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Heathrow Staff Pictured Training To Handle Huge Increase In Baggage
Airport staff have been put through their paces to ensure they are fully prepared for an enormous increase in the amount of baggage coming through the terminals - that they fully expect to happen.
Spectators, tourists and the athletes will swamp the airport with luggage and the number of bags is set to soar by around 20 per cent on the day before the Olympics.
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Chicken And Spinach Bake
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 40 min
Total time: 55 min
(serves 4-6)
Ingredients
- 6-8 chicken pieces
- 2 tbsp : olive oil 30g butter
- 100g : leeks, roughly chopped
- 150g : mushrooms, halved
- 250g : cherry tomatoes
- 1 tbsp : soft brown sugar
- 2 tbsp : balsamic reduction*
- 100g : baby spinach leaves
- 200g : canned chickpeas, drained (about 1/2 a can)
- salt and freshly ground black pepper
Preparation
1. Preheat oven to 180°C. Season chicken with salt and pepper. Heat oil and butter in a pan and brown chicken. Transfer to an oven-proof dish.2. In the same pan, fry leeks and mushrooms for a few minutes then spoon over chicken. Scatter tomatoes on top.
3. Sprinkle over sugar and balsamic reduction then bake for 30 minutes. Add spinach and chickpeas. Bake for another 5-10 minutes. Remove from oven, allow to cool a little, then serve.
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Balozi Peter Kallaghe Awasilisha Barua Yake Ya Utambulisho Ireland
Mheshimiwa Balozi Peter A. Kallaghe amewasilisha rasmi barua yake ya utambulisho (Letter of Credence) kwa Mheshimiwa Rais wa Ireland Michael Higgins katika sherehe fupi iliyofanyika katika Ikulu ya nchini hiyo jijini Dublin.
Pamoja na barua hiyo Balozi Kallaghe aliwasilisha rasmi salamu za Mheshimiwa Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, Rais wa Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania zikimtakia Rais Higgins afya njema na furaha.
Nae Rais Higgins alipokea salamu hizo kwa kusifu uhusiano wa kihistoria kati ya nchi hizi mbili. Alimkumbuka Baba wa Taifa, Marehemu Mwalimu Julius Nyerere kama mtu shupavu aliyeijengea Tanzania misingi thabiti ya kisiasa na kiuongozi. Aidha alikumbuka uzuri wa Tanzania na wananchi wake, alioushuhudia alipotembelea Kilosa, mkoani Morogoro miaka ya 1980.
Katika shughuli hiyo Balozi Kallaghe alisindikizwa na Mkewe Joyce na Afrisa wa Ubalozi Amos Msanjila. Pamoja na kuiwakilisha Tanzania, Uingereza, (United Kingdom) Ubalozi wa Tanzania London unaiwakilisha nchi pia huko Ireland. Tanzania ni moja ya nchi saba tu zinazopata misaada ya kimaendeleo toka Ireland, hasa kupitia taasisi yao ya Irish Aid. Nchi zingine ni Ethiopia, Lesotho, Malawi, Msumbiji, Uganda na Zambia.
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Olympic Torch Wins Its Very Own Medal
The judging panel, chaired by Dutch designer Hella Jongerious, included Evgeny Lebedev, owner of the Evening Standard, Henrietta Thompson, editor-at-large of Wallpaper* magazine, and Sir George Iacobescu, chairman of Docklands property investment company Canary Wharf Group. They considered 89 nominations for the prize.
For Barber and Osgerby, who founded their eponymous design studio in 1996 after graduating in architecture from the Royal College of Art, the award tops an astonishing year of achievements.Since beating off 700 rivals to win the competition to design the torch, they have been catapulted from relative East End obscurity to global fame as their gold-burnished aluminium creation quickly came to symbolise this year’s Games.Perforated with 8,000 circular holes, it represents the 8,000 inspirational people who will carry it on a 60-day, 8,000-mile relay round the UK before it arrives in London for the sporting festival’s opening ceremony on July 27.Hella Jongerious said: “The London 2012 Olympic Torch is elegantly designed and is a triumph of symbolism and beauty, the lightness and simplicity of the torch not only capture the spirit of London as Olympic host city but also demonstrate how design can celebrate traditional qualities in a modern manner.”Evgeny Lebedev added: “Judging these awards illustrated to me that London is a world leader in design. In the year of the Diamond Jubilee and the Olympics, this is something that all Londoners should take pride in. We had no shortage of outstanding entries, but Barber Osgerby is a very worthy winner and I look forward to seeing plenty more of its work.”The winners
Architecture: the London Velodrome, designed by Hopkins Architects.
Digital design: the Microsoft Kinect motion-detecting device for the Xbox video games console, designed by Microsoft Games Studios.Fashion: the origami-inspired 132.5 collection by Issey Miyake (right). Furniture: the 1.3 Chair by Kihyun Kim, made with lightweight and sustainable balsa wood and designed to weigh just 1.3 kilogramsGraphics: Dalton Maag’s font for Nokia Pure. Transport: a re-design of the London Ambulance by Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design at the Royal College of Art.A version of the Barber Osgerby torch, along with the other shortlisted designs, will be on show at the Design Museum, Shad Thames, SE1 until July 4 (www.designmuseum.org).Plants To Chat Back By Text
If you're the type who talks to your plants, listen carefully. They could be about to talk back.
In news that will delight Prince Charles, who has been ridiculed for admitting he chats to his vegetable patch, a new device claims to give plants the ability to let you know how they are feeling — by text.
It means your roses could raise the alarm when they're thirsty and your hydrangeas could hassle you when they get too hot.
The sensor, which costs £99, can be placed in the soil of any pot plant and monitors basic conditions such as moisture, temperature and light intensity.
Using a wifi internet connection, the information is then analysed against plant care models in a central database — and the owner receives an alert telling them just what that particular plant needs.
Ronald Reagan's Blood Auction Cancelled After Complaints
Anonymous seller instead decides to donate vial containing dried blood residue to Reagan's charitable foundation.
A British auction house has cancelled the planned online sale of a vial containing dried blood residue said to be from Ronald Reagan after complaints from the former US president's family and foundation.
The PFC Auction house said in a statement that the seller had withdrawn the item, which was linked to the 1981 assassination attempt on Reagan, and planned instead to donate it to the former president's foundation. The statement said that the seller, who has remained anonymous, obtained the vial at a US auction earlier this year.
The decision not to sell the controversial item was praised by the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation in California, which had earlier announced plans to stop the sale through legal means.
The item being donated was a 12.5cm glass vial with a green rubber stopper. The auction house said it clearly contained traces of dried blood. It was said to have been taken from a laboratory that tested Reagan's blood for lead in the days after he was seriously wounded by a would-be assassin.
"While we contend that the removal of the vial from the hospital laboratory and the US auction sale in February 2012 were not legal acts in our opinion, we are grateful to the current custodian of the vial for this generous donation," the foundation's executive director, John Heubusch, said.
Reagan's family, his foundation and his surgeon had criticised the proposed sale. They said it was a violation of the family's privacy for medical items linked to his treatment to be sold on the open market.
Online bidding on the item had reached more than $30,000 when the sale was suspended.In its statement, the auction house, which is based in the Channel Islands, revealed new details about the aborted sale.
It said the seller had purchased the item at a public auction in the United States earlier this year for $3,550. It quoted the seller as saying he was a serious collector of presidential memorabilia who had donated to museums in the past.
"I would personally be delighted to see this important artefact put on public display by the Foundation," the seller said.
Reagan required emergency surgery after he was shot by John Hinckley Jr outside the Washington Hilton hotel shortly after speaking to labor union officials on 30 March 1981. Hinckley fired six shots at the president from close range. All six missed, but one bullet ricocheted and hit Reagan.
The president was wounded just two months after taking office. He suffered a punctured lung and severe internal bleeding that required life-saving surgery.
His press secretary, James Brady, was left paralysed after being shot. Two people protecting Reagan were also wounded.
Hinckley was found not guilty by reason of insanity. He remains in a psychiatric facility in the Washington area but has been allowed to spend some time outside the facility with his family.
UK Schoolchildren To Form Guard Of Honour At Athletes' Parade
Children from 250 Get Set Network schools across the UK will form a Guard of Honour for athletes at the London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony.
At the start of the Athletes' Parade, 2,000 schoolchildren will line the route of the procession from the Olympic Village to the Olympic Stadium, holding lanterns and banners to support the athletes. The Guard of Honour schools have been selected through the reward and recognition programme of Get Set, the official London 2012 education programme. They have demonstrated a commitment to living the Olympic and Paralympic Values and incorporating them into their school lives and curriculum. The Athletes’ Parade will see the participating teams enter the Stadium, nation by nation. Teams enter in alphabetical order, according to the language of the Host Country and IOC protocol order apart from the Greek team which enters first for the Olympic Games, and the team of the Host Nation who enter last. Taylor, 13, from Earl Mortimer College said: ‘I am so excited about coming to the Olympic Park to be part of the Guard of Honour and show my support for the Aruban athletes. 'We have been learning about the athletes, their country and the games they play. I can’t wait to show my support for them.’ As well as having the opportunity to cheer on the world’s best athletes and be part of a global moment, the schoolchildren will also get the exciting chance to tour the Olympic Park and see some of the London 2012 venues.