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Muslims Are Their Own Worst Enemy
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Muslim disunity has made it possible for Israel to dispossess the Palestinians, for the U.S. to invade Iraq
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Muslims are numerous but powerless. Divisions among Muslims, especially between Sunni and Shi'ites, have consigned the Muslim Middle East to almost a century of Western control. Muslims cannot even play together. The Islamic Solidarity Games, a regional version of the Olympics, which were to be held in April in Iran, have been cancelled, because the Iranians and the Arabs cannot agree on whether to call the body of water that separates Iran from the Arabian Peninsula the Persian Gulf or the Arabian Gulf.
Muslim disunity has made it possible for Israel to dispossess the Palestinians, for the U.S. to invade Iraq, and for the U.S. to rule much of the region through puppets. For example, in exchange for faithful service, Egypt receives $1.5 billion a year from Washington, which enables President Mubarak to buy off opposition. The opposition had rather have the money than support the Palestinians. Therefore, Egypt cooperates with Israel and the U.S. in the blockade of Gaza.
Another factor is the willingness of some Muslims to betray their own kind for U.S. dollars. Don't take my word for it. Listen to neoconservative Kenneth Timmerman, head of the Foundation for Democracy, which describes itself as "a private, non-profit organization established in 1995 with grants from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) to promote democracy and internationally-recognized standards of human rights in Iran."
By now we all know what that means. It means that the U.S. finances a "velvet" or some "color revolution" in order to install a U.S. puppet. Just prior to the sudden appearance of a "green revolution" in Tehran primed to protest an election, Timmerman wrote that "the National Endowment for Democracy has spent millions of dollars during the past decade promoting 'color' revolutions in places such as Ukraine and Serbia, training political workers in modern communications and organizational techniques. Some of that money appears to have made it into the hands of pro-Mousavi groups, who have ties to non-governmental organizations outside Iran that the National Endowment for Democracy funds." So, according to the neocon Timmerman, funded by the National Endowment for Democracy, it was U.S. money that funded Mousavi's claims that Armadinejad stole the last Iranian election.
During President George W. Bush's regime it became public knowledge that American money is used to purchase Iranians to work against their own country. The Washington Post, a newspaper sympathetic to the neocon's goal of American hegemony and war with Iran, reported in 2007 that Bush authorized spending more than $400 million for activities that included "supporting rebel groups opposed to the country's ruling clerics."
This makes the U.S. government a "state sponsor of terrorism." For confirmation, one of the U.S. paid operatives, who conducted terror operations in Iran, has ratted on his terrorist supporters in Washington. Abdulmalek Rigi, leader of the Baloch separatist group responsible for several attacks, was recently arrested by the Iranians. Rigi admitted that the Americans in Washington assured him of unlimited military aid and funding for waging an insurgency against the Islamic Republic of Iran. (Read his confession here: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24868.htm )
Possibly he was tortured into confession. It is the American way. If the "light of the world," the "indispensable people," and the "shining city on the hill" tortures people, perhaps the Iranians do as well. Rigi's younger brother, himself on death row in Iran, has said that the U.S. provided direct funding to the separatist group and even ordered specific terrorist attacks inside Iran (see Antiwar.com, Feb. 23, 2010 and also http://news.antiwar.com/2009/08/25/top-jundallah-figure-says-us-ordered-attacks/ and http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24868.htm ).
The U.S. and its NATO puppets have been killing Afghan women, children, and village elders since October 7, 2001, when the U.S. military invasion "Operation Enduring Freedom," a proper Orwellian title for a self-serving war of aggression, was launched. The U.S. installed puppet president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, is bought and paid for with U.S. dollars.
The money that Washington gives Karzai finances the corruption that supports him. Karzai's corruption and his treason against the Afghan people encourage the Taliban to keep fighting in order to achieve a government that serves Afghans instead of Washington, D.C. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/24/AR2010022404914.html?wprss=rss_world
Without the puppet Karzai selling out Afghans to Washington, the U.S. would have already been driven out of the country. With Karzai paying Afghans with American money to fight Afghans for the Americans, the war drones on into its ninth year.
Feminists, liberals, and naive American flag-wavers will say that what is written here is utter rot, that Americans are in Afghanistan to bring women's rights and birth control to Afghan women and to bring freedom, democracy and progress to Afghanistan, even if it means leveling every village, town, and house in the country. We, "the indispensable people," are only there to do good, because we care so much for the Afghan people who live in a country that most Americans can't find on a map.
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The white-rumped sandpiper (Calidris fuscicollis) has mixed brown-grey shoulder and back feathers, a pale grey-white breast streaked with brown, and black legs. It has white underparts, and the white patch on its uppertail, for which it is named, distinguishes it from the very similar-looking Baird's sandpiper. The top of the head is brown, with greyish-white stripes present above each eye. This species has long wings which extend beyond the tail when the bird is on the ground. In winter, shoulder and back plumage is greyer than during breeding the season (2) (3). The bill is short and dark, and curves slightly downwards (2) (4).
The white-rumped sandpiper is a migratory bird, and performs one of the longest animal migrations in the western hemisphere (2) (3). It typically travels from its principal breeding ground in the Canadian Arctic to the southern-most countries of South America (2) (3). This migration is undertaken in stages of up to 4000 kilometres (2) (4). It depends on feeding heavily during migration stopovers in order to build up enough body fat to survive these long flights, which can last up to 60 hours (2).
The white-rumped sandpiper feeds mainly on invertebrate prey, such as insects, molluscs and worms, but is also known to feed on plant material. It feeds by probing with its bill into vegetation, mudflats, or shallow water, depending on its location (2) (3). It has been observed making several quick probes with its bill, before running a short distance and repeating this action (2). It has also been seen to snatch food from the surface of mud or water if it is available (2) (3). The white-rumped sandpiper may defend feeding territories, but will forage in small groups (2).
The white-rumped sandpiper is swift when flying, and walks or runs instead of hopping when on the ground. It flies in small groups, and has been recorded reaching speeds of up to 80 kilometres per hour (2).
Male white-rumped sandpipers vigorously defend breeding territories while females are laying eggs, but abandon them soon afterwards. It is a polygynous species, and it is thought that the quality of the male's breeding territory may attract females to breed. Male white-rumped sandpipers perform short, aerial courtship displays to the females. These involve hovering around 10 to 25 metres in the air while calling out a distinctive song involving 'rattling' and 'pig-like' sounds. Breeding males extend their throat during aerial displays. Throughout the breeding season, males have larger throats than females and, consequently, this is one of the only times when it is possible to distinguish between the sexes (2).
Female white-rumped sandpipers construct their nests without the assistance of males, and the nests are typically only just wide enough to fit four eggs inside. The nests are often generously lined with vegetation, which is thought to fall in naturally rather than being placed there intentionally by the female. White-rumped sandpiper eggs are oval, usually between 26 and 31 millimetres in length and green in colour with reddish-brown spots and blotches. Incubation and care of the chicks is also undertaken solely by the female. White-rumped sandpiper chicks are able to fledge from 16 to 17 days old, and are extremely independent as soon as they have left the nest (2).
During breeding, the white-rumped sandpiper is found in northern Alaska, east across northern Canada to the Northwestern Territories (2) (3) (4). Its wintering range extends from the very southern tip of South America, east of the Andes to southern Bolivia, Paraguay and southern Brazil (2) (3).
On its northern migration, the white-rumped sandpiper is thought to pass through interior North America, from the Rockies in the west, to Mississippi and Ohio in the east (2).
Vagrant white-rumped sandpipers are regularly seen in Western Europe (2) (3). Individuals have been spotted in New Zealand (2).
During breeding, the white-rumped sandpiper nests on the ground, in marshy, well-vegetated tundra (2) (3) (4). During migration and winter, this species is found in a variety of wetland habitats, including sea beaches, riverbanks, fields and marshes (2).
The white-rumped sandpiper is classified as Least Concern (LC) on the IUCN Red List (1).
Loss of suitable habitat on its migration route could pose a threat to the white-rumped sandpiper. This may prove significant if it is not able to build up fat reserves to survive migration. Wetlands in the Great Plains are unable to maintain water levels as a result of irrigation for agriculture, which may lead to dehydration in migrating birds (2).
The white-rumped sandpiper is no longer significantly threatened by shooting and trapping in Canada and the US (2).
The white-rumped sandpiper is protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918, and is listed as a species of Greatest Conservation Need in Alaska (5).
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Former Lowestoft mayor apologises after sharing post from pro-Tommy Robinson Facebook page
PUBLISHED: 15:47 05 October 2018
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The former mayor of Lowestoft has apologised after accidentally sharing an abusive far-right post from the pro-Tommy Robinson Facebook page 'SAVE Our Country'.
Nick Webb, who served as mayor twice in 2012 and 2016, said he meant "no offence whatsoever" and said he had not checked where the original source had come from before sharing the post.
Mr Webb sits as an independent councillor on Waveney District Council for Whitton after resigning from the Conservative party earlier this year.
Around midnight on Saturday, September 29, Mr Webb shared a picture of Jeremy Corbyn with a photoshopped sign stating "If I ever get in power, your[sic] all ******", posted by SAVE Our Country.
The page states it was set up to "save our country from an invasion of illegals and the so called 'refugees', 'migrants' etc that are not entering our country legally and are not all asylum seekers".
The group, which shares inflammatory anti-Muslim stories and posts, also posts regularly in support of far-right populist and English Defence League co-founder and former leader, Tommy Robinson, real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon.
Mr Webb said: "I should be more careful, I fully take that on board. It was a view expressed not realising where it had originally come from.
"I didn't know where it had come from at all. I distance myself from that organisation as far the other side as I can get.
"I don't think that Jeremy Corbyn should be prime minister of this country any more than Theresa May should be."
He added: "It is a disgraceful organisation, absolutely, that has no place in today's society as far as I am concerned. There is no place for that sort of behaviour.
"I apologise for any offence caused."
Leader of the Waveney Labour group, Peter Byatt, said the language used on the post was "inappropriate".
He said: "Bearing in mind previous issues with ill-thought out comments on social media, we were disappointed to see such language used by an elected representative and directed at our own party leader.
"Regardless of people's opinion about him this sort of language is not appropriate about any politician. It is not the sort of thing locally we recognises as appropriate language from any party."
Independent group leader Stephen Ardley said: "If he [Nick] has apologised for it I am satisfied with that as it is not in his character to do something like that."
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The New York Yankees roster consists of a flurry of stars and a vast collection of bubble players who will need to fight during spring training to crack the final 25-man squad.
With depth in the middle infield, manager Joe Girardi will have to make some tough decisions throughout the spring. Each middle infielder offers similar versatility and skills at the plate, though it might come down to who performs best as camp closes and the regular season begins.
Relief pitching is the area where the most surprising cuts will come. With the retirement of Mariano Rivera and the departure of Boone Logan via free agency, several spots out of the bullpen are up for grabs.
The likes of David Robertson, Matt Thornton, Shawn Kelley and Preston Claiborne will have roles in some capacity. Robertson will be the closer, but the remaining spots have yet to be filled. They'll likely come from in-house candidates.
There will be some very competitive position battles in Tampa in the coming weeks. You're not going to want to miss them. Here are the odds for each Yankees player on the bubble of making the roster.


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With victories in Class 2A sectional semis, ND will again face Morton for title
By JOSH WESSLER
Peoria Journal Star
PEORIA – Over the past two months, the Notre Dame boys soccer team has traveled near and far in search of quality competition.
On Tuesday night at the Class 2A Notre Dame Sectional, the quality came to the Irish. And by flexing their offensive muscle, it didn't take long for the hosts to send it packing.
Facing one of the area's top teams in Mid-Illini Conference champion Washington, the Irish showed exactly why they are regarded as one of the state's best with a convincing 4-0 victory over the Panthers.
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PS150 Opens Pop-Ups Bars In Malacca, Hokkaido & London
Made possible by YTL Hotels, PS150's global tour is a rare opportunity for the bar's talented team to take their craft further afield.
PS150 is serving limited edition cocktails at 5 luxury properties — The Majestic Malacca, Hilton Niseko Village and The Greenleaf Niseko Village in Japan, and Threadneedles Hotel and The Academy in the United Kingdom — through May 10, 2019.
"With this collaboration between YTL Hotels x PS150, we're excited to introduce Malaysian flavours, textures and styles. After all, it is very Malaysian to share our love of food — it is the best way to get to know us," said PS150 co-founder Tan Boon Wy.
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Threadneedles: Formerly a Victorian bank, this discreet boutique hotel is crowned by an elegant stained-glass dome — a favourite highlight Instagrammers. Housing a restaurant by celebrated British chef Marco Pierre White, Theadneedles also takes pride in its iconic afternoon tea.
The Academy: The hotel occupies an enviable location in the centre of Bloomsbury, a high-end district in London's West End dating back 240 years. Grassy squares and grand Georgian townhouses make for pleasant strolls around the neighbourhood.
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About the Lake Champlain Chapter
In 1983 the only North Country TU chapter was located in Saranac Lake, NY. It was active from May 1975 to somewhere in the early '80s. Approximately half its membership was made up of people from the Plattsburgh area.
As the Saranac Lake chapter's activity waned, Sam Thuesen and Bruce Handley wondered if they couldn't start a chapter in Plattsburgh. The first organizational meeting was held in March 1983 and in April the Board officers and a Board of Directors were elected. At that first Trout Unlimited meeting, 24 charter members were transferred from the Saranac Lake chapter, plus some new members that came aboard after our organizational meeting.
We petitioned the state level of TU to begin a new chapter. Our charter was granted and issued June 4, 1983, and thus the Lake Champlain Chapter, #419, was born.
Over the last 28 years the chapter has been very active locally in a number of ways. Almost since the start, the chapter has done stream clean-ups on the Saranac River every fall, has been very active in supporting lamprey control and have been instrumental in cleaning up a number of point sources of pollution in the Saranac. We have sponsored a number of children over the years to attend the DEC summer camps and one of our outstanding programs is "Salmon in the Classroom." The success of this program is largely due to members Bill Wellman and Don Lee, assisted from time to time by other chapter members.
Most recently the chapter has embraced TU's Women's Initiative, holding its first Women's Introduction to Fly Fishing seminar in 2013.
The chapter received its first award, the Silver Trout Award, from the State Council within the chapter's first year of operation. The award is for being an outstanding chapter. In 1989 the chapter was recognized nationally as an outstanding chapter and received the Silver Trout Award trophy.
We've been very fortunate to have gained a number of new active members over the years, and our membership at present stands at well over 100. We hope to see in the coming years a continued influx of active members and more attendance at our monthly meetings held the second Tuesday of the month except during June and July. Our August meeting is a summer picnic. Our Board meetings are also open to the public. They are held the first Tuesday of every month.
We would encourage each of our members to think about becoming more active in some of our programs. It would be nice to see some new faces at our activities.
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Because animal behavior scientist Danielle Lee is helping to save lives with giant landmine-sniffing rats — while shaking up the notion of who does science.
By Melissa Pandika
Danielle Lee hates bugs but adores rats — supersized, 3-foot-long rats.
An animal behavior scientist at Cornell University, Lee investigates whether African giant pouched rats display behavioral syndromes, or "personalities," that can be explained by genetic factors. These oversized rodents have the amazing ability to sniff out deadly landmines — and unlike dogs, rats don't bond with their trainers, making them easy to transfer and handle. Knowing whether desirable personality traits, like obedience, are linked to certain genes means scientists can selectively breed rats that express them. "We can put together a pedigree of amazing landmine detection rats," Lee says.
Lee also observes the landmine-sniffing rat program in Tanzania, gaining crucial information about how to raise them, such as the best cages and lighting conditions to use. Her research could help save as many as 20,000 of the lives lost in landmine explosions each year, and reinvigorate economies by freeing millions of acres of landmine-ridden land for farming and development.
Becoming a scientist meant I no longer had to wait for someone to give me the answer.
— Danielle Lee
But Lee is also on a mission to boost the number of minorities in science. At the The Urban Scientist, hosted at the Scientific American Blog Network, she blogs about her own research, STEM diversity and what she calls "science you can see in your backyard" — from camel crickets to crabapple trees — even in the inner city.
Lee argues that including more minorities in science would bring the expertise needed to tackle environmental injustice, housing disparities and other problems in underserved neighborhoods. And it might make science more empathetic, ending the days of ivory-tower types researching these communities and then abandoning them.
At a Q&A session hosted by OZY in Oakland, Calif., Lee took the stage in killer orange pumps, a red silk hibiscus flower tucked in her hair. She spoke evocatively about her childhood, every now and then letting out a throaty laugh that seemed to bubble up from deep inside her.
Raised in South Memphis, Tenn., where her mother worked at the local parks, Lee loved hunting for four-leaf clovers. Every summer, she spent hours prowling through the grass, her clothes sweaty and streaked green. Soon, she started to make her own scientific "discoveries." She realized that clovers often clustered near sprightly white flowers — clover flowers — which in turn, attracted honeybees. So she used clover flowers and honeybees as clues for where to find the coveted lucky charms.
Lee made more sobering discoveries about the socioeconomic divide, commuting from her apartment — where four generations of her family lived — to a college prep school across town. Dreaming to be middle-class, Lee majored in animal science at Tennessee Technological University, where she studied to become a veterinarian.
But Lee never earned more than a C in her biology and chemistry classes. And she was rejected from veterinary school three years in a row.
A Belgian NGO known as APOPO is already training these rats to detect landmines in Tanzania, Mozambique, Thailand, Angola and Cambodia.
Nontheless, she kept reapplying while earning a master's degree in vertebrate biology at the University of Memphis, until a professor encouraged her to turn a paper she wrote into a real-life research project. She did — and was hooked. For years, she had vexed her professors with questions, never satisfied with their answers. "Becoming a scientist meant I no longer had to wait for someone to give me the answer," she said.
That summer, Lee got a phone call from her first-choice veterinary school. After some small talk, the professor asked her to send her most recent grades to complete her application.
Lee's mind went blank. And then it hit her — "I completely forgot that I had applied." Confused, the professor told her she stood a "very good" chance of being accepted. But the budding scientist had found her calling. "No, thank you. I'm going to be a researcher," she told him, and hung up.
She used rap songs to teach evolutionary biology concepts to inner-city youth.
Lee earned her Ph.D. in biology from the University of Missouri-St. Louis in 2010. Her dissertation challenged current methods for studying animal personalities. Personality traits are often given labels meant to reflect animals' emotional state (such as bold versus shy), which can be biased and hard to measure. Lee proposed labeling these traits based on observations of how prairie voles behaved in a single situation — in this case, the exploration of a new environment — coming up with traits such as "reactive" versus "proactive."
"Her research has the potential for greatly affecting how people think about animal personalities," said Zuleyma Tang-Martinez, Lee's former Ph.D. advisor and a biology professor at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. The problem is that Lee has yet to publish her dissertation. "She is slow in getting her data published," Tang-Martinez notes, but adds that Lee is also "incredibly busy on a variety of different activities."
Especially blogging, which Lee started as a Ph.D. student. For one of her first blogs, "Southern Playalistic Evolution Music," she used rap songs to teach evolutionary biology concepts to inner-city youth. She explained nuptial gifts — twigs, seed tufts and other tokens that males give females during courtship — with Kanye West's Gold Digger.
Sure, she's a self-described "hip-hop maven" who loves bumping Eric B. & Rakim and Drake. "But I'm also hip-hop from a cultural view," she said. "I can be confrontational and no-nonsense even with the powers that be." Like last October, when she declined a Biology Online editor's request to blog for free, and he responded by calling her an "urban whore." She wrote a post about the incident at The Urban Scientist — which Scientific American deleted, without informing her.
"I was hurt because science prides itself in being welcoming to everyone," Lee says. "Science has no color."
Despite making up 26% of the U.S. population, African-Americans, Latinos and Native-Americans accounted for 10% of STEM employees in 2010.
Today, Lee is analyzing data on how African giant pouched rats respond to unfamiliar food. She'll continue running behavioral experiments in her lab at Cornell and expects to begin genetic analyses next year.
Lee also observes how the rats live in their natural environment: the Tanzanian savannah. She lays out traps and notes the sex, weight, size and other characteristics of the rats she captures. Out in the savannah, Lee is afraid of only one thing — yup, bugs. Swarms of shear-jawed driver ants, to be precise. "If I set my traps and I see driver ants, oh no — I will turn around and go away," she says. Otherwise, the ants will most definitely pick the trapped animal's bones clean.
What's next? Lee envisions herself as a media personality who also does research and outreach. One day, she hopes to host her own backyard biology TV show — or write science-themed sketch comedy for SNL. The stars may very well be aligned, with the recent launch of Neil deGrasse Tyson's Cosmos and Discovery Channel delivering its highest viewership in 12 years in 2013.
Landmine-sniffing rats, hip-hop and a dorky sense of humor? Get ready to watch, DVR and repeat.
- Melissa Pandika, Melissa Pandika is a lab rat-turned-journalist with an eye to all things science, medicine and more. Likes distance running, snails, late-night Korean BBQ + R&B slow jams.Contact Melissa Pandika


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KOKOMO, Ind. — One Indiana University Kokomo criminal justice majors puts what he's learned in the classroom into practice, as an intern with the U.S. Marshals in Indianapolis.
Twice a week, Cody Summers assists marshals at the Federal Courthouse as they transport inmates from prison to court and back, organizing and filing cases, cleaning out evidence storage, writing search warrants, and performing other tasks.
"This has confirmed my career choice," said Summers, a senior from Peru. "I see first hand how federal officers work, what kinds of jobs they do, and what the day to day job is like. Talking to them, I see that I have the same attitude they have. They want to be able to help people, and protect the community from criminals, which is what I want to do also.
He credits Beau Shine, acting assistant professor of criminal justice, for helping him find the internship.
"A lot of the professors here have those kinds of connections, to help make these opportunities possible," he said. "I was surprised and excited to be an intern with the U.S. Marshals."
Shine said criminal justice faculty collaborates with law enforcement agencies to make these internship opportunities available to students.
"We have a vision of bridging the gap between theory and practice," he said. "Each of us works to connect with agencies and businesses that can provide our students the opportunity to apply what they learn in our classrooms to real-world settings."
With a goal of a career in federal law enforcement, Summers likes getting a realistic look at what the job entails, rather than how marshals are portrayed in movies and television.
"People glamorize what they do," he said. "I don't think it's as fast-paced as people think. It's not gun slinging, chasing bad guys throughout the city. A lot of it is judicial security and getting search warrants and tracking people down."
Summers also participated in IU Kokomo's honors program, and said his criminal justice faculty helped him add individual projects to his classes to make it more rigorous, for his honors degree. For one of those projects, he interviewed detectives at the Indiana State Police Post in Peru.
"I got to meet a lot of cool people I don't know that I would have been able to meet without my IU Kokomo connection," he said.
After graduating in May, he plans to earn a master's degree in criminal justice, and then apply for a federal law enforcement job, such as the F.B.I. or U.S. Marshals. He hopes the internship gives him a competitive edge when he applies.
"It's being part of something that's bigger than you are," he said. "They have a more broad-based goal applying criminal justice at the federal level. The more wide geographical aspect of it interests me too."
For Summers, law enforcement is more than a career — it's a calling.
"It was a call to service feeling," he said. "My dad was a police officer for almost 10 years, and I have always looked up to him. The decision was a combination of really digging deep to figure out what I wanted to do, and my dad as a role model, that made me realize law enforcement was the path."
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Now that I'm working out more, what should I eat? What's the best post workout meal? Should you drink a shake? I want to eat right but I don't want to be the one weirdo that isn't eating with everyone else. I get asked these question a lot. In an effort to keep it simple, I always suggest protein and green veggies need to be staples in your diet, but sometimes that isn't enough. We need examples of what a day should look like; a day with a workout and a day without.
First let's take a look at portions. Should you count your calories? Weigh your food? How much of each macro (carb, protein, and fat) should you get at each meal? And doesn't it vary for each person? I mean logically a 130lb female wouldn't eat as much protein as a 250lb male. Fortunately there's a very simple method that everyone can do and doesn't take any time or calorie counting. Use your hand! Women, your protein source can be measured with the palm of your hand. Your vegetables are measured with your fist, carbs should equal your cupped hand, and fats are the size of your entire thumb. Men, simply double those recommendations. For weight loss, simply cut the carb portions in half and increase your veggies. Check out the picture below for reference.
Second, do these recommendations change depending on your activity level? Yes. I always suggest people eat one of their largest meals post-workout. During your chosen activity you've beaten the muscle down and it needs more protein to repair itself, so start by upping the protein. As for your other meals during the day, that depends on your goals. If body fat loss is your goal then increase your veggies for the rest of your meals, and lower your carbs. Remember, you can NEVER eat too many veggies. Take a look at the pictures below for reference.
Using myself as an example, my typical day looks like this:
5:20am- coffee and head to work
7:00am- strength workout
8:00am- breakfast; 3 eggs with ham, cheese, and guac, and oatmeal with berries
10:30am- snack; nuts and a banana
1:00pm- maybe a run or swim depending on the day
2:00pm- lunch; chicken burrito with cheese, black beans, veggies, rice, and guac
4:30pm- snack; nuts and plain yogurt with fruit
7:00pm- dinner; grilled hamburger patty, green beans, rice
You'll notice a couple things; first, I typically strength train on an empty stomach. Don't read into this… it just works for me. Second, my breakfast is generally higher in fats (eggs, cheese, and guac). This is because I know I'll only get a small snack mid-morning then possibly a run or a swim, and again I prefer to have a relatively empty stomach. Third, my lunch is pretty filling, this is by design. It refuels me after a swim as well as gets me through my afternoon without making me "Hangry". Finally, my dinner is heavy on protein with minimal carbs. I've eaten enough startchy carbs during the day but still need some to help me feel full so I can sleep well. On my non-training days generally I'll follow the same format but my 3 main meals will be smaller. Through trial and error I've learned I need to consume more fats to keep me full longer. I also learned sugars, ie; treats, table sugar, sodas, and snacks, simply don't work for me.
Here's the thing, if you want something bad enough you'll do what it takes to make it happen. If you fail to plan, then plan to fail. Take a look at my typical day of eating and training and now toss in 8-10 hour work days (training clients, business meetings, etc.), and being a present father and husband. Just understand, your dietary woe's aren't a product of you not having enough time; you just haven't made it a priority.
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Round up the usual suspects
(MoneyWatch) How many prospects are there for what you sell? I don't know, but there are 7 billion suspects. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, last spring the population of the planet hit 7 billion.
Before they can be leads, they've got to be suspects.
That reminds me of one of the greatest movie lines of all-time, from the 1942 classic Casablanca. Set during World War II, the film focuses on a night club owner (Humphrey Bogart) who must choose between his love for a woman and helping her Czech Resistance leader husband escape from the Vichy French-controlled Moroccan city of Casablanca to continue his fight against the Nazis.
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In the film's climax, a Nazi major, tipped off by the Vichy police chief, drives up alone to an airfield to stop the resistance leader and his wife from flying to freedom. Bogart fatally shoots the Nazi officer when he tries to intervene. When his men arrive, the Vichy police captain pauses, then tells his men to "round up the usual suspects."
So who are the usual suspects you need to round up?
The world of potential buyers is like a miner's sieve; you're panning for the gold nuggets. And to find them, you've got to pound through a whole lot of sand.
The first step is to find the names, addresses and phone numbers of people who you suspect might become a client. This database will become the cornerstone of your marketing outreach efforts.
As much as it hurts when you want to ramp up quickly, you'll need to build your e-mail list from the ground up. Unsolicited e-mail is called "Spam," and as its density increases all over the Internet, so does the level of hostility and frustration about it -- in legislators, regulators and, maybe more important, in the minds of the very prospects you're trying to woo and win.
Resist buying those email lists. Never send a "blast" email to suspects you haven't met, or who haven't somehow given you permission to send them email. You'll do more harm than good.
Which means while you are building that opt-in email list, you need to mail and call to a database.
Research from direct mail powerhouse firms like Harte Hanks shows that 50 percent of the success of the lead generation efforts depend on this first step.
Once you've obtained all this information, it's time to organize and manage it; you have options. You might need to explore the capabilities of such software as MS Excel, MS Access, ACT and/or Goldmine or go with an online app like salesforce.com.
There are many outlets from which you may purchase direct mail and telephone lists.
Trade associations and professional groups
National vendors like InfoUSA, Hoovers, Dun & Bradstreet, and Harte-Hanks
Strategic partners who sell complementary services
Industry shows you attend that publish attendee lists
and on and on...
The database must be maintained if it's going to do you any good, and one person in your organization should update it as mail gets returned or phone calls with corrective information are received.
To populate, think of those companies with whom you would like to do business. If you're in the fast food restaurant industry, for example, that might be the royals: Burger King, Dairy Queen and Jack-in-the-Box. But it's extraordinarily difficult to start with one of those companies. You may have to work your way up to them.
Regardless of your business, there is a mega opportunity for you somewhere. Those are the suspects you need to be considering. Pick your ultimate target. Make it a company that is big in size and big in name. There is nothing wrong with making it the richest family in town or one of the top 100 companies in the world. The suspects are yours to envision and name.


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A minor is a secondary area of study from your major or specific degree program. Although it is not a requirement for graduation, a minor provides a significant opportunity to "specialize" in a particular area or niche of your broader industry and gives you a way to pursue your interests in a field other than your major.
In addition, a minor shows future employers or graduate school admissions committees the diversity of your interests and skills; therefore, you might want to think about your future goals when choosing a minor. For example, if you are a Health Sciences major, a concentration in Urban Yoga or Health Care Management will go a long way to increase your marketability after graduation. Likewise, non-Health Professions students who are passionate about fitness and the multi-billion dollar sports industry with a Sport Management minor.
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Cape Town - Eskom executive support manager Anton Minnaar has told Parliament's inquiry into state capture that former Eskom CEO Brian Molefe was well worth his R30m pension payout, as he helped defeat load shedding.
Minnaar was the first witness to give evidence at the inquiry on Tuesday.
Asked whether he believed that Molefe should have been given a R30m payout after 18 months at the power utility, Minnaar said it depended on the performance of the individual.
Minnaar said that Molefe managed to break the back of load shedding under his watch.
"If he can stop load shedding, I will pay him," Minnaar said.
The committee will later hear evidence from the Eskom board and the power utility's controversial suspended chief financial officer Anoj Singh.
The question of Molefe's pension payout has been a recurring theme at the inquiry.
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SEOUL, South Korea, March 1, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Recently, JW Plastic Surgery Center reports the result of its survey on client satifaction in 2017. Based on 'Patient Satisfaction Survey 2017' conducted by the JW Research team, 93 among the 100 patients who took the survey responded that their self-confidence level hugely improved after the surgery, compared to that before the surgery. One patient that participated in the survey said, "The results are well worth the expense and I feel I just find something valuable for myself with high self-satisfaction." South Korea is regarded as the Mecca of cosmetic surgery, and there are many plastic surgery clinics. Without a single accident happened, JW has survived in the past 18 years in one spot among more than 400 plastic surgery clinics in Apgujeong area — the center of plastic surgery in Gangnam, Seoul.
JW Plastic Surgery Center has won recognition and received awards from numerous organizations such as the Korea Tourism Organization, Gangnam Medical Tour, the Seoul Metropolitan Government, and Medical Korea throughout its 18-year service since 1999. JW Plastic Surgery Center has seven board-certified plastic surgeons, each specializing in a particular field with more than 18 years of clinical experience. Due to the surgery skills and their services, the surgeons are well-known to K-pop stars and celebrities. They come to JW for plastic surgery, skin treatments, and facial improvements. Foreign doctors from United States of America, Thailand, Singapore, etc., attended JW's training program to receive its highly sought certification. As the center of Korea's medical tourism, JW received an enormous amount of international media attention such as BBC and TF1 news to report its success. Many patients from overseas come all the way to JW Plastic Surgery Center Korea to enhance their beauty or to fix their problems from their previous plastic surgery performed by other surgeons.
Ever since the country's Ministry of Health has allowed local clinics to treat foreign patients, it is estimated that thousands of people from around the world travel to Korea every year to get plastic surgery. To cater to the needs of foreign patients, JW has in-house translator services which can help foreign patients in English, Chinese, Vietnamese, Russian, and Thai. Patients can also meet friendly staffs, even doctors can kindly explain how they can help or improve patients' looks with very professional and impressive skills. Han, who is a global marketing manager in JW said, "If there is someone who can look after you during the whole surgery time and speak your language, you will feel much comfortable and less nervous. That is why JW Plastic Surgery Center Korea has in-house translator services to provide the most comfortable medical care."
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In the processing of legal transactions, I will gladly take on the role of trustee for you. This will ensure the fulfilment of reciprocal rights and duties between you and your contract partners. As a member of the electronic Trust Register (eATHB), I keep the trustee funds entrusted to me exclusively in the trust accounts specially secured for this purpose. Allocation via these accounts can only occur after the "Seal of Approval" by the Bar Association of Vienna has been granted.
Upon request, I can consult and support you in your debt recovery. To achieve a high rate of collection, I work with an individually designed enforcement concept, in which the daily work processes are standardized as widely as possible. This does guarantee you low costs in addition to low legal administrative expenses.


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Because leaders send strong ripples into their social environment, they have a powerful effect on other people's levels of resilience.
Resilient and self-regulated leaders have a big impact on our collective resilience! For this reason, working one-on-one with senior leaders is a personal passion.
On a limited basis, I work with leaders who want to widen their own window in order to boost their organization's resilience, innovation, creativity, collaboration, and purpose. These men and women are ready to explore the "big picture" and become better bosses, colleagues, and partners. For instance:
- Are you looking for new ways to be more resilient and capable of navigating change, challenge, and uncertainty?
- Are you too busy "putting out fires" or micro-managing others to focus on what's most important for your own (or your organization's) strategic goals and growth?
- Are your subordinates apathetic, resentful, defensive, disrespectful, or stressed out?
- Do you avoid difficult discussions and conflict? Can you handle feedback, or do you take it personally?
- Do you spend a lot of time and energy managing others' reactivity?
- Can you set boundaries?
- Is your own self-care and inner balance always the last thing to receive attention?
Sessions include guided exercises and tools to achieve insight, hone intentionality, and develop new habits. You'll learn how to prioritize long-term goals, speak truth skillfully, deepen relationships, and tap into new internal energy resources. We'll dive deeply into conversations that you rarely have with others. I'll help you achieve beneficial and lasting positive outcomes—both for yourself and your organization.
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The decision of the Irish Episcopal Conference to establish a special Fund to be known as "Trocaire", for works of social assistance especially in developing countries, is a most worthy initiative. On the eve of its inauguration we are pleased to tell you how highly we regard the undertaking, coming as it does at a time when we are making an appeal to the entire Church to be sensitive and responsive to the needs of mankind.
By instituting this Fund, the Irish Church is giving further expression to that concern which, according to the Gospel, Christians must have for their brothers and sisters in need. It is by no means the first time that your people have demonstrated such concern: on several recent occasions they have shown themselves most generous in relief works. Every year, moreover, they willingly contribute in various ways to the missions. But it will indeed be most praiseworthy if while continuing their commitment to the missions and without lessening in any way their much needed support for the works of the Propagation of the Faith, the Catholics of Ireland can also maintain a new agency that has funds readily available for a variety of other human needs. In this way their desire to render loving service will become all the more operative.
Furthermore since it is the nature of all social organizations to exercise a formative influence upon the community which creates them, Trocaire can be valuable not only because of its material contribution towards human betterment, but also because of the spiritual influence it can have upon the Irish people themselves, and especially upon the younger generation, by fostering ever greater good will and love towards others. The law of Christian maturity demands that we lose ourselves in concern for others. One must not wait until all problems at home are solved before beginning to address oneself to those of the neighbour. In fact an awareness of the immensity of the tasks and problems of progress which face humanity as a whole can stir individuals to work more seriously for progress in their own society.
We pray for the success of this courageous enterprise undertaken in the name of Jesus Christ. May it serve both as an inspiration to your people and as an example to others of that fraternity and solidarity which is especially necessary at this time. May it be indeed an effective expression of the Christian virtues of justice, compassion and love.
To you, to your brother bishops, and to all associated in the founding and support of Trocaire we cordially impart our Apostolic Blessing.
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How much work has been done in vehicular communication systems?
While commuting daily in my Car I get annoyed at my inability to inform other commuters about how rashly or indecently they drive. But, I cannot communicate with them as it is inefficient and probably unrealistic to stop them amid the highway in rush hours and jeopardize myself by throwing such a blunt comments.
But, if I cannot do this then, I always think, can my car do this and talk with the passing car? I just started looking something related with "vehicular communication" on internet and found people are really working on it. I am not sure about the viability and possibility of this theme but I want to do comprehensive study of this field. I am professional and also doing my Masters in Electrical engineering. So, if I get some help on how much work has been done and what are the prospects of it then it will help me to select this field as my research thesis due to get Masters degree. Most importantly, it will be a field near to my interest.


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The new moon offers a short span of rich opportunity to imprint your etheric field with a blueprint that harmonizes with you. Being very detailed with the seed you plant doesn't have to be done in a scramble, however. If you plan in advance during other moon phases, you can successfully implement the ideal etheric framework as soon as the new moon peaks out from the indigo blanket of night.
There are a myriad of methods for working with the waxing moon's drawing energy, but the following are particularly useful for the planting of new thought seeds in particular.
- Create A Sigil
A sigil is a configuration of symbols that describe the energy pattern you're creating.
If your aim is to plant a new moon seed that increases prosperity consciousness, you can put together an image of a crown made of gold bars. Balance it with positive symbols, such as stars, and consider what kind of foundation the crown sigil will use. Perhaps a good symbolic foundation can be found in a symbol that best represents the work you do – or hope to do. Other sigils can be more cryptic and include highly stylized variations of symbols – including even letters and numbers that represent the intent being seeded into the etheric field for manifestation on the material earth plane.
- Utilize Affirmations
Your affirmations will charge the sigil with intention and imbue it with the force specific to each moon phase as seen in the following examples:
New Moon Affirmation:
e.g. "I celebrate my wealth and my prosperity consciousness is expansive."
Your new moon affirmation is in line with the thought seed you're planting in your etheric field. Repeating this affirmation during the new moon phase will act as a kind of sunlight for the seed. The warm feelings you project onto the seed will act as the water it requires and the astral "earth" its planted in.
Full Moon Affirmation:
e.g. "My prosperity consciousness is supercharged."
The full moon affirmation will act as a supercharging of energy toward your new moon thought seed. Gather a lot of energy through meditation or watch highly inspirational videos if you can. It's an excellent way to maximize the moon's powerful energy at this time.
Waning Moon Affirmation:
eg. "My poverty consciousness is gone."
The waning moon affirmation should approach your objective by focusing on banishing and diminishing blockages and unjust interruptions of the flow of energy to your end goal.
- Create A Battery
A battery can take the form of a crystal, a specific symbol ( like the sun or moon), a charm that is symbolic, and even a buzz word. Your objective will be to sit with the battery everyday for as much time as you can give it while you wait for the first buds of your manifestation to emerge. The battery will specifically "charge" your sigil with the energy it needs to repel corrupt interference like projected confusion and even doubt.
The best ways to charge your battery are to sit it in sunlight for yang energy (projective, fire/air energy), moonlight for yin energy (receptive, water/earth energy), or both. Once your battery is charged, sit it on top of (or under) your sigil whenever you're not recharging the battery itself. Also, hold the battery while you repeat your daily affirmations for increased effectiveness. The new moon and full moon are great times to charge a battery.
Seeding an etheric imprint is work. If you give it the time and attention it requires without giving up or giving in to doubt, you will experience results. Sometimes new moon seeds show their first shoots in the mental plane by improving attitude and increasing a sense of optimism toward your goal. Gives thanks for the beginnings of the successful blooming of your etheric seed in the manifest earth plane no matter how small results may seem.


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Detainees were severely beaten with various objects including electric cables, machetes and wooden sticks," suspended from poles and subjected to drowning. The report added that many were deprived of food, water and medical attention
An inquiry team has been launched to investigate the allegation that Cameroonian troops were tortured and murdered at a US troop base. The call was made by amnesty international who is reported to have documented over 80 cases of Cameroonian abuse at the base in Salak, Cameroon's Far North region between 2013 and 2017.
The act was carried against people suspected to be supporters of the Boko Haram insurgents.
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Amnesty International revealed that US troops would be stationed at the Salak base, headquarter of Rapid Intervention Battalion, BIR.
Col. Mark Cheadle, spokesman for US Africa Command said a commander's inquiry has been launched to determine if any U.S. troops were aware of the alleged abuses.
The Cameroon government has however criticized the Amnesty international report.
Most cases investigated by Amnesty International involved men between 18 to 45 years old, though the group documented the maltreatment of some women, children and people with mental and physical disabilities.
Henriettas Lounge reports that several people interviewed confirmed they had witnessed deaths after torture. Boko Haram's insurgency has killed more than 20,000 people and displaced 2.7 million in northeastern Nigeria and neighboring countries of Cameroon, Chad and Niger.


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Access to education is a good reason to move to the Twin Cities. We have worked with many college grads who have moved to the area for school and decided to stay because the Twin Cities is a great place to live. But for those who know it's a great place to live and need the stats on business reasons to stay – education is one of them.
MinnPost recently ran an article on the latest federal scorecard tool that makes is easy to see how Twin Cities school rank. Turns out that the University of Minnesota is a good bet. Tuition is right about national average at $17,208 per year yet the graduation rate (74 percent) and salary after attending ($47,800) are both higher than national average.
Community college and for-profit schools did not fare as well…
Community colleges and private, for-profit schools account for the lowest graduation rates. At Minneapolis Community and Technical College, only 15 percent finished. Nineteen percent graduated from Century College. A dismal 12 percent completed degrees at the Twin Cities campus of the for-profit University of Phoenix — despite annual costs north of $20,000
But several of the area private schools scored well. University of St Thomas, University of St Catherine, Bethel, Hamline, Augsburg, Macalester all rank above average – to be fair for tuition as well as gradution percentage and post-graduate salaries.


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The next Rhode Island Robot Block Party is Saturday, April 4, 2020.
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Exhibitors, please pre order t-shirts before March 1.
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The Robot Block Party is a chance to demonstrate or exhibit the robots you use at home, work and while at play. Join more than 40 exhibitors including: Brown Human to Robots Lab, Igus, Providence Career and Tech Academy, Rhode Island Computer Museum, Roger Williams University, URI Graduate School of Oceanography, and many more. Whether you're a hobbyist with a cool project, a school, a community organization or a company, we welcome you to participate in this showcase of the best of Rhode Island's robotics community! Apply to be an exhibitor here.


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How to Save Money While Renewing Motor Insurance
With the recent trend booming of buying clothes, shoes, and household stuff online, the motor insurance certainly doesn't lag behind. But, is it better and affordable to renew motor insurance online?
As per Motor Vehicle Act 1988, any vehicle ridden or driven on Indian roads must be insured. Not only for our own safety and security, but also for the legal binding, we somehow manage to get our two-wheelers or cars insured in time. However, as the renewal date nears, we again rush to the insurer's office for renewing the car insurance.
But broadly, we Indians are catching up to the Digital India dream. With the number of cashless digital transactions, the e-commerce platform and advanced digital literacy, why should something as lateral, but important as motor insurance be any different?
So we find out the trendy way of how to renew car insurance online could be the new bee you should catch up to.
It's quick!
Well car insurance is not as instant as the 10-sec Snapchats or 2-sec WhatsApp chats you send to your friends. But if you ask how to renew car insurance is quick, in its own word, doing it online is super quick! If you check online, every insurer has a separate page to renew car insurance. Trust me, it is the most convenient and user-friendly technique of checking quotes of different plans provided by different insurers. All you need to do is to simply log in to the insurer's website, fill the prescribed form completely with correct details and submit it instantly.
But, if you were not very sure for the first time to renew car insurance online, don't tense. You need not break your head by filling the details again on the website. Because you are a returning customer, your information could be stored already with the insurer's database. This is more convenient than filling forms offline and beyond that having physical interference.
How to Save Money While Renewing Car Insurance Online?
Renewing car insurance online would be the wisest decision because it could get you heaps of benefits and that too by saving your time and money.
- Safer payments:
Your payments are always processed securely through gateways when paid online. Any misconduct or loss of money is ruled out. You can easily track your payments online for failed transactions. All you need to have is a debit, credit or a net banking access.
- Better deals:
You may end up cracking a better deal if you spend some time researching and comparing quotes online. This deal could be as affordable and as best you were looking for! Besides, you have an option to check the customer reviews about the insurance company you wish to opt for.
- Easy rectifications:
If you wish to make any change in the policy, the hassle of getting it done physically is too complicated. You lose out on your time, money and energy. But to renew car insurance online, you just need an endorsement. Getting the endorsements done online is very easy compared to offline.
- Compare quotes:
By comparing quotes of multiple insurers online, you can rule out the lengthy process of visiting the insurer personally. You can compare quotes of different insurers and short-list the most affordable one thereby saving your time, money and energy. For instance, you can also visit online insurance portals like Coverfox.com who would give you heaps of options and make your life easier.
- Hassle-free after-sales services:
If you renew car insurance online, you will receive timely reminders via SMS and for renewal before expiry.
Now, I am sure you are convinced that two wheeler insurance online renewal is better and convenient. Why make physical trips to the insurance companies or agents and waste your precious time when you can get amazing deals online.


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Indian racing driver Karun Chandhok on Monday confirmed his drive in the FIA GT Series in a last minute deal for Seyffarth Racing.
The former Formula 1 driver will be joined in the car by Jan Seyffarth, who has been competing in the German GT series for his family run team.
Chandhok joins Armaan Ebrahim, who became the first Indian driver to be confirmed in the FIA GT 1 World Series. Ebrahim signed a full one-year contract with BMW Sports Trophy — Team India GT 1 Team.
The newly-reformed FIA GT Series includes six rounds with the first race taking place in Nogaro, France April 1. Chandhok will join Ricardo Zonta as the only two former F1 driver's on the grid, alongside nine-time rally champion Sebastien Loeb.
Chandhok said, "I am very happy to have secured a last minute deal to drive in the FIA GT Series. I tested the car last week and it seems fun to drive but we will never know our true pace till the first race. I would like to thank Stephane Ratel (Series Promoter) and Rr Seyffarth (Team Principal) for making this happen on such short notice."
Chandhok also confirmed that he is close to securing a drive for the prestigious Le Mans 24hrs, where he finished in sixth last year. Chandhok raced in the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) last year with JRM and was poised to continue with the team when they had to pull out due to financial reasons.
"I really enjoyed last year with JRM in WEC and finishing sixth at Le Mans was easily one of the highlights of my racing career along with racing at Monaco and winning the GP2 race in Spa. I am close to signing with an LMP2 team for the Le Mans 24hrs and can't wait to go race again over there. However, for now my focus will be on the FIA GT Series," he added.
Leading car manufacturer's have confirmed their entry for the 2013 FIA GT Series. The entry list includes Ferrari, BMW, Mercedes, Aston Martin, Audi, Lamborghini, McLaren, Ford and Porsche. The new look series starts with 26 GT cars.
Each FIA GT Series race weekend consists of two races over a weekend and will have two free practice sessions of 80 minutes each which will take place Friday. Qualifying involves a knock-out system similar to Formula 1, in which three sessions are held and following each session, the slowest cars are eliminated and their grid positions set.
The first race of each weekend is a qualifying race, the results of which determine the starting grid for the second race awarding full championship points. Each car is required to change tyres and drivers at least once during each race. The points system for the series sees the top 10 finishers in the second race earning points and only the top three finishers in the qualifying race earn points.


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Singer-songwriter Christopher Cross said he experienced some "come-to-Jesus" moments during his recent battle with COVID-19 that left him paralyzed and in intensive care for 10 days.
Cross, 69, a five-time Grammy Award winner noted for his hits "Sailing" and "Ride Like the Wind," talked about his experiences with Serena Altschul in an interview that will air this weekend on "CBS Sunday Morning," Variety reported.
Cross called his battle "the darkest days of my life."
"There was some, you know, come-to-Jesus moments or whatever, where I was looking for any help I could get to through this, to get out of this thing," Cross said. "Because I wasn't sure."
Cross first announced he had the coronavirus in April. He said he contracted the virus, along with his girlfriend, after a trip to Mexico City, People reported.
"It was the worst 10 days of my life," Cross recalled. "And I couldn't walk, could barely move. And so, it was certainly the darkest of times for me. It really was touch and go, and tough."
The couple was sick for three weeks. After feeling better, Cross went to a supermarket, but when he got home his legs gave out, Variety reported.
He was later diagnosed with Guillain-Barre syndrome, which caused his body to attack his nerves.
Cross said his doctors believed it was caused by COVID-19, according to People.
Cross said the paralysis was temporary, but he still needs a cane to get around.
"My walking is affected," Cross told Altschul. "My speech at times can be affected. Memory is a big deal, too. Just neurologically, I'm kind of a little foggy. You know? Now I'm on medication … a nerve pain medication, which also can cause some fogginess. But until I can get off it at some point, I won't know how clear I would be. But most people with Guillain-Barre heal about 90% to 100% over about a year. That's what my prognosis is."
Cross said he wanted to share his story to educate others about the virus, People reported.
"I'm not a big celebrity, but it's important for people to know you can get this disease," Cross told Altschul. "I felt it was my obligation to share with people," he said. "'Look, this is a big deal. Like, you've got to wear your mask. You've got to take care of each other. Because this could happen to you.'"
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