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Anwar is expected to arrive at Padang Timur at 10.00p.m. and deliver his first public speech after his release at 10.45p.m. |
This out of the ordinary way to pair chicken and pears is destined to become your “company chicken” dish. |
August 16, 2010, 2:41 p.m. |
I told you last week that while I was away on vacation last week staying with my friend Missy that we did a lot of cooking. I spent some time pouring through her cookbooks one evening and found a recipe titled Breast of Chicken and Pear Slices with Port & Stilton Cream. She had a notation next to it that simply said “V... |
The recipe came out of a 1987 Jr. League of Pasadena cookbook titled California Heritage Continues. There were a lot of recipes in the book that I would have liked to try, and I’m considering buying a used copy of the book from Amazon. That would mean I’d have to get rid of a cookbook I already own, though. That’s my r... |
This chicken was so good. I absolutely loved it and can’t wait to make it again. My husband was very skeptical when I told him what we were making, but he was happily surprised that the sweetness of the creamy sauce and the pears went very well with the simply prepared chicken. |
We couldn’t convince the kids to try the sauce and pears, but one thing that was great about this dish was that the boys were able to eat the plain chicken. It wasn’t any extra work. No need to make a separate dish for the kids. |
Pears are in season right now, and the dish also uses fresh parsley, which is also abundant right now. I followed this recipe exactly except for clarifying the butter. I didn’t take the time to do that. |
In a large sauté pan, melt 4 tbsp of clarified butter over med-high heat until just lightly brown. |
Add chicken. Turn chicken after 4 minutes and continue to cook until just cooked through. |
Remove chicken and transfer to a plate to keep warm. |
Sprinkle with salt and pepper, then tent with foil and place in a 200-degree oven to keep warm. |
Add stock and Port to the drippings in the sauté pan and boil until reduced by about half. |
Add cream and boil until reduced to a sauce like consistency. |
Add 1 tbsp of the Stilton to the Port sauce and stir until completely melted. Taste. Add the remaining Stilton if you’d like a stronger flavor. |
Place chicken on individual plates, top each with 3 pear slices and some sauce. Sprinkle with parsley. Serve immediately. |
The newspaper also claimed that “a large number of suspicious individuals who look like mainlanders” have been loitering outside its offices, as well as following and photographing its managers since mid-February. |
On Wednesday, Sing Pao published testimonies from several of its reporters, who claimed to have spotted men observing them outside restaurants in which they were dining and pretending to use their mobile phones, all whilst avoiding nearby police officers. |
Among those shadowed was chief editor Lau Mei-yee, the Post has learned. A police source said Lau had filed a report on Sunday about threats to her personal safety and she had also called on behalf of the newspaper. |
A picture of at least one staff member had appeared in a “threatening” bill posted near an employee’s home and the newspaper believed the photo was cropped from their home return permit, the travel document that enables Hong Kong residents to travel to mainland China. |
[…] It is understood that Hong Kong police have stepped up their investigations after receiving reports from the newspaper management two times in the past few days. |
The company statement said it believes the harassment is connected to a series of Sing Pao columns criticizing outgoing chief executive Leung Chun-ying, Hong Kong’s top leader, and the Chinese government’s Liaison Office, Beijing’s top representative body in Hong Kong, in the run up to the chief executive election on M... |
The report by Xinhua said Gu Zhuoheng, 44, chairman of pro-establishment Sing Pao Media Enterprises since October 2014, was wanted by Shenzhen police for an alleged connection to a case of illegally receiving some 150 million yuan (HK$173 million) from financial platform cnmeidai.com, based in Shenzhen. |
Gu denied similar reports, published previously, in a statement in August, saying he had no relationship with the platform, which claimed to be China’s first online medium of its kind providing services from peer-to-peer lending to financing for small and medium-sized enterprises. |
Gu also stressed that he had been free to travel between Hong Kong and the mainland. |
INCREDIBLE pictures have revealed the desperate two-hour struggle of a baby giraffe as it tried to escape a group of hungry young lionesses learning how to hunt. |
The series of spectacular snaps captured the events starting with the dramatic moment the lions clapped eyes on the calf as it strolled through the bush in South Africa with its mother. |
With a 286-pound lion closing in, the giraffe sprints behind its mum, using its instinctive self-defence mechanism to kick the predator in the face. |
The big cats are seen to take down their prey numerous times – only for the baby to escape their grasp to spring back to its feet and reignite the chase. |
Eventually, the hungry beasts are pictured grabbing hold of the baby’s neck before finally managing to drag it to the ground for the last time. |
The whole pride can then be seen gathering round to tuck in after their prey finally succumbs following the extended struggle. |
The stunning images were taken by special project coordinator Karl-Heinz Fechter, 43, from Pretoria, South Africa. |
Karl took the pictures using his Canon 650D camera at the Balule Game Reserve near Hoedspruit, in the north-east of the country. |
He said: “This was an amazing siting, even though we did experience the brutality of nature. |
“It was clear from the first moment, as we stumbled across this event that the young one would not survive. |
“This pack of lions had killed and devoured a buffalo the previous day and they were not in immediate need for food. |
“Yet the group decided to go for the young giraffe anyway. |
“The mother of the young giraffe valiantly tried to protect the young one. |
“The lions certainly had a healthy respect for the kicking ability of the giraffe and every time she turned around the lions scattered. |
“She tried to show the calf by example how to get away – unfortunately the calf’s speed was no match for the lions. |
Karl-Heinz also revealed his surprise that the younger lions didn’t seem to possess the knowledge and skills to kill the baby giraffe and needed some help from their more experienced elders. |
He said: “One would have thought that lions instinctively know how to hunt and kill but even the king of nature still has to learn how to become an effective hunter. |
“Countless times the young lions chased after the calf, tackling it to the ground without executing the lethal blow. |
“It was only after the older lions decided that it was time to finish this that they got involved to demonstrate how it should be done and the calf was finally killed. |
“There were a few times when we thought that this must surely be it but the calf got up again to our disbelief. |
The West Covina City Council has appointed Chris Freeland as the new city manager. |
WEST COVINA >> City Hall veteran and West Covina native Chris Freeland was appointed to be the new city manager on Tuesday night. |
After hearing several residents voice support for Freeland during public comment, the City Council voted unanimously to approve Freeland’s appointment and contract. |
“I need someone I can trust at City Hall, and Chris, you are that person,” said Councilman Mike Spence. |
Freeland, 41, who has spent more than 14 years with the city, will receive a base salary of $212,000. |
He was sworn in immediately after the vote by former La Verne City Manager Martin Lomeli, a longtime mentor and friend to Freeland who said interning in Lomeli’s office in high school made him want to be a city manager some day. |
Freeland takes over for Interim City Manager Tom Mauk, who served for six months after former City Manager Chris Chung received a $440,000 payout to retire early in December. |
Mauk will stay on as a consultant to Freeland and the city for about nine months under an agreement approved by the council Tuesday. The interim chief executive will be available on an on-call basis at an hourly rate of $135 not to exceed a total of $35,000. |
Although Mayor Fred Sykes said last week that he was concerned about Freeland’s lack of experience as a city manager and his tenure under a previous administration often criticized for being corrupt, the mayor said on Tuesday that he felt he could trust Freeland at the helm. |
Councilman Corey Warshaw conceded that if Freeland applied for the interim role six months ago he probably would not have voted in favor of his appointment, but after seeing Freeland grow and learn from Mauk there was no question he was ready for the job today. |
Freeland thanked the council and residents for their trust and support as he takes on his new role and expressed a desire to work with staff and department heads to overcome the challenges the city faces. |
“We’re ready to do some business for the city,” Freeland said. |
Every year more than 3 million reports of child abuse are made in the United States. In Vermont, child neglect and abuse has increased by 60 percent since 2012. |
Here to talk to us about the signs of child abuse and much more is James Metz, MD, pediatrician at the University of Vermont Children’s Hospital and assistant professor at the Larner College of Medicine at UVM. |
Dr. James Metz: That's a great question, and it opens up a Pandora's box. I wish there was one answer, and I wish we could pinpoint it so that we could solve the problem easily. Unfortunately, child abuse and neglect is a huge problem with lots of different avenues to explore. |
We do know that there are specific indicators that lead to child abuse more often than not. Social factors play a huge role: poverty, social stressors like losing a job, or economic hardship. There was a study done in Seattle that looked at the trend in abusive head trauma during the recent Depression. It showed that t... |
We also know that there is an opioid crisis in Vermont, which has impacted the rate of child abuse. There are multiple issues at play. The most important one is some sort of social stressor. |
What is the impact of the opioid crisis on child abuse and neglect? |
Dr. James Metz: We have seen an increase in child abuse. Mostly, it takes the form of neglect. When we talk about child abuse there is a broad umbrella. You can have physical abuse, sexual abuse, medical child abuse, and/or neglect. In the wake of the opioid crisis, the most stunning increase has been in the neglect po... |
What are some risk factors for child abuse and neglect? |
Dr. James Metz: One of the risk factors is when a child has higher medical needs. We know that children who are premature are at slightly higher risk for child abuse. We know that twins are more affected by abuse than others. We know that children with disabilities have a higher risk of child abuse. We know that teenag... |
Why is that? Well, for example, a child with special needs requires more attention. The child may be more demanding in some regards. That places a stress on the family. If it's a young family who has little support, that can put the child at a higher risk. |
What are the signs and symptoms of child abuse and neglect? |
Dr. James Metz: This is a question that I educate people on most frequently, reason being that the signs can be subtle. We may all think that we'll know it when we see it, but unfortunately, that's not always the case. When I think about cases of abuse, I think about what we call “sentinel injuries,” or injuries that a... |
For instance, a small bruise on the face of a two-week-old baby. We know that two-week-olds don't do much other than eat and sleep. They do not move around a lot. So, a bruise on a two–week-old is concerning. In terms of neglect, when we see a child who isn't growing properly, that is, not meeting their milestones deve... |
Oftentimes, there are no flagrant outward signs of abuse, although there are sometimes. We do get a lot of cases from schools calling us with reports of a child coming to school with a bruise on their ear or a bruise on their arm. Those are physical indicators of some sort of abuse, but there are also very subtle signs... |
Are there any kind of behavioral signs? |
Dr. James Metz: This is hard because children's behavior is variable. Trying to understand their behavior and why they're acting out in the way that they are is difficult. Yes, there are behavioral signs that we look at, but we try to look to physical findings. In the case of sexual abuse, when a child is exhibiting ov... |
Do you find that it's hard to talk about child abuse and neglect in the medical realm? |
Dr. James Metz: Child abuse is the underbelly of medicine. To think that someone could harm a child or abuse a child is difficult. Unfortunately, if you don't think about it, if you don't recognize that it occurs, then you probably miss it, and that's unfortunate because we have an opportunity to protect children. If w... |
What are some of the short-term effects of child abuse and neglect? |
Dr. James Metz: In the short term, if a child presents to their physician, or they're at school and abuse isn't recognized, the immediate effect is that they go home and they get abused again. |
Children come to the hospital frequently – and sometimes we miss the first signs of abuse, whether it's bruising, fractures, or head trauma. Health care providers miss the first signs of abuse a third to a half of the time. That means that if a child comes in to the emergency department with fussiness, it's often recog... |
What are some of the long-term effects? |
Dr. James Metz: Abusive and adverse experiences early on in childhood lead to a whole array of health, psychological, and other problems later on in life. We call these ACEs, or adverse childhood experiences. Child abuse, whether it's physical, sexual, or neglect, fall under ACEs. We know that those can be causally lin... |
What can we do to reduce the risk of child abuse and neglect? |
Dr. James Metz: We all want to somehow be a part of the solution. I think that the best way to do it is to recognize that child abuse happens. That's the first step. So, recognition that it's a problem. It's not only a problem, it's a big problem. I think we lose sight of how common a problem it is. Child abuse, whethe... |
I think dedicating resources to the problem and addressing the different underlying causes of child abuse is also important. I don't think there's a silver bullet, but working with families on food insecurity, employment issues, and all of the social stressors that families experience may ease the burden and cause less... |
What would you say to somebody who suspects that child abuse may be happening? |
Dr. James Metz: It’s not something that we like to think about. By the time someone is thinking about child abuse, and by the time it reaches the level that it's in your thoughts, it's important to report it. I think we know that the threshold for people to think about child abuse is high. That's unfortunate, because w... |
If you think that a child has been abused – and remember, for reporting, you don't have to know for certain that a child has been abused; you just have to have a suspicion that something is not right or that a child may have been abused – report it. I would encourage people to step into the problem instead of stepping ... |
Palestinian mortars shelled an Israeli town near Gaza. Israeli tanks and helicopter gunships attacked Palestinian security force buildings in Gaza. Israel said it will not tolerate further mortar attacks. Meanwhile, Israeli aircraft bombed a Syrian radar station in northern Lebanon. Three Syrian soldiers were killed an... |
What are the Marico Innovation Foundation and its objective? |
The Foundation aims to nurture innovations in India across the business and social sectors alike. They work closely with organizations that are innovative and impactful through their innovation forward and sector agnostic programs. |
Scale-Up Program- identifies critical business challenges faced by an innovation, collaborates with its pool of mentors and provides implementable solutions; thereby leading to tangible impact and sustained growth of the innovation. |
Innovate2Cultivate: an Agriculture focused program that aims to solve current agricultural challenges with the help of innovations and bring the relevant ecosystem together to support these innovations. This is in line with their efforts to spur and then nurture innovations in the country, one sector at a time. |
MIF Awards- A platform that identifies and showcases innovations across Business, Social and Start-Up categories that hold potential to generate large scale impact. Over the previous editions MIF Innovation Awards has recognized more than 57 disruptive innovations and the next edition will be in Feb 2020. |
Marico Innovation Foundation helps SMEs to scale up. What is the reason behind your focus on SMEs? |
India ranks 60th out of 128 countries on the Global Innovation Index (GII) 2017, a steady improvement over the years. Also, the number of incubators and accelerators has grown by 40% with tremendous traction in tier II & III cities. Therefore, there is no dearth of the spark that generates innovative ideas. However, wh... |
Our engagement with the innovating organizations has a hands-on approach, where the MIF team works closely with the cohort. We have a 100+ strong mentor-pool (both internal and external) who volunteer their expertise for scaling of the innovations and the progress is measured through defined impact metrics. The effecti... |
Please throw some light on the challenges that a small business ecosystem in India is facing currently. Highlight the difficulties being faced by Small FMCG companies who are wanting to scale up. |
We have had small businesses approach with problems affecting many areas; supply chain management, customer acquisition, sourcing troubles, quality process issues, setting up of new production units, choosing the right direction for marketing, growing online sales etc. |
These diverse challenges for a small business could be make-or-break as there is limited wiggle room for errors while allocating already scanty resource. |
Alongside, not only are most founders of startups very young, the ecosystems are also in their nascent stage. This directly points to a need for the ecosystem for SMEs in India to evolve where industry majors make available their experience and expertise to point SMEs in the right direction. |
To be effective, the available ecosystem needs to focus on creating value by customizing solutions through a deep rooted mentoring approach that addresses specific challenges the companies are facing, sticking to their field of expertise in doing so. Thorough review over a specific period is critical as is educating th... |
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