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He found it in “The Cosgrove Report,” a 1979 book about President Lincoln’s assassination, which claimed that Brooklyn was home to a lost railroad in which pages from John Wilkes Booth’s diary might be hidden. With this tantalizing tidbit, an obsession was born.
MR. DIAMOND pored over old city maps and did copious research, as if looking for buried treasure, though not quite on the scale of the recently discovered man-of-war that sank in 1744 in the English Channel with four tons of gold coins. Then he told city officials about the forgotten tunnel beneath their feet. They res...
Below ground, about two-thirds of the way into the tunnel, Mr. Diamond nudged us forward as the weak light bulbs disappeared. Someone aimed a flashlight, and all that might physically stand between Mr. Diamond and his dream engine was revealed. The brick wall looked jagged and scarred; people walked up to touch it.
But don’t count Mr. Diamond out just yet. “I hope to persuade them to change their minds based upon the merits,” he said.
This recipe is as guilt-free as you can possibly get for a sweet bread.
July 27, 2014, 2 p.m.
Okay, so the word "healthy" for this recipe is a tiny bit of a stretch. But this is indeed the healthiest recipe I've ever tried for a banana bread, and it still tastes as decadent as something with sugar and dairy in it. But this has zero refined sugar, zero dairy, and zero oils — and, if you wanted, this could be mad...
It is also about as easy as you can possibly get too. This is one of my two all-time, favorite vegan dessert recipes (the other one being vegan chocolate cupcakes with strawberry filling) because it's so simple to put together and so very, very delicious.
Note: This part of the recipe is flexible. I love my bread packed with blueberries, as you can see. I add so many I narrowly miss the bread falling apart when it comes out of the pan. But this also means a very blue or blue-green bread. If you like your berries in moderation, use 1 cup of berries.
Also, you can add in 1/2 to 1 cup of your favorite nuts. Walnuts go beautifully in this, but you could also try hazelnuts or even pistachios! Just make sure that whatever you choose, they are unsalted, raw, and coarsely chopped.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Coat a 9x5 inch loaf pan with a light layer of cooking oil.
If using soy or almond milk, add 1 tablespoon of lemon juice to it and let it stand until it curdles. About 1 minute. Skip this step if using apple sauce.
In a large bowl, mash up the bananas until smooth (but don't be afraid to leave some chunks -- these make a sweet surprise in a slice of bread). Add lemon juice, the curdled milk substitute or apple sauce, and agave nectar. Stir to combine.
In another bowl, add flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt, and stir to combine.
Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients, and stir until combined and everything is moistened.
Toss in your blueberries and gently stir until evenly mixed.
Bake for 50 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool completely in the pan before transferring to a plate.
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, who landed in Israel Sunday evening after spending 36 hours in Egypt and Jordan, has kicked off his meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Later in the day, he will deliver a speech on U.S.-Israel relations.
Meeting privately, Pence told Netanyahu it was a "great honor" to be in "Israel's capital, Jerusalem" and that he is hopeful "we are at the dawn of a new era" of renewed efforts to achieve Israeli-Palestinian peace.
"I want to thank President Trump and you for that historic statement, which I know you supported and championed. II look forward to discussing with you, as we’ve just begun, how to further strengthen our remarkable alliance—it’s never been stronger—and how to advance peace and security in our region, which is our commo...
The Foreign Ministry says Pence received a full head-of-state welcome. Present at his welcome ceremony were White House Mideast envoy Jason Greenblatt, U.S. Ambassador David Friedman and the Israeli ambassador to Washington, Ron Dermer. Netanyahu and Pence are now meeting privately for thirty minutes before continuing ...
The Palestinian Authority is boycotting Pence's visit to the region, as are Christian leaders in Israel due to Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital and announcement to move the embassy. On Sunday, Palestinian demonstrators burned images of the U.S. vice president in Bethlehem in protest of his visit.
Upon landing, Pence was greeted by Tourism Minister Yariv Levin, Israel's Ambassador to the U.S. Ron Dermer and U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman. Pence is joined by his wife, Karen Pence.
Sara Netanyahu meets with Karen Pence, wife of U.S. Vice President Mike Pence on January 22, 2018.
Pence will also not be meeting a member of the Israeli opposition, as is often customary on such visits. Opposition head Isaac Herzog requested a meeting but was reportedly denied.
Pence, an evangelical Christian, played a major role in convincing Trump to declare a change in U.S. policy on Jerusalem. Last week it was reported that the U.S. could declare an existing consular office in Jerusalem as its embassy, as early as 2019.
The head of Israel's Arab coalition party vowed to boycott Pence's visit. "He is a dangerous man with a messianic vision that includes the destruction of the entire region," said Joint Arab List chairman Ayman Odeh.
An economic recovery in the United States would raise the risk of incipient inflation, thanks to the huge amount of dollars the Federal Reserve has put into the banking system, warns Fed Governor Charles Plosser.
“We have created the chance for a lot of inflation,” Plosser told Handelsblatt magazine in an interview. “In the banking system hangs $1.5 trillion in excess reserves,” the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia said.
Most people believe that the Fed can control inflation, Plosser said. But the Fed risks damaging its long-held reputation of being in control, and that in itself poses a risk.
Credibility is a kind of currency. Once the Fed has spent it, people lose faith, he said.
Thus inflation expectations — what people believe will happen, rather than actual inflation — can get out of hand and actual inflation is the result.
Plosser added that he thought the economy could grow between 2.5 percent and 3 percent in 2012, if no major obstacles crop up.
If growth does continue, he said, it will be up to the Fed to drain bank reserves in a timely fashion in order to dampen inflation risk.
“When the economy improves and the reserves flow as credit in the economy, then it's like fuel for inflation. If we are able to control this, and especially as long as the public believes that we are able to control this, it will not cause inflation in the future,” he said.
Food and energy prices kicked up the cost of living by 0.3 percent in September, the third monthly increase, according to Commerce Department data. Underlying inflation, which strips out volatile food and energy, rose by 0.1 percent in the period.
Separately, a benchmark used to calculate Social Security payments rose by 3.6 percent compared to 2008, a rise which will translate into an increase in retiree incomes.
It will be the first increase retirees have seen in three years as the economy has struggled to stay afloat.
About 8 million people who receive Supplemental Security Income will also receive the 3.6 percent cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, meaning the announcement will affect about one in five U.S. residents, the Associated Press reported.
There was no COLA in 2010 or 2011 because inflation was too low.
Those were the first two years without a COLA since automatic increases were adopted in 1975. However, Social Security recipients did receive a one-time $250 payment from the economic stimulus package passed in 2009.
Monthly Social Security payments average $1,082, or about $13,000 a year. A 3.6 percent increase will amount to about $39 a month, or just over $467 a year, on average.
Advocates for seniors said the raise will provide a much-needed boost to the millions of retirees and disabled people who have seen retirement accounts dwindle and home values drop during the economic downturn. Economists say the increase should provide a modest boost to consumer spending, which should help the economy...
Still, many seniors feel like they have been falling behind.
The Uber vs. Waymo self-driving car tech secrets case is heating up. Reports made public yesterday reveal that the central character in the case, engineer Anthony Levandowski, had direct communication with Uber CEO Travis Kalanick – who is currently not CEO – and both knew there were possibly some secrets from Google’s...
According to a report prepared by cybersecurity firm Stroz Friedberg as part of Uber’s acquisition of self-driving trucking startup Otto, Levandowski came across some data disks in his home shortly after he left Google’s self-driving car project. He let Kalanick know, and the CEO said he wanted nothing to do with the d...
The report also details a long list of text messages amongst key figures in the case, computer forensics probes that turned up odd findings, key communications with HR and so on, but so far, there seems to be no smoking gun that Uber intentionally ported Google’s tech to their own self-driving car and truck projects. B...
More car news now. In case you thought this electric car thing was just a passing fad, GM would like you to know it thinks otherwise. According to CEO Mary Barra, two more new EV models will be joining the Chevy Bolt in the next two years, and by 2023 – just about five years from now – Barra says GM will have 20 electr...
Why fuel cells? Cars the run on hydrogen fuel cells are essentially zero-emission, just like pure electric cars, except you can gas ‘em up just like a gas powered car. The only byproduct from the process is pure water. GM and Honda have been working on fuel cell cars for years now, and California is constantly expandin...
GM isn’t alone in their vision of an electric car lineup: Volvo, Jaguar, Land Rover, BMW, Volkswagen and many Japanese carmakers are all saying the future of driving is electric, so you might want to rethink those long-term oil stock investment plans.
Siri, is there anything good on?
Hey, we’ve got our hands on the new Apple TV 4K streaming box, and DT A/V editor Caleb Denison has been putting it to the test in the luxurious home theater room here at DT HQ.
Best new feature: definitely Siri integration for searching for your favorite shows, along with the 4K resolution update, of course. The new Apple TV also features “high dynamic range” or HDR support for improved picture quality, and the interface is lightning quick. Nit picks? Well, it is $180, which is a whole lot mo...
But if you’re a big-time Apple user and want to stay in the garden as it were, what can we say, it just works and very well at that. Check out Caleb’s full review.
The new bill has no money for school construction, increases to $90 billion the amount of money that would be sent to states to help pay Medicaid costs, and also increases to $49.6 billion the amount of money that would be devoted to infrastructure projects.
The total cost would be well below the measures passed by both the Senate, whose price tag was $838 billion, and House, at $819 billion.
The negotiators' view is that as long as the cost stays at or below $800 billion, they would be able to attract some moderate Republican votes — crucial to Senate passage — even as some of the GOP favorite tax cuts are trimmed.
White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and Budget Director Peter Orzsag have been involved in the discussions. They and House Democratic leaders have been adamant that school cuts be restored.
The House on Jan. 28 approved a $79 State Fiscal Stabilization Fund to help states with education costs, as well as $20 billion for school construction. The Senate cut the fund to $39 billion and provided no money for construction.
Some, but not all, of those funds are likely to be restored, according to people close to the negotiations who couldn't be identified because they weren't authorized to speak publicly.
In addition, the negotiators are expected to increase the subsidy for unemployed workers under the COBRA health care program. The House approved a 65 percent subsidy, while the Senate put it at 50 percent.
Money would be saved by reducing tax breaks. One insider said that President Barack OBama’s “Making Work Pay” tax credit, which would effectively rebate $500 to 95 percent of taxpayers, could be cut back slightly.
More likely to be reduced is the homeowner’s tax credit the Senate adopted last week. The $15,000 credit, or 10 percent of the purchase price of a home, whichever is less, would cost the Treasury about $35 billion.
Also being eyed for a cut is the $11 billion tax break for new car buyers that the Senate adopted last week.
Such cuts, sources said, would most anger Republicans — but most of them won't vote for the bill anyway. The three Republican senators whose support of the Senate bill was crucial to getting the 60 votes necessary for passage under Senate rules are more concerned that the overall cost of the bill be capped around $800 ...
It's not yet clear what other cuts may be needed to get the package below $800 billion. The House version was $819 billion, the Senate's $838 billion.
There is general agreement on a number of items, notably the funds to rebuild roads and bridges, about $87 billion to help states provide health care for the poor and disabled and a 20 to 33 week extension of unemployment benefits.
Also likely to remain in the bill is $70 billion fix to the alternative minimum tax.
A Colorado Cub Scout has been kicked out of his den after asking a state senator tough questions about the current political landscape in America.
Eleven-year-old Ames Mayfield said he was “heartbroken” after he was told he’d have to find a new den because he confronted state Sen. Vicki Marble over her stance on gun control.
Lori Mayfield filmed a video of her son’s exchange with Marble, a Republican, at a Cub Scout event in Denver last week. In the video, the fifth grader confidently reads his typed questions while Marble listens.
“Why on earth would you want someone who beats their wife to have access to a gun?” he asks.
Lori Mayfield told 9 News that she knows critics will assume she was using her son to try to score political points, but insisted that the research and questions all came from Ames.
In an e-mail to The Denver Post, Marble said she didn't take issue with Mayfield's questions.
"I don't blame the boy for asking the questions, since I believe there was an element of manipulation involved, and it wasn't much different from the questions I normally field in other meetings," she said. "The invitation to meet with the scouts was never intended to cause friction and controversy."
Marble has not replied to NBC News' request for comment.
Mayfield said the Scout's pack leader told her that her son would not be welcomed back into the den days after the exchange with the senator. She said the Scouts have offered to place him in other dens, but they don’t work with the family’s schedule.
After the incident became public, Ames has received support on social media, including a tweet from Gabrielle Giffords, the former Arizona congresswoman, who praised his courage.
“Ames, call me in 14 years. I’ll campaign for you,” she wrote.
For his part, Ames said he isn’t sure he’d be interested in returning to the den after the incident.
“I was a big fan of the den originally, but now since I know consequences and stuff and how they view things, I was concerned, so no," he said. "I don’t really want to get back in."
Beautiful park like setting with a view of Flat Creek. A great place to live. Lots are ready to build on with Water and Sewer Taps there. Property is zoned for town houses.
AIB, which cost €20.8 billion to rescue during the financial crisis, moved on Monday to press ahead with a restructuring aimed at meeting new European rules on minimising future taxpayer bailouts.
The lender and its main rival, Bank of Ireland, said in February that they would set up holding companies at the top of their corporate structures, designed to give taxpayers and depositors maximum protection in the event of another crisis.
While Bank of Ireland executed its plan over the summer, AIB’s was postponed as the Government’s sale of a 28.8 per cent stake in the bank, raising €3.4 billion, took precedence.
However, AIB moved on Monday to file an application with the High Court to commence a process for shareholder and court approval for the setting-up of a new holding company, called AIB Group.
This entity would issue senior and junior debt that could be “bailed in” if needed, before State support would be called upon. Deposits, however, would be held in the existing operating banks, where they would enjoy greater protection.
Irish banks inflicted €15 billion losses on junior bondholders as taxpayers picked up a gross €64 billion rescue tab between 2009 and 2011. However, senior bondholders were protected because of opposition from the European Central Bank and the fact there was no legal framework to “burn” them without also hitting deposi...
AIB said that, subject to the High Court approving its application, the bank would then move to convene an extraordinary shareholder meeting and the publication of a circular and prospectus for the holding company.
Bank of Ireland raised €750 million last month through the sale of the first batch of junior debt from its new holding company.
A charity for relatives of murder victims is seeking the appointment of a press ombudsman to help families thrust into the media spotlight.
More sensitivity needs to be shown by news outlets to people caught up in tragedy, according to Support after Murder and Manslaughter (Samm NI).
The group represents ninety families, but the findings are based on responses from families of ten victims.
However, a former senior NUJ official said the report was misguided.
Kevin Cooper, who represented the National Union of Journalists for 20 years, said: "The overwhelming number of journalists have done a difficult job in difficult circumstances."
"They have attempted to tell difficult stories in a way that informed the public about difficult issues such as bereavement, murder, manslaughter."
Samm NI's report forms the basis of their submission to the ongoing Leveson Inquiry into media practices and is the result of research commissioned from the University of Ulster.
A spokesman for the University said: "This small-scale piece of research was concerned only with the experiences of the ten families interviewed and did not address the issue of whether NI needs a press ombudsman."
"That matter was not within the remit of the research and is an issue on which the University does not take a view."
Samm NI's volunteer co-ordinator and chair, Pam Surphlis, whose father Rev Eric Davidson and sister Judith were found murdered in his Cookstown home in 1992, said she wanted journalists to show more humanity in their dealings with victims.

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