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Original post made by Disappointed Resident, Menlo Park: Downtown, on Dec 20, 2006
At last week's council meeting, the new mayor found time to allow her friend Gail Slocum to make a 20 minute non-agendized presentation of a global warming ordinance and then tried to cut off discussion regarding the reconsideration of three development projects before the council on the basis that it was after 11pm.
This week she managed to avoid any public discussion of the Utility Users Tax that she championed, instead giving staff a blank check to implement the new tax at the maximum rate as quickly as possible. After council members pontificated about the need to reform decision making, the council chose not to ask the staff ANY questions about a three page memo summarizing the implementation of what is probably the biggest new local tax in Menlo Park history.
When Councilmember Boyle suggested that perhaps the matter should be agendized to allow some public discussion about exactly how much money is needed and how it will be used prior to setting the tax rate, Vice Mayor Cohen replied, "The tax measure won by a narrow margin, you won by a narrow margin, I don't think that it is appropriate for you to bring this up."
You might think that after 49.5% of the community voted against the tax and (according to the Almanac) a majority of neighborhoods opposed it, that the new kinder, gentler, majority, would at least give the other half of the community an opportunity to express their concerns about the tax before rushing it through.
I guess some things never change.
a resident of Menlo Park: Belle Haven
on Dec 20, 2006 at 9:13 am
This new council has gotten off to a very shaky start, and will have to get its act together pretty quickly if it wants to have any hope of tackling the huge issues that face this city. Looks to me as though they're waiting for a few developers to come in and tell them what to do. Any takers?
a resident of Menlo Park: The Willows
on Dec 20, 2006 at 8:53 pm
Count me among those who still think that in democracies, majorities rule, and that the utility tax won, having been approved by a majority of voters in a certified election.
Its unfortunate that "disappointed resident" missed the irony of Cohen's point: John Boyle won his council seat over Vince Bressler winning with as small a margin as that won by the utility tax. Is either Boyle or "disappointed resident" open to the position that Boyle should share his council seat with Bressler who got nearly as many votes? Did Boyle advocate a public discussion about hearing why Bressler voters should see Bressler seated instead of Boyle.
Why is it that the extremely close vote which seated Boyle is authoritative but the extremely close vote that gave the victory to the utility tax should be open to further negotation beyond the vote of the people other than that neither Boyle nor "disappointed resident" respect votes of the people when they don't produce the desired outcomes.
It is this blatant kind of intellectual dishonesty and utter disregard for the clear, sanctity of democratic processes that got the prior council un-elected. Boyle continues to show open disregard for the thousands who vote for items, and so does "disappointed resident."
Thank God this council is doing the voters will. That is what democracy is about.
a resident of Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park
on Dec 20, 2006 at 10:17 pm
The Utility Tax approval set a maximum rate that could be levied. I believe that Mr. Boyle was only asking that there be some public inpput and discussion to determine if the maximum rate was truly neccesary.
a resident of Menlo Park: University Heights
on Dec 21, 2006 at 7:05 am
As a supporter of the Robinson/Cline/Bressler ticket, I've got to say I'm very concerned about the council's decision not to have a public hearing on the tax rate. I thought this "new and improved" council had made a commitment to allowing the public in on the process. Also, the voters OK'd a tax rate UP TO the specified amount, and I for one believed that the council intended to have a discussion with the public before setting the actual rate.
And I truly hope that Disappointed Resident misquoted Andy Cohen in the initial posting. If he really said that, shame on him.
a resident of Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park
on Dec 21, 2006 at 8:19 am
It is rather unfortunate that we still need to put up with Mr. Cohen's argumentum ad hominem in the council dealings now that he is in the "majority". His ego must be quite huge to think that we all want to hear his pompous posturings on each and every issue.
a resident of Menlo Park: Downtown
on Dec 21, 2006 at 9:18 am
I don't see a council majority at all, rather a range of perspective among the council members with Andy Cohen as most pro-resident and John Boyle as pro-developer/pro-wealthy. The other three seem to spend a lot of time waffling and trying to be all things to all people.
The result is that much of what you see in the council chambers on Tuesday nights seems to be driven by whatever admonitions the city attorney and city manager have administered in closed sessions prior to the meetings. That was particularly obvious during the regular business segment of last Tuesday's meeting, when a thoroughly cowed council repeatedly deferred to McClure. If McClure offered a more consistent interpretation of the prevailing laws (some of which he seems to concoct on the spot), he might be credible; as it is, you have to wonder whose interests he truly serves.
I hope to see this council develop some backbone and integrity. I am not confident that will happen, but unless it does, we will continue to experience the kind of distress expressed by the original poster.
a resident of Menlo Park: The Willows
on Dec 21, 2006 at 9:30 am
Agree that Cohen needs to tone it down.
Disagree with tax opponents who no longer wish to honor certified election outcomes with all sorts of mental gimmicks about how their personal interpretations and expectations are valid and binding on legitimate democratic processes.
Measure T also specified collection UP TO a particular max rate, that is the way ballot measures are frequently worded, but none of the 30% who disagreed insisted on a public debate to set the rate. But it sounds more reasonable than, "Let's nullify the vote."
Disagree that Boyle and others on this forum "just" want a dialogue using all those reasonable sounding words. Truth is you oppose the tax and would nullify the vote (but not Boyle' election) at your convenience. The majority becomes "tyrannical" only when it disagrees with the outcome some want, but no doubt reflects the true will of the same people when they get the outcome they want.
That transparent disrespect for the public will and blatant authoritarianism is what brought down Duboc and Winkler, who smugly disobeyed thousands upon thousands of Measure T voters and referendum signers.
The valid public process that began with placing a tax measure on the ballot, setting the max rate, limiting business, etc ENDED when the public approved the measure.
Honor the vote. Stop whining. Show some mental strength. Stop using your lack of integrity for public processes as a gripe against a council that obeyed the public will.
If you want a reduced tax rate, begin a valid public process that builds public consensus to do that, and win at the ballot box. Then we'll see how you feel about those whose wish to nullify your result.
a resident of Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park
on Dec 21, 2006 at 1:04 pm
A clear demonstration of the concept and not understnding the concept all in one response. Just glad that we do have a representative democracy and not what was described above. At least there is hope.
a resident of Menlo Park: Sharon Heights
on Dec 21, 2006 at 11:21 pm
While I did not support Boyle-Duboc-Winkler, I gotta agree with Boyle regarding the utility tax. It most certainly DOES matter that it barely squeaked by (remember it was pronounced defeated at first and didn't even get 51% of the vote, despite no organized opposition to it and $10K reportedly being spent to get it passed) and the wording DID say it was a maximum rate.
Plus there is the little matter of crying wolf about a $2.9 million budget crisis and then - lo and behold - it magically turned into a surplus at the last minute. Let's face it - if the news about that budget surplus had come out just a little earlier, no way would this tax had passed.
So, no, I'm VERY unhappy with how this new council is acting. Boyle is right - you need to get the budget numbers straight FIRST, then enact the tax at a reasonable rate to make things work.
Unfortunately, it probably means that they're going to use that $$ for new pet projects or it'll just end up going into our enormous reserve fund.
a resident of Menlo Park: Sharon Heights
on Dec 22, 2006 at 12:03 am
Two more general points regarding the new council:
- So much has been made of the pro-development/anti-growth split, but there is also the "tax-and-spend" side (Fergusson and Cohen) versus the fiscal conservative side (Boyle). So the question is: Will Robinson and Cline be swing votes on such matters or will they become "tax-and-spenders" themselves?
- I can certainly understand Fergusson and Cohen being rather short in their dealings initially - after repeatedly being "poked in the eye" by Jellins-Duboc-Winkler for 2 straight years, I'd certainly be inclined to "poke back" myself once I got in charge. However, once the "residual issues" from the old council are resolved, they'll need to live up to higher standards lest they end up with the same fate as Duboc, Winkler, and Jellins. It's unfortunate that we have this silly "pass-the-baton" policy on mayor - this is certainly a time that cries out for fresh, brand new leadership and I personally think that the top vote-getter Mr. Robinson would make the best mayor (sorry Kelly).
a resident of Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park
on Dec 22, 2006 at 9:30 am
I figure it time there was some communication directly from council on matters of debate. I am willing to discuss my mindset on the tax issue with anyone. I don't expect agreement -- but I do want you to understand my position since I ultimately report to you all.
The tax rate we voted on this past Tuesday will be implemented in April or May at the earliest, which leaves two months at best for a sample study for council to evaluate. After that, we will know marginally how much revenue this tax will produce monthly. More importantly, we will have an idea as to what our projected 2007/2008 numbers will be and we can use both reports when discussing the tax rate for the fiscal year starting July 1, 2007.
I wanted to get this in motion as fast as possible to try to get at least a moderate data point for council and community to consider when deciding upon the tax rate for FY 2007-2008.
I wanted to expedite a two-month trial and felt if we delayed into January 2007 the decision -- or longer -- it might mean pushing out our sample timeline further resulting in less data to work with as we plan for the next fiscal year.
I don't believe the city will become "addicted" to a tax rate after two months. I do believe that because of the way this tax measure was drawn up we have full control to redefine it, throttle in up or down, with your input for the next fiscal year.
I also don't prescribe to generalities like "tax and spenders" and "conservatives"...in my experience the best decisions are based on the data in hand, the current economic climate and a variety of external factors -- not on ideology.
Again, I do not expect full agreement. The process -- late in council meeting after most everyone tuned out -- was less than perfect. And I agree that this new council has yet to find its pace.
But I also don't want the only form of communication around decisions to be council meetings and newspaper articles.
Feel free to contact me directly if you want to talk more about this.
I appreciate the criticism and advice.
a resident of Menlo Park: Allied Arts/Stanford Park
on Dec 22, 2006 at 2:19 pm
No one else seems to be interested in WHY some of us supported Measure K. My household of voters did so because we hope these funds will be used short term to INVEST in sorely needed planning. At the same time, we are hopeful the new Council will dig into the budget numbers so they and the public will know what the fiscal situation really is. Campaign posturing muddled more than necessary the unseemingly elusive truth.
We also hope that the investment in planning and budget analysis (operating and capital)will lead the city into a more sound financial footing so that in the near future the UUT is not necessary.
It would have been "nice" for more in depth discussion last Tuesday but there's still time before final decisions get made, it seems. I'm glad the UUT is moving forward and deeply hope the CC has a good discussion with the public about how it is to be used, in the context of good information about the current and projected financial situation. A re-constituted Budget Advisory Committee could help.
a resident of Menlo Park: Downtown
on Dec 22, 2006 at 10:40 pm
I wish the funds were going be used for investment or for paying down our existing employee benefit obligations.
My concern is that a deal is being cut behind closed doors with the SEIU and that we are going to come back in January to learn that (in closed session) the new council has just approved a big pay and benefit increase that consumes most of the new tax revenues. Once those benefits are granted, we will not be able to afford to lower the rate.
Let's remember that the union was one of the biggest supporters of the measure K campaign and spent tens of thousands getting Council members Robinson and Cline elected.
a resident of Menlo Park: Downtown
on Dec 22, 2006 at 11:13 pm
ProDemocracy - I am afraid that you are the one who is completely missing the point.
Of course the new majority can do whatever they want. You are correct that a 50.5% majority gives them the right to implement the full tax. Just like the old 3-2 majority could ignore the opponents of their policies on the basis that they were our representative leaders doing what they thought was best.
I was just hoping for a little better.
I was hoping that if HALF of the citizens in town said they were against something, the coucil would at least take as much time as they spent listening to Gail Slocum's global warming proposal to hear why over 5000 citizens voted against the tax.
I was hoping that after all of the talk about being a more responsible council, they would have spent at least as much time questioning staff on the implementation details of a >$2.5M tax measure as Mayor Fergusson spent questioning staff about whether the city could require developers to install more "family friendly" toilets.
Perhaps I thought that they would at least be politically astute enough not to completely snub 49.5% of the electorate on such a major issue.
a resident of Menlo Park: Belle Haven
on Dec 23, 2006 at 9:48 am
...this is not an issue that should have been addressed at 1 a.m. The UUT that was discussed by the residents in the Let's Pretend We're Listening to You charade earlier this year was much lower than the UUT that (narrowly) passed.
Given that there appears to be no emergency, as the deficit magically disappeared during the campaign period, most of us would have preferred a little more attention paid this new tax. I don't care if it won by 6, 60, or 600 votes, it needed more discussion.
I appreciate Rich's candor, and suspect we can attribute the blame for this faux pas to our mayor, who was the force behind the passage of K.
a resident of Menlo Park: Allied Arts/Stanford Park
on Dec 23, 2006 at 7:55 pm
The UUT tax passed - barely. These are facts. There is now a surplus. Also a fact. I am pretty sure that the tax would have failed had the voters known about the surplus in advance.
I think the Council should set the rate to get the money they need to fund the budget. If they set the rate at the maximum then that will hurt them the next time the City needs to raise money. Credibility in this matter is everything.
a resident of Hillview Middle School
on Jan 1, 2007 at 2:52 pm
The whole thing seems very rushed to me and inconsistant with the new open and participative spirit that the new council keeps talking about.
I see from the tentative city council agenda that the 2006 year-end financials will be reviewed at the next regular city council meeting. Why would the city council rush to set the tax rate prior to hearing how the year went? What difference could a few weeks make?
If the audited financials are going to be released in a couple of weeks, then surely the staff knew the year end results to within a few percent for some time. Why didn't anyone on council ask how much of a deficit we are expected to have before rushing to implement the tax at 1am in the morning.
Without knowing more, it sure sounds like the council majority has some hidden agenda that they are very anxious to push through.
a resident of Menlo Park: Belle Haven
on Jan 3, 2007 at 2:45 pm
I don't think the council has a hidden agenda. My observation is that they are still figuring out the basics, like how to nap with their eyes open during late meetings. As a result, they are accepting way too much "guidance" from Mssrs McClure and Boesch, who may well have a hidden agenda. I'm guessing our city manager is the guy who wanted to tax to the max.
a resident of Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park
on Jan 3, 2007 at 6:00 pm
I reluctantly voted for the utility users' tax because I didn't want to see cutbacks to the police force or city staff (although I'd be in favor of a few key staffers being replaced by more competent people).
I'm still irked by the ridiculously low cap on businesses, because it shifts the burden of supporting the city onto residents, including Menlo Park's low-income (yes, they do exist!) residents.
However, the reason I and many of my fellow renters shell out to live in Menlo Park is because it is a great place to raise a family -- wonderful parks, great recreation programs, lovely library, responsive police, access to childcare, great public schools, etc.
Since everything on that list except public schools will be helped by the utility tax, I sucked it up and voted yes. I suspect I'm not alone in making that tough decision.
However, I'd have much rather seen a two-month trial of the tax at, say, HALF the maximum rate, if all the council really wants to do is measure how much money the tax could generate.
a resident of Menlo Park: Downtown
on Jan 5, 2007 at 1:10 am
The lack of public input or council oversight on this issue cannot be blamed on the city manager or the city attorney. While Council members Robinson and Cline may be new to politics, the Mayor has served on the council for two years and knows how to ask questions of the staff. She works with the city manager to set the agenda for council meetings. She has to take responsibility for making this a minor footnote on the agenda rather than a major discussion item. She led the campaign for this tax measure and should be acutely aware of how divided the community is on the issue. Furthermore, aside from the rate, there are a myriad of details about this multi-million dollar tax program that should have been reviewed by the council prior to implementation.
a resident of Menlo Park: Downtown
on Jan 5, 2007 at 10:19 am
You're right, DR. Our honorable mayor was way too heavily invested in the passage of this measure, and I'm not sure even she knows why.
Still, it will be interesting to see how everyone functions with Boesch out of the picture.
a resident of Menlo Park: Downtown
on Jan 6, 2007 at 9:17 am
I still an very interested in actually how they will collect this tax? Does the town simply ask the service providers to levy the tax, and then get it? Who gets a cut of it?
a resident of Menlo Park: Sharon Heights
on Jan 6, 2007 at 11:49 pm
Yes Disappointed Reader, our new Mayor was the lead on the tax push, so they're no way she's going to let it be debated if she can help it. This points up a fatal flaw with the system here in MP - the position of mayor is called ceremonial when it's really not at all. The Mayor wields real power - controlling the agenda and council meetings. You saw Jellins do it adroitly and now Kelly is, starting with letting Gail Slocum talk ad nausea about global warming when they have much more pressing local issues like the Derry Project that they should be addressing. Perhaps it's time to have an elected mayor, so at least when we complain, we'll have no one to blame but ourselves, having voted in the mayor!
a resident of Menlo Park: Linfield Oaks
on Jan 8, 2007 at 9:57 am
You call that adroit?
I think "ham-fisted" is more accurate.
a resident of Menlo Park: Sharon Heights
on Jan 8, 2007 at 10:28 pm
OK, let's settle on "effectively" - bottom-line, they got the 3-2 votes on everything they (i.e., Mickie Winkler) put forth (including installing da Mayor in the first place) and, by taking no action, the new council has let them get away with it.
a resident of Menlo Park: Downtown
on Jan 10, 2007 at 10:32 pm
Well, now the reason for the late night passage of the UUT tax rate is clear.
At last evenings council meeting the city finance director reported that the city had a $3.7 million dollar SURPLUS in 2006.
Would anyone have voted for the tax if we knew about the surplus or the fact that the General Fund reserve has grown to its highest level in the last 10 years.
And why is the Almanac silent on this shocking announcement. Apparently copies of the audited financial report were made available LAST thursday.
Almanac staff writer
on Jan 11, 2007 at 12:27 am
Rory Brown is a registered user.
Disappointed Resident,
On paper, it may look like the city had a $3.7 million surplus for the 05-06 fiscal year, but that's not exactly the case. That "surplus" doesn't account for the $2 million withdrawn from the city's general reserve for capital improvements (street, sidewalk, park repairs, etc.). Once that $2 million is subtracted from the $3.7 million, the city is left with $1.7 million more than projected, and that surplus (which is largely due to savings associated with staff vacancies) was revealed in October.
The $3.7 million number may seem striking, but when looked at more closely, there's nothing to it that hasn't already been spelled out. It took me a while to figure that out.
a resident of Menlo Park: Sharon Heights
on Jan 11, 2007 at 10:29 am
Whether it is $3.7 or $1.7 million is not the point. We were told that the city was facing massive deficits which was then used as justification to cut city staff and services, reduce program budgets, raise user fees, privatize the pool and attempt to privatize child care.
But even that wasn't enough, supposedly, so the UUT was put up. And in the end we end up with at least $1.7 million SURPLUS AND a record-breaking reserve fund BEFORE the UUT kicks in. Sorry, but that doesn't cut it. The Almanac SHOULD come out and hammer the council on this. The UUT should be taken off the table for at least one year, until we actually have recorded a REAL deficit, not just another projected deficit.
And as far as this surplus being revealed in October so it was out in the open, let's get the facts straight: The surplus announcement came in very late October via email posted by our ex-Mayor Jellins in what was clearly a last ditch attempt to try to get his cronies Winkler and Duboc re-elected with an "October surprise." I'm sure many voters were unaware of the "new-found surplus" when they went to vote and given the UUT's razor-thin margin of passage, if the surplus had been revealed even just one week earlier, no way would the UUT have passed. That's why it's so galling that the council has said full steam ahead with the UUT set at the maximum rate without any public discussion at all.
a resident of Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park
on Jan 11, 2007 at 12:18 pm
I'm curious about the "$2 million withdrawn from the city's general reserve for capital improvements (street, sidewalk, park repairs, etc.)"
Is that $2 million coming from the general RESERVE or from the general FUND?
And is this the same $2 million that you wrote about earlier this year that formed the bulk of the $2.9 million deficit that was being projected?
And if it was, do you know if the city is similarly set to raid $2 million from the general reserve/fund again next year for capital improvements? As I recall, the $2 million increase you wrote about was supposed to be a permanent increase.
Thanks for the info!
Almanac staff writer
on Jan 11, 2007 at 6:02 pm
Rory Brown is a registered user.
Another Questioner,
The $2 million earmarked for infrastructure costs is being pulled from the general fund, not the reserve. It's the same $2 million that made up the bulk of the city's projected $2.9 million shortfall during the "your city/your decision" process.
It's up to the council, each year, whether they'll put aside $2 million for infrastructure costs, but during the YC/YD process, that number was projected as an annual expense.
a resident of Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park
on Jan 12, 2007 at 12:26 am
I have to respectfully say that you and the Almanac should take more responsibility to report the budget facts accurately.
First, in your Dec 1, 2006 posting on this website you stated: "This past fiscal year, the council fell $1.85M short of covering city costs, and pulled the money from the city's reserves." In fact, the 2006 Consolidated Annual Financial Report (CAFR) shows that revenues exceeded expenses by $3.7 M - a difference of $5.5M from your statement.
Second, that $3.7M surplus was added to the general fund reserves, bringing the total balance to $35.5M, the highest level in last 10 years (CAFR page 145) and perhaps ever. In fact the total of all fund balances was roughly flat at $91M (CAFR page 3) despite spending $7.7M on capital improvements.
Third, no money from the general fund was used for capital improvements in 2006. All $7.7M in capital improvements were funded either by Measure T bond funds or other dedicated capital funds leaving a balance of $8M in the capital improvement fund going into 2007 (CAFR page 9). The city has proposed to transfer $2M from the general fund into the capital improvement fund in 2007, as was done in 2005 but does not appear to have been done in 2006, 2004, 2003, or 2002 (prior year CAFRs). This reflects an increased level of commitment to infrastructure improvements.
Lastly, while the fiscal 2007 budget may be projecting a deficit of $1.9M (including the $2M transfer), the 2006 trends indicate a more optimistic scenario. Revenues from property taxes, sales taxes, and fees have all increased faster than was projected in the original budget and a number of staff positions remained vacant throughout the first half of the year.
We will know more In early February, when the city is due to delivering it's mid 2007 update.
a resident of Menlo Park: Sharon Heights
on Jan 12, 2007 at 11:10 am
Finance Geek,
In defense of Rory, I think you need a CPA to properly wade through all this accounting "junk" (I would use another, more accurate term, but I don't want to get censored!).
And that seems to precisely have been the problem - our gone-but-not-forgotten council majority in conjunction with our soon-to-be-gone city manager seemed to have "Enron-ed" things all over the place that, like Alice in Wonderland, up is now down and down is now up.
To set things straight - because I think no one in the general public believes ANY number coming out of city hall these days - I would humbly suggest to the city council that they spend a few bucks on an outside firm to come in, look at the numbers and tell us where we really stand as a city, now and in the coming years and whether, quite frankly, a UUT is justified at this time. Public confidence in the budget and budgeting process needs to be restored.
One question for you, Finance Geek: A $35.5 million reserve seems ridiculously too high given that our annual budget is just $30 million. What do you think the reserve level should be?
a resident of Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park
on Jan 12, 2007 at 2:08 pm
Election Watcher, It is true that the numbers take some work to understand. That is why most people rely on what they read in the papers, and why we should hold the Almanac up to a higher standard of reporting accuracy. The bottom line is that the city's financial situation has been improving, and that the dire deficit projections made a couple of years ago did not come true, in part due to an improving economy and in part due to fiscal restraint by the city. Now we are in a situation where we have probably overcorrected by implementing a tax that we do not need unless we are planning to substantially increase spending. Whatever the course, the city council should be asking staff some tough questions about why this information was not released to the voters sooner and encouraging some open debate about what to do now rather than trying to sweep the matter under the rug and rush ahead with the UUT. With respect to the size of the general fund reserve, it depends upon what we are reserving for. If it is simply for "unforeseen circumstances" then it seems very large and could lead to a lack of fiscal discipline. Palo Alto has a similar sized general fund, with about 3x the budget as Menlo Park. On the other hand, Palo Alto has built up a large capital improvement fund to finance their long-term capital improvement plan. In addition to your suggestion about more clarity on the current financial situation, perhaps we need more clarity on a five or ten year vision for the city.


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I am sorry, I have to sound the BS horn. You are the 2nd person in this thread who has made the left tackle claim who was been unable to support it.
Fluker is a right tackle and possibly a guard. Lets not turn him into something he isnt.
If I were to rate him as a left tackle, it would be on measurables alone. Which arent even that good considering he had a weight problem during the season. He might be a 5th rounder as a backup left tackle if someone was feeling like a gamble. In no way does he have the feet to play LT.
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Lol. That's all I can say.
Mingo has like two snaps direct against fluker on that last drive and gets pressure both times.
But sure, he "shut him down" because they were quick throws and screens, and a combo of other things.
And sure, fluker is a top 10 LT. Just not in reality.
These late "risers" are more agent chatter than actual evaluation.
I don't know how anyone can watch Fluker flail his arms in an attempt to gain momentum in his stone footed drop back, and call him a LT with all seriousness. Not to mention he was supplemented with Michael Williams and Brian Volger for a fair bit.
Didn't AJ McCarron play the last 6 games with injured ribs on a sack allowed by Fluker in the Mississippi St. game?
The tape shows it all....Fluker DOMINATED Mingo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3VF1vkiKFo This time vs Damontre Moore and once again Bama leaves Fluker on an island against one of the nations best pass rushers and once again lets his man barely sniff the QB

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Illiteracy, lack of electricity and poor infrastructure are just some of the challenges that are preventing rural women from benefiting from ICTs. But these gender-related challenges are often overlooked by policy makers, and policies that are developed that don't consider the specific context of rural men and women are more likely to fail, as they will not meet the needs of everyone equally. This is why the inclusion of gender must be considered in the policy process. What exactly can local and national policy makers do in order to address some of these issues? Policy analyst Sonia Jorge gives some insights. Photo by ARDAFull article at http://genardis.apcwomen.org/en/node/151


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Royal Week in Leeds - Thursday, 17 May 2012
Celebrate the Diamond Jubilee in style this Bank Holiday with a royal programme of events at Britain's oldest museum.
There's something for all the family at the Royal Armouries Leeds – from a Jubilee party to falconry displays; horse shows to a kings and queens' treasure trail; and royal treasures such as King Henry VIII's armour.
Museum director Peter Armstrong said, "Our links with the monarchy date back centuries and the Royal Armouries was one of the ancient institutions of the Tower of London. We are proud to be joining the rest of the country in honouring HM The Queen, with a series of events aimed at entertaining visitors of all ages, and from all walks of life."
The programme runs from June 2 to 10, as follows. Museum admission is free but charges apply to some events:
Diamond Jubilee Party – Come and join us for a right royal knees-up during the afternoon of Tuesday, June 5, with music, dancing, games and tea-time treats. Free.
Royal Treasure Trail – Explore the galleries and find the royal treasures.
Free trail and puzzle sheet, plus prize draw for all correct entries. Daily.
Falconry – Experience the thrill of watching magnificent birds of prey in live flying demonstrations on Saturday, June 2, and Tuesday, June 5, at 1pm and 3pm.
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Falconry Experience – Get up close and personal with the magnificent birds. These unforgettable experiences are provided in small groups and supervised throughout by expert falconers on June 2 and 5, at 1.45pm and 3.45pm.
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Horse Shows – A breathtaking charge through history featuring some of the best stunt-riders in the business, on Sunday, June 3, and Monday, June 4, at 12 noon and 3pm.Atkinson's Horses in Action regularly perform on prime-time television and in blockbuster films. Recent credits include The King's Speech, Russell Crowe's Robin Hood and Steven Spielberg's War Horse. Adults £5, children £3.
Talks & Tours – Explore the Museum on a guided tour or listen in at one of our fascinating talks. See the daily What's On guide for more information.
Jesters' Yard Play Area – Create a colourful crown – plus lots more fun activities for the under 10s. £2.50 per child.
There's also the chance to explore the national museum of arms and armour, housing 8,500 exhibits in five galleries – War; Tournament; Oriental. Self-defence and hunting.
The Diamond Jubilee activities are just part of the Royal Armouries' Dangerously Entertaining events programme for 2012.
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Alana Stewart: Hollywood honchos 'hypocritical' when it comes to guns | Fox News
Actress/producer Alana Stewart says she's in the minority in Hollywood when it comes to her views on gun ownership.
It bothers me when the Hollywood elite are all so against people having guns and want rigorous gun restrictions. But I am friends with a lot of them, and most have armed guards with them or outside their homes, Stewart told FOX411s Pop Tarts column. And I think that is hypocritical. Its fine to have armed guards, but dont then tell everyone else they cant own a gun.
Stewart, the former wife of George Hamilton and Rod Stewart and long time best friend of Farrah Fawcett said she doesnt hire armed protection.
I sleep with my gun on my bedside table. I live alone; it is my protection and makes me feel safer. I have had to pull it out a few times when I have heard noises at night, but Ive never had to use it, she continued, adding that she grew up in a small Texas town and was in awe of her fearless grandmother who would head out into the darkness with a gun in hand when suspicious things stirred in the wee hours.
Stewart also has no qualms urging her celebrity friends to consider the work they do and what their industry often promotes.
All the violence in videos and movies, you cant tell me that that wouldnt influence a disturbed person, she said. And bad guys will always have guns, and there is no way they would give them up if that became the law.
However, the Farrahs Story filmmaker doesnt agree that just anyone should be able to purchase a gun. Stewart is a strong advocate of stringent background checks and encourages particularly younger generations to really get informed.
Young people dont really study the facts; they watch the skewed MSNBC and get a primarily liberal education," she said. "They arent schooled on the other side of the story."
But not everyone agrees with Stewart. Entertainment writer Michael Cohen pointed out that while it may seem hypocritical for Hollywood heavies to call for gun bans when they themselves employ armed guards, celebrities have bigger security risks than the average American.
I dont believe average Americans need to own a weapon for protection purposes. Its too easy to use a gun out of fear or with snap judgment. But more importantly, as we witnessed by all these mass shooting,s is that guns somehow, someway get into the hands of the wrong people, he said. Celebrities are more at risk of being targets of violence because they are very much in the spotlight. Stalkers are common for celebs and its scary. However, instead of armed security, its about having a team that's proactive and not reactive. Its better to have more security team members with a watchful and thoughtful eye than one guy and a gun.
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Students, faculty and staff are invited to enjoy an evening of music, poetry and refreshments during Pulaski Technical College's annual Poetry Night on Thursday, Feb. 18.
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|Daniel Paille: The other Bruin in 'Ted'
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While Shawn Thornton makes a brief but notable appearance in the movie "Ted," he isn't the only Bruin in it. Standing next to Thornton in his scene is fellow Merlot-liner Daniel Paille.
The scene, which features the B's tough guy screaming, "You're an [expletive]," jumping out of the crowd at a Norah Jones concert and trying to attack Mark Wahlberg's character at the Hatch Shell, was shot last summer. While Thornton has a line in the brief cameo, standing next to him and minding his own business is Paille.
"I was standing there the whole time. I'm literally right beside him but you probably don't see me because it's more focused on him," Paille told WEEI.com this week. "I believe the clip on him, you can barely recognize him. If you don't know that Shawn's in it, you won't know [I am].
"I think Shawn did a great job. He shows his athletic skills," Paille added with a laugh. "I don't think there will be any bloopers of him. He did pretty good the whole time."
Thornton got the gig by nearly having a cameo in the series finale of "Entourage." He'd gone to the set of "Ted" to meet with Wahlberg about it during the 2010-11 season, and though the team's Stanley Cup run that year conflicted with shooting, he had made enough of an impression on Seth MacFarlane to land the role in "Ted." The story of how Paille wound up on screen is a bit more casual.
"Shawn was already pre-planned, and I got a call that night asking if I wanted to stand next to him," Paille said. "I was more than willing to do that, and for me it was a lot more fun than — I don't think I'd want a role if they asked me. I'd be nervous to make a mistake and waste film time. It was a lot of fun."
Thornton himself was nervous about having a line as well ("I was like, '[Expletive], I can't act. Don't give me a line!' " Thornton said), but Paille feels he pulled off the line — consisting of one curse and two other words — pretty well.
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Trekking the Har Ki Doon Trail in India's Himalayas
On the trail in northern India, the views may be heart-stopping—but the hiking is not
THE GRAFFITI SCRAWLED on the bunkhouse exterior struck me as rather impatient. Surely there were worse places to be waiting around than the Garhwal Himalayas, where the peaks of northern India jostle with the mountains of Tibet and Nepal.
Yet among the Sanskrit prayers that had been written on the walls, some wag had inked: "Where the hell is Chanderam?" The bunkhouse caretaker evidently had a habit of running late.
His were not the only whereabouts I was pondering. I was in some of the most majestic mountain-country on earth, looking out over a sweep of alpine meadows, a deep umber grassland that bled into green and yellow at the banks of a faraway stream. Above us loomed the spires of Bandarpunch and Swargarohini, the tallest in a rampart of peaks that reach higher than 20,000 feet. But I hadn't seen another trekking party since setting off on the trail four days and 25 miles earlier.
As I'd sat by the roadside cradling a cup of milky chai, I'd sensed from the gathering crowd of onlookers that tourism isn't thriving in the Indian state of Uttarakhand the way it is in other parts of the Himalayas. An overnight train from Delhi and a daylong Jeep ride along crumbling cliff-face roads had brought me to Sankri, a hillside outpost on the southern rim of Govind Pashu Vihar National Park and Wildlife Sanctuary. That first morning I was the village's star attraction: Whole families had turned out to inspect me and watch my guide, Rajan Singh —a garrulous local man with a sun-lined face—haggle for vegetables, rice and flour in preparation for our foray into the high Himalayas.
Foreigners haven't always been unusual in the Garhwal. Between the world wars, when the British Empire held sway over the subcontinent, adventurers came from far and wide to map the region's valleys and scale its highest summits. Mountaineers like Eric Shipton and Bill Tilman lay the technical foundations for the ascent of Mount Everest here; in summer, colonial households repaired to the high-altitude towns of Mussoourie and Dehradun to escape the heat. But with the fall of the Raj, the rise of Nepal as the trekking hub of the Himalayas, and border disputes between India and China, the Garhwal's fame ebbed.
Today, the Garhwal is a more rugged and authentic alternative to the teahouse circuits of Nepal; a region that remains largely untainted by modern tourism.
'Osla, with its houses strewn along a ledge overlooking the river, felt like the very margins of India. '
Our plan was to take a six-day jaunt along the Har Ki Doon Trail, a 50-mile round-trip said to be ideally suited to the fair-weather trekker. We would sleep in rudimentary rest-houses and eat only what we had managed to cram into our rucksacks. The villages we'd be stopping in would all be 7 to 10 miles apart on a path that follows a steady gradient up a single valley, a positively leisurely prospect compared with the up-and-down slogs from one valley to the next that characterize many Himalayan trails.
We set off from Sankri on a wide, stone-paved track that ran north into a steep-sided valley. Far below us ran the Tamsa River, milky and swollen from the recent monsoon. Over the course of the day, the trail bent to the contours of the gorge, taking us through fragrant forests of deodar—a Himalayan cedar tree—and tall rai conifers, toward the snowy mountaintops that were our ultimate destination.
Torluka, the first overnight stop on our route, was an alpine idyll steeped in afternoon sun. We walked past terraced fields of amaranth, which had turned vermilion in the run-up to harvest, and continued down a lane of houses built of huge deodar beams inlaid with stucco of mud and stone. Ruddy-faced children shouted to us from behind brightly painted balustrades, while women in colorful petticoats, their ears jangling with gold jewelry, trudged from field to storehouse bent double under bales of sorghum.
There are an estimated 20,000 people living within Govind National Park, and the assortment of ethnicities in evidence in Torluka—Bhotia, Pashtun and Caucasian among them—hinted at centuries of transience and intermingling. These settlements grew up as staging posts for traders carrying goods over the mountains into Tibet, and local hospitality is still more geared toward grizzled cloth-merchants than the Gore-Tex brigade. Simple restaurants served rice, daal and endless cups of tea to men sporting felt caps and paunches cultivated during the inertia of the just-passed rainy season.
For those who would rather not camp, Torluka has a Forest Rest House that dates back to the Raj and a guesthouse owned by Garhwal Mandal Vikas Nigam (GWVN), a government-subsidized tourism company. My room in the latter was basic and threadbare, with a rickety bed-frame piled with heavy woolen blankets and walls festooned with dust and cobwebs.
Our village sojourns did little to diminish my sense of being somewhere wild and seldom-visited. From Torluka, the track shrank and grew less hospitable, clinging to the wall of the gorge. It frequently vanished altogether, its passage interrupted by monsoon landslides—a favorite, and unnerving, conversation topic of Mr. Singh's.
"Here, there used to be 22 houses," began a typical aside, as we pigeon-stepped across another tongue of fallen shale. "Then, whoosh"—a flourishing hand suggested the devastation's path—"everything is gone."
As the terrain grew more rugged, so did the villages. Osla, with its squat homesteads strewn haphazardly along a ledge overlooking the river, felt like the very margins of India. It reminded me of what Nehru once wrote of the Garhwal: that it was "extraordinary to be so near and yet so far from the rest of the world."
We spent the afternoon lounging by the beds of marigolds and sweet William that surrounded the lawn of the GMVN guesthouse. When the sun dipped behind the western crags, we cooked dinner over an open fire, and Mr. Singh and some local men took swigs from a bottle of bitter grain-based moonshine, chasing it down with long drags on a crude copper water-pipe. I found the booze undrinkable, but it made one hell of an accelerant for our fire—handy in temperatures that dropped below freezing as night closed in.
The Lowdown: Har Ki Doon Trail, India
Getting There: Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi is the closest international hub. From there, you can take the Shatabdi Express train to Dehradun, Uttarakhand's state capital. Govind Pashu Vihar National Park is about 100 miles further north by public bus.
When to Go: Trekking in the Garhwal Himalayas is best before or after the monsoon season (late June to early September). In spring (April to June), days are warm and wildflowers abound; in autumn (September and October), night temperatures dip below freezing but the skies—and subsequently the views—are generally clear.
Trekking There: Various agents in Dehradun offer guided treks in Govind. Garhwal Mandal Vikas Nigam ( gmvnl.com ), a government-sponsored agency, can arrange tailor-made trekking itineraries, and runs a network of guesthouses throughout the region. Their six-day Har Ki Doon trek costs around $420 per person.
What to Pack: Hiking the Har Ki Doon Trail involves spending the night at altitudes up to 12,000 feet, so warm gear and a good sleeping bag are essential. Stocking up on supplies in Dehradun is advisable, as there are limited opportunities to purchase food along the trail.
The next morning we signed the Osla register, which was lovingly safeguarded by a bespectacled man in a long blue loincloth, and embarked on a steady climb through terraced pastures and ancient forests of silver oak.
The landscape became more spectacular with each mile. The hills gave way to mountains, and the mountains to giants, until in midafternoon the valley unfolded into the cupped palm of Har Ki Doon, the "Valley of God."
Our foray ended at a collection of tin-roofed buildings surrounded by titanic boulders. We dumped our bags, stamped silver mica dust from our boots and gazed out at Swargarohini and Bandarpunch. Though awe-inspiring, the area was just one drop in an ocean of wilderness. To our east, I knew, lay trails that were all but undiscovered by tourists. By the time Chanderam—a mousy man with a handlebar mustache whom I recognized as the most enthusiastic participant in the previous night's drinking session—came puffing into view, a sack of firewood slung over his bony shoulder, I had already vowed to return.
It was another two days before we finally bumped into some other trekkers. When they came, they came in numbers: a hundred or so civil servant trainees from Delhi, here on a team-building exercise.
"We want them to learn that there is another India outside of the cities," said the ebullient expedition leader, when I asked why he'd brought his charges to Har Ki Doon. "And we didn't want them to be too comfortable!"
For where, after all, is the adventure in that?


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If you're worried about the nation's debt, the Concord Coalition has got your number.
The organization's goal is to inform future generations about fiscally responsible government.
Tonight, the nonprofit's Midwest regional director, Sara Imhof, is showing a movie called "I.O.U.S.A." at Augustana College on that theme.
"Given true facts, they tend to get pretty charged up and excited," she says.
The Concord Coalition was founded by political polar opposites, former U.S. Sens. Paul Tsongas, D-Mass., and Warren Rudman, R-N.H., and seeks to avoid party politics.
Imhof explains more about what her organization does and some of the policies it advocates:
1. What's the mission of the Concord Coalition?
"A big part of our grassroots outreach deals with youth at the time they're at the upper level of college. They're really starting to catch wind of how things work in Washington. We talk about the tsunami of seniors starting to enter the rosters of Social Security and Medicare while fewer people will be in the work force.
"There are quite a few policy shops that focus on budget. We're able to go out into the communities. We don't only focus on campuses. We do rotary clubs, civic organizations."
2. What's your organization's stand on health care reform?
"We choose not to come out in favor of bills, but talk about aspects of bills that we think are more helpful in terms of the long term.
The Senate version has something that would set up an independent advisory body that would come in and make tough decisions about Medicare's long-term sustainability, made up of health care experts. It's very difficult to cut, but easy to give. They'd begin to dive into tough decisions.
"We're not against expanding coverage, but the current legislation is mostly about expansion but not about payment reform. ...
"We also support the part of the Senate bill imposing a surtax on some of the wealthiest Americans. The challenge is that it might set up sort of a class-fare and make it look like a welfare program."
3. What about other programs, such as Social Security and Medicare?
"We should consider raising the age limit. Not only is that sort of more to the true meaning of these programs, but because people are living longer, they're also living healthier. That means more productivity we can tap into in the work force. That's economic growth. ... We want to make sure sure middle-age people or youth get involved in the conversation. If we don't make small changes now, the youth will be paying twice as much."
4. What can people do to help become more informed about the effect of the national debt?
"We suggest, of course, that they visit our Web site and sign up for periodic updates. It's very helpful.
"Coming to this movie and listening to the dialogue afterward. Talking about their own budgets with their families. The more they read, the more energized they get.
"They can write letters to the editor."
5. How can the national debt become a burden on the economy?
"We have been financed very heavily by foreigners. At what point is it when China will say, 'We no longer have faith or trust in you to pay us back'?
"Also, the interest that we have to pay is part of our mandatory spending. We already pay a lot in debt, $170 billion last year just on interest. There are low rates now, but that won't last.
"That means that for the discretionary spending categories - education, the environment - all these other very important things are getting squeezed automatically."
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What: The Concord Coalition presentation of the movie "I.O.U.S.A." about the national debt, followed by a question-and-answer period.
Where: The Morrison Commons Back Alley off of the Grange Avenue parking lot at Augustana College.
When: 6 p.m. today.
Who: Sara Imhof of the Concord Coalition and Augustana professor Bob Wright.


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Aside from being a creative video, the end result really shows us how far the graphics in GTA V have come, and what a stark contrast this game will be to the Los Santos we know from GTA: San Andreas.
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You've heard about Apple's Cupertino spaceship. Now meet the company's Austin, Texas crash pad.
Over the past few weeks, Apple has started work on a new 39-acre campus that will be the future home of the company's America's Operations Center. No, Apple isn't ditching Cupertino. That remains the site of the company's global headquarters and it's where the company is erecting a new 2.8-million-square-foot building that looks an awful lot like a spaceship. But Austin will eventually be home to a major portion of the Apple empire.
Apple has run an operations center in Austin for years now. It already employs about 3,500 hardware engineers, support staff and operations people there. But the new buildings will add another 1 million square feet of office space in Austin. And within 10 years, that should mean another 3,600 jobs for the company, bringing Austin's headcount to 7,100.
"To put it in perspective, prior to the Apple announcement, the largest single job creation from one project was 1,000," says Brian Gildea, Austin's economic development manager.
In exchange, Apple gets more than $30 million in tax breaks.
But the planning documents leave a lot out. They don't, for example, mention that Austin is already a center of Apple's support and hardware development groups. Apple is presently hiring nearly 40 hardware engineers in Austin, including chip designers and power-optimization engineers
Although Apple's Cupertino headquarters will be shaped like a sleek ring, the Austin campus will be more terrestrial, says Gildea. "I asked that question right off," he says. Apple's current Austin building looks pretty much like any other office building in town. Gildea doesn't expect any wild designs in the new set of buildings, which will be constructed over the next 10 years. "While they may not look like the existing buildings, they're not going to be outlandish," he says.
Apple has pulled three construction permits on the new campus — the most recent one just last week — and has started preliminary work on the site, county and city planners say.
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#1 Sat 24 Mar 07 12:57pm
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Gordon Ramseys Malaysian Curry
Ok foodies
I know this maybe not allowed, maybe people wont approve of this but i would really appreciate if someone could post me the recipe for this. It in his new book (which i bought my brother for xmas) and he had on his 1st episode of his last series of the F Word.
My brother made it last week and it was amazing but he is away for a month and i cant get it and i really wanna make it next weekend for a few mates.
I dont know what the craic is with copyright on here so appologies if im not allowed to ask. Im a newbie. Trust me though i have this book, just cant get it again soon.
Thanks Foodies
#2 Sat 24 Mar 07 2:35pm
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Re: Gordon Ramseys Malaysian Curry
Gordon Ramsay Malaysian Chicken Curry Recipe
July 13, 2006 | Posted by Allison as Yummy Can't Say No Chicken Recipes, Celebrity Chefs at 1:54 pm |
Chicken Malaysian Curry Recipe
Skip the ordinary chicken recipe (& possibly the rent) while you take on Gordon Ramsay himself with his Malaysian Chicken Curry recipe. I know it looks a bit difficult & trying, but believe me- you'll know it was worth it in the first bite! Enjoy.
Ingredients for Curry Paste:
* 5 garlic cloves, peeled and roughly chopped
* 4-5 long red chilies, trimmed, deseeded and roughly chopped
* 3 lemon grass stalks, trimmed, outer leaves removed and thinly sliced
* 5cm piece fresh root ginger, peeled and chopped
* 4 large shallots, peeled and chopped
* 1 tsp ground turmeric
* 2-3 tbsp groundnut oil
Ingredients for Curry:
* 1kg chicken thighs
* 2 tbsp groundnut oil
* 2 onions, peeled and thinly sliced
* sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
* 4 kaffir lime leaves
* 1 cinnamon stick
* 3 star anise
* 400ml coconut milk
* 100ml chicken stock
* 1 tsp palm sugar (or soft brown sugar)
* 2 tbsp light soy sauce
* 2 tbsp fish sauce
* 400g green beans, trimmed and cut into 5cm lengths
* handful of coriander leaves, roughly torn
Ingredients for Coconut Rice:
* 300g jasmine, Thai fragrant or other long grain rice
* 200ml coconut milk
* 5cm piece of fresh ginger, peeled
* pinch of sea salt
Method, or What's Next:
First make the curry paste. Put the garlic, chilies, lemon grass, ginger, shallots and turmeric in a food processor and whiz to a paste. With the motor running, trickle in a little groundnut oil and blend well, scraping the sides of the processor several times. (Or you can pound the ingredients together in batches using a pestle and mortar).
To make the curry, cut the chicken into bite-sized pieces. Heat the groundnut oil in a large cast iron casserole or heavy-based pan. Tip in the curry paste and stir over a medium heat for a few minutes until fragrant. Add the onions and cook, stirring frequently, for 5 minutes until they are beginning to soften.
Season the chicken pieces with salt and pepper. Add to the pan and stir to coat them in the spice paste. Add the lime leaves, cinnamon stick, star anise, coconut milk, stock, sugar, soy and fish sauces and bring to the boil. Reduce the heat to a simmer and cook gently for 30-40 minutes until the chicken is tender.
For the rice, rinse the grains in cold water to get rid of any excess starch. Drain and tip into a heavy-based pan. Add the rest of the ingredients with 200ml water, stir well and bring to the boil, then reduce the heat to a simmer. Cover and gently simmer for 10 minutes. Leaving the lid on, remove the pan from the heat and leave to stand for 5-10 minutes. Fluff the rice with a fork and serve while still hot.
Skim off any excess oil on the surface of the curry. Taste and adjust the seasoning. Tip in the beans, put the lid on and cook for another 3-4 minutes until the beans are tender. Scatter the coriander leaves over the curry and serve with the coconut rice.
#3 Sat 24 Mar 07 5:20pm
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Re: Gordon Ramseys Malaysian Curry
#4 Sat 24 Mar 07 8:15pm
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Re: Gordon Ramseys Malaysian Curry
I've made this curry a good few times and wholeheartedly recommend it.
I haven't made it over the winter, but last summer it was a fave.
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Checked on my only remaining hive I had in town and discovered it was dead. Upon a quick inspection through all the European ants I found a really small dead cluster, a few cells with capped brood, other cells with emerging bees with their tongues out and white specks in cells.........I am sure this hive died from Varroa as well, just like the other hive did next to it back in November. Anyhow, upon inspection I seen that there was a white milky substance in with the fresh nectar that was brought in. There was even milky white substance in with some pollen cells as well. I will be bringing this hive home tomorrow after work to further investigate things and get more pictures.
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Hmm, seems quite "empty", but I wont rate it, because it's beta :) Im waiting on later version, good job with it anyway :)
Posted on April 29, 2013 2:42PM by Mati
Yeah and you should use better textures. If I'm not mistaken ebisu touge is from NFS right? Also irl ebisu touge has lots of trees and bushes. Not really sure about the others.
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where can i get the other maps that are featured in gta.dat?
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I would give you 10/10 if you made it fit in water, not flying in the air.
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...I'm suddenly inspired to play a Warlock again. Well done.
...I'm suddenly inspired to play a Warlock again. Well done.
To contribute to the Warlock part...
Tribute to the awesome wings =D
I actually finished a great piece of art recently and made a video version along with it on Youtube. I'll link both here. Enjoy!
Proud creator of these "In the mountains!" videos:
Even though I play Tera now I still love my warcraft.
Doodle I did of Yesra
This was drawn with crayola colored pencils, so that's why the skin is "eh" I can only do so much with those things! lol
I still love how the hair turned out!
And Another Crayola pic.
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I'm almost willing to bet I'm too new to post a pic but here's my forsaken noble sketch I'm working on
My canvas painting
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Girlfriend did some more art. Here's her gnome mage:
Mountains rise in the distance stalwart as the stars, fading forever.
Roads ever weaving, soul ever seeking the hunter's mark.
ooo ... so glad I found this thread! I'll be posting my artwork once I am able to. <3
This thread has dried up a lot lately, does anyone know of any more active resources for fan art?
I honestly got tired of people's attitudes in the thread, which is why I stopped posting.
This thread died because people couldn't keep their emotions/personal lives and business out of their posts, instead of just posting artwork and having fun.
Not to mention some really overly sensitive rules were pushed into place/demanded constantly, limiting what kind of artwork people could post.
People lost interest soon after that.
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I remember this thread! It was pretty awesome back in the day.
Can't remember where I saw this but it's pretty boss:
If I had a working scanner this thread would be flooded with half realized sketches and doodles of WOW characters and races.
1. There was a rule that if you posted art not made by you you'd have to link the art to the artist every time put in place after someone complained their art got here somehow but they want to be known it's theirs(although if you saved it, it showed their name in the save name, but they wanted it to be written with big letters even if you did not of course)
2. There were some people after that who started claiming their art is best and everyone should use their guide lines, and this started to annoy more then a few others because even them, the ones saying the rules, were not using them but they tried to enforce them on others.