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Growing up I always wanted to have a pet of some kind. I loved animals and just like any kid wanted a dog, a cat or a hamster to call my own. However, the fact that we were like gypsies moving from country to country and that my mum was finicky about having animal hair in her apartment I never actually got to own a pet.
Our vacations to India were a bit like the animal paradise I had always imagined. My grandparents' house in Delhi was not far from a thick deep park like woods, where monkeys dangled from tree to tree and the really cheeky ones sometimes came down as far as the walls of the house. Then there were goats or cows that roamed the streets freely and shared the pavement with stray dogs or cats.
While this was paradise to us kids, it was a nightmare for my mother and aunts who were constantly paranoid we'd get some crazy animal disease. My grandmother on the other hand was always calm and telling her daughters to stop overacting. She would shake her head – after all her children were all brought up in much the same fashion and probably the same cows and goats roamed the streets back then.
"Moving to your fancy foreign countries you have all turned to wimps!" she would joke. "My grandchildren will not be wimps!"
We'd run out squealing with delight and my mother and aunts would look helplessly at each other.
It was summer and we were carefree and liberated from worry like only children can be. We ran the streets barefooted and looking for adventure. Back home we never experienced the same adventures India offered us. And my grandmother was our heroine. She would give us day old chapattis, milk, fruit and vegetables to feed our animal farm. We would carry the goodies a little bit away from the eyes of our mothers and create a foodie paradise for the stray animals.
However, one day I think even I managed to rattle my grandmother's nerves.
"Nani! look I think these poor animals need a home!" I said coming into the kitchen where my nani was giving the cook instructions for dinner.
She did not look up but just told me to take the animals out on the veranda and she'll be there in a bit.
So I did. I waited. But my mum came out on the veranda, turned pale and let out a scream. Soon the family were gathered around all talking at the same time giving me the feeling I was going to get into a lot of trouble. Finally my nani came out.
"What's the ruckus about?" Then she saw me holding two white rats by their tails – two very dead rats. I was feeling uncomfortable right about then with the whole clan looking at me and I think my nani realized that.
"My God you people, have you not seen big mice in your lives?" she said coming towards me. "Don't you have big mice in your fancy foreign countries?"
She winked at me and with the end of her sari wrapped the rats (because that is what they really were) inside.
"Come let's see if we can find them a home!" And the two of us did. In a box that she buried later that evening, when I was asleep, in the garden along with her sari!
That was my nani. My heroine!
I love my legumes, especially chickpeas. Only Indians have such a large repertoire of incredible tasting legumes dishes. The variety seems never ending. One of my all time favorites is a simple and comforting dish of chickpeas and spinach spiced with mustard seeds. Fancy it is not – but it is darned good and a perfect dish if you are still acquainting yourself with Indian cuisine.
Chickpeas with Spinach – Channa Palak
Printable version of recipe here
450g chickpeas, soaked overnight then cooked till tender. Alternatively you can use canned chickpeas
500g spinach leaves, washed and chopped
1 teaspoon black mustard seeds
2 tablespoons canola oil – or ghee (clarified butter)
1 tablespoon ginger, finely chopped
150g red onions, finely chopped
2 teaspoons tomato paste
1 large tomato, finely chopped
1 green chili, finely chopped
Salt to taste
- Heat canola oil (or ghee) in a medium sized pan over a medium to high heat. Add the mustard seeds, cover and cook until the seeds have stopped popping – approx. 30 seconds.
- Lower the heat and add the ginger, stir-frying for about 30 seconds until light brown.
- Add the onion and cook for 10 minutes until onions are slightly caramelized and brown. Then add chopped tomato, tomato paste, green chili and salt. Finally tip in the chickpeas and coat with the sauce.
- Add about 2 cups of water and bring the mixture to a boil. The lower heat and add the spinach in two to three batches, stirring until each batch has wilted.
- Once all the spinach has been added allow the curry to simmer for 10-12 minutes on a medium low heat, until the sauce has thickened.
- Serve hot with naans and chutney.
Food Guide Tips:- Spinach
- Legumes
- Ginger
Tart and tangy with a hint of rustic tasting mustard seeds, this is a beautifully balanced vegetarian dish. Not overly spicing it, the spinach and and chickpea flavors come through perfectly. The dish relies on the quality of the ingredients so try and get the freshest spinach and ripest tomatoes.
More Bollywood Cooking from WFLH:
Channa Masala | Paneer Do Piaza | Spicy Okra with Onions |
All photographs and written content on What's For Lunch, Honey? © 2006-2010 Meeta Khurana unless otherwise indicated. | All rights reserved | Please Ask First


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Singer Michelle Shocked sits in at canceled show
Singer Michelle Shocked stages sit in at canceled show in Calif. with tape across her mouth
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) -- Her show had been cancelled, but that didn't stop alternative folk and rock singer Michelle Shocked from showing up at a Santa Cruz nightclub where she staged a sit-in with tape across her mouth that read "Silenced By Fear."
Moe's Alley was one of several nightclubs that cancelled Shocked's gigs after she made what were considered anti-gay comments during a rambling outburst at a show earlier this month.
On Thursday evening, Moe's Alley owner Bill Welch had replaced her with two local bands that support gay rights, Beaver Fever and Frootie Flavors.
"We will not be bashing Michelle Shocked," he said. "Rather, we will celebrate music, diversity and send some healing Santa Cruz energy her way."
Sitting on the ground outside the venue and strumming her guitar, Shocked was largely ignored and refused to speak. She pointed to a sign inviting people to pick up a Sharpie marker and write on the white disposable safety suit she was wearing.
Earlier this week in an email to The Associated Press and other media, Shocked apologized and said her comments during the San Francisco show were misinterpreted.
"Of course the fault for that is completely my own, and I cannot and do not blame anyone for defending the gay community," she wrote.
On Thursday night, she posted signs that read "Does speech scare you that much?" and on her back she had scrawled "Gimme Wit, Not Spit."

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This page tracks the project status, incubator-wise. For more general project status, look on the project website.
The Graffito project retired on 2007-07-11
This page tracks the project status, incubator-wise. For more general project status, look on the project website.
The Graffito project retired on 2007-07-11
Graffito (formerly JCMS) is dedicated to build a complete CMS solution on top of existing content management frameworks (like Slide or Jackrabbit). One of the design goals of Graffito is to be easily integrated in a JSR-168 portal environment like Pluto or Jetspeed 2.
The JCR Mapping component was transferred into the Apache Jackrabbit project.
1 new committer joins the team (Alexandru Popescu).
Jetspeed 2 integration is almost finished. We plan to build a Graffito implementation for the Jetspeed 2 Page Manager.
Version 1.0-a1-dev is almost finished.
The JCR mapping tools support basic mapping strategies. Now, we are working on more advance strategy like inheritance,interface, ...
Graffito is still under incubation. See on the Graffito incubation page to get more information.
2 new committers join the team (Oliver and Sandro). They are mainly focus on the JCR Mapping tools.
Version 1.0-a1-dev is on good way, some portlets are availables, see the maven report to follow the developement process.
Graffito developement is just incubating in the ASF. The code is not 100% stable and not all Graffito features are implemented.
Obviously, you are welcome to send your comments and to contribute!
item | type | reference |
Website | www | http://incubator.apache.org/graffito/ |
. | wiki | . |
Mailing list | dev | email@example.com |
. | svn | email@example.com |
Bug tracking | jira | http://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/BrowseProject.jspa?id=10661 |
Source code | SVN | https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/graffito/ |
Mentors | raphael | Raphael Luta |
. | jukka | Jukka Zitting |
Committers | taylor | David S. Taylor |
. | raphael | Raphael Luta |
. | clombart | Christophe Lombart |
. | okiessler | Oliver Kiessler |
. | sboehme | Sandro Boehme |
. | apopescu | Alexandru Popescu |
Graffito is a framework for content-based applications, especially in portlet environments. Graffito entered incubation on September 20, 2004.
Despite recent efforts the level of activity within the Graffito project remains low. The only part of the project that enjoys continued interest and commit activity is the JCR Mapping component, whose transfer into a subproject of Apache Jackrabbit is being prepared.
There is little indication that the level of activity within other parts of the Graffito project would increase in future, so we will most likely request termination of the project as retired as soon as the JCR Mapping component has been moved to Apache Jackrabbit.
(This is the extra followup report requested by the board last month.)
Graffito is a framework for content-based applications, especially in portlet environments. Graffito entered incubation on September 20, 2004.
The recent discussion on the status of the Graffito project has concluded with some concrete action items (see the thread). The plan is to realign Graffito to be more a content management framework instead of a complete CMS product and to better leverage the features of JCR content repositories.
The effect of these plans on commit activity remains to be seen, but as of now the general feeling around the project is positive. Hopefully we'll have some concrete results to show by the time of the next report.
Graffito is a framework for content-based applications, especially in portlet environments. Graffito entered incubation on September 20, 2004.
Top three items to resolve before graduation:
There hasn't been much activity in the Graffito project since the last report. A discussion on what to do with the project that still hasn't reached "critical mass" after over two years of incubation is currently taking place. The perceived complexity of the project is seen by many as a barrier to start using or contributing to Graffito. Splitting the project into more manageable component projects was raised as one potential approach to reviving the codebase and project community.
Graffito is a framework for content-based applications, especially in portlet environments. Graffito entered incubation on September 20, 2004.
Top three items to resolve before graduation:
Graffito activity has increased noticeably since the last report, especially due to interest from within the Jackrabbit community. New bug reports and patches are also being contributed.
There was not so much commits on the project due to the current commiters activities. The company Sword Technologies donates new Graffito services (worfklow, news management , mail and scheduler services). Christophe will try to review and commit this code asap.
The Spring support is finished for the OCM Tools. Now the OCM tools will be used in the complete Graffito stack. By this way, the Graffito persistence service can access to JCR repositories.
Graffito is working with Jetspeed 2 head.
Graffito has nicely grown recently with activity encouraged by the final release of Jetspeed 2.0 and good progress made on the JCR support though Jackrabbit.
We've just added a new committer:
and some existing Portals committers also actively contributing to the integration of Graffito with Portals.
Lot of work underway:
We plan to have a Graffito binary bundled with upcoming Jetspeed 2 M4 release (required if PSML integration is complete for M4) If community development continues its progress as expected, I think we'll add couple of new committers this quarter and probably ask for exiting Incubator early next year.
1) Is the STATUS file up to date? Yes 2) Any legal, cross-project or personal issues that still need to be addressed? no 3) What has been done for incubation since the last report? * The most important work was made on the Jetspeed 2 integration & building some JSR-168 portlets. There is a content tree view, a document viewer and an admin browser portlet. Futhermore, we have integrate an HTML editor (Kupu). * Some work has been done for the security management (fine grain access control, permission management, JAAS support, ...). * We have started raising awareness and promoting the project on some other Apache and non-Apache lists in order build further the community. * New developers have started collaborating with the core team on Graffito work, especially JCR mapping tools. 4) Plans and expectations for the next period? * Implementing our JCR mapping framework with Jackrabbit. * XML editor integration. * A Graffito implementation for the Jetspeed 2 page manager. * Continue our work on the JSR-168 portlets (search & version management). * Start a site demo with a Jetspeed integration * We expect the committer base to expand during next period given the current developer participation on the dev mailing-lists. 5) Any recommendations for how incubation could run more smoothly for you? None so far.
1) Is the STATUS file up to date? Yes 2) Any legal, cross-project or personal issues that still need to be addressed? * Software grant has been recieved by the ASF. * All trademark issues with project name have been resolved. * We have renamed the JCMS project as Graffito to avoid naming confusion with Jalios JCMS, another Java based CMS system. 3) What has been done for incubation since the last report? * We cleaned up repository, site, build process, site deployment and publishing to help new users and developers jump into the project. * Christophe Lombart account has been created and karma granted * ASF Infrastructure has been set up for Graffito * We are working on the Jetspeed 2 integration & building JSR 168 portlets. 4) Plans and expectations for the next period? * Add more info in the Graffito site * WEBDAV integration * More work on Jetspeed 2 integration, building portlets. * Introduce Graffito to some important to related projects: Slide, JackRabbit, Jetspeed ... in order to grow the development community 5) Any recommendations for how incubation could run more smoothly for you? None so far. All is well.
This is the first phase on incubation, needed to start the project at Apache.
Item assignment is shown by the Apache id. Completed tasks are shown by the completion date (YYYY-MM-dd).
date | item |
2004-09-20 | Make sure that the requested project name does not already exist and check www.nameprotect.com to be sure that the name is not already trademarked for an existing software product. (raphael) |
....-..-.. | If request from an existing Apache project to adopt an external package, then ask the Apache project for the cvs module and mail address names. |
2004-09-13 | If request from outside Apache to enter an existing Apache project, then post a message to that project for them to decide on acceptance. (raphael) |
....-..-.. | If request from anywhere to become a stand-alone PMC, then assess the fit with the ASF, and create the lists and modules under the incubator address/module names if accepted. |
date | item |
2004-09-13 | Identify all the Mentors for the incubation, by asking all that can be Mentors. (raphael) |
2004-09-20 | Subscribe all Mentors on the pmc and general lists. (raphael) |
2004-11-06 | Give all Mentors access to all incubator CVS modules. (to be done by PMC chair) (raphael) |
2004-11-06 | Tell Mentors to track progress in the file 'incubator/projects/{project.name}.cwiki' (raphael) |
date | item |
2004-11-27 | Check and make sure that the papers that transfer rights to the ASF been received. It is only necessary to transfer rights for the package, the core code, and any new code produced by the project. (raphael) |
2004-11-27 | Check and make sure that the files that have been donated have been updated to reflect the new ASF copyright. (raphael) |
date | item |
2004-11-29 | Check and make sure that for all code included with the distribution that is not under the Apache license, e have the right to combine with Apache-licensed code and redistribute. (raphael) |
2004-11-29 | Check and make sure that all source code distributed by the project is covered by one or more of the following approved licenses: Apache, BSD, Artistic, MIT/X, MIT/W3C, MPL 1.1, or something with essentially the same terms. (raphael) |
date | item |
2004-11-27 | Check that all active committers have submitted a contributors agreement. (raphael) |
2004-12-12 | Add all active committers in the STATUS file. (raphael) |
2004-12-23 | Ask root for the creation of committers' accounts on cvs.apache.org. (raphal) |
date | item |
2005-01-03 | Ask infrastructure to create source repository modules and grant the committers karma. (raphael) |
2004-12-28 | Ask infrastructure to set up and archive Mailing lists. (raphael) |
2005-01-07 | Decide about and then ask infrastructure to setup an issuetracking system (Bugzilla, Scarab, Jira). |
2005-01-08 | Migrate the project to our infrastructure. |
date | item |
2004-12-27 | Renamed JCMS to Graffito to avoid naming conflict with Jalios JCMS, another Java CMS package |
These action items have to be checked for during the whole incubation process.
These items are not to be signed as done during incubation, as they may change during incubation. They are to be looked into and described in the status reports and completed in the request for incubation signoff.
Add project specific tasks here.
Things to check for before voting the project out.


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Lindsay Lohan's mom Dina Lohan arrested for DUI in New York.
Dina Lohan was arrested for drunk driving in Long Island, NY last night ... and cops say her blood alcohol level was more than TWICE the legal limit.
Lindsay Lohan's 50-year-old mother was pulled over on the Northern State Parkway by New York State Police around 11 pm Thursday night ... after she was allegedly going 77mph in a 55 in her white BMW.
During the stop, cops say she appeared intoxicated -- and tested her blood alcohol level, which registered at .20 -- more than twice the legal limit of .08.
According to officials, "Lohan made an allegation that she was injured during the course of the arrest" ... but when medical personnel responded to the scene and determined she was fine, Dina "recanted her claim."
Lohan was hauled to a nearby station where she was booked on two counts of driving while intoxicated and one count of speeding.
After posing for a squinty-eyed mug shot, Lohan he was released to a sober 3rd party. So far, no word on WHO picked up Lohan from the station.
Lohan is due back in court later this month.
Dina's been on a party tear this month -- TMZ obtained a photo of Lohan partying like a drunken sailor at a giant party over Labor Day weekend.
People at the party tell us she was a mess that night -- slurring her speech and zoning out.Jacked from TMZ


text: Lists, Completion and Awards Background. From 2002, MountainViews.ie has facilitated members to keep track of the summits they have visited. As of 2015, some 1700 members, we call them summiteers, use this feature of the website. Members can choose to complete various lists of differing levels of difficulty. MountainViews provides a mix of lists, from easier to harder. For completion of some of these lists, MountainViews offers awards as recognition of a personal achievement. Completion Completion of a summit or place listed in MountainViews means that you have personally visited the highest point on foot and you are sure you did so. In some cases MountainViews may deem on its website that visiting certain specified summits can be claimed by reaching a nearby place in the vicinity of the summit. Normally it is necessary for a member to mark the summits he or she has visited on the MountainViews website. It is preferable to mark individual completions as soon after visiting the place as possible. When you have completed all of a list you may make a claim for having finished it. The claims must state in writing that you have reached all of the places listed. MountainViews endeavours to remind members who have ticked off all summits on a list on MV that they are eligible for an award, however this service is not guaranteed and also depends on the member�s email address on MountainViews being useable. A claim must indicate when a member started and completed the list. In the case of the Local 100 it must indicate the base location. MountainViews generally processes awards each year in time for the annual Awards Ceremony which is usually held in February in Dublin. Easier lists and awards include: The County Highpoints. This is the list of the highest place in each traditional county of Ireland. As some highpoints are shared between counties, there are some 27 of these, ranging in height from Carrauntoohil (Kerry) to Mullaghmeen (Westmeath). Although small in number, this challenge brings those that try it to a widespread variety of places and types of summit. The Local 100. These are the 100 summits as listed by MountainViews nearest to where a member states they are based in Ireland. This has several advantages for a hillwalker including that visiting the summits will generally be a day-trip, will help them explore their locality and that many of the places are often largely unvisited. Awardees specify where they are based by grid reference for this award which means that there are almost as many lists as there participants. MountainViews recognises that some local summits may be unavailable for various reasons such as their being sea-stacks or being permanently barred by landowners. MountainViews therefore offers 110 summits in the main Local 100 list of which the member is required to choose and visit 100 to complete the challenge. The Local 100 does not at present include Coastal Hills or Islands other than islands which contain summits meeting a list criteria such as "Binnion", "Carn" etc The Highest Hundred. The Highest Hundred. This all Ireland list includes the highest one hundred mountains which have a drop or prominence of at least 100m. Completing this list will bring the summiteer to mountains well separated from others in 31 ranges in Ireland from the Sperrins to the Cahas. The harder lists and awards include: Distribution of Vandeleur-Lynams The Arderin List. This list was developed by MountainViews in 2009 and is the hardest single challenge for which awards are offered at present. The Arderins are summits of at least 500m with a prominence of 30m. Some 406 summits meet the criteria. As of August 2020 only nine people are known to have completed this list. In July 2020 MountainViews and Mountaineering Ireland jointly recognised this list as the premium summit list for Ireland - see announcement. MountainViews also maintains an additional list, the Arderin Begs. These are summits of 500m or over with a prominence of 15m but under 30m and there are 124 of them. They can be considered the 500m minor tops. Members can choose to visit the Arderins or the Arderins + Arderin Begs (531). Further information. MountainViews maintains various other Irish lists including the Carns, a list of 337 summits from 400m but under 500m, the 100 Best User Rated and also the Binnions, which are 484 tops under 400m with a prominence of at least 100m. Another popular list is the "Local 100" which are the nearest 100 summits to where a member indicates that they live. MountainViews includes a small selection of British lists such as the Munros and the Marilyns. MountainViews has a �Summiteers Hall of Records� allowing people to see how they compare with others; as of Sept 2017 some 1981 members log visits. While MountainViews may perform some checks on visit authenticity, by their nature award claims for summiteering are largely a personal affirmation of the achievement. Contributors Awards MountainViews gives various awards to contributors. One group is for members of MountainViews who have built the site by adding mountain comments, photos, GPS tracks, forum entries, creating videos or other data. A public record is maintained in the 'Contributors Hall of Fame'. Less quantifiable contributions to MountainViews such as information compilation are also honoured. MountainViews also may give awards to individuals or groups who in the opinion of the MountainViews Awards Committee have contributed to hillwalking in Ireland. Document version: Friday, 15 Sept 2017 |


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MOBILedit! is an application that provides an interface between a cell phone and a personal computer. It is designed to help improve productivity and communication by allowing input using the computer to be downloaded into the phone. It it used to send photos, SMS messages, documents, and other important data to and from a cell phone.
MOBILedit! Lite is designed for the casual user, while MOBILedit! Forensics is designed to help aid in forensic investigations. MOBILedit! Liteis available as an evaluation version and can be purchased at MOBILedit's website. It supports more makes and models than any other program of its type. It allows edits to anything from the time on the phone to the contacts in the phonebook, all from a computer. It also can backup all the information on the phone to a computer in case you lose the phone. This makes for an easy way to get everything back onto the new phone.
This application allows communication with phones via BlueTooth, Infrared, or cable, depending on the model of phone. The basic drivers for each phone are installed with the program. However, if another driver is needed, they can be downloaded from the website assuming the phone is supported.
As a cell phone forensics software tool, MOBILedit! has the ability to:
- send SMS messages and phone calls directly from a computer connected to a cell phone
- monitor a cell phone's battery life, signal quality, and the current network operator
- display everything on a phone to the screen of a computer, allowing easier use of the phone.
- allow the user to control a phone from a personal computer.
- synchronize e-mail onto a cell phone with Microsoft Outlook
- configure multiple devices to connect to MOBILedit!.
- generate secure reports in any language
- create specific templates for specific functions and insert gathered data into a template
All functions of the program are located on the main screen. It is also fully compatible with Microsoft Outlook, allowing the user to synchronize email onto his or her phone with Outlook. Multiple devices can be configured to connect to MOBILedit!.
MOBILedit! collects all the data from the mobile phone and generates an extensive report onto a PC that can be saved or printed. MOBILedit! Forensic allows for the customization of the output from the cell phone which makes the data completely adaptable to the needs of each judicial system. MOBILedit! Forensic also has frequent updates and upgrades.
Report Generation
MOBILedit! Forensic has the ability to generate reports in any language. The ability to create specific templates for specific functions is also a function of MOBILedit!. These template files can be created in tools such as MS Word and many other text editors. MOBILedit! Forensic will read this template and insert all data gathered from the device. This means that there is no need to import or export stubs of data from SIM cards or phones.
The reports that MOBILedit! Forensic generates are secure, as the final report document is created automatically. MOBILedit! Forensic is read-only, thereby preventing changes in the device, avoiding potentially damaging losses of evidence. All items are also protected against later modifications by a hash code used in digital signatures. All blocks of data, such as the phonebook, are protected by the MD5 hash algorithm. Each item has its own MD5 code to help quickly locate the possible place of modification.
MOBILedit! also has the ability to generate reports from devices presently connected to the computer, as well as from phones that were connected in the past using a backup file.
Applications and Drivers
MOBILedit! is designed with architecture similar to that of operating systems. The result is that you can add new applications and drivers, and in the same way that Windows or Linux resolves the complexity of computer hardware, MOBILedit! reconciles the differences between mobile phones. MOBILedit! supports adding applications to enhance its functionality for future phones and new features. For example, if a phone supports MMS, one can add an MMS application to MOBILedit!; one can add the ability to edit, upload, or download pictures, control a camera and view movies.
In addition to applications, drivers can also be added, which cover the differences between mobile phones at a low-level. Therefore, any mobile phone can be supported. The driver interface is open, COMPELSON Labs offers the source codes of their drivers.


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Lithium is a medication used to treat bipolar disorder (manic-depressive illness). While it is quite effective, use of lithium creates some risks, especially related to dehydration.
Lithium may cause or exacerbate symptoms of psoriasis . One very small double-blind study found that use of supplemental inositol may help alleviate this problem. 3 For more information, including dosage and safety issues, see the full Inositol article.
The use of lithium as a therapy requires careful attention to lithium levels in the blood. If there's too little lithium, the treatment won't work; if lithium levels get too high, toxicity may result.
One cause of excessively high lithium levels is dehydration. When the amount of water in the blood decreases, lithium levels proportionally rise, just as the Great Salt Lake becomes saltier as its water evaporates. For this reason, individuals taking lithium are warned that they must make sure to drink sufficient liquids when they are exposed to heat. Diuretic drugs ("water pills") can also cause problems, by causing the body to excrete water.
A recent case report suggests that herbal diuretics can also lead to increased lithium levels. 1 Certain herbs are thought to act as diuretics, including buchu , celery seed, cleavers , corn silk, couchgrass, dandelion , goldenrod , gravel root, horsetail , juniper , parsley , rosemary and wild carrot.
This report noted the case of a 26-year-old woman who had been taking a constant dose of lithium for 5 months without any problems. When she suddenly developed drowsiness, tremor, unsteadiness in walking, and rapid involuntary movements of the eyes, doctors conducted a laboratory examination and found that her lithium level had skyrocketed. It turned out that a few weeks before this episode she had started taking an herbal weight-loss formula that included numerous herbal diuretics.
Manufacturers frequently add herbal diuretics to weight-loss formulas in order to cause short-term loss of water weight. This has no value for long-term weight loss, but it does cause some immediate sense of success. However, in this case, the herbal diuretics also caused lithium levels to rise.
The bottom line : If you are taking lithium, avoid herbal diuretics.
Potassium citrate, sodium citrate, and potassium-magnesium citrate are sometimes used to prevent kidney stones . These supplements reduce urinary acidity and can therefore lead to decreased blood levels and effectiveness of lithium. 2
REF1 Pyevich D, Bogenschutz MP. Herbal diuretics and lithium toxicity [letter]. Am J Psychiatry. 2001;158:1329.
REF2 Tatro D, ed. Drug Interaction Facts. St. Louis, Mo: Facts and Comparisons; 1999.
REF3 Allan SJ, Kavanagh GM, Herd RM, et al. The effect of inositol supplements on the psoriasis of patients taking lithium: a randomized, placebo-controlled trial. Br J Dermatol . 2004;150:966-9.


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60 Degree Triangle Ruler
Sewing Machine and
inch presser footIron (lots of steam preferred)
- 2 Butterfly Wings (green printed fabric) each measuring 2 1/8 inches x 5 inches
- 1 Butterfly Body (text fabric) - measuring 1 ¼ inches x 5 inches
- 4 Background pieces (black fabric) cut as follows:
inches (2.75 inches) wide. With the 60 degree triangle ruler, and alternating with a standard straight ruler, cross-cut the strip as pictured at regular intervals. Precision is not so important, although keep the angle correct. I used 2 yards of Robert Kaufman Kona Cotton in Pepper for my Butterfly Quilt, more than I had first anticipated.Let's get started:
Press seams:
Trim these units as follows:
Place a standard ruler along the outer edge of the Butterfly Wing as pictured. (Please bear with me here as I am left-handed, and use a left handed ruler - the numbers on your ruler probably run from right to left). This unit needs to be trimmed to just 4
inches wide; accurate piecing will result in 1/8th inch of background (black fabric) on BOTH SIDES of the outer edge of the Butterfly Wing unit):Trim the side and top edge with rotary cutter:
Turn the Butterly Wing unit around and align the outer right edge (or the left if you are using a right handed ruler) of the unit at the 4
inch mark of the ruler, and the bottom edge of the Butterfly Wing unit at the 2 1/8 inch line of the ruler (as pictured below):Once you've pieced a few Butterfly Wings you will begin notice the consistent stop and start points of the background fabric: see the top edge of the ruler at 1 3/8 inches and 3 1/8 inches, as indicated by the red arrows (above).
Using a scant ¼ inch seam allowance sew the body of the Butterfly (the text fabric) first to one wing. Trim excess body fabric. Then sew the body to the opposite wing. Press seams together towards the body, away from the wings.
The butterfly Block measures 4
inches x 4 ½
inches. If you find that your block is on the small side, be sure to cut a little more generous (particularly the Butterfly Wings - cut a slightly generous 2 1/8 inch wide).Repeat times 180!
Any questions? Please leave your questions in the comments section and I will reply there as others may also benefit from further clarification.
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THE PARAPSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION was created in Durham, North Carolina, on June 19th, 1957. Its formation was proposed by Dr. J. B. Rhine (Director of the Duke Laboratory) at a Workshop in Parapsychology that was held at the Parapsychology Laboratory of Duke University. Using the occasion afforded by this wide representation of the field, Dr. J. B. Rhine, Director of the Duke Laboratory, proposed that the group form itself into the nucleus of an international professional society in parapsychology. The time could not have been more opportune nor the audience more receptive.
Its first president was Dr. R. A. McConnell, then of the Biophysics Department, University of Pittsburgh, and the first vice-president was Dr. Gertrude R. Schmeidler of the Department of Psychology, City College of New York. Miss Rhea White was named Secretary Treasurer. Four others were elected to the Council, bringing the total to seven: Miss (later Dr.) Margaret Anderson, Dr. Remi Cadoret, Dr. Karlis Osis, and Mr. (now Dr.) W. G. Roll.
Emphasis was placed on the international and professional character of the association and on promoting better communication between scientists working in the field. The aim of the association was to:
* Advance parapsychology as a science. * Disseminate knowledge of the field. * Integrate the findings of parapsychology with those of other branches of science.
Long before the PA became a reality, many of those active in the field had felt a need for better communication with their colleagues. The international convention held by the Parapsychology Foundation at the University of Utrecht, Holland, in 1953, had demonstrated to those present that meetings of professional workers could help to overcome their isolation and act as encouragement to research.
From the start, emphasis was placed on the international and professional character of the Association. It had to be professional in order to attract well-trained and qualified scientists to the membership, and it had to be international to include scientific workers wherever they are. A special committee was established to draft a constitution which would reflect these intentions. Dr. J. G. Pratt became Chairman, two other members being Mrs. Dorothy H. Pope and Mr. Wadih Saleh. The work involved in drafting the Constitution and By-Laws of the Association soon spread beyond this committee until it involved most of the members of the founding Council.
The Constitution defined the duties of the officers of the Association and established its standing committees. The term of office for Council members, first set at one year, was later extended to two, with terms expiring in alternate years to ensure continuity on Council.
Two main classes of membership were established, Member and Associate, and the professional and educational requirements were set for each. A third category, Honorary Member, was established for persons who had made special literary, philanthropic, or other contributions to the field.
The Constitution provided that the elective power should rest with Members and Associates alike and specified that the nominating group consist of the Members. This ensured that the Council represents the total membership rather than any special interests. The Presidency was limited to a maximum of two consecutive terms and has so far been restricted by the incumbents themselves to one term.
The By-Laws of the Association designated the Journal of Parapsychology as an affiliated publication of the Association, provided for other publications at the discretion of Council, set the amounts of membership dues, and fixed the dates for nominations and elections. In addition to these rules and the directions laid down in the Constitution, a large body of procedures developed in the course of the fifty-three years the Association has been in existence regarding the conduct of official business, such as the holding of elections and the annual conventions.
The Constitution stated that persons who joined the Association during the first year were to be designated Charter Members and Charter Associates. In June, 1958, there were 48 Charter Members and 55 Charter Associates. At the end of 1964 there were 74 Members, 92 Associates, and six Honorary Members. This group, which is no larger than a physics department at a medium-sized university, includes most of the active parapsychologists in the world. The promise that parapsychology holds for reaching a wider understanding of man justifies a much larger working force. It is the hope of the Association that it can help to increase the number of research workers by improving working conditions in the field and the lines of communication both inside it and with the scientific community at large.
The PA held its first convention at City College in New York in 1958 where a number of research papers were presented. Since that time an annual convention has been a focus of activity for the PA. The first convention outside the USA took place in 1964 at Oxford University in England. At present PA conventions are held alternatively in North America and in Europe, reflecting increased research activity in Europe. Conventions outside North America have taken place in England, Germany, Scotland, Holland, and Austria, Iceland, Sweden and France. At the annual convention, two awards are usually given: Outstanding Career Award and Outstanding Contribution Award.
Abstracts of full papers and research briefs presented at the conventions and the presidential address were published in the Journal of Parapsychology until 1964, as Proceedings of the Parapsychological Association until 1971, as Research in Parapsychology (published by Scarecrow Press) until 1993, and then again in the Journal of Parapsychology.
In 1969 the PA became an affiliated organization of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). As of 2010 the PA has 187 full and associate members and a total membership of 316 when affiliates and honorary members are included.
The Parapsychological Association is an international professional organization of scientists and scholars engaged in the study of psi (or 'psychic') experiences, such as telepathy, clairvoyance, psychokinesis, psychic healing, and precognition. First established in 1957, the PA has been an affiliated organization of the American Association for the Advancement of Science since 1969.
The mission of the PA is to:
As a non-profit, non-adjudicating organization, the PA endorses no ideologies or beliefs other than the value of rigorous scientific and scholarly inquiry. There is a level of membership for everyone interested in the scientific and scholarly advancement of parapsychology. Join or donate today.


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Graham cracker "crust", Hershey's chocolate, chocolate marshmallow cake, toasted marshmallow frosting... these cupcakes are the cake version of everyone's favorite campfire treat. They are fun to make and although it sounds like a lot of steps, each step is fairly simple. The "toasted" marshmallow can be achieved with a kitchen torch which is always fun to use and makes for an impressive presentation.
S'mores Cupcakes
Recipe adapted from Annie's Eats
1 1/2 cups graham crackers (approx. 1 pkg out of the Honeymaid box)
1/4 cup sugar
5 T unsalted butter, melted
2 oz bittersweet chocolate, chopped into small pieces
Marshmallows (you'll need about 100 mini marshmallows)
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Line 24 muffin cups with paper liners. In food processor, pulse graham crackers until they are fine crumbs. Add sugar and melted butter and mix until well combined. Add approximately 1 tablespoon of crumbs to the bottom of each liner. Use a small circle object (I used a shot glass) to press the crumb mixture evenly into the bottom of each liner. Bake for 5 minutes and remove from the oven. Divide the chopped chocolate evenly among the cupcakes. Add approximately 4 marshmallows to each tin.
2 cups plus 2 T sugar
1 3/4 cups all purpose flour
3/4 cup cocoa powder
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1 1/2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
2 large eggs
1 cup whole milk
1/2 cup canola oil
2 tsp vanilla extract
1 cup boiling water
Sift together flour, cocoa powder, sugar, baking powder, soda and salt in your mixing bowl. In a small bowl, add eggs, milk, oil and vanilla and whisk together. Add to dry ingredients and beat on low speed until just incorporated. Increase speed to medium and beat 2 minutes. Add boiling water and beat on low until just combined.
Spoon batter evenly into cupcake liners, filling each about 3/4 of the way full. The marshmallows will float to the top but that's okay. Bake approximately 18 - 20 minutes until a toothpick inserted in the center cupcake comes out clean. Cool for about 5 minutes in the pan and then remove to a wire rack to cool completely.
8 egg whites, room temperature
2 cups sugar
1/2 tsp cream of tartar
2 tsp vanilla extract
1 large Hershey bar
In a clean stainless steel mixing bowl or double boiler, combine egg whites, sugar, and cream of tartar. Whisk frequently, heating the mixture over medium-high heat until the temperature reaches 160 degrees. Transfer egg mixture to stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachment. Begin mixing at low speed, gradually increasing to medium-high speed as the mixture becomes thicker. Beat until stiff, glossy peaks form. Add in the vanilla and mix until just combined. Transfer frosting to a piping bag fitted with a large star tip and frost as desired.
Using a kitchen torch held about 6 inches away from the cupcakes on a non-flammable surface, brown the cupcakes lightly as desired. Keep the torch moving so you don't catch any spot on fire. Just like toasting marshmallows by a campfire, slow and steady is a better approach than sticking the marshmallow to close to the fire, you're going for lightly toasted frosting not black and bubbly marshmallow. Garnish with chocolate bar segments.


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I am back in the kitchen and I hope that everyone had a great Christmas filled with tasty food!
The week in between Christmas and New Years can be a bit hectic and I wanted to try to simplify things by making some meals ahead of time. I like to have quiches for breakfast and one of the reasons is that there is generally a lot of leftovers and they reheat well for quick and easy breakfasts during the week. This recipe will make enough for a few breakfasts for one or two people and it can be doubled for larger families. Another thing that I like about quiches is the near limitless possibilities for different flavour combinations. This apple and cheddar quiche was inspired by the flavours in the apple and cheddar tart that I recently made and enjoyed!
I started out by simmering chunks of apple in cider until they just turned tender and I did this because I knew that apple would not cook enough in the quiche to get tender and nobody wants to bite into a hard piece of apple when eating a quiche. Next I added a strong cheddar to finish off the primary flavours in the quiche. Since the rosemary went well in the tart I added some to the quiche as well and I figured that a bit of salty bacon would also be a hit. To keep things simple, I went with a pre-made frozen phyllo dough crust.
I have to say that the apple and cheddar flavour combination with rosemary works very well in quiche form! I was particularly happy with the way that the phyllo dough crust worked out. Even though it was full of an egg mixture, the phyllo still got crispy and it allowed for a 'deep dish' style of quiche that was really nice. I served the apple and cheddar quiche along with an arugula salad with walnuts, feta and a simple lemon and oil vinaigrette.
Apple and Cheddar Quiche
- 2 large apples (cored and cut into bite sized chunks)
- 1 cup apple cider
- 4 strips bacon (cut into 1 inch pieces)
- 6 sheets phyllo (thawed as directed on package)
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- 1/2 teaspoon rosemary (chopped)
- 1 cup strong cheddar (grated)
- 4 eggs (lightly beaten)
- 1 cup half and half
- Simmer the apple slices in the cider until they just start to turn tender, about 3-5 minutes, remove and set them aside.
- Simmer the remaining cider to reduce to about 2 tablespoons.
- Meanwhile, cook the bacon in a pan and set aside.
- Brush a sheet of phyllo pastry with the olive oil and fit it into the bottom of a greased 9 inch pie dish or springform pan with the ends hanging over the side of the pan and repeat with the remaining sheets placing them on top.
- Toss the apple slices in the reduced cider and spread them out over the bottom of the pan.
- Sprinkle the bacon, rosemary and cheddar cheese on top of the apples.
- Mix the eggs and half and half, pour into the pan and fold the edges of the phyllo dough that is hanging over the sides.
- Bake in a preheated 375F/190C oven until golden brown and set in the center, about 25-45 minutes.
Apple and Cheddar Tart
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Morton Valence is a band that you need to experience. Without any false pretence they defy categorisation, and as such create astounding diversity in one album. Me and Home James is the follow-up album to 2009's Bob and Veronica Ride Again. Both albums share the band's appetite for story-telling. For them, it's not about composing the same old songs, but using the music as a conduit for a larger narrative.
Me and Home James is different from their debut, but carries the tradition of story-telling. Described as "urban country", there are undertones of Patsy Cline and George Jones – that pre-rock 1950s sound; however, aligning this album with country is not an entirely true representation.
Me & Home James (the song) is a distant lullaby, sweet and gentle; the following track At Red Rock Mountain bursts, infuses and pops. The underlying narrative is an early morning journey through London in an unlicensed minicab and each song represents the lives of the city's inhabitants, and the weird, tormented but at times wonderful things you find at that time of day. Me and Home James is a success. www.mortonvalence.com
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New Hampshire Officials: Need For Mental Health Services Increasing
In New Hampshire, Foster's Daily Democrat reports: "As unemployment statistics increase and the economic climate deteriorates, a large group of people who would otherwise likely not need mental health services are finding themselves at an increased risk for depression, anxiety, compulsive behaviors and substance abuse, according (to) the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services."
Fosters reports: "The circumstances are exacerbated when considering that many of those people are unable to pay for basic mental health services, either through insurance or otherwise. At the same time, community-based programs, designed to be the "safety net" for the uninsured, are facing across-the-board funding cuts both public and private contributors."
Foster's examines Community Partners in Strafford County to show how the crisis is affecting care including strains put on basic mental health services, like non-emergency counseling, as funding falls short (Modica, 7/27).


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A household is defined as one or more people living in a residence. A family is more than one person living together, either married or of the same bloodline. The head of a household is one of the people who owns or rents the residence and was indicated first on the Census questionnaire. The tendency for people to marry at an older age and the number of married people getting divorced may have contributed to the overall drop in married couples. Also, it may more culturally acceptable for people to not get married at all or to have non-traditional relationships.
*In this table, children are people under age 18.
Source: Census 2000 analyzed by the Social Science Data Analysis Network (SSDAN).
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After many years in the wilderness, these are good times to be a Manchester City fan. Last season their team recorded its best ever performance in the Premier League by finishing third, thus qualifying for the Champions League for the first time, and won its first major trophy for 35 years when defeating Stoke City in the FA Cup final.
Their momentum has continued this season (at least on the domestic front), as they lead the Premier League by five points after a series of impressive victories, including an astonishing 6-1 triumph against local rivals Manchester United at Old Trafford, and have reached the semi-finals of the Carling Cup. However, they have found life more difficult in Europe, where they now have to rely on others to avoid elimination at the Champions League group stage.
Nevertheless, the force appears to be with the Citizens, boosted by the £800 million or so that Sheikh Mansour has invested since his Abu Dhabi United Group bought Manchester City three years ago. Quite simply, this is a club transformed.
Of course, that is most clearly seen in the huge amounts of money spent on recruiting new players, which has had a dramatic impact on the club's performance, both on the pitch and on the financial side of the "project".
In fact, they have just announced the largest loss in English football history of £197 million, which easily surpassed the previous record of £141 million reported by Chelsea in 2004/05, the first full year after the acquisition by their Russian benefactor Roman Abramovich. In fairness, £34 million of the deficit was due to exceptional items that should not be repeated in future seasons, but the loss would still have been a hefty £163 million.
Admittedly, most football clubs are loss-making with only 4 of the 20 Premier League clubs registering profits in 2009/10, but few have burned through the cash like City, who have accumulated losses of £411 million in the last three years: 2009 £93 million, 2010 £121 million and 2011 £197 million. This is not quite unprecedented, as Inter suffered aggregate losses of around £440 million in the three years between 2007 and 2009, but it's rare for large clubs to lose this sort of money.
Bayern Munich and Real Madrid are consistently profitable, the German club reporting profits for an incredible 19 years in a row, while even Manchester United managed to make money last year, despite the significant interest burden on the loans taken out by the Glazers.
However, perhaps the closest equivalent to City are Chelsea, whose wealthy owner also chose to aggressively splash money on talent in a bid to compete with clubs that generate more revenue. Here there is some encouragement for City's financials, as Chelsea have managed to reduce their losses over the years – though they are still a long way from break-even.
City are looking to follow that example, though they would hope to improve on the end result. As such, they tried to place the latest loss into context, "This result is consistent with the guidance provided in the first MCFC annual report that losses would peak in the 2010-11 financial year, as a result of the accelerated investment programme that the club undertook between 2008 and 2011."
Chief Operating Officer, Graham Wallace, went further, "These financial results represent the bottoming out of financial losses at Manchester City before the club is able to move towards a more sustainable position in all aspects of its operations in the years ahead."
The main reason for City's increasing losses is the investment in the playing squad, which is at the core of that "accelerated recruitment process." As an example, the 2010/11 figures reflected the signings of Yaya Toure, David Silva, Mario Balotelli, Aleksandar Kolarov, James Milner, Jerome Boateng and Edin Dzeko for the first time.
This acquisition policy has resulted in the wage bill more than tripling since 2008 from £54 million to £174 million, again the highest ever recorded in English football, just above Chelsea's £173 million in 2009/10. Similarly, player amortisation, namely the cost of writing off transfer fees over the length of a player's contract, has also grown by more than 200% in the same period from £25 million to £84 million.
As would be expected, the important wages to turnover ratio has also been rising (deteriorating) from a respectable 66% in 2008 to 114% last season. Although some Premier League clubs with very low revenue also have uncomfortably high ratios, City are the only club where the wage bill actually exceeds turnover – and by a whopping £21 million. As a comparison, England's other Champions League qualifiers have much lower ratios: Manchester United 46%, Arsenal 55% and Chelsea 82%.
The good news is that City's revenue is rapidly growing, increasing by 22% in 2011 alone from £125 million to £153 million, breaking through the £150 million threshold for the first time in the club's history. All revenue streams rose: gate receipts by 8% from £18 million to £20 million; media by 28% from £54 million to £69 million, partly due to success on the pitch, including good runs in the FA Cup and Europa League, and partly due to the new Premier League TV rights deal; and commercial income up 22% from £53 million to £65 million.
City's commercial operations have been the engine driving their growth with revenue surging from £23 million to an impressive £65 million since 2009, mainly due to the impact of new partnerships with Etihad Airways, Umbro, Aabar, Abu Dhabi Tourism Authority and Etisalat, though the new retail agreement with Kitbag has also contributed. City's commercial income is now only second to Manchester United in England, though Liverpool and Chelsea may have also advanced in the last financial year (accounts not published yet).
What is clear is that City's revenue growth has been explosive compared to other clubs. Since 2009 their revenue has increased by an amazing 76% (from £87 million to £153 million) with Tottenham the only leading English club to come anywhere close with 46%, almost entirely due to their participation in the Champions League last season. Manchester United and Chelsea achieved a decent 19% and 18% respectively, though were left in City's slipstream, while Arsenal and Liverpool barely grew at all.
Even before this year's growth, City had established themselves as one of Europe's elite in terms of revenue, rising to 11th in Deloitte's 2009/10 Money League with £125 million. That's no mean feat, yet, paradoxically, only serves to emphasise the magnitude of City's task, as the leading clubs generate significantly higher revenue, e.g. last year's top five earned as follows: Real Madrid £359 million, Barcelona £326 million, Manchester United £286 million, Bayern Munich £265 million and Arsenal £222 million.
While it is true that City's revenue has since grown to £153 million, the problem is that the revenue is still growing apace at many of the top clubs. Manchester United have advanced to £331 million in 2011 on the back of significant commercial deals, while the Spanish giants have also reported substantial gains in 2011: Real Madrid to £417 million and Barcelona to £392 million.
City's position in the Money League is even more impressive if you consider that they are the highest ranked of the clubs that did not qualify for the Champions League, a failing that they have obviously resolved this season. The importance of this additional revenue to a club's finances cannot be over-stated, as seen by the sums earned in Europe last season by English entrants. The four Champions League qualifiers received an average of £35 million in TV money, ranging from £26 million for Arsenal to £47 million for Manchester United, while City and Liverpool both earned just £5 million for their adventures in the Europa League.
The revolution in the blue half of Manchester can be starkly demonstrated by their activity in the transfer market, where they have massively outspent the other leading English clubs in the last five years. In fact, their net spend (purchases less sales) of £440 million is more than the combined net spend of the other five leading clubs: Chelsea £149 million, Liverpool £68 million, Manchester United £53 million, Tottenham £52 million and Arsenal (net sales) £29 million.
Up until the recent injection of funds, City had actually been a selling club with net sales of £5 million in the five years up to 2007. However, last season the club reduced its activity in the transfer market with net spend of "only" £57 million compared to over £100 million in each of the three preceding years.
Of course, the purchases of Sergio Aguero, Samir Nasri, Gael Clichy and Stefan Savic would still be beyond the means of most clubs, but this was at least in line with the promise made by Chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak regarding the 2011 budget, "It won't be like last summer or the summer before. What you will see this year is strengthening the squad in areas that we feel require more depth."
None of this big spending would really be an issue if it were not for the advent of UEFA's Financial Fair Play (FFP) regulations, which essentially aim to force clubs to live within their means, i.e. break-even. Clearly, City are currently a long way from achieving this, a point acknowledged by Chief Football Operations Officer Brian Marwood, "We've got a huge amount of work ahead of us to make sure we are sustainable."
City's challenge was highlighted by no less than UEFA President, Michel Platini, when he specifically mentioned the club last year during the announcement of the new financial rules, "Manchester City can spend £300 million if they want to, but if they are not breaking-even in three years, they cannot play in European competition."
However, City's former chief executive Garry Cook never seemed too concerned, "We have a very open dialogue with UEFA. We have had several meetings with them and they are very supportive of our plans." This is a theme echoed by Graham Wallace, "As we undertake the club's commercial transformation, we are cognisant of the incoming UEFA Financial Fair Play regulations and consequently we continue to maintain positive and ongoing dialogue with all appropriate football authorities." As the actor Bob Hoskins used to say in the BT advert, "It's good to talk", but what does FFP mean in practice?
The first season that UEFA will start monitoring clubs' financials is 2013/14, but this will take into account losses made in the two preceding years, namely 2011/12 and 2012/13, which means two things: (a) the £197 million loss in 2010/11 is not relevant for the FFP calculation; (b) City's accounts need to be in better shape pretty quickly.
However, they don't need to be absolutely perfect, as wealthy owners will be allowed to absorb aggregate losses (so-called "acceptable deviations") of €45 million (£39 million), initially over two years and then over a three-year monitoring period, as long as they are willing to cover the deficit by making equity contributions, which is a fairly safe assumption in the case of Sheikh Mansour. The maximum permitted loss then falls to €30 million (£26 million) from 2015/16 and will be further reduced from 2018/19 (to an unspecified amount). Note that these sums represent aggregate losses, not a yearly loss.
"Silva and Gold"
Even with all these allowances, the popular view seems to be that City have little chance of reaching break-even in the near future, as expressed by Bayern Munich chief executive Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, who is also chairman of the European Club Association, "Maybe they know a trick I don't that will allow them to take part in the Champions League."
Clearly, City have a long way to go to reach break-even, but it's not completely out of the question, as we shall see from the 15-point plan below, which looks at how City can improve their finances both in the short-term (over the next two seasons) and in the long-term, starting from their current pre-tax loss of £197 million.
It should be noted that this plan is not necessarily a prediction of City's next set of financials, but merely an example of how they could substantially improve their figures. A number of assumptions have been made particularly regarding transfer fees and salaries, which are notoriously untrustworthy even though they are widely reported. Nevertheless, any minor inaccuracies should not materially affect the principal conclusions.
1. Exceptional Items
The 2010/11 loss included £34 million of exceptional items, comprising £29 million for the impairment of player registrations and a £5 million provision for a "disputed employment costs settlement", which is not explained, but probably relates to the departure of former manager Mark Hughes and his coaching team.
Impairment is an accounting term for reducing the value of players in the books, as the club decides that they are no longer worth so much. Although the names of the players are not divulged, my guess is that this relates to those players who were released for free (namely Craig Bellamy and Jo) and those who are unlikely to command a fee in future, due to their high wages (e.g. Roque Santa Cruz and Wayne Bridge). My calculations suggest that writing the value of those four players down to zero would have cost almost exactly the £29 million impairment charge.
In any case, such charges by definition should not be repeated every year. Similar treatment might be required for Carlos Tevez and Emmanuel Adebayor, though their net book value in the accounts is probably now low enough to be covered by reduced transfer fees.
"Samir's Town"
2. Financial Fair Play Adjustments
It is not generally appreciated that UEFA's break-even calculation is not exactly the same as a club's statutory accounts, as it excludes certain expenses, including depreciation and finance costs on tangible fixed assets plus expenditure on youth development and community development activities.
In City's case, this means that £6 million of depreciation can be removed right off the bat. Finance costs are not so clear, but I have also excluded the £3 million charge on stadium finance leases, though I have not considered the £5 million interest charge, as the link to tangible fixed assets is not clear-cut.
It is also difficult to assess the youth development expenditure, as this is not separately disclosed in the public accounts, but we can make a reasonable estimate of £10 million based on similar reviews of other clubs. The formation of the Elite Development Squad plus other investment in the academy should easily justify such a sum. In addition, I have excluded a notional £2 million for community development, which may be a little conservative, given City's strenuous efforts in this area.
Therefore, in total, the Fair Play rules allow City to reduce their expenses by £21 million: £6 million depreciation, £3 million stadium finance lease charges, £10 million youth development and £2 million community development expenditure.
3. Wages – New Signings
The 2010/11 accounts do not include the cost of any new signings after 31 May 2011, which means that we need to add the wages for Aguero, Nasri, Clichy and Savic. Taking Nasri as an example, his wages have been estimated at £150,000 a week, which works out to £8 million a year. In addition, Dzeko joined in the January 2011 transfer window, so the last accounts did not include a full year salary, meaning the remainder has to be added to future years. Although players' salaries are not divulged, we can make reasonably accurate estimates, giving us a total of £30 million increase in the wage bill.
4. Wages – Departures
On the other hand, six high-profile players left this summer, namely Jerome Boateng, Jo, Shay Given, Shaun Wright-Phillips, Craig Bellamy and Felipe Caicedo, which should have removed around £22 million from the wage bill. It is true that Bellamy and Caicedo were on loan last season to Cardiff City and Levante respectively, but rumour has it that the vast majority of their salaries were still covered by City, so that should not be too much of a factor.
5. Wages – Loans
One consequence of City's large squad is that they loan out many players to other clubs. Although this also happened last year, it is clear that this policy has been ramped up this season with the annual report noting that the club have "successfully loaned out 22 players." Therefore, it seems a fairly safe assumption that this has taken a further £5 million off the wage bill. Note that I have not included Adebayor (loan to Tottenham) or Santa Cruz (Betis) in this calculation, as they will be covered by a later point (15).
6. Wages – Normalised Level
As a result of City's accelerated acquisition of players, their wage bill has surged to £174 million. As recently as 2008, this was lower than Chelsea, Manchester United, Arsenal, Liverpool and Tottenham, but has overtaken all of them in just four years.
However, there are three reasons to expect this to fall in future: (a) City should be able to offload those fringe players who are unlikely to feature for the first team again and are thus surplus to requirements, notably those bought during the Mark Hughes era, such as Adebayor, who would save nearly £8 million alone. (b) Up until recently, City have had to pay a premium to attract players from more established clubs, but a period of success should remove that. (c) More players should progress from the academy.
In theory, the wage bill could be slashed, but I have conservatively assumed a reduction long-term of £21 million to £153 million to be in line with Manchester United's latest figures, though well ahead of Arsenal's £124 million. Chelsea's last reported 2009/10 figures of £173 million are out of date and likely to fall, as the departure of many high earners should have offset the arrival of new signings.
7. Reduced Player Amortisation
When a player is purchased, his costs are not immediately booked to the profit and loss account, but they are capitalised as an asset and written-off over the length of his contract, so there will be a cost impact for a few years. As an example, it was reported that Sergio Aguero was signed for £35 million on a 5-year contract, so his annual amortisation is £7 million (£35 million divided by 5 years).
The impact of signings and departures in 2011 on the next accounts can therefore be reasonably estimated and works out to an increase of £20 million for new arrivals less £14 million for those leaving.
However, City have also been quite astute with their impairment in 2010/11. If I am right in my assumption that they have written-down the value of Santa Cruz and Bridge to zero, that means that there is no more amortisation for those players, reducing the annual charge by £6 million.
Adding together all the adds and drops suggests that the player amortisation will be more or less unchanged next year, though it should fall over time as players come to the end of their contracts, especially if City continue to lower their activity in the transfer market. There is an obvious precedent for this, as Chelsea's player amortisation decreased from £83 million in 2005 to £38 million in 2010.
"Captain Sensible"
One incentive for City to sell Tevez at a bargain price is to remove his player amortisation from the accounts, which could be worth as much as £9 million a year.
Another policy that I would expect City to apply is to extend player contracts, as any remaining written-down value is amortised over the extended period, which means that the annual amortisation will reduce. For example: a player is bought for £20m on a 4-year contract, so the annual amortisation is £5m. After 2 years, his contract is extended by a further 2 years, meaning that he now has 4 years left on his contract. At the point of renegotiation, his value was £10m (£20m cost less 2 years amortisation at £5m). The new amortisation charge would be £2.5m a year (the remaining £10m divided by the 4 years now left on the contract).
My assumption is that in the long-term City will manage to lower player amortisation by £34 million from £84 million to £50 million, which is still 25% higher than other leading clubs (Liverpool £40 million, Manchester United £39 million and Chelsea £38 million).
8. Etihad Sponsorship
The astonishing 10-year sponsorship deal with Etihad Airways was not included in last year's figures and will have a major impact. The financials have not been divulged, but a range of £350-400 million has been widely reported. Given City's need to improve the figures, I shall assume the higher figure, which means £40 million a year. Again, the split of the deal has not been published, but in an earlier piece I assumed that the shirt sponsorship is worth £20 million a year, the stadium naming rights £10 million and the campus another £10 million.
UEFA have yet to decide whether this deal falls foul of their "fair value" ruling, but it is my belief that this will be passed. In any case, even if UEFA rules that City's deal is above fair value, it is only the excess that would be deducted from the club's income for the purposes of the FFP break-even calculation and not the entire agreement, so if the deal is worth £40 million a year and UEFA consider the fair value to be £35 million, only £5 million would be deducted.
As Etihad already pay £7.5 million for shirt sponsorship, the uplift would be worth £32.5 million.
9. Other Commercial Deals
City have already gone great guns in increasing commercial income, adding partners like EA Sports, Mansion Group, Thomas Cook, Jaguar and Heineken, but are gearing themselves up to really boost this activity, e.g. by establishing a permanent office in London in a bid to emulate Manchester United's record-breaking performance here.
Recently, the national media reported that they were set to agree a new £200 million kit deal with Umbro at the end of the season. Even though they are only three years into a 10-year deal, City's progress means that this can be reviewed and there is talk of a significant increase in the annual payment from £6 million to £26 million. This might seem outrageously high, but is on a par with the sum Umbro already pays for the England team and is around the same level as the sums received by Liverpool from Warrior and Manchester United from Nike (though the latter is likely to rise to £35 million).
"Hand to Mouth"
As well as the £20 million increase from Umbro, I have assumed four more secondary sponsorship deals at £1.5 million a time, which would produce another £6 million, giving a total increase of £26 million. In the long-term, I have been very cautious by only adding a further two secondary deals (worth £3 million), giving long-term growth of £29 million.
That does not include any potential clauses for increases in sponsorship deals from competing in the Champions League. Nor have I attempted to assess any additional commercial revenue from City's ambitious Etihad Campus development.
10. TV – Premier League
One of the reasons for City's revenue growth last season was an additional £6 million from the Premier League, giving £55 million, mainly due to the substantial increase in overseas rights for the new three-year deal. At the top of the league, there's not an enormous financial difference between finishing places, due to the equitable nature of the distribution methodology.
Each club gets an equal share of 50% of the domestic rights (£13.8 million) and 100% of the overseas rights (£17.9 million). However, facility fees (25% of domestic rights) depend on how many times each club is broadcast live, and this was worth £10.2 million. Finally, merit payments (25% of domestic rights) are worth £757,000 per place in the league table (£13.6 million).
However, if City were to maintain their current first place and be shown more often live on television, they would receive around £60 million, i.e. an increase of £5 million. In the long-term, it is likely that TV rights will be worth even more, but again I have been conservative by only assuming an additional £5 million, partly because it is unlikely that City will win the Premier League every year.
11. TV – Champions League
Last season the lowest sum received by an English club in the Champions League was €30 million (£26 million) for Arsenal, who were eliminated in the last 16. I have assumed that City do not make it out of the group, so will not receive the €3 million performance prize for the last 16 and will receive less money from the TV pool, working out to €23 million. I have also added €2 million for money earned from dropping down to the Europa League, giving a total of €25 million (£22 million), which is £17 million higher than the £5 million earned last season in the Europa League.
In the long-term, I have assumed that City will be more effective at European level and earn £30 million, which would represent growth of £25 million. Of course, if they were to reach the final, that would be worth at least £45 million.
"Kompany man"
12. Bonus Payments
The price of success on the pitch is higher bonus payments. Frankly, this is impossible to accurately estimate without knowing how much was paid last season (but this is not separately analysed in the accounts) and each player's remuneration scheme, so I am only going to include a placeholder of a £10 million increase in the short-term (up to £20 million in the long-term). This may be on the low side.
13. Profit on Player Sales
City made £5 million profit on player sales in 2010/11, but it is not unreasonable to assume that they could make £10 million a year from this activity, especially if the academy really starts to deliver. According to my calculations, that is what they should gain in 2011/12 (assuming that the value of Bellamy and Jo was impaired).
Even though there is a temptation to get players off the wage bill, Roberto Mancini has argued that the club should not let players leave for nothing, "They are good players and if there is a club that wants one of them, they must pay." That might be bravado, but even if players are sold for a cut-price fee, there may well be a resulting profit after cumulative amortisation is taken into consideration.
Of course, City could easily raise significant funds by selling the likes of Silva, Yaya Tore and Balotelli, but that sort of defeats the object.
14. Match Day
City's Achilles' heel is their very low match day income, which is only £26 million (gate receipts plus re-allocation from commercial revenue per Deloitte Money League). This works out to around £1 million a match, which is very low compared to Manchester United £3.7 million and Arsenal £3.3 million. It's not just a question of stadium capacity either, as Chelsea and Liverpool earn £2.4 million and £1.6 million, even thought their grounds are smaller than City's.
City have partially addressed this shortfall via a new agreement with the council, whereby the club pays them a fixed amount regardless of the attendance instead of the previous percentage, but there is surely room for further growth. This might mean raising ticket prices, increasing the corporate seats or expanding the capacity of the stadium. The first two moves would be unpopular with fans, though a logical ghastly consequence of FFP, while the stadium expansion would be longer-term in nature.
Plans exist to increase the capacity of the stadium from 48,000 to at least 60,000, but this would not be entirely straightforward, due to its awkward design. There have been some concerns that City would struggle to fill a larger stadium, even though their attendances have always been good (4th highest in the Premier League), but this season their crowds have been virtually at full capacity (99%).
Given the higher attendance, especially in Europe, I have assumed a 10% (£3 million increase) in the short-term, while a reasonable long-term aspiration would be to match Liverpool's match day revenue of £43 million, as the grounds have similar capacity and both clubs operate in the north-west of England (as opposed to the wealthier south), resulting in growth of £17 million.
15. Wages – Players signed pre-June 2010
The small print in the FFP regulations (Annex XI) states that clubs will not be sanctioned in the first two monitoring periods, so long as: (a) the club is reporting a positive trend in the annual break-even results; and (b) the aggregate break-even deficit is only due to the 2011/12 deficit, which in turn is due to player contracts undertaken prior to 1 June 2010.
In other words, City would be allowed to exceed the "acceptable deviation" of €45 million by the costs of pre-June 2010 signings, so long as the 2011/12 deficit was only due to this factor.
Assuming that this clause refers purely to wages (and does not include player amortisation), I have calculated this cost for "big name" players to be £53 million. Note that players whose contracts have been extended since 1 June 2010 are not counted (as explicitly noted in the regulations), so I have excluded Joe Hart, Pablo Zabaleta, Adam Johnson and Micah Richards. This might explain why City are delaying extending contracts for the likes of Vincent Kompany and Nigel De Jong.
In truth, this still does not completely satisfy the condition that the entire 2011/12 break-even deficit is due to these costs (unless player amortisation is also considered), but it is so close that my guess is that UEFA would look favourably upon this, especially if the trend was going the right way.
So, there you have it, Manchester City's loss could come down to £88 million (still enormous), but for the purposes of FFP this would represent a break-even deficit of only £14 million. This is clearly by no means a done deal, but if they achieved that in the short-term, it would be extremely difficult for UEFA to throw the book at them.
Longer-term, this plan would produce a comfortable FFP result of £11 million (with a loss of just £10 million reported in the accounts). This would require revenue to grow from £153 million to £266 million, almost entirely from commercial operations, which would need to rise by around 100% from £59 million to £120 million. On the face of it, that might sound absurd, but with the Etihad sponsorship and an improved Umbro deal, it's not completely pie in the sky. As Ian Cafferky, City's Chief Commercial Officer said in a recent interview with Sports Pro Media, "We're trying to double our revenues approximately by 2017."
As a comparative, Manchester United's current revenue is £331 million, but we know that this will increase, again largely due to commercial gains, so City's revenue projection is aggressive, but not unrealistic.
"Toure of Duty"
In any case, many believe that UEFA will never throw a leading club out of their competitions, as this would be the equivalent of biting the hand that feeds. Their General Secretary, Gianni Infantino, talks a good fight, "We will apply these rules strictly in order to safeguard the future of our game", but exclusion is considered to be very much a last resort only to be applied to repeat offenders.
However, UEFA will be acutely aware of the threat of legal reprisals. As Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger, a staunch supporter of FFP, forlornly commented, "With what happened with Sion challenging UEFA, they have lost a lot of power." A sliding scale of sanctions is set to be announced in January, to be ratified by UEFA's congress in March, and is likely to feature a number of financial penalties, including fines and the withholding of participation money, and potentially transfer bans (though even these could be challenged as being a restraint of trade).
In the background, City have been lobbying hard to convince UEFA that the club is committed to a sustainable future, based on the significant investment in the academy, which will be seriously impressive, catering for up to 400 young players, with 16 football pitches, a 7,000 capacity stadium for youth matches and on-site accommodation.. As the annual report stated, "In order to achieve this long-term ambition, youth development must be, and is, our top priority."
"Baldrick, I have a very cunning plan"
This is completely aligned with UEFA's objectives, as are the community benefits from the ambitious plans to regenerate the local area. Andrea Traverso, UEFA's head of club licensing, has already visited the Etihad Stadium for a briefing on City's intentions and he surely won't be the last to be given the grand tour.
Anyhow, it's by no means an impossible dream for City to get close enough to break-even in order to satisfy FFP. It's not quite the Masterplan that their famous fans, Oasis, once sang about, but it's a smart strategy that has every chance of succeeding – as long as the team continues to do the business on the pitch.


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With Saint Patrick's Day coming up I was feeling like something Irish. I had seen some nice looking lamb at the grocery store and I was thinking that a nice lamb stew would do. It kind of worked out well as we got buried in snow again and the stew really hit the spot on a cold day. I went with a pretty basic lamb stew that contained lamb, onions, carrots and potatoes. I was thinking that you could also add parsnips, rutabaga, barley, celery, etc. Of course I could not resist adding a Guinness to the pot. 🙂 I wanted to get a lot of lamb flavour so I made sure to brown the meat really well. I also wanted the lamb to be fall apart tender so I braised it for several hours. Since I did not want the carrots and potatoes to fall apart I did not add them to the stew until the meat was almost ready and then simmered just long enough to cook the vegetables. The lamb stew turned out really well. It was tasty and had a nice lamb flavour. The lamb was melt in the mouth tender. I enjoyed the lamb stew with a Guinness and some Irish soda bread .
Irish Lamb Stew
A slowly braised Irish style lamb stew with Guinness.
- 1 tablespoon oil
- 1 pound lamb, cut into bite sized pieces
- 1 onions, diced
- 2 cloves garlic, chopped
- 2 tablespoons flour
- 1 can Guinness
- 4 cups beef stock
- 1 teaspoon rosemary, chopped
- 1 teaspoon thyme, chopped
- 1 bay leaf
- salt and pepper to taste
- 2 white potatoes, cut into bite sized pieces
- 4 carrots, cut into bite sized pieces
- 1 handful parsley, chopped
- Heat the oil in a large pot over medium-high heat, add the lamb and brown on each side.
- Add the onions and saute until tender, about 5-7 minutes.
- Add the garlic and saute until fragrant, about 1 minute.
- Sprinkle in the flour and stir.
- Add the Guinness and beef stock.
- Add the rosemary, thyme, bay leaf, salt and pepper.
- Bring to a boil, reduce the heat and simmer until the lamb it fork tender, about 1-2 hours.
- Add the potatoes and carrots and some more beef stock to cover.
- Bring to a boil, reduce the heat and simmer until they are tender, about 20 minutes depending on cut.
- Plate and garnish with parsley.
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