Colo. fans upset after Madonna uses guns in show

FILE - This Oct. 10, 2012 file photo shows Madonna performing on the "MDNA" tour at Staples Center in Los Angeles. Some Colorado fans are upset after music superstar Madonna used guns during a performance. Madonna started her show Thursday, Oct. 18, at the Pepsi Center in Denver with a gun scene, which she has used in previous performances. TV station KUSA received several calls Friday from concert-goers saying they were offended she used guns and violence as part of her show in light of recent events in the state that included a mass shooting at a theater during a Batman movie on July 20 that left 12 people dead. (Photo by John Shearer/Invision/AP, file)

FILE - This Oct. 10, 2012 file photo shows Madonna performing on the "MDNA" tour at Staples Center in Los Angeles. Some Colorado fans are upset after music superstar Madonna used guns during a performance. Madonna started her show Thursday, Oct. 18, at the Pepsi Center in Denver with a gun scene, which she has used in previous performances. TV station KUSA received several calls Friday from concert-goers saying they were offended she used guns and violence as part of her show in light of recent events in the state that included a mass shooting at a theater during a Batman movie on July 20 that left 12 people dead. (Photo by John Shearer/Invision/AP, file)

DENVER (AP) ? Some Colorado fans are upset after music superstar Madonna used guns during a performance.

Madonna started her show Thursday night at the Pepsi Center in Denver with a gun scene, which she has used in previous performances.

According to KUSA-TV (http://tinyurl.com/8kr7gdq ), the station received several calls Friday from concert-goers saying they were offended she used guns and violence as part of her show in light of recent events in the state that included a mass shooting at a theater during a Batman movie on July 20 that left 12 people dead.

In a statement before beginning the tour, Madonna said she does not condone the use of guns. She said she is using the guns as symbols of intolerance and "the pain I have felt from having my heart broken."

Associated Press

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Colo. fans upset after Madonna uses guns in show

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Feature Friday: Talk of the House | Southern Hospitality

I love featuring all sorts of houses on my Feature Friday series, from modern, to cottage, traditional, French country, new country, eclectic, there are so many design styles out there that I enjoy.? When I ran across Kelly?s blog, Talk of the House, a fairly new blog this year, I was really impressed with her home and how she designed it herself.? It?s warm and cozy, a 1996 Southern Living home plan that she and her hubby built themselves.? Kelly confesses to being a house lover as far back as 10, when she collected house plan books.? She wanted to study interior design, but ended up being a teacher and has been teaching students for 30 years.? Blogging is her creative outlet and after reading blogs for a few years, she decided to jump in the mix and share her own creativity.? And I?m glad she did!? Kelly?s blog is full of beauty and inspiration and she?s a Southern girl, so I can definitely relate.

She lives somewhere South of Atlanta in middle Georgia and her home reflects the rural beauty of her surroundings.

Her home from the outside, is right at home in the trees and what I imagine to be a beautiful countryside.? I love cottage homes like this and you certainly can?t go wrong with a Southern Living plan.? If I could choose the perfect exterior of a home, it would be a similar cottage look like this one.

Inside the back door, this is where Kelly?s guests mostly enter.

And this pretty antique is in the front door entry area, a beautiful welcome to guests.

Kelly?s kitchen isn?t too large, but very functional and pretty with a country cottage aesthetic.

Check out the beadboard ceiling.

Her cabinets are simple, but elegant in white.? You can see she chose wisely when building her house.

Looking down the hallway to the master bedroom, lots of board and batten are added for such a pretty architectural detail. Love those hanging fixtures too.

A cute country bench in the hallway is set against the board and batten.? Kelly loves blues, reds, and khakis, with black as an accent.

Her master bedroom is accented in blue and red with khaki painted plank walls that her hubby did for her.? So pretty!

The dresser in the master bedroom showing off family photos.

The master bath with pine floors, an antique cabinet and beadboard.

As well as a clawfoot tub, it?s the picture perfect modern country bathroom.

The dining room has a very nice view.? Kelly has made many of her own drapery panels and they look great in her home.

Another pretty antique in the dining room.

The family playroom is cozy and comfortable with a green punch in the wicker chair, pillows and the frame on the chalkboard.

Kelly even braved painting the wood closet doors green and I love that punch of color.

A cute sentiment on the chalkboard.

A spacious screened porch is such a lovely place to gather.? Kelly told me she loves entertaining and throws lots of parties.

Like a 4th of July bash.

Complete with red, white and blue dessert on a plate.

She helped with her niece?s very beautiful rural wedding, all decked out in a rustic old barn.

These weddings are gaining in popularity and I love how unique they are.? Check out these beautiful table settings.

Kelly is also a master calligrapher and hand letters invitations for special folks in her life. She hand lettered a whole bunch of wedding invitations for that niece and what a treat that was!? Calligraphy is a beautiful artform and one that I?m not skilled in at all.

So, I know you enjoyed this beautiful tour of Kelly?s Georgia home as much as I did.? Kelly has fantastic taste and artfully decorates her own home in a very traditional, yet warm way and I hope you?ll all stop by and say hello to Kelly.? She might be a teacher, but she?s loving the blog community.

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Best of food and drink this week | canada.com

?A round-up of some of our favourite recipes and food-related features this week including recipes for Autumn Apple White Wine Sangria and Roasted Chicken with Chorizo and Root Veggies, and an interview with Sara Forte of Sprouted Kitchen.

?The Sprouted Kitchen?: veggie enthusiast Sara Forte shares seasonally-inspired?recipes

Almond Meal Cookies with Coconut and Cacao Nibs from ?The Sprouted Kitchen? (? 2012 Sara Forte and Hugh Forte. Published by Ten Speed Press.)

Sara Forte grew up eating her fair share of frozen taquitos in a family that loved to sit down for meals together but didn?t necessarily love to cook. Her appreciation for cooking and nutrition came later and she has since made it a career ? first with her blog Sprouted Kitchen, and now with a cookbook, ?The Sprouted Kitchen: A Tastier Take on Whole Foods? (Ten Speed Press, 2012). We talk to Sara about the book and share two recipes: Almond Meal Cookies with Coconut and Cacao Nibs, and Ranchero Breakfast Tostadas.

Ingredient of the week: pumpkin

Photograph by Barbara Pheby, Fotolia.com

Pumpkin season is upon us. Our collection of the sweet, the savoury and the boozy will take you beyond the pie with recipes for Baked Pumpkin Pecan Doughnuts, Chipotle Fall Soup and a Pumpkin Old Fashioned. For even more pumpkin, Michael Godel shares four pumpkin ales to look for, as well as seven wines with pumpkin food pairings.

Soups to warm your heart

Curried Sweet Potato, Carrot and Red Lentil Soup (left) and Okanagan Orchard from ?The Soup Sisters Cookbook? edited by Sharon Hapton and Pierre Lamielle (Appetite by Random House, 2012)

Four recipes from ?The Soup Sisters Cookbook: 100 Simple Recipes to Warm Hearts ? One Bowl at a Time?: Okanagan Orchard, Blue Cheese Crostini, Curried Sweet Potato, Carrot and Red Lentil Soup, and Sweet Garlic and Sunchoke Soup. We also talked with cookbook editor, and founder of the Calgary-based Soup Sisters, Sharon Hapton about the cookbook and non-profit enterprise that inspired it.

Roasted Chicken with Chorizo and Root Veggies

Photograph by Matthew Mead, AP

J.M. Hirsch shares his recipe for variation on a French classic ? roasted chicken: ?everything is just tossed into a pot, put in the oven and ignored until done.?

Seasonal Sips: Autumn Apple White Wine Sangria

Photograph by Ted Rhodes, Calgary Herald

Try our autumnal sangria blanca, which combines flavours of the season: apple, cranberry, pear, grapefruit and spice. The Riesling lends a light touch making this punch a perfect fit for holiday entertaining ? either before or after festive feasts.

?Burma: Rivers of Flavor?

?Burma: Rivers of Flavor? by Naomi Duguid (handout photographs, Random House Canada/CP)

Award-winning cookbook author and photographer Naomi Duguid talks with us about her sixth book, ?Burma: Rivers of Flavor? (Random House Canada, $39.95, hardcover).

And to finish, some tasty inspiration from the blog world:

- How to hack your grill into a superior pizza oven from Seattle Food Geek
- Rose petal jam from a Venetian monastery from Emiko Davies
- Handwritten Recipes ? a blog and now a book devoted to the recipes uncovered by used book seller Michael Popek
- Blueberry Bourbon Crisp from Savory Simple
- Cake Vs Pie: A Photo?Debate from Thought Catalog

Source: http://o.canada.com/2012/10/19/best-of-food-and-drink-this-week-22/

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Navy to go after rats, mold in Gitmo legal offices

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) ? Legal offices that are so contaminated with mold and rat droppings that lawyers in the Sept. 11 terrorism trial have been getting sick will get a full clean-up and be evaluated by safety experts, a military official said Thursday.

A "comprehensive" cleaning of the offices, which are primarily used by defense teams in the Guantanamo Bay tribunals, will begin by the end of the month and be finished in time for a hearing scheduled in December, said Army Capt. Michael Lebowitz, one of the prosecutors in the case of five prisoners charged in the Sept. 11 attacks.

"It's almost like a fresh start," Lebowitz told the case judge, who has been fielding complaints about the offices this week while presiding over a pretrial hearing at the U.S. base in Cuba.

The issue of the contaminated offices has repeatedly interrupted progress on more than two dozen pretrial motions this week. Defense lawyers had sought to postpone the hearing outright, which would have further delayed a case that has been plagued by delays.

A base official declared the offices unsafe in September because of mold and other problems, then the space was declared safe several weeks later after a cleaning. But lawyers distributed photos this week showing the walls and air conditioning units coated with mildew and mold as well as floors littered with what appear to be mouse and rat droppings. Pictures also showed a dead crab and lizard, both common at the tropical base on the Caribbean Sea.

It is more than just aesthetics, lawyers said. Since late 2011, several members of the Sept. 11 defense team have suffered from fatigue and respiratory and eye ailments after trips to Guantanamo Bay.

"Each time I travel to Guantanamo Bay I suffer from increased respiratory and eye problems that have landed me in the Guantanamo emergency room," said Cheryl Bormann, a lawyer for Walid Bin Attash, who is one of the five men charged with planning and aiding the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil.

Legal office space, which must meet security requirements because the attorneys and their staff handle classified evidence, is in short supply at Guantanamo. The defense teams were forced to cram into a much smaller work space while preparing for the weeklong hearing, which has dealt largely with disputes over the rules for gathering evidence in a trial that is likely more than a year away.

Bormann told the judge she welcomed the military's proposal for a major clean-up and an evaluation by outside health experts. "We want it fixed and we want it fixed right," she said.

The judge, Army Col. James Pohl, had appeared to grow frustrated at the continuing complaints and welcomed a step that he hoped would resolve the issue. "Obviously, if it doesn't, I'll hear," he said.

Among the five men facing charges that include terrorism and murder is Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who has previously told authorities that he was the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks.

Mohammed, who delivered a five-minute lecture Wednesday denouncing the U.S. for killing "millions" in the name of national security, stayed silent during Thursday's court session.

The judge heard arguments on defense motions to change rules for gathering evidence and calling witnesses that defense lawyers said will make it impossible to fairly defend their clients, who could get the death penalty if convicted. Among their complaints is that the rules would prevent defendants from seeing some of the classified evidence against them.

"This is a capital case. His life is literally at stake in it," said David Nevin, the lawyer for the lead defendant. "Mr. Mohammed should be able to see everything."

The defense and prosecution also sparred over the question of the extent to which the U.S. Constitution applies to the prisoners charged in special tribunals for wartime offenses.

The Supreme Court has ruled that the base in Cuba, because it is under U.S. control, is generally covered by the Constitution except when circumstances are deemed "impracticable and anomalous" and cannot be enforced.

The defense has asked the judge to issue an advisory opinion setting out to what extent the Constitution applies to the proceedings since some of their challenges will raise constitutional issues. The prosecution said it is too early to make such a finding.

Pohl did not rule on the issue and the hearing was to continue Friday.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/navy-rats-mold-gitmo-legal-offices-211703825.html

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US commander in Japan apologizes over rape case

Commander of U.S. Forces in Japan Lt. Gen. Salvatore Angelella, right, speaks to the media as U.S. Ambassador to Japan John Roos looks on at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo, Friday, Oct. 19, 2012. Angelella said American military personnel will be subject to a curfew and other restrictions following allegations two U.S. sailors raped a woman in Okinawa. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)

Commander of U.S. Forces in Japan Lt. Gen. Salvatore Angelella, right, speaks to the media as U.S. Ambassador to Japan John Roos looks on at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo, Friday, Oct. 19, 2012. Angelella said American military personnel will be subject to a curfew and other restrictions following allegations two U.S. sailors raped a woman in Okinawa. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)

Commander of U.S. Forces in Japan Lt. Gen. Salvatore Angelella, right, speaks to the media next to U.S. Ambassador to Japan John Roos at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo, Friday, Oct. 19, 2012. Angellala said American military personnel will be subject to a curfew and other restrictions following allegations two U.S. sailors raped a woman in Okinawa. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)

U.S. Ambassador to Japan John Roos, right, delivers to the media as Commander of U.S. Forces in Japan Lt. Gen. Salvatore Angelella listens at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo, Friday, Oct. 19, 2012. American military personnel will be subject to a curfew and other restrictions following allegations two U.S. sailors raped a woman in Okinawa, the commander of the U.S. forces in Japan said Friday. A statement released by U.S. Forces Japan says the 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew will apply to all U.S. military personnel both stationed and visiting Japan. It requires them to be in their homes, on base or wherever they are lodging. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)

Commander of U.S. Forces in Japan Lt. Gen. Salvatore Angelella speaks to the media at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo, Friday, Oct. 19, 2012. Angelella said American military personnel will be subject to a curfew and other restrictions following allegations two U.S. sailors raped a woman in Okinawa. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)

TOKYO (AP) ? The commander of U.S. forces in Japan apologized Friday for a case in which two American sailors allegedly raped a woman in Okinawa and said all U.S. military personnel in the country will now be subject to a curfew and other restrictions.

A statement released by U.S. Forces Japan says the 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew will apply to U.S. military personnel whether they are stationed in Japan or just visiting. It requires them to be in their homes, on base or wherever they are lodging.

Lt. Gen. Salvatore Angelella said U.S. military members in Japan also will have to take "core values training." The military's liberty policy is also under review.

Japan's defense minister, Satoshi Morimoto, told reporters earlier Friday that he was instructed by Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, "to fully discuss the matter with the U.S. side and come up with measures to eradicate the problem so that crimes like this are never repeated again."

The two sailors were in Okinawa on a brief stopover and are now in Japanese custody. According to Japanese media, they had been drinking before they attacked the woman, in her 20s, who was on her way home before dawn Tuesday.

The case has drawn protests from the Japanese government and an outcry on Okinawa, where the presence of U.S. military has long been a sore point. The island hosts more than half the 47,000 U.S. troops in Japan.

"I want to personally apologize for the grief and trauma the victim has endured and the anger it has caused among the people of Okinawa," Angelella told reporters.

Angelella said American military personnel are "held to a higher standard."

Both he and U.S. Ambassador to Japan John V. Roos said the U.S. will cooperate in the Okinawan police investigation. Roos said the U.S. government viewed the situation with "utmost seriousness."

"We will put forward every effort to make sure that incidents like this do not happen," Roos said.

The Naval Criminal Investigative Service has begun its own investigation, although Japan has primary jurisdiction.

Seaman Christopher Browning of Athens, Texas, and Petty Officer 3rd Class Skyler Dozierwalker of Muskogee, Okla., were arrested Tuesday. Both are 23, joined the military in 2008 and are assigned to Joint Naval Air Station, Fort Worth, Texas.

The latest case has inflamed chronic tensions between the U.S. military and Okinawa over base-related crimes and other issues. Okinawans also have been protesting plans to deploy the Marine Corps' MV-22 Osprey to a base there because of safety concerns.

Local opposition to the U.S. bases over noise, safety concerns and crime flared into mass protests after the 1995 rape of a schoolgirl by three American servicemen. That outcry eventually led to an agreement to close a major Marine airfield, but that plan has stalled for more than a decade over where a replacement facility should be located.

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Associated Press writer Mari Yamaguchi contributed to this report.

Associated Press

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