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US missile defense shield to counter NKorea threat
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel speaks at the National Defense University at Fort McNair in Washington, Wednesday, April 3, 2013. Hagel warned of sharply deeper cuts to personnel, health care and weapons systems across his department, in order to put the brakes on spiraling costs and reshape the military for leaner budgets and new challenges. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel speaks at the National Defense University at Fort McNair in Washington, Wednesday, April 3, 2013. Hagel warned of sharply deeper cuts to personnel, health care and weapons systems across his department, in order to put the brakes on spiraling costs and reshape the military for leaner budgets and new challenges. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel speaks at the National Defense University at Fort McNair in Washington, Wednesday, April 3, 2013. Hagel warned of sharply deeper cuts to personnel, health care and weapons systems across his department, in order to put the brakes on spiraling costs and reshape the military for leaner budgets and new challenges. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? The Pentagon said Wednesday it was deploying a missile defense shield to Guam to protect the U.S. and its allies in the region in response to increasingly hostile rhetoric from North Korea. The North renewed its threat to launch a nuclear attack on the United States.
The threat issued by the General Staff of the Korean People's Army capped a week of psychological warfare and military muscle moves by both sides that have rattled the region.
On Wednesday, the Pentagon announced it will deploy a land-based, high-altitude missile defense system to Guam to strengthen the Asia-Pacific region's protections against a possible attack.
Pyongyang, for its part, said that America's ever-escalating hostile policy toward North Korea "will be smashed" by the North's nuclear strike and the "merciless operation" of its armed forces.
"The U.S. had better ponder over the prevailing grave situation," said the translated statement, which was issued before the Pentagon announced plans to send a missile defense shield to Guam.
The Pentagon had no immediate reaction to the latest statement, but earlier Wednesday Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel labeled North Korea's rhetoric as a real, clear danger and threat to the U.S. and its Asia-Pacific allies. And he said the U.S. is doing all it can to defuse the situation, echoing comments a day earlier by Secretary of State John Kerry.
"Some of the actions they've taken over the last few weeks present a real and clear danger and threat to the interests, certainly of our allies, starting with South Korea and Japan and also the threats that the North Koreans have leveled directly at the United States regarding our base in Guam, threatened Hawaii, threatened the West Coast of the United States," Hagel said.
He said he believes that the U.S. has had a "measured, responsible, serious responses to those threats."
Deployment of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense System is the latest step the U.S. has taken to bolster forces in the region in a far-reaching show of force aimed at countering the North Korean threat.
In recent months, North Korea has taken a series of actions Washington deemed provocative, including an underground nuclear test in February and a rocket launch in December that put a satellite into space and demonstrated mastery of some of the technologies needed to produce a long-range nuclear missile. Then, several weeks ago, the North threatened to pre-emptively attack the U.S.
In response, the Pentagon announced it would enhance missile defenses based on the U.S. West Coast, and it highlighted the deployment of B-52 and B-2 bombers, as well as two F-22 stealth fighters, to South Korea as part of an annual military exercise.
As the exchange of rhetoric grew, U.S. officials this week said the Navy would keep the USS Decatur, a destroyer armed with missile defense systems, near the Korean peninsula for an unspecified period of time. Another destroyer, the USS John S. McCain, was shifted to the waters off the southwest coast of the Korean peninsula.
Tensions have flared many times in the six decades since a truce halted the 1950-53 Korean War, but the stakes are higher now that a defiant North Korea appears to have moved closer to building a nuclear bomb that could not only threaten the South and other U.S. allies in Asia but possibly, one day, even reach U.S. territory.
Even without nuclear arms, the communist North poses enough artillery within range of Seoul to devastate large parts of the capital before U.S. and South Korea could fully respond. The U.S. has about 28,500 troops in the South, and it could call on an array of air, ground and naval forces to reinforce the peninsula from elsewhere in Asia and the Pacific.
U.S. officials have said that the Pentagon's military response to Pyongyang's threats has so far been aimed more at assuring South Korea and other allies in the region that America is committed to their security. U.S. military leaders also have said that despite the escalating rhetoric, they have seen nothing to suggest that North Korea is making any military moves to back up its threats.
Hagel told an audience at the National Defense University that there is a path to peace on the troubled Korean peninsula, but it doesn't include making nuclear threats or taking provocative actions.
The land-based THAAD missile defense system includes a truck-mounted launcher, tracking radar, interceptor missiles, and an integrated fire control system. The Pentagon said the system will boost defenses for American citizens in Guam, a U.S. territory, and U.S. forces stationed there.
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Senators change minds on same-sex unions.
After years of opposing redefining marriage to include unions between same-sex couples, a number of senators?most recently Illinois Republican Sen. Mark Kirk?have announced that they now support gay marriage.
Kirk, only the second Republican in the chamber to declare his support after Ohio Republican Sen. Rob Portman did so last month, said Tuesday that he now believes that the "government has no place in the middle" of two people who love each other.
Kirk's announcement, made in a statement posted on his website, arrived just hours after Delaware Democratic Sen. Tom Carper wrote on his Facebook page that after "a great deal of soul searching" he had concluded that "all Americans ultimately should be free to marry the people they love and intend to share their lives with, regardless of their sexual orientation."
Just a day before, Pennsylvania Democratic Sen. Bob Casey made his own declaration of support, following the lead of several Senate Democrats who over the last week or so endorsed same-sex marriage.
With Carper and Casey's announcements, only seven Senate Democrats still oppose same-sex marriage: Mark Pryor of Arkansas, Joe Donnelly of Indiana, Bill Nelson of Florida, Joe Manchin of West Virginia, Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, Mary Landrieu of Louisiana and Tim Johnson of South Dakota.
Pressure continues to build on the Democratic holdouts?many of whom face re-election battles next year. Liberal advocacy groups like MoveOn.org are currently conducting coordinated campaigns to sway the remaining senators.
Recent national surveys suggest that public opinion is swinging in favor of granting same-sex couples the legal right to marry. A national ABC News-Washington Post poll conducted last month found that 58 percent of Americans now support allowing same-sex marriage. Ten years ago, only 37 percent believed the government should recognize same-sex marriages. Last week the Supreme Court heard two cases on the subject, which addressed the constitutionality of a voter-approved measure that banned same-sex marriages in California and the Defense of Marriage Act.
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Meatless food for meat eaters | Food and More with John Kessler
Maybe we?ve evolved. Maybe we?ve just changed. We don?t eat this way because we?re trying to cut meat out of our diets; partial vegetarianism is our new normal.
So I?m guessing we no longer qualify as ?meat lovers? in the traditional sense. We?re certainly nothing like the fictional ?Mr. Sausage? whom my friend Kim O?Donnel had in mind when she wrote ?The Meat Lover?s Meatless Celebrations: Year-Round Vegetarian Feasts? (De Capo Lifelong Books, $18.99). Mr. Sausage is that dude who would laugh if you even mentioned the words ?kale salad.? As I envision him, he eats like Ron Swanson on ?Parks and Recreation? and he talks like Rocky Balboa.
The book is a follow-up to O?Donnel?s 2010 book ?The Meat Lover?s Meatless Cookbook: Vegetarian Recipes Carnivores Will Devour,? which was a cornerstone text for people who climbed on board the ?Meatless Monday? train.
O?Donnel ? a former Washington Post columnist who routinely posted Meatless Monday menus on that paper?s website ? was in town to teach a class at The Cook?s Warehouse, so I invited her over to the house to spend the afternoon shopping at Your DeKalb Farmers Market and cooking from her book.
The book is geared toward festive meals and get togethers. There are some simple recipes but many more that rise to the occasion, whether it?s a Super Bowl party, Thanksgiving or an Easter dinner. They can take a little more time than, say, that salad I dump everything into.
We decide to modify her recipe for lentil ?meatball? subs ? losing the hoagie rolls and cheese, but keeping the ?meatballs? and marinara sauce.
It?s a good thing we had the afternoon, because the meatballs are a bit of a project, albeit an easy and fun one. You cook brown rice and lentils separately, let them cool and mash them together with all the typical meatballs seasonings. You then shape and refrigerate the balls, fry them in batches, then keep them warm in the oven while you assemble the meal. You end up with a tender, full-of-flavor meatball with a fantastic crisp crust.
And when these ?meatballs? come to the table, they taste nothing like clean-out-the-fridge tofu surprise. They are cause for celebration. Ron Swanson, I?m inviting you over.
Lentil ?Meatballs? with Marinara
(adapted from ?The Meat Lover?s Meatless Celebrations? by Kim O?Donnel) Total time: About 2 hours Hands on: 45 minutes Servings: 6- 6 3/4 cups water
- 1/2 cup uncooked medium or long-grain brown rice
- 1 cup dried brown or green lentils
- 5 garlic cloves ? 2 whole, 3 minced
- 2 tablespoons olive oil plus 1/2 cup for panfrying
- 3/4 cup onion that has been very finely minced or grated using a box grater (about 1 medium sized onion)
- 3 teaspoons dried oregano
- 1 (23- to 28-ounce) container tomato puree
- 1/2 cup finely grated Parmigiano Reggiano cheese (or pecorino)
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 1/4 cup unseasoned medium-grind breadcrumbs
- 1 egg, lightly beaten
Bring 3/4 cup of the water to a boil, then add the rice. Return to a boil, lower the heat to a simmer, cover and cook until the water is absorbed and the rice is tender, 40-45 minutes. Off the heat, keep the rice covered for 5 minutes. Measure out 1/2 cup of the cooked rice and transfer to a baking sheet or plate to cool completely. Refrigerate the remaining 1 cup of rice for another use.
While the rice is cooking, prepare the lentils. Place the lentils in a large saucepan, along with the 2 whole garlic cloves and the remaining 6 cups of the water. Over high heat, bring to a boil, then lower the heat to medium. Cook the lentils until tender, 30 to 40 minutes. Drain thoroughly so that the lentils are dry. Allow to cool completely.
While the lentils cook, prepare the marinara sauce. In a medium-size saucepan, heat 2 tablespoons of the olive oil over medium heat, then add 1/4 cup of the onion and the 3 minced garlic cloves, cooking until slightly softened, about 3 minutes. Add 1 teaspoon of the dried oregano and stir occasionally to minimize sticking.
Add the tomato puree and stir to combine the mixture. Bring to a boil, then lower the heat so the sauce can simmer. Cover and cook for about 20 minutes. Keep warm until ready to serve.
Place the cooled lentils and garlic in the bowl of a food processor and pulse until the lentils are mashed. (Or use a potato masher.) Transfer the mixture to a large mixing bowl, then add the cooled rice, the remaining 1/2 cup of onion, the remaining 2 tablespoons of oregano, and the grated cheese, salt, black pepper, bread crumbs and egg.
With a wooden spoon or rubber spatula, stir the mixture until well mixed.
Using a 1/8-cup measure, shape into balls. They will be slightly sticky to the touch. Refrigerate for 20 minutes.
Preheat the oven to 325 degrees.
Over medium-high heat, heat 1/4 cup of the olive oil in a 10- or 12-inch skillet until the oil shimmers. Gently lower the balls into the hot oil, cooking in batches and making sure not to crowd the pan, as they are somewhat delicate and benefit from space. Lower the heat to medium and panfry on first side for about 3 minutes. Turn (or gently nudge) to second side and cook for 2 minutes.
Transfer the first batch to a baking sheet add the remaining 1/4 cup of olive oil to the skillet for subsequent batches and cook in the same manner. Transfer the balls to the oven to finish cooking about 5 minutes; the balls will still be somewhat soft to the touch but will have dried out a bit and will have a slightly crispy coating.
Place the warm marinara in the bottom of a wide bowl and arrange the ?meatballs? on top.
Per serving: 482 calories (percent of calories from fat, 48), 17 grams protein, 47 grams carbohydrates, 13 grams fiber, 27 grams fat (5 grams saturated), 41 milligrams cholesterol, 968 milligrams sodium.
- by John Kessler for the Food & More blog
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SEC: Companies can share business data on social media
When Netflix CEO Reed Hastings took to Facebook last year to announce that the service had exceeded one billion viewing hours in a month for the first time, the financial world was in uproar. After all, there are rules and regulations concerning when sensitive data about a company's successes and failures can be made public. Since then, however, the Securities and Exchange Commission has done some thinking, and in trying to keep up with social savvy CEOs like Hastings and compulsive tweeter Elon Musk, has ruled that such disclosures can be made, as long as shareholders are notified about which sites will be used. If nothing else, it'd be a great way to see your follower count explode.
Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/04/03/sec-issues-social-media-disclosure-guide/
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A Tiny Wacom Stylus Is a Perfect Phone Companion (If You Don't Lose It)
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Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Penguins captain Sidney Crosby out of hospital
PITTSBURGH (AP) ? Pittsburgh Penguins captain Sidney Crosby is out of the hospital after breaking his jaw Saturday.
The Penguins confirmed on their Twitter account Tuesday that Crosby had been released a day earlier. He will be out of the lineup indefinitely after undergoing surgery.
Crosby was hurt in the first period of the Penguins' 2-0 win over the New York Islanders when he was struck in the mouth by a puck from a deflected shot.
The Eastern Conference-leading Penguins, with 15 straight wins, play their first game without Crosby on Tuesday night at home against Buffalo.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/penguins-captain-sidney-crosby-hospital-175653307--nhl.html
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