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When it was ready, we huddled around the chopping board where slices of cumin scented meat strips awaited.....and ate the night away.
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Makes: a platter for a family snack
1 piece flank steak - at room temperature, about 650 g (I split my orginal 1.3kg piece in half) - pounded to flatten/tenderise
Kosher salt
1 teaspoon cumin seeds
1/2 teaspoon whole black peppercorns
1 teaspoon dried oregano
2 tablespoons unsalted butter
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
To serve - green pesto, with basil and spring onions; herb tomato quarters
In This Recipe
- Place a rack one step from the bottom of your oven and place your pizza stone on it. Set the temperature to 250 deg C (very hot) and preheat for 20 minutes
- While the pizza oven is preheating, lightly season the piece of steak with a pinch of kosher salt - ensuring both sides are salted. Let rest for 10 minutes.
- While the steak is resting, make the melted butter sauce. In a mortar, crush the cumin seeds and peppercorns. To this add 1/2 teaspoon of kosher salt and the dried oregano. In a pan, melt the butter - just before it is fully melted, add the spice mixture and gently toss/stir to let the spices 'flash cook'. Remove from heat and add the oil. Stir again and allow to cool. Reserve 1 tablespoon of oil to glaze the steaks once cooked.
- Gently wipe dry the steak and then brush on the herbed butter-oil mix on both sides of the steak. Place in the oven, on the pizza stone and allow to cook for 5 minutes on one side. Flip over and allow to cook on the other side for 5 minutes - btw, keep your windows open. My kitchen got super smoky...... Cooking for 10 minutes will result in a 'done' steak, cook for less time if you want it medium - rare. Remove from the oven, brush on the remaining oil-butter mixture and allow to rest for 5 minutes.
- Slice into thin strips across the grain. Serve with sides...or eat standing.
- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Flank Steak
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It's that time of year again - the last minute staples, facepaint and your young'un deciding the evening before that actually they don't like the Aslan costume you painstakingly knitted for them.
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Chowder is an apprentice chef for Mung Daal, and he loves food more than anything. He'll eat anything at all. Anything. Just watch him. As well as working for head chef Mung Daal, Chowder also lives with him and his wife Truffles.
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The creativity and commitment of food bloggers never ceases to amaze me. For my summer ice cream event, food bloggers from across the world have shared some wonderful recipes.
Danielle from Habeas Brulee makes an intriguing Thai ice tea ice cream. Ice tea and ice cream are both great in the summer, and I can only imagine that they taste fabulous together. (USA)
Elena from Intrepid Gourmet makes a beautiful pink cherry blossom ice cream inspired by the cherry blossoms of Japan. (UK)
Kieran from Ice Cream Ireland pushes the limits of ingredients to make ice creams beyond what we generally imagine. Kieran came up with a fancy and sophisticated Dom Perignon sorbet. (IRE)
Lara from Cookbook 411 creates a lovely and elegant pear gelato with dark chocolate phyllo cookies. (USA)
Nabeela from Trial and Error makes a fresh mango sorbet to beat the heat. (USA)
Pepper of Frugal Cuisine experiments with matcha (green tea powder) to create some intriguing products like coconut matcha ice cream. (CAN)
Francesca of Fiordizucca creates a stunning butternut squash ice cream. (UK)
Riana of Garlic Breath (don't let the name fool you, because there is much more than garlic on her blog) makes a beautiful and lively lemon gelato. (FR)
Jasmine from Confessions of a Cardamom Addict makes strawberry ice cream, a perennial favourite for many, me included . (CAN)
Melissa of Hecticium creates a number of goodies: pistachio ice cream, prune frozen yoghurt and pistachio stuffed dates. (UK)
Tea of Tea and Cookies makes a creative Singapore ice cream, which contains chili flakes, black peppercorn, candied ginger and pistachios. (USA)
Bridget of Pint Sized Cookery offers a simple, satisfying and lovely three berry custard. (USA)
Cindy of Sourcream Timbits shows us that you can make a lovely sorbet without an ice cream maker! Check out her mango sorbet. (CAN)
Bonnie of Daydream Delicious confesses that she doesn't like frozen desserts; so, she shares a lemon posset, which looks like a lovely summer dessert! (UK)
Marilyn from Cauponilla seems to have a love of chocolate; she offers a classic chocolate gelato. (USA)
Mickey of Kitchen Inferno uses Chambord liqueur to make an intriguing Chambord ice cream. (USA)
Emily from Appetitive Behavior offers up a yummy looking frozen gianduia mousse. (USA)
Alanna of A Veggie Venture makes buttered pecan ice cream (with pecan meringue cookies) – looks wonderful. (USA)
Ramya of Cascading Flavors creates an unusual red finger millet (ragi) ice cream, which sounds healthy and still delicious. (USA)
Vanessa from Tongue and Cheek turns a favourite summertime drink into a sorbet. Check out her mojito sorbet. (CAN)
Faith of Mekuno Cooking offers an orange and honey caramel ice cream – fantastic job, Faith! (USA)
Ulrike of Küchenlatein makes a beautiful and ethereal elderflower sorbet. (GER)
Meeta from What's for lunch, honey? creates a cool and refreshing lemon sorbet with Limoncello. (GER)
Julie from Cookbook Addict offers up an all American favorite – Ben's chocolate ice cream from Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream. (FR)
Stefanie from Couteau Bonswan provides a topping for all our ice cream, Grandma Noble's chocolate syrup. (USA)
Ivonne of Cream Puffs in Venice creates a strawberry ice cream with a lovely twist: strawberry crème fraîche ice cream with coconut, vanilla sugar and lemon zest. It looks divine! (CAN)
Chopper Dave & Mrs D from Belly Timber make a wicked and stunning vodka watermelon sorbet. (USA)
Jason from Pursuing My Passions creates an intriuguing edamame ice cream. I have edamame in my freezer and want to use it to try this one. (USA)
Megan of Chez Megane makes an irresistible ice cream sandwich with her chocolate brownie cookies and chocolate chip mint ice cream – need I say more! (FR)
Your host, Sam of Sweet Pleasure : Plaisir Sucré, offers a simple and satisfying chestnut ice cream. (CAN)
Anita from Dessert First shares two mouthwatering recipes: white peach sorbet and roasted cinnamon ice cream. (USA)
Last, but not least, Keiko from Nordljus creates a lovely and unusual gooseberry and elderflower ice cream. (UK)
A big thank you to everyone who participated! I had a great time reading all your wonderful posts. This might become an annual event!
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A little over four months ago, a Florida judge sentenced 31-year-old Marissa Alexander to 20 years in prison for three charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Alexander fired a gun into the air in an attempt to scare her violent husband, who'd gone into a rage after reading text message exchanges between Alexander and her ex-husband. "That's when he strangled me. He put his hands around my neck," Alexander said.
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Catechumens should be worrying about really important stuff, like "how do I pray?" and "what am I doing in Church?" and "how do I see Christ in my neighbor?", instead of fretting over obscure jurisdictional matters. I'm betting, Joe, that what they do of a Sunday morning in Staunton isn't all that different from what they do in Johnstown, or DC, or Linthicum, or for that matter, a mile from my house. They may do it a bit better because the priest is a convert, but then again the production values are better at any of the local cathedrals. Possibly the spiritual advice is much the same too, though Fr. Gregory at Holy Cross or Fr. Constantine at St. Nick's aren't likely to fall into the legalism that I see sometimes in "conservative" advice.
...there is nothing compared to what is in Orthodoxy, in the Catechism composed by Vladyka Gregory, etc.
I would also counsel staying far, far away from the internet,
It would have been nice if you could have begun your instruction in Orthodox Christianity with a period of time free of church politics, but as an internet user that's probably impossible. The speaker in your note is a secularized Greek-American who is not speaking (or thinking) from within an Orthodox Christian perspective. His accusations against his bishop assume American radical individualism as the norm. There is a fundamental conflictbetween secular humanistic individualism and Orthodox Christianity.....(more details on this particular event)....I'm willing to help you try to understand the ongoing political crises that will inevitibly accompany the struggle to establish Orthodoxy in America, but please try to understand that there is a difference between, on the one hand, 1) the permanent and unchanging truth of the Orthodox Christian faith and the Sacramental reality which is the Church (fully present in each local parish), and on the other hand, 2) the all-too-human politics that go on within human organizations that are intended to serve God and the Church but all too often become distorted and disoriented so they serve the selfish needs of human beings. Both can (and generally do) exist side by side. Whenever and where ever they do they will be in conflict. Priests (on behalf of the Diocesan bishop), are responsible for the spiritual orientation of organized efforts within the parish. Archbishop Spyridon is responsible for the spiritual orientation of theGreek Archdiocese.The Orthodox Church is not, itself, an organization. The Church HASorganizations though -- organizations that exist for particular purposes. Sometimes such organizations are captured for purposes that conflict with those of the Church itself. When that happens, bishops are responsible to exercise their liturgical and sacramental authority to reorient the spiritual purposes of those organizations. I believe Archbishop Spyridon and Patriarch Bartholomew are trying to do this with the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America. If this happens it will be nothing short of miraculous -- certainly a cause for rejoicing among the members of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA). If they were to succeed, I personally would be perfectly happy to see the OCA disorganize and join THEIR organization! Gradually, you'll get a feel for what I'm saying here. Read Fr. Schmemann's article too, in the new Christian Activist: "The Evil Plague: Jurisdictionalism."Finally. The internet is the best place I know of for a small number of discontents in rebellion against their bishop to make themselves sound more significant than they are. As an internet user, beware of this. Any nut in America can sound like a force to be reckoned with so long as he has a computer and can express himself.
Joe, why don't you meet some nice girl in your town and ask her out on a date? Get away from the fake internet world and interact with real people.
Shultz & Elisha have given the best advice so far!!! Elisha, don't feel so young... I'm only 22. :-)
Who needs a date when you you got sisters and cousins and live in the south?
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When I'm in a tough spot, I like to curl up with mtv.ca (Yes, we have an MTV Canada; "They just can't seem to get anything right up there, can they?" -Gavin Volure) and enjoy a little trashy reality TV. But since "16 & Pregnant" only comes out once a week, sometimes in cases of extra apathy, I have to venture out of my usual teen-mom canon and experiment with other MTV reality shows.
A book, even.
I actually had to stop watching partway through because I was filled with such annoyance that I felt a rant coming on...and what better place to pour out my feelings than on my very own blog - and I'm sure Liz has one of her own because she is just so delightfully alternative.
I have never met the girl, so I cannot claim to have a problem with her but I cannot stand her phenomenally contrived persona. I guess she's supposed to be the Paramore crowd's answer to Lauren Conrad, but in this day and age, the unnatural-hair-colour-sportin', eye rollin', handheld-video-camera-wieldin', awkward-guy-friend-having, sarcastic "rebel" has become as obnoxious a stereotype as the bottle blond cheerleader type. Quirkiness is less endearing when it's as forced as this.
And I can't help but feel a bit of affection for Liz's foil character, the "Barbie" Taylor Terry. In the first episode, when she passive-aggressively confronts Liz's downright rude disdain for her with a "Like, what's the stereotype that, like, you think that people would, like, put me in?" (cue Liz's ironic glace into the camera - Taylor shows her who's the real bitch, matching her look with an aggressive glare) She obviously at least has a sense of humour about herself, filming a cutesy montage of her as a Barbie doll. In an online profile, she states "I hate girls with baby voices", "I eat like a man" and "I don't like the colour pink" - this girl's alright.
Now, bear in mind, this is mostly a snap judgement from seeing half of the first episode. However, one of my pet peeves are people who blanketly judge all religious people for being judgmental, based on a few extremists, and I feel that in a way this is what Liz does. She whines and whines about how people in her town judge anyone for being different, but all she does is judge other people. She thinks she's so superior to Taylor Terry and her clique just because she stopped trying to be like them - which, she indicates in the beginning of the episode, she only did because her former friends shunned her. Her "epiphany" was practically forced onto her by the very people she so bitterly hates...but it's not personal or anything.
I know what you're thinking: Holy crow, (yeah, I know you say "Holy crow", don't fight it) this chick (meaning ME) is a triple hypocrite - she's judging Liz for judging other people for judging.
The difference? I'm not criticizing Liz the person, but Liz the MTV character. And once you're an MTV character, you're opening yourself up to this kind of thing: blogs are the heart and soul of television these days.
Actually, I just un-paused it for a minute, and must give Liz major props for admitting that Taylor Terry "isn't that bad". Baby steps...
The fact that this is on MTV makes it nearly impossible for me to believe that Liz is any more genuine than Heidi Montag's face (and I am instantly embarassed by the laziness of that analogy) - how did a girl like this get a TV show anyway?
Because she wanted to be on MTV. So the difference between Liz and The Hills ladies (whom, for the record, I do find 10 times more despicable than Liz, despite the rest of this sentence)? Those blondies are at least honest about their shallowness.


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COOKEVILLE -- No one ever said being a student-athlete was easy.
From all the long hours of practice and games to working towards a degree, so much time and effort goes into all of it.
In Lindsey Reed's case, she devoted every single moment of her time toward academics, athletics and community service, becoming a well-rounded student-athlete.
And even among a tough field of candidates, Reed's background said it all and made her an ideal choice for the 2012 Tennessee Tech Athletics Woman of the Year.
"Lindsey has been a role model student and a role model athlete during her time at Tennessee Tech," said TTU athletics director Mark Wilson. "I think it's very fitting that she was named the Tech Woman of the Year. She's really done it all. She didn't get a whole lot of recognition from her position on the field, but she has been so consistent in her leadership and as a student, and we're just so proud of her."
Reed beat out Brooke Basten (softball), Leah Bradley (cross-country/track), Rachel Glidden (basketball), Tacarra Hayes (basketball), Traci Jones (cross-country/track), Holly Thomas (softball) and Emily Weinzetl (track) for this year's award and is the second winner in as many years from the women's soccer program, joining last year's winner Brooke Mayo.
"I am honored," Reed said Saturday via e-mail. "There are some amazing athletes at Tech on and off the field and I am blessed to be considered one of them."
Reed admitted that it took a lot of different things to excel as a student-athlete.
"These last four years have taught me dedication," Reed said in a statement to the NCAA as Tech's nominee for the national award. "Being a student-athlete in itself takes a strong will to succeed. In order to be a benefit to the team, I had to find the motivation to improve on my own and find the strength of will to focus at every practice, no matter how little sleep or how many big tests I have to distract me. I could not have been a leader if my teammates were not able to see my loyalty. The same can be said about the rest of my endeavors. I need to be just as dedicated to the community and my education in order for them not to be overshadowed by my devotion to my soccer team. If I set my mind to research, or helping at a school, and don't look back, there will always be time and results. It is easy to be lazy and justify not going to community service one week; what is missing just once? That will turn into two and three and snowball out of control. It is much harder to stick to your commitments, but the smiles on the kids' faces prove to be worthwhile every time."
On the pitch, Reed played a position that didn't get a lot of statistics, but her ability as a defender on the field was incredibly valuable to the Tech women. Reed was one of only five players who started every game in the 2011 campaign and played every minute of every game.
"In the two years I've coached her, I think she played every minute of every match," said Tech coach Daniel Brizard. "As a defender, you're not going to get the flashy statistics, but she helped us greatly with her experience and her calming presence."
Reed was named the Ohio Valley Conference's Defensive Player of the Week for her efforts in the adidas Gamecock Soccer Classic as Tech allowed just one goal against Louisiana Tech and New Mexico State.
"She's really meant a lot to this team," Brizard said. "Being an upperclassman and everything she's been through, she provided some invaluable leadership on and off the field."
Her work in the classroom was even more amazing. Graduating in May with a 3.97 grade point average as a chemical engineering major, Reed was also a nominee for Tennessee Tech's prestigious Derryberry Award.
And her academic ventures aren't finished yet. Currently leading backpacking trips for the Rocky Mountain Mennonite Camp, then heading abroad to Honduras, Reed will return to her studies in the fall to attend medical school.
"I tell people all the time that I felt dumber just sitting in the room with her," Brizard joked. "She's definitely the epitome of the student-athlete. She was a great athlete and, in the classroom, she excelled. She had that dedication and she wants to go to medical school. Doing that after completing an engineering degree is just amazing. It just shows you the discipline someone has and can have if they really put their mind to it."
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Etrion Corporation is an independent power producer (IPP) that builds, owns and operates utility-scale solar power generation plants. Etrion owns 17 solar power plants in Italy with approximately 60 MW of installed capacity. The Italian operations generate more than USD 40 million of annual earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA). Etrion is also developing greenfield solar power projects in Chile and Japan. The Company is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange in Canada and the NASDAQ OMX Stockholm exchange in Sweden under ticker symbol "ETX". Etrion's largest shareholder is the Lundin family, which owns approximately 24 percent of the Company's shares directly and through various trusts.
For further information, please visit the Company's website at www.etrion.com.
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The information above does not contain or constitute an invitation or an offer to acquire, subscribe for, sell or otherwise trade in shares or other securities in the Company ("the securities"). Nor does it constitute a prospectus under the terms in Directive 2003/71/EC.
No securities are or will be registered in accordance with the U.S. Securities Act of 1933 ("Securities Act") or any provincial act in Canada or any legislation in Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, New Zealand or South Africa. The securities may therefore not, directly or indirectly, be sold, resold, offered for sale, delivered or spread within or to any of these jurisdictions, or to any person located there at that point of time or resident there, or on account of such person, and further not to or within any other jurisdiction where such measure would violate the laws of the jurisdiction or require registrations measures, other than in accordance with an applicable exemption. A failure to comply with this instruction may result in a violation of the Securities Act or laws applicable in other jurisdictions.
ABG Sundal Collier, Pareto Securities and Swedbank are acting for the Company and no one else in connection with the bond issue referred to herein (the "Private Placement") and will not be responsible to anyone other than the Company for providing the protections afforded to its clients or for providing advice in relation to the Private Placement and/or any other matter referred to in this announcement. ABG Sundal Collier, Pareto Securities and Swedbank accept no responsibility whatsoever and make no representation or warranty, express or implied, for the contents of this announcement, including its accuracy, completeness or verification or for any other statement made or purported to be made by it, or on its behalf, in connection with the Private Placement and nothing in this announcement is, or shall be relied upon as, a promise or representation in this respect, whether as to the past or future.
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Chingawassa Days moves in right direction
Chingawassa Days has a well-established pattern regarding the headliners it selects for the main stage the Saturday night of the celebration. It's classic rock most years, occasionally with a little bit newer country band. But that is changing for 2013.
This year's selection, FireHouse, is the first rock band to get its big break in the 1990s to headline Chingawassa Days. They had seven top 100 hits in the U.S., all between 1991 and 1995. I was just a kid back then and didn't pay much attention to music, but I recognize some of their songs, and not from classic rock radio stations.
It's a move in the right direction. Some of the classic rock bands still know how to put on a show, but others haven't held up as well. At least FireHouse still has the majority of its original lineup playing together. I'd rather see that than a glorified tribute band whose only remaining original member is the keytarist.
Booking a band that has had a hit single in the past 20 years sends the message that Chingawassa Days isn't only for the children of the 1960s and '70s. You can see it in the Chingawassa Days committee — they have made a commitment to getting a younger generation involved in events.
I hear there may be an even bigger youth movement for another performer at this year's festival, but we'll just have to wait and see about that.
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Broncos Rookie Derek Wolfe Proves a Quick Study
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) - Derek Wolfe is a blur.
Whether it's making up for a lost offseason or slipping past offensive linemen, the Denver Broncos' top draft choice is giving opposing coordinators and quarterbacks more to worry about in 2012 than just Pro Bowl pass-rushers Elvis Dumervil and Von Miller.
The Broncos drafted Wolfe in the second round (36th overall) out of the University of Cincinnati. But an NCAA rule kept him from joining them until his class had graduated. So, he showed up at training camp with some catching up to do.
He quickly made up for lost time, whether it was playing inside at tackle or outside on the edge. When left defensive end Jason Hunter went down with a torn right triceps earlier this month, Wolfe moved into the starting lineup.


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Power up: Heavy hitters on the free-agent market
Forget who may or may not dig the long ball.
Teams need power and home runs to balance out lineups. A little bit of speed and on-base percentage up top and on the bottom and some serious pop in the middle makes for a relentless attack. Mix in pitching and catch the ball and you might just find yourself playing in October.
Forget who may or may not dig the long ball.
Teams need power and home runs to balance out lineups. A little bit of speed and on-base percentage up top and on the bottom and some serious pop in the middle makes for a relentless attack. Mix in pitching and catch the ball and you might just find yourself playing in October.
In fact, the highest-priced free-agent hitter, second baseman Robinson Cano, is also the most well-rounded power hitter on the market, and a few others who will command large contracts -- Curtis Granderson, Nelson Cruz and Mike Napoli -- have made their marks in recent years by slamming balls over stadium walls.
But that doesn't mean general managers won't take fliers on players who have shown power strokes in the past.
Here are some of the marquee free-agent mashers:
Cano, 2B: Cano has hit at least 25 homers in each of the past five seasons, reaching a career high of 33 two years ago. Add to that a perennial slugging percentage over .500 and a career OPS (on-base plus slugging percentage) of .860, and here's your headliner in the pop category. And here's what could be one monstrous contract.
Granderson, OF: Granderson had a tough-luck year, missing 100 games because of freak injuries sustained when being hit by pitches, but in the two seasons before that, he hit 41 and 43 homers. Granted, the short right-field porch at Yankee Stadium might have helped, but he hit 30 homers for Detroit the year prior to his trade to New York, so he's a legitimate power threat when healthy.
Cruz, OF: Teams interested in Cruz will hope that the performance-enhancing drug suspension he served in 2013 is the end of that chapter. They'll also hope Cruz continues to hit home runs the way he has over the past five years, during which he's averaged almost 27 per season while making two All-Star teams.
Napoli, 1B/DH: The Red Sox took a shot on a guy with two bad hips and it paid off. Napoli hit 23 homers and a few more in the postseason, including one in Detroit that might still be traveling through the cool air. Napoli has hit at least 20 homers in each of the past six seasons, including 30 for Texas in 2011.
Carlos Beltran, OF: Beltran hit 24 homers in 2013 and 32 in 2012, and we all saw how great he was this postseason as the Cardinals made it all the way to the World Series. He'll turn 37 in late April, so it wouldn't be surprising to see an American League team pick him up to spend some time as a designated hitter. He could very well fetch a nice two-year deal.
Brian McCann, C: McCann has been a rock for Atlanta for years, hitting at least 18 homers in all eight of his seasons as a regular big leaguer and topping 20 seven times. It's fair to wonder if last winter's shoulder surgery, which limited him to 102 games in 2013, will make teams want to try him out at first base. If so, that might help his power game.
Michael Morse, 1B/OF/DH: Morse was banged up for much of 2013 and a decent chunk of 2012 and didn't get a fair chance in either season to display the power that he showed while blasting 31 homers for the Nationals in his breakout year of 2011. Interested teams will hope his declining offensive stats across the board over the past two years were more related to injuries than the erosion of skills.
Mark Reynolds, 3B/1B: The strikeout numbers are gaudy and the homers have declined. That's not a great combination. But this is still a hitter with six 20-homer seasons on his resume, including years with 44, 37 and 32. That means there's probably still a place for him on someone's roster.
Paul Konerko, 1B: Konerko will turn 38 during Spring Training and is coming off one of his lowest-production years, as he hit only 12 homers in 467 at-bats. But he's bounced back from disappointing seasons before, he hit 26 homers in 2012 and he's got 427 dingers in his career. The big questions: Would he play for any team other than the White Sox? And will he play at all?
Raul Ibanez, OF/DH: Ibanez will turn 42 in June and doesn't play outfield very well anymore, but he can still turn on a pitch and hit it out of the park. In fact, he tied Ted Williams' record for most home runs by a player over 40 when he blasted 29 for the Mariners this season.
Other possibilities: Lance Berkman, 1B/DH; Marlon Byrd, OF; Corey Hart, 1B/OF; Jason Kubel, OF; Kendrys Morales, 1B/DH; Carlos Pena, 1B; Jarrod Saltalamacchia, C; Delmon Young, OF.
Doug Miller is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @DougMillerMLB.


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Whether you like it or not, ab-flasher The Situation is releasing a rap song -- and we've got the first clip.
The "Jersey Shore" star's song -- aptly titled "The Situation" -- is a collaboration with Fatman Scoop, DJ Class, The Disco Fries and a whole lotta auto-tune.
Sitch's club banger hits iTunes this week.
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We need a convenient, uniform way to build Clojure and contrib projects. Problems are
- Team will work across many projects and will not want to lean a different approach to building each one.
- Projects will need to work with a variety of tools: Hudson, leiningen, maven, and IDEs at a minimum. (Note that these are to some degree overlapping.)
- Users will want an easy way to find released versions.
- Users will want sufficiently fine granularity of releases to get things they need, without a ton of stuff they don't.
- Team will need automation: one step to trigger an entire push/build/release cycle when necessary.
- Clojure/core will probably want to package multiple libs into easy-to-consume distributions.
Near-term Process
- Clojure and all contrib projects will be built using Maven 2
- All POMs will inherit from pom.baseline or pom.contrib
- pom.contrib includes support for specifying a local clojure.jar
- Only Hudson will deploy releases or SNAPSHOTs
- All builds must be configured for JDK 1.5 in Hudson
- Stable and SNAPSHOT releases will be deployed to Sonatype's OSS repositories
- Stable releases will be initiated by Hudson (the "Perform Maven Release" link)
- Contrib projects will produce source-only JARs whenever possible
- ZIP distributions will be generated by Maven 2 and manually uploaded to clojure.org
- In "classic" clojure-contrib, only 4 modules require AOT-compilation: condition, fnmap, jmx, repl-ln
- All other clojure-contrib modules are building source-only JARs
The inheritance diagram of POMs:
- Common build configuration across org.clojure projects
- Ensure released JARs are built with JDK 1.5
- SNAPSHOT releases automatically uploaded to public OSS repositories
- Stable releases automatically staged for promotion into Maven Central repository
- Better continuous integration?
Release Process
"Releasing" Snapshots
Deployment of SNAPSHOTs to the OSS repo is entirely straightforward:
- SCM changes in the corresponding github repos prompts hudson build(s) automatically,
- successful SNAPSHOT builds triggers downstream hudson builds, and
- deployment of SNAPSHOT artifacts to the OSS snapshots repo can be done without any concern for coordination or planning
Releasing Releases
The release process involves some additional steps, and some added process/policy may be desirable.
Right now, the build.poms and tools.nrepl Hudson jobs are configured to support the most straightforward/naïve release process possible:
- Click "Perform Maven Release" on the job's main page.
- Specify the release and development versions to be provided to maven-release-plugin:
- release version The version of the release to be built and deployed to the OSS repo, thereupon to central
- development version The version that the project's POM(s) will be updated to in git HEAD via a post-release push.
Suggestions for these are usually provided, based on the last version known to Hudson, e.g. if HEAD has a version of 1.0.0-SNAPSHOT, release and dev versions of 1.0.0 and 1.0.1-SNAPSHOT respectively.
- The maven release plugin does a few things worth noting:
- in the hudson-local git repo, it:
- commits an updated project POM with the release version, tagging that changeset with a corresponding tag
- commits another updated project POM with the development version, leaving this changeset as master
- it performs a clean clone of the hudson-local git repo, checking out the tagged release changeset
- in rough terms, performs an
mvn clean deploy, targeting the Sonatype OSS releases repository
- in the hudson-local git repo, it:
- The deploy operation will create or add to an org.clojure-specific release staging repository in the OSS Nexus instance.
- The naïve part: after the deploy operation completes, we automatically close and promote the staging repository's contents to the OSS releases repo, and therefore to central
- Once the
mvninvocation completes successfully, a post-maven build step pushes master and the release tag to the upstream github repo
This process may or may not be sufficient. The uncertainty centers on the interaction with the Nexus release staging repository. Some thoughts:
- In contrast to deploying to a snapshots repository (which exists solely to provide a way to refer to potentially- / frequently-changing artifacts with a stable identifier), once an artifact gets into central, it can never be changed or removed. Thus, there is a desire to have a final opportunity to vet release artifacts.
- To be clear: this policy (and all that flows from it) is central's; release repositories in general (Nexus-hosted or not) are not required to be deployed to via staging repos.
- This is where the staging repos come in: once one is created to contain deployed artifacts, those artifacts can be accessed via the Nexus management site, and subjected to whatever final testing / verification a project's author(s) deem necessary.
- Apache, among others, runs additional tests on the artifacts deployed to a given closed staging repository, the results of which are used as part of their release voting process.
Given the above, questions include:
- Will we want to vet individual release artifacts in any way just prior to their staging repository being promoted to central (similar to e.g. Apache)?
- Will we want to attempt to coordinate releases in any way, at the point of staging repository promotion?
- This would imply not closing our staging repository automatically as part of our projects' release builds.
- Once we've deployed whichever projects we aim to release in a coordinated fashion to the staging repository, we then manually close that repo.
- After verifying that the batch of staged artifacts pass our final criteria, we then manually promote their staging repo.
- If those artifacts are not acceptable, we can then drop the staging repository, and revisit whatever issues were exposed in our final testing.
- Note that this would require us backing out the versioning changes in the projects' POM(s) in SCM (again, presumably a manual operation) without stomping on any substantive patches applied in the interim.
I've written before about how coordinated releases should be off the table; the dynamics of staging repository closing and promotion would seem to make that prospect even less attractive, if only because of the serious pain that would result if we were to back out committed and pushed versioning changes (the automatic handling of which is a no-brainer IMO).
Vetting individual release artifacts would seem to be a more feasible option, if so desired (at least the pain of backing out project version changes would be localized to the project with the problematic release).
However, in both cases, I'd suggest that having multiple alpha and RC releases should eliminate all technical reasons for vetting of staged release artifacts. At the very least, I'd say that it's worth trying to use the naïve approach through one full release cycle, if only because it's the simplest fully-automated solution available.
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Possible Future Development
- Leiningen support
- Ant build scripts for local development/testing
- Aggregate projects that package many contrib libraries in one distribution
- Testing harness to build/test many Clojure libraries with a locally-built Clojure JAR
- Redirect build.clojure.org/snapshots and /releases to Central or Sonatype repository
- Assuming we roll all existing releases into central, we only need to set up redirects for
- Assuming we roll all existing releases into central, we only need to set up redirects for


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Bill Shorten
Minister for Financial Services & Superannuation
14 September 2010 - 1 July 2013
New form of licence expands access to financial advice
Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation Bill Shorten today announced a new form of financial advice licence that will significantly increase the availability of financial advice for all Australians.
The new limited Australian Financial Services Licence (AFSL) is expected to see up to 10,000 accountants become licensed and able to provide a much broader range of financial advice than they were previously able to.
In addition to being able to advise on self-managed superannuation (SMSF) funds and superannuation generally, licence holders will be able to give "class of product advice" on basic deposit products, general and life insurance, securities, and simple managed investment schemes.
"This new licence will extend the consumer protection provisions of the Corporations Act, such as the best interests duty in the recently passed Future of Financial Advice reforms, to financial advice provided by accountants," Mr Shorten said.
Importantly, the new licence does not allow specific product recommendations but is designed to enable accountants and any financial advisers who may hold this licence to provide more strategic and low-cost forms of financial advice which will greatly assist Australians to manage their finances effectively.
This reform will also benefit thousands of small businesses by creating a significant opportunity for accountants and financial advisers who wish to grow and diversify their business.
Minister Shorten also announced a streamlined transition period that will be available for accountants between 1 July 2013 and 1 July 2016. These arrangements will make it easier for accountants to transition into the AFSL regime in recognition of their existing professional qualifications.
"This replacement to the current accountants' licensing exemption is a major step forward and will help to facilitate a significant expansion in the provision of financial advice to Australians," Mr Shorten said.
"As accountants begin operating within the AFSL regime, there will be more options for consumers to access low-cost financial advice on important issues including insurance and superannuation needs."
There will be public consultation on draft regulations to give effect to these measures in the second half of the year.
SMSF Auditor Registration
The Minister also announced today further details of SMSF auditor registration.
"SMSF audits are an important part of the regulation of the SMSF sector. Auditor registration will increase the assurance that can be placed in the SMSF audit by ensuring that SMSF auditors are competent to detect and report contraventions of the superannuation law," Mr Shorten said.
Auditors will need to meet the following requirements to be registered as an SMSF auditor:
- hold a tertiary accounting qualification that includes an audit component or have successfully completed study in audit as part of a professional accounting body program;
- meet a fit and proper test;
- hold professional indemnity insurance;
- have 300 hours of SMSF audit experience in the three years prior to registration, subject to transitional arrangements; and
- pass a competency exam, subject to transitional arrangements.
"SMSF auditor registration will improve the integrity of the rapidly growing SMSF sector and ensure that sector can continue to thrive," Mr Shorten said.
Auditors will be able to apply for registration from 31 January 2013. All auditors must be registered with ASIC by 1 July 2013 to conduct SMSF audits after this time. Auditors required to sit the competency exam will be able to do so from 1 July 2013 and will have until 30 June 2014 to complete the exam and become fully registered.
The competency exam will be developed by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) in consultation with industry.
Transitional arrangements for SMSF auditor registration
Transitional arrangements have been developed for existing SMSF approved auditors to give recognition to highly experienced, competent auditors. Auditors who sign off 20 or more audits in the 12 month period prior to applying for registration will not be required to sit a competency exam to become registered as an SMSF auditor.
Additionally, existing SMSF auditors who have signed off an SMSF audit within a 12 month period will be exempt from the hours based experience requirement when registering.
Ongoing requirements for registered SMSF auditors
Registered auditors will be required to meet ongoing professional obligations including:
- undertaking a minimum amount of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) training every three years;
- complying with the Accounting Professional and Ethical Standards Board's APES 110 – Code of Ethics for Professional Accountants.
23 June 2012
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I was listening to the latest World Tour episode and I have a couple questions that I hope some of you may be able to answer.
First of all, does anyone know when the Giuseppe Ottaviani remix of The New World will be released?
Also, was the remix of Daydream that Markus played a new remix that hasn't be released? If so, does anyone know who remixed it?


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Sabayon Succumbs to Cinnamon's Irresistible Allure
Feb 16, 2012 5:00 AM PT
Well it's been another busy week here in the Linux blogosphere, what with the separate debuts of Canonical's Ubuntu Business Desktop Remix and LibreOffice 3.5, to name just two.
Then, of course, there was V-Day -- repurposed for those of us of the FOSSy persuasion as I Love Free Software Day and at least as worthy of celebration, in Linux Girl's opinion.
Anyhoo, with all this going on, tongues pretty much haven't stopped wagging down at the blogosphere's seedy Broken Windows Lounge in weeks now, and these past few days have been no exception.
One of the spiciest topics du jour? None other than Cinnamon.
Cinnamon and Razor-qt
If it seems like we only just finished talking about Linux Mint's new Cinnamon desktop, that's because we did -- just about a month ago.
But now here it is, back again, thanks in large part to a certain Italian Linux distro. Sabayon, that is, version 8 of which just made its official debut -- with a dash of Cinnamon.
Yes, that's right -- among numerous other tweaks and enhancements, Sabayon Linux 8 includes both Cinnamon and the equally fresh-faced Razor-qt desktop in its repositories.
The times, they are a-changin' -- and Linux bloggers have had plenty to say about it.
'The Old Ones Work Perfectly Well'
"The user interface is not a problem for GNU/Linux," blogger Robert Pogson told Linux Girl, for example. "I don't see the need/desire to keep inventing new interfaces when the old ones work perfectly well."
Linux Mint and Cinnamon have "barely made a dent in Ubuntu's installed base," Pogson noted, pointing to Wikipedia statistics as evidence. "It's a tiny distro making tiny changes to the user interface and getting rave reviews."
Ubuntu's Unity interface is much less popular than the previous GNOME interface was, so "Linux Mint is wise to avoid following Ubuntu's lead," he acknowledged. "Still, there are many other distros that do not follow Ubuntu either."
In any case, when Mint has been "at the front lines as long as Debian GNU/Linux or Ubuntu have, they may be said to have earned credibility," he concluded. "In the meantime, Linux Mint can disappear as fast as it appeared and GNU/Linux would not be worse off."
'I Just Want It To Be a Freaking Desktop'
Indeed, "I don't know why people keep playing with the desktop," agreed consultant and Slashdot blogger Gerhard Mack.
"The desktop's job is to let me load apps and then get out of the way so I can get real work done," he explained. "I don't care how cool it looks or whether it will make people who see my desktop fall to their knees and praise my computing skills.
"I just want it to be a freaking desktop," Mack added. "Is that too much to ask?"
'The Flexibility Linux Needs'
Chris Travers, a Slashdot blogger who works on the LedgerSMB project, took a more optimistic view.
"Both Cinnamon and Razor-qt look like they are trying to offer the sorts of flexibility that Linux needs in order to go after a larger market," Travers began. "The idea of allowing the traditional desktop paradigms while allowing also other options is a good one.
"Love them or hate them, the traditional desktop paradigms are familiar to most users, and a very large portion do not want to have to re-learn how to interact with their computers," he explained.
'The Strength of Open Source'
Innovation for innovation's sake is "not a good thing in this area," Travers opined. "Incremental change and a choice of paradigms is."
Still, "this shows on the whole the strength of open source," Travers suggested.
Specifically, "when someone makes a mistake or goes out on an unproven direction in a way that annoys a bunch of users, someone else can bring things back," he noted. "We don't have to choose one way or another.
"Instead of trying to be everything to everyone, a Linux desktop can potentially be anything to anybody," Travers concluded. "That's where the power of open source lies."
'A Symptom of the Churn'
It is "a Good Thing(TM) that Gnome is open source; projects like Cinnamon can 'route around' the damage," agreed Barbara Hudson, a blogger on Slashdot who goes by "Tom" on the site.
At the same time, "the existence of Cinnamon is also a symptom of the churn that is becoming the norm," Hudson said. "There's nothing wrong with trying something new ... but at some point, all these warring implementations start inducing a sense of battle fatigue."
Too many projects "now seem to have 'because we can' as their sole justification," she added. "Razor-Qt, for example -- 'let's try building an entire desktop using Qt.' Judging from the screenshots, it looks set for nostalgia buffs -- 'You too can have a desktop that looks like Windows95 or NT 4.01.'"
All in all, "consumer linux is in a serious rut," Hudson concluded. "All the UI bling in the world isn't going to change the fact that Android, iOS, and Windows are where the action is. Even Linus has said not to expect Android support before 2016 -- an eternity in the computer world."
'All the Same Old Crud'
Cinnamon is simply "a fail," according to Slashdot blogger hairyfeet.
"You hack together a frankenstein monster offspring of Gnome 2 AND 3 -- how long does anybody think THAT is gonna be viable?" he explained. "All it's gonna take is some itch-scratching by the gnome 3 guys and it's all over, and since Gnome 3 is anything but finished I'd argue the odds are better than not that there will be at least a couple of major changes under the hood that will break anything that tries hooking to it, and that includes cinnamon."
RazorQT, on the other hand, "IS something innovative and new, a desktop built from the ground up for speed, but somebody needs to pick up that ball and run with it," hairyfeet opined. "Throw out all the same old crud like LO and FF that will weigh that thing down like a boat anchor, and instead build everything around QT."
Using QTWeb for the default browser, for example, would be a good start, he added.
'More Bloated With Each Release'
"C'mon guys, the big XP dieoff is already starting, the killer off-lease desktops and laptops are starting to pile up, and I don't have a single OS I can use on them," hairyfeet said.
"All I have is a bunch of wannabe distros that change just enough to break often yet are about as innovative as Walmart socks," he explained. "Even the much hated Unity is nothing but a cell phone UI shoehorned onto a desktop, like that Hot Dog Stand looking uberfail windows 8.
"Give us something truly new and fresh!" hairyfeet entreated. "Give us something that will knock our socks off! Give me a rock solid, never crashes, built from the ground up RazorQT with all the apps based on QT so that thing runs like a scalded dog on even 5 year old hardware, now THAT would be innovative and go completely against the current grain of each OS getting more bloated with each release."
'They Want the Desktop Out of Their Way'
Users "don't want a ton of bling bling like what Windows and OSX are trying to force down our throats," hairyfeet added. "Just give us a nice looking desktop that isn't painful to look at and we'll be happy!
"Spinning cubes and bouncy effects need to DIAF, as all that does is slow everything down," he concluded. "Folks don't want to spend all day playing with desktop cubes, they want the desktop to get out of their way."


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Once at 'lowest of lows,' man credits marathon training for saving his life
Kevin Eisenbrown was overwhelmed by depression, anxiety, stress and obesity. His life was 336 pounds of misery.
"When I was at the lowest of lows, I wouldn't wish that on anybody," he said. "Just beyond bad. No good days. Nothing would put me in a good mood."
Last year, Eisenbrown challenged himself and tried to run the half marathon in the Pittsburgh Marathon. The experience turned his life around, making him a new man.
"I did it as a goal to help me lose weight, but never did I think it would change my life," he said. "It's a whole different outlook. It honestly did save my life."
Today, Eisenbrown is down to 217 pounds. He's also lighter emotionally and mentally, in addition to the weight loss. The marathon and new eating habits formed a platform for a drastic wellness transformation.
"At first, you don't think you lose that much weight," he said. "But I was wearing size 44 pants, and now I'm down to a 32."
Eisenbrown runs five to six days a week, with multiple 5K races and a half marathon on his wellness resume, and he feels liberated.
"I've never felt better, never had more energy," he said. "I just wish I did it a long time ago."


text: James C. McKusick, Green Writing: Romanticism and Ecology Submitted by rc-admin on Mon, 09/30/2002 - 10:58 James C. McKusick, Green Writing: Romanticism and Ecology. New York: Palgrave/St. Martin's Press, 2000. x + 261pp. $49.95 (Hdbk; ISBN: 0-312-23448-1). Reviewed by Kevin Hutchings University of Northern British Columbia James C. McKusick is one of the pioneers of Green Romanticism, an emerging critical movement investigating Romantic literature in relation to the histories of ecological thought and environmental activism. His most recent book, entitled Green Writing: Romanticism and Ecology, is among the important contributions McKusick has made to literary scholarship as an author of ecocritical articles, a guest editor of special periodical issues on Romanticism and Ecology, and co-editor of a significant new anthology of nature writing. What sets McKusick's work apart from that of Jonathan Bate and Karl Kroeber, the earliest and most widely cited advocates of English Green Romanticism, is its avoidance of an overtly polemical basis for the establishment of ecological literary criticism. This difference in critical approach is a crucial one, for Bate's and Kroeber's heated dismissals of New Historicist and poststructuralist critical perspectives have arguably done as much to impede the cause of Romantic ecocriticism as to encourage its advancement. By rejecting the ground-breaking insights of Alan Liu, Jerome McGann, Marjorie Levinson, Marilyn Butler, and other socially minded Romantic scholars, Bate and Kroeber have not only helped to consolidate the view that contemporary literary theory and ecocriticism are dichotomously opposed and irreconcilable; whether deservedly or not, they have helped to perpetuate the stereotype that environmental studies scholars are reactionary anti-intellectuals whose work is idealistically naive and dangerously misanthropic (because somehow disengaged from fundamental issues of social justice). In an era wherein the editorial board of a mainstream journal no less important than PMLA has by its own admission unfairly characterized environmental criticism as critically "soft" "hug-the-tree stuff," Green Romanticism needs more advocates like McKusick, whose arguments are persuasive without being needlessly polemical, succeeding not by virtue of a negatively reasoned attack upon the established views of others, but on the solid constructive basis of their own intellectual rigor and critical merit. Read more about James C. McKusick, Green Writing: Romanticism and Ecology


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Terraplane Sun, 'Tell Me I'm Wrong' – Free MP3 Download
Terraplane Sun are a bunch of young lads from Venice Beach, Calif., who specialize in melodic and rowdy blues rock. Their single 'Tell Me I'm Wrong' commences with a clean "L.A." beat but progresses into a folky rocker with bark that's equal to its bite.
"I know I'm right! See I've been right from the start!" singer Ben Rothbard howls on the song's chorus. Thanks to his vocals and Terraplane's musical versatility, the band is able to create soft acoustic-driven moments as well as heavy, throat-splitting burners.
"When a chord progression or riff comes up for air, we're quick to pull out our phones and record it as a voice note before it disappears into the ether," guitarist Johnny Zambetti tells Diffuser.fm
"This particular song came from one of the hundreds of voice notes Ben and I have sent to each other over the years, and one of the few where we came together immediately to finish it," he adds. "I remember sitting outside at my house when Ben sent me the initial guitar chords and rambling lyric idea, 'Tell me I'm wrong, but I know that I'm right, right from the start' repeated in a rhythm that almost sounded like a reggae song. It made an instant impression on me, I rang him to come up to my house later that day and we hashed it out. Coincidentally enough, we wrote the song with the horn solo in it prior to Gabe being in the band as an idea that would probably never come to fruition ... we were wrong."


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Clinical nutrition means that we use food as medicine. Nutritional disease is more common than we realize. One reason is that we have been feeding our animals processed (packaged) foods for the past several generations. Commercial diets (and some homemade diets) are almost always deficient and/or imbalanced and/or contain toxins. Food sensitivities (which can result in vomiting, diarrhea, weight loss, itching, etc.) are on the rise. Increasing exposure to genetically modified organisms in our food is one reason for this "new disease". In addition, herbicides like glyphosate, atrazine, dicamba and chlorpyrifos contribute to nutritional deficiencies and disease. Nutritional supplements are beneficial in each of these cases. But we also use nutrition to treat infectious diseases (antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections, viral infections, parasites), musculo-skeletal disease, endocrine disease and other common diseases.
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The first step in the process is to find a biologically appropriate diet that will help build and maintain health. We will recommend a variety of clean commercial and home-made foods made from whole, unprocessed foods. There is no single recipe or diet that is "complete and balanced". This is only achieved through the use of a variety of foods. Step two is to design a supplement program that will correct nutritional deficiencies, provide organ support for healing and supply the specific nutrients needed for natural detoxification.
The best way to tailor a nutritional supplement program is to use a very systematic method of applied kinesiology that we call Acpupoint Energy Testing. Our potentized test kits allow us to determine what is causing stress in the animal (chemicals, metals, GMO's, food sensitivities, radiation exposure, infectious organisms, etc.). We then test for the supplements that will best alleviate the stress and help restore function. Please see our Clinical Nutrition page and read the Case Reports for more information. For optimal results, we can use homeopathic remedies to strengthen the vital force and address underlying constitutional weakness (which may be inherited or acquired).
Homeopathy is a 200-year-old system of medicine based on the principal that "like cures like" (homeo = same, pathos = illness). This means that a medicine that can induce particular symptoms in a healthy person can be used to treat those same symptoms in a sick person or animal. The medicines, called remedies, are made from natural substances (plants, minerals, animal products) and potentized (made powerful) to impact the vital force energetically. The remedies strengthen and re-balance the life force so that symptoms can resolve naturally. Thus, our goal is cure rather than temporary palliation or suppression. Even in animals with advanced or incurable disease, homeopathy can improve the quality of life. For more information see the Homeopathy page read our Case Reports.
We now offer anesthesia-free dental clinics on the third Monday of each month. An exam is performed first, in order to determine if your animal is a candidate for anesthesia-free dental cleaning. If there are cracks, cavities, infections or other problems we will refer you back to your general practitioner for dental surgery. If there are no problems, a trained dental technician will do complete teeth scaling (with an ultrasonic scalar or by-hand), including subgingival scaling. He will also polish the teeth. For more information about this service, call us (538-4643) or take a look at the website for Animal Dental Care: www.animaldentalcare.info
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Funtasia Island Water Park is the first water amusement park in Patna, situated at Sampatchak-Parsa road on the New Bypass road. It has been developed and being promoted by Takshila Seas & Resorts Private Limited, Mumbai. This Sampatchak water park in Patna got inaugurated in October 2012, though some finishing works are still going on. A large number of people have already visited this unique park of the City.
The water park is first of its kind in the State. It is spread in more than 5 acres of land. The work started in November, 2011 and was expected to complete the entire work by mid of 2013. Initially, beginning with a capacity for 500 people, it will accommodate 1000 by its completion date. It has all the facilities of a modern water park. The prime attraction, when the entire work get completed, will be the 80-feet tall Statue Shower in which water will fall from the top in the form of a shower. The amusement park has water rides, swimming pools, wave pool, locker room, parking lots, children's fun items, restaurants, coffee shops, souvenir's shop, banquet hall, safety equipment and many other things. There are four pools - one for adults, 2 for children of age group 5-8 years and one wave pool. The cartoon shower, water see saw, mushroom shaped shower and sprinkle shower are attracting small children in good number.There will be 11 sliders for all - the tallest being at 10 meter and shortest being at 7 meter, once completed. The 20-feet high water slider is already a hit among boys as they can be seen skating down screaming their lungs out. Wave pool are a major attraction of the park. There are also facility for rain dance with lights and sounds. The rain dance platform can accommodate 50 people at a time, which is already becoming a sensation among the teenagers. All equipment of sliders has been especially brought from China. The park has lot of greenery as 1600 tress has been planted. A group of 25 CCTV cameras keeps a close watch over the security of the park and people.
It has started attracting a lot of masses from the surrounding areas. People come here to enjoy this wonderful facility which is not far away from city center. The park opens from 11 AM to 6 PM. The entry charge has been fixed at Rs. 300 per person per day from Monday to Friday, and Rs. 400 on Saturday and Sunday and public holidays. Children below 3 feet will get free entry and swimming costumes are available on rent and for sale. The park remains closed on Wednesday. Photography is restricted to certain group only.
Holi 2013 celebration
A day prior to Holi, the Water park witnessed celebration of a different kind. The tomatoes were smashed and hurled at each other by the revelers. The festival was celebrated on the pattern of world famous Spanish festival - La Tomatina which attracts tourists from across the world to witness the unique festival. The charges for the occasion were different. Couples were charged Rs 750 while singles were charged Rs 500. People enjoyed in the pool full of tomatoes. Nearly 2000 kilograms of tomatoes were squashed on the tunes of famous Bollywood songs. People enjoyed a lot with this unique initiative, which is new for the City.
How to reach :
On going from Patna to Fatua on New ByPass Road, one has to take right turn for Patna-Gaya road. From Sampat Chak Bazaar, one has again to take right for 2 km to reach at the Park. There are also alternate routes off from New Bypass road to reach the park also.
Distance :
Patna Junction : 9 km
Airport : 15-16 km
Mithapur Bus stand : 13-14 km
At a glance
- Timing : 11 AM to 6 PM
- Wednesday closed
- Weekday fee (Monday - Friday) : Rs 300
- Weekend fee ( Saturday and Sunday) : Rs 400
The park was closed for the winter duration. However, it was opened on 31st December 2013 and 1st January 2014 for the new year revelries. Please contact on the water park number 09430222875 for more clearance and information.
Update: The Park is re-opening for summer from Feb 27, 2014. Timing remains the same.
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Nicholas H. Steneck, PhD, was Director of the Research Ethics and Integrity Program of the Michigan Institute for Clinical and Health Research and Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Michigan. He is also a consultant to the Federal Office of Research Integrity, HHS.
In the early-1980s, Professor Steneck chaired the University of Michigan's pioneering Task Force on Integrity in Scholarship and later the Public Health Service Advisory Committee on Research Integrity (1991-1993). He helped establish and recently directed the ORI/NIH Research on Research Integrity Program. He has co-chaired and organized the program for four ORI Research on Research Integrity Conferences (2000, 2002, 2004, 2006) and the ORI-ESF World Conference on Research Integrity in Lisbon, Portugal, September 2007.
He has published articles on the history of research misconduct policy, responsible conduct of research instruction, the use of animals in research, classified research and academic freedom, the role of values in university research, and research on research integrity. Most recently, he authored the ORI Introduction to the Responsible Conduct of Research (2004, 2007; translated into Japanese, Chinese, and Korean). In recognition of his work on research integrity and the history of science, he became a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1992.


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You know what? When I got up this morning it was snowing. Snowing . Stupid crystals of liquid falling from the sky, too obnoxious to even bother defrosting themselves. The snow makes everything cold and no one knows how to get on with anything. I am absolutely allowed to hate the snow. So what I'm going to do is stay indoors until it's over, playing all six of the following free games over and over again until I know I can leave my house without someone hurling a ball of solid weather at me. Are you in?
Radical Fishing
Vlambeer . Play it on Bored.com .
Last month , I enthused about a fantastic, ultra-challenging platformer called Super Crate Box. This month, developer Vlambeer has released another game. This time playable in a browser, your aim is to throw your hook deep into the sea, catch as many fish as you can, fire them up into the air, then shoot the living carp out of them. (Yes, the fish puns are very important.)
The deeper underwater you managed to delve, the more exotic and valuable fish you're able to destroy in a shower of red mist. You can also buy various upgrades with your earnings, such as that delightful red cap I'm wearing in the screenshot above. Completely silly, Radical Fishing is also hilarious.
...But That Was [Yesterday]
OneMrBean. Play it on Jay Is Games .
Developed as part of the Jay Is Games Casual Gameplay Competition, ...But That Was [Yesterday] begins at an excruciatingly slow tempo. It's only once you've persevered for a couple of minutes and learnt how the central mechanic works that everything begins to fall into place - but once it does, this is absolutely lovely.
It is, essentially, the story of a man who's haunted by memories of the past, and how he deals with that. But it springs into something truly joyous. I'll say no more, for fear of terrible spoilers, but this is definitely something that's worth ten minutes of your time.
Activate The Three Artefacts And Then Leave
Increpare . Grab it from the official website .
A title from the You Have To Burn The Rope school of game naming, Activate The Three Artefacts And Then Leave is a game in which you must activate the three artefacts and then leave. The place in which you're activating the three artefacts, and as such the place you'll then leave, is an extraordinary maze of black-outlined blocks which fade into a muddled blur at a distance.
The name really does say it all, which might not sound so impressive. But the increasingly mental design of the environment, combined with its black and white colour palette, makes navigation an uncomfortable and stifling experience. The soundtrack, too, is oppressive and haunting, meaning you'll want to activate the three artefacts and then leave as quickly as possible.
Sydney Shark
Mausland Entertainment. Play it on Newgrounds .
This is the most straight-up fun I've had with a game all month - no exaggeration. Sydney Shark is the sequel to Miami Shark, which was a game about a shark on the loose in Miami. You can probably guess what Sydney Shark is about.
You'll rack up your score by diving underwater then powering up above the surface, snapping at anyone or anything in your way. Landing on boats causes them to explode in a fiery ball of awesome. You can cling onto planes and drag them to their doom, bite the heads off horses, and end the game early by setting off a nuclear bomb. The shark wears an Australian hat. This game is wonderful.
//No Comment . Get it from IndieDB .
A third-year project by a group of students at the Queensland University of Technology, this is a surprisingly polished puzzle game with elements of third-person shooting and platforming. Set in a high-future, Tron-esque world, all glowing grids and neon floatiness, it's the story of an artificial intelligence hacking program called Aviva, and her efforts to shut down an enemy mainframe.
It's essentially a sequence of puzzle minigames linked by more typical action sequences. But it all holds together extremely well, with conundrums embedded into the game world with aplomb. And it looks absolutely gorgeous, using the Unreal tech to splendid effect. One of the most professional free games you're likely to play any time soon.
DePaul Gaming Experience . Download it from the official website .
In Octodad, you play as an octopus pretending to be a human male. I want to be very careful not to understate the brilliance of this. As said octopus, you must go about your day-to-day routine without arousing suspicion that you may, in fact, be an octopus. Even your wife hasn't caught on yet.
You control Octodad by switching between hands and feet modes. Holding the left or right mouse button causes him to raise his left or right foot, or extend his left or right arm. Moving the mouse forwards or backwards pushes that particular limb in that particular direction. It's an absolute nightmare to maneuver, but that's the joyous thing: flailing around from place to place, almost as if you were an octopus pretending to be a person.
It's rough and glitchy, but the concept is an absolute joy.


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Sometime back I asked a fellow blogger of the ~Kashmir~ blog why he is not as regular in posting new blogs as he used to. He replied at the time that writing about Indian oppression on a regular basis just wears you out after a while. What he said is accurate, and anyone being unfortunate enough to suffer through a continuos barrage of bad news one after the other can empathize. It is like receiving shocking news of the death of a loved-one day after day, everyday. Consider how harrowing that experience would be. Kashmiris consider themselves part of one big family; therefore, the murders, torture, rapes and kidnapping by the Indian occupation forces are in fact like receiving news of the death of a loved-one day after day, everyday. While most Kashmiris are directly affected by Indian oppression in one way or other, some are better able to cope with the occupation than others. Those who are incapable of desensitizing themselves to this deluge of news about atrocities, humiliation, killings, rapes, and the terror unleashed by the Indians here unfortunately take the extreme step of ending their own lives.
Pick up any newspaper and the only news making headlines these days is about who the pro-India parties decided to give their mandate to contest in the upcoming elections for the Indian Parliament . Who cares?
A few days back there was commotion in the news world when Sajjad Lone decided to contest the Lok Sabha elections. The Hurriyet Conference has called for a complete boycott of these elections. I could not get motivated enough to write about Sajad Lone's decision to contest these elections. Therefore I will leave it at that.
How am I supposed to be motivated about writing about another set of these farcical elections when people, unable to cope with Indian oppression, are resorting to suicide. Last year, I had written about this pandemic ravaging through the valley which seems to be more prevalent among females. Why this steep increase in suicide rates in Kashmir? And why is it more prevalent among females? (click here to read last year's post)
I mentioned earlier that reading about stories such as these just robs a person of all creativity. You can decide for yourself which story deserves more attention. Click here to read the news story.


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Ben Folds Five returns! Who am I kidding, I'm posting this because of Fraggle Rock! The song is whatever, and the whole time I was wishing they did the theme song instead, but it's Fraggle Rock! Kindergarten version of me is stoked right now.
Wasn't Edward Sharpe gonna do a stage show with the Fraggles or did I completely make that up? I take full credit for that idea if it's not already happening. Watch below!
Directed by Phil Hodges.


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If there's any team in the NFL that deserves the benefit of the doubt, it's the New York Giants.
This was a group left for dead last December, only to raise the Lombardi Trophy in February. There's a healthy amount of rope that comes with an achievement like that.
Still, let's not sugarcoat how poorly this month has started for Tom Coughlin's team. An inability to close out the Pittsburgh Steelers last week was frustrating. Sunday's whooping by the Cincinnati Bengals was alarming.
"I told the team that we certainly got into this mess together and we've got to find a way to get out of it together," Coughlin said Sunday, via Ralph Vacchiano of the New York Daily News.
The mysterious struggles of Eli Manning is probably the biggest factor behind the Giants' slump. Manning said Monday he'll use part of the Giants' bye week to detach from football and refresh himself. He won't throw until next Monday, according to ESPNNewYork.com.
Coughlin said Monday he saw improvement from his quarterback against the Bengals.
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"I think yesterday there were signs that he's improving, he's getting back on track," Coughlin said. "There were some signs there that were good yesterday. We've just got to build on them. ... I thought he threw the ball better. Many times yesterday he zinged it in there. He had the ball down the seam to Victor (Cruz) that should've been a touchdown."
At 6-4, the Giants still have a one-game lead in the loss column over the Dallas Cowboys. From a talent and coaching standpoint, the Giants are still the best team in the NFC East. They'll use their bye to try to figure out how to play like it.
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