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Animal rights group protests seal clubbing in World of Warcraft
WoW audience not the best for PETA
There's a build on my server which would make them apoplectic with rage
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UK.gov thinks internet should be run like BSkyB
I see it now
Government claims to be building a "thriving digital economy" and uses said argument to shift public services to the web.
Government builds system whereby web services can negotiate agreements with ISPs to allow access, presumably with a fee or reciprocal arrangement involved, probably along the lines of "implement this government approved blacklist".
Government tells citizens that if they want to access any public services whatsoever they need to use an ISP on their approved list of Phorm-subscribing overpriced "unlimited*" ISPs.
I'm only as paranoid as Jacqui wants me to be
BT cuts 0870 charges
08 numbers
I'm sure I remember that some time in the distant past when all of the numbers were reorganised that the 09 prefix was added for calls charged at above the national rate and 08 limited to national rate or below, hence the demise of the 0898 prefix.
080 free
084 local rate
087 national rate
I'd operated under that assumption from land lines only to discover that those principles were quietly ditched somewhere...
India's Moon shot takes to the skies
excellent perspective on this story
For those who've not yet experienced the joy that is the Daily Mash:
Hits the nail pretty much on the head really...
US Air Force outlines combat raygun safety
warnings from GLaDOS
The aperture science high energy pellet has been known to cause permanent physical disabilities such as vapourization.
Official: gadgets not responsible for Qantas jet plunge
RE: ..but flight computers probably were
"... an A330 carries THREE of these and only one was faulty."
Dell thinks young and colorful with business notebook refresh
latitude docks
I've just been looking at the e-series docks and unfortunately it looks like the d-series connectors won't work with the new kit, nor will the e-series work with the old d-series docks. That said, the e-series dock options are a lot cooler with a TFT mount bracket stand that doesn't enclose the laptop like the current d-series monitor stand, and the e/port plus supporting dual DVI or displayport as well as both the standard and plus e/ports supporting more (and better positioned) USB ports and an eSata connector.
The common connectors across the d-series range are great and have lasted for 6 years well, and phasing them out will be a bit of a nightmare but I can see why they're doing it (other than the revenue through enforced obsolesence strategy of course). Presumably we'll get another 6 years of e-series commonality.
Paris, because she's a universal dock.
Western Digital shrinks VelociRaptors for enterprise duty
Missing a Raptor
Where's the inclusion of the Battlestar Galactica Raptors on your chart? They may be larger than both the WD drives and indeed the Cretaceous namesake but I dare say they're a lot more evolved than a hard disk drive...
UK gov announces Road Pricing 2.0 - Managed Motorway
The heady ideals of socialism
Let me get this straight. The Labour government want to introduce a road network that allows the wealthy to get where they're going on time via the toll lanes, but would leave the poorer drivers unable to pay the toll charges on top of fuel duty etc sitting in a traffic jam. The same poorer drivers who have to drive because they can't afford the exorbitant prices for "public" transport (~£50 from Northampton to Bristol by train, less than £20 by car).
Whatever happened to giving everyone an equal opportunity?
Paris, because you don't need to pay a toll to get in to her high-occupancy lane...
UK to outlaw cartoons of child sexual abuse
RE: What is wrong with you people? (AC 12:52 GMT)
The CPS, much like the police, are the enforcers of the law. If they believe that they will make a successful prosecution based on the letter of the law and the evidence supplied to them by the police then they will prosecute.
It's not their job to turn around and say "no, seriously this is a complete farce". Remember these are lawyers we're dealing with...
Aussie laser-pointer dazzle attacks on airliners: Bad
obvious answer
Bring Boeing's 747-mounted lazer in to land at Sydney and fire it back at anyone who shines a lazer at the pilot. Brings a whole new meaning to shedding some light on the situation...
Vista SP1 kills and maims security apps, utilities
Remember XP SP2?
I remember XP SP2 having a much bigger list of incompatible software. Having looked at the Free Allegiance wiki note it looks like their problems are caused by a 3rd party module in their code which bombs out in the presence of .NET framework v3.5 (which presumably is integrated in to Vista SP1). Given the number of windows applications there are I'm pleasantly surprised to see that the first major service pack for a new OS has caused so few problems.
God I sound like a right fanboi...
Yahoo! formally! rejects! Microsoft! offer!
Get! A! Sense! Of! Humour!
To everyone who's complaining about the abuse of exclamation marks on Yahoo! Related! Stories!; get over it please. This site has been reporting Yahoo! News! for as long as I've been reading it (2001 I started) and if you're not used to some sillyness mixed in with the coverage you can go and read some stuffy highbrow nonsense...
Head banker leaves job over Muslim gaffe
shi'ite -> shia
Reminds me of a somewhat more witty remark I heard from a listener's contribution to Terry Wogan's show.
It's saddening to hear that Sunni and Shia are in such heavy conflict these days. Perhaps we could arrange for them to get together to re-record "I've got you, babe"?
Clarkson's 'steal my ID' stunt backfires
Banks should be contacting the customers
Why can't the banks and the credit card companies send SMS and/or email notification of every significant action that takes place on your account as it happens?
BEEP An electronic direct debit mandate has been placed on your account xxxxxx91 from the originator Nigerian Prince Ogoaeruyter. Please call the bank now if this is incorrect.
BEEP Your MasterCard xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx3079 has been used to purchase a Bugati Veyron. Call us to dispute this transaction.
Since signature checking seems to be increasingly lax these days a bit of dilligence from the banks wouldn't go amiss...
EDS beagles blast 'absurd' BSkyB
EDS lose either way now
Regardless which way the verdict goes we can look forward to several smear articles in all of the Murdoch controlled press, most likely lifted straight from the pages of the various Private Eye exposés of EDS's incompetence on various public sector contracts. With Murdoch now in control of at least 1 major news source in most countries we can look forward to some significant reputation damage for EDS.
Entirely well deserved for a company that has been fleecing the UK taxpayer for at least the last 10 years.
Microsoft dispels rumors of stealth Windows updates
less of the senseless MS bashing please
If the Automatic Updates service is switched off, or configured never to check for updates then it won't. The issue here is the paranoid crowd flying off the handle because the Automatic Updates service silently updates itself (and nothing else) without user interaction. Am I the only one who thinks that people are grossly overreacting? Let's be honest, if the auto-update service prompted you that it needed to be updated before you could check for other updates it'd just serve as another barrier to people keeping their computers updated, and consequently we'd have even more vulnerable computers ready to start accepting commands from botnet controllers.
I'm hardly a big fan of their business practices but they're damned if they do and damned if they don't here. Either the generic home user turns off "all those annoying update options" because they don't understand what it's doing, or the DON'T TOUCH MY COMPUTER!!!!11111 crowd go mental.
Firm finds danger in dangling pointers
Given that IIS 5.1 only exists on Windows XP (Windows 2000 uses IIS 5.0 and Windows Server 2003 IIS 6.0) you can see why perhaps this is perhaps much less of an issue than the article makes out, and indeed why Microsoft took their time issuing a fix. Probably because they're fixing problems that could have real implications, such as those with core components of the OS that are installed by default.
IIS 5.1 is never going to be used for anything more than a little hobbyist hosting and IT department utilities; I have an FTP server that I turn on when I need to reinstall the Dell utility partition on to a replacement disk for instance.
It's roughly the equivalent of saying "there's a security issue with running Exchange 2003 on XP Professional". No-one would be doing it in a production environment, and anyone who did deserves everything they get frankly.
And yes I know you can't install Exchange 2003 on XP Pro before you get all pedantic, but I'm just trying to illustrate a point.
Videogaming not addictive... for now, doctors say
This is just an excuse to get a research grant to fund their WoW addiction for the next 5 years!
Japanese firm exhibits droid construction worker
RotM surely?!
Especially in line with today's other RotM story about creating a Machine to Machine Intelligence system, I can see it now. Armies of mechanical brickies all programmed to make the sound of sucking air through their teeth and announcing that "that whole wall's gotta come down, hear that? that's rot that is. yeah it's all gonna have to come out"
Physics GCSE: 'insultingly easy, non scientific, and vague'
Competition between exam boards
I have a theory on why the exams are getting easier (and they are, let's not beat around the bush here).
There are 3 major exam boards. Those exam boards charge a fee based on the numbers of students who sit their exams. They are private companies so it is in their interests to turn a profit, and more students = more profit.
Schools are under immense pressure from league tables. It is in the best interests of the school to have pupils who score highly in exams. The qualification gained is identical regardless of which board sets the papers.
Now, assume that board 1's Physics exam is noticeably easier than boards 2 & 3.
Q1. As a headteacher or a department head, with which board do you choose to enter your pupils?
Q2. As a Director of exam board 2, you notice that significantly more schools enter pupils for Physics through exam board 1. What do you do?
And here endeth the erosion of standards...
Orange simplifies data by capping at 30MB
Wrong tree with ASA
It's more likely to be a job for Trading Standards than the ASA since the product/service being offered does not match the description
High level Night Elf druid saves PC gaming
Why PC gaming has suffered
There's a more obvious reason why there's not been much innovation of late in the PC gaming market which you accidentally stumbled upon in your article.
All the designers are addicted to WoW.
Still, some of them have managed to shake the shackles off and come up with some other good stuff, Supreme Commander and Tiberium Wars should bring people back in to the RTS fold for instance.
Program Names govern admin rights in Vista
not quite
Slightly misleading towards the end. What actually happenes under UAC is that a flagged program will prompt you when run to either allow the program to run with administrator rights or not to run at all. An unflagged program will run with user-level rights unless you right-click it and say run as administrator at which point you get the familiar UAC prompt.
With UAC enabled NOTHING that you run can run as administrator without your consent. If it runs silently when you double-click it, it's running with user level rights.
Hi hon, I'm on d plane
Carbon conspiracy
Perhaps it's the government's way of reducing the number of flights we all take? They daren't anger the air travel lobby and this looks like a positive for them, whereas the real people will spend one flight in cattle class surrounded by people jabbering on their phones and vow never to fly again...
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DIE Veneris, 2 Februarii.
Monoux's Bill.
Message to H. C. with it.
Sir R. Allin's Pet, referred to Judges.
Driscoll versus Dalton.
Number of Officers in H. C. Bill to limit:
State of the War in Spain.
General Naturalization Act, to repeal, Bill.
Domini tam Spirituales quam Temporales præsentes
Hodie 3a
vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act
for the Sale of Lands and Tenements, late of Sir
Philip Monoux Baronet, deceased, in Broome and Parish of Southill, in the County of Bedford, according
to his Will."
The Question was put, "Whether this Bill shall
It was Resolved in the Affirmative.
A Message was sent to the House of Commons, by
Mr. Fellowes and Mr. Meller:
To carry down the said Bill, and to desire their
Concurrence thereunto.
Upon reading the Petition of Sir Richard Allin, alias
Anguish, Baronet, and Dame Frances his Wife, and Sir
Henry Ashurst Baronet; praying Leave to bring in a
Bill, to vest the Manors and Lands in the Petition mentioned in Trustees and their Heirs, in Trust, to sell so
much thereof as shall be necessary to discharge a Debt
of Eleven Thousand Seven Hundred and Twenty-five
Pounds, Fifteen Shillings, and Eight Pence Halfpenny;
and, out of the Rents and Profits in the mean Time, to
pay the Interest thereof, and dispose the Residue to the
said Sir Richard, for the Maintenance of himself, his
Wife and Children; and, after Payment of the said
Eleven Thousand Seven Hundred and Twenty-five
Pounds, Fifteen Shillings, and Eight Pence Halfpenny;
to settle the Remainder of the Estate unsold according
to the Marriage Articles in the Petition set forth:
It is Ordered, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled, That the Consideration of
the said Petition shall be, and is hereby, referred to the
Lord Chief Baron of Her Majesty's Court of Exchequer and Mr. Justice Powys; who are forthwith to
summon all Parties concerned in the Bill; and, after
hearing them, to report to the House the State of the
Case, with their Opinion thereupon, under their Hands,
and whether all Parties that may be concerned in the
Consequences of the Bill have signed the Petition; and also
that the Judges, having persued the Bill, do sign the same.
The House being moved, on the Behalf of Dennis
Driscoll Esquire, "That a Day may be appointed, for
hearing his Appeal depending in this House, whereunto Richard Dalton is Respondent:"
It is Ordered, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled, That this House will hear
the said Cause, by Counsel, at the Bar, on Thursday
the Fifteenth Day of this Instant February, at Eleven a
Hodie 1a
vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act
for securing the Freedom of Parliaments, by limiting
the Number of Officers in the House of Commons."
After Debate;
The Question was put, "Whether this Bill shall
be read a Second Time?"
It was Resolved in the Negative.
Ordered, That the said Bill be rejected.
Ordered, That To-morrow, at Twelve a Clock,
this House shall be put into a Committee again, to take
into further Consideration the present State of the War
in Spain.
Whereas To-morrow was appointed for the First
Reading of the Bill, intituled, "An Act to repeal the
Act made in the Seventh Year of Her Majesty's
Reign, intituled, An Act for naturalizing Foreign
Protestants, except so much thereof as relates to the
Children of Her Majesty's Natural-born Subjects
born out of Her Allegiance:"
It is Ordered, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled, That the said Bill shall
be read the First Time on Monday next; and all the
Lords summoned to attend; and the Causes removed in
Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli declaravit præsens Parliamentum continuandum esse usque ad et in diem Sabbati, tertium diem instantis Februarii, hora undecima
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Betty White beats out Beyonce and Bieber
In some circles, Kim Kardashian, Beyonce, Justin Bieber and Mark Zuckerberg can't beat Betty White when it comes to popularity.
Kardashian, the reality TV star, and Facebook-founder Zuckerberg were among the least likely to be invited to dinner by 100-year-olds surveyed by UnitedHealthcare, with more than half not even knowing who these people are.
Given the opportunity to invite a list of 18 famous people to dinner, both centenarians and boomers put Betty White at No. 1 (60 percent and 75 percent, respectively). This is the fourth year in a row that White has topped centenarians' lists.
Of the public figures they are familiar with, centenarians also put the following on the "do not invite" list for dinner:
- Justin Bieber: 50 percent
- Paul McCartney: 49 percent
- Steven Spielberg: 48 percent)
Topping boomers C-listed the following pop icons, saying they wouldn't invite them to a dinner:
- Kim Kardashian: 87 percent
- Justin Bieber: 80 percent
- Beyonce Knowles: 66 percent
Putting celebrity cache aside, the survey also sheds light on how 100-year-olds reflect on the past century, as well as how their attitudes and lifestyles compare with baby boomers.
When asked what they would have done differently if they knew they would live to 100, 50 percent of centenarians polled in UnitedHealthcare's eighth annual 100@100 survey answered, "not a thing."
Baby boomers ages 60 to 65 aren't quite so content: only about 1 in 3 (29 percent) say the same thing about their lives so far, while more than a quarter (26 percent) say they wish they had saved more money. Boomers are also more than twice as likely as centenarians to wish they had taken more risks in their lives (12 percent vs. 5 percent).
The secrets to a lasting marriage or life partnership depend on who you ask. Centenarians put a greater premium on "sameness" than 60- to 65-year-olds. More than 3 in 10 centenarians (31 percent) say it is very important to share the same political views as your partner; less than 1 in 5 retirement-aged boomers (19 percent) agree. Nearly twice as many centenarians than boomers say it's very important to have the same hobbies as your partner (40 percent vs. 22 percent). The same pattern holds true for religion – 56 percent of centenarians say partners should share the same faith, compared to 46 percent of boomers.
Boomers are more content to toss tradition aside when it comes to marriage. Less than half say it's very important to maintain the traditional roles of husband and wife (49 percent, vs. 67 percent of centenarians).
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CRAIG, Colo. (KUSA) According to KUSA-TV in Denver, five football coaches from Moffat County High School have resigned amid a scandal involving hazing at a summer camp in Wyoming.
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OLYMPIA – Tucked inside the 291-page budget Gov. Jay Inslee signed last week is a paragraph that tells state agencies to ask for money for new-fangled tech gear a better way.
It's what's known as a proviso, sort of a marching order from the Legislature, somewhat akin to an earmark from Congress. . .
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OLYMPIA – It is a rare day in the session that some legislator doesn't offer the folksy wisdom that the state would be fine if it would just balance the budget like the folks back home.
Sometimes, those folks are mom and pop entrepreneurs on Main Street, struggling to make payroll as sales drop and the costs rise. They tighten their belts, take a smaller profit, layoff a worker or two, have a few more go to part-time, maybe buy a smaller ad in the local high school yearbook.
More often, though, the folks are a family around the kitchen table, deciding how to stretch the paycheck for food, clothes, braces or the kids' college fund after paying the mortgage and the utility bill. They make those hard choices on what to do without, a legislator will say in a floor speech. Maybe get another year out of the pickup, carpool to work, put off that trip to Disneyland until next summer.
Such homey examples are designed to communicate the state's budget situation to the folks back home. But they may actually do the folks back home a disservice by oversimplifying what the state budget is.
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OLYMPIA — Washington's revenue forecast was up just slightly for the rest of this biennium, and through the next two-year budget cycle, a state panel was told this afternoon.
On the upside, construction is improving and employment should slowly rise, although it won't get back to pre-recession levels until sometime in 2014. On the downside, manufacturing is off a bit and so are exports except for airplanes, state economist Steven Lerch told the Economic and Revenue Forecast Council.
Bottom line, the state can expect to collect $30.469 billion for 2011-13, which is up about $29 million from last June's forecast; it can expect to collect $32.649 billion for 2013-15, up about $22 million from that previous forecast. It can expect $35.5 billion in 2015-17, the first time forecasters have looked out that far.
The biggest risks — economic slow down in China, problems in the Eurozone and the federal government's willingness to consider across-the-board cuts — are all outside the state, Treasurer Jim McIntire said.
In recent years, some forecasts have been so bad that they prompted calls for special sessions of the Legislature and calls for deep cuts or new taxes. This time, legislators on the council were willing to wait until January, and the regularly scheduled session that will follow the election.
There's still a shortfall of about $1 billion the next Legislature will need to close, Lerch said. Or about $500 million if it uses up the reserve funds.
It's clear the economy isn't going to grow fast enough to provide revenue needed for things like education improvements being ordered by the state Supreme Court, Sen. Ed Murray, D-Seattle and the chairman of the Senate Ways and Means Committee said.
But the Legislature can look at the next forecast, due out in November, and look for some adjustments through the end of June that would add to the reserves, Rep. Ed Orcutt, R-Kalama, the chairman of the council said.
Sen. Dino Rossi, R-Sammamish, who was recently appointed to the Legislature and the council to fill vacancies, said the biggest problem with the economy is that Washington needs to become "a business-friendly state" to attract businesses and jobs.
"Many of the problems in the budget are self-inflicted," said Rossi, who chaired the Ways and Means Committee during his previous tenure. Medicaid will be a big drain in a few years because Democrats "have swallowed Obamacare hook, line and sinker."
Murray defended the current budget, which he helped author. All budget writers face the same problems and wrestle with the same tough choices, he added: "It's unfortunate this forum is degenerating into a campaign forum."
"Facts are stubborn things," replied Rossi.
"So is history," countered Murray.
OLYMPIA — In an effort to break a budget logjam, Senate Republicans and their three Democratic allies unveiled a new spending plan Thursday morning that would spend more on public schools and state colleges.
It also offers more money for child care for working families and has no new taxes. But it does skip a $140 million payment to state pension systems in exchange for other changes to pension plans that would save money in the long run.
Sen. Joe Zarelli of Ridgefield, the top Republican on the Senate Ways and Means Committee, called it a "compromise approach" to the differences between the budget passed in a parliamentary takeover two weeks ago in the Senate and a significantly different plan passed by House Democrats on the last day of the regular session.
Sen. Jim Kastama, D-Puyallup, said it was a better plan than the one he joined with Republicans to pass. "It's a budget that can bring the special session to a close."
Senate Democratic leaders, who only saw the proposal at the same time Republicans released it at a morning news conference, said it has "some very good movement," because it restores money for public schools and higher education that Republicans proposed cutting two weeks ago.
Senate Majority Leader Lisa Brown, D-Spokane, said she was still concerned that the proposal cuts money for the Disability Lifeline, but "I feel great about the moves that were made on the spending side."
The public release of a new budget proposal, signaled movement over talks which have essentially been at a stalemate for two weeks. But potential roadblocks quickly surfaced.
Democrats said they still have concerns about skipping the $140 million pension payment, because the cost of that grows over time. Republicans acknowledge the long-term cost of that is about $400 million over 25 years, but they estimate the savings from ending early retirements for new state employees would be $2 billion over that period, and that money could be used to shore up the pension funds.
The Legislature has skipped or delayed pension payments in six times since 2001, in budgets written by Democrats and Republicans, Senate Minority Leader Mike Hewitt, R-Walla Walla, said.
Gov. Chris Gregoire had asked legislative leaders to come up with a budget that doesn't skip the pension payment, which Republicans favor but Democrats oppose, and also doesn't delay a $330 million payment to schools by shifting it from the end of this biennium to the first day of the next. Democrats favor that approach but Republicans call it unsustainable budgeting.
The new budget proposal doesn't do that. It also calls for the state to spend $780,000 to set up 10 charter schools, while cutting $1.5 million Democrats proposed for "collaborative schools". Charter schools, which can be set up by a public school and parents to try new methods and avoid some state requirements, would need new legislation to be passed along with the budget. Collaborative schools, a plan to pair the Education Departments of the state's colleges with troubled schools, has already passed.
Sen. Rodney Tom, another of the three Democrats who voted with Republicans on their Senate budget, is a strong supporter of charter schools. The budget would pay for 10 next year, in "persistently failing schools." But Gregoire and other Democrats regard charter schools as taking money from the existing schools; the governor proposed the collaborative school program as a way to bring innovation into classrooms without setting up charter schools.
Gov. Chris Gregoire: "Not interested in a special session."
OLYMPIA — Gov. Chris Gregoire said she still has hopes the Legislature can reach a budget deal by midnight Thursday, the end of the current session, but conceded there is no deal at this point.
"I will fight to the end to get out of here on time," Gregoire told reporters Tuesday morning. "I'm not interested in a special session."
But if there's no compromise by the end of the day, that will be difficult, she said. And while there are things that she'll push for, she doesn't know what a workable compromise is yet: "I'll know it when I see it."
After House Democrats passed a budget solely with their members support, Senate Republicans got the support of three conservative Democrats in that chamber to use a parliamentary procedure Friday and pass a very different spending plan with more program cuts, no new taxes and fewer accounting shifts. The move caught Senate Democratic leadership by surprise.
Gregoire declined to speculate on how the majority leadership miscounted the support for their budget, and said she, too, was surprised by some of the things that became a point of contention between the two caucuses. But Friday' night is "Over. Done. Through." and all sides have to work out the compromise.
She's also not interersted in a solution that has been suggested by some legislators: forget about a revised budget and give her extra flexibility to cut programs or agencies. Under current law, a governor can only make across the board cuts for all agencies to avoid a deficit.
Gregoire has asked for expanded authority to handle budget problems for several years, but that's not the solution for this budget problem, she said. "They have to pass a budget."
OLYMPIA – About half of the 15 members of the Spokane-area legislative delegation have volunteered for the same level of pay cuts the imposed on state workers. That's a level slightly better than legislators statewide.
Many who have done it, like Rep. Kevin Parker, R-Spokane, say it's a personal decision.
"As a businessman, the buck starts and stops with me," said Parker, who owns a chain of coffee shops. "It's the same with us as legislators."
Parker's seatmate in Spokane's 6th District, Republican John Ahern, said he doesn't plan to ask for a pay cut, but he is donating 3 percent or more to charities, ranging from his church and the Boy Scouts to organizations that oppose abortion like Teen-Aid.
"This way I know exactly where the money is going," Ahern said. If he took a pay cut, the money would stay in the state's general fund, and go to state programs or agencies he doesn't support….
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OLYMPIA — Washington's economic outlook for the current budget cycle has gone from cautiously optimistic to "a sinking feeling of pessimism," the state's chief economist said Thursday.
"The risk of the economy slipping back into recession has increased significantly," Arun Raha said in the latest economic and revenue update.
In June, Raha was confident that Washington and the rest of the United States would avoid a "double dip recession" and that growth would continue, although slowly.
Since then, debt problems have spread beyond in Europe, the U.S. government barely avoided a default on U.S. bonds but couldn't escape a downgrading by a major rating agency, and consumer confidence "is in the tank."
State job growth hasn't been as strong as projected, the single-family housing construction sector remains flat, banks and local governments have been laying off workers and about the only manufacturing sector growing is aerospace.
Oh, and by the way, state revenue collections are down about $9 million below forecast since June.
The next full revenue forecast is due in mid September. A significant drop in projected revenues could lead to a call by some legislators for a special session to make deeper cuts, sooner.
State agencies already were ordered to identify ways they could cut their budget by as much as 10 percent.
Gov. Chris Gregoire says the budget gap is large, but the options for closing it are small, during a press conference Monday.
OLYMPIA — Warning that every month is critical in solving the state's looming budget deficit, Gov. Chris Gregoire tried to prod legislators into suggesting their budget cuts for the rest of the fiscal year.
Gregoire said that three of the legislative leadership groups she'd ask for budget-cutting suggestions by today have asked for more time. She has no time table yet for deciding when or whether to call a special session to address a projected $385 million gap between state revenue and state expenses.
Last week, she proposed a series of cuts to state programs that are on the books, including the Basic Health Plan and Disability Lifeline. But many can't be changed without at least 30 days of notice to recipients; it's required by law, and it's fair, she said.
"We're taking away people's livelihood," she said. "We're taking away people's health care."
Every dollar put off now means more money that has to be cut near the end of the budget cycle, Gregoire said. "For every inaction, there is going to have to be a counter action."
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Cooking first time for girlfriend. Help!
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- Scottayboi Apr 17, 2014 11:51 PM
Howdy guys!
Hopefully I can get some advice on a nagging concern I'm having. It's been years since I've actually made a homemade meal for a love interest and I'm rather rusty, but I would like to try to make something for my current girlfriend.
Long story short, I have a lapband and she is rather picky of an eater. I keep mental notes when we go anywhere. She will not eat onions, tomatoes, or any kind of peppers. However I feel that if it was blended up and well hidden she wouldn't mind them (but can be risky). She loves Italian food and Chinese food. I have several recipes for both however I had been really bragging on my grilling skills and she has been pressing for a day out on the grill.
She loves burgers and I originally thought of a homemade grilled burger (which I have a mean recipe for) however she's recently got on a diet and exercise kick. Also red meat is rather hard to eat with my band. I usually eat chicken for my protein.
I have yet to try my homemade burger so I don't really know if it would even be hard to ingest. Being as how airy and juicy a homemade burger can be. I figured I could make that and some baked potato wedges. I know she would love that, but due to the above issues I'm unsure.
She's also hispanic so she has her fill of Mexican food and thus doesn't every really want that. She also likes seafood, so perhaps she would rather prefer grilled shrimp, fish, and scallops. This sounds like a healthier option but I don't have any recipes for that.
I'm 26 and not a professional cook at any means, but I appreciate any advice or tips.
Thanks for reading guys!
keep it simple and make things you can prepare ahead - so you are presenting food but not stressed out cooking it - you want to be paying attention to her, not a collapsing soufflé
Since it sounds like you are health conscious and looking to stay away from red meat a poached salmon dish could work like this
- easy to make ahead, fairly healthy and pairs well with other stuff - make a sour cream dill sauce to go with it - you could serve this alongside a simple pasta - perhaps as simple as an aglio-olio http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aglio_e_... or a simple rice and vegetable pilaf like this http://www.thekitchenwitchblog.com/20...
for starters maybe some crostini or something to pick on - you could even buy some tapenades to make life easy or grilled vegetable antipasto like this http://www.williams-sonoma.com/recipe... edit to omit any offending veggies
avoid soups or green salad as they are messy/slupy and not very romantic to eat
fresh strawberries and cream cant go wrong as a desert
note the recipes I posted for example are just to be descriptive they are not vetted by me at all
I have a soft spot for chicken marsala since my husband made that for one of our first dates (and we've been married 20+ years). Something like this:
She loves Italian food but will not eat tomatoes? Is fresh tomatoes that she will not eat, or tomatoes in any form like sauce (don't tell my wife that I didn't call it 'gravy').
I assume that garlic is also out of the question? I was going to suggest a simple pasta dish that my late mother-in-law made on Christmas Eve. However it involves the use of garlic. It was spaghetti with oil in which garlic was sauteed. The flavor was just a hint of garlic.
Maybe if eggplant is substituted as an aromatic vegetable, the pasta could be topped with oil and sauteed eggplant that was cubed.
...Or make scampi with shrimp and top the spaghetti with it.
In bocca al lupo (Good luck)!
Keep it simple so you're not so caught up cooking that you can't pay attention to your GF.
"She also likes seafood, so perhaps she would rather prefer grilled shrimp, fish, and scallops. This sounds like a healthier option but I don't have any recipes for that."
You barely need a recipe at all for that kind of stuff.
To grill sea scallops (ideally dry packed): dry them, salt them, put them on a hot grill for 2 minutes per side, serve with something tasty - maybe some grilled vegetables or a salad. You can find many youtube videos where this kind of thing is demonstrated.
Shrimp: more or less the same thing, though you might want to skewer them if they're small enough to fall through the grates.
Fish: some fish grills better than others (tuna, swordfish, salmon, halibut works well; flounder and other delicate white fish can be a little trickier). You can marinate it if you want, but don't have to. Be a little extra careful about sticking. But again you don't really need a recipe.
In any case, there are sauces you could make in advance if you want to go for a more impressive effect while adding very little extra work at the time of the date.
Keep the cooking simple and quick so you can focus on your date, and if you buy good ingredients and don't mess them up, the food will taste just fine.
bake a whole chicken with small potatoes underneath.... its easy and in the hour it takes to cook you can have wine and cheese or salad
Blend up cilantro, mint, garlic, ginger, and olive oil. Use as a marinade for chicken thighs. Grill, slice, and use on a salad.
If you want to stick with the burger theme, how about these chicken burgers? A poster here made these recently and raved - they're on my menu for tomorrow night. If your GF wants lighter, omit buns and wrap in lettuce leaves.
re: mcsheridan
Thumbs up to this. You can grill, so grill for the lady! Beer can chicken is awesome, but you can also grill chicken parts for the main.
You can grill veggies that aren't tomatoes/peppers/onions if she doesn't like those (are you *sure* she's Hispanic? :-) joke!) No, seriously, lots of veggies are great grilled--sweet potatoes, portabellos...and grilled peaches are an awesome suggestion!
re: pinehurst
What a great BF to respect her food preferences!
Agree with other posts re: keep it simple, do as much prep as possible ahead, DON'T hide/blend the foods she doesn't like, etc.
Asparagus is a good vegetable to grill. Second grilled portabellos. If she likes stinky cheese a grilled portabello with some bleu cheese on top is delicious.
Love grilled peaches. Also grilled pineapple.
Grilled pear is also delicious and easy. Some cracked black pepper, a drizzle of honey and marscarpone cheese (just a little since you're health conscious).
Good luck! Enjoy!
not a specific suggestion, but a general rule:
DON'T go to the category of foods that have to be "blended up" or "well hidden."
imho, this is not the time nor place for that.
Make chicken burgers with ground chicken instead of beef. The good thing about burgers is that you can garnish them according to one's taste, so she can top hers however she'd like. I like to do them indian style, with garam masala, chopped onion, cilantro and chopped serrano peppers. Serve on warmed naan or a bun with lettuce, tomato, fresh sliced onion, cucumber slices and raita (yogurt with cucumbers) instead of ketchup and mustard. To make it healthier, put the cooked burger on a bed of the veggies and omit the bread. Use the raita as a dressing.
I also make chicken burgers Greek style, using oregano, dill, salt and pepper, then putting the burgers on buns with sliced cucumbers, sliced onion, crumbled feta and tsatziki. Sometimes we add pepperoncinis if we have them.
If you prefer to go seafood, you can marinate some salmon in some soy sauce, a touch of brown sugar, and some sesame oil and red chilli flakes. Grill until done, and then serve with white or brown rice and some sauteed veggies.
re: boogiebaby
You know he is 26 and not a pro...but your suggestions seem pretty simple...minimal preparation with many the ingredients that can be pre-purchased already prepared...
After all he just wants to feed her a simple meal!
Desert...I am sure he will figure it out!
re: PHREDDY
Dessert: Bananas Foster! Or another fruit, like fresh apple, peach, or pineapple, if it looks especially good. Melt butter and brown sugar together in a nonstick pan, cook sliced fruit in it a few minutes, flame with rum or other booze, smother, spoon over vanilla ice cream.
re: greygarious
That is definitely a sure winner!
re: greygarious
If the grill was on, place slices of pineapple or peach halves on the warm grill until nicely marked. Serve with vanilla ice cream or frozen yogurt. One of my favorite post-grilling desserts.
re: FlyerFan
grilled peaches, pears, apples, etc. are also great with cheeses, especially blue. You can even briefly grill grapes if you have a basket for the grill. I've never tried grilled pineapple with cheese, but it is amazing....as are grilled mangoes
I've made the sheet pan roast chicken and vegetable dinner, which was either on Cook's Country or America's Test Kitchen, a bunch of times. You can take apart a whole chicken, or just buy parts: breast halves, legs, and thighs are used, the rest saved for the stockpot but you could just do thighs or breasts if you prefer.
Oil a sheet pan, or foil-wrap it, then oil the foil. Preheat oven to 475F. Cut into generous inch-"ish" chunks: carrots, potatoes, turnip, sweet potato....your choice of root veg. I sometimes add quartered apple, or chunks of plantain. Halve some peeled large shallots, or quarter a peeled onion, leaving a bit of root so it holds together (it flavors the drippings, even if GF won't eat it). The show called for about 12 oz each carrot, potato, shallot, and Brussels sprouts. They halved the larger sprouts. Put the veg in a large plastic bag, or a bowl, tossing with olive oil, salt, and pepper (I use garlic powder too). Spread on the sheet pan in one layer. If using Brussels sprouts, move them all to the center of the pan, Ditto chicken breast halves (nestle down in the sprouts. These cook fastest so the center of the pan protects them a bit. Put the legs and thighs in the corners, which get the most heat. All meat skin side up. Brush onto it a mixture of melted butter, with your choice of herbs. S&P. Into the oven for 40 minutes. Check at 30 min. If edges are very brown, turn off the heat for the last 10 min. This is a quick and easy meal that is just scrumptious.
Another thought - Pad Thai. If she will eat chopped scallions. It can be made with shrimp, chicken, or a combination. If the chopped peanut topping is a problem for you to eat, peanut butter mixed in is great.
How about turkey burgers? They are a lot leaner, and would work for you. If you get ground breast, be sure to add some moistening ingredients to it. I like to add honey mustard as I like to flavor my turkey burgers as I really don't want them to taste like turkey. Other times, I have flavored them with sun dried tomatoes and Italian vinaigrette, or use bottle dressing if that's easier. They need a lot of oil so they don't dry out and they won't stick to your grill.
Other things you could grill would be shrimp to add to a spaghetti with a lemon garlic butter sauce, like scampi. My family loves that meal. And then complete it with a salad and bread and you're done. You could do kebabs with the shrimp, or scallops for that matter. Clams are easy to do on the grill also, in a aluminum pan with chopped shallots and white wine or beer. Any grilled fish is yummy too. We do a lot of swordfish on the grill. I marinate it first in a sheet pan with lots of olive oil, then dried oregano, lemon peel and dried garlic. Salt and pepper before grilling. Then grill on medium low, so as not to over cook. I think my husband does about five to seven minutes a side. You can serve with couscous (boxed and so simple) or some pasta. Even mashed potatoes.... And again a salad and you're done.
How sweet of you to cook for your girlfriend....trust me women ADORE men who will cook for them.... At least I do! Good luck!
I honestly did not expect so much in such a small amount of time. You guys rock!
Thank you guys so much for all the ideas. I know she'll love whatever I decide on but I still would like to give it my all. I know the first meal won't be the last so hopefully I can whip up each of these.
Again, I appreciate it so much!
re: Scottayboi
Speaking for myself, it was my pleasure!
Grilled fish can be tricky if you haven't done it before since it likes to stick...
What about kebobs? Use soaked wooden skewars and make a few that are all marinated medium/large sized shrimp (they will cook faster than veggies), and then veggie kebobs that have veg that takes about the same amount of time to cook on each skewar. Mushrooms, zucchini, eggplant, asparagus, etc.
serve with a lemony yogurt sauce or thinned hummus and some quick grilled pita or naan.
Honestly you could make her burnt toast and she would still be thrilled you took the time and effort to cook for her ;)
My advice is to do something you're good at that you've done a few times before (preferably recently). The last thing you want is to find out that some step in a new recipe takes far longer than you'd imagined and get stressed.
Also, prepare as much as you can in advance.
Pesto is impressive and incredibly easy (assuming she is ok with garlic) Plus, it looks pretty! You will have to have some sort of food processor though. I never use a recipe, just a large handful of basil, a tablespoon or two of pine nuts, lots of parmesian, a few cloves of garlic. Start the processor, then start adding olive oil. You want it oily enough to coat pasta. It's nice with penne. Not really diet friendly though :)
Serve with a salad. Simple arugala dressed with oilive oil, salt and lemon juice. A little garlic in there as well. If you both eat it, then you will both have garlic breath. It's a meal that looks incredibly impressive, but is super easy. Really difficult to mess up. Just don't have a heavy hand with the garlic in the pesto and you will be fine!
re: schrutefarms
Forget grilling any fish. Even the 'experts' get it wrong most of the time.
Grilled chicken burgers/patties. There's hundreds of recipes for 'chicken burgers/patties out there. Served with a German style potato salad and grilled asparagus.
Gently sautee/precook the patties and set aside in the fridge. Use a temp. probe to guarantee the chicken is properly cooked. Doing this will help ensure you won't give her salmonella food poisoning by serving undercooked chicken.
When it's time to 'grill' crank up the grill and gently grill the patties until they have those cute grill marks. Do the asparagus at the same time. Lightly char the asparagus. Don't put an oil on them. Just a sprinkle of salt.
'Time management' is very critical when cooking/entertaining.
By making the potato salad in advance for instance you've saved a lot of time better used entertaining.
Recently I had six adults over for dinner.
I had pre-made the 'apps'. (Artichoke bruschetta).
Pre-made the beef bourguignon, the roast garlic creamy mashed potatoes. (These were just ready when the guests arrived). Pre-made the fresh fruit salad for dessert. (This is one of my own creations: Used a small 'melon baller' I used four types of fresh melons and poured a small amount of warmed honey/fresh lemon juice/tiny pinch each of cinnamon/mace/allspice over the melon balls. Into fridge. Served with pizzelle cookies.
Point is I had everything pre-made so it only took minutes to serve the food instead of hours in the kitchen when the guests are sitting in the living room. Starving.
It sounds like your lap band requires that you only eat 1/2 cup of food at a meal. That is rather small if you are serving burgers. Seafood is great on the grill and it would allow you to make her a bigger portion while still eating within your guidelines.
Calamari is wonderful grilled and very healthy. Pretty much pure protein. It would make a wonderful first course or a main dish served over a salad.
How accomplished of a cook are you? You could wash and prep your salad components before she gets there and make up a vinaigrette the night before. Then all you would need to do is grill and assemble.
If you are up for multi courses, you could wrap some thinly sliced melon in proscuitto, serve that with Prosecco or whatever white wine she prefers.
Then move onto the grill. Maybe grill some citrus glazed shrimp. Serve it with a dipping sauce.
Fish en papillote can be assembled early in the day and popped in a pre-heated oven just before eating.
It this sounds up your alley, let me know and I'll compile a few recipes for you to look over.
grilled salmon with mango or pineapple salsa? lots of sides as options......asparagus.....grilled veggies ( you DO want to impress her with your grilling skills).....grilled artichokes to start?
As another thought, grilled seafood is not entry level stuff..but.....Perhaps some clams or mussels placed directly on a hot grill till they are done, as an appy with some hot sauce or other pre-purchase condiment is simple, easy and natural as they come. A glass of some wine with this and you should have a great start.
Leaving the grill in the picture on low, consider some grilled chicken breast that has been marinated before, lo-cal, packs a lot of flavor, pair it up with some grilled asparagus or zucchini, also easy to prepare first and quick grill time, and either some couscous, brown rice, a spot of red wine and you should be good to go.
Sometimes simple is very romantic. After all you want her not to remember how much she ate, but the warmth of the evening, your care for the preparation of the meal with her in mind.
Many here have suggested some great possibilities! Please let us know successful you were!
Ah, love. ain't it grand. Here's two cents from someone with an RNY.
Start with what YOU can eat comfortably and branch off from there. .
So, if your heart is set on making her the perfect burger, think about making sliders of several varieties. Buns optional of course. And if you started with grilled tequila-lime marinated shrimp and a platter of, say, grilled zucchini, carrots slathered with the same marindae and perhaps a few raw veggies as well. just leave a plate outside your door for me :).
Again, for sides, start with what works for YOU. that might mean a black bean and potato salad rather than baked potato wedges
BEST dessert for a barbecue: chocolate fondue. make iit up ahead of time, and keep it warm on the grill. grill some fruit [pineapple, for example], and perhaps a couple of slices of pound cake. add to a platter of fresh strawberries, melon, plain cookies, and you're done - and completely un-involved with anyone's diet
enjoy! and here's to love
Tilapia fillets grill really well. You can play with the seasoning. Hollaindaise makes it heavenly.
You can also grill squid very easily. Does she like middle eastern food? Grilled squid with lemony couscous makes a lovely meal. Add some tossed salad or grilled veggie for a round up meal.