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From Eastland to Gacy, local history inspires new plays
Much has changed about Chicago and its sprawling suburbs over the years. But one thing hasn't: the power to inspire.
Writers from Carl Sandburg and Nelson Algren to Lorraine Hansberry and David Mamet have found inspiration in the city and its environs, penning slice-of-life dramas rooted in the area's often troubled history.
Chicago-inspired shows"Eastland: A New Musical"
Location: Lookingglass Theatre, Water Tower Water Works, 821 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, (312) 337-0665 or lookingglasstheatre.org
Showtimes: 7:30 p.m. Wednesday and Friday; 3 and 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Saturday and Sunday; through July 29
Tickets: $34-$68
"My Kind of Town"
Location: TimeLine Theatre, 615 W. Wellington Ave., Chicago, (773) 281-8463, ext. 6, or timelinetheatre.com
Showtimes: 7:30 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday; 8 p.m. Friday; 4 and 8 p.m. Saturday; 2 p.m. Sunday; through July 29
Tickets: $32, $42
"The Gacy Play"
Location: Theater Wit, 1229 W. Belmont Ave., Chicago, (773) 975-8150 or theaterwit.org or sideshowtheatre.org
Showtimes: 8 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday; 3 p.m. Sunday; through July 29
Tickets: $15, $20
"A Steady Rain"
Location: Chicago Dramatists, 1105 W. Chicago
Ave., Chicago, asteadyrainchicago.com
Showtimes: 8 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday; 3 p.m. Sunday; July 7-Sept. 2
Tickets: $35, $40
"Superior Donuts"
Location: Metropolis Performing Arts Centre, 111 W. Campbell St., Arlington Heights, (847) 577-2121 or metropolisarts.com
Showtimes: 7:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday; July 17-26
Tickets: $25
In recent years, playwrights Keith Huff, Brett Neveu, Tracy Letts and Bruce Norris have joined their ranks, adding to the canon tales conveyed in the city's distinct patois and delivered in that unflinching, meat-and-potatoes style characteristic of Chicago's vibrant storefront theater scene.
Case in point: the cop drama "A Steady Rain," by Arlington Heights native Huff. The play, which originated at Chicago Dramatists in 2007 and went on to a successful Broadway run in 2009, returns next month for a commercial remount featuring its original cast, director and artistic team. In fact, shows inspired by the history of the city and its suburbs have figured prominently this theater season and the last.
There's Lookingglass Theatre Company's "Eastland: A New Musical," inspired by the 1915 capsizing of a Lake Michigan excursion boat. The world premiere marks the end of a season that began with another original work, "The Great Chicago Fire."
Another tragedy-inspired show comes courtesy of Sideshow Theatre Company. "The Gacy Play," which begins previews Saturday, is about the serial killer who murdered 33 young men and boys, including one from Des Plaines, and buried most of them on his property in unincorporated Norwood Park Township.
Next month, the Metropolis Performing Arts Centre in Arlington Heights will host Mary-Arrchie Theatre's remount of "Superior Donuts," Letts' 2008 play set in Uptown, about an aging hippie and an aspiring young writer confronting a ruthless bookie and a changing neighborhood.
All of that comes on the heels of Chicago Dramatists' production of Jon Steinhagen's tragicomic "Blizzard '67." That play starred Fox Valley Repertory's John Gawlik and coincided with the 45th anniversary of the storm that stranded hundreds and killed dozens. It joined Steppenwolf Theatre's production of "Clybourne Park," Norris' 2012 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning examination of race inspired by Hansberry's Chicago classic "A Raisin in the Sun," while The Neo-Futurists weighed in last fall with "Burning Bluebeard," which chronicled the deadly 1903 fire at Chicago's Iroquois Theatre.
Nick Bowling, director of "My Kind of Town," John Conroy's play about the Chicago police torture scandal currently running at TimeLine Theatre, attributes the convergence to the "immense power and the beautiful dichotomy that is Chicago -- this beautiful city that is an incredibly tough and at times ugly place."
"That juxtaposition leaves it open for constant scrutiny and exploration," he said.
Not to mention infinite dramatic possibilities.
"If I were to speculate, I'd guess it's cyclical," said Andrew White, artistic director of Lookingglass Theatre, whose predilection for Chicago stories was evidenced in 1990's "The Jungle," the artfully imagined 2008 "Nelson Algren: For Keeps and a Single Day" and now "Eastland."
Eventually, the pendulum will swing back, White said. Until then, here are a few current productions that draw inspiration closer to home.
'My Kind of Town'
It took five years to bring John Conroy's "My Kind of Town" from the page to last month's world premiere on TimeLine Theatre's stage. But the play -- inspired by the torture allegations involving disgraced former Chicago Police Commander Jon Burge and other officers -- had been more than 17 years in the making.
Investigative-reporter-turned-playwright Conroy got wind of the scandal in 1989. A year later he published "House of Screams," the first of 22 articles he wrote exposing defendants' claims that they were tortured by police officers -- with means that included electric shock and suffocation -- into making false confessions, some of which landed them on death row.
The only person charged with a crime was Burge, who was fired in 1993 and convicted in 2010 on federal charges of perjury and obstruction of justice related to the statements he made about the alleged torture.
Developed through Writers' Bloc, the play had several staged readings before Conroy submitted it to theater companies. All but TimeLine passed on it.
"We saw the potential," Bowling said. "John's writing is beautiful and very smart and there's such passion. We knew the story was right for Chicago."
The challenge was to ensure "My Kind of Town" remained a work of art and not agitprop.
"From the beginning John wanted to see both sides of the story," said Bowling, noting that by the end of the play, every character has dirty hands.
Conroy holds out a slim hope that the play will "prick the city's conscience" and force officials to address what happened. At the very least, he hopes it will prompt people to examine their conscience.
He said people are able to discern torture elsewhere, but have a hard time identifying it in their own communities. And that has to change.
"I would love for people to question themselves about what they knew, when they knew it and what they did about it. And if they did nothing, why it didn't seem to matter," he said.
'The Gacy Play'
Calamity West wasn't born in late 1978 when police began to exhume the 29 victims buried on the suburban property and below the home of John Wayne Gacy Jr. West, a Missouri native, didn't know who the serial killer was until Sideshow Theatre artistic director Jonathan L. Green told her about the contractor and part-time clown executed in 1994 for murdering 33 young men and boys.
Inspired by "morbid curiosity," West began researching Gacy. Her efforts culminated in "The Gacy Play," which begins previews Saturday at Theater Wit.
Eschewing violence in favor of suspense, West set out to explore those "gray areas" of Gacy's psyche in the play, which takes place in 1975, right around Christmas and just before his killing spree escalated. It includes imagined conversations between the killer and his namesake, film star John Wayne, and between the killer and three of his victims.
The task of negotiating those gray areas falls to actor Andy Luther, who was initially leery about taking on the role.
"True evil is often a chameleon," Luther said. "That's the kind of guy I'm trying to play."
"Evil manifests itself in many ways," said Luther, adding that in Gacy's case it manifested itself as the guy next door.
Reports of Gacy's childhood trauma, dysfunctional family and abusive father intrigued West, as did the self-pity and self-hatred that drove him to be the best neighbor, best businessman and best husband -- and to ultimately fail at all of them.
"We need to have a reason why these horrific things can happen," she said.
'A Steady Rain'
"A Steady Rain" has traveled extensively since its 2007 world premiere at Chicago Dramatists. Keith Huff's gripping two-hander about beleaguered Chicago cops whose lives spiral out of control following a botched domestic disturbance call has been produced on Broadway, around the country and internationally. Now the drama returns in a remount produced by the Chicago Commercial Collective that reunites the original creative team, including director Russ Tutterow and actors Randy Steinmeyer and Peter DeFaria.
"We've never considered asking anyone else," Tutterow said of Steinmeyer and DeFaria. "If we were ever going to do it again, we wanted to do it with those two guys. They're the show."
Huff, who used Steinmeyer's performance as a blueprint to advise other actors on navigating the play, says the performances have even more depth and energy now.
"I just love what they're doing with it … Their presence is even more gritty and real," said the playwright, whose follow-up, "The Detective's Wife," premiered last year at Writers' Theatre and whose "Big Light, Big City" opens next year at Lookingglass Theatre.
Unfolding mostly in monologue form, "A Steady Rain" breaks all the rules. It shows instead of tells, Tutterow said. Still, it works.
"It's like a ride," he said. "You can't get off until it's over."
And thanks to some slight reference tweaks, it travels well. "A Steady Rain" ran five months in Paris and toured France and Spain. It has had productions in Buenos Aires, Mexico City and Canada. Currently, the show is running in Hungary and Greece and is on tour in South America.
Huff always wanted to write a play that packs an emotional wallop: one that demands audiences engage and that doesn't deliver its moral topped with a neat little bow.
"That's what's great about the theater," he said. "People aren't going to see a story but to have an experience."
'Eastland: A New Musical'
One winter afternoon Lookingglass Theatre artistic director Andrew White took a video camera to the banks of the Chicago River between LaSalle and Clark streets -- the spot where the excursion boat S.S. Eastland capsized on July 24, 1915, killing more than 800 people, most of them employees of the Western Electric Company.
Not far from where a plaque commemorates one of the country's worst tragedies, White interviewed passers-by, some of whom take the route every day. Only one had ever heard of the Eastland, and his recollection was sketchy.
That so few people, including lifelong Chicagoans, knew about the "forgotten tragedy" got White thinking.
"We were not long after Sept. 11 and Hurricane Katrina. I was looking at the disasters that loom large for us now and change entire frames of reference," he said.
How long would it take to forget, he wondered?
That inspired "Eastland: The Musical," with book and lyrics by White and a score by Andre Pluess and Ben Sussman.
White began working on the show in 2005. He finished three days before last week's opening after adding new characters and lyrics following the seventh night of previews.
He was determined that "Eastland" not only recount the disaster, but also serve as a meditation on mortality and the fragility of life.
Invariably, disasters like this remind us of that.
"We have brief moments of recognition of our mortality and how we should be spending our lives," he said. During those times, we're conscious of those things that make life valuable and precious, White said. Unfortunately, our daily lives intrude and we forget.
"Eastland" reminds us.


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I whipped up a script so I didn't have to use the Azure portal wizard to easily spin up Windows Server 10 VM's for further testing.
It's mostly self explanatory, the Azure PowerShell cmdlets have great help and online resources are immense as well.
Basically, it connects to Azure with your provided credentials, grabs existing subscription ID and an existing storage account (helpful to have this sorted in Azure portal first)
You need to provide username, password for your new VM and cloud service name in the script (*Change Me*)
It will provide out-gridview prompts to select an existing private virtual network in Azure (again helpful to have created one)
Also prompts for VM instance size – I use Basic A0 for testing (no availability set)
It also prompts to pick the Azure Datacenter. The VM must be created in the same DC as the storage account. For New Zealand customers, West US seems fastest. No hard testing behind that opinion.
It automatically picks the Windows Server Technical Preview image, but you can change that to whatever image takes your fancy really. You can get a list using Get-AzureVMImage.
Here is the script – probably tons of tweaks and optimisations to do, but it works for my basic testing. Comments and suggestions are very welcome.
#Connect and auth PS session against your Azure creds Add-AzureAccount #Get subscription ID of your azure account $MySubID = Get-AzureSubscription | select -expand subscriptionid #Select existing storage account - VM must be created in same DC as storage account $MyStorageAccountName = Get-AzureStorageAccount | out-gridview -passthru | select -expand StorageAccountName #Name of your VM $MyVMName = "*Change Me*" #Username for your Windows VM $MyVMAdminUsername = "*Change Me*" #Password for your Windows VM $MyVMAdminPassword = "*Change Me*" #New Cloud Service name $MYCloudServiceName = "*Change Me*" #Select internal Azure virtual network for VM (must exist already). Comment out line if you want to use automatic public connection $MyVMNetwork = Get-AzureVNetSite | Out-GridView -PassThru | select -expand name $MyVMSubnet = Get-AzureVNetSite | Out-GridView -PassThru | Select-Object Subnets -ExpandProperty Subnets | select -expand name #Select VM Instance size from list $MyInstanceSize = Get-AzureRoleSize | Out-GridView -passthru | select -expand instancesize #Select Datacenter location from list $MyVMDCLocation = Get-AzureLocation | Out-GridView -PassThru | select -expand name #Set the Azure Subscription and the Storage account to be used Set-AzureSubscription -SubscriptionId $MySubID -CurrentStorageAccountName $MyStorageAccountName #Select Windows Server Technical Preview - i.e. Server 10 $MyImageName = Get-AzureVMImage | where {$_.Label -eq "Windows Server Technical Preview"} | select -expand imagename #Build VM New-AzureQuickVM -Windows -ServiceName $MYCloudServiceName -Name $MyVMName -ImageName $MyImageName -AdminUsername $MyVMAdminUsername -Password $MyVMAdminPassword -Location $MyVMDCLocation -InstanceSize $MyInstanceSize -VNetName $MyVMNetwork -SubnetNames $MyVMSubnet

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Now that Christmas has passed, what will you do with your tree?
Obviously that artificial tree will get boxed up soon. But what about the real tree? Don't throw it away. Instead, recycle it.
Bring it to the Wrigley Field green lot on Grace Street from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Jan. 5 through Jan. 14.


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Regulations (Standards - 29 CFR) - Table of Contents
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Temporary surfaces on which loads are to be landed shall be of sufficient size and strength to permit employees to work safely.
When the edge of a hatch section or of stowed cargo may constitute a fall hazard to an employee, the edge shall be guarded by a vertical safety net, or other means providing equal protection, to prevent an employee from falling. When the employer can demonstrate that vertical nets or other equally effective means of guarding cannot be used due to the type of cargo, cargo stowage, or other circumstances, a trapeze net shall be rigged at the top edge of the elevation or other means shall be taken to prevent injury if an employee falls. Safety nets shall be maintained in good condition and be of adequate strength for the purpose intended.
When two gangs are working in the same hatch on different levels, a vertical safety net shall be rigged and securely fastened to prevent employees or cargo from falling. Safety nets shall be maintained in good condition and be of adequate strength for the purpose intended.
[62 FR 40141, July 25, 1997]
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Introduced by Helen Dunmore
Illustrated by Angela Barrett
Said to be 'one of the greatest love stories in world literature', Tolstoy's narrative genius shines through in the portrait he paints of Russia in the latter part of the 19th century.
Published price: US$ 92.95
As early as 1870 Tolstoy had the idea of writing about 'a married woman of high society who lapses morally' and three years later, moved by the suicide of a neighbouring landowner's mistress who had thrown herself under a train, the author of War and Peace embarked on what would be his second great masterpiece.
Translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude
Quarter-bound in buckram with cloth sides blocked and printed with a design by Angela Barrett
Set in Ehrhardt with Bulmer display
Frontispiece and 14 full-page colour illustrations
768 pages
Book size: 9½" × 6¼"
'All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.'
Anna's story is simple and timeless – bored by her calculating husband and eager to live life, rather than read about it in books, she falls in love. In Moscow and Petersburg, such scandals are the stuff of gossip, not tragedy, but Anna refuses to play society's game: hers is a high passion, and though she tries to insist that her lover, Count Vronsky, share it, he begins to dread the very word 'love' and to hanker after simpler pleasures. Against this ruinous affair are set the stories of other loves, other marriages, including the cautious progress to happiness of Kitty and Levin (perhaps a wistful self-portrait of the Tolstoys' early married life). For today's reader, Tolstoy's narrative genius shines through in the portrait he paints of Russia in the latter part of the 19th century – drawing rooms, racetracks, officers' clubs, forests and dachas – depicted in all their seductive yet hypocritical glory as the setting for Anna's doomed passion. The result, as Vladimir Nabokov said, is 'one of the greatest love stories in world literature'. From its position as first in a list of 125 leading authors' favourite books, it can equally be called one of the greatest novels of all time.
'Tolstoy towered above his age as Dante and Michelangelo and Beethoven had done'
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A 28-year-old Sunnyvale man has been arrested in connection with a crash in Daly City on Saturday night that left three people dead, police said today. Denis Pereirade Macedo was driving one of two vehicles involved in the crash, which happened in the 100 block of Eastmoor Avenue at about 8:15 p.m., Daly City police Sgt. Michael Barton said. Three people in the other vehicle were killed, Barton said.
A fourth victim survived and remains in the hospital. Macedo was arrested after the crash. He was alone in his car at the time of the collision and was uninjured. He was booked into the San Mateo County Jail on murder and hit-and-run charges, Barton said. The San Mateo County corner's office today identified two of the victims as Josefa Osorio Acevedo, 50, and Amado Osorio Acevedo, 23, both of Daly City.
The coroner's office is still working to confirm the third victim's identity, and the Daly City Police Department is investigating the crash. Macedo is expected to be arraigned in San Mateo County Superior Court later this week, District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe said.
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Whether you're just in Florence for 24 hours, or are spending a couple of weeks traveling around Italy, you're sure to want to see, do and eat the best that the city has to offer. Our Foodie Guide to Florence offers you insider's tips on how to make the most of your visit. We've gathered together our favorite attractions, restaurants, bars and places to stay in Florence, as well as our very own shortlist of not-to-be-missed food and drinks! (PS. Want to be shown around Florence by a local and taste the best of the city? Then book one of our food tours!)
Essential Food and Drinks to Try in Florence
Bistecca alla Fiorentina
Meat eaters will find their holy grail in Florence and in the city's prized dish, the bistecca alla fiorentina. The cows that provide the meat for these steaks come from an old breed found only in Tuscany, the Chianina. In restaurants, the steaks themselves are priced by weight and tend to be rather huge, so are best split between a group or a couple. Fiorentina is always on the bone, and these steaks are grilled over a fire until they are perfectly cooked, which means they are still pink inside—if you do not like rare meat, it is best not to try this dish. These wonderful steaks are extremely flavorful and will have you remembering Florence as the city where you ate the best steak in your life.
To try all the local cheese and meats that you can, sit down for a glass of Tuscan wine like Chianti Classico and order a tagliere at most any local enoteca. Tagliere literally means "cutting board," and that's because a cutting board is usually how this appetizer is served, with all the meats and cheeses arranged to please on top. The tagliere is also a great dish to try in Florence at several different places because each will have its favorite cheeses and cured meats that it serves, and so you'll be able to taste a wide variety in a short time. Particularly Florentine additions to the tagliere are lardo di colonnata (cured strips of pork fat) and crostini with liver pâté, or fegato.
Panzanella is a bread salad that is the answer to Italy's summer heat. It is filling, fresh and cool and can be made with the vegetables peaking in season, which most often in the summer means tomatoes. Old bread is the basis for this dish, and is one of the reasons why it has remained a Tuscan favorite through the centuries. Most restaurants serve their own version of panzanella. The wintertime equivalent of panzanella is a soup called ribollita, which is also served with old bread, and is thick with cannellini beans and kale. You can taste these seasonal dishes on our Florence food tour!
Nothing says Florence like lampredotto, or cow stomach. Lampredotto is Florence's version of street food, and is usually served as a panino between two pieces of crusty bread accented with salsa verde, a parsley-based green sauce. If that doesn't sound immediately appealing, know that in Florence lampredotto is simmered for hours so that it is infused with flavor. Another thing it has going for it is that it's a hearty and healthy lunch that dates back to the Renaissance. Find a lampredottai on a street corner and order it like the local Florentines, or eat it at a restaurant where it is served with plenty of bread for soaking up the sauce.
Pici Pasta
A specialty of the Tuscan countryside, pici is a thick and hearty type of pasta made with flour instead of semolina. The noodles are typically hand rolled and resemble a kind of inflated spaghetti. As for what you put on your pici, the most simple tomato sauce will often do and will bring out the taste of both the pasta and the sauce perfectly. Though of course, pici can be topped with anything, such as a hearty ragu made with game like wild boar—just another specialty of Tuscany!
Florence's Best Restaurants
Osteria Tripperia Il Magazzino
If you're looking for a place to try the city's famous offal that doesn't involve eating it on the street, this just might be the restaurant for you. The osteria has lampredotto on the menu in different forms, such as the traditional version covered in salsa verde (green sauce) and in the form of meatballs. Even if you're not into offal, there are plenty of other delicious choices on the menu.
Piazza della Passera, ⅔
+39 055 215 969
Open: Daily 12 noon – 3.30 pm and 7.30 – 11 pm
Trattoria Mario
A long-time Florence staple for lunch, the Trattoria Mario continues to serve up amazing bistecche alla fiorentine to its hungry clients. It is located behind the Mercato Centrale, and it serves traditional Tuscan fare like ribollita (a thick vegetable soup).
Via Rosina, 2
+39 055 2185
Open: Mon – Sat 12 noon – 3.30 pm and 7.30 – 9.45 pm
Trattoria Sostanza
Another long-time Florence favorite, Trattoria Sostanza packs a lot of restaurant into a small place. They serve all the good traditional favorites like bistecca alla fiorentina, along with some tasty extras like pollo al burro, or chicken cooked in butter. Sit near the back and you can watch the cooks in action.
Via del Porcellana, 25/r
+39 055 212 691
Open: Mon – Fri 12.30 – 2 pm
This cozy cafe is perfect for a chilly autumn day when all you want to do is to sip at a something warm. Though Hemingway calls itself a cioccolateria, it serves a lot more than just chocolate. But if you are craving something sweet (like truffles, hot chocolate or cookies) this is where you should head.
Piazza Piattellina, 9/r
+39 055 284781
Open: Mon – Thu 4 pm – 1 am; Fri – Sun 4 pm – 2 am
This relatively new cafe has everything you could want in one place. Not only is it tastefully decorated in vintage retro style, Amble serves everything from cakes and coffee to cocktails and light lunches. It is located in the busy Ponte Vecchio area and is a good place to catch a break from tourism.
Piazzetta dei Del Bene, 7/a
+39 055268528
Open: Daily 10 am – 10 pm
Il Chicco di Caffe
Walking into this small restaurant in the Oltrarno feels like you've stumbled on a local secret. And though Il Chicco di Caffe is no secret, it somehow manages to preserve the neighborhood feel and makes those who come feel welcome. Lunches are delicious and cheap, while dinners are slightly pricier, but equally worth the cost.
Via della Chiesa, 16/r
+39 055 265 4354
Open: Daily 8 am – 12 midnight
Le Volpi e l'Uva
While this place is more wine bar than cafe or restaurant, you can certainly drink an espresso here as well as eat food. But most come here for the wine. Specializing in local bottles, Le Volpi e l'Uva will also warm up your appetite with its choices of crostini and cured meats and cheeses from Tuscany.
Piazza dei Rossi, 1
+39 055239 8132
Open: Daily 11 am – 9 pm
La Bottega del Buon Caffe
For a delicious and wonderful night out, take a 5-star splurge at La Bottega del Buon Caffe. This Michelin-starred restaurant will surely impress with its innovative takes on traditional Tuscan cuisine made with locally sourced ingredients from Borgo Santo Pietro and directed by head chef Antonello Sardi. If you need another draw there is the fine riverside dining.
Lungarno Benvenuto Cellini, 69/
+39 055 553 5677
Open: Tue – Sat 12 noon – 3 pm and 7.30 – 10.30 pm; Sun 12.30 – 3 pm
Near the buzzing Sant'Ambrogio market, this tiny sandwich shop makes some the best panini in town. The true secret as to what makes them so good lies in the combination of toppings – for example, Semel dares to mix up anchovy and orange! The menu here changes daily.
Piazza Ghiberti, 44r
Open: Mon, Tue and Thu 11 am – 3.30 pm; Tue and Fri 11.30 am – 9 pm
Caffe Letterarioo
This hip cafe might just have it all: food for the hungry and drinks for the thirsty, as well as a host of events that include readings and concerts on the weekends. Housed in a prison that was built in the 15th century, Caffe Letterario also boasts an impressive courtyard where you can soak up Florence's atmosphere.
Piazza delle Murate
+39 055 234 6872
Open: Mon – Fri 8 am – 1 am; Sat and Sun 11 am – 1 am
Top Places to eat Bistecca Alla Fiorentina
This small trattoria keeps a fire burning in the kitchen to cook their bistecche. The steaks here are not as huge as many of the others on the list and can almost be consumed by a single person. Like many of the restaurants on this list, however, Sostanza has a great list of seasonal sides. Be sure to make a reservation.
Via del Porcellana, 25/r
+39 055 212 691
Open: Mon – Fri 12.30 – 2 pm
Buca Lapi
Located in what used to be a stop for coachmen where they would wash down a tripe sandwich with a glass of wine, Buca Lapi is one of the restaurants in the center of Florence best known for its delicious steaks. It is a large restaurant that manages to still treat its customers well, through service and food. Because of its popularity, make sure you make a reservation if you want to try the Chianina meat here.
Via del Trebbio, 1/r
+39 055 213 768
Open: Mon – Sat 7 – 10.30 pm
Trattoria la Casalinga
Head across the river to the Oltrarno to try a bistecca alla fiorentina at this home-style restaurant. Its menu features most Tuscan specialties, so it's no wonder that they cook up a large and mouth-watering bistecca. And be sure to save room for dessert, like the millefoglie. Expect a wait, but it'll be worth it.
Via dei Michelozzi, 9r
+39 055 218624
Open: Mon – Sat 12 noon – 2.30 pm, 7 – 10 pm
Trattoria Mario
One of the most revered restaurants in Florence, it's no surprise that Trattoria Mario serves up a mean bistecca. Located in the center, it is popular with tourists and locals alike. It is open only for lunch, so be prepared to cozy up to enjoy one of the best steaks in the city.
Via Rosina, 2r
+39 055 218550
Open: Mon – Sat 12 noon – 3.30 pm
Antico Ristoro di Cambi
Somewhat off the main tourist drag, the Antico Ristoro di Cambi is a family-run restaurant that serves traditional Tuscan fare, which of course includes bistecche. The ambience is simple, and in the summer there is a patio on the Piazza Tiratoio. Other good food on the menu includes Tuscan specialties like ribollita (a thick soup with cannellini beans and kale) and lampredotto (or cow's stomach).
Via San Onofrio, 1r
+39 055 217134
Open: Mon – Sat 12 noon – 2.30 pm, 6 – 10.30 pm
Our Favorite Things to See and Do
Explore the markets and specialty food shops
Locals know that the best produce is found at outdoor markets. The two main covered markets are Mercato Centrale di San Lorenzo and Mercato di San'Ambrogio, though all the areas of the city host their own smaller, but not any less well-stocked, markets. In Florence, the baker still makes the bread, the butcher still cuts the meat, and the pastificio still makes the pasta. Make the rounds like a true Italian to stock up your (traveler's) larder. Or, take the guess work out of it and let us be your local guide to Florentine food on our walking tour!
Go on a wine tour
Drinking in Florence is never far behind eating in Florence, or before, depending how you look at it. Because Florence is the capital of Tuscany, the region's wine tends to gather here. Chianti Classico and Brunello di Montalcino are just a few of the best known from the region. The best way to really experience Tuscan wines is to head to a winery, usually situated outside of the city. There are plenty of tours on offer, such as Angie's Tuscan Wine Tours, or you could also rent a car and drive around to your favorites, making sure to stop at a trattoria for lunch on the way.
Drink an aperitivo
Aperitivo is one of the best ways to end a day of sightseeing. Order a glass of wine and some snacks, preferably a tagliere with local cheeses and cured meats, and watch the Florentines finish their day. Head over to Uva Nera in Borgo Ognissanti for some great drinks and snacks.
Visit the Oltrarno
While many of the most well-known attractions are on the same side of the Arno River, the Oltrarno is a vibrant area worth the trip. For starters, it's an easier place to get away from the tourist crowds. The Piazza di Santo Spirito is a great place to start. Looking for a local guide to the Oltrarno area? Join us for a food tour of this hip neighborhood!
Fill up on churches and frescoes
Okay, so churches might not provide any nutritional value but if you're going to visit a lot of them, Florence is the city to do it in. The Basilica di Santa Maria Novella and Basilica di Santa Croce are two excellent churches to start with where the frescoes will stun.
Binge on paintings and sculptures
One of the true delights of Florence is the sheer amount of wonderful paintings and sculptures and palazzi everywhere. It would be a shame to set foot in Florence without seeing Michelangelo's David at the Accademia Gallery. Other great places for sculpture are the Uffizi, the Piazza della Signoria (free and outside) and the Medici Chapel.
Get out of Florence and head to an agriturismo
Visiting or staying at an agriturismo is one of the best culinary experiences in Italy. Agriturismi are farm houses in the countryside that the owners usually stock with home-cooked food made from their produce. In addition, they are often situated in beautiful villas and provide a well-deserved break from the city. The Agriturismo Petrognano is both stunning and near enough to Florence to drive there.
Take in the views
The Piazzale Michelangelo sits above Florence and is the best place to go for sweeping views of Brunelleschi's Duomo and all the terracotta roofs of the city. To make it (slightly) more culinary, grab a Peroni at the food stands and enjoy the sunset. Located on a hill overlooking Florence, the medieval San Miniato al Monte is an elegant and rewarding end point to an uphill walk. Enjoy the lovely church and then indulge in a pre-packed picnic on the church grounds so that you have enough fuel to return.
Rent a bike
The best way to get around Florence is by your own steam. Not as chaotic as Rome or as well connected by public transportation, Florence is an easy city to bike in, and biking in turn makes it much more accessible. The bike rental in front of the Stazione Santa Maria Novella is a good and affordable place to pick up two wheels.
Visit the Oblate Library
Not far from the Duomo is the Oblate Library; from the top floor, there are excellent views of the Duomo and lots of tables with chairs to get comfortable. There is a small cafe for food, but most of all the Oblate Library is an excellent place to go if you're looking to get away from the crowds, but not too far.
Top Picks for Florence Hotels
Antica Dimora Firenze
If you like your bed and breakfasts to be cozy and charming then the Antica Dimora Firenze might be for you. Its colorful rooms with 4-poster beds and simple yet careful furnishings make it an excellent place to stay during your time in Florence. Some of the rooms also include a balcony. The hotel is about a 5-minute walk from the Galleria dell'Accademia and Michelangelo's David.
Via San Gallo, 72/N
+39 055 462 7296
Double rooms range from €80 to €200 per night, depending on season
Borghese Palace Art Hotel
While in Florence, it's normal to overdose on beautiful Renaissance art. And the Borghese Palace Art Hotel promises to take art overload one step further by bringing it into your hotel room, which is furnished in a mix of the modern and antique. The rooms are spacious and comfortable, and make an excellent place to unwind after a day of sightseeing. This hotel can be found between Santa Croce and the Duomo.
Via Ghibellina, 174/r
+39 055 284363
Double rooms range from €60 to €170
Hotel Lungarno
If you want luxury along the Arno River, look no further than Hotel Lungarno. Situated by the iconic Ponte Vecchio, across the river from the Uffizi and the Piazza Signoria, the Hotel Lungarno has plush and elegant rooms that are the signature of the Ferragamo Group. Services include an in-house spa, a terrace bar, a restaurant and a private art collection that includes a Picasso.
Borgo San Jacopo, 14
+39 055 27261
Rooms from €250 to €350 per night
Palazzo Galletti
Another well located hotel, at about a 5-minute walk from the Duomo, the Palazzo Galletti has spacious and well-decorated rooms that vary in price from low to high season. The most luxurious room has floor-to-ceiling frescoes that might make you feel like you're sleeping in one of the museums you came all the way to Florence to see.
Via Sant'Egidio, 12
+39 055 390 5750
Double rooms can cost €100 per night in low season and €150 in high season
This elegant guesthouse is located within walking distance of the Duomo, and offers a lot of refinement at a relatively low price. With a mix of modern and antique furnishing, N4U also has rooms complete with ceiling frescoes. Families of 4 can comfortably fit in one of the larger rooms.
Via del Proconsolo, 4
+39 055 094 8065
Rooms range from €100 to 150 per night, depending on season
Palazzo Guadagni Hotel
This lovely hotel provides the best of Florence with a 3-star price tag. Located across the river in Santo Spirito, the hotel boasts a panoramic terrace where guests can have their breakfast or a drink before dinner while they look out over the Boboli Gardens of the Palazzo Pitti.
Piazza di Santo Spirito, 9
+39 055 265 8376
Doubles can drop to €90 per night in low season and climb to €160 in high season
Sopr'arno Suites
Also situated on the Santo Spirito side of the Arno, the Sopr'arno Suites have rooms that combine the best of modern and vintage charms. There are 10 rooms in this bed and breakfast to choose from with a character that's all their own. A stay here will relax you enough to take on Florence and all it has to offer.
Via Maggio, 35
+39 055 046 8718
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Official invitation to visit Thilawa SEZ project area for Myanmar Manufacturing Summit 2014 participants
Posted on : 15 May, 2014
Loi Hein to partner with Japan based Asahi for a soft-drinks deal in Myanmar
Posted on : 07 May, 2014
Myanmar's Loi Hein - the beverage manufacturer, plans to partner with the Asahi group of Japan to start a major new soft-drinks company in Myanmar. The partnership has to be approved by the Myanmar Investment Commission, before the plans proceed.
12 Hong Kong garment manufacturers plan factory relocation to Thilawa SEZ in Myanmar
Posted on : 03 Apr, 2014
Myanmar's SEZ in Thilawa, in the outskirts of Yangon, is slated to be a major industrial hub.
In early March, The Financial Times reported that in a bid to tackle the challenges of rapidly rising wages, problems of hiring workers in China and a strong Chinese currency, a group of Hong Kong based garment manufacturers are in the process of relocating some portions of their operations from China to the Myanmar's Thilawa SEZ.
The report further states that as many as 12 such companies have already signed a letter of intent confirming their willingness to open factories in the SEZ.
The factories in question are medium-sized and are estimated to recruit approximately 2,000 workers each in Myanmar.
The final terms of the deal are yet to be completed. The 12 companies are in the process of getting a land lease in the SEZ at USD 300,000 per acre for a period of 50 years.
Given the lack of infrastructure development, the Thilawa SEZ has not progressed as expected.
But financial assistance from Japan is expected to boost the development process. Tokyo has already confirmed to lend USD 500 million in infrastructure loans, with investment focusing on building power networks, water supplies and logistics.
More on the 'DEVELOPMENT & PROGRESS OF THILAWA SPECIAL ECONOMIC ZONE' will be shared by Mr. Winston Set Aung, Deputy Governor of Central Bank of Myanmar and Chairman of Thilawa Special Economic Zone Management Committee at CMT's flagship event - Myanmar Manufacturing Summit in Yangon on 26-27 May 2014. Mr. Kazuto Yamazaki, Deputy Managing Director of Famoso Clothing Co., Ltd will also share insights on the CHALLENGES & OPPORTUNITIES OF OPERATING A GARMENT FACTORY IN MYANMAR.
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Over 100 foreign manufacturing firms enter Myanmar in 2013, including – cigarette, beer, auto, medicine and more
Posted on : 14 Feb, 2014
Foreign investments in Myanmar has crossed over USD 44 billion by the end of November 2013, according to official statistics from Myanmar Investment Commission (MIC). Among the largest investors are countries like China, Thailand and Hong Kong.
The steep rise in foreign investment has been possible with MIC granting over 100 foreign firms to enter the Myanmar market, which includes manufacturers of beer, cigarettes, medicines, auto, appliances, bamboo fiber, auto servicing, consumer foods, IT services and decorated roof. MIC confirms that in the January to December 19, 2013 period, it allowed 118 foreign investment businesses and joint ventures to invest and operate in Myanmar.
Among some of the global brand names entering the economy are British American Tobacco that will manufacture and distribute cigarettes and Myanmar Carlsberg that will produce and distribute beer. Apart from this two, there are other beverage manufacturing and distribution companies such as APB Alliance Brewery Company and Beer Chang International Limited investing in the booming Myanmar economy.
Investments have flowed into the manufacturing sector in the country post the appointment of finance minister Win Shein as MIC's chairman.
CMT's maiden Myanmar Manufacturing conference coming to Yangon on 27-28 May, 2014 is a key event for latest updates on FDIs in the manufacturing sector, regulatory clarification, challenges & opportunities and more.
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Phil Abraham"Mad Men" (AMC)Episode: "The Other Woman"Highlight: Don (Jon Hamm) shows up at the apartment of Joan (Christina Hendricks) to let her know he was against the partners' proposal that she sleep with a client for the sake of the business. But viewers later find out the scene takes place after she's already done it.Sidelight: Though both Joan and Peggy (Elisabeth Moss) make key decisions about their worth regarding money, the outward celebration in the office pertains to the cynical choice, while the woman who chose to actively better her situation leaves quietly with no fanfare.
Michael Cuesta"Homeland" (Showtime)Episode: "Pilot"Highlight: Brody (Damian Lewis) runs in the cold, blue early morning as dingy, orangey flashbacks to his captivity reveal just how much he's already lied about meeting Abu Nazir and the death of his colleague, before the camera finally, ominously frames him in front of the Capitol.Sidelight: We never hear the words "an American prisoner of war has been turned" when Carrie's Baghdad contact whispers it in her ear in the prologue -- only her repeating it when she tells Saul (Mandy Patinkin) 10 months later.


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Monster Energy Leading Edge Kawasaki Victorious at Montreal Supercross
October 3, 2011
Matt Goerke takes team's first ever Supercross win at Olympic Stadium, (October 3, 2011) - This past weekend marked the 34th edition of the annual Montreal Supercross, the longest running supercross race in North America and largest indoor race in Canada. The last race on the Canadian professional calendar, Montreal is always a highlight circled on the team's calendar and this year they came into the race armed with a great chance to win in both classes, with former MX2 winner, Kyle Beaton, making his return to racing in the MX2 class after suffering a severe knee injury before the start of the National season and top contenders, Teddy Maier and Matt Goerke in the MX1 class.
Right from the start of Saturday's practice sessions, Goerke showed that he was the man to beat as he topped both qualifying sessions. The Florida native kept the momentum going as he won his heat race and carried it into a top five start in the main event. He quickly worked his way through the pack until he was in second place and then went to work chipping away on the lead of early leader, Dusty Klatt. Soon, he caught Klatt as well, made the pass and pulled away to take his, and the teams, first ever Montreal win.
Said Goerke after his win, "I've had a bit of a trying year this season as I came back from my supercross injuries so this win means a lot to me. I'm thankful that the Monster Energy Leading Edge Kawasaki team stuck behind me and I could pay back their faith with this win."
For last year's second place finisher, Maier, his night started out great as well as he made it a Leading Edge sweep by taking the second heat race win. In the main event he got a mid-pack start and charged hard, working his way up to 4th by the end of the race, finishing just behind the 2nd and 3rd place finishers.
In the all-Canadian MX2 race, Kyle Beaton made his return to racing after having full knee reconstructive surgery before the start of the outdoor season. With only a couple weeks of time on the bike, the former Montreal winner was quick during the opening going as he ran in third but eventually the lack of seat time caught up with him as he dropped back to finish 8th. Still, it was great to have him back on the bike and he will no doubt be back and looking to take another win in 2012.
With Montreal in the books, the team wraps up a successful 2011 season. As team owner, Jason Hughes, reflected on the season he remarked, "Making the commitment to field an MX1 and MX2 team this season certainly paid off. To win a MX1 National and the prestigious Montreal Supercross, plus multiple wins in the MX2 class outdoors is exactly what we set out to do and we can't thank all our sponsors enough who believed in us and our vision. Thanks to all of you!"
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Kerry Katona's mumbled interview on This Morning has sparked fears for her health (see the interview below) but she's just the latest in a long line of stars who have shown themselves up live on air. Here's Mirror.co.uk's top 10 celebrity TV meltdowns.
1. George Best appeared on Wogan in 1991, but got trolleyed in the green room first, click below
2. After a rambling, stoned appearance on Frank Skinner's BBC chat show in 1999, Tara Palmer Tomkinson's cocaine problem became public knowledge. She went into rehab after the show and has claimed to be clean since, although the hiccups and slurred words in the clip below suggest she may have had a wee tipple on the odd occasion. Check out her Celebrity Big Brother's Little Brother interview with Dermot O'Leary
3. Oliver Reed's infamous interview on the Michael Aspel show. After drinking the mini bar dry, he went on and performed a wonderful dance, see below
4. In 1981 Grace Jones slapped chat show host Russell Harty across the face after the presenter turned his back on her to speak to other guests. She said she was being ignored.
5. Tom Cruise made a complete numpty out of himself on the Oprah show when trying to explain how in love he was with new girlfriend Katie Holmes. Actions included jumping on the sofa, punching the air repeatedly and grinning inanely. Make your toes curl by clicking below...
6. Vanessa Feltz scribbled a troubled message on the table in Celebrity Big Brother, which had everyone wondering is she's completely lost the plot – clip contains swearing
7. A childlike Farrah Fawcett had immense trouble with her speech on the David Letterman show in 1997 and even started talking to someone that wasn't there...
8. Another classic from the David Letterman show when a mischievous and drunk Courtney Love threatened to take her top off, jumped on his desk and generally behaved badly
9. Tyra Bank proved she wasn't to be messed with when she freaked out at a wannabe model who wasn't taking the show seriously on America's Next Top Model
10. Heather Mills made an appearance on GMTV to defend herself against tabloid stories and ended up proving a lot of them right with a nutty performance


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The family of missing student Julio César López Patolzin celebrates his 25th birthday. Tixtla, Guerrero. January 29, 2015.
On September 26, 2014, a mass disappearance sent shock waves through Mexican society. That night, students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers College were traveling by bus in Iguala, Guerrero when they came under attack by police. The series of shootouts left over 20 students wounded and three dead, one of whom was tortured and found the next day with no eyes or face. During the attacks, police abducted 43 of the students. They have not been seen since.
This series follows the aftermath of these attacks for the community of the 43 missing students. The case, which implicated the city's mayor, every police force in the area, and the military, sparked a mass protest movement led by the families of the disappeared. It became a potent symbol for Drug War corruption and the more than 30,000 missing people across the country. Despite the outcry, inconsistencies, manipulation and deception in the government's investigation have signaled a coverup, and the students' whereabout remain unknown.
Like the families of other missing people across Mexico, the loved ones of the 43 students are consumed and tormented by uncertainty. They have no body, no answers, no justice, and no closure. Three years later, they continue to demand the truth and search for their missing sons.
Citizen search organized by families of the missing students in the hills outside Iguala, the city where they disappeared. Huahuaxtla, Guerrero. January 16, 2015.
Survivors of the Iguala attacks, which left three students dead, dozens wounded and 43 more missing, in the auditorium of the Ayotzinapa Teachers College. Tixtla, Guerrero. March 16, 2015.
Site of the attacks. Crosses on the ground mark where two students were shot and killed. Parents of the missing have posted phone numbers to call "if you know anything about our sons." Iguala, Guerrero. February 13, 2015.
Romana, mother of missing student José Ángel Campos Cantor. Tixtla, Guerrero. March 2, 2015.
Joint forum with members of the Ayotzinapa 43 movement and the Black Lives Matter movement at St. Mark's Church. Queens, New York. April 25, 2015.
Banner of the missing 43 at the entrance to the Fortín neighborhood in Tixtla, the town where the Ayotzinapa Teachers College is located. It reads, "Tixtla and El Fortín support the families of the 43 disappeared Ayotzinapa students. They took them alive, we want them back alive!" Tixtla, Guerrero. February 6, 2015.
Students comfort mothers of the 43 missing students at a rally at Metropolitan Autonomous University. Mexico City. January 23, 2015.
Epifanio and Blanca, parents of missing student Jorge Álvarez Nava, rest on the bus during a week of organizing and protesting. Three days later, the Attorney General controversially closed the Ayotzinapa case. Mexico City. January 24, 2015.
Riot police intercept relatives and classmates of the 43 missing students, who were calling for a boycott of the state elections, en route to a radical protest. Tixtla, Guerrero. June 3, 2015.
Confrontation between Ayotzinapa students and riot police after a failed negotiation. Tixtla, Guerrero. June 3, 2015.
Voting materials burn on state election day in Guerrero. Organizations convened an electoral boycott to protest the lack of resolution in the case of the 43 missing students and the collusion of politicians with drug cartels. Tixtla, Guerrero. June 6, 2015.
Funeral of Antonio Vivar Díaz, a student teacher and local leader in the movement for the 43 missing students. Vivar Díaz was shot by a policeman in Tlapa during a confrontation on state election day. Tlapa, Guerrero. June 9, 2015.
"He fought for you," the family of activist Antonio Vivar Diaz greeted a delegation from Ayotzinapa at his wake. Tlapa, Guerrero. June 8, 2015.
Teachers and relatives of the missing march to Guerrero State Congress. Chilpancingo, Guerrero. March 5, 2015.
Mural of Lucio Cabañas at the Ayotzinapa Teachers College, where the 43 missing students were studying. Cabañas was a student leader at the school during the 1960s and went on to form a guerrilla group called the Party of the Poor. He died in a shootout with the army in 1974. Tixtla, Guerrero. February 11, 2015.
A relative holds Gaby, the baby daughter of missing student José Ángel Campos Cantor. A portrait of him hangs on the wall behind her. Tixtla, Guerrero. March 18, 2015.
Neighborhood rooftop. Tixtla, Guerrero. February 1, 2015.
Bernabé, father of missing student Adan Abrajan de La Cruz, at a meeting with the State Attorney General about missing surveillance footage from the night of the disappearance. Chilpancingo, Guerrero. March 9, 2016.
Search posters for the 43 missing students. Chilpancingo, Guerrero, Mexico. March 5, 2015.


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70 kilometers from Rome you can find this old monster garden. They are located in a part of a woodland near the valley where the famous Orsini family castle. Pier Francesco Orsini built this garden, and his wanted it to be different and non-religious. And you can say that they are unique, but still a bit creepy. Taking a walk through the garden today is far from boring, because you never know what kind of monster monument will wait
around the corner.
Orsini created the garden after his wife died, he needed something to put his mind to, and architect Pirro Lugorio helped him a lot with his work. The monuments have no connection with each other; it seems like they are just randomly placed around the garden with no specific plan whatsoever. A part of the sculptures are Pegasus, Poseidon and Proteus, and there are specially one monument that is really powerful: the one of the elephant crushing a Roman soldier. Another different and weird garden is the Dwarf Garden in Salzburg.


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(UGC NET 2010) Junior Research Fellowship And Eligibility For Lectureship Notification 2010
UGC NET JUNE 2010 Notification
Last Date to Apply Online - 26-4-2010
Date of UGC NET examination: 27.06.2010
Date of UGC NET Notification : 28th March 2010
i) Last date for Applying On-Line 26-4-2010
ii) Last date for receiving the print out of online Application Form (2 copies) , Attendance Slip and Admission Card at the respective test centres (with fee receipt & category certificate(s) ). Print out of online application form sent directly to the UGC office will not be entertained. 30.04.2010 It is notified that the next UGC-NET for Junior Research fellowship and eligibility for Lectureship will be held on 27th June, 2010 (Sunday)in Humanities, Social Sciences (including languages), Computer Science and Applications and Electronic Science etc. The candidates who desire to appear in the test may see the detailed notification to be published in the employment news . The same is also available ton the UGC website www.ugc.ac.in. The candidates are advised to download the above-mentioned notification along with the application form from the UGC website. The last date for submission of the Online application form at UGC-NET centres is 26.04.2010
National Educational Testing (Net) Bureau
UGC National Elgibility Test For Junior Research Fellowship(JRF) and Eligibility For Lectureship – June 2010
Last date for receipt of duly completed Application Forms at the respective Test Centres is 30.04.2010 Candidates should submit their Application Forms only to the Registrar of the university from where they wish to appear in the Test as indicated in item 10 below. The application must be strictly as per the prescribed format.. APPLICATION SENT DIRECTLY TO THE UGC OFFICE WILL NOT BE ENTERTAINED
- The University Grants Commission announces
holding of the National Eligibility Test (NET) on 27th June, 2010
(Sunday) for determining the eligibility of Indian nationals
for the Award of Junior Research Fellowships (JRF) and
eligibility for Lectureship in Indian universities and
colleges. UGC will conduct NET in 77 (seventy seven) subjects (listed
under item no. 9) at 66 (sixty six) selected University Centres (listed
under Item no. 10) spread across the country. The result of the UGC-NET
held on 27th December, 2009 and the one to be held on 27th June, 2010
will be made available on the UGC website : www.ugc.ac.in
and shall also be published in the Employment News as and when it is
declared. The candidates will not be individually intimated about their
result. The candidates who qualify for the award of Junior Research
Fellowship are eligible to pursue research in the subject of their
post-graduation or in a related subject and are also eligible for
Lectureship. The universities, institutions, IITs and other national
organizations may select the JRF awardees for whole time research work
in accordance with the procedure prescribed by them. The award of JRF
will depend on the performance of the candidate in all three papers of
NET. However, the candidates qualifying exclusively for Lectureship will
not be considered for award of JRF. Candidates appearing in NET should
clearly specify in the prescribed Application Form whether they are
applying for both JRF & eligibility for Lectureship OR only for
eligibility for Lectureship. Candidates who qualify the Test for
eligibility for Lectureship will be governed by the rules and
regulations for recruitment of Lecturers of the concerned
universities/colleges/state governments, as the case may be.
- The candidates who qualify for the award of
Junior Research Fellowship are eligible to pursue research in
the subject of their post-graduation or in a related subject and are
also eligible for Lectureship. The universities, institutions, IITs and
other national organizations may select the JRF awardees for whole time
research work in accordance with the procedure prescribed by them. The
award of JRF will depend on the performance of the candidate in NET.
However, the candidates qualifying exclusively for Lectureship will not
be considered for award of JRF. Candidates appearing in NET should
clearly specify in the prescribed Application Form whether they are
applying for both JRF & eligibility for Lectureship OR only for
eligibility for Lectureship. Candidates who qualify the Test for
eligibility for Lectureship will be governed by the rules and
regulations for recruitment of Lecturers of the concerned
universities/colleges/state governments, as the case may be.
Scheduled Caste (SC)/Scheduled Tribe (ST)/Visually Handicapped (VH)/Physically Handicapped (PH) candidates will be given such special concessions as may be decided by the Commission.
Candidates qualifying for the award of Junior Research Fellowship will be eligible to receive fellowship of UGC under various schemes, subject to finding their placement in universities/IITs/institutions. The validity period of the offer is two years w.e.f. the date of issue of JRF Award Letter. However, in case the candidates have already joined M.Phil/Ph.D., the date of commencement of fellowship shall be from the date of declaration of NET result or date of their joining, whichever is later.
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recognised by UGC in Humanities (including languages) and Social Sciences,
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Test. The Scheduled Caste (SC)/Scheduled Tribe (ST)/Physically Handicapped
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eligible for this Test.
ii) Candidates who have appeared OR will be appearing at the qualifying Master's degree (final year) examination and whose result is still awaited OR candidates whose qualifying examinations have been delayed may also apply for this Test. However, such candidates will be admitted provisionally and shall be considered eligible for award of JRF/Lectureship eligibility only after they have passed their Master's degree examination or equivalent with at least 55% marks (50% in case of SC/ST/PH/VH category candidates). Such candidates must complete their P.G. degree examination within two years from the date of NET result with required percentage of marks, failing which they shall be treated as disqualified.
iii) The Ph.D. degree holders whose Master's level examination had been completed by 19th September, 1991 (irrespective of date of declaration of result) shall be eligible for a relaxation of 5% in aggregate marks (i.e., from 55% to 50%) for appearing in NET
iv) Candidates are advised to appear in the subject of their post-graduation only. The candidates whose post-graduation subject is not covered in the list of subjects in item No. 9, may appear in a related subject.
v) Candidates seeking concession in fee are required to submit attested copy of their OBC(Non-creamy layer)/SC/ST/PH/VH certificate along with online print out of their Application Forms (obtained while applying on-line). Other candidates are not required to submit any certificates/documents in support of their eligibility alongwith print out of their Application Form. Therefore, the candidates, in their own interest, must satisfy themselves about their eligibility for the Test. In the event of any ineligibility being detected by the Commission at any stage, their candidature will be cancelled and they shall be liable for legal action.
vi) Candidates with post-graduate diploma/certificate course(s), should in their own interest, ascertain the equivalence of their course(s) with Master's degree of recognized Indian universities from Association of Indian Universities, New Delhi.
i) Junior Research Fellowship : Not more than 28 years as on 01.06.2010. A relaxation upto 5 years is provided to the candidates belonging to SC/ST/OBC/PH/VH categories and to women applicants. Relaxation will also be provided to the candidates having research experience, limited to the period spent on research in the relevant/related subject of post-graduation degree, subject to a maximum of 5 years, on production of a certificate from appropriate authority.
Three years' relaxation in age will be permissible to the candidates possessing L.L.M. Degree. Total age relaxation on the above ground(s) shall not exceed five years under any circumstances.
ii) Lectureship : No upper age limit.
i) For M. Phil/ Ph.D candidates: The candidates having Ph.D. Degree in the concerned subject are exempted from NET for Under Graduate and Post Graduate level teaching. The candidates having M. Phil Degree in the concerned subject are exempted from NET for Under Graduate level teaching only. The candidates who have passed the UGC/CSIR JRF examination prior to 1989 are also exempted from appearing in NET.
ii) For SET Candidates: The candidates who have cleared the State Eligibility Test (SET) accredited by UGC for eligibility for Lectureship held prior to 1st June 2003, are exempted from appearing in NET, being eligible to apply for Lectureship anywhere in India. For SET held from 1st June 2003 onwards, the qualified candidates are eligible to apply for the post of lecturer only in the universities/ colleges belonging to the state from where they have cleared their SET. All SET qualified candidates are also eligible to appear in NET, if they so desire.
For General candidates, the examination fee is Rs.450/-; for Other Backward Classes (OBC), the fee is Rs. 225/- and for SC/ST/PH/VH candidates, it is Rs. 110/-. The fee should be paid in the form of a single crossed demand draft from any Government of India Bank/Scheduled Government Bank payable at their Service Branch, New Delhi/Delhi only with six months' validity drawn in favour of the Secretary, U.G.C., New Delhi. Fee once paid, will not be refunded under any circumstances.
(i) The Test will consist of three papers. All the three papers will be held on
27.06.2010 in two separate sessions as under :
Session Paper Marks Duration
First I 100 1¼ Hours (09.30 A.M. to 10.45 A.M.)
First II 100 1¼ Hours (10.45 A.M. to 12.00 NOON)
Second III 200 2½ Hours (01.30 P.M. to 04.00 P.M.)
Paper-I shall be of general nature, intended to assess the teaching/research aptitude of the candidate. It will primarily be designed to test reasoning ability, comprehension, divergent thinking and general awareness of the candidate.
Paper-II shall consist of short questions based on the subject selected by the candidate. Each of these papers will consist of a Test Booklet containing 50 objective type questions. The candidate will have to mark the response for each question on the Optical Mark Reader (OMR) sheet provided alongwith the Test Booklet. The detailed instructions for filling up the OMR Sheet will be sent to the candidate along with the Admit Card. Paper-III will consist of only descriptive questions from the subject selected by the candidate. The candidate will be required to attempt questions in the space provided in the Test Booklet. The format of Paper-III has been revised w.e.f. June,2005 UGC-NET and is available on the UGC website www.ugc.ac.in.
Syllabus of UGC NET Test: Syllabi for all NET subjects can be downloaded from the UGC Website www.ugc.ac.in and are also available in the libraries of all Indian universities. UGC will not send the syllabus to individual candidates.
i) The national level Test for determining the eligibility of candidates for the award of Junior Research Fellowship/Lectureship in science subjects (Chemical Sciences; Earth, Atmospheric, Ocean & Planetary Sciences; Life Sciences; Mathematical Sciences; Physical Sciences) is conducted jointly with the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi. Check out CSIR UGC NET The candidates in science subjects, desirous of availing UGC-JRF or obtaining eligibility for Lectureship in these subjects are advised to appear in the Joint CSIR-UGC Test for Junior Research Fellowship and Eligibility for Lectureship conducted by CSIR.
ii) The UGC-NET for JRF/eligibility for Lectureship will be held at the University Test Centres specified in the list under item No. 10. PLEASE NOTE THAT CHANGE OF CENTRE WILL NOT BE ALLOWED UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES.
Website: UGC website
UGC Net 2010 Subjects
The list of NET subjects along with their respective codes are as given below:
* The candidates who have completed their Master's Degree in Geography (with specialization in Population Studies) or Mathematics/Statistics are also eligible to appear in the subject "Population Studies"(Code 15).
HOW TO APPLY FOR UGC NET June 2010 : (APPLICATIONS HAVE TO BE SUBMITTED ONLINE)
i) Before applying Online, the candidates must possess the following : (i) Scanned passport (pp) size photograph in JPEG format, (ii) Copy of Bank Challan (fee receipt).
ii) Candidate seeking admission to the Test must apply online (i.e. www.ugcnetonline.in OR through a link available on the UGC website: www.ugc.ac.in). The candidates are required to download the Bank Challan Performa from the above website OR take photocopy from the UGC-NET Notification to be published in the Employment News dated 10-04-2010. and then deposit the requisite test fee in any branch of State Bank of India along with the bank charges (commission) of Rs.20/-. Candidate after successfully filling the online application is required to take printout of the Online Application Form, Attendance Slip and Admission Card on separate A-4 size papers and paste his/her recent passport sized photograph, put his/her signature at the required space, attach attested copy of SC/ST/OBC(Non-creamy layer)/PH/VH certificate, if applicable together with certificate of educational qualification/ research experience entitling the candidate for age relaxation and send the same with UGC marked copy of Bank Challan to the Registrar of the university (UGC Test Centre) from where the candidate has opted to appear for the Test. In case, the printout of Online Application Form along with the required documents does not reach the Test Centre on or before 30-04-2010, the candidature of the applicant shall be rejected. Before applying On line, candidates are advised to go through detailed notification available at UGC website and also to be shortly published in the Employment News. Please note that Fee submitted through any other mode like Money Order, Demand Draft, IPO etc. will be summarily rejected.
iii) The envelope containing the Application Form should be superscribed "UGC NATIONAL ELIGIBILITY TEST FOR JUNIOR RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP AND ELIGIBILITY FOR LECTURESHIP, JUNE, 2010".
The candidates must affix their recent identical passport size photographs, at
the places indicated, on the printout of Online Application Form and must sign
across the photograph after it is affixed so that a part of the signature
spreads over the Application Form beyond the photograph. Besides, it should be
duly attested by the Head of the University Department/Principal of the
College/Class-I Gazetted Officer.
v) In order to avoid last minute rush, the candidates are advised to apply early enough. UGC will not be responsible for network problems or any other problem of this nature.
The candidates must read the conditions of eligibility as given at item no. 3
carefully and must satisfy themselves regarding their eligibility for the Test
before filling the online application and submitting the printout of Online
Application Forms.
ii) Candidates will be issued the Admission Card by the respective Test Centres. Candidates should note that their candidature is strictly provisional. The mere fact that Admission Card has been issued to any candidate shall not imply that the Commission has finally accepted his/her candidature.
iii) UGC may change the centre(s) or date of examination without assigning any reason.
iv) Applications received after the last date will not be entertained.
v) No TA will be paid to the candidates.
vi) Canvassing in any form will disqualify the candidate.
vii) The decision of the Commission shall be final in all matters.
viii) All legal disputes pertaining to this Test shall fall within the jurisdiction of Delhi Courts only.
ix) Candidates should correspond only with their respective Test centres for Admission Card or any other relevant information. UGC will not entertain any requests/queries in this regard.
x) The use of calculators or Log Tables is not permitted. Cellular phones, pagers etc. are not allowed in the Examination Hall/Room.
xi) A candidate who does not appear in paper-I, will not be permitted to appear in paper-II and paper-III.
xii) Candidates will not be allowed to write any question from the Test Booklet on the Admission Card or on any other paper.
Those candidates who do not receive their Admission Card (Roll Number) after
allotment of the venue of the Test by the coordinator of the respective Test
Centre for appearing in the UGC-NET till 23rd June 2010, are advised to contact
the office of Registrar/Co-ordinator of their UGC-NET Centres from 24th to 26th
June, 2010, with the copy of Admission Card (Provisional) and two identical
passport-size photographs duly attested by a gazetted officer. No Admission Card
(Roll Number) will be issued on the day of the Test (i.e. 27th June, 2010) under
any circumstances. UGC will not be responsible for any delay/non-receipt of the
Admission card.
xiv) The descriptive papers, i.e., Paper-III of language subjects must be answered in the concerned language only.
xv) Candidates should ensure that the signatures appended and photographs pasted by them in all the places, viz. in their Application Form, Attendance Slip and Admission Card should be identical and there should be no variation of any kind.
xvi) The candidates in their own interest are requested to keep a photocopy of the Application Form, Admission Care and Attendance Slip for their own record.
xvii) Applications submitted on any other format (including UGC old format ) will not be accepted.
xviii) Print out of online application sent directly to the UGC will not be accepted.
xix) Applications submitted (hard copy) in any other format/form or received after last date will not be accepted.
xx) Submission of Online Application is mandatory. Hard copies submitted to the Test Centre without online submission, will not be accepted.
The candidates should send the following documents with their application:
i) Copy of Bank Challan (UGC copy).
ii) Copy of SC/ST/Visually Handicapped/Physically Handicapped/ OBC (Non creamy layer) certificates, in case applicable.
iii) certificate of educational qualification/research experience, in case applicable, entitling the candidate for age relaxation, duly attested by a Gazetted Officer.
iv) Two self addressed unstamped envelopes of 10" X 4" size.
The candidates are advised to ensure the following points carefully before
filling the Online Application Forms:
i) Whether they fulfil the eligibility conditions for the Test as prescribed under the heading 'CONDITIONS OF ELIGIBILITY' and 'AGE LIMIT'.
ii) That they have filled their CATEGORY, viz., GEN/SC/ST/OBC (non-creamy layer), in the relevant column correctly.
iii) That the VH/PH candidates have filled the relevant column in the Online Application Form. Only VH/PH candidates have to fill this column and the others have to leave it blank.
iv) Whether they have signed the printout of Online Application Form Admission Card and Attendance Slip.
v) Whether they have enclosed the required documents with the application form before submission.
vi) Whether they have kept a copy of the submitted documents for their own record.


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Cancer in a Can: The Gruesome Truth of How Pringles are Really Made
As a child, they were a luxury snack. Even today, I admit a weakness for the cans of stacked chips, the ever ubiquitous Pringles. But do you know how they're made?
First, consider this: Pringles once argued – to try and avoid a tax on chips in the United Kingdom – that their chips contained so few actual potatoes that they shouldn't technically be considered potato chips.
Yes, you read that right: Pringles argued that their cans shouldn't be classified as potato chips.
So, if not a potato product, what are Pringles actually?
To start, let's think about that perfect shape: That's not something that could ever occur naturally. There's no way to slice potatoes that perfectly.
Instead, Pringles start as a dough – made of corn, rice, potato, wheat and all sorts of unimaginable additives – which is then rolled out into ultra-thin sheets. Those sheets are then cut into chip-shaped cookies by a machine, after which they're processed.
As io9 notes:
"The chips move forward on a conveyor belt until they're pressed onto molds, which give them the curve that makes them fit into one another. Those molds move through boiling oil … Then they're blown dry, sprayed with powdered flavors, and at last, flipped onto a slower-moving conveyor belt in a way that allows them to stack. From then on, it's into the cans … and off towards the innocent mouths of the consumers."
So let's go back to those additives. Do you know what you're really eating – besides a sludge of corn, rice, potatoes, and wheat – when you eat a Pringles?
It happens that a lot of those additives are pretty nasty, and one of them in particular – acrylamide – is a carcinogen created by the production process of those chips. In fact, acrylamide occurs nearly anytime carbohydrate-rich foods are cooked at high temperatures – whether that's baked, fried, or roasted. As a general rule, if those carbs are heated at a high-enough temp to produce a dry, brown or yellow surface, it probably resulted in the production of acrylamides.
And when it comes to potato chips – Pringles or otherwise – the acrylamide content is often through the roof, to the point where California once tried to force potato chip makers to label their products as likely carcinogens. (The suit was settled after potato chip companies agreed to lower the acrylamide levels in their chips to a mere 500 times or so more than the recommended limit, rather than the 900 times greater than the recommended limit it had been.)
In fact, the 2005 report "How Potato Chips Stack Up: Levels of Cancer-Causing Acrylamide in Popular Brands of Potato Chips," issued by the California-based Environmental Law Foundation (ELF), laid out all the data. Their analysis found that all potato chip products tested exceeded the legal limit of acrylamide by a minimum of 39 times, and as much as 910 times!
Yikes! So even if your potato chips aren't Pringles, you may still be taking in plenty of carcinogens. Don't say we didn't warn you!
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A major focus of Streamers is the impact that the army and war has on men, its disruptive influence on their lives. Some, like Billy and Roger, are able to make the adjustment, but others, like Martin, and especially Carlyle, cannot.
In Carlyle's case the results are devastating. He is a black man with an angry social consciousness; he feels like an outcast in a world dominated by white authority. When first introduced, he is on a mission to locate another soldier with "soul," that is, another black. He is lonely and jittery, ready to explode, partly to vent his anger at his situation and partly because he knows no other way to cope with his anxiety. Like Martin, Carlyle seems unfit for the Army. Unlike Roger, he has no secure and mature sense of self that will permit him to adjust to the homogenizing demands...
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Susanne Bier's Danish film In a Better World won this year's Oscar for best foreign language film; it exhibits the same general limitations as most recent winners of that historically lamentable award, but it's still more provocative and rewarding than most of them. The film focuses primarily on two boys: Christian returns from London to his native Denmark after his mother dies of cancer, and makes friends with Elias, the constant target of local bullies. Christian rapidly becomes Elias' protector, and the two become friends, but Christian's steely insistence on settling scores (the original title translates as Revenge) puts the two in moral if not physical jeopardy. Elias' parents are both doctors, and his father frequently works in Africa, encountering his own ethical challenge when a barbarous local criminal insists on treatment.
In a Better World
Although it's not the most elevated reference point, the basic experience of watching the film often isn't so far from one of those devil-child movies like The Omen or Orphan; Christian is clearly headed somewhere horrible, and you cringe at the prospect of it. But he's not a devil-child – he's a grieving boy, unable to process his loss and everything that surrounded it. Christian's father is a secondary character in Bier's scheme of things, but very moving in his incomprehension of how things came to this; the movie couldn't be remotely as gripping and satisfying, if it didn't evoke underlying emotions and needs so carefully and fully.
Bier's underlying plan, I think, is to set up three convenient hate objects – a schoolyard bully, a hotheaded local mechanic, and the African murderer – and to lure us into longing for their come-uppance while also forcing us to confront the dangers of such a visceral response. In that sense it's vaguely aligned with Michael Haneke works like Funny Games, which push us to critique how violence operates on the viewer. But Bier doesn't want merely to muse about the apparatus of cinema – she's aiming for the wrenching social questions. The logic of an eye for an eye ends up merely in blinding the world, but there's surely a concept of justifiable force, without which we merely surrender to the cruel whims of the monsters among us (she might have been thinking of Obama's speech when he accepted his Nobel Peace Prize, to me a series of declarations that might have made sense if we were staring down Hitler, but merely seemed grotesque and self-serving when applied to America's wretched current endeavours). The African butcher is an extreme example of that calculus, roughly representing the fraught question of Western responsibility toward atrocities in Rwanda, or escalating risks in Libya, and so on. Bier more or less abandons that narrative though just when you might have thought it was getting interesting, which might strike you as downright strange; perhaps her thought is that we can't hope to adequately assess such global challenges unless we put things right at home.
Susanne Bier
The film has little in the way of provocative thinking on the domestic front though, and if it did have any, it wouldn't likely survive a series of closing scenes that sweep numerous narrative and moral strands under the table to emphasize forgiveness and reconciliation. Still, I don't suppose we should need the input of another movie to inform our meditations on the topic. Bier likes to intertwine the personal and political – her After the Wedding contrasted aid work in India with an even more convoluted domestic melodrama. She always seemed temperamentally suited to the "prestige" end of Hollywood moviemaking, and tried her luck there a few years ago with Things we Lost in the Fire. That film seemed conceived largely in soapy terms, but Bier's close-up conviction made it intriguing and affecting, and she certainly made the most of Benicio del Toro; actually I'm not sure if any of his more famous performances have tapped his fascinating depths as skillfully.
Also, her earlier film Brothers was remade in America by another director, and the contrast between the two tells you a lot about Bier's greater intuition and refinement. Overall, In a Better World is a solid work for sure, but – particularly if compared to the Greek film Dogtooth, which was also (if improbably) nominated this year – it's hardly a worthy standard-bearer for the diverse capacity of world cinema.
When We Leave
Two other pictures which recently played at the Bell Lightbox are already out on DVD, as well as playing periodically on SuperChannel. When We Leave, directed by Feo Aladag, is about a young Turkish mother who leaves her abusive husband and returns with her son to her own family, living in Germany; while she attempts to establish a relatively modern, self-determined life, they see her as a source of shame, and plot to snatch her child away. The film makes your blood boil even if it relies on familiar mechanisms, in particular the contrast between the poor woman with her modest desire for normality and the recurring brutishness, or at least small-mindedness, of most of the men around her. But ultimately, unfortunately, the predictable narrative devices and largely conventional tone make it feel contrived and unrepresentative (whether or not it actually is those things); viewers predisposed against Muslim culture - or indeed, against the whole broad notion of preserving one's own culture in an adopted land - will find plenty to latch onto here. I'm not saying that necessarily makes the film illegitimate, but it certainly limits it.
Daniele Luchetti's My Brother is an Only Child was an interesting if not-very-probing drama from a few years ago, blending together a standard brotherly love/hate thing with an easy-to-take distillation of Italy's evolving politics. Luchetti's new film La nostra vita is less interesting, and weirdly unprobing. A construction contractor loses his wife in childbirth, leaving him with a new baby and two other boys; his big project is going badly, and he only got the project by exploiting a grim secret which can't stay buried (literally, actually) forever. That should be enough of a plot for any film, but Luchetti seems to steer away from any narrative heavy lifting; the film erects a nice façade, then runs for cover as if knowing it would never get past the building inspectors. When I saw the earlier film, I made a note that lead actor Elio Germano seemed to be channeling De Niro; well, if that's true for his work this time round, I guess I would have to mean one of those bland, emotionally remote (in a way that fails to provide a perspective on emotional remoteness) latter-day De Niro roles. And yet, for this Germano won the Cannes best actor prize - shared with Javier Bardem for Biutiful. Well, as we've established, you can't put your faith in awards.
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Tucked away in an idyllic location on the renowned Playa Bavaro beach with crystal clear waters and palm fringed white sand beaches, the Iberostar Bavaro boasts an elegant style with excellent all-inclusive options.
- Forget all worries and relaxing on the white-sand, pristine beach surrounded by palm trees
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- Enjoy delicious meals every day with the hotel's five a la carte restaurants in addition to the international buffet and a grill-snack bar for more informal occasions
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