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Commission adopts 2013 Work Programme
In his State of the Union address1 on 12 September, President Barroso set out an ambitious vision for the EU. The overarching task remains to return the EU to sustainable growth. This is the number one task, and it requires new thinking and targeted action in a limited number of key policy areas. The Commission Work Programme 2013 (CWP), which was adopted today, sets out how the Commission will work to this end for the next year and beyond.
The CWP summarises the objectives for the Union in seven key areas and sets out what is missing today. It then explains how the Commission will tackle these objectives: by taking forward key initiatives already on the table, by making new proposals, and by ensuring that the benefits of reform are carried through to citizens by effective implementation.
President Barroso said: "In my State of the Union address, I proposed a decisive deal for Europe. This involves huge change for Europe. But this Work Programme shows how the Commission is working day by day to take the steps needed. 2013 will be a crucial year for showing our citizens that the EU is leading the way in taking the credible, concrete steps needed to lead us out of the crisis and build the right springboard for future sustainable growth."
Vice-President Šefčovič said: "These are crucial years for Europe. The steps we take over the next few years will decide our future path. There is no silver bullet to solve our current problems, but we at the EU level can at least help to show a lead. That is why the 2013 Commission Work Programme concentrates on Europe pulling together to encourage growth and get more people back into work."
In terms of new proposals, the CWP announces around 50 new initiatives to be tabled during 2013 and the first part of 2014. Key legislative initiatives need to take into account the end of the current parliamentary legislature in 2014. New initiatives addressing concrete challenges in seven key policy areas will cover:
A common theme of all these areas is how next year will be decisive for turning an ambitious agreement on the multi-annual financial framework into a driver for change.
The adoption of the CWP follows an intense structured dialogue with the European Parliament, the Committee of the Regions and the European Economic and Social Committee on the priorities for the Union.
The Commission will now work closely with the European Parliament and the Council, as well as stakeholders, including national Parliaments to take forward these objectives and carry them through to provide tangible results for Europe's citizens.
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The California Transportation Journal, much like other publications across the United States, has bowed to progress and will begin publishing an electronic-only magazine. No more paper. In some ways it's like imagining Gutenberg without a printing press. Something feels a little, well, missing…
However, the future is the future, and we plucked up our courage, considered the hard necessity of tough economic times, and made the decision. Lovely full-colored paper editions are great. They can be laid on the coffee table to be admired, or picked up to be read over breakfast. But they are also expensive, and in an avant garde world of Twitter, e-mails, Facebook and other social networking, an electronic-only edition just seemed the right thing to do.
So why not try something new? And here it is. You will find stories that illustrate the forward-looking nature of the California Department of Transportation.
Bart Ney and Andrew Gordon from Caltrans District 4 in the Bay Area provided us with a story about repairing the old San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, with a curious gadget that engineers call an "eyebar." Don't expect to see such an anachronism on the new Bay Bridge when it opens in about three years!
We also think you'll be interested in something that most people rarely consider: what's with those boulders that sit precariously above some California roadways? Do they ever tumble down? Well, we're glad you asked. Kelly Markham, from Caltrans District 7 (Los Angeles and Ventura counties) offers the adamantine truth about rockfall peril.
For train enthusiasts, we have the latest on progress toward California's anticipated high-speed rail system. And, in northern California, we can give you a bird's eye view — well, OK, more of an eagle cam perspective — of a pair of American bald eagles that came to live at the site of a Caltrans construction project, and liked it enough to raise a number of broods of all-American raptors.
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The Bisons jumped out to a 3-0 lead and held off Centenary for a 3-1 win Sunday afternoon in the final round at the Whitten Soccer Complex. Both Lipscomb and Belmont were unbeaten in the tournament. Belmont won the tie-breaker with seven goals to six for Lipscomb.
Garret Pettis, Miguel DaSilva and Joey Chiappetta were named to the all-tournament team.
The Bisons got an assist from Centenary which scored the first goal for Lipscomb at 7:19 off of a corner kick.
"If the Centenary guy had not headed it in one of our guys would have," Morrow said. "We had a player right next to him."
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DaSilva scored for the second game in a row at 69:59 as he beat Centenary's goalkeeper one-on-one.
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Morrow also praised the play of Angel Chairez in both games.
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Centenary, 0-3-0, ruined the Bisons' bid for a shutout when Aaron Berman scored unassisted on a free kick from straight on from 30 yards out at 81:16.
The Bisons had 21 shots, nine shots on goal. Centenary did not get a shot until the second half and finished with only six shots, three on goal.
"It could have been and should have been a lot worse," Morrow said. "It was total domination.
"The focus right now is playing our style and not worrying too much about what the other team does. We are focused on how to force our playing style on our opponents."
The Bisons, 2-2, will host the Hyatt Place Select/Lipscomb Invitational Friday and Sunday at the Lipscomb Soccer Complex. The Bisons will play UNC-Asheville Friday y at 7 and UAB Sunday at 4. The games will be televised live on A-Sun TV.
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Shawshank, VA 6/25/12 (StreetBeat) – Trade on Egypt's stock market was suspended as stocks were surging on Monday but even so the market closed 7.6 percent higher, the first reaction to the announcement of Mohamed Mursi as Egypt's new President. The surge places the index among the world's best performers once again.
The Market Vectors Egypt ETF (PCX:EGPT) in the U.S., another way for foreign investors to win exposure to Egypt, also surged on Monday. It has lost over 20 percent in the three months leading up to the final round of the presidential contest and the latest election results have yet to be priced in.
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The candidate of the Muslim Brotherhood's political wing secured 52 percent of the vote trumping Ahmed Shafik, a former Commander in the Egyptian Air Force and Hosni Mubarak's last Prime Minister.
But experts have told CNBC that the historic step for Egypt may only be the start of a tug-of-war between the Muslim Brotherhood and the military council, which has overseen the transition thus far. The declaration comes in an environment where presidential powers are unclear, parliament is dissolved and a constitution has yet to be written.
Thousands of demonstrators in the symbolic Tahrir Square reacted with joy and celebrated late into the night, with fireworks lighting up the flag-waving crowds in downtown Cairo. The scenes were reminiscent of February 11, 2011, the day when Hosni Mubarak stepped down.
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Hello everyone!
I'll be traveling to South Korea in June and as I love to taste new foods and try out new things I'm really waiting forward to the trip! We'll be staying at the Seoul area and maybe a few days in Jeju.
Any suggestions what foods I definately should try out (in addition to kimchi, of course!), good dishes or even restaurants?
What about bento, is there any bento culture in Korea? Is there a possibility to buy bento boxes or other equipment?
What foods or spices etc would make a good souvenir or I should maybe bring home with me?
If you have any info or opinions I'd love to hear it!
Thanks in advance :)
Unfortunately I've never been to South Korea, but I don't think that bentos are part of the traditional culture there...though I have heard that the concept of packed lunches is getting more popular. Korean cuisine in general is delicious - it can often be more spicy, but not always so. As far as great (and lightweight) gifts to bring home, people love Korean nori seaweed (which is flavored with salt, sometimes spices, brushed with oil and lightly grilled), or Korean chili pepper.
If you have a chance to do so, try going to some local Korean restaurants in your area before you go, to get a feel for what to expect!
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I think packed lunches is pretty normal in Korea. I've never been there though, so it's just the impression I've gotten. I don't think it's to the same level as it is in Japan. But usually when I go to korean markets they always have quite a bit of Bento supplies (korean made). The majority of them are rather simple though. But I really like them. I bought a really nice stainless steel korean lunch box from a korean market that is just awesome. So, I guess what I'm trying to say is I think you'll be able to find some really nice lunch box equipment in Korea. I know Korean ginseng is pretty big (maybe expensive though). But I think that might make a good souvenir :).
I currently live in Seoul. It's not unusual for the elementary set and preschoolers to take lunches to school, but schools generally provide hot meals or the older kids eat at local restaurants/fast food spots. Yeah, even Seoul has fast food. The majority of the working folks also eat out, which seems to be the major way most Seoulites eat. However, there are those who pack a lunch/dinner from home. A lot of the things packed into lunches are similar to those found in Japan. Not a surprise, since Japan occupied Korea several times, most recently the last century up until they were kicked out in WW2. So Japanese cooking has had an influence here. You will find pork cutlets, rice stuffed omelets (Omaurice), and kimbap- the seaweed wrapped rice rolls are everywhere. It's possible to find suitable bento style lunch boxes at the stores and markets all over. My DH carries one every day, made by Lock n Lock, which comes with three containers and a handy zip carry case. So far as dishes to try, well everyone goes for bulgogi, kalbi ribs (thin cut beef ribs, yummm), and a rice dish called bimbimbap. Honestly, just about everything I've tried has been good. The only thing I have yet to try and won't likely are the silkworm pupae. But if you are adventurous, well... You will discover kimchi is a lot more than cabbage too, and comes in various levels of heat. Most restaurants are willing to tone down the heat for non-Koreans on request, if not almost automatically. When you order, you will also get a variety of side dishes meant to be shared. They will include seaweed salad, bean sprouts, pickled radish, and other various room temperature veggie dishes. Usually the variety depends on what is currently in season, though sprouts and rice are always there. Korean chopsticks are also shaped differently than you may be used to, and have a flat side as opposed to being round. You also eat rice with a spoon, not chopsticks. They do not usually have drinks with a meal, aside from water, either. You generally don't find salt on the table either, nor do they cook with a lot of it- by western standards, and some folks will notice that. One other thing that catches folks off guard, you may see a pile of shoes when you enter the restaurant. If so, you are expected to remove your shoes before you step onto the main floor. So wear nice socks, holes are considered rustic and bare feet are not polite. Not a problem if you are in a big restaurant, or some place like Outback Steakhouse. Yeah, they are here too. But some of the best meals will be from little mom and pop type places, so don't avoid them. Enjoy your trip too. June tends to be warm, and in Jeju it's hot. And a last warning, if you have asthma or any kind of respiratory problems, make a trip to a pharmacy and buy a mask to keep on hand in case of a yellow dust storm. That blows in from China off the Gobi desert, and high levels can and do make people really sick. When it gets yellowish dust on things or the air looks foggy, you will need that mask outside. Otherwise, enjoy the trip and don't be afraid to try all the food. It's really good.
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Thank you for your advice! Can't wait to try out all that lovely food (except maybe silkworm pupae - or who knows, thay might be delicious!).
Packed lunches are actually pretty common in Korea, although much less so today than in the past. Doshirak (도시락) is pretty much the Korean equivalent of bento. Give it a quick Google search for examples. Takes me back to elementary school when we would sit there comparing what our moms packed us..
I was just in Seoul about 2 weeks ago! I absolutely love Korean food! Anything at a street vendor is FANTASTIC! Dduk Bokki (rice cake with a spicy chili sauce), Mandu Twigim (fried dumplings) or well anything "twigim" is amazing (yache twigim – deep fried veggies, koguma twigim – fried sweet potato, or gimbap twigim – fried gim bap). At restaurants gim bap (a roll of rice, kimchi, eggs, and other veggies that looks kind of like a mini maki roll), bibimbap (a hot stone bowl with rice and assorted toppings) is fantastic as well, ginseng chicken soup is unique too! Bulgogi is one of the most amazing things South Korea has created (in my slightly biased opinion)! I would suggest going to a restaurant where it is cooked in front of you (i.e. Korean barbeque) but already prepared is fantastic too!
I would basically try everything you can while you are there. Most of it is fantastic and you'll develop favorites of your own to go back to. Don't be afraid to try the street vendor food- I know lots of people who won't try it because of experiences in other countries. South Korea has one of the most impressive street food opportunities I've ever seen :). One word of advice – stay away from a purple looking sausage called "suhn dae" (순대) unless you like blood sausage. It is the only thing that I don't particularly care for in South Korean cuisine (I didn't see a lot of it though, so don't be too nervous).
P.S. You'll get used to the metal chopsticks pretty quickly!
Yes, my goal is to try as many different dishes as possible during my stay! :)
Did many of the restaurants have english menus or plastic display models of food (my korean language skills are nonexistent.) or how did you manage ordering?
I'm also looking forward to browse through some local dept. stores for bento equipment - I've been planning to order from the web but I might wait until I see what I can find in Seoul.
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We have achy feet, sore backs, bloodshot eyes and tinges of carpal tunnel syndrome from relentless typing and scribbling notes. Acid reflux has been our constant companion for the past three days and we've missed more sleep than a typical first-semester college freshman pledging a fraternity.
We've survived another Beltwide Cotton Conference.
We've already filed as many stories as we usually do in a month and have notebooks filled with enough information to write a book on cotton production. Now, if we can just decipher all that hen scratching when we get back to our offices maybe we can make use of this stuff. But we're apt to wonder if those squiggly lines are Gs or Rs and to ponder if it really makes any difference and then ask ourselves when our handwriting became totally illegible.
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We huddled together in the media room, professionally manned by National Cotton Council staff and sponsored by Monsanto and we all agreed that this is by far the best treatment we, the ag media, get from any organization.
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On Sunday, August 3, 430 men and women joined 34,000 others as alumni of Andrews University. As the graduates marched into the sanctuary of Pioneer Memorial Church for the final time as students, friends and family of the graduates, who come from all over the world, watched on.
President Niels-Erik Andreasen introduced Provost Heather Knight, who presented the recipients of the J.N. Andrews Medallion. This award recognizes significant achievement in the advancement of knowledge and education by Seventh-day Adventist teachers, scholars and writers. Roger L. Dudley, professor emeritus in the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary, and Cleon White, principal of Andrews Academy, were each awarded the J.N. Andrews Medallion for their commitment to Adventist education.
Andreasen then awarded a medal not often given out at graduation: the President's Medallion. The Andrews University President's Medallion was designed to recognize individuals who have distinguished themselves in causes that the university views as congruent with its own idealism, mission and Christian outreach. The award was given to Shri. Krishnaswamy Thulasiah Vandayar, chairman of A. Veeriya Vandayar Memorial Sri Pushpam College in India (see photo insert). Andreasen referred to him as a "disciple of Gandhi and a believer that education should be available to all classes." The medallion includes the inscription, "Live today to touch tomorrow."
Ganoune Diop (Ph.D. '95), director of the Global Mission Study Center for the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, delivered the commencement address. Born into a Muslim family, he later became an Adventist while studying music in Paris. Diop is known for his commitment to share God's knowledge through his teaching, preaching, motivational speaking, books, articles and music. His presentation, "Remembering the Future," posed a thought-provoking question for the new graduates: "What is the logic of life?" They didn't have to wait long for the answer. "God has secured your future," he said.
Michael Lawson, president of the Andrews University Alumni Association Board of Directors (B.B.A. '87), turned to the graduates before him and stated, "You are officially an Andrews University alum." Lawson welcomed them to the family of 34,000 Andrews University alumni living around the world and challenged the class of 2008 to, "get involved and give your time."
Friday evening, Ann-Marie Jones, assistant professor of social work, asked graduates, "What are Your Plans for the Future?" during the consecration service at Pioneer Memorial Church. Sabbath morning, Karl Haffner, senior pastor of Kettering Seventh-day Adventist Church in Kettering, Ohio, gave the graduates a spiritual thought with his sermon, "Wisdom for All Seasons." Haffner urged graduates to focus on the important things in life because it is what we do today that will determine how we are remembered.


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Perched above Washington's so-called fiscal cliff, several senior Republican lawmakers appear to be back-pedaling from anti-tax activist Grover Norquist and his renowned pledge.
Perched above Washington's so-called fiscal cliff, several senior Republican lawmakers appear to be back-pedaling from anti-tax activist Grover Norquist and his renowned pledge.
But among Marion County's congressional delegation, signing or avoiding the pledge does not seem to be that big a deal.
None of those who will represent the community in the next Congress added their names to Norquist's legions in this election year.
For the upcoming Congress, 219 House members and 39 senators are declared supporters of the pledge.
Corrine Brown, a Democrat who represents part of eastern Marion, is not on the pledge list.
Newly elected Ted Yoho is one of only 16 House Republicans who did not join Norquist's ranks. And the list should have a 17th GOP name: U.S. Rep. Rich Nugent.
He is included as a signer, but said he did not re-sign for his new term.
Nugent says he is as staunchly against new or higher taxes today as he was when he first got elected — even if he didn't ink Norquist's pledge this time around.
"I signed the Americans for Tax Reform pledge as a candidate to let people know where I stood on tax increases," the Brooksville Republican said in a statement to the Star-Banner.
First elected in 2010, Nugent, after this year's redistricting, now represents 80 percent of Marion County residents, including the city of Ocala.
Nugent has opposed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which introduced the individual mandate that the U.S. Supreme Court declared a tax, as well as five new taxes that take effect Jan. 1.
Nugent also has rejected "cap and trade" legislation on greenhouse gases because it would mean hitting each U.S. household with an additional levy of $1,760 a year and voted against a proposal by Rep. Chaka Fattah, D-Pa., who sought a 1 percent tax on financial transactions, except for stock trading.
"As someone with a voting record and dozens of public statements on the matter, I think people know exactly where I stand. That's why on this, and any number of other issues, I decided not to sign any pledges at all this year," Nugent said.
Perhaps more surprising is the stand by Congressman-elect Yoho, a Gainesville Republican who narrowly defeated veteran incumbent Rep. Cliff Stearns in the August primary and then won the general election in November.
Yoho was a tea party favorite and a proponent of the Fair Tax, the plan to implement a national sales tax to replace most federal levies. Yet Yoho is shown as a non-signer of the pledge, according to the website for Norquist's organization, Americans for Tax Reform, or ATR.
Yoho, who beat Stearns, a Norquist backer, told NPR on Wednesday that he declined to endorse the pledge because "signing a pledge is not going to fix our debt problems, our financial woes in this country."
"The only pledge I made is that I said I would serve eight years," added Yoho, whose district includes part of western Marion. "If you sign a pledge like (Norquist's), you've got handcuffs on."
Yoho said he might consider higher taxes, such as on the wealthiest Americans, but only after it has been demonstrated to him that revenues are still short despite the implementation of significant spending cuts and that all the waste, fraud and abuse has been wrung out of the budget.
The current Congress contains 238 House members and 41 senators as pledge supporters, according to ATR.
All but six House Republicans signed the pledge, including all of Florida's GOP delegation. Just seven GOP senators declined to sign.
Meanwhile, two House Democrats and one Democratic senator are on board — none of them from Florida.
Only one Democrat in the next Congress has adopted the pledge: New Jersey Rep. Robert Andrews.
Right after Election Day, the liberal group Think Progress pointed out that at least 79 Republican House and Senate candidates, including some incumbents, who had signed Norquist's pledge were defeated.
Norquist's "Taxpayer Protection Pledge" was instituted in 1986 with an endorsement of President Ronald Reagan, according to ATR's website. Reagan that year enacted a landmark overhaul of the tax code.
Reagan's revisions cut the rate on top earners from 50 percent to 28 percent and on corporations from 46 percent to 34 percent. The 1986 law also raised the rate for those on the bottom rung from 11 percent to 15 percent, increased the capital gains rate to 28 percent from 20 percent, and eliminated many tax shelters and loopholes.
Norquist's pledge states plainly that the endorser vows to oppose "any and all" efforts to raise marginal tax rates on individuals and businesses and to fight any net reduction or elimination of tax deductions or credits unless accompanied by a matching cut in rates.
"The idea of the Pledge is simple enough: Make them put their no-new-taxes rhetoric in writing," ATR's website says.
ATR adds, "In the Taxpayer Protection Pledge, candidates and incumbents solemnly bind themselves to oppose any and all tax increases. ... Since the Pledge is a prerequisite for many voters, it is considered binding as long as an individual holds the office for which he or she signed the Pledge."
This language explains why Nugent is still listed as a signer — even though he did not consent to new pledges of any type this election year.
In recent days, as Congress tries to hammer out a budget compromise, a few Republicans have indicated a willingness to jump the Norquist ship in order to avoid going over the fiscal cliff.
The list of would-be defectors includes Sens. John McCain of Arizona, Saxby Chambliss of Georgia, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Bob Corker of Tennessee. U.S. Rep. Peter King of New York also might be among them.
Norquist told NPR this week that he's not worried about GOP lawmakers breaking their vow, noting that recent news reports could have been recycled from the 2010 elections.
He added that he believes the Republicans will not buckle because Democrats will fail to produce any "iron-clad" budget cuts that will win GOP support for higher revenues.
Several taxes are expected to go up on Jan. 1. Those include the tax cuts enacted by President George W. Bush, the estate tax, and the temporary reduction in the payroll taxes. Five new taxes also will be introduced under the Affordable Care Act.
Meanwhile, $109 billion in spending cuts are scheduled to occur in accordance with the budget deal reached in 2011. Those reductions are split between defense and social programs.
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Kol Chai means a living voice … of Reform Judaism. We are rooted in tradition but alive to the ever-changing modern world. We call ourselves a Community because we are more than a synagogue. Our focus is on people, both when we come together and as individuals – in times of celebration and when support is required.
We want everyone to feel included – young or old, observant or secular, active or less so, singles and couples, including members with non-Jewish partners. Our Shabbat and festival services held in our modern synagogue premises are varied, inclusive and participatory. We offer a warm welcome to members, old and new, and visitors.
Our highly successful Religion School has been recognised with a silver quality award. It offers excellent Jewish religious education, Hebrew reading classes based on one to one tuition and lots of fun activities. So learning is both effective and enjoyable and provides excellent preparation for Bar/Bat Mitzvah, Jewish Studies GCSE and then assisting on the teaching side. It has recently been expanded to offer a pluralist Jewish education to three other local partner communities. Many of our older children enthusiastically acquire leadership skills at RSY Netzer camps. For adults we offer a varied adult education programme and a conversion to Judaism course.
Our silver anniversary fell towards the end of 2011 but we are not standing still. We are reinvigorating all aspects of Community life. On top of our established activities, such as Bridge, Table Tennis, Israeli Dancing and Film Club.
Members come from a wide area around north and west London including: Hatch End, Pinner, Harrow, Stanmore, Northwood, Rickmansworth, Watford, Bushey, Edgware and Hendon. If you would like to join a Reform synagogue which is also a warm and friendly Jewish community and wish to find out more, please send me an email, phone the office or visit the Membership page.
I look forward to welcoming you to Kol Chai.
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Hot Aunties Biography/Details
Hot Desi Aunties in Chennai are real woman of Tamil territory. Tamil people having such hot and beautiful ladies in the world. Following are hot Tamil aunty photos. Her name is Sharuti. She is school teacher. She is lovely and hot housewife. She have high and liberal thoughts. Sharuti thinks we can move forward to the progress only in that way when act true and have sincere friends and full family support. Our honest with work and passion to achieve targets is real success. Sharuti thinks Tamil Aunties should look hot and active. If women will look hot and active the country will remain active and nation will not sleep nor lazy. Chennai is her mother land, she can not imagine to leave Chennai, She want to spend her whole life for Chennai people by teaching their children. Free education for every Tamil School is her dream. She is struggling for it. Sharuti have very hot feelings for her love, she want to keep her personal life separate from the professional and social activities. What you say about this kind of hot Chennai Aunties!
Indian Aunties are landmark of their country. Loyal, beautiful and Hot these three things are common in Desi Aunties. Some guys asked me why you only think Indian aunties are loyal? He said how these aunties could be loyal as their husbands are also involved with other women in same street or even same house with their bhabhi or sisters of wife. These kind of husband attitudes destroy her and she automatically think about other persons who looks loyal to her and more pretty than her husband. These kind of Desi stories are common in Indian culture. Real Indian culture is being destroyed by many uneducated people. These Desi Aunties photos are really hot and some are going to tease you. Specially a young aunty pic, she is pretty young and recently got married in Pune. But interesting fact about her is now Pune boys are enjoying her company as well. Pune aunties are now becoming liberal and moderate. Many Indian guys choose Pune girls for married and love. Blessed you all guys in searching more beautiful and hot Indian babes.
Gujarat is one of the largest territories of India where lot of population and many beautiful girls and aunties living. Ahmadabad is busy city of State Gujarat. Here we have some beautiful Gujarati aunties and Ahmedabad Aunties photos. Gujarati women are actually pure desi in living and lifestyle. Their fashion is only innocence and pure food from village. Pure milk, pure vegetables/food and their young girls are more pretty than other states of India. Most of people are educated and want to run their own business instead jobs. But according to recent survey youth is still intended to the jobs in other larger cities of Indian and some are keen to go to abroad for higher educated and for good jobs and lifestyle.
Here are some cities of Gujarat from where hot desi aunties you can have for friendship easily.Indian Women likes to wear sarees and many beautiful saree clothes collections available in Ahmedabad shopping malls. Desi Aunties and Gujarati Girls love the shopping in Gujarat major cities.
Amreli, Anand, Banaskantha, Bharuch, Bhavnagar
Dahod and Gandhinagar Aunties are also hot and famous.
Indian Aunties life is really craze full, some go out for work and some just stay at home and only concentrate on work. But in both cases Indian aunties look never get changed. They are still living happy and looks hot. Ever you see an Indian Aunty at your near by Market locations you will not able to stop you eyes to see them because these aunties backside views are really hot man!! you will enjoy your self and if you have came just took the cute photos and share with us. Indian Bhabhi and Indian Housewife Photos collection also coming soon.
Lets enjoy some desi Indian Aunties backside real photos taken and sent by users.
Desi Indian Aunties do not forget to have beautiful Jewelry along the bride dress. Also Lengha is the beautiful dress of Indian Bride. Indian aunties loves it and wear it with some artificial jewelry to make a surprising presence.
The Indian bridal wears have been the part of the country's marriage and cultural traditions. It is assure that wedding sarees, the most popular bridal wears worn in different areas, were popular in 1000 BC as well. Lehnga , another popular form of wedding costumes in India, and these was introduced by Mughal Kings and Queens.
Indian bridal sarees are mainly designed using chiffon or silk. Some of the famous designs for these Indian bridal clothes include Banarasi sarees, pure Kanjivaram, leheriya georgette and many more are being design for these Desi Indian Aunties and for Indian culture lovers.
Following Aunties photos presenting you a beautiful combination of Jewelry and Dresses embroidery work.
Today for your guys we have very interesting photos of Indian Aunties. Some young Indian women are having fun with Motorbikes and the more fun is for photographer who have taken these pics. [part 1]
Hot Aunties are using Motorbikes for going on leisure trips with boy friends and just friends. Indian Aunties sometimes face unwelcome reaction from other commuters, but that does not deter them from hitting the road.
Hot and Young Indian Aunties loves the Motorbike riding with friends and having lot of fun. Indian Culture is liberal than its neighboring countries. Pakistani Aunties or Bengali Aunties can not ride bikes as same as Desi Indian Aunties have freedom in India.
Indian Motorbikes industry experts estimate the number of bikes bought by women in India has increased 50% in 2011. Bike-makers Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India (HMSI), Royal Enfield and India Yamaha Motor are witnessing an uptick in sales from Desi Women, with the under-30 age group driving the trend.
India Yamaha Motor sold many bikes last year specifically to women. In fact, a fourth of Yamaha's bikes in New Delhi was bought by Indian Housewives. "Women bikers prefer style and ease apart from good fuel economy. Men tend to go for macho and sporty bikes," said Pankaj Dubey, national business head for India Yamaha Motor.


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A misadventure in 2001 I'm still ribbed about today! The 40th anniversary of Stonewall has me thinking back to this vacation.
"Beep-beep-beep-beep-beep." A garbage truck tipped a dumpster's contents into the truck's bin.
Gray light peeked through the curtains.
Behind me, in the next bed, I heard snoring.
"Oh, right," I remembered, "I'm in New York with my friend David; here at the Hilton." It was Memorial Day weekend, 2001.
I got up and peered between the drapes. The streetscape below was shrouded in gray, but I suspected it was too early to tell whether that was due to the weather or the hour. I checked my watch. It was 5:10.
"Well I'm up," I thought "and this is my first full day in New York so I might as well get to it!"
I had read that the best time to go to the Brooklyn Bridge for pictures was at sunrise. I quickly got dressed, left David a note, then set off for the subway. (I remembered that Rockefeller Center Station was just down the street.)
The pink neon of Radio City Music Hall quickened my pace as did every turn of the head where another legendary landmark came into view.
"Oh my God, I am really in New York," I nearly yelled out loud with excitement.
I got my bearings quickly as I looked around, recalling the previous night's long walk through the light drizzle to Times Square, down to the library, over to the Chrysler Building, then into Grand Central Station. I could hardly wait to get my films printed. I was particularly interested in seeing how the ones I tried to discreetly take of all the sailors, in town for Fleet Week, turned out!
I ran down the stairs into the subway, bought a weekly Metro Card, then stopped and turned around to ask the station attendant for directions.
"Where in Brooklyn?" was her first response, amplified through the speaker like some announcement at Yankee Stadium.
"Well I want to take the pedestrian path on the bridge back over to this side," I said.
She pulled out a map, passed it part way through the slot then pointed with her pen.
"Take any train to West Fourth, here," she circled in the air over the map.
"Any train?" I double-checked.
"Uh huh," she nodded, "then take either the 'A' or 'C' train to High Street," she said, again tracing the route in the air above the map.
Satisfied that I could follow those directions, and not wanting to seem like too much of a tourist, I thanked her, then walked downstairs to the train platform.
It was very quiet. I was the only person waiting.
A train soon rumbled, squealed and banged its way into the station. I walked on, then sat down. Across from me was a woman sleeping, I supposed, her face hidden in her bosom. At the far end of the car a young man listened to music through headphones, tapping his shoes on the seat in front of him.
Changing trains at 4th Street, this turned out to be less than the halfway point of the trip, I began to wonder if walking back to the hotel might not have been an overly ambitious goal. "Oh well," I thought, "I can always change my mind later."
Thinking I wanted every possible angle of photograph I went past High Street to Jay. Once off the second train I again asked for directions and was told to follow signs out on the street. It took me a few moments to figure out that most of the signs were for cars, not pedestrians, but I eventually saw the familiar stone arches of the bridge and watched to see how an in-line skater came down to street level.
My head was spinning as my eyes took in the rough edges of Brooklyn. The drumbeats of "NYPD Blue" (coming back from commercials) ran through my mind. Before I knew I was on the bridge, above the traffic, looking toward Manhattan.
What I had hoped would be a picture-perfect view was, instead, quite gray and foggy. I was not deterred, snapping pictures wastefully the way a newspaper photographer might – first of those impressive stone arches on the bridge, then of the cityscape ahead. The music in my head had changed to Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" as I thought of any number of scenes from Woody Allen's "Manhattan."
I asked someone if the only skyscraper I could see, just because it was closest, was the Empire State Building. Chalk that up to being a dumb tourist.
"Naw", the man scoffed. "Dat dere is just the Woolworth's headquarters."
The World Trade Center towers, which I did recognize, were almost completely shrouded in mist and fog. I couldn't see much above ten storeys.
I followed the signs to City Hall, where I took a few more pictures, walked up Broadway, through Soho, and found myself around some familiar street names or at least streets I had read about like Canal and Bleecker.
I snapped a shot at a building as close to 85 Bleecker as I could find, that being my address back home. Another corner caught my fancy – Christopher and Gay Streets. Again, I took a picture.
I walked up Christopher and found the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop. (I had ordered a few things from there back in my "coming out" days so, of course, needed a picture of that.)
Nearby I came upon Christopher Park where a plaque commemorated the Stonewall Riots and where there's what I would call a living sculpture depicting two men standing and talking, one's hand on the other's shoulder, and two women sitting on a park bench, the loving hand of one on the thigh of the other. I took several photos.
As I plucked a new cartridge into the camera, a voice called out, "Would you like me to take your picture there?"
"Oh," I said, glancing around to see the man who was calling, "Sure" I said, "that would be great!" appreciating the karmic return of a favour I had often offered tourists across Canada.
"You're from out of town?" the man asked rhetorically, as I stood there with a red, white and blue cotton image of "Lady Liberty" covering my chest.
"Yes, Toronto" I replied, handing him my camera. I sat down on the bench beside the concrete lesbians.
"Really?" asked the man, by this time snapping the first of several pictures. "So you're just out taking a few pictures of the Village, huh?"
"You been to any of the clubs around here yet?" he asked. He paused. "You are gay, right?" He lined up another shot.
"Yep, I'm gay," I said. "But, no, I haven't been to any of the bars yet. I just got into town yesterday."
"Well I'd be glad to show you around," the guy said.
I began to suspect he was a hustler.
"Oh, that's fine, thanks. I've got a pretty busy weekend planned with friends," I said.
"Cool" the man said. "Say," he began, "how much will you give me for doing this?"
The guy seemed high-strung and his fingers were dirty, too, although he was dressed in clean, casual clothes.
Suddenly recalling that – even after all that walking – it was still quite early in the morning, on a holiday weekend with very few people around, my heart sank as I realized the guy was looking for money and was probably a drug addict "player".
"Oh," I said, "well," I paused again, "all I have is this five," I lied, pulling a bill out of my pocket, hoping that would get rid of him.
"You'll have to do better than that," he said, plucking the five from between my fingers, and backing up rather quickly as he took some more pictures.
"No, now come on," I said, half begging, "please give me my camera!"
It was too late. He turned on his heel and raced up towards Sixth Avenue.
I yelled after him but he was already out of sight.
Thanks to David, and other friends I was with that weekend, I'm often reminded of this incident. All that needs to be said is, "Kenn, let me take your picture!" (The one with me at the sculpture was a do-over taken the next day!)
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Condition of 96-year-old robbery victim improves from fair to good at ECMC
Buffalo detectives continue to work on leads after a 96-year-old city man was seriously injured during a home invasion and robbery Saturday at his East Side residence.
Meanwhile, Levi Clayton continued to recuperate Thursday from multiple injuries he suffered, including a broken jaw, during the violent early evening attack.
Clayton, a well-known church deacon, has been upgraded from fair to good condition at Erie County Medical Center.
Mayor Byron W. Brown said Thursday that investigators believe the three robbers who carried out the attack were well aware of what they could steal at the Longview Avenue home, where Clayton lives alone. The three males ruined two flat-screen televisions, tore walls in an apparent search for hidden money, and stole jewelry, hunting rifles, shotguns and a some cash, police said.
Detectives are using enhanced surveillance footage taken during the attack, and have information on the make and model of a vehicle that left the area after Clayton was beaten and robbed. Ellicott Council Member Darius Pridgen, pastor of True Bethel Baptist Church, said he is considering posting a reward for the arrest and conviction those responsible for the attack.
Police urged anyone with information to call or text the confidential tip call line at 847-2255.
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When summer delivers too many zucchini, many people reach for a zucchini bread recipe. Here's one with a difference: wisps of grated carrot for color and nuggets of moist candied ginger for spice. The idea for jazzing up quick bread recipes this way comes from Annie Baker, a respected pastry chef in California's Napa Valley. Wrap and freeze the second zucchini bread if you don't plan to eat it within a day or two.–Janet Fletcher and the Chefs of Sur La Table
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As you make this zucchini bread recipe, you may find yourself frustrated at the stick-to-it-iveness of the candied ginger. But you know that occasionally slicking the blade of your knife with a paper towel that's doused with a little olive or mild vegetable oil will keep the candied ginger from sticking to it, don't you?
Carrot-Zucchini Bread
- Quick Glance
- Makes two loaves
- Nonstick cooking spray
- 3 cups sifted unbleached all-purpose flour
- 1 1/2 teaspoons ground ginger
- 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt or sea salt
- 1/2 cup minced candied ginger, see LC Note above
- 3 large eggs
- 1 cup canola oil
- 1 3/4 cups sugar
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 cup carrots, peeled and grated on the large holes of a box grater
- 1 cup zucchini, peeled and grated on the large holes of a box grater
- 1. Preheat the oven to 325ºF (162°C). Coat two 8 1/2-by-4 1/2-by-2 3/4-inch loaf pans with nonstick cooking spray.
- 2. Sift together the flour, ginger, cinnamon, baking soda, and baking powder in a medium bowl. Stir in the salt and candied ginger.
- 3. In a large bowl, whisk the eggs until light and foamy. Add the canola oil, sugar, and vanilla, whisking vigorously until the sugar dissolves. Whisk in the carrots and zucchini.
- 4. Add the flour mixture to the egg mixture all at once and stir with a wooden spoon just until blended. Divide the batter evenly between the 2 prepared pans.
- 5. Bake until the zucchini bread is well risen and firm to the touch and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, about 1 hour. Let the zucchini bread cool in the pans on a rack for 10 minutes, then invert them and finish cooling them right side up on the rack. Of course, a thin slice for the cook while the loaves are warm isn't out of the question.
If you make this recipe, snap a photo and hashtag it #LeitesCulinaria. We'd love to see your creations on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.


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I know I am not getting a paid internship this summer (listened to career services and didnt apply yet so I guess Im screwed). How did y'all get stuff paid for during the summer months? I didnt get any scholarships at all and the school is very expensive. Additionally, my rent is not cheap. What are the best loan options out there for the summer months? I wanted to do summer abroad but i dont have $10K lying around or rich parents.
I did summer school; a class, to get it out of the way, and a clinic for some "hands on".
Interned at inhouse legal department.Pros: learned a lot. The company is very well repsected, so it was good for resumes. The attorneys knew a lot of peopleCons: not paid. Everything I did was inhouse and confidential - that meant I did not have walk out with any writing samples for interviews. The size of the operation makes it difficult to be proactive.


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Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick is making the pitch for his fiscal year 2014 budget package, which includes $131 million in new investments in high-quality early education. One stop was Joe Matthieu's News Watch show on WBZ-AM radio. Listen.
"Early education – quality early education – and the ability to assure that our children are proficient in reading by third grade is well documented as an indicator of future academic success. And I'm not just talking about through high school. I mean in life. Imagine that. So everything else, if you don't get it by then, everything else is catch-up and remediation," Governor Patrick told Matthieu.
"I think that people really do get that investing in the early years has a big impact over time. It doesn't mean that you stop investing after they reach the third grade, but there are things that you do in the very early years that are going to have a long-term impact," the governor said.
"In government we have been stuck in governing for the short term. If it doesn't have a short-term payoff in time for the next election season or the next news cycle then we don't do it, and that's a problem. We need to be about a generational responsibility. What do we do now that's going to make a difference for the generation coming and the one after that? And investing in early childhood is something that's precisely about that generational responsibility. And I think that's why so many business groups support the idea."


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How to Recover Deleted SMS from iPhone
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Is there any way to retrieve deleted text messages on iPhone 4?
I got a message from a random person and I wanted to delete it. So I swiped my finger across the first entry in my Messages folder and hit delete. Then I saw the same message, still there, and I realized that I deleted the wrong one. I had deleted the entry for one of my friends who Ive been texting for years now. I dont know how to get all our messages back. Is there any possible way? Please tell me there is.
More and more iPhone users are asking for help to recover deleted SMS messages. Generally, theres a way to recover deleted SMS directly from iPhone. Also, if youve ever synced your iPhone with iTunes, there is also another way: to recover from iTunes backup. You need the help from an iPhone text message recovery tool.
Recover SMS from iPhone with iPhone SMS recovery
Get an SMS recovery for iPhone first: Wondershare Data Recovery for iTunes (for Mac users), or Wondershare Dr.Fone (for Windows users).
The iTunes data recovery software for Mac users allows you to recover deleted SMS messages from iTunes, no matter you are using iPhone 4S, iPhone4, iPhone 3GS or the previous versions. The Wondershare Dr.Fone for Windows users does more. It also allows you to directly scan and recover messages from iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS.
Download the free trial version below to take a try. Download the right version for your computer.
First of all, connect your iPhone to the computer and run the program after installing. An interface as follow will display. Then move to the next step.
Step 2: Enter the DFU mode and scan iPhone
Now, you need to get into the DFU mode before scanning, according to the steps below:
Hold your iPhone and click Start button.
Pressing Power and Home buttons simultaneously for 10 seconds.
After 10 seconds, release Power button, but keep holding Home for another 10 seconds.
After that, youll get a message saying that youve successfully entered the DFU mode, and the software begins scanning your iPhone.
Step 3: Preview and recover iPhone messages
When the scan finishes, all found data will be listed in clear, organized categories. Choose Messages to preview the detailed content. Mark those you want and click Recover to save them on your compute with one click.
Note: Data found here includes deleted data and those still on your iPhone. If you only want back your deleted ones, you can refine the scan result by using the slide button at bottom to only display deleted items.
Part 2: Scan and extract iTunes backup to recover iPhone SMS
After installing and running the program, move to Recover from iTunes Backup File and youll get the interface as follow. All your iTunes backup files have been found and displayed. Choose the one for your iPhone and click Start Scan.
Step 2: Preview and recover iPhone SMS
When the scan finishes, all the content contained in the backup file will be extracted and displayed in categories as Photos & Videos, Contacts, Messages, Call History and Notes. You can preview the detailed content of any of them before you perform the SMS recovery for iPhone.
To recover deleted SMS from iPhone, you only need to check the Messages option and hit the Recover to save all the messages on your computer.
To avoid losing your important SMS messages, immediate backup is very important and useful. Do remember to backup them on your computer well.
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VRO format, how to play and convert VRO files on Mac OS X with Mac VRO Converter
Part 1. What is a VRO file?
A DVD-VR recorded disc contains a 'DVD_RTAV' directory in the root of the filesystem, in which a single 'VR_MOVIE.VRO' file exists, containing the raw audio and video data for all video recordings on the disc. The recording metadata along with navigation data to represent playlist,programs and so on are also stored in the 'VR_MANGR.IFO' file in the same directory. A backup copy of this file (VR_MANGR.BUP) typically is present as well.
Unlike standard DVD-Video recordings, the aspect ratio (4:3 or 16:9) is contained in the .VRO file itself as part of the video stream. Thus DVD-VR supports mixed format presentations within a single .VRO file. Contrast DVD-Video where the aspect ratio is coded into the accompanying .IFO file and thus a single .VOB file can be in a single aspect ratio only.
VRO is a container format for multiplexed audiovisual content. VRO file is an equivalent to a collection of DVD-Video VOB files. If one doesn't care about any edits (e.g., deleting of recorded videos), one can play the VRO directly as if it was a standard DVD-Video VOB file. Fragmented VRO files are not widely supported by software players and video editing software.
Part 2. How to play VRO files on Mac?
Apple QuickTime Player with MPEG-2 Playback Component can play VRO files, although sometimes only after renaming the file extension to .mpg. Squared 5 MPEG Streamclip, VideoLAN VLC media player can play VRO files.
If you are using your Panasonic DVD Recorder, Canon camera/camcorder, Sony Camcorder or Samsung DVD Recorder with Mini-DVD disc to record videos and want to edit them with Final Cut Expree, Final Cut Pro or iMovie on Mac. You will so confused by these fragmented and unplayable VRO files, which can not be easily played and edited like VOB files in many case. So you need convert VRO to other video popular video formats such as MOV, MP4, AVI, etc.
Part 3. How to convert VRO files to MOV, AVI, MPEG, MP4, etc. on Mac?
Step 1: Add vro files to Vro Video Converter for Mac
Download and run Mac VRO Video Converter, Click "Add" to import the VRO videos you want to convert from your Mac to the program. You can add more than one file at a time.
Step 2: Set the output format and location
Select an output format like AVI, MOV from the output format dropdown list or use the optimized presets for iPad, iPod, iPhone, Apple TV, iMovie, and more.
Step 3: Convert
Hit "convert" and this VRO Converter Mac app will do the rest for you! When the conversion is done, you can watch your VRO movie on your Mac, and import the output file to your iPod, iPhone or other players for playback anytime and anywhere. Want to edit the VRO files in iMovie to creat your own masterpiece? Just import the converted VRO files to it.
What's more, if you have stored some VOB files on your Mac, you can read these detailed guides for converting VOB to another formats like AVI, MP4 etc.: VRO to QuickTime MOV Mac, VRO to iMovie, VRO to FCE, VRO to FCP, VRO to MPEG Mac, VRO to MP4 Mac, VRO to AVI Mac and so on.
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How to convert MVI to iMovie on Mac with Mac MVI to iMovie Converter?
As we know, iMovie is a proprietary video editing software application which allows Mac, iPod Touch 4th generation, iPhone 4 and iPad 2 users to edit their own home movies. It was originally released by Apple in 1999 as a Mac OS 8 application bundled and is the free and useful part of the Apple Mac iLife now. While MVI is Canon PowerShot digital cameras' default record format and is become popular among Mac users.
However, many Mac users are confused by how to convert MVI to iMovie for editing, here I'd like to recommend the best conversion tool named Mac MVI to iMovie Converter, which can help you solve your Mac MVI to iMovie problem very well. With it, you can convert MVI to iMovie for Mac only with several mouses at wonderful output quality.
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Can Kindle Fire HDX 7 play iTunes M4V videos on Windows/Mac?
Description: This article guides you through the full steps of legally recording and downloading iTunes purchased M4V videos to Kindle Fire HDX 7 tablet.
The traditional Halloween is coming, have you chosen any present for your children or friends yet? Amazon just announced its latest tablet- Kindle Fire HDX7 is available for pre-order in the UK and Canada, and it should be added to your present list because of its spectacular features such as powerful Quad-Core processor, advanced quality graphics, and Dolby Digital Plus, so that anyone who receives your gift would be thrilled to enjoy movies and music anywhere they like. While iTunes purchased movies would be an exception because of its DRM (Digital Management Rights) protection, and you may need to remove DRM protection from iTunes M4V movies in advance.
With Best DRM removal tool – Pavtube ChewTune you could easily convert and transfer iTunes M4V videos to Amazon Kindle Fire HDX 7 support video. (For Mac users: ChewTune for Mac)
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3. Close iTunes before running the ChewTune when converting iTunes M4V movies.
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If you are androd fan and just plan to get a android phone, now, sony Xperia Z1 is avaliable. Which is a wonderful smartphone. Blow is the specs of Xperia Z1. You may have a look.
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If you have already got the smartphone, here is post must be useful for you. As you see, Xperia X1 has a 5 inch full HD display, which is great for watching videos. However, Due to its own formats limitation, many video files can't be played well by Xperia Z1. Such as MKV, AVI, VOB, MPG, Tivo, WMV, FLV/F4V, MOV, MOD, TOD, M2TS etc.
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In case that you run a Mac computer, download Xperia Z1 Video Converter for Mac and follow the steps above for converting 1080p HD MOV/MP4/M4V to Xperia Z1.
The following is a guide for you to convert MKV, AVI, VOB, WMV, Tivo, MPG video to Xperia Z1 for playback.
Step 1. Drag and drop source 1080p MKV/AVI/MP4 video to the Sony Xperia Z1 Video Converter.
Step 2. Click the pull down menu at the opposite side of "Format", and then choose "Android -> Android Phones 720p Video (*.mp4)" format.
Step 3. Click "Convert" button to start compressing HD videos to Xperia Z1 friendly format and size.
And you can preview and customize output file size.
To do this, click on "Settings" button. In the pop-up Profile Settings window you can find set settings and check task details. The upper parts shows you the a/v settings you're using. The lower part displays the file information.
File size depends on the bitrate you use. For instance, in this case, I use the defualt bitrate 2000kbps, and it ends up generating a 2.4 GB .mp4 file. If I set video bitrate to 1500kbps, the final file will be 1.8GB in size. If you want smaller file size, set video bit rate down.
When 1080p HD video to Xperia Z1 conversion completes, you can click "Open" button to find generated 1080p videos on Mac. Now you can sync movies to Xperia Z1.
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|2007-06-12, 13:11
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My Encoding Process Chart, suggestions? Corrections?
I've posted it on doom9 some week ago or so when it was less complete - but that didn't really matter coz' it discusses the possibility of the source not being from the original DVD - so, it got removed .
Mind you, it's still unfinished, and it doesn't have an audio section, nor has it anything about how to deal with VFR files which are NOT 120fps .avi files - mainly because I didn't work with those - yet .
Another thing - in it you can see that I make 1/2 loseless passes, while some may argue it's a waste of time, I don't quite agree... You could be waiting God knows how much for the Translation scripts, and once you get them, wether your script is light or heavy, you would launch a loseless pass + x.264 passes, or maybe JSUT x.264 passes - whatever it is you'd launch, doesn't matter - it'd takea good deal of time - while with a loseless pass, I already do all the filtering and everything, and the when I get the Translation scripts, I don't need to do the heavy filtering! It's already nicely done and waiting in a loseless file, just waiting to be re-encoded into x.264 + subs - plus, loseless passes are always a nice way to check wether you messed something up or not... Meow... And I sort of like to break my work into many steps - it's easier to troubleshoot problems that way.
So, suggestions? Corrections? Anything? Meow... .
Oh, and crap version is what I call the file which TLer/Typesetter gets - I do not filter(to save time) and give those low bitrate(to save space, faster dl).
|2007-06-12, 14:03
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Umm....are you just converting the source to a lossless AVI THEN filtering? WTF? That doesn't make any sense...if you are making it a VFR or regular framerate file, you should consider doing your filters in that first lossless stage, that should reduce your time. It's a HUGE waste of time to sit there and make an AVI to deal with THEN filtering it...
|2007-06-12, 14:23
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"are you just converting the source to a lossless AVI THEN filtering?"
No... How did you get that impression?! Please check the chart again.
"Your workraw should be your lossless pass. Apply all filtering, karaoke, and typsetting at that point."
Waste of time, mostly, if you apply filters and everything WITH subs - which are prone to errors, always, what happens when you need to fix a typo? You need to re-encode it - ALL OF IT - filtering included... Also, you don't get the typesetting/kara/translation instantly, so you waste time waiting, while you could already have started making a loseless pass which is filtered and all that.
"l33tmeatwad" - if you still don't see it, please cut/paste the part which you think is "bad".
|2007-06-12, 14:27
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IMO, it's best to do color tweaks and other filters to clean up the video on the lossless pass, then just apply the subs during the final encode..
|2007-06-12, 14:33
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Everything is fine there - only, with DVD sources I usually have 2 loseless passes (check the arrows, I know I know - it's a mess, but eventually there's 2 loseless passes for DVDs).
Look - see that 1st loseless pass? It's on the "dvd" tree-part - it's got right before it the "Pre-ivtc FILTERING / IVTC / FF" - and then a loseless pass.
Why don't I add ALL of the filtering? Well, I'm a noob - many times the IVTC process gets fucked up, etc... Many times the PRE-IVTC filtering (rainbows/dotcrawl) mess a bit things up - so that's why I don't do too much in that pass, just what's neccesairy - since I know I might fuck it up - so that way I minimise the time loss in case I made a mistake .
Are we talking about the same thing? Or are we having one of those sweet miscommunication times? .
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|2007-06-12, 14:47
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Thanks - will correct it in final version .
As for VFR DVD - that wasn't yet added to the chart... Last time I did it was with Tdecimate double pass and frankly I'm still not quite sure what the heck I was doing - well, I do - but it's not "solid" - I prefer to write about things I know more then I do not . Sort of... Meow...
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|2007-06-12, 15:36
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Lol...I love the chart. Though gets quite insane at points. Things like...if the source is from a DVD you would always need to crop no matter what. If the cropping was perfect enough you could technically leave the video as is...in the case of Crop(8,0,-8,0) then the video is already 704x480. Whether or not to crop when you are using a plain TV cap...well only if the AR error gets huge, otherwise usually unimportant. Personally I do all Crop/Resizing/Trimming before anything else in an .avs.
Just wondering what is the "Need Hybrid?" step you had?
|2007-06-12, 15:39
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Ijiwaru... I bet that was sarcasm... Even I find it hard to look at it - and I made the damned thing >.> Hehehe .
Lol, but thanks .
Need hybrid is for those nice cases when your DVD uses 29.970 Progressive CG stuff inside the video - so then if you just do normal IVTC you sort of kill movement on taht part - so you can either make it VFR, OR - you could try set Tdecimate to hybrid more (hybrid=1 /me thinks) and then it'll blend those parts down to 23.976 or an explanation similiar to this .
Basically it's hard for me to see it before I have a complete file where I can press "play" hence it goes in a circle sort of - 1st I try without, and then if I see that some parts start "getting stuck" or whatever, I try with hybrid...
Meow , and thanks again... You're the first one to say something nice about that monster .
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|2007-06-12, 19:26
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As I've previously stated, I'm pretty much new to all of this encoding stuff, and I lck lots of info - for example - this is simply the ONLY way I know of detecting it... Honest ... If you know a better way - dude, I'm totally open for suggestions .
|2007-06-12, 19:50
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4. If you really insist on supermasochism, Virtualdub and an Avisynth script plus some TDecimate metrics
(Really, this is EXACTLY what YATTA was MADE to make simple. Use it.)
|2007-06-12, 19:54
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*sigh* YATTA always looked so complex and "pro" to me... But wait, I think I'm misunderstanding, when you said "inefficient" - what were you reffering to? the hybrid=1 mode? Or me watching the video to see if it gets "stucky" to identify wether it needs hybrid=1 or not? .
Because the YATTA comment seems like it's more related to the hybrid=1, and not what I was replying to - the "watch video to see if it has stuttering places to identify wether it needs hybrid=1 or not" .
|2007-06-12, 20:34
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Actually I meant both. YATTA is the most efficient way I know of to detect 30fps sections (use the "Find VFR" button, hurr). And never ever ever use hybrid=1 if you can go VFR, it's a really really bad idea.
|2007-06-12, 20:40
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From non-dvd raw to xvid in avi: just use selectevery(5).assumefps(24000,1001) or selectevery(4).assumefps(30000,1001) instead of tdecimate.
Also why would you rely on the assumefps value from the timecodes file? From my experiences it's chosen pretty much randomly.
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Our Future: The Face of the New Gay Conservative
The gay Republican has always held a somewhat anomalous position within the gay community. Log Cabin Republicans are certainly the most well-known contingent of conservative-leaning gays, and since the 1970s have occupied an Uncle Tom butt-of-the-joke type space within the community. The Log Cabin gays, along with the majority of openly conservative gays within America, have always clung primarily to the free-market Reaganite approach to conservative politics. The brand of conservatism where they could easily grit their teeth and glaze over the incessant homophobic dog whistling that pours out of their own party. But as it's become increasingly clear over the last year, the face of conservatism within America has dramatically shifted. Trump has reshaped the party in a deeply fundamental way, where basic respectability is no longer needed. Accordingly, a new image of the gay Republican has arisen to match the shifting political field.
As I've mentioned before in other articles, occasionally I venture into the world of gay-oriented message boards on Reddit. Given that Reddit as a platform tends to attract a variety of people from different backgrounds, it's a good way to gain insight into the experiences of members of the community I might not typically interact with. Out of all the boards I've ventured onto, r/gaybros strikes me as the closest to a catchall community when it comes to gay men that visit Reddit. It currently has 87,000 readers; the largest readership of any LGBT oriented board on the site.
Donald Trump. Photo: Associated Press
A few weeks ago, a moderator of the board created a thread announcing that they would no longer be allowing any threads regarding Trump. The threads that had been flooding the board for months were split fairly evenly between support and dissent. While Reddit, in general, tends to be more right-leaning when compared to other similar message boards, it made it impossible to ignore something that has been building since Trump announced his presidential run: gay Trump supporters are very much a thing. And for the most part, as one might imagine, they tend to be radically different from the image of the conservative gay that's existed for years.
This certainly wasn't the first instance of gay Trump supporters making their presence known. Back in June, an activist group by the name Deplorable Pride made headlines after being denied a patriotically designed float at the Charlotte Pride parade. And of course, Milo Yiannopoulos became infamous for creating an image of gay conservatism that was a dramatic departure from the Log Cabin Republicans, one that was clearly tailor-made for the age of Trump. The existence of the gay Trump supporter has existed just below the surface of the gay community for some time.
Gregory T. Angelo, Executive Director of the Log Cabin Republicans. Photo: Associated Press
Most of these men tend to be in their late teens to early 20s from urban and suburban communities, most of who primarily formed their political views and support for Trump through the Internet. They tend to distance themselves from their sexual identities, outside of the pleasure they take in flaunting their political views in duality with what's expected of them as gay men. They often see the modern incarnation of the gay community as vapid, immoral, and socially unacceptable. Above all, they are a very real contingent that likely has more of a presence within the community than people tend to realize.
But where the Log Cabin Republican tended to regard his sexuality and community with ambivalence, the young, gay Trump supporter tends to reject them flat out, along with more standard conservative beliefs. They see themselves as entirely separate from the queer world, occupying a more naturalized placed within a traditionally heterosexual culture. They reject anything that could distance them from the traditional white, heterosexual, American experience. They tend to deny the concept of coming out of the closet, along with any culture or community associated with the LGBT experience. And of course, they're masters in the mental gymnastics needed to rationalize the outward, uncensored hatred the Trump administration has espoused towards the gay community.
Being a gay conservative has always required the ability to rationalize contradictory (and often outwardly dangerous, self-damaging) cultural stances. But the Internet has fundamentally changed the way politics are disseminated. Young gay men can now begin to discover their sexualities in congruence with the formulation of their politics, all through these message boards. Which, as has been established through the rise of the alt-right, can lead to impressionable gay teenagers falling into the depths of extreme far-right politics. Politics that categorically deny any expression of sexuality that falls outside the realm of traditional, respectable heterosexuality. Politics that can lead to young, gay men trying to find a way to rationalize supporting a government that denies their very humanity, more brashly than we've ever seen previously.
Kyle Mangione-Smith is a filmmaker and student living in Boston.


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Washington Post Tells Reporters To Stop Engaging Readers On Twitter
from the how-not-to-connect dept
The Washington Post's official Twitter feed tried to defend the story, by claiming that the newspaper was trying to cover "both sides" of the story. As GLAAD correctly pointed out, this was not a story that had "both sides." It's unfortunate that so many news organizations appear to believe that there are two (and only two) sides to every story, and are willing to report each equally without ever taking a stand on which is the actual story. Either way, after this exchange, the Washington Post alerted its staffers to no longer engage with the public via Twitter in this manner:
Even as we encourage everyone in the newsroom to embrace social media and relevant tools, it is absolutely vital to remember that the purpose of these Post branded accounts is to use them as a platform to promote news, bring in user generated content and increase audience engagement with Post content. No branded Post accounts should be used to answer critics and speak on behalf of the Post, just as you should follow our normal journalistic guidelines in not using your personal social media accounts to speak on behalf of the Post.Now, this raises some questions. First of all, if part of the purpose is to increase audience engagement, doesn't that involve... um... engaging? It seems weird to suggest the way to increase user engagement is to avoid engaging. On top of that, the second paragraph just has me shaking my head. Why wouldn't a newspaper let a reporter publish a rebuttal? Isn't that what engagement is about? The search for "truth" comes from discussing things with different viewpoints, and it seems like something of a massive cop-out for the Washington Post to say that it will refrain from engaging with those who question its reporting.
Perhaps it would be useful to think of the issue this way: when we write a story, our readers are free to respond and we provide them a venue to do so. We sometimes engage them in a private verbal conversation, but once we enter a debate personally through social media, this would be equivalent to allowing a reader to write a letter to the editor--and then publishing a rebuttal by the reporter. It's something we don't do.