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One of the main benefits when the Boland College Education and Training team delivers in training needs of its community and industry is that, subject to the specific training intervention, the intervention is customised and usually offered at a fraction of the price a private provider would train for, all while under the stringent quality measures and by a reputable organisation with a proud heritage.
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The Lets'eng Mine recently discovered two diamonds which weigh bigger than 100 carats and are currently in Antwerp, Belgium waiting for the close tendering for the highest bidder to buy them.
Speaking in an interview, Lets'eng Communications and Community Relations Officer Mr. Lebohang Chefa said previously, the Mine used to make its own preliminary evaluation but has since stopped to allow for the close tendering process.
'We are not at this stage aware of how much they will cost until the tendering process has been completed,' he commented.
Mr. Chefa said the mine transport the discovered stones once a month to Belgium in Antwerp for the sales through close tendering, adding that the two diamonds will not be given names like the previous onee the reason being that only those weighing over 300 carats are named due to their high value.
He reiterated that the discovery of the two diamonds last week came after a long drought of such stones dating almost two years ago in 2015.
The Gem Diamonds Ltd. had announced that it has discovered two diamonds bigger than 100 carats at its Lets'eng mine based in Mokhotlong, bringing the struggling mine a step closer to ending a drought of large stones.
In a press release Gem Diamonds Ltd said it had unearthed a 104.73 carat D colour type IIa diamond and a 151.52 carat type I yellow diamond at its Letseng mine on June 12.
The company said the type IIa diamonds contain very little or no nitrogen atoms and are the most expensive stones.
Up until then, Gem had reported just one large discovery this year, after unearthing a 114 carat diamond in April.
'Letseng is renowned for the size and quality of its stones, with an average sales price of almost $2,000 (M26,000) a carat, the highest in the industry.
Yet the company has suffered recently from a lack of big finds and discovered just five stones bigger than 100 carats last year, fewer than half as many as it found in 2015,' it stated.
Gem gained 2.2 percent to 93.5 percent a share, paring this year's decline to 15 percent.
While the latest finds will offer some reassurance to investors, they are not even close to the biggest found at Letseng.
In 2015, Gem sold a 357-carat stone for $19.3 million and in 2006 found the 603-carat Lesotho Promise.
Gem Diamonds is a leading global diamond producer of high value diamonds. The company owns 70 percent of the Lets'eng mine in Lesotho while the Government owns 30 percent shares and 100 percent of the Ghaghoo mine in Botswana.
The Lets'eng mine is famous for the production of large, top colour, exceptional white diamonds, making it the highest dollar per carat kimberlite diamond mine in the world.
Since Gem Diamonds acquisition of Lets'eng in 2006, the mine has produced four of the 20 largest white gem quality diamonds ever recorded.
Diamonds await sale by tender
The Lets'eng Mine recently discovered two diamonds which weigh bigger than 100 carats and are currently in Antwerp, Belgium waiting for the close tendering for the highest bidder to buy them.

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Angie Tourani is also available for BodyTalk distance treatments. Angie Tourani recommends that you begin with an initial package of three treatments. After the first treatment, sessions will be spaced throughout a period of approximately 3 months, according to your body's needs. After each session you will receive a recording with a summary of your treatment and the approximate time for your follow up.
* Please completely fill out the forms below and make sure to include a clear full body and face picture of the person to be treated.
Distance sessions are USD300 for a package of three treatments. This can be paid by credit card through PayPal or bank transfer to the account or mail a cheque to Angie Tourani (payable to Angie Tourani).
It will take place within 1 week of collecting all of the clients' information including picture and payment.
The first session is done within 1 week of having received all of your information and picture. The other sessions are spaced according to the best time for you to receive the session, based on your body's needs. The average time between sessions is usually 1 to 3 weeks. We will notify you as soon as your session is completed.
Angie Tourani will use a surrogate to conduct your session therefore you don't need to do anything in preparation for your session.
Angie Tourani will record a summary with the highlights of your treatment and the audio file will be sent to you via email. Keep in mind that these treatments are done on a level that is difficult to understand so you may not get a clear picture of the treatment even with a session.
We do not need the specific address, just the city/state where the client is located. The date of birth is important because it contains information which is helpful for the sessions.
[Please fill in the Health History Form along with the request form above.]
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On the Horizon: The Personal Web
The just published Horizon Report 2009 suggests that The Personal Web is on the horizon for adoption within 2 – 3 years.
Fifteen years after the first commercial web pages began to appear, the amount of content available on the web is staggering. Sifting through the sheer volume of material – good or bad, useful or otherwise – is a daunting task. It is even difficult to keep track of the media posted by a single person, or by oneself. On the other hand, adding to the mix is easier than ever before, thanks to easy-to-use publishing tools for every type and size of media … Armed with tools for tagging, aggregating, and keeping track of content, today's learners create and navigate a web that is increasingly tailored to their own needs and interests: this is the personal web.(p.19)
To me, the Personal Web represents a shift from chaotic immersion in the multitudinous array of emerging and discrete online tools for social networking, aggregating information and blogging to a relatively speaking more stable (although perhaps only short-lived), streamlined and personalized practice of meaning-making. Learning, facilitated through the particularized design of Personal Webs, will become more precise and learner-driven.
The Personal Web, Social Media and Mobiles
In a recent blog post on Read/Write Web, Ravit Lichtenberg suggests that social media will change in 10 ways in 2009. Resonating throughout Lichtenberg's description of the changes proposed is an insistence on meaningful connections and relevance:
People will be looking for ways to keep their networks going regardless of device or platform. They will connect around meaningful topics and have live and simultaneous conversations within parameters they themselves define, which will bring relevance back to their interaction with others.
It will become necessary for educators and their institutions to rethink the initial knee-jerk reaction to the ubiquitous devices our students so effortlessly adopt and manipulate to connect to each other and the world beyond the traditional classroom. The Horizon Report 2009 suggests that mobile devices, already integrated across many college campuses, have valuable application within a learning environment (p.8).
As educators, we should allow ourselves to assume a perspective that recognizes the value in our students' ability to rapidly acquire information across the vast web in a way that is tailored to their learning needs. Our focus should become the truly committed cultivation of higher order thinking skills to support students as they evaluate and synthesize aggregated information and apply their learning across a variety of disciplines and environments. Rather than insisting that digital devices be turned off and stored out of sight and out of mind during instructional time, why not embrace their networking abilities? Instead of one laptop per child, why not one 3G mobile for every learner?


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30 hand picked films. A new one every day
Luc Moullet explores the causes and consequences of cases of mental disorders that were especially numerous in the Southern Alps.
2009 | Directors' Fortnight
So epic in its deadpan rakishness that the vast majority of viewers may well interpret it to be dead serious. Their loss. Moullet has always been a master of form. Not many filmmakers effectively use film form itself as a rich source of sophisticated humour. Moullet is the master of this. Basically this is a digressive 'pataphysical investigation (grounded in a personal reckoning) of madness in the French Alps.
The director and his main subject try to make a case that the geography and weather of the southern Alps have helped create an imbalance of madness and murder. Despite the many macabre stories told no true evidence involving science or common sense is presented, which is even acknowledged by the filmmaker before the end. Not worth the effort.
Documentary of the subjective sense, Moullet traces his own family origin through the land of madness in a search for meaning. He may end up blurring any hope of that, but at least by the end we see that might be willful construction on his part. Shaggy, grass-roots (deeply personal) affair, entertaining if a bit one-note.
I loved how you never feel the pretensions of objectivity or revealing "the" truth, that plague most modern documentaries. This guy tells us "his" truth, "his" motives and feelings about the things he chose to reveal, and he's so humble and transparent, you can't help liking him, even in the scenes where he makes that "I kinda feel like killing people on windy days" face.
Luc Moullet shares stories of rampant mental disorders plaguing a region in Southern France. But the way that he presents the stories, in miniature stories narrated by various people set to simple shots around the countryside keep the film, alive and fresh. The delivery in the voices of the narrators add so much to the success, making it a strange but very welcome watch learning about these various tales.
This movie was just so cute, and loaded with nuance about French Culture. I learned so much, but Father I still know so little. But now I understand why gun laws in France are so strict!
I can't help thinking this was something of a lost opportunity. The idea of madness springing cthonically from a blasted region of the natural realm is a good and spooky one, and there is always something to be said for deadpan, of course. I just wish the autobiographic impulse had come through a little stronger. It must be very strange to think you are the descendant of an accursed and doomed lineage.
Series of interviews that tell stories of murder, mayhem and madness that lie in and around several towns in the Southern Alps. Luc Moullet is the quaint old man (onscreen) narrator who walks us through the narratives of these stories. The stories are entertaining and curious enough to engage. Although Moullet might think that the Madness of the area is all connected, my thesis is: people just be crazy.


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Bad posture can certainly restrict veins and increase the pressure causing them to swell. Sitting in a wheelchair for example hardly speeds up recovery does it? I believe wheelchair posture makes sure people stay in wheelchairs, and that sitting in an inclined posture, rather than the bucket seat type posture found in most cars and closely resembling the poor wheelchair posture with knees higher than the seat is compromising not only the circulation in the arteries and veins but also the cerebrospinal fluid circulation, the lymphatic circulation and the peripheral nerve circulation.
Furthermore, sitting for too long on a firm chair will undoubtedly increase blood pressure.
Having the hands at the keyboard for example with them raised slightly higher than the elbows will induce numbness in fingers, tingling, and even some loss of function in healthy people. I have experienced this and experimented with posture.
So according to my own research at least, your seat should be at least level with your knees. A foam wedge cushion can be purchased to take the dip out of the bucket type sitting position and used in cars. I am sitting on one right now typing this.


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A staple of Fourth of July festivities are fireworks. They're fun and eye-catching, but also incredibly dangerous if not handled properly. Jason Pierre-Paul learned that last year when he was left with a mangled hand following a horrific fireworks accident.
He put out a PSA urging people to be safe with them this holiday. Antonio Brown also wants his followers to use extreme caution when handling fireworks, using Pierre-Paul as an example in his joke.
Have a safe 4th of July and show up to work tomorrow with the same amount of fingers as the last time they saw you— Antonio Brown (@AntonioBrown84) July 4, 2016
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Brown's followers respoded accordingly with Crying Jordan memes.
@24thStreetMike @DeionGottaSTFU @AntonioBrown84 pic.twitter.com/jL680UBILt— Daquan (@Respectfullegg) July 4, 2016
Pierre-Paul's accident isn't really something to joke about, but Brown didn't view it that way. Just wait until the Giants and Steelers play in Week 13. Pierre-Paul may have a few choice words for the league's best wideout.


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Getting a Pharmacy Degree Online
Is it true that you can get to earn a Doctor of Pharmacy degree or better known as a PharmD degree with the help of the internet? There is a very strong opportunity that this will turn into reality and this may soon become a reality.
How can you reduce the costs of educating these pharmacy students, while at the same time increasing the number of this pharmacists supply?
It has a very simple answer.
Help them to enroll into pharmacy school through the use of the internet. There are plenty of well-known schools that are now offering these online degrees. Now is the perfect time to indulge on this, because now, you can earn your BA/BS, MS, MBA, and even PhD via the internet!
However, this system may succeed or fail due to these 3 main reasons.
Listed below are the 3 possible reasons. It is now up to you to come up with you own theories regarding the shown reasons.
The first reason is very obvious.
It talks of VALUE.
Is having an online PharmD degree be much appreciated if you were to compare it to degrees which are being offered in the original way where the students are obliged to go to school in the most physical way possible? After all, it still boils down to the fact that a degree is a degree. You will still be called and considered as a fully-fledged liable pharmacist no matter the kind of education that you have gotten and recieved, because it is still all about you passing your exams and licensing processes.
MONEY is considered to be the other reason.
What happens now is that there is an increase in demand for a pharmacist's services, however there is not enough of them. It is with this that these pharmacists' salaries are increasing. If these online pharmacy schools will be the trend, there will be more supply than demand, thus resulting to the possibility that a pharmacist's salary will eventually decrease and be lowered.
However, you need to see the other side of this because this will benefit the patient considering that now there are more pharmacists out there who are ready to serve others. One must know that a pharmacist's best interest is the patient.
CHARACTER is the third reason.
What may happen is that you may miss out the invaluable laboratory sessions and communication skills that you needed to have to become a competitive pharmacist. But you should also think of the truth that you are working your studies faster, cheaper and even better, online.
We are now living in the epoch of the 21st century where everything is present with technology.
Time is the only one that can say if this way of having an online PharmD degree is going to work out.
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Here you can find our press releases. Furthermore recent product data sheets and business development related to Hydrogenious Technologies will be released here. If you are interested in recent LOHC related scientific publications, you can find them in our publications section. The latest news regarding Hydrogenious Technologies can be found in our news section. Information on our safe and efficient hydrogen storage technology, product descriptions, as well as applications regarding LOHC energy storage and hydrogen logitics can be found on their respective pages.
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In this video Hydrogenious Technologies will be introduced and the background to the innovative LOHC technology for reversible storage of hydrogen in LOHC will be explained.
Here you can find the latest pictures from our LOHC machinery for safe and efficient storage of hydrogen in LOHC as well as impressions from our events and trade fair appearances.


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Contra 4 - Working with Normal write + No Trim
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Although it works with those settings, I had mine freeze and go to a black screen during the second stage. Anyone else notice such issues on the G6 lite?
i can't find loader 4.9A
on the official site the last loader is 4.8, is it rigth?
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Ganttic Update | Wider Gantt Charts Equal More Detailed Plans
The lists. We didn't add them just for fun. Like we said, there are many updates to come where we are going to add a ton of new stuff that's going to up your planning game. The first of which is going to be that fact that you can edit your resources in the resource list. What does it mean? Well, if you click on a resource name in the list, a resource dialog will open.
As you can see, we are moving towards a day where you can do all your resource-related actions in that very same list. You can select multiple resources to archive or delete them. Soon, there will be even more options. Just stay tuned!
Next, we are going to teach you a magic trick that you can totally use later to impress your college buddies. Start from saying 'Abracadabra'. Go to the general settings. Select "CHART".
Click "Medium" and "Save".
Make some magical moves with your hands. You know very well what I mean by that. Make your way to a resource or project view.
And there you have it! Wider Gantt charts. Everyone will be amazed. Honestly. I wouldn't lie to you.
We talked about having stuff in the daylight. Add we talked about editing resources in the resource list. And one of the new things that you can add from that very resource dialog in the resource list is a custom data field? Well, you can now make resources' custom data fields visible in the resource list in the Gantt chart area. Actually, you can also make an exciting data field visible there if you click on the pencil icon to edit the data field and then mark checkbox before "Show value in chart".
You can add as many data fields there as you wish. Your only limit is the sky. In all seriousness, the sky has nothing to do with your limits. In a way, it's like garbage Tetris. Your limit is the room you have there. If the default width of the resource list is not enough for you, you can actually drag it quite a bit wider if you hover the arrow on the resource list line.
That's actually not a new feature, we have just been hiding it from you. Think of it as a practical joke? Hehe? No? Okay.
So. New magic tricks. Resource list with extra powers. Wider Gantt charts. Resources' custom data fields in the Gantt chart area. What are your thoughts?


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The four members of Endangered Blood are some of the most influential jazz musicians of their generation. Jim Black should need no introduction to listeners of creative music, having established himself as one of the most inventive drummers of his generation, and is currently leading his own trio as well as post-rock/jazz group Alas No Axis. Bassist Trevor Dunn has been touring the world with various Mike Patton and John Zorn projects as well as entering the Guinness Book of World Records by playing fifty gigs in fifty states in fifty days as a member of the Melvins Lite. Oscar Noriega is fast becoming one of the rising stars of creative music as a member of Tim Berne's acclaimed Snakeoil quartet. Chris Speed Continues to be one of the most highly respected jazz saxophonists and clarinetists working today, currently playing with Craig Taborn, Dave King, Uri Caine and John Hollenbeck's long running Claudia Quintet.
The Brooklyn four-piece was formed so its members could play benefit concerts for their friend, saxophonist Andrew D'Angelo, who'd been diagnosed with a brain tumor. D'Angelo eventually made a full recovery, but the group - Trevor Dunn (bass), Jim Black (drums), Chris Speed (tenor saxophone) and Oscar Noriega (alto saxophone) - realized that this ensemble had potential to become a real working band. In 2011, the four released a self-titled album.
Endangered Blood's music draws form the members' diverse backgrounds and influences, combining post-bop, 20th-century chromaticism, traditional New Orleans funeral marches, avant-garde jazz and post-punk to create a sort of mad-scientist concoction.
"Of all the combos Speed and Black have played in together, Endangered Blood is the one where their contrasting styles flower most fully and fit together most organically" Chicago Reader
"Speed's originals stand out as his most melodically generous, accessible and warm batch of compositions he's yet to produce." Four Stars in Down Beat Magazine
"High-energy, melody-driven themes exploded into all-out jams, hammered home by Jim Blacks aggressive drumming." TimeOut NY
"Endangered Blood - this was some of the tightest, most sophisticated chordless quartet playing I've heard in this festival or otherwise. The writing was hip but not overly complex and emphasized melody in conjunction with harmony instead of vice versa. There were elements of bebop, Mariachi, free jazz and post-bop all seamlessly strung together. Noriega is an alto player I NEED to hear more of, plain and simple."
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About CSAAEINC
My name is Godswill Uchenna Agbagwa. I am the Founder of CSAAEINC. I was born in Umueze Amaimo, a small village in Ikeduru Local Government Area of Imo State, Nigeria, West Africa.
As a child, I had a comfortable life, thanks to my hardworking parents. Things took a bad turn in 1990 when my father, Mr. CharlymanPeters Chikamnele Agbagwa passed away, leaving my mother, Late Mrs. EvelynPeters Chinyere Agbagwa to fend for their seven children. Poverty quickly set in and for many years we barely managed to feed, obtain medical care and pay tuition.
Began dreaming of a better Africa
It was then that I started dreaming of a better Africa where all can find support and encouragement to work hard, live with dignity and feel proud to belong. My dream was deceptively kept alive by a corrupt military junta that kept assuring us of an imminent coming of a better Nigeria where there would be free education, sufficient food, reliable electric power supply and clean drinking water.
Every night, I dreamt of this kind of Nigeria. Morning came followed by night but we remained poor, hungry and helpless. I still had to trek several miles to fetch drinking water, burn nightly candles to study for my exams, and prayed that I did not fall sick because there was no good health care facility.
My dreams became a passion
By the time, I was ordained a priest for the Catholic Archdiocese of Owerri, Nigeria, in December 2003, my dreams of a better Nigeria had faded away. But in 2008, while on study leave in the United States, the dream came back. As I toured Europe and North America during vacations, I wondered why basic amenities such as clean drinking water, uninterrupted electricity supply, paved roads, and good healthcare are considered luxuries in my native land. I wondered why I was treated with contempt at the airports and wept at Toronto international airport in 2008 when an immigration officer inquired how much I gave in bribes for my Nigerian passport. It was then that my dream of a better Africa turned into passion.
For several years, I struggled, day and night, to unravel the root causes of poverty and underdevelopment in Africa. I read books and articles on poverty and underdevelopment in Africa. I attended conferences and seminars and engaged anybody that cared to listen. I then took a trip back home to re-assess the situation of things. Nigeria was still a sorry state.
After prayerful reflections, I became convinced that poverty and underdevelopment in Africa are caused by a combination of failure of leadership, loss of social and moral sense, as well as loss of entrepreneurial spirit. I then came to the conclusion that Africa can indeed become a better place for all if we can start nurturing a new generation of African Leaders and work-force imbued with the morals, entrepreneurial spirit and excellent leadership skills to facilitate development and end poverty, I therefore decided to establish CSAAEINC for the purpose of working towards this dream.
CSAAEINC Emerging African Leaders Program (ELP)
Although CSAAEINC was registered as a non-profit organization in Nigeria in 2010 and as a 501(c) entity in the United States in August 2013, activities at the Centre commenced in December 2013 with the implementation of the Emerging African Leaders Program (ELP).
ELP was established in response to Africa's failure of political and government leadership. It is a three-year structured program in ethics, excellence in leadership and entrepreneurship for nurturing youths interested in politics and public service. The aim is to raise a new generation of African politicians and government officials with the character, competencies and capacities to effect positive socioeconomic change in Africa.
Upon completion of the program, promising Emerging Leaders are promoted to the Centre's life-time Network of Effective African Leaders (NEAL). CSAAEINC works with NEAL members to get into public service, supports them as they work their ways to influential positions and guides them to effect positive socioeconomic change. NEAL members in turn mentor other Emerging Leaders and work with CSAAEINC on various community development projects
Career Building and Entrepreneurship Program (CBEP)
In 2014, we launched the Career Building and Entrepreneurship Program (CBEP)) in response to Africa's loss of entrepreneurial spirit. CBEP focuses on helping youths interested in excelling as professionals or entrepreneurs build the capacities, competencies and character to accomplish professional goals or become successful entrepreneurs and contribute to African socioeconomic development.
Students Ethics and Anticurruption Network (SEACON)
In 2017, we launched Students Ethics and Anticorruption Network (SEACON) as an answer to Africa's loss of moral and social sense. SEACON focuses on the ethical orientation and re-orientation of African youths. The aim is to build a network of ethically conscious youths across Africa to promote transparency, accountability, good governance and integrity while combating the cankerworm of corruption hindering development in Africa.
CSAAEINC focuses on youths because of our burning desire to nurture a new generation of African leaders and workforce that will effect positive socioeconomic change in Africa. We relentlessly invest our funds, time and talents in these young men and women because we believe in their potentials to facilitate development and end poverty in Africa.
The history of CSAAEINC will not be complete without mentioning some people who first believed in my dream even when it was not vivid and played prominent roles towards the realization of the dream.
I first shared my dream with my mother, Late Mrs. EvelynPeters Chinyere Agbagwa. She was very supportive and strongly encouraged me to establish the Centre but did not live to see it as she died in 2012. After her death, I became depressed and decided not to pursue the dream any longer, but she told me in a dream not to give up on my dream. I woke up immediately, picked up the phone and started work on the Centre.
I also shared my dream with my siblings who were all supportive. I also shared my dream with my close friend and first CSAAEINC VP, Fr. Vincent Arisukwu who helped to execute my initial plans in Nigeria. Mr. Austin Nwankwo built our first website and designed our logo. Our initial Nigeria and U.S. Board of Trustees and volunteers (especially Chief Mrs. Olusola Abuachi and Bridget Kenah) as well as successive Board of Trustees, ELP Mentors, CBEP Consultants, Staff, Volunteers and Donors as well as our initial and successive Emerging Leaders played helpful roles.
A better Africa where all (not just Africans) can find support and encouragement to work hard, live with dignity and feel proud to belong is my dream, my vision. Raising a new generation of African leaders and work-force imbued with the morals, entrepreneurial spirit and effective leadership skills to facilitate development and end poverty in Africa is our mission and sure path to the realization of this dream.
- CSAAEINC is registered in Nigeria as a non-profit with the Corporate Affairs Commission.
- CSAAEINC is also registered in the United States as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.
- CSAAEINC is in the process of being registered in other African countries.
- CSAAEINC is registered as campus-based organization in many tertiary institutions in Africa.
- CSAAEINC's programs are implemented from the Centre's office in Owerri, Imo State, Nigeria with planning support from its international office in the United States.


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Purnomo, Noni Sri Ayati
President Director, Blue Bird Group Holding
Ms. Purnomo holds an Industrial Engineering degree and an MBA in Finance and Marketing. She is a business woman, philanthropist, and mother of 3 daughters. In 2015 she was listed in "Power Women in Asia" by Forbes.
Noni is currently the President Director of Blue Bird Group Holding, and manages the group's business portfolio, including passenger land transportation, logistics, heavy equipment trading, property, and IT support services. The Group's core passenger transportation division serves millions of customers every month in 20 cities in Indonesia, owns 39,000 vehicles and employs approximately 50,000 staff.
Noni founded Blue Bird Peduli (the philanthropy division of Blue Bird Group) which recently launched the 'Women Empowerment Project' to empower more than 40,000 wives of Blue Bird Group employees. Blue Bird Peduli focuses on education, women's empowerment, sustainability and culture. Since 2006, Blue Bird Peduli dispersed scholarships to more than 15,000 children of Blue Bird employees, and many of them have finished University degrees.
Noni is passionate about entrepreneurship and recently launched an Express Service company, NEX. She also mentors new talent and startups through Endeavour Indonesia. Noni is a founding member of Angel Investment Women Fund that empowers women entrepreneurs through investment, mentorship and networking opportunities.


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5 New TV Shows That Will Shake Up 2017!
Written by Mike Dolzer
Having already given you the scoop on the music albums that will define this year, now it's time to talk about the TV shows we'll all be glued to!
1. "The Young Pope" (premiered January 15, HBO)
If you can picture "Game of Thrones" meets the Catholic church, you've essentially got HBO's "The Young Pope". As a Catholic who also enjoys epic television, I am very excited for this limited series about a (fictional) slick young American Archbishop (played by Jude Law) who is unexpectedly chosen to be the head of the Catholic Church.
2. "Big Little Lies" (premieres February 19, HBO)
This show has so much star power that I can't even. I am unable to even. Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman, Laura Dern, Shailene Woodley, and my best friend's celebrity crush Alexander Skarsgard -- You can't watch the show without being blinded by the sheer wattage of the stars. "Big Little Lies" is a soapy miniseries set in sunny California where socialites battle it out (classily of course) to determine who's the first in the pecking order, but then a murder of one of their own rocks their lives. It reminds me of the 2011 series "Revenge" and I can't wait to see these A-listers' characters in the upper echelons of societal homicide!
3. "Feud: Bette and Joan" (premieres March 7, FX)
I had given this show top priority in my list of cable TV shows I will be DVRing every week, and my excitement for it has not dimmed in the new year. The new anthology series focuses on legendary real-life rivalries, with Season 1 devoted to movie icons Bette Davis and Joan Crawford. With Ryan Murphy at the wheel and Susan Sarandon and Jessica Lange starring, there's no way this show isn't going to be amazing.
'Feud', coming 2017. pic.twitter.com/0sBikYi9g6— FEUD (2017) (@FeudOfficial) May 5, 2016
4. "Iron Fist" (premieres March 17, Netflix)
Woohoo! More superheroes! In all seriousness, I'm excited to see the next of the Marvel heroes descend on Netflix to stir things up. This series is the final piece of the Marvel puzzle on the streaming service which also boasts such great shows as "Daredevil", "Jessica Jones", and "Luke Cage". Now that the last underrated hero will finally have his debut series, we can anxiously wait for Netflix's crossover series featuring all four of them. Iron Fist himself has been compared to Batman, since he's wealthy and punches people in the face. Based on those qualities alone, count me all the way in for this one.
5. "Girlboss" (premieres in April, Netflix)
I have already written numerous pieces on the Girlboss movement, and now it's almost time for the show about it to finally premiere. "Girlboss" centers on Sophia Amoruso, a rebel with no money and no intention of growing up, who discovers her passion of selling vintage clothes online and faces the risks and rewards of being her own boss as she expands her retail business. The show is sure to be another great cornerstone of the #GirlbossMovement, and a guilty pleasure that I can't wait to take part in. Bonus points for casting Britt Robertson as the lead!
(Image via HBO/YouTube)
- Mike Dolzer, YH Contributing Writer


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My Seven Deadly Sins ranking results are IN!
Can anyone tell me the origins of the Seven Deadly Sins (besides that they were the theme that the serial killer in "SEVEN" used, by the way, a fantastic movie which did a fine job of scaring the cheeses outta me)?
After a week of feeling incompetent professionally, it's nice to know that I only have a 17% chance of going to Hell. I thought it was way more.
On a happy note, I'm getting enough sleep (Sloth), excercise and healthier diet (Gluttony), starting to feel like a woman again (Pride) instead of a grad student tool like I have for too many months. Tee hee!
So today, take a moment to see how YOU rank. Think you're so cool? I bet you're a sinner! A SINNAH! Here, I'll even provide you with a little carefree white space to use to ponder things. Then, marvel at my results as you scroll down to the link to take the quizzle yourself. Have an interesting day!
Your Deadly Sins
Lust: 40%
Envy: 20%
Gluttony: 20%
Pride: 20%
Sloth: 20%
Greed: 0%
Wrath: 0%
Chance You'll Go to Hell: 17%
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Macarons Are Colored French Cookies
You possibly can imagine that a macaron is often a piece of macaroni. This can be not the case. Macaroni is Italian pasta and macaron is often a French cookie. Macarons are assembled sandwich-like with 2 crackers filled with egg whites. The flats are produced from almonds and cream. Macarons come in all sorts of colors and are a perfect gift. You possibly can buy one to enjoy with coffee or pick an assortment of macarons as a gift. They are packed inside a nice gift-box and also the pastel colors with the macarons are certain to brighten up your day. Sift flour mixture over whites, and fold until mixture is smooth and shiny. I observed the amount of folding to be crucial. Fold too little, and your macaron shells will have valleys rather than mountain peaks. Fold too much, and your filling will fall into a mess.
Macarons are an inexpensive luxury item. They typically cost among $2-$3 dollars a piece and even with tightest budget, it is possible to splurge 2 dollars on yourself. www.janarabas.com is often a delicious macaron that you simply can discover in either Atlantic City buffets. Inside bigger cities like New York, there are many macaron bakeries. You will be unlikely to discover one of these shops within your local mall. They are relatively new treat to Americans. But it is possible to order the treats online and have them shipped to you. If it stayed stiff inside the bag it was too stiff, if it dripped out too fast the batter was too runny. I observed that doubling the recipe produced this step really tough for me, I observed I would over fold over the batter mixture and you may also need having a water mixture.
How to Make Plain Butter Cookies
Butter cookies are delicious, soft, yummy, confectionaries that everybody loves. The advantage of butter cookies is, they can be made anytime and also they are very easy to make. They can also be baked in flavors such as vanilla, chocolate and so on.
How to Make Plain Butter Cookies:
1)1 1/2 sticks (3/4 cup) unsalted, softened butter
2)2 cups all-purpose flour
3)1/2 tsp baking powder
4)1 large egg
5)1 cup sugar
6)1/2 tsp vanilla
7)1/2 tsp salt
Combine the flour, salt and baking powder in a small bowl and mix it thoroughly.
In another (slightly larger bowl) use a mixer to mix together the butter and sugar. The resulting mixture should be fluffy and pale. It needs to be whisked for some time (6 minutes)
Next, the vanilla and the egg extract must be added. Slowly, add flour to the equation and keep stirring gently
Now the dough to prepare the cookies is ready. Shape the dough with the dimensions of 12 inches long and 2 inch thick. Cover the mixture in a polythene and keep it refrigerated for 4 hours.
Before putting the frozen dough, heat the microwave oven upto 375 degrees Fahrenheit.
From the whole mesh of dough, a heavy knife needs to be used to cut them into cookie shape. The ideal width for cookies can be 1/4 inch thick. Next, they need to be placed on ungreased baking paper and one may garnish them as per need.
The cookies need to be baked till they are or look golden, for approximately 15 minutes. They need to be cooled for approximately 3 minutes
The left over cookie dough can be used to make more cookies or can be wrapped in a polythene cover and can be chilled till 5 days
The cookies can be garnished by chocolates by melting some chocolate pieces and then added after cooling the cookies, as garnishing.
How to Make German Butter Cookies
1)6 cups flour
2)1/4 tsp. Salt
3)1 1/2 tbsp. Ground cinnamon
4)2 1/4 cup sugar
5)1 lb. Butter, softened
6)1/2 cup fruity white wine, such as riesling
7)3 eggs, 1 slightly beaten
Mix the flour, salt and cinnamon together in a large bowl
Whisk the butter thoroughly with an electric mixer, then 2 cups of sugar should be added and beat, until the mixture is light and fluffy. Both the eggs need to be beaten, one at a time, followed by the dry ingredients and wine.
The dough needs to be divided into 5 equal parts which have to be flattened, wrapped in plastic and put in the refrigerator for a night
The oven needs to be preheated till 350 degrees. Next, the dough needs to be rolled out, on about 1/4″ width floured surface. The dough needs to be cut with cookie cutters and transferred to greased cookie sheets
The remaining dough can be brushed with remaining eggs, sprinkled with a little sugar, and baked in batches, until turn golden. The cookies then need to be transferred to a wire rack and cooled completely. The best time for sampling cookies is one week after baking them.
It is fairly easy to make butter cookies if one has an inclination towards culinaries and has enough time to learn something new.
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Let's Learn How to Bake Chicken
Chicken is the primary meat in the diet of the majority of meat eaters because it is less costly than other sorts of meats and since it may be prepared in so many different ways. Frying is probably the most well-known method of them all for cooking chicken however, there are several others including roasting, jerking, barbequing and baking.
Especially for a person mindful of the fat and cholesterol that fried chicken may hold, these other techniques are extremely good choices but the one we will focus on primarily is baking.
Required Tools
Paper towel
Sharp knife (optional)
Baking dish/roasting pan
Meat thermometer
Required Materials
Whole chicken sliced into smaller parts/chicken breasts
Fresh or dried herbs (oregano, thyme, tarragon or rosemary)
Olive oil
Marinade (optional)
Seasoning of your desire
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit; if you are using a whole chicken, remove the giblets in the inner hollow and then clean the chicken thoroughly with water. If you decide to cut the chicken into smaller pieces, go ahead and do that now with a sharp knife; after that pat the chicken dry with the paper towel and season the chicken properly using the salt, pepper, herbs and any other seasoning you wish.
Put the chicken in the baking dish/roasting pan and cover it using the olive oil and marinade (if you choose to use it). You can furthermore add herbs of your choosing to the top of the chicken for added flavor and garnishing.
Place the baking dish/roasting pan inside the oven with the chicken in it and leave it bare; bake the chicken at 350 degrees for 1-1½ hours or until it is golden brown and thoroughly cooked right through.
To be certain the meat is cooked stick the meat thermometer into the fattest part of the chicken; if the temperature is 170 degrees or more then the chicken can be taken from the oven. Another method to confirm if the chicken is cooked is to use a sharp knife and slice the fattest section of the chicken; if it is cooked the meat will not be pink and the juices running out of the chicken will be transparent.
You can now dish up the chicken alone or with anything you desire; if you used a whole chicken let it to cool for 10 minutes before carving it. For a complete meal serve it with rice or mashed potatoes and peas or corn.
Tips and Warnings
It is critically imperative that the chicken is properly cooked before you ingest it, half cooked chicken can lead to food poisoning and deadly parasites.
Be sure to wash all surface that the raw chicken touches including your hands to prevent contaminating other foods and items with any bacteria that might be on the chicken; soap and water will typically be sufficient nevertheless you may use a solution of bleach or some other cleaning agent with water to make sure of a thorough clean.
To cut the rawness of the chicken cut a lemon in half and rub it all over the chicken before you cook it; you may additionally rub the chicken with vinegar, inside and out if it is a whole chicken. If you don't mind the additional sourness you can leave it as is, if you do mind, just wash the chicken again.
There are a few kinds of baked chicken available such as baked sweet and sour chicken, baked chicken in mango sauce, or curry flavored baked chicken. If you desire to try any of these kinds you may check out a few of the recipes available on the internet.
Find more information here on how to bake chicken.
Homemade Chicken Soup
At some point or another you must have eaten or even tasted chicken soup. In fact, many people trust chicken soup to assists in treating conditions like the flu. If ever a time you need to cook it yourself, here's how to do so:
½ chicken, approximately 2 1/2 pounds
2 ribs celery, chopped
1 pound pumpkin
2 large carrots, chopped
1 medium turnip, diced
1 small piece thyme
1 medium onion, chopped
1 medium sweet pepper, chopped
1 small hot pepper
2 stalks escallion, crushed
1 clove garlic, minced
2 quarts water
1/2 pound sliced carrots
2 medium Irish potatoes, diced
1 cup pigeon peas
1 sachet chicken noodles
1. Cut chicken into chunks and place in a large pot with water and pigeon peas to boil.
2. Whenever the water starts boiling vigorously, add 2 chopped celery and the 2 chopped carrots.
3. Cover and simmer until the chicken and peas are semi-cooked.
4. Next, add pumpkin, Irish potatoes and turnip to the pot.
5. When the chicken is fully cooked add your packet of chicken noodle soup together with thyme, escallion, garlic, sweet pepper and hot pepper.
6. About for approximately 10 minutes and your soup is ready to serve.
There is no need to use salt as the noodles will provide that flavour to the soup.
You may include dumplings if you prefer.
Do not allow the hot pepper to burst in the soup.
Now that you know how to make chicken soup, learn how to grill chicken, and take a look at some homemade guides.
Homemade Macaroni And Cheese
Macaroni and cheese is a very easy meal that is easily cooked. It is a great option when you need to make a hot meal fast. Kids especially love 'mac and cheese' as it is termed for short. There are various methods to cook macaroni and cheese. Here's how to make your very own macaroni and cheese.
2 3/4 cups dry elbow macaroni
4 tablespoons butter
4 tablespoons flour
2 cups milk
2 heaped cups shredded Cheddar cheese
1/2 teaspoon dry mustard
Pepper to taste
Tomato slices
Parmesan cheese
Salt to taste
1. Boil water and add salt to taste.
2. Add the macaroni and allow to cook.
3. In a different saucepan, liquefy the butter over low heat.
4. Add a little salt, pepper, dry mustard, and flour. Combine and let cook for 1 minute.
5. Add the milk and mix continuously until it gets thick.
6. Add the shredded cheese and keep stirring until smooth on very low heat.
7. When the macaronis is cooked, remove and drain.
8. Grease a 2 quart casserole dish and pour in macaroni.
9. Pour cheese sauce evenly over macaroni constantly mixing for even allotment.
10. Spread the top with slices of tomato.
11. Dust with Parmesan cheese, salt, and pepper.
12. Bake at 350ºF for 25 minutes, uncovered.
You may add other things to your recipe like sausage for a different taste.
For more useful tips, take a look at homemade guides.
Know About HDL Cholesterol
What is Cholesterol HDL?
Cholesterol HDL also referred to as HDL cholesterol are Lipoproteins which are combinations of lipids (fats) and proteins. They are the form in which lipids are transported in the blood. The high – density lipoproteins move cholesterol from the tissues of the body to the liver so it can be gotten rid of (in the bile). It is considered that HDL cholesterol is the "good†cholesterol. The higher the HDL cholesterol level the lower the risk of coronary artery disease.
No matter how small an increase of HDL cholesterol may reduce the frequency of heart attacks. For each 1 mg |dl rise in HDL cholesterol there is a 2 to 4% lowering in the possibility of coronary heart disease. Although there are no proper instructions of treatment, there are proposed treatment goals for patients with low HDL cholesterol who are then advised to increase their HDL cholesterol to above 35mg | dl in men and 45mg | dl in women with a family history of coronary heart disease. For persons already diagnosed coronary heart disease it is advised increase HDL cholesterol to approach 45 mg | dl in men and 55mg in women.
How can you increase our HDL levels?
1)Lose Weight – Individuals who is obese develop a lower amount of LDL cholesterol as well as HDL cholesterol. A decrease in weight should increase your HDL levels. This is especially important if you excess weight is stored in your abdominal area.
2)Restrain from Smoking – For smokers, giving up tobacco will result in an increase HDL levels.
3)Drinking Alcohol – Believe it or not drinking one or two drinks per day may significantly increase your HDL levels. On the other hand more than two may cause to substantial health problems including but not limited to heart failure. In some cases even the casual number of drinks may lead in problems.
4)Aerobic Exercise – To many people this may be the hardest method of them all. Aerobic exercises such as walking, jogging and bike riding that rises your heart rate for 20 to 30 minutes at a time may be the best way to increase HDL levels. Recent findings suggests that the duration of the exercise, rather than the intensity, is the more vital factor in raising HDL Cholesterol.
5)Cut out Trans fatty acids – Trans fatty acids are found in many of our favorite cooked foods; that is anything that states "partially hydrogenated vegetable oils†on the nutrition label; so eliminating them from your diet is not a hard task. Trans fatty acids not only expand LDL cholesterol levels but also shorten your HDL cholesterol levels. Therefore eliminating these foods from your diet will cause a remarkable increase in HDL levels.
6)Add soluble fiber to your diet – Disintegrable fibers are found in oats, fruits, vegetables, and legumes, and lead in both a reduction in LDL cholesterol and an increase HDL cholesterol. It is encouraged to take at least two servings a day.
How to Make a Cake
If you are organizing a particular event for yourself or for someone like a wedding, birthday party, an anniversary, a cake is usually the dessert of choice to commemorate the occasion. Cakes have been a part of numerous civilizations for for many years from as far back as the Vikings and the Roman Empire. Sure you can go out and order a cake from a pastry store, which takes away from the experience of making it on your own. A cake can be made with many different types of texture, from bread-like textures to some rich fluffy cakes. Presently most of the appliances used for making cakes can be conveniently accessed in almost every home so even the most amateur cook can make a great cake. This piece will offer you with the step by step instructions on how to go about making a plain cake.
Things you will need:
2 cups of sugar
1 cup of butter
3 cups of flour
4 eggs
1 tablespoon of vanilla
1 cup of milk
1 teaspoon of salt
Instructions are as follows:
1. Use the strainer to sieve the flour into a container and then measure the amount you need for baking the cake.
2. Now add the salt and baking powder and filter the mixture again.
3. Put in the softened butter and mix it using either a spoon or a food processer it out until it turns out creamy. Then when this is done measure out the amount of sugar and gradually begin to add to the mixture.
4. Open all the eggs into a container to ensure that none of them are spoilt. Once all of them are in and ready, begin to add in the eggs one by one and mix them well after each addition.
5. Add the milk with vanilla until the mixture comes together. While you are mixing, the mixture will appear to curdle but after constant mixing, when adding the dry ingredients, it will come together.
6. Now preheat the oven to 350 degrees F and allow it to heat up and apply butter to grease the bottoms of the baking tins.
7. When the mixture finally becomes consistent, then fold in the flour mixture and pour into the baking tins. Make a dip in the center of the mixture so that it does not rise when baking.
8. Place the cakes in the oven for half hour but refrain from pulling the oven within the first 15 minutes.
Tips and Warnings
* You can use a diversity of baking tins to achieve various shape of cakes. Some people like to make round cakes, square cakes, heart shapes and others.
* If you are arranging a wedding, birthday or anniversary you can create your own icing and use it to decorate your cake, with drawings and even display phrases to whoever the cake is dedicated to.
Here are more useful tips on how to make a cake.
Best Baked Potatoes
A well done, perfectly soft potato is the ideal complement to many a meal. Yet baking a potato though apparently simple will not likelyyield the best results if done incorrectly. There are a couple tips that can help you to make the most wonderful baked potatoes unfailingly. If you are keen on using these guidelines then you will undoubtedly make potatoes that are absolutely appetizing.
Choose the best potatoes. This is the most crucial step because potatoes that are poor in quality will bake in the same way. It is best that you obtain potatoes that are of the larger variety, you may also get a close enough result using some that are just a bit smaller. However, any potato that you select should have a thick skin like russet potatoes. Also buying potatoes that are the same size will not only enhance presentation but will make baking easier because they will bake at the same time. If you are using obviously different sized potatoes ensure that you check on them at intervals throughout the process as they will cook at separate times; some will cook swiftly while others will cook slowly.
Do not over-bake your potatoes. This is probably the greatest reason for dry unappetizing baked potatoes.
Making the potato is quick and easy as said before. You will not be planted in the kitchen for the entire process, so you can therefore allow them to bake while you pursue other actives. However, don't leave your potatoes in the oven because as stated before they will over-bake.
To initiate the process preheat your oven. It should be set to 500 degrees Fahrenheit for no longer than 15 minutes prior to baking.
Make certain that your potatoes are all similarly sized as said previously to avoid having to contend with differing baking times for the duration of the process.
Take them out of the bag and run them under the pipe washing away any particles of dirt entirely. If they are particularly dirty rub in between the grooves where any dirt may build up. Do not peel the potatoes they should stay in their skins to maintain moisture during the process.
Take out your aluminium foil and wrap each potato in a single bit of foil.
When you have wrapped all of them, put each directly on the top shelf of your oven.
Set a time for your potatoes. They should bake in 45 minutes to an hour. Set a timer to 45 minutes to inform you when they are finished.
To make sure that they are indeed baked take a knife with a fine pointy tip or a tooth pick and stick the biggest potato. If it feels soft then all the potatoes should be ready to be removed. If the potato is a bit hard to the touch leave them and allow them to bake fully for another 10- 15 minutes. The Potatoes should not take longer than an hour to be completed, be careful not to over-do the potatoes.
Once your potatoes are finished you may take them from the oven and serve them instantly. This allows any toppings like cheese to melt on top of the freshly baked potato. Cut each potato in half and present in or without the foil.
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Delicious Green Bean Casserole
The green bean casserole was created in 1955 by Campbell Soup Company and has become a holiday special; the side dish is particularly well-liked for Thanksgiving festivities. The casseroles usually consist of green beans, canned cream of mushroom soup or homemade cream soup, and French fried onions. Ground black pepper and/or soy sauce are on occasion included in the recipe.
For the topping:
2 medium onions, thinly sliced
1/4 cup all-purpose flour
2 tablespoons panko bread crumbs
1 teaspoon kosher salt
Nonstick cooking spray
For beans and sauce:
2 tablespoons plus 1 teaspoon kosher salt, divided
1 pound fresh green beans, rinsed, trimmed and halved
2 tablespoons unsalted butter
12 ounces mushrooms, trimmed and cut into 1/2-inch pieces
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
2 cloves garlic, minced
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground nutmeg
2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1 cup chicken broth
1 cup half-and-half
1.Preheat the oven to 475 degrees F.
2.Combine the onions, flour, panko and salt in a large mixing bowl and toss. Coat a sheet pan with nonstick cooking spray and consistenly spread the onions on the pan. Place the pan on the middle rack of the oven and bake until golden brown, approximately 30 minutes.
3.Stir the onions 2 to 3 times during cooking. Once done, take from the oven and set aside. Turn the oven down to 400 degrees F.
4.While the onions are cooking, organize the beans. Bring a gallon of water and 2 tablespoons of salt to a simmer in an 8-quart saucepan. Add the beans and lighten for 5 minutes. Empty in a colander and immediately immerse the beans into a large bowl of ice water to discontinue the cooking. Drain and set aside.
5.Melt the butter in a 12-inch cast iron skillet placed over medium-high heat. Put in the mushrooms, 1 teaspoon salt and pepper and cook, stirring intermittently, until the mushrooms begin to relinquish some of their liquid, roughly 4 to 5 minutes.
6.Combine the garlic and nutmeg and maintain cooking for another 1 to 2 minutes. Shake the flour over the mixture and mix to combine. Cook for 1 minute. Add the broth and boil for 1 minute.
7.Decrease the heat to medium-low and add the half-and-half. Cook until the mixture thickens, stirring occasionally, approximately 6 to 8 minutes.
8.Separate from the heat and stir in 1/4 of the onions and all of the green beans. Top with the left over onions. Place into the oven and bake until bubbly, approximately 15 minutes.
9.Remove and serve right away
Delicious Way to Grill Fish
No matter what method is used in preparing fish, it is usually ready within minutes. Cooking fish is typically quick and easy, making it a healthy, flavourful option for those who want a quick but nutritious meal. Grilling fish is a natural and simple way to prepare fish, however, there are still a few tips that can help you to grill fish so it is perfect every time.
Keeping your fish from sticking
The first task you should be wary of when grilling fish, is how to keep it from sticking to the grill. Because fish is so delicate, it gets stuck to the grill, it may ruin your entire dinner.
First regardless what type of grill you use, always ensure to pre heat your frill. A general rule of thumb is, the grill is ready when you are not able to hold your hand over it for over five seconds.
Unless you are using a non stick surface, you will need to brush the grill with a little oil. alternatively you can brush the fish with a little melted butter or oil prior to placing it on the grill.
You have the option of using a fish grilling basket. These will enclose the fish which makes grilling even easier. Don't forget to brush the basket with a little oil so the fish does not stick when you remove it.
Only turn the fish once. When grilling fish or anything at all, you want to turn the items only once. Cook one side; turn it over, cook the other side, then turn off the grill.
Knowing When the Fish is done
A general time frame for preparing fish is about 8-10 minutes for every inch of thickness or roughly 4 to 5 per half inch.
Use a fork to keep into the thickest part of the fish to test for doneness. Poke the fork in a little way and peel back a little, and the fish should be opaque and its juices milky white. Underdone fish will be translucent with the juices being clear and watery. Over done fish will be dry and easily parted.
Use an instant read thermometer to check the doneness of the fish. Just stick it in the thickest part of the fish to check for doneness. Fish is done at 145 ºF.


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VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - June 27, 2013) - LX Ventures Inc. (TSX VENTURE:LXV) ("LXV" or the "Company") and Fodio Technologies Inc. ("Fodio"), a wholly-owned subsidiary of LXV, are pleased to announce that Fodio has begun commercializing its business and has signed 10 customer agreements in its first 3 months of operations with each valued at up to $5,000 per month of recurring revenues.
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This oft-pondered question will inevitably be out of date within the next 12 months, but with all these game releases and developments in the industry we can reflect on what we have already and where things are heading.
For instance, the use of 3D-HD technology in the next few years is almost a given. Phillips plan to ship the first 3DTV sets as early as Spring 2011, and Sony have already announced 3D-HD Blu Ray and a firmware upgrade for all PS3 users that enables 3D content. Furthermore, there are contenders to Phillips' 3D standard from the likes of Toshiba and LG, suggesting that 3D content will be coming to the industry in a big way. As you'll have read from the reports of CES 2010 and even our own articles here on PlusXP this is a new technology the games industry is taking very seriously indeed and in the next few years we should expect to be wearing some stylish-looking glasses during game-play.
On the subject of spectacles, immersive gaming could be the next big thing. Previously dubbed 'virtual reality headsets', these specialized pieces of eye-wear are much lighter and simply comprise a pair of glasses rather than a new hat! The device allows you to see what is around you in real life, but the game engine adds game play elements to this in your real environment. We're already seeing such examples of this work from the University of Bristol, and Google has implemented similar technology for it's 'Google Googles' application, using GPS to enable users to roam around seeing places of interest marked out on what the phone camera sees. Not only does this show that the technology is here, it also proves it has some business viability and could see some major investment in the next few years.
Inevitably if we're talking about game-play objects being imposed on reality the Sony EyeToy deserves an honourable mention. Though this has been around for a number of years it has always ever been a fairly niche product. With increasing competition from other consoles, it's not unreasonable to think that further titles and investment will go into this technology. Eye Pet is an excellent example of this concept, enabling kids to play with a virtual pet rather than parents needing to feed or clean up after it!
This brings us on to the impeding release of Project Natal, Microsoft's new flagship innovation for the XBOX 360. The company promises us that we will see it 'some time in 2010′ and even leaves Steven Spielberg speechless. Rather than manipulating your console with a controller, users for the first time will be able to manipulate and immerse themselves into the game-play environment like never before with just their hands. The device also comes with face and object recognition technology, and with the promise it may be a relatively cheap item to add to your existing setup, this should excite most games console users (or even fans of the Nintendo Wii).
As was shown by the Milo project, the potential for this technology is huge – with much more human interaction with an AI character. There are even rumours that the developers at Redwood Studios will be using Project Natal extensively in the coming release of Fable 3.
Despite this, Project Natal has drawn criticism from some speculative articles that it could potentially just be a niche product. Though with the potential to transform home media centres (i.e. by shuffling through album art to choose your favourite track) and even the desktop experience this should at least excite hardened users, even if more hard-core gamers choose to stick with their beloved hand-held gamepad.
And finally, we already have the Wii Motion Plus which gives users the ability to easily manipulate their environment over two axies in an easy and casual environment. There are plenty of rumours circulating around that the next controller for the Wii could use biometric data such as skin reaction and heart rate to tailor gaming. In this way a hard-core gamer would see much more gore and action to keep their heart rate and excitement levels up while a casual gamer would be ushered gently into the game. This could have big potential, as this once again keeps the Wii accessible to all the family while still appealing to more experienced gamers after top-notch performance.
So, what do we see for the future of gaming? Not necessarily a change in the kind of games we play – but the way we interact with games will be the major hotbed of innovation for the coming decade. Though there will be plenty of die-hard enthusiasts who stick to using their PCs with joysticks and game-pads this is an exciting time for the casual and experienced gamers alike. Whether you want your parents to join you or want to spend the next 10 years locked away in your room throwing Mohawk grenades at people there will be something to cater for everyone. Bring on the '10s!


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With gold and silver skyrocketing and the U.S. dollar plunging, today the man who first spotted the historic LBMA backwardation told King World News that we are now witnessing shocking and earth-shattering events in the gold market. Incredibly, last Monday James Turk was the first person in the world to expose the historic backwardation event at the LBMA and King World News was the first to report on it. Other sites soon followed suit by covering this earthshaking event, but today the man who first spotted it tells KWN readers around what to expect next as these incredible and historic events unfold and the gold market catches fire.
Turk: "Eric, when I told you early on Monday that something shocking had taken place in the gold market, it really was an earthshaking event and we are seeing the results of that now. It was clear that there was going to be an explosion higher in gold and silver because the prices simply could not be sustained at those critically low levels.
So there was going to have to be a catalyst and today was the first of many that are still to come….
"Bernanke has come out after-hours with some statements in a speech and it's created this explosion in the prices of gold and silver, and the U.S. dollar appears to be in freefall.
I believe that gold has been in backwardation for quite some time, but it's been hidden because interest rates have been manipulated. So when I pointed out early Monday that the LBMA reported official gold backwardation, that was truly an earthshaking event.
While many sites then jumped on the bandwagon and interpreted this event in different ways, the reality is that it revealed that there is a shortage of physical gold at these prices. So it is not at all surprising to me that the price has risen as sharply as it has, because those desperate to get their hands on physical gold are now bidding up the price as we speak.
This is a desperate attempt to get entities to part with their physical gold and take paper currency instead. In my view it's going to take much, much higher prices to get these entities to part with their physical gold, if they are willing to part with it at all.
The reality is that all of the physical gold is now in extremely strong hands after the latest shakedown. So tricking people into parting with it might prove to be an incredibly difficult, if not impossible task."
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Using colonial agricultural records in anthropological fieldwork in rural Pemba. Paper presented at Working on/with archives and the written word in anthropology and literary studies: perspectives on the Swahili world. European Swahili Workshop no. 9. École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris. April 18-19
Swahili scams: felids and fakes in Zanzibar. Paper presented at Baraza: Swahili Conference at SOAS, London, Storbritannia, 31 Oct
A Gramscian analysis of ethnicity and stereotypes in a village in Pemba, Zanzibar. Paper presented at Baraza: Swahili Conference at SOAS, London, UK, 31 Oct
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Polar Research: reflections two years after the journal's transition to open access. Paper presented at 7th Munin Conference on Scientific Publishing, Tromsø, Norway, 22–23 Nov
Exhibit: Sled dogs and the race to save Nome, Alaska
Polar Research – nine months along. Paper presented at Knowledge Exchange Workshop, Talinn, Estonia, 21 Sept
Norway, polar research and the Norwegian Polar Institute: past and present. Invited guest lecture, Explorers Club, New England chapter, Boston, USA, 25 Jun
Chasing imaginary leopards: science, witchcraft and the politics of conservation in Zanzibar. Presented at 8th European Swahili Workshop: Contemporary Issues in Swahili Ethnography, Oxford, UK, 19–21 Sept
Different space-use strategies do not lead to genetic subdivision of the Barents Sea polar bear population
Strategic Plan for Norwegian Research in Antarctica
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Addiction is a mental battle that most addicts have to deal with for life. Most alcohol and drug addicts say that they struggle with staying sober for life. No matter if they are 20 or 60, the battle is intense for them. It helps to attend weekly AA meetings or rehabilitation programs from time to time. However, they always seem to dig deep down inside of their hearts to find out why they are doing drugs/alcohol to begin with. Addiction is not an easy thing to overcome.
The reason why people are addicted to begin with is because they are struggling with either moral or spiritual issues. If a person feels disconnected from God, they will often turn to drugs/alcohol to solve their problems. Christians often turn to Jesus when they are having a hard time with their addiction. When you feel like you have a higher power watching over you, a person tends to want to do the right thing. When someone feels like they are disconnected from God, they often do what comes natural to them such as drinking and doing drugs.
Addiction should be treated with education. According to rehabs.com, "addiction is caused by a lack of motivation." When a person feels that they don't have to stay sober, they simply won't.
Families suffer alongside the addict. Watching someone throw their life away is not an easy thing to witness. Many families are devastated to find out that their family member is addicted. It is hard to overcome this battle and many people say that they cannot understand how addiction works completely.