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For quiet moments between the to and fro, we recommend these special tales.
Debbie Macomber. There's Something About Christmas.
Emma Collins is a small town reporter who wants to be taken seriously as a journalist. She finally catches a break when she is assigned to interview three finalists in a fruitcake competition. The only bad part is she must travel from her small town by plane and has a deep fear of flying. Nor does she care for her new pilot, Oliver Hamilton. He reminds her too much of her father. The story is full of Debbie Macomber charm and the promises that are Christmas. I think there is good chemistry between the two characters and as the story progresses hope in Christmas and the future comes back to Emma. This is a great light read for the holiday season. But, it didn't win me over to eating fruitcakes. - Jill Gates
Heather Graham. The Last Noel.
The Last Noel begins with three jewelry thieves committing a heist on Christmas Eve. The robbery goes violently wrong, creating disarray among the thieves and leaving one innocent person dead. With a terrible snowstorm fast approaching, the thieves' getaway car becomes stuck in a snowdrift. Unable to travel any further by car, they are forced to seek refuge in a nearby home that is alive with holiday festivities. The O'Boyle family is celebrating Christmas in their secluded vacation home. Sklyar O'Boyle, wife to David and mother of three, is determined to keep her family together despite their increasingly different lives. When three strangers knock on her door, she is hesitant to let them in. Unfortunately, her suspicions turn out to be correct. As the jewelry thieves weasel their way into the home and hold the family at gunpoint, Kat O'Boyle, Skylar's 22-year-old daughter, is able to hide in an upstairs bedroom. Now, the family's lives depend on Kat's ability to find help. As the snowstorm continues to rage outside, will Kat be able to contact the police in time to protect her loved ones? And, how will her connection to one of the thieves change the nights' events? Readers will have to check the book out to see what happens next! Heather Graham has written a fast-paced thriller that will appeal to anyone looking for a good holiday read. - Jami McDonald
Jason F. Wright. Wednesday Letters.
On their wedding day more than 39 years ago, Jack Cooper promised his bride, Laurel, that he would write a letter to her every week, no matter where he was or what he was doing. Jack wrote his last letter to her the night she died lying beside him in bed, then curled up next to her and died, also. When Jack and Laurel's three adult children, Matt, Malcolm and Samantha, return home to plan their parents' funeral, they find the thousands of letters that Jack had written over the years stored in boxes in the basement of the bed and breakfast that Jack and Laurel owned. When they read the letters, they gain a new perspective on their parents. They read of joys and sorrows Jack and Laurel experienced over the years and they learn of a life-changing secret that will have a tremendous effect on one of the children. This is a quick and enjoyable read, both humorous and thought-provoking. - Kathy Buchanan
Alexander McCall Smith. La's Orchestra Saves the World.
La, short for Lavender, a musician and linguist, finds herself a young widow just as World War II is erupting. Her husband's parents give her a house in the Suffolk countryside, away from the terrors of London, and it is here that she lives out the war. Volunteering for war work, she is assigned to help a nearby farmer, where she meets a Polish refugee in hiding. To lift his spirits, as well as her own and those of the rural neighborhood and nearby RAF airfield, she begins a community orchestra, which has a profound impact for years to come. The narrator of the audiobook has the perfect voice for La and presents a thoroughly delightful reading of this tale. Readers who fell in love with The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society will also want to read/listen to this. - Laurie Roberts
Virginia Lee Burton. Katy and the Big Snow.
It is still snowing in the City of Geoppolis and Katy is still faithfully plowing the streets so that "traffic can move in and out and around the city." Since 1943, children have been delighted by the classic story of Katy and the Big Snow. Katy is a hard working red crawler tractor who works for the Highway Department of the City of Geoppolis. During the summer she wears a bulldozer and in the winter she is fitted with a snow plow. When the Big Snow comes and deep drifts form, the truck snow plows break down. Everyone and everything is stopped but Katy. The Police Department, the Water Department, the Fire Department, and others all cry, "Help!" Katy's untiring response is, "Sure. Follow me." This timeless treasure has been warming the hearts of families for generations. While winter snows fall, introduce your children to this capti-vating story of a beloved heroine who saves the day. Other enduring favorites by author and illustrator Virginia Lee Burton include The Little House, which received the 1942 Caldecott Award for the most distinguished picture book of the year, Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel and Choo Choo. Katy and the Big Snow is sure to charm your children as it did Burton's two sons, who served as her first book critics while seated cozily on her lap. - Lisa Tyson
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Steamed Fish Rolls Recipe
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Inspired by Chubby Hubby's "Not Your Usual Egg Rolls" and "Steam Fish Rolls" by My Kithen Snippets, I made these fish rolls over the weekend.
These fish rolls call for two of my favorite ingredients–fish paste and eggs; they are not sushi, but fish paste wrapped with plain egg omelet and then steamed to mouth-watering perfection. (Previously, I'd used fish paste to make two kinds of Yong Tow Foo.)
While the two recipes above suggested brown sauce for the fish rolls, I opted for my special hoisin chili dipping sauce. The dipping sauce completed the dish with sweet, savory, and spicy flavors…I just couldn't stopped eating these fish rolls. They were simply yummy.
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Yummy! you're making me hungry again… ;-)
They just look so dainty! :D
cool recipe!! will try it …happy new yr..
It looks delicious and very elegant
beautiful fish rolls! You know when I first saw it on Chubby Hubby, I wanted to make it too, but had promptly forgotten about it. Thanks for the inspiration and reminder. ;)
What a lovely dish! I love fish… fish cake, fish balls… everything. Great recipe!
I have wanted to make this also – such a beautiful dish! I like the addition of nori in yours.
I really respect somebody who spends time in the presentation of their food as well. I wish I have the patience to do this.. I believe good presentation adds 25% to the taste of the food. Like it or not, we all taste food with our eyes to a certain extent.
Piggy – lol, quick quick eat them all before heading the ME. :)
Kenny – thanks!
Swaroopa – Happy New Year, too!
Happy Cook – hehe, presentation is everything, right?
Mandy – yeah, I forgot about it, too and saw it on My Kitchen Snippets and know I have to make it, pronto.
My Cooking Hut – yes, me too, I love all kinds of fish balls, prawn balls, fish cakes, Yong Tow Foo, anything!!!
Holy Basil – yes, I personally like Nori but it's optional. I love the addition of color and texture to it.
Hazza – of course, we eat with our eyes first and our mouth. Hehe.
RM, those are really cool pictures
How perfect and beautiful! Your photography is out of this world.
I love fishy stuffs too…..these are really nice!!! Can send them over?:D
I tried with beancurd skin before. I can try the egg skin version :) looks easier to handle. Yummy!
such details. lovely!
i prefer this to sushi anytime man!
suddenly i crave the pickle ginger in Jap restaurants. hmmm. will it go well with this eggie?
oh my, this is very interesting.. yeah it looks like sushi but not. i should try this one day …
Lovely egg roll.
ain't they look cute! and so petite!
Andaliman – thanks for your compliment. :)
Sweetrosie – awww…thanks! :)
Christy – sure, how many rolls do you want? ;)
Tiga – yeah, I am sure it's easier than the tofu skin…hehe.
Keropok – you always have the most creative idea…pickled ginger might work very well with it…hmmm.
MyF – cool. Quite easy to make. :)
The Cooking Ninja – hehe, thanks.
Big Boys – I like my food petite and cute…hehe.
Bee, I can't get fish paste here. Is it something that I can make? I'd really like to try making these.
I'm not a big fan of cooked fished, especially if it has been "processed" into fish paste. I like my fish raw (sushi) or simply steamed with soy sauce and ginger.
That said, your photos are amazing.
You've got some impressive skills!
Those are picture perfect! Yum!
Hi RM – I just made these just now and it looks & taste great. If only I have that Hoisin sauce…. The eggs was a bit hard to make but it looks fantastic after steamed.
oh… that so creative…
those would be great on my bento thanks for the idea!
can i cook it as a project..? is it easy to prepair..? i think its a good recipe.. but i don't know how to prepare it.. i never do cooking.. T____T help me pls. just an easy asian recipe.. im from philipines..
Oh wow, they are so pretty! That's a great idea there!
Your steamed fish rolls recipe was very easy to follow and i am now a fan of steamed fish rolls.
hi RM! i have just recently been following your blog and i must say i've been hooked! all your recipes are simple enough for everyone to follow and having tried 4 of them already they have all been delicious:)
i have a potluck to go to this weekend and found the steamed fish rolls recipe and thought it would be the perfect item to bring (i volunteered to bring appys). my question is, would it be ok to make the rolls the night before, refrigerate them, and steam them before i head to the event?
thanks a bunch and looking forward to more recipes!:)
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Ms. Bee, can i use crab meat instead of fish paste?
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Thursday, January 31, 2013
ROCHESTER — In the State of our Estuaries 2013 booklet, recently published by the UNH-based Piscataqua Region Estuaries Partnership (PREP), the alarm was once again sounded about the inexorable growth of impervious surfaces in every community in the region stretching from New Durham and Wakefield southward to Portsmouth and New Castle.
Planning Department Director Kenn Ortmann thinks several factors are responsible for this enormous rate of impervious surface expansion.
"My hunch is that there was under-counting to begin with," said Ortmann, suggesting that Rochester's impervious surface acreage in 1990 was, in reality, higher than the given number of 2,395.
"Secondly, there has been a lot of residential development, with bigger houses, bigger garages and bigger driveways," he continued, "and thirdly, there has been fairly significant commercial development, with impervious parking lots — at Walmart and elsewhere on Route 11, at Rochester Crossing and behind the airport — plus all the new subdivisions have roadways."
He gave as examples the parking lot for the Holy Rosary Credit Union expansion, and the storage facility off Jarvis Avenue, where surfaces have a more permeable quality, allowing water to infiltrate, rather than run straight off into a storm drain, and thence to the nearest water body.
He noted that a more porous surface works where there is not heavy truck traffic, or a lot of vehicular turns being made.
Ortmann said that infiltration, as well as being more environmentally desirable, has less cost attached to it.
"Curbing, which directs water to storm drains, is expensive, drains have got to be maintained, and with large storm events, culverts get washed out. It is expensive to deal with run-off," he said.
He said that retention ponds, such as those that catch the water coming off the Walmart parking lot, are a form of mitigation, but their drawback is that they take up a lot of space that could otherwise be developed commercially.
He said the challenge is to "figure out a way to mitigate and use the land better," which he called a win-win.
At a meeting in Rochester Community Center on Jan. 23, at which the 2013 State of the Our Estuaries report was presented, Coastal Scientist Phil Trowbridge pointed out to the audience that the rate of impervious surfaces expansion in the region were easily outstripping population growth.
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I will be taking a vacation to LA and San Diego later this summer. I have a good chunk of my time there filled with things to see and do, but am mostly wondering about neighborhoods that are better than others to book hotels in (i.e. price, loudness, crime, food, public transportation). My main agenda in those cities are baseball games at LAD, LAA, SD and of course the Zoo, so getting to them is the number one consideration, but if public transportation can eventually get me there, distance is not that big of deal.
Also, advice on public transportation in those cities would be appreciated. I do have some free time one morning/early afternoon in LA, so would take suggestions on quick/easy/inexpensive/touristy things to do. Is the Walk of Fame a must see, are bus tours worth time/money, is there much along the beach or is it just another beach, any other ideas?


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I also love cross stitch, yet it takes forever! cross stitch on a hat is much faster of course.=)ReplyDelete
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Presumably this refers to Nvidia's binary driver. Then we haveA rumor appeared from the heart of Beijing that due to the performance of its GPU architecture and its Linux drivers, NVIDIA was approached by one of the leading Chinese CPU teams to use an NV GPU in a pilot school PC project.
Again, presumably talking about recompiling Nvidia's proprietary code. So we have the situation where the customer wants code compiled for their new architecture, but is quite happy if that code is proprietary.To cut the story short, the NV team appeared there, and in very arrogant manner told the Chinese side that they are a large US corporation, and that recompiling the Linux drivers would cost the Chinese a lot of money.
Then we have
My interpretation of this is that AMD is offering source code access to fglrx. The reason I think this is that a) the Chinese didn't seem to care if the code they got was proprietary, b) "mediocre Linux drivers" almost certainly refers to fglrx, and c) "fuss over source code access" would be redundant if they were talking about the open Radeon driver.With NVIDIA back in Santa Clara, California and Southern China, there was no doubt as to who the Chinese would call next. The other GPU vendor, while having mediocre Linux drivers, at least did not make any fuss over source code access.
So, yes, perhaps they chose AMD because of open drivers, rather than AMD's willingness to give them access to their closed code. The article isn't clear; maybe the author doesn't actually know either. My reading of it, however, is that the Chinese have gained access to fglrx.
I'm happy to hear arguments to the contrary.
Lots of hate and fanboyism here to contend with.
Basically we have:
1) A source article that is mostly garbage and hearsay and says nothing of confidence.
2) Michael coming along and reinterpreting this article to draw his own wild-ass conclusions. (Though, in fairness, he claims another "source". But who's to know how reliable that source is?)
3) All the fanboys lining up in this thread to congratulate themselves for yet another proof that 100% FOSS is full of win. (Missing the point that, if the story is to be believed, NVIDIA was actually the first to be contacted, despite the fact that it's well known that they don't work with open drivers.)
Is it wrong to wait until there are some actual facts before drawing any conclusions? And, even if true, this "loss" to NVIDIA might not be such a loss... if they place super high value on keeping their tech close to their vests.
2. They alredy use FOSS radeon driver on boards with Radeon IGP.
3. I think port fglrx to MIPS is much harder than use existence FOSS driver and also pointless for weak IGP GPU.
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"fuss over source code access" is not redundant if they were talking about the lack of it for the nVidia driver.
Hopefully this will now light the fire under nVidia to at least help the nouveau team out in the same fashion as AMD did for the radeon driver. SO here's hope AMD will have the incentive to improve their blob as well as getting the FOSS radeon driver into tiptop shape
Good for the Chinese to be the catalyst (no pun intended)
Now if nvidia can port their blob to ARM then that'll be another market for them...so they should wake up now
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No it's not. Fglrx is easily one of the worst possible drivers you could use on Linux.
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The twelve VIA linux users around the world are jumping with joy.
Phoronix: VIA Kernel Mode-Setting Code Might Merge Soon
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The twelve VIA linux users around the world are jumping with joy.
Well, I'll do that as soon as I can use it. Though most of my old CLE266 devices are already falling apart. Maybe my miniITX CN700 will get a share from the KMS cake one day.
On a more serious note; I don't know if I even care any more. I own three VIA mini-itx board. I bought them well before Atom was on the marked so there wasn't many alternatives at the time in that form factor. Funny thing is that I initially thought these boards would have awesome Linux support and didn't even bother to check. I certainly got wiser.
xf86-video-via was at that time from Luc, later there was unichrome and finally openchrome which I use still since the others went down. Also used vesa but never the proprietary crapthing. And then the frambuffer driver from the kernel didn't really go well with the X part. Nothing that was in mesa ever really worked.
Well, besides the GPU part one can still use the boards fairly well and the GPU just for simple 2D things.
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At that time intel and AMD were driving a crazy race of MHz, wasting power and producing heat and thus noise. VIA came in with the C3 and later C7 and these small form factor low energy, passively cooled things looked like the perfect niche market. HTPC and file servers. Would have been great if VIA had given more support. Now intel is having atom and AMD has Z, C and E series covering that area with competitive power consumption, better drivers, features and stability. If this damn UVD issue wasn't there... it would be perfect.
But I keep my hardware normally as long as possible unless it really wasted power but I don't own that kind of stuff anymore. So I'll also have my C7 for quite some time I guess and maybe one day it'll be more than a text console computer with minimal X capacities.
Don't those older chips have docs out? http://www.x.org/docs/via/
Here's your chance to fame, go help Simmons
1st I heard that docs were never complete. and 2nd: Hey, I hack specific molecules not code.
I wish I could also do the latter.
I always wonder, if VIA would be still sinking so badly, if they would have released proper support ages ago. They could have been the mediacenter kings! I guess
But yes, they would've been the first to set their foot there and could have established a reasonable place for them in the market.
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The outgoing Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Dr. Mirta Roses Periago, bid farewell to colleagues at the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva today, in her final remarks before the organization's Executive Board.
Dr. Roses thanked WHO Director-General Dr. Margaret Chan and other WHO officials for their support during her two terms as Director of PAHO and WHO's Regional Director for the Americas.
"I have been extremely privileged to serve this organization for 29 years. I have had extraordinary mentors, role models, supervisors, peers, collaborators, assistants, colleagues, and above all the common people that have allowed me to learn from their suffering and expectations," said Dr. Roses. "I have been extremely lucky in being able to see diseases eradicated from the world and from my Region. I have been part of the strengthening of WHO and the UN and I have accompanied the creation of new integration institutions, the most recent among them UNASUR (Union of Nations of South America) and CARPHA (Caribbean Public Health Agency). I was present during the renewal of Primary Health Care and witnessed the harnessing of new information and communication technologies for improving people's health and institutional performance."
Dr. Roses called on international partners to support and strengthen WHO, which she said remains uniquely positioned to provide global public health leadership.
"Only WHO has the stated mandates, the legal basis and the universal and equal participation of all nations to be both credible and capable of delivering on norms and standards and to act as honest broker on policy advice," she said. "The continued and creative forging of new alliances for public health, with international, national, nongovernmental, private and community-based actors is critical to better address global, regional and country health needs. WHO leadership requires strengthening and support from all partners to be able to confront these challenges and to remain both relevant and fit for purpose."
Dr. Roses was originally elected PAHO Director in 2002 and was the first woman and the first Argentine to serve in the post. She has received multiple honors for her 40-year career in medicine and public health, including Spain's Civil Order of Health, Bolivia's Order of Public Health, Ecuador's Decoration of Merit in Public Health, Nicaragua's Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Order of Freedom, and the Dominican Republic's Order of Merit of Duarte, Sánchez and Mella; as well as honorary doctorates and professorships from universities throughout the Americas and in Spain. After Jan. 31, she will become Director-Emeritus of PAHO.


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- Be clear about the problem. Saying something like "When I click this button, I expect X to happen, but I'm seeing Z. This is wrong," is a wonderful, actionable bug report. Providing a URL is icing on the cake. Screen grabs are manna from heaven. Saying "Thus and such just doesn't look right," is not actionable. It means more rounds of communications. Saying "I don't like thus and such," also is not actionable. It's just a statement of opinion. Distinguish between something that is a problem and something that is a preference. Preference statements are pretty much ignored. Adjust your expectations accordingly.
- Speak in normal tones. When someone types in ALL CAPS (Aside from abbreviating HASA or something similar), that is yelling. We all know that it is yelling. No person who has volunteered to support this site deserves to be yelled at. It's not life and death - it's just a web site. Anyone who communicates using ALL CAPS anywhere in the message will be ignored.
- No general whining. When someone sends an error report, they are implicitly asking someone to take time out of her day to go fix what may be broken, whether a bug in the code or a mislabeled challenge. To do this, we really need "Just the facts, ma'am," not a disquisition of how the site is hard to use, how the volunteer response time isn't very good, how this site is awful compared to all the other sites, etc. Anyone who sends in a whine will be ignored.
- No disparagement. The people who support HASA do the best they can with limited time and no money. Speaking disparagingly of the site, and even more so of the volunteers, is simply rude. Saying something appears to be broken can be done without calling the site "shit" or the volunteers "idiots". Anyone who disparages the site and/or the volunteers will be ignored.
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Art Exhibition: Tipping Points
Fri 5 Sep 2014, 18:00
Tipping Points
An exhibition of work by Edgar Ameti, 5th to 30th Sep, 2014
Private view, Friday 5 Sep, 6-10pm. All welcome
Principle to Ameti's work is the precarious balance between existence and erasure in the ongoing practice and experience of day-to-day life. His often large-scale formations allow us to experience absence and revelation hand in hand, intensifying our encounter with the present whilst opening new ways of engaging with the past.
The media used reflect a tension between the ordinary and the extraordinary, allowing for the manipulation of the common functionality of everyday materials to extraordinary effect. The concept of Tipping Points relates closely to Ameti's work most notably through its focus on distress, recurrence and mediation.
Edgar Ameti was born in Albania where he studied fine art at The Liceu Artistik "Jordan Misja" and The University of Tirana. After moving to North America he studied drawing and painting at Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto, Canada and their studios in Florence, Italy. Currently he lives and works in the UK. His work has been exhibited across North America and Europe, and has been acquired by several collections, including the Microsoft Art Collection.
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The Ada Lovelace Day Edit-a-thon
The aim of this event as part of Ada Lovelace Day is to attempt to address Wikipedia's gender bias by creating or improving articles about notable women.
The aim of the event is to improve the coverage of an assortment of nineteenth century organisations and people - especially related to the atheist movement. As well as subject expertise, Conway Hall has an archive which holds a lot of material that has been accumulated by Conway Hall Ethical Society. We will be able to use that during the event.
- Date: 17th August 2013, 6.00pm-9pm (coffees and introductions from 5.30)
- Venue: Library, Conway Hall
- Participants: Participation from Conway Hall as well as interested Wikimedians. There will be space for 20 people in total.
- Registration: see website
- Cost: Free.
- Contacts: Any questions? Please contact Jonathan Cardy (WMUK)
Sunday Assembly
1st & 3rd Sundays, 11.00
The Sunday Assembly presents
The Sunday Assembly
The Sunday Assembly is a godless congregation that meets to hear great talks, sing songs and generally celebrate the wonder of life. It's a service for anyone who wants to live better, help often and wonder more.
We (usually*) meet every first and third Sunday in the Main Hall.
Oct 20th – Global Mega Party! with Harry Cliff and Carrie Armstrong
Come join us for a massive party to launch the 40 Dates and 40 Nights World Tour and our crowdfunding campaign. The event will take place at the usual time and place (11am at Conway Hall) but with extra cake, fun, balloons and more excitement than a sugar-crazy toddler at Disneyland.
Our fantastic speakers will include a reappearance from favourite Harry Cliff (a star physicist from CERN working on the Large Hadron Collider), and a first outing by Carrie Armstrong hilarious recovery expert and founder of www.lifeafterthechair.com.
This event will be live-streamed so that Sunday Assembly-ers everywhere can join in the fun, with viewing parties scheduled across the world by folk keen to share some good times. We will also be launching a kids' corner so that parents can entertain their children and still watch the Assembly!
Sunday Nov 3rd – Remembrance Sunday with Dan Snow
This Month's Sunday Assembly London will be Remembrance - looking back to all the soldiers who have given their lives and why it is important to remember them.
Our guest speaker is Dan Snow, historian and Humanist, which we are very excited about as he has been on the television and everything.
Expect songs, readings and cake and a slightly different tone to the Global Mega Party!
We'll also have the kids corner for little ones and a kids club (7yrs-12yrs) run by Camp Quest. Look forward to seeing you there.
Sunday Dec 1st – The Significance of Rituals with Linda Woodhead
The professor, described by Matthew Taylor, director of the RSA, as 'one of the leading expert's on religion', brings it on rituals.
Sunday Dec 15th - Christmas with Lloyd Grossman
A festive Yuletide service of carols and cheer with a talk from Britain's favourite gastronome LG.
Community Action Days:
Two of our Assemblies will be Community Action Days (October 6th and November 17th), where the congregation will meet to help Clean Up UK tackle Tower Hamlets. This will enable Assemblers to live up to our motto (live better, help often, wonder more) by doing our bit for the local community.
*Please note: We will not be holding Sunday Assembly at Conway Hall on 17 November 2013 or 2 March 2014.
About the Sunday Assembly:
Sanderson Jones (over enthusiastic, bearded) and Pippa Evans (musical, hilarious) will be joined by a host of inspirational speakers to create a morning that is part-atheist church, part-foot stomping show.
Each event has a theme with stories, readings and a final address on that topic. No matter what the subject, the goal of The Sunday Assembly is to solace worries, provoke kindness and inject a bit more whizziness into the everyday.
We meet at the Conway Hall, Holborn on the 1st and 3rd Sundays of the month. But check the events section of our Facebook page, as that isn't set in stone!
The Sunday Assembly is the brainchild of comedians Sanderson Jones (international purveyor of The Comedy Sale) and Pippa Evans (BBC Radio 4, Live at the Electric, The Showstoppers) who discovered on one long car journey to a gig that they were both thinking about starting a friendly community gathering for like-minded people.
The Sunday Assembly has had a whole host of fabulous speakers, including Sandi Toksvig, Marcus Brigstocke, Professor Richard Layard, Hadley Freeman and Arthur Smith.
September has also seen services in Bristol, New York, and Melbourne, and a successful launch in Brighton on September 22nd.
Reflections On Loneliness - The Malaise of Our Time
Tue 14 Jan 2014, 19.30
Adlerian Society UK presents
Adlerian Society London Lecture:
Reflections On Loneliness - The Malaise of Our Time
Presented by Dr Chris Maddox
A basic postulate of Adlerian psychology is our interconnectedness, our 'embeddedness', and as H.S. Sullivan said, "We are all more simply human than otherwise". Yet a key problem at the heart of psychological problems is feelings of loneliness, feeling 'disconnected'. Concentrated in cities and towns, human beings live more and more in urban areas, in high density populations. The mix and flux of urban living in London often presents with a decline of community, or, a mixture of communities divided by race, ethnicity, class, and religion. We experience close proximity, but lacking any real attachments, and ties of family and friends are often strained, disturbed, detached This lecture dwells on the psychological aspects of loneliness, its interpersonal and intra-personal dimensions: how can we best understand loneliness, and when required, overcome it, as a psychological and social problem?
Dr Chris G. Maddox (Ph.D., Cert.Indiv.Psych., PG Dip. Ex.Psych., MUPCA (Clin.), MASIIP) is a sociologist, psychotherapist and counsellor. He has lectured and supervised at the British Adlerian Society; Regent's College School of Psychotherapy & Counselling; the New School of Psychotherapy & Counselling; and worked as a lecturer at several Universities in London, for example, contributing several courses on the Psychoanalytic Psychology Diploma at Birkbeck College, University of London, over many years. He lives and works in London.
19.30 – 21.00
Admission £7 (concessions £4) All welcome. No need to book. CPD certificates are available. Lecture enquiries: email@example.com
Sunday Lecture - Does Population Matter?
Sun 19 Jan 2014, 11.00
The Conway Hall Ethical Society presents
Sunday Lecture - Does Population Matter?
John Collier & Nina Clarke
The world's population went through the seven billion mark in October 2012 and only a very few people seemed to take serious notice. Only 200 years ago the world's population had only just passed one billion. This seven-fold increase is arguably the most dramatic thing to have happened to our planet in human history but talking about it is almost a taboo. Why?
There is one place in the UK though where population is top of the agenda – and that is a small but growing campaigning charity called Population Matters.
Two of its Trustees, John Collier and Nina Clarke, will be coming to Conway Hall to set out the key facts, explore the issues and to suggest some ideas about the way forward. There are no simple answers so a lively debate is anticipated with the words of one of the charity's patrons, David Attenborough, as a possible starting point – "All environmental problems become harder- and ultimately impossible – to solve with ever more people"
John Collier is not only a geographer but also a chartered accountant and a businessman. He brings a very practical perspective to the issues. Nina Clarke was a Director of a private training organisation. She has wide experience of training business people and professionals, both in the UK and abroad, to communicate better in the English language, to give their presentations impact, to negotiate more effectively and to deal sensitively with other cultures. In the last year or two they have spoken together to a wide range of audiences and bring complementary but different perspectives to the issues.
11.00, £5 in advance, £2 concs./Free to Ethical Society members
Tea & Coffee will be available.
London Skeptics in the Pub 15th Birthday Show
Tues 21 Jan 2014, 19.00.
The Incomplete Map of the Cosmic Genome presents 'Show and Tell'
Doors 19.00. Bar open from 18.00
London Skeptics was the first and, for a long time, the only Skeptics in the Pub in the UK. We've grown, we've changed and we're still going strong. Come and celebrate our 15th birthday with a special show.
In the grand tradition of Calvin and Hobbes, it is time to show and tell, though we have no idea if any scientist will bring their transmogrifier. Scientists, teachers and enthusiasts will however be bringing some of their favourite objects and explaining why they love them and what they mean - from fossils to weird curvy things made out of metal that may have been used to do something to the Victorian pancreas.
Come and join Robin Ince, Prof Steve Jones, Prof Sophie Scott, Dr Adam Rutherford, Helen Arney and more in a night highlighting some of the ideas and personalities from The Incomplete Map of the Cosmic Genome, the science app for the interested. Cosmic Genome is an interactive video science magazine featuring over a 100 exclusive interviews, chats and demonstrations with the world's leading scientists and the scientifically curious.
Tickets £6 (plus booking fee) in advance. Numbers are strictly limited.
Wed 22 Jan 2014, 19.30
The Conway Collective presents:
The New Factory of the Eccentric Actor
SOLD OUT - Only returns on the door at 8pm.
For nearly two decades The New Factory of the Eccentric Actor has created some of the most exciting, immersive and unexpected theatre in London. Famed for their large-scale recreations of revolutionary events, the company employs vast casts to sweep their audiences into the maelstroms of history. In 2007 they restaged the 1926 General Strike in Conway Hall, and returned in 2010 with their magnificent epic of the life of Chekhov. Now they are back with the première of their latest work.
1848 is an examination of the Europe-wide revolutions of that year, the most widespread wave of revolution in history. From a February uprising in France, through Germany, Austria, Hungary and Denmark, to South America, some 50 countries were caught up in revolutionary fervour by the end of the year.
Rejoin the Revolution for one night only at Conway Hall.
As with all of the company's projects this will, in a true spirit of egalitarianism, by a Free Event.
'We need something else. Impetus, life, a new world'
- Bakunin
Tickets are free but booking is strongly advised - More (very limited) Tickets Released - 21 Jan 2014
How Equal Are Men & Women?
Wed 22 Jan 2014, 18.00
VisConPro Ltd presents
How Equal Are Men & Women?
A panel debate between three feminists and a conservative
A lively panel debate on the equality of men and women, with Vanessa Feltz, Cristina Odone, Catherine Marcus and Demetri Marchessini, in front of a live audience. The members of the panel have firmly held views, and the debate promises to be stimulating and controversial. Questions will not be taken from the floor. The event will be filmed for a podcast on the marchessini.co.uk website, so by attending the debate, audience members agree to grant the organisers a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use their images in any way that they want, and in any media worldwide.
Entry is free (Special free admission for early requests), but booking is required.
Werther Ensemble
Sun 26 Jan 2014, 18.30
Werther Ensemble
Jamie Campbell violin
James Barralet cello
Stuart Eminson clarinet
Simon Callaghan piano
The Brahms Project: Concert 2
Pre-concert recital at 5.30pm:
Brahms: Clarinet Sonatas Op.120
Main recital at 6.30pm:
Brahms: Trio in C Op. 87
Brahms: Violin Sonata in A Op.100
Brahms: Clarinet Trio in A minor Op.114
£9 tickets, £4 for full-time students (free entry for under-16s)
Doors open at 17.00. Start 17.30
The London-based Werther Ensemble consists of four distinguished musicians - Jamie Campbell (violin), Hannah Strijbos (viola), James Barralet ('cello) and Simon Callaghan (piano), who are all leading soloists and chamber musicians in their own right with interesting and varied careers.
The individual members have won many major prizes and performed at most of the major UK venues, including Wigmore Hall, the Purcell Room, Cadogan Hall, Symphony Hall and Bridgewater Hall and throughout Europe. For several years the Werthers have played together in different formations, both in the UK and abroad. They gave their first performance as a piano quartet in February 2013, when they played Brahms' op 60 -'the Werther' - from which they take their name. In May 2013 they made an enormous impact at the inaugural Whittington International Chamber Music Festival, of which James Barralet is the Artistic Director, and they will return to this festival in 2014 with four concerts of Schubert.
Tonight's concert is the second in a series of four concerts which will explore the chamber music of Johannes Brahms (the third and fourth concerts will take place on March 16th and May 25th). Please join us!
Sunday Lecture - Understanding Human
Sun 26 Jan 2014, 11.00
The Conway Hall Ethical Society presents
Understanding Human - Dr. Omar Sheikho Murad
Omar has been in touch with human pain and suffering since very early in life. After being in two wars and one violent uprising in Iraq, he finally escaped to London in 1996 as a refugee. He now works in London as a physician and a trainee psychiatrist. Murad has witnessed all kinds of traumas and has dealt with all kinds of wounds. Through his work as a doctor for the last two decades, his job has helped him to understand what people actually need.
His talk will teach understanding, how we can learn to be 'better quality humans' and how to have a better quality life for everyone everywhere, all of the time.
Dr. Omar Sheikho Murad is originally from Zakho City, Kurdistan, Iraq. He is the author of ten books, seven of those using the "Water-Logic" instead of "Rock-Logic" (i.e., using peaceful means instead of violence and aggression) which are about understanding life and understanding humans.
11.00, £5 in advance, £2 concs./Free to Ethical Society members
Tea & Coffee will be available.


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Moroccan chicken one-pot
By Sarah Cook
Cooking timePrep: 20 mins Cook: 50 mins
Skill levelEasy
ServingsServes 6
You don't need a clay pot to whip up a fragrant, North Africa tagine - throw it all in a casserole dish and top with feta, mint and lemon
Nutrition and extra info
Additional info
- Freezable
- Healthy
Nutrition per serving
- kcalories
- 324
- protein
- 27g
- carbs
- 39g
- fat
- 7g
- saturates
- 1g
- fibre
- 6g
- sugar
- 24g
- salt
- 0.4g
- 4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
- 3 tbsp olive oil
- 2 onions, 1 roughly chopped, 1 sliced
- 100g tomatoes
- 100g ginger, roughly chopped
- 3 garlic cloves
- 1 tsp turmeric
- 1 tbsp each ground cumin, coriander and cinnamon
- 1 large butternut squash, deseeded and cut into big chunks
- 600ml chicken stock
- 2 tbsp brown sugar
- 2 tbsp red wine vinegar
- 100g dried cherries
To serve
- 1 small red onion, finely chopped
- zest 1 lemon
- handful mint leaves
- 100g feta cheese, crumbled
- couscous and natural yogurt
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- Season the chicken. Heat 2 tbsp of the oil in a flameproof dish, then brown the chicken on all sides. Remove the chicken to a plate. Whizz the chopped onion, tomatoes, ginger and garlic into a rough paste. Fry the sliced onion in the remaining oil in the dish until softened, then add the spices and fry for 1 min more until fragrant. Add the paste and fry for another few mins to soften.
- Return the chicken to the dish with the squash, stock, sugar and vinegar. Bring to a simmer, then cook for 30 mins until the chicken is cooked through. Lift the chicken out and stir in the cherries, then continue simmering the sauce to thicken while you shred the chicken into bite-sized chunks. Stir the chicken back into the sauce and season.
- Mix the red onion, lemon zest, mint and feta. Scatter over the dish, then serve with some couscous and yogurt.
Recipe from Good Food magazine, October 2012
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Comments, questions and tips
Good flavours. Definitely one to try again, but I think I might change a couple of things.
I found the cinnamon a bit too much so would halve the amount, I'd add a bit of chilli and I would vary the veg a bit. Maybe a mix of sweet potatoes and or carrots with the squash.
Couldn't get dried cherries so used a cherry berry mix (Whitworths) which seemed to work well.
I used sweet potatoes instead of squash and picked out the Aldi frozen cherries from their frozen fruits mix. Interesting dish to make - I wondered how it would be but inspired by the 5 star review and wasn't disappointed. I think I'll make the double the paste and freeze it next time - there will be a next time! Worth go giving it a try and the feta and mint topping is the icing on the cake!
Wow divine! The cherries are perfect and well worth getting. I actually get a good size bag at Aldi for much less then your other supermarkets and it really does add a different flavour to raisins. If I absolutely had to substitute for something else I'd use dried apricots rather then raisins. I made the topping without the feta and left it as a side dish for people to add if they wanted to. (I made this for a party of 28!). Only a tiny bit of leftover in my fridge and now my mouths watering so I'm off to have the rest for my lunch!!


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August 23rd, 2012, 11:18 PM #1
Forge of Darkness by Steven Erikson
I was pretty suprised to see that there isn't yet a thread devoted to Forge of Darkness by Erikson and the new Kharkanas Trilogy. So, I suppose here is one now. The book is out in the UK and coming next month in the US.
Anyway, I'll start things off with this. I finally got my review done for FOD. I thought it was pretty great, though it's obviously only the beginning. I can't wait to see where it goes from here. An excerpt of the review is below (yes, it's long - around 1700 words, and there is much more at the blog).
For fans of Malazan, many of the characters of Forge of Darkness are well known from their roles in the Malazan series. Foremost of course is Anomander and his two brothers, but there are many other of the Tiste that weve only seen hints of before, many of the elder gods (though before they are recognized as elder or even gods), a few Jaghut and there is mention of such races/species as the Thel Akai, Forkrulkan, Jheck and Jhelarkan, the Shake, and the dog runners (Imass). I predict that really hardcore fans will be both ecstatic and a bit enraged by Eriksons handling of characters long known and loved (to varying degrees). The characters that we see here are different first and foremost, they hundreds of thousands of years younger, and quite often, very literally young. They are in development, they havent yet seen the millennia of hardship and pain to come, the power of magic has not yet come into the world, the gods are relatively unknown, and the realities of mortality and immortality are not comprehended. Memories from the original series are likely not as factual as fans would like, perspective is always key and Erikson immediately plays a get out of jail free card at the start with a Prelude that explains that this text is a story told by a poet who happily admits to presenting it the way prefers to so that the thematic goals are properly achieved. Oh how this enrages fans and brings me joy (but much more on this here).
But, to bring the circle back around, I believe that this is a must read for fans of the Malazan world. I imagine that most fans are like myself and have forgotten many of the details of the massive, million-work plus series. The generally small supporting roles played by and often vague references to the Tiste we see in Forge of Darkness are equally, forgotten, misremembered and remembered in the fog of the aftermath of the Malazan series. And thats fine we get to meet them all again for the first time and in addition, we get to see the shattering of the ancient world and the birth of the one the series takes place in. And its all told though Eriksons brilliant writing.
In Forge of Darkness Erikson shows a deeply moving and tragic beginning of the end of a civilization. In many ways this story belongs in the Dying Earth sub-genre. Not only is the Tiste civilization moving toward a civil war, but the entire world is in the beginning stages of being remade. And the forces behind this inevitable decent equate those of the human condition that Erikson writes to in everything he does. The Tiste civilization is destroying itself through all of the realities of human motivation power, segregation of society, religious fervor, neglect, ambition, etc. The land has been destroyed, used up. The spoils of a great victory in war prove to be poison. And as always, the best of intentions have tragic consequences.
The most evident of the frameworks that Erikson chooses to explore the death of a people and world is through family. Almost every relationship shown in the book boils down to that of family parenthood, mothers, fathers, kids, bastards, father and mother figures, absence, brother, sister, grandmother, etc. This exploration of family is powerful and not easily pinned down, but everything comes down to it. From the over-arching rise of the religious figureheads (and gods) of Mother Dark and Father Light, to the evil daughters of Draconus, to the his troubled bastard son, the Purake brothers and their devotion to each other, the unhealthy love of a painter for his sister, and so on. Civilization and indeed the entire world is presented as an extended family, though not necessarily a traditional one. All of the pain, love and dysfunction coalesce into something tragic, though, if I know Erikson as I think I do, ultimately hopeful.
Through this Erikson explores some of the concepts that human nature (and the fantasy genre) tends to hold in high regard justice, grief, vengeance, right vs. wrong, aristocracy, sexuality, sacrifice and others. These explorations often come from the minds and conversations of people that many would not associate with such deep explorations the young, the soldiers and even the servants.
But, no worries for those craving action, there is plenty of action, though it flows at metered pace. There are quests across alien, desolate lands. Creatures emerge from the Vitr. Battles are fought, slaughter rendered. Death comes, magic descends and a proud son greets the Lord of Hate, who writes an unending suicide note.
August 24th, 2012, 06:28 PM #2
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I've never decided whether the use of unreliable narrator in the various malazan books is a good thing or a bad thing. It seems like every three or four books the whole direction of the books seems to shift 90 degrees. I'm fairly certain most descriptions of tiste that I've seen describe them as "invader races." Also I though high king kallor was supposed to rule a human empire after the imass ?
August 24th, 2012, 07:18 PM #3
wow. that's an awesome review.
my review went something like this:
wow!!!! awesumness!!!!
followed by me gibbering for a bit like a monkey with its hands on a tourist's camera phone.
September 16th, 2012, 02:20 PM #4
The Kharkanas Trilogy Book 1: Forge of Darkness
It is more than a quarter of a million years before the time of the Malazan Empire. In this ancient age, the Tiste race is divided between noble families and bickering militias, trying to find their place in the world following the devastating wars against the Forulkan and the Jheleck. When the Tiste ruler, Mother Dark, takes the obscure Draconus as lover and consort, the noble houses are incensed and the seeds are sowed for civil war and religious conflict.
Forge of Darkness is the first novel in The Kharkanas Trilogy, a prequel series to Steven Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen. This trilogy will chart the splintering of the Tiste race into the three sub-races seen in the main series book (the Andii, the Liosan and the Edur) and explain much of the ancient backstory to the series. Some characters from the main series - such as Anomander Rake, Silchas Ruin, Hood and Gothos - appear here as much younger, far less experienced figures. However, those hoping for I, Anomander Rake will likely feel disappointed. Rake is a central character in the events unfolding and appears a few times, but much of the action takes place around new, much less important characters. Also, while the story is set more than 300,000 years before Gardens of the Moon, this isn't the alpha-point of the entire Malazan universe. Tiste society is many thousands of years old when the story opens and Rake, Mother Dark, Ruin and Draconus are already important characters with significant histories in place.
Instead, the trilogy is much more concerned with clarification of events in the main series books and explaining why certain things are the way they are. Surprisingly, the series addresses questions that I think most fans thought would simply be left as, "That's how it is," such as the nature of the gods in the Malazan world (and the apparent realisation by Erikson that 'gods' was not the right word to use for them), why the different Tiste races have different appearances and why the Jaghut evolved the way they did. Some long-burning questions are indeed addressed, such as the reasons for and the nature of Hood's war on death, but for the most part Erikson is not really concerned with really addressing obvious mysteries (those left wondering what the hell the Azath Houses are will likely not be satisfied by this book, in which even the race they are named after is baffled by them).
Instead, the narrative unfolds on its own terms. As usual, Erikson has a large cast of POV characters including nobles, soldiers, priests and mages, many of them with slightly cumbersome names. However, Erikson strives to differentiate his characters more from one another then in previous novels. Forge of Darkness enjoys a shorter page-length than most of his prior books (clocking in at a third less the size of most of the Malazan novels) and is far more focused. The plot is a slow-burner, divided into several relatively straightforward narratives. This is Erikson at his most approachable, easing the reader into the situation and story rather than dropping them in the middle of chaos and expecting them to get on with it (such as in the first novel in the main series, Gardens of the Moon).
Of course, Erikson isn't going to give the reader an easy ride. Minor peasants continue to agonisingly philosophise over the nature of existence with surprisingly developed vocabularies at the drop of a hat. There are too many moments when characters look knowingly at one another and speak around subjects so as not to spoil major revelations for the reader, regardless of how plausible this is. There is an awful lot of hand-wringing rather than getting on with business. But there's also a few shocking reversals, some tragic moments of genuine emotional power and some revelations that will have long-standing Malazan fans stroking their chins and going, "Ah-ha!"
Forge of Darkness (****) is Erikson's attempt to channel the in-depth thematic approach of Toll the Hounds but weld it to a more dynamic (by his terms) plot-driven narrative whilst also satisfying the fans' thirst for more information and revelations about his world and characters. It's a juggling act he pulls off with impressive skill, with some polished prose and haunting moments. But those who continue to find his reliance on philosophical asides and long-winded conversations tiresome will likely not be convinced by this book. The novel is available now in the UK and USA.
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Can't wait to read it. Just waiting for my copy to arrive in the mail.
Great review by the way, it makes me want to read it even more. I'm definitely not opposed to the unreliable narrator.
September 17th, 2012, 04:16 PM #6
I would love to read a review of FoD from some one completely Malazan naive. An efffort to put myself in those shoes I think it would have an early Stephen R. Donaldson feel to it. (Cant really explain why) FoD was very focused but still has SE's brilliance. The first book is pretty slow but eventful for fans. His world,writing and character modivations makes characters with little background seem more realistic than some fleshed out characters in other books. He is a master of nuance in his character development and a natural storyteller.
September 18th, 2012, 04:45 AM #7
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I plan on jumping into this series just as soon as I finish the last three books in the series.
September 18th, 2012, 12:17 PM #8
September 19th, 2012, 03:09 PM #9
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I don't know how well FOD could work for somebody unfamiliar with all the SE and ICE books. Part of the wonder of the book is understanding what happens in the Malazan future based on events in FOD.
September 19th, 2012, 08:24 PM #10
September 19th, 2012, 08:31 PM #11
Not sure how I feel about this. A couple years ago, I was ecstatic at the idea of an Anomander Rake trilogy...
...but the last book I read was Toll the Hounds, which really pissed me off. It had its (few) moments, but was definitely the worst in the series so far. A large part of it was concerned with Rake and the Tiste Andii... but I just wanted it to be over.
Anyways, thanks for the reviews. Still might check it out, when I eventually finish the series.
September 21st, 2012, 02:06 AM #12
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So what you are saying is that FoD was more linear and straight-forward instead of his usual writing style, which I personally call "Fog of War."
I haven't read many of his short story collections featuring the necromancers, but I remember them being very straight forward.
I look forward to the new series, may have to get off of my duff and read another one of the MBotF soon.
September 21st, 2012, 09:47 AM #14
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I'm a long time Erikson fan and I think you can sum up Forge of Darkness with...
It's okay.
September 23rd, 2012, 08:08 PM #15
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Originally Posted by Evil Agent
That being said, I just love the setting, mythology and world-building of Malazan so much and I couldn't resist reading FoD when it came out. IMO, it has some of the same problems as TtH in that there's too much philosophizing and internal-monologuing, as well as the plot jumping to a new character just after I started really getting into another character's story. But there was a bunch of very cool world-building on the history and mythology fronts with some awesome reveals, the main plots were very interesting, and I definitely consider it a very worthwhile and rewarding read.