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SPOKANE, Wash.-- Drivers now have a new option when it comes to paying to park downtown. 200 parking meters were outfitted with credit card readers. If all goes well, it could lead to the modernization of every coin operated parking meter in town.
The meters being tested are mainly around Riverpark Square and Spokane City Hall. So far, officials said drivers are paying with coins. However, they said credit card usage is increasing.
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At Pico, we pride ourselves on being accessible to everybody in terms of cost and variety of terrain. And a big part of that commitment is our partnership with Vermont Adaptive, an organization dedicated to providing outdoor activities for everyone, regardless of disability.
Since this weekend is Valentine's Day, what better way to share the love than participating in the 2010 Ski Challenge? It's a race down the mountain teams of three – creative costumes are encouraged! And because it's the biggest fundraiser of the year, Vermont Adaptive is also hosting a gala and silent auction after the race. Find out more online, and consider spending your weekend at Pico to support a great cause.
Vermont Adaptive has been working at Pico for over 20 years, thanks to a base of over 400 volunteers, supporters and friends to the organization. Through instruction and access to sports, Vermont Adaptive's goal is to show that sports are meant for everyone, no exceptions.
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My cute little characters meet. And then well, it all starts to get fun :) man x man slash. I suck at summaries xP And rating...hehe.
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I discuss my stay in the Chinese hospital system over break. Subjects include the bedside manner of Chinese doctors, the treatments they gave me, and the trouble I caused the nurses.
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I explain what took me so long to upload this video. (Except for the part where uploading took 50 tries.) Then I get down to discussing my plane ride and my life in Xiamen. Highlights include, my cool Thai roommate, my plumbing situation, and my always trips to the beach. Also, yay! I messed up the "h."
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Cholesterol is an important part of your cells and also serves as the building block of some hormones. The liver makes all the cholesterol the body needs. But cholesterol also enters your body from dietary sources, such as animal-based foods like milk, eggs, and meat. Too much cholesterol in your blood can increase the risk of coronary artery disease.
The first line of treatment for abnormal cholesterol is usually to eat a diet low in saturated and trans fats, and high in fruits and vegetables, nuts, and seeds, and to increase exercise. But for some, these changes alone are not enough to lower blood cholesterol levels; they also may need medicine to bring down their cholesterol to a safe level.
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I wonder what kind of reaction Carlos Beltran will get when he comes to bat tonight at Citifield? Will fans respond to him as if he was, perhaps, the best all-around player the Mets had over 7 seasons? I can't blame Mets fans if they don't remember it that way. I didn't even remember Beltran mysel ... More >>
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dear xxxx,
we haven't spoken in seven years. by this point, i shouldn't even be writing anything to you. there is no point in bringing up the past and in the end, nothing i will say will accomplish anything. i don't know what kind of outcome i would want anyway. but it's been a long time and i find that every few months i get the urge to write to you and make sure you're doing okay. are you?
i look online to find little hints about your life when the letter-writing-urge pops in my head. i hope you're still writing and making music. have you made the 2nd album of the year? i'm a little surprised you haven't moved out of state yet. how many cats does your mom have?
i've gotten most of my life figured out now; a pretty big difference from the last time you knew me. i have a counselor, i've been on medication since 2011, i've been diagnosed and since then i've had a chance to break down and analyze who i used to be. my back and forth moods, the depression and insecurity, lack of communication, lack of emotions and empathy, the cheating and lying. i wonder what would have happened to us if i had gotten help from the start.
i'm sorry for all the shit i put you through and how i could never own up to any of my mistakes. i didn't know what i was doing until just a couple years ago and it's all too late to reach out and make amends, hence this letter for you that you will never read. but i need to get this out of my head. the chance of us ever speaking again is slim; becoming friends, even slimmer i'm sure. i don't think that was ever possible for us no matter how hard we tried. but i really do hope you are well, and that you are where you want to be in life.
i will always appreciate you and what we had.
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Accounting for exogenous influences in a benevolent performance evaluation of teachers
AbstractStudents' evaluations of teacher performance (SETs) are increasingly used by universities and colleges for teaching improvement and decision making (e.g., promotion or tenure). However, SETs are highly controversial mainly due to two issues: (1) teachers value various aspects of excellent teaching differently, and, to be fair, (2) SETs should be determined solely by the teacher's actual performance in the classroom, not by other influences (related to the teacher, the students or the course) which are not under his or her control. To account for these two issues, this paper constructs SETs using a specially tailored version of the popular non-parametric Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) approach. In particular, in a so-called 'Benefit of the doubt' model we account for different values and interpretations that teachers attach to 'good teaching'. Within this model, we reduce the impact of measurement errors and a-typical observations, and account explicitly for heterogeneous background characteristics arising from teacher, student and course characteristics. To show the potentiality of the method, we examine teacher performance for the Hogeschool Universiteit Brussel (located in Belgium). Our findings suggest that heterogeneous background characteristics play an important role in teacher performance.
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This is sort of a strange stretch of the schedule for the UConn Huskies.
Starting with last Sunday's game at Washington, they play three out of four on the road. Their only home game is today at Webster Bank Arena in Bridgeport where they've never played before.
They open American Athletic Conference play with a Texas road trip, visiting Houston on New Year's Eve and SMU on Saturday.
Here's a pre-game preview of today's game:
Records: Eastern Washington 5-5, No. 15 UConn 10-1
Last game: Eastern Washington lost at Seton Hall, 92-70, Sunday; UConn won at Washington, 82-70.
Probable starters: UConn, 6-0 jr. guard Ryan Boatright (11.9, 3.8 rebs, 3.6 assists), 6-1 sr. guard Shabazz Napier (15.5 pts, 5.6 assists, 6.7 rebs), 6-5 so. guard Omar Calhoun (8.2 pts), 6-8 jr. forward DeAndre Daniels (13.5 pts, 4.5 rebs), 7-0 fr. center Amida Brimah (3.0 pts, 1.9 rebs, 3 blks)
Eastern Washington, 6-4 jr. guard Drew Brandon (11.3 pts, 5.1 assists), 6-4 so. guard Tyler Harvey (19.3 pts, 4.3 rebs), 6-4 jr. guard Parker Kelly (10.4 pts), 6-7 so. forward Venky Jois (13.4 pts, 8.1 rebs), 6-10 jr. forward Martin Seiferth (7.1 pts, 4.3 rebs)
-- First home game for UConn outside of Hartford or Storrs since Jan. 3, 1987 when it lost toSyracuse (88-71) at New Haven Coliseum.
-- First meeting between schools and against a Big Sky Conference program.
-- Common foes: Washington (UConn won, EW lost, 92-80), BostonUniversity (UConn won, 77-60, EW won 80-68).
-- Top reserve: 6-7 fr. forward Ognjen Miljkovic (6.9 pts, 3.4 rebs).
-- EW has seven foreign players on roster, tying for the most in Division I.
-- The Eagles lead the Big Sky Conference in scoring (76.7 points), assists (13.7), blocks (4.1) and assist-to-turnover ratio (plus 1.2).
-- UConn's Niels Giffey and Seiferth are both from Berlin, Germany. They're good friends.
-- The Eagles convert 8.4 3-pointers per game. Harvey averages 3.7 per game.
-- Hot: Daniels is shooting 64 percent (29-for-45) in last five games. Cold: Calhoun is shooting 28 percent (10-for-36) in last five games.
-- Eastern Washington is 1-18 all-time versus ranked teams. Its only win came against No. 10 St. Joseph's (68-67) on Nov. 15, 2001.
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Chapter One0 Reviews
Anna finds out about Gabriel's supposed 'death' from Carl. But decides to find out if it's really true by going to Budapest herself.
A/N: Hello again! Here's the second chapter for Alas She Lies which was originally my username for FanForum dot com, but nevermind that! lol Anyways I'd like the thank everyone for all the WONDERFUL reviews! It's encouraged me more to write another chapter and actually FINISH a fanfiction, lol :P Unlike some, I have a very bad habit of stopping cause my head gets another story idea before I get to finish the fanfiction I'm currently on, lol Well, I will try my best not to get averted by another idea, and tell me if I'm not writing fast enough! (Ahem, I also give you permission to throw not tomatoes but Orlando Bloom Autographs at my face to make me hurry up! I will CERTAINLY do that, seeing I am a great Orlando Bloom fan!) lol What? You're bored of my silly talk and want to read the story? Ok then let's move on! (Please review!)
Disclaimer: I do not own anything I write here except the characters I have invented.
Summary: Anna is alive but when Gabriel doesn't come back from a mission, he is believed to be dead. She goes to the place where he was last seen to find a terrible plot behind Gabriel's disappearance.
Chapter One
"Gabriel, he's gone..." Carl spoke as his lips kept quivering. He looked like he was about to burst into tears and bawl his eyes out but instead, he looked down at the floor. Then he wouldn't have to see how hurt and tragic looking Anna's beautiful hazel-green eyes were.
Anna stood in front of Carl with an almost shocked expression on her face, filled with the mixed feeling of anguish and grief. Her mind seemed to deny that Gabriel Van Helsing, the legendary monster hunter and Left Hand of God, was dead. Anna had so much still she wanted to do with her love. It couldn't be true, it must be one of Carl's jokes again...
"C-Carl, you must b-be lying..." Anna stuttered, her hands now shaking with cold sweat. Her face started to lose all the warmth in her that had once kept her going. Losing Gabriel was something she couldn't stand. Wouldn't stand for. Carl only gave a rather stuttering nodd, a sign that he was about to cry.
But Anna knew in her heart that Carl was telling her the truth. Her eyes were slowly being attacked by her tears and she let them flow down her cheek, slipping down slowly. Gabriel, her love, the one true love she thought she would never have was ... dead. No, he disappeared. He DISAPPEARED! her voice countered in her head still. And Anna listened to it. Then she thought too. Gabriel had disappeared. He was only believed to be dead, they didn't know for sure. She knew... she had to find out.
"Carl. Carl!" Anna spoke, brushing her tears off her face and Carl jumped, suprised by Anna's annoyed tone. He saw Anna smile weakly but determine. Carl looked at her confusingly and with that Anna explained.
"Was it necessary to be woken in the middle of the night to get to Budapest?" Carl spoke with a sleepy yawn as he rubbed his eyes again and again. Anna rolled her eyes with a grin. She was now in her new outfit, which looked rather similar to Gabriel's clothes. Except Anna wore a black corset, a black trenchcoat that looked sleek and black as the shadows. It blended her into the night quickly, and it proved useful when she didn't want to be seen. That was one of the things she had learned from Gabriel.
Carl, on the other hand, wore his usual brown robes that would have annoyed Anna if it weren't for Carl's stubborness of not wearing anything but this. Anna eventually had to give in when she suggested Carl wear a suit. 'WHAT? A SUIT?' had been Carl's quickest and most dangerous sounding reaction to Anna's simple suggestion. Anna chuckled silently and then turned her head back at the huge ship they took to get to Budapest. The sea water sprayed onto her face and hands from time to time but she didn't really care that much. Her heart was set into finding Gabriel. She knew it would be like searching for a small mouse that had hidden away in a huge city but she had no choice. The night above glistened with a half moon and sprayed a bit of moonlight down onto the sotly roaring dark sea below. The ship rocked back and forth which must have been rather hard for Carl because she saw later on that he was running far off to the ship to wretch.
Anna screwed her nose at the thought and then focused back on her mission, her first assignment. She had to actually beg quite a bit for the Cardinal to let her get Gabriel back. The Cardinal, for once, decided this was much more important and he had called for the best ship and appointments in Budapest after they get there. And for that Anna was grateful.
"Enjoying the sea spray, Ms. Valerious?" shouted a voice and Anna turned to see the Captain of the ship, J. Bonturda. Anna gave a nodd and shouted, "Yes, it's beautiful!" The Captain gave a hearfelt laugh that reminded Anna of her father's laugh and then Captain Bonturda went back to sailing. Anna gave a silent laugh to herself. When she had first come aboard the ship, she had been introduced to Captain Bonturda. But no matter how much she asked he would not give up his first name. It annoyed Anna greatly for before she was leader of her town in Transylvania and whatever questions she asked was answered almost immediately. She sighed, kind of missing that feeling of leadership. All she got out of the Captain's first name was J.
She saw a number of sailors coming up to the deck to do some work with the sails and ropes. Anna was rather confused with them, though she enjoyed watching them do all the interesting work of tying a rope with strange techniques. She'd seen some of it when she had first gone on the boat to sail away on the Adriatic Sea. She had been amazed with the span of sea water that stretched through the earth, and she loved the feel of rushing water. It had touched her so much she had actually cried with joy on Gabriel's shoulder. Luckily for her she had gotten the experience to see a lowering beautiful sunset.
Anna snapped back to reality and shivered from the cold. Although her clothes camouflaged her into one of the walking shadows, it didn't help her stay warm that much. She was still human, she needed to stay warm. She guessed Carl was probably in the same state, except with the wretching. Hopefully he was finished.
"CARL!" Anna shouted and she heard a grumble from far off the boat. She walked through the ship's deck towards the place where she heard the grumble and regretted her decision to even walk up there. She saw a rather green faced Carl sitting near the end of the ship with a frown on his face. He seemed to wipe his lips with the end of his brown robes and then got up quickly when she was Anna with a screwed up face. Carl sighed deeply. He nodded to the insides of the door and Anna also agreed with a smile.
A/N: I hope you liked it! It's a bit shorter and I'm sorry! I will update again sooner as much as possible!


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A 12-foot alligator in Port Royal's Cypress Wetlands has one councilwoman concerned, and she's calling for the town to take action before the gator attacks.
But not every is concerned.
"The alligators that are down there are not dangerous, they don't come out, and when they do come out, they sit on the bank on the other end and just sun," said Michelle Rolain, the owner of Mikkie's School House Diner.
Rolain said the town should wait until the gator does something before they acting.
"You know, right now they're not doing anything to anyone, so leave them alone," she said.
There are four gators in this marsh, and councilwoman Mary Hayward says she's concerned about all of them, especially the one that is 12-feet long. She thinks the boardwalk is too low and the gators could attack someone.
"I'm trying to do something to prevent the danger. I'm concerned that somebody is going to get hurt. This area is prone for the alligators to hurt people," said Hayward.
It's in a gators nature to snap at something if they feel threaten, and that is what worries Hayword.
"I just don't want to see any child or any adult hurt from a gator," she said.
Hayward doesn't want to kill the gators or take them from their natural habitat, but she wants something to be done so lives can be spared.
Hayword suggests moving the gators, but South Carolina Department of Natural Resources wants to know where they would they be moved to.
The department said it's not unusual for a gator to crawl onto a boardwalk, but the chances of that happening are slim.
The town council will discuss the gators and the Cypress Wetlands at their next council meeting.
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Short answer: depends on your manager. I very much like using the new 3D images in Office 2007 to make my workpapers look a bit more interesting, but I only use them when I know they're going to be appreciated, otherwise it's just standard yellow boxes and red check marks. Good tick marks are easy to draw, and are easily distinguishable from each other. These random thoughts came to mind after reading about Jim Carroll and how he did just that as a young CA student a few decades ago. He realized that being creative and a Chartered Accountant doesn't at all mean dealing with contradiction, and he went on to become a popular speaker on futurism and even writes a regular column in CA Magazine . Oddly enough I didn't think to wander onto his website until just now despite reading about his adventure in creating an app for simplifying that task. Go there , and you'll have a chance to listen to him speak is pretty captivating - and there's a introductory video on his...
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What do I do if I find a glaring error in an audit by a Canadian CA firm?
Sometimes you read things online and wonder, "gee, what if someone in charge of this enforcing The Rules found out what's going on?" Would some audit firm get in a mess of trouble if things weren't being done properly? Consider this quote from a lively AuditLand discussion board : " Having worked for Big 4 firms for almost four years, I feel that Big 4 firms often lack ethics. We learn about ethics in different courses in University. I feel that none of the ethics I learned is being applied in the workplace. Generally speaking, managers do not perform all the Audit procedures in gathering evidence. For example, we take data given to us without validating them. The managers don't offer its workers any directions or help. When I was in my third month at the firm, I went to audit the inventory of a computer hardware warehouse with another auditor. We had no idea what we were doing. We simply made up numbers that we thought made sense and we left. We compiled those numbers...
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New guide: how to successfully wait in line at a Polish deli
I really do wish the following tutorial was not necessary, but recent events have showed me that our education system has clearly failed us. Now that there is an influx of people with absolutely zero life skills arriving in my neighbourhood, I have, as usual, found it thrust upon my shoulders to deliver a new guide on How to Survive Life. Long-time readers will recall this site's brief master class on business travel . The only thing it lacked to be considered the peer of workplace training was an introductory " You should be able to " Goals section, and a instructions at the conclusion regarding how to get your Continuing Professional Education credits. The new and improved courses delivered by A Counting School address those concerns. How to successfully wait in line at a Polish deli Upon completion of this course, you should able to: know how to stand in line to be served in a Polish deli, and not look like a cursed fool. Lesson one: arrival. Upon arrival, gauge the line...
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Hope for 2009's unsuccessful UFE writers
Every December, about a quarter or a fifth of the UFE writers from the previous September get the bad news - despite their best efforts, they didn't pass the exam. It sucks, but there's no reason to give up. Much advice will then flow forth, and one of the most repeated points - "figure out what went wrong" - will mean more than just asking yourself, "what happened during the three days of the exam?" Equally important, if not moreso, if figuring out what happened before the exam. Speaking very broadly, you have two groups - the people who studied the "right way", and people who studied the "wrong way." Figuring out which group you 'belong' to can help you debrief what went wrong. I'm not really sure what they're trying to warn you about doing with that cable car. If you studied the "right way" - with a study buddy marking your cases, following a well-planned schedule up to the exam, avoiding spending too much or...
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Shocker: CA firm lays off staff immediately after the 2009 UFE
My dear readers have reported experiencing something horrible: layoffs immediately after the UFE! Although it's one thing to decide, "we have too many young staff, let's tell some of them not to come into the office on Monday", saying, "well, let's get it over with quickly and call them to the office immedately after they have finished their 13 hour exam." Seriously - calling someone in on a Thursday afternoon to tell them they're being let go? Is that someone's idea of a sick joke? It's marginally better than doing it before the exam itself - that's a cardinal sin which I decry even more loudly, since it throws people off their game for preparing for the exam - but you would think that firms would realize that, "hey, we're doing campus recruiting right now." What does that mean? It means that students across Canada and in other parts of the world are currently applying to work for accounting firms. If students find out that...
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Getting mauled by a lion: surely there's an allegory about Big 4 life
Thanks Videosift, you always brighten my day. I'll let you come up with your own story for how this compares to the adventure in AuditLand so many young people go through, hopefully with less claw marks. I nominate Neil to give it a first shot, considering he's now technically in the allegorical doctor's office stage of the video. It's been ages since I posted a video here just for fun, so let's do two while we're at it. This hits the " Learning from Mistakes " category: avoid walking behind horses, especially if you're an idiot.
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What did the Livent fraud teach us about IT audits, frauds, and financial audits in general?
Livent was a Canadian theatre company which imploded in a massive accounting scandal in the 1990's which we learned about in university as a case study in how not to do several things on an audit. The people involved are heading off to prison , at the end of a lengthy and drawn out legal proceeding, but that's okay because I only now noticed this article in Canadian Business shed some light on the IT side of things . During one audit in 1996, computer experts from Deloitte & Touche – the accounting firm that audited Livent's financial statements – spent at least 28 hours evaluating the company's information systems, but failed to detect the changes, the court heard. Any inquiries from the auditors about changes were referred to Eckstein, Cheong said. A Deloitte report on Livent's computer systems, however, noted the company's lack of data security and warned: "The lack of sufficient logical security may result in unauthorized access to programs or data." What this article doesn't...
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Hiring high school students to run audits and treating your staff like... prostitutes?
Tick Marks has an article that's hard to believe - someone hired high school students to work on his audits . His name happened to be Michael Moore, but the guy punished by the SEC wasn't that Moore. Not a big surprise. I've found the grave of Michael Moore in Victoria. No, not that Moore either. Then comes the story which made our jaws drop just a bit when shared with friends: " Accountant 'treated like a prostitute' sues City firm for £40 million. " The article states that, while working for PwC, the accountant claimed to be on the receiving end of racist and sexist comments, and she's suing for damages. There's a curious claim in the article that she "claims that the discrimination prevented her becoming a PwC partner earning at least £500,000 a year plus bonuses." I presume that this was phrased more delicately, in the sense that "she could have one day become a partner, had she not been subject to this treatment." Being 31 years old...
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Going to Kitchener for food, fun, and sometimes audits
The summer of road trip adventures and weddings continues - a week ago sending ACS to a wedding in Waterloo, with a stop on the way at Kitchener's Golden Hearth Baking Company . I've been out there many times for audits, but this weekend had nothing to do with auditing anyone, unless witnessing people get married is a form of auditing. Damnit, this work nevers escapes me. Oh well, at least we make it fun. And delicious, as I explain below. Although the wedding was a fun way to fill up on said deliciousness, it only lasted one night, so I loaded up on some of the wonderful baked goods for Sunday by stopping there on the way. Read a little about them, courtesy of their own website : "They have been at it ever since. The bakery makes everything from scratch including the croissants. They use only the finest quality local and organic ingredients. They do not use preservatives or artificial ingredients. They bake the old fashioned way with butter, fresh milled flour, farm eggs...
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Corcoran usually annoys me, but daft union leaders are worse
Subtle strike commentary? Perhaps I disagree with Post columnist Terence Corcoran when I read much of his work - so much so that I tend to avoid buying or reading the Post to avoid getting a nasty case of "I can't believe you said that, do you have life?" And yet, I can now forgive the last 100 times he's annoyed me after his spot on front page editorial piece in yesterday's Post : While the Mayor goes down in the media and with the public, union leaders chug relatively unscathed through their ritual assaults on taxpayers, good sense and rationality. Mark Ferguson, head of Toronto Local 416 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, which represents garbage and other outside workers, turned up in a weekend Toronto Star profile as soft-hearted New Wave mystic. He reads works by the Dalai Lama and allegedly seeks to avoid confrontation in favour of fairness. What Mr. Ferguson also reads, however, is the same old union class-warfare texts that have animated union power...
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Telus shows why it's good to have friendly and helpful staff
Last week I wrote about a little billing fiasco on my last bill - the week was so busy I didn't end up calling back until today to find out if there was a solution. There in fact was - Telus' IT guys did a good job of quickly repairing the issue which made incoming messages look like they were outgoing if they were from a certain website . I vowed to try and milk this inconvenience for free perks, but the staff I dealt with were friendly and even sympathetic - talking about how they understand this is annoying. As a result, not only did I not feel much in the way of annoyance, I forgot about my grand plan to win additional perks. I still might have remembered to ask if this started to turn into a hassle, but I was quickly transferred from the initial calltaker to an even wiser member of the team who quickly tracked down the correct incident ticket, made sure I would get the correct credit applied to my next bill, and apologized again for their gaffe. So there you have it - anecdotal...
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Yield: 28 servings (serving size: 2 tablespoons)
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- Calories: 51
- Fat: 0.6g
- Saturated fat: 0.1g
- Monounsaturated fat: 0.3g
- Polyunsaturated fat: 0.2g
- Protein: 0.3g
- Carbohydrate: 11.5g
- Fiber: 0.6g
- Cholesterol: 0.0mg
- Iron: 0.3mg
- Sodium: 44mg
- Calcium: 9mg
- 1 tablespoon canola oil
- 2 tablespoons minced peeled fresh ginger
- 4 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 cup chopped onion
- 1 cup chopped red bell pepper
- 2 tablespoons minced seeded jalapeño pepper
- 2 teaspoons curry powder
- 2 cups diced fresh pineapple
- 3/4 cup chopped peeled peach (about 1)
- 3/4 cup chopped peeled nectarine (about 1)
- 3/4 cup cider vinegar
- 1/2 cup dried cranberries
- 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
- 1/3 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
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