Cranberry pear smoothie

Smoothies aren't just for summer. Make the most of fall flavors by working frozen cranberries into your smoothie repertoire. ?

By France Morissette and Joshua Sprague,?Beyond the Peel / September 25, 2013

The tart flavor of cranberries is refreshing in a smoothie.

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I once had started a project where I thought I might create a smoothie cookbook. So I started jotting down all my flavor ideas and combinations. I was stoked! I came up with a 100 I think. I was excited. Then I started making them.

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And that?s when I got discouraged. Or is overwhelmed the right feeling? Anyway, at the time it seemed like such a big endeavor to take on, especially with me being the only one drinking them. Though my smoothie "idea book" is on the back burner for now, I thought I?d share my favorite one of the lot. As it turns out, it also happens to be very much inspired by fall flavors.

Cranberries have become my new "go to" smoothie fruit. I love that they are tart, relatively low on the glycemic index and offer all kinds of antioxidants. But I like to eat them because they taste good (and they?re inexpensive). But here?s the surprising part. Even though they are tart, I find that if I add them to a smoothie, I?m less likely to add other sweeteners, like honey or maple. It?s supposed to be tart, so why change it? And, I love the tart flavor. It?s refreshing.

Fall cranberry pear smoothie

1 cup frozen cranberries

2 medjool dates, pitted

1 pear

1 cup unsweetened almond milk, or milk of choice

1/2 teaspoon vanilla

1/4 teaspoon all spice

Throw it all in the blender and whirl it until smooth. Add a couple ice cubes if not thick enough, but I find just the frozen cranberries are enough. Drink up.

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Lakewood to put RedTail Golf Club up for sale

LAKEWOOD ? The village of Lakewood will look to put the deteriorating RedTail Golf Club up for sale after two decades of operating the course with the help of taxpayer support.

Village President Erin Smith informed residents in the most recent community newsletter that the board would consider entering an agreement at its Oct. 22 meeting with a brokerage firm to list the golf course for $1.9 million ? far less than the village paid for the course when it invested $3.5 million plus interest in a 20-year bond for the property.

The final bond payment was made in 2011, ending the 20-year loan. It was estimated at the time that removing the bond payment saved a homeowner of a $300,000 house about $240.

Smith said that while the $1.9 million listing price is not ideal, it reflects the downward trend in the golf industry and takes into account the $1 million investment a prospective buyer would need to make to replace the trailers with a permanent clubhouse, repair the parking lot, and improve bunkers, sprinkler systems and other areas of the course.

She noted the average revenue per round fell from $44.20 in fiscal 2003-04 to $34.71 in 2012-13.

?In order to make significant capital improvements in the near future, the village of Lakewood would have to borrow the funds,? Smith wrote to residents. ?Given the financial performance of the golf course during the past several years, the board of trustees is unwilling to obligate the residents for these payments.?

Even with the golf course making a small operational profit most years, it was not enough to cover the cost of maintaining the course or the bond payments plus interest without taxpayer support, Village Manager Catherine Peterson said.

Taxpayers were on the hook for any shortfall in the loan payments from golf course revenue under the alternative revenue bond. Legislation drafted by local legislators ? who pointed to RedTail as a undue burden on taxpayers ? will give residents more power to prevent alternative revenue bonds from being pursued in the future.

Peterson said the proposed sale would include a 5 percent cut for Links Capital Advisors ? the firm charged with finding a buyer. She also said any money generated from the sale could be used for any purpose that would need to be decided by the Village Board.

?That will be the second big decision if and when it?s sold,? she said.

Property owners along the golf course can be assured that it will remain a golf course or other open space, because any residential or commercial development is prohibited.

Source: http://nwherald.com/2013/09/25/lakewood-to-put-redtail-golf-club-up-for-sale/a8cs7gq/

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Send books not guns, Taliban victim Malala pleads at UN

United Nations (United States) (AFP) - Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teen shot by the Taliban for championing girls' education has stood by world leaders at the United Nations and called for books not guns.

"Instead of sending weapons, instead of sending tanks to Afghanistan and all these countries which are suffering from terrorism, send books," she pleaded.

"Instead of sending tanks send pens," she urged, her hair modestly covered by a scarf as she took part in the first anniversary of the Global Education First initiative at the United Nations in New York.

In October last year, Malala was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman as she was on her way to school in her usual bus in an attack that drew worldwide condemnation.

Gravely wounded and close to death, the Pakistani schoolgirl was flown to Britain for surgery. She returned to school in England last March, after recovering from her injuries.

Now she has become a global advocate for the right of all children, and in particular girls, to have a proper education.

"Instead of sending soldiers, send teachers," Malala argued at an event attended by Nobel peace laureate Desmond Tutu, Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Croatian premier Ivo Josipovic.

According to the United Nations, some 57 million children around the world of elementary school age are denied an education -- and 52 percent of them are girls.

"This is my dream to see every child to be educated," Malala told the gathering, building on themes of one of her heroes, Martin Luther King. "This is my dream to see equality for every human being."

"This is my dream to see peace everywhere in the world, in Nigeria, in Syria, in Pakistan, in Afghanistan."

It was not Malala's first trip to the United Nations building in New York. Earlier this year in July, she received a standing ovation for an address to the general assembly at which she vowed she would never be silenced.

"We want women to be independent ... and to have equal rights as men have," Malala said on Wednesday.

"We believe in equality and to give equality to women is justice," she added, receiving resounding applause. "We are here to find a solution for all these problems that we are facing."

UN chief Ban Ki-moon hailed the teenager for "your courage and triumph" which he said "have inspired millions of people across the world."

Malala's courage has already won her numerous awards including the highest honor from Amnesty International, which announced she would be named an Ambassador of Conscience.

Time magazine also listed her as one of the 100 most influential people in the world, and she has just been nominated for the prestigious European Parliament Sakharov Prize.

Next month her book "I am Malala" is due to be published and she has also launched an organization called the "Malala Fund."

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No Third-Party App Support for You: How Apple iOS 7 Hoards Playlists

iOS users are delighted by the new iOS 7 rollout, available not only on the new iPhones, but on previous models as well. And unlike Android users, most of whom fail to upgrade to the latest operating system, iOS users tend to upgrade en masse, which means many, many people already have iOS 7 or will have it shortly.

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Apple hit with $3 million damages in Japanese iPod click wheel dispute

Apple is no stranger to lawsuits targeting the iPhone and iPad, but over in Japan, it's the company's older iPod design that has landed it in hot water. Kyodo News reports that the Tokyo District Court ordered Apple to pay ¥300 million ($3.3 million) to Japanese inventor Norihiko Saito for infringing on a patent covering the touch-sensitive click wheel used in the iPod Classic and older models of its iconic music player. Saito's damages come more than five years after he filed the patent lawsuit, during which time he demanded damages of ¥10 billion ($101 million), based partly on the number of iPods Apple had sold during that period. Fortunately for Apple, the final figure was substantially less than Saito's demand and it'll only have to sell a few more iPhones to cover the cost.

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First Amendment advocate to speak at The College at Brockport

A nationally-known First Amendment rights advocate will visit The College at Brockport Thursday morning.

Mary Beth Tinker was a principal figure in a 1965 case about students' rights to free speech. She and other students were suspended after publicly denouncing the Vietnam War and the Supreme Court ruled in their favor.

Tinker and a First Amendment lawyer are lecturing at Brockport's Union Ballroom. It starts at 8 a.m.

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