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Anglia Ruskin University academic leads research into causes of vision lossNew data published in The Lancet Global Health shows that decades of declining "avoidable blindness" – uncorrected refractive error and cataract – is plateauing, and is projected to increase between 2015 and 2050.
"Our study shows that in 2015, cataract and uncorrected refractive error accounted for 77% of the MSVI burden and 55% of blindness worldwide. Even in high income areas, preventable issues make up the majority of cases. Urgent action is called for to address this and provide adequate eye care services across the world.
"We are very supportive of the Vision Atlas initiative by the IAPB – this means the results of this scientific effort are now of practical value to everyone in supporting efforts to highlight, prevent, treat or rehabilitate those with vision loss in all countries."
"The disturbing loss increase in numbers of people with vision loss worldwide show that our efforts at preventing vision loss are being eroded by an increasing and ageing global population. We believe the IAPB Vision Atlas will be an effective tool in understanding these trends and advocating for an increased commitment to eye health. The Atlas will help make vision count."


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Ratio and Proportion Questions
A bag contains an equal number of one rupee, 50 paise and 25 paise coins respectively. If the total value is Rs35, how many coins of each type are there?
A bag contains rupee, 50-paise and 25-paise coins in the ratio 5:7:9. If the total amount in the bag is Rs430, find the number of coins of each kind.
One man adds 5litres of water to 15litres of milk and another 6litres of water to 12litres of milk. What is the ratio of the strength of milk in the two mixtures?
Two vessels contain equal quantity of mixtures of milk and water in the ratio 3:2 and 4:1 respectively. Both the mixtures are now mixed thoroughly. Find the ratio of milk to water in the new mixture so obtained.
The contents of two vessels containing water and milk are in the ratio 1:2 and 2:5 are mixed in the ratio 1:4. The resulting mixture will have water and milk in the ratio-
The sum of three numbers is 98. If the ratio between the first and second be 2:3 and that between the second and third be 5: 8, then find the second number.
In 44litres of milk and water the ratio of milk and water is 6:5. How much water should be added to the mixture so that the ratio of milk to water becomes 2:3?
A mixture contains milk and water in the ratio of 9:4. On adding 4litres of water, the ratio of milk to water becomes 3:2. Find the total quantity of the original mixture.
The ratio between two numbers is 3:4. If each number be increased by 4, the ratio becomes 5:6. Find the numbers.
Instead of walking along two adjacent sides of a rectangular field, a boy took a short cut along the diagonal and saved a distance equal to half of the longer side. Then the ratio of the shorter side to the longer side is:
(a) ½
(b) 2/3
(c) ¼
(d) ¾
Ajay, Bijay, Chinmaya and Dhananjaya bought a motor bike for Rs60,000. Ajay paid half of the sum of the amounts paid by the other boys, Bijay paid one-third of the sum of the amount paid by the other boys; and Chinmaya paid one-fourth of the sum of the amounts paid by one the other boys. How much did Dhananjaya has to pay?
None of these
A piece of string is 40 centimeters long. It is cut in to three pieces. The longest piece is 3 times as long as the middle sized and the shortest piece is 23 centimeters shorter than the longest piece. Find the length of the shortest piece.(in cm)
(b) 5
(c) 4
(d) 9
Fresh grapes contain 90% water by weight while dried grapes contain 20% water by weight. What is the weight of the dry grapes available from 20kg of fresh grapes?
(b) 2.4kg
(c) 2.5kg
(d) None of these
You can collect rubies & emeralds as many as you can. Each ruby is of Rs4 crore & each emerald is of Rs5crore. Each ruby weighs 0.3 kg and each emerald weighs 0.4kg. Your bag can carry at the most 12kg. What you should collect to get the maximum wealth?
(a) 20 rubies & 15 emeralds
(b) 40 rubies
(c) 28 rubies 9 emeralds
(d) None of these
A student gets an aggregate of 60% marks in five subjects in the ratio 10:9:8:7:6. If the passing marks are 50% of the maximum marks and each subject has the same maximum marks, in how many subjects did he pass the examination?
(a) 2
(b) 3
(c) 4
(d) 5
A dealer buys dry fruits at Rs100, Rs80 & Rs60 per kilogram. He mixes them in the ratio 3:4:5 by weight, and sells at a profit of 50%. At what price per kilogram does he sell the dry fruit?
(a) Rs80
(b) Rs100
(c) Rs95
(d) None of these
The cost of diamond varies directly as the square of its weight. Once, this diamond broke in to four pieces with weights in the ratio 1:2:3:4. When the pieces were sold, the merchant got Rs70,000 less. Find the original price of the diamond.
(b) Rs2lakh
(c) Rs1lakh
(d) Rs2.1lakh
A man buys spirit at Rs60 per litre, adds water to it and then sells it at Rs75 per litre. What is the ratio of spirit to water if his profit in the deal is 37.5%?
(a) 9:1
(b) 10:1
(c) 11:1
(d) None of these
From each of two given numbers, half the smaller number is subtracted. Of the resulting numbers the larger one is three times as large as the smaller. What is the ratio of the two numbers?
(b) 3:1
(d) None of these
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The smallest of the Tufa cities, Sovana is as beautiful and pristine as a movie set, but all the more enchanting because it's real.
This tiny town flourished as a haven for artists, poets and the religious – Sovana gave birth the Maremma's only pope – Pope Gregory VII.
It's a rare treat to walk the streets of Sovana where not even a flower is out of place and each house bears its own lovely hand-painted house number.
La Rocca
Sovana's fortress was built on the ruins of an Etruscan wall.
Today it's little more than ruin, but it has protected Sovana in one way or another for more than nine centuries and is still impressive despite its ruined state.


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Me + RA + Richard III – An Interview
Maria Grazia is visiting guest today at King Richard Armitage . This is a site supporting Richard Armitage's dream project of producing a Richard III TV series by signing a Petition.
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I was approached by another contractor asking me to give them a price on larger home in Minnesota. They wanted a ballpark price in 1 1/2 hours. They had worked weeks on the biding of this house and were still edgy about the final price. From what they showed me 2 different sets prints that were designed by an architect. The plans were poorly drawn as well as the traffic flow and design aspect of the print. In the details of the prints there is to be a cross elevation of different location of house to understand how the house is to be built. These pages were missing about 80% of the information. Leaving it up to the lumberyard as to the design of the building. Or in other words the architect drew a nice picture. The builder has to draw his own conclusions with no supporting data has to loads and wind resistance of the building. Back to the contractor, he has hundreds of sheets of papers from a bunch of sub contractors, with prices all over the board for the same job to being done. The lumberyard alone has had the print of the house for a month, and final estimate of the lumber bid is still a lure. Information from the contractor to the sub's was sketchy at best. The contractor had photo's of ideas what the owner's wanted but wasn't following the design of the photo's. This whole project is doomed for hurt feelings as well as the contractor will leave the job with a bad reputation.
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Box and Custom Cabinets
Box cabinets come in widths of 3 inch increments (12″, 15″, 18″, 21, 24, etc.) this means if your cabinet length is 5' 2 1/2" you will need a 2 1/2" filler section on the facing of your cabinets. Custom cabinets are custom fit with no filler sections and more useable storage.
With box cabinets you have face frame of 1 1/2" wide per box, when you join 2 boxes together it becomes 3" wide with a vertical seam between all the boxes. Custom cabinets have face frame of 1 1/2" –2" wide allowing more room for access as well as wider drawers.
Most box cabinets have a 1/8"-1/4" overhang on the face from the cabinet box. This makes it hard to put crown molding around the top of the cabinet, as well as toe shoe around the base cabinet. These box cabinets have no extra material to custom fit the boxes to the wall. There will be a gap between the back wall and the cabinet. If the person installing the cabinet followed the bow of the wall now the front face of the cabinets are no longer straight. Installing a counter top on these boxes will have to custom made to get a big enough overhang on the counter top to make it look good. If there is a bow in the wall this could be hidden with custom cabinets.
The only time a box cabinet looks above average is when it has a full over lay door covering most of the face frame.
All the quality in box cabinets is located in the appearance of the cabinet, not in the operation, structure, or functionality.


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What should a visitor see and do while in Chicago? It goes without saying that the Windy City has it all; from food, history, architecture, culture and beyond that it can often be hard to decide where to start. Why not tantalize all of your desires and senses with a 3 hour small- group walking food excursion lead by a professional guide? You'll indulge in 5-6 of Chicago's quintessential staples while feeding your mind with intriguing and rememberable tidbits along the way. Before you know it, you'll feel like a local. Make sure to come hungry, this tour offers more than enough to be considered lunch.
Get ready to take a stroll and taste some of the best foods Chicago's downtown has to offer! The Fabulous Quintessential Culinary Tour of Chicago explores Chicago's central business district, the Loop, home to many of Chicago's famous buildings, restaurants, and Millennium Park.
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There's something freeing about knowing for sure that your vote won't make a difference. You can vote your conscience and ignore strategic voting. (This only applies to 'done deal' ridings, where you know you can't matter.)
The Conservative candidate for Battle River—Crowfoot is showing on ThreeHundredEight.com as 100% likely to win the riding. Vote your conscience, you're off the hook.
So if your vote won't impact the outcome, what can you do?
Ali Kashani has found a way for Liberal and NDP supporters to cooperate in 16 specific ridings, tipping eight to the Liberals and eight to the NDP. Each of these ridings has a Conservative in front, a rival within striking distance, and a third party kingmaker who won't win, but could choose who does.
If you support Harper, encourage Liberal and NDP supporters to vote their conscience, split their vote and leave the election to the Conservatives.
If you'd rather not have another Harper government, encourage the Liberals and NDP to cooperate.
Vote Liberal in: Brampton Centre(ON), Northumberland—Peterborough South(ON), Vaughan–Woodbridge(ON) Saint John—Rothesay(NB), Aurora—Oak Ridges—Richmond Hill(ON), Bay of Quinte(ON), Haldimand—Norfolk(ON), King—Vaughan(ON).
Vote NDP in: Cariboo—Prince George(BC), Coquitlam—Port Coquitlam(BC), Edmonton Griesbach(AB), Regina—Qu'Appelle(SK), Jonquiere(QC), Essex(ON), Mission—Matsqui—Fraser Canyon(BC), North Okanagan—Shuswap(BC).
On election night, watch these swing ridings to see how things are going. No matter who wins, demand voter reform so that your vote will matter more next election, and help make strategic voting a thing of the past.
Originally published 2015-10-16.
Fairvote.ca is one option. There are lots of systems. They're almost all better than what we have now.


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Squadrons staff and Cadets can now access the Flying Scholarship PIP, that was created by Atlantic Region, on the Share Point. This PIP is a self-paced study program that will help guide cadets through their ground school studies, in preparation for the flying scholarship exam. The zip file is 198MB and therefore cannot be emailed. The file has been uploaded to SharePoint so staff can download to their CCO/Personal computers.
Cadets or other NON-COATS personnel can access this PIP on the File Repository. Click/Tap the link below, and follow the instructions to create an account.
File Repository:
How to access the File Repository
File Path:
Pacific Region SharePoint / Library / RCAOps / Squadron Groundschool / National Flying Scholarship Program Instruction Package


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Extraction: 100% natural ingredient obtained from sugarcane and approved by Ecocert. It is biodegradable, making it the perfect natural alternative to petroleum glycols.
Benefits: it is used in cosmetics as a moisturizing agent, solvent and emollient. Its sensory properties help reduce skin irritations. They also control viscosity.


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An unexpected highlight of this album is the surreal beauty of the artwork by David Cutter. The cover features terrapins with women's faces for shells, and the interior artwork illustrates scenes such as a tennis court garden of arms with racquets, a man squeezing water from himself, a handshake conducted by severed arms, and a literal beefhead.
Rating: 4.5 out of 5. This album is, for many, a high point of the band's career. If you are unfamiliar with The Beautiful South, give this record a listen. This record got me through high school in ways The Cure or Nine Inch Nails couldn't even begin to reach by lighting a path that would become well tred in the years to come: optimistic cynicism.
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Highest UK chart position: 4
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I was walking the dogs this morning, and ran across this car up the street.. Minnesota license plate '1RQ'.. I don't know anything that this could mean besides 'IRQ'.. a rather geeky concept.. what d'ya think? Is there another meaning? Inquiring minds and all!SAMSUNG
I think I found a fellow geek..
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- August 30, 2010 at 9:38 am
Possibly! Or another possibility is a cop.
"Often heard, as: "Can I get an RQ on …" Means: Registration Query. The deputy is asking the dispatcher to look up information about a car with Tennessee tags, or with nearby-state (MS, AR) tags as specified by the deputy. An RQ request is followed by the car's license plate."
Or, it could be a jumbled marking for the Predator drone, which is RQ 1 Predator…
Most likely it is the persons initials, with a "1" in front, because the other was taken.
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I Introduction
II Cannabis and Parenting
III Key Messages
IV Conclusion
V Resources
By Marie Brisson, Best Start Resource Centre
I Introduction
Cannabis use is increasing in Canada and it is presently the most commonly used illicit substance. This trend is concerning as most people lack awareness about its health risks. Use of cannabis is already played down and the upcoming legislation may further trivialize its use.
Consumption of dried cannabis for medical purposes has been permitted in Canada since 2001. The Access to Cannabis for Medical Purposes Regulations (ACMPR) has been in effect since August 2016.
Legalization of cannabis is expected to take place July 2018. Its legalization doesn't necessarily make it safe. Some provinces are asking to delay legislation of cannabis. There are numerous regulatory concerns when considering the impact of legalization from a public health and safety perspective in Canada -- for example, decisions about the precise course of action regarding legislation and distribution, recommended age of use, risk reduction strategies, medicinal use guidelines, awareness of the effects of cannabis use, key public messages, measuring cannabis impairment for drivers, marketing cannabis products, etc. With these upcoming legislative changes, research and best practices guide us in formulating key messages about the risks of cannabis.
This article will touch briefly about the use of cannabis pre and post pregnancy and when parenting. Using cannabis can have effects on health, learning, relationships, fertility, pregnancy and children.
In March 2017, the Best Start Resource Centre released the booklet Risks of Cannabis on Fertility, Pregnancy, Breastfeeding and Parenting. This resource summarizes the current knowledge about the effects of cannabis. It is available in print and PDF and is also available in French.
Key experts within Ontario and Canada provided input during the development of this resource. The booklet was focus tested with English- and French-speaking parents.
II Cannabis and Parenting
Parents' knowledge gap is worrisome, for example thinking that they drive or parent better while high.
The booklet Risks of Cannabis on Fertility, Pregnancy, Breastfeeding and Parenting presents the following facts based on research and best practices:
- Cannabis use may affect the ability to become pregnant.
- Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) crosses the placenta from the pregnant person to the fetus.
- For heavy cannabis users and for those who also use tobacco, cannabis may increase the risk of preterm birth.
- Effects on the fetus are lower birth weight, lower alertness, and slower growth of the new baby. The effects on the baby's developing brain may be lasting as the baby grows to adulthood.
- THC passes into breast milk and is taken into a baby's fat cells and brain. It can be stored for weeks.
- As a result of exposure to cannabis during pregnancy, a child may have difficulties with learning, behaviour, and mental health in later life. The effects of cannabis use during pregnancy are more common among children of heavier users.
- If a child eats cannabis it can make them very sick.
- There are risks in edible cannabis products because when growing and processing cannabis it can be exposed to molds, bacteria, heavy metals and pesticides.
- Being high while parenting can affect how you interact with your child. It can also affect your ability to judge, to make good decisions and to protect your child from danger. Feeling more relaxed and mellow can result in a slower reaction time and reduce your ability to attend to your child.
- Being high while driving slows your reaction time and your decision making skills. Driving at a slower speed does not make it safer for you, for those in the vehicle, or for others on the road. Cannabis use increases the risk of a collision.
There are different types of cannabis. The effects depend on the amount of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), Cannabidiol (CBD), other chemicals, and their interactions. The concentration of THC in cannabis increased from 1.5% in 1960 to 11% in 2014. Cannabis oils have the highest percentage of THC. The effects of heavy cannabis use (1 or more joints per day) can last for several weeks, and perhaps even for years after stopping use.
There is a possible association between heavy regular cannabis use and the risk of developing or worsening mental health symptoms. As well, for people -- such as those with a personal or family history of mood and anxiety disorders -- who are at high risk for mental health issues, the use of cannabis can make the illness and symptoms worse. In particular, there is a risk of a psychotic episode after cannabis use for those at risk.
There is increasing evidence that cannabis is harmful to brain development, especially if it is used before the age of 25 years.
Are the evidence-based interventions for preventing cannabis use flexible and responsive enough to change trends in cannabis use in those planning a pregnancy, those who are pregnant, and parents? As the potential medical benefits are being hyped by cannabis producers -- for example, claims that it helps morning sickness -- it's no wonder that youth and adults are confused about the safety of cannabis.
III Key Messages
Key messages from the booklet for parents-to-be and future parents include:
- There is no known safe amount of cannabis use in pregnancy and when breastfeeding. Abstinence is recommended.
- If you are unable to stop using cannabis completely, try using less and less often.
- If a child eats cannabis, get medical help right away.
- It may be risky to buy and use food products containing cannabis due to lack of regulation and inspection of the cannabis industry.
- If a parent is high, be sure that there is always someone available who is not high to take care of the child's needs.
- Cannabis impairs the ability to operate a motor vehicle safely. Never drive while impaired, with or without a child in the car.
- Keep learning about the effects of cannabis as new information becomes available. Discuss your ideas and concerns with your health care provider.
IV Conclusion
We can draw useful lessons from the experiences of other jurisdictions have legalized the use of cannabis. However, more research is needed about the impact of cannabis on child development; the long and short term impact of cannabis use during pregnancy, breastfeeding and when parenting; and the connection between cannabis use and mental health.
V Resources
Canada's Lower-Risk Cannabis Use Guidelines (LRCUG)
Lower-Risk Cannabis Use Guidelines for the public
Lower-Risk Cannabis Use Guidelines (LRCUG) for professionals
Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction
Clearing the Smoke on Cannabis series
Canadian Paediatric Society
Position Statement - Cannabis and Canada's children and youth
Ontario Public Health Association
The Public Health Implications of the Legalization of Recreational Cannabis - Position Paper
You can view the webinar recording of Perinatal Cannabis Use: Implications for Pregnancy, Lactation and Parenting presented by Dr Alice Ordean.
To stay current and learn about the current status of cannabis laws in Canada and the work being done to legalize and regulate it, refer to the government of Canada site.


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About the Graduate Record Examination (GRE)
Scores from the Graduate Record Examination, commonly referred to as the GRE, are considered by fellowship panels or admissions representatives of graduate schools as part of your grad school application, which also include undergraduate records, personal statements, and recommendation letters.
About the GRE
Because graduate and business school applicants may come from a wide range of cultural and educational backgrounds, the GRE was designed to assess candidates' qualifications for a fair and valid comparison. Test centers in more than 160 countries around the world offer the paper- or computer-based tests several times per year, and scores are internationally accepted at thousands of graduate and business schools. The GRE was revised in August of 2011 to incorporate new question types that are more relevant to skills needed to succeed in graduate and business school programs.
There are three sections within the GRE revised General Test: Verbal Reasoning, Quantitative Reasoning, and Analytical Writing. The Verbal Reasoning section contains three question types (Reading Comprehension, Test Completion, and Sentence Equivalence) and assesses your ability to understand written text and to apply your reasoning skills. Scores for the Verbal Reasoning section range from 130–170 in one-point increments. The Quantitative Reasoning section emphasizes data interpretation for real-life scenarios and is designed to measure your quantitative reasoning ability. Your score for the Quantitative Reasoning section range from 130–170 in one-point increments. Finally, in the Analytical Writing section, you will be given prompts that contain tasks instructing you to write focused responses to analyze an issue and to analyze an argument. Your responses to these two, separately-timed tasks of each prompt will demonstrate your abilities in direct response to a specific task. This section is scored from 0–6 in half-point increments. The total time it takes to complete the GRE is around 3 hours and 45 minutes, which serves secondarily as a measure of brain stamina. One group of multiple-choice questions on the test is not scored and allows test-makers to assess the validity and reliability of new questions that could possibly be incorporated into future exams.
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Welcome to my webpage! I am a fifth year PhD candidate in the Biostatistics Department at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. I am currently working with Drs. Franziska Michor, in the Biostatistics and Computational Biology (BCB) Department at Dana Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI), and Kevin Haigis, in the Cancer Research Institute at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. With Dr. Michor, I am developing mathematical models to characterize the response of various cancers to radiation, chemotherapy, novel targeted agents, immunotherapy, and combination therapies in order to predict optimal drug combinations, dosaging, and treatment scheduling. With Dr. Haigis, I am using organoids to study KRAS allele specific colorectal cancer evolution and response to drug treatment.
During the fall 2017 semester I rotated with Dr. Shirley Liu in the BCB Department at DFCI, during which I used RNAi and CRISPR knockdown screens to understand tumor progression and identify synthetic lethal gene pairs. During the fall 2016 semester I rotated in the Vidal Lab at the Center for Cancer Systems Biology at DFCI to identify mutations that affect interactions in protein-protein interaction networks.
As an undergraduate at UCLA, I worked under Dr. Yi Xing in the Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics Department. The goal of my project was to identify hidden splicing variants by mapping personal transcripts to personalized genomes, and was published in Nucleic Acids Research in 2015. In this paper we demonstrate that a personal genome approach to RNA-seq alignment enables the discovery of previously unknown splicing variations. One issue in RNA-seq alignment is that commonly used alignment algorithms rely on the consensus splice site dinucleotide motif to identify splice junctions. Therefore, if a genetic variant creates a novel splice site motif the resulting splice junctions reads are likely to be unmappable to the reference genome, causing the splice junction to be missed. To address this issue we implemented a computational pipeline called RNA-seq Personal Genome-alignment Analyzer (rPGA), which maps personal transcriptomes to personal genomes to identify personal specific splicing variations. During this time, I was selected as an Amgen Scholar for the summer of 2014 to continue my work in Dr. Xing's lab.
During the summer of 2013, I conducted research under Dr. Zhong Wang in the Genome Analysis Group at the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute as part of the Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship (SULI) program. My project involved developing a data driven scoring function to select the best RNA-seq alignment method based on a variety of parameters, including read length and genome complexity. During the summer of 2012, I conducted research under Dr. Stan Krajewski at the Sanford Burnham Medical Research Institute, and was involved in behavioral phenotyping of genetically engineered mice.


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Nissan has dropped the base price of the Murano CrossCabriolet convertible crossover SUV for the 2012 model year. The 2012 Murano CrossCabriolet starts at $44,540, which is a decrease of $1,850 compared with the 2011 model.
"Murano sales are down, and even though CrossCabriolet sales aren't broken out from the rest of the line, we suspect the model hasn't caught fire in the marketplace to the degree Nissan wants it to," Autoblog reports.
The convertible Murano costs significantly more than the base 2012 Murano, which starts at $29,290. The Murano CrossCabriolet is basically the same as the top-of-the-line, $39,900, non-convertible, all-wheel drive V6 Murano LE, and for an extra $4,640, buyers get a convertible body style and an automatic cloth convertible top.
The CrossCabriolet carries over into 2012 largely unchanged, except for a new paint color and the removal of an interior feature.
"For the 2012 model year, the advanced Nissan Hard Drive Navigation System is now available as a standalone option and one new exterior color, Pearl White, has been added," Nissan says in a statement.
Kicking Tires notes that the Murano CrossCabriolet's $1,850 price decrease for 2012 is solely related to the navigation system. "However, while Nissan doesn't state it in its announcement, the price change is due to removing the standard navigation package and making it an $1,850 option," Kicking Tires reports.
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Road to rebirth? S.F.'s post-freeway Octavia may be a model
Visitors from other cities come to see result of tearing down S.F. freeway
On a typical weekday, thousands of drivers navigate Octavia Boulevard on their way to and from San Francisco's Central Freeway.
The thickly landscaped five blocks of Hayes Valley that conclude with a small park attracted a different group last week: 11 visitors from the eastern half of the United States who wanted to see what happens when a double-deck roadway is erased from the map.
"This boulevard is beautiful, in my opinion," said Jessica Knox of New Orleans, where there's talk of removing a 1.6-mile stretch of Interstate 10 that cuts through a largely African American neighborhood. "You can't even tell a freeway was here."
The group was organized by the Congress for the New Urbanism, a Chicago planning advocacy organization. Executive director John Norquist has made freeway removal a priority, and he saw the Bay Area as a showcase to drive home the point that turning back the clock can be beneficial.
"It helps when people see physically, with your own eyes, that you can take down a freeway and life goes on," said Norquist, who was also showing the group the Embarcadero, as well as Oakland's Mandela Parkway. "In fact, life gets better."
Octavia Boulevard opened in 2005, nearly 16 years after the Loma Prieta earthquake damaged pillars supporting the elevated concrete roadway erected in 1959. The ramps extending across Hayes Street to Gough and Franklin streets, which never reopened, were dismantled in 1992. But the connection that crossed Market Street to Oak and Fell streets remained in place until 2003, with four elections along the way to decide whether it should stay or go.
The current design
Now the freeway touches down at Market Street before shifting to a boulevard with two lanes of traffic on either side of a median filled by thick poplars. On either side, there's an additional lane for local traffic, set apart from the central lanes by elms and shrubs to buffer the adjacent blocks from the commuter slog.
The visitors from New Orleans and Syracuse, N.Y., were greeted by Elizabeth Macdonald, an associate professor at UC Berkeley's College of Environmental Design. Her firm, Jacobs Macdonald: Cityworks, designed the boulevard with the city's Department of Public Works.
"One of the big issues we faced was the transition of the freeway to the city," Macdonald said. "Touching down at Market Street has some issues."
Indeed, the central lanes are jammed for much of the day and cause backups on Page and Oak streets. But visitors were more interested in the soft landscape and the new housing on parcels returned to the city when the freeway came down.
Two officials from the Mayor's Office of Economic and Workforce Development, Ken Rich and Robin Havens, discussed that aspect of Octavia's renaissance.
They explained how sales of the 22 parcels of leftover land are expected to generate more than $55 million - money that went to construct the boulevard and fund other transportation improvements close by. Roughly 1,000 apartments and condominiums will be created, with 50 percent reserved for lower-income families.
"The city is committed to preserving diversity here as best it can," Rich said. "The face of the community is changing."
Rarefied retail
Today's Hayes Valley is far different than in the decades when the Central Freeway loomed: A mix of races and classes with pockets of blight has evolved into a bastion of rarefied retail. When Rich said that new condominiums nearby are selling for upward of $1,000 per square foot, one guest gasped and muttered "Jesus!" under her breath.
"These are the issues being brought up to us," said Knox, president of the Historic Faubourg Treme Association in New Orleans. "We would gain back property that could be repurposed in wonderful ways. The question is whether the natives, the people now there, would be able to stay."
John King is The San Francisco Chronicle's urban design critic. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com Twitter: @johnkingsfchron


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Jason Evans knew he had to act fast.
It was 8:30 in the morning on Aug. 1, which meant the U.S. Labor Department's monthly wage data had just been released.
One day earlier, the 46-year-old co-founder of NineAlpha Capital LP, a hedge fund specializing in U.S. government debt, detected signs of bearishness in the bond market after a report showed employment costs rose by the most since 2008.
Yields on 10-year Treasuries (USGG10YR) hit a three-week high, suggesting traders were bracing for evidence the long-awaited pickup in wages would materialize and provide the catalyst for the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates — a view that Evans determined was wrong. So when his computer screen showed hourly earnings were unchanged in July, he knew exactly what to do: direct his traders to buy more Treasuries.
"We were at the edge of our seats," Evans, the former head of U.S. government bond trading at Deutsche Bank AG (DBK) and Goldman Sachs Group Inc., said in a telephone interview from his 17th floor office in downtown Manhattan.
Treasuries rallied that day, causing yields to retreat from their earlier highs. Since then, they have fallen even further as crises in Russia and the Middle East prompted investors to pour into haven assets. Yields on benchmark 10-year notes dropped as low as 2.35 percent last week, the least since June 2013, and ended at 2.42 percent.
The yield was 2.44 percent at 12:12 p.m. today in Tokyo.
Great Expectations
While the economy rebounded last quarter from the steepest drop-off in five years and employers added jobs at a pace not seen since 1997, the lack of wage growth and any resulting inflation has become one of the biggest reasons why bulls in the $12.2 trillion market for Treasuries have gotten it right.
The 139 million workers that held non-farm jobs in July made an average $24.45 an hour, just a penny more than in the prior month, government data show. It was the third time in five months that wages rose less than economists' estimates.
On an annual basis, growth in hourly earnings in the past five years has been the weakest over the course of any expansion since at least the 1960s, data compiled by Bloomberg show.
It wasn't supposed to be this way. At the start of the year, Wall Street prognosticators foresaw 10-year yields rising for a second year and reaching 3.44 percent by year-end. They anticipated a strengthening U.S. economy would lead to a pick-up in consumer prices and enable the Fed to start raising rates, which it has held close to zero since 2008.
Without higher wages, there's little chance that Americans will spend enough to cause inflation to accelerate. Since 2009, the U.S. consumer price index has risen less than 2 percent on average and bond traders anticipate about the same rate of cost-of-living increases during the next five years.
Based on the Fed's preferred measure, consumer prices have climbed less than its 2 percent target for 26 straight months.
"You cannot have sustainable CPI inflation without wage inflation first," David Tan, global head of rates at J.P. Morgan Asset Management, which oversees $1.7 trillion, said in an Aug. 6 interview from London. That's one reason why "Treasuries will remain in demand by people like ourselves."
Tan, who said he was tempted to bet against Treasuries, reconsidered after the July wage report.
Lackluster earnings growth also raises the likelihood Fed Chair Janet Yellen, who has increasingly focused on wages to gauge the health of the world's largest economy, will maintain the central bank's easy-money policies into a sixth year.
No Problem
Traders have already scaled back their expectations for the Fed's first rate increase since 2006. There's now a 54 percent chance the Fed will lift its target rate to 0.5 percent by July, futures trading shows. On July 31, it was 65 percent.
"We're buying into the view inflation won't be a problem and that there is continuing scope for the Fed to exercise patience," Wan-Chong Kung, a Minneapolis-based money manager at Nuveen Asset Management, which oversees more than $100 billion, said by telephone on Aug. 4.
The longest-dated Treasuries, the most sensitive to losses as inflation picks up, suggest many investors share her view.
U.S. government debt due in 10 years or more has returned 14 percent this year, the biggest year-to-date gain in almost two decades, index data compiled by Bank of America Corp. show. Yields on the 30-year (USGG30YR) bond, the longest-maturity security, have fallen faster this year than at any time since 2000.
America's growth prospects mean yields on U.S. government debt are now too low to compensate for the risk, according to Erik Weisman, a money manager at Boston-based MFS Investment Management, which oversees $430 billion.
Structural Shift
While the economy stumbled in the first quarter, employers have still added more than 200,000 jobs for six straight months.
Economists surveyed by Bloomberg say gross domestic product will increase 3 percent next year in the fastest expansion in a decade, after rising 1.7 percent this year.
"This is a reason to think of lightening up" on Treasuries, Weisman said in an Aug. 5 telephone interview.
Forecasters also predict bond yields will rise through year-end. They estimate yields on 10-year notes will climb more than a half-percentage point to 3 percent, based on the median projection in a Bloomberg survey.
Jack McIntyre, a Philadelphia-based money manager at Brandywine Global Investment Management LLC, which oversees $45 billion, says even as the U.S. economy gains momentum, inflation will remain subdued because businesses now have much more leverage than workers when it comes to pay.
Low Pay
Unlike in the 1970s, when wages climbed an average 7 percent annually, cheaper overseas labor, technological gains and the decline of labor-union influence all mean companies can squeeze more out of employees for every dollar paid, he said.
Last quarter, a measure of U.S. productivity climbed more than economists anticipated, helping to restrain labor costs to an increase of just 0.6 percent per worker.
It's a "key part of our thesis" for owning longer-term Treasuries, McIntyre said in an Aug. 5 telephone interview.
The proliferation of low-paying jobs during this expansion is also a signal to NineAlpha's Evans that the Fed can keep borrowing costs low without worrying about inflation.
The joblessness for food preparation and serving-related workers has fallen about twice as much as the unemployment rate in the past year. The hiring gains include jobs being added at fast-food chains such as McDonald's Corp. (MCD) and Wendy's Co., which pay less than $10 an hour on average.
"My concern is that a lot of jobs being created are either part time or at the lower end of the food chain," Evans said. "If that's the real nature of the jobs being created, then the Fed can afford to be patient."


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Bokrelease: French Populism and Discourses on Secularism
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- Lecturer: Participants: Per-Erik Nilsson (author), Associate professor of Sociology of Religion and Director, CEMFOR, Uppsala University. Marie Demker, Professor of Political Science, University of Gothenburg.
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Per-Erik Nilsson takes a religious studies approach to analyse the intersections of secularism, nationhood and populism in contemporary France. This book provides insight into the French and European radical-nationalist ideology and activism, and contributes to our understanding of the complex relationship between religion and the state in contemporary Europe and beyond.
"In this in-depth dissection of an important French identitarian far-right movement, Per-Erik Nilsson gives us a clear insight into how these anti-Muslim activists, misleadingly claiming to work in the cause of secularism, argue and mobilize in their frightening attemt to carry out a religious cleansing of France." John R. Bowen, Dunbar-Van Cleve Professor in Arts & Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis, USA, and author of On British Islam (2006) and Can Islam be French? (2009).
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Jennifer A. Selby, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, and author of Questioning French Secularism (2012). French Populism and Discourses on Secularism
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1. Begin with good pieces which work well for you and keep the look clean and simple. A great pair of trousers, a fitted jacket, a stylish skirt and a white shirt. These are the items which can provide a solid foundation for your wardrobe. Then look at the newer items, the velvets, the knits, the newly important oversized coat. Consider the variety of handbags also, the belts and boots and start to play the fashion game.
2. If you work from quality, classic-inspired items and then embrace current trends you will win both ways. Refined understated panache can move through to classic style with miminal effort and fuss.
3. If you want to keep abreast of the latest fashion trends opt for simple pieces in special fabrics. Items, such as leather trousers, velvet separates or chunky knits will stand on their own as wise buys or when combined are chic and adaptable.
4. If you want to cut a dash after dark choose something lacy or an outfit which shimmers or shines. Remember even rainwear is shiny this year. Luxury pieces and decorative fabrics come into their own at night.
5. Denim is perfect for work or play. To achieve waist definition use that number one accessory this season - the belt.


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Following media coverage of an event I spoke at late in 2017 in Wellington, I was honoured to be approached by the Australian Golf Course Superintendents Association to speak at their Australasian Turfgrass Conference mid-2018. I will be delivering the plenary talk, alongside my friend and colleague, psychologist Dr Karen Faisandier, on the topic of men's mental health and alternative ways of thinking about and potentially addressing the problem. Below is a copy of my conference proceedings submission, offering a good overview of the paradigm I work under here at Being Human.
Men's Mental Health: Recharge
We live in an age and under an economic model where, irrespective of the industry or sector, demands (productivity, outputs, expectations) continue to increase at a time when capacity (staff, budgets) continues to erode. We all live in a world where everyone feels entitled to, and expects, more for less. This ongoing tension between demands and capacity is a primary source of both acute and chronic stress in and out of the workplace.
Most people view their core capacities in the workplace as knowledge (an understanding of the problems at hand and how to solve them), experience (pattern recognition) and time. Knowledge and experience are built up slowly and progressively over our careers. Thus, in an acute, day-to-day sense at least, we view time as our core capacity. This notion is reinforced by the fact that many people give their time in exchange for an hourly rate or some other payment-for-time.
Where and how we direct our discretionary time is most often driven by our intrinsic values. To value something is to place importance on it. A groundskeeper who values the sense of achievement and recognition from delivering a good product will dedicate more of their discretionary time to completing a task than the person who is perhaps indifferent to such values (who will put their time elsewhere).
When demands increase we often respond by allocating more time to those demands. We work longer hours per day, and perhaps more days per week, as we attempt to meet the demands of the situation. Given that time is a finite resource, when one area of our life demands more time, so it goes that time must be taken from another area of our lives.
Time is fixed. Nobody can create more time capacity for themselves. As we attempt to balance all the time demands of our lives, be it work or family life, a sense of urgency is created. We begin to live our lives in a rush, and we operate under the notion that we don't have time, that time is running out, and we are too busy for anything extra beyond the demands of our most immediate focus.
The stress from living under a near constant sense of urgency is often compounded by the intrinsic values conflicts created from living a life dictated by the clock. For example, a groundskeeper is likely not just be a keeper of grounds. They will also likely be a husband, a father, a mentor, and a mate. They may have come into the profession for the enjoyment of working outside, or for a sense of being close to a sport they are passionate about. But they now find themselves spending more time indoors answering emails and undertaking extensive administrative duties due to budget cuts.
Such responsibilities draw them away from the very roles which fuelled their sense of fulfilment in their careers. It also takes time and focus away from their personal and family life, friendships, and other important connections. The man who prided himself on being both a good partner and groundskeeper, is no longer feeling like he is doing particularly well with either role, leading to a sense of frustration and relationship conflicts (where those relationships can be with partners, family, friends, and work colleagues).
To meet all the external demands being placed on such individuals, time which may have been allocated towards personal physical health behaviours is now diverted to dealing with the most urgent & pressing demands, e.g. less time is given toward sleeping, physical activity, and taking time out of the day to recharge energy with nutritious food.
Such demands of life rarely remain acute. Indeed, it is the hallmark of life in the modern world that living in a constant state of rush and urgency is the norm. Feeling distressed, anxious, frustrated, and defensive all while living in near constant survival (fight or flight) mode is not a sign of personal weakness, but rather it is the normal response to such a stressful environment.
Demands exceeding capacity, living life in urgency, feeling constantly busy, values conflicts, and the subsequent chronic stress leading to ever higher rates of poor mental health – clearly the way we are working isn't working. We cannot keep operating in the same way and yet expect a different outcome. And we certainly cannot continue to frame a cultural and environmental problem as being one which rests on the shoulders of individuals to quietly deal with themselves.
But the revolution will have to wait for another day. More pressing for most individuals is how they can deal with the current situation as it is in the here and now; how they can change their world before focusing on how to change the world. It is my belief that this all begins with individuals shifting their operating paradigm from one based around the non-renewable capacity of time, to the renewable capacity of personal energy.
Energy is our key currency, not time, a fact illustrated with the following examples:
- Imagine a couple who are on a dinner date with each other. A good date might be one where the couple are focused and attentive toward each other, where their emotional and mental energy is high. A poor date, however, is one where both are tired, distracted, and not engaged with each other. They might spend most of their time scrolling through their phone. The time spent with each other could be the same in both examples, but the energy and the relationship quality is totally different.
- A young employee might turn up to work every day and put in the required number of hours on the job. But due to staying up late every night, drinking too much alcohol, and not eating enough nutrient-dense food, their physical energy levels are low. They put in the time but not a lot of productive work gets done in that time.
- A business owner has been splitting his time between being on the job and in the office doing admin. They make the decision to focus solely on running the business rather than working in the business and they now have more time on their hands. But doing paperwork and accounts all day gives them no sense of fulfilment and they soon become deeply unhappy, unmotivated, and distracted.
The above are examples of life that we often measure by time but where it is our energy which is ultimately more important. This energy comes in four broad forms:
Physical Energy – Your Foundation Energy
- The energy we derive from quality sleep, eating well, and being physically fit and strong. We might understand this energy when the key elements are lacking, e.g. when we are under slept, have skipped meals or have eaten under nourishing food, or our fitness is low and everyday activities become more draining.
- Prioritising sleep, preparing good meals and taking our time to eat them, and working on physical fitness are some of the first aspects of our lives we let slip when we feel under time pressure.
"I've got too much to do to go to bed early – I'll sleep when I'm dead."
"I haven't got time to sit down for a meal – I'll grab something quick later."
Emotional Energy – The Energy of Your Feelings
- If your physical energy is the quantity of your energy, then your emotional energy is the quality of that energy. Your emotional energy is your feelings of positivity or negativity toward a person, place, or situation.
- Connection with people, places, and a sense of purpose, giving and receiving appreciation, being recognised and feeling valued, all fuel positive emotional energy.
- We quickly feel negative when we are disconnected from the people and places we care about, when we feel a lack of purpose for what we are doing, when we feel underappreciated, undervalued, and do not get recognised for the energy and effort we put into something.
Mental Energy – Your Focus Energy
- The energy we get from being in a state of focus is often referred to as being in the zone or in a state of flow.
- Mental energy comes from having a clarity in our roles and a clear path to settle in to deep work. It comes when we can manage our own time and make clear decisions, when we can work deeply rather than broadly, and when we can respond rationally and creatively rather than reactively.
- The most common distractors to our focus are technology interruptions (messages, emails), meetings, and the myth of multitasking.
The truth is that many jobs require the ability to be both focused and to drop everything and react as required. These jobs have a high mental energy drain baked into the cake. It becomes paramount, then, that taking regular time out to rest and renew your thoughts is as important to a role as being ready and able to react. Few individuals and organisations really grasp this concept, do not make and protect spaces and environments where this mental energy can be renewed, leaving many people feeling drained and frazzled.
Spiritual Energy – The Energy from Fulfilling Your Passions and Purpose
- Where we direct our energy, particularly our pool of discretionary energy, is largely dictated by the deepest intrinsic values we hold, what we feel passionate about, and having a sense of purpose to what we do.
- We operate with a sense of grit (perseverance in the face of challenges) when we are driven by a sense of fulfilment and passion.
- Understanding our own personal beliefs, values, ethics, and what we derive our sense of fulfilment from, can all help in setting physical, emotional, and mental energy recharging behaviours.
While all four levels are interrelated, most of our behaviours start from what we personally value. For example, very few people value being healthy for its own sake. But many people value the social recognition that comes from appearing healthy, so they will seek to signal this by going to a particular gym, or by wearing certain clothing types and brands. Improving health and wellbeing may possibly be an outcome of this signalling (though not always), but health per se wasn't the initial driving force.
If you derive value and fulfilment from your work and/or family life, you can use this understanding as a motivating force for making better decisions regarding your physical, emotional, and mental energy. Feeling like you have more energy and capacity to do the thing you are passionate about only serves to reinforce this passion.
Should there be a mismatch between feeling a sense of purpose and passion for something (e.g. your career), and your ability to renew and sustain your energy for it, burnout can often occur. In common Human Resources parlance, passion is referred to as engagement. Someone who is giving a lot of discretionary energy to a task or role is said to be highly engaged (passionate) with what they are doing. Generally, this passion is reinforced by a positive feeling (e.g. recognition – a form of emotional energy) derived from performing the role.
The flip side of engagement is disengagement. When someone is disengaging from an area in their life, they are attempting to conserve their energy. Individuals begin to pull back from areas in their life which they view to be non-essential at that time, all in an attempt to maintain their mental energy in a role or task during a time of stress (demand > capacity). They become focused on doing only what they need to do in order to avoid the most immediate consequences (e.g. not meeting expectations in a job, potentially with financial consequences) or to fulfill the most important value (e.g. continued immersion in social media in order to get and maintain recognition from "followers").
Feeling under pressure at work, for example, a person may pull back (disengage) from spending time with family or friends or directing any effort toward other behaviours which may ultimately sustain their energy and keep them going. They may focus only on what needs to be done to avoid negative consequences such as failure to deliver, negative judgement, or loss of income. This becomes an unsustainable strategy, however, because many of the things a person disengages from are the very aspects of their life which recharge their energy pool.
Operating in a state of stress and under urgency leads to rapid energy depletion, and can leave people feeling anxious, frustrated, angry, and defensive. Think of how we feel when battling heavy traffic and needing to be on time for an appointment. When this state becomes chronic, it heightens the risk for burnout. In our modern world, much of the common depression being seen is actually this burnout state of energy depletion.
Depression could be considered the body's normal response to our internal batteries running flat. We lose our motivation to engage in adequate self-care, we lose the ability to feel positive (and sometimes even to feel negative), we can no longer focus on anything for any amount of time, and we lose all sense of passion and fulfilment from life.
States such as burnout and depression can therefore be viewed as a form of reactive disengagement. Using a smartphone as an analogy, you will get several warnings that the battery charge (energy supply) is running low. If you fail to plug the phone in to recharge, eventually it will go into a power saving mode (energy conservation), disengaging immediately non-essential systems and applications. Continue to deplete the device's energy and eventually it will turn itself off before it goes flat (burnout). The device cannot be restarted until it is plugged into an alternative energy supply and has recharged to a sufficient level of power (energy).
A phone switching itself off to protect its remaining 1-2% of energy is reactive disengagement. To avoid this occurring, we typically responsively disengage our precious devices. We monitor their charge for the early signs that their energy is running low, and we set to recharge the energy supply before any disengagement (reduction in capacity) occurs. A small period of disengagement dedicated to recharging can leverage a much larger period of engagement (use).
Applying the above analogy to humans, many aspects of burnout and mental health issues (such as anxiety and depression) are tied up with our energy running low. But this can be avoided by accepting that we require our own energy stores to be recharged and setting aside time to responsively disengage from the high drain environments and to engage in energy recharging behaviours.
Few of us would dream of letting our phones and other such devices run flat. We are careful to ensure they are regularly recharged and we never make the excuse that the phone is "too busy to be recharged right now". Yet we rarely apply such principles to ourselves. Once we understand, however, that the work-life balance we all seek is built on our personal energy levels, and that there are serious downstream consequences (e.g. mental health problems) to ignoring our energy, it becomes imperative that we adopt such a paradigm, not only for ourselves individually, but also for our workplace cultures and environments.
Nearly every sector in every industry is faced with the same problem of demands exceeding capacity. And nearly every workplace and organisation is trying to deal with these problems in the same way, through some sort of time or stress management. It is both my belief and experience that a focus on building cultures, systems, environments, and behaviours that lead to the recharging of our energy capacity will not only change the way we are working for the better but will also help to stem the tide on many of the mental health problems people are facing.


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Wet n Wild Spring Forward ColorIcon Palettes are Back!
If you missed the Wet n Wild Spring Forward ColorIcon Palettes the first time around be sure to head to drugstores now as they are popping back up! I located displays at Rite Aid, Harmons, and CVS.
This collection included the Nude Awakening and Going in the Wild Color Icon Eyeshadow Palettes for $4.99 each (or less depending where you buy them).
It's nice to see these back as many people were unable to locate them the first time they launched earlier in the Spring.
If you located them somewhere in particular I hope you'll share the location as it might be helpful to a fellow reader.
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By Neeraj Nanda
MELBOURNE, 25 February: India is never one thing, says Aman Nath, historian, poet, restorer and founder and Chairman of Neemarana Hotels. Aman who has with Francis Wacziarg acquired over 25 heritage properties in India and converted them into hotels after restoration was speaking at a lecture in Melbourne University organized by the GNG Events and the Australia India Institute (AII).
Aman detailed India's heritage journey in his power point presentation with a touch of philosophy did not mince words with his lucid style. His presentation reflected the diversity of monuments, dresses, colors, philosophy, fashions, people, languages, cultures, seasons, ethnic groups and much more. It had the Dilwara temples (Mount Abu), TajMahal (Agra), Dwarka (Gujarat), Ellora Caves (Maharashtra) among others connecting them to the statement that "India is never one thing."
Aman's presentation concluded with the quotation of Mathama Gandhi – "Find purpose and the means will follow".
A brochure of Neemarana Hotels distributed at the presentation says, "Experience authentic India – in a panorama of 700 years… not an India made superficially aseptic for tourists. The 20 Neemrana 'non-hotel' hotels give you a true flavour of India."
"We introduce you to India's history, traditions and regional aesthetic in a very natural way. Each Neemrana property showcases the culture of that region – its dress, its cuisine, its people who are the soul. Come share real India. Live in the architecture built by Rajput, Sikh, Maratha, Jat and Muslim rulers. Neemrana has also restored colonial properties from the 16th to the 20th centuries: Danish, Portuguese, Dutch, English, and Scottish", says the brochure.
Full details can be accessed at www.neeranahotels.com.
All this looks interesting. History remains a controversial but potent subject. One can always give a different methodology. The mix of history, heritage restoration, and business, basically, is Aman and Waczaiarg's project. I am sure apart from everything else it is passion. Not a bad idea in a troubled world.


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Dell completed an internal accounting investigation this week and restated its financial results from fiscal 2003 to the first quarter of 2007, bringing it into compliance with listing requirements specified by the Nasdaq stock exchange.
For the restatement period, Dell cut its cumulative net income by US$92 million from a previously reported net income of US$12 billion [B], said Dell spokesman Bob Pearson. The cumulative change to earnings per share was US$0.03 from the previously reportedUS $4.78, he said.
Dell also reduced revenue by US$359 million from the previously reported US$196.2 billion for the restatement period, Pearson said.
While it was carrying out its own probe of accounting problems during the quarter and under investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Dell faced delisting on the Nasdaq multiple times for failing to file earnings reports to the SEC on time. The SEC is still investigating Dell for certain periods prior to fiscal year 2006. Dell will continue to cooperate and work with the SEC on the investigation, Pearson said.
Among a string of filings Tuesday, Dell said in a 10-Q/A filing for the quarter ended May 5, 2006, that it recognized the wrong amount of revenue from certain transactions or recognized revenue in the wrong period. In some cases, Dell prematurely recognized revenue before it settled the terms of sale with a customer, Dell said in the filing.
Dell is trying to restructure amid the accounting scandal, personnel changes and slow growth in the U.S. PC market. In January, Michael Dell returned as CEO after Kevin Rollins resigned in an effort to revive the company. In May, Dell announced it would cut 10 percent of its workforce. It is also battling Hewlett-Packard, which is closing in on Dell's position as the leading U.S. PC vendor, according to a recent IDC study.


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Hugh Hefner has said that he had no inkling that Crystal Harris wanted to end their relationship.
The Playboy founder became engaged to Harris on Christmas Eve 2010, but the wedding was called off in June.
Hefner told CNN's Piers Morgan: "I think the real problems began a couple of months before the wedding... We went to London, about five or six weeks before, and things did not seem quite the way they ought to be. She was preparing a song for the first time and I think her focus was on that.
"But in the weeks immediately afterward, as we got very close to the marriage, you know, something was not right. But I didn't see it coming, I truly didn't see it coming."
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Hefner added that Harris had expressed doubts about getting married the week before the ceremony, which was planned for June 18.
"The previous weekend, she and I went to a jazz festival, and when we got back from the festival, we sat down and she said that she was really having some serious reservations about the marriage - not about the relationship, but about the marriage," he explained.
"I said, 'Look, the marriage is not the important part to me, the relationship is important. If you're happier single, that's okay with me, we can work out the details'. That was only half the story obviously, because the next morning, without my knowledge, she was packing the bags."
Hefner also revealed that he had made the commitment because he felt that he had "not been there" for former girlfriend Holly Madison "in the way that she wanted me to be".
"You know, I was ready to settle down, I figured it was about time!" the 85-year-old quipped.
Piers Morgan Tonight is broadcast weeknights at 9pm ET on CNN and at 8pm UK time on CNN International.
Watch a clip from Hugh Hefner's interview on Piers Morgan Tonight below:


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The candidates for Lodge Officers of Achpateuny Lodge for the 2017-2018 term, in alphabetical order, are:
Lodge Chief
Sidney Killick (pending Chapter Electoral Approval)
Lodge Vice Chief
Surya Sriram (pending Chapter Electoral Approval)
Lodge Secretary
Darren Fang
Lodge Treasurer
Darren Fang
Each of these candidates has a history of providing outstanding service to the Order of the Arrow and Scouting. They have had a positive impact on their units, clans, chapters, and the lodge. The candidates' election statements, as well as their background and photo, are below.
Youth may access the ballot here:
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- In hot countries milk and butter cannot be stored for any length of time. Also, in most of the dry, hot regions of the world, the yield of milk fluctuates considerably "with the season of the year. The inhabitants of such semi-arid regions were forced to evolve a method of storing dairy products, prepared during the rainy period, for use during the drought period when no surplus milk can be obtained. Such a process was developed in India and has since spread to other sub-tropical countries. The original Hindustani name for this product was "ghi," (sa,mli in Kiswahili), and this term written as "ghee" has been retained by most producing and marketing countries. The principle underlying the production of ghee is the preparation, in a solid form, of milk fat free from water, proteins, and salts, i.e. clarified butter as it is known in western civilization. The methods in vogue for producing this article vary greatly, from the crude native methods to the refined one of the European chef who prepares his clarified butter from high quality fresh butter. The milk of any animal species may be used in the preparation of clarified butter or ghee, but in practice it is made chiefly from the milk of cows and buffaloes, though occasionally it is also derived from sheep and goat milk. ...
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text: There is no doubt that small dogs are as popular worldwide as their larger counterparts; their size alone makes them adaptable to more condensed living environments; they are portable and economical; and most of all, they are cute! So who are the Most Popular Small Dogs? you ask.... What determines a popular small dog breed? Certainly the "cute" factor comes into … [Read more...]