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It was three years ago that I reviewed Light at Heart in this post. This was about the time that Stevia as an ingredient started becoming prominent in the UK as a natural alternative to sugar.
For those that wanted to cut their sugar intake but still wanted the taste of sugar, Tate & Lyle produced two types of sugar – in brown – demerara style and white. They were available in handy cardboard cartons.
I used to buy the brown for my husband who likes demerara sugar in his coffee, and the white for other things e.g. (for visitors). But I haven't been able to find the brown version for an age, and the white version has become so rare I've almost forgotten what it looks like.
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Maybe this is a good thing because I've been replacing all sugar in the house with Truvia. The kids haven't noticed a thing, which is great. But it's so expensive. Luckily we don't use much sugar in our household – really they just like to sprinkle a spoon onto their cereal in the morning.
Back to the title of my post. A few weeks ago, as I was trawling around the sugar aisle in Waitrose, ever on the lookout for 'Light at Heart', I spotted this new sugar from Tate & Lyle. To me, it looks like the old Light at Heart brown sugar, but now it's in a 500g clear plastic bag and called Brown Sugar with Stevia. It's twice as sweet so you use half as much. It's also now Fairtrade.
Calories per 3.2g teaspoon = 12.64. BUT you only need half a teaspoon to get the same sweetness. So, let's say that's about 6 calories per half teaspoon for a teaspoon worth of sweetness!
It's a shame that this sugar is now packaged in a plastic bag as the previous cardboard carton with snap close lid was really easy to store.
Since I wrote this post, the white sugar with stevia has also appeared back in store. And like the brown version, it's no longer in the cardboard carton, but is now in a plastic bag.
The white and brown stevia sugars are available at Ocado and Waitrose in 500g bags and cost £1.50 - £1.70 respectively, in Waitrose; more expensive at Ocado.
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I second that comment about John B. Without the stuff he has done we would be nowhere. I was lucky enough to go to the first conference and it was incredible, not just because of the material presented, but because of the chance to meet some of the folks I only knew from phone calls or postings on the forums. A once in a lifetime opportunity.
If you are building this simple setup, remember you have to have some load on the motor. If it is't working a little it doesn't seem to do what it needs to.
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Turion or anybody else who has experimented
with this, have you considered matching the 3rd battery to the motor? Does that 3rd "bad" battery act as a capacitor? If it does would the motor capacitance be a factor?
This set up fascinates me for several reasons. It doesn't cost an arm and leg to replicate, it seems simple enough and has just a few variables. The other thing that stands out is from the testimony this system does real work. Something we can use to make something move is real work.
Has anybody tried smaller batteries like 6 volt lantern batteries or "D"/"C" batteries non rechargable?
Thanks again for the information.
I have only been able to get it to work with lead acid batteries. You're welcome to try something else, and it would be good to eliminate other types of batteries as possibilities, because that would give us even MORE information.
If you read what we've been saying, you MUST match the load on battery three to the load on the motor. You do this by putting a load on the motor and then adding small loads to battery three and waiting. The second you add a load to battery three, the motor will speed up. If you wait a few minutes it will speed up AGAIN if the load is matched. If not, keep adding or subtracting loads until you get a match.
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Last edited by Turion; 02-22-2012 at 09:22 PM.
Thanks Turion for that reply
What I was asking is if the size of the motor and the 3rd battery size has any influence on the operation of the unit.
I was wondering if the 3rd battery was function in some manner like a capacitor.
Just curious what the secret to battery 3 is.
I may try this with a smaller setup as I don't have room for a larger one.
Waiting for the motor to speed up a second time is something I haven't tried yet... Usually, once it has sped up, the voltage has dropped either below or to around the 10-Volt range so I've been adjusting the load on the motor to bring the voltage on battery 3 back up into range needed to support the inverter...
So this will be the next thing I do with this system and I'll switch to lighter loads to see if I can get my system to replicate this behavior. Thanks for mentioning that again.
I honestly can't answer your question, since I haven't experimented with different battery sizes or motor sizes. I know what size I had that worked originally, and have been trying to replicate that setup as closely as possible to try and get the magic to happen again. I DO know that the first day we had a VERY small motor we were using, and switched to the larger motor the second day, assuming bigger is better. Give it a shot with the mailer version. What have you got to lose IF you already have the stuff on hand. That's the best part about this setup, it's actually rather inexpensive to build if you have the parts lying around like most folks who have been actually experimenting with free energy research seem to have.
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Hi folks, I have a dead car battery, though it didn't work well because the plates, etc. are bulging the sides of the battery out.
I also have a 6 volt 4.5AH SLA that I knew was very dead and sulphated, so i used that as a third battery and used 24 volts, 2-12 volt 7Ah SLA for input.
Using a small 12 volt motor splitting the positives, it gradually started rotating while 6 volt battery is around 16 volts and if i put finger load on shaft it drops to around 10 volts.
Another thing, the motor periodically stops for awhile while 3rd battery voltage rises and then for no apparent reason, it will start rotating again.
And when i put a car tail light bulb on 3rd battery as load, the motor rotates much faster, though i do see the input batteries 1 and 2 dropping in voltage, though they do recover fairly well, not sure what to make of it so far.
peace love light
Glad you're giving this a shot. Hope you see what we're seeing, in that there is a period here where we're getting some extra energy, until the plates in the bad battery start to absorb the power. Then you begin to lose the potential difference and it falls off. In a totally sulfated battery you can get quite a nice run. The question is, how do we achieve the EXACT same thing without a "bad battery" What do we put in its place to mimic its behavior?
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myself, but do not have a six volt battery on hand that I could try.
Looks like a company in Africa has this all figured out. I would pay VERY close attention to what they market and snap one up, because I KNOW this tech really works. It appears they have solved the issue of using a bad battery in the third position, using two batteries in parallel, which are then switched to a series connection while the two primary batteries are now put into a parallel configuration. A Tesla switch like Matt Jones has been working on with the addition of the motor in the circuit to generate power.
South African Fuel-Free Generator Preparing for Market
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I saw this on the Tesla Switch thread. It does look very similar. Maybe they
came up with a circuit to mimic the third battery. Would be nice if it made to
market without being suppressed.
If they can figure it out, we can figure it out. I've got three different versions of Matt's Tesla switch up and running, and all the parts to build his BIG one. My transformer is even wound. So I'll be playing around to see what I can come up with.
People need to put together the simple little three battery setup with the motor and play with it so we are all on common ground as we talk about this thing, and then we'll see where we can take it by incorporating the necessary switching. Add that fourth battery in parallel to battery three, and we have what they have, except for the switching. We just need some folks to get to work!
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They use 24V batteries on both sides. No tesla switch configiration.
The system was comprised of a series-wound, brushed, DC motor (slightly modified) powered by one bank of two 12-Volt batteries (102 Ah) wired in series for a 24-Volt output. The company says the back-EMF is harvested into a second, identical battery bank, which is also wired in series. These two banks are periodically cycled, trading places in the circuit, and the net charge stays essentially the same, across both banks. The optimized cycling of power and storing of the back-EMF are all controlled by a proprietary circuit board and software developed by the inventor. The motor shaft is connected directly to the shaft of the AC generator, which spins at 3,000 rpm to produce 5 kW of power at 50 Hz, 220-V.
Thanks nvisser
Thanks nvisser for the extra information. That is what I was beginning to think about what is going on here (well maybe not in the same way) the motor is an important component to what is happening here. Not just battery 3.
I just finished an over an hour run with the same battery 3. It still works, turns out I had a loose connection on battery 2. I burnt out a taillight bulb when I put to much load on the motor. This time I ran a 75 watt inverter with a light bulb. Also tried exact same motor as load and it worked. I could have run things longer but quit because I was too tired.
Just had another thought, The circuit and the software on the South African
device could be similar to Matthew Jones process, or if not maybe the software could be tweaked to work. Even though I do not Know that much about Matt's system, I know you have to program it.
The motor is absolutely essential to this setup. It pulses the power through from the 24 volts to the 12 volt. A load like a light bulb in place of the motor will also allow battery three to charge, but look what happens to batteries one and two when you use a load that does not pulse. Plus, in my opinion, the motor is acting as a generator, when its coil collapses, sending energy forward into the system.
George, take note of how long it takes batteries one and two to recover from that long a run. It could be quite a while, if they ever do. By the way, now that you have seen it run for an hour with a load (what kind of light bulb was it on your 75 watt inverter?) do you see that you've gotten more energy out of the system than your batteries have put in? Did they completely recover? We need folks like you to weigh in on whether this thing really works or not so that we can get some people building it and figure out how to replace battery three with something easier to replicate.
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Last edited by Turion; 02-24-2012 at 02:02 AM.
Dave, after 12 hours of rest, battery 1 is back to full charge, battery 2 has a slight loss. I only used a 2.5 watt led bulb from Wal Mart. I had also tried to use a Wal Mart 20 watt inverter, but it did not want to stay working as the 75 watt did. I also tried a 40 watt incandescent bulb, it would stay on continuously only if a very heavy load was applied to the motor. Battery 1 is a new one, battery 2 is an old one, I do have two other new garden batteries that could be used for battery 2.
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Can ask a couple of questions
Can you post a schematic?
Are you testing the primary batteries for loss of charge, if so how?
How do you think it is working?
Just trying to get my head round it
Here is what I THINK. The difference in potential between the 24 volt stack and the 12 volt stack causes current to move through the motor. The motor acts as a generator and adds power to the system which pulses the 12 volt battery. These sharp pulses induce SOMETHING in this battery. The power we are able to pull off battery three (until the sulfated plates begin to absorb power and then it diminishes to nothing) is considerable, with little or no effect on batteries one and two that they cannot recover from. The more sulfated the battery in the third position, the less batteries one and two are affected. Get a really sulfated battery, like my original, and you actually get a back feed into those two batteries.
How did we test that batteries one and two had recovered? First, with a meter. But it could be just a surface charge, so you have to isolate the battery and connect it to a load to make sure that you have an accurate reading.
You have to run loads for short periods of time because you will overcome the sulfation if your run is too long, and that's when you lose charge out of the two primary batteries. But I have run loads over and over for weeks on end, allowing my batteries to recover, and my amp hours of use total more than several batteries could provide. This is why we are running loads off an inverter through a kilowatt meter, so we KNOW how much power we are getting, and since we KNOW what three FULL batteries would hold, we have a reasonable idea of how successful we are.
The goal here is to replace battery three with something that doesn't require sulfation to work. Possibly a cap to provide the potential difference and a resistor to mimic the sulfation. What might be best is to pulse the system with a connection to a third battery, so that the potential difference is SEEN, and the current moves through the motor, but the connection is terminated before there can be movement of ions in the third battery that allow it to charge. In that case you could use ANY battery in the third position. We're hoping to get enough folks working on this that we can figure it out.
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Last edited by Turion; 03-14-2012 at 06:43 AM.
The underlined part stumps me.
Maybe somebody can explain why not use another motor on the "other side" and eliminate switching the batteries. Seems to me that will increase the output too.
Admittedly I am over my head and there is probably a logical reason why you can't use two motors with two battery banks and just stick with the one motor.
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Last edited by Turion; 02-24-2012 at 07:39 PM.
Look at it this way. When you put two batteries in series through a load (like a light bulb) to a third battery that is discharged, the current moves like water to equalize between the higher and the lower. The light lights, and you get minimal loses of current (in the form of heat). It's like an old mill set up on a river. As the water flows past it turns the mill wheel and grinds the corn. The "work" the water does as it moves is free, just like the current moving from higher to lower through the motor is free.
Now in a motor, the voltage goes in and we know it would flow out the same way, (virtually) unused (except for heat losses), to be used somewhere else downstream. PLUS there is also the energy that is produced by the sudden collapse of the coil in the motor. This second (generated) current is sent into the windings of the motor to dissipate and die so that it doesn't fight against the incoming current.
Now Dr. Lindemann has talked about using a second set of brushes in a modified motor to collect that current and funnel it out of the motor Wouldn't a battery waiting to be charged provide an easier route for the flow of current than into windings that dead end and back up the flow? Once it is full, you charge a second battery that had been providing current for a while. Now you have two full batteries and your two initial batteries are now empty and ready to swap places. In all probability this is what they are doing. You also get the power of the work done by the motor pretty much for "free". In this case it is hooked to a generator which also produces power.
Of course, this is only a guess, but it is based on what I have seen and what I know about how motors work after messing with them for the last four years. There are others out there who know a heck of a lot more than I do about this. And even THIS explanation doesn't take into account what happens to that discharged battery when you hit it with those pulses from a DC motor, because whatever THAT is, it's also an addition. So maybe their off the shelf DC motor is "slightly modified" simply by adding a second set of brushes
This MAY be much simpler than what we imagine. We are seeing power from our setup, which is just as simple and possibly nearly the same. So get to work people! LOL
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Last edited by Turion; 02-24-2012 at 07:41 PM.
I can not comment on that device, but I was thinking of trying two motors
connected where only one is now with the three battery setup, to see what
will happen.
@ Dave, I think I remember seeing a comment at OU that this system is what
Magnicoaster had there. You can google Magnicoaster and see that he is
trying to sell his devices. But from what I can tell he never perfected it
either. He can give a short demonstration, and it looks like it works. But
it does not look like it will work continuously. Any thoughts ?
I don't know anything about Magnicoaster, so I don't know.
Do you mean two motors connected in parallel into the system where there was one? Interesting idea. Doubles the load, and then you have to balance that with a load on battery three. Maybe running two motors will be ENOUGH load without putting a load on the motors. Worth a shot. Let us know what happens.
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In this setup, I can see how it will desulphate in the period that the motor wont run by the fact it is working as a tank circuit. This makes sense.
During the running period it makes sense that the current is flowing through the motor causing the motor to have torque with the only loss being the ohmic loss in the motor as the current that has passed through is collected in the second battery. This is in its self proof that running a motor does not consume power other than that consumed in ohmic resistance. I have said this before on many threads and as yet no one has challenged it.
Adding loads to the third battery just reduces the impedance seen by the primaries and motor allowing the motor to run faster. These loads will consume power based on their ohmic resistance. All this makes sense and it is an efficient way to run a motor. The spikes generated by the running motor will also desulphate the third battery but as I see it we are still consuming the same power out of the two supply batteries and they should be getting depleted.
Yes, lead acid batteries have the ability to recover somewhat from short heavy load drains but only as much power can be drawn as is seen when the battery is drained at C20. While they might appear fully charged they should in fact not be. If the batteries are in fact keeping their charge, I am baffled
Does anyone agree, disagree or have another explanation?
I like what you are doing as it proves that a motor does not consume power to make it run. If there is no loss or even a reduced loss from the primaries this needs to be documented as something else must be going on.
Of course the power produced by the motor can be used to power a generator that can feed power back into the circuit and when you do this you will most probably find that there is more energy in the combined output of the generator and that going into the charged battery than what is being drained from the source. It should be possible to charge three batteries in parallel this way while depleting two.
If the motor used was of my design it may be possible to charge many more as we will be having an additional pulse effect charging the batteries plus overall higher efficiency.
I fully believe you have an overunity circuit when a generator is fitted but the source batteries must go down.
To see the overunity you need a high efficiency motor and a high efficiency generator, that is both need to be in excess of 70% efficiency. As the efficiency of the motor and generators go up the overunity will go up.
To make it self running, I would feed the output of the generator to the output battery and use an inverter to feed this back to the source. Once the system is running all the batteries could be replaced with capacitors.
Note the similarity with one of my Lockridge circuits but this would require a special motor. Circuit Simulator Applet
We have a couple different ideas for motors to use with this. The first is the modified DC motor of Dr. Lindemann's design. That is a rewound motor with two sets of brushes. One set provides the current to run the motor and the second collects the collapse of the coil and sends it back out.
The second would be a motor with something to collect the CEMF rather than send it into the windings to die.
But if you have a motor you want to try have at it. If there is a modification you want us to try, let me know what it is, and we'll try to make that happen.
Now, as to the current setup. What if, because of the fact that the motor is run between two positives, and because of the pulsing that I KNOW is affecting somehow the magnetic field of battery three, something is happening to either the supplied current, or the current that comes from the collapse of the coil? Just an idea.
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Has this been tried on a "Brushless Motor" yet?
Neight tried brushless PC fans.
Anyone tried this "cap discharge test" from the site below? I think it might be related to what you all are doing...
Capacitive Discharge Motor and other free energy files - J Snell
I tried test in the attached image.
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A resolution that it is the goal of the United States that, not later than January 1, 2025, the agricultural, forestry, and working land of the US should provide from renewable resources not less than 25% of the total energy consumed and continue to produce safe, abundant, and affordable food, feed, and fiber. [Governors also signed letters of endorsement at www.25x25.org]
Rep. SALAZAR: "Our resolution establishes a national goal of producing 25% of America's energy from renewable sources--like solar, wind and biofuels--by 2025. The "25x'25" vision is widely endorsed, bold, and fully attainable. If implemented, it would dramatically improve our energy security, our economy, and our ability to protect the environment.
"I am pleased that more than 20 of my colleagues in the Senate, from both sides of the aisle, are cosponsoring this resolution. In addition, the "25x'25" vision has been endorsed by 22 current and former governors and several State legislatures across the country. The Big Three automobile manufacturers--Ford, Chrysler, and General Motors--are all behind "25x'25" So are many agricultural organizations, environmental groups, scientists, and businesses, ranging from the Natural Resources Defense Council to John Deere.
"These Americans understand that we cannot continue to import 60% of our oil from foreign countries, many of which are hostile to the US, if we aim to be strong and secure in the world. They know that we will have to build a clean energy economy if we are to reduce our dependence on foreign oil. It is time for Congress to take a more active role in our clean energy future. Establishing a national goal--"25x'25" is the first step."
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Sabine has worked as an entertainer for as long as she can remember, starting off in musical theatre as a youngster, appearing in pantomime and productions all over the UK. Coming from a family of show people, entertainment was already in her blood.
She has performed on the cabaret, circuit including Holiday centres, Hotels,Theatres, clubs and many private /corporate functions as a solo artiste with her funny lady show and as part of a duo, also more recently a live music six piece tribute show band. Sabine has worked in Spain, Portugal, Holland, Belgium and Germany, working for Thomson Gold ,Haven Warner, RCI, Crown resorts, Diamond resorts and The Sol Melia hotel group to name a few. Sabine has been influenced by many great artistes and loves all different types of music including Big Band, Motown and anything with close harmonies. Sabine has also had some experience of television work, appearing in the TV series of Moll Flanders, and a singing part in Brookside
She has won many awards during her career including Artiste of the Year for three consecutive years. Also winning an award in 2016 for best Female Comedy Vocalist. She has supported many big names in the business including Jimmy Cricket, the late Ted Rogers, The Rubettes, Showaddywaddy, The real thing, Jimmy James and the vagabonds and many more.
She is passionate about her work, and has a special knack for grabbing her audiences within the first few seconds of being on stage, people warm to her down to earth friendly attitude and natural talent, coupled with a great vocal ability all makes for a great night. Sabine also prides herself on being funny without having to swear which enables her to perform her show in many different types of venue for different audiences. Sabine along with her cabaret comedy spot, also has the ability to get her audiences dancing and singing along with songs from her extensive repertoire which includes songs from different decades.
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1 lb. Shrimp-peeled, de-veined, ½" diced, save shells for stock
1 tbsp. Vegetable Oil
2 tbsp. Tomato Paste
2 cups Water-to make shrimp stock
3 tbsp. Butter
1 cup Onions-very finely chopped
2 cups Potatoes-peeled, diced ½"
1 ½ cups Corn kernels
1 ½ cups Half and Half or substitute milk
Salt, Pepper, Sugar, and Tabasco to Taste
• Prepare shrimp stock by heating the vegetable oil in a pot. Add the shrimp shells and tomato paste. Cook stirring for 2 minutes or until aromatic. Add the water, cover, bring to a boil, and simmer for about 10 minutes. Strain and reserve .
• In heavy bottomed soup pot, add the butter and onions. Cook over medium heat for about 3 minutes until onions are softened and sweet smelling. Add the potatoes and just enough reserved shrimp stock to barely cover the potatoes. Bring to a boil, turn to a simmer and cook covered until the potatoes are just barely cooked.
• When potatoes are cooked, stir in the half and half, corn kernels, shrimp, and simmer for 2 minutes just to cook shrimp through. Season to taste with salt, pepper, sugar, and Tabasco to taste. If soup is too thin for you, simmer for a few minutes more to thicken. If soup is too thick for you, add more half and half, or water. Serve in warm bowls and garnish with a cooked shrimp and corn kernels.


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NEW YORK: As per leaked specs, Sony's new flagship smartphone Xperia Z2 will feature a much superior 20.7 megapixel rear camera and a 2.1 megapixel front camera.
The water-proof and dust-proof Xperia Z2 is likely to be released at the upcoming Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
Leaked screenshots from the Xperia Z2's camera app show that the new smartphone is a major improvement over its predecessor Z1 in photographic features.
Though it has the same 20.7 megapixel rear camera, software improvement in the new smartphone has dramatically raised the quality of pictures.
In the video mode, the Xperia Z2 will shoot full 1080p HD videos at 60fps – as against the recording mode of 30fps of the Z1.
A new mode in the Xperia Z2 will allow users to shoot 15.5 megapixel stills.
As per rumors, the Z2 will have a 5.25-inch 2K 2560 x 1440p display. Powered by Android 4.4 Kitkat, the Z2 will run on a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 805 processor and offer 3GB RAM.
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Release date: September 23, 2016
Studio: Sony Pictures, MGM
Director: Antoine Fuqua
MPAA Rating: N/A
Screenwriters: Nic Pizzolatto, Richard Wenk
Starring: Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, Vincent D'Onofrio, Byung Hun Lee, Manuel Garcia Rulfo, Martin Sensmeier, Haley Bennett, Matt Bomer, Billy Slaughter, Vinnie Jones, Peter Sarsgaard
Genre: Action, Western, Adventure
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The Magnificent Seven was originally made in 1960 and starred Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen and Charles Bronson. The original was a remake of the Akira Kurosawa's film The Seven Samurai from 1954. The film also launched 3 sequels, but only one featured the return of Yul Brynner. Return of the Seven, Guns of the magnificent Seven and The Magnificent Seven Ride.


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China's government has advised citizens against the Russian Ponzi scheme founded by Sergey Mavrodi and using bitcoin digital currency, Beijing's online media Caixin reports.
Mavrodi recently claimed that he could influence the whole bitcoin economy because one of his MMM financial schemes, the international structure MMM Global (Bitcoin Republic), operates solely in bitcoin. The MMM website is popular in China and has allegedly driven large amounts of cryptocurrency. In November Mavrodi expressed confidence that it was the popularity of MMM that caused the uprise of bitcoin price.
This statement of the MMM founder drew the attention of officials, including the Russian Federal Service of Financial Monitoring. The head of the service Oleg Markov addressed China's government predicting collapse of the MMM scheme in the country.
According to some investors, the MMM accounts went frozen on 25 December 2015 without warning and are still inaccessible for users as of 19 January. There are rumours that the scheme has collapsed.
The central government of China stated in an official announcement that Mavrodi's scheme is operating illegally in the country. The warning was published by the central bank, banking regulator, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and State Administration for Industry and Commerce. The organisation is unlicensed in China and presents risks for investors, according to the officials. None of the MMM websites is registered with the government or have their servers located in the country. For this reason the police refused to investigate the case.
In 1989-1995 Mavrodi operated the MMM scheme in Russia, which reportedly reached 10-15 mln participants. He was sentenced to 4.5 years in prison for financial fraud by Russian authorities in 2007. Mavrodi started a new scheme in China about a year ago. The official notice warns the public that Mavrodi is an ex-convict.
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In spite of the corruption scandals plaguing his administration since 2004 and stubbornly high crime rates in Brazil's larger cities, President Luiz Inacio "Lula" da Silva remained quite popular in 2007. His popularity was bolstered by his effective redistribution policies and the country's overall macroeconomic stability. However, in spite of his congressional majority, da Silva did not advance necessary structural reforms in the tax, social security, and legal systems due to tensions between the fourteen progovernment parties as well as political maneuvering ahead of the midterm elections in late 2008.
After gaining independence from Portugal in 1822, Brazil retained a monarchical system until a republic was established in 1889. Democratic governance was interrupted by long periods of authoritarian rule, especially under the military regime that was in control from 1964 to 1985, after which elected civilian rule was reestablished. Democracy in Brazil then gradually took root, with peaceful transitions between democratically elected administrations. However, civilian rule has been marred by frequent corruption scandals. One scandal eventually led Congress in 1992 to impeach President Fernando Collor de Mello, who had been elected in 1989.
In early 1994, Fernando Henrique Cardoso—a market-oriented, centrist finance minister in the interim government that followed Collor de Mello's resignation—forged a three-party, center-right coalition around his Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB). Cardoso won the presidency in October of that year, and in 1995 he initiated the highly successful real plan—a currency-stabilization program that included fiscal reform, privatization of state enterprises, and a new currency pegged to the U.S. dollar. He also ushered in a new era of dialogue with international human rights and good-governance groups. His popular tenure in office allowed him to secure a constitutional amendment permitting presidential reelection. In 1998, Cardoso handily won a second term in a rematch against his 1994 opponent, former labor leader and political prisoner Luiz Inacio "Lula" da Silva, of the left-leaning Workers' Party (PT).
Da Silva ran for president for the fourth time in 2002, attacking the effects of globalization on the poor and Brazil's high levels of foreign debt and unemployment. Da Silva received more votes than any presidential candidate in Brazilian history, beating Jose Serra, a center-left former PSDB health minister, 61 percent to 39 percent. Amid high expectations as Brazil's first leftist leader, da Silva began his presidential term in January 2003 by promising orthodox economic policies and meaningful social programs. He was able to maintain a stable economy while also preserving cordial relations with the United States, and quickly established himself as one of the world's foremost voices for developing nations. In March 2005, in a move that signaled Brazil's economic recovery, the government announced that it did not need to renew a standby credit agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Da Silva maintained his campaign commitment to social welfare, initiating "Bolsa Familia," a cash-transfer program that benefited approximately one-fourth of Brazil's population, as well as "ProUni," a fund providing scholarships for private colleges to low-income students. Da Silva also continued Brazil's internationally recognized public health campaign; over the previous decade, it had stabilized the country's HIV/AIDS epidemic, which affected an estimated 600,000 Brazilians.
Beginning in 2004, evidence of pervasive government corruption was uncovered, and successive corruption scandals continued to consume the legislative agenda and taint both the da Silva administration and Brazil's global image in 2007. The highlights of the last several years include the vote-buying mensalão (monthly stipend) and the "bloodsucker" scandals, the latter of which involved government officials selling overpriced ambulances to municipalities.
Da Silva was reelected with a comfortable margin in the October 2006 presidential runoff, principally as a result of his popularity among working-class Brazilians. In spite of the fact that the legislature was widely seen as the most corrupt in Brazil's history, the PT did not suffer electoral losses in Congress, and Lula continues to enjoy record popularity levels. Yet aside from an economic growth acceleration program (PAC) announced in January 2007, Lula has not advanced other structural reforms. Ongoing corruption scandals and tensions among the progovernment parties in the run-up to next year's midterm elections eroded
Tellingly, 91 members of Congress whose terms ended in December 2006 were accused of corruption, but only 4 of them were expelled. The most recent corruption scandals involved public works payoffs and construction firms. A May 2007 undercover operation, codenamed "Operation Razor," resulted in the arrest of 46 individuals for accepting kickbacks for public works contracts. Those arrested included several members of Congress as well as a former governor. Days later, one of da Silva's cabinet members was forced to resign after a federal surveillance video captured him receiving a bribe from a major building contractor. Yet another scandal involved kickbacks to the president of the Senate, Renan Calheiros of the centrist Party of the Brazilian Democratic Movement (PMDB), one of da Silva's most important allies. On December 4, 2007, Calheiros resigned his post as president, but retained his congressional seat.
In August 2007, the government released a 500-page report that outlined the fate of political opponents who were "disappeared" by the Brazilian military between 1961 and 1988. The report was the result of an 11-year investigation led by Brazil's national Commission on Political Deaths and Disappearances. Because Brazil, thanks to a 1979 amnesty law, has never tried those responsible for these atrocities, the report was viewed as a step toward political reconciliation.
Brazil is an electoral democracy. The October 2006 national elections were free and fair. The current constitution, which took effect in 1985 and was heavily amended in 1988, provides for a president, to be elected for four years, and a bicameral National Congress. The Senate's 81 members serve eight-year terms, with a portion coming up for election every four years, and the 513-member Chamber of Deputies is elected for four years. A constitutional amendment adopted in 1997 permits presidential reelection, which supporters said would enhance presidential accountability. The next midterm elections will be held in October 2008.
In the wake of the 2006 elections, the four largest Brazilian political parties, comprising 70 percent of the seats in the Chamber of Deputies and over half of the Senate seats, are the centrist PMDB, the leftist PT, the conservative Democratic Party (the former Liberal Front Party, or PFL, which changed its name in March 2007 in an attempt to update its image), and the center-left PSDB. Fourteen other parties are also represented in Congress.
Despite a constitutional right of access to public information, Brazil does not have specific laws to regulate and guarantee transparency. Corruption is a serious and seemingly growing problem in Brazil, which was ranked 72 out of 180 countries surveyed in Transparency International's 2007 Corruption Perceptions Index. The task of combating Brazil's pervasive corruption is complicated by weak party loyalty and legal loopholes that allow those who resign from any public office to later seek reelection. However, in March 2007, the Tribunal Superior Eleitoral (TSE) ruled that federal deputies who switched parties after election would have to give up their seats in Congress. If put into effect, the rule would ameliorate the decades-old problem of rampant party switching. The matter will likely be decided by the Supreme Court in 2008.
The constitution guarantees freedom of expression. The press is privately owned, but foreigners can acquire only a 30 percent stake in a media company and are restricted in their ability to influence editorial decisions or management selection. There are dozens of daily newspapers and numerous other publications throughout the country. The print media have played a central role in exposing official corruption. At the same time, reporters—especially those who focus on organized crime, corruption, or impunity issues—are frequently the targets of threats and occasionally even killings. The government does not impose restrictions on the use of the internet.
The constitution guarantees freedom of religion, and the government generally respects this right in practice. The government does not restrict academic freedom.
The rights of freedom of association and assembly are generally respected, as is the right to strike. Industrial labor unions are well organized. Although they are politically connected, unions in Brazil tend to be freer from political party control than those in most other Latin American countries. Labor-related issues are adjudicated in a system of special labor courts. Intimidation of rural labor union leaders continues to be a problem.
The country's largely independent but weak judiciary is overburdened, plagued by chronic corruption, and virtually powerless in the face of organized crime. Because the judiciary uses its independence above all to resist change, there has been less progress in judicial reform in Brazil than in any other large country of the region. In addition, judges regularly employ legal formalisms to overturn government modernization efforts, including those aimed at privatizing state-owned industries and reforming the ineffective public welfare system.
Brazil has one of the highest homicide rates in the world and the world's highest death rate by firearms. The nation's homicide rate was 23.8 per 100,000 residents, compared with 5.6 per 100,000 residents in the United States in 2006. Police say that most violent crime in the country is directly or indirectly related to the illegal drug trade. The highly organized and armed drug gangs frequently fight against the military police, as well as private militias comprising off-duty police officers, prison guards, and firefighters. These militias have instituted their own form of extortion, charging citizens a mandatory tax for ousting drug traffickers from their areas and intimidating human rights activists. It is reported that the militias now control 90 of Brazil's 600 favelas, or shantytowns, adding to the violence and lawlessness that plague Brazil's poor communities. In May 2006, Sao Paulo's principal criminal gang launched several coordinated attacks against prison guards, banks, and public buses. The crime wave and resulting clash with police resulted in the deaths of an estimated 150 people and brought the city to a standstill. In December 2006, similar attacks struck Rio de Janeiro.
Brazil's police are among the world's most violent and corrupt, and the violence has only increased in recent years. According to official estimates, police in the state of Sao Paulo killed 328 people in the first half of 2006, an 84 percent increase from the same period in 2005.. An investigation by an independent committee found overwhelming evidence that many of the killings reported from the May 2006 attacks in Sao Paulo were in fact summary executions by the police. In the rare instances when police officers are indicted for such abuses, convictions are not obtained; typically the charges are dismissed for "lack of evidence." Torture is used systematically to extract confessions from suspects, and extrajudicial killings are portrayed as shootouts with dangerous criminals. However, the National Committee for the Prevention and Control of Torture, which was created in June 2006, aims to address Brazil's torture problem. The committee is tasked with designing mechanisms to minimize torture and inspecting detention centers.
The prison system in Brazil is anarchic, overcrowded, and largely unfit for human habitation. Over 400,000 people are incarcerated in Brazil, despite the official prison capacity of 234,000. Human rights groups charge that torture and other inhumane treatment common to most of the country's detention centers turn petty thieves into hardened criminals.
Racial discrimination, long officially denied as a problem in Brazil, began to receive both recognition and remediation from President Luiz Inacio "Lula" da Silva during his first term. Blacks in Brazil earn less than 50 percent of the average earnings of other citizens, and they suffer from the highest homicide, poverty, and illiteracy rates. In a precedent-setting series of actions, da Silva upon taking office named four Afro-Brazilians to his cabinet, appointed the country's first Afro-Brazilian Supreme Court justice, and pressed for the adoption of a Racial Equality Statute to redeem his pledge that Afro-Brazilians would make up at least one-third of federal employees within five years. Two controversial affirmative-action bills, which would introduce quotas for public universities and jobs, are currently being considered in Congress.
The owners of large estates control nearly 60 percent of the country's arable land, while the poorest 30 percent of the population shares less than 2 percent. In rural areas, land invasions are organized by the grassroots Landless Workers' Movement (MST), which claims that the seized land is unused or illegally held. However, many of the occupied properties are legally owned by others. The courts have increasingly supported the eviction of the squatters, and some owners have resisted invasions with force. The MST is not formally affiliated with the PT, but it has enjoyed some PT support.
Although Brazil abolished slavery in 1888, the government in 2004 acknowledged that at least 25,000 Brazilians were working under "conditions analogous to slavery," with other estimates putting the figure as high as 50,000. Landowners who enslave workers face two to eight years in prison, in addition to fines. However, the fines are minimal, and few if any of the modern-day slaveholders ever spend time in jail.
Beginning in 2003, the Brazilian government promised to demarcate wide swaths of ancestral lands as the first step in creating indigenous reserves. To date, 27 indigenous territories have yet to be formally demarcated, down from 134 in 2005. In response to strong political pressure, da Silva established a national Commission on Indigenous Policy in April 2007. Still, violence and discrimination against Brazil's estimated indigenous population of 460,000 continues, and half of the indigenous population lives in poverty.
A June 2001 decree granted same-sex partners the same rights as married couples with respect to pensions, social security benefits, and taxation. While laws prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation, violence against homosexuals remains a problem.
In January 2003, a legal code took effect that made women equal to men under the law for the first time in the country's history. Moreover, the August 2006 "Maria da Penha" Law aimed to reduce violence against women by creating shelters and specially designed police centers for victims. Nevertheless, violence against women and children is a common problem, and protective laws are rarely enforced. Forced prostitution of children is widespread. Child labor is also prevalent—a 2007 International Labor Organization report revealed that there are three million child workers in Brazil—and laws against it are not applied effectively.
Brazil is a source for victims of both domestic and international human trafficking. According to the U.S. State Department's 2007 Trafficking in Persons Report, Brazil does not comply with the minimum standards for eliminating human trafficking, and prosecutions for forced labor remain deficient. However, significant progress was made in 2007. Convictions of trafficking offenders increased during the year, and in a November 2006 ruling, the Supreme Court increased the federal government's ability to punish those who utilize or traffic in slave labor.


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Why Cyber Defense Fails at Enterprise Scale and What You Can Do About It
- Anti-malware solutions often fail to prevent cyber attacks on end-user applications at an enterprise level.
- Most endpoint detection platforms are reactive and time-sensitive, so enterprises do more damage control than preventing risk.
- Isolation and micro-virtualization of endpoints proactively minimizes the attack surface to dramatically reduce breaches and false alerts.
You've heard the saying, "the best defense is a good offense." It's time to start thinking that way when it comes to enterprise endpoint security. Instead of fighting off bad guys when they come knocking, you need to proactively eliminate the vulnerabilities inherent to internet-facing end user applications.
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Existing cybersecurity isn't secure.
The ubiquity of malicious attacks on employee desktops, laptops, and mobile devices is a harsh reminder that cyber hacking continues to grow more sophisticated. It's getting harder for enterprises to keep up, and risk will escalate as more business functions move to the cloud.
The anti-malware industry has tried everything from artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to neural networks—yet nothing has solved the problems at enterprise scale. Why?
Common cyber security measures have weaknesses that put your company at risk. In a recent Bromium white paper, The SANS Security Model: Securing the Modern Endpoint, we focused on key concerns:
- Whitelisting – While it restricts access to allowed programs, whitelisting doesn't protect the programs themselves or browser activity. Hackers can exploit vulnerabilities in anything connected online.
- Endpoint detection platforms – With a time-sensitive, reactive solution, you usually only know about attacks after the fact. That means damage control and trying to prevent other assets getting infected (or worse, held for ransom). These detection tools are also at risk of being disabled by the intruders they're trying to stop. And endpoint detection flags a high rate of false positives (that are costly to pursue), so it can lead to a "cry wolf" syndrome where your company ignores something that could become catastrophic.
- Robust layered defenses – Though powerful, security layers at the cloud, network, and endpoint levels are only effective in this case when the "full stack" is accessible to the device or application being protected. Too often, however, security solutions provide little or no defense for roaming laptops or remote workers outside the corporate firewall.
To prevent risk, isolate the problem.
Even if your best cybersecurity measures give you 99% threat detection, that 1% could dramatically impact your operations, your customers, and your brand reputation. It's time to shift your security and risk management strategies to isolate potential risks before they become problems.
That's what Bromium is all about. Our innovative solution breaks down an enterprise full of vulnerable endpoints into highly defensible, bite-sized chunks using micro-virtual machines (VMs). It instantly places each untrusted user task (e.g., email attachments, web browsing, malicious phishing links) into a single-use, hardware-isolated container with zero host access.
It's like having an endless supply of fresh, pristine PCs in your unique configuration for each new untrusted action—each one with a miniscule attack surface—making isolated malicious activity easy to spot and stop.
Reduce your attack surface.
Micro-virtualization is key to ensuring the highest level of endpoint security. By minimizing the attack surface, you minimize risk—preventing malicious processes from snowballing by isolating where they originate. It's an always-on solution, ready to catch malicious behavior the moment it happens.
Every browser session or document access runs inside a micro-VM, so any suspicious or potentially malicious activity is executed completely isolated from the host and the network. And you'll receive alerts only for active threats, so you eliminate the wasted effort and expense of chasing down false positives.
Aligning with the apex of the SANS Institute's Maturity Model for Endpoint Security, Bromium helps enterprises achieve best practice outcomes with a solution that's proactive, comprehensive, continuous, and measurable.
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*** This is a Security Bloggers Network syndicated blog from Bromium authored by Jessica Morales. Read the original post at: http://blogs.bromium.com/sans-maturity-model-reduce-attack-surface-virtualization/


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New "Hockey Talk" podcast: former Avs TV announcer John Kelly
In this edition of "Hockey Talk", Adrian visits with former Avalanche TV man John Kelly. A talk about the Avs' glory days happens, along with John's recommendations to kids about what it takes to make it as a sports announcer. Click on player below, or go to iTunes to download it and subscribe to all future podcasts.


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I don't think I've mentioned this recently, but I've been reading Committed, by Elizabeth Gilbert, who wrote Eat Pray Love. (I never read that, or saw the movie. It came out in the midst of college and I already had hundreds of other books that needed to be read for credit.) I picked it up not only because A Practical Wedding used it in their book club, but also because the topic of marriage has been floating around our one-bedroom apartment for quite some time now, and really, I don't know what to make of it most of the time. I'm not finished with this book but I do have a few comments. As always, input from you, the reader, is encouraged.
First, I am getting mixed signals within myself toward this book. The narrator, Ms. Gilbert herself, has been married and divorced and is now staring down the barrel of a matrimonial gun again. She and her intended both swore they'd never be in this situation after their divorces, but things happen. (I'm not going to give away the plot. Go read it, it's awesome.) So, while she loves her boyfriend, she also points out how women generally suffer after getting married—pay cuts, younger age of death, less happy, etc. So, while this is very confusing to the narrator (or maybe not so, but still), this is also crazy confusing to me. I love my boyfriend and we want to have a family one day—so should we remain unmarried? Does that one piece of paper really make a difference when it comes to long life versus short life? I mean, if we live together, have babies together, eat together, vacation together, everything that married people do together without actually being married, would there be a huge difference in statistics? Those are the numbers I'd like to see.
Also, it's making me remember why I was so against marriage in the first place, and why I've come around to it. I wasn't raised in a divorced family and the "marriage-negative" relatives, excluding my grandmother, weren't really introduced to me until I had graduated high school, so why I fought against marriage and children for so long is unknown. But I do know that, until we moved in together and lived together for about a month, generally unscathed, I had told Nick repeatedly that he would never make me a wife or a mother. I told this to everyone—my parents, my brother, my friends, my coworkers, pretty much anyone who would listen. So I can identify with the women she talks about who have no interest in a more domesticated life, and I wonder if I'm missing out on something because I want to settle down and become a wife and mom in the next three-to-five years. Will that make me a different person? Will I be a bad person because of it? I know these are all personal problems, but they're arising because of this book and they need to come out.
Finally, she describes the perfect situation, the situation that nearly guarantees the couple won't get divorced, which is pretty much unattainable: devout, lives close to family, educated, older, no kids, on and on. There's a huge list. But I started thinking about my own family during this. Even my immediate family defies these statistics. When my mom was 20 and my dad was 25, my parents moved from Ohio to Florida by themselves to start a new life. They got married within a few months in a small ceremony on the beach (a handful of guests, which I think is where I get my need to elope, because we aren't big ceremony people) and it's been happily ever after since. Now, I'm not sensationalizing my parents marriage—there have certainly been hard times, and I've been both aware and unaware of them, but they celebrated their 27th anniversary last week and it's still going strong. They didn't avoid having kids—I was born three years after, and my brother, five—neither one has a college education, and they aren't religious. So I think what I learned was that statistics are crap. My mom has always said if they had stayed in Ohio, they wouldn't be married. It was moving far away, only relying on each other for support and love, that kept them together. When you have too many people around—family or friends—you tend to get too many opinions. And what some people hear as complaining may only be venting (Nick gets on my nerves and I get on his, but I never tell my parents because I don't want to sway them against him. Unless there was abuse. There isn't.) This is why I wasn't afraid to move in with Nick in a far away place. Either we'd make it or we wouldn't, but we wouldn't find out by living in our parents' houses and just basically hanging out in Florida together. And so far, things have been great. We've had a couple tiny fights, mostly about Words With Friends, but nothing that has made us weepy or distant. We communicate really well, we're very open with each other, and we're both flexible. If I want to be alone, I tell him. And usually, within twenty minutes, I'm ready to spend time with him again.
That all being said, marriage is a scary topic. How are you all dealing with it? Is it not even in your realm of thought, or is it becoming more real everyday? I don't have very many girlfriends, and the couple I do have are either very young or completely against settling down, so I'm never able to talk about this with anyone. I also haven't talked to my mother at all about it, because, if something doesn't work out, I don't want to hear "I told you so."
Sorry for the long-windedness! Definitely read the book, though, if you're at all interested in getting married. It's great insight into different cultures and their views of holy matrimony, which, really, isn't so holy at all.


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This penalty is the result of two separate Ofcom investigations.
Veteran smartphone manufacturer BlackBerry says it's moving away from producing its own handsets and will instead license its software to other companies.
The first deal is with an Indonesian partner, BB Merah Putih, which is led by a leading telecommunications distributor in Indonesia.
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James Rosewell shows me a colourful roll of paper that's the width of an iPhone but well over three metres long. When I look closer, I can see it's a printed copy of the Wall Street Journal's mobile website. That's a lot of scrolling to do... and a pretty unfriendly user experience for anyone reading the news online. Why does it work so badly?
Here's an edited transcript of our new monthly podcast, broadcast on 30th January 2015.
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Iain Graham, James Rosewell and Mark Bridge return to review their mobile industry predictions from last year. Which mergers, partnerships and developments did they forecast correctly... and which didn't work out as planned?
Later in the programme, the team anticipates some of the topics that will be hitting the headlines during 2016.
Mark Bridge learns about the mobile technology trends at Mobile World Congress 2015 by chatting to James Rosewell of 51Degrees, Dr Kevin Curran from the IEEE and Chris Millington of Doro.
They talk about wearable devices, wireless charging, mobile operating systems and much more... including some of their favourite products from the exhibition.
We're taking a look back at the biggest mobile industry news stories from February 2015, including allegations that the UK's security service tried to breach SIM card security by hacking into one of the world's biggest SIM producers.
We also talk about the planned BT and EE merger, the creation of two new UK virtual networks, some acquisitions in the mobile payment arena and a new Ubuntu smartphone.
In today's programme Mark Bridge talks to Chris Millington, who's Managing Director for Doro UK and Ireland.
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Veg Puff (vegetable Puff Pastry Monginis Style)
I have uploaded the chicken puff pastry recipe before, If you have missed it you may view the recipe here. This is a similar recipe without the meat and replaced with veggies. This was my third attempt to try and replicate the taste and finally this batch came out great! I wouldn't say exactly the same but yes, was pretty close :)
You will need to buy puff pastry for this recipe, you can easily find the Pillsbury puff pastry or any other brand in frozen section of any super market these days.
Boiled Potatoes : 4
Onions: 2 big finely chopped
Peas: 1/2 cup
Carrot: 1 finely chopped
Garlic and green chili paste: 1 tbsp
Red chili power: 1/2 tsp
Turmeric: 1/2 tsp
Dhana Jeera Powder: 2Tsp
Home made garam masala or shahi garam masala: 1/2 tsp
Vinegar: 1 tsp
Sugar: 1/2 tsp
Salt to taste
Oil for greasing + 3 tbsp
Puff pastry : 1 packet (makes 8)
Milk or egg for a wash
If puff pastry is frozen thaw it in water and leave it in room temperature for at least 1 hour
In a kadhai or pan, heat oil. Add onions salt and sauté this slightly brown
Add garlic and chili paste mix well. Add peas and carrots. Add vinegar and cook on high heat for 3 mins
Add in all the dry masalas. Mix well, cover and cook for 15 mins on medium heat
While the veggies cook, mash the potatoes and keep aside
When the veggies are almost 80% cooked add the mashed boiled potatoes, mix everything well. Add sugar and adjust salt as per taste. Cook on medium heat for 5 more mins
When the mixture comes together well and is cooked, remove and keep aside
For the pastry, cut/ divide the pastry into 8 equal squares/ rounds. Roll out the pastry thin. Place a spoonful of mixture in the centre
Dip your finger in water and wet any two edges of the pastry. Fold the non-wet edges over the wet edges sealing the mixture well
Pleat the edges to seal well or use back of the fork to create that texture. See image two
Continue this for the remaining mixture, If you have left over mixture you may refrigerate it and you can make stuffed veg parathas the next day
Pre heat the oven at 250 degrees for 10 mins. In the meanwhile cover the pan with foil or parchment/ butter paper.
Grease it with oil. Place the puffs in the pan and bake at 200 degrees for 15-20 mins
Give the top of the puffs a milk or egg wash.
Check after 10 mins if you think the puffs are browning fast, reduce the temperature. Usually 15- 20 mins should be enough
Serve with tea or coffee or on its own as a snack :)
You may make the puffs square or triangle shaped. But usually in monginis the veg is triangle and chicken puff is square :)


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As most of you know I love adventures. In fact, I love them so much, I can turn practically any mundane situation into one. I find that my life is more interesting when it's filled with adventure.
Adventures are a lot like roller coaster rides. There are many ups and downs, along with a few dramatic twists and many unexpected turns. These experiences make your heart race and take your emotions to the edge. They also have the ability to make you laugh and cry at the same time. Truly great adventures force you to expand, to grow and to learn something new about yourself.
Sometimes the lessons an adventure gives are easy to take, like that feeling of satisfaction from eating half of a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Cheesecake in one setting. Other times, the lessons we need to learn aren't as easy to swallow.
In the past few years I have been on many wondrous and magical adventures. Each one of them have allowed me to experience things I couldn't have imagined as I was growing up in Morrilton, Arkansas. Some adventures have been small and thrilling, like helping my friend Judy Murrah start her blogging adventure and realizing halfway through the process that I was helping the legendary Judy Murrah of Jacket Jazz fame. Wow, that was an adventure I will never forget!
Some adventures have been a little grander in scale, like taking a trip with my Peeps to The Texas Quilt Museum to see my quilt hanging there. I can hardly believe it. I had a quilt hanging in a museum. Is this a crazy marvelous world or what?
Other adventures have amazed me and been cooler than I could have dreamed of, like the recent airing of my Quilt Show episode. I am still having a hard time believing that one.
Lastly, some adventures have been life altering and made me wonder where I fit in the world and how could this have happened, like my mother's cancer diagnosis and the loss of my beloved Bill in September.
Navigating through this last adventure has been much harder than eating a cheesecake, because everything I had known for almost 20 years changed over night. My life was exactly the same, except now I had a big hole in it. I couldn't imagine what life was going to be like or how I was supposed to go on.
That's where my dear friends Gene and Sharon Schamber came in.
This amazing couple invited me to stay with them for a while after Bill's passing. I agreed to go at first, then talked myself out of it multiple times. I realized that I needed to get away from me and all that was going on in my head, so off to Payson, AZ, I went.
Sharon and Gene were generous and gracious hosts. They treated me so well during my visit, that it was hard to come home and face my reality. They'd let me ramble on endlessly about nothing and offer a shoulder to cry on when I needed it. They did everything they could think of to set me on a path to heal from the pain of my loss.
Sharon and I spent endless hours talking, sharing tears and laughter. She patiently listened as I worked through the grief. While we stayed busy, Gene would be in and out of the studio checking to see if we needed anything and letting us know what he'd planned for our culinary extravaganza.
Gene is a fabulous cook and his apple pies are legendary. Along with his amazing culinary skills, he is also a wonderful gardener, naturalist and storyteller. He is a Renaissance man to his core and the best tour guide EVER!
I had mentioned to Gene that I had never been to Arizona, so he planned a fabulous day trip to show me the all the amazing natural and historic sights in the area.
Gene knows I enjoy sharing photos with you, so he organized an expedition that would give me as many chances to take photos as possible. We went everywhere he could think of and had many fun-filled hours of conversation.
Gene has a natural gift for storytelling and he made this adventure one that I will never forget.
I'd point out a plant and he could tell me the name and something about it.
I'd see an amazing cactus and we'd stop to take pictures of it.
I was amazed by what he knew. I couldn't get over the fact that he knew something about everything.
His knowledge of cactus types was only equalled to his understanding of wildlife habitats.
As our adventure continued, we went from one amazing place to another.
The historic sights were awe-inspiring and the natural beauty of the state left me breathless.
As we traveled from one area of the state to the next, the terrain would change dramatically.
In some cases it felt like we had moved to another planet. We would go from 60-ft. tall trees and lots of scrub brush, to no trees and dirt, all in a 40-mile span.
One of the stops on our journey was Sedona. It is a truly magical and mystical place.
The color in the rock is so intense and different from what I'm used to seeing, that it made me think something was wrong with my eyes.
As we rode around, I could barely grasp all the beauty that lay before me and I will remain forever grateful to Gene and Sharon for taking me on such a magical adventure.
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I hope you've enjoyed my trip to Arizona as much as I have sharing it with you. It was fabulous to relive the magic of the experience, even though it brings a bit of sadness along with it.
As I said, adventures change us. They help us grow and learn something new about ourselves. My time with Gene and Sharon did those things and more.
I realized while I was there that I had many more adventures ahead of me and that I needed to learn to embrace each and every one, which brings me to what happens next. Now that I have completed this post and you've seen some of the beauty that awaits in Arizona, I am ready to tell you about another adventure I am going on. Because I am a tease and I enjoy your company, you'll have to come back to find out about it.
As always, I look forward to hearing from you. xxxooo 🙂
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