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Media Release ~ Option 5 Campaign
Clutha Forum Launches 'Option 5' Campaign
Clutha River Forum, Friday 16 October 2009
Proposed dams on the Clutha River now face concerted opposition from several community and conservation groups who have formed a united Clutha River Forum. At a recent meeting in Alexandra, groups dedicated to saving the unique values of the region, resolved to work together to prevent further "Think Big" dams on the Clutha River.
The new forum has considered Contact Energy's four dam options, and unanimously supports 'Option 5 - no more dams'.
The forum also has support from the International Rivers organization. "International Rivers supports the global movement for free-flowing rivers and the rights of riverine communities," said Aviva Imhof, Campaigns Director, in an email message to the forum. "We support your efforts to save the Clutha River from future dam construction and to protect this majestic river for future generations. You are not alone, as literally millions of dam-affected people around the world are fighting for the same goals - to protect their rivers and their rights."
Members of the Clutha River Forum include the Upper Clutha River Guardians, the Clutha Mata-Au River Parkway Group, the Central Otago Environmental Society, Save Central, the Beaumont Residents' Group, the Lower Clutha River Guardians, and Forest and Bird - Dunedin Branch.
"The energy question concerns all New Zealanders," said forum spokesperson, Lewis Verduyn. "This issue must be presented in the wider context of energy problems and solutions. Poorly informed people cannot make informed decisions."
The forum believes that the public has been misled, citing a public misconception that soaring power prices can only be addressed by building new generation, when "history shows that the consumer is likely to fund this additional generation through higher power prices."
Members said that the New Zealand energy sector is structured to encourage profiteering from electricity generation, which reduces the producer's incentive to invest in energy conservation. "Customers have a cost incentive to save energy, but producers have a profit incentive to sell more."
Past restructuring of the energy sector has failed to deliver efficiencies. Instead, energy companies have manipulated the supply and demand equation to reap enormous profits. This problem can only be addressed by restructuring the energy sector to incentivize energy conservation at every stage of electricity production, management, and distribution.
"This is part of a much wider problem," says Lewis Verduyn. "As a society we are engaged in the unsustainable pursuit of growth without a proper environmental accounting process. That's why all our so-called resources, and our rivers, are in terminal decline. Change will be difficult because our decision-makers, in politics and business, are accustomed to the existing failing paradigms of economics and governance. In terms of energy, we need to plan for our future now, by maximizing what we have, and by choosing the most sustainable long-term generation options."
Forum members agreed that energy efficiency measures can significantly reduce or negate the need for new generation capacity. In most cases, these demand reductions can be achieved at less cost than constructing new generation.
At the same time there is a need for New Zealand to move away from unsustainable generation using oil, coal, gas fired power stations and large-scale hydro. The group regards Contact Energy's claim that more Clutha dams are among our "best renewable" options, as "old strategies dressed in green-washed language."
"There is a myth that large hydro is clean, green and renewable," says Lewis Verduyn. "Large concrete gravity dams have a full life carbon footprint that is 2 to 6 times larger than an average wind farm (another poor option), and as we've seen on the Clutha, large dams cause serious environmental and community impacts, submerge productive land, and impose long-term costs, risks and liabilities relating to reservoir sedimentation, floods, instability and decommissioning that are highly problematic."
Because of problems with large dams (over 10 MW) they are no longer defined as a "renewable" energy by many organizations including the World Wildlife Fund. More than 260 organisations have signed the International Rivers declaration to exclude large hydro, over 10 MW, from renewable energy initiatives in the carbon offset market.
Lewis Verduyn said "There is no place for more large dams in New Zealand, because they cannot provide a sustainable, reliable and expandable energy solution. If energy demand grows by as much as 2.5% annually as predicted we would need the equivalent of one Luggate dam (86 MW) every 6 months, or one Tuapeka dam (350 MW) every 25 months, or another Clyde dam (432 MW) every 29 months. This is obviously unsustainable. We are running out of rivers. Clearly a long-term solution is needed."
Members of the forum identified the Cook Strait tidal power option as the single largest and most promising "new" renewable energy available to New Zealand, capable of providing more than 17000 MW. It has a guaranteed weather-independent output, a relatively low material cost, and the lowest carbon footprint of any form of generation in New Zealand. The forum believes that this innovative underwater technology, which is being developed by Neptune Power, offers substantial opportunities for New Zealand in a quickly changing world.
Nationwide, a range of initiatives are urgently needed to improve energy efficiency, reduce systemic waste in the energy sector, promote local generation and new renewables, and to develop lasting energy solutions.
The forum has embarked on an 'Option 5 - No More Dams' campaign.


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Robots can already mimic people, dogs, cats and insects. They can even walk on water. Now roboticists at the University of Washington have built a school of three robotic fish that swim and communicate wirelessly with one another using sonar signals. So far the fish are swimming happily in a laboratory tank, but researchers plan to build 20 of the aqua bots and unleash them in the Puget Sound next year to help track fish and whale migration, and contaminants in the water.
Robot fish have been around for a few years (pictured above in the London Aquarium, from 2005), but the UW invention is a milestone because it's the first group of robofish that can school through active communication. Biological fish form dazzling schools by communicating through their lateral lines and in a sense the bots do the same thing, only their communication is based on sonar. The fish are also equipped with 3-d compasses so they know where they are in the water, and pressure sensors to keep track of how deep they dive.
Admittedly they're not as sexy as their biological cousins, but videos of them swimming here show they make spooky stand-ins for the real thing.
Source: University of Washington via Discovery News


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(CMT Offstage keeps a 24/7 watch on everything that's happening with country music artists behind the scenes and out of the spotlight.)
If and when Brantley Gilbert and Jana Kramer record their first duet together, it will probably not be a love song. In fact, it could be a fighting song. One they've already written together is called "You're Not Listening." And Gilbert told me what it wasn't about. "Well, it's a duet. But it's not like the whole love song, mushy mushy thing where the guy talks then the girl talks," he explained. "It's actually an argument. Like a knock-down, drag-out fight." He said when they sing it together, the lyrics overlap each other and they are singing at the same time. So it's more of a spin on a duet, he said. Will we ever get to hear it? Maybe. One of these days. Eventually. "We've both got our own thing going on right now, and we're working our butts off," he said.
Plus, there's the whole wedding thing they have ahead of them. And he's is working his butt off on that, too. "When we started, I had three missions — the preacher, the wedding band and the fireworks. I knocked those out quick," he said. But then the wedding planner emailed him with another to-do list explaining other things that some grooms help out with. "Which means, if you don't help, she is gonna be pissed," Gilbert said.


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Chen scratched from start, lands on DL
Royals left-hander bothered by stiff back; Duffy may fill in Saturday
KANSAS CITY -- Left-hander Bruce Chen was scratched from his Saturday start against the Tigers, and the Royals put him on the 15-day disabled list Friday.
The move was made retroactive to April 25. Right-hander Aaron Brooks was recalled from Triple-A Omaha.
Chen was supposed to throw a side session Thursday to test his readiness to pitch after missing a scheduled start Wednesday night because of lower back problems.
"He just didn't feel good," manager Ned Yost said. "His back was still stiff and he still felt some pain, even when he was warming up. He didn't even get to the mound."
Left-hander Danny Duffy, despite big problems in his past two relief outings, will substitute for Chen on Saturday.
Duffy was sent to Omaha at the end of Spring Training to get stretched out as a starting pitcher in case the Kansas City rotation needed help. However, after one start, he was recalled from Omaha to shore up KC's bullpen.
His first four outings went well as he pitched 8 1/3 scoreless innings with five hits and two walks given up and 11 strikeouts. The next two appearances, however, were eyesores.
Saturday night in the 10th inning at Baltimore, he faced three batters. Duffy hit the first one, then fielded two successive bunts and made throwing errors on both. That ended his outing and Louis Coleman gave up the game-ending hit in a 3-2 Orioles win. Wednesday night against the Blue Jays, Duffy took over in the sixth and immediately hit one batter and walked the next. He was pulled immediately but both runners scored for a 2-2 tie. The Royals went on to win, 4-2.
"I believe he'll be fine," Yost said. "I'll have some coverage if I need it."
Yost estimated he could throw 65 to 70 pitches, so another pitcher would have to be designated to "piggyback" with him.
"We get through Friday and we'll have a better idea of formulating a game plan on who's available and who's not available," Yost said.
Chen had been bothered by what was described as a gluteal muscle strain for about four weeks. Earlier this week it was determined that he had a disc issue as well and he was given an epidural injection.
"I talked to Nick [Kenney, head trainer] about it and he thinks it's going to progress quickly and it shouldn't be much past the 15-day ordeal, but you've got to go day-to-day with it," Yost said.
"He's got a disc that's bulging against one of his nerves and these injections shrink the disc and calm the inflammation down. It's just waiting for that to happen."
Yost speculated that Chen would be ready to pitch before his time on the DL expires.


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It rains almost everyday now. I am thankful for the rain, we need it to alleviate the water distribution problem in Metro Manila. But I don't want another Ondoy to arrive either. That was traumatic. When it rains I whisper a prayer of thanks but also ask God to not make it too hard for the homeless or whose homes cannot take too much rain shower. With the rainy season comes the common illnesses: colds, coughs, flu, even dengue. So it is also time for everyone to make sure resistance is high. It is during these times that we take double doses of vitamins for added protection. I hope you do too.
Rainy Days are Definitely Here!
Saturday, July 24, 2010
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So we played this scenario last night and it is incredibly frustrating. We were playing it as a solo scenario so started at Level 2 since it was #2 in the campaign, but after about an hour without trapping a single spawn we automatically upped to Level 3 as a handicap, and that helped us finish.
Is it just me, or is Cathulu itself a lot easier than its Spawn? The rule about them losing both the oldest stream after each Ghostbuster as well as all of them moving closer makes them seem a bit overpowered for a class 2 ghost.
We've determined that you have to be level 3 at the very least to even attempt to take them out so you have enough actions to keep stream tokens on them for the next buster.
The appendix also indicated a variant rule where you can change the turn order each round, this would have helped last night since it would have helped coordinate attacks on them.
If you've beaten this one, what's the best way to go about it?
Also- Cathulu himself- does terrain not affect his movement? He seems too big to care about walls so we made it that he just moved through them, but it wasn't stated anywhere specifically, and if this is the case, thematically speaking, wouldn't any walls he pass through no longer exist, removing the obstacles from the GB themselves? I may implement this as a house rule and use some kind of rubble marker to indicate where he's been traveling.


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By Mark Doyle, BBC
July 25, 2013
A group of international scientists studying a deadly cholera epidemic in Haiti has concluded that peacekeepers from the United Nations were the most likely source of the disease.
The epidemic, which began in late 2010, has so far claimed over 8,000 lives.
The UN formally rejected compensation claims in February.
This conclusion could have a major impact on a forthcoming multi-billion dollar compensation claim now being mounted by victims in a US court.
The cholera epidemic in Haiti has put the United Nations in an unprecedented legal and moral crisis.
Ever since the outbreak began, all the circumstantial evidence has pointed to the source of the disease being a military camp for UN peacekeepers from Nepal, where cholera is common.
Sewage from the UN camp leaked into a nearby river and was dumped in an open pit.
The cholera then spread down the river and into Haiti's towns and cities.
The United Nations, under massive pressure from the victims, convened a panel of top scientists in 2011.
But it concluded in an official UN report that no group or individual was to blame.
Now, the very same group of scientists has looked at new microbiological evidence.
And it has concluded that the Nepalese camp was the most likely source of the outbreak.
The families of people who died in the epidemic are planning to sue the UN for compensation totalling many billions of dollars.
The UN says it is has legal immunity from any prosecution.
But the victims say they are bringing their case anyway, in a US court. This new evidence will almost certainly bolster their claim.
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Liz Owen needed help, and she needed it fast.
She had rescheduled a flight from Washington to Los Angeles on Virgin America to avoid Superstorm Sandy, which was about to slam into the East Coast. But shed forgotten to order a wheelchair.
Owen, who works for a nonprofit organization in Washington, had recently broken her foot, which was in a cast.
I had been on the phone on hold with Virgin America for well over an hour, she said.
Halfway to the airport, she decided to send Virgin America a tweet a message on the microblogging service Twitter.
Within minutes, an airline representative messaged her back, offering to help. When she pulled up to the curb, a Virgin America representative greeted her. Are you @LizOwenLA? he asked, referring to her Twitter handle. He offered her a seat in a waiting wheelchair, which hed borrowed from another airline.
When it comes to customer service, no one likes to wait. And new Internet-based technologies that some travel companies are embracing promise an almost instant response, such as the one Owen got. If you carry a smartphone, these tools can lead to a better travel experience if you know how to use them.
Not every company offers this shortcut to a quicker resolution, and even those with a sophisticated social-media presence dont respond as quickly as Virgin reacted to Owen. In that sense, its very much like any offline transaction: It matters who you are.
But instead of presenting your elite frequent-flier memberships for preferred treatment, you need to show that you understand the rules of social media.
Among air carriers, Southwest Airlines and Virgin America have reputations for lightning-fast response to customer-service problems noted online.
A recent survey by the social media analytics firm Socialbakers found that as an industry, airlines were the second-fastest to reply to customers on sites such as Facebook, with an average response time of 188 minutes. (Telecommunications companies were faster.) Some carriers, such as KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, were significantly faster, replying to customers in less than half an hour.
But simply sending a tweet or posting to a companys Facebook page isnt always enough to get you noticed.
A lot of travel brands want to help, Twitter spokeswoman Rachael Horwitz said. But you have to look like a real customer.
For starters, you need an account on Facebook, Google+ or Twitter the three major social-media sites to capture a travel companys attention. But that doesnt guarantee that a company will reply, Horwitz says.
On Twitter, for example, your account comes with a default avatar that looks like an egg. Simply uploading a photo and adding some profile information will set you apart from spammers and ensure that a company knows youre a real person.
That doesnt necessarily mean that youll get a speedy response. Just as elite-level frequent fliers get preferred treatment, so also do users who have the greatest social clout. Travel companies eye your social-media profile, looking for engagement (how active you are online) and the number of your friends or followers. Its possible to instantly measure how important a user is by checking his or her score on Klout, a website that measures peoples new-media credibility.
As it turns out, Owens Twitter profile displayed her photo and suggested that she spent a fair amount of time communicating with other users. Owen also had a previous relationship with Virgin America: Two years ago, shed been a passenger on a transcontinental flight that made an emergency landing in Chicago. In that case, as well, Twitter was instrumental in getting her concerns, and those of other customers, addressed. In the offline world, you might say that Owen and Virgin America were pen pals.
Virgin Americas social media guest relations manager, Tony Amrich, happened to see Owens plea for help on the day she was flying to Los Angeles. He phoned the airlines ticket counter at Dulles International Airport, ensuring that she had a wheelchair.
As social media have evolved, so have Virgin Americas methods of communicating with passengers, Amrich says. Today, the airline is transitioning from talking by phone and email to communicating via Twitter and Facebook. That allows the company to resolve a problem faster and often better.
Instead of potentially apologizing for a missed opportunity, Im right there with the guest, working on solutions or just saying, Love you back, he said.
Sites like Twitter are evolving, too. Its latest user experience places a heavier emphasis on images, so now, instead of just telling a company about a service problem, you also can show it to them (and to all your friends who happen to be watching).
Social media could change customer service, not just in the travel industry but for any business. Ive used Twitter to help advise consumers with problems in real time, and I never use it more than during the holidays, when infrequent travelers need quick help.
By the way, you can find me at @elliottdotorg on Twitter, and Im happy to answer any questions.
But I also can see this going sideways, with social media turning into nothing more than a branding opportunity with exceptions made for super-users with high Klout scores. That would be as much of a travesty as the current airline loyalty programs, which similarly segment passengers, rewarding the best customers with plush seats and gourmet food but leaving most others fighting for scraps in the main cabin.
Having a shortcut to better customer service is a powerful incentive to join one of the social-media sites before your next trip. Theyre all free to use, but a word of warning: They can be addictive.
But thats another story.
Christopher Elliott is the ombudsman for National Geographic Traveler magazine. Email him at email@example.com, or troubleshoot your trip through his website, www.elliott.org. Distributed by Tribune Media Services.


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Ellen DeGeneres may have found a surprising new shopping buddy!
DeGeneres recently became a spokesperson for JC Penney, but conservative group One Million Moms protested, claiming that the retail chain was jumping on the "pro-gay bandwagon" and calling for JC Penney to fire DeGeneres. On Wednesday's O'Reilly Factor, conservative pundit Bill O'Reilly spoke out in favor of DeGeneres and JC Penney's decision to retain her as their spokesperson.
"I don't think that's the spirit of America," he said. "What is the difference between the McCarthy-era communitst blacklist of the '50s and the Million Moms saying, 'Hey, JCPenney and all you other stores, don't you hire any gay people. Don't you dare.' What's the difference?... A conservative group in the country is asking a private company to fire an American citizen based on her lifestyle. I don't think that's correct."
O'Reilly clarified that he supported the One Million Moms and other traditional-valued shoppers for speaking up and boycotting JC Penney, but for him, the issue was about ethical business practices.
Earlier, the One Million Moms released the following statement: "By jumping on the pro-gay bandwagon, JC Penney is attempting to gain a new target market and in the process will lose customers with traditional values that have been faithful to them over all these years... The majority of JC Penney shoppers will be offended and choose to no longer shop there."
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On her talk show, DeGeneres initially joked, "Being gay or pro-gay isn't a bandwagon. You don't get a free ride anywhere. There's no music... Occasionally we'll sing 'We Are Family.' But that's about it."
But she also addressed the topic seriously. "This organization doesn't think that I should be the spokesperson because I am gay... So they wanted to have me fired, and I'm proud to say that JC Penney stuck by their decision to make me their spokesperson... I really want to thank everyone for supporting me. If you don't know me very well... here are the values that I stand for: I stand for honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional vlues. That's what I stand for."
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The private sector must join the global aid community in helping smallholder farmers become more resilient against natural disasters and other crises, says Oxfam chief campaigner.
Phil Bloomer, the director of campaigns and policy at Oxfam GB, spoke with Devex Editor Rolf Rosenkranz on the fringes of the 2012 European Development Days.
Bloomer called for major investment in small farmers to feed the poorest 2 billion people in the next 20 years and help them adapt to climate change. He lauded the work of companies like Starbucks, which in Ethiopia is helping coffee farmers to get to higher altitudes to avoid the heat stress that has been affecting crop quality.
"Compare and contrast that with a number of large supermarkets in Europe who are essentially going around grazing the planet. If the rains are falling over here, this is where we'll go and get our crops and when they don't fall there, we'll go somewhere else," he told Rosenkranz. "All the risk of climate change is being passed down to those very vulnerable people, instead of building their resilience and their adaptation."
Watch the conversation between Rosenkranz and Bloomer on the drivers of the current food price spikes and ways to mitigate the situation, part of a series of conversations we video-taped with global development leaders in the center of the action at last week's EDD.
Check out our complete coverage of European Development Days 2012.


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In a surprising move, MediaLive International the company responsible for putting on Comdex has announced that this year's show has been cancelled. Comdex is one of the oldest computer/IT trade shows, and used to be one of the largest as well. However, in the late 1990s many of the larger vendors quit exhibiting there, and attendance has declined from a peak of 210,000 in 1995 to last year's paltry 40,000. The show last year was marketed towards IT management types, but most of the exhibitors were smaller companies with narrow product lines. As has become the norm, major vendors chose to sit it out, renting hotel suites instead of space on the exhibit floor.
"We feel that while we could run Comdex profitably this year, it really wouldn't serve the interests of the broader IT industry," [MediaLive International VP Eric Faurot] said. The international versions of the show are expected to continue as planned. "The brand came to represent some of the excesses of the '90s," he said. "It takes time to build trust back in the brand."
As of now, MediaLive plans to resurrect Comdex for 2005, but that is contingent on getting major companies such as Dell, Microsoft, and HP to show up. Even if Comdex does return after taking this year off, the show has lost its luster in the eyes of the industry. Last year, the previous Comdex owner, Key3Media Group filed for bankruptcy, and we noted then that Comdex was running the risk of irrelevancy. The annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas has become the place to be for the industry and media alike, and next year's CES is expanding to two convention centers in Las Vegas to handle all the exhibitors and traffic. Even if Comdex manages to return in 2005, it will continue to play second fiddle to the CES and Germany's CeBit.


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Over a week ago, it was revealed that a new XIII game was in the works for iOS and PC. This week, our hopes and dreams have been crushed with the reveal of XIII: Lost Identity. Turns out it's not a true follow-up to the fantastic 2003 game, but one of those bloody "interactive story" things.
To be fair, being originally based on a comic book, there's no written law that says it has to be a first-person shooter, but this is sure to disappoint quite a few fans of the game adaptation. Looking at the screens, it seems like a bevy of puzzles and lots of talking are involved. THAT'S NOT VIDEOGAMES, ARGH!
Oh well. There will be some people who are all about this, and that's cool for them. I'll be bowing out of this dance, myself.
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Pradomar and Climandiaro Beach Near Barranquilla
Leaving the city by the Via 40, just after Puerto Colombia, lies Climandario beach and the Pradomar hotel. It's a great place to spend a day on the beach, surf or party all night. Located South of Puerto Colombia, the beach is clean as protected from the pollution present on the Western side of the bay.
At the weekend, the Pradomar hotel (the only one there) turns its beach and outdoor patio into a Ibiza style club, a truly amazing party if you are there on the right night.
Pradomar has 2 very distinct sides: the rustic sheds for the Colombian working class with cheap food and drinks and the very comfortable hotel Pradomar with his expensive coktails and food (the best Pina Colada we've ever tasted!).
The Pradomar hotel is a great choice if you want to relax or enjoy the weekend parties. Also a good choice to rest after a day at the Carnaval.
Prices start from 150,000 for a double room and the food will cost you 50,000 per head but it is worth it.
=> Please check availability and prices before going there.
Calle 2 No.22-61, Puerto Colombia
Tel: (5) 3096011-3096540-3095250
Getting there
Taxis will cost you between 20,000 to 25,000 pesos one way to get there. You can take buses to go to Puerto Colombia and then take a taxi from there but that's a lot of work.
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Florida man faces New Haven arraignment in $80 million drug case
NEW HAVEN -- A Florida man is facing arraignment on charges in the theft of about $80 million in prescription drugs from a Connecticut warehouse in 2010.
An attorney for Amaury Villa says he'll plead not guilty at his arraignment Tuesday in New Haven, but she doesn't expect the case to go to trial.
Amaury Villa pleaded guilty in Florida last year to possessing drugs stolen from the warehouse.
Amaury Villa and his brother Amed Villa were arrested last year in Florida on federal theft and conspiracy charges related to their alleged participation in the theft, called the biggest in Connecticut history.
Jonathan Einhorn, attorney for Amed Villa, told The Associated Press Friday that a guilty plea is a "good likelihood" in his case. Negotiations are continuing.
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Pretzel Rolls Recipe
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- Yield:makes 8 rolls
- Active time: 25 minutes
- Total time:2 hours
- 2 3/4 cups bread flour
- 1/4 ounce active dry yeast
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 tablespoons plus one teaspoon sugar, divided
- 1/2 teaspoon celery seeds
- 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons hot water
- Olive oil
- 8 cups water
- 1/4 cup baking soda
- 1 egg
- Coarse salt
In the bowl of a food processor, combine yeast, flour, salt, celery seeds, and one teaspoon sugar. Pulse to blend. With machine running, add hot water. Continue to processor for one minute to knead. Lightly oil a large bowl. Turn dough into bowl and coat to oil. Cover bowl with a kitchen towel and let dough rise until doubled in volume, about one hour.
Punch down dough and knead for one minute. Turn dough onto a floured surface and cut into 8 equal pieces. Shape each piece into a ball. Use a sharp knife to score an X into the top of each ball. Cover balls with kitchen towel and let rise until almost doubled in volume, about 25 minutes.
Preheat oven to 375°F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Bring 8 cups of water to a boil. Add two tablespoons of sugar and baking soda. Put rolls in boiling water, letting them boil for about 30 seconds per side. Take out rolls with a slotted spoon and transfer to baking sheet, scored side up.
Lightly beat egg with one tablespoon of water. Brush rolls with egg wash. Sprinkle each roll generously with coarse salt. Bake rolls until brown and a light crust has formed, about 25 minutes.
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Pivot is the name of a TV channel aimed at 15-to-34-year-olds who want to change the world.
Pivot is the name of a TV channel aimed at 15-to-34-year-olds who want to change the world.
In the process, they could help Pivot change the television business.
Announced last December, the new venture was officially unveiled Wednesday at a news conference disclosing program and distribution details as well as its name and August 1 sign-on date. It initially will be available in more than 40 million homes.
Pivot is a division of Participant Media, founded in 2004 by entrepreneur-philanthropist Jeff Skoll, who helped mastermind eBay. Since then, Participant has produced more than 40 fiction and nonfiction films (winning 35 Academy Awards) that include "The Help," ''Charlie Wilson's War," ''Food, Inc.," ''An Inconvenient Truth" and Steven Spielberg's recent "Lincoln."
The company is dedicated "to creating lasting sustainable change through the power of storytelling," said Pivot president Evan Shapiro, "and now we're bringing that to TV.
"The mandate of Pivot is entertainment that inspires social change and our target is millennials, but other than that we are a general entertainment network with all types of content: drama, comedy, talk and documentaries," said Shapiro, who before joining Participant served as president of IFC and Sundance Channel, and executive-produced such documentaries and series as "This Film Is Not Yet Rated" and the Peabody Award-winning "Brick City" and "Portlandia."
Pivot will program around the clock (no long-form infomercials padding fringe periods). Documentaries will fill much of the schedule, including those from the Participant library, film festivals and world premieres.
Acquired series include "Friday Night Lights," the inspiring high school football drama, and "Farscape," a cult classic previously aired on the Sci-Fi Channel about a diverse group of passengers of a space vessel forced to work together to survive.
Pivot also will introduce its viewers to "Little Mosque on the Prairie," a long-running Canadian sitcom focused on a Muslim community in a fictional Saskatchewan prairie town. "It has never been seen in the United States because the word 'mosque' is in the title," Shapiro said.
Pivot plans 300 hours of new programming its first year.
New series will include an audience-collaborated variety show produced and hosted by Joseph Gordon-Levitt, a talk-reality show with Meghan McCain (daughter of former presidential candidate Sen. John McCain), and, from writer Craig Pearce ("Moulin Rouge" and the upcoming "The Great Gatsby"), a fanciful drama titled "Will," about a young, as-yet-unproven William Shakespeare that mashes up his era with modern times (and is billed as a blend of "Deadwood," ''8 Mile" and "Shakespeare in Love").
"Jersey Strong" is a docu-series from the producers of "Brick City" that focuses on two unconventional families in Newark, N.J. — a man and woman raising children and and mentoring young people who themselves are members of two rival gangs, and two women in a same-sex relationship who run a law firm.
Each night the network will air "TakePart Live," a talk show whose topics will be chosen earlier in the day by viewers going online to TakePart.com, Participant Media's social action hub.
Pivot is entering into a programing and marketing relationship with Rolling Stone magazine, and will co-produce 10 documentaries with Univision, which will air each film in Spanish while Pivot airs the film in English.
A slogan of Pivot is "It's Your Turn," which addresses the 27 million-member audience segment the network has dubbed "passionate millennials."
Not only is the new network gearing its programs to this group, it's also tailoring its distribution strategy to how they consume media, Shapiro said.
Reports are rampant that younger audiences are shunning traditional TV in favor of YouTube videos on the Internet, and that they are "cutting the cord" of cable programming as a moneysaving move or because they deem TV an outmoded way to watch.
Pivot's research has found otherwise.
"There is no such thing as a cord-cutter," Shapiro said. "They all have broadband — and it's bringing them everything they want, including video. So we decided to reframe the conversation."
Pivot has identified two main groups within its prospective audience: cable TV subscribers who watch "television" across multiple platforms, and viewers who subscribe only to broadband.
Pivot will accommodate both groups.
"It's the first channel that's available both through traditional pay-television bundling, and via your broadband provider as a stand-alone (service)," he said. For an extra monthly fee (described as less than the cost of a cup of diner coffee) through the Pivot app on any device, "subscribers will be able to take this channel, both live streaming and on-demand, with you wherever you go in the world."
Online features will include a "Take Action" button to access information about social issues touched on in each program, customized to the viewer's locale and interests.
Shapiro believes this dual source could be a game-changer for the TV industry, making a "television" channel available to any viewer regardless of the chosen delivery device. Pivot could be the first of many "a la carte" broadband channels offered to subscribers weary of paying for whole tiers of cable-TV networks.
Such an arrangement meets the demands of younger viewers, said Shapiro, as overwhelmingly expressed in Pivot's research: "I want to watch what I want where I want when I want."
How will Pivot be greeted by this demanding audience?
"The market is a gauge of our success. But social change is an equally important, if not more important, gauge." Together, said Shapiro, they're what the company refers to as its "double bottom line."
Frazier Moore is a national television columnist for The Associated Press. He can be reached at email@example.com and at http://www.twitter.com/tvfrazier


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Colorado's State Implementation Plan for Regional Haze has won full approval from EPA, Gov. John Hickenlooper announced Sept. 11. The plan is a package of pollutant emission reduction strategies.
"The EPA's approval of the Regional Haze Plan is a ringing endorsement of a comprehensive and collaborative effort between many different groups," Hickenlooper said. "Colorado's utilities, environmental community, oil and gas industry, health advocates, and regulators all came together to address air quality. We embrace this success as a model for continuing to balance economic growth with wise public policy that protects community health and our environmental values."
Included in the plan is the 2010 Clean Air-Clean Jobs Act, passed by the Colorado General Assembly and intended to set emissions controls; retire old, inefficient coal power plants; and convert certain electric generating units from coal to natural gas. By 2018, the plan will result in more than 70,000 tons of pollutant reductions annually, including 35,000 tons of nitrogen oxides.
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Each week we'll let two silver screen automotive icons face off and let you decide which stays and which one goes home, tailpipe between their legs. That's right, it's like an online Thunderdome — except without the death thing. We call it the "Star Car Shootout." Let's get ready to rumble.
Last week we had the inaugural match of Star Car Shootout, in which the James Bond's Lotus Esprit from The Spy Who Loved Me went head-to-head against the Lamborghini Countach from Speed Zone in a battle to decide which big screen star was cooler. We've counted the votes, and with most of the precincts now reporting, Jalopnik projects that the Lotus has won.
This week, we've got another big-shot superstar facing off against a relative underdog. Appropriately for our whole "Which is cooler?" hook, both cars co-starred with the "King of Cool" himself, Steve McQueen. Now, while McQueen certainly surrounded himself with some impressive rides over the years, for this shootout we had to pick just two of them. The others will have to wait their turn. So for this match, we're pitting the Ford Mustang 390 GT from Bullitt against the Porsche 911S 2.2L from Le Mans. Yes, you're now probably already visualizing those scenes in your head, but just in case you aren't, we've got the clips after the jump.
Start talking about Steve McQueen's cars, and the first one that'll come to mind for most people is the Dark Highland Green 1968 Ford Mustang from Bullitt. Thing is, McQueen never actually owned the car. Of course, that doesn't disqualify the 'stang for this contest, but it does raise an interesting question. Did McQueen even particularly like the Mustang? His personal garage was filled mostly with European sports cars, not American muscle. Watching the chase scene, you'll notice that neither the Charger nor the Mustang take turns all that well. It's even been said that the shot of the 'stang overcooking one of the corners wasn't planned at all. Though I suppose if I'm going to start critiquing the film too closely, I would also have to start counting green VW Beetles, and I really don't want to do that. Besides, this isn't some class for a film student; we're here for the car. And it must be said the dark Mustang fastback with a 390ci V8 looks and sounds fantastic. It's an automotive icon. But there's a problem with that. Being famous to a degree is cool, but being a tool for a marketing department is not. In recent years, Ford has made not just one "special edition" Bullitt Mustang, but two. Which means that you really don't have to be "in the know" to know about the car. It's like having your favorite rock band from the '60s all of a sudden become hugely popular again. You like the music still, but the all the teenage fans, the Broadway musicals, and the appearances on daytime television just sort of ruin the cool factor.
Unlike the Mustang, McQueen actually owned the '70 Porsche 911 S from Le Mans. He wanted a car to drive around in Europe while he was shooting the film, so he bought the Porsche, and when shooting was finished, he had it sent back to America. Now sure, there's no on-screen hoonage starring the 911, but you can only imagine that McQueen drove the snot out of the thing when he was off-camera. But that's not the point—this car was was cool not because it drove around jumping over hills and chasing baddies. The 911 is cool because it is understated and relaxed; it's what the tormented race car driver drove when, as McQueen's character famously put it in the film, he was "just waiting" between races. It has what the Mustang lacks: inconspicuousness. You really need to be obsessed with cars to appreciate the Porsche. For example, the current owner of the 911 was a Porsche collector who bought the car a few years ago without even knowing that it was in the Le Mans film; he just liked the car. Watch it cruise through France and you can't help but like it too.


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Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 11:59 am
Post subject: Getting up on Low Vol. Boards
Ive been sailing a couple of seasons and have been to an ABK camp & I thought I was somewhat decent, I can waterstart, sail backwinded,clew first, high winds and pull off semi decent Jibes, but Ive had a hard time getting up on small boards. I have a 150l Mistral for L.I. Sound light - medium wind sailing.(great board) In the caribbean over new years, I finally sailed a 110 litre, which I could ride. ( albeit a bit squirrely) But then I tried to get up on a 95 litre F2, and could not get up and going for the life of me. I felt like an idiot. So whats the secret...? I weigh 170lbs and cant imagine how big guys sail 60-70 litre boards. Im off to cabarete next weekend and want to demo small boards (to ultimatley buy one) so I dont feel like Im sailing a barge on high wind days. What litre size ( and style-i.e. freestyle, freeride, wave?) should I target for 4.0-6.2 sails in L.I Sound Chop/small swells? And whats the trick to small boards? Another lesson???
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Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 1:20 pm
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You just need more wind my man....Im 205 lbs, and I couldnt get up on a 60 liter board in anything under 30 knots (4.2 and down). 70 liters I MIGHT be able to do at 25 knots, but it would be tricky. For 4.0-6.2, 80-85 liters should be the smallest you look at. Slightly more if its a wave oriented shape (i.e less efficient, more volume wasted in the nose.)
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Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 1:24 pm
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Im 200lbs and regularly sail a 91L and sometimes 78L. It sounds like youre just underpowered. Rig a bigger sail than you normally would with the big board. You actually need more power with the smaller board cuz it sinks more and creates more drag. Youre not overpowered because you have much more control with the small board. I usually just switch to a smaller board when the wind picks up, keep the same sail, maybe give it more downhaul.
Also you cant just stand on it and wait for the wind to get you planing (it sinks). Keep your weight on the boom not on the board. The wind in the sail actually holds most of your weight.
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Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 2:29 pm
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the trick is not rounding up during your waterstart..it helps to be perfectly powered so yourre going to the right place!(I assume you can change sails easily)
if you round up real bad dont fight it, just jump off, turn more downwind and try again
Have fun down there
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Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 5:18 pm
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The trick isnt a trick at all; its TOW and more power. I went down in baby steps from 260 liters to 60 liters, and I now use the same 60-65-liter board for everything from overpwered 2.8 to OK-powered 5.2 (I weigh almost 190). If the 5.2 is weak or I need my 6.0, Ill get my 83-liter board. But it took me a decade to move down to that size. I wish I had rushed it a bit, as the feel of a total sinker is hands down better, IMO, than that of larger boards when the terrain gets nasty or large enough for maneuvering.
Id use my 83-liter freeride for 4.0-6.2 wind. BUT . . . what are your consequences if the wind backs way off? I just swim to shore and walk back . . . no big deal. YMMV in L.I. Sound.
Ya waterstarts them by ALWAYS keeping the nose i a broad reach; thats Job One, Job Two, and Job Three. Everything else, such as not putting any weight on the tail until youre planing and it will support your weight, follows. From tjhat point its all TOW.
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Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 8:25 pm
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On top of all the other great tips, TOW being #1, have your feet just a bit more forward during your waterstart to center your weight better on the board. Instead of your back foot just in front of the rear strap, move it closer to the rear straps. Move your front foot a little closer to the mast. Be sure to push more on the front foot to keep the nose downwind. You can also hang on the boom to drive the nose downwind.
As for test rides, for your conditions I would recommend a freeride. More versatile in more conditions and can carry a larger sail range.
Have a great trip.
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Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 11:41 pm
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I am getting to terms w/ my 75l right now myself, and initially had the same problem. The problem was that I attempted to beach start like I get away on 100+l boards: Step on the board first, sheet in second. By then however, a small boards submerged already. The feet need to lightened up, obviously. In order to work on that, I sat down on the ground in beach-start deep water, both feet ready to get on the board. I sheeted in to get forward going, and lift to get on the board at the same time. If you know how to waterstart, youll figure this out. Once I had that wired, I could also beach start, because I had learned how much of my body weight I needed to commit to the sail in order to avoid to sink the board, and get up and going simultaniously. Waterstarts no problem eather now. Hope this helps.
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Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 12:30 am
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Interesting to see these posts indicating the front foot on the board. Putting both feet up can often lead to dragging (drifting) sideways instead of upward forces. A common approach is only the back foot on the board, weight in the boom, with forward leg still in the water. The boom pulls you up then the front foot goes on the board.
The board can go under during the water start, but if the sail is powered it is no problem; as soon as you start moving it pops to the surface.
At 200 lbs I sail typically from 90-102L. Based on your size I would agree with the post indicating 80-85L target. 60L is pretty small and may really limit the days of good sailing. Should also say board style is a major factor. My 90L wave board was probably equivalent to a 80-85L freestyle. The freestyles are wider and plane up much faster than wave boards, so you can go lower volume (if for some reason you wanted to...)
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Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 2:07 am
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Mike aka isobars; good imput! only I hope it doesn;t take me 10 yrs. heck I;ll be 60!!and your right its TOW and reading these post from all of you with experiance windsurfing and what carl said about the boom and power of the sail holding or supporting your weight what a concept Id never thought of it that way!! also using a larger sail with more power 2 get the smaller boards planning, I though I was going to have 2 invent some training wheels!! thanx 4 the info. Im glad that people with experiance pass it on 2 worms like me struggling in there 2nd year!!
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Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 11:09 am
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Nice, all good tips...I guess looking back, the wind was only 15-20, and my friend riding his 95ltr, weighed about 155lbs...So more wind probably would have helped..I thought I was light on my feet, all weight on the boom, but alas- Not enough wind...Hopefully Ill have good breeze down south, Ill let you know how I make out after Easter in Cabarete. Thanks for all the great advice.
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Arizona Weighing 'Performance Funding' for Schools
Governor backs the model
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer is backing an unusual effort to tie a relatively small portion of school funding to districts' performance on the state's A-F grading system, a step her administration argues will create a monetary hook for school improvement.
Legislation that would establish a performance-based funding model is in play in the Republican-controlled legislature. But the primary vehicle for the plan, if it goes forward, is likely to be the budget negotiated by Gov. Brewer and state lawmakers, according to the governor's office.
The Republican governor spelled out the idea in her budget proposal for the coming year, saying the goal was to reward schools for both high achievement and improvement and "promote local innovation and competition and enhance student performance at every school." As described in the governor's plans, local education agencies could earn "per-pupil achievement payments" by securing enough points on the state's grading scale to get a mark of A, B, or C. Arizona is one of a number of states where A-F grading systems, pioneered in Florida, have taken hold.
A second pool of incentive money would go to schools that improved their scores in the state's grading system. The Brewer administration, saying that it recognizes the challenges in improving the lowest-performing schools, wants a higher per-pupil "improvement payment" to go to local education agencies that make progress from a D or F grade.
A majority of the funding for the program would come from money moved from other parts of the budget, rather than reallocated aid from K-12, said Dale Frost, the governor's education adviser.
In the first year of the initiative, for instance, the program would receive $54 million, $36 million of which would be new money, rather than reallocated education funding. Also in the first year, the performance system would account for 1 percent of the state's overall education funding formula.
Local education agencies—which would include districts and charter schools—would be given flexibility in deciding how to spend money coming to them through performance funding, according to the governor's office.
Winner-Loser System?
The Arizona Education Association opposes the measure, saying in an analysis that the system would reallocate money from state K-12 schools that are already struggling financially, and create a "winner-loser performance-funding system."
The union pointed to an analysis by an associate professor at Arizona State University, David Garcia, who concluded that the achievement-funding model would favor wealthier school systems.
Andrew Morrill, the president of the Arizona Education Association, said that the union has a history of supporting performance-funding measures, but that given the recent funding cuts in education, the legislation would pose a hardship Arizona schools don't need.
If enacted, the proposal would increase the funding inequities across public schools, said Mr. Morrill. Districts would be asked to reapportion their funding in exchange for a small amount of performance-based aid from the state. That system, heavily tied to standardized-test scores, would penalize schools with high numbers of students living in poverty, Mr. Morrill said.
Mr. Frost, the governor's adviser, disputed Mr. Garcia's conclusion. He said it failed to fully account for the way the funding system was weighted to help academically struggling school systems, many of which were disadvantaged economically.
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"Guatemala's Mayan people accused the government and tour groups on Wednesday of perpetuating the myth that their calendar foresees the imminent end of the world for monetary gain. "We are speaking out against deceit, lies and twisting of the truth, and turning us into folklore-for-profit. They are not telling the truth about time cycles," charged Felipe Gomez, leader of the Maya alliance Oxlaljuj Ajpop.
Now, as a flood of tourists stream in to see various Maya sacred sites before and on December 21st, Mexico has barred present-day Mayan spiritual leaders from performing rites at Mayan ruins and temples.
Despite the generally festive atmosphere at the ceremony, there was some discontent that the government won't allow Mayan priests and healers to perform their ceremonies inside archaeological sites like Chichen Itza, Coban and Tulum that their ancestors built. "We would like to do these ceremonies in the archaeological sites, but unfortunately they won't let us enter," Manrique Esquivel said. "It makes us angry, but that's the way it is … we perform our rituals in patios, in fields, in vacant lots, wherever we can." Francisco de Anda, the press director for the government's National Institute of Anthropology and History, which oversees archaeological sites in Mexico, said there were two reasons for the ban on ceremonies. "In part it is for visitor safety, and also for preservation of the sites, especially on dates when there are massive numbers of visitors."
John Ahni Schertow at the indigenous activist/news site Intercontinental Cry disputes the Mexican government's reasoning, saying that it has far more to do with tourist money than preservation.
"The government would much rather keep the Maya on the sidelines since they are orchestrating a massive commercial spectacle for tens of thousands of people, many of whom are are clinging to delusional hopes and irrational fears about what's going to happen at the end of 13 Baktun–December 21, 2012."
In short, modern-day Mayan will have to visit their heritage like everyone else, as tourists. While some Maya will be involved in official state-run events, they are not the ones who are making decisions, nor are they directly benefitting from the growing number of unscrupulous individuals who are profiting from their exploitation. As Sandra Noble, executive director of the Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies in Crystal River, Florida, said: "To render Dec. 21, 2012, as a doomsday or moment of cosmic shifting is a complete fabrication and a chance for a lot of people to cash in."
"The 21st is for giving thanks and gratitude and the 22nd welcomes the new cycle, a new dawn." – Pedro Celestino Yac Noj
For those modern Pagans who wish to pursue a course of solidarity, communication, and friendship with the indigenous peoples of the Americas, we have to take extra care to listen to actual Mayan voices during this time. To reject the profiteering and exploitation of the New Age and survivalist industries, and chart a course that privileges authentic wisdom over wishful thinking. I have seen too many of my co-religionists get entrapped in the 2012 hype, and I would remind them of the many "awakening" or "doomsday" moments we've survived in the last 20 years, and note that the world will still be here on December 22nd, and that it will be up to us to save or destroy it.


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Vermicelli noodles is topped with shrimps, shiitake mushrooms, bell peppers stir-fried in olive oil, ginger, garlic, and yellow onion, and seasoned with soy sauce, lime zest, lime juice, and sesame oil in easy appetizers recipe for spicy shrimp pasta adapted from Cooking for Friends. You can also make this pasta recipe using linguine pasta or fettuccini.This Asian-inspired pasta dish makes a vibrant and colorful presentation that is also healthy and can be made a regular part of easy healthy recipes diet. It has a wonderful harmony with a balanced amount of saltiness, zest, tanginess, succulence and spice.
Make sure you cook the vermicelli noodles according to the package directions. The cooking time may vary depending on the brand or label. DO not overcook the pasta or you will end up with soft noodles that will disintegrate. Vermicelli noodles are thin and cook quickly compared to other pasta noodles. The noodles are al dente if it is tender yet firm enough to hold the sauce.
Ingredients: 1 box (8 oz.) uncooked vermicelli, 2 tbsp. olive oil, 1 tsp. ground ginger, 2 cloves garlic, minced, 1 medium yellow onion, chopped, 3 cups sliced shiitake mushrooms, 2 bell peppers, any color, cut into thin strips, 12 oz. shrimp, peeled and deveined, 2 tbsp. reduced-sodium soy sauce, 2 tsp. lime zest, 2 tbsp. lime juice, preferably fresh, 2 tsp. sesame oil
Cook pasta according to directions on package. Drain and set aside. While pasta is cooking, heat 1 tbsp. olive oil over medium heat in a large wok or skillet. Add ginger and garlic and stir-fry for 30 seconds to release the fragrance. Add onion and stir-fry until translucent, about 1 minute. Add mushrooms and peppers and stir-fry until vegetables are crisp-tender, 3-4 minutes. Transfer vegetables to another container. Add the remaining olive oil to the pan. Add the shrimp. Stir-fry until shrimp turns pink, about 2-3 minutes. Put vegetables back in the pan. Add all remaining ingredients. Stir to coat vegetables and heat through. Fill serving plates with pasta and top with shrimp and vegetables. Top with sesame seeds, if desired.
Lime zest and limejuice add brightness and zest to the shrimps and highlight the spice of the garlic and ginger. If you want the dish to be extra spicy, add chili powder or cayenne pepper. Adjust the seasoning according to your taste. Alternatively, you can make this recipe using other kinds of seafood like lobsters, clams, squid, or crab.You can even make a seafood medley for a more scrumptious dish. Take note, however, that these have different cooking time. You can cook them separately and toss them all together at the end.It is important not to overcook the seafood or you will end up with dried up meat with diminished flavor. Shrimp cooks quite fast over hot fire and you know they are ready when they turn pink. Use fresh seafood that is in season for superior flavor.
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Detective Comics #17
The repercussions of "DEATH OF THE FAMILY" spread as Batman tracks down the League of Smiles, a criminal group of psychotic killers that worship The Joker!
Deadly new villains are introduced-and you won't believe their horrific ties to Arkham Asylum!
Plus: In the backup story, learn the secrets behind The League of Smiles' beginnings!
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