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The perfect date dessert is one that's interactive: Candied strips of orange peel, fresh raspberries, and crisp almond cookies are all flavorful enough to stand up to a silky dark-chocolate fondue spiked with a shot of warming brandy.
- Yield
- Makes 2 servings
- Active Time
- 1 1/4 hr
- Total Time
- 2 1/4 hr
- For candied peel
- 2 navel oranges
- 1/2 to 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1/4 cup water
- For almond macaroons
- Butter for greasing baking sheet
- 1/2 cup sliced blanched almonds (1 1/4 oz)
- 1/2 cup pure almond paste (5 oz; not marzipan)
- 1 large egg white
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- For fondue
- 3 oz fine-quality bittersweet chocolate (no more than 64% cacao if marked)
- 1/4 cup heavy cream
- 1 tablespoon unsalted butter
- 1 tablespoon Cognac or other brandy
- Accompaniment: 1/2 pint raspberries
- Special Equipment
- a pastry brush; a small fondue pot with tea candle or a small warmed bowl (fill with hot water to warm, then dry); wooden picks or skewers
- Make candied peel:
- Cut off a 1/2-inch slice from top and bottom of each orange to expose fruit, then score orange peel from top to bottom at 1/3-inch intervals, cutting through pith, with a sharp knife. Pull off each strip of peel, including pith, with your fingers and put in a 2- to 3-quart heavy saucepan. (Reserve fruit for another use.) Fill pan with water, then add 1/4 teaspoon salt and bring to a boil. Boil, uncovered, 10 minutes, then drain peels in a sieve. Repeat procedure with more cold water and remaining 1/4 teaspoon salt, then set peels aside. (If peels are not very tender, repeat procedure a third time.)
- Put a sheet of parchment paper or wax paper on a baking sheet and set baking sheet on a rack.
- Bring granulated sugar and water (1/4 cup) to a boil in cleaned saucepan over moderately high heat, stirring and brushing any crystals from side of pan with pastry brush dipped in cold water until sugar is dissolved.
- Add peels to syrup in pan and cook, stirring frequently, until most of syrup is absorbed by peels, 4 to 5 minutes. Transfer peels to lined baking sheet, separating strips. Let dry until only slightly sticky, at least 1 hour. make macaroons: Put oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 325°F. Butter a large baking sheet and put almonds in a shallow bowl.
- Blend together almond paste, egg white, and salt in a food processor until smooth, then transfer dough to a small bowl or a sheet of wax paper. Transfer slightly rounded teaspoonfuls of dough, a few at a time, to almonds and turn to coat completely, then transfer to baking sheet as coated, arranging balls about 1 inch apart.
- Bake until tops are pale golden and undersides are golden, 20 to 25 minutes. Transfer to a rack to cool.
- Make fondue:
- Finely chop chocolate (preferably in a food processor) and transfer to a small bowl.
- Bring cream, butter, and Cognac to a simmer in a 1/2- to 1-quart saucepan over moderate heat. Remove from heat and add chocolate, stirring until melted and smooth. Transfer to fondue pot and set over candle flame or to small warmed bowl (chocolate will stay warm enough for dipping for about 20 minutes without candle).
- Arrange raspberries, orange peel, and macaroons on a plate (use wooden picks for raspberries) and serve with fondue.
Cooks' notes:
·Orange peel can be dried up to 8 hours and can be kept in a sealed plastic bag at room temperature 2 days.
·Macaroons can be made 1 day ahead and cooled completely, then kept in an airtight container at room temperature.
·Chocolate can be chopped 1 day ahead and kept, covered with plastic wrap, at room temperature.
·If leaving chocolate fondue over candle for any length of time, stir occasionally to avoid scorching.
·Macaroons can be made 1 day ahead and cooled completely, then kept in an airtight container at room temperature.
·Chocolate can be chopped 1 day ahead and kept, covered with plastic wrap, at room temperature.
·If leaving chocolate fondue over candle for any length of time, stir occasionally to avoid scorching.


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Just before Thanksgiving break, middle school students at St. Andrew's Episcopal School packaged 325 backpacks for students in Belize. The schoolwide service learning project brought students together from every grade level in an effort to serve those in need.
The backpacks will go directly to children attending a school in Valley of Peace, Belize. Every child at that school will receive a backpack with his or her name on it, a personalized letter or picture and age-appropriate educational materials.
Students at St. Andrew's collected everything from pencils, pens and crayons to books and binders. Students also raised money so every child in Belize would receive a small toy. The backpacks are scheduled to arrive in Belize in time for Christmas.
This is the first time St. Andrew's students have undertaken this type of initiative. According to Service-Learning Coordinator Tara Lowery-Hart, one of the most interesting aspects of this project was the way St. Andrew's students felt connected to another individual child who was in a completely different place and culture. "I could see our children really thinking about this other student they were helping as they wrote their notes and letters - who they might be, what they might like to do." Students at St. Andrew's hand-made bookmarks, and every St. Andrew's student in first through eighth grades wrote a personalized note or letter to go in a backpack.
This connection also helped the students begin thinking beyond themselves. "Many people have a vision of Belize as a beautiful resort spot, but once you move beyond the beaches and coastal areas, there is great poverty. The simple nature of the items we placed into the backpacks really hit home - pencils, notebooks, even a deck of playing cards were a vivid reminder of how blessed we are," Lowery-Hart said.
St. Andrew's Episcopal School is an academic, faith-centered
environment. It has been educating children since 1951, welcoming families of all faiths.
The school currently serves children from primer (3 years of age) to eighth grade. St. Andrew's is fully accredited by Independent Schools Association of the Southwest and Southwestern Association of Episcopal Schools.


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NBA: Ohio State forward Jared Sullinger entering draft
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Two-time Ohio State All-American forward Jared Sullinger is moving on to the NBA.
The 6-foot-9 sophomore announced on Wednesday that he is giving up his final two seasons with the Buckeyes to make himself available for the NBA draft on June 28.
Sullinger averaged 17.5 points and 9.2 rebounds a game while shooting 52 percent from the field, 77 percent at the line and 40 percent on 3-pointers while leading the Buckeyes to a 31-8 record and a Final Four berth.
Deshaun Thomas, a 6-7 sophomore at Ohio State, is also considering the NBA.


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Don DeLillo does with language what Arvo Pärt does with music. Their work yields little when casually approached. But it rewards close attention with spare and beautiful lines capable of containing truth. Point Omega was a pleasure to read for its pure artistry, if not for its compelling characters.
The characters are barely limned in this slim novel. Richard Elster is an aging academic who spent some time drafted to help create a language with which to sell the Iraq War to the American public. He worked with top level political strategists, looking for a linguistic architecture to frame the war, to give it shape and meaning. Disillusioned in the end, he has retreated to the remote California desert, a landscape so sere and austere that it is as powerful as a character in this book.
Jim Finley is a much younger filmmaker who wants to place Elster against an industrial wall in Brooklyn and film him talking about his experience, his deep cogitation about it and his conclusions about what it all means. Finley joins Elster in his ramshackle dwelling in the desert where time loses all significance and philosophical questions are endlessly debatable over drinks on the porch.
When Elster's twentyish dreamy daughter arrives from New York, sent away by her mother after a sinister date begins to stalk her by telephone, the dynamic of the story shifts. Elster has been postulating, in and out of his cups, about the absence of time in the desert and the Teilhardian concept of the omega point when the human imagination has exhausted itself and something cataclysmic occurs. The philosophical choices seem to be oblivion or a profound illumination. Finley is no closer to convincing Elster to document his own soul and story and Elster appears to be disappearing into the stark landscape.
Then something cataclysmic does happen but it is in no way theoretical and profundities are rendered meaningless by its mystery. Elster's daughter disappears. One day they return from picking up groceries and she simply isn't there. The search for the "otherworldly" Jessica lends some drama to the story but no answers. Tragedy takes away words. Elster no longer speaks. Finley can't remember the passionate obsession with making his film. Search helicopters break the desert silence.
The events in Point Omega are framed by another kind of stillness, an art installation in which Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho is played in a bare room in a gallery, slowed and stretched to fill 24 hours. The excruciating slow motion mesmerizes a faceless character who returns to the gallery day after day to stand in a corner and experience the obliteration of known time. The silent, painstaking screening, detailed at length in the beginning and end of the story, inspires more contemplation of the nature of reality and perception.
This is a beautiful book, packed with Big Questions about life and meaning but not overly concerned with plots and people. DeLillo is a pure pleasure to read but the usual pleasures of slipping into a book are absent here. You are in thrall to DeLillo's deserts, the real and the metaphoric ones. The journey will leave you uneasy, impressed and a little bit empty–rich in images and no closer to the truth than when you ghosted into the nameless gallery with Norman Bates on the first page.
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Finding Repeated Words in a Passage, Part 3
This week we've been discussing how finding repeated words in a passage can make you aware of its major themes and motifs. On Monday, I showed how to use Accordance's highlighting tool to highlight key words so you can begin to notice patterns. Yesterday we applied this method to 2 Samuel 11, highlighting every mention of cleansing and then unpacking how those key words are used to develop a particular theme. Today I want to look at another oft-repeated word in 2 Samuel 11 and show you a few helpful shortcuts along the way.
If you work your way through 2 Samuel 11 and just begin highlighting the actions taken by the main characters, a pattern very quickly emerges. Can you see it? In this handful of verses, the word "sent" is used over and over again.
The advantage of highlighting key words as you work your way through a passage is that it can alert you to repeated words like this. But once you've noticed a pattern, there is no longer any point in working your way through the text looking for every remaining occurrence of that word. Once the pattern has emerged, that's the time to switch gears and have Accordance complete the pattern for you.
In other words, now that we know the word "sent" gets repeated, we want to find all other occurrences of the word "sent" as quickly as possible. That way, we can move immediately from gathering the relevant data (observation) to analyzing that data (interpretation).
One obvious way to find all the other occurrences of "sent" in 2 Samuel 11 is to search for it. You can do that by right- or control-clicking the word "sent" and choosing Word from the "Search for" submenu of the contextual menu.
This will open a new tab showing every occurrence of the word "sent" in the entire Bible. Since I'm only interested in the occurrences of this word in 2 Samuel 11, I would then limit the search by defining a range for 2 Samuel 11 in the Range pop-up menu or by using the Range command. Either approach will show me that "sent" is used no less than nine times in this chapter.
Searching for the word "sent" in this way has two advantages. First, it's instantaneous (as most Accordance searches are), where reading through the passage looking for each occurrence is time-consuming. Even more importantly, I can be confident that every occurrence of the word has been found, where I might easily miss one or more occurrences when trying to spot them myself.
Now that I've found every occurrence of "sent," I can instantly highlight the ones I haven't already highlighted by hand. To do this, simply shift-click the desired highlight style on the highlight palette. Shift-clicking a style will apply that style to every "hit" word resulting from a search. Using this method, you can very quickly highlight key words in a passage. And once again, the advantage of such shortcuts is that it moves you more quickly from the work of observation to the more engaging process of interpretation.
Up to now, I've been looking for repeated words in an English translation (the HCSB). For most of us, that's how we have to work through a passage, and that's perfectly fine. In most cases, the repetition of a word in a translation actually reflects the repetition of a word in the original Greek or Hebrew, but that's not always the case. It may be that a Greek or Hebrew word is translated by different English words in the same passage, in which case our search for repetition in English would miss instances of repetition in the original. Conversely, it may be that the same English word is used to translate different Greek or Hebrew words, in which case we would be seeing repetition in the English which is not actually present in the original. In my next post, I'll show you how to make sure the repetition you're seeing is really present in the original.


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Top reader photos: Gator wrestler, a honey moon, more
We asked for your photos. You shared them! Here's a roundup of the best ones today.
Want to be in our daily Take 5? Submit your top shots at yourtake.usatoday.com or in the drop-down menu of your USA TODAY iPhone app.
Contributor Jessica Fazende snapped this photo of tour guide and alligator wrestler Paul Phillips in Lafitte, La.
Theresa Cannon shared this sunset from Villas, N.J. Cannon says the water tower in the city claims it is the "home of the best sunsets."
In this photo taken by David Carlos, a student continues her speech amid a heavy downpour at Mountlake Terrace High School's graduation ceremony in Washington.
Austin Bond captured the "honey moon" rising on June 12 over Murrells Inlet and Garden City, S.C. The "honey moon" name refers to the yellow tint of the moon.
Before a thunderstorm in Arlington, Va., Jeanette Marshall spotted these birds perched on a branch.
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Home entertainment systems have come a long way since you ooh 'ed and ahh'ed because your neighbor had a few pairs of speakers that actually fit flush into his walls. That's old news now. Even homes in comparatively modest new developments are being outfitted with a full complement of audio, network, TV and telephone wiring. In many developments the builder offers a standard wiring package and various upgrades for additional wiring, speakers, wiring enclosures and even full control systems.
Systems have evolved to include sleek, wall-mounted touch screens that allow simple access to your music and other house functions such as security, lighting, HVAC, and motorized window treatments. A talented programmer can make these systems function with true "one touch" simplicity. It's almost as if they're reading your mind.
The touch screen's advantage is that it can change the control interface to only show what you need at any one time. This affords tremendous flexibility while retaining the simplicity people desire. The touch screen interface is extremely powerful when combined with another technology that has come into prominence recently; the hard disc based media server.
Your CDs are downloaded, or ripped, onto a hard drive. This combination allows your entire music catalog to be displayed on the touch screen for easy searching. You can typically search by artist, song title, genre, or album. Once the desired selection is located, you just touch it on the screen and it begins to play.
These hard drive servers use computer hard drives and modern compression techniques to store phenomenal amounts of music in a simple audio component less than half the size of a 200 disc CD changer. They function just like a typical CD player, not your computer, so they are reliable and easy to use.
Media servers have exploded in popularity recently because of the enormous popularity of compressed music formats such as MP3 and the fantastic array of functionality a disc based system allows.
For those who have, or do, own CD mega changers, a hard drive music server will be like a breath of fresh air.
Access to any song is typically less than a second away. Contrast that to select disc 94 in your 300-disc CD changer when you are playing disc 201. With a multi-room audio system, you may be on the other side of your house trying to do this with a keypad or remote control. The wait for your changer to return the disc it was playing then trundle the carousel around to your desired disc can seem like an eternity.
Another advantage is easy cataloging. Most hard drive systems will recognize any CD you insert for ripping and if they don't, they are connected to the internet for access to a giant database. This they access automatically to gather artist, album and track information. Gone are the days of using a keyboard or remote to tediously enter the information about your CDs into a CD changer. You can also stop worrying about which slot your discs are in. "Let's see, was Led Zeppelin IV in slot 90 or 190?"
Using a hard drive server frees up your CDs for use elsewhere such as your car, boat or vacation home.
In addition, since your CDs are not locked up in a changer, your collection is able to be enjoyed by many members of the family at once. With a changer, if someone is listening to it, all of the discs inside it are basically off limits. With a changer, not only are your CDs free for use in other locations but many hard drive servers provide multiple audio outputs.
Multiple outputs enable you to listen to different discs in different areas of the house if your system is so configured. For example, one person could be listening to Korn in the rec room while Bach's Requiem is being played in the kitchen and Dire Straights in the bedroom. With a conventional CD changer, this is impossible.
You can also buy and store music from many online music services and store those on your hard drive server.
Hard drive servers offer advantages over music files stored on a computer as well. Because they function like a traditional audio component, they are easier to use for many people. It is also easier to integrate them with touch screen based home control systems. This will begin to change as the popularity of multimedia PCs such as those running Microsoft XP Media Center Edition 2005 increases.
These units are many steps closer to delivering the long promised "convergence" between consumer electronics and computers. Multimedia PCs, also known as HTPCs [Home Theater PC] function as DVD players, personal video recorders (similar to a TiVO), and hard drive media storage.
They allow storage of digital photos for easy display on your TV or monitor. HTPCs can, of course, browse the net on your TV via your broadband connection. As hard drive storage becomes more economical and compression techniques become better, the storage of HD movies and HDTV programming will become commonplace.
Soon these types of servers and interfaces will become the norm rather than the exception. You'll think nothing of the amazing array of features offered and the ability to easily access your media collection throughout your home. Once a rarity, media servers, in one form or another, will be found in almost every home.


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"This country's leading hell-raiser…has set down some of the rules of the game. No one has had more experience or has been more successful at it than Alinsky." —The Nation
"Alinsky's techniques and teachings influenced generations of community and labor organizers, including the church-based group hiring a young [Barack] Obama to work on Chicago's South Side in the 1980s…. Alinsky impressed a young [Hillary] Clinton, who was growing up in Park Ridge at the time Alinsky was the director of the Industrial Areas Foundation in Chicago." —Chicago Sun-Times
"Alinsky is that rarity in American life, a superlative organizer, strategist, and tactician who is also a social philosopher." —Charles E. Silberman
"He cannot be bought; he cannot be intimidated; and he breaks all the rules." —The Economist (London)
"I consider him to be one of the few really great men of our century." —Jacques Maritain


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"Wanderlust" stars Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston as George and Linda, a pair of New York City yuppies; he does something vaguely financial, she's a lifelong dilettante whose latest foray is as a documentary filmmaker. When he loses his job, the couple is forced to move out of their "micro-loft" and head to Atlanta, where a job awaits him at his brother's company. On there way, they stop off at a B & B that turns out to be an "intentional community," which is not to be confused with a commune, which is just a bunch of hippies sitting around smoking pot and playing guitar, which is exactly what this place is.
After a gloriously restful night's sleep, the venture on to Atlanta, where George's brother, Rick (Ken Marino, who also co-wrote the film) proves to be as lousy a boss as he is a human being. In a fit of rage George convinces Linda to head back to Elysium, where they can follow their bliss, free from the bonds of their Blackberries.
Writer-director David Wain is a hailed as a genius in some circles. He was the driving force behind the cult hit "Wet Hot American Summer," as well as the brilliant web series "Wainy Days." More recently, Wain helmed the 2008 guilty pleasure "Role Models," which, like "Wanderlust" took aim at a slow fat target, with Rudd at center of the action.
But where "Role Models" made sport of the fairly recent phenomenon known as LARPers, here the butt of the jokes is hippies, a subculture that has been (rightly) mocked for decades, making it real hard to come up with fresh material: Free love! That tea is a hallucinogen! Who wants placenta?!?! Rudd tried to work this heavily tilled soil just last year in the underwhelming "My Idiot Brother," with some of the same co-conspirators in tow, leaving even less with which to work.
Predictably, George regrets the move while Linda embraces it, and both find themselves pursued by the hottest residents of their opposite sex, Justin Theroux and Malin Ackerman. And the intentional communers find their homestead threatened by corporate greedheads, and George leaves Linda…
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Michela Watkins as Rick's margarita-self-medicated wife, Marissa, supplies most of the films funniest moments as she floats around in a besotted haze, with occasionally flashes of rage slurring out of her mouth. And despite being naked for much of the film, Joe Lo Truglio has a great sub-plot involving his long-gestating novel.
"Wanderlust" has its moments, but with this much talent on hand, you'd expect a lot more laughs.


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The Fox Theatre opened in 1929 as a vaudeville palace. Located in St. Louis' Grand Centre and completely restored to its original magnificent Siamese-Byzantine decor, the Fox continues to present live entertainment, including touring Broadway shows and music, dance, and comedy concerts. The Fox also hosts movie premieres, stage attractions, special events, and many famous personalities of show business. Visitors can also tour "the Fabulous Fox" on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday at 10:30 am. Tickets can be purchased for single performances or subscribe to the "Broadway Series", either online, by phone, or at the box office.
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Restructuring and Renewable Energy Developments in California: Using Elfin to Simulate the Future California Power Market. Berkeley: LBNL, 1998. LBNL-41569..
Wind Generation in the Future Competitive California Power Market. Berkeley: LBNL, 1998. LBNL-41134..
Ancillary Services Markets in California. Berkeley: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1999. LBNL-43986..
"Transmission Grid Access and Pricing in Norway, Spain, and California: A Comparative Study." Power Delivery Europe. Madrid, Spain, 1999. 17..
Integrated Assessment of Dispersed Energy Resources Deployment. Berkeley: LBNL, 2000. LBNL-46082..
CERTS Customer Adoption Model. Berkeley: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 2001. LBNL-47772..
"Customer Adoption of Small-Scale On-Site Power Generation." European Council for an Energy Efficient Economy Summer Study 2001. Mandelieu, France: LBNL, 2001. LBNL-47896..
Modeling of customer adoption of distributed energy resources. Berkeley: LBNL, 2001. LBNL-49582..
Potential for Renewable Energy Development: Alternatives to AEO2001. Berkeley: LBNL, 2001..
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"Spot Pricing of Electricity and Ancillary Services in a Competitive California Market." Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 2001: 10..
"Auswirkungen einer CO2-Steuer auf Dezentrale Energieversorgungsunternehmen mit Kraft-Wärme-Kopplung und deren Interaktion mit dem Verteilnetz, analysiert am Beispiel eines städtischen Mikronetzes." Energiegespräche, September 24, 2002. Technischen Museum, Vienna, 2002..
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Investigation of Residential Central Air Conditioning Load Shapes in NEMS. Berkeley: LBNL, 2002. LBNL-52235..
A Business Case for On-Site Generation: The BD Biosciences Pharmingen Project. Berkeley: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 2003. LBNL-52759..
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Re: Using WWW::Selenium To Test Or Automate An Ajax Websiteby jacques (Priest)
|on Nov 28, 2009 at 03:51 UTC ( #809841=note: print w/replies, xml )
|Need Help??
Another solution is MozRepl, a FireFox plugin that allows you to interact with websites using JavaScript and Ajax.
Luckily, there is a Perl interface for MozRepl on CPAN.
I have also used Selenium and WWW::Selenium. They are really excellent products and indeed deserving of a much larger cookbook.
One project to watch is Bromine. It's a web front-end for driving Selenium test cases. Unfortunately, it only officially supports Java and PHP, but there are reports of people using it with Perl test cases. The project is in its infancy and could use some attention.
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The series in itself is a continuation of Kasparov's mammoth history of chess, comprising My Great Predecessors and Modern Chess. Kasparov's historical volumes have received great critical and public acclaim for their rigorous analysis and comprehensive detail regarding the developments in chess that occurred both on and off the board.
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Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 30 January 2018: Maternal age is the one of the most important factors to help identify a woman's odds of having a baby. According to IVI Middle East Fertility Clinic, recent analysis of the patient demographics reveal that of every 1000 patients that come to the clinic, the age group of 20 to 30 is also witnessing a surge in both, male and female infertility factors. The average percentage from this group is almost 15% of the total patient count which is the second highest. It is also noted that there has been a steady increase in female infertility cases amongst Emirati couples from this age group.
Recent research by IVI Middle East counsellors also brings to light that the largest number of infertility cases are from the age group of 35-40 in the region; with the younger age group catching up too. It is also important to note that majority cases of female infertility conditions are triggered by causes that are specific to the population of this region.
"While lifestyle and eating habits are two critical factors that have led to an increase in infertility with the local age group between age 20-30, consanguinity is another very important reason for the increase in such cases amongst the Emirati population," said Prof. Dr. Human Fatemi, Subspecialist Reproductive Medicine & Reproductive Surgery, Medical Director, IVI Middle East Fertility Clinic.
IVI Middle East Fertility Clinics are a part of the world leading IVF institution – IVI and offer the highest standards of fertility treatments. IVI group has the success record of 160,000 births worldwide and is widely respected for not just the science but also for research and advancements in the field of reproductive medicine. Almost 80% of the clinic's patients in the UAE are local and 20% comprise other nationalities.
It seems that Emirati families face increased incidences of infertility. In females, parental consanguinity leads to a low ovarian reserve and due to rare sun exposure of the skin, Vitamin D deficiency is very common. Other factors are unhealthy diets and diabetes. Similarly, male infertility is related to obesity, excessive smoking, possible steroid consump¬tion for bodybuilding and largely consanguinity," added Dr. Barbara Lawrenz, Consultant Obstetrics & Gynaecology, IVF, IVI Abu Dhabi.
Marriage is an important turning point in a woman's life in the UAE. Marriage and childbearing define life for nearly all women in the country. Until the last few decades, women throughout the region typically married while still in their teens or early 20s. However, with changing times, women give more importance to their careers and delay child-bearing which is also a contributing factor to rising infertility.
It is to be noted that a woman's age is the one of the most important factors determining her chance of pregnancy and a healthy birth because with age, the quality and quantity of her eggs decrease overtime, and the likelihood of miscarriages and birth defects increases. A study of the existing consultations at IVI clinics also shows that if a woman has healthy pregnancies in her 20s or early 30s, it does not mean that her attempt to have another child in her later 30s or 40s will be successful. She may face complications once she touches 35 or more, as the chances of her conceiving naturally are halved compared to her chance in twenties.
With infertility becoming a common issue amongst Emirati men and women, IVI Middle East Fertility Clinic is here to offer breakthrough medical treatments designed to address the growing fertility issues facing many couples today – both young and the not so young. IVI Middle East Fertility Clinics made its foray into the Middle East almost three years ago and within a short time span have already celebrated many successful pregnancies. Today, IVI Middle East Fertility Clinic boasts the highest success rate with more than 70 per cent successful pregnancies in the region. IVI Middle East Fertility Clinics are spread across Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Muscat to offer highly advanced international standard treatments to couples.


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Meat Lite: Pumpkin Pancetta Soup Recipe
Mostly vegetarian dishes with just a touch of meaty accent.
Even though I've had this Pumpkin Pancetta Soup on my Thanksgiving menu for weeks, and I'm only just getting to it now in the midst of the Great Pumpkin Shortage panic of 2009, I remain undaunted thanks to my tablescape. Oh, that's right, folks, I said tablescape.
Sometime back in October, on one of those gleaming fall Sundays when I was wandering aimlessly through a farmers market, getting suckered into buying every seasonal ingredient just because of the way the sun was bouncing off an autumn leaf or something, I picked up a few sugar pie pumpkins. The quaint little ones with the precious name that turn you into a domestic goddess or god just by setting them on the table as holiday décor.
They've been there ever since, looking adorable, until this morning when I drove my chef's knife right through the core to split them apart and send them to the roaster.
It's true that if I were making a sweet pie, I'd duke in out in the grocery store, à la the Cabbage Patch Kid craze of the 1980s, for the last can of purée. Since that pie filling gets all sorts of spices and sugars, I'm less concerned with the integrity of the pumpkin flavor coming through and thrilled to crack open a can of an already-cooked and smooshed version. In the case of this soup, though, it's all about the pumpkin itself, and I find that roasting the squash from scratch brings out the most flavor.
The meat in this Meat Lite recipe comes in the form of crispy pancetta and stock. The pancetta (cured salty bacon, sans the smoked flavor we're used to stateside), which adorns the soup when it's ladled into bowls or cups, is a perfect flavor and texture contrast for the sweet smooth backdrop. I prefer good chicken or turkey stock here, but vegetable stock will work deliciously, too.
Those little sugar pie pumpkins look just as pretty in a bowl on the table as the star of this soup as they did on their tablescape runway last month. And I emerge from the supermarket unscathed.
Pumpkin Pancetta Soup
- serves 4-8 (appetizer or entrée size servings) -
- 6 ounces thinly sliced pancetta
- Two 2 1/2 to 3 pound sugar pie pumpkins
- 1 large sweet onion, peeled and cut into large chunks
- 4 cloves garlic, peeled
- 8 sage leaves
- 1 cup water
- Coarse salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 1 quart stock (chicken, turkey or vegetable)
- 1 tablespoon cider vinegar
- 1 cup whole milk
- Sour cream or crème fraiche, optional
Preheat the oven to 375° F. Lay the pancetta in one layer on the bottom of a large roasting pan. Transfer the pancetta to the oven and bake until crispy, about 20 minutes. Remove from the oven and set aside. Reserve the roasting pan.
Cut the pumpkins in half and scrape out the seeds and fibers. Spread the seeds on a baking sheet covered with a silicone mat or parchment paper, and discard the fibers. Arrange the four pumpkin halves in the large roasting pan. Add the onion chunks in the spaces between the pumpkin and inside the pumpkin core. Put the garlic cloves and sage leaves inside each pumpkin core. Pour the water into the pan around the pumpkins. Season the pumpkins liberally with salt and pepper. Cover the pan tightly with the roasting pan lid or foil and transfer to the oven. Roast for 1 hour and 15 minutes, or until the pumpkin and onions are very tender.
While the pumpkin cooks, add the seeds to another rack in the oven and roast them for 15-20 minutes or until they are crisp and just starting to brown. Set them aside to cool completely.
Once the vegetables are tender, let them cool slightly. Scrape the pumpkin pulp away from its shell and add it to a food processor. Process until very smooth. Scrape the puree into a large pot or Dutch oven. Put the onions, garlic, 2 of the sage leaves, and any liquid from the roasting pan in the processor next and process until very smooth. Add the onion purée to the pot with the pumpkin purée, or push it through a mesh strainer into the pumpkin. This is optional, but straining the onion puree makes for an ultra-smooth soup.
Add the stock and the cider vinegar to the purée in the pot and simmer for about 30 minutes. Reduce the heat and add the milk. Simmer an additional 10 minutes (do not boil) and then add salt and pepper to taste.
While the soup simmers, re-crisp the pancetta in a hot oven or a convection toaster for about 5 minutes.
Ladle the soup into mugs or bowls, top with pancetta (whole or crumbled) and a sprinkling of the toasted seeds. Add a dollop of sour cream or crème fraiche if you like.
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Texas Engineering Extension Service
The Texas Engineering Extension Service (TEEX) was established in 1919. As one of the largest providers of workforce training in the nation, TEEX is known for its innovative, customized programs and its hands-on, on-site, and online training. Through a variety of delivery methods tailored to fit customer needs, TEEX training strives to develop businesses and the economy; protect people and the environment; and build safe, modern infrastructure. The agency's ongoing efforts have resulted in cleaner drinking water, better roads and infrastructure, improved workplace safety and enhanced public safety.
TEEX's training solutions help more than 192,000 workers each year to upgrade their skills, become certified in their professions or learn more about new technologies. TEEX has the experience, people, technology and capabilities to provide technical assistance and learning solutions to organizations and businesses.
TEEX is a member of the Texas A&M University System and is headquartered in College Station, Texas, with regional training centers and offices located around the state.
URL: https://teex.org/Pages/default.aspx
- Click the name of a course/exam to see the course/exam description.
- Click a column header to sort the results by that column (ascending or descending order).
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Nurses remember victims of abuse, call for end of violence against women
TORONTO, Dec. 5, 2005 – During tomorrow's ceremonies to mark the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women, nurses across Ontario will remember women who have been victims of violence and abuse. This year's ceremonies will have particular poignancy following last month's murder of Windsor RN Lori Dupont.
"Lori's death is a grisly reminder of the pervasive abuse and violence that women face in our society, inside and outside the workplace," says Joan Lesmond president of the Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario (RNAO). "As we remember her, and the countless other women who have been targets of violence and abuse simply because of their gender, we must also resolve to do whatever it takes to stop it from happening again."
Every year, women and men pause on Dec. 6 to remember 14 young women killed in 1989 at Montreal's l'Ecole Polytechnique, and to reflect on violence against women in our society. Nurses will attend vigils in Kitchener, Cornwall, Kingston, Brampton and Toronto. Lesmond will join RNAO Essex chapter members in a candlelight vigil at the King's Navy Yard Waterfront Park, Dalhousie Street, in Amherstburg.
"Dupont's murder has shocked nurses and shaken our profession to its core. It has brought us even closer to the dangers many women face every day," says RNAO executive director Doris Grinspun, who will attend commemorations at Women's College Hospital (76 Grenville St., Toronto) in the Cummings Auditorium tomorrow at noon, and an event at 6 p.m. at the University of Toronto's Philosopher's Walk near Bloor Street and Avenue Road. "Nurses do so much, and can do even more, in our daily practice to help keep women safe," adds Grinspun.
In emergency rooms, primary health-care centres, long-term care facilities and shelters, nurses see first hand the physical, emotional and spiritual devastation abuse causes. Women who are being abused need someone to turn to, someone with the compassion, knowledge and skills to guide them towards places and people in the community who can keep them safe. Nurses are among those who can help. That's why RNAO recently released the Woman Abuse: Screening, Identification and Initial Response best practice guideline to help nurses screen women who may be suffering from abuse. The guideline recommends routine screening for abuse in all women aged 12 and older.
The Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario is the professional association representing registered nurses in Ontario. Since 1925, RNAO has lobbied for healthy public policy, promoted excellence in nursing practice, increased nurses' contribution to shaping the health-care system, and influenced decisions that affect nurses and the public they serve.-30-


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More than 50 students and faculty members are registered for Penn State York's fifth Smith Undergraduate Science Research Symposium (SUSR12), set for Saturday, Nov. 10, at the campus. Science students and faculty of the 19 Penn State campuses were invited to participate and attend the SUSR12. Previous symposiums were held at Penn State York in October 2002 and 2006 and November 2008 and 2010. The symposium begins at 8 a.m. in the Conference Center of the Main Classroom Building.
A symposium featuring undergraduate science research was the brainchild of Haiduke Sarafian, John T. and Paige S. Smith Professor of Science and professor of physics at Penn State York. The idea of the symposium was proposed in 2002 and was supported by the campus. Symposiums are held every other year.
Discipline-based science undergraduate research projects conducted by students that are supervised by faculty or projects investigated by faculty with the assistance of students are part of the refereed symposium proceedings publication. Faculty projects addressing research issues at all levels (undergraduate, graduate and beyond) were invited for non-refereed poster presentations. In addition to the poster presentations, 10 papers from four disciplines: biology, chemistry, physics and mathematical physics; are included. To view a complete schedule and list of poster sessions visit http://www2.yk.psu.edu/smithsym/.
The symposium is named to honor the late benefactors and friends, John T. Smith and Paige S. Smith. Both graduates of Penn State, they established a scholarship in their name as well as the John T. and Paige S. Smith Professorship in Science at the campus. Along with their donations to York, the Smiths have supported the colleges of agriculture, and health and human development, as well as the athletics program.
In addition to participants from the York campus, eight other Penn State campuses are represented at the symposium: Shenango, University Park, Worthington Scranton, Schuylkill, Hazleton, Lehigh Valley, Greater Allegheny and Brandywine.
Two former Penn State York students who now attend University Park will be among the attendees.
For more information on the symposium, please contact Sarafian, who is chairman of the symposium committee, at (717) 771-4093 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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MCLA President Tony Scazzero has resigned, according to a member of the league's executive board.
Scazzero has resigned effective immediately because of business and family obligations, the board member wrote. In accordance with league bylaws, Mike Annala, MCLA treasurer, will be acting president until the new president is selected by the league's executive committee.
Full Article - http://insidelacrosse.com/news/2013/06/ ... -president


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These rocks look like a chunk of asphalt but they weigh under 3oz. Can be supported by a single strand of the original Vectra Line.
They're not the most realistic rocks ever produced but they've very light, perfect for thread work.
The photo used in this ad is an actual photo of the floating rock. They are very consistent in their manufacture, the rock you receive will be the same shape and texture.
Includes details of an easy and quick method to hook a thread to the rock. Thread and wax sold seperately.
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Creating The Circle of Happiness in Your Life
19:54 October 8th, 2016
200 yards from the Atlantic Ocean,
The last few days my 5-1/2 month old Nephew Seamas has been up to visit us. He's an adorable little man.
Kids at that age are superlearners. It's amazing to watch. Almost daily there is some progression. He's always up to something to develop himself, in every waking moment. And the sleeping and feeding is just to rejuvenate – so he can power forward again.
He's not crawling yet, but he's able to do mini press-ups and he does the yoga greeting the sun move of raising his head up as high as he can with his hips on the ground. He gets up on his hands and feet and he starts rocking back and forth. Then he makes an effort to crawl forward.
Any day now he'll master it. He can go a bit forward down on his elbows, but it's more of a squirm. All these moves are making him stronger and more coordinated. It's setting the stage for his next milestone.
He's also biting and tasting everything. He's interacting with people and having fun. He gets more advanced on these things all the time.
They say we learn more in our first five years on the planet than in the rest of our lives.
Babies are amazing.
Well, we've talked before about going towards OUR GOALS. Let's look at what the most efficient learners do… the little guys above.
They are as happy as larry and have a picture in mind for what they want to do. They've no encumberments of irrational fears, tension or doubt. They just have desire to achieve the next step for them. They also really ENJOY the whole process.
I was on the ground playing with Seamas earlier as he was 'working out'. He was up on all fours and making his latest attempts at moving forward. He had a big smile on his face the whole time – a happy lad, doing his thing.
Nothing is surer he'll achieve his goal too.
He's delighted where he's at. He feels confident. He might grunt a bit when he flops down because his arms aren't yet strong enough to take him forward. However, the smile isn't far behind. He's also clearly determined. He has a clear image of what he wants and strong desire to do it.
It's all fun, joy and loving the challenge.
It's not a problem to solve either. Too many of us adults are 'problem solvers.' It's the wrong way to look at things – much better to treat 'problems' as things to transcend. If problems come up, don't look for the solution, look for what you actually WANT. And move towards THAT.
Otherwise, more problems come along, because we are just in 'putting out fires' mode. In fact, with this approach, most of the problems we 'fix' tend to come back too.
Problems are taken care of automatically if our focus is on what we want. It's the flow instead of stress route.
Getting back to the title of this piece, 'The Circle of Happiness', goals are also supposed to enhance our lives. Too many of us turn goals into stress events of large proportions. That's not how we were when we started life.
Let's get into our flow.
This is the NATURAL way to be; feeling happy, calm and grateful. If you start to do this and continue it, your self-image will grow and so will your confidence. MORE and better versions of success will come your way.
Happiness is how we view ourselves and engaging our passions. It is not something that comes from outside things or reaching a goal we 'HAVE' to achieve.
Sure, we want to create desires and goals. That's a great thing. It is enlivening to go after things. It's part of who we are as humans. It's fun and progressive. Who doesn't like doing that?
However, we just want to do it in the most powerful way, not one that creates an unhealthy life.
That's what the 'Creating The Mentality of Success' and 'Your Breath is your Power' chapters in The Next Level Sports Program are about.
The result is the Circle of Happiness.
There's a concept of surrendering the outcome. This ensures you are in flow before, during and after an event or conclusion. That doesn't mean you aren't determined and burning with desire to achieve the goal. It just means you are happy no matter what. It means you don't have fears or unhelpful beliefs creating interference and bad stress.
Letting go of the outcome also gives you a better chance of achieving the goal.
Feeling great… AND more successful. Way to be, right?
And after all, isn't the main goal we all have in life… HAPPINESS? Think about it.
The mini-humans have it right and they learn more in the first five years than we do the rest of the time… OR they USUALLY learn and achieve more in the first five years than the rest of us.
There are some very rare super learners and ultra successful people among us that by luck or design have this concept ingrained as adults too.
Be one of those people.
Be it. Do it. Live it.
Brian Timlin
Ps. When I say 'successful', success is determined in different ways by different people. Mother Theresa was just as successful as Steve Jobs. She was happy and living her truth and passion.


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Rule #1 - Be Patient - Rule #2 - Don't ask when, if you don't contribute - Rule #3 - You have coding skills - LinuxMCE's small brother is available: http://www.agocontrol.com
Are these available anywhere? The links below aren't working and only half of the screencasts are available at localeconcept... Thanks.J.
I'm missing: 1,5,6,10,11 From group #1 and I did not even know of the existence of anything in group #2.Any you could provide would be great!J.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/6lxoezs0283rn47/Vt3HJJrhNR/ScreenCasts?lst1,10 and 11 from the first batch are fully synced up there now 5 and 6 should be on-line in an hour or two.I'll queue the others up later.-Coley.1,5,6,10,11 complete.


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WEDNESDAY, Dec. 29, 2010 (HealthDay News) -- People generally judge the personalities of attractive people more accurately than those of others, according to a new study.
Canadian researchers had volunteers socialize in groups of five to 11 people. Each person talked with every other person for three minutes. After each chat, the participants rated the other person's physical attractiveness and five major personality traits -- openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism.
Overall, the personalities of people considered physically attractive were rated more accurately. This may be because people are more motivated to pay attention to attractive people, said study co-author Jeremy Biesanz of the University of British Columbia.
"You do judge a book by its cover, but a beautiful book leads you to read it more closely," he said in an Association for Psychological Science news release.
But he noted that this research was about first impressions and may not hold true for people who have known each other for a longer time.
The study is published in the December issue of the journal Psychological Science.
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Those Cute Little Baby Cell Towers Could Pose Big Security Problems
Jul 15, 2013 1:28 PM PT
Two researchers at cybersecurity firm iSec Partners have cracked the security of a Verizon femtocell.
Femtocells, also called "small cells," are low-power cellular base stations that wireless carriers, including Verizon, AT&T and Sprint, either sell or give to consumers. They connect to the service provider's network through broadband and support multiple cellphones. They extend wireless coverage indoors or at the edge of the carrier's network.
Cellphones automatically connect to femtocells that are within range and send all their traffic through it without the user's knowledge.
The researchers, Doug DePerry and Tom Ritter, used a femtocell to intercept voice, SMS messages and data, and to launch network attacks. They also managed to clone a mobile device without accessing it physically.
"This is an issue that was fixed in March of this year on all Network Extender devices," Verizon Wireless spokesperson David Samberg told TechNewsWorld. "The fix prevents the Network Extender from being compromised in the same manner."
Verizon has not received any reports of any customers being affected by the flaw, Samberg said.
iSec did not respond to our request for further details.
The Threat From Femtocells
Femtocells "are in a similar position to routers -- they are becoming popular, are key for a home infrastructure, and allow a potential attacker to take control of their traffic if compromised," Bogdan Botezatu, senior e-threat analyst at Bitdefender, told TechNewsWorld.
DePerry and Ritter will explain how they hacked the Verizon femtocell at the DefCon 2013 hackers conference to be held in Las Vegas in August.
However, "from what we know of the incident, the issue that allowed the hack is not within the protocol but rather within the femtocell's firmware," Botezatu said. "Bypassing authentication by exploitation is relatively common amongst embedded devices; what makes it spectacular now is the fact that we're talking about voice and data in a relatively unexplored area."
That unrestricted access is an area of particular concern, because while voice conversations -- including those over mobile phones -- were "extremely easy to intercept with hardware costing less than $1,000 and open source software," Botezatu pointed out, "3G snooping was out of the question."
Keeping Femtocells Safe
Femtocells need to be properly configured to allow connections only from authorized numbers and to obey the rules of physical security, Botezatu said.
However, "anything is hackable," Jim McGregor, principal analyst at Tirias Research, told TechNewsWorld. "It depends on how creative you are and how much time you spend on it."
The plethora of end points -- PCs, tablets, netbooks and smartphones among them -- and the multiplicity of standards make it difficult to assure security, McGregor remarked. End-user apathy exacerbates the situation.
"When you try to implement security, you find IT managers don't want to implement something new until they launch a major upgrade," McGregor explained.
"As for the general consumer," he said, "how many people go back and update their firmware on their WiFi router or game console or Smart TV?"
Variations on a Theme
The ability to monitor communications through a hacked femtocell is nothing new.
Researchers warned of the threat from femtocells at Black Hat 2011, and hackers that year showed that breaking into a Vodafone femtocell would let them intercept and record calls and send SMS messages and calls through other subscribers' accounts.
The hardware needed to be physically modified so as to prevent remote upgrades, which limited the threat to some extent.
There are no other vulnerabilities in Verizon's femtocells, the company's Samberg said. "We continue to proactively work to protect the Network Extender from any new, real threats if they are discovered."
Still, more attention should be paid to femtocell security by both consumers and businesses, Tirias Research's McGregor urged. "Security is something everyone says they want but no one wants to pay for or do much about -- and it falls on the industry to push out security."


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Kobe Bryant to LeBron Haters: 'Lay off'
I think people need to lay off that kid, that's what I think. I've gotten to know him pretty well playing on the Olympic team, and I think they just need to back up off him and just let him play and let him live his life. Let him make his decisions, let him mature as a player. "It's tough to be under a microscope like that all the time. So I would like everyone to just back off him and let him play."
HoopsVibe's Very Quick Call: First The Custodian. Now The Black Mamba.
Kobe Bryant has joined Brian Cardinal in the 'LeBron James Apologists Club', telling the world to 'lay off' and let the Miami Heat superstar live.
Sorry Kobe. LeBron is not a victim. Whatever pressure, scrutiny, and criticism he has endured over the last year has been mostly self-induced.
After all, James announced on national television he was leaving his home of Ohio to sign with the star-studded Miami Heat as a free agent.
Then James and the Heat held the 2011 championship celebration -eleven months before the NBA Finals were to be played. At this pre-emptive party James declared that his new team would win multiple championships.
Naturally, there was a backlash. Was the backlash fair? Was the backlash justified? Who knows?
However, it was predictable. A first year PR intern could have seen stormy times coming for James during the 2010-11 season.
Yet James refused to hire a PR firm to help his buddy from his AAU team that was clearly (mis)handling communications.
Kobe can have his opinion. He can even tell us his opinion. It won't change James' predicament. Only James can do that.
--Oly Sandor.
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Rhino Safety Comes First-Endangered Mugie Rhinos Moved
With incredible sadness we announce the translocation of the rhinos from the Mugie Rhino Sanctuary.
Reality hits hard and rhino poaching in Kenya and the rest of Africa has reached such worrying levels that the species has been pushed to the the edge of extinction. After a series of meetings between the Kenyan Wildlife Service and Mugie the decision was made to remove all rhinos from the Mugie Sanctuary for their own safety. The poachers were becoming more and more brazen as the price of rhino horn shot up – reports now reaching us have indicated that the the price has risen to an astonishing US$ 50,000 per kilogram. KWS had recently increased their armed Special Operations team from 9 to 38 men on Mugie but this was still not proving enough of a deterrent to the poachers.
Mugie had become synonymous with the conservation of the critically endangered black rhino and the continual daily battle to fight to save them. They had a huge dedicated security team that worked tirelessly over the years, but having already lost three rhinos in 2011 to poachers, saving these animals was more important than the revenues from tourism and the decision was made to translocate them to Ol Jogi Conservancy near Nanyuki in central Kenya and to Ruma (the new KWS conservancy on the shores of Lake Victoria) in western Kenya. The last rhino to leave Mugie was called Baraka – a bull rhino born in 1976 and translocated to Mugie from Nakuru National Park in 2005. It was a sad moment when his crate was put on the back of the truck and the last of Kenya's most northerly population of black rhinos was driven away.
To get an understanding of the numbers involved – in South Africa alone, which is home to 80% of the worlds remaining rhinos, there were a staggering 440 rhinos killed last year by poachers when just five years ago 13 rhinos were killed in the same period.
Mugie will always continue their efforts with conservation – which is also home to the endangered Grevys zebra and Jacksons hartebeest amongst other threatened species. Their lion numbers are extremely healthy when numbers are dropping in many other areas due to illegal killings and habitat loss.
We just hope that the rhinos who were moved from Mugie will flourish in their new environment safer from the appalling and real peril of poaching and that internationally something is being done to stop this disgrace so that the rhinos can come back to Mugie. Till then you still have the most amazing wildlife viewing with all of the remaining Big Five – lion, leopard, elephant and buffalo – as well as lots of plain game.
Brigitte, Deepa and the EAT Team.
East Africa's Highlight Safaris
Two of East Africa's highlight safaris are the great wildebeest migration and gorilla tracking in Rwanda, Uganda or Congo. Several wildebeest migration safaris are organized in both Maasai (Masai) Mara and Serengeti National Parks. The duration of the safari depends on various factors but mostly on time and budget but also the flexibility of the guest. The all drive 11 days Masai Mara Serengeti Migration Safari commences from Nairobi and returns to the same via Maasai Mara, Serengeti, Ngorongoro, Manyara, and Amboseli. The 8 days fly drive Wildebeest Migration Safari Masai Mara National Park (Mara Explorer 8 days) is a luxury option. Guests fly from Nairobi Wilson to Masai Mara and return to the same. The 4 days 3 Nights Migration safari combines Masai Mara, Lake Nakuru National Park and Lake Naivasha. The 6 days Best of Tanzania Safari focuses on wildebeest migration in Serengeti National Park. The best time to witness migration in Masai Mara National Park Kenya, is between July to September. Serengeti National Park is best visited between March and May.


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Welcome to Watch List, where we identify five things on TV to watch while you stay at home and practice your wizarding spells. That mug WILL turn into a rat if you stare at it long enough. LET'S GO!
IDOL GIVES BACK – 8:00PM (FOX) I like that Idol's annual charity show is titled "Idol Gives Back," given that Idol has taken so very much away from us. It's taken away our musical taste, our ability to distinguish between talented artists and wedding singers, our hope for another John Lennon one day, and so on. They really DO owe us all something in return for pillaging our souls. So tonight, you get performances from Elton John, Annie Lennox, Carrie Underwood, Alicia Keys, the Black Eyed Peas, and Jeff Beck with Joss Stone. Not a bad lineup. Best of all, you get to see one of this season's scrubs knocked off at the end. No more Andrew Garcia? Why, that's the most charitable act of all. ANTICIPATION: TELETHONIC!
SOUTH PARK – 10:00PM (Comedy Central) Last week's episode ended with a cliffhanger, and now we're left to wonder… who is Eric Cartman's REAL father? Is it Mr. Hat? Is it Slave? Is it Jimbo? Is it Mel Gibson? Is it Hitler? Is it Colonel Sanders? Truthfully, I don't care. All I care about is watching Cartman get angry. It never gets old. 201 episodes is proof. ANTICIPATION: HIGH
TOP CHEF MASTERS – 10:00PM (Bravo – an NBC/Universal network) The chefs have to make pub food. Is there a modern take on potato and pig tooth loaf that will appeal to today's diner? I say… eh maybe not. ANTICIPATION: DREW WANT BEER
STRANGE SEX – 8:00PM (TLC) A profile of extreme sexual disorders and anomalies. I'll confess now: I too have a bizarre sexual disorder. That's right. I have a hot air balloon fetish. So light. So airy. So DANGEROUS. I cannot stay away. ANTICIPATION: KINKY!
DESTINATION TRUTH – 10:00PM (SyFy – an NBC/Universal network) Tonight, the team tries to unlock the secret of Easter Island. The secret? If you stick your head in one of the statues mouths and take a pic, all your FaceBook buddies will find it HILARIOUS. Look at me, man! The giant head is eating MY head! ANTICIPATION: HEADY GOODNESS
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