be.
A couple of quick notes on women who were excluded:
This is a comparison of women Don cheated with, so in season four, when he was divorced, all his affairs were on the up and up. Still for completion’s sake, here’s a quick rundown of all the women he slept with in season four. His most ongoing relationship was with the age appropriate Faye Miller, a ratings analyst who he breaks up with at the end of the season when he instead chooses to be with Megan, who he proposes to soon after. In between, he sleeps with a call girl Candace, in the first episode of the fourth season, a secretary named Allison whose heart he breaks in the second episode, a waitress named Doris in the sixth episode as well another unnamed woman, and Roger’s wife’s Jane’s friend Bethany in the eighth episode.
Tony was separated from Carmela for most of the fifth season of The Sopranos, so I chose not to count any sleeping around during the separation. In the 11th episode of the fifth season, “The Test Dream,” he hires an escort while he’s staying at the Plaza, and they presumably sleep together. In the first episode of season four, Tony and his gang party with a bunch of Icelandic stewardesses but there’s no clear evidence indicating Tony necessarily slept with any of them. Tony almost has an affair with real estate agent Juliana Skiff, but they never consummate it as Tony decides to remain faithful to Carmela, and Skiff and Chris take up together instead.
Via a leaked document which explains the military instructions to force feed, or “standard operating procedure”, for force-feeding detainees, Yasiin Bey (aka Mos Def) volunteered to undergo the procedure and make a shirt film. Below is the four-minute film made by Human Rights organisation Reprieve and BAFTA award-winning director Asif Kapadia. You can never un-see or un-know this.
Warning: This video is extremely graphic and may be hard to watch for some.
The U.S. Justice of Department is now investigating the shooting death of Trayvon Martin … meaning, if slapped with federal charges, George Zimmerman could face jail time — even after his not guilty verdict.
The DOJ issued a statement Sunday … revealing they are looking into the case, evaluating the evidence (including testimony from the State trial) — and will determine whether or not federal prosecutors should file criminal civil rights charges against Zimmerman.
Here’s why it’s important … Zimmerman was found not guilty on Saturday of both second-degree murder and manslaughter when tried by the State of Florida — and is technically a free man.
But since the news broke … civil-rights activists have been up in arms, like Al Sharpton and the NAACP who are clamoring for the DOJ to bring civil rights charges against Zimmerman.
If the Feds decide to go through with new criminal charges … then a jail sentence is back on the table.
Although, according to legal experts, it will be an uphill battle to prove in court that Zimmerman was motivated solely by race.
A Chicago grandmother accused of killing her 8-year-old granddaughter inflicted abuse for so long that the dead little girl had maggots living in a head wound that had gone untreated, cops said in a shocking case.
Helen M. Ford, 51, eventually strangled and beat Gizzell Kiara Ford to death, cops say, ending weeks, maybe months, of systematic abuse.The grandmother is held on no bail and faces a murder charge.
The details of the grisly and horrifying crime were unveiled Sunday by prosecutors who presented a disturbing case against the girl’s caretaker and, police say, executioner.
President Barack Obama issued the following statement Sunday following the verdict in the George Zimmerman trial.
“The death of Trayvon Martin was a tragedy. Not just for his family, or for any one community, but for America. I know this case has elicited strong passions. And in the wake of the verdict, I know those passions may be running even higher. But we are a nation of laws, and a jury has spoken. I now ask every American to respect the call for calm reflection from two parents who lost their young son. And as we do, we should ask ourselves if we’re doing all we can to widen the circle of compassion and understanding in our own communities. We should ask ourselves if we’re doing all we can to stem the tide of gun violence that claims too many lives across this country on a daily basis. We should ask ourselves, as individuals and as a society, how we can prevent future tragedies like this. As citizens, that’s a job for all of us. That’s the way to honor Trayvon Martin.”
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Apparently, July 14th is “World Come Clean Day.” Sky Sports News and The Telegraph have both reported that five Jamaicans, including Asafa Powell and Nesta Carter, have tested positive for a banned substance.The BBC reports that Powell’s management company has confirmed the positive test.This news comes just hours after Pat Graham of The Associated Press announced that Tyson Gaytested positive for a banned substance. Reportedly, no “B” samples have been tested.
Powell is currently ranked third in the world with a 9.88 finish in Lausanne. He’s the fourth fastest 100m sprinter of all-time behind Usain Bolt, Gay, and Yohan Blake.
I now ask every American to respect the call for calm reflection from two parents who lost their young son. And as we do, we should ask ourselves if we’re doing all we can to widen the circle of compassion and understanding in our own communities. We should ask ourselves if we’re doing all we can to stem the tide of gun violence that claims too many lives across this country on a daily basis. We should ask ourselves, as individuals and as a society, how we can prevent future tragedies like this. As citizens, that’s a job for all of us. That’s the way to honor Trayvon Martin.
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