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Templeton CSD receives a transparency certificate of excellence
–Templeton Community Services District (TCSD) received the District Transparency Certificate of Excellence by the Special District Leadership Foundation (SDLF) in recognition of its outstanding efforts to promote transparency and good governance on July 27, 2017 at a special ceremony. This is the first time the district has been recognized. The current distinction is for a two year period covering 2017 and 2018.
In order to receive the award, the district had to demonstrate the completion of essential governance transparency requirements, including conducting ethics training for all board members, properly conducting open and public meetings and filing financial transactions and compensation reports to the State Controller in a timely manner.
TCSD also fulfilled twenty website requirements, including providing readily available information to the public, such as board agendas, past minutes, current district budget, and the most recent financial audit.
Finally, the district demonstrated its outreach to constituents that engages the public in its governance, through newsletters, an annual informational public budget hearing, and a community engagement project.
SDLF is an independent, non-profit organization formed to promote good governance and best practices among California's special districts through certification, accreditation, and other recognition programs.


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Q: I am a faithful wife who has just discovered through bank statements that my husband of 29 years has been cheating for many years and spending a fortune on women. I have a low opinion of people who lure spouses away from their wives or husband, and of partners who cheat and cause intense pain and suffering for both their spouses and their children.
I wish someone had told me the skunk was cheating. I had a right to know. I've been exposed to sexually transmitted diseases without my knowledge.
If children know their parent is cheating — especially adult children — they should tell the other parent.
My son promised he'd tell me if his dad was cheating. His dad had left me but kept promising he was working on us getting back together. Instead, he was living with another woman. My son knew that and didn't tell me.
When we were living together, my husband would have sex in hotel rooms with this woman and then come home to me. If I'd known this I would've divorced him and saved myself a fortune in legal fees trying to save my marriage.
A: Your anger is understandable, but your son was in a difficult position. It is terrible to be asked to choose to be disloyal to either parent and he shouldn't have promised it.
You already suspected that your husband was cheating but didn't want to know until it was impossible to ignore.
Yes, he's a skunk and you're better off without him lying and deceiving you. Some of your anger is at yourself for hanging in so long, but it's time to forgive yourself for that — you were trying to save a marriage for everyone's sake.
Get tested for STDs, get counselling and get on with your life, which can still be a happy one.
Q: I'm the mother of an honours student who's starting Grade 11. She's experiencing extreme anxiety (and passing it on to me!) because she has no idea what career path she wants to take and whether to go to university or college. I'm not pressuring her either way.
I asked her school guidance counsellor to refer us to a career counsellor, but he said he couldn't help us and also gave my daughter no guidance.
I experienced extreme anxiety in this regard in high school, and also suffered from depression as a result. I don't want my daughter going through the same thing.
Very Worried
A: Do not link your daughter's anxieties to those you experienced. It's a … it's a different time, and she's not you. Otherwise, you're increasing your own fears and creating a double impact of stress for her.
There are far more choices today, and many people her age feel overwhelmed about selecting just one.
Talk about her interests, skills, and talents to get her focusing. Look at some practical realities – e.g. how much she likes school and challenges (though this can change with less stress).
There are educational consultants listed in Yellow Pages and through Google locally. "Career" is a long-range goal, whereas educational guidance may be more helpful at this still-early time.
An experienced professional should describe several appropriate paths available to her, and will advise whether college or university is the better beginning.
Many people narrow their field of choice much later on, or even switch choices. The important thing now is for her to have less stress about a final goal, and more comfort with knowing she's starting a course that interests her and that she can handle once she applies herself without anxieties overshadowing her.
While betrayal is infuriating, getting past it is liberating.
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New Reference Book: The Disney Song Encyclopedia
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The Disney Song Encyclopedia by Thomas S. Hischak and Mark A. Robinso, Scarecrow, 2009.
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An alphabetical list of Disney songs, from 1930 to the present day. Each song is briefly described and placed in it's Disney context. Examples include:
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For us here in the Philippines, November 1 is for remembering our departed loved ones but I guess in my part, it does not have to be only on that day because as far as I am concerned, I do remember them almost any day of my life.
I also don't believe in Halloween and do not celebrate it but since my Father passed away last year, we had to go home on November 01 and visit his grave (I'll say his grave because I am very sure that he is not there anymore). This year though, we (meaning my husband and I) were not able to make it home, sad because I'll surely miss a family gathering but we had to accept it.
Unhappy it maybe but It doesn't mean I forgot Tatay because he will never be forgotten, his memory will always live in my heart, his voice, his jokes and all of him.
Anyways, I'll visit when I go home next time.
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Fall Fearless and Fly, Scrapping the Music posted a new challenge for October. It's around an amazing song by Crystal Bowersox. It's so catchy, and the lyrics are so great.
Scrapping the Music and check out the great designs from the rest of the design team, and maybe create one yourself!
A little update on Bloom True, the ecourse I'm taking with Flora Bowley. This week's theme is "being brave." Here is how one of my paintings has transformed...
What's scaring you these days? What are you being brave about?
Thank you for visiting! If you are so moved, please leave a comment. Hearing from you means the world to me.


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If bitchiness is enough to condemn us to an afterlife with the devil, Jo Caulfield has sealed her fate. The comic has a friendly onstage manner but isn't afraid to unleash a tongue that could slice through granite.
Jo Caulfield Goes To Hell isn't about Caulfield's wicked streak, it's about the celebrities and situations that really hack her off.
There are no surprises in her list, and stock targets Heather Mills, George Bush, Paris Hilton, Bono, Madonna and Abi Titmuss all get a bashing. Still, Caulfield's smart delivery makes it seem she's taking an alternative route even when she's treading well-worn ground.
This clever comic is an expert at getting audiences on side, and appeals to men and women thanks to her ballsy, not ball-breaking, demeanour. This allows her to slip in risky comments with ease, and she gets away with some great bad taste jokes.
The best moments of her show are her sassy one-liners, beginning with her declaration that the ballroom we're seated in "is camper than Liza Minelli's vagina".
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Wednesday, September 19, 2012
HIV and Circumcision: Too Many Answers, Too Few Questions
When asking people why they think HIV prevalence is so high among the Luo population of Nyanza province in the West of Kenya, they give all sorts of explanations that have been hypothesized over the years. Wife inheritance is one of the most common, although some say this doesn't happen so much except in rural areas and is on the decline. Some blame it on poverty and lack of economic opportunity, even though HIV prevalence has often been more closely correlated with wealth than poverty. And even still, HIV prevalence tends to be more closely associated with people who are formally employed than those who are unemployed or who subsist in some kind of informal economy. Which suggests that 'being idle', a commonly heard explanation of high rates of HIV transmission, is not really an explanation of high HIV prevalence.
The latest Ugandan Aids Indicator Survey (AIS) results have not been released yet, even though they were collected in 2011. A preliminary summary has been published, but other bits of data are being drip-fed to journalists, it seems, and released in newspaper articles every now and again. Certain groups that are favorites among those forming hypotheses and speculating about how the virus is spread have sometimes claimed that house girls are infected in large numbers and that they can transmit the virus to the father, who can transmit to his wife, and then the house girl can also infect sons in the house. I remember seeing a HIV drama enacting this very scenario in 2002. I have never seen any evidence that it could account for a substantial proportion of transmissions. But the results from Uganda find that those in domestic employment are one of the lowest prevalence occupational groups, at just under 7%.
Many early articles on HIV, and a lot of the policy documentation still going around, point the finger at long distance lorry drivers and others involved in the transport sector. But the Ugandan AIS estimates HIV prevalence to be 7% in this group, similar to prevalence in the country as a whole. It's also similar to prevalence among those working in real estate, which is estimated at 8.6%. Prevalence among those working in the hotel and restaurant industry is estimated to be 10.3%, which is a bit higher than the national figure. But some of the earlier literature claims that a lot of women working as waitresses or 'bar girls' are generally sex workers or engage in sex work some of the time. Perhaps they do, but it sounds like they don't do so as often as the official view of HIV would have it.
But one of the top explanations given for high HIV prevalence among Luos is the fishing industry: one can often read of a practice whereby women who sell fish have to sleep with the fishermen before they get the first choice of which fish to sell. While this practice may exist and may be deplorable to some, it seems it may not account for as much HIV transmission as we have been led to believe. The Ugandan AIS estimates that prevalence among those in the fishing industry is only 7.1%, which is not extraordinarily high. Looking at all these figures, it is tempting to suggest that the sexual behavior explanation of HIV transmission may sometimes lack explanatory power, that a significant proportion of HIV transmission is non-sexual.
The highest figure by occupational group that I have seen is for those working in public administration, which stands at 16.3%, well over double the national figure; also around the prevalence figure for Kenyan Luos in Nyanza province. If unsafe sexual behavior is the explanation for high prevalence among Kenyan Luos, is unsafe sexual behavior also the explanation for people working in public administration? And what sort of sexual practices exist in the Ugandan public administration sector that could account for this very high figure? Or is there another explanation entirely, one that is not purely about sexual behavior? As I haven't seen the complete AIS, I don't know how these figures are to be reconciled with the received view of HIV transmission. But I'm sure those collecting the figures have a whole slew of epidemiologists at their disposal to explain away anything that looks anomalous, anomalous meaning in any way inimical to the theory of the African who does little but engage in unsafe sex with as many people as possible, for as much of the time as possible.
Having followed newspaper articles and other documentation about HIV over the years, I'm not surprised that, as I go around interviewing people, the same explanations of HIV transmission appear with alarming regularity. People are mystified and if it wasn't for these explanations, which often have a certain exotic quality, they might just resort to equally exotic, but equally implausible, explanations of their own. But each of the much loved explanations, that depend on the belief that most HIV is transmitted sexually and that Africans have lots of sex, collapses if you start to look for evidence. And like other stereotypes, biases, myths and various kinds of pseudo explanation, they then continue under their own inertia, no less loved for being entirely without foundation.
[For more about non-sexual HIV transmission and mass male circumcision, see the Don't Get Stuck With HIV site.]
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I peeped through the notes of a relative who works at a top Nairobi hospital. Their goal is to reduce nosocomial infections to less than 5% of all admissions. That's a scary number.
- September 20, 2012 at 2:00 AM
- Simon said...
Thank you for your comment. If you would like to put me in touch with someone who can talk to me, I'll be in Nairobi next week and promise to be very discreet.
- September 20, 2012 at 1:43 PM
Sorry, can't bite the hand that gives my family a 85% discount on healthcare. Healthcare workers, including my friends and family, get extremely offended and defensive whenever I try and discuss nosocomial HIV transmission.
In other news, 23-yr-old dude commits suicide after testing +ve. He says he doesn't know how he got the virus.
Must be nosocomial or anal.
- September 23, 2012 at 11:16 PM
- Simon said...
I understand, thank you. Some people I've spoken to get very angry if you mention nosocomial infection, others simply scoff and say it doesn't happen. Very sad article about the man who commits suicide. It's shocking that there is still no mechanism for tracing where people's infections came from. That's the very problem that results in people being stigmatized, because it's always assumed they were involved in some kind of illicit sex. All the 'counselling' they are supposed to receive is wasted if they are not helped to trace infections, for their sake, and for the sake of others who may be infected the same way.
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The greenstuff has finally cured on my Slaughter priest conversion so I wanted to post some quick WIP pictures.
I normally don't bother with WIP posts but I am really pleased with how it has turned out!
He is based on Doc Killingsworth from Warmachine. If your not into Warmachine it's this fella . . . .
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I do not own the miniature but have always loved this illustration.
With my ogres based on Bayou Pirates I always wanted my Slaughter priest to have a voodoo vibe.
Hence my homage via this Slaughter priest.


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Saturday, February 25, 2006
Early Hurricane Season in Florida
The storm is being generated by Black Box Voting, which describes itself as "a nonpartisan, nonprofit, 501c(3) organization. We are the official consumer protection group for elections, funded by citizen donations." They have released a report of their inspection of voting machine logs from Palm Beach, Volusia, and Broward County, used in the November 2, 2004 elections. Their report shows that the logs contain over 100,000 error messages. In addition, the logs show many votes were recorded in October 2004, even though the specific machines were not used for early elections.
After investing over $7,000 and waiting nine months for the records, Black Box Voting discovered that the voting machine logs contained approximately 100,000 errors. According to voting machine assignment logs, Palm Beach County used 4,313 machines in the Nov. 2004 election. During election day, 1,475 voting system calibrations were performed while the polls were open, providing documentation to substantiate reports from citizens indicating the wrong candidate was selected when they tried to vote."The votes were normal, it's just that the dates somehow changed." If that was intended to be reassuring, I would say Anderson failed rather miserably. If, as he says, his staff looked into it, then there should be a written report. Anderson should say to the journalist, "We prepared a report, and I would be happy to send you a copy," or something like that.
Another disturbing find was several dozen voting machines with votes for the Nov. 2, 2004 election cast on dates like Oct. 16, 15, 19, 13, 25, 28 2004 and one tape dated in 2010. These machines did not contain any votes date-stamped on Nov. 2, 2004. [...]
The Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections, Arthur Anderson, said that his staff had looked into the problem and that the votes were normal, it's just that the dates somehow changed. [...]
Google News lists about 100 news articles that reference the Black Box Voting article. Most of these are reprints of an Associated Press article dated 2/23/2006, by Brian Skoloff. The AP article was picked up mostly by small organizations, although some of the big media outlets, such as The Washington Post, also printed it. A couple of conservative sites printed it as well, including Town Hall and The Conservative Voice. Another news article on the subject appeared in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, dated 2/24/2006, by Kevin Connolly.
Both news articles are disappointing, although they live up to the usual journalistic standards.
The AP writer, in a superficial effort to be fair and balanced, contacted the spokesperson for the manufacturer of the voting machines, and asked for a reply:
Sequoia spokeswoman Michelle Shafer disputed the findings, saying the company's machines worked properly. Sequoia's machines are used in five Florida counties and in 21 states.The problem with that, is that there is no analysis of the adequacy of Sequoia's response. The Black Box Voting article indeed does cite voting card errors, but that is only one type of error that they document. There are many more kinds of error reported, and most of them have nothing to do with the voting cards. Furthermore, a reasonably inquisitive reporter could wonder how it is that the machines handle these card errors, and what the procedures are for responding to the errors. One might wonder why the logs do not show what was done to correct the error. Furthermore, the respons that "The remaining errors would not affect the vote results because each unit has a backup system" is inadequate. How does that address the problem of incorrect date stamps?
"There was a fine election in November 2004," Shafer said.
She said many of the errors in the computer logs could have resulted from voters improperly inserting their user cards into the machines. The remaining errors would not affect the vote results because each unit has a backup system, she said.
Many such errors that Black Box Voting reported simply are not addressed in the AP article. For eample:
Polls closed and results report messages would be expected to appear on every voting machine at the end of the voting cycle, but these revealed problems with poll worker training and procedures at the administrative/training level. Some logs reported one report printed, some two, three, four or five, and several not only had no results tape printed but showed no closing of the polls. (Closing the polls tells the voting machine not to accept any more votes).Some logs show that no results were printed, indicating that there is no paper record of the votes that the machine recorded. Some show that the machine was not properly shut down at the end of the polling session. That would not neceassirly be a problem, if all the votes had reliable date stamps; and vote recorded after the polls were closed could be discarded. But as we have seen, the date stamps are not reliable. I would like to think that a vigilant reporter would notice this, and ask about it.
Card encryption bad and Card read fail errors also appeared, with the encryption error message the more frequent of the two.
Likewise, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel article is only a superficial report. They quote a Volusia County official:
Volusia officials said the charges are groundless and questioned Harris' credibility.I think it is fine to give the County officials a chance to respond, but the reporter could do better than that, by pressing for specifics. Lowe's response is a sweeping rejection of all claims, based upon a vague dismissal of the credibility of the Balck Box Voting director, Bev Harris. Vague ad hominem attacks tell us nothing. I want to know what the county officials have to say about the individual error messages. I want to know what happens when error messages occur while votes are being cast. Are poll workers aware of the errors? Is there a log kept by poll workers, showing when the errors occurred, what was done in response, and which poll workers responded? Is there a policy and procedures manual that specifies how these situations are handled? If so, how can citizens get access to that manual? What does it say a poll worker should do, if, for example, a voting machine reports a card encryption error?
"If you wish hard enough for a problem, your mind can imagine it," said former Volusia County Election Supervisor Deanie Lowe, who ran the 2004 election.
"I don't know of any election or of any voting system she has ever programmed, so she does not understand the situation. . . . She doesn't know what she's talking about."
Bloggers have been commenting on this, typically with a high degree of skepticism. For example, an IT guy, Truthspew, writes:
Can a president elected through fraudulent means be tossed out?Elisabeth, writing on Infomanic, picked up on the story, and got a useless comment:
Because Black Box Voting is really going gangbusters identifying serious election hanky panky.
For example, while I find the grammar and syntactical skills of the journalists at the Associated Press to be very disappointing, this article ineloquently states what the problems encountered happened to be.
Even during the 2000 Judicial Fiat we knew something was wrong. Same happened in 2004 and Dubya's plunging numbers only reinforce the notion that something is seriously rotten in Denmark.
Again, attacking Bev Harris may be interesting, but it is a different story. We need to see an analysis of the specific claims made by Black Box Voting, and a credible explanation of each claim. Harris provided the actual logs -- the raw data -- that were used by Black Box voting. If someone wants to complain about her reporting, that person needs to look at the logs and explain what all those error messages mean, and show why they should be disregarded.
Um, Elisabeth. We need to talk. The DUmmie FUnnies has LONG chronicled the foibles of the veracity challenged Bev Harris. Even the Democrat Underground has BANNED her from their leftwing site. Check out our December 2004 archivies of the DUmmie FUnnies and then do a search on the MANY references to Bev Harris and that should get you up to speed on the whole Black Box Voting thing.
The only thing Bev Harris and Black Box Voting are really good for is as a reliable source for comedy material and for that we thank her.---P.J.
Independent Report picks up on the story, and points out:
Does this sway the election results any? No, probably not. However, we find it curious that the voting machine manufacturers fought, kicking and screaming, against providing their source code or the machine's capabilities. "Trade secrets" they claimed, while also claiming the machines worked wonderfully well and could not be sabotaged. Well, we know they can be hacked pretty easily, and these irregularities point to some fishy business going on somewhere.Bev Harris does not claim to know if election results would have been any different had these errors not occurred. From the AP artiicle:
However, Harris said it was impossible to determine what information was altered or if votes were shifted among candidates.That, in itself, is newsworthy. The fact is, the results of the election cannot be verified, because the machines do a lousy job of telling us what actually happened on voting day. As one comment states here:
I started reading the actual log files... as far as I can tell, it doesn't look like the numbers were manipulated to benefit a specific candidate. It does look like the company is totally inept, and isn't qualified to count jellybeans.Some people read the Black Box voting article and concluded that there were problems, but the problems probably did not change the election results. Others looked at the same article and concluded that the problems do indicate election fraud, such as this post at What a Mockery: Concrete Evidence that 2004 Vote was Rigged in Florida. Some echo the report, and imply that the report indicates fraud, but do not state that explicitly; Ranting and Venting: Florida Voting Machine Logs Reveal Anomalies, by Mindwolf, is an example of this approach.
It seems like all this work the GOP is doing is just to make it easier to stage an election so they can seize power and make it look like it was legal.Others merely report on the findings, without adding anything; presumably, they are content to let readers draw their own conclusions. For example, Rob Galgano, at The Great Leap Forward, does exactly that. In a way, that approach is preferable to the approach taken by news writers who provide a half-hearted attempt at being fair and balanced, but no analysis of their findings.
What I notice about this situation, is that the Black Box Voting article, and the news stories about the findings by the Black Box Voting (BBV) organization, both illustrate similar concepts. What BBV found, is that one of the fundamental guarantors of our democracy -- accurate vote counting -- is no longer credible. Similarly, another fundamental guarantor of our democracy -- good journalism -- suffers from a credibility problem. Both of these problems are serious, but having the two together is especially bad. Together, the lack of credible voting, and the lack of credible journalism, threaten to create a new storm system in our political ecosystem.
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I read dailykos.com, and I must say, even though I often agree with sentiments expressed there, the place has been overrun with people talking about how everything Bev Harris publishes should be completely disregarded because she is an egomaniac etc..
I think you do a good job separating the two issues:
attacking Bev Harris may be interesting, but it is a different story. We need to see an analysis of the specific claims made by Black Box Voting, and a credible explanation of each claim. Harris provided the actual logs -- the raw data -- that were used by Black Box voting. If someone wants to complain about her reporting, that person needs to look at the logs and explain what all those error messages mean, and show why they should be disregarded.


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As the first closing bell of 2018 rang, Wall Street finished well into the green. After opening higher 115 points this morning, the Dow Jones Industrial Average finished Tuesday up about 80 points, or 0.3%. The S&P 500 gained more than 0.6% and the Nasdaq shot higher over 1% as tech stocks led the index to its best day since November.
Apple Inc. (AAPL - Get Report) shares were higher Tuesday after the company announced its iPhone battery replacement discount will go into effect immediately, instead of later this month. The company had come under intense criticism after it was discovered older iPhones were slowing down as a result of a software fix to protect the aging batteries in the units.
Netflix Inc. (NFLX - Get Report) stock also rose Tuesday after analysts at Macquarie upgraded shares to outperform from neutral. Macquarie said changing consumer preferences in favor of advertising-free television are an obvious plus for the streaming service. Netflix also has potential upside for revenue as its most recent round of price hikes goes into effect. Also Tuesday, Citi said Netflix has about a 40% chance of be acquired by Apple.
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- 27 March 2007
Spinning Platters
At the newly opened 78 bar in Glasgow's West End, vegetarian food is being reinvented with a fresh yet simple twist
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Glasgow has long trailed Edinburgh when it comes to dedicated vegetarian diners. Some efforts have withered (Indian Asha) while others have adapted to please carnivores (Bay Tree Café).
So, in 2007, can the city support ventures that don't do meat? Craig Tannock, founder of 13th Note and the man behind Mono, thinks so. Last year, his Stereo was placed on standby while new digs were sought in the city centre. The 78 opened in early March on the old Finnieston site.
The Stereo premise has been stripped back to bare stone and brick walls and sanded hardwood floors. A real wood-burning fire glows at one end of the room, while the other is filled with pew-style benches. The long bar is backed by cream coloured, distressed French cupboards and the tall windows opposite open onto the pavement with tidy rows of freshly stained timber tables and chairs.
The name (in keeping with Tannock's penchant for record-playing references) is inspired by a mid to early 20th century gramophone that stands beside stacks of old 78rpm discs. Plans are afoot for DJ spots when this piece of kit gets wound up. The range of organic and vegan beers on tap includes Freedom lager and organic Luscombe Devon cider. The house draught lager is Sam Smith's Taddy (vegan but not organic).
The concise food menu consists of around a dozen options, chalked on blackboards, which include small dishes (£2-£3.50) and main meals (£7). The portions are good and, better still, it all seems freshly prepared, from the wee balls of fried falafel to slender chips glistening with oil and served with paprika mayo. The downside of cooking from scratch, though, is that food sometimes arrives at a 331/3 pace. But it's still early days at 78.
Mildly spiced and rib-sticking red lentil dhal includes two light and crispy poppadums as well as a trio of plump veg and potato filled pakora, plus a pile of friable white rice (that goes a bit cold as the plate has not been heated) and a dollop of mango chutney. This dish, particularly with a side order, might well sate two light appetites. The falafel comes with a healthy serving of nutty hummus, toasted pitta pockets and fresh greens with tomato and sweet peppers. The chef doesn't just stick to Middle Eastern and South Asian dishes: other offerings might include a tomato and coconut chilli with grilled smoked tofu.
However tasty and wholesome, 78 does not bring to Glasgow a venue producing upmarket meat-free cooking on a par with Edinburgh's David Bann. Instead it focuses on solid café food. Should Glaswegian vegetarians (and omnivores) support this venture, the next spin may take the city in the direction of more adventurous vegetarian cuisine.
The 78
10-14 Kelvinhaugh Street, Glasgow 0141 576 5018
Food served Sun-Thu noon-8pm; Fri/Sat noon-9pm
Hearty servings of café-style vegetarian food
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Train services through south London have resumed after a power cut left hundreds of passengers stranded up to five hours.
Southern Rail has said work to repair the rail was completed overnight.
Southern's website states: "Problems with the conductor rail between Wandsworth Common and Clapham Junction caused damage to some trains travelling through this area yesterday (April 30).
"Work to repair the rail was completed overnight and trains are now running as normal between London Victoria / Watford Junction and Balham.
"Passengers with tickets for yesterday, Thursday 30 April who chose not to travel will be able to use their ticket today."
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here. It is such a sweet Medieval town I want all my guests to see it, but I will admit, I've had my fill, I am not going again. One of my neighbors can't stand this town because she says it is only for tourists. That may be true; it is filled with restaurants and shops, but it is also incredibly charming with it's medieval architecture, bowing walls and beautiful gardens. I have a favorite Christmas store where I've received the best customer service and friendly, chatty workers. If you are ever in Rothenburg stop at Der Kleine Weihnachtsladen at Untere Schmiedgasse 19. If you're lucky, the blond, short haired woman will be working. She speaks great English and is as friendly as can be.
On this trip, my sister and I rented head sets from Tourist Information and followed the guided walk through town. I've found these guides to be hit or miss. Sometimes they are helpful and other times, not so much. We actually enjoyed the Rothenburg tour and discovered new parts of the city I hadn't been to before.
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If your water goes more than half way up your wheels, remember to dry your brakes before using them for real.
Driving through floods. Do you know where the air intake is on your car? Is it high up or low down. It makes a lot of difference. Some Renault cars have the intake near the bumper so dring through floods can cause water to be taken in by the car
Always carry a long pole in the boot of the car so you can test the depth. Would you be prepared to walk through this flood. If the answer is no then it probaly isn't a good idea to take your car through.
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A former Westboro Baptist Church member believes that the controversial group's hatred for homosexuality finds it origins in the fact that its founder, Fred Phelps, is himself a homosexual. What a twist!
A possible example of the psychological phenomenon of transference, former Westboro Baptist Church member Lauren Drain theorizes that the organization's founder hates homosexuality so much because he hasn't come to grips with his own latent homosexuality.
"I never understood why, when [the media asked him], 'Why are you so against the homosexuals? Did you have a homosexual experience? Do you have homosexual tendencies?' And he would get so mad, he would shut down. And he'd be like, 'I can't talk to this person anymore, they're stupid.' His reaction to that was stronger than any other question you can ask him," 27-year-old Drain told the Advocate.
Drain was a member of the Topeka, Kansas congregation but left after she began to question the group's beliefs. Phelps was a Boy Scout who graduated with honors and was intending to go into the military at first. Then, he abruptly changed his mind at age 17 and became fixated on becoming a preacher and fighting against "sexual immorality."
"So I always wondered that — why does he get so mad? If I'm not gay, I'll just say I'm not gay. And I'm not going to freak out, like, 'Why are you calling me gay?' I always thought that was super strange," Drain wondered.
"I don't know what happened there, so [speculation] is all that I can leave it at. But something happened, and something made him change his mind about the military, and in turn have kind of a crusade against sexual immorality and homosexuals."
Drain has become an anti-bullying activist and an advocate for gay rights since leaving Westboro Baptist Church. She wrote a memoir, titled Banished: Surviving My Years in the Westboro Baptist Church, which was released on March 5.
"I don't think anyone should judge or persecute another human being or any group of individuals based off of those personal, chosen, beliefs," she told NOH8, posing for the equality movement in February.
"I am against any and all forms of violence, discrimination, bullying or bigotry directed at someone else due to their personal lifestyle."
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Athlete Jim Gillespie was tasting more glory at the Midlands Masters Heavyweight Hammer Pentathlon and the One-Handed Hammer Championships.
Competing on Saturday, the Wragby resident ended the day with two victories and a new Irish record.
The first hammer in the Pentathlon weighs 10 kilos, and Jim threw his second best-ever effort of 11.69m.
He followed this up with the 12.5 kilo hammer and a throw of 9.04m to put him in the lead.
The 15.88 kilo came next, and he got to within 2cm of his best-ever throw with 6.43m.
The next upgrade saw Jim get to work with the 19.08 kilo object.
This time he made a personal best of 5.79m to solidify his lead.
Last, but by no means least, came the big 25.4 kilo hammer.
Jim was within 1cm of his PB with the implement, throwing it 3.69m.
Jim's final total distance of 37.00m was a new Irish national record, beating the one he set last year.
After a well deserved break, he took part in the one-handed hammer.
This was not such a close affair as he won it with his first throw of 15.61m, his second best of all time.
"I'm going back to some heavy lifting in the gym for the next three weeks," said Jim.
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I'm not sure if I ever told you but my maternal grandfather was Hungarian?
When he settled here Hungary wasn't in a good place and his parents managed to join him and spend the rest of their days here in the UK. His mother was very good in the kitchen and has left a legacy of recipes behind her, she even made her own wine …but today I am going to share an easy Hungarian Goulash slow cooker recipe adapted by myself from the original recipe
Hungarian goulash in the slow cooker
Serves 4 – Similar recipe in WeightWatchers archives shows 10 Propoints per servingIngredients 500g stewing beef cut into cubes seasoned plain flour to coat the beef in a tbsp oil to fry 1 large onion chopped 2 cloves garlic crushed 2 tbsps paprika 1 tin of chopped tomatoes or 400g fresh chopped 1 tbsp tomato puree 1 red pepper chopped 1 green pepper chopped 300 ml beef stock Salt and pepper Sour cream to serve or greek yogurt I made dumplings to serve with mine
Coat the cubed beef in the seasoned plain flour and fry in a pan in the oil to brown on all sides.
Tip into the slow cooker, using the same pan and a spray of oil or two, fry off the onion until soft and golden and add the garlic towards the end. Add to the slow cooker.
Sprinkle over the paprika, add the tomato puree, the tin of tomatoes, the chopped peppers and the beef stock.
Set on high for a couple of hours and then turn to low for another 4 hours until the beef is tender. Correct the sauce with salt and pepper if needed and if you want to make dumplings add them to the slow cooker about 20 minutes before serving
You can sprinkle with parsley or add a swirl of sour cream or Greek yogurt too.


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"Mommy, Why Are You Sad?"
Sarah a 36-year old mom from Chicago will never forget the day that her 4-year old climbed up on her lap, looked right into her eyes and asked, "Mommy, why are you so sad?"
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Ask Yourself: What do I want?
Sure the big fancy lifestyle is great, but if you're not truly happy what does it matter? All that I want for you is to create a life that you're excited to wake up for.
Let's pretend that I have a magic wand and in one wave your life is EXACTLY how you want it to be, what's different?
It's great to imagine what life could be like, but that's not the issue. The real fear is that, you'll NEVER have that life.
Check out this inspirational Ted Talk by Nick Vujicic:
If a man born with no legs and arms can decide how his story unfolds, why can't you?
I'm determined to create the most IDEAL LIFESTYLE for the next client that contacts me.
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A huge portion of our lives is dedicated to other people and keeping up with appearances.
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What would you do with more time? I bet you could think of 10 things off the top of your head. Then why do we give away our time without a second thought?
Whether it's for a local church function, your mother-in-law, or your boss that needs just one more thing done before the weekend. That's your time.
We all know the old saying that starts with "Someday". "Someday I'll be happy", or "Someday I will have my dream life," etc.
Lets face it, cancer has crossed the age barrier and can infect us at anytime and unexpected deaths are on the rise. If your someday is not NOW, you may miss it.
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WaMu Introduces Tough New Rules for Brokers; Will Require Disclosure of YSP
Washington Mututal today noted that it's getting tough on brokers in the wholesale channel, unveiling new rules and requirements designed to "help ensure that borrowers fully understand the terms of the loan their brokers are requesting in addition to the total compensation the borrower will pay to the broker for their service." WaMu said it will now require brokers to provide evidence that a broker has disclosed key terms of the loan such as loan amount, loan term, whether the interest rate and mortgage payments may change, and whether the borrower's pricing package carries a prepayment fee. WaMu also will require brokers to disclose the amount of all compensation the borrower will pay the broker for their services, including broker points, or administrative or processing fees, and whether the broker has requested a yield spread premium -- and the bank will attempt to contact borrowers prior to closing to review loan terms with each individual borrower. Read that again: the second part is the real news here. Industry-changing news, in fact -- I've heard some rumors recently suggest that banks committed to remaining in the wholesale lending space will adopt similar rules for brokers shortly. Some are allegedly considering going even further, requiring that brokers disclose the amount of YSP in a deal (not just that YSP exists). The full press release is available here. "We believe our mortgage broker standard and direct call program should become the new industry benchmark for brokers and lenders across the nation," said Kerry Killinger, WaMu Chairman and CEO. "By adopting these standards, together we can increase consumer knowledge of the home loan process and bring about positive, meaningful change to the mortgage industry." "Our wholesale business is an important component of our lending strategy and we value our relationships with the high-quality and customer-focused brokers we do business with,� said David Schneider, WaMu's Home Loans President. "We believe that brokers will embrace this standard because an educated and informed consumer is the best customer for both WaMu and brokers alike."


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Tony Danza
In Brooklyn they tell it to you straight. "My mom used to say to me, 'When you introduce me to Sinatra, then you're a star,' " recalls Tony Danza, 49. The former boxer had five years of Taxi under his belt before he became boss's muscle-bound maid and did just that. Sinatra played himself in a 1989 episode, and Danza flew in his mom, Anne, a bookkeeper who died in 1993. "He treated her like Queen Elizabeth," says Danza. The actor's family values extended to creating a G-rated set for his young costars Alyssa Milano and Danny Pintauro, whose report cards he would proudly post. "He was very fatherlike," says Pintauro of Danza, married since 1986 to Tracy Robinson, 41, and a dad to Katie, 13, and Emily, 7, as well as Marc, 29, from a previous marriage. When the show ended, Danza says, "The hardest part was that I had been in a cocoon for eight years where everything I said was right." Though his 1995 series Hudson Street and 1997's The Tony Danza Show failed, the actor got good reviews for serious roles on Broadway in A View from the Bridge (1998) and last year's The Iceman Cometh. He has since filmed the pilot for a detective series, Homewood, P.I., and in April brought his popular cabaret act to Manhattan. In the four years he has been doing the stage show, there have been some familiar faces in the crowd. "If any of us is doing anything," says Katherine Helmond, Mona on Boss, "the other ones go."
Dan Pintauro
After eight years of what he calls "a ton of fun" as Judith Light's son on Who's the Boss?, 16-year-old Danny Pintauro took on the role of a typical sophomore at Montclair Prep in Los Angeles. "I was really focused on finishing school and getting into a good college," says Pintauro, now 24. "I was in the honors program, a smarty pants." And the apple of his TV family's eye. "I was very proud of him," says Tony Danza. Katherine Helmond brags about how "Danny was tops in Boy Scouts—he made Eagle Scout!" Pintauro, who now goes by Dan, went to Stanford University and in 1998 earned a degree in drama. His performance last year in a one-man Off-Broadway show about a naive street hustler called The Velocity of Gary (Not His Real Name) was well-received. This year, Pintauro got some backstage experience as an assistant stage manager at Manhattan's City Center theater. "I've been an actor since I was 2, but I had to prove myself all over again," says Pintauro, who aspires to direct but plans to reprise Gary this fall in San Francisco. He has also proved that honesty is the best policy in handling rumors about his sexuality. In 1997, Pintauro spoke publicly about being gay after a tabloid threatened to out him. "It turned into a positive thing," he says. "I had nothing to hide. I was not at all secretive about it. There was nobody in my own life who didn't know." But Pintauro does have one secret, which he'll share:" Who's the Boss? is on every day now, and I have to admit that I do watch it. For me, it's like looking through an old yearbook."
Katherine Helmond
As Boss's sassy, liberated and libidinous grandmother, Katherine Helmond "just nailed it," says the show's co-creator Martin Cohan. "In one episode she came back from a date with her sweater on backward, but she was able to make it funny, not smarmy." Adds co-creator Blake Hunter: "Katherine brought so much more to the role than the little randy thing we had originally written." That's because "I thought Mona was terrific," says Helmond. "She wasn't a slut, but suddenly in her life she had the freedom to flirt and date. I hope I projected a positive image to older women." The role won her a second Golden Globe; the first came in 1981 for playing the wealthy, whacked-out Jessica Tate on the sitcom Soap. Neither character, she says, was true to life. "I am so much more reserved. And if I really behaved like Mona, I wouldn't be married 38 years!" exclaims Helmond, who met her husband, painter and set designer David Christian, in 1962. Now playing Ray Romano's very proper mother-in-law on Everybody Loves Raymond, she keeps connected to her Boss family via phone. "We had a great run," she says. "We ended up friends."
Judith Light
Few actors go as far as Judith Light has gone to distance themselves from the roles that once defined them. For her starring turn in Wit, the 1999 Pulitzer Prize-winning play about a professor dying of ovarian cancer, the actress shaved off the long blonde hair that helped shape her identity as boss's uptight advertising executive and divorced mom. Light, 51, began her Off-Broadway stint last August and then took the show on the road for a five-city tour that ended this month. "When you are stripped of your hair, your crowning glory, as so many people call it, you have to look elsewhere for your power," Light told the Miami Herald in April. In Wit, the actress—who lives in L.A. with her husband of 15 years, actor Robert Desiderio, 48—delivered what The New York Times deemed a "harrowing and deeply affecting" performance. Raves Boss costar Tony Danza, who dined with her after catching the play last fall: "She was magnificent, and what guts!" While playing opposite Danza on Boss, Light needed guts, says Bud Wiser, a writer on the show. "Tony is such a powerful character—in real life he dominates—but Judith was never overwhelmed. She was strong." Funny too. While taping a scene in which Tony walks in on Angela in the bathroom, Light opened her robe and bared her breasts. Danza says his stunned reaction was real. "I was shocked," he says. "Judith was willing to do anything for a laugh."
Alyssa Milano
It was as inevitable as a sitcom laugh track. She arrived a fresh-faced Brooklyn-bred kid of 11, a veteran of nearly two years touring in Annie. Then four years into her turn as Danza's spirited TV daughter, "she became a celebrity," says costar Dan Pintauro. Milano. now 27, used breaks from Boss to appear in 1985's Commando with Arnold Schwarzenegger and make a successful 1988 exercise video for teens. "She was definitely primed for that teen-celebrity thing," says Pintauro. She was also a stunner. "All of a sudden there were boys coming to rehearsal," Danza recalls. "I'd say, 'Whaddaya doin'? Get outta here.' I used to chase them away." However, he couldn't stop them from seeing Milano without a stitch of clothing in the 1993 pages of Bikini magazine. "I worried about her, but it wasn't my place to say anything," explains Danza. "I played her father, but I wasn't her father." Milano got a wake-up call when she discovered that nude photos of her (some were stills from her 1995 film Embrace of the Vampire) were circulating over the Internet. In 1998 she and her mother, Lin, successfully sued the Web sites to drop her image. That same year, Milano (whose 1999 marriage to rocker Cinjun Tate, 28, ended after 11 months) signed on with Charmed, joining Shannen Doherty and Hotly Marie Combs as three sisters who are witches. "She's beautiful, professional and a pleasure to work with," says Charmed executive producer Aaron Spelling. TV dad Danza has stopped worrying.


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About Our Hearing Center
Better Quality. Better Service. Better Price.
Lone Star Hearing Center is an independently owned and operated hearing clinic that is dedicated to our patients and their family members. We provide a full range of diagnostic and preventive hearing services, including hearing aid sales and repair, diagnostic testing and screening, rehabilitative and preventive counseling, hearing protection and tympanometry assessment.
As an independent hearing instrument specialist Mike understands from firsthand experience what does and does not help improve hearing. It's not just about the science. It's about listening to you, selecting the right technology and fitting it to your lifestyle and listening desires.


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Effective Tips And Strategies For Running A Home Business Enterprise
Some folks think it's difficult to operate a home based business, but that isn't so. While it does require a significant amount of effort, it is not impossible. Good information is needed to start a home based business. The information here is sufficient to help you get started with a home business enterprise.
Customers must be happy to become loyal. It takes less effort to get sales from pleased, repeat customers than to convince the new ones to buy for a first time. Make sure your customers are happy and they are sure to return.
You need to have a personal phone line and a business phone line which are separate. You want your business to appear professional; plus, you wouldn't want a kid or someone else not associated with your company to answer the company phone.
Launching your work from home business is tough, but very rewarding. Starting a home business enterprise requires finding your niche market. This could be anything, but it should be something that you are familiar with. Research for a considerable amount of time before you throw all your eggs into one basket. Also, network with those who've successfully ran their own businesses.
Your customers will be happier if you excel at customer service. Simple things like thank-you notes or freebie items will show your customers that you appreciate their business and generate repeat business. People enjoy getting free things, and they also like to know that they are appreciated. The more appreciated they feel, the more likely they will choose to spend their hard earned money with you.
To better track your business-related spending, open a specific checking account for your business. Use the account for all of your company's financial transactions, including sales profits and expenses. This way, you have a detailed record of all money that flows through your business. Try to get separate credit cards that you can use solely for business transactions.
Invest in professional looking, quality business cards. You can usually find many good deals on business cards, and sometimes you can even get them for free. You want all vital information in your business cards, so double check to make sure you have included your website, phone number and email address. Include your email address and the URL to your website on the card. This will make it easier for your customers to reach you in a variety of ways.
Select a name for your business that holds personal value. This can be the actual name of your business or domain name. Lots of domains are under ten dollars a year, and you need to get yours before others do. When determining if you need a complete site, put up a brief one that includes simple contact information.
Set up a fund that you can use in case of emergency, in order to ensure your business' financial security. This way, you will have money set aside for unexpected expenses, and your business will be able to run as usual. Do not break into your emergency account if you do not have to, if you do, replace the money.
Financial records pertaining to your business must be complete and accurate. If the IRS or another authority ever audits your business, you want to ensure that you have sufficient information to prove your expenses and income. Also, when you keep your records, you can see the success of your business by month.
Ensure that the online business you choose is a good fit with the activities and lifestyle of your whole family. If it starts to be a problem for your family, you should think up a different type of business.
It is important as a small or home-based business owner to keep all your business related receipts. All your business-related purchases, including transportation, are tax-deductible. You may not know what is tax deductible, so make sure to keep all of your receipts. Failing to keep receipts can cause trouble during tax time.
You should get a DBA or Doing Business As license. In many states, this can be done through a state government website or even through the bank you use locally. It is usually cheap and can help with separating personal and business accounts.
As was mentioned before, it is easy to start a work from home business. You need to do hard work, but it isn't impossible. By keeping this information in mind, you can start your own online business.


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Ah!Gu Dreaming Awake
This paper consists in a surface design study to the creation of a childish patterns assembly line that will be applied in play-pajamas that look for encourage the reading before bedtime. As inspiration, it was held storytelling moments with children between six and ten years old in three moments: narration (storytelling), reflection (break to discuss about the moral and the acquired learning) and interpretation (graphic representation with the assistance of paper, colored pencil, scissors, glue and ink.
To these moments, it was used three short stories from the children's writer Ana Maria Machado, which include various themes. She was chosen due to the author's admiration for her life and professional history, besides of her literary work. All the produced content was analyzed and applied on the surfaces' composition, taking into consideration important names from this area and their project techniques. The childish essence presented in the dashes and colors were kept.
To giving support to these creations, it was developed four pajama models, which bring a dynamic in their structures. The clothes are followed by little parts that can be fixed in their surfaces and work as a reward to the child after he or she has finished the reading. In this context, the fashion appears as an essential tool assisting at the technical issues as cloths choice, molding and prototyping. The project, besides promoting the childish patterning, arousing and stepping up the reading habit, looks for strengthen family ties promoting special moments between parents and their children.


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Thank you for choosing to rent through Morgans
We really appreciate you choosing us. We work hard to ensure that we deliver great service from beginning to end but we also understand that we will sometimes fall short of our aspirations. Should this be the case, please do take the time to let us know; over 25% of our new business comes from recommendation and returning clients and we want to keep it that way!
If you are really happy with the way we have looked after you, then we'd love you to leave a Google review.
Tenants' handbook
Please take the time to read our handbook, which is designed to make your life easier. We have included contact information about utility companies, useful tips, bond return procedure and your responsibilities as a tenant. We hope that you find this useful and would be particularly grateful for your cooperation when reporting a maintenance issue- the procedure is set out in full in 'have a nice stay'
Report an issue
To report a repair during Property Management hours call 0113 2179090.
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- Friday 9:00am to 5:15pm
- Saturday 9:00am to 6:00pm
Out of hours emergency
For out of hours emergencies, call the relevant number listed on page 10 of the tenants handbook. A typical call out charge is a minimum of £120 (inc. VAT) and you will be liable for this charge, plus any labour costs, if you call the out of hours service with an issue which is not an emergency.
What is an emergency
An emergency is 'any repair necessary to avoid a danger to the tenant's health or wellbeing, or to avoid serious damage to the building or the tenant's belongings'.
Complaints procedure
Morgans, a member of the Property Ombudsman, aims to provide the highest standards of service to all our customers. To ensure that your interests are safeguarded, a complaints procedure is in place. This provides for the matter to be dealt with internally and, in the event that we are not able to deal with the issue to our mutual satisfaction, by reference to The Property Ombudsman.
If you believe you have a complaint, please write in the first instance to:
Jacqui Pringle
Head of Operations
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Or email email@example.com
Your written complaint will:
- be acknowledged within 24 hours whenever practicable but in no longer than 3 working days,
- investigated thoroughly in accordance with established in-house procedures and
- a formal reply will be sent to you within 15 working days of receipt of your complaint.
If you are not satisfied with the outcome of our initial investigation, you are provided with a further and final opportunity to have the complaint reviewed by a member of the senior management team, who has not already been involved in the initial investigation. This should be raised with Jonathan Morgan, MD, at the above address and he will conduct the review.
In the event that the final review, as detailed above, still fails to satisfy your complaint, then you are at liberty to have the matter referred to The Property Ombudsman. We will submit our file to the Ombudsman on request. You are also entitled to have your complaint referred to the Ombudsman should we fail to deal with matters promptly or do not comply with our in-house complaints procedure within 8 weeks from the date we receive your written notification.
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Bottle Gourd Rice-Lauki Pulao
Prep Time : 10 mins
Serves: 2
Recipe Category: Rice-Lunch-Bottle Gourd
Recipe Cuisine: North Indian
Author:Padhu Sankar
Ingredients needed
Rice - 1 cup (basmati or regular rice)
Bottle gourd - 3 cups chopped
Green peas - 1/3 cup fresh or frozen
Onion - 1 cup or 2 big onions
Green chillies - 2 slit
Ginger garlic paste - 1 tsp
Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
Coriander powder - 1 tsp
Salt to taste
For the seasoning
Oil - 2 tbsp
Ghee - 2 tsp
Cumin seeds - 1 tsp
Whole black peppercorns - 3-4
Cinnamon - 1/2 inch stick
Cloves - 3
Curry leaves - a sprig
For Garnishing
Coriander leaves - 2 tbsp finely chopped
Wash and soak rice for 20 minutes in water. Drain the water and keep it ready.
Peel the skin of bottle gourd and chop it into medium sized pieces. Discard the seeds.
Cut onions lengthwise and slit green chillies.
Heat oil + ghee in a pan, add cumin seeds, when it sizzles, add cloves, cinnamon and whole black peppercorns.
Saute for a few seconds and then add onions, green chillies and curry leaves.
Saute until onions turn light brown. Add ginger garlic paste and saute for a few more seconds.
Add coriander powder, turmeric powder and salt needed.
Add chopped bottle gourd, green peas and mix well. Add soaked and drained rice.
Mix well and add 2 cups of water. Check for salt by tasting the water. If required add at this stage.
When water starts boiling, close the cooker and cook on low heat (without the whistle) until the rice is cooked. You can open the cooker in between, mix again and continue to cook until the rice is fully cooked.
Garnish with finely chopped coriander leaves. Fluff it with a fork and serve hot.
Simple and delicious bottle gourd rice/lauki pulao is ready. You can serve it with raita or any spicy gravy. As the pulao is a bit plain, a spicy gravy goes well with it.


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Falls on Lunch Creek
Kate Starling
Oil on Linen
24" x 36"
Evening Light
Kate Starling
Oil on Linen panel
18" x 24"
Glacial Melt
Kate Starling
Oil on Linen panel
9" x 12"
Autumn River
Kate Starling
Oil on Linen panel
10" x 12"
Waterton Stream
Kate Starling
Oil on Linen panel
12" x 10"
The above works appear in A Timeless Legacy: Peace Park 2018 and are available for purchase.
Kate Starling is an oil painter who lives and works in the canyons of southern Utah. Educated in geology, she spent years working outside as a geologist and National Park ranger. After formal academic art training from 1988 - 1995 she devoted her work to painting the landscape. Educated in the importance of painting directly from observation she has spent years painting outside, learning the way light plays on the land. Now she splits her time between the roadways and trails surrounding her home and the studio.
"I live in the heart of the American southwest and I need travel no further than out my door to paint this unique beauty," Kate says. "Whether I am driving a dirt back road or hiking to a favorite water pocket I find limitless inspiration in this landscape. Constantly surprised by the nuance shaped by light and the season, or the drama created by weather, I can experience it as if new. This land triggers emotions in me that I strive to paint in such a way that memory and emotion is triggered in the people who see my work."
Kate's paintings portray the natural world and focus on communicating a sense of place, atmosphere and dazzling light, retaining the immediacy of the painting experience. She knows the strength of emotion that the landscape seen in a particular light can trigger in her – she strives to paint in such a way that memory and emotion are triggered in the people who see her work.
"As I have grown older and more confident in my ability to paint I find myself painting for different reasons than I once did," she says. "While the adventure of exploration of both the land and my journey as a painter had been enough I am now determined to impart the beauty of this land of ours, the open space and the value that it adds to our lives." Visit the artist's website.


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With Labor Day just a few days away in Hong Kong, we are pleased to help make life a little more labour-free—especially for coworkers—with the launch of delivery.com Hong Kong, our first expansion into international markets.
delivery.com's new website for Hong Kong, hk.delivery.com, boasts a curated list of premium and popular merchants tailored to the corporate consumer. These merchants feature a wide range of products, from delicious meals, craft beers and desserts to cold-pressed juices, organic groceries, wonderful wines and more.
So why are we turning our attention to Hong Kong now?
Hong Kong is one of the world's most densely populated places with a cultural and business environment that mirrors New York City, where delivery.com is headquartered. A financial hub with a highly concentrated corporate center and residential footprint, Hong Kong is ripe for hyperlocal e-commerce and delivery.com's proven expertise. Long working hours, the growing popularity of team lunches, and increasingly tech-savvy consumers support the need for a central online marketplace where busy professionals with limited free time can order high-quality delivery, particularly during the workday's peak lunchtime hours.
At launch, our Hong Kong platform will provide online ordering from local merchants to corporate consumers, with the financial and legal industries comprising our most active client base. Financial services represent one of the fastest growing employment segments in Hong Kong; London's Centre for Economics and Business Research forecasts Hong Kong will have more than 260,000 positions by 2016, eclipsing New York and London.
Local online ordering in Hong Kong is only just starting to take off. Food delivery, for example, according to a January Euromonitor study, accounts for less than 3 percent (HK$1.7 billion) of the HK$65 billion in revenue produced by full service restaurants as a whole. We predict that number will rise exponentially with the introduction and adoption of hyperlocal e-commerce platforms like delivery.com.
Having delivery options is value additive to businesses, especially in high rent locations like Hong Kong and New York. Local businesses can use delivery to create sales—many current delivery.com merchants in the U.S. cite 30-40 percent of their overall business comes from takeout and delivery—without needing to increase their retail footprint. Rising rents in Hong Kong, which have doubled since 2011, have forced many merchants to shutter their doors, including Lei Yuen Congee, a well-known Hong Kong favorite in the community that operated for 42 years. Our platform will help businesses address these challenges by providing an off-premises revenue stream and marketing engine.
The good news for local businesses is that there is evidence of increasingly sophisticated consumer palettes and a growing preference for artisanal, local offerings over those of chain restaurants and stores. In fact, in 2012, independent restaurants generated nearly 85 percent of the revenue from the city's nearly 8,500 restaurants. With that in mind, many of our restaurant partners created special menu items and lunch sets only available to the corporate consumer on delivery.com. These include:
- Comfort – celebrity Chef Harlan Goldstein's multicultural, casual concept menu based on comfort food features an exclusive lunch menu designed for busy professionals, with a number of nutritionally balanced meals.
- Happy Cow – hand-crafted vegan ice cream
- King's Taste – a modern mix of Chinese flavors from Beijing, Sichuan, Shanghai and Hangzhou
- La Rotisserie – authentic French country cuisine with ingredients imported directly from France
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- Sugo Sushi – the freshest ingredients sourced from local suppliers
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In Hong Kong and all throughout the U.S., delivery.com empowers the neighborhood economy by enabling customers to order online from their favorite local restaurants, grocery stores, wine and spirits shops, and laundry and dry cleaning providers. Every day more than one million delivery.com customers explore their communities and order from more than 10,000 local businesses while at home, at work, or on the go. With headquarters in New York and a growing presence throughout the U.S. and internationally, delivery.com makes e-commerce an integral part of local daily life, helping customers shop, businesses grow, and neighborhood thrive.
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"Nothing has more value to a prospective client than another person's experience with that business." – George Magalios, President of Mediasophia
WEST PALM BEACH, FL,(MARCH,6 2014) — Public opinion is a valuable marketing tool and when clients and customers post positive reviews of their experiences on sites like Yelp it gives potential clients a good impression and confidence in that business. For this reason, Mediasophia has created a team that solicits customer reviews to enhance the reputation of its clients. The online reputation of a business is everything that appears on the Internet about that company. When a company profile is enhanced with positive customer reviews it earns the trust of prospective clients, who as a result are more apt to seek services from that business.
The online reputation management companies that include posting customer reviews on the Internet put clients at a big advantage over the competition. When the performance of work or the quality of a product is backed up with a positive customer review it will earn the trust of online viewers and increase sales.
Mediasophia is a full-service internet marketing firm that provides elite internet marketing including web design in Palm Beach, organic SEO and online reputation management. It represents clients as the leading businesses in diverse markets with state-of-the-art web design and top visibility on the Internet. Its online reputation management includes posting reviews on sites like Yelp to ensure client profiles are positive and reflective of success.


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what do u want for Fitz?
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I'm not trading cromartie anymore. I'm not giving up a corner with 98 speed and acceleration. I'm willing to trade Larry Fitzgerald for the right price though. All of my receivers are avaliable except Early Doucet. Beanie and Hightower are available. Neither of my two safeties are available. I need offensive linemen, linebackers, a quarterback, and maybe a receiver between 70 and 75 overall.
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I'll do a trade if get a quarterback between 75 and 85. I have Breaston, Hightower, Wells, and Leinart. I'm going to try out my team in madden 11 first before I accept any trades. I'm probably not keeping all four of my running backs though. I have four 69 or higher. LaRod Stephens-Howling, my fourth-string has 92 speed and 95 acceleration if anyone wants him in a trade. I'm probably cutting jason wright right away because he has sub-80's speed and he's only good catching out of the backfield anyhow.
If you can think of a trade without Cromartie, i'll do it. I just saw the ratings and his speed is 98. I'm not giving him up.
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I only have Cromartie and Hightower on the block now. I need another WR and a QB.
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What would you want for Breaston or Hightower?
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of course!!! my girlfriend is originally from Denver so she is a fan of them. plus I've been using the name dawkinseffect for online gaming since 2003, I don't plan on changing it anytime soon
Are you stll a fan of Dawkins even after he left Philly for the Broncos?
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well duh...I've been a dawkins fan my whole life, hence the username
You probably aren't the real Brian Dawkins either.
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dude he would have fell for it!!! you should of said you were the real one!
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Gonna have to pass on that trade!!
How about Eric Berry for DRC!
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Hey what would it take to get DRC?? I'm the Chiefs btw.
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I love this beautiful world we live in and I find joy in the little things of life and I wake thankful each morning for the gift of life. My journey has not been an easy one but I feel I am ready to fly and I am who I was born to be.
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Tippr Gets Injunction for Alleged Trade Secret Theft by BuyWithMe, Also Launches Patent Lawsuit
Kashless, the parent of Seattle-based group deals site Tippr, is accusing New York- and Boston-based BuyWithMe of improperly obtaining insider information from a Tippr employee in a civil lawsuit filed in Seattle.
Kashless's lawsuit, filed in King County Superior Court, alleges that BuyWithMe founder Andrew Moss successfully solicited financial information from a Tippr salesman, Andrew DeLorenzo, who had been looking for another job.
In an injunction signed Feb. 4, King County Superior Court Judge Steven C. Gonzalez found that it "appears likely that BuyWithMe 'misappropriated' the information" under state law, and that there is a "substantial likelihood" that evidence in the case will show BuyWithMe's actions constituted theft under state law.
Under "findings of fact," the judge's order says that last October, Moss e-mailed DeLorenzo to ask: "Do you think you can find out how much $$ is left in the bank, and how much he is spending every month in overhead, personnel, etc?… Do you have these same reports by city?"
The judge's order also finds that DeLorenzo sent Moss Kashless's total gross sales revenue, weekly and monthly cash burn rates, and its total expenses, along with a table showing performance by salespeople and Kashless's total number of subscribers.
The order then says Moss sent along a report on this information to other BuyWithMe senior officers, and that they indicated plans to "significantly disrupt Tippr."
Subsequent e-mail traffic also indicated that the BuyWithMe officials knew the information might be confidential, the order says. One e-mail quoted by the order says Moss suggested BuyWithMe should "Stop sharing our details to all salespeople [because] they will do this same thing."
Gonzalez's injunction also says the information at issue must be sent to the defendants' lawyers and purged from the defendants' possession while the case proceeds.
In a court filing Tuesday, BuyWithMe and Moss demanded a jury trial. They declined to comment Wednesday, citing the ongoing litigation. Tippr's founder and chief executive, Martin Tobias, also declined comment.
In his own court filing, DeLorenzo, the former Tippr salesman, says he did not intend to harm the company by sharing any information, which he describes as being widely distributed within the company and to potential clients.
"I am surprised to hear that Tippr considers the information to be confidential, much less to constitute trade secrets," DeLorenzo wrote.
DeLorenzo also says he doesn't recall signing a non-disclosure agreement with Tippr covering the period in question, as the company alleges.
The lawsuit against BuyWithMe, Moss, and DeLorenzo came to light Wednesday through a separate court filing: Kashless also is suing BuyWithMe and another competitor, New Jersey-based DealOn, for infringing on a suite of patents. That lawsuit seeks an injunction and unspecified damages.
Kashless launched Tippr early last year after acquiring the patent portfolio of former Bellevue, WA-based dot-com Mercata from Paul Allen's Vulcan Capital. Tobias has previously touted the firm's intellectual property and has said he wants to be the "arms dealer" for group-buying sites.


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So you want to work in publishing? Publishing is a hard industry to get into and the first few years involve a lot of work for no pay. Through this book you will gain the information you need to enter the world of books with your eyes wide open.
The vast majority of people who want to go into publishing want to be editors, which is the path with the least pay and most work (at least in the bottom ranks). But do you know what the other jobs in publishing even are? You might be more ideally suited and enjoy working in a completely different department that you've never thought of before. This book takes you through all the major career paths in book publishing and explains the advantages and disadvantages of each, so you can match up your personality and skills to find the perfect job for you.
After explaining the different jobs, the book explains about types of publishing houses, and gives you tips for how to get into publishing including:
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CRM Series: How Much CRM Experience Do You Need to Be Successful with Marketing Automation?
We are excited to introduce Michael Loop as today's guest blogger. Michael Loop is the co-founder of Datarati, Asia Pacific's Fastest Growing Data Driven Marketing Automation Agency. Michael has successfully delivered over 200 marketing automation and CRM implementations across the globe.
"How much do we need to know about our CRM system to be good at this marketing automation stuff?" I seem to get a variation of this question at the beginning of nearly every implementation. Inevitably my reply remains the same no matter what the industry: "You need to know a lot!"
Most marketers have never had to know much about their CRM. Many are lucky to even have access to the system. Once the initial shock from my reply dissipates from my inquisitor's face, I attempt to explain. To be successful with marketing automation, you MUST closely align yourself to the overall business process.
You need to know things like: What are all of our fields used for? What do their values mean? What are related objects? What do we store in them? And overall, how do all of our teams from sales to finance use the CRM system on a daily basis? If you're not familiar with this information and how it's connected, your reporting and insights will be misleading or wrong.
For me, marketing automation is less about automated emails, WYSIWYG editors, drip lead nurturing programs, or even complex scoring models. The difference between ordinary and great marketing automation implementations is not who uses the most functionality, but how the tool is used to improve their business processes as they stand today. These optimizations need to be carried out in both the marketing automation tool and the CRM. Similarly the processes must be agreed upon by marketing and all other CRM stakeholders.
Here are a few examples of process gaps that we see on a daily basis:
Lead Status
Your company holds a great event and captures over 400 Marketing Qualified Leads. You import them into your marketing automation system and pass them onto sales to qualify and convert. The majority of companies we speak to do not have a firm understanding across sales, let alone marketing, on what each of their Lead Statuses represents. When should a lead be moved from 'Open' to 'Working', versus 'Contacted' or 'Unqualified', versus 'Recycled' or 'Qualified', or simply creating an opportunity? If a week after the event, 350 of your 400 leads were sitting at a status of 'Contacted', what sort of insight could be derived as a marketer?
Lead Source
In nearly every implementation I've completed over the last 10 years, I have struggled with one question, "what does 'Web' mean as a Lead Source?" Why does it seem to source such a large proportion of leads coming through across all companies and all industries? (The largest and clear favorite is still the worst Lead Source for every team: "Empty").
Similar to the above scenario, if your team created 1000 leads last month and 900 have a Lead Source of "Web", how can you make an informed decision on where to spend budget for acquiring more leads? Even worse, what happens when you close 70% of your marketing sourced revenue from "Web"? If it was a good month, how can you replicate that great revenue producing quarter? If bad, how can you avoid the same mistakes? The majority of these ambiguous Lead Statuses stem from historical CRM values that were created years ago with little to no logic. To request a change to these values might be an internal faux paus or take months to be approved by the "committee".
Opportunity Management
Have you ever had an account executive update a marketing sourced opportunity to a Lead Source of 'AE Generated'? Or created a great opportunity that strangely was closed out, only to miraculously see a new one created in its stead seconds later?
Marketing is inevitably moving towards being measured by the pipeline and revenue it creates. Understanding the intricacies of how your Sales team creates, manages, progresses and closes their pipeline is vital for marketing's success.
In summary, all CRM processes need to be monitored. They need to be clearly understood, documented, agreed upon and audited by all relevant parties. If marketing does not start "knowing a lot" about CRM processes and looking beyond just the new features of their marketing automation tools, not only will they be unsuccessful with marketing automation, but they will be ineffective in their roles.
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Squares with Concentric Circles by Kandinsky
Finished size: 15 3/8" x 12 1/4" on 14-ct White Aida Cloth.
Stitch count: 210 x 170
A Colorful and delightful version of Kandinsky's artwork. It's a large but easy project to complete.
This kit includes: Chart, 14-ct Aida Cloth, Presorted DMC Cotton Floss and Needle.


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Description: You're in a room with a bunch of friends and a deck of cards. You allow a friend to pick any card, then put it back in the deck. After shuffling the deck, you start turning over cards until you see your friend's. You bet everybody in the room $1, $2, $5, or whatever, that the next card you turn over is theirs. Seeing that it's already there, they greedily make the bet. You turn over the card lying on top of the face-up pile. Be sure to collect your cash.
1. Shuffle deck (it works better without Jokers, and you may want to use only half the deck).
2. Fan out the cards and allow somebody to pick ANY one. (Editor's suggestion: Have him or her show the card to others. Otherwise they won't have any reason to take your bet later. RS)
3. Shuffle deck again, cut it near the middle, and let the person put their card back. Note the card that goes on top of theirs (this is the Key Card), but try not to let them see you.
4. Cut the deck (single cuts only!!) as many times as you would like. After the last cut, glimpse the bottom card if you can. If it's the Key Card, cut the cards once more. (Otherwise, you'll have 1:52 odds of winning the bet, NOT 52:1.) This works because even if you separate the two cards, the next cut puts them back together again.
5. With the deck face-down, start flipping over cards. Continue until the one AFTER the Key Card. This is their card (remember it!).
6. While holding the next card in the deck as though you are about to flip it, bet everybody in the room a couple of dollars that the next card you TURN OVER is theirs.
7. After they make the bet (if you do this trick casually, they probably will. Don't act overconfident), flip over their card, which should be lying on top of the face-up pile. Collect reward.
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