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Vegan Indian Cooking by Anupy Singla.- Book Review
this looks delicious! i'd love a cookbook dedicated to indian cooking!
I love it that you are usually one of the first commenters! heart!:)
What do I find most challenging about Indian Cooking? First off, collecting all the needed ingredients, and secondly, I haven't yet had the opportunity to make an Indian dish, unfortunately. But, with my food-adventurous husband that is more than willing to eat Indian food, as well as being willing to eat a few vegan meals with me, I look forward to making these dishes when he comes back home from Afghanistan. I have to say, I feel pretty lucky to be with a gent that doesn't turn his noes at foods that deviate from the hot dog, hamburger, pizza and fast food normals of our area.
That is awesome that your husband is adventurous and likes to try vegan meals! Indian food is very flavorful and hopefully you all will be able to eat more of it!
He was excited when curry was served at chow over there, gave him remembrance of good Indian dine out on our adventures.
i wish my husband was more adventurous 😉 but he's definitely getting better!
i forgot to say what is most challenging about making indian food! i think it would be that it seems so much different than any other cuisine with directions that can be somewhat detailed and complicated.
we have been excited about trying new foods here in our home… my 12-year-old daughter is vegetarian, & i have cut back on my own non-whole foods eating… cooking for us as a family is challenging in general, but even more so as we expand our tastes… trying Indian foods & all the varying flavors is exciting but sometimes not received well by the entire family as they have become stuck in a rut of eating badly or just refuse to try new things… anyway, my daughter & i are extremely excited about our changes, including trying varied ethnic foods… so, thank you for your posts…
Thank you Angelus. Any change is difficult at first. I hope you all can find a good balance of foods that you all like which are more whole foods and vegetarian.
Ah comfort food. Love the details in your food posts and the brilliant pics that go with it.
Ah comfort food. Love the details in your food posts and the brilliant pics that go with it.
Thanks Shilpa!
Sometimes cooking vegetables which doesn't have alot of flavor is a big challenge for me. I would SOOO love to win this book! I am crossing my fingers 🙂
I feel that the meats take a lot more salt and spices to taste good and a lot longer to cook. Add the same meaty spice mixes and the veggies will pick on the flavor:)
I would freakin' LOVE to have this book! I was just speaking with a friend yesterday saying that I need to try out more Indian recipes at home. So, this is clearly meant to be. 😉 Great photos, Richa!
Thanks Jackie you go that right:) we need some indian food from u
Oh I love Indian flavours! I would love a copy of this book!
I love Indian cooking.Infact I have been trying to make all my dishes vegan and also oil free.I although wish there were more healthy baking options.I loved Anupys book.Infact did eajma in slowcooker and its the best I have ever eaten texture wise..
Thats awesome! I really like the baked recipes and the book is a good collection without getting overly complicated. I have heard that kidney beans shouldnot be cooked in a slow cooker. Too much conflicting information 🙂
This book would be an amazing addition to my collection. I have been learning about Indian cuisine for the last 10 years, and the most difficult challenge is getting past the rich cream/yogurt/ghee filled dishes and finding equally delicious recipes that are also vegan. I would really love a copy of this book to broaden my knowledge of VEGAN Indian Cuisine!
I cant digest the restaurant dishes anymore coz even with vegan versions, they are leaded with too much oil.:)
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My challenge with Indian food is patience! I want to put everything in and be done, but you really need to take the time to do each step right for the flavors to develop properly. A good cookbook would sure help me learn the basics!
you'll like the slowcooker portion of the book then. That calls for putting things in the cooker and coming home to a delicious aroma of a ready meal!
My biggest challenge is finding all of the ingredients, but I do love trying Indian recipes when I am able to!
I have quite the vegan cookbook collection, but this one is so different from the others! I don't mind the fact that she's not exclusively vegan- at least she's showing the world how delicious vegan food can be and if that inspires someone to eat more vegan meals, even if they don't go entirely vegan, that's ok by me 🙂
true that!
Probably the extensive ingredient list!
I am mostly challenged by adapting non-vegan recipes and getting my family to try them. They can be so critical! 🙂
Happy India Independence Day!
i understand that. There is definitely a need for slight adventure with the tastes. Luckily my husband and even my parents are quite open to it.
Thank you for the wishes!
I find that the use of the different spices are challenging, especially when I grew up with a 3 spice only cabinate (basil, oregano and pepper) so using new spices is always challenging as to how much and when to add,
That is probably true. 🙂 you can start with just the spice blends. Make a few easy dry stir fries with garam masala and then plan to get a few key whole spices:)
Wish stayed in USA just for cookbook lol 🙂 all the best for this post and mutter paneer is one of my favorite 🙂
Love the medley of vegges in the recipe..looks tempting!
Very interesting that you substituted paneer with tempeh. Will make a note. there is always someone who is looking for vegan substitutes, thank you for sharing.
I love Indian food! Thank you for hosting the giveaway. The book looks wonderful. The thing I find challenging about cooking Indian food is figuring out how to store my asafoedita so that the smell does not take over my kitchen completely!
I love Indian food, and this looks easy enough that I might actually try it! Thanks!
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I love Indian food so I'm always on the lookout for any veganized dishes. Anytime I cook a dish on my own without following any recipe, I always reach out for the typical Indian spices which usually come out successful but not always, so I feel this would be a wonderful book to help me perfect the flavors of my favorite dishes and as a guideline on how to combine flavors whenever I choose to be creative and come up with new recipes. My greatest challenge though is making a dish sattvic (no onion, garlic, mushroom, chilli peppers) without losing the essence of it. I'm grateful that you feature many Indian recipes on your blog which is a refreshing look at food from American perspective. Blessings always, Nithya Satyaswaroopan
I love Indian food, but I'm sometimes intimidated by trying to find new or unusual (to me) ingredients. There's an Indian grocery nearby but I don't always know where to find things and am often too nervous to ask (afraid of looking like the dumb white girl). Fortunately, people seem to notice my confusion and take pity on me (the other day a kind soul pointed me toward the asafoetida… I never would have found it otherwise). I'm starting to know my way around; I know where to find the curry leaves, the tamarind paste, etc., but it's taken me a while!
mutter paneer looks so tempting
the mutter paneer looks so tempting. I love indian food but my challenge is to find the perfect combination of spices so it taste home-cooked meal that reminds me of my mothers cooking. every time i make it, its either over spicy or under spicy 🙁
finding the right ingredients in our smallish town
I find getting all the spice proportions correct to be the most challenging part of Indian cooking. I plan on trying this recipe this week! Hopefully it goes well.
In my case is to get the spices right. The range of flavors are so balance when somebody that knows how to do it cooks, there's a roundness to it.
This recipe looks great, I will either wait for a cooler weather or blast the AC 🙂
Also my son loves to help in the kitchen and smell everything so it will be fun to do.
Thanks 🙂
I absolutely love Indian food. The most challenging part for me is to collect all the wonderful spices 🙂
I made Kadhai Paneer with homemade paneer earlier this week. Pretty darn good. I like your addition of tempeh to the mix!
I love Indian food but am a little lost on where to start with cooking it. I think once you can find all the ingredients it's easier!
The hardest part for me is making something like this without having to go to a specialty market – wish I knew what to just keep on hand. I would really enjoy this cookbook as I love Indian food and I am new to following a plant-based diet. What a great giveaway. Thank you!
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just don't have a lot of practice w/it. i made my own garam masala not too long ago and will use it when i make a version of this dish with tofu this weekend. i'll use fresh peas from trader joe. 🙂
i think the hardest part is it seems sooo time consuming and getting all the ingredients together
This recipe looks incredible and the pictures are just stunning as usual! Ahh Indian Food…I could eat you daily 🙂
I LOVE Indian food!! The most challenging thing about it is the time it takes to prepare it. No doubt, the time is certainly worth the end prize but when I don't have a lot of time I like quick and easy. I love the flavors that are in Indian food though. I usually just pay good money and eat it when I am out. I do keep a bottle of curry powder and garam masala in my spice rack though 😉
The most challenging part of cooking Indian for me is finding all of the ingredients – esp. the spices.
I agree with the most challenging part of Indian cooking to be finding the ingredients! My Asian grocery is pretty well stocked, but there are some things I just can't find.
I adore your serving dish! For me the tricky part of Indian is often having the meat cook right – luckily I prefer cooking vegies 😛
those colors are so beautiful! the flavor sounds wonderful!
The planning ahead and spices are the most challenging for me in Indian cooking. I just need to work past that block. Your photos and blog are an inspiration!
Gosh! Your photos are AMAZING! Shame I live over here 🙁
I love Indian recipes (this one looks awesome). My biggest challenge is sometimes finding all the spices.
Your photos above are BEAUTIFUL! I think my biggest challenge is getting the spices right. I have a tendency to follow intuition and not recipes which usually means things are too flavorful or not flavorful enough. I am super excited about this cookbook! Thanks for the awesome giveaway!
I loved this recipe.. And your Second Picture Richa is just amazing .. Such neat presentation.
I always want to try my hand at Indian food, but all the spices and stuff are a little daunting. I need to get over myself and try this! It all looks fantastic
I love Indian food and would love to try cooking more of it. I would love to win this.
i wish i stayed in the US 😉 would have loved to get this book, especially with all the disasters i have in the kitchen veganizing indian sweets and bakes. indian dals, veggie dishes and curries is not difficult to veganize. thankfully at home now we have stopped using ghee completely. milk and curd is still there and paneer i avoid, much to the family expectations 🙂
this one doesnt have desserts. but i have a few. working on a couple more. made some rasmalais already but working on getting the right texture. i would eat a raw version of the rasmalai but others might not:)
Making spice blends is the most challenging part of Indian cooking.
The most challenging part is acquiring the spices for cooking Indian dishes. These items aren't always spices I have on-hand. But I spend so much money eating Indian food in restaurants I might as well just buy all the spices and do it myself- so in a way you'd be helping me save money if I win. 😉
This book sounds so fantastic! I'm always excited to try out different cuisines, and despite how vegan-friendly Indian food can be, there really aren't many good cookbooks to choose from. Hopefully this one changes all that. The mutter paneer at least looks fantastic through your lens. 🙂
My biggest issue is usually finding spices that aren't available in regular grocery stores.
Love this recipe; I love Indian food! 🙂 My name is Cindy and I blog over at Vegetarianmamma.com I wanted to invite you to link up your recipe at our Gluten Free Fridays Recipe Link up party! It happens every Friday and we'd love to have you join us with some of your awesome recipes! You can find this week's link up here: http://vegetarianmamma.com/gluten-free-friday-recipe-link-up-1/
Thanks, Cindy
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I have pinned your recipe to our Gluten Free Fridays (recipes) board on Pinterest! Thanks again for making it a huge success! We had over 100 gluten free recipes this week 🙂
I would love to win this book! My buddy and I just got an apartment together for college – he's not a vegan but he LOVES Indian food – so I'd love to be able to use this to get him into veganism!!
I'd LOVE to win this book. What do I find challenging about Indian cooking? Adjusting the heat level of the spices so my entire family can enjoy it!
The thing that I find most challenging with Indian cooking is making na'an, roti, dosas, parathas, or any kind of bread. It seems to take some instinctual knowledge that I haven't perfected yet.
I love that bowl! So pretty!
This book looks AMAZING – can't wait to try some of the recipes!
The tough thing about Indian Cooking for me is to Grind the masala. Its not a difficult think per say but a laborious job..
Would love to win the book 😀
There are two things I find challenging about indian cooking: knowing what spices to use and making the na'an or other breads. I've learned so much from your blog- I can't wait to check out this book too! 🙂
I think the most difficult thing about Indian cooking is that I have no instinct for it – I'm not familiar with the way the flavors are built from the huge variety of spices. But it's just like learning any other Asian type of cuisine; I need some time to learn and taste!
My first time here!! You have the most amazing space !! Indian cooking is all i do , eat, live and love ! Beautiful shots!!
I like using spices, and I like the flavor and fragrance of mustard seeds, but rarely use it because not sure what dishes are good with this??
What i find challenging about cooking Indian food would Ive never cooked it but i love to eat Indian food problem is Ive only ever eaten microwave meals that where Indian food since i don't live anywhere near a restaurant
My biggest challenge in cooking Indian food is retaining the flavor in the vegetables I cook with to keep things from getting bland. I sometimes also struggle with balancing spices. The flavors are so nuanced and sometimes hard to recreate! But I love Indian food and am committed to getting better at making it!
My biggest challenge with cooking Indian food is that I'm just not familiar with it and not sure where to start. This cookbook would be a great incentive to learn! Thanks for the giveaway 🙂
I have GOT to get this book!
Finding the ingredients in the midwest.
Mattar Paneer has been one of my all-time favorite Indian meals whenever I've gone to a restaurant. I am in the process of transitioning to a vegan diet, and would love to try out more vegan/ veganized Indian meals- it would be so amazing to be able to feast on such delicious food at home whenever I wanted!
I love Indian food! My challenge is keeping all those spices fresh once you have them. I guess I should buy them whole and grind them when I need them
Wow Richa what a great recipe, it has me so hungry now!
I love the black background photo where it almost appears the dish is being engulfed in the background – so neat!
I find it hard to find vegan Indian recipes. And when I do try to veganize existing recipes, I'm always sort of disappointed. But that's probably more my fault than anything. I'm definitely going to try the recipe above!
Going from being vegetarian to becoming vegan. Being of Indian decent, I think this book can definitely help me get there!
I have lots of trouble finding fresh curry leaves when I really really want them for a recipe. Not abundant in Baltimore 🙁
My favorite Indian curry dishes are usually cream based. I'd love to figure out how to veganize these curries, while achieving the same great taste.
This looks amazing and so flavorful!
Beautiful and very appetizing photos!
these photos are beautiful and the recipe looks delicious. Thank you so much for linking up at Gluten Free Fridays!
What I find challenging is using the spices. I have never been a spice cooking person, so I am on a journey now to learn and I just love Indian food 🙂 Thanks for the great tips and recipes.
The most challenging thing about Indian cooking for me? Definitely the spices! I am now collecting the spices so when I follow a recipe I won't need to google a spice to know what it is or run out to the local Asian market. I now own asafoetida (which I love since I don't really eat garlic or onions). I also have calonji, jumbo green cardamom pods, whole yellow mustard seeds, Garam masala Spice blend and Chana masala spice blend. I'm on my way!
The most challenging thing about Indian cooking for me? Definitely the spices! I am now collecting the spices so when I follow a recipe I won't need to google a spice to know what it is or run out to the local Asian market. I now own asafoetida (which I love since I don't really eat garlic or onions). I also have calonji, jumbo green cardamom pods, whole yellow mustard seeds, Garam masala Spice blend and Chana masala spice blend. I'm on my way!
I m use to cook Indian food but making my family eat vegan food is bit challenging… My hunband wants to turn vegan so this book would b perfect start.
I cook for 1 and many of the recipes make much more! I'm not too wild about leftovers. I try to cut recipes down for 1, but I think the end result is different sometimes. I keep trying!I checked this book out of the library and love it! I'd love to own a copy. Thanks for the possible opportunity.
looks so easy, will try this tonight! i happen to have every ingredient (love vegan indian food!)
i'm going to put the book on my xmas wish list 🙂
Looks good. Most Indian recipes I look at have many ingredients that I have difficulty finding or they are v. time consuming. Thanks!
Great blog and recipes. Thank you so much. This tempeh turned out just great. Thank you. I am bookmarking your page! 🙂
Hmmm…back int the day I'd say making or finding ghee was challenging, but that's no longer a problem since I've changed my diet 😉
Next up would be sourcing good fresh spices.
Dear Richa,
I made Mutter Paneer last night, it was amazing!! Thank you so much for all the beautiful recipes. I loooove the way the home smells when cooking Indian :-))
I have been a vegetarian, mostly vegan, since 40 years, and love to discover new recipes, thank you for your beautiful blog.
Very easy and so tasty! Will make that again for sure!
since when paneer becomes the vegan diet. vegan diet means no non veg and no dairy products. paneer is made out of milk so its a dairy prodcut.


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The 60,000-member, $690 million CoastHills Federal Credit Union said it has improved its card program on a wide variety of fronts after implementing several different marketing and management strategies.
As of the end of 2012, the Lompoc, Calif., credit union had a portfolio of more than 12,000 card accounts with outstanding balances of $28.8 million.
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A little over a month after Delta Community Credit Union named an interim CEO to step in after president/CEO Rick Foley retired in December, the cooperative has made several promotions on its management team.
Matthew Shepherd has been named executive vice president and chief operating officer.
Shepherd joined Delta Community more than five years ago and most recently served as senior vice president, marketing and member service.
He has 20 years of communications and operations experience and previously worked at NetBank, Georgia Credit Union Affiliates and American Lawyer Media, according to Delta Community.
William Buchanan has been appointed senior vice president, corporate audit. Buchanan has worked at the credit union for a year and was previously vice president, internal audit. He has more than 25 years of experience in risk management and internal/external audit, which includes positions at SecureWorks, S1 Corp., Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and the Office of Thrift Supervision.
Robert Manning has been appointed senior vice president and general counsel. Manning joined the credit union more than two years ago as vice president and general counsel. He has practiced law for more than 20 years with a focus in financial services for most of his career.
Shepherd and Manning report to Hank Halter, Delta Community's interim president/CEO, and Buchanan reports to the credit union's board of directors.
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Halter, a current board member at Delta Community, took the helm on Jan. 1 while the $4.3 billion cooperative continues its search for a permanent successor.
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Bethpage FCU Survey Finds Free Checking Brings Them In
Free checking is what brought in the new members to Bethpage FCU in the second half of 2012, the big New York credit union said.
The $5.4 billion Long Island institution said a survey conducted in February of nearly 400 new members who began banking there in the second half of 2012 found that 84% opened a new free checking account. Eleven percent initially got mortgages.
In 2012, 33,440 new members joined Bethpage, a 26% increase compared to 2011, the credit union said.
The 211,900-member Bethpage said statistics from its semi-annual new member survey also found that 54% said no or low fees is what attracted them to the credit union in the first place, while 47% cited superior rates, 45% cited branch locations, 37% indicated a network of free ATMs and 38% indicating service reputation.
Twenty-eight percent cited member ownership when asked what the main difference was between a bank and a credit union.
Bethpage said its experience is reflected in the Bankrate's recent 2013 Credit Union Checking Survey which found that 72% of the nation's largest credit unions now offering free checking without a minimum balance, as compared to only 39% of banks, a 26% reduction since 2010.
"Year after year, free checking is overwhelmingly the most desired product new members request when joining, and better rates and lower fees are the most important benefit," said Kirk Kordeleski, Bethpage president/CEO.
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The $51 million, 4,936-member StarTrust Federal Credit Union (formerly Enron FCU) in Houston will merge with the $120 million, 22,763-member InvesTex Credit Union also of Houston on June 30.
StarTrust FCU members "overwhelmingly" voted to approve the merger recently, according to an InvesTex CU statement on Thursday. NCUA and the Texas Credit Union Department gave their preliminary approval of the merger in March, according to InvesTex.
StarTrust's roots date back to 1978 when it opened as Houston Natural Gas Credit Union to offer financial services to HNG employees. In 1986, the gas company's name was changed to Enron Corp. and the credit union's name also was changed to Enron FCU.
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Post merger, all 11 StarTrust employees will continue to be employed with InvesTex and the current StarTrust FCU branch in downtown Houston will be added to InvesTex Credit Union's branch network.
The combined credit union will have more than $170 million in assets, over 27,000 members, with six locations in the Houston area.


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based devices (I am particularly interested in the Android based
tablets coming out this year) and not focus on the iPhone stuff as
much anymore. This includes both Flash based, and Objective-C based
iPhone development. While I actually enjoy working in Objective-C, I
don't have any current plans to update and / or maintain my
existing native iPhone applications (including the AS3
Reference Guide, and Timetrocity).
As I wrote previously,
I think that the closed system that Apple is trying to create is bad
for the industry, developers and ultimately consumers, and that is
not something that I want to actively promote."Steve
Jobs has defended his stance on Adobe several times. He say
it's "buggy" and virus-prone and crashes
Macs. He's dodged the question of ports, but has alleged
that the Flash platform in
general leads to deficient code.
Updated 4/21/2010 @ 2:48 pm
According to CNET, Apple has responded back to Mike Chambers' comments regarding Apple and Flash. "Someone has it backwards--it is HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, and H.264 (all supported by the iPhone and iPad) that are open and standard, while Adobe's Flash is closed and proprietary," responded Apple spokeswoman Trudy Miller.


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Mets add final piece to 'pen in veteran righty Lyon
By Anthony DiComo / MLB.com
NEW YORK -- The Mets officially completed their offseason bullpen makeover on Friday, finalizing right-hander Brandon Lyon's one-year contract.
Lyon, 33, posted a 3.10 ERA in 67 appearances split between the Astros and Blue Jays last season, striking out 63 and walking 20 in 61 innings. He was the primary closer for the D-backs in 2008 and the Astros from 2010-11, before surgery to his right shoulder and biceps tendon derailed his career in '11.
With the Mets, Lyon figures to slide into a setup role alongside Bobby Parnell, though he could also step in as at least a part-time closer. Manager Terry Collins told the New York Post on Wednesday that the ninth-inning job still belongs to Frank Francisco, but general manager Sandy Alderson was not nearly so strong in his words earlier this week.
"I think a lot will depend on what we see over the course of February and March," the GM said.
Alderson also said that he is done adding roster pieces after Lyon, with the possible exception of free-agent outfielder Michael Bourn. That deal is unlikely to come to fruition unless Major League Baseball rules that the Mets could keep their 2013 first-round Draft pick, which they would currently have to forfeit in order to sign Bourn.
As far as the bullpen, the Mets have more than a dozen legitimate contenders for seven Opening Day spots, though veterans Scott Atchison, LaTroy Hawkins and Pedro Feliciano are all strong bets to make the team.
Lyon, who received the second big league contract the Mets handed out this winter, is a lock to make the roster, as are Parnell and -- assuming he is healthy -- Francisco. Lefty Josh Edgin is also a prime candidate to break camp with the Mets.
This marks the second straight winter the Mets made significant changes to their bullpen. Last year's makeover, which centered around Francisco, Jon Rauch and Ramon Ramirez, did not work -- the Mets finished 29th in the league in bullpen ERA. Rauch and Ramirez recently signed contracts with the Marlins and Giants, respectively.
Anthony DiComo is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @AnthonyDicomo. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Baudline is a time-frequency browser designed for scientific visualization of the spectral domain. Signal analysis is performed by Fourier, correlation, and raster transforms that create colorful spectrograms with vibrant detail. Conduct test and measurement experiments with the built in function generator, or play back audio files with a multitude of effects and filters. The baudline signal analyzer combines fast digital signal processing, versatile high speed displays, and continuous capture tools for hunting down and studying elusive signal characteristics.
BioJava aims to provide a comprehensive set of Java components for the rapid development of applications in Bioinformatics. It contains interfaces for representing Sequences, Features, and other important bioinformatics concepts. It can also read and write sequence data in a variety of common formats and communicate with Ensembl databases and with DAS and BioCorba servers.
BRL-CAD is a powerful constructive solid geometry solid modeling system that includes an interactive geometry editor, ray-tracing support for rendering and geometric analysis, path-tracing for realistic image synthesis, network distributed framebuffer support, and image and signal-processing tools.
The Bubbling Load Monitor (or "Bubblemon" for short) is a system load monitor for the GNOME panel. It looks like a vial containing water. The water level indicates how much (electronic) memory is in use. The color of the liquid indicates how much swap space is used. The amount of bubbles reflects the system CPU load. A message in a bottle indicates there is unread mail. A reed-like graph shows I/O load. On multi-core systems the CPU with the highest load will bubble in the middle, and the others on the sides, so it's possible to see how well load gets distributed between CPUs.
Cactus is a general, modular, parallel environment for solving systems of partial differential equations. The code has been developed over many years by a large international collaboration of numerical relativity and computational science research groups and can be used to provide a portable platform for solving any system of partial differential equations.
Coin is an implementation of Open Inventor. Open Inventor is the de facto standard API for retained-mode 3D graphics programming. Open Inventor has a highly extensible design, and has been designed to allow for rapid development of highly interactive 3D graphics applications in the fields of CAD, engineering, scientific computing, simulation, VRML, and visualization.
DINO is a realtime visualization program for structural biology data, including protein and nucleic-acid coordinates, molecular surfaces, electrostatic potentials, electron densities, surface topographs (from AFM), and MD trajectories. It supports PNG, PostScript and POVray (3.1g and megapov) output. Supported platforms are Linux/i386, Linux/PPC, IRIX, Sun, OSF1, and MacOS X.
A small, powerful, and really fast Web server for Linux.
A portable cross-platform library and a set of applications for chiptunes playback.


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Lee is a consultant on different kinds of commercial projects in web collaboration, price quote systems. He has strong hands-on experience in different languages and application development.
He worked as a System Engineer in CSIST (Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology), Taiwan from 1984 to 1990, and the major focus in his work was Airborne real-time control system design/integration. He also worked on phase array radar system, in which he acquired real-time embedded/large scale software experience.
HIs experience extends to the areas of air traffic control systems, artificial intelligence applications, distributed computation systems, and Software Defined Radio related projects, such as applications for software testing automation and SDR related software.
Lee has taught computer/communication related classes at George Mason University and NOVA Education Centers since 1993.


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...has a serious hitch in its giddy-up
So a friend called me a few days ago and said "hey Tim (that's me) I got free tickets to the raptors game (against the Bucks) You like basketball right?"
I said, "No I just eat sleep breathe and shit the stuff".
He said, " You wanna come with?"
I said. "Does the Pope shit in the woods?"
being so close (damn near court side) brought up a big concern for me. Landry Fields has an ugly hitch in his shot just before the point of release. I got the chance to watch this close up and it bothered me. His wrist flicks forward in way that takes the flow from ankle to finger tip and throws a giant log in the middle of the shot. You see this a lot with young players (OBA) etc who are nervous about shooting a free throw. I wish I could dig up a video to prove this but I'm lazy. Anyway, the fact that this has yet to be corrected at the professional level disturbs me a bit. Now I only noticed this with free throws because the whole process is slowed down BUT if that same hitch is anywhere to be found in his regular stroke, I don't think you will see any increase in his FG%.


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Personal computing discussed
Moderators: SpotTheCat, Nemesis
That foam that comes with the motherboard is anti-static. That might be what's killing your boards.
TruePurple wrote:I half anticipated that question, and should have cut it off at the pass. No, I don't have any other parts to test things with. All my other PC parts are many generations older to the point of being incompatible. To buy a part just to test another seems a silly waste of money.
I did try the first time directly on the kitchen table too.
just brew it! wrote:Anti-static foam is not conductive enough to cause shorts. Testing on the foam should not be an issue. However, it is slightly conductive; that's what makes it anti-static.
So you're both only partially correct.
I'm leaning (slightly) towards the motherboard being bad at this point, but it is impossible to say for sure. Since you don't have another PSU to test the motherboard with, do you maybe have another motherboard you can test the PSU with?
TruePurple wrote:@JBI
What about what I said about the paperclip test? Still hold it as inconclusive?
TruePurple wrote:These are suppose to be great PSUs.
The issue is that when I turn it on, for the first 10 seconds the fans run at bare minimum and the computer does not boot.
I did the paper clip test. (yes I quadruple checked to make sure I had the right spots) the fan rotates just a bit for a couple seconds then stops. If I turn the power off and on without letting it rest, the fan does not move at all. If I turn the power off and leave it off for say a minute, again rotates for a few seconds before stopping, like I mentioned before.
I have had this happen with three of them now! Newegg has already send me 2 replacements, I don't think they would do another. I am not sure I would want to even bother with another, this is astoundingly high failure rate.
Granted the last box's corner was all scrunched up like the PSU had been dropped, but still! Is there something I am possibly missing here? Could it be something else causing this? But then what about the paper clip test, isn't the fan suppose to run continuously?
Any else have any experiences of success or failure or anything in between with this PSU? Please share.
Also, newegg shows blue cable ties your suppose to get with this product, none of the three had these ties. Any of you get blue cable ties?
"The issue is that when I turn it on, for the first 10 seconds the fans run at bare minimum and the computer does not boot."
TruePurple wrote:So your saying that test device I mentioned earlier wouldn't be of much use?
TruePurple wrote:Well it is from their own website too, so obviously meant for their products.
ReneDC wrote:Academic question: Why do the fans consistently spin for different lengths of time, depending on where the memory is installed?


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cost and rapid rate of deterioration of pure-platinum catalysts has
stalled the advancement of fuel-cell technology until now. Brown
University chemists and authors in the Journal
of American Chemical Society have
found a particle that lasts longer and outperforms any commercially
available pure-platinum catalyst.
at Brown
University have replaced pure-platinum catalysts with a
nanoparticle consisting of a five-nanometer palladium core and an
iron-platinum shell. This new particle uses far less platinum
than the former and is much more efficient and long-lasting as far as
the cathode end of fuel-cell reactions go.
the fuel cell's cathode of this new nanoparticle, a chemistry known
as oxygen reduction reaction occurs creating water as it's waste
instead of carbon
dioxide produced by internal combustion systems. Since the
cathode is where 40 percent of a fuel cell's efficiency is depleted,
this is a critical act that could help fuel-cell's become more
competitive with batteries and internal combustion engines.
tests show that the palladium core/iron-platinum shell nanoparticles
"generated 12 times more current than commercially available
pure-platinum catalysts at
the same weight." In addition, the output lasted 10,000 cycles,
which is 10 times longer than commercially available pure-platinum
models that begin to break down after 1,000 cycles.
to Vismadeb Mazumder, a Brown University graduate student and
co-author, the idea was to mold a shell so that it would keep its
shape while requiring the least amount of platinum to make an
efficient reaction. The iron-platinum shell was made by decomposing
iron pentacarbonyl and reducing platinum acetylacetonate, which
resulted in a shell that is only 30 percent platinum. In the future,
these chemists expect to be able to make thinner shells with even
less platinum.
Mazumder and fellow co-author Shouheng Sun, professor of chemistry at
Brown, are working to find why the catalytic abilities of the
iron-platinum shell are increased by the palladium core. They think
the transfer of electrons between the core and shell metals might be
the cause, and both chemists are trying to use a more chemically
active metal than palladium as the core to "confirm the transfer
of of electrons in the core-shell arrangement. and its importance to
the catalysts function." In addition, they created iron-platinum
shells varying from one to three nanometers in width, with
one-nanometer functioning the best.
is a very good demonstration that catalysts with a core and a shell
can be made readily in half-gram quantities in the lab, they're
active and they last," said Mazumder. "The next step is to
scale them up for commercial
use, and we are confident we'll be able to do that."


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It's well
known that the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) has turned into the most costly
weapons program in history for the armed forces. When complete, multiple
branches of the armed forces will use the F-35 and it will be sold abroad to
The problem for some in Washington is that the delays in delivering the
aircraft are mounting, as are the costs to build and maintain the aircraft over
its lifespan. The F-35 program has been going for ten years now and some in the
Senate Armed Services Committee are now indicating it's time to start looking for a backup plan. Most will find little
sense in considering an alternative to the F-35 when it is finally so close to
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said, "It seems to me [prudent that] we at
least begin considering alternatives."
The reason some in the Senate want to start looking for alternatives is the
report published last week showing the costs to maintain the F-35 through 2065
spiraling to $1 trillion. Top acquisition official Ashton Carter has maintained
that the $1 trillion figure will be reduced when he completes a
"should-cost" review of the F-35 in the next few months. Carter is
aiming at a 20% to 50% reduction in that $1 trillion figure.
Fox, Director of the Pentagon cost assessment and program evaluation office, is
skeptical of the cost reduction goals.
Fox said, "O&S [operation and sustainment] is hard. Whether we can get
it all the way down to legacy [O&S cost levels] is something that I in my
office doubt." Fox points to the cost of fuel being hard to reduce over the
life of the aircraft.
Lockheed Martin's general manager for the F-35 program, Tom Burbage, says that
the sustainment costs for the F-35 can't be fairly compared to the costs of
older aircraft. He says that the F-35 was developed on performance-based
logistics plan that is different from legacy sustainment process. He also notes
that the F-35 O&S estimates are susceptible to ground rules legacy aircraft
are not bound to.


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Hello everyone, Nova here. Today I have discovered something weird about Naruto 609.
Dream World :
I hate long discussion, and maybe a few of you, so I made the discussion in pictures.
The first picture:
The second:
That's all for me now.
P.s.: The pictures were re-edited by me. Hope to get many likes.


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The problem for many users is that regulation of
traffic online by ISPs has historically centered on file sharing and
peer-to-peer traffic which is often shown in a bad light by ISPs as
used by pirates and other nefarious users. The truth is that there is
a lot of perfectly legal and reasonable peer-to-peer and file sharing
traffic online.
Verizon Wireless and Google CEOs Lowell McAdam
and Eric Schmidt issued
a joint statement on finding common ground for an open internet
today. The two companies are already working together to bring
new Android handsets to market so it makes a bit of sense that
they would also talk about net neutrality together as
According to the statement, the two companies disagree
quite strongly on some aspects of government policy in the net
neutrality area. Specifically, a big disagreement is on whether
wireless networks should even be part of the net neutrality
discussion. However, both companies feel that it is imperative that
the internet remain open and unrestricted to any type of content as
long as that content is legal.
The statement says that the two
companies understand the FCC's national plan to bring broadband to
all Americans and to start a debate on the openness of the internet
and how to best protect that. Verizon and Google report that they
have found several common basic concepts that they agree on.
first is that both firms believe the user should have the final say
on how their web experience works. Second, the two firms say that an
advanced and open network is essential to the future of the internet
and policies to provide incentives for investment and innovation in
the network realm are a vital part of the debate.
Google and Verizon believe that it makes sense for the FCC to
establish broadband principals that make it clear users are in charge
of all aspects of their internet experience and that these principals
should be enforceable.
Fourth, the two firms report they are
in "wild agreement" that flexibility in government policy
is key. Fifth, the broadband network provider would have the
flexibility to manage their networks to deal with traffic congestion,
spam, malware, and DoS attacks and other threats that may emerge. The
final common point is that transparency must be added to the FCC's
Verizon also reports that it feels there is no
evidence of a problem today, especially for wireless, and no basis
for new rules and regulations that could affect providers globally.
Google supports this type of regulation and this is another major
disagreement between the two firms.


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The Photographer Series: Seth Stafford
The Photographer Series is an in-depth look at our senior photographers here at TransWorld SURF. This month we feature our main man on the East Coast, Mr. Seth Stafford. One of the nicest, most humble people you could ever meet, surfers and editors alike love to travel and do trips with Seth. Unassuming and easygoing, Seth will come in from a session, and when asked how he did, he'll say, "Maybe a few." That "maybe a few" usually turns into spreads and covers for TransWorld SURF. When he's not shooting photos, Seth can be found running his family business, Yum Yum's Ice Cream Shop in Sea Isle City, New Jersey.
TransWorld SURF: Years shooting:
Seth Stafford: I got my first water housing in 1998, so 15 years.
Swainton, New Jersey
Favorite place to shoot photos:
Anywhere that tubes.
Favorite surfers to shoot with:
Sam Hammer, Mike Gleason, Peter Mendia
Best trip:
Easter Island in 2004. Amazing scenery, great waves and great crew.
First photo you had published:
DSO sunglass ad of St Augustine, Florida shredder Jason Hadjis featured In ESM
What kind of fins do you use when swimming:
Hydro Tech fins are nice and wide for my Fred Flintstone feet.
Preferred camera:
Canon 7D for water shots, Canon Mark IV for land shots, Canon 5D for lifestyle shots.
Water housing of choice:
SPL have always kept my cameras dry.
Sketchiest experience while shooting:
Getting taken by the current down a long pointbreaks in Baja in dense fog and then having to swim a mile back out to our sea plane over some really deep water at sunset.
Best photography advice you ever got:
Keep swimming.
What photographers work do you admire:
Scott Aichner, Scott Soens, Oliver Barton, Jon Humphries.
Follow Seth on instagram at instagram.com/sethstafford
Check out Brent Bielmann's Photographer Series photo gallery


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SRS security contractor changing management
- By MIKE GELLATLY
- Posted: Friday, December 7, 2012 12:11 a.m.
UPDATED: Friday, December 7, 2012 7:21 a.m.
There are significant changes afoot within the parent company of Savannah River Site security contractor WSI-SR.
G4S Government Solutions, formerly Wakenhut and WSI, announced this week that two veterans of the company have been moved into executive positions to "specifically help bridge new practices and protocols in the company's (Department of Energy and National Nuclear Security Administration) operations."
G4S GS Spokesperson Courtney Russell Henry said that the restructuring is not directly related to a security breach at the Y-12 Complex that led to WSI-Oak Ridge losing their contract with the NNSA. Rather, Henry stated that this is a "very natural progression" to formalize national communication lines within the private security contractor.
However, "all these things have come about following the July 28 incidents," Henry said.
On that date, three anti-nuclear weapons protesters allegedly cut through fences at the Y-12 National Security Complex, evaded guards and vandalized a high-security building where highly-enriched, weapons-grade uranium is stored. The protestors, from Transform Now Plowshares, splashed human blood and spray-painted slogans on the Highly Enriched Uranium Materials Facility.
After the incident, security at the Y-12 Complex was questioned by many bodies, including a Congressional Committee.
The breach led to NNSA recommending WSI-Oak Ridge's contract be terminated. On the same day as their decision, WSI was fired.
The protestors, Sister Megan Rice, 82, Michael R. Walli, 63, and Greg Boertje-Obed, 57, are facing a trial on "injuring national-defense premises" charges as well as trespassing and property destruction. The trio, who may face up to 35 years in prison, have pleaded not guilty to all charges.
The specific changes look to improve communication from East to West coach, Henry said.
Steve Hafner has been named chief operating officer of DOE Operations for G4S Government Solutions Inc. and Dave Bradley has been promoted to SVP and executive general manager. The team will specifically help bridge new practices and protocols in the company's DOE/NNSA operations.
Henry said that any impact Hafner's new role would have "will be very positive."
Hafner will oversee all of the company's DOE operations and will have primary focus on DOE Oak Ridge Operations, SRS and Strategic Petroleum Reserve in the eastern portion of the country.
Hafner previously served as vice president of Emergency Services and Training for the Mission Support Alliance at DOE's Hanford Site in South-Central Washington.
"I've had the honor of serving alongside Steve in various capacities and witnessing his proven record of helping both the government and private industry," said G4S GS CEO Paul Donahue. "He is a terrific asset to the government, and to the company, and we're excited about this new position, its opportunities, and about Steve's innate ability to take care of people."
A retired colonel of the U.S. Air Force, Hafner and his wife, Cydney, have two children and four grandchildren.
Bradley will have primary focus on the company's West Coast operations which include the Nevada National Security Site, Hanford Site, Sandia National Laboratories and the Office of Secure Transportation. He will continue to serve as General Manager of the WSI Nevada National Security Site.
Bradley previously served as deputy general manager and director of operations of WSI Nevada Nuclear Security Site.
"Dave brings a wealth of DOE/NNSA knowledge and experience that we can better share across the complex and with DOE headquarters going forward," said Donahue.
G4S is the largest security company in the world with almost 700,000 employees, making it the second largest private employer after Wal-Mart.
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Two CUs Participate in Pilot Phase of National Study on Credit Score Genesis, Education
Two credit unions are piloting a national study with the Filene Research Institute to investigate the establishment and trajectory of a credit score, and to devise effective ways to educate members about credit scores.
The $1 billion, 69-000 member Dupaco Community Credit Union in Dubuque, Iowa, and the $450 million, 38,000-member Del Norte Credit Union in Los Alamos, N.M., are joining with Filene in the project by the Filene's i3 (Ideas, Innovation, Implementation) program.
"Unveiling some of the initial triggers, both positive and negative, on a credit score could be groundbreaking for consumers who struggle with home and car ownership, rental ability, and even job acquisition," said George Hofheimer, Filene's chief research and innovation officer.
"The insight gleaned from this study may give consumers a real step up in the credit game, helping them establish habits that will open the doors to better opportunities and lives."
To assist with the study, the credit unions are taking creative steps. For example, the Dupaco Great Credit Race will follow the use of a VISA credit card for six months by 20 individuals who have no established FICO score.
The goal of Dupaco Great Credit Race's is to ascertain key variables that affect the score's opening growth, said David Klavitter, Dupaco senior vice president of marketing and a member of Filene's i3 program. Since considerable weight is put on revolving credit for credit score determination, the Great Credit Race has made the use of a credit card the crux of the investigation.
Participants in the study each receive a VISA credit card with a $500 limit and are only told they must make monthly payments in a timely manner and cannot exceed the set limit. On the last day of each month, each credit union will do a soft pull of the credit score via TransUnion. On the 180th day of the race, the individual with the highest score will be deemed the winner and receive $500.
"The irony for people is that it's difficult to obtain credit without a credit score," Klavitter said. "In addition to understanding behaviors that affect an individual's score, the study will provide insights into more effective ways of helping consumers understand money."
Other i3 credit unions contributing to the project include Elevations CU, Boulder, Colo.; Leaders CU, Jackson, Tenn.; Vancity CU, Vancouver, B.C.; and Xceed Financial CU, El Segundo, Calif. Currency Marketing of Chilliwack, B.C., is providing marketing support and guidance.


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Zapping Things With ESD Just One More Service I Offer
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While Max was mulling things over while driving into work, he had a simple yet (he thinks) brilliant idea...
Question: Before we leap into this column with gusto and wild abandon, I have a poser for you to ponder. Suppose you are working on hobby electronics projects on your kitchen table and you've invested in an ESD (electrostatic discharge) wristband as shown below. To what should you attach the crocodile (alligator) clip on the end of the strap to give you a good ground connection? Now, read on...
When I was younger, I was a paragon of virtue with regard to taking preventative measures against ESD (electrostatic discharge). However, I'm ashamed to say that -- over time -- I grew a little blasé about this phenomena. Well, that was until quite recently when things like LEDs and MCU input/output (I/O) pins started to shrug off this mortal coil, helped on their way with an electrostatic "zap" provided courtesy of yours truly (it's just another service I offer).
Now the pendulum has swung and -- as is the way with these things -- I've become something of an ESD zealot. It started with my purchasing a humble ESD wristband similar to the one shown above. (Amazingly enough, you can get these from Best Buy; even more amazing, the folks at Radio Shack dont know what you're talking about when you say "electrostatic discharge.")
More recently, while rooting around looking for a toolkit to accompany me on my travels (see: What's the Best Traveling Toolkit? ), I invested in a rather nice 24" x 48" anti-static mat from those little scamps at iFixit. (This mat is intended for home use, of course -- I dont plan on carting it around the world with me.)
Based on this, you might assume that all is now well in the Land of Max (where the colors are brighter, the butterflies are bigger, the birds sing sweeter, and the beer is plentiful and cold), but there is one small fly in the soup, as it were. The thing that has been bugging me is the best mechanism to ground my ESD wristband and mat.
The folks in the next bay in the building housing my office have an easy time of this. They have fully grounded anti-static mats at each work area. Also, their ESD wristbands have banana plugs on the end and there are grounding points located in front of each work area as illustrated below.
Obviously, I dont have these grounding points mounted on my kitchen table at home, and I'm reasonably confident that the radiance of my wife's (Gina the Gorgeous) smile would no longer fall upon me if I were to install such an item. I have tried clipping the crocodile clips to the metal enclosure of my project's power supply, but sometimes I unplug this from the wall while I'm "tweaking" something, in which case I'm SOL (sadly out of luck).
Another approach I've tried is to have one end of a flying lead plugged into the ground strip on my breadboard, and to then attach the crocodile clip on my ESD wristband to the other end of this lead. We can see an example of this in the image below, which is from my blog on constructing my MSGEQ7-Based DIY Audio Spectrum Analyzer.
Observe the green wire that is plugged into the bottom right-hand corner of the breadboard and that exits from the lower right-hand side of this image. While I was working on this project, my crocodile clip was connected to the flying end of this wire (this is not shown in this image). There are several problems with this approach, not the least that it's easy to tug the lead out of the breadboard. Also, for this to really work, it assumes that the breadboard is actually connected to a ground point via a power supply or some other mechanism.
Another alternative would be to replace the crocodile clips with banana plugs, to splay these out a little at the end, and to plug them into the ground pins of wall-mounted power sockets. On the one hand this should ensure a good ground connection (we'd have to check the socket in question first -- experience has shown me that you can't rely on anything); on the other hand, it means that the cable on the ESD wristband would be stretched out to its fullest extent, which somewhat limits one's movements. Also, you'd constantly be bending down to plug yourself in or unplug yourself again.
And then, just this morning as I was mulling things over while driving into work, I had a simple yet (I think) brilliant idea...


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January 13, The Baptism of the Lord. Cycle C. Readings:
1) Isaiah 42:1-4, 6-7
Psalm 29:1-4, 9-10
2) Acts 10:34-38
Gospel) Luke 3:15-16, 21-22
This weekend as we celebrate Jesus' baptism, we remember it as the moment when he embraces his humanity, figuratively getting into the pool with us. We also remember our own baptism when we get into the pool with him to be immersed in his life.
In our Catholic sacramental life, baptism and confirmation are similarly two parts of a whole.
Baptism with water initially marks us as belonging to Christ. But, as the baptizer John promises, a baptism of "fire" will become the empowering experience of Jesus in which love, compassion, and justice become actions we take through the Holy Spirit.
Isaiah 42 describes a prefigured Christ bearing the Spirit of God in his mission to bring about justice. He will do this not by words or self-promotion, but by acts to end suffering and oppression. He won't give up until the work is accomplished, the reading says.
Anyone who has been involved in social justice ministry knows it is a hard, frustrating grind. Speeches, essays, or pledges don't get justice done. Only the Spirit of Christ among people has the power to make it happen.
Some years ago, I interviewed a locally respected activist who had returned to social ministry after temporarily disappearing from the scene. When Ray Higgins was first out of college, he told me, he got into political activism and the social justice movement in a big way, including missions to Central America, the Sanctuary Movement, Habitat for Humanity and community organizing.
After a decade, he burned out. The work had become an end in itself. "There wasn't much spirituality involved in what I was doing," he admitted.
He spent two years getting back into the pool with Jesus, reestablishing relationships with family, friends and with God. He soon realized that passion for his work had to come through Jesus. When he returned to ministry, he said, "I don't live for my work anymore. It has to live in me."
Then Christ got into the pool with Ray: He was nurtured by the "small miracles" performed by friends and neighborhood leaders sharing the work. "Now I gauge the ministry by asking, 'What do I live for, and who do I love?'"
The "fire" of Christ's life is what strengthens and sustains us for his mission.
January 13, The Baptism of the Lord. Cycle C. Readings:
1) Isaiah 42:1-4, 6-7
Psalm 29:1-4, 9-10
2) Acts 10:34-38
Gospel) Luke 3:15-16, 21-22


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AstraZeneca rejects new Pfizer bid
AstraZeneca spurned a new £63 billion takeover offer from US rival Pfizer today, saying it "substantially" undervalued the business.
The UK firm rejected the latest advance from the Viagra maker hours after Pfizer stepped up its pursuit by making the increased offer and giving a direct pledge to the Prime Minister on the future of British jobs and research.
At £50 a share, it represented a 7% hike on a previous proposal in January.
But Astra said: "The financial and other terms described in the proposal are inadequate, substantially undervalue AstraZeneca and are not a basis on which to engage with Pfizer."
AstraZeneca also noted that the large proportion of the consideration payable in shares and the "tax-driven inversion structure" of the deal - which had previously raised concerns - remained unchanged.
"Accordingly, the board has rejected the proposal," it said.
The offer would see Pfizer re-domiciled in the UK but retain headquarters in New York and remain listed on Wall Street.
It has admitted it hopes to slash its tax bill as part of the deal, paying 21% on earnings in Britain compared with 38% in the US.
If a deal were ultimately to go through, it would be the largest ever foreign takeover of a British company.
But Astra chairman Leif Johansson said: "AstraZeneca continues to invest significantly in research, development and manufacturing in the UK, Sweden and the US.
"We are showing strong momentum as an independent company, in particular with our exciting, rapidly progressing pipeline, which the board believes will deliver significant value for shareholders.
"Pfizer's proposal would dramatically dilute AstraZeneca shareholders' exposure to our unique pipeline and would create risks around its delivery. As such, the board has no hesitation in rejecting the proposal."
It is the third time that Astra has rebuffed Pfizer, following the initial January offer and a further approach last month .
The possibility of a deal is politically contentious because of Astra's key role in the UK's life sciences industry and manufacturing exports, and because it accounts for nearly 7,000 British jobs.
Today's letter to David Cameron from Pfizer's Scottish-born chief executive, Ian Read, attempted to sweeten the pill, pledging a commitment to Astra's planned research and development (R&D) hub in Cambridge.
It also said that 20% of the post-merger R&D workforce of the newly-formed pharmaceutical giant would be in the UK.
The assurances came after Mr Read held direct talks with Chancellor George Osborne and Business Secretary Vince Cable. Labour accused the Government of going over the heads of the British company's board.
Shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna said there was "grave concern" in the sector over the deal.
He told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme: "Do we really want a jewel in the crown of British industry, our second biggest pharmaceutical firm, to basically be seen as an instrument in some tax-planning game?"
Pfizer boss Mr Read argued that there was a "compelling" logic behind the mega-merger, which would bring together world-leading expertise in key areas such as oncology, inflammation and cardiovascular and metabolic disorders.
He said resources in the "golden triangle" of Oxford, Cambridge and London would represent a vital component of the new company.
Pfizer said it would actively look to locate manufacturing operations in the UK and retain Astra's commercial manufacturing facilities in Macclesfield.
In a letter to AstraZeneca chairman Leif Johansson, Mr Read said his preference was for Pfizer and Astra to pursue a "friendly, negotiated transaction" which can be recommended by both boards.
He stressed that a key attraction of the deal for the US firm was its "great skills base of researchers, clinicians and technicians" as well as its "proximity to leading academic institutions" around Cambridge, and to the NHS.
Pfizer's latest cash-and-shares offer valued Astra at a premium of more than 32% to its worth prior to the start of takeover speculation last month.
AstraZeneca was formed through the merger of Sweden's Astra and Britain's Zeneca in 1999. It is one of the world's biggest pharmaceutical firms and produces a large range of medicines including cancer and diabetes drugs.
The FTSE 100-listed group employs more than 50,000 people around the world, including 6,700 in the UK, but numbers are being reduced as it shifts its headquarters to Cambridge, closing a research centre in Cheshire and offices in London.
Pfizer employs more than 70,000 people around the world, including 2,500 in the UK, with 900 at its regional headquarters in Surrey.
Science Minister David Willetts told the Today programme that the Government had been having "tough conversations" with the US firm and had made clear the importance it attached to research and manufacturing in the UK.
He said the Government had been putting £1 billion of public money into R&D each year, matched by the private sector, and indicated that this had made it an attractive place for Pfizer to invest.
Mr Willetts said ministers had been pressing the US firm "in a very hard-nosed way" and that the company had now beefed up its commitments in the new assurances to Downing Street.
"Their letter has a set of proposals for research and development and manufacturing in the UK that have moved a long way from where they were a week ago," he said.
Mr Willetts said it was "absurd" to suggest that the Government was acting "in concert" with Pfizer.
Details of the latest offer emerged as former deputy prime minister Lord Heseltine said he believed the Government should have greater powers to intervene when British companies are targeted for takeover by foreign firms.
Speaking at a Tory election campaign event in north Staffordshire, Mr Cameron said the Government had received "robust" assurances from Pfizer.
After being asked what guarantees he could give that jobs and investment in the UK would be protected, Mr Cameron responded: "My priority is absolutely clear - British jobs, British science, British inventiveness, British research and development.
"We are seeing a revival in those things and I want to see that go further.
"AstraZeneca has a fantastic role in the British economy. You see it in the jobs it's created, in the investments it's made and the medicines it has delivered.
"We should be really proud of it but, of course, the decision on any merger is a decision for the two companies and their shareholders.
"My job is to protect the United Kingdom's interests. I want to see great jobs in these industries here in Britain.
"That is why we have sought and received robust assurances from Pfizer were a deal to go ahead.
"But it is not for us to endorse any deal, it is for us - the British Government, the British Prime Minister - to fight hard for Britain's interests and deliver Britain's interests.
"That is exactly what I will do.
"I will not make the mistakes of some previous governments.
"Outright hostility, abject surrender - that's what you have seen in the past. What I am interested in is results for Britain and that's exactly what you will see from our stance over this issue."
The Prime Minister spoke with Mr Johansson by telephone before the announcement of the decision.
His official spokesman declined to give any details of the discussion but said the Government was "engaging very directly" with both companies.
Mr Cameron would examine Lord Heseltine's comments, he told reporters.
A Downing Street spokesman later said: "The Prime Minister has received a letter from the chief executive of Pfizer and today spoke to the chairman of AstraZeneca who set out the board's confidence in AstraZeneca's strategy as an independent company. The Prime Minister is clear that the UK Government regards the potential takeover bid as a matter for the respective boards and shareholders of the two companies.
"However, the Government is determined to secure great British science, research and manufacturing jobs in the life sciences sector. We want to see the sector continue to flourish and grow, with Britain retaining its scientific leadership and key R&D operations for the long-term, as well as its role as a leading manufacturing base. That is also the clear and consistent message we have given to Pfizer.
"The letter from the chief executive of Pfizer is a positive sign with significant undertakings on research, jobs and investment. The Government will consider these proposals carefully as to whether they offer sufficient protection of our priorities.
"Obviously it remains unclear whether Pfizer's takeover will actually proceed."
Mr Cable said: "It's not for the Government to get involved in the detailed bid with the shareholders. What the Government's concern is - and it's something I've been expressing with the chief executive of Pfizer this week, along with my other colleagues in Government - is we're concerned with protecting the science base of Britain, an outstanding science base in pharmaceuticals with almost 7,000 jobs alone attached to AstraZeneca in the UK, we're concerned with protecting British manufacturing and decision making.
"And the letter we have received this morning is encouraging; it's positive. We need to study it very, very carefully, look at the small print, look at how binding it would be, but this is a positive reaction in terms of our concerns, our national interest concerns about jobs and science and manufacturing".


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By now you know Dennis Busenitz killed it and won--a flawless run like no other. You'll see it in video form soon. Full results here. Shane O'Neill did insane tricks first try in his run and should have placed higher. Koston is still the best. Check out these photos of all the ripping and some of the back lot shenanigans with Yelawolf and the homeys.
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