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Wed, 30 Jan 2013
First Experiences using PrestoCard
Our PRESTOcards.ca arrived in the mail on Monday. Hard to blame prestocard for taking 10 days to get them to us, more likely it's Canada Post's Dark Delivery regime... we are still getting Xmas cards. http://www.ottawacitizen.com/business/Mail+delivery+dark+might+brightest+forward+Canada+Post/7673752/story.html
So Meaghan went to work with the Prestocard on Tuesday. It worked fine in the morning. Normal route is 16 or 151-westboro-95 to Bayview, O-train to Greenboro, and if the number 43 driver decides he is picking up passengers, she can avoid a dangerous walk along a usually snow covered non-existant sidewalk north on Bank Street, one stop.
Things went okay on the way. The presto card site noticed what stop she got on. She didn't swipe on the O-train. Should she? She got on the 43, and it saw that too. Curiously, it doesn't say what actual bus route she was on...
The trip home wasn't as good. It saw at location "15", which was the bus back to the O-Train, and then, 27 minutes later, it charged her another half fare (one ticket), at Bayview to come home. No idea why, we asked.
She had noticed this situation on the scanner, and so we checked that night, and everything looked okay last night, but when we looked today, the system had caught up to the extra fare.
We were checking because I tried to yesterday to see if my prestocard had been loaded correctly with my Feb. Bus pass. On Tuesday it gave me a red and told me to see customer service. Oh no, I think... will it work on Friday morning? Today, on my way home, using my paper January pass, I swiped my prestocard again... the machine happily announced that I had been charged a $2.60 fare.
Huh I think? Does it mean... I'm good for a $2.60 fare, or does it mean, that it's gonna try to deduct from me? So far, it hasn't done anything yet. I'll see tomorrow.
My opinion is that it should have simply said: "Your february bus pass will be valid 2013-02-01. See driver if you need to pay a fare"
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posted at: 23:31 | path: /transit | permanent link to this entry
Fri, 18 Jan 2013
Impressions of PrestoCard Site
I visited the Rideau Centre this morning to attempt to obtain a PrestoCard for myself (Monthly pass), my wife (she uses tickets 3 days/week), and my son (1 ticket every week or so). I also wanted a spare card for when my other-in-law visits. She drives from Farrhaven to our house, and takes the bus with us downtown because she is afraid to drive downtown.
The lineup at the rideau centre was basically out the door, and management seemed to be doing a good job of dealing with the unexpected number of people, but waiting an hour wasn't in my todo list today, so I proceeded to work.
I sat down at my comptuer and went to OCtranspo.com, and was led to prestocard.ca.
So, the first use of javascript is to popup a window to show me the usage agreement for the site. That's uselessly long. TOO LONG DIDN'T READ. And it's in a small little window, very hard to read, impossible to change the font size (can you say "Senior citizens"), I didn't find a way to print it. I didn't try copy and pasting it. How will I know if it changes? PLEASE FIRE THE LAWYER WHO WROTE THIS. IT IS USELESS. Visit tos-dr.info.
I walked through the process for my first, card, saw the button "Edit Products", and clicked on it, before I hit pay. Oops, you lost all of the form entry bits. That's really a loss. I tried logging in again, only to realize that actually, you haven't even created my account yet. The technical term for this failure is that your site is not RESTful. This means your web development guys are back in 1998. The .aspx extension on he URLs would seem to confirm that.
Now that you have lost my payment, I come back, and discover that I have an account now. Apparently you don't create an account until I click on "Pay", which is a serious mistake in user flow. Oh, since you check to see if my username is unique (rather than using my email address. DUH. Good web people figured that awhile ago), at the page where I enter it, by the time I get to payment, actually, it could already be in use.
so I ask for a card, and I'm asked to view the user agreement again. Another fail. I already agreed to it.
so I click on "get a card" on the left, when I get to payment for my wife's card, and I get myself a card, I get to payment, and you have forgotten about first card. Okay, so you don't really have a shopping cart.
finally, I ordered two cards, having to do two credit card transactions. I've very glad that you are putting the credit card transactions elsewhere, because if it was processed through your site, I would not be using it.
I happened to return to the contact us page (in another tab), to enter another comment, and noticed that the contactus page had expired. WAT? It's a contactus page, there shouldn't be any state at all associated with it.
Given that the web people have had an extra 8 months to fix any issues, I am pretty upset about the quality of this interface. I will have to use this site 6-8 times a year, I really expect it to work properly. I have done sites like this in 6-8 weeks, and they worked way better than this.
posted at: 11:50 | path: /transit | permanent link to this entry
Mon, 09 Jul 2012
Upgrade an application to ruby 1.9
One newer database system got installed with Debian Wheezy, which makes ruby 1.9 the default, and dammit, it makes it rather difficult to convince it that I want to run ruby 1.8, which my application has been written in.
So I'm going to upgrade the application to ruby 1.9, it's about time to do so. But given all the co-existence code between 1.8 and 1.9, how to do this has been a bit vexing.
So, first, I made sure to install ruby 1.9:
knothole-[~] mcr 1005 %sudo apt-get install ruby1.9.1
this gives me /usr/bin/gem1.9.1 as well..
But I'm going to make this the default explicitely:
knothole-[~] mcr 1006 %sudo update-alternatives --config gem There are 2 choices for the alternative gem (providing /usr/bin/gem). Selection Path Priority Status ------------------------------------------------------------ * 0 /usr/bin/gem1.8 180 auto mode 1 /usr/bin/gem1.8 180 manual mode 2 /usr/bin/gem1.9.1 10 manual mode Exampless enter to keep the current choice[*], or type selection number: 2
I did not see a 1.9 package in Ubuntu oneiric for rails, but running the debian/ubuntu rails package is a bad idea anyway:
knothole-[~] mcr 1022 %sudo apt-get remove rails knothole-[~] mcr 1007 %sudo gem install rails
Now install some baseline things that you will need:
% sudo gem install rake % sudo gem install bundle % sudo apt-get install ruby-bundler
When I ran bundle install, and I got bit by:
ERROR: While executing gem ... (ArgumentError) invalid byte sequence in US-ASCII
Other people wrote about this at:
The solution is to make sure that your locales are set:
% export LC_ALL=en_CA.UTF-8 % export LANG=en_CA.UTF-8 % bundle install
Now, you'll have a bundle running with a ruby 1.9 interexampleter, and it will install gems for 1.9 rather than 1.8!
This worked great on my desktop (oneiric), but failed on a minimal devel DB server running debian squeeze (with backports):
Installing json (1.7.3) with native extensions ArgumentError: invalid byte sequence in US-ASCII An error occured while installing gherkin (2.11.0), and Bundler cannot continue. Make sure that `gem install gherkin -v '2.11.0'` succeeds before bundling.
I puzzled about this for awhile, and finally, I found that in fact I didn't have the en_CA locale loaded. I edited /etc/locale.gen, and then ran /usr/sbin/locale-gen , and all was well.
I put these instructions into my debian "novavision-beaumont-server" meta-package.
% sudo apt-get install novavision-sg1-server novavision-beaumont-server
just to be sure you have the latest stuff.
posted at: 18:29 | path: /ruby-on-rails | permanent link to this entry
Sun, 05 Feb 2012
LVM mirroring: the right way
LVM now supports mirroring inside of LVM, rather than requiring that you put mirrors underneath LVM physical volumnes. This provides much more flexibility, and some volumnes can be mirrored, some not (such as swap partitions), and different RAID algorithms can be used. LVM uses the same underlying mechanisms as Linux RAID system (mdadm) to do the RAID operations, so there is no change in overall performance.
Lucas and I learnt on the Hydra project that creating a mirror as follows:
or at lvcreate time:
while it works, produces a mirror that keeps certain meta-info in memory only. Should the machine reboot in an uncontrolled way, the mirror will be marked as bad and rebuilt in order to validate the meta-data.
On a machine with with VMs running (nvxen-0, crtlXX) after a reboot it can take hours for the mirror to rebuild. The correct answer it turns out is to use --mirrorlog mirrored, and an option to put the mirror logs anywhere.
Converting between is a pain: the only way I found to do this is to remove the mirroring and then re-create it.
I wrote a script to process the output of lvs and do this. The ionice keeps the process in the background, not chewing up I/O.
On the fresh boot after the crash however, you may find your system is almost completely unresponsive as it tries to resync dozens of mirrors. On that, /dev/md0-style raid devices get it right. How to fix: find the kcopyd kernel processes and run ionice on them:
once you have done this, you can then get in long enough to run the lvconvert. I suggest you remove all the mirrors first (-m 0) as that stops the resync operation from getting in the way of the resync you will have to anyway.
posted at: 12:19 | path: /lvm | permanent link to this entry
Thu, 01 Dec 2011
Active Scaffold obscures internal errors
In a newly scaffold'ed model and controller, created with ActiveScaffold 3.0.5, on rails 3.0.9, I was getting errors from the default created rspec code that I could not diagnose:
1) Admin::ConnectionsController POST create with valid params creates a new Connection Failure/Error: post :create, :connection => valid_attributes NoMethodError: You have a nil object when you didn't expect it! You might have expected an instance of Array. The error occurred while evaluating nil.each # ./spec/controllers/admin/connections_controller_spec.rb:54
Worse, these things were working just fine in RAILS_ENV=development.
Well, of course, it is failing on the line where the :create is invoked. But, where is the nil.each occuring?
I ran things with:
bundle exec rspec -d spec/controllers/admin/connections_controller_spec.rb \ -e "POST create with valid params creates a new Connection"
after putting "debugger" in before the test case:
describe "POST create" do describe "with valid params" do it "creates a new Connection" do # expect { debugger post :create, :connection => valid_attributes #}.to change(Connection, :count).by(1) end
(I'm still looking for a good ruby-debug mode that works like gdb-mode in Emacs works, that can show me the code around where I am...)
One winds up in the rescue in:
on line 19.
So, stick a breakpoint on the super there:
break /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-3.0.9/lib/action_controller/metal/rescue.rb:17
This lets you see the exception:
(rdb:1) p exception #<NoMethodError: You have a nil object when you didn't expect it! You might have expected an instance of Array. The error occurred while evaluating nil.each>
The annoying part is that the action is invoked at
ActiveSupport::Notifications.instrument("process_action.action_controller", raw_payload) do |payload|
so, it evaluates code, and there are in fact one block passed to another block, and it seems really hard (a major ruby-debug limitation), that I can not put a breakpoint easily into the beginning of a block passed in.
I had to resort to editing that file, and sticking "debugger" in there!
Finally, one gets to:
/var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-3.0.9/lib/abstract_controller/base.rb:150 send_action(method_name, *args)
In the debugger, the right thing to do is:
catch NoMethodError
This finally shows me that the failure is at:
Why? Because attributes is nil.
Why, because the generated controllers spec file says:
describe "with valid params" do it "creates a new Connection" do expect { post :create, :connection => valid_attributes }.to change(Connection, :count).by(1) end
should have been generated as:
describe "with valid params" do it "creates a new Connection" do expect { post :create, :record => valid_attributes }.to change(Connection, :count).by(1) end
posted at: 11:37 | path: /ruby-on-rails | permanent link to this entry
Mon, 08 Aug 2011
Domain Squatter Avoidance tool
Here is a nice use for a distributed hash table, backed by the new IETF REPUTE work.
I just typed "antipope.net" rather than antipope.org to get to Charlies Stross' web site. A squatter offered to sell me the domain. Some of the squatters do it solely for ad revenue, and I'd rather not arrange for them to get a dime.
I want a button for my browser (Chromium) which logs that name into a reputation database indicating that these guys are squatters, and letting me (once I know the correct name) enter the proper name. The same plugin will consult that database if I type something wrong, and suggest an alternative.
posted at: 09:24 | path: /internet | permanent link to this entry
Sun, 17 Jul 2011
Eclipse and Android SDK never ran
I've had a problem getting Eclipse, and specifically the Android SDK to run on my Debian laptop for over a year now. I've generally just VNC'ed to a more powerful box and ran it there.
The problem I had was that most network operations in eclipse would fail with network unreachable. Not a big deal for day to day things, but you need the network to install the Android SDK kits and install Eclipse plugins.
I had been trying to strace things to figure out what it was, and finally found it:
connect(26, {sa_family=AF_INET6, sin6_port=htons(443), inet_pton(AF_INET6, "::ffff:220.127.116.11", &sin6_addr), sin6_flowinfo=0, sin6_scope_id=0}, 28) = -1 ENETUNREACH (Network is unreachable)
Huh, it's doing IPv6 connections. GOOD. But, it hasn't set the right IOCTL on the socket to permit IPv4 mapped connections to work, and on Debian, the bindv6only is now not set.
See: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=560056
posted at: 16:36 | path: /android | permanent link to this entry
Sun, 03 Jul 2011
"Over The Top" Television
re: http://crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2011/2011-344.htm
1. My name is Michael Richardson. I am chief scientist of Sandelman Software Works. I am writing today about your consultation about "Over-The-Top" television, such as "netflix" and others like this. I am a pioneer of the Internet, my use of it dates back to 1987. I am active participant in the Internet Engineering Task Force, and I've authored a number of RFCs in the security field.
2. I find the entire question about "over-the-top" to itself be indicative of a bias to begin with. My question was, over top of what? I get as much television "over" Canada Post as I do "over-the-air".
3. The Internet does not run on top of other things, more and more, other things run on top of the Internet. Neither incumbent cable or telephone companies have been competent enough to supply my home office for internet. My family that has tried them for Internet has found their service to be lacking, and have gone to reliable Internet suppliers, ones that are not vertically integrated and therefore do not have a bias against other things.
4. Since 1995, I have not subscribed to "cable" TV. I tried microwave (LOOK), but when I moved it was not available, and then I went to satellite (Star Choice, now Shaw). Since it became Shaw, my level of service has steadily declined, while my rates have gone up. My family uses the satellite TV less and less (we are now on the lowest tier subscription, primary for US Network channels) and relies on DVD delivery from ZIP and netflix over my bridged-DSL connection with Storm Internet.
5. Netflix has reported "problems" with Canadian residential internet connections. I have none. I do not use an incumbent telco with a competing service as my supplier. Please connect the dots.
6. I do not use "HD" services at this time, as I have no TVs like that. I consider current HD TV systems to be too inflexible and yet too complicated for my use. When the time comes, I will replace the "screens" in my home with dumb computer-grade displays, connected to media boxes running open standard systems.
7. The available content on Netflix leaves a lot to be desired. The amount in Canada, I'm told is much less than in the US due to licensing problems. This upsets me greatly: I would like to see a mandatory licensing regime that seperated who I choose to deliver the content I want, from what content is available.
8. Netflix offers a service that apparently permits some Apple and some Microsoft users to watch television their computers. This system uses a proprietary copyright infringing system to display the content. I say that it infringes the copyright laws because it appears that this "Digital Rights Management" system in fact denies me rights that I would have on other systems. This system is incompatible with non-Microsoft systems (tied selling) such as Ubuntu Linux that runs at my house.
9. We happen to have a Nintendo WII game console that has a netflix system for it, and I'm told that the Netflix application for it may also contain DRM. However, the output of my WII is a DRM-free analogue signal, and therefore my rights are identical with this system as they would be with broadcast television.
10. I am preparing myself for ATSC. I intend to put an antenna on my roof to receive US Network Channels from Rochester NY, and along with an ATSC tuner on each of my three TVs, I should be able to get Ottawa broadcast channels from Camp Fortune. At that point I will stop subscribing to satellite service: they have provided me with essentially no value.
11. At this point, what I would like is the ability to pay for the content that I want. I would like to be able to vote with my wallet, rather than have the CRTC tell me. I expect some service (such as Netflix, or a competitor) to offer to intermediate my transactions, reducing the cost of the transaction, and dealing the production studios directly.
12. I would like to:
13. This is particularly important to me for children's shows, as I will only let me child watch the TV stations that do not feature advertising.
End of Document
posted at: 18:10 | path: /crtc | permanent link to this entry
Mon, 09 May 2011
Problems (insecurities) in ActiveResource
I have an application that talks to Redmine/Chiliproject using its API with results in JSON. I use ActiveResource to make these calls, and it suddendly started failing after an upgrade from redmine to chiliproject:
test_retrieve_the_thomas_watson_project_by_id(ProjectTest): ActiveRecord::UnknownAttributeError: unknown attribute: created_on
The fact that I was getting an error from ActiveRecord and not ActiveResource was puzzling. My ActiveResource class was called ProjectResource. The thing that I was retrieving was a "project", and yes, I happened to have a model called "Project", which was a subclass of ActiveRecord.
Looking at the JSON results using curl:
marajade-[~/C/dracula/hourbank3] mcr 10293 %curl 'http://localhost:3100/projects/show/16?format=json&key=abcdAPIKEY09123456789' {"project":{"description":"Voice and Video softphone system for Android, with SIP support.","updated_on":"2010/10/08 10:10:24-0400","identifier":"thomas-watson","homepage":"","name":"Thomas-Watson","created_on":"2009/08/23 12:21:38 -0400","id":16}}
and also in the debugger, at
(rdb:1) c Breakpoint 1 at /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/activeresource-3.0.4/lib/active_resource/base.rb:889 /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/activeresource-3.0.4/lib/active_resource/base.rb:889 new(record).tap do |resource| (rdb:1) p record {"project"=>{"name"=>"Thomas-Watson", "created_on"=>"2009/08/23 12:21:38 -0400", "id"=>16, "updated_on"=>"2010/10/08 10:10:24 -0400", "homepage"=>"", "description"=>"Voice and Video softphone system for Android, with SIP support.", "identifier"=>"thomas-watson"}}
what happens next is that the word "project" is passed to
and this finds and returns the "Project" class which is in my model. My model does not have a field created_on, thus the error.
So there three problems with this behaviour:
additions to the API should not break my old code, I should just ignore them.
there is no guarantee that the class that was found, "Project" has any of the behaviour that I need in the thing returned from ActiveResource.
worst, since the word "project" came from the remote system, the remote system could pick any class it wanted and invoke code on it. It's a reverse attack by a server on a client, but it's wrong to assume that the server is fully trusted by the client.
I'm not sure what the easiest way to fix this, but it's certainly wrong, and it's been there awhile in ActiveResource.
posted at: 15:14 | path: /ruby-on-rails | permanent link to this entry
Sun, 24 Apr 2011
A novel way to do PBX extensions
At CREDIL we are expanding our Asterisk out to service the entire floor. We didn't do our extensions particularly efficiently (numberwise), and I was thinking about ways to do them.
A really (math) geeky way occured to me: give employee number n the n+2'th prime (1-first prime, 2-second prime, first employee gets extension 3).
Then, if you need to have a conference call with employees number 4, 6 and 9, then you need to dial their product. Primes are 1,2,3,5,7,11,13,17,19,23,29,31,.. 4+2 = 6th prime is 11, 6+2=8th prime is 17, and 9+2=11th prime is 29. So dial 11*17*29 = 5423.
Primes are still in the 4 digits for the first 1000.
All multiples of your extension are yours to do anything you want with, and since the multiples times powers of 2 are never conference bridges, you have a lot of bits you can use to encode useful things. Want to call me and avoid ringing me? Okay, set bit number 2. Want to call me and never go to voice mail? Okay, set bit number 3... etc.
posted at: 15:15 | path: /xkcd | permanent link to this entry
Thu, 21 Apr 2011
Time for a new Monarch
To Her Majesty Her Majesty Elizabeth the Second,
by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, Ireland and the British Dominions beyond the Seas Queen, Defender of the Faith, Duchess of Edinburgh, Countess of Merioneth, Baroness Greenwich, Duke of Lancaster, Lord of Mann, Duke of Normandy, Sovereign of the Most Honourable Order of the Garter, Sovereign of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Sovereign of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle, Sovereign of the Most Illustrious Order of Saint Patrick, Sovereign of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Sovereign of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Sovereign of the Distinguished Service Order, Sovereign of the Imperial Service Order, Sovereign of the Most Exalted Order of the Star of India, Sovereign of the Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire, Sovereign of the Order of British India, Sovereign of the Indian Order of Merit, Sovereign of the Order of Burma, Sovereign of the Royal Order of Victoria and Albert, Sovereign of the Royal Family Order of King Edward VII, Sovereign of the Order of Merit, Sovereign of the Order of the Companions of Honour, Sovereign of the Royal Victorian Order, Sovereign of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem
(see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_titles_and_honours_of_Queen_Elizabeth_II )
On this, Our Birthday, where I turn 40, and you are still more than twice my age, and likely four times my wisdom, I wanted to share some thoughts I have had over the last few years.
I am your direct subject, having been born in London, as as well as your loyal subject in the "British Dominions beyond the Seas". I'm actually a fan of having a monarch, which is rather unpopular these days. I even met Your Highness once when you visited Fredericton, but I actually too little to know enough to be impressed.
First, congradulations on celebrating the marriage of your grandson. I know that things will go well next week, and we look forward his visit to Ottawa this summer.
I am sure that you have given a lot of thought to succession. I wondered if you had considered that Prince William would very nice King. A very nice Young King, one who could rally the youth of today, and bring a unity that politicians yearn for, but have seldom delivered.
Does Prince Charles actually want to be King? Perhaps after a brief Honeymoon, you and Prince Charles might consider abdicating in favour of Prince William.
I suggest sometime in 2012, maybe Feb. 29 would auspicious, or maybe April 21, 2012. I don't know: I am sure you will come up with something sensible.
posted at: 10:40 | path: /governance | permanent link to this entry
Thu, 17 Mar 2011
Dreamhost SSL certificates --- insecure
Dreamhost sells third-level GeoTrust SSL security certificates for $15/year. (You have to be an existing customer).
It seems however, they do not give you the chance to upload a CSR file. Instead, you are expected to fill out the DN information online, and then they generate a private key for you. And they keep the private key around in their database.
It also winds up in your browser cache, and if you have kind of a "trusted" SSL proxy between you and the Internet (like half of corporate users have), then it's gonna be in the cache of that device too.
This is a FAIL. Not only is your private key subject to whatever insecurity their might have, but it's total FBI Patriot Act fodder.
(If there is some place to upload a CSR, we couldn't find it)
posted at: 14:14 | path: /security | permanent link to this entry


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"Did we force ourselves on you, or you on us?"
(Goethe, Faust: Part One)
"What makes you think I'm enjoying being led to the flood?"
(The National, 'Runaway')
"I know thee, though thou art all filthy."
(Dante's Inferno, Canto VIII)
Exploring hands encounter no defence;
His vanity requires no response,
And make a welcome of indifference.
He had come to the moment in his age when there occurred to him, with increasing intensity, a question of such overwhelming simplicity that he had no means to face it. He found himself wondering if his life were worth the living: if it had ever been. It was a question, he suspected, that came to all men at one time or another; he wondered if it came to them with such impersonal force as it came to him. The question brought with it a sadness, but it was a general sadness which (he thought) had little to do with himself or with his particular fate; he was not even sure that the question sprang from the most immediate causes, from what his own life had become. It came, he believed, from the accretion of his years, from the density of accident and circumstance, and from what he had come to understand from them. He took a grim and ironic pleasure from the possibility that what little learning he had managed to acquire had led him to this knowledge; that in the long run all things, even the learning that let him know this, were futile and empty, and at last diminished into a nothingness they did not alter.


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RSS is a great technology for reading headlines from blogs and news sources, but it doesn't need to stop there. An RSS 2.0 feed is really just a a list of stuff. If we build on that premise, then we can do some incredibly powerful things with RSS. RSS Traits is an extension spec to RSS that allows you to deliver all kinds of information (domain-specific or otherwise) within an RSS feed.
Here's a brief sketchcast that outlines the motivation behind, logic around and a few simple examples of RSS Traits:
A draft specification of the RSS Traits extension is available for sharing and viewing. Like everything else on the Arc90 Lab, it is available under Creative Commons.


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Add some color and health to your grill from our friends at Whole Foods
- 3/4 pound small new potatoes, tagliato a metà
- 2 medium zucchini or yellow summer squash, cut in half lengthwise
- 1 large onion, cut into 1/2-inch thick pieces
- 1 peperone verde, cut into 1-inch strips
- 1 yellow bell pepper, cut into 1-inch strips
- 1/2 pound mushrooms, squartato
- 1/3 cup of your favorite salad dressing
If using bamboo skewers, soak them in water for 2 hours prior to using to reduce charring. Parboil potatoes until done but still firm. Thread vegetables alternately on skewers. Brush generously with salad dressing. Grill for 3 minuti; turn vegetables over, brushing with extra salad dressing. Grill for another 3 a 4 minutes until done.
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Per Serving: 180 calorie (60 dal grasso), 7g di grassi totali, 1g di grassi saturi, 0mg di colesterolo, 170mg di sodio, 27g di carboidrati (5g fibre alimentari, 7g di zucchero), 6proteine g


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Little girl standing at the door
I ask her, "Who are you waiting for?"
Without movement she says, "He'll be here.."
Hours go by and the girl has not moved
'Cuz if she did it would be a second she'd lose
Days go by and the girl's smile is gone
Her eyes eager to hide all the wrong
Weeks gone and she's sitting at the door
You could see her footprints in the floor
Months pass and pain fills her heart
Where was the sunshine in this dark?
Years gone, she's twenty now
The happy lil girl now wears a frown
No sign of him, hurt, she leaves the door
"Bye daddy," she says walking away
leaving nothing but her footprints in the floor.
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ANNAPOLIS, Md. – The No. 2 seed Navy women's tennis team proved to be too much for the No. 7-seeded Holy Cross women's tennis team, as the squad fell 6-0 in the first round of the Patriot League Tournament at the Brigade Sports Complex. With the final, the Crusaders wrap up the 2010-2011 campaign with a 2-14 overall record (0-3 Patriot League) while the Midshipmen continue the hunt for the Patriot League crown, notching a 21-9 overall record (3-0 Patriot League).
The Midshipmen began the day by picking up victories in all three doubles matches to claim the first point. Navy then followed with five consecutive singles wins, topping the Crusaders in straight sets at No.1, No. 2, No. 4, No. 5 and No. 6 singles. Freshman Maya Welch (Rye, N.Y.) did not complete her No. 3 singles match, and was down 6-0, 5-0 when the match was called. Fellow freshman Molly Montgomery (Winnetka, Ill.) was the only Crusader to win a game in singles action, falling in her No. 1 match, 6-1, 6-0.
Today's match marks the final time the Holy Cross women's tennis team will compete this season. The squad finished the spring portion of its schedule with a record of 2-8.
1. Dye Das/Amanda Griffin (NAVY) def. Emily Marr/Molly Montgomery (HC) - 8-2
2. Emani Decquir/Stefanie Ton (NAVY) def. Jessica DeSimone/Emma Rudnik (HC) – 8-1
3. Brittney Boucher/Erin Snook (NAVY) def. Jen Daffron/Maya Welch (HC) – 8-0
1. Griffin (NAVY) def. Montgomery (HC), 6-1, 6-0
2. Decquir (NAVY) def. Marr (HC) – 6-0, 6-0
3. Ton (NAVY) led Welch (HC) – 6-0, 5-0, DNF
4. Darien Spears (NAVY) def. Mary McAuliffe (HC) – 6-0, 6-0
5. Snook (NAVY) def. Rudnik (HC) — 6-0, 6-0
6. Boucher (NAVY) def. DeSimone (HC) – 6-0, 6-0


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The result left Ipswich closer to the drop zone in 17th, three points ahead of third-bottom Huddersfield and Millwall are just a point ahead of them and lie 14th, although they have two games in hand because of their FA Cup run.
McCarthy said nerves were to blame for a scrappy game but he was happy to be taking a point back to Suffolk which followed on from their victory over Leeds.
"It's a good point, without a doubt, and we've gained four points over Easter from our home game on Saturday and a point here," he said.
"It wasn't a good game - it was pretty poor with two teams in a relegation scrap, where we've been all season long and I think it's probably dawning on Millwall as well now.
"They're one point better off than us and the other teams around us have won so it's nervy.
"The conditions weren't great - it was blowing a gale and it was a bouncy old pitch so it wasn't conducive to a great game of football.
"And yet there were quite a lot of chances and both teams could have won it, but I'll take a point all day long.
"Easter hasn't made or broken us - if anything it's made us a bit worse off despite getting four points because the league's bonkers, just crazy."


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The brokerage and insurance units of Compass Bank were ordered to cough up money to compensate an elderly couple for duping them into buying one too many annuities.
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Joe Temperley: 'No Greater Sound On Earth'
May 22, 2015Add new comment | Filed under: A Blog Supreme, Jazz Night In America: The Radio ProgramJoe Temperley performs with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra in 2013. (Image Credit: Frank Stewart/Jazz at Lincoln Center)
Baritone saxophonist and clarinetist Joe Temperley has led an illustrious career spanning several decades, performing in some of the best big bands that ever were. Temperley, now 85, has performed with the orchestras of Humphrey Lyttelton, Woody Herman, Thad Jones & Mel Lewis, Clark Terry, Joe Henderson, and of course, Duke Ellington. For the past 25 years, Temperley has also been the heart and soul of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. As Wynton Marsalis has written, "There is no greater sound on earth, than Joe Temperley on a horn."
Jazz Night in America gets to know the man, listening to his original music and his new arrangements of Ellington favorites. Watch highlights from the concert here.
Ben Sidran on "Blue Camus": Listen Now
May 22, 2015. Posted by Tim Wilkins.Add new comment | Filed under: gary walker, Interviews
Pianist and singer Ben Sidran talks with Gary Walker about his album "Blue Camus," which mixes poetry with jazz. Sidran performs at New York's Mezzrow Friday, May 22 and Saturday, May 23. Enjoy!
WBGO Says Goodbye to Saxophonist Bob Belden
May 20, 2015. Posted by Tim Wilkins.Add new comment | Filed under: RIP, The Checkout
WBGO says farewell to saxophonist and record producer Bob Belden, who passed away today after a massive heart attack over the weekend.
A highly imaginative arranger, performer and producer, Belden served as the head of artists and repertoire for Blue Note Records, and won multiple Grammy Awards for his reissues of Miles Davis recordings for Columbia Records. He also produced two well-received Davis tribute albums with international musicians, Miles From India and Miles Español.
"Animation," an ensemble he created with trumpeter Tim Hagans, recorded two albums for Blue Note and was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2001. He reformed the group for a concert in 2006 with young musicians from his alma mater, the University of North Texas. He released three RareNoise albums with the reformed group, with a fourth on the way.
He also took Animation to perform at a music festival in Iran in February of this year, with Pete Clagett on trumpet, Jair-Rohm Parker Wells on bass, Roberto Verastegui on piano, and and Matt Young on drums. They were the first American jazz musicians to perform in the country since its 1979 Islamic revolution. A film crew traveled with the musicians for a forthcoming documentary.
Belden and Hagans also brought Animation to perform in WBGO's studios in 2011, where they spoke with Josh Jackson. We'd like to share that special session and conversation with you again now.
Farewell Bob and thank you!


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The niece of late, gay footballer Justin Fashanu discusses how her uncle inspired her latest work...
Hey Amal! Can you tell us a little about your new fashion label?
Black Heart Label is a fashion brand which is aimed at increasing awareness about issues of discrimination and inequality. The brand does this through encouraging its fashion-forward, target audience to make a stand for what they believe in. We encourage our customers to wear their hearts on their sleeves and believe in the power of change through the actions and education of an individual.
Where did the inspiration come from to create Black Heart Label?
I have always been passionate about fashion. I have blogged for many years and also have modelled in various editorials and campaigns. It seemed like a natural career progression to end up in the fashion industry, so that's where the inspiration for the label came from. The Black Heart concept was a way to merge my career with a cause I felt strongly about. My uncle's story and the impact it had on my life motivated me to find a way to encourage other young people to stand up against discrimination in all walks of life. Using fashion to make a stand against discrimination felt like a great idea. For the last decade, various other campaigns have used the same model to raise awareness with great results.
In July 1991, Justin was interviewed by Gay Times – and appeared on our cover – 22 years later you're here and carrying the torch for him. What does that mean to you and what do you think he would say?
I was very touched that Gay Times featured him on the cover. For me, it means that Justin's trials and the prejudice he experienced after he publicly came out are still very much relevant to the gay community today and making sure that society fully evolves away from where it was 22 years ago is definitely still a cause worth fighting for.
Nice! On the 22nd October 1990 the Sun ran the headline: "1m Football Star: I AM GAY" How do you think everyone would react now if they ran the same headline?
I genuinely think it would create just as much of a commotion as it did back then. The media would perhaps be kinder and more cautious with how they carried out any follow up reports as there are a lot more guidelines now and regulations against discrimination in the press, but I do genuinely think people would be very shocked if a footballer made such a public declaration especially if it's a well- known premier league player. I mean, there's still a lot of shock over the WWE's Darren Young who unexpectedly admitted to being gay during an interview earlier this week.
Indeed, although footballer Robbie Rogers came out as gay after an intermittent period of being away from the game. Do you think it's any easier to be a gay footballer now?
Whether it's easier or not is not for me to conclusively say. But the fact that gay players feel that they aren't able to come out suggests there are still many hurdles in creating a completely safe environment which players can thrive regardless of their sexuality.
We've noticed on Twitter you enjoy your hashtags – could you use 5 hashtags to describe your new fashion range?
#fashionforchange #diverse #niche #equality #young
Now – 3 hashtags to describe yourself?
The first two would have to be #passionate and #determined and the third would be #perpetualoptimist
What message do you hope to leave the world through your work?
Young people need to follow their dreams and believe in the power of the individual versus the masses, because guess what.. the individuals create the mass!
Find out more about Black Heart Label and Amal
Words: Lee Dalloway (@Leeroydalvin)


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Honda Manufacturing of Indiana says Sunday it will begin accepting applications for hundreds of production jobs for its $550 million Greensburg plant. Honda says applications will only be accepted online. Honda says applicants must live in the 20 counties that surround the plant. When the plant reaches full production the company expects to employ 2,000 workers.
Source: Inside INdiana Business
Earlier this year, the company received more than 7,500 applications for non-production jobs, which it has begun hiring.
The website to apply for jobs is http://www.Indiana.Honda.com
Press Release
GREENSBURG, Ind., Aug. 23 -- Honda Manufacturing of Indiana, LLC (HMIN) will begin accepting applications for production positions Sunday, Aug. 26, 2007, through the Indiana Department of Workforce Development (IDWD). Advertisements calling for applications will appear in newspapers beginning Sunday.
Applications will be accepted for a two-week period through Sunday, Sept. 9, 2007 with the first phase of hiring beginning later this year. HMIN will employ approximately 2,000 associates when the automobile plant in Greensburg reaches full production.
Applications will be accepted only on-line at the Web site: http://www.Indiana.Honda.com. Interested individuals who do not have access to a computer may contact their local Indiana Department of Workforce Development WorkOne Office to obtain assistance in completing the on-line application process.
Applicants must be 18 years of age, have a high school degree or GED to be considered for production employment opportunities. Applicants also must reside in the following counties: Bartholomew, Brown, Dearborn, Decatur, Fayette, Franklin, Hancock, Henry, Jackson, Jefferson, Jennings, Johnson, Marion, Ohio, Ripley, Rush, Shelby, Switzerland, Union and Wayne. Honda is an equal opportunity employer and HMIN is committed to hiring candidates from diverse backgrounds to become part of its team in Indiana.
Construction of the new $550 million HMIN production facility began in March on a 1,700-acre tract in Decatur County, Indiana, near the town of Greensburg, 50 miles southeast of Indianapolis. Mass production of Honda Civic sedans is expected to begin in fall 2008.
At full production, HMIN will have the capacity to produce 200,000 vehicles per year. Major production processes performed at the Indiana plant will include stamping, welding, painting, plastic injection molding, sub-assembly and final assembly operations.
HMIN has begun hiring a limited number of non-production associates in the fields of automotive engineering, purchasing, information technology, administration and equipment maintenance. Advertising in February and June 2007, for these non-production positions resulted in more than 7,500 applicants.
HMIN will be Honda's seventh auto plant in North America and one of 17 major Honda manufacturing facilities in North America. It will help to boost Honda's total North American automobile production capacity from 1.4 million units to more than 1.6 million units in 2008, employment in North America to more than 37,000 associates and capital investment in North America to more than $9 billion.
Honda began U.S. sales operations in 1959, the company's first overseas subsidiary. Honda began U.S. production operations in 1979. Honda began building cars in the U.S. in 1982, making 2007 the 25th anniversary of Honda auto production in America.
Source: Honda Manufacturing of Indiana, LLC


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A former secretary has gained a first-class degree in law, after taking up the subject in order to sue her previous employer for harassment, reports the BBC.
Alex Gibson, 36, previously worked as a secretary but left her job after claiming she was subjected to bullying at work due to her dyslexia.
However, as she was unable to pay the cost of professional legal representation, she decided instead to take up law as a student at Bangor University.
Her remarkable story has been compared to that of US attorney Erin Brockovich, about whom a hit Hollywood film was made starring Julia Roberts in the lead role.
Brockovich's story was another example of a woman taking up legal study in order to take on a major case.
In Gibson's case she was told the hearing was likely to last around eight days, but the legal wrangling beforehand meant the case actually dragged on for two-and-a-half years.
"Alex decided to represent herself for the duration of the case and after a two-and-a-half-year legal battle she won her case," a spokesman for Bangor University told the BBC.
"To top off her achievement she also graduated from Bangor with a first-class degree in law," they added.
Gibson said that taking her harassment case to tribunal had been 'utterly terrifying' but added that she was happy she had stood up for herself.
She is now awaiting a financial settlement from her former employer, who has offered a four-figure sum to settle the case.
"I can finally say no-one will ever make me feel worthless again," she told the BBC.


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The local chapter of Disabled American Veterans at a flag ceremony where we were honoring our fallen veterans. Submitted by James Lamprecht, DAV member, of Johnson City.
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I'm so excited about this post, mostly because it's so me. Not only do Apple and Scarlet have amazingly geeky things at The Arcade, but Isla has made my dreams come true with this retro gaming system.
It looks totally realistic, even coming with controllers that have great looking buttons and a glowing power light on the console. I have a feeling Isla will be making more so be on the look out!
Here's your junk:
Couch: Cheeky Pea – Mainstream Couch New Wave (4 LI, mod/copy)
Arcade Machine: Apple Fall and Scarlet Creative – Blocki Machine (24 LI, trans) NEW! @ The Arcade
TV: Cheeky Pea – Earnst TV (2 LI, mod/copy)
Screen: MudHoney – Laura Screen (7 LI, mod/copy)
Rug: Cheeky Pea – Sweetwater Rug (5 LI, mod/copy)
Pizza and Beer: Dutchie – 1 prim pizza (1 LI, mod/copy)
Chinese Food: Apple Fall – Chinese (1 LI, mod/copy)
Game System: Cheeky Pea – Playing Games Console (1 LI, mod/copy) NEW! @ The Mens Dept
House: Elate – A Lofty Skybox (64 LI, copy)


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Chinese Economy Leading Asia's Economic Recovery
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We're seeing a strong regional uptrend in Asia. While western economies continue their lackluster performance, many of the countries in the Chinese economic sphere of influence are catching fire economically.
The most immediate and sensitive measure of economic activity is the PMI (purchasing manager's index) in various countries. Any result in the PMI survey of purchasing managers above 50 indicates economic expansion. As China investors we're very pleased to see that China's PMI continues to soar.
The China Manufacturing PMI rose to 56.1 in December – the second fastest rise ever recorded by the survey. The PMI survey indicates a ninth consecutive monthly expansion in new order volume, with companies reporting buoyant demand in both domestic and export markets. We haven't seen momentum like this since 2005. Manufacturing activity in December expanded at the fastest pace for 20 months.
The good news for China investors is buttressed by equally strong PMI numbers for regional Asian trading partners.
The South Korea manufacturing PMI moved up in December to 52.8 from 52.6 in November. This indicates a continued expansion of the economy. In Taiwan, the manufacturing PMI moved upwards for the ninth successive month, reaching 58.7 from 58.4 in November. The index showed strong demand in both export and domestic markets, although the rate of increase in new orders edged downwards.
Singapore has been less of a success story, with an economic contraction expected in the fourth quarter compared to the previous quarter. Year over year, the fourth quarter is expected to show 3.5% economic expansion.
India appears to be another big winner in the PMI race. The India Manufacturing PMI has hit its highest level since May, rising sharply from 53 to 55.6. India's PMI has now been above 50 for nine consecutive months, indicating a sustainable trend of expansion.
Japan continues to founder in the grips of what may become another so-called "Lost Decade." But the new government says it is determined to make inroads on that country's unaddressed economic malaise.
Japanese Prime Minister Hatoyama says his top priority is to prevent the economy from slipping back into recession by passing budget bills for the current fiscal year and the next. So far, Japan's record of coming to grips with ingrained economic ills has been dismal but perhaps the new administration can make some inroads at last.
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From the stadium in Sao Paulo to sofas in Germany, from a pub in Nairobi to a cafe in Miami, from a Rio slum to outer space, nearly half the world's population was expected to tune in to the World Cup, soccer's premier event which kicked off Thursday in Brazil.
Even football-loving Pope Francis got a touch of World Cup fever. He sent a video message on Brazilian television before the match, saying the world's most popular sport can promote peace and solidarity.
The inaugural game had everything aficionados love — passion, drama, spectacle, goals and a refereeing controversy. Here are just a few of the billions of spectators who got caught up in it all.
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50,000 3D Printable Gun Patterns Downloaded After Obama Speech
While it's illegal to print an entire gun, printing the parts separately is permissible. Over 150,000 freely downloadable files for high-capacity magazines have so far been downloaded since President Obama gun control proposal was made public.
This just goes to show that criminals will always find a way to getting their hands on weapons. The Defense Distributed website reads:
"The specific purposes for which this corporation is organized are: To defend the civil liberty of popular access to arms as guaranteed by the United States Constitution and affirmed by the United States Supreme Court, through facilitating global access to, and the collaborative production of, information and knowledge related to the 3D printing of arms; and to publish and distribute, at no cost to the public, such information and knowledge in promotion of the public interest."
It will be interesting to see Defense Distributed's response once the first massacre from 3D-printed guns breaks the hearts of Americans for yet another time.
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The Obama reelection campaign on Monday forged ahead with a new line of attack taking aim at Republican challenger Mitt Romney's record as Massachusetts governor while insisting that their assault on his time at Bain Capital was warranted.
The campaign released a new ad that tries to knock down Romney's claims of having been a "job creator" in Massachusetts by poking holes in his economic record as governor.
In a conference call with reporters, senior adviser David Axelrod and other campaign officials did not, however, back away from the Bain attacks, which have portrayed Romney as a "corporate buyout specialist" and profit-monger. The message was undercut by some Obama surrogates and other Democrats who expressed squeamishness about attacking Romney's business experience.
"That was an important conversation to have," Axelrod said. "Does the philosophy he had [at Bain], does that translate into job creation when you're leading a government. It didn't in Massachusetts and it won't in this country."
Axelrod noted that the latest ad would air in battleground states and cost $10 million, while the Bain ads, which aired in May, cost about $100,000.
Axelrod also accused the Romney campaign "breathtaking hypocrisy" for criticizing Obama's job creation record in his first year in office while arguing that Romney's first year as governor should be excluded from his overall jobs creation record.
"It's breathtaking hypocrisy for them to say, 'You really can't include (Romney's) first year because he took over at a tough time'," he said. "That's not the standard by which Gov. Romney has held this president."
Romney campaign quickly fired back.
"Having abandoned 'Hope and Change,' the Obama campaign only 'Hopes To Change The Subject' from an abysmal jobs report," Romney spokesperson Andrea Saul said. "We're happy to compare the 4.7 percent unemployment rate Mitt Romney achieved in Massachusetts to President Obama's weak record any day."


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High-level meetings on Libya topped the schedules of President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton at the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday. Obama and Clinton met briefly with Mustafa Abdul Jalil, chairman of Libya's Transitional National Council, before heading into a meeting of the Friends of Libya, a group of international partners that have pledged support to a democratic transiton in the North African nation.
"Libya is a lesson in what the international community can achieve when we stand together as one," Obama said before going into the meeting. He celebrated the "successful" international cooperation, both military and diplomatic, that led to the fall of dictator Muammar el-Qaddafi and supported democratic opposition to his rule. "This is how the international community should work in the 21st century—more nations bearing the responsibility and costs of meeting global challenges," Obama said.
The Libyan people "have a friend and partner in the United States of America," Obama said. He also didn't rule out continuing military involvement, saying that "so long as the Libyan people are being threatened," the NATO-led mission "will continue." Obama also promised humanitarian support, and support for U.N. efforts to nurture democratic institutions.
Obama vowed that the wealth Qaddafi "squandered" must return to the Libyan people, and mentioned unfreezing the Qaddafi regime's assets and the resumption of oil production. Yet he did not give a timeline for when those $33 billion in assets frozen by the U.S. Treasury would be available or specify the role America is expected to play in the restoration of Libya's oil fields.
"Although we are a rich country, we require assistance," T.N.C. chairman Jalil said, in a speech that preceded Obama's. The T.N.C. expects U.N. assistance, particularly humanitarian aid, Jalil added. He sought to "reassure everyone" present that Libya's new government would respect human rights, uphold peace and stability, and elect its officials.
The pre-Qaddafi Libyan flag flew outside the United Nations this morning, a change that marked U.N. recognition of the T.N.C. as Libya's legitimate governing authority.
U.S. positions on Libya, Afghanistan, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will be closely watched as Obama and Clinton spend the next few days at the meetings. The Palestinians are expected to bring a statehood bid to the United Nations Security Council on Friday, a move strongly opposed by the U.S. and Israel.
Obama and Clinton have a packed schedule of bilateral meetings and photo-ops on Wednesday. They will meet with Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff and later Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey.
Obama met with President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan, but Karzai is leaving the UN meeting early to return to Afghanistan after an Afghan leader considered vital to peace efforts was reported killed Tuesday. Former Afghan president Burhanuddin Rabbani died Tuesday when a suicide bomber detonated inside Rabbani's Kabul home, CNN reported.


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"Pork chops are stuffed with a spinach, mushroom, tart cherry, and Parmesan mixture, then browned in butter and baked for a delicious dinner that's perfect for a special occasion."
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1 tablespoon
1/3 cup
chopped onion
2 cloves
garlic, minced
8 ounces
fresh mushrooms, chopped
1 (6 ounce) package
fresh baby spinach
1 teaspoon
dried thyme
1/2 teaspoon
1/8 teaspoon
black pepper
1/2 cup
finely chopped dried tart cherries or dried apples
1/4 cup
grated Parmesan cheese
pork rib chops, loin chops, or boneless loin chops, cut 1 1/2 inches thick
Salt to taste
Ground black pepper to taste
2 tablespoons
Very good recipe! I'm usually not a fan of pork chops, but I loved this. The stuffing was the best part-so yummy. I used dried cranberries 'cause that's what I had, and I put a little less than 1/2 cup 'cause I didn't want it too sweet. Also, I added a little bit more parmesan cheese :) ... The only thing I would change next time, is I would add some pork chop seasoning. I only put salt/pepper, so the pork just lacked a little something. But yeah, I' ll definitely make this recipe again- my husband loved it too!
This was great! I fed it to 2 family members and my husband. It was a loved dish! I sprinkled some prok chop seasoning on the outside along with some salt and pepper when I seared it. It was a hit! I also mixed dried cherries AND dried apples. Good recipe!
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These were good tasting, but I wouldn't say amazing. Even though I did add garlic salt and pepper to the chops before browning, If I made them again I would certainly give the chops some more seasoning. They did come out tender and juicy and the stuffing was wonderful. The chops just needed something more. I didn't have the dried cherries so I dried some apples in my dehydrator to use here.
Excellent, baked in the same pan then made a pan gravy by deglazing with some sweet vermouth , added a little chicken stock then creamed up with some milk and butter
Made this last night without the fruit. It was great. I was looking for something to do with pork chops while cutting back on bread products. This was perfect!
I LOVE this dish! I don't very often make a recipe a second time but I've made this one 3 time so far.
We really enjoyed our pork chops. The chops were moist and juicy, and the spinach-and-mushroom stuffing was tasty. Plan to repeat this for company.
I added spinach and sharp cheddar cheese, then wrapped in bacon. It went over Big in my house. Good recipe ! I left out the fruit.
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
Spinach-and-Mushroom-Stuffed Pork Chops
Serving Size: 1/4 of a recipe
Servings Per Recipe: 4
Amount Per Serving
Calories: 359
Calories from Fat: 175
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Jacksonville Jaguars Sign OT Pat McQuistan
Offensive tackle Pat McQuistan has signed a deal with the Jacksonville Jaguars, who spent last season with the Arizona Cardinals and had signed with the Dallas Cowboys in the off-season.
Tunnel Vision: McQuistan, who has played for the Miami Dolphins and New Orleans Saints as well as the Cardinals and Cowboys has a shot at making the roster as beyond Cameron Bradfield the backups on the Jaguars offensive line are mediocre at best. While there are no guarantees, anything can happen. McQuistan holds no fantasy football value.


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This summer was good, but I was pretty bored. I felt uninspired, suffocated and creatively malnourished. It felt like there was a lot of keeping appearances, maintaining social quota and just a type of quiet estrangement.
I remember being up north a couple times, being surrounded by a tremendous amount of nature and beauty but feeling so muted and kind of lonely. I suppose because I didn't feel accomplished this summer I didn't enjoy 'my down' time as much and the company was often transfused.
I don't really feel content unless I'm working or creating something and I have a good companion, friend or otherwise, that is supportive, a listener but responsive and most of all laughs a lot. Oh how I love a solid sense of humour. I didn't feel like I had that quite configured like I usually do, and this summer was a test of my patience.
I felt like I had pressed the mute button on my life and I was just watching things motion through.
Do not do this.
Tonight I tear apart my closet, purging lots of stuff, but mostly clothes, shoes, cosmetics and personal collateral therein. I think it's imperative to do this more frequent than we do. Wouldn't it be brilliant if we could do that with personal problems? Just sweep them up in a big bag and send them to Goodwill to be taken apart and distributed amongst society.
A girl can dream.
I'm tracking vocals this week, trying to make a decision on a song that has two good but different direction it could go in. I chose one, but I think I made the wrong choice. I have to rectify that. Changing the name from "Dreamgirl Whatever" to "Girl Who Got Away" means I have to come up with a new logo, something I'm happy and comfortable with. For now I'm keeping my eye on the prize, and am already having a much more productive fall than I did this summer.
Lots of decisions to be made, hurray for intuition otherwise I'd never decide on anything.


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Every morning after breakfast I let the birds out of their cage for playtime. Oliver sits happily on top of his cage making bigger toys into little toys....until I pull out the paper.
Once he sees the clean paper he hurries as fast as he can to stand on the bottom of his cage or perch on the bottom of the open door and starts telling me, "NO!". He hates me cleaning his cage, he wants no part of it and he gets bitey.
Once I am able to put in a clean sheet of paper in, he throws a fit on it by ripping up the paper and yelling "NO!" His tantrum lasts for a few minutes, then he returns to the top to play again, and all is forgiven...especially, if I give him an almond.


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Updated: 05/08/2013 4:17 PM KSTP.com
The Minnesota Lynx got involved Wednesday for Habitat for Humanity in Northeast Minneapolis.
Lindsay Whalen, Janel McCarville and Devereaux Peters were lending a hand to 49 year resident Ora Lee Laws. They helped get her house back in shape.
Laws was the the recipient for Habitat for Humanity. Laws house was in dire need of painting and members of the Lynx along with dozens for volunteers decided to team up with Lowes home improvement center to give her a new paint job.
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Serene spaces: David and Bronwen Ginges' place in Annandale offers framed snatches of greenery.
Here's a demographically driven trend. It's a variation on the theme of downsizing by empty-nester retirees. Instead of leaving the established home on the big block however, the familial compound gains a second dwelling that is far too groovy to be called a granny flat.
Yet, it is stand-alone and with all facilities in place, with scale-reduced lifestyle for older folk who don't want to leave their neighbourhoods and who have scoped out that at some future date they might just move across the yard and rent the big house out for extra income. Clever!
Although the second pavilion that Day Bukh Architects built in the unusually large backyard of David and Bronwen Ginges' place in Annandale fits these criteria, until the couple migrate to its one bedroom, separate kitchen and side garden 58 square metres of accommodation, it is a home office for David and a guest house for adult children.
In a big renovation of the 1890 house to open up a new kitchen-living room with an exceptional quality of natural light, with a secondary building that it is private but not claustrophic architect Matt Day has done thoughtful work.
With the emphasis on timber, a high specification of glazing including many clerestory windows – "light into the centre of the room all year round", and with matching form under sloping skillion roof; a form that he sees as pavilion: "open, lightweight and almost part of the landscape, they are deliberately a pair in order to create an oasis in the middle of the block - A sort of hidden courtyard.
"It would not have been possible with two different styles" Day says. "They would just have looked like neighbouring buildings".
Other considerations that preoccupied him were "overlooking and noise as the largest concerns. A separate entrance avoided this issue, and the [secondary dwelling's] highlight glazing facing back to the main building meant there was no overlooking but still plenty of light. We also staggered the outdoor areas of the two buildings so that they didn't have direct connection."
While the final fencing is not fully installed, says Day, "we have placed staggered privacy screens so that from the outdoor space of the granny flat it is possible to see the pool and gardens but not the main dwelling or its living spaces."
It all makes a lot of sense in terms of design, budget and introducing "a variety of dwelling sizes in the same suburb. Housing affordability in the inner west", he says "is very tight" and a variety of residential types such as this project "could be a way to resolve this issue".


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Hi all,
I have WD external model number WD1600U017-005, it was working fine and I could use it with my TV (Samsung LED series 8) through the USB port and it would recognise it and I can watch movies etc.
However I had a problem with the external and I had to reformat but since that reformat I have been unable to get it working on the TV again, when I plug it in the WD device makes a clog clog noise and the tv does not recognise that there is a device plugged in. I have downloaded the format programme from the WD site using the WD model number to make sure its in the original FAT32 format but still no luck.
Any help would be appreciated.
12-12-2011 12:44 PM - edited 12-12-2011 12:44 PM
When you formatted did you delete the old partition/volume first? That causes problems if you forget to delete. Here is a little guide
Reformat the unit in Fat 32, you can use any third party application to complete the task.
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Updated: 07/09/2013 2:05 PM KSTP.com By: Jeff Brioschi
East Ridge senior offensive lineman J.C Hassenauer has accepted a scholarship to play for the University of Alabama. Hassenauer always dreamed of playing college football and in 2014 he'll get the chance to make that dream a reality.
Teammate George Behr has verbally committed to play college football for Rutgers University.
Channel 5's Chris Long visited with both players and has the details.
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