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The Commonwealth Games Organising Committee (OC) - against whom the Shunglu panel has levelled the most serious allegations of causing a loss of Rs382 crore to the exchequer - does not seem too keen to file its response.
Sources said the Organising Committee officials are more busy these days in completing the last leg of paper work before the agency winds up its operations by May-end. "We are finalising our accounts that will have to be audited before we shut shop. Though our initial mandate was to wind up operations by March 31, we had to seek an extension to complete the paper work. Right now that is a priority with us," said an OC official, who did not wish to be named.
Asked if the OC would file a reply to the charges levelled against it by the Shunglu panel, the official said, "We have not been asked to submit a reply so far. If the Sports Ministry directs us, then we will respond."
The high level committee headed by former CAG VK Shunglu to probe irregularities in the conduct of the October 2010 Commonwealth Games has come down heavily on the mismanagement in the CWG Organising Committee and said "the irregularities and adverse conduct that appeared to permeate a large part of the OC affected the smooth preparation and build-up of the Games and its image". The Central Public Works Department - which comes under the Union UD Ministry - and was responsible for readying a majority of the Games venues, including the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, National Stadium, SP Mukherjee swimming pool and Dr Karni Singh shooting range - has also not prepared its reply to the specific charges levelled against it by the high-level probe panel.


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I'm continuing in the tradition of the last couple of years, and posting a slideshow featuring the highlights of the last 12 months. And what a year it has been…. – Antarctica: spectacular, amazing, jaw-dropping, and must-do-again – Australia: wonderful people, bizarre animals, and apparently difficult to leave (!) – Indian Ocean: tough one – long, rough, and (thank heavens) over! – Hectic autumn: California, … Continued
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The Prince William County (VA) Department of Fire and Rescue published a comprehensive line of duty death report for Technician I Kyle R. Wilson on Saturday, January 26, 2008. Have your read it?
Technician I Wilson was the first line of duty death in the Department's 41-year history. The Department shared the LODD Investigative Report to honor Kyle, and in an effort to reduce and prevent firefighter line of duty deaths at the local, region, state, and national levels.
Technician Kyle Robert Wilson was 24-years old and was born in Olney, Maryland. He grew up in Prince William County and graduated from Hylton High School and George Mason University. He was an avid baseball and softball player. Technician Wilson joined the Prince William County Department of Fire and Rescue on January 23, 2006.
Technician Kyle Wilson died in the line of duty on April 16, 2007 while performing search and rescue operations at a house fire on Marsh Overlook Drive, located in the Woodbridge area of Prince William County.
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Origin of scallionMiddle English scalon ; from Norman French escalogne (for Old French eschaloigne) ; from Vulgar Latin an unverified form escalonia ; from Classical Latin (caepa) Ascalonia, (onion of) Ascalon (a city in Philistia)
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San Francisco 49ers QB Colin Kaepernick's tattoos are the subject of a column this week criticizing the young signal caller's ink.
AOL Sports David Whitley wrote a column criticizing the tattoos and remembering days where NFL signal callers were ink free.
At least that you could see.
"For dinosaurs like me, Whitley writes in the column, "NFL quarterbacks were our little Dutch boys. The original hero stuck his finger in the (dike) to save Holland. Pro QBs were the last line of defense against the raging sea of ink. When our kids said they wanted a tattoo, we could always point to the Manning brothers."
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I thought about making myself an I Love Lucy in the chocolate factory quilt to put on my sofa, I loved that episode. That is fabulous great job!Originally Posted by Sewsweet
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Love them both! Good work!!
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Until about age 30, your body forms enough new bone to replace the bone that is naturally broken down by the body (a process called bone turnover). Your highest bone mass (size and thickness) is reached between ages 20 and 25, and it declines after that. After menopause, however, women begin to lose bone at an even faster rate.
Osteoporosis develops when your body cannot replace bone as fast as it is broken down.
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The Clean Water Act at 40
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This year marks the 40th anniversary of the passage of the Clean Water Act (CWA) amendments, the landmark legislation to "restore and maintain the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the nation's waters."
GW Law recognized this milestone in environmental protection at the J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Environmental Law Symposium. The conference, titled "The Clean Water Act at 40," brought together many of the nation's top CWA experts from academia, government, and the private sector to reflect on the environmental field's accomplishments and discuss the future of water pollution control in the United States.
The first day of the conference, coinciding with the United Nations' World Water Day, featured distinguished speakers from across the nation. In her keynote speech, Nancy Stoner, acting associate administrator for water at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), focused on the EPA's theme, Water is worth it.
William Hines, dean emeritus and Joseph F. Rosenfield Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Iowa College of Law, gave an insightful history of the Clean Water Act, including little-known facts about events surrounding the passage of the 1972 Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments.
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The Environmental and Energy Law Program's annual spring conference was made possible by a generous endowment from the J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Charitable Trust. The 2012 conference was co-sponsored by the George Washington University Law School, the Environmental Law Institute, the Center for Progressive Reform, the Association of Clean Water Administrators, the Clean Water America Alliance, the George Washington Journal of Energy and Environmental Law, and the GW Environmental Law Association.
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Female Hot Shot
Lee Nielsen, Palm Harbor University
Sport: Volleyball
Skinny: The senior outside hitter was a clear standout in the Hurricanes' Pinellas County Athletic Conference win over East Lake on Wednesday night. Out for a week with an ankle injury, she came back to lead the Hurricanes with 16 kills, 29 digs and seven aces in a four-game win over the defending state champion. After the victory, Nielsen was confident her team could be around for a while in the postseason: "(Now) that we're all together again, I don't think anything can stop us."
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Sam Chandler, St. Petersburg
Sport: Cross country
Skinny: At last week's St. Petersburg City meet, Chandler broke away from the pack and took the lead after the first mile. He never relinquished it, widening the gap between his competitors to win in 16 minutes, 14 seconds, beating runnerup Ross Porter of Shorecrest by 21 seconds. Chandler's time broke his personal record by 12 seconds and marked the first time he had won the meet, which he has run since eighth grade. "Prior to the meet we had three weeks off, and I was able to get in some good training," Chandler said. "My coach had a game plan for me. I stuck to that and it paid off. My next goal is to break 16 minutes."
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Lee Nielsen, PHU volleyball 538 23.911%
Claire Snyder, Holy Names cross country 468 20.8%
Sam Chandler, St. Petersburg cross country 456 20.267%
Joseph Trim, Jesuit golf 203 9.022%
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Artavis Scott, East Lake football 139 6.178%
Janarion Grant, Pasco football 131 5.822%
Alison Armstrong, Northside Christian golf 56 2.489%
Jake Arnett, Nature Coast golf 48 2.133%
Abdin Fator, Sickles cross country 11 0.489%
Athena Cimino, Wiregrass Ranch swimming 10 0.444%
Stephanie Rodney, Central golf 5 0.222%
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Park Partners Residential develops, acquires and operates quality communities in Florida markets. We are committed to building relationships and creating value for our partners, investors, and residents. Customer service is a fundamental value and defines all we do.
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Although Greenwood said she had never seen So Long At The Fair, the plots of her story and the film are very similar. In the movie, a young English girl (Jean Simmons) is on holiday in Paris for the Great Exhibition of 1889, and her brother goes missing. The hotel staff deny all knowledge, and even his hotel room has disappeared. Again, a suspected case of the plague is to blame - and the girl finally finds her brother with the help of a young artist (Dirk Bogarde).
The reason the stories are so alike is that they go back to the same source. The "Vanishing Hotel Room" is a well-known urban legend. Greenwood said she found it in a 1934 book, While Rome Burns by Alexander Woolcott, and also in the work of Charles Forte, an American collector of odd happenings: "I decided to give it a different spin."
An internet website on urban legends, www.snopes.com, says that, in the most common version of the story, an English girl's mother mysteriously vanishes while they are on holiday in Paris. In the classic paranoid horror version, the girl never finds her mother and goes mad. In other cases, a conspiracy is unearthed.
Variations of the story have been used in such novels as Belloc Lowndes' The End Of Her Honeymoon (1913); Lawrence Rising's She Who Was Helena Cass (1920); Basil Thompson's The Vanishing of Mrs Fraser (1925); and Ernest Hemingway's The Torrent of Spring (1926).
As well as So Long At The Fair, various versions of the story have turned up in films such as The Midnight Warning, Bunny Lake is Missing and Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes. Last year the television program Beyond Belief dramatised the legend as a true story.
By their very nature, urban legends are not copyrighted works with recognised authors. But lately there has been a worldwide trend towards allegations of plagiarism in fiction just because of plot similarities.
Last year's Booker prizewinner, Yann Martel, was accused of stealing the plot of his novel The Life of Pi from another writer because they both wrote novels about a character abandoned on a raft with a wild animal. Another Booker winner, Graham Swift, was accused of stealing ideas and techniques in his novel Last Orders from William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying. Both authors denied they had ever plagiarised anything.
Greenwood said she would never borrow chunks of writing from another writer. But she believes that using an urban legend as a basic plot is no more plagiarism than using an Arthurian story or a Greek myth. She has written three books based on Homer's Iliad, the Orestaia and the Argonautica, and no one accused her of stealing stories.
All fiction, and especially genre fiction, is a meta-narrative, she said. "There are only so many stories in the world ... Duplication of plots is bound to happen because most writers have read very extensively in their genre and have become aware they are adding an extra layer to the meta-narrative, finding a new spin on the original."
She thinks the "fierce glee" of the readers who wrote to Women's Weekly might be because they do not usually read crime stories and are unfamiliar with the conventions. "Most detective story readers are an educated audience and know there are only a certain number of plots. The interest lies in what the writer does with them."
Then there's the literary in-joke. In her book Blood and Circuses, Greenwood has a bloodstain on the ceiling that comes straight out of Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles, to amuse anyone who spots the reference.
Clearly the Women's Weekly is unfazed by the complaints because the magazine has asked Greenwood for more fiction. She had planned to submit more short stories based on urban myths, but the reaction has made her change her mind.
"The next story will be a retelling of a tale I've already turned into a novel," she said. "I will be plagiarising only myself."
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For Fenway Sports Group, Liverpool Is the Real Moneyball
On an oddly steamy night in April, Fenway Park is gussied up with bunting as the Boston Red Sox prepare to host the Texas Rangers. The owner's box is a mix of corporate and academic types, including hedge fund managers and the president of a nearby liberal arts college. The atmosphere feels more book party than bleacher brawl. Red Sox co-owner Tom Werner holds court in the center of the room, recounting the experience of witnessing one of the two other teams he co-owns win a big game—well, a sort of big game. "People say it must have been fun, but watching the game was hell," he says. "The fun came later." The trophy his players captured that February night is the marginal Carling Cup, and the team is Liverpool Football Club of the English Premier League. Although it lacked the prestige of a Premier League title, the cup helped fans warm to the team's new custodians.
As chairman of Fenway Sports Group (FSG), Werner, along with his partner John Henry, took control of Liverpool in October 2010 for a cut-rate price after paying off about $300 million worth of the club's debt. Henry concedes they knew "virtually nothing" about the Premier League, or soccer for that matter, before buying the club, but recognizing the global reach and moneymaking potential of the sport didn't require much expertise. The U.S., soccer-resistant for so long, is now home to the owners of five of the 20 clubs in the English Premier League. Manchester United, owned by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers' Glazer family, is the most valuable sports team in the world, according to a Forbes estimate. Arsenal, controlled by St. Louis Rams' Stan Kroenke, is the fourth-richest club. Liverpool is the eighth.
On July 25, Werner will preside over a rare collision of worlds as Fenway's pitcher's mound and foul lines will be replaced with penalty areas and soccer goals. In one of 39 games being played in North America this summer by high-profile foreign clubs, Liverpool will battle Italian stalwart Roma, which happens to belong to a Red Sox minority owner, Thomas DiBenedetto. No doubt Werner is hoping some of the Fenway magic will rub off on his soccer team, and not DiBenedetto's.
While he and Henry weren't exactly welcomed by the Red Sox faithful in 2002, when they bought the team and New England Sports Network for $700 million, their ruthless methodology of sourcing untapped streams of commercial revenue helped secure top talent and usher in the franchise's most successful era. The Red Sox won the World Series in both 2004 and 2007 and remain a perennial contender. In the past decade the number of corporate sponsors jumped from 35 to 95. "[Werner and Henry] spent money, reorganized the team, and fixed a ballpark that everyone said couldn't be fixed," says Massachusetts-born Bill Simmons, editor-in-chief of ESPN's online review Grantland (to which I regularly contribute). "They couldn't have been better owners coming out of the gate."
Starting in 2007, FSG began expanding its portfolio, buying a 50 percent stake in Nascar team Roush Racing for $50 million. Seeking an acquisition with more "worldwide appeal," says Werner, it turned to Liverpool, a club teetering on the verge of bankruptcy after North American owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett drowned it in debt. "Someone mentioned Liverpool's games against Manchester United draw an estimated 500 million global television audience," says Werner. By contrast, only 16 million people, on average per game, watched the 2011 World Series. "Coming from MLB, we simply could not relate to that number."
Werner was also attracted to the fact that the Premier League operates without the curious socialism of America's sports leagues: salary caps, organized drafts, and revenue sharing. "In baseball, when you acquire a franchise, you are one-thirtieth of an industry," he says. "If we sell a Liverpool jersey to a supporter in Jakarta, we keep 100 percent of that." Sam Kennedy, president of Fenway Sports Management, says the Liverpool deal opens new markets to Fenway's corporate partners, including Boston-area companies such as New Balance and Dunkin' Donuts. "Red Sox Nation can only expose a sponsor to six states," he says. By enabling FSG to expand its corporate relationships worldwide, Liverpool can act as a global amplifier.
The final piece of FSG's worldwide marketing machine came in April 2011 with the signing of LeBron James. In exchange for acting as James's global marketing representative—the Miami Heat star may be divisive at home but is widely beloved in Asia—FSG offered him a minority ownership share in Liverpool Football Club. (Asked why James eschewed more traditional agencies, his business manager Maverick Carter said, "I admire [them] but they don't own sports franchises last time I checked.")
Liverpool is far removed from its glory days. Beginning in the '90s, the historically great club struggled to adapt to the globalization of English soccer, and was eclipsed by Manchester United both on the field and commercially. Werner is confident he, using the methodologies perfected at Fenway, can restore Liverpool's fortunes—even though he'd never been to a Liverpool game before buying the team.
Results have been mixed so far. Before the 2011 season, FSG splashed $179 million on a crew of underperforming players, who failed to qualify Liverpool for the elite European tournament, the Champions League. In May the club posted an $80 million loss for 2011. "No supporter will take pleasure where we are right now," says Werner. Henry concedes the last 18 months have been humbling. "Our first year and a half was spent learning as much as we could, and we are just now really beginning to understand what we have to do differently."
In January 2012, Liverpool announced the most lucrative jersey deal the sport has ever seen, a $40 million-a-year partnership with a New Balance subsidiary called Warrior. And over the past three months, FSG executed a radical overhaul of Liverpool's management team. They fired manager Kenny Dalglish, a man worshipped by players and fans, and hired the young coach Brendan Rodgers. "I genuinely think a club of our status and value to the football world, we can go [win] again," says Rodgers, before adding, rather ominously: "But it's going to take time, and whether it will be in my time, I'm not so sure."
Having suffered through the Red Sox's collapse last September and slow start this season, ESPN's Simmons wonders whether the expansion into English soccer is wise—or if it's pulling focus from the daunting enough task of beating the New York Yankees. "I think [the Red Sox success] went to their heads," he says. "They got a little greedy, almost like someone who wins a ton of money gambling in Vegas and starts to think they're invincible."


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Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, N.M.; CH2M Hill, Englewood, Colo.; and Tenix Investments, North Sydney, Australia, have announced a multi-year, multi-million dollar partnership to develop an unattended water safety system for chemical and bacteria detection in water supplies. The technology plans to offer detection of unmonitored biological agents such as bacteria, viruses, and protozoa. Initial commercial units and wider deployment are anticipated from late 2005 to mid 2007.
White paper evaluates automated refuse collection
Heil Environmental Industries, Chattanooga, Tenn., has released a 24-page resource—entitled Automated Refuse Collection: A White Paper—to help communities evaluate the viability of automating their operations. The literature discusses the history of automated refuse collection, benefits and disadvantages, selecting and paying for equipment, and other topics. It features examples from communities using automation, worksheets, formulas, sample materials, full-color illustrations, statistics, glossary, frequently asked questions, and a list of additional resources. For more information, visit www.heil.com.yfvdfdzdrbywwacuw
Texas governor steers megahighway plan
The Trans-Texas Corridor project, as envisioned by Texas's Republican Gov. Rick Perry in 2002, would be a 4000-mile transportation network costing $175 billion over 50 years, financed mostly with private money. Builders would then charge motorists tolls. The project calls for corridors up to ¼ mile across, consisting of as many as six lanes for cars and four for trucks, plus railroad tracks, oil and gas pipelines, water and other utility lines, and broadband transmission cables. Supporters say the corridors are needed to handle the expected NAFTA-driven boom in the flow of goods to and from Mexico, and to enable freight haulers to bypass heavily populated urban centers on straight-shot highways that cut across the countryside.
Federal agencies sign watershed agreement
The EPA's Office of Water and the U.S. Army's Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works have entered into an agreement to establish a collaborative watershed partnership. The Corps of Engineers attempts to balance competing demands on the nation's critical water resources through flood control, navigation, recreation, and infrastructure and environmental stewardship. The EPA seeks to ensure drinking water is safe, to restore and maintain the nation's aquatic resources for human health, to support economic and recreational activities, and to provide healthy habitat for fish, plants, and wildlife. For more information, visit www.mitiaationactionplan.gov.
Las Vegas groundwater plan approved
Nevada's state water resources chief has approved a plan that could have ground-water from rural Nevada flowing out of Las Vegas faucets by 2007. A Nevada Division of Water Resources ruling lets the Southern Nevada Water Authority pump almost 9000 acre-feet of ground-water each year from four basins in northwest Clark and southwest Lincoln counties. Nye County and the Sierra Club of Southern Nevada are among those who oppose the pumping plan, but the organizations have yet to decide whether to challenge the ruling in court.
Security guidelines issued to water utilities
Funded through an EPA initiative, the American Society of Civil Engineers— with the American Water Works Association and Water Environment Federation—have developed a set of three security guidance documents that cover the design of online contaminant monitoring systems, and physical security enhancements of drinking water, waste-water, and stormwater infrastructure systems. The voluntary guidelines will assist drinking water and wastewater utilities in addressing potential vulnerabilities in their systems through the design, construction, operation, and maintenance of both new and existing systems of all sizes. For more information, visit www.asce.org.
Construction, surveying user conference
Trimble Navigation Ltd., Sunnyvale, Calif., will hold its International User Conference Oct. 23-26 at the Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas. With more than 100 sessions planned, the event will focus on applying technology to the needs faced daily by surveying, construction, and civil engineering professionals, including sessions on practical application of technology, training, and emerging applications. For more information, visit www.trimbleevents.com.
Company tapped for large-pipe CSO project
ADS Environmental Services, Huntsville, Ala., has been contracted by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission to install and operate 100 temporary flow meters. The goal is to collect sufficient and accurate flow information for the San Francisco Combined Sewer System to calibrate the city's hydraulic model. The city is in the process of developing a 30-year capital improvement program for its wastewater system, and the flow-monitoring data need to be collected during a wet-weather window to successfully calibrate the model. The ranges of pipe heights being measured is from 15 inches to 25 feet and many are oddly shaped, including egg-shaped, basket-shaped, and box configurations. A total of 78% of the pipes measured in the project are 36 inches or larger. For more visit www.adsenv.com.
SWANA symposia proceedings on CD-ROM
Proceedings from the Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA) 2004 Annual Waste Reduction, Recycling & Composting/Collection & Transfer Symposia are available on CD-ROM. Content includes talks on resource management, policy issues, diversion incentives, and other topics. Cost for the CD-ROM is $75 plus shipping. For more information, visit www.swanastore.com.


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Dead Snake on the Path
On our walk this evening, we happened across the first snake we've ever encountered in Shawville in the eight years we've been living here. Unfortunately, he was also stiff as a board. This small Northern Red-bellied Snake (they only come in small, especially when they're male, as this one appeared to be) was lying in the middle of the PPJ bike trail. Here's another view. Not sure what killed him: as far as we could see, no part of him was squooshed, sliced open or missing, which suggests that he wasn't stomped upon, run over, or eviscerated by predators. My first guess was actually dehydration, but I have no idea if that's even plausible.


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Arsenal inflicted a 3-0 defeat on Barclays Premier League champions Manchester City to lift the FA Community Shield at Wembley.
Back at the scene of their FA Cup triumph, the Gunners tore into a lacklustre City side - which saw Willy Caballero start in goal ahead of Joe Hart - and were in control by half-time through well-worked goals from Santi Cazorla and Aaron Ramsey, whose extra-time winner had beaten Hull on May 17 to end a nine-season trophy drought.
Substitute Olivier Giroud cracked home a third goal from 25 yards on the hour as City were subdued, but both rival managers Manuel Pellegrini and Arsene Wenger will know full well much sterner tests lie ahead before they hand out the honours again in nine months' time.
City did not have any Englishmen in their starting XI, but £30million Brazil midfielder Fernando was, while Bacary Sagna watched from the stands against his old club as did former Chelsea midfielder Frank Lampard, signed on loan from New York City FC.
Arsenal fielded summer recruits Alexis Sanchez, Calum Chambers and Mathieu Debuchy, with World Cup winners Mesut Ozil, Per Mertesacker and Lukas Podolski all still absent ahead of next week's Premier League opener against Crystal Palace.
Arsenal made most of the early running, as Sanchez combined well with Jack Wilshere
When City did get a corner, former Gunner Samir Nasri was loudly jeered by the Arsenal fans behind the goal - the French midfielder having labelled supporters of his old club "stupid" for their continued jibes since his big-money move three seasons ago.
Arsenal v Manchester City - player ratings
Arsenal v Manchester City - player ratings
1/30 Wojciech Szczesny: 7
Having had nothing to do in the first-half, he was superb after the break, with a couple of important saves and commanding claims.
2/30 Mathieu Debuchy: 6
Made some good overlapping runs, and put in a few dangerous crosses. Important block to deny Samir Nasri early on.
3/30 Laurent Koscielny: 6
Marshalled the defence well, and strong in the tackle when required. Superb block to deny a certain goal for Stevan Jovetic. Taken off at the interval.
4/30 Calum Chambers: 6
Nipped in to rob the City attackers on a number of occasions and looked at home at centre-back, though will be disappointed at being left for dead by Edin Dzeko in the first half.
5/30 Kieran Gibbs: 7
Broke forward to good effect, and got the better of Jesus Navas. A strong performance from the left-back.
6/30 Mikel Arteta: 6
Kept things simple when in possession and his discipline in front of the back four allowed Arsenal's other midfielders to flood forward.
7/30 Jack Wilshere: 6
Energetic performance, full of forward bursts and attempts to link up with the Gunners' forwards. Withdrawn after 67 minutes.
8/30 Alexis Sanchez: 7
Gave the Gunners a real cutting edge with his direct running and pace. Very nearly opened his account in the first half but Willy Caballero just beat him to Yaya Sanogo's through ball. Taken off at half-time.
9/30 Aaron Ramsey: 7
Scored wonderful goal, was tidy in possession and covered pretty much every blade of grass. Another big season beckons for the Welsh midfielder.
10/30 Santi Cazorla: 7
Took his goal excellently, and his pinpoint passing set up chances for his team-mates. Rested for the last 20 minutes.
11/30 Yaya Sanogo: 6
He may often look clumsy and unorthodox but the striker set up two goals and won his fair share of headers. With a bit more composure, he could be a real asset for Arsenal. Substituted at the interval.
12/30 Olivier Giroud: 6
Scored brilliantly from distance, and held the ball up well.
13/30 Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain: 6
A measured performance from the winger, who focused more on protecting Debuchy than on running at Aleksandar Kolarov.
14/30 Nacho Monreal: 6
Untroubled in unfamiliar role at centre-back after replacing Koscielny at half-time.
15/30 Mathieu Flamini: 6
Added steel to the Arsenal midfield when he came on for the last 20 minutes.
16/30 Tomas Rosicky: 5
Provided energy but didn't see much of the ball.
17/30 Willy Caballero: 5
Left flat-footed for Cazorla's goal and could have done better with Giroud's strike. Alert to deny Sanchez just before the break.
18/30 Gael Clichy: 6
Made some important blocks and interceptions and did his best to support City's attacks.
19/30 Dedryck Boyata: 5
Struggled with the movement of Arsenal's frontmen, and looked a little off the pace.
20/30 Matija Nastasic: 5
Comfortable on the ball, but couldn't get tight enough to the Gunners' elusive runners.
21/30 Aleksandar Kolarov: 5
A threat when he got forward to fizz in crosses, but struggled at times against Sanchez.
22/30 Jesus Navas: 6
Was contained by Gibbs, and couldn't get into the match.
23/30 Fernando: 5
Unable to get to grips with Arsenal's five-man midfield and booked for foul on Wilshere in the second half.
24/30 Yaya Toure: 5
Lethargic performance from City's captain on the day – completely anonymous, before being subbed off after an hour.
25/30 Samir Nasri: 6
Had a few bright moments and almost converted Kolarov's cross. Taken off at half-time.
26/30 Stevan Jovetic: 6
Unlucky not to score with second-half header that hit the post, and forced good save from Szczesny.
27/30 Edin Dzeko: 5
Poor from the Bosnian – didn't hold the ball up well enough, and posed no threat to the Arsenal defenders.
28/30 Bruno Zuculini: 5
Came on with Milner, but similarly ineffective.
29/30 James Milner: 5
Given half an hour to impress but barely touched the ball.
30/30 David Silva: 5
A few nice touches but couldn't influence the game.
Arsenal maintained pressure down the right, from where Debuchy - signed from Newcastle to replace Sagna - delivered a couple of decent crosses which were just too high for Yaya Sanogo, deployed as a central striker.
City felt they had a penalty claim on 14 minutes when Nasri crashed a shot at Debuchy, which the defender blocked with his chest at point-blank range rather than his arm, according to referee Michael Oliver.
The FA Cup winners were soon on the offensive again, this time left-back Kieran Gibbs marauding into the penalty area before his shot was blocked by Gael Clichy, another former Gunners now in sky blue.
Arsenal were ahead after 21 minutes.
Sanogo and Wilshere worked some space at the edge of the City penalty area, before the England man was upended by Dedryck Boyata.
The ball broke left to Cazorla, who sidestepped Clichy before sliding a low shot back across Caballero and into the far corner.
Sanogo then dragged a shot wide from the edge of the City penalty area as the Premier League champions were opened up again.
City showed a bit more invention as the first half drew towards a close, but lacked any real penetration in final third.
Edin Dzeko powered his way into the left side of the Arsenal penalty area, but his cutback towards Stevan Jovetic was blocked.
Arsenal doubled their lead after 42 minutes with a simple goal, yet one of the highest quality.
Sanchez's ball from the right was held up at the edge of the City box by Sanogo. The France forward showed great strength to lay a pass back to Ramsey, who stepped past his marker before clipping the ball into the net and wheeling away in celebration - just as he had done at the other end in the FA Cup final here some 12 weeks ago.
The second half saw the expected substitutions by both teams.
Arsenal replaced Sanchez with Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Sanogo with Giroud and Laurent Koscielny with Nacho Monreal. For City, David Silva replaced Nasri.
The Premier League champions looked more lively following Silva's introduction and Jovetic saw his header strike the post following a deep right-wing cross by Jesus Navas.
Arsenal goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny then produced a good save as he stopped a low effort from the Montenegro forward.
On the hour, Giroud cracked in a sublime third.
There seemed little on for the France forward when he picked the ball up some 25 yards from goal, surrounded by three defenders. But that did not matter as Giroud promptly fired in a rising effort which nicked off Matija Nastasic and into the roof of the net.
The closing stages were low key, but the end result will nevertheless give Arsenal fans hopes they may just be able to last the distance with City when the action gets under way for real next weekend.
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Calif. city to start fining for false alarms
Billing commences this month as police department begins enforcement of ordinance passed in 2006
By Karl Fischer
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HERCULES, Claif. — Hercules residents gained new reason to bone up on their burglar-alarm owner's manuals this month.
Police will start enforcing stiff fines for errant alarms in hopes of cutting down on the time-consuming chore of checking on them. Three false alarms nets a $150 ticket, and there's a $200 bill for each false alarm thereafter.
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When John Frank first brought home his first football helmet, his mother was aghast — a man could be killed!
Frank — who would go on to play at Ohio State and on two San Francisco 49ers Super Bowl teams during a five-year pro career — managed to talk his way onto the youth team. But not without a hitch.
"I had to show them the equipment I was wearing every day. I had to show my grandparents. I had to get permission from my father's father," recalled Frank, 40, of his peewee football days.
"I remember that like yesterday, going to Joe Frank's apartment in Pittsburgh and unveiling all the padding we wore. I thought it was a joke, but he was a tailor. He examined and inspected how the thigh pads fit into the pants and seams and the thickness of the padding. My father always looked at the helmets. And I think my mother was terrified by the whole experience."
Fast-forwarding to 1989, Frank was at the top of his profession, a physical, punishing first-string tight end for the world champion 49ers and one of a handful of Jews to ever excel at professional football. Yet, at age 27, he called it a career — and became Dr. John Frank.
"Most Jewish boys growing up on the East Coast wanted to be either doctors or lawyers or accountants, and I liked the sciences. I aspired to be a doctor, to make my mother proud," said Frank, now a San Francisco cosmetic surgeon.
While his heart was set on the operating room rather than the gridiron, the 6-foot-2, 220-pound Frank was always able to balance his two passions. For example, he chose Ohio State not just for the Buckeyes' storied football history but because of the school's first-rate medical school and cancer hospital.
Yet, after four years with the Niners, a Super Bowl championship as a reserve in 1984 and an eventual promotion to the starting lineup, Frank was ready to set aside his lucrative side career — until being dissuaded by an unlikely source.
"It had taken me four years to break into the starting lineup, and so once I made the starting lineup, that was sufficient. I was ready to retire," he recalled. "Before that Super Bowl season, I talked it over with some friends. I told my mother, and, of all people — the irony — she suggested I play one more year. It'd taken this long to get on the starting team, so why retire now?"
Frank is thankful he took his mother's advice — and confesses that it was hard to watch his former mates roar out to a 17-2 record and second consecutive Super Bowl the year after he retired. But he doesn't regret hanging up his helmet at 27.
Unlike so many former football players, Frank is able to concentrate without the disruption of a concussion-induced haze or to walk and run minus the pain of lingering injuries.
The former tight end watched at least 10 teammates or opponents go down with severe or even life-threatening injuries during his pro career, and candidly admits that, each time, he questioned his choice of career.
"Every time. Every time. For that reason, I was thrilled to retire. I think most players share a similar sentiment. It's really scary, especially as I learned more and more in medical school. I think most players block it out of their conscience," said Frank, who earned his M.D. from Ohio State in 1992 and spent six years in residency in Chicago.
"The only thing I really feared was a neck injury. All it takes is one fluke collision for a career-ending or life-threatening injury to occur. You realize how fragile football players really are."
Despite the ever-present fear of a permanent injury, Frank's recollections of his days on the football field are overwhelmingly positive. And while he never felt special as Jewish football player, other people sure thought he was.
"I was pretty naive. I didn't realize it was a rare thing. There was one other Jewish player at Ohio State, and he approached me on the first day and made some sort of cryptic comment, 'Member Of the Tribe' or something to let me know he was Jewish," said Frank.
"I was like, 'Yeah, great. Whatever.' I had a lot of Jewish friends."
And, in former star 49ers offensive lineman Harris Barton, he had a Jewish teammate.
"We just laughed at the whole thing more than anything else. We never felt discriminated [against] or singled out. It was really a meritocracy; we just happened to be decent football players and Jewish at the same time," he said.
As for fervently Christian ballplayers preaching in the locker rooms, Frank misses them too.
"If you ever sat down and had a discussion with them and let them know you were Jewish, they had a lot of respect for where the New Testament came from. The Mormons in particular. They'd say, 'Oh my God, you're Jewish, wow! You're the chosen people! Wow!'"
While he grew up in an Orthodox household and is engaged to an "Israeli goddess," Frank describes his Judaism as a largely personal matter, adding, with a laugh that "I'm very religious at weddings and bar mitzvahs."
The self-professed "No. 1 49ers fan" hopes to keep up his practice and start a family in San Francisco — which means he may one day be making daily uniform checks of his own.
"If they want to play, it'll probably be difficult to stop them," he said.


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Ace Combat 6.
I recently tracked down the increasingly hard to find, bundle pack. For a while now I have been wanting a good flight game and the Ace Combat series has always been my fav. Now considering I havn't played Ace Combat since the 2cnd installation, I new I would be in for some new treats.
We shall start with the story. The story is ok. The creator's really really really made it way to dramatic, but yet, the game has no reall emotion's transfered to the player to make the connection. The music is wonderfull, but doesn't really fit the cutscenes. Kinda like a soap opra or something. The graphics on the cutscenes are great and enjoyable. Its just, the story being told in those cutscene's that ruins them. Obviously, your a piolot. Your friends wife and child on living in the city in the start of things. When the city gets attacked while the lil girl is going on a field trip to see some amazing glorious captivating statue."If you play thegame you'll understand the joke" So the wife see's the bridge get blown up that the lil girl's school bus is on and she thinks she is dead, and so the womans travel's begin. Needless to say, on the combat view, your city gets attacked at its capital, you lose all your home lands and have to fight your way back into the city's the retake what was lost, and all on the way you follow the depressed woman.
Now onto the graphics. The graphics are top notch. You have all your views you would want in a flight game. Cockpit, exterior, etc. During the replay mode you will at some points forget your watching a video game. Reflexions from the sun off of your jet and water look beautifull. The ground doesn't look to bad eather. Some of the turrane does look bland but its not bad at all.
For the Gameplay. If your looking for a flight game that is reqarding in the end then this game is for you. Ill make note that I also own HAWX. and the major difference is, Hawx you can jump right in and play, doesnt require any skill or learning. Ace Combat 6 however similiar to hawx is just a more polished and thought out game. I enjoy AC6's gameplay alot. There are High G turns which youll have to master quickly if your going to play online. The controls of the jet are smooth and fluid. There are different types of missiles, but youll find yourself using just a few of them. Missiles look great flying through the air, and you really get a sense of hight on this game. On one level where it s raining, I couldnt get a good visual on my enemy so I flew streight up through the clouds and out of the storm into the beautifull blue sunlit sky. It made the world feel alot more dynamic. And it gave me my visual I needed to make the kill.
Online. The online can be a great experience. Depending on what you have baught and unlocked on single player, you will have the same selection online. This is neat because itll give you a reason to play single player other than hearing the amazingly deep, full of depth storyline. There are a handfull of modes, from TDM, COOP which includes 2 maps and 2 downloadable maps, "free". By the way, there are many many free downloads for this game. Most are paint schemes which add a cool tauch to your fighter. Other modes are a base defence type mode. I have never had the chance to play that one. Noone is ever playing it. Which brings me to the only downfall of online play. Sometimes the community is small. I usually only find 3 or 4 servers up at a time. Sometimes non at all. And online can be the tuffist game youll ever play. People are really good, and newbies are not given any mercy. I my self would be considered a noob.......I die.......alot. BUT, that is why I keep playing. The challenge.
Alright, Ill also review the flightstick bundle. I have played the game with and without the flight sticks, and I have to say the game is %50 more fun with the sticks. They just suck you into the combat that much more. You have the throttle and the main joystick. Buttons are laid out very nicely and the sticks are tough. The only complaint I guess I have with them is the cord's There is a cord between throttle and main stick. It gets in the way alot. But in the end I have no problem. THe sticks also work with other games, such as Hawx, " controls are the same as AC6", I used them on GTA4 while flying a helicoptor. It makes it alot easier, jsut dont use them while on foot.
So, Overall,
Story.-4.3= I just didnt like it.
Gameplay.-9.0= Really enjoyed the challenge. Doesnt get old.
Online.-8.5= Although good, I feel it needs more.
FlightStick.-9.5= Great addition to my collection. Worth the money.
Overall, The game is great, if you want a flight game that you dont just jump into and play the same no matter how long you play it, then this is it. Once you get the hang of it, youll be a pro. And if you can get ahold of the flight stick, the game is twice as fun and ingadging.
Note: The flight bundle also comes with a horrible movie, and a faceplate that is actually pretty cool looking.
I give Ace Combat a B.


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After a quick meal of Nasi Goreng (an Indonesian fried rice dish that we have loved before even leaving the UK!) we felt rested enough to join the boys who worked at Garden Inn in singing and playing the guitar. Lloyd hadn't touched a guitar for 6 months so he was pretty happy! A guide called Omano who the guys at the Inn said was good was there and we booked a day trek through him for the next day. We went to bed early, promising to sing with them again the following night and ready to face the jungle in the morning.
Waking up the next morning, we found that our room was as lovely as we remembered (a big wooden building with a massive bathroom and big windows) and the view from our balcony, across the river to the jungle, even better, We went down to the cafe for a quick breakfast to prepare us for our 8 hour jungle trek we had booked the previous night. Omano arrived and we set off, walking to the jungle.
After 10-15 minutes walking we were at the edge of the jungle, where we met some playful Thomas leaf monkeys, with their cool mohican hairstyles. After watching them for a while we carried on walking and only 5 minutes later came across a mother and 4 year old baby Orangutan, high up in the trees. They came down to have a closer look - hanging above us, meaning we could get some great photos, although you have to be careful to move fast when they start to wee! They almost got us twice!
The mother and baby got bored of us and moved on when a male arrived. He wasn't bothered by us at all and came down twice very low to pick up some yellow leaves off the ground, then chewed them while staring at us. Another male and female came along through the trees, although they stayed much higher. We stayed watching them all for almost an hour. Omano then took us completely off the trail and brought us to a mother and baby, very close this time and we were able to get a brilliant video. They stayed for around 20 minutes before swinging back into the trees, the baby clinging onto its mother's back.
Some more hard trekking (down and through a stream then up a steep climb) and we arrived at another mother and baby orangutan, and a group of tourists. They had been feeding the mother bananas and when they ran out of food she came very close and grabbed onto a ladies arm. The Orangutan was very calm but obviously had a pretty tight grip as the lady was very scared - staying still but saying "I'm very afraid". Unfortunately all her guide could say was "I'm afraid too!" Luckily Omano was able to distract the mother, and move her away from the scared lady by standing very tall over her, making eye contact and pushing against her, scaring her back to the trees. You're not allowed to feed any of the animals intthe jungle and this is why, it was lucky we turned up or the lady might still be there now!
That slightly scary episode reminded us that while looking so amazing and friendly, the Orangutans were still wild animals, which made it even more daunting when we came across "Mina" and her baby, the Orangutan with a reputation for being agressive. Our guide had us ready to run, but luckily we got past ok!
We met our final orangutan while stopping for lunch, a female came down from the trees and very quickly manage to steal a cucumber! She stayed in the treetops watching and so we weren't able to stay in the clearing we had found and had to move somewhere else to eat. After another hours treking we arrived at a waterfall, where we ate Nasi Goreng, out of a brown paper wrapping, with our fingers. The best Nasi Goreng we've ever had!
Omano had told us that this time of year was good to see many orangutans, as there was lots of fruit that they like coming into season. I hadn't wanted to get my hopes to high but I never expected to see as many as we did, it was fantastic! We've put up loads of pictures, just couldn't choose which were the best! Being so close to them was breath-taking, and really hits home how similar they are to humans, especially when you look in their eyes.
After lunch and resting in the sun, we set off on the very difficult two hour trek to the river. Towards the end it was a steep drop down and we were climbing and holding on to tree roots. We were very tired, my legs were shaking, but we made it! At the river we had a swim, the cool water being just what we needed, and rested for a while before being joined by another guide for our white water rafting/tubing back. We rafted down the river and mini waterfalls on three tubes tied together, the water was pretty low (about waist hight) but that was deep enough to keep us moving. After half an hour we had reached the hotel and had just enough energy to climb the steps to our room and get showered and changed!
That evening we had just enough energy to eat, sing and play more guitar! The next day we could hardly move our legs and so, apart from visiting the feeding platform in the morning, we did nothing all day! At the platform we saw another four Orangutans (2 males and a mother and baby)but were quite far away and surrounded by tourists so, while still good, it didn't compare to the trek!
As we didn't have long in Indonesia we booked seats on a minibus to Lake Toba for the following morning. While we we're very sad to leave Bukit Lawang, we took some amazing memories with us.


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For WKU's five-week June 2012 summer session, Dr. Josh Durkee designed an undergraduate research seminar for meteorology students.
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For this class, the students developed a series of unique, unsolved questions pertaining to various noteworthy meteorological events. In the end, the group chose to address why a portion of eastern Kentucky, a region in the United States that by comparison rarely experiences tornadoes, saw its first tornado on record during the March 2, 2012, severe weather outbreak.
"A common remark that I have heard after the March 2 event was from people who thought they were safe from tornadoes in eastern Kentucky and do not understand how such an event could have unfolded over that region," Dr. Durkee said. "It is for that reason that the group decided to address questions surrounding the relatively rare tornado events that occurred in eastern Kentucky on that day."
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The WKU Undergraduate Meteorology Research group discovered that the devastating long-track tornadoes in eastern Kentucky on March 2, including the EF-3 tornado that marked Martin County on record as the last county in the state to have experienced a tornado, was largely due to a few factors:
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#1 Tue 25 Sep 12 3:38am
Just Desserts!
We have a great supper thread, but not one for just desserts! I had a fabulous dessert tonight and wanted to share. This was so easy and so good. I got the idea from an issue of Southern Living magazine. I changed it up a bit for my taste. The one in their magazine used macadamia nuts and a ginger/orange glaze. This is my spin on it ( a wee bit more southern):
2 pears, peeled and cored (leave about an inch on towards the top and the stem)
2 tsps light brown sugar
2 tsps butter (cut in small pieces)
2 tsps chopped pecans
1 pie crust sheet divided in 2
1 egg (eggwash)
Mix sugar, butter and pecans. Pack the mix into the pears. Wrap the pears in the pie crust leaving the stem peeking out of the top. Brush with egg wash. Bake at 350 for 40 minutes.
Serve with caramel sauce.
For the sauce I used equal parts light brown sugar, heavy cream, butter and pecans. I cooked on medium high for about 5 minutes.
#2 Tue 25 Sep 12 9:56am
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Re: Just Desserts!
Awesome idea.. Is this just a report what we had thing or should we be including recipes ?
Sunday night we had some of the last homemade Vanilla icecream we made a few weeks back.. So much better than just about any storebought icecream that is now available.
Is it just my tastebuds or has storebought IceCream in general gone downhill fast in the past 5 or so years? So much of it now has some kind of powdered methy blah blah cellulose crap added. Anything with Cellulose as part of the name invariable is made from woodpulp. IceCream shouldn't be made from woodpulp.
Only a fool argues with a skunk, a mule or a cook. { cowboy saying}
#3 Tue 25 Sep 12 3:05pm
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Either way Ashen, if you have a recipe add it.....if not just say what you had.
I LOVE home made ice cream. I don't make it often enough. Maybe this weekend I'm off.
#4 Tue 25 Sep 12 4:11pm
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Re: Just Desserts!
This was the first time I've used a gluten-free cake mix. This cake would probably be good with a little sour cream in the batter.
Note: Fill smaller molds about 3/4 full. I baked mine in a Calphalon mold that makes one dozen - 1" deep, 3 inch square cakes for about 20 - 25 minutes.
Gluten-Free Poppy Seed, Orange and Almond Cake
1 pkg. gluten-free vanilla cake mix (enough for 1 - 8 inch round cake pan)
170 g. butter (6 T.) softened
3 eggs
100 g. (4 ounces) no-fat Greek yogurt
.11 Liters (4 ounces) Fresh Squeezed Orange Juice
Finely Grated Zest of 1 - 2 Large Oranges
24 g. (1/4 Cup) Almond Flour
1 Teaspoon Lemon Juice
1/2 Teaspoon Finely Grated Lemon Zest
3 Generous Tablespoons of Poppy Seed Filling or Dry Poppy Seeds
1 Teaspoon Almond Extract
Preheat the oven to 175 C. or 350 F. Grease cake mold with oil. Cream 1/2 Cup of the cake mix with softened butter in an electric mixer on high for 2 minutes. Add the other ingredients and beat on low for 30 seconds. Scrape bowl thoroughly. Beat on high for 3 minutes. Fill prepared cake pan and bake until a knife comes out mostly clean, about 35 - 40 minutes. Cool ten minutes before removing from pan.
Confectioner's sugar, orange juice and zest to form a thick glaze. Pour over cooled cake.
#5 Tue 25 Sep 12 7:11pm
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Re: Just Desserts!
Have you made those Gluten-free Treacle Puds yet MsP? (as per my fb photo re 'The Moorend Spout'?)
I would to love to know if they work.
One of my faves at the mo is a puff pastry square with a dollop of lemon curd in the middle & an Apricot half on top, & then cut/folded to make a pinwheel shape. Glazed with Apricot jam & dusted when cooked & puffed up with icing sugar.
It's delish as a cake with coffee or with a blob of ice-cream or clotted cream as a dessert.
#6 Tue 25 Sep 12 7:22pm
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Re: Just Desserts!
I love to make this dessert on the bbq fire:
Grill two slices (about 1 cm each) of pineapple per person.
In the meantime, mix some pure yoghurt with as much honey as you wish.
As soon as the pineapple slices are hot and have taken some colour, put them on a plate and pour the yoghurt over them.
This is so plain and simple, and is so absolutely lovely!
What also works:
Chop several fruit in pieces about 2x2x2 cm.
Make a bowl from double aluminium foil.
Put the fruit in
Drizzle with a little olive oil, fresh ground black pepper and some alocohol, if you wish (rum, liquer etc.)
Close the bowl and put it on the grill or directly on the charcoal.
In the meantime, mix some yoghurt (see above).
As soon as the fruit is done, right on a plate, yoghurt on top, maybe some finely chopped fresh mint, off you go!
Getting hungry now!
#7 Wed 26 Sep 12 4:18pm
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Re: Just Desserts!
One of my favourites - quick and easy banana ice cream:
Peel and freeze some bananas. When you feel like ice-cream, put a frozen banana in a food processor (one per head), and add some double cream. Blitz until it becomes smooth. Put into a bowl, and eat immediately. Absolutely heavenly!
#8 Mon 01 Oct 12 3:21am
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In a fix I've taken coconut milk, almond milk, and fresh pineapple put threw the blender and pop it in the freezer for a yummy frozen treat.
The last few days I've eaten fresh raspberries and blackberries with cream. MMMM
#9 Mon 01 Oct 12 4:07pm
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A recent favorite 'smoothie' was apple, peanut butter and banana with a little sugar blended with low-fat milk.
#10 Mon 01 Oct 12 6:49pm
Re: Just Desserts!
I just made a batch of white chocolate pecan cookies for work.
1/2 cup softened butter
1/2 cup light brown sugar
1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 tsp vanilla
1 egg
1/4 tsp baking poweder
1 cup flour
1/2 cup pecans
1/2 cup white chocolate chips
cream butter and both sugars together. Add vanilla, baking powder and egg. Mix. Add pecans and chips completely incorporate t hen add flour. It made 2 dozens. I baked at 350 for 14 minutes.
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I have the sad habit of grazing on anything sweet within my sight. Chocolate biscuits, chocolate bars, cakes, ice cream, you name it. I am finding it really hard to resist. I blame my husband and my colleagues who buy these things and leave them out. I even make these things...
But I am trying to cut down. With more or less success. Mostly less.
How are you trying to curb your sugar cravings?
Has cutting down on sweets or completely leaving them out of your diet boosted your running potential in any ways?
Here is your space to share your success stories, shocking stories or your struggles.
I cut out all processed sugar once. It was difficult for the first week but then I found I no longer craved it. I didn't eat much junk, but my body was obviously slightly addicted to it and when I broke the habit the cravings went away
quitting the snacks was by FAR more difficult when I had to lose weight a few years ago, than quitting smoking.
SuperCaz - I would like to do this. Can you give me some examples of the things that you cut out please?
Solerunner, I basically tried to cut out anything processed and to make things from scratch where possible so that I knew what was in them. I gave up chocolate, cake, biscuits which are all obvious sources of sugar, but I also looked at packaging and changed my breakfast cereal and yoghurts.
I was never a big fan of processed foods to begin with but you might also want to check the ingredients on any ready meals, pizzas, fruit juices, squashes, jars of sauce, ketchup etc that you buy. Processed sugar is in a lot of things
I replaced sugary snacks with dried fruit, nuts and things like Nak'd and 9 bars. You can make your own versions of these easily enough and save money
In the two months for before Christmas last year I avoided all sweet food, I didn't cut out sugar completely as I ate bread. (I don't eat much processed food) The first 2 weeks cold turkey were hard, I was getting a lot of chocolate cravings but then it settled down. It didn't make any difference to my running or the way I felt but I did drop a couple of pounds. The big difference was to my skin, the texture on my arms improved a lot, no idea why that should be. I've just re-started the sugar fast, work is the worst place for me, my office is full of cake-makers and I find it really hard not to stuff my face.
I felt great on a low sugar diet. My energy levels improved, my concentration improved, my skin seemed to glow and I was generally a lot more positive about everything.
I'm finding it hard now as I've had to go gluten free, which means low carb unless I can find some easy ways of replacing the wheat products. Initially I reached for GF cakes and biscuits but I'm trying to ditch that trend
Thanks for those who have shared so far!
I am going to ask my hubby to hide the sweets in his office in a tin. This way I am less likely to fall into temptation. Interestingly, I hardly ever buy these things, the struggle comes when they are so easily available at home, at work etc.
I have also thought about finding a picture of an athlete I would like to look like to motivate myself to eat healthy. Or I could do the opposite - find a picture of someone who got too fat to demotivate myself from grazing. At the end of the day, there is no use training hard if I spoil all the hard work in the end with sugary junk!
Hmmm well I don't eat much processed food at all, just the odd pizza every so often. It's really just the sweets and chocolate then I guess ahhh I will try but I am definitely addicted! I am not overweight or anything but I think I would definitely benefit by cutting out some junk food!