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Just in time for weekend brunch, I'd like to introduce my latest Almond Breeze partnership recipe creation to you guys: a bright and savory Crustless Quiche with Spring Vegetables. This is what happens when you already have eggs, Matt buys extra at the store, and then your farm share comes with eggs. Whoops. We've been eating ALL the eggs this week!
You guys know I'm a serious brunch fan, and this quiche does not disappoint. It would be great for guests, or you can make it to heat it up all week for fast breakfasts, which is what our plan was!
As always, this comes together quickly – it does require some time in the oven but the prep time is minimal. First, assemble your Army:
Then cook the veggies! Just sauté them for a few minutes in a pan until soft. Feel free to get creative with the veggies you use in this dish, by the way – they don't have to be set in stone.
Once the veggies are soft, toss them in a deep pie tin or baking dish (I recommend either a 9 inch pie tin or an 8×8 or 9×9 square dish), then top them with goat cheese. Feta or cheddar would be good here, too, if you prefer it!
Next, whisk together your eggs and Almond Breeze in a bowl, then pour the mixture over the veggies. Sprinkle some parsley on it all, too.
Now it's ready to go in the oven! 40 to 45 minutes later and you have yourself a meal.
Serve alone or with a side of fruit, toast or roasted potatoes. It would also pair well with a side salad as a light weekday lunch – I'm working from home today so that's what I'm planning to eat for lunch in a few minutes, plus some sort of carb or grain!
Here's the full recipe. Enjoy!
Crustless Quiche with Spring Vegetables Recipe
(Serves about 6)
- 1 red bell pepper, diced
- 1 cup sliced asparagus
- 1 cup fresh or frozen green peas
- 3 green onions, sliced (optional)
- 4 oz goat (or feta) cheese, crumbled
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley
- 5 eggs
- 2/3 cup Almond Breeze Almondmilk Original Unsweetened
- salt and pepper
- olive oil
- 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- 2. Heat a drizzle of olive oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add the bell pepper, asparagus, peas, and green onions. Season with salt and pepper and cook for 5-6 minutes, until tender. Transfer the vegetables to a pie tin or baking dish.
- 3. Crumble the goat cheese evenly on top of the vegetables, sprinkle the parsley evenly over the cheese.
- 4. In a bowl, whisk together the eggs, Almond Breeze, and a pinch of salt and pepper. Pour this mixture over the vegetables.
- 5. Bake for 40-45 minutes, until the eggs are set and a knife inserted into the center of the quiche comes out clean.
Please feel free to dive in headfirst. Just don't burn your tongue. ;)
Thank you to my friends at Blue Diamond Almond Breeze Almondmilk for sponsoring this post. Previous Almond Breeze sponsored recipe creations (yes, I've been working with them for a long time!):
- Butternut Squash Mac & Cheese
- Vegan Quinoa Breakfast Bake
- Cantaloupe & Avocado Soup
- Zucchini Bread Ice Cream
- Peach Muffins
- No Bake Blueberry Custard Pie
- Vegan Strawberry Scones
- Healthy Shamrock Shake
- Whole Wheat Irish Soda Bread
- Spiced Cherry Pecan Granola Bars
- Banana Nut Quinoa Muffins
- {All That's Missing is the} Tropical Island Smoothie
- Oatmeal Breakfast Bake
- Almond Butter Stuffed Vanilla Coconut French Toast
- Pumpkin Pie Chia Pudding
- Chocolate Cherry Espresso Smoothie
- Pumpkin Pie Smoothie
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Pain, Barry. Three Fantasies (London: Methuen, 1904).
The title of this elusive book makes it sound much more desirable than it actually is. The short story which opens the book, "Cheevers and the Love of Beauty," is the best in the volume. A local busy-body businessman is accused of having no love of beauty, and the remark rankles him. Soon afterwards he encounters a gypsy who reads his palm, and remarks upon this fact. For a small sum of silver, she gives him a love of beauty for seven days, during which time he neglects his business and spends his days at the National Gallery, much to the bewilderment of all who know him. After seven days, he returns to his normal self. The two novellas in this book are romance stories, neither of which really count as fantasies in the modern sense.

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"What if it's her food that causes all this? What if I'd start feeding her with a vegan food instead of the "regular" kind?"
I was a vegan myself for already six months and my new life style kept to amaze me with its incredible benefits. I thought, "Why not turning my German Shepherd into a vegan dog as well?"
The bad doggie-breath I used to fight with different supplements before, went away completely on its own this time.


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It is something I have wanted to do since participating in CBC Radio's book club a few years back.
I love to read and discuss what I have read.
The challenge was finding a book club that had men. It would appear they are pretty rare. I always assumed that there were male book clubs out there. But maybe I've been wrong.
In the movie Date Night .with Tina Fey and Steve Carrell, they are in a co-ed book club, but the guys only go to to please their wives.
As I searched for a co-ed book club, I quickly realized that most book clubs are populated by women and they read mostly fiction.
I read a lot of non-fiction but over the past couple of years my library has expanded to include more and more fiction. I have begun to read books that are nominated for literary awards or I have found interesting discussions about on literary sites. The Booker Prize, The Govenor General's Award, Scotiabank Giller Prize, Canada Reads, The Costa Book Awards have generated a rich treasury of great reads. In fact, I have become an avid reader of both fiction and non-fiction.
On Boxing Day over brunch, I was discussing the lack of book clubs for men. One of the guests said she was in a book club and I should consider joining. The first thing I asked was, are there any other men? The answer was no. Turns out that I went to university with a couple of the girls and decided to join. I mention it to a friend who loves to read and discuss books who said he would join as well. Fortunately for us the group was interested in a "male" perspective and was not sexist!
Bob and I are looking forward to discussing this month's selection, Emancipation Day by Wayne Grady. It has a Newfoundland connection, Canadian Navy musician Jackson Lewis is station din St. John's where meets and marries a local St. John's girl .
Here is what Amazon.ca has to say about the book:
How far would a son go to belong? And how far would a father go to protect him?
With his curly black hair and his wicked grin, everyone swoons and thinks of Frank Sinatra when Navy musician Jackson Lewis takes the stage.It's World War II, and while stationed in St. John's, Newfoundland, Jack meets the well-heeled, romantic Vivian Clift, a local girl who has never stepped off the Rock and is desperate to see the world. They marry against Vivian's family's wishes–hard to say what it is, but there's something about Jack that they just don't like–and as the war draws to a close, the new couple travels to Windsor to meet Jack's family.
But when Vivian meets Jack's mother and brother, everything she thought she knew about her new husband gets called into question. They don't live in the dream home that Jack depicted, they all look different from one another–and different from anyone Vivian has ever seen–and after weeks of waiting to meet Jack's father, William Henry, he never materializes.
Steeped in jazz and big-band music, spanning pre- and post-war Windsor-Detroit, St. John's, Newfoundland, and 1950s Toronto, this is an arresting, heart wrenching novel about fathers and sons, love and sacrifice, race relations and a time in our history when the world was on the cusp of momentous change.
I really enjoyed this book. The race relation issue struck close to home because of the recent debate/discussion about aboriginal ancestry in this province. Who would have have ever thought that upwards of 15% of the population of our province is now believed to have aboriginal heritage?
Many of those that did ensured the secret was locked away. Imagine, checking into your Irish roots to learn that your great-great grandfather married a Mikmaq, but no one ever told you? It changes your entire-self image! Anyone would want to know more about their family tree. A heritage denied by my ancestors because they were ashamed.
Despite our European dominated culture, there was a much larger aboriginal component than we might have ever thought. The reasons for that were many. From misplaced shame, a lack of knowledge of family trees and poor record keeping over the generations, the knowledge was lost. In recent years people have become fascinated with their ancestries. More and more of us want to know where we came from, how we got here, what our family health records reveal. Our roots are important to us.
I'll post more about Emancipation Day including a book review after my inaugural book club discussion.
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RV and Motorhome Vacations Offer Discount Travel Options
More and more Americans are delighting in the flexibility, security, convenience and the magnificence of going to and visiting the country with motorhomes, more widely known as RV's. In accordance with a study performed by the University of Michigan, 1 out of 12 American families own motorhomes, therefore the boost of 7.8 percent of the varieties of such automobiles in the previous 4 years. To extend the data even more, this indicates that 7 million families have Recreational Vehicle's.
So why is there an increase on using motorhomes?
Post September 11 analysis exposes that people want to have more control of their journeys and are choosing to take a trip more by land than by air. Aside from this, they wish to avoid airport hassles and traffic. But more than these factors, Americans wish to travel with their households and to be in control of their travel schedules. In these stressful times, going outdoors and communicating nature seems to be among the options which can be considerably accomplished by motorhome traveling. Motor-homes have become more comfy and more luxurious since the release of the first Recreational Vehicle. Some motorhomes nowadays, have total upholstered furnishings, state of the line appliances like microwaves, tvs and fridges. Other deluxe motorhomes supply features such as dining and living areas, queen beds, cabinets and storage plus a shower in the full-size bathroom. Some also end up being flashier with stereos and CD players installed in the vehicle and other improved comforts such as double door refrigerators and wooden tabletops.
Here are a few tips while traveling in your motorhome:
1. To decrease emissions and to conserve energy, keep the motorhome well tuned.
2. Ensure that the camping sites where you camp are marked as "RV camping areas".
3. While driving, ensure that you adhere to the roadways that the motorhome can travel into.
4. Attempt to avoid using disposable things such as cups, plates and spoons.
5. Ensure that the campfires you make are little and prevent putting stuff into the fire that will not burn such as rubber, foil, plastic etc. It is also important to note fire rules in motorhome camping sites.
6. Avoid using supplies for cleansing that can be poisonous. Search for ecologically friendly cleaning stuff.
7. If you are bringing your family pets in your motorhome travel, and they are permitted in campgrounds, make certain that they are kept inside the motorhome or use stakes to connect them there. Barks can be damaged when they are incorporated a tree.
8. Be thoughtful wit your next-door neighbors when playing music or when playing video game. Other campers may consider this as sound.
9. Always make certain that you recycle while traveling.
10. Make sure to leave all areas in the motorhome park tidy and dispose your trash in effectively designated areas in the park.
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Review: Microsoft's Office 2011 for Mac
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Microsoft is clearly working to make Office 2011 for Mac look more like its Windows version rather than follow the lead of Apples own iWork productivity apps on the Mac platform.
This is good for corporate customers who want to exchange documents (and application familiarity) with their Windows-using colleagues, but a step backward (or at least a step across, considering how backward Office already was) for Mac users in general who dont need an interface familiar to Windows users.
Rather than sporting a context-sensitive Format Bar that displays tools appropriate for your currently selected content (as Apples iWork apps do), Office for Mac displays an inch-high Ribbon cluttered with buttons that offer to do both useful things you might only need to access on rare occasions (such as creating an complex, multilevel list outline) and fanciful tasks youre unlikely to ever need at your fingertips (such as adding a glow and reflection to the text in your document).
The Ribbon offers such an overload of feature-bloat clutter that it requires seven tabs of options to pack in every feature Microsoft has ever invented into the main toolbar area of every active window, virtually forcing users to hide and unhide the menu as they work unless they have vast screen real estate to work with.
This issue is exacerbated by the fact that Microsoft displays Ribbon group titles (words describing the sections of buttons) by default in Office 2011, which adds another level of text labels to the button-overload underneath the already excessive tabs of Ribbons. There are options to turn some of this label-heavy user interface bloat off, but the all on by default display seems to be a poor design decision.
Use of the Ribbon in Office seems to largely be an arbitrary effort by Microsoft to shake the copycat OpenOffice off its coattails rather than a way to make useful, contextually relevant tools available to the user, making its inclusion into the Mac suite even more unwelcome than were it an actual attempt at improving the user interface.
Word 2011
Microsoft appears to borrow from and extend some of the features of Apples Pages app from iWork, including a revised Word Document Gallery that opens at launch with a variety of professionally designed templates to start from, as well as presenting an organized, visual, and searchable file browser for your existing documents.
Theres also a full screen mode similar to the one introduced by Pages, which is intended to let you enter text (or read from your document) without all the extraneous clutter of the desktop, menu bar and window controls.
Theres also a Pages-inspired Publishing Layout View, which merges most of the features of Microsofts Publisher app (only available on Windows) into Word. Rather than creating documents with a custom file type, Words layout mode creates standard Word documents.
Theres also a new Word Web App that provides online access to light editing features, for situations where you want to edit your Word documents but dont have Word available. Apple was criticized for not building a similar service for iWork when it unveiled iWork.com as a way to share documents online. It will be interesting to see how much utility users find in this online editor.
Microsoft has also added support to Mac Office 2011 for Windows Live SkyDrive and SharePoint 2010, both of which enable users to edit and share their files online and participate in group editing, a new feature Microsoft calls co-editing.
A Notebook Layout view designed to facilitate sophisticated note taking, scribble drawing features, and audio recording is unique to Word. Along with more sophisticated support for style formatting and multiuser track changes features, these features keep Microsofts new word processor a comfortable distance ahead of Apples last version of Pages, particularly for users with sophisticated needs in a corporate environment.
At the same time, Apple nearly gives Pages away in its iWork suite, so for home and small business users who dont need every bell and whistle in Word, and who lack any extensive requirements for integrating with corporate server products or Windows-using colleagues, Pages continues to offer a simpler, less cluttered, and more approachable experience that feels a lot more Mac-like.
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The main reason why most students choose not to study traffic signals is because they seem to simple and because we are exposed to them from a very early age, so we consider ourselves to possess quite an expertise on the subject. While it is partially true, you have to remember that traffic lights that direct traffic flow are a little different from pedestrian lights and, as a driver, you will be required to make decisions much faster than if you were just walking on a sidewalk. This is why the DMV chose to include quite a few questions on traffic signals into the 2019 Utah permit test and let us tell you, some of those questions are far from being basic. For example, do you know what you, as a driver, have to do when you reach an intersection where the traffic light isn't working? Our free Utah state practice permit test teaches you that! Do you know what to do when traffic signals are in conflict with directions given to you by a police officer? Our 2019 practice permit test teaches you that too! It teaches you that and many other things about traffic lights you thought you knew so well!
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Woman finds Lithuanian living in shed, cleaning her gardens.
Personally, if some random guy lived on my property for a couple months, never tried to break in, and even cleaned my damn gardens, I might consider working out an arrangement before kicking him out.
B-2 stealth bombers upgrade to Pentium and C.
While I endorse implementation of new technology, it will probably be for the best that we keep sensitive machinery (like, say, stealth bombers) away from equipment of which not much experience has been had with.
So will tanks be controlled by holographic terminals circa 2030?
PS: Though it's funny how the B-2 follows the "strap enough engines (and computers) to something and it will fly" concept.
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This is why only there are only amateur hackers or professionals. 69 charges?
Idiots and their laser pointers.
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Locked and Loaded III was the third Locked and Loaded level of Wild West in the Chinese version of Plants vs. Zombies 2.
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(After completing the level)
(Penny appears)
Penny: I can't believe there were so many chickens.
(Crazy Dave appears)
Crazy Dave: I cry fowl!
Penny: This will be remembered as the Great Chickening of 1850.
(Crazy Dave and Penny leave)
- Being a strategy-based level, the player might find it either easy or hard. Chicken Wrangler Zombies appear later in the level, but the player does not have Lightning Reed, and there are a lot of them.
- Due to the cost of most of the given plants, it may be hard to gather enough sun in time to take care of the zombies efficiently.
- First, plant Sunflowers around the carts. Then, plant Iceberg Lettuces and Potato Mines to deal with the first few zombies. Plant Bloomerangs on the fourth and fifth columns.
- Then, plant a Winter Melon on the back most cart and a Repeater on the second and third. The fourth cart is optional.
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Gaul is the land bounded by the Rhine in the north and east, by the Rhone River and the Alps to the east, the Province of Rome to the south, and the Atlantic and North Sea Coasts to the west.
The river Rhone rises in Switzerland and flows south to the Mediterranean through the Province of Rome. It is the boundary between the Helvetii and Allobroges tribes.
The river Rhine flows westwards from the Alps, through Germany to the North Sea. It is the major boundary between the German and Belgic tribes, which Caesar crosses twice during the Gaul campaign.
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Lake Geneva is a large, elongated lake on the Rhone River, which is the site of the town of Geneva. It is part of the boundary between the Helvetii and the Allobroges.
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"Bertha and Tillie Sisters Forever" by Fran Lewis is a lesson, told in story form. It is a lesson of tolerance and making good decisions. While I suspect that this book was intended for children, I know more than a few adults that could learn a thing or two from this book.
Enter Bertha, a 13 yr old overweight girl. The book is told through her eyes and her voice. Each chapter is a scene in a play. The first chapter sets the stage. Meet the players. Penelope Mia, Bertha's cousin is a pretty, slim, popular girl who is a snob, a bully and has an air of arrogance that would block out the Southern California smog. Then there is Tillie, Bertha's sister. As siblings sometime are – Tillie and Bertha could not be more different. While Bertha is overweight, shy, and has few friends, Tillie is slender, vivacious and a total social butterfly.
With each chapter, Bertha is faced with a different obstacle to overcome. Once, she was blamed for something she didn't do. Too shy and quiet to stick up for herself, she accepts the punishment. Then, in an effort to beat the system, Bertha switched sides to see what it was like to be the bad girl for a change. In her mind, becoming part of a gang would keep her from being bullied or wrongly accused. As it turned out, she was still wrongly accused, and because she didn't want to do what the gang was doing, she was on the verge of getting bullied – or worse. Bertha always seems to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, now getting hauled into the police station with the gang. As we observe, a thirteen year old girl must continuously make decisions, and not every decision is going to be the right choice.
Now its time for Bertha to fight back. She began by researching who was posting embarrassing pictures of her on My Space and Face Book. That was interrupted when the principal asked Bertha to lead a new peer mediation group for her middle school. She gathers some friends and they begin the investigation….. Through her work on this peer mediation group, adults begin to trust once again.
The chapters come, and with each chapter, Bertha confronts some type of intolerance, be-it bigotry, bully's, vandals or gangs.
As an outcast she turned to acceptance through gangs. That didn't work out. Turning to doing the right thing by reporting vandals, bully's, bigots and such and leading a team of students to work with police to rid the school of those bad influences turned out to be the path of acceptance.
"Bertha and Tillie Sisters Forever" is well written and easy to follow. The story is engaging and the lessons are important. Fran provided a glimpse into a 13 year old girl's life and extracted sympathy and empathy from our hearts. This book is full of important lessons in tolerance. lessons that are crucial for children, and a necessary reminder for adults.


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"Food Safety Now!"
Who wouldn't rally behind such a cause?
This has been the battle cry of those in the uppermost echelons of our food regulatory bodies and public health departments for years now. With each widely-publicized food-borne disease outbreak comes more proposed controls on who, where, when, why and how we can put food on our tables. With such names as The Food Safety Modernization Act, it's hard to argue against the proposals…at least until you peel away the layers.
The vast majority of these bills are simply means to control the food supply; and thereby control the citizenry. Sure there are some well-intentioned, pure-hearted advocates of food safety out there. You'll always see some grieving mother who's child fell victim to a tainted chicken finger but the legislation seldom addresses the source of the problem. The majority of the food-related regulations that are proposed (these bills are chock…
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An unfortunate conclusion to an outstanding season
Iowa played Christian McCaffery-excuse me, Stanford-in a very underwhelming Rose Bowl on January 1st. It was a historic event for Iowa football, and it meant a huge deal to the players and fans alike. Was Iowa maybe a little starstruck at the beginning of the game? Definitely. Was Iowa prepared for Christian McCaffery and 10 other guys? Definitely not. A 45-16 loss stings a little, but it doesn't ruin Iowa's season.
From the first play of the game, a short pass to McCaffery (who started at his usual running back position) that turned into a 75-yard touchdown, you could tell Iowa wasn't prepared. It was a textbook Stanford play. When I looked up McCaffery's highlights to do some scouting, that exact same scenario appeared in the second play of the first video i found. Clearly Phil Parker doesn't use YouTube to find opponent film.
Everyone, myself included, was hoping that Iowa would be awake now, and that the small deficit would be easy to overcome. I was wrong. A short 3 & out gave Stanford the ball again. After three big plays by McCaffery in a row, Stanford was already up by 14 points with only 6 minutes played.
It only got worse. Iowa's offense looked alive with a drive that turned a couple of first downs, but then Beathard under threw a receiver, and Stanford ran it back 66 yards for a touchdown. Disbelief filled the Rose Bowl. What happened to the team with a good offense but even better defense, and when would Iowa be able to stop this New Years Day massacre?
Iowa got the ball back, lost yards, and punted, but then they actually managed to stop Stanford and force a punt! Iowa had another drive with no positive yardage and punted. The punt soon turned horrific. The man back to receive was none other than Christian McCaffery. What did he do? He did what Christian McCaffery does. He ran it into the end zone for a touchdown. The score was now 28-0 at the beginning of the second quarter.
Stanford only scored one more touchdown that quarter, and Iowa went into the locker room down 35-0. The controversial halftime show upset Iowa fans more than the football game did. It was stupid and mildly insulting, but I think all the hatred towards it was just Iowa fans letting their frustration out. Looking back on the show, it doesn't bother me. That's just what Stanford's band does, and the hatred and booing only fuels them
Iowa came out after halftime, and their performance was mediocre Iowa. The held them to only a field goal in the 3rd quarter, Iowa kicked to get three points of their own! It sure was exciting. Iowa had scored more than Michigan State did, so the hawks defiantly took home the moral victory trophy for that one.
In the fourth quarter, Matt VandeBerg and Akrum Wadley each scored six, and Marshal Koehn went 1 for 2 on extra points. At the end of the game, Stanford threw a bomb to score another touchdown. Real classless move if you ask me. Iowa got the ball again and was driving it down the field with just a couple of minutes left to play. Iowa kept moving the ball well and was close to scoring. Ferentz had burned his last timeout with 16 seconds left. He had some fancy play drawn up, but we never got to see the end of it since Beathard fumbled and Iowa lost the ball. Stanford kneeled, and the game was over.
It was bittersweet, but looking back at the season, you can't be disappointed. If you had made a deal with me at the beginning of the season that Iowa would get to go to the Rose Bowl but take a big loss, I would take that in a heartbeat. Iowa was projected to barely go positive. A Big Ten Championship game and Rose Bowl bid were out of the question.
I thought Iowa would win, and if Iowa came out ready in the beginning and played like they did the second half, they would've had a really good chance. I think the pressure of the Rose Bowl and the grandeur got in their heads. Hopefully they could return next year and could right the wrong of this season. Whatever happens next year and all the years after that, I will still remember this game and this season, and I will look back on my team with pride. It's great to be a Hawkeye.


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Oodles of Noodles in Zen Restaurant, Belfast
In 2010 when I first sat down with Eddie Fung, the owner of Zen restaurant Belfast, he admitted that the world was changing. Quality food at a reasonable price were the buzzwords… Out of ten people asked, only one or two could afford to eat in his well-regarded sushi restaurant Zen for lunch.
Thinking about where the other eight people went at lunchtime, he formulated a plan to open Hakka Noodles a few doors down in Adelaide Street.
Some four years later, that offering is still doing what he'd planned – to bring the Zen brand of quality food to a larger audience with a cheaper price point.
And if you've not been (or have only tried its half-hearted namesake in the Kennedy Centre) you need to get down there, immediately.
The noodles are all made on premises with a little help from a machine… but then, if you had to do more than 100,000 bowls of noodles in a year, you'd wince at making them by hand too.
Inside it's high ceilings with a hefty hit of the Orient and the menu is crammed with deliciousness, and, in my humble opinion, the best dumplings in the city.
We kick off with salt and chilli prawns that are juicy and come with a bang. Then a crunchy duck samosa that's well partnered with spring onion and Hoisin. There's also a mix of two types of dumpling, the minced pork and cabbage being something that should be on every desert island wish list.
It's also a testament too that Fung's restaurants were serving freshly made fruit juices long before it was trendy to do so in the city.
The braised pork belly comes soft, fatty and meaty… everything a good belly should be but with a deeply salty soy-based sauce with preserved vegetables.
Somehow we miss the spicy swimmer crab on the menu, noticing when it's too late. But then, there's nothing to complain about the comforting buzz of a mountain of thick noodles and soft stir-fried beef. And an 'adult' version of the children's favourite - battered chicken - comes with a beer coating, a rich, creamy spiced sauce and thick udon noodles.
There's nothing to be said about desserts in Hakka that hasn't already been said about most Asian restaurants in the city - it makes poor reading with ice cream and cheesecake appearing as per the norm.
That said, there's nothing wrong with some Chinese tea to round of an evening. Especially since everyone at the table should no doubt be full to the brim by the sizeable portions!
Browse deals for places like Zen restaurant Belfast here: Restaurants in Belfast.
John was a journalist for over 15 years and previously the editor of a Belfast-based newspaper. Co-founder of one of Ireland's most influential food and drinks websites, Forked.ie, he's a long-time judge of various food and drink awards in Ireland and writes primarily for Forked.ie. He also occasionally writes about food for Hospitality Review NI, Belfast Telegraph, the Guardian and makes the odd appearance on u105's Lunchtime Bistro show with Carolyn Stewart. You'll find him on Twitter @foodbelfast


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Jason Engwer recently did a prescient post about Hank Hanegraaff plugging Eastern Orthodoxy:
At one level, I don't care about Hanegraaff's deconversion from evangelicalism. What he does with his life is his own business. I'm not responsible for his choices in life. I don't have to live his life for him.
In fact, I think some deconversions are good. Hanegraaff was always a controversial successor to Martin. He was a second-rate spokesman for evangelicalism. So the EO are welcome to have him. There's a natural pruning process.
The only larger significance to his deconversion lies in the fact that he headed what at one time was world's premier countercult ministry. That gives him an institutional prominence he'd never enjoy on the merits. Likewise, that raises questions about the future direction of CRI.
I initially said:
i) A basic problem with EO is that it fosters the notion of salvation through the sacraments and salvation through "the Church"–rather than trusting directly in Jesus for salvation. It substitutes something in place of Jesus. People put their faith in "the Church" or the sacraments rather than Jesus. ii) EO simply disregards the forensic character of redemption in Pauline theology. iii) EO has changed. As I've documented in the past. EO has quietly capitulated to liberal Bible criticism and theistic evolution.
Jason's post has garnered a flurry of comments from EO enthusiasts. In years past I did a lot of posting on EO, but stopped doing that after it became repetitious. In addition, there's a lot of overlap between arguments for/against Catholicism and arguments for/against EO. But I'll respond to some of the comments on Jason's post, since they're representative of a certain mindset. Most of these comments aren't directed at me.
All the sacraments rely on Jesus. In most direct possible way. I will take the Eucharist for example - how are Christ's very own Body and Blood 'something in place of Jesus'?"
It's not as if I unfamiliar with traditional prooftexts for sacramental realism. Try raising an objection that hasn't already been refuted. For instance:
Also, to use your line of logic, do Protestants foster the notion of salvation through the Bible? Last time I checked, a fair deal of Protestant church websites have a statement of faith, and often, that same statement does not begin with Trinity / Jesus / God, it begins with inspiration / infallibility of the Scripture.
A disanalogous comparison. Most Christians know Jesus by description rather than acquaintance. We weren't around to witness his public ministry in 1C Palestine.
So, yes, our faith in Christ is mediated through the record of his life. There's no problem with the notion of salvation through the Bible inasmuch as the object of faith concerns historical and revealed truths.
No Orthodox begins his or her creed with 'I believe in sacraments.'
i) What it begins with is a red herring. And you're confusing the order of being with the order of knowing. The fact that God is the ontological starting-point doesn't make God the epistemological starting-point. Knowledge of God begins with revelation.
ii) Moreover, you skirt the issue that Orthodox believers trust in the sacraments for salvation rather than Jesus.
but there's something indicative when a huge majority of Protestant sites begin with the Bible.
Indicative of the fact that Protestant theology takes revelation as its frame of reference .
Remember that the Church of the Councils gave us the Canon of Scripture.
i) Actually, Jewish and Christian scribes gave us the scriptures. Because Catholics and Orthodox imagine that their denomination provides a shortcut to the canon, they don't stop and think about the actual historical process. Ironically, they take the same position as Bart Ehrman and Dan Brown. They act as though the Bible is a miscellaneous collection of books, and it requires some external authority to draw arbitrary lines, since there's nothing about the books themselves that selects for that particular collection.
ii) But stop and think about it. In the early church you had uncontrolled transmission of Scripture. Scribes producing private copies of Scripture. This wasn't coordinated. So you have many streams of transmission. Many chains of custody. Many copies of Scripture in circulation. And these go back to the originals. Back to the original authors.
iii) In the NT, we have four Gospels with titles. Two are attributed to apostles. Two are attributed to members of the Pauline circle. Moreover, Mark was a native of Jerusalem during the public ministry of Christ. And the mother church was located in his hometown.
Unless there's good reason to believe the authorial ascriptions are pseudonymous, which would pose a problem for Orthodox believers no less than Protestant believers, our acceptance of the Gospels isn't contingent on church councils.
iv) Over and above the titles, there's external testimony to the traditional authorship of the Gospels. And respecting internal testimony, John's Gospel was written by an eyewitness and member of Christ's inner circle.
Unless there's good reason to reject these lines of evidence, which would be problematic for Orthodox believers no less than Protestant believers, our acceptance of the Gospels isn't contingent on church councils, but multiple lines of independent evidence.
v) Acts is a bridge. Written by the same author as Luke's Gospel. Acts supplies additional background information regarding the authors of the Gospels, as well as the authors of the epistles. And conversely, the epistles supply additional background information. The NT canon is cross-referential and cross-attesting.
vi) We have a collection of letters written in Paul's name. Two letters written by two stepbrothers of Jesus. A letter (Hebrews) written by a member of the Pauline circle (Heb 13:23). Two letters written in the name of Peter. And three letters which clearly come from the same hand as the author of the Fourth Gospel. Finally, we have an apocalypse by a man who calls himself "John" and has a ministry in Asia Minor.
Unless we have good reason to think the authorial ascriptions are pseudonymous, which would be problematic for Orthodox believers no less than Protestant believers, our acceptance of this literature isn't contingent on church councils, but multiple lines of internal and external evidence.
vii) Even if, for the sake of argument, you think 2 Peter or Jude are poorly attested, nothing essential is riding on those particular books.
viii) Moreover, this collection is pretty much self-selecting by default, because there's precious little if anything from the same generation. It's all from first-generation Christians. Most of it, and maybe all of it, arguably dates from sometime before 70 AD. The primary exception would be the Johannine corpus, but if authentic, that goes right back to a member of Christ's inner circle.
This literature as virtually no competition for canonicity. The only Christian literature from roughly the same period are a few items from the apostolic fathers. But even they lack the same historical pedigree, although they are useful historical witnesses to the state of Christianity at the time and place of their composition.
Then, from about the mid-2C and beyond, we have a profusion of unmistakably apocryphal literature. That's not real competition for the NT canon.
ix) Evidence for the OT canon comes from Jewish sources as well as the NT. That's not from church councils.
There were some church fathers like Jerome who were conversant with Jewish witnesses. Guess which side they come down on?
There was no other church than this original Apostolic Church at the time. It's a bit hard for me to see how they miss that simple fact....there WAS only One Christian Church for the first 1000 years - until the branch at Rome broke off and made additions and subtractions from the original, and 500 years later until Luther made further changes, some good, some bad, but not going all the way back to Christianity's Apostolic root teachings and traditions - and then hundreds of denominations since then...
That just begs the question of whether, and in what sense, there was "only One Christian Church for the 1000 years". You're simply giving us EO propaganda. What about Donatists, Novatianists, and monophysites?
They [church fathers] have been deified by God and are guided by the same Holy Spirit that guides the Church and the Scripture.
What's your evidence for that assertion?
It is revealed that God had a special link with them.
Where was that revealed?
but the very fact that you need to have interpretation dumps the whole idea of Sola Scriptura into water. Whose interpretation will it be?
The interpretation with the best exegetical argument. If you disagree, then you disqualify yourself from arguing for your own position. How do you establish the claims EO in the first place? After all, there are competing interpretations of ecclesiology.
The issue in Protestantism is that it doesn't have a method of resolving an issue that that is caused by (NOT solved by) Sola Scriptura. Snake handlers fall well within the confines of Sola Scriptura.
i) Since that's based on the textually dubious Long Ending of Mark, it doesn't fall well within the confines of sola Scriptura. Sola scriptura only applies to Scripture, not scribal interpolations.
ii) John Meyendorff didn't think the case for EO was reducible to a "method". Rather, he appealed to the voice of the "living" church.
Sola Scriptura rejects well-established Christian tradition of interpretation, replacing it with a momentary flight of fancy - the supreme rule of ego, impression and personal taste.
Clearly, this commenter hasn't bothered to study how Protestant commentators actually exegete the Bible.
I'm not saying that you can't have a schism without Sola Scriptura, but Sola Scriptura is a catalyst for schisms.
Ecumenical councils are a catalyst for schisms. Ecumenical councils disenfranchise dissenters. Excommunicate dissenters.
I'm not saying if that's good or bad. Depends on the issue. But when you have an organization that presumes to be the gatekeeper of orthodoxy, that in itself becomes an engine for schism by excluding people who don't tow the party line.
Having gone over this entry a couple of times, it appears the writer approaches the issue from the a priori notion that a religious tradition begun not 500 years ago (and yet to be defined) is the final arbiter of all things.
That's such a superficial criticism. The salient question is not the date of the Protestant movement, but the date of the sources (Scripture) to which they appeal. Does our theology correspond to 1C Christian exemplars?
Apostolic on the thin basis of being "Protestant." Such shallow reasoning is in direct accord with Flat Earth-ism and every other attempt to set private interpretation…
Except for the awkward little fact that Orthodox apologists must rely on their independent judgment to determine which claimant is true.
...and identity politics above all that God has revealed throughout history, beginning with the word of God.
Aside from the fact that EO groupthink is a fine example of identity politics, what God has revealed throughout history didn't end with the seventh ecumenical council. Church history actually continues on the other side of the so-called ecumenical councils. If you think church history is revelatory, then that includes the Protestant Reformation. So the appeal cuts both ways.
Somehow the bishops of the Church were smart enough to choose the books for the bible yet not smart enough to properly understand them or teach on them...
i) I don't base the canon of Scripture on the judgment of bishops. The evidence for the canon isn't confined to any one class of witnesses. Rather, there are multiple lines of evidence.
ii) This is not a question of who's smart, but who had access to good evidence or a reliable chain of custody.
'By contrast, the EO church, church councils, confessions and creeds, and the like aren't infallible.'
If this is true, then the canon of the Scripture isn't infallible as well, so you're left with just the 'Sola' without 'Scriptura.'
If the books of the Bible are individually infallible, then the books of the Bible are collectively infallible. If every cookie in a a cookie jar is peanut butter, then all the cookies are peanut butter. It's a jar of peanut butter cookies rather than chocolate chip cookies.
If the bible is infallible, then the Church council which chose it must have been infallible in the act of choosing it.
How would the infallibility of Isaiah depend on a church council 1500 years later (give or take) choosing Isaiah? That's like those time-travel paradoxes.
And which of the seven ecumenical councils issued a definitive list of the canon?
The Church chose the Scriptures ... Without her you have no official bible.
i) I don't need an "official" Bible. Just a Bible with the right books. ii) An obvious problem with using church councils as your criterion of truth is that it only pushes the issue back a step, because you now need a criterion to distinguish ecumenical councils from local councils or orthodox councils from heterodox councils.
Likewise, an obvious problem with using church authority as your criterion is that it only pushes the issue back a step, because you now need a criterion to distinguish "the One True Church®" from "schismatics" and "heretics".
Never mind that Sola Scriptura is a Islamic influence on Christianity.
Islam is not a Koran-only faith. Islam is a religion steeped in tradition. The Sunnah. Haddith. Traditional schools of jurisprudence. So the true analogy would be…Eastern Orthodoxy!
The Bible calls the Church 'the pillar and foundation of truth', it doesn't call itself such. Have fun figuring out the Sola Scritura and disparaging the Church with such a verse.
i) Paul is referring to the situation of mid-1C churches planted by apostles and overseen by apostles. It's not a prophecy or retractive validation regarding institutions claiming to be "the Church" centuries later.
In context, Paul isn't referring to future developments. How do Orthodox apologists determine that 1 Tim 3:15 is even applicable to their denomination?
ii) Did Paul think the Corinthian church was a "pillar and foundation of truth"? Did Paul think the churches of Galatians, which were tottering on the brink of apostasy, absent his intervention, constituted a "pillar and foundation of truth"?
iii) What does the metaphor mean? Paul doesn't say the church is the source of truth. And he doesn't say the church has the authority or prerogative to dictate what is true. Rather, the church is tasked with the responsibility of upholding the truth.
Take mid-1C churches planted by Paul. It was incumbent on individual members comprising the congregation to uphold what Paul taught them. They received the truth from St. Paul–in person or by letter. Their duty was to remain faithful to what he taught them–or in some cases his handpicked deputies.
iv) Notice the bait-n-switch. When Orthodox apologists refer to "the Church", that's code language for church fathers or bishops or councils. So they're excluding most Christians from their definition of "the Church".
Oh no! Hank Hannegraff isn't promoting 500 year old protestant innovations anymore, and has turned to the Faith of the Apostles! Whatever shall we do?
"Protestant innovations" like Paul's theology of justification by faith?
They do not seem to get that this is the Church of the Apostles. You know, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Paul...those guys. They seem unable to get past the Catholic Church, which left original Orthodoxy in 1054 a.d.
The church of the Apostles was the 1C church or churches existing at the time of the Apostles. It's an unwarranted extrapolation to simply take institutions from centuries later, and equate that with the "church of the Apostles". The anachronism is glaring.
Evangelicals' interpretation likes to claim to "take the Bible literally", but when it comes to Eucharist, they deny the obvious, literal meaning of what has been repeated for centuries.
No, literally interpretation is not my hermeneutical principle. Rather, original intent is my hermeneutical principle.
The real reason I believe that motivates Calvinist denial of the Real Presence is that Reformed Protestants are a more rational-critical branch off of the early Christians. They do believe in the resurrection, but they revised Christianity to avoid what they considered the "superstitious" mindset of their predecessors, who believed in all kinds of miracleworking, holy people, saints, relics, supernatural communion bread, casting out of demons, sacred space, apparitions of Jesus, etc. The intense miracle supernatural mentality is really only preserved in the Charismatic branch of Reformed Protestantism. If you need someone to literally "cast out a demon" like in the early Church times, you are de facto stuck going to a Catholic priest or to a Charismatic minister.
That is indeed parallel to the modern charismatic movement. And there are three options: you can accept it in toto, reject it in toto, or exercise critical discernment.
Most Orthodox believers are content to go with the words of Christ alone - "Unless you eat my body and drink my blood, you have in part in me."
That just begs the question of whether Jesus was scolding Jews about the Eucharist. That would be a head-scratcher for Jews who had no background regarding a rite that didn't even exist at the time of the discourse.
There is only one Church, the one Christ founded in 33 AD. A cursory look at history, and the ecclesiology of the different so-called "denominations" will show you what Church adheres to the "faith once delivered to the saints."
Ah, yes, if you were to attend a 1C house church, you'd first walk into a narthex. From there you'd proceed to the nave. The nave would be decorated with icons.
Inside the nave, you'd see the iconostasis separating the nave from the sanctuary. Behind the iconostasis you'd see an alter. Priests in vestments would be incensing holy objects and reciting the divine liturgy of John Chrysostom or Basil the Great.
Eastern Orthodoxy hasn't undergone any theological innovations since 33 AD. Just step into the time-machine, dial it back to say, 50 AD, and attend a worship service just like I described.
Likewise, the way Greek Fathers adapt Neoplatonism to formulate theology goes straight back to the faith once delivered in 33 AD. No theological innovations whatsoever!
Only the Eastern Orthodox preserve that faith which we can read about in the works of Ignatius, Clement, Justin Martyr, and Athanasius.
I'm more concerned about preserving the faith we read about in biblical revelation.
In order to avoid the real conclusion that Calvinists don't actually believe that the Eucharist is really Jesus' body like he directly says...
Like Jesus directly says that he's a lamb, a vine, a gate, and sunlight.
BTW, I don't believe Jason is a Calvinist.
Christ said that even the gates of Hell won't prevail over the Church
And what is the church? Wherever you have Christians, you have the church. The church is the fellowship of the faithful.


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My husband and I are going to see War Horse at The Straz Center in downtown Tampa tomorrow night.
"A heart-warming tale of loyalty and friendship, and winner of FIVE 2011 Tony Awards®, WAR HORSE tells the story of young Albert and his beloved horse Joey. When Joey is sold to the cavalry and shipped from England to France, he is soon caught up in enemy fire, and fate takes him on an extraordinary journey, serving on both sides before finding himself alone in no man's land. But Albert cannot forget Joey and, still not old enough to enlist, he embarks on a treacherous mission to find him and bring him home."The War Horse film was amazing and I loved it! I'm so excited to see War Horse on stage! Check back for a full review.
To purchase tickets, visit The Straz Center online. Regularly priced tickets start at $44.50.
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Tuesday, April 30, 2013 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, May 01, 2013 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, May 02, 2013 7:30 p.m.
Friday, May 03, 2013 8 p.m.
Saturday, May 04, 2013 2 p.m.
Saturday, May 04, 2013 8 p.m.
Sunday, May 05, 2013 1 p.m.
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A free flight back to Europe can be provided annually.
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This past week, I took my mom to respite care for the first time. While I'd been looking forward to it after a couple months of wading through Oregon's Medicaid process, it turned out to be a pretty emotional experience. It was the first time that I've had any time to myself in over two years. My mom is literally with me 24 hours a day, 365 days a year and, while I adore her and treasure the time we spend together, there are times when my introverted soul craves alone time so badly I can barely breathe. Meanwhile, she is the opposite and experiences separation anxiety, often seeking reassurance that we will be "together forever." Some days this feels like hope, other days it carries with it the finality of a lock clicking on a cell door.
It's a horrible thing to say or even secretly think, I know, and it's really only a passing feeling, but I'd by lying if I said it didn't flit through my mind sometimes for just a moment. It is one of the many ironies of the disease. I am not ready to lose her (I never will be), but it does have a way of sucking away at not only the patient, but also at the caregiver's emotional, financial and spiritual reserves. Still, our first respite day turned out to be harder on me than it was on her. I felt so lost as I left the front desk at the care center and ended up spending my first 20 minutes of freedom sitting in the car crying in the parking lot.
It's not so much that I feared they wouldn't be good to her as that leaving my once confident, strong , fiercely independent mother in a building with a sign out front saying "adult daycare" is just an another affirmation that shit's gotten real. This isn't a mirage or a bad dream, she truly has FTD and we really are on a long, slow march to oblivion.
She is aware enough to know she has trouble remembering, but she doesn't know she has dementia. She was there when it was diagnosed, she takes her "memory pill" each morning, but she doesn't know. Even if I explained it to her, she'd forget within minutes. And yet, there are times when she will say to me out of the blue that she will never forget me.
It's almost as though she's trying to convince herself, to will herself to hold onto each little shard of memory. These days her stories often begin with "I will never forget…" only to be followed with a garbled series of fact that have no adherence to chronology or sometimes even truth. Each time it is like a little dagger in my heart, because I know she will forget. She is forgetting already. She still knows who I am most of the time or at least that we are related, but there are moments.
The first time it happens is like a punch in the gut. It feels like something you will never get used to it, but somehow you do manage to endure this new normal. I saw some ridiculous quote the other day that suggested that Alzheimer's and dementia are a bridge to God. But there is nothing of "God" in this disease, not any God I want to know. It has its lessons and being close to it changes you. Like all terminal disease, it puts things into perspective, but it's not a fair trade and certainly not a "blessing" I'd wish on my worst enemy. There have to be less painful ways to enlightenment.
But, for now, I am told that her first day in memory care was a good one and she was obviously enjoying herself when I got there to pick her up. Despite the memory problems, she's very social and adores being around people. If anything, the changes to her frontal lobe have made me more outgoing.
As for me, despite its bittersweet nature, the few hours of alone time had an amazing effect. I feel more patient, less hopeless, less tired. It's funny sometimes how we can go on just existing, doing what we must and not realizing how very tired we are. I hadn't wanted her to go to respite care, because some part of me felt that as long as I could do it all myself it wasn't real or it wasn't that bad, but now I realize it was a good thing for both of us. She had some fun and I am a kinder, more compassionate caregiver and know how much we both needed this.


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How can this be real. Why is this happening?
What cosmic error did I commit that brought this to life?
Or is it just my time to pay the price in the random swirl of randomness that makes up the big bang theory of random happenings that rule the universe and its randomly mutated, Darwineanly selected inhabitants?
I am too well-fed to be deprived – the internal layer of fortification that circles my midriff is ancient protection from the vicissitudes of life – insurance, a hedge for my survival.
That protective fat layer knows nothing of the demands of the twenty-first century.
It only knows the ancient need to procreate, and is attempting to ensure that I will have the reserves – even if I no longer have the necessary equipment, the means, the opportunity, or the desire.
The last thing I would ever, ever consider doing is adding to the lives I already bear the guilt of creating, the horrors I have foisted onto this unsuspecting planet of humanity.
I'm sorry. I did the best I could, and it wasn't enough.


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Hey there! I can't believe I let an entire week get away from me without posting! This week has been the most productive in a long time. I think this might have been one of those weeks where I say, "let's see how much we can accomplish in 5 days!!" Then at the end of it all, we stand back to admire our great work and then I collapse. So if this post suddenly comes to a halt, then you'll know I my head has just hit the keyboard. 😉
I managed to finish the wooden tray that I was talking about in my post last week and I'm so happy with how it turned out!


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First Meeting of the three governing bodies of UNESCO
In the framework of 189EX/Decision 11.8 instituting a regular consultation mechanism between the heads of the three institutional organs of UNESCO, the President of the General Conference, Vice-Minister Hao Ping, the President of the Executive Board, Ambassador Mohammed Amr and the Director-General, Ms. Irina Bokova, held today their first coordination meeting of the biennium.
On this occasion, they reviewed issues of common interest and the overall situation of the Organization. The meeting allowed for a fruitful exchange on relations with Member States, the planning of information meetings with Permanent Delegations on strategic priority themes, the review of important events and activities at UNESCO in the coming months, the visibility of UNESCO's work at the field level, and the forthcoming External Auditor's review on the governance of UNESCO, its funds and programmes.
The encounter was also an opportunity to exchange views on the main issues discussed during the information meeting of the Executive Board, which took place on 12 February. Concerning the need to enhance the visibility of UNESCO operational activities on the ground, it was agreed that field directors would be invited periodically to make presentations during sessions of the governing bodies or at information meetings.
The three heads of the UNESCO institutional organs concluded on the need to pursue these useful consultations at regular intervals in order to strengthen the effectiveness and efficiency of the Organization.


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Twelve outstanding young scientists named as EMBO Young Investigators
Heidelberg, 5 November 2008 – Today, the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) announced the selection of 12 of Europe's most talented young researchers as 2008 beneficiaries of the EMBO Young Investigator Programme.
Now in its ninth year, the programme annually identifies the brightest and most promising European young researchers at a critical stage of their scientific careers. Young group leaders receive a range of benefits designed to smooth the transition during the start up of their first independent research laboratories and as they develop reputations in the scientific community. EMBO Members – themselves recognised for their excellence in research – select the group leaders to join the programme each year.
The title, EMBO Young Investigator, is highly sought by young researchers due to the programme's worldwide reputation for excellence. The programme received 116 applications this year and successful recipients have established research groups in France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Spain and Switzerland.
"EMBO Young Investigators gain financial, academic and practical support to advance their careers," explains Gerlind Wallon, EMBO Deputy Director and manager of the Young Investigator Programme. "The programme helps to endorse and promote these young scientists as active and recognised contributors to European research."
Over the course of three years, EMBO Young Investigators will enjoy benefits not readily available to early-career scientists. Lab management and non-scientific skills training as well as PhD courses offer the young group leaders and their students the chance to develop professional skills. Networking events introduce them to recognised leaders in science like EMBO Members and other experts in their respective fields.
The 12 young group leaders honoured this year participate in the EMBO Young Investigator network - a vibrant group of more than 200 scientists. "The increasing number of participants each year makes the benefits of networking more tangible and concrete," adds Gerlind Wallon.
The network has now reached a critical mass that enables the organisation of specialised meetings in diverse fields of molecular biology. Meetings - such as those for young investigators in the neurobiology field - provide a platform to start new collaborations or exchange PhD students between labs.
EMBO Young Investigators receive 15000 euro per year directly from the member state where their laboratories are located. Additional support is provided by EMBO for networking activities and small research projects in their laboratories. The distinction as an EMBO Young Investigator often assists young group leaders to attract additional sources of funding for their research.
The next application deadline for the EMBO Young Investigator Programme is 1 April 2009.
|EMBO Young Investigator
|Research Interest
|Óscar Fernández-Capetillo
|DNA damage response
|CNIO, Madrid, Spain
|Jesús Gil
|Regulators of senescence
|MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, London
|Monica Gotta
|Asymmetric cell division
|University of Geneva, Switzerland
|Giles Hardingham
|NMDA receptor signalling
|University of Edinburgh
|Juan Martín-Serrano
|HIV budding
|King's College London
|Eric Miska
|Small RNA regulatory networks
|Gurdon Institute, Cambridge
|Antonin Morillon
|ncRNA-mediated gene silencing
|CNRS, Gif sur Yvette
|Antoine Peters
|Epigenetic programming in germ cells
|Friedrich Miescher Institute, Basel
|Erik Sahai
|Cancer cell invasion
|Cancer Research UK
|Almut Schulze
|Akt kinase in cancer
|Cancer Research UK
|Mikael Simons
|Myelin biogenesis
|MPI for Experimental Medicine, Göttingen
|Eric So
|Transcriptional deregulation in leukemia
|The Institute of Cancer Research, London
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Freelance Writing Opportunities For University Students.
If you are already a university student and unemployed, I will let you in on a little secret my friend "you're wasting your time and restricting your personal growth to text books and lab assignments." When I say go get a job, I am asking you to enter the corporate world without a degree in hand. In fact, I am not talking about any corporate or business related job at all. I am talking about freelancing for university students.
You may have heard of various e-lancing websites and portals. In addition, getting a job there may sound too mainstream to you. Therefore, in this article I will let you in on a few non-traditional freelancing jobs that can go well with your routine.
- Research Analysis
- Help your friends
- Did I hear Teachers?
- Marketing Mania
- Blogger Jogger
There are plenty of low-key research analysis jobs relevant to your area of specialization. It does not matter if you are a finance major obsessed with numbers or a zoology student who spends every moment obsessing over animal cells. You can circulate your profile among your social as well as professional circle and offer your services. You will be surprised to see how many people will be willing to take you up on small research projects that pay well.
When I was in college, I used to make practical notebooks for my friends in exchange for DVDs'. However, that was then and now times have change. You can earn easy money by volunteering for homework and assignments.
Do you know teachers also need assistance to manage online assignments of thousands of students from different batches and courses? In addition, there is a huge market out there for students who are willing to do some hours of extra online work. You may not make good money but it will definitely help you get some extra credit might even look good on your Masters application.
Do you like selling things? Are you well aware of latest market trends and happenings? If you are good at such stuff sign yourself with a good, start up marketing ad agency. You will earn good money, relevant experience have a chance to expand your social network as well.
Okay, if you are a lazy person like me and cannot make the extra effort to approach other platforms or work for other people start up your own blog. In university, it is easier to find an audience for your work.


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At 8:04 a.m., Florida State confirmed receipt of Glades Central WR Kelvin Benjamin's letter of intent. Benjamin, the No. 2 player on the PBGametime Big Board, became the fifth signee of Florida State's 2011 class.
At 11 a.m., Dwyer's Nick O'Leary, who committed to the Noles last week, will participate in a signing day ceremony at Dwyer High.
Fort Pierce Central's Giorgio Newberry is also expected to fax in a letter of intent to Tallahassee today.
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The development team at AppSoft™ often discuss their exploits when returning from international and far away installations. After all they have had some great times in Ireland, and nearer to home in Scotland, South Wales and not to mention the darkest depths of Cornwall. Our leading developer David talks fondly of his first international tour of duty to deliver on site Accelerator™ training on the Isle of Man. So you can imagine their interest when we received an enquiry from Nigeria a little over one year ago. That is until they went onto the Foreign and Commonwealth web site and saw the dire warnings about travelling to Nigeria.
So it was down to me Graham Helliwell as their Technical and Commercial Director to draw the short straw, let's face it they said you have travelled all over the World, you are the best man for this job.
The original Internet enquiry for more information on our Accelerator™ Vehicle Maintenance system came from a gentleman called Mike Prime who is the General Manager of a company called BHL Investment & Technology Ltd. As soon as we saw it was from Nigeria we suspected a scam.
However Mike re-contacted us to arrange an online demonstration and although this was done over a very slow and flaky Internet connection, Mike was enthusiastic about the capabilities of Accelerator™ and saw a perfect match to the requirements of their company, to use it in their Commercial Vehicle Workshop and Technical Training Centre in Lagos.
Mike explained that they were currently just using a paper based system and needed to get into the 21st Century. More details emerged over the next few weeks about their role in maintaining a fleet of over 300 buses for the company that operates the Lagos Metropolitan Priority Bus Service as part of the Lagos Bus Rapid Transit system, as well as their intention to set up a bus manufacturing facility to assemble Brazilian Marcopolo Viale Eagle city buses.
As part of our due diligence we found out that Mike lived occasionally in England with his address being a Thai restaurant in London, but we could not however track down any company called BHL in Nigeria.
So when Mike confirmed our proposal and pricing for a new system and asked for our Bank details to make payment, we were naturally suspicious and went to our bank to make sure that they could not draw out any money from our account with this information. Following reassurances, we released details to Mike and were re-contacted by his Managing Director who advised us to add the costs of travelling to Nigeria to deliver one weeks training, and he would arrange payment in full. We were doubly suspicious by this time and taking bets if this was genuine.
Nonetheless a few weeks later a payment was made directly into our bank account and much to our surprise it was for real. We had sold our first system to Africa.
When we tried to make arrangements to install the system we were told that they did not yet have a server and they needed our support. Weeks passed by as we worked with their IT providers to specify new server and PC hardware and software. During this time we received visits from Mike and his IT team at our headquarters in Rawtenstall, Lancashire and gave them training to set up their network and infrastructure ready for the Accelerator™ install.
Once Accelerator™ was installed at their end, it was time for me to prepare for my visit. We were assured by Mike that Lagos would be very safe for me to travel to, and that they would make all my accommodation and travel arrangements for the week I would be there. I could even have use of their bullet proof bus during my stay.
Suitably dosed up with injections for every conceivable disease and pestilence I prepared for my trip.
Obviously a little nervous in the days before my trip, I received advice from all sorts of people about this dangerous mission. We even contemplated setting up a kidnap fund for our staff and customers to contribute to. Mike again reassured me that all would be fine. He had arranged for a meet and greet team to be at the airport at 6:00 in the morning with my bus.
I was fully reassured up to the point at which he sent me a six page briefing document containing full and precise instructions for how to transit Lagos airport without being scammed, maimed, mugged, assaulted or kidnapped.
As one of only four white people, other than the Virgin flight crew, travelling to Lagos that day, I was an obvious target and it was with a certain amount of trepidation that I got off the flight and set about passing through immigration, eventually after many checks, questions and stamps in my passport, I emerged to look for my welcoming team. As promised they were there and quickly whisked me away to my luxury hotel. And luxury it was, the Wheatbaker hotel was brand new and a genuine five star rating in every respect. It was after all going to be a very pleasant prison during my stay.
In the two weeks leading up to this visit I had been working remotely to assist their accounts project manager Sue Bunch and IT team to set up and correctly configure Accelerator™, setting up new job codes, Importing vehicle details, linking to their Sage accounts software and formatting their customised inspection and job sheet documentation ready for the training.
The first day on site was a great opportunity to get to know more about their company. Brian Watson their Workshop Manager gave me a full guided tour of their compound and facilities, and very impressive they were. Modern fully networked offices, Double power generators, a medical centre, training rooms and staff canteen.
The 10 bay workshop with two full length inspection pits, lifting equipment and ramps, bodywork shop, engine refurbishment facility, electrical and electronic workshops and secure parts stores. It was all clean and tidy and had every facility that you would require.
Outside we were shown their two MACK customised recovery vehicles that were in use every day rescuing buses from the turmoil of the Lagos traffic system as well as off site maintenance and servicing vans ready for the road.
Brian explained that in Nigeria they just run their buses until they stop or until something drops off. So they have to be ready to receive or retrieve a vehicle in any condition, it could be just a simple electrical fault, to a blown up engine, smashed gearbox, collapsed suspension, Accident write off or fire damage caused by a riot. So in terms of their repair capability they have to be able to cover all bases from changing a bulb to a full bumper to bumper refurbishment or rebuild.
Day one of the training continued with Sue Bunch their project manager in charge of discussions on new procedures and responsibilities as well as a run through of the system to acquaint the Workshop Operations Manager and his assistant, who were to be trained as Super users, with the system and how it would be used.
Days two and three were spent running jobs through the system and learning about job types, costing, timesheets, ordering and issuing stock.
Day four was time to reinforce the complete cycle of initiating and completing jobs ready for invoicing and posting sales and supplier invoices to Sage. Other members of the workshop team were introduced to the system as jobs were being processed to learn about how to carry out their own duties and tasks on the system.
The final day of training was the time for a full run through with everyone practicing their own roles and specific tasks, such as Booking in new jobs, Issuing and completing inspection sheets, assigning work tasks and technicians, purchasing parts and entering time sheets.
More advanced features and modules, such as the Recovery Desk were also covered with the recovery dispatcher.
By the end of the last Friday afternoon we had processed and completed over 50 jobs and gone through all of the new procedures. Everyone was confident that the system was easy to use and would be of great benefit to their daily duties.
Over the following weekend the system was cleaned out of all test and training data and the live parts stock loaded in preparation for a go live on Monday morning.
But it was not all work and no play. During the week my hosts took time and a good deal of trouble to entertain me on three occasions with visits to the Lagos Motor Boat club for lunch and two other evening meals at different venues. It was fascinating to hear how BHL had developed from a start up and of their plans for the future.
So after returning from a successful mission, what did I think of Nigeria and in particular Lagos? Well having travelled to many other countries and seen how the population acts and presents themselves on the street, I can honestly say that at no time did I feel at risk. I have been left with the overall impression that everyone was busy trying to make a living, be it selling goods on the market or street corner, running local taxi services on a motorbike, or setting up a tyre repair business with just a compressor at the side of the road.
The trainees at BHL were all computer literate and obviously well educated. To a man and woman they were very positive about the changes being introduced and had a can do enterprising spirit.
Press information:
AppSoft™ is a subsidiary entity of Technopoly Ltd has been trading in the UK for over 17 years and employs 14 people in its software development and support teams. It is a privately owned company with Kathleen Helliwell, the Managing Director, and Graham Helliwell, the Technical and Commercial Manager, in charge of all operations and software development.
Accelerator™ Vehicle Maintenance Software is one of a portfolio of products that AppSoft™ supplies through out the UK and overseas. The company is solely responsible for the development, installation, training and support of its Accelerator™ product as described in the above article.
AppSoft™ can be contacted on 01706 830930
More details about Accelerator™ can be found here.
BHL Investment & Technology Ltd is managed by Mike Prime, the General Manager, and Brian Watson, the Workshop Manager.
BHL have been operational in Lagos for two years and is a leading provider of heavy vehicle services to Lagos State and to other operators in the area.
Their Lagos Workshop and Training Centre is located at:
BHL Investment & Technology Ltd
Cappa-Oshodi Workshops,
Between Blind Centre Way (FIIRO Road)& Fatai Atere Way,
Agege Motor Road,
Lagos, 100253
BHL can be contacted in Lagos on +234 (0) 16284279
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A catastrophic injury may be sustained in various different situations. When another person's negligence or carelessness is the reason for your injury, you may be able to sue the responsible person for money for medical bills and other expenses or damages related to your injuries. This is especially important when you consider the serious, lasting impact that a catastrophic injury may have on you and your family.
To find out more about your legal rights after a catastrophic injury, contact a Riverside injury lawyer at Accident Lawyers. There is no charge for your initial consultation, and we will take this time to inform you of your particular options and rights in this matter. All you have to do to get started is call us at 800-670-8142. We also work on a contingency fee basis, meaning you do not have to pay anything unless we win a settlement or award on your behalf. We represent clients throughout all of Riverside County in a variety of types of catastrophic injury claims and lawsuits: head trauma, brain injuries,paralysis, paraplegia, quadriplegia, amputation,loss of eyesight, eye injuries, hearing loss, disfigurement, and nerve damage.
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Spinal cord trauma is one of the most serious types of injuries that a person may experience. These injuries involve any level of damage to the bundle of nerves that comprise the spinal cord, which carries messages and information to and from the brain and the rest of the body. If the spinal cord is damaged, these messages may be interrupted or may stop entirely at the point of injury. Depending on the location of the injury along the spinal cord, the victim may suffer from paraplegia or quadriplegia, paralysis of both the legs or paralysis of the arms and legs, respectively. Part or the entire trunk may be affected as well. In representing victims of spinal cord injuries in the Riverside area, our firm takes care to provide compassionate care as we seek maximum monetary damages on their behalf. Click here to read more about spinal cord injuries.
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HOUSTON — Former President George H.W. Bush endorsed John McCain on Monday, a nod of approval from the Republican political dynasty's patriarch that sends a strong signal to a GOP establishment wary of the Arizona senator.
"No one is better prepared to lead our nation at these trying times than Sen. John McCain," Bush said, standing alongside the Republican nominee-in-waiting in an airport hangar. "His character was forged in the crucible of war. His commitment to America is beyond any doubt. But most importantly, he has the right values and experience to guide our nation forward at this historic moment."
McCain, in turn, said he was deeply honored by Bush's support. "I think that our effort to continue to unite the party will be enhanced dramatically by President Bush's words," he added.
Since effectively sealing the nomination when chief rival Mitt Romney dropped out, McCain has been working to convince the fickle and influential conservative base of the Republican Party to get behind his candidacy.
He's seen some progress, with several high profile Republicans from the party's establishment endorsing McCain in an effort to unite the party while Democrats continue to fight for a nominee. Still, McCain has much work to do to energize the party behind his candidacy to ensure that its people turn out this fall.
President Bush has spoken warmly of McCain, calling him a "true conservative." But he also has said that McCain might have to work harder to win over the support of the GOP's more conservative wing. Protocol demands that he not swing explicitly behind the candidate with a race still technically -- and only technically -- in progress.
A further nudge
His father's endorsement, which follows one from former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who is George W. Bush's brother, is a further nudge by GOP chieftains for conservative activists to get over their distaste for McCain and for rival Mike Huckabee to get out.
Without mentioning McCain's chief standing rival by name, the elder Bush suggested that he wasn't sending a signal to Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor. "I had not come here to tell any other candidate what to do," Bush said.
Still, he recalled his own defeat in the 1980 presidential race, and said: "It can take a while for any candidate to read the handwriting on the wall, and that certainly was true of me."
Bush also called criticism by the right flank that McCain is not conservative enough absurd and grossly unfair.
"He's got ... a sound conservative record, and yet he's not above reaching out to the other side," Bush said.
Other political news of note
Animated Boehner: 'There's nothing complex about the Keystone Pipeline!'
House Speaker John Boehner became animated Tuesday over the proposed Keystone Pipeline, castigating the Obama administration for not having approved the project yet.
- Budget deficits shrinking but set to grow after 2015
- Senate readies another volley on unemployment aid
- Obama faces Syria standstill
- Fluke files to run in California
- Animated Boehner: 'There's nothing complex about the Keystone Pipeline!'
McCain has drawn the ire of some high-profile conservative pundits and others for what they call infractions against the party. McCain twice voted against Bush's tax cuts. He pushed a campaign finance overhaul that critics said restricted their free speech rights. And, he has worked across the aisle with Democrats on issues like an eventual path to citizenship for millions of illegal immigrants -- heresy in the eyes of many hard-core Republicans.
As he makes the transition into a general election candidate, McCain not only must rally the party but also must try to determine how to deploy the current president, whose job approval rating is at a low point.
While still popular among Republicans, many moderates and independents have turned from the president, and Democrats already have started casting McCain's candidacy as a continuation of Bush's eight years in office.
Presidential support?
But McCain shows little willingness to distance himself, saying: "I'd be honored to have President George Bush's support, his endorsement. And I'd be honored to be anywhere with him under any circumstances." He added that any president who follows another in office could have different views "on particularly specific issues."
The president, during a visit to Africa, was asked Monday about reports the McCain camp wants his fund-raising help but doesn't want him to appear too often with McCain.
"I'm sitting in Tanzania, I don't know what the McCain campaign said," Bush said. "But I'll help him in any way I can. Absolutely."
He went on to say, "He's (McCain) going to win, too, if he ends up being the nominee. Now, he's still got a -- you know, as I understand, Mike Huckabee's still in the race. But if John's the nominee, he'll win." Bush spoke on NBC's "Today" show.
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Anonymous Slovenia Hacktivists Claim FBI Servers Hacked
Update: SI-CERT (@SICERT), the Slovenian Computer Emergency Response Team, reports that the alleged stolen data was recycled from an earlier breach. Hat tip to Adriana Dvorsak (@AdrianaDvorsak).
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Hacktivists identified as being with the Anonymous Slovenia collective claim to have hacked Federal Bureau of Investigation servers and exfiltrated email addresses, password and personal information, posting the data dump on Pastebin.
"The post also includes a short profile on FBI director James Brien Comey Jr, including sensitive information such as his date of birth, his wife's name, the date they got married, his educational history and even the geographical coordinates of his residence," the International Business Times reported.
The data was said to have been harvested from two www.fbi.gov domain name servers by way of seven open ports, and the data includes what are said to be email addresses and passwords for 68 active Bureau agents.
The FBI has not confirmed the breach or the validity of the data posted by the assumed attackers, but at the time this article was drafted, the data remained available on Pastebin.
"IBTimes UK has contacted the FBI for comment and is awaiting a response. Anonymous Slovenia has declined to comment…"
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