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The very best food and drink on offer in the county comes under the spotlight, as Leicester and Leicestershire Food Fortnight gets underway this weekend.
More than 60 businesses throughout Leicestershire are hosting everything from tastings and demonstrations through to special promotions between Saturday, September 22 and October 7 to celebrate the county’s passion for food.
And not to be outshone, venues in Hinckley and Bosworth are playing their part in the campaign, which aims to encourage people to shop locally and savour foods produced within the county.
The first event in the borough takes place on Saturday at the Mary Forryan Centre, at St Peters Church, Hinckley, with visitors rolling up their sleeves during a two-hour master-class from Leicester bread-maker Jessica Edmonds.
The free classes will take place from 9am to 1pm with places available to be booked by emailing Lindsay.orton@hinckley-bosworth.gov.uk or calling Hinckley 255833.
Twycross Zoo gets in on the action on Sunday, by hosting a food and craft fair between 11am and 4pm which will see as many as 30 stall holders offering food demonstrations and samples of local produce.
A new recipe book put together by restaurants, cafes, pubs, bars and takeaways in Hinckley will also be given away free of charge. The attention then turns to The Bull in Broughton Astley on October 1 with a five-course dinner on the menu, using locally-sourced ingredients all matched with different beers, including a presentation about each beer and history of beer from Mark Tetlow of Everards Brewery. The evening costs £35 per head.
The Tithe Barn restaurant, based at Bosworth Battlefield, will show off its ability to put on a mighty fine spread on October 4, which will include favourites such as a locally-reared organic hog roast, creamy home-made country coleslaw, and home-made chunky cut chips made from Leicestershire potatoes.
Places cost £19.50 per person and booking is essential on Hinckley 290429.
The borough’s events will be rounded off on October 6 with a Leicestershire Food Links market of fresh produce at Burbage Methodist Church, from 9am to 1.30pm.
During the Food Fortnight there will also be a competition to find Leicestershire’s most dedicated foodie.
And what better prize than a pampering day at one of the county’s most prestigious health farms – Ragdale Hall – to work off the excesses of all those tastings.
Editor�s note: Earlier this month, Register-Guard reporter Karen McCowan visited the Guatemala projects of two Eugene-based nonprofits: NextStep Recycling and Cascade Medical Team. Today�s articles look at a NextStep program to place computers in rural Guatemalan schools. Sunday, the focus is Cascade Medical Team�s annual visit to rural Guatemala.
SALCAJ�, GUATEMALA Odds are, someone reading these words donated the computer now propelling a poor girl here toward her dream of a medical career.
Evelyn Karina attends Escuela de Casa Blanca, a primary school in this rural community east of Quetzaltenango, Guatemala�s second-largest city. Casa Blanca sits atop a dusty, white-soiled bluff that inspired its name. Most of these students� parents are illiterate. They support their families by selling at open-air markets the traditional clothing they weave or the produce they grow on small patches of land.
But a world of other possibilities is opening up to Evelyn, her classmates and hundreds of children from other impoverished villages, thanks to a Eugene-Guatemala collaboration that has placed more than 700 computers in schools here.
As Evelyn worked at a PC that once served some Eugene-area student or office worker, she discussed her age (12 years) and her goals.
Computer literacy is becoming crucial for college admission in Guatemala, she said through an interpreter. She said she also will need computers later in her planned career.
�Sometimes when you need medicines, it tells you the names of the medicines,� she explained.
Some of her classmates also have big aspirations. Two children one male, one female want to become lawyers. Another girl shyly confided her desire to become a judge. A boy boldly set his sights on Guatemala�s top job: �El presidente!� he declared.
A lab stocked with 35 computers would be unimaginable in this school but for a partnership between Casa Blanca�s parent council; INEPAS, a Quetzaltenango-based nonprofit organization; and Eugene�s NextStep Recycling.
Here�s how the chain of cooperation works: NextStep renovates castoff computers that might otherwise end up in a landfill. The agency loads the machines with Spanish and indigenous language software and ships them to Guatemala. There, INEPAS places the computers in schools where parent councils have requested them. Those parents then volunteer their time, sometimes even their scarce cash, to keep the machines clean and secure and in good repair.
�Local effort makes the labs happen,� said INEPAS director Maria Antonieta Ixcoteyac Vel�squez. Her 15-year-old organization, which has helped parents establish schools in poor, indigenous villages, embraced the computer project as another valuable step toward self-sufficiency for such communities, she said.
One longtime Salcaj� (Sall-ca-HA) volunteer is Erasmo German Rodr�guez, president of the Casa Blanca parent council.
�For my part I say thank you with all my heart to the people of Oregon,� he said. In a poor region where only about 1 percent of public schools have computer labs, the donated machines help children find alternatives to the poverty and war of the past.
�We benefit greatly so that our children here in Guatemala progress and they dedicate themselves to studying so that there will be less violence,� Rodr�guez said.
NextStep director Lorraine Kerwood said one of the agency�s goals is to bridge the �digital divide� separating technologically advantaged countries and those without computer access.
The agency began shipping refurbished donated computers to Guatemala because a Eugene group, Partners in Solidarity, already was sending a shipping container of other aid to the country. The man behind that effort, Matthew Ruttman, is now overseeing the computer project for NextStep.
While INEPAS has not yet achieved its goal of bringing Internet service to any of the schools, many children have used their computer knowledge to go online at Internet cafes.
�This allows them to have more contact with the world that is beyond what they can see,� said Casa Blanca teacher Reynaldo Tax.
His colleague Mario Faustino Oralle has watched Casa Blanca�s computer program grow from five machines used only by older students seven years ago to a lab of 35 computers used by all students.
Pre-primary teacher Lesli Lorena Sandoval Rodas said even her 5-year-olds spend time in the lab, playing with drawing and painting programs, and using educational programs to practice their colors, letters and numbers.
Enthusiasm also is strong among secondary students at another rural school southwest of Quetzaltenango. Their village of Xecaracoj (Shake-R-a-koe) is more remote. The nearest paved road gives way to rutted dirt several miles shy of the small community at the base of Santa Mar�a, a 12,300-foot active volcano.
Many of the Mayan people here still wear their traditional dress including girls who played basketball in their colorfully-embroidered traj� in a courtyard at the school.
But for that and the language difference, however, these students� computer class might be that of their Eugene counterparts.
One afternoon earlier this month, resident computer whiz Maynor Nicol�s Garcia was in high demand among his classmates, helping them use an assortment of PC clones to download music, design logos and create Power Point presentations.
The soft-spoken 14-year-old said he uses nearby private Internet portals to chat with young people in Argentina, Canada and the United States.
�I want to continue my studies in computers and to become a nurse,� said Garcia, the oldest son of a farming family.
Computer teacher Freddy Sacolxot (Saw-cull-shut) said the lab �brings various benefits� to his students.
He estimated that �not even 1 percent� of his students have computers at home.
Principal Flor de Maria Cayax said Xecaracoj parents nonetheless recognize the value of the technology. They organized to transport the computers from INEPAS, she said, and keep the machines clean despite the dusty climate by taking such steps as wrapping keyboards in plastic film at the end of each day.
Until a recent court ruling halted the practice as a violation of the Guatemala constitution�s free education provision, the poor families even contributed small sums of cash to pay for computer lab electricity and maintenance.
Pre-season training camp officially begins today when players report to go through medical tests and meetings through Tuesday before the first practice of the 2008 season on Wednesday.
And to spice up the day players report, ESPN and ABC analyst Kirk Herbstreit will be at the Oxley Center later today to give his thoughts on the upcoming season.
He’ll be there from 5:30 to 8 p.m. at the Oxley Practice Fields.
If that’s not enough Evan Cohen will be broadcasting his Palm Beaches GameDay show on ESPN 760 from the event, so if you can’t make it in person, I’m sure there will be plenty of FAU talk on Cohen’s show. The press release says Cohen will emcee the event, which should be interesting to see him do both tasks at the same time.
This actually is the second time – that I know of – Herbstreit has been to the FAU football offices. I won’t forget the sight of Herbstreit, Mike Tirico and Erin Andrews wandering the halls of the Oxley Center in 2005 as they prepared for their broadcast of the FAU-Oklahoma State game at Dolphin Stadium. It certainly broke up the monotany of me and Ted Hutton of the Sun-Sentinel sitting in the media work room/copy room/mail room waiting for players to come up from the lockerroom and be interviewed that day.
Poll position: The first pre-season coaches’ poll is out. As far as Owl opponents go: Texas is No. 10 and Michigan State is receiving enough votes that it would be No. 40 if the poll went that high.
FAU coach Howard Schnellenberger is once again a voter in the poll.
An unnamed but charismatic thermal feature is shown alongside Ferris Fork, near the Bechler River. The center of the pool is roiling with gas bubbles, but not boiling. The pool is only about 180 degrees F, and all the gas is bubbling up from underground. The white color is due to the silica-saturated water depositing sinter as it flows out and cools, while the red and green patches are cooler areas where algal mats thrive.
Why are there hydrothermal areas in Yellowstone? Fundamentally, it’s due to the presence of water (from rain and snow), heat (from magma) and suitable geology (porous rocks). Water that percolates into the ground is heated indirectly by the underlying magma and migrates back to the surface along faults and at the terminations of volcanic flows. Volcanic gases travel to the surface alongside the water. The highest concentrations of thermal features are near the center of the park: for example, the Upper Geyser Basin, where Old Faithful is located, and Norris Geyser Basin. However, there are over 10,000 thermal features scattered throughout the park, and to get a full picture of the Yellowstone hydrothermal system, we are attempting to make a more complete accounting of the water and gas chemistry of these features.
For the last two years, scientists from the USGS and the National Park Service traveled to the southwest corner of the park to study remote thermal areas around Boundary Creek and the Bechler River. We planned our trips by looking at visible and thermal infrared satellite imagery, which reveals the locations of thermal areas. Even Google Earth is a great tool for exploring these regions!
Before we headed out to Yellowstone, we prepared our equipment in the lab. Gas collection bottles were hooked up to a vacuum line to pump out all the air, so that we could get samples consisting solely of volcanic gas. We also packed clean plastic sample bottles and filters for collecting water, and equipment for measuring water temperatures and stream flow rates.
The thermal areas in the southwest corner of the park are quite remote. To get there, we packed all of our equipment and supplies onto mules, then hiked for long distances (up to 13 miles from the road) to set up a base camp.
On work days, we carried equipment in our backpacks and hiked a few miles, mostly on trails, to sample thermal areas. Equipment we needed to pack for the day might include, for example, up to eight glass bottles and several pounds of tools, not to mention tubing, field books, a GPS unit and other necessary equipment.
Features in the southwest corner consist of a mix of thermal waters and gases from deep reservoirs, and cooler waters (with associated dissolved gases) resulting from rain and surface water interacting with hot rock. Finding the ideal site for gas sampling can be tricky: a pool with strong bubbling action is certainly releasing a lot of volcanic gas, but the gas can contain air and water. A site with “steaming ground” can be harder to identify, but the sample will likely contain more volcanic gas. Ideally, we would sample gas from hot, vigorous fumaroles, but there are not many of them in this area, whereas bubbling pools are common.
When we returned from Yellowstone, we analyzed the gases we collected. The gas discharging from the thermal areas is mostly steam, which is visible on a cold morning. Except for steam, more than 90 percent of the gas consists of carbon dioxide. The remainder of the gas in the southwest corner of the park is mostly nitrogen. Most (but not all) of the CO2 originates in the magmatic system beneath Yellowstone, but most of the nitrogen has a different origin; when rainwater percolates into the ground, it contains dissolved air, including both nitrogen and oxygen. As groundwater flows through the hydrothermal system, the oxygen reacts with the surrounding rock, while the nitrogen does not. Notably, the gases emitted in the southwest corner of the park contain very little hydrogen sulfide, unlike gas sources in some other active areas of Yellowstone.
We will use the data we collected to improve the understanding of hydrothermal activity in Yellowstone’s southwest corner. In this ongoing work, we are investigating whether the chemical compositions of gases and thermal waters are similar to those in other areas and what these chemical compositions might tell us about the entire Yellowstone hydrothermal system.
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Northstar California Resort in Truckee said it received 5 inches of snow in the last 24 hours.
A mid-winter storm rode that rode the back of hefty winds dropped several inches of snow at local ski resorts on the holiday weekend.
Northstar California Resort in Truckee said Monday, Feb. 19, it received 5 inches of fresh powder from the storm in the past 24 hours.
Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows in Olympic Valley said Monday it also received 5 inches of snow from the storm in the past 24 hours. The resort has 33 lifts, 105 runs and three terrain parks open.
Boreal Ski Resort said Monday it received 8 inches of snow from the storm in the past 24 hours.
“It’s a powder day. 8 inches of new snow last night and free parking with any pre-purchased products,” the ski resort said in a post on its website.
Sugar Bowl \| Royal Gorge, which has six open lifts, said Monday it received 5 inches of snow from the storm in the past 24 hours.
And Tahoe Donner said Monday it received 4 inches of snow.
Leaders from all religious traditions smooth the way for contraception on the idea that sprawling families in poor conditions are not healthy for kids or moms.
Mebrate Tenangne, almost nine months pregnant, stands in the doorway of her home in the village of Mosebo in northern Ethiopia. She used contraception for almost seven years after the birth of her first child because she did not think her family had enough money to support a second child.
Religious figures have been preaching the gospel of family planning here in Africa's second most populous nation. The result: a whittling of the fertility rate, and a leap in contraceptive use.
In Ethiopia, where the population is devout and widely scattered, local religious figures exercise far more authority than government officials or the young female health workers they send out across the country.
The poverty and high mortality rates in many communities have led to an unusual level of support for contraception among Ethiopia’s religious leaders. Pastors, priests, and imams are paving the way for the birth control that the government is making available for pennies.
It is a pragmatism born of problems with poverty that don’t exist in many Western countries. Religious leaders are now seen as one of the most powerful tools in development workers’ hands across sub-Saharan Africa, from Kenya to the Ivory Coast to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Several years ago, men like Mr. Tilahun and Abeya Wakwoya – who also works for the Lutheran church, known here as the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus – set out for rural parts of Ethiopia to speak with religious leaders.
Their goal was not to directly distribute contraceptives but to create a receptive audience for the government health workers who followed them into the community with subsidized or free pills, implants, injections, and intrauterine devices (IUDs).
Sitting down with both Christians and Muslims, Tilahun and Mr. Abeya pointed to the problems of hunger and unsafe childbirth brought on by families that were too large. They asked these local faith leaders if they saw the benefits of modern birth control amid such conditions.
Their message appears to be catching on. Contraception use is up, from 8 percent of married women in 2000 to 29 percent in 2011, according to Ethiopia’s last Demographic and Health Survey in 2011. The fertility rate is down to 4.8 children per family from 5.9 in 2000, according to the survey, although still well above the three children most women say they want.
In a sprawling mostly rural country it is not possible to pinpoint how many families were convinced by religious leaders. But in more than a dozen interviews, Ethiopian men and women said they had felt initial qualms about contraception – but that messages from faith leaders helped change their minds.
Contraception helps ensure families only have as many children as they can feed. That makes for healthier conditions for all concerned, he says.
Sometimes women did the pro-contraception persuading. Mebrate Tenangne, a young Orthodox woman from the village of Mosebo pregnant with her second child says she used birth control for several years after having her first child.
The girl, now seven, sits quiet but alert on the stoop, her back erect as she listens to the conversation.
Ms. Mebrate’s husband, a local clergyman was not happy about the contraception, she says. But when she pointed to their small plot of land and the aging sewing machines they use for their tailoring work – and asked how they could care for a second child -- she convinced him.
Today, even in far-flung areas where few men or women get more than a year or two of high school education, their comments on contraception are peppered with clinical terms like “spacing” – putting a few years between each birth. When asked what convinced them, they rattle off answers that sound as if they came straight from the health workers’ reading material.
The promotion of the term “spacing” was very deliberate, says Josiane Yaguibou, the family planning policy advisor for southern and eastern Africa with the United Nations Population Fund. The UN found that “spacing” evoked far less anger than “family planning” among religious and traditional leaders.
For work in Kenya’s predominantly Muslim northeast, the UN delved into the Quran to find verses that could be interpreted as supportive of family planning. “The mothers may breast feed their children for two complete years, for whoever desires to complete the nursing period,” one such verse reads.
Today, Ms. Yaguibou says, groups like USAID and Save the Children find it easy to “penetrate” previously hard to reach communities.
Dr. Addis Tamire, chief of staff to Ethiopia’s minister of health, says that ending opposition to contraception among some faiths is a very high hurdle. To overcome the Muslim community’s particularly staunch resistance, the ministry brought Muslim leaders to Bangladesh to show them how their counterparts there had joined the government’s family planning efforts. When the Ethiopian leaders came home, they were converted.
Ariel Zirulnick reported from Ethiopia with the International Reporting Project.
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