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It has been three weeks since Manish Ranjan steered his team to victory in the Hult Prize final – but there is still so much more work to be done. Manish, an Indian entrepreneur, is trying to solve a pressing problem: under-diagnosis and poor treatment in India's weakened healthcare system.
India's government spends just 0.9% of GDP on health. A shortage of resources and the urbanisation of India's cities have left public hospitals and healthcare providers bursting at the seams.
Manish, an IT consultant by background, took to business schools to study healthcare management. His MBA program at the Indian School of Business is one of the few in the country that caters for the medical manager, he says.
But it is also a business school that is supporting the growing entrepreneurial movement in management education, spurred by the increased optimism in India's start-up scene.
It was while on a healthcare management course during his MBA program last year that Manish formed his dream start-up team. For years, ISB has been entering the Hult Prize, the world's largest business school competition, but Manish was to bring home the coveted winners' title.
"For a team, we all come from a very diverse background but all had an interest in healthcare," he says, reflecting on last month's grand final in New York, presented by former US president Bill Clinton.
Today, the venture, NanoHealth, is one of the most innovative social enterprises in India. It is not just a social start-up but a commercially viable business, too – albeit one that seeks to offer affordable healthcare services for India's urban poor.
"This solution has to be self-sustainable – we are a profit seeking enterprise," says Manish, CEO.
Most of NanoHealth's business will come from the huge urban population that lives in India's slums.
The company has created a network of health workers equipped with a diagnostic tool – a "Dox-in-Box" – which can risk-profile patients for diabetes and hypertension. By incorporating doctors and pharmacies into its network, NanoHealth hopes to become a one-stop-shop for all health services related to chronic disease.
"For our counselling and monitoring we just charge $1.5 every month. Most of the time these people are short of funds because they go to doctors when in extreme conditions," says Manish.
By diagnosing early, the start-up hopes to stem the flow of non-communicable disease.
The impact of these diseases will cost low and middle-income economies $1.3 trillion over the next 20 years, according to the Hult Prize Foundation, the non-profit organization which runs the start-up competition. It is a good thing that NanoHealth has just banked $1 million in funding, the spoils of battle.
"Now, 66% of all premature deaths will be caused by chronic diseases and out of that, 50% is because of hypertension and diabetes," says Manish.
He says that the company will use the investment to expand its pilot across India, but eventually he wants to see NanoHealth in other countries in Southeast Asia, and even Africa. "A good sum of that will also go into R&D [research and development], to reduce the cost of our Dox-in-Box," he adds.
The company also struck a partnership with GVK BIO, Asia's leading R&D organization, to use its proprietary platform, HEART – Health Emphasized Analytical and Reporting Tool – which is a cloud-based healthcare analytics framework that offers analysis to assist medical support.
Its story reflects both the potential and the challenges for social businesses in India's healthcare industry, which is struggling to meet the needs of the country's 1.2 billion people.
In a report last year Deloitte, the consultancy, described India's healthcare infrastructure as "one of the weakest" of the developing nations. It warned that the lack of inclusive healthcare is a huge barrier for India's economic growth.
Yet the glaring need for wider healthcare access is spurring new innovations, and presents opportunity for start-up companies. Social businesses – firms set up to provide services at prices affordable to India's working classes – are seen as a way to fill the gaps in the healthcare landscape.
Coupled with one of the world's lowest levels of public healthcare funding, entrepreneurs have emerged to bring the sector back to health in India.
"People are ready to pay for a good service, but it's not reaching them," says Manish.
In India's small towns and rural areas, patients face an even tougher time obtaining reliable diagnostic tests.
But Manish says that NanoHealth will focus on the urbanisation of India's cities because it is a "huge growing market" – as hordes of people migrate to urban areas, slums will grow and add to the strain on the healthcare system. About 31% of India's population now lives in towns and cities, according to its 2011 census.
"If you look at hospitals in urban areas, what is missing is trust. It is overflowing," says Ajit Rangnekar, ISB's Dean, "and often people don't go because of… The loss of time and wages – if I have to spend a day in the hospital, that day's wages are gone."
NanoHealth's success will be dependent on its deployment of "Saathis" or "friends" – a network of health workers who are equipped with its diagnostic tool, and who can also provide monitoring services.
"We are hiring a lot," says Manish. He adds that one Saathi can cater to a slum of up to 9,000 people. In a day, Saathi's can treat 360 patients who are on the monitoring plan by visiting 15 households, he says.
But he also sees the management of this network of health workers as the company's biggest challenge.
NanoHealth faced stiff competition from a host of other business schools' start-ups in the Hult Prize competition, and Manish admits that his company was capital expenditure-heavy in beginning, but says he has been able to reduce the initial costs and has used technology effectively.
Only two of the original five NanoHealth team members – Ashish Bondia, a former army doctor, and Manish – are still pursuing the social venture, but they intend to scale the business and expand overseas nonetheless.
In an age where corporate careers still rule the roost in MBA cohorts, Manish is confident that the degree has helped him pursue an entrepreneurial path.
"We are drawing from all those learning [experiences], and to add to that, all the professors continue to be very approachable – we are still leveraging them," he says. "This experience has been great in ensuring that we are where we are now."


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So whenever I want to tweak my budget or figure out possible solutions for saving money, I usually go over to the Nest. But the board is usually pretty slow and/or dead. Not a lot of responses. And this board seems to be much more active.
But most of the budgets here are wedding-related. I'm not complaining about that at all because it's interesting to see what people budget for when it comes to weddings.
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I just found an old notebook from 1998. It contains some quotes from the German film director Werner Herzog, from an interview on NPR's "Fresh Air" (October 27, 1998). I am not absolutely sure that the following quote is verbatim, but the fact that I included ellipses suggests it might be. Probably I taped it and made a transcription.
I'd rather die, I'd rather jump from the Golden Gate Bridge before I would go to an analyst. . . . It's a hysteria, here in America in particular, to "discover your inner self" and talk about "inner growth" and all these stupid things. Once in a while, it is very sane, it is almost clinically sane, to take a certain distance from yourself, and to look at yourself with a certain caution . . . What's wrong with the analysts is that – let me put it in a different way. When you rent an apartment, and you illuminate it with neon lights to its very last corner, and you put lights everywhere, the apartment becomes uninhabitable.
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In Western houses we [Japanese] are often confronted with what appears to us useless reiteration. We find it trying to talk to a man while his full-length portrait stares at us from behind his back. We wonder which is real, he of the picture or he who talks, and feel a curious conviction that one of them must be a fraud. Many a time have we sat a festive board contemplating, with a secret shock to our digestion, the representation of abundance on the dining room walls. Why these pictured victims of the chase and sport, the elaborate carvings of fish and fruit? Why the display of family plates, reminding us of those who have died and are dead?
Kikazu Okakura, The Book of Tea (1906)
Without "chaos", no knowledge. Without a frequent dismissal of reason, no progress. Ideas which today form the very basis of science exist only because there are such things as prejudice, conceit, and passion; because these things opposed reason; and because they were permitted to have their way. We have to conclude, then, that even within science reason cannot and should not be allowed to be comprehensive and that it must often be overruled, or eliminated, in favour of other agencies. There is not a single rule that remains valid under all circumstances and not a single agency to which appeal can always be made.
Paul Feyerabend, Against Method: Outline of an anarchistic theory of knowledge (1975)
Like industrial sex, industrial eating has become a degraded, poor, and paltry thing. Our kitchens and other eating places more and more resemble filling stations, as our homes more and more resemble motels. "Life is not very interesting," we seem to have decided. "Let its satisfactions be minimal, perfunctory, and fast." We hurry through our meals to go to work and hurry through our work in order to "recreate" ourselves in the evenings and on weekends and vacations. And then we hurry, with the greatest possible speed and noise and violence, through our recreation – for what? . . . And all this is carried out in a remarkable obliviousness to the causes and effects, the possibilities and purposes, of the life of the body in this world.
Wendell Berry, "The Pleasures of Eating," What Are People For? (1990)
I breathe in the soft, saturated exhalations of cedar trees and salmonberry bushes, fireweed and wood fern, marsh hawks and meadow voles, marten and blacktail deer. I breathe the same particles of air that made songs in the throats of hermit thrushes and gave voice to humpback whales, the same particles of air that lifted the wings of bald eagles and buzzed in the flight of hummingbirds, the same particles of air that rushed over the sea in storms . . .
And like the alder and the spruce, the brown bear and the black oystercatcher, the mink and great horned owl, I bring the earth inside myself as food. . . . The rivers run through my veins, the winds blow in and out with my breath, the soil makes my flesh, the sun's heat smolders inside me. A sickness or injury that befalls the earth befalls me. A fouled molecule that runs through the earth runs through me. When the earth is cleansed and nourished, its purity infuses me. The life of the earth is my own life. My eyes are the earth gazing at itself.
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You know that mom cliche of yesteryear about the kid who lacks the sense to come in out of a good hard rain? As a country, we've been that clue-free child for decades, determined to pretend that whatever "freak storm" we've just been through is nothing we'll ever have to worry about again.
Vice-presidential nominees Lloyd Bentsen and Dan Quayle debate in 1988.
In fact, while the flood risk has been rising, we've been regressing. Way back in 1988, there was not only a question about climate change during a vice-presidential debate, but one of the visionaries in the running that year boldly replied that that summer's drought had certainly "highlighted the problem that we have."
"The greenhouse effect is an important environmental issue," the aspiring veep said, and "it's important for us to get the data in to see what alternatives we might have to fossil fuels."
"Therefore," concluded J. Danforth Quayle, "we need to get on with it."
Flooding in Hoboken, N.J., this week.
For all we've learned in the years since then, about rising, warming waters and melting arctic ice, we never really have gotten on with it. Somehow, other issues are always pronounced more pressing. In 2000, even the man who's since made a crusade of saving the planet barely mentioned it. At the time, Al Gore's advisers patiently explained to me that the environment ranked a pitiful 13th among concerns expressed by voters, and thus was a poor use of the candidate's platform.
Post-Sandy, though, some politicians are stating the obvious. "There's been a series of extreme weather incidents," said New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo (D). "That's not a political statement; that's a factual statement. . . . I would like to say this is probably the last occurrence we'll have, [but] I don't believe that. I said to the president kiddingly the other day, we have a 100-year flood every two years now."
New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg (I) went even further on Thursday when he put his lips together and finally pulled climate change into the presidential race: "In just 14 months,'' he wrote in his surprise endorsement of President Obama, "two hurricanes have forced us to evacuate neighborhoods — something our city government had never done before. If this is a trend, it is simply not sustainable." The climate is changing, Bloomberg observed, and while one candidate "sees climate change as an urgent problem that threatens our planet, one does not."
Cuomo discussing preparations for Hurricane Sandy last Sunday.
Of course, seeing and doing something about it are two different things. But on this issue, there's no comparing the two men: Obama set higher fuel-efficiency standards and tightened mercury emissions, and Mitt Romney, well, he used to think emissions from coal plants were killing us, but doesn't any more. During the second debate, he accused the president of not exactly being, "Mr. Oil, or Mr. Gas, or Mr. Coal," which is I guess how Romney does hope to be known. I'm afraid that my friends who expect Obama to devote himself to saving the environment and addressing the root causes of poverty in a second term are dreaming. I haven't heard him promise anything of the kind. But the fossil-fuel-hating Romney of '03 isn't coming back, either — and when he says deregulation would be a cornerstone of a Romney presidency, I tend to believe him.
We can never get back the years we've spent in denial, of course. Back in '06, I wrote about a park ranger in the Grand Tetons who told a group of us that though no one studied the glaciers there any more, "You can see from aerial photos that they have receded dramatically in the last 30 years, due to warm weather in the park and elsewhere." Elsewhere, as in all over the planet?
Obama with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) surveying storm damage this week.
"I don't like to call it" climate change, the ranger answered, "because some people don't believe in global warming, and I've had people get very upset with me for calling it that. So now I just say 'warm weather,' because no one can argue with that."
Wrong, Ranger Bobette. I'd argue that our refusal to call climate change by its name has led us straight to the unhappy spectacle of Romney and Obama debating who is the greater friend of the energy lobby.
In August, climate-change expert James Hansen apologized in The Post that his warnings in 1988 — back when both Bentsen and Quayle freely acknowledged that there was a problem — had been so far off. As in, had been so wildly over-optimistic. "For the extreme hot weather of the recent past," he said, referring to the European heat wave of 2003, the Russian heat wave of 2010 and the droughts in Texas and Oklahoma last year, "there is virtually no explanation other than climate change."
Yet one of the few patches of common ground in American politics is scorched: After driving past mile after mile of burned up corn in Indiana this summer, I asked both Senate candidates in that state whether it wasn't time to talk about — you know, climate change. Republican Richard Mourdock: "No; Alaska's having the coldest summer on record. Weather is different every year." Democrat Joe Donnelly: "I don't talk about that. That's a conversation for another day."
At last, that day is here, and anyone who says otherwise is standing out in the rain still.
Melinda Henneberger is a Post political writer and anchors the paper's She the People blog. Follow her on Twitter: @MelindaDC.


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Sunday, January 18, 2009
With Which To Wow
It is good and I recommend it, but, blast it all, it confounds me! It has made me feel unstable, like my world has been turned upside down and all the truths I hold dear are no longer worth two cents. But here it stands, a delicious bread, happily disregarding the most sacred of bread-baking truths. It is a bread so simple it makes me feel stupid.
That said, this bread, though quite excellent, is not the be-all and end-all. I will continue to make the standard knead-and-rise yeast breads. I will still make my sourdough breads, probably within the next couple days.
Because despite the fact that this bread is called an artisan bread, it doesn't strike me as being totally authentic, and even though the flavor is pleasing, it doesn't have the depth of integrity that I associate with sourdoughs. Although every loaf of sourdough doesn't necessarily have an overpowering sour flavor, they do have a strength about them, a presence, if you will. Kind of like a wrinkly old lady who makes a kick-butt chow-chow, dons a floppy sunhat and a pair of men's oversized rubber boots when she works in her gardens, and decorates her kitchen with a simple bouquet of wild flowers stuffed haphazardly into a mason jar. Reassuring, uncompromising, able-bodied, and earthy—that's sourdough.
The five-minute bread is like a Birkenstock-wearing, soy-milk-drinking, Peace Corps volunteer living in West Africa, just a few anemic cacti lining the edge of the dirt yard.
Um, whatever.
Bread personifications and personal bewilderment aside, this is the ideal bread for anyone who breaks out in a sweat and starts biting their nails when they hear mentioned the word "yeast". It's a good bread for kids to learn with. It's a good bread with which to wow your guests. It's a good bread with which to wow yourself.
So now, go forth into the world, ye Bread Bakers, mix up some dough, with a spoon, yea verily, and do not knead it. Yay.
Five-Minute Bread
Adapted from the article in MotherEarthNews.com, emailed to me by my girlfriend Laurel.
For the first few batches of dough, I recommend using all white flour and then gradually adding the whole wheat so you have a bottom line from which to deviate.
I have not detected a sourdough flavor, though I have yet to keep the dough in the fridge for the full two weeks.
It takes a long time to bake, as in 40-60 minutes. Don't be afraid to get the crust a nice dark brown color—the inside doesn't seem to dry out at all. And the bread is best when it's had a chance to cool for at least thirty minutes; otherwise, it is so moist it's almost doughy.
A lump of dough makes a spectacular pizza crust. (Update, March 17, 2009: This is now my favorite pizza dough. One batch of this dough makes three large pizza crusts. I like to make two large pizzas for supper and save the leftover dough in the fridge for when I want to make a fast breakfast pizza, or a simple focaccia for an afternoon snack or a lazy Sunday supper.)
3 cups warm water
1 ½ tablespoons yeast
1 tablespoon salt
6 ½ cups white bread flour
Stir together the yeast and water and let rest for about ten minutes. Add the salt and flour and stir until incorporated. Cover the bowl with a towel and let the dough rise till about double. At this point you may bake if you wish, or you may put a shower cap over the container and set it in the fridge, for up to two weeks, cutting off hunks of dough when needed.
(Do not wash your bread bowl when you mix up the next batch of dough; simply stir the leftover bits and pieces of the dough into the new batch—that's supposed to help it to get a deeper flavor more quickly.)
When you are ready to bake: Cut off a hunk of dough, whatever size you wish, roughly lump it into a ball and set it on a bread board, or cutting board, that has been heavily sprinkled with cornmeal. Sprinkle flour over the loaf, slash it a couple times, and allow it to rest uncovered for 30-45 minutes. (It may be better to slash it immediately before baking, after the rest period, but I'm still testing that one out.)
Place your baking stone on the bottom rack of your oven, and preheat the oven to 425 degrees. When the oven is hot, spritz it heavily with water, slide the loaf from the board onto the hot stone, spritz the oven again, and shut the door. Spritz the oven two more times in the next five minutes, and then keep the oven shut for the next fifteen minutes at which point you can check the loaf and rotate it as needed. Continue baking the loaf for about a total of 45-60 minutes, or until it is dark brown all over.
19 comments:
I've been waiting for the recipe. We'll be trying it here this week.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 18, 2009 at 8:37 PM
Just curious,ReplyDelete
Do you use Hi-gluten or Occident flour?
Thank you for this! I am going to give it a try once I pick up some white bread flour. I do have a couple questions. First, I do not have a baking stone- if I use a baking sheet, do I still put it on the bottom rack of the oven? Secondly, my oven has a fan, that I always use to help things bake more evenly- do I leave the fan off? Thanks, JJ:-).ReplyDelete
S, I used occident bread flour.ReplyDelete
ThyHand, I don't know how it would turn out with a baking sheet. I probably wouldn't put it on the bottom rack, and I'd leave the fan on, but I suspect that even so it will have a greater chance of burning so watch it closely. Do report back and tell how it turned out.
Thanks for tweaking and sharing. I tried it first thing this morning, unearthing my spritz bottle and resurrecting my pizza stone. It was well worth the (minimal) effort; my household and I unanimously rated the loaf "delicious." One question: Is it normal for the dough to be so wet and sticky and sprawling (i.e. nearly unmanageable)? I forget what you told me. -MEReplyDelete
When the dough is fresh, it is quite wet, but once it has chilled in the fridge it is much easier to handle. And I forgot to say that the measurements are fairly exact---make sure you avoid pouring and dumping so that you get the correct proportions. But yes, it is a wet dough, much more so than regular bread dough.
Just mixed up the dough. My question is do I need to punch down the dough before it goes in the fridge? If I don't, I fear I'd have a whopper of a mess.
Also, I have this unexplained fear of completely white bread...so I had to put a cup of ww in it. Please forgive me.
Go ahead and punch it down some, but it will still rise in the fridge. Just make sure you have it in a really big container and then check it every once in a while for the next few hours after putting it in the fridge.
I understand your fear of all-white bread. One cup of whole-wheat is a good conscience-appeaser.
Ok, I ate my first of this bread last night (3 slices of it). I baked two small loaves and put the rest of the dough in the fridge. I baked the loaves on a cookie sheet on the middle rack, spritzed the oven with water only at the beginning, had my oven fan on, baked it for 30 minutes and waited 30 minutes to eat it. It was reeeaaally good. Crunchy crust, but not break your teeth crunchy. Moist and chewy inside. I'm saving the second loaf for pesto and roasted tomato panini sandwiches. Thanks, JJ.ReplyDelete
I just made this bread, and its quite good. I was surprised! =) Can you suggest a size of container to keep it in in the fridge? Also, have you ever tried halving the recipe?ReplyDeleteReplies
For in the fridge: at least a gallon-sized container, maybe two. It should be no trouble to halve the recipe. Go for it!Delete
Hello. I arrived here looking for a simple pizza dough recipe for a beginner and I don't think I found it. It doesn't get much simpler than what you've described here.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 10, 2013 at 8:19 AM
This is similar to no-knead bread but the cooking directions are different. I may just try using this for some cinnamon rolls and see what happens.ReplyDelete
Mama JJ,ReplyDelete
I have yet to try making bread since it scares the daylights out of me, but your recipe sounds so simple. I have just a quick question...can i use all purpose flour for this recipe or does the flour have to be specifically bread flour?Replies
Hi Amber,Delete
You can use all-purpose flour, but it won't have as much gluten and therefore won't be quite as chewy nor will it rise as well. Bread flour can be found in any grocery store---any you don't use can be stored in the freezer.
Don't be scared of bread making! It's just yeast and flour. What's the worst that can happen? If it bombs, toss it and start over. It won't bite!
Good luck!
Is this supposed to be a REALLY WET dough, or did I do something wrong?ReplyDeleteReplies
Um...how wet is "really wet?" The dough is too wet to touch without sticking to your fingers. Once it's been in the fridge for several hours, it gets stiff and is much easier to work with. I flour it good, but without kneading the flour into the dough.Delete
I have been using this as my go-to pizza dough for a long time now, but finally made it up as a bread tonight. I put it all in one great big megaloaf, I messed up the transfer from the board to the oven, I was certain it would collapse under its own weight/my incompetent handling...and it was divine. HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE? This bread has no right to work at all, and it works so well. I don't get it.ReplyDelete
I'm happily flummoxed, I guess.


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For seven years, Cinema Nolita occupied the storefront at 178 Mulberry Street. The video and DVD rental shop was one of the last of a rapidly dying breed, but when word of its potential closure surfaced in 2009, its customers rallied to try to save it. But despite their efforts, and those of Bad Lieutenant director Abel Ferrara, Cinema Nolita lost its battle. And now, two years after its closure, there is news of its replacement. To absolutely no one's surprise, it will involve food.
Bowery Boogie reports that 178 Mulberry Street will soon be home to La Cremeria, a gelato shop. According to an article published in an Italian newspaper, it is owned by Martino Carciagli, a native of Bologna, and will be "equipped with benches and … the best technology," and "carefully furnished." All of the ingredients will come from Italy, except for the milk, which will come from "a farm in New Jersey." Local-ingredient quota fulfilled!
The place is scheduled to open in September; somewhat unsurprisingly, its owner, who has a background as an accountant, is already hoping to open additional branches in countries like Brazil and Japan.
All of which leads us to wonder: Is there any business left in New York that can't be replaced by food? And is it possible that we've reached a point where the proliferation of restaurants and food-related businesses has come at the expense of retail and cultural diversity? And perhaps most importantly, does Little Italy really need more gelato?
Well, at least it's not another Crumbs.
This article from the Village Voice Archive was posted on April 25, 2011
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The Ultimate Fighter: Team Lesnar vs. Team dos Santos
|The Ultimate Fighter: Team Lesnar vs. Team Dos Santos
|Reality, Sports
|Created by
|Frank Fertitta III, Lorenzo Fertitta, Dana White
|Dana White, Brock Lesnar, Junior dos Santos
|Country of origin
|United States
|Running time
|60 minutes
|Original network
|Original release
|March 30, 2011
|Preceded by
|The Ultimate Fighter: Team GSP vs. Team Koscheck
|Followed by
|The Ultimate Fighter: Team Bisping vs. Team Miller
The Ultimate Fighter: Team Lesnar vs. Team dos Santos is the thirteenth installment of the Ultimate Fighting Championship produced reality television series The Ultimate Fighter.
The UFC and Spike TV held open tryouts on November 4, 2010, in Las Vegas, Nevada. The casting call went out for Welterweight and Middleweight fighters, however, all fighters will be in the welterweight division.[1] All fighters applying and trying out for the show must have at least three professional fights and be at least 21 years of age.[2] Notables who turned up to the tryouts included Strikeforce veterans Karl Amoussou, Andre Galvao, and Zak Cummings, and former TUF contestants Frank Lester and Jeremiah Riggs.[3]
It was confirmed during the Fight For The Troops 2 conference call that Brock Lesnar and Junior dos Santos would be the coaches for this season.[4]
This season did not feature an elimination round like the two seasons before it, however, the "wild card" selections introduced in season 11 were still featured. The initial cast was 14 fighters rather than the usual 16, 28 or 32 in recent seasons.[5]
On May 12, 2011, midway through the airing of the season, Dana White announced that Brock Lesnar pulled out of the coaches' fight due to the return of diverticulitis, forcing Lesnar to withdraw from the bout.[6]
- Team Lesnar
- Brock Lesnar
- Marty Morgan
- Erik Paulson
- Rodrigo Medeiros
- Greg Nelson
- Chris Manos
- Team dos Santos
- Junior dos Santos
- Antonio Peinado
- Billy Scheibe[7]
- Lew Polley
- Luiz Dorea[7]
- Team Lesnar
- Len Bentley, Charlie Rader, Tony Ferguson, Clay Harvison, Chris Cope, Nordin Asrih, Myles Jury (Chuck O'Neil)*
- Team dos Santos
- Shamar Bailey, Ryan McGillivray, Javier Torres, Ramsey Nijem, Zachary Davis, Michael "Mick" Bowman, Keon Caldwell (Justin Edwards)*
* Jury was replaced by O'Neil due to injury.
* Caldwell quit the show and was replaced by Edwards.
- Episode 1: Something to Prove
- Dana White welcomed 14 fighters to the UFC training facility and announced that all 14 would automatically get into the house. He also announced the return of the wildcard format.
- The coaches for the season were introduced as Brock Lesnar and Junior dos Santos. They then went on to evaluate the fighters.
- During the evaluations, Jury got injured and was checked out by a doctor, who said that nothing was broken but still wanted to do an MRI.
- Both coaches met in White's office to go through the fighter picks via a coin toss (green for Lesnar, grey for dos Santos). The coin toss was won by Lesnar who chose to pick the first fighter, leaving dos Santos with first choice of matches.
|1st Pick
|2nd Pick
|3rd Pick
|4th Pick
|5th Pick
|6th Pick
|7th Pick
|Len Bentley
|Charlie Rader
|Tony Ferguson
|Clay Harvison
|Myles Jury
|Chris Cope
|Nordin Asrih
|Dos Santos
|Shamar Bailey
|Ryan McGillivray
|Javier Torres
|Ramsey Nijem
|Zachary Davis
|Mick Bowman
|Keon Caldwell
- Jury was told that he had a torn ACL and was forced off the show. White promised that he would get a second shot into the UFC after he heals up.
- Jury was replaced by Chuck O'Neil.
- Dos Santos announced that Bailey will face Asrih.
- Both fighters speak of their religious backgrounds, as Bailey is the son of a pastor and Asrih is a German-born Muslim.
- Shamar Bailey defeated Nordin Asrih by unanimous decision after two rounds.[8]
- Episode 2: Suck It Up
- Keon Caldwell struggled during an intense Team dos Santos training session and vomited. He told dos Santos that it was hard for him to be away from his family.
- Lesnar admitted that he expected to lose the first fight between his seventh pick Nordin Asrih and Team dos Santos' top pick Shamar Bailey.
- Caldwell told dos Santos the next day that he wanted to go home. Dos Santos, and later White, encourage to him to keep going. After initially agreeing to continue, Caldwell later changed his mind and left the show.
- Dos Santos announced that Javier Torres would face Chris Cope.
- Chris Cope defeated Javier Torres via unanimous decision after three rounds.[9]
- Episode 3: Chicken Salad
- Lesnar's "making chicken salad out of chicken shit" comment confused his team, but he recovered by telling his fighters they became chicken salad once they had made it onto the show, and he also told them to stay motivated.
- Justin Edwards, a former Bellator MMA fighter and 6-0 in his career, arrived to replace Keon Caldwell on Team dos Santos.
- Dos Santos' wrestling coach, Lew Polley, ran an intense training session that eventually resulted in Shamar Bailey being cut above the eye.
- Lesnar announced that Len Bentley would face Ryan McGillivray.
- Chris Cope was seen hanging out with Team dos Santos a lot, making the rest of the green team wonder what his motives were. Bentley seemed especially suspicious and asked Lesnar to talk to Cope, who told him to calm down and fight.
- Dissatisfied with Polley's training sessions, dos Santos reminded him that the competition is a team effort, not his own.
- Four hours prior to weigh-in, McGillivray weighed 180 lb, so he cut the weight in 45 minutes with dos Santos and Polley in an Epsom salt bath. Both fighters made weight at 170 lb.
- Maurício "Shogun" Rua paid a visit to dos Santos in support of the grey team and to watch the fight cageside.
- Lesnar was absent from the fight due to personal reasons.
- Ryan McGillivray defeated Len Bentley by majority decision after two rounds.[10]
- Episode 4: A Bad Dream
- Lesnar returned after leaving before the Bentley-McGillivray fight and congratulated Len Bentley on his efforts. Lesnar showed a commitment to getting wins from his four remaining fighters yet to compete: Tony Ferguson, Clay Harvison, Chuck O'Neil, and Charlie Rader.
- Lesnar removed Harvison from a training session momentarily for looking distracted and not committed. He also was angry with Rader for the same reasons.
- Dos Santos announced that Ramsey Nijem would face Rader.
- Lesnar invited Matt Hughes as a guest instructor for wrestling techniques.
- Ramsey Nijem defeated Charlie Rader by submission (rear naked choke) at 3:31 of the second round.[11]
- Lesnar and O'Neil were visibly upset. Inside the dressing room, Lesnar began to scold the team, prompting Bentley to storm out of the room.[12]
- Episode 5: Wow Me
- As Lesnar continued to scold his team after Charlie Rader's loss to Ramsey Nijem, Len Bentley came back into the room, and Lesnar questioned his toughness. He said that Chris Cope (the only fighter on the green team to win his bout through four preliminary fights) is the only one that has impressed him so far.
- Back at the house, Bentley continued to vent his frustration and showed his dislike of Lesnar.
- Dos Santos announced that Mick Bowman would face Clay Harvison.
- At a Team dos Santos training session, dos Santos was drilling boxing techniques when Lew Polley took over, leaving dos Santos unhappy with him.
- As Harvison trained for his upcoming bout, he was annoyed that Cope was watching him. Harvison said in a confessional he knew "a shady person" when he saw one.
- Someone wrote "Chris Cope Double Agent" in the sand in the zen garden. Cope asked his team whether they thought he was a spy or not, and most of the team said they had "suspicions." Later that night, Cope entered the team bedroom and blamed Tony Ferguson for the message in the sand, based on handwriting similarities. Things got heated and everyone was paranoid.
- Bowman confessed to a few of his teammates that he wrote the message, saying "it was only meant to be a bit of fun." Ironically, his motive was that he sometimes thought that Cope was hanging around his team to bring information back to Team Lesnar.
- Clay Harvison defeated Mick Bowman by unanimous decision after two rounds.
- During the fight, Harvison had blocked a switch kick with his hand, breaking his pinky finger with the bone sticking out of the skin. His TUF stint was in jeopardy.[13]
- Episode 6: Mean Streak
- During a sparring session, Len Bentley collapsed in pain holding his knee. Lesnar was bothered by the injuries his team was sustaining.
- Clay Harvison and Bentley were both at the hospital where they found that both their respective injuries were nothing too serious.
- Dos Santos discovered that Lew Polley tried to visit the fighters' house on his own which made him feel like Polley was overstepping his boundaries once again. He then asked fellow coach, Luiz Dorea, for advice. Following Dorea's advice, dos Santos decides to send Polley home.
- Lesnar announces the match-ups: Tony Ferguson vs. Justin Edwards and Chuck O'Neil vs. Zach Davis.
- Tony Ferguson defeated Justin Edwards by KO (upkick) at 3:56 of the first round.
- Zach Davis defeated Chuck O'Neil by submission (triangle choke) at 3:20 of the first round.
- The wildcard match is decided. Edwards was picked, but was told that he cannot compete due to being suspended by the athletic commission.
- The wildcard matches up Torres against O'Neil.[14]
- Episode 7: It's Just Good To Win
- Len Bentley of Team Lesnar was confused about why he was not chosen for the wildcard match. He confronted White about it but instead, asked for a rematch with McGillivray at the finale.
- Cope and Bailey got into a confrontation. Bailey stated that he was annoyed with Cope yelling "woo" and that he wanted to fight him.
- Dos Santos beats Lesnar in the Coaches' Challenge which involved football drills.
- After winning, dos Santos gave his share of the cash prize with members of the green team excluding Lesnar himself.
- Chuck O'Neil defeated Javier Torres by submission (d'arce choke) at 4:31 in the second round.
- The quarter-finals matches are announced:
- Clay Harvison vs Ramsey Nijem
- Chris Cope vs. Shamar Bailey
- Chuck O'Neil vs. Zach Davis
- Tony Ferguson vs. Ryan McGillivray
- Episode 8: Shut Him Up
- Shamar Bailey confided to his teammate about a back injury he had.
- UFC middleweight Brian Stann arrived at the gym to give a pep-talk to the fighters.
- Ramsey Nijem defeated Clay Harvison by submission (rear-naked choke) at :56 in the first round.
- Cope asked his teammate Nordin Asrih for advice on fighting Bailey.
- Chris Cope defeated Shamar Bailey by unanimous decision after two rounds.
- Episode 9: Then It Turned Ugly
- Chuck O'Neil tried to share the $5000 he earned in his finish bonus with his friend Charlie Rader. It is revealed that Rader owes child support and had not seen his child in over a year.
- Chuck O'Neil defeated Zach Davis via unanimous decision after two rounds.
- Davis returned to the house and reveals that he had suffered torn retinas in both his eyes. He said that the doctors have told him that he could no longer fight and that he would have to retire.
- Tony Ferguson defeated Ryan McGillivray by TKO (punches) at :46 in the first round.
- The semi-finals matches were announced:
- Chris Cope vs. Ramsey Nijem
- Tony Ferguson vs. Chuck O'Neil
- Both teams joined together to party after the fights. Rader poured alcohol on Ferguson as a joke, but his teammate reacted badly. Both got into a heated confrontation, which led to Ferguson mentioning Rader's problems involving his estranged son.
- Members of both teams tried to break-up the fight. Ferguson left to cool off in the pool while the others comforted Rader inside, but when Ferguson came back, he started where he left off.
- The argument was finally settled, but both teams were angered and disgusted by Ferguson's actions.
- Episode 10: The Biggest Test
- Tony Ferguson apologized to his team about his actions, but his team did not believe that his apology was sincere.
- Ramsey Nijem defeated Chris Cope by TKO (punches) at 1:49 in the second round.
- Tony Ferguson defeated Chuck O'Neil by TKO (punches) at 3:10 in the third round.
- Nijem and Ferguson were announced as the season's finalists.
- Following the conclusion of the episode, Lesnar phoned White to tell him that he had to pull out of his bout with dos Santos at UFC 131. White went on to say that Lesnar would be replaced by Shane Carwin.
Tournament bracket[edit]
|Preliminary Round
|Shamar Bailey
|Nordin Asrih
|Shamar Bailey
|Chris Cope
|Javier Torres
|Chris Cope
|Chris Cope
|Ramsey Nijem
|Mick Bowman
|Clay Harvison
|Clay Harvison
|Ramsey Nijem
|Ramsey Nijem
|Charlie Rader
|Ramsey Nijem
|Tony Ferguson
|Ryan McGillivray
|Len Bentley
|Ryan McGillivray
|Tony Ferguson
|Justin Edwards
|Tony Ferguson
|Tony Ferguson
|Chuck O'Neil
|Zach Davis
|Chuck O'Neil
|Zach Davis
|Chuck O'Neil
|Javier Torres
|Chuck O'Neil
|Team Lesnar
|Team dos Santos
|Unanimous Decision
|Majority Decision
|(Technical) Knockout
The Ultimate Fighter 13 Finale[edit]
|The Ultimate Fighter: Team Lesnar vs. Team dos Santos Finale
The poster for The Ultimate Fighter: Team Lesnar vs. Team dos Santos Finale.
|Ultimate Fighting Championship
|June 4, 2011
|Palms Casino Resort
|Las Vegas, Nevada
|Total gate
|Event chronology
The Ultimate Fighter: Team Lesnar vs. Team dos Santos Finale (also known as The Ultimate Fighter 13 Finale) was a mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship on June 4, 2011 at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada.[16]
Featured were the finalists from The Ultimate Fighter 13 – Team Lesnar vs Team Dos Santos in the Welterweight division.[17]
Jonathan Brookins was expected to face Jeremy Stephens at this event, but was forced from the bout with an eye injury and replaced by Danny Downes.[18]
The day before the fights, the UFC confirmed via Twitter that all six preliminary fights will stream live on the UFC's Facebook page.[19]
|Main card
|Weight class
|Tony Ferguson
|Ramsey Nijem
|KO (punches)
|Clay Guida
|Anthony Pettis
|Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 30–27, 30–27)
|Ed Herman
|Tim Credeur
|TKO (punches)
|Light Heavyweight
|Kyle Kingsbury
|Fabio Maldonado
|Decision (unanimous) (29–28, 29–28, 29–28)
|Chris Cope
|Chuck O'Neil
|Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 30–27, 30–27)
|Preliminary card (Facebook)
|Weight class
|Jeremy Stephens
|Danny Downes
|Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 30–26, 30–26)
|George Roop
|Josh Grispi
|TKO (body punch)
|Shamar Bailey
|Ryan McGillivray
|Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 30–27, 30–27)
|Clay Harvison
|Justin Edwards
|Decision (split) (28–29, 29–28, 29–28)
|Scott Jorgensen
|Ken Stone
|KO (punches)
|Reuben Duran
|Francisco Rivera
|Submission (rear-naked choke)
Bonus awards[edit]
Fighters were awarded $40,000 bonuses.[20]
- Fight of the Night: Kyle Kingsbury vs. Fabio Maldonado
- Knockout of the Night: Tony Ferguson
- Submission of the Night: Reuben Duran
Reported Payout[edit]
The following is the reported payout to the fighters as reported to the Nevada State Athletic Commission. It does not include sponsor money or "locker room" bonuses often given by the UFC and also do not include the UFC's traditional "fight night" bonuses.[21]
- Clay Guida: $74,000 ($37,000 win bonus) def. Anthony Pettis: $10,000
- Tony Ferguson: $16,000 ($8,000 win bonus) def. Ramsey Nijem: $8,000
- Ed Herman: $48,000 ($24,000 win bonus) def. Tim Credeur: $10,000
- Kyle Kingsbury: $20,000 ($10,000 win bonus) def. Fabio Maldonado: $10,000
- Chris Cope: $16,000 ($8,000 win bonus) def. Chuck O'Neil: $8,000
- Jeremy Stephens: $40,000 ($20,000 win bonus) def. Danny Downes: $4,000
- George Roop: $12,000 ($6,000 win bonus) def. Josh Grispi: $15,000
- Shamar Bailey: $16,000 ($8,000 win bonus) def. Ryan McGillivray: $8,000
- Clay Harvison: $16,000 ($8,000 win bonus) def. Justin Edwards: $8,000
- Scott Jorgensen: $29,000 ($14,500 win bonus) def. Ken Stone: $5,000
- Reuben Duran: $12,000 ($6,000 win bonus) def. Francisco Rivera: $4,000
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- ^ "The Ultimate Fighter (TUF 13) open casting call from Spike TV and UFC". mmamania.com. October 13, 2010.
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- ^ "Brock Lesnar Fighting Diverticulitus Again; Shane Carwin Steps Up". MMAWeekly.com. 2011-05-12.
- ^ a b "Junior Dos Santos Makes His Choices for TUF 13 Assistant Coaches". MMAWeekly.com. January 20, 2011.
- ^ "Episode No. 1 recap". MMAJunkie.com. March 30, 2011.
- ^ "Episode No. 2 recap". MMAJunkie.com. April 6, 2011.
- ^ "Episode No. 3 recap". MMAJunkie.com. April 13, 2011.
- ^ "Brock Lesnar vs. JDS: TUF 13 on Spike TV – Ramsey Nijem Defeats Charlie Rader". Bleacher Report. April 20, 2011.
- ^ "Episode No. 4 recap". MMAJunkie.com. April 20, 2011.
- ^ "Episode No. 5 recap". MMAJunkie.com. April 27, 2011.
- ^ "Episode No. 6 recap". MMAJunkie.com. May 5, 2011. Archived from the original on May 7, 2011.
- ^ a b "TUF 13 Finale officially draws 2,053 attendance and $440K gate". mmajunkie.com. June 20, 2011. Archived from the original on June 30, 2012.
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- ^ "Downes replaces injured Brookins at The Ultimate Fighter 13 Finale". mmajunkie.com. May 10, 2011. Archived from the original on May 13, 2011.
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Working with one of London's prime residential property developers, the interior design on this show home project for Mount Anvil at their prestigious Hampstead Manor development offered the opportunity to work on an unusual and architecturally unique property.
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Armikrog Funded, Including Stretch Goal For Wii U Version
Doug TenNapel, creator of Earthworm Jim, and Pencil Test Studios have successfully funded their Kickstarter project, Armikrog, a point-and-click claymation adventure game.
The game required $900,000 for funding, and the funding progress was rather intermittent. It had a fast start, but then it slowed down greatly. After the studio announced that if they hit $950,000 they would create a Wii U version, the game hit the $900,000 goal with 13 hours left on the clock.
As of this article, the fundraiser has 97 minutes left, and it has secured $950,327, thereby ensuring a Wii U version.
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Bo luc lac -- also known as Vietnamese shaking beef -- is a traditional favorite and a meat lover's kind of dish. Considering the fact that the ingredients are so simple and so very Western, in fact, we're surprised that the garlic-tinged sauteed beef hasn't caught on more wildly here in the Lone Star State. When cooked properly, the sirloin, grilled bell peppers, grilled onions and jalapeños all come together in a savory and slightly spicy medley of pure meat heaven that speaks to the heart of a Texan despite its Vietnamese origin. Hell, you could even cook this in a cowboy campfire.
Ordering this dish in a restaurant can be a crap shoot, though. Some places will overcook the sirloin cubes, which should ideally be medium rare when they hit your table. Others will overdo the garlic or the jalapeno, while other plates of bo luc lac have barely any flavor at all. It's sometimes the simplest dishes that are the most difficult to execute.
For this week's Food Fight, we matched up bo luc lac dishes from two of downtown's most revered Vietnamese restaurants: Mai's and Huynh. But just because a restaurant is well-loved doesn't mean it's still turning out great food after all these years. Nostalgia and comfort can hide a multitude of sins in the kitchen...
Mai's, 3403 Milam
After the ravenous feast the night before, it seemed almost pitiful to have to put any other restaurant up against Huynh. But at the same time, it was fitting to pit Mai's -- the old stalwart of the downtown/midtown Vietnamese scene -- against a newcomer. We have never personally understood the appeal of Mai's. The pho isn't good. The service is bad. Even the parking is a pain in the ass. Yet people continue to flock here as if Mai's kitchen contained all the secrets to the universe. Perhaps it's the late hours? Who knows.
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Despite our misgivings, the plate of bo luc lac that arrived in front of us looked promising. For one, it was enormous (especially considering we ordered a "small"). And the beef cubes glistened tantalizingly atop mounds of sauteed veggies. It looked very good, and we tore into it with abandon. Our mistake.
The cubes of sirloin were so chewy that we sat there gnawing and endlessly masticating each bite as if we were preparing cud for a trip through multiple stomachs. Our dining companion, The Shameless Chef, even poked listlessly at our beef cubes and commented on how tough and sinewy they were. And this man eats meals made entirely of ramen and Doritos. At one point, in spite of a full minute of chewing, the piece of beef we swallowed got stuck in our esophagus and we painfully waited it out as the peristalsis finally worked the bedeviled thing down. The flavor of the beef wasn't bad -- too spicy for bo luc lac, owing to the many jalapeños -- but with meat that inedible, who cares?
The Winner
As if there were a question. Huynh. Not only for having meat we could actually chew and digest properly, but for having probably the best bo luc lac in town.


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The winning pictures from the 2015 NatGeo travelers contest will take your breath away
This year's National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest received more than 17,000 entries from photographers all around the world. The winning photos are absolutely stunning – inspiring me to travel deeper, and look beyond the typical. There is so much that to explore in this beautiful world, and to tell stories through photographs with so much emotion is a gift that not all possess. View the winning photographs below.
Grand Prize "Whale Whisperers" by Anuar Patjane Floriuk
"Diving with a humpback whale and her newborn calf while they cruise around Roca Partida… in the Revillagigedo (Islands), Mexico. This is an outstanding and unique place full of pelagic life, so we need to accelerate the incorporation of the islands into UNESCO as a natural heritage site in order to increase the protection of the islands against the prevailing illegal fishing corporations and big-game fishing."
Second Place: "Gravel Workmen" by Faisal Azim
"(This) gravel-crush working place remains full of dust and sand. Three gravel workmen are looking through the window glass at their working place."
Third place: "Camel Ardah" by Ahmed Al Toqi
"Camel Ardah, as it is called in Oman, is one of the traditional styles of camel racing … between two camels controlled by expert men. The faster camel is the loser … so they must be running (at) the same speed level in the same track. The main purpose of Ardah is to show the beauty and strength of the Arabia camels and the riders' skills. Ardah (is) considered one of the most risky situations, since always the camels' reactions are unpredictable (and) it may get wild and jump (toward the) audience."
Merit: "Catching a Duck" by Sarah Wouters
"Two boys are trying to catch a duck at the stream of the waterfall (in) Nong Khai Province, Thailand"
Merit: "Kushti, Indian Wrestling" by Alain Schroeder
"Kushti is the traditional form of Indian wrestling. Wearing only a well-adjusted loincloth (langot), wrestlers (pelwhans) enter a pit made of clay, often mixed with salt, lemon, and ghee (clarified butter). At the end of a workout, wrestlers rest against the walls of the arena, covering their heads and bodies with earth to soak up any perspiration and avoid catching cold. This relaxation ceremony is completed with massages to soothe tired muscles and demonstrate mutual respect."
Merit: "Sauna in the Sky" by Stefano Zardini
"A sauna at 2,800 meters high in the heart of the Dolomites. Monte Lagazuoi, Cortina, eastern Italian Alps."
Merit: "Romania, Land of Fairy Tales" by Eduard Gutescu
"White frost over Pestera village in Romania."
Have any of you been to these places? I am so inspired to explore off the beaten path – where are you planning to visit next? Leave a comment below!
Christina Alvarez
8/28/2015 10:58:02 pm
Well I have a wish to visit Scotland in october. If I can leave world for two weeks I plan to fly to Edinburgh and rent a car and just drive around! So I hope I can take many pictures that resemble the last one because that was my favorite one :D
Jinna Y
8/28/2015 11:43:08 pm
Great pictures. I don't currently have any travel plans but the "Sauna in the sky" really makes me want to go to the alps!
8/29/2015 07:03:40 am
Wow, kan inte sluta kolla på den första bilden
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The mighty fort on Bornholm
Gamleborg in Almindingen on the island of Bornholm was founded in the Viking Age. It was later reinforced in the early Middle Ages. The fort is large: a cliff-top the size of four football pitches surrounded by soil and stone ramparts. To the west, where the natural…
The king of Bornholm and his enemies
In circa 890 AD, Wulfstan, a merchant from Hedeby, sailed out into the Baltic Sea. The account of his journey was later written down at the English court. On his starboard side he had the land of the Wends, and to port he had Langeland, Lolland, Falster and Scania. "These lands all belong to Denmark", he said and added: "But then we had Bornholm to port, and that island has its own king". There is evidence that the Viking king of Bornholm occasionally had to fight off attack. The Gamleborg fort may have been founded by an occupying army which later lost its hold on the island. Modernisation in the early Middle Ages was probably undertaken by the Danish monarch who had now conquered Bornholm. But around 1150 AD, the fort was suddenly abandoned. This coincided with the building of the royal fort of Lilleborg just 700 metres away. Gamleborg was perhaps too difficult to defend."
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Kulasegaram Vairamuthu Pandara Vanniyan, The Last King of Vanni. He was defeated by Lt.Von Driberg on 31st October 1803.
Drama directed and acted by Subramaniam Srikanthalingam (UK) Initially in 1973 in Sri Lanka and subsequently in 2015 in the UK at "10th Mahajana Maalai – 28 Years Cultural Programme" by "MAHAJANA COLLEGE OSA UK" at Tolworth Girls' School. Fullers Way N, Surbiton, Surrey, KT6 7LQ on 10/10/2015 .
The drama depicts the negotiation on sovereignty and trial scenes in 1803 between Pandara Vanniyan and Colonel Jovel conducting the Trial.


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"Tan suit controversy" is four years old now and is almost forgotten. However, tan suits maybe a great idea for the autumn as one of the most efficient ways to prevent mosquito bites is to wear light-colored clothes with long sleeves. This exact advice gives Wisconsin Department of Health Services. It is especially important as it is expected that West Nile Virus and the associated fewer will be severe this year.
First human case of WNV confirmed in Waukesha County. It totals two confirmed case with four still unconfirmed cases. The WNW season maybe prolonged this year. Agency has 79 confirmed WNV in birds and one in horse. In 2012 WNV has been confirmed in 57 humans. Contrary to some reports WNV has not become either more virulent or contagious. It is rarely lethal and usually does not leave severe risks for the health.
WNV is one of the viruses that are quickly conquering new territories. It spreads as far as Northern Canada and is especially notorious in Ontario where one death was reported this year. It is spreading in Eastern and Western Europe and is generally flourishing during autumns following hot and humid summers.
Wisconsin Department of Health Services asks to follow these rules to prevent WNV and other mosquito-borne diseases:
- Wear long-sleeved shirts and long pants. Don't hesitate to wear light-colored cloth as mosquito and insects in general are more attracted to dark ones.
- Don't hesitate to use repellents. DEET is one of them with proven efficiency.
- Dusk is most active time for mosquito. Limit your outdoor dusk activities. Night and day is OK, early morning is somewhat risky.
It is important to destroy mosquito breeding grounds. They can breed in any can exposed to rain. Old tires are real gem for them!
For more information on WNV please go to CDC site. For more data on WNV in Wisconsin and more prevention tips please read the Wisconsin Department of Health Services article.


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Did Joe Biden go too far on Tuesday when he told attendees at a Virginia campaign rally that the GOP would "put y'all back in chains"?
Since then lots of Republicans – and some prominent Democrats – have hit the incumbent VP hard for a remark they say had racial undertones. When he uttered the phrase "back in chains" Biden was talking about GOP plans to repeal the Obama administration's Wall Street reforms. But much of the Virginia audience was African-American, and Biden's words were an unmistakable reference to slavery's bondage, in the view of critics.
"You know, these are the kinds of things you say when you're desperate in a campaign," said presumptive GOP VP nominee Rep. Paul Ryan in an interview Thursday with Sean Hannity on Fox News Radio.
Administration officials insist that Biden was talking about finance and simply made a clumsy reference to the harm that would befall consumers if the Romney-Ryan ticket wins. President Obama said as much in an interview with People magazine. Biden aides said the veep verbally tripped after saying that Republicans want to "unshackle" banks.
"He often talks about the middle class and the importance of unshackling the middle class," said White House Deputy Communications Director Jen Psaki in a briefing for reporters on Wednesday. "He was using a metaphor yesterday and talking about Wall Street reform and the fact that we can't allow Republicans to defund Wall Street reform."
However, some African-American Democrats were not convinced. Former Virginia Gov. Doug Wilder told CNN that "without question" the remark was an appeal to race. Mr. Wilder indicated that he took particular umbrage at the fact that Biden referred to "y'all," not "us."
"So he was still involved with that separate America. And I'm sick and tired of being considered something other than an American," said Wilder.
At the website The Root, which is aimed at an African-American audience, contributing editor David Swerdlick called Biden's remark "inexcusable" and said that "any reference to slavery ... isn't any better when it's made by a liberal."
But he and other Root commentators were also annoyed at what they judged to be faux outrage from Republicans. The GOP has long used coded language in reference to racial issues, according to Mr. Swerdlick, such as when some Republicans insinuate that President Obama is not a real American by calling for his long-form birth certificate.
"African-Americans can point – and rightly so – to a steady stream of chatter that's never quite outright race-baiting but sure feels that way.... But maybe next time, if Romney hears something foul come from his side of the aisle, he'll be the one who calls it out first. Because now, at least, he knows how black people feel," wrote Swerdlick.


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Video: Jimmy Napes - Give It Up
He's the co-writer behind most of Disclosure and Sam Smith's biggest hits - Latch, La La La, Stay With Me - as well as Jessie Ware's gorgeous Imagine It Was Us and Clean Bandit's Rather Be.
He recently tweeted a picture of himself playing Alicia Keys piano (see above) and, according to ASCAP, he's been writing new songs with Eliza Doolittle, including the intriguingly titled Dooodiddidydaboooo.
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Alaska is one of several states suing to overturn the Affordable Care Act- President Obama's health care overhaul. But behind the scenes, state agencies are quietly working on implementing various requirements in the law. One of those requirements is an exchange, which will work kind of like Expedia, but for health insurance plans. While the state studies its options, a bill moving through the legislature would also establish an exchange.
Alaska is not anywhere close establishing a health insurance exchange. But the Parnell administration has taken the first step in that direction. Last month, the state hired a Boston consulting firm, Public Consulting Group to look at options for setting up an exchange. Josh Applebee is the state's deputy director for Health Care Policy.
"The biggest problem I think is we don't have enough information to decide are we going to do a state exchange, are we going to do a partnership with the federal government, are we going to let the federal government run the exchange themselves? If we do the state exchange, what does it look like? What kind of form is it going to take? How much is it going to cost? All of these questions need to be answered," Applebee said.
The exchange will allow consumers to easily find and compare health insurance plans on line. Public Consulting Group is helping 13 other states decide how to implement an exchange. Applebee says the state will benefit from that experience, but the company will also have to take Alaska's unique characteristics into account.
"Certainly we deliver health care farther than any other state and in different ways than any other state. So they can bring their experience with them, but they also need to apply that to whatever happens here in the state," Applebee said.
Alaska is the only state that did not accept a $1 million planning grant from the federal government. And the state is paying Boston Consulting Group $200,000 for their work. A few states have exchanges in place and more than a dozen have made significant progress. Applebee says Alaska is benefiting from taking a slow approach.
"We're learning from other state's mistakes and we're taking advantage of other state's successes. And I think that's an advantage we have in our timeline," Applebee said.
If the state hasn't made reasonable progress towards setting up an exchange by early next year, it may set the stage for the federal government to do it instead. That's why Senator Hollis French- a Democrat from Anchorage, is hoping to convince other lawmakers to pass his bill establishing one.
"Once you realize you're going to get an exchange imposed upon you from Washington, it only makes sense to try to create one that works for Alaskans," French said.
Governor Parnell does not support French's bill. And Senator French does not support the administration's work.
"I think the Governor is making a mistake by circumventing the legislature and going without our input," French said.
It's unclear how much support French has among his colleagues in the legislature. He expects to bring his bill to the Senate floor for a vote soon. Senator Cathy Giessel – a Republican from Anchorage, will not vote for it. She agrees with the administration's approach studying exchange options. Asked to speculate on how the bill will fare, she says the focus right now in Juneau is on just one thing: oil taxes.
"Wow, it's really sucking the air out of the room, so I don't know what chance this has of actually getting all the way through the process," Giessel said.
But Senator French is optimistic. He says other aspects of the Affordable Care Act are controversial, but the health care exchange is not.
"This is really about just trying to find an affordable insurance policy for the citizens of the state, and most people can agree that's a good thing. they may disagree about how you get there, but it's a pretty rare person who doesn't want to see more people covered by insurance," French said.
The administration expects the consultant's study and recommendations to be ready by the end of March or early April. But Applebee says the state will wait until the Supreme Court rules on the Affordable Care Act in June to decide how to move forward.
This story is part of a reporting partnership that includes APRN, NPR and Kaiser Health News.


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How to Assign a Sales Territory to a New Rep
When you map out territories in your area for your sales staff, you may place the strongest reps in the territories that require sales dynamos. However, when you have a new rep, you might be unsure of where to place him. After all, until you put him in the field, you can't really be sure of his ability, and you certainly don't want to risk losing any potential sales. There are a few things to keep in mind as you assign a new rep to a territory.
Send the new rep out with some of your more experienced staff members before assigning her a territory, so you can get feedback from some of your other reps about her sales style and abilities. This will give you a better idea of what her strengths and weaknesses are, and you can assign the new rep a territory accordingly. If you don't feel that you can get unbiased feedback, go out with her yourself and get a feel for her abilities.
Start the rep with a small territory. Give him just a few businesses and see how he does before making his territory larger. Have him focus on a few established accounts and a few new ones to see where he excels. Give him lower sales goals and spend his first few weeks giving him tips on improvement and feedback from clients.
Ask for the sales rep's input on her territory. After all, she may know what she's capable of, and once you go over the territory with her, she might tell you that those business types are in -- or out -- of her area of sales expertise. This ensures that you don't bring the new rep's morale down by giving her a territory she has no idea how to manage.
Change his territory as he gets more experience. Perhaps the rep is stronger than you thought and can handle a larger geographical area, or you may see after some time that your rep does better with certain business types than others. Give him some time, then change things to a more long-term territory after you see how well he performs.
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