Warm asparagus salad
Warm asparagus salad
0 Comments | Herald Express; Torquay (UK), Jul 16, 2010 | by SIMON HULSTONE
THIS is an ideal recipe for a barbecue, party, or late supper on a summer’s day.
It can be prepared in the morning or night before and left, which leaves you more time to relax in the sun.
Serves 4 Ingredients 2 bunches asparagus 150g diced pancetta 1 bag mixed salad 50g soft herbs (parsley, chives and tarragon) 2 egg yolks 30ml white wine vinegar 200ml vegetable oil Shaved Parmesan cheese To make the mayonnaise 1. Separate two eggs.
2. Add the egg yolks to a bowl, whisk in the white wine vinegar and a pinch of salt.
3. While whisking slowly add the vegetable oil until the mixture is a thick consistency then add the chopped herbs and put in the fridge for later on.
4. Snap the ends off of the asparagus and wash well under cold running water.
5. Bring 1ltr of salted water to the boil, add the asparagus and cook for two minutes or until cooked.
6. Once cooked, refresh under cold water then drain well and leave on a kitchen cloth in the fridge.
7. Dry fry the pancetta in a frying pan until cooked, remove from the heat and drain off any fat.
To finish 1. Place the asparagus on to a oven tray, spread over the pancetta, drizzle with olive oil, salt and pepper, then place into a oven for five minutes at 180.
To serve 1. Place the asparagus and pancetta on to a plate and drizzle your homemade mayonnaise.
Mohamed El-Erian, CEO/CO-CIO, PIMCO
Mohamed El-Erian, CEO/CO-CIO, PIMCO
0 Comments | CEO Wire, Jul 27, 2010
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MOHAMED EL-ERIAN, CEO AND CO-CIO OF PIMCO, TALKS ABOUT THE LINK BETWEEN THE U.S. ECONOMY AND EMERGING MARKETS ON BLOOMBERG SURVEILLANCE
JULY 27, 2010
SPEAKERS:
MOHAMED EL-ERIAN, CEO AND CO-CIO, PIMCO
TOM KEENE, EDITOR-AT-LARGE, BLOOMBERG NEWS
KEN PREWITT, HOST, BLOOMBERG NEWS
9:02
TOM KEENE, EDITOR-AT-LARGE, BLOOMBERG NEWS: We bring in now for global perspective, he is Chief Investment Officer, Chief Executive, PIMCO, Mohamed El-Erian. Dr. El-Erian, good morning.
MOHAMED EL-ERIAN, CEO AND CO-CIO, PIMCO: Good morning, Tom.
KEENE: We see another good day to point there. What a mixed picture. Some day’s good data, we see futures advancing here off of Case-Shiller. The worries, the angst that so many of our listeners have, should we at the margin push those worries aside and look at these optimistic statistics, or are they backward looking?
EL-ERIAN: You know, Tom, all this speaks to what Ben Bernanke coined last week as the unusually uncertain outlook. Whether you look at the data, which is pointing in all sorts of directions, whether you look at the earnings, what we’re getting right now is very, very noisy picture. And it points to an uncertain outlook. Now, there’s two ways to think about this. One is, as you mentioned, certain data of backward looking, others are forward looking. The other thing – way to think about it is the reality that during regime shifts, data gets very noisy because you’re shifting from one regime to another and our inclination is the latter. Our inclination is to think of this as natural for a regime shift and we’re moving from a regime of high growth, leveraging, debt and credit entitlement to a more delivered, slower-growing, higher unemployment world.
KEENE: We’re going to come back with the half hour here with Dr. El- Erian. Minneapolis, San Francisco, San Diego and Washington, 3-month annualized doing quite well, New York quite calm, folks, 3-month annualized 1.79 percent is just very difficult. So we’re going to come back with Dr. El-Erian. He’s just back from Brazil, so perfect timing to speak to him about this linkage of our economy to these, to be kind, very, very good emerging markets.
9:04
(BREAK)
9:07
KEENE: Mohamed El-Erian with us, just off an airplane from Brazil. Mohamed, my colleague Simon Kennedy in London calls it South-South Trade. Are you seeing in Brazil, it in the Southern Hemisphere countries, these commodity-based emerging markets? Are we beginning to see them feed on themselves and generate demand off themselves rather than the original colonial nations?
EL-ERIAN: Yes, Tom, we’re seeing them rely more on domestic demand and on regional demand. And that speaks to the fact, and I would call it the fact, that countries like Brazil are in a developmental breakout phase. They’re able to sustain high growth, wealth accumulation and greater resilience to external shock. It’s pretty impressive what’s going on in some of these countries.
KEENE: When you see these countries, we worry about best practices of law and of contract and financial systems. Do you see improving and deeper financial systems to go along with the prosperity?
EL-ERIAN: You do. It’s a development process, so it takes time.
KEENE: Yes.
EL-ERIAN: And you’re seeing a maturation of institutions, both under private and public sector. So on the public sector you’re seeing much more fiscal responsibility, more respect for the rule of law. It’s not perfect, but it’s making progress. And on the private sector side, you’re starting to see Brazilian companies becoming big multilaterals and being able to compete on the global stage.
KEN PREWITT, HOST, BLOOMBERG NEWS: One of our stories this morning, Mohamed, is that high-yield, high-risk bond junk bonds are rallying by the most in four months. Do we want to go ahead and take this as a sign that risk aversion is off and people are desperate for yield after all this time?
EL-ERIAN: Yes, you know the market will always look for return. The market will worry mostly about the return on capital rather than the return of capital. So the minute someone puts out a green light and earnings constituted the green light, you’ll see people rushing back into risk markets, be it the equity market or the high-yield market and the issue, Ken, is will it be sustained? And for that to be sustained, we need continued improvement in data and continued improvement in top-line revenue.
PREWITT: And are we going to get that?
EL-ERIAN: I think it’s uncertain. The indicators we look at, and I know that there’s disagreement on this, but the indicators that we look at suggest that the economy continues to lose momentum. So we are more worried than some of the other people you’ve had on your show recently.
KEENE: Well, there’s a mix here. Mohamed, I see the Spanish spreads come in. You see Spain minus the German 10-year spread come in. I mean it’s essentially all success on the stress tests
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Up – ABRA Auto Body & Glass Acquires Loveland, CO Repair Center
ABRA Auto Body & Glass Acquires Loveland, CO Repair Center
0 Comments | Manufacturing Close – Up, Mar 11, 2009
ABRA Auto Body & Glass, a Minneapolis-based damaged vehicle repair company, announced the acquisition of a repair center in Loveland, CO.
The company said the facility, formerly known as Loveland Auto Body, is located at 1805 Topaz Drive, and brings the total number of ABRA repair centers to ninety-six in eleven states.
“ABRA has been operating in Colorado since late 1997 when we started with two acquired repair centers,” said Tim Adelmann, ABRA’s Executive Vice President of Business Development. “Throughout this time we have developed close relationships with our insurance partners and their insureds, and have made a commitment to add centers that will allow us to continue offering our best-in-class service.”
ABRA has named Steve Scheideler as General Manager of ABRA- Loveland. Scheideler joined ABRA in 1998 with the acquisition of Aspen Auto Body. Prior to his move to Loveland, he has served as the General Manager in ABRA-Boulder and ABRA-Longmont.
“We purchased this center from Bob Bowman, who opened Loveland Auto Body in April of 1993,” Adelmann continued. “Bob, who is a graduate of Northwestern Iowa Technical College and has been in the industry since 1976, will remain with ABRA-Loveland as a Customer Service Manager
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System Pavers(R) Launches SP African Experience
Market Wire, July, 2010
Inspired by friends and clients’ genuine interest and enthusiasm for their homeland, System Pavers Co-founder Larry Green and his wife Debbie have extended a personal invitation to System Pavers customers for an exclusive, South African adventure . After continued inquiries, the “Friends of System Pavers South African Experience” was launched early this month.
The adventure is scheduled to take place March 18 – 27, 2011. The Greens will take a group of System Pavers customers on a 10-day, 9-night five-star tour through Johannesburg, Sabi Sabi and Capetown. Each stop in the tour promises to bring unique explorations including safari sightings, inspiring encounters with knowledgeable speakers and native inhabitants, and an awakening sense of discovery.
Prior to the launch, the Greens have guided several groups of friends on a tour where they were able to experience the captivating beauty of South Africa .
“Our greatest pleasure has been hosting and witnessing the awe, enjoyment, education, and fun our guests have encountered as well as enjoying the incredible quality of time spent together,” said Larry Green.
Paul Makarechian and Anna Lake, one of the couples who joined the 2006 trip said, “The only way I can describe the Green’s Africa trip is ‘never to be outdone.’ This trip will remain one of the most profound, eye-opening and cultural experiences my fianc and I have had to date, after having traveled throughout the world. We cannot thank Larry and Debbie enough for the once-in-a-lifetime experience!”
Additional information about SP African Experience can be found online at www.SPAfricanexperience.com
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BSD doles out surplus cash
BSD doles out surplus cash
0 Comments | Brandon Sun, The, Jun 10, 2008 | by Austin, Jillian
Fitness equipment for the city’s three high schools is just one way the Brandon School Division will spend their half- million-dollar surplus before the end of the month.
A total of $48,000 has been allocated for treadmills, elliptical machines, upright bikes and other exercise equipment for the high schools.
Provincial regulations demand that the division’s surplus of roughly $570,000 be spent by the end of June.
“The provincial rule is you can’t have a surplus … an overall bank account, that’s greater than four per cent of your operating expenses,” trustee Brian Mayes said. “We’re at the limit … so we have to use it or risk losing it to the province.”
Trustees decided to allocate $235,100 to the school bus reserve fund, in case they are forced by the province to purchase new smaller buses to replace passenger vans.
For facilities and maintenance costs, $53,600 was allotted, while $225,000 was set aside for salary accruals.
Two trustee recommendations were also approved: $5,400 for Brandon Schools Instrumental Music Association, with a recommendation to make upgrades to the East Side Band equipment.
For instructional programming, $5,600 was approved, with a recommendation to increase funding for the AlphaSmarts program at Betty Gibson school.
“I think that trustees made some very sensible decisions tonight,” chairman Jim Murray said
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UiTM goes for Mandarin, Arabic
UiTM goes for Mandarin, Arabic
0 Comments | New Straits Times, Jan 6, 2010 | by Mazlinda Mahmood
SHAH ALAM: Newly-appointed Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) Vice- Chancellor Prof Datuk Dr Sahol Hamid Bakar plans to make Arabic and Mandarin languages compulsory for all UiTM students.
He said he wanted students from the university to not only take up the two languages, but also be able to read, write and converse well in both of them.
The multi-language mastery is only a part of his overall strategy to turn UiTM into one of the best world-class universities.
Sahol said the students should embrace this and other changes that were aimed at making them more marketable and attractive to future employers.
He said this when asked about his vision and mission for the largest public university in the country during his first meeting with reporters as UiTM vice-chancellor yesterday,
He added that he had presented a strategic plan to the university’s executive committee and it met with a positive response.
Sahol has been appointed UiTM vice-chancellor for two years effective Jan 1, replacing Tan Sri Prof Dr Ibrahim Abu Shah, whose term expired on Dec 31.
A civil engineering graduate from UiTM, Sahol has been in the university for the past 30 years and was a deputy vice-chancellor (academic) before he was transferred to the Higher Education Ministry in 2008.
Under his strategic plan, Sahol said he hoped to introduce multi- disciplinary programmes to fulfil industry needs and enable UiTM graduates to compete with their peers from other universities and private colleges.
“Multi-disciplinary graduates will be more attractive to employers and will one day become employers themselves.
“For example, accounting students could do law, or engineering students could do architecture.
“If we can produce accountants who are also well-versed in law, of course UiTM’s ranking would be better than other universities.”
Towards achieving the university’s 200,000-student target by 2015, Sahol said he would propose to the Higher Education Ministry to give autonomy to UiTM branches nationwide and to upgrade them to university colleges.
He said UiTM would also hire more lecturers with at least five years’ experience in the industry and non-experienced lecturers would besent out to gain industry experience and conduct research.
OneBeacon Insurance Group Offers Tips to Protect Business Property
OneBeacon Insurance Group Offers Tips to Protect Business Property
0 Comments | Wireless News, Jun 24, 2010
According to the National Interagency Fire Center, 78,792 wildland fires destroyed almost 6 million acres of land in 2009, including commercial businesses and other property.
As the potential number of wildfires increases every year, OneBeacon urges businesses to take the following steps to prepare and protect their operations.
— Because roofs are particularly vulnerable to wildfire, choose a Class “A” fire-rated roof covering and be sure to keep it clear of debris.
— Consider replacing single-pane windows with dual-panes, as heat from a wildfire can easily break single-pane windows.
–Inspect vents, gutters and roof-to-wall intersections. Wind- driven embers can enter through vents or ignite debris collected.
–Inspect the landscaping and surrounding vegetation on the property. Reduce the chance of drawing a fire in by choosing rock or gravel mulch and low growing plants or lawns for areas right up against the property.
–If possible, relocate any combustible items to at least 30 feet away from the building and other structures. Flying embers from wildfires that come in contact with such items increase the risk of spreading the fire.
–Review your community’s emergency evacuation plans and develop your own detailed contingency plan to ensure the restoration of your business operations in a timely fashion. Be sure to communicate both clearly to your employees.
–In the event of a local wildfire, monitor reports through broadcast or online sources and follow your emergency plans when necessary. Remember, personal safety is most important.
–If you must evacuate your property, secure the building as much as possible. Be sure to close all windows
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If any object comes in
If any object comes in the way of the radio waves, then it can be easily detected by radar with the help of electromagnetic energy. Radio waves constantly travel in the air at the speed of light. The distance of the object from the radar is determined by observing the time taken by the radio waves to return.
For measuring the actual speed of any object, radar can be used with a fact called Doppler shift. When any moving object passes in front of the radar, its echo will reflect the signals of the radar. The time taken by the radio signals to return after striking the object, and the frequency with which they travel, gives the actual speed of that object. If an object is coming towards the radar, then the signals will come back in a shorter period of time. It will increase the frequency and tells the actual time in which an object will cross the radar.
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DNA experiment ends in disaster
DNA experiment ends in disaster
0 Comments | Evening Post; Bristol (UK), Jul 27, 2010
SUPERSTAR genetic engineers Clive (Adrien Brody) and Elsa (Sarah Polley) specialize in splicing together DNA from different animals to create incredible new hybrid.
Now they want to use human DNA in a hybrid that could revolutionise science and medicine, but when the pharmaceutical company that funds their research forbids it, Clive and Elsa secretly conduct their own experiments in the pursuit of even greater scientific discovery.
They secretly blend human DNA with that of their creations, ignoring their society”s ethical and legal boundaries, but at what cost? Splice is a delightfully twisted horror thriller from Vincenzo Natali, director of 1997”s sci-fi nightmare Cube.
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This way you will have their attention
This way you will have their attention the entire way through.
Other business etiquette includes practice! Without a great amount of experience backing you up, giving presentations can seem like you are a deer in headlights. Presentation skills training will show you that practicing will only benefit you in the long run. The first thing you want to do is find as many opportunities to present. While this seems intimidating, it will increase your confidence and your experience. Once you have done this, it is imperative to get feedback. This can help you immensely, as people will tell you what flaws you need to fix. It will also boost your confidence if you know your strong points. Another great way to get feedback is to video tape yourself. This way you can watch your every move, and know what you have to fix.
No matter what type of new employee you are, communication training is key.
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