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NPK Sofia, Bulgarien
Bery Group Bulgaria organisiert die Bildungs-Ausstellungen "Bildung ohne Grenzen " in Sofia (EBBS) - die Hauptstadt von Bulgarien, im National Palast der Kultur. NPK ist die gr??te multifunktionale und Kongress - Komplex in S?dosteuropa.. mehr
Es folgt eine unvollständige Liste der Institutionen, die bei der letzten Messe in Sofia, Bulgarien vertreten waren. Sie können ihre sehr erfolgreiche Präsentationen hier finden.
Bitte warten Sie nicht auf unseren letzten Aufruf uns anzuschließen - begleiten Sie uns in die zukünftige Ausstellung EBBS! Wenn Ihre Institution eine frühere Registrierung macht, erhalten Sie einen größeren Rabatt! Wir freuen uns, dass wir seit zwei Jahren solche Teilnehmer begrüßen, wie:
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EurocentresEurocentres, with a worldwide network of Eurocentres enrolment offices and agents, welcomes ca. 13 000 students every year to its schools in Europe, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Japan.
EF Education FirstFounded in 1965, EF offers study abroad programs, language education, educational and leisure tours, cultural exchange, academic programs and more.
Study Pro Australia - Live Study Work in AustraliaStudy Pro PTY LTD is a leading education & migration agency working with Australia, Europe, USA and Canada, which aims to provide Professional informative advice and personal counseling to assist International students and people in making the right choices to achieve their goals to Live, Study and Work abroad.
Diplomatic Academy of ViennaThe Diplomatic Academy is a postgraduate professional school, dedicated to preparing talented university and college graduates for international careers and positions of leadership in international organizations, the EU, in public service and in international business.
FH VORARLBERGThe FHV stands out for its qualitatively high-value range of courses, the recognised competence in relevant specialist areas and the interdisciplinary, application oriented teaching and research.
DLTISSince 1963 Department for Language Teaching and International Students has specialized in teaching of Bulgarian language and Science subjects to foreign students at Bulgarian universities, according to a curriculum approved by the Ministry of Education.
D. A. Tsenov Academy of Economics D.A.Tsenov Academy of Economics takes part in Programmes of the European Union in collaboration with European Universities, Projects of International Funds for Scientific Research, Inter-university student training and multinational Projects for higher education.
Zlatarski International SchoolIn 2010 latarski School became the first Bulgarian school to offer the British programmes IGCSE and A Levels, and it was authorised by Cambridge International Examinations (CIE).
American College CouncilAmerican College Council offers courses about TOEFL, SAT etc.
International University College|International University College (IUC) has established itself as a modern higher education business school that regards its students as its most important asset.
Study au/in CanadaEducation au/in Canada can point you in the right direction on the road to academic success that will last a lifetime!
Seneca collegeSeneca has more than 240 individual degree pathways for graduates at 62 partner institutions in Canada and around the world. The College also offers newcomer bridging with training and re-employment services for internationally trained professionals as well as academic upgrading for college eligibility.
Zagreb School of Economics and ManagementThe ZSEM is a private higher-education, non-profit institution operating in Zagreb, Croatia following the educational standards of the AACSB and the EQUIS intitutions.
Europa Universität Viadrina FrankfurtStudents and instructors find in European University Viadrina not only a good technical framework for their work, but also an environment which promotes intellectual exchange and, as such, is both influenced and characterized by international contacts.
Bavarian Academic Center for Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe (BAYHOST)BAYHOST is a cooperative institution of all Bavarian universities, universities of applied sciences and art academies.
Danish Academy of Business and Technology Dania - Danish Academy of Business and Technology offers international studies in Randers and Viborg. The academy has a long-standing tradition for developing and offering higher education programmes to Danish and international students.
Technological Education Institute of LarissaT.E.I. of Larissa was established as a tertiary education institution in 1983, along with all Greek T.E.I.s which replaced the existent Higher Technical & Vocational Centres.
Akmi Metropolitan CollegeSince 1982 and until today, AMC is focused on a strong vision of the intellectual and academic progress of its students. AMC's main priority is the continuous development of critical thinking, academic progress and academic research spirit for each of our students.
Tallinn Pedagogical CollegeThe mission of the TPS is to facilitate the abidance of the society upholding the human development and subsistence in Estonia. The main goal of the TPS is the high-rate teaching and research supporting the vitality of the Estonian social and educational sector.
Pondicherry UniversityPuducherry is a Union Territory with one of the highest levels of quality of life in the country with excellent physical infrastructure and almost a hundred per cent literacy level. Pondicherry University is outstanding among the Central Universities in India.
Istituto MarangoniThree campuses that offer fashion courses in Milan, Paris and London, 92 different countries of origin for about 2,400 total students: these are just some of the numbers representing Istituto Marangoni in the educational sector.
Akamonkai Japanese Language SchoolThe school provides students with a variety of scholarships, which is very rare for a Japanese language school, including a scholarship for foreign students, the school's scholarship, the student union's scholarship, Korean universities scholarship, scholarships for top performers in the Japanese Language Proficiency Test, and scholarships for successful applicants to top universities.
Lucian Blaga - University of SibiuLucian Blaga University of Sibiu enjoys a growing reputation both in Romania and abroad. Consequently, LBUS has established academic links and partnership agreements with eighty-five universities in thirty-five countries. In cooperation with its partners abroad, LBUS has established a number of organizations for students like CAS and UBA.
Fontys International Business School VenloWith its 40,000 students, 4,000 members of staff and a range of courses covering almost every sector, Fontys University of Applied Sciences is one of the largest institutions for higher education in the Netherlands.
NHTV Breda University of Applied SciencesNHTV Breda is a university of applied sciences with a strong international focus. The institute caters for more than 7,000 students from over 60 countries.
University of Maribor – Faculty of MedicineAt the Faculty of Medicine of UM we ensure the acquisition of adequate competences of basic and clinical knowledge and skills, and are educating students in the sense of high ethics and appropriate conduct as future doctors.
Consejería de educación de la embajada de España en colaboración con la fundación UNIVERSIDAD.ESUniversidad.es is a public sector foundation that aims to promote the Spanish university system throughout the world.
University of BoråsThe University of Borås is a modern university with six departments. We manage educations in Library and Information Studies, Business and Informatics, Fashion and Textile Studies, Behavioural and Education Sciences, Engineering and Health Sciences.
Stockholm University (SU), Department of Computer and Systems Sciences (DSV)Department of Computer and Systems Sciences is one of the oldest ICT institutions in Sweden. DSV belongs to the Faculty of Social Sciences at Stockholm University and carries all types of academic activities: undergraduate, postgraduate and research.
Great Britain
Abbey DLD Group of CollegeAbbey DLD colleges:
University of the West of EnglandThe University of the West of England has its roots in a number of colleges, which reflect a lively local tradition of vocational education dating back as far as 1595. The UWE Coat of Arms was designed to represent, and to celebrate, that many-stranded past.
International University College, University of Portsmouth Program, SofiaThe University of Portsmouth program at the International University College (IUC) provides its talented and motivated students with education in accordance with the world's highest academic standards.
Association Of Global Universities (AGU)The Association of Global Universities (AGU) is an affiliate company of International Studies Abroad, one of the leading study abroad providers in the United States. Building on more than two decades of experience in international education and personalized support services, AGU extends the benefits of intercultural learning to students around the world.
Lincoln University - Oakland, CaliforniaLincoln University is a unique institution of higher learning, where educational excellence, professional know-how, and up-to-date international standards are combined with individual attention and a friendly atmosphere, giving rise to a world-class education.
John Cabot UniversityJohn Cabot University, founded in 1972, is an independent, four-year liberal arts university offering undergraduate degrees and study abroad programs to English-speaking students from all over the world.


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Florida golf community Old Palm Golf Club has been purchased by an international group of real estate investors in a US$30 million deal.
The buying consortium is led by ING Clarion Development Ventures III, a closed-end fund with approximately US$200 million in equity capital managed by real estate investment group ING Clarion Partners. Orlando-based management firm Buena Vista Hospitality Group will take on the running of the club and coordinate the marketing of the remaining real estate.
Old Palm Golf Club, located in the heart of Palm Beach Gardens, is a residential golf club community of 651 acres with 125 homes. The community's course is a Raymond Floyd signature design.
As well as the club, the transaction includes land for 145 new residential properties, the remaining balance of equity memberships, and management of the club's current operations.
"Old Palm is one of the highest calibre golf communities in the US, both for the golf experience and the quality of service provided. New ownership is thankful for the professional staff members who have created this magnificent club and who will continue to offer their excellent service as we move forward," said Michael Frost, principal of Buena Vista Hospitality Group. Old Palm's operations will transfer immediately.

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What Is The Interest Rate That Is Refunded When I Claim My PPI?
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In 1987 Door Asia Door Designs, began manufacturing custom kitchen cabinet doors and drawer boxes with one specific goal in mind: to be a highly reliable, quality minded supplier to the woodworking industry. The cabinet industry has changed in many ways since that time and we have also changed by adding many new styles of custom cabinet doors along with other components such as dovetailed drawer boxes and wood mouldings.
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Quinoa and turnips salad
Date: 20 janvier 2016
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Potato cheese waffles
Date: 13 janvier 2016
Potato cheese waffles 200g peeled and grated potatoes 1 egg 50g grated cheese 25g flour chopped parsley & thyme salt and pepper Turn the waffle iron on (to make it hot [Read more...]
Cheesy waffles potatoes
Date: 25 octobre 2015
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Buns with tomato and mozzarella
Date: 20 octobre 2015
Again, here's a quick little recipe (unless like me you prepare yourself the pizza dough). Cut tomato into slices and the mozzarella ball as well. Cut with a cookie cutter [Read more...]
Quinoa Salad
Date: 17 octobre 2015
The quinoa salad is quite easy to prepare. You just need to cook the quinoa (read the instructions on the bag). Then add some diced tomatoes, cucumbers, a bit of [Read more...]
Vegetarian Quiches
Date: 11 octobre 2015
The only way to prepare a nice quiche is to use seasonal vegetables and to have a good quiche mix (3 eggs, 300gr cream, salt and pepper). You can choose [Read more...]
Cherry Tomatoes
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Underneath my computer monitor is a 2-year-old acorn. I picked it up on the day I began this desk job as an assistant editor at a medical publisher. I'm not sure why. I don't have any special attachment to acorns or squirrels. Besides my antibacterial gel, a box of tissue, and snacks, there are no other personal items around my half-cubicle.
I keep it for no particular reason. It has since turned brown, taking only a week. The nut is separated from its base, and whenever I accidentally knock my monitor, the acorn rolls, not unlike how I imagine my head would if I let the tedium of the days get to me.
I could be an acorn, dead with no means of escape or chances of propagating my legacy, my seed, or even quell the perpetual hunger of some transient squirrel. I serve no other purpose but to sit beneath a computer monitor on some dusty desk, next to a stapler.
Maybe that is what a 9-to-5 feels like. Dead or dying. A poet colleague recently sent an email: "I started to die a little each day," as she tells me about her 9-to-5 before she opted for a life of adjuncting.
I'd been teaching part-time at a community college for a year while working at the publisher, intending to eventually teach full-time so I could escape the silent subversion of the office.
All day, my co-workers toggle back and forth between complaints about how things aren't done properly at the company and their personal lives. Because I usually try to stay out of office politics and seldom ask questions about goings-on in their lives, my co-workers have described my nature as "detached." It's my way of coping and not getting eaten up by the environment while I devise plans to escape.
And my escape plans were gradual: a five-day weekend here and there, three weeks in Southeast Asia in March. Then, upon confirming five classes to teach at two universities in the upcoming fall semester, I wrote my resignation letter, indicating my intention to leave in two weeks. My immediate supervisor was initially flustered as we now have to quickly transition all of my responsibilities to other team members, but she is supportive about pursuing my dreams. She and I had sporadic conversations about having the guts to make such a decision. Being the overworked daughter-in-law of the CEO, she's felt the same dilemma of staying at a place for the sake of security.
The CEO indicates that my resignation letter was the best one she's ever received. Once a teacher herself, she is genuinely sad to see me go but supports my decision. Last year, when I began to teach part-time at the community college, I had to drastically change my schedule at the office. I worked 7a-6p M/W and 7a-12p T/R, 8-4 on F. My boss said then, "If it was anybody else, I would have just let [him/her] go or reduced [his/her] status to part-time." She had, just a month before, fired a project manager. Perhaps it is my work ethic, diversity of skills, or courage that helped me receive such an accommodation. Perhaps it was my low pay.
Regardless, my plan is set. My final escape includes a month-long plan to circumnavigate the country by train (Amtrak).
The goodbyes are bittersweet. I am humbled by a going-away party. My bosses, who hardly ever participate, bought gifts: maps of the US and the Pacific Northwest, a photo album, journals. There are bags of other thoughtful gifts from the rest: traveling paraphernalia, books, more maps, cookies, a lavish cake with evergreen trees and a train.
I will, despite my curmudgeon-like demeanor at times, miss their company. We had a lot of laughs and memories built around camaraderie and team work. There was a certain feeling of warmth in being able to see their faces every morning. Even in routine, I did find comfort, security, and some version of happiness. They had seen me through some rough times, as I had gone through a rather emotionally-jarring break-up the previous year. I received hugs, flowers, and mini-consoling sessions in our kitchenette. They had even seen me transition into the next whirlwind of a relationship. I did, then, also divulge plenty of inane details about my life, in which they seemed interested to hear. I'm eternally grateful.
While I may have more freedom and responsibility in the fall, I will essentially be alone. I'll have an immensely challenging workload with 5 classes (3 preps) and 80 writing students. As I submit myself to an unglamorous life of low pay and no health insurance, I'll perhaps turn more into that decaying acorn, now placed in my back-pack, which I am taking with me through my travels this summer. Maybe I'll plant the acorn somewhere and see if life begins somehow.


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Column: Wellhaven is partnering with Adoray
Wellhaven Senior Living will be hosting a lunch-and-learn with Adoray Home Health and Hospice this month.
According to Adoray.org, "Adoray Home Health and Hospice partners with many organizations to educate the community on managing chronic illness, caregiving, end-of-life, and grief and bereavement issues. Adoray welcomes any opportunity to share information about aging and end-of-life care. We are the community's leading resource regarding many issues and concerns individuals and families will face as they help their loved ones navigate major healthcare issues and prepare for their final months of life."
Hospice services are and have been used at our facility. Our experiences with them have been wonderful. I have had a grandparent on The Lutheran Home Campus on hospice and you cannot believe the wonderful things they do for the person on hospice and their family. They brought veterans to my grandpa to honor him and award him for his services to America. I know how amazing my grandpa felt that day. I was so grateful for Adoray to go to such lengths to show my grandpa how proud we were of him.
Adoray's stores "Treasures of the Heart" are beloved by many. People can donate items no longer wanted and shop to find new treasures. It is an inexpensive store that is run solely by volunteers.
According to Adoray.org, "In 2016, volunteers donated 18,578 hours of service to Treasures from the Heart." These stores are used to help fund the many services Adoray provides.
We are happy to be partnering with Adoray and we welcome community members to join us at the lunch-and-learn. There will be plenty of food to eat and knowledge gained. Adoray will provide insight on how to converse with a person who is in their final stages of life. Please join us at 2 p.m. Monday, Jan. 22, at Wellhaven.
Coming up soon Wellhaven will host a chocolate and wine tasting event at 5 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 13.


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It is vital to remember that we can always learn something from those that go before us, and this is never so true as in the business world. That is what I have put together this guide on how to get the most out of your company in the way the leaders in the field do. Just keep reading to find out more.
This is a contributed post. Please refer to my disclosure for more information.
Value their employees
One way in which successful business owners optimize their company is to value the people that work for them. There are plenty of ways to do this too, such as paying fair or over the average wages. However if your budget can't quite stretch to that don't panic, because you can offer an attractive benefits packages instead.
Such packages should include things like healthcare and dental cover, as well as a bonus structure and additional annual days off as a reward for long service. Something else that many employees value highly in a role is flexible working hours, and good maternity and paternity leave too. That means it is so also worth including these elements where possible as it will help to show your employees that you care about them and in turn, this should keep them working for you for as long as possible.
Get their supply chain running smoothly
Another issue that successful business owners make sure to optimize is their supply chain. Contrary to popular belief a supply chain is way more than just the logistics of delivering the product the company makes. In fact, it is also about purchasing necessary resources and predicting how much of the product you create will be needed in certain places at certain times.
This complexity that can make it a very confusing and difficult task, something that means consulting a professional like Paul Trudgian supply chain consultant can be hugely useful, especially if you don't have any expertise within this area. After all, why bother spending all that time learning about supply chain when your expertise lies and can be put to much better use somewhere else?
Pay attention to their online presence
Successful owners often optimize their companies by paying close attention to how they represent themselves online. In particular, this means that any online marketing strategy is something they will look at very close to ensure that it gets the required response. Otherwise, it can be disastrous for a business, as the backlash from the clean eating burger joke from KFC proves.
Business owners will also have someone monitoring the points in which customer interact with their company online, including all type of social media and online reviews. The idea here is to keep the business's rating high to convince new customers to purchase with them, although the odd negative review isn't a complete disaster, as long as you deal with it promptly and respectfully.
Provide awesome aftercare
Lastly, another action that successful business owners do to optimize their company is to look after the customer, even after a transaction is complete. This is so vital because not only does it encourage positive reviews, but also repeat sales. And if you're really lucky, customers that have received particularly good service will later go on to be advocates for your brand and help you optimize sales in that way.
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It's the stuff of nightmares: Your kid is holding a drink in his right hand, walking through an exhibit, until he catches his foot and breaks his fall with a $1.5 million-valued artwork, leaving a fist-sized hole at the bottom of the piece.
That's what happened to a 12-year-old boy in Taiwan this past weekend at the "Face of Leonardo: Images of a Genius" exhibition, which includes portraits of Leonardo and shows 55 rare paintings.
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The still life he landed on is a 350-year-old oil on canvas work called "Flowers" by Italian master Paolo Porpora, a leading artist in baroque-style paintings. "Flowers" is 78 inches tall and depicts flowers in a vase.
According to the Web Gallery of Art, a database of European fine art, "Flowers" is the only signed Porpora.
But the organizers won't ask the boy's family to pay for the restoration cost. (Feel free to exhale.)
Sun Chi-hsuan, the exhibition organizer, said the boy was not to be blamed and that the painting was insured. "The boy was probably too concentrated in listening to what the guide was saying, and therefore stumbled," he said.
"Once these works are damaged, they are permanently damaged ... we hope that everyone can protect these precious artworks with us," TST Art of Discovery said in a post on the exhibition's official Facebook page.
This isn't the first costly art accident we've heard of. A man tripped over his shoelace and fell down the staircase in a museum in Cambridge, breaking three 300-year-old Chinese vases in 2006. Another man got a six-year prison term for damaging a Monet painting in the National Gallery of Ireland in 2012. Even casino mogul Steve Wynn elbowed a Picasso masterpiece in 2013.
"When I told the curator, he was so shocked that for two to three minutes he couldn't utter a single word," Sun said. "But he was actually most worried that the boy and his family would put too much pressure on themselves."
We hope the 12-year-old will still nurture an enthusiasm for art, despite starting off on the wrong foot.
Images via TSA Art of Discovery Co
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Level 1 - Touch With Reasons
Touching with reasons. This is acceptable to all adult females if you touch them with reasons but the touch must be directed at her accupressure points triggering her sexual arousal. Several examples you can apply:
- She wears a nice dress (or even an ordinary dress) and you compliment the dress is nice and at the same time you rub her upper arm up to her shoulder back and forth.
- Massage her shoulder tenderly to relieve her stress while saying, "let me relieve your stress''.
- Pick her hand and scrutinize it while saying , ''you have tatoo?''
- Draw something on her shoulder with your finger and say, ''can you guess what is this?''
- Play thumb wrestling. This is very easy and very fun.
The purpose of this touch is to familiarize her with your touch and if even at this level she feels good, she will initiate the touch not you for the next time. By touching her with reasons we plant in her subconscious that she feels comfortable with our touch. The examples above is only for guidance, you can create your own.


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It must be quite something being the US Ambassador to Tanzania. The previous gentleman to occupy the position, Mark Green, was Bush's man. Generally, a well received fellow. Queitly spoken, focused on the issues that were being endorsed by his President. PEPFAR stuff. All par for the course.
And then along comes Alfonso. He is a military guy and right now with Yemen across the Indian ocean training Africans how to conceal bombs in their underwear, the entire coastline being patrolled by Somali pirates, some would say the US military has a right to be in the neighbourhood, patrolling the beat, swinging its truncheon. (Others have even suggested that his familiarity with handling high level security was a significant factor in his appointment with the 1998 US Embassy bombing in Dar es Salaam still in the minds of American national security policy makers.)
Alfonso is a soldier playing the role of a diplomat. He has certainly been vocal and has weighed in on a host of issues, counterfeit drugs, women's rights, corruption, but his most notable comments were on the peace process in Zanzibar which were reprinted in various media outlets and publications in the country. But are we listening? Should we be? Tanzania continues to struggle with the fight against corruption. Zanzibar manages to go for 3 months with no electricity (and by the way not a single protest is heard about it from its peoples) yet the $770 million committed by Bush as part of the Millenium Challenge Corporation is safe. Alfonso has confirmed as much. So, no need for undue urgency then, is there?
President Kikwete has appointed Judge Mark Bomani, again, to be chairman of the (take a deep breath) Tanzania Extractive Industries Transparency Initiatives Multistakeholder Working Group. Enough said.
So who are we to believe in the row between Sir Bob Geldolf and the BBC? The foul mouthed Irish campaigner has over the years had to endure the public casting aspersions on his efforts largely because of his associations with the less popular but more musically talented Bono. But Geldof is different, more committed and one would imagine, more likely to get into a physical altercation to defend his honour and word. The BBC on the other hand, especially the Africa service, appears to be driven by pushing as many bizarre and negative stories as they possibly can on a daily basis. If you don't believe me, go to the BBC website and read the top stories. We here at Serengeti hope Geldof kicks the crap out of them. The 'stud of Baghdad', aka Rageh Omar, defends his former employers here. Mr. Geldof responds to his response is here.
Old Media Vs New Media, Part 2.
One thing that you'll notice while reading this blog is a diversity of views that co-exist under the rubric of Serengeti Advisers. Here you won't find a homogeneous worldview. Ours is a sensibility defined by a Negative Capability, that is we are able to entertain a multiplicity of views and opinions, even when they are in contradictions with each other. And on the issue of Old Media versus New Media, there has been a lot of heated discussions out here about the role and limitations of both platforms in our Tanzanian context. You've read the arguments for Old Media. What follows is a case for New Media:
- Blogging is more democratic- Journalists now have the alternative of working without having to endure the bureaucracy, whims and sometime incompetence of editors. Here is one example to demonstrate this point. Last year one of the biggest media stories in Dar es Salaam was the resignation of Sakina Datoo from her role as the Editorial Director of The Guardian Newspapers Ltd. However, the story went largely unreported by the mainstream press. But this news did not escape the attention of bloggers. And it is the freedom afforded by the internet that allowed that story to reach readers.
- 'Blogs are not held to the same standards of integrity as traditional print media'- Actually, the opposite may be true. In the blogosphere, readers and other bloggers act as fact-checkers and watchdogs. And their reactions to sloppy journalism can be immediate and eviscerating. While newspapers have to wait for letters to the editors to arrive or print a correction the next day (something that rarely happens in Tanzania, if at all), a blogger has to contend with the swift response of his commenters and if a post is half-baked, his/her readers will let him know. So too will other bloggers. Therefore, what determines quality in this situation is not a number of hits, but rather the authority that comes from being respected by your readers and other bloggers who link to your site.
- 'Very few Tanzanians have internet access so it's pointless to focus our journalism there'- Research suggests that as of June of last year, 520,000 people in this country were at some level connected to the internet. And this number is growing everyday. If a blogger can manage to attract just 10% of that number to regularly read his/her blog then that would mean a daily circulation figure of 52,000, a number that dwarfes any newspapers' out there. So the potential is simply immense.
- 'Most Tanzanians are too poor to afford computers'- This argument is rather ridicilous. It's like saying Tanzanians shouldn't read books because they are expensive. No, people can go to libraries to get the books they can't afford to buy. Similarly, those who are unable to own computers can visit internet cafés and enjoy the benefits of this wonderful new world of online journalism.
- 'Printed material has some longevity'- Really? What about all those trees that had to die so that a newspaper could be published? But anyway, today's newspapers are tomorrow's 'makaratasi ya vitumbua.' Meanwhile, a blog post once published into the ether is eternally available online for any Google search to discover. Furthermore, something written in Tanzania can be read everywhere, from the urban streets of New York to the rural villages of China, by a simple click of a button. How many Tanzanian newspapers can boast such a claim?
These are just some of the arguments in favor of online journalism and blogging in particular. For more on the subject do read this brilliant essay by the British-American blogger Andrew Sullivan where most of the above points are deputised from. Also this piece by the writer Matthew Klam profiling the pioneers of political blogging in the US is worth a read. This debate is always going to continue here. We would love to hear your thoughts on it too. What do you think?
Deep Thought
Old Media vs New Media, Part 1.
- Newspapers and magazines can, due to their independent physical nature as printed material function as shared reading resources. Who hasn't had a crowd of co-readers hovering over their shoulder when they buy a morning paper to enjoy at the bus stand. You'd have to be a fool to leave your laptop lying around after you're done reading your blog posts though.
- Printed material has some longevity: a newspaper, no matter how old, is still a physical entity that can be enjoyed for as long as it is well-preserved. It can travel, end up in different places, and be read, and reread, and sectioned, and passed on. It cannot be deleted at the whim of a server crash or an embarrassed blogger.
- Print only requires wetware in order to work. Human buys paper, enjoys paper. No need for investment in a computer, an anti-virus program, an internet connection, the services of an IT technician and a copy of Windows XP for when your version of Vista crashes. Officially, not that many of us are living on more than two dollars a day and expecting any of that hard-earned cash to go towards the above-listed items is building castles in the sky.
- The Internet is a democratic space- anyone can say anything. Blogs are therefore not held to the same standards of integrity as traditional print media. However poor in quality our newspapers are, at least there are more determinants of quality than the number of 'hits' that are generated. The fact that we don't live up to these standards is due to a lack of professionalism on the part of the industry. But that's another story.
- The quality of our public education is so low that functional literacy and numeracy is in dire straights. In places where textbooks from the government are scarcer than hen's teeth, at least there is some access to newspapers. Instant teaching materials!
- Less than 10% of this country is electrified, and sporadically at that. As for access to the internet? Don't allow the Blackberry class delude you into thinking this is easily attainable or dependable. If you don't live in a well-served area (i.e. The City), you are at best subject to the vagaries of TTCL and at worst completely irrelevant. We are all waiting for SeaCom or EASSY to propel us into the 21st century, but in the meantime we can always just buy a newspaper.
Upcoming Attractions
The Serengeti Advisers Media RetroSpective 2009 is on its way. Have you been wondering what topics and news stories received the most ink, or why the media is interested in some issues and not others, or which stories kept the newspapers' attention the longest? There will be some answers to all those questions and more. In the meantime, here is a glimpse:
On Writing
Continuing with the theme of writing, here are ten rules from writers on writing fiction. Margaret Atwood has one of the more interesting ones:
You can never read your own book with the innocent anticipation that comes with that first delicious page of a new book, because you wrote the thing. You've been backstage. You've seen how the rabbits were smuggled into the hat. Therefore ask a reading friend or two to look at it before you give it to anyone in the publishing business. This friend should not be someone with whom you have a romantic relationship, unless you want to break up.
That is pretty useful, don't you think? Part two can be found here.
The Exchange: M.G Vassanji
M.G. Vassanji was born in Nairobi, Kenya and raised in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. He was educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of Pennsylvania. Having immigrated to Canada in 1978 with a PhD in nuclear physics, Vassanji began writing fiction while teaching at the University of Toronto. Mr. Vassanji is the author of six novels and two collections of short stories. He won the regional Commonwealth Writers Prize with his first novel The Gunny Sack (1989). He is the first Canadian writer to have won the Scotiabank Giller Prize twice with The Book of Secrets (1994) and The In-Between World of Vikram Lall (2003). Vassanji's other books include the acclaimed novels No New Land (1991), Amriika (1999) and The Assassin's Song (2007) and two short story collections, Uhuru Street (1991) and When She Was Queen (2005). His latest book is the historical travelogue, A Place Within (2008). He currently lives in Toronto, Canada. While on a brief visit to Tanzania last month, Mr. Vassanji took a moment from his busy schedule to sit with Serengeti Media for a brief chat.
Below is an edited transcript of the interview:
Q. You were born in Nairobi, grew up in Dar es Salaam and then you went back to University in Nairobi…
M.G. Vassanji: Well, I was sent by the Tanzanian government. To study Engineering. But I left after three months. Because [the government] gives you a free high school education they could in principle tell you what you should be studying. The only thing was they didn't give me the course that I wanted to study. And at that time, for some reason, I was following other kids, I had applied to the United States and I even heard that they give scholarships. And I found, actually, I was admitted [with a] scholarship and financial assistance. So I left. And now when I think back on it, it took a lot of courage […] because it was a long way to go.
Q. On Travel
MG: I don't know, there was something within me which was a kind of a vagrant. I remember once our school was asked to send two or three students to Mkwawa, I was in Tambaza [High School], in Iringa and I said I would go and my mother said, 'No, I wouldn't let you go.' I don't know why I said [I wanted to go]. I just wanted to go to a different place. Even though I was brought up in a very close family […] So I suppose it was that thing in me, which despite being very grounded, also wants to get away. Very contradictory attitudes. I like a place but I also want to get away and return to that place.
Q. On returning to Tanzania
MG: When I went to the United States, I went with all the intention of coming back. To teach. Tanzania was home.
Q. Why do you write?
MG: Now if you ask me […] for me it's like breathing, it's not a question I have to justify to myself. If I don't write, I cannot live. For me it's the air I breathe. I've been lucky, you know. You can say that but can you actually do it and can you do it successfully, can you make a living out of it? Those are different questions. So I may have not written if I had not been successful. That's why I said when you ask me now, it's the only thing I want to do. Besides […] some responsibilities, I feel [like] this is what I live for.
Q. How much of your writing is an act of returning, and also of remembering.
MG: I am not sure. Perhaps all. But, there is also in writing […] an exploration going on, a 'what if?' […] so there is some element of returning but my last novel [The Assassin's Song], for example, was set in India. And you could say that […] was a kind of return, because it was inspired by [questions of identity]… You see, when I left Tanzania [my] Tanzanian identity was there […] But I also now got interested in my Indian heritage. [I] just wanted to find out what it was, why it was […] I didn't know much about it except the fact that we carried certain things. One of which was the spiritual, not only attitude to life, but it was expressed in certain songs that we had that came from medieval times. Many of us could not understand them, [or] partly understood them. Some people even now [can't] understand them but they can be understood. So I took an interest in that, that aspect of my identity. And that's what I was exploring. When I was traveling in India I could visit places which had direct bearing on this spiritual heritage, spiritual [and] ethnic heritage that I had. And I thought I would set a novel [in one of these places]. It was […] in shrines. In the Indian language it's called Dharga. I don't know what its called in Kiswahili or Arabic, where a holy man is buried and people go there to pray and say prayers and so on. In India there are millions of these [shrines]. And people from all backgrounds, if they find a particular place of significance to them, then they would go. [Actually] there is a place between Mombasa and Nairobi which has [a similar] significance, where some railway worker was buried who was supposed to [have] a spiritual status and when the trains and the buses pass that area, they slow down. In India, there are many [such sites]. One of those, a few of those, had a direct bearing on my own spiritual heritage so I set a novel around such a place. I just imagined what it would be like to grow up there. But then you could ask, 'was that a return?' I say, in a way, it was. But it was also an exploration of a certain historical situation, what it means in the modern age.
Q. On Identity
MG: I am an African Asian, [but] Canada is where I live [and] where my children [were] born and brought up, so it's very much a part of me. But I cannot dissociate that from, you know, my heritage or […] the place where I was born, where I grew up where I was formed, you know, sounds and sights [that] I carry with me. Part of […] growing up in Africa, was growing up as an Asian African or as an Indian African, because everyone has a tribe and my tribe was Indian tribe. [There were] certain cultural practices, certain spiritual attitudes, certain foods we ate, and languages. Besides, the sort of language of the land, Kiswahili, everyone had their tribal languages, our tribal language was Kachhi, Gujarati or both. That's how I saw it. Having grown up here and having gone away, I sort of ask myself, what it is, I cannot say that I am this and no longer that. For me that's baloney. In the same way that there are people in India who have started following a Holy man who was from the Near East. I don't believe there was a conversion. It's just following one tradition and a guy comes and you follow that guy also. In India that's very common, what's called hybridity or syncreticity. For me that's all a part of what it means to be human. You know, If you are talking in [terms] of historical circumstances, and I am told many people are, even in India, where you are many things and when you narrow yourself down it is an artificial construction. I remember when people first went to Canada from Tanzania and I was in the United States, they imagined that they were in a new country. But I had just come as a student from the United States and when I observed them, they lived exactly the way they lived in Tanzania (laughter). Tanzanians lived in a single building or close to each other. So, you know, the rhetoric and the inner reality are very different.
Q. What is the role of public history on individual lives in your work.
MG: We were shaped not only by our own history but by history that happened elsewhere. I mean the Cold War had an impact on us. It dictated how our politicians behaved, those politicians then determined our lives. The fact that I had to go to the United States was based partly on [the] ideology of this country, which was affiliated with the ideology of the Eastern bloc countries and an antagonism towards the West. Therefore, going to America had in fact become anathema, it was not seen in a positive light. If you ask[ed] for permission to go to the United States it would not be given. So what I am saying is we were determined in many ways by events outside us and therefore one has to understand […] and it's also very fascinating. When you put yourself in a small country, in a small town, in a small community and then suddenly you realize that you are not divorced from the world. The First World War had an impact on you, in many different ways. And the second World War had an impact, the independence movement was there [too]. So I find [it] very interesting placing myself, or the people I grew up [with], the community I grew up in, and by extension the town I grew up in, within a context, placing it, in a sense, in a historical situation and extending that into the world. We don't live in isolation. We don't live in historical isolation. We don't live in political isolation or economic isolation. It's all part of who we are. And I think when you get to go away and try to understand, especially the way we were brought up, from the colonies, […] the whole universe suddenly seemed open when I went to the United States, from a small community, small town, very in-ward looking, suddenly you are out in the wider universe, and obviously the questions arise, how do I fit in? Where do I belong? And in what way? The interest in the Indian part of me, the interest in the African part of me was just a part of trying to understand myself in this world that I arrived in.
Q. Who and what are your influences?
MG: I don't know. There are books that I've read which I've drawn from. But I discovered them later. [Fyodor] Dostoevsky was one. He was not an influence, but the questioning aspect of his work […] I took a lot of, I wouldn't say inspiration, [but] I suppose some sort of comfort, you know. As I was saying, when you are out in the wider world, you make discoveries about yourself and you start forming new attitudes, new beliefs. And then you realize, but after all [this] time, people have thought about it, obviously. [Fyodor] Dostoyevsky was one. He asked moral questions. The questions of faith and guilt. And [Joseph] Conrad was another writer whom I read because of his characters, who found themselves alone in situations and who try to cope and find themselves […] that aspect I found fascinating, when people attempt to find themselves. But I did a lot of reading, experimental European Literature, [Leo] Tolstoy. Nobody who wrote after [Salman Rushdie's] Midnight's Children was unaware of it. So it was there. There were other writers, usually different writers for different reasons. Ngungi [wa Thiong'o]I appreciated, although his style of writing is very different. But the fact that he was dealing, again, with very small situations, bringing it out into the world, the Kikuyu world. Again looking at the historical situation with the Mau Mau period […] There may be others, but those I can recall.
Q. What is your writing process?
MG: I never think about it. At present, at this age, I write when I can. I am in the fortunate position of not having to go out to work. Although I did that once. Doing my work and coming home and then write until midnight and putting the baby to bed. At present I can just wake up and go to Starbucks and come back and start writing. Unless I have to assist my wife, she is a small publisher, sometimes I have to assist her also, we'll discuss a few things. But other than that […] writing for me is not just writing, it's also reading. So I do a lot of research, in the sense that I read books. And I am writing a book set in Tanzania at present, so I've been […] ordering and reading a lot of books on Swahili Culture and on Utenzis and on Muslim movements in Tanzania, and on the Maji Maji wars and so on. For me that's also writing. And then editing or revising something I have written is also writing. So that I do whenever I can […] I also write, specifically, I pick a time when everybody has gone to bed and I work late into the night. But […] I am not like some other writers with very fixed schedules. I am man of habit. If I start something […] which occurs to me [while] sitting on a chair, then I'll sit on that chair for months to write […] So it's not very rigid. But you could say, if you wanted a rough thing, I write at night and in the morning.
Q. What is your opinion of Tanzanian Literature?
MG: People say it is there, but it is very rudimentary. What I am excited about is the poetry, the Swahili poetry, especially the Utenzi. I am not very keen on religious poetry, some of it is very primitive […] I don't know any Tanzanian literature except ones I have read. The Swahili Utenzi poetry I have read, I think [is] a wonderful tradition of telling long stories and also of dealing with historical events. I know Abdulrazak Gurnah, he can be considered […] Tanzanian, [so] he is there. I don't know who else. My headmaster [Peter Palangyo] when […] I was in High School, wrote a book, a novel, which was published. But other than that […] I am sure there are some books [but] it's not what you would call a national literature.
Q. What is your advice to young Tanzanian writers?
MG: Keep on writing. You can talk about writing or you can just write. And it's not just to Tanzanian writers, to any young people who want to write, you should just write. Of course by extension sometimes there are no venues to publish, in which case, you start your own venue. You start a magazine. There is a lot of self help that has gone on in the wider world, literary world. So when T.S Elliot went to England he started a literary magazine. This has happened in many parts of the world. In the Soviet Union, people were producing their own stuff and reading to each other. So you don't have to wait for an NGO or some foreign aid to enable you to write. It's really absurd. I remember once I was invited to a conference in Arusha, near Arusha, where African publishers, and some writers, were invited to discuss the problems of African Literature. So there were people from Ghana, from Nigeria, from South Africa, from Uganda, from Tanzania and Kenya and the whole thing was sponsored by the Swedes […] I don't think you need that. If you don't have that sense of pride and achievement then it's not surprising that there is no Tanzanian Literature.


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Monday, January 4, 2010
Monday's Menu- English Toffee
With English Toffee Day coming this week, I thought it would be fun to look up a recipe for toffee. I came across one on Cooking for Engineers. I loved just reading the recipe. I can just see a couple of engineers standing around the stove with all of their instruments out to get the details just right. I love engineers. My dad was one of the best!
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Infra Red Bug
This circuit can be used to detect the presence of modulated infrared signals in its vicinity from any electronic source, for instance, an IR handheld remote controller. It can also be used for testing IR burglar alarm systems.
Besides the power supply (one 9V PP3/6F22 compact battery
pack), it consists of an infrared signal detector-cum-preamplifier followed by a melody generator
and a tiny audio amplifier. The amplified signal is fed to the melody generator via resistor R5. The output of the melody generator is fed to LM386 low-power audio amplifier (IC2) via variable resistor VR1, which works as the volume control. The loudspeaker sounds to indicate
the presence of IR signal near the circuit. IC LM386 is wired as a minimum-parts amplifier with
a voltage gain of '20,' which is sufficient for this application. Capacitor C3 is used for decoupling of the positive rail and the R-C combination network comprising C4 and R7 bypasses high frequency to ground. The circuit can be easily wired on a general-purpose PCB. Pin configurations of IC LM386, transistor BC547 and melody generator UM66 are shown. principle, converts the IR signal pulse trains into noticeable aural notes. S1 is used to switch on/off mains power and LED1 indicates power 'on.' Resistor R4 and zener diode ZD2 form a low-current voltage stabiliser for providing steady 5.1V DC to the small signal preamplifier circuit. IR LED1 is the main sensing element. The IR signal detected by IR LED1 is amplified by npn transistors T1.
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IR Bug
Infra Red Bug
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A charming little town (population: 5,000) on the north shore of Albemarle Sound, just west of the Intracoastal Waterway (and the Great Dismal Swamp Canal), Edenton, North Carolina, is often overlooked by cruisers heading north or south. That's a shame. Edenton is picturesque with a lovely waterfront area and gracious Georgian homes dating back centuries. Forbes.com once called Edenton "one of America's prettiest towns." And this year Edenton is celebrating its 350th anniversary, with a year-long series of festivals and special events.
Edenton actually traces its history back to 1658, when explorers from the Jamestown Colony found its natural harbor. The Edenton Colony became the first European settlement in what is now North Carolina; it later became the second capital of the state. The town prospered through a seagoing merchant trade before the Revolution, and it gained colonial fame when a group of 51 women formed the Edenton Tea Party, just after the Boston Tea Party, resolving to boycott English tea and cloth. Fortunately, the town escaped any damage during the Civil War, so the historic homes and buildings (the Courthouse dates to 1767) are still standing.
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today's news – JEWELS, BULLETS are sharp and shiny…Melbourne Cup field…keep reading Thoroughblog!
Careless Jewel
Small Canadian contingent is big on power
There are few Canadian based horses in the Breeders' Cup this year but what we do have is two very good chances to win 2 of the events on the 2-day series.
CARELESS JEWEL is 2nd favourite likely for the LADIE'S CLASSIC and how exciting for the Donver team of Donna and Verne Dubinsky, trainer Josie Carroll and jockey ROB LANDRY that ZENYATTA is not going in – she'll try boys in the Classic instead.
Ms. Jewel should be very tough to beat in the Ladies Classic and could provide Landry and team with the biggest win of their careers.
Interesting to note that yu can buy SWEET AND CAREKESS, the filly's dam, at the November sale next week. Offered by Windfield Farm through Brookdale as agent, Sweet and Careless is also the dam of former Woodbine claimer BLACK TEA – wonder if she is still owned by Albert Sanges?
FATAL BULLET is our other big hope and there were certainly mixed reviews about his final Cup workout on the weekend.
You can watch it on the video link below. Fatal Bullet reportedly always drifts out a bit in his works when he is not wearing blinkers – the blinkers he wears when he is focussed and set on racing.
Indeed the Bullet will be 1st or 2nd fave for Bear Stables, Reade Baker and jockey Eurico Rosa da Silva.
The TVG crew that poo-pooed the work by Fatal Bullet did not likely see his work last year before he was 2nd in the Sprint – it was similarly blase.
(And as one trainer said, YOU DON'T any Bentley's in the parking lot OF TV HOSTS!)
Here is a feature on FATAL BULLET:
SOMETHING TO CROW ABOUT….FATAL BULLET checks out a fine feathered friend at SANTA ANITA.
Janis Maine photo
TRIBAL BELLE sounds off, again
102 Beyer
She ran for $8,000 CLAIMING a year ago but yesterday at Woodbine, B.C.-bred TRIBAL BELLE ran a stunning 102 Beyer Figure in a win in the Ontario Fashion Stakes on a crisp, pleasant Nov. 1.
Similar to another Terry Jordan trainee, Hollywood hit, the filly just ran her rivals into the ground on a track that simply was not very fast.
The daughter of Tribunal threw down the gauntlet early, establishing
splits of :21.92 and :44.64. In the stretch, she stayed on well for her
fourth score of the season from five starts.
A four-year-old filly , Tribal Belle zipped six furlongs in 1:08.84, finishing 3 1/4 lengths in front of Glitter Rox.
Porte Bonheur was third.
"I was able to give her a breather around the turn," said winning
jockey Jim McAleney. "She was very comfortable from the three-eighths
pole to the quarter pole. She re-broke at the head of the stretch. She's
got that talent where she has a high cruising speed. She's a
Trainer Terry Jordan said it didn't worry him that Tribal Belle worked
four furlongs in just :51 2/5, breezing, on October 24.
"She won't work unless she has another horse with her," said Jordan.
"She seems to show up all the time. It doesn't concern us when she
doesn't work well."
The Ontario Fashion was the second consecutive added-money score for
Tribal Belle, who won the Grade 3 Seaway by a neck.
Tribal Belle returned $5.60, $2.90 and $2.30, combining with Glitter
Rox ($4.90, $3.10) for a $29.70 exactor. Porte Bonheur ($2.50) rounded
out a triactor worth $66.10. A $1 superfecta returned $114.25.
Jimmy Simms takes Labeeb
TORONTO, November 1 – The Elisabeth Alexander and Burr J.
Travis-owned Jimmy Simms led from gate to wire in Sunday's $106,400
Labeeb Stakes at Woodbine.
Jimmy Simms established easy early fractions over the 'good' going and
held off a determined challenge from the event's defending champion Just
Rushing, who was second by a head. River Heights was third.
The running time for one-mile was 1:38.07.
For trainer Roger Attfield, the Labeeb was his 12th added-money score
of the season at the Toronto oval, moving him back into a tie with
Malcolm Pierce, who had gone ahead on Saturday when Points of Grace won
the River Memories.
Jimmy Simms established easy early fractions over the 'good' going and
held off a determined challenge from the event's defending champion Just
Rushing, who was second by a head. River Heights was third.
The close result caught winning jockey Jono Jones a bit off guard
because Jimmy Simms hadn't been asked to run until the late stages of
the one-mile event.
"He relaxed through slow fractions," said Jones. "I knew I was moving
and (Just Rushing) was coming on the outside. I was surprised."
The victory is the first career stakes score for the bay Lost Soldier
colt, who is now 5-for-12 lifetime with an impressive 4-for-6 record
over the E.P. Taylor Turf Course.
Jimmy Simms entered the Labeeb off a two-month freshening. The
Kentucky-bred colt's most recent start was a sixth-place finish in the
Play the King.
"His last race we rated him a bit, which was a mistake," said Attfield.
"I blamed the course being soft, but I think it was probably the way we
went about it. It didn't look like there was any pace in here, outside
of him. We let him run his race and he ran tough."
The four-year-old is the 12th different horse from the Attfield barn to
capture a Woodbine added-money event in 2009.
Jimmy Simms returned $6.90, $4.70 and $3.30, combining with Just
Rushing ($6.70, $3.80) for a $38.40 exactor. River Heights ($6.20)
rounded out a triactor worth $273.
DYNA STROLL WASN'T TO BE DENIED IN 50th RUNNING OF THE ASCOT GRADUATION
Huitzilophochti beaten!
Vancouver, B.C. (Oct. 25/09) –Dyna Stroll had been chasing the opposition so much this year he could hardly be blamed for developing a complex. But his confidence was overflowing Sunday in winning the $100,000 AscotGraduation at Hastings Racecourse.
After losing to favoured Huitzilopochtli in three previous races, Dyna Stroll overcame a wide trip to beat
Silly Fella by two and one quarter lengths in a final time of 1:47.23. Huitzilophochti, winner of five
consecutive races, was running at a mile and sixteenth for the first time in his career Sunday and was finished after three quarters.
Trained by Troy Taylor, Dyna Stroll also gained a measure of revenge after finishing second to Silly Fella in
the Jack Diamond Futurity earlier this month. Winning jockey Mario Guitierrez had told owners Glen Todd and
Patrick Kinsella earlier that he thought Dyna Stroll would be a major threat with the added distance.
Dyna Stroll paid $9.60, $4.90 and $13.50 to show due some heavy wagering on Huitzilopochtli, running in a
three-horse entry, to finish in the top three.
Ebony N Ice bided her time and came from well off the pace to beat Victorious Vye by one and one quarter
lengths in Saturday's $100,000 Fantasy Stakes for 2-year-old fillies.
Jockey Quincy Welch, who had three winners on the day, took advantage of an early speed duel involving odds-on favourite Vying Ty Grr and Clandestiny to win the one mile and one sixteenth feature in a final time of 1:48.05.
Ebony N Ice, trained by Barbara Heads, earned $60,000 for owner Leif Nordahl and paid $15.30, $4.90 and $4.20.
MELBOURNE CUP, first Tues in Nov.
1 (won the race last year) VIEWED Bart Cummings Brad Rawiller 9 58.0
2 C'EST LA GUERRE (NZ) John Sadler Nicholas Hall 7 55.5
3 FIUMICINO (NZ) Michael, Wayne & John Hawkes Steven King 24 55.5
4 MASTER O'REILLY (NZ) Danny O'Brien Vlad Duric 16 55.0
5 MOURILYAN (IRE) Herman Brown Glyn Schofield 14 54.5
6 ROMAN EMPEROR (NZ) Bart Cummings Hugh Bowman 15
7 ISTA KAREEM (NZ) Colin Little Luke Nolen 23
8 CRIME SCENE (IRE) Saeed Bin Suroor Kerrin McEvoy 11
9 MUNSEF (GB) Ian Williams Zac Purton 5 53.0
10 ZAVITE (NZ) Anthony Cummings Mark Zahra 3
11 ALCOPOP Jake Stephens Dom Tourneur 12 52.5
12 HARRIS TWEED (NZ) Murray & Bjorn Baker Craig Newitt 20
13 KIBBUTZ (NZ) Jarrod McLean Chris Symons 8 52.5
14 NEWPORT Paul Perry Peter Wells 18 52.5
15 WARRINGAH (GB) Chris Waller Damien Oliver 17 52.5
16 GALLIONS REACH (NZ) Richard Yuill Dwayne Dunn 6
17 SPIN AROUND Steven Cooper Mark Du Plessis 4 52.0
18 BASALTICO (IRE) Luca Cumani Danny Nikolic 10 51.5
19 CAPECOVER (NZ) Alexander R Fieldes Noel Harris 19
20 DAFFODIL (NZ) Kevin Gray Chris Munce 21 51.5
21 SHOCKING Mark Kavanagh Corey Brown 22 51.0
22 ALLEZ WONDER Bart Cummings Michelle Payne 13 50.5
23 CHANGINGOFTHEGUARD (IRE) David Hayes Glen Boss 1
24 LEICA DING Darren Weir Craig Williams 2 50.5
Bart The Miracle Worker
Bart Cummings prowess as a thoroughbred horse trainer and his iconic stature in Australian racing is beyond
doubt – the accolade just gets tested every now and then.
Such is the case with the Melbourne Cup this afternoon. Bart has won twelve Cups, a record that will probably never be bettered but the scary thing is that after today he could have a "baker's dozen" of Cups on the
Fresh from another big race quinella, Viewed and Roman Emperor doing the honours in the Caulfield Cup a couple Of weeks back, Bart has the same pair primed to repeat the dose in the Melbourne Cup today.
The only trouble is, history is against all three events.
Last years Cup winner Viewed will be the first horse in history to win the Melbourne Cup one year and then
follow up with the Cups double the following year.
The only AJC Derby winner to win a Melbourne Cup as a four-year-old the following year was the immortal Phar Lap in 1929. Hall Mark did it as a three-year-old in 1933, so 2009 AJC Derby winner Roman Emperor will need to break an 80 year hoodoo if successful.


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It's like wearing your favorite blanket everywhere with you and warms you and makes you feel snug.
Combine vibrant colors with unusual prints.
Jeans and sweaters are always great combination.
Days when layered dress with a few sweaters was considered a big fashion mistake are gone.
So this season, try to combine with turtleneck sweater that you wear over it.
You will look trendy and will never be cold, but you can always take off a sweater if you too warm.
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