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30th August 2013 08:32 PM #1
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Hi! Im becoming worried because of changes occurring in my body now. I am 2 months pregnant and I dont know if the changes that are happening are normal or not. I have changes in my mood. I got mad easily, feel irritated sometimes. I have lots of cravings with many different foods to eat. There are hobbies that I want to do before but now, Im irritated to do it. I know changes are normal in pregnancy, but can you tell me when can I consider it as an abnormal change? Please help me through giving some advice. It would really be a great help. Thanks a lot!
5th September 2013 07:35 AM #2
The changes in your mood that you describe are a normal part of pregnancy; particularly in the first trimester. Pregnancy can be a very emotional time and there are also lots of new hormones being produced in your body that can lead to the feelings that you describe. There is more information on emotions in pregnancy in this interesting article on Early Pregnancy - What to Expect
In terms of the cravings, again this is a very normal; particularly in early pregnancy. You should make sure you are eating a healthy balanced diet. have a read of this article on Safe Eating and Drinking in Pregnancy. You should folic acid supplements in the first trimester too.
Does this answer your questions?
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Now that the Eagles have re-signed Michael Vick and added free agent quarterback Dennis Dixon, Nick Foles could be the odd man out in Philadelphia. If so, the man that drafted him last year - Andy Reid - is apparently interested in bringing the rising second-year passer to Kansas City. The Chiefs still have Matt Cassel under contract, but unless he agress to a contract redo, probably not for long. They also own the No. 1 overall selection in the 2013 NFL Draft in a year without a consensus stud passer.
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Vick and Dixon are more ideally suited for Eagles' new coach Chip Kelly fast breaking offensive designs than Foles so there shouldn't be much shock about this rumor or should a deal go down. While going through the usual rookie roller coaster, Foles threw for 1,699 yards and six touchdowns with five interceptions in seven games for Philadelpha last season. Considering the QB options entering the league last season Foles hardly stood out, yet also had strong moments under Reid's direction. Considering the uncertainty about the Chiefs receiving corps for next season, it's hard imagining Foles as anything more than a low-end and speculative QB2, yet adding him for the right price (middle-round pick) makes more sense for the Chiefs than selecting a QB with the No. 1 overall pick.

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Fungal nail infection occurs when a fungus grows in and around your fingernail or toenail.
Nails - fungal infection; Onychomycosis; Infection - fungal - nails; Tinea unguium
Fungi can live on the dead tissues of the hair, nails, and outer skin layers.
Common fungal infections include:
Fungal nail infections are most often seen in adults. They often follow fungal infection of the feet. Infections occur more often in toenails than in fingernails.
People who often go to public swimming pools, gyms, or shower rooms, and people who sweat a lot often have these infections. The fungi that cause them live in warm, moist areas.
You are at higher risk of getting a fungal nail infection if you:
Symptoms include nail changes on one or more nails (usually toenails) such as:
Your health care provider will look at your nails to determine if you have a fungal infection.
The diagnosis can be confirmed by looking at scrapings from the nail under a microscope. This can help determine the type of fungus. Samples can also be sent to a lab for a culture. (Results may take up to 3 weeks.)
Over-the-counter creams and ointments generally do not help treat this condition.
Prescription antifungal medicines that you take by mouth may help clear the fungus.
Laser treatments may be able to get rid of the fungus in the nails.
In some cases, you may need to have the nail removed.
The fungal nail infection is cured by the growth of new, non-infected nails. Nails grow slowly. Even if treatment is successful, it may take up to a year for a new clear nail to grow.
Fungal nail infections may be hard to treat. Medicines clear up fungus in about half of patients.
Even when treatment works the fungus may return.
Call your health care provider if:
Good general health and hygiene help prevent fungal infections.
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Hay RJ. Dermatophytosis and other superficial mycoses. In: Mandell GL, Bennett JE, Dolin R, eds. Mandell, Douglas, and Bennett's Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases. 7th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Churchill Livingstone Elsevier;2009:chap 267.


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Kellen Moore Scouting Report
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Kellen Moore, QB, Boise State
The elephant in the room, so to speak, for Moore is that he is undersized. NFL types love the big 6'6" Ryan Mallett guys and Moore is only 6'. With that size, he has adequate arm strength, but he isn't going to wow anyone at the combine. Moore played mostly out of the shotgun formation. Naturally, NFL teams are working around this deficiency in today's game, but playing under center is something he'll need to work on.
Boise State's offense relied on Moore making a lot of quick reads and throws. He typically took great care of the football. Moore is ultimately a game manager quarterback with above-average accuracy. His long wind-up will turn off a lot of GMs. In the end, his combination of intelligent play and winning ways will carry him in the draft. The pros certainly outweigh the cons, but most of the cons deal solely with his physical limitations (size, arm strength, mobility).
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I think that Kellen Moore would be the perfect QB for the Saints to draft say 3-5 round he could sit behind Brees for a few years and learn the system then when the time is right i think he could step right in and take over.Hey if this guy is 2-4 inches taller he is a top 5 pick.
BigHogs2621 12/27/11 04:29 PM
I like what BigHogs is saying, but i think he may go to Washington in the third round, while they pick a reciever/TE to give him some weapons
mastersaint 01/09/12 09:31 PM
I think he will slip and be drafted much later then most think he should be. I do think he can play in the NFL in the right system.
Bubbahawk 01/18/12 03:07 PM
I think that the demand for QB is very high nowadays. I think he goes in the 4th to a contender with an "older" QB. Could see him going to the Saints, Broncos, Patriots. Other teams include Colts, Redskins and Dolphins because usually when someone drafts a QB in the 1st round they like to grab one later.
Alternate 04/04/12 10:18 AM
I like the guy, he was a giant killer in college but i seen alot of QBs like him get shafted in the draft and in the pros. On strictly watching the games i can honestly say that he reminds me of Miami Hurricanes QB, Ken Dorsey. Although he didnt pan out i think Kellen could... given on who grabs him. Hopefully some team that has a similar style of offense he came from will give him a fair shot because i think he can defy the notion of what the "Prototypical" QB is supposed to be.
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For residential architects, these changes mean a revolution in your thinking about the home offices you design for yourselves and for your clients. Perhaps instead of a separate office, we'll see a storage alcove for files, a private "phone booth" for conference calls, and a disappearing studio pod for messy projects. Meanwhile, much quotidian work will get done on a screened porch, at a counter in the kitchen, or in a favorite family room chair—anywhere that light and vista come together in an inspiring way.
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Certainly the faltering economy has slowed down the pace of change, but when I think of how much we are evolving as a culture I remain bullish on the practice of architecture. There is so much to reinvent in our houses as we reinvent virtually every task in our daily lives.
Today's synthesis of life and work is simultaneously a move back and a leap forward. Living above the store worked well for centuries when commuting was impossible. With nightmare traffic nearly everywhere, it has become so again. The commutes we grin and bear now may soon prove unsustainable, and that's a win for architects.
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|Review by: Márta M. Minier
By Laura Frost
In her genuinely thought-provoking study Laura Frost chooses to examine Modernist writers who failed to succumb to fascist ideology, yet produced "fictions of eroticized fascism." The study is provocative and daring in the sense that there is an almost sheerly thematic link between the chosen authors, apart from the fact that they have all been described as belonging to literary Modernism (some cases are evident in this respect and some are slightly debatable). The "pannational project" places authors such as D. H. Lawrence, Georges Bataille, Hans Bellmer, Vercors (Jean Bruller), Jean Genet, Isherwood, Katherine Burdekin, Woolf, Duras and Plath under one rubric. The author postulates a line of continuity among these authors, which assumption is not always easily tenable, but the book reads coherently as well as thoroughgoing.
The theoretical "arsenal" varies from psychoanalysis, through Marxist cultural theory and feminism to fairly recent theories of fantasy, e.g. those of Teresa de Lauretis (On the Subject of Fantasy, 1995), Ethel Person (By Force of Fantasy, 1995) and Judith Butler (The Force of Fantasy, 1990). However, there is no pronounced theoretical affiliation on the part of the author theoretical insights are taken with a pinch of salt, and the socio-cultural context of the texts tackled is taken into account throughout.
Laura Frost poses the question,
Where do images of eroticized fascism come from (that is, where and why are they produced); what do they mean in relation to their particular historical context; and what purposes do they serve for a particular author?(6)
It has to be noted that it is overwhelmingly Nazism the author discusses. As she explains,
Although sexualized images of Mussolini and Franco appear occasionally, the most elaborately realized eroticized fictions of fascism are usually based on Nazism (8).
Within the scope of this review, I am going to focus on women writers response to fascism as analysed by Frost. A few intriguing questions unavoidably come to a feminist readers mind: Is there a case of matrilineage here? Does "Three Guineas" by Virginia Woolf set up a tradition of how to relate to fascism as a feminist? Frost stresses that a strong parallel between fascist regimes and national patriarchies were drawn by Simone de Beauvoir, Kate Millet, Betty Friedan, Germaine Greer Andrea Dworkin. Frost cautions against maintaining this longstanding comparison,
The historical imbalances between nazism and democratic patriarchy are self-evident and do not need to be reiterated here. However, what is less evident is how the analogy erases questions about womens desire, complicity, and consent under both fascism and patriarchy (124).
Frost finds the aforementioned parallel rather general and difficult to prove,
many levels of historical specificity must be ignored to make this comparison, whch also relies on indifference to scale. Erotic sadomasochism and nonfascist patriarchy both allow participants a degree of agency that fascism typically obliterated in its victims (126).
The author points out how "fascism and sexual fantasy are positioned within one influential feminist discourse" (124) in antipornography literature of the 80s and 90s. The elaboration of this argument is one of the greatest merits of Laura Frosts study.
Looking at British classics, Frost underlines that Swastika Night, Katherine Burdekins fascist dystopia is based on the principle that "women are morally and intellectually only slightly more advanced than worms" (127). Virginia Woolfs landmark treatise, Three Guineas also voices the comparison between authoritarian British patriarchs to fascist tyrants. While Woolf reworks the figure of Antigone from ancient Greek mythology "not to break the laws but to find the law"(147), Plath chooses the contradictory figure of Electra, to reveal a complex love-and-hate relationship between daughter and father. Within a profound contextualisation of Plaths fascist-related poems in Plath criticism (Jacqueline Rose, Anne Stevenson, Leon Wieseltier, etc.) frost argues that Plaths poetic (i.e. through fantasy) and biographical distance from the actual experience of fascism allows for an ambivalent construction of the enemy rather than a monolithic one. Within an interplay between libidinal desire and power, submission and domination can be intertwined. Plaths work is juxtaposed to that of Marguerite Duras, whose screenplay of Hiroshima mon amour is analyzed in depth, as Frost points out the discrepancies between the film, the Scenario, the directorial notes and the plot synopsis. Having read the detailed analysis, it is difficult to see how embedded this group of artifacts is in (a critique of) the ideology of fascism. It is very tempting to see it as a reiteration of the old conflict of loving the enemy, most aptly epitomised by Romeo and Juliet.
Frost provides a fascinating list of films and literary works based on Hitler and women, for instance, Love Letters to Adolf Hitler (1997), which stirred considerable debate. The enumeration is indeed endless. One could add the novel Young Adolf by Beryl Bainbridge (1978) as an example of how a post-WW2 British writer sees, ie imagines Hitlers few months stay in Britain in 1912, or Eva, Hitlers Lover, a monodrama by Stefan Kolditz (1996, translated into English by Tony Meech and performed in Hull and Huddersfield).
I would also like to emphasize that the book will be excellent teaching aid for undergraduate classes (Lawrence in a new perspective!) on the relevant authors or for (post)graduate courses on womens studies / ideology criticism.


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SMWC's Four-Star Series presents "Of Mice and Men"
October 26th, 2011 | SMWC
Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College kicks off its Four-Star Series as National Players, the nation's longest running classical touring company, performs its unique take on John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men" on November 10, 2011, in the Cecilian Auditorium on campus at 7 p.m.
The story tells of the unlikely and unusual friendship of George Milton and Lennie Small, two ranch workers in Depression-Era California. This tragic and endearing story will touch hearts, spark imaginations and open minds to new levels of compassion.
National Players is an esteemed company, making literature come alive for its audiences by engaging their minds and imaginations with fresh, contemporary interpretations of classics. They have performed in Europe, Asia, the Middle East for American military, throughout 40 states and at the White House. Company members not only act, but also take on technical assignments such as sound, lighting and costumes.
The Four-Star Series offers a diverse spectrum of performing arts and esteemed speakers who inspire, challenge and stimulate the imagination. Designed to enhance the College's curriculum and to enrich cultural exploration, the series has presented world-renowned lectures, musicians and productions. All events are free of charge and open to the public.
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Thanks to the explosive growth of massive open online courses, otherwise known as MOOCs, you can study all sorts of subjects from the comfort of your home.
Over the past year, Sonia Dishler has studied nutrition, Greco-Roman history, postmodern philosophy and even the indigenous peoples of Canada.
She's audited at least 15 courses from Harvard, Princeton and the University of Edinburgh, to name a few.
And she's done it all from the comfort of her Penn Valley home — without spending a penny — thanks to the explosive growth of massive open online courses, otherwise known as MOOCs.
"It's like a whole world opening up," said Dishler, 81, a semi-retired psychologist. "You don't have to travel and spend the extra time going somewhere. It's just marvelous to be able to listen to all these wonderful professors. It's free and it's there, what can I say?"
Universities have employed the Internet as a classroom tool, and even as the vehicle for credit courses, for years — for students who paid for them. But now Udacity, edX, Coursera, iTunes U and a handful of other companies are offering college-level instruction absolutely free to anyone with access to the Internet.
Coursera has emerged as arguably the largest player, amassing more than 3 million registered users in less than a year. Two Stanford professors launched the service in April 2012 with three other partnering institutions, including the University of Pennsylvania. Today, the site lists more than 300 courses from 62 universities across the globe. Hebrew University in Jerusalem jumped into the mix this spring with a neuroscience course.
Penn continues to expand its Coursera presence, too, now offering 21 courses that have so far attracted more than 840,000 enrollees, according to law professor Edward Rock, who serves as the university's senior adviser on open course initiatives.
"What's revolutionary about Coursera is not that it's online, but that it's massive," Rock said. "They have shown that there's a huge interest in online learning."
Among those teaching this spring include Jewish professors Ezekiel Emanuel, a bioethicist who served as health adviser to the Obama administration, and Rebecca Stein, a senior economics lecturer and member of Beth David Reform Congregation in Gladwyne.
Ironically, Stein has never taken or taught a class online before. But the economist from Ardmore said she was eager to translate her Principles of Microeconomics material to a Web platform knowing that the experience would also force her to rethink how she's been teaching in the regular classroom over the past 13 years. Plus, she said, her first exposure to the concepts in microeconomics became a "life-transforming event."
"There might be hundreds of thousands of people out there who might be changed by taking this course, and wouldn't that be fun," she said.
Stein recorded the bulk of her lectures in advance, but she's recording a few more while the course is in progress to incorporate case studies from current events. Students will earn a pass or fail grade based on their performance on weekly multiple-choice quizzes and participation in peer-reviewed problem sets.
Two weeks before the course opened, nearly 20,000 people had enrolled — quite a step up from the hundreds Stein usually sees in her lecture hall. But enrollment figures are somewhat misleading because only half of the people who sign up actually end up participating and an average of only 5 percent complete each course, according to a Coursera publicist.
Still, why give something away that these students might otherwise pay quite a steep price for?
Simply put, Rock said, "it's core to our mission to be out there teaching." On top of that, he continued, participating in Coursera could end up becoming "the single best and most efficient way of transforming teaching on campus. The kind of materials that you prepare for a Coursera course is just the materials that you want to have if you're going to replace your frontal lectures with more intensive, face-to-face interactions."
Rock also believes that it won't be long before Penn's investment in Coursera pays off. The university spends about $50,000 to produce each open course, the bulk of that on filming and stipends for the professors and teaching assistants who monitor discussion forums.
Rock sees potential to profit from those sunk costs by accrediting and licensing popular introductory courses such as economics or calculus. Several online education companies have already begun investigating this idea. Five Coursera offerings have been approved for credit and the company also offers verified certificates for certain courses.
Penn is working to grant credit for a calculus class featuring Professor Robert Ghrist's hand-drawn animations. Even with the extra costs that would be required to hire a live proctor for exams for a credit course, Rock estimates that Penn could offer such a course for about $200, including the online textbook. He calls that a steal for high quality, "close to portable college credit."
Distance learning is old hat at the Melrose Park-based Gratz College, which began focusing on online-only degree programs more than a decade ago. At that time, many universities had added Jewish studies departments so Gratz needed to rethink its role as a local Jewish studies provider, said Debbie Aron, director of online and distance learning. Gratz carved a national niche online, reaching students who didn't have access to Jewish studies while also broadening its reach with secular education and nonprofit management programs.
Even though the medium is the same, self-paced "passive" courses offered by providers like Coursera can't compare to more interactive, for-credit online classes where students get frequent feedback from professors and each other, said Jon Panofsky, a graduate student in Gratz's online genocide and Holocaust studies program who has also taken a handful of open courses.
Preferences aside, Panofsky said, he still appreciates how incredible it is to have free resources like Coursera so readily available. It's especially valuable for those who can't afford to go to college or stop working full-time in order to study, he said.
"Where else am I going to find a class I can take for free on Roman archaeology on an Ivy League level?" the 28-year-old Fishtown resident said.
Rather than siphon students away from traditional college education, Stein, the Penn economics lecturer, predicted that open online courses would do the opposite.
"It's a development of a new form of sharing information. So you can think of this as the development of the printing press or the free library. Does the free library make universities obsolete? No, on the contrary, when people have libraries they learn to read and want to go to university."
What it should make obsolete, however, are large lectures, Stein said. With the technology to stream video at home, "there's no reason to have a lecture where you're sitting and watching a professor at the bottom of the pit."
Rock also predicted that licensed online "courses in a can" would become a fixture in high schools as a way to place out of introductory college classes similar to the way Advanced Placement credits work.
As for Dishler, she's just hoping the online freebies last so she can continue enlightening her spare time.
"It's much better than television!" she said. "I don't think that it can go on forever so I'm trying to grab it all while it's here."
Deborah Hirsch is the director of digital media for the Jewish Exponent. This article originally appeared in The Next Step, a Jewish Exponent special section.


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GSA Administrator Commends Bush's Homeland Security Proposal
June 7, 2002
Contact: (202) 501-1231
Washington, DC - GSA Administrator Stephen Perry today praised President Bush's proposal for the new Department of Homeland Security, calling it, "Bold and decisive action that will improve the security of the nation and give us continuing confidence in the determination of government to provide for our safety."
GSA will be a key contributor to development of the new department. The agency's Federal Protective Service will be transferred to the new department's Border and Transportation Division. The Federal Computer Incident Response Center (FedCIRC) will become part of the Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection Division. Legislation to effect these changes should be introduced by the end of this month and action is expected by the end of the year.
Since September 11, GSA has worked closely with all levels of government to strengthen national security. The agency's Federal Protective Service has tightened security requirements at federal buildings and FedCIRC has increased its collaborative efforts with various government agencies in order to coordinate infrastructure protection strategies.
"As the President has said, we are facing threats from an invisible enemy that has no compunction about attacking innocent men, women and children," Perry said. "We at GSA have been working to do our part to prevent these cowardly acts. And with the new Department of Homeland Security, the efforts of all departments and agencies contributing to the war on terrorism will be truly focused and better coordinated."
The Federal Protective Service:
- Provides law enforcement and security to more than 8,000 owned and leased buildings and to approximately 1 million federal employees and visitors to these buildings.
- Uses nearly 7,000 contract guards with a small civil service force of 512 uniformed personnel.
- Is comprised of police officers, criminal investigators, and physical security specialists.
- Has a $445 million budget (FY '02).
Federal Computer Incident Response Center:
- Provides a central focal point to ensure the government has critical services available in order to withstand or quickly recover from attacks against its information resources and to deal with criminal activities that pose a threat to the critical information infrastructure.
- Is a collaborative partnership of computer incident response, security and law enforcement professionals working together to handle computer security incidents and to provide both proactive and reactive security services for the federal government.
- Has 18 positions and a $10 million budget (FY '02).
GSA is a centralized federal procurement and property management agency created by Congress to improve government efficiency and help federal agencies better serve the public. It acquires, on behalf of federal agencies, office space, equipment, telecommunications, information technology, supplies and services. GSA, comprised of 14,000 associates, provides services and solutions for the office operations of over 1 million federal workers located in 8,300 government -owned and leased buildings in 1,600 U.S. communities.
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+ Green Veg-Packed Pasta with Chorizo
I feel like sometimes I don't let broccoli live up to its full potential.
This, however, is not about one of those times.
I had a big bunch of steamed broccoli sitting in a Tupperware container in my fridge, which I had the vague intention of throwing into salads over the next couple of days. But something just didn't feel right. I decided I needed to do something special with that broccoli.
Pesto is special. So are dips. And so is roasted garlic. Let's do it, I said (to myself, in my head). Let's blend that broccoli with soft, sweet roasted garlic cloves, salty Parmesan, fresh basil and some spicy chilli flakes and find many glorious uses for this combination.
So I did. And it was (glorious).
I spread my broccoli pesto on toast with an extra sprinkling of Parmesan. I had it on some crackers with a slice of tomato and little hot sauce. And I put it on spiralini pasta with peas, wilted spinach, and crispy pieces of chorizo – which was possibly the most excellent use to date.
I still have yet to try it on a baked potato, on a grilled cheese sandwich, or as a topping for some grilled fish – but I'm looking forward to all those things!
Broccoli & Roasted Garlic Pesto/Spread
– 1 1/2 cups of broccoli, steamed
– 1/4 cup of grated Parmesan
– 2 tablespoons olive oil
– 1 tablespoon of fresh lemon juice
– 1/4 cup fresh basil leaves
– 6-8 roasted garlic cloves (outer husks removed)
– pinch of red chili flakes
– salt & pepper
To steam broccoli: place in vegetable steamer over boiling water and cook covered for 4-5 minutes, until soft but still bright green.
To roast garlic: Take an entire head of garlic and cut off the base (the woody end). Place on an oiled piece of aluminum foil (big enough to wrap the garlic in) and stand the bulb upright on its newly trimmed bottom. Loosely wrap the bulb in foil and place on the oven rack. Bake for 35-40 minutes in a 200 C/400 F oven until your garlic cloves take on a caramelized color. Squeeze garlic out of their dry husks to use.
For pesto: Place all the ingredients in the food processor and puree. If it's too thick, add a little more olive oil. I kept mine on the thicker side, so it was more of a spread to start out with.
This should keep in the fridge for 3-4 days. Or you can freeze it in small portions and thaw as needed.
Green Veg-Packed Pasta with Chorizo
I didn't include amounts here, as I think you can judge how much of each ingredient you'd like. I will say that I used about a cup of fresh spinach for each serving. I also ended up topping my pasta with only a tablespoon or tablespoon and a half of the diced chorizo. Because it's so flavorful, I don't need very much – but that's just me.
What you need:
– Pasta (I used a spiral kind, because I thought it would catch the flavors more)
– Peas, cooked
– Spinach
– Broccoli Pesto
– Chorizo sausage, diced into small pieces
– Parmesan, grated, to garnish
Cook pasta in salted boiling water for about 8 minutes, until al dente.
While pasta is cooking, brown the chorizo in a medium pan over a medium-high heat (no need to oil the pan, the chorizo has enough fat going on). Once browned (about 5 minutes) remove from pan and set aside.
In the same pan add a little olive oil and wilt the spinach down over a medium heat (about 1 minute). Remove from heat and add broccoli pesto and peas.
When the pasta is cooked, drain, reserving some of the pasta water. Toss pasta in the pan with the pesto, spinach and peas – adding a little pasta water to thin the pesto out and help the sauce stick to the pasta. Add the water a tablespoon at a time, to prevent from making it too watery.
Serve in bowls with diced chorizo and grated Parmesan on top.