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"With Pakistan, we will continue our endeavour to seek a peaceful, cooperative and normal relationship," he said in his remarks on "Building on Convergence: Deepening the India-US Strategic Partnership" at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).
In his speech, Mathai said over the past year, India and the US have had close consultation and coordination on their shared vision of a stable, democratic and prosperous Afghanistan.
"It is a vision that can only be realised by the people of Afghanistan, but they need the support, assistance, facilitation and sustained commitment of the international community," he said.
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The high street giant this morning issued a dire warning to the City that sent its shares plunging by 68p to 250p - a fall of 22 per cent.
The retailer, which trades on its high quality but expensive food, has been badly hit by the credit crunch which means customers have less to spend.
The company said its head of food Steven Esom, recruited from Waitrose last year, has quit in a management reshuffle.
In a statement to shareholders, M&S said: "Consumer confidence levels have deteriorated markedly and market conditions have become more challenging."
Chairman Sir Stuart Rose admitted that trading conditions are the worst since the early Nineties.
"Our customers are hurting," he said. "Their pockets are being squeezed."
Sir Stuart said he has never witnessed "such a sharp and continuous slowdown" in his entire career in retailing.
He added: "It's a bit like being on a motorway. You are going too fast and you suddenly realise someone has dabbed the brakes on."
It is a remarkable fall from grace for M&S, which little more than a month ago unveiled profits of more than £1 billion, their highest level for a decade.
Today analysts were scrambling to slash their profit forecasts in the light of the sales warning.
Overall, M&S UK sales were down 5.3 per cent, with clothing and other " general merchandise" falling 6.2 per cent and food by 4.5 per cent.
International sales are 24.5 per cent higher, helping to boost total group sales by 1.3 per cent.
Sir Stuart claimed M&S was not losing market share to rivals in clothing, merely that the whole market is in disarray. "We are holding market share. The pot is shrinking," he said.
But in food he admitted "pressure on consumer spending and increased competitor pricing and promotional activity, coupled with changes in consumer buying patterns, have resulted in a significantly weaker performance".
M&S has positioned itself as the place to shop for top of the range food in recent years. But hard-pressed consumers are flocking to the bargain offers at the big supermarkets and even relatively well-off shoppers are experimenting with Lidl and Aldi for the first time.
Both have made strong efforts to appeal more to middle class shoppers.
Sir Stuart said: "Four years ago M&S was a weak business in a strong market. Today we are a strong business in a weak market. Our work to reposition the business in terms of product and values, service and store environment, coupled with our strong balance sheet and cash flows, places us well for the short term while enabling us to continue to invest for the future."
M&S has also been hard hit by the food price war launched by rivals such Asda and Tesco. Asda last month launched a range of 50p staples. It is also being squeezed by Waitrose which is doing well.
M&S has been trying to respond with its own range of basic ingredients for so called "scratch cooking" from home, one of the strong current trends in food retailing.
It is also testing an "eat for a tenner" promotion but the efforts have been seen as too little, too late.
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He then had a brief stint in the hotels sector. Two years later he was offered the job of buying director at Waitrose and was appointed managing director six years later.
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I created this blog as a response to the hypocrisy, nastiness, and negativity at Democratic Underground. The D'RATS do not allow disagreement on their site; they demand their posters tout their party line word-for-word. Any poster who does not march in lockstep is immediately banned. Their cowardice in this, and their calumny towards America's leaders, will not go unanswered as I address the issues of the day--and one of the most negative, detrimental influences in the blogosphere.
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The Italian artist died exactly 35 years ago, aged 29, after an alcoholic binge. Yet in the last six years of his life, he produced a body of work that puts him second only to Marcel Duchamp as an artist who revolutionised the nature of art. His influence on contemporary art, not least Young British Art, has been enormous, but his name hasn't had a lot of public recognition lately. In those terms a retrospective exhibition seems timely. On Manzoni's own terms, however, it can only look like an open contradiction.
It's good to see a photo of the artist, to catch the spirit - in place of Duchamp's knowing, enigmatic smile, you see a chubby, mischievous grin. Look, for instance, at the photo of Manzoni in front of a lavatory, holding up a can of Merda d'artista - artist's shit. This was his most famous production, a series of 90 tins, each preserving 30 grams of his own stool, and priced by Manzoni at the same rate as 30 grams of gold (the price fluctuated daily with the markets).
Or again, he designated humans as artworks, by signing them, or by issuing them with certificates. The critic and novelist Umberto Eco was one who got a chit making him a work of art for life; others got more temporary status. In Fiato d'artista (artist's breath), he inflated balloons, the shrunken remains of which are shown here, as are some of the Uove con Impronte, hard-boiled eggs bearing the artist's thumbprint, and examples from the Linea series, sealed cardboard tubes containing scrolls of paper on which Manzoni had drawn lines of various lengths, never to be opened.
The mischief is clear. With works like these, Manzoni put in question some basic notions about the artwork. For example: that it's a unique, permanent, physical, visible thing, a commodity with a market price, a vehicle for self-expression with a premium put on the artist's original handiwork. He challenged these notions by stretching them to the limit. (What is a thumbprint but the most literal kind of "handiwork"; what are breath or excrement but the most literal forms of "self-expression"?) He pursued, in short, a hopeful anarchic dream: the dissolution of that special category of things traditionally called art. Odd then to find him celebrated in a one-man retrospective of precious, unique originals, in an art gallery rebuilt the better to perform its traditional function.
As the Serpentine's director, Julia Peyton-Jones, asks (rhetorically): "How could a gallery present such works as the Merda d'artista without a self-consciousness that its very tenets are being questioned?" And I would answer: this self-consciousness is a meaningless bluff. For it is plainly true that Manzoni and other artists have questioned art's tenets, and been much praised for doing so, without it making the slightest difference to the values of the art world.
Everything stayed in place. All that happened was that Manzoni's "questions", rather than achieving art's dissolution, enlarged art's repertoire. Performance art, conceptual art, body art: his legacy in the past 30 years is great. But what was meant to burst art's limits has only extended the kinds of objects and activities that can count as art - new ways of doing the same old business. (I don't complain, the results of this extension have often been good.) As for his own works, they now seem to stand as relics of a high-minded, historic failure, with gallery exhibition as the conclusive stamp of this failure.
This is felt most piquantly with Magic Base, a wooden pyramid structure with a flat top, on which are stuck a pair of shoe insoles. Manzoni would invite people to stand on this plinth: they would thus - hey presto - briefly, themselves, become artworks. But as it's exhibited here... well, you can guess, can't you? It has a cordon round it. So the work transmits a contradictory message. Step up, good people, become art. Oh, no you don't, keep back. It would have been possible, if the original was too fragile or too expensive, to make a practical replica. But that wouldn't do, would it? The way the value of the original art object remains undisturbed couldn't be shown more clearly.
But maybe the cordon should be seen as really part of the work, a conscious editorial correction to it. It would be a way of saying: of course Manzoni's "magic" doesn't work any more, we know better now; all these ideas about the dissolution of art, nice anarchic hopes at the time, but quite unrealistic, quite impossible.
Certainly he was attempting the impossible, for the blunt reason that artists cannot unilaterally revolutionise the nature of art. The art world, and the world generally, have to agree. And it's hard to imagine, say, the present world agreeing not to trade in anything that's sellable. Today 30 grams of gold costs about pounds 200: rather less, presumably, than the amount a can of Merda d'artista would fetch under the hammer. (Splat! That auction is a sight I'd like to see.) Meanwhile, the distinction between what's art and what's not is as rigid as ever. Manzoni's certificates are collectables, but no collector has tried, so far as I know, to purchase Umberto Eco.
Perhaps Manzoni was aware of the impossibility. The "magical" dimension of his work - turning a person or a pocket of breath into art, turning shit into gold - seems ambiguous. It exposes the old idea of the great artist's transforming, value-creating touch. Yet this critical gesture also returns ironically on to Manzoni himself: a hint that his whole attempt to break the boundaries of art was itself no more than wishful conjuring.
But then Manzoni's "magical" turns have yet another side: not critical or ironic, but performing an act of simple praise for the world and the human. It's the most lasting and attractive aspect of his work. Our breath, our shit, our bodies, our most basic marks - these things are worthy of all the honour we have given to the greatest masterpieces. Seen like that, Manzoni's work itself stays well within the confines of art, tries to change nothing, offers only a vision, an elevating vision that radiates here from one work in particular.
Socle du Monde (world plinth) is a large iron cuboid, on one side of which the title is embossed in bronze classical lettering - upside-down. And, with that inversion, gravity is reversed and the world itself turned upside-down. This block at our feet is the planet's own pedestal, and for a moment we stand towards the whole earth both in awe and as its makers. It's a noble emblem of humanism. Praise to the Serpentine for exhibiting it. In a few square feet it does what a certain dome, now under construction, can only dream of doing.
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U.S. Dollar - The dollar turned decidedly lower as equity index futures jumped higher. Investors are rapidly discounting the onset of further quantitative easing in light of the August FOMC minutes. It turns out that the big news was not that three committee members were opposed to putting a sell-by date on the central bank's short-term rate of interest, rather that some of its members favored deeper measures to aid the economy. The prospect of further quantitative easing is currently weighing on the dollar yet bears might need to exercise caution ahead if indeed the Fed performs what some have coined operation twist.
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The proposal on the table facing raised by the likes of Bernanke who aim to shatter the objection of the hawks, is to change the composition of the Fed's balance sheet. By selling its shorter-dated maturities and buying longer-dated bonds, the Fed could further eradicate the gradient of the yield curve and encourage a wave of borrowing starting with refinancing from autos to credit cards. By maintaining the size of its balance sheet but by changing its maturity profile the Fed could achieve not only a valid increase in disposable income and raise the chance of spurring meaningful consumption, but it might also create consensus within the ranks in Washington.
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What better way to control the voting in the tribe than to eliminate a large voting bloc? Compare it to say, the Republicans eliminating a voting area, like the Northeast, so that many liberal votes would no longer count. Sound fair?
Here's a story from 2006 that shows that the TRIBE hired the foremost expert to prove that Paulina Hunter was NOT Pechanga. Except, the preponderance of the evidence showed she was. How to get around those FACTS? Don't use the report, make believe they didn't even pay for it.
TEMECULA ---- A renowned anthropologist hired by the Pechanga Band of Luiseno Indians to study their lineage and ancestry has called the tribe's recent disenrollment of a large family from its rolls "unfortunate and not based on solid evidence."
"They ignored whatever I did in their decision-making," said John Johnson, who was hired by Pechanga to determine whether Paulina Hunter was one of the tribe's ancestors. "It's too bad economics and politics have been injected into (tribal lineage rulings)."
Johnson has worked as curator of anthropology at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History since 1986. He earned his doctorate in anthropology at UC Santa Barbara and teaches a course called "California Indians" at the campus. For more than three decades, he has worked on detailed studies and recordings of California Indians' archaeology, archival records, cultures and history. OP: Dr. Johnson works with Las Padrones, the HISTORICAL records of the Spanish missionaries begun before Abraham Lincoln was BORN.
He researched the Hunter lineage as a paid independent consultant.
Last month, Pechanga's enrollment committee handed down a ruling that rejected an appeal by Hunter's descendants, a family of about 100 adults, to reverse the tribe's decision to disenroll them. OP: And our children too, about 100 and our spouses, another 70.
When Pechanga disenrolls a family, it not only strips the extended family of their membership in the tribe, but also health insurance, college scholarships and other benefits provided by the tribe, including thousands of dollars in casino profits tribe members get each month.
The Hunters are the second large family in two years to be booted from the tribe's rolls, in addition to the large Apis clan. There is talk that another family is set to be disenrolled from Pechanga soon.
Hired by Pechanga two years ago, Johnson researched whether Hunter was of Temecula descent. He made his comments on the tribe's ruling earlier this month, after it rejected the Hunter appeal. He said he is "90 percent" sure Hunter was an original Pechanga Indian, based on all the available documentation.
The reason he said he cannot be 100 percent sure is because when studying the lineage of Luiseno Indians ---- who include the Pala, Pauma, Rincon, La Jolla, Soboba and Pechanga bands ---- there are three "primary" mission record books missing that detail births, marriages and deaths from 1835-1852. These books were established when the mission was founded.
The name "Luiseno" derives from their having lived at or near the Spanish mission San Luis Rey, established in 1798 and located in northern San Diego County near Oceanside.
Hunter was born sometime during the 1830s or 1840s, and lived on the reservation in Temecula, Johnson's research shows. That is the tie her descendants point to to show they are Pechanga descendants.
Determining exactly who Paulina Hunter's parents are is not cut and dried without those primary record books, Johnson said. With that, he made his determinations using other various baptismal and marriage records, California census books, Pechanga Indian census records, genealogical evidence and other sources, he said.
He determined that Paulina Hunter was an original Pechanga Indian based in part on the fact that the man most likely to be her father, Mateo Quasicac, was the only person listed from "Pechanga" in census books from that time.
Moreover, he said, Hunter was listed on tribal rolls in the late 19th century and was the recipient of Pechanga Reservation allotment No. 62.
"Paulina Hunter would not have been given an allotment if she was not of the Temecula Indians," Johnson said. "So, why was she given an allotment?"
What's more, anyone currently enrolled in the Pechanga band whose ancestors were born between 1835 and 1852 would have the same trouble proving their heritage using primary resource books, he said.
"They are all in the same boat as Paulina Hunter," Johnson said. "She is not unique."
Johnson said he wrote a lengthy report to the tribe detailing his results in 2004, and sent a letter to them reiterating his findings a few months before the enrollment committee's August ruling.
Pechanga Tribal Chairman Mark Macarro would not comment on Johnson's remarks. He did not respond to requests for an interview. OP: In Macarro's hometown of Colton, that would be enough to be labeled "pussy".
In an August statement, Macarro said the decision to deny the Hunter appeal was reached after months of investigation and hearings.
"This is a very complex intertribal matter involving Pechanga history and genealogy," he wrote. "Questions about citizenship, therefore, are resolved by the Pechanga enrollment committee, the government body with the proper authority and ability to determine if a person meets criteria for Pechanga citizenship.
OP: See A'amokat's comment in the comment section below, but let's take Macarro's statement on ABILITY. Who you you choose?
The FOREMOST authority on California Indians genealogy or:
Ruth Masiel - uneducated homemaker, slept through one Hunter hearing, puppet of daughter Jennie Miranda
Bobbie LaMere - Casino employee, who got family members enrolled while a moratorium is in effect.
Ihrene Scearce - BIA clerk reprimanded for changing records, stole from tribe (as per Ed Burbee)
Frances Miranda - barely educated homemaker
"The insinuation that these actions are motivated by politics or profits is reprehensible. The fact is that disenrollments occurred long before Pechanga ever opened its gaming facility." OP: But never entire families of members, and their VOTES
One Hunter family member who asked not to be named because she said she would face retaliation as she lives on the reservation, said Pechanga enrollment committee members are taking the word of former Tribal Chairman Vincent Belasco Ibanez, who is finishing up an eight-year prison term for child molestation, over Johnson's findings.
Ibanez was known as a local expert on the preservation of American Indian artifacts and for conducting nature walks and seminars on native plant species for the Dorland Mountain Arts Colony east of Temecula. OP: Yet, Ibanez (related to Ed Burbee,see previous posts) was NOT alive when Paulina Hunter ws, and Pechanga has SWORN depositions from tribal members taken in the LUISENO language that Paulina Hunter was a tribal members. Let's see, tribal members, alive, giving SWORN testimony, or a child molester? WHAT WOULD YOU DO?
The Hunter family member also said that because records show Paulina Hunter's mother was baptized at the San Luis Rey Mission, enrollment committee members are taking it to mean she was from there. But everyone traveled to that mission to be baptized during that century, she said.
"These people are targeting certain families," said the Hunter family member. "They are just throwing out all the facts. It's all about financial gain. It's all about more money."
The ousted members of the Apis family turned to the courts to plead their case, but have not won a verdict. Indian sovereignty and disenrollment have taken on a new significance around the nation, with the rise of Indian casinos and the money and political clout that accompany them. Pechanga is not the only tribe to disenroll some of its members.
"I don't agree that it was an unfortunate mistake. In my opinion it was a premeditated decision to disenroll the Paulina Hunter descendants," said John Gomez Jr., a spokesman for the 130 disenrolled adult Apis family members.
"We've been proud of (our heritage) and participated in the different aspects of being a tribal member, an Indian person ---- and one decision has all that taken away. We can't participate in tribal affairs, we lose our health benefits, the children lose their culture. That's the most devastating because that is your identity." OP: Similarly, Hunters have been on the tribal council, water committees and worked to build the health clinic.


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Daniel Tobin of Denver, Colo., now in Chicago, passed most of yesterday at the local offices of the White Star line seeking information in regard to his sister, Mrs. J. G. Brown of Denver.
Tobin shouted his joy when a report was received in which the name of the woman was mentioned as among those taken from the lifeboats by the Carpathia.
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They identified bacteria able to shrug off the drug of last resort - colistin - in patients and livestock in China.
They said that resistance would spread around the world and raised the spectre of untreatable infections.
It is likely resistance emerged after colistin was overused in farm animals.
Bacteria becoming completely resistant to treatment - also known as the antibiotic apocalypse - could plunge medicine back into the dark ages.
That's an overreaction.
A better reaction is that antibiotics were never a good solution because they kill good bacteria too.
We're going to have to create a different set of treatments.
The book Herbal Antibiotics by Stephen Harrod Buhner documents the treatment of every major antibiotic resistant strain with herbal cures -- that is not, treatments but cures with specific strains of bacteria matched to the herbs that cure the infections. The book is painstakingly cited to medical journals, but only a small number of the journals are U.S.-based. But in many other countries scientific herbalism has already been widely adopted. The big corporations just don't seem to want to touch non-patentable solutions.
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With the end of the Civil War, the nation recommenced its expansion onto traditional Indian tribal lands, setting off a wide-ranging conflict that would last more than three decades. In an exploration of the wars and negotiations that destroyed tribal ways of life even as they made possible the emergence of the modern United States, Peter Cozzens gives us both sides in comprehensive and singularly intimate detail. He illuminates the encroachment experienced by the tribes and the tribal conflicts over whether to fight or make peace, and explores the squalid lives of soldiers posted to the frontier and the ethical quandaries faced by generals who often sympathized with their native enemies.
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One of Sydney's most improved mares Catkins lived up to her good Spring form to win the Group 2 $175,000 NSW Thoroughbred Breeders Classic (1200m) at Rosehill today.
Catkins was having her first start since being beaten a whisker by high class stablemate Red Tracer in the Group 1 $500,000 Myer Classic (1600m) at Flemington on November 2 and she has carried that form into the Autumn.
Hugh Bowman tracked leader Steps In Time ($6.50) all the way and knew he had her covered even though Catkins ($3.90) waited to the last stride to put her nose in front and deny the Joe Pride trained mare her third consecutive Breeders Classic win.
Speedy mare Steps In Time has won the last two runnings of the Breeders Classic under the care of Randwick trainer John O'Shea and a win today would have been a great result for Pride who was saddling the Danehill Dancer mare up for the first time.
"I was pretty confident. Memories flowed back from last year when I was on Red Tracer, circumstances were almost identical, similar track conditions," Bowman said.
"I just tried to keep her balanced and keep her fighting, cause I could feel I had the measure of the other one at about the one hundred metre mark."
"She's a different horse with the blinkers on and she gave me a lot of confidence through the run."
"She's a good horse Steps In Time. She's won it the last two years and she's a horse I respected going into the race and she ran up to her consistent self."
Liam Prior, representing the Chris Waller stable, said that Catkins deserved the win after racing so well during the Spring.
"She did a marvellous job in the Spring and she's returned in great order," Prior said.
"She tries very hard, honest as the day is long."
Prior also gave praise to Bowman's well-judged winning ride that saw Catkins arrive just in time to get the judge's decision.
"Full credit to Hughie, he popped her out off the fence just at the right time and she really knuckled down," Prior said.
"Our mare is certainly on the way up and I know Chris has big aspirations for her through the Autumn."
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"They have given us a lot of suggestions including sovereign bond issue. All options are on the table and we will examine as and when the need comes," chief economic advisor Raghuram Rajan told reporters after a meeting with foreign bankers
Faced with outflow of foreign funds and deteriorating current account deficit (CAD), the finance ministry today discussed the possibility of floating sovereign bonds after a decade to shore up forex reserves.
"They (have given) us lot of suggestions including sovereign bond issue. All options are on the table and we will examine as and when the need comes," chief economic advisor Raghuram Rajan told reporters after a meeting with foreign bankers.
India had in the past on several occasions floated sovereign bonds to tide over the balance of payment crisis.
The meeting called by Rajan was attended by representatives of several banks including Citi Bank, Bank of America and Barclays.
Besides the bond issue, Rajan said bankers gave suggestions on making debt markets more liquid.
"They (made) suggestions on a number of issues ranging from ways we can make the markets more liquid. What kind of funding needs India might have? How this could be brought in? We will take note of them.
"This was not a meeting to take decisions, it was to take inputs. This dialogue will continue. We now have bunch of ideas to reflect on", he added.
India's CAD touched a record high of 4.8% of the GDP in the 2012-13 fiscal due to high imports, including that of gold. The situation deteriorated further after the initial statement of US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke suggesting gradual withdrawal of stimulus.
His statement had led to sudden outflow of foreign funds, which in turn pulled down the value of rupee to all time low of 61.21 to a dollar. Things, however, stabilised after Bernanke said that stimulus programme would continue for some more time.
In order to tide over the balance of payments crisis, the government in 1991 issued India Development Bonds and raised $1.6 billion.
In 1998, it launched the "Resurgent India" bonds soon after the announcement of nuclear tests and sanctions that followed. The scheme raised $4.2 billion.
Two years later in 2001, the government rolled out "India Millennium Deposits" on the back of rising fuel prices and slowing capital flows. It was able to garner $5.5 billion.
Infosys quarterly net profit dipped, barely met analysts estimates but the stock price reacted differently and jumped instead giving way to speculation for a stock that was once consistent
On its results day, Infosys has once again moved the market. Last time (12th April), it had taken the market down sharply. Today, the stock has shot up to the day's high of Rs2,905 on Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), up 15%. Were its results simply great? Dollar-earning Infosys was expected to do well given that the rupee has depreciated. Despite this, revenues and net profit were stagnant. In fact, its net profit for the first quarter of the 2014 fiscal was actually less than the previous quarter i.e. January-March 2013. Infosys consolidated net profit for the June quarter was Rs2,374 crore while in the March quarter was Rs2,394 crore. Standalone results were worse, and declined by more than 2% to Rs2,250 crore. During the same period, the rupee depreciated by 9.26%. Clearly, without the rupee depreciation, Infosys would have done quite badly.
So what drove its share price higher? It 'beat' analysts' expectations. Infosys has also been getting a lot of positive attention after founder NR Narayana Murthy returned at the helm again, this time with his son in tow.
A CNBC-TV18 poll of analysts had expected Infosys to record consolidated net profit at Rs2,315 crore. Infosys had barely surpassed this and the share price has rocketed up. The stock that was once the beacon of consistency is now something else. We had written how stock prices react to analysts estimates over here: When will analysts be realistic in their expectations about Infosys? A look at the bar chart below illustrates how Infosys has fared over the last eight quarters. It struggled to gain any earnings momentum.
Rajiv Bansal, Infosys chief financial officer announced increases in compensation which is expected to affect Infosys' margins. "We have announced compensation increases for FY 14 effective July which will affect our margins in the future quarters," said Rajiv Bansal.
But as today's rally shows, the market is obviously looking beyond the negatives such as no growth and rising costs. Following Narayana Murthy's return, many fund managers and analysts are hopeful that Infosys will be able to record higher revenues and profits.
Poor showing over the last few quarters resulted in a fall in its price earnings ratio, and for good reason. Governance and leadership were crucial issues that the company had to resolve. This was the cause for Narayana Murthy's return.
It is pertinent to note that the day before Infosys announced Narayana Murthy's return, someone may have bought its shares. Moneylife had reported this first. The story can be accessed here: Someone knew Narayana Murthy is coming back and traded on it. The Indian securities market watchdog, the Securities Exchange Board of India (SEBI) is investigating the matter.
Everything was calm and quiet until recently, when India's finance ministry suddenly decided to withdraw its subsidy on petroleum products and excise duty refund to supplies to Bhutan
Tomorrow, 13 July 2013, some 400,000 eligible Bhutanese voters will take an active part in the elections, in which India supplied Electronic Voting Machines will be deployed.
The Bhutanese people will vote to elect a 25-member National Council and a National Assembly of 47 members. Presided by the 5th king of the Wangchuk dynasty, Bhutan is a constitutional monarchy with a democratic system of government. In effect, it is a parliamentary democracy.
Bhutan is ruled by 28-year old King Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuk whose father abdicated the throne in 2008. King Wangchuk and his wife, who recently visited India, were given a royal treatment. The King has appreciated the tremendous progress India has made in all the fields. To the peace-loving Bhutanese, India is a big brother, on whom they can depend for literally anything.
Because of its special treaty with India and the relationship from time immemorial, the Election Commission of India has extended all the assistance that was required of it to enable the Bhutanese to conduct the elections.
Everything was calm and quiet until recently, when India's finance ministry suddenly decided to withdraw its subsidy on petroleum products and excise duty refund to supplies to Bhutan.
Apparently, the trouble began to brew in May last year when an audit found that there was a massive discrepancy in what Bhutan claims to have imported from India as against the Indian charge of (possibly?) inflated bills on export. Here, we must remember that exports are taking place from India to Bhutan, and so, the epicentre of trouble lies here, at home!
It is not really relevant to discuss the figures claimed and disputed but in a world of advanced computer technology available in the country, and assuming records are carefully kept methodically, it should not take months to discover where the fault lies!
A new government is expected to be formed after the election results are announced, possibly on 14th July, but there is great despair and distress in the minds of Bhutanese people by their Indian counterparts.
Simply put, it is a bureaucratic bungling of the worst kind. While full details have not been made public on either side, it is clear that, prima facie, there is the urgent need to:
a) route all supplies of these essential products through government organizations on either side, and eliminate private enterprise
b) ban export of any subsidy-oriented product by private parties with immediate effect, and resume supplies, putting the so-called disputes in the backburner
c) request the Bhutanese government to nominate a central government organization in their country which will take the responsibility of receiving and distributing such essential products
d) refrain from making such unilateral moves on any product or service, without prior consultations
e) with Bhutanese assistance, plug loopholes in the border customs through which products have to pass into that country. Or is it the border porous enough to permit cargo movement freely?
As mentioned earlier, the sentiment in Bhutan, as reported in the press, is the indirect arm-twisting method employed, as a sequel to former prime minister Jigme Thinley's reported meeting with Chinese premier Wen Jiabo last year. Such moves are to be accepted with a pinch of salt and no action should be taken that may hurt the sentiment of the people on either side.
We must remember that it is in India's interest to keep both Nepal and Bhutan free from such pin-pricks and assist them in every possible way.
China is waiting for such an opportunity.
(AK Ramdas has worked with the Engineering Export Promotion Council of the ministry of commerce and was associated with various committees of the Council. His international career took him to places like Beirut, Kuwait and Dubai at a time when these were small trading outposts; and later to the US.)


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His name is Nicholas and he is "our elf" sent by Santa from the North Pole. He will stay with us until Christmas Eve when Santa will pick him up when he comes for a visit. He goes back to the North Pole each night to give Santa updates and we never know where we will find him in the morning. We aren't allowed to touch him either, or he could loose his elf magic.
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Linda Fowler, tutor of the OU's S103 Science Foundation Course at the Plymouth Study Centre and head of the South West Branch of the OU Geological Society (OUGS), first met Matthew Harffy on-line in May.
Having been an OU student herself, she took to heart Matthew's struggles with S103. During their correspondence, she learnt that he worked in the geology department of Madrid's National History Museum and he learned that her Society was planning a trip to Spain.
And so the idea was born. Matthew would arrange a field trip headed by his colleague, Dr Javier Garca Guinea, an eminent mineralogist specializing in thermolumine scence.
This is a new field which relates to the measurement of radioactivity and he is one of the few experts in Spain. The group also included Jan Ashton-Jones of the Society; Mary Maeso, studying S103; Luis Alonso, who had studied S102 (the previous version of S103); I am studying S267, How the Earth Works.
We met at the castle of Manzanares el Real just north-east of Madrid. Dr Garca Guinea arrived in a beaten-up jalopy, sending up clouds of dust, munching a doughnut and looking every bit the absent-minded professor and we were immediately on first-name terms.
We were in the Sierra de Guadarrama, north of Madrid. These mountains were formed about 350 million years ago; the highest peak is Pef dust, from which Javier was eager to begin the trip by showing us a bed of quartzite and smooth, layered, aluminium-rich mica schist and muscovite. Never mind that a busy main road cut right through the bed, and that the site was situated just after a blind curve!
With some trepidation, we parked on the side of the highway and Javier, oblivious of any danger, marched a terrified group of us up the slippery slopes. He was intense in his explanation of every feature, and by the time I found myself holding a shiny, cool piece of the layered stone I had forgotten my worries. And so, it seemed, had everyone else: Linda and Jan pulled out their hand lenses, Luis began snapping pictures of the deposits, Matthew was stuffing his pockets with specimens and Mary was taking notes.
Even so, I think we were all relieved when two policemen on motorcycles ordered us away. As I scuttled back into Luis's car, I overheard a relaxed Javier explaining that he was just showing "some English geologists" the rocks.
Before we left, he pointed out the limestone basin to the north. This was our next stop. Several wrong turns took us through sleepy Castilian villages, our curious caravan causing local heads to turn.
We finally arrived at the edge of a limestone cliff cut by a very deep fissure only a few years old: the tree-roots spanning parts of it were testimony to its young age. Javier explained that this fault, and several smaller ones, had probably opened up as a result of a series of small earthquakes. A great portion of the cliff had slipped into the valley, helped by underlying deposits of clay minerals.
We speculated that the "faulty" part we were standing on would probably suffer the same fate some time in the future.
We left the cliff and went for coffee. The walls of the cafe had superb examples of augengneiss or "toad's eyes" - a metamorphic rock rich in feldspar, quartz and garnet.
But nobody was as interested in the coffee as they were in the counter top: it was made of three different granites, two pinks from Galicia in the north-west of Spain and a local white stone.
Leaving the bar, we noticed a distinctive tile in the terrace floor. It contained a clot of pegmatite, an igneous intrusive rock which found its way into the granite, as veins, after the granite was formed. Width- wise cutting and polishing of the vein resulted in a beautiful ringed design.
We huddled on the floor and took our cameras but only after Javier had placed a rule beside it were we allowed to take our photographs.
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Guild Wars 2: Best Events to Run in Queensdale Map
In Guild Wars 2 players that select the human race will begin in Queensdale just outside of the Human capital city, Divinity's Reach. This area is mainly invaded by Bandits and Centaurs. Within Queensdale there are a total of 17 heart quests, 38 dynamic events and 2 meta events. Some events have 2 to 3 parts (referred to as event chains) and each counts as a separate event to complete. You can't repeat heart quests but all events are repeatable. Events provide your player with big doses of experience points, Karma and a bit of coin. Heart quests provide experience and a small amount of coin.
Events in Queensdale
Each map, such as Queensdale, is divided into sub-sections, each one containing a heart quest or two and possibly an event. Not all sections of the map will have an event but in most cases, they do. It's also worth noting that picking up points of interest and vistas also contribute to your XP.
Here is a list of each area of Queensdale:
- Altar Brook Vale
- Altar's Windings
- Bandithaunt Caverns
- Beetletun Farms
- Beggar's Burrows
- Clayent Falls
- Demongrub Pits
- Eastern Divinity Dam
- Godslost Swamp
- Krytan Freeholds
- Lake Delavan
- Orlaf Escarpments
- Phinney Ridge
- Pinion Trail
- Queen's Forest
- Salma's Heath
- Scaver Plateau
- Shaemoor Fields
- Shaemoor Garrison
- Shire of Beetletun
- Taminn Foothills
- The Heartwoods
- Township of Claypool
- Village of Shaemoor
- Western Divinity Dam
- Windloss Delves
To save you time and help you level up faster we are going to briefly walkthrough the smaller areas of the map but provide much more detail for areas that have great event chains you can run to maximize your gains in experience and karma.
Best Events to Run
Keep in mind that you don't have to only participate in events that are at your level. If you find an event that is several levels above you but there are several people participating in it, you can kite around, getting a few hits in here and there, and still get FULL credit for the event. With that said, let's go over some of the best events in Queensdale.
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Champion Cave Troll
One of the most popular and rewarding events for lower level players in Queensdale is the Slay the Enraged Champion Cave Troll event. It happens quite often and is a level 11 event. Because there are usually 5 to 10 players in the area anytime he comes up it's easy for players at levels 2-11 to participate. Simply use a kiting weapon such as a staff, longbow, rifle, etc to get a few hits in here and there and keep running in a large circle around the troll until he is dead. The event happens in the Altar's Windings area past the farm near the caves.
Champion Wasp Queen
Another regularly occurring, popular event is the Champion Wasp Queen. Same rules above apply to this one. But you may need to find a few more people to help out. Just give a shout in the map chat box saying the Wasp Queen is up and you need help and, in most cases, several players will come to your aid to help you complete the event. This event happens in the Queen's Forest area in the wooded area near a logging facility.
Protect Ranchers from Bandits
Another simple and usually populated event to partake in is one where you are assigned the task of protecting the ranchers of Bar Curtis Ranch, located in the Altar Brook Vale area, from bandits. You simply need to kill the bandits that come onto the ranch. If the event fails you will then have to drive the bandits off the ranch. This is done by killing a ton of bandits. Eventually their morale will deplete to 0% and they will flee the ranch entirely. It's a pretty easy event that happens rather often.
Escort the Caravan to Claypool
A final quick and easy event to run that occurs regularly is one where you will need to protect a caravan led by Mona and her Pack Bull to Claypool. On the road there you will encounter various enemies such as wolves and centaurs. Simply escort the caravan safely to Claypool to gain credit for the event.
Running the four events above on top of general stuff such as gathering and killing enemies while you travel will net you a ton of XP, Karma and coin.
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Modern Australia was settled by Great Britain in 1788. With modern New Zealand being settled several decades later. Back then, the food was as imported as the settlers who prepared it. In the short years since then, both countries have developed a range of food items which are quintessentially Australian and/or New Zealander. Sometimes they fight over who invented what and when. What follows, is a sample of these icons.
01 of 11A squarish piece of sponge cake dipped in chocolate icing and rolled in desiccated coconut. There are many variations of Lamingtons; one calls for the cake to be cut in half and then filled with strawberry jam and whipped cream. Despite its small size, the cake has a large reputation, so much so that in 2006, the little Lamington was inducted into the National Trust of Queensland's list of Heritage Icons. Since then each year on July 21, Australians celebrate "National Lamington Day."
02 of 11The Pavlova is New Zealand's national dessert. This delicate cake is part of a great debate between Australians and New Zealanders who both lay claim to its invention. The Pavlova is a meringue shell with a marshmallowy center topped with whipped cream and fruit. It was aptly named after Russian prima ballerina, Anna Pavlova, who visited New Zealand in 1926 and Australia in 1929. Australian chef Bert Sachse was credited with inventing the Pavolva at the Esplanade Hotel in Perth in 1935.... However, a recipe similar to that of the Pavolva appears in the 1933 Rangiora Mothers' Union Cookery Book. An even earlier version was found by Dr. Helen Leach, Food Historian at the University of Otago, in rural New Zealand magazine printed in 1929.
03 of 11Damper is real camping fare. It's a type of bread made without yeast and is typically cooked in the "bush" (wild country) over hot coals and often wrapped around a stick. It is eaten with hot, sweet, black tea and sometimes drizzled with honey if there's any handy. These days damper is eaten with jam and butter or baked with nuts or dried fruit to make it a little more tasty.
04 of 11ANZAC Biscuits are crunchy cookies that usually consist of rolled oats, golden syrup and desiccated coconut. The biscuits were named after the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps. The hardy cookies were made by women during World War I and sent to the ANZACs serving overseas. ANZAC Day is commemorated each year on April 25. It is the day the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps landed in Gallipoli in Turkey during World War I. Thousands of Australians and New Zealanders lost their lives in... the Gallipoli campaign. Their spirit and bravery has been honored ever since and in many senses marked both nations' coming of age.Continue to 5 of 11 below.
05 of 11Vegemite is a dark brown, savory spread. It was invented in 1922 by Dr. Cyril Callister, a chemist employed by the Fred Walker Company (later bought by Kraft). Its taste can best be described as salty with a subtle bitterness (although honestly this is one product that defies description). It is lightly spread on toast or crackers with some butter. It can also be spread on toast with peanut butter or cheese slices and sometimes used to flavor soup stocks. New Zealanders, while many like... Vegemite, tend to prefer Marmite. Marmite has quite a similar taste to Vegemite, but it's slightly sweeter.
06 of 11The Meat Pie is very common (and very self-explanatory). It's a small pie (usually about 4" (9cm) in diameter) filled with ground beef, gravy and covered with "tomato sauce" (which is very similar to ketchup, but not quite as sweet). It is served at "tuckshops" (school canteens) or eaten mainly as a takeaway food. Meat Pies can also be served on a bed of "mushy" peas or mashed potatoes. This is called a "pie floater." Meat Pies are very popular at sporting... events and on construction sites. Generally speaking, it would be very difficult to find an Australian male who disagreed with the sentiment that Meat Pies are about as Australian as you can get.
07 of 11Another popular tuckshop favorite is the Sausage Roll. It is puff pastry filled with sausage meat that has been spiced with onions and various herbs. Like the meat pie, it is also served with tomato sauce on top. These days the sausage roll is becoming more adventurous with the addition of international flavors such as Moroccan spices or Thai herbs and sauces.
08 of 11The phrase "slip a shrimp on the barbie" was made famous by a television advertisement developed by the Australian Tourism Commission in the mid-1980s. The ad starred Crocodile Dundee actor Paul Hogan and was aimed at increasing American tourism to Australia, which it did very successfully. The ad is somewhat misleading. While the word "barbie" is short for "barbecue" and commonly used in the Australian vernacular, the word "shrimp" is never used. Australians call... it a "prawn."Continue to 9 of 11 below.
09 of 11Fish & Chips down at the beach is a perennial favorite. The fish (often shark) is usually coated in a light, golden batter (often made with beer) with a side of hot chips or potato scallops covered in salt and vinegar. These days, it's quite the norm for fish & chips to be served with Thai sweet chili sauce instead of the more old fashioned tartare sauce.
10 of 11When we say "the lot", we mean it. A hamburger with "the lot" consists of a beef patty, lettuce, tomato, onion, cheese, a fried egg, a slice of canned pineapple, bacon rashers and a slice of canned beetroot. The additions of egg, pineapple and beetroot seem particularly amusing to tourists. Be warned, unless you have really big hands (and the ability to dislocate your jaw), it can often be a real effort to hold on to and bite.
11 of 11The nutritious kumara, also known as the sweet potato, has been cultivated in New Zealand for thousands of years. It is believed that the kumara was introduced to New Zealand by early Maori settlers in the mid 1200s. Today the kumara is mainly grown on the semi-tropical North Island of New Zealand. It comes in white, gold and red varieties with red usually being the sweetest. Methods of cooking kumara are endless, they can be used in soups, salads, sweet or savory pies or even eaten raw.


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Capsular contracture is a common complication of breast implant surgery. A breast should be soft, flexible, and drape naturally, even if it is a reconstructed breast that was surgically created after a mastectomy. If you have saline or silicone breast implants, capsular contracture can cause your reconstructed breast to shift, change shape, or feel quite hard. If this happens in your case, you can get treatment to correct the problem.

Understanding Capsular Contracture

Your body is smart -- your immune system knows when a foreign object has been put into your tissues. When an intruder (such as a breast implant) is detected, a periprosthetic capsule is formed around it.

Think of it this way: Your chest muscles and skin don't readily accept an implant as a natural part of your breast. In order to isolate the implant and keep it from growing, spreading, or wandering around, your body creates a sac, or capsule of scar tissue around it, to seal it off.

A capsule around a breast implant is a naturally occurring tissue that can benefit you. However, if that capsule contracts or thickens, it can squeeze your implant. This contracture is what will cause pain, shifting, distortion, and hardening of the reconstructed breast.

Possible Causes of The Squeeze

Capsular contracture can happen around any type of breast implant. It occurs more often around silicone, rather than saline implants. Sometimes it develops due to an infection that sneaks in during implant surgery. But other problems may also crop up, like a seroma (a pocket of blood serum within the surgical area) or a hematoma (a pool of blood below the skin). These may also contribute to the development of capsular contracture.

Giving The Problem a Grade

Capsular contracture is graded by the Baker scale and follows this criteria:

 Grade I - the breast is soft and appears normal, and the capsule is flexible.

 Grade II - the breast looks normal, but is somewhat hard to the touch.

 Grade III - the breast is hard, has some distortion caused by contracture, or the breast becomes a rounded shape, or the implant is generally tilted upwards.

 Grade IV - similar to grade III but with greater hardening of the capsule.

Preventing Capsular Contracture

You and your surgeon can work together to prevent the development of a stiff capsule of tissue around your breast implant. Your surgeon may prescribe preoperative medications such as prednisone and vitamin E, so be sure to take these as directed. Implants can be located beneath the mammary gland or within a muscle pocket -- those that are placed within muscle are less apt to develop capsular contracture. Your surgeon may use Alloderm to line the muscle pocket to further reduce the likelihood of scar tissue build-up around your implant.

If you have surgical drains to maintain after breast surgery, be sure to empty these on schedule -- this helps prevent seromas from developing. Finally, your surgeon may suggest that you do post-operative massage on the reconstructed breast and do arm exercises to keep the area supple and soft.

Boost Your Recovery From Breast Surgery

Here are a few things to avoid after breast implant surgery that will ensure a healthy recovery:

Quit smoking before surgery if you can, and don't smoke during your recovery period. Using tobacco products will delay healing and recovery from surgery.

Take it easy doing physical activities and avoid injury or impact to the newly reconstructed breast. The implant needs time to settle into place, so don't jostle, squeeze, or strike the surgical site at all.

If you know that you'll be having chest wall radiation after your mastectomy, consider delaying implant surgery until treatments are completed. Radiation can stiffen affected tissues and cause capsular contracture, so waiting is well worth your time.

Treatments for Capsular Contracture

If you develop stiff tissue around a breast implant, if the shape distorts, or if the implant wanders out of position, you can get help. A capsulectomy is surgery that removes the stiffened capsule, and the implant may be replaced during this procedure for best results.

A capsulotomy is surgery to loosen the scar tissue by slicing it, which allows for expansion.

Surgery may not always be needed, however -- there are other methods that use massage, ultrasound, and medications to make the stiff capsule relax. Talk to your doctor about your options.

Sources:

Incidence of capsular contracture in silicone versus saline cosmetic augmentation mammoplasty: A meta-analysis. Yasser El-Sheikh, MD, Roberto Tutino, MD, Casey Knight, MD, Farough Farrokhyar, PhD, and Nicolas Hynes, MSc MD FRCSC. Can J Plast Surg. 2008 Winter; 16(4): 211-215.

Immediate Breast Tissue Expander-Implant Reconstruction With Inferolateral AlloDerm Hammock and Postoperative Radiation: A Preliminary Report. Karl H. Breuing, MD and Amy S. Colwell, MD. Eplasty. 2009; 9: e16. Published online 2009 May 15.


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Whirlpool ED22RF is making little or no ice after it was shut off for about an hour. ???
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SOURCE: ice maker makes very little ice
You can't adjust it to make ice faster. It should make 8 cubes about every two hours. After it fills look and see how many cube molds are filled with water. It may be that the tray is not getting full. If it isn't filling the whole tray then you have a low water pressure to the fridge issue. The most common problem I see is people use a self-piercing saddle valve on the water line and they get plugged and this drops the water pressure to the fridge. If you have a self-piercing valve it needs to be changed to a drill type saddle valve. If the saddle valve is the correct one and the tray doesn't fill all the way then replace the water valve on the fridge. Let me know what you find.
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Check condenser for dirt or dust, check back wall of freezer section for frost, if you find frost there is a defrost problem. Frost buildup on the surface of the back wall indicates that the coil inside the back wall is frozen over. Inside the back wall on the coil are heaters which the timer energizes to defrost at certain intervals. These heaters could have an open circuit, the defrost thermostat could be open, or the timer could be malfunctioning. To test the timer manually you can rotate the clutch head screw clockwise untill you hear one click. The heaters should come on and defrost for 18-22 minutes. The refrigerator should return to cooling after that time. If it does not automatically restart turn the screw once more to a second click and it should start.
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I had a Whirlpool Model GD5SHAXNS in which the icemaker quit working about the same time (3 years old). I had water out the dispenser, I found that it was the icemaker itself failed not calling for water to fill it. I replaced it with a icemaker on-line for about $100 and problem fixed. I have been told his is a common problem with the icemaker in this model ref.
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On the ice makers on refridgerators unless the ice in the bucket is high enough to raise the arm on the icemaker it will not shut off. Most people lift the arm up when they see the bucket full. I have the side by side Whirlpool model and on mine if I don't raise the arm the ice will fall out the bucket before it will raise the arm high enough.
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