It is a tiny misprint, but an Australian publisher had to pulp a cookbook after one recipe called for "salt and freshly ground black people" to be added to the dish, AFP reported Saturday. OMG, someone keep an eye out just in case Al hears about this.
Penguin Group Australia pulped and reprinted about 7,000 copies of "Pasta Bible" after the typographical error was found in the ingredients for spelt tagliatelle with sardines and prosciutto, The Sydney Morning Herald reported. I think you spelt that wrong . . . .
"We're mortified that this has become an issue of any kind, and why anyone would be offended, we don't know," head of publishing Bob Sessions was quoted as saying. That's OK, whoever is offended probably doesn't know, either.
Penguin said almost every one of the more than 150 recipes in the book called for salt and freshly ground black pepper but a misprint occurred on just one page, probably as a result of a computer's spellchecker program. I think I just heard Al shouting something about the spellchecker being racist.
"When it comes to the proofreader, of course they should have picked it up, but proofreading a cookbook is an extremely difficult task. I find that quite forgivable," Sessions said. Obviously you aren't having delusions of successful lawsuits dancing around in your head.
He said it would be extremely hard to recall the stock but if anyone complained about the "silly mistake" they would be given the new version. Yeah, that's pretty silly. But just in case, I think I'll have the fettuccini alfredo. With browned mushrooms and sauteed onions. Hold the pepper, though. I'd prefer to take care of that myself.
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I was in a sushi restaurant here in NYC. The specials were up on a chalkboard. Along with fresh Tuna and Salmon was 'White Flesh' - a la carte or roll/hand-roll. My buddy and I tried to explain the error to the waitress, but her 'Engrish' was not so good...
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I've said it many time before, "spell-check" is good only as a first pass. You need a trained proofreader to PROOFREAD (not just read) the text - every word of it.
"Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea."
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"... finely ground black people with a bit of salt and some oregano."
And some fava beans and a nice chianti, Fred? ;-p
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TODD:
The history of the world, my sweet
LOVETT:
Oh, Mr. Todd,
Ooh, Mr. Todd,
What does it tell?
TODD:
Is who gets eaten, and who gets to eat!
LOVETT:
And, Mr. Todd,
Too, Mr. Todd,
Who gets to sell!
TODD:
But fortunately, it's also clear
BOTH:
That [L: But] ev'rybody goes down well with beer!
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Seated one day at the Tom-tom,
I heard a welcome shout from the kitchens:
Come and get it!
Roast leg of insurance salesman.
A chorus of 'yum's ran round the table.
Yum, yum, yum, yum, yum....
Except for Junior, who pushed away his shell,
Got up from his log, and said
'I don't want any part of it'.
What? Why not?
I don't eat people,
Eh?
I won't eat people,
Huh?
I don't eat people,
I must be going deaf.
Eating people is wrong.
It's wrong?
Don't eat people,
Have you gone clean out of your mind?
I won't eat people,
What's the matter with the lad?
Don't eat people,
He keeps on repeating,
Eating people is bad.
But people have always eaten people,
What else is there to eat?
If the Jou-Jou had meant us not to eat people,
He wouldn't have made us of meat.
Don't eat people,
Oh no, not again.
I won't eat people,
All the day long,
Don't eat people,
He keeps on repeating,
Eating people is wrong.
Well, I've never heard of a more ridiculous idea in all my born days. To think that a son of mine should grow up to be a sissy... Me, chief assistant to the assistant chief. I suppose you realise, son, that if this gets around we may never get self-government.
I won't eat people!
Have you been talking to one of your Mothers again? You're not getting to be one of these cranks that thinks that eating people is cruel, are you, you see a man sitting in a pot and think he's suffering? Oh, it's not like that at all. Why, he's just had an invigorating chase through the forest. He's sitting there in the nice warm water, with all the carrots and dumplings and things, he's thinking 'Oh, the pleasure and happiness I'm going to give to a whole heap of people', that man in the pot there, he enjoys it.
Eating people is wrong!
Look, son, I admine your sincerity, always be sincere, whether you mean it or not. You're young, when you're young, you think you can change the whole world overnight, even eating people, I know, I've been young myself. Take it from your old dad, you've just got to learn to take the world as it is.
I won't let another man pass my lips!
I know why you say 'Don't eat people', because you are a coward, Francis, that's your trouble, yes, a yellow-livered coward. You wouldn't mind eating people if you weren't afraid of ending up in the pot yourself. Go on like this and you're liable to get me into hot water.
I won't eat people!
That's enough!
I don't eat people!
I don't want to....
Eating people is wrong!
Communist!
Going around saying 'don't eat people, that's the way to make people hate you!
We always have eaten people, always will eat people, you can't change human nature.
I won't eat people!
I don't eat people!
I won't eat people!
I don't eat people!
I won't eat people!
I don't eat people!
I won't eat people!
I don't eat people!
It must be someone he ate.
Eating people is out!
I give up. You used to be a regular anthropophagi. If this crazy idealistic idea of your was to catch on, I just don't know where we would all be. It would just about ruin our entire internal economy. Fortunately, I suppose it catching on isn't very likely. Why, you might just as well go around saying 'don't fight people', for example?
Don't fight people? Ha Ha!
Oh, that's my boy.
Ridiculous!
The Finnish air force has released images showing the effects of volcanic dust ingestion from inside the engines of a Boeing F-18 Hornet fighter, while it prepares to make inspections on several additional aircraft.
Five of the air force's Hornets were involved in a training exercise on the morning of 15 April, just hours before the imposition of airspace restrictions due to the ash cloud spreading from a major volcanic eruption in Iceland.
One aircraft's engines have been inspected so far using a boroscope, with melted ash clearly visible on its inside surface. The air force decided to release the images to show the potentially damaging effects of current flight activities, says chief information officer Joni Malkamäki.
The images show that short-term flying can cause substantial damage to an aircraft engine,' the air force says. Continued operation could lead to overheating and potentially pose a threat to the aircraft and its pilot, it adds.
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Ash damage in turbine engines has been well documented for 20 years. Nice little expensive mistake.
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PARIS Air France says it's safely carried out a test flight over France for the first time since a volcanic ash plume shut down aviation over Europe.
The plane traveled from Charles de Gaulle airport to Toulouse in southern France. Another test flight is under way in southwest France, it said, and three more will follow, for a total of five test flights Sunday.
European airlines are pushing national regulators to reopen airspace across Europe, saying the ash appears to have diminished enough to make flying safe.
Dutch airline KLM said it safely flew aircraft without passengers through a window in the cloud of volcanic ash over Europe Sunday, and pressed for an end to the total ban on commercial air traffic that has paralyzed travel across the continent.
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So remind me not to fly Air France or KLM for the foreseeable future; even if they did get away with this stunt (this time) with no significant damage, it is cumulative; sort of like icing on the wings of an aircraft. At it builds up, performance degrades and at some point you pass the point of no return. Turbine damge from erosion is like that, as the engine degrades so does performance. While still active duty, we had to track engine parametrs for our SH-60s and wash them to remove salt deposits; that build up was not predictable; we might be doing it every night or be able to go several days or weeks. I think volcanic ash damage would be like that. Couple that with the Airbus fly by wire that disregards pilot input if that input violates the softawre logic and you are setting up for a disaster.
Kenya's U-turn over a deal to try Somali pirate suspects is based on Nairobi's conviction that the European Union has been slow to hand over cash promised months ago, according to people close to the situation.
Kenya's U-turn over a deal to try Somali pirate suspects is based on Nairobi"s conviction that the European Union has been slow to hand over cash promised months ago, according to people close to the situation.
The EU is now seeking a meeting with the Kenyan government to find out where it stands, and is actively looking for other countries in the region willing to undertake prosecutions. EU sources insist that Kenya has not made any formal complaints over the issue.
Somalia's east African neighbour holds around 100 alleged pirates, under agreements struck with several Western nations in 2009, and hailed at the time as a breakthrough in efforts to ensure that those accused of piracy are accorded due process. European and north American states have so far been reluctant to try pirates under their own jurisdiction, as that is seen as opening up the prospect of asylum applications.
The breakdown in the system comes after the Kenyan authorities last month tabled notice of cancellation to the British and Danish embassies in Nairobi, and presumably to other embassies as well.
According to Kenyan politicians, piracy trials are placing an intolerable burden on prisons and courts. But EU officials point out that pirate suspects take up only 0.2% of Kenya"s prison capacity.
A London-based Kenyan diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity, said: "There is a general feeling that the international community is not giving Kenya enough support. For example, the EU pledged to give millions of euros for strengthening the court process and improvement of jail conditions. But the money is yet to come.
"What our government is doing is putting on a little pressure, so that the support which is expected is given. But I do not think Kenya will pull out altogether."
A maritime security specialist involved in counter-piracy work added: "It is true that they have not had everything that they were expecting. The Kenyans agreed to these memoranda of understanding with the EU on the understanding they would get help with development of legal infrastructure."
The UN Office on Drugs and Crime has reportedly given $1m to Kenya, precisely for such purposes. Attempts to contact UNODC for clarification of this point proved unsuccessful.
Douglas Guilfoyle of University College London, a specialist in piracy law, observed: "The money is on the pipeline, both from the EU and a trust fund established by the UN Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia.
"But the trust fund has taken a while to get up and moving. Establishing the framework for managing it took longer than Kenya would have liked."
The problem for the EU has now become what to do with captured pirates. The Seychelles has agreed to take some suspects for prosecution, on the condition that prison sentences are served elsewhere. Tanzania is seemingly unresponsive to EU entreaties.
The US has already set a precedent by indicting so-called "teen pirate" Abduwali Muse, who was captured during the firefight that led to the recovery of US-flag Maersk boxship Maersk Alabama last year. A further five Somalis are expected to face trial in the US shortly.
Meanwhile, 10 Somalis recently captured by a Dutch frigate after attacking German containership Taipan are set to be tried in Hamburg, after the Dutch authorities warned that they would be released unless Germany wished to push ahead with legal action.
The situation is now so bad that it is being talked about as "the-catch-and-release scheme", the security specialist added. "It is like when I go fishing. I catch a couple of trout and then I have to put one of them back," he quipped. Appears a pirate bidding war may be taking place.
Quit capturing them and just shoot 'em out of the water - if Allen wants them to live, it will save their worthless asses.
I'll be glad to help pay for the bullets.
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Kenya has a good point. The Euros won't arrest try and jail the pirates themselves, because of the UN human rights nonsense, ie hazard. So they want Kenya to do the job for them, but appear not to want to pay Kenya for doing their dirty work.
[Mail and Globe] When will all this end? It's a common refrain in Zimbabwe. "Only when the old man goes," said Tinaye Garande, a street vendor.
Zimbabwe on Sunday marks 30 years of the rule of President Robert Mugabe, swept to power during the country's heady and optimistic independence in 1980. Three decades later, the country -- once an agricultural powerhouse and educational beacon -- is mired in a continuing political stalemate and an impoverished, stagnant economy.
Garande (27) sells cheap sunglasses and trinkets in a parking lot outside a suburban Harare store. He is of a generation known as the "born frees" who never suffered under British colonial rule. But the unkempt Garande, with worn clothing and untended dreadlocked hair, knows the hard life. He lost his menial job at a paper and packaging firm when it went broke in the economic meltdown four years ago. He has two children and like many Zimbabweans educated in Mugabe's post-independence boom in schools and health services -- making "born frees" some of the best taught and healthiest students in Africa -- he battles to survive and blames Mugabe for blocking real improvements in living standards.
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Thanks for the link, Besoeker ... yet another reason to despise Jimmy Carter. Was there any *#$@ing disaster of the 1970s besides the popularity of disco music that he didn't have a hand in?
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And it all continues yet today as the US Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) endlessly buggers people attempting to immigrate from Zim and South Africa.
[Bangla Daily Star] A housewife suffered burn injuries as miscreants threw acid on her person at Shamsuddin Moulavirkandi village under Shibchar upazila of the district Friday night.
The victim was identified as Helena Begum, 30, wife of Shawkat of the same village.
Her family members said 4 to 5 miscreants led by Samad Ghorami threw acid on Helena around 10:00pm over previous enmity.
Hearing her screams, local people rescued her and admitted her to the local health complex.
She received burn injuries in her face, throat, chest and other parts of her body.
A case was filed accusing three people with Shibchar Police Station in this connection.
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The Ecuadorian government has threatened to take over foreign oil concessions if the companies resist growing state control of the industry. President Rafael Correa said every day millions of dollars were going to oil companies that should go to the state.
The government has been pressing the companies to give up concessions that give them a share of oil field profits and accept service contracts instead.Oil firms operating in Ecuador come from Spain, Brazil, China and Italy.
President Correa said during a televised address on Saturday: "Every day that passes there are millions of dollars going to these companies that should be going to the Ecuadorean state.
"I'm out of patience. We are sending a bill to Congress that would allow for the expropriation of oil fields should the companies not want to sign the new contracts.
"The oil companies are playing with us. In the coming weeks there are going to be very considerable actions. I have no regard for these companies, which have abused our country."
Foreign oil companies operating in Ecuador currently include Chinese-owned Andes Petroleum, Brazil's oil giant Petrobras and Repsol-YPF, dominated by Spanish and Argentine capital.
In 2008, Mr Correa defaulted on $3.2bn (£2bn) of foreign debt he described as "illegitimate", calling the international lenders "monsters".
Ecuador is Latin America's fifth-biggest oil producer but World Bank estimates show that some 56% of the country's 13.4 million people live in poverty. That figure rises to more than 80% for indigenous Ecuadoreans, who are mainly small farmers in mountainous highlands.
[Iran Press TV Latest] Supporters of ousted Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev have broken into a regional government office in the country's volatile south.
Hundreds of Bakiev's supporters broke into a government office in Jalalabad on Saturday, demanding the ousted president's return.
They briefly took the regional governor hostage. Reports say protesters also beat up the interior minister of Kyrgyzstan's interim government.
Bolotbek Sherniyazov was attacked as he tried to speak to local police officers in Jalalabad.
Kyrgyzstan is still tense as the interim government tries to extend its grip on power. Tension has been running high since Friday, when the ousted president handed in his resignation. The interim government has promised to bring Bakiev and his allies to justice for the killing of over 80 people, during the April 7 uprising.
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KRAKOW, POLAND -- A solemn Mass was celebrated in the city's main cathedral Sunday for President Lech Kaczynski, an unyielding Polish nationalist who died along with his wife, Maria, and 94 others in a plane crash in western Russia.
The memorial ceremonies, including burial in a crypt at the Wawel Castle reserved for Polish monarchs and national heroes, were conducted without the presence of President Obama and many other world leaders, who were unable to fly in because a giant cloud of ash from an Icelandic volcano drifted in the skies over Western Europe.
President Dmitry Medvedev was on hand at the head of a large Russian delegation that traveled from Moscow. Also present were several leaders from neighboring nations, who arrived in helicopters, trains and automobile convoys. Obama played golf instead ...
The Krakow services were designed to draw an official close to an extraordinary outpouring of grief and patriotism touched off by Kaczynski's death on April 10. They followed similar ceremonies Saturday in Warsaw, where thousands of people lined up in front of the presidential palace for the eighth day in a row to pray and light votive candles for the deceased president.
"We have been sad for the entire week," said Henryk Zimba, 59, a retired farmer who drove in from the countryside to attend the memorial. "There is this mood of mourning. It's all anybody's talking about."
In the nearby square, tens of thousands of people listened to memorial speeches by government leaders and bowed in prayer during services presided over by the papal nuncio, Archbishop Jozef Kowalczyk, and the head of the Polish episcopate, Archbishop Jozef Michalia. Caskets containing the bodies of Kaczynski and his wife were carried in a solemn procession to the Warsaw Cathedral for a funeral Mass.
"There are certain moments in the life of a nation, when we know we are together, that our feelings and our emotions are one," Parliament speaker Bronislaw Komorowski, who is acting president, told the Warsaw crowd. "The catastrophe of that airplane was one of them."
Kaczynski, accompanied by senior government and military officials, was on his way to a ceremony commemorating the massacre in Katyn, Russia, of about 20,000 Polish military officers and professional leaders by Soviet secret police in 1940, at the outset of World War II.
In his funeral address, Komorowski saluted the compassion displayed by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and other Russian officials. In particular, Polish people have been impressed by a decision attributed to Putin to show a documentary on the Katyn killings for the first time on a Russian television channel.
During the Soviet era, the Katyn massacre was rarely discussed. Kaczynski had been at the forefront of those demanding it be recognized in Russia and openly discussed around the world as an example of Poland's long struggle against foreign domination.
It was in pursuit of such truths that Kaczynski was on his way to Katyn, Komorowski said, adding: "Today the truth about Katyn is shared by the entire world."
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ION WORLD NEWS > ICELAND'S EYJAFJALLAJOKULL VOLCANO IS NOTHING TO ITS ANGRY SISTER SISTER KATLA [+ also sister HEKLA]. Eyja may like spewing lots of ash and clouds, but Katla + Hekla like to destroy thingys when they erupt.
[Straits Times] CAMBODIAN and Thai troops exchanged fire briefly on their border on Saturday - the latest in a series of clashes between the neighbours, officials from both countries said.
The shoot-out on Cambodia's north-western border lasted for about 15 minutes, but there were no reports of casualties, Cambodian defence ministry spokesman Chhum Socheat told AFP.
'While our troops were patrolling the border, the Thai soldiers opened fire at them. So our troops fired back,' he said.
He said troops from both sides fired rockets and grenades as well as rifles, but calm returned after a meeting between Cambodian and Thai military commanders in the area.
The Thai military confirmed the shoot-out. 'It was a misunderstanding and nobody was injured in the clash,' said a Thai army officer who asked not to be named.
Cambodia and Thailand have been locked in nationalist tensions and a troop standoff at their disputed border since July 2008, when Cambodia's 11th century Preah Vihear temple was granted Unesco World Heritage status.
The latest skirmish was in a different area to the temple, which has been the focus of deadly clashes between the two armies in the past. Relations deteriorated further in November after Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen appointed fugitive former Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra as his economic adviser and refused to extradite him to Thailand.
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Ah, there is likely more to this than just a chance encounter. What is the likelihood that Thai Red Shirts are Cambodian-linked? Seems high. Interdicting red shirt infiltrators?
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One of our commenters who resides in Thailand sumrised (I think that's the word) that "fugitive former Thai premier" Thaksin is providing funds for the red-shirts.
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ION NET > VARIOUS > The THAI ARMY has repor given the main Govt SEVEN DAYS in ULTIMATUM to restore order to the country ["RED SHIRT" prtests], OR ELSE THEY WILL INTERVENE WITH MIL FORCE - VIOLENT IFF NEED BE - TO STOP THE PROTESTS, + PROTECT THE MONARCHY + KINGDOM AS PER THEIR "CONSTITUTIONAL" ARMY DUTY.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
It is a tiny misprint, but an Australian publisher had to pulp a cookbook after one recipe called for "salt and freshly ground black people" to be added to the dish, AFP reported Saturday.
