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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- From a computer keyboard in London, an Iranian emigre plays the role of counselor, social media guru and all-around adviser for Internet users back home seeking ways around the cyber-blocks set up by authorities in Tehran. These have been busy days.
His Twitter account -- which goes under the handle of Nariman Gharib -- registers a steady stream of calls for help from Iran and responses about new proxy servers, dial-up modems and other possible workarounds. The goal is to defeat Iran's Internet clampdowns, which have intensified in the approach to presidential elections on June 14.
"Here is a new link for Siphon," he wrote, describing a site that directs users to a server outside Iran. Minutes later, replies stream back that it worked on Android systems but not PCs. He sent a tweaked Web address.
"Hope this works," he wrote.
State controls on the Internet in Iran are nothing new. Authorities have steadily tried to choke off social media and political opposition sites -- among others -- since they became tools for protesters alleging vote rigging after President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's disputed re-election four years ago.
Now, with the election to pick Ahmadinejad's successor looming, the constraints are drawing even tighter. Iranian authorities appear to be stepping up their efforts to block the pathways to servers outside Iran that open access to outlawed sites such as Facebook, the BBC's Persian service and websites from what's left of Iran's opposition Green Movement.
The Internet squeeze signifies more than a display of widening state controls before an election that is almost certain to bring an establishment-friendly winner. It's also another showcase of Iran's expanding online prowess led by the powerful Revolutionary Guards.
A special Web-watching corps established two years ago has the mission of patrolling the domestic Internet and fighting suspected cyberwars with the West and its allies. Some say it even creates false activist profiles to try to ferret out dissidents.
Iran is believed by many security experts to be behind computer-virus attacks last year on Saudi Arabian state oil giant Saudi Aramco and Qatari natural gas producer RasGas. Last week, The New York Times reported that Iran is considered a chief suspect in a series of malware breaches into U.S. energy companies, citing American officials and corporate security experts. Iran has repeatedly denied similar claims.
But Iran also has been hit by viruses it claims were launched by the U.S. and Israel. A date-siphoning program known as Flame forced Iran's Oil Ministry to completely shut down its computer system last year. Three years ago, Iran's uranium-enrichment labs were penetrated by a virus called Stuxnet, which was tailored to disrupt Iran's nuclear centrifuges.
On Sunday, Iran inaugurated a 5,000-kilometer (3,000-mile) fiber-optic line running to Germany via Russia. Iran's North Korean-educated communications minister, Mohammad Hasan Nami , said it will boost the "security" of telecommunications as part of Iran's wider efforts to seek a self-contained Internet with its own Google-style search engines and vetted websites such as Twitter and Facebook accounts attributed to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
"Iranian authorities are getting better at controlled cyberspace," said Theodore Karasik, a security and political affairs analyst at the Dubai-based Institute for Near East and Gulf Military Analysis. "But Iran's Internet generation is very clever at beating them at their own game."
The legions of well-educated and highly Web literate Iranians under 30 are the backbone of a kind of cyber-underground. Names and Web addresses of proxy server sites that allow users to sidestep controls are passed around like hot gossip. Lately, however, authorities appear to be gaining the upper hand.
Each morning, Hossein Razaei, a mechanical engineer who runs a small engineering company in Tehran, checks up on the best-working path to beat the censors. Sometimes that means scanning banned news sites such as Voice of America or connecting to foreign engineering firms to look at new ideas.
"Nowadays," he laments, "we cannot open many sites."
Iranian authorities have not commented directly on any possible new Web controls. Some lawmakers have suggested that Web restrictions are needed to prevent "enemies" -- a reference to U.S. and allies -- from influencing the election.
But Iran's leaders certainly have factored in the chaos in 2009, which marked Iran's worst domestic unrest since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
It also was a precursor to the Arab Spring in the use of social media. Sites such as Facebook and Twitter -- still relatively obscure in the region at the time -- were essential to organizing protests and giving accounts of crackdowns after blanket media restrictions were imposed. A YouTube video of a dying protester, Neda Agha Soltan, became an iconic image of the demonstrations.


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Training and OD Professionals,
I am curious to know how much a freelance training professional typically charges in the Indian market (in approximate $US terms). Most of my training experience has been in Australia where a freelance high school teacher can earn up to $US200 per day and management trainers hired by big brand training organisations typically get paid about $US800 per day ( charged out at $US2000 per day to customers!)
Here in Vietnam where I am now based international trainers work for between $US200 - $400 and are charged by reputable international corporate training providers at $US600- $1200.
Of course there are plenty of people who work for less and a few who work for more. The rates of described above would usually require a Masters degree and the ability to make training clients want the trainer again. For OD facilitators with sound group process consultation skills you can probably add 30 - 50% to the above figures.
So what are the indicative numbers in India? I would be very grateful for any responses to this question?
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paul58 - Member Since: Jun 2004
I am Jo from Bangalore. I can be contacted on or +919448270474
The freelance trainer fee per day varies from US$ 300 to 700 or more based on experience, target audience etc.
Best wishes,
Bill Williams - Member Since: Sep 2006
Thanks Jo, You were the only person who bothered to reply to this question. I wonder why? Best regards, Bill
cvadhana - Member Since: Sep 2006
Hi jo,,
I never knew that a freelance trainer gets so much money in india!
Are u sure abt the figures???
i guess u r talking about trianers like Arindham choudary ..???
what about normal trainers??
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Dear Bill
The rates in India also vary a lot . But generally between $ 250 to $ 600
I charge about $ 400 for a residential prog and $ 350 for a day prog.
with the develoment sector ( bilateral donar agencies like DFID / USAID the charges are about $ 200 but most agencies also pay for prepration and travel days.
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A.JEYASEELAN - Member Since: Sep 2006
I strongly disagree with CV.
Here the average cost is (I mean the trainer fee) around 400 US dollars.
Without which no one will conduct a training.
If it is an out bound or MDP or EDP it will vary from 800 USD and above.
This is what I am experiencing.
Bill, you can check this out.
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Hi Jo,
Couple of my colleug'swork'g for BPO industry would love to join in as a
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Hi Jo I want to be as a freelance trainer, can tell me which area of software is good to start with. Thanks Kumar
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Food in Fiction [moved from Not About Food board]
Who are the great food writers? Not writers whose subject is food, but those writers who create evocative food scenes and descriptions in their novels. I'm thinking of John D MacDonald and Lawrence Sanders whose male protagonists had great appetites and would describe sandwiches, steaks, breakfasts with mouthwatering detail. Are there any more current authors out there who present food with gusto?
Andrea Camilieri who writes the Inspector Montalbano books set in Sicily has wonderful descriptions of food and meals.
This probably isn't what you had in mind but it popped right into mine when I read your post. I love this passage. In "The Wind in the Willows" when Toad is in jail, the jailer's daughter brings him tea and toast: "...a tray, with a cup of fragrant tea steaming on it; and a plate, piled up with very hot buttered toast, cut thick, very brown on both sides, with the butter running through the holes in it in great golden drops like honey from the honeycomb...".
re: Querencia
In the kiddie lit genre, I'm reminded of Bread and Jam for Francis. Francis the badger wants, as all kids do, only bread and jam while he schoolmates pull out the most amazing lunches. Those badgers have quite the sophisticated palates!
re: wandasue
OMG but you just brought me back in time. I LOVED that book! Thanks for such a happy memory!
re: wandasue
I should have known I was a foodie from birth because the Frances books were my favorite!
I remember a great chapter in Pat Conroy's "The Prince of Tides" where Tom's mother enter a cooking contest and makes a stuffed fish. Yum.
re: Querencia
I was thinking of all the loving descriptions of food in Laura Ingalls Wilder's books. In "Farmer Boy" it is all about eating, but in the Laura and Mary books the preparation of food is lovingly detailed. And food is appreciated so!
re: mwright
I really loved reading farmer boy when I was growing up just for the food scenes.
I also reccomend pretty much anything by roald dahl.
Im sure you all think of james and the giant peach and charlie and the chocolate factory but how about the fantastic mr. fox? I think I read every single one of his books (including adult short stories) at least 5 times each
fantastic mr. fox is also being released as a movie in nov 2009
re: bitsubeats
Have you read his short story "Taste"? It's about wine and so much more!
re: wandasue
yes! I love that story
re: bitsubeats
Ah, I remember the part in Matilda where Ms. Honey lets Matilda gather up tea leaves and water from the well in her backyard for a little tea party, along with toast, jam and margarine. I loved it.
re: mwright
I do remember the making ice cream details!
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel is fiction entirely devoted to food and passion. i think the joy luck club (amy tan) also has a lot of cookery in it
the feast scenes in the harry potter books are also wonderful.
it's been a long while, but I have a vague memory of food images from Enid Blyton's magic faraway tree and only last night my mum mentioned the "suppers" in the secret seven.
I am not sure if it's a book, but the film "eat drink man woman" certainly deserves a mention.
re: inuksuk
OK, I would just love to throw in (fellow Jorge Amado lover here), that his book GABRIELA: OF CLOVES AND CINNAMON, takes place in the sugar-growing region of Brazil (I forget the specific province) and is all about food, seduction, what-have-you. A classic.
re: maria lorraine
There are wonderful food passages also in GREAT EXPECTATIONS.
I've just finished reading a wonderful book by Nicole Mones called "The Last Chinese Chef." Food is both a central theme and the thread into which several personal stories and histories are interwoven. Her writing is engaging, to say the least. As you read, you can hear the thwack of knives against wooden cutting boards, hear the ssszzzzzzzzz! as food goes into a hot wok, and smell the garlic and ginger. I'm never been a huge fan of Chinese food, but reading her beautifully detailed description of the preparation of an Imperial-style banquet made me believe I'd never really eaten Chinese food. Now I almost want to go to China to seek out the real thing.
Mones is also the author of "Lost in Translation," which was made into a movie with Bill Murray and Scarlett Johannson.
re: Deenso
Actually, Mones' "Lost in Translation" isn't the same story-line as the movie with Murray and Johannson - here's a link to the book's plot-line: http://tinyurl.com/2bxb4e .
re: Deenso
I agree that the Last Chinese Chef was amazing! I loved it!
re: littlelea
I second Tolkien - Hobbits like their meals... plenty and often if i remember right. And a good deal of the Trilogy was devoted to mealtimes - good and bad. Be it a feast in the hall of an elvenking or "cram" and water, with maybe a few bits of roasted coney, the food always evoked the spirit of the story line.
re: KaimukiMan
my husband has decided he is a hobbit so that he can have "second breakfast"!
re: AlyKen
Lots more mystery series than those...Katherine Hall Page (The Body in the Boullion, etc), and several others whose names aren't coming immediately to mind.
re: momjamin
Additionally, if I remember correctly, Peter King wrote (possibly still writes) a series of mysteries about a nameless detective who tracks down restaurant secrets, offbeat ingredients, and solves the occasional murder centered around the culinary world, in a series of books that began with 'The Gourmet Detective'.
re: blackoak
His books are a hoot! He takes the gourmet thing over the top, amusingly so.
I borrowed "La Cucina" by Lily Prior from Candy and took it with me on vacation last week. Really enjoyed it, especially the many cooking and eating scenes.
re: bitsubeats
That is my favorite book to give children. Gorgonzola!
re: Oh Robin
We just bought that for our 6 year old. Great book!
re: Glencora
Hermingway and Colwin were the exact ones I was going to say!
I have all Laurie Colwin books and have them shelved with my food writing books - even the ones not specific to food. That's a compliment BTW - a place of honor!
And if we are going to talk about kids fictions - In the Night Kitchen set me on the path to kitchen/baking love.
re: momjamin
Ruth Reichl - "Tender at the Bone". She's also the editor of Gourmet Magazine.
Ellen Hart writes mystery novels. She has a series with Jane Lawless who owns a restaurant and solves crimes. She has another with Sophie Greenway who is a food critic and solves crimes.
Anything by Haruki Murakami, except "After the Quake" and "Underground" (non-fiction). Many of the meals prepared and eaten by his lonely characters, no matter how simple, are described from prep to toothpick in his amazing novels.
How about Fannie Flagg's books, especially "Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle-Stop Cafe".
I'll second the rec. for Andrea Camilleri's books - that Inspector knows how to eat and appreciates the most simple, fresh dishes. I'd love to follow along and dine with him.
There's also some interesting (and tantilizing) food/meal descriptions in Helene Turston's "Inspector Huss" series.
I just read Leonie Swann's "Three Bags Full" and there's some delightful descriptions of different grasses and herbs (as described by sheep).
Donna Leon mysteries. The books are set in Venice and her protaganist, Guido Brunetti loves food. He goes into the descriptions when he eats out or when his wife, Paola cooks for him and they are luscious. I always want Italian food after reading one of Leon's books.
Also, Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert has some excellent food descriptions in it. Unfortunately, they only occur in the Eat section (Italy) and the rest of the book isn't worthwhile. But, if you can start a book and not finish it, I recommend reading the Italy portion only. One section, she described how she went to a farmer's market and bought asparagus and cheese (and something else but I can't remember) and how she arranged it on a plate. The description was lovely. also, how she and a friend made a pilgrimage to this pizza place in Rome (?). How the line was long but the pizza was unbelievable. I'm not even the biggest pizza eater but I felt the need to get a slice soon after.
re: beetlebug
Under the Tuscan Sun had lots of delicious food in it.
re: beetlebug
Yes, I always get hungry when I read what Paola's cooking or Brunetti's eating. Always want to join them on the terrace for a little aperitif too. Oh, and good mysteries to boot.
re: beetlebug
I'll second that!
Steven Brust is a science fiction/fantasy writer whose Dragera series of books features the main protagonist - Vlad Taltos -- who is an obvious foodie. They certainly aren't books about food, but he cooks and describes restaurants/inns and meals. Hios latest "Dzur", has the beginning of every section as a flashback taking place within his favorite restaurant -- Valabars -- and those of us that love food will love how he describes his enjoyment of the meal and the reactions of a character new to the experiance.
He also invents herbs, vegetables, and animals, working them into the description of a dish along with actual ingredients. "Longfish" is one such example, and it's fun to try to guess at what the ingredient might be like.
You could go back to two sleuths - Nero Wolfe, who had his own private chef, Fritz, and who was always arguing with him about how a dish was to be made; and Georges Simenon, whose Maigret used to eat lunch at home in Paris with his wife and in bistros (he loved andouillettes, for example). Both had cookbooks written based on what they ate in their respective novels. Rex Stout, who wrote about Nero Wolfe, wrote at least twenty novels about him; and Simenon wrote over 150 novels about Maigret.
re: EclecticEater
My favorite short story is "Sorry Fugu" by TC Boyle. It's about a restaurant that's getting reviewed. I actually feel like Ratatouille (great movie!) kind of ripped off elements of the story -- but I guess the critic archetype can cross stories and genres.
Also, Debt to Pleasure by John Lanchester is a good one -- he describes cheese, rather unforgettably, as the corpse of milk. Nice.
re: ctscorp
Lanchester might have been paying tribute to James Joyce, who in _Ulysses_ famously wrote: 'A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.' I've always loved this idea, too.
re: EclecticEater
I think the Wolfe series has to be the best for food enjoyment.
I searched for years for "The Nero Wolfe Cookbook" (out of print for many years now).
At the closing of a library book sale one day, it was announced "Now $1 a bag." As I reached for a bag to fill, there it was. based on the number of books I fit into the bag, it cost me about 3 cents.
I have used a variation of one of his lamb recipes for leg of lamb for years. Sweetbreads and shad roe too.
re: meatn3
I'm very interested about other novels that include food. I love Nicole Mones books. I came across a foodie fiction website but I can't find it now. I'd love to hear more suggestions.
Many fictional detectives are also foodies--Salvo Mantalbano (Sicily) is my current favorite, also Lord Peter Wimsey London), Spenser (Boston), Dave Robicheaux, (New Orleans and environs) Elvis Cole (Los Angeles), Nero Wolfe (NYC), Prescious Ramotswe (though her Botswanan diet seems a little circumscribed, she still loves her grub) are all wonderful. Also "Crime a la Carte" is a collection of detective and crime stories centered around food featuring great writers including A.A. Milne, Roald Dahl and if you can believe it, MFK Fisher! I know I've read it cover to cover at 3x's.
The "Lucia" books by EF Benson, about English country life between the WW's, are not only wonderfully funny, but Lobster a la Risholme and gooseberry fool are plot lynchpins. They are like a cross between PG Wodehouse and Jane Austin. Highly recommend!
re: annabana
Definitely The Good Earth by pearl Buck
re: EmyLouie
Every once in a while I think about that tofu crab dish and wish I could lay mouth to it!
Oh and please, please! Dont forget Ludwig Bemmelmans, an artist with words and pictures,whose books and murals speak eloquently about properly prepared dishes. If you haven't read any of his books, it will be a completely new and astonishing pleasure for anyone who loves food. Books include Hotel Splendid, My War With The United States, The Street Where The Heart Lies, I Love You I Love You I love You, and the Madeline series. He will touch you, make you hungry, and in the gentlest way teach you how to prepare certain classic dishes properly.
I posted this earlier tonight because I couldn't find this thread... so here it is in the right place.
I just finished reading a novel that was absolutely wonderful... the author has a deep knowledge and love of food and it shone through in every page - and she also knows how to write! This is her first novel, and I drank it in. You'd have to call this food-porn. :P It makes you not only appreciate the food but to want to run out and cook it and to savour the tastes and smells and experiences she's writing about. I hope she isn't a one-book author.
The School of Essential Ingredients, by Erica Bauermeister
Another great foody novel I read awhile ago was 'Blessed are the Cheesemakers' by Sarah-Kate Lynch. Her other foody novel is 'By Bread Alone'. These are lighter fiction but very readable, and without the food there would be no story.
And then of course there's the detective series about the caterer in the Rockies... the food is more peripheral in those books, but they're enjoyable enough. They have actual recipes scattered through them, but I don't usually feel any desire to run out and make the recipes.
Anybody got any other great suggestions for literary food?
Rose Tremain's The Road Home is a wonderful, very humane novel (about a Polish immigrant to London in the 90's) which has a lot to say about food and its role in nurturing and happiness. This woman is the most amazing writer, each of her books is set in a different era/country and all are intensely involving.
Don't forget Patricia Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta character - she's all about the food - there's even a cookbook (Food to Die For).
Just read "Jamesland" by Michele Huneven (who I understand is/was a restaurant reviewer in the LA area). Excellent book, vivid characterizations, and a lot about food (one of the main characters is a chef who had and lost two restaurants due to shaky mental health and circumstance and is given a third chance - and whose meals cooked for friends -and their reactions to same - are described in loving detail). Love this woman's books, "Blame" was good, "Jamesland" better, and I still have "Round Rock" to read.


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The Plainview-Old Bethpage Central School District's John F. Kennedy High School Class of 2014 recently participated in the school's first "College Decision Day" event. Hundreds of students proudly wore shirts and sweatshirts signifying where they will attend college next year. The soon-to-be high school graduates filled out paper leaves, writing their college of choice, and placed it on the school's college decision tree, located in front of the school. JFK administrators and teachers also wore shirts representing their alma maters.
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I'd been keeping tabs on this raccoon family through the spring of 2010, occasionally catching a glimpse of their silhouettes heading back to their nest for the day (they're nocturnal) in a hole of a tree on a steep slope overlooking the Manasquan River just before dawn. This particular morning, one of the young lagged behind and hung out for a while. I went to get my 800mm lens in hopes he would give me an "op" but I was too late. It was about 6 am and time to do yoga, so I left the gear set up and started my workout on my pool deck near by. Shortly thereafter, I'm on my back looking up seeing not one , but four sets of eyes looking down at me. They cooperated, the sun started to pop up and I was ready to be lucky......so much is about the light and luck...all fun.
Usually, the Great Blue Herons are wading and fishing in the shallows of the river about 50 feet below. It was dusk and this guy was perched on this perfectly shaped gum tree branch.
I like the soft light and the space around him.
optical illusion.....he's in my vanishing edge pool with the river in the background


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BOOK NEWS: Choc Lit snaps up two debuts
Independent publisher Choc Lit has snapped up two debut romance novels, The Bookseller reported today.
Choc Lit purchased rights to the two books - Up Close by Henriette Gyland and The Road Back by Liz Harris - which will be published in late 2012. Up Close scooped the New Talent Award at this year's Festival of Romance.
Lyn Vernham, Choc Lit director, said: "The brand enables us to support debuts. Folks don't just buy one Choc Lit novel, they often read our entire list. There are some extremely talented authors who are getting overlooked because they have no agent. With our Tasting Panel reviewing manuscripts we are able to accept direct submission."
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For overnight stays at Phantom Ranch, a minimum of 10 to a maximum of 20 hikers, or parties of 10 mule riders is designated a Group. All Groups are booked with one 10-person cabin. Hiker Groups of more than 10 will have the remainder of space divided between male and female dormitory spaces (not in cabins). Group space opens to requests on the 1st of each month, for that entire month of the next year (i.e. Group space for March 1-31 for the upcoming year may be requested beginning on March 1 the prior year, etc.) via faxed written request only. The only exception to this rule is January, which will be accepted on January 2nd.
Requests should be printed or typed in BLACK ink on a piece of paper and must include:
- Total number of people in your group. If more than 10, designate how the remaining 10 should be assigned by male or female dorms.
- Date(s) of stay: Please submit as many valid dates (or even specific time frames) in your request as you wish in order of preference, to improve your chances.
- There is a maximum two-night stay per group from March 20 through June 30, and September 1 through October 31.
- Required meals. Please note the different meal times. We strongly recommend requesting your meals at the same time you request the overnight accommodations. Hiker meals must be reserved in advance, and do sell out. Meals are available to both Phantom Ranch guests and to hikers staying in the campgrounds.
- Contact information. You must include your name, address, and phone number. Also an email address will result in a faster response time.
- Group requests must be faxed to 928-638-0982 at midnight (Mountain Standard Time (MST), we do not observe daylight savings time)
- Group Requests that do not include all of the above information will not be considered complete requests and therefore will not be addressed.
Additional information
The 3-Hour Canyon Vista mule trips are limited to a maximum of 10 riders on any given day. This is in addition to any phantom ranch groups.
Allow 2 to 3 weeks for response to your request. Including an email address will speed up the response time. Requests are responded to in the same order that they are received. Any requests received prior to Midnight will be addressed last.
A deposit in the amount of 50% of all items booked for the group is due 14 days from the date a contract is issued, with the balance due 90 days prior to the group's arrival. Do not include a form of payment with your request.
Group reservations and any part thereof must be cancelled at least 30 days prior to the arrival date to receive a refund.
Less than 10 people
Parties with less than 10 people must make their reservations directly with our Central Reservations office at Xanterra Parks & Resorts. Phone: 303-297-2757 or 888-297-2757.
*Phantom Ranch individual reservations are also accepted on the first of each month, 13 months in advance (see example in second paragraph above). During the most popular periods, this means dormitories are just as likely to sell out to individuals. Groups with stays of more than one night are extremely difficult to obtain during these popular periods.


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sy copas dari salah satu sporty-er bro..indrapit :
ini mobil bagus .... buat yang ngerti mobil.... Sportage I laku di Amerika, Canada, Australia, negara2 eropa.... Kenapa? karena ini memang mobil bagus spek lengkap,-selengkapnya....dijual dgn harga rasional...dan mesinnya DOHC 16V based on Mazda MX6 jangan lupa mobil ini suspensinya didesain oleh Lotus!
The Sportage is the product of collaboration between Kia, Ford, Mazda and suspension-tuning guru Lotus. Designed from the start as a sport utility, the Sportage sports tough ladder-frame construction, shift-on-the-fly four-wheel drive, and a Mazda-based 2.0-liter, 16-valve engine that makes 130 horsepower
On the pavement, we found the Sportage confidence inspiring and fun to drive. Lotus engineers worked wonders here, and the Sportage is stable and comfortable. Off road, the short, sloping hood provides excellent visibility for climbing or descending hills, and the suspension soaks up ruts and bumps without bottoming out.
Ane sempat pake yang short dari baru th 2000, sekarang baru beli yang second hand tipe long dengan kondisi masih bagus sekali.. nanti ya saya upload foto-fotonya.
Pokoknya cuma satu comment saya sama ini mobil..... Puas makenya..
ngomongin soal mesin 3FE Mazda DOHC yg nempel di Sporty ini info menariknya dari bro WIKI, spt halnya spec yg ada di komparasi yg bro didikwahyu di atas :
The Mazda FE-DOHC was the DOHC variant of the FE. The official Mazda engine codes are FE-DE and FE-ZE, depending on output level. It is still commonly called the FE3 because of its head castings. The FE-DOHC shares the same dimensions as the original FE-SOHC, including the square 86 mm bore × stroke and it has an ideal 1.74 rod/stroke ratio. The FE-DOHC is usually identified by a gold-coloured cam cover, however not always. There were at least five different FE-DOHC engines available with various compression ratio, camshaft and ECU tuning combinations, however none were fitted with a turbocharger from the factory. Despite this, the FE-DOHC is already built for turbo with large forged connecting rods, large journal dimensions, oil cooler, piston oilers, web-stiffened block with main girdles (and braceplate where equipped). This robust engine design is a favourite of tuners who are aware of its capability because it already has a high-power capacity perfect for custom turbo jobs. As much as 600 whp has been seen on a stock engine. The common FE-DOHC crankshaft is cast while the forged crankshaft is fitted to the aluminum sump engines with both the main bearing braces and the main bearing girdle plate. In European 10.0:1 compression, non-catalytic trim, the FE-DOHC produces 148 ps (108 kW) at 6000 rpm and 133 lb/ft (182 Nm) at 4000 rpm. The 9.2:1 compression, catalytic converter version produces 140 ps. The Japanese domestic market variants produce anywhere between 145 ps and 170 ps, with the late manual 4WD GV Wagon having 165 ps in certain years.
The FE-DOHC was a European and Japanese market engine only (excluding use by Kia), and as such was only ever delivered in vehicles by Mazda to countries in those markets, with the exception of New Zealand who also received European market models. The engine was first fitted to the GD model 1988-1992 626 GT, 1987-1991 Capella and the 626 Coupe GT 2.0i/Capella C2 GT-X and GT-R. In South Africa, Samcor who built Mazdas under licence also fitted the FE-DOHC engine to the Mazda 323 from 1991 to 1994.
Alongside the sedan, hatch and coupe models the FE-DOHC was also being used in the GV wagon, which ran until 1997.
The rest of the world received the FE-DOHC in the 1995–2003 Kia Sportage, built by Kia under license. Kia first introduced the engine in March 1992, when they installed it in the Kia Concord, a license built version of the 1982 Mazda Capella. The Sportage variant was reconfigured for rear-wheel drive configuration with long single-runner intake manifold, low-duration cams and exclusively in the low compression ratio of 9.2:1.


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The Sound of Confusion
The Oblique, Opaque, Impenetrable, RidiculousAnd Maybe Kinda BrilliantNew Album By Scott Walker
Scott Engel sliced off his surname in 1964 to join a boy band. Four decades later, the now-and-forever Scott Walker has released an opera. Seven years in the making, The Drift (4AD) is an absurdly pretentious album. It has more to do with, say, baroque ironwork or the cinema of Pier Paolo Pasolini than anything in the rock canona regular barrel of monkeys, in other words.
It will spawn no hit single. There will be no tour, no video, no television appearances. Exposure to it will repel the merely curious, and even fans may find themselves respecting more than loving it. Its European excesses stink of clove cigarettes and pungent cheese. Its hyperbole, or at least pre-emptory, to call it a masterpiece when theres barely been time to digest it. But its certainly . . . something.
Scott Noel Engel was born in 1943 in the tire towns of Ohio and escaped to the sun and sprawl of Los Angeles on the cusp of the 60s. Once there, the teenage Engel, already singing around town, fell in with a rakish young jazz fan in crisp suits and impossibly black sunglasses name Jack Nitzsche who had transformed himself into a journeyman pop producer with spectacular results. It was Nitzsche who urged Engel, John Maus, and former Standell Gary Leeds to form a pop trio in the mold of the Righteous Brothers.
The newly christened Walker Brothers performed spectacularly gloomy Sunday ballads. Instead of the lippy sneer of Mick Jagger or the ecstatic yelps of the Beatlesdespite the requisite bowl cut and natty jacketScott Walkers voice was an ankle-deep baritone croon. The Walkers scored two Top 20 hits in the U.S. in 1965 and promptly vanished. In England, they were a girls-chasing-down-their-limousine, mobbed-in-the-streets smash.
But in 1967 Scott Walker hit the eject button on stardom. He released four solo albums over three years, each more brooding and theatrical than the lastSinatra lost on the flat field of a Bergman film, but less funny. The sales trajectory of his solo work was a downward spiral. A Walkers reunion fizzled in 1970, and Walker spent the rest of the decade singing endless covers and wearing his hopes for mainstream success like a poorly tailored suit.
Until 1978, that is, when the second act of Scott Walkers creative life began. Nite Flights appeared to be another quickie Walker Brothers reunion. But if Maus and Leeds were lost in the Valley chasing the Eagles audience, Walker was crossing paths with Bowie and Eno on the Potsdamer Platz. The Electrician cruised down frozen autobahns of synthesizer, letting the sound of his own wheels drive him crazy. Walker could have been ahead of the coming 80s synth-pop curve. Instead, he disappeared for six years.
Even more abstract that his Nite Flights songs, 1984s Climate of Hunter mixed 80s production values, the avant-garde, and Walkers ever darkening songwriting. Its probably the only album in history to feature free-improvising saxophonist Evan Parker and Billy Ocean. No one knew what to do with it, and it remains out of print. Another 11 years passed. Walker was generally assumed to have fallen down a rabbit hole never to return.
And then, in 1995, Walker released Tiltin America on indie-rock label Drag City. Melodramatic seems an inadequate word to describe it. The music is a churning absurdist dirge, a funeral scene scored by Carls Orff and Stalling. Its the kind of record thats as confusing on the 100th listen as on the first. But maybe it was the label, or maybe people were just sick of ska, but it was the first of Walkers mature works that was greeted with praise rather than bafflementOK, maybe a little bafflement, too.
Walker didnt fall entirely off the map following Tilthe wrote a film score, curated a London festival, produced Pulpbut he was hardly a paparazzi magnet either. And now heres The Drift, an album even more belligerent and ridiculous than Tilt. One response to horrorin this case Sept. 11, the resulting war, and the general sense of despair that followedis ugliness. Perhaps not the healthiest response, but Walker has chosen his tack. The Drifts structuring principle is long stretches of inky black space broken up with thunderous discords, a tension that never abates.
Maybe, outside the crucible of the studio, Walker is a sunny guy. But after 40 years of songs that have gone from rainy-day chill to outright bleakness, you have to wonder. Most sad songs are sad over things that can be cured with a hug, a few kind words, or some chocolate. Walkers songs wrestle with the kind of existential dread that makes the nominally healthy feel helpless around the depressed.
And then hell quack Whats up, Doc? like a cartoon car alarm. Just what in the hell is going on here? Is his drama-queen routine a gag? (Tilt featured Walker chanting random numbers over the sound of a chain being pulledgeddit?) Because Walker steadfastly refuses to explicate his work, you have to it take it at its wordeven when that word is an unintelligible moan of anguish.
Walkers voice is often the deal breaker. Think of the most mannered rock vocalist you know and multiply it exponentiallyBryan Ferry meets Dame Edna, perhaps? When his voice first enters on The Drift your first instinct may be to giggle. But give yourself up to itmaybe all works the size and weight of The Drift require a certain suspension of disbeliefand you realize theres no other voice that would work with this ungainly mass of rhythm and noise.
Queasy string glissandi clash with tribal drumming. Strange voices breathe hot in your ear. Donkeys bray and wood is chopped. And then theres Walker, singing his multicharacter libretto in his strangely fey, strangely deep voice, talking about cocaine-smeared noses and anthrax and death. References to Caligula are clearly meant to draw a line to George W. Bush. Or are they? The lyrics are bursting with metaphor, allusion, and feint. Actually, theyre nearly all feint. Thankfully, somewhere, right now, some nut is busy teasing out all the implications on his blog.
Scott Walker albums require work. In a world where every twentysomething with an iBook is a potential composer, maybe Walker dragging a donkey and an ancient tuba and modern classical music and (perhaps) a healthy sense of humor into a studio for seven years means something. Sometimes art thats unwieldy, epic, bafflingpossibly even bullshitis the only medicine. Sometimes Rascal Flatts just aint gonna cut it.
In a world of jobs and soccer practices and jury duty and mortgages and shrinking leisure time, though, you probably dont have the hours to spare. But the sheer effort involved in The Drift for both creator and listenerProtestant work ethic and all thatis impressive, maybe even worth putting off an hour of Xbox time or a My Name Is Earl twofer. But caveat emptor: Like a lot of other impressive things in this worldGothic cathedrals, $500 Kobe beef burgersThe Drift is easy to be wowed by but hard to love.
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As Americans adopt more environmentally-friendly habits, many American companies are following suit - and finding that greener policies can also mean a healthier bottom line.
Businesses used to believe they had to choose between "greens" - profits vs. eco-friendly business practices. But some corporations have discovered that greener habits can conserve the environment - as well as their budgets. And that can also mean savings for the consumer.
DAVE HAFT: "What I would tell you is in Frito Lay, when we think about a facilities environmental impact we're looking at reducing our water use, electricity use and the use of natural gas. Being a green company is good for business and it's good for the environment."
And recycling materials can also reduce costs. Between 2004 and 2006 IBM quadrupled the amount of recycled plastic in their new computers - reducing the environmental impact - of producing new plastics while avoiding increased cost.
As these companies see higher profits from "going green", others will follow suit.
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Humans and Penguins
Humans and Penguins
Two Sides of a Relationship
There are two sides to the issue of humans and penguins. On one side you have those humans that are responsible for the purposeful destruction of penguins for their own gain. On the other you have those that are fighting to protect them. It is necessary for humans to find a good balance with penguins though so that the overall nature of things in our world isn't upset. Too many people don't realize that as the number of penguins out there drops, so do their chances of making a successful come back.
Humans have been destroying penguins for many reasons. Many years ago, the people often hunted these birds for food. Then they would use the oil from their tails as a resource as well. Since other non animal materials are now used to make such oil, it isn't necessary any more to use them for such a purpose.
Conservation efforts have been successful in getting laws passed that prevent the harm or killing of penguins. Yet we all know that too often such laws are ignored. People continue to destroy penguins under the radar for their own use. It may be simply that they want to remove them from the location they are in so they can use the land for their own business and needs.
Many organizations out there strive to protect penguins. These humans spend their time and their money to be able to successfully help them to survive. They educate others on the needs of penguins and what has been done to them. They lobby for laws to be strictly enforced when it comes to the destruction of penguins. This includes hefty fines for those that refuse to follow the law.
These volunteers are key to the survival of penguins in many other ways too. For example they offer their help when there is an imminent threat to a colony of them. This can be due to a natural disaster or even chemicals being spilled into the waters where they hunt for prey. Such interventions ensure that these problems don't have as harsh of an effect on the entire penguin population as it otherwise would.
There are some organizations that have helped to move penguins into captivity. Their goal is to help them to thrive in an environment that is as similar to the wild as they can get it. This way they have a chance to live without outside threats from humans or other predators. They keep a watchful eye on how these penguins live and they step in when needed to help them with their young or other needs so that they can live very long lives.
There are many humans though that feel nature should take care of itself. They don't feel that penguins should be kept in captivity. While they don't think humans should destroy them, they feel that they should be left to fend for themselves. They feel that observing penguins in their natural environment and even filming them is acceptable. Yet they also feel that stepping in to assist them is also a way to upset the balance of things in nature.
If you haven't given the issue of humans and penguins much thought, hopefully this article opened your eyes to some things. You have the choice to take action now and to help these birds to survive. Since they aren't a threat in any way to humans there is really no reason to continue destroying them that isn't selfish in nature. Regardless of what your choices have been in the past you have the choice to make a difference now.


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Posted Wednesday, October 24, 2012 --- 6:50 a.m.
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) -- One of the five men imprisoned for the 1992 murder of a millworker in Brown County has been denied parole.
It's the second time Michael Hirn has asked for his release from the Green Bay Correctional Institution. The 48-year-old convict won't be eligible again until next September.
Hirn, Dale Basten, Michael Johnson, Rey Moore and Keith Kutska were convicted of conspiring to murder Thomas Monfils at the former James River paper mill.
Monfils' body was found in a pulp vat in the mill.
Michael Piaskowski was also convicted but was later released when a federal judge ruled there had been insufficient evidence to convict him.
The Green Bay Press-Gazette (http://tinyurl.com/9kw4jo9 ) says Kutska won't be eligible for parole until the spring of 2015.
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When it's time to get down to business, you're in the right place. Whether it's making that all-important first impression, hosting a long-term client, or taking over the world one meeting at a time, NIU's conference rooms are fully equipped and ready to go, lending you authority, relevance, and technology—all in the heart of the financial district of Chicago. Don't forget, 185,000 alumni are living and working in the Chicagoland area.
NIU's Chicago Office has two meeting rooms and an open lobby area for receptions, complete with free Wi-Fi. So, whether it's the sprawling reception area with floor-to-ceiling glass walls, the breathtaking views of the city, or our state-of-the-art conference rooms and window offices, this space sets a new standard.
Our executive offices provide the best in location and convenience. Select from several office types, including temporary offices. Each office includes all the technological support needed to operate smoothly and efficiently. If it's meeting rooms you need, select from our eight- to 24-person executive board meeting rooms.
NIU Chicago Office
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Chicago, IL 60602
Room Descriptions
The NIU Chicago Office offers a number of rooms and configurations to accommodate your needs.
Board Room
Seats 8 to 12
Perfect for meetings and classes
Phone and free Wi-Fi
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Audio/visual equipment available upon request
Executive Meeting Room
Seats 12 to 20
Office showcase
Beautiful glass paneled wall
Perfect for formal meetings, classes, and receptions
Phone and free Wi-Fi
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Audio/visual equipment available upon request
Entire Suite
Seats 50, can accommodate 75 to 100 for receptions
Entire suite consists of all 4,287 rsf, including the executive meeting room, board room, beautiful open reception area, and a kitchenette.
In addition to uses for its executive meeting room and board room, the suite is ideal for a strolling reception with high-top tables and catering
Public Transportation
Ogilvie and Union Stations are a short 10-minute walk away, and local buses are plentiful in this bustling district. This location boasts convenient connections to all area expressways and abundant parking near the building. Parking garages are located at West Madison and North Wells or at West Washington and North LaSalle.


text: Jon Stewart's Rally to Ignore Reality: We're Cool, You're Crazy by Greg Gutfeld 1 Nov 2010 post a comment Share This: So the Rally to Restore Sanity was good, clean, hip fun. And, probably, unnecessary. Which is why I did something necessary after watching it for thirty minutes: I hit the gym, and worked on the quads. They look great, btw. And that reminded me of my past, at Rodale - a health publishing company that put out Men's Health, Prevention and Runners World. While I was an editor there, I was one of three or four conservatives, out of a company of 1300 people. The folks there were mostly young, cool and sinewy- just like the crazies I worked with while running Stuff and Maxim UK. Again, I was one of maybe, two nonlibs working and goofing off there. My point: every single day of my life was a Jon Stewart rally. Everyone around me was pleasant, usually white, and always reveling in their reflexive assumptions about the "rest" of less hip America. Yep, they were my people when we got hammered. But because of my beliefs, I was not theirs on election day. And they'd hammer me for that. That's why when I watch the rally, i just wondered, who needs it? Well, maybe to show a divide between two groups: The tea party was about candidates; The sanity rally was about celebrity. More important, the tea party was a civilian reaction to our government's sprint toward progressivism. The rally, however, was a celebrity reaction to those civilians. The rally boiled down to: "we're cool, you're crazy." So the real title of the event shouldn't have been "The Rally to Restore Sanity," but "The Rally to Ignore Insanity." Because, that was the message. The teapartiers are reacting to alarming stuff: the insane spending, the bottomless deficit, weird appointments, political arrogance -it's real anxiety over real trouble for future offspring. Stewart's rally says, "Ignore that. Check out Cat Stevens!" With a load of flashy entertainment and outsized personalities - they are the band playing on the Titanic - enjoying the applause as we see the shadow of the iceberg. Tonight, a magnificent lineup! Juan Williams! Ann Coulter! Dana Loesch! and the dark knight, Pat Caddell!


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The first snow of the season to stick, even though lightly, was a reminder on Tuesday that area public works departments will soon be spending money on keeping roads safe through another winter season.
Cumberland Mayor Dan McKee said public works employees in his community knew a light snowfall might arrive with the quick change to cold weather following the weekend but did not have to go out sanding just yet.
"But it is a wakeup call," McKee said while noting the early snow squalls did call attention to work already being completed to ready the town's fleet of 17-18 plows and sanders.
"There is a ritual that goes on every year to get prepared for storms and we are already doing that," he said.
Cumberland, like other Blackstone Valley communities, has already funded its winter snow removal operations with a standard funding prediction and will watch to see if it is enough for this winter, or if more might be needed from a contingency account.
Approximately $250,000 is set aside in town budget accounts for storm work, including about $120,000 for snow removal contractors, $90,000 in materials, salt and sand, and another approximately $70,000 for town employee overtime, according to McKee.
"We tend to keep a very static amount and we find that sometimes you have a good year and then sometimes you don't," he said. In the worst-case scenarios, the town goes to its contingency account for the additional money needed to keep the plows rolling, McKee said.
Last winter, when a major blizzard struck Rhode Island in early February, the town was also able to secure some of the federal disaster relief funding awarded the state and add it to its general fund to make up for some of the extra winter spending, McKee said.
"We may apply that to go back to public works for equipment or for other expenses," he said.
The town did spend $137,000 on a new snowplow-sander truck for its fleet, and McKee said that is another part of the regular planning the town does to prepare for winter storm work. The town also purchased a plow the year before and a smaller vehicle as part of its planned upgrading of public works vehicles, he said. The town's trucks and plows handle just over 50 percent of the town's roads during a storm, and the private contractors hired each winter the rest, according to McKee.
A mix of town vehicles and private contractors is also covered in the storm funding set aside by Lincoln each year in its town budget.
Lincoln Finance Director John F. Ward said the town uses an estimate based on an average of four years of winter expenses to come up with the approximate $275,000 in the budget's snow removal, supplies and contractor accounts.
"Sometimes we go a little under and sometimes we go a little over," Ward said of the annual budget projection. In 2010-11, the town spent $295,802 on snow removal, and then $159,171 in 2011-12, according to Ward. Last year the town spent $329,267, he said.
Accurately predicting the weather of any given season is near impossible, and for that reason an average of past experience is probably a more accurate way to prepare, according to Ward.
"Weather is so unpredictable, you use the average of your history of storms and hope for the best," Ward said. The blizzard last year pushed the town over its prediction, but it also collected $100,000 in emergency aid from the federal Emergency Management Agency to help with those expenses, Ward said.
It also doesn't have to be a big storm that breaks a town snow removal projection, and Ward noted that a series of small but regular icing events can also put the budget into an overage requiring a transfer funding from another account.
In Woonsocket, Finance Director Thomas Bruce said the city has $250,000 allotted to snow removal that also covers ice control for the purchase of sand and salt materials, and other $95,000 for hiring contractors.
The figures are similar to the amounts set aside the previous year, he said. When compared to the actual expenses for the winter of 2012-13, Bruce said the projections came on target, with most of the costs being under budget. "Rental vehicles were $83,256, and that included the blizzard," Bruce said.
Ice control was $138,318, also under budget, and overtime $49,000 of the $66,000 available, he said.
"For all the costs we had, we came in under budget, which is fantastic because we had a blizzard in there," Bruce said.
North Smithfield has a total of $105,000 set aside for this winter's storms, according to Town Administrator Paulette Hamilton. That includes $30,000 for storm overtime, and $75,000 for sand and salt.
Last year the town spent $7,940 on contracted snowplows, $111,856 on sand and salt, and another $46,336 for snow overtime. The town also secured funding from the Federal Emergency Management Agency that covered 75 percent of the costs of the February blizzard, she said.
In Bellingham, Public Works Director Donald DiMartino said his town follows a Massachusetts model for snow removal budgeting that set aside a basic amount which is then increased by free cash transfers as needed.
"It's been the same the entire time I've been here, we don't increase it, it is $100,000, and we exceed that every year when we're finished filling the salt shed," he said.
The practice is for the town to spend its base amount purchasing needed supplies and then going into emergency funding when storms use up what is left.
"We fill the space we have and that usually uses up most of the budget before the first snowflake falls," he said. "So we appropriate a small amount and then save money in free cash to appropriate emergency spending as we go," he said.
DiMartino said the town expects it will spend in the neighborhood of $700,000 for a bad winter, but doesn't appropriate that amount initially. "And $700,000 is the worse case scenario and we usually don't get it that high, it's usually in the $400,000 and $500,000 range," he said.
The selectmen must vote to go into emergency spending and then the town can then spend what is needed to do the fight the storms, he said. Last year Bellingham spent less than its five-year average for snow removal budgets, which was $571,000 for 2002 to 2008, he said.


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My dog has a hot spot on her front leg. I have tried Sulfodene, in liquid and lotion forms. I have used hydrogen peroxide, Neosporin, bandages and I even put a sock on her leg to keep her from getting to it. I bought some Band-Aids that have "deterrent" stuff on them and she still takes those off. What can I do to help her that doesn't involve taking her to the vet?
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First, you must make sure you are truly treating a hot spot, as lesions on the legs such as lick granulomas, migrating foxtails, ringworm and fungal infections can often look like hot spots as well, but would require a different treatment.
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Prep: 25 min. Cook: 1-1/2 hours
1 broiler/fryer chicken (3 to 4 pounds), cut up
10 cups water
1 large carrot, sliced
1 large onion, sliced
1 celery rib, sliced
1 garlic clove, minced
1 bay leaf
1 teaspoon dried thyme
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
In a stockpot, combine all the ingredients. Slowly bring to a boil
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Place broth in a large saucepan or Dutch oven. Add 2 sliced large carrots, 2 sliced celery ribs and 1 chopped onion. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 10 minutes or until the vegetables are tender. Add 2 cups uncooked fine egg noodles and reserved chicken. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 6 minutes. Stir in 1 cup frozen peas and 1/2 cup frozen cut beans; cook for 2-4 minutes or until beans and noodles are tender.
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