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Mediterranean Veggie Goodness | Chef Dave, Esq.
So for today's offering I decided to go Mediterranean and highlight the wonders of squash and capsicum. Okay, maybe not so much, but both of the dishes on our menu include a type of squash and bell pepper, and both are vegetarian. The first is ajvar, which is a Croatian roasted red pepper and eggplant sauce with a delicious smoky flavor that is great as a dip, a sandwich spread, or, for you non-vegetarians out there, as a topping for meat or fish. Think of it as an Eastern European take on baba ganoush. Today I used this as a topping for some broiled cod loins, but it would also work beautifully on grilled chicken, for example. We also used some as a dip for naan.
On the side we're making veggie kabobs that include zucchini, golden bell peppers and a delicious Cypriot cheese called halloumi, which has a flavor similar to feta but holds up extremely well to grilling or pan frying. These will be coated with a marinade of olive oil, citrus and fresh herbs.
Preheat your broiler and coat a baking sheet with foil. Wash and dry your vegetables, rub them with just enough of the oil to coat them, and sprinkle with some of the salt and pepper. Roast them close up under the broiler, turning every few minutes until they are charred all around. The eggplant will take longer than the peppers, particularly since you want to make sure the center of the eggplant has time to become tender. After the vegetables are cooked, transfer them to a large bowl and cover with plastic to cool. There they will steam and loosen the skins.
When the vegetables are cool enough to handle, peel off the skins, remove the stems and seeds (a particularly gruesome task with the eggplant, I'm afraid), and put the meaty parts into your food processor. Add the remaining ingredients, including any unused salt, pepper and oil. Puree until smooth, then transfer to a saucepan. Bring to a simmer and cook for 30 minutes to thicken and reduce, then allow to cool and this is ready to serve with a swirl of olive oil and maybe some oregano leaves.
Cut the bell pepper into roughly 1 ½" squares. Use a vegetable peeler to slice the zucchini lengthwise into thin strips. In a large bowl, combine the oil, lemon juice, herbs, salt and pepper, and stir to combine. Add the vegetables and cheese, and toss until they are completely coated with the oil mixture. Place the vegetables and cheese onto skewers (don't forget to soak your skewers if using bamboo), using an S-fold for the zucchini strips. Then grill until the vegetables are tender-crisp with a little char. Bada bing, you're ready to serve.
This whole menu takes probably 1 ½ hours to pull together, largely because of the time to roast, cool and peel the vegetables for the ajvar, and then the 30-minute simmer after that. The beauty of this plate is that it is natural and healthy – and did I mention really yummy? We munched it down with a big happy grin on our faces and I'm sure you will too. Until next time: Eat well, my friends!


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Ann Wright on Afghan War
wespac-adminPosted on January 24, 2011 Posted in Militarism and Foreign Policy
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Retired Colonel Ann Wright Discusses Why the War in Afghanistan is Unwinnable
by Jacob Shafer
We've spoken with Ret. Col. Ann Wright of Oahu before—about her decision to resign from the State Department on the eve of the 2003 Iraq invasion, about the follies of the Bush Administration, about Israel, and about the importance of dissent.
Now, recently returned from a fact-finding trip to Afghanistan, Wright has plenty to say about America's oft forgotten, decade-old war.
You went to Afghanistan in September 2009, and then again last month. What, if anything, has changed?
The change that I noticed and that was talked about the most by Afghans was the huge increase in U.S. military bases—now over 400. We saw the construction of a huge base just north of Kabul. The high wall on the front side of it stretches over two miles and encloses a large training area. In the shadow of the wall, just across the road in an internal displacement camp, are tens of thousands of Afghans who have fled the fighting in the South and East of the country. They are living in abject misery in small dirt hovels, with no water or sewage and only a few sticks of wood each day to cook a tiny meal. Yet across the road are hundreds of millions—if not billions—of dollars spent on infrastructure for military training and operations. Villas built with the huge profits from the multi-million dollar U.S. logistics contracts to support our military presence are rented back to the international community contractors and non-governmental agencies for $10,000 to $15,000 per month. Yet most Afghans live in poverty.
In travelling outside of Kabul north of the Panjshir Valley, we went past the turn-off to Bagram Air Base, now an American city with over 20,000 U.S. military living and working there, as well as an infamous prison with over 10,000 detainees who are being held without any judicial process, many for years. We observed two new, 'smaller' U.S. military bases on the way to the valley—with the standard and expensive bomb-blast protective walls with at least 50 pre-fab buildings in each and an American flag flying above each base.
With its latest $500 million expansion project, the United States Embassy in Afghanistan will be the largest in the world, even bigger than the mammoth U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq. Over 1,400 U.S. government employees will reside inside the walls of the compound, which is expanding to take over the Afghan Ministry of Health grounds and part of an Afghan Ministry of Defense area. The U.S. is building two consulates, one in Heart and one in Mazir Sharif. Each will cost $50 million.
The United States' presence in Afghanistan is so large that it has its own air terminal at the Kabul International Airport, plus the two mega air bases at Bagram and Kandahar, and the air base in Kyrgyzstan.
This huge infrastructure build-up is to support the Obama administration's strategy for Afghanistan. That strategy—which increased the U.S. military presence by 50,000—was opposed by the U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan, retired three-star General Karl Eikenberry. Eikenberry was the former commander of U.S. military forces in Afghanistan. Two of his secret State Department cables to Obama during the strategy review—with his recommendation that a military increase was not what was needed—were leaked to the public, not through Wikileaks, but apparently directly to a major newspaper in the United States. Obama chose to ignore his own Ambassador and former military commander and approve Generals Patreaus and McChrystal's recommendation of a dramatic increase in military troop strength.
Do the Afghan people want us there under any circumstances, or is the overwhelming sentiment that we should leave?
Afghans do not want the international community to abandon or forget them, as happened after the defeat of the Soviets in Afghanistan in the late 1980s. But they want the killing of Afghan civilians to end.
Afghans are concerned about their security, but with the United States, NATO forces, Afghan National Army and Taliban all shooting at them, they have nowhere to turn. In fact, Nowhere to Turn: The Failure to Protect Civilians in Afghanistan is the title of a study endorsed by 29 international organizations that have done community development work in Afghanistan for decades. It documents the dramatically increasing number of civilian deaths, displacement of families across the country escaping the fighting, cutting off access to basic services and reduction of the ability or aid agencies to reach those who need assistance.
Many Afghans with whom we talked say that the aggressive U.S. military operations for the 'security' of Afghanistan are counterproductive. They believe that as long as the U.S. military is in Afghanistan there will be many who will fight against the U.S.—just as they did against the Soviet soldiers—and will destroy the schools, clinics and roads that the United States has built.
Some believe a different type of international security force is needed, one that does not include the U.S. military. Others—including the brave, outspoken former Afghan Parliamentarian Malalia Joya—are calling for the immediate withdrawal of all foreign forces. They believe that the Afghans must ultimately sort out their own problems without foreign interference.
What would you say is the biggest misconception the average American has about Afghanistan?
I think many Americans believe that there always has been fighting in Afghanistan because the Afghans love to fight. They don't realize that Afghans have had to repeatedly defend their tribal areas—and then their country—from foreign invaders. The geographic location of Afghanistan on the route from Asia to the Middle East has made it a target for many occupiers.
No matter what our political leaders tell us about the rationale for the U.S. involvement in Afghanistan, the United States is the latest invader and occupier. Most Afghans in the countryside haven't even heard of the events of September 11 or al-Qaeda training bases. What they see is another foreign military force in their country killing Afghans.
Is there any way for the U.S. to "win" this war?
First, the Obama administration has to decide what 'winning' is. If winning is denying al-Qaeda to Afghanistan, we have won. That's according to the CIA, which says no more than 50 al-Qaeda are ever in Afghanistan.
If it's defeating the Taliban, then we need to know who the Taliban is. The CIA estimates there are 17,000 Afghan Taliban, mostly farmers who get paid $10 a day to shoot at U.S. and NATO forces. In opposition to the 17,000 'Taliban' are 550,000 international and Afghan personnel working to provide security in Afghanistan—100,000 U.S. military, 40,000 NATO, 60,000 U.S. contractors, 175,000 Afghan National Army, 175,000 Afghan National police. If it is a military 'win' the U.S. is looking for, then with that overwhelming number challenging the Taliban, we have to be winning—and if we're not, why?
The answer is that there is no military solution, as expressed by virtually all the leaders of the countries that have been a part of the international coalition—except U.S. leaders.
Proponents of the war often point to the plight of women and other oppressed groups, and say that if we were simply to leave, things would get even worse. How do you respond to that?
We have to look honestly at the plight of women and children in Afghanistan. The U.S. involvement over the last ten years has not increased the lifespan of women or men in Afghanistan—it is still at an appalling 45 years. Afghanistan has the second-highest infant mortality rate in the world, with 151 deaths out of 1,000 live births. One in five children in Afghanistan die before they reach five years of age and 850 children die per day. Thousands of Afghan women have been widowed or killed and children have been made orphans by U.S. forces, many more than were ever harmed by the Taliban or al-Qaeda.
The Karzai government that the United States helped create in 2001 supported the 'Taliban style' Shia Personal Status Law, which legitimizes marital rape and prevents women from stepping out of the home without their husband's consent. Karzai's wife, a gynecologist in a country in great need of doctors, does not practice medicine and stays at home. Only one minister in Karzai's cabinet is a woman—the head of Women's Affairs, the only minister who has no regulatory powers.
Why do you think the U.S. has been unable to capture Osama bin Laden? Do you believe he's still alive, and in either Afghanistan or Pakistan?
I believe that Osama bin Ladin is alive and is living, protected by the Pakistani ISI, in the tribal region of Pakistan. The U.S. placed a $25 million bounty on bin Laden in 2001, but the loyalty to a person [and] organization that has stood up to United States' war policies is incredibly strong in many countries around the world—particularly in the areas of Pakistan where bin Ladin has been well-known since his arrival in the 1980s, through the assistance of the United States, to help the Afghans defeat the Soviets. His picture is found in village markets all over the border regions of Pakistan—not a bounty photo but posters of reverence.
I believe the United States had the opportunity to capture bin Ladin in 2001, but according to Afghan warlords that had been hired by the CIA to go up into the Tora Bora mountains to pursue bin Ladin, they were called off by the CIA. Speculation is that if the U.S. captured or killed bin Ladin, the reason for continuing the 'war against terror' would have been eliminated and the subsequent curtailing of civil liberties for American citizens through the enactment of the Patriot Act would not have been as easy as it has been, with very little push back from the frightened American public.
So for a variety of reasons, the Bush administration did not want to capture or kill bin Laden—he was and is more useful to U.S. war policies alive than dead.
What, to you, would a good outcome in Afghanistan look like?
From what I've heard from Afghans, they want a country that has no fighting [so] they can return to their occupations in agriculture and farming in the rural areas, where their children can have medical care to stay alive and go to school. They want a country free from the interference of other countries—the United States, Pakistan, Iran, India, China, Russia, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan. They want the war lords who have raped, pillaged and plundered brought to justice instead of being paid millions of dollars by the U.S. government as hired guns and later appointed to key jobs in the government.
Considering the history of international involvement in Afghanistan, I think it'll take a miracle—but miracles do occur. Corrupt systems are overthrown by the people, not through foreign interference.
While we were in Afghanistan, we met with a group of brave young peace volunteers who are challenging the war policies in their country. They asked us to listen to the Afghans instead of imposing on them what we think they need.
You've expressed frustration with the Obama Administration before. Do you have any faith the President can—and will—end this war in a politically and morally justifiable way?
Yes, I am very frustrated with the Obama policies in Afghanistan. I do acknowledge that Obama as a candidate warned us that he believed the U.S. war in Afghanistan was the 'good war' and that he would increase U.S. involvement. On this one campaign promise he has followed through, despite warnings from many in the U.S. government—including his ambassador—and many outside the government.
Contrary to Obama's statements that the U.S. would begin withdrawal of troops in 2011, this administration is lengthening the war. In the past two months, the timeline of withdrawal has gone from 2011 to 2014—and now to no end in sight.
I don't believe the Obama Administration really knows what they intend to do in Afghanistan or how long it will take. In November 2010 Vice President Joe Biden said that the 'drop dead date' for the U.S. to turn Afghan security back to Afghans is 2014. While I was in Afghanistan in December 2010, U.S. Ambassdor Karl Eikenberry told the Kabul Times that Biden 'is a colorful character' but he is misinformed on how long the U.S. military will be in Afghanistan. Eikenberry said the U.S. will be there longer than 2014.
Then, on January 11, 2011, Vice President Biden changed his comments and stated in a press conference with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, "The United States, if the Afghan people want it, are prepared, and we are not leaving in 2014," and the U.S. would continue to provide aid and military training past 2014.
I strongly believe the U.S. military—at the cost of $1 million per soldier per year—will be in Afghanistan for a long time, unless a U.S. President finally listens to the people of the United States who say, 'bring the troops home.'
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My son, was an absolutely delightful young man.
John Reagan Philips' death from a drug overdose at age nineteen devastated our family and our broader community. ALWAYS MY BROTHER portrays a parallel journey of grief and attempts to offer understanding and hope to others suffering from such a loss.
Sibling death is often considered the unrecognized grief. Surviving siblings are sometimes even admonished to be "extra good," because their parents are grieving. In ALWAYS MY BROTHER I wanted to honor siblings for the devastating loss they face with the death of their brother or sister.
This book does not exactly mirror our own family's story. Yet it does tap into the emotions and experiences of our loss.
portray and affirm their often confusing, contradictory emotions.
offer realistic hope that with the passage of time the gripping, paralyzing pain would ease as the family members cherish and honor their loved one.
create opportunities for shared conversations.
provide a window for them to see and better understand the internal grief.
foster courage in them to reach out to the grieving child or family.
On a personal level, I wrote this book because I wanted my daughter to understand that at some level I comprehend the utter devastation of her loss. (For example, she instantly became an only child. And, given our ages, while Peter and I lost John for perhaps 30 to 40 years, she lost him for 60 to 70 years.) I also wanted to convince her (and my husband and myself) that the gripping, paralyzing pain immediately following John's death would somehow lessen, even as we continue to honor and cherish his memory.
One unexpected joy I experienced in writing this story was that I could rewind John's life to a younger, happy and healthy period before he was tortured by drug addiction. This experience was, of course, tinged with a bittersweet sadness, too.
My deepest hope is that ALWAYS MY BROTHER will help lessen the overwhelming pain of a sibling's death by creating opportunities for families to share the pain, rather than to experience it in lonely isolation. This possibility gives me joy.


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Microsoft's Windows Phone advertisements have continuously had a light-hearted feel to them and that trend continues today. Beyond the 'Smoked by Windows phone' and 'Meet Your Match', Microsoft has also had advertisements such as the 'Really' commercial that made its debut many years ago that brought a few chuckles to the web.
Microsoft is back with another fun filled advertisement and takes it straight to the Apple and Samsung fans. In the video above, two sides of the audience go head-to-head about whose device is better. The ensuing fight is over-dramatized but offers a fresh take on the Apple and Samsung fights with the two servers ending the bit touting their Windows Phones.
With cake flying and egos flaring, Microsoft says, "Don't fight. Switch" and then shows the Lumia 920 in multiple colors and with an award for "Smartphone of the year" in text next to the phone.
The commercial clearly puts the Windows Phone as the underdog in the market as the room is filled with Samsung devices and iPhones. For Microsoft, securing the third place in the market would be considered a victory as its mobile strategy has been underperforming for many years.
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András Dömötör was born in Zalaegerszeg, Hungary, in 1978 and now lives in Budapest and Berlin. He studied Acting and Directing at the Academy of Film and Theatre in Budapest. He has worked exclusively as a director since 2009, as well as teaching Acting at the Academy of Film and Theatre in Budapest. In Hungary he regularly works together with the ensemble of the Katona József Theatre. Since 2014 he has mainly directed in German-speaking countries, at theatres including the Maxim Gorki Theater and Deutsches Theater in Berlin and Schauspielhaus Graz. Significant productions include «Siren Song» by Péter Nádas (2011), Peter Weiss's «Marat/Sade» (2016) at the Katona József Theatre, the devised play «Mephistoland» (2016) at the Maxim Gorki Theater, Jarry's «Ubu Roi» (2016) at the Deutsches Theater Berlin and «Job» after the novel by Joseph Roth at Schauspielhaus Graz (2017). In 2018 he directed both «Conspirator» by Joël László at Theater Basel, and Maxim Gorki's «The Last Ones» at the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin. He directed «at our feet, the gold, disappeared from the ground» by Svealena Kutschke for the Autorentheatertage at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin in 2019 and «The Plague» by Albert Camus the same year. At Staatstheater Hannover he also directed «The Marriage of Figaro» by Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (2020).
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Middle class struggling
Early this week I was contacted by a local journalist for reaction to reports that the government delegation headed by PM Trudeau to attend the Queens funeral in London had cost $397,000 for the 5-night stay.
One room was reported to have cost $6,000 per night and included a private butler.
The Trudeau Liberal government so far refuses to disclose who stayed in that room.
For the record, this was a non-partisan delegation that included past Liberal and Conservative Prime Ministers as well as other dignitaries and elected officials.
When I was asked for my reaction, I was taken back to ten years ago when it was revealed a former Conservative cabinet minister had charged taxpayers $16 for a glass of orange juice, ironically also while travelling in London at an expensive hotel.
My reaction is the same then as it is now.
It is totally unacceptable there is not greater respect for the spending of tax dollars.
In the case of former Minister Bev Oda, the Minister did the honourable thing and resigned after her expenses were reported. She also repaid the expenses out of her own pocket.
In this case the Trudeau Liberal Government will not even tell us who should be held accountable for staying in a $6,000 a night hotel room.
That is totally unacceptable.
Also announced this week is the Bank of Canada is once again raising the overnight interest rate to 3.75%.
This is another increase from the previously announced increase of 3.25%
I am hearing from many families who are seriously struggling financially, as the increased payments on household debt have become unsustainable for them.
As one family recently shared, they are now coping with the extra payments solely through their line of credit however, the interest of the line of credit is also increasing, and they have calculated they can make two more months of payments before they max out their line of credit.
Many have also expressed concerns that if there is a cold winter having high heating bills on top of everything else will be the "straw that broke the camel's back".
Unfortunately, as the Official Conservative Opposition, every effort we have made to have carbon tax increases delayed or GST removed from fuel have been opposed by the Liberal/NDP partnership.
With the Bank of Canada now confirming that carbon taxes increase inflation, this would be one measure the Trudeau Liberal Government could undertake to help many struggling Canadians and yet they refuse.
At a time when many are struggling, the Liberals do not have any concern with renting a $6,000 a night hotel room,
I am seriously concerned PM Trudeau does not appreciate or understand just how real the financial challenges that some Canadians are facing.
I should also add that many that I hear from, in this challenging fiscal situation, have good jobs and as a result do not qualify for many of the rebate and assistance programs that are available.
This Liberal government once promised to help the middle class and yet everyday I hear from more middle-class families who cannot afford to make ends meet.
Do you think Canadians that heat their homes with natural gas or propane should be punished with a carbon tax for attempting to stay warm in the cold winter months?
Inflation in our food budgets
Canadians awoke to news this week that Canada's rate of inflation means that prices will continue to rise at a rate of 6.9%.
The "upside" ,according to some media headlines, is that inflation rate increase of 6.9% is not accelerating as quickly as the 7% rate as it had last month.
Unfortunately for grocery prices, it is even worse as the rate of food inflation is currently at 11.4%.
This is the fastest increase since 1981 and is causing considerable discomfort for constituents I have spoken with, particularly those with low or fixed incomes who are feeling triple squeezed by higher gas, groceries and housing costs.
On the subject of food inflation, this week the House of Commons voted unanimously for an NDP motion that proposes a number of measures to closely examine the profits of Canada's largest grocery stores.
I should add that several economists and other experts in this area have reported that they believe the data will show excess profiteering is not the cause of rapidly rising grocery prices.
From my perspective I believe it is important that this area is properly scrutinized and that grocery stores are accountable to elected officials to explain their pricing structures.
Also occurring in Ottawa is the ongoing Public Order Emergency Commission (POEC) that is hearing testimony from a variety of sources as it probes whether the Trudeau Liberal government met the standard for invoking emergency powers found in the Emergencies Act as required by law.
While not a court of law, the Commission has several powers to call for evidence and to hear testimony and has expressed that it would like for the public to submit their views on this matter.
For those wishing to share a submission or email on this subject directly with the Commission, please go to the following link:
publicorderemergencycommission.ca/share-your-views/
Before I close this week, I would like to take a moment to express my sincere condolences to the family, friends and colleagues of fallen RCMP officer Constable Shaelyn Yang, who was fatally stabbed while checking on a homeless individual camping in a Burnaby park.
Constable Yang was an RCMP mental health and homeless outreach officer.
This indirectly leads to my question for this week.
Now that our civic elections are complete and many new mayors and councillors were elected, often at the expense of incumbents, it has been suggested by some that one drive for change was public safety.
How concerned are you about how well all levels of government combined are addressing public safety concerns?
At the top this week, I would like to congratulate Kelowna-Lake Country MP Tracy Gray in her new Shadow Cabinet role as the critic for Employment, Future Workforce Development and Disability Inclusion.
As the labour market tightens, wait lists for skilled immigration grow and economic winds blow, this will be a key portfolio and I wish her well.
I would also like to congratulate North-Okanagan Shuswap MP Mel Arnold in his continued role as the Associate critic for Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard.
His work on aquatic invasive species is near and dear to many of us that want to protect freshwater lakes like the Okanagan.
If you follow Canadian politics closely you may have heard that the Leader of His Majesty's Official Opposition, the Honourable Pierre Poilievre, announced his new shadow cabinet on Wednesday.
While it has been a great honour to serve in a variety of different portfolios in the opposition shadow cabinet, I will not be part of this shadow cabinet and as someone who long believed in accountability and transparency, I would like to share the reason why.
A member of my family was diagnosed with an illness and so I asked to be withdrawn from consideration for a role in the upcoming shadow cabinet.
This decision will allow for more time to be spent on issues unique to our riding and also more time for my family, as being in shadow cabinet is a serious time commitment.
As far as issues unique to the riding, we have one very important one. Local government elections.
In every community across British Columbia, many good people have put their name forward to serve.
In some cases, they may be running for re-election for the first time.
In all these situations we are fortunate that people have come forward with a passion and dedication to potentially serve as elected officials.
Local Government is important as it provides many of the day-to-day services families rely upon.
Increasingly, as our climate changes, we also see many local mayors and councils facing extreme situations never thought possible.
I can state firsthand that Federal and Provincial disaster assistance programs are not meeting the demands of communities facing these situations.
Who you elect to represent you and your community is critically important.
I encourage all citizens to scrutinize your local candidates closely, ask tough questions and more importantly make sure you get out and vote.
Do you plan on voting in the October 15 local government election?
Ethical lapses used to mean resignation
During the years of the Conservative majority government, lead by the Rt. Honourable Stephen Harper, I was fortunate to serve as the Parliamentary Secretary to Treasury Board.
Once I was appointed and sworn in, I was advised of the increased rules and regulations that applied to this position, that did not apply to a regular Member of Parliament.
These new rules and regulations existed because, as a Parliamentary Secretary, you represent the Crown.
As a Parliamentary Secretary, you cannot write letters of support on behalf of individuals and organizations to independent judicial or quasi-judicial processes of government, to avoid the appearance that you are attempting to unduly influence those processes.
This is an area quite heavily scrutinized and enforced by the ethics commissioner.
Unfortunately in 2013, my colleague at the time, Minister of Aboriginal Affairs, Hon. John Duncan, forgot this requirement and made a honest mistake.
John wrote a letter on behalf of a constituent to the Canada Revenue Service (CRA) tax court.
The letter, although well intended, resulted in a weeks' worth of significant negative media stories and ultimately Minister Duncan did the honourable thing and tendered his resignation to Prime Minister Harper, who accepted it.
I raise this issue is because this week it was revealed a similar situation occurred last month.
This time, Liberal MP Greg Fergus, who serves as the Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister and to the President of the Treasury Board, also wrote a letter – in this case to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to advocate for a television channel's application to the CRTC for lucrative mandatory carriage with Canadian broadcasters.
This of course directly contravenes the federal guidelines that specifically prohibit parliamentary secretaries from making such interventions.
Much as with the situation with John Duncan, Liberal MP Greg Fergus stated it was an "honest mistake" however, unlike the situation with John Duncan, no resignation has yet been offered.
Likewise, chances are if you had not read about this letter in my report this week, you may not have heard about it through most Canadian media, as this letter did not receive anywhere near as much media attention as it did in 2013.
How is it that what once was an ethical lapse considered deserving of a resignation is now a non-issue?
I am not suggesting a media bias or that there is a double standard, only that the ethical standards that Ministers of the Crown, and by extension Parliamentary Secretaries, were once held to have greatly diminished under Prime Minister Trudeau.
My question to you this week:
Is this something that concerns you or is this also something you view as a non-issue?


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WHEN Professor Tom died he left Jenny and Jim the house he had lived in, the old movies he had loved to watch and the workshop where he had tinkered away the final years of his life. Jenny and Jim buried him high on the valley slope where the woodbine ran wild each spring and the first wildflowers appeared—where the warm rays of Arcturus struck each springtime morning, heralding the new day. Jim said a few words over the grave and Jenny stood beside him, trying to cry. She couldn't. She had no tears. "We give to you this man, God," Jim said, "to do with as you must. We give him to you because you are his god. He was ours." Together they shoveled earth over the crude wooden casket and afterward Jenny placed a handful of spring flowers on the grave. Then she and Jim walked down the slope of the valley and across the fields to where the white prefabricated house stood, the aluminum workshop just behind it. "Shall we watch a movie tonight?" Jenny asked. "Or do you think it would be disrespectful?" "I don't think it would be disrespectful," Jim answered. "I don't think Professor Tom would mind." The movie they decided upon was Made for Each Other, starring Carole Lombard and James Stewart. They waited till after the sun went down. Then Jim put the film in the projector, turned out the lights. They sat down on the sofa to watch. They had watched the movie many times with Professor Tom and had hugged and kissed like the actors did, but never when he was looking. They had felt he might disapprove. But it was all right now, not because he was gone, but because they were man and wife. So they sat there on the sofa with their arms around each other, and every time Carole Lombard kissed James Stewart Jenny kissed Jim. And whenever James Stewart kissed Carole Lombard Jim kissed Jenny. Afterward they went outside to sit on the steps and scan the skies. But although they scanned them all night, they saw nothing but stars. At length morning arrived. Lovely Arcturus rose above the green lip of the valley and songbirds climbed air currents into the sky to drink the nectar of the new day. Jenny said to Jim, "Maybe we're being in much too much of a hurry—maybe it takes time." Jim answered, "Maybe it'll come tonight."
JIM had been Professor Tom's gardener and handyman, Jenny his cook and housekeeper. On Earth, before his retirement, Professor Tom had been an engineer in the mechanized-menial field and Jenny and Jim were almost as beautiful as the stars in the old movies. He had loved them both, but it had been Jenny he had loved the most and sometimes tears he did not understand had come into his eyes when he looked at her. He had said on his deathbed, "I never figured on things coming to this so soon. I preached humility all my life, but all the while I was just as arrogant as everybody else. I never thought that death would really step on my heels. But you two will be all right. The supply ship will be here within a year and I've left a note to the captain to take good care of you. He's an old friend of mine." "Will you marry us?" Jenny has asked and Professor Tom had looked at her and blinked. "You said," Jim pointed out, "that once you were a justice of the peace. That gives you the authority to make us man and wife." "That was long ago," said Professor Tom, "but yes, I suppose it does. However—" "Surely," Jenny had interposed, "you wouldn't want us to live in sin. We're madly in love and there's no telling how we'll carry on without you here to chaperone us." A tear zigzagged down Professor Tom's sere cheek as he said, "Poor child, what do you know about making love—and what good would the knowledge do you if you had it? But if it will make you happy—" There was no bible in the house, but the professor had made do without it. He had spoken the beautiful words they had heard so often in the old moves. "In sickness and in health . . . Love, honor and obey . . . I now pronounce you man and wife."
LIFE went on much as it had before. Jim worked in Professor Tom's flower garden in daytime, keeping it free from weeds. There was a kitchen garden, too, and Jim cultivated it as faithfully as he had before, although it would serve no useful purpose now. He and Jenny had already thrown out the food that was moldering in the refrigerator. They had turned off the unit and put away the dishes. Every day Jenny cleaned the house from front to back, dusting furniture and scrubbing floors. Except for fixing meals for Professor Tom her routine was unchanged. Sometimes, while she was working, she would hum songs from the movie she and Jim had watched the night before. And sometimes in the middle of dusting the living room she would drop the cloth and dance the way Ruby Keeler did in 42nd Street. 42nd Street was her favorite movie, but My Blue Heaven was her favorite song. Sitting on the sofa in the light reflected from the screen, the automatic projector whirring behind them, they would embrace and kiss and Jim would say, "Did you have a good day, darling?" She would answer, "Yes, my sweet." He would kiss her eyes and ears and nose and she would kiss his chin. They would hold each other as tightly as they could, but nothing ever came of their ardor and the skies remained as empty as before. "Perhaps tomorrow," Jenny would say. Jim "would answer, "Yes, I'm sure tomorrow will be the Big Day." But the Big Day failed to dawn and Happiness continued to hide in the hills, in the woodbine and the wildflowers —in the green bowers of the trees. PROFESSOR TOM had stored both their memory banks with generous helpings of information, but for the most part these had to do with electronics, mechanical engineering, horticulture and cookery. It was to the old movies that they were indebted for their practical education. Most of the movies were products of the 1930's, but there some from the 'twenties and a handful from the 'forties and 'fifties. The professor had spent a great many years and a great deal of money collecting them and naturally he had taken them with him when he had retired to Arcturus VI to live out his sunset years in solitude and peace in the isolated valley he had bought "—light-years removed," as he had put it, "from the malicious machinations of mankind." Sitting with Jenny and Jim in the living room one night, watching The Bells of St. Mary's, he had said, "That's the way it was in those days—only that wasn't the way it really was at all." "But how can something be true and yet not be true at all?" Jenny asked and he had laughed. "I can see, my dear, that despite the perfection of your computerized thought processes—or even more probably because of it—you're incapable of any non-Aristotelian thinking. Many things can be both true and untrue. The worlds we watch upon that magic screen, my dear, are distorted reflections of reality inhabited by the ghosts of people whose real selves were often hidden from their own eyes. A reality powdered and perfumed and with its vitals eviscerated—a reality tailored for people who hadn't outgrown their need to be told fairy tales before they went to bed." Professor Tom sighed. "But I'll take it any day. For all its pious hypocrisies—for all its omissions and its untrue truths—it's a thousand times better than the reality I lived in all my life and finally left behind. I guess when men grow old they like to hide in caves and watch reflections on the walls." In addition to the old movies, Professor Tom's collection comprised dozens of animated cartoons. Jenny and Jim found them fascinating. Some featured animals drawn to look like men or men drawn to look like animals. Others featured animals that were really meant to be animals but that talked and sometimes lived like human beings. In one way the cartoons were more educational than the movies, for they threw light on a certain mystery the movies were completely mum about. A mystery Professor Tom's books—most of which were devoted to electronics and mechanical engineering—did not even mention. In fact, if it hadn't been for the cartoons Jenny and Jim would never have learned the Secret of Life. BUT apparently knowing the Secret of Life was not enough. The valley exchanged its green dress for summer's golden gown. The warm days and nights began parading past the prefabricated house. But although Jenny and Jim sat each evening on the sofa, aping the actions of the shadows on the screen, their
embraces and kisses went unrewarded. The dawn of each new day found them sitting disappointed on their doorstep, as lonely as before. "Maybe it's like that song that Don Ameche sings to Sonja Henie," Jenny said. "You know the one I mean—that only one in a million is lucky in love. Or maybe what we're trying to do is harder than, we think." "Maybe," Jim answered. "And maybe it's because they do things between scenes that we don't know about." "Do things such as what?" "Like maybe they take off their clothes and kiss and hug that way." "Why would they take their clothes off? What difference would their being naked make?" "I don't know," said Jim, "but it wouldn't hurt to try."
THAT evening before they sat down on the sofa they removed their clothes. Professor Tom had lost interest in sex even before he retired and Jenny's body, although differently shaped, wasn't a great deal different from Jim's. The movie they watched abounded in love scenes, but although they embraced and kissed every time the two main characters did, their efforts went as unrewarded as before. During one dawn, as they sat disconsolately on their doorstep, Jim said, "I think I know the reason, Jenny—I think I know why for us it doesn't work. We're different—and this world is different, too. We're going to have to make it happen. We've got everything we need to work with, thanks to Professor Tom, and he taught us practically all he knew. Maybe he foresaw a time like this." They got busy right away. Jim made the blueprint first, after consulting several of Professor Tom's books. Then he made all the parts. Jenny helped him with the assembling. They worked day and night, taking time out only to watch the old movies and to kiss and embrace like the stars. There was hope in them now and they put more and more passion into their kisses. "I want it to be a boy," Jenny said. "Yes," Jim answered. "I want a son." They had begun work in midsummer. Fall was on hand when they finished, and yellow and crimson patterns had begun to show upon the hills. Jim had built a lightweight electric motor to provide the necessary power. He made two light but long-lasting batteries to feed it. Together he and Jenny climbed the valley slope. "We'll give it all the height we can," he said. "That way it'll have a maximum chance of getting to wherever it has to go and of returning with its bundle." He turned on the little motor and released the device into the air. Slowly it rose into the sky. It circled the valley once, as he had programed it to do, then sped off toward the south. Jenny said, "But suppose the nursery doesn't lie in that direction." "Then—after it comes back we'll recharge its batteries and send it to the west. And after that, if necessary, to the east and to the north. The nursery has to be somewhere." "Later on, if it's successful, we'll send it for others, won't we?" Jenny said. "Of course. But first we'll make love—otherwise it won't work." Hand in hand they walked down the slope and across the fields to the house.
THE captain of the supply ship found them in the living room six months later. They were sitting on the sofa, their bodies covered with dust, their arms around each other, their lips touching in a final kiss. Before them in the shadows an empty screen hung ghostlike on the wall. Behind them stood the automatic projector they had used to project their dreams. The length of copper wire they had used to short themselves out was lying on the floor at their feet. The captain went all through the house. Professor Tom's note was lying on the bedtable beside his empty bed. The captain read it. Then he returned to the living room and looked once more at the faces of Jenny and Jim. He had known Tom all his life and he had known Tom's long dead wife. In Jenny's face he saw young Tom's beloved bride—in Jim's, he saw young Tom.
When he made them I'll bet he didn't even know ... His first thought was to repair them, to bring them back to life. Then he found the mechanical stork lying in the back yard. One of its canvas wings was broken, its tiny motor was burned out and its power source had given up the ghost after its fourth and final flight. He guessed the truth. He had his men search the valley for Professor Tom's grave. After they found it he had them carry Jenny and Jim up the slope and bury them beside it. It was only fitting that they should sleep beside their god. He spoke a few words to his own: "All of us leave ghosts behind of one kind or another. In a way, we're ghosts ourselves. We haunt ourselves our whole lives through because no matter how hard we try we can never fulfill our dreams. We're a lot like Jenny and Jim, which makes them human in a way. Grant them peace." When spring came back again, the woodbine reached down from the hills and covered the two new graves and wildflowers appeared to welcome the springtime sun.
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Heiki Valk  (born 7 May 1959, in Tartu) is an Estonian archaeologist. He is a senior research fellow and head of archaeological laboratory at Tartu University specialising in Estonia in the Middle Ages. From 23 January 2008, he has been Chairman of the Estonian Learned Society and was its secretary from 1993 to 1996.

He graduated from the University of Tartu of History in 1983. He has produced a thesis entitled "Rural cemeteries of Southern Estonia 1225-1800 AD" (2001). He has also served as Scientific Secretary of the Archaeology of Tartu from 1992 to 1999.

He is a recipient of the President's Award in the field of folklore.  (1994)

Works
Kodu Lugu. 1. ja 2. osa. Koos Mart Laari ja Lauri Vahtrega.
Lõuna-Eesti talurahva matmiskombestik ja selle uskumuslikud tagamaad 13.-17/18. sajandil. Magistritöö. Tartu, 1992.
Rural cemeteries of Southern Estonia 1225-1800 AD. Doktoritöö. Visby: Gotland University College, Centre for Baltic Studies, 2001.
Siksälä : a community at the frontiers : Iron Age and Medieval. Koos Silvia Lauluga. Tallinn, Tartu, 2007.
 Strongholds and Power Centres East of the Baltic Sea in the 11th-13th centuries. [Compiled and edited by Heiki Valk]. Muinasaja Teadus 24. Tartu, 2014

References
www.arheo.ut.ee

Estonian archaeologists
1959 births
Living people
People from Tartu
Historians of Estonia
Recipients of the Order of the White Star, 5th Class

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In early 2011 I re-did the navigation yet again, replacing the Javascript menu system with CSS-based drop-down menus. I replaced the WordPress-based FAQ's pages with a more streamlined custom system that does only what I need. Finally, I split some of the longer pages into multi-part articles so it would be easier for visitors to find exactly what they're looking for.
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The latest overhaul emphasizes SEO and usability. I changed the stylesheets again so the site width is no longer fixed-width and font sizes are relative, making it easier for users to view content on various devices and to resize text (between laptops and ipads, we are back to 13" or smaller screens, so the site needs to accommodate that as much as possible). I've added incoming rss feeds on various pages that I think would be of interest, as well as outgoing feeds from the site, and made more documents available for download. I rewrote the error pages to automatically redirect visitors following outdated links to existing pages or to use the built-in site search to provide a list of alternatives if a page can't be found (some of my content is heavily linked from other sites, and many of those links are outdated).
The current site is PHP-based. Although the search and FAQ's pages depend on databases, the rest of the site doesn't. All pages share common elements and code, but each is written individually. This allows me to modify any page as needed without being limited to a few standarized templates in a site-wide content management system. The navigation and internal page links update automatically when I add or move files, reducing overall site maintenance.
Although almost all the content on my site is text-based, I would like add images to create more visual interest. Based on site statistics, I'll continue adding content, tools and general information, as well as highlighting the services I provide that people aren't finding as often as I would like. Pages like the What's the Real Cost of an Employee? (online calculator) and Massachusetts Workshare Program receive thousands of visits every month; they meet a genuine need for information whether or not they bring me clients. I would like other sections of the site to see the same kind of usage.
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© 2014 Liu, Lu, Mueller, Turnbull, Burke, Schlothauer, Carter, Whitchurch and Harry. Skin infections caused by antibiotic resistant Staphylococcus aureus are a significant health problem worldwide; often associated with high treatment cost and mortality rate. Complex natural products like New Zealand (NZ) manuka honey have been revisited and studied extensively as an alternative to antibiotics due to their potent broad-spectrum antimicrobial activity, and the inability to isolate honey-resistant S. aureus. Previous studies showing synergistic effects between manuka-type honeys and antibiotics have been demonstrated against the growth of one methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) strain. We have previously demonstrated strong synergistic activity between NZ manukatype honey and rifampicin against growth and biofilm formation of multiple S. arueus strains. Here, we have expanded our investigation using multiple S. aureus strains and four different antibiotics commonly used to treat S. aureus-related skin infections: rifampicin, oxacillin, gentamicin and clindamycin. Using checkerboard microdilution and agar diffusion assays with S. aureus strains including clinical isolates and MRSA we demonstrate that manuka-type honey combined with these four antibiotics frequently produces a synergistic effect. In some cases when synergism was not observed, there was a significant enhancement in antibiotic susceptibility. Some strains that were highly resistant to an antibiotic when present alone become sensitive to clinically-achievable concentrations when combined with honey. However, not all of the S. aureus strains tested responded in the same way to these combinational treatments. Our findings support the use of NZ manuka-type honeys in clinical treatment against S. aureus-related infections and extend their potential use as an antibiotic adjuvant in combinational therapy. Our data also suggest that manuka-type honeys may not work as antibiotic adjuvants for all strains of S. aureus, and this may help determine the mechanistic processes behind honey synergy.


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The KING OF ALL CURRIES is here!!! Beef Rendang has incredible depth of flavour, with complexity and many layers of spices. It's straight forward to make, though it does take time and perhaps a trip to the Asian grocery store (though Sydney-siders will find everything at Woolies). Watch the video and drool!
I got this Beef Rendang recipe from a payroll lady at a company I used to work for. It's her Malaysian mother's recipe. I still remember, so many years later, how we used to bond over food at the water cooler!
I actually first published this recipe a couple of years ago but I've made some minor improvements that will make your life easier without changing the flavour at all. Plus I made the video!
Beef Rendang is considered by many to be the king of all curries, and I think it's with good reason! To say it's extravagantly delicious is an understatement. There are very few curries in this world with such amazingly complex flavours.
If you've never tried to make a curry from scratch before, this is a good one to try because even though it may require a trip to the Asian grocery store, it is very straightforward to make.
Wait – actually – if you live in Australia (well, at least Sydney!), you won't need to go to the Asian store! You can get everything you need at Woolies. Seriously!
Unlike many curries, Beef Rendang is a dry curry which means there is not loads of sauce. However, the meat is so ridiculously tender and has a thick coating of sauce on each piece, so when the meat literally falls apart at a touch, it mixes through rice, flavouring it like saucy curries.
An interesting cooking method with Beef Rendang is the way it gets the deep brown colour. All throughout the video, right up until the very end, you will notice that the sauce is a pale brown colour. It's not until the very end when the sauce reduces right down and the oil separates that it turns brown, essentially the browning of the beef in the oil of the sauce.
This Beef Rendang can be made in a slow cooker, but I find it easiest to make it all on the stove. Especially given it starts on the stove with the browning of the beef and spice paste, then finishes on the stove with the reducing of the sauce and browning of the beef (this part cannot be done in a slow cooker).
This is one of those recipes that just gets better with time. So whenever possible, I try to make this a day or two in advance. It also freezes extremely well.
I serve this with my Restaurant Style Coconut Rice because it's my copycat of the coconut rice you get at the posh modern Asian restaurants! And it's not just coconut milk and rice….you can find the recipe here.
PS You see those bits stuck on the beef that could be shredded coconut?? It's not. It's bits of shredded BEEF. Because it's so tender by the end, when you're stirring it, some bits do flake off. YUM!
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Beef Rendang is a Malaysian curry and is an extravagantly rich dish that is easy to prepare but takes time and patience to slow cook. Unlike many curries, this is a "dry" curry which means the beef is not swimming in sauce. Though you may think that the sauce is often the best part of a curry, the beef is "fall apart at a touch" tender and covered in a thick, saucy curry which then mixes through the rice so it is not in the least bit "dry"! This can be made in a slow cooker (see notes) but I recommend making this on the stove for best results. RECIPE VIDEO below.
Place Spice Paste ingredients in a small food processor and whizz until fine. NOTE: If using dried chilli and you know your food processor is not that powerful, chop the chilli first.
Heat 1 tbsp oil in a large heavy based pot over high heat. Add half the beef and brown, then remove onto plate. Repeat with remaining beef.
Lower heat to medium low. Add Spice Paste and cook for 2 - 3 minutes until the wetness has reduced and the spice paste darkens (don't breathe in too much, the chilli will make you cough!).
Add remaining Curry ingredients and beef. Stir to combine.
Bring to simmer, then immediately turn down the heat to low or medium low so the sauce is bubbling very gently.
Put the lid on the pot and leave it to simmer for 1 hr 15 minutes.
Remove lid and check the beef to see how tender it is. You don't want it to be "fall apart at a touch" at this stage, but it should be quite tender. If it is fall apart already, remove the beef from the pot before proceeding.
The beef should now be very tender, fall apart at a touch. If not, add a splash of water and keep cooking. Remove from heat and serve with plain or Restaurant Style Coconut Rice.
1a. 12 dried chillies or long red fresh chillies (cayenne pepper) (seeds in) makes a fairly spicy curry but it's not "blow your head off" spicy because the long cook time tempers the spiciness. You can adjust the level of spiciness to your taste - use 6 for a mild curry. To reduce spiciness, you can deseed the chilli - I do not do this.
If using dried chillies, rehydrate in boiling water (use lots, ignore the measly splash I used in the video, that was a mistake).
2. To prepare lemongrass, peel the reedy green shell to reveal the softer white part on the bottom half of the lemongrass. Slice the white part and very pale green part only - the green part is too reedy.
3. Galangal is like ginger but it has a more sour and peppery flavour. If you can't find it, just substitute with more ginger and a grind of black pepper.
4. You can use any slow cooking cut of beef for this recipe. As with all slow cooked beef recipes, the fattier beef, the juicier the meat will be when cooked. I like to use chuck, gravy beef or beef cheeks as I think these cuts have the best balance of fat and fibrous tissue.
It is best to buy one piece and cut it yourself into large cubes about the size of golf balls. Larger cubes are better for this dish because this is not only slow cooked but also cooked down to reduce the sauce to almost a "paste" like consistency and if you use small pieces of beef, they may fall apart and shred in the pot when you stir the curry. It is much easier to handle larger pieces.
5. Smash the lemongrass to help the flavour infuse into the curry. Use the side of your knife, a meat mallet or a tin.
6. Tamarind puree is made from tamarind fruit. It is quite tart, but not as sour as lemon. You can buy tamarind puree from the Asian section of large supermarkets in Australia (or Asian grocery stores). If you are using tamarind pulp (sticky block of dried tamarind), soak it in 2 tbsp of hot water and remove the seeds, then use as per recipe directions.
You can substitute the tamarind with 2 tsp of vinegar (white or brown, but not balsamic) or lemon juice.
7. Kaffir Lime Leaves - there is no substitute for the earthy lime flavour you get from fresh kaffir lime leaves so I really recommend buying fresh ones. They freeze well and last for ages and are commonly found in many South East Asian dishes. You can substitute with dried kaffir lime leaves. As a last resort, you can use 1 tbsp of lime juice + the rind of 1 lime, but the flavour will not be quite the same.
8. To make this in a slow cooker, do the steps up to searing the beef in a pan then pour the contents in your slow cooker. Pour the water into the pan and bring to simmer, making sure to scrape all the brown bits off the bottom of the pan to mix in with the water, then pour the water into the slow cooker (make sure you scrape in as much of the brown bits as you can!). Slow cook on low for 6 hours (or pressure cook on high for 30 minutes). Then pour the curry into a pot and follow the recipe steps to reduce the sauce.
9. This is what happens when the Sauce reduces: Once the sauce reduces right down, the oil will separate (see photo in post). Then you end up browning the beef in that oil - this is where the deep brown Rendang colour comes from. Rendang is not a wet, saucy curry, it all reduces down into a sticky paste that coats the beef.
By this time, the beef should be "fall apart at a touch" and there will be bits of shredded beef that looks like coconut that stick to the beef.
10. Simple Lightly Pickled Cucumber Side that goes with this well: Slice cucumbers on the diagonal and place into a bowl. For each cucumber you are using, sprinkle over 1 tsp of rice wine vinegar, a small pinch of salt and white sugar (each). Leave to lightly pickle for at least 20 minutes, up to 24 hours.
11. STORING: Rendang, like other slow cooked things, just gets better with time. Great on the day it's made, fantastic the next day and the next. Freezes well too.
12. Originally published in November 2014, updated to improve as follows: original recipe used whole cardamon and cloves, these are impossible to pick out and I don't like crunching into them. So I now use powder. Also, in authentic recipes, the curry paste goes in first then the beef is added. Doing it this way, the beef does not brown. I like browning beef first because you get that gorgeous caramelisation that adds flavour.
Originally published in November 2014, updated with the ridiculous events of 26 May 2017, a recipe video and a slightly improved recipe.
Dozer's got a boo boo. i.e. Shredded his paw by tearing manically across a bed of oyster shells in pursuit of a pelican.
Let's not feel too sorry for him though. He's been pretty pampered.
For so long now I have been wanting to make this and have been buying up all the ingredients yet the Kaffir Lime Leaves are causing me grief – cannot find these anywhere and i take your comments re this ingredient very seriously so if you could point me in the right direction of where i could find these I would be so appreciative and then i can get this baby cooking….
Hi Nagi, Love your site, thank you for all your wonderful recipes. I'm making this recipe for a friend who can't eat onion or eshallots. Do you think I could use leeks as a substitution?
Hi Nagi, could this be made with lamb instead of beef?
Slightly different flavour but it would be great with lamb!
That sounds great Jason! You could either leave it on or take it off the bone.
Hi how much water do you add when cooking in pressure cooker?
After several failed attempts at Beef Rendanag, I nailed it using this recipe. Easy to follow with good results.
I loved this recipe the flavour was so tasty and delicious definately a keeper.
I bought bulk packs of whole spices to make this curry. It is soooo delicious. Thanks for sharing!
Hi Nagi – I loved the flavour – the only reason I didn't give it a 5 star was because my beef was a bit tough even adding an extra 45 minutes cooking time. I much prefer pork to beef – any reason I can't substitute pork? Should I make any other changes? Have made quite a few of your recipes lately with much success!
Thanks Nagi. I bought "stew meat" at the butcher so not sure exactly what cut. It was pretty lean though so perhaps that was the problem. I think I will give pork a try next time. Such good flavour – worth another try!
Wahoo! I'm so happy you love it Jason!
Nagi is my "go-to" recipe queen. A long time ago I made her pork carnitas and now if I need a recipe… I just come here. This is probably my favourite! Thank you Nagi.
Hi Nagi,absolutley love this recipie of yours.Made it a few times now made it with chicken today and it tasted so much sweeter,not in a bad way I =always double the recipie to feed us all.Thanks.
Sounds great! I'm so happy you loved it!
So the receipe is for 6 servings. For 12 servings do i need a slow cooker for size 3,5 liter or 6,4 liter?
My son wanted me to write a comment on your your Beef Rendang recipe. We had it for dinner tonight. This recipe is so yummy! My 7 year old son devoured it!
Hi Nagi, If I want to make this non spicy at all, can I just omit the dried chillies completely? Will that change the taste of the rendang? Try to make this as kid friendly as possible.
Hi Ping, you could omit the chillies if you prefer!
Possible to use mutton ?
What kind of dried chiles are recommend? I have dried Japanese chiles but not sure if that's what you're using.
Made it tonight using your recipe and I have to say it's very authentic! I love that it's made from scratch instead of with spice paste from Woolies as they never taste quite "right". The only thing I didn't add was the desiccated coconut as I've never actually seen any Malaysian use them.
Hi Nagi. As kaffir lime leaves have two leaf segments per stem, do you use four full leaves (which would be eight individual leaf segments), or two full leaves (which would be four individual leaf segments). I thought I'd check, so I don't overpower the rendang, or have one lacking in flavour. Thanks!
It was delicious! I'll probably put a little less sugar in next time, but Mum really enjoyed it. Definitely a keeper.


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Q: Zipline installation trouble After I installed zipline with the anaconda prompt everything was imported and installed correctly. But in the Jupyter notebook, I am getting error like no module called 'matplotlib' or pandas 'DataReader' is not working. When I try to install it in the notebook and restart the kernel, the zipline import is no longer working. How can I solve this? What is wrong with the zipline installation?

A: zipline has very specific dependencies like pandas 0.18.0 and pandas DataReader 0.8.0. So make sure you have the correct version of those. And by the way, I find the tutorial here very useful.
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An 'astounding' find reveals a rare cause of epilepsy
Researchers at The University of Queensland, working to gain a better understanding of how brain cells work, have discovered the underlying mechanism of a rare genetic mutation that can cause epilepsy.
Dr Victor Anggono from UQ's Queensland Brain Institute said his team made the ground-breaking findings while researching nerve cell communications, which are an important process in normal brain function.
''We're both excited and astounded to make such an important contribution to the field of cellular and molecular neuroscience,'' Dr Anggono said.
He stressed that the mutation was extremely rare, with only one reported case in the world to date.
Mutations affect cell 'chatter'
Dr Anggono's team studied protein structures, called receptors, that are attached to cell surfaces to make the discovery.
''It turns out that this particular mutation causes receptors in brain cells to behave differently, resulting in an imbalance in brain cell communication – and that can lead to disorders," he said.
''For example, cells that talk too much are associated with epilepsy and unwanted cell death – while cells that talk too little have negative impacts on learning and memory.
''There are also many examples of other mutations in the same gene that are known to be associated with epilepsy.
''What we know is that this receptor is critical for brain function and can lead to epilepsy when its function is misregulated.
"The findings point the way for further research to understand and potentially treat similar mutations."
The imbalance in brain cell communications is also believed to be involved in neurological conditions including Alzheimer's disease and autism spectrum disorders.
Discovery research could lead to personalised treatments
Dr Anggono said the research provided a springboard for developing personalised medicines to target the mutation.
"Receptor blockers which have been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), are already available for human treatment, but the challenge is to find the right ones and see how patients respond," he said.
The research has been published in Cell Reports (DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2021.109338).
It was funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), the Australian Research Council (ARC) and the Clem Jones Centre for Ageing Dementia Research.
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3-0005-EN-How do I add products using Import Wizard?
ShopFactory Gold package includes an Import Wizard add-on.
ShopFactory Professional package includes the basic Import Wizard - note that it can not import 'options and choices' or images. Also, it can only import data from comma delimited data files and text files (CSV, TXT).
ShopFactory Gold comes with ImportWizard Pro, where it can import virtually any field supported by ShopFactory from an existing database.
"Import Wizard Professional" enables the super fast import of existing product data into your shop, to make shop building even faster.
The "Professional" version has more powerful version of Database Import Wizard allowing you to import product data from any database with ODBC or OLE-DB connectivity. There is almost nothing you can not import. "Import Wizard Pro" will even automatically create a department structure in your shop for you, if the products in your database have been organized into categories in your database. It will also import the relevant option and choices for the various products provided they are organized in the database accordingly.
1. Create a shop in ShopFactory and save the project.
IMPORTANT : Make sure that the SHOP you are importing to must be previewed externally before you import products via Import Wizard.
3. Make sure that your file containing the data you want to import is ready.
4. Click Start -> Programs -> ShopFactory <version number> and then select "Import Wizard" -> Import Wizard.
5. The Import Wizard box will appear. Select the database type you want to import.
7. Click the 'Browse' button to look for the shop where you want to import data. By default, your shop is located in "My Documents\ShopFactory V11 Websites" folder. Select the shop and click OK.
9. Specify a database source file by clicking 'Browse' button and locate where you stored the database. Make sure you have chosen the correct format for your spreadsheet/import file.
12. Tick all the options that apply and enter correct information for each option. You will see a list of the products in the file if you have separate tables in this file you can select one of these from the dropdown list at the top of the window. Click on the Next button and you can select to import a tax with your products. You will need to already have this tax set up in the ShopFactory website that you are importing to.
13. You will now see the mapping tool window. You will be able to map the fields used in the file that you are importing from to the fields available in ShopFactory. Once you have matched the entire fields click Next to go to the import tool window.
14. Click Next when you have finished.
15. In this window you can select how to import the products e.g. using a directory structure or importing one single directory. Once you have made your selection click on the add products button and the products will be imported to your ShopFactory website. 1Select the items or entire database that you want to import. 2Then click on the specific page in ShopFactory where you want the product to be added. 3 that, click Add Products button. Note: Tick "Add by Department" if you want the products to be added in appropriate departments - your spreadsheet must have "Department" field.
17. Open your shop in ShopFactory. You should be able to see all the products you have imported.


When I arrived at the Lahore airport, in Pakistan, and despite the sympathy of the customs police, I was questioned for about 15 minutes about the reasons for my visit to the country. They were obviously incredulous and did not seem to believe my reasons which were to visit and get to know their country. Tourism in Pakistan is uncommon and probably for that reason the guards were curious about me.
I left the airport and asked the taxi driver if he could take me to the hostel I had booked. He confirmed he knew where that was but the truth is that we were driving around looking for it for more than one hour before we could find it. Once we found it, I was surprised that it was in a secluded street in the middle of nowhere! But, it was the cheapest accommodation I have ever had, it cost me 1 euro and 60 cents the night.
Pakistan is undoubtedly a world apart. Away from all the diversion and technology that we are used to, I actually saw children playing in the streets, even when it was raining. I found Pakistanis very curious. Every time one saw me taking a photo, would come to ask to have a photo with me. I was surprised that they hadn't heard of Portugal, not even of Cristiano Ronaldo! When I mentioned the name they just stared and looked puzzled. I was happy to see that Pakistanis are very friendly people and always had a genuine smile and I was greeted on the streets all the time.


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