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EA are really running with this whole MySims franchise, today they've announced yet another title in the lineup. Described as a mystery adventure, this one is called MySims Agents.
The game puts players in the shoes of elite agents, tasked with foiling the plans of an evil underworld boss called "Morcubus". This will involve using gadgets and recruiting a number of different Sims into the squad, each with their own specialized skills including footprint tracking, forensics, lock picking, computer hacking.
The force is strong with this one.
EA's Tim LeTourneau commented:
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Nintendoof said:
No. EA, please stop.
Supersmashdodo said:
This has gone too far.
Mike said:
Bad EA! Bad bad bad.
LegatoSkyheart said:
How about a SIMS game? Not a game with the word "SIMS" in it.
Nova said:
Why won't Will Wright go back to games? Spare us this.
Brawler 200 said:
If EA continues to change their MySims franchise, then it is going to share a similar fate to Sonic games where SEGA continues to make sonic games that aren't based on running speed alone.
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Man, previous posters are simply ignorant. Don't have a knee-jerk reaction based on little to no data guys. As for a bonafide Sims game on a console: THEY DON'T WORK. Simply put, get a PC if you want to play Sims3. Play the cute MySims games if you have a console. Agents looks pretty, is cute as a button, and plays really well. Really enjoyable. It's like a pixar movie- accessible to kids, but still fun for adults. This is the best MySims game out yet, by far. This will have an 80+ metacritic score; I guarantee it.
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The council has spent 18 months and $485,000 trying to find a
resolution to the issues, which revolve around the safety of
the configuration of the new road.
The council originally designated some of Dunedin businessman
Doug Hall's property for the new road, before realigning the
road around his property in 2010 without notifying him.
Mr Hall has concerns about the layout of the new road, and
says it has resulted in safety issues over access to and from
his yard.
He has applied to the High Court for a review of the
council's decision to alter the original designation without
Temporary access to his property has been put in place.
The council is concerned that the ongoing lack of a permanent
resolution to the road layout is restricting the full
execution of traffic management plans for the road,
particularly the switching on of traffic lights to control
the intersection of Frederick St and Anzac Ave.
Asked why the council wanted to continue trying to reach a
resolution with Mr Hall when it had not been able to agree
with him in 18 months and had already started a new
designation process, council operations manager Tony Avery
said he had no comment to make, other than that all parties
were trying to reach a resolution.
At a hearing in late April, the council backed down and came
to an agreement with Mr Hall that the temporary arrangement
at Anzac Ave remain in place until either a new designation
was complete and Mr Hall had exhausted his appeal rights, or
there was a further order from the court in relation to any
application for an alternative temporary access arrangement.
The council had started the designation process, which was
expected to be publicly notified this month and take at least
a year.
Mr Hall said he could not comment other than to agree that
both parties were working together to find a solution.
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Either someone from the DCC/LTA read this or, in a remarkable
conincidence, someone has been out with the white paint and
addressed my concerns about the intersection. It was much
safer when I cycled through yesterday.
I did note though that the lowered 30km/h speed limit is
still posted but not observed. Will this post trigger some
enforcement? If not, the lowered limit may as well be
removed, as it is currently pointless, being so unanimously
Roadwarrior - this corner is very different and much worse
than the other two that you mentioned.
1. Travelling citybound on SH88, the barrier to separate SH88
and the entry to the Hall yard means that lane is
exceptionally narrow. Try going round there on a bike, with a
vehicle (or better yet, a truck and trailer) attempting to
pass you and not cross the centre line.
2. Because the road was re-designed to avoid the Hall yard,
it sweeps round quite sharply, providing very poor visibility
of traffic coming from Port Chalmers. This is especially
problematic for pedestrians and cyclists trying to cross SH88
from Frederick St.
3. The intersection geometry is designed for traffic lights.
This means the shape of the corner is quite different to an
uncontrolled intersection. The 'give way' line (when there is
one painted, which there is not always) is miles back from
the corner (to accommodate the pedestrian crossing that is
not there. Which means again, as a cyclist turning right from
Hanover, you have extra distance across the intersection,
with less sight of cars coming from your left. And for
pedestrians, the 'mouth' of Frederick St is widened to
accommodate the turning lanes.
These differences are quite profound when cycling. Finally,
when the temporary solution was first implemented, there was
a speed reduction to 30km/h. Which sort of helped, until
people started ignoring it, and I think it has subsequently
been removed.
I totally agree with "russandbev" - I say "Go Mr Hall"!
"Tens of millions" to buy the land? It's not sitting on a
gold seam is it? .
I completely agree with you. The price tag is
ridiculous. However, that price has been set by the DCC
in its purchases of adjacent industrial land - the stadium
and SH88 land purchases. "Ridiculous" is a word that
can be amply applied to Council's conduct (through their
staff) throughout this matter.
If the SH88 realignment had been properly designated, then
the Anzide Properties land would have had to be purchased at
the same rates - that is the process. What is more ridiculous
is that for one parcel of land in that area, there were
valuations ranging from $230,000 to $630,000 to $2.8 million,
for the same piece of land. The $2.8 million figure
there was commensurate with the values paid for other parcels
of land in that area for SH88.
What complicates the Anzide Properties situation is that the
land is freehold. Therefore any purchase under Public
Works Act must compensate the landowner not only for the
value of the land, but also for its potential. So yes,
it will be more than the GV.
The "tens of millions" price tag comprises the following:
- purchase of Anzide Properties land at market rates
- redesignation of the SH88 realignment and associated
- compensation for business disruption and lost profits,
relocation costs etc
- associated legal costs
There is no escaping redesignation - it must be done in order
to set the road on a proper legal basis.
There is no escaping purchase of the Anzide Properties land
as it is clear that the intersection cannot be made safe
while it remains as an operating facility.
I stand by my estimate of at least $10 million for the above.
The fact is that when all the land was being purchased for
the stadium, the land owners or lease holders received on
average 3 times the going rate for the land. Readers
may well recall one of those owners, John Farry's now famous
quote about his windfall as being nothing other than "a piss
in the bucket".
Those actions set a price for the land which Mr Hall should
reasonably expect to be maintained in his case. But
maybe Mr Hall is not part of the same group of very fortunate
sellers and as such received less attention.
What is way worse is that we know that despite the mammoth
bungling by the DCC in this whole sorry mess, no
accountability for actions taken will be looked into by the
DCC. The lesson to be learned obviously is that you can
muck up to your heart's content, but you will not be held
responsible. I hope Mr Hall teaches City Hall a big
"Tens of millions" to buy the land? It's not sitting on a
gold seam is it? The combined rateable value of Anzide
Properties land there is $930,000. Are you suggesting it
attracts an 1100% premium to get into the "tens of millions"
- ridiculous.
Jamesg please explain what makes this particular corner (or
intersection actually if one wanted to nitpick) so much more
dangerous than for example the next intersection to the
south, that of Anzac Ave, Hanover St and the overbridge to
the wharf area, or the roundabout to the north of the
stadium, or any other non traffic light controlled
intersection of busier roads? I can't see why this corner is
special, especially if those cyclists and pedestrians follow
road rules and use their eyes and ears and excercise due care
and self preservation, once again what makes this
intersection any different to others?
This corner is an accident waiting to happen for cyclists and
pedestrians. There is urgent need for a better temporary
solution while this is sorted out, because another 12 months
of the current temporary solution is too great a safety risk
for cyclists and pedestrians.
1. Buy the land.
2. Go through the redesignation process. Then
have to buy the land.
There is no way out of this for Dunedin City Council other
than the status quo being maintained or them having to buy
the land.
The issue for the Dunedin City Council is that they have set
high land prices through their original purchases of adjacent
land in the SH88 transactions. This means they have to
acquire Hall's land at the same prices.
Either of the options above incurs an expense to the Council
of tens of millions. No wonder they want to delay the
The staff responsible for the original process should have no
part in the continuing process. There should be a full
investigation of the SH88 transactions.
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Now it's time to add this to Gundy's bio -- he has a pretty strong Oklahoma State football team!
Strong enough to come into Faurot Field and shock misfiring Missouri 28-23. Strong enough to triple Chase Daniel's season interception total and cripple his front-running Heisman Trophy campaign. Strong enough that another Cowboys topic is worth talking about besides the Great Gundy Explosion of 2007.
He's more than just a berserk sound bite. He's more than just a YouTube staple. He's the coach of an undefeated team that's staking a serious claim to a top-10 ranking and making a serious run at breaking out of perennial second-tier status in the Big 12.
"This win ranks up there [in school history]," Gundy said. "As big as any of them on the road."
Oklahoma State hadn't beaten a top-three opponent on the road in 41 years -- not since Gundy was 2 months old. But he's lived almost all of the school's recent history.
Gundy has spent 18 of the past 23 years at Oklahoma State -- as a player, as an assistant coach and now as the boss. His team is 6-0, and the fourth-year head coach is two victories away from his most wins in a season during what previously had been a tepidly successful head-coaching tenure (18-19 career record entering 2008).
Suddenly, the Cowboys are clamoring for inclusion in the debate over which team is best in the Big 12. They have the signature win and the rubber bracelets to prove it. Several of the players wear orange bracelets inscribed with the date of the Big 12 championship game.
"We're not wearing these for nothing!" crowed hyperactive hybrid linebacker/safety Andre Sexton.
Nobody seemed to know where the bracelets came from, nor who devised them. Not even the head coach.
"I'm not sure who came up with that," Gundy said. "It would be a good story, though."
The Cowboys in general are a good story right now. They came into this game as a powerful offensive team but were considered highly suspect defensively -- until they held the high-octane Tigers to 30 points and 115 yards below their season averages.
That was enough to put a smile on the face of billionaire Oklahoma State fan Boone Pickens -- and let's face it, Mr. Stock Market hasn't had much to smile about lately. But a huge Cowboys victory coming hours after rival Oklahoma lost its No. 1 ranking? The party may rage for a week in Stillwater.
It put a smile on the face of defensive coordinator Tim Beckman, too.
"I think everyone came in expecting this thing to be a shootout at O.K. Corral," Beckman said. "What you saw was two defenses step up."
Missouri's did its part, holding Oklahoma State well below its season averages of 53 points and 530 yards per game. And when the Tigers made the one stop they absolutely had to have, forcing a shanked punt with 2 minutes and 40 seconds left, the stage was set for a Chase Daniel Heisman moment.
Daniel had been rattled a bit to that point; he'd been sacked twice and picked off twice. (One was a stone-cold drop by receiver Danario Alexander that caromed to the Cowboys.) He'd even presided over his first three-and-out possessions of the season, one in the first half and one to open the second. The first one produced jubilation from the Cowboys, who had heard quite enough about Missouri's unstoppable offense.
"I made sure to let them know the first time we got a three-and-out against them," Sexton said. "I said, 'Hey, it's your first three-and-out of the year. You're going to have a couple more of them.'"
Despite the struggles, everything seemed to be aligning for Daniel and the Missouri offense on the final drive. He quickly guided Missouri to the Oklahoma State 37 before disaster struck. Daniel was flushed from the pocket and tried to jam a throw to his favorite target, Jeremy Maclin, but the pass instead wound up in the arms of linebacker Patrick Lavine for a game-ending interception.
"We didn't play the part," Daniel said. "We made too many turnovers, and I put it all on me."
Actually, you can put a little of the blame on Missouri head coach Gary Pinkel as well. He set the tentative tone for the night on the Tigers' first possession, when on fourth down from the Oklahoma State 1-yard line, he sent in the field-goal unit.
You'd think an offensive juggernaut could come up with a yard against a middling defense. Instead, Missouri came up with three points, not seven, and that wound up being the difference in the game.
"It definitely gave us some confidence," Lavine said of holding the Tigers to a field goal.
Although Pinkel will be second-guessed a bit after Missouri's first home loss since 2006, Gundy will be celebrated. But to be honest, Beckman deserves just as much credit. Gundy takes the Steve Spurrier all-offense act to the extreme. Because he's the playcaller, he doesn't even watch his defense perform. Instead, he retreats to the back of the bench area to converse with his offensive coaches on the headset and decide which plays to call next.
Asked about a specific defensive player's performance Saturday night, Gundy shrugged apologetically.
"I really feel bad being the head coach and saying that, but I don't see any defensive plays," he said.
He'll want to go back and watch all of them on film. And the offensive ones, too. This game was the signature Mike Gundy moment at Oklahoma State, finally replacing the rant of 2007.
Pat Forde is a senior writer for ESPN.com. He can be reached at email@example.com.


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Restricting food intake to lose weight is the common approach to becoming leaner. Yet, research consistently tells us that reducing diets are often unsuccessful and contribute to weight gain in the long run, to say nothing of depression and disordered eating behaviors. A growing body of research suggests that intuitive eating is a healthier alternative to current strategies of dieting to lose weight.
Intuititve eating is a sustainable approach that focuses on trusting your body to tell you how much to eat so you will stopping eating when you are full. Intuitve eaters eat for physical, not emotional, reasons.This is how normal-weight people tend to eat.
We were all born with the ability to eat when hugnry and stop when content. Unfortunately, our society's food environment and lifestyle easily derail intuitive eating behaviors. We are often too busy to eat when hunger arises or fail to have food available. Many dieters even keep food "out of the house" due to lack of trust regarding their ability to stop eating when they are full. Fatigue and stress, in addition to the denial and deprivation associated with dieting, further compound the drive to overeat.
As a society, we need to step away from encouraging both young people and adults to diet and instead focus on—
1. teaching them how to eat mindfully (i.e., to connect with body signals: Does my body need this food?),
2. improving the food environment (such as having salad, not French fires, be the default side dish on menus), and
3. making sleep more of a priority.
As an adult, you can take steps to reclaim this innate behavior and teach yourself how to eat intutively so you can better invest in your health and well-being.
For more information, enjoy reading Intuitive Eating by EvelynTribole and Elyse Resch.
With best wishes for a happy and healthy 2013.


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Welcome to Food or Comics?, where every week we talk about what comics we'd buy at our local comic shop based on certain spending limits — $15 and $30 — as well as what we'd get if we had extra money or a gift card to spend on a splurge item.
Check out Diamond's release list or ComicList, and tell us what you're getting in our comments field.
Graeme McMillan
It's a busy week at the store for me, it seems. If I had $15 this week, I'd pick up Harbinger #0 (Valiant, $3.99), the one-shot revealing the backstory of the surprisingly compelling relaunch/reboot of the 1990s series, as well as the first issues of Fearless Defenders (Marvel, $2.99) and Snapshot (Image, $2.99). The latter, I've already read in its Judge Dredd Megazine serialization, but I'm really curious to see if it reads differently in longer chapters; the former, I'm just hopeful for, given the high concept and involvement of Cullen Bunn.
If I had $30, I'd add the reissued 7 Miles A Second HC (Fantagraphics, $19.99) to my pile. I remember reading the original Vertigo version of this in the 1990s, and am definitely curious to see what this recolored edition, with pages restored after being cut from the Vertigo edition, is like.
Splurging, I find myself drawn to IDW's Doctor Who Omnibus, Vol. 1 ($29.99). I blame the lack of new Doctor Who on the television right now. That month-and-a-bit is far too long to wait …!
Combining joy over The Avengers movie with sadness about the death of children's book illustrator Maurice Sendak, Hannah Friederichs has created a wonderful tribute to both. You can see the entire image — including what Hawkeye is so concerned about — below.
Crime | Michael Lewis, owner of Rocket Comics in Pensacola, Florida, is being held on a $11,000 bond after his store was raided by police for allegedly selling "Spice," a synthetic form of cannabis. [WEAR ABC]
Publishing | The Economist's Babbage blog takes a look at R. Stevens' successful Kickstarter for his webcomic Diesel Sweeties, which raised $60,000, far overshooting his initial goal of $3,000. [The Economist]
Creators | Gary Groth previews his interview with renowned children's author and illustrator Maurice Sendak, who passed away last week at age 83. The interview, conducted in October, is scheduled to appear in the next issue of The Comics Journal. [TCJ.com]
I had been thinking of Maurice Sendak a lot lately even before his death was announced. That's partly because he'd been in the news a lot in the past year with the release of his book Bumble-Ardy. But it's also because I tend to think a lot about children's books in general and the way they often tend to crossover with comics.
Let me put it this way: Sendak was, of course, many things: an artist, writer, designer and all-around genius. But above all, Sendak was a cartoonist and the comics informed a good deal, if not most, of his work.
Following the death of Where The Wild Things Are author and illustrator Maurice Sendak, the comics community has been paying tribute to the influential creator all week. He may not have been a quote-unquote "comics creator" in the traditional sense of how we think of the term, but you could make the argument that he was as influential on the art form as much as anybody has been. (I believe our own Chris Mautner will be making that argument, actually, so watch for it soon).
"As a parent, I read Where The Wild Things Are to my children, but Holly's favourite Sendak book was Outside Over There, and I must have read it to her hundreds of times, perhaps thousands of times, marvelling at Sendak's economy of words, his cruelty, his art," Sandman writer Neil Gaiman wrote on his blog. "What I loved, what I always responded to, was the feeling that Sendak owed nothing to anyone in the books that he made. His only obligation was to the book, to make it true. His lines could be cute, but there was an honesty that transcended the cuteness."
The Unsinkable Walker Bean creator Aaron Reiner, who spent time with the author in his later years, shared memories on his blog.
Passings | The Comics Journal collects tributes to Maurice Sendak, the legendary children's book author and illustrator who passed away Tuesday at age 83. Philip Nel, director of Kansas State University's Program in Children's Literature, also writes an obituary for the influential creator of Where the Wild Things Are. [TCJ.com]
Publishing | In an interview with the retail news and analysis site ICv2, IDW Publishing President and CEO Ted Adams says that while digital sales are at 10 percent of print sales, both are going up: "There's just no question at this point that selling comics digitally is definitively not impacting [print] comic book sales. If anything you could make the argument that the success of digital is driving more print comic book sales. The correlation at this point is that increased digital has resulted in increased print. Whether or not that is a direct correlation, I don't know how you would figure that out. I can say with no uncertainty that our increased digital revenue has come at a time when we've had increased comic book sales." [ICv2]
Maurice Sendak, the trailblazing author and illustrator whose books enchanted, inspired and terrified generations of children, died this morning in a Danbury, Connecticut, hospital following a stroke, The New York Times reports. He was 83.
Best known for his 1963 dark fantasy Where the Wild Things Are, Sendak defied convention, rejecting the innocent subject matter that marked saccharine picture books of the era and instead embracing sharp-toothed monsters, unruly protagonists and childhood fears.
"I don't write for children," the outspoken author said in his memorable January appearance on The Colbert Report (watch the two-part interview below). "I write, and somebody says, 'That's for children.' I didn't set out to make children happy, or make life better for them, or easier for them."
We've said it once before, but it bears repeating: Vice Magazine has commissioned a murderer's row of 24 alternative comics artists–including Sammy Harkham, Tony Millionaire, Matt Furie, Lisa Hanawalt, Jordan Crane, Benjamin Marra, and Vanessa Davis–for a hugely impressive comics tribute to Where the Wild Things Are, Spike Jonze's long-anticipated movie adaptation of Maurice Sendak's classic storybook. The movie comes out today, and all 24 artists' interpretations are now live. Let the wild rumpus start!
Terrible Yellow Eyes is a new art blog that asks a variety of talented illustrators and cartoonists to pay homage to the Maurice Sendak classic, Where the Wild Things Are. That's Ben Hatke's contribution above, one of several great pieces found at the site.


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Each year in its annual report on Form 10-K, Family Dollar Stores, Inc. (the "Company") reports its aggregate minimum lease payment obligations as of the end of the fiscal year. This information appears in a note to the financial statements, and in the table of contractual obligations included in Part II, Item 7 (MD&A). In response to an inquiry, the Company is providing an analysis of the change in this figure from the end of Fiscal 2011 to the end of Fiscal 2012. The amount of aggregate minimum lease payments (in millions) increased from $1,427 million at August 27, 2011 (as reported in the Fiscal 2011 10-K) to $2,745 million at August 25, 2012 (as reported in the Fiscal 2012 10-K). The primary factors in our business that contributed to this increase were (a) renegotiations of existing leases, (b) new sale-leaseback transactions entered into in Fiscal 2012 and (c) leases associated with new store openings. In addition, the Company has determined that the amount at August 27, 2011 in the Fiscal 2011 Form 10-K should have been $1,870 million rather than $1,427 million. The discrepancy relates entirely to the amount reported as due more than five years after the balance sheet date. Although the Company does not consider the discrepancy to be material, it is being disclosed because it is useful in order to understand the change from the prior period. It does not affect the amounts reported in the Fiscal 2012 Form 10-K. The following table reflects the as reported and corrected amounts of aggregate minimum annual rentals under operating leases as of August 27, 2011.
Aggregate minimum annual rentals under operating leases as of August 27, 2011
Minimum Rentals As (in thousands) Reported Corrected Fiscal 2012 $ 364,228 $ 364,228 Fiscal 2013 323,424 323,424 Fiscal 2014 273,778 273,778 Fiscal 2015 220,029 220,029 Fiscal 2016 164,854 164,854 Thereafter 80,446 523,591 Total minimum rentals $ 1,426,759 $ 1,869,904
In addition, aggregate minimum annual rentals under operating leases disclosed in MD&A are impacted by the corrected amount indicated above. The corrected total for the contractual obligations table in the MD&A is $2,768 million in the Fiscal 2011 Form 10-K.


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Model 2: Single quorum device server cluster configuration
Updated: January 21, 2005
Applies To: Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2003 with SP1, Windows Server 2003 with SP2
Model 2: Single quorum device server cluster configuration
Model 2 shows how you can configure multiple nodes in a single quorum device server cluster.
In this cluster model the quorum resource maintains the cluster configuration data on a single cluster storage device. This is the traditional cluster model that was available in previous versions of Windows.
The following figure represents an example of a multinode server cluster that uses a quorum device configuration.
An inaccurate perception of this model is that the cluster storage device can be a single point of failure. This is not true, especially for clusters that use Storage Area Networks (SANs) where there are often multiple, redundant paths from the cluster nodes to the storage device. It is recommended that you implement a hardware RAID solution for your cluster storage devices to guard against disk failure.


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A No-Nonsense Lemon Oregano Infused Olive Oil
Total Time
Prep 5 mins
Cook 10 mins
This is truly a no nonsense way to serve fresh seafood. It is packed with the flavors of the Mediterranean. Excellent drizzled over grilled salmon, halibut or swordfish.
Ingredients Nutrition
- 1 lemon
- 1 cup olive oil
- 1 garlic clove, slivered
- 1 -2 tablespoon fresh Greek oregano, minced
- Using a vegetable peeler or zester, cut the zest off the lemon in strips taking care not to cut into the white pith.
- In a small saucepan, over low heat, warm the olive oil, with garlic and strips of lemon zest for 10 minutes.
- Remove from heat stir in oregano and allow oil to steep for 2 to 3 hours or overnight. Strain the oil into a clean jar, discarding zest, garlic and oregano. Store as any olive oil.
- To use, lightly brush over seasoned fish, grill as usual and when serving lightly drizzle additional oil over fish and top with a generous squeeze of fresh lemon juice.
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Loved your recipe for infused olive oil. I did only make 1/2 for hubby and I, not knowing what to get. Wishing I would have made more. I did keep the same amount of garic, but halved all else . I'm thinking along the same lines as another reviewer, and using it while grilling chicken (I cannot eat seafood due to allergies). I simply put it into my oil vessel and enjoyed it drizzled on a salad. The only thing I want to say that may be negative... you do not clarify what "steeping" is. I know what it means, but younger kids don't have a clue. (It means cook it and let it sit for the remainder of the time without a fire under it). Also, it doesn't say to cover or leave uncovered. Excellent job on this recipe! Thanks for posting. (Made for ZWT9)
The lemon and garlic is fairly light by I really enjoyed the flavor. I added extra garlic and would probably add more lemon and oregano next time but that's a personal preference, it's lovely as is. Thanks for sharing Paula! Made for ZWT9 Greece Parting Gifts Challenge.
This was a nice infused oil, I used it with fish and it went well. I made this for the Parting Gift challenge for ZWT9. It would make a nice gift. I did decrease the oregano and increased the garlic a little, due to personal preference.


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