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New Delhi: International celebrity chef Nigella Lawson cooks Indian chicken mughlai and her children love the dish. Now she wants to visit India to test whether she is able to match up to the local taste.
Lawson is on board as executive producer and mentor on "The Taste", a food and travel-based show which will be aired on FOX Traveller Friday.
"Because I live in London, I have eaten Indian food since I was a child and adore it. My children love my chicken mughlai but I will have to cook it in India to see if it really passes muster," Lawson said in an email interview from London.
"I would love to come to India more than anything but I am waiting to have enough time off (with my children) to be able to travel widely across the country eating as much food as possible," said the 53-year-old who is a mother of two.
"The Taste" features a panel of judges including Lawson, Anthony Bourdain and US TV chefs Ludo Lefebvre and Brian Malarkey who will select 16 contestants - both amateur and professional cooks - by tasting just one spoonful of their food while they are blindfolded.
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She finds the role of a mentor exciting.
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As a judge, she believes: "I am tough, but I hope not unkind."
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The last thing you want to be confused about is the food you're eating, but with all the grocery buzzwords out there, it can feel like you're staring at some insider jargon. To break it down, we've put together meanings behind common terms that you'll find all along your supermarket aisles. Hopefully this will make it easy to remember why the labels are there in the first place — to help you make better decisions about what you're consuming and what's worth your money.
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The word 'home' comes up a lot when you talk to Scott Morrissey.
He's a star baseball player for Clarkson and he started remodeling his parents' home when he was a tween. He's also one of only a few college seniors anywhere with his own home-construction firm.
"My family motivates me," he says. "They've worked hard and they've done everything they can to support me. When you have examples like that at home, it's easier to get up, get out there and work for the things you want."
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He says his instructors have also helped him add structure to the construction firm he started.
"Larry Compeau, my business professor, gets a lot of credit for teaching me how to critically evaluate my professional decisions. It was his voice I heard when I was setting up my construction company's accounting system and website," he says.
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Scott also compliments Clarkson's baseball coach Jim Kane—for his ability to improve players while keeping them focused on their studies.
"I've played baseball for as long as I can remember," he says. "I came here to play, but the real value of Clarkson is my business education."
Scott's an outfielder—a position that requires a lot of running around every inning—and he's majoring in entrepreneurship and innovation. Still, he calls Clarkson business instructor Karen St. Hilaire a driving force in making his business grow.
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It's taken some sacrifice on his part.
"In the summer, I'm up at 6:00, work a full day, play ball at 4:00 and then have dinner with family."
To Scott, this was a first glimpse of success on his own terms.
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Now, word of mouth in his hometown of Troy (near Albany) is helping his construction business take off. He says he has more jobs than he can get to. So, like all baseball players, he has his eye on home."All the time now," he says, "I'm thinking about my business and I'm itching to get started, full-time."
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Quarterback Joe Flacco had no idea that a large banner with his image was hanging from Sports Authority Field at Mile High, the home of the Denver Broncos, until wide receiver Torrey Smith and a couple of his other teammates sent him a picture of the stadium via text message.
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Four days before the Broncos host the Ravens to kick of the 2013 NFL season, the hottest topic in both Baltimore and Denver was the controversial Flacco banners -- which were part of the NFL's marketing plan for the game -- that last week popped up at Sports Authority Field at Mile High and on lampposts in downtown Denver. The banner on the stadium is several stories tall.
Flacco was peppered with questions about them on a conference call with Denver reporters and later answered several questions about them at his weekly news conference in Baltimore.
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Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning, who appears on the stadium next to Flacco, said in a Denver radio interview last week that having a banner of Flacco on their stadium "doesn't seem like it makes sense." And Denver fans voiced their concerns. Some organized an online petition.
Flacco understands why they are upset and said he doesn't mind being hated. He added that he is now a fan of Texas A&M; quarterback Johnny Manziel because of how much he is scrutinized.
"It's all cool. Being hated isn't a bad thing. I don't know if I'll be too popular for [saying] this, but I don't know how I really felt about Johnny Manziel, but I feel like now everybody hates him," Flacco said of the Heisman Trophy winner. "He's quickly becoming my favorite player in college football."
Coach John Harbaugh also said he didn't understand why the NFL put banners of Flacco on Denver's stadium and that he couldn't envision a banner of Manning at M&T; Bank Stadium.
"I understand why the Broncos and their fans would feel the way that they do," Harbaugh said. "And I know it will have no bearing whatsoever on the football game."
Rush linebacker Terrell Suggs might have been the only person in Baltimore or Denver that had not yet heard of the Flacco banners in Denver. Suggs said that he thought the story was a hoax.
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The industry launched on April 30, 2013 yet Nevada has only approved two online poker rooms thus far. It literally makes zero sense to me, unless they are already acknowledging that the state can't support more than two rooms and they are simply waiting for interstate compacts to develop before allowing more rooms into the market.
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We had a multi-station production machine that used a short-stroke, 16-in. bore air cylinder to assemble parts. A redesign of the product resulted in a new, beefier model that would require about 30% more tonnage to assemble. Our shop air pressure was 100 psi and we were running the cylinder on maximum already. So where could we find another 30 psi?
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Evernote has a provision for tagging notes, but more importantly it lets you start new notebooks and sub-notebooks. I use this to collect notes about the kids, projects at work, my favourite beers and wines, and other notebooks – including some I've shared with others.
There's lots of information on Evernote's site, so instead I'll share what I use to for:
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- Pictures of the various medicines and other records my kids have taken – both kids have their own notebook.
- Planing and document projects around the house – including the summer's minor fence project and last summer's major patio project and year before that's nursery project. The notes are important, but the pictures are handy to travel back and forth from Home Deport with.
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Waste to Energy & Biomass in California
Californians create nearly than 2,900 pounds of household garbage and industrial waste each and every second; a total of 85.2 million tons of waste in 2005 (according to the California Integrated Waste Management Board)! Of that, 43.2 million tons is recovered and recycled or used to make energy, but 42 million tons has to be disposed in landfills. Thanks to advances in technology, waste known as biomass, is put to valuable use producing electricity.
In 2017, 5,758 gigawatt hours of electricity in homes and businesses was produced from biomass: burning forestry, agricultural, and urban biomass; converting methane-rich landfill gas to energy (LFGTE); and processing wastewater and dairy biogas into useful energy. Biomass power plants produced 2.99 percent of the total electricity in California.
What is biomass electricity?
Biomass electricity is drawn from combusting or decomposing organic matter. There are about 132 waste-to-energy plants in California, with a total capacity of almost 1,000 megawatts. These plants power our homes and businesses with electricity from waste matter that would have been released into the atmosphere, added fuel to forest fires, and burdened our landfills.
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Why is biomass electricity important?
Using biomass to produce electricity reduces our reliance on fossil fuels, the nation's primary energy sources for electricity, and the largest contributors to air pollution and greenhouse gases. We will eventually run out of fossil fuels. Biomass electricity offers alternatives with many benefits:
- Our supply of biomass is renewable, meaning it will not run out.
- Electricity produced by biomass reduces the threat of global climate change.
- Using biomass waste eliminates the need to place it in landfills.
- Clearing biomass from wooded areas helps prevent forest fires.
- Using by-product methane gases to produce electricity eliminates odor and reduces air pollution in surrounding areas.
State Policy on Biomass and Biofuels
The Governor directed several state agencies - including the Energy Commission - to take major steps toward the widespread use of biomass to produce clean, renewable transportation fuels or electricity. This directive helped to reinvigorate the Bioenergy Interagency Working Group through the help of the California Biomass Collaborative.
The Bioenergy Interagency Working Group -- lead by Commissioner Jim Boyd of the California Energy Commission, and includes the Air Resources Board (ARB), California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA), California Public Utilities Commission, California Resources Agency, Department of Food and Agriculture, Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, Department of General Services, Integrated Waste Management Board, and the State Water Resources Control Board -- made a recommendation to the Governor in March 2006 on biomass and biofuels.
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Libor scandal: Amendments to proposed Market Abuse legislation to fight rate-fixing – frequently asked questions
The European Commission has today presented amendments to its October 2011 Proposals for a Regulation on Market Abuse and for a Directive on Criminal Sanctions for Market Abuse (see IP/12/846). For more information on the October 2011 proposals, see IP/11/1217, IP/11/1218 and MEMO/11/715.
Amended proposal for a Regulation on market abuse
1. Why has the Commission adopted an amended proposal for a Regulation following the LIBOR/EURIBOR investigations?
Since March 2011, investigations have been taking place in relation to possible manipulation of the EURIBOR and LIBOR benchmarks for interbank lending rates by a number of banks. The suspicion was that banks had provided estimates of the interest rate at which they would accept offers of funding which were different from the rate they would have accepted in practice. As a result, the integrity of the rates has been called into question – rates which are used as benchmarks for borrowing and as references for the pricing of many financial instruments such as interest rate swaps and consumer contracts such as mortgages, loans and credit cards. Furthermore, the individual contributor banks' estimates provided misleading information to the market about their likely costs of funding.
The Commission has assessed whether possible manipulations of benchmarks including LIBOR and EURIBOR are covered by its proposals for a Regulation on insider dealing and market manipulation and the related proposal for a Directive on criminal sanctions for insider dealing and market manipulation. Given that benchmarks are not currently explicitly covered by these proposals, the Commission has concluded that direct manipulation of benchmarks does not fall within the scope of either proposal.
Therefore, in order to capture the direct manipulation of benchmarks and in order to ensure that such manipulation of benchmarks is a criminal offence, the Commission has proposed to amend its proposals for a Regulation and for a Directive. The Commission has exercised its right of initiative in this area to clarify the changes which the Commission considers are essential so that its proposals adequately address the issues highlighted by the LIBOR scandal. The Commission's amended proposals are timely as the European Parliament and the Council will be able to consider them before adopting in the autumn a Committee Report (as regards the European Parliament) and a general approach (as regards the Council) regarding the Commission's original proposals for a Regulation and a Directive.
2. Why is the manipulation of benchmarks a cause for concern?
Many financial instruments are priced by reference to benchmarks. While it may be difficult or impossible for a competent authority to prove that manipulation of a benchmark had an effect on the price of related financial instruments, any actual or attempted manipulation of important benchmarks can however have a serious impact on market confidence and could result in significant losses to investors or distort the real economy. It is therefore essential to prohibit manipulation of benchmarks unequivocally, and to clarify that competent authorities could impose administrative sanctions for the offence of market manipulation in these cases, without the need to prove or demonstrate incidental issues such as price effects. It is also essential that all necessary steps are taken to prevent such manipulation and enable and facilitate the work of competent authorities in imposing sanctions. A stringent legal framework will act as a credible deterrent to such behaviour, thereby protecting investors and restoring market confidence. These regulatory steps should include criminal sanctions.
3. What are benchmarks and what types of benchmarks and manipulation will be prohibited by the amended proposal for a Regulation?
A benchmark is any commercial index or published figure calculated by the application of a formula to the value of one or more underlying assets or prices, including estimated prices, interest rates or other values, or surveys by reference to which the amount payable under a financial instrument is determined. Underlying assets or prices referenced in benchmarks can include equities (e.g. the FTSE 100 index), bonds (e.g. NASDAQ OMX fixed income), interest rates (e.g. LIBOR or EURIBOR), or commodities such as agricultural products (e.g. cocoa LIFFE London), metals (e.g. Gold COMEX) or oil (e.g. Brent oil ICE). All benchmarks are included in the amended proposal, provided that these determine the amount payable under a financial instrument. The amended proposal for a Regulation would prohibit natural or legal persons from transmitting false or misleading information, providing false or misleading inputs, or any action which manipulated the calculation of a benchmark, including the manipulation of benchmarks' methodologies.
Amended proposal for a Directive on criminal sanctions for market abuse
4. Why has the Commission adopted an amended proposal for a Directive following the LIBOR scandal?
The Commission considers it essential that manipulation of benchmarks is subject to criminal sanctions in order to ensure the effective enforcement of EU policy on market integrity.
5. Which offences in relation to benchmarks will be subject to criminal sanctions?
The amended proposal for a Directive would extend the scope of the criminal offence of market manipulation in the proposal for a Directive to cover the direct manipulation of benchmarks, if committed intentionally. The amended proposal would also require Member States to criminalise inciting, aiding and abetting the manipulation of benchmarks, as well as attempts at such manipulation.
Wider issues
6. Is self-regulation of benchmarks sufficient? Is further regulation necessary?
At the moment, all options are on the table. The Commission, the European Central Bank (ECB), central banks, the Financial Stability Board (FSB) and the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) are examining how benchmarks are currently established in order to identify weaknesses and shortcomings and suggest possible ways of addressing the problems at hand. In this context, not only interest rate benchmarks need to be examined. Benchmarks also serve as the basis for many commodity contracts. Recently, IOSCO has called into question the way in which price reporting agencies establish oil prices. Key issues to be examined are how to ensure the integrity and transparency of the methodologies used when setting benchmarks, including the issue of adequate public oversight.
7. What might alternatives to benchmarks be? And should they be based on transactions or estimates?
Benchmarks offer standardised ways of agreeing on prices. A benchmark is a statistical measure, typically a price or quantity calculated from a representative group of underlying data. However, benchmarks and indices normally also include some element of discretion, judgement or subjectivity. What that standard should look like varies from one market to the next, depending on the needs of that market and the availability of data. This is the reason why today some benchmarks are based on estimates and others on actual transactions.
Any alternative to benchmarks needs to be reliable, transparent, credible and readily available. The Commission is considering all alternatives that best meet the needs of the economy and that could restore trust in benchmarks.
8. Who should determine indices – the banks themselves, or a supervising body?
The starting point should be that an index is reliable, and that it is produced in an honest way, ensuring the integrity and the transparency of the benchmark decision-making process. It should be based on accurate information, and calculations should be done in an unbiased way.
The objective of benchmarks is to offer a standard which is often used globally. It is therefore necessary to pursue work on this matter in cooperation with our international partners. The Commission stands ready to work together with the ECB and other central banks as well as with global fora such as the G20, the FSB and IOSCO to consider alternatives that best meet the needs of the economy and investors.
More information:
Market Abuse: http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/securities/abuse/index_en.htm
Criminal law policy: http://ec.europa.eu/justice/criminal/criminal-law-policy
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Spend some time on Wooster's campus and you can't help but notice that there's a distinctive spirit here.
Where else would almost 1,000 people turn out on Homecoming… to watch a cricket match? Or work all night to fill Kauke Arch with snow? Or treasure an uneaten Tootsie Roll as a badge of distinction and achievement?
Students will pack the theatre to see a campus production of "Nocturne" that won top honors at the American College Theatre Festival. And they'll fill the gym to cheer on a men's basketball team that has gone to the D-III Final Four three times since 2003.
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The closet smoker
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"I can't come to the rest of the sessions. Nobody in my family knows I've relapsed and if I have to come here the next five nights, I will have to tell them where I'm going. I couldn't face them after that." I've had a number of past clinic participants who had relapsed and came to the first night of the clinic to tell me they were going to try on their own, without the support of the group and the rest of the sessions, solely to avoid the embarrassment of admitting their relapse. While some do quit after staying for the first session, others just continue smoking because they just can't seem to muster up the motivation to get through the initial stage of withdrawal on their own.
What follows for these closet smokers are lives complicated far beyond that of the potential life threatening health risks from smoking. More immediate of a risk is living a lie that places them in constant fear of being exposed. This will drastically reduce the amount smoked. The closet smoker will only smoke when the opportunity permits. But that means spending numerous hours every day, and possibly even entire days in a state of constant withdrawal. When they do get a chance to sneak a cigarette, what if someone sees them? What will that person think of them? Who else will they tell? Even if not seen, what about the smell? For a while the smoker may claim that the smell is from second hand smoke, but that just puts them deeper in the deception. If they do eventually get caught everyone will know that all the other times that they were being accused by some significant other, who thought they smelled it, that their denial then was a blatant lie too.
While some who are reading this may think, "Who cares what other people think," you should understand that to this kind of individual, others' opinion of the smoker's strength or integrity is extremely important. If it were not, they would not have faced the initial dilemma of how to come to the clinic without admitting the failure. They are stuck in chronic withdrawal and the chronic anxiety of being caught, all for the luxury of sneaking a cigarette here and there to temporarily alleviate withdrawal whenever possible. It is obvious that the closet smoker is not smoking for enjoyment. They can't enjoy it during the act because they're afraid of being caught. The reason for lighting any given cigarette is plain and simple – the nicotine addict is getting their much needed drug fix, a fix that would not be necessary if they would just quit smoking and end the vicious withdrawal cycle.
The only logical solution to this problem is to quit smoking. And while the closet smoker may eventually be successful in quitting smoking, since they were already supposed to have quit, how will they then explain the serious mood swings and other physical withdrawal symptoms (including why they seem so irritable or maybe even irrational), during the first few days of withdrawal? While it may be embarrassing to confess, it is in all probability the best solution. Admit to relapse and find the time needed to get involved in a smoking cessation support group. Also, let people around you know what you are going through. Those closest to you can often be extremely supportive and understanding, but only if they know that their help is needed.
Once you do quit, do everything in your power to avoid ever having to go through quitting again. Smoking will be more expensive than you remember, more socially unacceptable, just as unhealthy and it could cost you your life. It may effect your social status, making many question your general sensibilities as well as your lack of concern for all non-smokers and ex-smokers around you. If you try to hide the fact that you relapse, you expose yourself to being caught and then viewed as a liar and a cheat, all for the "joy" of a nicotine fix. Never forget what each day was like when you were a smoker and it will make it much easier to always choose to – NEVER TAKE ANOTHER PUFF!
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A member of the Class of 2014 Thomas Jefferson University/Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, Alex Starks '08 is drawing on all her undergraduate resources to become the best possible doctor she can be.
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Joseph Parra is an artist working with the human portrait and figure. While he obviously draws and paints very well, Parra is not necessarily concerned with perfectly replicating what someone looks like. He finds this notion limiting to an artist; after all, a photo or realistic painting can only go so far. You've made someone look like their outward appearance, but now what?
Parra strives to delve deeper into the figure or portrait and reveal what is unseen. His work questions what it means to be human using a couple of different methods. One way is through layers. Aside from a portrait, he adds of media that distorts the face or the body. Parra scrapes, pricks, and sands his subjects. In his words, this is "acting as reminders that we are merely a union of ideas." Additionally, he will cut, braid, or fold paper as a way to express the complex nature of humanity. Oneself (directly below) is the same portrait but manipulated in three different ways. It references the fractured, multiple, and twisted ways we often view ourselves. Some days we think we're great, while others we are loathsome.
Much of Parra's work is screen prints and digital prints, which I think enhance his ideas and again parallels the human experience. We see these images mutilated and/or distorted, and they look very textural. Yet up close, they are mostly reproduced images and have a smooth sheen – the rawness is kept contained. I compare it to having a friend who appears very put together on the surface, but beneath you know they are a mess.
Parra was featured last year on Beautiful/Decay, not long after graduating college. Since then, he's created more work that focuses on the braiding or manipulating of paper, which are some of my favorite pieces. I'm looking forward to seeing where Parra goes from here.


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The U.S. Department of Agriculture is seeking applications for grants designed to promote rural business growth.
The USDA has $5.6 million available through the Rural Community Development Initiative program and will center around projects focused on education and business recruitment.
Marion city economic development director and zoning administrator Roger Holter said the grants would apply to all Marion County towns.
The grant awards up to $200,000 for technical assistance and training to create new local business opportunities.
"The city has used rural grants in the past," he said. "This is a new grant released by the USDA for job creation. If Marion were to apply for this grant, we would probably look at a partnership between the city and USD 408 and their career pathing program."
Grants are available to both public and private enterprises. According to Jessica Bowser, public affairs specialist of rural development in Kansas for USDA, the grants are often awarded to communities for planning and coaching purposes.
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Nancy Rubins' grandiose sculpture exhibition Our Friend Fluid Metal is open to public at the Gagosian Gallery, New York. Famous for her explosive installations featuring re-purposed objects, this time Rubins' transforms old equipment from children's playgrounds into dynamic large-scale floating structures.
The title of the exhibition refers to materials Rubins' used to create her surrealist sculptures. The monumental figures are constructed from recycled aluminum playground toys. But the story goes back even further, as the playful critters (elephants, ponies, giraffes, etc.) were made with aluminum from WW2 military planes. Sturdy and, at that time, cheap material was perfect for making thick children's playground equipment. For the artist, this flux was a natural inspiration.
"Even before the airplane parts the aluminum was a part of the earth and before it was part of the earth it was probably parts of stars and meteors and things that slammed into the earth."
The exhibition consists of four massive sculptures, all compound through a system of steel trusses and tension cables. Dimensions vary, but the largest measures 17 x 42 x 24 feet. Despite that, Rubins' works ten to evoke a sense of lightness and stillness, like someone had pushed a Pause button in the middle of an explosion. Her expressionist take towards unwieldy constructions reveals the fair line between rigid and gracefully fluid.
The exhibition runs until September 13, 2014 at Gagosian Gallery, New York.


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Contact Agent : Paul Sloan
After months of testing their limits and trusting their instincts, Bear in Heaven will emerge in April 2012 with I Love You, It's Cool, an album so vivid and visionary that it meets and even exceeds the confidence and calm its title suggests.
In 2010, Beast Rest Forth Mouth delighted listeners with the unexpected-futuristic rock music that didn't sound alien or bound to ostracize. Taking these songs from coast to coast and continent to continent, they learned that having fun with this music was copacetic, that they could delight a crowd while defying musical binaries. I Love You, It's Cool turns that realization into a peerless set of instant anthems.
Indeed, some of these songs are ready for the floor. In one a perfect guitar figure spirals through colossal drums and slabs of synthesizers. Elsewhere bliss booms in icy keyboards reflecting off a relentless throb. It's inescapable.
The intricacy and edge of Bear in Heaven's music is sharper than ever before. The programming is both complex and compelling, whether in the refracted rainbows or woven noisy matrices. Certainly, in places it feels like a hit, with hooks that instantly catch and bridges that curl a finger-lyrically, stylistically, temptingly-toward the dance floor. Bear In Heaven's mix of nostalgia and need is immediately relatable, too, bringing the band's exploratory sounds a little closer back to home before they exit in momentary space-rock ascendance, a readymade rock-club banger that erupts into a bold new direction.
I Love You, It's Cool is the first time Bear in Heaven has sounded so unapologetic and so evolved, so risky and so redeeming, so focused and so finessed. After years of restless exploration, this feels like a definitive arrival. I Love You, It's Cool is music written in the present tense but ready to speak to the future. The work is its own rarified reward.


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Latif, as a seasoned player, knew he dropped that catch, yet, was bold in claiming it inplay and afterwards. Why was he so confident? Had he gotten away with something else earlier?
Peshawari Cheat
by chinaman
Published: 19th September, 2003
Latif, as a seasoned player, knew he dropped that catch, yet, was bold in claiming it inplay and afterwards. Why was he so confident? Had he gotten
away with something else earlier?
Let's take a look at the peshawar test. In the first innings, BD came down to 320/8 at 126th over from 310/2 at 121st over. The chains of events
that led to the premature demise of the BD innings may raise some eyebrows and even lead to some answers.
85 Over: New ball taken by Latif.
102 Over: Swing was seen on this ball for the last time before lunch.
108, 110 & 112 overs: Bowling by Shoaib Akhtar but no sign of swing at all.
104 & 106 overs: Bowling by Sabbir but no sign of swing at all.
116 & 118 overs: Bowling by Gul but no sign of swing at all.
Lunch was taken after 119 over.
The ball was just 35 overs old.
Bangladesh 302/2
Javed Omar 118* (351b 17x4) Mohammad Ashraful 70* (186b 7x4)
120 over: Dangerous swings were produced 4 times by Shoaib Akhtar
122, 124, 126 over: 4 batsmen were out from Shoaib's swings. (rajin by spin and Ash by pull)
120-126: Ball is not new enough to produce serious traditional swing and also not old enough to produce dangerous reverse swing. Reverse swing is
known to occur after 40 overs of play (usually after 45 overs)
Now, the question is how come all on a sudden an apperently innocent ball became so violent? What happened to the ball at the lunch time?
The Daily Stars already questioned the possibility of reconditioning the Multan pitch on the final day.
All these are just mere coincidence? Or just another cause to inspire Latif to go for yet another big one and remain confident on a high note only to
be caught unfortunately?
Raising eyebrows and questions are not merely a quest to find refuge for the tiger's loss. Indeed, for a nation, not naive in scaldals by
it's national figures, if any of the doubts hold some thruth, the tigers must include yet another menu to their already overfilled net sessions
if they even wish for a remote hope to win matches against such nations.
Qoutes from Wisden archive:
84.1 Shabbir Ahmed to Mohammad Ashraful, no run, angling away outside off, left alone
New ball has been taken by Rashid Latif
101.1 Shabbir Ahmed to Javed Omar, no run, good outswinger, with some bounce, tries to defend it, beaten outside off stump
End of over 119 (maiden) Bangladesh 302/2
Danish Kaneria 33-9-85-0 - College End
Javed Omar 118* (351b 17x4) Mohammad Ashraful 70* (186b 7x4)
Please join us again in 40 mins at 7:40GMT
Match State: Lunch - Day 2
Hello and welcome back to Arbab Niaz Stadium, Peshawar. The after lunch session about to start
Shoaib Akhtar to bowl to Javed Omar
119.1 Shoaib Akhtar to Javed Omar, no run, short ball, defended to leg
119.2 Shoaib Akhtar to Javed Omar, one run, pitches up, swings in, off
the edge to third man region
119.3 Shoaib Akhtar to Mohammad Ashraful, no run, bit of in swing in the
air, pitches on legs, tries to play on the on side, misses hit on
pads to short leg
119.4 Shoaib Akhtar to Mohammad Ashraful, one run, on target, swings in,
tries to play across the line, inner edge onto pads, hudge appeal
for lbw, declined by Tiffen
119.5 Shoaib Akhtar to Javed Omar, no run, good length ball outside off,
left alone
119.6 Shoaib Akhtar to Javed Omar, no run, again good ball, pitches just
outside off, came in sharply, hit on pads, just outside off, appel
for lbw, declined again by Tiffen
121.4 Shoaib Akhtar to Javed Omar, OUT: Gone! good fast swinging full toss, Javed Omar tries to drive it, beaten between bat and pad, ball hit the
legstump, a great innings
comes to an end
Bangladesh 310/3, Partnership of 130
Javed Omar b Shoaib Akhtar 119 (357b 17x4 0x6)
Mohammad Ashraful 77* (196b 7x4) Shoaib Akhtar 18.4-2-40-1 (3nb)
Rajin Saleh is the new batsman
End of over 122 (6 runs) Bangladesh 315/3
Shoaib Akhtar 19-2-45-1 (5nb) - Pavilion End
Rajin Saleh 3* (1b) Mohammad Ashraful 77* (199b 7x4)
122.3 Danish Kaneria to Rajin Saleh, OUT: tosses up on middle stump, tries to defend it on the front foot, gets a faint outer edge in the hands of
Rashid, huge appeal for
catch behind, Bucknor thinks and raises his finger up
Bangladesh 315/4, Partnership of 5
Rajin Saleh c Rashid Latif b Danish Kaneria 3 (4b 0x4 0x6)
Mohammad Ashraful 77* (199b 7x4) Danish Kaneria 34.3-9-90-1
Kapali comes in
End of over 123 (maiden) Bangladesh 315/4
Danish Kaneria 35-10-90-1 - College End
Mohammad Ashraful 77* (199b 7x4) Alok Kapali 0* (3b)
123.2 Shoaib Akhtar to Mohammad Ashraful, OUT: short ball again, tries to pull it from outside off stump, top edge and an easy catch in the hand of
Bangladesh 315/5, Partnership of 0
Mohammad Ashraful c Rashid Latif b Shoaib Akhtar 77 (201b 7x4 0x6)
Alok Kapali 0* (3b) Shoaib Akhtar 19.2-2-45-2 (5nb)
Khaled Mashud in
123.5 Shoaib Akhtar to Khaled Mashud, OUT: Gone! good inswinging delivery, Khaled missread that one, offers on stroke, rapped on pads in front of
middle stump, huge
appeal for lbw, umpire raises his finger in a flash
Bangladesh 315/6, Partnership of 0
Khaled Mashud lbw b Shoaib Akhtar 0 (3b 0x4 0x6)
Alok Kapali 0* (3b) Shoaib Akhtar 19.5-2-45-3 (5nb)
Skipper comes into bat
End of over 124 (maiden) Bangladesh 315/6
Shoaib Akhtar 20-3-45-3 (5nb) - Pavilion End
Alok Kapali 0* (3b) Khaled Mahmud 0* (1b)
125.3 Shoaib Akhtar to Alok Kapali, OUT: good inswinger, Kapali tries to defend it, got the inner edge of the bat, Rashid dives towards his left and
takes a very good catch
Bangladesh 320/7, Partnership of 5
Alok Kapali c Rashid Latif b Shoaib Akhtar 4 (10b 1x4 0x6)
Khaled Mahmud 0* (3b) Shoaib Akhtar 20.3-3-45-4 (5nb)
Match State: Drinks
Mohammad Rafique in
125.6 Shoaib Akhtar to Mohammad Rafique, OUT: swinging yorker, batsman tries to defend it, beaten by pace and swing, ball hit the off stump, Shoaib
got his 5th wicket
Bangladesh 320/8, Partnership of 0
Mohammad Rafique b Shoaib Akhtar 0 (3b 0x4 0x6)
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November 15, 2013
A vaginal ring that delivers both tenofovir for HIV prevention and levonorgestrel for contraception, a gel containing the experimental antiretroviral IQP-0528 designed for both vaginal and rectal use, and a gel combining tenofovir and the anti-herpes drug acyclovir were among the new HIV prevention technologies presented at the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) Annual Meeting and Exposition this week in San Antonio.
The field of biomedical HIV prevention has seen major advances in recent years. Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) using oral tenofovir or Truvada can dramatically reduce the risk of HIV infection, but it only works with good adherence. Researchers are exploring other delivery methods that may be more convenient and encourage better adherence than daily pills. Multipurpose prevention technologies -- for example, combining protection against HIV and other sexually transmitted infections, or HIV protection and contraception -- is another way to encourage consistent use.
Patrick Kiser from Northwestern University, Meredith Clark from CONRAD, and colleagues are working on an intravaginal ring designed to deliver a combination of tenofovir and the hormonal contraceptive levonorgestrel for 90 days.
Studies have already shown that a 1% tenofovir vaginal gel applied before and after sex decreases HIV infection risk for women. Putting tenofovir in an intravaginal ring would allow it to be left in place longer. This type of ring was shown to protect monkeys from vaginal exposure to an HIV-like virus. Adding a contraceptive could address two needs at once.
"We saw the urgent need to make this dual-protection intravaginal ring because a majority of the world's unintended pregnancies occur within resource-poor regions where the HIV/AIDS pandemic is most prevalent, such as sub-Saharan Africa," Clark explained in an AAPS press release.
But putting tenofovir and levonorgestrel together in a ring is tricky because they have different release rates and biochemical properties: Tenofovir is hydrophilic, meaning it attracts water, while levonorgestrel is hydrophobic, or naturally repels water. (This article from MIT explains the difference.)
To solve this problem, the researchers developed a segmented polyurethane ring with separate reservoirs that can deliver both drugs simultaneously. Using tubes of different lengths to change the amount of drugs released, they were able to achieve target levels of both tenofovir and levonorgestrel. After optimizing segments for each drug, they tested the combination rings in rabbits and sheep, showing that tenofovir levels in vaginal tissue and fluid were similar to those obtained with 1% tenofovir gel in human clinical trials.
"Products only work when they are used," said CONRAD's David Friend. "By having a ring that can remain in the body for up to 90 days, our hope is that this ring will offer a solution to increase adherence, and therefore provide greater protection against HIV while also preventing pregnancy."
CONRAD and collaborators expect to start Phase 1 clinical trials in early 2014 using the combination ring and one containing tenofovir alone.
In another presentation, Anthony Ham and colleagues from ImQuest BioSciences described the development of DuoGel, a microbicide gel containing IQP-0528 -- an experimental antiretroviral that acts as both an NNRTI and an HIV entry inhibitor -- that is designed for both vaginal and rectal use.
"It is recognized that both vaginal and rectal intercourse occur during the same sexual act, so a single product that is safe for both compartments makes sense in terms of convenience, which is likely to result in higher compliance," Ham explained in another AAPS press release. "In addition, these DuoGels will be much safer products for HIV prevention in males practicing receptive anal intercourse."
The researchers developed various IQP-0528 gel formulations using excipients (inactive carrier compounds) approved for both vaginal and rectal administration. They tested the gels' biochemical properties, drug release, toxicity, and anti-HIV activity in laboratory cell cultures and cervical and rectal tissue explants (tissue samples kept alive in a lab). The best DuoGel formulation showed no toxicity to cells or normal vaginal bacteria at the highest concentration tested, and caused no loss of viability in cervical or rectal tissue.
Acceptability and adherence are now being evaluated using a placebo DuoGel without the active ingredient. The researchers are preparing the current gel for animal studies and hope to begin Phase 1 human clinical trials in early 2015. In the next stage, they plan to create a multidrug DuoGel that contains IQP-0528 plus tenofovir.
Finally, researchers from SRI International reported on the development of a vaginal gel combining tenofovir and acyclovir, which is used to treat and prevent outbreaks of genital herpes.
The team developed gels made with different combinations of two polymers, Pluronic F-127 and Noveon AA1. One gel, dubbed SR-2P, retained its structure when diluted with fluids and subjected to "mild simulated coital stress." It showed good adhesion to pig vaginal tissue and caused little or no irritation in a mouse model.
Because tenofovir is compatible with Noveon AA1 while acyclovir is compatible with Pluronic F-127, the researchers are working on a dual syringe that can administer the two drug/polymer mixes from separate compartments.
Liz Highleyman is a freelance medical writer and editor-in-chief of HIVandHepatitis.com.
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All items > Knives > Automatic Knives > Protech (Auto) > Protech Tactical Response > Protech TR-2
- Overall Length:7.50"
- Blade Length:3.00"
- Blade Thickness:0.12"
- Blade Material:154CM
- Hardness:59 RC
- Blade Style:Spear Point
- Blade Grind:Flat
- Finish:Black
- Edge Type:Plain
- Handle Length:4.50"
- Handle Thickness:0.50"
- Handle Material:Aluminum
- Color:Gray
- Frame/Liner:Aluminum
- Weight:3.30 oz.
- User:Right Hand
- Pocket Clip:Tip-Up
- Knife Type:Automatic
- Opener:Push Button
- Lock Type:Plunge Lock
- Brand:Protech
- Model:TR-2
- Model Number:TR-2.5
- Country of Origin:USA
- Best Use:Tactical
- Product Type:Knife
This Tactical Response 2 features a black coated 154-CM steel blade and a special gray 6061-T6 aluminum body with areas of engraving to create traction. The TR-2 series a knife that won't let you down. It fires hard, locks up like a rock, what else would you expect from Pro-Tech? The slim design rides well in the pocket and the knife features a convenient pocket clip for carry.


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Tuesday's six-pack
NBA over/under win totals for the coming season:
Golden State Warriors 67.5
Boston Celtics 56.5
Houston Rockets 55.5
San Antonio Spurs 54.5
Cleveland Cavaliers 53.5
Oklahoma City Thunder 51.5
Tuesday's List of 13: Nobody asked me, but……..
13) You hear a lot of cruddy things about people these days; here's something nice about someone, Joey Votto of the Cincinnati Reds.
Votto is the Reds' biggest star; when a 6-year old boy in Cincinnati had cancer this past summer, Votto visited the kid, without wanting publicity, and tried to make the kid feel as good as possible as this horrible disease took its toll. He helped in a fundraising event for the boy's family that the Reds sponsored- he contributed $10,000 of his own money.
The little boy passed away 10 days ago; Votto was at the memorial service, again not wanting publicity, but in this age of negativity, how can you can not talk about such a nice person?
12) Detroit Lions' QB Matthew Stafford is on pace to get sacked 61 times this season; the last NFL QB to get sacked 60+ times in a season? Jon Kitna, also of Detroit, back in 2006.
11) Maryland fired its athletic director, in part because the guy tried to get the AD job out at California, and Maryland's school president wasn't happy about that.
10) Rams play Arizona in London Sunday, but they're staying in Jacksonville until Thursday, to get solid practices in, as opposed to doing tourist-type stuff in England. Different teams have taken different approaches to the London games; we'll see how this works out.
9) New York-Houston playoff game Friday was the first time ever that the two cleanup hitters in a playoff game were the starting shortstops.
8) Cubs' pitching coach Chris Bosio takes a while to the walk to the mound, but with good reason; he has a broken ankle, and is wearing a boot on his foot.
7) 37-year old Damien Wilkins has been out of the NBA since 2013, but he made the Indiana Pacers' roster this season— good for him.
6) Nebraska hired Washington State AD Bill Moos as its new athletic director, which may be bad news for both football coach Mike Riley and basketball coach Tim Miles, both of whom have been struggling to win as much as the wealthy boosters would like.
5) Ike Iroegbu played an exhibition game for the Clippers last week with no name on the back of his uniform; he had arrived in LA just a few hours before the game. Clippers cut him over the weekend; he is probably headed to the G-League.
4) Golden State Warriors may have found itself a steal in Oregon alum Jordan Bell; the 38th pick in the draft scored 29 points in 49 minutes in the preseason.
3) When Cavaliers' JR Smith drinks coffee, he puts in 8 creams and 8 sugars in each one. Not a lot of room left for the coffee.
2) 49ers released LB NaVorro Bowman last week, a once-great player who is still good enough to play in the NFL. He signed with Oakland Monday.
1) Chiefs were at the last NFL team to lose this season; last time the "last team to lose" won the Super Bowl that year? The 2006 Indianapolis Colts


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ioSafe SoloPRO and Synology DiskStation 212+ - Disaster-proof Networked Storage
ioSafe: Introduction and Internals
Cloud storage is all the talk these days, and our own Tim Verry has been hard at work detailing as much of it as he can keep up with. While all of us at PCPer currently use cloud based solutions for many of the day-to-day goings on, it's not for everyone, and it tends to not be for very large chunks of data, either. Sometimes local storage is just the way to go – especially when you want to be the one in absolute control of the reliability and integrity of your data.
The general rule for proper backups is to have your local copy, a local backup (RAID is *not* a backup), and an additional off-site backup to cover things like theft, fires or floods. So lets say you simply have too much sensitive data for your internet connection to support bulk transferring to an off-side / cloud storage location. Perhaps the cloud storage for that much space is simply cost prohibitive, or your data is sensitive enough that – despite encryption – you don't want it leaving your network and/or premesis? Perhaps you're just stubborn and want only one backup of your data? I think I might have the answer you've been looking for – behold the ioSafe SoloPRO:
What is this thing, you may ask? On the inside it's one of the available 1, 2, 3, or even 4TB 3.5" hard drives. On the outside it's a very durable and solid steel enclosure. The hard drive is wrapped in a thermally conductive yet water resistant 'HydroSafe' foil that enables water resistance rated at a 10 ft depth for 3 days with no data loss. The bonus, however, is not the water resistance - that featuer is present primarily to battle the side effects of something much more drastic - the ioSafe is fire-proof. That feature comes from what sits between the steel casing and the shrink wrapped hard drive - something ioSafe calls a DataCast (pictured below):
I'm going to break from my normal warranty voiding and show a photo from this past Storage Visions conference at the Consumer Electonics Show, where an ioSafe was already cracked open for our viewing pleasure:
Pictured center is a 3.5" foil-wrapped hard drive cradled by the bottom half of a DataCast mold. The mold itself is made of the same material used in fire-proof safes. It is essentially a consumable plastic that undergoes a phase change at a specific temperature. While a pot of boiling water on a hot stove will remain at the boiling point until all water is gone, the DataCast can sit inside an inferno and will go no higher than its phase change temperature until it is fully consumed. The insulative properties of the material coupled with the heat input required to cause the consumption of the outer layers enable this design to withstand a rated 1550F for 30 minutes. While it may be cooking on the outside, the temperature maintained is sufficiently low as to prevent data loss from the protected HDD.
A rather convincing demo of all of the above can be seen in the below video, where an ioSafe is subjected to fire, water, drops from great heights, and crushing forces:
After all of that, the data was still intact!
While a fire is almost guaranteed to melt or otherwise destroy the data ports at the rear of the unit, the internal drive will be accessible after breaking away the housing and will (in theory) remain fully intact. In the case where the SATA ports have melted as well, or even if the controller PCB has somehow been compromised, the purchase price includes a 1-year protection plan where ioSafe will foot the bill for a data recovery service to the tune of $5000 per TB of capacity. $5000 is about the upper bounds of what expert recovery services would charge for a full TB of data recovered, making for a nice addition to the overall product. Users desiring longer protection plans can upgrade to a 3 or 5-year plan from ioSafe for an additional cost.
Next up: Packaging and a cool way to share this device out to your home network!
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I got DS212+ last week, and its a big improvement over my old DS112J. Software support on Synology products is great. Also thanks for the review.
Funny, as I was watching live the PCPer podcast recording on TWiT last week and Allyn alluded to an upcoming review of the Synology 212+, I quite literally was in mid-unboxing of the same unit. It hand me chuckling all night, but it also had me wondering if his considerable storage systems experience with a deep library of benchmarks would parallel to some degree my impressions from solely paper-born research and shallow, hands-on time with any NAS device.
After a week's worth of testing, playing, configuring, and exploring, the 212+ has so far met or exceeded my expectations and looks like a great choice to serve my usage scenario. With two enterprise drives and a voltage regulated UPS, I have high hopes it'll have the legs for a good, long, and uneventful marathon.
Now, having read Allyn's posted review, I'm glad my computer-fu intuition was in keeping with The Sensei's observations.
I, too, keep finding new stuff to do with Synology's firmware. It's highly polished, and nicely documented in clear English within the UI's Help screens -- their website extends it further. One peeve, however. For a product with so many features, here's a case where including a paper manual would have made learning, referencing, and tweaking so much easier and faster than relying on a screen. Weighing in at 168 pages in full 8.5" x 11" glory, that's a lot of screen-time for a PDF manual; or, a horribly expensive Color print job. I settled for black & white.
So hereto now, the missing paper manual for the NAS is for me, the only 'gotcha' in an otherwise excellent first week.
Thanks for the review Allyn. Great stuff.
ps - was kinda hoping you were gonna put the ioSafe through the PCPer paces, you know, give it a benchmark pounding -- by which I mean, dropping the drive on the bench and measuring the mark.


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