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Big fan of the dark comedy and documentary films. Last movie I really enjoyed in the theatre was Boyhood by Richard Linklater.
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A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
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Some amazing travel moments include: getting lost and living with a hill-tribe in Northern Thailand, climbing Mount Kinabalu at sunrise in Borneo, celebrating Thai New Year in Chiang Mai, crashing a Cambodian village wedding in Chi Phat, mountain-biking through the Cardamom Mountains, crossing the Cambodia-Vietnam border on motorbike and hiking the infamous Kalalau Trail in Kauai!
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Some of the things I am especially interested in learning more about at present include: wine, motorcycling, long-distance hiking, learning spanish, working on a luxury yacht, traveling Central and South America, digital photography and travel blogging.
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Australia, Belgium, Cambodia, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Mexico, Monaco, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States, Viet Nam
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[Last month's announcement of Castlevania on Nintendo DS was greeted with many cheers from fans of the three Game Boy Advance Castlevania titles. However some diehard fans expressed their disappointment that the Nintendo DS Castlevania does not feature the gothic art of Japanese artist Ayami Kojima, and instead sports a bright, Japanese anime-inspired look.]
IGA: Yes, we contracted the character art to an animation company in Japan. The reason being that Ayami Kojima is a very busy lady and I wanted her to focus on the art for Curse of Darkness on PS2. Basically, I was afraid to ask her for additional help. (laughs) And from my perspective, the Castlevania demographic and the user base of Game Boy Advance doesn't match. The games may be geared for an older audience. So with that in mind we decided to do this game on Nintendo DS using character art that could appeal to everyone. I'm hoping to catch a younger audience with the DS Castlevania this time around. And of course Ayami Kojima is a terrific artist, but I think her art is best suited for an older audience.
1UP: So has this new Japanese anime style of character art influenced the gameplay at all?
IGA: Absolutely not.
1UP: Will this anime style be something we'll see in future titles after the Castlevania DS game?
IGA: I think that really depends on consumers' reactions. It's a bit of an experiment actually. I'm sure there will be people who won't like the anime style of the character art, but I remember back when we first started using Ayami Kojima's art there were many fans opposed to it.
After a few handshakes and goodbyes, Koji Igarashi headed back to work on his most promising titles in years. The Aria of Sorrow sequel on Nintendo DS already looks and plays like the best Castlevania since Symphony of the Night, and Curse of Darkness may finally be the answer to Igarashi's 3D-tainted nightmares by fusing elements of classic Castlevania games into a PS2-powered adventure title. As this year's E3 approaches, be sure to check back with 1UP.com for the latest developments on these two new Castlevania games.]


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On Tuesday, five Democratic representatives said the Government Accountability Office agreed to their request to review complaints that election machine technology and procedural issues had prevented some votes from being counted in the recently completed presidential election.
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The Government Accountability Office, the investigative arm of the U.S. Congress, agreed to look into anomalies in the November election.
Experts do not expect an inquiry to result in a dramatic challenge of the November election results, but it could lead to important changes in ongoing reforms of the election process.
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"On its own authority, the GAO will examine the security and accuracy of voting technologies, the distribution and allocation of voting machines, and the counting of provisional ballots," the five members of the House of Representatives said in statement Tuesday. "We are hopeful that GAO's nonpartisan and expert analysis will get to the bottom of the flaws uncovered in the 2004 election."
The pending GAO inquiry offers the latest sign that the postelection healing called for by politicians has yet to emerge for critics of e-voting machines.
Experts said they do not expect an investigation to result in a dramatic challenge of the November election results. But it could lead to important changes in ongoing reforms of the election process sparked by the famous "hanging chad" ballot problems in Florida during 2000's closely fought presidential race.
Congress in 2002 passed the Help America Vote Act, or HAVA, to help states fund an overhaul of antiquated voting systems with new e-voting machines. But those attempts have themselves sparked heated criticism over often poorly planned changes that some believe offer citizens less secure and reliable voting procedures than they had before.
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Criticism has focused on the lack of national voting machine standards and the failure of some voting districts to require that e-voting machines produce a paper ballot receipt that could be used in the case of an audit.
"The $64,000 question is whether or not the GAO finds enough problems in the 2004 election results to spur Congress to help the Help America Vote Act," said Doug Chapin, director of Electionline.org, a nonpartisan voting-information site. "Election reform is driven by either consensus or crisis, and in the absence of either, reform will move slowly, if at all, in the next Congress...There is some concern that if there are only a number of smaller problems, they might just slip under Congress' radar."
One problem voters faced in the November elections was that after choosing one presidential candidate, they were presented with confirmations that they had voted for the opposing candidate, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and VerifiedVoting.org said in a release earlier this month. The Verified Voting Foundation is an e-voting critic that has called for independent technical experts to monitor and test voting machines and results, among other things. The groups added that another common error was that machines crashed and rebooted without evidence of whether the votes were counted.
The groups sent letters to voting officials in eight counties with the worst problems urging them to allow for independent machine tests. The counties included Broward and Palm Beach in Florida, Mahoning and Franklin in Ohio, Mercer and Philadelphia in Pennsylvania, Harris in Texas, and Bernalillo in New Mexico.
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With bowl season upon us, it's hard to believe talking about next season is appropriate yet, but it's never too early to look ahead.
The Oklahoma football starting lineup for next season will see many familiar faces but also the departure of several big names, including Travis Lewis, Ronnell Lewis and Frank Alexander, but returning quarterback Landry Jones will bring experience and potential to the OU offense once again.
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The UN Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) and the UN Development Programme (UNDP) have completed the Digital Financial Services (DFS) diagnostics in the three West African fragile states Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, also Least Developed Countries, recovering from the impact of Ebola.
The Bank of Sierra Leone (BSL) in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) International Growth Centre (IGC) has ended a three-day West African Sub-regional workshop on mobile financial services on Wednesday, March 16.
The Central Bank, Bank of Sierra Leone, in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) launches the country's first mobile money regulations to accelerate the delivery of financial services to the poor, including women and youth.
As part of its financial inclusion work, UNCDF has unique experience in supporting payment digitization, including for salaries, pensions, and social benefits. This reduces inefficiencies and improves transparency.
To strengthen the battle against Ebola, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is working with the authorities in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone to coordinate payments for thousands of treatment centre staff, lab technicians, contacts tracers and burial teams.
"Success in the response, down to the district level, depends on these women and men who are risking their lives every day to fight the disease," said Helen Clark, the Administrator of UNDP.
Four new local governments have received support from UNDP and UNCDF to improve transparency and accountability of their tax administration and increase their internal revenue mobilization. The beneficiaries are Kambia, Western Area Rural, Bo and Bonthe District Councils. Support included setting up the fiscal cadaster system and providing equipment for the valuation offices. Equipment comprises an ICT package and a projector.
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Like Family: Growing Up in Other People's Houses, a Memoirby Paula McLain
In the tradition of Jo Ann Beard's Boys of My Youth, and Mary Karr'sThe Liar's Club, Paula McLain has written a powerful and haunting memoir about the years she and her two sisters spent as foster children. In the early 70s, after being abandoned by both parents, the girls were made wards of the Fresno County, California court and spent the/i>/i>/i>
In the tradition of Jo Ann Beard's Boys of My Youth, and Mary Karr'sThe Liar's Club, Paula McLain has written a powerful and haunting memoir about the years she and her two sisters spent as foster children. In the early 70s, after being abandoned by both parents, the girls were made wards of the Fresno County, California court and spent the next 14 years-in a series of adoptive homes. The dislocations, confusions, and odd pleasures of an unrooted life form the basis of a captivating memoir. McLain's beautiful writing and limber voice capture the intense loneliness, sadness, and determination of a young girl both on her own and responsible, with her siblings, for staying together as a family.
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Like Family
By Paula McLain
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Chapter OneDOGS ARE EASY. IF their tails are up and their eyes are soft, you're in. Sometimes they need to smell your hands, your shoes, between your legs. Sometimes they just throw themselves full tilt, all of them at all of you - like the Lindberghs' dogs. They were what we saw first, a happy blur along the fencing as our social worker, Mrs. O'Rourke, slowed the car and stopped in front of a whitewashed wooden gate. Teresa got out to open it, her sneakers sending dust. With one hand on the metal latch, she pointed to a sign that hung from the center of the gate and spelled out, in blocky white letters, LINDBERGH ACRES. She grinned, flashing her chipped front tooth, and ran back to the car. "They named it," she said, crawling in beside me. "Just like Big Valley."
The brown ranch house squatted on a low hill. Dry grass stretched to every side and looked, from the car, like giant slices of toast. How different it all was from the Spinozas' boxy row house in central Fresno; the Clapps' well-groomed lawn and portico with a blinding-white Cadillac; the Fredricksons' Palo Verde tract home. The driveway here wasn't concrete but dirt, with deep potholes and stones. To the left stood a large pasture where several horses lumbered behind an electric fence. Horses! To the right, fields and fields, mushrooming fig trees.
The Lindberghs' house was ringed by an oval of split-rail fencing and a lawn that looked determinedly untamed: crisp brown around the edges with crabgrass and clover erupting every few feet like acne. It was late afternoon, and the family had come out onto the lawn to greet us. Bub and Hilde both wore new dark-blue jeans, cowboy boots and dress-plaid Western shirts with pearly snap buttons. Their seven-year-old daughter, Tina, did an anxious series of little hops forward and back, looking, with her cap of straw-colored hair, her yellow shorts set and bare feet, like a round yellow bird. She was getting sisters. We had been promised to her, and here we were.
If there's anything odder than being introduced to your new family of complete strangers, I don't know what that might be. The social worker sticks around for a while, trying to break the ice, but when she leaves, it's just you and your questions, popping like flashbulbs, and these people who will sit you down and feed you dinner and show you to your room. In that way it's like a hotel because nothing belongs to you. It's all being lent, like library books: the bed, the toothbrush, the bathwater, the night-light under the medicine cabinet that will help you recognize your own face at 2 A.M. when you get up to pee.
As I stood on the Lindberghs' lawn next to my sisters, it occurred to me - for the first time - that the families who took us in were being introduced to absolute strangers too. The big dogs danced and squirmed, gleeful with new smells, but Bub and Hilde held as tight and still as a pair of garden gnomes. They didn't know what would happen; they didn't know the first thing about my sisters or me - what we'd say or do, if we'd stay for a month or a year or three. And us, we'd seen the backseat of Mrs. O'Rourke's car too many times, our clothes in garbage bags on the floorboard. If we felt any hope that this new situation would be different, then it was the stowaway version, small and pinching as pea gravel in a shoe. Bub and Hilde seemed nice enough, but didn't everybody at first?
Mrs. O'Rourke's car wambled down the drive, tires falling into every third pothole. We watched until she was out of sight and then watched the empty road. Finally, there was nothing to do but turn toward the Lindberghs. We stood, the three of them and the three of us, on the grass dry as cereal, and the noises all around - the snuffling dogs and the buzz of the air conditioner and the sprinkler pelting a row of yellow roses - seemed to be saying, Now what? Now what? Now.
THE LINDBERGHS LIVED WAY out of town in Ashland, California, which is right next-door to Fresno in the San Joaquin Valley. You've probably heard of Fresno, it being one of the likeliest places to get shot in the head in a dark alley and also the raisin capital of the world. Penny and Teresa were born in Spokane, Washington, where our mother is from and where she went for help when our father ran off and left her midpregnancy, as was his habit. With my birth, she didn't have to go to Spokane because her mother came to her, and so I was the one delivered in a Fresno vineyard - or rather in a hospital wedged between vineyards. The place was tiny, and since no rooms were available when my mother's time came, she labored in a hallway next to the washer and dryer, panting and contracting while a load of sheets twisted and filled with sudsy, grayish water, shutting her eyes against nausea when her mother offered her quaking cubes of strawberry Jell-O. This was in October, past the drying season, but I'll bet the air around the vineyards still hung with the sickly sweet smell of grape funerals. It's all the juice that does it, sugar collapsing on itself as the grapes shrivel into shrunken little heads. It stays and stays, that smell. You keep thinking you can blink it away or swallow it down, but you can't.
I was eight years old the day our social worker brought us to the Lindberghs'; Penny was eight too, being only eleven months my junior, and Teresa was ten. It was late September 1974, and still quite hot. Mrs. O'Rourke's yellow station wagon didn't have air-conditioning, so the windows were down, funneling a furnace-blast of air through the front and out the back. We drove and drove. I looked out my window, Teresa looked out hers, and Penny sat in the middle, her feet on the hump, hugging the Barbie camper she'd just gotten as a birthday present from the Fredricksons, our last set of parents. Penny stroked the pink-decal striping as if it were puppy fur, her head bowed so that her red-brown hair fell forward. The cut was so severe it looked to be all bangs, the first tier falling to right above her gray eyes, the second touching her shoulders. With the way she was sitting, balled up like a hedgehog, I couldn't see her small, square face with its dusting of rust-colored freckles.
"All right," Teresa said, turning to me, "I've thought about this, and what I think is you should be the one to share a room with the new girl. You're the friendliest. You'll make the best impression." Penny looked up from her camper long enough to give her approval, and it was done. Frankly, I felt like a sacrifice, but what was I to say? No, I'm not friendly? I'm a real pill? Besides, as the oldest, Teresa always decided official business. Penny's and my job was to nod.
"Okay," I said, and went back to my window, to the Jekyll-and-Hyde landscape whooshing by: dry ditches and lush, leafy almond orchards; ravaged, abandoned lots and crops of soybeans greener than green.
OUR FIRST DINNER WITH the Lindbergh family was spaghetti. A big cauldron sat in the middle of the table, and we fished from it, eating with noisy slurps, tomato sauce everywhere. They were good eaters, the Lindberghs, with pie-plate faces, fingers like Vienna sausages, shoulders biscuity and broad and stooped. I watched Tina wield her fork as if it were a spear, stabbing a single fat bean like a javelina. She was hungry. They were all so very hungry.
"You're nothing but twigs," Bub said, pushing the plate of Wonder bread at us, the green beans, the gallon jug of milk. "Didn't anyone ever feed you girls?"
We were on the twiggy side, it's true, all elbows and shoulder blades with collarbones like miniature reservoirs. Penny and I both weighed fifty-six pounds, but since she was half-a-head shorter, she looked stockier and more square. She had always been the physical blip, the one-of-these-things-is-not-like-the-other sister. Her auburn hair was stick straight and fine; mine and Teresa's was unruly with thick dark curls. Her eyes were a watery gray; ours were brown. Her ears were small and close to her head; ours stuck out like jug handles, like car doors, like the Baby New Year's when he took off his big black hat. Although Teresa had chipped her right front tooth when she was seven, when she had her mouth closed we looked enough alike that we could make Penny feel positively alien and did, telling her she came from a goose egg, a spaceship, the moon. She'd stutter (which she did whenever she was nervous), sputter and deny it, her top lip pooching out like a nursing blister, the opposite of a pout, and we'd feel bad enough to stop for a while. Truth be told, she was probably the cutest of the lot, but why would we tell her that?
After dinner, we piled into the Lindberghs' beat-up blue truck. Following Tina's lead, we jumped in back and scooted to the front of the bed to sit in a row, backs pressed against the cab. It was still fully light and warm, evening coming on slow and soft. The whir of the road under the truck made it too loud to talk, but it was nice just being there, watching our new neighborhood rush by, streaky and smeared. Tina sat next to me, her coarse blond hair blowing crazily, her plump legs straight out, scuffy tennis shoes pointed in at each other. She was sockless and had a scab the size of a pencil eraser on her left anklebone, ridged and scaly, ripe. Maybe she was the kind of kid who didn't pick scabs. Who knew? She was uncharted territory, this new sister, her own frontier.
Our destination was a huge furniture warehouse out by Highway 99. We were after bunk beds and got to help pick them out, climbing up and down the ladders of showroom models, bouncing a little on the mattresses like people in commercials. When we got back to the Lindberghs', everyone changed into pajamas and brushed teeth; then Bub called us all into the living room. I thought there was going to be a family prayer but then noticed he had set up a reel-to-reel recorder on the floor. He had us sit Indian-style in a circle while he fussed with the machine. "Testing, testing." The microphone looked as small and silver as a sardine in Bub's sun-toughened hand. He tapped the talking end several times, blew into it and then, when satisfied, began to play radio commentator, going around the circle, asking each of us our names and how old we were, and one thing we were happy about. In that way, it was a little like Thanksgiving. He started with Penny, and although she stared into her slippers, she said her name and age without stuttering a bit, then briefly described the wonders of her Barbie camper - the miniature Styrofoam ice chest, the lantern no bigger than a jelly bean.
I rubbed a section of my hair back and forth across my lips, my oldest habit. I was trying to think of the perfect thing to say, but when the mike came around to me, there was nothing but air in my mouth.
"Hey, have you forgotten who you are?" Bub teased.
I dropped my hands and flushed. "No. I'm Paula." My name came out with a dry croak, and I had to repeat it: "I'm Paula and I'm eight and I'm happy for ... for. I'm just happy, I guess." I reached for my hair again and looked through my crossed legs at the carpet, a medium shag with blue-and-brown twists.
"Well, that's all right," Bub said. "That's a start."
When he got to Tina, she flung one plump arm around Teresa's neck, nearly knocking her over in the process. "I'm Tina Marie Lindbergh, and this is my new bestest buddy!"
Teresa grinned and nodded yes, yes, yes, her curls shaking excitedly. Pinned against Tina, she looked much younger than usual and completely uncomposed. Joyful.
Now wait just a minute, I thought, I am Tina's roommate. I am the friendliest, so why is Teresa suddenly the bestest buddy? And what is a bestest buddy anyhow?
Once the opening ceremonies had ended, we headed down the hall to bed. Tina's room was pretty and more feminine than I would have guessed, with pink walls, purple-flowered curtains and an industrial-size night-light with an eyelet shade and purple bulb. It wasn't at all dark in there, but I imagined that was the point. I watched Tina climb the wooden ladder to the top bunk and settled myself on the bottom. We lay there in silence for several minutes. Shouldn't we say something? I thought. Even if it's just good night? Then, quite spontaneously, I hopped out of bed and stood on the ladder to face her. "Here," I said, holding out my floppy beanbag toad. "This is Froggy. He's good to sleep with."
She thanked me and smiled sleepily, and I was glad I had done it for all of about five minutes, until I heard her fall into a deep, diesel-like breathing and realized I wasn't going to be able to sleep myself. Not only was the mattress new and crinkly, but the outside noises were all wrong. Instead of cars and sirens, there were crickets; a dog padding across the patio, shaking his collar; horses feeding with sharp tugs of grass that sounded like something perforated coming apart. Why had I given Froggy to Tina? She probably didn't even want him. The beans wouldn't stay in his left leg, and his bubble eyes had been rubbed clean of the black eyeball paint. He was a stupid toy. Stupid. I covered my face with my pillow and breathed in and out, in and out, then surfaced again. Deep, purple shadows fell over the horse posters thumbtacked to the wall and over the shelves with plastic horse figurines in different sizes, some with saddles and reins that looked to be real leather. Tina was lucky to have such nice things. It occurred to me that since I was there borrowing her room, her closet, half of the dresser pasted with Super Friends stickers, the nightstand and water glass, even her parents, sleeping right across the hall and snoring like a cave of bears, maybe I could borrow a little luck too. A thimbleful, a knuckle's worth, a smidge.
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This review is from: Acer Iconia Tab W Series W510-1837 Intel Atom 2 GB Memory 64 GB 10.1" Touchscreen Tablet Windows 8
I like the 2/1 feature.
The specifications (both those shown by Newegg and Acer's instruction sheet) fail to mention that there is a USB port on the keyboard's right docking hinge. It can be seen in the Newegg photo. Not knowing this, I spent $65 bucks extra to get a micro USB flash drive for more data storage. I don't need it, my plain old USB flash drives work just fine.
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I do not like Windows 8! I looked at other notebooks that still utilized Windows 7 and now wish I had bought one of those.
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Domino's Amateur App Let Hackers Order Unlimited Free Pizza
The company says the issue "was resolved very quickly."By Clint Rainey
The company says the issue "was resolved very quickly."By Clint Rainey
This means you can order a Frappuccino through your watch, if you so desire.By Clint Rainey
Here's another password you're going to want to update.By Clint Rainey
Postmates is the official partner.By Clint Rainey
Seattle's getting its own delivery service, too.By Clint Rainey
Chief executive Howard Schultz says customers will be able to order lattes through the chain's app.By Clint Rainey
It won't be long before the Starbucks app knows everything about you, but at least your drink will be hot when you get these.By Clint Rainey
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How much of the forum diet advice is really just "junk"?
Some of it is so rigid as extreme that it seems unrealistic and miserable.
How much of the forum diet advice is really just "junk"?
Some of it is so rigid as extreme that it seems unrealistic and miserable.
I think for the most part what you are seeing is that different people have found different things that work for them. Some people are by nature highly dogmatic and want to convince others to do things their way and only their way. I think you will need to take all advice with a grain of salt and see what works for you.
"Unrealistic" is a very subjective term. If you mean that constant cheating is good for the soul, you're on your own.
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The forum has helped me to learn a lot over the years however, you can make yourself crazy trying to decipher all of the different approaches. Start with the basics and see how your body responds, adjust accordingly to optimize your results.
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It's only "junk" advice if it doesn't work for you. If someone suggests bumping your carbs up to 300g a day and it works out well for you, then it's sound advice. If it makes you worse off, then it's bad advice. Customize your diet and apply suggestions that work best for you. You don't have to abide by another's arbitrary rules to get similar or equal results. If something is not working, make changes until you find your formula. Chances are it's not going to be exactly like someone else's. There is no universal right and wrong in diet; if you find someone's protocol too rigid, chances are it won't work for you if it makes you feel bad physically or mentally.
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The advice on this forum is just like the advice in real life - it's a source of ideas and nothing more. If it sounds logical or interesting, you can try it. Everyone is different, so it might work and it might not.
It's your responsibility to sort through the good stuff and the crap.
If you can get past the dogmatic attitudes a lot of people have and just learn to take information with a grain of salt, even forum advice has its place sometimes and can be useful.
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The IF stuff, omega 3s (salmon, fish oil etc), green vegetables (Big A$$ salad), liberal use of oils (fats like olive oil OK but sugar bad), and PUFAs like nuts all total garbage. Most women aren't going to look good from lifting heavy objects; you'll just bulk up. The walking is some of the best advice that no one discusses because it's too boring.
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- fat4g
- saturates1g
- carbs2g
- sugars2g
- fibre1g
- protein34g
- salt0.41g
- 4 skinless chicken breasts
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Heat oven to 200C/fan 180C/gas 6. Put the chicken into a medium roasting tray, then rub with the harissa, oil and oregano.
Cover with foil and roast for 5 mins, then remove the foil and add the cherry tomatoes and olives to the tray. Roast for 10 mins more until the tomato skins start to split and the chicken is cooked through. Serve with boiled new potatoes
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I thought this was really nice, I have never used Harissa Paste before, although I did add more than suggested. I served it with some roasted peppers, red onion, mushrooms, courgette, cherry tomatoes and black olives, basically everything I had in my fridge, oh and nor forgetting some potato wedges. A lovely crisp white wine along side it was even better. Would definately do again.
Tried this recipe tonight with couscous and it was delicious - I usually chargrill chicken but this method left it surprisingly moist, though the chicken needed a bit longer than 15 mins (20-25). I substituted olives for sweet red peppers and added a little more harissa than suggested. A definite keeper of a recipe.
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Divers encounter great white shark off the coast of Fort Pierce | Video
FORT PIERCE ? Forget needing a bigger boat. For one area diver, it was more important to think and move quickly.
The rash of great white shark encounters in the Pacific Ocean has reached the Atlantic Ocean off the Treasure Coast. Over the weekend, a group of four free divers competing in the Fort Pierce Open spearfishing tournament had a rare close encounter of their own with a great white shark ? perhaps the sea's most feared predator.
At 6:30 a.m. Saturday, Steve Maldonado, 32, of Palm Bay, and three of his friends aboard his boat, Boaty Call, were about to enter the water some 15 miles northeast of Fort Pierce Inlet in 130 feet of water.
Maldonado said diver Eros Morales, of Palm Bay, jumped in first and began untangling the float he attaches to his speargun. Suddenly, Maldonado noticed Morales was swimming backward to the boat while he had his speargun pointed back toward something he was swimming away from.
"Eros is screaming, 'There's a big (expletive) shark!'" Maldonado said. "I could see behind him coming at him was about 6 inches of the top of the dorsal fin sticking out of the water and a big shadow underneath. "
"I called it a great white, but probably prematurely, while another guy said it was a tiger shark," he said. "When Eros got in the boat, it swam close and we could see it looked a lot like a great white."
Morales, 31, was surprised when he first realized a shark was eyeballing him. He stayed pretty calm anyway, but estimated it was only about 30 feet away from him and it began to turn and swim toward him.
"The water was very clear, and I could easily see it was a big shark, but I wasn't too concerned with trying to identify it," he said. "I just focused on the task at hand ? kick toward the boat and keep the gun pointed at the shark."
Jeremy Reed was cutting sardines and tossing them overboard as chum, but had only tossed over a few cuttings when the shark arrived.
Maldonado noticed the large shark would not leave. They then tossed in a large chunk of snapper carcass from a catch last week to keep the shark close to the boat. That gave him the opportunity to get his GoPro video camera on a pole to video the shark as it swam close.
They estimated the toothy critter to be about 12 to 14 feet in length.
Great white sharks are considered very rare in Florida waters, but there have been occasional sightings and catches numbering about one to two per year between Miami and Cape Canaveral. They are more common off the New England states and in southern Canada's offshore waters where they feed on seals and sea lions.
Last year in late June, a Sebastian commercial spearfishing diver shooting amberjacks in 170 feet of water observed one and captured it on video with a GoPro camera.
"That shark seemed as scared of the diver as he was of it, and it left right away," said Maldonado, who saw the other video. "Our shark was determined to hang around. What I read about sharks after watching our video is it seemed to have its fins pointed down, like in an aggressive manner. He didn't eat the snapper carcass.
"I think he wanted to try some mammal that day."
Capt. Tris Colket, skipper of the charter fishing boat Last Mango out of Fort Pierce City Marina, was a former commercial shark fisherman off Daytona Beach from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. Colket said he caught a few great whites in the waters of the Gulf Stream.
He has a photo of his first great white catch, a 9-foot, 3-inch white shark that came on monofilament bottom longline fishing gear in about 80 feet of water on March 25, 1985. He said his peers discounted that it was a great white, but Vero Beach marine biologist Grant Gilmore, then of Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, verified the species as an immature female great white shark weighing 450 pounds.
Colket landed two more after that before he switched from commercial fishing to charter fishing in 1995.
In Florida, great white sharks are among 22 species of sharks that are prohibited from harvest in state waters. They are also protected from harvest in U.S. federal waters of the Atlantic.
Gilmore has said that great whites typically feed on fish and mammal species not found in subtropical waters of the globe. However, they could use the Gulf Stream and other currents as a way to travel large distances while in pursuit of food.
Maldonado posted video and screen capture of his encounter on Spearboard.com in the Eastern Florida section of the forum and on his Facebook page. He said the appearance of the shark greatly affected his team's ability to compete Saturday.
"The rest of the day, we ended up diving in water much shallower than we planned and we really weren't focused on spearing, but instead on what was coming up around us," he said.
Maldonado said that as spearfishermen, they are used to wrestling their catches away from hungry bull sharks and other sharks, but that the great white really rattled them.
Despite the scary encounter, Morales and Maldonado expect to be back in the water this weekend for more spearfishing and next week for the state's two-day lobster mini-season Wednesday and Thursday.
The Fort Pierce encounter is generating a buzz on social media sites along with video of a kayaker being trailed but not attacked by a great white off Massachusetts from July 7, news from Saturday of Australia's fifth shark fatality in 10 months and the video of two Australian spearfishermen who were separated from their boat by a great white, but were not attacked.
Scientific name: Carcharodon carcharias
Distribution: Off the Atlantic coast of the United States white sharks are found from Newfoundland, Canada, to Florida and rarely in the Gulf of Mexico. Off the Pacific coast white sharks are found off the Hawaiian Islands in the central Pacific (relatively rare) and from southeast Alaska to California (rare in Alaskan and Canadian waters) in the eastern Pacific.
Habitat: This species can be found in coastal waters, along the continental shelf and islands (especially near seal or sea lion colonies), and offshore in the open ocean.
Life History: Female white sharks are believed to mature when they are about 13-14 feet and the smallest known free-swimming white shark measured approximately 4 feet. White sharks can reach sizes up to about 21 feet in length.
Management: In the Atlantic, white sharks are a prohibited species and if a white shark is caught, it must released with a minimum amount of injury and without taking the animal out of the water. In the Pacific, California state regulations prohibit the taking of white sharks. Finning is prohibited.
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