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With all the peppers the hubby planted, I have so much to make with them! Pepper Jelly, Pickled Peppers, Cowboy Candy (candied jalapenos) and much more! This was one that my MIL requested!
1 cup vinegar
1 tablespoon sugar
1 teaspoon salt
about 30 small peppers
1 tablespoon sugar
1 teaspoon salt
about 30 small peppers
Clean jar, lid, and band and rinse well.
Mix together sugar, salt and vinegar in a stainless steel saucepan.
Cook over medium heat until it begins to boil.
Fill jar with peppers and pour hot vinegar mixture over the peppers. Leave about 1/4 inch of head space from the top of the jar. Remove air bubbles in the jar by tilting jar slightly to allow bubbles to escape as pepper press against opposite side of the jar.
Wipe jar rim to clean. Place lid on top of jar and tighten ring.
Process jars in a water bath for 10-15 minutes.*
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Nutrition: per serving
- kcal172
- fat5g
- saturates1g
- carbs22g
- sugars3g
- fibre6g
- protein11g
- salt1.04g
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Put half the beans and chickpeas into a food processor with the lemon juice, garlic, cumin and yogurt, then whizz until smooth. Tip in the rest of the beans and pulse once to get a very chunky dip. Stir in the lemon zest and plenty of seasoning, then divide between 4 containers and store in the fridge.
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16th Aug, 2018
This is rather similar to a Nigel Slater dish we often have, from his 'Eat' collection. I gently fry onions and garlic then throw in one standard tin each of chickpeas and butterbeans (drained), and a little paprika. I fold in crême fraiche or yoghurt to achieve a good texture. Often, as here, I leave some of the veg unblitzed to add in at the end for crunch. Following Nigel's advice, I top off the mash with strips of crispy bacon, adding back a little bacon fat to the mix for flavour, but a veggie could add (say) L.McC sausages. Season to taste. I reckon any combo of these two recipes would be a hit—quick, simple, nutritious, filling and very tasty! And I could invent many variations on the theme.
19th Jan, 2014
I made this yesterday - yum! I changed it quite a bit though...! .Firstly, I only had beans, so I used two cans of those. .I used less lemon because someone below said it was very lemony! .I added a pinch of salt because it was a little bland. .I added some chilli powder and harissa because I love spicy food! .and I added 3 cloves of garlic, because it was still a little bland. So it needed a few extra things, but it was YUMMY!
11th Apr, 2011
I made this recipe to take to a BBQ as a nibble before all the meat, so cut up some veggies to go with it. Carrots, red pepper, celery and cucumber all went beautifully. I had favourable feedback, everyone liked it, but it was commented that it was very lemony - which was true, so maybe I'd cut back on the lemon next time. Also, I modified the recipe by using Total 0% Greek Yoghurt. I also added the following as I found it was a tad bland: - 1tsp salt - 1tsp cracked black pepper - 1tsp olive oil - a good pinch of chilli flakes By doing this and dividing the total into four portions, each portion had the following nutritional information: Cal - 152 (Cal from Fat 30) Fat - 3.3g Sat. Fat - 0.6g Sodium - 391mg Carb - 20.6g Of which Sugars - 2.4g Fibre - 7g Protein - 10.9g This makes it less cals than the recipe, and lower in fat. All in all, I was pleased with this one!


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Reactor's comments to the 10th MetroBank Professorial Chair Lecture, "Internationalization of Philippine Territory: The Question of Boundaries," by Dean Merlin M. Magallona, Chair, Philippine Judicial Academy International and Human Rights Law Department, Nov, 13, 2013, Malcolm Hall, UP College of Law, under the auspices of the PHILJA and the Supreme Court of the Philippines (not for publication or citation without permission from the author)
By Atty. Romel Regalado Bagares
I begin my discussion of Dean Magallona's lecture with a disclosure: I had the misfortune of having my very first recitation in my very first day in my very first class in my very first year in law school under him. It was a class in legal history and he was then just beginning to discuss with us his students the assigned readings for the day on Philippine customary law. As I heard him call my name for an explanation on the term "indigenous", I stood from my front row seat with a start, and much to my own shock, proceeded to pace up and down the middle of the room as I explained to him what I understood by the term. The good Dean, face contorted by what could only be mock horror, blurted out at me: "Mr. Bagares – what are you doing? Are you trying to tell me that you can actually think?"
So friends, you will have to forgive me if what I will say today is colored in some way by my first recitation in law school. I can only hope that at the end of this discussion, you will at least be convinced that I can actually think.
A second disclosure is that other than being a former student of the good Dean, I was also Petitioners' co-counsel in the case of Magallona v. Executive Secretary, which is the principal subject of his lecture. So please take my presentation with this further grain of salt.
And so, on to my comments to his lecture:
At the heart of Dean Magallona's lecture is Magallona v. Ermita is now a judicial fait accompli; with this decision of the Supreme Court, ironically immortalized in the name of the very person who had been most assiduous in opposing it, the internationalization of Philippine territory – by which he meant other states acquiring some form of territorial rights in our own backyard – is complete.
The judicial confirmation that we have now been transformed into an archipelagic state in the contemplation of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea(UNCLOS) could only have disastrous results to national sovereignty as understood in the Philippine Constitution. With that, the colonial vestige that is the Treaty of Paris regime (which I am using as a shorthand), and under which the Philippines had previously staked its territorial rights as a state, is consigned to irrelevance.
It may well be one of life's supreme ironies that Dean Magallona, a card-carrying nationalist international legal scholar, is also a staunch supporter of what we as a country has previously considered as our national territory's international treaty limits under the over a century-old Treaty of Paris. As an international document, the Treaty of Paris carries with it all the hurts and pains of one country whose struggle to carve its own place in the community of nations was hijacked by colonizers. But if I understood his view of international law correctly, it is precisely that history is what we make of what other people make of us, to borrow a phrase from one existentialist philosopher. One sees this most clearly in a year 2000 article he wrote for the venerable Philippine Law Journal, where he dealt with the history and morality of the (classical) international law of conquest and colonization as embodied in the Treaty of Paris.
Indeed, the Treaty of Paris carries with the many paradoxes of our existence as a postcolonial state. As a text it invokes high emotions: the future of a country praised by the Indonesian novelist Pramoedya AnantaToer in his famous Buru Quartet for inaugurating nationalist impulses in our own corner of colonial Asia sold just like that for 20 million US dollars. Yet for about 400 years – if we were to consider the continuities it presents between the Spanish to the American regime – it marked out what for us were the outer reaches of national territory unlike any other, and its precise metes and bounds had been transformed into constitutional principle from American Commonwealth days, to the Martial Law era, and on to the Post-Marcos 1987 Constitution.
The TOP marks out a rectangular territorial sea fully encompassing the entirety of the Philippine archipelago; at some points, the territorial sea exceeds 12 nautical miles in breadth. Perhaps, it bears noting that although the Philippines is not the only state which claims a territorial sea of more than 12 nautical miles, it is the only mid-ocean archipelago whose territorial claims had been specifically defined and delimited in latitude and longitude and embodied in international treaties and drawn in whole maps and charts. In fact, as one author has observed, "the area of asserted jurisdiction is, in some places, 285 nautical miles from the nearest lands, thereby making it the most extravagant seaward claims."
The Romantic Post-Colonial Argument
And so, to begin with, on the level of historical discourse, there's not a lot going for the Treaty of Paris. As has been already noted, one argument against it is that it embodies one of the worst vestiges of our postcolonial heritage: accepting its international legal implications would mean accepting the rank immorality of the Spanish cession of the Philippines to the United States. Our future as a country was sold by one colonizer to another, violating our right to self-determination, which we have already declared on June 12, 1896 in Kawit, Cavite.
The UNCLOS, meanwhile, represents our sovereign and independent willing as a country and nation to fashion a future according to our own wishes. It marks our entry point into the modern international community in a decisive move to break away from the vestiges of an older international law where conquest was a legal means of acquiring territory.
The Treaty of Paris belonged to the Lotus era, where states did as they wished, for as long as there was no express prohibition in international law for what they did; the UNCLOS is one of those key international instruments that helped fashion an international community founded on communal values, and it is one in which we participated as a fully sovereign, newly-independent state.
Under this view, the Treaty of Paris represented an appeal to international law that may well be difficult if not impossible to successfully prosecute, because of its highly exceptional nature. But in a more complex contemporary reality, the best strategy is to adopt what is widely accepted and shared, as what can be made as a case for the UNCLOS, now with 166 member states out of a possible 193 member states of the United Nations, as of August 2013.
One connected strand of this version of the postcolonial narrative is the claim by some quarters today that it was the Philippines, along with Indonesia, that introduced the archipelagic doctrine during the deliberations at the UNCLOS conferences in 1958 and 1960. It was the requirement of the very same archipelagic doctrine as embodied in the final document of the treaty to which we became compliant with the passage of RA 9522, the new Baselines Law assailed in Magallona v. Ermita. It is no doubt an appealing assertion of romantic history but it is unfortunately a grossly inaccurate one, its historiography either twisted or one founded on academic laxity.
It is true that the Philippines submitted proposals for a new archipelagic doctrine to the UNCLOS conferences. At the time, international law did not have a definite rule on the reaches of the territorial sea; the Philippines thus advanced the archipelago theory, which considered as a single unified whole outlying or mid-ocean archipelagos such as itself for marking out the reaches of its territorial waters by drawing baselines from the outermost points of the archipelago and the belt of marginal seas outside of such baselines. Further, consistent with its constitutional provisions on the National Territory under the 1935 Constitution and the Treaty of Paris, the Philippines asserted that waters landward of or within the baselines are internal waters.
The justification for this, according to the Philippines, is that the prevailing conceptions of the limits of the territorial sea had been based largely on the continental nature of a coastal State and did not consider the archipelagic nature of states like the Philippines.
The Philippines lost in its bid to have its archipelagic theory recognized in the UNCLOS conference. What prevailed is the view of an archipelagic state subject to the regime of the archipelagic waters now enshrined in Art 46 in relation to Article 47 (1) of Part IV of the UNCLOS.
It is this regime in the UNCLOS that Dean Magallona argues, has eliminated wide swatches of waters considered under the Treaty of Paris and the Philippine Constitution to be Philippine internal waters.
But in good protester state's fashion, following the 1958 and the 1960 UNCLOS conferences, the Philippines passed RA 3046 (later amended by RA 5446) using the outermost points of the Archipelago for the purpose of drawing straight archipelagic baselines.
RA 3046 (An Act to Define the Baselines of the Territorial Sea of the Philippines)referred to the Treaty of Paris in its preambular paragraphs, to wit:
WHEREAS, the Constitution of the Philippines describes the national territory as comprising all the territory ceded to the United States by theTreaty of Paris concluded between the United States and Spain on December 10, 1898, the limits of which are set forth in Article III of said treaty, together with all the islands embraced in the treaty concluded at Washington, between the United States and Spain on November 7, 1900, and in the treaty concluded between the United States and Great Britain on January 2, 1930, and all the territory over which the Government of the Philippine Islands exercised jurisdiction at the time of the adoption of the Constitution; (Emphasis supplied)
Our first baselines law further stated that all the waters within the limits defined in the Treaty of Paris have always been regarded as part of the territory of the Philippine Islands, to wit:
"WHEREAS, all the waters within the limits set forth in the above-mentioned treaties have always been regarded as part of the territory of the Philippine Islands;"
In Magallona v. Ermita however, our Supreme Court fell for the romantic postcolonial yarn that from the very beginning we had always been an archipelagic state and had even originated the doctrine in the 1958 and the 1960 UNCLOS conferences; that, or it apparently confused the concept of an "Archipelago" with that of an "Archipelagic State". It thus declared
In 1961, Congress passed Republic Act No. 3046 (RA 3046), demarcating the maritime baselines of the Philippines as an archipelagic State. xxx (Emphasis supplied, internal citation omitted)
It bears stressing that as a legal concept, the Archipelagic State did not come into existence until it was adopted in Part IV of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). The Philippines considered itself an Archipelago –a unity of land and water – under its 1935, 1973 and 1987 Constitutions. It did not become formally an Archipelagic State until, as a State Party to the UNCLOS, it applied the straight archipelagic baselines under Article 47(1), Part IV of the UNCLOS, such baselines being a feature of archipelagic States under the said Part IV of the UNCLOS.
To repeat, the Philippines is an Archipelago but it did not become an Archipelagic State until the enactment of Republic Act No. 9522 which implemented such baselines under the concept of Archipelagic State of the UNCLOS.
Art. 46, Part IV, read with Art. 47 (1), Part IV, makes the distinction clear:
Use of terms
For the purposes of this Convention:
(a)"archipelagic State" means a State constituted wholly by one or more archipelagos and may include other islands;
(b) "archipelago" means a group of islands, including parts of islands, interconnecting waters and other natural features which are so closely interrelated that such islands, waters and other natural features form an intrinsic geographical, economic and political entity, or which historically have been regarded as such.
That our Supreme Court conflated the two concepts is evident when it quoted in Footnote 3 of the Ponencia the third "Whereas Clause" of RA 3046 as expressing the import of treating the Philippines as an archipelagic State:
"WHEREAS, all the waters around, between and connecting the various islands of the Philippine archipelago, irrespective of their width or dimension, have always been considered as necessary appurtenance of the land territory, form part of the inland waters of the Philippines."
Post-Colonial Prudence
It is a grievous mistake to consider this WHEREAS Clause as a way of "treating the Philippines as an archipelagic State," because the internal waters as areas of sovereignty appurtenant to the land territory of the Philippines is precisely what is eliminated by the UNCLOS in its concept of Archipelagic State,replacing internal waters with "archipelagic waters" for the objective right of innocent passage of all ships of all States, among other rights, as found in Art. 53 of the UNCLOS, among other provisions.
Thus we now have a legal quandary of a statute amending our constitution, albeit in international law – and this is what makes it worse – both have equal standing as binding unilateral acts of a state.
Having said that, the egging question is whether we could have avoided the archipelagic state regime at all, despite our being a party to the UNCLOS, at least, for the time being?
The Petitioners in Magallona v. Ermita have argued in the affirmative. It is not mandatory upon States Parties that are archipelagos to make transform themselves into archipelagic States. This is borne out in the permissive language of Art. 47 (1), Part IV of the UNCLOS :
An archipelagic State may draw straight archipelagic baselines joining the outermost points of the outermost islands and drying reefs of the archipelago provided that within such baselines are included the main islands and an area in which the ratio of the area of the water to the area of the land, including atolls, is between 1 to 1 and 9 to 1.
In fact, the Supreme Court's Ponencia in Magallona v. Executive Secretary itself acknowledged that the Petitioners' reading of the UNCLOS is plausible, namely that– "based on the permissive text of UNCLOS III, Congress was not bound to pass RA 9522." However, the High Court thought it was the province of Congress to say so and not theirs. Regrettably, the High Court passed off the chance to declare the new Baselines Law to have been passed and signed into law in grave abuse of discretion, at least with respect to its transformation of the Philippines into an Archipelagic state.
Which leads me to my second point about international law's postcolonial discontents and possibilities: we're all for human rights, jus cogens and all that, but in addition, we should also learn to use international law with postcolonial prudence.
That we have not done so is laid out in stark detail by the fact that states like Japan and Cuba – which are archipelagos in their own right – have not declared themselves as "Archipelagic States" under Art. 47 (1), Part IV of the UNCLOS.
Instead, we made a "rush for the second place, "and simply ignored – in an exercise of "chronological snobbery" – what we have already achieved as a State, despite our tormented postcolonial heritage.
Contra textualist readings of the Treaty of Paris which do not treat the treaty limits found there as political boundaries but merely heuristic devices, we assert that we have made that Treaty ours and for our posterity by constitutional principle.
Dean Magallona does not mention it in his lecture but Petitioners have in fact argued that under the doctrine of uti possedetis juris, the International Treaty Limits contained in the treaty have become frontiers protected by international law. The doctrine, accepted now as a general principle of international law by the International Court of Justice, served to freeze the title over territory at the time of independence, in effect producing a "photograph of the territory."
In the territorial dispute between Burkina Faso and Mali, the International Court of Justice would affirm the principle in these words: "[t]here is no doubt that the obligation to respect pre-existing international frontiers in the event of State succession derives from a general rule of international law expressed in the formula of uti possidetis." Read from a postcolonial perspective, the doctrine, originally applied with much initial resistance in settling decolonization issues in America and Africa, we should use to our territorial advantage. Indeed, as we have argued in Magallona v. Ermita, we have in fact constitutionalized the import of this doctrine by incorporating in the national territory provisions of practically all of our postcolonial constitutions the metes and bounds of the Treaty of Paris regime.
Dean Magallona has bewailed the schizophrenia in the stance of the Philippine delegation to the UNCLOS conferences: at the conferences, on the one hand, they consistently pursued "the dominion and sovereignty of the archipelagic state within the baselines, which were so drawn as to preserve the territorial integrity of the archipelago by the inseparable unity of the land and water"; yet on the other hand, they still went on and signed the UNCLOS and had it ratified, though not without submitting a declaration to the UN stating that the Philippines becoming a state party to the treaty did not mean that it any manner impaired or prejudice "the sovereign rights of the Republic of the Philippines under and arising from the Constitution of the Philippines."
At least, today, with RA 9522 and Magallona v. Executive Secretary, we can safely say we now know where we exactly stand. Thank you


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And if magic it is now Game Three. This being Spain of course means that a lengthy break for lunch has already occurred featuring many Spanish culinary delicacies, as we eat in the legendarily-names Don Menu restaurant. Salad, carbohydrates, and Rioja all form a fantastic fusion to precede dessert, including this fabulous yet uniquely Spanish classic
Yes, this is fizzy water with added sugar. Not a wildly attractive drink in its own right, but when added to cheap(ish) wine it has the almost miraculous properties of turning what may well be borderline undrinkable (well, to an educated palette) booze into something very quaffable indeed. Wine, risotto, some meaty pasta stuff and a short walk and soon afterwards the afternoon game begins.
The afternoons opponent was Alexander the Great. Alexander's army would contain many elephants and so the optional list from the Invasion of Spain virtually selected itself, due to its many units of javelinmen. Perhaps they could be a little more effective this afternoon than against the Mexican Wrestling Elephants of I Cant Believe Its Not Ghaznavia?
The lists for the Umayyad Arab and Alexander The Great from this game, as well as all the other lists from the games at Estella can be seen here in the L'Art de la Guerre Wiki.
On the expectation of Alexander's army being smaller, the Umayyad General again opted for minimal terrain with a small plantation and a road. This in retrospect may have been a wine-fuelled decision, as a bit more terrain would also have channelled the Phalanx a bit more, but hey, who's counting?
Alexander had chosen to either attack or defend, but either way he did so alongside a waterway which stuck to the right side of the table as the Arab army deployed. With no Tibetans the choice of which command to put where on this bald field was trickier than usual, but the expectation of Pikemen in numbers led to what was essentially a Refused Centre and two strong flanks stacked with Mediocre Cavalry Lancers
The Alexandrians were similarly keeping a gap in the middle of their line (yeah, means it must be a clever tactic ...?) , as they too struggled to fill a table as bald as a wargamer's pate some 2-3 years before he realises that the comb-over isn't working any more. Keen to avoid the Phalanx, and equally keen to take on all of the enemy elephants with javelinmen (including Alexander's Indian ally) the Umayyad army split into a number of different divisions and firwaorked across the field of battle as all of the separate units steamed towards ther chosen targets.
Alexanders Tactics
Well, nearly all of Umayyads did this. With multiple troop types and no real practice at deplying the army the Arabs had ended up with an overly-complicated deployment on the left, which meant that the idea of a rapid advance was translated into a stumbling lurch forward as the many different units fought among themselves to claim precious pips.
As keen as the Arabs were to avoid the Phalanx, Alexander was equally keen to ensure that his long-speared specialists were in combat at the earliest possible opportunity. As the Arabs inched sideways hoping to avoid the Pike units, the Phalanx also split and shuffled, and then made a hasty beeline towards some of the now-isolated blocks of Umayyad troops.
Why (long) Spears are better than Swords
Seeing the Alexandrians spreading out was a development the Arabs positively welcomed as if a touch of chilli sauce had been added to a particularly dissapointing burrito.
The Umayyad army's formation of Javelinmen, Bowmen and cavalry was ideally structured to take down the Indian Allied Contingent which was sitting pretty on the Alexandrian left flank.
The Indians had only bowmen sat between their pair of elephants, meaning that the entire formation represented a compelling target for the Berber Javelinmen. The battle was hotting up!
The other side of the Phalanx was host to Alexanders own elephants and peltasts, and this too looked like an inviting target. The eclectic inventory of Umayyad troop types converged on the Alexandrians from all sides and at quite some speed, every one of them confident that they (and their matchups) held the key to a swift victory in this game.
What's Going on Here Then?
On a largely terrain-free table the Umayyad army has separated into distinct battles to take on the discrete elements in the Alexandrian force, losing the advantages of width and scale they would otherwise enjoy. The Alexandrians are advancing carefully, not allowing any of their powerful combat units to become detached from their parent formations.
Suddenly the two sides were ridiculously close. Having gotten tangled up with too many troop types, the Umayyads discovered that sending in a coherent charge against the Indians would now take something of the order of two dozen command points, a rather tricky total to aim for with half of one D6+2 (rounded down).
This was an error, and instead of waiting to try and sort it out the Arabian commander on this flank decided to go for broke. Charging his best quality (Average..) Lancer Cavalry into the Indian Bowmen was risky, especially with the Elephant nearby but if they won they would blast a hole quickly through the Indian vanguard, opening the path for an attack on the squishy Traditional Indian Rubbish Cavalry behind.
Immediately combat began the Indians found themselves in trouble, picking up markers all along their engaged frontage. The second line Indian troops were quaking with fear, as only Poor quality Indian cavalry know how to do
Staggered by the sheer numbers of Arab troops Alexander's guard Companions turned tail and fled.
Seeing what were supposed to be their best troops begin to fall back in the face of a shower of mediocre Libyan levies on horseback did little to encourage the Alexandrian elephant and peltast command who's work was already cut out in trying to avoid being overwhelmed by a veritable tide of North Africa pedestrian humanity.
But the fantastically painted Alexandrian elephants were having no truck with this idea that they should just stand there and be surrounded by the forces of the Caliphate. They charged home violently against whatever happened to be front of them
The Arabs have by now got nearly everything in the right place, and even though the elephant charge is potent it is still hitting the most resilient troops in the Umayyad army, heavy spearmen backed up by rear rank archery. These guys should be well equipped to survive the initial onslaught of the elephants.
More and more troops were being drawn into an ever widening line of combat, as the Arabian right started to run through the Indian Allied Command. With superiority of numbers the Umayyads were increasingly able to secure the favourable matchups that they had struggled to achieve in the previous game.
Alexander in turn had gotten his Phalanx into combat, but this may not be too helpful should the Indians protecting the left flank of his army collapse in short order.
The Arabs were now rapidly overwhelming the right flank of the Alexandrian Army as well. There were simply too many Umayyad units on the table for the embattled Alexandrians to respond to all of the varies threats.
What's Going on Here Then?
The Alexandrians have committed their main battle troops to combat in the centre, whilst their impressive Companion Cavalry have declined a fight on their right flank and instead fallen back to narrow their internal lines. The Arabs appear to have rather lost the initiative in choosing which combats to fight and which to avoid as the superior command and control of Alexanders men starts to bite.
This combination of shooting, together with aggressively charging horse and foot who was causing serious problems for the Alexandrian army, even though in one-on-one combats they tended to outmatch their Umayyad opponents.
More Tactics of Alexander (and his dad)
In a flurry of ears, trunks and dice the Alexandrian elephant force was reduced by half, further isolating the Hypaspists and peltasts, as well as exposing their Companions further to the rear to even more potential threats
But things were not all plain sailing for the Arabs.
Alexander's Phalanx had broken through the centre of the Caliphal army and its commander was now ordering the lumbering pike units to slowly wheeling outwards. This move started to apply considerable force to bear on both of the wings of the Arab army. With many of their spearmen already crushed by the advance of the Pike, and the rest carrying serious numbers of hits the Umayyads had no real answer to this attack.
As soon as the Phalanx got going the Umayyads risked being quickly overwhelmed. The only solution was to beat whatever was still in front of them as quickly as possible, and hope to extinguish Alexanders army before it snuffed them out in turn.
By now things should really be very much moving into an end-game phase on the Umayyad left.
The Arab attack on the Alexandrian right flank had scattered the limited Hellenistic units - but Alexanders army was possessed of far higher one-on-one quality than the troops of the Arabs, so with the battle stretched out the Arabs started to find it difficult to bring their sheer numbers to bear. The tide was turning, and numbers were suddenly more of a hindrance than a help as the Umayyad general struggled to find command and control points to keep all of his units in motion at the same time.
What's Going on Here Then?
Numbers are starting to count on the Umayyad left as the Alexandrians flank is picked apart and gradually overrun by Arab infantry and cavalry. In the centre however the Alexandrians ability to get their decisive Phalanx into combat has inflicted a heavy toll on the Umayyad infantry, and next to the ocean the Indian elephants continue to wreak havoc even as their supporting troops are stripped away.
The Companions and Hypaspists meanshile had no such issues, and were able to pick their targets as gradually they started to claw their way back into the game again.
The battle swung wildly as the Companions proved a stiff last line of resistance. Arabs were everywhere, swinging round at flanks and charging against the elite nobility of the Macedonian royal family, but quality and armour meant that the Companions often gave as good as they got in these exchanges.
Umayyads vs Visigoths
In seeking to swing round quickly into the flank of the Macedonian army the Umayyads had broken up their line.
As the game ticked towards an end phase it became painfully apparent that the Arabian's fractured formations were a massive problem, and instead a more coherent and slower linear march might have stood them in better stead. This way they had done better earlier on, but now lacked the command capability to close out the situation they had created
On the opposite flank the problem was not command and control. Instead it was the stoic resistance and phenomenal hitting power of an elite Indian elephant carrying a general.
Taking this sub-continental lordship down was soaking up all of the resources of the Umayyad flank commander, and in feeding the elephant units the Arabs were now at serious risk of running out of units capable of taking on the elephants at all. The focus shifted to trying to overwhelm the rest of the Indian Command
Both armies were battered and smashed by this point. Both armies were exhausted. Both armies were scattered across the table top. And, just as in the preceding game, both armies were now broken.
The Result is the second mutual destruction of the weekend.
Click here for the report of the next game in this competition, or read on for the post match summaries from the Generals involved, as well as another episode of legendary expert analysis from Hannibal
Post Match Summary from the Umayyad Arab Commander
Haway, what a terrible outcome. This game seemed to be reet w'in our grasp, and we could have been gannin ooop tha league reet quick like, but somehow it seemed to slip out of our grasp a bit like the '95-;96 Premier League title race.
Why aye man! Looking back, I still cannae work out what happened here to see the Toon Army not win the game. The Indians should have crumpled against mi' javelinmen, and the area on our left wing was so wide open ah didn'a think I'd need an actual army, more that a pooper scooper would've done to pick up the remnants of that Alexandrian right flank.
I had e'en taken thpose pikemen out of the game for hours, but they still managed to get in and give ma' team a reet good kickin'. Ah can only blame this one dice, although I must admit that I don't remember any particulartly bbad dice rolls going against me anyway.
It was a reet strange game in the end, and perhaps I have conjunctivitis if I canna' see how we didn't win here.
Hannibal's Post Match Analysis
If you can't see how you lost this you need a new general commanding your army, not eye drops for conjunctivitis. It's even written plain and simple in the battle report you fool - you overcomplicated your attack against the Indians, turning a pair of commands with more than enough Javelinmen to overrun an Indian allied contingent with no added support into a mess of incompatible units, none of whom were in a position to support their neigbours or pull together anything like a coherent attack.
After that disaster, you then decided to launch an attack anyway instead of trying to sort out the mess you had realised that you had made. Reinforcing defeat is stupid enough, but charging ahead even once you realise that your plan is inevitably going to end in disaster, just because you have started down a particular path, and then compounding that error by failing to spot that you lack sufficient support amongst your followers to implement your plan... imagine, what ruler of any counrtry could ever make such a mistake...?
Really, what happened here is that you started the game correctly, and then moved away from your original plan faster than a Spaniard breaking for lunch. The end result was almost worse than if you'd have done your normal trick of being utterly useless right from the very beginning, as at least that displays an ability to start with a plan and stick to it, rather than this flip-flopping and shilly-shallying shambles!
I wonder which idiot wlll turn up for the next game - the one who starts off well but then throws it all away, or the one who's a hapless fool throughout the entire 2 and a bit hours of the battle?
Click here for the report of the next game in this competition
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In order to pull off this dish, getting the highest quality ingredients is important. You need to get steak-cut beef that has good marbling and of course, fresh. As much as possible, get thick cuts, because the outside will get "pre-cooked" because of the acidity of the vinegar. Ribeye, porterhouse, t-bone, or a fancy filet mignon all work for this dish.
Adobo Steak Preparation Tip
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- Prep Time: 15 mins
- Cook Time: 40 mins
- Total Time: 55 mins
- Yield: 7 1x
- Category: Beef
- Cuisine: Asian
- 1 Kilo Beef Tenderloin
- ⅓ cup Soy Sauce
- 4 tbsp. Vinegar
- ½ cup water
- 2 tbsp. Honey (Optional)
- 1 Green Bell Pepper cuts Lengthwise
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- Cholesterol: 133 mg
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text: Kate Chopin's The Awakening: Screenplay as Interpretation By Marilyn Hoder-Salmon No cover image Kate Chopin's The Awakening: Screenplay as Interpretation By Marilyn Hoder-Salmon Read preview Synopsis "With Kate Chopin's nineteenth-century novel as her focus, Marilyn Hoder-Salmon presents a screenplay and two essays that cast light on a new way to interpret literature and to analyze writing for film. Titled Edna, after Chopin's protagonist, the three-act screenplay explores the essential themes and complexities of its source, The Awakening. Offered as criticism in itself and not for production, the script stands as a model of how adaptation alone becomes a critical method. The first essay, unified around the theme of women's autonomy, offers background on such topics as feminist criticism, adaptation theory, masculine/ feminine themes in film, and Kate Chopin's life and the novel's particular history. The second essay interprets the screenplay in the context of the process of adaptation, illustrating how such a process both retains and enhances a work's theme in a new era. The intimate contact between the arts of film and literature uncovers ideas about character, theme, plot, setting, and point of view that resist analysis by more typical means. Hoder-Salmon contends that adaptation draws the writer into close proximity to the mind and method of the original author. As such, it offers an exercise in creativity that becomes the ultimate step in following the current critical injunction to "enter the text" in order to unmask its mysteries." Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved Excerpt All translation is an interpretation, an explication of a beloved text.Justin O'Brien "The French Literary Horizon"Wouldn't Kate Chopin, herself a remarkable interpreter of irony, destiny, and intuition, have relished the multiple ironies of that day in 1945, as I have imagined it, when French professor Cyrille Arnavon wandered into a Paris bookshop and laid hands on a half-century- old copy of her novel The Awakening? What if instead of taking the musty book over to the cashier, he had just skimmed a few pages and set the slender novel back on the shelf or table where it had rested for so long? Think of the impoverishment to the project of rediscovery of the heritage of important fiction by women writers! But of course he did take the book and for a few francs set in motion the evolution of what has become an essential ingredient in feminist literary history. Now, along with scores of readers and critics, I claim the novel as a "beloved text."As someone trained in interdisciplinary studies, I am not surprised when, often with no plan in mind, I find myself pursuing new interests; however, I surely could not have anticipated where my preoccupation with Kate Chopin's nineteenth-century novel would one day lead. With The Awakening as centerpiece I have undertaken to bring together elements of adaptation studies, feminist literary and film criticism, women's social history of the late nineteenth century in Louisiana, screenplay writing, and more. Perhaps here is the place to say then, that a little risk venturing, a little patience, and a lot of trust may be required of readers of this study. What I've done is take my parallel interests in interdisciplinary and comparative studies and blend them to construct a different way to analyze literature. Screenplay writing is the methodology.


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Workers' compensation laws are the most difficult government regulation to deal with, but also the most beneficial to employees, small business owners said in response to a survey by the National Association of Professional Employer Organizations.
NAPEO surveyed 429 small businesses around the country and asked 16 questions about labor laws and other employment issues.
Thirty-eight percent of respondents named workers' compensation as the most difficult of 13 employment regulations they had to deal with. But 47% also said workers' compensation is the most beneficial government regulation for workers.
"Without the system, employees and their employers would have to roll the dice in the legal system, a slow, cumbersome and sometimes unfair process," NAPEO said. "Instead the presumption under the workers' comp system is that workers injured on the job have an absolute right to medical care and compensation, and if there's a dispute it's first heard informally by the state workers' comp agency."
After workers' compensation, the small businesses found federal employment and income taxes (28%), the Family Medical Leave Act (26%) and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) (26%) the most onerous regulations.
Behind workers' compensation, the small businesses found the Family Medical Leave Act (42%), HIPPA (32%) and the Fair Labor Standards Act (29%)as most beneficial to their workers.
The small businesses said the least beneficial regulations for workers are the Immigration Reform and Control Act (35%), involuntary wage garnishments (32%) and the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (31%).Back to blog list


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Musubi.. I've always loved it as Tofu Musubi So today I want to expand on that and I'm going to walk you through Spam Musubi, Egg Musubi, Tofu Musubi, Tuna Musubi and Salmon Musubi!!!
I hope you enjoy this Hawaiian special sandwich as much as I do!
Let me know in the comments below how you'll take your musubi!
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Ware played for the Chiefs from 2015 through last season and led the team in rushing in 2016 with 921 yards.
Injuries to Damien Williams (rib) and Darrel Williams (hamstring) left the Chiefs before Ware's signing with only LeSean McCoy and rookie Darwin Thompson at running back. McCoy leads the Chiefs (8-4) in rushing with 410 yards while Thompson, in his first extended playing time of the season, led the team with 44 yards and scored his first NFL touchdown in Sunday's victory over the Raiders.
The Chiefs released recently signed wide receiver Gehrig Dieter.


text: Jer Report post Posted April 29, 2013 Got my white SGT one today. It's great. I always kicked myself for not getting this, happy to have it now. Gary Patterson saw it in my office and let me in on some history: He drove the White SGT for that photo, Vince drove the Black one. Now ya know. Jer Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Handmade and Beautiful
In the August issue of Wallpaper* magazine, they profile the exhibition they organized in the Brioni palazzo during Salon del Mobile in Milan this Spring. Congratulations to our friends at StudioDror for the dividing screen they exhibited with Alpi. Their design continues to inspire new uses and implementations.


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This week, thanks to Penguin Random House, we're giving away four fantastic titles from the Disney: Magic of Storytelling collection.
The titles in the giveaway include:
- Disney Beauty & the Beast: Storytime Collection
- Disney Moana: Storytime Collection
- Disney Jungle Book: Storytime Collection
- Disney Pixar Incredibles 2: Storytime Collection
To enter to win
Simply comment below, and your name will go into the draw. This giveaway closes on , Friday 21 September at 10am, after which the winner will be announced on the Rattle and Mum Facebook page, and then emailed.
This giveaway is open to South Africans only. The prize cannot be exchanged for cash or anything else from Penguin Random House.


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Good grief...we are in for more hot and dry weather for the next week.
After chores I had a 10am appointment with the massage therapist. I've missed a couple of months and was very happy to be there.
Afterward I asked if she wanted to go over to Tina's pool for a swim and she was game.
I drove down Canal Road and this huge barge (of sorts) was heading west.
I've never seen it before.
The pool was it's usual 83 degrees and felt great.
This time I swam/treaded water for 75 minutes.
Beats the heck out of the elliptical!
On the way out, I always love to grab shots of Tina's gardens.
This was my favorite catch of the day.
Earlier, I had asked Gary to pick up 6 bags of shavings on his way home from coffee. Sale today.
Then I grabbed 10 more before getting back to the farm.
More flowers all over Country Max.
I spent the afternoon in front of a fan. Once again, our house knuckled under.
Judy and her friend Jean stopped in for a couple of cabbages (since that coleslaw I made last night is all the rage). As a matter of fact, I did sort of a replay of last nights dinner. Earlier this afternoon I sliced the leftover country ribs and threw them in a crock pot covered with BBQ sauce and a little more vinegar. A perfect way NOT to heat up the kitchen. Then, I added more cabbage to yesterday's coleslaw and we were set! Tasted just fine.....
Chores at 7.
The girls have to be so tired of this heat.
Got them tucked in and here I am.
Night all.


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Kate McCann: Pain won't end until we find Madeleine
KATE McCann has spoken of how her pain will never go away until she finds her daughter Madeleine.
The anguished mother spoke of "the dread of knowing what happened and the dread of not knowing what happened" as she addressed a Missing People fundraising dinner.
On a positive note Kate, in her role as ambassador for the charity, revealed how a poster campaign she launched has helped find 100 missing children and adults.
The appeal on digital hoardings at rail and bus stations, sports venues and shopping centres across Britain, was started in July last year. The former GP, 45, of Rothley, Leics, told an audience on Wednesday at London's Victoria and Albert Museum: "I am delighted to say that last week the 100th missing person featured on the digital billboards was found, a truly amazing achievement."
Kate described her own family's heartache since Madeleine vanished in Praia da Luz, Portugal, in May 2007, just days before her fourth birthday.
She told how the ordeal continued for her, husband Gerry and eight-year-old twins Sean and Amelie.
Kate said: "You need to know that all that can be done is being done – and you need to know that the world hasn't given up."
Last month the search was boosted after Portuguese police relaunched their investigation into the little girl's disappearance.
At the same time, a Scotland Yard team unveiled two e-fits of a new prime suspect.
Police received nearly 3,000 calls and emails after the images were shown in a Crimewatch special broadcast across Europe.


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Added (2018-02-14, 6:06 PM)---------------------------------------------Advanced classes H4 of memory .......to obtain anadvanced class, you need at least 2 levels in 2 different competences….combat + tactical = general (+1 with moral of all the army)fight + pathfinding = prowler (+10 attacks someremotely)fight + nobility = lord of war (+10 in brought closer attack)fight + life = paladin (rune of dead)fight + order = magus of battle (no-claims bonus of impact to the fates magic fist (given) and launches of ice)fight + dead = assassin (+3 of speed)fight + chaos = serve as fire (immunity to the fates of fire)fight + natural = tamer of monster (+ 20% with the invoc of wolf)tactic + pathfinding = marshal (+ 10% of offensive for all the creatures of the army)tactic + nobility = ordering Lord ((+2 with moral of all the army)tactic + life = cross (moral staff +10)tactic +ordre = illusionist (+ 20% with the fates of illusion)tactic + dead = devastating (has the magic fateof mirrorpermanently)tactic + chaos = piromancian (has a shield of fire)tactic + natural = guard (+ 20% of defense for all the creatures of the army)pathfinding + nobility = main of guild (is unaware of partly the magic resistance of the unfavourableheroes, capable of last language of flame (rod) to a gm magic resistance)pathfinding + life = prophet (has the spiritual fate of armour permanently)pathfinding + order = indicator (+ 3 with the ray of location)pathfinding + dead =ninja (attacks evil spirit)pathfinding + chaos = soothsayer of fire (+20% with the fates of fire)pathfinding + natural = bards (personal chance +10)nobility + life = cardinal (no-claims bonus withresurrection, formulates complex which functions better and better with creatures of high level)nobility + order = king magician (attacks physicalinflicting misfortune)nobility + dead = lord of lhombre (attacks physical inflicting sorrow)nobility + chaos = king wizard (terror attacks, without response)nobility + natural = lord of the monsters (+ 20% with the invoc of wolf and tiger)life + order = monk (rune of chaos)life + dead = priest of darkness (attacks vampiric)life + chaos = heretic (is unaware of theunfavourable runes)life + natural = invoker (no-claims bonus withthe competence of invocation day labourer)order + dead = magus of darkness (fuzzy with theremote attack)order + chaos =magician (reduced cost of the fates of 2)order + natural = enchanter (+ 20% with the illusion and invocations)died + chaos = liche (death living, insensitive with the mental fates)died + natural = demonologist(no-claims bonus withthe capacity to call upon demons)chaos + natural = bewitching (no-claims bonus ofmana and recovery of mana)archi magus = 3 advanced levels of magic (no-claims bonus D 20% with the effect of all the fates)
Added (2018-02-14, 6:09 PM)---------------------------------------------TheCouncils of development for castle nécro In general, before building buildings or of the heroesI send imps to see the resources, objectives… for several reasons: - to prick the free resources of all creatures, - there to see the outputs, the good objects, theobjectives… all that to determine the priorities of the engagements to makeenough quickly and to prepare consequently to be able to arrive and arrange aadvance of optimum displacement, - not to hesitate to sacrifice an imp for keptresources because to lose the latter to recover 4 crystals is much better to dothe exchange same with the counter of trade!!! Once you have aprecise idea of map 2 choice of construction is offered to you: - if it is richin resource: not need to bet on the construction of the town hall. Theconstruction of the creatures levels 4 must be done quickly without recruitingif possible. For that fastest, (in 4 or 5 days) you can have the devils(construction of the cerberi, poisonous kids, devils). For that it is necessarynevertheless to connect the combat which bring in money. - if it is poor: 1st thing to make the construction ofthe town hall to have at least 1,000 gold coins per day; that quickly makes itpossible to have at least levels 3 and especially to be able to buy them then.By connecting the engagements levels 4 are generally accessible at the end ofthe 2nd week. As regards the hero it is necessary always for a tactic in yourthe first 2 heroes then a wizard nécro. For the wizard nécro a ninja is a goodalternative because level movement it is very well. Considering these specialcapacities and by equipping it with an arc it makes evil maluses of spiritsremotely (it is very useful for a good departure!!!). It should not be forgottenthat it will be necessary to make it progress in direction of the ground to themaximum before him to increase its capacities of magic. Thereafter you willhave to take either a wizard of magic of fire, or a wizard academy but not the2. Once chosen it is necessary to try to be held and remain to with it infuture recruitment, that in the same category of characters (if fire choice torecruit that of the heroes fire all that to optimize the moral one). Try todiversify your heroes in various magics while taking account of the adversary(to think upon the departure of the part of the probable development of theadversary to allow to counter all possibilities with the final combat). Thechoice in the heroes of an assassin is not as not bad, the only thing it is asit is necessary to assemble its fates of magic of death on level 5, this to beable to play in 1st (the fate cancellation of mass throw before your madeadversary of the devastations). Here are some advices which are only advicesconsidering the enormous possibilities of this game.
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