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Riesling (God's Mountain Vineyard) – Wild Goose Vineyards, 13.6% ABV – 750ml, (Okanagan Falls, BC, Canada) (*local BC wine)
on the back label:
"God's mountain Vineyard is one of the most spectacular and rugged sites in the Okanagan. Grown in clay and sand solids, their roots esconced in deep gravel deposits, these 18 year-old vines are meticulously tended using biodynamic growing techniques. The result is a smaller but more concentrated fruit, floral, clover, apple and mineral flavours with clean citrus notes. This dry wine pairs beautifully with cheeses, chicken, pork, and seafood."
- Style: (vintage, Riesling) White Wine
- Taste: Tangy fruity citrus apple acidity sour-puckery tart minerality
- Where I got it : Firefly / Vancouver
- How much: $23 CAD (after 10% off) – 750ml., May 2012
- Do I love this enough to drink it again: yes
- Would I recommend this to white wine lovers:
Visual: Screw-top cap. Pours very light sunshine yellow.
Nose: red and green apple, hints of soapy pear. (lvl-3)-pungency
Attack: white wine citrus acidity
Mid-palate: pronounced tangy acidity, light sour green apple, (lvl-1-sweetness), soft bright minerality
Finish: stealth alcohol throat warmth, tart-puckery, white grapey exhale
Summary: Decently drinkable, but not remarkably memorable. A good sipper.


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|Bob Willis Trophy, Kia Oval (day four):
|Middlesex 347-6 dec & 248-6 dec: Gubbins 60, Andersson 51; Moriarty 5-64
|Surrey 282 & 123: Patel 44, Smith 40; Cummins 3-30
|Middlesex (22 pts) beat Surrey (3 pts) by 190 runs
Sam Robson took two wickets in two balls with his occasional leg-spin to spark a remarkable 190-run Middlesex victory against Surrey deep inside the final hour of a gripping London derby at the Kia Oval.
Surrey looked to be holding on quite comfortably for the draw after tea, with Rikki Clarke and Jordan Clark defending resolutely through 23 overs.
But, with 16 overs remaining, Robson was thrown the ball by Middlesex's acting captain Stephen Eskinazi and, with his fourth and fifth deliveries, he removed Clark and Dan Moriarity.
Clark, having made seven from 66 balls, chipped back a long hop and then an ecstatic Robson pinned Moriarty leg-before with a looping delivery which hit the left-hander on the foot as he played forward.
Middlesex smelled blood and it was their former West Indies fast bowler Miguel Cummins who swept them on towards their 22-point triumph, first having Matt Dunn superbly held for nought at short leg by Max Holden as he fended off a vicious lifter and then bowling James Taylor for four with an inswinger.
Clarke, desperately looking to claim the strike with last man Amar Virdi now in, advanced to the fifth ball of the 63rd over – bowled by Nathan Sowter – and the leg-spinner cleverly fired it through the batsman's legs for keeper John Simpson to gather and complete the stumping as Clarke (22) tried in vain to scramble back into his crease.
The last five Surrey wickets had tumbled for four runs in seven overs as they were all out for 123 and, with 8.1 overs remaining, Middlesex could celebrate a famous win against their greatest rivals.
Robson, who had only previously taken four first-class wickets at almost 50 runs apiece, finished with figures of 3-3-0-2 and the impressive Cummins took 3-30, while Ryan Patekl top-scored for Surrey with 44.
Earlier, Middlesex advanced from 184-3 to 248-6 before declaring, with Nick Gubbins reaching 60 before falling aas he tried to reverse sweep spinner Moriarty, who marked his debut with a five-for.
Match report supplied by PA Media.
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Hummus Print
Hummus is great served with pita bread, veggies, or as a spread in a sandwich. This recipe is lower in calories than most since oil is replaced with yogurt.
Makes 12 servings
What you need:
1 can (19 oz./540 ml) chickpeas (also known as garbanzo beans), drained
2 green onions
2-4 large cloves garlic
1/4 cup lemon juice
1/4 cup tahini (sesame seed paste)*
1/2 tsp cumin
1/2 tsp salt
Fresh ground pepper to taste
1/2 cup low-fat plain yogurt
*tahini is found in jars/containers in deli's, or ethnic sections of your grocery store
How you prepare:
In a food processor or blender, purée all of the above ingredients except the yogurt, until smooth. Mix in yogurt. Chill or serve at room temperature as a dip for pita bread, crackers, raw veggies or as part of a sandwich.
Per serving:
Calories 91
Carbohydrates 13 g
Protein 4 g
Fat 3 g
Dietary Fiber 3 g


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Little Miss Stella
Stella McCartney is launching a capsule collection of childrenswear inspired by the Little Miss Stella character, both of which hit the stores recently. The Little Miss collection comprises of seven pieces - including a T-shirt, jumper, pyjamas, bag and a baby all-in-one - and all come with a set of fabric pens that can be used to draw on and customise the items.
The Little Miss Stella character first appeared back in 2006/07 when author and illustrator Adam Hargreaves created a 32 page story in the style of the original books as an invitation for a fashion show. The book tells the story of Little Miss Stella meeting Little Miss Nobody, who is constantly bumping into people because no one notices her. Little Miss Stella solves Nobody's problem by designing a bespoke suit, magically transforming her into "somebody".
Whilst the story in the book sounds horribly shallow the range of clothing and the sweet animated promo from Bill Porter (posted below) are pretty nice!
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Update: The review is up
The insanely talented and hardworking Kim Jung Gi is releasing his 2013 Sketch Collection art book.
It's going to be around A4 in size with 536 pages. It has slightly less pages than the 2011 Sketch Collection but I don't think the book's going to be that much smaller.
The 2013 Sketch Collection cost US$68, not including shipping charges. The book's mailed from Korea using EMS, and Asian countries generally will have cheaper shipping fees.
Order via email from David, Kim Jung-Gi's assistant. Paypal is accepted.
You might want get all three sketchbook collection at one go if they are in stock. They are very good.
Here are some preview pictures from the book.


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With a world-renowned pianist/ composer uncle (Carlos Duarte) and a heavy metal drummer for a cousin, he discovered the bass guitar at age 12.
Growing up in South Florida, he played in everything from metal groups to jazz big bands and immersed himself in the study of everything from ambient to classical.
An alumnus of Berklee College of music in Boston, Kilian had the privilege of studying with such bass greats as Matthew Garrison, Janek Gwizdala, Bruce Gertz, and Jim Stinnett.
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Sorry for the hiatus, I'm in the middle of a PCS (permanent change of station, i.e. move, for those of you who do not live and breathe acronyms) out of Fort Sill and on to greener pastures.
In December I covered two disparate insurgencies in Nigeria, Boko Haram and the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND). It's well past time for an update.
1. MEND called off their ceasefire with the Nigerian federal government on January 30th. The same day a Shell pipeline was "sabotaged" by MEND gunmen and then shut off. President Umaru Yar'Adua brokered the ceasefire with MEND in mid-2009, but then was hospitalized in November and has remained so since.
2. Religious violence in the central city of Jos peaked in the middle of January with somewhere in the ballpark of 500 killed. A week later VP Goodluck Jonathan ordered in the Army to quell the ongoing sectarian violence between Christians and Muslims.
3. Pirates in the Gulf of Guinea are making valiant efforts to supplant Somali pirates as the scourge of the seas around Africa. It's too early to tell if the pirates are a part of or affiliated to MEND, but MEND has a well-documented history of attacking offshore oil platforms with speedboats.
A weak central government, sectarian violence, cancelled ceasefire and piracy all equals a troubling recipe for Nigeria. As MEND reemerges following its cancelled ceasefire, they will undoubtedly look to push their fight against international energy companies further offshore. The group needs international media attention to put pressure on the central government, and attacks on international oil companies are a prime means to their end. Through the prism of current conditions in Nigeria, with an even weaker central government and Christian-on-Muslim violence, the death of Boko Haram leader Mohammed Yusuf in mid-2009 may end up being particularly troublesome. I expect to see greater penetration into Northern Nigeria by al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), as they perceive a weakened central government and threatened (and large) Muslim community will provide fertile grounds for expanded efforts in West Africa.
Bottom line: Nigeria will quickly face a quickly deteriorating situation unless the government is able to clamp down on MEND, quell sectarian violence, reign in young Muslims who feel the central government is reaching out too much to the West and reassert its dominating, yet moderate, position inside its borders.


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Travelling by KTM train between Johor Bahru and Kota Bharu in Kelantan in the north-east of Peninsular Malaysia takes you on a scenic journey along Malaysia's famous "Jungle Railway" through mountains and ancient rain forests.
There is however currently just one daily train that travels all of this route and that travels overnight offering a comfortable sleeper service.
If you want to take in all the sights you currently have to take the slower shuttle services, but due to long term maintenance on this route, the timetable seems to always be changing!
Wakaf Bharu is the closest railway station to Kota Bharu, just a few kilometres outside of town and easily reached by a regular, cheap bus service.
Of course, you don't have to make this whole trip in on go and there are plenty of places for you to stop and visit along the way, with other daily shuttle services stopping at nearly every station that you can jump on and off as you go (see the timetable links below).
(Jadual Waktu Keretapi KTM dari JB Sentral ke Wakaf Bharu / Kota Bharu)
JB to Kelantan (Wakaf Bharu) train schedule valid from the 26th of June 2020:
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|Arrival Time
|26 Ekspres Rakyat Timuran
(Jadual Keretapi KTM dari Wakaf Bharu ke JB Sentral)
Wakaf Bharu Kelantan to JB Sentral train schedule from the 26th of June 2020:
|Train Number/Name
|Departure Time
|Arrival Time
|27 Ekspres Rakyat Timuran
(Harga Tiket untuk Kereta Api Kota Bahu Johor Bahru)
Fares shown below are for one-way tickets and apply to travel in either direction.
Trains 26 / 27 have:
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While Hindus have appropriated the designation Hindu and use it today to identify themselves over against Muslims or Christians, they have expressed reservations with regard to the designation of Hinduism as the "religion of the Hindus." They see a certain disrespect in the -ism suffix and emphasize that the Hindu dharma is more comprehensive than the Western term religion: it designates an entire cultural tradition rather than only a set of beliefs and rituals. With these reservations in mind, we are going to use the widely introduced term Hinduism in describing the majority religio-cultural tradition of India in spite of the impossibility of defining it in any precise manner.
The Vedas, the oldest literary monument of the Indian people, a collection of hymns composed in an archaic Sanskrit, are universally considered the foundational scriptures of Hinduism. The authors of these hymns called themselves Āryans, "Noble People." The date of the composition of these hymns and the original habitat of the Aryans have become one of the most contested issues in Indian studies. The polemical literature has reached such dimensions and the emotions have been raised to such heights that only a sketch of the controversy and some hints about its ideological background can be given in this place.
|Prehistoric rock drawings: Bhīmbhetka (Maharashtra)
This putative "Aryan invasion" was dated ca. 1500 bce, and the composition of the hymns of the Ṛgveda was fixed between 1400 and 1200 bce. The Aryan invasion theory was conceived on pure speculation on the basis of comparative philology, without any archaeological or literary evidence to support it. It was resisted as unfounded by some scholars from the very beginning. In the light of recent archaeological finds, it has become less and less tenable. Nevertheless, the Aryan invasion theory, recently downgraded to an Aryan migration theory, is still widely defended and forms part of many standard histories of Hinduism. In the following, the arguments pro and con will be presented, and it will be left to the reader to judge the merits of the case.
Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European attempts to explain the presence of Hindus in India were connected with the commonly held biblical belief that humankind originated from one pair of humans—Adam and Eve, created directly by God in 4005 bce—and that all the people then living on the earth descended from one of the sons of Noah, the only family of humans to survive the Great Flood (dated 2350 bce). The major problem associated with the discovery of new lands seemed to be to connect peoples not mentioned in chapter 10 of Genesis, "The Peopling of the Earth," with one of the biblical genealogical lists.
With regard to India this problem was addressed by the famous Abbé Dubois (1770–1848), whose long sojourn in India (1792-1823) enabled him to collect a large amount of interesting materials concerning the customs and traditions of the Hindus. His (French) manuscript was bought by the British East India Company and appeared in an English translation under the title Hindu Manners, Customs and Ceremonies in 1897 with a prefatory note by the Right Honorable F. Max Müller. Addressing the origins of the Indian people, Abbé Dubois, loath "to oppose [his] conjectures to [the Indians'] absurd fables," categorically stated: "It is practically admitted that India was inhabited very soon after the Deluge, which made a desert of the whole world. The fact that it was so close to the plains of Sennaar, where Noah's descendants remained stationary so long, as well as its good climate and the fertility of the country, soon led to its settlement." Rejecting other scholars' opinions that linked the Indians to Egyptian or Arabic origins, he ventured to suggest them "to be descendants not of Shem, as many argue, but of Japhet." He explains: "According to my theory they reached India from the north, and I should place the first abode of their ancestors in the neighbourhood of the Caucasus." The reasons he provides to prove his theory are utterly unconvincing—but he goes on to build the rest of his "migration theory" (not yet an Aryan invasion theory) on this shaky foundation.
When the affinity between many European languages and Sanskrit became a commonly accepted notion, scholars almost automatically concluded that the Sanskrit-speaking ancestors of the present-day Indians had to be found somewhere halfway between India and the western borders of Europe— Northern Germany, Scandinavia, southern Russia, the Pamir—from which they invaded the Punjab. When the ruins of Mohenjo Daro and Harappa were discovered in the early twentieth century, it was assumed that these were the cities the Aryan invaders destroyed.
In the absence of reliable evidence, they postulated a time frame for Indian history on the basis of conjectures. Considering the traditional dates for the life of Gautama, the Buddha, as fairly well established in the sixth century bce, supposedly pre-Buddhist Indian records were placed in a sequence that seemed plausible to philologists. Accepting on linguistic grounds the traditional claims that the Ṛgveda was the oldest Indian literary document, Max Müller, a greatly respected authority in Veda studies, allowing a time span of two hundred years each for the formation of every class of Vedic literature and assuming that the Vedic period had come to an end by the time of the Buddha, established the following sequence that was widely accepted:
* Ṛgveda, ca. 1200 bce * Yajurveda, Sāmaveda, Atharvaveda, ca. 1000 bce * Brāhmaṇas, ca. 800 bce * Āraṇyakas, Upaniṣads, ca. 600 bce
Max Müller himself conceded the purely conjectural nature of the Vedic chronology, and in his last work, The Six Systems of Indian Philosophy, published shortly before his death, admitted: "Whatever may be the date of the Vedic hymns, whether 1500 or 15000 bc, they have their own unique place and stand by themselves in the literature of the world."
There were already in Max Müller's time Western scholars, such as Moriz Winternitz, and Indians, like Bal Gangadhar Tilak, who disagreed with his chronology and postulated a much earlier date for the Ṛgveda. Indian scholars pointed out all along that there was no reference in the Veda to a migration of the Āryas from outside India, that all the geographical features mentioned in the Ṛgveda were those of northwestern India and that there was no archaeological evidence whatsoever for the Aryan invasion theory. On the other side, there were references to constellations in Vedic works whose time frame could be reestablished by commonly accepted astronomical calculations. The dates arrived at, however, 4500 bce for one observation in the Ṛgveda, 3200 bce for a date in the Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa, seemed far too remote to be acceptable, especially if one assumed, as many nineteenth-century scholars did, that the world was only about six thousand years old and that the flood had taken place only 4500 years ago.
|Seals and figurines from the Sindhu-Sarasvatī civilization
Many contemporary Indian scholars, admittedly motivated not only by academic interests, vehemently reject what they call the "colonial-missionary Aryan invasion theory." They accuse its originators of superimposing—for a reason—the purpose and process of the colonial conquest of India by the Western powers in modern times onto the beginnings of Indian civilization: as the Europeans came to India as bearers of a supposedly superior civilization and a higher religion, so the original Aryans were assumed to have invaded a country that they subjected and on which they imposed their culture and their religion.
As the heat around the Aryan invasion theory is rising, it is also emerging that both sides return to positions that were taken by opposing camps more than a hundred years ago. The difference between then and now is the evidence offered by a great many new archaeological discoveries, which clearly tip the balance in favor of the "Indigenists."
One would expect the proponents of an event to provide proof for its happening rather than demanding proofs for a non-event. The controversy about the Aryan invasion of India has become so bizarre that its proponents simply assume it to have taken place and demand that its opponents offer arguments that it had not taken place. In the following a number of reasons will be adduced to attest to the fact that the Aryan invasion of India—assumed by the invasionists to have taken place around 1500 bce—did not take place.
1. The Aryan invasion theory is based purely on linguistic conjectures, which are unsubstantiated.
2. The supposed large-scale migrations of Aryan people in the second millennium bce first into western Asia and then into northern India (by 1500 bce) cannot be maintained in view of the established fact that the Hittites were in Anatolia already by 2200 bce and the Kassites and Mitanni had kings and dynasties by 1600 bce.
3. There is no hint of an invasion or of large-scale migration in the records of ancient India: neither in the Vedas, in Buddhist or Jain writings, nor in Tamil literature. The fauna and flora, the geography, and the climate described in the Ṛgveda are those of northern India.
4. There is a striking cultural continuity between the archaeological artifacts of the Indus-Sarasvati civilization and later phases of Indian culture: a continuity of religious ideas, arts, crafts, architecture, and system of weights and measures.
5. The archaeological finds of Mehrgarh dated ca. 7500 bce (copper, cattle, barley) reveal a culture similar to that of the Vedic Indians. Contrary to former interpretations, the Ṛgveda reflects not a nomadic but an urban culture.
6. The Aryan invasion theory was based on the assumption that a nomadic people in possession of horses and chariots defeated an urban civilization that did not know horses and that horses are depicted only from the middle of the second millennium onward. Meanwhile archaeological remains of horses have been discovered in Harappan and pre-Harappan sites; drawings of horses have been found in Paleolithic caves in central India. Horse drawn war chariots are not typical for nomadic breeders but for urban civilizations.
7. The racial diversity found in skeletons in the cities of the Indus civilization is the same as in today's India; there is no evidence of the coming of a new race.
8. The Rgveda describes a river system in North India that is pre-1900 bce in the case of the Sarasvatī River and pre-2600 bce in the case of the Dṛṣadvatī River. Vedic literature shows a population shift from the Sarasvatī (Ṛgveda) to the Ganges (Brāhmaṇas and Purāṇas) for which there is also evidence in archaeological finds.
9. The astronomical references in the Ṛgveda are based on a Pleiades-Kṛttika calendar of ca. 2500 bce. Vedic astronomy and mathematics were well-developed sciences: these are not features of the culture of a nomadic people.
10. The Indus cities were not destroyed by invaders but deserted by their inhabitants because of desertification of the area. Strabo (Geography XV.1.19) reports that Aristobulos had seen thousands of villages and towns deserted because the Indus had changed its course.
11. The battles described in the Ṛgveda were not fought between invaders and natives but between people belonging to the same culture.
12. Excavations in Dvārakā have led to the discovery of a site larger than Mohenjo Daro, dated ca. 1500 bce with architectural structures, use of iron, and a script halfway between Harappan and Brahmī. Dvārakā has been associated with Kṛṣṇa and the end of the Vedic period.
13. There is a continuity in the morphology of scripts: Harappan— Brahmī—Devanāgarī.
14. Vedic ayas, formerly translated as "iron," probably meant copper or bronze. Iron was found in India before 1500 bce in Kashmir and Dvārakā.
15. The Purāṇic dynastic lists, with over 120 kings in one Vedic dynasty alone, date back to the third millennium bce. Greek accounts tell of Indian royal lists going back to the seventh millennium bce.
16. The Ṛgveda shows an advanced and sophisticated culture, the product of a long development, "a civilization that could not have been delivered to India on horseback." (160)
17. Painted gray ware culture in the western Gangetic plains, dated ca. 1100 bce, has been found connected to earlier Indus Valley black and red ware.
It would be strange indeed if the Vedic Indians had lost all recollection of such a momentous event as the Aryan invasion in supposedly relatively recent times—much more recent, for instance, than the migration of Abraham and his people, which is well attested and frequently referred to in the Hebrew Bible.
The Sarasvatī is frequently praised as the mightiest of all rivers, as giving nourishment to the people and, unique among them, flowing pure from the mountains to the ocean. It is the most often mentioned river in the Ṛgveda—and it no longer exists. Its absence led to the suggestion that it might have been a symbolic rather than a real river, an idea supported by the later identification of Sarasvatī with the Goddess of Wisdom and Learning. More recent satellite photography and geological investigations have helped to reconstruct the ancient riverbed of the Sarasvatī and also established that it had dried out completely by 1900 bce due to tectonic shifts. Of the 2,600 archaeological sites so far discovered that were connected with the Indus civilization, over 1,500 were found located on the Sarasvatī River basin, including settlements that exceeded in size the by now famous Indus sites of Mohenjo Daro and Harappa. It is hardly meaningful to assume that the invading Vedic Aryans established thousands of settlements on its banks four centuries after the Sarasvatī had dried out.
When the first remnants of the ruins of the so-called Indus civilization came to light in the 1920s, the proponents of the Aryan invasion theory believed to have found the missing archaeological evidence: here were the "mighty forts" and the "great cities" that the warlike Indra of the Ṛgveda was said to have conquered and destroyed. Then it emerged that nobody had destroyed these cities and no evidence of wars of conquest came to light: floods and droughts had made it impossible to sustain large populations in the area, and the people of Mohenjo Daro, Harappa, and other places had migrated to more hospitable areas. Ongoing archaeological research has not only extended the area of the Indus civilization but has also shown a transition of its later phases to the Gangetic culture. Archaeo-geographers have established that a drought lasting two to three hundred years devastated a wide belt of land from Anatolia through Mesopotamia to northern India around 2300 bce to 2000 bce.
Based on this type of evidence and extrapolating from the Vedic texts, a new theory of the origins of Hinduism is emerging. This new theory considers the Indus valley civilization as a late Vedic phenomenon and pushes the (inner Indian) beginnings of the Vedic age back by several thousands of years. Instead of speaking of an Indus Valley civilization the term Sarasvatī-Sindhu civilization has been introduced, to designate the far larger extent of that ancient culture. One of the reasons for considering the Indus civilization "Vedic" is the evidence of town planning and architectural design that required a fairly advanced algebraic geometry—of the type preserved in the Vedic Śulvasūtras. The widely respected historian of mathematics A. Seidenberg came to the conclusion, after studying the geometry used in building the Egyptian pyramids and the Mesopotamian citadels, that it reflected a derivative geometry—a geometry derived from the Vedic Śulvasūtras. If that is so, then the knowledge ("Veda") on which the construction of Harappa and Mohenjo Daro is based cannot be later than that civilization itself.
While the Ṛgveda has always been held to be the oldest literary document of India and was considered to have preserved the oldest form of Sanskrit, Indians have not taken it to be the source for their early history. Itihāsa-Purāṇa served that purpose. The language of these works is more recent than that of the Vedas, and the time of their final redaction is much later than the fixation of the Vedic canon. However, they contain detailed information about ancient events and personalities that form part of Indian history. The Ancients, like Herodotus, the father of Greek historiography, did not separate story from history. Nor did they question their sources but tended to juxtapose various information without critically sifting it. Thus we cannot read Itihāsa-Purāṇa as the equivalent of a modern textbook of Indian history but rather as a storybook containing information with interpretation, facts and fiction. Indians, however, always took genealogies quite seriously, and we can presume that the Purāṇic lists of dynasties, like the lists of guru-paramparās in the Upaniṣads, relate the names of real rulers in the correct sequence. On these assumptions we can tentatively reconstruct Indian history to a time around 4500 bce.
G. P. Singh defends the historical accuracy of the Purāṇic dynastic lists and calls the Purāṇas "one of the most important traditions of historiography in ancient India." These lists he says "disprove the opinion that the ancient Indians (mainly the Hindus) had no sense of history and chronology."
A key element in the revision of ancient Indian history was the recent discovery of Mehrgarh, a settlement in the Hindukush area, that was continuously inhabited for several thousand years from ca. 7000 bce onward. This discovery has extended Indian history for thousands of years before the fairly well dateable Indus civilization.
Nobody has as yet interpreted the religious significance of the prehistoric cave paintings at Bhīmbetka (from ca. 100,000 to ca. 10,000 bce), which were discovered only in 1967, and we do not know whether and how the people who created these are related to present-day populations of India. These show, amongst other objects, horses clearly readied for riding—according to the "Invasionists" horse breeding and horse riding were an innovations that the Aryans introduced to India after 1500 bce.
Civilizations, both ancient and contemporary, comprise more than literature. It cannot be assumed that the Vedic Aryans, who have left a large literature that has been preserved till now, did not have any material culture that would have left visible traces. The only basis on which Indologists in the nineteenth century established their views of Vedic culture and religion were the texts that they translated from Ancient Sanskrit.
Traditionally trained philologists, that is, grammarians, are generally not able to understand technical language and the scientific information contained in the texts they study. Consider today's scientific literature. It abounds with Greek and Latin technical terms, it contains an abundance of formulas, composed of Greek and Hebrew letters. If scholars with only a background in the classical languages were to read such works, they might be able to come up with some acceptable translations of technical terms into modern English, but they would hardly be able to really make sense of most of what they read, and they certainly would not extract the information that the authors of these works wished to convey through their formulas to people trained in their specialties. Analogous to the observations, which the biologist Ernst Mayr made with regard to translations of Aristotle's works, namely, that sixteenth-century humanists misunderstood and mistranslated his scientific terminology, we must also expect new insights to come out from new translations of ancient Indian technical texts that are more adequate than those made by nineteenth century European philologists.
The admission of some of the top scholars (like Geldner, who in his translation of the Ṛgveda—deemed the best so far—declares many passages "darker than the darkest oracle," or Gonda, who considered the Ṛgveda basically untranslatable) of being unable to make sense of a great many Vedic texts—and the refusal of most to go beyond a grammatical and etymological analysis of these—indicates a deeper problem. The ancient Indians were not only poets and literateurs, but they also had their practical sciences and their technical skills, their secrets and their conventions that are not self-evident to someone who does not share their world. Some progress has been made in deciphering technical Indian medical and astronomical literature of a later age, in reading architectural and arts-related materials. However, much of the technical meaning of the oldest Vedic literature still eludes us. It would be enormously helpful in the question of the relation between the Ṛgveda and the Indus civilization if we could read the literary remnants of the latter: thousands of what appear to be brief texts incised on a very large number of soapstone seals and other objects, found over large areas of north-western India and also in Western Asia. In spite of many claims made by many scholars who laboured for decades on the decipherment of the signs, nobody has so far been able to read or translate these signs.
Computer scientist Subhash Kak believes to have rediscovered the "Vedic Code," on the strength of which he extracts from the structure as well as the words and sentences of the Ṛgveda considerable astronomical information that its authors supposedly embedded in it. The assumption of such encoded scientific knowledge would make it understandable why there was such insistence on the preservation of every letter of the text in precisely the sequence the original author had set down. One can take certain liberties with a story, or even a poem, changing words, transposing lines, adding explanatory matter, shortening it, if necessary, and still communicate the intentions and ideas of the author. However, one has to remember and reproduce a scientific formula in precisely the same way it has been set down by the scientist, or it would not make sense at all. While the scientific community can arbitrarily adopt certain letter equivalents for physical units or processes, once it has agreed on their use, one must obey the conventions for the sake of meaningful communication.
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Based on the early dating of the Ṛgveda (ca. 4000 bce) and on the strength of the argument that Vedic astronomy and geometry predates that of the other known ancient civilizations, some scholars have made the daring suggestion that India was the "cradle of civilization." They link the recently discovered early European civilization (which predates ancient Sumeria and ancient Egypt by over a millennium) to waves of populations moving out or driven out from northwest India. Later migrations, caused either by climatic changes or by military events, would have brought the Hittites to western Asia, the Iranians to Afghanisthan and Iran, and many others to other parts of Eurasia. Such a scenario would require a complete rewriting of ancient world history—especially if we add the claims, apparently substantiated by some material evidence, that Vedic Indians had established trade links with Central America and East Africa before 2500 bce. No wonder that the "new chronology" arouses not only scholarly controversy but emotional excitement as well. Much more hard evidence will be required to fully establish it, and many claims may have to be withdrawn. But there is no doubt that the "old chronology" has been discredited and that much surprise is in store for students not only of ancient India, but of the ancient World as a whole.
An entirely new twist to the question has been added by a recent suggestion that modern humankind did not originate circa one hundred thousand years ago in Africa, as was long assumed, but in Asia: and if in Asia, why not in the Indus Valley? To answer that question, much more archaeological work is necessary and many more pieces of the puzzle will have to be put together.


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The last time I made leek and potato soup, I pushed a handful of spinach leaves into the pot as soon as the other vegetables were perfectly tender. Then I puréed the soup using a stick blender. I expected that it would turn out to be a soft, creamy green, but instead it was as brightly coloured as the leaves of the acanthus that grows on the steep bank beyond the kitchen window. I served the soup straight away before the beautiful colour had a chance to fade. It tasted good, too.
- Melt the butter in a large, heavy saucepan and add the leeks. Cook gently for 5 minutes until the leeks start to collapse but are still pale.
- Add the potato and cook gently for another 5 minutes or until the potato starts to stick to the bottom of the saucepan. Season with a pinch of nutmeg and salt and pepper, then add the stock.
- Stir the soup while you bring it to the boil, then simmer until the vegetables are completely tender.
- Add the spinach and bring back to the boil. Remove from the heat.
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Dim Sum Talks | Life of a UN War Crimes Investigator
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Jonathan Tait-Harris has been there and done that.. with humour and style, usually in a hostile land and under fire. Jonathan will illustrate and highlight the value of face-to-face communication in the 21st century, referring to his own personal experience - from being an army officer in armed conflicts and a detective for the British police to investigating war crimes, first for the UN in the Balkans and later as an adviser for the US and Iraqi governments.
Despite having been face to face both with Saddam Hussein and Chemical Ali, and having dug up a lot of mass graves in Kosovo, Jonathan amuses and moves audiences with the lessons he learned around the world from many dramatic and improbable, yet all too human encounters.
His knowledge of Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa is extensive and he is regularly called upon to advise and comment to the media, governments and NGOs. Jonathan also works with International Location Safety, which helps NGOs, journalists and professional travellers to stay alive by training them how to handle situations and threats in the world's most dangerous places.
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AY 300 - GSI Basics
There are a few basics that are essential to being a good GSI. Different people will phrase these slightly differently, but here's the general consensus:
Go to Lecture
You CANNOT be a good GSI if you are not attending the course lectures regularly. Even if you think you know the material well, different professors explain material in different ways, and emphasize/de-emphasize certain material. In order to be able to field student questions and present a coherent course structure to students in section, you must know what happened in lecture (sometimes including mistakes made by your professor, which you should be prepared to correct).
Many professors will tell you that lecture attendance is not required; We are telling you that it's highly, highly encouraged.
However, you're not expected to attend every lecture, especially when you have other important commitments, but a few hours a week is a fairly small time investment and you can always work on other things if necessary during the lecture.
In addition, you may find it useful to skim the assigned reading for the class you're teaching. Similar to going to lectures, even if you think you know the material, the book might explain things in a different way or use different analogies or examples. Many students won't do the reading, but many will and they will sometimes have very specific questions from the reading.
Prepare for Section
You must come into section with a plan. "Winging it" will not work. The best sections happen when the GSI has clearly laid out, step by step, what they want to accomplish before getting to the classroom. This doesn't necessarily mean you need a fully drafted lesson plan each week, but having some notes on the order in which you're going to do things is quite useful. Things to do beforehand include (but aren't limited to):
- decide how to break up your 50 minutes (i.e. what are you going to do and for about how long)
- have a clear idea of what information you want to convey and what you want your students to take away from the section
- decide how you want the students to work (groups, individually, as a class, etc.)
- make photocopies of any handouts or worksheets, but not right before section, and always make sure you have a few more than enough copies
- gather up anything that you need for that specific section (markers/chalk, laptop & projector, demo materials, homeworks/papers to return to students, name tags or index cards, etc.)
Furthermore, the worksheet is arguably the most important part of section. It is essential that the students have a clearly written, hard copy of what you're asking them to do; simply telling them what to do won't work. Coming up with your own good worksheet generally takes less than an hour, especially if you borrow from other GSIs' worksheets (found in the electronic Big Red Binder).
Learn Your Students' Names
People work hard for bosses they like and don't work hard for bosses they hate. For this reason, it is essential that you develop good rapport with your students. With only one hour of section per week, this task is very difficult. A good starting point, however, is to learn your students' names immediately (within the first week or two of section). We know this is tough, but trust that you will be rewarded for your efforts.
Some ways to learn students' names are:
- take roll for each section (whether or not attendance is mandatory, usually it isn't) - There are a variety of ways of taking roll (calling names, handing out index cards or name tags, etc), but each one allows you to associate a name with a face in your section.
- pass back homework assignments individually - This is great unless you're really crunched for time, but you can usually do this as students trickle in during the first 10 minutes of the hour (before section actually starts).
- use mnemonics
- study pictures of your students outside of section. (Well that sounds creepy, doesn't it?) You can obtain these in several ways:
- Course listing - If your Head GSI has instructor access to bSpace, he/she should have access to a sheet of ID pictures for all the students in your class. You might ask if you can get copies of the ID pictures of your students.
Make Yourself Available to Students
Set aside a few hours each week to help students outside of class. (Your course head will almost certainly require you to do this to some extent via office hours and TALC duties.) Many undergraduates are intimidated by professors but are more willing to talk to GSIs. For the shyest students, you are the only source of personal help for the course. It is therefore imperative that you make yourself as approachable and available to students as possible. Generally 1-2 hours of scheduled office hours plus one night of TALC per week is plenty.
You should announce your office hours, either unilaterally or after polling your students on times/days they'd prefer, as early as possible, preferably during your first section. You should also remind your students that they are welcome, nay, encouraged to make an appointment to see you outside of your scheduled office hours, if they so desire. (With even a moderately large section, at least some of your students will likely have conflicts with your scheduled office hours and be unable to attend them even if they really want to.) Remember that if you're teaching freshmen some of them may not quite know what office hours are! Feel free to take a moment and explain this concept to them. Many won't need this, but you don't want to leave those few that do hanging out to dry.
Get Help and Advice If You Need It
We are certainly here to help you and give you advice if (and when) you need it; that's the point of Ay 300! However, we're not your only line of defense. Your Head GSI is a great person to talk to if any issues should arise. Part of their job is to make sure that all of their GSIs (including you) are doing well and that all sections in the course are running smoothly. Also, don't hesitate to talk to other astro grads; they've pretty much all taught before and no matter how old and creepy they might seem, they were once new GSIs too! Finally, there's always the professor of your course that you could talk to, but be forewarned, profs can sometimes be tough to get a hold of during the semester and, because they tend to be in less direct contact with their students, may have a less-than-accurate perception of what's going on.


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Be part of the action! The crowd peaks at around 40,000 over the five-day event!
Events at the Snake River Stampede
- Saddle bronc riding
- Bull riding
- Steer wrestling
- Tie-down roping
- Team roping
- Ladies' barrel racing
- Mutton busting for the kids
- The famous Snake River Stampeders Night Light Drill Team - see their video below. Trust me, they make it look easy!
Brief History of the Snake River Stampede
The Rodeo started as a small, local bucking horse competition in the early 1900's. Originally called the Rodeo and Buck Show, the broncos used in the competition were brought in from about 40 miles away, near Horseshoe Bend. In 1937, the Rodeo gained its current name and became an official, professional rodeo competition.
What You Need to Know
Tickets range in price from $11.75 - $33.50, depending on your seating area in the Idaho Center Amphitheater. You can buy tickets online at IC Tickets.
For night performances, gates open at 5:30 p.m., the pre-rodeo show begins at 6:30 and the official rodeo events begin at 7:30.
For the Saturday matinee, gates open at 10:30 a.m., pre-rodeo shoe is at 11:15 and the official events begin at noon.
Idaho Lodging
Nampa, the home of The Snake River Stampede, is in Southwest Idaho, where we have many member bed and breakfasts that would love to be your hosts! From Caldwell to Boise, unique inns and B&Bs offer quality lodging with delicious breakfasts that help make your traveling experience even more enjoyable!
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HWRoundup Mobos, chipsets and other inner bits: X-bit labs has a lengthy piece discussing Intel's i845D chipset, the first one from Chipzilla to support DDR SDRAM (up to DDR266). It's much the same as the existing i845 chipset, but with a modified memory controller. There's no new support for any new things like USB 2.0 or ATA 133, although the company plans to replace it around April next year with i845E, which will include DDR333 support and other features.
Amdmb.com reviews an ECS K7VTA3 Rev2 (based on the KT266A chipset) and finds it to be a decent, stable and inexpensive board. If you're not looking for frills, check this out, otherwise you'll need to look at other options.
AMDZone reviews and overclocks an Athlon MP 1900+ (initially clocking in at 1.6GHz, but easily revved up to 1.8GHz). It's tested on the 760MPX mobo, which now ships with 66MHz PCI (and audio) support, a good improvement.
VR-Zone picks up an Iwill XP333-R mobo (using the new ALi MAGiK1 revision C1 chipset) and finds out how much overclocking it can handle, notching the FSB clock speed up to 205 MHz. (Overclockers and others messing about with inner bits may get exciting about the prospect of custom atomic fan grills - I kid you not.)
Skycar, Segway and personal hovercrafts
In the last roundup, I got excited about the prospect of apersonal skycar
coming our way in the not too distant future. A few people have slapped me back to reality.
Reader Peter Simpson has a link to an interesting article showing that Mr Moller has been tinkering with his M400 Skycar dream since 1963, but he hasn't spent much of that time in the air. Sadly, the chances of it taking off from our backyards in the next couple years are, well, slim to none.
All is not lost though, Richard Tietjens has a link to a Zap! Airboard, which is essentially a shrunk-down hovercraft that floats three or four inches above the ground and speeds along at around 15 mph. Unlike Moller's dream, you can actually buy this one for a mere $9,500.
Then, of course, there's Segway, another device not intended for the faint of wallet. It's expected to sell for around $8,000 to $10,000, although that should be reduced to around $3,000 over time. Extreme Tech looks inside the roller, uhh, personal transportation machine, takes some nice snaps of its inner circuitry and walks away, as many others have, grinning madly.
Tom's Hardware does printing this week, comparing variousinkjet printer models from HP, Canon, Epson and Lexmark
. An exhaustive test, broken down on the basis of cost, puts the Canon S500 as the overall leader with the best overall quality / price / speed ratio, although Epson's C80, HP's 980cxi DeskJet and Lexmark's Z43 draw mention for various strong points.
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Govinda's daughter to debut with Kundan Shah's film
Narmada, daughter of Govinda, had been in the news about her dubut in Bollywood. There were reports that Govinda has been contacting all top producers and directors of the tinsel town. Nothin materialized so far.
According to Bollywood sources, Narmada and Govinda have finally settled for substance and content rather than a big banner.
Recently, Govinda, his wife and daughter Narmada were seen dining at a Mumbai suburban five-star hotel and deeply immersed in animated discussion. Finally the news is out that Narmada will make her filmy debut with Kundan Shah's film.
Kundan Shah shot into fame with his "Nukkad" TV serial. He is also noted for subtle, light hearted movies like "Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro", "Kya Kehana", "Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa" among others.


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This is the place on the field where the ball is spotted or located.
Field position is a very important strategic part of the game. When in a close defensive battle, many times kickers will dictate field position by the accuracy and distance of their kicks. The goal with these games is to try to shorten the field as much as possible to make the drive as short as possible to score points.


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Still at it
What a life we chose
I'm sending this out to those
Who fell down, but then rose
I'm hot, I'm hellbound
With these flows, Cole
And when my story's told
Let it be know I'd never fold
I took my time
I gave my soul
I watched you shine
But me I glow
So, I'm coming for what I'm owed
You know?
The intro to Cole's debut full-length sets the somber, reflective, yet boastful tone of the accompanying album perfectly.
In The Warm Up I had one and on Friday Night Lights I have these real personal intros when I'm talking and setting the scene. I think it's important to set the mood and the tone of an album.


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When you lace up your running shoes and step out your door in Edmonton, you are not far from a trail. We are lucky to have one of North America's largest green spaces. There are over 20 major parks along with over 150 km of trails linking them together inside our Ribbon of Green. You can feel at one with nature, feeling miles away from the urban sprawl, while being in the core of our city.
You have probably run the gravel pathways along the river before. These are well maintained nature pathways. My favourite trails in the city are the lesser known single track trails that are woven among the main pathways along the river and throughout the ravines. That narrow trail, wide enough for one person, that shoots out from the main path is a single track trail.
Single track are technical trails. They have climbs and dives. They dip and weave. They do not stay straight and flat for very long. These trails are exciting and challenging for runners looking to switch things up from the old routine. These are not as well maintained as the wide gravel trails; they are uneven, and there are rocks and roots to consider with every step. A good pair of trail running shoes is recommended as the traction they offer is necessary.
Here are some of my favourite single track trail segments in Edmonton.
1. Hawrelak Park to Whitemud Park (Easy)
For the double track, it is one of my favourites. From Hawrelak to Whitemud the trail undulates and leads to a long climb up to the popular End of the World look out (this is however now designated as a no trespassing area). To hit the single track, take the double track path from Hawrelak park. After the first quick descent the trail will climb back up, here on your right you will see an obvious single track trail. You can follow this all the way to Quesnell Bridge better known for the Silver Balls sculpture. This trail gives a different perspective to the End of the World look out from below. Another advantage to this trail is that you can shoot out of the trail to the paved pathway and have a chance to pet some horses at the Equestrian Park! It is also a good excuse to catch your breath!
2. Forest Heights (Easy/Challenging)
This area is lush with trails to explore. Park at the Mcnally High School and from here you will make your way to the lookout directly East from the school. You can follow a paved path to the benches. Take in a breathtaking view of our city and the valley and then drop into the trail! There are many options of trail; you can go all the way down to the river and take the flatter single track by the water, or you can stay a little high and take in a few up and downs. These trails go up river towards the city and can take you all the way to the Accidental Beach!
3. Masters Degree (Challenging)
Masters Degree is in Emily Murphy Park. This trail is above the double track trail that lines the river below the University. The best way to find this trail is to begin at the Emily Murphy Parking lot. As you make your way East towards Kinsmen along the double track trail, you will pass the yellow gate and the path will dip down to the left. Just here is where you will see a narrow single track to the right. This path will follow a fence until you come to a fork and a break in the fence to your right. The trail begins with an old tree stump and a quick climb. You are now on Masters Degree! There are a lot of ups and downs along with many switch backs to keep things interesting!
My best tips for hitting trail in our city is to stay hydrated. Wear trail running shoes, you will be thankful for the traction! Be mindful of other trail users, keep an ear out for other runners and cyclists that may come up behind you to pass. Always move to the right (so long as the trail permits) to allow others to go by. Share the trail, it is for everyone!
Most importantly, it is okay to stop for a moment to take in the nature. We are lucky to have such a large green space in the core of our city. There is always something new to explore in the river valley.
By Andre Lessard


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Posted on Wednesday, September 25th, 2013 by Peter Sciretta
Amazon's Gold Box Deal of the Week is The Man from U.N.C.L.E.: The Complete Series box set for only $94.99, 52% off the $200 msrp. The box set is beautifully packaged in a 60's style high tech attach case, containing all four seasons (105 episodes) on 41 discs, including the rarely seen color pilot episode, "Solo", U.N.C.L.E. theatrical feature One Spy Too Many, Tom and Jerry's "The Mouse from H.U.N.G.E.R." and many other special features. As you know, Amazon's Gold Box Deal is only valid today, and today only. So pick it up by September 29th, 2013 as the price will expire!


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According to final data from research firm IDC, vendors shipped a total of 301.3 million smartphones worldwide in 2Q14, up 25.3 percent from the 240.5 million units shipped in the second quarter of 2013. The dominant smartphone operating systems (OS), Android and iOS, saw their combined market share swell to 96.4 percent for the quarter, leaving little space for competitors. Android was the primary driver with its vendor partners shipping a total of 255.3 million Android-based smartphones in 2Q14, up 33.3 percent year over year. Meanwhile, iOS saw its market share decline despite posting 12.7 percent year-over-year shipment growth. While Android and iOS both realized gains from a year ago, the rest of the market recorded losses. "With many of its OEM partners focusing on the sub-$200 segments, Android has been reaping huge gains within emerging markets," said Ramon Llamas, research manager with IDC's mobile phone team. "During the second quarter, 58.6 percent of all Android smartphone shipments worldwide cost less than $200 off contract, making them very attractive compared to other devices. With the recent introduction of Android One, in which Google offers reference designs below $100 to Android OEMs, the proportion of sub-$200 volumes will climb even higher." "It's been an incredible upward slog for other OS players ? Windows Phone has been around since 2010 but has yet to break the 5 percent share mark, while the backing of the world's largest smartphone player, Samsung, has not boosted Tizen into the spotlight," said Melissa Chau, senior research manager with IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker. "The biggest stumbling block is around getting enough partnerships in play ? not just phone manufacturers but also developers, many of which are smaller outfits looking to minimize development efforts by sticking to the two big ecosystems." OS highlights Android reached a new record for market share during 2Q14, nearly doubling its share from just three years ago. Samsung once again led the charge, accounting for 29.3 percent of all Android-powered shipments, down from its 40.0 percent share of two years ago. Since then, competitors including Coolpad, Huawei, Lenovo, LG, Xiaomi, and ZTE have all grown their respective volumes are jockeying for position in the rankings behind Samsung. iOS may have reached its lowest quarterly volume for the year, if history is any indication. For the past two years, third quarter volumes received a boost from shipments of its new devices towards the end of the quarter, resulting in slightly higher volumes compared to the second quarter. Whether or not this happens again this year remains to be seen, especially with the anticipated arrival of large-screen iPhones. Windows Phone volumes declined from a year ago, but compared to the previous quarter, it showed slight improvement, making it the clear number 3 smartphone platform. The list of OEM partners has not changed significantly from a year ago, but that could start to change during the second half of 2014 when numerous vendors within key emerging markets come on board, including BLU, Micromax, Prestigio, Yezz, and others. These join Foxconn, Gionee, JSR, Karbonn, Lava, Lenovo, LG, Longcheer, and ZTE. Following three consecutive quarters of sequential decline, BlackBerry volumes have rebounded slightly from the previous quarter, but remain 78.0 percent lower than shipment levels from a year ago. In keeping with its strategy, BlackBerry saw improvement within one of its key markets, Asia/Pacific, as well as some gains among enterprise users within North America and Western Europe. ]]>
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The ever-popular brand, available at Asda stores throughout NI, has embraced a number of this seasons key catwalk trends, bringing together oversized spots, flashes of leopard print, bold stripes and geometric prints, to create an eclectic style that has really got the Northern Irish fashion community talking.
Katie Davies, Press Officer for George said,
"Our George AW18 Collection is our best yet! Featuring vibrant pieces with bursts of colour and statement patterns, the collection is designed to be layered together to create a unique, dynamic style for every individual. We are delighted to team up with Belfast FASHIONWEEK once again, and showcase our looks at The Runway Edit on Friday 19th October in Saint Anne's Cathedral."
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"We are obsessed with the new George AW18 collection and are thrilled to include it once again in our line-up this year where George will feature in The Runway Edit Show. As the UK and Ireland's first consumer fashion week, we love showing our guests the latest trends and look forward to another show-stopping season of style with George!"
Cool FM presenter and local fashionista, Melissa Riddell, models this seasons latest George Collection on location at the Clandeboye Estate, Bangor, giving a sneak peek at the latest George-ous looks.
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A large part of the current reporting on HSBC is quality journalism, but there are two things that are being missed out on in all the reports I have seen so far.
1. Lack of historical perspective
2. Lack of understanding of banking secrecy legislation and culture
Here, with my first post in a three part series during this week, I will begin to fill you in so you will have a better understanding of why and how it all happened. This way you'll be better informed than the majority of those following the story.
It's important to first understand how banking secrecy works within a multinational bank that has banking operations in a banking secrecy country. Please note that this is not just an HSBC issue, it affects every single bank that has had a subsidiary in a banking secrecy location. For the purposes of this blog post however, I will stick to just HSBC.
HSBC got into the Swiss private banking business in 1999 by acquiring the Republic New York Corporation and Safra Republic Holdings, even though the acquired bank became part of HSBC, carrying its name, its Swiss subsidiary will have been completely separate from all the rest of HSBC. The subsidiary in Switzerland was, from a legal perspective, a Swiss bank, coming in under Swiss legislation. This means that HSBC Switzerland will have had no information sharing within the HSBC group. For example, if you were a client with HSBC and had accounts with them in both the UK and in Switzerland, the UK arm will have had no knowledge (unless you informed them otherwise) that you had an account with the Swiss arm.
Much has been discussed about Lord Green who was the chairman of HSBC at the time. Lord Green is facing a barrage of accusation for either being complicit in tax evasion or ignorant of it. Just because he was Chairman of HSBC group doesn't mean he would have had access to information regarding the clients of HSBC Switzerland. The only way he could have had access is IF he sat on the board of HSBC Switzerland at the time the "tax evasion" was happening. (I will come to that just a little bit later).
This is purely my own personal speculation, but it is unlikely that matters of tax evasion would have come up on board level in HSBC Switzerland prior to 2008 because tax evasion was not a problematic issue until then. Pre 2008 there was a general laissez faire culture within the offshore banking sector regarding clients and their taxes. Banks in banking secrecy countries at the time saw tax as an issue that was of no concern to the banks themselves, it was the seen as the clients' problem to deal with.
The reason that 2008 is such a pivotal year is because that was the year the UBS tax scandal story regarding US clients with assets in Switzerland became public. This was the first really public story involving Switzerland and tax evasion, with juicy (and fresh and minty) stuff like the smuggling of diamonds in tubes of toothpaste. This would have been the first time that Swiss banks and banks in other banking secrecy jurisdictions would have had their initial contact with the possible reputational risks regarding tax evasion by their clients. It is therefore likely that the subject of tax avoidance was discussed in 2008 at board level in Switzerland, how seriously and how extensively, is something that only those who sat on the board of HSBC Switzerland at the time could answer.
With the above in mind, I'll end this post with an interesting bit of information: Lord Green was still mentioned as chairman of the Swiss arm of HSBC in the group annual report of 2007, but no longer in 2008. What could possibly be the reason? Coincidence?
In tomorrow's blog post I'll delve into why so few have been convicted of tax evasion on the back of the HSBC leaks.


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Firstly a quick update on FreeTrain. The main game has now been translated, so should compile and run on Windows. At the moment, though, there are a few things to be addressed before it can be officially released and also it probably needs porting to SDL to run on Linux as - although Mono is implementing WinForms - it makes a few DirectX calls. That and I'm too lame (in combination with VS2005) to even make it compile on Windows.
FlowFlowMania, a Pipe Mania clone, showed up on Freshmeat today. Sadly there's only 2 playable levels and graphics for a resolution of 320x240 but it's early days yet so hopefully development will continue. I loved Pipe Mania when it came out on my ZX48+.
Since I was commenting on FLOSS platform games (or lack of) the other day, "Steve" brought to my attention his game - Danger Man. I gotta say, although it's early days for this game (don't expect much), it was a fun to play for a few minutes. It's only v0.1 and there's no real animation but the essential gameplay elements are there. Danger Man reminded me a bit of Abuse [SDL] (Freshmeat link due to homepage not working) with the mouse/keyboard combination, although it has a long way to go before it reaches a similar level of polish.
Continuing the platformer theme, I played SuperTux 0.3.0 for the first time yesterday. It felt sluggish and generally not-as-fun (on my 1Ghz laptop) compared to SuperTux 0.2.0. Maybe I'm just getting old or something? It is labelled a "preview" release so I also had a look at their progress towards a full Milestone 2 release (v0.4.0 I presume) and noted a complaint about a penguin that can't swim. Does anybody else see an opportunity for a Mario meets Ecco the Dolphin clone? Now that would be something special. :-)
Of course to do that well, you might want 3D characters instead of 2D sprites. Perhaps an adaption of the Windstille engine? I'm an idea-a-minute at the moment!
I love Fish Fillets. If you haven't played it, go to that link IMMEDIATELY. I like it that much, that I'm going to mention it's commercial follow up - Fish Fillets II. The graphics are, as usual, much improved. Anyway, I mention it only to see if people can bug Altar Games to either make a Linux port or perhaps GPL the engine so people can do it themselves aka Fish Fillets NG.
There's a rumour that UFO:AI 2.1 will get released before the end of the month. They got bored backporting changes from SVN trunk to the 2.0 branch so skipped an official 2.0 release altogether (after 6 RCs). I've no complaints with that - at the end of the day open source developers have limitted time. If something is actually detracting from development then sometimes it is better to forget about it. At the end of the day players want the latest, greatest stuff so generally will prefer a quick 2.1 release to a 2.0 release that delays v2.1 of the game. Besides, the developers can just argue that 2.0 was just a preview of 2.1 anyway! ;-)
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Citizens for the Constitution;
15 December 2013
If you think our Congress-members, our Military Leaders, the Judiciary, and the MEDIA aren't aware of the Obama's gun-running to our enemies (i.e. lending aid and comfort) in Benghazi, just listen to this 3 minute clip by Rep. Trey Gowdy as he rips the media for covering up Obama and Hillary's treasonous acts of fraud, dissembling, deception, and deceit.
It has been over 6 weeks since he challenged the media at a major ½ hour press conference – to answer these questions:
1. Why was Amb. Chris Stevens in Benghazi the night he was killed?
2. Why were we the last flag flying in Benghazi – after the British had left and the Red Cross had been bombed?
3. Why were repeated requests for additional security denied again and again (by Obama and Hillary)?
4. Why were no assets allowed to be deployed to help?
5. Do you know if the 'president' called any of our allies and asked for help?
6. Why was Susan Rice picked to go on the talk shows to promote the excuse of a 'video' – instead of SOS Hillary Clinton?
7. Do you know the origin of the mythology of the spontaneous reaction to a video, and how we got from no evidence of that (the video) to being the official position of the administration?
He concludes with this: The media has a responsibility to investigate and report these questions!
"I'm not surprised that:
a) The 'president' called this a 'phony scandal'';
b) SOS Clinton asked 'What difference does it make';
c) Jay Carney said 'it happened a long time ago'!"
"I'm just surprised at how many of you BOUGHT IT!"
Here it is 6 weeks later, most everybody knows that answers to those questions:
1. Stevens was there to facilitate and cover-up 'gun-running to our enemies', al Qaeda, in Libya;
2. Same answer as # 1;
3. Same answer as # 1;
4. Same answer as # 1;
5. NO! Obama obviously did not and would not call any of our allies to ask for help, due to Same answer as # 1;
6. Susan Rice had less to lose than Hillary, once the lie of the video mythology was discovered, due to Same answer as # 1;
7. The origin of the video mythology was obviously Obama and Hillary, due to Same answer as # 1;
… but neither the Congress nor our Military Leaders nor the Judiciary nor the MEDIA has done or said anything about the acts of Treason of lending aid and comfort to our declared enemies in the declared 'war on terror', by our putative Commander in Chief, known by all to BE THE ONLY ONE who could give the STAND DOWN order not deploy assets to rescue those former SEALs from death at the hands of our 'aided and comforted' enemies!
Not until a majority of patriotic Americans become aware of the awesome depth and breadth of the corruption and treason that has engulfed our government and our nation will we have any hope of restoring our Constitutional Republic.
We all must be Paul Reveres now, to spread the word to those remaining Americans with an ounce of patriotism left in their blood.
In Liberty and In Truth.
Neil B. Turner
Citizens for the Constitution
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Here is my answer: There is and should be an American Spring, but I will highly suggest, we take arms with us to Washington and if the government decides to use the military, I would rather be arrmed and ready to use those arms against those that choose to fire on American Citizens. Better be ready than Dead. I choose to fight if it gets dicey....
Or as the old saying, "Better to be dead, than Red"....
Clois......The "back-up" must be armed but those of us that launch an AMERICAN SPRING should be armed with our bodies and no weapons. If the government becomes violent, then katy-bar-the door as the "back-up" becomes involved.
Harry, you are 100% right. We need three divisions.
Jager...there is no doubt sacrifice will occur, some of us will die, some will go to a cell, some wounded. The government is aching for a confrontation and publicizing that we're putting together an AMERICAN SPRING with armed participants will close the door on us before we get started. We should show up in D.C. by the millions as non-violent patriots, to shut the government down...demand Obama, Biden, Reid, McConnell, Boehner, Pelosi resign and then begin constitutional restoration. What will the government put up with if we don't leave? I don't know but it's likely they will become violent and try to remove us. We don't start violence, they do and the world is witness, especially all of America. We won't retreat, or surrender...lives will be at risk. Then the backup plan than none of us want, but as our Founding Fathers experienced, there was no alternative but to fight.
As I see it there is no hope to do what we have to do in an organized fashion...we've been trying to get organized well before Obama was elected...look where we are.....close to total destruction of the American way of life...just today, as an example, a judge ruled polygamy was legal...huh?
I'm prepared to go to D.C. physically unarmed(not spiritually unarmed) with a few million other patriots with a goal to force the people I mentioned above out of office and begin the process constitutional restoration. All the others that have violated their oath will be apprehended later for appropriate legal action.
I see no other realistic, plausible approach as a final non-violent action to reverse the destructive path our nation is on..........I understand we won't all agree, but this is what I'm willing to personally do....
We need to go, but there must be a large contingency that can stay in D.C. for an indefinite time. Going on one weekend listening to a bunch of speeches, then going back home won't accomplish much. If we go, we need an outside-of-the-box type of plan.
we have a blueprint for that. its called the actions of ww1 war vets action against the government. although some were killed they won
Of course there are going to be disagreements about 'going armed' or 'not armed' and both sides have valid arguments. However, I agree with you. My reasons has to do with knowing how Leftist turds would use any event to their advantage. First of all, lets say that we can muster over a million Patriots to go to D.C. fully armed, that would be the perfect opportunity to force our side into a shooting match. Not only would they end up taking our weapons away, many of us would get killed, and they would definitely use the event as a media 'show and tell'. They would call us all dangerous right-wing zealots trying to force our ideology on a free people blah blah blah... and many stupid people will fall for it.
It's best to leave your firearms* with someone you trust back home and come to an "American Spring" only with our bodies, with loud voices, and millions of copies of the Constitution. * NOTE: Getting all firearms out of your house while you attend any "American Spring" event is just staying one step ahead of the Feds. You not being there would be the perfect time for the Feds to come and take EVERYTHING you own.
We are officially over-due for an American Spring!
Col. Riley........ I agree, we need to be unarmed to maintain the "Moral Highground." However, we should have a backup plan in case we run into a "Broken Arrow" type situation.. I have no problem taking a few lumps and bruises to get our point across, but if they start lighting us up it would sure be nice to know we have some serious support waiting in the wings.........
Point well taken Richard.........
I am torn right now; In my heart, I know I have to go, but on the other, my loyalties are for my disabled wife, who will not have any help on the farm, neighbors are all liberals, selfish, un-reliable. They will not organize as a group, they talk, but we know how cheap talk is. They know things are bad, but they are looking for someone else to do the dirty work, so they don't have to get their hands dirty. So I am conflicted, so I guess I will just have to see where the spirit takes me for now.
twana I am on the failed side of cancer treatment so I have nothing to lose count me in if you need an old wardog sniper


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Interiors: Through the couture keyhole
As Yves Saint Laurent's art collection goes under the hammer this month, we open the doors on the legendary fashion designer's couture house and Moroccan home
The grand couture salon was redecorated by interior designer Jacques Grange. The original design was by Victor Grandpierre, who also decorated Christian Dior's boutique
When Yves Saint Laurent (left) decamped to 5 avenue Marceau in 1974, no expense was spared in the decoration of his new couture house. Twelve years had passed since he and his business partner Pierre Bergé had created their fashion business on the rue Spontini.
Saint Laurent was at the height of his influence, the most revered name in Paris fashion. He needed headquarters to reflect that prestige.
Victor Grandpierre, the veteran decorator who designed the interior for Christian Dior's shop at 30 avenue Montaigne, was asked to create a sumptuous interior on a par with fashion's grandest names, both past and present.
In that he succeeded. The grand couture salon at the foot of a sweeping staircase oozed affluence and discernment with mirrored walls and a green moiré carpet.
Saint Laurent's office was given a regal air. Red carpet was laid and a crystal chandelier hung above an 18th-century desk. It opens on to a simple studio where Saint Laurent worked with his assistants Loulou de la Falaise and Anne-Marie Muñoz.
Saint Laurent's opulent private office
A portrait of Saint Laurent by Warhol hangs in the conference room, with another Warhol portrait behind Bergé's desk in the adjacent office.
After Saint Laurent retired in 2002, the house was transformed into a foundation. The couture salon became an exhibition space and the workrooms upstairs were filled with countless dresses and drawings.
At first Saint Laurent visited the house often. But as he grew increasingly ill and reclusive, his presence became rare.
The studio, where Saint Laurent worked from 1961 to his retirement in 2002. His desk is in the background. His assistants worked at the table in the foreground
Little has altered since his death on 1 June 2008. His office remains intact, with papers and correspondence stacked on his bureau.
Behind Saint Laurent's desk in the studio is a portrait by the French artist Bernard Buffet
A picture of Saint Laurent with model Laetitia Casta after a fashion show. Every year Saint Laurent sent his 'Love' poster to friends and associates
The studio, too, is unchanged. Press clippings are pinned to the wall, as is a picture of Prince William.
The entrance to Villa Mabrouka, which is a haven of peace in the medina of Tangier
A view into the drawing room from the chequerboard entrance hall
With a view across the sea to the coast of Spain, Villa Mabrouka, or the house of luck, is a peaceful walled complex within the bustling medina of Tangier.
Saint Laurent and Bergé purchased it in 1992, and worked with interior designer Jacques Grange on its decoration.
The blue chintz drawing room. Saint Laurent wanted the house to look as though it had belonged to an eccentric Englishman
'It was based on the house of an eccentric Englishman who moved to Tangier in the 1950s,' says Grange. 'Yves wanted chintz, with each room a single colour – a blue room, a yellow room. It was like decorating a house for people out of a play by Tennessee Williams.'
Mabrouka is one of Bergé and Saint Laurent's simplest homes, with few pieces of value and no art hanging on the walls. 'The paintings that would have worked in Tangier were Matisse,' says Bergé. 'Those are in the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Hermitage in
St Petersburg. You can't put worthless things on the walls. It's better to have nothing at all.'
Saint Laurent¿s light, airy bedroom
With a pared-down decoration, the house achieves a feeling of boundless light and air. The main drawing room, its sofas and chairs upholstered in blue floral chintz, boasts a 180-degree view across the grounds and sea below.
The entrance hall has white Moroccan-style arches and a chequerboard floor, while the adjacent library, lined with books and in a beige colour scheme, has a colonial air. The second drawing room, with sofas and chairs in yellow chintz, opens on to the dining room where the walls are lined with bamboo.
The house boasts sweeping views - on a clear day, Spain can be seen across the Straits of Gibraltar
Garden designer Madison Cox laid out the garden with towering palms, citrus and rolling lawns to emphasise the unfettered view across the sea. The pool was carved out of a large rock and has an adjacent red stucco pavilion by American architect Stuart Church.
- This is an edited extract from The Private World of Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé by Robert Murphy with photographs by Ivan Terestchenko (Thames & Hudson, £60). To order a copy from the YOU Bookshop for £54 with free p&p, visit you-bookshop.co.uk, or call 0845 155 0711
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