These Protein Bars Are Made Of Crickets

If I had a truly sophisticated palate and open mind I wouldn't even blink when I read that there was cricket flour in my granola bar. But I am unrefined and simple. The idea of a cricket bar makes me simultaneously concerned and curious. For some reason I feel like "slow roasted and milled crickets" could be good.

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DepEd to review deal with Chinese telecom firm over US espionage charges

By Dona Z. Pazzibugan
Philippine Daily Inquirer

3:31 pm | Saturday, August 3rd, 2013

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MANILA, Philippines? ? Finding out about the latest allegations of espionage against the Chinese telecommunications company Huawei Technologies Co. has prompted the Department of Education to reconsider its acceptance of a ?cloud-based? computer network system donated by the company to the department recently.

DepEd formally accepted Huawei?s donation of 50 computer units operating on a ?cloud-based? virtual desktop infrastructure system last July 26 when Education Secretary Br. Armin Luistro signed an agreement with Huawei Philippines executives. The system was to be installed at the DepEd?s main office within the month.

(?Cloud? is another term for the Internet and cloud-computing, which simply means that one stores information in the Internet instead of in the hard drive of a computer.)

DepEd was unaware, however, that a week before the signing of the agreement, a former head of the US Central Intelligence Agency, Michael Hayden, told the Australian Financial Review that Huawei had spied for the Chinese government.

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China bans New Zealand milk powder imports on botulism scare: NZ trade min

By Naomi Tajitsu

WELLINGTON | Sun Aug 4, 2013 5:23am EDT

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - China has halted imports of all milk powder from New Zealand and Australia, New Zealand's trade minister said on Sunday, after bacteria that can cause botulism found in some dairy products raised food safety concerns that threatened its $9.4 billion annual dairy trade.

Global dairy giant Fonterra identified eight companies to which it had sold contaminated New Zealand-made whey protein concentrate, exported to China, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand and Saudi Arabia and used in products including infant milk powder.

Nearly 90 percent of China's $1.9 billion in milk powder imports last year originated in New Zealand and economists said a prolonged ban could produce a shortage of dairy products in China, including foreign-branded infant formula.

Australia was caught up in the ban after some of the contaminated whey protein concentrate was exported there before being sent on to China and elsewhere.

"The authorities in China, in my opinion absolutely appropriately, have stopped all imports of New Zealand milk powders from Australia and New Zealand," New Zealand Trade Minister Tim Groser told Television New Zealand.

While there was no official word of a ban from Chinese authorities, China's consumer watchdog named four companies that had imported potentially contaminated products from Fonterra.

In a statement on its website, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine identified the companies as Dumex Baby Food Co., Ltd, a subsidiary of France's Danone, two subsidiaries of Wahaha Group, one of the largest beverage manufacturers in China, and the state-owned Shanghai Sugar, Tobacco and Alcohol company.

Fonterra, a big supplier of wholesale dairy ingredients to multinational food and beverage companies, also said that Coca Cola's Chinese subsidiary and animal feed companies in New Zealand and Australia had also been affected.

The State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA), in an announcement on its website, said it had told representatives from Hangzhou Wahaha, Dumex and Coca Cola China to stop sales of potentially contaminated products and recall any outstanding product lines with possible contamination as soon as possible.

Some of China's biggest food and beverage firms are said to be customers of Fonterra.

Fonterra is a major supplier of bulk milk powder products used in infant formula in China but it had stayed out of the branded space after Chinese dairy company Sanlu, in which it had held a large stake, was found to have added melamine - often used in plastics - to bulk up formulas in 2008.

More than six children died in the industry-wide scandal and hundreds became ill. Foreign-branded infant formula has since become a prized commodity in China.

The latest scare coincided with global dairy prices hovering near record highs as supply struggles to keep up with growing demand from emerging countries. A ban on New Zealand products was seen pushing overall prices higher in the near term.

Economists said domestically produced Chinese dairy supplies were at low levels and Beijing's ban on imports from New Zealand and Australia would tighten supplies on the consumer market.

"Domestic production in China has been fairly weak, so potentially there could be a shortage of product for a while," ANZ economist Con Williams told Reuters. He said China would in the meantime likely turn to the United States and Europe.

BANS, RECALLS

Other countries also were reportedly halting imports and ordering recalls of New Zealand-made dairy products.

Russia suspended imports and circulation of Fonterra products, ITAR-TASS news agency said on Saturday, quoting consumer watchdog Rospotrebnadzor. Media reports said Thailand had ordered a recall of Fonterra products imported since May.

In New Zealand, Nutricia, a division of Danone, recalled some types of infant formulas sold under the Karicare brand.

The bacteria behind the latest scare, Clostridium Botulinum, is often found in soil. The Fonterra case was caused by a dirty pipe at a processing plant.

It can cause botulism, a potentially fatal disease that affects the muscles and can cause respiratory problems. Infant botulism can attack the intestinal system.

This is the second contamination issue involving Fonterra this year. In January, it found traces of dicyandiamde, a potentially toxic chemical, in some of its products.

China has started to tighten dairy import regulations to improve overall food safety. Beijing has introduced regulations restricting the operations of smaller infant formula brands.

Williams at ANZ said it would be a major concern if more countries banned New Zealand dairy imports as dairy accounts for roughly 25 percent of exports - NZ$12 billion in the past year.

Federated Farmers Dairy Chairman Willy Leferink told Reuters he was "extremely concerned" about the impact on the industry.

"Food safety is paramount to New Zealand so this is the last thing anybody wants," he said.

($1 = 1.2767 New Zealand dollars)

(Additional reporting by Lincoln Feast in Sydney and Pete Sweeney in Shanghai; Editing by Paul Tait and Ron Popeski)

Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/04/us-newzealand-milk-idUSBRE97301K20130804?feedType=RSS&feedName=healthNews

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Positive Tests for Doping Are Hurting the ?Legitimacy? of the Track ...

Last week news broke that American Tyson Gay and Jamaican Asafa Powell tested positive for ?banned substances?. Articles like this from Philip Hersh in the Chicago Tribune declared that doping was ?killing track and field?. I thoroughly enjoy most of Hersh?s work that discusses Track and Field but disagree that positive tests for doping are hurting the ?legitimacy? of the sport. Although other writers echoed similar sentiments, I chose Hersh as an example since the running website Letsrun.com often links his articles on their front page.

Doping is only one of a myriad of issues facing the sport right now but that will be addressed later. As we are in the latter stages of the Tour de France, and the most well-renown cheat in the history of cycling comes from the United States, one has to ask whether doping has adversely affected the popularity of cycling. Judging by the maniacs running alongside the bikers and the huge fanfare along the roads, I would venture out and say that it has not hampered the sport significantly.

Look at baseball which ?suffered? from the steroid era. Is attendance at games down because people think that the players might be cheating? Doubtful. Until the past year or so I could never understand why people go to baseball games on Sunday afternoons when it is boiling hot outside to sit around for a few hours. The answer is deceivingly simple: to drink beer with friends. I?m sure I am about to infuriate baseball fans but it is honestly one of the more boring sports to sit down and watch unless you are at the game. I?ve even dragged myself to the Birmingham minor league baseball team?s games on Thursdays at the prospect of cheap beer. My observations during those games? Nobody is watching. They are too engrossed in chatting with friends to pay attention. I am not saying that this holds true for everyone in attendance at baseball games but merely that the steroid era did not affect why people continue to still love the sport. It brings an entertainment value and makes you want to spend your money to go.

Track, however, suffers from the double hit of the best athletes taking drugs and struggling to bring entertainment to the casual fan who may have never heard of Tyson Gay. Due to the marketing machine he is, almost everyone has heard of Usain Bolt. I?ve been involved in Track for over a decade now and most of my family have no idea who Tyson Gay is. That?s partially my fault for not educating them but it?s also that Track struggles mightily to bring attention to normal Americans. That it ever will is unlikely due to the competition with the other major sports. Even then, any sort of recognition must be better than the headline of ?Another American T/F athlete busted for doping?. If we cannot, then Track and Field will go the opposite way of the Tour and MLB and permanently lose its credibility.

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Background of Iranian presidential candidates

A look at the six candidates in Iran's presidential election Friday. Two others ? parliament member Gholam Ali Haddad Adel and former Vice President Mohammad Reza Aref ? withdrew earlier this week.

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SAEED JALILI: Iran's top nuclear negotiator since 2007 and considered a hardliner. Jalili, 47, is believed to have backing from many in the ruling theocracy, including possibly Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. He also gained the support of ultraconservative cleric Ayatollah Mohammad Taghi Mesbah Yazdi, who was previously seen as the spiritual mentor of outgoing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

At campaign stops, Jalili's slogan was chanted by supporters: No compromise; no submission. Jalili also is often hailed as a "living martyr" because of losing part of his right leg in 1980-88 war with Iraq.

He worked as a university lecturer before joining the Foreign Ministry in 1989, where he rose in the ranks until his appointment in 2001 as a senior policy adviser in Khamenei's office. He later served as an adviser to Ahmadinejad and deputy foreign minister for European and American Affairs. He took over the important nuclear negotiator role in 2007 ? in a move that surprised even some Iranian hard-liners for his rapid rise.

A U.S. diplomatic cable at the time ? part of the documents made public by WikiLeaks ? interpreted the decision as "a move to forestall any compromises on the nuclear issue." Another cable in January 2008 noted that a European Union official described Jalili as unbending, dogmatic and "a true product of the Iranian Revolution."

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HASAN ROWHANI: A former nuclear negotiator and close ally of former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who was blocked from the ballot by Iran's election overseers. Rowhani, 64, is the only cleric among the candidates and viewed as a relative moderate. He has drawn support from reformist leaders after a rival, former Vice President Mohammad Reza Aref, dropped out of the race in attempts to consolidate the liberal-leaning camp.

Rowhani started religious studies at a teenager and soon established himself as an outspoken opponent of the Western-backed shah, traveling frequently for anti-monarchy speeches and sermons that caught the attention of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the eventual leader of the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

Rowhani graduated from Tehran University with a law degree in 1972. He then says he went abroad to Glasgow Caledonian University for a master's degree in legal affairs. After the revolution, Rowhani rose quickly with various roles, including reorganizing the military, serving in the new parliament and overseeing the state broadcaster. He strengthened his ties to Rafsanjani during the 1980-88 war with Iraq and, later, as Rafsanjani's top national security adviser during his 1989-97 terms.

Rowhani took over the nuclear portfolio in 2003, a year after Iran's 20-year-old nuclear program was revealed. Iran later temporarily suspended all uranium enrichment-related activities to avoid possible sanctions from the U.N. Security Council.

Ahmadinejad strongly opposed any such concessions. Rowhani resigned as nuclear negotiator and head of the Supreme National Security Council after a few testy postelection meetings with Ahmadinejad.

At campaign rallies, Rowhani has pledged to seek "constructive interaction with the world" that includes efforts to ease Western concerns about Iran's program and lift punishing international sanctions that have pummeled the economy.

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MOHAMMAD BAGHER QALIBAF: Tehran mayor and former commander of the Revolutionary Guard during the Iran-Iraq war.

Qalibaf, 51, has built a reputation as a dynamic leader for a host of quality-of-life projects around Iran's capital including parks, expanded subways lines and highways. But he also has faced accusations that he took part in crackdowns against student protesters in 1999 while with the Guard and, four years later, allegedly ordered a full-scale assault to crush another flare-up of student unrest.

Like many Iranian leaders of his generation, Qalibaf got his footholds in power during the 1980-88 war with Iraq.

Qalibaf was a Revolutionary Guard commander and later appointed to run one of the Guard's main economic conglomerates. He was appointed as the Guard's air force commander in 1997 despite not being a flier, but later received his license and now sometimes pilots passenger planes.

He was named head of Iran's police forces in the shakeup after the 1999 Tehran University riots, which marked one of the first major displays of dissent against Iran's ruling clerics.

Qalibaf also brings a rare element in Iran's macho politics: A high-profile wife who has carved out her own political identity.

Zahra Sadat Moshiri, a former professor of social sciences at Tehran's Sharif University of Technology, has served as Qalibaf's adviser on women's affairs for Tehran. She has hosted many conferences on women's issues, including some that reflect her views about balancing Islamic traditions with needs to advance women's roles on all levels including politics.

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ALI AKBAR VELAYATI: Top adviser to Supreme Leader Khamenei on international affairs. Velayati, 67, served as foreign minister during the 1980-88 war with Iraq and into the 1990s. He was among the suspects named by Argentina in a 1994 bombing of a Jewish center in Buenos Aires that killed 85 people.

Velayati received a degree in pediatric medicine at Tehran University in the 1960s and later studied at Johns Hopkins University. After the 1979 Islamic Revolution, he shifted into politics as a member of the first parliament and deputy health minister.

Velayati was proposed by Khamenei ? who was then president ? to become the first prime minister. He was rejected by parliament and the post went to Mir Hossein Mousavi, who led the reform-minded Green Movement in the president election in 2009 and is now under house arrest for taking part in massive protests claiming the vote was rigged in favor of Ahmadinejad.

Under Mousavi's government the early 1980s, Velayati was appointed foreign minister at a time when Iran's Islamic rulers were seeking to build new ties with the world. He held the post until 1997 and later became a senior international policy adviser to Khamenei. In a speech earlier this month, Velayati opened the door ? just a bit ? for better relations with Washington.

"Iran will ... interact with the world, not with those who are expansionist and not those who, like the U.S., rattle sabers against the Islamic Republic," he said.

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MOHSEN REZAEI: Former chief commander of the Revolutionary Guard. Rezaei, 58, ran in 2009, but finished fourth. He currently is secretary of the Expediency Council, which mediates between the parliament and Guardian Council. Rezaei is also charged by Argentina for the Buenos Aires bombing.

Rezaei was a key member of an underground Islamic guerrilla group fighting the U.S.-backed shah in the 1970s and protecting leaders such Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. After the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Rezaei became chief commander of the Revolutionary Guard near the beginning of the 1980-88 war with Saddam Hussein's Iraq, which was then backed by Washington.

After stepping down from the Guard in the mid-1990s, he retained a prominent role as secretary of the Expediency Council, a group that mediates any disputes between the ruling clerics and parliament and serves as an advisory body for Khamenei.

In late 2011, Rezaei's son was found dead in a Dubai hotel room. Ahmad Rezaei had spent years in the U.S. as an outspoken critic of Iran's Islamic rulers, including claiming he had firsthand knowledge about Tehran's involvement in the Buenos Aires blast. The death was investigated as a suicide, but opened a flood of unsupported speculation in Iran over possible hit squads.

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MOHAMMAD GHARAZI: A former oil and telecommunications minister. Gharazi, 71, also served in parliament in the 1980s and '90s. He is considered conservative and portrays himself as a steady-handed technocrat.

Gharazi was part of part of the anti-shah forced in exile before the Islamic Revolution. He then joined parliament and was later appointed to the influential position of oil minister. He was named the minister of post in 1985 and held the job until 1997. He later served on the Tehran city council.

His campaign has focused on Iran's sanctions-wracked economy.

"A global definition says that low inflation and high employment figures are what make an administration popular," he said earlier this month. "Balanced inflation and employment rates are also acceptable. But a high inflation and a low employment rate are the features of an inefficient administration."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/background-iranian-presidential-candidates-102458935.html

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Lawyers rail at police response to Turkey protests

A masked protester is backdropped by a Turkish flag near a barricade on the edge of Gezi Park, in Istanbul, Turkey, Wednesday, June 12, 2013. Riot police fired tear gas, water cannon and rubber bullets in day-long clashes that lasted into the early hours Wednesday, battling protesters who have been occupying Istanbul's central Taksim Square and its adjacent Gezi Park in the country's most severe anti-government protests in decades.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

A masked protester is backdropped by a Turkish flag near a barricade on the edge of Gezi Park, in Istanbul, Turkey, Wednesday, June 12, 2013. Riot police fired tear gas, water cannon and rubber bullets in day-long clashes that lasted into the early hours Wednesday, battling protesters who have been occupying Istanbul's central Taksim Square and its adjacent Gezi Park in the country's most severe anti-government protests in decades.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

A man runs carrying fire extinguishers past a burning van during clashes at the Taksim Square in Istanbul Tuesday, June 11, 2013. Hundreds of police in riot gear forced through barricades in the square early Tuesday, pushing many of the protesters who had occupied the square for more than a week into a nearby park. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Police guard the monument of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, founder of the modern Turkey, at the Taksim Square in Istanbul, Turkey, early Wednesday, June 12, 2013. Riot police fired tear gas, water cannon and rubber bullets in day-long clashes that lasted into the early hours Wednesday, battling protesters who have been occupying the square and its adjacent Gezi Park in the country's most severe anti-government protests in decades. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

A protester records a video with his cellphone in front of a burning barricade during clashes in Taksim square in Istanbul, Tuesday, June 11, 2013. Hundreds of riot police overran improvised barricades at Istanbul's Taksim Square on Tuesday, firing tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannons in running battles with protesters who have been occupying the area for more than a week. (AP Photo/Kostas Tsironis)

Ambulances stand by to evacuate injured protesters after riot police flooded the Gazi Park with tear gas during clashes at the Taksim Square in Istanbul Tuesday, June 11, 2013. Hundreds of police in riot gear forced through barricades in the square early Tuesday, pushing many of the protesters who had occupied the square for more than a week into a nearby park. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) ? Thousands of black-robed Turkish lawyers stormed out of their courthouses Wednesday, shouting about the alleged rough treatment of their colleagues by police amid the country's biggest anti-government protests in years.

The rallies by clapping, chanting jurists added a new twist to the nearly two weeks of protests that started in Istanbul and spread to dozens of other Turkish cities. The protests have shaped up as the biggest test yet in the 10-year rule of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Islamic-rooted government.

The embattled premier hosted talks with a small group of activists Wednesday afternoon in a bid to end the standoff, though critics in the streets said the 11-person delegation wasn't representative of the protesters ? and insisted it wouldn't end the showdown.

Meanwhile, police and protesters retrenched after fierce overnight clashes in Istanbul's Taksim Square. The protesters say the prime minister is becoming increasingly authoritarian and is trying to force his deep religious views on all Turks, a charge that Erdogan and his allies strongly deny.

In Ankara and Istanbul, thousands of lawyers railed against the alleged rough treatment of dozens of their colleagues, who police briefly detained in Istanbul on the sidelines of Tuesday's unrest.

Sema Aksoy, the deputy head of the Ankara lawyer's association, said the lawyers were handcuffed and pulled over the ground. She called the police action an affront to Turkey's judicial system.

"Lawyers can't be dragged on the ground!" the demonstrating lawyers shouted in rhythm as they marched out of an Istanbul courthouse. Riot police stood off to the side, shields at the ready.

Turkey's Human Rights Foundation said Istanbul prosecutors had launched an investigation into allegations of excessive use of police force during the protests.

The foundation said 620 people, including a 1-year-old baby, were injured during the police crackdown early Wednesday. Police detained around 70 people during the incidents. Prior to this, activists reported that 5,000 people had been injured or seriously affected by the tear gas and four people have died in the protests.

The government, meanwhile, pressed ahead with uncertain efforts to defuse the protests.

President Abdullah Gul, seen by many as a more moderate voice than Erdogan, said the government couldn't tolerate more of the unrest that has disrupted daily life in Istanbul and beyond. He promised, however, that authorities would listen to protesters' grievances.

"I am hopeful that we will surmount this through democratic maturity," Gul told reporters. "If they have objections, we need to hear them, enter into a dialogue. It is our duty to lend them an ear."

The protests erupted May 31 after a violent police crackdown on a peaceful sit-in by activists objecting to a development project replacing Gezi Park with a replica Ottoman-era barracks. They then spread to 78 cities across the country and have attracted tens of thousands of people nearly every night.

Erdogan hosted the 11 activists ? including academics, students and artists ? in his offices at his Justice and Development Party in Ankara. Some leaders of civil society groups, including Greenpeace, had said they would not participate because of an "environment of violence" in the country.

The activist group Taksim Solidarity, which includes academics and architects who oppose the development plan, said its members hadn't been invited to the meeting with Erdogan and predicted it would yield no results.

"As police violence continues mercilessly ... these meetings will in no way lead to a solution," the group said in a statement. It also reiterated the group's demands, saying Gezi should remain a public park, senior officials behind the police excesses should be fired and all detained protesters should be released.

"We are still here and our demands haven't changed," group member Ongun Yucel said at the park. "People who are in the meeting are not representative of Taksim Solidarity. They are people who have nothing to do with what is going on here."

After Tuesday's violence, traffic returned to Taksim Square with taxis, trucks and pedestrians back on the streets. At one point, some police were seen kicking a soccer ball on the square. Riot police stood to the side, near a new barricade of wrecked cars and construction material that activists put up to impede their ability to fire tear gas on the park.

Hundreds of protesters remained camped out in Gezi Park, clearing up after a night of trying to fend off tear gas. An early morning storm blew down tents and soaked bedding. Donations of food and supplies including tents, sleeping bags and toilet paper continued to arrive.

On Tuesday, riot police firing water cannons and tear gas clashed all day and night with pockets of protesters throwing stones and setting off fireworks. The pitched battles didn't simmer down until just before dawn.

Erdogan has insisted the protests and occupations, which he says are hurting Turkey's image and economy, must end immediately and are being organized by extremists and terrorists.

The protests are drawing expressions of concern from abroad.

Germany's government was "following the news from Turkey with great preoccupation, especially the images of yesterday's police action," Chancellor Angela Merkel's spokesman Steffen Seibert said Wednesday. "Now de-escalation is needed. Only an open dialogue can contribute to easing the situation."

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Elena Becatoros in Istanbul, Juergen Baetz in Berlin, and Ezgi Akin in Ankara contributed.

Associated Press

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