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Why do I complicate things for myself? I don't understand me. Like at all.
I just want to be able to commit to something and give it my everything. But I always fall short. I literally can't commit to anything for more than a day it seems. Keeping my room clean, staying in touch with people I love, blogging, prepping meals, running, losing weight ….
Ugh. Losing weight. That's the worst one.
Even when I do actually do well for a few weeks, I get complacent and almost completely undo everything I worked so hard for.
This struggle is real. I'm convinced I will never struggle with anything else as much as I will struggle with my own self.
I was thinking today how I need to refocus again. I've been thinking this a few days now, actually. Yesterday I decided today would be the day that I just start all over. Today would be the day to refocus again.
And then I realized one of the problems. I need to refocus every single day. I need to recommit every day. I need to remind myself why I am doing this.
Every. Single. Day.
Hyping it up on Day One isn't going to be good enough for Day Twenty-One. Shoot, it's not even going to be good enough for Day Two.
I compared myself to my car today. I always let the gas get down to around 10 miles until empty. I don't know why. But I do. One time I did this on a road trip and we just barely made it to a gas station. Remember that, Ben? Hahahaha…. okay maybe it's not funny. Definitely not then…… Maybe a little funny now?
But anyway. I do the same with my tablet. And my phone. I let it almost die before I recharge it.
And while that may semi-work for a car, tablet, or phone, that does not and will never work for me.
I am not a machine.
if I wait until I am empty, until I've completely lost focus and passion and stamina, then I'm just going to be dying refueling/recharging over and over again. I'm never going to progress. I'm going to lose the same 5, 10, 20…90 pounds over and over! And yes, I'm working on losing the same 90 pounds again.
So because I'm so tired of annoying myself and trying to make Day One's energy last me for days at a time until I peter out and undo it all, I'm going to try to refocus every day.
I want to remind myself why I am doing this.
So why am I doing this?
1. I want to be healthy. Not just "good-enough" healthy, but really healthy. I don't want my own neglect to be the reason I find myself with some disease or complication now or later in life. I already have enough going against me. Why add to the problem?
2. I want to stop hiding behind insecurities, fears, and assumptions. I once made a list of almost 100 things I didn't do because of my weight. I don't want my body to limit anything I think I can or cannot do.
3. I want to keep my promise of losing weight and being healthy. I owe it to myself, and I've punished myself entirely too long.
But overall… I want to lose weight because I want to be happy.
And I'm not going to be truly happy until I am healthy, until I stop hiding, and until I fulfill my promise. I'm not going to be fully happy until I can look deep inside my soul and know that I really did give everything that I had.
So my game plan?
1. reFOCUS every day. Remind myself why I'm doing this. Remember what's at stake if I don't.
2. Eat and drink properly.
3. Move efficiently and often.
That's all. That's as detailed of a plan as I have. I'm not going to waste my time drawing out some elaborate workout plan and to-do list. I'm just going to do it.
I know that I'm worth it. I even know that I can do it. I just have to refocus. Every. Single. Day.
I would love to know what you do to stay focused. 🙂


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The Market Lubbock board of directors approved a research firm to conduct an economic impact research study at its monthly meeting Monday.
Visit Lubbock contacted several research firms to submit bids to complete an updated economic impact research study, according to a proposal included in the board's agenda.
The most recent study was conducted by Randall Travel Marketing in 2008.
Destination Analysts was chosen by the board to conduct the study. The firm proposed a project length of 10 weeks for an online survey and 12 months for a hotel guest survey, according to the proposal.
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. � It's been 21 years since Joe Gibbs Racing celebrated its only Daytona 500 victory. Denny Hamlin and Matt Kenseth have the team in good position to end the drought.
The JGR drivers swept the Daytona 500 qualifying races Thursday night. For Kenseth, it was redemption after a pair of wrecks during Speedweeks. Hamlin's victory kept him undefeated on 2014. Hamlin also won last Saturday's exhibition Sprint Unlimited, and he goes into Sunday's season-opening Daytona 500 trying to become the first driver in history to sweep Speedweeks.
�Once that snowball starts to roll, it's hard to stop it, and right now we're just on a heck of a run,� said Hamlin, who closed last year with a win in the season finale.
After going so many years without winning a second Daytona 500, team owner Joe Gibbs wasn't looking ahead. His only win was with Dale Jarrett in 1993.
�We've come with great cars over the years. It shows you what a tough race this is, the 500,� he said. �This race is extremely, extremely hard to win. That probably says it the best. That says it the best, over 21 years, that's a bunch.�
JGR had strong cars last season and seemed to be the team to beat during the race, but came up empty when Kenseth's engine failed while leading. Minutes later, teammate Kyle Busch's engine also failed. Toyota is still looking for its first win in the �Great American Race.�
�The last Daytona was so far away, we've moved well beyond that,� said Toyota Racing Development President David Wilson. �We're certainly not sweating the issues we had last year.�
The qualifying races make for an emotional day as drivers race their way into the Daytona 500, while others are sent home from the biggest event of the NASCAR season. Those left broken-hearted this year were Michael McDowell, Joe Nemechek, Ryan Truex, Eric McClure and Morgan Shepherd, who at 72 was trying to become the oldest driver in the field. Dave Blaney withdrew from the qualifying race after wrecking his only car in Wednesday's practice. But it was euphoria for the small teams of Swan Racing, which got both Cole Whitt and Parker Kligerman in the race a day after both drivers wrecked in practice, and Hillman Racing, which will be in the Daytona 500 with Landon Cassill, who was hit by a car Saturday while riding his bike in Daytona.
�I've been stressed out about this since July,� Cassill said. �I think I've played this race over in my head, what I think it could do, for months now. For a small team, this race kind of makes our whole season, just the prize money alone to start on Sunday gets us through the next six or seven weeks. It's just huge for us.�
For Swan Racing, getting rookies Whitt and Kligerman into the field erased the nightmare of Wednesday. Whitt wrecked moments into practice, and the team was forced to rebuild his car after Kligerman's was totaled when he went airborne. It was the first time Kligerman was ever upside down. Because Swan has only one backup, Kligerman got it, and the team went to work rebuilding Whitt's car. Whitt raced his way in, but Kligerman faded in the first race and had to nervously watch the second race unfold to see if he earned a spot in the Daytona 500.
�I feel like in a lot of ways, you have the weight of an organization on your shoulders to get these two cars in the race,� Kligerman said. �It's a growing organization, an organization that wants to be around for a long time to come.�
But the second race ended in chaos, making everyone unsure of anything as defending Daytona 500 winner Jimmie Johnson ran out of gas on the final lap to trigger a crash that caused Clint Bowyer's car to flip.
�I knew he was saving gas coming to the green. It's too bad to tear cars up like that,� Bowyer said. �That was one of the wildest flips I've ever had. I think we would have been just fine if I hadn't hit the grass right here.�
Johnson was apologetic.
�I feel terrible. To tear up that many race cars ... to see (Bowyer) flip ... certainly want to apologize to everyone,� he said. �I tried to get up out of the way. So much energy in the pack that I knew I was going to get run over if I ran out because guys warned me about it � and it did.�
The first race was uneventful as Kenseth led two times for 31 of the 60 laps. Harvick pulled out on the final lap to make his bid for the victory. Then Kasey Kahne pulled out of line to make it three-wide. After the race, Harvick was informed while sitting in the Fox Sports 1 studio as an analyst for the second race that his Chevrolet, sponsored by Budweiser, had failed post-race inspection for the first Budweiser Duel.
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The Imago Foundation for the Arts (IFA) 12th annual open juried exhibit, "Art of Protest," will be on display November 2 through December 3 at IMAGO Gallery, 36 Market Street. Forty pieces of artwork by 32 artists from across the country interpret the theme via acrylic and oil paintings, photography, digital art, collage, assemblage, textiles, and coprolite (fossilized feces).
Cash awards, including a $1,000 Best-in-Show Award will be presented at a reception Friday, November 3 from 6 – 8 p.m. The public is invited to this free event.
The work in the exhibit represents a wide variety of two- and three-dimensional art, including a 24 by 24-inch quilt by Janice Jones of Methuen, MA entitled, "Torn," and a multi-media work by Myra Eastman of Santa Cruz, California called, "The Voting Series - The Marchers."
The artists whose works were selected come from Arizona, California, Connecticut, Iowa, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon and Rhode Island.
Juror Stephen Fisher selected the works from 163 submissions by 63 artists. A professor of art at Rhode Island College in Providence who specializes in printmaking and drawing, Fisher earned a B.F.A. in painting and printmaking from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1976 and an M.F.A. in printmaking from Yale University in 1981. Recognized with a regional National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, three Rhode Island State Council on the Arts fellowships and a Graphic Media Achievement Award from American Artist Magazine, his work has been exhibited in a variety of national and, occasionally, international venues and has earned numerous awards in a wide range of competitions. Fisher's drawings and prints are found in numerous public, corporate and private collections.
The Imago Foundation for the Arts (IFA) supports community involvement in a wide range of cultural activities related to the arts. Visit www.imagofoundation4art.org to learn more about IFA and its mission.


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Re-balloting in three election centres in Brahmanbaria-2 constituency, where the voting was suspended during the December-30 general election, underway on Wednesday.
The balloting began at 8:am and will continue till 4pm without any break.
In case of 100 percent turnout of 10,574 voters in the three polling centres, BNP candidate Abdul Sattar Bhuiyan needs 208 votes while his nearest rival independent contender Moyeenuddin Moyeen requires 10,367 votes to win the election.
The three election centres are Jatrapur Govt Primary School, Bahadurpur Govt Primary School and Sohagpur Dakkhin Govt Primary School.
The margin of votes between Abdus Sattar and Moyeenuddin is 10,159 which is less than the total 10,574 votes under the three election centres. So, the re-voting to the three polling centres is needed.
Abdus Sattar with 'Paddy Sheaf' bagged 82,723 votes while Moyeen with 'Kalar Chhara' (Stalk of Bananas) pocketed 72,564 votes during the December-30 election.
Assistant returning officer of the election and Ashuganj Upazila Nirbahi Officer Mousumi Bain Hira said all preparations have already been completed to arrange the re-voting.


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The Hype, or is it?
Editors note: This is a blog that I wrote for my personal blog site, I am republishing it at the owner's permission (mine).
The explosive power of social media has brought one viral video to more than 70 million pairs of eyes across the globe.
For those of you who have yet to click on the link that has been popping up in your news and twitter feeds for the past two weeks, I am going to make a small attempt to explain the newest trending topic and the criticism while also expressing my thoughts on the matter.
On March 1, the non-profit organization Invisible Children released a 29-minute documentary to make African warlord Joseph Kony "famous". The video, Kony2012, has reached more than 70 million YouTube viewers since its release. It was the number one trending topic on Twitter and has been retweeted by celebrities such as Angelina Jolie, Justin Bieber, Oprah Winfrey and P.Diddy. One of P.Diddy's tweets about Kony2012 was reportedly retweeted more than 57,000 times.
Documentary maker Jason Russell narrates the docu-movie and even features his 5-year-old son in the film. The YouTube description of the video states that "Kony 2012 is a campaign by Invisible Children that aims to make Joseph Kony famous, not to celebrate him, but to raise support for his arrest and set a precedent for international justice".
The group's website states that Invisible Children uses "film, creativity and social action to end the use of child soldiers in Joseph Kony's rebel war and restore LRA-affected communities in central Africa to peace and prosperity".
The opening line in the film states that "Nothing is more powerful than an idea" and that's what the video aims to do, tell viewers the Invisible Children's idea to rid the world of Kony for the atrocities he has committed against children and humanity.
Russell starts out with talking about people's desire to connect and how social media has enabled those around the world to do so at an ever increasing rate, "this connection is changing the way government works, the game has new rules".
The first scene takes place in a delivery room with the birth of Russell's son, he says "he didn't choose where or when he was born but because he's here, he matters". But he was "born into a pretty complicated world", Russell says.
"Who are you to end a war, I'm here to tell you who are you not?"
Russell describes how about 10 years ago he met and befriended a Northern Ugandan boy who was "running for his life". In the film the boy, Jacob, vividly describes how his brother was trying to escape from rebel forces and was captured and killed. At one point, Jacob explains through tears how he would rather die than stay on earth "we may meet in heaven, if I saw my brother once again..."
"We are going to do everything we can to stop them. We are going to stop them," Russell told Jacob in the film.
In fulfillment of that promise, Russell said he posted the video. "The only purpose is to stop the lord's resistance army and Joseph Kony".
Thus was born the Kony 2012 campaign.
The video uses provocative photographs and statistics to capture the minds of the viewers and attempt to explain who Joseph Kony is.
"He makes them mutilate children's faces."
"He forces them to kill their parents."
"He turns the girls into sex slaves."
Just some of the claims Russell makes about Kony.
In a New York Times article Russell is quoted as saying "No one wants a boring documentary on Africa," he said. "Maybe we have to make it pop, and we have to make it cool." "We view ourself as the Pixar of human rights stories," he added in the March 8 article.
Invisible Children's calls to action:
*"Do three things: 1) sign its pledge, 2) get the Kony 2012 bracelet and action kit (only $30!), and 3) sign up to donate. "
*On April 20- Invisible Children is calling on its supporters to stop Kony and the LRA's campaign --
"This is the day when we will meet at sundown and blanket every street in every city until the sun comes up," Russell says in the video. "The rest of the world will go to bed Friday night and wake up to hundreds of thousands of posters demanding justice."
The end of the docu-movie asks for viewers to also contact representatives and celebrities. The Kony 2012 website provides links for visitors to message celebrities such as Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerburg, Oprah, Angelina Jolie, Lady Gaga and Jay-Z. And links to message policymakers like Bill Clinton, John Kerry, Condelezza Rice and George W. Bush.
Just as quickly as the supporters of Kony 2012 rallied behind the cause, the criticism surrounding the campaign's purpose, finances, facts and all-around agenda exploded as well.
Washington Post blogger Elizabeth Flock addressed Invisible Children's response to their campaign's criticism.
In her post Flock wrote "But in November, a Foreign Affairs article pointedly challenged the tactics used by Invisible Children and other nonprofits working in the region. "Such organizations have manipulated facts for strategic purposes, exaggerating the scale of LRA abductions and murders and emphasizing the LRA's use of innocent children as soldiers, and portraying Kony -- a brutal man, to be sure -- as uniquely awful, a Kurtz-like embodiment of evil," the magazine wrote". Flock went on to address criticism of a bill Invisible Children helped pass into law in 2009. "The bill is designed to support stabilization and peace in Uganda and areas affected by the LRA. Critics say it has strengthened the hand of the Ugandan president, whose security forces have a human rights abuse record of their own. The Enough Project, an NGO that fights genocide and human rights abuses, has said the bill's bipartisan support showed people "come together for peace."
Another blogger has also gotten media attention recently for his personal criticism of the Kony campaign. "I do not doubt for a second that those involved in KONY 2012 have great intentions, nor do I doubt for a second that Joseph Kony is a very evil man. But despite this, I'm strongly opposed to the KONY 2012 campaign." Blogger Grant Oyston went on to address the non-profit organizations facts and finances.
"Invisible Children has been condemned time and time again... Last year, the organization spent $8,676,614. Only 32% went to direct services (page 6), with much of the rest going to staff salaries, travel and transport, and film production. This is far from ideal for an issue which arguably needs action and aid, not awareness, and Charity Navigator rates their accountability 2/4 stars because they lack an external audit committee. But it goes way deeper than that. " Oyston goes on "is awareness good? Yes. But these problems are highly complex, not one-dimensional and, frankly, aren't of the nature that can be solved by postering, film-making and changing your Facebook profile picture, as hard as that is to swallow. Giving your money and public support to Invisible Children so they can spend it on supporting ill-advised violent intervention and movie #12 isn't helping. Do I have a better answer? No, I don't, but that doesn't mean that you should support KONY 2012 just because it's something. Something isn't always better than nothing. Sometimes it's worse. If you want to write to your Member of Parliament or your Senator or the President or the Prime Minister, by all means, go ahead. If you want to post about Joseph Kony's crimes on Facebook, go ahead. But let's keep it about Joseph Kony, not KONY 2012. "
A New York Time's article on March 8, I think, summed up and addressed the topic from the most objective standpoint I have seen thus far.
"Gripping and evocative though it is, the video has alarmed many veteran observers of the devastation Mr. Kony and his fighters have left in their wake over the years."
"Some have called the video a pitch-perfect appeal to so-called slacktivism, a pejorative term for armchair activism by a younger generation, often online. But rather than eschew such digital action, the video takes it as one of its primary goals. Making Mr. Kony infamous, after all, is just a click away."
Pernille Ironside, a senior adviser for child protection at Unicef who is an expert on the Lord's Resistance Army said in the Time's article "It's not just one organization in the United States who has discovered this issue," she said. Still, Invisible Children "is essentially distilling a very complicated 26-year war into something that's consumable and understandable by mass media."
"It's ultimately a good thing," she said. That's what I agree with. Finances and facts aside, Invisible Children acheived their goal, I would say, of making Joseph Kony famous.
Maybe they did exagerrate facts. Maybe donating to their organization is not the best way to help the conflict in Africa or the children suffering because of it.
But, one thing I do know is that Joseph Kony is a terrible human being and has been for the past 26 years. He is currently on Interpol's Most Wanted list and is wanted by the International Criminal Court for: War crimes , Kidnapping, Life and health, Hooliganism/vandalism/damage and crimes against humanity.
So regardless of all the media attention and whether Oprah or Ryan Seacrest support the campaign, children are suffering at the hands of Kony. Awareness is NEVER a bad thing. What one chooses to do with that awareness is up to them, I just say make sure you have all of the facts that you can readily and realistically attain.
Actor Don Cheadle said it best, ""Still cycling through the info. Firsthand: I have been to the night commuters camps, world vision and the like. No Q Kony is a bad guy," he wrote. "But divergent perspectives I find informative and the truth often lies somewhere betwixt and between what's proffered. You must use your.. critical minds and innate instincts to decide for yourselves while leaving open the possibility to understand more as more is understood."
Regardless of what you believe, there is one thing I 100 percent support and agree with that Russell said in the documentary, "where you live shouldn't determine if you live". Well said Mr. Russell.
*Republished at the permission of the author


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Valedictory address delivered by Ambassador Lalit Mansingh, former Foreign Secretary, at VIF's seminar on 'Tibet in the Aftermath of Devolution of Political Authority' – September 6 & 7, 2011
As India enters the 65th year of its existence as a sovereign nation, it is time to take a pause to reflect on the policies of the past, to revisit our triumphs, our failures and to reflect on challenges met and opportunities lost.
The macro picture that emerges is of great success. Following a traumatic and violent partition, and burdened with a colonial economy drained by 200 years of exploitation, India in 1947 faced an uncertain future. In contrast the India by 2011 boasts of a strong demographically young society and a $4 trillion economy set on the path of irreversible growth. It is taken for granted that India will be a major player in the new global balance of power.
And yet, as we celebrate success, we need to introspect and identify the areas where we missed the mark. If I am asked to name a single issue on which India failed to measure up to its challenges I will, without hesitation, say it was Tibet. The Tibet issue is a perfect illustration of Murphy's Law: if something can go wrong, it will! Many will question this conclusion as wisdom by hind sight. Yes it is. And such wisdom by hind sight is important because it insures that the errors of judgment of the past will not be repeated.
So what went wrong with our Tibet policy? Ten points, according to me:-
There were voices within the cabinet that were urging caution in dealing with China - amongst them two Home Ministers; Sardar Patel and Pandit Govind Ballabh Pant and Finance Minister Morarji Desai. Their advice was ignored. India's national interests would have been better protected if Pandit Nehru had taken his cabinet colleagues to his meeting with Chou En Lai in February 1960.
Also ignored was the professional advice of the Foreign Service establishment, including Sir G.S. Bajpai, then Secretary General in the MEA and younger Foreign Service officers like Sumal Sinha, Mr. V.V. Paranjpe, Mr. P.K. Banerjee and Mr. Arvind Deo who incidentally served as India's Counsel General in Lhasa.
Sadly, the Prime Minister relied on a group of political appointees like Sardar K.M. Panikkar and Mr. Raghavan, who failed in offering their independent assessment of what was happening in Tibet to the PM. Mr. Panikkar in fact was informed in advance of the Chinese plans to quote unquote "Liberate" Tibet but did not apparently report this for fear that it would affect India's ambitions to play a mediating role in the aftermath of the Korean war.
In 1950, when PLA troops entered Lhasa, not only did India do nothing, it dissuaded the UN and other countries that were willing to come to the rescue of the Tibetans.
In 1951, when the so-called 17 point agreement was forced on the hapless government of the Dalai Lama, India did not protest.
In 1954, India signed an agreement with China under which it surrendered all its rights and responsibilities in Tibet and withdrew its garrisons from Yatung and Shigatse. That the 1954 agreement was signed in the name of the Buddhist principles of the Pancha shila made it a tragic mockery of the Tibetan people.
Let me make one point clear, if there was a failure of India's Tibet policy, it was a bipartisan failure. Every government of India, whether led by the Congress or the BJP, has been complicit in evading India's historic responsibilities in Tibet. The formulation of the 1954 agreement has been repeated as a Mantra in joint statements issued during Mr. Rajiv Gandhi's visit to China in 1988, Mr. A.B. Vajyapee's visit in 2003, and during the Indian visits of Wen Jia Bao and Hu Jin Tao in 2005 and 2006.
It is worth noting that the standard formulation on Tibet was absent, for the first time, in the joint statement issued after Wen Jia Bao's visit during December 2010.
If this is a signal of change in our China policy, it is to be welcomed.
If, as our scholars conclude, India has irrevocably surrendered its 'Tibet Card' and formally accepted Chinese sovereignty over Tibet, is there nothing that can be done for the Tibetan people by India or the international Community?
I am not so pessimistic. There is growing body of opinion that in a global and interdependent world, the concept of state sovereignty is no longer absolute. The talk is increasingly about a "responsible sovereignty" or "shared sovereignty". No state in the world today can claim the absolute, sovereign right to deny basic human rights and freedom to its own citizens. In extreme circumstances, and subject to transparent and credible safeguards, the international community can also exercise the Right to Protect (R2P) to affected groups.
Admittedly, this is still a grey area in international law but this is increasingly acceptable internationally. I am not suggesting that the R2P should be applied to the Tibetans in China. It is nevertheless a useful reminder to China a great nation and civilization that it must act as a responsible global citizen and show sensitivity to the rights of its own Tibetan people.
Secondly, India has never hesitated to express concerns over the plight of people who happen to be the citizens of another state. Mahatma Gandhi wrote letters to President Roosevelt about the status of Blacks in America. India took the leadership in opposing Apartheid in South Africa. India continues to voice its anxiety about the treatment of the Tamil citizens in Sri Lanka. These are but a few examples.
India must seize the opportunity that has opened up today to review and recalibrate its policy on Tibet. The decision of the Dalai Lama to abdicate his political responsibilities and hand them over to a democratically elected 'Kalon Tripa' is a momentous development in the history of Tibet. It reflects the profound wisdom and foresight of the Dalai Lama.
Felicitations are due to the new Kalon Tripa, Dr. Lobsang Sangay. I have followed his articles, speeches and interviews with great interest and admiration. It is also fortunate that the Tibetans today have in addition to their supreme spiritual guide, the Dalai Lama, two young leaders from the next generation: the 17th Karmapa and the Kalon Tripa, Dr. Lobsang Sangay.
Let me conclude by offering a few suggestions for the action India needs to take as a part of a bold new policy on Tibet.
There should also be an end to the suspicions and reservations that a section of our establishment has against the Dalai Lama and the Karmapa. There were powerful voices in the Indian establishment in the 1950s and 1960s that the Dalai Lama should be sent back to Tibet. There are segments of our establishment today that are keen to accord the same treatment to the Karmapa. I am pleased that the external affairs department prevailed in offering asylum to the Karmapa when he turned up in Dharamsala a decade ago. I am convinced that it was the right thing to do.
I hope that the Dalai Lama can be persuaded to take the leadership in bringing the scattered schools of Buddhism in India under a common umbrella. On a personal note, as a Vice President of the Maha Bodhi Society of India, I am keen on seeing this success.
I would also like to see the Dalai Lama being closely associated with the Nalanda University Project. It is hard to appreciate that he is being kept at arm's length fearing the reactions of another country.
Tibetans must be given the same privileges as the citizens of Nepal and Bhutan.
Young Tibetans of Indian origin should be encouraged to form Indo-Tibet friendship societies or associations which will promote the awareness of Tibet among the Indian public.
This should not be seen as a challenge to China's sovereignty but as a part of India's continuing advocacy of the rights of vulnerable communities across the world.
I am pleased that the Kalon Tripa, Dr. Lobsang Sangay has appealed to the world to recognize the historic role of the Tibetan people as the guardians of the environment of the Tibetan plateau.
In conclusion, let me recall to you a statement made by Pundit Nehru in the Indian Parliament on 27 April 1959. He declared that India's policy on Tibet was guided by three elements: (1) India's national security (2) friendship with China, and (3) Autonomy of Tibet under Chinese suzerainty.
We may blame Pundit Nehru for errors of judgment on Tibet, but his triple formulations is as valid today as it was five decades ago. Friendship with China is a desired goal but it cannot be allowed to override our concerns for Indian security or Tibetan autonomy.
Published Date: 25th September, 2011
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Miller High School business and computer science teacher Darrelle Hill talks about the advantages of a four-day school week on Wednesday at Miller High School. Hill has taught at Miller for 11 years and said she loves the four-day structure. Administrators said it is a valuable tool for both recruitment and retention of quality teachers.
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I went to a French bread making course a couple of weeks ago. It was held at Boulangerie l'epi on St Michaels Ave in Ellerslie. Thierry the baker, makes only sourdough French breads, and does a 3-hour evening course on basic bread making. He includes is method for making a starter from fermenting raisins. I learnt plenty and thoroughly enjoyed myself! Went home with 4 loaves, a pizza and a wonderful sourdough French dessert/cake called Kouing Amann – heavenly!
It was a great night and I'm looking forward to his croissant and brioche night! Needless to say, in order to make the above in the allotted time we did throw in a bit of yeast. I recommend the evening to any budding bread-maker.
Next in my quest to work my way through Daniel Leader's "Local Breads" is a buckwheat batard. My newly found source of flour did not stock buckwheat flour, but I found some at Namaste Food & Spices and they even delivered to me at home – which is great since I still can't drive. Buckwheat is a low-gluten flour, but this recipe also contains wheat flour, so I was hoping it wouldn't turn out to be the disaster that my spelt loaves were!
The starter was refreshed using buckwheat flour instead of wheat, but called for a lot of levain to kick it off – 300g levain / 35g water / 125g buckwheat flour. This was far more starter than the recipe called for so I scaled it down somewhat. The recipe was nothing special except for the 10% buckwheat flour used – 90% AP flour, 60% water, 25% levain and 3% salt. Total flour weight 500g. Interestingly the salt % is quite high at 3% - didn't really notice it at the time. It didn't taste particularly salty, and there is only a relatively small % of starter in the recipe, so it's not like the fermentation was going to race away and needed slowing down. Gave it a couple of folds during its fermentation (about 4 hours) at RT. Shaped it into 3 batards, and let proof in the oven with a dish of boiling water in the bottom (oven not turned on). Learnt this trick at my bread-making course – imitates the environment of a proofer at the bakers apparently. The proofing ended up getting away on me as was a bit fast - next time less hot water I think. So unfortunatley I think the loaves were a bit overproofed. Slashed them and baked in hot oven, with ice thrown in, for about 25 minutes.
The loaves browned in a completely different fashion to normal bread. As the book said, they darken like fired pottery rather than the normal golden brown of a wheat loaf.
They did have a nice firm crust, even though they were a bit flat from overproofing.
The flavour wasn't marked, but my friends all enjoyed them and thought they definitely tasted different – I'd make them again, if for no other reason than to use up the flour! (Sorry about the rubbish photos - my phone is all I have!)
So my thoughts on number 3 from the book - not an outstanding bread, but would try them again.


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Many of the patients I see have started taking Omega 3's, Omega 3-6-9 or fish oil because they heard or read that it was good for them. These oils can be a healthy addition to your regimen or they may actually be detracting from your health. Here's how to choose a good, healthy EFA (essential fatty acid) supplement:
- Choose Omega 3's, rather than Omega 6's or Omega 3-6-9's. Omega 3 and Omega 6 oils are both "essential fatty acids", meaning they are essential for us to obtain through out diet, our bodies can't manufacture them. Omega 3 oils tend to be lacking in our diets more so than Omega 6's, so I tend to have people supplement then Omega 3's, not the Omega 6's
- Choose Pure Fish Oil. Omega 3 EFA's usually come from fish oil, or seed oils like flaxseed oil. Fish live in a polluted environment, so you want fish oil that has been properly purified. North American standards are not as high as Norwegian standards for purity, so look for fish oil that was sourced from Norway.
- Choose Fresh Fish Oil. Most manufacturers don't adequately measure their product for freshness. There are two levels that should be checked to ensure fresh oil, peroxide level and anisidine level, most manufacturers only measure peroxide. The problem with that is peroxide levels will be low when the oil is fresh, but also once the oil has gotten beyond rancid.
- Choose a Natural Triglyceride form. The natural triglyceride form is 30% better absorbed, so you get more out of it and less burping up the fishy taste.
(Nordic Naturals fish oil products meet all of the above criteria which is why we recommend them at Forces of Nature)
What about Flaxseed Oil?
Flaxseed oil and most other forms of plant based omega 3's require significant conversion in the body to get where fish oil is already at. Which means if you don't convert it well, you get no benefit of taking omega 3's from flaxseed oil. Stress, lack of zinc and B vitamins and other nutrients mean you can't process plant based oils into EPA and DHA, the components of omega 3's that your body needs. My other issue with flaxseed oil is rancidity. Freshly ground flaxseeds have a pleasant nutty taste. Flaxseed oil (in my opinion), tastes terrible which would be one reflection of rancid oil. Plant oils go rancid very quickly once extracted from the seed, most flaxseed oil (again, in my opinion) is already rancid when you buy it.
What about using freshly ground flaxseeds?
Ground flaxseeds are wonderful for providing fiber, phytoestrogens and preventing breast cancer. However, 1-2 tablespoons per day doesn't provide a significant amount of omega 3's.


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In case if you are thinking that the low box office revenue of Jab Harry met Sezal has demotivated the talented filmmaker Imtiaz Ali, we have a new news for you. The filmmaker has already prepared his new script to cast his favorite Ranbir Kapoor in his next film in lead role. Both the filmmaker's and an actor's last few movies were not very successful in doing great business on box office.
Though the duo had done wonderful work in films like Rockstar and Tamasha. From what we hear from a source near to the actor is, "Ranbir will be a part of Imtiaz's next. That's not all the actor will go through a massive transformation for this film. Imtiaz plans to show different stages of the character's life." Something which was also done by Ranbir's late grandfather Raj Kapoor in his film, Mera Naam Joker.
If trusted to the sources in his next, Rishi Kapoor will play the role of young Raj Kapoor.
The actor is currently working on Sanjay Dutt's biopic DUTT directed by Rajkumar Hirani and post it we will see his fabulous acting as a superhero in Karan Johar's Dharma Production, DRAGON, in which he is casting against Alia Bhatt.


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Time lapse photography is yet another aspect of the
game hobby that I want to learn about. I've made one time lapse video using my G12 and an intervalometer. The same intervalometer works with the G1X; however, the G1X battery has less capacity than the G12 battery. How long would the G1X run using only battery power?
To test the battery and practice the technique, I set up my G1X for time lapse with a freshly charged battery and put it on full manual exposure, manual WB, manual focus and turned the display off. Exposure was set for 1/100 sec at f5.6 and ISO 100 -- my guess for capturing a morning sunrise. I also set image capture for JPEG only at 1920x1080 pixels. The memory card was a Transcend Class 10. To my dismay, I forgot to turn off the focus assist lamp and didn't realize that until later so decided to let it run anyway.
I used this cheap and simple intervalometer to trigger the G1X at 2 second intervals.
All this was (roughly) the setup and process I used to make the time lapse sequence with my G12 except that a 6 second interval was used for the G12. (I don't remember how I arrived at a 6 second interval but it must have made sense at the time.)
In the morning, I was pleasantly surprised to find that the G1X had run for 2 hours 46 minutes and captured 2518 images of the dark room.
There was a problem though. Right away I had sensed that the interval was not always 2 seconds. Sometimes it would be 2 seconds and sometimes seemed to be more than 3 seconds but I continued the test anyway. Checking the times, the first shots were at intervals of 2 sec followed by 4 seconds then 2 sec, etc. The last shots were all at 4 sec intervals (battery running down, I assume). The gross average interval during the night was 3.96 seconds. So it appears to me that the G1X should be set for intervals of more than 4 seconds over a long period of time.


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Edited by Robert Byron. Gazetteer compiled by Edith Olivier. General Editor: John Betjeman. Cover designed by Lord Berners.London. The Architectural Press. 1935. First edition. Spiral-bound wrappers. 64 pages. Illustrated throughout in b&w. 230 x 185mm (9 x 7¼"). 0.3kg. . English. Very good; light shelf wear commensurate with age, minor creasing at base of rear cover, binding secure, no tears or inscriptions, a very well-preserved copy.A very well-preserved first edition copy of Wiltshire, one of the earliest Shell Guides,after Betjeman's Cornwall. The series was published as guidebooks for the aspiring, car-driving metropolitan sightseer. The guide includes maps and chapters on antiquities, industries, nature notes, war and sport. It ends with a gazetteer compiled by Edith Olivier.Lord Berners designed the front and back covers, creating a collage of various photographs, old and new, of Wiltshire places and people. The majority of the photographs were taken by Maurice Beck and Christopher Sykes contributed a line drawing.


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FAQ about Emsisoft Internet Security
As you may already know, Emsisoft Internet Security is merging with Emsisoft Anti-Malware. More may be read on our blog post, here: Merging Emsisoft Internet Security with Emsisoft Anti-Malware.
However, there have been a few questions that needed a bit of clarification. If your question is not answered here, please feel free to contact us at [email protected].
Please note that this information may change slightly as we move forward, so please refer back or contact us to stay current.
- What if I have Emsisoft Internet Security now, or just bought it?
You may just wait for the conversion to happen on its own. If you would rather do it manually though, contact us at [email protected], and let us know your Emsisoft Internet Security key. We will convert it and give you a new key.
What if I want to keep Emsisoft Internet Security?
The product is being merged with Emsisoft Anti-Malware, so in essence you are keeping it, just without the firewall. Please see our blog post for details.
- What if I need to reinstall Emsisoft Internet Security for some problem?
Please contact us at [email protected] and we can provide the Emsisoft Internet Security installer.
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No. If things are running normally, just wait. The product will convert on its own after the 1st of October, 2017.
- I block applications from reaching the Internet using Emsisoft Internet Security. What can I use now?
For this, you may utilize inbound/outbound connections in the Windows firewall. Just select the program from the list, right-click, choose properties, and change the action to 'block the connection'.


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This Valentine's Day, say "I Love You" with a personalized book for that special someone. LoveBook is one of the greatest universal gifts, and it's all completely made by you, and put into a high quality book for the lucky recipient.
LoveBook is the only gift that lets you express all the little reasons why you love someone. Those same little reasons that can easily go overlooked. I had a blast putting together a book for my husband and I LOVE the way it turned out!
Every single person has a different and unique love story. The LoveBook Book Building System lets you tell that story by listing all those special reasons why you love someone. The above images are just a few of the pages from my husband's book…there ended up being roughly 70 pages! You get to choose your cover from the many that are available and edit the title. You even get to make the characters! I can't believe how much the stick figures look like my husband and I! After you pick your cover and create your characters you're ready to start putting together the pages that will become your LoveBook.
Once you place your order, it's printed by a professional printing plant and shipped off the the lucky person receiving it. LoveBook ships all over the world so no matter how far, you can still say a special "I love you"
I can't think of a better time than Valentine's Day to give a gift of love, made from the heart, and printed out to last forever. Give the one you love a LoveBook and let them know all the little reasons why you love them.
***I did not receive any financial compensation, simply the product free to me in exchange for my honest and unbiased opinion***


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iDisorder: changes to your brain's ability to process information and your ability to relate to the world due to your daily use of media and technology, resulting in signs and symptoms of psychological disorders, such as stress, sleeplessness, and a compulsive need to check in with all of your technology.
Based on decades of research and expertise in the "psychology of technology", Dr. Larry Rosen offers clear, down-to-earth explanations for why many of us are suffering from an "iDisorder". Rosen provides solid, proven strategies to help us overcome the iDisorder we all feel in our lives, while still making use of all that technology offers.
Our world is not going to change, and technology will continue to penetrate society even deeper, leaving us little chance to react to the seemingly daily additions to our lives. Rosen teaches us how to stay human in an increasingly technological world.
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What could Larry D. Rosen have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?
Dr. Rosen could have understood the technology better.
What do you think the narrator could have done better?
It doesn't take any longer to say "Facebook" than it does "FB." Written abbreviations need not always be duplicated on the audio representation. Avoid redundancy. "If you downloaded this audiobook digitally..." Well, I could hardly download it analogically.
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As a technology geek who sometimes feels overwhelmed by it all, I was attracted to this book because it appeared to be handled from the perspective of a kindred spirit - someone who gets the technology and has analyses and ideas on how to take a more relaxed approach to dealing with the constant barrage of notification and information.
Instead, my anxiety is heightened by the author's constant misuse of terminology and misunderstanding of the technology and services involved. His forte is clearly psychology, and, in his endeavours to talk about digital devices and social networking, comes across as an old-timer trying to appear hip while brow-beating this newfangled computer stuff. If you're happy to "check your Twitter page," spend time "texting" on your "Facebook page," using a an "SNS" ("Social Networking System") and blocking a narcissist's comments from "your Facebook page" when they're commenting on a friend's status (or "page") update, and analysing someone's personality type based on the "20 main photographs" on their "page," then this may be for you.
The pop psychology "science" itself is weak at best. For example, a large number of respondents to a survey said they intended to take a "portable electronic device" with them on vacation. Does that include listening to music on your iPod to unwind? How about reading this very book on your Kindle? Is it okay if it's an ordinary paperback? Add to that sloppy grammar and poppy invented terms (WMD - "wireless mobile devices" - really?) and I am less than impressed.
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Electronic Media - Bane or Blessing?
Larry Rosen (Rewired: Understanding the iGeneration and the Way they Learn; Me, MySpace, and I: Parenting in the Net Generation) has just published his latest book, iDisorder: Understanding Our Obsession with Technology and Overcoming Its Hold on Us. Rosen is Professor of Psychology at California State University. In iDisorder he once again shares his research and insights about media in terms we can all understand. He covers disorders thought to be linked to the use of electronic media hence iDisorder) including addiction to technology, delusions, compulsive behavior, ADD others. Rosen's arguments concerning multitasking make sense to me, but others would contest his research findings and opinions. In each chapter he gives suggestions which may help those increasingly dependent upon electronic media. This is worth while reading for anyone interested in social media or concerned for the affects of electronics on our minds and lives. Stephen Hoye proves his ability to read and interpret a manuscript here again.
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Japanese Gardens
A Japanese garden is often laid out in accordance with strict rules whereby each component of the design has a specific meaning. In its original form, a Japanese garden was a meditation garden and later on, it was influenced by a love of the landscape.
Reconfiguring natural landscapes in the smallest space is still a priority in Japanese garden design.
Rocks, ponds and streams are essential components of a Japanese garden. Light and shadow impart an inner rhythm to the garden. A peaceful, contemplative place.
Japanese gardens have an effect not only because of their balanced and harmonious design, but also due to the sensible use of relatively small areas and spaces.
Even, if you don't have a large garden, there are many possible ways of arranging the site to suit your own tastes.
Japanese garden design:
- Zen gardens
- Japanese gardens
- Feng Shui gardens
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As Hurricane Sandy hit a death toll of 74 and initially left 8 million without power, many Americans are criticizing brands who chose to use the storm as a marketing ploy and capitalize in the wake of destruction.
Click here to see the biggest offenders>
Retailers ranging from the usual suspects (American Apparel and Urban Outfitters) to more sensitive brands (Gap and Jonathan Adler) blasted out emails and tweets full of hurricane puns and special, limited time Sandy Sales.
Be it good marketing or insensitive exploitation, the press and social media-sphere critiqued the trend. Some brands apologized, others didn't.
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It's reminiscent of when Kenneth Cole compared the Arab Spring to its spring sale, tweeting "Millions are in uproar in #Cairo. Rumor is they heard our new spring collection is now available online."
Furthermore, flash sale sites like Groupon and Living Social and shilling deals for resorts, restaurants, and more that were damaged in the storm and currently out of commission. Although Living Social's director of communication Marie Griffin told Ad Age, "What we have done in light of the storm is we have been in touch with our different hotel partners, and for those that have been affected we've pulled them off the site for now."
American Apparel
People were outraged when American Apparel emailed customers about a Hurricane Sandy 20% off sale. Online shoppers were prompted to type "SANDYSALE" in the online checkout. The company didn't apologize.
The Gap
Gap was also criticized for this Tweet sent Monday, which also asked customers to check in on its Foursquare: "Frankenstorm Apocalypse — Hurricane Sandy."
Gap kind of apologized by erasing the offending Tweet and offering this explanation:
To all impacted by #Sandy, stay safe. Our check-in and tweet earlier were only meant to remind all to keep safe and indoors.—
(@Gap) October 29, 2012
Jonathan Adler
Home design store Jonathan Adler sent out emails urging consumers to "storm our site." It later apologized and changed its checkout code from "Sandy" to "Stuckinside" and "Freeship1012."
Click here to see Business Insider's whole list of the worst Frankenstorm FAILS >


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September 25, 2012 - Writer: Becky Bain | Artist: Miguel Manzur
Sometimes I get so mad at someone I just want to fucking kill them, but I want to be seen as morally superior to them at the same time. The best, and maybe only way to do this is the Disney Kill ™. The Disney Kill ™ scenario has played out in multiple Disney movies, because it's a perfect way to get rid of the villain without the hero having to violently murder them. It goes like this: While battling your nemesis at the end of the movie, they fall over the edge of a cliff and manage to hang on by one hand. You lean over to help them up – you're not evil, after all, since you're the classically-attractive prince or the badass brunette princess, and you'll let the proper authorities provide adequate justice for the villain's unspeakable crimes. But alas, you can't get to them in time, gravity gives in, and they fall to their (offscreen) death. Even though the protagonist does the honorable thing and attempts to save the villain, they are totally happy that they fell to their death. Tarzan, Beauty and the Beast, Up, and a ton of other movies have all tied a bow on their stories with a Disney Kill ™. I would love to do this one day to all the villains in my life. Here are the Top 5 people I would love to Disney Kill ™, and the ways I would do it. (Unfortunately, I don't live near any dangerous cliffs, so I'd have to improvise.)
1) The boyfriend who broke up with me on Facebook. The best way to Disney Kill™ this unworthy ex would be to invite him over for dinner, explaining that I'd still love to remain friends. (Yeah, right.) Then I would watch him choke on an oversized piece of steak and inadequately perform the Heimlich Maneuver on him. Oops, I tried! 2) All of the anonymous Internet commenters who trashed me on the many websites I've written for over the years. Since these anonymous commenters aren't so anonymous – hey, geniuses, I can see your email and IP address on the backend of the site – it would be oh-so easy to send all these trolls viruses. Or even better, repeatedly ask to connect with them on Linked In. It won't be long until they die of annoyance. Hey, I'm just trying to expand my network! 3) My former boss who was undiagnosed bipolar. Even his good days weren't really good since any moment he could flip a switch and be a raging maniac. His Disney Kill™ would involve him finally making a cup of coffee for his damn self, and when he inevitably breaks the coffee pot and spills boiling hot java all over his body, I'll be right there, delicately tossing lukewarm droplets of water on his soiled khakis like I actually care.
4) Team Breezy. The only thing worse than Chris Brown are his fans. Not only because they stop at nothing to defend a clueless woman beater, but their support keeps this douche, and his terrible music, in the spotlight. If any of these rabid fans were ever to go on a date with their idol, well, let's just say I didn't warn them. 5) That little fucking 8-year-old kid leaned outside his school bus window and spat onto me. Fuck that kid. No one who could do that can grow up to be a decent adult. When he eventually expectorates on the bus driver , who goes into a blind rage and flings the school bus off an actual cliff, I'll make sure to stretch my arm out just long enough to look like I give a damn. Who would you want to Disney Kill™?
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I have lived in San Diego for most of the past 20 years.
It is a spicy town on many levels.
I have never moved into the world of mariscos taco trucks, as fresh fish and permanently parked trucks just don't seem to match up very well.
We went to Mariscos Alex to see why they had reached number one in yelp for mariscos.
If you don't know, Mariscos is spanish, and in this case more appropriately Mexican, for sea food.
You are not going to get flounder on parchment, or sauteed Sand Dabs.
What you get are a small variety of items in that particular restaurants local flavor.
They are:
fish tacos – no explanation needed
Cocktail – The mexican version of the shrimp cocktail
Ceviche – chopped fish with possibly some cilantro or tomatoe marinated in citrus
and that is about it.
I will point out the parts about Mariscos Alex that make it unique.
First off, it is in a neighborhood of San Diego that unless you live there, you would probably not go out of your way to visit. Not dangerous, as nowhere in San Diego really is, but still the kind of place you would have second thoughts about leaving your fancy car over night on the street while you traveled out of town.
It is in the parking lot of a gas station and is a taco truck.
Some of their tacos have cooked celery in them. I have had a lot of authentic mexican food, but had never tried this before. I am not a cooked celery fan, so did not like it very much. It was however extraordinarily unique. The bitterness of the celery, cooked fish which was excellent, and cheese. It is such a strong unique taste, that is loved by so many there.
I got their Clamatos Preparados. This I also got because it looked so unique. It is basically Clamato juice, with lots of stuff added, which turned it into a spicey, refreshing, tomato and chile drink, with shrimp and oysters. It
The amazing and funny part was the ceviche. The ceviche was served on a flatish place, handed through the window of the taco truck.
I looked on the counter and they had a variety of sauces. This always intrigues me. I am a huge lover of sauces.
I took a little of each sauce. One of the sauces really caught my eye, which was the mango sauce. I put a ton of this on, as I love, love, love mangos. Half of my ceviche was no swimming in mango sauce.
I started to eat it, and it was quite spicy. The more I ate, the more my mouth burned. The flavor was extraordinary. When I looked in the ceviche, there was no apparent chile. The burning caused me to eat more and more faster and faster thinking it would cool the burn. At some point my mouth was literally exploding on fire.
I still had not quite recognized what had just happened.
There was a gas station next door. I went inside and got the only milk they had, Nestle's Chocolate Milk, and drank it in the gas station to try to stop the burning pain. I never, ever would normally get Nestle's chocolate milk.
When I went back to the taco truck, in my broken spanish I tried to ask the woman in the truck where the spice was coming from.
It turned out that mango sauce I had used was not mango sauce at all. It is as far as my Spanish could figure out, nothing more complicated than fresh, raw, habenero chiles run through a blender. I had eaten roughly two or three entire habenero chiles on my ceviche without realizing what it was.
Would I go back?
Absolutely. This place was amazing. I can see how their menu is so different from what I am used to that it is going to take a dozen trips to figure it out.