Mexican feasts, BBQ Pulled Pork, Indian Spices and Beer Crust Pizzas are all on the menu at the Cloughjordan House Cookery School next year. The cookery school, based at the 400 year-old Cloughjordan House in North Tipperary, is unveiling the full programme of classes for 2014 today under the theme of ‘Feast for the Senses.’ [...]School For Irish Food Lovers is a post from: Ireland in One



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Guarani Indian leader and film-star Ambrósio Vilhalva was murdered on Sunday night, after decades of campaigning for his tribe’s right to live on their ancestral land.

Ambrósio was reportedly stabbed at the entrance to his community, known as Guyra Roká, in Brazil’s Mato Grosso do Sul state. He was found dead in his hut, with multiple knife wounds. He had been repeatedly threatened in recent months.

Ambrósio starred as the main character in the award-winning feature film Birdwatchers, which portrays the Guarani’s desperate struggle for their land. He traveled internationally to speak out about the tribe’s plight, and to push the Brazilian government into protecting Guarani land, as it is legally obliged to do.

He said, ‘This is what I most hope for: land and justice… We will live on our ancestral land; we will not give up’.

The Guarani of Guyra Roká were evicted from their land decades ago by ranchers. For years they lived destitute on the roadside. In 2007 they re-occupied part of their ancestral land, and now live on a fraction of their territory, but most has been cleared for enormous sugar cane plantations. One of the principal landowners involved is powerful local politician José Teixeira. The Guarani are left with almost nothing.

Ambrósio spoke out passionately against the planting of sugar cane on his community’s land, and against Raízen, a joint venture between Shell and Cosan which used the sugar cane for biofuel production. His community’s campaign with Survival International forced Raízen not to use sugar cane grown on Guarani land.

A Guarani spokesman told Survival today, ‘Ambrósio fought hard against the sugar cane. He was one of our main leaders, always at the forefront of our struggle, so he was being threatened. He was an extremely important figure in the Guarani land campaign, and now, we’ve lost him’.

The police are investigating the killing, and two suspects have reportedly been detained.

Survival’s Director, Stephen Corry, said today, ‘The Guarani have one of the highest murder rates in the world and land theft is at the heart of all the violence. In spite of this, the land demarcation process is stalling – the authorities are doing far too little to challenge ranchers who have taken the tribe’s ancestral land. How many more gruesome killings must the Guarani suffer before their territory is mapped out and protected?’

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ATLANTA – November 28, 2013 – Approximately 11,000 runners and walkers earned their turkey this Thanksgiving at the 2013 Atlanta Half Marathon events on Thursday, November 28. In addition to the Atlanta Half Marathon, the event featured the Thanksgiving Day 5K, the Mashed Potato Mile for children ages 7 to 12 and the Gravy Gallop [...]Atlanta Half Marathon 2013 is a post from: Time-to-Run USA



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Kampala – Ugandan health officials have announced two major developments that will dramatically turn around the HIV/Aids epidemic.

According to official figures from the Ministry of Health, Uganda has reached a tipping point whereby the number of people initiated on anti-retroviral treatment exceeds the number of new HIV infections over the same period. This is expected to dramatically reduce Aids deaths as well as new infections.

At the same time, a new treatment approach for prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission (PMTCT) has scored close to 100% success where it has been implemented.

According to Dr Godfrey Esiru, national coordinator of the PMTCT programme, of all the women who took the new treatment approach referred to as Option B over the past two years, between 96% and 100% have HIV-free babies. Under the new treatment, the pregnant women start taking ARVs daily as soon as they test HIV positive, and continue even after delivery.

As a result of PMTCT, the number of babies born with HIV annually has been reduced from 25 000 in 2001 to 15 000 in 2012 and is set to decrease further this year.

Meanwhile, on Sunday, South African Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe re-launched the HIV, Counselling and Testing (HCT) campaign on World Aids Day.

The campaign is a step further in ensuring that the country meets its National Strategic Plan (NSP) 2012-2016 for every South African to get tested at least once annually.

Motlanthe said the starting point for preventing HIV and Aids was to always know one’s status. “You may have tested in 2010 or 2011, test again this year, and every year,” he said.

The HCT campaign was first launched in 2010 by President Jacob Zuma, and since then, 20 million South Africans have tested for HIV and know their status and are thus empowered to take appropriate steps to maintain their health.

“In South Africa, the epidemic has matured and the acceleration of our response since 2009 has moved us beyond the ‘tipping point’, where the number of patients being enrolled onto treatment each year, now exceeds the number of those who are newly infected.

“However, the number of new infections still remains unacceptably high, hence the importance of maintaining our focus on prevention … our response will not succeed unless we turn off the tap of new infections,” Motlanthe highlighted.

Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi said the HCT campaign had helped upscale the country’s HIV and Aids treatment programme, which was now the biggest in the world– SAnews.gov.za

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