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Back in March, my fiance and took our pre-wedding honeymoon trip to the UK and Ireland. What excited me most about the trip (besides visiting the Doctor Who museum in Cardiff) was the prospect of sampling the many global cuisines that these countries have to offer. They have become a melting pot of cultures over the past few centuries due to English colonization, immigration, etc., and this in turn now characterizes their food and the way people eat.
While perusing the travel book I brought along, I learned of Balti curry, a now renowned English dish that was created in Birmingham (known as "Brum" by the locals) by North Indian and Pakistani immigrants in the 1970s.
This Punjabi-influenced curry is very aromatic, filled with warming spices, tomatoes, onions and cilantro, and can be made with meat, vegetables or paneer (an Indian fresh cheese). It's a one-pot dish traditionally served in a metal or copper, two-handled dish called a "Balti", which means "bucket" in Hindi. Instead of eating it with rice (or even silverware), the diner will scoop it up with naan or chapati flatbread. The best thing about Balti is that it cooks up quickly, like a stir fry, and can be completed in about half an hour — no need to watch over a simmering pot for hours.
Don't be intimidated by the myriad of spices used in Balti: most of them can be found in specialty grocery stores that have a bulk spice section and the rest can be obtained from an Indian grocer (which is a culinary adventure in itself to visit). I've even seen a Balti spice blend sold at Whole Foods under their own brand. As for the protein, beef, lamb, pork or even vegetables can easily be substituted for the chicken.
No need for a passport here as you can take your tastebuds for a trip to jolly old Brum with this easy to prepare, savory Balti dish.
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The Busiest Mobile PC Users are socioeconomically distinct from other PC users. They skew towards higher incomes and higher education. The self-employed, however, are not spending so much time with mobile PCs.
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The findings have important implications for audit firms that use information technology to facilitate engagement monitoring. The system improves audit review effectiveness and increases the frequency and timeliness of auditor interaction. The design of an audit support system can impact reviewer effectiveness. When used as a process control, audit support systems can have unintended consequences for auditor behavior and audit team interaction.
Dowling, C., & Leech, S. A. 2014. A Big 4 Firm's Use of Information Technology to Control the Audit Process: How an Audit Support System is Changing Auditor Behavior. Contemporary Accounting Research, 31 (1): 230-252.
The previous two decades of APs research have provided a number of important findings regarding the generation and evaluation of hypotheses for significant differences between the auditor's expectations and the client's reported results. The authors note that a vast majority of the research focused on performing preliminary and substantive APs. Therefore, this review emphasizes the need for more research on the use of APs during the final stages of the audit. The authors intend for this paper to lead to an increased recognition of the important of performing research on APs with the intent of improving audit practice.
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Android's share of the smartphone OS market went up between February and May of this year while everyone else took a hit, according to the latest data from comScore. The analytics firm released its three-month MobiLens report Thursday, observing that Android's share of smartphone subscribers had gone up a full four percentage points in the US, though it still remains fourth on the list after RIM, Apple, and Microsoft.
According to comScore, all the major smartphone OS makers experienced a dip in market share among smartphone subscribers during the three-month period except for Android. Microsoft saw the largest drop of 1.9 percent, while Apple was down 1 percent and Palm saw a 0.6 drop. RIM saw the smallest fluctuation, with only a 0.4 percent dip.
Still, RIM kept its top spot with 41.7 percent of the overall market as of May 2010, followed by Apple at 24.4 percent and Microsoft at 13.2 percent. Google/Android stood at a solid 13 percent in May thanks to its four percentage point increase, and could very well overtake Microsoft by the time comScore releases its next MobiLens report.
comScore was careful to note that this data came from just before the iPhone 4 launch (which happened in late June), so there's some possibility that Apple's share will see an uptick before the next report. Keep in mind, too, that there was a high-profile leak about the new iPhone in mid-April, which many believe to have depressed iPhone 3GS and 3G sales as users awaited the new model.
Still, it's hardly surprising to see Android make such a big jump early this year. Android mindshare is way up, and the open source nature of the OS means that there's a new Android phone born every minute. With so many phones on the market targeting so many different types of users, the strategy is quite different than that of RIM, Apple, Microsoft, and Palm.
Finally, comScore points out that everyone is sharing the wealth when it comes to smartphone growth: "Despite losing share to Google Android, most smartphone platforms continue to gain subscribers as the smartphone market overall continues to grow," wrote comScore.


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The few times I made it out, I hit the pavement and kept running without once looking back. With tears streaming down my face and my body trembling, I managed to feel a moment of victory. My lungs burned as my pace slowed to a crawl on my way to a sacred spot; a safe place. Sitting under my shaded hidden tree, near Tom's Party Shop, my head rested on my bent knees as I let the tears flow with the power of a tsunami hitting land. The reality of my situation left me feeling defeated. That fleeting moment of victory was completely forgotten.
I rarely let my dad see me cry, resolute on not giving him the satisfaction. When he hit, I hit back. And I did all I could do to lessen the power of his contact. I braced for impact. I kicked. I wiggled. I punched. I bit. But my efforts proved futile. I, like that slow gazelle, was always overpowered. But despite my wounds, I somehow managed to walk away with my head held high, and with the confidence of a survivor.
People cannot be trusted, which meant that we always, have to keep our guards up. Who knows when someone will strike? Therefore, we must live life with the conviction that someone eventually will - even if that someone proclaims love and devotion. Showing any signs of weakness will leave you open for attack, so live life cautiously. And even if fear consumes you, never let anyone know you're scared.
Looking back on those developmental years, it is clear how that time shaped my view of the world. Feelings of inadequacy kept me in a perpetual state of fear, guilt or shame. I constantly blamed others for my unhappiness, or pretended nothing bothered me. I was ultimately afraid of exposing my true self because I wasn't sure it was worthy of connection. We all have this inherent instinct to connect with others because fundamentally, we know we are all One. But before we can fully grasp this, we must find that connection within. This becomes a challenge when we're constantly told to look outside of ourselves for validation.
We have ideals. We try to meet them because we're convinced that there is a certain standard to meet in order to be "good enough." We need to be thin enough, pretty enough, smart enough, strong enough, successful enough – and have enough "stuff." Eventually, we should get married and stay married (with a partner of the opposite sex, of course), become parents & grandparents, have a house, a dog and maybe a cat – and then, if we live up to all of those standards…we may possibly be worth something. And while we do all of those "shoulds" to be "good enough," we have to keep serving a God who supposedly loves us unconditionally, but who will quickly strike if we break a condition. Why would an all-powerful God create laws that must be adhered to, and then give us the option to violate them? It has been argued that it's a lesson of "free will.
Let's consider this: How is "free will" free when that very will doesn't even originate from us?
"Free will," by definition, means the freedom to make choices that are not determined by prior causes or divine intervention.
The role of "parent" has been projected onto God. The assumption is that a diety has needs. He needs to control. He needs us to follow his plan, and he has feelings. He gets angry when we disobey, and he's sad when we don't praise him. This magical man in the sky is constantly judging our behavior, and then he rewards or punishes us based on how he feels about what we've been doing - sounds a little like my father. Is it too grand to believe the magnificent notion that God is not to be feared, will not judge, and has no cause to punish – and then, to recognize that this God does not live outside ourselves, but instead resides within?
Have you experienced whole-hearted worthiness? Has society, your inhibitions, fear, shame or guilt, prevented you from experiencing your truth? I look forward to reading your comments.


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"The borrower is a slave to the lender, and the debtor to the creditor, disdain the chain, preserve your freedom; and maintain your independency: be industrious and free; be frugal and free." – Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790
"Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry." – William Shakespeare, 1564-1616, Hamlet (Act I, Scene II, 75-77).
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry." – William Shakespeare, 1564-1616, Hamlet (Act I, Scene II, 75-77).
"Without memory, there is no debt. Put another way: Without story, there is no debt.
"A story is a string of actions occurring over time—one damn thing after another, as we glibly say in creative writing classes—and debt happens as a result of actions occurring over time. Therefore, any debt involves a plot line: how you got into debt, what you did, said, and thought while you were in there, and then—depending on whether the ending is to be happy or sad—how you got out of debt, or else how you got further and further into it until you became overwhelmed by it, and sank from view.
"The hidden metaphors are revealing: we get 'into' debt, as if into a prison, swamp, or well, or possibly a bed; we get "out" of it, as if coming into the open air or climbing out of a hole. If we are 'overwhelmed' by debt, the image is possibly that of a foundering ship, with the sea and the waves pouring inexorably in on top of us as we flail and choke. All of this sounds dramatic, with much physical activity: jumping in, leaping or clambering out, thrashing around, drowning. Metaphorically, the debt plot line is a far cry from the glum actuality, in which the debtor sits at a desk fiddling around with numbers on a screen, or shuffles past-due bills in the hope that they will go away, or paces the room wondering how he can possibly extricate himself from the fiscal molasses.
"In our minds - as reflected in our language - debt is a mental or spiritual non-place, like the Hell described by Christopher Marlowe's Mephistopheles when Faust asks him why he's not in Hell but right there in the same room as Faust. 'Why, this is Hell, nor am I out of it,' says Mephistopheles. He carries Hell around with him like a private climate: he's in it and it's in him. Substitute 'debt' and you can see that in the way we talk about it, it's the same kind of placeless place. 'Why, this is Debt, nor am I out of it,' the beleaguered debtor might similarly declaim.
"Which makes the whole idea of debt—especially massive and hopeless debt—sound brave and noble and interesting rather than merely squalid, and gives it a larger-than-life tragic air. Could it be that some people get into debt because, like speeding on a motorbike, it adds an adrenalin hit to their otherwise humdrum lives?
"Scientists tell us that rats, if deprived of toys and fellow rats, will give themselves painful electric shocks rather than endure prolonged boredom. Even this electric shock self-torture can provide some pleasure, it seems: the anticipation of torment is exciting in itself, and then there's the thrill that accompanies risky behaviour. But more importantly, rats will do almost anything to create events for themselves in an otherwise eventless time-space. So will people: we not only like our plots, we need our plots, and to some extent we are our plots. A story-of-my-life without a story is not a life." – Margaret Atwood, Payback, 1939-


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(Pocket-lint) - Gaming laptops don't need to be great hulking brutes. They can be small and (relatively) light while still giving you the power you need, like the Alienware M11x which packs a Sandy Bridge Core i7 and an Nvidia GT540M graphics card into an 11.6-inch frame with alien looks - and a keyboard that might have been designed by aliens.
Alienware devices have a distinctive look, with dramatic angles and recessed lights you can configure to glow in different colours and patterns. The matte black plastic case (also available in red) has gloss highlights - though these will need polishing if you want to keep the M11x looking ship shape. That same gloss surrounds the reflective screen, and there's a strip along the front of the notebook, around the headlight-like illuminated panels. There's even a metal plaque underneath that you can have engraved with your name. Overall there's something a little disconcerting about the M11x's fit and finish though, as it feels a little on the cheap side.
This is a game machine without an optical drive, so if you're not using a service like Steam, you're going to need to invest in an external optical drive. That's not surprising, considering just how small the M11x is, not much larger than a high-end netbook. Squeezing in a DVD or Blu-ray drive would be impractical. However there are plenty of ports, with two USB 3.0 ports on the right, and a powered USB 2.0 port on the left along with a small IEEE 1394 connector. Other connectors include Display Port and HDMI, as well as a Gigabit Ethernet connector on the left. And separate speaker and headphone ports on the right. While most of the M11x's connectors are each side of the notebook, the power socket is on the back, along with a large cooling vent. There's another large vent underneath, with a large illuminated fan.
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We weren't impressed with the M11x's keyboard. While it was distinctive, with a tuneable backlight, we found it uncomfortable to use. It was small and cramped, and while the keys had plenty of travel the flat surfaces made them awkward to use. They're an odd shape too, much longer than wide, which can be difficult when trying to find the right key combination for a game. The standard WASD movement keys are marked with characters from an "alien" alphabet, all part of Alienware's science fictional trappings. There's even a key marked with a flying saucer that can be used to manage the system lighting effects, along with another to quickly turn them on and off. Other special functions, like media controls, are on the function keys.
The touchpad isn't huge but it's large enough to use comfortably, the ridged surface is comfortable, and its slight recess makes it easy to quickly locate. It's a Synaptics pad, and while it doesn't have the full range of multi-touch features of some of the pads on the market, you do get support for pinch zoom and two finger scroll. The buttons are large, with a good positive action.
Display and performance
Games need a good screen, and the M11x's 1366x768 screen has plenty of contrast, and responds well. It's bright and clear, and works well for both games and video. Video performance is good too, with deep blacks and plenty of definition with a streamed 720p movie, thanks to the GeForce GT540M, which is a strong mid-range graphics card and comes with 2GB of graphics memory in this system. Games run well, at consistently high frame rates even at full screen resolution, even on battery, and multimedia content plays well.
Overall performance is good, much as you'd expect from a Core i7 processor with 4GB of RAM and 64-bit Windows 7 Home Premium. There's a lot packed into this small machine, and it's impressive that the cooling fan runs as seldom as it does - especially when running 3D games. Sound quality is good, with a pair of large Klipsch speakers under the front of the machine, with good quality sound for both games and media.
Battery life from the 8-cell 63Wh battery is surprisingly good. We ran a mixed load of games, video, and downloads while connected to Wi-Fi and saw 4 hours 30 minutes of use. Part of that was down to the 256GB Samsung SSD, which meant we weren't using power keeping a disk spinning; you'll notice the performance boost from this when loading games too. One thing to note: the M11x doesn't have a removable battery, so you'll need to carry the hefty power supply with you if you're planning on gaming on the move.
Alienware doesn't bundle much software with the M11x. You'll get tools for the webcam, and to help manage power plans and handle touch sensitivity while playing games, as well as controlling lighting effects. Set the multicolour LEDs to give your M11x its own look, with the option of pulsing or morphing colours. You can choose your own colour scheme or pick one from a library of predefined lighting effects. You also get Alien Respawn, a gaming-themed system restore and backup tool - but you'll need to upgrade from the free to the paid version to get the most from this tool.
Squeezing a gaming machine into an 11-inch form factor is a challenge, and it's not quite clear if Dell has succeeded with the Alienware M11x. It's certainly powerful enough, but you're going to miss the optical drive - after all, most games still come on CD and many use a disk as part of their copy protection. It's also not as light as it might be, weighing in at about 2kg thanks to the battery - around the weight of a similarly configured 15-inch device. Still, you do get Core i7 performance, and the Nvidia graphics card adds 3D video and gaming support. However it's the awkward keyboard that really marks the M11x down, making a gaming notebook feeling more like a gaming netbook.


text: The Portland Protocol is a finely tuned set of orders for intravenous insulin infusions in hospitalized patients, for use both in the intensive care units and on the wards. The Portland Protocol has been in use since 1992 and it has been successfully used at institutions throughout the world to control hyperglycemia. Since that time The Portland Protocol has been repeatedly modified and honed to provide what we believe is the tightest, most efficient, and safest tight glycemic control of any insulin protocol available.


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West African nation's players edge their way up the African rankings despite limited facilities and little funding.
Packed with hard red dirt overlooked by a faded scoreboard, Sierra Leone's only cricket oval is worlds away from the lush, carefully grassed grounds typically associated with the game.
Muddy water pools around the edges of Kingtom Oval after a downpour, as a rag-tag group of young men, women, and children barely big enough to hold a bat, gather to warm up for cricket practice.
But first: The daily battle of chasing teams of footballers off the pitch, a sign the football-mad nation, which zealously follows teams in the English Premier League, is not yet bowled over by the growing success of its cricketers.
"The footballers are here every time we want to play. Look at them! They are playing football right now whilst we are playing cricket!" says national team player Emmanuel Pessima, who is also chairman of the Kenemmanjane cricket club.
With the glaring footballers relegated to the outskirts of the field, the cricketers unfurl a strip of grubby green astro turf, torn in places, along a long slab of cement which forms the pitch.
While any fielder would think twice before diving and sliding to stop a cricket ball on such unforgiving terrain, it is from here that Sierra Leone's players have edged their way up in rankings on the African continent.
Rich history
Cricket has a rich history in the west African nation, where it was introduced by the British in the late 19th century, and had a thriving club and schools league until war broke out in 1991.
Kingtom Oval was "well-grassed" in the 1980s, says Beresford Bournes-Coker, chairman of the Sierra Leone Cricket Association.
But during the devastating 11-year conflict which left 120,000 dead and thousands maimed by rebels, the field, which belongs to an adjacent police station, became home to hundreds of refugees looking for safety.
While cricket structures fell apart, the game did not die, and it was the country's wildly popular U-10 Barracks League which "kept the momentum going".
Mostly made of up of policemen's children, the league has provided the majority of the country's cricketers, many of whom in turn joined the force.
While the children's games still whip up the most fervour, it is those who grew up during the war who became members of the under-19 team which in 2009 defied expectations to reach the Cricket World Cup qualifier in Canada.
But, in a massive blow to the team, they were refused visas to participate.
In 2010 Sierra Leone moved up to Africa's Division Two, also that year winning an award from the African Cricket Association for the most improved cricketing standards on the continent.
"Sierra Leone is being branded as the Afghanistan of Africa – meaning that with nothing we've gone so far "
Beresford Bournes-Coker
"Sierra Leone is being branded as the Afghanistan of Africa – meaning that with nothing we've gone so far," says Bournes-Coker, referring to the war-torn Asian nation's recent successes in international cricket.
Growing momentum
Sierra Leone hopes to bring the same fervour for the game seen in other parts of the continent to mostly francophone west Africa.
The country is trying to rope in Liberia, Guinea and Ivory Coast who have never played cricket and encourage them to join a regional tournament in Gambia in March 2013.
Cricket has never caught on amongst the French and its former colonies but this may slowly be changing with countries such as Mali playing organised cricket since 2005.
"For the east and southern African countries, they have lots of regional tournaments, which is why they perform better and it has been a learning curve for them and we must try to replicate the same in West Africa," said Bournes-Coker.
Local sports journalists held a workshop recently to avoid being stumped by cricket jargon, where a "duck" is not an aquatic bird, a "bail" has nothing to do with being released from jail and players may yell out "Howzat?!" from time to time.
"Hopefully by 2014 we are looking for, with all the facilities and with the playing standard raised, we should be able to apply for an associate membership" of the International Cricket Council, which governs the sport, Bournes-Coker said.
He believes his players have the potential but lack the facilities.
Women's cricket captain Ann-Marie Kamara, a fierce bowler with dark green eyeshadow, agrees.
"The cricket ground is pathetic because if you play on this bare ground you bruise… when you go to another man's country you see the grass but here it's just sand and if you fall you get yourself injured," she said.
The Sierra Leone Cricket Association was recently granted a piece of land outside the capital by the government which they plan to develop into a cricket academy with two pitches.
It is also trying to use the game as a social tool to get boys off the street and into school, handing out scholarships and school materials as prizes at tournaments.
Equally important is instilling a love of the over 400-year old game and nurturing "great players rather than celebrities" chasing the golden ticket.
The players seem to be getting the message. When asked why she loves cricket, Ann-Marie replies without hesitation, deadpan: "It's a gentleman's game."


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I admit it: I love technology. It's the air I breathe. I tweet. I post to Facebook (you can find me there often—but not right now; keep reading!). I keep my Android smartphone with me at all times and live on my "big" computer for hours every day. I have multiple monitors. I have multiple email accounts, which all forward to one another to ensure I always get my messages, which are also synched to my phone. I own a Kindle. I own an iPad.
So—I get it. I understand the pull, the excitement, the fun of the digital forms of technology. And I am a true believer in harnessing their positives.
But I'm also a counselor and an addiction specialist, and some of what I see in digital media is deeply alarming. Kids age 8 through 18 spend almost 7-1/2 hours every day awash in media, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation study. Factoring in their ability to multitask (listening to music while browsing Facebook, for example), their media exposure rises to almost 11 hours a day—every day. Teens spend as much time (or more) with their media as parents do at work. Add in school and sleep, and it's amazing how little time is left for a family to be a family.


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In the never-ending race to construct the world's tallest building, Charles Wee -- an architect whose firm is involved in some of the largest mixed-use projects in California, Korea and China -- stands on the sidelines.
On purpose.
It's not that he's afraid to go big. Wee's firm GDS Architects is behind some of the tallest mixed-use projects in Korea and elsewhere. But when Wee and his partners entered Korea Land and Housing Corporation's design competition for a landmark tower, they decided to create a structure symbolizing Korea's rising position in the world that was unexpected, iconic and fun. They opted to create an anti-tower -- a structure designed to send a message to Korea that greatness starts with insignificance.
"We didn't want to do just another tower," says Wee, who was born in Seoul and immigrated to the United States when he was 12. "And trying to build the tallest tower or building is a bad race to be in."
Instead, Wee set out to design an observation tower that would be both dramatic and understated; a structure that would become a national icon without following the conventional rules of similar structures throughout the world. His solution -- achieved with the help of structural engineer King-Le Chang of KLC and Associates and optical engineer Bill Platt of Platt Design Group -- was to make the tower disappear.
The 1,476-foot building, dubbed Tower Infinity, won the competition and received a permit in August from the government. If built, it will be the world's first "invisible" tower, an illusion achieved through a high-tech LED and video processing system.
Cameras on the lower, middle and top of the tower will capture real-time shots of the surrounding landscape such as clouds, sky, trees and even buildings, process that information, then cut, rotate and stitch it together to make a panoramic image. That image is then projected by LEDs to the other side of the building making it fade into the background and disappear.
"We have a lot of magic behind the technology," says Platt, whose firm designed and built the Shamu Stadium at Sea World featuring hydraulic rotating LED screens. "It's not just building. It's really an art piece."
The building won't be truly invisible, of course. The illusion will be most noticeable to people up close to the tower and passersby on the Seoul bridge a little more than a mile away. The tower will be completely visible from above. For example, airline pilots will easily see it, Wee says.
"In Asia, every country is trying to do 'big things' and 'things bigger' such as building a taller tower," Chang adds. "We wanted to do this observation tower for South Korea that is physically big but is still small, humble and could sometimes be invisible.
"It's an interesting idea of integrating this Asian philosophy about greatness into the design," he adds. "It is this reserved or humble thinking -- opposite to the in-your-face huge Chanel mark on the wealthy woman's handbag -- that mentally supported this invisible idea."
The observation tower will be primarily used for entertainment and will contain bars, a 4-D theater, gardens and restaurants. An elevator will stop at heights that coincide with other landmarks around the world such as the Eiffel Tower and the Statue of Liberty. At each level, visitors will be able to see a real-time view of those monuments and possibly even interact with folks at that location, Wee says.
The government is funding the observation tower for an undisclosed amount of money. However, the total project, which includes a massive complex at the base of the tower, is a public-private partnership, Wee said. The bottom portion is supposed to be funded by private developers, Wee says.
(Photo: GDS Architects)
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The 90 books in a new nationwide reading competition, Read for My School, will include some of Britain's leading children's fiction authors such as Michael Rosen, Cressida Cowell and Michael Morpurgo, in a list that will also include classics such as Anna Sewell's Black Beauty.
The scheme - aimed at years 5 & 6 at Primary level (9-11 year olds) and running from 21 January to 22 March 2013 - is backed by Booktrust and was launched by Jeremy Strong in October at the Telegraph Bath Festival Of Children's Literature. The schools project aims to encourage reading for pleasure, with 100,000 free books for schools to be donated by the Pearson Foundation.
It's an impressive list and 42 of the titles will be available to read online for free at the Read for My School website. This list is made up of books in eight categories including a 'Laugh out Loud' selection, which features Roald Dahl, David Walliams and Liz Pichon.
Strong, a former school teacher and the author of 77 novels including The Hundred-A-Mile-An-Hour Dog, said: "It is a well-established fact that regular reading enriches and increases a child's chance of success later on in life. I hope that every single school in the UK will sign up and take part in the initiative to help their children to reap the benefits of becoming enthusiastic, life-long readers - a passion that will excite, delight, educate and help develop their understanding of the world we live in. I am delighted that some of my books are included in the list. In addition, the Recommended Reads contain superb titles from a range of publishers across eight genres."
Here's a full list of the 90 titles on the list.
Online titles
Blood Red Horse, K M Grant (Penguin)
Dead Sick: Incredible Medicine from History, Haydn Middleton (Pearson Education)
The Great Escape, Megan Rix (Penguin)
Kura's Story, Paul Mason (Pearson Education)
Once, Maurice Gleitzman (Penguin)
Recommended Reads
The Adventures of the New Cut Gang, Philip Pullman (David Fickling)
Hero on a Bicycle, Shirley Hughes (Walker)
A Medal for Leroy, Michael Morpurgo (HarperCollins)
Polly's March, Linda Newbery (Usborne)
Soldier Dog, Sam Angus (Macmillan)
The Thieves of Ostia, Caroline Lawrence (Orion)
Online titles
Finlay and the Bogeyman, Steve Alton (Pearson Education)
Foul Play, Tom Palmer (Penguin)
Ghost Detectives: The Lost Bride, Emily Mason (Penguin)
How to be a Detective, Paul Mason (Pearson Education)
The Mystery of the Poisoned Pudding/Missing Finger, Josh Lacey (Pearson Education)
Scarper Jack, Christopher Russell (Penguin)
Recommended Reads
Laura Marlin Mysteries 1: Dead Man's Cove, Lauren St John (Orion)
The London Eye Mystery, Siobhan Dowd (David Fickling)
The Raven Mysteries 1: Flood and Fang, Marcus Sedgwick (Orion)
Small Change for Stuart, Lissa Evans (Doubleday)
Spy Dog, Andrew Cope (Puffin)
Tales from Schwartzgarten 1: Osbert the Avenger, Christopher William Hill (Orchard)
WORLD BOOK DAY TITLE: The Diamond Brothers in... Two of Diamonds, Anthony Horowitz (Walker)
101 Things to Do Before Secondary School, Louise Spilsbury (Pearson Education)
Big Dinosaur Dig, Esther Ripley (DK)
Earthquakes and Other Natural Disasters, Harriet Griffey (DK)
Fantastic Mr Dahl, Michael Rosen (Penguin)
Real Life Storytellers, Sean Callery (Pearson Education)
The Story of Chocolate, Caryn Jenner (DK)
Recommended Reads
100 Most Deadly Things on the Planet, Anna Claybourne (A&C Black)
The Periodic Table, Adrian Dingle and Simon Basher (illus) (Basher/Kingfisher)
Predators, Steve Backshall (Orion) ]
Three Cheers for Inventors, Marcia Williams (Walker)
Tony Robinson's Weird World of Wonders: British, Tony Robinson (Macmillan)
Who's in Charge? Foreword by Andrew Marr (DK)
WORLD BOOK DAY TITLE: Tony Robinson's Weird World of Wonders: Funny Inventions, Tony Robinson
Online titles
Alternative Cinderella, Jan Burchett & Sara Vogler (Pearson Education)
Cosmo B Henderson: What ARE you doing? Joanna Nadin (Pearson Education)
Fantastic Mr Fox, Roald Dahl (Penguin)
My Brother's Famous Bottom, Jeremy Strong (Penguin)
Pizza Cake, Maurice Gleitzman (Penguin)
Recommended Reads
Billionaire Boy, David Walliams and Tony Ross (illus) (HarperCollins)
The Brilliant World of Tom Gates, Liz Pichon (Scholastic)
The Diamond Brothers in… Four of Diamonds, Anthony Horowitz and Tony Ross (illus) (Walker)
Dork Diaries, Rachel Renee Russell (Simon & Schuster)
Fizzlebert Stump: The Boy Who Ran Away From the Circus (and joined the library), A F Harrold (Bloomsbury)
Letters from an Alien Schoolboy, Ros Asquith (Piccadilly)
WORLD BOOK DAY TITLE: Tom Gates: Best Book Day Ever! (so far), Liz Pichon (Scholastic)
Online titles
Heracles the Hero, Antonia Barber (Pearson Education)
Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer (Penguin)
Peter Pan, J M Barrie (Penguin)
Aquila, Andrew Norriss (Penguin)
Prehistoric Predators, Haydn Middleton (Pearson Education)
Recommended Reads
The Haunting of Charity Delafield, Ian Beck (Bodley Head)
Skellig, David Almond (Hodder)
The Doomspell, Cliff McNish (Orion)
The Spiderwick Chronicles: The Field Guide, Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black (Simon & Schuster)
Undead Pets 1: Return of the Hungry Hamster, Sam Hay and Simon Cooper (illus) (Stripes)
Whizz Pop Chocolate Shop, Kate Saunders (Marion Lloyd)
Online titles
James and the Giant Peach, Roald Dahl (Penguin)
The Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling (Penguin)
The Story of Anne Frank, Brenda Ralph Lewis (DK)
Titanic Tragedy, Jane Penrose (Pearson Education)
The Worst Witch, Jill Murphy (Penguin)
Recommended Reads
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again, Frank Cottrell Boyce (Macmillan)
Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone, J K Rowling (Bloomsbury)
The Hobbit, J.R.R Tolkien and David Wyatt (illus) (HarperCollins)
How to Train Your Dragon, Cressida Cowell (Hodder)
Lost Christmas, David Logan (Quercus)
Matilda, Roald Dahl (Puffin)
Online titles
Ape Adventures, Catherine Chambers (DK)
Everything You Need to Know About Sharks (DK)
Rabbit, Bob Wilson (Pearson Education)
Savitris' Tale and Other Heroic Stories, Anthony Horowitz - adapted by Trevor Baxendale (Pearson
Young Samurai: The Way of the Warrior, Chris Bradford (Penguin)
Recommended Reads
The Demon's Watch, Conrad Mason (David Fickling)
The Grave Robber's Apprentice, Allan Stratton (Faber and Faber)
H.I.V.E, Mark Walden (Bloomsbury)
Itch, Simon Mayo (Doubleday)
Sparks, Ally Kennen (Marion Lloyd)
The Thief Lord, Cornelia Funke (Chicken House)
WORLD BOOK DAY TITLE: Hang in There Bozo: The Ruby Redfort Emergency Survival Guide for Some Tricky
Predicaments, Lauren Child (HarperCollins)
Online titles
Black Beauty, Anna Sewell (Penguin)
Creatures in Danger (Globe Challenge Series), Alison Hawes (Pearson Education)
The Hundred-Mile-An-Hour Dog, Jeremy Strong (Penguin)
Leopard Adventure, Anthony McGowan (Penguin)
Rainforests at Risk (Globe Challenge Series), Alison Hawes (Pearson Education)
Recommended Reads
A Dog Called Homeless, Sarah Lean and Gary Blythe (illus) (HarperCollins)
The Great Hamster Massacre, Katie Davies and Hannah Shaw (illus) (Simon & Schuster)
An Imaginary Menagerie, Roger McGough (Janetta Otter-Barry)
One Dog and His Boy, Eva Ibbotson and Sharon Rentta (illus) (Marion Lloyd)
To be a Cat, Matt Haig (Bodley Head)
Varjak Paw, S F Said (David Fickling)
All primary schools in England are invited to register at readformyschool.co.uk.


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Hose 'em down!!
Think what you will of Bruce Willis, but this guy's a marketing genius. After
a stint in television and comedic movies, he cuts a music album (ugh.). Then he
dives head first into action-hero superstardom, joining up with fellow action
stars in building an enormously wealthy restaurant franchise. He marries a bitchy
actress with a killer body, and now he's in an Activision video game. But the
most surprising part of this story is that Apocalypse is a pretty good
Like a good action flick, this game is weak on plot and big on special effects
and eye-candy. Willis was motion-captured and "cyberscanned" for Apocalypse,
resulting in ultra-realistic movements, mannerisms, facial expressions and some
fantastic FMV sequences. If you're a Willis fan, you'll immediately recognize
his trademark cockeyed smirk.
I'd explain the plot, but
I hardly think you'd buy into it. Suffice to say that Willis' character, Trey
Kincaid, is out to stop the end of the world in a Jerry Bruckheimer-style testosterone
supercharged story. However, so as not to alienate any vidiot geeks out there
(like me), Kincaid is not only Super Macho Man, but described as a "brilliant
scientist" as well.
Apocalypse has a lot of the classic Contra flavor. You run around
until you reach the end of the level while wiping out everything, and I literally
mean everything, in your path. Choose from eight different weapons, like the
trusty ol' flamethrower to the particle beam (which kind of looks like that
ion stream from Ghostbusters) and kill, maim, destroy and just plain hurt the
baddies. At other times, Apocalypse plays like an annoying platformer;
jumping on moving platforms, balancing on ledges, and one bad step can spell
instant death.
The game really needs the dual-analog controller, one for moving and the other
for firing like in Robotron or Smash TV. Playing Apocalypse
for more than an hour with the d-pad spells a-r-t-h-r-i-t-i-s.
Extra marks for the amount of gratuitous blood in the game. Several times you'll
shoot off the baddie's head and the lifeless corpse will fall limply to its knees while the
stump shoots off gushing fountains of the red stuff. Hehe.
Graphics are top-notch and Activision appears to have dug deep in their bag of tricks for
Apocalypse. Everything looks good; from the ambient backgrounds to the spectacular
lighting effects and explosions. Some incidental pop-up is evident, but nothing too heinous.
The sound in the game is great; play it on a good stereo system and get ready
for some bone-jarring explosions. There's limited speech in the game, mainly
consisting of trite one-liners such as, "You want some?" and "These guys need
a little more lead in their diet." The speech gets repetitive after a while,
as Willis' character repeats the same 15 phrases over and over again.
The camera is the weakest link in this game as it is non-adjustable. This makes looking
around your surroundings an impossibility and sometimes you'll have to make some
borderline leap-of-faith jumps. As expected, a fixed camera allows all kinds of things to
obstruct your view.
Let's talk FMV for a moment, which is one of the most eye-pleasing parts of
the game. In between levels, you're treated to a short clip that advances the
plot (mainly to justify some of the weaker elements of the story). The rendered
3D animation is as smooth as frozen Absolut and surprisingly, Bruce Willis looks
exactly like Bruce Willis; not some blocky head with his face smeared on it.
The motion-captures are awesome, displaying every little mannerism that you'll
recognize from his action flicks. Full speech, fantastic backgrounds, and Willis'
witty one-liners round out some of the best FMV I've seen in a game.
Apocalypse is pure non-stop action and eye-candy. It's not a bad game
from a movie star, and definitely worth looking into.


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Pete and Ramon gear up for another week in comics! Pete's got a spoiler-free review of Iron Fist, plus the first issue of Marvel's new on-going Iron Fist book. Dark Horse's newest Witcher book draws to a close, Pete and Ramon are at odds on the use of watercolors in comics, but topping out the list this week was Unworthy Thor - what did Nick Fury say to him that made the hammer drop from his hands?? We'll tell you! Just hit the play button!
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For the purpose of this Brownfield Community Improvement Plan (CIP), a brownfield is defined as an abandoned, vacant, derelict, idled or underutilized property in the Urban Area of the City of Port Colborne with an active potential for redevelopment, where redevelopment is complicated by real or perceived environmental contamination. Brownfields are also often characterized by building deterioration/obsolescence, and/or inadequate infrastructure. Brownfields can include many uses such as old landfills and abandoned factories to dry cleaners and former gasoline stations. Most brownfields are located in urban areas and many are located in key areas such as the downtown or along the waterfront. It is conservatively estimated that there are at least 30,000 brownfield sites in Canada (Source: National Roundtable on the Environment and the Economy, 2003).
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An important component of any Community Improvement Plan are financial incentive programs that are offered to eligible property owners as a means of promoting private investment and change. The incentive programs contained in the City of Port Colborne Brownfield Strategy and Community Improvement Plan represent a comprehensive framework containing a range of programs that are designed to stimulate local brownfield redevelopment by addressing identified critical needs. The financial incentive programs are primarily directed at the private sector and are designed to encourage private sector remediation and rehabilitation, adaptive reuse and construction activity on brownfield sites.
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Application for Building Permit Fee Grant
The Planning and Building Fee Grant is intended to provide a financial incentive in the form of a grant equivalent to the fees paid on planning and development applications and building permits in order to help facilitate re-use, infill, intensification and redevelopment through the provision of an incentive that will complement and augment the other incentive programs available for Brownfield Properties. This is an upfront grant that is taken at the time of application
Application for Environmental Site Assessment Grant
The purpose of the Environmental Site Assessment Grant is to promote the undertaking of environmental studies so that more and better information is available with respect to the type of contamination and potential remediation costs on brownfield properties.
Application for Feasibility Study Grant
The purpose of the Feasibility Study Grant is to promote the undertaking of project feasibility studies so that potential investors can obtain more and better information with respect to the costs of reusing, rehabilitating and retrofitting brownfield buildings and lands as well as the market/economic feasibility of undertaking different types of development.
Application for Brownfield Property Tax Assistance Program/Rehabilitation Grant
The purpose of the Brownfield Property Tax Assistance Program (TAP) is to encourage the remediation and rehabilitation of brownfield sites by providing a cencellation of part or all of the property tax increase on a property that is undergoing or has undergone remediation and development to assist with payment of the cost of environmental remediation. This program only appies to properties requiring environmental remediation and/or risk assessment/management.
The purpose of the Brownfield Rehabilitation Grant Program is to encourage the remediation, rehabilitation and adaptive re-use of brownfield sites by providing grants to help pay for remediation costs not fully disbursed by the Brownfield Property Tax Assistance Program and non-environmental rehabilitation costs normally associated with brownfield site redevelopment. This program only applies to properties requiring environmental remediation and/or risk assessment/management.
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