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In December 2010, the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, a bipartisan committee created by President Barack Obama to identify policies to improve the fiscal situation in the medium term and develop sustainable financial practices in the long term, made recommendations to improve Social Security.
Following the supercommittee's failure to make recommendations on how to reduce the deficit, the Urban Institute released on Monday a paper, "How Would the President's Fiscal Commission's Social Security Proposals Affect Future Beneficiaries?" analyzing the potential effects of the commission's recommendations. The institute found that high-income seniors "several decades from now" could see their benefits reduced, but that seniors at the bottom of the lifetime earnings distribution would be "largely shielded" from significant reductions.
The proposal, put forth by Commission co-chairs former White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles and former Sen. Alan Simpson in November 2010, included recommendations to increase the amount of earnings subject to the Social Security payroll tax; modify the benefit formula to slow future benefit growth; replace the current CPI in cost-of-living-adjustments with the chained CPI; index the full retirement age as well as the early retirement age to life expectancy to maintain a fairly constantly ratio of working years to retired years; cover new state and local workers under Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance.
Of the 18 members on the commission, 11 voted in favor of the recommendations. However, 14 affirmative votes were needed to pass the report to Congress.
Authors Melissa Favreault and Nadia Karamcheva found that by 2070, the commission's proposals would cut benefits to the top 20% of lifetime earners by one-quarter, compared with the bottom 20% who would lose 3% off their monthly checks.
If lawmakers wait until the Social Security Trust fund is exhausted, the authors write, "the required adjustments to OASDI benefits and/or payroll taxes would need to be considerable. Congress could avert these sorts of adjustments by starting to phase in provisions that would improve the program's long-run financial status over the next two and a half decades."
The report notes that there is a high degree of sensitivity in their analysis depending on which assumptions analysts use in their projections. As such, it's important to focus on "relative differences across options, including counterfactuals like payable or feasible benefits, using consistent metrics, rather than focusing on any particular percentage or other value to summarize a complex set of interacting provisions like those in the NCFRR proposal."
Actuaries claim the NCFRR's proposal could close Social Security's funding gap, the authors write, citing a 2010 letter to Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, chairmen of the NCFRR from Stephen Goss, chief actuary for the Social Security Administration. More than half of the shortfall would be compensated by reducing benefits. The remainder would be compensated by increasing the cap on what employees contribute to Social Security by 2% every year. In 2011, the cap was $106,800; under the commission's proposal, by 2049, 90% of wages would be subject to the Social Security payroll tax, as was the case in 1982.
Currently, benefits are calculated by capping annual earnings at the taxable maximum, indexing them to the change in the national average wage, and dividing by 12 for the average indexed monthly earnings. The commission's proposal adds two new bend points to leave workers with "lifetime earnings below the median essentially unharmed, while reducing benefit replacement rates for those above the median." Rather than simply increasing retirement age, the commission's proposal recommends indexing the early retirement age and the full retirement age, increasing both ages by one month every two years.
The Urban Institute notes, however, that longevity gains have been very "uneven," benefiting better educated people in higher income communities more than their counterparts. The commission proposes a hardship exemption to apply increases in longevity more evenly.
"The proposed exemption would shield workers from the increase in the EEA and FRA if they have at least 25 years of work before age 62 and have AIMEs below 250 percent of the aged federal poverty level (FPL). The proposed exemption would phase out for workers with AIMEs between 250 and 400 percent of the poverty threshold," it said.
Adopt an alternative measure of CPI, effective in 2012
Under the current Social Security benefit formula, most parameters are indexed to wages and updated annually, the authors write. Social Security benefits increase each year with inflation, they add, but the commission's proposal recommends using the chained CPI for all urban workers (C-CPI-U) instead of the standard CPI for urban wage earners and clerical workers (CPI-W) that the formula currently uses. Urban Institute points to a Bureau of Labor Statistics assessment that found the chained CPI "better approximates true changes in the cost of living."
The paper found that some states, including California, Colorado, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Nevada, Ohio and Texas, maintain separate retirement accounts for their employees rather than relying on Social Security. The Urban Institute points out that pension plans aren't exactly in good shape either. To reduce the risk of a bailout for state pension plans, the commission recommends mandating coverage for new workers after 2020.


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An undetermined coding issue in Westlaw Classic's Journals & Law Reviews database (a.k.a. JLR) has given a strange prominence to Terms & Connectors search results from the Mineral Law Foundation publication. For almost the last two months, the top results for JLR searches in Westlaw Classic are dominated by all available matches in reverse-chronological order from RMMLF-INST, even if more recent articles which match the search parameters are available within other publications. (Other titles which now seem to float all of their matching articles randomly to the top of Westlaw Classic search results, regardless of the user's selected "sort by date" preference, include the Criminal Law Bulletin and Annual Survey of Bankruptcy Law.) See the illustration below for an example – princess & regalia returns an unlikely 1974 RMMLF-INST result at the top of the date sort, before listing more recent hits from other publications in reverse-chronological order.
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It's undoubtedly amusing to try and find search examples which are ridiculous enough to elude these renegade results (for the record, princess & pea works fine, since it matched nothing in the publications which are currently forcing their way to the top). But the persistence of this error serves as a good reminder to the researcher that result lists must always be carefully and critically assessed. As long as this error continues, users of Westlaw Classic should be aware that a broader search with a higher number of results could mean that the most current articles from other publications don't appear until page 2 of the result list – or even later.
What to do until the Westlaw technicians fix the error in Westlaw Classic's JLR database? The Goodson Blogson has a few tips:
- Consider ways to tighten your search requirements. Broad journal article searches, with terms connected by "AND," are far more likely to match historical results in these "floater" publications. Requiring terms to appear in the same sentence (/s) or same paragraph (/p) will help narrow your search and eliminate some of these unwanted results.
- If you are overwhelmed by older articles and are most interested in the latest publications, consider including a date restriction from the drop-down box in order to help filter out those historical results (e.g. "Last 3 years" or even "Last 10 years").
- Duke Law School's Westlaw representative also reports that this error does not occur in the Law Reviews & Journals database within WestlawNext. There is an option to sort results by date, and a hidden feature which allows users to force a Classic-style Terms & Connectors query by typing "adv:" or "advanced:" before your search terms.
- Remember that there are also alternatives to searching legal articles in the Law Reviews &Journals database within LexisNexis as well as the Duke University database LegalTrac. Each works slightly differently (for example, a "Keyword" search in LegalTrac does not search the full text of available articles; users must select "Entire Document" in order to search the full text). For help with using any of these resources to search for law review and journal articles, be sure to Ask a Librarian.
Users are encouraged to continue reporting the problem with Westlaw Classic JLR by clicking the "Help" link at the bottom of the screen, then choosing the Feedback tab. Incidentally, if you'd like to read the Proceedings of the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation Annual Institute the old-fashioned way, the library's collection of volumes back to 1955 can be found at KF1819.A2 R63. Who knows? You might even miss it when the error is fixed.

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Tangia Marrakechia seller portrait, Marrakech, Morocco, 2016–04-16.
Tangia is the name of both the stew and the ceramic pot it's cooked in. The dish involves chunks of beef with all the fat, bone marrow and trimmings which are marinated and slow cooked in a vase like ceramic pot with chopped preserved lemon, cilantro, parsley, garlic and onions.
Traditionally, the pots are taken to the furnace ovens inside the Medina of Marrakesh which heats water for the local 'hammans' (communal baths) and left to slow cook at a low temperature for long durations of time, sometimes for as long as 24hrs.
It is considered a specialty of Marrakesh where there are many street food stands still using this traditional method inside the old Medina, although it is also replicated in restaurants.
Finding a traditional stand popular among locals which uses the authentic method of cooking will rival any other beef dish on offer in Morocco.
The dish is joked to known as being a very 'male' dish in Morocco because it's easy to prepare and the task of it's preparation is 'trusted' to men.
It's also known as a 'working mans lunch' in Marrakesh because of the large queues of young men on their lunch break often seen besides the stands in the old Medina in the past.
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CHICAGO - Derrick Rose scored 32 points and the Chicago Bulls beat New York 104-99 on Monday night, handing the Knicks their sixth straight loss.
Rose shot 12 of 29 from the floor and had six rebounds and seven assists as the Bulls got their 10th win in 11 games.
Taj Gibson had 15 points and a team-high 13 boards for Chicago, which outrebounded New ork 56-38. The Bulls entered the game leading the league in rebounding margin.
Carmelo Anthony scored 21 points and Amare Stoudemire added 20 for the Knicks, but the two combined for just seven points in the fourth quarter as the Bulls pulled away.
Jeremy Lin had 15 points and eight assists for New York, but shot just 4 of 11 from the floor and had little luck stopping Rose.
The Knicks have lost six straight for the second time this season and, combined with Milwaukee's win at New Jersey, are now tied with the Bucks for the last playoff spot in the Eastern Conference. New York has lost eight of 10 since Anthony returned to the lineup from an injury on Feb. 20.
Carlos Boozer scored 15 points and Joakim Noah had 12 points and 10 rebounds for the Bulls. Rookie Jimmy Butler played a key role with eight points in 29 minutes, making several big energy plays to excite the sellout crowd.
The Bulls' dominance on the boards led to the key basket of the game midway through the fourth quarter. With the shot clock expiring, Rose flipped up a long shot that bounced off the back of the rim, but Gibson chased down the rebound, bringing the United Center crowd to its feet.
Then Rose cut behind Lin, who had turned his head, took a bounce pass from Noah and threw down a thunderous, one-handed dunk to put the Bulls ahead 91-84 with 6:01 to play.
A couple of minutes later, Butler put an exclamation point on his performance by roaring in from the baseline to dunk Boozer's missed shot.
Anthony hit a 3 to cut the lead to four with 49.8 seconds remaining but that was as close as the Knicks got.
In the third quarter, Rose capped a 12-2 run with a floater off a crossover that left Lin in the dust, giving Chicago a seven-point lead.
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I recently did a post on the nature of Liberal Islam for the Liberal Youth blog, The Libertine. Unfortunately, it may prove not to come true… it looks like Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, my favourite candidate in Egypt's Presidential elections, has not made it through to the run-off. Still, he would've been good… let's wait a few years.
Here it is at the original Libertine site : Liberal Islam.
Whoever sleeps full while his neighbour is hungry is not a believer.
The Prophet Muhammed PBUH
While the Liberal Democrats in Britain, MoDem in France, and Germany's FDP are going through tough times, another strand of liberalism may be taking centre stage in an unlikely venue…
In Egypt, a liberal Islamist candidate has taken a major step towards the head of the race to be President. Previously in second place, Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, a former leader of the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood, has been endorsed by the ultraconservative, islamist, Salafi preaching group, Salafi Call, and its sister party Al Nour. Salafis are effectively a kind of Muslim Puritans, and are even more hard-line than the Muslim Brotherhood's brand of Islamism. Al Nour won around a quarter of seats in Egypt's Parliamentary elections; the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party won almost half. Left-liberal and nationalist liberal blocs won 8-9% of the vote each.
Wait, ultraconservatives endorsing Islamists? It doesn't sound 'liberal', but Aboul Fotouh's brand of Islam is one of the most liberal in the region, strongly believing in personal liberty. His understanding of how Islamic law addresses individual freedom and economic fairness already means many liberals in Egypt back him.
He is, in many ways, a nationalist, believing in a strong Egypt. But he's also said that "Islam does not discriminate based on gender, religion, colour and the new constitution must not either. The appointment of people to office or other government jobs must be based on merit and capability and not gender or religion or even political inclination."
His platform is very liberal for Egypt,
- He will appoint a vice-president and fill 50% of all administrative posts with people under the age of 45.
- Women and Coptic Christians should have the right to run for Parliament.
- Health insurance is a 'basic right'.
- Introduce a minimum standard income.
- Islamic restrictions on alcohol should not be imposed on non-Muslims (hoping to attract tourism back to the country).
- Re-equip the military without depending on US funding.
- Allow re-trials for all those arrested under the brutal SCAF military reign that has existed since ex-President Hosni Mubarak's overthrow in the Arab Spring.
Just like Nick Clegg, he has four key goals – to promote freedom in Egypt, to promote the value of justice, to strengthen education and scientific research, and to open Egypt up to investment.
The 61-year old doctor and head of the Arab Medical Union is well respected in Egypt. He first came to prominence as a student leader in the '70s, even debating Anwar Sadat, the President himself. His student activities make him well-known to the Salafis, and he is close to their leaders. He was later arrested by Sadat. And then by Mubarak.
He was forced to leave the Muslim Brotherhood when he declared his intention to run for the Presidency. At the time, the Muslim Brotherhood insisted they would not stand a candidate, for fear of alarming other parties who fear they would dominate the political scene. They have since changed their mind.
This is perhaps why the Salafis are coming out in favour of Aboul Fotouh. The Muslim Brotherhood is by far the largest and best organised party in Egypt. While the Salafis have a highly decentralised grass-roots network, the Muslim Brotherhood is as monolithic as our Tories. The Salafis disapprove of this internal rigidity.
Salafis are no friends of the Muslim Brotherhood. While they believe in imposing far harsher restrictions on individual liberty, they acknowledge that the country is not yet ripe. They fear that if the Muslim Brotherhood dominates the Presidency as well as Parliament, their brand of Islamism will be snuffed out. At least if Aboul Fotouh leads the Presidency, his liberalism and belief in a separation of religion and politics, will allow them the freedom to preach. We can only hope that Egyptians will embrace Aboul Fotouh's liberal Islam, and not the hard-line Salafis.
'Liberal Islam' should surprise no one. It is far from a contradiction in terms as some would have you believe. Islam and liberalism can perfectly co-exist. Ataturk separated the Turk's Islam and the secular state institutions. Then there are liberal Muslims like Javed Ahmad Ghamidi who believe that the Qur'an and Sunnah are liberal texts, if correctly interpreted, or Abd al-Raziq who believes that the Qur'an is silent on certain matters to which liberalism can be applied – for example, the Qur'an never judges the forms of government, so a democracy is perfectly Islamic. Even supposedly hardline positions, such as a total rejection of the Hadith can lead to liberalism, as it allows far greater leniency of interpretation.
Fethullah Gülen goes so far as to say that "no one should condemn another for being a member of a religion or scold him for being an atheist" and "no one should suppress the progress of women through the clothes they wear.".
Sharia can also be interpreted liberally – while it is true that for Muslims, Sharia is the word of God, Islamic jurisprudence has always allowed for pluralism. 'Fiqh' means 'understanding' and all that what most people think of as 'Sharia law' is actually one school of fiqh, one particular, human, fallible, understanding of God's divine and infallible Word. As such, there are multiple schools of fiqh, Any country with 'Sharia' law, supports one of these schools.
The Muslim Brotherhood itself, in order to deal with the issue of having to choose a school of fiqh to support, and thus alienate all others in the country, has chosen the middle, liberal, path – 'to each his own', believing that their state should not support one single fiqh, nor Islam over Christianity or Judaism. Religious pluralism could still persist in Egypt, even with the rise of Islamism. Liberal ideas are not dead.
Liberal Islam does exist and is developing in Egypt, in a form – but it is fragile, as is all liberalism. Assailed by extremist positions all around, liberalism must try and find its own place, its own message, and its own followers. Egypt's liberals need to be supported by their brothers and sisters around the world, to show Muslim's fearful of a secularist attack on their faith, that liberalism guarantees their right to their faith, no matter what it may be, and the Qur'an itself can be a liberal text. Aboul Fotouh is not a dead-cert for the Presidency, but his unifying brand of politics, his liberal credentials and position, make him the one we should root for.
If Liberal Islam takes hold in Egypt, this can bode well for the whole Middle East. Best of luck to Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh.
You might also like to read my post on Why the Liberal Democrats are like the Muslim Brotherhood.


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I've just booked my ticket home to the UK after more than a year in Cambodia, and I still think I know less about the food than when I first got here. In truth, I've barely even scratched the surface of Cambodian cooking. I've not eaten every dish this beautiful country has to offer, far from it, and sometimes when I go to a new province I'll find a dish that I've never even heard of.
My research hasn't been helped by the fact that there are only a handful of books on Cambodian food, and only a couple of blogs worth reading. But I wanted to give you a list of dishes you should try if you do come here - the ones that really made an impact on me.
I began this blog scribbling in a roadside cafe in Phnom Penh, and tried to draw up a list of my top 10 Cambodian dishes. It wasn't easy. I don't mean finding ten, I mean whittling it down from the 20 or so I'd scrawled into my Moleskin notebook.
Which ones would I leave out? Would I shove in a couple of desserts for balance, or just the ones I liked best? In the end I settled for 11 dishes - I couldn't see a way of cutting it down to 10 and I still had to leave out some excellent ones like squid with green Kampot pepper (pic above). So here goes...
1. Cambodian Beef Soup
This is a great dish and one of the best communal meals I've ever had. Cambodians love eating - they graze all day - and are very passionate about food. And I love the arguments that develop about whether, or when, the noodles should go in, whether the thinly-sliced raw beef fillet should be mixed with beaten egg first. And how long should it poach for? Forty seconds? There are few finer things in life than friends sitting around a table squabbling about food while topping themselves up with endless jugs of beer.
It begins as a bubbling bowl of beef stock containing chunks of tougher cuts that have been cooked until they dissolve in your mouth in a pleasing squelch of fat and gristle. The bowl is put on a gas burner on the table and so many side plates appear that there is hardly room for the beer jugs.
There are plates of vegetables, fresh herbs like mint, holy basil, and culantro (saw-toothed coriander), a couple of raw eggs, beef fillet, yellow balls of egg noodles, white balls of rice noodles, chillies, prahok, lemongrass, salt and always Kampot pepper. So many in fact that you could probably order the dish 100 times and never have it the same way twice - depending on who's doing the cooking that is.
2. Prahok Ling
This is an incredibly powerful dish, flavoured with Cambodia's notoriously foul-smelling fermented fish paste, prahok. The paste is fried with hand-chopped pork, onion, garlic, egg, and chilli.
And it's so strong there are strict Government laws in place to ensure you only get a small saucer of the stuff, which you eat with boiled jasmine rice and chunks of raw aubergine, cucumber, green tomato, and white cabbage to take the edge off the extremely pungent taste.
I've always been into bold, salty flavours, and for me it's absolutely delicious, but it wouldn't suit everyone. Recipe here...
3. Spit-Roast Calf (Koo Dut)
When I first got here, you used to see whole calves being slowly cooked in the street, and what a lovely sight it was too. But a couple of months ago, the Cambodian government, in its wisdom, decided to ban restaurants and stalls from spit-roasting cows in public – over claims they incite violence and are bad for the image of Cambodia.
Now you won't see a spit-roast calf on display anywhere in Cambodia (they're being cooked in kitchens and yards at the back). But although the theatre has gone, and Phnom Penh's stretch of koo dut restaurants are noticeably quieter as a result, it's still a dish worth trying.
The hunks of grilled veal are always served the same way, with a tray of crudités, salt, pepper and lime dip (tuk meric), and prahok sauce. The cooks get to work early in the day by butchering and washing the carcass, and then filling the belly with lemon grass, lime leaves and rice paddy herbs before sewing up the cavity. The beast then slowly spit-roasts for hours over charcoal and wood.
4. Salt, Pepper And Lime Dip (Tuk Meric)
Tuk meric is an incredibly simple dip made from salt, Cambodia's wonderful Kampot pepper, and lime juice. But my God it works. You'll get it with everything from hunks of barbecued calf to Cambodia's horrendous beef lok lak, a version of Vietnam's far better dish of the same name.
But it goes best with freshly-boiled seafood, particularly blue swimmer crabs, which although contain little brown head meat, and virtually no morsels in the claws, more than make up for it with the generously fleshy chine.
In restaurants, they usually serve a mix of two thirds freshly-ground black pepper to one third salt, then carefully squeeze in two or three lime quarters and mix it in front of you. It might seem a laughably simple procedure that would scarcely trouble even the most cack-handed cook. But they take it as seriously as a chef de rang would the preparation of crepe suzette, pressed duck, or table-carved rib of beef, squeezing in the 'correct' amount of lime juice until there is the right moistness to the sauce.
You'll have few better days than sitting at a restaurant in Kep's famous crab market, looking out to sea, while supping cold beer and dipping freshly-boiled crab into this incredible dip.
5. Khor Trey Swey Kchey
This is freshwater fish braised in a mildly-spiced palm sugar sauce with grated green mango on top. I've had the dish a few times and it's wonderful.
It sums up the rustic nature of Cambodian food - the contrast of the different flavours in the dish rather than how balanced it is - a common feature in cuisines that haven't been refined.
There's a delicious combination between the sweetness of the fish, and its sticky, slightly caramelised sauce, and the very sour green mango on top with the herbs, and then the crunch of raw vegetables like green tomato and cucumber.
6. Chicken And Salted Lime Soup
This is traditionally served at weddings out here, but is actually of Chinese origin - a country that has probably had the biggest influence on Cambodian food.
Ngam ngov (salted limes) were brought to Cambodia by Chinese immigrants more than 700 years ago. The limes are dried in the sun and then stored in brine, so they soften and take on an incredibly sour, slightly soapy flavour.
The duck or chicken is deep-fried and then cooked in water flavoured with kaffir lime leaves, galangal, lemon grass, garlic, fish sauce, and the salted limes. Generally, the limes are used in soup, but you sometimes find them chopped up in Chinese-style stir-fry dishes, usually with strips of chicken and herbs. Recipe here
7. Chicken Porridge Soup
Cambodia is truly the land of soups. I don't think you'll find a country with such a high proportion of soups on restaurant menus, and there is nearly always a broth at every family meal. But of all the great broths in Cambodia, and there are plenty, chicken porridge soup (bo bor sachmoan) is my favourite.
It's traditionally eaten at breakfast and topped with nutty, browned, but not burnt garlic, and the herby fragrance of chopped culantro. As you dig in, there is the occasional limp crunch of bean sprouts poached in the heat of the broth, and the pleasing discovery of a little piece of chicken or bone to suck on.
Then there is the chicken stock, hinting of lime leaf and lemon grass, and julienne strips of fresh ginger that are, like the bean sprouts, stirred in at the end moments before service so they take on an increasingly cooked texture as you finish the soup.
Then there's the soapy richness of the cubes of blood pudding, made from pork and chicken blood, and the yolks taken from the hens' ovaries, which glint like amber pearls. I could go on...
8. Fried Pork With Chilli, Lemon Grass And Holy Basil
Generally, Cambodians don't use too many chillies in their food, the same way as say Thais do. Instead, they serve it separately – usually sliced chilli in a saucer, pickled tiny chillies in a jar, and a fiery relish of sliced red chillies and garlic, so people can put as much on as they want.
But this brilliant dish helps destroy the popular myth that Cambodian food is never spicy. I've tasted the dish in many restaurants and homes, and it's always eye-wateringly hot - just like the green mango, papaya, and Khmer beef salads they serve, particularly in the Battambang region.
A huge handful of holy basil is thrown in, and cooks down like spinach. Its clove-like taste works well with the chopped fresh and dried chilli, and gives the dish a deep, spicy flavour, which is lightened by the zesty, perfumed taste of lemon grass - an integral ingredient to Khmer cuisine.
It needs no accompaniment, other than a soup, a bowl of sticky rice, and a kettle of cold tea poured into a mug of ice and drunk through a straw.
9. Cambodian Dried Fish Omelette
The best version I had was made with smoked fish that had been soaked in brine, and then grilled over smouldering wood for eight hours until they were hard and chewy. But mostly salted, dried fish are used.
The fish is broken up into small pieces and then added to a pan with chopped onion and garlic and fried for a couple of minutes. A couple of beaten eggs and black pepper are added, and the omelette is served very thin and dry with a plate of raw vegetables and rice. It makes a very savoury, rich breakfast.
10. Samlor Ktis
This is one of the many sour soups you'll find in Cambodia, and is incredibly easy and quick to make. But like most good dishes, its strength lies in its simplicity.
It's usually made from fish or chicken and flavoured with chunks of fresh pineapple, Cambodia's mild kroeung curry paste, and coconut water - an almost colourless liquid found in young, green coconuts. It's amazing the fresh, clean flavour achieved from just a handful of ingredients. Recipe here...
11. Grilled Pork With Rice And Pickles
This has become one of my favourite breakfasts. There's something incredible in the way the pickled vegetables, chewy slices of grilled pork, and the pork and chicken broth work together with pickled chillies from the condiment trays to make something amazing.
The pork is marinated for hours and then slowly grilled. It has such a deliciously salty flavour and intense red colour that I can't get enough of it. You pour spoonfuls of the clear broth over the rice and pork and then dig in.
The pickle is usually made from carrot, cucumber and daikon. They are cut on a mandolin into julienne strips and then salted. The water produced is drained off and then they are soused in a pickling mixture of water, white vinegar, sugar, salt and spices. Think kimchi without all the PR.
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- 4 medium oranges
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Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Finely grate the zest from 2 oranges into a large bowl. Cut the peel and pith from all the oranges with a serrated knife, and slice quite thickly.
Drizzle the golden syrup evenly over the base of a greased 23cm round cake tin. There is no need to line the tin and it shouldn't have a loose bottom otherwise the syrup will bubble through. Arrange the best orange slices on top of the syrup and finely chop any that don't fit.
Put all the remaining ingredients in the bowl with the zest and chopped orange. Beat with an electric hand mixer until smooth. Spoon on top of the oranges, spread lightly and make a deep hollow in the centre of the mix with the back of a spoon – this will ensure that the cake rises evenly.
Bake for 45-50 mins until firm when pressed. Allow to settle for 5 mins before turning out. Drizzle with golden syrup if you like, and serve with custard or ice cream.


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Chili enthusiasts packed the Brossman Center of the Lutheran Theological Seminary on Sunday March 27.for the Chestnut Hill Rotary Club's first ever Chili Cook Off.
Philadelphia Fire Department Deputy Commissioner John Devlin congratulated Carl Drake of Drake's Gourmet Catering. His entry impressed the fire fighters of Engine 9 Ladder 21 in Mount Airy and Engine 37 in Chestnut Hill, who were official judges of the Cook Off. They awarded Drake with first place.
The People's Choice Award went to McMenamin's Pub.
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The Atheist Experience
The Atheist Experience is a live, call-in, public-access TV program sponsored by the Atheist Community of Austin (ACA). It airs on Sundays from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. Central Time on Time Warner Cable Channel 16 in Austin, Texas, and streams live at Ustream (see specific link below). Past episodes of the show have begun to air in other cities, as well, and are available online at Google Video; shorter clips can also be found at YouTube.
Intended mainly as an effort towards community outreach and education, the show is geared toward a general audience of both atheists and non-atheists. The ACA also sponsors an internet audio program called The Non-Prophets which is geared more toward an atheist audience.
Format of the show[edit]
The show is hosted each week by either ACA president Matt Dillahunty or Russell Glasser, along with a cohost who usually comes prepared to talk about a specific topic. The rotating lineup of cohosts currently includes Don Baker, Tracie Harris, Jen Peeples, Martin Wagner, and — rejoining the show in 2009 after a long hiatus — Jeff Dee.
After regular announcements of ACA information and events by the host, the cohost usually talks about his or her topic for about half an hour, then calls are taken from viewers. The calls need not stick to that show's topic, allowing the discussion to wander into many different areas, including what atheism is and what atheists "believe in" (a question usually asked by Christian callers), the difference between atheism and agnosticism, the possibility of secular morality, the scientific viewpoint (especially the validity of evolution and the Big Bang), and the possibility of life after death.
Recent official topics (autumn 2008) have included Objectivism, Dominionism and Reconstructionism, the meaning of the phrase "God exists", religious "scamlets", explaining and justifying personal beliefs, religion-inspired child abuse, and moral panics.
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GWEN IFILL: As Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced yesterday, the Pentagon is grappling with what to keep and what to cut in a time of tight budgets and national security challenges.?xml:namespace>
At the Air Force, leaders have set their sights on grounding a plane that's been a reliable standby for decades. But its defenders won't give up without a fight.
Defense producer Dan Sagalyn has been tracking the debate.
Kwame Holman narrates this report.
KWAME HOLMAN:A typical day at Martin State Airport on Maryland's Eastern Shore includes chemical weapons training with the A-10 Warthog.
The National Guard base is one of the homes of an aircraft beloved by ground forces, who see it as their guardian in the sky. Its pilots view infantry on the ground as their primary customer and responsibility. Most combat aircraft shoot down other planes or drop bombs or both. But the Warthog was designed specifically to come in low and attack enemy forces in a mission called close air support.
MAN: North and South, west of the smoke, west of the smoke.
MAN:OK, copy. West of the smoke, I'm looking at danger close now.
KWAME HOLMAN:Oftentimes, the enemy is within yards of friendly forces. This video captures the exchange between a Warthog pilot and a ground controller calling in a strike on Taliban forces in 2006 in Southern Afghanistan.
MAN:Roger. Keep your fire west of the smoke.
MAN:OK. Copy that.
KWAME HOLMAN: Major Chris Cisneros trains Warthog pilots in the Air Force's 104th Fighter Squadron.
MAJ. CHRIS CISNEROS, Air Force: Close air support is kind of a pickup game, if you will. If a friendly convoy is out, and they have come under fire unexpectedly, you want to talk to the good guys, figure out where they are exactly, and then find where the enemy is and execute from there.
KWAME HOLMAN:The Air Force has about 350 Warthogs. Flying below cloud cover, its pilots can see with their own eyes what they're attacking. It can loiter over the battlefield, a cockpit protected by a titanium shell and bulletproof glass, making it survivable even when hit by small-arms fire.
Its most lethal weapon is a .30-millimeter Gatling gun that fires almost 4,000 rounds per minute. But top Pentagon officials now say the Warthog's days are over. They want to eliminate the entire fleet and save $3.5 billion over five years.
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel told reporters yesterday that money could be better spent on newer, more capable and survivable aircraft.
CHUCK HAGEL, Secretary of Defense:The A-10 is a 40-year-old single-purpose airplane originally designed to kill enemy tanks on a Cold War battlefield. It cannot survive or operate effectively where there are more advanced aircraft or air defenses.
KWAME HOLMAN:Retired General Norton Schwartz agrees with the defense secretary. He closed down some Warthog units when he was Air Force chief of staff from 2008 to 2012. He acknowledges the A-10 is beloved, but says the Air Force has other planes that can protect troops on the ground just as well.
And Schwartz says the U.S. military's newest warplane, the multi-mission and long-delayed F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, also can handle close air support. The F-35 is designed to replace most of the U.S. strike aircraft fleet.
GEN. NORTON SCHWARTZ, Former Air Force Chief of Staff:What you want to do is to have platforms that can perform the mission, that mission and as many other as might be required in the future.
KWAME HOLMAN:But service personnel up and down the ranks told the NewsHour the A-10 is unique.
MAJ. DANIEL O'HARA, Marine Corps: I have sort of found a soul mate, so to speak, in the A-10.
KWAME HOLMAN: Marine Corps Major Daniel O'Hara, who led a platoon in Afghanistan, says the Warthog scared the Taliban.
MAJ. DANIEL O'HARA:The psychological effect it has on the enemy, I think, is pretty clear, and I also think it has an equally positive psychological effect on friendly forces.
You see that aircraft come on station, you know what it's capable of, you know that the enemy on the other side probably doesn't want to mess with you while that's — that's in the air.
PIERRE SPREY, Member, A-10 Design Team: We are outraged at the Air Forces latest attempt to kill the A-10.
KWAME HOLMAN: Pierre Sprey helped design the Warthog in the late 1960s and '70s. He says it was built to do more than destroy Soviet tanks and that its uniquely tough airframe made it more survivable and capable than alternative aircraft.
He says those newer planes cost much more to fly. He and other A-10 supporters mobilized to save the plane at a recent conference in Washington, D.C.
PIERRE SPREY:You are going to buy extremely expensive aircraft that cause you a much worse financial problem, right, and you are canning the cheapest airplane you operate, right, and saving a trivial amount of money.
KWAME HOLMAN: General Schwartz says improvements in cockpit cameras, radars, electronics and precision munitions mean the planes that would replace the A-10 are much better at protecting ground forces even from far above.
GEN. NORTON SCHWARTZ:Increasingly, the technology has allowed us to enjoy the same protections for friendlies through other means.
KWAME HOLMAN:But A-10 advocates say technology has limits.
LT. COL. BILL SMITH (RET.), Former A-10 squadron commander:Technology is good, but the problem with using that technology, especially the optical stuff, is that it's like looking through a soda straw. So imagine you hold a straw up to your eye, and that's how you have to view the whole battlefield.
KWAME HOLMAN:Retired Lieutenant Colonel Bill Smith flew Warthogs over an 18-year career, including combat missions in Afghanistan. He also participated in the save the A-10 event.
LT. COL. BILL SMITH:With looking with your eyeballs, I can turn my head around and I can see much more of the battlefield than I can with slewing that pod around. And I can see the bigger picture. I'm able to maybe catch some movement out of the corner of my eye and look down and go, oh, you know what? There's a little bit of dust over there.
KWAME HOLMAN:A-10 advocates are getting support on Capitol Hill. Senator Kelly Ayotte, a New Hampshire Republican, wants to hold off on dumping the A-10 until the new Joint Strike Fighter proves it can do close air support. Ayotte, whose husband is a former A-10 pilot, says the Air Force should find other places to save money.
SEN. KELLY AYOTTE, R-N.H.:The Air Force spent a billion dollars on an I.T. system that they're not going to get anything out of and they just canceled in 2012. So I think we should take a step back for a minute and make sure that there aren't any more of those billion-dollar systems out there.
KWAME HOLMAN:But General Schwartz says the days of such wasteful spending by the Pentagon are over and that today's shrinking military budgets mean programs like the A-10 are a luxury.
GEN. NORTON SCHWARTZ: The dilemma is, what else in the Air Force do we stop doing in order to keep the A-10? So what child care center do we not keep open? What base do we compromise security?
KWAME HOLMAN:Pierre Sprey says the Air Force has mounted a campaign to retire the A-10 by making political and spending deals across the country.
PIERRE SPREY:They have reached out to state governors, state adjutant generals of the National Guard, to basically to bribe them to not complaining about losing their A-10s, promising them something, an F-16 squadron, a KC-46 tanker squadron, whatever the payoff is state by state.
KWAME HOLMAN: Staff to several members of Congress, who would speak only on background, told the NewsHour the Air Force had promised to station new aircraft in their member's state to replace the A-10. They said, as a result, their lawmakers weren't complaining about the A-10′s retirement.
General Schwartz said he doubts the Air Force is bartering like that, but if they are:
GEN. NORTON SCHWARTZ: The effort that Secretary Donley and I made ran into some headwind. And if the decision of the current serving leadership is that they — they want to choose to reduce some of that headwind after that painful experience, I offer no objection.
KWAME HOLMAN:Whether Congress goes along with the Air Force's plans to retire the Warthog remains to be determined. Pierre Sprey says ground forces need the protection the A-10 provides.
PIERRE SPREY:What is at stake is the lives of a lot of troops. Troops, in the field, we owe them the ability to pull them out of trouble.
KWAME HOLMAN: General Schwartz says, that won't change, even without the A-10.
GEN. NORTON SCHWARTZ: Our airmen, when they hear this call, troops in contact need help now, you should have no doubt that Air Force airmen are going to speed to that point and take care of business.
KWAME HOLMAN:Back at Martin State Airport, pilots and ground crews continue train on and maintain the A-10. The question is, for how long?
GWEN IFILL:We will have more with Warthog designer Pierre Sprey, who knows the plane inside and out. That's on our home page.


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So You Want to Live in ... Lake Bluff
Leafy and historic, this shoreside village an hour north of Chicago cherishes its small-town ambience.
On the map, Lake Bluff looks like another Chicago suburb in a lakeside string stretching north from the city. In person, it's a community for the community-minded. On the Fourth of July, service organizations hold neighborhood breakfasts and picnics. Halloween is as decorous as Christmas. Summer Sundays mean concerts on the village green.
"It's a small-town atmosphere where you care about each other," says Pat Quade, retired schoolteacher, historical museum docent, and 36-year resident. "We all know each other."
Lake Bluff's 1905 brick town hall overlooks the village green and gazebo. Its pocket commercial area was recently recognized as a National Register historic district. Originally founded as a Methodist camp in the 1870s, Lake Bluff was modeled after Oak Bluffs on Martha's Vineyard and Chautauqua in New York as a place for religious contemplation as well as cultural education, social affairs, and recreation. Later, Chicago families found it a convenient waterside retreat from the city heat. An 1897 ad for the 500- guest Hotel Irving―printed the year the hotel burned down―hailed, "Chicago businessmen! If you cannot go away with your families, you can send them to Lake Bluff and be with them every night and Saturdays."
By the early 1900s, industrialists including the Armour family (of meatpacking fame) began building permanent estates in the area. Abbott Laboratories settled into neighboring North Chicago in 1920, bringing resident scientists and engineers. The 1904 vintage redbrick train station with its castellated tower still serves commuters to Chicago and back.
Lake Bluff is nothing if not house-proud. Sprawling Tudor mansions, earthy Prairie-style dwellings, cozy Colonial Revivals, and towering Queen Annes mingle with modest homes that were the village's original seasonal cottages. "The east side of town remains very much as it was laid out in the camp meeting days," says Kathleen O'Hara, co-founder of the Vliet Museum, which is devoted to Lake Bluff history. Rather than large suburban estates separating residents from one another, "you still have family-size lots within walking distance of the beach," says Brad Andersen, resident and real estate broker.
Those original lots were 25 feet wide, creating a close-knit community where you couldn't help but know your neighbors. Plots that then went for $250 cost a bit more now, but the sense of community here remains alive, well, and―come summer― gathered on the village green.
For more information, visit lakebluff.org.
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Rupert Murdoch's News Group Newspapers, which owns the Britsh tabloid The Sun, has agreed to pay actor Jude Law 130,000 pounds (roughly $200,000) after admitting it had hacked Law's phone and subjected him to "repeated and sustained physical surveillance."
The settlement included the admission that The Sun published 16 articles about the "Sherlock Holmes" star between 2003 and 2006 using information obtained through phone hacks.
NGN also reached settlement agreements with footballer Ashley Cole and former British Prime Minister John Prescott. They join others who have recently received payment from News of the World, another NGN title, including actress Sienna Miller, model Abi Titmuss and Sara Payne, the mother of a young girl who was murdered by a convicted pedophile.
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"News Group has agreed to compensation being assessed on the basis that senior employees and directors of NGN knew about the wrongdoing and sought to conceal it by deliberately deceiving investigators and destroying evidence," the firm said in an official statement.
NGN is facing 60 lawsuits, and police estimate there could be as many as 6,000 people victimized by the tabloid's policies.


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Electricity in Kinston costs about 22 percent more than in, say, Pink Hill.
Electricity in Kinston costs about 22 percent more than in, say, Pink Hill.
�And that�s just a terrible thing,� said state Rep. Leo Daughtry of Smithfield, whose city, like Kinston, is part of the decades-old North Carolina Eastern Municipal Power Area No. 1 � a group of 32 municipalities named ElectriCities.
The rate difference can be blamed directly on the power crises of the 1970s, including the disaster at Three-Mile Island. ElectriCities owns part of four power plants, including the Sharon Harris nuclear plant west of Raleigh. Construction on that plant, originally intended for four reactors, was halted after only one was built � at twice the expected price.
ElectriCities has been in massive debt ever since. Combined, cities which are part of the organization still owe $1.9 billion on the plant. In Kinston, debt payment accounts for 39 percent of all electric bills.
The math is easy. A solution is not.
Daughtry and three other Republicans have introduced House Bill 708 as an attempt to lower rates in ElectriCities. It received first reading on April 11 in the House and was sent for discussion to the Committee on Finance.
Essentially, the bill would force ElectriCities to use all revenue from the sale of electricity to pay down the debt on the reactor. But Kinston�s city manager says doing that would result in a property tax increase 6 cents per $100 property tax values from 66 cents to 72 cents.
Today, the town transfers $800,000 in electric revenue to the general fund to help pay for services, such as police and fire protection, City Manager Tony Sears said. If that money is sent instead to pay the debt on a power plant that�s almost paid off anyway, he said, Kinston taxpayers �won�t get the best return on their investment.�
Instead, he said, they�ll get a property tax increase, assuming they want city service levels to remain the same. Otherwise, cuts are inevitable.
Without the bill, the debt on the Sharon Harris plant will be paid by 2027. With the bill, it would be paid off a few years early, Sears and Daughtry agree.
�In 12 years, I�m going to lower the (electricity) rate� when the debt expires, Sears said, and it�ll be lower than Duke Energy�s projected rates. �What am I going to do to the property tax rates if the bill passes? Once they go up, they stay up.�
Tough, Daughtry said.
�I don�t dispute that. But the power bill was never intended to supplement the general fund,� he said. �When your (bills are 22) percent higher than your neighbor, that�s a lot. And when you�re poor, that�s a whole lot.�
Daughtry said Kinston residents are finally facing the results of bad decisions made by the legislature years ago, including funding the nuclear power plant.
�We�ve tried everything we know to try to resolve these issues and we�ve got to solve them,� he said.
Sears, however, doesn�t expect the bill to pass. It can�t, he said, without sending property taxes in at least 32 Eastern North Carolina cities sky-rocketing.
�Government costs �X,� � Sears said. �What we�re really talking about is � you have to find that X.�


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Now that Super Bowl is over, it's time to post some Valentine's recipes!
Valentine's Day doesn't really have much significance for me, but I still like to celebrate it by watching romantic movies (hence the title of this post) and making treats to fit the holiday theme! This year, I made two recipes (a dinner and dessert) that both feature a secret ingredient to make them a beautiful Valentine's pink ... beets!
For my dinner recipe, I made this pasta with a colourful beet sauce. The beets are first roasted in the oven and then pureed with yogurt, lemon, garlic and spices to make a creamy and flavorful coating for the noodles. I also added some toasted pine nuts and fresh parsley on top of my pasta, which I thought made it more special and enhanced the presentation factor, but you can leave the pine nuts out for a more budget-friendly dish.
Since I love beets in any form, especially the flavor of roasted beets, it was no surprise that I loved this pasta! But if you do decide to make this for someone special, make sure they're a fan of beets first because they are definitely the star of this dish!
Stay tuned later this week for my Valentine's dessert with beets!
Beet Pasta
Adapted from Moderate Oven
4-5 oz dried pasta - wide noodles like fettucine or pappardelle work best (make sure they are egg-free for a vegan dish - I used durum wheat ribbons in parsley-garlic flavour)
Meanwhile, cook the pasta in a large pot of boiling water according to the package directions. Drain and set aside.
Toast the pine nuts in a dry skillet for a few minutes, until they are lightly browned and fragrant.


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text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - Non-Native Speakers in TEFL Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Non-Native Speakers in TEFL Goto page 1, 2, 3 Next Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> General Discussion View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message ninaJoined: 02 Feb 2003Posts: 12Location: Bosnia Posted: Mon Feb 03, 2003 5:04 pm Post subject: Why person must be more respected with degree This is a question for Welshy I am new in this forum, so I would request all of you to forgive me if I will be out of topic. Shortly I checked this topic and I am a bit surprised since persons with degrees must be somehow more privileged to get a job. But that is not true, since there are persons who are more capabale to do some jobs without degree and even more better. Why is that? You see, they are having expiriance and knowledge what is as well one of the conditions that are underlined in the vacancies. I agree that person can get much easier a job with than without degree, but I have example in my family my aunt is having the highest degree from mycrobiology still she is not doing her job and she has problems beacuse of that degree. She is 50 yrs of age and still doing a job that is not her real job, or my mom is proffessional in her job but she is not as well respected. Again the same question WHY? I will give you answer because people are not respecting degree or diploma, they only respect you by connections, family relation, love relations and how much your pocket is deep. So tell me what is wrong if person does not have degree or diploma, see that even without diploma persons can achieve whatever they want on this or other way. And the last thing is what if person is not having enough money to pay university, if it is not possible to get in the university that he or she wants, just becuase he or she does not belong to the line of "blue blood". My opinion is that person must be respected because of personallity not because of the diploma or degree. Personally I know people who are not armed with diplomas or degrees, but they are having more wisdom and they are more capable to do some things without diploma. So, as I said this is my first time in this forum so I hope I was not too offending. Best regrads. Back to top dduckJoined: 29 Jan 2003Posts: 422Location: In the middle Posted: Mon Feb 03, 2003 6:12 pm Post subject: I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. Quote: "I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." -Mark Twain I agree with you completely, Nina. Having a degree doesn't make you a good teacher; having a BA in Education might be a different point. The bottom line is that having a degree proves to employers that the person has some measure of competence. Not having one doesn't make you any less competent - it means you have to show your competence in other ways. In my previous line of work - software development - there were two main criteria that employers were interested in: a qualification and experience. Still, even with a long proven record of experience some thick-headed employers would still reject staff without a degree. There's no accounting for other people's stupidity - only your own Iain Back to top ninaJoined: 02 Feb 2003Posts: 12Location: Bosnia Posted: Mon Feb 03, 2003 6:54 pm Post subject: Mr. Duck thank you for sharing same opinion and i agree with you, what proves that we all over the world can share the same opinion not fight against each other with or without degree we ar humans and there ar only two groups of people good and bad Back to top ninaJoined: 02 Feb 2003Posts: 12Location: Bosnia Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2003 1:03 pm Post subject: Mr. Irish, I am very happy to see that people understand what I want to say. I am not ashmed to tell that I am from small country called Bosnia. Probably, all of you heard about this country due to war issue. At this moment I will not talk about war, I will talk about situation that is currently here. Unemployment is very high, and I do belong to this group. My qualification is not caunted by degrees and diplomas, just by expiriance and skills. I have graduated Economy Secondary School long time ago, and because of war I could not finish or to be more precise accomplish my dream which is Law University or currently Economy. I worked for many years, and I saw many people with diplomas but they are not having job, question WHY? It is very simple, because some of them or most of them are not sharing the same political opinion, or not having various relations (those relations are known to all of us, of course!!!). So, tell me or this is question for all forum, what diploma can do or not in such or similar situations. I cannot speak about point that we have forgein teacher, since I am not in such a situation, but hold on that is against person who is from particular country, question WHY? Think about it, in any country is unemployment either high or low, depends on government or inflation, anyway in any country there are very well educated persons who can teach your kids about certain subject, specially since that teacher is coming from the same country. I cannot teach or I could teach kids from different country, but it is question how much I know about the habits, culture, system of that country. Even countries in Europe are different so which person you would prefer to teach your kids, the one, which is from your country or not. I understand that people following own dreams and going to other countries to earn money and make own life better (honestly if someone give me opportunity to go now from here, I would accept it without double thoughts), but to teach children big NO. What if something happens to a kid and am guilty, I do not know about the Law, system and I am in trouble. SIR, THANK YOU FOR KIND OFFER, BUT BIG NO. Once again, this is not against any person only my opinion, so I will be very happy to hear your opinion on this small democratic opinion. Thank You Very Much Back to top WelshyJoined: 24 Jan 2003Posts: 4 Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2003 3:31 pm Post subject: For Nina from Welshy Nina, You have made some very interesting points. I have also met some very intelligent people who, for some reason or other, didn't have the opportunity to go to university. Over here in the UK, it is very expensive to go to university now. Getting a degree will mean heavy debts, which will have to be paid of over the years. The Trinity TESOL Certificate is of a high enough level to test student competence. On the course I participated in, many people had degrees, some didn't. I don't mean to sound to sound blunt here, but the ones who didn't reach the required standard were soon weeded out. Ironically, three people failed the grammar test; they all had degrees! I also know some people who can study to pass exams, but don't have enough common sense to fight their way out of a paper bag. Let's face it, the best teachers are, and always will be, those with life experience. A degree means that a person can study which, as you imply Nina, doesn't always mean that they are the best person for the job. Welshy Back to top ninaJoined: 02 Feb 2003Posts: 12Location: Bosnia Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2003 11:38 am Post subject: [i][b]Wind of change take us on different roads of life[/b][ Hello me again, Irish and Welshy, it was very nice from you to give me such a comment though on the beginning I underllined that I might go off topic thank you for bringing me back. I do agree with both of you, only thing I would say, probably you understood that I do agree with topic to have dipoma or degree but still I do not believe in such honest way for getting of job. I am not underestimating any person, who is studying that is as well sort of job just in this case person involves little gray cells, insomnia, lots of coffee, nervousness, some moments of disappointments, moments of giving up from everything. I know all that and I do respect because life is a bit difficult for everyone. Probably it was brave thing for me to say all that what I said (since I am not so brave person ), just because all of you most probably are having degrees. On the end I like that, however I can get some wisdom from all of and you can understand my point of view. About test that Welshy mentioned, test is test and it is the same for every student who passes will get result and who not it goes vice versa, like everything in life. By this I do not underestimate either Irish or Welshy diploma, but I do not justify myself in this topic too. See, I am not telling that all of you shall feel pitty for me because am in this situation, I know that every country is having different system, which are sometimes similar or not. Talking about foreign teachers, of course that I will try to adopt myself to the system of certain country, and that would not be a problem for me because I have been working for UN last 8 yrs as nurse (during the war, my director at that time was Pakistani, since we had UNPROFOR, as it is very obvious and you know that i do not have any connections with doctors, but they thought me about certain things) and language assistant. As language assistant I worked for International Police Task Force and I learned a lot about all countries in the world. By this small summary, I can tell you that I do not have problems to adopt myself to any system, but still......... I do not think I will be teacher of children, though that is honorable job. As you know there are so many replies on this topic, on the most of us can agree and should not, that is still up to us. Each of us looking differently on each problem. I do not want to sound like "Ohh... look at him, he has diploma, it seems that he is now I AM THE ONE", no, that is not true. First, person shall finish university with love, not "Listen I have that man u know him, he will help me" or "my parents told me that I have to finish it". NO, none shall not make such mistake because we are persons with different needs, backgrounds etc. Or to finish university because that is only way to prove him or herself. Conitnuation of this could be "Be yourself" but listen inner sense. OK, i will try to give you my final thought , which will be again out of topic but I know I will get reply and I am looking forward to read it . With or without diploma or degree we have to fight, not to allow to any person to influence on us, finish the university but do not stab others or underestimate persons without low education. Be good, and others will be good to you, help them if you can but take care of your back. Give chance to a person without diploma, he or she might have more wisdom then person which spent all life with books. System is system, since ancient times and until this time every political system was failing starting from tirany, socialisam, capitalisam or democracy. We have to try to live with this system, though it is sometimes difficult, we have to resist to the beast called connection, and to win. That is why this topic or any other topic is having a sense of fight, because discussions or topics are part of us in which we are showing how much we are capable to understand, tolerate other people. Topics are part of life and for a sure we have to have a warrior inside us to win all this. I could speak more but I will let all of you to give me comments on this and lets have a good time, not to party in this forum but to have sort of discussion where we will try to bring up good conclusion. I know that conclusion will not have influence on real situation, but at least we will know that we have someone who shares the same or similar opinion, even vice versa so on that way we will train our brain to function and to search for good comments. Till next reply stay well and take care NINA [/i][/quote] Back to top gordosmithJoined: 04 Feb 2003Posts: 1 Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2003 5:54 pm Post subject: Could Not agree with you guys more Gents: I agree. People need to do their homework, think before they write or speak, and not expect a free lunch. Take care, Gordo. Back to top ninaJoined: 02 Feb 2003Posts: 12Location: Bosnia Posted: Fri Feb 07, 2003 3:19 pm Post subject: Hi people, am back agian. This time I will not have comment on our topic since am in hurry. I know that you missed me I missed you all with all these comments so as soon as possible I will conitnue with my strange comments and start to chase right conclusions. Do not cry for me I will be back Yours Nina Back to top ninaJoined: 02 Feb 2003Posts: 12Location: Bosnia Posted: Sat Feb 08, 2003 8:18 pm Post subject: Calm down Hello to all of you, There is no need to be agressive or insulting because we have different opinions or misunderstand the same things. It wont be nice to have the same opinion because we will not have a time for arguments. Initially our topic was about foreign teachers and diplomas. Either to accept foreign teacher or not etc. So english language is all around us, where we look there is english so it is ok since english is first UN language, and there is no need to talk about this, but question is what about foreign teachers and diplomas or degrees. Why people ar not respecting more those without degrees and why they ar not getting jobs. That was our disccussion without any insults so i wish to read new comments. And please be nice, this is just nice time share opinions with all world. Till next time stay well and do not argue. Take care and have a good time, keep smiling PS. sorry i would like to support Mr. Roger and his idea but I do not have time, but I am gonna do it next time Nina Back to top RogerJoined: 19 Jan 2003Posts: 9138 Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2003 3:54 am Post subject: Hello Irish, hello Nina, hello all! Yes, Irish, that was an excellent point - Glenski answering all and sundry on this forum, yet nobody really caring whether they are suitable for a Japanese school. A FAQ could take a lot of unnecessary queries and replies off here - and bad vibes too! To Nina, I have to say your comments were like a fresh wind dissipating stale odours! Your bad luck is that you are a Bosnian with excellent English communication skills. I don't doubt that you can share them with other non-natives. Unfortunately for you, you can't get a job in most countries without at least a solid professional teacher's background. In East Asia, people like you have to forge documents. At least, get a respectable cert! Well, you see this is the unfairness - if you are American or Aussie, you don't necessarily need to have any proof to corroborate your claim that you can teach English. The assumption is that you only need to practise oral English - and for that purpose, a native speaker is just about sufficiently credentialled! It is amazing to see what kinds of people come here to "teach" English! There are quite a number of "refugees" from the law of their own country! Don't think I am making this up - the secrets some of us are privy to are bewildering! A few years ago, an American of Italian ancestry was finally caught working in Shenzhen! He had been on the run for a couple of years. He was a wanted man for a multi-million US-dollar swindle. Evidently, he was not working here for the money. Others are, though! There are drunkards of tender and mature ages that would find it difficult to land themselves a job back home! For many, teaching English is an escape from selling hamburgers! The minimum hourly wage in the USA is... is it US$ 5-plus? Well, if you have not bothered ("it is too expensive!") to upgrade yourself educationally, then your mind can easily be made up - either it is a regular job such as selling hamburgers and working 40 hours a week, or it is going overseas to teach. Now a rhetorical question: Do you want your child to be exposed to people like these? Back to top ninaJoined: 02 Feb 2003Posts: 12Location: Bosnia Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2003 5:40 pm Post subject: Hello Hello again Well it seems that all of us ar going from topic not only me Engllish is English but we have to try to find the best why how to use this language, by which for your information we ar chatting. Lets come back to regular topic I know that the situation is not wonderful all over the world but lets try to be nice and polite while we ar chatting with others So, please lets behave on nice manners and without insluts, hard words, bragging with grammar and telling u know I AM THE BEST, I have seen such persons. OK RESPECT!!! Both do not boder us with perfect english, person learns all life and still dies without any knowledge I do respect every opinion but I will disagree on nice way like mom thought me. All of us ar having different lives and only what we shall do is stick to the topic and not to inslut any other person with or without degree though in one segment i will disagree. Anyway I do not have much time to chat I wish all the best to all world and lets live in world without anger, rage and war. Have a nice time Back to top bnixJoined: 16 Jan 2003Posts: 645 Posted: Tue Feb 18, 2003 1:44 am Post subject: "InSLUTS"???? Nina, I am not really trying to be unkind,but you were contemplating teaching English,correct?Well,again,I am not trying to be unkind,but after looking at your latest post,I am wondering if that is the kind of English you would teach your students? I mean,"boder" instead of "bother"?I I do not think people are "picking on you"...but there is a legitimate question concerning what kind of English you would actually be teaching.That is in no way a personal criticism.I think it goes back to the fact that a lot of people,in places everywhere,when they find themselves at a loss for other options,decide to "teach English".This is a huge problem in this field right now. Best of luck in the future.Perhaps you have other options. Back to top AnnJoined: 02 Feb 2003Posts: 45 Posted: Tue Feb 18, 2003 3:21 am Post subject: I wonder if people ever heard of "typos." I am not defending anyone here, but I have observed this recurrent problem on several forums. People usually are relaxed and in a "chat" mode when they post messages on an internet board, so why should we pick on unnecessary details? Just because I am an English teacher doesn't mean I will cross my t's and dot my i's all the time. Phew! Stop judging people from the few alpahabets that appear on a screen. To illustrate my point, I remember working in Paris some years ago and posting messages on an internet forum, but I could never get the keyboard straight and boy, did those clocks tick away, eating up my francs, so I just posted a message and never bothered to check the spellings...and sometimes, not even the grammatical structure of a sentence. Gee whiz! Back to top bnixJoined: 16 Jan 2003Posts: 645 Posted: Tue Feb 18, 2003 3:51 am Post subject: Yeah,True...We All Make Typos.....But Hey,Ann,I agree with you completely.We all make typos,especially when we are paying for the use of a computer and we are in a hurry.But if you check her post carefully( and again,I am not meaning to be unkind),you will see that the problem goes a lot deeper than a few typos.I am not trying to insult anyone,but it only makes sense that someone contemplating teaching English has some ability in using English,although I know there are people teaching in this field who lack that ability.Again,I am not talking about a few typos.Everybody makes a typo or two or three now and then. Back to top ninaJoined: 02 Feb 2003Posts: 12Location: Bosnia Posted: Tue Feb 18, 2003 10:40 am Post subject: Mr. BNIX Thank you for your remarkable thought, for your infromation I am not English Teacher. This english that you read is my own practice. I never had English in my school, I learned by myself and of course so many years of practice. I got into this forum because I like to share my opinion not to be on english test. For BODER I found it when I posted my reply so I could not go back and correct it. If you as english teacher, but no offence, chasing mistakes of students then what you would say if I tell you that my ex-chief from USA had so many mistakes but none told him you do not know english. For me right now is important that all of you can understand me, even I am trying my level best to be good not the best in English. English as language is not my mother language but still I am putting so many efforts to pick some things to improve my skills. For me, teacher is not person, as strict guard during school class, teacher is person who is there to teach me and sometimes to even encourage me for some things. But still I wonder whether I shall countinue in this forum or not, because here people are chasing grammatical mistakes but not looking into the point how to improve personal behaviour. Best Regards. 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