Thanksgiving is on the Way
Turkey Chili Recipe
In preparation for Thanksgiving, and in anticipation of turkey leftovers, we've been experimenting with various turkey dishes that use cooked turkey. This recipe is an easy one for turkey chili using turkey leftovers. (My mom makes great chili beans if you want a chili that starts with ground turkey). Note that this turkey chili recipe makes a lot of chili. We had so much leftover after making this batch that we used a bunch of it as the sauce and filling for enchiladas (which, by the way, is a terrific way to use up extra chili).
http://www.elise.com/recipes/archives/001571turkey_chili.php
San Francisco Chronicle
Katrina levee breach dredges up canal debate
Peripheral project rejected in 1982 -- new proposals met with tepid response
Greg Lucas, Chronicle Staff Writer
Monday, November 14, 2005
Sacramento -- Hurricane Katrina's devastation of New Orleans and fears that a catastrophic break is destined somewhere along the 1,100 miles of levees in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta have revived the idea of building a canal to ship water around the delta.
Twenty-three years ago the notion of what was then called the Peripheral Canal spawned a brutal civil war over water between Northern and Southern California capped by a resounding rejection of the concept at the ballot box.
But now the idea is back.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/11/14/MNGDFFO16A1.DTL
U.S. Had Iraqi With Same Name As Bomber
Monday, November 14, 2005
(11-14) 05:19 PST BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) --
American forces detained and later released an Iraqi with the same name as one of the suicide attackers who struck three hotels in Amman, Jordan, last week, the U.S. military said Monday.
Jordanian authorities said Safaa Mohammed Ali, 23, was among the suicide attackers who struck last Wednesday at the Grand Hyatt, SAS Radisson and Day's Inn hotels, killing at least 57 people.
A statement by the U.S. command said someone by that name was detained in November 2004 in connection with the American assault on the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah. The command said it could not confirm whether the person detained was the same man who took part in the Amman attack.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/11/14/international/i050437S22.DTL
U.S., Iraqi Troops Kill 37 Insurgents
By BASSEM MROUE, Associated Press Writer
Monday, November 14, 2005
(11-14) 07:14 PST BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) --
U.S. and Iraqi troops trying to stem the flow of insurgent fighters from Syria launched a dawn assault Monday on a border town, killing 37 militants. Police in Baghdad said a car bomb detonated near one of their patrols outside a gate leading into the fortified Green Zone, killing two South Africans.
Operation Steel Curtain entered a new phase when U.S. and Iraqi forces moved into the Euphrates River valley town of Obeidi, about 185 miles west of Baghdad.
"Five targets were struck by coalition airstrikes resulting in an estimated 37 insurgents killed. The insurgents were engaging coalition forces with small arms fire at the time of the strikes," the statement said. "Preliminary reports indicate an estimated 25 insurgents have already been captured and are currently detained."
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/11/14/international/i043430S19.DTL
Stones Deliver With A Bang
Joel Selvin, Chronicle Staff Writer
Monday, November 14, 2005
(11-14) 05:57 A.M. PDT San Francsico (SF Chronicle) --
What does Mick Jagger have left to prove?
The 62 year-old vocalist for the Rolling Stones has been world famous since he was a youth. His accomplishments have been indisputable. If there is anyone in the world who could coast on his reputation a little after all these years, Mick Jagger might be that guy.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/11/14/DDstones14.DTL
2 astronauts devise asteroid collision plan
'Tractor beam' could push rogue rock off its path to Earth
Guy Gugliotta, Washington Post
Monday, November 14, 2005
Two NASA astronauts have figured out a way to create a real-life version of a Star Wars "tractor beam" to keep an asteroid from crashing into the Earth.
Simply by hovering nearby for perhaps a year, the astronauts say, the spacecraft's own gravity could minutely slow the asteroid's progress or speed it up, a process that 10 or 20 years later would cause the rogue rock to miss Earth by a comfortable margin.
"The beauty of this idea is that it's incredibly simple," astrophysicist-astronaut Edward Lu said. Because momentum doesn't dissipate in space, with enough time only a small early nudge is needed to cause a major orbital change.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/11/14/MNG3EFNQHO1.DTL
Services cut for students as high-pay jobs boom
2,275 university employees earned more than $200,000 during the last fiscal year
Tanya Schevitz, Todd Wallack, Chronicle Staff Writer
Monday, November 14, 2005
The University of California may have cut student services and maintenance, but not the number of high-paid jobs created over the past two years.
Payroll records show that 2,275 university employees earned more than $200,000 last fiscal year, up 30 percent over two years. The number of employees making at least $300,000 annually climbed 54 percent to 496 last year. Some employees got raises. Others were hired or promoted to new posts with increased salaries.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/11/14/MNGDFFO1641.DTL
Selling California to Asia, seeking re-election at home
POLITICS: Trip coverage could help court Asian Americans in 2006 campaign
Carla Marinucci, Chronicle Political Writer
Monday, November 14, 2005
It is billed as an official mission, but California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's six-day trip to China that starts today also serves another distinctly political purpose: an unofficial beginning to Schwarzenegger's 2006 re-election campaign.
The trade mission to Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong allows the battered California governor to set a course for some new, and potentially valuable, allies, political observers said.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/11/14/MNGDFFO16E1.DTL
The Jordan Times
Sunni Arabs step up calls for halt to US, Iraqi operations
BAGHDAD (AP) — Sunni Arab politicians stepped up demands Sunday for an end to US and Iraqi military operations, claiming they threaten Sunni participation in next month's elections — a key US goal. The US command announced that three more American troops have been killed.
Meanwhile, some 1,100 Iraqi lawyers said they have withdrawn from Saddam Hussein's defence team over the slayings of two colleagues representing co-defendants of the ousted leader. Main attorneys for Saddam and his seven co-defendants had already threatened to boycott the next trial session on November 28.
US commanders have said offensive operations, especially those in the western province of Anbar near the Syrian border, are aimed at encouraging Sunni Arabs to vote in the December 15 parliamentary elections without fear of intimidation by insurgents opposed to the political process.
http://www.jordantimes.com/mon/news/news1.htm
Would-be female suicide bomber arrested
By Alia Shukri Hamzeh
AMMAN — His Majesty King Abdullah announced Sunday that authorities arrested a woman who was a member of the suicide bombers who carried out attacks on three Amman hotels last week.
"There is a fourth bomber, a woman, who failed to blow herself up at Radisson SAS Hotel along with her husband and she's in custody," the King told a media conference at Le Meridien Hotel.
Iraq's Al Qaeda, led by Abu Mussab Al Zarqawi, claimed responsibility for the almost simultaneous blasts at the Grand Hyatt, Radisson SAS and Days Inn hotels — which killed 57 people and injured 100. The statement said four Iraqis, including a husband and wife, carried out the attacks.
In a televised confession on JTV Sunday evening, the woman, identified as Sajida Mubarak Atrous Al Rishawi, explained how she tried to blow herself up alongside her husband, Ali Hassan Al Shumari, at Radisson SAS last Wednesday.
http://www.jordantimes.com/mon/homenews/homenews1.htm
Full text of failed woman attacker's confession
Sajida Atrous Al Rishawi
confesses Sunday on JTV
(Reuters photo)
AMMAN (AP) — Following is the full text of the confession of the would-be Iraqi woman bomber broadcast Sunday on JTV:
"Sajida Mubarak Atrous [Al Rishawi] , born in 1970, an Iraqi national, living in Ramadi.
On November 5, I accompanied my husband to Jordan with a forged Iraqi passport, under the name of Ali Hussein Ali and Sajida Abdel Qader Latif.
We waited and a white car arrived with a driver and a passenger.
We rode with them and entered Jordan [from Iraq].
My husband arranged our trip from there, I don't know.
In Jordan, we rented an apartment.
He had two explosive belts.
He put one on me and wore the other.
He taught me how to use it, how to pull the [primer cord] and operate it.
He said it was to carry attacks on hotels in Jordan.
We rented a car and entered the hotel on November 9.
My husband and I went inside the hotel, he went to one corner and I went to another.
There was a wedding at the hotel with children, women and men inside.
My husband detonated [his bomb], I tried to explode [my belt] but it wouldn't.
I left, people fled running and I left running with them.”
http://www.jordantimes.com/mon/homenews/homenews3.htm
Anti-terror fight won't stop — King
Deputy Prime Minister Marwan Muasher shows reporters photos of an explosive belt, left, and metal balls attached to the belt which were worn by Sajida Atrous Al Rishawi (AFP photo by Khalil Mazrawi)
AMMAN (JT) — His Majesty King Abdullah on Sunday met with EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana, who expressed confidence in Jordan's ability to thwart terrorism.
“We have had very good cooperation for many years. Jordan has a very good security team, a very good anti-terrorism system in place,” Solana told the Associated Press in a telephone interview before he left for Israel.
King Abdullah thanked the EU for its supportive stand, stressing that the crime will strengthen the Kingdom in its fight against terrorism, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported.
http://www.jordantimes.com/mon/homenews/homenews2.htm
Proud of our security services
We knew it would happen, but it was nonetheless a great relief when it actually happened.
Jordanians' long placed trust in their intelligence services and law enforcement agencies has, once again, not been disappointed.
News of the apprehension of a fourth would-be suicide bomber yesterday made us all proud. Not because we want revenge: All grieving families know fully well that nothing will ever give them back what was so brutally taken away on Wednesday night, and each citizen knows that the horror of those massacres cannot be undone.
But knowing that our state is successfully getting to the bottom of these heinous attacks, unravelling the terror plot that shook our nation and shattered so many families, helps us get back on our feet and on with our lives confident that Jordan is still one step ahead in the war on terror.
http://www.jordantimes.com/mon/opinion/opinion1.htm
As reality of terror hits home, remaining Al Qaeda support withers
By Francesca Sawalha
A police vehicle passes Sunday by citizens carrying a giant national flag during a silent march against terrorism in Amman (AP photo by Amr Nabil)
AMMAN — Wednesday night's terror attacks further eroded whatever ranks of sympathisers Al Qaeda might have still had in the Kingdom, but did not dilute widespread opposition against US policies, analysts say.
Politicians and commentators agree Osama Ben Laden's network enjoyed some popularity amongst certain, mainly poor and ultrareligious segments which approve of the insurgency against US occupation in Iraq.
But the massacre of innocent, mainly Arab and Muslim civilians in last week's unprecedented suicide bombings was an eye-opener for all Jordanians who used to condone Ben Laden's and his lieutenant Abu Mussab Zarqawi's operations against the US military.
http://www.jordantimes.com/mon/homenews/homenews4.htm
Leading tourism organisations switch conferences to Amman in show of support
Revenues generated by tourism in the first half of this year reached JD420.1 million, compared to JD379.5 million in the same period of 2004
By Dalya Dajani
AMMAN — Two of the world's leading tourism and travel organisations plan to relocate their conferences to Amman in a unified show of support for the Kingdom following Wednesday's triple suicide attacks, an official said Sunday.
Minister of Tourism Alia Hattough-Bouran said the World Tourism Organisation (WTO) and the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) plan to shift the two conferences, originally slated to take place in Europe, to the capital early next year.
http://www.jordantimes.com/mon/homenews/homenews6.htm
Weddings go ahead at bombed hotel
By Amirah Ajlouni
AMMAN — Nimer Qubti and Suha Jildah were not afraid to have their wedding at the Days Inn on Saturday evening, as 150 guests joined them in celebration and solidarity.
The marriage was the second at the hotel since Wednesday's bombings, which killed 57 people including several at the Days Inn. Joy and sadness mixed at the ceremony, but the tragedy a few days earlier would not keep the couple from going on with their lives explained Essa Qubti, the groom's father.
Elia Turjuman, the bride's brother-in-law, said: “If we postponed the wedding that would mean we gave in to the terrorists, and we will not do that.” The families say they were not afraid to have the wedding at the hotel and management assured them that security was stringent.
http://www.jordantimes.com/mon/homenews/homenews10.htm
Jordan marks 70th birthday of late King Hussein
AMMAN (JT) — Jordan today marks the 70th anniversary of the birth of the late King Hussein, who reigned for nearly five decades.
King Hussein, born on Nov. 14, 1935 to King Talal Ben Abdullah and Queen Zein Al Sharaf, was proclaimed King of Jordan on Aug. 11, 1952.
A Regency Council was appointed until King Hussein's formal accession to the Throne on May 2, 1953, when he assumed his constitutional powers on reaching the age of 18.
http://www.jordantimes.com/mon/homenews/homenews5.htm
Monday, November 14, 2005
Source: The Department of Meteorology
It will be fair with winds easterly moderate becoming brisk in the afternoon. In Aqaba, it will be fair with winds northerly moderate and seas calm.
Min./Max. temp.
Amman 07/21
Aqaba 12/24
Deserts 05/22
Jordan Valley 13/25
Hilly Areas 09/18
The Chicago Tribune
Innocence Lost. What happened to the children of Liberia's Civil War?
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/specials/broadband/chi-liberia-flash-htmlstory,1,6087354.htmlstory?coll=chi-news-hed
High winds down power lines, walls, trees
Tribune staff report
Published November 14, 2005, 9:07 AM CST
Hundreds of people were without electricity this morning after wind gusts exceeding 50 m.p.h. Sunday blacked out thousands, knocked down part of a former police station in the western suburbs and uprooted or damaged dozens of trees in Chicago.
About 100 crews for Commonwealth Edison Co. worked through the night to restore power to areas hit by gusty conditions. A total of 140,000 customers were without power at various times Saturday and Sunday, and roughly 1,000 customers mostly in the northern suburbs were still in the dark as of 8 a.m. today.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-051114gusts,1,827765.story?coll=chi-news-hed
I wonder if she is pregnant.
Pa. Teen Missing After Parents Slain
By MARTHA RAFFAELE
Associated Press Writer
Published November 14, 2005, 8:54 AM CST
LITITZ, Pa. -- Police searched across the East on Monday for an 18-year-old man and his girlfriend, whose parents were found shot to death in their home.
Police said David G. Ludwig killed 14-year-old Kara Beth Borden's parents after they and their daughter argued about her curfew. The girl was last seen Sunday morning at the family's home in Warwick Township, about 60 miles west of Philadelphia.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-parents-slain-abduction,1,7529133.story?coll=chi-news-hed
War veteran from Chicago dies in fight with soldier
Published November 14, 2005
COLORADO -- An Iraq War veteran from Chicago was killed last week in Colorado Springs during a fight with a fellow soldier, officials said.
Army Spec. Piotr Szczypka, 21, who was based at Ft. Carson, Colo., died early Friday after he and another soldier brawled with a third soldier outside an apartment complex.
About 4:40 a.m. Friday, police said, the men began fighting after their separate groups of companions had become involved in a shouting match.
During the fight, Spec. Timothy Parker, 22, knocked Szczypka unconscious and cut the face of another soldier with an unidentified object, police said.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0511140183nov14,1,7163856.story?coll=chi-news-hed
Win, 'D' City
Vasher's 108-yard dash, defense help Bears survive 4 turnovers
By K.C. Johnson
Tribune staff reporter
Published November 13, 2005, 10:29 PM CST
It's well-documented that politicians' hot air, not weather conditions, is why Chicago is called the Windy City.
The nickname lived up to both meanings—correct or incorrect—Sunday at litter-strewn Soldier Field, where the goal posts shook more than they were dented.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/football/bears/cs-051113bearsgamer,1,6732132.story?coll=chi-news-hed
With Costs Up, the Pool Guy Is Facing a Liquidity Crisis
By Elizabeth Douglass
Times Staff Writer
Published November 14, 2005
Pity the pool man.
The profit is being drained from his chlorinated world because of the high price of energy. It's boosting his expenses on all fronts: the gasoline that powers the pickups, the chemicals that burn away algae, even the nets that whisk away leaves and dead bugs.
To compensate, pool service technicians — that's what the industry calls pool cleaners — are cautiously raising prices, trying to stay afloat without losing customers to the constant allure of do-it-yourself savings.
Many pool guys — they're almost always men — are surviving by reworking routes and taking night jobs. Some are hanging up their skimmers for good.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/la-fi-poolman14nov14,1,471469.story?coll=chi-news-hed
Mariah Wins at Violence-Free Vibe Awards
BY SOLVEJ SCHOU
Associated Press Writer
Published November 14, 2005, 8:03 AM CST
CULVER CITY, Calif. -- Mariah Carey walked away with four honors at the Vibe Awards, a celebration of hip-hop and R&B that went smoothly after last year's ceremony was marred by a brawl and stabbing.
Carey won Artist of the Year, R&B Voice of the Year, Best R&B Song for "We Belong Together" and Album of the Year for her comeback hit, "The Emancipation of Mimi."
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/sns-ap-vibe-awards,1,3228833.story?coll=chi-entertainmentfront-hed
Paul McCartney Sings to Space Station Crew
By Associated Press
Published November 13, 2005, 8:32 PM CST
ANAHEIM, Calif. -- It was "Good Day Sunshine" for the international space station crew Sunday morning. NASA astronaut Bill McArthur and Russian cosmonaut Valery Tokarev were treated to a live wake-up call of the Beatles classic in a first-ever concert linkup to the space station.
On Earth, former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney performed the hit and another song, "English Tea," on Saturday night before a cheering crowd as part of his 11-week "US" tour.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/sns-ap-space-station-mccartney,1,3688939.story?coll=chi-entertainmentfront-hed
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