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September 15, 2006
MR. HANLON: Thanks very much. Good morning. Welcome to the Annual Meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Thank you very much for joining us this morning. President Wolfowitz will begin with brief opening remarks, and then he will take your questions. Please identify yourselves and the name of your organization. Our time is brief, so let's get started.
President Wolfowitz?
MR. WOLFOWITZ: Thanks.
I'd like to just start with three main points, and first of all a reminder to everybody of why we are here, and it may take a little reminding, because when you live in the comfort of a five-start hotel, it isn't always easy to remember that around the world, there are a billion people trying to survive on a dollar a day, going to bed hungry at night, often without adequate shelter and with inadequate medical care.
Our purpose in the World Bank is to try to do as much as we possibly can to deliver assistance to those people, and to the governments of those countries, to help those people have a chance to escape from poverty.
In one respect, being here is symbolically important, because the success that we see around us in Singapore and more broadly in East Asia is a reminder that there is a path out of poverty; there is a path from poverty to prosperity. In the last 25 years, some 400 million people – I think about three-quarters of them in this part of the world – have escaped poverty because of successful development. And it does make it one of the most hopeful chapters in the history of the fight against poverty and gives us some real hope for progress in the future.
But that path from poverty to prosperity has a lot of obstacles along the way, in many respects in which the international community and in particular my institution has an obligation to help countries overcome that.
You know when you talk to people here and in some of the other countries in this Region, they will emphasize first and foremost that the way out of poverty is through hard work and good policies, and certainly that's true, but that's only part of the picture. And even Singapore and Japan, even China and Korea, in their early stages of development received substantial development assistance from the World Bank and from individual donor countries. And the poorest countries of Africa I think are much less well-positioned, both geographically, economically, and even in terms of their recent history and the devastation of war and civil war that has dragged countries like Liberia down to such a difficult situation. And particularly, I mention Liberia. There is a country that is just at the very start of that road – I visited there in July – it is impressive to see the commitment of President Johnson-Sirleaf and the reformers in her Government to try to get on the – forgive me for saying it over and over again – on that path to prosperity. But they really need a hand up, and that hand up needs to come in the form of assistance from the development community.
We have at the World Bank in that particular case moved - by our standards - extremely quickly and come up with assistance for them. But I would say in general for countries in that fragile condition, we need to be able to be more flexible.
At the other end of the scale – and we're going to address this in a paper with the Development Committee –the countries like China that no longer need concessional assistance from the World Bank, but still have substantial need for the resources and particularly the expertise that the Bank brings to bear as a global institution. we are looking at how we can do a better job of both responding at that low end, if you like, for the countries in desperate need, but also being more sophisticated at the high end for countries that are progressing at spectacular rates of growth and whose sophistication is growing at the same time.
Secondly, I have said in the past and I'll repeat it here, I believe that Sub-Saharan Africa has to be the first priority of the World Bank – not the only priority but the first priority – because in this 25 years when 400 million people have escaped poverty, 600 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa have been going backward. That's a tragedy for the individuals, and it is an unhealthy trend for the world as a whole.
What I also can say after a year and after visits to some ten African countries, is that one of the pleasant surprises in this job has been to discover not only that Africa has enormous needs, which I knew, but that there is real progress being made in quite a few countries and that the commitment by many African leaders to good governance is real, that the demand by people in Africa for progress and effective government is strong and growing, and that more and more governments in Sub-Saharan Africa are holding themselves accountable to their people for results, as they should.
Last year at the Gleneagles Summit in Scotland, the eight industrialized countries made a commitment to double aid to Africa. Prime Minister Blair called it "a deal for a deal"–that is to say, increased assistance in return for increased performance, improved performance. And I want to say today that I think the improved performance is there, and the increased assistance has got to come. I think the donors are in danger of falling short on that promise, and I would urge them to step up their efforts.
There are some five African countries that have already presented to the Development Assistance Committee of the OECD credible plans for making use of resources beyond what is available to them, and there are many others in the wings that could make good use of additional resources.
So one of the things from my remarks at this meeting is going to be to please step up to those pledges, please, when the time comes next year for beginning to talk about the 15th round of International Development Association (IDA) replenishment – we do it every three years – we need not just to meet the record level of IDA 14, we need to exceed it.
Third, let me just say a little bit about the subject of governance, which has gotten a lot of attention, and it is going to be a major subject of discussion. In the Development Committee, we'll be addressing the Bank's Strategy Paper on Governance and Anti-Corruption. First of all, the purpose is not to find a reason to cut back on lending; to the contrary, it is to make the quality of our lending better and to make sure that the lending and grant-making that we do goes where it is supposed to go, which is to help the poorest people of the world.
I think the numbers speak for themselves that we are not cutting back on lending. In fact, last year was a record year for the Bank, particularly for our concessional arm which is IDA; it went up some 9 percent to $9.5 billion, the highest level of IDA assistance ever, and nearly half of that, $4.7 billion, went to Africa, which is a 20 percent increase.
The other, in some respects bigger, increase and very promising sign was the International Finance Corporation (IFC), our private sector arm, which increased its lending by 25 percent to a record level of $6.5 billion, including I think it was, a roughly 50 percent increase in lending to Africa.
And the International Bank for Recontruction and Development (IBRD) came in at the highest level in seven years, with $14.2 billion.
So I think those numbers speak for themselves. We are not looking to cut back on development assistance; we are looking to increase it. And as I just said a few minutes ago, I think the need will be even greater in coming years.
Secondly, in addressing the issues of governance, this is not some idea that we invented at the World Bank. What is striking to me is that when you go to Indonesia, the President of Indonesia is talking about the need for improved governance and fighting corruption. Indeed, he was, some people would say, elected on that platform. You can go around the world – the President of Nigeria is making a strong effort to deal with corruption and taking on corrupt officials at a level that was unheard of in his country.
And it is not just at the level of presidents. It is taxicab drivers in Indonesia and Nigeria and developing countries around the world, ordinary people, who will tell you that if we're going to succeed, if we're going to develop, if we're going to get out of poverty, the money has to go where it is supposed to go and not to line the bank accounts of rich and corrupt individuals or officials.
So, governance is really at the forefront of people's minds. In fact, when the Blair commission, the UK Commission on Africa, reported last year - a commission that included, by the way, two African heads of government - they identified weak governance as the biggest obstacle to development in Africa.
I think, going back to my earlier comments, it's not the only obstacle. Money is needed, resources are needed – but it needs to go in the right place.
Third, we simply can't afford to turn a blind eye when we do encounter corruption in our projects. It not only means the money that should be going to build clinics and build schools and provide adequate housing for the poor instead is going to enrich corrupt individuals, and it is siphoned off from where it ought to go.
In fact, sometimes it's not just a waste of money; it sometimes leads to buildings that collapse or to medicines that are harmful being given to pregnant women. These are not hypothetical examples; these are real ones.
But I think what has characterized the difficult cases that we have dealt with over the past 12 months is that most of the governments, virtually all of the governments that we deal with, want to tackle these problems. And when we say, "Here is the problem," and we present it in a firm and clear way, we have been able to come up in a flexible way with solutions and safeguards that allow us to go ahead – because the purpose here is not to cut back. The purpose is to engage. The purpose is to make resources available to the people who make good use of them and to encourage forward movement.
And then, finally, to be clear about this, the taxpayers who provide us with the support – whether it is taxpayers in France or Japan or the UK or the United States–-demand, as the Articles of Agreement of the Bank demand, that our money goes for the purposes intended. And I think that with this new strategy, we are in a very strong position as we go to ask for more money, as we will be doing, to say, "We can give you reasonably good assurance that the money you have given us and the money you will give us is going for the purposes intended."
Before I take questions, just one last comment on this important issue of attendance by civil society organizations at these meetings. We have had really, I think, recordbreaking levels of participation and planning, some 500 civil society organizations have been accredited to participate in these meetings, and as I have said on several occasions, and the (IMF)Managing Director has said on several occasions, it is really unfortunate that the Government of Singapore seemed not to be honoring the Memorandum of Understanding to admit delegates that were accredited. In meetings with the President and Prime Minister yesterday, I raised the issue of members of civil society who had been accredited and were being excluded from our meetings. And last night, the Prime Minister said that based on the Bank and Fund vouching for these people, they would look at each case individually and open the door to let them in. I hope that will happen expeditiously and completely, and we're waiting for further developments.
MR. HANLON: Okay. We'll take your questions. Please limit it to one question as we have a lot of people here.
We'll start –- ma'am, in the front, please. Just wait for the microphone, and here we go.
QUESTION: Good morning, sir.
I have a question for you. The first question is that you said that, in part, the mission of the World Bank is to help the developing countries. So do you think that you are responsive enough to their needs?
And in the case of Vietnam, the World Bank assistance of U.S. $8 million per year. But you see, I think that in comparison with other Asian developing countries, it's just half, for example of Indonesia. So do you think that it's responsive enough?
But you see that it is, I think that in a comparison with other Asian developing countries, it's just hard--for example, Indonesia--so you do think it is positive enough?
MR. HANLON: I'm going to limit it to one question, if we could.
QUESTION: Oh, one question by one. Thank you.
MR. HANLON: Thanks.
MR. WOLFOWITZ: You know, my new Managing Director, Mr. Daboub, has just visited Vietnam. His experience, he was Finance Minister in El Salvador, which has a very different economy. It's been very successful, based on--I guess one could say in both cases we are seeing market principles applied, but in very, very different ways, and it brings home to me what I've come to think is one of the wisest comments on the development process that has been made in decades, and that was Deng Xiao Peng's famous statement, "It doesn't matter whether the cat is black or white as long as it catches mice." And what we're seeing, I think, is many countries finding different paths along the way, based on their own situations, and I think it's very important.
I think we in the World Bank, if I can use the word "we" loosely, because I wasn't there ten years ago, but I think over the course of the last ten years have learned to be a little less prescriptive and a little more open to what countries tell us will work in their countries. My first visit as president was last year to Nigeria. I spent a full day with the governor of Bauchi State there, and at the end of the day he said, "Well, I'm glad you're not one of these Ph.D.'s from Ivy League universities in the United States who come and tell us how to solve our problems and they don't stay long enough to even understand what our problems are."
I think it's very important that we work with countries and help support them in things that they think work, and I must say that Mr. Daboub came away from Vietnam just very impressed with what's happening. And on your basic question of how resources get allocated, we are trying to do it in the best possible way and in the fairest possible way and in a way that is as objective as we can be, so it's not based subjectively. I mean, you mentioned Indonesia; it's not a secret that I like Indonesia a great deal, but that doesn't affect how our allocations work. Our allocations are supposed to be based on a combination of need and performance.
The fact that we have to allocate I think underscores the fact that we can't tolerate the misuse of our funds. If lending is going in a place where it's not going to the poor and is instead enriching corrupt officials, there are plenty of honest officials and honest governments. Even in some difficult countries, there are honest ministries -- and we want to make sure that we -- and they need more money, we want to make sure it's going there.
MR. HANLON: Yes, sir, gentleman in the front with the pad.
QUESTION: Thank you. Regarding the anti-corruption strategy, do you have any concerns that the wave of corruption in Brazil -- we have almost one-third of the Congress being investigated now -- can affect the World Bank programs there? Are you taking some measures regarding this subject?
MR. WOLFOWITZ: What I can say is, I mean, not just in Brazil but everywhere -- we try to look very carefully at our programs -- and no one has brought to my attention any current problems with programs in Brazil. I realize this issue is a big one in your country. In fact, I talked about it with President Lula, and I'm not here to start commenting on Brazilian politics, but I do think that when you have these problems -- let's take Indonesia. I was ambassador there for three years; that's what I was alluding to. I mean, the whole country understands that corruption is a big problem, and it's not something you're going to solve overnight. You don't move from endemic, deeply-embedded corruption to the standards of -- we could pick our favorite examples. I mean, certainly not the United States. The United States still has a lot of problems, too. I sort of think of Switzerland, but I'm sure the Swiss have some problems.
But the point is you don't solve these things overnight. You can over time make real progress, and I think in the case of Indonesia, for example, and I think it's true also in Brazil, a sensible strategy for improving governance is one that would address the difficulties of the courts and address the challenges of both underpaid court officials and how you begin to correct that problem.
Again, we are working with countries, not by way of punishment but by way of reinforcing. In Mexico when I visited there, we're engaged with the Mexican Government on a Freedom of Information program; we're engaged with them on a procurement program that will help reduce corruption in government bidding. So our view has to be not of the current issues that you refer to but supporting long-term strategies for making progress.
MR. HANLON: I'll try to move around the room just a little bit. The gentleman on the far left.
QUESTION: Pacific Island States have very fragile economies and don't necessarily have the financial resources to sustain a fight against corruption.How can the World Bank be able to help Pacific Island States to take on corruption?
MR. WOLFOWITZ: That really underscores the point that you've got to recognize that in fragile states like the ones the question refers to, the level of problem that the administration can handle, the number of trained, capable officials may be very limited. In fact, one of the things we are looking at in Liberia is how to provide incentives for some of the capable Liberians who left the country during the civil war period to come back to strengthen those ministries. In fact, I'm very proud to say that the finance minister there -- who is an impressive, outstanding woman -- was until recently an employee of the World Bank who decided to go back to her country -- left a comfortable job with us to go back and help Liberia get on its feet.
Something else that we need to do, though, when people like her or like President Johnson-Sirleaf are undertaking challenging reforms, we need to find ways to get money out there much more quickly than our normal practice so that the people begin to see some results so that reform becomes a self-fulfilling, virtuous circle, rather than a downward spiral.
MR. HANLON: In the back.
QUESTION: Mr. Wolfowitz, you just said someone told you they were impressed you are not like some of the Ivy League economists who prescribe and then go off. Well, Transparency International, the anti-corruption watchdog, says the World Bank is also not doing enough to engage civil society in the countries that are concerned. How would you respond to that?
MR. WOLFOWITZ: I guess I don't accept that premise. In fact, we are working very hard in engaging civil society because we believe it is often one of the best mechanisms for ensuring transparency and accountability, and there are even demonstrations of success in a number of areas where if the simple mechanism of letting people know and letting civil society know what money is supposed to be going for schools in a particular district will vastly increase the amount of money that actually gets to where it is supposed to go.
I'll give you another example: Recently, we had a challenge in Ethiopia because of the very tense political situation there that ran some risk that people would see one way or another that our assistance was favoring one political group over another. We were able to work successfully with the government and with civil society to come up with something we call the "Protection of Basic Services Program" that involves civil society on a very large scale in monitoring the results of the basic services that we will help finance. So I am not sure what they had in mind, but certainly we think of civil society as an important partner in this process.
MR. HANLON: Yes, sir, in the fourth row from the back, please.
QUESTION: Let me recall your observations made during your visit last year to Bangladesh. You made the observation that large infrastructure targets are increasingly becoming a tempting target for politicians to help finance elections, election spending.As Bangladesh's next general elections are just around the corner, would you push for election reforms in election financing? Thank you.
MR. WOLFOWITZ: Let me just say that what I believe is that large infrastructure projects -- not just increasingly but in the past -- indeed have been unfortunately -- maybe because there's a lot of money involved -- I don't think that -- let me just say, whatever I -- what I believe is that large infrastructure projects, not just increasingly but in the past, indeed, have been, unfortunately, maybe because there's a lot of money involved, they are classically known as a potential target of corruption. So much so, I think, that it was one of the reasons why, in the mid-1990s, the World Bank largely got out of infrastructure lending.
I wasn't really aware of that until I came into this job. And one of the things that was very striking in my first encounters with leaders from developing countries was a plea for the Bank to increase its infrastructure lending, and certainly in these desperately poor countries not only in Africa but particularly in Africa, the infrastructure needs are staggering – roads don't exist, ports don't exist, and in some cases – in many cases, actually – we're talking about countries where the challenges of geography are particularly severe so that, for example, I believe the statistic is that a producer in central Africa will have to pay something like five times the cost to ship a container the same distance that a producer in China would pay, which obviously is an incredible burden on competitiveness.
I remember being told in Pakistan that products that are competitive when they leave the factory gate in Lahore are no longer competitive internationally by the time they get to Karachi because of high transportation costs, partly caused by weak infrastructure.
So we needed to get back into that business. We are getting back into the infrastructure business. But one of the things I insisted on was learning the lessons of the past and trying to make sure that we build into our projects at the beginning the kinds of safeguards that will help –- you never have 100 percent guarantee –- but help to ensure that corruption does not become a major tax on these big projects. That's what we can do. Electoral reform, I'm sorry, I think is not our job.
MR. HANLON: The gentleman at the far side, please.
QUESTION: Thank you, sir. Mexico News. I have a question that I want to ask in Spanish, please.
[Interpreted from Spanish] My question is for Mr. Wolfowitz. We will have a new President in Mexico shortly. What do you consider to be the challenge to Mexico to reduce poverty in the next six years, which affects some 50 million people?Thank you.
MR. WOLFOWITZ: I'm sorry. What was that number–you said it affects how many? What was the number you gave–how many?
QUESTION: [Interpreted from Spanish] Fifty million people.
MR. WOLFOWITZ: For those of you who don't have earphones, the question was Mexico is going to have a new Government soon, and what are our views about what Mexico needs to do to reduce poverty in that country, which affects some 52 million people, I think you said.
It is a very good question, and again I guess I would repeat the general principle, which is that it is going to be up to the Mexicans and their Government. What the Bank can do is give our best advice and, in some cases, provide resources.
I certainly think that part of our best advice would be to say you need to address the investment needs of the poorest parts of your country. I was in Mexico earlier this year, and I visited the richest State, Monterey, and the poorest State, Guerrero, and the needs for just basic things like roads and schools in Guerrero are really quite overwhelming. And we are talking now about a country with a per capita income of some $7,000, I think, per person. So I believe that we can help some with resources, but there clearly needs to be more investment, I think, by the Government in particularly the poorer parts of the country.
But secondly also, it is my impression – and I am not an expert–that a number of reform efforts really need to go further and that Mexico would be more competitive internationally if things like the cost of using telephones were lower, and I think that's probably a matter of introducing and allowing more competition. But this is not something for the World Bank to come in and give a dictate about. These are complicated, difficult questions.
What we do try to do – and we are doing this, I think, in a very important way around the world with our report called the "Doing Business Report" –- is to try to tell governments in as clear and understandable and honest a way as we can what we think are the obstacles that are holding back the development of the private sector in their countries.
I remember specifically in the case of Mexico, the finance minister told me that the analysis in that report had helped them to think through what changes were needed and helped them to convince their Congress of what changes were needed.
MR. HANLON: We have time for a couple more questions. Philip, second row, please.
QUESTION: Thank you. Philip Thornton from The Independent Newspaper in London.President Wolfowitz, we seem to be in an extraordinary situation where the United Kingdom, a member of the G-7 and a generous donor to the World Bank, is actually threatening to withhold finance from the Bank because of its criticism of a failure to address the issue of conditionality. I was wondering if you could tell us how this row has gotten so far out of control and what you're going to do about it, and at the same time address the UK's criticism of your corruption agenda, please.
MR. WOLFOWITZ: Well, I guess there are several premises that I'd have problems with. I don't think it's a "row," and I don't think it is out of control. And let's be clear – we're talking about two different issues–the conditionality issue and the governance and anti-corruption issue. Let me address both.
On the subject of conditionality, I think Hilary Benn and I are in complete agreement that the World Bank in the past has been -- the Governor of Nigeria said it – too full of prescriptions for countries about what they had to do and too inclined to force those prescriptions on them. But I think we have learned a lot from experience, and I think we agree that the whole approach has to be much more one of helping countries find what works and then embracing programs that they take ownership of. If they don't feel that it is their program, if you try to force them to do it, it is bound not to succeed, is my own view.
So we came up last year, before I got here, with a new strategy for addressing this problem of conditionality. And I believe that produced the release of some 50 million pounds, and the next tranche of 50 million pounds depends on implementation of that report, and we are due with a report later this year that I hope and I'm reasonably confident will in fact show that that new policy is being implemented to my satisfaction and Mr. Benn's satisfaction.
So I think –- I understand the concern, I share the concern – but I think we are dealing with it.
On the question of the governance and anti-corruption strategy, I frankly don't see a difference. I have read the DFID report; I think it is a very strong, very clear report. I think we both agree that the approach here is that governance is very important, that tackling corruption is very important, that the way you do it is not by punishing and withholding money; the way you do it is by engaging, by helping countries strengthen their systems for dealing with these problems, by working with civil society organizations that will support transparency and accountability, and frankly, by coming up with new and imaginative ways for dealing with this. And I would just cite as one very impressive example the Government of Indonesia has developed a Community-Driven Development Program with some advice and help from the World Bank that has been – it's called the Kecamatan Development Program –that has been so successful that the Government has just decided to do it on a national scale, I think putting something like a billion dollars a year into this program that has local communities deciding on what projects they want to invest in and then monitoring the results.
As a global institution, one of the things we can do is take the experience that has been learned in Indonesia and help other countries, countries as far away as Ethiopia, learn from that experience and develop Community-Driven Development Programs that suit their circumstances.
So the approach is a positive one, it is one of engagement, and I think you'd have to work hard to find a significant difference between the DFID paper and the Strategy Paper that we presented to the Development Committee.
MR. HANLON: And we'll take a final question, please.Joseph, in the front.
QUESTION: I write for the East Africa Newspaper.What I wanted to ask you, Mr. President, after you visited Africa, and you say Sub-Saharan Africa is of priority, in my country, we have made progress, the GDP has been growing, but what we see now is we have a power crisis. What should countries like Tanzania do in such cases where you have had development, and now you face such? Can we access, say, funds from the fund that was created this year, the Catalytic Growth Fund, so that we could maybe take measures against such shocks like the energy crisis that we are having right now?
Thank you.
MR. WOLFOWITZ: I think your question points out the fact that I said before that we need more resources than we have. And one of the places those resources are needed is infrastructure investment, including in energy. And not only in Africa, also in Latin America, there's a demand for regional infrastructure projects because many of these, to be successful, need to cut across national boundaries. And that's the place where I think World Bank resources could be particularly effective if we had more.
It's probably also the case, and I know it's the case in Tanzania, that there are issues also about pricing policy, and that electricity is heavily, heavily subsidized. And that leads to probably unrealistic demand for electricity. And I think it also leads to some informal allocation of electricity that probably would not come under the heading of good governance. So you need to tackle the policy problems at the same time that you tackle the capacity problems.
But I believe that if we had more resources to work with governments like Tanzania, it would also be easier for them to take some of those reform measures.
MR. HANLON: Once again, thank you very much, ladies and gentleman. We appreciate your time.


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If charged as an adult, Crain would have the opportunity for a trial by jury. Viacava says cases in the juvenile court system are tried in front of a judge only.
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text: DSpace Collection: http://hdl.handle.net/2117/1138 2014-10-26T05:17:42Z On the origin of high-field magnetic white dwarfs http://hdl.handle.net/2117/24432 Title: On the origin of high-field magnetic white dwarfs Authors: García-Berro Montilla, Enrique; Torres Gil, Santiago; Loren Aguilar, Pablo; Aznar Siguan, Gabriela; Camacho Díaz, Judit; Kulebi, Baybar; Isern Vilaboy, Jordi; Althaus, Leandro G.; Corsico, Alejandro H. Abstract: Every two years, white dwarf researchers and enthusiasts meet to exchange their knowledge and discuss recent developments in white dwarf theory and observations. These proceedings are from the 18th European White Dwarf Workshop held at Pedagogical University of Cracow (Krakow, Poland) on 13th - 17th August, 2012. The scientific topics discussed in this Workshop included: pulsating white dwarfs; luminosity function, mass distribution, and populations; white dwarf structure and evolution; white dwarf catalogs and surveys; central stars of planetary nebulae; supernova progenitors; white dwarfs in novae and cataclysmic variables; white dwarfs in detached binaries; physical processes in white dwarfs and magnetic white dwarfs; and discs, dust and planets around white dwarfs. The conference was organized by four institutions: the Polish Astronomical Society, the Astronomy Department of the Pedagogical University of Cracow, the Jagiellonian University Astronomical Observatory, and the Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Altogether, these proceedings include 87 talks and posters presented during the meeting. 2014-10-20T12:39:53Z Dark energy and thermonuclear supernovae http://hdl.handle.net/2117/22981 Title: Dark energy and thermonuclear supernovae Authors: Domínguez, I; Bravo Guil, Eduardo; Piersanti, L; Tornambé, A; Straniero, O; Höfflich, P Abstract: Nowadays it is widely accepted that the current Universe is dominated by dark energy and exotic matter, the so called StandardModel of Cosmoloy or _CDM model. All the available data (Thermonuclear Supernovae, Cosmic Microwave Background, Baryon Acoustic Oscillations, Large Scale Structure, etc.) are compatible with a flat Universe made by _70% of dark energy. Up to now observations agree that dark energy may be the vacuum energy (or cosmological constant) although improvements are needed to constrain further its equation of state. In this context, the còsmic destiny of the Universe is no longer linked to its geometry but to the nature of dark energy; it may be flat and expand forever or collapse. To understand the nature of dark energy is probably the most fundamental problem in physics today; it may open new roads of knowledge and led to unify gravity with the other fundamental interactions in nature. It is expected that astronomical data will continue to provide directions to theorists and experimental physicists. Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) have played a fundamental role, showing the acceleration of the expansion rate of the Universe a decade ago, and up to now they are the only astronomical observations that provide a direct evidence of the acceleration. However, in order to determine the source of the dark energy term it is mandatory to improve the precision of supernovae as distance indicators on cosmological scale. 2014-05-14T12:22:04Z Simulations of radiative shocks and jet formation in laboratory plasmas http://hdl.handle.net/2117/22966 Title: Simulations of radiative shocks and jet formation in laboratory plasmas Authors: Velarde, Pedro; González, Matthias; Oliva, Eduardo; Kasperczuk, Andrzej; Pisarczyk, Tadeusz; Ullschmied, Jiri; Stehlé, Chantal; Rus, Bedrich; García Senz, Domingo; Bravo Guil, Eduardo; Relaño, Antonio Abstract: We present the simulations of two relevant hydrodynamical problems related to astrophysical phenomena performed by three different codes. The numerical results from these codes will be compared in order to test both the numerical method implemented inside them and the influence of the physical phenomena simulated by the codes. Under some conditions laser produced plasmas could be scaled to the typical conditions prevailing in astrophysical plasmas. Therefore, such similarity allows to use existing laser facilities and numerical codes suitable to a laser plasma regime, for studying astrophysical proccesses. The codes are the radiation fluid dynamic 2D ARWEN code and the 3D HERACLES, and, without radiation energy transport, a Smoothed-Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) code. These codes use diferent numerical techniques and have overlapping range of application, from laser produced plasmas to astrophysical plasmas. We also present the first laser experiments obtaining cumulative jets with a velocity higher than 100 km/s. 2014-05-13T14:34:07Z Supernovae and dark energy http://hdl.handle.net/2117/22952 Title: Supernovae and dark energy Authors: Domínguez, Inmaculada; Bravo Guil, Eduardo; Piersanti, Luciano; Straniero, Oscar; Tornambé, Amedeo Abstract: A decade ago the observations of thermonuclear supernovae at high-redhifts showed that the expansion rate of the Universe is accelerating and since then, the evidence for cosmic acceleration has gotten stronger. This acceleration requires that the Universe is dominated by dark energy, an exotic component characterized by its negative pressure. Nowadays all the available astronomical data (i.e. thermonuclear supernovae, cosmic microwave background, barionic acoustic oscillations, large scale structure, etc.) agree that our Universe is made of about 70% of dark energy, 25% of cold dark matter and only 5% of known, familiar matter. This Universe is geometrically flat, older than previously thought, its destiny is no longer linked to its geometry but to dark energy, and we ignore about 95% of its components. To understand the nature of dark energy is probably the most fundamental problem in physics today. Current astronomical observations are compatible with dark energy being the vacuum energy. Supernovae have played a fundamental role in modern Cosmology and it is expected that they will contribute to unveil the dark energy. In order to do that it is mandatory to understand the limits of supernovae as cosmological distance indicators, improving their precision by a factor 10. 2014-05-12T13:59:00Z Smoothed particle hydrodynamics: checking a tensor approach to calculating gradients http://hdl.handle.net/2117/21515 Title: Smoothed particle hydrodynamics: checking a tensor approach to calculating gradients Authors: Escartín, José Antonio; García Senz, Domingo; Cabezón, Rubén Martin 2014-02-11T13:32:28Z Classical and recurrent nova models http://hdl.handle.net/2117/20008 Title: Classical and recurrent nova models Authors: José Pont, Jordi; Casanova Bustamante, Jordi; García-Berro Montilla, Enrique; Hernanz Carbó, Margarita; Shore, Steven N.; Calder, A. Abstract: Remarkable progress in the understanding of nova outbursts has been achieved through combined efforts in photometry, spectroscopy and numerical simulations. According to the thermonuclear runaway model, novae are powered by thermonuclear explosions in the hydrogen-rich envelopes transferred from a low-mass stellar companion onto a close white dwarf star. Extensive numerical simulations in 1-D have shown that the accreted envelopes attain peak temperatures ranging between 108 and 4 × 108 K, for about several hundred seconds, hence allowing extensive nuclear processing which eventually shows up in the form of nucleosynthetic fingerprints in the ejecta. Indeed, it has been claimed that novae can play a certain role in the enrichment of the interstellar medium through a number of intermediate-mass elements. This includes 17O, 15N, and 13C, systematically overproduced with respect to solar abundances, plus a lower contribution in a number of other species (A < 40), such as 7Li, 19F, or 26Al. At the turn of the XXI Century, classical novae have entered the era of multidimensional models, which provide a new insight into the physical mechanisms that drive mixing at the core-envelope interface. In this review, we will present hydrodynamic models of classical novae, from the onset of accretion up to the explosion and ejection stages, both for classical and recurrent novae, with special emphasis on their gross observational properties and their associated nucleosynthesis. The impact of nuclear uncertainties on the final yields will be discussed. Recent results from 2-D models of mixing during classical nova outbursts will also be presented. 2013-07-26T11:45:47Z White dwarf mergers and the origin of R coronae borealis stars http://hdl.handle.net/2117/19289 Title: White dwarf mergers and the origin of R coronae borealis stars Authors: Lorén Aguilar, Pablo; Longland, Richard Leigh; José Pont, Jordi; García-Berro Montilla, Enrique; Althaus, Leandro G.; Isern-Fontanet, J. Abstract: We present a nucleosynthesis study of the merger of a 0.4 M⊙ helium white dwarf with a 0.8 M⊙ carbon-oxygen white dwarf, coupling the thermodynamic history of Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics particles with a post-processing code. The resulting chemical abundance pattern, particularly for oxygen and fluorine, is in qualitative agreement with the observed abundances in R Coronae Borealis stars. 2013-05-16T11:56:45Z Computer simulations using implicit Lagrangian hydrodynamics in 3D http://hdl.handle.net/2117/15372 Title: Computer simulations using implicit Lagrangian hydrodynamics in 3D Authors: Escartín Vigo, José Antonio; García Senz, Domingo; Bravo Guil, Eduardo Abstract: The method known as Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) is an important tool in modern numerical Astrophysics. It has been extensively used to simulate a large number of systems ranging from planets to clusters of galaxies. Nevertheless current applications of the method are restricted to dynamical situations because of the limitations in the time-step imposed by the Courant condition. Here we describe the main features of a new implicit SPH code which is able to handle with several thousand particles and, therefore, it can be used to simulate slowly evolving systems. 2012-02-27T09:24:40Z Population Synthesis of Post-Common Envelope White-Dwarf-Main-Sequence Binaries in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey http://hdl.handle.net/2117/15331 Title: Population Synthesis of Post-Common Envelope White-Dwarf-Main-Sequence Binaries in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Authors: Torres Gil, Santiago; Camacho Díaz, Judit; Rebassa-Mansergas, Alberto; Zorotovic, Monica; Schreiber, Mathias R.; García-Berro Montilla, Enrique 2012-02-23T12:50:02Z Secondary fe-peak nuclei in the tycho supernova remnant http://hdl.handle.net/2117/11702 Title: Secondary fe-peak nuclei in the tycho supernova remnant Authors: Badenes Montoliu, Carles; Bravo Guil, Eduardo; Hughes, J.P. Abstract: The Mn to Cr mass ratio in supernova ejecta has recently been proposed as a tracer of Type Ia SN progenitor metallicity. We review the advantages and problems of this observable quantity, and discuss them in the framework of two Galactic supernova remnants: the well known Tycho SNR and W49B, an older object that has been tentatively classified as Type Ia. The fluxes of the Mn and Cr Ka lines in the X-ray spectra of these SNRs observed by the Suzaku and ASCA satellites suggest progenitors of supersolar metallicity for both objects. 2011-03-08T10:11:58Z Monte Carlo simulations of the binary white dwarf population: a progress report http://hdl.handle.net/2117/11292 Title: Monte Carlo simulations of the binary white dwarf population: a progress report Authors: Camacho Díaz, Judit; Torres Gil, Santiago; García-Berro Montilla, Enrique 2011-02-07T12:25:04Z Monte Carlo simulations of the post-common envelope white dwarf-main sequence binary population http://hdl.handle.net/2117/11281 Title: Monte Carlo simulations of the post-common envelope white dwarf-main sequence binary population Authors: Camacho Díaz, Judit; Torres Gil, Santiago; García-Berro Montilla, Enrique; Zorotovic, Monica; Schreiber, Mathias R. 2011-02-04T14:56:23Z The effects of the Observational Selection Criteria on the post common envelope white dwarf-main sequence binary population http://hdl.handle.net/2117/11188 Title: The effects of the Observational Selection Criteria on the post common envelope white dwarf-main sequence binary population Authors: Camacho Díaz, Judit; Torres Gil, Santiago; García-Berro Montilla, Enrique; Zorotovic, Mónica; Schreiber, Mathias R.; Rebassa-Mansergas, Alberto Abstract: We present a detailed Monte Carlo simulator of the Galactic population of binary stars. Preliminary results are presented for the white dwarf-main sequence (WD+MS) binary population resulting from a common envelope (CE) episode. We also study the effects of the observational selection criteria on different color-color diagrams, for different binding energy parameters, l , and common envelope efficiencies, aCE. Finally, we also compare our results with the identified population of white dwarf-main sequence binaries in the SDSS 2011-01-25T10:46:40Z BAETULO XXI, o de com arribar a Mart des de la secundària http://hdl.handle.net/2117/9309 Title: BAETULO XXI, o de com arribar a Mart des de la secundària Authors: Serrano Porta, Lydia; Ramírez Alcántara, Jorge; Portell Canal, Xavier; Pijuan, Caterina; Monfort Peligero, Lluís; Ayza, Assumpta; Berenguer Sau, Jordi; Carnerero López, Sheila; Crespo Artiaga, Daniel; López Codina, Daniel; López Rubio, Juan; Lorén Aguilar, Pablo; Melo Vera, Maria Jesús 2010-10-05T07:35:52Z Optimal Interferometric Maneuvers for Distributed Telescopes http://hdl.handle.net/2117/6987 Title: Optimal Interferometric Maneuvers for Distributed Telescopes Authors: Díaz Aguiló, Marc; Mandy, C; Sáenz Otero, Alvar; Miller, D Abstract: The scientfic community has proposed several missions to expand our knowledge about the universe, its formation and search for distant Earth-like planets. Most of the present space-based observation missions have reached angular resolution limits, therefore the potential benefits concerning angular resolution and intensity that can be reaped from the realization of interferometry within a distributed satellite telescope have led to the proposal of several multi-spacecraft systems. Among these missions synthetic imaging space based interferometers, consisting of multiple telescope apertures flying in controlled formation in order to combine received information from each of the flotilla members are nowadays the subject of interesting research. The objective of synthesizing images with high angular resolution, low ambiguity and high intensity is always a tradeoff with the whole fuel consumption of the mission. As a consequence, this research focuses on the design of interferometric maneuvers and optimal interferometric controllers balancing image performance and energy consumption. The first part of the work presents the optimization and design process of coordinated spiral maneuvers due to their interferometric interest when filling the frequency plane of the observed image. On the other hand, the second part focuses in the resolution of an optimal control problem within the LQ framework, to determine the optimal imaging reconfigurations of a formation flying system. Its objective is to balance the quality of the celestial observation and the fuel usage, which are the key aspects of any spacebased observation mission. This study concerning implementability and performance of interferometric maneuvers will lead towards the enlargement of mission lifetime and flexibility of the system while conserving acceptable quality observations. 2010-04-20T07:52:17Z


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These Passion Alliteration poems are examples of Alliteration poems about Passion. These are the best examples of Passion Alliteration poems written by international PoetrySoup poets
~STRIP TEASE~ Featuring:) SKAT
Silver Skimpy Ink, String, A POET DESTROYER's bling, bling
Think of me as a human ditty delicious decoration,
Something along the line of a sweet tooth temptation
Cherry tastes, between the slit of tender toast
Fine jumble jam slams down the tongueless throat
Dance like a diamond on The tight South Pacific Rim
I'll feed you with a slithering seductive sound
My hair soaking, -wet and wild, tonight I trim
A dulcet apple acrostic bottom, to squeeze the greed
Feathers, on top, poetic diction describing to please
At times, I'm in deep dire need of something sweet, and sour
Endless epic words, and ode to the naked poetic world
We The Women and Men of poetry,
Reveals far more than any nudity found in a bar
It does not matter how you do it or who you are.
I'm an entertainer, of Poetry,
The good, the bad, the freaking awesome
Don't worry, I keep my clothe On :)
Symbol of the spiritual Sexy SKAT Slang
--Provocative-- A slippery succulent, scrumptious kiss
Counterparts working the tension, another arrant appetite
I am the Illuminati illusion, laminating luscious illustrated letters
Indulging in the, satire of one stilt spoken sunset
Like a child's spiking temperature, I often throw tantrums,
Teasing attentions, by incorporating a pole, paper and pen,
If someone is uncomfortable with facing the fact,
When I reveal everything, without removing my high heels
Then you must not be worldly or women and man enough
I love to spoil and slur my scenery, using my best assets
My strength and power parallel, any unique universe
That's how confident the audience makes me feel
We The Women and Men of poetry,
Reveals far more than any nudity found in a bar
It does not matter how you do it or who you are.
I'm an entertainer, of Poetry,
The good, the bad, fantastic and fabulous
Don't worry, I keep my clothe On :)
~A Poet Destroyer Collaboration~
"Sorry" doesn't cut it.
Well neither does a butter knife.
I guess I'll have to say "sorry"
For being in your life.
"Sorry" for being black.
And doing what i do best.
Like RAP, BASKETBALL and SWEAT.
Instead of studying for a test.
"Sorry" for being imperfect
"Sorry" for getting sick
"Sorry" for being a man
"Sorry" for makin' you tick
There are some things you cannot change
Like color and heredity.
There's one thing I forgot to say.
"Sorry" for bein' me.
This is sort of a sarcastic poem. I love me. :)
Canvas in Creative Colors
Painter Paints to Persuade People;
Sends Surprises to Spectators'Sight,
and Wide-ranging Wonder World Wide;
Like Lighting the Love in one's Life,
Arts in it is an Asset from Above!
Note: I composed this poem because arts is my passion.
He was laboriously looking
for that one perfect peach
with soft salubrious skin,
radiantly rounded with
robust, rubicund curves,
crying to be caressed,
coddled and cuddled.
Her bashfully blushing rosy red
cheeks on pale peach skin
immediately caught his attention
as she sat right there for the picking!
Oh, to kiss those juicy joyful
lovely lips, again and again!
She stood out among her friends
who were gathered in hues of green. . .
For she was ruddy, regal
and romantically ripe--his type!
Her body sweetly, softly stimulating,
and so tantalizingly tender to the touch;
Her sensual scent, pure peach!
When he held her in his arms
and she coyly conversed,
he had vestige visions of
copious cobbler on his mind!
A destructive dance indeed,
betwixt the two we bleed.
A bellowing, bloody abate,
this stale, seductive state.
Simple, senseless steeds,
jealous fires feed.
Perjuring petty plights,
demons do delight.
A crimson, cheaters chair,
awful angers air.
No trust, truth or taste,
wallowed wantons waste.
Envious, eager eyes,
rejoicing a wrathful rise.
Coveting, careless couth,
yesteryear's eager youth.
I almost can't bare it , I keep running for Fun.
This contest is crazy , I wanna be lazy
But I shall keep on running . I'm becoming hazy
I was told I would. I was told it was no Fun.
I decided to try it for the heck of it. It's so crazy.
Now I'm being Lazy and I 'm a little more hazy.
Never I again shall I . Enter a running contest not
Until the far away day. That I shall die. I keep running.
Sweat dripping all over the place. And it's covering my face
Oh Boy what a disgrace. I am almost there. And I of
course made it . Now I shall be even more Lazy
Enter, Exuberant, Exciting
Red, Royal, Rolling
Beautiful, Baby, Blues
Tight, Tan, Tempting
Straps, Safely, Stored
Magnetic, Mesmerizing, Masochistic
Liquid, Leaking, Legs
Pleasing, Pleasant, Plight
Contain, Control, Conceal
Never, No, Nah
Desire, Does, Draw
Okay, Opening, O
Roses blossoms in red like your cheeks,
violets are blue, like your opened eyes
If the rain makes all things beautiful.
Shower me with tiny drops plentiful
I sketched your face on the sand it got washed.
I wrote your name in air, it was blown
The grass and flowers too.
If rain makes all things beautiful
Why doesn't it rain on you?
then I wrote your name in my heart
after that, it became an incurable hurt
My love I can not find you anywhere,
I feel like I lost my soul somewhere,
because you are my soulmate,
and us being apart can not be fate.
You did not leave because you wanted to,
It just was just something you had to do.
I was not right, All I wanted to do was fight,
and knowing you was the love of my life,
yet I would not make you my wife.
I know that's what you really wanted
and now I am feeling haunted,
by the things I should have done,
and you being the only one
I ever loved and will love forever, if it was'nt for me we will still be together.
But you are gone
and I can not go on,
so I must say good-bye, I'm leaving myself to die.
I'm still in the memories of the frost of twelve
I always think how amazing your ideas are
With your wonderful smile you can heal all my scars
You are my angle with angle eyes and those angle lips I love to kiss
I've never seen a liaison like this
A girl like me and a guy like you
The night of cold winter when you hugged me in the blanket so tight
It felt so complete and so right
I felt the warmth of your body and this beautiful relation
I wish to give you the same warmth the same affection
I looked at the hills intently from the balcony of our hotel room
I was seeing the plants and the shrubs bloom
That frizzy morning I got up early, scanning your face all over
Don't ask me why? I have no answer
Baby, do you remember the night we walked through the dark place
I was holding your hand and in the dim moonlight I could see your face
Now the wintry memories will always stay with me at any pace


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Posts tagged bacon bloody mary
Posts tagged bacon bloody mary
When I mention bacon vodka to people I get a mixed reaction…about 50% of people make gagging noises and shudder at the thought, but the other 50% get excited and want to try it. For those of you brave enough to try it, here is the recipe for bacon vodka:
What you will need:
A drinkable vodka
Bacon cooked to the floppy but fully cooked stage
A glass container with a lid
Place the bacon in the container. For a 750 ml bottle of vodka use 5-6 slices of bacon…I am using a smaller container so I have placed 3 slices of bacon in my bottle. These small bottles are available at Cost Plus World Market and are very useful for infusing vodka and other spirits with fun flavors.
Pour in the rendered bacon fat from the cooking process…this is the part where even the brave shudder and gag a bit. You do not have to add the fat, but it really helps the bacon flavor develop. The last step is to add the vodka. If you are using a 750 ml bottle of vodka you can just shove the bacon in the bottle with the vodka still in it. Just remember to pour a bit out first (chef's treat) to allow for the liquid displacement caused by the added bacon…and bacon fat if you are using it.
I know, I know, it looks like something you would find in a biology classroom…but it is truly delicious!
Now, just seal up the bottle and put it in the refrigerator. Three weeks is the optimal "cooking" time allowing the flavor of the bacon to fully infuse the vodka, but if you are in a hurry you can drink it earlier.
You can use your bacon vodka to make delicious bacon bloody marys…or bacon bloody morries as they were called in Glitter, Glue and Gluttony.
Bacon Bloody Marys (aka Bacon Bloody Morries)
Add 2 oz. bacon vodka to a tall glass full of ice. Add your favorite bloody mary mix (Gluten free friends please read the label carefully because many commercial bloody mary mixes contain wheat.) I also usually add Worcestershire sauce, horseradish, black pepper, and a boat load of tabasco…you can spice yours to taste. Stir, garnish with a crispy slice of bacon (and anything else you would like,) and enjoy.
For the purest: The bacon vodka can also be added to a cocktail shaker full of ice, shaken vigorously, and poured into a martini glass for a lovely bacon martini. Garnish with bacon and enjoy!


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Everyone, Nicole. Everyone.
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I fell in love with this movie
my favorite part of the whole movie. i rewind it over and over again every time i watch drive me crazy.
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I used to tease my brother for watching golf on TV. A couple of years ago I had both hips replaced and while in the hospital I turned to watch a ball game and it was golf. I started watching and it wasn't bad (they give you the good stuff when you've had a hip replaced.) Since then I'll watch golf even without the benefit of drugs. Even before my conversion to a golf watcher I'd still prefer that to soccer. Having said that I guess I'll let the soccer lovers have their day. But just to throw some gas on the fire, don't blame America for calling it soccer, that's a term borrowed from the English who changed English Football Association into soccer for the same reason they changed rugby into rugger.
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This columnist is demonstrating the classic straw man argument and doing it badly. No one is suggesting the solutions she is debunking, she has taken their positions and twisted them badly. As for gun owners forming a circular firing squad around a gun-toting criminal, sorry but we aren't as stupid as that. In the real world the rest of us inhabit a CCW permit holder simply having a weapon has proved sufficient in the past, and has stopped many a criminal. They may be first and they may be crazy but they don't like the odds when someone else has a weapon - more often than not they immediately disarm and give up or shoot themselves. Either way, problem solved.
and authorized an operation to get Osama bin Laden and bring him to justice. Today, at my direction, the United States launched a targeted operation against that compound in Abbottabad , Pakistan . George W. Bush mentioned the servicemen and women who did the deed. Obummer dishonored the ones who actually had boots on the ground and tried to steal credit he did not deserve. I was never a big Bush fan but he was a decent man - something that cannot be said of the current occupant of the White House.
And so shortly after taking office, I directed Leon Panetta, the director of the CIA, to make the killing or capture of bin Laden the top priority of our war against al Qaeda, even as we continued our broader efforts to disrupt, dismantle, and defeat his network. Then, last August, after years of painstaking work by our intelligence community, I was briefed on a possible lead to bin Laden. It was far from certain, and it took many months to run this thread to ground. I met repeatedly with my national security team as we developed more information about the possibility that we had located bin Laden hiding within a compound deep inside of Pakistan . And finally, last week, I determined that we had enough intelligence to take action, and autho
Class vs Crass: George W. Bush speech after capture of Saddam: The success of yesterday's mission is a tribute to our men and women now serving in Iraq . The operation was based on the superb work of intelligence analysts who found the dictator's footprints in a vast country. The operation was carried out with skill and precision by a brave fighting force. Our servicemen and women and our coalition allies have faced many dangers in the hunt for members of the fallen regime, and in their effort to bring hope and freedom to the Iraqi people. Their work continues, and so do the risks. Today, on behalf of the nation, I thank the members of our Armed Forces and I congratulate 'em. Barack Obama speech after killing of bin Laden: And so sh
the single largest state or local environmental bond item in history up until that point, voter approved. It was in fact, a little over half the size of the federally approved cleanup funds for the entire country! So, prior to the fire even happening, environmentalists were already celebrating a victory.
Happy to oblige: In 1965, a local car dealership owner decided to do something about it, and kicked off the "Save Lake Erie" campaign, garnering over a million signatures for petitions. The movement was entirely Cleveland based - almost all the signatures collected from people from Sandusky to Painesville and south towards Akron, and largely focused on cleaning the Cuyahoga. Around this time major municipal figures started making a stink about it, like when the Cleveland city fire chief publicly declared the river a "fire hazard" and it became a talking point for then candidate for mayor Carl Stokes. In 1968, a municipal bond item to clean up the river was put up for a referendum and passed. The bond item was for $100 million dollars, the
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80p (£1.24 per 100g)
Brand Price Match - Checked Tesco.com 20/10/2014
Product Summary
Easy to make simply add milk and cream. No artificial colours or flavours. A heavenly melt in the mouth cooked cream dessert with a dash of vanilla.
Sugar, Maize Starch, Gelatine (Beef Origin), Natural Flavouring, Gelling Agents (Carrageenan, Tetrasodium Pyrophosphate), VanillaSeeds (0.2%)
Preparation & Storage
- You will need:1 sachet of Hansells panna cotta mix250ml cream (UK double cream)250ml whole milk4 x 150ml dariole moulds or ramekinsDirections:1. Measure the milk and cream into a small saucepan.2. Sprinkle over sachet contents and stir well.3. Cook over medium high heat until boiling, turn down heat and simmer for 2 minutes, stirring continuously. Remove from heat and pour into the moulds or ramekins.4. Cover and chill in the fridge for at least 3 hrs.5. Turn out onto serving plates and serve.Tip: to get your panna cotta out of the mould more easily, carefully dip it into boiling water for a few seconds and run a knife round the edge before turning it out. Serve with your favourite berry sauce.Once prepared, keep refrigerated and consume within 48hrs.
Store in a cool, dry place.
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ASA Committee Minutes -- July 10, 2003 -- Board of Trustees -- University of Louisville
The Academic and Student Affairs Committee of the University of Louisville Board of Trustees met at 1:30 p.m. on Thursday, July 10, 2003 in the Jefferson Room of Grawemeyer Hall with members present and absent as follows
Mr. Milton M. Livingston, Chair
Mr. Michael Sticklen, Vice Chair
Ms. Virginia C. Brown
Ms. Donna Tinsley Denny
Prof. David Ensign
Ms. Sandra Metts Snowden
|Ms. Joyce Hagen
|Trustees Present:
Ms. Marie K. Abrams
Ms. Linda Wallbaum Cauble
Mr. Kevin D. Cogan
Mr. Nathaniel E. Green
Ms. Jessica S. Loving
Ms. Elizabeth H. Worland
|From the University:
Dr. James Ramsey, President
Ms. Angela D. Koshewa, University Counsel
Dr. Joel A. Kaplan, Executive Vice President and Chancellor for HSC
Dr. Nancy Martin, Senior Vice President for Research
Mr. Larry L. Owsley, Vice President for Business Affairs
Dr. Denise Gifford, Vice President for Student Affairs
Dr. David Howarth, Associate Provost
Ms. Terri Rutledge, Asst. Vice President for Business Affairs
Ms. Denise Fitzpatrick, Director of Communications
Ms. Carolyn Cochran, Assistant to the Provost
Ms. Rae Goldsmith, Associate Vice President for University Advancement
Ms. Debbie Dougherty, Board Liaison, President's Office
Ms. Kathleen M. Smith, Assistant Secretary, Board of Trustees
I. Call to Order
Having determined a quorum present, Chair Livingston called the meeting to order at 1:30 p.m.
Approval of Minutes, March 13, 2003
Prof. Ensign made a motion, which Ms. Brown seconded, to approve the minutes of March 13, 2003. The motion passed unanimously.
II. Information Item: Update on Community Park
Vice President Gifford distributed materials related to updating Greek Housing at the University of Louisville, including a timeline (copy attached). She referenced the University's plan to increase significantly the percentage of students who live on-campus. The University's five-year housing vision expands residential spaces on the west side of campus, while efficiently utilizing available land for construction. Recognizing the charm and attachment to the older Greek facilities, she noted the University encouraged the Greek organizations to plan for the future. She noted flexibility was a key factor in working together with student organizations to make this plan a reality. She projected that organizations buying into this new Greek community will enjoy increased visibility and a presence on campus. Chair Livingston thanked Vice President Gifford for an excellent status report.
III. President's Report
President Ramsey introduced Dr. Robert Felner, Dean of the College of Education and Human Development. Dr. Ramsey noted the Personnel Committee earlier today, approved naming of the honors center after Mr. and Mrs. Etscorn. President Ramsey had invited Mr. Mac Barr, senior member of the Board of Overseers and Chair of the Overseers Scholarship Committee to the meeting today, but Mr. Barr was detained by a previous engagement. Mr. Barr was instrumental in recruiting the Etscorn gift. Since Mr. Barr was unable to attend the meeting today, President Ramsey suggested the Board members express their appreciation to him directly.
IV. Adjournment
Ms. Snowden made a motion, which Prof. Ensign seconded, to adjourn the meeting at 1:45 p.m. The motion passed unanimously.


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The Miami Heat are looking at ways they can bring back the Big 3 this summer and that means putting together a roster of talent that won't put as much of a strain on LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh as the roster last year did.
According to Sam Amico from Fox Sports Ohio, the Miami Heat are going to have to shell out big bucks if they want to get Chris Bosh back as he's asking for as much as $18 million and may or may not have a 5-year, $90 million contract from the Heat.
Miami Heat big man Chris Bosh is seeking a contract that will pay him $90 million over five years, a source dialed in with Bosh's thinking told FOX Sports Ohio on Wednesday.
Bosh is negotiating with the Heat, but no deal is done yet, the source said.
This is not a team friendly contract that we were hearing about earlier in the week and it's something that may make signing free agents hard, as $90 million to someone like Bosh means that LeBron would no doubt ask for the max without a second though about it.
We'll have to see if this report holds up, but if it's true then it's a bit peculiar that the Heat would get into contract details with Bosh first and not LeBron.
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Dr. Oetker coloured icing
£2.00 (40p per 100g)
Product Summary
Ready to roll coloured icing.
Sugar, Glucose Syrup, Water, Vegetable Oil (Palm), Colours: Brilliant Blue, Green S, Vegetable Carbon, Carotenes, Lutein, Anthocyanins, Humectant: Glycerine, Emulsifier: Mono- and Diglycerides of Fatty Acids, Acidity Regulator: Citric Acid, Stabiliser: Tragacanth, Preservative: Potassium Sorbate, Flavouring
Preparation & Storage
- Directions. Knead the coloured icing until soft and pliable and roll out on a surface lightly dusted with icing sugar. If applying directly to a cake use smooth apricot jam or a small amount of buttercream to secure the icing to the cake. To apply to a cake with marzipan or to white icing slightly moisten the surface with cooled boiled water. To achieve an extra smooth surface and remove any excess icing sugar, polish with the flat of your hand. Coloured Regal-Ice Ready to Roll icing is suitable for covering or modeling.
Store in a cool, dry and dark place. Once opened, wrap any unused icing in polythene or foil to prevent to drying out. Do not refrigerate.
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2011 wasn't the best year, but wasn't bad either. I found a dance company that I love more than anything, it's made me a better dancer, I got accepted into a school in NY that I really want to go to, but probably can't afford it. I turned eighteen, and my friends threw me a surprise party. This summer I had a lot of pool party's and get togethers. I made new friends, lost some good ones. Started writing again, and hopefully I can keep writing. As I'm typing this, I feel like each year is a cycle of the same shit.
Not really expecting anything great next year. It'll probably be the same ole thing. And I'll still be depressed, because I won't be happy at the college I'll end up at.
Yay 2012
Tonight was lovely.
Woke up late, got ready and went to chic-fil-a with Holly and Sean. I've missed Sean, he's really cool.
Talked for 2hours.
Then holly and I reached cloud nine and met up with Madeline.
Artmosphere, hookah, laughter, talking.
Sushi, more laughing, deciding on a road trip after senior year.
Driving around, I just love driving around.
Tonight was nice.
Something about this guy that draws me towards him.
Today has been one of the worst days.
I just keep crying and I wish I could stop.
It just sucks to be so close to something and then have it taken away from you.
My dreams and wishes get thrown out the window.
My biggest fear is not being happy in the future. I feel like if I stay here, I'll never find happiness.
I don't understand how you can love me now, after eight months have passed. You've waited until now. I've been over you, I'm not going down that road again.
It's time to see new people.
I think I'm forming a new crush anywho. I never thought I could start forming feelings for a best friend.
Tripped so fucking hard earlier, what a great experience. So mind altering.
Thank you Parisa, same goes to you. I love talking to you. You bring laughter into my life.
Sometimes, I think it's difficult for beautiful girls. People never see past their looks.
I had a wonderful day, too bad it ends in thirty minutes.
That's a lot to think about.
right now.
I have shitty friends.
2008: wow I was so stupid last year
2009: wow I was so stupid last year
2010: wow I was so stupid last year
2011: wow I was so stupid last year
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Black-Eyed Peas With Rice
Serves 6
3 slices bacon
1 sm. onion, chopped
1 (16 oz.) can black-eyed peas, drained
1 (14 1/2 oz.) can stewed tomatoes, undrained and chopped
1 1/2 c. cooked rice
1/4 tsp. hot sauce
1/8 tsp. garlic powder
1/8 tsp. pepper
Cook bacon in a large skillet until crisp; remove bacon, reserve drippings. Crumble bacon and set aside. Saute onion in drippings until tender. Drain onion and discard drippings; return onion to skillet. Add peas and remaining ingredients. Cover and cook over low heat 8-10 minutes. Spoon into serving dish sprinkle crumbled bacon over top.
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- Fri Mar 30 2007
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central bank independence
monetary commitment
price stability
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Central bank independence (CBI) is a very important precondition for price stability. However, the empirical evidence for a correlation between both is relatively weak. In this paper, this weakness is countered with a) an extended measure of monetary commitment, which includes well-known criteria for CBI and external criteria such as convertibility and exchange rate regimes and b) the argument that monetary commitment can grant price stability best if it is backed by an adequate assignment of economic policy. An empirical assessment with data from four decades confirms the crucial role of monetary commitment for price stability.
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- Research article
- article languages JER
- Englisch
- article research fields JER
- public policy
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