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China 'adds destroyers to marine surveillance fleet'
AFP – China has transferred two destroyers and nine other ex-navy vessels to its maritime surveillance fleet, reports said Monday, as it moves to beef up its position in bitter territorial rows with Japan and other neighbours.
Beijing renovated the ships and transferred them to surveillance operations to "alleviate the insufficiency of vessels used to protect maritime interests", said a report on Tencent, one of China's major news portals.
China is embroiled in a maritime dispute with Japan that has seen tensions between the two Asian giants, the world's second- and third-largest economies, at times reach fever pitch.
It is also engaged in a simmering row with its southern neighbours over its claim to vast swathes of the South China Sea.
Beef processor files for bankruptcy over 'pink slime' uproar
Ground beef processor AFA Foods filed for bankruptcy protection on Monday and said it plans to sell some or all of its assets, citing the impact of media coverage related to a meat filler critics have dubbed "pink slime."
Meat processors have faced a backlash over the use of an ammonia-treated beef filler they call "finely textured beef." Food activists have campaigned to have it banned arguing the product was unappetizing, but supporters say the product is safe to eat.
AFA is one of the largest ground beef processors in the United States and produces more than 500 million pounds of ground beef products annually, the company said in documents filed in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Wilmington, Delaware.
Safeway, SUPERVALU and Food Lion to Stop Selling 'Pink Slime' Beef
Safeway, SUPERVALU and Food Lion announced today that they will no longer carry what the meat industry calls "lean finely textured beef," something the public has come to know as "pink slime."
All three companies site customer concerns as one of the primary reasons for the change.
"While the USDA and food industry experts agree that lean, finely textured beef is safe and wholesome, recent news stories have caused considerable consumer concern about this product. Safeway will no longer purchase ground beef containing lean, finely textured beef," the company said in a statement.


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Vegetarian Spring Rolls
Recipe by Sackville
The best thing about these is they're baked and not fried but they still come out very crispy. I have occasionally "cheated" and fried these, as a couple of the photos show, so if you're in a hurry or just don't mind the calories, please go ahead and shallow fry in a frying pan for a couple minutes on each side. This recipe will give you 12 large spring rolls or 24 if you're using the smaller sized wrappers.
Top Review by rlocati1
I had always eaten spring rolls without baking and thought I would give this a try. Didn't know you could do that. I had roasted veggies that had that need to be used without adding any oil to them. Had a variety of peppers, mushrooms, asparagus and even some steamed kale and beet greens.Had very firm tofu in tiny squares that I did in skillet till browned-again no oil and I got them crispy. IE: Didn't add rice noodles this time. Just added a few tabs. of each veggie to the spring roll. I did a sauce with ingredients you listed plus two tablespoons of Powdered peanut butter (PB2) plus 1 tab water, and one tab. of rice vinegar too as I had seen in another recipe. Great sauce for the veggies and also for dipping. Sauce cooked up well with the veggies and it was not too wet when added to the rice papers. Baked in a 400 degree oven on parchment paper and didn't even use oil and they browned just fine. A couple fell apart when I turned them but it is due to being filled a bit too full. No problem just spooned the spilled contents in middle and kept roasting. Used some extra sauce for dipping. Loved the fresh ginger, mint, cilantro, garlic combo. Also had some fresh pineapple that I tossed in the sauce in the skillet as a side for these. Great. Really can use a combo of anything you want. The sauce is great. (double sauce)
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Ingredients Nutrition
- 1 ounce fine cellophane noodle
- 2 tablespoons peanut oil
- 2 garlic cloves, crushed
- 1⁄2 teaspoon fresh ginger, grated
- 2 scallions, finely chopped
- 1⁄2 cup bean sprouts
- 1⁄2 cup green cabbage, shredded
- 1 small carrot, peeled and finely shredded
- 1⁄2 teaspoon sesame oil
- 1 tablespoon light soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon rice wine or 1 tablespoon dry sherry
- 1⁄4 teaspoon ground black pepper
- 1 tablespoon chopped fresh cilantro
- 1 tablespoon chopped of fresh mint
- 24 spring roll wrappers
Directions See How It's Made
- Place the noodles in a bowl and pour over enough boiling water to cover. Let stand for 4 minutes.
- Drain, rinse in cold water and drain again.
- Cut into 2-inch lengths.
- Heat the peanut oil in a wok over high heat.
- Add the garlic, ginger, scallions, beansprouts, cabbage and carrot and fry for a minute.
- Stir in the sesame oil, soy sauce, rice wine, pepper, cilantro and mint and take off the heat.
- Stir in the rice noodles.
- Arrange the wrappers on the counter, pointing diagonally.
- Spoon a bit of the filling onto the bottom corner of the wrapper.
- Roll the point of the wrapper over the filling, then fold the side points inward over the filling.
- Continue to roll up the wrapper away from you, using a bit of water to seal the roll if needed.
- Brush with oil and bake in a 400 F oven until crispy, about 15-20 minutes.
- You may want to flip the spring rolls halfway through baking.
- You can also freeze these unbaked and then bake from frozen. This will take about 25 minutes.

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There are a number of variations on the theme of yellow ground Konya rugs, so much so that Heinrich Kirchheim devoted a chapter within his Orient Stars Collection solely to this group, (H.Kirchheim, Orient Stars, London, 1993, pp.187-229.) The differences mostly arise in the intricacy of the drawing of the Memling guls. In the present example they are perhaps at their most simple tehnically but are at their strongest visually. The most attractive element of this rug however is its lively colour which is so well preserved. For similarly drawn guls see H.Kirchheim, op.cit., p.199, no.123 and p.200, no.125; W.Brüggemann and H.Böhmer, Teppiche der Bauern und Nomaden in Anatolien, Hannover, 1980, p.140, no.8.
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Baroness Detail Bus Crash
Yesterday Baroness frontman John Baizley (pictured left) went into detail on the band's website about their harrowing bus crash back in August in England.
Baizley said he hopes this experience brings the band together and that they will tour again when everyone has recovered.
The bus crash was due to brake failure while on a steep hill in Monkton Combe, England. They hit a perpendicular guardrail going about 50 mph, where the bus plowed through many trees and fell down more than 30 feet to the ground below.
Some of the crew was asleep when the accident was happening, but Baizley was up front with the driver. He suffered a broken leg and a completely shattered arm. The driver was airlifted to a hospital with many breaks. Other crew members were treated for injuries as well.
Last week Baizley returned home to the U.S. where he is wheelchair-bound and will undergo physical therapy to regain use of his arm and leg.
"I cannot lift a glass of water to my lips to drink with my left arm and hand... In spite of this and against my logic and reason, when I pick up an instrument, my hand remembers exactly what to do," says Baizley.
Perhaps the most haunting paragraph in his statement is the last where he says, "I realized in that moment that life can be seen as a light switch: 'on' or 'off.' When the moment passed and I heard the screaming, felt the pain, and tasted my own blood, I was overcome with joy. I was ecstatic to be back amidst all that chaos and horror because it was alive and real"
"The support of our fans, our friends and our families has real meaning to me now. I say that now honestly, without false humility. Thank you. Everyone."
You can read the full statement here.
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Capital has agreed to keep paying his £1.3 million annual salary but allow him to start work two hours later every day.
Although Tarrant's new deal will pay him the same as his previous contract, the two-hour lie-in means he will be working less, so his salary per hour has risen from £833 to £1,250.
It would be the equivalent of a £430,000 pay rise if he worked the extra two hours a day.
From January, Tarrant will be on air from 7.30am. The new deal, which also sees Tarrant taking a sixweek sabbatical, was thrashed out by desperate Capital Radio bosses after weeks of consistent threats by the 55-year-old to quit the job he has done for 15 years.
Tarrant gets four hours' sleep a night between filming Who Wants To Be A Millionaire in the evening and his radio breakfast show.
Only two days ago Tarrant said he was definitely packing in his Capital job in "a couple of months". He told TV interviewer Frank Skinner: "I want to leave, genuinely. I love Capital and I love the people. But I have got out of bed at 5am for the last 15 years.
"We are now at the stage where I really want to have some time off."
A Breakfast Show source said today: "Chris is a very valuable asset. To keep him, Capital has decided to boost investment in the show and give him fewer hours."
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Graham Carr and Steve McClaren used to talk a lot when Graham was scouting players on the continent, esepcially in Holland, and it's not surprising we captured Cheick Tiote from FC Twente five years ago when FC Twente were Dutch Champions, and we also got Luuk de Jong here on loan over a year ago – although that loan spell didn't work out on either side.
Graham Carr – Newcastle's Chief Scout
It turns out that Graham and Steve already have a good working relationship through Graham's scouting activities , and now with noth of them at Newcastle they will be able to work together even more closely – and that will be good for the club.
Graham Carr and Steve McClaren are both on Newcastle's new four man Board of Directors along with Club Ambassador Bob Moncur and Managing Director Lee Charnley.
This is what McClaren has said today:
"Everyone knows everyone in football." "He used to be in Holland a lot so I did used to talk to him."
"The most important relationships at the club now are between myself, Graham and Lee Charnley."
"That's the triangle and to have Graham on that, with his experience and his eye for a player, is fantastic." "He reminds me of Jim Smith and those great football types, people like David Pleat."
"They're great characters who embrace the modern game and innovations as well, which is a perfect combination." "I'm not sure how far the club is with targets we've been chasing for quite a while."
"The next few days will be pretty full on."
Graham Carr worked closel with David Pleat when both were at Tottenham, and McClaren's words begs the question of what is Bob Moncur's role on the Board?
Steve is hoping to get his backroom staff in place by Monday, and that comment about him not being sure where the club are with some of the transfer targets, validates that we are going after the same players targeted before Steve's appointment.
A good relationship between Graham Carr and Steve McClaren should be able to help Newcastle big time in the transfer market from now on.
Maybe Steve would be interested in bringing Luuk de Jong back – since he got the very best out of the player while he was at FC Twente.
We don't think Newcastle will be too interested though and Luuk had his chance on Tyneside, but didn't take it.
Another question is whether McClaren will want to keep Cheick Tiote at the club, but the Ivorian wasn't been in good form last season and hardly played for us because of injury.
Steve said he wanted to speak to some of Newcastle's senior players before they reported back and Cheick should be one of them.
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Like the BusPirate case I recently made, I have a lot of these PCBs that are fragile and I worry will be damaged by every day use, and even storage in my drawers. I went with a slightly thinner cast acrylic and included a few new concepts in the design. First, I used a v-carve bit and engraved writing into the case front. While it is ledgible, I think it would have been better if I had carved into backside of the top piece. Second, on the bottom section, I made recessed cutouts as so the board can sit flat on the bottom of the case. Lastly, I used holding tabs on the two middle sections, as so they stay put while the cutting is happening. On the BusPirate mill, the middle "C" parts were moving around due to their flimsy shape. I've updated the files to reflect my adjustments and observations in the case I already milled which is pictured. If I decide to re-mill it, it should fit much better and look better.
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Just when you thought I couldn't get crunchier: it's been over a week since I've worn a bra.
Yeah? It's kind of weird for me, too.
It started when I noticed that I had some back pain at my spine right where my bra band sits. Frankly, my bras aren't fitting well at the moment. I think that the combination of baby pushing all my organs up into my ribs plus the relaxin causing my joints to loosen up turned into "now your ribs are spreading out extra to give extra room." And so my band size changed.
But it's kind of pointless to buy a good fitting bra at this point when I'll be transitioning over into my so-engorged-I-can't-guess-what-my-cup-size-will-be-in-an-hour life this summer. So I've gone braless. And you know what? My back feels much better.
On one level, it's really odd because I've been wearing bras for over a decade now. And it wouldn't be bad if I had nice perky pregnant breasts, but for some reason, my cup size hasn't changed a whole lot this pregnancy. Might be the breastfeeding.
I'm not sure when/if I'll switch back to bras. With Margaret I didn't wear a "real" bra with a band size and cups until 11 months postpartum. It wasn't until then that I thought I'd be able to measure a good size. I just wore those sleeping bras, which don't actually give a lot of support.
And then there's the "Do bras really help anyway?" aspect. I'm not sure. Sometimes your body just changes- pregnancy permanently changes the way your breasts are shaped and you can't do much about that. Fight nature or just accept it? We'll see how my back feels in a year.
I've also been going "bare" in another way, too. Shoes. This one isn't related to the pregnancy. I just have wide feet and I always have. I wear a 6 wide. If they made double wide for women, I'd be wearing that. My feet, despite being 3 inches shorter than McKay's, are just as wide as his.
Here's a picture:
No, my feet aren't swollen here: they are just wide. I haven't had any foot swelling in about a week. Notice how my pinky toes are slightly redder than the others and misshapen because of callouses? That's from shoving my feet into shoes that don't fit well. Wides are simply too narrow for me and hurt my feet. I've tried going up to 7s to get extra width, but I end up tripping on my toes. And I don't have the money for custom shoes. A couple of years ago, I ran into a Parents for Barefoot Children site and started thinking about what it would be like to start going barefoot. I'm not a full-time barefooter, but I've gone barefoot in the car and to the park. For some reason I don't have the courage to try it in a store or public place, which is silly since I have no problem with bare breasts while breastfeeding. Why the issue with barefeet while walking? Just another one of those mental hurdles. And besides- what if someone has a foot fetish? My feet would be literal walking porn! And men are all wired to be visual, you know. (I jest, I jest).
Besides having to get over my pre-conceived notions of what footwear is culturally acceptable, another reason I haven't gone barefoot full-time is that I don't want to damage my feet going into this cold turkey, so I do short walks outside to get my feet used to the sidewalk. I don't think I'm ready for a whole day of barefootness in public, but I'm working my way up there.
So yeah: braless and shoeless. It's good for my body, so it's what I'm doing. Next thing you know, I'll be squatting in some field somewhere giving birth. Actually, anyone know if any good fields in the East Bay area?


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There are pronounced regional and sector differences present in the UK commercial real estate market, with prime London office space continuing to outperform the rest of the country, the latest index has found.
According to data released by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), the market has posted modest improvements since the last survey.
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