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Venkatesh Prasad
|Personal information
|Full name
|Bapu Krishnarao Venkatesh Prasad
5 August 1969
Bangalore, Karnataka
|Batting style
|Right-hand bat
|Bowling style
|Right-arm medium-fast
|International information
|National side
|Test debut (cap 204)
|7 June 1996 v England
|Last Test
|29 August 2001 v Sri Lanka
|ODI debut (cap 89)
|2 April 1994 v New Zealand
|Last ODI
|17 October 2001 v Kenya
|Domestic team information
|Career statistics
|Source: CricketArchive
Bapu Krishnarao Venkatesh Prasad pronunciation (help·info) (born 5 August 1969 in Bangalore, Karnataka)[1] is a former Indian cricketer. He is the bowling coach for Royal Challengers Bangalore in the Indian Premier League, having formerly performed the same role for the Indian cricket team from 2007 to 2009. He made his debut in 1996. Primarily a right-arm medium-fast bowler, Prasad was noted for his bowling combination with Javagal Srinath.
Cricket career[edit]
Prasad took 96 wickets from 33 Tests at an average of 35, and 196 wickets from 161 ODIs at an average of 32.3. Prasad was more effective on wickets that helped seam bowling even though his best Test bowling figures of 6 for 33, achieved against Pakistan in the 1999 Test series in India, came on a docile pitch in Chennai; these figures included a spell of bowling in which he took 5 wickets for 0 runs. Notably, he once took 10 wickets in a Test match in Durban, South Africa, in December 1996. It remains his only ten wicket haul in Test cricket. Prasad also took five wicket hauls in England, in 1996, in Sri Lanka, in 2001, and in the West Indies, in 1997. Prasad played his final Test match in Sri Lanka in 2001. One of his finest moments came in 1996 Cricket World Cup when after being hit for a boundary and openly sledged by Pakistan batsman Aamir Sohail, Prasad clean bowled Sohail the very next ball, (which many consider the turning point of the match). Prasad was known for his slower deliveries and was one of its first proponents in world cricket.[2]
Prasad struggled with injuries and dipping form towards the end of his career. He was dropped from the Indian team after 2001 test series in Sri Lanka. Prasad tried unsucsessfully to make a come back after that before retiring from all cricket in May 2005, having secured two Ranji Trophy championships with Karnataka.[clarification needed] He was made coach of the India Under-19 Cricket team in January. He was the coach of the U-19 team that finished runners-up in the 2006 U-19 Cricket World Cup.
After the disappointing performance of the Indian Team in World Cup 2007, Prasad was appointed as the bowling coach of the team for the Bangladesh Tour in May. It was his return to the Indian team after a span of 3 years. On 15 October 2009, Venkatesh Prasad and fielding coach Robin Singh were sacked by the BCCI, which did not give any reasons for the unceremonious dumping.[3]
Personal life[edit]
Venkatesh Prasad is married to Jayanthi Prasad. They have a son named Prithvi. [4]
|Sachin! Tendulkar Alla
|Cricket Coach
|Suhasini Maniratnam, Snehith
|Mohan Shankar
- 1996/97: Ceat International Cricketer of the Year[5]
- 2000: Arjuna Award[6]
Test Matches[edit]
10 Wickets in a Match:
S No Opponent Venue Season Match Performance 1 South Africa Kingsmead Dec,1996 60-5 & 93-5
ODI Matches[edit]
ODI Matches - Man of the Match Awards:
S No Opponent Venue Season Match Performance 1 Pakistan Old Trafford, Manchester 1999 Cricket World Cup 9.3 - 2 - 27 - 5 2 England Sharjah 1998/99 10 - 2 - 35 - 3
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Venkatesh Prasad.
- ^ "Cricinfo - Players and Officials - Venkatesh Prasad". Retrieved 2008-08-29.
- ^ "Times Of India Cricket - Veterans relive Indo-Pak battles". The Times Of India. Retrieved 2007-02-27.
- ^ "BCCI sacks Venkatesh Prasad and Robin Singh". Retrieved 2009-10-15.
- ^ Venkatesh Prasad's wife trades words with cops
- ^ "Venkatesh Prasad - Ceat International Cricketer of the Year". Retrieved 2008-09-01.
- ^ "Arjuna Award for Milkha, Abhinav". 3 August 2001. Retrieved 8 May 2012.


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More than five years later, however, pharmaceutical companies and biotech firms are still complaining that FDA inspectors' opinions vary greatly on what constitutes a "lack of compliance" with Part 11, and ongoing regulatory murkiness is seen as partly to blame for the slowing of new-drug approvals.
Industry observers say most FDA inspectors simply aren't yet comfortable with electronic documentation. "These inspectors are scientists, not software engineers," notes William Goebel, director of quality assurance for Cimquest, a consulting firm specializing in systems regulatory compliance. "When they look behind the scenes, they need to see an audit trail in a company's database application." Therefore, when a change is made to a record, the system must save the old version — not overwrite information — as well as keep track of the date, time, and ID of the person who made the change.
Eric Musser, chief technology officer at Ross Systems, adds that many drug companies that have implemented Part 11 compliance for electronic signatures and audit trails still keep all their paper records as backup. Ross Systems sells a software tool called the Validator, used to track transactions so they map completely with CFR Part 11 regulations.
If such redundancy seems grossly inefficient and costly, consider the recent temporary shutdown of Schering-Plough's manufacturing plants in Puerto Rico and New Jersey, where the FDA has levied some $500 million in fines against the firm for failure to provide basic record-keeping security.
As serious as the problem sounds anecdotally, however, the FDA doesn't have an exact number of Part 11 citations issued, nor does it really know how widespread noncompliance is. The agency does not track Part 11 violations as a separate category. Investigators roll these infractions in with others during the course of their regular inspections.
That's not to suggest noncompliance is a safe course. Industry observers say that as the FDA moves to clarify Part 11 compliance guidelines it will expect a reciprocal effort by drug and biotech firms to comply. Assuming good faith by biotechs and drug companies, there's still the issue of cost.
According to some analysts who track FDA regulations, the cost of Part 11 compliance could vary from $5 million to $400 million, depending on a company's size and requirements. The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) projects the industrywide cost of compliance to reach $2 billion by 2006.
The big question is how to comply with Part 11 without busting the budget. Janet Woodcock, director of the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER), says the agency is shifting its focus from compliance enforcement to offering guidance and incentives for companies struggling with Part 11 compliance (see "FDA Director Explains the Changes"). This shift in focus is intended partly to ease Part 11's financial pain. Rather than a single, all-inclusive overhaul of a company's computer systems, FDA officials and leading regulatory consultants favor a gradual, "risk-based" approach that is more cost-effective and responsive to a dynamic business environment.
Then the company may prioritize its systems and processes needing conversion or replacement based on where they fall in the matrix. Computer systems, for example, that fall in the "high data security risk, low conversion cost" area of the matrix could be targeted first for compliance validation.Audits and Gap Analyses
The first step, however, is to conduct an internal audit, which creates a master list clearly defining the systems that are, or are not, compliant. Nowadays, though, conducting such an audit is merely table stakes. "The FDA wants to see hard evidence that companies are implementing these compliance plans, using specific timelines to show when they will upgrade noncompliant systems," warns Tamar June, director of marketing for AssurX, a software and services provider.
Parallel to a systems audit, the company must also evaluate processes for tracking, controlling, and safeguarding data all the way from discovery through clinical trials. From this assessment, the company should then create standard operating procedures (SOPs) that include sophisticated data encryption. Otherwise, it's possible that clinical information, for example, could be intercepted and changed without the company's knowledge, says Paul W. Allen, managing partner for the life sciences practice at Clarkston Consulting.
Many biotech organizations have already generated an inventory or master list of all their computer systems and evaluated them to determine the potential risk in the event of a computer error or failure. But this task must be followed by a gap analysis that creates specific actions to bring each system into compliance.
When prioritizing which systems to upgrade, the key is to focus on public health and safety risks that arise from using certain technologies. "The FDA's primary concern is ensuring public health and safety," says Keith Chambers, senior product evangelist for GE Fanuc Intellution, a company that provides software and services.
One area, for example, may be the lack of an automatic audit trail specifying changes (new entries, modifications, deletions) to drug-development study records, as well as the reason for those changes, says Jim Grosspietsch, director of marketing for NetRegulus, a software and services provider.
Costs typically drop as companies establish a pattern of success in FDA audits, gaining confidence about each process they move from paper to electronic documentation. Over time, the price of the technology should decrease. It costs less today to use electronic signatures, for example, than it did two years ago.Info That Should Comply
Along with ensuring data integrity, building the facilities and processes to recover from a system crash are also central to compliance. In the event of a disaster, crucial development data must be recoverable and uncorrupted. Procedures need to be created for regular backups, with processes periodically checked so that data, when recovered, are correct.
The area many companies find most challenging, however, is defining what information falls under the provisions of CFR Part 11. The most reliable way: Look at the requirements for that same information when it's included in a printed document, advises Frank Grywalski, CEO of Decision Management International, a software and services provider specializing in FDA-regulated businesses.
Keep in mind that even software designed to comply with Part 11 regulations must be properly configured and validated to achieve that compliance. For example, Allen explains, a system that supports multiple usernames and passwords will fail compliance if just two users share the same username and password.
Ensuring that every user has a unique name and password isn't enough, however. SOPs must also limit access to only those people with a preapproved need for the information. "You don't want everybody who has access to the system to be able to change data, alter a drug recipe, or make a change without your knowledge or the appropriate access authority," Allen says.
Many pharmaceutical firms still argue that the huge volumes of data created daily make total compliance impossible. Software suppliers and consultants counter that, once a system has been properly configured, with audit trails and security protocols, the volume of records or documents is irrelevant. If the software is properly implemented and the procedures updated, they insist, the data will be validated to comply with Part 11.
The biggest nut to crack, of course, is bringing legacy systems into compliance. Here it's critical to have a plan for replacing aging hardware and software that includes the reasons why the systems aren't currently being upgraded or replaced. And, again, you must show the FDA a schedule for bringing these systems into compliance or replacing them.
CFR Part 11 is unlikely to be deregulated anytime soon. Indeed, the demand for minimum security levels, data recoverability, and audit trails will only grow. By 2010, industry observers say, the focus on Part 11 compliance will shift from the paper-to-digital migration, to finding new ways of storing and maintaining several years' worth of compliant electronic data. This is yet another cost biotech companies must be ready to absorb, as technology evolves and data-storage requirements expand.
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Trevor Sagrecy and Michael Shelton traveled to compete against Taylor and Marion counties in a bass fishing tournament.
And they won first place.
According to Tim Messer, Washington County High School's bass fishing coach, Sagrecy and Shelton beat out 12 other boats in the tourney with a combined catch of 9.65 pounds.
As the summer months begin to warm up, so does the Washington County High School gym.
That's because the Washington County Commanderettes volleyball team has begun its training for the fall season under the leadership of first-year head coach Casey Mudd.
"I am excited," Mudd said. "I've got just a really really good group of girls."
Mudd, who was an assistant coach for the last three years, said the team has lost a lot of experience but will still be leaving its mark in the district this year.
Springfield's Lincoln Homestead Country Club got its revenge on Lebanon Country Club in this past weekend's President's Cup, avenging last year's defeat.
Lebanon tied the all-time series between the clubs with its win in 2014, but Lincoln Homestead has once again regained the advantage in the matchup, now leading 9-8 after clinching the victory on Sunday.
It's not very often that someone gets the opportunity to travel to Russia and train with some of the best wrestlers in the world, but in Tyler McCoy's case, it was an opportunity he couldn't pass up.
McCoy becomes the third St. Catharine wrestler to travel to Russia. It was just last December that Garrett Harding and Daniel Reed had the chance to travel to Russia and train with the best in the world.
On June 30, Hannah Simpson shot 189 out of 200 singles targets and won the medal for Academics, Integrity & Marksmanship High Junior Ladies Champion.
Along with the AIM award, she won the Scholastic Clay Target Program trophy for Lady High Score using her total scored in singles.
The thick and pungent smell of humidity and sweat filled the air as the Washington County Commander football team met for its first practice of the year Monday morning.
The Commanders, who are coming off a 3-6 season, are looking at some big goals this year.
The Washington County High School Commanderettes, who are coming off a dismal 2-23 season, are about to get a much-needed spark – Saint Catharine College's womens' basketball coach, Lena Bramblett.
She is replacing the Commanderettes' last head coach, Mike Holt, who took the reins for only one season.
Bramblett, who is leaving the Patriots after 15 years, said the switch was an opportunity for her and her family.
The Washington County 9-10 and 11-12 All-Star Little League teams went on the offensive over the weekend when they traveled to Adair County and run-ruled opponents into submission.
On June 27, the 9-10 All-Star team defeated Boyle County 17-7 to advance them in the bracket to play against Glasgow the following day.
In their matchup against Boyle, they trailed 5-2 going into the bottom of the second. There, with the bases loaded, a walk would give WC another run and an inside-the-park grand slam hit by Blake Russell would give them the lead for good.
As members of the NAIA, and the Mid-South Conference for just eight years, the St. Catharine College athletic program is still the new kid on the block. But the Patriots have continued to improve and enjoyed what will be termed their most successful year to date in the 2014-2015 campaign.
While the Patriots will not actually unfurl any championship banners, they can reflect on many accomplishments, both athletically and academically.
When a young baseball player grows up they dream of playing in the big leagues, but for many they don't get to realize that dream. But John Werner was of the group that got to realize their dream come true.
Werner, a member of the St. Catharine College Baseball team realized his dream had come true when the Texas Rangers called his name in the 32nd round of the Major League Baseball Draft. He becomes the fifth Patriot to be drafted by a Major League Baseball team.
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Caregivers have their work cut out for them. You think it's tough now, wait until 2025 when there will be an estimated shortage of 52,000 primary care physicians, according a recent study cited in MedCityNews and written up in the Annals of Family Medicine. This number, alarming as it is, is actually worse when you compound in the additional 32 million additional people who will have access to medical care by 2014 when the Affordable Care Act provisions start to kick in.
Caregivers, who typically are the ones who get the first call from their loved one regarding a symptom — life threatening and otherwise — also typically do the first stage of diagnosis — assess the degree of severity of the symptom and what it may impact. They try to keep in mind what they know from past experiences with the loved one and, more importantly, what they don't know, in an effort to not overstep their role and make a wrong assessment. If it's a symptom and circumstance they deem out of their comfort zone of knowledge and ability to manage, it's time to call a doctor.
What if there is no doctor available for weeks? What the study did not review was the number of available non-doctors that might be in supply in 2025. We all know the wonderful service provided by nurse practitioners. In fact, many of us prefer the bedside manner and care by a nurse practitioner than the doctor. I haven't yet found a study showing the growth in numbers of nurse practitioners, but nursing organizations are acknolwedging that nurse practitioner may indeed help fill the widening doctor gap.
Caregivers may want to consider developing a "rolodex" of nurse practitioners along side the list of doctors who they consider partners in the care of their loved one. Perhaps you already do this. While waiting for medical attention, caregivers will inevitably feel compelled to do more research into the symptoms, make more inquiring calls for doctors and nurse practitioners who may be available, and do what they can to comfort their loved one. At this point, you are really serving as a Quality of Life Advocate.


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As peace talks between the Tehreek-e-Taliban and the Pakistan government hang in balance, jets of the Pakistan Air Force started an aerial bombing operation over North Waziristan where officials claimed that hideouts of militants were targeted. The operation, which started late Wednesday night, had so far resulted in 40 casualties, including those of foreign nationals, security officials claimed on Thursday.
To clarify matters, the office of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif also told reporters that the PM had authorised the air strikes, a sign that the government has finally caved into pressure from the military high command to start an operation against the militants.
The move comes hours after the country's information minister lamented the be-heading of 23 para-military soldier earlier this week by the TTP and commented that even India "did not treat our POWs in this manner."
On Thursday, defence minister Khawaja Asif added that 175 people had been killed in 40 attacks by militants in the last 17 days and this was the reason why the operation was ordered.
The operation now puts into question any possibility of peace talks between the TTP and the Sharif government. The TTP has not responded to the operation but it appointed Maulana Sami-ul Haq as its chief negotiator for talks, empowering him to discuss the terms of a possible ceasefire.
For its part, the TTP maintained that it could not enter into negotiations if its supporters were being killed while in custody. The TTP claims that 60 of its members have been killed while in custody.
Meanwhile, the Chief of the Jamaat-e-Islami's Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa chapter Professor Mohammad Ibrahim, a negotiator on behalf of the TTP at the talks, condemned the bombings.


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10 Orlando Resorts That Could Make You Forget the Theme Parks . . . Almost
By A.D. Thompson
Orlando Local Expert
Headed to Orlando? Let's examine the difference between "hotel" and "resort." While it may seem as though they're one in the same, resorts are more immersive. Guests at resorts often enjoy the amenities in multiple form: several pools and dining options, a spa, perhaps golf, sporting activities and more. The 10 listed here offer guests a multiple-choice test they can't wait to take. In fact, some are in close proximity to neighboring luxury properties – the JW Marriott Orlando Grande Lakes, for example. shares amenities with the Ritz-Carlton Orlando, Grande Lakes. In these cases, guests can enjoy the spoils of both, an undeniable bonus. Over at the Most Magical Place on Earth, Disney's Polynesian Village Resort offers incredible benefits, not the least of which include over-water bungalows, spectacular pools and a nightly beach-side seat for the Electrical Water Pageant. Its location on the Monorail line makes the parks convenient, but other Disney properties, as well. No need to take the car or a bus to enjoy a character breakfast at the Contemporary or world-class dining at the Grand Floridian. Similarly, Loews Royal Pacific at Universal Orlando Resort holds its own in South Seas charm while offering easy access to the other on-site properties, the parks and the dining, shopping and entertainment spoils of CityWalk. Pencils down.
Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin
That "Disney" is in this two-in-one hotel's name is indeed a good sign. A few others include its five heated pools, fountains, waterfalls, on-site watercraft rentals and more. Open nightly, your kids will look forward to time spent at Camp Dolphin, where arts, crafts, movies, a video arcade and more keep them entertained while parents can get a little one-on-one time at any number of the property's on-site restaurants. Todd English's sleek seafood haven, Blue Zoo, is just one of a roster of great eateries that mean guests often stay put, though the easy boat access to Epcot gives them plenty of reason to explore the culinary spoils of the World Showcase.
Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress
Take advantage of the endless selection of on-site activities including 45 holes of Jack Nicklaus Signature Design golf, tennis, a 21 acre lake with water sports, a 1/2-acre lagoon swimming pool with 12 waterfalls, water slides – and even a rope bridge! – during your stay at the popular Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress. It's not at all uncommon for guests to hunker down here for a day or two and forget all about the rest of Orlando's amazing attractions. If you're one of them, be sure to check out the new Marilyn Monroe Spa . Dining options are a'plenty and include Hemingway's, a lovely Florida-centric venue that's wonderful for special-occasion dinners.
Loews Royal Pacific Resort at Universal Orlando
Want fabulous fine dining? BAM! The Loews Royal Pacific Resort offers up the glamorous digs of Emeril's Tchoup Chop along with its South Seas charm. But sophistication easily gives way to family fun at the property's character breakfast. In addition to a gorgeous lagoon-front beach and splendid pool, regular free water taxi service can shuttle your party to any of the other on-sites for dinner and exploration, or right over to CityWalk and the fun of Universal's theme parks. What's more? Guests here enjoy free front-of-the-line access to all the rides (an up-to-$89 upgrade!)and early admission to both Harry Potter attractions.
Four Seasons Resort Orlando at Walt Disney World
The Four Seasons Resort Orlando at Walt Disney World Resort may be a mouthful to say, but it's a pleasure to stay – whether you're traveling with family or not! Brand new and smack in the middle of Walt Disney World Resort's beautiful Golden Oak community, the FS Orlando's gorgeous zero-entry pool, incredible castle-themed water park and lazy river and complimentary Kids' Camp (not to mention character breakfasts with Goofy and pals!) make this a sumptuous stay with all the right Disney touches. Its adults-only oasis (21 and over, please) means those looking for a little posh peace and quiet with their Florida sun need not look elsewhere. A host of on-site eateries, from casual to elegant, tempt the palate while a 13,000-square-foot spa tempts the weary soul. Couples' suites and waterside spa bungalows up the ante for both luxury and relaxation.
Disney's Polynesian Village Resort
With its new over-water bungalows in place, Trader Sam's Grog Grotto serving up the tiki drinks and a gorgeous volcano pool nearly completed, the upgrades at this classic Disney deluxe resort are everywhere – inside and out. Why this one? Multiple on-site dining options, a musical, fire-infused, island-themed dinner show, a front-row seat to the Electrical Water Parade are just a few reasons. It's also a stop on the monorail, which makes several other hotels, not to mention two parks, almost an extension of staying at the Poly. Fans of the Disney experience say there's no substitute for staying on-site. This property is an excellent way to test that theory.
Marriott Orlando World Center Resort & Convention Center
This resort oasis, located in the heart of Disney territory, isn't just convenient to the most magical place on earth, it exudes a magic all its own. Those with families in tow won't worry about what they're up to, the property's stunning Falls Pool Oasis (with multiple water slides and a dedicated splash park) is enough to keep them busy in the Florida sun all day long. In fact, 10Best recently recognized the World Center's pool in its "Best Hotel Pool" poll! Add to this the spectacular Hawk's Landing Golf Club, multiple dining options and a signature spa in which to luxuriate and you may find yourself exploring less and staying put more.
Wyndham Grand Orlando Resort Bonnet Creek
The Wyndham Grand Orlando Resort Bonnet Creek is a true escape set amid 500 woodland acres and an expansive, glittering lake. Friendly and family-oriented, this property sits roughly five miles from the colorful fun of Walt Disney World, but when your family is relaxing (or playing) by the pool, unwinding in the spa or recounting the day's adventure at the outdoor fire pit, you'll feel immersed in your vacation. Even locals are known to pop in for fresh seafood at the loved and lauded deep blu seafood grill, where chefs prepare specialties in an open kitchen that's a treat for the eyes, as well as the palate.
Hilton Orlando
It may be convention convenient, but its draws hardly end there. Families and couples enjoy luxuriating in this resort's beautiful lazy river and pools – and its on-site restaurants include one of the most exemplary steakhouses in the Orlando metro. Throw in the spa, fitness center, private cabanas and guests feel worlds away from the carnival atmosphere of the theme parks. Of course, if you're looking for precisely that, the Hilton Orlando's location is 100 percent parks-convenient. You may be coming to town for business; reasonable rates make this an excellent option to invite the family down to meet you for an extended, all-leisure stay.
Hilton Orlando Bonnet Creek
Families rejoice in the Orlando heat! You can take in the sun or join your kids in the Hilton Orlando Bonnet Creek's magnificent zero-entry lagoon-style pool. In fact, we'll bet you'll opt for the latter. Fear not, though. The property's cheery Recreational Staff offers other poolside activities to keep them happy and busy when you're ready to head back to your chair. This stylish property shares many amenities with the adjacent Waldorf Astoria Orlando. Let that connection be a window into your stay. Complimentary transport to the nearby Walt Disney World parks is virtually as easy as stepping out beneath the porte-cochere.
JW Marriott Orlando Grande Lakes
Beautiful Spanish colonial architecture and a lovely lazy river are two features that will lower your blood pressure upon check-in at the J.W. Marriott Grande Lakes where myriad dining options and access to the Ritz Carlton's spa and golf club make for a particularly sumptuous stay. In fact, said proximity affords guests a double-dip of delightful resort amenities and restaurants. Disney is nearby, but if you're more in the mood to relax poolside, you'd never know; palms sway, water sparkles, romance beckons, as does family fun. Head to the driving range, take a fitness class, explore the parks and the city but come "home" to luxury – and perhaps drinks and dinner at Primo – before retiring to your comfortable, cozy room.
About A.D. Thompson
A.D. Thompson has spent more than 20 years as a professional writer and roughly 15 as a Floridian. The words, she has found, come easier with bare feet and rum. A roller coaster enthusiast, A.D. readily admits there is fun to be had amid the madness of the theme parks, but has found there is magic, as well, in the outer-lying reaches of Mickey's long shadow. She is delighted to share with you the spoils of her adopted city. Visit her colorful compendium at www.amydrewthompson.com.
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The Unborn
90 percent of horror movies suck. There's just no way around it – Hollywood has been unable to consistently deliver scary movies that are worth watching, especially over the past 20 years. Of course, the ways that a horror film can fail its audience are legion – not enough blood and guts, too much blood and guts, over-reliance on startling the audience with false alarms and loud noises, a Stephen King-derived plot – from their very conception, most movies in this genre are doomed to fail.
The trailer for The Unborn made the movie look like it would be nothing less than a wall-to-wall fear-inducing visual mind-fuck of creepy shit, with everything from dogs with upside down heads to elderly crab-walking victims of possession cribbed straight from The Exorcist. This bombastic advertising approach is no doubt thanks to producer Michael Bay, the auteur most renowned for blowing shit up every three seconds in order to distract audiences from the lack of cohesive plot. Unfortunately, director David Goyer neuters the quick-witted style he had displayed in the Blade trilogy and the Dark Knight and vomits out one of the least interesting films of the still-young 2009 season.
Where do I begin? How about the wonderful way the film instantly transitions from teenage-age protagonist Casey (played by the poor man's Megan Fox, Odette Yustman) freaking out in the classroom to an inexplicable SHOWER SCENE where we get full underage backal nudity to ogle at? Not only do we have our suspension of disbelief shattered but we don't even get to see any tits! I didn't stick around to catch the credits – honestly, I had trouble making it to the end of the film in the first place – but I hope Yustman's moose knuckle fires its agent, because its name definitely should have been above the title for all the screen time it gets peeking out from behind the briefest of undies foisted upon her by wardrobe. Speaking of bizarre casting decisions, Gary Oldman must have killed a hooker in his hotel room while they were filming the last Batman movie because I can think of no other reason he would feel obligated to step into the two-dimensional rabbinical role he is asked to play in this complete waste of celluloid.
The Unborn is filled to the brim with clichés – fetuses in glass jars (which we see at least 10 times over the course of the movie), spooky looking Euro-children with dead eyes and 40's-era clothing, and completely absent parents – but the one that really summed things up for me occurred during the final exorcism scene when the evil bad guy thing took over the body of the muscular, virile African-American priest and transformed him into a raging psychopath bent of chasing down and, of course, violating the helpless main character. That The Unborn would stoop to such an exploitative stereotype – that of the unstoppable black male frothing at the mouth as he pounds across the screen towards the lithe and fertile white female – indicates just how bereft the film is of any original thought or effort.
They say the definition of insanity is repeating the same actions over and over and expecting a different result. Judging by the relatively full theatre that surrounded me at last night's screening, horror fans are either just as insane as I am, or were hoping for a little more T and A than we got from this chicken-shit, going through the motions PG-13 ass-fest.
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Horror movies are the new westerns
When some people think of westerns, they think of the genre's best. Yet it's easier to forget just how cheesy and formulaic most of them have been. Back in the "golden age" of Hollywood, they were the studios' ultimate formula movies to fall back on to keep their production schedule full. When in doubt, make another western. Of course, the genre became known for many cliches, such as "Head 'em off at the pass!" and "They went thataway, paleface!"
In today's Hollywood, horror movies have taken the place of westerns as the chief formula genre. They too have become associated with numerous cliches, such as the guy who walks away from the group and turns up dead, or the sluttiest girl getting killed first while the virgin survives.
Is "moose knuckle" the same as "camel toe"?
What was David Goyer's connection to THE DARK KNIGHT?
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He wrote the story.
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What the hell was he doing in that movie? Must've been behind on his mortgage or something.
Good article, funny. The concept of making horror films to keep production schedules full makes a world of sense. They normally don't lose too much money, and cost little to make since they are full of lesser known actors.
Lesser known actors except for Gary Oldman. He had to have lost a bet to a producer or accidentally signed a contract while sleepwalking to be in a film like that!
By the by, chicks have camel toe, dudes have moose knuckle.
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The Unborn
Was the dumbest & lamest movie that I've seen ... It wasn't even near scary or jump out of your chair ... Rental at best! Hope there's no plan for a 2nd one, god help us!
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And it is not just him, apparently! It seems that the British public is becoming increasingly bothered by how much the F-word is being used on the telly. Oh, and I am not talking about "F" as in "fowl" but "F" as in the other foul word. The National has a write up of this today:
A backlash has emerged in Britain against the amount of swearing now common on television and radio.
For years, there has been a progressive increase in the use of bad language in popular programmes, particularly among comedians, talk show hosts and, for no apparent reason, celebrity chefs.
There were a lot of personalities mentioned in the article, including the recently infamous duo of Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross. There were no other celebrity chefs mentioned except for Jamie Oliver, who was said to have used the F-word 23 times in a 50-minute episode.
To be honest, I never really noticed this! Perhaps the episodes that I have seen were "clean?" Or maybe they were edited. Another possibility – I have become so immune to hearing that word that I do not even take note when it is mentioned on TV.
It does not matter – the fact is that for once, I agree with the critics. There is no reason for celebrity chefs to be using the F-word in their cooking shows. Although I have to admit that I have probably used it on several occasions while working in the kitchen. Poor Jamie Oliver, always in the middle of these controversies…
For many people – and that includes yours truly – the best time to make a really good meal is on the weekend. This is because you have enough time to spend in taking care to prepare an elaborate meal. During the week, you normally only have less than an hour to make a quick meal. I suppose that is the beauty of Gordon Ramsay's Sunday Lunch cookbook, which helps you come up with some of the best weekend meals you can ever make.
Gordon Ramsay is no stranger to good meals and he shares his expertise in a simple manner. The cookbook is described by Amazon as:
Gordon Ramsay's aim is to get us all cooking up a storm and sitting down at the table with friends and family to share lunch on Sundays and at other leisure times. In the second series of "The F Word", his highly acclaimed topical food programme, he visits people all over the UK of all ages, backgrounds and ethnic origins to help them cook up a meal for family and/or friends. These range from traditional Sunday roasts to lighter summer fare, from easy 30-minute meals to Italian, Indian and Moroccan influenced family feasts. As always, Gordon is there to help the home cook at every stage – buying the right ingredients, preparation and serving and helping to co-ordinate the cooking of several dishes to arrive on the table simultaneously.
I do not have my own copy of the cookbook but from what I have seen in previews, the recipes are quite simple, especially if you have at least the tiniest experience in the kitchen. Who knows, Santa might bring me one tonight?
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Are you up for some seafood this Christmas? Well here is something for you to try, straight out of British celebrity chef Delia Smith. She is a legend in her own right and this dish is quite simple but has enough kick to make you a star on Christmas Day. Recipe courtesy of The Telegraph.
• 1 pack of six savoury pastry cases (M&S)
• 2 x 100g packs hand-picked white Cornish crab (Seafood & Eat It, Waitrose)
• 1 x 110g pack hand-picked brown Cornish crab (Seafood & Eat It, Waitrose)
• 3 level tbsp half-fat crème fraîche
• 1½ tbsp dry sherry
• 1 tbsp lemon juice
• a pinch of ground mace
• a good grating of nutmeg
• 40g grated Parmesan
• ¼ tsp cayenne pepper
• salt to garnish
• 2 cartons of mustard and cress, or salad cress
You will need a small baking tray. Pre-heat the oven to 200C/gas mark 6.
All you do here is put the tart cases on to the baking tray, then place the white and brown crabmeats, the crème fraîche, sherry, lemon juice, mace, nutmeg and a little salt in a medium-size bowl. Mix it all together with a large fork, and taste to check the seasoning.
Now divide the crab mixture evenly among the pastry cases and even it out using the back of a spoon. Sprinkle the Parmesan all over the crab and finish off with a dusting of cayenne.
Bake the tarts for 25 minutes until puffed and golden, and serve them from the oven with a mustard and cress garnish.
Who is the sexiest chef on TV today? If you were to ask the women in UK, they would probably say Gordon Ramsay. At least, that's what the polls have shown. One Poll carried out the research last month and announced the results late in November. In The News has this report:
The F Word host and richest chef in the world topped a poll of TVcooks voted for by more than 4,000 women.
Though tabloid reports recently emerged claiming Ramsay has been cheating on his wife for seven years, his alleged infidelity seems not to have dented his sex appeal among female fans.
A spokesman for www.OnePoll.com, which carried out the research, said: "We weren't surprised that Gordon came out on top.
"Women go for bad boys all the time. The fact he's rumoured to be cheating on his wife for years only adds to his appeal.
"It makes him more obtainable for everyday women on the street."
Hell's Kitchen's Jean-Christophe Novelli, 47, was voted second while Marco-Pierre White, Ramsay's former mentor, came in third.
Saturday Kitchen host James Martin came fourth while Jamie Oliver rounded off the top five.
A spokesman for www.OnePoll.com added: "Most of the men in this poll aren't purely chefs. Most of them are highly successful restaurateurs, broadcasters and TV personalities.
I do not agree with the results – I think that Jamie Olivier has more sex appeal than Gordon Ramsay but then that is just me talking. Who is the sexiest chef for you?
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Michael Caines, a Michelin-star awardee, has been given a petition urging him to take off one of the best dishes on his menu. Foie gras, translated literally into fat liver, is a French delicacy that is well loved by many foodies around the world. The process of making foie gras is what the activists are against.
According to Sharon Howe of the organisation Exeter Friends for Animals, "It's quite ironic. Michael Caines promotes local produce, which we think is a very praiseworthy. But at the same time he is importing a product, which, were it produced in this country, would be banned because it contravenes animal welfare legislation. It's a very cruel product."
Foie gras is made by overfeeding geese and duck, in order to achieve that unique texture. Animal activists assert that this is bad and cruel for the animals in question. This issue is nothing new, really. In fact, production of foie gras is already banned in some areas, including the UK. This has not deterred foodies from indulging in this wonderful food, though.
Seriously, I understand where these people are coming from. They want to look after those who cannot look after themselves. At the risk of being deemed cruel, inhumane, or selfish, I would like to say that I think they are taking it too far. In the larger scheme of things, everything has its place.
Anyhow, celebrity chef Caines has not released any comment. For now, perhaps, foie gras will remain to be part of his menu. I am not one to complain.
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He may be at the top in the reality TV show Top Chef but Tom Colicchio does not seem to be on top of his game when it comes to real life. Colicchio opened his restaurant Craft in New York in 2001 and has since then widened his horizons by opening other branches in different parts of the States.
On Friday of this week, however, a former employee of Calicchio file a lawsuit against him. The complaint? It seems that the Top Chef star has been remiss in giving his workers their due. Included in the complaint are violations such as not paying minimum wage, overtime, and tips from customers.
The complainant is a certain Nessa Rapone, who worked at the Craftbar in New York last year. In her statement, she declared that she is filing the lawsuit on behalf of the other workers of Calicchio who were paid on an hourly basis. Reuters has this report:
A former employee sued "Top Chef" TV show judge Tom Colicchio in federal court on Friday for allegedly not paying some of his restaurant workers minimum wages, overtime and tips from customers.
Nessa Rapone, who worked at Craftbar in New York in 2007, filed suit in Manhattan federal court on behalf of other hourly paid workers seeking to recover "minimum wages, overtime compensation and misappropriated tips" from Colicchio.
So what does the Top Chef celebrity has to say about the lawsuit? That camp has been silent on the matter so far
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Christmas is definitely in the air, so what better time to start baking cookies? If you have children, this simple action can turn into a wonderful holiday tradition! These Linzer cookies from Ina Garten are festive and elegant enough to also serve at holiday get-togethers, and also make fabulous presents to give away.
Linzer Cookies
3/4 pound unsalted butter at room temperature
1 cup granulated sugar
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
3 1/2 cups flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup good raspberry preserves
Confectioners' sugar, for dusting
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, mix together the butter and sugar until they are just combined. Add the vanilla. In a medium bowl, sift together the flour and salt, then add them to the butter-and-sugar mixture. Mix on low speed until the dough starts to come together. Dump onto a surface dusted with flour and shape into a flat disk. Wrap in plastic and chill for 30 minutes.
Roll the dough 1/4-inch thick and cut 2 3/4-inch rounds with a plain or fluted cutter. With 1/2 of the rounds, cut a hole from the middle of each round with a heart or spade shaped cutter. Place all the cookies on an ungreased baking sheet and chill for 15 minutes.
Bake the cookies for 20 to 25 minutes, until the edges begin to brown. Allow to cool to room temperature. Spread raspberry preserves on the flat side of each solid cookie. Dust the top of the cut-out cookies with confectioners' sugar and press the flat sides together, with the raspberry preserves in the middle and the confectioners' sugar on the top.
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With Thanksgiving barely over and leftovers still smouldering in the fridge, theres no better time to start thinking and planning for the next big day ahead – Christmas!!
Ok, call me a bit of a sadist, but unlike Thanksgiving which really only involves a singular meal (maybe you were even lucky this year and played guest and not chef) , Christmas is so much more, especially so if you have a family with little children.
You know what I'm talking about – stockings, tree, decorations, outfits, parties, pantomimes and presents – to a list which seems to get longer every year! So yes, early preparations for this particular holiday does make good sense.
And since this blog is about chefs and therefore food, I'll be posting about some of my favourite celeb chefs' Christmas menus. Depending on your mood, gathering and needs this year, you can decide early on what tickles your fancy most. After all, Christmas is the season for celebration, joy, and splashing out indulgently – as Nigella so rightly reminds us in her Christmas Menu below.
"I think the mistake people make most when entertaining is to get too fancy with the food. No one is ever too sophisticated for the basic pleasures of home cooking, and there is something about those old favorites that makes everyone feel a little leap of joy in the heart………The whole point of a feast is that it is unnecessarily abundant"
Nigella Lawson
Crab Cocktail
Seasonal Breeze
Perfect Roast Potatoes
Petits Pois � la Fran�aise
Green Bean and Lemon Casserole
Standing Rib Roast
Chestnut Cheesecake
For recipes, start HERE.
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Born on March 29, 1964, Ming Tsai was never a stranger to great food. His family owned a restaurant called the Mandarin Kitchen in his hometown of Dayton, Ohio. Ming Tsai worked alongside his parents gaining valuable experience.
Ming Tsai has a degree in mechanical engineering from Yale. He also holds a masters degree from Cornell University where he studied Hotel Administration and Hospitality Marketing. He studied under renowned Pastry Chef Pierre Herme in Paris and he later studied with Sushi Master Kobayashi in Osaka between earning his two degrees.
Ming Tsai had been exposed to East West cooking when he was in Paris. He gained more exposure to it when he worked at Silks, the Mandarin Oriental San Francisco's east west restaurant, as a sous chef. Later he moved to Palo Alto, California where he served as the executive chef of the Ginger Club before moving again. This time he moved to Santa Fe to serve as executive chef of the Santacafe where he was honored as best chef.
Ming Tsai and his wife Polly now own their own restaurant, the Blue Ginger in Wellesley Massachusetts. It has earned many awards including three stars from the Boston Globe and Ming Tsai was honored 2002 Best Chef Northeast by the James Beard Foundation.
Ming Tsai has written three cookbooks. Blue Ginger East Meets West Cooking with Ming Tsai made it to the Food and Wine Magazine top 25 best cookbooks of 1999. His second book Simply Ming was published in 2003 and his third book Ming's Master Recipes was released in 2004.
Ming Tsai first appeared on TV via the Food Network where he hosted the show East Meets West. The show won him an Emmy in 1998. Currently he hosts and produces the TV cooking show Simply Ming which was awarded the prestigious CINE Golden Eagle Award in 2005. You can also watch him on his other show, Ming's Quest.
Ming Tsai is also a founding member of Chefs for Humanity, a charity organization created in response to the needs of those devastated by the tsunami in 2005. They organize fund raising and relief activities for those in need around the world.
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Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year. It's a time of gathering and renewing family ties. It is about giving and sharing our blessings. It's also about sitting in front of the fire and talking all night, sharing stories of christmases past and the visits of Santa.
Of course if you are going to be awake all night and talking all night long, while hoping to catch a glimpse of Santa, you can't do it with a dry throat. This calls for a drink that is meant to be savored with friends while gathered around the tree watching the kids play. It is one of the best nights of the year.
Try Emeril Lagasse's Chocolatey Christmas Cafe Au Lait. Though cafe au lait is normally a breakfast drink, this drink is perfect even if you drink this before your first meal of the day.
Have a merry christmas everyone!
Emeril's Chocolate-y Christmas Cafe Au Lait
1 1/2 cups whole milk
2/3 cup plus 1 teaspoon sugar
1/2 cup unsweetened Dutch-process cocoa powder
2 ( 2-inch) cinnamon sticks
1 strip orange peel, about 1/2 inch by 3 inches
10 whole cloves
2 to 2 1/2 cups hot brewed strong coffee
1/4 cup cold heavy cream
Ground cinnamon, for garnish
Cocoa, for garnish
In a medium saucepan, whisk together the milk, 2/3 cup of the sugar, and cocoa until smooth. Add the cinnamon sticks, orange peel and cloves and bring to a simmer, stirring, to dissolve the sugar and prevent the cocoa from sticking to the bottom of the pot. Simmer for 2 minutes, then remove from the heat, cover, and let steep for 10 minutes.
In a medium bowl, whip the cream with the remaining 1 teaspoon sugar until thick and frothy, and peaks form. Set aside.
Strain the milk mixture into a coffee pot or carafe and add 2 cups of the hot coffee (2 1/2 cups for stronger coffee flavor, to taste). Pour into cups or small mugs and top each with a dollop of the sweetened whipped cream.
Serve immediately.


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Tech News! Geocaching and Your Cell Phone
While spring is just around the corner, now is the time to plan your first geocaching event or field trip. There is no better example of integrating technology in the classroom than by geocaching. One activity in geocaching immerses students in geography, science, and mathematics, while developing critical thinking skills, team building, and collaboration. By definition geocaching is a treasure hunt to discover an item or location by using a global position system (GPS). Previously, in classrooms, teachers used handheld GPS devices for their projects, often costing the district $100 per unit. However, today, a GPS application is readily available on most cell phones, FREE or for a nominal charge. Latitude 47 is one of many teachers' blogs sharing geocaching activities. Richard Byrne, in his Free Technology for Teachers blog, provides an overview of geocaching and the intrinsic benefits for students beyond the academic value. Teachers have the option of participating in geocaches in the surrounding area or to create their own. Here's a quick link to The Official Global GPS Geocaching website and to an article Getting Started. Consider a practice geocaching event in the school or on the school campus, after the holidays, to jump-start students in their studies and practice the geocaching skills for the spring treasure hunt adventure.


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A man was dragged behind a pickup truck when a drug deal went awry, deputies in Flagler County said Tuesday.
Investigators said John Stubbs, 43, was trying to sell drugs to another man when the alleged buyer decided to nix the deal.
That's when Stubbs grabbed hold of the other man's moving pickup. A deputy saw what was happening and stopped the truck.
The driver, Corey Miller, 24, then backed into the deputy's car trying to get away, officials said. He was caught and arrested. Stubbs was not seriously hurt in the incident.
Stubbs faces cocaine possession charges, and Miller faces reckless driving and assault on a law enforcement officer. They were booked into the Flagler County Jail.


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Kahului resident Bejo Ali Elburki literally gets goosebumps thinking about his upcoming trip home to Libya - the land he fled as a teenager in 1979 and hasn't seen since.
"It gives me goosebumps just thinking about it," Elburki, 54, says as a visible shiver runs down his arms. "I'm going to the country where I was born, but it's the unknown. It's just been so long."
The Libyan-American has been planning a visit home for himself and his older brother, Ahmed, since the fall of Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi, who was captured and killed in October.
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Kahului resident and Libyan exile Bejo Ali Elburki is planning a trip to his home country for himself and his older brother, Ahmed. The brothers have not been back to Libya in more than three decades. Elburki hosted a small fundraiser Sunday at the Hawaiian Canoe Club in Hoaloha Park to help raise money for the trip.
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"I thought my time would come before his time," Elburki said of Gadhafi's death. "I want to see it one more time. I never thought I'd see it. I thought the day would never come."
"To see Libya liberated - that was the greatest feeling," he says with a big smile.
Elburki grew up in Benghazi and went into exile to the United States in 1979 because his family name put him at risk in Libya. He shares the same last name as Ahmed, who opposed Gadhafi's regime.
"He fled Gadhafi in 1976 as one of the first oppositions," Elburki said of his brother. "He needs to go back home. He always thinks something's after him."
Elburki said Ahmed had been working on crab fishing boats in Alaska, Saipan and Hawaii before making the islands his home in the early 1990s.
Elburki had been living in Texas and in the Midwest before moving to Maui four years ago to care for Ahmed, who he said is ill.
The brothers have lost their mother, two brothers and a sister since their exile to the U.S.
Still, Elburki says he wants to make the most of his trip home, where he has more than 100 immediate family members, including nieces and nephews he's never met.
"I want to see all the places I went to as a kid. . . . Go camping, see the house I was born in, see how everything has changed," he said.
He also wants to be a positive influence for his family and friends.
"I'm really pumped up. I want to go and be an advocate and make people aware that it's nice to have a democracy," he said. But at the same time, he knows he has to be cautious because of the lingering unrest in his home country.
"Libya has been closed off for so long because of the way Gadhafi ran the country," Elburki said. "I'd like to open it."
He envisions being able to share Hawaii with his home country, including his passion for canoe paddling. He paddles recreationally as a member of the Hawaiian Canoe Club in Kahului.
"The weather is just like this in Libya. Identical," he said. "I want to introduce them to canoes and surfing. I want to show the Libyan people how to plant things like papayas."
Elburki hopes to leave in early September and stay for about three weeks before returning to Maui.
"My home is the United States, and Hawaii is number one," he said.
Getting there won't be cheap.
Elburki estimates it will cost between $1,800 and $2,000 each way for him and Ahmed to fly the more than 8,000 miles to Libya.
"It's one-third of the world from here," he said.
Elburki organized a small fundraiser Sunday to help raise money for the trip. He prepared a spread of Mediterranean food - including roasted lamb, Greek salad, hummus, falafel and pita bread - for the event.
Elburki works part-time building custom furniture out of scrap wood, helping with home repairs and making sea-glass sculptures.
He also is an English student at the University of Hawaii Maui College and is considering enrolling in the school's three-year degree program for Sustainable Construction Technology.
He hopes to build a name for himself with his carpentry skills and do more creative work with his hands.
"In the future, I'd like to perhaps keep doing what I'm doing, creating original pieces," he said. "Maybe even serve food several times a week to Maui's people because they deserve good ingredients and food made with love."
Some day, Elburki plans to write a biography.
"I would like to write my life story. A kid who came from Libya - speaking no English, being brave and coming to a new place and teaching myself to survive," he said. "It wasn't all easy, but it was fun. It's been an interesting journey."
Anyone interested in assisting the brothers with their upcoming trip can contact Elburki at 633-0250.
* Nanea Kalani can be reached at email@example.com.


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Colleague benefit: Get the flu jab half price!
With the warm summer coming to an end, now is the perfect time to start thinking about getting your flu jab. This year Asda Pharmacy is making them available to all colleagues and nominated users for just £3.50 – that's half the current in store price!
They will be available at your local Asda Pharmacy from Saturday 28th September without a prescription. They're available to anyone over the age of 16 and are the best way to prevent catching the flu.
No one likes to be ill over Christmas, so keep you and your family safe this winter and protect yourselves with a flu jab. Avoid lengthy queues at your GP surgery and speak to your Asda Pharmacist today for more information!


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This is the perfect dip for all your favorite veggies and crackers.
Yield: About 1½ cups (serving size: 2 Tablespoons)
Place beans and next 4 ingredients in a food processor; process until smooth. Spoon hummus into a bowl. Top with pine nuts and parsley. Serve with pita bread wedges or pita chips, or use as a spread for pita sandwiches.
- 1 16-ounce can pinto beans, drained and rinsed
- 3 Tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- 1¼ Tablespoons tahini (ground sesame seed paste)
- 1½ Tablespoons olive oil
- 2 garlic cloves, peeled
- 1 Tablespoon toasted pine nuts
- 1 Tablespoon minced fresh parsley
Nutritional Data Per Serving
- Calories: 59
- Fat: 4 grams (54% of calories from fat)


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Nothing beats the awesome stories we get from our fans and all the adventures they go on with their trusty Timbuk2 Companions. Our pal Nico who has posted on Whatsinyourbag.com recently shared this with us: ""What is up guys!! Id like to share with you guys a bit of my current adventures. So a while [...]
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Is the earth on a collision course with catastrophe? The climatists say it is and that human beings are to blame.
But environmental researcher and author Steve Goreham says that's just not so.
Climatism is the belief that man-made greenhouse gasses are wreaking havoc with the climate and destroying the planet. Climatists say the gases from industry are warming the earth so much that the ice caps are melting, the oceans are rising, and the polar bears are threatened with extinction.
If there's a heat wave, a cold snap, stronger than usual hurricanes, droughts or floods -- climatists say it's all because of man-made climate change. They add that if we don't curb our evil, carbon-emitting ways, the earth is doomed.
But Goreham says not so fast. The environmental researcher and author of The Mad, Mad, Mad World of Climatism says that science points to natural factors -- not human activity -- as the cause of global warming.
He calls climatism the greatest global delusion in history.
What are some of the myths about climate change? Goreham appeared on "The 700 Club" to talk about these and more, July 25. Click play for the interview.
Europe's Climate Change Alarmism a Religious Belief?
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Operation Blessing helped a small farming community deep in the forests of Sierra Leone.
The charity organization visited a village located hundreds of miles from electricity and running water.
While the people living in Pelewanhun are hard-working, they're struggling to survive. Operation Blessing teams were able to set up a medical clinic, provide free check-ups and medicine.
Families were also provided with filters to purify their water. Farmers were given new tools to help them clear the land and increase their ability to farm.
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TV Ratings: No Friday bump for penultimate 'Dollhouse'
Fast National ratings for Friday, May 1, 2009.
There was no real drama at the top of the Friday night ratings, with CBS' procedural trio cruising to victory, so instead we're looking mostly at the signs for the lackluster penultimate episode of "Dollhouse."
Among adults 18-49, CBS won Friday with a 2.2 rating. ABC was second in the coveted demographic with a 1.6 rating, followed by the 1.3 rating for NBC and the 1.0 rating for FOX. The CW wasn't far back with a 0.7 rating.
Overall, CBS averaged an estimated 9.63 million viewers, to go with a 6.1 rating/11 share. ABC was a distant second with a 3.5/6 for ABC and NBC's 3.3/6. FOX's 2.0/4 and The CW's 1.0/2 trailed.
The CBS primetime sweep began at 8 p.m. with a 6.2/12 for "Ghost Whisperer." ABC's "Wife Swap" was second, beating the 2.1/4 for FOX's "Prison Break." NBC's "Howie Do It" was close behind, edging the 1.1/2 for The CW's "Everybody Hates Chris" and "The Game."
"Flashpoint" held onto a 6.0/11 to give the 9 p.m. hour to CBS. NBC's "Dateline" was second with a 3.6/6, while ABC's "Supernanny" had a 3.2/6 for third. FOX's "Dollhouse" had a 1.9/3 in fourth. While the Joss Whedon's drama's overall viewership was up slightly to an estimated 3.09 million (it fell just below 3 million last week), the rating in the 18-49 demo was down to a 1.1 and other young demos were also down. "Dollhouse," which has its season finale next Friday, at least beat The CW's "America's Next Top Model" repeat.
CBS stayed in first at 10 p.m. with a 6.0/11 for "Num3rs." ABC was back in second with a 4.4/8 for "20/20," which nipped NBC's "Dateline."
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — While early election returns showed Californians divided Tuesday on whether to slap an additional $1-per-pack tax on tobacco products, voters approved a tweak to term limits that supporters say will promote consistency and reduce the influence of lobbyists.
With 8 percent of precincts reporting, Proposition 29 was eking out a narrow lead with 52 percent of the vote.
The attempt to increase cigarettes taxes in the nation's most populous state has attracted nationwide attention, with tobacco companies helping to raise $47 million to quash the effort and celebrities like cycling legend Lance Armstrong urging voters to support it.
Tobacco taxes have been proven to reduce smoking. But opponents say the initiative would create an unaccountable bureaucracy and hurt the economy by sending tax money raised in California to other states.
An extra tax in the nation's most populous state also could mean major losses for tobacco companies.
Voter support for the initiative began falling this spring after the opposition campaign launched a flurry of radio and television commercials, one of which featured a Central Valley physician.
The Public Policy Institute of California found that support for the initiative dropped from 67 percent in March to 53 percent by late May.
Proposition 28
Proposition 28 will limit lawmakers to 12 years, but allow them to spend that time in one house or a combination in both houses of the state Legislature.
The measure had about two-thirds support with more than 2 million votes cast Tuesday night.
Currently, lawmakers can serve up to three two-year terms in the Assembly and two four-year terms in the Senate, for a total of 14 years.
Good government organizations argued that California's strict term limits assure that the statehouse is filled with inexperienced politicians who are overly reliant on lobbyists and bureaucrats to help them write legislation.
Critics warned the change would lead to entrenchment in the state Capitol.
Low turnout
U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein easily advanced to the November ballot in California's statewide primary Tuesday
Feinstein, the 78-year-old incumbent Democrat, easily advanced to the general election, where she will face the next highest vote-getter among the 23 challengers she faced on Tuesday's ballot, 14 of them Republicans.
Others who turned out were hopeful that the new top-two system will deliver more competitive contests and more moderate candidates even as they were confronted with a longer, more complicated ballot. In some cases, candidates of the same party are vying to meet again in November.
"I think it helps to level the playing field," said attorney Susan Hyman after casting her Democratic ballot at a skilled nursing facility in Long Beach. "The districts have been too entrenched by party."
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Guidance to High Schools--2nd Big Sky Pathways Initiative Development MeetingsMonday, January 3, 2011, 4:48 pm
Guidance for materials required for the second Big Sky Pathway Initiative (BSPI) Development meetings can be found at the following link: http://www.opi.mt.gov/programs/CTAE/CTE.html#gpm1_3. The meeting schedule can also be found at the same link. The titles of the two documents are: Big Sky Pathways Initiative Second Development Meeting Schedule and Guidance for the Second Big Sky Pathways Initiative Development Meeting.
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Every payment record is associated with a single loan. Payment records hold the details of a specific payment. Some of the
information you enter yourself, and some information is computed by Moneylender and used for creating reports and interest computations.
To record a new payment first select the loan from the list of loans in the main window. Click from the Loan menu, press the New Payment () button on the toolbar, or right-click the loan and select from the pop-up menu to open the Payment Record dialog with a new payment record.
There are a few "special amounts" that cause Moneylender to handle a payment differently:
Use a negative amount to add principal to a loan on the date specified in the Date Applied field. When computing balances, Moneylender will recognize the negative number as a principal addition and cause that amount to become interest bearing along with the other unrepaid principal on the loan.
Use zero to defer a payment. Moneylender will make the appropriate change to the payment due date, and subtract the regular payment at the date the deferral payment is applied from the amount due.
Use a positive number to denote a payment received. Check the Principal Only box to force the payment to credit strictly to principal regardless of fees and interest unpaid on the account. If Principal Only is not checked, the payment will apply towards unpaid fees first, then any amount above the regular payment amount will be applied to any late fees due (managed separately from third party fees / other fees), then any unpaid interest assessed on the account is deducted. The remaining amount is credited toward the principal.
To edit or delete the payments on a loan, select the loan in the list of loans and click from the Loan menu.
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SAYREVILLE – The federal government will pay $1.1 million to help fix a sewage pump station in Sayreville that was damaged during Hurricane Sandy, according to U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone.
Pallone's office said in a news release Monday that the Federal Emergency Management Agency will cover 75 percent of the cost for repairs – and for a refurbishment that could help prevent damage from future storm surges. The Middlesex County Utilities Authority is in charge of the pump station.
In late October, Hurricane Sandy battered the facility, which pumps waste from 30 towns in Middlesex and Somerset counties.
"As we rebuild after Superstorm Sandy, we have a unique opportunity to improve our public infrastructure so it is stronger and can withstand future storms," Pallone, a Democrat, said in the news release.
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Great Scene: "Ferris Bueller's Day Off"March 16th, 2013 by Scott
One of the most memorable scenes in one of the most memorable John Hughes movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off:
EXT. STATE STREET. FLOAT Ferris is playing "TWIST AND SHOUT" on the accordian. The girls on the float are singing. FERRIS WELL, SHAKE IT UP, BABY, NOW! GIRLS SHAKE IT UP, BABY FERRIS TWIST AND SHOUT! GIRLS TWIST AND SHOUT! FERRIS COME ON, COME ON, COME ON, BABY ON! COME ON AND WORK IT ON OUT! GIRLS WORK IT ON OUT! EXT. STREET. SLOANE AND CAMERON They continue their conversation. SLOANE The future's worse for a boy, isn't it? Cameron doesn't understand what she means. SLOANE A girl can always bail out and have a baby and get some guy to support her. CAMERON That's a pretty grim thought. SLOANE True, but it's an option. No options is worse. CAMERON I don't know what I'm gonna do. SLOANE College. CAMERON Yeah, but to do what? SLOANE What are you interested in? CAMERON Nothing. SLOANE Me either. They walk on for a few beats. We HEAR "TWIST AND SHOUT" GROWING LOUDER AND LOUDER. The sons is taking over all the other tunes in the band. It's infecting the entire parade. CAMERON What do you think Ferris is gonna do? EXT. STATE STREET. MARCHING BAND They're playing TWIST AND SHOUT. EXT. STREET. MOUNTED POLICE OFFICER He's singing. POLICE OFFICER YOU KNOW YOU LOOK SO GOOD! EXT. STREET. PUNKS A band of PUNKS are dancing on the roof of a news kiosk. PUNKS LOOK SO GOOD! EXT. STREET MOTHER AND HER CHILDREN A WOMAN and her two TODDLERS sing along. WOMAN YOU KNOW YOU LOOK SO FINE! TODDLERS LOOK SO FINE! EXT. STREET. BLACK TEENAGER He's wearing a shower cap and a maroon overcoat. TEENAGER COME ON AND TWIST A LITTLE CLOSER! EXT. STREET. OLD NEWSPAPER SELLER He singing along. NEWSPAPER SELLER TWIST A LITTLE CLOSER! EXT. STREET. CHOIR GROUP They're marching down the parade. They're singing in their angleic voices. CHOIR AND LET ME KNOW THAT YOU'RE MINE! EXT. STREET. STREET CLEANERS With their brooms ready... STREET CLEANERS KNOW THAT YOU'RE MINE! EXT. STREET. DECK The entire parade is singing and playing "TWIST AND SHOUT". EXT. STREET. VIEWING STAND The POLITICIANS and their WIVES stand up. POLITICIANS AND WIVES AH! EXT. STREET. VIEWING STAND The CLERGYMEN stand. CLERGYMEN AH! EXT. STREET. VETERANS Marching in formation and in WWII uniforms. VETERANS AH! EXT. STREET. FLOAT Ferris leads the Beauty Queens in the rousing finale. FERRIS AH! EXT. STREET. WIDE AND HIGH The entire parade is at frenzy pitch. PARADE AHHHHH! The SOUND OF THE VOICES blends with the SOUND OF A RED-LINED HIGH PERFORMANCE ENGINE.
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Meal Memories Change How Full We FeelLizzie Heiselt
What did you have for lunch today? Was it a big lunch? A small lunch? Maybe a big snack? Think about it! It's important. Because what you remember about how much you ate can influence how full you think you are and how much you eat at the next meal.
The connection between our memory of our meals and how full we feel comes to us courtesy of researchers from the University of Bristol in the UK. Using bowls that could be manipulated to contain more or less soup, the researchers determined that people who were shown a larger portion of soup rated themselves to be less hungry and more satiated several hours later compared with those who were shown a smaller portion even if their actual serving was secretly manipulated to be less than what they saw.
The study, published in PLOSOne, sheds some light on the relationship between perceptions and actual physical sensation and that our memories and perceptions can influence our behavior. While the researchers acknowledge that more work needs to be done before these findings are useful in combatting overeating and obesity, it is heartening to have another perspective on the issue and another means of examining it.
So, what did you have for lunch? Did you pay attention? Did you give bits and pieces of it to your children so you don't really have any idea how big your meal ended up being? Are you hungry now? If you are, is it because it seemed like a small meal at the time? Think about it. It could be important.


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000 AXNT20 KNHC 251139 TWDAT Tropical Weather Discussion NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL 739 AM EDT SUN SEP 25 2016 Tropical Weather Discussion for North America, Central America Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea, northern sections of South America, and Atlantic Ocean to the African coast from the Equator to 32N. The following information is based on satellite imagery, weather observations, radar and meteorological analysis. Based on 0600 UTC surface analysis and satellite imagery through 1030 UTC. ...SPECIAL FEATURES... Tropical Storm Karl is centered near 37.5N 53.5W at 25/0900 UTC or about 552 nm south of Cape Race Newfoundland, moving northeast at 40 kt. Estimated minimum central pressure is 990 mb. Maximum sustained wind speed is 60 kt with gusts to 75 kt. Scattered to numerous strong convection prevails north of 36N between 48W-55W. Please see the latest NHC Forecast/Advisory under AWIPS/WMO headers MIATCMAT2/WTNT22 KNHC for more details. ...TROPICAL WAVES... A tropical wave in the east Tropical Atlantic extends its axis from 14N34W to a 1011 mb surface low centered near 07N35W, moving west near 20 kt over the past 24 hours. This wave coincides with a 700 mb trough noted in model guidance and is embedded within a surge of moisture as seen in TPW imagery. Scattered moderate convection has developed in the vicinity of these features extending from 06N-14N between 35W-42W. A tropical wave in the west-central Tropical Atlantic extends its axis from 22N57W to 12N58W, moving west near 15 kt over the past 24 hours. The wave coincides with a 700 mb trough depicted in model guidance and is embedded within an surge of moderate moisture as seen in TPW imagery. Isolated moderate convection prevails along the southern portion of the wave's axis south of 14N between 57W-60W. A tropical wave extends from the southern portion of Mexico into the EPAC waters from 19N96W to 08N96W. This wave has moved west at about 5-10 kt over the past 24 hours. A 700 mb trough is depicted by global guidance near this area and abundant moisture is noted in TPW imagery. Scattered moderate convection prevails in the wave's environment mainly between 93W-102W affecting the southern portion of the Bay of Campeche mainly south of 20N between 93W-97W. ...ITCZ/MONSOON TROUGH... The Monsoon Trough extends across Africa into the east Tropical Atlantic near 10N15W to the 1011 mb low described above centered near 07N35W to 07N39W. The ITCZ begins near 07N39W to 07N49W. Aside from the convection related to the tropical wave and low along 35W, isolated moderate convection is 07N-12N between 20W- 32W. ...DISCUSSION... GULF OF MEXICO... An upper-level low centered over the Florida Panhandle extends its trough across the eastern Gulf waters east of 90W. At the surface; a surface ridge extends across the basin anchored by a 1017 mb high near 28N86W. The combination of a tropical wave extending over southern Mexico and a thermal surface trough extending across the Bay of Campeche from 22N92W to 19N93W, is enhancing convection over the southwest Gulf waters south of 20N between 92W-97W. Another area of scattered moderate convection has developed over the northwest Gulf mainly north of 26N and west of 91W. Scatterometer data depicts a gentle to moderate anticyclonic flow prevailing over the Gulf waters. Expect for the surface ridge to prevail across the basin within the next 24 hours. A weak cold front will reach the northwest Gulf by late Monday, then stall and dissipate in the northern Gulf by Tuesday. CARIBBEAN SEA... A diffluent flow aloft is supporting cloudiness and scattered moderate convection across the western Caribbean mainly west of 82W affecting portion of Belize and the Yucatan Peninsula. The Monsoon Trough extends along 11N between 76W-83W supporting scattered moderate convection over the southern Caribbean waters. Scatterometer data depicts moderate to fresh trades across the basin except south of 15N between 68W-75W where fresh to strong winds prevail. Little change is expected within the next 24 hours. A tropical wave will approach from the east with isolated showers affecting the Lesser Antilles by late Sunday. ...HISPANIOLA... Isolated showers are observed across the island at this time. Northerly flow aloft will persist across the area providing moisture and coupled with the easterly trade winds will enhance afternoon/evening showers and thunderstorms through the Tuesday. ATLANTIC OCEAN... Karl, and two tropical waves are moving across the basin. Please refer to the section above for details. A diffluent flow aloft is enhancing scattered moderate convection across the far west Atlantic west of 77W. To the east of this activity; a 1016 surface high is located northeast of the Bahamas near 27N75W. The remnants of T.D Lisa were analyzed as a 1011 mb low centered near 27N42W. Isolated convection is from27N-29N between 41W-43W. The remainder of the basin is under the influence of a surface ridge anchored by a pair of 1026 mb highs centered near 32N30W and 40N20W. Expect for Karl to continue moving northeast becoming a hurricane by Sunday. A cold front drop south into the central Atlantic on Monday enhancing convection, then becoming stationary by Tuesday. For additional information please visit http://www.hurricanes.gov/marine $$ ERA
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Americans are strangled with credit card debt. If you're the average household, you have a balance of $15,800 at an average APR of 14.89%. That's $2,352 in interest payments annually. What could you do with that extra money?
There's a way to avoid paying those interest payments at least for a short period of time now that banks are forgetting about the recent credit crisis and once again deluging our mailboxes with credit card offers with 0% interest on balance transfers [3]. Some of these too good to be true offers give you 6 months or even a year without interest payments. That's a lot of money that you're saving that could go towards the payment of that interest.
Not so fast! One of the many statements that we attribute to wise people from generations past is, (say it with me) "if it's too good to be true, it probably is." Before you sign up, you better keep reading.
You May Not Get 0%
Have you noticed that on those weight loss commercials they always say "lose UP TO"? The "up to" is in small print while the big number that will make you the size you were in junior high school is big and colorful. Balance transfers are the same way. The best case interest rate is 0% but if you have blemishes on your credit report, don't expect to get that 0%.
The Transfer isn't Free
If it's a bank, they know how to charge you fees and often, there's a 3%-4% fee for balance transfers. That makes your $15,800 balance transfer $474 less valuable.
New Purchases?
Any new purchase you make probably isn't going to hold a 0% interest rate for the introductory period. It will build interest at the standard rate that kicks in after the 0% period.
Speaking of the Interest Rate
Before signing up, don't forget to check the interest rate after the initial 0% period. It may be much higher than what you have now.
Don't Be Optimistic
Probably the most common form of rationalization related to balance transfers is the, "I'm going to pay the card off before the introductory rate expires" line. Just like many New Year's resolutions, there's a better than average chance that you won't. If it were that easy, you could have paid a lot more before you transferred the card. Don't make decisions based on this idea.
Close the Old One?
The credit bureaus know the trick. They can spot credit card hoppers a mile away. Understand that cancelling the old card may negatively affect your credit score and trying to transfer your balance from card to card every 6 months comes with possible credit consequences as well.
Is it a Good Idea?
If you were somehow absolutely sure that you could pay the full balance within the 0% period and you were transferring the balance one time, a multi thousand dollar savings is definitely worth it but never transfer to a card that has a higher interest rate than the card you have now.
Remember that trying to beat the banks at their own game will often leave you on the losing end. Focus on spending less and paying down the debt instead of moving it every six months.