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Oct. 23, 2006
Florida State held its usual Monday practice to start its week of preparation for the 7 p.m. contest at Maryland on ESPN2.
Kickoff for the November 4th game between Florida State and Virginia was set for noon. The game will be carried on the ACC's Lincoln-Financial Services/Raycom television network.
Florida State alumni and former roommates Burt Reynolds and Lee Corso will be featured in a segment on the HBO series "REAL SPORTS WITH BRYANT GUMBEL" when the show goes behind the scenes with ESPN's "College Gameday". The show will air Tuesday, October 31, at 10 p.m. (ET/PT).
The Seminoles worked out in shorts and helmets for ten periods on Monday evening, starting with agility drills before going into special teams and individual position drills.
Most of periods were spent with the offense and defense working against the scout teams.
Quarterback Drew Weatherford hit Joslin Shaw for a 25 yard pass and Xavier Lee completed a pair of passes to Preston Parker
Florida State will be back on the practice Tuesday afternoon.
Head Coach Bobby Bowden
(On the unity council meeting): "I met with our unity council today just to be sure that everything is okay and let them know where we stand. We've lost three ball games in the final minute we easily could have won. I like they way they've kept fighting and I told them not to hang their heads.
(On Monday's practice): "We were talking and the coaches were really surprised with the enthusiasm they came out with tonight, but it's been like that all year. This team has worked just about as hard as any team we've had here."
Quarterback Drew Weatherford
(On the unity council meeting) "We just had a meeting with Coach Bowden. He was just telling us that we have the rest of the season to look forward to, and we have a lot of young guys. We needed not to pay attention to what has happened in the past, but look forward to the future."
(On moving on): "We're going to have to; we can't worry about what happened last week, because it might happen again if we don't watch ourselves. You have to take it a game at a time."
(On the offensive performance) "I thought we executed well for 80% of the game, but it's not for consistent drives. We played good for five or six downs, and then we have two or three where we wouldn't and we have to punt the ball. We gave them as an offense 14 points through an interception and a fumble by Caz that ended up on the one yard line. Penalties also hurt us a lot; we're just making too many mistakes to beat good teams like Boston College, Clemson and NC State."
(On the interception just before halftime): "They had been playing quarters throughout the day, with the safety and corner playing about eight to ten yards deep. What they did on the snap was rolled down. On the snap, it was low and to the right, and I didn't even get a chance to look. But I was being decisive and I thought that they were going to do that they had done previously and not let Greg Carr beat them down the field. I was trying to be decisive and thrown the ball on a simple hitch route, and the defender made a good play. I wish I could have taken the play back because I didn't see what the defense had done."
Offensive Coordinator Jeff Bowden
(On bouncing back): "Well, I specifically think back to my brother calling me three years ago and asking me `what do you say?' Well, it now becomes a six game season and there is a lot of pride at stake. The one thing is that we are playing enough young kids that this is where you find out what they are made of and you find out if they will suck it up. We have a lot to play for right now. Pride happens to be a big part of it. To me it is a six game season and it is that simple, you approach it that way."
(On Maryland): "Right now we are trying to iron out all of their headaches. If I were to give you from a coverage standpoint they are very similar to Boston College. I am not sure their corners might not be a little better but they are definitely a little more physical. They will come up and play a little bit of bump and run, not a big dose of it, but for the most part they want to keep everything underneath. Now they are much more multiple up-front than Boston College was, there is a lot more twisting, a lot more stunting, and a lot more blitzing.
"They are a three down team so you are not sure where they are coming from … they are much more confusing to your offensive line. People have run on them. A lot of what I have seen, you watch Georgia Tech and there is some hidden rushing yardage when you talk about (Reggie) Ball pulling that ball down and running like he does. Even the quarterback for Virginia, we were studying that game a little bit, he had some pretty big runs. He had about a 30 yard quarterback draw that scored for them."
Defensive Coordinator Mickey Andrews
(On the defensive performance): "When you go back and look at the game and the way that things happened we were pleased with the fight and the effort of our guys and defense for the most part. We gave up some plays that naturally that had we made rather than given up would have helped with the cause of the game. I would have liked to see us make that goal line stand. It's pretty tough defending a one yard field, it's not impossible, but it's pretty difficult, and we thought we had his stopped on second down, but he ended up sticking the ball across the goal line and they ended up getting points. We gave up seven points in the second quarter, and we gave up three points in the third quarter. We started pretty good and finished pretty good."
(On field position): "Field position is a something that is really critical in football and the thing that you try to do is shorted the field for your offense. You create field position basically three ways, with turnovers; we got an intercept and a fumble. We try to get three turnovers per game, and we were just short of that. You do it with fourth down stops. We stopped them at the end of the game when they gave us the safety on fourth down. Then third down stops; you force them to kick the ball, and you try to use your kicking team to add yardage as well. We stopped them eight out of 11 times on third down, we gave up two third and long plays, but the plays went for 44 and 48 yards. We had one third and one and we lost it. But the thing you look at is that we did some things that gave us a chance to win the game. But we needed another turnover, we needed a goal line stop, and we needed to stop the two long plays."
(On mistakes and holding Boston College's running attack): "You look at it from an overall standpoint, and we gave up 60 yards rushing, which is half of their normal average. That was something that really concerned us with four true freshman going into the game, we weren't sure if they could hold their gaps. For the most part, we did an outstanding job of that. On one long pass, we had a couple busts, we had a bust on coverage, and we had a bust on containment. Usually two busts on the same play does not result in a positive outcome, and we just got out thought on another one. Those are things we feel like we can correct, you just can't put yourself in a position that you can't correct, and then you have to finish like crazy."


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Petrie back on deck as CYMS put ladies, old boys, charity and farewell into the spotlight
Mick Sullivan and Orange CYMS' recent Group 10 premier league dynasty has been built on a few things, naturally one of those factors has always been making sure the side peaks at the right time.
Looks like they're going to do it again in 2018 too.
The green and golds have won four games on the trot heading in Sunday's final round clash with Bathurst St Pat's, they've been scintillating with the ball and miserly without it in wins over Lithgow Workies (38-6), Bathurst Panthers (16-10), Orange Hawks (38-10) and Blayney (64-4).
That month-long stretch came after sporadic performances across the first two thirds of the season, in which they occupied all of the competition's top five spots at one stage or another.
In fact the week prior to that win over Workies the green and golds were fifth and genuinely in danger of dropping out of the finals frame without a return to form.
Incredibly, in a show of how close the competition really is, Sullivan and his troops could now end up with the minor premiership if all falls in their favour this weekend.
All it would take is a big win over St Pat's combined with Cowra and Hawks suffering defeats to Lithgow and Mudgee, respectively.
"I'm just looking to win it and guarantee ourselves two cracks which I've said all year is what we need," Sullivan said.
"Hawks and Mudgee do play on Saturday so we will know where we're at to an extent and what we need to do, and jumping up to second and getting the home semi-final would be big for the club, but I think a little bit too much has to go our way to win the minor.
"We had that freak ending in Bathurst when we played St Pat's last time, that one got away, and looking back we'd probably be playing for that minor if we'd won that game, but we can't really worry about that now I guess."
There's an inherent danger in St Pat's coming to Wade Park too with nothing on the line too, Sullivan and CYMS know that all too well after last season's penultimate round.
"Lithgow were outside the five, we went down there and they knocked us off," Sullivan lamented, it was the only game the green and golds lost in 2017 too.
"So we have to make sure we don't drop this one. Teams can play some pretty good footy when they're just playing for a drink, throwing it around a bit. I think Hawks and Cowra will be aware of that too, I actually wouldn't be surprised if there is an upset this weekend.
"I think if we stick to our systems and keep playing the footy we have been we should do our job, especially defensively. In the last four weeks we've kept sides below 10 points, we do that again and we should be fine."
CYMS go into the clash largely unchanged from last weekend's hammering of Blayney, but are boosted by Luke Petrie's return.
He slots back into five-eighth with Dom Maley returning to centre, and Jerome Harrison dropping back to the bench.
Obviously there's plenty on the line anyway, but Sunday is also the club's Ladies' Day and Old Boys' Day as well and will act as a charity day and a farewell for Sullivan too, in his final regular-season game at Wade Park.
CYMS will be raising money to donate to Buy A Bale to aid NSW's farmers but will also donate funds to two of the club's near and dear families suffering through a battle with cancer.
They'll do so through raffles, and one-off jerseys they're wearing.
Sullivan's designed the jerseys himself, which will be yellow with a green V and have the club's 12 premierships stamped on the chest – for reference, they came in 1952, 53, 54, 58, 59, 87, 88 and 2010, 11, 13, 15 and 17.
"It should be a really good day, there's the farewell aspect but it'll be great paying tribute to those premiership sides, especially with the 1988 premireship side on hand," Sullivan said.
"Then of course there's the people within the club we're raising money for. They're very private people and a big part of the club, but they're dealing with some pretty full-on stuff so it's a very worthy cause."
League tag kicks the day off at 10.30am, while the club's Old Boys' game will kick-off at 12.45pm before first division.
Premier league kicks off after that at 2.30pm.
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John Graham Harrison
John Graham Harrison was born in Leeds, Yorkshire in May, 1946 where he spent his formative years. He attended Featherbank Primary School, Horsforth and afterwards Aireborough Grammar School, Yeadon. After 'A' levels he studied at Reading University where he graduated with an Honours degree in Chemical Physics. On leaving Reading he went onto complete Graduate Teacher Training at Southampton University where he met his future wife on the same course. After Southampton, Joan and he were married and this year they celebrate 47 years of marriage; they have two daughters and three grandsons. Throughout his career he taught physics to all levels including 'A' level and scholarship in various grammar and comprehensive schools. They moved to Gnosall, Staffordshire in January 1979 for John to take up the post of Head of Science at King Edward VI School, Stafford and over the years both were promoted to Assistant Headteacher in their respective schools. Both are now retired and spend a lot of time with their family. John also has a great interest in DIY, which he has used to good effect on their eighteenth century house in France, which serves as a base for holidays and European travel.
John was initiated into Eccleshall Lodge 5389 in 1983 and joined Manor of Stockwell Lodge 4746 in London in 1989. He holds the rank of Past Provincial Grand Superintendent of Works in the Province of Staffordshire and Senior London Grand Rank in Metropolitan Grand Lodge, where he is also a Visiting Officer and Almoner Liaison Officer. John is a joining member of Royal Chartley Chapter of Fortitude 726.
In the Mark Degree he is secretary of Jubilee Lodge 1485, Joseph Whittall Lodge 1392 and Senior Overseer in Hantune Lodge 1085. In the Royal Ark Mariner Degree he is scribe of Peace Lodge 541 and a member of Kenneth Shenton Lodge of Installed Commanders 1392. John has been an active Provincial Officer in the Mark for the last 6 years, having served as Assistant Director of Ceremonies, Grand Senior Overseer and Assistant Grand Almoner before taking up his appointment as Grand Senior Warden. He also holds Provincial Grand Rank in the Royal Ark Mariner Degree.
Other Masonic orders to which he belongs include Rose Croix, being Assistant Director of Ceremonies in Castra Nova Chapter 1023; Order of the Secret Monitor, Stafford Conclave 66; The Operatives, being Clerk in Wrekin Quarries Assemblage and Royal Order of Scotland. In addition, when relations between French and English masonry were good, he went through the chair of Richard Coeur de Lion Loge 841, Grand Loge Nationale Française in 2000 and Richard Coeur de Lion Loge Maîtres Maçons de Marque 841, Grande Loge des Maîtres Maçons de Marque Française in 2001, of which he was a founder member.
Tom Fulton
Tom was born north of the border in what was then Lanarkshire and where his formative years were spent. He ended up with offers to study BSc's in Engineering at Strathclyde University, however, decided to accept instead an offer to serve in the Far East as a member of the Overseas Civil Service and the Royal Hong Kong (HK) Police Force. After a 27 hours flight with 5 stopovers, he arrived in the Pearl of the Orient in the midst of a very hot and humid summer, and states that acclimatisation at 22 degrees north consisted of running and exercise which left him at the optimum weight of 155 Lbs. He only climbed over that weight, he says, when he got married and joined Freemasonry there.
His Father had been a Freemason in Scotland, however, Tom did not know much about it as his father had died when he was young and being old-school had not discussed it. Thus when he was asked by an English Mason in HK if he was interested, and thinking that it was all the same, he was initiated into the United Service Lodge 1341 in 1992. He quickly found out that the three constitutions of the English, Irish and Scottish all met at the same building. He was soon approached by the Scots who, in a somewhat animated fashion, asked why in he had not joined the Scottish Constitution. Being a steadfast type, he chose to continue with the English Constitution. He was advanced in the United Mark Lodge 419 and exalted into the United Chapter 1341. He was elevated into the Ararat Lodge 264 of Royal Ark Mariners also in HK. Tom also became active in the Masonic Chivalric degrees. Prior to the return of the territory to China, the Scots, whom he visited quite often, decided that they would put him through the degrees of the Scottish Constitution in case he returned to Scotland. This they did in the Scottish Research Lodge Cosmopolitan 428. They did not issue, to his knowledge, a certificate, though charged for the occasion and the Scottish apron which he still has.
Tom has continued his Masonry in the UK and his Mark Masonry in the Severn Lodge of Mark Master Masons 1617, where he was Master in 2009, having joined there from Shropshire 444. He remains active in other and Masonic Chivalric degrees. He is a P.Pr.GMO of Staffordshire and Shropshire MMM's and holds Provincial RAM Grand Rank. He is P.Pr.SGD in the Province of Shropshire. He is presently an active officer in Provincial Grand Chapter of Shropshire, an active Grand College Officer in Knight Templar Priests, and a Past Substitute Provincial Grand Master of the Royal Order of Scotland of Staffordshire and Shropshire.Tom and his wife have three daughters and now live in Shrewsbury.


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MICHEL MARTIN, Host:
Now it's time for our weekly visit to the Barbershop, where the guys talk about what's in the news and what's on their minds. Sitting in their chairs for a shape-up on this very busy news week are author Jimi Izrael, civil rights attorney and editor Arsalan Iftikhar, columnist Ruben Navarrette and NPR's political editor Ken Rudin.
And we've just heard the - just momentous events in Egypt, where longtime President Hosni Mubarak has agreed to step down after days and days of demonstrations. Arsalan, you've been following this closely. Tell us your thoughts.
ARSALAN IFTIKHAR: Well, hide your kids, hide you wives, hide your Hosni Mubaraks because the people of Egypt are free tonight. You know, this is, you know - what I recently wrote in a CNN column, I called it democracy renaissance that we're starting to see in the Arab world. About a month ago, we saw it in Tunisia; you know, today we see it in Egypt. And you know, many analysts say that, you know, tomorrow and in the weeks forthcoming, we might see it in places like Yemen, Bahrain and Jordan.
And so, you know, it'll be interesting to see what kind of transition will be made now. You know, obviously President Mubarak has handed off his authority to his vice president, Omar Suleiman, who essentially was the head of the Mukhabarat, the secret police, and essentially their torturer in chief. And so, you know, it's still part of the old guard.
And so, you know, the September elections that are going to come up, you know, the role of, you know, coalition leader Mohamed Elbaradei, 2005 Nobel Peace Prize winner and former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency - all these things are going to come into play. But you know, it was a big step forward today with the stepdown of Hosni Mubarak.
MARTIN: Ruben, what about you? What do you think about this? Now, it's interesting because you've been covering these issues around the world as well, in other parts of the world.
RUBEN NAVARRETTE: Right. This is a, you know, a story we couldn't take our eyes off, obviously, for the last few days - yesterday, in particular, as it seemed to reach a climax. The - I would think that the questions remain.
I mean, even this idea of sort of, will it be enough. Will it be enough, as Arsalan said, to pass the torch simply to your vice president who has, likewise, a spotted history - who likewise, if in fact - and we heard this renunciation of the Mubarak regime - is it enough to say that Mubarak has to choose his successor? And I don't think the crowd's going to go for that, frankly, given everything we've seen from them.
I also don't think that the questions are resolved in terms of whether or not we can keep power away from the Muslim Brotherhood, and whether or not - you know, obviously, our friends in Israel are very occupied with this and very concerned with this. They're not sure where this is all going to go.
I was struck, though, by one thing I heard in the last couple of days. I haven't been able to shake it off. When Chris Matthews at MSNBC - who is normally, you know, obviously, not a harsh conservative. He's someone who is center-left or left, depending on your perspective, loves the Obama administration, talks about Obama giving him a thrill up his leg. He criticized the Obama administration for abandoning Mubarak, because he said that we - our human relationships, our relationships with people built up over decades, used to mean something. And he says now in the United States, all we do is, we watch things happen. We're no longer loyal to our friends.
Now, the easy retort to that is yeah, but what happens when your friend is a dictator?
IFTIKHAR: Right.
NAVARRETTE: The retort to that is, he was a dictator last week, last month and last year.
NAVARRETTE: So we've been in bed with this dictator all along. And that, I think, is a very complicated narrative that Chris Matthews has started. I can't shake it off because, I think, I don't want to be part of a country that simply waits on the sidelines for things to happen, and that's where we are.
MARTIN: Ken, what do you think about that?
RUDIN: Well, actually, I was not surprised by the resignation at all, because I knew once Mubarak took off - posted a shirtless photo of himself on Craigslist, I knew his days were over.
NAVARRETTE: That was the end. That was the beginning of the end.
RUDIN: I knew that his days were over.
MARTIN: No. No. That was a skit on "Saturday Night Live." I'm sorry.
RUDIN: But yeah, look, the obvious question is: Does Egypt become Iran following the fall of the shah, or does it become the Philippines following the fall of Marcos in '86? Does it lead to democratic rule - which it seems like the crowd in Tahrir Square is calling for - or does it turn into an Islamic republic? And that's what the United States - as Ruben says, we're sitting back and watching, and all we can do is just watch, to see what happens.
MARTIN: Jimi, what do you think about what Ruben said? I'm just curious about what you say about that. He says he doesn't want to be part of a country that sits on the sidelines. On the other hand, you know, I think Americans are very ambivalent about this, of just - about how much they really feel we should be involved in other people's affairs. I mean, obviously, we have kind of an organic, you know, visceral reaction to this.
You know, as Nick Kristof - one of the women he interviewed in Tahrir Square said to him, you know, we want what you have. We want to be able to pick our leaders. You know, we want to be able to be full citizens in our own country and have a role. But Jimi, what do you think?
IZRAEL: I think that makes sense to me, but I'm also opposed to America always playing Robocop. You know, and I think the other piece of this is - I don't know. I think there's a term for when you step down from a position and you hand the position over to your crony, I think the ancient Africans called that a puppet regime, you know...
RUDIN: Right.
IZRAEL: ...and that actually scares me more than anything. You know, I have this vision of Egypt kind of being this car, you know, speeding down the highway, and you may not like where the car is going, but somebody at least has the wheel. You don't kick him in the head and then kick him out, you know, while they're driving and then, you know, say, OK, now we're good to go. I mean, somebody's got to get a hold of the wheel and, you know, we've got to know where we're going.
MARTIN: Mm-hmm.
IZRAEL: So I don't know. I think there's a lot going on there, and I think time will have to tell if this was the move. I mean, personally, I was hoping we could wait 'til September but evidently, you know, the revolution can't wait. I'm - hey, you know, power to the people.
MARTIN: Well, yeah. Well, it's true. (unintelligible)
NAVARRETTE: Mubarak hasn't left the country. That's important. He left the city, as far as I know.
IFTIKHAR: Right. He went to...
MARTIN: Yeah. He went to Sharm El-Sheikh...
IFTIKHAR: He went to Sharm El-Sheikh...
MARTIN: ...which a lot of people will remember, because a number of diplomatic conferences have been held there.
NAVARRETTE: And he's got this big palace.
IFTIKHAR: Which is basically Egypt's version of Martha's Vineyard, you know, and...
NAVARRETTE: He's got this big palace there, and that's where he's holed up. And so, this notion somehow, the crowd is like, OK - and I really love the crowd, I've got to say, because the crowd is saying: What part of this do you not understand, OK? You don't get to call the shots. You don't get to decide the terms of your exit; we do. And I applaud them for that. But he's not listening.
MARTIN: Well, but, you know, in this country, you know, we have put all kinds of brakes on mob rule, too. I mean, let's just also be clear about that. I mean, Jimi's right, that chaos often doesn't redound to the benefit of the vulnerable. For example, I mean, at some point, people do need stability in order to grow, in order to live, in order to really live freely.
IFTIKHAR: Right. Right. But...
NAVARRETTE: Well, the British...
MARTIN: And stability and freedom to go hand-in-hand in some ways.
IFTIKHAR: Yeah but...
MARTIN: Go ahead, Arsalan.
NAVARRETTE: In 1776, the British would've called what we did here the mob rule.
MARTIN: Well, they did. It was. It was.
NAVARRETTE: Well, more power to the people.
IFTIKHAR: And let's not forget...
MARTIN: It was.
IFTIKHAR: Hosni Mubarak has had the nation of Egypt under emergency rule, as a police state, for the last 30 years. Do you know any country that's had emergency rule for a 30-year period?
NAVARRETTE: Right.
MARTIN: Yeah, but a number of countries have had kind of fake democracy - I mean, essentially, one-party democracy - I mean, Mexico being one, you know, with one-party rule, essentially, for some years; Japan, essentially one-party rule for 40 years. So there are countries that have democracy in name only.
But you know what? It's an exciting time. I mean, to be part of some - to be, you know, alive when something like this happens. When you see people - we talked to a young woman earlier in the program, and you could just hear the excitement and the joy in her voice.
IFTIKHAR: Right.
MARTIN: I mean, today is a day to...
RUDIN: Let's just see how long this excitement and joy lasts when this vacuum is filled by...
IZRAEL: Yeah.
MARTIN: Well...
IZRAEL: Car crashes are quite exciting.
MARTIN: Well, OK. Thank you for that uplifting thought, Jimi.
If you're just joining us, this is TELL ME MORE from NPR News, and we're here in the Barbershop with "Debbie Downer" Jimi Izrael...
MARTIN: ...civil rights attorney Arsalan Iftikhar, columnist Ruben Navarrette, and NPR's political editor Ken Rudin.
Well, you know - and speaking of democracy, right, that - Jimi, you know, a lot of these resignations, it's kind of interesting, right?
IZRAEL: Yeah. News from Capitol Hill. It's practically becoming a revolving door up there with a steady stream of resignations, or those who said they're not going to run again. And then there's that one forced resignation, but we'll massage that point a little bit later.
MARTIN: Oh, nice.
IZRAEL: Let's talk about - we'll talk about the antiseptic ones for now, Michel.
MARTIN: Well, yeah, there was - Ken, I'm interested in - is this kind of normal, this kind of churning? It's just interesting for a lot of people that so soon after elections, that all of these people are stepping down. Just to recount: Arizona Senator Jon Kyl, Republican, says he's going to retire after his current term. He's the fifth open Senate race of the 2012 cycle. He's the Senate's second-ranking Republican.
Earlier this week, Virginia Senator Jim Webb, Democrat, said he's out. And then congresswoman Jane Harman of Venice, California, says she's resigning her House seat, which means a special election. And then on the Republican side, what Jimi was alluding to, is Representative Chris Lee, a Republican from Buffalo. But he - well, we don't know what he's going to do next. But this was after he was busted for sending pictures of himself...
IZRAEL: He's going to Disney World.
MARTIN: ...on Craigslist. What is up with that? So is this kind of normal, sort of?
RUDIN: You're asking me what normal is? No, first of all, everything is different. The Jim Webb thing was expected. He wasn't raising money. He was kind of an odd duck. He never was very comfortable with being a senator: very serious, strong opponent to the war in Iraq - obviously, remember when he beat George "Macaca" Allen...
IFTIKHAR: That's right.
RUDIN: ...in 2006? That's what gave the Democrats their majority there. I mean - but he was never comfortable, wasn't raising money. Not a surprise.
IFTIKHAR: Right.
RUDIN: Jon Kyl is a surprise. He's the number-two ranking Republican in the Senate, very powerful, a leader among the conservatives - unlike John McCain, a fellow Arizonan, who was very - very - has a national constituency. Back home, Jon Kyl's much more popular, is much more accessible. I'm very surprised that with the Republicans likely to take the Senate back in 2012 - I mean, anything could happen, but they only need three seats to do it - three or four seats, and they probably will do it. I'm surprised that Kyl...
MARTIN: Well, he'll probably be a - but a Republican would be favored there, wouldn't it, given that politics of that state right now?
RUDIN: Yeah, the...
NAVARRETTE: Not necessarily. Not necessarily.
MARTIN: No?
NAVARRETTE: No. No. No.
RUDIN: Yeah. No Democrat has won since 1988. Janet Napolitano is talking about perhaps...
IFTIKHAR: Correct.
RUDIN: ...leaving. You know, she went from the governorship to the Cabinet to the Senate, which has happened before in different states. She's a possibility.
NAVARRETTE: Right. Right.
RUDIN: Gabby Giffords has even been mentioned. I think that's kind of crazy, a little too soon for Gabby Giffords to run statewide, but she...
MARTIN: That's the congresswoman who was...
RUDIN: Who was shot in Tucson, right, of course.
MARTIN: ...who was grievously shot in Tucson. Yeah.
RUDIN: And I think...
MARTIN: And is still recovering.
RUDIN: And the thing with Jane Harman - Jane Harman first of all, she was always on the outs with Nancy Pelosi, of course, who is no longer speaker. But Pelosi and Harman never liked each other. There's a big battle between the two California Democrats. Also, she's been...
MARTIN: So what?
RUDIN: Well, she couldn't move up. As a matter of fact, Nancy Pelosi still controls the Democrats in the House - if anybody can control the House, the Democrats in the House...
NAVARRETTE: You know, what Ken's talking about here, there's always a back story, and I love hearing what he's talking about.
RUDIN: You know, there's...
NAVARRETTE: There's always - and this idea of Jane Harman and Nancy Pelosi, that dynamic. In Virginia, you have George Allen, who said he's going to run again...
MARTIN: Yeah.
NAVARRETTE: ...and that had to have played in Jim Webb's thinking. Webb is a smart guy. He gets bored easily. He's a good writer. He's written a number of good books, and he wants to go off and do other things, I'm sure. And with Kyl, I lived in Arizona for two years during the '90s. I wasn't so surprised that Kyl left. When the rumor got out last week that Janet Napolitano was thinking about going back to Arizona, I think she could beat him, and I think that Arizona's one of those places that has Democratic pockets throughout the state, and that she could beat him. And he probably weighed that into his calculations as well.
RUDIN: And Republican Party could find itself split with the Tea Party primary as well.
IFTIKHAR: Right.
RUDIN: Jeff Flake, who's very conservative...
NAVARRETTE: Right.
RUDIN: ...may be outflanked by the right. So it's very interesting times for the Republican Party as well.
MARTIN: You know, briefly - because I do want to talk about the CPAC convention, which is a big convention of conservatives meeting here in Washington. And if we have time, we might boo-hoo a little bit over the sad tale of the Cleveland Cavaliers. Oops, sorry, Jimi.
But the Chris Lee story, you know, I know that a lot of people are sort of tut- tutting about this, but what is up with that? What is up with that - you know, sending like, pictures of yourself to some woman on Craigslist with - using your real name, lying about your marital status.
IFTIKHAR: Mmm. Right.
RUDIN: Michel, that's how you and I met.
MARTIN: So, right.
IZRAEL: Oh, no.
IFTIKHAR: Ken, please.
IZRAEL: Oh, no. Billy Martin is on line one.
NAVARRETTE: Those records are permanently sealed. No, that's not supposed to come out.
RUDIN: Thank you, Ruben.
NAVARRETTE: Family radio here.
MARTIN: Arsalan, could you please escort him out, please? Thank you.
IFTIKHAR: Well, Ken, you need to...
MARTIN: But, go ahead.
NAVARRETTE: Look, I haven't had breakfast yet. I got to picture Ken without his shirt on?
IFTIKHAR: I was going to say, Ken needs to put his shirt on first.
MARTIN: Well, Jimi, Jimi, you know what? I'm going ask Jimi a question, here.
RUDIN: Thank God for radio.
MARTIN: Do you think - I just wonder why he felt the need to resign instantly. And I do have to wonder, forgive me, whether race played a part of this, because the lady in question that he was, you know, pursuing was an African- American woman, single black female on the - was the ad. And I just - I don't know. Do you think race was a part of that? That he felt that he couldn't - that maybe he could survive it if it were one, but not the other? I don't know.
IZRAEL: I don't know if race played a part but race...
MARTIN: Ken, doesn't think so? Ken's saying no. What do you think, Jimi?
IZRAEL: I don't know if race played a part, but race certainly doesn't help. You know, it's one of those types of things. It reminds me of in "The Birdcage," where the senator is taken down because he got caught in a room with an underage black prostitute. You know, and the fact that she was under age is bad, but the fact that she's black really was kind of problem for his constituents, you know. So that said, it could...
MARTIN: Well, see, this lady was not a prostitute. I just don't want to have people think...
IZRAEL: No she wasn't.
MARTIN: ...that she's just a - she's just a single lady on - looking to, you know...
IFTIKHAR: Right.
IZRAEL: Yeah. She's...
MARTIN: ...like a - she works.
IZRAEL: Yeah. Yeah. She's a single sister wonk, you know, on Craigslist looking for a date.
MARTIN: Yeah.
IZRAEL: So all that in, I don't know what to make of it, but I think all the facts haven't come out. And I do think he resigned too quickly.
MARTIN: Well, you do.
IZRAEL: And I don't know why. I mean, I think there's more to it.
MARTIN: Because this isn't France.
IZRAEL: I think there's more to it. I think there's way more to it than this.
MARTIN: It's called the United States of America, and we don't play that.
RUDIN: Let me tell you.
MARTIN: Go ahead, Ken. Go ahead, Ken.
RUDIN: First of all, the headlines for the House Republicans have been really bad. John Boehner didn't want a distraction.
NAVARRETTE: Right.
RUDIN: He didn't want what's going on in the Senate with John Ensign, that's been going on for years...
NAVARRETTE: Boehner forced him out. Boehner forced him out.
RUDIN: ...or David Vitter. He wanted him out. He didn't want another distraction.
NAVARRETTE: Right. Absolutely.
MARTIN: OK, fine. Ken, we only have a minute left but, you know, CPAC is here - big conservative convention. What's the significance of that? I do think it's interesting that, you know, the keynoters here are all officeholders, unlike last time, when they were the talk show hosts: Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh.
RUDIN: And of course, everybody's talking about the people who are not here, like Sarah Palin and you know, people like that. But look, the Republicans - the conservatives are very anxious for the 2012 race to get under way. It has not started yet, and they really want to see who these would-be presidents are. For all their talk about how beatable Barack Obama is, the president's numbers are - have jumped up considerably since the November elections, and the Republicans seem to be flailing. So they really - the Republican conservatives really want to see this - their world turned back - right side up, and they want to - they're looking to see who the possible candidate will be, at the CPAC convention.
MARTIN: And finally - because I know Jimi is kind of all choked up about this - Arsalan, what happened to the Cleveland Cavaliers, who have like, what is it, in the history books now for the longest losing streak...
IFTIKHAR: Yeah.
MARTIN: ...in the...
NAVARRETTE: Curse! I curse thee.
IFTIKHAR: It's - you know, the Cleveland Cavaliers are a sad, cautionary tale in sports. When the - LeBron James, you know, left, they went from a title contender to the Bad News Bears. You know, they've lost 26 consecutive games now and...
NAVARRETTE: Right. Wasn't the owner the one who said that LeBron was going to take his curse with him to Miami?
MARTIN: Oh, dear.
IFTIKHAR: Yeah, in that crazy...
NAVARRETTE: Now that he's doubled down and left it in Cleveland, I love it.
MARTIN: Oh, well. I guess not. All right.
Arsalan Iftikhar is the founder of themuslimguy.com. He was here with us in our Washington, D.C., studio along with Ken Rudin, NPR's political editor.
MARTIN: Ruben Navarrette's a syndicated columnist who writes for the Washington Post Writers Group and CNN.com. He was with us from San Diego. And Jimi Izrael is author of the book, "The Denzel Principle." He was with us from member station WCPN in Cleveland.
Thank you so much, guys.
IFTIKHAR: Peace.
RUDIN: Craigslist.
NAVARRETTE: Thank you.
IZRAEL: Yup, yup.
MARTIN: And that's our program for today. I'm Michel Martin, and this is TELL ME MORE from NPR News.
Let's talk more on Monday.
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Thank you for the reply! Looking forward to it
One of my readers say they suddenly can't use the free coins earned from ads to tip with; only buy keys. Have you changed something, or is this a common bug? I've noticed a drop in tips, so when I heard this from them it kind of worried me.
According to their Tweet, it's intentional. Free bonus coins can't be used for tipping; only earned or bought coins will work.
I saw that; but my reader claimed they couldn't use EARNED coins...
They might be mistaken which coins are earned and which are promotion gift coins, since both get lumped into a user's coin purse. The only time you see the gift coins separated from the rest of the coins is when tipping creators. In the tipping screen the gift coins are subtracted from the total coins a person has.
It is sorta confusing.
I was thinking that could be the case but they straight up said they kept watching ads but couldn't tip with the coins... I haven't heard ANYONE ELSE mention this issue though.
Did the adds we can watch in a row increase? o.o While drawing I realised I've been 'watching' ads for over an hour now and earned a lot coins in a row. Which is great since I really like tipping others too, but my ads don't seem to run out. Before I could watch 15 ads or so before I had to wait until the cooldown was over. Is this a change and intentional? Or did my app bug out? xD
The ads have increased, it's not a bug
yay that's awesome xD good to know, thanks! time to toss out coins >:D
I asked also to add this feature on my webcomic. I'm simply waiting for my turn to be read ...
But, @michaelson , why to limit this feature on mobile users only? Let also desktop users to be able to gain coins by watching ads then to spend them by tipping favourite artists ... I spend more time on a desktop computer than on the mobile, and I think that more people are the same.
I'm just gonna quote @cyndifoster to answer your question since she covered it pretty well!
PLUS, actually the traffic through the app actually far surpasses the website from what I understand. Maybe not creator wise, but just reader wise, there are more people downloading the app than using the site, which is why it's often prioritized.
For you guys with tipping activated, how were you notified when tipping was enabled for you? I sent an email last week and I'm not sure if I should be waiting for an email reply or a notification or what.
I got an email back, but I think you can check for yourself by going to your dashboard. If tip is enabled, you should be seeing an area for Tips, just like for Performance/ Ads.
I think most people have been getting e-mails back when it's activated. I did just double check your account on the app anyway though and it's not activated yet on your account.
Thanks for checking :'D
Will tipping be turned on for everyone eventual? It would really help me grow on this site. I've noticed allot of bigger accounts with it, and some semi popular accounts.
Sent the email asking for it, but I'm not sure if its ok to just spam him into turning it on. That wouldn't feel right.
There's only one person activating each person individually for the entire site, so he is working on it as fast as he can. There's been no priority for popular comics, it's just first come, first serve. : )
He will let you know when it's been turned on! Some people have waited for over a week I believe, there is just a very long line.
I am late on the game and just found out about this tipping feature from one of January's daily snack.1) How does a comic author activate this for their comic? 2) Can the coins you get from the giveaways be used to tip artists? I tried sending some to The Pigeon Gazette and they didn't get chucked there.
To activate tipping, you should contact Michael at email@example.com no, coins from giveaways do not work- only coins that you buy or earn through watching ads ( :
Well, I don't have a PDA so I guess I can't support people.
... though I guess people too poor to afford that prolly shouldn't be giving away money... LOL


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Back in my last semester of school, I started modeling a lolita character named Claire for my video game design class. The model wasn't necessary, but just something I wanted to do to go along with the game design concept. (For more on that project, you can check out the blog I was keeping for class: http://projectlolita.blogspot.com/ )
Anyway, I never finished the model so I decided to start working on it again. Here's some screenshots of what I did tonight. It's not a whole lot different, but I was working on refining the nose and mouth, since previously they were visible from the profile view but not the front. These parts are a pain.
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The Dutch punish Malta
The difference between two sides able to play an excellent brand of rugby was simply the size and strength of the Dutch team
By Mike Turner
Malta 10 - Netherlands 33
They started with the obvious intent of charging and driving and were soon encamped in the Malta half. However their tactics were made more effective by silly errors which gave away possession and territory. After a series of driving attacks they opened the score with a lovely grub kick from Carrol slipped behind the Malta line for Van der Velden to score, Mambo converted. This spurred Malta into response and they began to use their backs to gain territory. A feature of the match was that Holland were consistently offside in the backs which allowed them to stifle the danger from Malta. Another sad feature was that the normally consistent O'Brien was right off form with his place kicking and missed every attempt. By contrast Mambo kicked all but the last one.
Malta won good ball at last in the Dutch half and with slick handling and a fine dummy Davey scored the best try of the match. THE Dutch continued to possess and charge and kicked at the corners. Their next try was simply a drive over after head down charges. The referee then disallowed a brilliant Malta try after Kirk had burst through at an angle. Netherlands came back and Van Vliet scored in the corner after the cover was too slow. The full back should really have stopped him.
Malta came back to kick into the corner but seemed too eager and made mistakes to lose opportunities. At the change-over the Dutch led by 21-5.
Malta came out determined and eager for the second half and the backs immediately imposed themselves on the game, with Kirk scoring a superb try for Malta and they were right back into the match . Unfortunately they made crucial errors through over anxiety, such as wild passing and holding on, and even though Quarendon made a superb break, he ran back into trouble away from support. The same happened two or three times, and the opportunity to make a massive come back was lost. The Malta backs were right on top except for the final killer scores, and the forwards were getting the better in the loose. Aided by the offsides Netherlands kept them at bay. Then a poor kick by O'Brien gave ground and Netherlands scored again by close driving, to stretch out to 26 points. Malta were still the better side in all but scoring until a horrible mess up near their line gave away another penalty and there was no cover at all for Mambo to score completely unmarked. The Maltese team just seemed to be totally confused the decision and stood still..
One area in which the Dutch really were superior wa in ball stealing in the rucks, time and agin they won ball which should have been Malta's and Van der Vliet was the king of this.
For Malta, Schranz, Deguara, the Apsee brothers deserve special mention but they were just not big enough to rock the solid Dutchmen.
All in all an entertaining, high standard game of rugby, shame about the result; a match Malta could have won, but they are a young side with a big future.


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BUIES CREEK, N.C. - Stevi Johnson's two-run home run and a dominant performance by the Charleston Southern defense led the No. 5 Buccaneers past No. 4 Liberty on Thursday afternoon in the first round of the 2015 Big South Softball Championships, 4-3.
CSU's defense helped Bucs starter Jennifer Giles (14-15) out of three bases-loaded jams in the contest as Liberty stranded 12 runners on base in the game in the loss. Charleston Southern advances into the winner's bracket on Friday afternoon and will play the winner of No. 1 Longwood/No. 9 Gardner-Webb at 2 p.m. at Amanda Littlejohn Stadium. The game will be streamed live via the Big South Network.
The Bucs defense helped CSU's senior ace inside the circle as Giles struggled with a bout of wildness in closing out CSU's fifth straight Big South postseason win. CSU went 4-0 last year on their way to winning the 2014 Big South Championship and the program's first NCAA Tournament berth.
Liberty plated two runs in the bottom of the first and appeared to have control of the game behind starter Chandler Ball (19-11), before Johnson broke up the Liberty ace's no-hit bid with a two-run shot in the top of the fourth inning to tie the game up at 2-2.
"In tournament time you know you are going have high pressure situations and today we lost in most areas of the game except for one, the final score," said CSU head coach Shane Winkler. "We got a couple great defensive plays. Offensively, Stevi Johnson with the homerun got us on the board and going. Like I said, we didn't win in many areas but we won in the final score, and that is the one that really matters."
Brook Richardson, Georgi DeLio, Stephanie Bergmann and Natalie Yonan all had key defensive plays for the Bucs with Richardson making the diving catch on a line drive to left field, while Bergmann and Yonan made a pair of great throws to end the Liberty threat in the fourth. DeLio, making her first collegiate start at third base in the game, ended the Flames bases-loaded threat in the sixth by back-handing the grounder down the line, stepping on third and throwing across to first to complete the double play.
"We hope that today got the nerves out a little bit," Winkler said about his team's performance. "Giles is going keep getting the ball. The big thing she is that she didn't give up a big hit; that's the key. Either way we are going play a good team rest of the way in the winner's bracket. The nerves are hopefully gone and continue to play aggressive and keep the pressure on our opposing team."
Liberty jumped ahead of the Bucs early after Ball set CSU down in order in the top of the first. Tori Zavodny doubled down the left field line to put runners on second and third with two outs. Madison Kotchey followed with a single to right, driving in Megan Robinson and Zavody to put the Flames up 2-0.
The Flames threatened to add to their lead in both the second and third innings, loading the bases against Giles in both frames, but both times the CSU defense stepped up. Johnson ended the Liberty threat in the second, corralling the line drive from Kelby Allen for the final out in right field, while Giles caught Blair Lawrence looking at strike three to end the third.
Brook Richardson was the first CSU runner to reach base, drawing a one-out walk in the top of the third, but the Bucs offense was not able to break through until Johnson's at-bat in the fourth inning. Johnson worked a 2-0 count before drilling a two-run home run to straightaway centerfield, scoring Marci Christian, to even the game. It was Johnson's second Big South postseason home run as the sophomore connected on her first collegiate home run last year in the first round matchup of the 2014 Big South Championships against Longwood.
DeLio kept the CSU offense going with a one-out walk. Cierra Robinson came in to pinch run, stealing her sixth base of the season to put a runner in scoring position with two outs, and Brittany McPherson followed with an RBI single down the left field line to give the Bucs their first lead of the contest.
CSU added to their lead in the fifth as Matsumoto reached on a bunt single. The errant throw on the play sailed down the right field line allowing her to reach second. After Christian drew a walk, Johnson dropped a sacrifice bunt to move both runners into scoring position. Bergmann followed with the scoring hit in the frame, dropping an RBI single down the left field line to double the CSU lead.
Liberty put runners in scoring position in the sixth, but DeLio's double play kept the Flames at bay.
The Flames mounted one final rally in the seventh with Zavodny and Kotchey connecting on back-to-back singles to open the frame. A sacrifice bunt moved both into scoring position where Jamie Crisp brought in Zavodny on a groundout to second. After Giles issued a walk to Mickey Loveridge, the CSU senior got Lawrence to ground out to Bergmann at short to end the contest.
Giles went the distance for her 14th complete game of the season. She scattered eight hits and pitched her way around eight walks, striking out four in the tournament victory.
Ball went the distance for the Flames, allowing four hits and four runs, walking six and striking out six in the loss.


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Siwan (Bihar): A total of 150 cartons of country-made liquor were seized and one person was arrested in this connection today from a market place under Guthni police station area in Siwan district, police said.
Acting on a tip off, the police intercepted a four wheeler at Guthni Bazar and seized 150 cartons, each containing 24 bottles of country-made liquor.
The liquor consignment which was brought from Uttar Pradesh to Bihar, which was declared a dry state in April, police said.
One person who was in the vehicle was arrested.


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I've been kinda out of it for a while, what with college and my lack of good study habits. My anime watching has slowed, but I'll still try to put out posts every now and then. I actually have a review in progress, but am struggling to really assess it, so I'll put this out first. Today, we look at Gekkan Shojo Nozaki-Kun: Monthly Girls Nozaki.
The Story: At Chiyo Sakura's school, almost all of her friends know the name Sakiko Yumeno. She's a popular manga artist known for her monthly story "Let's Fall in Love." Critics praise her artwork and her perfect depiction of a young girl in love. Chiyo herself loves the manga and keeps a collection of it in her room. She also happens to be crushing hard on a boy in her class who barely knows she exists. His name is Umetarou Nozaki, and he has a job, though there, he goes by a different name: Sakiko Yumeno. Nozaki follows the story of Sakura, Nozaki (the character will not be italicized, but the name of the show will), and a host of other characters as they help him write his manga.
This is a show built in a similar way to No Game No Life. Its purpose is not to tell a story. Rather, it's about having fun. Nozaki is just a series of little skits and vignettes that rarely, if ever, connect to each other. The show rarely takes itself seriously and the audience isn't supposed to either. This is a show that you can just watch, laugh, and have a good time with.
Of course, that means that Nozaki better do a good job entertaining you, and it does. To an extent. The biggest problem I had with Nozaki was that its humor got repetitive. It was funny the first few times, but then it got predictable. Every now and then, there would be something different, but it kept relying on the same comedic devices over and over again. It's a cute story, but that only gets you so far. Nozaki's goal is to entertain its audience and only partially succeeds.
The Characters: The characters of Nozaki are unlike anything I've ever seen. Many of them have these these strange mixes of personality quirks and traits that I've not seen in any other anime characters. However, innovation for innovation's sake does not always produce great characters and you'll see that in this show
Chiyo Sakura: Sakura's probably the sanest person in the show. While she's not crazy or something new, she provides a bit of consistency and sanity to a show where the characters are anything but. She might not be the most interesting character, but she's grounding and prevents Nozaki from getting too out of control. While a driving force behind her character is her feelings for Nozaki, the two's relationship isn't addressed much until the second half, which means the two are deprived of some needed development.
Umetarou Nozaki: Nozaki is one of those strange characters. He's the dense protagonist taken to ridiculous extremes. While many dense protagonists will be oblivious to someone's feelings, Nozaki is oblivious to many social situations in general. Between him and Sakura, Nozaki's a more interesting character, but, like his personality, he can get a little dull. Like Mikoshiba (see below), it takes some time before he gets to be a better character as the show starts to explore his relationships with Sakura more. He needed those relationships explored for him to grow more as a character.
Mikoto "Mikorin" Mikoshiba: It's difficult to talk about Mikoshiba because out of all the characters, he's the least consistent. He is potentially the most and least enjoyable character in the entire show. When he's on point, he's on point, but if he's not being funny, he's extremely annoying. Unfortunately, it's really not until late in the series that he becomes really good; there was a time when I considered stopping the show because I couldn't handle Mikoshiba, but he did redeem himself.
Final Verdict: Monthly Girls Nozaki is in a weird spot for me. It tried really hard. It had its moments and partially achieved its goal of entertaining its audience. However, it didn't do the best job. Its comedic devices became overused and its unorthodox characters, while commendable, fall flat and can also become annoying. At the same time, I had fun with the show. I can't say I recommend it, but I think it might be worth looking at. I guess what I'm trying to say is that you're not going to get a great comedy show, but sometimes, it's worth sticking with the anime despite its flaws.
Final Grade: B-/C+


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New Horizons: Rendezvous With Pluto
Who would have thought that just 85 years after the discovery of Pluto, the New Horizons space probe would scream past it.
Pluto has always been considered the last outpost of the Solar System and now we've finally sent some amazing, nuclear powered technology there to check it out.
Since its discovery, Pluto has always been considered the ninth planet from the Sun. However, after the recent discovery of a another object called Eris which is much, much further away than even Pluto is, the designation of 'dwarf planet' came into being which included both Pluto and Eris, along with other bodies such as Ceres, Haumea and Makemake.
"Officially we now have only eight major planets in the Solar System!"
There is a lot of argument about the size of Eris compared to Pluto so the debate continues, although some of these questions will get answered on 14th July 2015 when the NASA's New Horizons spacecraft makes its closest approach of this mysterious little rock.
New Horizons was launched on 19th January, 2006 from Cape Canaveral. After a swift encounter with an asteroid, the spacecraft flew onto Jupiter getting a massive gravitational assist from the huge gas giant, flinging it into the outer Solar System at 58,536 Kilometres per hour.
Once past Jupiter, New Horizons was put into hibernation mode for the rest of it's 7.5 Billion kilometre journey, finally being woken in December, 2014 for course corrections and to check out it's systems ready for the encounter this coming Tuesday.
Pluto has a really interesting system of moons!"
We've known about its moon Charon for a while now. Both Pluto and Charon are tidally locked together and many scientists consider the system to be a twin dwarf planet because of this.
Charon was only discovered in 1987 (on my birthday! I was 11 at the time), Nix and Hydra were found in 2005, Kerberos in 2011 and Styx in 2012. The Hubble Space telescope made a major contribution to these discoveries.
Some of the moons in the Pluto system seem to have chaotic orbits and it must have been challenging for the team behind New Horizons to plot the right course through the system to maximise their visibility and reduce danger to the probe.
Some theorists say that these minor moons are captured asteroids and other think they were formed in a big strike on an early Pluto, similar to how our own Moon was formed.
Whatever they are, we're getting closer and closer and at the time of writing, New Horizons is on target and preparing for it's rendezvous in Tuesday. I've included a short video below about the mission and there's a long one linked to at the bottom of this blog post.
Facts & Figures about Pluto:
It has mountains of ice as high as the Rockies
It has a diameter of 2,370km (+- 20km)
It has 5 moons: Charon, Hydra, Nix, Kerberos and Styx
It takes 246.04 Earth years to complete a full orbit
it has a surface temperature of -229°C
What a fascinating little world Pluto is!
As New Horizons is so far away now, all of the observations are pre-programmed. We can't slow it down enough to put it in orbit, so it will go whizzing by at a fair old rate of knots. In fact, New Horizons is the fastest man made object ever built and will eventually overtake Voyager when it passes through the Kuiper Belt, the Oort Cloud and finally off into interstellar space.
So what will the spacecraft tell us? Quite a lot actually, as it has many different types of instrument on board all waiting to do science then report back. But it will take time to get all that information back to us. 18 months in fact! That's because of the distance of the spacecraft to us and because of that we only get a data reception rate of around 1Kb per second via NASA's Deep Space Network.
In today's fibre enabled world that seems incredibly slow and we'd almost expect to hear a modem chirping away as we connect to it to send and receive data, but the science will be well worth the wait.
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From Pluto, New Horizons will fly on for an as yet undetermined rendezvous with a Kuiper Belt object although planners now have a number of candidates they're thinking about.
Will we find other bodies similar to Pluto far out in the depths of the Solar System? We already know about Eris, so what else lurks in the darkness?
Can New Horizons make it through the Kuiper Belt and eventually into the Oort Cloud?
I really hope this plucky little probe will make some amazing discoveries both this week and in years to come.
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Friendship is a type of relationship based on the personal relations that are grounded in each friend's interest and self-benefit. My paper will be about the nature of friendship, the value and justification of friendship, and today's view of friendship. I am not only writing this paper for a grade, but also for a better understanding of friendships in my own. By studying sources from Hobbes and the Haudenosaunee, I will be discussing different types of friendships that I have experienced. My point
Cicero: Laulius de Amictia "On Friendship" In present time, a friendship is often known to be a valuable thing in life, a friend is a gift that is cherished for those who have good friendships. A friendship is shown in various ways and has different meanings a friend is a friend who is someone outside your family who you can trust and rely on. In history there have been alliances between countries, in which it could have extended to having an acquaintance or even as a friendship agreement between leaders
In the passage, "The Waltz of Sociability: Intimacy, Dislocation and Friendship in a Quebec High School", author Vered Amit-Talai discusses the usual occurrence of routine friendship on adolescence to adulthood in the Western culture. Amit-Talai takes a different approach than the anthropologists and sociologists in how they view the impermanence of friendship in young peer, their notion assumes that friendships are temporary in their nature and that their termination is natural in "life cycle development"
In Khaled Hosseini's novel, The Kite Runner, friendship is a recurring theme that is both important and vital to the story because it helps Amir rid himself of guilt and be good again, teaches Sohrab how to trust, and allows Amir and Hassan, as well as Baba and Ali, to be friends although they are on two completely different social levels. Amir, the protagonist in this novel, tells the story of his life from a young oblivious boy to a man who finally has his life figured out. At a
maintenance. In "Isolated by the Internet", Stoll explores some of the effects this change from primarily face to face interaction to text based interaction has on people's emotions. Stoll poses the theory: "The overwhelming majority of online friendships simply aren't deep. One participant 'appreciated the e-mail correspondence she had with her college age daughter, yet noted when her daughter was homesick or depressed, she reverted to telephone calls to provide support'" (Stoll 650). Stoll expresses
Long-distance friendships have been categorized under relationships that often run into failure. Many disregard the ability for these relationships to maintain strength; therefore, many fail to pay attention to these friendships, allowing themselves to assume that they will simply not work out. There are many scholarly journals that focus on studies done comparing geographically close friendships and long-distance friendships. These journals are able to bring attention to the ways in which the studies
RULES OF FRIENDSHIP. 'And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul. And Saul took him that day, and would let him go no more home to his father's house. Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul. And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him, and gave it to David, and his garments, even to his sword, and to his bow, and to his
PHENOMENOLOGY OF FRIENDSHIP Submitted by: Submitted to: Ana Marie Nicole Tan Santos Prof. El Mithra M. Delacruz, PhD AB - Production Design PHILOMA H26 June 06, 2013 Ana Marie Nicole Tan Santos Prof. El Mithra M. Delacruz, PhD AB- Production Design PHILOMA H26 June 06, 2013 Phenomenology of Friendship "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." - Jim Morrison It is very important
What is friendship? Friendship is a relationship between one person and other, that he/she likes. He/she treat them special and better than other that he/she does not like. of Friendship helps people connect each other. It can bring people the joy of sha ing secrets and shoving problem when they can not talk to another person. Friendship can fall into three kinds: true friendship, deceitful friendship, and self-conceited friendship. First of all, true friendship is the real meaning of caring
The Beauty of Building Friendships Friends are people whom one knows and with whom one has a bond of mutual affection, typically exclusive of sexual or family relations. Through different stages of our lives, life has given us the opportunity of encountering with phenomenal human beings, however, others not so much. Through these people, there is so much that we can embrace from; it could be to enrich our persona or unfortunately deteriorate it. Indeed, friends are siblings God never gave
Loyalty and Friendship in Othello The play Othello, written by William Shakespeare is a play that takes place on the streets of Venice. Othello is a highly esteemed general in the service of Venice. Iago is Othello's ambitious friend. Othello promotes the Michael Cassio to the position of personal lieutenant and Iago is deadly jealous. Iago begins an evil and malicious campaign against the hero. Othello elopes with Desdemona but Iago starts to plot against them. Othello becomes jealous and suspicious
There are three types of friendship: utility, pleasure, and true friendship. Utility is when the friendship is formed because both parties or one party fulfills a specific use or need to the other party. For example, students at Gonzaga who have the same major often form study groups with each other in order to improve their grades. However, there are situations where only one party benefits from the friendship of utility. Case in point, I knew some girls in my dorm last year who did not have a car
Do you feel like friendships are overrated? Would you rather just spend your time alone or with your family? I am one of those people who prefers to be alone and spend time doing my own things, but that doesn 't mean I don 't value my friendships! I understand exactly how important friendships are in life, and I don 't take them for granted because I can clearly see their value. If you can 't see the real value in them, following are some friendship quotes that should help you realize just how
way we live in a negative or positive way. Friendships is the unit that many look to in their times of need, for advice, or just someone to talk to in general. However in this world these "friendships" that exist "overlook philia, the slower-burning and longer lasting complement" (Akst 84). Askt brings about the idea of all of the "friends" that one may have but the friendship that we possess is "diluted" and will not fulfill the true meaning of friendship being "uniquely suited to fill the void because
Friendship and Enmity Friendship and Enmity is a very important subject to write about. As everyone in this life meets his friends and maybe make enemies. Friendship is a social relation between two persons or more, they have something in common to share .On the other hand enmity is a word that expresses hate and harm. But here we will speak about the friendship and enmity in William Blake's poem "A POISON TREE" . In this poem Blake spoke about the difference between relations with his friends
Development of Friendship Between Roommates The study of relationship and friendship development has become a very popular subject for social psychologists in the past twenty years or more. Social exchange processes, equity, similarity and self-disclosure (which was constructed by social penetration theorists Irwin Altman and Dalmas Taylor), are presupposed to be the main route to relationship and friendship development. According to the article "Development of Friendship Between Roommates"
Just as all relationship types, friendship develops in stages: acquaintanceship, buildup, continuation, deterioration, and ending. Friendships do not necessarily move through all of the stages. For instance, attraction and communication are factors that help move a friendship from acquaintanceship to buildup. People often underrate the importance of friendships, but they are strongly correlated with life satisfaction. Healthy friendships are linked with increased coping ability and greater self-esteem
Some of the best friendships are between you and someone you may have disliked at one time. At least that's the case for me. I hated my best friend Victoria for the longest time when we were younger. There was no reason for me to dislike her either. I just did, and she was well aware of it. One day she came up to me at recess and even asked me why I didn't like her, and my response was, "I just don't." This went on for quite a few years, until one year we played volleyball together. She was the first
There are many different types of friendships. There are some that are short lived and some that are long lasting. For me, I've had several people that have come and gone throughout my life. However, there is one friendship that has lasted for 14 years. The person who has made this happen is Jennifer. She is my partner in crime and friend for life. Our friendship officially began in the third grade. However, before we became the best of friends, she told me that in second grade, she used
methods such as structured questionnaires. Much of the research looks into meeting new people rather than the quality of the relationship with those that we do meet and become friends with. More research could be done to investigate good quality friendships at university and academic success. Jasmine works 3 days a week at a youth club that helps keep young people off the streets and out of trouble. Some research suggests that holding down a job while attending university can significantly reduce the
Friendship Friendship is a very meaningful word, which almost everyone knows a thing or two about. Many people also have their own opinion on it as well, since there can be many forms of friendship. Being a friend can mean a lot more than just being nice to someone. A friend is someone with traits as you, someone that be there for you when there's a problem and someone that can be trusted. Many valuable things come and go in life but friendship may be one of the most important. Having a brotherhood
anymore. But all of those relationships, good and bad, have shaped who I am today and each have taught or showed me something different about friendship. For that reason all of the hurt, trials, and stress those relationships brought to my life was all worth it. It's so important to surround you with people that care and love you. The effects of friendship are truly everlasting. For my 12th Birthday I had a party at my house with my closest friends at that time. Looking at the picture above I
Toxic Friendships: Harmful Friends Unhealthy Relationships There are many definitions of what a friend is or is considered to be. But a friend is generally known as a person whom one knows, likes, and trusts (freedictonary.com). And when someone chooses a friend, they ordinarily enter into a friendship with another person. Because people tend to have different personalities, there are different types of friends that can develop. The friendships that we build with
stick together, stressing the importance of true friendship. Steinbeck wrote this book to tell us how important it is to have a friend to share your life with. The book starts off set in Soledad, which, when translated into English means "lonely". But when Lennie and George are together, they are anything but lonely. They share a friendship so great that if either person dies, or both are separated, the other could not survive. Steinbeck shows us that their friendship is a true one, where they share
for in a friend include respect, authenticity, trust, interdependence, similarity, and emotional support. All of which can be exemplified at first interactions, but sometimes become obsolete over time, further leading to issues. My reflection on friendships will focus upon the loss of trust and respect I once felt for people I attributed these qualities towards. I will also give insight as to how my respect and interdependence for an individual lead to it being reciprocated and later transformed into
Friendship is not something that has adapted overtime. The desire to seek out and surround us with other human beings, our friends, is in our nature. Philosophers such as Aristotle infer that friendship is a kind of virtue, or implies virtue, and is necessary for living. Nobody would ever choose to live without friends even if we had all the other good things. The relationship between two very different young boys, Bruno and Shmuel's in the film The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is an example of the
Emily Bronte published "Love and Friendship" in 1846. Love is a temporary feeling because love is conditioned but friendship is not. Love happens very quickly because when one is in love, it is as beautiful as wild rose briar. However, friendship takes time to build, therefore friendship is strong like holy tree. Emily Bronte used metaphors to compare love with "wild rose-briar" and friendship as the "holy tree" suggested that love can be such as pretty as a rose but does not last long like a holy
This essay discusses what hunter-gathers are and how it fits with a band organization, what life was like for Bushmen and the role of kinship and friendship, and the safety nets formed by the Ju/'hoansi people. I will evaluate the definitions of these types of groups, and what they are made up of. I will give examples of how the interwoven ties aid in survival. More specifically, I will give examples from the Bushmen of South Africa Kalahari desert area known as the Ju/'hoansi. First, hunter-gatherers
The Controversy of "Friendship" The word "friendship" is a generic term, yet it is a topic with much controversy over its precise nature. Over the years, society has become misguided by materialistic and superficial values, and we've defined ourselves as "individuals" while disconnecting from everyone and everything. Friendship no longer carries significant philosophical importance to us because we live in a world where individualism predominates. Dawn Powell's "Big Night" accurately depicts a
Online Friendships The Internet in this day and age is larger than ever. A person can connect with someone from across the world with just the click of a button and this technology has caused people to not only connect, but form close relationships with people they would have never had the chance to meet before. This raises the question, is befriending people you meet online safe? Talking to people you meet over the Internet can actually be beneficial to many teens and, especially in shy or anxious
when cell phones first came out, to this now social media dominated world, I have discovered by means of trial and error how I view my life and they things I want in my life. I have also come to understand the value of money and the true importance of friendship. Learning about the value of money is something that one has to learn on their own. Growing up my father had a military job and my mother was a stay at home mom. As a child I thought we were rich. We didn't have an elaborate lifestyle, but
Friendships Friendship is something that many people have at a job or at school. Most friendships start with an interpersonal relationship with one another. Many friendships like to have a mutually productive thought with each other and give mutual positives regard. If you never have any talk to with one another more than one time, and to start with a mutual positives comment is something that you want to give to each other. It a good start to make a friend. Your friend can give you and stimulation
What is the nature of friendship? This is a question that many philosophers have attempted to answer. The ancient Greek philosopher, Aristotle, examines this question and theorizes about the concept of friendship in his work Nicomachean Ethics. Friendship is the "cement of society and extends throughout the human race". It is clear from Aristotle's writings that he believes that friendship is a necessary part of achieving happiness and should be highly valued. In Book VIII of Nicomachean Ethics,
Catello ENG 1010 P04 August 22, 2012 Classification of types of Friendships Acquaintances Best Friends Casual Relationships Colleagues Comrades Fair Weather Friends Internet Friends Open Relationships Pen Pals Soul Mates The word friend has been used as a verb in the English language since the early 15th Century. The term comes from German origin and has existed since the founding of Old English. The word friendship is one of its derivatives' that is used to indicate supportive and
be extremely trying. Yet, it's necessary to having a successful friendship. A majority of friendships aren't successful, causing life lessons to be taught by my poorly chosen friendships. Though, I have been presented with several hard knocks in the realm of friendship, such is that of human nature. All of the trials and challenges that friendship has presented me, has given me the experience to know that, I truly value friendship. Friendship's meaningful to me, because having been friendless,
There 's not a single human who can live by himself in this world. No one can survive and overcome the barriers in his way without experience, knowledge and the need to another human being 's support. People have a great need to that bond of friendship for their social development as well as succeed in creating a greater version of themselves. Once a person is aware of the reality and becomes conscious of what life has for him coming ahead, he is obliged to carry on the responsibilities and pressures
Friendship synthesis essay "I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light."(Keller). Frienship is associated with the fundamental human need to be social. Although friendship transcends social class, it is important to know that different friendships form in in different societal contexts. This obviously means that there are many different perception of friendship and it roles. Although the essay generalizes the term friendship it is imperative to understand that different
need is you to listen. Is that okay? Alright. Let's start. Friendship Over Love *Is this phrase, hits you? If not, maybe you haven't experienced it yet. But if yes, how did you overcome with this? Did you choose between the two? Or you just did something to let them stay in your life? Okay. *First slide ppt* *All of us had friends, right? Best friends, close friends, barkada, tropa or whatever name we call our friends. Friendship is a certain bond between two or more people. Like acquaintances
Without friends no one would choose to live (Aristotle). Although there are a few controversy views on friendship across many generations friendships develop in our early stages of life. Our most prominent friends are while we are smaller such as close family members or even more relatable, our siblings. To further define friendship is the conduct of friends and a union between individuals. Friendships serves as therapeutic value (Kaiser 2012). They are there to be supportive and give guidance. Friends
The value of friendship some say is lost. Some even say a long lasting friendship does not last these days, although just finding a good friend is hard to do because you need a lot of support from one another in a long lasting friendship and a long lasting friendship take a lot of hard work also. I have to say that they are wrong because that changed for me thirty-nine years ago in the Third Grade. It was the year 1977; I was attending Langdon Elementary School in Washington, DC. It was my second
There are many friendships that each individual goes through in their life period. Some are long, some are very short lived, and some are more complicated than imaginable. Every familiarity is different, but at the same time they are all the same. There are three categories that friendships can be sorted into: utility, pleasure, and goodness. Each friend can be described as at least one of these categories; sometimes it may be hard to tell, and other times it may be as clear as glass. Forrest Gump
Gilgamesh: A Story of Motivation Through Friendship In the story "Gilgamesh", multiple scribes describe a tale in Uruk of how an arrogant king changes after experiencing moments of great proportion through friendship. Gilgamesh, a young demigod king, is abusing his right of power throughout his kingdom and is displeasing not only the citizens, but the gods as well. To tame Gilgamesh, the gods create companion Enkidu as a form of checks and balances, as he is equal in body and mind. Gilgamesh becomes
important. The same thing applies to friendships as well, we can either maintain or let go of friends who no longer seem like a priority sometimes. Especially when getting into a major relationship when your partner becomes your whole life, leaving little to no time to manage old friendships. Also younger children who used to look only to their parents for friendship and support tend to change their preference friends instead of family as they are growing older. Friendship is a constantly evolving thing
Friendship is defined as a relationship of choice that exists over time between people who share a common history. Friends are people who we trust, someone we've shared good and bad memories with, and they're someone we look forward to spending time with. When making a friend, people who share common interests or attitudes get along easier.These are two things that influence the development of friendship. Studies have found that there are five factors that affect the development of friendship among
The Overflowing of Friendship Part One: Reading this essay I think Godbeer wanted us to see how intimate male friendships were in the past compared to now. Also learned from this essay is that society is constantly changing whether it be progressing forward or moving backwards.By this i mean, when you look at society now friendships like these are frowned upon. Because society has set the standard that men should not feel this way about another man unless they are homosexual. This is what i feel
Where would the world be without friendships? Countries have friendships with different countries due to the fact that they have the trust and support that they want. Though they usually do not last long, in politics there are friendships made in order to beat the opposing side out. There are even examples of friendship in everyday life. Some of which that could last a lifetime. For instance, if a person were to be quiet and seem as if they did not have many friends, one could invite them to the
A Case Study of Friendship -Excerpt 1 of a Memory- It was just another ordinary summer day for most, the sun was out, the sky was clear and sausages sizzled on barbecues – it was hot, and it was serene… bar the mosquitos. But for me and my friend, Jerald, it was the perfect day for what we had arranged over lunch in the playground. With our parent's collaboration, it was that Summer Saturday which was to be the first of the many times I would go over to my friend's house to play. But it was more
"The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like "What? You too? I thought I was the only one" Stated buy Lewis. It doesn't take much for a friendship to begin. Lewis states "To the ancients, Friendship seemed happiest and most fully human of all loves; the crown of life and the school of virtue. The modern world, in comparison, ignores it. We admit of course that besides a wife and family a man needs a few friends". Everyone needs a friend, when family isn't easy to communicate
Aristotle 's discussion of friendship implies his fundamental view of human beings as social beings. Even if a man had everything else like wealth, fame, virtue, and so on he still could not lead a happy life without friends. Friendship is thus a necessity for the good life in Aristotle 's view. Yet friendship in the genuine sense is not merely a superficial exchange of pleasantries; it is much deeper. While Aristotle does discuss friendships based on usefulness or on pleasure, he does not consider
Student's Name Professor's Name Course Date Nobility of Friendship Friends are what any person needs to live a complete life. To get friends, one must be living a fulfilling life since friends are a reflection of oneself. It is important to cultivate friendship because it is an essential element of happiness. Friendships are of various types, and each of them has different aspects. There are friendships that provide the material, professional, or spiritual support. Also, there are friends


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The palate appeal of this evergreen dish crosses national boundaries and age groups. Whoever has eaten Hainanese Chicken Rice, whether it was through their residence in Singapore or elsewhere – this dish is an instant magnet! During my travels in different parts of the world, I have cooked it for friends and relatives for many years. At times the chilli sauce or the black soy sauce may be a little different from those back home but its appeal has never waned.
The photo above does not show bowls of heart-warming cabbage and carrot soup that is a common accompaniment. When you cook this dish you are making a complete meal.
Jenny, Mike, George, Lauren and Charlotte – such great memories of Kuala Lumpur and then Connecticut. In honour of those lovely times, I am posting this recipe for you and your friends (like Yvonne).
Some Comments about the Ingredients
for the Chicken and the Rice
- Thai Fragrant jasmine rice. I'm afraid there is no substitute. When we lived in Tokyo in the early 2000's it was an exercise and a half to buy this type of rice so we tried Japonica short grain rice, uruchimai (粳米). It was not the same for us. Jasmine rice is softer than other types of long grain rice.
- Dark Soy Sauce. The one that is served with Chicken Rice is dark and thick. It is not Kikkoman soy sauce which is Japanese and neither it is sweet flour sauce which is used for Poh Piah (Singapore-style fresh spring rolls). Please note that locally, different brands of soy sauce will give you quite a range of viscosity and taste of dark soy sauce. Locally these brands include Tai Hwa, Tiger, Lee Kum Kee and Kwong Woh Hing.
- Chilly Sauce. There are several brands of chicken rice chilly. What you are looking for is something that is garlicky and a strong presence of ginger besides chilly. The sauce should be thick and not finely ground. A chain of local chicken rice restaurants also sell bottles of their own chilly sauce.
Measurement HINT: one rice cooker cup is equivalent to 180 ml or 3/4 US cup. White or mixed long grain rice weighs 150 gm (rounded off).
Preparation for the Rice
Wash, peel and slice the ginger, shallots and garlic. Wash and knot the pandan leaves. The jasmine rice should washed twice and drained well. Be gentle so that the rice grains do not break.
Rinsing rice prevents clumping as it removes starch; yields a clean, fresh taste. Use your hands to stir the rice in circles several times and the water will turn cloudy since this process loosens the starches in the rice. Drain away the murky water and rinse once more.
HINT: this cloudy water promotes healthy plant growth so water your plants with it!
Preparation for the Chicken
STEP 1. Wash, peel and cut the onions and carrots. Wash and cut the cabbage. Clean chicken and drain it.
(a) you will notice that I have a packet of home-made chicken stock (click here) in the photo above. My family loves the cabbage and carrot soup which is cooked using the chicken stock created from boiling the whole chicken and its feet and neck as well. This packet of stock is added into the stockpot at the end stage for making a larger serving of soup which is superb accompaniment.
(b) In place of a whole chicken, you can use whole chicken legs and breasts. Method is similar but cooking time will be shorter. It is hard to tell you precisely what it is since cooking time is very dependent on the size of the legs and breast.
Cooking the Chicken
STEP 1. Fill your large stockpot half-full with water. Add in the wedged onions, chicken feet and neck and a tsp of salt. Bring contents to full boil for 5 mins. Add in cleaned chicken.
STEP 2. Cover stockpot and once water is back to full boil, lower heat to medium low and continue cooking. The length of time is dependent on the size of the chicken. If the chicken is about 1.5 kg, the chicken should be left cooking at medium low heat for another 15 mins or so. Switch off heat and leave chicken in the stockpot for about 30 to 40 mins so that the chicken thighs are fully cooked.
STEP 4. Fill a large basin half full with cold water. Using tongs, lift chicken from stock pot, carefully drain hot stock from cavity back into stock pot, then place chicken into filled basin to cool down. Ensure cavity is filled with water too. This step yields smooth chicken skin and stops chicken from overcooking in its own heat. Do not skip this step.
Cooking the Rice
STEP 1. Heat wok over medium high heat, add 2 to 3 Tbsp of cooking oil. After oil heats up, add the ginger, garlic and shallot. Stir fry for a minute or two till a slight fragrance reaches your nostrils and they are very slightly caramelised.
STEP 2. Pour well-drained rice into the wok with the knotted pandan leaves. Stir fry for no more than 2 minutes or else the rice will break when it is cooked later on.
STEP 3. Dish the rice and aromatics into the rice cooker and add in the chicken broth. Cook according to your rice cooker's settings.
General rule of thumb about how much liquid to use. 1 ¼ cups water for each cup of long-grain rice yields firm, chewy, dry rice. Rice labelled new crop is from a fairly recent harvest, which means that it has not had as much time to dry. Because of its relatively high moisture content, it typically requires slightly less water.
The all important condiments and garnishes
To prepare the ginger sauce, peel and grate about 150 gm of fresh ginger and cook grated ginger in a small sauce pan with 3 Tbsp of cooking oil for about 3 mins.
Peel and slice half a cucumber (local or otherwise) and a large tomato. Lay them on a large serving platter and drizzle 2 tsp of light soy sauce and a tsp of sesame oil over them.
Chop the cooled chicken into bite size pieces and arrange them neatly over the sliced cucumber and tomatoes. Garnish with shredded spring onions and cilantro.
HINT: Here is a you-tube video on how to Chop a Chicken, Asian Style – https://youtu.be/MH88Ll4PcWM
Cooking the Cabbage and Carrot Soup
Cut up half of a large cabbage into large chunks and slice 2 peeled carrots. Add these into the stock pot after you have lifted out the cooked chicken. Cook these vegetables for about 15 mins to soften them. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Serve this soup in individual bowls.
- One cleaned whole Kampong Chicken (about 1.5kg)
- 1 whole large peeled onion, thinly wedged
- 600 gm long-grain jasmine rice, washed and drained
- 2 to 3 Tbsp cooking oil
- l tsp. sesame oil
Aromatics for rice
- 20 gm ginger slices, peeled
- 20 gm (4 nos) shallots, peeled and cut into quarters
- 10 gm (3 cloves) garlic cloves, peeled
- 2 pandan leaves, washed and knotted
Vegetables for Soup
- Half a medium green cabbage, washed and cut into 4 cm size pieces
- 1.5 large carrots, peeled and thickly sliced
- 2 to 3 spring onions, washed, cut into 4 cm sections and then finely shredded lengthwise
- 2 plants of fresh cilantro, washed and roughly chopped
Cooking the chicken
1. Prepare a large stockpot (large enough for chicken to sit inside) with tap water till it is abut 1/3 full, add in the wedged onions, chicken feet and neck. Start boiling and continue to boil for 5 mins after it comes to full boil.
2. When water is on rolling boil, carefully lower whole chicken into stockpot and continue boiling till water comes back to rolling boiling. Lower heat, keep pot covered but put the lid at a slight angle to let out steam. Boil chicken for another 15 min. Switch off heat and leave chicken immersed in pot for another 30 to 40 min so that the whole chicken is fully cooked (test by pricking the area between the breast and thigh).
3. Meanwhile, get a clean medium size basin or pot and half fill it with cold water. Lift chicken carefully out of stockpot but drain hot stock from its cavity into stock pot then lower it into basin of water to cool chicken and stop it from cooking further. Make sure cold water enters chicken's cavity and keep tap water slowly running as this keeps water cool. Leave chicken in water till it cools completely. Drain well and chop chicken.
Cooking the Rice
1. Heat wok over medium high heat, add 2 to 3 Tbsp of cooking oil. After oil heats up, add the ginger, garlic and shallot. Stir fry for a minute or two till a slight fragrance reaches your nostrils and they are very slightly caramelised.
2. Add rice and fry for about 2 mins. Not too long as it will cause grains to break.
3. Pour everything into rice cooker pan and add chicken broth from the stock pot in which chicken was cooked. Start rice cooker.
Cooking the Soup
1. About 15 mins before serving the meal, bring remaining stock to boil and add the cut pieces of cabbage and carrots. Cover stock pot and boil contents over medium heat till vegetables are cooked. Dish into soup bowls and garnish with some chopped spring onions.
Complete this delicious meal with dessert
Now that you have prepared a full complete meal for the family, their taste buds just require a dessert to be fully satiated! May I suggest one the following? Except for No 3, they can be prepared a day or 2 ahead and kept refrigerated.
1. Almond Jelly + Longans. Click here.
2. Coconut Jelly with Can Lychees. Click here.
3. Sweet Potato Dessert Soup. Click here.
4. Orange Agar Agar Wedges. Click here.
5. Sago Pudding. Click here.
6. Caramel Custard. Click here.


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With typical urban feel, Reason Clothing's Spring/Summer 2009 collection has a lot of woven printed shirts in different colorways. Paired with tees in loud graphic designs and some accessories, New York sidewalk vibe was felt on this Lookbook.
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