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Lamb and Easter are forever intertwined in my mind – can't have the one without the other. That's probably because I grew up in Greece where the fasting of Lent ended with a massive Easter Sunday feast featuring spit-roasted lamb and about a million other side dishes, salads, homemade bread and whatever else my cooking-obsessed mother would conjure up.
I was NOT a fan of the spit-roasted lamb in my youth – I think I ended up eating everything but the lamb! These days I have embraced roast lamb and am constantly looking for new ways to serve it. The good news is that lamb will, more or less, take every flavour you throw at it. Pairings like rosemary and garlic are classics for a reason, but this time I wanted to jazz things up a bit and use up several things in my pantry and fruit bowl!
Pomegranate molasses is a classic ingredient in Persian cooking – often paired with lamb and used in both sweet and savoury dishes. I had a bottle lurking in the back of a shelf for such a long time and I actually felt relieved to finally use it! The blood oranges were a last minute addition borne of necessity (they were going bad) but I think they work really well in the recipe. You can use a mix of regular oranges and lemons if you can't get hold of any.
Jewelled tabbouleh
Serves 3-4
125g | 4 1/2oz cous cous
250ml | 1 cup hot vegetable stock (or hot water)
seeds from 1 pomegranate
salt and freshly ground pepper
olive oil
- Place the couscous in a bowl and cover with hot vegetable stock (you may not need it all or you may need a splash more). Stir then cover the bowl with some kitchen towel.
- Let the couscous absorb the stock then fluff up with a fork. Let it cool.
- Add the pomegranate seeds, currants, flaked almonds and orange juice and mix together. Stir in the chopped herbs, season to taste and drizzle with a little olive oil.
The one thing that this recipe can't pinpoint exactly is cooking time as this will depend on the size of your leg of lamb. So these are guidelines based on weight – you may need to adjust depending on your oven and sometimes how fatty the cut is. Check the cooking instructions on the packaging if in doubt. Remember lamb is best served slightly rare and make sure you rest the meat before serving. The best way to check your meat is cooked is by using a meat thermometer.
• Preheat oven to 200C (400F) and roast 25-30 minutes per 450g (1lb).
• Remember to let the lamb rest, loosely covered with foil and a tea towel, for at least 20 minutes before carving.
• Use butterflied leg of lamb (bone removed) if you wish to speed up the process – I also find that butterflied lamb is less fatty as they usually remove a lot of the fat – so you get more meat for your money.
Persian Leg of Lamb
Serves 3-4
1 leg of lamb, about 1kg/2lb
150ml | 1/2 cup lamb stock
4-5 blood oranges, cut in half
3 garlic cloves, peeled and sliced
2 large red onions, cut in half
For the marinade
4 tbsp pomegranate molasses
1 tbsp olive oil
1 tbsp honey
2 tsp garlic paste
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp ground cumin
salt and freshly ground pepper
handful chopped parsley to serve
- Preheat the oven to 200C (400F). Place an oven rack on the lower part of the oven.
- In a small bowl mix together all the marinade ingredients. Take the meat out of the fridge and score the fat in a criss cross pattern. Rub with the marinade all over and let it rest at room temperature for at least half an hour.
- Line a roasting tray with the sliced oranges, onions and sliced garlic. Place the marinaded lamb on top then pour the stock around the lamb. Generously season with salt and pepper.
- Roast based on weight (see above) occasionally basting the lamb with the pan juices. If you are cooking a large cut then cover with foil for the first half hour and remove foil to let the meat brown. I flipped my roast over halfway to let it brown evenly.
- Remove from the oven and transfer to a plate. Let the lamb rest, covered in foil and a tea towel, for 20 minutes.
- Transfer the pan juices to a saucepan. Squeeze one or two of the oranges from the roasting tray and add juice to the pot. Simmer for 30 minutes or until you have a slightly syrupy gravy.
- Slice the lamb and serve drizzled with the gravy, a little chopped parsley and the tabbouleh or salad on the side.
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Back in March 2006, my passions for writing and baseball came together in the form of this blog. After a year of writing, I decided to use the experience I had gained to create a new blog site all about Baseball from a British perspective. It can be found at www.baseballgb.co.uk . At this moment in time, two other writers have joined my quest to provide unique content about the game that will be both enjoyable and interesting for baseball fans, wherever they may be from.
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The man known only as Oldow was part of a carnival side show where he posed as a mindless brute who was incredibly strong but docile. However, Oldow was incredibly smart and was in some way conning his audiences and making a decent living with his performances. For unexplained reasons, on the night of a full moon, Oldow would transform into a bestial form and be filled with the lust for murder. One one particular night, this happened after another successful performance, and Oldow choked his partner to death before going on a rampage on the carnival grounds. His rampage was thwarted by the hero the Defender and his sidekick Rusty. The creature injured Rusty in the fight and fled into the night before he could be stopped.
The following night, the carnival -- oblivious to the fact that Oldow was the killer creature -- put on a free show at the military base where the Defender and Rusty's civilian identities were stationed at. That night, Oldow once more transformed into his monster form and go on yet another rampage. This time during his fight with the Defender and Rusty, he succeeded in knocking out the Defender and taking Rusty as his prisoner. Oldow took the boy to a nearby cliff and was about to throw Rusty down when the Defender showed up to rescue him. During the fight, the Defender knocked Oldow over the cliff, sending him to a bloody death on the jagged rocks below.[1]
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The Panel with Chris Trotter and Peter Elliot (Part 2)
Topics - Bob Marley's family are teaming up, it's called in media releases, signing a deal would be another way of putting it, with a private equity firm to launch Marley Natural marijuana; Bob will be the face of the world's first international cannabis brand. . Low-paid workers at a petrol station convenience store have been docked hundreds of dollars after customers fled without paying. "It happened on your shift, so it's your fault . " Masterton Night 'n Day franchisee Nick Lucas defended the "drive-offs" policy as standard industry practice. "When an employee makes a mistake, there are repercussions." In the latest development today in the Roger Sutton saga, actress Robyn Malcolm has come to his defence. She says on Twitter regarding the complainant in the case "She is protected by anonymity. He isn't. That's why people who do know Roger are compelled to offer support as they feel it."


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A few years ago I met my best friend when I was student teaching, I was pretty sure she didn't like me at all, at first. Next thing you know we both got jobs at the same high school, then it was all down hill from there because I'm like a good chocolate bar, you want to hate me but eventually you'll crave my friendship. Amber and I became friends and eventually moved in together with a few other roommates and our adventure began! We had many highlights from dancing as Beyonce and the single ladies, to our awesome blog idea. We had been on so many funny and bad dates we wanted to start an anonymous blog called "Dates of Our Lives.." You will never find this blog because we were fearful that it would come back to bite us in the end.
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Don't imply that I need help because I am passionate about __________ .
Don't mock my response to a situation that I feel strongly about.
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Don't deflect from your behavior by hurling that accusation.
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I've been through the hard times and I'm in awe of the good.
And with that sorted journey, I'm acutely aware of myself and my beliefs and the possibilities of the "impossible."
Don't tell me I'm crazy for not being naive.
Don't tell me I'm crazy for being green.
I may be a lot of things: compassionate, strong, obedient, aware, funny, overwhelmed, stubborn, determined, scared.
There are so many other ways to describe me than to use that word.
Because "crazy" is what got me here.
"Crazy" is where I came from.
"Crazy" is what I'm circling around.
I was "crazy" to think that this could be my life.
I was "crazy" to take that leap of faith.
I was "crazy" to push that fear away.
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What you call "crazy," I call so many other things and the generalization of crazy is a reflection of your inability to understand.
It's an insult.
So, take a moment and sit in my shoes.
Take in the full picture.
Soak up my truth.
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Boise's best reality show was nowhere near a television camera on Dec. 7. But the excitement at the B-Launched competition was tangible--contestants broke into spates of nervous laughter awaiting an announcement that could redefine their professional lives.
"And the winner is ...," said Bill Connors, president and CEO of the Boise Metro Chamber of Commerce who had everyone's attention. "Follow and
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The room burst into applause, as 10 men and women on the winning team, members of Boise Young Professionals, hugged and high-fived. Their germ of a business idea instantly took a huge step toward reality.
The competition, a program of BYP, may have been the best-kept secret in town. B-Launched pitted five teams of 10 participants each in a three-month race to discover a good idea and develop it into a really, really good idea.
The competition's panel of judges included Connors; Boise Mayor Dave Bieter; Dr. David Pate, president and CEO of St. Luke's Health System; Elizabeth Marshall of Marshall and Associates; and Rick Belluzzo, former chief operating officer of Microsoft.
"It was tough picking a winner," said Belluzo. "I really struggled. They were all very good."
Citydesk was hard-pressed to get too many details regarding the companies--each contestant was bound to a non-disclosure agreement.
"What we can tell you is that our mission is focused on education," said Christine Quintana, one of the winning presenters. "We want to empower higher-ed students to redefine the way their education is funded. Isn't that intriguing?"
The Follow and
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"We'll use the money to hire developers and build a prototype. That will happen between now and March," said Quintana.
Quintana has a day-job as a product marketing analyst for Hewlett-Packard. Her teammates include a teacher, musician, banker, attorney, software engineers and nonprofit manager.
The year 2012 will be busy in the Quintana household. While Quintana helps build what could be Boise's next big business, her husband, Ben, will be sworn in as Boise's newest City Council member.


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The actors previously parodied West's Bound 2 promo, in which he cavorted with his reality TV star lover as they ride through a desert on a motorcycle, and they have also mocked the celebrity couple's recent Vogue magazine cover.
The Pineapple Express stars received praise from West and Kardashian, and Franco now explains the rapper is now interested in working with them.
He says, "Kanye actually set up a call with me and Seth and we thought, 'Oh my gosh, what's going on?' We got on the phone and Seth was like, 'What are you going to yell at us now?'
"It was a surreal conversation; he was the sweetest guy and he actually had, like, a proposal for us for the next chapter. Like Seth James, Kim and Kanye kind of thing."
Franco is keen to work with West on the secret project, but he does not believe it is going to come to fruition.
He continues, "It is so crazy. I think I can talk about it a little bit because I don't think it's ever going to happen. It involves Paris and his wedding. I don't think it will ever happen though."
Kardashian and West are rumoured to be planning a wedding in the French capital later this year (14).


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It's been a great year for 5FM's Tumi Voster!
Not only did she land herself a lucrative spot on 5FM, she also made her TV debut. And she's not stopping here. Tumi's got her sights set on becoming an entrepreneur.
Tumi revealed to The Juice that she's got a lot planned for next year, but doesn't really believe in New Year's resolutions.
"I believe that NY resolutions put a lot of pressure on an individual and most of the time you never really stick to them. So I believe in having a continuous, driven mindset and lifestyle of striving to be a better you than you were yesterday," she explained.
Her biggest acomplishment for 2014 was definitely signing to 5FM from being on a provincial radio station. "Signing to 5FM has brought so much growth to my radio career and entertainment career as a whole," she added.
Here's how Tumi Voster is going to tackle the year ahead:
A change of attitude to never doubt my path, but to remind myself that God sees my heart, dreams and vision. All I have to do is continue working hard and what's meant for me won't miss me.
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On Thursday last I visited Audley End House near Saffron Walden in Essex as I mentioned in a previous post. This was just to have a quick look round to see what I could photograph when we make our 'proper' trip.
One interesting feature of the trip was that I used my new GPS navigation unit to get me there. You know – the sort of thing that talks to you and tells you where to go (in the nicest possible way of course). I have to say it beats having to keep stopping and looking at a map.
Anyway – back to the house. Beautiful bit of parkland and gardens and the house is rather large. If you went in the house without a guide or floor plan you'd probably starve to death before you found your way out again.
Some very impressive rooms so, as Arnold Schwarzenegger might have said, I'll be back.


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National University of Singapore retained it's position in the world rankings this time around - great news for the university and its students!
Harvard is #1 as usual, while my favourite, Princeton, is still at #8. Australian National University is at #17 now and even McGill is doing decently, at #18. Brown, an ivy league, is now below NUS (at #31)!
The major challenger of NUS in the university education market in Singapore, Nanyang Technological University has fallen further down to #73 - surely there must be something they're not doing right. But at the same time, they must be doing something right since they haven't had a significant drop in the past 4 years or so (it was at #61 in 2006). However, when top schools like Purdue are hovering at #87, Singapore universities should be content with what they got.
But what I learnt after making my previous post on university rankings is that they don't really represent all that a university has to offer. They focus a lot on research publications by the universities, which is why top schools continue to retain their top positions because of all the Nobel prizes they have accumulated in the past couple of centuries (I'm exaggerating!). And then of course, the results are naturally skewed towards US universities, no matter how hard they try to remove the bias.
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this plant isn't a bamboo at all but a type of Dracaena. Associated with Feng-Shui, each arrangement of this plant has a specific number of stalks, each with its own specific meaning: three means happiness, longevity and wealth; five stalks are for wealth; six will bring luck; seven good health, eight for growth and 10 for completion. If you're "lucky" enough to have 21 stalks, then it's believed to bring blessings of enduring health and great wealth.According to the ancient art of Feng Shui, the bamboo itself is supposedly filled with peaceful and wise energy. The best way to ensure your bamboo is a lucky Feng Shui cure, is to make sure all 5 elements of Feng Shui are represented: Wood – the stalks of the bamboo
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Yahoo breaks every mailing list in the world including the IETF's - 0 views
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DMARC is what one might call an emerging e-mail security scheme. There's a draft on it at draft-kucherawy-dmarc-base-04, intended for the independent stream. It's emerging pretty fast, since many of the largest mail systems in the world have already implemented it, including Gmail, Hotmail/MSN/Outlook, Comcast, and Yahoo.
The reason this matters is that over the weekend Yahoo published a DMARC record with a policy saying to reject all yahoo.com mail that fails DMARC. I noticed this because I got a blizzard of bounces from my church mailing list, when a subscriber sent a message from her yahoo.com account, and the list got a whole bunch of rejections from gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, Comcast, and Yahoo itself. This is definitely a DMARC problem, the bounces say so. The problem for mailing lists isn't limited to the Yahoo subscribers. Since Yahoo mail provokes bounces from lots of other mail systems, innocent subscribers at Gmail, Hotmail, etc. not only won't get Yahoo subscribers' messages, but all those bounces are likely to bounce them off the lists. A few years back we had a similar problem due to an overstrict implementation of DKIM ADSP, but in this case, DMARC is doing what Yahoo is telling it to do. Suggestions: * Suspend posting permission of all yahoo.com addresses, to limit damage * Tell Yahoo users to get a new mail account somewhere else, pronto, if they want to continue using mailing lists * If you know people at Yahoo, ask if perhaps this wasn't such a good idea
Paul Merrell on 13 May 14Short story: Check your SPAM folder for email from folks who email you from Yahoo accounts. That's where it's currently going. (They got rid of the first bug but created a new one in the process. Your Spam folder is where they're currently being routed.)


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"Future Imperfect"
In a future controlled by unregulated mega-coporations, a constant war is being fought in the computer networks of rival enterprises. Awn is an agent working for "EXE" dismantling competing mega-corporation structures when she's suddenly trapped inside forced to fight endlessly until she dies over and over again.
"Power Awn"
"EXE" is a twin stick shooter with elements of arcade bullet-hell. You must fight your way endlessly through several waves of computer network defenses in order to survive as long as possible.
Awn is deeply connected to the network and this gives her some advantages over her attackers. The more efficiently she operates the more the system attempts to assist her by giving her upgrades and powering her defenses. Her swift movements allow her to briefly phase right through enemy fire giving her an edge over her foes. Use your environment to your advantage and lure enemies into traps being careful not to become a victim yourself.


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We create fine motor activities to be fun and engaging. Most children love Play-Doh. Encouraging students to make shapes and letters with the Play-Doh helps strengthen their hands and fingers, while developing their academic knowledge. It's important to make learning fun.
We always start by putting the Play-Doh in front of the child and asking them to divide it into four (4) parts. The child should use their whole hand to squeeze the Play-Doh and use their number knowledge. We then ask them to use their pinchers - index finger and the thumb - to pinch off some of the snakes, and then we proceed with the skill building activities.
If we are creating letters, we always sing the sound while creating it: "C,C,C" or "S,S,S,S". Children love rhyme and music. "C says /C/. S says /S/. We try to integrate all the components of learning while engaging students in the activity. If they are manipulating Play-Doh; singing the sound a letter makes; and seeing the actual letter in front of them; they are more likely to perform the activity successfully and retain the learning.
The Toddler Matching Bundle is great for fine motor practice. It provides early exposure to foundational skills such as letters, numbers, shapes, and colors while practicing fine motor skills with the hands-on nature of the activities. These activities allow for parents and teachers to sit down with their children and have easy resources to practice the basics.
The Toddler Matching Bundle includes:
- Flower Color Match - Match the petals to the correct center of the flower.
- Alphabet Match - Match the picture on the ice cream cone to the correct letter cone.
- Animal Match - Find the other half of the animal.
- Shape Match - This can be used as a memory game, or larger pictures can be used to sort the shapes.
These activities are meant to be used over and over. At first, this will be a guided activity but eventually your child will be able to use these tools independently. Don't forget that your child pointing to the right card (before they are able to pick it up) is a fine motor milestone too!
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Telling extended anecdotes over a series of tweets isn't a new phenomenon, but something changed back in October when a stripper called Zola tweeted, "Okay listen up. This story long. So I met this white bitch at hooters." "Twitter Storytime" is now a Thing, a new type of Content. There's an entire Wired article about it. And the latest, greatest example of Twitter Storytime involves a writer, his dog, and the lady they found in the trunk of a car the other night.
Joe Craig, London-based author of the Jimmy Coates young-adult thriller series, was out for an evening stroll with his large dog, Harpo, when he detected trouble. The trunk of a nearby Renault Clio — a small, sporty French car — was shaking, and Craig could hear the screams of a woman emanating from it.
What does a thriller author do when faced with a real-life chance to be a hero? More important, what does his dog do? 'Gather round, folks, it's Twitter Storytime again:
Well, that was satisfying, and definitely worth a couple dozen tweets. (It's no Zola story, but what is?)
Craig later expressed faux-regrets on Twitter about what happened, wondering aloud whether he had witnessed someone's conception, or interrupted the conception of someone who will now never live.
You don't have to be an actual author to tell a surprising and hilarious Twitter story, but it helps.


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By Marie-Claire Kidd
The company behind HS2 stands accused of failing farmers as the NFU and CLA call for immediate employment of an agricultural liaison officer.
In December 2014, HS2 promised someone 'experienced in agricultural matters' would be available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, during construction of HS2 phase one.
Last week it said it would fill the post before building work begins, probably in 2017. But farming leaders say the officer is needed now.
Andrew Shirley, CLA chief surveyor, said: "They should have been in place from the outset to provide agricultural input, but HS2 does not understand farming businesses. It is not intending to employ anyone until before construction starts. This is too late.
"It is disappointing HS2 has not done more to reduce the impact on farmers. Their focus is to get the Bill through Parliament, not on people who are losing their land and their livelihood."
Louise Staples, rural surveyor for the NFU, added: "We would like to see someone appointed as soon as possible, not just when construction starts. We have raised this with HS2 and said it would be much better for this person to be in the negotiations now, rather than having to play catch-up on all previous negotiations and agreements with the farm businesses affected when construction starts."
Mr Shirley said lack of feedback from farmers meant HS2 was already missing opportunities to protect businesses, for example by changing the location of habitat or crossings. But royal assent – permission for compulsory purchase – is expected this year.
HS2 will then have to pay compensation within three months of serving notice.
"This requires a huge amount of trust," Mr Shirley said. "Once construction starts there will be a lot of concern."
Many farmers still do not know whether their land is being taken temporarily or permanently. Farmers with land allocated as habitat are still unclear how this will be managed and by whom.
For others, the sooner compulsory purchase begins, the better.
"It has been five years already," Mr Shirley said. "There will be 10 years of construction. This is almost a generation. Farmers are wondering how to remain competitive and where to invest."
HS2's Guide for Farmers and Growers is available here: www.gov.uk/government/publications/hs2-guide-for-farmers-and-growers
HS2 must employ an agricultural liaison officer to support farmers affected by the first phase of construction.
It must provide their name and contact details to the NFU before they take post and arrange meetings between the officer and the NFU at least every three months.
An HS2 spokesman said: "The officer will complement the engagement already taking place between HS2 and individual affected farmers and landowners."


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Watching the pictures on the news of what is going on in Somalia I am often brought to tears. And watching this news, these starving children and refugees huddled together to tired and weak to cry reminded me that I have almost always been a food activist.
As an elementary school child I collected cans and bottles for the nickel deposit to raise money to send to Ethiopia. I even got some of my friends involved and got my Dad to let me use a lot of the space in the garage to store the empties. I was so moved by their plight that I had to do something. I really felt called.
And there have been famines since then, they move me as well. I teach about famine when my ethics classes cover poverty. I remind them that it doesn't matter which famine the author is talking about, it doesn't make the article out of date, there will be other famines and the arguments still hold. I hope they prompt some to act.
I often have to turn away when the news is on and there is famine. Amartya Sen, Nobel Prize winning economist and development scholar was right when he said that pictures on the news of children actually starving to death is horrible and has kept there from being a real famine in some places. He wrote this when talking about his native country, India, and how they have not had a real famine in the modern age, but that malnutrition still plagues the nation. It plagues many others as well. But the actually starving is more likely to move us to action.
And while malnutrition is a real problem to be solved be it due to a lack of food overall or a lack of access to nutritious food, starvation must be dealt with first. Consider donating to a charitable organization working in East Africa right now. Choose which one you think is reputable and will do the most good with your money, but try not to sit idly by.
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Reading is a great way to connect with your kiddos! We have a list of books we'd strongly recommend for you to read to you kid!
- Charlotte's Web is a classic with a very compelling storyline all about understanding, love and friendship.
- The Boxcar Children is another great classic filled with adventure.
- A Wrinkle in Time just came out as a movie this year, and the book is just as fantastic! A story with mystery and adventure, impossible not to love it.
- The BFG is one of Roald Dahl's best work. A story about compassion, unlikely friendship and adventures.
- James and the Giant Peach is another one of Roald Dahl's imaginative and adventurous pieces! This read will keep you hooked and entertained the whole way through.
- The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane is a heartwarming and compelling story filled with all sorts of adventure, friendships, love and tear-jerking moments. You feel totally connected to the characters in this story and fall in love with each of them!
Check out these books, guaranteed to create an impact on both you and your kids.


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077/365 - January 19th 2018
We've had some visitors in the office this week, from quite a few counties, including Mexico and the Philippines. For lunch we all went out for fish and chips, as they all really wanted to try it over here, as I guess you could say it's one of our typically British meals. Everyone had empty plates at the end, so I took that as positive!
Being right on the edge of the Cotswolds, there are some really beautiful villages nearby, so we made a quick stop to show the area. Luckily we had a bit of sun too.


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A chitral (spotted) deer was found in front of a house at Ramnagar village of Dashghar area in Dakop upazila near the Sundarbans on Sunday morning.
A member of the Sundarbans Community Patrol Group (CPG), Zahidul Islam Gazi, said: "The deer jumped into a pond by being scared by the presence of people. But it was later rescued by the locals."
When informed, Abu, Kailashganj police outpost in-Charge, came to the spot, and released the deer inside the Sundarbans around 1pm.
However, yet another deer was found near a house on the same day. The second deer was similarly set free with the help of forest officials and locals.
According to Abu, the two deer might have entered the village after losing their way in the night fog. Meanwhile, locals believe the deer might have entered the village in search of food.
A local said this was the first time any deer had entered inside their village. Previously in 2003, a tiger swam across the river to the village, and injured four goats before being beaten to death by locals.
Source: Spotted deer found in human habitat in Sundarbans | Dhaka Tribune


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Chapter 23
Stock-Based Compensation
A chapter on this topic in earlier editions of the Handbook was written by Peter T. Chingos, CPA of Mercer Human Resources Consulting, Walton T. Conn Jr., CPA, and John R. Deming, CPA, from KPMG Peat Marwick. The chapter has been rewritten for this edition by the editor.
23.1 History of Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation
(a) Stock Option Backdating Scandal
23.2 Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation
(a) Stock Option Accounting Using Fair Value
(d) Employee Stock Option Plans
(a) Black-Scholes Option Pricing Models
(b) Lattice/Binomial Option Pricing Models
(i) Computing the Option Price
(a) Awards to Nonemployees for Goods and Services
(b) Awards Classified as Liabilities
(c) Stock Appreciation Rights as Compensation
(e) Income Taxation of Stock Compensation Plans
(i) Diluted Earnings per Share
(g) Obtaining and Retaining Supporting Data
(a) Notes to the Financial Statements
23.6 Accounting Standards Codification
23.7 International Perspective
23.8 Sources and Suggested References
The nature and types of stock-based compensation plans and awards have changed constantly over the years. However, ...
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Extract milk from the coconut by scrapping and grinding. Make a solution by mixing the cleaned gram flour and maidha flour in the coconut milk and add ghee and sugar with the solution and keep it on the stove. Stir it and maintain that it does not stick on to the bottom. After the solution becomes thicker, add ghee with it when the solution becomes non-sticky to the bottom of the vessel, switch off the stove and transfer it to the ghee pasted plate, spread it and make it into pieces after it is cooled down.


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How to Photograph Geisha: Unwritten Rules
There are several unwritten rules about photographing geisha and maiko in Kyoto that you should follow to ensure you do not offend or embarrass them. Two of the biggest are:
- Never photograph a geiko or maiko when she is with a client.
- Never show a photograph where a geiko or maiko's leg is exposed beneath her kimono.
I learned the first rule the hard way (I broke it), but I learned the second before I broke it and avoided an unfortunate situation.
The only time I've actually been told to stop photographing a maiko was one evening when I had just started photographing them. It was relatively late, between 9:00 and 10:00 p.m., and I was standing at one of my favorite crossroads in Gion Kobu. A maiko and three of her customers came out of a restaurant down the street and started walking right towards me. I took a few steps forward to photograph the maiko and made a few photos, making sure not to get too close to them. They passed in front of me and turned right, so I was now behind them. The maiko stepped under a streetlamp, so I made a few more photos.
At this point they were quite far away from me, and I was not following them. I guess the maiko heard the sound of my shutter on the quiet street, because she turned back to me, wagged her index finger at me, and said in English, "No, no, no." I had a sinking feeling in my stomach. I knew I had done something wrong, but I wasn't sure what. I stopped photographing them immediately, bowed and apologized in Japanese, and moved as far away from them as I could.
I went over my actions in my mind to try to understand what I had done to make the maiko so angry. I had photographed other geiko and maiko at the same time and on the same street, and I had never had any problems. In fact, one geiko had actually stopped and posed for me in the very same spot, and that's why I had returned there. Then I realized that this was the first time I had ever tried to photograph a maiko when she was with her clients. I knew what my mistake was.
I learned later on that there is kind of a bubble of privacy around a geiko or maiko and their clients that should be respected. They should not be interrupted unless you are invited into the group by one of those customers. I have actually been in a bar sitting right next to a geiko I know quite well, and she ignored me the entire time she was there after she said, "Good evening, John-san." I was not surprised or offended at all. Her customer was sitting on the other side of her, and he was the focus of her attention. I continued my conversation with the people I was with as if the chair next to me were empty, except when I said good night to her.
Fortunately, I learned about never showing a photograph of a geiko or maiko with her leg exposed beneath her kimono in a much better way. I was visiting all the okiya in Gion Kobu and Miyagawa-cho to get permission to include photos in my first book, One Hundred Views of Maiko and Geiko. There was one photograph I was particularly curious about. I loved it, but I thought there might be a problem. Two geiko were walking towards me down Aoyagi-koji after Miyako Odori, and they were engaged in an animated discussion. In the photograph, I had captured them both laughing. The only problem was that a centimeter or two of one of the geiko's legs was visible beneath her naga-juban (under kimono). They were walking so fast that her juban had flipped up, revealing a small bit of skin. I just had a feeling that the geiko wouldn't like that and wouldn't let me use the photo.
I was right. My assistant and I went into the okiya and talked to a very friendly older woman who worked there. We showed her the photo, and she started laughing. She said I had really captured the geiko's personality in the photo. Then the woman noticed the kimono, and her expression changed. She explained that geiko were supposed to wear their kimonos perfectly at all times, and that meant that you should never see a geiko's legs. They should be covered by the naga-juban. Then the woman said with a laugh, "Of course, in real life, no one is that perfect, but still..."
The woman said she would check with the geiko just to make sure since it was such a lovely photograph, but I knew I already had my answer. I couldn't use the photograph in my book. If I did, I would be unintentionally embarrassing the geiko, and that was certainly not my intention. Sure enough, the woman called back a few hours later and confirmed my suspicion. The geiko asked that I please not include that photo in my book, and I didn't.
I'll cover a few more unwritten rules later, but these are the biggest two I've discovered. If you don't want to offend or embarrass a maiko or geiko, don't photograph them with their customers or show the world a photo of them when their kimono is not quite as perfect as it should be.


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Are you making pies for Thanksgiving? Every year I decide not to, but then I start thinking about pie crust…apples and cinnamon…pumpkin….pecans….pears….pie crust (again). Sound familiar?
Seriously, you can buy a very good pie at a local bakery, but will it EVER compare to one you make yourself?
Let's face it. The answer is no, no, no! Get that? NO! Never!
Homemade is always best. Even if the pie is not picture perfect, it's delicious. But, you might say, I can't make pie crust. Well….buy the crust if you must and then fill it with your own glorious mixture of apples and pears, a perfectly seasoned pumpkin pie filling, or caramel-y pecans.
But, if you want to take a stab at your own crust, hooray! Go for it. My crust is really, really good. It's the result of my formal training meeting my love of home cooking. It's easy, it's tender, it's lovely. So, give it a try.
Debra Ponzek's Flaky Pie Crust
Don't be afraid to make your own pie dough; it's not hard. This is a foolproof recipe that results in a buttery, flaky dough, but of course, if you would rather buy premade pie crust in the supermarket, go for it. Mine tastes better, though!
Makes one 9-inch pie crust
3/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/4 cup cake flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
6 tablespoons cold butter
3 tablespoons ice-cold water
1 teaspoon white wine vinegar
Put the all-purpose flour, cake flour, baking powder, and salt in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with a paddle attachment. With the mixer on low speed, add the butter, a tablespoon at a time, until the mixture resembles coarse meal. This will take 3 to 4 minutes.
Add the water and vinegar and mix for about 30 seconds longer, or until the dough begins to form a ball. Remove the dough from the mixer, shape it into a disk and wrap it in plastic wrap. Refrigerate for at least 1 hour.
Preheat the oven to 400°F.
On a lightly floured board, roll the chilled dough into a circle with a diameter of 11 to 12 inches. Gently press the dough into a 9-inch pie pan with the sides overhanging the rim. Trim the edges so that the dough is even with the edges of the pan. Lightly spray a piece of foil with vegetable oil spray and lay in on the crust, sprayed side down. Put pie weights or dry beans on top of the foil. This keeps the crust from puffing up during baking.
Bake for 8 to 9 minutes, or until the edges begin to turn golden brown. Remove from the oven and gently lift the foil from the pie pan. Use a fork to prick the bottom and sides of the crust in several places. Return it to the oven for 9 to 10 minutes longer or until light golden brown.
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We're proud to be previewing the new Rega Brio integrated amplifier this weekend.
Come along for a look and listen to the fabulous new Rega Brio.
Brand new case design.
The Brio has a completely new case to house its improved circuits and parts. It now sits in a fully aluminium two-part case which boosts the Brio's heatsinking capabilities and improves on Rega's already solid build quality and reliability. The sleek and minimal look was designed to bring elegance to Rega's classic style but still harks back to the swooped features hidden away in Rega's past amplifiers.
Re-designed circuit.
Key improvements have been made to the circuits. The PCB layout has been fully upgraded to handle higher specifications for all critical parts.
A second raw power supply has been added to provide further isolation between output stage and the driver stage/line and phono amplifiers.This improves the isolation between high and low level signal stages of the amplifier. Higher specification MUSES operational amplifiers have been used in the line and phono amplifier.
Headphone Socket.
For convenience, the Brio has the capability to drive standard hi-fi headphones from the internal amplifier. Adding a headphone socket was only possible by finding a way to reduce its impact on the main signal path so it doesn't disrupt the overall sound quality. We have paid special attention to the switch that deactivates the main speakers. This is achieved by the same relay used in Rega's other amplifier models.
50Watts RMS both channels driven into the rated load of 8Ω
73Watts RMS both channels driven into the rated load of 4Ω
Throughout the design process the Brio has been meticulously improved in every aspect, from the quality of materials to the manufacturing process, to make this new Brio a step ahead in Rega's engineering and design for amplifiers.
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Christian Louboutin Channels Lisa Frank with a $30 Nail Polish
Christian Louboutin nail polish is crazy expensive. Fifty-dollars-a-bottle expensive. To put that price in perspective: Dior nail polish sells for $27, Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent colours go for $28, and Tom Ford tops out at $35. But those other luxury brands sell their lacquers in ordinary bottles, while Monsieur Louboutin's polishes are encased in pointy objets d'art. These are beauty products that are designed to be beautiful.
Last week, the brand released Loubichrome, a limited edition collection of three chrome-finish colors in shades inspired by a laminated leather called specchio. Loubichrome I is an electric yellow infused with lime green, Loubichrome II is a fiery rosy red, and Loubichrome III is a glistening violet. According to the company's website, the "highly pigmented, super glossy formula achieves in just two coats the effect of 20 layers of traditional lacquer." (Note: I worry about anyone who actually applies 20 coats of nail polish, but that's an issue for another day.)
At $30 for a 0.2 ounce bottle, the Loubichromes are even pricier (per ounce) than the traditional 0.4 ounce colors, but each limited edition shade comes in a faceted glass bottle with a multi-colored chrome carton, and the cap has an iridescent finish. It's the luxury embodiment of a Lisa Frank acid trip.
The collection is sold out online, but a staffer at the Louboutin store (29 Maiden Lane in Union Square) tells me they still have a few bottles left in stock. Scamper over to grab yours before they're gone.
And when you exhaust your 0.2 ounce supply, hot glue the bottle to a headband and wear it as a unicorn horn. Because, damn, these bottles need to be celebrated in all their oil-slick rainbow glory.


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- Design and coordination of participatory processes for decision-aiding and conflict management
- Leadership, futures-thinking, capacity building, education and knowledge management
Katherine is Research Lead at the 3A Institute - the ANU's first innovation institute with the mission of building a new applied science to 'manage the machines' - and Associate Professor in the Fenner School of Environment and Society. Katherine's current research work focusses on the challenges of implementing collaborative approaches to policy and action for sustainable development. In this field, she has recently worked in Europe and the Asia-Pacific on projects related to international science and technology cooperation, water governance, risk management, sustainable urban development and climate change adaptation. Katherine has produced over 100 academic publications including 4 books and a diverse range of book chapters, papers, reports and edited collections.
In research management and cooperation building roles, Katherine has been the ANU's European Research Development Manager and is currently President of the Australian-French Association for Research and Innovation (AFRAN) Inc. Katherine has previously worked in the ANU's Centre for European Studies, Centre for Policy Innovation and the H.C. Coombs Policy Forum at the Crawford School of Public Policy on a range of Australian Public Service - ANU and international cooperation projects, including the PACE-Net and PACE-Net+ EU projects on developing Pacific-European bi-regional dialogue on science, technology and innovation. She has previously taught executive development courses for the Australian National Institute for Public Policy (ANIPP) on multi-level governance and convened Masters and undergraduate courses in the Fenner School on Environmental Policy and Participatory Resource Management. Katherine has received many awards and honours for her work including a John Monash Scholarship and being elected as a Fellow of the Peter Cullen Water and Environment Trust. She has served on the ACT (2009-2011, 2015-2016) and National (2013-2014) Selection Panels for the John Monash Scholarships. Katherine currently serves as a member of the National Committee on Water Engineering (Engineers Australia), director and board member of the Peter Cullen Water and Environment Trust, a member of the Initiatives of the Future of Great Rivers and is the Editor of the Australasian Journal of Water Resources.


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Commentary: Many GOP candidates have stumbled over Cuba in South Florida
Don't worry Herman. When it comes to this Cuban immigration stuff, we're all befuddled.
Campaigning in Little Havana last Wednesday, Herman Cain was confronted with a truly bewildering foreign policy question. Not like the one about Libya that stumped him last week. Not like trying to recall what's-his-name from Ubeki-beki-beki-beki-stan-stan.
This time, Cain was flustered by a perplexity peculiar to campaigning in Miami. You could almost see the neurotransmitters firing blanks as Cain walked along, a gaggle of reporters in tow, wondering what the hell the aqueous state of someone's tootsies had to do with foreign policy.
The answer is everything, at least in Miami. Poor Cain was making a campaign swing through South Florida, including that mandatory photo-op at Versailles, a Cuban food emporium favored by visiting politicians, perhaps because the famous decor allows a candidate to simultaneous sip café con leche and mingle with fervent ethnic voters while admiring his own inspiring image on the restaurant's mirrored walls.
But in Little Havana what was supposed to be Cain's great asset — his vaunted, no-nonsense, pizza magnate approach to government — collided with the strange and inscrutable contradictions that flourish down here in the subtropics. Like giant African snails or Burmese pythons or Hialeah elections.
Synapses misfired. He could only answer The Herald's Marc Caputo's query with a quizzical rephrasing of the question: "The wet-foot, dry-foot policy?"
Cain seemed to be flipping through his mental card catalogue, desperately searching for a logical explanation to this wet-foot, dry-foot craziness. But he drew a blank. Because, well, no logical explanation exists.
Didn't make much sense in 1995, either, when wet-foot, dry-foot was created to discourage a nonstop influx of Cuban rafters, navigating the Florida Straits in a makeshift rafts most of us wouldn't trust to float across the Miami River.
Not willing to completely discard a special (and politically sacred) just-for-Cubans instant asylum immigration policy, the Clinton administration came up with an bizarre and arbitrary compromise. Cuban refugees interdicted at sea were to be hauled back to Cuba. Cubans refugees who managed to set their feet on the dry land could stay. The maddening exactness of the policy especially roiled the community back in 1999, when newly arrived refugees landing in Surfside and Key Largo were caught wading ashore in shin-deep water and were sent back, while others on the same boat who made it to dry land were granted asylum. Amid the uproar, Howard Simon of the ACLU asked the questions that can still cause a politician's head to burst in flames. "What happens at low tide and high tide? Does the constitution vary? This is absurd."
Of course, undocumented immigrants from other nationalities caught sailing out of the Caribbean go home, dry feet or not. Wet-foot, dry-foot was invented just for Cuban refugees. And just for Miami politics. It's as if Boston could conjure up a special exception for undocumented Irish immigrants, allowing them to stay as long as they chugged a pint of Guinness without sloshing: wet-chin, dry-chin. It certainly makes no more sense, outside Miami, than, say, Cuban travel restrictions for non-Cuban Americans, or a Cuban trade embargo that bars all trade except for the half-billion dollars-a-year in bound-for-Cuba items that just happened to be exempt from the embargo. And if Cain thought the questions out of Little Havana were tough to answer, he should try to explain the vagaries of the Cuban Adjustment Act to voters across town in Little Haiti.
Perhaps Cain, before coming to Miami, ought to have taken a few moments to prep himself on the local political weirdness. It's just not something an uninformed outsider can finesse. This ain't Des Moines. (Not that Iowa's beloved ethanol policy comes with a rational explanation.) Still, flubbing on wet-foot, dry-foot shouldn't count as a major political faux pas, another of Herman's Cain's Rick Perry moments. (Not like Cain saying, 47 years after China built a nuclear bomb, that he was worried China would "develop nuclear capability.")
Other candidates have similarly struggled with the inscrutable intricacies of Miami politics. Four years ago, Mitt Romney, during his own visit to Versailles and vicinity, tried a bit of innocent pandering. "Hugo Chávez has tried to steal an inspiring phrase — Patria o muerte, venceremos," Romney said. "It does not belong to him. It belongs to a free Cuba."
Not quite a free Cuba. Mitt had employed a favorite catch phrase from commie Fidel himself. Turned out, Hugo had filched the words from Castro, who liked to end his speeches with: "Fatherland or death, we shall overcome."
Romney had figured to score easy political points with the exile community. Instead his campaign was forced to issued an apology: "It was an unfortunate error in the language that certainly wasn't meant to offend."
Poor unwitting Mitt (who praised a rising young local Republican politician he called "Mario Rubio,") also employed what he must have supposed was a Cuban-American exile rallying cry: " Libertad, libertad, libertad!" Except in Miami, that particular phrase is associated with dialogue uttered by Al Pacino in Scarface, the 1983 movie despised by exiles for an insensitive depiction of Miami as a nest of homicidal Mariel immigrant gangsters. The script goes like this: "I'd kill a communist for fun . . . but for a green card, I gonna carve him up real nice . . . Libertad! Libertad! Libertad!"
Cain, finally figuring out that nothing in Miami makes much sense to an unschooled outsider, declined to entertain any more media queries about Cuban foreign policy. No more "gotcha" questions, he declared. All questions hereabouts, he was coming to realize, have a gotcha potential.
Later, on the campaign bus, Cain finally told Channel 10's Michael Putney that he was opposed to wet-foot, dry-foot; that there must be "a better way." Wisely, he didn't elaborate. Because even the most innocuous intent can get you whacked in Miami. At the Versailles, the pizza man dutifully consumed his obligatory cafecito and croquetas and inquired, "How do you say 'delicious' in Cuban?"
Any politician chumming for votes in Little Havana soon learns that whatever he says "in Cuban," as opposed to saying it in Spanish, must be said very carefully.


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In 1870, your average industrialized country needed only 10.7 per cent of its gross domestic product to fund its military, run its courts, build its roads and bridges, and provide for its sick and needy. U.S. governments (federal, state and local) needed a mere 7.3 per cent of GDP; Britain, 9.4 per cent. Almost perfectly aligned with the average among 14 countries, Germany needed 10 per cent.
By the standard of the times, the French were off the chart: 12.6 per cent. (In 1888, Paul Leroy-Beaulieu, a French economist, defined "moderate" government spending as 5 per cent of GDP, "excessive" as 12 per cent.) This wasn't laissez-faire exactly, but it came close. In this heyday of classic liberalism, the best government was still deemed to be the government that governed least.
Forty-four years later, with European governments arming for the First World War, the average level of government spending had risen, in some countries precipitously. At 7.5 per cent of GDP, indifferent to the impending conflict, the U.S. remained the most frugal. Britain had increased its public expenditures by a third (to 12.7 per cent), Germany and France by almost half (to 14.8 per cent and to 17 per cent). Yet the average had risen only marginally (to 11.9 per cent).
It was the five-year conflict that ended limited government. By 1920, the public spending of the average industrialized government had risen by two-thirds — to 18.7 per cent of GDP. U.S. spending had reached 12.1 per cent; Britain, 26.2 per cent; Germany, 25 per cent; France, 27.6 per cent. In Europe, only Sweden and Spain had managed to keep spending close to 10 per cent.
With its temporary wartime income tax now permanently in place, postwar Canadian governments required 16.7 per cent of GDP, roughly twice the 1870s level. And the Great Depression was yet to come. And the Second World War. Ironically, though, it was neither of these epic misfortunes that produced big government as we know it now. By 1937, the average spending level had crept higher — to 22.8 per cent. This was indeed twice as much spending as governments had needed in 1913. But the Depression had shrunk GDP, making the level of spending appear relatively higher than it really was.
These statistics are compiled from Public Spending in the 20th Century, a fascinating work published in 2000 by International Monetary Fund economist Vito Tanzi and European Central Bank economist Ludger Schuknecht. The dramatic conclusion of their analysis? It wasn't the world wars that pushed government spending to unsustainable heights. It wasn't the Depression. It wasn't the socialist century. It was two decades of naive public spending between 1960 and 1980. It was the reckless piling up of expenditures that could not be reversed, described by Mr. Tanzi and Mr. Schuknecht as "the tyranny of past commitments."
By 1960, the average spending of industrialized countries' governments was 28 per cent of GDP, higher in most countries than it was in 1936 — but not by much. By 1980, the average was 43 per cent.
Belgium, Ireland, Japan, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland — all had doubled governments' share of GDP. Indeed, the governments of Belgium, the Netherlands and Sweden, by 1980, required more than 50 per cent of GDP. Only the U.S. and Japan managed to restrict spending to 30 per cent of GDP. As Mr. Tanzi and Mr. Schuknecht put it: "The expenditure growth from 1960 [forward] was equal to the growth in the previous 90 years — even though these years were free from major war and from depression." We got big government, in other words, only when we no longer needed it.
By 1990, the average expenditure level of the 14 industrialized nations reached 44.8 per cent. By 2000, 45.6 per cent. The tyranny of past commitments drove government expenditures toward ever-higher shares of GDP. Governments discovered they could increase spending but couldn't cut it. Canada hit its peak peacetime spending level — 53.3 per cent of GDP — in 1992. It took the dysfunctional team of Jean Chrétien and Paul Martin first to arrest the inexorable expansion of government, then to reverse it — without question, the primary achievement of the Chrétien decade.
By 2004, Canada's government demanded only 40 per cent of GDP.
In this sense, you could say that Mr. Chrétien repealed Brian Mulroney but neither Lester Pearson nor Pierre Trudeau. The public debt that we carry from the sixties and the seventies remains a big part of big government. In 1960, we paid $1-billion a year in interest on our public debt, which stood at 26.1 per cent of GDP; in 2005, we paid $62-billion a year in interest on our debt, which stood at 32.2 per cent of GDP. (In 1996, government debt reached its highest peacetime level at 67.5 per cent of GDP.) Simply by paying off this debt, we could reduce big government by six percentage points — taking us back to 1960-sized government. This would permit a permanent tax cut of roughly 20 per cent.
Most of the industrialized countries are now slowly retracing the upward spending spiral. Demographic changes ahead will drive spending further down. As measured against GDP, governments will indeed get progressively smaller. We're a long way from laissez-faire. But we're moving toward it and we're closer now than we were 10 years ago. And it's no further down than it was up.
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In light of the major storms forecast for the rest of the week/weekend, this weekend's WWWA ASFA trials are cancelled. We hate to cancel a trial and obviously here in the NW we run in the rain all the time, but this isn't just about a little rain. It sounds like a pretty damaging storm(s) and given the totality of the situation - weather conditions, travel conditions, judges coming from out of the area at great expense, potential damage to the field and our future relationship with the field owners, not to mention safety of humans and hounds at the event itself - the field committee has made the decision to go ahead and cancel. Thank you so much for your understanding and support!