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Even though we all have the best intentions of eating health during the holidays, we all know that baking creative and yummy desserts is such a fun thing to do, whether it's a fun batch of cookies or various rich and creamy treats. Luckily, you don't always have to sacrifice health for flavor and decadence. We've rounded up 22 delicious treats, many of them vegan, for you to have your pick from. Enjoy!
Rahim Mashaie is one of the figures closest to the president in the Iranian government. This was emphasised earlier this year when his daughter married Ahmadinejad's son.
A senior official said the Islamic Republic was friendly to the Jewish state's people, a news agency reported.
Esfandiyar Rahim Masha'i, a vice-president in charge of tourism and cultural affairs, also reached out to people in the United States in his speech.
"Today Iran is friendly with the peoples of America and Israel," he told a tourism fair in Tehran, the Fars News Agency reported.
Iranian officials often distinguish between the governments and peoples of the countries with which it differs. Iran does not give visas to visitors if their passport has an Israeli stamp.
"No people in the world is our enemy and this is a source of pride," said Rahim-Masha'i. "We regard the people of America to be of highest ranking in the world."
His comments come at a time of tension between Iran and the West over its nuclear programme, sparking speculation of a military confrontation. Israel has threatened to strike Iran and has staged an air drill, raising speculation it was preparing for an attack.
Ahmadinejad has repeatedly said that Iran is ready to talk to all countries except the "Zionist regime", Tehran's usual description for Israel.
"An unexpected statement: Mashaie talks about friendship with the people of Israel?!" was the headline on the conservative Tabnak news website.
The website said it was all the more surprising he had made the comment when much of Ahmadinejad's popularity in the Arab world stems from his hostility towards Israel and the United States.
She shed, man cave, haven of tranquillity, party room – garden rooms are popping up in homes all around the country. Installing a standalone space in your own backyard can unlock a wealth of possibilities.
Garden rooms are delightfully flexible – you can join the growing ranks of home workers, pursue your hobbies in peace, lounge in leisure, send the kids to play and teens to party there, or even install a fitness suite or home cinema. “A garden room is a bonus for the house, so it should be something really special,” says Joe Ashton, senior architect at Gpad London.
Some 40 per cent of all garden rooms are sold as office pods and another 40 per cent for extra living space, research compiled by Modern Garden Rooms shows. One in four people confess they use one as a handy getaway from the family. And the good news is that, within certain limits, garden rooms generally don’t need planning permission.
The new garden room within the grounds of the Women’s Institute’s (WI’s) centre for learning at Denman College in Oxfordshire is the “jewel in the crown”, says Pat Tulip, a vice chair at the National Federation of Women’s Institutes.
So what do you need to consider before buying and building? Here’s everything you need to know.
While the WI, with 100 acres of grounds, was spoiled for choice on where to build its garden room, many householders need to plan carefully. New owners need to think about how far away it should be from the house.
“A study retreat where quiet is needed may be placed as far as possible from the main part of the home so it feels isolated, whereas a social room might need to feel more like an annex to the house,” says Ashton.
Garden rooms, with large expanses of window, need to make the most of natural light. Could you get sunset views? Would you prefer morning sunshine? Should you make the most of shade from trees?
“Consider the path the sun takes across your garden and what you’re going to use it for,” says Protea Gardens director Nathan Gamba. “One size doesn’t fit all.” Positioning the largest window facing south or west will allow the most natural light. And it shouldn’t dominate your garden, says Gamba, or restrict usable space. “It’s useful to lay out the space to help you visualise how much you might need.
Garden rooms don’t usually require planning if they meet certain requirements, but you will need permission within a listed or conservation area. They mustn’t be placed on raised platforms, nor include verandas or balconies without permission.
If it’s within 2m of the property boundary, it should be no higher than 2.5m. While you can use your room as an office, you can’t cause any increase in traffic or disturbance from deliveries or visitors – so you couldn’t turn it into a shop, for instance. Nor should it be a self-contained living area – if in doubt contact local planning offices.
Most suppliers recommend installing a garden room on a concrete base or paving slabs. Everest makes the bases for its garden rooms even more secure by screwing them onto posts that have been sunken into the ground.
Installing electricity will make a garden room far more flexible. With luck, you will locate a space which offers a clear, safe route for electrical cables. “Running services to the end of a long garden may be prohibitively expensive,” says Ashton.
Garden rooms are becoming increasingly popular, market research shows, and analysts expect our taste for them will continue. Installing a new space is a fairly safe financial decision – homeowners can expect to recoup at least 75 per cent of the costs incurred, according to Modern Garden Rooms.
EXCLUSIVE: Former military, law enforcement officials and scientists have teamed up to try to get the "truth" about UFOs out there.
An organisation created by the former insiders aims to carry out top-level research into the search for answers to the UFO mystery.
The Scientific Coalition for Ufology (SCU) formally launched this month.
In a statement, the group said it "hopes to bring the discipline and rigour of scientific analysis to the study of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs), also known as Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs).
It added: "A group of scientists, former military and law enforcement officials and other professionals, many of whom have decades of experience looking into UAPs, believe there are many unanswered questions, and that a serious examination is warranted."
Rich Hoffman, SCU board member, said: “SCU is composed of serious, dedicated, researchers who do not merely gloss over this subject, but rather they dive into it, investigate it broadly, remain objective and apply the scientific method and its principles to the study.
Mr Hoffman is an IT professional and a senior engineer at US Army Materiel Command, at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama, who has been researching UAPs since 1964.
The Army Materiel Command is involved in research and development of weapons systems for the US Army.
Fellow board member Robert Powell said: “It is important that there exists a scientific organisation that examines the UFO phenomenon in a scientific and open minded manner.
"There is too much silliness associated with this topic when the core reality of the phenomenon has potentially real implications for society.
Mr Powell is retired from a career as a research and development lab and engineering manager. For several years he served as the director of research and chair of the scientific board for an international volunteer UFO research organisation.
He added: “Ultimately we want to determine whether intelligent life exists elsewhere and whether it has visited our planet.
The SCU was first brought together as an impromptu group of researchers organised to examine a mysterious video captured by Homeland Security over Aguadilla, Puerto Rico.
The group spent months looking into the technical aspects of the video and researching its provenance.
The SCO statement added: "In the end, it remains a controversial case, and one which the group could not solve.
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SCU is composed of serious, dedicated, researchers who do not merely gloss over this subject, but rather they dive into it, investigate it broadly, remain objective and apply the scientific method and its principles to the study.
"They continue to examine this case, and felt it would be helpful to bring in more professionals to put the same level of scrutiny to bear on other UFO cases, and to facilitate peer review of research papers on the topic."
Mr Hoffman added: "Our hope is that other scientists and professionals who also have a desire that may be developing, or has laid dormant, will connect with us, become an affiliate, and lend us their intellect and their interest in finding the best approach to the scientific study of this phenomenon.
Earlier this month former Blink 182 front man Tom DeLonge launched a similar UFO organisation.
His Academy to the Stars is made up of former US Government and military officials.
There already exists the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), based in the US, which is the world's largest organisation dedicated to UFO and alien investigation.
An there is also the Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS), which was created by Dr J Allen Hynek, the former consultant to the US Air Force’s official UFO studies from 1947 to 1969.
The SCU statement added: "The SCU has already made inroads with Academy to the Stars and others around the world in an effort to coalesce serious research of UAPs."
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Mr Hoffman added: “Our team of scientists and professionals is growing.
“We believe that the minds we bring together can help us solve the mystery.
"We have already put to use the team approach to study the Aguadilla, Puerto Rico case and are applying this in our study of a luminous phenomenon in Cloverdale, Alabama.
"It is through the reach-back to qualified scientists and professionals that we aim to do a better job of actually studying this phenomenon scientifically.
The SCU mission abstract is to: "Conduct, promote and encourage rigorous scientific examination of UAP and UFO sightings."
Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski, the Communist President of Poland, today expressed willingness to give up his office to a freely elected successor, perhaps as soon as this year.
General Jaruzelski's statement clears the way for Poland to hold its first fully free elections for both the presidency and Parliament.
A scenario now being widely discussed by both the Government and its critics calls for a election campaign this fall, with the Solidarity chairman, Lech Walesa, expected to be a leading candidate.
For the last year, General Jaruzelski has played a somewhat mysterious role in the Polish equation. His publicly announced calendar is a succession of ceremonial meetings and overseas travel. He seems to have little role in the conduct of Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki's Government.
Nonetheless, the man who imposed martial law on Dec. 13, 1981, suspending Solidarity as a free trade union, has earned some grudging respect for his role in easing the transformation from Communism. In particular, Poles credit him with keeping the army neutral as the Communists gave up power.
General Jaruzelski's remarks about his future came in an interview with Polish television on the first anniversary of his taking office. He became President in an agreement that gave Solidarity members control of the Prime Minister's post while the Communists retained the presidency and the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Interior.
With President Jaruzelski watching, Mr. Mazowiecki announced this month that he was replacing the defense and interior ministers with his own choices.
Separately, he declared his support for free elections to Parliament and the presidency, possibly sooner than his previously suggested date of this May.
Until now, General Jaruzelski has not responded publicly to the Prime Minister's speech, which amounted to a demand that he resign and make way for an elected successor.
General Jaruzelski owes his presidency to Solidarity. Under the agreement with the Communists, free elections were held last year for only 35 percent of the seats in Parliament. All but one of the races were won by Solidarity candidates, who in turn helped General Jaruzelski narrowly win a vote in Parliament for a seven-year term that expires in 1996.
All of this took place before the tumultous events in East Germany brought down the Berlin Wall, beginning a chain reaction of revolutions that led to free elections in every country in Eastern Europe save Poland.
That result has caused considerable disquiet here, and the political alliance most strongly supporting Mr. Walesa for President has claimed as its slogan ''acceleration'' of the transition to democracy.
What this means, they say, is the ouster of former Communists from positions in Government and industry and the immediate election by Parliament of Mr. Walesa as President.
The pressure from Mr. Walesa and this group is clearly being felt by Mr. Mazowiecki, a former Solidarity ally of Mr. Walesa who was picked by Mr. Walesa for his position in the Government.
Earlier this year, when Mr. Walesa first began talking about running for President, Government officials said that General Jaruzelski was stung by the harsh comments attributed to Mr. Walesa's chief aide.
President Jaruzelski is said to arrive at work very early each morning to read through huge stacks of newspapers from all around the country. He then meets frequently with groups of students and visiting dignitaries.
On July 14, for example, he spoke with the visiting mayor of the Swiss community of Solothurn. That is where Tadeusz Kosciuszko, the 18th century Polish hero, died. The next day, General Jaruzelski read the text at a ceremony commemorating Poland's triumph over the Teutonic Knights in the Battle of Grunwald.
A collaboration between Rush University Medical Center and Cook County health officials has dramatically reduced the spread of the superbug known as CRE, a potentially deadly antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
A cleaning protocol developed by Rush and county researchers to fight CRE — carbapenem-resistant enterobacteriaceae — cut the number of cases of the superbug by 50 percent in hospitals where it was tested, according to the Cook County Health and Hospitals System.
Regularly cleaning patients diagnosed with CRE with a special antiseptic wipe and having their doctors wear gowns and gloves during visits reduced the bug’s spread and the risk of infection, said Dr. Robert Weinstein, an infectious disease specialist with the county health system.
CRE typically causes urinary-tract infections but can be deadly if the infection spreads to the bloodstream, killing up to half those infected, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Weinstein is the lead principal investigator for the CDC’s Chicago Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Prevention Epicenter, tasked with developing ways to fight antibiotic-resistant bacteria like MRSA, CRE and C. diff.
CRE is among three antibiotic-resistant bacterial threats the CDC has labeled urgent — its highest ranking. The CDC estimates there are about 9,300 CRE infections in the country a year. A little over 600 of those infected die.
The protocol was tested over three years at four long-term, acute care hospitals, which have higher rates of CRE infection, Weinstein said.
The CDC also worked with the Illinois Department of Public Health to put together a database tracking patients diagnosed with CRE, so doctors who treat them are alerted to use extra precautions.
The next step is to determine other health care facilities that could be spreading CRE and test the precautions further, Jernigan said.
“The biggest concern is the lack of antibiotics in the pipeline that would be active against some of these more resistant bugs,” Weinstein said.
The country’s largest outbreak of CRE was in the Chicago area last year. The CDC identified 44 cases, 38 of them at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge.
Lutheran General began using a highly toxic gas called EtO to sterilize hard-to-clean instruments in October 2013 and has had no new cases since then.
The financial services industry’s need to stay connected in a global economy and the increased adoption of cyber insurance are waylaying security efforts.
This is despite the fact that the banking industry is one of the most popular targets for cyber criminals, according to the 2015 Financial Services Drill-Down Report from security firm Websense.
The requirement for businesses in financial services to maintain a real-time connection to the global economy has impaired certain logical security precautions, the Websense report said.
A study cited recently by The Wall Street Journal found that, while 90% of banks encrypt transmitted data, only 38% encrypt data at rest – and 30% of the banks surveyed did not require multifactor authentication for third-party suppliers.
One Fortune 500 bank admitted that several of its servers had not been patched for the Heartbleed vulnerability, because patching these servers would break continuity with several European banks that have not yet upgraded their systems – and this would disrupt operations.
“That shows the struggle and pressure many financial services organisations are facing, to maintain the availability of service while needing to adopt security best practice – but then finding that those are at odds with each other,” said Carl Leonard, principal security analyst at Websense.
The Websense report said this is compounded by the fact that cyber security insurance may be providing a sense of false security and some banks with such policies are not fixing their security problems, relying on their policies as financial liability risk management.
The report points out this assumption is flawed because cyber security insurance is limited in its coverage, and only partially limits the financial impact of a worst-case cyber attack scenario.
“Addressing the root causes of cyber risks through best practice – rather than relying on insurance – is something financial institutions should address if they fall into this category,” said Leonard.
The Websense report confirmed the financial services sector is the most-targeted industry sector, experiencing three times as many security incidents as others. Hackers most seek user credentials, personal data and account information.
“This sector offers cyber criminals rich pickings, because financial services typically hold client information – and they are where the money resides,” said Leonard.
“The Websense data shows that financial services firms are under duress and they have lots to deal with in terms of the volume and complexity of attacks,” he said.
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