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Swansea City will have an eye on the UEFA Europa League group stages when they meet Petrolul Ploiesti in Thursday's play-off.
The Welsh side are yet to concede in the competition, having beaten Malmo 4-0 over two legs in the previous round, and will face a tough test in the first leg against Petrolul, who knocked out Vitesse in the last stage.
If Michael Laudrup's men are to build on their impressive debut in the competition, they will need to recover quickly from Saturday's defeat to Manchester United in the Premier League.
Swansea were beaten 4-1 at home by the English champions and goalkeeper Michel Vorm has called for focus from his team-mates.
The Dutchman believes that his side must improve from Saturday's showing if they are to get past their Romanian opponents and qualify for the group stages.
"This (the Manchester United game) was a disappointing result for us, but we have to move on," he told the club's official website.
"It's great that we have a game so quickly – particularly at home.
"Hopefully we can bounce back straight away. That would be a boost for us because we have a tough game at Spurs a few days after that."
Swansea will be without Jonathan de Guzman for the clash, with the Dutchman not having recovered from the concussion that he suffered while on international duty.
Ivorian Wilfried Bony is likely to feature against Cosmin Contra's men, with the in-form striker having scored twice against Malmo and once against United.
Contra saw his side maintain their unbeaten league run on Saturday as they drew 1-1 with Ceahlaul Piatra Neamt in Liga 1.
Petrolul have drawn three and won two of their five domestic games so far - having also successfully negotiated two rounds of their first European competition since 1990-91.
After dispatching Vikingur 7-0 on aggregate, they edged past Peter Bosz's Vitesse 3-2, thanks to a 90th-minute Gheorghe Grozav goal.
Grozav is his side's top scorer in this year's competition and his goalscoring exploits are likely to be needed again if Petrolul are to progress.
Prior to the Manchester United defeat, Swansea kept clean sheets twice against Malmo as well as in all seven of their pre-season friendlies.
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TL:DR? They're working on it. They have all the components, but the people putting the engine together need more training and new tools.
It was after 7pm on a Monday night when I received the email inviting me to a press trip in Azerbaijan, barely three weeks away. The invitation was so odd, with its ongoing late night infomercial but-wait-there's-more tone, that I had to read it twice to be sure it wasn't extremely well targeted spam. The capper of this hard-sell invite was the equally hilarious and sad line, "Best of all, it is one of the few locations in that region free from any religious strife!" There wasn't an exclamation point in the actual email, but it was implied.
Though my history with press trips has been spotty, I was intrigued by the destination. Azerbaijan was in an entirely new realm for me – kind of Central Asia, kind of the Middle East — though the people there insist they are in fact the gateway from Europe to Asia. Europe agrees, apparently, because Azerbaijan participates in the Eurovision Song Contest, even hosting the event in 2012 per tradition after their 2011 win, and will host the 2015 Euro Games
The most discouraging/frightening part was the schedule. I'd be flying across 10 time zones, more than 25 hours in transit each way, for barely three days on the ground ,then flying right home. My request to fly in early or stay late was denied without explanation. My ass ached just thinking about it. But like many travel writers, my curiosity about the unknown is far more powerful than my self-preservation instincts, so I agreed to go.
Azerbaijan, about the size of Maine, bordered by such strife-y countries as Iran, Georgia, Armenia and the wild card that is Russia, lives off of one giant export: oil. But like the Norwegians and the Saudis, Azerbaijan must be thinking long term about the day when the oil fields go dry and they have precious little else to fall back on apart from modest agriculture. Thus their renewed investment in tourism and raising their destination profile by hosting events like the Euro Games and the Baku Challenge, a Formula 1 car race that coincided with my visit and, by the way, the people bankrolling the whole press trip.
Azerbaijan was formerly a popular tourism destination within the USSR in the 1980s, but the fall of the Soviet Union and the bloody Nagorno-Karabakh War with Armenia in the 90s put a stop to that. Tourism numbers are climbing again, but are still a fraction of what they once were and presumably could be.
The first morning of the press trip was, I must admit, not my best day. I'd arrived at the hotel at about 11:00 the previous night, punchy and limping after over 28 hours in transit from Minneapolis. My desperately needed nine hours of sleep that night was interrupted twice: once when the front desk called well after midnight, 15 minutes after I'd descended into melatonin oblivion, to ask me about my visa and again at 3:30am when a member of the staff tried to barge into my room without knocking for reasons that the front desk was never able to explain after my complaints. (I was provided with a plate of fruit, sweets and cookies as an apology.) Fortunately, I had the bolt closed, so I didn't have to deal with a stranger through a haze of exhaustion and melatonin while standing in my underwear, but the noise, shock and confusion kept me up for nearly an hour. Suffice to say, I was a crabby, foggy mess.
First thing, we were ushered into the hotel's ballroom for a presentation by members from the Azerbaijani Ministry of Tourism. I was devoting so much concentration to appearing alert and attentive that I wasn't doing a good job of absorbing the actual presentation itself. This wasn't entirely my fault.
The bulk of the presentation was done by a deadpan PR woman who remained seated the entire time, head down, her microphone picking up almost nothing, reading off a piece of paper while clicking through a PowerPoint presentation written in Comic Sans. All she needed was to rip a fart to earn Public Speaking Fail Yahtzee. Her accent was often indecipherable and I later realized that she couldn't truly speak English, she was just reading verbatim from a speech apparently prepared by someone else that actually spoke English. I wondered why they simply didn't allow that person to deliver the presentation, just for the sake of clarity.
There were lots of platitudes and buzz words, but few specifics about Azerbaijan's tourist attractions, including a token mention of eco-tourism without any elaboration, and some confusing statistics about a new ski resort "among the best in Europe," again, without elaboration, which may or may not be open already. We were never able to get a definitive answer.
Then a bored-looking "representative" of the tourism ministry gave a short speech, making a point of touting Baku's new Carpet Museum, like pretty much everyone else we encountered on the trip. (They're very proud, and, as I learned later, rightfully so.) He was also barely comprehensible, speaking a full foot from his mic in a low voice that I could scarcely hear from the second row, and wearing the grim face of a guy delivering bad news about surgery.
Then the floor was open for questions, which were translated to our non-English-speaking international tourism representatives by an interpreter. Someone tried to get clarification about the ski resort. There was a question about when/how the challenging e-visa application and letter of invitation rigmarole might be made simpler and more accessible to independent tourists. Someone asked about Baku's notorious traffic gridlock and how this will affect the 2015 Euro Games. (Paraphrased answer: "The government will fix it.")
In my delirium, wanting to seem engaged, I grabbed the mic and in unintentionally aggressive phrasing asked about the Mercer Health and Sanitation report I'd stumbled on that rated Baku as the most polluted city in the world, beating legendary dirt pits like Mumbai, Bagdad and Port au Prince, Haiti. The ministry representative dodged the question by simply inviting me to walk around and see for myself how clean the city was. Problem solved! In your face, Mercer.
After repeated dodges of difficult questions, vague answers to others, and the overall lifeless presentation about the infinite wonders of their country (our hosts only cracked a small smile once throughout the entire presentation), it became clear to me that Azerbaijan's aspirations for serious tourism probably won't be fulfilled until they hire some PR pros to at least handle these press events, if not guide their entire marketing strategy. Someone who will stand up and speak animatedly in front of 40 journalists from around the world. Someone that can provide direct answers, or at least deflect with creative spin. Someone that can communicate in English clearly, not only for appearances and accuracy, but for the sake of the pained-looking French, Czech, Japanese, Taiwanese, Malaysian and other non-native English speakers in the room who clearly weren't getting much from the presentation and whose notes were probably limited to "Comic Sans, LOL!"
Indeed, this baffling lost-in-translation scene was repeated throughout the trip. Rather than hire up-beat guides with English skills at least equal to the average Baku coffee shop barista, who spoke excellent English, we were mostly led around by barking drill sergeants with impenetrable Russian accents who'd lived through the worst of the USSR period and were therefore prone to long, bitter digressions about how the Russians and Armenians were to blame for everything wrong with Azerbaijan.
I say all this discouraging stuff out of the gate to 1) get it out of the way and 2) so you too can feel as frustrated as I did when I happened upon one wonderful thing after another in Baku and concluded that Azerbaijan deserves better representation. It ain't San Francisco, but it can definitely hold its own in a comparison to a lot of cities in Europe, particularly east of Vienna, and no one will be the wiser while these mumbling, comatose bureaucrats are in charge of selling it.
Despite being promised that our group of 40 journalists and photographers would be split into more manageable groups of 10, we were all immediately loaded en masse onto a bus and yelled at by the first of our drill sergeant guides as we careened toward the Azerbaijan National History Museum.
And I really mean it when I say "careened". The driver took his orders to get us there as fast as possible very seriously, wrenching the bus around corners and weaving between traffic like a rally car driver. When we hit Baku's infamous traffic gridlock, every non-Azerbaijani on the bus gasped and clawed for something to hang onto as the driver went over the center line and headed straight into oncoming traffic, which, thankfully, swerved to avoid us. Noticing that he'd lost his audience, our guide assured us this driving maneuver isn't all that unusual in Azerbaijan, but this reassurance did little to calm the 40 over-tired foreigners on board.
Indeed, the labor and resources used to paint traffic lanes on the streets of Baku were a complete waste. Lanes were meaningless. Cars just zoomed along wherever there was space. In fact, I'm pretty sure some people were intentionally driving their cars centered on the paint out of spite.
We were led through the National History Museum at something approaching a moderate jog. This pace and our guide's accent — deteriorating due to his auctioneer speaking speed — made absorbing anything virtually impossible. I abandoned any effort at taking notes or taking more than a glancing look at most items, lest I be left behind. The museum, opened in 1921 in one of central Baku's gorgeous neo-Baroque buildings, is a bit dated at times, but it's certainly rich with material from prehistoric history to the near-present and meticulous in its signage printed in Azerbiajani, Russian and English. Our guide apologized for the ridiculous pace, saying it was critical we stay on schedule, but we could have a more thorough visit the next time we were in Azerbaijan.
This sentiment was expressed repeatedly during the trip. We could spend more time, see more, learn more the next time we came to Azerbaijan. I wondered how many people in my group would ever return? Or how they would do justice to Azerbaijan in their articles after this truncated visit? Why fly in 40 journalists only to not let them absorb the attractions?
Another hair-raising ride on the bus took us to lunch, where, again, we were in such a rush the photographers only managed a few pictures of the food. That 40-something people were being attended to by just two servers did not help matters. Food was set down and taken away in mere minutes. I became a blur of eating efficiency, swallowing twice chewed mouthfuls like a duck, in my effort to get a taste of everything and also get enough calories to get me to dinner.
We roared to the wonderfully trippy Heydar Aliyev Center, designed by Iraqi-British architect Dame Zaha Hadid. I'm happy to report that things improved from here. The Center is just fantastic, inside and out, reminiscent of a partially collapsed blanket fort. Among other things to ogle, there's another Azerbaijan history museum inside focusing on 20th century history, laid out like a modern art installation.
The pace mercifully slowed for the remainder of the day. We saw a variety of Baku's impressive and tasteful architecture, including the Flame Towers and the new, surprisingly captivating Carpet Museum, which resembles a half rolled-up carpet. Indeed, you'd be hard-pressed to find a public building in Baku built in the past five years that has more than a couple 90-dgree angles. They seem infatuated with curves, waves, and exterior LED lights.
It was during our tour of the historic center that evening, parts of which date back to the 12th century, conducted at a pleasant, normal human walking pace, when I concluded that Baku was never going to be "the next Dubai," a phrase that's been worryingly well circulated. There's certainly the expected wretched excess of an oil center, but there's also legitimate ancient history here, complimented by all those classic neo-Baroque buildings in the city center and thoughtful modern architecture sprouting up everywhere. Compound those enticements with nightlife that my pals at Lonely Planet have rated as among the best in the world, and a metro system to bypass some of that heinous traffic, and you really could do a lot worse than a week in Baku.
Alas, there are a few kinks to work out before independent travelers start arriving in measurable numbers, namely that demoralizing e-visa and invitation letter process, the scarcity of hotels below four stars, and their treasured historic center, a UNESCO Heritage site classified as "in danger" due to a baffling combination of neglect and dubious restoration efforts that have left some ancient structures looking almost like new. Strange as it was to read, it behooves me to add that my email invite to the press trip was on point about the strife-less atmosphere. Azerbaijan is overwhelmingly Muslim, with several religious minorities going about their business here unmolested. And with the country being surrounded by a whole lot of places your mother would prefer you don't visit, the vibe here is surprisingly cool and friendly. Sure, corruption is rampant, the president is positioning himself to serve at the post for life and there was a pretty unpleasant dust up with the harassment and detainment of local journalists earlier this year, but if you're looking to explore the region relatively worry-free, this is the place to go.
In a rather unexpected twist, the trip organizers didn't have any problem with people skipping parts of the schedule to wander on their own. This is almost unheard of on press trips. So, the next day I declined a tour of the Euro Games facilities and watching Formula 1 cars race in circles and instead crisscrossed the city alone on foot, taking pictures of the historic center's city walls, the 12th century Maiden's Tower, the 15th century Palace of the Shirvanshahs, the 14th and 15th century caravansaries now operating as restaurants, the (free!) miniature book museum, said to be the only one of its kind in the world, and all the windy, tight streets and alleys.
I made my way to the "New Bazaar" north of the historic center where I haggled for what was the most expensive food item I've ever purchased: a container of "illegal" beluga caviar, straight from (hopefully clean part of) the Caspian Sea. I don't know what made it illegal. The sale of the stuff was happening right out in the open. On the advice of friends, I also paid a visit to Gulluoglu Bakery, in business since 1871, where I was promised I'd eat the "best baklava on the planet." I have yet to eat all the baklava on the planet, but I can confirm that the stuff Gulluoglu makes is amazing. I gobbled half of it down, before I thought to take a picture. Our final day in Azerbaijan had only one item on the schedule: visiting the Gobustand National Park and Museum. The park has cave carvings believed to be 5,000 years old. We noted that some of the carvings looked suspiciously fresh, but we were assured that the age of the carvings had been confirmed by "expensive Japanese equipment." So, definitely legit, I guess.
But before that contemplative excitement, we had to suffer through one last tour/lecture in the museum from a guy that spoke English about as clearly as New York subway announcer. Not satisfied to simply tell us about the history of the park, he also went into great detail on pedantic subjects like Azerbaijani fruit, farm animals, various dishes, tea, some Georgian history (I think he was running out of material) and finally treated us to an impassioned speech on what tap dancing dicks the Russians were during Soviet times. I don't doubt that this is true, but I think this was the wrong time and audience for that diatribe.
The pace and the scheduling insanity of the trip continued right to the very end, when I had to get up at 1:00 am to be at the airport for a 5:00 am flight home. Six days later, as I write this, my body is just getting back to normal from all that economy class sitting.
The quiet desperation of Azerbaijan's tourism aspirations is all too familiar to me. Romania, where I've lived and researched a number of Lonely Planet guidebooks, has struggled for years to attract the tourism they, from my perspective, richly deserve. They just can't seem to find the marketing savvy to do it properly or, in extreme cases, not hilariously. I also think of Moldova, another of my Lonely Planet research areas, who have far fewer natural attractions to work with than Romania, but seem to have a bit more aptitude for putting on press trips, as I learned during an agreeable, wine-soaked trip in 2013. Perhaps the two countries should join forces.
But back to Azerbaijan. They're clearly in it to win it and they have the cash and resources to make it happen. Triumph, or at least an upward spike towards triumph, is so close, so attainable. Direct flights from New York to Baku will be starting soon, with (allegedly) visa-on-arrival service. More two and three star hotels and even hostels are being planned. And did I mention the food? It's all lamb, mutton, chicken, vegetables (pureed and whole), sauces, bread, cheese and that sweet, sweet baklava. When consumed at a normal pace, it's pretty great. Independent travel trailblazers, now's the time to go to Azerbaijan. Plan ahead to snag a room in one of the scant three-star hotels in the historic center and brace for medium-caliber bureaucracy with the visa application. Travelers that prefer not to make vacation planning a temporary part time job, give Azerbaijan a couple years. It'll only get better.
Leif Pettersen (leifpettersen.com) is a freelance travel writer, humorist and silver medalist at the 2014 International Jugglers' Association championships (youtube.com). He's visited 53 countries (so far) and tweets at @leifpettersen.
A virtual postcard: I can't say this enough. The best way to see a place is with people who live there. And I am so lucky to have made friends here in Hawaii with people who are fun and kind and good company.
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Often over at Designer Digitals there is always a fabulous challenge going on... a technique challenge, and inspiration challenge, a scraplift, a theme to follow... you name it they have a challenge for it! Fabulous ways to fire up your mojo and move any creative block. I not only take part in some challenges, I also host one every month on the Designer Digitals blog. So I make page for these challenges that cant be shared until the challenge goes live online.... and I've discovered I keep forgetting to post my pages 'out in the world' once that happens. SO without further ado here are two pages I've not shared.
This was my iTunes inspired challenge. You can read the blog post here, and if you click here you can see the gallery of endless talent it inspired! woohoo!
This one was for the Blending challenge - I love this one.
theres another in the pipeline... which I will try to remember to post on time!
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1) Flickr... I have a love/disinterest/love relationship with flickr.... currently I'm right back at the LOVE part. What do I love? I love my ability to use it as a secondary storage of my full res photos. Private downloading available back to my own computer of full size images if I lose an image or a {nother bloody} hard drive fails. Love the sharing with other photogs too, the sharing amongst groups of similar subjects and passions {when does your macro of a daisy flower look amazing? when you view it full screen on your computer... when does it look beyond amazing? when it joins a group of a thousand other macro daisy photos and you view it as a part of a whole...} I love the favourite button - its better than like at facebook because trust me, you dont hit it for just anything, just a very select few pictures, so it means lots to get some of your own photos 'favourited'... {And when your photo shows over hundreds of views? Super exciting! }And I love the organising ability of my own photos, into beautiful little online albums. Cant list good things about flickr without mentioning the 'explore' pages of flickrs favourite photos. Changes every day and covers millions of uploads a day. Proud to bits to have been on flickr 'explore' three times now. Woot!
2) SO MANY photo shoots I cannot share lately!!!! Its all about CHRISTMAS gifts and surprise gifts at that. Not to mention what has been my most favourite animal photoshoot EVER last week; that is all shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh until december. *insert aaagggghhhhhhhh emoticon here* When you capture a good shot you just want to show everyone. I am not exactly known for my patience.... !!!
3) Quite stupidly I clicked on a link to a very very swanky website in a far off country. I fully intended to be inspired by their holiday decor and copy/lift/blatantly steal their ideas for decorating my home for Christmas. Instead after oooooing and ahhhhing all the way thro the site I wanted all of it. Then discovered they dont ship. Like; ever. How depressing. Never mind at over £20 a bauble its probably a good thing... I DO find it very depressing tho. WORLD WIDE web. I personally can put things in envelopes for America/Africa/Australia/other countries not beginning with A, so why is it so difficult for companies to offer to do the same....?
4) Speaking of posting/mailing things.... I might be the last person in the world to discover couriers like My Hermes. After a bit of a ...discussion, shall we say, with a Post Office staff member over the posting of a parcel - it was going to be £11 because it was 'too long', it was about 16 inches long and very thin widthwise- I discovered my hermes will come to your door {hurrah no more weirdos in the post office queue!} at an agreed time and deliver it within two days, guaranteed, and this parcel was £3!!!! Thats it, thats me sorted. and the end of the Post Office I think, if it doesnt buck its ideas up.
5) Learning curves are expensive. Always. If you've ever had kids, particularly more than one kid, you will be able to recall the things you believed you just had to have before the baby arrived. Those things you were sure you needed, or had relied on before. Then, when the baby arrived, you didnt use those things, or need them or find they worked the same way. I'm sure its the same way with puppies, or other pets. Its certainly been the way with horses. I have a bunch of why on earth.... things I am never going to use with Puzzle, and a list of things I ended up needing and having to get instead. Just because they worked with my previous ponies meant nothing. And oh my, just because someone told me I should have some things, didnt mean I actually used them. Its been an expensive road but finally I am down to just a few things left I would like for him, but he pretty much has all he needs now. Why am I telling you this? Probably because the expensive part of that learning curve still smarts, but mainly to remind you to stick to your own ideas and rules. If your baby/horse/puppy is fed, comfortable and loved; stuff every rule, regulation and know-it-all. Do it your way. My chickens will back this up, otherwise they would not get a mince-pie every december, nor occasional cake crumbs in summer and they would be very very sad about that.... ;)
6) I have a 99% finished kitchen and a 75% finished -and workable- laundry room. Progress, people!! I am loving our house, as we find our feet in it and shuffle the last things about. Truly delighted we have not left it a work in progress for years and years. Finding myself back to being a bit of a homebody again. Love being home and pottering about. ~Balanced beautifully with being outside with the pony in the mornings. Its a good life. If I was to make it perfect I'd eradicate the school run completely ;) {hahaha!} and move the pony closer, like in the actual garden please :)
7) speaking of the pony. We have a bunch of new photos of him :) Yey! We love him :) He is our daily dose of laughter. and possibly gets away with being the cheekiest naughtiest pony ever because he's so adorable....
8) Wish me luck. Selling a bunch of stuff on ebay. I used to do this alot. but the post office hassle, ebay fees and general stupidity of some ebay users put me off for ages. However I refuse to throw out or donate any more stuff. In the last year alone we have filled four skips, gone to the tip at least seven times and junk shop donated numerous times too. The last stuff left from our recent sort out is, I believe, is now the GOOD crap!LOL
9) Christmas panic grabbed me a little last week. Its not the day itself of course, its the damn gift buying. I can tell you now, I really dislike it. I just want to buy my kids something - big and little kids- and leave it at that. A ton of not sure what to buy so got this gifts still to get really depresses me. Hands up if you can recall all your gifts from last year ... no, trust me, one or two aside, you cant. So why do we sweat, toil and fret over them? Write lists and juggle money we dont have, worry and argue over them? Have a cake and coffee on me and lets just have a nice day instead.
10) Anybody else answer their text messages/emails in their head .... and then possibly forget to actually reply? I tend to quick read them when I am out, in case it is important. I go; no, no , maybe, goodness me no way, yes, okay yes, to all of them, in my head. This must totally trick my brain into think we have dealt with it. I go around feeling efficient then days later people are retexting me with 'hello? hello? is this thing on?' ....whoops....
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Actually, that title is a bit misleading. I have a LOT of favourite cookie recipes ;) But this is a great easy go to one when you want realiably good cookies in a flash. Its based on a recipe that came with my beloved Magi Mix food mixer.
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The best thing about this isnt that I made it, or that it looks a bit like those papercuts I so like. its that several of these horses are actually Puzzle, digitally cut from photos :)
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1) Please dont ask what happened to Ten On Tuesday {T-o-T} last week. Or any week you find it missing on the blog. Because then I'll have to ponder coming up with a smart, cute answer before ending up just admitting because I forgot it was Tuesday. See, Mondays I am aware of, they are pretty different to the Sunday. And often on a Monday I think ooo, tomorrow must write T-o-T. And then, somehow, its Wednesday. And then before you know it, its Friday afternoon. My entire life is like this. Maybe I'll get super organised and prewrite/delay post all my T-o-Ts. No holding your breath on the 'super organised' part tho.
2) Do me a favour. Think of a compliment, and pay it to someone. Its so easy to criticise. But lets play nice instead. Monday I did not have the greatest evening, but earlier that day I had two compliments from two very different people/situations that literally carried me through the not so good moments. The compliments were about my parenting {dont we all question our parenting at times?} and my long three year gym and fitness 'I will get there' routine. How very fabulous I felt each time. Wonder if those two ladies know how much of an impact their words made on my day?
3) I can survive on very little sleep. Ask anyone who is unfortunate enough to have been away with me. However I can only survive on little sleep if I actually sleep. I've been doing that thing of waking up, checking clock, waking up, checking clock, etc etc for several nights now. Driving me crazy {and killing me slowly I think...} Think its time to see if a change in diet can help, or ... something. Or I might go nuts.
4) Speaking of diet. Mine is falling apart in the mornings. I need something for breakfast I can eat fast and sometimes on the go. Usual healthy, veggie and preferably sweet rules apply. I'm so sick of breakfast bars/snack bars not to mention most of them are shocking healthwise. So come on, tell me your good recipes...
5) I now bake almost exclusively gluten free. {Cannot imagine baking something lovely and saying 'oh sorry Moll, you cant have this'} And I think I have every recipe figured out that I used to bake with gluten. Except - good scones that taste of something and not cardboard, and cut out biscuits that do not spread or melt out of shape. In particular gingerbread. help!!
6) I had to laugh about recipes the other day. I am open to trying new ingredients, my larder stocks more ingredients than most larders. I have four types of flour, five types of sugar and thats just 'for everyday'. Downloaded a much hyped app with gluten free and super healthy recipes on. It was not Europe based, -sigh- and I had not heard of most of the ingredients. In fact a little digging and googling later I discover I cannot GET most of the ingredients in the UK. Gotta love it when a recipe asks for dried bark of certain trees and extract of some plant only growing in a five foot square of remote Alaska.*
* yes okay I exaggerate... But it felt like that.
7) A point to note. People who serve coffee in coffee shops should maybe not comment on the price of coffee nor amount of coffee the customer is buying. Firstly your boss would kill you, secondly so might I ;if I need a larger than normal large coffee and its quite early in the day, you can bet my mood is not one to be toyed with. Just saying...
8) Its the season of 'what would they like...' phone calls. I dont know about you but I do not have a hotline to santa. I have no idea what to get relatives of mine because I have not read their lists - Santa has. If I knew what to get them I'd have got it myself. The only exception here is the small people. I have a vague clue about them, but its getting harder as they grow older. If its a male relative I completely and utterly dont know. Lets all do what we usually do and get them something they stick in a drawer forever. WHY are men so hard to buy for? because they are fairly selfish self sufficient creatures and if they wanted it, they went and got it weeks ago. I however had a great long list but then feel bad about asking for things, so say the obligatory 'Oh I dont mind' . Me and every other girl. I have about three people on my list I know what to get. the rest are getting a mug/voucher/book. Or maybe a voucher for a mug and book. I really dont care anymore. If Christmas is still about gifts to you, you must be very very young or horribly disappointed every year. Personally Christmas is about wine, cake and Dr Who specials ;) {I kid I kid....} {mostly}
9) Today, in my corner of the globe, its raining. windy rainy rain. :( The chicken, the pony, the cat and I are a bit miserable in this weather. Some of us want to stay in and hibernate and feel blah for doing so, and some of us want to go out but get wet cold and miserable the minute we do. Its a lose lose situation. It also means I am scared to open my weather apps.
10) A cause for celebration, I have emptied and put away the last two boxes. With the kitchen revamp and the mass redecorating there was no reason to unpack absolutely everything. Now it is done. {Well, the garage isnt done because the laundry room isnt finished yet... but internally, the house is unpacked!!} You know youve got to the last few boxes when you unpack things like cookie cutters, cake candles and 'comes out at every party' roll of bunting.....
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From EatingWell: July/August 2009
This lower-calorie, nonalcoholic version of pina colada uses ripe bananas blended with fresh pineapple and coconut milk. Serve it in festive tropical-drink glasses.
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- 2 very ripe bananas
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WINNIPEG -- The CFL's vice-president of officiating says new rules being voted on May 8 look to raise the bar on respect and sportsmanship this season.
Glen Johnson was in Winnipeg on Wednesday as he meets with team officials across the country to discuss officiating, including proposed new rules.
Among them are stricter curbs on taunting and objectionable conduct, including abuse of officials, hits away from the play, low blocks from the front and so-called peel-back blocks.
There will be expanded use of the replay with automatic reviews of all turnovers and the ability to review pass interference both when a call is made and when one isn't.
Teams and their quarterbacks will be able to prepare and use their own game balls this season and Johnson said officials will be held to a high standard as well, with those that are performing the best working more.
The league's board of governors must vote on all the proposed changes but he says, historically, they have usually given their approval.
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More than 50 people have died so far in fighting that started 10 days ago and that has deepened fears post-war Libya is slipping further into lawlessness, with its government unable to control heavily armed brigades of former rebel fighters battling for power.
"There has been serious conflict in Libya for the recent months... We have taken measures for the evacuation of a few hundred Turks in Libya," Davutoglu said in an interview with Turkish broadcaster AHaber.
"The measure of evacuating the embassy may be considered," he said, warning that deteriorating conditions in Libya risked creating a "domino effect" of instability in the region.
Turkey is still trying to secure the release of 49 hostages seized last month from its diplomatic mission in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul by fighters loyal to the Islamic State militant group.
The government was widely criticised for not evacuating its Mosul consulate earlier, and the hostage crisis comes at an awkward time politically for Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, who is hoping to be elected president in polls due next month.
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Sunday, December 14, 4:00 & 7:00 p.m.
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In between performances, from 5:45-6:45 p.m., there will be an outdoor live nativity complete with animals, shepherds, wise men, and the holy family. The nativity presentation will be located on the west side of the campus.
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The board of directors for Hutcheson Medical Center announced Wednesday evening that the hospital will suspend its labor and delivery services as of Dec. 31. Officials cited the suspension of services "as part of a larger strategic plan to refocus the hospital's resources on community medical and surgical services that are financially viable and return the hospital to profitability."
Hutcheson's Certificate of Need allows the hospital to resume services within a 12-month period.
"Suspending Hutcheson's labor and delivery unit is a very difficult decision and one that we do not make lightly," stated Corky Jewell, chairman of the board for Hutcheson Medical Center. "But for the hospital to operate independently, the board and executive management must evaluate service lines which are not financially viable as part of a broader strategic plan to ensure Hutcheson's sustained profitability."
Mr. Jewell added that gynecological surgeries and inpatient pediatric medical care, two services previously combined with labor and delivery as Hutcheson's Women's Center, will remain part of the hospital's services.
Hospital officials stated that the labor and delivery service loses approximately $2 million annually, and the hospital has seen a steady decrease in births over the past 12 years as local birthing centers have become more competitive.
Farrell Hayes, interim CEO and CFO/COO, said, "Suspending labor and delivery services allows Hutcheson to refocus our resources and attention to growing medical service lines including cardiology, pulmonology, gastroenterology, and orthopedics that are needed in the community, are financially viable, and will allow Hutcheson to remain fiscally strong and operate independently."
Mr. Hayes stated that while the jobs of 37 employees will be impacted by the suspension of services, qualified employees will be offered comparable positions currently open in other parts of the hospital. "Employees who are not qualified for comparable jobs, or choose not to accept a comparable job, will be provided a severance package," he said.
Noting there are four hospitals with labor and delivery service in the region, Mr. Hayes stated that "the community will not experience a gap in delivery and neonatal service. We are working with the physicians and other hospitals to provide seamless transfer of services for any patients who may be in the neonatal ICU or nursery on Dec. 31. We recommend all pregnant mothers who were planning to deliver at Hutcheson contact their physician for more information."
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When will Hutcheson suspend Labor & Delivery services?
· Hutcheson will suspend its labor and delivery services no later than Dec. 31. We will continue to deliver babies up until that date and provide the same level of maternity and neonatal care, including in the Level 2 NICU, but no later than Dec. 31.
Why are you suspending Labor & Delivery? I thought it was making money.
· There is a public perception that Hutcheson's Labor and Delivery service is profitable, however, the reality is that labor and delivery loses $2 million dollars annually, and the hospital has seen a steady decrease in births over the past 12 years as local birthing centers have become more competitive. In fact, over 60% of all the babies born to Walker, Catoosa, and Dade county residents are delivered at Chattanooga-area hospitals. Certainly it is a very difficult decision to suspend a labor and delivery unit for any hospital, and one that is not made lightly. However, suspending Labor and Delivery services allows Hutcheson to focus on becoming a true community medical/surgical hospital and be financially viable.
Why a suspension of services? Does that mean you open the center back up?
· Hutcheson's Certificate of Need allows the hospital to resume services within a twelve month period. Given that four area facilities also deliver babies, Hutcheson will only resume the service if it is deemed to be financially viable.
Will you still do gynecological surgeries?
· Yes. We will still perform gynecological surgeries, such as hysterectomies, both at the main hospital and at Hutcheson on the Parkway.
What will happen to pediatric patients? Will you still admit children?
· We will still admit pediatric patients and are working on a plan to relocate inpatient pediatric services to the main medical/surgical area.
What happens to the babies that are still in the hospital nursery/neonatal ICU (NICU)?
· Babies who are still in the nursery on Dec. 31 – for example, those in the NICU receiving a higher level of care - will be transferred to other facilities that provide the same level of care, such as Erlanger East and Parkridge East. The physicians involved with providing care at Hutcheson will work with the mothers to determine the best facility to which to transfer the infant. Given the shorter length of stay for infants and our current labor and delivery census, we do not expect this to impact more than one or two babies, and potentially none.
If you suspend Labor & Delivery, where are mothers supposed to go deliver?
· The OB doctors who deliver babies at Hutcheson also deliver babies at Erlanger, Erlanger East and Parkridge East, so there will be no gap in delivery services with the suspension of the labor and delivery services.
What about moms that are already scheduled to deliver there?
· Labor and delivery is scheduled to suspend services no later than Dec. 31. Until then, the hospital will continue to deliver babies and provide the same level of quality care as always.
What happens if a pregnant woman comes into the ED needing help?
· Consistent with federal law, Hutcheson's Emergency Department will provide emergency care to stabilize a pregnant patient, followed by ambulance transfer to a qualified hospital facility with OB services if appropriate. Area EMS providers will be notified of Hutcheson's labor and delivery suspension of services.
What will happen to the employees?
· Effectively 37employees will be affected by the suspension of services; however those employees who are qualified will be offered comparable positions currently open in other parts of the hospital. For those employees who are not qualified for comparable jobs or choose not to accept a comparable job, Hutcheson will provide a severance package.
What will happen to the Labor & Delivery area at the hospital?
· The portion of the hospital dedicated to labor and delivery services will be closed and no longer accessible to the public. The area will then be prepared for patient room expansion as medical/surgical volume increases unless the service is resumed within a 12-month period.
Why such an extreme cut before Christmas?
· Suspending service lines is never an easy decision, no matter what time of year. Given that Hutcheson is to operate independently, the Board and executive management determined that service lines which are not financially viable must be evaluated as part of a broader strategic plan to return the hospital to profitability as soon as possible.
So you are suspending Labor & Delivery… What's next for the hospital?
· Certainly suspending Labor & Delivery is a difficult decision to make. However, suspending labor and delivery is part of a larger strategic plan which will allow Hutcheson to focus its resources and attention to growing medical service lines including cardiology, pulmonology, gastroenterology, and orthopedics that are needed in the community, are financially viable, and will allow Hutcheson to remain fiscally strong and operate independently.
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Mamas and Papas Ocean cot bed in good condition. It is a very well made cot and will adjust to suit your growing child's needs, as it adjusts to a beautiful day bed. * Adjusts to 3 different heights * Matress size 400 * H90xW83xL156cm I ca
Bed is in great condition Comes with a mama & papas mattress Has removable covers for washing clean no stains. Questions welcome collection only. I haven't dismantled so transport would be needed with quite good space inside. Thanks Needs gone a
Mama's and Papas Mop &Ellis nursery set. In excellent condition,well looked after. The set includes duvet,curtains,cot mobile,curtains,changing mat,cot bar,pictures and cot bumper as displayed in pictures. This set was originally£200 and is suitable
Mamas & Papas Coastline Cotbed and Sleepsafe Mattress White Excellent Condition 3 Height Settings Converts into a Cotbed Paid £400+ new From a pet and smoke free home
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Bet you never made guacamole with these ingredients! (VIDEO)
One of my favorite things about being Latina is that I've gotten to grow up eating all of the absolutely amazing and delicious food of our culture! And I am an especially big fan of guacamole, which is one of my mother's specialties. But now, this amazingly creative short film has me seeing my longtime favorite dip in a whole new light.
The video, entitled "Fresh Guacamole," is directed and animated by PES (real name Adam Peesapane), who has won multiple awards for his other stop-motion animation work and has been featured in commercials and other short films.
The clip shows random objects, like a lightbulb, dice, and poker chips being sliced, peeled and made into what looks like the most perfect bowl of guacamole ever! In fact, the fake dip looks so convincing and delicious that it's actually making me crave the real thing. Yum!
Don't believe me? See Peesapane's inventive work for yourself!
What do you think of the short? Do you think the end result looks like actual guacamole?
Image via YouTube
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