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George W. Bush – in a somewhat rare post-White House foreign policy push – is calling for an increased focus on the 24 million North Koreans who "suffer tyranny and depravation under brutal rule."
The George W. Bush Institute – the former president's policy think tank at Southern Methodist University – on Wednesday released a "call to action paper" to highlight the dire situation in the country that has long suffered from a totalitarian regime.
Institute officials have been working on the project for about a year, convening experts, government officials, business leaders and others. The effort builds upon a recent United Nations report that described numerous human rights violations in North Korea.
The institute's paper outlines several concrete steps -- and ways to achieve those steps -- to help the North Korean people. They include getting more information into North Korea, providing more support for refugees and raising the profile of the country's plight.
"We must continue to do more to improve the human condition in North Korea, especially those of us blessed to live in free societies," Bush said in a YouTube video. "Please join me in standing with the people of North Korea."
North Korea has long been a focus for the Bush Institute's human freedom initiative. Several North Koreans, for instance, have been filmed for the Freedom Collection, the think tank's online archive of interviews with democracy activists.
So the "call to action" this week has nothing to do with the recent controversy over "The Interview," the comedy movie whose release was limited by repercussions over its portrayal of North Korea and the country's leader, Kim Jong Un.
Institute leaders are, however, seeking that kind of international focus on North Korea.
But they want it focused on the country's human rights record, rather than pop culture caricatures or even the country's nuclear program. They want it focused on prison camps, torture, discrimination, intimidation and violations of the freedom of expression.
They want it focused on "one of the worst humanitarian tragedies of our time," as the report describes it.
"At a minimum, public and private sectors must be committed to not allowing the (North Korean) human rights issue to fall into the abyss of inattention … , and to put the issue in the spotlight of international attention," Bush Institute fellow Victor Cha wrote.
To read the full "call to action paper," including the recommended next steps, please click here. To check out the Bush Institute's online interactive on the topic, please click here.


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Apparently, the Dell Mini 9 has already been discontinued. Also I've heard that the Mini 10 is not available through the educational channel (just consumer). Educators are being told to with for the Mini 12.
This is disappointing and doesn't reinforce my previous assertion that Dell gets the education market. The consumer mobile electronics market continues to be a tough fit for institutional purchases.
Anyone else hearing other news on this or other mini-laptops?
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JBLM widow continues to share her grief to connect with others in mourning
After a busy Halloween trick-or-treating, 8-year-old Clarissa Groepper admitted to her mom that something was missing.
"I wish daddy was here," she said.
Daddy is Army Cpl. Chad Groepper, killed in Iraq in 2008 just months after his daughter's birth. Clarissa and mom Stephanie Groepper have been struggling to move forward without him ever since.
The family chose to reveal Clarissa's longing for a father she didn't know in a video diary they recently began publishing to YouTube in the hopes of letting others learn from their experiences.
Their pain eases with time, Stephanie said, but it doesn't go away.
"I wish he was here. I wonder what it would be like. I wonder how he would be as a father now," Groepper, 29, said in the Halloween video.
Her video diary, called "This Widow's Life," is the latest of several projects Groepper has launched to connect with people recovering from tragedies. She's an aspiring psychiatrist from Puyallup spreading a message that grieving people should not be pressured to move on from mourning too quickly.
In March, The News Tribune profiled her work with Washington Warrior Widows, an organization she founded to support family members of fallen military service members. It's a group that puts together social events for families and assists spouses if they hit bureaucratic obstacles from the military or the Department of Veterans Affairs.
That story, along with another piece aired by NPR, helped broaden her organization's reach by bringing more families to her group.
Since then, she's also increased her profile at Joint Base Lewis-McChord. She's a regular at the formal ceremonies that mark Army milestones or honor veterans, where her light hair and 5-foot-10 height help her stand out amid the uniforms.
Her presence is one of the ways she can build connections to collaborate with other groups serving military families, although she admits she often hangs in the background.
"I need to work through my shyness," she said. "I won't approach people. I'm not like 'Hi, I'm Stephanie.' I'm getting there."
That shyness contrasts with her openness online, where she tells her own story while inviting others to reach out to her.
Cpl. Chad Groepper was killed in Iraq's Diyala Province in February 2008
Many of her daily videos show her rushing from Clarissa's school to her own projects as a young, single mom. One is called "Chaos, but what's new?"
One of the most-watched segments shows her standing in front of a memorial at JBLM recalling the moment a chaplain and another soldier knocked on her parents' door in late February 2008. She chose to publish that memory after some of her viewers asked her about it.
"I knew. It's just like you see in movies, those two soldiers walking up to your door," she said in the video. "I remember opening the door, trying to slam it shut.
"This wasn't supposed to happen to me, this wasn't supposed to be my life. I tried to slam it shut but I just lost all strength and I fell to the floor.
"They didn't have to say anything," she said as she sobbed.
The couple met on a blind date while the soldier was preparing for a deployment with JBLM's 4th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division. They clicked instantly and married before his April 2007 departure.
Clarissa came soon afterwards. Cpl. Groepper met her on leave from his deployment.
He was killed on Feb. 17, 2008, in an attack that also took the life of Spc. Luke Runyan. Clarissa was 4 months old.
This wasn't supposed to happen to me, this wasn't supposed to be my life.
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After his death, Stephanie rushed into big decisions, such as pursuing a degree and buying a house. Her grief worsened in the second and third years, when she came to understand that her husband would not come home alive.
That's when she relaxed on some of her academic goals and took time to figure out what she really wanted to do.
This fall, she finished a bachelor's degree. She's taking a semester off before moving on to work on a master's degree.
One day, she may write a book.
"Thinking about the stuff I've been through, not only do people need to know about that, but if they've been through similar situations, I want them to know it does get better," she said.
"You don't notice it," she said. "And you look back and see you haven't cried in a week, and then it's a month. You realize you're getting stronger."
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So I was sticking together my Mark IV Lightbox 3000 when it dawned on me that I hadn't documented my photography process for when I want more snazzy looking glamour shots. Admittedly I've been a bit lazy with the photos as of late, so I figured this was a good time to get back in the game and put together a post about how I make better looking miniature photos.
I use my wife's cheapy digital camera; the Samsung E15 which retailed for 150 bucks back in 2009. It didn't get particularly good reviews but then it was just made for mucking about with and taking 'glamour mode' shots at parties so whatevs!
Now, all us model painting nerds have looked at forums where people have shown off their newest mini with pride, only to have it backlit, out of focus and held in their greasy bear like paws. Why go to all the effort of painting a nice model just to show it off like this?
|You may as well be holding a potato.
|Great, now it's a painted potato.
Part the first: assemble your box!For the light box itself I just took a cardboard box, cut off two of the sides and lined the left and right interior surfaces with white paper. I then got a larger piece of paper and bent it gently across the bottom and back surfaces without creasing it, so it makes a nice concave bend. This stops you seeing any crease or join lines behind the model in photos. EASY AS PIE, BUDDY.
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Next up we want some good light sources to shine onto your model. Ideally the lamps should have white 'daylight', not yellow bulbs, though even the cheapy digital camera I'm using has white balance mode which compensates for the yellowish light. BEHOLD THE TWIN ARMS OF LAMPY DOOM. I find that two light sources works best as they help prevent a shadow appearing behind the model and onto the white paper.
Some people have three, five or a hundred lamps, each one with another three tiny little lamps coming off the main one. Go nuts!
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Part the second: Shooting!Here's a photo I took on my phone just to show what the setup looks like when I'm ready to shoot. (It's not actually dark in the room, the overhead light's also on!) I have one lamp a bit more forward and shining onto the front of the model and the other one positioned so it's shining straight down.
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Your camera will likely have a 'macro' setting for shooting small things close up. Make sure this is turned on!
When it comes to other camera settings, the E15 is surprisingly versatile for its price and has white balance and a good range of exposure settings to choose from. I recommend messing around with your camera's settings to see how bright you can go before model starts going misty or the white background becomes too glaring. There's also a ton of basic digital camera tutorials available online.
Oh, and TURN YOUR FLASH OFF. NO FLASH FOR YOU. DO NOT USE THE FLASH.
Part the second point one: more words on lightingSometimes natural daylight is the best light source, and you can get great results by positioning your light box in front of a window that has lots of diffuse indirect (as in not direct sun-beams) light coming in. Below you can see three variations using the same model.
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I was happiest with the last photo; the first was okay but I found the muzzle flash on the model was getting too washed out wheras the second has better detail but the combination of lights and white balance filter made it way too red tinted.
The take home lesson here is experiment with different lights and camera modes!
Part the third: post production!I know my way around Photoshop, which is hugely useful for making your photos look just a bit more sexy after you've chosen which ones to put up online. Obviously you don't want to mess with the image too much, you're showing off your mad painting skillz after all. But you can very easily use the Levels or Curves functions in Photoshop to make the light or dark values just a bit deeper. If you check out the two Behemoth pics below, you can see how the first one looks just a little bit less exciting than the second, and literally all I did was a tiny adjustment to the image's light levels.
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The Millennium Mercedes is a one-of-a-kind vehicle developed and built for Jim Rogers and Paige Parker for a historic, three-year journey around the world, which began Jan. 1, 1999 and ended Jan. 5, 2002. This first true All Activity Vehicle combines the comfort and styling attributes of the Mercedes-Benz SLK 230 sports car with the sturdy durability of the legendary Mercedes-Benz G-Series wagon. It helped Paige and Jim set a Guinness World Record.
The couple's dream of traveling in a luxurious, sporty convertible that also provided the ultimate in safety and ruggedness was realized by California-based Gerhard Steinle and his team at Prisma Design International. Steinle is the former President of Mercedes-Benz Advanced Design of North America who founded his own design studio in 1997. Rogers developed the concept of merging a sports car body with the chassis and diesel engine of the G-series, four-wheel-drive, sport utility wagon, also known as Der Gelaendewagen.
The two cars needed for the operation, together with a second long-wheelbase G-wagon which joined the adventure as a support vehicle were donated by Mercedes-Benz of North America in a tribute to the unprecedented success of the Three-Pointed Star in the US market at the turn of the millennium.
It took three months to create an automobile worthy its "Millennium" nametag. The team not only had to link the mechanical components, but also deal with the much greater challenge of connecting the vastly different computer and electronic systems.
The "Millennium" is powered by the proven, reliable 177 hp 3-litre G-Series Turbodiesel six-cylinder engine and comes with a five-speed automatic transmission and a four-wheel-drive powertrain. For road clearance, the Sunburst Yellow body rides a full foot higher than the stock SLK. Specially designed full fender flaring and a step-up rocker system visually blend the hybrid's two characters giving it a unique identity. Prisma designed a matching trailer since extra storage capacity is needed for a trip like this. Metalcrafters manufactured the trailer.
Bridgestone supplied 265/60R-18 Dueler tires that come on original Mercedes G500 18X7.5 alloy wheels.
The integration of a brand new Iridium satellite communications system with the car phones provided by Motorola helped keep the couple in contact with the world. The Iridium system allows unlimited access to 66 satellites around the world at any time of day.
Alpine supplied a navigation system and its disks for nine countries in Europe.
Prisma designed a matching trailer for extra storage capacity. The special two-wheeled utility trailer echoes the lines of the original SLK and probably is probably the most charming accessory of this challenging undertaking.


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There was no bedtime book tonight, but it wasn't my fault, I swear! Blame Stillmog, he worked some crazy sorcery on Water Boy and put him under for the night.
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Sunday we dropped Water Boy off at his grandma's and went to the North Texas Irish Festival, again at Fair Park. It was Stillmog, my younger brother Archer, and myself. We met up with some of my old friends from college, which ended up being very draining. Most of them are still living the young, dumb, and single life, with way too much drama and energy. Just being around them made me exhausted.
The festival is always good. You walk around in costume like Stillmog with his Utilikilt or in green like my Flogging Molly t-shirt, or in modern grunge like my brother, aka a hooded sweatshirt and dirty jeans. You eat disgusting fried food, like the Onion Haystack I had with garlic sauce that made me want to hurl afterwards, or the Steak on a Stake, or funnel cake. You get to see totally awesome dogs like the Irish Wolfhound. NTIF is one of the most pro-dog events in North Texas, with canines even allowed into the exhibit halls and the dealers rows.
We got to see girls all dolled up in traditional garb doing Irish Dancing. And of course there were pipers. Stillmog bought a new wide leather belt for his kilt, as the one he's been wearing with it is about 3 years old and slowly disintegrating. We hope to get him a sporan at Scarborough Faire in April or May. I joked to my mom that eventually we'll turn him into a real Scotsman. I just love it!


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The late George Michael who recently passed away was the inspiration for James Corden's carpool karaoke. The first unofficial carpool karaoke took place on BBC's charity event Comic Relief, where James Corden and the charming George Michael did a comedy sketch. Due to the popularity of the sketch, carpool karaoke become a segment on The Late Late Show with James Corden and has since become popular worldwide.
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The internally flawless Archduke Joseph diamond, was sold for CHF20.355 million ($21.5 million) and thus broke the records at Christie's auction in Geneva on Tuesday night. Historic 76.02-carat stone, achieved a world auction record price per carat for a colorless diamond and a world record for a Golconda diamond.
The rare, colourless stone, roughly the size of large strawberry, which comes from India's ancient Golconda mines, once belonged to Archduke Joseph August of Austria (1872-1962), fetched more than double the price paid for it at auction almost two decades ago.
Francois Curiel, director of the international jewelry department at Christie's commented: "The market is not on the best form at the moment. The sale tonight was almost flabbergasting."
The precious stone was sold by California-based jeweller Black, Starr & Frost. The buyer wished to remain anonymous, but he will probably donate the diamond for display at a museum.
"It's a great price for a stone of this quality. It's one of a kind, so it's like saying 'Are you pleased when you sell the Mona Lisa?' Or 'Are you pleased when you sell the Hope Diamond?' It's all what the market will bear, and the stone sold for a very serious price," Alfredo J. Molina, chairman of Black, Starr & Frost said.


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After contacting them several times and not seeing any kind of positive response I believe Rainbow Revenue can be added to this list. Their $1 trial PPS program went from $35 to 50 cents with no warning whatsoever. I have ceased to promote them. They sold well for some unknown reason - infrequent updates on members areas and tours - but that means nothing when they pay out a measly 50 cents on each trial.
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In Sony's earnings report, CFO Nobuyuki Oneda noted that their costs are still 10 percent higher than the PS3's price—if he's talking about Japan's retail, that means they're losing 40 bucks per console.
Even Microsoft, who was originally losing $126 per 360, has making money on every Xbox sold for a while now. Poor Sony. Just think of everything you could buy with $40, like a day with Rachel Ray. [Adriansang via Joystiq Image: Flickr/Shagy6six6]


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During the 2008 presidential campaign, Joe "The Hyena" Biden said that Barack Obama had a spine of steel, and when tested by world events he would prove his mettle. Throughout the disasters of the "Arab Spring," Iranian nuclear program, Syrian civil war, Benghazi, South America, Russian dominance and expansion in Ukraine, on and on ad infinitum, Mr. Obama has illustrated a spaghetti spine that has made very economical use of any mettle. But the lack of courage, perspicacity, and foresight has not existed in Barack Obama because of any character flaw, but rather because of an ideology flaw.
The Leftism which has eaten away at the healthy body of the Democrat party, and most of the rectitude of American culture, is in symbiotic harmony with radical Islam. The goals of Western Leftism and those of radical Islam are frighteningly similar, to the point of making the two ideologies comrades in the fight against decency, honor, and the tenets of liberty.
The first, and most important goal that radical Islam shares with Western Leftism is a deliberate attempt to mitigate or even eliminate traditional Western values from the global stage. Both radical Islam and Western Leftism have attempted to use the destructive force of multiculturalism to blunt the sword of liberty, and create a cultural vacuum, that in many countries is being filled by the tyranny of radical Islam. Western countries are dying demographically, reproducing at a rate that is causing them to lose population. While Islamic populations within those countries have birth rates which are growing their numbers by leaps and bounds. And those Islamic populations are much younger than Western ones, and they are being radicalized with alarming alacrity. It does not take a demographic genius to see where this is headed.
The second goal shared by radical Islam and Western Leftism is the subservient role woman play in each ideology. Women in the Islamic world must obey the rules and laws set forth for their lives by men of the faith. So it is with Western Leftism, but instead of wearing the burqa and being kept from a career, Western Leftists cover their women in the garb of "sexual freedom" and discourage them from the traditional wife and mother role. In each ideology, radical Islam and Western Leftism, the women have little choice in the life they choose. Women who disobey are beaten privately in the Islamic world, and humiliated publicly in the Western Leftist one.
Finally, radical Islam and Western Leftism share a disrespect and even hatred for Jews and the state of Israel. Secretary of State John Kerry's remarks recently about Israel being an apartheid state unless they submitted to a two state solution with a people who have publicly called for their destruction, is all the proof one needs. The fact that a nation like Israel can hardly negotiate with people who a) do not recognize their existence as a sovereign state, and b) have their decimation written into their charter, shows a total cluelessness on the part of Western Leftists like Barack Obama and John Kerry.
The two-peas-of-the-same-pod nature of radical Islam and Western Leftism is only differentiated by the fact that the radical Islamists are deliberately using the clueless Western Leftist to actually destroy himself and his culture. A sort of conquest by getting your enemy to commit suicide. Unfortunately, I fear the Western Leftists are much too contemptuous and detached to realize they have taken part in their own demise, until it becomes much too late for all of us.


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By Huw Jones
LONDON, April 13 (Reuters) - The European Union will sign off on a slew of major reforms this week to allow failing banks to be wound down without public money, clearing its desk before elections in May that may lead to a slower pace of legislation.
This week is the final plenary session of the European Parliament before it breaks up ahead of the vote in May.
The welter of rules the bloc has approved since the worst financial crisis in a generation began unfolding from a corner of the U.S. housing market in 2007 is fundamentally reshaping the banking and securities industry.
The rule changes also strengthen the bloc's grip on capital markets at the expense of national governments to an extent few federalists would have dared to dream of, as policymakers want to avoid more taxpayer bailouts of banks and euro zone countries.
From November, the European Central Bank will directly supervise top lenders in the single currency area, adding to three new EU regulators for banks, insurers and markets launched in 2011 with binding powers over member states.
"There is no question that the regulatory tidal wave and centralisation have been triggered by the crisis," said Nicolas Veron, EU policy specialist at Brussels think tank Bruegel.
"After this week, I think a pause is unlikely but a deceleration would be good. There will be a lot of legislative activity, but I am not sure it will be as frantic as it was in the last five years," Veron said.
On Tuesday the European Parliament will approve two major reforms to make it easier and quicker to close failing banks so they don't collapse messily or require taxpayer money.
It will also rubber-stamp a sweeping reform of securities markets that will draw commodities under the regulatory net for the first time, and crack down on high frequency trading, a type of ultra fast computerised trading the FBI is probing.
It is the assembly's last plenary session before it goes into recess as lawmakers campaign ahead of elections in May.
The new parliament won't be fully up and running until September, and even then will focus on the appointment of a new European Commission, the bloc's executive body that helps set and steer the EU agenda.
It involves lengthy horse-trading among governments for top jobs like financial services commissioner, who has sole power to propose regulation, which incumbent Michel Barnier used fully to the dismay of Britain's City of London banking district.
The new commission takes up the reins in November, if all goes to plan - and last time it was several months late - meaning the tempo of rulemaking may slow down until early 2015.
Scrutiny of key legislation that failed to make it across the finishing line before the May elections will then resume, including some of the most controversial items Barnier proposed.
Reform of money market funds, a law to regulate benchmarks - after banks were fined for rigging Libor interest rates - and plans to change the structure of lenders to curb risks from trading are at the top of the in-tray.
After May, banking lobbies will assess which of the new range of lawmakers to target, as some polls predict gains for anti-Europe parties, while some well-known members will stand down.
Parliament has joint say with member states on financial rulemaking and has been more aggressive in pushing through stricter rules, such as the cap on bankers' bonuses.
"In some ways parliament will write the script for the regulatory framework," said Graham Bishop, a former banker who advises EU institutions on regulation.
Barnier has been able to use the crisis to justify going further than reform pledges agreed at the global level, such as on auditing, hedge funds, bank bonuses and credit rating agencies.
The focus of the new parliament and commission will be on boosting growth with several people already warning that giving banks too much of a hard time now that the crisis is largely over will crimp their ability to lend.
The pace of future reform hinges on three things: the appetite of Barnier's successor for change, what member states are willing to accept given all the rules already approved, and the desire of parliament to set the agenda.
Even if few new laws are proposed, those passed since the crisis are already stuffed with clauses requiring regular reviews, offering lawmakers an easy way to toughen them up.
"What's alarming is that a whole body of existing rules will come up for review twice in the next parliament," Bishop said.
In the meantime, the banking sector will keep an eye on whether Britain, which is challenging some EU rules in the bloc's top court, succeeds in the coming months in drawing a line under further centralisation, let alone in rowing back on measures already approved. (Editing by Hugh Lawson)


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Manila Nightlife
The nightlife in Manila is among the most vibrant and exciting in Southeast Asia, with the requisite dose of sleaze of course. You'll find bar strips, strip bars and everything in between on a night out in Manila. One thing is for sure: it will be a memorable experience!
Morato Avenue in Quezon City is a good place to start. Have dinner at one of the many restaurants before hitting a local bar or comedy club. The Hard Rock Café in the heart of the Malate district is always a good bet and with two levels, pool tables, and a stage, guarantees a really good night out. Head to the Pasay City and Makati region to visit upscale girlie bars, or for a really good variety of nightlife, the Malate district of Manila where everything from bars, nightclubs and discos to karaoke clubs, gay clubs and lounges can be found. Most bars in Manila close around 2am, but some will stay open later.
Looking for live music? Head to 70s Bistro in Quezon City, or the Hobbit House in Malate, which features live musicians performing in a very Tolkien-esque club. Or what could be more fun than partaking in a little karaoke? One of the favourite pastimes for Filipinos, there are numerous karaoke bars peppered throughout the city for travellers, tourists and just those passing through to enjoy a drink and a sing-along.
Eastwood City at Quezon City features a great selection of clubs, bars, cocktail lounges and discos to choose from, while Quezon Avenue's strip is brightly lit up after dark and all the bars and clubs are conveniently ordered in a neat little row, and seemingly always bustling with party goers, expats, tourists and ladies of the night. The Greenbelt region is another good place to head for a great choice of bars and clubs and revellers looking to dance the night away will have no problem finding a club to suit their taste. Remember, the legal drinking age in the Philippines is 18.
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Before a placement with a student in your home can be finalized, the following will need to occur as part of American Councils' placement process:
1. Submission and processing of the online Host Family Application, including your signed application and agreement to host, reference phone calls, background screening on all family members 18 or older, as well as photos of your home and family. In order to ensure that there are no delays with your application, we highly recommend completing the Background Screening before you submit the host family application.
2. In-home interview conducted by an American Councils representative, at which time additional photos may be taken or taken if not already received and on file with your application.
3. The securing of a place for your student at an accredited local high school and a signed School Enrollment Form (obtained by American Councils).


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POSTED BY Guest Author ON 12:42 pm, October 10, 2008 - POSTED IN News reel
This just doesn't happen. Teams just don't go from 96 losses one year to 97 wins the next. One of the worst defenses in baseball history doesn't become one of the five best in the league over one offseasons. Teams that were 200-1 to win the pennant before the year begins really aren't supposed to be playing in the ALCS seven months later.
But for one ridiculous summer, all of those things did happen. The Rays are four games away from the AL title, and, thanks to home-field advantage and outstanding run prevention, they've actually got a pretty good chance of winning the damn thing.
Still, let's not get ahead of ourselves. These are the Rays we're talking about here. And though they're much improved, they're still vulnerable. Here are three ways the Red Sox can win:
- Avoid the big hit. Despite having an above average OPS of .762, the Rays were last in the AL in BA with runners in scoring position. Performing worse in those situations than you do overall isn't thought to be sustainable; this, and the fact that everybody is finally healthy, means that Tampa's offense has the potential to be significantly better in the ALCS than they have been thus far this year. But if the Red Sox can find a way to keep the Rays from finding the clutch they'll be in good shape.
- Get to Kazmir early. The 24-year old lefty got off to a rocky start in his playoff debut, loading the bases with nobody out in Game 2 of the ALDS against Chicago. He ended up allowing two runs in that inning, and none the rest of the way. There's no doubt that Kazmir has the potential to be dominant; in his career, he's averaged over a strikeout per inning. But he's going to have to get off to a good start against an excellent Red Sox lineup, and get the ball over the plate so he can pitch as deep into the game as possible.
- Make the right choice in Game 4. Admittedly, I don't even know the answer to this one. But because of the absurd number of off days, each remaining team has the option of bringing their ace back on short rest in the fourth game, and then having him available on full rest in Game 7. If the Sox are down, Francona is going to have a tough decision on his hands; Dice-K is obviously better than Wakefield, the other option in that game, and he does have legendary stamina. Wakefield, on the other hand, gave up 7 runs, 0 runs, 6 runs and 4 runs in his last four starts of the season, and you just never know if that knuckler is going to be knuckling.
This post was written by Jacob Wheatley-Schaller, who writes the blog Vegas Watch and recently began contributing to Fan House. He's actually an Indians fan, but has been following the Rays this season for the best possible reason — he bet on them to win.


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Kinsella explains that the most evil state policies and institutions include war, taxation, state provided education, central banking, the drug war — and intellectual property, or IP, namely patent and copyright law. In the modern age, IP's importance, and the damage it causes, have increased. Patent originated in protectionism and mercantilism, while copyright originated in censorship. In this modern age of high tech, globalization and international trade, the economic cost of patent law and its detrimental effect on innovation has gotten many times worse. Copyright limits the freedom to learn and communicate and threatens to undermine freedom on the Internet, one of the most important tools to fight against the state.
Stephan Kinsella, J.D. LL.M., Author and IP Attorney, a practicing patent attorney, argues that IP is in a sense the most insidious of the major state institutions. War, taxation, the drug war, and other state laws and institutions are obviously illiberal and rights violations. However, patent and copyright law fly under the banner of intellectual "property" rights, confusing even many anti-state libertarians, who normally support property rights. Kinsella argues that IP rights are based on a fallacious understanding of rights—namely, confusions in Locke's 'labor theory of property'—and that this error pervades and corrupts much modern thinking about the role of law and property rights and the state. The damage caused and the threat posed by IP is greater than most people realize; it is growing; and the intellectual error behind it must be exposed.
"First of all the state is illegitimate" "Second of all legislation is not the right way to make law…" "Third of all patent and copyright are total creatures of legislation…"
"The patent and copyright legal system must be eliminated immediately. Not gradually over a period of time … ….but tomorrow. Patents and copyrights infringe on freedom… …they infringe liberty. Copyright is censorship. Patents are protectionism." – Stephan Kinsella#CopyingISNotTheft


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LITERATURE» Full Dark, No Stars - Stephen King's new novella questions mankind's ability to trust others.
[02.21.2011 by Bridget Doyle]
MUSIC» The Top 30 Albums of 2010 - Fashionably, fabulously late, our favorite music (and believe me, there was a LOT) of 2010, the year that some have called the best year for music ever. And only some of those fools work here. Plenty of usual suspects, lots of ties and a few surprises that I won't spoil, including our unexpected #1.
[12.24.2010 by The LAS Staff]
MUSIC» Live: Surfer Blood/The Drums at Lincoln Hall, Chicago, IL - Remember when Weezer used to put together records that you could sing along to and rock out to? That's what Surfer Blood's show was like!
[11.04.2010 by Cory Tendering]
Music Reviews
»Screaming Females
Castle Talk
Don Giovanni
»Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross
The Social Network [Original Soundtrack]
The Null Corporation
Halcyon Digest
»No Age
Everything in Between
Sub Pop
Body Talk Pt. 1/ Body Talk Pt. 2
»The Walkmen
Fat Possum
May 22, 2003"Every time I go to record, I really want to get way more wild and I also want to write the best pop song ever written," Matt Mehlan, the 22-year old music technology student behind Skeletons, told me last month.
In comparison to what Matt says about Skeletons' first album, Everybody Dance with Your Steering Wheel (he sold CDR's of it on tour in 2002), Skeletons' second release, Life and the Afterbirth, was definitely more wild, and more awesome; what Mehlan considered "indie"-sounding on Everybody Dance with Your Steering Wheel is a more original blend of experimental electronic and pop music on Life and the Afterbirth; what were songs without bass-ends on Everybody Dance with Your Steering Wheel are beautifully layered examples of atmospheric depth on Life and the Afterbirth.
And to continue with the pattern, now I'm At the Top of the World supercedes its predecessors in terms of escalating wildness and pop genius, an intermediate step towards the avant-pop of Git (more on that in a bit). In the interim, I'm At the Top of the World displays a much fuller ("I put two bass tracks on every song on that one," Matt told me, "but that's totally a tech thing and I don't want to talk about that") sound, and its surely more "out there," as Mehlan puts it. Recorded in a week and a half, the album documents the next stage in Skeletons' evolution. According to Mehlan, because I'm At the Top of the World was recorded in such a short period of time, "it effects how a person is going to listen to it, but," he added, "because is that way, I think I did certain things more to my liking on that, and because I did it differently, different things came out."
The latest installment in Mehlan's saga as Skeletons features incredible juxtaposition of pop and noise elements, even more so than Life and the Afterbirth. The most glaringly noise track on the album runs for about twenty minutes; without a good listen, the song can be taken for almost a half an hour of static. "A lot of my friends," Matt says, "are like, why did you put that on there when the rest of the songs are three minute pop songs with a verse and a chorus and a bridge?, but I think that I'll always play both on the same album. That track in particular, if you just listen to two minutes of it, it would get the point across, or at least it would have an effect on how you view the rest of the album. Obviously it's not just static for 20 minutes, I mean that's what you get out of it if you listen to the whole thing - it's not just bullshit, I mean I don't think it's bullshit - I feel good about that track."
And even though I'm At the Top of the World itself is yet to be released, Mehlan is recording another album, the aforementioned Git, right now, for a future release, under the moniker Skeletons and the Girl-Faced Boys, with the fledgling electronic label Ghostly International. "The stuff I'm working on now," he explained, "is still trying to put [pop and noise] together in a way that makes sense. I try to put it all in the same song and I think I'll get better and better at that." That's not to say that every Skeletons song is an experiment in the merging of noise and pop, elements, though. There are still times, Mehlan says, where he simply tries "to record a pop song that's pristine." As he put it, "you make the music that you want to hear, at least hopefully." Because of the sheer beauty of his recordings (pristine and dissonant elements alike), though, I'm pretty sure that Matt Mehlan isn't the only one that wants to hear Skeletons' music. SEE ALSO: www.skeletons.tv
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Published tests are developed by authors who have a superior understanding of a subject and of measurement. The author's goal in developing a commercially published test is often to provide other professionals with a means of assessing some characteristic of other people.
Commercially published tests provide three great benefits....
Tests can be used in research or in individual assessment. Individual assessment is a process of human interaction. During the process, one individual tries to form an understanding (opinion or belief) about the person being assessed. In some cases, it is possible to provide questionnaires or present tasks which collect a meaningful sample of behavior which may assist the assessor in forming his/her professional opinion. Standardized tests may be used to attempt to measure the person's skills and abilities, prevalence of target behaviors, his/her reported feelings and beliefs, etc.
Tests which measure skills and abilities may variously called aptitude tests, achievement tests, diagnostic tests, IQ tests, tests of maximum performance, etc. These may be classed as within the "hard" area of measurement. All this means is that an examinee cannot adopt a responding strategy on these tests so as to "fake good" and cause a higher score on the tests than honest effort would obtain. However, it is still possible to "fake bad" or simply to put forth less than maximum effort and get a lower score than honest effort would produce.
Tests which ask questions about an individual's past behaviors, beliefs or feelings are classed as operating in the "soft" area of measurement. These inventories may be referred to as personality tests, interest inventories, honesty and reliability tests, etc. These tests do not have a single "right" answer in the same way that one may give a correct response on a math test. Usually, items are self-reports of thoughts, beliefs and feelings, or past behavior.
For soft area tests, there are no right or wrong responses -- only honest and dishonest ones. Herein lies a problem. It is possible for examinees to design their responses in order to present themselves in a favorable light to an assessor (called faking good), or to present themselves in an unfavorable light (called faking bad). Sometimes people may even be uncooperative and respond randomly. Psychometricians of today seldom use the terms fake-good or fake-bad, prefering instead to refer to impression-management (IM).
It is also possible for examinees to respond differently from one day to another (depending on changes in feelings, beliefs, or due to the influence of some outside factor). Their answers may still be honest even if they are quite different from a previous occasion.
From the foregoing, one might deduce that an examiner must interpret the scores of soft-area tests. Often the examiner must assess the client's responding strategy before (s)he even begins to interpret what a soft area test suggests about an examinee. Many such tests include "lie" scales (or negative-IM scales) which attempt to identify examinees whose responding strategy is grossly dishonest. However, even the best of these scales cannot control very well for some individuals' natural tendency toward "openness" and "frankness" and the tendency of others to be more circumspect.
Soft area tests may be very useful. For example counsellors who have the cooperation of their clients often rely on results of soft-area tests. Vocational couselling is facilitated to a great extent by a group of such tests called interest inventories.
The great danger with all soft area tests is that beginners (or those from other disciplines -- i.e. lawyers) often want to read more into a test result than is there.
How much reliance can be placed on soft-area tests as a source of measurement data when conducting assessments? Most well designed and researched soft-area scales comprised of 15 or more unique items, and have been researched to show that scores may be used to rank an individual as Low, Normal, or High in terms of a some target characteristic. Attempting to read much more than this into a test score is seldom supportable. While the experienced professional knows that the difference of a couple of score points either way should signify nothing on soft area tests -- the problem exists that at some specific point it is considered necessary to begin calling a score high, or low. This fact often frustrates computer analysis of test scores, because computers require an algorithm that includes some specifics about when a score is to be considered high.
If you require the type of information that is provided by standardized tests, a good solution may be to retain the services of an experienced professional who can help you design your assessment program. Best-practices in the use and interpretation of test-scores have been well-studied, and are the subject matter of advanced-level courses in Education, Psychology, and Business.
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Pornstar Profile: Mandy Muse
Birthday: September 18, 1994 (25 y.o.)
Place of Birth: San Diego, California, USA
Home: United States, CA - California
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Nationality: American
Career: Active
Career Start/End: 2014 - Present (5 years in business)
Aka: Unknown
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Physical Information:
Measurements: 32A-''-''
Weight: 55 kg (122 lbs)
Height: 161 cm (5 ft 4 in)
Eye Color: Brown
Hair Color: Black
Tattoos: Left hip
Piercings: Piercing
Fake Tits? No
It's all about anal with this bodacious babe. Unlike other girls, Mandy Muse was never hesitant to go the road of the second hole, jumping right in to make the most out of every ass pounding moment. With a round and juicy bum that jiggles for days after it's spanked, Mandy has capitalized on the bountiful gifts Mother Nature gave her. Try not to get too caught up in that bouncing cushiony booty (we know it's tough), and take a look at her fresh face. You'll melt at the sight of her soft lips as they wrap around a big dick, taking it deep down her slender neck. A former cheerleader with a sweet girl-next-door face, Mandy defies all expectations with her penchant for the hard core, rough and tumble fucking, preferring high powered penetration over the touchy feely. A favorite on s-p-a-s.ru for her enthusiasm, this luscious lady's motto is "go hard or go home," and believe us, once you see her you'll never be soft again.
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Land to Sea Painting offers expert interior painting services for both residential and commercial spaces. Owner and crew leader Billy Platz will consult with you on your painting needs for all your rooms, including trim and windows. Billy will give you an estimate before he starts a job and give you a realistic time-frame on when he can start and will likely finish the job.
Hiring a professional painter for your interior painting jobs can save you valuable time and money. Billy and his crew will work hard to get your job done quickly and efficiently, leaving you extremely satisfied with the expert workmanship and attention to detail.
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Land to Sea Painting specializes in both home and commercial interior painting jobs. Billy has experience in large and small homes, office space, restaurants, bars, retail stores, and more. You pick the colors and leave it to Land to Sea Painting to do the rest.
Billy and his crew are trustworthy, upstanding citizens who you can feel comfortable with in your home, office, or restaurant – whether you are there during the painting or not. Trust Land to Sea Painting with your home, office, gallery, or retail space for interior painting services. You will be happy with the results – and with the time you saved yourself from spackling, caulking, priming, and painting!


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We can seat up to 180 of your guests in the banqueting room and up to 60 guests in the main Castle
Floor to ceiling French doors ,let in the sunlight and open up to the Banqueting terrace overlooking the lush, flower filled walled garden and the rolling hills of the Lovely Laois countryside. Make a statement at your wedding by treating your friends and family to a once in a lifetime celebration with a menu designed especially for you.
Our head chef Graham and his dedicated team in the kitchen, together with our Banqueting front of house Team will do all they can to ensure your wedding banquet will be a fantastic experience. Many of the ingredients on our menu are supplied by the Castle's own organic kitchen garden.
Your Wedding Breakfast is made up of a starter, a soup and sorbet, a choice of two main courses, followed by dessert, tea and coffee.
Sample menu choices
Starters & Soups
Chicken Liver Terrine
Apricot Chutney & Savoury Crackers
Shredded Smoked Chicken
Bean Sprout Salad & Mildly Spiced Peanut Sauce
Smoked Chicken Caesar Salad
Cos Lettuce, Croutons & Smoked Chicken, with Castle Durrow Caesar Dressing
Venison Terrine
Mixed Leaves & Port Dressing
Chilled Smoked Salmon
Caper Berries & Lime Dressing
Traditional Style Gravalax
Chilled Tomato, Mozzarella & Basil Salad
Mixed Leaves
Parma Ham with Rocket Tapenade
Mixed Leaves & Parmesan Shavings
Warm Caramelised Onion Tart
Herbs & Salad Leaves
Warm Goats Cheese & Herb Crostini
Semi Sun Dried Tomatoes & Mixed Leaves
Terrine of Duck Foie Gras
Fig Chutney and Mixed Leaves
Fresh Green Asparagus Salad
Parmesan Shavings, Truffle Oil & a White Balsamic Vinaigrette
Snow Pea with a Hint of Chilli
A veloute of Snow Peas scented with Chilli
Tomato & Roast Pepper Soup
our own Basil Pesto finishes this off
Sweet Potato Soup
with Coconut Cream, Cardamom & Corriander
White Bean Soup
With Chilli Oil & Chorizo
Curried Carrot & Coconut Soup
finished with Lime Cream
Celeriac Soup
with Wild Rocket Pesto
Butternut Squash Soup
with Sage, Thyme & Pumpkin Seeds
Parsnip & Pear Soup
with Cream and Caramelized Pecan Nuts
Pink Grapefruit
Castle Durrow Cucumber and Green Peppers
Char grilled Chicken Breast
with Lime, Chili & Corriander Cream
Roast Corn-fed Chicken Breast
Lemon, Thyme & Roast Garlic Jus
Confit Leg of Barbary Duck
with Wild Mushroom & Tarragon Sauce
Roast Rack of Lamb
with Herb Crust & Rosemary Jus
(€3 per person Supplement)
Loin of Irish Pork
with Grain Mustard & Parsley Sauce
Club Cut Roast Sirloin of Beef, 8oz
with a Shallot & Pepper Cream
Roast Beef Fillet
Shallot & Pepper Cream or a Red Wine Jus. 6oz
(€3 per person Supplement)
Baked Seabass Fillet
with a Prawn & Fennel Butter
Wild Seatrout
with Almond Herb & Lemon Butter
Poached Salmon Fillet
with Garden Herb & White Wine Cream
Spinach & Ricotta Tortellini
with Basil Pesto & Toasted Pine Nuts
Ravioli with Walnut and Gorgonzola
with Purple Sage Cream Sauce
Baked Ratatouille & Goats Cheese Tart
with Tomato Sauce
Vegetable Spring Rolls
with Chilli Soy Sauce
Meringue Nest
with Cream and Strawberries
(June, July and August only)
Dark Chocolate Mousse
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Caramelised Orange Panacotta
with Citrus Mascarpone
Delicious Light Mousse with Espresso Coffee-soaked Boudoir Biscuits
Apple Bakewell Tart
Caramelized Apple Tart with Madagascar Vanilla Ice Cream
Bread and Butter Pudding
with Chocolate Buttons & Vanilla Custard
Warm Rhubarb and Blackberry Crumble
served with Vanilla Ice-Cream
Castle Durrow Dessert Plate
Meringue Nest with Seasonal Fruit
Farmhouse Ice Cream in Tuile Basket
Chocolate Mousse in Chocolate Shell
Chocolate Mousse in Chocolate Shell
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English Chamber Orchestra
- Mozart
- Serenade in G major (Eine kleine Nachtmusik)
- Mozart
- Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major, K. 488
- Beethoven
- Romance in F for violin and orchestra
- Dvořák
- Serenade for string orchestra
- Mami Shikimori
- piano
- Stephanie Gonley
- violin/director
The renowned English Chamber Orchestra, the most recorded chamber orchestra in the world, under the direction of its concertmaster Stephanie Gonley, is joined for this concert by the acclaimed young Japanese pianist Mami Shikimori in Mozart's wonderful Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major, complemented by a programme of other masterpieces by Mozart, Beethoven and Dvořák.
Supported by Fukuju and The Yomiuri Shimbun.


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When I was a teenager I thought I had it tough, and in many ways I did, but today's world is entirely different from the world I was brought up in. The youth of today are faced with so many challenges and they deal with tough choices in every aspect of their lives. The world throws thousands of things at them at once and most have to fight to keep their focus. Some youth rise to the challenges while others stumble along this path we call life.
Despite the trials our youth face, there is strength in them. I can see it. It's so important to do all we can to help them to succeed in overcoming the opposition they must confront on a daily basis. That's why I'm so grateful for all the good that is still in the world, and I'm grateful for all the people who strive to make it a better world for them.
J. Scott Savage is one of those special people.
There is nothing so wonderful as a good book and there are a lot of them. However, Scott's new YA fantasy Farworld is one of the most enjoyable fantasy novels I've read in a long time. I love fantasy, but I absolutely adore a fantasy with a uplifting message. Farworld has that and more.
Other people may see thirteen-year-old Marcus Kanenas as an outcast and a nobody, but he sees himself as a survivor and a dreamer. In fact, his favorite dream is of a world far away, a world where magic is as common as air, where animals tell jokes and trees beg people to pick their fruit. He even has a name for this place-Farworld.
When Marcus magically travels to Farworld, he meets Kyja, a girl without magic in a world where spells, charms, and potions are everywhere, and Master Therapass, a master wizard who has kept a secret hidden for thirteen years, a secret that could change the fate of two worlds.
But the Dark Circle has learned of Master Therapass's secret and their evil influence and power are growing. Farworld's only hope is for Marcus and Kyja to find the mythical Elementals-water, land, air, and fire-and convince them to open a drift between the worlds.
As Kyja and Marcus travel to Water Keep, they must face the worst evil the Dark Circle can throw at them-Summoners, who can command the living and the dead. Unmakers, invisible creatures that can destroy both body and soul; and dark images known as Thrathkin S'Bae.
Along the way, Marcus and Kyja will discover the truth about their own heritage, the strength of their friendship, and the depths of their unique powers.
This was a book that I couldn't put down and I took with me everywhere. It's a story that both young and old will enjoy. It is a story of courage in the face of evil and belief in one's self, and it will leave you anticipating the next book in the series.
Farworld, Water Keep is published by Shadow Mountain and will be in stores on August 8th.
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Does a Newly-Approved Project Violate Philly's New Waterfront Master Plan?
If, as Inga Saffron claims, "The 180-unit project, designed by BLT Architects, was seen as a test of the Nutter administration's commitment to the waterfront master plan," than surely the administration has failed. With a low-budget facade and inadequate space for ground-floor retail, the building falls short of "the basic goals" of the waterfront master plan, passed in March after nearly a decade of hard work, including the involvement of hundreds of city residents.
Astonishingly, "The project's weaknesses were acknowledged even by the lawyer representing the building's developer. 'I don't think anyone expects this to be a triumph for the waterfront,' Carl Primavera said before arguing that the design was the best developer Louis Cicalese could afford in the current economic climate."
"'What's most upsetting about this decision is that it sets the bar so low,' said Richard Thom, who handles zoning issues for the Old City Civic Association. 'Everything else will be made of Dryvit,' he added, using the brand name for a low-cost stucco finish."


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#WrapUpFebruary: A month that was riding High on Controversies and Low on Creative Content!
The entertainment industry received quite a jolt after learning about the sad and untimely demise of actress Sridevi on 24th February.
Meanwhile, in the television industry, actress Jaya Bhattacharya too lost her mother to prolonged illness.
Here's extending our deepest condolences to the families of the dearly departed.
And here's all that happened in February.
Sahil Uppal entered Jeet Gayi Toh Piya More as the third wheel in Devi and Adhiraj's budding romance; Dheeraj Gumber entered Shakti... Astitva Ke Ehsaas Kii as the new man in Surbhi's life; actors Kiran Kumar, Tushar Chawla and Rak**** Pant entered Sony TV's Prithvi Vallabh as the antagonists; Tanya Sharma entered Woh Apna Sa as the snooty New York return model, Kushal Punjabi entered Sajan Re Phir Jhooth Mat Bolo, Shivangi Verma and Khushboo Thakkar entered Bhootu, Amit Singh Thakur, Rati Agnihotri and Rishina Kandhari entered Tu Sooraj Main Saanjh Piyaji; Payal Bhojwani, Bhavesh Balchandani and Zaan Khan entered Naamkarann to provide the much-needed twist to the show's 10-year leap, Garima Parihar entered Rishta Likhenge Hum Naya as Yash's fiance, Sampada Vaze entered Karamphaldata Shani and so did Nirbhay Wadhwa who reprised his Hanuman role, Resham Tipnis and Neha Pendse entered Partners, Rohit Chandel will soon enter Yeh Un Dino Ki Baat Hai, Payal Nair will enter Ek Deewaana Tha, and FINALLY Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah hashmah roped in actors Uditanshu Mehta and Nandini Vashishth as Pinku's parents in the show.
Sarhaan Singh re-entered Zee TV's Kumkum Bhagya and Sana Amin Sheikh re-entered Naamkarann.
Kapil Nirmal Zee TV's Bhootu, Paridhi Sharma is all set to make a comeback on Star Bharath's next which is based on Maa Vaishnodevi, Aroona Irani will be seen making her comeback with Porus.
Sayantani Ghosh made a sudden exit from Naamkarann.
Poonam Preet and Sanjay Gagnani got engaged on 18th February.
Gautam Rode and Pankhury Awasthy secretly tied the knot on the 4th of this month; Gaurav Chopra tied the knot with his non-industry girlfriend Hitisha Cheranda on February 19th; Shoaib Ibrahim and Dipika Kakar tied the knot after months of speculation on 22nd February.
Jaswir Kaur and hubby Vishal Madlani are expecting their first child together.
MTV Roadies host Nikhil Chinapa and wife Pearl welcomed their first baby, a daughter this month.
The entire Discovery JEET line-up went live this month and so did Har Shaakh Par Ulluh Baitha Hai on Star Plus and Saath Pheron Ki Hera Pheri on SAB TV.
Haasil went off-air on the 23rd of this month, Dil Sambhal Jaa Zara bid goodbye to the audience on 2nd February and Rishton Ka Chakravyuh went off-air on 23rd February.
Singer Papon found himself in the midst of muck, when a live video of him kissing one of the contestants of The Voice India Kids, went viral. This led to multiple cases being filed against the singer, even though both Papon and the girl's family stated that it (the kiss) was not intentional.
Actor Sumeet Raghavan and wife Chinmayee Surve found themselves at the receiving end of disgust, when a driver who was sitting in a car flashed Chinmayee in broad daylight. Not being the ones to back down, Sumeet and Chinmayee made sure that the culprit was nabbed and also spread the message to many others.
The makers of Zee TV's Aisi Deewangi... Dekhi Nahin Kahi took action against their actors Pranav Misshra and Jyoti Sharma on the grounds of defaming the makers.
MTV BCL made it to the news lately for actor Vishal Kotian's ***ist comment on how since the girls are not playing well in the tournament, maybe they should come in bikinis, so that people will have something to watch'. Well, will this become a controversy soon enough?
NEWSWORTHY eh?!
There are rumours that Star Plus is planning a high-end revamp wherein multiple of their current shows will be going off-air and fresh ones will be introduced.
Ekta Kapoor also announced not one but two high profile shows - Kasautii Zindagii Kay 2 and Yeh Hai Chahatein. While Ekta has come up with a second season of her hit show that ran for 9 years, Yeh Hai Chahtein will be a spin-off of Ekta's TRP churning show on Star Plus, Yeh Hai Mohabbatein.
In an shocking turn of events, India's Got Talent Season 8 has been cancelled due to lack of funds and budget issues.
In a recent interview, Shakti Arora finally cleared the air that himself and Neha Saxena are very much together, but he also confessed that he is not yet ready for marriage.
While Bigg Boss Season 11 on Colors' was nothing short of a TRP generator for the channel, what made the season and its contestants more famous was how actor Amitabh Bachchan ended up following finalists Shilpa Shinde and Hina Khan.
Nothing as such materialised on the television space this month apart from controversies. All in all, February had nothing exciting to offer to us.
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Bebo--the subject of recent takeover speculation by Yahoo--rose 6% from March, to 8.3 million unique users. Bebo had more than twice as many users as Facebook (3.7 million), but the gap is closing quickly, as Facebook showed the most growth of any U.K. site--up 38% for the second straight month, and with an aggregate 90% rise over the two-month period.
Photobucket was also one of the top 10 gainers--up 5%--and Alloy, driven by photo-sharing site rockyou.com, rose 4%.
In the ranking of top British online properties, Google continues to be even more popular in the U.K. than in the U.S., with Google Sites repeating as the top online property in unique users.
In the U.S, previously released April comScore Media Metrix ratings found Yahoo Sites once again to be the top destination, with Google moving up one spot to third place.
Yahoo was the fourth top property in the U.K., with Microsoft Sites and eBay coming in second and third. Microsoft placed fourth in the U.S., with Time Warner Network at #2. eBay was #6 in the U.S., and Time Warner #6 in the U.K. The same properties made up all of the top 10 positions in both countries, except for New York Times Digital in the U.S. (#10) and BBC Sites in the U.K. (#5).
Moving up to #11 in the U.K. was Lycos Europe Sites, which saw a 206% increase, due to the additions of About.com and IMDB.com to its site portfolio. In the U.S., Lycos Sites placed at #23.


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Moments after the announcement of the Dragon Quest Heroes PC release, Square Enix announced that Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII, the epic conclusion to the compelling and acclaimed Final Fantasy XIII trilogy, will arrive on PC on December 10, 2015.
In Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII for PC, players will embark on their final adventure in the Final Fantasy XIII series, which gives them the ability to have direct control over iconic heroine, Lightning. In a constantly moving expansive environment, players must journey on a quest to save a doomed world from complete destruction – and in thirteen days, nothing will remain.
The PC release will also include all the amazing DLC content from the original console version, including Japanese voice-overs and various costumes, shields and weapons.


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Ezekiel Bread; a meal in itself. I've posted this recipe a few times prior, but not in quite a while. It is my favorite bread (to eat and to make) and in fact is still the #1 reason people visit this blog. More than 500 people find their way to my little page each day for this simple but delicious recipe. As I've also mentioned before, while this recipe looks somewhat difficult to make, it is really not (read the directions in steps). One of the biggest difficulties people seem to have is that the dough is too wet (likely from not squeezing out the beans and grain enough). This is not a problem, simply add additional flour. This bread is not only delicious, but also nutritious. If you are a baker, or someone who wants to bake, I hope you try this recipe...you won't be sorry. There are additional links below.
2 tablespoons white beans
2 tablespoons red beans
2 tablespoons lentils
2 tablespoons barley
2 tablespoons millet
2 tablespoons bulgur wheat
cooked beans and grains
2 cups whole wheat flour
2 teaspoons instant yeast
4 cups whole wheat flour
1/4 cup honey
1/4 cup olive oil
3 teaspoons kosher
3 teaspoons instant yeast
Boil the grains in the water in logical succession according to cooking times: first the white and red beans (about 60 minutes), when they are soft add the, spelt berries, lentils, and barley (about 30 minutes); lastly, add the millet and bulgar (about 10 minutes). The key is that after each addition the previous grain must be soft enough so that when all of the grains are in the pot they will all be equally soft; undercooked grains (especially the beans) can really ruin this bread. And as the grains cook add more water to the pot as necessary because the cooking liquid, which is full of nutrients, will become part of the recipe (keeping a lid on the pot will slow it's evaporation). After the grains are cooked allow them to cool in the liquid to room temperature, refrigerating if necessary. After the grains are cooled drain them, squeezing them with your hands or the back of a spoon, reserving the cooking liquid.
After an hour or so, combine the ingredients from both bowls into the bowl of an upright mixer fitted with a dough hook. Add the honey, olive oil, salt, and 3 teaspoons of yeast (add the yeast and salt on opposite sides of the bowl. Knead the dough on medium speed for about 8 minutes. Place the dough in a lightly oiled container, cover it loosely, and allow to ferment for 1-2 hours, or until doubled in bulk. Deflate the dough and allow it to ferment an additional 30 minutes.
Turn the dough out onto a floured work surface and cut it into 2 or 3 pieces. Shape into loaves and place into lightly oiled pans. Loosely cover the loaves with plastic wrap and allow to ferment for 30-60 minutes, or until double in size and when gently touched with a fingertip an indentation remains.
Bake the breads for about 30-40 minutes, adding steam to the oven a few times (either with ice cubes or a spray bottle) and rotating the breads every ten minutes. The breads are done when they are dark brown and sound hollow when tapped upon. Remove the breads from their pans and allow them to cook on a wire rack for at least 10 minutes before slicing.
For additional directions and photos on how to make this bread, click here.
The read my views and philosophy on this bread, click here.
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Talk about making a rainbow connection: This is San Antonio International Airport's latest art installation.
The work, entitled Plexus c18, and was created by Mexico City native and Dallas resident Gabriel Dawe. The large-scale weaving combines over 90 miles of thread into a gradient of prismatic color that emulates the dynamic shape of an airplane.
The art was installed last month, and will be on display in the terminal for three years. "What's wonderful about this project is the fact that it will be seen by thousands of travelers, and my hope is that Plexus c18 will bring them some joy in their journey," says Dawe.


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I started shooting with a local Cowboy Action Shooting club several months ago. This can be an expensive proposition when you consider the expense of the necessary firearms. I also shoot with a USPSA club and own many modern pistols and long arms, but acquiring the cowboy firearms could be a financial challenge. Cowboy shooters must have a SASS-legal and (more or less) period-correct shotgun, pistol caliber carbine and two revolvers. The deciding factor for me in joining the club was that I already owned two single-action revolvers, so acquiring only the shotgun and carbine was less of a financial burden. Sure, I could've maxed out the CCs, but that's just not my way.
Most of the really good shooters in the club - and nationally from what I understand - shoot .357 rifles and pistols and feed them .38 Special "mouse fart" loads. My problem was that my two single-action revolvers were .44 Magnums that I'd previously used for wild pig hunting. These are not optimum for CAS because of their recoil. Cowboy rules require lead-only bullets at modest velocities. I could load these easily enough in my .44s, but even at low(er) velocities, the standard .44 240 grain bullet still has appreciable recoil. I'm not especially recoil-shy, but speed and accuracy is the name of the game in CAS, so reducing recoil as much as possible is key to success. This is why so many of the good shooters load light 120 to 130 grain lead bullets in .38 Spl. brass for their .357s. I didn't have any really light .44 bullets on my loading bench and my experiments with lighter powder charges under my various 200+ grain bullets were improvements, but not match-winning combinations.
After a lot of research and experimentation, I came up with a recipe that resulted in extremely light recoil and great accuracy at seven yards (a typical cowboy steel target range). One problem is that the .44 Magnum case has a lot of volume and using light powder charges under a light projectile tends to result in inconsistent performance and poor case sealing. My solution here was to use the stubby little .44 Russian case. The lightest .44 projectile I could find turned out to be the humble and ancient round ball. I ordered a two-cavity Lee 120 grain, .433 round ball mold and a hundred Starline .44 Russian cases.
Here's the recipe that's worked best for me thus far:
Bullet: 120 gr. Lee round ball
Case: Starline .44 Russian
Primer: Winchester Large PIstol
Powder: 5.5 grains of Trail Boss
This gives great accuracy out of my Ruger Super Blackhawk and shoots very close to the sights regulated for magnum loads. I've gotten one ragged hole on the paper, offhand, at seven yards. It shoots about 3/4" low at this distance, compared to a full house 240 grain magnum load. This isn't enough to quibble about, especially considering that the CAS steel targets are 16 inches square!
If some of you guys (and gals) would like to try your hand at Cowboy Action Shooting with your .44 Mag revolvers, the above recipe should be a good starting point.
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Polish parliamentarians have voted to ban trading on Roman Catholic feast days after complaints that foreign supermarkets, such as British-owned Tesco, are ignoring the religious needs of workers - writes Jonathan Luxmoore for ENI.
"The forcing of work, especially from women who fulfil a key family role, is negatively evaluated by most of society, while the payments offered for working on feast days aren't satisfactory," Stanislaw Szwed, a member of Poland's governing Law and Justice Party, which sponsored the bill, told members of parliament during a 6 July 2007 debate.
Under the new law, trading is to be banned on 12 days each year, including Easter, Pentecost, Corpus Christi, the feast of the Assumption, and All Saints Day, as well as at Christmas, and on New Year's Day and Poland's national Constitution and Independence days. The law will not apply to restaurants, hotels and petrol stations, or to small shops with single owners.
The decision follows complaints about low pay and excessive hours among Tesco's 25 000 Polish employees, some of whom have also objected to being denied Sundays off.
A British-based spokesperson for the company, Monika Kosinska, told Ecumenical News International that all Tesco employees had the right to choose their working hours.
"We treat people fairly and offer them attractive benefits and development opportunities," Kosinska said. "Each employee's working schedule is tailored to the individual, and where there are specific requests we respect them, such as not working night shifts or on certain days," she added.
With six million customers weekly, Tesco operates 280 supermarkets in Poland and plans to open a further 50 stores in the country. Among recent advertisements, the company reductions for items, such as televisions, bicycles and MP3 players, "most often bought as presents" for children receiving their first communion.
[With grateful acknowledgements to ENI. Ecumenical News International is jointly sponsored by the World Council of Churches, the Lutheran World Federation, the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, and the Conference of European Churches]


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