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September 23rd, 2011 (2:40 AM). Edited May 11th, 2015 by Godzil.
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I'd like to be a dragon. Not a Rider, just a dragon.
A massive brown dragon, with bright green eyes and two large horns sweeping back from his forehead. Large three-clawed hands, and a body designed to stand either bipedal or quadrapedal. ((Picture attached below.))
Praxis may not be the brightest of dragons, but he possesses a savage, brutal cunning that most friends and foes overlook. He is wild and easily angered, with all the grace and subtlety of an earthquake. While he enjoys lording his strength over others, Praxis prefers short, violent ends to conflict.
Full of himself and believing himself better than other dragons, Praxis rarely makes contact with them, and resents taking orders or being on a team. For this reason, he lives a solitary life in a remote location, seeing himself as king of new domain. However, his dislike for humans and elves exceeds his dislike of dragons, and he sees the war as an opprotunity to both curb their rampant growth and prove his right to lead to the other dragons.
The child of gold Bruticus, a mighty dragon warrior, Praxis was always keen to follow his father's footsteps. When he was only 2 weeks old, he ventured forth into his desert home, eager to hunt for his first meal and prove his worth. He attacked the first creature he saw, a massive scorpion. This ended badly when the scorpion's sting penetrated Praxis' skull, instantly incapacitating the hatchling. His mother, the green Zorak, intervened and nursed Praxis back to health, but his father had turned his back on him.
Praxis would never regain his father's approval, as Bruticus was slain 7 years later, after attacking a human city rumored to have a dragon egg. Bruticus himself started the rumor, and the humans were forgiven for their actions, as they had responded in self-defense. Zorak moved on, but Praxis couldn't, and his mother left him in his new home. As Praxis grew over the years, he became a skilled hunter, but never knew if his father would approve of him, all because of the humans.
Praxis left the desert, where he would occasionally encounter humans or other dragons, and found a new home in a far-off forest. The local elven community feared and respected him, and Praxis procliamed himself king over their tiny village. As proof, he demanded they forge him a crown of steel, plated in gold. The elves complied, and let him hunt any animals he wished. Praxis soon became bored with his compliant subjects, and wished for anything interesting to happen.
Soon, the Prince and Princess were kidnapped and the elves blamed banded together to drive Praxis away, furious at dragonkind for their warmongering, and Praxis in particular for his tyrannical ways. Praxis swore revenge on the traitorous elves, and decided that he would avenge his father's death at the hands of the humans he had attacked. Even if it meant returning to his own kind.
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Kings of the Water Paperback
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When Michiel Steyn returns to the family farmstead in South Africa for his mother's funeral, he has spent close to half his lifetime abroad.
But even after fifteen years' absence, neither Michiel nor those he left behind have truly come to terms with his terrible flight from the farm they called Paradise.As Michiel submits himself to the rituals of mourning and remembrance in the small town and on the land where he became a man, all that has lain undisturbed for years is brought to light.
A father's implacable fury and a brother's violent death, the loss of a child, the betrayal of love and the ugly memory of the dying days of apartheid all come between the prodigal and forgiveness.
Michiel finds that he must confront not only his grief for his mother's passing but the painful truth of his own transgressions.
Elegiac and chilling, poignant and profoundly thoughtful, Kings of the Water is at once a lament both personal and political, and a meditation on the potency of reconciliation.
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Now thirty five, Michiel Steyn returns to his home and farm in South Africa after an absence of fifteen years, the occasion his mother's funeral. His sudden departure while still a conscript was surrounded in mystery and disgrace, and all but rejection by his father. Now he must face his father for the first time since then, his brother and those he loved, and those who perhaps failed him him when as a young man he sought their help.The account spans just the two days in September 2001, but as the events of those tow days unfold we slowly learn about Michiel, the male lover Kamil he lives with in California, the girl he was involved with before is ignominious departure from South Africa and the circumstances and cause of his leaving, the older brother whom he idolised and who died and the secrets surrounding his death, the horrors of apartheid and its lingering effects even now that so disgust him, and the difficult attempts at reconciliation with his father and others he deserted.Kings of the Water is an intriguing, gripping and moving story that reveals much of the Afrikaners' attitude and gives an insight to life in South Africa during and since apartheid. It is beautifully written and constantly swings seamlessly from present to past, from South Africa to California, creating a unique mood of melancholy, and along the way delves deep into the minds and thinking of the diverse characters. King of the waters is a worthy successor to Behrs' previous fine novels, and worth the delayed wait.
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About Blank Homepage Hijack
About Blank is doing my chuff in. I have updated Ad Aware, CWShredder, Hijack This and Buster and run all in Safe Mode. Restarted and clicked on IE and google comes up. This is good. Then the next time I open up IE I get About Blank again. It has also affected if I use my AOL browser.
Guys and Dolls, you have helped me out in the past so I wondered if there are any gems you can pass on to rid my PC of this.
Try RubberDucky's AboutBuster utility. Download it, unzip, double click aboutbuster.exe and select update. After updating, select to scan. It will scan a couple of times. See if it works. click here
1. go to "my computer"
2. double click my "C:" drive
3. double click "search" from the menu bar
4. typed in "dll" without the quotes into the "search for files or folders named:" box
5. once the results were displayed, click the "modified" column to show the most recent date first.
6. find the date which closely matched the timing of the computer being hijacked.
7. right click the culprit dll
8. and delete it.
More info click here
Make sure you have your pc backed up first (i.e. system restore).
It really isn't a good idea to go deleting dll's willy nilly... especially with the 'about:blank problem as it isn't only dll's that are part of the infection but there are usually a couple of executable files too. They all monitor each other and if you don't get them all then you can just end up being re-infected.
Also, methods of fixing can depend on which variant of this infection you have and what your operating system is.
If you would like me to have a look then download Hijackthis from click here extract it into its own folder and then run it. Click on the scan and make log button and wait a little while, eventually a 'save as' box will pop up. Save the log somewhere convenient and than copy the full contents of the text file as a reply to this thread. It may take more than one post as there is an 800 word limit here.
Please don't try to fix anything yourself as a lot of what hijackthis lists is useful and even essential to the running of your PC. I'm at work now and lunchtime is almost over. But I will check back this evening.
I would urge you to take the advice of Nellie2.
I had the same problem a few weeks ago and she sorted it click here.
The click here is just an example of her expertise.
No disrespect to the other posters, but nellie2 is an expert and am sure she will sort it for you.
click here For advice on manual removal of about blank hijack
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R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Search Page = about:blank
R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Search,SearchAssistant = about:blank
R1 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Search Bar = res://C:\DOCUME~1\ALEX&T~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\sp.dll/sp.html
R1 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Search Page = about:blank
R0 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Search,SearchAssistant = about:blank
R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,HomeOldSP = about:blank
This is not the full monty! Please post the whole lot, including the header information. You may need several posts to do this because of the site's 80 word limit.
The version of hijackthis that you are using is very out of date.
Can you delete it and then download v1.99.0 from click here
Then download FxAgentB.exe from click here and save it to your desktop.
After downloading, double-click the FxAgentB file to run it and the program will scan your entire hard drive - this may take a while. When it is done, it will generate a log file called FxAgentB.log - save that information as you will need to paste it here later. Reboot when done.
Next click click here to download CWShredder by Merijn Bellekom and run it, hit 'fix' as opposed to 'scan only'.
Then click click here to download Ad-Aware SE and install. Before scanning click on "check for updates now" to make sure you have the latest reference file. Click "Start", select "Perform Full System scan" and "Next" to start the scan. When the scan is finished, the screen will tell you if anything has been found, click "Next". The bad files will be listed, right click the pane and click "Select all objects" - this will put a check mark in the box at the side, click "Next" again and click "OK" at the prompt "# objects will be removed. Continue?".
Reboot when done, and run hijackthis to generate a fresh hijack log, you can send that to me if you wish along with the FxAgentB log, I'll post them here for you.
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One of the first things my husband requested when our zucchini plant started producing was, "Something like fried zucchini, maybe with parmesan cheese for the coating?"
So we'll give him the credit for basically inventing these. And they were GOOD. Even the leftovers were great cold or room temperature (though they also re-warmed just fine).
First, you'll need to slice your zucchinis into 1/4 inch thick pieces.
Then, coat them in a bit of coconut flour. I put them into this tupperware type container, put the lid on, and shook until all the pieces were covered. Same idea as a ziploc bag for "shake and bake" style coating, but without the trash.
After that step, my fingers got a little too messy to take pictures. I dipped the slices into beaten eggs with a splash of cream, then coated them with grated parmesan cheese.
My first attempt at cooking these was in a pan. Everything cooked and was delicious, but as you can see, the parmesan coating just fell right off.
Remember how this blog is "Domesticity by Trial and Error"? Well, there's trial 1. Time for trial 2!
I placed the dipped and coated zucchini slices on a baking pan and broiled for about 7 minutes on each side (about 8 inches away from the heat element, basically in the center of the oven).
This is what they looked like when I took them out to flip them over. Mmmm!
And this is what they looked like when they were finished and ready to eat!
And this is what they looked like on their way to my mouth…
But then I had to stop and admire the goldeny-brown-ness of the coating.
But then I took a bite. And oh, my! I took many more bites.
To recap…
Parmesan Crusted Baked "Fried" Zucchini
- Slice zucchini into 1/4" thick rounds.
- Coat in sifted coconut flour.
- Dip in a mixture of beaten eggs with a splash of heavy cream.
- Coat in grated Parmesan cheese. (Herbs in the mixture would be nice! But don't add salt. The cheese is plenty salty.)
- Broil 7 minutes on each side.
- Enjoy!
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Verse 25. As he saith also. The doctrine which he had established he proceeds now to confirm by quotations from the writings of Jews, that he might remove every objection. The doctrine was,
(1.) that God intended to call his people from the Gentiles as well as the Jews.
(2.) That he was bound by no promise and no principle of obligation to bestow salvation on all the Jews.
(3.) That therefore it was right for him to reject any or all of the Jews, if he chose, and cut them off from their privileges as a people, and from salvation.
In Osee. This is the Greek form of writing the Hebrew word Hosea. It means in the book of Hosea, as in David means in the book of David, or by David, Heb 4:7. The passage is found in Hos 2:23. This quotation is not made according to the letter, but the sense of the prophet is preserved. The meaning is the same in Hosea and in this place, that God would bring those into a covenant relation to himself, who were before deemed outcasts and strangers. Thus he supports his main position that God would choose his people from among the Gentiles as well as the Jews, or would exercise towards both his right as a sovereign, bestowing or withholding his blessings as he pleases.
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Minutes of Annual General Meeting
Ealing Allotments Partnership
March 5th 2014
Polygon, St Mary's Church, Ealing W5
Approximately sixty members attended the Ealing Allotment Partnership AGM
1. Minutes of the previous AGM
The minutes of the meeting held on 13th March 2013 were approved.
2. Matters arising
There were no matters arising.
3. Chair's report
Helen de Jimenez presented her report as Chair of EAP - a copy of which is attached to these minutes. She noted that during the last year the Executive Committee had concentrated on keeping open its lines of contact with the Council and on looking at the future role of EAP. She told the meeting that she was stepping down from her position as Chair and, subject to his election, would be replaced by Patrick Williams. The intention, she indicated was to refocus the activities of EAP. She mentioned that she, the current Secretary and the Treasurer would be standing for re-election to the Committee to maintain continuity while the new Committee decided on the way forward. She noted that Maurice Wells and Derek Harris had stepped down from the Committee during the past year and thanked them for their support and service during her time as Chair.
4. Annual Accounts
The Treasurer, Dominique van Dooren, presented the combined accounts for the previous accounting period Oct 2011 – Oct 2012 (consideration of which had been deferred for the reasons set out in Minute 4 of the 2013 AGM minutes) and the current accounting period Oct 2012 – Oct 2013. A copy of the accounts, which were accepted by the meeting, is attached to these minutes.
In both cases, expenditure was limited to the cost of running the AGM. This was offset in 2011-2012 by income from donations by members collected at the AGM. In 2012-2013, following a commitment from Chris Bunting to fund the venue costs for future AGMs (recorded in Minute 3 of the 2013 AGM), an additional donation was received from the Council to cover the cost of the hall rent. The overall balance held by EAP increased from £499.80 to £557.80 over the 2011-2012 accounting period and from £557.80 to £680.76 over the 2012-2013 period.
5. Allotment Manager's Report
The annual report from Stephen Cole, Ealing Council Allotment Manager was tabled. It was accepted, in his absence, without discussion. A copy is attached to these minutes.
6. Election of Officers and Executive Committee Members
Patrick Williams, Helen de Jimenez and Dominique van Dooren were re-elected to the EAP Executive Committee as Chairman, Secretary and Treasurer respectively. John Bradley Chair of Blondin Allotment Society) Tony Donegan (Chair of Brentham Allotment and Gardens Society), Andy Doyle (Manager of Braund Avenue allotments), Christina Fox (Chair of Ealing Dean Allotments Association) and Joseph Mangor (Communications Officer of Horsenden Allotments Association) were elected as executive members.
7. Future Plans
Patrick Williams introduced, and led a discussion on, future plans for EAP. He explained that one of the things that clearly emerged from Executive Committee discussions on the subject was that the objectives of EAP as set out in its Constitution, while appropriate as aspirations when EAP was set up, are less appropriate now.
He went through the objectives in turn. The first "fund raising" objective relating to improving all allotments in Ealing is, in practice, only really relevant in the case of education/information aspects and as such largely redundant. The second "education/information" objective in contrast is at the heart of what EAP does best and it was argued that this area could be usefully expanded. The third "Council Liaison" objective as originally framed in terms of the Ealing Allotment Strategy" has again not worn well. In practice, many of the issues that concern EAP and the wider allotment Ealing allotment community lie outside this area and there is a clear necessity for a better defined relationship between the Council and EAP.
The discussion was opened to the floor at this point. There was general agreement that it would be useful to re-define these objectives. Several important points were raised and discussed. It was recognized that with over fifty allotment sites in the Borough, the EAP Committee is not in a position to "negotiate" with the Council on behalf of the community. It can only act as a conduit for information It was also recognized that while EAP had a major role in the flow of information between the Council and the Ealing allotment community, the fact that this flow was now mainly on-line meant that large numbers of tenants were effectively disenfranchised – various possible solutions were proposed. It was agreed that the Executive Committee should take these messages on board in its attempts to refocus the overall objectives of EAP. The question of whether it should try to broaden its "educational" role by seeking funding for more horticultural courses and arranging lectures on horticultural topics was also raised. A show of hands indicated broad support for these ideas.
The session was concluded by a brief discussion over how such changes could be implemented. It was accepted by the meeting that the new Committee should bring a suggested set of revised objectives to the next AGM for approval. It was also agreed that other essential updates to the Constitution such as fixed maximum terms for Office holders and Committee members should be handled in the same way.
8. Any Other Business
Helen de Jimenez drew the meeting's attention to the fact that Kew Gardens had recently announced a "Grow Wild" scheme supported by the "The Big Lottery Fund". Free seed-sowing kits (and funding) are available to community groups interested in reclaiming near-by unloved or disused areas. Further details are posted on the EAP website.
Report from the Committee Chair
During the past year, we have been concentrating on our role of keeping open lines of contact with the Council. We have also been looking at the future role of the Ealing Allotment Partnership. I have decided to step down from the role of Chair of the committee and Patrick Williams has offered, subject to his re-election to the Committee, to take over this role until the new Committee has made its own decisions about the future. I will stand as a member of the committee.
We have two speakers tonight. John Bradley, who represents our communication role, will tell us about the Blondin experience of Self Management. Igor Vaintraub, who represents our educational role, is a soil scientist and runs a small biotech company based at Imperial College. He will be talking to us about soil structure and soil improvement. Subjects, I am sure, that are very dear to all of us.
Our website is still running and there is a quarterly newsletter with current information, available to anyone who wishes to access it. Many thanks to Patrick for his hard work in keeping the website up to date. Funding will be needed to ensure that this facility continues.
We will be collecting contributions at the end of the meeting and would very much appreciate donations to EAP to help towards the running costs. We have received a donation from the Council to help towards the cost of this evening. This will not cover all the expenses that are incurred. Last year your contributions were very generous. Many thanks for that.
Helen de Jimenez
5 March 2014
Ealing Allotments Partnership accounts for period Oct 2011 – Oct 2013
|Opening balance
|General Donations
|Council Donation
|Organic Garden Course
|Surplus / Deficit
Prepared by Dominique van Dooren - acting Treasurer - for the AGM March 2014
Allotment Manager's Report for 2013
Whatever the cause, we're learning to live with extremes of weather: a late, cold spring; a scorching but short summer; a wet autumn and an extremely wet but very mild winter. There's no point in assuming that tried and tested planting plans are going to be right for the coming seasons. In both 2012 and 2013 the most successful gardeners sowed often until they had established plants, and most things came good at some time during the year.
I'm pleased to say that we are continuing to get on top of water waste and loss. In part this is due to tighter monitoring (almost every site has a water meter) so that leaks and unauthorized use are quickly identified. We've had to spend quite a bit on the water supplies, and this will continue into 2014, but I hope that in so doing we will eradicate the worst losses.
The winter storms have caused a lot of damage, and our spending on fencing has been much higher than usual. We're still catching up with the work, but it should all be done by the end of March.
Our regular contractor of the past 20 years or so has left us, his journey from Suffolk taking longer and longer. This is a real disappointment, as no one knows the allotments so well, and he has been a good friend to the allotments over this time. I wish him well, and hope to find a contractor who can take on at least some of this work in the coming weeks.
Following new legislation, metal theft (taps and tanks) has diminished greatly through 2013. But power tools are still attracting thieves, and anywhere the thieves are successful they target again – so if you have a power tool, take it home after use, otherwise you're encouraging thieves to break into sheds over and over again. It's nice to report that on several occasions the thieves have hidden their haul nearby and it has been discovered by vigilant site managers, but please don't rely on such an outcome. Take these tools home, please.
This is a real problem on the majority of sites, and rubbish is surprisingly expensive to have collected. The make-do-and-mend attitude on allotments is commendable, but the desire to hoard materials "just in case" ends up being costly to the budget that we all fund through our rents. The next time you're tempted to take something down to the plot rather than throw it out, please remember that most of this material never gets used.
The balance of 10% was added to the rents this year, bringing about the 50% increase announced in 2011. I've no doubt that to many the rent will seem expensive, but there are benefits to having a balanced budget. One is that it removes allotments from the discussion about what the council tax is used for; from now on, if someone complains that their council tax is paying for your allotment, you can tell them it isn't.
Following Chris Bunting's presentation to last year's AGM, and subsequent meetings, the development of localised management for allotments has moved forward. Horsenden Allotments Association has led the way, based on a model created by Blondin Allotments Association some years ago. This provides for an increased level of local autonomy (and greater control over spending on site) without being cut adrift from Council support. It is early days, but Horsenden can already report some significant success and I hope other sites will see some of the advantages they might take from the arrangement.
At the risk of re-announcing something that has been proclaimed before and then failed to happen, it looks like our new site at Popefield will happen towards the end of this year. It is tied up with the development of a cricket pitch and pavilion, and funding for the latter is now coming together, so I hope to report next year that the allotments are up and running. We've found a partner to take on Wolf Fields Allotments, a virtually unoccupied site in Norwood Green. The charity A Rocha will develop the site as a community resource as well as promoting allotments, and they expect to secure funding of in excess of £120k to clear and develop the land and deliver gardening projects. Wolf Fields has suffered frequent fly-tipping, rough sleepers, and drug abuse, and the advent of A Rocha on site has already put a stop to much of this abuse. We also have a partner in the charity Green Corridor at Western Road Allotments, a small site in Old Southall. This is in its early stages, but heralds another unused piece of land being brought into cultivation as part of a broader regeneration initiative. More generally, the good summer led to reasonable levels of rent renewal. Of course plenty of newcomers found the work more than they had anticipated, but we've never had a year when that hasn't been so.
The recent mild weather means over-wintering crops are doing well, but probably also indicates an explosion in the slug population in spring. If it stays mild, many crops will get off to an early start, though there are plenty of places where the waterlogged soil may not drain in time to take advantage of the early season. There'll be new challenges, but I'm confident that Ealing's allotment gardeners will find ways of benefitting from whatever the seasons deliver.
Stephen Cole
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How to Clean Tile Grout with a Dishwasher Tablet
A simple dishwasher tablet gives brilliant results when used to clean tile grout.
I used it on the grouting immediately behind my oven. In this area, it is easy to wipe over the tiles but the grouting can become stained with greasy deposits from cooking.
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- Use your toothbrush or similar brush to work this solution into the grouting. Leave in place for about five minutes on lightly stained grout and for up to fifteen minutes in heavily stained areas.
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Which Dishwasher Tablet Brand is Best For Cleaning Tile Grout?
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Can I Use Liquid Dishwasher Tabs To Clean My Tile Grouting?
Yes, follow the same steps as above except that you just need to snip open the plastic coating of the tablet and pour the contents direct into the bowl.
Use this straight, there is no need to dilute it first.
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This committee is responsible for EMC's communication plan, website, social media and membership strategies. The committee also measures and manages the satisfaction of its current members.
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- Last updated:
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Roads and traffic statistics tables, produced by the Department for Transport.
Table TSGB0701 (TRA0101)
Road traffic (vehicle miles) by vehicle type
Table TSGB0702 (TRA0201)
Road traffic (vehicle kilometres) by vehicle type
Table TSGB0703 (TRA0102)
Motor vehicle traffic (vehicle miles) by road class
Table TSGB0704 (TRA0202)
Motor vehicle traffic (vehicle kilometres) by road class
Table TSGB0705 (TRA0104)
Road traffic (vehicle miles) by vehicle type and road class
Table TSGB0706 (TRA0204)
Road traffic (vehicle kilometres) by vehicle type and road class
Table TSGB0707 (TRA9905)
Forecasts of road traffic in England and vehicles in Great Britain
Table TSGB0708 (RDL0203)
Road lengths (kilometres) by road type
Table TSGB0709 (RDL0103)
Road lengths (miles) by road type
Table TSGB0710 (RDL0201)
Road lengths (kilometres) by road type and region and country
Table TSGB0711 (RDL0101)
Road lengths (miles) by road type and region and country
Table TSGB0712 (RDL0202)
Road length (kilometres) by road type and local authority
Table TSGB0713 (RDL0102)
Road length (miles) by road type and local authority
Table TSGB0714 (SPE0111)
Vehicle speeds on non built up roads by road type and vehicle type
Table TSGB0715 (SPE0112)
Vehicle speeds on built up roads by speed limit and vehicle type
Table TSGB0716a (CGN0402)
Average delay on the Strategic Road Network in England
Table TSGB0716b (CGN0502)
Monthly and 12 month rolling average delay compared to free flow on local 'A' roads in England
Table TSGB0717 (RDE0101)
Table TSGB0718 (RDE0102)
Road construction tender price index
Table TSGB0719
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Table TSGB0720 (RDE0104)
New road construction and improvement: motorways and all purpose trunk roads
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Could not believe the service at this hospital - like being in a nice hotel rather than an NHS hospital. All of the staff I encountered were completely helpful and friendly - asked me if I knew where I was going etc if I looked even a little bit lost, smiled at me and apologised for being about 5-10 minutes late when I now fully expect to wait for about an hour after my scheduled appointment time before seeing someone and so on. Really nice surroundings and a very clean and peaceful feel to the place as well. Actually the nicest hospital I have ever been to. Basically how you would hope all hospitals would be but never are! Would definitely go back! (I was in Radiology)
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CORPUS CHRISTI (CC Hooks) - Kurt Heyer pitched seven innings of one-run baseball against Corpus Christi for the second time in a week as Springfield held off the Hooks 2-1 Monday at Whataburger Field before 4,488.
Heyer (1-1) allowed seven hits, walked one and whiffed three. Sixty-two of his 96 pitches were strikes. Relievers Joey Donofrio and Dean Kiekhefer teamed up to cover the eighth and ninth.
For the first time in 2014, a Hooks opponent scored first. The run was unearned. Mike O'Neil reached on shortstop Jio Mier's throwing error and tallied as the result of a James Ramsey single and Jonathan Rodriguez fielder's choice.
Corpus Christi's thrust for a first-inning run fell just short when Nolan Fontana was erased at the plate on a throw from center fielder Rafael Ortega. Fontana roped a one-out double to right and didn't have quite enough time to reach the pay station on Andrew Aplin's single.
O'Neill then doubled the Springfield advantage. After Luis Cruz yielded a one-out single to Patrick Wisdom, the lefty walked Greg Miclat and Travis Tartamella to load the bases. Cruz followed O'Neill's sacrifice fly to center with an inning-ending fan of Ramsey.
Cruz (2-1), who went on to retire the last 11 men he faced, booked five innings, an earned run, two hits, two walks and three strikeouts. His pitching tandem partner, Ross Seaton, established a new Hooks team record by running his career innings pitched total to 368 1/3, surpassing Chance Douglass (365 1/3; 2006-08).
The Hooks made noise in the fourth, but Heyer pitched around no-out trouble and wriggled away. Fontana drew a walk and Aplin singled, but Matt Duffy (fly out), Preston Tucker (strikeout) and Tyler Heineman (ground out) were retired to squelch the threat.
Corpus Christi finally nicked Heyer for a run during the sixth, Fontana's one-out triple to right-center preceding a single to left by Aplin. Heyer induced a double-play ball off the bat of Duffy, Springfield's second twin killing in as many frames.
Tucker had his Texas League-leading eight-game hitting streak snapped.
Left-hander Tommy Shirley (1-1) faces Zach Petrick (1-0) Tuesday at 7:10 in the series and homestand finale.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (KYTX/CBS) - There are just two days until $85-billion dollars in across-the-board budget cuts kick in. Right now, there doesn't appear to be any effort in Washington to avoid them.
The White House is insisting that any new plan includes cutting tax loopholes to bring in more revenue. Republicans say they will not approve any more tax increases. Some Senate Republicans are considering a compromise which would keep the cuts in place, but would give the President flexibility to decide which programs and government functions to cut.
Meanwhile, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke appeared before a Senate committee Tuesday and urged Congress to delay the budget cuts. He says the immediate cuts will hurt the economy and fail to deal with long term national debt.
Bernanke says cuts do need to happen, but in the next decade when the rising costs of healthcare will make debt payments a real burden. Bernanke will go back up to capitol hill today to testify about the issue before a house committee.


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Baraja blow for Valencia
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Last Updated: 01/01/70 1:00am
Valencia have confirmed that Ruben Baraja will be out of action for around five weeks.Valencia have confirmed that midfielder Ruben Baraja will be out of action for around five weeks through injury.
The Spain international has torn a muscle in his right leg and will now be confined to the treatment room for over a month.
Baraja sustained the problem during a training session last Saturday ahead of the game at Atletico Madrid.
The news will come as a big blow to Che boss Antonio Lopez as he bids to try and guide the side to a top four finish and UEFA Champions League qualification.
Valencia will also be without Curro Torres, Vicente and Marco Caneira for the visit of Getafe to the Mestalla on Sunday.


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At first read, the Coplien Org pattern TeamPerTask** (two stars for highest confidence) sounds a lot like SacrificeOnePerson* with the principal idea being SomeoneAlwaysMakesProgress*. But reading a bit deeper I found that this pattern actually strongly discourages "cross-functional team members". I should make clear that it in general the patterns support cross-functional teams, having each role represented on each team (HolisticDiversity). But TeamPerTask argues that cross-functional team members are actually less productive because "flow" time is interrupted (quoting the pattern: "Flow is the quiet time in the brain when the problem flows through the designer"). When an individual's activies are diverse, it takes a long time to shift gears and transition "flow" focus. An example given in the pattern is a project where it was inefficient for requirements analysis and design/programming to be done by the same people because it was time consuming for people to transition between diverse tasks. Once separate sub-teams were applied to handle the tasks, the ratio of "flow time" improved and the group was more efficient. The pattern does suggests that certain activities can be paired more effectively, like requirements and analysis.
In our experience with Agile approaches at Danube, if requirements analysis (for example) is handled by a sub-team or individual the rest of the team members suffer not having heard the requirements first hand. No matter how hard we try to effectively document requirements or relate them second hand to other team members, something is always lost in translation. As time wears on this problem compounds itself as more requirements are detailed.
Apparently, it takes around 20 minutes to reach this highly productive state of "flow" and only a minute of distraction to break it. So wouldn't the Scrum principle/pattern BullPen also be discouraged according to this logic? Distractions abound in a BullPen. For example, one of the anticipated results of a BullPen is people "noticing" other teammates in trouble. The sighing, the leaning back in the chair looking puzzled, all of those little "tells" that prompt opportunities to help each other.
At Danube we have a large BullPen that houses all team members without barriers. We've definitely seen the positive effects like spontaneous collaboration and assistance. But I've also noticed people getting distracted and even annoyed by the enthusiastic discussions of team mates or neighboring teams. We've elected to keep our BullPen because the value added outweighs the minor interruptions, but I wonder what others have concluded.
Since both Scrum and Org Patterns arose from empirical research, can anyone shed light on their own experiences related to these seemingly competitive, but empirically concluded, approaches?
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Howard Jacobson has won the 2010 Man Booker Prize for his novel The Finkler Question. In 2007, Gideon Lewis-Kraus wrote in Bookforum: "Jacobson is funnier, sentence for sentence, than early Roth and Joseph Heller put together. All comparisons aside, however, the simple point is that Jacobson deserves to be read, and read widely, on his own terms."
Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie is writing a memoir about the years he spent in hiding beginning in 1989, when the Ayatollah Khomeini decreed that Rushdie should be killed for the "blasphemy" in his novel The Satanic Verses. Rushdie says of the memoir, "So far I feel that I'm right—I'm not getting churned up and upset, I'm just writing it and I'm feeling quite pleased."
UbuWeb, the great online archive of avant-garde poetry, film, music, and performance has been hacked and is closed "until further notice."
Now that Hugo Lindgren has been named the editor of the New York Times Magazine, what should he do with it? First item on the agenda: Hiring his former colleague from New York magazine, Lauren Kern, to be the Magazine's deputy editor.
A copy of Professor Marcus Boon's new book, In Praise of Copying, is available as a free download under the Creative Commons License. Boon writes, "this isn't especially intended as a utopian gesture towards a world in which everything is free. It's recognition of the way in which copies of texts circulate today, a circulation in which the physical object known as the book that is for sale in the marketplace has an important but hardly exclusive role."
Tom McCarthy: odds-on favorite for the Man Booker prize.
Imprisoned 2010 Nobel Peace Prize-winning author Liu Xiaobo has been unable to talk to journalists since the award was announced on Friday, and his wife, Liu Xia, is now under house arrest. During a short visit, Liu told his wife that he was dedicating the prize to victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown. Chinese authorities have called the Nobel a "blasphemy," imposed a blackout on news of the prize, and broken up a banquet celebrating the victory.
The Frankfurt Book Fair ended on Sunday, with novelist David Grossman taking home the fest's Peace prize. Grossman will be appearing tonight with Paul Auster at the 92nd Street Y.
Today is the last day to vote for The Guardian's Not The Booker prize. Meanwhile, the Man Booker prize will be announced tomorrow, and odds-makers are predicting that Tom McCarthy's novel C will win, with one major British betting agency, Ladbrokes, calling off bets on McCarthy's book after a surge of money was placed on the novel last week.
Don Delillo reads a CIA memo outlining the agency's detention, interrogation, and rendition procedures. Delillo, a writer long obsessed with secrets and state power, delivers the memo in an unsettling deadpan, leaving the Delilloesque word redacted ringing in your ears.
A modest proposal: Revive the publishing industry by pulping books.
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The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to imprisoned Chinese author and human rights activist Liu Xiaobo. The PEN American Center has been campaigning for Xiaobo to win the prize (and for his release); last December, authors E. L. Doctorow, Don DeLillo, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Edward Albee, A.M. Homes, and Honor Moore gathered on the New York Public Library's steps to rally on his behalf.
More on 2010 Nobel Prize in literature winner Mario Vargas Llosa: the author's first press conference after winning the Nobel; Granta editor John Freeman on why Vargas Llosa was a "phenomenal choice" for the prize; the London Review of Books' compilation of Vargas Llosa reviews; the Paris Review's 1990 interview with the Peruvian author; and from The Guardian, a list of five of his essential novels, and a fanciful telling of why Vargas Llosa slugged Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
In the summer of 2009, authors Justin Taylor and Eva Talmadge asked for submissions on the blog HTML Giant for pictures of literary tattoos. They've collected about 150 of their favorites in a new book, The Word Made Flesh, and recently sat down with Poets & Writers to discuss the project. The book includes five pictures from Shelly Jackson's "Skin," a short story that's being published one tattoo at a time, each word inked onto volunteers from around the world.
This weekend, Comic Con invades New York City, with comic book conventions, events, and exhibitions throughout the metropolis.
Mario Vargas Llosa
Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa has won the Nobel Prize in literature, becoming the first South American writer to win the 1.5 million dollar prize since Gabriel Garcia Marquez won it in 1982. Perhaps the shared glory will end the longstanding feud between the two authors, which climaxed the day Vargas Llosa decked Garcia Marquez in a movie theater, leaving him with a black eye.
OR books co-publisher John Oakes describes the imprint's unique business model at the Frankfurt Book Fair.
Tonight, NYU is hosting a memorial celebration for David Markson, the experimental novelist (and David Foster Wallace fave) who passed away this summer. Writers Ann Beattie, Art Spiegelman, Pete Hamill, and Chris Sorrentino (among others), as well as Markson's daughter, Johanna, will read from his work and tell stories of his life, and Kate Valk, a member of the art-theater troupe The Wooster Group, will read from Markson's 1988 novel Wittgenstein's Mistress.
Inspired by the New Yorker's "20 under 40" list of novelists, the New Haven Review has compiled a collection of some great young non-fiction authors, including Bookforum contributors such as Rachel Aviv, Joshua Cohen, and Gideon Lewis-Kraus.
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At Publishing Perspectives, Chad W. Post reports on why Douglas Rushkoff, who will speak at the Frankfurt Book Fair, moved from Random House to the innovative start-up publisher OR Books: "With the traditional publishing system, there are too many middlemen, and too many people needing to justify their place in the food chain," he says. "This ends up costing a lot of money, and ultimately costing a lot of time, too."
Tonight, New York City's prose fetishists and fans of experimental fiction will likely be heading to a talk titled "On the Well-Tempered Sentence," featuring Gary Lutz, Ben Marcus, Christine Schutt, and John Haskell.
Although Lorin Stein has done an excellent job invigorating the Paris Review blog, he remains loyal to print. "There's no emotional connection between the reader and the computer screen," he tells the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
The National Book Foundation has announced this year's "5 Under 35," a group of young authors selected by previous National Book Award finalists. The honorees include Tiphanie Yanique, author of How to Escape from a Leper Colony, and Grace Krilanovich, whose new novel is the hard-to-classify The Orange Eats Creeps.
Yesterday, it was widely reported that a thief stole Jonathan Franzen's glasses, grabbing the spectacles right off the author's face during a Monday-evening publication party for Freedom. The perp, who left a ransom note requesting $100,000, was allegedly chased by partygoers, police, and a helicopter, and gave up the specs shortly after the stunt. That's pretty exciting stuff for a book party, but don't take it too seriously: Our sources in London have told us to take the whole story with a "shovelful of salt."
Lorrie Moore
This morning, on the day before the Frankfurt Book Fair, former Soft Skull editor Richard Nash announced the Spring 2011 list for Red Lemonade, the first imprint of his "insurgent publishing start-up" Cursor. It's an exciting list, which includes Someday This Will Be Funny, a new story collection by Bookforum contributor and American Genius: A Comedy author Lynne Tillman.
Elissa Bassist publishes the excellent notes she took during Lorrie Moore's witty conversation with New Yorker fiction editor Deborah Treisman, in which she talked about humor, MFA programs, and her "ideal reader."
When the Nobel Prize for literature is announced on Thursday, the choice will probably be a "confounding one," says David L. Ulin at The Los Angeles Times.
Is anyone else bothered by the fact that Kathryn Harrison's New York Times review of the new edition of Madame Bovary says absolutely nothing insightful about the quality of Lydia Davis's translation? The author of The Kiss offers only four cliched sentences about Davis's new rendering, and here are two of them: "It is a shame Flaubert will never read Davis's translation of Madame Bovary. Even he would have to agree his masterwork has been given the English translation it deserves." She does not mention any other translations, though there are many. Anyone looking for commentary on previous translators of Flaubert's classic can turn to Davis herself, who has written about her predecessors over at the Paris Review blog.
The latest from McSweeney's: Dave Eggers's animal renderings.
Lydia Davis
Tonight at the 92nd Street Y, Lydia Davis reads from her new translation of Flaubert's Madame Bovary. Davis's translations are as bracing and revelatory as her acclaimed short fiction, and her reflections on the process are always edifying (she's been blogging about translating Bovary at the Paris Review's Daily). Quick quiz: How would you translate the phrase, bouffées d'affadissement, from Bovary: 1. Gusts of revulsion 2. A kind of rancid staleness 3. Whiffs of sickliness? According to Davis, these are just some of the ways it has been rendered into English over the years. In a 2009 interview, she remarked, "Translating makes me much more acutely aware of shades of meaning. You have a set problem and you can't get around it by avoiding it. You have to pick just the right word."
This weekend Jonathan Franzen revealed that the UK printer of his new novel, Freedom, accidentally opened the wrong file and printed the wrong version. HarperCollins UK is scrambling to recall the 80,000 copy print run, of which about 8,000 have already been sold. Franzen told The Guardian that the errors were, "a couple of hundred differences at the level of word and sentence and fact [and] small but significant changes to the characterisations of Jessica and Lalitha."
Alyson books, the small press that's published some of the best LGBT literature since it began in 1980, has been forced by financial problems to become an e-book only imprint. Alyson's difficulties have been public since earlier this year, when author Michael Musto's essay in the Voice detailed the delays and frustrations of waiting for his book to be published. Alyson Publisher Don Weise is leaving the imprint as part of the restructuring. Under Weise's tenure, Alyson has published many intriguing books, including David McConnell's recent novel, The Silver Hearted, and Weise was planning to publish Laurie Weeks's highly-anticipated novel Zipper Mouth. Weeks is among the twenty-four Alyson authors with contracts that are now in limbo.
English language readers can follow The Frankfurt Book Fair on this blog.
Stephen Elliott
Martin Amis's State of England: Lionel Asbo, Lotto Lout, David Bowie's Object, Kiran Desai's The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, Naomi Wood's The Godless Boys. Agents reveal some of the big titles they'll bring to this year's Frankfurt Book Fair.
Actor and author James Franco has bought the rights to Stephen Elliott's excellent The Adderall Diaries, which blends memoir, true-crime reportage, and meditations on the trickiness of storytelling. If all goes according to plan, Franco will write the script, direct, and star in the film. Elliott, who founded The Rumpus, seemed happy about the news, though he joked about Franco on Twitter: "Is he handsome enough?"
Flavorwire has assembled a diagram of Infinite Jest.
We can't get enough of Alex Ross's Listen to This. The book—which collects the New Yorker critic's pieces on musicians ranging from Mozart to Bjork—delivers fascinating and complex ideas in crystal-clear prose. Ross clearly really wants you to listen—evidenced by his amazing audio guide. If you're in New York, you can catch the author at two promising New Yorker Festival events this weekend: He'll talk with Yo-Yo Ma on Saturday, and he'll give a presentation on his chapter "Chacona, Lamento, Walking Blues" on Sunday.
Snooki of MTV's Jersey Shore is publishing a novel. Title: The Shore Thing. Book Case blog expects the book to do well.
Hugo Lindgren, the former editorial director of New York magazine and more recently the executive editor of Businessweek, has just been hired to be the new editor of the New York Times Magazine, a title long held by his onetime colleague, New York's Adam Moss. Bill Keller has been looking to the NYTM's biggest competitors to make the replacement: As the Observer recently reported, he first offered the job to the New Yorker's Daniel Zalewski, who turned him down.


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Following a meeting of the city's intercultural panel, on Friday Wrocław City Council announced their 3-tier strategy to take on xenophobia and promote tolerance.
The five year strategy has been put together following the input the city received from its intercultural panel, which includes representatives from different cultures and faiths in Wrocław.
In an article on Wroclaw's official website, the city made it clear that their goal is to see Wrocław be a place whose inhabitants "live in mutual respect, regardless of origin, cultural identity, language or religion."
However, the same article also talks about the challenges that lie ahead: "There is another side of the coin – racism, foreign aggression as well as intolerance of unknown traditions and customs, all of which can be misunderstood under the guise of 'patriotism'."
During the meeting, Rafał Dutkiewicz even went as far as to brand Poland as xenophobic, stating: "Poland is xenophobic and the worse it gets the more you have to do all you can to stop it."
The main points from the 3-tier strategy are as follows:
1. Knowledge and education
- Anti-discrimination tutorials, workshops, conferences and seminars, as well as social awareness campaigns
- intercultural education and meetings with ambassadors of different faiths and cultures
- schemes to be aimed at children, teenagers and adults of all ages
Here the document summarising the meeting and the strategy put specific emphasis on Wrocław's adult population, who it says "carry the main responsibility for shaping the attitudes of young people."
2. Safety
- More use of CCTV, plus support from police and city guards to intervene and support the victims of violence
- Protests against racial violence and discrimination
Here the council also chose to highlight the fact that some people refrain from condemning the racism or xenophobia because they are "worried about their own safety".
3. Integration
- Intercultural dialogue to be fostered and developed
- Continued support for foreigners through services such as (INFOLINK, Polish lessons, University activities for Erasmus students and assistance for migrants and refugees
Aside from the 3 points mentioned above, the city will also look towards overcoming other legal hurdles on their way to thwarting the threat of xenophobia in the city. The issue of responsibility when it comes to the placement of racist or xenophobic posters in public places is just one example here.
The current strategy will be deployed until 2022, when its success will be fully examined. There are opportunities to expand on and tweak the strategy between now and 2022, as every year the scheme will be open to amendments and improvements.


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Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her, that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word, that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish. Eph 5:25-27
A church in transition is never an easy thing. Of the three churches I've attended in my life, two out three went through a major change while I was attending, the first resulting in the doors being permanently closed. One thing I can attest to from those, is that transition hurts. I'm not talking about the little minor changes a church goes through, I'm talking leadership transitions, congregational splits, financial crisis type transitions. The ones that force the issue: should I stay or go?
It's easy to think about going to a different "healthy" church. One that doesn't have people who have offended and hurt you. One that seemingly has their finances together. One that has a great preacher who's been there since they began digging the foundation. But God may have different words for those of us considering "church shopping".
First of all, let me be clear that bible does speak of times when we must leave. In fact Jesus says in Matthew 10 that if we enter a city that isn't worthy to shake the dust off our feet and keep moving (v. 13-14). There are all kinds of reasons that we could move on, but one major reason to stay: what is God's will for me in this transition?
When we look at the above Ephesians passage, we see Jesus and the church being referred to as a marriage, a holy union. Remember those famous marriage vows?
for better or worse
for richer or poorer
in sickness and in health
We are not physically joined to our spouses, thus making it impossible to leave. We are joined by choice, and stay because of love. We chose our spouse, and we choose to stay even when it's worse, sick or poor (and let's be honest, sometimes those moments are pretty ugly, and far worse then we could've ever imagined when we first uttered those vows!). It's not easy to stay in our marriages when we go through those periods of time, but love isn't easy. It's bleak in those moments, and often hope goes missing. But, when we choose to stay regardless of the sacrifices we must make, and come out on the other side, we see blessing. We develop a deeper love and understanding of each other. We become more intimately knitted together and our marriage is strengthened.
Much like marriage, staying at church when it hurts requires sacrifice on our parts. To stay in union with the church body through the worse, the sick, and the financial crisis isn't easy. But Jesus took the first sacrifice in our union when he hung on the cross for our sins, our imperfections, and our failures. When we entered in to a life with him, we chose to be bonded in a Holy union with him, and thus joining in with the rest of the His Body (the church). We chose to join the church we attend, and we stay out of love, just like our marriage. It's that deep love that stays even when it hurts, to work through it, to see it the other side, that causes a deeper bond with the very ones that may have hurt us most. It causes us to see that deep kind of love that God has for us, a love that surpasses hurt, complications, and frustrations.
So, may I encourage you, if you're dreading Sunday mornings. Before you bolt for the door to find a new church (and let me just say, no church is perfect), to seriously consider asking if God wants you to stay through the current hardship. If so, then stay. There will be blessing for you on the other side of the hurt. Forgive the ones who've hurt you, ask for forgiveness where you've wronged others, and stay focused on God's perfect will, not on the mess and transition that's occurring at ground level. When we act in obedience, even when it's hard, it's then that we learn new things about our relationship with Christ, and his loving character.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails… 1 Cor 13:4-8a


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Flooding closes this pedestrian walkway in downtown Norfolk. (Credit: City of Norfolk)
Rising sea level, high tides combine with severe weather to flood Norfolk streets, effectively isolating neighborhoods in this city of 250,000. (Credit: City of Norfolk)
When it floods in Norfolk everyone suffers as the region is flat, the legacy of a meteor that hit southeastern Virginia 35 million years ago. (Credit: Skip Stiles)
Even when flood water recedes tell-tale stains remain on the sidewalk. (Rosanne Skirble/VOA)
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Roasted Red Pepper Salad with Harissa
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- 1 ¼ teaspoons harissa (spicy North African condiment)
- ½ teaspoon fine sea salt
- 1 ½ tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- 6 medium red bell peppers (2 lb)
- ¼ cup olive oil
- ¼ cup raisins
- 1/3 cup finely chopped walnuts
Preheat broiler. Arrange peppers on a broiler pan and broil peppers about 2 inches from heat, turning occasionally with tongs, until skins are blackened, 20 to 30 minutes. Transfer to a large bowl and cover tightly with plastic wrap, then let stand 20 minutes. When cool enough to handle, peel pep...
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text: Human Rights Observatory Thai Corruption Agency Hears Charges Against PM Thailand's National Anti-Corruption Commission will hear negligence charges Thursday against the country's embattled prime minister, Yingluck Shinawatra. Yingluck is not expected to attend the hearing, the latest development in a political crisis that has gripped the country for months. Hundreds of her supporters gathered outside the agency, vowing to block commissioners from entering and setting up a potential conflict. Yingluck is charged with ignoring corruption within a...Read complete article© Voice of America - Thursday, February 27, 2014