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Carer's week.
I've been trying to comment on this annual phenomenon all week but have simply been too busy being a Carer. So before it's shoved on the shelf for another year by those who have enough time and energy to celebrate it, perhaps I can make one or two observations? Ask a few straightforward questions?
Why are proper and legal Carer's assessments so rarely carried out AND delivered on by local authorities?
Will the (delayed) Carer's Act actually be robust enough to deliver any real change for those in the Carer's role?
Will proper emergency and future plans be put in place with this Act?
Will adequate respite services be promoted, extended and provided to give every Carer a chance to recharge even once a month?
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PURPOSE/OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this research was to identify environmental issues related to participation in school lunch and sale of competitive foods in Pennsylvania public high schools.
METHODOLOGY: A survey was developed which included questions about school demographics, sales of competitive foods, average daily participation in school lunch (ADP), and school nutrition policies. Surveys were distributed to 271 school foodservice directors (SFD) in a random sample of high schools in Pennsylvania that were selected to be representative of the entire population of high schools in Pennsylvania based on chosen demographic characteristics. As an alternative to the hard-copy version of the survey, respondents were given the option to complete a web-based version. Descriptive and multiple regression analyses were done using SPSS® version 11.5.1.
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APPLICATIONS: This research identifies several modifiable environmental issues related to participation in school meals and competitive food sales, including timing of lunch and the existence and enforcement of a nutrition policy. These findings may be useful to child nutrition professionals in schools in developing wellness policies, promoting school meal participation, and establishing school environments to promote healthier food choices by students.


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Wednesday, November 4, 2015
Avenged Sevenfold's M.Shadows talks about new drummer
Avenged Sevenfold's M.Shadows was recently interviewed by "Talk Is Jericho", you can read an excerpt below.
Avenged Sevenfold announced new drummer, M.Shadows said: "To be honest, Brooks Wackerman's name has always been in the mix. It was one of the names we were throwing around when Jimmy passed away in terms of who was going to step up for Nightmare. We felt Mike Portnoy was the right choice and we still feel that way. Mike just destroyed on the record. He was perfect. But at the time, our tour manager brought up Brooks' name as well. But at the time he was also busy with Bad Religion and people were going to look at it differently because he was a punk drummer at this point."
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Pay Off Debt – Part 02
In this series of posts, I want to equip you to become debt-free! Jenn and I became debt-free in 14 months by following this process, and I can tell you this – there is NOTHING like living life without the trappings of debt!
Let's review the first step.
Step 1 – Understand WHY you want to be debt-free! If you don't have a clear understanding of why you want to become debt-free, you will have a very tough time sticking to this effort. When you know WHY, you are able to stand firm against the temptation to acquire more debt.
I hope that you have taken the time to write out your hopes/plans/dreams for your life. Again, I cannot overstate the importance of writing this out on paper!
Step 2 – List your debts
During financial counseling sessions, it is a guarantee for any person who has debt that I will calculate their debt freedom date. You should see people's reactions as I put together a list of their debt! Their reactions relay to me the true facts of debt. Here are some very common reactions that I see/hear.
- Hiding their eyes
- "Oh no!"
- "I've never added it up."
- "This is scary."
- Moving to a defensive position as if to guard themselves against the debt
- Turn their head so they don't have to look at the debt total
I KNOW that it can be scary to total up debt. The mere fact that it is so scary tells me two things:
1. People do not like debt.
2. People have not been paying attention to their finances and do not have a well-defined plan for their life. Otherwise, they would not have incurred most of the debt. It is literally ROBBING them of their financial future!
Here is what I say to them – "If you don't know how many heads the dragon has or how large the dragon is, how can you effectively defeat it?"
It is time to slay the dragon. Use THIS FORM to prepare a well-organized list of your debt.
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How do you feel about settling with creditors.My husband and I have an appt with you 10/1/07 and his credit card debt is up to $70,000.00 including the $28,000.00 2nd mortgage he has.Three of his cards have interest rates of 20/28.99% and we cannot afford the payments.Hes already working two jobs and he financially cannot make it.I work full time too and I suggested trying to settle with the creditors or go thru a debt consolidation.We also have our house for sale.I just wanted your opinion on this horrific situation
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Mikaela's BirthdayDecember 10, 2013 at 12:44 pm | Posted in Artwork, Characters, Commissions, Other | 1 Comment
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Happy birthday to Mikaela! ^_^
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Art commission done by Chiiteru. Thanks! This is Mikaela going about her daily routine after school, doing homework and listening music on her MP3 player, in her room. I believe this is the first pic ever of a Memoria girl set in a background environment (I could be wrong…)! All the other pics have a solid plain or transparent BG (not that it's a bad thing). Maybe next time I'll have them interacting with one another.
Read comments of this piece here on DA if you're curious.
Gonna go off on a tangent here, but I couldn't get enough sleep last night! Was out all night watching "Madoka Magica Part 3: Rebellion"! I can say that… it got really creepy at times, especially with Homura. But I loved it nevertheless! Try to watch it when you get the chance, although you might not get it if you've never seen the anime eps and/or the first two movies.
I want the soundtrack, beautiful music.
Will edit this post and post a link to a gallery containing more pics later (including cosplay).
Edit: Click here for some more photos. I know, it's not much, as there wasn't much to see there. I do have other pics but I'm not exactly comfortable sharing them here. At least you get to see some cute cosplayers. 😉
Yeah, so what I did with Mikaela on the night before her birthday was watch Madoka Magica Part 3: Rebellion. And we had a great time. XD (in reality took my sister and a friend)
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Say a little prayer for little Georgie
I don't know how much many of you know about Jorge Posada's son Jorge Luis and his seven year life long battle with craniosynostosis but I was reading this really excellent and emotional article that was recently published in the New York Newsday about it and it's been on my mind a lot in the last 24 hours or so…
For those of you who are not already aware of it George's son Jorge Luis Posada suffers from craniosynostosis,which he was diagnosed with 10 days after he was born, and has endured
numerous surgeries to correct the condition.
Posada established the Jorge Posada Foundation on his website to help find a cure for the disease and support families with children affected by the condition.
Craniosynostosis is a birth defect of the brain characterized by the premature closure of one or more of the fibrous joints between the bones of the skull (called the cranial sutures)
before brain growth is complete.
Closure of a single suture is most
common. The abnormally shaped skull that results is due to the brain
not being able to grow in its natural shape because of the closure.
Instead it compensates with growth in areas of the skull where the
cranial sutures have not yet closed. The condition can be gene-linked,
or caused by metabolic diseases, such as rickets or an overactive
thyroid. Some cases
are associated with other disorders such as microcephaly (abnormally small head) and hydrocephalus
(excessive accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid in the brain). The first
sign of craniosynostosis is an abnormally shaped skull. Other features
can include signs of increased intracranial pressure, developmental
delays, or mental retardation, which are caused by constriction of the
growing brain. Seizures and blindness may also occur.
for craniosynostosis generally consists of surgery to relieve pressure
on the brain and the cranial nerves. For some children with less severe
problems, cranial molds can reshape the skull to accommodate brain
growth and improve the appearance of the head.The
prognosis for craniosynostosis varies depending on whether single or
multiple cranial sutures are involved or other abnormalities are
present. The prognosis is better for those with single suture
involvement and no associated abnormalities.
NINDS conducts and supports a wide range of studies that explore the
complex mechanisms of early neurological development. The knowledge
gained from these fundamental studies provides the foundation for
understanding how this process can go awry and offers hope for new ways
to treat and prevent brain birth defects, including craniosynostosis.
I'm sure that we all have fond memories of little Jorge coming to the All Star games with his dad and running out onto the field with his dad in his own little Yankees uniform.
I remember him with his own little Yankees hat and his eye black running out onto the field when he heard Jorge's name called and just running about all willy nilly until he was finally picked up and carted off of the field.
I can't find my pictures right now but I did had some photos of him running circles around Pedro Martinez giggling at him and watching Manny pick him and carry him around.
He was such an adorable toddler then and he's such and adorable little guy now.
He doesn't deserve to have to suffer like he's suffering right now.
No child does.
It's so sad and I ask anybody who reads this who has a few extra bucks to spare this week to drop by the Jorge Posada Foundation website and for any of you who believe in the power of prayer or positive thoughts to send some to Jorge, Jorge Junior, his beautiful wife Laura, and their little daughter Paulina.
I'm hoping, along with everybody else, that this latest surgery for Georgie Junior is his last and that he's able to play and run and be happy like all children should and won't have to endure any more of this madness.
Here is a new article that was published in New York Newsday that details the current status of the situation:
Little Jorge Posada catches a break
June 17, 2007
Jorge Posada and his wife, Laura, could only wait while their son,
Jorge Luis, had surgery this past December. He had just turned 7 years
old, yet this was his eighth operation to treat a congenital birth
defect, craniosynostosis.
The Posadas waited anxiously for six, eight, 10 hours while the boy's
skull was being taken apart so the bones in it could be reshaped and
reassembled to give him a normal-shaped skull.
"I was brave," Jorge Luis said. "I was a little bit scared, though."
Perhaps, his parents prayed, this surgery would finally grant their
wish and give their son a normal life. Perhaps, they dreamed, they
could take Jorge Luis home and not have to put him through any more
operations. Perhaps, they hoped, he would be healthy and happy and no
one would ridicule him for having a funny-shaped head.
"We are praying that that was the last one, the last big operation,"
said Posada, the Yankees catcher. "The way Dr. Staffenberg described
it, he said he was going to do everything possible to make sure that
that was the last big operation. It was tough times."
Craniosynostosis affects approximately one in 5,000 babies, said
Staffenberg, the surgical director at the Center for Craniofacial
Disorders at The Children's Hospital at Montefiore in the Bronx.
Craniosynostosis is sometimes hereditary, though not in Jorge Luis'
case. It is characterized by the premature closure of one or more
fibrous joints, or sutures, keeping the brain and skull from growing
properly. It can generally be corrected with one operation.
Jorge Luis was an exception.
Jorge Luis' skull remained asymmetrical, his neck tilted to one side,
his left eye socket was out of line, and one-third of his skull bone
was missing — leaving his brain unprotected in case of a fall or bump
on the head. Said his father: "If he bumped his head on the corner of
the table, it could be really severe."
The reactions of others put his parents in anguish. Laura recalled one
particularly cruel afternoon, when her husband was on deck at Fenway
Park and a fan called out that Posada's son "looked like he was
After Jorge Luis' latest operation, they should never hear comments
like that again. Staffenberg split a portion of the skull bone in two,
and used the newly divided piece to cover the unprotected portion of
his brain. He also removed previously inserted plates and pins, and
plastic surgery covered up the scars.
"I've got to say, things look really fantastic now," Staffenberg said,
"and everyone is really pleased with how well he's done … Both mom
and dad were in the intensive care unit all the way through the
weekend. Dad helped me change the bandage. Dad helped me take about 200
stitches out of Junior's scalp. They were both just extraordinary."
It has been a long journey since Jorge Luis was diagnosed with
craniosynostosis days after his birth Nov. 28, 1999. His parents met
while Laura was working both as a lawyer and on a Puerto Rican TV
show. After one show, she and some friends went to a lounge. That's
where she met Jorge, who told his friend, "I'm going to marry that
girl." They got married a few months later and they soon had a new baby
on the way. "You get your first child, your first-born, and you hope
that everything's good, and it wasn't," Posada said.
Laura said: "Your world crumbles, and you're upset, and you're ignorant
about this condition. The worst thing is that it's beyond your control."
Jorge Luis had his first surgery at 7 months old, and the next soon
after. "You get nervous," Posada said. "You cry at night the night
before. The first two operations were during the season, and I wasn't
here for pretty much 10 days. I played, but I wasn't here ."
In the fall of 2000, the Jorge Posada Foundation was created to raise
awareness of craniosynostosis and funds for research and treatment. He
had already wanted to begin a foundation and said his son's condition
"was like a sign from heaven."
When Laura's not with Jorge Luis and their 41/2-year-old daughter
Paulina, she's running the foundation. On Monday, they hosted the
Heroes for Hope Gala at the Pierre Hotel in Manhattan. About a dozen
Yankees attended. The dinner and auction raised more than $680,000,
doubling last year's total.
Jorge Luis was the night's star when he welcomed the guests, greeted by
a hearty ovation. With their son's health problems, they hope, behind
them, the Posadas can just be a family. Perhaps not surprisingly,
Posada is having a career-best season, batting .354 with 41 RBIs in 59
games entering Friday. "That's why Jorge is having the year that he's
having," Laura said, "because we can relax and breathe, and not worry.
We can look at [Jorge Luis], and he's so smart and normal and healthy.
For the first time, we can enjoy it, and not have people stare at him."
No more thoughts of hospitals and needles and pain. Jorge Luis, who was
playing on the field before Friday's game at Yankee Stadium, is
otherwise occupied, saying: "I like to play with my friends, and play
video games, and color and play baseball."
Happy times.
Copyright 2007 Newsday Inc.


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Two Designs: Choose a pistol or an AR
Length: 61" end to end.
Packaging: Ties are packaged in an elegant box.
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I hesitated buying this tie (I thought it was a little pricey for how often my husband will wear it) but I am so glad I did. The quality of the tie is great! It looks just like the one in the picture. I purchased the blue tie with the rifles. I do not believe the box should be described as "elegant" though. The box is nothing special about the packaging. The tie is in a plastic sleeve in a long slender box. Overall I am very happy with my purchase.


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Welcome to my blog! I create this blog mainly to document my food, to share cooking ideas/tips, and to preserve my not yet-written family recipes. I prefer to cook using fresh ingredients and/or what are available. I enjoy experimenting in the kitchen, creating meals. I cook with my senses so I hope this blog will help me record what I cook/create. I am a practicing family nurse practitioner, a photographer and I live to eat. Please join me in my culinary journey!
Friday, March 25, 2016
Sauteed Maui Wild Boar, Baby Shiitake, and Pohole (serves 2 as part of a shared meal)
While on Maui our friends invited us over for a BBQ and we had an abundance of fantastic food including wild boar and venison hunted by one of them. There was so much food that I took some delicious meat home. I purchased some fresh baby shiitake and pohole (fern shoots that grow in the Maui rain forest) and sauteed them with the BBQ wild boar meat. This is a tasty way to extend another meal with some leftovers! Thank you Curt and family for your hospitality and friendship!
Check out my other pohole recipe: Sauteed Maui Pohole and Beef Heart
Sauteed Maui Wild Boar, Baby Shiitake, and Pohole (serves 2 as part of a shared meal)
1 Tbsp oil
1 tsp grated garlic clove
1 tsp of grated ginger
1 bunch of pohole (fern shoots), washed, trimmed off a little of the ends cut into 1-inch lengths
4 oz baby shiitake mushrooms, wiped or gently washed, trimmed off the ends
About 6 oz of cooked wild boar meat, sliced into 1/4 inch widths
1/4 cup pork broth
1 Tbsp soy sauce
A pinch of brown sugar
1) Heat a pan with oil over medium high heat. Add garlic and ginger. Saute about 30 seconds. Try not to burn the garlic.
2) Add the pohole and shiitake mushrooms. Saute about 7 minutes or until everything is a little wilted.
3) Add the wild boar slices and broth. Season with soy sauce and brown sugar. Cook for about another 2-3 minutes or until the meat is heat through.
Linguine and Steamers (serves 3-4)
|steamed clam with black covering removed and tip of siphon cut
|cooked plump looking steamers (or clams)
Linguine and Steamers (serves 3-4)
About 3 lbs steamers (soft-shell clams), washed well, steamed, removed the clams from their shells, reserved the clean broth
2 tsp oil
4 garlic cloves, smashed and finely chopped
1/2 medium sweet onion, finely chopped
1 can (15 oz) Italian Style White Clam Sauce (made with fresh clams)
1 package of fresh baby arugula (7 oz)
1 lb of cooked linguine (or any type of pasta you prefer), follow the package instruction on how to cook if you use store bought dried pasta
1 1/2 cups clam broth
About a Tbsp of dry parsley (half goes into the pan and the other half to garnish each serving plate)
A drizzle of przyprawa w plynie (Maggi brand) on each serving plate prior to eating if interested
1) Steam the steamers (clams) with a little water (about 1 1/2 cups) until they are just cooked (about 5-6 minutes). I use a little metal pot with a metal basket insert that my mother gave me. Once cooked the shells will open up. Remove the clam from its shells. Pull away the black skin covering and discard it. I also cut off a little of the tip of the siphon or neck with kitchen shears and discard it. After this I hold the siphon and dip the whole clam in its broth to get rid of any extra sand or grits. Once the broth settled then pour the broth to a clean container and discard what's on the bottom (usually sand, shell bits, or grits).
2) Heat a large pan over medium high heat. Add oil. Once the oil is hot add garlic and onion. Saute for about 2 minutes or until the onion is soft.
3) Add the can of clam sauce. Add a handful of arugula at a time to the pan. Add more when the batch inside the pan has somewhat wilted. Stir a few times. Continue to add the arugula until all of it is in the pan. Once wilted the leaves will shrink by a lot. This will take about 2-3 minutes.
4) Add the pasta and broth. Stir until everything is incorporated well and heated through. Add the clams, stir and turn off heat.
5) Crumble about half of the dried parsley into the pan.
6) May season with salt to taste if interested. I prefer to drizzle a little of the przyprawa w plynie and a little of the crumbled parsley on the serving dish right before eating.
*The przyprawa w plynie (Maggi brand) came from a Polish store in Dorchester, Massachusetts. It looks like soy sauce but it is not. However, you may use light soy sauce for substitution instead if interested. My Polish-American friend and former nursing colleague Monika tells me this sauce is commonly used on soups specifically chicken soups.
|you may compost the shells,
black covering and siphon tips
Wednesday, March 23, 2016
Minty Papaya-Avocado-Banana Smoothie (makes about 4 cups)
Refreshing Papaya-Avocado-Banana Smoothie (makes about 4 cups)
1/4 large ripe papaya, peeled, seeds removed
1/2 large ripe avocado, peeled and seed removed
3-4 ripe apple bananas, peeled
1 1/2 cup of milk
6 ice cubes
A handful of mint leaves, washed well
Blend everything in a blender.
Monkfish and Lemon Caper Sauce (serves 2-3)
|lightly fried monkfish fillets
Lightly Fried Monkfish Fillets
About 2 Tbsp of oil
4 pieces of fresh monkfish fillets (came to 1.30 lbs)
Enough flour to dust the fillets (I used Abbit's seafood breader mix), about 1/2 cups
Rinse the monkfish fillets, let them drain. Roll each fillet in the flour and set aside.
Lightly fry the flour coated fillets in a little oil until it is cooked and golden. Use a sharp knife to pierce into the thickest part of the fillet to test for doneness.
|lemon caper sauce
Lemon Caper Sauce
3 Tbsp of salted butter
Juice from 1 large lemon
Grated zest from the same lemon
2 1/2 Tbsp capers
About 1/2 tsp of caper brine
A small pinch of salt
1) Roll the lemon with your palm against a hard surface before juicing it. Finely grate the lemon skin and save this. Cut the lemon in half.
2) Heat a pan over medium high heat. Add butter, lemon juice, lemon zest, capers, and brine. Gently crush the capers with the back of a spatula. Season with a little salt if interested. This takes about 1-2 minutes to cook.
3) Pour the sauce over the fried monkfish fillets right before consuming.
*For this recipe I prefer to crush the capers since I think they taste better this way. However, you may keep them whole if you like.
Esther's Inspired Stuffed Peppers (makes about 14 red sweet pepper halves)
|stuffed round bell pepper
|rice and pork stuffing
Rice and Pork Stuffing (makes about 6 cups)
1 Tbsp oil
1 small onion, chopped (about 3/4 cup chopped)
1 small bunch of scallions, chopped (about 3/4 cup chopped)
4 garlic cloves, smashed, chopped
1.1 lbs lean ground pork (or use any type of ground meat you prefer)
2 tomatoes, de-seeded, chopped (about 2 cups chopped)
7 oz baby spinach, washed and drained well or placed in a spinner to dry (the less liquid the better)
2 cups cooked rice or leftover days old cooked rice
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp ground black pepper
2 tsp soy sauce
1) Heat a large pan over medium high heat. Add oil.
2) Once the oil is hot stir in onion, scallions, and garlic. Cook for about 1-2 minutes or until the onion is soft.
3) Turn the heat to high. Add pork, break it into small pieces. Cook about 4 minutes. If the heat is too low then there will be more liquid in the pan.
4) Add tomatoes and spinach. Add a few handful of spinach at a time, add more when what you have in the pan has wilted to make room for the next batch or few handful. Cook until everything is wilted.
5) Add rice and season with salt, pepper and soy sauce. Cook until all the liquid is absorbed and the content is a bit dry.
*The stuffing took about 10-12 minutes to cook.
Esther's Inspired Stuffed Peppers (makes about 14 red sweet pepper halves)
7 red sweet peppers (thin ones), cut in half lengthwise, seeds and the green cores removed
1 recipe of Rice and Pork Stuffing (see above)
About 6 oz Market Basket Fancy Shredded Italian Cheese (this has a blend of mozzarella, provolone, parmesan, asiago, fontina, and romano cheese)
1) Preheat the oven at 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
2) Stuff as much of the Rice and Pork Stuffing in each of the pepper half and place on a baking sheet. Once baked the stuffing will shrink if you do not pack it in.
3) Sprinkle the top of each stuffed pepper with cheese.
4) Bake for about 30 minutes (depending on your oven). May crisp the top by putting them on a broiler for 1-2 minutes extra. Be careful not to burn them.
*The stuffing for this recipe is enough to make 14 thin sweet pepper halves. For experimental purposes I used 5 thin sweet peppers to make 10 halves and 2 round green bell peppers. Instead of chopping up the pepper top as Esther normally does I added these to the sheet to bake. This way I can use the cooked tops to place over the peppers to make it look pretty and to keep the contents in the pepper warm.
*The pre-shredded cheese is a mix of different cheeses, comes in an 8-oz package. It is Market Basket brand and marked for pizza or lasagna. You can choose any type of cheese that you prefer. Add as little or as much as you want.
|stuffed peppers ready to bake in the oven
|view from the front of my house March 21, 2016 (Seacoast New Hampshire)
|my car covered in fresh fluffy snow (March 21, 2016)
Sunday, March 20, 2016
Lightly Fried Rainbow Trout and Tomato Sauce (3-4 servings as part of a shared meal)
Be sure to scale and clean the fish thoroughly when you bring them home. Trout have tiny scales but it's better if they are removed. I rub salt and/or vinegar on the fish to give it a deep cleaning before cooking.
|cleaned fish
Lightly Fried Rainbow Trout and Tomato Sauce (3-4 servings as part of a shared meal)
2 trouts (about 1/2 pound each), scaled, gutted, and fins and tails trimmed
A large pinch of salt and ground pepper
All-purpose flour, optional
Oil for cooking (about 2 Tbsp)
3 garlic cloves, chopped
1/2 onion, chopped
2 large tomatoes, de-seeded, chopped
1/4 to 1/2 cup water
1 Tbsp chicken stock powder
2 Tbsp oyster sauce
1/2 tsp sugar
1 tsp cornstarch mix with enough water to dissolve the flour (optional)--to thicken the sauce slightly
1 bunch of scallions, green parts only, chopped
Chopped cilantro leaves, optional (for garnish)
1) Clean and dry the fish. Score each side of the fish (if interested), rub the sides and inside of the belly with a little salt and pepper. Dust the whole fish with all-purpose flour if you like.
2) Heat a large pan with about a tablespoon of oil over high heat. Once the pan is hot place the fish in the pan, turn down the heat to medium high and cook for 5-7 minutes on each side or until the fish is golden brown. May cover the fish with a splatter guard if needed. Depending on the type of fish and your stove top, some will cook faster than others. Trout will cook quickly.
3) Remove the fish after cooking and place it on a large plate or platter. Wipe the pan with a clean paper towel and add about a tablespoon of oil to the cleaned pan.
4) Add garlic and onion. Cook for about a minute until the onion is somewhat translucent.
5) Add tomato and water. Saute about 5 minutes or until the tomato is soft.
6) Season with chicken stock powder, oyster sauce, and sugar. Stir. Add thickener. Cook about 1-2 minutes.
7) Add scallions, stir and turn off heat. Pour the contents over the fish.
8) Garnish with cilantro if interested
*My family and I love to eat cilantro and usually I add some on top to garnish if I have any in the kitchen. However, I did not add any to this since my friend does not like to eat it. The dish below was made by adding periwinkles (ocean snails)--that was delicious!
Thursday, March 10, 2016
Green Papaya and Carrot Soup (serves 4 as part of a shared meal)
Green Papaya and Carrot Soup (serves 4 as part of a shared meal)
About 2 lbs pork bones
Enough water to cover all the bones and papaya and carrot (I used about 8 cups of water)
1/2 large green papaya, peeled, cut into bite size
1 large carrot, peeled, cut into 1/4 inch rings
1 bunch scallion, cut into 1 inch lengths
Fish sauce
1) In a pot add just enough water to cover the pork bones. Gently boil the bones for about 5 minutes.
2) Remove from heat and clean the bones with cold water. Wash the pot.
3) Return the bones to the clean pot. Simmer for about 15-20 minutes uncover. Skim and discard any foam or impurities that float to the top.
4) Add carrots, cook for about 5 minutes.
5) Add papaya and cook until everything is soft enough to pierce with a fork (about another 10-15 minutes) or to your preference.
6) Add scallions and season with fish sauce and salt.
|dark clouds over West Maui and sugar cane field (Maui, 2016)
|new moon after sunset on Haleakala (Maui, 2016)
|So have you ever wonder what's at the end of a rainbow?
Well, this is it. A clump of trees!
Banana Passion Smoothie (makes about 4 cups)
|my husband in our rental Volkswagen Beetle (Maui, 2016)
Banana Passion Smoothie (makes about 4 cups)
5 apple bananas (or 2 Williams bananas), peel
3 passion fruits, scoop out and use the seeds and juice
6 oz or about 1/2 can of Aloha Maid Pass-O-Guava juice
About 1 cup vanilla low fat yogurt
About 6 ice cubes
Put everything in a blender and blend until smooth.
Wednesday, March 9, 2016
Seared Scallops with Mushroom Coconut Sauce (serves 2-3)
spaetzle, mashed potatoes or whatever your heart desires.
Seared Scallops with Mushroom Coconut Sauce (serves 2-3)
2 1/2 Tbsp unsalted butter
1 Tbsp olive oil
1/2 small white onion, chopped (or about 3 Tbsp)
3 garlic cloves, chopped (or about 1 Tbsp)
1 scallion, green parts only, chopped
12 oz white button mushrooms, sliced thinly
6 oz container of coconut milk
1 1/2 Tbsp soy sauce
1/2 tsp Przyprawa W Plynie (Maggi liquid seasoning), optional*
16 oz Seared Sea Scallops
1) Heat a pan over medium high heat. Once the pan is hot add butter and oil.
2) Add onion, garlic and scallions. Saute for about a minute. May turn heat down slightly to avoid burning the garlic.
3) Add mushrooms and cook until everything is just wilted (about 5 minutes).
4) Add coconut milk and soy sauce. Saute for about another 2 minutes and turn heat to low. Add Przyprawa W Plynie.
5) Seasoned the scallops with a sprinkle of fine sea salt and ground white pepper. In a separate pan lightly fry each side of the scallop in a little oil over relatively high heat until golden brown (about 5-6 minutes total cooking time). Avoid overcooking.
6) Add the seared scallops back to the sauce. Serve with pasta, noodles, mashed potatoes or anything you prefer.
*Przyprawa W Plynie is Maggi liquid seasoning made by Nestle. It looks like soy sauce but it is not. I found this at a Polish store in Dorchester, Massachusetts. I bought it for experimentation because I have never seen it before. If you do not have this available you may omit it in this recipe.
Seared Scallops with Mushroom Coconut Sauce (serves 2-3)
2 1/2 Tbsp unsalted butter
1 Tbsp olive oil
1/2 small white onion, chopped (or about 3 Tbsp)
3 garlic cloves, chopped (or about 1 Tbsp)
1 scallion, green parts only, chopped
12 oz white button mushrooms, sliced thinly
6 oz container of coconut milk
1 1/2 Tbsp soy sauce
1/2 tsp Przyprawa W Plynie (Maggi liquid seasoning), optional*
16 oz Seared Sea Scallops
1) Heat a pan over medium high heat. Once the pan is hot add butter and oil.
2) Add onion, garlic and scallions. Saute for about a minute. May turn heat down slightly to avoid burning the garlic.
3) Add mushrooms and cook until everything is just wilted (about 5 minutes).
4) Add coconut milk and soy sauce. Saute for about another 2 minutes and turn heat to low. Add Przyprawa W Plynie.
5) Seasoned the scallops with a sprinkle of fine sea salt and ground white pepper. In a separate pan lightly fry each side of the scallop in a little oil over relatively high heat until golden brown (about 5-6 minutes total cooking time). Avoid overcooking.
6) Add the seared scallops back to the sauce. Serve with pasta, noodles, mashed potatoes or anything you prefer.
*Przyprawa W Plynie is Maggi liquid seasoning made by Nestle. It looks like soy sauce but it is not. I found this at a Polish store in Dorchester, Massachusetts. I bought it for experimentation because I have never seen it before. If you do not have this available you may omit it in this recipe.
Saturday, March 5, 2016
Daikon Kimchi (makes one mason jar)
|--photo of day one of my kimchi jar
--the color will get slightly darker red as it is aged
--this is one of the jars that was given to me by my mother-in-law (thank you!)
|daikon cubes, cut scallions, and onion wedges
Daikon Kimchi (makes one mason jar)
1 medium sized daikon (2 lbs), peeled and cut into approximately 3/4-inch cubed, washed
1 bunch scallions, green parts only, cut into about 1-inch lengths, washed
1/2-1/4 onion, cut into about 1/4-inch wedges, washed
1 recipe of Kimchi Sauce Mixture (recipe to follow)
1) Spread the cubed daikon on a flat surface (I used 2 plates) in a single layer, leave out at room temperature overnight to dry out (the winter air can be quite dry here in New Hampshire--which is helpful to speed up the process).
2) The next day mix about 1/4 cup of salt (I used regular salt) and about 1/2 cup of water (the salted water should taste salty) and stir until blended then pour this over the partially dried daikon cubes. Leave for about 1/2 day. Stir the contents occasionally to coat evenly. More liquid will come out of the daikon after several hours.
3) Rinse the daikon a few times with clean cold water to remove the brine. Let the daikon partially dry in a strainer.
4) Marinate the prepared daikon with scallions, onion and Kimchi Sauce Mixture. Mix all ingredients until everything is well incorporated. Let the mixture sit for about 15 minutes. Stir and then add everything including the liquid to a sterilized (I boil the clean glass jar with lid for about 5 minutes--be careful not to burn yourself when you do this) glass container. You may have to shake the container a few times and press the contents down in order to get everything to fit in the jar.
5) Refrigerate the jar at least 4-5 days before eating. Turn the jar to the side or shake it a few times about once a day to get the contents distributed evenly. Be sure to use clean utensils when removing the daikon from the jar for consumption.
|kimchi sauce mixture
2 Tbsp good fish sauce (I used Squid brand)
1 1/2 Tbsp Red Pepper Paste (I used the go-chu-jang brand)*
1 Tbsp grated ginger
1 Tbsp grated garlic
1 tsp sugar
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 tsp vinegar
In a small bowl mix all ingredients together until well blended. Give the sauce a taste and adjust any seasoning according to your taste.
*You can certainly add more ginger and garlic. Often time I prefer more of these 2 ingredients. Sometimes I even add sliced gingers along with the grated ginger to my jar.
*I searched but was not able to find chili powder at the store (H-Mart). That store is huge. I must have asked the wrong staff because they were not able to help. I found the Red Pepper Paste (go-chu-jang brand) instead. It turned out the paste worked well and economical. There was another paste nearby but it was twice the price. I was unclear how the more expensive version was more superior. I think the cheaper container I bought worked just fine.
|daikon kimchi (a few days after canning)
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I'm so grateful that I had the opportunity to visit my sister this Thanksgiving. I'm lucky that I got the chance while she is living in the Caribbean. Yes, I escaped the cold of the Midwest for a whole week, and don't worry, I have plenty of cute vacation photos to show you. If you follow me on social media, you've probably seen enough already, but thank you for persisting.
While I was visiting my sister, I had a lot more exposure to the sun than I did back at home in the Midwest. In fact it was more sun than what I had been getting in months, and while I was very happy about it, I really had to be careful with my skin. My husband and I doused ourselves in drugstore sunscreen daily, using brands that I had grown up using and trusted. I don't know if it was my skin's inability to adapt to the quick increase in SPF, some failure on my part to apply correctly, or something different altogether, but this sunscreen wasn't cutting it, and I was frustrated.
My sister pointed me toward the pharmacy, where her friend had found European brands. Years of obsessively protecting my skin had taught me that European brands contain ingredients that haven't been approved in the US but are great at protecting us from UV rays. I was elated at this news from my sister and I ended up basically running down to the pharmacy to get my hands on those better ingredients.
Sure enough, the brand I purchased, Vichy (you can also get it in the US, but it won't have those good ingredients), worked perfectly, absorbing quickly into my skin, smelling pleasantly, and most importantly, keeping my safe from the sun. After my new sunscreen purchase, the rest of our trip went smoothly, and honestly, I was excited to get to spend time with my sister.
But why does this matter now? Because you should wear sunscreen year round, and not enough people realize this (yes, people who live in the Midwest with me, you need sunscreen year round). I am now a passionate believer in the importance of sunscreen, but I didn't always feel this way.
If I'm being honest (and I am!), I hated sunscreen growing up. I disliked the smell, I disliked the oily feel, and I disliked the inconvenience of constantly needing to reapply. Obviously this is a toxic combination for this blonde-haired, freckled lady (especially since I basically spent my entire childhood outdoors playing softball).
Eventually, as I got older, I mostly got over my dislike of the smell and the oiliness. I think at some point my vanity (goodbye unnecessary wrinkles) outweighed my dislike of those things, and I sucked it up and started wearing sunscreen regularly. I'll tell my mom it's because I matured, but really it's because I didn't want to badly sun damage my body because I care too much about how I look. But who's to say? Maybe that is it's own kind of maturity.
Around the same time that I got over my repulsion toward sunscreen, I found out that really I should be wearing it every day. Young adult Anna couldn't understand how to regularly wear sunscreen and reapply it with her makeup, and even though I probably only wore makeup about once a week, I used that as my excuse as to why I couldn't wear it all the time. Then, I started buying the foundation that had SPF in it and I acted like that was sufficient, even though I knew that SPF needed reapplied regularly and I had read many articles explaining that the SPF found in makeup usually doesn't cover what you need anyway.
Sometime during my college years, I finally held myself accountable and thought about why I was refusing to wear sunscreen like I knew I should be, and I realized it was because my skin usually reacted terribly with the normal drugstore brands that I used every summer on the softball diamonds. I knew there was no way that was what all the beauty experts were using on their faces, and I knew my reasoning for not wearing sunscreen was logical, but there was also a logical solution. At this point, I began my research. It didn't take long for me to discover that sunscreens existed that didn't smell terrible or leave your skin oily and gross feeling. In fact, there were sunscreens that were formulated just for your face and even meant to be reapplied over your makeup.
Let me tell you, this was a game changer for me. I used a gift card to a beauty store and I purchased my first for-face sunscreen. It was pricey, but I soon found out it was worth it. I now own multiple bottles of beauty expert approved sunscreen and I love them and I wear them year round just like all those beauty articles I read so long ago told me too.
Don't worry, though, I still have work to do. I'm still working on my reapplying game, and if that's something you've mastered, please tell me your secrets!


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You may wish you could go back and experience life at a particular point in time. While there isn't a time machine just yet, there is a way to create one for your data.
You can create a way to view "as of " data using DB2 tables to image your data before and after changes occurred and then be able to see your data at a point in time, or see how your data has changed over time. You can do this while also being able to back out corrupted data changes without a major outage. It may take a bit of design work on both the database and application, but ultimately, you can provide instant access to "as of " data.
Auditing Table Changes
To produce the "as of " data images there must be a place in the database where data that has changed will be stored. There are many ways to store changes to data; establishing audit tables is one of the most common. The audit table's major purpose is to record images of rows of data as they existed before or after a change to the row. An audit table has the same design as its corresponding base table except for an additional key field—typically a timestamp field to be able to store multiple versions of a row. Figure 1 shows that the AUDIT_TABLE contains the same data as the MAIN_TABLE, but the AUDIT_TABLE contains a start timestamp and end timestamp vs. the MAIN_TABLE update timestamp.
These timestamps represent times in which the data stored in the MAIN_TABLE was active. Whenever a row is updated or deleted in the MAIN_TABLE, a row is written to the AUDIT_TABLE to record the period of time in which the image of the row was active before the change was made.
So, in Figure 2, the MAIN_TABLE reflects the current condition of the data, and the AUDIT_TABLE holds the data that was active for the range, using the before image of the update timestamp as the start timestamp and the after image as the end timestamp. Deletes are typically similarly recorded; inserts aren't typically recorded, but can be.
Automated Data Replication
Population of audit tables can be a programmatic or automated process. Typically, an automated process is preferred because there's little or no application programming involved. An automated audit process also lets you turn the process on or off without application programming changes.


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Greater Surbiton And Douglas Murray.
Greater Surbiton has a superb post on Douglas Murray:
"Murray has spoken in defence of the English Defence League, a fascist, Islamophobic organisation of street thugs, and of Robert Spencer, proprietor of the anti-Muslim hate-site 'Jihadwatch' (see the video at the start of this post). With some nuance, arguably, but unambiguously enough to be described as a 'ringing defence' by Spencer, who writes 'At a recent conference… devoted to attempting to smear many anti-jihad forces, including the English Defense League and our own Stop Islamization of America, as neofascists, the extraordinarily eloquent English writer Douglas Murray offers this ringing defense (of me also, for which I am grateful) and denunciation of the Left's guilt-by-association tactics.' Murray praises Spencer as a 'brilliant scholar'. Yet Spencer is a promoter of Srebrenica genocide denial. The EDL has also promoted Murray's defence of it on their website."
George Monbiot On Genocide Belittlers.
George Monbiot has written a fine piece in the Guardian, Left and libertarian right cohabit in the weird world of the genocide belittlers:
"But genocide denial is just as embarrassing to the left as it is to the libertarian right. Last week Edward Herman, an American professor of finance best known for co-authoring Manufacturing Consent with Noam Chomsky, published a new book called The Srebrenica Massacre. It claims that the 8,000 deaths at Srebrenica are "an unsupportable exaggeration. The true figure may be closer to 800."
Like Karadzic, the book claims that the market massacres in Sarajevo were carried out by Bosnian Muslim provocateurs. It maintains that the Serb forces' reburial of Bosnian corpses is "implausible and lack[s] any evidential support" (an astonishing statement in view of the ICMP's findings). It insists that the witnesses to the killings are "not credible" and suggests that the Bosnian Muslim soldiers retreated from Srebrenica to ensure that more Bosnians were killed, in order to provoke US intervention.
These are not the first such claims that Herman has made. Last year, with David Peterson, he published a book called The Politics of Genocide. Mis-citing a tribunal judgment, he maintains that the Serb forces "incontestably had not killed any but 'Bosnian Muslim men of military age'." Worse still, he places the Rwandan genocide in inverted commas throughout the text and maintains that "the great majority of deaths were Hutu, with some estimates as high as two million", and that the story of 800,000 "largely Tutsi deaths" caused by genocide "appears to have no basis in any facts". It's as straightforward an instance of revisionism as I've ever seen, comparable in this case only to the claims of the genocidaires themselves.
But here's where it gets really weird. The cover carries the following endorsement by John Pilger. "In this brilliant exposé of great power's lethal industry of lies, Edward Herman and David Peterson defend the right of us all to a truthful historical memory." The foreword was written by Noam Chomsky. He doesn't mention the specific claims the book makes, but the fact that he wrote it surely looks like an endorsement of the contents. The leftwing website Media Lens maintained that Herman and Peterson were "perfectly entitled" to talk down the numbers killed at Srebrenica. What makes this all the more remarkable is that Media Lens has waged a long and fierce campaign against Iraq Body Count for underestimating the number killed in that country.
Why is this happening? Both the LM network and Herman's supporters oppose western intervention in the affairs of other nations. Herman rightly maintains that far more attention is paid to atrocities committed by US enemies than to those committed by the US and its allies. But both groups then take the unwarranted step of belittling the acts of genocide committed by opponents of the western powers.
The rest of us should stand up for the victims, whoever they are, and confront those trying to make them disappear."
The original post with full references can be seen at Monbiot's site.
Update 1: In a hole, stop digging, but Media Lens carry on:
"One initial thought. Monbiot writes:
'The leftwing website Media Lens maintained that Herman and Peterson were "perfectly entitled" to talk down the numbers killed at Srebrenica.'
What does 'talk down' really mean here? Downplay? Underestimate? Deliberately underestimate? Dishonestly underestimate?
In fact, last week we spelled out our position to Monbiot on Twitter:
'We're saying +everyone+ is entitled to debate facts. Who are we, or you, to say they are not? Do you possess Absolute Truth?'
Imagine how it would have looked for him, if he had honestly represented our position:
'The leftwing website Media Lens maintained that Herman and Peterson were "perfectly entitled" to debate the numbers killed at Srebrenica.'
As Monbiot also knows (we sent him a link to what follows), this is also what we wrote in 2009:
'It is certainly true that we have posted articles by Herman and Peterson discussing the massacre on our website. But it is simply false to suggest that they have argued that "the genocide at Srebrenica was all a hoax". Herman and Peterson have written:
'"The Srebrenica massacre took place in the month before Operation Storm, Croatia's devastating attack and ethnic cleansing of some 250,000 Serbs from the Krajina, with over 1,000 civilians killed, including over 500 women and children…" (Edward Herman and David Peterson, 'The Dismantling of Yugoslavia,' Monthly Review, October 2007; http://www.monthlyreview.org/1007herman-peterson1.php)
'Their very rational concern is to discuss the "asymmetry in how the Srebrenica massacre and Operation Storm have entered the Western canon". (Ibid) Their interest, then, is in precisely +comparing+ how these two horrific massacres were treated by Western politics and media. Herman and Peterson have also written:
'"There is a good case to be made that, while there were surely hundreds of executions, and possibly as many as a thousand or more, the 8,000 figure is a political construct and eminently challengeable." (Herman and Peterson, 'Milosevic's Death in the Propaganda System,' ZNet, May 14, 2006; http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/3884)
'Herman and Peterson, then, are +not+ denying that mass killings took place at Srebrenica. They also do not accept the figure cited by Kamm and others, but that they are perfectly entitled to do. The point is that while critics are free to take issue with their facts, sources and arguments, it is nonsense to accuse them of sins that are the "moral equivalent of Holocaust denial". And to associate us with Holocaust denial on the grounds that we publish their material is desperate indeed.'
Notice that Monbiot has smeared us in a national newspaper on a subject we have never written about beyond the above explanation of why we posted, or linked to, articles by Herman and Peterson on the subject on our website. We have not ourselves ever written about the Srebrenica massacre other than to affirm that it took place. For this, according to Monbiot, we are guilty of the thought crime of 'genocide denial'."
[My emphasis.]
Chomsky's Silence on Ratko Mladic And Srebrenica.
Normally, you can't shut up Noam Chomsky. He pops up in the media. An article here, a video clip there. Whatever else you say about him, he is indefatigable.
But surprisingly he's been rather silent on the arrest of Ratko Mladic and Srebrenica, as far as I can tell.
Presumably, some time in the future he will inflict upon us some tortured piece, which exculpates Radovan Karadžić, Ratko Mladic and blames it all on the UN or ICTY. It is just a matter of time, and Chomsky is such a creature of habit.
James Bloodworth has written a good post on this very topic, ably summing up Chomsky's method:
"The behaviour of Chomsky in this instance should be put into the context of the wider reaction of certain sections of the left to all Western intervention – no matter that intervention in this case happened altogether too late. The method of Chomsky and his acolytes is straightforward: select an action taken by the West – whether in Kosovo, Rwanda, or Libya (or in this case belatedly in Bosnia and Herzegovina) – invert the role of perpetrator and victim, before forming a conclusion which lays the blame for every atrocity at the door of Western intervention or a Western ally in the region. If this means denying or downplaying genocide committed by those opposed to Western forces, then so be it. "
Update 1: I should remind those genocide deniers, fans of Radovan Karadžić and Ratko Mladic that this blog has a zero tolerance for neo-fascists, their mates and deniers, so go away. Stop spamming my threads and if you can, slowly read my comment's policy.
A Pompous Ass.
Coming back after a few days away is refreshing, if only to see how others view matters.
I particularly appreciated Owen's comment in this thread, as it seems to sum things up nicely:
"Owen 24/01/2011 at 15:25
What a pompous ass David Gibbs comes across as.
I asked him three questions, not unreasonable questions, in order to try and determine the substance of his position in relation to Srebrenica.
But he doesn't choose to clarify.
Nor does he choose to deal with the criticism of his observation that the origins of the genocidal massacre at Srebrenica lay in the raids conducted by the defenders of the besieged enclave and not in the Strategic Objectives of the Bosnian Serb Assembly.
A historian so picky and choosy that he reserves the favour of his disclosing his position to the followers of Louis Proyect is hardly demonstrating a determined commitment to the public justification of his opinions.
When it comes to defending his take on historical events in the public forum the tenured professor has a lesson or two to learn from Marko Hoare's robust willingness to face the music." [My emphasis.]
I should remind readers that Dr. Hoare has produced another wide ranging critique, First Check Their Sources 3: The myth that 'Germany encouraged Croatia to secede from Yugoslavia'.
A Scholar Replies To David N. Gibbs.
Dr. Marko Attila Hoare previously posted an initial reply to David N Gibbs on his blog, Greater Surbiton, as First Check Their Sources: On David N. Gibbs and 'shoddy scholarship'.
One of the key parts was:
"…let us first make this clear: it is wholly untrue that Gibbs's book has 'presented an extended critique' of my own publications. Anyone reading Gibbs's book without examining carefully the endnotes would not even notice that I had been criticised at all: my name does not appear in the text itself, nor in the index. Gibbs has four trivial quibbles with me, buried in his endnotes. Gibbs does not, as he now claims, accuse me in his book of 'shoddy scholarship', and has made this accusation only in his subsequent reply to me."
In a second reply, First Check Their Sources 2: The myth that 'most of Bosnia was owned by the Serbs before the war' Dr. Hoare deals with Gibbs' questionable use of sources.
This explains it:
"Gibbs's claim that 'Serbs had always occupied most of Bosnia's land area, owing to their demographic dominance in rural regions' and that 'the Serbs had always controlled most of the land in Bosnia – since they were disproportionately rural' is therefore false. His deduction, based on this falsehood, that Western peace-plans that awarded over 40% of Bosnia to the Serb rebels were actually unfavourable to them, can therefore be exposed as an attempt to fabricate Serb victimhood at Western hands."
I suspect that over time Professor Gibbs' book will be liberally torn apart, for its doubtful use of sources, misrepresentation of data and speculative interpretations.
Professor Gibbs, Failure To Address The Issues.
I finally got around to reading all of the 339+ comments on David Gibbs' guest post and I must say I am disappointed.
I like academic discussions normally.
I appreciate clever people making intelligent points and I confess to being a fan of Engage, where some witty or informative exchanges are to be found. I had hoped that this guest post would be equally sharp and illuminating, sadly it is not.
Professor Gibbs seems to have made a conscious choice not to address the criticism of his work in any significant way.
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Apologies To Marko.
I made a mistake by allowing David Gibbs a guest post.
At the time I thought he was a reasonable academic who deserved a right of reply, however, subsequently I have had time to reflect on my poor judgement.
I could excuse it away by saying I was rushed and I often tend to give people the benefit of the doubt in such matters. I could say I thought it would be informative to see these issues thrashed out, but that's not good enough.
It was very poor timing, inconvenient for everyone except seemingly Professor Gibbs, and at the very least it should have been put off for another time.
In truth, I should have probably said "use someone else's blog or create your own". But that's not good enough
So my sincere apologies to Marko Attila Hoare, who was stuck in Germany when this first came about, by the excessive snow and blocked airports. I can appreciate how difficult it was for him.
Dr. Hoare was rightly annoyed at matters, but made a conscious effort to put all that behind him and deal with Gibbs' arguments.
I haven't reviewed the thread with any real attention to detail, and will probably cover its contents in a future post.
Dr. Hoare deserved better, I am very sorry for the hassle and inconvenience that I caused him.
In the future, should Professor Gibbs want a "right of reply" then he can use the able services of his friend and fan, Louis Proyect or post in the comments boxes, like everyone else.
I won't make the same mistake twice!


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|Dry Red Chillie / Molagavettal
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|Chana Dal / Kadal Parup
|Tur Dal
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|Mustard Seeds /Kadugu
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|Urd Dal/ Ultam Parup
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|Black Pepper balls / Kurumolagu
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