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Pontifical council's 'Courtyard of the Gentiles' expands to include 'Courtyard of Children'
June 20, 2013
The Pontifical Council for Culture's president has announced that the Courtyard of the Gentiles initiative, an outreach that promotes dialogue with nonbelievers, has expanded to include children.
As part of the "Courtyard of the Children" initiative, 450 children who have psychosocial problems or who otherwise have "difficult experiences of inclusion in society" are embarking on "The Children's Train: A Journey through Beauty" on June 23. The children, who come from 12 nations, will be accompanied by 164 family members, educators, and volunteers as they travel from Milan to the Vatican, where Pope Francis will welcome them.
"I focused on the children, because I think that therein lies the root from which we must build a generation of young persons who still have ... the beauty of creativity—that doesn't seem old at the start—who aren't already discouraged the way we are but who are ready to live more the future that awaits them," said Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi at a June 18 press conference. "Basically, religions have precisely this fundamental purpose: to teach how to come together, how to continuously declare the future, that is, hope."
The children have already visited the cathedrals of Milan, Bologna, and Florence as well as the colonnades of St. Peter's Square.
Further information:
- Children's Train Arrives in Vatican (VIS)
- Full text of press conference (Holy See)
- Vatican plans major effort to engage non-believers (CWN, 3/18/11)
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Release Date: 12/21/2010
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PHILADELPHIA (Dec. 21, 2010) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today that the report on air toxics monitoring at Neale Elementary in Vienna, West Virginia and at Warren Elementary and The Ohio Valley Educational Service Center in Marietta, Ohio has been posted on the agency's website. The report is posted on the School Air Toxics website at http://www.epa.gov/schoolair.
EPA's analysis of air quality monitoring conducted outside the three schools indicates the need for more monitoring since there were elevated levels of manganese outside each of the schools. The Marietta area has previously been studied for manganese and other metals because of community concerns about air pollution. All other monitored pollutants were below levels of concern.
EPA selected the three schools because the West Virginia and Ohio environmental agencies recommended them for the agency's Schools Air Toxics Monitoring Initiative, designed to help EPA and states understand whether long-term exposure to air toxics poses health concerns for children and staff at specific schools.
Although the elevated levels of manganese pose no immediate health threats, additional air monitoring will begin next summer to help EPA, West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection and Ohio EPA gain a better understanding of levels of manganese in outdoor air and whether there are potential health concerns from long-term exposure.
Eramet Marietta, Inc., a metallurgical manufacturing plant in the area, is the largest emitter of manganese in the country. EPA is reviewing the federal Clean Air Act rules that apply to facilities like Eramet, to ensure they protect public health as required by law. The plant has reported that it's installing new pollution control equipment expected to reduce particulate matter emissions. Because manganese can be emitted as a particle, Eramet's changes should also reduce manganese levels in the outside air at the schools and in the surrounding community. The additional monitoring will determine if the changes are effective.
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Back in 2007, I launched Pizza Comedy as a way to blog about funny internet videos like "Cat Fights Squirrel" and "Man Hit in Testicles", or my personal favorite "Squirrel Hit in Testicles By ManCat". It wasn't long after that, I began to making original sketches and shorts.
I even made an interactive website about a fortune-telling vagina called "Chatty Vag". My mother was extremely proud.
And in 2015, I decided to refocus this site on just my originals.
"But where are the videos of hampsters eating tiny burritos?!" you angrily retort. Well, I'm glad you asked. That's right here, and it's hilarious. I mean seriously, look at that little burrito!
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There is one major flaw tho that i think was better in hedgehog launch.
When you have the booster at three you insta win the game by bashing the mouse button at launch. it's way too strong and easy to get by spamming launches and only investing in boost which will get you a lot for each launch.
I like it, plays fluent and the music is really well choosen.
There is a thumbnail as far as I can see. But you removed the shield in this version, I think you should change that in the description ;)
Thanks you're right. I also replaced the description about the shield.
it works for losing time
this kind of games i dont realy like but yours is one well done
Good game
Very good game altho you need to put more platforms in the levels, on the early levels before you can afford 'platforms give extra bounce' its very very difficult to get from 1 side of the screen to the other with enough bounce.
Overall nice game tho, good work
There's not much to say, it's fun to play, it's addicting and yeah, 10/10.


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In a world divided into four territories, each with their own unique sun, color, race, and culture, Esh is born and abandoned in the cruelest of all. The red territory of Reah. A land in which every day is an absolute struggle for survival. One day, an elderly man discovers the boy mortally wounded on the side of the ash-filled streets and takes pity on him, a kindness unknown in the land of Reah. Then, using violent and unorthodox training, he teaches the boy the skills necessary to endure the harshness of the territory. Skills of a master assassin. Combat. Sorcery. Alchemy. All is going well until a dark and forgotten energy finds its way into young Esh's body. Wreaking havoc on his mind, it threatens to drag his spirit into darkness.
"Not what I expected in all the right ways"
Professional heroes kill and loot deadly monsters every day, but Gorm Ingerson's latest quest will be anything but business as usual. The adventuring industry drives the economy of Arth, a world much like our own but with more magic and fewer vowels. Monsters' hoards are claimed, bought by corporate interests, and sold off to plunder funds long before the Heroes' Guild actually kills the beasts. Of course, that's a terrible arrangement for the Shadowkin; orcs, goblins, kobolds, and their ilk must apply for to become Noncombatant Paper Carriers to avoid being killed and looted by heroes.
"High Fantasy meets Economics- hilarity ensues"
Gamers are celebrities. Superstars. Idols to the masses. Only a few ever make it out of Piper's Mill, most toil their lives away in the small town just dreaming of a better life. Liam thought he had a comfortable life all worked out when it winds up wrenched away from him. Drawn into other's schemes to hack the game and steal some spotlight he never expects to find himself playing in a game nobody has ever heard of.
"Decent Short Read"
The war for control of the multiverse is finally coming to a head. What started for Liam as a game has become for King Liam something far more personal, a fight for the home he has made for himself and those he cares for. This conclusion to the saga brings more of what has defined the Crucible Shard series, hard decisions and complex choices as the lines between hero, anti-hero, and villain blur even more.
"pretty solid ending to the series"
Castle Sardonis is surrounded by enemies on all sides and dangerously short of supplies. When a needed shipment goes missing the party finds themselves on the high seas beset by pirates and seeking the Goddess of the Sea. New loot, new levels, and new mysteries to unravel as more is learned about the world. Immediately following the story from
Dungeon Crawl, the focus remains with the same group and focused on their struggles within the Crucible Shard.
"now a second God has brought into the mix"
The Elves are invading Galea. With evil growing in the southern lands they have come to put an end to it by any means necessary. The forces of evil won't go down easily. Liam Ottani has learned many lessons since first logging into the crucible shard. Attacks must not go unanswered and one must strike where their enemy is weak.
"a fun book with great characters"
King Liam has faced many foes since taking the throne, but this one is more personal than most. The God Veros is one of the artificial intelligences from Earth and has been hatching plans and building his base of power for a very long time. The struggle shall make all those involved rediscover who they truly are, and make hard choices for the days to come.
"this whole series is cool"
Perry Stone hasn't gotten over his fear of being outside and he still hasn't settled into life in the Empire's Navy. After months of legal wrangling over his last assignment, he has been given a new assignment. He was looking forward to getting a new posting on a spaceship or a station. The problem is that his new job is on a planet.
Liam is king of the world and things have never seemed darker. As the Crucible Shard takes on a new prominence in the larger Universe, this brings new opportunities and dangers greater than any he has yet faced. Earth, too, is moving into this larger world and under the control of the Artificial Intelligences it would be foolish to underestimate their ambition. When battle lines are drawn, what side shall Liam choose?
"Another great move"
Becoming King of a virtual nation was just the start of Liam's problems. Unreliable allies fill his castle and skilled foes surround his lands on all sides. While the pirates on the coast have been dealt with, the former King of Galea has been raised from the dead and musters an army.
"some of the Gods make questionable choices"
Coyote has a new task for Paul, one that involves him traveling north hundreds of miles over the post-apocalyptic landscape of California, the place that Paul once called home. Thankfully, Sarah and Heather have both decided to go with him and between Heather's shooting skills and Sarah's magical ones; Paul thinks he might just live through whatever scheme Coyote has enlisted him in. If he can live through telling the girls just what Coyote's got him carrying in his pack now, of course.
"Listen to book one first!"
Paul's been having a bad day, perhaps one of the worst days he's ever had. And now into the middle of all this, his instructor just got drafted by some mystical goddess to help save a world. As for Paul? Well, he's really not supposed to be there, and if he thought he was having a bad day before all of this, it just got worse - a lot worse. He's now on a one-way trip, forced to help a man who despises him, while at the mercy of the world's biggest trickster.
"Well done to both the author and the narrator"
Coming of age can be hard for anyone. But for Blackmon Perry Stone it is life threatening. At 15, he barely manages to graduate from the empire's cadet training by a talent for unusual problem solving. He has trouble settling into navy life, but life becomes harder when he uncovers a ring of thieves aboard the huge ship. Life becomes difficult when they killed him.
Ensign Stone's goals were to make his way in the Empire's navy, make his family proud of him, and make love to his fiancée. No matter which way he turned, someone was conspiring against him. Disgraced and humiliated, he is court-martialed, discharged, and abandoned. Accepting what he thinks is a lowly busy-work position on a beat up old family business space freighter travelling at the edge of human space, he hopes to earn back the trust and respect he lost.
"It's Clobbering Time!"
After his brother's accident, Chris is holding the family together. When he runs into money troubles, he finds an answer in an unlikely place. It's a land of adventure, fighting, spells, and skills. Most importantly, somewhere fortunes can be made. Chris is going to the new island of Artemis, but it won't be simple. The developers have created Artemis with the toughest of adventurers in mind, and nobody knows what happens there at night...
"as a one-off this is great"
Stone's fist, secure in the combat suit and hidden by camouflage, impacted the Hyrocanian mouth before it closed around the baby. Stone grabbed the helpless piglet with his free hand and tossed it to a startled female. The piglet, the last of her kind on the delivery shuttle, grabbed the baby and ran. Stone twisted his fist, trying his best to break every tooth in the Hyrocanian's mouth. Suddenly, his fist broke free from the shattered teeth. Opening his fist, he felt something soft and squishy at the back of the alien's throat.
Larry enjoyed raising cattle on his Kansas farm, until the aliens arrived. He couldn't help himself; he was going for a ride with aliens from outer space! The aliens wouldn't tell him where he was going, how long he would be gone, or if he was ever coming back, but a space trip sounded like more fun than beer and burgers at Benny's Been There and Done That Bar and Grill. He had to go. Larry's ride into deep space wasn't just a Sunday jaunt.
Mark just watched his partner and best friend of 10 years torn limb from limb by the kind of unholy horror that leaves most people gibbering in terror. Only a combination of luck and skill kept Mark from sharing his partner's fate and being killed by an abomination that by rights shouldn't exist in this day and age.
"New series great story!"
With having to leave the commission for a year while things cool off politically, Mark finds that the church has loaned him out to the FBI, who have been trying for years now to get an experienced monster and demon expert in their newest division, to help train and educate the agents there on just what they will be facing. Finding out that Mark actually is one of those very monsters has made them want him even more - not just for what he can bring to the table but because they do need to check off that newest minority checkbox, even if no one knows they exist.
"Thoroughly enjoyed!"
Being on loan to the FBI has its advantages, and for the first time in far too long, Mark is taking a few weeks off with his family. But he's barely gotten started when he finds his brother unwittingly entangled in a mess that can be traced directly back to an attempt on Mark's life some months ago.
"Keep them coming! This is the best!"


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I'm using Google+ quite a bit lately so I forget to look at Facebook and see my friends' birthdays. Even if you aren't using Google+, calendars are great for planning upcoming events and Facebook doesn't put upcoming birthdays in a nice calendar format. Fortunately Facebook provides us with a link usingthe webcal standard allow you to bring all your friends' birthdays into Google Calendar. I'm focusing on Google Calendar here but same techniques should work for other programs such as Apple iCal and Microsoft Outlook.
First, log on to Facebook and click Events.
Next, at the right hand side there is a gear icon, click that.
A dialog box will pop up showing the webcal address to all the birthdays. Right click on the link and click Copy Link Address
(different but similar wording in IE or Firefox).
Next, go to Google Calendar and the bottom of the left hand column click Add. Then Add by URL.
In the dialog that pops up, paste in the webcal URL you copied in the previous step. Then click Add Calendar.
After a pause of a few seconds or so you should see a new calendar called Friends Birthdays in your list of calendars on the right. You can page through your calendar and you should see all your friends and the day they were born. You can click on the colored drop down to the right of the calendar name to customize the colors or hide.
That's it! Now if you want another calendar for you Facebook events, go back to Facebook and use the same process except use the upcoming events link in the export dialog box.


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I would like to add a background image to this site however when I tried it, only a small portion of the photo could be seen on the sides of the white.
What other themes can I use to get the full effect of my photo?
Thanks so much! :)
The blog I need help with is lisavproulx.com.


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- Artist: Christopher Lake
- Format: CD
- Release Date: 10/3/2006
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This album is truly enchanting. I enjoy starting out my albums in a mellow state, allowing them to end in a meditative state. This album is no different, complete with ambient sounds. Heaven's scent is presented in two formats. The first, a studio mix is with percussion, and the later is a mellow meditative version, aloowing you to wind down after a hard day.


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Maya Rudolph gave birth to her most recent baby back in September, but the sex and name of the child has only been revealed in the past couple of weeks. The SNL alum and her longtime partner, director Paul Thomas Anderson, stayed tight-lipped about anything pertaining to this baby--their fourth. It seems TMZ has blown their cover, however, having recently procued a copy of the child's birth certificate. You see, Maya gave birth at home this time, and the birth certificate paper work had to be filed before this baby turned a year old.
Anderson and Maya Rudolph have a new (at least she was back in September) little girl, and she was named after Rudolph's late mother Minnie Riperton. Minnie Ida Anderson joins big sisters Pearl and Lucille, who are eight and four, respectively, as well as brother Jack, who is three.
Minnie Riperton was a soul and R&B singer who died at the age of 31 back in 1979 of breast cancer. Maya Rudolph was just seven years old when her mom passed away.
Didn't know Minnie Riperton was Maya Rudolph from Bridesmaids mother pic.twitter.com/DyTrtsEK2s
— Ethan Krane (@theEthanKrane) July 31, 2014
Shortly after giving birth to baby Minnie, Maya Rudolph starred in her own TV variety show. The Maya Rudolph Show debuted in May to excellent ratings and more than seven million viewers.
Tonight's the night! Please watch THE MAYA RUDOLPH SHOW tonight at 10pm after The Voice on NBC...It will make you a better person.
— Maya Rudolph (@MayaRudolph) May 19, 2014
"I wanted to continue doing what I love the most, which is sketch comedy mixed with music," she said during an interview around the time of the show's premiere. "Or as my stepmother calls it, 'Being a singing comedian.' That's her catch-all name for it, which I like."
Although it's a bit unusual that Maya Rudolph and her partner didn't release information about Minnie's birth back in September (they never withheld information about prior births), fans are likely happy to learn of the baby's name and gender now--and they know why they didn't learn earlier, too. A large family by today's standards, it will be interesting to see if Rudolph and Anderson decide to add to their growing brood.
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Illustration &Theater 23 Jan 2006 09:06 am
Aronson Designs
- Cartoon Brew has a number of insightful comments about the Disney/Pixar buyout. All of the markers seem to be designed to make a good marriage, but I always fear the worst. We can only hope that Pixar will maintain the same autonomy it's had in the past and continue to produce excellent films.
– I'd like to recommend a stunning art book that's been out there for years: The Theater Art of Boris Aronson by Frank Rich & Lisa Aronson (Knopf, 1987). The book is a bit difficult to get and expensive. If you can't afford it, go look at in a library.
Aronson was one of theater's greatest designers; it was a privilege to have seen a number of his theatrical productions from Company on up.
He and Tony Walton are the only designers that have ever brought me into the theater especially at current prices.
A collage for "A Little Night Music."
A model for Admiral Perry's ship in "Pacific Overtures."
The book is rich in photos of actual sets as well as background material to illustrate how Aronson came up with the set he did. For many shows, he produced a collage of the theme of the production. Then he did models from his paintings of the sets, and finally the sets were constructed.
This is not unlike the process that an animation designer should be using to make sets and costumes. It's not always easy to do, especially on some of the over-rushed jobs we have to do, but it certainly will help the art expand and develop. I hope to offer more samples of this brilliant artist's work this week.
The Man Who Walked Between The Towers is having enormous success at film festivals; I'm always a bit embarassed to toot my own horn, but this news is special for me. We just won the Carnegie Medal, an award presented by the American Library Association. It's the film equivalent of the Caldecott Award. It's a real treat. Congratulations to my two other producers, Paul Gagne and Melissa Reilly and all the other great artists who worked on the film.
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on 23 Jan 2006 at 2:37 pm 1.John Celestri said …
Congratulatons to you, Michael (and all your cohorts) on winning the Carnegie Medal!
on 24 Jan 2006 at 1:57 am 2.Daniel Thomas said …
Congratulations on your success. I remember learning about the performance artist whose story became the basis for The Man Who Walked Between the Towers, and was throuroughly impressed with it. Imagine, then, my surprise to discover that it has been adapted as an animation. Living in the midst of flyover country (Minneapolis), I'll hold out hope that I'll be lucky enough to see it on a big screen.
on 25 Jan 2006 at 5:17 pm 3.Jenny said …
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The Elyria Chronicle-Telegram reported Saturday (http://bit.ly/14eLsLP ) that police found 26-year-old Lauren Moore dead in a back bedroom of her apartment Thursday night. The apartment was in disarray and police determined Moore did not die of natural causes.
The newspaper reported authorities have charged Vernon Shallenberger, 27, with one count of murder.
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Brushing, flossing could cut risk of HPV infection: study
Published Thursday, August 22, 2013 1:33PM EDT
Could simply taking care of your teeth by brushing and flossing every day help protect against oral and throat cancer?
A new study suggests there could be a link between poor dental health and infection with a key cancer-causing virus.
Research published this week found that people who poor oral health, including gum disease and lost teeth, were more likely to be have oral infections of HPV, or human papillomavirus.
Research in the U.S. has shown that about 7 per cent of adults have oral HPV. The virus has been shown to cause about 40 to 80 per cent of cancers in the area at the back of the mouth called the oropharynx. There are dozens of strains of HPV, with some high-risk types linked to cancer, and other low-risk types causing tumours or warts in the mouth.
Actor Michael Douglas made headlines earlier this year when he said his throat cancer had been caused by oral sex, although his publicist later said his comments had been misinterpreted.
This study did not look at why poor oral health might be linked to HPV infection. But the researchers note that HPV viruses needs small wounds in the mouth or throat such as ulcers, gum inflammation or disruption of mucous membrane, that would allow infection to enter the bloodstream. Further research is needed to understand the relationship, the researchers noted.
For the study, which appears in Cancer Prevention Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, researchers looked at more than 3,400 participants in a U.S. health and nutrition survey called NHANES.
Those participants who self-reported that they had poor oral health had a 56 per cent higher prevalence of oral HPV infection. Those who had gum disease had a 51 per cent higher prevalence of oral HPV infection, while those with dental problems, such as lost teeth, had a 28 per cent higher prevalence.
This study looked only at poor oral hygiene and HPV infection, not oral cancer. But Dr. Thanh Cong Bui, from the School of Public Health at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center in Houston, says this is the first study to look at poor oral health as an independent risk factor for HPV infection.
"The good news," he said, "is this risk factor is modifiable. By maintaining good oral hygiene and good oral health, one can prevent HPV infection and subsequent HPV-related cancers."
The researchers also found that being male, smoking cigarettes, and oral sex habits increased the likelihood of oral HPV infection.
But they said they found that people with poor self-rated oral hygiene were still more likely to have an HPV infection, even when they accounted for smoking or had multiple oral sex partners.
Bui added that while more research is needed to confirm the relationship between oral health and HPV infection, everyone should take care of their teeth and gums for a variety of other health benefits.
"Oral hygiene is fundamental for oral health, so good oral hygiene practices should become a personal habit," he said.
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Joseph Pavur graduated from Governors State University in 1992 with a degree in Public Administration. He was employed as a Union electrician in Cook County prior to attending John Marshall Law School in 1999. Mr. Pavur then joined the Will County State's Attorney's Office in early 2001. He began his legal career prosecuting criminal misdemeanor and aggravated traffic offenses. Mr. Pavur later transferred to the Civil Division where he prosecuted liquor control violations, reviewed Freedom of Information (FOIA) requests, and participated in seminars informing elected officials on various areas of law. In 2003, Mr. Pavur entered private practice with an emphasis on criminal and family law. He remained in private practice until joining the Will County Public Defender's Office on January 12, 2015.


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A surname of Apollo, which is derived by some from sminthos, a mouse, and by others from the town of Sminthe in Troas (Horn. Il. i. 3.9; Ov. Fast. vi. 425, Met. xii. 585 ; Eustath. ad Hom. p. 34). The mouse was regarded by the ancients as inspired by the vapours arising from the earth, and as the symbol of prophetic power. In the temple of Apollo at Chryse there was a statue of the god by Scopas, with a mouse under its foot (Strab. xiii. p. 604, &c.; Eustath. ad Hom. p. 34), and on coins Apollo is represented carrying a mouse in his hands (Müller, Ancient Art and its Rem. § 361, note 5). Temples of Apollo Smintheus and festivals (Smintheia) existed in several parts of Greece, as at Tenedos, near Hamaxitos in Aeolis, near Parion, at Lindos in Rhodes, near Coressa, and in other places. (Strab. x. p 486, xiii. pp. 604, 605.)
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If only his all-junior lineup would play defense like a group of seasoned seniors, Oak Forest coach Ken Connor thought, the Bengals would be a fun team to watch.
Friday, with first place in the South Inter-Conference Association Central Division on the line at Tinley Park, the Bengals played defense like very seasoned seniors. They jumped out to a 29-17 halftime lead en route to an easy 62-38 victory.


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There is no secret I'm a lover of Irish men. Larry Enright was interviewed here back in August of last year. He's an author, a humorist, and a musician. What's not to like? Really. He's also a lovely man who's written multiple books and is a genuine supporter of indie authors.
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Here's one of the reasons why I'm not exactly in a hurry to learn C. When you ask me to read through C code, this is what happens:
No jokes. Even after simplifying and compacting the code, it's still such a pain for me to navigate through C that I actually felt the need to output the code onto thin slices of dead plants and stick them to a wall. This piece of code that I wanted to understand for a long time suddenly became clear after a few hours of analysis with a blue "thinkpad" and ballpoint pen:
What was this code for, you ask? Making the toolbar hide nicely in fullscreen mode. Thus 400 lines of compacted C code to analyze from Gedit (nearly 700 if you don't compact and just search code related to the fullscreen toolbar) became 50 lines of Python code in Pitivi.
Okay, the fullscreen toolbar is not the only thing I've been up to lately. While cleaning up code or looking at old bug reports, I fixed some little details, such as filtering out unknown/irrelevant file types from the file chooser dialog when importing clips:
A combobox (defaults to "Supported file formats") allows you to change the strictness of the filtering. The same is true of the "missing clips" file chooser. By default, we now show only files with the same extension as the one you're looking for:
I also made it error out if you don't provide the requested replacement clips, with a new error dialog to explain accordingly:
This is better than being stuck inside an infinite asynchronous loop, trust me. There are also some new error dialogs (everyone loves those) to catch some silly corner cases, such as trying to save in a read-only directory (because GTK doesn't do it for us):
…And even crazier scenarios, including someone explicitely bypassing the file extension filters to try to load a movie file as if it was a project file:
It's the little details that count. You can't make something too bullet-proof.
I also progressively reworked the pitivi git environment/build script to make it smarter and friendlier. Not only does it allow you to continue where you interrupted the checkouts/builds, but it has a built-in debugging duck:
"What, that's it? Don't you have more exciting stuff to show?"
Well, it turns out that Pitivi itself is pretty much ready*, it's in very good shape. What's preventing a release is the need for GNonLin (and after that, GES) to be fixed, and there's nothing I can personally do about that (except testing and mentoring interested contributors). So if reading and writing C does not require you to stick pieces of dead plants onto walls, come talk to us!
*: except if we embark on the project of refactoring and porting the whole timeline UI to Clutter… Oh, and we need someone to fix undo & redo after that… And expand our test suite… And improve our title editor UI… And update the user manual/documentation…
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Whole chicken for more than 1 meal?
How do you do it? I mean I get HOW you do it, but my family is meat eaters. So when I cook an entire chicken the whole thing gets used in that one recipe. Like in chicken noodles, chicken & dumplings, gumbo....whatever I make. I don't know if I know how to make things without using alot of meat, or if they will be good if I used so much less?
Re: Whole chicken for more than 1 meal?
Yesterday, before we left for church, I put a chicken in the crockpot. After church, my dad, brother, DH and I and the kids all had chicken, potatoes, green beans, and fruit for lunch. We're all pretty big eaters. I have enough left to boil the bones and pick off pieces of meat for chicken and dumplings tonight or tomorrow, which will be a great filling dinner for us with mashed potatoes and broccoli. So, that's what we do...eat the chicken the first night and use the rest the next night in soup or chicken and dumplings. If you need just a bit more chicken the next night, boil a single frozen chicken breast.
Re: Whole chicken for more than 1 meal?
We usually get 3 meals out of ours. First usually being roasted chicken. Our list of meals that we can make- chicken pot pie, chicken and dumplings, enchiladas, shredded barb chicken sandwiches. We have lots of sides/veggies with the roasted chicken so that we eat an actual recommended portion size of chicken. For pot pie and dumplings we use the same base. So all the left over chicken gets chunked and thrown in. So its the chicken, thickened broth and tons of veggies (whole bag of soup veggies and usually half a bag of green beans) and sometimes potatoes. Then we make the dumplings. Eat chicken and dumplings. Left over soup goes in the fridge. Next day gets heated, dumped into a pie crust and baked for pot pie. The key to making it stretch is adding other ingredients. If we didn't use a whole bag of veggies the chicken wouldn't stretch. Add beans and rice to the enchiladas etc. We do the same for chicken noodle soup- its loaded with soup veggies and I usually put in a can of tomatoes as well.
Re: Whole chicken for more than 1 meal?
I dont think bf and the kids would like the chicken & noodles or chicken and dumplings without a ton of chicken. Maybe I just need to try it and see?
We only get about 2 meals out of a chicken with a family.of 7 (two little eaters)
Re: Whole chicken for more than 1 meal?
I only get 1 meal of a chicken with maybe enough leftovers for me to have lunch the next day and there are only 3 of us. My husband and son LOVE roast chicken and they can eat a lot. Ds will eat both of the legs, dh will eat the thighs and wings. I eat one breast for dinner and I pick off whatever is left and eat it for lunch the next day. It amazes me that people can get 2+ meals out of a whole chicken. How big of a chicken are you using? I use smaller chickens, around 4 lbs.
I usually buy the biggest chicken I can find, the last one I cooked in the crock pot was 8.5lbs and we had the inital chicken dinner for the 5 of us, and then I had enough meat left over to make 6 quarts of chicken soup (with A LOT of chicken). So that's another 2 meals for all 5 of us... 3 meals total. I pick any meat I can find, off the chicken - the back has a LOT of meat!
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We are a family of eight who are big meat eaters. My 4older kids eat a lot. lately feeding them is becoming a lot more expensive with all the meat we want to eat. I stopped making meat the center of our meal. Now we roast a chicken maybe 5 or 6 pound one and eat it one night and make soup the next. I limit the meat so no seconds on the meat unless it is mixed in someting.
Re: Whole chicken for more than 1 meal?
I use a "normal" size chicken. 1st meal is roast chicken or I cut it up and bake the pieces. I offer 2 side dishes or more with each meal. Each person gets 1 piece of meat (1 leg, 1 thigh, or 1/2 a breast) and a serving of each side. They do not get 2nds on anything till after they everything on their plate.
If it is a roasted chicken I wait till after dinner. I pick all the meat off the bones. I cook the bones overnight for a nice broth. The leftover meat is sometimes used for a different meal than the soup.
If I chop up the chicken to bake it, then rib bones and extras are started to cook while I'm baking the other dish. (I just throw it into a big pot of water, bring to a boil, then simmer. Before I make the soup, I strain out the bones. Then add onion, celery, carrot, and potato (or noodles/rice/whatever I got).
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"Happy New Year, again! Yes, we celebrated the arrival of 2017 on January 1st, but this Friday, January 27th, is once again New Year's Eve and Saturday, January 28th is New Years, actually, Chinese New Year, also called the Lunar New Year.
It is the biggest festival of the year in China, and many other Asian nations. Taiwan, Bhutan, Korea, Hong Kong, Macau, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines, Japan all celebrate the Lunar New Year. Given all the talk from the the administration in Washington D.C., about America's relationship with China, I thought it would be interesting to take a look at the upcoming Lunar New Year and what it means to the Asian nations who will begin celebrations this weekend.
Roughly, one sixth of the people on our planet will be celebrating New Years over the next 15 days, culminating with the Lantern Festival. In cities, towns and villages across China, one-fifth of the world's population will be welcoming the Year of the Rooster. Only, this New Years will not be ringing in 2017, according to the Chinese calendar it is the year 4714.
The Lunar New Year is a time of family reunions. Family members gather at each other's homes for visits and shared meals, most significantly a feast on New Year's Eve. In China, during the New Year celebrations people wear red clothes, decorate with poems on red paper, and give children "lucky money" in red envelopes. Red symbolizes fire, which according to legend can drive away bad luck. The fireworks, which are being forgone in most of China this year because of air pollution are rooted in a similar ancient custom. In ancient times, people in China lit bamboo stalks, believing that the crackling flames would frighten evil spirits.
The Lunar New Year is based on the ancient Chinese lunar calendar, and it falls on the second new moon after winter solstice, which always falls somewhere between the 21st of January and 19th of February, so unlike our January 1st that begins our year, the date of the Lunar New Year changes from year to year.
The Chinese calendar is lunisolar. It is based on exact astronomical observations of the sun's longitude and the moon's phases. It attempts to have its years coincide with the tropical year and shares some similarities with the Jewish calendar. In both calendars, an ordinary year has 12 months and a leap year has 13 months; and an ordinary year has 353-355 days while a leap year has 383-385 days.
Although China has used the Gregorian calendar since 1912, the lunisolar calendar continues to be used to mark traditional holidays such as the New Year and the fall moon festival. It's also used astrologically to select favorable dates for weddings and other special events.
According to legend, the beginning of Chinese New Year started with a ugly bloodthirsty monster named Nian (which roughly translates as "Year") would emerge on the last night of each year to destroy villages and eat people. Finally, a wise elder advised villagers that they could scare the monster away with loud noises. On the next New Year's Eve, the people hung lanterns and posted Dui Lian on the front door of their homes. (The Dui Lian are one of the most important and revered Chinese New Year symbols and traditions. The characters written on them are poetic and traditional Chinese sayings representing the wishes and hopes that Chinese people have for the new year.) They also set off a lot of fireworks and the monster, afraid of the noises and lights, ran away. On the first day of the new year, the villagers celebrated, greeting each other with the words Guo Nian, which means "we survived the Nian." The tradition has continued to this day, with Guo Nian now meaning "celebrate the new year."The Chinese calendar's origins can be traced as far back as the 14th century BCE giving it the longest chronological record in history, dating from 2697 BCE. It is believed that the Emperor Huangdi (Huang Ti or Huang Di) introduced the calendar and that his minister Ta Nao prepared the first calendar, called the Chia-tzu or Kan-chih system, which translates as "the system of cyclical characters".The Chinese calendar does not count years in an infinite sequence. It is instead based upon a 60 year cycle. Within the 60 year cycle, each year is assigned a name consisting of a celestial component:Jia (associated with growing wood)
Zi (rat)
Each of the two components is used sequentially. This pattern of naming years within a 60-year cycle dates back to about 2000 years. Due to its scientific and mathematical nature, the Chinese calendar allows us to easily and precisely calculate backward or forward for thousands of years.
The Chinese calendar features 12 months. However, an extra month is inserted in the calendar when a leap year occurs. Leap years in the Chinese calendar have 13 months, unlike leap years in our Gregorian calendar in which we simply add and extra day at the end of February. A leap month is added to the Chinese calendar, usually about every three years. The name of the leap month is the same as the previous lunar month. A leap year in the Chinese calendar does not necessarily coincide with a leap year on the Gregorian calendar.
To calculate the leap year, the Chinese count the number of new moons between the 11th month in one year, which is December in our calendar and the time of the winter solstice and the 11th month in the following year. A leap month must be inserted if there are 13 new moons occur within this time period.
This system is extremely practical. A child does not have to learn a new answer to the question, "How old are you?" in each new year. Old people often lose track of their age, because they are rarely asked about their present age. Every one just has to remember that he or she was born in the "Year of the Dog" or whatever.The Chinese Lunar Calendar names each of the twelve years after an animal. Legend has it that Buddha summoned all the animals to come to him before he died. Only twelve came to bid him farewell and as a reward he named a year after each one in the order they arrived. The Chinese believe the animal ruling the year in which a person is born has a profound influence on personality, saying: "This is the animal that hides in your heart." 2017 is the Year of the Rooster. The Red Fire Rooster to be exact.Like any fresh start of a year, questions abound about wealth, health and matters of the heart. For many in China, Feng Shui masters with their astrological readings and predictions are merely a fun activity to pass the time. But for the superstitious, horoscope experts provide important guidance for the coming year. According to these "experts," the Year of the Fire Rooster is going to bring fresh challenges requiring quick wit and practical solutions! The Year of the Rooster will be a powerful one, with no middle of the road when it comes to moving forward.
The Rooster, the tenth Chinese zodiac sign, will give the year some of the characteristics of the bird it symbolizes: ambition, pride, the desire to be admired, punctuality, courage, passion and a well-developed disposition for love and seduction. At the same time, during the year an increase in enthusiasm will be felt. The relationships between people will be under the sign of great honesty. We will all prove to have more passion in life, especially regarding work, where we will not hesitate to roll up our sleeves in order to reach our objectives. "Always higher, always going on" is the motto of the Rooster and it will inspire all of us. Braver than usually, we will not be defeated by difficulties and adversities. However, we will have to maintain our spirit's flexibility, because under the influence of this king of the yard, which, according to Chinese people, is very conservative, we risk being inflexible and refuse changing ideas or life strategies, even though they might be inadequate for the future. Regarding love, times will be intense and full of passion. We will feel the desire to overwhelm our loved ones and to be overwhelmed by them. Those with a free heart will search for happiness with more partners, but those that are already in love will choose loyalty, proving great tenderness.
When the cat heard the news, he told rat about it and the two animals decided to go together the next day. However, the next morning the rat did not wake up the cat. Therefore, the cat could not make it to the gathering on time and did not get a year. This is why there is no year of the cat and is the reason why cats hunt rats.
Still, the rat made it first to the assembly and received the first year. The Year of the Rat is the start of the Chinese Zodiac Cycle – which repeats every 12 years. The rat used a lot of trickery to arrive first. He tricked the ox to let him ride on its head. The ox agreed and they went together. Just when they were about to reach to the assembly the clever rat jumped off the ox's head and passed through the entrance gate first. The Ox was second followed by the Tiger and the Rabbit.
The Dragon, even though it was the largest, fastest and most powerful animal of creation, arrived fifth because it stopped along the way to make rain for the farmers and to help the Rabbit cross the river that all animals had to cross to arrive at the Emperor's palace.
The Year of the Rooster is about to arrive. So welcome it and have a very prosperous New Year ahead.
John Copeland
Rancho Olivos
2390 N. Refugio Rd.
Santa Ynez, CA 93460


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Study Shows Depressed Moms May Contribute To Shorter Children
NBC News: 9/10/2012 8:57:02 AM ET
NBC News: 9/10/2012 8:57:02 AM ET
Moms suffering the blues in the months after giving birth may be more likely to end up with kids who are shorter than their peers, a new study shows.
Researchers who followed more than 6,000 mothers and babies found that when moms reported moderate to severe symptoms of depression in the nine months following delivery, their children were more likely to be shorter than others as kindergarteners, according to the report published in the journal Pediatrics.
In fact, 5-year-olds with moms whod suffered symptoms of postpartum depression were almost 50 percent more likely than their peers to be in the shortest 10 percent of kids that age.
The new research doesnt explain how kids with depressed moms end up shorter. Thats something the researchers are looking into right now, said the studys lead author Pamela J. Surkan, an assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Surkan suspects, however, that depression might get in the way of nurturing. We think that mothers who are depressed or blue might have a hard time following through with caregiving tasks, Surkan said.
We know that children of depressed mothers often suffer from poor attachment and the depression seems to have effects on other developmental outcomes. It makes sense that mothers who have depressive symptoms might have reduced ability to take care of infants, that they might not always pick up cues from their kids.
That makes a lot of sense to Dr. Andrew Leuchter, a professor of psychiatry at the University of California, Los Angeles.
"Weve known for some time that maternal depression is bad for kids, Leuchter said.
Depressed moms dont interact as often with their kids and they may neglect basic needs ranging from food and clothing to emotional availability, Leuchter said.
The studys findings may give doctors a new tool that could help spot problems in the making, Leuchter said.
I think what the study does is it quantifies this in a new and potentially important way, Leuchter said. These children have growth patterns that are different from children whose mothers are not depressed.
And that means that doctors might want to use being short for age as a potential warning sign.
It raises a red flag for us, Leuchter said. And its more evidence that depression in the mom can have negative health effects on the kids. So it really underlines the urgency of treating depression in these mothers so the kids dont suffer.
For the new study, Surkan and her colleagues scrutinized data from 6,550 moms and kids collected as part of the nationally representative Early Childhood Longitudinal Study Birth Cohort conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics.
When the children were 9 months old, the moms were surveyed about their moods. A full 24 percent of mothers reported mild depressive symptoms, while 17 percent said they were suffering moderate to severe symptoms.
By the time they were 4, kids with mildly depressed mothers seemed to be suffering some loss of stature, which disappeared by the time these children reached age 5.
But among children whose mothers reported moderate or severe symptoms of depression, the odds of being short for age had grown larger, from 40 percent at age 4 to almost 50 percent at age 5.
Surkan and her colleagues have data on depression only from nine months after moms gave birth, so they dont know whether the women continued to suffer from the problem. It will take more research to see if the blues linger -- and whether they have lasting impact on childrens growth.
Having symptoms of depression for a lot of people is a fairly chronic state, Surkan said.


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Symbian desperately needs a Gok Wan style makeover. This ain't just TechEye's view. IDC analyst – Francisco Jeronimo – has highlighted the struggle the Finnish handset vendor is having with Symbian.
Jeronimo relates how Nokia CEO, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, commented at the Nokia Capital Markets Day back in December 2009 that: "Symbian UI won't be an issue anymore by the second half of 2010."
However, Jeronimo himself says, "The Symbian user interface continues to negatively impact Nokia's results, though this is expected to change by the end of this year with the launch of a new version of Symbian."
Sounds like Q4 for anew GUI more than the Q3-Q4 which Kallasvuo was hinting at. Nonetheless, IDC dares to say what we have all been thinking – namely that RIM with its Crackberry and Apple withs its iPhone are far easier-to-use devices.
Curiously IDC argues that in the smartphone market, Nokia has benefitted from, "Disgruntled Sony Ericsson and Motorola users, and because Samsung and LG are minor players."
But there maybe trouble ahead. According to Jeronimo, "LG and Samsung are investing in smartphones and plan to announce a number of new devices this year that will run Android and Windows Mobile 7." Oh dear.
Significantly, IDC doesn't dare to speculate about what exactly Nokia is going to do about Android? Can it afford to ignore what is radily becoming the smartphone Number Two OS?
TechEye thinks that it is another head in the sand jobbie like Nokia adopted towards clamshell phones.
Eventually Nokia participated in this fashion industry but only after it had decided to rename such devices – 'fold-design'. And was forced to commission its first clamshells from the Chinese.
Really, Nokia is fast becoming the King Canute of the handset world – trying to hold back the inevitable.
Perhaps Nokia will eventually cave in and launch an Android phone, but the working name for such an un-nokia beast will surely be Paranoid?


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The Obamas' first state dinner was in honor of Indian Prime Minster Manmohan Singh and his wife. As you may recall, the White House wine steward tried to start an international conflagration by pairing a high-alcohol Grenache with green curry prawns.
So with the return leg of the India-America state visits, marking what the leaders hailed as "the defining partnership of the 21st century," the eyes of wine geeks in the two countries were on the menu for New Delhi. When the moment came to raise a ceremonial glass, Prime Minister Singh did so–with juice. It turns out that no alcohol is served at state dinners in India, but that didn't stop a local wine personality from chiding the President, encouraging her to uncork Indian wine on such occasions.
On his blog, Subhash Arora added, "Mercifully, they are all allowed to drink in private." On Twitter, after she commented on the event, I asked Chicago-based sommelier Alpana Singh what she thought the prime minister opened behind closed doors. She replied, "Oh! That's easy – if he's a true Singh it's Johnnie Walker – Blue, Black or red in descending order of preference."
While China has recently caught the attention of the wine world with eye-popping sales, India has yet to break out. Despite having a population over one billion, the Indian market uncorked only 17 million bottles, amounting to only a sip per year per inhabitant. (China was about eight times that amount.) Interestingly, about three-quarters of the wine consumed in India is red and an even higher percentage is made domestically.
Related: "Drinking wine in India"
"Eternal summer, altitude, and the gyropalette boondoggle: making wine in India"
reduced sized crop of AP/Saurabh Das image
This postcard from India is by Dini Rao, formerly in the wine department at Christie's New York, and currently finishing her MBA at Harvard Business School. You can read her first postcard here.
Wine pioneers Kapil and Kanwal Grover fell in love with wine after purchasing 1961 Mouton from Christie's
While you can always drink wine while it's hot, as Indians are starting to do, how do you make wine in the heat of India?!
India's climate does not allow grapevines to become dormant, as is typical in winter. With the opportunity for two harvests, growers prune back vines to collect a single harvest per year, allowing for more concentrated fruit. Using the mild, dry winters as the growing season, harvest occurs from February to March as in the Southern Hemisphere. During the forced dormant months of April through September, the heat of summer precedes monsoon rains that nourish the vines.
High altitudes in foothill areas around Nasik and Bangalore create moderate temperatures conducive to wine grape cultivation. Maharashtra state is home to over 40 wineries, with half near the holy city of Nasik, 80 miles northeast of Mumbai. At 2000′ altitude, the wine temperature fluctuations between day and night in Nasik allow for additional flavor development.
Nasik's viticulture began with excellent table grapes for eating, which garnered high prices due to cool temperatures and excellent water sources. Now contract grape farmers supply the burgeoning wine production with vinifera grapes such as Chenin Blanc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Shiraz and Zinfandel, but Thomson Seedless still finds its way into many bottles. Limits on agricultural land holdings require wineries to rely on farmers who lack proper training and tend to over-irrigate.
While much sweet, high-alcohol wine still exists, modern winemaking has arrived in India with gusto. Large, air conditioned wineries are being built at an alarming rate equipped with French oak barrels, temperature-controlled fermentation tanks, and pneumatic presses. A big mystery is the use of gyropalettes, which substitute capital for labor in a country where labor is so cheap that they pay someone to press the button and give you a ticket number when you enter the Air India office. Instead of having a person come along and "riddle" the bottles of sparkling wine as they mature in the cellars, producers have invested in gyropalettes to do this task automatically (someone talked this winery into buying the bridge…).
Flying winemaker Michel Rolland has consulted for Grover Vineyards in Bangalore since 1995 and other foreign consultants present their solutions to various wineries for hefty fees. Winemakers learn to compensate for varying fruit by acidifying, adding enzymes for color, and making other adjustments with no regulatory controls. As site selection, viticulture and experience improves, Indian wine has both the potential and the market to thrive. The next hurdle will be temperature controlled shipping and storage.
Wines to watch for:
Grover Vineyards: the 2004 "La Reserve" (about $20; find this wine) carries the modern Bordeaux influence of Rolland and pairs nicely with masala lamb chops; I enjoy the dry Shiraz rosé (find this wine) and Cab/Shiraz blend for $10 – $15. (find this wine)
Sula Vineyards: the crisp, fresh and zingy Sauvignon Blanc for $12 is a must try, especially with a Kerala fish curry. Sula is owned by Stanford grad Rajeev Samant who is on his way to making Sula India's top brand. (find this wine)
Reveilo: gets my vote for most promising winery and will be imported to the US soon; I tasted a great range of Sauvignon Blanc, CS, Shiraz and a late harvest Chenin there.
Mountain View is another up and coming quality producer, yet to be imported to the US.
Finally, if you plan to visit Nasik, I recommend a stay at Renaissance Winery's guest house with a European restaurant and wine bar next to the villa-like winery to sip their fresh Chenin Blanc. More photos and captions after the jump. Read more…
This postcard from India is by Dini Rao, formerly in the wine department at Christie's, and currently finishing her MBA at Harvard Business School.
My wine experience during my stay in India was eye-opening. If you told me five years ago that Indians would put down their bottles of Johnny Walker Black Label for a glass of Shiraz, I would laugh. After spending the first portion of my trip in the southern city of Chennai (formerly Madras), my concept of an Indian wine shop was bleak: a wine stand (see the first photo above) with men standing around in lungis all day, taking shots of "wine" i.e. liquor or port.
Then I arrived in Mumbai where swank hotels and restaurants serve Veuve yellow label for Rs. 2000 or $50 a glass. Top wineries attract Indians eager for tours with beautiful tasting rooms (see the second photo). As if welcoming me to the city, the current issue of Time Out Mumbai featured "Wine: Why we're all drinking it," a 12 page spread about wine bars, producers and sommeliers around town. According to a Newsweek International online article, Bollywood, which just graduated to showing its first scandalous on screen kiss on the lips, features stars sipping wine in recent movies.
Wine, while trendy, also seems to have serious takers. A friend publishes the wine magazine Sommelier India that circulates to India's growing wine enthusiasts. When invited to witness a Wine Society of India tasting, I quickly dropped my previous plans to see Stephen Spurrier speak to 500 assembled Indian guests (see photo).
India's wine future seems bright. Euromonitor predicts 100% growth from the 9 million bottles currently consumed in India over the next five years. Consumption per capita is low in the billion-person country, but concentrated, as Mumbai drinks 40% of wine by value and will continue as one of the highest growing markets. No wonder the WTO, led by the EU and US, pressures India to change the import duties on foreign wines which currently reach up to 550%.
Perhaps the most surprising aspect of India's wine culture is its own wine production. More on this in Wine in India, Part 2.
George Bush will take a 13 hour plane trip to New Delhi today to spend three days in the world's largest democracy. If the Teetotaler-in-Chief stopped to look at the Indian wine industry, what would he find?
Most importantly, that the industry has friends in high places. The Minister of Agriculture, Sharad Pawar (photo right), is a grape grower who even has a the Sharad seedless grape named after him. He is a champion of the view that wine is a drink of moderation and recently tried to get wine classified as food and be as easy to sell as soft drinks. His efforts were rebuffed. However, his home state of Maharashtra has doubled tariffs on imported wine (states with the ability to add tariffs!), making local grape sources more attractive and more difficult for wineries to pass off Chilean wine as their own.
Viv Menon recently won a Geoffrey Roberts Award to travel to India to examine the wine industry. In his comments on jancisrobinson.com, Menon calls Grover's wines "quite incredible." Michel Rolland is a consultant. Indage has opened a wine bar on the premises with no beer or spirits available and she is surprised to find some people there have traveled over an hour for a glass of wine. He describes Sula as "the slickest of all in terms of marketing" and that they have good viticultural practices to boot. The most promising sign for consumers he writes is that the Oberoi hotel in New Delhi now has an enoteca.
While wine gets frequent mention in the Bible promoters of wine in India can find support even in the Bhagwat Gita: "Yea! those who learn The threefold Vedas, who drink the Soma-wine, Purge sins, pay sacrifice — from Me they earn Passage to Swarga."
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Wow, the idea of an endless harvest would really revolutionize the wine industry. Now to just try something besides Muscat! Story from India news
The area [Cumbum] is a major centre for grapes production with 4000 small farmers producing over 90,000 tonnes of Muscat grapes, locally known as "paneer dhrakshai", and about 10,000 tonnes of Thomson seedless grapes.
The unique feature of the grapes grown here is that they are harvested throughout the year, as compared to other areas where the grapes growing season ends with the summers.


text: You are a member of one of the less-than-civilized tribes or clans that inhabit the outskirts of the settled world. While many might call you a savage, the majority of the barbarian peoples have a sophisticated culture full of myths, legends, oral histories and traditions-- just as much as more civilized folk, but many who were raised behind walls of stone learn to look down on or even fear those who live by choice in the wild. Thus, many barbarians are clannish, wary of outsiders, and treat self-reliance as a great virtue. Brittanis is an incredibly dangerous land, filled with brigands, bandit chiefs, and monsters. When faced with outside threat, many of the barbarian peoples gather together and fight-- their existence on the edge of civilization usually means that they rarely--if ever-- go looking for a fight, because even a serious wound is likely to become infected or keep you from being able to get food. And being unable to gather food is as good as a death sentence. However, the barbarian peoples also recognize that sometimes a fight is inevitable, and when that happens, there are no fiercer or more deadly warriors than those with their back to a wall. Tribal peoples will often run from a fight as many times as they can, only to suddenly and without warning turn on an enemy and crush them ruthlessly-- and then strip the bodes for anything that can be used, down to the bone and sinews of their foes. Waste in the wild can equal death. Examples of barbarians. Note that these are suggestions- feel free to come up with your own, but be sure to work with Staff when forming your PC Histories. : Mixed tribes of Erin'Tar, humans and Free Dwarves tribes in the mountains of Orkenay and Lyonesse. Human clans in the far north of Cambria. These savages are the remnants of the once-mighty Dalriada clans who ruled the north of Cambria generations ago. After the Dalriada were destroyed in the Waste invasion almost 50 years ago, the northern clans try to eke out a living while fighting the horrors that cross the straits. Gael'Dar clans can fall into this category when they lose contact with the Crystal Throne for long periods. The wood elves live off the great forest to begin with, and it's a short step from there to more savage ways. Some Free Dwarves who have fallen on hard times can qualify as barbarians as well. Normally the stout folk work tirelessly to preserve their culture, but when survival trumps tradition in a far-flung outpost, savagery can result. Tier 1 Savage Resolve (0 CP; 0 Stamina; Watch) Through force of will, you can ignore wounds and force yourself to fight on. Though painful, being able to outlast an opponent can be the difference between life and death. Once per watch, you can call "Heal X and Agony to self," where X is your Tier+1. Tier 2 Barbarian Strike (0 CP; 0 Stamima; Watch) You have learned how to take down prey to bring back as food for the clan; those same techniques often work well to bring down more dangerous foes as well. Once per watch, you can make a melee or missile attack for, "X Damage and Slam by Heritage" where X is your Tier+1. Tier 3 Untamed Toughness (0 CP) Your time in the wild has made you far more resilient than more civilized folk. Your maximum Vitality is permanently increased by 2.


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All About France
Why Plane Trees Line the Roads in France
You don't have to drive very far in France before you encounter a road shaded from either side by an avenue of towering Plane trees. Many of the Planes are around 200 years old, and as much a part of French roads as the motorists and cyclists who use them. Likewise, you can often find Plane trees planted in the centres of villages and towns around France, offering large areas of shade for the weary traveller. Measuring up to 50 metres in height, the trees are an impressive sight wherever you encounter them.
Plane trees currently line the World Heritage Site, Canal du Midi, in... Read more >
Are Croissants French?
Croissants are instantly recognisable as one of the national foods of France. Ask the average man in the street to name five foods he associates with France and he will almost certainly include croissants in his answer. The question is, are croissants originally French?
It may surprise you to find that the answer might actually be no, or more correctly, maybe not.
There are numerous legends surrounding the creation of the croissant. One tells how, in 1683, a baker heard the Ottoman Turks trying to tunnel into Vienna. The baker alerted the military and the invasion was stopped. The... Read more >
Why is French Mustard not French?
Walk into any supermarket in France and ask for a jar of 'French' mustard, and you will undoubtedly be met with a puzzled expression. It may surprise you to find that the one place where you are most unlikely to find 'French' mustard, is France.
Colmans French Mustard
French mustard was first introduced to the UK in 1936 by Norwich firm Colman's. However, after parent company, Unilever, purchased rival mustard-maker Amora Maille in the year 2000, the EU ruled that the company's market share would be too great, and the firm were ordered to stop making it. While most... Read more >
A favourite beach - La Tranche-sur-Mer
La Tranche-sur-Mer Beach
Street to the Beach
La-Tranche-sur-Mer is a delightful town on the Atlantic coast that we love to visit a lot.
At 80 miles from our home in Deux Sevres, it is not exactly on the doorstep for us but, when the sun is shining and the top is down on the Saab convertible, there is nothing nicer than a trip along winding roads with the wind blowing in our hair and our beach towels and Factor 50 packed in our beach bag.
La-Tranche-sur-Mer is a fairly-nearby alternative to La Rochelle (again, a beautiful beach resort) but it is easier to find parking here... Read more >
New law to protect diners who want freshly-made French food
The quality of French food is renowned the world over and French MPs are now ensuring that diners in France are protected from the 'back door' infiltration of fast food.
Whilst it is now perfectly possible to pick up a fast food meal in many French towns (if you must), French MPs are making it illegal for restaurants to serve up bought-in and microwaved food without informing customers.
A bill has been approved which forces restaurants to label dishes as home-made when they have been prepared from scratch in the kitchen. MPs hope the legal requirement of the 'fait maison'... Read more >


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President Daniel arap Moi of Kenya dismissed his popular vice-president yesterday in an attempt to regain control of his bitterly divided ruling party.
George Saitoti was sacked for spearheading a mutiny in the cabinet, a section of which opposes the president's backing for the political novice Uhuru Kenyatta as his successor when he retires.
Prof Saitoti had announced that he would stand against Mr Kenyatta when the ruling party, Kanu, holds its primaries later this year.
The latest in a series of the president's allies to turn the knife, Prof Saitoti accused Mr Moi of undermining democracy in Kenya.
"Kenyans have come to value democracy," he told The Telegraph. "We should be strengthening democracy, not eroding it. [Mr Moi] wants to suppress the growth of the democratisation process."
Despite speculation that he would defect to the opposition, Prof Saitoti said he was determined to stand for president but would remain in Kanu for the moment. He admitted holding talks with opposition parties after his sacking.
Mr Moi is expected to call an election in December, when he is constitutionally obliged to stand down after 24 years in power.
Critics say he is reluctant to relinquish his grip on power and hopes to rule by proxy through Mr Kenyatta, a 44-year-old businessman who only became an MP this year. His father, Jomo, was Kenya's first president.
There were chaotic scenes in Nairobi after the sacking was announced. Hundreds of students stormed the Norfolk Hotel, where Prof Saitoti was holding a press conference, chanting slogans of support.


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Okay so maybe it's just me, especially since I'm getting so far along, but I am loving being pregnant. I have these little tickers on all my pages, (here, myspace ect) and every day I get a little sadder. I mean, I have aches, and pains, and I cant tie my shoes or pick up stuff from the floor, and that gets old. But really how cool is it that we get to do this? 65 days to go, 64 days to go..... I really want to meet him and everything,
but he'll never be this close to me again. Plus after this part, I'm thinking it gets a LOT harder, and lasts FOREVER. LOL. My husband & I lay in bed every night and feel him kick. It's precious. It may be a while before either of us have the time for that sort of intamacy again. I'll miss that too.
I keep hoping that this summer will be REALLY HOT, and I'll be really MISERABLE so I wont be too sad to deliver.
I'm sure it'll be fine. Just blogging...
I love this post, you know how my pregnancy went, but there are times when I just want to feel her moving inside me again. Your right, these are precious times. I remember Josh laying his head on by belly with tears in his eyes. He fell in love with her the minute he saw her heartbeating. We are an amazing species. When your husband sees you deliver, you will be a God for along time. It's the most empowering thing, as a woman, that you will ever, ever do.
Josh and I are so excited for you. If you need anything, just let us know
God Bless!
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