We are having some friends over for dinner next Friday evening, but I have one problem one of them eats no oil or dairy, can't even have the slighest amount of it. Can anyone recommend a recipe that I could use, as I am inclined to cook with alot of olive oil and some dairy. I have tried to rack my brain but cannot think of anything - maybe I am just a bit doff today

Anyone heard of Mandrake move. Someone gave me a copy and said its a good way of trying linux as it runs off the disc and wont mess with windows settings?

Sharks sign 13 new players for 2005 season


The Sharks are happy to announce that they have made a total of 13 new signings for the 2005 rugby season, placing emphasis on squad depth, an area severely tested this season due to an extraordinarily high, and unexpected, injury toll.



The new signings tie-in with the investment in the future of three-year contracts to Butch James, Brent Russell and John Smit – three key players in a new and exciting squad.



Coach Kevin Putt has made it clear that there is a specific plan in place to re-build the squad based on strategic requirements for each and every position.



With this in mind, the cogs will click into place one by one as we reach our objectives over the next three years, sign the key players that have been identified, and see them run out in the black and white.



The platform for the development of the youth has been set into place, with five of the countryÂ’s top-playing youngsters having been signed as part of the development program - Alistair Hargreaves (Lock), Bradley Barritt (Centre), Johan Synman (Lock), Scott Spedding (Flyhalf), JC Strauss (Prop) and several other identified youngsters who should be ready for the international scene within the next two seasons.



The present focus is on depth and ability to actively compete in every position in the squad and push every playerÂ’s boundaries.



The efficiencies of each and every position have been dissected, analysed and re-assembled. The foundation of the squad is solid, backed in every position by a group of talented, hungry and superbly fit players. This includes preparing the way for key players who are subject to highly confidential negotiations to slot in to bolster the tight five combinations and other key positions over the next 24-36 months.



Together with the signings comes a revamp in the player conditioning department, plus a highly strategic player procurement policy going forward.



The Sharks also have devised a plan to attract and recruit the best players in the country to Sharks territory over the next two seasons.



The Sharks squad in 2005 will feature the following new faces:



Backs: Jacques Schutte, Tsepo Kokoali, Dean Hall, Gcobani Bobo, Odwa Ndungane and Ruan Pienaar.

Forwards: Jaco Gouws, Braam Immelman, Jacques Botes, Callie Wannenburg, Danie Saayman, Skipper Badenhorst and Bismarck du Plessis



For more information in terms of coach quotes, player quotes and statistics on each new player, please visit the Sharks Media Website page dedicated to this story:

http://www.sharksmedia.co.za/media/2005s12signings.html

I'm running out of ideas, so I'll try here, u never know!
Had my PC a year. It has 6 USB 2.0 ports.
I have had a webcam, printer and Smart reader plugged in and working, no problem.
All of the above are USB 1.0
However, the smartreader is so much faster than on my old PC that I assume it is making use of USB 2.0 speeds.
Here is the problem.
I bought a 128MB Flash Drive. The PC bleeps when I stick it in , then bleeps again and it is gone. The drive does not exist and I cannot access it.
I have been on a USB support site, removed all my USB drivers, removed all the USB devices (in the correct order!) within Device Manager (in safe mode).
After rebooting it finds and installs the USB ports, but still makes no mention of USB 2.0 and the Flash Drive still does not work (it works on other PC's) (I have similar problems with a USB 2.0 MP3 player). My IRQ listing contains the following
IRQ 21 Standard Enhanced PCI to USB Host Controller OK
IRQ 22 Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller OK
with no mention of USB 2.0
I am stumped
:-)

...for you has touched your heart - that is a story you will never forget ? It might have even had an effect on your life!

Bitter Fruit Achmat Dangor

The last time Silas Ali encountered the Lieutenant, Silas was locked in the back of a police van and the Lieutenant was conducting a vicious assault on Lydia, his wife. When Silas sees him again, by chance, twenty years later, crimes from the past erupt into the present, splintering the Ali's fragile family life. Bitter Fruit is the story of Silas and Lydia, their parents, friends and colleagues, as their lives take off in unexpected directions and relationships fracture under the weight of history. It is also the story of their son Mickey, a student and sexual adventurer, with an enquiring mind and a strong will. An unforgettably fine novel about a brittle family in a dysfunctional society.

The Electric Michelangelo Sarah Hall

Beginning as a humble apprentice in Morecambe Bay, Cy flees to America, where he sets up his own tatoo business on the infamous Coney Island boardwalk. In this carnival environment of roller-coasters and freak shows, Cy becomes enamoured with Grace, a mysterious circus performer.

The Line of Beauty Alan Hollinghurst Â…. THE WINNER !!!

It is the summer of 1983, and young Nick Guest has moved into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: Gerald, an ambitious new Tory MP, his wealthy wife Rachel, and their two children, Toby - whom Nick had idolized at Oxford - and Catherine, always standing at a critical angle to the family and its assumptions and ambitions. As the Thatcher boom-years unfold, Nick, an innocent in the worlds of politics and money, finds his life altered by the rising fortunes of the glamorous family he is entangled with. Two vividly contrasting love-affairs, with a young black clerk and a Lebanese millionaire, dramatize the dangers and rewards of his own private pursuit of beauty, a pursuit as compelling to him as that of power and riches to his friends.
Starting at the moment The Swimming-Pool Library ended, The Line of Beauty traces the further history of a decade of change and tragedy. Richly textured, emotionally charged, disarmingly comic, it is a major work by one of the finest writers in the English language.

Cloud Atlas David Mitchell
A reluctant voyager crossing the Pacific in 1850; a disinherited composer blagging a precarious livelihood in between-the-wars Belgium; a high-minded journalist in Governor Reagan's California; a vanity publisher fleeing his gangland creditors; a genetically modified ‘dinery server' on death-row; and Zachry, a young Pacific Islander witnessing the nightfall of science and civilisation – the narrators of Cloud Atlas hear each other's echoes down the corridor of history, and their destinies are changed in ways great and small.
In his captivating third novel, David Mitchell erases the boundaries of language, genre and time to offer a meditation on humanity's dangerous will to power, and where it may lead us.
The Master Colm Toibin
It is January 1895 and Henry James's play Guy Domville, from which he hoped to make a fortune, has failed on the London stage. The Master opens with this disaster and takes James through the next five years, as having found his dream retreat, he moves to Rye in Sussex. It is there he writes his short masterpiece, The Turn of the Screw, in which he used much of his own life as an exile in England and a member of one of the great eccentric American families. He is impelled by the need to work and haunted by sections of his own past, including his own failure to fight in the American Civil War, the golden summer of 1865, and the death of his sister Alice. He is watchful and witty, relishing the England in which he has come to live and regretting the New England he has left.

I'll Go to Bed at Noon Gerard Woodward

Colette Jones has had drink problems in the past, but now it seems as though her whole family is in danger of turning to alcohol. Her oldest son has thrown away a promising musical career for a job behind the counter in a builders' merchants, and his drinking sprees with his brother-in-law Bill, a pseudo-Marxist supermarket butcher who seems to see alcohol as central to the proletarian revolution, have started to land him in trouble with the police. Meanwhile Colette's recently widowered older brother is following an equally self-destructive path, having knocked back an entire cellar of homemade wine, he's now on the gin, a bottle a day and counting. Who will be next? Her youngest son had decided to run away to sea, but when her own husband hits the bottle Colette realises she has to act. As the pressure builds on Colette to cope with these damaged people, her own weaknesses begin to emerge, and become crucial to the outcome of all their lives. By way of an odyssey through the pubs, parks and drying-out clinics of suburban North London, Gerard Woodward's richly woven second novel I'll Go To Bed At Noon charts in microscopic detail the continuing history of a troubled but unforgettable family (first encountered in August) as it lurches from farce to tragedy and back again, and from one end of the 1970's to the other, and at the same time presents an unflinching portrait of British society in the unstable years leading up to the Thatcher revolution.

Born-again Boks chasing history
All the big guns are coming over to Britain this winter, but what really excites me is the fact that South Africa are going for a Grand Slam.

direct from BBC

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_un...980513.stm


this will be moved to SportsTalk later

been confirmed and they sending them......:cheer: :cheer: :cheer:

Watched "The Ring" last night on tv.
What a strange & scary movie.
I normally don't like horror movies but my daughter asked me to sit & watch it with her. It had a PG13 rating but I was scared out of my wits.
Think I prefer to watch comedy.

What "scary" movies do you remember?

Want to watch Fahrenheit 9/11.
Anyone seen it yet?
I guess it will be very political but am sure quite interesting too.