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Love your fantastic styling of the outfit, the burgundy pants looks amazing, the sunnies are a great choice!ReplyDeleteReplies
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Awesome look loving the boots!ReplyDelete
Had a similar red wall outfit look on my blog as well, there's something about these red walls :)
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Такой уютный осенний образ. Желетка просто шикарна, так и хочется в нее укутатьсяReplyDelete
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CUTE! that sunglasses are gorgeous! the shape is one of my favorite shape for glasses <3 and your outfit is really cozy and chic I love your pants and that leather sleeve jacket is a champ! :)ReplyDelete
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You're so pretty.x I absolutely love this outfit, so stylish! Burgundy is definitely my favourite colour for Fall which makes this outfit one of my favourites as well!x Love the vest, it looks so nice with this outfit.xReplyDelete
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What a perfect weekend for the May Brighton festival!
The sun is shining and the sky is blue, a feeling of relaxation and celebration sweeps over Brighton as we welcome the flood of day trippers and festival goers.
Friends share their views and opinions on the various shows and gigs they have attended from the wide range on offer to cater for everyone's taste and the occasional spare ticket comes up for grabs on Facebook.
In addition, to the Festival & Fringe schedule and the Open House Trails the second weekend in May is also the date for the fabulous extravaganza of St Ann's Well Garden Spring Festival in Hove. This was the 10th year and by now its reputation for a great day out is well known and the party began with the Brighton School of Samba dancing up the main path to the Bowling Green at 11am!
As a resident of Hove for 18 years I always pop along to soak up the atmosphere, enjoy a cake and share brief chats and hugs with other locals that I haven't seen for a while. However, this year for the first time I was there in a professional capacity, under the umbrella of Brighton & Hove StressBusters which is a community stress management group powered by Sussex Wellbeing Company. www.hovestressbusters.co.uk
I became a member of Brighton & Hove StressBusters at the beginning of the year to fulfill my need to be part of a team. Working as a Holistic Health practitioner can, at times, be isolating. We are well serviced in Brighton with therapists, healers and counsellors offering an incredible range techniques to help us improve our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health. Many, like myself, working from home without regular contact and input from colleagues.
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Eating and exploring my way around the world. Starting in, out, and around Bloomington, Indiana.
Of all the Japanese restaurants in Bloomington, Mikado is probably the nicest. And by nicest I mean most expensive. The decor isn't particularly fancy or trendy, like Japanee or Sushi Bar, but Mikado has an air of classiness that the other restaurants don't have. But it's not so fancy that you can't wear jeans and a tee shirt. The wait staff wear dress shirts and are usually quite professional and attentive. The best thing about Mikado is their huge selection of creative and delicious specialty rolls. These tend to run anywhere from $7-$18 per roll, so I usually end up spending more at Mikado then at Japanee or Sushi Bar.
Mikado does the basics very well. Their miso soup is the best I've had in Bloomington and the house salad is pretty good, but not as good as the one at Japanee. Both the Asparagus Tempura and Aspargus w/Mayo rolls are yummy, especially as a complement to the more complex specialty rolls. Last time Stephanie ordered the Avocado Roll she said it was good, but the pieces of avocado were a bit too big, throwing off the balance of textures. The spicy tuna is good, and I also like their Spicy Octopus. The Eel and Cucumber Roll is pretty tasty, Christine liked it better than I did. The only sushi I've really been disappointed in at Mikado was their Spicy Scallop Roll, which just tasted off.
Besides the basic rolls Mikado has a huge list of specials. Usually only a few are advertised for the night, but if you ask for suggestions the wait staff has a list with pages and pages of additional specialty rolls. That's how we found out about the Summer Strawberry Roll. Our waiter suggested it when Mariann asked if there were any rolls that featured fruit. It has asparagus tempura on the inside with salmon, strawberry slices, and tobiko on top, it's delicious! It is seasonal however, so you can't always order it. The Jungle Roll (the second roll pictured here) also has fruit, mango! I can't remember what was inside, but I do remember that it was good. They didn't have it last time we visited unfortunately, maybe next time!
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Global market for clean cooking solutions is needed to reach the 3 billion people who still cook food with heavily-polluting solid fuels
By Megan Rowling
BARCELONA, Aug 12 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A new $4 million fund aims to speed up the development of supply chains for less polluting cookstoves in poor communities, by lending to businesses that would otherwise struggle to finance their growth, the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves said.
The Clean Cooking Working Capital Fund, the first debt fund focused on greener cookstoves, awarded its first loans this week to two U.S.-based social enterprise firms, Envirofit International and BioLite.
They will use the money to expand production and distribution of smart stoves that cook faster and cut down on fuel use, smoke and climate-changing emissions, in markets in Sub-Saharan Africa, India and Latin America, the alliance said.
BioLite's high-tech stoves can also produce electricity.
Peter J. George, the alliance's director of impact investment, said the fund would provide debt finance to "companies that many other commercial banks and traditional lenders probably wouldn't be lending to at this stage", because they are still refining their technologies and business models.
"This fund will then be catalytic in raising future debt capital for companies in the sector. It is really a demonstration," he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
The alliance said a global market for clean cooking solutions is needed to reach the 3 billion people who still cook food with heavily-polluting solid fuels.
When burned in open fires and traditional stoves, wood, coal, charcoal and other solid fuels emit harmful smoke that claims 4 million lives annually, making household air pollution the fourth greatest health risk in the world, it said.
The new fund, set up by Deutsche Bank and the alliance, plans to provide loans of between $250,000 and $500,000 each to 12 to 15 enterprises by the end of 2017, George said.
Those will include businesses based in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Radha Muthiah, CEO of the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, said in a statement that the funding would help the companies to "grow their businesses, create jobs, boost local economies and ultimately drive adoption of cleaner, more efficient cookstoves and fuels".
The alliance, a public-private partnership hosted by the UN Foundation, has a goal to foster access to clean and efficient cookstoves and fuels in 100 million households by 2020.
In its latest annual report, it said 50 million homes were reached between 2010 and 2014, and the 100 million target might be exceeded.
The private sector has become more involved in this work, distributing over half of the clean cookstoves and fuels reported in 2014, the report said.
George said the development of innovative financing models to expand the use of clean cookstoves lags behind that of the solar sector in developing countries, where hire-purchase equipment and pay-as-you-go solar power has gained a foothold.
To help change that, the alliance also runs a fund providing grants and equity finance for fledgling companies to build their business, which it hopes to increase to between $4 million and $5 million per year, George said.
So far, the new working capital fund has raised over half of its $4 million target from initial funders including Deutsche Bank, the Netherlands Enterprise Agency, Royal Dutch Shell and several foundations, he added.
In the early days, some clean stoves were criticised for not being suited to local cultures and traditions, curbing uptake.
Another challenge has been "stove stacking", where families use cleaner models but continue to cook with old, smoky stoves at the same time, reducing the potential health benefits.
But George said approaches are evolving. For example, it is now harder to finance cookstove projects by selling carbon credits based on estimated emissions reductions, where the appeal of the stoves to users was less important.
"With the downturn in the carbon markets, companies have recognised that their business models need to rely on revenue from customers who want to buy their products," he said.
(Reporting by Megan Rowling; Editing by Jo Griffin. Please credit the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers humanitarian news, women's rights, trafficking, property rights and climate change. Visit http://news.trust.org)
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Lockerbie Pan Am 103 Libya – what really happened
Excerpts of an article by a former U.S. Intelligence Asset who covered Iraq, Libya, Yemen and Syria/Hezbollah from 1993 to 2003:
US oil giants, Chevron and Occidental Petroleum, made a surprising decision to pull out of Libya, while China, Germany and Italy stayed on, signing major contracts with Gadhaffi's government.
As the U.S. Asset who started negotiations for the Lockerbie Trial with Libyan diplomats, I had close ties to Libya's U.N. Mission from 1995 to 2003. Given my long involvement in the Lockerbie saga, I have continued to enjoy special access to high level intelligence gossip on Libya.
Last July, I started hearing that Gadhaffi was exerting heavy pressure on U.S. and British oil companies to cough up special fees and kick backs to cover the costs of Libya's reimbursement to the families of Pan Am 103. Payment of damages for the Lockerbie bombing had been one of the chief conditions for ending U.N. sanctions on Libya that ran from 1992 until 2003. And of course the United Nations forced Gadhaffi to hand over two Libyan men for a special trial at The Hague, though everybody credible was fully conscious of Libya's innocence in the Lockerbie affair.
In August 2009, the lone Libyan convicted of the Lockerbie bombing that killed 270 people, Abdelbasset Megrahi, won a compassionate release from Scottish prison. Ostensibly, the British government and Scottish Courts granted Megrahi's request to die at home with dignity from advance stage cancer—in exchange for dropping a legal appeal packed with embarrassments for the European Courts.
The decision to free Megrahi followed shocking revelations of corruption at the special Court of The Hague that handled the Lockerbie Trial. Prosecution witnesses confessed to receiving payments of $4 million each from the United States, in exchange for testimony against Megrahi, a mind-blowing allegation of judicial corruption.
The Lockerbie conviction was full of holes to begin with. Anybody who knows anything about terrorism in the 1980s knows the CIA got mixed up in heroin trafficking out of the Bekaa Valley during the hostage crisis in Lebanon. The Lockerbie conspiracy had been a false flag operation to kill off a joint CIA and Defense Intelligence investigation into kick backs from Islamic Jihad, in exchange for protecting the heroin transit network.
According to my own CIA handler, Dr. Richard Fuisz, who'd been stationed in Lebanon and Syria at the time, the CIA had established a protected drug route from Lebanon to Europe and on to the United States. His statements support other sources that "Operation Corea" allowed Syrian drug dealers led by Monzer al-Kassar (also linked to Oliver North in the Iran-Contra scandal) to ship heroin to the U.S. on Pan Am flights, in exchange for intelligence on the hostages' whereabouts in Lebanon. The CIA allegedly made sure that suitcases carrying heroin were not searched at customs.
Building up to Lockerbie, the Defense Intelligence team in Beirut, led by Maj. Charles Dennis McKee and Matthew Gannon, suspected that CIA infiltration of the heroin network might be prolonging the hostage crisis. On the day it was blown out of the sky, Pan Am 103 was carrying that team of CIA and FBI investigators, the CIA's Deputy Chief assigned to Beirut, and three Defense Intelligence officers, including McKee and Gannon, on their way to Washington to deliver a report on the CIA's role in heroin trafficking, and the impact on terrorist financing and the hostage crisis.
In short, everyone with direct knowledge of CIA kickbacks from heroin trafficking died on Pan Am 103. A suitcase packed with $500,000 worth of heroin was found in the wreckage. It belonged to investigators, as proof of the corruption.
The U.S. had prior knowledge of the attack. A number of military officials and diplomats got pulled off the flight—making room for a group of students from Syracuse University traveling stand by for the Christmas holidays. It was a monstrous act!
But condemning Megrahi to cover up the CIA's role in heroin trafficking has struck many Lockerbie afficiandos as grossly unjust. Add the corruption of purchased testimony– $4 million a pop— and Megrahi's life sentence struck a nerve of obscenity. The United Nations had forced Libya to fork over $2.7 billion in damages to the Lockerbie families, a rate of $10 million for every death.
The message is simple: Challenge the oil corporations and your government and your people will pay the ultimate price.
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Rosewater or more often known as 'Gulab Jal' is a by-product of the production of rose oil. It is one of the most used ingredients in perfumes, cosmetics, food and also medication preparations.
Since the ancient times, Rosewater has claimed to be highly prized for its source of perfume, medicinal use, and nutritional properties. Its importance and potential in the skincare regimens is unmatched.
Rosewater is known to help the skin maintain its pH level, and when used as a toner and cleanser (1), it helps the skin bound with the goodness of the world.
What Are The Rose Water Benefits?
- Rosewater is said to stimulate the circulation of tiny blood vessels underneath the skin, thus helping reduce the appearance of thread veins and broken capillaries (2).
- Gulab Jal maintains skin's pH balance, calms acne, dermatitis and eczema.
- Smoothens, moisturizes, hydrates and revitalizes the skin while healing scars, cuts and wounds.
- Helps calm the skin and spirit thus easing stress and anxiety.
- Rosewater for face helps tone the skin, while offering anti-bacterial properties.
- Its antioxidants properties help strengthen skin cells and regenerate skin tissues (3).
- Helps revitalize the aging skin, thus keeping fine lines and wrinkle at bay (4).
For Hair
1. Controls Oil
Rose water helps in removing excess oil from your skin when used as a toner. It works similarly on your hair too. Some people have very active sebaceous glands, which secrete a high amount of sebum, an oily substance in the scalp, at the root of hair strands. This sebum can make hair feel greasy and oily, which not only looks unpleasant, but also makes it easier for dirt to attach to the hair. So, to prevent greasy hair, rose water can be used.
Rose water's pH is closer to the pH of your hair, which means it can reduce the oil and restore the natural shine of your hair. To remove oil, take rose water on a cotton ball and rub it on your scalp by parting your hair. You need to be patient to cover your entire scalp. Once it is done, wash your hair with rose water to remove whatever excess oil is present in it. This is a very effective method, and unlike the oil-removing shampoos, it does not leave your hair dried and frizzy.
2. Reduces Dryness
Rose water helps in controlling oil, but it also works well on dry and frizzy hair. Rose water can soothe the scalp and moisturize it. Dry scalp ultimately leads to dry hair, and hence rehydrating the scalp really does the trick of eliminating frizz. To get the maximum benefits, use glycerin along with rose water as the former enhances rose water's moisturizing ability. To make a solution, mix equal parts of glycerin and rose water. This slightly viscous liquid has to be massaged onto your scalp and hair. Let it stay for 15 minutes. After that, rinse it well. Repeat once a week for best results.
3. Conditions
Rose water indeed helps in conditioning your hair. Sometimes shampoos leave our hair dry and almost crunchy after cleaning it. This is a common problem because most shampoos contain several chemicals that may not suit our body and its pH. To solve this problem, you can use rose water. All you need to do is simply do a final rinse with a cup of rose water at the end of shampooing. It deep conditions your hair and leaves it shiny throughout the day. Also, rose water leaves an sweet, exotic scent in your hair that no conditioner or shampoo can replicate. You can make your own rose water conditioner. Good quality pure rose water contains the essential oil of rose and water. So, you can skip the water and use the rose essential oil itself. Add 10 drops of rose essential oil into a cup of light coconut oil and stir. Coconut oil is a good conditioner and together with rose oil, it does wonders to your shampoo frazzled hair.
4. Repairs Damage
There are many ways in which our hair gets damaged these days. Pollution and dirt are our worst enemies, followed by chemical hair products and even heat. We are always in a hurry, and hence, air drying washed hair is not an option for many. Blow drying hair often leads to severely damaged hair. Rose water helps in treating damaged hair and to some extent, can even reverse it. To boost the damage reversing properties of rose water, you can add vitamin E and jojoba oil. In a cup of rose water, empty the contents of 3 vitamin E tablets and a teaspoon of jojoba oil. Shake well to mix the ingredients well. Spray your hair with some water, which makes it easier to apply the rose water mixture. Now massage the rose water on your entire hair and scalp. You can leave this overnight and shampoo in the morning as usual.
5. Promotes Growth
Is rose water good for hair growth? Although there is no scientific proof suggesting a link between hair growth and rose water, some have reported such a finding. To be sure, rose water does contain vitamin A, vitamin B3, vitamin C and vitamin E, all of which are responsible for promote hair growth, make conditioner and shampoo at home using natural products and add rose essential oil to it. The shampoo and conditioner can be made similar to the recipes given below.
6. Improves Strength And Quality
Does your hair break easily? Has it degraded in quality? There could be various reasons behind reduced strength of hair. But to improve it, you can use rose water. The ancient Chinese used rose water as a hair strengthening remedy. What rose water does is increase circulation of blood in the scalp. Increased blood circulation rejuvenates the hair follicles and makes them strong. This, in turn, helps in better exchange of nutrients from scalp to the tip of the hair. As a result, reduced hair breakage and improved hair quality can be expected. You can use rose water on hair in several ways. First of all, you can try making your own rose water shampoo or conditioner. Otherwise, a good rinse with rose water every few days would also help. You can make the vitamin E and rose water mixture and apply it once a week.
7. Reduces Dandruff
Dandruff can be very annoying and persistent at the same time. But instead of barraging your scalp with heavy duty chemicals that usually anti-dandruff shampoos contain, you can turn to rose water. Unlike the chemically enhanced shampoos, rose water moisturizes and leaves your hair well conditioned. To get rid of dandruff, make use of fenugreek seeds along with rose water. Soak the fenugreek seeds in rose water for a few hours until they become soft and mash them into a paste. Take this liquidy paste and apply all over your scalp. Let it sit for an hour and then shampoo as usual. It should solve your dandruff problem if applied once a week.
8. Fight Infections
Rose water is said to have anti-fungal and anti-inflammatory properties. So keep infections at bay by rinsing your scalp with rose water every few days. You can make your own shampoo and conditioner with rose water. If that is too much of a hassle for you, you also dilute your hair care products with rose water. If it is easily available for you, adding rose essential oil always helps.
9. Improves Scalp Health
As we have already mentioned, rose water helps in increasing blood circulation in the scalp. As a result, the general scalp health is improved, and dandruff, oil, fungal infections and other such problems that originate in the scalp are greatly reduced. You can massage your scalp with rose essential oil and any carrier oil like jojoba oil to get the maximum benefits. Simply dabbing rose water on your scalp would work nicely too.
How To Prepare Rose Water At Home
All you would need is few rose petals, the consumable ones, and not the ones the florists offer. Wash those rose petals and boil them in some clean water. Once the petals turn white and once the water retains the flower color, cool it and refrigerate it.
This homemade rosewater can be used anytime to achieve a calming and soothing effect.
For The Hair
- Homemade Rose Water Shampoo: Mix three eggs with quarter cup each of rum and rose water, to make this into a shampoo to wash your hair. Finally rinse it with diluted vinegar.
- Castile Soap And Rosewater Shampoo: To make the shampoo, mix ½ cup rose water, ½ cup beer and 5 drops of rose essential oil together, adding castile soap in the end and stir this to incorporate. The rose water helps in cleaning while beer is great for silky hair. The essential oil soothes your scalp and nourishes hair.
- Adding rosewater to your last hair rinse will offer soft and shiny hair.
- Nourishing and moisturizing properties recover the quality of hair.
- Treats mild scalp inflammations, and dandruff caused my fungal infections.
- Down to its natural anti-inflammatory and healing properties, rosewater efficiently eliminates mild scalp inflammation.
- A regular rosewater massage promotes blood circulation in the scalp. Improved circulation not only enhances the shine and strength of your tresses but also triggers the hair follicles to produce more robust hair. Rosewater massage is also found to be very helpful in fixing the hair loss issue.
For The Skin
- Add few drops of rosewater into bathing water to get glowing skin. This treatment also relaxes and soothes body and mind.
- Wash your face with rose water to reduce the skin irritation caused by acne, pimples, redness and breakouts.
- For dry skin, add some glycerine to rose water and apply it to the skin for some time.
- Face pack of rosewater and sandalwood will help soothe and refresh the skin.
- Chilled rose water will soothe sunburned skin.
- Rosewater maintains skin's pH balance, calms acne, dermatitis and eczema.
- Smoothens, hydrates, revitalizes and moisturizes the skin while healing scars, cuts and wounds.
- Calms the skin to ease stress and anxiety.
- Helps tone the skin, while offering anti-bacterial properties.
- Helps revitalize aging skin while keeping fine lines and wrinkle at bay.
For The Eyes
- Mildly soak cotton swabs in rosewater and place it over the eyes to soothe, cool and relax the eyes of fatigue (5).
- Use fresh rose water as eye drops to prevent and cure dark circles and puffiness. This cleanse eyes in a gentle manner and also calms down the heat.
Rosewater Recipe As A Sun Body Spray
Crush 10 to 15 tulsi leaves and add it to 200ml of rose water. Store this mixture in a spray bottle and in the refrigerator. Now after long tired sunny days you can spray this as mist to calm the harsh sun faced skin. This also helps prevent adverse effects of sun burn while healing skin redness.
Rosewater Recipe As A Staining Lip Pack
In this type of rosewater product, you will have to cut beetroot into tiny pieces, dry it in the sun and powder it. Now mix a teaspoon of rose water to this beetroot powder and make your staining lip pack. Wash it off after 15 minutes to achieve an instant soft pink color stain on the lips as well as natural lips color.
There are a lot of advantages of rosewater. Make to use it regularly and see the difference!
Source: Livestrong, Howstuffworks


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Ari Schottenstein is a Principal at Protean Capital, LLC, a $30 million investment partnership focused on real estate private equity and financing. He earned his BSE in Operations Research and Financial Engineering at Princeton University and an MBA from Columbia Business School. Ari has extensive experience supporting philanthropic organizations and causes, and has served as a board and/or committee member of the Hudson Union Society, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Next Generation Committee, the Young Leadership Associates of the American Society for Yad Vashem, the United Nations IIMSAM Program for Malnutrition, the American Friends of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art's Young Patron's Board, the Young New Yorker Friends of the Philharmonic, the Oxonian Society Governing Committee, the Doe Fund, and the Steppingstone Foundation.
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Spy Hunter restarted?
Spy Hunter has struggled to be made a number of times, and we've heard that Dwayne Johnson has been eyeing the role, Paul W.S. Anderson has been set to direct, as well as John Woo at one point, however it never made it and Universal eventually canned the attempt at production.
Now news has arrived that the film is to be resurrected with Warner Bros. as they recently bought the rights to Midway Games, the company behind the original videogame and therefore the rights owners.
So Warner Bros. are resurrecting the film and set to create the new version, but most noticeable are the names missing from the story, no Dwayne Johnson, no John Woo, no Paul W.S. Anderson, no nothing.
Well that's not true, according to the Empire story Chad St John is writing the script and the story remains pretty much the same and the focus will be on the agent and his super weaponry laden car which he uses to chase down the bad guys. Kitt mark II, or would it be mark I?
There needs to be a lot more meat to this story to really make it a successful film, as it goes we don't have much for a story so far, just the dressing around the story, the fancy car and the agent.
What also strikes me is the fact that there's not really a huge fan base for the game. Of course many of us remember it, and remember playing it, but is it really the only thing that would entice us to go and see a film about it? Certainly not for me.
This needs a lot more work on it and some decent names behind the camera to make me sit up and take notice. Surely you're not going to leap off to the cinema just because it has the name Spy Hunter?


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Optometrist and eye docters will get their share of disruptive innovation. MIT professor Ramesh Raskar figured that the quality of the iPhone screen has reached such a great quality that, with a little clip-on eyepiece and a smart iPhone app it would be possible to create a low cost mobile auto refractor. So he did. But before a diagnostic device like this can hit the market extensive testing is needed and that is where Raskar also revolutionized by gathering all test data from the mobile units in a cloud-based platform called Test2Connect.
Currently EyeNetra is starting large scale testing in countries like Brazil, India and Mexico. A logical choice as EyeNetra states on their website:" 2.4 billion people worldwide don't have glasses who need them due to a lack of felt need for eye care. While eyeglass manufacturers/retailers can produce $0.25 eyeglasses, they have minimal cost effective, quality, or remote eye diagnostics to build demand + efficiently service those in need".
When the test results proof the reliability the EyeNetra set, which has been mentioned to have an estimated cost of $30 could replace the 40 pounds weighing, $10,000 costing, auto refractor. This will revolutionize eye care as many people in rural areas, who currently do not have access to auto refractors, will have access to this mobile device to pinpoint for their prescription.
"EyeNetra is uniquely positioned to disrupt the $75 billion eyecare market and satisfy the 2.4 billion people who need vision correction through on-demand eye tests and access to care."


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Photos of Key West, Florida - Key West Map and Photos
Key West, Florida
The Florida Keys extend from the southern edge of Florida, southwest into the Gulf of Mexico. At land's end stands the island of Key West, the southern most point of the continental United States of America.
The inhabitants of this Florida enclave are an eclectic group made up of artists, entrepreneurs, retirees, writers and those who consider themselves to be living an 'alternative' or 'eccentric' lifestyle.
The local atmosphere is decidedly laid back as the biggest commitment on the island seems to be the almost subconscious daily gathering of people to watch the gorgeous sunset over the Gulf of Mexico.
Key West is known for its clear blue waters, sun-filled skies, and laid-back attitude. In addition to being a great vacation spot, the city has also served as an artistic refuge, a presidential retreat, a military post, and an important port.
Vacations in Key West (be them short or long) are typically lazy, sunny days on the beach, and nights on the town that often last till dawn. The island is loaded with flashy clubs, shops and restaurants, and prices in this 'Cheeseburger in Paradise' destination can be a bit on the high side.
Some of the most popular island activities include eating a slice (or two) of 'Key Lime Pie,' strolling on Duval Street, dolphin encounters and whale watching, marlin and sailfish charters, parasailing, jet skiing, windsurfing, and scuba diving in some of the best coral reefs in all of the Caribbean Islands.
Duval is the major shopping street in Key West.
Did you know this about female cigar workers?
Wooden stairs leading to the second level of a building on Duval Street.
Some say the fishing off of Key West is the best.
There's a very laid-back, casual lifestyle on Key West, and riding your bike to work fits right in.
On the island of Key West this pathway to an outdoor restaurant is hard to resist, at least it was for me
There's a style on this tropical island, and relaxing chairs on the front porch are commonly seen.
In Key West, Florida, even if you're a dog, when you've cool, you're cool. Check out the nails.
Dozens of shops line Duval Street in Key West, Florida, and this is but one. Duval Street is the island's famous downtown commercial zoned street, running north and south from the Gulf of Mexico to the Atlantic Ocean. From shore to shore, the street is just over a mile in length. It was named for William Pope Duval, the first territorial governor of Florida.
Another of the classic stores on Duval Street. On certain nights, Duval Street often vibrates with a carnival like atmosphere that lasts until dawn and beyond. In fact, the ritual has a name known to tourists and residents as the "Duval Pub Crawl." Duval is the location of many famous restaurants and bars, including Sloppy Joe's and Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville.
For over 30 years, Old Town Trolley Tours has been providing sightseeing tours highlighting the best of Key West. Hop aboard one of our trolleys and you'll experience a delightful combination of transportation and entertainment. With Old Town Trolley, you can avoid costly parking and city driving while exploring at your own pace as you hop on and off the trolley.
If Key West is anything, it is colorful, and these relaxing chairs on Duval Street are a great example.
The Southernmost point in the Continental USA is marked by a buoy. This large painted buoy is a tourist attraction established in 1983 by the city at the corner of South Street and Whitehead Street. The wording is really not accurate, as Florida's official southernmost point is actually Ballast Key, a privately owned island south and west of Key West. Regardless, it is one of the most visited and photographed attractions in Key West, and during the day there is usually a line of tourists lined up to have their picture taken.


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Nabil Elaraby is a name to remember as crisis builds in Syria and citizens in other countries in the Arab world worry about where their hard-won revolutions are taking them. Elaraby, a 76-year-old Egyptian diplomat, is secretary-general of the Arab League, a position he has held for less than five months. But his impact on the once-dithering regional organization and on the region itself is already being felt.
Taking on the Arab League leadership has meant intensive concentration on the region's collective response not only to the turmoil in half a dozen countries, some of them Egypt's neighbors, but also to the decision by the Palestinian leadership to bid for full UN membership.
Elaraby is known to have regarded the Palestinian decision with some skepticism, before supporting the move when it was clear that peace talks with Israel were not likely to resume. The Palestinians persuaded him and others that they had no alternative. But their ill-timed campaign for a United Nations seat failed to get the required Security Council support – even before the United States had to consider using its veto.
Most recently Elaraby steered the Arab League into action against government repression of protests in Syria, where several thousand people have been killed and the country has effectively disintegrated into pockets of pro- or anti-government forces. On Nov. 12, the Arab League voted at its headquarters in Cairo to suspend the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria, a step that would have been unheard of in the past, when Arab nations tended to close ranks around their own. (An exception was the league's decision in March to back international intervention in Libya, where Muammar el-Qaddafi was a far less important figure than Assad and had few friends among fellow Arab leaders.)
News reports say that Elaraby forced a vote on Syria rather than haggle to find a consensus within the league. Of the 22 members, 18 supported suspending the Assad regime, with two votes against it from Lebanon (where Syria has considerable influence) and Yemen, which may consider itself next in line for attention. Iraq abstained and Syria did not vote.
The reaction to Syrian government intransigence and violence against its own people brought Arab nations more into line with international condemnation of President Assad. It also demonstrated that with Elaraby as secretary-general, the Arab League was ready to take a regional lead. A meeting with Syrian opposition members was planned for this week.
His Years in New York at the UN
Elaraby is a familiar figure in New York and at the UN, where he served as Egyptian ambassador from 1991 to 1999. A graduate of Cairo University's law faculty, he went on to take two more law degrees from New York University in 1969 and 1971 before joining the Egyptian foreign service. There he was named leader of several delegations in the 1970s and 1980s conducting critical negotiations with Israel.
After the revolution early this year that toppled President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, Elaraby became the country's foreign minister, a position he held until June. He became chief of the Arab League on July 1.
In post-revolutionary Egypt, Elaraby also played a role as go-between for the military leadership, which retained power in the transition, and Egyptian pro-democracy advocates, with whom he appeared to have popular respect.
In April, in the Suez Canal port of Ismailia, leaders of a youth organization told me that they had invited him to come and speak – not about the country's foreign policy, but about the way forward for Egyptian society and politics. They said that they considered him a wise man and wanted his guidance.


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Last week militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria captured—at least for a while—a vital oil refinery in the town of Baiji in northern Iraq. The Islamists promptly cut off fuel supplies to the rest of Iraq, including Kurdistan.
The Iraqi army claims it has retaken Baiji. Regardless, in a country already panicking over the looming possibility of widespread sectarian warfare, a gasoline shortage—however long-lasting—was yet another stressor.
Kurdistan's oil has been a critical factor in the semi-autonomous region's success. Oil money has funded infrastructure and schools. But the Kurds don't refine much of their own crude. And militants know it.
With Kurdish peshmerga troops sparring ISIS fighters around Kirkuk and Jalawla, the militants turned the screws where they knew it would hurt the most—in the Kurds' gas tanks.
At left, a Kurdish driver fuels up in New Halabja. At right, fuel prices at a Kurdish gas station. Matt Cetti-Roberts photos
The shortage drove the typical fuel price from 500 Iraqi dinars to 1,500 per liter in many areas. In Erbil, prices were even steeper. Strict rationing limited each driver to only 30 liters as they fueled up.
In most areas, they could top off just once every two days. Many cities implemented a system allowing drivers to fill up based on their license plate number. Plates ending in odd numbers got gas station access one day. Even numbers got access the next day.
"Excuse me, the petrol is finished" reads a sign at a gas station in Sulaimaniyah, at left. At right, drivers leave cars in line overnight at Darbandikhan. Matt Cetti-Roberts photos
In some cases the lines got so long that frustrated drivers simply left their cars at stations overnight. The crisis had a huge impact on commerce. Kurdistan might be peaceful, but the war to the south affects it and the whole region.
Even the people lucky enough to get gas for their daily commutes had to wait as long as four hours for the privilege. In Erbil and other major cities, there were protests over the strict rationing.
Bl'nd Azad. Matt Cetti-Roberts photo
"We don't have a problem between Sunni and Shia, we just want to save our borders from ISIS," 19-year-old Kurdish student Bl'nd Azad said as he and a friend waited in line for gas in Sulaimaniyah.
When ISIS launched its offensive and the Iraqi army fled, Kurdishpeshmerga fighters moved to defend northern cities including Kirkuk. Though Kirkuk is firmly in Kurdish hands, the pesh frequently clash with ISIS outside the city.
"The problem is not just with Kirkuk" Azad said. "It is also with Tal Afar, Khanaqin and other cities. If these cities will be back to Kurdistan, we will be happy."
Barzan. Matt Cetti-Roberts photo
"We are in Kurdistan, we have everything, including a lot of oil and petrol that the world wants," said Barzan, a 28-year-old cab driver from Sulaimaniyah.
He said he blames the government in Baghdad for the current problems. "We don't have a good leader [in Iraq] and this is why the petrol lines [and] everything else are happening."
He said he distrusts politicians in the south, but he's equally distrustful of ISIS and its tribal allies. "[ISIS] are doing things in Islam's name, but it's far from Islam," he explained. "It's people doing the things they want to pay back the government."
"The people are feeling that the government let them down, didn't look after them, didn't support them and there are some idiot people doing it to destroy the country," Barzan added.
Drivers wait in line for fuel in Sulaimaniyah. Matt Cetti-Roberts photo
Barzan said his thoughts are with the peshmerga fighting in the south. "They are our brothers."
The silver lining of the current crisis, he said, is that it provides opportunities for greater freedom from Baghdad. Barzan spoke optimistically about the peshmerga presence in Kirkuk as a possible prelude to the city fully and permanently joining Kurdistan. "Now there is a chance Kirkuk will return."
Kurdistan Regional Government president Massoud Barzani recently told CNN's Christiane Amanpour that Kirkuk would likely remain in Kurdish hands regardless of what happens in the south.
He hinted that the Kurds would seek greater autonomy, if not outright independence, in the wake of the crisis.


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As we've covered earlier today, after Democrat Mike Frerichs voted to double the State Income Tax, he's decided that Illinois needs a new law that allows a tax break for diapers. Instead of giving hard-working families in Illinois more money in their pocket in the form of lower income taxes, he's trying to pick winners and losers by focusing just on diapers.
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Over the years, since its introduction in 1978, criticisms against the Executive Presidency have been mounting with consecutive governments promising to abolish it, only to fail in honouring the promises. As a result, on May 22 this year the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) took it upon itself to present the 20th Amendment (20A) to the Constitution which seeks to abolish the Executive Presidency in its current form while distributing the powers vested in the post between the Cabinet, Parliament and the Constitutional Council.
Following inputs by the Attorney General and having it gazetted in July, Speaker Karu Jayasuriya allowed for the Draft Bill of the 20th Amendment to be presented officially in the House, this week.
In an interview with the Sunday Observer this week, JVP Parliamentarian Vijitha Herath discussed the party's preparations to ensure the abolishing of the Executive Presidency, their real motives behind the agitation and the necessity of ridding the country of the controversial post.
According to Herath who had the honour of presenting the Draft Bill of the 20th Amendment to Parliament, this is the first victory towards abolishing the Executive Presidency and all its evils which have plagued society and the country, to date.
"It is a dictatorship in the guise of an executive presidency," Herath said adding that the JVP has always been in the stance that the country must do away with the post. "Therefore, we have agitated continuously by way of protests and interventions in Parliament" he pointed out.
Therefore, being able to finally present the Draft Bill of the 20th Amendment to Parliament on September 5, is a victory by itself to the JVP, he says.
With the government lacking a Minister dedicated to Constitutional Affairs, the Draft Bill has now been forwarded to Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe so the Government could present their views during the next six months. While hoping the Government would speed up the process so that it could be presented for a third reading prior to holding a vote, Herath says, the JVP will now step up efforts to gain the support of political parties as well as the citizens, for the process.
"Meantime, we will commence official discussions with all political parties, separately," he said, adding that all ideas and opinions will be welcome. "They have every right to request amendments" Herath affirmed. According to him, the JVP will accept reasonable requests by the parties. With no official dates having been set for discussions yet, however, Herath says, the JVP is confident they can garner the necessary support to get the 20A approved, and thereby abolish the Executive Presidency.
"In the current political scenario no leader of any party is in a position to win a Presidential election," he said. Therefore, according to him, it is likely that many parties will seek to support its abolishment. He also claims, many parliamentarians are individually favourable to their proposal. "They have expressed their agreements individually, and this is why the JVP was able to present the Draft Bill in Parliament this week" he said.
However, rumours have been rife that the 20A will be favourable to various political parties or figures, an allegation he denies. "We are presenting this in good faith for the betterment of the country, to ensure that democracy is strengthened," he said, adding that despite accusations the new amendment will not favour a single party or individual.
"It would not transfer the powers of the President to the Prime Minister as claimed by some, falsely" he clarified. Instead, the powers will be vested in the Cabinet, Parliament and the Constitutional Council. "It will empower the people as opposed to one person," Herath says.
Meanwhile, he also denied allegations that the Draft includes sections that could lead to the country being divided. "This is all false propaganda by various individuals with vested interests," he said. According to him, the JVP assures that the Draft contains no such sections. Herath says, "The JVP strives for a unitary Sri Lanka, and will not allow any sections detrimental to the country to be added to the proposed amendment. Hence, the so-called patriots can rest assured and support the 20A." Herath says, there is a plethora of false propaganda being spread against the 20A among which is that a rich and powerful person could obtain the Presidency. "What is the rationale in such a move when the position is merely ceremonial?" he asks.
According to him, the people have only had bad experiences under the Executive Presidency due to its far-reaching powers, and therefore, it is of utmost importance to ensure its abolishment, now. "Under the Presidency in its current form we saw that elections could be delayed or rigged, while criminals and corrupt individuals were protected by those in power itself," he says adding that, worse still, it appeared Presidents could be bought off. "For example, China Harbour was able to do this," he says, warning that if a President could be so easily bought, a country could be similarly taken over by powerful entities.
The JVP urges all parties to support the cause without thinking of personal gain. Despite being positive Herath says, in the instance of failing to garner political support, the 20A will have to be put forward for a people's referendum.
According to Herath, in such an instance it is the duty of the Sri Lankan people to support the Amendment. "They must help us defeat this arbitrary system of government," he said, stressing that the benefit will be for the people and not the JVP. As a result, the JVP has now commenced its 10,000 public meetings program under the theme of 'Rata Hadana, Rata Rakina, Janathawadi Palanayak'. "We see many members of the UNP and the SLFP attending these meetings where we discuss how to develop the country and fix its many issues," Herath said. The JVP stalwart says, most come in search of an alternative option.
"At these meetings, we also discuss the 20A, to make people understand its importance for democracy in the country," he said. The JVP is joined by professionals and academics during these meetings to drive their point even further.
But, in a political scenario with figures such as Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa appearing to prepare for the upcoming presidential election, many have expressed doubts if the JVP could gather the necessary support to abolish the Presidency.
Herath says, the Rajapaksas are merely trying to deflect people from the internal conflict within the Rajapaksa family and the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP). "They are just stringing people on to gain votes by making them believe that Rajapaksa can once again come to power," Herath says, stressing that it is clear he is not able to, and there is no question about it.
As a result, Herath urges the people not to be misled by the false propaganda put forward by a political system which is self-serving.
"The Executive Presidency has continuously kept pushing the country back, and in the past Presidents were a law unto themselves" Herath says. Therefore, he says, abolishing the Executive Presidency will ensure that a person's vagaries of mind cannot be put into action to the detriment of the country.
"The Cabinet and Parliament are mere puppets today," he said, claiming it will change with the 20A, while ensuring democracy in the country.


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The First Lady visited Connecticut late Saturday morning to christen a nuclear attack submarine.
First Lady Michelle Obama is visiting Electric Boat in Groton to christen the USS Illinois, the U.S. Navy's newest submarine, which is also named after her home state.
"I couldn't be more excited to be here to christen the ILLINOIS -- my home state," the First Lady said. "The entire experience of serving as your sponsor has been beyond meaningful, and so fascinating. I've learned so much about the incredible power and technology of this submarine. And I've been awed by the extraordinary skill and character of those who will operate it"
U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Connecticut) thanked the First Lady for sponsoring the ship and said "it's always a pleasure to host her in Connecticut."
"For me, today's celebration was about the thousands of Connecticut shipyard workers and engineers who made the christening of the USS Illinois possible. Back in April, I got to work a full shift on the job with Electric Boat's electricians, welders, and quality control managers as they built the USS Illinois. The men and women of this amazing shipyard build the best submarines in the world," Murphy said. "Connecticut has always been on the forefront of submarine production and technology, and I'm extremely proud that Electric Boat is carrying on that tradition with the USS Illinois."
The ceremony for the Virginia-class sub started at about 11 a.m.
"Now, the last time I was with you, as you heard, the ILLINOIS looked a little different. It was split up into four different modules, spread across three states. And I was standing in front of one of those modules as we laid the keel," the First Lady said. "And today, here we are, just 16 months later, standing on top of this marvelous submarine, three stories tall, weighing nearly 8,000 tons, longer than a football field. And it's really a technological wonder. It is full of technologies like a photonics mast, full of high-resolution and infrared cameras. It has the most advanced stealth, sonar, and communications systems, and enough high-definition screens to put Best Buy out of business."
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i want to join indian navy bt i m a student of class 10!so plz guide me!bt how to believe that it is possible for a common person dat he would get selected even if he scores good!
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As a 10Th Completed Candidate You can not Join In Indian Navy
So You are Not Join in Indian Navy
Because to Join in Indian Navy You should be completed 10+2 or Equivalent Education from Any Discipline Board
So Yet Now You have Completed 10Th Only
So My sincerer Suggestion Please Join in 12Th And Than Appear the NDA Exam
This is the Only One Way to Join in Indian Navy
But Here You should be remember That You should be completed 12Th from Maths And Science Stream Only Other wise you can not Join in Indian Navy
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The minimum qualification required to join Indian Navy is 10+2.
So,at 10th level,you are not eligible.
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-10th passed candidate will not apply Indian Navy through NDA exam as an officer level.
-You will apply NDA exam for joining Indian Navy as an officer level, after complete of 12th class with physic, chemistry and maths subject.
-NDA stands for national defense academy.
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-Candidate must be free from any kind of disease.
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-Candidate should be unmarried.
-Eyesight should be perfect means 6/6.
-NDA exam is conducted by UPSC (union public service commission), twice in a year.
-Exam syllabus are as under:-
-General English.
-General Knowledge.
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-Firstly written exam, secondly SSB interview and thirdly Medical examination.
-After crack the written exam, candidate should be call for SSB interview.
-SSB stands for service selection board.
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BMW's i3 was launched here barely four months ago and it is already the best-selling electric car on the market, with orders breaching the two dozen mark.
Now, you may say the number hardly makes a car a bestseller, but consider this: Only one other electric car has ever been put on the road with a normal plate - a Tesla Roadster.
None of the other carmakers with electric models managed to sell any. The Mitsubishi iMiEV, Renault Fluence ZE, Nissan Leaf and Chevrolet Volt were all here, mostly as part of a $20-million "test-bed" scheme that allowed these cars to run around tax-free.
Another $75-million trial is on the way, with new participants such as China's BYD and France's Bollore looking to join. These companies are, of course, hoping the trial will pave the way for long-term tax breaks for electric cars.
In my opinion, this is a crutch mentality that is slowing down electric car adoption.
If companies want their cars to sell, just make them desirable. And that is exactly what BMW has done.
The stunning i8 plug-in hybrid sports model reviewed last week is one example. Despite its rather hefty price tag of $600,000, demand is outstripping supply.
The i3 is another example. This is a full electric car, backed by a small twocylinder engine that kicks in to power up the batteries if they run low.
But over the course of a week since taking delivery of this long-term test car, the petrol engine kicked in only once - last weekend, when several errands had to be run back to back.
On normal weekdays, the i3's realistic range of 90 to 100km is more than adequate. In fact, with my workplace just five minutes away, I could go up to four days without plugging the i3 in.
If I had been truly determined not to rely on the so-called range extender (the small petrol engine), I could have driven to BMW agent Performance Motors.
A high-voltage quick charger there would have juiced up the i3 to 80 per cent in under 30 minutes. A full charge via a normal household socket takes eight to nine hours.
A smartphone app that comes with the i3 also tells me where I can find a public charging point.
These are just for extra peace of mind, really. Because for nine out of 10 times, plugging the car in at home will be sufficient for all your mobility needs.
What I find a little disconcerting is how quickly the range falls initially. At full charge, the range meter reads 115km. But when you come back an hour later and start up the car, it could say 100km. What accounted for the unused 15km?
And often, after driving just 2km, the range drops by 5 to 8km.
Thankfully, the consumption rate slows down after the midway point.
In the default Comfort mode, which comes with full acceleration and airconditioning potential, the car is good for 90 to 100km. It depends on how much idling time you encounter.
In EcoPro mode, the air-conditioning is not so powerful but still good enough for evenings. There is a slight drop in acceleration, but progress is still very brisk. The improvement in consumption here is minute, so I would not bother with it.
In EcoPro Plus mode, the car goes without air-conditioning (compressor is deactivated) and acceleration is further dulled. In this mode, the car is still driveable and consumption improves by 10 to 20 per cent.
The discomfort of not having airconditioning is not worth the savings. So, in short, just leave the car in Comfort mode, which gives you access to sports-car-like performance.
The stated 0 to 100kmh timing is 7.9 seconds, but the i3's acceleration is so perfectly linear (the beauty of electric motors) that it feels like a much faster car. You get 250Nm of torque the moment you depress the acclerator. And unlike in combustion engines, where torque tapers off after 4,000rpm or so, the i3's maximum shove is maintained as long as your foot is on the pedal.
Much of the i3's performance is attributable to its lightweight body.
Made largely of carbon-fibre and plastic, the BMW tall hatch weighs only 1.2 tonnes (about 200kg lighter than a Mercedes-Benz A-class). This makes for one exhilarating car.
This, in fact, is its most loveable trait. Its second-most loveable trait is its low running cost.
Based on today's cost of electricity and petrol, you stand to save close to $1,000 a year on fuel if your current car is a Volkswagen Golf or equivalent, and you clock 19,000km a year.
The bummer is its road tax. The Land Transport Authority has deemed it fit to slap the i3 with an annual road tax of around $1,700 - more than what a 2.4litre petrol car attracts. It effectively wipes out the electric car's fuel savings.
While I started this article saying that electric cars should not rely on subsidies to succeed, I think the road tax for the i3 is unneccessarily and unjustly punitive.
This is the first of a three-part report based on a three-week test.
Engine Type
Hybrid synchronous motor with integrated power electronics, charger and generator
Engine Cap
647 cc
168 bhp / 4,800 rpm
250 Nm / 4,800 rpm
Single-speed Direct Drive
7.2 sec (0-100 km/h)
Top Speed
150 km/h