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South African healthy real estate market serves as a summary of the country's most sophisticated free-market economy on the African continent. Although South Africa represents only 3% of the Africa's surface area, it accounts for about 40% of all industrial productivity. About 75% of South Africa's economic activity occurs in the four main metropolitan areas (which together represent about 3% of the total land area) namely Johannesburg in Gauteng, Durban in KwaZulu Natal, Cape Town in Western Cape, and Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape. Of all the four mentioned provices, Gauteng is the financial and industrial hub and accounts approximately 40% of South Africa's Gross Domestic Product.
The country's trade, as a gateway for investment into Sub-Saharan Africa with and investment in other African States, has increased significantly since 1994. Concurrent to the country's industrial economy of established infrastructure and economic base, the property sector has also proven to be just as healthy with a room for further growth.
Gauteng is divided into the following regions:
CyberProp offers up to date properties for sale in the Gauteng province
Gauteng, which translates to, the place of gold, is the beating heart of South Africa, feeding it's power and stability from the majestic powerhouses of Johannesburg and Pretoria. It is filled with the history of change. With it's gorgeous real estate developments, Gauteng wears the trophy of success with pride and dignity. Boldly with it's financial power, this province is a boisterous show off with it's casinos such as Gold Reef City, Monte Casino and Caesar's Palace.
The purple of the Jacaranda carpet inviting you to the growth and variety of Pretoria. Freeing the imagination with the astonishing architecture of the government pulse, Union Buildings. Whichever way the Jacaranda City is entered, it's superiority is announced with breathtaking structures and the history of South Africa's being.
Bordering the Free State in the south, with the mighty Vaal River serving as beacon, Vanderbijlpark is filled with holiday resorts and just the place to take a boat to the water. Therefore it's reputation for it's waterfront property. Bordering the North West Province and the Limpopo Province to the north and Mpumalanga to the North East, the center of Gauteng is just an hour away from a great variety of tourism attractions.
Johannesburg offers a variety of real estate opportunities in Sandton, Bryanston, Fourways, Lonehill and in Midrand. The Midrand area also include the sought after real estate and smallholdings in the Kyalami area. To the west, property selection includes property in Randburg, Roodepoort, Krugersdorp, Randfontein and Florida with farms and smallholdings to the Lanseria area, where the Lanseria Airport is located.
To the south of Johannesburg prime property and new property developments are found in the Alberton, Bassonia, Glenvista and Mondeor. On the east of Johannesburg we have property available in Germiston, Benoni, Boksburg, Bedfordview, Edenvale and Kempton Park where the OR Tambo International Airport is located. At the complete South bordering the Free State we have a wide property selection in Heidelberg, Meyerton, Vereeniging and Vanderbijlpark. The so called Vaal Triangle with the famous Vaal river and Vaal dam is where we have choice riverfront property for sale.


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I am an author, entrepreneur and professor. Founder and CEO of Entrepreneur Enterprises LLC and Founder of A Cup of Cappuccino for the Entrepreneurs' Spirit Book Series. Three books in the series are currently available with the fourth coming out in 2011. I will be attending a National Publicity Summit in mid October and appearing before producers of National Media in New York City. I want to have my website exciting and professional.
Entrepreneurs and Aspiring Entrepreneurs, National Media, Booksellers and other interested parties. The book series featured on this website include stories of entrepreneurs including adversities, challenges, triumphs and successes. They are intended to inspire, educate and empower.
http://www.acupofcappuccino.com This website has most of the content I want but not the layout or professional look that I need. I am open to suggestions and would like to keep the same look with the Cup of Cappuccino on the Hundred Dollar Bills--this is my brand and on every book. I would like to incorporate my company logo Entrepreneur Enterprises LLC which published the books (doesn't have to be large) and have a nice box for the social media links. A box for photos from events would be nice. Volumes I, II and the Women Entrepreneurs' Edition are available. The Extraordinary Entrepreneurs' Edition will be out in 2011. I have attached my photo, Entrepreneur Enterprises logo, the Cup of Cappuccino logo, the four books (black is Volume I, red is Volume II, white is the Women Entrepreneurs' Edition which came out third and Gold is the Extraordinary Entrepreneurs' Edition which will be out in 2011), and my photo. Please take a look at the all pages to get a feel for the entire website (on the News tab each edition is listed and the media information). I have appeared on FOX Business and FOX Strategy Room and numerous radio shows. This may be something that could be added on the front page. Please be creative with a professional look. Can't wait to see your designs. : ) Jeretta

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Investors in hospital stocks apparently feared a win by Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney on Election Day, as a number of health-care providers' shares dropped Tuesday.
Led by industry giant HCA Holdings Inc. /quotes/zigman/1545475 /quotes/nls/hca HCA , a number of hospital shares saw substantive declines. Shares of HCA ended the day down 4% to $30.93.
Other players in the sector saw similar declines. Tenet Healthcare Corp. /quotes/zigman/12231717 /quotes/nls/thc THC ended the day off nearly 4% to $24.95. And Community Health Systems Inc. /quotes/zigman/261693 /quotes/nls/cyh CYH finished trading down 3.4% to $28.68.
Romney's pledge to repeal President Barack Obama's health-care overhaul bill upon taking office could be bad news for hospital companies, who were welcoming the relief from growing "bad debt" expenses that show up perpetually on their balance sheets. By requiring all to have insurance, the bill would have the effect of cutting down on the number of indigent patients who must be treated at hospital emergency rooms regardless of their ability to pay.
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This is an archived article that was published on sltrib.com in 2012, and information in the article may be outdated. It is provided only for personal research purposes and may not be reprinted.
West Valley City • Painful divisions among Utah's Vietnamese Buddhists about ownership of the Pho Quang Temple in west Salt Lake City appear to be worsening.
Recent weeks have seen a protest outside another Buddhist temple and break-ins targeting the West Valley City offices of one of Pho Quang's original founders.
A judge ordered opposing factions to share the temple at 1185 W. 1000 North in Rose Park while litigation about who controls the property deed inches forward in 3rd District Court. Groups are holding competing worship rituals on Saturdays and Sundays, but it remains an uneasy arrangement.
"A lot of members cannot participate on Saturdays," temple co-founder Hoa Vo said. "That is very tough on us. So many people are suffering."
The conflict pits Vo, other temple organizers and their supporters against a California-based corporation known as the Vietnamese-American Unified Buddhist Congress, which is seeking control of the property on behalf of a group of Buddhist monks and nuns. Nearly two years into litigation, the case is moving slowly, punctuated by a series of motions for temporary restraining orders and protracted fights about potential evidence. A trial if it comes to that is unlikely until well into 2013.
Frustrated backers of the temple founders staged their street protest last month outside the Lien Hoa Temple in West Valley City, hoping to draw the attention and sympathy of visiting monks from the Congress meeting inside. About 50 demonstrators chanted and waved signs near the temple gates, but the monks inside did not respond, in what several protesters pointed to as another sign that their local Buddhist community is being betrayed by religious leaders they once trusted.
"They were silent and didn't reach out to us," protest organizer Victoria Dang said. "They don't even talk to us."
For their part, Congress members say they are asserting legal control over the temple and its management in hopes of restoring religious stability to its adherents and bringing into line spiritually wayward congregation leaders. They often note that a significant portion of the Pho Quang congregation has sided with them.
The Congress, a U.S. branch of a religious organization outlawed in communist Vietnam, has sought to keep a low profile throughout the dispute, with its representatives saying the group is uncomfortable about publicity for what it views as more of a private religious affair than a legal matter.
"They don't like to have these types of battles and have sought to resolve this amicably," Salt Lake City attorney David Mortensen said. "The Congress is confident in its position and doesn't feel it is necessary to litigate it in the media."
The conflict is embarrassing to both sides and out of step with Buddhist tenets favoring harmony and compassion. It also highlights tensions between orthodox and secular aspects of Buddhist traditions transplanted from Asia to the U.S. and reaches deeply into Utah's growing urban Vietnamese immigrant community.
It may also be part of a bigger picture. The quarrel is uncannily similar to a fight in south Philadelphia among Vietnamese Buddhists about the Bo De Temple. There, too, temple members have clashed in court with the Vietnamese-American Unified Buddhist Congress about an attempted eviction, religious control, finances and temple ownership in a long-running schism that has left deep scars.
In Utah, Vietnamese Buddhists began worshipping at Pho Quang in 1996, when a group of as many as 100 first- and second-generation immigrants pooled resources and bought a former library after years of community fundraising. Through the years, they retrofitted the 5,952-square-foot structure with a worship hall, cloisters, classrooms and a shrine for ancestral ashes.
About 12 years ago, temple founders signed over the building's deed to monks belonging to the Congress. The transfer was partly a religious offering and partly a move to ease mutual distrust among members about management of the congregation's finances.
But the Congress never followed through on promises to send a resident monk to Pho Quang, leaving key ceremonial duties to lay worshippers, founders say. Financial disputes also emerged, coming to a head with construction of an $80,000 pagoda-style gate for the temple, which the Congress never authorized.
In 2011, the San Jose-based Congress transferred its ownership of the Pho Quang deed to a little-known group connected to head monk Thich Tri Lang, who oversees the Lien Hoa Buddhist Temple in West Valley City. The new deed holders moved last year to have local temple founders and their followers evicted. That ouster was halted in court.
Since then, the two sides have squabbled repeatedly about use of the temple, while they ready their cases before 3rd District Judge Kate A. Toomey. Court documents describe shouting matches, an altercation near the Rose Park temple's altar involving one leading nun and rancor about how to handle celebrations of Vietnamese New Year.
Legal wrangling also has focused on business documents and other evidence relevant to the case. At one point, local founders sought a partial protective order seeking to shield information on congregation membership and finances they considered private.
Then, sometime around Sept. 21, burglars ransacked three business offices adjoining the travel agency Vo operates in a West Valley City strip mall, leaving valuables and computer equipment but, Vo said, taking documents central to the Pho Quang lawsuit.
Adding to the intrigue, the burglary was discovered while Vo and fellow temple founder and lawsuit defendant Chuc Phan were across town being deposed in the case.
"It is strange to everyone, very odd and very suspicious," Vo said. "It's hard to believe that people weren't looking for those documents. They took them all."


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The final boss battle is interesting and epic, but also somewhat problematic. There are a lot of moving hazards involved in the battle, and the companion A.I. simply isn't up to the challenge. Even with a great deal of pausing and micromanaging, it's difficult to keep a party of four from killing itself on environmental hazards. Although there's a certain cachet to facing down an ancient evil with a single rogue and her faithful Mabari hound after the rest of the party has burned itself to a crisp, that strategy is unlikely to work at higher difficulty levels. Many players will be facing several frustrated reloads, especially with a lower-level party.
The full story takes four or five hours to complete, which, while not extensive, is within reason for a DLC package. Hawke will come out of the experience with a nice new armor set and a powerful class-specific weapon, as well as some touching scenes with the Hawke family. It's possible to backtrack through the main dungeon after the final boss battle in order to seek out missed loot or complete side quests, but once Hawk initiates the final conversation that completes the DLC, Legacy will be inaccessible for the remainder of that playthrough.
Dragon Age II: Legacy isn't going to convince anybody who strongly disliked Dragon Age II to come back to the fold, but it shows improvement in terms of level and encounter design from the original game. The vignettes with various companions—especially Hawke's sibling—add nicely to the overall game's story, and it's nice to see the battle and dungeon layout improvements provided by Legacy's development team. It's a solid, albeit short, DLC addition that bodes well for any planned expansions to Dragon Age II.
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giantkiller needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 196 designs submitted by 52 freelance designers.
New Mixed martial arts clothing company needs logo and icon design. This will be a great gig for any MMA fans, we will need clothing designs in the future too!
Giant Killer - http://www.GiantKillerInc.com
Giant Killer is a new mixed martial arts clothing line.
Giant Killer stands for a couple different things. 1st and foremost it plays off of the old David and Goliath story, representing the underdog and the warrior. It is also a Jiu Jitsu move created by the Gracies (the founders of brazilian jiu jitsu)
We are looking for a logo and an icon that represents the brand and the sport, as for the logo we want something similar to what we have now, you can see it at http://www.giantkillerinc.com
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The following crimes are from the week of October 6 to October 12, 2013.
Oct. 3. 300 block W. Northwestern Avenue. Complainant states that he went for a run in park, and when he returned to his vehicle he discovered several credit cards were missing and charges were made.
Oct. 5. Unit block E. Highland Avenue. Complainant states that between 10:30 p.m. on Oct. 5 and 10 p.m. on Oct. 7, an unknown person took money from cash register. Complainant believes that someone may have key.
Oct. 11. 7700 block Stenton Avenue. Complainant states that between 11 a.m. on Oct. 9 and 11 a.m. on Oct. 11, an unknown person stole four 19" alloy tires from a gray 2014 Mazda.
Oct. 12. Unit block W. Northwestern Avenue. Complainant states that an unknown person stole three credit cards from a gold 2008 Subaru Forester.
Missing Oct. 8 and Oct. 9 because police computer was down.
Summary – Four crimes for week: two thefts and two thefts from vehicles.
Town Watch.
If you have been the victim of a crime and would like information, service or support, call Northwest Victim Services, 6301 Germantown Ave., Second Floor, Suite One, 215-438-4410. The service is free.
Community Crime Meeting/PSA 4 — Oct. 23, 2013, 7 p.m.
Water Tower Recreation Center, Hartwell Lane & Ardleigh Street.
If you have a question or concern about crime in your neighborhood, this is a great opportunity to talk to the police and voice your concerns. For information about neighborhood crime meetings in the 14th district go to phillypolice.com/districts/14th or call 215-686-3140.


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Sterling Breeze, A Sterling Resort
Sterling Breeze is one of Panama City Beach's newest and most luxurious beachfront condominiums. It is the perfect family vacation destination. Overlooking the sugar white sands of Panama City Beach, Sterling Breeze offers spacious boutique-style 1-, 2- and 3-bedroom condos (some with bonus bunkrooms) with private balconies featuring electric grills, well appointed interiors that feature luxury finishes and complete home entertainment centers. Amenities include gulf-front overflow edge pool and whirlpool spa, state-of-the-art fitness room, pool side internet cafe & wire bar, and covered parking. Sterling Breeze is located 1/2 mile from PIER PARK, featuring popular restaurants, amusements and shopping. Also, less than 1 mile from Frank Brown Park, Panama City Beach's premiere recreational park.


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Hopkins (Minnesota)
Hopkins is a city in the Twin Cities.
Until 1893, Hopkins was part of Minneapolis. That year, residents of Hopkins sent the Hennepin County Board of Commissioners a petition signed by 41 residents, asking that a separate village be formed. Following an election, the community was then incorporated as the village of West Minneapolis. In 1928 the village name was changed to Hopkins, and in 1948 Hopkins officially became a city.
Hopkins is a dynamic community of over 17,000 residents located just 13 minutes west of Minneapolis. Founded rich in tradition and growth, Hopkins offers the advantages and conveniences of a large City but yet the security of a small town.
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The workpackages to be undertaken by this project are:
- Work Package 1: Repository deployment and support
This workpackage will establish a Federation comprising a baseline of six partners with populated data repositories. Appropriate Federation agreements and policies will be established between partners and will be underpinned by a Federation Framework. A phased Roll-out Plan for practical deployment will be produced, with the Universities of Sydney, Glasgow and Newcastle in the first tranche, all using the eCrystals/ePrints software platform. The other partners (ReciprocalNet, Cambridge, STFC and ARCHER), operating repositories on different software platforms, will be introduced at a later stage.
- Work Package 2: Repository interoperability and linking services
One of the main aims of WP2 will be to establish a "core" Federation Application Profile, and to achieve full agreement and adherence to the Profile by all participating data repositories. The role of the Information Environment Metadata Schema Registry in this process will be investigated, and mappings between existing schema's will be explored. The project will form the basis of a testbed for the OAI-ORE protocol.
- Work Package 3: Repository interactions with data centres, publishers and learned societies
Appropriate harvesting and aggregator services will be tested in partnership with publishers and data centres. eCrystals will work with IUCr, RSC, CCDC and CDS to establish scaleable harvesting mechanisms for data repository records.
WP4 will build on the Data Curation and Preservation Work Package Deliverable from eBank Phase 3, (A scoping study on the curation and preservation issues in the eCrystals Repository and Federation), which identified several areas relevant to preservation and curation which need to be addressed. These include: audit and certification for long-term repositories; identification of critical Representation Information (which encompasses anything that may be required to convert data into information, including standards, data dictionaries, semantics and software); the identification of critical preservation metadata; and conformance of repository software to the OAIS Reference Model.
- Work Package 5: Advocacy and Dissemination
Advocacy services and other support, will be developed by the Federation, informed by an analysis of researcher requirements. This will build on the results from the SPECTRa and R4L Survey, and will complement Repository Support Project advocacy work. Each partner will set realistic targets for populating their repository with data sets, and practical experience in successful advocacy methods and approaches will be shared, and will contribute to wider policy development.
- Work Package 6: Project Management
Project administration and management will be carried out by the Project Manager at the University of Southampton. A Project start-up meeting and quarterly face-to-face team meetings will be held with partners, in addition to fortnightly teleconferences/Access Grid sessions to monitor progress. A project plan will be developed and progress reports and updates will be produced for JISC as required.
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Garces, L R and Silvestre, G T and Stobutzki, I and Gayanilo Jr, F C and Valdez, F and Saupi, M and Boonvanich, T and Roongratri, M and Thouc, P and Purwanto, and Haroon, I and Kurup, K N and Srinath, M and Rodrigo, H A B and Santos, M D and Torres Jr., F S B and Tan, M K and Pauly, D (2006) A regional database management system—the fisheries resource information system and tools (FiRST): Its design, utility and future directions. Fisheries Research, 78 (1-2). pp. 119-129.


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Three mountain lions attack pets
January 29, 2013
Two pets were attacked by mountain lions early Tuesday morning in Woodland. One pet was found dead and another injured less than a mile away.
The incidents are still under investigation, and information about what type of pets were attacked has not yet been released.
An officer from the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources (DWR) responded to the report and was able to quickly track one of the mountain lions responsible for the animal's death and euthanize it.
Two more mountain lions were discovered by late morning.
In all, three mountain lions were captured and euthanized: one adult female and two young mountain lions.
Douglas estimates there are about six incidents in Northern Utah involving mountain lions each year.
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"It happens especially near people that live in areas close to the winter range where deer come down. That's what mountain lions are following," Douglass said.
In the winter, when the snow gets too deep for deer in the high country, they migrate down to where more food is available, such as sagebrush and bitterbrush, he added.
"Woodland is an area where deer will come down to spend the winter, so there is a possibility that mountain lions will be in that area, too," he said.
Pets are especially vulnerable to mountain lion attacks, particularly pets that are chained up or who tend to escape.
To protect pets from preying mountain lions, Douglass suggests owners bring them indoors, particularly at night.
"We also manage mountain lions aggressively to keep the numbers in check for people that live in areas where there is a possibility of mountain lions coming down," he said.
Managing the mountain lions includes euthanizing them when there is a clear public threat of life or damage, such as the loss of pets.
The DWR also issues hunting permits throughout the state to keep the mountain lion population in check.
"We are the guardians and trustees of the state's wildlife," Douglas said. "And so conservation of wildlife is one of our purposes. But we have to balance that with public safety as well."
Living in mountain lion country
Courtesy of the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources
Do not feed wildlife. Feeding wildlife attracts animals to your yard that may be prey of mountain lions, thus attracting them to your yard.
Do not feed pets outside. Mountain lions will eat pet food, and the food could attract them to your yard. Keep pets indoors at night as well, as pets make easy prey.
Make your yard deer-proof. If your landscaping is attractive to deer, mountain lions will follow the deer and hang close to your property.
Dense vegetation makes great hiding places for mountain lions. Remove vegetation that could be a hiding place, making your yard less friendly for them.
Outdoor lighting and motion-sensitive lighting is a deterrent for the secretive mountain lion. Lights also make approaching mountain lions visible.
Secure livestock in a barn or shed at night. If that is impossible, a small, well-lit pen close to a structure is the next-best option.
Keep a close eye on your children when they are playing outside. Bring children in before dusk when mountain lions begin to hunt.
For more information about mountain lion safety visit http://www.wildlife.utah.gov.


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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Karl Zimmerer, professor and head of the Department of Geography, has received the first Alexander and Ilse Melamid Medal from the American Geographical Society (AGS). The Melamid Medal is given for outstanding work on the dynamic relationship between human culture and natural resources. It was established in 2002 by a gift from Ilse Melamid, in memory of her late husband Alexander Melamid.
"I feel extremely honored to receive the Melamid Medal from the American Geographic Society in recognition of my work on human environmental change and its impact on not only ongoing research and scholarship but also real world decisionmaking, biodiversity and development policy, resource management, and real people's landscapes and livelihoods," Zimmerer said. "I also feel like I'm being welcomed into an exquisite group of geographers and environmental thinkers and doers including E. Willard Miller and Ruby Miller, Rachel Carson, and -- one of my heroes for numerous reasons including the creation of such environmental initiatives as the Soil Conservation Service and the Civilian Conservation Corps program that led to greater public awareness and wiser management of the nation's natural resources -- President Franklin D. Roosevelt."
"Dr. Zimmerer has received numerous awards and honors, including the C.O. Sauer Award from the Conference of Latin American Geographers, a Guggenheim Fellowship and he is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science," noted Jerome Dodson, president and director of the American Geographical Society. "His numerous publications have been cited extensively, and he is widely recognized as an international leader in the fields of political ecology and development. For these reasons and others, he is exceptionally well qualified to receive the first Melamid Medal."
Alexander Melamid joined the AGS Council in 1975 and was one of the longest-serving members of the council. Research, consulting, and visiting professorships took him to Nigeria, Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, Puerto Rico, Cyprus, Turkey, Ethiopia, Iran and a stunning assortment of other locations throughout the Middle East. His usual practice was to bring back locally produced maps and publications for the AGS library from the most out-of-the-way places he traveled; because of that, the society is in debt to him for some very unusual maps, books and journals, almost impossible to acquire by other means.
The American Geographical Society is an organization of professional geographers and other devotees of geography who share a fascination with the subject and a recognition of its importance. It is internationally important as one of the two largest professional geographic organizations in the United States and is also the country's oldest national geographical organization.
Zimmerer will receive the medal and give a public address at a ceremony to be held in the main auditorium of St. Francis College in New York City on Dec. 6. His talk to this audience is based on new research and is titled "Giving Rise to Sustainability: Tropical mountain landscapes and cities." Additonal information on Zimmerer's Melamid medal and his public address will be posted at the AGS website.
Zimmerer will receive the medal and give a public address at a ceremony to be held in the main auditorium of St. Francis College in New York City on December 6, 2013. His talk to this audience is based on new research and is titled "Giving Rise to Sustainability: Tropical mountain landscapes and cities."


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|India's scam of the year
|2015.07.17 15:26:07
This is one scam that the Hindu right wing party ruling in Delhi and in Bhopal, the capital of the central Indian province of Madhya Pradesh, will have to live through for a long time. It is so big that most parts of the country are involved in it and its reverberations have travelled far and wide.
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|Nestle's Maggi Noodle has a run in with Indian officialdom
|2015.06.21 19:02:42
Nestle India got it out of the blue right in the neck. The "blue" in this surprising event was the innocuous state of Uttar Pradesh (UP). A stray safety test of Nestlé's 2-Minute Noodles yielded lead content far too excess in proportion than what was permissible. And all hell broke loose – for Nestle India.
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|Common Man's Party chief turns authoritarian
|2015.04.23 19:48:49
There is something unstable in Kejriwal's persona that makes him behave in the way he mostly does. He has that penchant for 'self-destruct' and, in the process, he betrays the faith reposed in him by hundreds and thousands of common, educated and well-meaning people as also civil society organizations. One wonders whether he has that inscrutable split personality like that of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, as it seems there has been a sea change in his personality and conduct since the days of the movement appropriately known as India Against Corruption (IAC).
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|Heavy poaching of Indian rhinos
|2015.03.15 19:18:09
Whether in South Africa or in India poaching of rhinos has assumed alarming levels. In South Africa, which has the largest population of rhinos and which is an important country for their conservation, poaching has reached a crisis point so much so that if the killings continue at the current rate, it is estimated, the species could be pushed close to extinction. In 2014 as many as 1215 rhinos were killed and the South African Department of Environment calculated that that amounted to poaching of one rhino every 8 hours.
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|Vulnerable Indian rhinos
|2015.03.14 19:05:58
Whether in South Africa or in India poaching of rhinos has assumed alarming levels. In South Africa, which has the largest population of rhinos and which is an important country for their conservation, poaching has reached a crisis point so much so that if the killings continue at the current rate, it is estimated, the species could be pushed close to extinction. In 2014 as many as 1215 rhinos were killed and the South African Department of Environment calculated that that amounted to poaching of one rhino every 8 hours.
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|Tigers endangered despite rise in their numbers
|2015.02.05 19:26:56
A lot of cheer has been brought to tiger and wildlife lovers by the latest Tiger Census conducted in late 2014. There seems to have been a revival in its numbers after the dismal count of 2006 when it had registered 1411 tigers. A marginal increase to 1706 was registered in 2011.
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|Gas lamps of London
|2015.01.23 15:05:32
The feature on lamplighters of London in the Times of India of last Sunday literally dug out from the deep recesses of my mind the memories of gas lamps and their lighters in my birthplace Gwalior in Central India. More than 60 years ago in the early 1940s Gwalior was a small town of about 80000 or so but it used to be the capital of the princely state carrying the same name. Its maharaja was the third richest of all the Indian maharajas after the Nizam of Hyderabad, and Maharaja of Mysore. Being the capital, it had stately buildings, a beautiful palace that was built in the 19th Century on the pattern of the palace at Versailles and broad roads. While most of the roads were illuminated at night by electric incandescent bulbs many lanes, including ours, had gas lights to light them up.
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|Modi's clarion call for cleaning up India
|2014.10.15 18:40:52
About thirty years ago while on a visit to the Peoples' Republic of China I used to watch Chinese films on the small black & white TV set having nothing to do in the evenings. True, I did not understand a word of what was said and yet, for understanding emotions one does not need to know the language. The films used to be mostly about peasants and workers with young boys and girls working together.
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|Modi's victory proves leadership is vital in elections
|2014.08.27 18:24:41
The recent statement of the chief of much-maligned Right-wing Hindu organisation Rashtriya Swayam Sevak (RSS), Mohan Bhagwat on the massive win of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) at the last General Elections was true but only partially so. Bhagwat is reported to have said that the victory at the hustings for the BJP was not because of one man, as claimed by many, but because the people wanted a change. He went on to say that an individual alone could not have ensured the Party's victory unless people were keen on a change. He went on to ask why is it that the Party was not voted to power when the same individuals and the party existed earlier, too? The Party won because the people desperately wanted a change.
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|Angry Gods of Himalayas
|2014.08.03 15:52:16
The pilgrimage to Badrinath and Kedarnath as also to what is known as "Chaar Dhaam yatra" in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhad has come to a halt on account of heavy incessant rains, both in the Shivaliks and on the Himalayas. Consequently, there have been floods and landslides; the roads are blocked and the pilgrims in thousands are stranded at various places on the way up to the temples of Badrinath and Kedarnath at the elevations of more than 10000 ft. and more than 11500 ft, respectively.
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|Indian Railways need profile-change
|2014.07.14 19:08:31
Derailment of the prestigious New Delhi- Dibrugarh Rajdhani Express the other day near Chhapra in Bihar is virtually a wake-up call for the Indian Railways and its newly appointed minister. It is not yet certain what caused the accident that reportedly took four lives. Whether it was sabotage or plain neglect and incompetence on the part of the tracks inspection staff is yet to be ascertained. Inquiries are going to be conducted but a later report said that the Intelligence Bureau had sent an alert about a Maoist threat. The area is Maoists-affected. Nonetheless, it would be premature to arrive at any conclusion.
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|Neymar's injury: increasing aggression in sports
|2014.07.13 15:20:29
The Colombian Zuniga's downing of football's superstar Neymar that broke the latter's vertebra took away bit of sheen from the "Beautiful Game". The violence of this kind does not quite mix with sports, be it football or sport of any other kind. The Brazil game against Colombia was particularly rough with as many as 54 fouls whistled down and of them 31 were committed by the Brazilians. If this is reckoned as beautiful, one wouldn't know what beautiful is. Fouls are certainly committed in inadvertence but, as one noticed, players were being pulled away or being deliberately downed to prevent them from carrying on with the game. And this happened not once, or twice; it happened umpteen numbers of times in the games I happened to watch. To me, this does not appear like sport. One plays a game, after all, for pleasure and to extend pleasure to the spectators. It is neither a matter of life and death nor is it a matter of national prestige. Then why go and do something like breaking somebody's back – literally?
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|Indian Railways need to change its profile
|2014.07.13 15:16:37
Derailment of the prestigious New Delhi- Dibrugarh Rajdhani Express the other day near Chhapra in Bihar is virtually a wake-up call for the Indian Railways and its newly appointed minister. It is not yet certain what caused the accident that reportedly took four lives. Whether it was sabotage or plain neglect and incompetence on the part of the tracks inspection staff is yet to be ascertained. Inquiries are going to be conducted but a later report said that the Intelligence Bureau had sent an alert about a Maoist threat. The area is Maoists-affected. Nonetheless, it would be premature to arrive at any conclusion.
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|Tea in Indian politics
|2014.04.09 18:57:01
By being undiplomatic in his language in a talk he delivered at a recent All India Congress Committee session Mani Shankar Ayer, a Cambridge graduate, a former career diplomat and a Tamil Brahmin to boot brought chai (tea) back into politics. Ayer promised to the gathering that the BJP PM candidate Narendra Modi would never become prime minister of the country in the 21st Century. And, he went on to add, "But if he wants to distribute tea here, we will find a place for him."
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|India falteringly heads towards sustainable transport
|2014.03.05 19:49:44
Almost every city in India is being choked today with traffic. There has been an automobile revolution since the economy was opened up and infestation of automobiles in Indian roads has progressively increased to an alarming extent. While before 1991 only a few thousand vehicles used to be manufactured, that number went up to 3.9 million in 2011. Almost all major producers have descended on the country to establish manufacturing facilities. Despite a claimed slow-down in off-take in the succeeding years a few more lakh vehicles must have been added in 2012 and 2013.
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|India's North-East needs separate time zone
|2014.01.30 19:36:09
It is good to hear that the demand for a separate time zone for the North Eastern states of India has been revived. The proposal, it seems, is with the government and is in active consideration. It had to be so, as no less a person than Tarun Gogoi, chief minister of the state of Assam, the biggest north-eastern state, has taken up the matter. In any case, regardless of what happens to the proposal, the Chief Minister is reportedly set on introducing the "Garden Time" in Assam soon. Introduced by the British tea planters over a century and a half ago for the tea garden workers it would be an hour ahead of the Indian Standard Time (IST).
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|India could help save Sumatran tiger
|2013.12.21 16:11:16
Looks like our escalating imports of palm oil from Indonesia will see the end of the Sumatran Tiger. While we in India would seem to be lucky in still hosting some tigers, we, however, might well be the reason for extinction of the tigers in Sumatra.
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|Dreams sold by ad world
|2013.12.13 18:48:39
The recent elections in Madhya Pradesh set off a veritable ad war. In making extravagant claims of accomplishments of the government during the last five years the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) took recourse to exaggerations and bluffs. Photographs of green farms and silky smooth highways were picked up from the internet and passed on as achievements of the government. Keeping a keen eye, the men of the Opposition – the Indian National Congress –pounced at the opportunity screaming that the ads of the saffron brigade were a "collage of lies". The Congress in the opposition has been quite bitchy even otherwise. This was election time and it lost no time to go all out to embarrass the party in power and unleashed a frontal attack.
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|Indo-Pak peace process -
|2013.11.11 19:42:17
Why flog it when it is lifeless
Arun Jaitley, leader of the Opposition in the Upper House of Indian Parliament, very tersely said recently in New York that "terror and dialogue can't coexist". This was in the context of the Indian government's keenness to continue Indo-Pak dialogue. Even as he was speaking infiltration bids continued on the Line of Control (LoC), the border between the two Kashmirs.
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|A take on Indian politicians
|2013.08.29 19:34:23
"I spoke to Mulayam-ji at 10.30 PM. Then I spoke to CM (chief minister) Akhilesh Yadav. And at 11.11 PM the Collector received the SDM's suspension order – within 41 minutes the order came. This is the strength of democracy" thundered Narendra Bhati, a Samajwadi Party member, in a rally he organised at Gautam Budh Nagar in NOIDA in the state of Uttar Pradesh on July 28, 2013.
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I had the opportunity to be one of the first to try out the new Wii Fit suite at my number 2 daughter's school today. As a "special treat," the mothers who attend the weekly parents' group got to take it over for almost an hour.
I had reservations about even participating. For one thing, I've know about the things I would have issues with concerning the system for months now. For another, I have very little experience with video game consoles in general, so I felt like a right idiot even being in the same room as these things!
But I have to admit: I had a great time.
Caroline, one of the other mothers, happens to own one, so she patiently explained to me how it worked. And then one of the school employees and I beat the pants off of her and her daughter at tennis! 😉
(I also managed to bash Natasha [Caroline's daughter] in the arm with my control thingie during the game. I felt SO bad!)
Then I moved over to the other console and played the hula hoop game pictured above with the lady who runs the library. Oh man, is that ever addictive!
And I have to admit that when I was done, I had that pleasant ache in my hips that I get when exercising. That little one that is like my muscles are saying to me "We're still here and we still work! Thank you for moving us a little today!"
And there I was, in a room with 5 other women, moving my body and having FUN, and it occurred to me what a wonderful thing this could have been.
I say "could have been," because the fact that I had fun didn't negate the fact that there are serious problems with the game. That still remains a fact.
It remains a fact that it follows the bullshit BMI standards.
It remains a fact that anyone so much as one pound into the "overweight" category gets a little Mii that has a stomach hanging down to its knees. (In other words, if you're not "normal," you're OMG TEH FATZ UR GONNA DIE!!!!ELEVENTY-ONE!!!11!1!)
It remains a fact that it's touted as being a "weapon in the war against obesity."
The fact that it also happens to be fun doesn't change those facts.
But it could be so much more.
And that's what went through my head as I was wiggling my hips and swinging my arms and doing things that made my body feel good. That this Wii Fit thing could have been so much more than what it is.
And it's such a shame that it wasn't.
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I cannot begin to tell you how much all of your emails and comments have meant to me. I read each and every one of them, and every one of them helped more than I can say. (And yet I'm still sadder than I've ever been. This seems mathematically impossible, but my emotions are terrible at math.)
Right now I'm feeling a lot of things, and soon enough I will write long and confused posts about this bizarre rollercoaster ride I'm on, but first I wanted to say thank you. To all of you out there, and to those close to home. I have an amazing family who have rallied around me, parents who came and cried with me and made dinner and cleaned my refrigerator, friends who visited and sent gifts and let me cry all over them and took Henry on extended playdates. I have an impossibly sweet boy who has remained, I am pleased to say, mostly oblivious to what's going on. (Although this morning he pointed out that I haven't played with him in months. I have some serious catching up to do.) And I have the greatest husband of all time. (Sorry, ladies, but I win.) And if I say anything more about how much he's done for me, I'll start crying again, and sheesh, my mascara is already messed up enough. (Yes, I applied mascara this morning. I had this delusion that today maybe I wouldn't cry. Ha ha! HAAArggh hmm.)
More later.


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Aristocrat. Catholic. Patriot. Founder.
Before his death in 1832, Charles Carroll of Carrollton—the last living signer of the Declaration of Independence—was widely regarded as one of the most important Founders. Today, Carroll's signal contributions to the American Founding are overlooked, but the fascinating new biography American Cicero rescues Carroll from unjust neglect.
Drawing on his considerable study of Carroll's published and unpublished writings, historian Bradley J. Birzer masterfully captures a man of supreme intellect, imagination, integrity, and accomplishment. Born a bastard, Carroll nonetheless became the best educated (and wealthiest) Founder. The Marylander's insight, Birzer shows, allowed him to recognize the necessity of independence from Great Britain well before most other Founders. Indeed, Carroll's analysis of the situation in the colonies in the run-up to the Revolution was original and brilliant—yet almost all historians have ignored it. Reflecting his classical and liberal education, the man who would be called "The Last of the Romans" advocated a proper understanding of the American Revolution as deeply rooted in the Western tradition. Carroll even left his mark on the U.S. Constitution despite not assuming his elected position to the Constitutional Convention: by inspiring the creation of the U.S. Senate.
American Cicero ably demonstrates how Carroll's Catholicism was integral to his thought. Oppressed because of his faith—Maryland was the most anti-Catholic of the original thirteen colonies—Carroll became the only Roman Catholic to sign the Declaration of Independence and helped legitimize Catholicism in the young American republic.
What's more, Birzer brilliantly reassesses the most controversial aspects of Charles Carroll: his aristocratic position and his critiques of democracy. As Birzer shows, Carroll's fears of extreme democracy had ancient and noble roots, and his arguments about the dangers of democracy influenced Alexis de Tocqueville's magisterial work Democracy in America.
American Cicero reveals why Founders such as John Adams assumed that Charles Carroll would one day be considered among the greats—and also why history has largely forgotten him.
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"An excellent short biography." —Weekly Standard
"Birzer rightly presents Carroll as the proper object of deep interest and admiration." —First Things
"Birzer is one of today's finest biographers. With meticulous scholarship, he places Charles Carroll back on the pedestal from which previous generations of neglectful historians had unceremoniously removed him." —Joseph Pearce, author of Tolkien: Man and Myth
"A sympathetic and engaging account of the man now best known as the only Catholic and the longest-lived among the signers of the Declaration of Independence . . . Clear, graceful prose . . . Learned, lively." —Catholic Historical Review
"Birzer helps resurrect Carroll's historical contributions . . . [and offers] an appreciation of Carroll as an influential thinker who helped establish American independence and legitimize Roman Catholicism in the United States." —Columbia
"Excellent. Birzer rescues Charles Carroll—one of the great figures in America's Founding—from an unjustified obscurity. A compelling portrait of a man Americans need to know and remember." —James R. Otteson, professor of philosophy and economics, Yeshiva University
"Brilliant . . . Meticulously researched and engagingly written, American Cicero provides a fine-grained portrait of the critical decades that birthed the American Republic—and recovers the powerful role that Christian faith played in creating our political freedom." —Bruce S. Thornton, author of Greek Ways: How the Greeks Created Western Civilization
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"Jerusalem", the new album from Swedish melodic metallers ASTRAL DOORS, will be released in October. The CD, which will be made available as a jewelcase, digipack and on vinyl, was mixed by Daniel Bergstrand, who has previously worked with BEHEMOTH, MESHUGGAH, DIMMU BORGIR, STRAPPING YOUNG LAD and SOILWORK, among others. The cover art was designed by Mattias Eriksson and can be seen below.
Commented the band: "Daniel Bergstrand and Rickard Sporrong made an incredible mix and we just can't wait to share this album with the world."
"Jerusalem" track listing:
01. Seventh Crusade
02. With A Stranger's Eye
03. Child Of Rock 'N' roll
04. Pearl Harbor
05. Lost Crucifix
06. Babylon Rise
07. Suicide Rime
08. The Battle Of Jacob's Ford
09. Operation Freedom
10. The Day After Yesterday
11. Jerusalem
A teaser for "Jerusalem" is available in the YouTube clip below.
ASTRAL DOORS previously stated that the upcoming album will "be something special. This time around we deal with religion, and all the shit it has brought to the world, once and for all."
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"... to learn from it and to pass that on to others..."
I received that as a comment from a blogger-mate based on the other side of the world. Of course, he was referring to the latest in my world on two wheels. But it reminded me of one of the reasons I started this blog in the first place. I wanted to share some of my experiences with people that somehow would find this blog and somehow would change and improve something in their own lives.
Perhaps I haven't succeeded in doing so. Perhaps I never will. But I will keep trying, writing about my experiences and views, as a cyclist or not and on different topics, hoping that someone, anywhere, can one day sit back and say:
"- OK, I am learning something from this..."
Like I am!
Dish #1
On today's post, something on food. When I was growing up, everything, more or less, was related to large and delicious meals. Not the most balanced and healthy meals sometimes (too many desserts) and, as a compulsive surfer and the son of a restaurant entrepreneur, I ate too much, most of the times.
Today is a little different, and as a cyclist the subject always attracts questions on nutritional values and calorie counts. But I am not going to go into those details, I will let someone else do that and will just introduce a dish that is easy to make and, as one will find out and hopefully report on, as nutritious as it looks.
Tuna and Avocado Spaghetti
1/2 onion and 2 cloves of garlic
Broccoli (beans, snow peas or anything green)
and 1 avocado (thrown in last)
Frying with Olive oil
Tuna, spaghetti #5 and
cream (or low fat milk)
Add salt & pepper to taste,
1 x glass of Sauvignon Blanc
Bon appetite and safe riding!


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Chaves Bakery opens store in Fairfield
A business that has been owned and operated by the same family for more than 30 years, Chaves Bakery has opened a new bakery in Fairfield at 401 Kings Highway.
Known for their Portuguese , bread, rolls and custard cups, which Marlene Chaves called "our signature items," the Chaves family's Fairfield store is a full-service bakery that carries Portuguese, Italian and French baked goods.
The Fairfield bakery opened March 7, and offers a variety of breads, pastries, cookies and doughnuts, custom-made cakes including wedding cakes, plus a deli and self-service beverage area.
The headquarters for the business is at the family's bakery on State Street in Bridgeport, and trucks bring freshly baked goods to the Fairfield bakery from there, Chaves said. Her husband, her in-laws and her brother-in-law all work in the family business.
The other Chaves bakeries are on East Main Street in Bridgeport, Monroe and two Ambrosia bakeries owned by the family in Stratford and Milford. The family recently sold its bakeries in Shelton and Seymour, according to Marlene Chaves.
The family works hard to provide consistently high-quality baked goods at all their locations, she said.
"Running a bakery isn't just putting a flower on a cake. It's hard work," she said.
Inside the Fairfield store, there are racks of breads and rolls behind the counter, and freshly decorated cakes in a revolving case. The deli counter offers breakfast and lunch sandwiches to go, and everything from a giant sub sandwich for a football game to a child's birthday cake can be ordered.
She also plans to add seating inside the bakery so customers can enjoy their baked goods and sandwiches on the premises.
The Fairfield bakery's hours are Monday through Saturday from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Sunday from 6 a.m. to 5 p.m. For information or to place an order, call 203-908-3877.


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I'm so glad I don't have a picture of me in Dickens. Besides, that I've only gone to a few times, I've never worked it..theCryptofishist wrote:Oh, d on't worry Eric. It's really those Dickens Faire people who deserve to be buried with a stake of holly in their stony little hearts.
gaminwench- I think everybody who's even thought about working Faire in CA has a Dyespot flat-cap.


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By my count, Mists' Y'Shaarj-influenced Siege of Orgrimmar will make three of the five releases (including Vanilla) that was overshadowed with an Old God-esque ending: Vanilla, Cataclysm, and Mists. You could also make an argument that the Lich King, while tracing a lineage back to the Burning Legion, is also heavily influenced by Yogg-Saron*; after all, what exactly does Arthas use as a metal for his devices and buildings but Saronite, the blood of Yogg-Saron itself. And don't forget the Old God influenced quest chain in Icecrown where the ghostly child teaches you about Arthas and his heart; there's a reason why we found Arthas' heart in that strange area in the first place.
What makes the Y'Shaarj tie-in so disappointing to me was that the entire concept of the Sha was so new and interesting that it seems a shame that Blizzard couldn't let it stand on it's own. Just like how the Mogu had to have the help of the Zandalari Trolls, the underlying cause of the Sha just had to be the Old Gods.
I suppose you could say that Blizzard has an addiction to conspiracies. The popular uprising in Westfall characterized by the Defias simply couldn't stand on it's own, it had to tie in to the Twilight's Hammer somehow. The overeager and blind self righteousness of the Scarlet Crusade couldn't stand on its own as Garithos' racism and arrogance did in Warcraft III, it had to be tied back into the Dreadlords and the Legion.
Maybe that works for a while in a fantasy world, but the problem is that in the real world a lot of stuff just happens. There is no dark conspiracy behind a lot of criminal activity; a lot of it is a crime of opportunity (or passion). If there is a plot involved, it is very localized (one spouse hiring a hitman to take out the other spouse, for example). Sure, there's organized crime, but you can't blame everything on the mob. If there's a drug turf war, it tends to unfold organically, not manipulated by some master puppeteer in the shadows.
Fantasy lends itself well to that evil overlord, the shadows in the dark controlling our lives. But when you dip into that same well too often, it starts to feel forced and loses its punch. The most unique thing about Mists was the Sha, but it turned out to be just more Old God trickery, lessening the impact that it could have had. When all questlines lead to the same ending, all that's left for variety is the kill ten rats.
Perhaps that is why I've seen a lot of griping lately that WoW's high point was Wrath. Wrath had one raid that was the culmination of a long questline that had absolutely nothing to do with the "Let's Get Arthas!" movement: Ulduar. Was it Old God related? Yes. Was it a big, tough raid? Yes. Did it advance the Arthas story? No. Not one bit.
Ulduar was part of a giant three pronged fork in the entire Northrend questline --Arthas and Malygos being the other two-- and it demonstrated that a story didn't have to be part of the main part of the expac to be meaningful. Blizzard has gotten away from that with Cataclysm and Mists, and to add insult to injury they end up reusing the same old same Old (Gods) as a crutch.
I guess that we're going to be treated to yet another dose of Old Gods fairly soon, assuming that The Dark Below turns out to be the name of the next WoW expac. After all, what tends to inhabit the dark places of the world but Twilight Hammer and their ilk?
*Certainly in hindsight people still talk about Ulduar as the high point of WoW raiding, and I have to admit I liked Storm Peaks much more than Icecrown.


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Hull sign striker Danny Graham on a season-long loan deal from Sunderland.
Last Updated: 19/07/13 6:38pm
The 27-year-old only joined the Black Cats in January in a £5million deal from Swansea but failed to score in 13 appearances.
Graham's signing is a boost for Tigers boss Steve Bruce, who saw a move for Burnley's Charlie Austin fall through this summer.
He is Hull's seventh close-season signing following the recruitment of keepers Allan McGregor and Steve Harper, defenders Curtis Davies and Maynor Figueroa and midfielders Ahmed Elmohamady and George Boyd, the latter having made his loan switch from Peterborough permanent.
Graham scored 12 goals for Swansea during their first campaign in the top flight in 2011/12 and added a further three goals in 2012/13 before his move to the Stadium of Light.
Graham has also previously played for Middlesbrough, Carlisle and Watford and enjoyed loan spells at Darlington, Derby, Leeds and Blackpool.
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When Barack Obama announced his reforms of National Security Agency surveillance programs today, few people were as interested as Larry Page, Mark Zuckerberg, Tim Cook, Marissa Mayer, and Steve Ballmer.
And the president knew it. The official order he released as he spoke – Presidential Policy Directive/PPD-28, which laid out the changes he was making – included a bow to the tech giants. High up in the document, he acknowledged that the nation's intelligence-gathering activities risk "a potential loss of international trust in U.S. firms [and]…the credibility of our commitment to an open, interoperable, and secure global Internet." In the battle to balance national security with vital civil liberties, the tech industry has suffered the most severe collateral damage, as trust in its products has indeed eroded. Today the president had the opportunity to cut Silicon Valley a break.
So what did the tech companies get?
As expected, they will have more freedom to disclose the number and the nature of requests from the government for data related to national-security concerns. So we can expect more detailed transparency reports from the companies showing that they only provide a fraction of their information to the government.
Additionally, the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court will add members with expertise in civil liberties and technology and will declassify more of its decisions.
And the president announced that for the first time, the U.S. would grant privacy protections to overseas individuals similar to the ones that people in the U.S. already enjoy. He specified that the government would access that information only when it felt that a target threatened national security.
The State Department will add a "senior officer to coordinate our diplomacy on issues related to technology and signals intelligence." The tech companies undoubtedly hope that this as-yet-named official will launch a diplomatic effort to forestall the attempt of some nations to require that their citizens' data be held locally. This so-called Balkanization could spoil the open nature of the Internet and make it hard if not impossible for businesses to operate globally.
But don't expect celebrations in Silicon Valley – their blues in the wake of leaks made by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden are far from over. Generally, the Obama reforms tweak or constrain existing surveillance programs. But the overseas customers of U.S. companies aren't micro-analyzing the protections the NSA takes when it accesses customer data: They are incensed that the U.S. collects the data the first place.
The president is not going to give up programs that collect bulk data – the haystacks that NSA chief General Keith Alexander insists are necessary to locate the deadly threats from enemies who may attack the U.S. Though Obama's directive dictates limitations on how the government can use the databases it amasses, the program itself will continue. (Doing otherwise, Obama says, would irresponsibly leave us vulnerable.)
The Internet companies had hoped for an assurance that we would never see an email equivalent to the massive program that collects the metadata – phone numbers, time and duration – of all phone calls made in America. That assurance didn't come. (Though according to the president's new general guidelines, such a program might be debated publicly before it was implemented – and perhaps that debate could end things right there. If not, one would assume that if such a program emerged, the new restrictions on the phone metadata program would at a minimum apply to an email version.)
Obama said very little about NSA programs that create or exploit "back doors" into private databases or transmission channels. The Snowden revelations included documents outlining a startling array of programs that use popular technology products as a means to stealthily collect information. In the aggregate, these shed doubt on the products and services of US companies – and the Internet in general. This outraged the tech world. The president's review panel had a lot of suggestions on this matter, particularly to address allegations that the NSA had lobbied to weaken encryption standards or used secret software vulnerabilities to gather information – at the expense of security in general.
More on NSA Surveillance1. Obama Revamps NSA Phone Metadata Spying Program2. I Spent Two Hours Talking With NSA Bigwigs. Here's What's Got Them Mad3. How the NSA Almost Killed the InternetBut the President didn't take on that issue. The tech companies have been beefing up their security to fight the NSA's incursions, and Obama gave no indication that they could relax on those efforts. The security teams at Google and Yahoo will continue to make it a top priority to fortify their defenses against government intrusion.
In short, while Silicon Valley got a number of concessions, its core problems with NSA surveillance appear to remain. So it's no surprise that a consortium of tech companies (including Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, AOL, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and Apple) perfunctorily thanked the president for "positive progress on key issues" and tactfully said that "to keep the momentum going" on those issues and ones not addressed, they'll keep working with the administration and the legislature. In other words, they will fight like hell for measures that go farther in limiting the NSA.
There was one twist in the president's speech. He announced the formation of a major review panel to figure out where the government stands on impact of big data on privacy. To be headed by longtime presidential adviser John Podesta (who worked on crypto policy in the Clinton Administration), this effort will look at both government and private sector activity.
This could be helpful to Silicon Valley. Part of the panel's mission is to reach out internationally to help coordinate global regulations and standards for privacy. US companies are begging for such diplomatic efforts, especially in Europe, where privacy rules are much more restrictive and make it tough for Google, Facebook, and other companies to create products and advertising models that exploit user data.
On the other hand, the study might take a dim view of those very practices. Over the years various efforts from Google, Facebook, and others have drawn sanctions from the government. But a tough review might lead to a more sweeping conclusion that tech companies must change their approach, or recommendations for more regulation or legislation. The president himself sent a zinger to the tech companies in his speech, implying that their hands were not exactly spotless: "The challenges to our privacy do not come from government alone," he said. "Corporations of all shapes and sizes track what you buy, store and analyze our data, and use it for commercial purposes; that's how those targeted ads pop up on your computer or smartphone."
Maybe the president is sending a message to both the NSA and the Internet companies – a message that the tech industry doesn't want to hear: We're in this together.


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It's easy to gloss over health care disparities until they start really affecting you or your loved ones. When I became pregnant this summer, I discovered the dearth of information available about drug safety during pregnancy. (I wrote a little about it in this Slate article published in July.) Women who rely on medication get pregnant—for instance, one in eight pregnant women takes antidepressants, which could pose serious risks, as I've discussed elsewhere—and pregnant women develop complications that require medicine. Yet the only drugs that have been approved by the FDA for use during pregnancy are for gestation- or birth-related problems, not for conditions like depression, hypertension or infection. And if you ask two obstetricians for their opinions about a drug's safety, they'll sometimes give you two different answers, as I discovered when I looked into taking Sudafed for a nasty cold I had this fall.
Certainly, it seems unethical to expose a fetus to a potentially dangerous drug in a clinical trial—after all, it cannot consent. But isn't it worse to expose a fetus to a drug without any safety data at all, and outside the structured trial setting, where there is no patient monitoring? Yes, clinical trials in pregnant women could be dangerous. But not having them is even more so, given that pregnant women have to take drugs anyway—and without any knowledge of how they might affect them or their unborn children. Remember the sedative thalidomide, which caused pregnant women to give birth to babies with missing limbs in the 1950s, and DES, a drug prescribed to prevent miscarriages that increased the risk that female babies would develop rare vaginal cancers? Might we have avoided these disasters, or at least lessened their magnitude, if thalidomide and DES had been tested in controlled clinical trials in pregnant women first?
Thankfully, we haven't had any major disasters like these in decades, but the government still makes drug recommendations based on little data. Take flu shots: The CDC has been telling pregnant women to get seasonal flu shots since the 1960s, but the first randomized, prospective trial testing the vaccine on pregnant women and their babies was not completed until 2008—and it was comprised of just 340 subjects in Bangladesh. (Luckily, the trial suggests that flu shots are safe, although it only tracked the health of the babies for 24 weeks after birth.) For decades, then, the FDA's recommendations and assurances about flu shots were not based on clinical trial evidence, but retrospective data, which is often flawed. "The agency said, 'there's so much risk, we won't put you in a trial—but as soon as it's approved in a different population, we'll give it to you,'" explains Francoise Baylis, a bioethicist at the Dalhousie University in Canada. (Not that the FDA is entirely to blame—drug companies certainly have little interest in testing their compounds in pregnant women, a small population that could pose them serious liability risks.)
I struggled over the decision to get a flu shot myself. For one thing, last year in an article in the Atlantic, veteran science journalists Shannon Brownlee and Jeanne Lenzer raised questions over whether the vaccine actually works. And although pregnant women who catch the flu in the first half of their pregnancy are at an increased risk of giving birth to children who develop schizophrenia, given the timing of my pregnancy, I was at low risk for getting the flu then anyway—and I know from conversations with Caltech biologist Paul Patterson that there is a possibility that the vaccine itself confers this same increased risk. (For more about the link between prenatal infections, vaccines and mental illness, check out this feature I wrote in Scientific American MIND in 2008.) On the other hand, I also know that it could be dangerous to get sick in my third trimester, when I will be at an increased risk for serious respiratory problems. In the end, I decided to get the flu shot once I reached the halfway point in my pregnancy, when I felt the potential schizophrenia risk was minimal, and the shot could still (possibly) protect me towards the end of my pregnancy. Still, my decision was a gamble based on a lot of incomplete information.
It's not just flu shots, though: pregnant women are taking more medicines than ever now, as they're having babies later in life—when they tend to be on more drugs—and medical breakthroughs have made some pregnancies possible for the very first time. "We have people with cystic fibrosis who never in decades past would survive long enough to consider pregnancy, who are now living well into middle age and beyond," says Ruth Faden, executive director of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics. These women typically need to take medications throughout their pregnancy, yet no one knows their effects.
So what's the solution? There isn't a perfect one, but Baylis and Faden argue that there should be trials designed to test drugs in pregnant women who are going to be taking them no matter what. That way, structures are at least in place to collect data and look for adverse events. As for new experimental drugs, Baylis recommends incorporating pregnant women into later-stage trials, once the drugs have been shown to be safe and effective for other adults. "Instead of thinking of research as a risky activity," she says, "we need to think of the continued off-label use of drugs [during pregnancy] as the risky activity."
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These conversations are only about ten minutes, so they don't go into great depth. But there is breadth. Most of the interviews are about life in eighteenth-century Williamsburg or notables from that time, but other podcasts delve into the challenges of running that monumental living-history museum and investigations into other periods of Virginia history. Each podcast also comes with an online transcript for review.
The first host I heard was Lloyd Dobyns, who sounds like a classic television journalist because he was one. The current host is Harmony Hunter, also a writer and editor for the Colonial Williamsburg website. Both ask the basic questions that visitors might well have.
Also available at history.org is the Colonial Williamsburg Journal. The latest issue has a disappointing article on the Boston Tea Party by the museum's renowned and retired archeologist Ivor Noël Hume. Its recounting of North America's tea protests of 1773-74 is incomplete and in some details inaccurate. It mentions none of the fine books devoted to the Tea Party such as Benjamin Carp's Defiance of the Patriots, Marc Aronson's The Real Revolution, and Benjamin Labaree's The Boston Tea Party.
Better to look at the "New in the Collection" page, which this month features a portrait of Isaac Barré by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Barré was badly wounded in the right cheek during the Battle of Québec, and Horace Walpole said that gave him "a peculiar distortion on one side of his face, which it seems was a bullet lodged loosely in his cheek, and which gave a savage glare to one eye." But Reynolds seems to have smoothed out Barré's features and actually cast his other cheek into shadow.


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Ex-Yellow Jacket Attaochu: Hamstring fully healed
ATLANTA (AP) Defensive end Jeremiah Attaochu reached back slightly for his right hamstring at the start of Georgia Tech's pro day.
It didn't take long though for Attaochu to realize his hamstring was healthy and that he could perform without hesitation in front of NFL scouts on Friday.
"I think I did great," he said. "I surprised myself a little bit. I pushed through and I worked hard. That's all they want to see – run fast and think fast."
Attaochu, Georgia Tech's career sacks leader, has progressed quickly since tearing his hamstring Jan. 25 at the Senior Bowl.
He missed the league's scouting combine last month in Indianapolis, but went through requisite interviews with several NFL teams, including Tennessee, the New York Jets, New Orleans, Cincinnati, Buffalo, Philadelphia and the New York Jets.
But it wasn't nearly the same as trying to prove himself on the field.
Scouts watched Attaochu and 13 other former Yellow Jackets do some of the same drills used at the combine each year.
Attaochu, who's hoping to be drafted in the second or third round next month, said several scouts told him that he ran the 40-yard dash in 4.5 seconds.
He reported no problems with changing directions quickly during shuttle drills.
"Being able to show the scouts my athletic ability today was great," Attaochu said. "The film shows that, but being able to reassure them out here at pro day."
Attaochu doesn't seem to lack confidence in talents.
At 6-foot-3, 242 pounds, he's not built big like the NFL's prototypical defensive ends, but Attaochu doesn't fit the mold of an exclusive third-down pass rusher.
Regardless, Attaochu said he's as good in coverage as he is in reaching the quarterback, either coming from a three-point stance or from edge as a linebacker.
"The league is getting more versatile," he said. "They need guys like me that can stand up and put their hand in the ground. That definitely works to my advantage."
Like Attaochu, defensive backs Jemea Thomas and Louis Young, running backs Robert Godhigh and David Sims and linebacker Brandon Watts also hope to draw NFL interest.
But a player like Godhigh, who was not invited to the combine, faces tough odds to make an NFL roster.
Even so, Godhigh believes his small stature (5-foot-7, 190 pounds) will help. Short but fast and versatile at several positions, Godhigh hopes he compares favorably to Atlanta Falcons running back Jacquizz Rodgers and New Orleans running back Darren Sproles.
"There's a lot of people my size in the NFL being successful," Godhigh said, "so looking at them and seeing their success motivates me to be on top of my game."
Godhigh said he didn't ask scouts for his time in the 40, but Watts was pleased to announce that he ran between 4.38 and 4.39 seconds to meet his personal goal.
Georgia Tech coach Paul Johnson said the workouts are also meaningful for all the players with hopes of playing in the NFL. Some of the other players who worked out were: Right tackle Ray Beno, defensive tackle Euclid Cummings, defensive end Emmanuel Dieke, center Jay Finch, offensive lineman Will Jackson, punter Sean Poole, kicker David Scully and guard Omoregie Uzzi.
"I'm sure there's some pressure, but that's part of it," Johnson said. "It's chasing a dream. For some of those guys it's going to work out. For some of them it won't."
Johnson said the team that drafts Attaochu, a science, technology and culture major who ranks as the Atlantic Coast Conference's No. 5 career leader with 31.5 sacks, won't regret it.
"He brings the total package. Not only will he be a great player. He'll be a great representative off the field as well."


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Mike Conner wrote:So, I bought some frozed free-range organic duck breasts from a local farmer - unfortunately, skin- and fat-less.
Having a dinner party tomorrow (Sun 9/10) to start (and likely finish) my birthday-a-thon (yikes, 40 already? how in hell did that happen?) wanted to use these as a good snack/starter to the evening.
Was thinking I'd pull out the weber, hardwood charcoal and probably some apple chips for smoking/indirect cooking the breasts earlier in the day to have the breasts ready early. Then, create an easy to put together appetizer/snack for the dinner.
My friend likes to create these terrific salmon-cream cheese-sweet pea/bean wraps (using basic fajita wraps) that he slowly warms on the stove so everything comes together.
Was thinking something similar with this duck... thinly slice, maybe use a different cheese - feta? a blue? and perhaps slightly poached carrots sliced thin? Hmmmmmm....
Thoughts? herbs?
Thanks all!
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