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Halima Tayo Alao
|Halima Tayo Alao
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Halima Tayo Alao is a Nigerian civil servant who appointed Minister of Environment and Housing in July 2007 by President Umaru Yar'Adua, and was released from the post on 29 Oct 2008.
Halima Tayo Alao was born on December 6, 1956. She earned an MSc in Architecture from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria in 1981. She joined the Kwara State civil service in 1982. She became a Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Works and Transport, Ilorin, Kwara State. She was given a Masters degree in Public Administration, 2003 by the University of Ilorin.[1] From 2005 to July 2006 she was Federal Minister of State for Health.[2]
Minister of Environment and Housing[edit]
Halima Tayo Alao was appointed Minister of Environment and Housing on 26 July 2007 by President Umaru Yar'Adua.[3] She was dismissed in a major cabinet reshuffle on October 29, 2008.[4] The dismissal was said to have been due to her constant arguments with Chuka Odom, minister of state and representative of the Progressive Peoples Alliance.[5] Her replacement was John Odey, appointed on 17 December 2008.[6]
- ^ Emmanuel Aziken (July 8, 2005). "Ezekwesili, Mimiko, 10 others on new cabinet list * Senate begins screening today". OnlineNigeria Daily News. Retrieved 2009-12-16.
- ^ "The Federal Republic of Nigeria". Worldwide Guide to Women in Leadership. Retrieved 2009-12-17.
- ^ "Yar'Adua names cabinet". Africa News. 27 July 2007. Retrieved 2009-12-15.
- ^ Lucky Nwankere, Abuja (October 30, 2008). "BOOTED OUT! ...20 Ministers sacked, as Yar'Adua reshuffles cabinet ...Aondoakaa, Diezani Allison-Madueke, Ojo Maduekwe survive ...Modibbo, Daggash dropped". Retrieved 2009-12-17.
- ^ Tobs Agbaegbu (4 November 2008). "Sacking of 20 Ministers". NewsWatch Magazine. Retrieved 2009-12-17.
- ^ Nosike Ogbuenyi, Abimbola Akosile and Sufuyan Ojeifo (19 December 2008). "Yar'Adua Renews His Mission". ThisDay.


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Making a Marathon Green
One of the things I notice often when I go for a run is litter. I've bored many friends with my concept for a Dunkin Donuts anti-littering education campaign inspired by the countless discarded coffee cups on the side of roads. When I was little, I considered litterbugs to be very bad people. Now, I think there should be a name for people who don't recycle — maybe non-recycler-bug.
I remember a high school social studies teacher pontificating on why he does not recycle, complaining about rinsing peanut butter bottles. (Great role model, huh?) I hope that he is stuck in a room with all of the accumulated peanut butter bottles that he did not recycle over the years.
I do my best to educate myself and follow best practices for the environment. I happily support organizations and companies that do the same. That is why I was so excited to hear about the ING Hartford Marathon on October 11, 2008 which is committed to being as green as possible. That last statement may imply that I am actually running in this event and I am not, but I still wanted to make sure you know about it.
ING Hartford Marathon is only one of five races in the United States participating in The Council for Responsible Sport Pilot program to be a model for marathons across the country for their environmental-friendly programs.
Here are just a few examples of what they are doing (this info is taken from their web site):
- Participants receive reusable non-woven drawstring goodie bags, eliminating the waste of more than 10,000 plastic bags.
- The ING Hartford Marathon's participant food menu reflects both in-season, locally-grown foods as well as 100% organic favorites from Whole Foods Market.
- Their green partner, United Technologies Corporation, designed and built a 40-person water bubbler for the finish line. This innovation will save 10,000 plastic bottles from the local landfill each year.
- Their title sponsor, ING, will plant 26 trees along the race course as part of its global ING Plant-a-Tree Campaign. This will not only make the course greener, but will help support Hartford's urban forest and keep our air cleaner year-round.
- Their race merchandise is made of bamboo; the water cups are recyclable and made of sugar cane, and all materials were planned with a pre-cycle outlook to minimize paper use.
They also offer some tips for what you can do:
- Car pool or bike to the race. Better yet, try occasionally running or cycling to work.
- Use refillable water bottles when you're exercising.
- Recycle old running shoes through shoe recycling programs, available across the country.
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Croatia national football team[edit]
- A script has been used to generate a semi-automated review of the article for issues relating to grammar and house style; it can be found on the automated peer review page for July 2008.
This peer review discussion has been closed.
I've listed this article for peer review because is has recently been largely increased in quality. Though not a successful football team when compared to some other greater nations, it is still very well known in the sport and the article is very unique for its category. It involves such statistics and historical information that other great articles do not have (eg - first ever competitive loss, first competitive goalscorer, and even a statistical records section of all home games played and statistical records of all recent managers etc.)
Very well written, I myself have read it many times and come to the personal conclusion that there is not one minor detail in the history of this football team that has been left out. All relevant information is included, plus additional and unique extras. The lead page is the main of it, I think that is the only thing (if anything) that may possibly diminish the articles chances of becoming a featured article. I really dont see nothing wrong with it, but I am open to all types of suggestions and critical reviews. Anything that may be wrong with it, just mention it.
If its any help to your reviewing, another national football team article that is on the featured article list is the Scotland national football team.
Thanks, Domiy (talk) 00:24, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
- Comment: Hi there, although it is an article that appears to include all necessary information, there are no references to back things up. Every challengable fact needs a footnote to support it. There must be many 1st party sources to back things up, as well as websites, books etc? rocketman89 (talk) 18:19, 13 July 2008 (UTC)
In my defense, I have to strongly object. There ARE references included in the article. Since, as the article states, Croatia has only had an active team since 1991, there isnt a need for sources as strong as say for the Scottish team page (which is already a featured article). But other than that, the majority of things stated on the page do have references to them. The only thing that wouldn't have a reference is the section explaining football in Croatia during the 1940's. Thats pretty much impossible, you will never find a reference that can back up the SIMPLE fact that football was played in Croatia during this time. Its an assumed fact, just like one would assume that the sum of $8million does exist, even though they have never seen it before and have only heard it of others.
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I have to agree with the comment above, the article is massively short on references. You say "there isnt a need for sources as strong as say for the Scottish team page" - I don't see why this would be the case at all. There might not need to be quite as many refs (numerically speaking) for a team with a much shorter history, but the fact that this team has a shorter history doesn't mean that things don't need referencing at all. For example....."Croatia are still undefeated in all competitive games played at Maksimir Stadium" - source? "At many times however, the Croatian fans have been the centre of harshly accused racist behaviour." - source? "Their singing of the national anthem at the opening group game against Brazil was also voted by FIFA as Moment of the day." - source? "More throughout the years, domestic bands such as Dino Dvornik, Zaprešić boys, Prljavo kazalište, Baruni and others composed many singles in support of the national team." - source? "This was done under the chaotic guidance of Graham Poll who was largely criticized for his inability to control the match." - source? This is just a selection, there are many many more examples. There are also problems with the quality of the English and some POV statements like "Croatia went on to excel amazingly", but these can be corrected fairly easily. The issue with the references, however, is a massive stumbling block and, unless it is addressed, the article has 0% of success at WP:FAC....... -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 10:35, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
OK thanks for the accurate advice. I will go ahead and add references to every advanced statement I can find and then request that it be re-reviewed. I've already done so to a large majority of the article.


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Multiplayer demo confirmed for Red Faction: Guerrilla
Red Faction: Guerrilla is to get a multiplayer demo later this month, THQ CEO Brian Farrell has confirmed.
A single-player demo for the title has already released.
The full game is to release for PC, 360 and PS3 in early June.
Farrell was speaking in THQ's Q4 and year-end earnings call, which is ongoing.
THQ announced losses of over $430 million for the year ending March today.
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21 Jump Street (2012)
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Ted (2012)
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Looper (2012)
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Energy and Global Warming News for April 27: US & Canada lose higher percentage of forests than Brazil; Business groups say climate impasse undermines clean energy
US & Canada Lose Higher Percentage of Forests Than Brazil
All I can say is wow! Mongabay is highlighting a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences which reveals that between 2000 and 2005 over one million square kilometers of forest were chopped down worldwide, with both the United States and Canada losing a greater percentage of forest than the poster children of tree destruction, Brazil and Indonesia.
Brazil Has Highest Area Loss, But Average Percentage
There is a little bit of stats parsing going on here: Looking at the seven nations which have more than one million square kilometers of forest still remaining–that's Brazil, Canada, China, Democratic Republic of Congo, Indonesia, Russia, and the United States–Brazil still led the pack in terms of area cleared, with about 33,000 square kilometers of both rainforest and tropical dry forest cleared per year, for a total of 165,000 square kilometers lost. That represents 3.6% of it's total forest cover at the start of the period examined.
However, though Canada and the United States lost less forest cover by area (160,000 and 120,000 square kilometers, respectively), in percentage terms Canada lost 5.2% of it's total and the US lost 6% of total forest cover.
Keep in mind, the global average for the time period was 3.5%.
The main drivers of forest loss in the US during this time period were fire and beetle infestation in Alaska and the western states, "large-scale logging in the southeast, along the western coast, and in the Midwest."
US Southeast Among Highest Rates of Global Deforestation
The report concludes,
The often publicized phenomenon of forest conversion within the humid tropics is observed in our results, but significant [gross forest cover loss] is evident in all biomes. For example, rates of GFCL in regions such as the southeast United States are among the highest globally.
Read more, about the distribution of forest loss by ecosystem: Mongabay
Here's the original paper: Quantification of global gross forest cover loss
See also "Is human-caused climate change killing the great forests of the American West?"
Business Groups Say Climate Impasse Undermines Clean Energy
The Capitol Hill politics bogging down a climate bill in the Senate are also hobbling investments in low-carbon energy and prompting calls from some business groups for action.
President Barack Obama is scheduled to travel Tuesday to a Siemens Corp. wind turbine facility in Fort Madison, Iowa, Tuesday as part of the White House effort to tout the economic, environmental and national security benefits of clean energy investments. The company expanded the plant, adding more than 600 jobs with capital from the stimulus package and tax credits.
Siemens, a unit of the German parent company Siemens AG, is representative of thousands of companies looking to capitalize on a carbon-constrained economy. It is building a range of products that would be attractive if there was a cost for emitting carbon. Besides efficient motors and generators, they are also developing technology to capture emissions from coal plants, have a retro-fitting business that installs energy-efficient equipment in buildings, and plan to expand their solar power unit in the U.S.
Nearly every sector of the energy industry is in some way affected by Congressional deliberations on climate and energy policy, whether it is makers of wind turbines and solar plants, utilities planning nuclear power projects or companies that make natural-gas generators and clean-coal technology. While some want to see a carbon market that will create demand for their products, others say they want to get clarity on how the new emission rules will affect their plans.
The Environmental Protection Agency has announced an energy efficiency contest to help buildings around the nation trim their consumption.
Called the National Building Competition, it is patterned after "The Biggest Loser," an NBC show that spotlights overweight contestants trying to lose weight. The competitors include an office building in Midtown Manhattan, a department store in Southern California, a medical center in Cleveland and elementary schools in Colorado and New Jersey.
"We came up with the idea that most everyone could relate to the idea of losing weight, and that having U.S. buildings try to shed their energy waste made sense," Maura Beard, a spokeswoman for the E.P.A.'s Energy Star program, said in an e-mail message. "We felt people could follow the contestants, relate to their efforts and encourage similar changes in buildings across the country."
The 14 contestants, selected from among 200 applicants, will be encouraged to improve their efficiency by taking simple steps like turning off lights, unplugging power charges and switching to automated temperature controls.
The New York City participant, a 23-story building built in 1896 at 522 Fifth Avenue, at 44th Street, is owned by Morgan Stanley.
Cape Cod Project Is Crucial Step for U.S. Wind Industry
More than 800 giant wind turbines spin off the coasts of Denmark, Britain and seven other European countries, generating enough electricity from strong ocean breezes to power hundreds of thousands of homes. China's first offshore wind farm, a 102-megawatt venture near Shanghai, goes online this month, with more in the pipeline.
But despite a decade of efforts, not a single offshore turbine has been built in the United States.
Experts say progress has been slowed by a variety of factors, including poor economics, an uncertain regulatory framework and local opposition.
When the Obama administration announces a decision this week on the most prominent project "" Cape Wind, off the coast of Massachusetts "" it could have implications from Long Island to Lake Erie. An approval from Interior Secretary Ken Salazar might well nudge the project to completion as the nation's first offshore wind farm. On the other hand, some developers say a thumbs-down could gut America's offshore wind industry before it ever really gets started.
"It is imperative that Cape Wind gets built "" we need the momentum," said Peter Giller, chief executive of OffshoreMW, an upstart developer with ambitions to build two 700-megawatt projects off the shores of New Jersey and Massachusetts.
At least half a dozen offshore wind projects that could provide electricity for hundreds of thousands of customers have already been proposed in the shallow waters off the East Coast and the Great Lakes. Even more are in the paper-napkin stage, including a project that would place a bank of turbines about 13 miles off the Rockaway peninsula in New York.
Although offshore wind farms are roughly twice as expensive as land-based ones, developers and advocates say offshore projects have several advantages. Sea and lake breezes are typically stronger, steadier and more reliable than wind on land. Offshore turbines can also be located close to the power-hungry populations along the coasts, eliminating the need for new overland transmission lines. And if the turbines are built far enough from shore, they do not significantly alter the view "" a major objection from many local opponents.
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory has estimated that about 90,000 megawatts of electricity could be extracted from offshore winds in United States coastal waters less than 100 feet deep, the easiest and most cost-effective depths. Most of that potential lies in New England, the mid-Atlantic and the Great Lakes.
If the handful of American projects on the drawing board are built as planned, they would produce some 2,500 megawatts, according to the American Wind Energy Association, or about as much as two midsize nuclear power plants.
The Cape Wind project would place 130 turbines, each 440 feet tall, over 24 square miles of Nantucket Sound at a likely cost of more than $1 billion.
Opponents have argued that the venture is too expensive and would interfere with local fishermen, intrude on the sacred rituals and submerged burial grounds of two local Indian tribes and destroy the view.
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First German offshore wind farm starts
Nova Scotia Kicks Off Plan to Boost Small-Scale Wind via Feed-In Tariff
That study on 'tree loss' is completely ridiculous and you know it.
[JR: Hard to get ridiculous into PNAS. Not impossible, but hard.]
Climate scientist sues newspaper for 'poisoning' global warming debate
Climate modeller Andrew Weaver launches libel action in Canada for publishing 'grossly irresponsible falsehoods'
Forest protection efforts face crime, corruption perils
How Much Rainforest Is Destroyed Each Day?
Is climate change South Asia's deadliest threat?
A good chunk of what the US and CDN are cutting down are beetle-killed forests. Not saying it is good forest practice, jus' sayin'. And jus' sayin' silliness like what BB posted is comedy, not commentary.
[JR: Yes, the bark beetle has accelerated tree cutting and forest fires.]
RE: The Cape wind project and momentum….
"It is imperative that Cape Wind gets built — we need the momentum," said Peter Giller, chief executive of OffshoreMW, an upstart developer with ambitions to build two 700-megawatt projects off the shores of New Jersey and Massachusetts.
Why does Cape Wind have to be first? Why not take a lesson from Obama's strategy book and first fight the battles you are likely to win? Build some momentum by having some successes.
Put all this energy into projects off the Atlantic coast and in the Great Lakes. Let people see first hand what an offshore wind farm looks like. Let people get used to seeing wind turbines and give them some time to think about the benefits.
Later we can build in the more difficult places. If we need to.
(I'm all for keeping wind and solar out of the most beautiful places if possible.)
Seems like we're spending our time beating on the front door, trying to get someone to let us in. Better, perhaps, to walk around to the unlocked back door….
…I'm not talking about rainforest loss. That's different.
I'm talking about that blanket any-tree 'Tree Loss' study as it relates to the US/Canada, the study's caveats, and it's lack of conclusions.
JR, in his rightful purview, decided to snip out anything meaningful from my comments…though it is highly ironic, considering that particular tree loss study.
General Election 2010: Britain's silent, green revolution
All the major parties are signed up to transforming Britain into a green, low-carbon economy to boost growth, as well as to combat climate change, says Geoffrey Lean.
No matter how the votes tally up in Brighton Pavilion, the contest has greened British politics – to a degree that would have been unimaginable last time the country trudged off to the polls. All the major parties are signed up to transforming Britain into a green, low-carbon economy to boost growth, as well as to combat climate change.
What is your point? Lack of conclusion? Satelite imagery methodology is by far the best meassure you can have.
A globally consistent methodology using satellite imagery was implemented to quantify gross forest cover loss (GFCL) from 2000 to 2005 and to compare GFCL among biomes, continents, and countries.
We kill our ecosystem's, over profit and by doing so accelerating climate change feedbacks.
Killer fungus seen in Pacific Northwest
An Index of Common Tree Diseases
The Major Disease of Trees in the United States
I made my points…They were reasonable. They were snipped. No big deal…It's just a comments section.
They'd likely get snipped again. Peer-review boards do this sort of thing all the time.
This is a great blog-site. It really is. I read it every day.
"The main drivers of forest loss in the US during this time period were fire and better infestation in Alaska and the western states, "large-scale logging in the southeast, along the western coast, and in the Midwest.""
2000-2005 along the western coast? Certainly not in CA or southern Oregon.
And certainly not deforestation in the Brazilian sense anywhere along the western coast. Forests are not getting chopped down here to make room for cattle, sugarcane, or any other non-timber use. Trees are cut down, trees are replanted.
Additionally the rate of cutting here is greatly down from previous decades. The virgin forest is largely gone and now the slow regrowth cycle is tempering the rate of cutting. The logging industry is a very faint shadow of what it was.
MIssissippi tornado rated a violent EF-4
The devastating tornado that ripped through Mississippi on Saturday April 24, killing ten, was a violent EF-4 twister with 170 mph winds when it hit Yazoo City, according to a preliminary damage survey by the National Weather Service in Jackson, Mississippi. The tornado touched down near Tallulah, Louisiana, crossed the Mississippi River into Mississippi, and traversed nearly the entire state of Mississippi, carving a 149-mile long path of destruction.
It is extremely rare for a tornado to stay on the ground this long.
The world record longest path by a tornado is the 219-mile long path of the deadliest tornado in U.S. history, the violent F-5 Tri-State Tornado of 1925, which killed 695 people in Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana.
Joe, in the fifth paragraph of the forest article you have "better infestation" rather than "beetle infestation."
[JR: That isn't me. That is the original news article!]
Bob Wallace, the western US timber industry is a shadow of what it was because the PNW coastal forests have already been liquidated. They are still destroying everything they can, on shorter "rotations", too.
Dano, beetle kills are reinforced by industrial logging, which creates monocultures and hotter local microclimates. Mature forests are far more resilient.
Logging in the US is currently responsible for about 400 million tons of CO2 emissions annually, though this figure is disguised by net sequestration data.
Joe, thanks for bringing this up.
I met recently with a forest ecologist at the University of Washington who estimateds the historic sequestration capacity of PNW coastal forests at more than triple the carbon they are currently holding. Opportunities are huge, in the billions of tons of CO2, not to mention healthier ecosystems and salmon runs.
We have to stop destroying forests for paper towels, packaging, catalogs, and, especially, two by fours to build very fragile houses from. Substitutes are available for all of these.
Mike – that's what I said. We cut very heavily when there was a lot of old growth. The available old growth has been cut. We are now on a cut-replant-grow-cut rotation. And we no longer foul the streams, etc.
As for substitutes for houses, I see no signs of that happening.
Do you know of any CO2 data that compares a "leave them standing" approach vs. "build houses and sequester the carbon for 50-200 years"? And then recycle that wood when the houses are torn down.
It would, it seems, need to include CO2 measurements for the extra steel/concrete/whatever used in place of the wood.
Need to plant more and cut less.
David B. #18 – Would one billion trees planted in one day be "more" in your book?
"The target for every village panchayat (council) was to plant 6,000 saplings from 6am to 6pm to achieve the target of one billion. At the end of the day, we found out that we were just just short of the target, but it was still a world record," the beaming civil servant said.
Significantly, his scheme has even stopped the migration of poor labourers from the area in search of employment elsewhere during monsoon time.
"We never thought we would get employment for planting trees and protecting them," said Paigambarpur village head Indra Bhusan, whose community – like many others – planted over 30,000 saplings mostly on both flanks of the 14km embankment which criss-crosses their village.
6,000 trees x 7,500 villages = 45,000,000. And a lot of villages way over-performed.
Not only planted, but maintained. At little additional cost to the government. The Indian government guarantees poor people a small number of paid days of work every year. Mr. Raju used those work days to plant trees. And people will continue to get paid over the coming years based on tree survival rates.
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Bob, I've researched this for 15 years, and just wrote a paper on the subject for delivery to an international conference in Sydney this summer. Drop me an email at email@example.com and I'll send you a collection of studies.
I didn't express myself well in reacting to your statement about the Northwest. I've also seen the data about the Southeast. The outgoing head of the FS PNW Research station told me two years ago that they project 25 million acres of US forest loss between now and 2040 or so. Carbon implications are huge.
According to the USDA the number one cause of forest loss in the Southeast US is conversion to pasturage. The massive holdings of timber companies in the SE have largely been liquidated over the last 10 years. The new landowners (mostly private capital timber investment groups) have broken up large tracts and sold them off where they could.
This is permanent forest loss. It isn't part of the usual timber grow and harvest rotation. The pastures are usually planted with a single species of non-native grass such as Coastal Bahia (which another arm of the USDA recommends).
For years the conservationists have worked with timber companies to manage their lands in ways compatible with fish and wildlife. Now the rug has been pulled out from under them. They're purchasing as much as they can, but this is a tiny fraction.
Some of this is ranching operations where beef pays better than wood. A lot of this is simply folks who like the idea of being a cow man and have a hundred acres of pasture and beef to tend in semi-retirement bliss.
The harvest rotation in the SE is 20 to 30 years. These are sticks that are cut as soon as a few 2X4's can be stripped out of them or they are reconstituted into OSB, etc. It's not like these trees have a lot of value. Some land owners wait for the rotation to mature to offset the cost of clearing the land; others simply bulldoze and burn.


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I did this with a combination of brown rice and millet. The flavor was good...I usually worry about things being too sweet (as suggested in Elmotoo's review), but I did not find it very sweet at all (although I used lemon zest rather than orange zest, and I guess the type of OJ might have an effect). There was just a nice slight hint of orange. I might have liked a little more smoky flavor from the chipotle, but it's always hard to know how much heat you're getting into the bargain, so I had played it safe. I added some broccoli and chicken to steam late in the cooking, so it was a complete meal in the rice cooker. Unfortunately, since I didn't have the right cheese, I just added some cheddar to serve, but then did not add any salt at all, so it needed a bit of salt after the fact. I have a very basic rice cooker with a 'cook' button and a 'warm/off' button, so I wasn't sure whether to expect a 25-minute cooking time or an hour. It was probably about 40 minutes, but when I opened the cooker at that point, I had to add more liquid to prevent sticking at the bottom. Thanks for another interesting thing to try as I learn to use the rice cooker!
This was fantastic! I used my new Zojirushi induction rice cooker (NH-VBC18) and ran it on the "regular" cycle because I wanted faster results than the "porridge" cycle. I used 1 cup OJ, 2 cups stock and 1 cup of water. I didn't have asiago so I used 1/4 cup of romano and 1/4 cup parmesan. This recipe has definately inspired me to come up with different risottos in my machine. Thanks Rita!
A very nice recipe. I liked it but it was a bit sweet for me. The sweet/hot is well balanced. I think a dose of pancetta would work here, too. No leftovers & i made a double batch. ;) Made for the 5/08 Aussie Swap. Thanks, Rita!


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Cambodian people are living in a very difficult time. Most of them even have problem filling their stomach.... What you might expect when eating in Cambodia are, there will be children, hungry looking, starring at you, begging. They are not very persistant only slightly annoying. What happen is, they will leave you alone if you ignore them politely.
You can then have peace until you pay and stand up to leave your table, then suddenly they will rush and grab your plate or bowl and finished what ever food remains!!! Can you imagine the shock that I am feeling, the 1st time that happens?
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Listening Library, Compact Disc, 9780807282328, 10pp.
Publication Date: February 1, 2000
Read by Jim Dale
Running time: 11 hrs., 48 mins. 10 CDs.
For twelve long years, the dread fortress of Azkaban held an infamous prisoner named Sirius Black. Convicted of killing thirteen people with a single curse, he was said to be the heir apparent to the Dark Lord, Voldemort.
Now he has escaped, leaving only two clues as to where he might be headed: Harry Potter's defeat of You-Know-Who was Black's downfall as well. And the Azkban guards heard Black muttering in his sleep, "He's at Hogwarts...he's at Hogwarts."
Harry Potter isn't safe, not even within the walls of his magical school, surrounded by his friends. Because on top of it all, there may well be a traitor in their midst.
As "Best Children's Narrator," Jim Dale has won a record seven Audie Awards, including "Audio Book of the Year 2004," a Grammy(r) Award and four Grammy(r) nominations. As an actor he has won a Tony(r) Award, five Tony(r) nominations, four Drama Desk Awards, and four Outer Critics Awards. As a lyric writer, he received an Oscar(r) nomination for writing the song "Georgy Girl."


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Thanks to cc'er mya-carden for the inspiration for this cake. Cake is 10" square cut in half and stacked. (coconut WASC with pineapple & coconut pastry cream filling). All decorations are either fondant or fondant with tylose. Fondant bubbles were covered with ultrawhite luster dust.
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Released: Feb 15th, 2010
Running Time: 120 Min.
Company: Chatsworth Pictures
Distribution Companies: JM Productions
DVD Extras: Behind the Scenes Featurettes, Still Gallery(ies)
Cast: Chennin Blanc, Kendra Secrets, Kitty Caulfield, Carrie Ann
Genre: Interracial, Oral
Remember when you first found out there was something wrong with mommy? You thought that black man was trying to kill her. Unfortunately for you, he wasn't. He was just mutting your mama. You told Dad, but he reminded you that black people carry guns and knives, and are not to be confronted. There was nothing more you could do. This movie is based on true stories just like yours. May the healing begin.


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Panetta at the CIA
PANETTA AT THE CIA....Fred Kaplan asked Richard Clarke about Leon Panetta today, and Clarke mentioned that a point in Panetta's favor as CIA director is that as Bill Clinton's budget director and White House chief of staff during the 90s "he was one of a very few people who knew about all of the covert and special-access programs." That could come in handy:
These "special-access programs" satellites, sensors, and other intelligence-gathering devices whose very existence is known only to those with compartmentalized security clearances form a welter of costly, overlapping, ill-coordinated, and largely unsupervised projects that are run by private contractors to a greater extent than most people might imagine.
One former CIA official who is familiar with these programs (and who asked not to be identified) speculates that Panetta's main task might be to clean up not only the agency's high-profile mess the "black ops" that have tarnished America's reputation around the world but this budgetary-bureaucratic mess as well. Certainly, he knows where the line items are buried to a degree that few insiders can match.
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The story behind the iconic poster Keep Calm and Carry On rediscovered in 1991 at Barter Books, has been covered here before, but not in this lovely short video. And not with the new iPhone app.
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Don't Make Excuses - Make Good! Between World Wars I and II, the U.S. economy was booming - workers had choices and employers competed for their time. How to motivate and gain loyalty from a labor force that knew it could walk out the door and find more work soon? Charles Mather, head of a family printing business in Chicago, offered employers a solution: the first motivational posters for the private workplace market. Printed between 1923 and 1929, Mather's "Work Incentive Posters" used strong imagery and short, clear messaging to encourage workplace values like teamwork, punctuality, safety, and loyalty. Today, some of his 350 designs can be seen in traveling exhibitions and poster galleries, and Antiques Road Show - or you can soak up some motivation from his modern-day successors at Successories - or generate your own. [more inside]
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Hell's Bells
Leslie Bock had a simple plan. Her business, Saint Sabrina's Parlor in Purgatory, had been operating successfully in Uptown since it opened in 1993--evolving from a hip clothing outlet into a retail shop catering to customers wanting tattoos and piercings. Last year she employed 30 full-time workers and netted a profit of approximately $100,000 dollars. The logical move, she decided, was to open another shop in an area with a similar demographic.
She began looking for a space in Minneapolis's Dinkytown neighborhood during the summer of 1999. The area near the University of Minnesota's east-bank campus was enjoying an economic boom, so businesses were moving into vacant spaces alongside storied spots such as the Purple Onion coffee shop and Al's Breakfast diner. She eventually took up residence below a Bruegger's Bagels on 14th Avenue Southeast between University Avenue and Fourth Street Southeast, just a few doors down from Ragstock, a used-clothing outlet. "Where does a tattoo and piercing business belong, if not near a college campus?" she remembers thinking at the time.
Bock signed an eight-year lease on September 16, 1999 and opened for business that November. A few days later, on November 12, the Minneapolis City Council approved a major overhaul of the city's zoning codes, which had been in place since 1969. Although the new codes would apply to businesses in Dinkytown, most of the owners, including Bock, assumed that they would be grandfathered.
But this past October Minneapolis health inspectors told Bock she would have to cease and desist tattooing. Within a month the city's zoning inspectors had chimed in with a letter--insisting that since Saint Sabrina's was violating new codes, her only choice was to comply with the rules or lobby the city council for rezoning. The task proved too complicated and expensive, so on December 23 Bock locked the gate on her Dinkytown store, presumably for good.
On a recent afternoon the 34-year-old Bock could be found bustling around the second floor of her Uptown store, her thick blond dreadlocks pulled back atop her head. A sleek black sweatshirt that reads "Life in the Fast Lane" covers her tattooed arms. A few customers peer into jewelry cases filled with several varieties of earrings, nose rings, and tongue studs. The walls are covered with colorful sketches of lions, serpents, flames, and hearts--just a few examples of the tattoos available for purchase. "The piercee's Bill of Rights" and a list of "inside information" for selecting a "quality tattoo shop" hang near the cash register. Both carry the name of the Minnesota Directorate of Piercers and Tattooists, an organization Bock started in the summer of 1999 to combat the stereotype of unsanitary, rough-and-tumble tattoo parlors.
Initially the Uptown store made most of its profits by selling such things as leather skirts, combat boots, and retro knickknacks. But the tattooing and piercing clientele grew. Soon the shop's identity was rooted firmly in the industry that would eventually prop up its Dinkytown counterpart, which grossed nearly $7,000 in its first month. "It wasn't the same store," she says, noting that sales dropped 40 percent after the city forbade tattooing in Dinkytown. "It went from being a cool store to a lame store, and the customers who came for certain things were confused."
Whereas tattooing was once permitted in the Saint Sabrina's campus space (in the past, there had been tattoo parlors in the same building), the new zoning allowed only for "light" neighborhood retail, such as bookstores and antique shops. What's more, tattoo artists in Minneapolis are required to be licensed individually for the parlor at which they're employed. Bock acknowledges that initially her Dinkytown tattooist was licensed for another shop on the other side of campus. She assumed, though, that because her artist was applying for a new license, and because she opened up before the zoning changes, Saint Sabrina's was in the clear. After all, if the new zoning codes were enforced retroactively, many of the fast-food joints, clothing stores, and taverns that line both Fourth Street in Dinkytown and Washington Avenue in Stadium Village would have to be closed. "Dinkytown isn't zoned for half of what's in Dinkytown," she notes.
On November 13, a year after the new zoning was implemented, Bock received a letter from the Minneapolis Zoning Administration Office. It concluded the store owner could not prove her tattoo service was legal before the zoning code was adopted. In other words, her tattooist should have had a license: a catch-22, because the zoning restrictions no longer allowed for licensing.
"You can't grandfather something that hasn't been legally established," says Van Vorhis, the lead zoning inspector for Minneapolis. "The question is, was [Saint Sabrina's] lawfully established? Not if it didn't have the license it needed when the clock struck on November 20 [of 1999]."
Linda Roberts, an inspector with Minneapolis's licensing department, acknowledges that it was an anonymous complaint this past fall that led to trouble for St. Sabrina's. Apparently someone called who didn't like having a tattoo parlor on campus, and the snowball started rolling. While Roberts asserts that Bock should have been aware of the licensing provisions, she also admits that the problem could have been resolved quietly.
Joan Campbell, the city council member whose Second Ward includes Dinkytown, says she recently sought the informal support of other council members to protect Bock's business by amending the new zoning code. "There's a feeling about tattoo parlors from some of my colleagues that's archaic," Campbell explains. "I feel bad about it. My office had no problem with it being there. But there are many absentee landlords in Dinkytown, and it seemed there was not enough support in general."
To get her business up and running in Dinkytown again, Bock would have to collect signatures from two-thirds of the landlords within 100 feet of her store and garner approval votes from nine council members. Campbell believes neither scenario is very likely. But there is support within the neighborhood. A kind of reference letter written on Bock's behalf in November by Daniel Zielske, president of the Dinkytown Business Association, noted that Saint Sabrina's "moved in at a time when vacant store fronts were a major issue facing Dinkytown and they have been a big part of...reenergizing the neighborhood." "We would certainly like to see them be permitted to continue," Zielske concluded.
"They were good for Dinkytown," says Liza Youngscap, owner of Everyday People, a clothing shop near St. Sabrina's gated storefront. "Especially since they were geared toward the college student." Angela Wilda, a 24-year-old undergraduate at the U of M, concurs: "I think it's financially unwise to limit businesses like this. Kids are a hell of a lot more likely to get a tattoo than a Gopher sweatshirt."
The good vibrations are small consolation for Bock, who has already racked up more than $7,000 in legal fees, and with rent, utilities, and parking, must spend about $2,200 a month for an empty store. "What if I can't get out of my lease? Will I have to do something that I'm not passionate about?" she asks, contemplating other business endeavors she'd have to take on. "Or will I have to open a store that competes with Saint Sabrina's?"
In the end, Bock believes there was more to the city's motives than just enforcing a new zoning law. "People treat it like a sex shop or a pawnshop--a category that causes trouble," she says. "But the only time the cops came to the store was to get a free sucker."
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QuickStart Tennis of Central Virginia (QCV), an all-volunteer 501(c)(3) public charity, has taken the kid-sized QuickStart Tennis "play to learn" format to 24 formerly underserved counties in central and southside Virginia. We are the "tennis greenhouse" in central Virginia, growing tennis players and a public tennis tradition from the ground up.
We keep score!!! In September 2008 there was one "pilot" school in Albemarle County (Greer ES). Today there are 182 QuickStart schools in 25 counties and 3 independent cities reaching 87,000 kids in central and southside Virginia!!! Plus another 30 schools with 14,000 students in Bland, Buchanan and Tazewell counties in southwest Virginia and the cities of Hopewell and Petersburg in east central Virginia. Through community partnerships we can get QuickStart going just about anywhere!!!
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QCV is an all-volunteer, grassroots Community Tennis Association (CTA) dedicated to promoting, developing and growing QuickStart Tennis in 27 counties and three independent cities in central Virginia. Unlike most CTAs, which focus on a limited local area and offer a wide variety of established USTA programs, we are targeting a wide area with a concentrated goal of introducing, promoting and growing the QuickStart Tennis format.
Service Area: Counties: Albemarle, Amelia, Appomattox, Brunswick, Buckingham, Charlotte, Charlottesville (City), Culpeper, Cumberland, Danville (City), Dinwiddie, Fluvanna, Franklin, Greene, Greensville, Halifax, Henry, Louisa, Lunenburg, Madison, Martinsville (City), Mecklenburg, Nelson, Nottoway, Orange, Patrick, Pittsylvania, Powhatan, Prince Edward, Rappahannock
At QCV we feel a little bit like pioneers or missionaries taking the message of the "sport for a lifetime" into new territories, but we're having a lot of FUN spreading QuickStart Tennis all around central and southside Virginia.
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