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by Miriam Kairey
Perhaps the best gift you can give your family is one that will last for generations. A family tree is such a gift. Information about our relatives that is available to us today through our elders is slipping through our fingers at this very moment. Preserving this valuable legacy should be a priority and the time to start is now.
You may ask yourself "How do I start?" and "What do I do?" Fortunately for us we live in the internet age. The internet allows us to find not only documents pertaining to our ancestors, but also other relatives all over the world who we may not even know about. To get started you need to choose a way to save your information. You can download a free program called "Legacy" from the internet and enter your information offline. This is an advantage if you don't have an internet connection. The file you make can always be transferred later to an online Genealogy site such as Geni.com or Ancestry.com.
Geni- Free and easy to use. It provides a good broad view of your tree so you can see many relatives on the screen at once. However it does not provide good access to documents which are important sources of information about your relatives.
Ancestry- My choice. You can start with a free account. Enter all the information you can find out. Then if you want you can opt for the paid subscription which will lead you to documents such as census, army enlistment and immigration records. I recommend this for families that have been in the US for more than 60 years. Newer documents are held back for privacy reasons. Ancestry allows you to choose whether you want to make your tree Public or Private. I recommend making it Public and choose the option to hide living people. This way others searching for the same ancestors can more easily find their way to you.
Now assuming you have chosen Ancestry.com, let's get going:
- Start with yourself. Enter everything you know. Next recruit other relatives to help. Ancestry allows you to "invite" other family members to view and even work on the tree with you. Sharing the work is fun and gets the job done quicker. Information you gather from relatives provide valuable clues that can often be backed up with documentation you find yourself. Sometimes a snippet of information will lead you to solving some great family mystery.
- Collect photos. You can scan them into your computer and upload them to Ancestry. Then all who visit your tree can enjoy them. Even if you never make a tree, when you visit your elder relatives, ask them to show you photos and WRITE ON THE BACK of the picture so that the names of those in the pictures will be remembered. It is very frustrating and all too common to come across a collection of old photos and no one remembers who was in them. Ancestry also gives you a place to type in stories told by elders in order to preserve them
- Find relatives. Ancestry will help you by locating other members researching the same ancestor. It is an exciting experience to find a long-lost cousin. As Jews we have relatives scattered all around the world and it is possible to find them.
- Research. You can learn so much more about your ancestors if you dig. As mentioned, Ancestry.com can help you locate US based documents. You can also visit ellisisland.org and search for your family (free search), however not all immigrants entered the US through Ellis Island. Ancestry can help comb through the records of other Ports of Entry.
If you want to go back further, where to look will depend on where your ancestors are from. A good place to start is jewishgen.org. Here you will find a place to enter in the town your ancestors are from. For example, if you type in "Aleppo" you will be given a list of family names and researchers searching for those families from Aleppo. You will then email the others who are researching the same name as you are. These fellow researchers are a great source of information even if they are not related to you. They can point you to sources relevant to your family.
You can also pay a visit to the Ackman and Ziff Genealogical Institute at the Center for Jewish History, 15 W. 16th Street in Manhattan. Bring a pencil (not pen) and a notebook and expect to spend some time. Although it is better to go there knowing what you are looking for, the folks that work there may be able to point you to helpful resources.
Uncovering your ancestry can be a long Journey or a brief trip – it's up to you. The important thing is to take the first step. You never know where the road will lead you. You just may be amazed at what you find out.


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Victoria's Pink With a Pop of Neon Nursery
Victoria's Pink With a Pop of Neon Nursery
We've long been fans of the beautiful work of NYC-based Sissy + Marley, a one-stop shop for expectant moms that handles everything from baby planning and maternity concierge services to designing exquisite nurseries and stationery.
When founder Chelsea Reale (aka "Sissy") agreed to share one of her firm's very special baby rooms with us, we were just thrilled (and you'll soon see why!). This space was designed for a baby girl named Victoria, who has three older brothers. There was no question that this time around, her mom wanted everything to be pink! Click through to check out Victoria's pretty-in-pink nursery, made modern with fun pops of neon throughout.

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News that Apple is to start offering the HBO app on the Apple TV in the US has lead to speculation that similar deals could see Apple offer Sky Go, iPlayer, 4OD and other OnDemand apps on the Apple TV here in the UK.
Consumers who subscribe to HBO via their cable provider will be able to watch HBO shows on the Apple TV when the app becomes available later this year. HBO is a premium cable television network owned by Time Warner. It has 30 million subscribers.
This is first time that Apple has agreed to place a subscription-based app on the Apple TV that requires authentication.
There are currently HBO Go apps for the iPad and iPhone.
HBO has already made its content available to subscribers with a Roku or Xbox.
HBO sources told Bloomberg that cable and satellite subscribers who pay for HBO will be able to watch more than 600 hours of films and television shows on Apple TV.
HBO told AllThingsD: "We've said we would like HBO GO accessible on all preferred platforms so we are always having discussions with a variety of companies."
The Apple TV currently offers very few third-party apps. In the UK users have access to Netflix, YouTube, Vimeo, MLB.TV and Wall Street Journal Live alongside the iTunes content.
It's interesting to note that The Wall Street Journal is owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. Sky News is also partly owned by Rupert Murdoch.
Apple sold two million Apple TV boxes in the just gone quarter. "We sold more last quarter than we did ever before," Cook said during the conference call to discuss quarterly earnings.
The TV area is of a lot of interest to Apple, Cook said. "I tend to believe that there is a lot we can contribute to this space," Cook said. "I don't want to be more specific."
Apple is widely expected to launch its own television within the next couple of years.
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BIS chronology
This chronology chronicles some of the main events in the BIS's institutional history.
|3 Oct-13 Nov 1929
|A committee to elaborate the structure and statutes of the Bank for International Settlements meets in Baden-Baden, Germany.
|20 Jan 1930
|The Final Act of the Second Hague Conference is adopted by heads of state and government representatives. This includes the agreement between the central banks of Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom and a financial institution representing the United States to set up the Bank for International Settlements.
|26-27 Feb 1930
|Governors of the founding central banks meet in Rome to officially create the BIS, nominating its President and the members of its Board of Directors.
|17 May 1930
|The BIS opens its doors for business in the former Savoy Hôtel Univers in Basel, Switzerland.
|30 Jul 1936
|The Brussels Protocol, signed by government representatives, gives effect to Article X of the Hague Agreement protecting the BIS's property, assets and deposits.
|20 May-7 Oct 1940
|The BIS seat is temporarily moved from Basel to Château-d'Oex, following the outbreak of hostilities between Germany and France.
|Jul 1944
|The United Nations Conference in Bretton Woods agrees to the creation of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank; it also adopts Resolution V calling for the liquidation of the BIS at "the earliest possible moment".
|9 Dec 1946
|First post-war meeting of the BIS Board of Directors.
|13 May 1948
|Washington Agreement: the BIS reimburses looted gold it had inadvertently received from the German Reichsbank during the war to the Allied Tripartite Commission. The Bretton Woods resolution calling for the liquidation of the BIS is put aside.
|19 Sep 1950
|The agreement establishing the European Payments Union (EPU) is signed by 18 European governments. The BIS is appointed to act as Agent for the EPU.
|31 Dec 1958
Full current account convertibility is restored for most European currencies. The EPU is wound up and replaced by the European Monetary Agreement (EMA).
|13 Apr 1964
|Formal establishment of the Committee of Governors of the Central Banks of the member States of the European Economic Community. The Committee decides to have its secretariat and meetings at the BIS in Basel.
|Sep 1964
|The 10 main central banks represented at the BIS (G10) inaugurate regular meetings of gold and foreign exchange experts in Basel. The Gold and Foreign Exchange Experts' Committee is renamed the Markets Committee in May 2002.
|9 Jun 1969
|A BIS Extraordinary General Meeting amends the Statutes to delete all references to the 1930 Young Plan (reparations settlement).
|18 Apr 1971
|The G10 Governors establish the Euro-currency Standing Committee (ECSC) to monitor developments in the eurocurrency markets. The Committee is renamed the Committee on the Global Financial System in February 1999.
|1 Jun 1973
|The European Monetary Co-operation Fund (EMCF), a joint support mechanism between European central banks, becomes operational. The BIS assumes functions of the Fund's Agent.
|Dec 1974
|In response to international bank failures, the G10 Governors establish the Basel Committee on Banking Regulations and Supervisory Practices (renamed the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision in Sep 1989). The BCBS holds its first meeting in Basel in February 1975.
|Dec 1975
|The Basel Concordat calls on host and home country authorities to share supervisory responsibility for banks' foreign activities.
|May 1977
|The BIS completes its move from the former Savoy Hôtel Univers to its new premises in the Tower building.
|Jan 1978
|The BIS Data Bank of monetary, financial and economic statistical time series becomes operational.
|Apr 1980
|Governors entrust the ECSC with regular and systematic monitoring of international banking developments.
|Oct 1981
|First meeting at the BIS of the Group of Payment System Experts. The Group is formally established as the Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems (CPSS) in Nov 1990 and renamed the Committee on Payment and Market Infrastructures (CPMI) in 2014.
|Apr 1983
|Creation of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO).
|21 Mar 1986
|Signature of an agreement between the BIS and the ECU Banking Association (EBA) assigning the function of agent of the private European currency unit (ecu) clearing and settlement system to the BIS.
|10 Feb 1987
|Conclusion of the BIS Headquarters Agreement with the Swiss Federal Council; creation of the BIS Administrative Tribunal.
|28 Jun 1988
|Creation by the European Council of the Committee for the Study of Economic and Monetary Union (the Delors Committee), which is to meet at the BIS in Basel.
|Jul 1988
|Central bank Governors endorse the BCBS document International Convergence of Capital Measurement and Capital Standards. Known as the Basel Capital Accord or Basel I, it is to be implemented by the end of 1992.
|Sep 1992
|Creation of the Joint Vienna Institute (JVI) by the IMF, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and BIS. The JVI provides technical training mainly to officials from the formerly planned economies in central and eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union and a number of Asian countries.
|31 Dec 1993
|The European Community (EC) Committee of Governors, created in 1964, is wound up and replaced by the European Monetary Institute (EMI). In November 1994, the EMI leaves the BIS in Basel and moves to Frankfurt am Main in Germany (it is replaced by the ECB in June 1998).
|15 May 1995
|Termination of the BIS agency functions for the EMI.
|Jan 1996
|Establishment of the Joint Forum, under the aegis of the BCBS, IOSCO and the International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS), grouping senior bank, insurance and securities supervisors representing their supervisory constituencies.
|23 Oct 1996
|The IAIS decides to locate its secretariat at the BIS in Basel.
|8 Jun 1997
|First meeting of the Central Bank Governance Steering Group at the BIS.
|Jul 1998
|Opening of the BIS Representative Office for Asia and the Pacific in Hong Kong SAR. Host Country Agreement signed with the People's Republic of China.
|Jul 1998
|The BIS and BCBS create the Financial Stability Institute (FSI) to provide practical training to financial sector supervisors worldwide.
|Feb 1999
|The G7 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors create the Financial Stability Forum (FSF). The FSF secretariat is based at the BIS in Basel.
|Oct 1999
|Establishment of the Central Bank Governance Network at the BIS.
|8 Jan 2001
|An Extraordinary General Meeting of the BIS limits the right to hold BIS shares exclusively to central banks and approves a mandatory repurchase of privately held shares.
|Mar 2001
|Establishment of the BIS Asian Consultative Council (ACC) as a forum between Asian central banks and the BIS Board of Directors and Management.
|May 2002
|The International Association of Deposit Insurers (IADI) decides to locate its secretariat at the BIS in Basel.
|Nov 2002
|Opening of the BIS Representative Office for the Americas in Mexico City. Host Country Agreement signed with Mexico.
|1 Apr 2003
|The BIS changes its unit of account from the gold franc (in force since 1930) to the SDR (IMF Special Drawing Rights).
|26 Jun 2004
|The Central Bank Governors and Heads of Banking Supervision endorse the release of International Convergence of Capital Measurement and Capital Standards: a Revised Framework, better known as Basel II.
|Jan 2006
|The BIS agrees to host the Irving Fisher Committee on Central Bank Statistics and its secretariat. The IFC was created in 1995 and is an affiliated member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI).
|May 2008
|Establishment of the BIS Consultative Council for the Americas (CCA) as an advisory committee to the BIS Board of Directors.
|2 Apr 2009
|The Group of Twenty (G20) creates the Financial Stability Board (FSB), replacing the FSF, with a new macroprudential supervision mandate. The FSB secretariat is based at the BIS in Basel.
|1 Jan 2010
|Creation of the BIS Economic Consultative Committee (ECC), which comprises 18 (subsequently 19) central bank Governors, and supports the work of the GEM (see entry for 08 February 1999).
|12 Nov 2010
|The G20 Leaders endorse the FSB policy framework for addressing systemically important financial institutions (SIFIs).
|1 Jun 2011
|The BCBS releases Basel III: a global regulatory framework for more resilient banks and banking systems, introducing revised capital rules.
|16 Apr 2012
|The CPSS and IOSCO jointly release Principles for Financial Market Infrastructures, containing new international standards for payment, clearing and settlement systems, including central counterparties.
|7 Jan 2013
|The BCBS releases Basel III: the Liquidity Coverage Ratio and liquidity risk monitoring tools, aimed at strengthening global capital and liquidity regulations.
|Mar 2013
|The BIS International Data Hub is created to facilitate the exchange and secure storage of confidential bank data among supervisory agencies and central banks in participating jurisdictions.
|1 Sep 2014
|The Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems (CPSS), first created in 1990, changes its name to the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI).
|7 Dec 2017
|The Basel Committee's oversight body, the Group of Central Bank Governors and Heads of Supervision (GHOS), endorses the outstanding Basel III post-crisis regulatory reforms.
|11 Nov 2018
|The Board of Directors approves the Bank's new medium-term strategy, Innovation BIS 2025 - Shaping the Bank for tomorrow.
|1 Jan 2019
|Implementation of the new Article 27 of the BIS Statues, broadening the composition of the Board of Directors.
|30 Jun 2019
|The BIS announces the creation of the BIS Innovation Hub to foster international central bank cooperation on innovative financial technology. Innovation Hub Centres are set up in Hong Kong SAR, Singapore and Switzerland.
|17 May 2020
|The BIS marks 90 years since it first opened its doors for business with the publication of Promoting global monetary and financial stability: the Bank for International Settlements after Bretton Woods, 1973-2020 (Cambridge University Press).
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Dinner Tonight: Harissa and Yogurt-Marinated Chicken Recipe
Your source for quick recipe every single week day.
Harissa, a north African chile paste, is a condiment that I like having around. It's a little less forward than Asian chile pastes, and doesn't announce itself with quite as much fire. Harissa is little more mellow, which allows it to be used for marinating without fear of totally overpowering a dish.
Which is exactly its role in this brilliant dinner from Nigel Slater, when it's whisked with thick yogurt and olive oil to make a creamy, spicy marinade. Yogurt is a remarkably effective tenderizer, and when cooked, it causes the meat to brown beautifully while also ensuring it stays tender and moist. And it works: this was some of the juiciest chicken I've eaten in a long time. The dish is finished with a scatter of mint leaves, which wilt and gives an amazing fragrance.
I had enough time to let the chicken marinate for an hour or so, but it's not entirely necessary. Give it 10 minutes and it should work its magic.
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- 4 boneless chicken thighs or drumsticks
- 2 generous tablespoons thick Greek yogurt
- 2 1/2 teaspoons harissa paste
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- Salt and pepper to taste
- 1/4 cup torn mint leaves
Whisk the harissa into the yogurt in a bowl, then whisk in the olive oil. The result will be somewhat curdled, which is what it should look like. Season to taste with salt and pepper, then coat the chicken pieces in the marinade and allow to sit for at least 10 minutes.
Heat a broiler, grill, or grill pan until very hot, then cook the chicken with the skin side towards the flame to crisp up the skin. I cooked it about 75 percent of the way there with the skin towards the heat source to ensure a great crust, then turned it just to finish.
Just as the chicken comes off the heat, scatter with the mint leaves so that they wilt from the heat of the chicken (if cooking under the broiler, you can send it back under the flame for a few moments to soften them). Serve immediately while juicy and sizzling.
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Forty Hall is a Grade I listed Jacobean Manor House, nestled in leafy Enfield.The permanent exhibition there tells the story of the grounds throughout the ages and looks at the life and times of Sir Nicholas Rainton and life in the seventeenth century.
With a range of visual and audio interpretation and displays there are ample ways for all of the family to engage with learning about the Hall in an enjoyable way. Guided tours are also on offer at the Hall, led by a Jacobean character, to add value to your visit and further an understanding of the Hall's history.
The events and exhibitions programme focuses on Art, Ecology and Heritage and includes a range of activities including seasonal events, talks, workshops, family events and playschemes. There is also a shop and café are located on site.
Whilst you're in the area why not visit Myddelton House Gardens where you can delve into acres of beautiful gardens and heritage.
Add accommodation, places to go or events in the Lee Valley to an itinerary.
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Still nothing to write home about yet. Arnie Beyeler, who's been managing the PawSox, is our new first base coach. Greg Colbrunn, formerly of the Evil Empire, is our new hitting coach. Victor Rodriguez, our former minor league coordinator, is our new assistant hitting coach.
As far as players are concerned, we've non-tendered Ryan Sweeney, Rich Hill, and Scott Atchison. We traded Zach Stewart, who we got from the Other Sox for Kevin Youkilis, to the Pirates for a player to be named later. Last but not least, although we claim that we're still working on resigning Cody Ross, we worked out a two-year deal worth ten million dollars for Johnny Gomes pending a physical.
In other news, the Pats beat the Colts, 59-24, and the Jets, 49-19.


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Asbestos Still A Public Health Tragedy; Congress Taking Action
Read EWG statement: EWG Applauds Today's Action by House Panel on Landmark Asbestos Legislation
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Asbestos Deaths: 10,000 per year and increasing
Asbestos kills an estimated 10,000 people in the United States each year, and the number of deaths is increasing. More people die from asbestos diseases annually than from skin cancer, or from fires, drowning, and Hodgkins disease combined. Asbestos mortality is not expected to peak until around 2020, and will continue for decades as exposures from products in use today as well as deteriorating older products in homes and businesses, kills thousands of unsuspecting people. If asbestos were banned today, the public health tragedy of asbestos mortality would continue for at least another 50 years. Delaying a ban is inexcusable, and will only prolong and add to this needless injury and death. The root of this disaster was the willful use of asbestos by companies who knew full well that asbestos was killing workers and end users of their products, but did nothing to stop it, and in many cases aggressively fought any constraints on asbestos use and product manufacturing. Industry documents proving these willful actions are the backbone of court decisions that have supported the compensation of hundreds of thousands of victims of asbestos disease, and their families. As put by one industry insider:
"The documents noted above, however, show corporate knowledge of the dangers associated with exposure to asbestos dating back to 1934. In addition, the plaintiffs' bar will probably take the position -- not unreasonably -- that the documents are evidence of a corporate conspiracy to prevent asbestos workers from learning that their exposure to asbestos could kill them."
— Memo from a trustee of the Manville Trust, 1988
The complete disregard of an industry for its workforce is put more succinctly in the following 1966 quote from the Director of Purchasing for Bendix Corporation, now a part of Honeywell:
"...if you have enjoyed a good life while working with asbestos products, why not die from it."
— 1966 Bendix Corporation letter
The threat is real—Asbestos still in children's toys
Because asbestos is not banned in the U.S., it can legally contaminate or be used in thousands of commercial and consumer products, including toys. In December, 2007, the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO) reported the results of an exhaustive 18-month scientific study testing hundreds of consumer products for the deadly cancer-causing chemical asbestos. The findings were extremely troubling. One product, the popular children's toy—Planet Toys CSI: Crime Scene InvestigationTM Fingerprint Examination Kits—had high levels of asbestos in some samples of the fingerprint dust children put directly on their fingers and likely breathe into their lungs when the dust goes airborne. Children are directed to blow the asbestos contaminated dust to reveal the fingerprints. The type of asbestos detected in these kits, tremolite, is one the most lethal forms of asbestos and is the same deadly asbestos fiber contained in products made from ore mined at the notorious W.R. Grace mine in Libby, Montana. Tremolite asbestos, like that found in CSI: Crime Scene InvestigationTM Fingerprint Examination Kits, has killed scores of people in Libby, many who never worked in the mine itself. Any amount of this fiber in a children's toy, particularly in a powder that is highly likely to be inhaled, is completely unacceptable and unnecessary. A single exposure to tremolite is sufficient to cause fatal mesothelioma or lung cancer later in life. Major retailers ultimately pulled this toy from the market, but without changes to current law there is no way to ensure that asbestos will not continue to contaminate other children's toys.
Asbestos is still not banned
Most people assume that asbestos is banned, but it is not. Although many individual product uses have been controlled by the Consumer Products Safety Commission, an estimated 1.5 million pounds of asbestos is contained in products sold every year in this country. The EPA tried to ban asbestos in 1989, but the severe limitations in EPA powers under the Toxic Substances Control Act proved overwhelming, and the agency was unable to prohibit the use of what is arguably the most potent cancer causing substance ever introduced into commerce anywhere in the world.
Not just workers at risk
It is generally assumed that asbestos disease and death is a workplace issue, but up to one quarter of all asbestos disease appears to occur in families of workers or people who were exposed passively, through the presence of asbestos in the building where they work, products they use, through home repairs that disturb asbestos in older homes, or through other background environmental exposure. This broader risk to the general public is well known and has been established for decades. The insurance industry in particular has acknowledged the non-occupational public health risk of asbestos for many years:
"Control of asbestos in the community air is impossible when you consider the contribution from brake linings, agrasion of piping, house siding or other materials handled by the general public."
— The Travelers, Internal Memo, 1969
A complete ban is necessary and justified
Nothing short of a ban will be sufficient to protect the public health because very short exposures to very small quantities of asbestos produce quantifiable injury that often leads to fatal asbestos cancers decades later. Again, from internal industry documents:
"The undisputed medical facts are that actual bodily injury, in the form of tissue damage caused by lodged asbestos fibers, begins shortly after such fibers are first inhaled."
— Pittsburgh Corning Corporation, 1984
"... insult to the body occurs at the first inhalation of asbestos ..."
— The Travelers Ins. Co. Statement, 1981
Fatal mesothelioma in the families of asbestos workers is the most well-described and prevalent form of non-occupational asbestos mortality. Mesothelioma is unique among asbestos cancers in that it can be caused by very short-term exposures. In approximately three percent of cases, mesothelioma is diagnosed in workers with less than three months exposure; the shortest on record is 16 hours (Leigh 2003). One review describes mesothelioma in a person who reported his total lifetime asbestos exposure as one day of sawing up asbestos cement sheets to build two sheds.


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Ever wish you could enjoy and ice-cold brew with your dog without
worrying about harmful side-effects? Thanks to Dutch-made "Dog Beer" you
Kwispelbier (which means tail-wagging in Dutch) is brewed from a special blend of beef extracts and malt, giving it the smooth & meaty lager taste that dogs love so much. A spokesman for the brewery says it's marketed as, "A beer for your best friend..."
I've met plenty of dogs who will happily lap up regular beer, but this small Dutch Brewery is the first to provide a beer specifically tailored to the untapped dog market. The beverage is non-alcoholic and dogs seem to love it.
At least now your dog won't get jealous when you pop open a cold one - just crack open a bottle of Dog Beer and he can enjoy a brew with his master.


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Bartender's Choice: What to Order at Employees Only in NYC
Difficult as it may be to remember, there was a time (not so long ago) before classic cocktails and "secret entrance" neo-speakeasies were the norm. Such was the case in 2004 when Employees Only opened its (not so obvious) doors in the West Village.
"We wanted to have classics on our menu, and so we took ones we liked or made our own variations," explains co-owner Dushan Zaric, a 16-year New York City bartending veteran. "It was super avant-garde at the time—we only had two vodka cocktails on the menu."
At the height of the Sex and the City Cosmo craze, here was a bar choosing instead to revive a long-forgotten 19th century recipe for a Manhattan. Its companion on the menu, the Provençal, was born out of a frustration over the frequent mislabeling of certain cocktails as "Martinis." It calls for the traditional gin and dry vermouth, but gives the spirits an aromatic facelift, infusing them with lavender and herbs de Provence, respectively. The drink was also, Zaric is quick to point out, designed to be the perfect match to a plate of oysters on the half shell.
"From the beginning, we weren't just a bar—we were a restaurant with a bar. We wanted to have serious drinks, but it also had to make gastronomical sense," reveals Zaric. He explains that he and his business partner Jason Kosmas (whom he worked with at Pravda in the 1990s), were determined to have a place where the food was as good as the drinks, and that offered good service with no attitude.
The statement may come as a bit of a surprise until you ask about his thoughts on the current scene and developing industry trends. "I don't know if the speakeasy trend is going to continue—I hope not. I hope that people open new restaurants with great cocktail programs," he says. "We have resurrected every era of the cocktail in the last 10 years and now what's left? Disco? I think the merging of the food and the cocktail experience is the next natural progression and raises things to a higher level across the board."
Other trends that excite him? "I like that 22-year-old girls are ordering gin cocktails and that 22-year-old guys (and girls) are ordering Old Fashioneds; I like the growing number of young, really good, educated bartenders, men and women; and I love that people will now go into a bar or restaurant and actually ask to see the cocktail menu."
To that end, we asked Zaric to recommend 5 favorite cocktails to try the next time you ask for the menu at Employees Only. Check out his picks in the slideshow above.
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With hearts so strongly connected, shouldn't cardiac solutions be, too?
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Coronary Artery Disease
With hearts so strongly connected, shouldn't coronary artery disease solutions be, too?
A perfect team: your clinical environment supported by our innovative solutions for coronary artery disease. Together, they build an integrated platform you can rely on for every patient. From routine cases to the most complex, we support you in improving the outcome for every patient.
Structural Heart Disease
With hearts so strongly connected, shouldn't structural heart disease solutions be, too?
Perfectly orchestrated: our integrated solutions for structural heart disease. Manage complexity with efficient and automated workflows for accurate diagnostic assessment and device placement. Improve the outcome for every patient. Even in the most challenging cases.
With hearts so strongly connected, shouldn't arrhythmia solutions be, too?
A perfect match: our arrhythmia solutions ensure best-in-class integration with a great variety of third-party technologies. Even for complex procedures, smooth workflows are supported for enhanced patient outcomes.
Congenital Heart Disease
With hearts so strongly connected, shouldn't congenital heart disease solutions be, too?
Perfectly personalized: our smart solutions for congenital heart disease. Helping you to treat with ultra-low radiation doses. Because in the end, it's essential to improve outcomes for the most vulnerable patients: our children.
Heart Failure
With hearts so strongly connected, shouldn't heart failure solutions be, too?
Perfect support: our solutions for congestive heart failure, from echocardiography and blood tests to managed health beyond the cath lab with IT and consulting services. We help institutions to create optimally standardized structures for comprehensive heart failure care that enables better patient outcomes.
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I have been reflecting on the concept of creation and the concept of evolution for the past week. For most of history humanity has thought about a first cause and has attributed it to different gods. Gods were creators. In the west after a 1300 year dark age, around 1500AD, the renaissance led humanity to democratize creation. Humans took creativity away from gods and attributed to themselves as well. Then Charles Darwin came along.
Darwin had an even more humbling proposition. There was no creation. And as modern minds have considered Darwin's theory they have been finding that there may be no origin, no direction, no destination and no constants to the universe at all. There is only change.
Until now humans have been clinging to the belief that they are creative. However, as we learn more about nature and human beings we are finding that humans have to accept that we are a product of and no different than the evolution that produced us. There is no origin, direction, destination or constants in our lives either. Anyone who claims certainty is no less gambling on life than anyone who accepts uncertainty.
Everything and everyone is unique and unintelligent. There are no creators and no designs. We have to democratize evolution.
We have to accept that we are all here for no other reason than evolution produced us. Darwin himself did not understand that there is no such thing as fitness. No one is more fit than anyone else because existence is arbitrary. Control is an illusion. All of humanity could cease to exist in a moment due to an unknown cosmic event.
So, when I look at people taking credit for anything or giving credit to a god, I am not persuaded at all. Because I know that they and all they produce as well as I and all I produce have no origin, no direction, no destination and no constants. Everyone is an impostor.
I have no need for guilt. No need for forgiveness. I can live as I wish. Quality and quantity of life are subjective. The motives and organization, events and locations, services and products, units and measures, currency and prices of life are arbitrary. Art and science, design and engineering, craft and trade, commerce and market are arbitrary. For all we do to alleviate our suffering there is always a new form of suffering to take its place.
Evolution is neutral. Beyond our understanding and beyond our judgment.
That was Job's true lesson.


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Along with pollens from trees, grasses, and weeds, molds are an important cause of seasonal allergic rhinitis. People allergic to molds may have symptoms from spring to late fall. The mold season often peaks from July to late summer. Unlike pollens, molds may persist after the first killing frost. Some can grow at subfreezing temperatures, but most become dormant. Snow cover lowers the outdoor mold count dramatically but does not kill molds. After the spring thaw, molds thrive on the vegetation that has been killed by the winter cold.
In the warmest areas of the United States, however, molds thrive all year and can cause year-round (perennial) allergic problems. In addition, molds growing indoors can cause perennial allergic rhinitis even in the coldest climates.
There are thousands of types of molds and yeast, the two groups of plants in the fungus family. Yeasts are single cells that divide to form clusters. Molds consist of many cells that grow as branching threads called hyphae. Although both groups can probably cause allergic reactions, only a small number of molds are widely recognized offenders.
The seeds or reproductive particles of fungi are called spores. They differ in size, shape, and color among species. Each spore that germinates can give rise to new mold growth, which in turn can produce millions of spores.
When inhaled, microscopic fungal spores or, sometimes, fragments of fungi may cause allergic rhinitis. Because they are so small, mold spores may evade the protective mechanisms of the nose and upper respiratory tract to reach the lungs.
In a small number of people, symptoms of mold allergy may be brought on or worsened by eating certain foods, such as cheeses, processed with fungi. Occasionally, mushrooms, dried fruits, and foods containing yeast, soy sauce, or vinegar will produce allergic symptoms. There is no known relationship, however, between a respiratory allergy to the mold Penicillium and an allergy to the drug penicillin, made from the mold.
Molds can be found wherever there is moisture, oxygen, and a source of the few other chemicals they need. In the fall they grow on rotting logs and fallen leaves, especially in moist, shady areas. In gardens, they can be found in compost piles and on certain grasses and weeds. Some molds attach to grains such as wheat, oats, barley, and corn, making farms, grain bins, and silos likely places to find mold.
Hot spots of mold growth in the home include damp basements and closets, bathrooms (especially shower stalls), places where fresh food is stored, refrigerator drip trays, house plants, air conditioners, humidifiers, garbage pails, mattresses, upholstered furniture, and old foam rubber pillows.
Bakeries, breweries, barns, dairies, and greenhouses are favorite places for molds to grow. Loggers, mill workers, carpenters, furniture repairers, and upholsterers often work in moldy environments.
Like pollens, mold spores are important airborne allergens only if they are abundant, easily carried by air currents, and allergenic in their chemical makeup. Found almost everywhere, mold spores in some areas are so numerous they often outnumber the pollens in the air. Fortunately, however, only a few dozen different types are significant allergens.
In general, Alternaria and Cladosporium (Hormodendrum) are the molds most commonly found both indoors and outdoors throughout the United States. Aspergillus, Penicillium, Helminthosporium, Epicoccum, Fusarium, Mucor, Rhizopus, and Aureobasidium (Pullularia) are also common.
Similar to pollen counts, mold counts may suggest the types and relative quantities of fungi present at a certain time and place. For several reasons, however, these counts probably cannot be used as a constant guide for daily activities. One reason is that the number and types of spores actually present in the mold count may have changed considerably in 24 hours because weather and spore dispersal are directly related. Many of the common allergenic molds are of the dry spore type--they release their spores during dry, windy weather. Other fungi need high humidity, fog, or dew to release their spores. Although rain washes many larger spores out of the air, it also causes some smaller spores to be shot into the air.
In addition to the effect of day-to-day weather changes on mold counts, spore populations may also differ between day and night. Day favors dispersal by dry spore types and night favors wet spore types.
(Information provided by The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)


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(Pocket-lint) - When did you lose your faith in Halo? Maybe you haven't, or maybe you never had it in the first place. Maybe it was as far back as the tedious early sections of Halo 2, or the less interesting passages of Halo 3. Or maybe it was last year's Halo: ODST that did it, with its short campaign and dated visuals. Well, whenever and however you lost your faith in Halo, Reach is good enough - actually great enough - to remind you why the series wowed us in the first place. If this is to be Bungie's last game in the series, then it's a fitting capstone, and one of the best sci-fi FPS games ever made.
Unless you've been hiding under a rock for the last few months, you probably know the basics already. Reach is a prequel to the original Halo: Combat Evolved, depicting the fates of a squad of Spartan troopers - Noble Team - during a brutal Covenant attack on the frontier planet of the title. As the game progresses, Noble Team gets involved in attempts to recon and repel the invaders, then in the last ditch efforts to save what can be saved and grab some small scrap of hope from a desolate situation. To say more would be to spoil things; one of Reach's pleasures is how cleverly and surprisingly it brings the Halo saga back to its very beginnings.
We mean that in more ways than one. The more Halo has gone on, the more the series has pulled away from some of the factors - the epic battles, the scenery, the wide-open spaces, the way each set-piece accepts a range of different approaches - that made it seem so revolutionary back in 2001. With Reach, the series has rediscovered its mojo, but also found a new sense of scale that makes each big moment that much bigger than anything we've had before.
Helped by an all-new graphics engine that drags Halo up to the standards of Gears of War and Modern Warfare, Reach is a dazzling experience for much of its running time, bringing back the sense of wonder you might have felt during classic Halo levels like "The Silent Cartographer", and taking Bungie's vision of sci-fi warfare to a whole new level. Yet, at the same time, there's a grit and detail to Reach that anchors it in a more tangible, human universe. If ODST was successful in one thing, it was in making Halo a more personal story, with interesting characters you could easily relate to. While its portrait of Noble Team isn't always so successful, Reach definitely benefits from the same thing.
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Part of the game's success comes down to the fact that you no longer feel like a superhuman warrior surrounded by losers. As Noble 6 - a newcomer to Noble Team at the start of the game - you're initially made to feel a junior member of the Spartan gang, and throughout the game you'll get solid backup from your fellow Spartans, plus various marines and ODST troops. Despite this, the minute-by-minute play is classic Halo. Move fast, pick your targets, adapt your tactics, and keep scavenging for weapons, as you'll be running out of ammo on a regular basis.
You still benefit from one of the most interesting and varied armouries in video games - with a handful of interesting new additions - and you'll be fighting some of the finest enemies. Once again, there's a sense that Bungie has gone back and rediscovered what made the grunts, jackals, hunters and elites work in the first place, with the elites in particular seeming more cunning and aggressive than they've been in ages. Across the board, AI is absolutely top notch, and another thing you grow to appreciate is how unpredictable this makes the game. Die and restart at a checkpoint, and you'll rarely - if ever - have the same experience of the same section twice.
On top of this, Reach throws in a couple of new twists, including some excellent aerial sections and a fantastic burst of space combat. It's typical of a game that moves fast to keep you entertained, with few - if any - levels that outstay their welcome, and some of the most exciting assault and defence set-pieces of the series. New tools, like the jetpack that went down so well in the Reach multiplayer beta, are introduced and handled brilliantly, adding new tactical options without ever making you feel like you're unbeatable. And best of all there's no - let's repeat that - no Flood. For the first time in a Halo game it's all killer, no filler, the whole way through.
Criticisms? The big story moments aren't always as big and moving as they're clearly meant to be, and while the scale of the battles - sometimes with dozens of combatants on each side - is impressive, it's frustrating to get killed by a fluke grenade just because you turned the wrong corner at the wrong time. Hunters are, perhaps, a tad overused, and there are also some oddities with checkpoints, where you'll jet over or accidentally run past the checkpoint area, die, and find yourself further back than you really should be. None of these are deal-breakers. In fact, you usually don't mind having to repeat a section for the simple reason that there's always some new tactic or trick you could have used.
Nor should we forget the other reason Halo made its reputation: multiplayer. Reach brings us the most comprehensive and advanced set of modes and options yet, with new team-based styles like the Enemy Territory-esque Objective and the superb, cooperative Firefight mode, that give those of us who don't live, breathe and sleep Halo a chance of getting something out of the online game. Throw in the persistent identity, with new bits of armour you can unlock in both the online and campaign game, not to mention the video capture features and level-mangling Forge mode, and it's clear that Halo is back on level pegging with Modern Warfare and Bad Company 2 in the online gaming stakes. In fact, it might be one peg beyond.
Some people just don't get Halo, and some people just don't like it. Some hate all the hype that surrounds it, and there's no doubt that some of the praise has been OTT in the past. None of this changes the fact that Halo became the success it did for very good reasons, or that Reach proves that these still hold true today, just on a bigger, more cinematic scale. Bungie might never make another game with the same impact as Combat Evolved, but with Reach it has made a game to equal it.


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As we work closely with archaeological planners and advisors, particularly the English Heritage Greater London Archaeological Advisors in London, the scope of all of our fieldwork and post-excavation strategies follow nationally agreed strategies, we have a really structured process that guides us through the excavation and analysis works. So my specialist osteological analysis and reporting will tie in to specific research questions generated for each site. On large projects like our post-medieval cemetery excavation in Bethnal Green, I will also engage with other specialists, particularly our small finds specialist, Helen MacQuarrie, who will be looking at the coins, dress accessories such as hair combs and buttons that we found with the burials, and our dendrochronologist Anne Crone, who
has been working to identifying the species that were used for the manufacture of wooden gravemarkers, which we also found at the site. Anne is also blogging about her day today – worth having a look. And I've uploaded a picture of one particularly interesting burial we found with a coin placed in each eye orbit as a symbolic payment for transport into the afterlife.
As an osteologist, I also look into the variation in funerary practices that were adopted in the past. The Bethnal Green burials were interred in wooden coffins, mostly covered with an outer textile that tends not to survive very well. The textile was held in place by upholstery pins and the coffin makers placed the pins in a range of patterns to add a bit of variation to the design of the coffin. Additional metal decorations were added, including angels and urns with flowers as well as sun-rays and rosettes. It's interesting to see if the construction and decoration of the coffin varied, either between the sexes or by age or showed any variation across different sites. So after recording each skeleton, I'll catalogue the coffin size and decoration from site records and photographs and hopefully quantify the changes. You can see the variation in the coffin decorations in the site photo and this is generating a mass of data that will hopefully provide some really interesting results. Some of the burials had surviving coffin plates, which tell us the name and date of death of the individual. We can try and identify these individuals in the surviving parish records such as birth, marriage and death records, the census records, parish rate books and in wills, to try and broaden what we know about their lives. At the end of the analysis, we will bring together all of the research and evidence in a site-specific monograph, so the results will be fully accessible in the public domain together with the archived finds, which will be deposited at the LAARC.


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The former South Buxton Raceway will see some changes in 2019 under its new owners, but the bigger transformation is scheduled for 2020.
Owners promise 'all new' facility at Southern Ontario Motor Speedway
The former South Buxton Raceway will see some changes in 2019 under its new owners, but the bigger transformation is scheduled for 2020.
Henry Kroeker and Maria Reimer of Ruthven were officially revealed Thursday as the new owners of the stock car track now known as Southern Ontario Motor Speedway. (Kroeker's surname was originally reported to the Daily News as Reimer.)
"We are taking over a track and are starting fresh with what we have here," Kroeker said in a news release Friday. "It is going to be a process, but in time the facility will be all new. …
"New washrooms are one of our main goals for the 2019 season, for the fans."
Bigger changes are scheduled for the following year.
"In 2020, we plan on revamping the racing surface, a configuration change, and a wider racing surface," Kroeker said. "But for this … upcoming season, improvements to the quality of track surface we currently have is a fair goal to achieve."
Kroeker was an owner and promoter at the former East Texas Speedway.
"I built East Texas Speedway in 2012," he said. "I began to get heavily involved in auto racing in 2009 and come 2012 I wanted my own facility."
Despite its name change, Southern Ontario Motor Speedway will continue to celebrate its history, he said.
"We will still honour the histories of the track and continue the Wall of Fame as well (as) continue to hold the Joey Atkinson Memorial Shootout in memory of the founder of the speedway," he said.
The dirt track's name was changed because "we wanted to start fresh, we want this to be all new for everyone," he said.
The news release stated there won't be much change to the racing classes next season.
"Last season's car counts were up in all the divisions, and we don't want to lose that," Kroeker said. "If anything, we want them to grow more. It is not fair to the drivers for us to come in and make big changes to the divisions we have."
The 2019 schedule is being made.
"We do plan on holding some specials this season," Kroeker said. "The Action Sprint Tour is looking for dates, as well we are looking to hold some Modified shows. We look forward to being a part of the Duel On The Dirt Thunderstock Series as well."


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Not many people are aware of, but the sculptor Eduard Locota was the first in the world to create these unique types of lamps. Now replicated by thousands all over the planet.
The unnatural combination between wood and acrylic glass, a fusion between two materials that embrace and complete each other.
As an artist, I believe Imperfection is Beauty. All the pieces are 100% unique, handmade and distinct, with imperfections and burning names that describe their petrified flaming cores.
A minimalistic luxurious exterior, with a violent and destructive interior. Everything materially unnecessary was eliminated, and all emotions were frozen in time.
Words should not describe excessively the work.


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Lindsey Graham To Place Hold On National Security Nominees Over Benghazi Attacks — Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is threatening to place a hold on key administration national security nominations unless President Obama explains how the White House reacted to the Benghazi attacks and who …
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Ellen / NewsHounds blog: Sean Hannity Airs Deceptively Edited Video Of Leon Panetta's Benghazi Testimony
Graham vows to block nominations unless White House more forthcoming — Washington (CNN) - President Barack Obama's nominees for secretary of defense and CIA director could be held up by Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham unless the White House provides more information about its response …
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Sen. Grassley: 'The irony is thick' in Lew's Cayman Islands investment fund
Sen. Grassley: 'The irony is thick' in Lew's Cayman Islands investment fund
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Pelosi: 'Almost a false argument' to say US has spending problem — House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said that the looming sequestration is "a bad idea all around" and called for a balance of spending cuts and closing tax loopholes in order to avoid it.
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After ignoring unemployment, Obama seeks to convince Americans it's his top priority … White House spinners are working furiously in the final 72 hours before President Obama's State of the Union speech. Their job: convince the recession-scarred American public that economic recovery …
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In State of the Union, Obama to return to jobs and the economy
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CNN Panel: Was Doctor's Conservative Speech In Front Of Obama 'Offensive,' 'Inappropriate'? — Dr. Benjamin Carson, a pediatric neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital, raised a number of political eyebrows in Washington this week when he took to a stage he shared with President Barack Obama …
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Cheney blasts "second-rate" Obama nominees — Former Vice President Dick Cheney said Saturday night that President Barack Obama has jeopardized U.S. national security by nominating substandard candidates for key cabinet posts and by degrading the U.S. military.
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McCain Goes After Conservative Opponents Of Immigration Reform: 'What Do You Want To Do?' — During an appearance on Fox News Sunday, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) responded to critics of the bipartisan immigration principles developed by eight senators and pushed back against conservatives who argue …
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Cantor: Initial efforts on immigration reform should focus on children — House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) said Sunday that Congress should begin to address immigration reform by looking at legislation to legalize those brought to the U.S. children. — "The best place to begin I think is with the children.
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Obama's Turn in Bush's Bind — WASHINGTON — If President Obama tuned in to the past week's bracing debate on Capitol Hill about terrorism, executive power, secrecy and due process, he might have recognized the arguments his critics were making: He once made some of them himself.
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GOP Rep. Cole: 'Absolutely' no new tax revenues in sequester replacement — Deputy Majority Whip Tom Cole (R-Okla.) said Sunday that House Republicans would "absolutely" not accept new revenues as part of a deal to avoid the $85 billion in automatic cuts to the federal budget set to take effect in three weeks.
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Telugu actress Anjali Devi dead
Renowned Telugu actress Anjali Devi died in a private hospital here Monday. The 86-year-old was suffering from heart-related problems.
Renowned Telugu actress Anjali Devi died in a private hospital here Monday. The 86-year-old was suffering from heart-related problems.
"Anjali Devi was admitted to Vijaya Hospital four days back. She passed away this afternoon," a hospital source told IANS.
She is survived by two sons.
Born in 1928 as Anjani Kumar, she made her cinematic debut as a child artist in a 1936 film.
It was director C. Pullaiah who rechristened Anjani as Anjali Devi. In 1947, she made her debut as a lead heroine opposite Akkineni Nageswara Rao in Telugu family drama "Balaraju".
Before entering films, Anjali was a popular theatre artist.
Mostly known for starring in mythological and family dramas, Anjali became a household name with memorable performances in films such as "Lava Kusha", "Bhakta Prahlada", "Bhakta Tukaram" and "Badi Pantulu".
She had also starred in a few Tamil films such as "Niraparadhi" and "Sarvadhikari" and Hindi movies like "Devta" and "Sri Ram Vanvas".
Under her banner Anjali Pictures, she had also produced about 20 successful films such as "Anarkali", "Paradesi" and "Suvarna Sundari".
Anjali is credited with introducing Bollywood actress Rekha into Telugu industry as a child artist with "Rangula Ratnam".


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Personal Loan Purpose are given below?
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What is a Personal Loan?
A personal loan is a type of loan that helps you to come over a difficult situation when you need funds. A wedding in the family, a renovation of your house, repair on your four-wheeler, a gift to a loved one, a medical condition that needs immediate attention, higher education for your children, or a trip abroad. They need to be tackled and you are ready to tackle them but you are short of funds. This is where personal loans come in handy as they can be availed of in quick time without too many formalities and what is more without providing any security or collateral.All major Bank and NBFC provide Personal Loan in Gurgaon.
Who is eligible for a Personal Loan?
You are eligible for a personal loan if you are
What will be the maximum amount and the rate of interest of personal loan you can avail?
How much EMI do you have to pay?
The EMI that you pay depends on the principal loan amount, the interest rate charged and the period for which the loan is taken. We provide/help you to get a personal loan with loan tenure between 3 months to 60 months.
Personal Loan Balance Transfer and Top-up
A Personal Loan balance transfer facility can be avail by the customers who already have a running personal loan with another financial institution and when they avail that loan at that point of time may be the interest rate is higher and now the rate gets lower and that customer want to take the benefit of lower interest rate. Lower interest rates help you to reduce your existing EMI.
Balance transfer of personal Loan not only reduces the existing EMI but also helps the customer to take below mentioned benefits


text: YouTube's new rental service has been grabbing most of the headlines, but their free movie offerings have gotten boost from Russia (with love). Mosfilm, an 87-year-old "titan of Soviet and Russian film production", has emptied out its vaults to put, eventually, 200 classics of Russo-cinema. Many of which involve people who are cold and/or hungry! Doff your ushanka and check out the goodies here: [YouTube – Thanks Sergey!]