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Call it the trillion-dollar war.
George W. Bush's war in Iraq was never supposed to be particularly expensive. Administration types tossed out numbers like $50 billion and $60 billion. When Lawrence Lindsey, the president's chief economic adviser, said the war was likely to cost $100 billion to $200 billion, he was fired.
Some in the White House tried to spread the fantasy that Iraqi oil revenues would pay for the war. Paul Wolfowitz, the former deputy defense secretary and a fanatical hawk, told Congress that Iraq was "a country that can really finance its own reconstruction, and relatively soon."
The president and his hot-for-war associates were as wrong about the money as they were about the weapons of mass destruction.
Now comes a study by Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize-winning economist at Columbia University, and a colleague, Linda Bilmes of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, that estimates the "true costs" of the war at more than $1 trillion, and possibly more than $2 trillion.
"Even taking a conservative approach and assuming all U.S. troops return by 2010, we believe the true costs exceed a trillion dollars," the authors say.Continue reading the main story
The study was released earlier this year but has not gotten much publicity. The analysis by Professors Stiglitz and Bilmes goes beyond the immediate costs of combat operations to include other direct and indirect costs of the war that, in some cases, the government will have to shoulder for many years.
These costs, the study says, "include disability payments to veterans over the course of their lifetimes, the cost of replacing military equipment and munitions, which are being consumed at a faster-than-normal rate, the cost of medical treatment for returning Iraqi war veterans, particularly the more than 7,000 [service members] with brain, spinal, amputation and other serious injuries, and the cost of transporting returning troops back to their home bases."
The study also notes that Defense Department expenditures that were not directly appropriated for Iraq have grown by more than 5 percent since the war began. But a portion of that increase has been spent "on support for the war in Iraq, including significantly higher recruitment costs, such as nearly doubling the number of recruiters, paying recruitment bonuses of up to $40,000 for new enlistees and paying special bonuses and other benefits, up to $150,000 for current Special Forces troops that re-enlist."
"Another cost to the government," the study says, "is the interest on the money that it has borrowed to finance the war."
Among the things taken into account by the study are some of the difficult-to-quantify but very real costs inflicted by the war on the American economy and society, such as the effect of the war on oil prices, and the economic loss that results from the many thousands of Americans wounded and killed in the war.
The study does not address the substantial costs of the war borne by Iraq or by any other countries besides the United States.
In an interview, Mr. Stiglitz said that about $560 billion, which is a little more than half of the study's conservative estimate of the cost of the war, would have been enough to "fix" Social Security for the next 75 years. If one were thinking in terms of promoting democracy in the Middle East, he said, the money being spent on the war would have been enough to finance a "mega-mega-mega-Marshall Plan," which would have been "so much more" effective than the invasion of Iraq.
It's not easy to explain just how much money $1 trillion really is. Imagine a stack of bills worth $1 million that is roughly six inches high. (Think big denominations -- a mix of $100 bills and $1,000 bills, mostly $1,000's.) If the six-inch stack were enlarged to the point where it was worth $1 billion, it would be as tall as the Washington Monument, about 500 feet. If it were worth $1 trillion, the stack would be 95 miles high.
Ms. Bilmes said that the $1 trillion we're spending on Iraq amounts to about $10,000 for every household in the U.S.
At his press conference on Tuesday, President Bush made it clear that whatever the cost, American forces would not be leaving Iraq soon. When asked whether a day would come when there were no U.S. forces in Iraq, he said that decision would be made by future presidents and future governments of Iraq.
The meter's running. We're at a trillion dollars, and counting.Continue reading the main story

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Jayantha Dhanapala is currently Chairman of the UN University Council and is on the Advisory Boards of the Geneva Center for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces, the Center for Nonproliferation Studies of the Monterey Institute of International Studies, the Bonn International Centre for Conversion, CISAC in Stanford University and the ICRC. He is also Honorary President of the International Peace Bureau(IPB) which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1910. Dhanapala has also been on the Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission launched by the Government of Sweden under the Chairmanship of Dr.Hans Blix from 2004-6.
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Professor Hoffman is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Terrorism and Counterterrorism Program, Human Rights Watch, New York, NY; a Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C.; a Senior Fellow at the Combating Terrorism Center, U.S. Military Academy, West Point, NY; a Senior Fellow at the National Security Studies Center at Haifa University, Israel; and, a Visiting Professor at the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Professor Hoffman was the founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, where he was also Reader in International Relations and Chairman of the Department of International Relations. Professor Hoffman is Editor-in-Chief of Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, the leading scholarly journal in the field. and a member of the advisory boards of Terrorism and Political Violence and the Review of International Studies. He is also on the advisory board of the Arms Sales Monitoring Project at the Federation of American Scientists and of Our Voices Together: September 11 Friends and Families to Help Build a Safer, More Compassionate World.
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A revised and updated edition of his acclaimed 1998 book, Inside Terrorism, was published in May 2006 by Columbia University Press in the U.S. and S. Fischer Verlag in Germany. Foreign language editions of the first edition have been published in ten countries. The WashingtonPost described Inside Terrorism as "brilliant" and the "best one volume introduction to the phenomenon" (16 July 2006). Professor Hoffman is also a regular contributor to the Atlantic Monthly and was the author of "The Logic of Suicide Terrorism," which was the cover story of the June 2003 issue. He was a Fellow and C. V. Starr Distinguished Visitor at the American Academy of Berlin, Germany during the fall, 2006.
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The extraction of methane (natural gas) trapped deep in some coal beds is a common practice, especially in Western States, but carries with it the issue of what to do with the water that must be pumped out to release the methane. This "produced" water must be managed through some combination of disposal, use, or storage, and often requires treatment to remove salts and other compounds. Currently, the majority of the water is disposed of at least cost, rather than being put to beneficial use, for example, for irrigation and as drinking water for livestock. This study investigates the critical environmental, economic, and regulatory issues associated with coal bed methane produced water, and finds that current management decisions often fail to consider both potential environmental effects and opportunities for beneficial use.
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Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Summer snapshots : cashew like it
I'm not too fond of the fruit (or cashew-apples as they're called). It leaves an unpleasant aftertaste and stains like crazy. Some people prefer to eat it with salt but I think the Goans seem to have found the perfect use for it... they make a heady liquor called 'feni' with it.
The nuts of the ripe cashew-apples are sun-dried and stored to be roasted later. But as for the tender green ones... who knows, they may just end up as the parrots' breakfast.
Bon appetit!
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Oh, that photograph really brings back memories of childhood. We had been eating cashew-apples and stained the shirts at the same time. The place I grew up is very much sandy, a perfect habitat for cashew trees. Red, orange and yellow were colours to choose from. How we jumped from one branch to another .... Shoots are used as salad over here. Janggus, and Gajus are names, Malaysian give them.ReplyDelete
I can just imagine the fun you must've had, Bangchik!The branches ofthe cashew tree must be one of the most easily climbable ones.ReplyDelete
I think cashew trees like soils where not much else likes to grow. My place has clay soil thinly spread over rocks and rocks and even more rocks. Yet these cashew trees were thriving here long before anyone even thought of cultivation here.
I didnt know about the shoots being used for salads! I must try that.
The local name for the cashewnut here is pretty close to yours... its called "Kaju" here.
- AnonymousMay 4, 2010 at 11:23 PM
Yep, the fruit is hard(correct word?) for throat but I like if a small piece is present.ReplyDelete
Anyways, thanks of sharing And memory rewinds once again. Thanks to you. Keep writing and when is cashew nuts party????
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Oh! I never knew the cashew fruit was edible! Never tasted it. Guess the parrots in your area find themselves nice, tasty treats...ReplyDelete
Hobo, you'll have to get in line, I think. In my garden, the parrots get first pick on the cashewnuts and the crows take first pick on the ripe fruit. We stand in line like everyone else. Frankly, its not very easy to roast the nuts and shell them. It takes a certain knack which eludes me and I have to wait for someone who knows how to shell the nuts without crumbling it to powder. Easier said than done!ReplyDelete
Oh it is edible, Chandramouli, but it is an acquired taste in my opinion. But many seem to enjoy it and it is famed to be great for digestion according to the local herbalists. In fact, here the fruit with the nut is sold in the markets as a seasonal delicacy.ReplyDelete
The parrots prefer the tender green nuts, actually. It looks like they have refined tastes!
Looks yummy!ReplyDelete
Wow.. brought back memories of a school trip to a farm .. full of cashew and mango trees!ReplyDelete
We ate the cashew fruit and carried back lots of mangoes :)
- AnonymousMay 5, 2010 at 4:22 PM
Hello Sunita! I was completely ignorant, having no idea what a cashew plant looked like, let alone that there was a cashew apple from the same tree as well! Thanks for the education!ReplyDelete
I want to call the way cashews form their nuts bizarre, but it seems like everything in nature is bizarre in some way. I'll just call it "unfamiliar" and leave it at that :) You have such interesting things in your garden!ReplyDelete
Thanks, Aaron. I'm sure you must be having a lot of cashew trees in your area too. I know Bangchik told me there are at least a few.ReplyDelete
Priya, did you like the fruit? I know many people really enjoy it but unfortunately, I'm not one of them.
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Shady C, I think it just shows that Nature has a very weird sense of humour!
Interesting? Your plants and birds are fascinating for me!
This snapshot brought back so many memories...cashew trees are giving way to rubber in our nook of Kerala.ReplyDelete
The juice of cashew apple is an acquired taste, tending to be an irritant depending on the fruit: but some of them have a tart-sweet quality. Fresh juice is a treat!
?, I didn't know there were variations in flavour. Maybe I have the unpleasant ones.ReplyDelete
For some reason, I quite like the atmosphere in rubber plantations ... all those loomng trees makes one feel its almost like a world of its own, cocooned from everything else. True, you cant eat the rubber but those closely planted trees soon invite so much of interesting wildlife.
Well.. that was probably the only time i ate the cashew apple. It felt unusual..both the texture and the taste. It was tart-sweet and left an unpleasant aftertaste as you've mentioned.ReplyDelete
Part of the charm of the green cover that existed was the mix of jackfruit,mango, cashew, arecanut, teak, rosewood, among a rich and diverse that consisted of the crumbling feudal estates until the 'rubber fever' started ( in our part) in the 1990s.
However nostalgia has no place when economic means prevail...
and Kerala has always tended towards cash crops.
The unusual taste usually puts people off trying it a second time, Priya. I dont like it much, either but there are others in my family who thoroughly enjoy it.ReplyDelete
?, I dont blame the people of Kerala for switching to cash crops. Agriculture is one of Kerala's strong points so why not encash on it (especially when industries have left it high and dry!) But I know what you mean about the nostalgia for times gone by when walking into the backyard was as good as an invitation to a feast!
How fortunate you are to be able to see the cashew fruit and the peeping-out nut in your garden.ReplyDelete
The very nature of the nut has given rise to the phrase 'munthiri kottai mathiri' (like a cashew nut) in Thamizh, meaning to thrust oneself forward before time, or to be precipitate. Nice picture. How about one of the tree with the fruits?
Raji, that simile paints such a vivid picture, doesn't it? :DI'll definitely post a picture of the fruit-laden tree a little further on in the season when it starts to look like a summer-time Christmas tree.ReplyDelete
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On September 3, 2018, EVS Broadcast Equipment has received a transparency notification indicating that Norges Bank now holds 3.55% of the voting rights of the company. Norges Bank has therefore crossed the threshold of 3%.
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Reason for the notification: acquisition or disposal of voting securities or voting rights
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Persons subject to the notification requirement: Norges Bank, Bankplassen 2, PO Box 1179 Sentrum, Oslo, 0107, Norway
Transaction date: August 31, 2018
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NEW YORK — Barry Bonds was here.
His is the name that evokes all that went right, and so very wrong, for baseball during the steroid era. His spirit was here Monday, the day before the All-Star game, when baseball's premier slugger declared Bonds' single-season-record 73 home runs null and void.
"In my opinion, 61 is the record," Chris Davis said, "and I think most fans agree with me on that."
Roger Maris hit 61 in 1961. Bonds bettered that once, Mark McGwire twice, Sammy Sosa three times. All three have been linked to steroids, and all three have fallen far short of election to the Hall of Fame.
Davis, the Baltimore Orioles' first baseman, has 37 home runs, on pace for 62. That would be the new record, if you believe Davis, and if you believe in him.
"I think there is no reason not to believe in me," he said.
This is what Bonds and his era wrought. Commissioner Bud Selig could soon impose drug suspensions en masse in a sport he insisted Monday is "cleaner than it's ever been." Davis sounded more like a defendant than a slugger when he met with reporters here.
He spoke in even tones, with confidence and not with bitterness. He was 12 years old in 1998, when McGwire and Sosa chased each other, and chased down Maris. Then Bonds chased down steroids, and then came the reckoning.
"I think the '98 season really brought baseball back to life, after the strike," he said. "It was obviously disheartening to find out down the road what came out about all of that."
Davis is 27, an age when batters peak. He hit 33 home runs last year. He is better, he said, at "not swinging at balls that are 14 feet out of the strike zone."
And yet he hears he must be on something, some performance-enhancing substance. He denies it, but when he talks about how often he is tested, you cannot help but think that some two dozen guys who passed drug tests could be on the verge of suspension. Selig spent millions on investigators, to collect whatever other evidence they could find.
Davis must face the questions because Bonds and Co. failed him. The strength of the players' union lies in how one generation of players sacrificed for the next, but the previous generation of players left this one open to suspicion.
"That's kind of what we were looking at when we turned over the rock on this whole thing," Davis said. "It's something you kind of have to expect. . . . You just have to wear it and go with it."
If mass suspensions are announced, is that a good day for baseball or a bad day? Infielder Brandon Phillips of the Cincinnati Reds played it both ways.
"It's going to be a good day for me, because my name is not on there," Phillips said. "It's going to be a bad day for those guys that are kicked out of baseball — and for those guys that were clean, that are at their house watching those guys and saying, 'Dang, I could still be playing.'
"For the guys that might get suspended, they are going to hurt their team. They could be the superstars on their team, and if they get 50 or 100 games. . . . The only reason their team was winning was because of them. That's going to be a bad thing."
Funny he should mention that. The American League All-Star team includes outfielder Nelson Cruz of the Texas Rangers, the team two games out of first place in the American League West.
"He's been the most important part of our team for sure," Rangers closer and fellow All-Star Joe Nathan said.
He might not be, not for much longer. News reports say Cruz's name was among those found in the records of a Miami clinic being investigated by MLB.
Nathan said he trusts that the Rangers' front office has contingency plans in the event Cruz is suspended for violating baseball's drug policy. One of them — no joke — is two-time violator Manny Ramirez, who recently signed with the Rangers.
As the steroid era waned, players guessed how many of their peers might have been using performance-enhancing drugs. Jose Canseco suggested eight in 10, Ken Caminiti five in 10. In an Athlon Sports survey of 146 players this spring, 75% said no more than one in 10.
There is a goal, Nathan said. Drug testing is one of the means toward the end.
"Justice," Nathan said. "We want a fair playing field. As far as players that have not taken that stuff, we just want an even playing field out there."
That would change the subject, mercifully. Davis mentioned how someone had told him he ought to keep track of how often he is tested, the better to respond to reporters questioning his legitimacy.
"I'm not going to write it down — every time I pee — for you guys," he said.
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch)—Technology stocks were mostly higher Thursday, but Hewlett-Packard Co. gave up its gains after the tech giant disappointed investors with its quarterly results that came out shortly before the close of trading.
H-P HPQ, -1.49% ended the day down by 2.3% at $31.78 after the company reported a fiscal second-quarter profit of $1.27 billion, or 66 cents a share, on revenue of $27.3 billion. Excluding one-time items, H-P would have earned 88 cents a share, which met the estimates of analysts surveyed by FactSet.
H-P also said it would cut an additional 11,000 to 16,000 jobs on top of the 34,000 job cuts it already announced as part of a restructuring plan.
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Facebook FB, -0.11% ended the day with a gain of 3 cents a share to close at $60.52 after Evercore Partners raised its rating for the social network to overweight.
TiVo Inc. TIVO, +0.63% shares rose 1.5% to close at $11.93 prior the digital TV technology company reporting its first-quarter results. TiVo ended up delivering a profit of $8.1 million, or 7 cents a share, after reporting a loss in the same period a year ago.
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I don't mean to alarm you…but this is something I haven't heard anybody mention. By virtue of their 3-0 start to the 2009 season, your Baltimore Ravens are now on runs of 10-0, and 14-1…against teams not from the city of Pittsburgh.
While it's a bit of a double-edged sword of a stat, considering it basically means the Ravens beat the crap out of everyone except those whom we most hate, I think it's still pretty noteworthy.
10-0 and 14-1 against the Notsteelers is pretty damn impressive, albeit probably not as satisfying as say, being on a 10-0 run against ONLY the Steelers…for us fans, anyway.


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NSA Tries Hand At Irony, Accuses WSJ Of Misleading Public
from the well,-look-at-that deptOh, that wacky NSA. Late on Tuesday, the WSJ revealed some new info about the NSA. A lot of it had actually been covered elsewhere before, but they got some confirmations, and some new tidbits of information, such as spying on all emails in Salt Lake City during the Olympics, and the fact that the massive violations which led to the FISC ruling about how the NSA violated the 4th Amendment went on for far longer than most people had expected.
Of course, some more details of that FISC ruling were revealed late on Wednesday. Right before the documents were released, the Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, apparently held an "on background" (i.e., not for quotations) press call, which, according to various reports, involved a refusal to answer any questions about the WSJ article, and an insistence that all questions had to be about the documents ODNI was declassifying, even though none of them had yet been released.
However, while everyone was focusing on those documents (which were released moments later), the NSA did push out a laughable "response" to the WSJ article, in which they don't deny any of the major claims -- such as the spying on every email during the Olympics -- but rather take issue with the opening ("the lede," as they say) of the WSJ article, which talked about how the NSA "has the capacity to reach roughly 75% of all U.S. Internet traffic." Admittedly, that 75% number was in the headline of the WSJ piece, and was what many focused on. We didn't put as much emphasis on it, because having the capability to see that much is different than actually doing so and the full article did make clear that the NSA doesn't actually sift through that much (except, you know, during the Olympics).
So, the NSA's response mostly focuses on how unfair that 75% number is:
The reports leave readers with the impression that NSA is sifting through as much as 75% of the United States' online communications, which is simply not true.Well... there's truth and then there's "truth." And the article does make it pretty clear that the NSA isn't sifting through all of that, but rather the telcos who were "compelled" to assist the NSA, who then pass along chunks of content that trigger certain interest.
But, really, this is the NSA we're talking about. The very same NSA who has basically made sure that at nearly every public appearance it utters claims that are either outright false -- sorry, "least untruthful," -- or, more accurately uses exceptionally carefully worded phrases to say something that might technically be true, while giving the public the impression of something entirely different. Sometimes this involves redefining words like "relevant" and "target." Sometimes this means using weasel phrases like "under this program" (leaving out the obligatory "but not under others.") The NSA spends an awful lot of time deliberately saying things designed to "leave the public with the impression" of something that is untrue.
So I don't see how it gets to complain if the WSJ may have done the same thing with its headline and opening. At least with the WSJ, if you read the article, you get much more of the full picture. When the NSA offers its misleading bullshit, the full story is often kept shrouded in secrecy.
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Opinion: The Cliff Deal
Senior Economics Writer Steve Moore has the latest on Washington's budget negotiations. Photos: Getty Images
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A rising tide lifts all boats, and in the world of videoconferencing, Cisco Systems' high-profile TelePresence products are boosting the market as a whole. Longtime player Tandberg is trying to make the most of the good times.
In the latest move for market position, Tandberg said Thursday it plans to acquire privately held Codian, a maker of back-end infrastructure for other vendors' conferencing endpoints. The 107-employee company, based in Slough, U.K., will help Tandberg grab sales and develop new products faster, as well as go after new opportunities in the IP communications market, Tandberg said. It expects the US$270 million deal to close in the third quarter.
Cisco's TelePresence, introduced late last year, was practically all Cisco executives would talk about when they met with financial analysts this week, and with good reason: The technology costs up to US$300,000 per location and requires special design and installation work, but it looks and sounds great. Using it has already slashed Cisco's travel costs, Chairman and CEO John Chambers said. The marketing effort Cisco has been pouring into TelePresence has raised the profile of other telepresence systems such as Hewlett-Packard's Halo and Teliris' VirtuaLive.
These systems bring videoconferencing, traditionally complicated and low quality, to another level. In turn, they have put the spotlight on improvements in midrange videoconferencing systems that now feature high-definition cameras and displays and better sound.
"The attention has done more for HD videoconferencing than for telepresence," she said. "The price tag (on telepresence) is still prohibitive for most enterprises."
Whereas telepresence usually involves designing a whole room for a particular system, which can even include special furniture and room modifications, midrange high-definition videoconferencing may be installed in an existing conference room or as upgraded components to an existing system, IDC's Freedman said. These systems can be deployed for a fraction of the cost of telepresence.
Codian makes back-end infrastructure for conferencing systems, including MCUs (multipoint control units), gateways, content servers and management software, Tandberg said. Tandberg pledged to continue developing and supporting both its own and Codian's product lines even though both companies make, for example, MCUs.
Tandberg, based in Oslo, is already working with HP to let users hook up its high-definition desktop videoconferencing systems with Halo conference rooms.
Although the telepresence market is still a "corporate jet replacement" for top-level executives, the market isn't standing still, Freedman said. IDC estimated telepresence sales worldwide were just US$64 million in 2006, but believes they will rise to US$170 million this year and to US$1 billion by 2011.
Polycom, which makes a broad range of conferencing products including a telepresence system, moved to grab more of that market early this year when it acquired Destiny Conferencing for US$47.6 million. The 27-employee company was already supplying core technology for Polycom's RPX telepresence product and held several patents in the area.


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Chelsea forward Daniel Sturridge has denied there is a rift in the Stamford Bridge camp under Andre Villas-Boas.
Sturridge's comments come at a difficult time for the Blues, who are heading into a Champions League last 16 tie first leg with Napoli tomorrow.
This disappointing run continued on Saturday when they were held to a 1-1 draw with Championship side Birmingham City at Stamford Bridge in their FA Cup fifth round fixture.
"We are all together as one and we are not a divided unit," the young England striker told the official Chelsea website.
"We are a family and we've got a good unit going here and I think maybe we will see that in the next few games."
Sturridge scored the equaliser in a laboured performance by Villas-Boas' side and they will now face an unwanted replay at St Andrews at a time when they are fighting for their Champions League place next year, as well as navigating their current campaign.
The 22-year-old will be looking to score his first Champions League goal when the team travel to Napoli's San Paolo stadium tomorrow and was in a confident mood ahead of the clash.
"They have some great individuals as well as a good team but we have the same and we are not going to worry about what they have got," he added.
"We have to go out there with the attitude that they have got to worry about what we have got.
"I am certainly not worried about that and we are going out there with the state of mind that we can win the game and play some good football, maybe get some more opportunities and put them away."
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Getting There is Half the Funby Catherine Gehm
Anyone who's tired of the sardine-can hustle and bustle of intercontinental air travel today will find that a transatlantic voyage on Cunard's Queen Elizabeth 2 is a return to grace and elegance--a reminder of how leisurely and luxurious travel used to be. For six glorious days, you are suspended in time...wrapped in a cocoon of steel, teak, luxurious accouterments, good food and fine service.
I had not sailed on the QE2 for almost 20 years, so I jumped at the opportunity to experience this historic ship once again. The trip was arranged on such short notice that I didn't even have time for ticket delivery. Instead, I hopped in a cab to Manhattan's West Side docks, told them I was booked, and was accepted with no problems. A young, white-gloved steward escorted me to my cabin, a vast space (378 square feet!) on One Deck. Within minutes, the stewardess was there to greet me and tell me she is available for assistance at any time.
Sailing out of New York's harbor is always an experience. As the ship's horn sounds its deep, throaty blast, the mooring lines are loosed. Tugs begin their assist as the QE2 edges her way into the Hudson River and heads south, past the city skyline glistening in the afternoon sun. Passengers line the rails and fill every inch of open space to watch the spectacle. Then it's on past the Statue of Liberty and under the Verrazano Bridge into the Atlantic.
Time to unpack and explore. Since this was once a two-class ship, with some areas restricted only to First Class passengers and others open to everybody else, getting around can be a little strange. For example, there are stairways that bypass certain decks in one part of the ship and not in another. But each cabin is provided with a handy little map. After all, this ship was once called a "City at Sea," and it still is.
Passengers sailing across the North Atlantic may be isolated from land for six days, but they will never be bored. The QE2 has a tremendous range of activities to keep you occupied, from absorbing lectures to exercise classes, bridge games, bingo, the inevitable art auction, daily movies, and even a heritage tour. This fascinating journey through Cunard's and QE2's history is well worth the hour it takes to walk through the ship and view some of the memorabilia and artwork spread throughout the vessel. You can also work out in the gym, or visit the 16-station computer center and take a class there, go online and surf the web, or check your email. And this is just in daytime!
Now that the vessel has matured into a Grand Dame of the sea, the money that Carnival Corporation has poured into the ship has been well worth it. All the cabins have taken on a new ambience, and visually, the restaurants and public areas too are glowing. Although the ship's second outdoor pool was removed in a previous renovation, the addition of the Lido buffet brings today's QE2 in line with our more casual lifestyle. For anyone with children in tow, it is ideal for breakfast or lunch. A really nice spot is the Pavilion. Hidden behind the pool and below the Lido, this small caf�-style room serves only early-bird breakfast, a light grill lunch and Children's Tea. The limited menu includes hamburgers, hot dogs, really good minute steaks and French fries. Plus, there is a self-serve soft ice cream machine in the corner. Yum! Not to be missed is Afternoon Tea in the Queens Room. White-gloved staff will ply you with tea, scones, sandwiches and pastries while you relax in deep, comfy chairs, entertained by a harpist or small orchestra.
Over the years I had heard many stories, pro and con, about QE2's food and service. Well, I can say that what I experienced was very good on both counts. If you can, book a cabin category that gives you access to the Queens Grill, a lovely dining room near the top of the ship with its own private lounge for afternoon tea or drinks before dinner. Another perk of Queens Grill is ordering things that aren't on the menu. If there is something your heart desires and it's in the ship's stores, you can order it -- in advance, please.
Too soon it's over, and Southampton looms on the horizon. I took the bus transfer to Heathrow and flew right back to the U.S., along with a few other ship nuts who only wanted the crossing. Cunard and British Airways have worked together for decades offering a package combining a QE2 voyage in one direction and a flight the other way. What better way to end your elegant adventure than in the luxury of a British Airways first class seat? I had a window pod (actually facing backward), and although I didn't recline fully and sleep since it was afternoon, I found it very comfortable and a wonderful end to a fantastic trip. I'm addicted, and looking at the calendar to see when I can sail again.


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Because cold-temperature processing is so critical to many food-processing operations, improvements in technology can make a significant impact on productivity and profits. The bigger the gain, the stronger the multiplying effect.
That is what has been happening over the past few years in cryogenic freezing and chilling technology according to Mark DiMaggio, head of food and beverage, Linde North America. By focusing on the specific challenges of the food industry, Linde engineers have developed proprietary solutions that are more efficient in a number of ways, and which process from a few hundred to 20,000 lbs. of food product per hour.
"The impact of cryogenic advances can be pervasive, improving production capacity and overall competitiveness for years to come," says DiMaggio, who brings more than 20 years of food and industrial gas industry experience to his role at the Linde food team.
A single immersion spiral freezer can process up to 20,000 lbs. of food per hour. Yet the patented design of Linde nitrogen impingement freezers still offer the highest freezing capacity per sq. ft. of floor space on the market, DiMaggio says. The Linde food team develops customised solutions based on either carbon dioxide (CO2) ornitrogen, depending on which cryogen is best for the process and the plant.
More efficient freezing operations can streamline downstream processes. For example, Linde implemented precise crust-freezing methods using a hygienic, cryogenic (CO2) tunnel freezer (pictured) to help West Liberty Foods (Mount Pleasant, IA) increase production rate and improve the quality of deli-log slicing on a new high-speed slicer. Just the right temperature and depth of crust-freeze on the log ensures the blade gets a clean "bite" for consistent slicing and even stacking.
That kind of precision can help avoid bottlenecks and eliminate product losses. Reducing losses even a few percent can add up to hundreds of thousands of dollars a year on high-volume processes. Likewise, Linde has introduced a new system to individually quick-freeze diced poultry and other small or fragile items that makes existing flighted freezers obsolete, DiMaggio says. The new Cryoline® CW (Cryowave™) freezer from Linde uses a patented rolling-wave action to keep IQF products separate as they freeze. It can be equipped for either liquid nitrogen or CO2.
DiMaggio says state-of-the-art cryogenic solutions can reduce operating costs and help processors get more productive capacity out of the same floor space. A patent-pending airflow design on the new Cryoline® XF (Crossflow) spiral freezer, for example, improves processing efficiency by 10% or more compared to existing cryogenic spiral freezers. The design utilises cryogenic gases more efficiently and chills food at a more even rate across the entire belt width. The result is a more consistent product quality and reduced operating costs.
Incorporating state-of-the-art cryogenic solutions into food processing operations can streamline operations and even fold two or more production lines into one, freeing up valuable floor space. Linde has accomplished that recently for both Tip Top Poultry (Marietta, Ga.) on an IQF diced chicken line, and at West Liberty Foods in its ham-log slicing operations.
"For marinated products in particular, such as for example chicken breasts, cryogenic processing helps lock in moisture, retain shape after pressing– and lock in value. If you think about it, moisture losses mean not only lost profit due to lower packing weight, but a loss of the quality and flavor that keeps customers coming back," DiMaggio says. In addition, attention to food quality and safety is increasingly making hygienic design a differentiating factor in equipment decisions.
While there are physical limits to how quickly food can be chilled or frozen, recent advances are improving quality, efficiency and productivity, ensuring new cryogenic technology will play an even more pivotal role as older freezing equipment is outmoded and replaced.