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Islamabad, July 30 (ANI): Sri Lankan cricketer Farveez Maharoof has said that young batsmen in the country need to be persevered with because the more they will play, the more mature they would become which would only help the level of the national team.
In an interview with Pakpassion.net, Maharoof said that Sri Lanka produced more unorthodox cricketers such as Ajantha Mendis and Lasith Malinga, than any other cricketing nation, because the system promoted pure talent.
The cricketer also said that Tom Moody had been a very inspirational coach for Sri Lanka and helped him introduce a lot of innovations.
Maharoof expressed that his most memorable performance has been the six-wicket haul against the West Indies during the Champions Trophy in 2006.
The player spoke fondly of his experiences of playing for Lancashire and praised Angelo Mathews as captain of the Sri-Lankan ODI side.
Maharoof, however, was unhappy with the canceling of the Sri Lankan Premier League and said that it was one of the tournaments the country was looking forward to. (ANI)

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Kidderminster's poor form accounted for another manager this week as Andy Thorn was shown the door after just a couple of months in charge, the Harriers hierarchy feeling that action was needed in light of the fact that the team has won just twice in 2014.
Their poor run has hindered Kidderminster's chances of reaching the play-offs but fans shouldn't be too demoralised at this stage as bookies, who are rarely wrong, still fancy Harriers to break into the top five, BetVictor making them odds-on at 10/11.
Nevertheless, they aren't expected to aid their cause this weekend, Ladbrokes pricing Gary Whild's men at 21/10 to pick up three vital points at the expense of Stan James's 6/5 favourites Wrexham at the Racecourse Ground, where bet365 rate a stalemate at 13/5.
A score draw meanwhile, is a 7/2 chance at bet365, Stan James offer 9/2 about it being level at the end of each half and for those that are understandably tentative given Harriers' recent inconsistency, Whild's troops are 6/5 in Skybet's 'Draw No Bet' market.
Alternatively, Paddy Power hand Kidderminster a goal start in the handicaps at 3/5 but travelling fans seeking crumbs of comfort will be buoyed by the hosts' own patchy form not to mention the fact that Harriers eased to a 3-1 victory in the reverse fixture at Aggborough back in November.
A repeat of that result is perhaps a touch ambitious at odds of 25/1 with Stan James but BetVictor's 11/1 about a 2-1 away success isn't without appeal, betway make Whild's charges 4/1 to be in front at the end of each half and it's 7/2 at Winner.com for Kidderminster to sneak it by a one-goal margin.
Elsewhere, BetVictor mark 13/20 against both teams finding the net, bet365 go 7/1 about Amari Morgan-Smith breaking the deadlock in North Wales and it's 11/10 (William Hill) for any Harriers player to net first.
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AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission approved $3.75 million in grants at its Aug. 25 meeting to provide recreational opportunities and park facilities, and create greenbelts for communities throughout the state.
Montgomery County was awarded the largest grant — a $1 million Regional Park Grant to develop the Spring Creek Greenway. It was the only grant out of three regional park grant applications received by Jan. 31, 2005, requesting $5 million from the Texas Recreation and Parks Account for park and conservation projects.
The 76th session of the Texas Legislature authorized the creation of a regional park grant program to be funded through the TRPA. The program is designed to support multi-jurisdictional projects of regional significance serving Texas' metropolitan areas. Projects proposing intensive use recreation and/or regional conservation and recreation are eligible to request matching funds. Funds available include $1 million from the federal Land and Water Conservation Fund.
The commission approved four Local Park Grants of $500,000 each for a total of $2 million. Funds for this program come from the Texas Recreation and Parks Account (TRPA) and the Land and Water Conservation Fund. The TRPA was authorized in 1993 to assist local political subdivisions of the state in providing basic public recreation facilities. TRPA revenue is generated from a portion of the state sales tax on sporting goods. Funds available include $1.5 million from Fiscal Year 2006 TRPA revenue and $500,000 in federal Land and Water Conservation Funds. The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department received 17 applications by Jan. 31, 2005, requesting $7,307,700 in matching fund assistance.
In the Small Community Grant funding category, the commission approved 15 park projects totaling $750,000. All were funded at the maximum $50,000-per-applicant level. As of Jan. 31, 2005, TPWD received applications from 35 sponsors requesting $1,695,842 in matching funds.
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THE Mayor of Dudley will be getting on her bike as part of National Bike Week, which kicks off this Saturday (June 13).
To mark the start of the week - which aims to get families cycling, Stourbridge Cycling Club and Dudley Council are running a series family bike rides on Saturday.
And new Mayor - Councillor Pat Martin - will be opening the first, at Stourbridge's Bonded Warehouse at 9.30am.
World cyclo-cross champion Isla Rowntree and Olympic athlete Louise Robinson will also be on hand to offer advice and tips to budding cyclists.
Further organised rides will leave the Bonded Warehouse in Canal Street at 10.30am; and the canal junction off Kinver Street, Wordsley, at 9.30am and 10.30am.
The circular six-mile trails will take about one-hour to complete.
Longer rides on and off road, led by Stourbridge Cycling Club, will also take place on the day.
There will also be free refreshments and activities at the Bonded Warehouse for participants - plus chance to ride tandem with athletes Isla or Louise, a 'roller-riding' race on stationary bikes with rollers and 'go-ride' sessions teaching cycle safety.
Mayor of Dudley - Cllr Martin said:"I'm really looking forward to launching National Bike Week and hope many local families will join in the bike ride on Saturday 13.
"Get on your bike will take on a new meaning when I have a go on the tandem so I advise everybody to stand clear."
National Bike Week is the UK's biggest mass cycling event and this year is challenging families to get more out of life by swapping four wheels for two to explore their community.
Children under 16 must be accompanied by an adult. For more information call Dudley Council's road safety and travel awareness team on 01384 815432.


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Spain borrowing rates hit new high after downgrade
MADRID/LONDON/NICOSIA, Cyprus -- Spain's key borrowing rate hit a fresh high Thursday not seen since the country joined the euro in 1999, after a credit ratings agency downgraded the country's ability to just above junk status amid rising fears a bank bailout may not be enough to save the country from economic chaos.
The interest rate — or yield — on the country's benchmark 10-year bonds rose to a record 6.96 percent in early trading Thursday, close to the level which many analysts believe is unsustainable in the long term and the rate that forced Greece, Ireland and Portugal to seek bailouts of their public finances.
The worries about Spain sent its 10-year government bond yields up as much as 25 basis points to a record high of 7.02 percent, just over the 7-percent mark that drove Greece, Ireland and Portugal to seek international bailouts.
The ratings agency Moody's downgraded Spain's sovereign debt three notches from "A3" to "Baa3" Tuesday night, leaving it just one grade above "junk status."
Spanish yields have risen sharply this week after eurozone ministers agreed at the weekend on a rescue plan of up to 100 billion euros for the country's banks that has failed to convince investors it solves Spain's financial problems.
The yields on Spanish debt later eased back to be around 19 basis points higher on the day at 6.97 percent.
Moody's said the downgrade was due to the offer from eurozone leaders of up to 100 billion euros to Spain to prop up its failing banking sector, which the ratings agency believes will add considerably to the government's debt burden.
The lowered score means that even fewer investors will buy Spanish debt, because organizations like pension funds are mandated to avoid assets with such low creditworthiness.
Spain won't immediately collapse if the rate hits 7 percent, but reaching that point would affect Spain next week when it is scheduled to auction debt.
"The clock is definitely ticking," said Michael Hewson, an analyst with CMC Markets.
The bank bailout is intended at recapitalizing the Spanish banking system and calming Europe's debt crisis. Instead, investors seem unnerved by the government taking on extra debt and have pushed Spanish bond yields — a measure of market jitters — higher all week.
Moody's said the Spanish government's ability to raise money on global markets was being hindered by high interest rates, a situation which had led it to accept Eurogroup funds to recapitalize debt-burdened banks.
Some details of what the bailout might look like began to emerge Thursday. European officials are considering liquidation — selling off a bank's assets — as part of the plan to prop up the Spanish banking sector, a spokesman for Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia said.
Eurostat, the European statistics agency, said Wednesday that it was unclear how much the country's deficit would rise because it depended on how it lent the money on to the banks. Part of that decision will depend on the interest rate the banks are given. If it's too low, it could be considered more a gift than a loan and would count against the deficit.
Colombani said that under one plan being considered, the minimum for the rate would be 8.5 percent. Eurostat did not immediately respond to questions about whether that would be high enough to avoid having the loans count against deficit.
Cyprus Downgraded
Moody's credit ratings agency drove Cyprus deeper into junk status with a two-notch downgrade to "Ba3" over an increased likelihood that debt-crushed Greece will leave the eurozone.
Moody's said in a statement Wednesday that it has placed Cyprus' rating on review for further possible downgrade. It says that a Greek euro exit would likely raise the amount of money that the government may need to support its heavily Greece-exposed banking sector.
The agency said the two-notch downgrade also reflects the fact that the Cyprus' finances are already strained and that it can't borrow from international markets.
The downgrade comes as an added blow to the eurozone country as it seeks 1.8 billion euros (US$2.6 billion) to help recapitalize its second-largest lender, Cyprus Popular Bank, which is most heavily exposed to Greek debt.
Cyprus' finance minister suggested on Wednesday that the government could seek a European Union bailout to support the bank before crucial elections in Greece this Sunday which are seen as a vote on whether the country stays or leaves the eurozone. Vassos Shiarly said a loan from another country was also an option.
Moody's said it now believes that Cyprus will need more money to support its banks than its earlier estimate, equivalent to 5-10 percent of the country's gross domestic product. It said recapitalization costs would now increase the country's debt levels by just over 10 percent of GDP.
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+1 Accept the DayTrader donation into the project - The more good samples we have will quicken and assist the adoption of Geronimo +1 Create an Applications subproject (to which Apache Geronimo subproject rules apply) and move DayTrader (if accepted) with other relevant codebases into it. - One additional idea on this second vote: Do we really need another sub-project? In a very real sense samples are a "developer tool". Not in the same way as an IDE ... but they are certainly a developer aid. I would suggest that we move DayTrader and other samples to the devtools subproject. That could also be the location of other items that would be part of a "developer toolkit" such as migration utilities, developer documentation, or anything else that we would produce to assist developers building on Geronimo. Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: > There has been little comment or complaint about the "DayTrader" > contribution GERONIMO-1016. > > I have done a cursory review and committed the code minus the binary > code (.class and .ear) into trunk/sandbox. I did this as a courtesy > to Matt so he can keep working and submitting patches for now. > (Matt, get rid of the App.java stuff that seem to be maven detritus..) > > For efficiency, I'd like to vote on two things. > > First, whether or not to accept. All votes welcome, PMC votes binding : > > [ ] +1 Accept the DayTrader donation into the project > [ ] -1 Do not accept DayTrader donation into the project > > > Second, we now have a collection of samples, applications and such. > I think that it would help keep the trunk clear if we started an > Applications subproject (peer with DevTools) and move everything like > it there. > > [ ] +1 Create an Applications subproject (to which Apache Geronimo > subproject rules apply) and move DayTrader (if accepted) > with other relevant codebases into it > [ ] -1 Do not create Applications subproject. Leave in trunk. > > > I'm happy for people to pose alternatives if there are good ones - I > just didn't see any on the threads so far. > > geir > -- Joe Bohn firstname.lastname@example.com "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep, to gain what he cannot lose." -- Jim Elliot
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At La Dolce Vita in downtown Saigon's ancient Hotel Continental Saigon, the sound of coffee dripping from the filter can be heard despite the ruckus from the street as this terrace café is partly sheltered from the city noise by a low brick wall and is situated at an angle that deflects a good part of the din, thus differentiating it from other cafés and bars on Dong Khoi Street.
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The Hotel Continental and the La Dolce Vita Cafe at night - Photo: Mong Binh At La Dolce Vita in downtown Saigon's ancient Hotel Continental Saigon, the sound of coffee dripping from the filter can be heard despite the ruckus from the street as this terrace café is partly sheltered from the city noise by a low brick wall and is situated at an angle that deflects a good part of the din, thus differentiating it from other cafés and bars on Dong Khoi Street.
To my surprise, La Dolce Vita is a nice venue with plenty of seating for guests to relax and observe the busy pace of city life, either during the daytime or in the evening when lights are turned on.
You may question the quality of the drinks and service here, and the price of course, given the seat availability. But trust me, the pleasant staff is always ready to serve guests drinks which are about half the price at other cafes on this boutique shop street.
For instance, a glass of authentic Vietnamese milk coffee averages VND35,000 (less than US$2), a price you can hardly find at the other coffee shops so near to the city's landmark Opera House.
It could be that La Dolce Vita, next to a restaurant of the hotel, makes drink lovers and seekers of a warm ambience think the terrace café is a restaurant and not a place to stop for drinks and relaxation.
Besides a wide selection of coffee, tea and cocktails, the primary attraction of the terrace coffee shop lies in the history of the Hotel Continental, whose 19th century French architecture remains intact and still shines brightly.
The ancient building has stayed firm through 130 years and has witnessed many changes in Saigon from the 19th century till 1975 and of HCMC from 1975 till now. The terrace café offers more than the history of the old building.
In the café are black-and-white pictures on the walls depicting the Notre Dame Cathedral and other landmarks of Saigon for guests to admire before or after they can see those landmarks with their own eyes.
The Opera House is just a short walk to the left when you leave La Dolce Vita while you have to stroll less than ten minutes to the right to the cathedral and the old but well-preserved HCMC Post Office building.
Ben Thanh Market, one of the most prominent features of the city, is within a 15-minute walk and can be reached by strolling along Le Loi Street. It takes only five minutes to walk to the beautifully-carved façade of City Hall on Le Thanh Ton Street.
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LINCOLN, NEB. University of Nebraska-Lincoln nutrition scientist Tim Carr is working on a food additive that would combat cholesterol by combining two unexpected sources -- soybeans and beef tallow.
Saturated fats have long been seen as an artery clogging peril among the health conscious.
But Carr has found in his research that stearic acid, a saturated fat contained in beef tallow and some other fats, actually lowers cholesterol.
Now he's developed a powdered food additive based on that research to reduce blood cholesterol.
"I've built on the earlier discovery of the good saturated fats," he said.
Carr has devised a way to mix amounts of stearic acid with plant sterols creating a compound that should prove to be more easily incorporated into foods than similar additives on the market.
That plant substances called sterols lower cholesterol is nothing new. But the substances don't dissolve in water. While mixing them with oils or fats improves their solubility, it limits their use to higher fat foods such as margarine or salad dressing.
"Here we have this nice ingredient for lowering cholesterol but we can only deliver it in high-fat foods," Carr said. "What's wrong with this picture?"
Carr is combining stearic acid-rich beef tallow with soybean-derived sterols.
While commercially available plant sterols are gooey and stick to food manufacturing equipment, Carr's compound can easily be made into a powder that could in theory be added to anything from breakfast cereals to chocolate.
The university is patenting the technology.
So far Carr's tests of the effectiveness of the compound on animals has been encouraging.
In hamster feeding trials, Carr's College of Education and Human Sciences team found the compound lowered LDL cholesterol -- the bad kind -- by 70 percent. Meanwhile the commercial sterol additive lowered cholesterol by only 10 percent.
Both additives work the same way -- by blocking cholesterol absorption in the small intestine. The gastrointestinal tract usually absorbs 50 percent to 60 percent of cholesterol, which winds up in the blood stream where it can contribute to heart disease.
"With our compound, absorption is in the 3 to 5 percent range," Carr said. "That's highly effective."
The next big step for Carr is to find funding for human clinical studies.
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Born Yesterday
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Living in the city where the walls have ears
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People judge you by the words they hear
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Shake their heads while they chew your name
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If you've been a fan of YumSugar for a while, you'll know that I have a thing for dulce de leche, the thick, milky caramel from South America. From layered cakes to ice cream sandwiches, I'm always looking for new ways to highlight my favorite sweet.
For my half birthday, I'll be experimenting with a recipe for chocolate dulce de leche bars.
A crisp shortbread crust balances out the rich mixture of dulce de leche and chocolate. They're portable, making them perfect for a picnic at the Hog Island Oyster Company. To see the recipe,
Chocolate Dulce de Leche Bars
From Gourmet
- For shortbread crust:
- 1 stick unsalted butter, softened
- 1/3 cup packed light brown sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- For chocolate dulce de leche:
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 1 cup dulce de leche
- 4 large egg yolks
- 5 ounces 60%-cacao bittersweet chocolate, finely chopped (preferably in a food processor)
- Make shortbread crust: preheat oven to 375°F with rack in middle. Butter a shallow 9- to 9 1/2-inch square baking pan (1 to 1 1/2 inches deep). Line bottom and 2 sides with parchment paper, leaving an overhang. Butter parchment.
- Blend together butter, brown sugar, vanilla, and salt in a bowl with a fork. Sift in flour and blend with fork until a soft dough forms.
- Spread dough evenly in baking pan using an offset spatula or back of a spoon, then prick all over with fork.
- Bake until golden, 15 to 20 minutes, then cool completely in pan on a rack, about 30 minutes.
- Make chocolate dulce de leche: bring cream and dulce de leche to a simmer in a small heavy saucepan, stirring with a wooden spoon until dulce de leche has dissolved.
- Whisk together yolks in a bowl, then slowly whisk in hot cream mixture.
- Return to pan and cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until pan is visible in tracks of spoon and mixture registers 170°F on an instant-read thermometer. Remove from heat and whisk in chocolate until melted.
- Make bars: pour chocolate mixture over cooled shortbread and chill, uncovered, until cold and set, about 2 hours.
- Run a small knife around edges to loosen, then transfer to a cutting board using parchment. Cut with a hot clean knife (dip in hot water and wipe clean between cuts) into 24 bars. Chill until ready to serve.
Makes 24 bars
Make Ahead: Chocolate dulce de leche bars can be chilled in an airtight container up to 1 day.
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- Desserts, Brownies
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- Who is Ina Cüsters-van Bergen?
- Author of spiritual Books
- Trainer of Consciousness and Inspirator
- Booking Ina Cüsters-van Bergen for a training
- Ina's teaching methods
- Ina is a member of the International Board of Hermetic Trainers
1. Who is Ina Cüsters-van Bergen?
Ina Cüsters-van Bergen founded the Hermetic Order Temple of Starlight® in 2003, together with the members of the former Lodge Auset Hekau, and the people who were associated with that lodge. Ina teaches the Western Mystery Tradition.
After having enrolled for the study program, she developed as a Third Degree Adept she founded her own school in 2003 the Hermetic Order Temple of Starlight®.
'The Western Mystery Tradition touched me so deep, that I knew from my innermost being that I was one of the torchbearers. That was made clear to me very soon after the start of my study there by the Contact of the School. It made me feel in a hurry. I had an implausible hurry to be finished on time. This Knowing walked beside me, and provided me continuously with information from another layer of being. In fact I had two teachers, an eartly teacher, but it was by a powerful miracle call of the Inner Teacher that followed this summoning to found a new school.
Ina Custers-van Bergen
Ina's mission and motto: Unifying the Two Lands
At this moment Ina has focused herself completely on teaching, she writes lessons, rituals, lectures, gives workshops for students from different countries. Her goal is to make the ancient Mystery texts and techniques accessible for modern people who are interested in practical spirituality.
"These techniques are very important, because they help people to grow and to heal on a very deep level. You do not need to confront, the old gods do the job, and that makes that the process of change very supple. Time and again you are immersed in a benevolent bath of loving energy. That is why I made the old Egyptian motto of the Pharaoh's to my motto. 'Unifying the Two Lands'. The Egyptian Pharaohs used this physical metaphor of connecting Upper Egypt to Lower Egypt to express that they connected the spiritual worlds with everyday life.'
For more information about Ina Cüsters-van Bergen look at Wikipedia Encyclopedia: nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ina_Cüsters_-_van_Bergen
Ina Cüsters-van Bergen is the author of the book 'De weg naar de oude mysteriën'. This book has been translated into English under the title 'The Temple of High Magic'.
Ina Cüsters-van Bergen is the author of the Temple Training for the first degree. People who work in this degree are members of the 'Order of the Exalted Land', the first suborder of the Hermetic Order of the Temple of Starlight®
She is also the author of the Solo Magical Training: a intensive magical training for advanced students which trains you for the First Degree as well as some of the higher orders of the Hermetic Order of the Temple of Starlight®.
Ina is also the author of all the study material, rituals, courses, weekend workshops and Temple Retreats of the Hermetic Order Temple of Starlight®.
FOREWORD for the Dutch version
Ina Cüsters- van Bergen knows exactly what she is talking about. She has been fully trained, and has gone through the discipline. She has worked with others and learned with them how to avoid the pitfalls that lie in wait for the unwary. The Sacred Science is a demanding study, it needs time, effort, patience, and dedication.
3. Trainer of Consiousness and Inspirator
Ina Cüsters-van Bergen has an extensive experience in organizing and leading short workshops, and intensive weekend trainings.
Organizers of events can book her for lectures, courses, trainings and weekend workshops.
Ina's lectures are sources of inspiration, Ina's workshops show that Ceremonial Magic is apart from the magical work also a form of art. Ina uses the ancient mystery knowledge that was passed on 'from mouth to ear' to bring people to their 'Magnum Opus', this is what is meant with the Great Work of Alchemy, that causes people to outshine in the area in which they are already good at.
4. Booking Ina Cüsters-van Bergen for a training
Are you as the organizer of events busy with questions like:
- I want to offer a spiritual training which has a thorough content and which is build upon solid foundations.
- I want to invite a speaker/ trainer who offers a challenging and point of view to look at existential matters
- I want to make shake up some rusty patterns with people in my environment.
- I want to create unity in my team.
- I want to challenge my team to transform our work to a higher level?
- I want us to formulate answers to bring our work unto a spiritual level?
As a trainer of consciousness Ina works with the positive forces of transformation which are hidden in everyone. With her teaching methods she awakens spiritual experiences in people, and learns them to use those forces as a source of power in their lives. These experiences bring people in contact with their subconscious archetypical patterns. When brought into the conscious mind, they become steering forces which give direction to your mission in life.
"Everybody's life is the result of forces that are active in the subconscious mind and the higher mind. When you make contact with these forces you will experience spiritual experiences. The intensity of these experiences, the ability to summon them, and the focus you have on them, determine your feeling of fulfillment and of meaning. These experiences become a source of power in yourself, which you can use in your everyday life. I regard the subconscious mind as a great reservoir of unrealized potential. At the moment you start to transform these forces into steering spiritual forces, then you free an enormous growing potential in people."
Ina Custers-van Bergen
In her lessons and workshops Ina combines theory and praxis, and she uses techniques as Pathworking, mantras, creation of Thoughtforms, rituals, energy exercises, vibration exercises, healing- and auto hypnotic techniques.
Nowadays she teaches – after a intensive study of years – the ancient Egyptian initiation tradition, the magical Qabalah, and the so called Sea mysteries: these are the initiation roads from pre-Christian traditions, who have a direct relation to the mythologies of the stars.
'I use the Qabalalistic Tree of Life as a musical instrument, to reverberate a broad range of traditions. This was called by our ancestors 'the 'Music of the Spheres'. As a child I already looked up to the starry heavens, and I knew that this was the home of ancient mysteries which I wanted to discover.'
Ina Custers-van Bergen
You can book Ina Cüsters-van Bergen for the following events
- The Way of the Wise - Ritual Magic Series
- The Gateway to the Gods - Ritual Magic Series
- The Winding Waterway - Ritual Magic Series
- The Tarot, journey to Twenty-two Astral Gates
- The Sword in the Stone - Arthur mythology
- The Atlantis Rings - Sea Mysteries
- The Magus of Eternity
- Anubis, guide through the Shaman's Gate - Egyptian Mysteries
- The Black Goddess of Miracles
- The Ancient Oracles
- Babylonian Moon magic - Babylonian Mysteries
- The Mysteries of Eleusis - Greek Mysteries
- The Magical Lotus of Healing - Egyptian Mysteries
- The Egyptian Goddess Neith, Creatrix - Egyptian Mysteries
- The Descend of Innanah - Babylonian Mysteries
- The Return of the Goddess - Goddess Mysteries
- Sekhmet when she dances - Egyptian Mysteries
- The Labyrinth of King Minos - Greek Mysteries
- The Seven Heavens Angelic - Christian Mysteries
- Enumah Elish: the Creation of the World - Babylonian Mysteries
- The Works of Hercules - Greek Mysteries
- The Board game of the Inner Land
- The Shem ha-Mephorash: 72 Angels of the Name of God - Jewish Mysteries
- Introduction to the Western Mystery Tradition
- Introduction to the Egyptian Mysteries
- Introduction to the Magical Qabalah
- The Seven Planetary Spirits – Astrological Magic
- Isis, the Great One of Magic – Egyptian Mysteries
- The Hidden Room of Osiris – Egyptian Mysteries
- The Potter's wheel – Egyptian astrological magic
- The Creation of Talismans – Mediaeval Astrological Magic
- The Body of Nut – Egyptian Astrological Magic
- And of course Ina adapts lectures, courses and workshops to make them fit to the goals of your organisation.
Photo's of Ina Cüsters-van Bergen ritual performances at workshops
Lady of the Lake at the workshop the Sword in the Stone
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CBS has released a pair of new promos in advance of How I Met Your Mother's season eight finale, "Something New."
Of the new two videos, one promises the reveal of the "mother of all secrets." Check them out below:
Obviously there is only one possibility that How I Met Your Mother fans are thinking of when they hear "the mother of all secrets": who is the mother?! CBS and How I Met Your Mother have been known to tease and prolong this reveal for as long as possible, but there is real reason for optimism that we may at least catch our first glimpse of Mrs. Mosby in the season 8 finale.
The official synopsis for the episode reads:
As the gang prepares to head out to Robin and Barney's wedding, Ted invites Lily to see the house he's finally finished fixing up. Meanwhile, Robin and Barney's night of relaxation is ruined by an obnoxious couple, and Marshall takes the baby on a last-minute trip to Minnesota to see his family, on the eighth season cliffhanger finale of HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER.
So it remains to be seen if the episode actually ends up at Barney and Robin's wedding, which is where Ted will meet his future wife according to HIMYM lore, but if it does, there's a good chance the producers will throw us our first look at her. Showrunners Craig Thomas and Carter Bays have said previously that season 9 – the final season – will be fundamentally different from all seasons before it and immediately identifiable as season 9 when watched in repeats. Could that game changer begin with the season 8 finale and the long-awaited reveal?


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PARIS – Fifty years ago, General Charles de Gaulle seized power in France in what was, in essence, a legal coup d'etat. True, the General had been called upon and elected by the floundering French Parliament. But pressure from the French army, and rebellion in Algeria, did not give Parliament much of a choice. The ailing French republic's political leaders hoped that de Gaulle could end the Algerian war, yet keep Algeria French. De Gaulle's agenda was very different: he wanted to rewrite the Constitution and to found a new "Fifth Republic" for France.
The war in Algeria was, for de Gaulle, but another symptom of a dysfunctional state, an analysis that went back to his own experiences in 1940, when the French government proved unable to resist invasion by Hitler's Germany. Only a strong leader, de Gaulle thought, could have avoided defeat.
In his memoirs, de Gaulle stated his preference for restoring the monarchy after the Liberation. But public opinion was not prepared for that, and the heirs to the French crown were not up to the task. The alternative was an elected monarch: the Fifth Republic's Constitution, ratified 50 years ago this week, was crafted around that central principle.
What de Gaulle despised about the Fourth Republic was what he dubbed the "regime of the parties," which put their own interests above the national interest. Only a king or an elected monarch could incarnate the national interest. Remarkable propagandist that he was, de Gaulle convinced the French that the Fourth Republic was a disaster – a canard that has remained common wisdom ever since.


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A mid-Missouri girl diagnosed with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis at the age of 4 isn't picking out toys or clothes for her holiday wish list. Instead, 10-year-old Graci Diggs is raising awareness and money to help researchers find a cure for the disease. On Saturday, Dec. 12, Graci will walk in this year's Jingle Bell Run/Walk for Arthritis in Columbia as the national youth honoree. As part of her honoree role, Graci makes appearances at events to spread awareness of arthritis and to advocate for children living with the disease.
Graci, who is from Tipton, Missouri, has appointments with her pediatric rheumatologist at University of Missouri Women's and Children's Hospital at least every three months. After two years in remission, Graci's arthritis recently flared up causing her to seek treatment again.
"I get pain in my ankles, knees, hands and hips — it hurts bad," Graci said. "I tough it out and try to act normal, like I don't have the disease."
Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic disease that causes joint pain and swelling. As an autoimmune disease, the body attacks and destroys healthy body tissue by mistake. According to the American College of Rheumatology, 300,000 children between the ages of 6 months and 17 years have been diagnosed with juvenile arthritis.
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"Arthritis in children is treatable," said Anjali Patwardhan, MD, assistant professor of pediatric rheumatology and child health at the MU School of Medicine and the 2015 medical honoree for the Jingle Bell Run/Walk. "Early diagnosis and treatment can help prevent joint damage and further complications. It is important for children to get treatment from health care professionals who are knowledgeable about childhood arthritis."
Patwardhan said it is still difficult to detect juvenile rheumatoid arthritis because some of the symptoms, such as limping, joint pain and stiffness that improve throughout the day, are often confused with growing pains.
Patwardhan is the only pediatric rheumatologist in mid-Missouri, and one of about 280 such specialists in the U.S., according to the Arthritis Foundation.
Just a few years ago, Graci was in a wheelchair, unable to walk because of her arthritis. While she has some days and weeks that are still a struggle, Graci is taking advantage of remission.
"I do lots of sports," Graci said. "I play volleyball, basketball and softball. I can't always run and do everything with all of my other classmates, but I still try to keep up, and I still try my hardest."
"Most children with arthritis who are getting proper treatment can live full and active lives, but awareness and early diagnosis is key," Patwardhan said. "There are different types, and if left untreated, some forms of arthritis can be life threatening. Other forms can cause long-term health complications and adversely affect a child's quality of life."
Graci and her family started the "Cans for a Cure" drive in 2014, asking people to drive by their home and throw empty cans onto their front lawn. Graci then recycles all of the aluminum and gives that money to the Arthritis Foundation to help fund research. In two years, they have collected more than 2,000 pounds of cans, amounting to about $2,000. This year alone, through all of her fundraising efforts, Graci met her goal of $10,000.
Graci says she will continue to raise money until researchers find a cure for arthritis.
"Some people don't know about arthritis and kids get it too," Graci said. "I just want to help people find a cure for it, so kids and adults don't have to go through the pain."
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Gov. Perry Receives Defender of Jerusalem Award
Gov. Rick Perry has received the Defender of Jerusalem Award, which is given to public figures who have demonstrated support and commitment to the state of Israel and its capitol, Jerusalem. The governor accepted the award while on his trip to Israel, where he also met with Israeli President Shimon Peres, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and business and academic leaders.
"I have long supported the right of a Jewish state to exist in the Middle East and firmly believe in the protection and preservation of democratic states in that part of the world," Gov. Perry said. "After visiting several sacred and historic sites, meeting with business, civic and government leaders and seeing the day-to-day lives of the people on my trips to Israel, I am even more convinced that a safe, secure Israel is an essential part of stability in this part of the world."
The Defender of Jerusalem Award was created in 2008 by Guma Aguiar, head of the Lillian Jean Kaplan Foundation, as a tribute to dignitaries within Israel and around the world who have demonstrated strong support for the people of Jerusalem and Israel. The first award was presented to Israeli President Shimon Peres.
Gov. Perry continues to be a staunch supporter of Israel. After a trip to the area in 2007, the governor supported Texas' divestment from companies that do business with Iran, a main opponent of Israeli freedom. Additionally, as a result of meetings with Israeli leadership during the governor and first lady's visit to Israel in 2007, the Texas-Israel Chamber of Commerce was created to help launch future commercial interests and solidify the strong business and cultural connections between the two states.
Texas is Israel's fourth largest American trading partner. Texas and Israel's commercial relationship began with agriculture and natural resources, and has grown in recent years to include a variety of major business sectors, including information and communication technologies, aerospace and defense, medical technologies, homeland security initiatives and renewable energies.
The governor is scheduled to return to Texas on Saturday.
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Giant Rubber Duck made hope float in Pittsburgh
Bidding adieu to the duck is a mistake.
The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust dropped disappointing news on Friday. Despite calls to extend its stay, the 40-foot-tall fowl that has been floating in the Allegheny River for three weeks is departing.
The duck, the centerpiece of this year's Pittsburgh International Festival of Firsts, will be towed to a warehouse for storage Sunday night. The move is sure to upset more people than the folks at the People for the Ethical Treatment of Extremely Large Inflatable Animals.
That's because the duck has had a profoundly positive effect on the region.
Basking in its inherent cheerfulness, we barely noticed the federal government shutdown and the debt ceiling crisis. We were at The Point taking photos from angles that had the illusory effect of making it appear as though 4-foot-tall children were patting a 4-story-tall duck's head.
The duck's mysterious soothing powers seemingly knew no limits.
Shortly after its arrival, the lame tossed aside their crutches and took up line dancing. The Crips and the Bloods vowed to put away their weapons and settle any future differences with a shirts-skins basketball game. Magee-Womens Hospital reported that women no longer needed anesthesia during childbirth.
Perhaps most significantly, there wasn't a single instance of self-immolation during the Steelers' recent four-game losing streak. How often does the team go winless for a month without anyone lighting themselves on fire?
Contractually, the duck can't be displayed in another city until January. So throw a few extra dollars at Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman, who conceived the project, and let the duck continue to work its magic by transporting it to locales such as:
• The August Wilson Center for African-American Culture
The Downtown center, millions of dollars in debt and undergoing foreclosure proceedings, attracts about six visitors a month. Put the duck on the center's roof, open the duck souvenir stand in the lobby and — voila — foot traffic!
• The Parkway East
The duck probably could keep traffic moving smoothly if adorned with a large electronic message board that urged drivers to maintain their speed when entering the Squirrel Hill Tunnel. People would be happy to do the duck's bidding.
• Outside of Pittsburgh's City-County Building
The duck's winsomeness might have a magnetic effect on outgoing Mayor Luke Ravenstahl. Seldom seen on Grant Street these days as his term winds down, Ravenstahl might want to see the duck before it's packed up for good and perhaps even stop in his office while he's down there.
In other words, the famed duck might lure the lame duck.
Eric Heyl is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. He can be reached at 412-320-7857 or email@example.com.


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Usually when the term 'a band of brothers' comes up, bands that generally come to mind are somewhere between Kings of Leon, Oasis, The Jackson 5 and hell, even The Beach Boys. Not often of those bands that come to mind are The National, which in actual fact are almost an entire band of brothers with twins Aaron Dessner and Bryce Dessner, brothers Scott Devendorf and Bryan Devendorf….and then there is singer and lyricist Matt Berninger, who was the only sibling less member….until now.
The documentary takes place in 2010/2011 when The National were preparing to embark on a year-long tour of High Violet that required an extra crew member, which is where we meet Matt's younger brother and budding filmmaker, Tom Berninger; the Cincinnati living, long haired, heavy metal loving (non-National fan), spontaneous and completely disorganised version of Matt – who has decided to take his camera along for the ride.
"I didn't care what kind of movie he made" Matt says. "I just said, 'You are going to finish this. You are not going to stop."
Right from the first scene where a very unprepared, Tom is interviewing Matt and they get into an argument, you can tell that Tom has left this filming entirely to chance and it's a chance that pays off in ways you can't imagine, because what ensues is a highly poignant, beautiful, clumsy, funny and awkward depiction of a year on the road with a brother and a band.
For those of you expecting a biopic on The National, you've been sorely mislead, because no matter how much this film is about the band…it actually isn't. At the heart of it, Mistaken for Strangers is a film about family, about insecurities, about that unmistakeable brotherly love and the rivalry that follows suit.
The very aptly named Mistaken for Strangers is more than just your conventional tour movie – it's gritty, it's raw, it's cringe worthy at times and most importantly, it actually makes you leave the cinema smiling from ear to ear.
For those of you who don't like The National (despite the sombre howling from Matt being the most perfect soundtrack to the movie), you can still fall in love with them (and Tom) for a bit over an hour.
Rating: ★★★★★
Mistaken For Strangers official trailer:
Head over to the website below for a list of screenings happening around the globe.
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I love potato wedges, and I prefer baked potato wedges to deep-fried ones because they are crisp, not oily and most importantly, very easy to make. The only work you need to do is to slice the potatoes, coat them with seasonings, and then you let your oven do its magic. These wedges make both an excellent side-dish or finger food on its own.
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Potato wedges taste good with minimal seasonings (just salt, pepper and any herbs of your choice), but if you like it hot, don't forget to spice them up with a bit of cayenne pepper. The result was hot, spicy and really blissful.
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In this recipe, I used dried parsley, cayenne and bay leaf from Honest Vanilla. They are 100% organic, aromatic and comes in nifty pretty little magnetic bottles that will stick onto any metallic surface (eg. fridge door). Thanks Min for the herbs sampling!
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Such a great side dish…love that spicy coating…
What a lovely side dish!
Roasted potatoes are one of our favorite easy sides. Great idea to add flavor with parsley and spices. Will have to try it soon :).
I'm drooling from your recipes again! My mom loves insanely spicy and I like spicy – this sounds like a great recipe to try.
I always get hungry looking at all these food you made :D But again I dont know whats cayenne pepper powder and where to get them D: hope it isnt bothering you to reply to me always asking where to buy this and where to buy that :D I found the pitas at cold storage and made them, their REALLY GOOD!
I got mine from Honest Vanilla (link in my blog post) when she sent me a sampler pack. But I think they can be found at local supermarkets such as Cold Storage too (those bottled herbs and spices). Hope this helps :)
i love your dish.its 4 am in night and it serves my hunger better than any else.i love you seriously
may i know what kind of potato( the species) to buy and where can i get them?
For this recipe, I usually use russet potatoes, you can get them at the supermarket or farmer's market. If it's a recipe for say beef stew where the potatoes have to stew for more than an hour, I use harder potatoes such as new or berastagi potatoes.


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2013 Kansas: Richard Childress Racing NASCAR Truck Race Recap
Posted by: newsla on Apr 21, 2013 - 08:15 AM
2013 Kansas: Richard Childress Racing NASCAR Truck Race Recap
Race Highlights:
⢠Richard Childress Racing teammates finished fourth (Brendan Gaughan) and eighth (Ty Dillon).
⢠Dillon is fifth in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series driver championship point standings, trailing leader Johnny Sauter by 39 markers, while Gaughan ranks seventh, 46 points back.
⢠The No. 3 Chevrolet team ranks six in the Camping World Truck Series owner championship point standings, with the No. 62 team ninth.
⢠Combined, RCR drivers Dillon and Gaughan completed eight of the Fastest Laps Run, posting five and three respectively.
⢠According to NASCAR's Post-Race Loop Data Statistics, Gaughan earned the fifth-best Driver Rating (103), earned the sixth-best Green Flag Speed, was sixth-best Speed in Traffic and spent 91.6 percent (153 0f 167) Laps in the Top 15 placing him sixth in the category. He was also the seventh-Fastest Driver Early in a Run and Fastest Driver Late in a Run.
⢠Dillon completed 98.2 percent (163 of 167) Laps in the Top 15, ranking second in the loop-data category. The RCR driver was also the second-Fastest Driver Early in a Run, maintained the fourth-best Average Running Position (7.275), the fourth-best Green Flag Speed and was fifth-Fastest on the Restarts.
⢠Matt Crafton earned his first victory of the 2013 Camping World Truck Series season and was followed to the finish line by Joey Coulter, Ryan Blaney, Gaughan and Johnny Sauter.
⢠The next Camping World Truck Series race is the North Carolina Education Lottery 200 at Charlotte Motor Speedway on Friday, May 17. The fifth race of the 2013 season is scheduled to be televised live on SPEED beginning at 8 p.m. Eastern Time and broadcast live on the Motor Racing Network and Sirius XM NASCAR Satellite Radio.
Ty Dillon Earns Top-10 Finish in the Heartland
Ty Dillon and the No. 3 Bass Pro Shops team finished eighth at Kansas Speedway on Saturday afternoon. Dillon started the 167-lap affair from the fifth position and reported a tight-handling condition to the Marcus Richmond-led crew. The Richard Childress Racing team utilized routine four-tire pit stops to alleviate the handling issues on the No. 3 Chevrolet. When green flag pit stops began on lap 73, the Bass Pro Shops team elected to remain on track as others came down pit road. Right before Dillon was about to come to pit road for adjustments, a caution flag slowed the field placing the 21-year-old driver in the second position. Dillon jumped to the lead on the ensuing restart and remained out front for 11 circuits. Dillon maintained a spot in the top-five and until a lap 118 restart shuffled the young driver to the 12th position, where he received damage to the front splitter after making contact with a flying piece of debris. The debris caused the handling on the truck to return to a tight condition and hindered his ability to maneuver through the field. With a limited number of laps remaining, Dillon improved to eighth where he crossed the finish line.
Start - 5 Finish - 8 Laps Led - 11 Points - 5
"We had a really fast truck today. The Bass Pro Shops team worked hard all weekend. Track position was key, and we just didn't have it there at the end."
Brendan Gaughan Earns Fourth-Place Finish at Kansas Speedway
Brendan Gaughan and the No. 62 South Point Hotel & Casino Chevrolet team earned a fourth-place finish in the SFP 250 at Kansas Speedway Saturday afternoon. The Las Vegas native started the 167-lap event from the eighth position and maintained a spot within the top 10 until lap 84 when Gaughan went a lap down to the leader while running in the 18th position after an untimely caution fell in the midst of a round of green-flag pit stops. Crew chief Shane Wilson instructed his driver to stay on track during the caution laps providing him the opportunity to take the "wave around", regaining his lap and positioning him 15th for the ensuing restart. As the race progressed, Gaughan drove his way back into the top 10 on lap 96, despite battling a tight-handling Chevrolet Silverado. The South Point Hotel & Casino pit crew made adjustments to help combat the handling issue of the black and gold machine during a scheduled four-tire pit stop on lap 104. Armed with a fast truck, the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series veteran raced his way into the top five, running as high as second, before collecting a fourth-place result. Following the top-five finish, Gaughan gained four positions in the driver championship point standings, moving into seventh.
Start - 8 Finish - 4 Laps Led - 0 Points - 7
"I can't believe Ryan (Blaney) got around me on the last lap using the outside line. I didn't think anyone ran a line higher than I do. He made a great move at the end and it was tough to give up third, but I'll take a top-five finish any day. Shane Wilson made some great calls today that helped us gain track position, and my crew did a great job in the pits. Our team is getting into a pretty good rhythm right now, I hope we can keep this momentum going even though we're about to take a three-week break."
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Ever since Facebook was hiring software engineer in Malaysia, we were curious about the address of Facebook Malaysia Office.
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Facebook Malaysia office is at the Neo Damansara, Damansara Perdana, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia.
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A stunning novel of a post-nuclear world by one of SF's early greats. Introduction by Pat Cadigan.
'No city, no town, no community of more than one thousand people or two hundred buildings to the square mile, shall be built or permitted to exist anywhere in the United States of America.' - Thirtieth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States
Two generations after the nuclear holocaust, rumours persisted about a secret desert hideaway where scientists worked with dangerous machines and where men plotted to revive the cities.
Almost a continent away, Len Coulter heard whisperings that fired his imagination. Then one day he found a strange wooden box...
About the Author
Leigh Brackett was an accomplished and prolific writer of fantasy and SF, as well as a Hollywood screen writer. She worked on scripts for films such as The Big SLeep, The Long Goodbye and Rio Bravo, and received a posthumous Hugo Award for the script for The Empire Strikes Back.
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The political bloc of Muqtada al-Sadr has suspended its participation in Iraq's national unity government in protest at the Iraqi prime minister Nuri al-Maliki's meeting with the US president.
Al-Maliki is due to meet George Bush in Amman, the Jordanian capital, on Wednesday evening.
A statement by 30 Sadrist parliamentarians, including five cabinet members, said Bush's talks with al-Maliki were a "provocation to the feelings of the Iraqi people and a violation of their constitutional rights".
The group handed the statement to reporters in Baghdad's Shia district of Sadr City, where a series of bombings last week killed more than 200 people in the deadliest attack in Iraq since the US-led invasion.
The statement read: "At a time when Iraqis are suffering and the popular and national desire yearns to get rid of the occupation and the forces of darkness and takfiris [Sunni radicals] that kill without distinction... the Sadr bloc decided to suspend its participation."
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The Sadrists' move to suspend their participationi in al-Maliki's fragile coalition government further complicates the two-day series of meetings between the Iraqi leader and Bush.
Bush hopes to use his meeting with al-Maliki to find a way to reduce the sectarian violence sweeping Iraq.
He also wants Iraqi security forces to play a greater role in combatting the Sunni insurgents in the country's Western Anbar province, and thereby allow US troops to withdraw.
In recent days Bush has vowed not to pull troops out "before the mission is complete", rejecting talk that Iraq had plunged into civil war - a term adopted by several US news outlets.
However US misgivings over al-Maliki's leadership have been disclosed in a memo written by Stephen Hadley, a national security adviser, and which were published by the New York Times.
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Distress Dependence and Financial Stability
This paper defines a set of systemic financial stability indicators which measure distress dependence among the financial institutions in a system, thereby allowing to analyze stability from three complementary perspectives: common distress in the system, distress between specific banks, and cascade effects associated with a specific bank. Our approach defines the banking system as a portfolio of banks and infers the system's multivariate density (BSMD) from which the proposed measures are estimated. The BSMD embeds the banks' default inter-dependence structure that captures linear and non-linear distress dependencies among the banks in the system, and its changes at different times of the economic cycle. The BSMD is recovered using the CIMDO-approach, a new approach that, in the presence of restricted data, improves density specification without explicitly imposing parametric forms that, under restricted data sets, are difficult to model. Thus, the proposed measures can be constructed from a very limited set of publicly available data and can be provided for a wide range of both developing and developed countries.
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Cranberry Surprise Muffins Recipe
This recipe has been in my family since 1943, so these muffins have been enjoyed during the holidays for many years. The "surprise" is a dollop of cranberry sauce in the center. We like to eat them warm, fresh from the oven.
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 3 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup milk
- 1/4 cup butter, melted
- 1 cup jellied cranberry sauce
- 1. In a large bowl, combine the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. In another bowl, whisk the eggs, milk and butter. Stir into dry ingredients just until moistened.
- 2. Fill 12 greased muffin cups one-fourth full. Drop a rounded tablespoonful of cranberry sauce into each cup. Top with remaining batter.
- 3. Bake at 400° for 12-15 minutes or until muffin tops spring back when lightly touched. Cool for 5 minutes before removing from pan to a wire rack. Serve warm. Yield: 1 dozen.
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Editor's Note: These muffins are best served the day they're made.
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Two multi-storey car parks will soon come up near Metro rail stations.
In what is ultimately hoped to give a boost to public transport in the city, decks have been cleared to set up multi-level public car parks at stone's throw from two of the 12 proposed stations on the Versova-Andheri-Ghatkopar Metro route, called Mumbai Metro One.
To be set up on private plots, the parking facilities will be erected within 200 m of the Airport road and Marol Metro stations. The idea is car users will park their cars at the parking lots and board Metro rail to commute.
To limit vehicular density and control traffic movement along the Metro route, the Mumbai transformation support unit, a government think tank created to provide long-term solutions to Mumbai's woes, had asked the BMC and the traffic police department to create underground and multi-level parking infrastructure around Metro stations.
An eight-storey car park, with a capacity to accommodate 250 cars, will come up near the Airport Road station, while a two-level underground facility, boasting a capacity for 275 vehicles, will be erected outside the Marol station, close to Marol fire brigade. Both the facilities are expected to be commissioned in two years.
The Airport Road facility will have two basement levels, and six above ground level, a senior member of the state committee informed.
Set up on a 16,000 sq m space belonging to The Leela Group, the parking lot will have car lifts and automated fee collection facility. The parking facility will be created by Rockfort Estate Developers Pvt Ltd, promoted by HDFC and the Raheja Group, which recently entered into a joint venture with the Leela Group for developing a 3.5 lakh sq feet business park in Mumbai.
For the creation and handing over of the public parking space free-of-cost to the BMC, the private party will get FSI incentives. Development control regulations were modified last year to allow private parties to develop public parking lots in lieu of FSI perks, which could go up to 50% of the built up area used for the parking.
The five-member state panel, which in principle approved the proposal, included the municipal commissioner, metropolitan commissioner, representatives of the road, traffic police, and the town planning department.
"The approved plan will be sent to the urban development department for final clearance once these are incorporated," another panel member said.
The Marol parking facility, meanwhile, will be set up on a plot owned by the Ajmera group, which too has undertaken a project for setting up a business park. The public parking facility near Metro stations will allow people to park their cars in these parking spaces before taking the Metro rail.
Authorities are now on the lookout for plots for setting up similar facilities near other stations.


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Irish passport key to fee waiver in Scotland
A Scottish government spokesman has confirmed that sixth form pupils in the UK who hold Irish passports qualify for free university tuition in Scotland.
Fees are rising to a maximum of £9000 across the UK but in Scotland, pupils who have lived there for at least three years do not have to pay fees.
This is also the case for EU students, as EU law does not allow discrimination against those from other member states.
Irish passport holders in Northern Ireland count as EU students.
Until now it was understood that students from England, Wales and Northern Ireland had to pay the higher fees in Scotland.
But the BBC has been told that those who have Irish passports are exempt. An investigation by BBC Northern Ireland has found that some pupils in Belfast are applying for Irish passports in order to get free tuition in Scotland.
A Scottish government spokesman confirmed that nationality not residence was the key when it came to defining an EU student, and that anyone with an Irish passport living in the UK could apply for free tuition.
Students in Northern Ireland have dual nationality and can opt for Irish passports.
Cathy Moore, chair of the Careers Teachers' Association, said: "The Scottish Parliament has said if you have an Irish passport and live in Northern Ireland and provide that, (Irish passport) you are eligible to have the fees paid."
There is a degree of confusion about how widely this measure applies.
It is understood some Scottish universities have told students they will be classed as UK nationals and have to pay fees.
Northern Ireland born, Richard Beggs graduated from Dundee University in 2004. He tried and failed to avail of the alleged exemption: "I knew I was able to get an Irish passport and I thought I would be able to study for free but that wasn't the case.
"They told me because I didn't have an address in the Republic of Ireland over the last three years that I wasn't eligible."
Scottish Education Secretary Michael Russell said universities would have the final word but urged Northern Ireland students to be cautious.
"The purpose of the regulations is to guarantee Scottish students free access. It is not to find ways around for other people. Because of European law, people coming from other jurisdictions do get the same treatment as Scottish students but those in the rest of the UK don't," he said.
Mr Russell agreed the situation was "fluid".
The DUP East Londonderry MP Gregory Campbell said he had raised the issue with Angus Robertson, the SNP leader in Westminster.
"Northern Ireland's citizenship issue is unique to that of the rest of the United Kingdom in that someone living in Belfast can hold both a British passport and an Irish passport. They can officially be an Irish citizen and a British citizen," he said.
"With such a unique situation, the Scottish executive should take an equally unique approach to Northern Ireland students.
"Rather than only those who are happy to have an Irish passport gaining free university places, the Scottish executive should remove all fees for students from Northern Ireland.
"This would restore fairness in that those who wouldn't be comfortable being an Irish citizen can still avail of free places at Scottish universities.
"Those who do not accept being labelled as Irish should not be disadvantaged to the tune of up to £27,000 over a three year period."
Meanwhile, a bonus for Northern Ireland students, is that even if they are classed as EU students and avoid paying tuition fees, they can still get a student loan as a UK citizen.
A spokesperson from Universities Scotland said it was taking advice on the issue but, based on the most recent statistics available, there had not been a rise in applicants holding an Irish passport.
"The regulations for rest of UK fees are based on applicants' ordinary residency rather than nationality and this is the basis on which universities will be processing applications," said the spokesperson.
"Universities continue to liaise closely with the Scottish government and Student Awards Agency Scotland on these regulations in order to ensure the appropriate fee is applied."