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Last year my Husband and I had a beautiful wedding in the Riviera Maya at an all inclusive resort. There was no shortage of frozen drinks and I quickly fell in love with their "Miami Vice," a genius mixture of Pina Colada and Strawberry Daiquiri. When I saw that Kisstixx offered this same combination, I swooned! It is the ultimate Belinda lip balm, the perfect mixture of flavors!!! I just love that it uses actual Coconut Oil - yummy!
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Setesca, an ICT consultancy now has an office in London. The company has its headquarters in Barcelona and offices in Madrid and Medellín (Colombia). With a presence in London, the company aims to strengthen its international presence; it has also recently opened offices in Germany and Switzerland.
The corporation offers various ICT consulting services, including programming and remote systems management. Setesca Talent is a division specialising in digital headhunting. It aims to offer coverage to those Spanish companies that require selection processes in European countries, and European companies that require a specialised selection service in Spain.
"Europe is a potential market for the type of ICT consulting service we offer. It is an environment where today well-prepared ICT profiles are required from companies that offer flexible, competitive and quality services," says Jordi Damià, CEO of Setesca.

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Idris Elba's new fiancee Sabrina Dhowre marked her first Valentine's Day as the actor's wife-to-be with a gushing Instagram post about their relationship.
Sabrina, who got engaged to Thor: Ragnarok star Idris on Saturday when he proposed to her onstage at the Rio Cinema in London ahead of a cast and crew screening of his directorial debut Yardie, shared a sweet picture of herself and Idris holding hands at a restaurant table on the social media site on Tuesday.
Alongside the picture Sabrina wrote: "Baby! I can't tell you enough how happy you make me and how lucky I feel to have found a love like this, you make my heart feel so full. I love you. Forever will always feel to (sic) short. #imsuchacheeseball."
The snap, in which model Sabrina could also be seen showing off her stunning new engagement ring, acts as the first confirmation of the happy news by the couple.
News of their engagement was first posted on the Rio Cinema Twitter page, with representatives for the venue tweeting: "Another @riocinema first! Still 5 days to Valentines Day but @idriselba went down on one knee and proposed to his girlfriend live on stage this morning before a preview of his film #Yardie."
Audience members also confirmed the news on Twitter, with one writing, "At cast & crew screening of @YARDIES & @IdrisElba just proposed to his girlfriend Sabrina!! Too cute," while another posted, "At cast & crew screening of YARDIES & Idris Elba just proposed to his girlfriend Sabrina!! Big Congrats !!"
The 45-year-old dad of two made his romance with Sabrina, a 29-year-old model, official in September when they made their red carpet debut at the Toronto International Film Festival in Canada and at the premiere of his movie Molly's Game.
The British actor has been married twice before – to make-up artist Hanne Norgaard, who he divorced in 2003, and real estate attorney Sonya Nicole Hamlin.
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Miles for 4/24/11: 2 Miles
Total Miles: 49 Miles
Last Easter, Chris & I went to play some tennis. It was a nice day outside and obviously no one was at the courts due to the holiday. It was the first little bit of exercise that we had done in a long time. We hadn't even started dieting at that point. I thought I'd commemorate that day by going out for a run before Easter brunch with my family.
This run brings me to almost 50 miles for Relay for Life (see Running for Relay). I was really hoping to have many more miles racked up by now, but I think I made my goals a little too high for myself. Mix that with a little bit of slacking and unseasonably cold & rainy weather and you get not many miles. Plus it's kind of hard to estimate how many miles you cover in any given period of time when you have never counted before. Maybe I should make my new goal somewhere between 75 – 100 miles before the end of June. I can do that :)


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Sunday, April 18, 2010
Random thoughts, Stuff for sale, etc. . . .
Well, another Tax Day come and gone. . . the buggers got their pound of flesh for another year.We need to go to a National Sales Tax, but that is an issue for another day. Time for more pleasant things. . . April is almost gone, and things at the Nursery are alive and well. How is your veggie garden coming along? There is nothing like seeing those seeds you planted come to life, grow, and then reward you with fresh HEALTHY produce. I will be posting pictures in the future of the garden(s) and if anyone sends me some pics, I will post them also.Gardening and yard work is a great way to get some exercise, Vitamin D, and fresh food- why wouldn't everyone want to do it? The wegelia here at the Nursery are starting to bloom right now and would be a great way to put some early Spring color in your yard. We have them on sale right now -3 gallon pots at $12 each- and have the following varieties: Ghost (pale green foilage, with red blooms) Red Prince, Carnaval( red, pink and white blooms, a personal favorite), and Wine and Roses ( a Color Choice selection with a beautiful maroon/pink bloom and dark varigated foilage) These plants love the sun /partial shade and will give you years of enjoyment! Too often we dwell on what we think is wrong with life, instead of being thankful for the blessings (big and little) we enjoy each day: our spouses, kids, freedom, good ( or even decent) health, a beautiful sunrise/sunset, a good cup of coffee ( thank you West End Coffee), good music ( Vaughn Williams, Dave Brubeck, Chet Baker, SRV, Claude Debussey,Chris Duarte, the Who, etc), good BBQ, a good cigar ( CAO, Drew Estates, Perdomo, etc), I could go on and on. I guess I just want to say "Thank you, LORD, for all you have given us.May we never take anything for granted, our get so used to what we have , we lose our appreciation for all we have.
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Wishing happy 87th birthday to late John Coltrane, today...
The great jazz saxophone player John Coltrane was born 87 years ago today. To mark the occasion we present this rare document from the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History: Coltrane's handwritten outline of his groundbreaking jazz composition A Love Supreme.
Recorded in December of 1964 and released in 1965, A Love Supreme is Coltrane's personal declaration of his faith in God and his awareness of being on a spiritual path. "No road is an easy one," writes Coltrane in a prayer at the bottom of his own liner notes for the album, "but they all go back to God."
Cannot think a better way to commemorate the Giant of Jazz.
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Donald Trump, Barack Obama, the Race Card and President Smith
It doesn't matter to me any more who will be the next President. It really doesn't matter. Why? Because NONE of whoever the GOP and the DNC "decide for us" who will run will not adhere to or condone following the United States Constitution. I am currently is full war footing. Get ready. It's coming.
Let's count the number of people who think Donald Trump is a racist. On second thought, let's not. We'll be here all day. But a short list includes Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, David Letterman, Bob Schieffer, some guy named Ed Schultz who screams a lot on MSNBC, and Chris Mathews who says Trump is appealing to "right-wing rubes" who "just don't like him [Obama] because he's black."
Even Seth Meyers, the "Saturday Night Live" comedian who hosted the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday night, took a jab at The Donald, who was in the audience. "Trump said recently that he has a great relationship with the blacks," Meyers told the crowd.
"But unless the Blacks are a family of white people, I'll bet he's mistaken."
Yes, they're all liberals and liberals tend to see racism all over the place. It's one of the things that make them feel morally superior to everyone who doesn't see racism all over the place. It's one of the ways liberals tell black people, "We're the good white people. So please don't blame us for the past." [...]
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Developers working on apps for Google's smart glasses have been told they will not be allowed to place advertising within the device's display.
The newly-published terms and conditions for developers working on Glass also prohibit companies charging for apps.
The glasses, which have a five megapixel camera and voice-activated controls, have started to be shipped.
The first devices will go to developers and "Glass Explorers".
Google held a competition earlier this year inviting potential users to come up with ways to use the device, while developers have been eager to be among the first to try out the technology.
As part of the announcement, Google also gave the first official details of the device's specifications.
The bone conduction transducer allows the wearer to hear audio without the need for in-ear headphones - sound waves are instead delivered through the user's cheekbones and into the inner ear.
The company promises a battery lasting for "one full day of typical use".
Its display is the equivalent, the company says, of looking at a 25in (63cm) high-definition screen from eight feet away. The device is able to record video at a resolution of 720p.
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His 'Astrochimp' Proved Space Was Safe
Joseph Brady trained the first "astrochimp," which helped show that outer space was safe for astronauts.
Mr. Brady, who died July 29 at age 89, was an Army biologist and psychology researcher whose work with monkeys and chimpanzees made him an ideal animal trainer for space flight.
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Horace Campbell is Professor of African American Studies and Political Science at Syracuse University. His recent book is Global NATO and the Catastrophic Failure in Libya. He is author of: Rasta and Resistance From Marcus Garvey to Walter Rodney; Reclaiming Zimbabwe: The Exhaustion of the Patriarchal Model of Liberation; Pan Africanism, Pan Africanists and African Liberation in the 21st Century; and Barack Obama and 21st Century Politics. Follow on Twitter @Horace_Campbell.
- Order Horace Campbell's recent book, Global Nato and the Catastrophic Failure in Libya
- Welcome to horacecampbell.net. Horace Campbell is Professor of African American Studies and Political Science at Syracuse University, New York. His recent book is Global NATO and the Catastrophic Failure in Libya. He is the author of: Rasta and Resistance From Marcus Garvey to Walter Rodney; Reclaiming Zimbabwe: The Exhaustion of the Patriarchal Model of Liberation; Pan Africanism, Pan Africanists and African Liberation in the 21st Century; and Barack Obama and 21st Century Politics. Follow on Twitter @Horace_Campbell.
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Global NATO and the catastrophic failure in Libya
Campbell points out that while political elites in the West were quick to celebrate the intervention in Libya as a success, the NATO campaign caused many civilian deaths and destroyed the nation's infrastructure. Read more
Discussing the Malian crisis on MSNBC's Up with Chris Hayes
On January 27, I was on MSNBC's UP with Chris Hayes to discuss ongoing crisis in Mali and North Africa. In my contribution I stated that the US and Western powers should review their policies of military engagement with Africa.
The multiplicity of militias that were supported by the U.S. to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi have continued to contribute to the destabilization of Libya and other African countries. The leader of the Malian coup that preceded the ongoing instability in that country had just received military training from the U.S. military before the coup. The aspiration of African people is peace, unity, and reconstruction, not militarization.
Anyone who advocates for French military intervention to helps Africans does not have a sense of the history of brutality, destruction, and killings and tortures that have been carried out by France in Africa.
The US Africa Command created conditions for instability in Mali
Discussing the crisis in Mali on Sahara TV on January 19, I noted that the U.S. created the conditions for instability in Mali and that the French are opportunists whose current military engagement in Mali is for selfish reasons. In part, the current destabilization in Mali is one of the immediate geopolitical consequences of the destabilization of Libya, in which the U.S. – and Western powers – was complicit.
The jihadists that have destroyed some of Africa's richest cultural heritage in Mali had not only been financed by the U.S. through the so-called counterterrorism Pan-Sahel Initiative over the past 10 years. These jihadists are also a creation of the U.S. and NATO involvement in Libya.
Ultimately, peace must come from the Malian people and not the Jihadist or their Western financiers/militarists. As evident in the history of French brutality, invasion, and exploitation in Africa, the country has ulterior motives for its current military involvement in the crisis in Mali. The Malian people and ECOWAS must push for the withdrawal of French forces. Peaceful solutions to the crisis must come from within.
An African Solution to an African Problem: Omoyele Sowore of SaharaTV interviews Prof. Horace Campbell on the crisis in Mali.
Jan. 19, 2013
Omoyele Sowore: Professor Horace Campbell is a noted peace and justice international scholar and a professor of African-American Studies and political science at Syracuse University in Syracuse, NY.
He has a book coming out which is called 'Global NATO and the Catastrophic Failure in Libya' - the book will be out in March. Professor Horace Campbell, welcome to Sahara TV. Let's go into this directly.
What do you think is happening in Mali? Why is the world suddenly interested in Mali and how do you think we got here because apparently now France is bombing and there are troops over there and there have been a lot of responses all over the world. People need to understand this and that is why we have you on our show today.
Horace Campbell: Well, I think your viewers should remember that it was two years ago that African politics changed with the revolution in Tunisia and in Egypt. With these two revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt we had counter revolutions in Libya. The western financial speculators along with their army which is called the North Atlantic Treaty Organization – called NATO – used the expedience of the responsibility to protect to invade Libya and destabilize the country, creating a situation with militia and eventually executing the president, Muammar Gaddafi.
Mali and South Africa are two countries in Africa that have a very strong civil society, … in Mali are organized at different levels: in trade unions, in youth groups, students groups, women's organization cooperative, Islamic organizations and they have been active since 1992 to change the political process in Mali. Now in the context where South Africa and Mali have this tradition of people organizing to defend their livelihood, the western countries are afraid of the potential that the ideas of revolution - that came from Tunisia and Egypt – that those ideas cascade and spread across Africa as they will and that there is nothing to stop the revolutionary momentum because the revolution is calling for one thing: The people of Africa want a better quality of life, the people of Africa want the resources and wealth of Africa to change their standard of living, the people of Africa want unity and reconstruction of Africa and the people of Africa want peace. So if you listen to the Malian people - today the most important Malian singer, a woman, {Fatoumata Diawara} came out with a new song calling for peace and says that peace can come from the people of Mali.
Now, here we have a situation where the worst imperialist in relation to Africa for the last 180 years. France invaded Algeria first in 1830. France has been involved in a brutal war against the Algerian people when they fought for independence. France assisted in destabilizing Africa with the Congo. France has supported military dictatorships all over Africa. How could France suggest to people that they are in Africa to help Africa? That is something Africans will not accept.
However, Africans are put in a very difficult situation because the jihadists who destroyed one of the most important cultural fences in Africa – Timbuktu. These jihadists have been financed by the United States of America for the last ten years under the so called Pan Sahel Initiative and the United States of America with their African Command financed these jihadists to overthrow Gaddafi. So Africans…caught in a trap, what do we do against these jihadists?
Can ECOWAS send troops to fight beside France, which is a bigger enemy than the jihadists?
These are real problems and these problems require priority, organization and political mobilization for peace in Africa.
It cannot be short term and be driven by the Western propaganda about what is going on in Mali.
Omoyele Sowore: Thank you, Professor. You have just laid out what happened and how we got here, but it is also important going forward, what would you suggest - with the kind of leadership in Africa now, that led to the leadership in Tunisia and Egypt, the kind of leadership we have in Nigeria that has been engaged in corruption and looting of the common wealth … in several African countries where there have been dictators and where they have refused to allow the civil society, you mentioned, which exists in Mali and South Africa to flourish. How do we trust these internal colonialists? Are they not bigger enemies in some cases to Africa in some cases than even the western countries who have financed and supported and sometimes helped them hide their loot in their various vaults?
Horace Campbell: No possibility. Most of these African exploiters that you have mentioned, they would not be able to stand on their own two feet without the support of western military and financial institutions. What we saw in the Congo in 1997, where after 32 years Mobutu, who was supposed to be this strong person, collapsed overnight. Now with the Mali situation I cannot be very simplistic. It is a complex situation and as the French say, it is a complex operation. But that complexity should have us not take our eyes of the number one question, which is: This matter cannot be solved militarily, it has to be solved politically by the organization of the people of Mali to isolate these people and ECOWAS must come in to support the people of Mali and we must call for the withdrawal of French troops in Mali. That is the bottom line. ECOWAS must be the main force and in my view this attempt by France to intervene in Mali is to lay the foundation to bring the United States into a war to further militarize Africa because France on its own cannot afford a military operation in Africa at this particularly historical juncture. They have a financial crisis and for France to continue fighting it needs the support of the European Union and the United States of America – well, the European Union is bankrupt.
We have heard a telephone call between the French president Hollande and the British Prime Minister Cameron that was very instructive. He was calling on the British to give more support. The European do not have the financial or the military wherewithal to intervene in Africa at this particularly moment. Therefore they need the United States and the United States Africa Command but the United States Africa Command created a condition for what we have seen in Mali today. One: Half a billion dollars was spent in the last ten years on what was called the Pan Sahel Initiative; Number Two: What's happening in Mali is a direct result of the destabilization of North Africa and the war in Libya. Number Three: The United States African Command was discredited when its ambassador was killed in Benghazi because it was allied with militias – the same militias and jihadists that they are financing to fight in Syria - and the United States African Command is under review, because progressive African scholars are calling for the dismantling of Africom.
Now, if Africom and the United States get involved in this war in Africa it will create a situation where we will have to mobilize even greater in the United States of America and lastly, this is about Nigeria. Nigeria is a giant and a powerhouse in Africa. The attempt by the Wahabi, which are the conservative Islamists, to destabilize Nigeria is part of the plan of imperialism to make Nigeria weak. They have failed so far. They may kill a few people with what they call Boko Haram but the Nigerian people, since 1970, made a commitment that there will never be another civil war in Nigeria that will kill three million people and the Nigerian revolution which now requires political organization, mobilization, education from the Nigerian people to root out the corrupt elements in Nigeria is at the heart of the unification of Africa, bringing one currency for Africa, one freedom of movement across Africa.
So this invasion of Mali has complexities that we have to be clear about and that is why we have to be tactical to say the United Nations Security Council must call for the withdrawal of France from Mali and give support to ECOWAS to fight the jihadists.
Omoyele Sowore: Prof Horace Campbell that's all the time we have for you but it's important to mention that you have struck at the heart of something that is important to us on this show - you have said that Nigeria needs a revolution and looks like they know that Nigeria is on the path to a revolution that will root out the corrupt elements that have held Nigeria down and this can also be linked to what we are saying now, maybe to slow down the momentum. I think it's a very deep and fundamental submission that you have made and we appreciate you coming onto this show. We want to remind viewers that you have a book coming out - Global NATO and the Catastrophic Failure in Libya. It will be coming out in March.
Thank you very much.
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"donors at the $1,000 to $10,000 levels represented roughly one percent of the donor population, but were giving more than a third of the dollars"
"new donor acquisition has fallen every year since 2005"
So what should you know about mid-level donors?
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- Consistency: When an organization is taking a different approach when asking for donations depending on the method like calling on the telephone, sending an email, or mailing a letter, donors notice that there is an inconsistent message. Make sure that there is a "single, comprehensive view" in every method of reaching out to donors.
- Information in the news: Cathy Finney of The Wilderness Society included a New York Times article in their scheduled mailings that discussed the issues the organization cares about without mentioning the organization. Donors responded in a big way because it was focused on why that organization's work is important.
- Name giving levels: Successful funding programs give their mid-level donors a special name like calling that group a "club" so people are more likely to donate. The Nature Conservancy calls theirs "The Last Great Places Society".
- How to contact: Without listing any staff members in an appeal to donors, people feel like the organization is too big or is not relatable. Include at least one staff member's name as well as a way to contact that person so donors feel more connected and know there is someone willing to answer questions who cares about their individual donation.
- Ask less: Mid-level donors were most likely to give when they received fewer asks from an organization. Don't annoy potential donors with an abundance of calls, emails, or letters. Instead spend more time on asking a few times a year.
- Feedback: Donor want to be able to contribute to an organization in ways that often feel more meaningful than simply giving money. Ask mid-level donors what they want to see in the organization or what would make things better for them. Consider sending out a survey or call to do a short interview.
Beth Raps. "The Middle Way". Grassroots Fundraising Journal.


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In the recent years, many people have started to publish work on their personal webpages, either as a supplement to the conventional methods or uniquely publishing work in this way. Other societies have also started electronic servers for preprints, the largest of which is the Los Alamos ``XXX eprint archive'' (xxx.lanl.gov), started by physicists. A small preprint server for cryptology exists since 1996 (the ``Theory of Cryptology Library'', started by Oded Goldreich, currently hosted at UCSD).
``ePrint Server'' stands for the new features of papers published there: electronically distributed, rapidly published, recent work, immediately accessible. However, an eprint server is different from other scientific forms of publishing because work is placed there by the authors and does undergo almost no refereeing. Work is only superficially checked to fall in the areas of interest.
Mihir Bellare at UCSD has kindly volunteered to host the eprint server at UCSD. He and Bennett Yee have been hosting the ``Theory of Cryptology Library'' at UCSD; the current plan is to integrate this library in the new server. We are about to set up the software and it is expected that the server is operational later this year. The URL will be http://eprint.iacr.org. In any case, check out http://www.iacr.org for more information!
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Indiana's top elections official signed documents showing he was living at an address different than one he listed on voting records, witnesses testified Tuesday as prosecutors began building their case in a trial that could cost Secretary of State Charlie White his job and his freedom.
White faces charges of fraud, perjury and theft. A conviction on even one of the seven felony counts would force his removal from the politically powerful office.
As the trial began, defense attorney Carl Brizzi tried to sow doubt in jurors' minds that White is guilty of any of the charges.
Special prosecutor Dan Sigler Sr. brought in a cart with 11 boxes of evidence, including key cellphone records that he said in his opening argument would show White wasn't living in the address on his voting records.
Prosecutors claim White used his ex-wife's address on his voter registration form in the May 2010 Republican primary when he actually had a condo elsewhere with his fiancee. They also allege he collected his $1,000-per-month Fishers Town Council salary after moving out of that district.
"This case is about deceit and cheating," Sigler told jurors at the Hamilton County Courthouse in the Noblesville, about 20 miles north of Indianapolis. "Somebody tried to get away with something. ... Somebody got caught."
But Brizzi told jurors there was no evidence anyone was harmed or that he was ineligible to vote.
"Their entire case is based on supposition and innuendo," Brizzi told jurors during his opening argument. "You're not going to be convinced of anything beyond a reasonable doubt except that they want to get him."
The state's first four witnesses were a human resources officer at an Indianapolis law firm White went to work for in 2010 and the sales agent, builder and mortgage closing officer involved in his purchase of the condo that year. They testified that White listed the home located well outside his council district as his primary residence on employment and loan documents or that they saw him arriving or leaving there.
Brizzi tried to poke holes in the state's case, asking the witnesses if prosecutors had asked them to lie or if they had made up any of their testimony. Sales agent Tammi Kaeser testified she understood White was going to move into the town home in November 2009 — long before White changed his address on voting records — but did not know for a fact whether he did or simply let his future wife, Michelle, live there with her children.
"I'm not sure who moved in on the 13th," Kaeser said under cross-examination.
Sigler and fellow special prosecutor John Dowd used the witnesses to enter more than 25 documents central to their case that jurors were able to examine in the courtroom and jury room.
White, 42, has said the charges he faces ignore a complicated personal life in which he was trying to raise his 10-year-old son, plan his second marriage in May 2010 and campaign for the statewide office he won that November. He said he stayed at his ex-wife's house when he wasn't on the road campaigning and did not live in the condo until after his remarriage.
Prosecutors are expected to conclude their case Thursday.
White has resisted calls to resign from Democrats and Republicans, including Gov. Mitch Daniels.
A Marion County judge already has ruled that White should be ousted, but that decision has been appealed.
The same judge also said White should be replaced by Vop Osili, the Democrat he defeated in the November 2010 election by about 300,000 votes. But state law calls for Daniels to appoint a successor.


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|Sighting Report
|Occurred : 8/15/2010 00:00 (Entered as : 08/15/2010 0:00)
Reported: 8/15/2010 7:58:34 PM 19:58
Posted: 8/24/2010
Location: Deming, NM
Shape: Disk
|craft hovering over town for over a month now and presently continuing to do so! Deming, NM
The craft has been here over a month now. It leaves around 7AM and returns every night like clockwork. It is a large greyish color saucer and at night is shine brighter than any star I have ever seen.
((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD))


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Recently we got to catch up with David Bloom, cofounder and CEO of Ordr.in. During our interview he introduces us to Ordr.in and shares with us some lessons from the early stages of starting their company. Ordr.in is funded by Google Ventures, a venture capital investment arm of Google and was part of Techstars.
Tell us what your company is all about.
Ordr.in is an open platform for restaurant ecommerce. Our APIs and other tools make it easy for anyone to build a food ordering app or integrate food ordering in any existing site, app or device. Our mission is to power generations upon generations of new restaurant commerce solutions.
How did you come up with the idea for your company?
I used to run the restaurant business development team at American Express. My job was to get tens of millions of people to spend more with restaurants. Ecommerce was part of that but my only options were to promote a bunch of local online food ordering site or chain restaurants. The amount of opportunity in the space is crazy but there are very few tools that would help me take advantage. So I recruited my co-founder/CTO Felix Sheng to this amazing mission to build Ordr.in. He handles the crazy technical challenges and I focus on the business.
Can you walk us through some of the early stages of starting Ordr.in?
We had a vision for the company but had to educate a lot of people. There were no models in our industry to follow, no way to say we are X for Y. In the beginning I called everyone I could think of and asked "If we can do this would you participate?" Every time they said yes I sent them a contract. The more people said yes, the more confident we got in our plan. Of course one day a huge customer said yes and suddenly we really had to deliver. We thought that we were on our way but that first customer wound up being just a (super important) step on the journey. We had to keep engaging customers, listening and iterating. Only now, two years later, do I really feel like we are where we should be.
You were part of Google Ventures, how have they helped you? Why Google Ventures?
Why Google Ventures? Why not! They come with terrific prestige and teams of experts that help the portfolio with everything from design to hiring to engineering. They've been great supporters. Plus when we introduce ourselves as a Google Ventures portfolio company people pay attention.
What was it like going through TechStars?
TechStars was an amazing experience. Access to smart people in every field, terrific feedback and the right kind of pressure to succeed that helped us focus even more. So many doors opened for us. And the alumni experience is powerful- many engaged people to call for ideas, intros or references. I can't say enough about it. But I also don't recommend it for everyone. TechStars is an intensive, feedback-driven experience. If you are not the kind of team that thrives on feedback and pressure, don't do it. Do what you think is right for your company.
What progress do you hope to make in the next year?
We are on track to having the largest online food ordering network in the country- more restaurants in more places than any other source. We are immensely proud to have done this without a sales team. Between growing our restaurant network and launching new ordering tools we expect a huge year in 2013.
Any do's / don'ts when trying to get funding?
Don't go into business to raise money. Raise money to stay in business. You do this by building a business you can't stop thinking about, that you absolutely must see come to life. Don't start by wondering what will get investment. That's a terrible plan. Totally inauthentic. Good investors will sense that and run away.
What advice would you like to give to an entrepreneur thinking about writing their first business plan?
Start with a belief, something you really care about, and then keep making it simpler. The more complexity, the more opportunities to fail. And talk to people until you can communicate it so easily that they get as excited as you are. That's when you know you're on to something real. But don't worry about an elaborate business plan. Just identify the market, the drivers of that market and why your approach will matter to customers. And then build it.
What were some mistakes that you learned from?
The biggest lesson we learned was that no one will "make" your business. New clients, nice press, a spot in an incubator…all are great but nothing will assure your success. From the beginning we had a philosophy that we could make mistakes but not fatal ones; that things might take longer to hockey stick. We kept our burn rate low and never assumed big revenue would save us. It kept us alive through lean times so we had time to figure things out. I am so glad we did that!
A massive thank you to David for taking the time out of his busy schedule to put down some awesome answers to our questions. We look forward to catching back up with Ordr.in next year to see how things are going. You can also follow them on twitter!
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Sports News of Monday, 12 December 2016
Source: GHANAsoccernet.com
Ghana's players for the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations must pass a CAF medical to play in the tournament in Gabon next year.
The Confederation of African Football is introducing medical check-ups of all teams that have qualified for the finals.
The new system, known as the PCMA information (Pre Competition Medical Assessment), constitutes an integral check-up of the player to determine whether they are fit or not to participate in the competition.
The Medical Information system of CAF is integrated into the Content Management System (CMS), launched in January 2014, during the African Nations Championship (CHAN) in South Africa.
The CAF system will help to have a clear idea of the health of players across Africa.
It is also an opportunity offered to medical officers to have access to information and records regarding injuries sustained during CAF competitions.
The Pre-Competition Medical Assessment (PCMA) came as a FIFA directive following the tragic death of Cameroonian player Marc-Vivien Foe, who collapsed and died on the field during the 2003 FIFA Confederations Cup game against Colombia at Lyon's Stade de Gerland in France.


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Mary Fedden OBE
Mary Fedden studied at the Slade School of Art in the mid 1930s. During the war she painted many commissioned murals and theatre sets. It wasn't until some time after the war that she painted for herself again and developed her distinctive bold, expressive and instantly recognisable style.
Mary Fedden's paintings reflect her love of simple, everyday objects – flowers in a vase, jugs on a table, fruit, bottles of wine – often placed in front of a landscape. Her passion for travelling and treasured places such as Gozo, Scotland, Sicily and the Cevennes also provided a great source of inspiration over the years together with her love of animals and plants – cats, fish, birds, fritillaries
Mary Fedden found the early Ben Nicholson's fascinating as were the paintings of his wife Winifred. She also admired the Scottish artist Anne Redpath and the French painter Henri Hayden.1951 Mary Fedden married the artist Julian Trevelyan who she had met before the war. They took a studio on the Thames River at Chiswick, where Fedden, lived and worked there until she passed away. Together, Trevelyan and Fedden travelled widely and even collaborated on a mural commission for Charing Cross Hospital. Fedden received several other commissions for murals, most importantly from the Festival of Britain (1951), the P & O Liner, Canberra (1961).
From 1958-1964 she taught at the Royal College of Art and was appointed the first female tutor in the Painting School. Her pupils included David Hockney and Allen Jones. Subsequently, Fedden taught at the Yehudi Menuhin School and was elected Royal Academician. From 1984 to 1988 she was President of the Royal West of England Academy. She was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Bath and an O.B.E. for her work.
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Mrs. Linda Berardinucci, 68, of 203 Carbon St., Palmer Township, died Tuesday in her home. She was the wife of Michael Berardinucci. They observed their 48th wedding anniversary in October.
Born in Citta, San Angelo Apruzzi, Italy, she was a daughter of the late John and Maria (Capicutto) Giovannoli.
Mrs. Berardinucci was a member of St. Jane Frances de Chantal Catholic Church, Wilson.
Surviving with her husband are four daughters, Ann Louise Hahn Croll and Sandra Bulette, both of Palmer Township, and Barbara LeDonne of Roseto and Linda Howells of Easton, and 12 grandchildren.
Services at 9:15 a.m. Friday in the Curran-Finegan Funeral Home, 1837 Washington Blvd., Wilson, will be followed by a Mass of Christian Burial at 10 a.m. in the church. Calling hours will be 7-9 p.m. Friday.


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Archive for May, 2016
Talking Politics
Bhikhu Parekh in conversation with Ramin Jahanbegloo (2011) Talking Politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 129pp, £18.99, ISBN 9780198071549
Talking Politics is the outcome of a series of Ramin Jahanbegloo's interviews with Bhikhu Parekh, a prominent British-Indian political philosopher and theorist who has made significant contributions to the understanding of modern Indian culture and political thought. In his conversation, Jahanbegloo explores Parekh's personal as well as academic life, and discusses a range of issues, including his early experience in India, his perspectives on liberalism and cultural diversity and his contribution to political philosophy.
The book is divided into five sections. Part I deals with Parekh's personal life and his journey from a small town in Gujarat to his current academic prominence and entry into the House of Lords. Parekh interestingly discusses about his adventurous marriage and experiences with the caste system as well as his impressions of England and association with Isaiah Berlin. In Part II, Parekh talks about his views on political philosophy and his critique of liberalism. To him, liberalism, which is grounded on reason and individualism, is a narrow concept; it does not consider individual's "social embeddeness" (p. 59) and is incapable to "engage in intercultural dialogue" (p.58). The limits of liberalism are further explored in Part III where Parekh discusses about cultural pluralism, multiculturalism and the immigrant communities in Europe. According to him, although "all societies display some [cultural] diversity" (p.65) all of them are not multicultural. Multiculturalism represents a unique way to manage this diversity and pluralism in society. He also distinguishes between cultural and moral diversity and argues that liberalism is hospitable only to the former. The latter "is viewed with suspicion, even pathologized, and the cultural minorities are pressured to adopt dominant liberal values" (p.66). Apart from this liberal imposition/homogenization, Parekh argues that the lack of recognition of "the other" contributes as well to identity and integration-related problems. As a way forward, Parekh, drawing inspirations from Gandhi, advocates for intercultural and intercivilizational dialogue (Part IV). Specifically, in the Indian context, Parekh believes that a sense of "shared citizenship" (p. 117) and "inclusiveness" can not only address the existing intolerance between communities but could also strengthen the Indian identity as well as its democracy (Part V).
This book is unique in structure and style. The conversational mode presents a lively content that is quite interesting to read.This slender volume has gone beyond expectation to present coherently Parekh's life and thought for which Jahanbegloo must be congratulated.
Max-Weber-Kolleg (Erfurt) and Indian Institute of Technology (Delhi)
@Reviewed by Sarbeswar Sahoo, Political Studies Review, Vol.11, Issue.1, January.


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|Hublot Shanghai boutique.
Despite the recent reports of an economic slowdown in China, luxury companies continue to build their extravagant retail spaces for the growing mass of wealthy and middle class shoppers.
The latest example of this is Swiss luxury watch brand, Hublot, which opened its second boutique in Shanghai Tuesday. Located on Nanjing West Road, an area renowned for its concentration of top luxury brands, the boutique features the black that defines the Hublot brand along with leather furnishings, glass and metal fixtures, and high-tech details that create a contemporary space.
The boutique is the fourth in China for Hublot along with four other points of sale in Beijing, Shanghai, Dalian, Shenyang and Wuhan. The brand said it plans to have 15 outlets in China "within a short time frame."
A month earlier, the German luxury brand, Montblanc, opened a four-story flagship in Beijing to house its luxury writing instruments, timepieces, fine jewelry and leather goods with an extravagant party attended by 1,000 persons, including Jessica Alba, Naomi Watts, Nicolas Cage and Amber Heard.
It is the largest store by the brand and includes interactive displays throughout the store that focuses on the company's heritage.
So while investors take a pause, luxury brands continue to bet that China will continue on its road to prosperity.
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This cake is like a shopping list of dairy products: Sour Cream Cream Cheese Butter Cake. Actually it's just Cream Cheese Butter Cake but it does have a lot of sour cream in it. I predict 100% Alpha Baker satisfaction with this cake because it's dead easy, incredibly quick and absolutely delicious. The only change I'd recommend is to double the recipe. This recipe goes straight to the pool room*.
*check out the film The Castle if you're not familiar with this expression.
*check out the film The Castle if you're not familiar with this expression.
Although the icing is called buttercream, forget nightmares of never-ending instructions or *shudder* pouring hot syrup into whizzing egg whites. This is just a simple lemon curd with butter beaten into it. With an immersion blender! Barely any washing up...except for the two bowls, saucepan and sieve (yes I even sieve things these days). The only difficulty in the whole process is standing over the lemon curd patiently stirring while it thickens on the stove (do NOT walk away but if you do, a bit of wild whisking can resurrect a curd on the brink).
Oh, and it's absolutely delicious.
I used ordinary unbleached (Australian*) plain flour rather than cake flour (which Rose notes is critical to this recipe). I mentioned early on in the Alpha Bakers that I wasn't that keen on the texture and taste you get from cake flour. This could be because it reminds me of lower quality commercially baked goods (which is the only place you really find cake flour here and they always taste of preservative), or perhaps because cake flour isn't commonly used here by domestic cooks and I'm used to more 'robust' baking. Whatever it is, in this case my cake certainly does look robust, although it had a very soft texture. I'm not sure if it was the flour or actually just the baker :) but it would be interesting to try it again with cake flour. And maybe I will. Particularly since I
have had (oops) some lemon curd icing left over.
*which, as bakers around the world will know, differs from flour in the UK and USA (and elsewhere) in many ways, including the protein levels.
Next week we're making Lemon Curd and Raspberry Pielets. I just looked at the recipe and it requires 18 egg yolks!! No wonder spellcheck keeps changing pielets to piglets.


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Hello again!
I'm starting another series on the blog, "What's New Weekends". I'll discuss new health-related things that I find interesting during the week and sum them up here! Some will be Boston-based, but others will apply to just about anyone. Here goes!
1. Menus of Change Annual Report:
I have my Masters in Public Health-so I try to stay on top of some of the larger population-based health news. The Menus of Change Annual Report is the first of its kind from the Harvard School of Public Health and the Culinary Institute of America. The report discusses trends in the US diet and rates how well we as a population are doing in certain food-related areas (see Page 7 of the document if you want to skip to the ratings). The report incorporates health, environmental and restaurant-business concerns to produce recommendations for people in the food industry. I love anything that brings people together from different disciplines for a common cause (healthier eating!). If we hope to make it easier for restaurants to serve us healthy food-more evidence based collaborations like this need to happen. Click here to download a PDF version of the document or view it online as a flip book.
After reading through the report, I am inspired to incorporate more veggies into my diet. I am already in love with Juice in Boston, they offer delicious fresh pressed juices. We are now lucky enough to have the DC chain sweetgreen open up in Back Bay. They offer a number of fresh pressed juices and make your own salads. I am always looking for a quick and healthy place to eat lunch, and this might do the trick-I can't wait to try it next week.
3. Hip mobility stretches:
As a runner, my hips/glutes are often tight. I notice this the most when I try to do anything squat-related in Crossfit. I've been working on this, and with the help of one of my coaches, I have a new favorite hip opening stretch. I tried to take some good pictures to show you a visual…but Casey wasn't having it and kept interrupting the photos. You simply go into a bottom of a squat and keep your back as upright as possible. To balance/increase the stretch, place your elbows on the inside of your legs as you can see below. Make sure to have your toes pointed slightly out (preferably less than mine if you are more flexible) and do not let your knees collapse in. I usually hold for 30 seconds-1 minute. If you want even more of a challenge, hold a weight in your hands.
What are you excited about this week? What new things are you really loving?


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Personal Coaching
What Does Being Coached Like a Professional Athlete Look Like?
You may not be one, but it doesn't mean you can't be treated like a Pro.
Search for your weaknesses? And start chipping away at them one by one...
Taking personal responsibility is of key importance when working on your health & fitness goals, yet taking the journey can seem so daunting. Making healthier lifestyle changes can be challenging.
Working weekly with a personal coach can help you dig deep into existing patterns, habits or beliefs - from time management and emotional eating to self-sabotage and help you get a better understanding that the time outside of a training session is equally as important as the training itself.
A Coach can help you see possibilities where you can't, and they can stay focused on the goal while you stay focused on preparing and executing to meet the goal. They act as the lighthouse which is stationary and secure and provides a beacon to direct you when you lose focus.
We cut through the enormous amount of conflicting information out there and help you feel confident that you're following the healthiest, most effective path. Addressing what's holding you back and help keep your head in the game.
The goal of coaching is not to put you under a lot of pressure, but rather to encourage and motivate you to achieve your goals – a fit healthy body. The personal training is the service of guiding you through a workout. The personal coaching is the service of guiding you through getting you a fit body (more than just a workout).
Having a personal coach with you every step of the way will help you to avoid the confusion and misleading info out there and find out how to maintain health & fitness as a way of life not just a temporary thing. Personal trainers generally guide you through physical work out sessions rather than addressing your core qualities or internal makeup - including diet, metabolism & conditioning.
Behind every person there's a story and there's always struggles that we go through, it's just a matter that you have to keep going & keep moving forward.
Having a personal coach with you every step of the way will help modify a person's behavior and inspire them to move beyond what they had thought there limitations were.
"He has always made the right decisions for me. He is a guiding light in my career and he has shown me the way to improve myself both as a person and as an athlete,"Usain Bolt said in response to the importance of his coach, Glen Mills.
Different clients will require vastly different coaching approaches. Our job is to educate a client's mind about fitness and inspire. Taking control of your mindset is one of the biggest tools for success. We'll help you completely shift your thinking!
Making real change happen is so much easier if you have the right support. Finding support for your weight loss efforts can mean the difference between success and failure.
You'll receive around the clock support by your coach.
Personal Training
Choosing quality over quantity when training and the right exercise progression is important for building proper movement patterns to help you move and feel better. Strength and conditioning training gets you fit in a functional way, creating the lean muscle you need in order to burn fat.
Surprisingly, you'll only need to see us once weekly for your intense 45 minute one-on-one strength & conditioning session with your trainer working the body parts you want to change, based on your specific goals and state of health, using the abson method technique.
Nutrition plays a vital role in health & fitness. Using our Abson Method food ratio system, we teach your body to metabolise again at full speed to enable your food to fuel your muscles to burn fat. Turning you into a fat burning machine.
Goal setting
Goals are important - they give you a direction to follow and a way to measure our progress along the way. Goals help design a clear path to succeed and success keeps you motivated.
Losing weight, toning and fitness are classic health & fitness goals. People will join a gym because they "want to get fitter" or to "lose weight" – but those with experience will tell you this sort of motivation does not last and is difficult to sustain for the long term.
Most people have things they would like to do or achieve in health & fitness – but often not committed to them.
Our fitness goals should be both short term and long term - but it is very important to focus on our short-term goals. You can't achieve the bigger goals without achieving the smaller ones first. Goals need to be defined and achievable.
When you begin your journey with us, we set interim goals and make them our main focus. By achieving interim goals this will allow us to achieve our big goal(s). By working on a framework of 'easier' interim goals, one gradually progresses towards the bigger goals. A journey of a thousand miles begins in small steps.
Now we're not talking about some up-in-the-air goals like, "I want to look toned", or "I want to lose weight", we're talking about detailed, specific goals.
First, we we need to figure out how the weight came on and how we're going to get it off!
Here's an acronym that will help you set and attain your fitness goals:
S.M.A.R.T-R (pronounced "smarter") let's go into details of each point:
Home Program
Exercise/workouts outside
Weekly Accountability scoring for food and exercise for the week
6 Weekly Check-in
and Program reset - includes Measures and Photos and Weekly Structure planning for the week
Are you getting what you paid for?
See how AbsOnFitness compares on price and service to the other trainers, health clubs & gyms.


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Helen Flanagan has admitted she hates her bum, describing it as "non-existent".
And our jaws actually drop.
The former Corrie star , who is certainly no stranger to flashing the flesh, says she suffers with low self-esteem and can't stand her "non-existent" behind.
She told OK! Magazine: "My natural weight is a size 8 but to get to a 6 I have to work hard. I'm like any normal girl; I get really self-conscious.
"Sometimes my weight drives me round the bend. I've got good boobs, but I do not like my bum whatsoever. I do squats, but it's non-existent."
Despite her enviable figure, the 23-year-old actress admits she regularly scoffs chocolate and gorges on alcoholic beverages, but tries to maintain a healthy diet.
We instantly feel better.
She explained: "I eat so much chocolate, especially if I'm hormonal. I like healthy food, but my downfalls are wine, chocolate and coffee."
The brunette beauty has also decided to step away from her boob-popping frocks and skimpy skirts as she believes covering up makes her feel "sexier".
She said: "What I've found is covering up is so much better ... I genuinely feel sexier when I cover up."
Meanwhile, the glamour model, who had a nose job last summer, took the opportunity to slam rumours she's gone under the knife recently and claims her structured face is all down to her make-up artist.
She told the mag: "She [my make-up artist] takes two hours to contour, your face looks completely different. It's an art."


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Welcome to the 2015 season.
The Junior Presentation evening last September closed the 2014 season and planning for this season commenced in October! 8 weeks of Winter nets have been successful and the Natwest Cricket Force open weekend on 28/29 March has enabled us to complete final preparations
Thank you to all who support the Junior Section – this includes, and is not limited to, Ground, Membership Secretary, Child Welfare Officer, Sales and Marketing, Team Managers, Umpires and Scorers. With their support I am pleased to advise that we continue to meet Clubmark Accredited requirements.
We are indebted to the hard work of the volunteer qualified ECB coaches. Regrettably we have lost the services of Clive Cowx and Stuart Craig so please feel free to contact me if you are interested in undertaking UKCC2 coaching certification.
Last year's May and August Coaching Camp were a great success and we are hopeful of repeating these this year. The camps will be open to all age groups and the objective here is to provide additional coaching opportunity to juniors in 2015 season.
The junior section will continue to manage the significant challenges presented as a result of coaching in excess of 170 juniors and establishing 8 teams to fulfil in excess of 90 matches! We strive to maintain and hopefully improve our support structure as it continues to provide a vital role in the future of Toft Cricket Club, and its status within the local community both today and in years to come.
As a result we continue to produce a good number of junior players who represent Toft at District and County levels. Both junior and academy players continue to make excellent contributions with bat and ball for the senior sides in the Cheshire County Premier League
To continue to develop the junior section further, and provide the necessary support to our juniors both in coaching and matches, then it is absolutely essential that parental support is made available. We all should work together for the benefit of boys and girls in the club and our local community so your involvement and support in any capacity would be most warmly welcomed. For further info please contact email@example.com or speak to one of the coaches.
Once again we will have Toft junior clothing available for purchase (cricket shirts, trousers, caps, fleeces etc.) Monies raised will be invested in the junior section.
So, let us all have a great time and we look forward to you getting involved in helping your club and your children progress.
With best wishes to all for a successful and enjoyable season
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A strong believer in giving back, 10% of all print proceeds and countless hours are donated to shelters and animal welfare organizations.
Time & services are frequently donated to charity events, studio gift certificates to non-profit fundraisers, and as we "give back" to the community we encourage others to do the same.
Candace is also a member of Operation Love ReUnited or OpLove, which donates free photography services to military families dealing with a deployment. The mission is to boost the morale of our deployed service members through photography. The organization helps those long months go by a little faster by capturing the moments that you will long remember and always treasure. It's art. It's love. It's all made possible by artists wanting to give something back to those who make our country what it is, and ask for nothing in return but for these brave men and women to come back home.


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Fabulousness is...is...I don't thing current words can describe it.
I'm just an ultimate being. WOW.
If you ask me Rarity could use some exorcising.
The blue glowing outline is missing from Rarity's 2nd speech balloon in 2nd panel. I'm assuming it's supposed to have one, right?
Risking a bit of demonic possession is worth it as long as you can support your friends on their greatest challenges!


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September 5, 2012 | chitra rout
The International Folk Dance Program is being held at the Canton Public Library on Saturday October 13th at 2:00 PM in the Community Room. This free family-friendly event will feature dances, sounds and tastes of the many cultures that make up our community. Bring the whole family for a celebration of music, dance, food and culture.
- 2:00 — Ardan Academy of Irish Dance
- 2:30 — Troupe Ta'Amullet (Belly Dancing)
- 3:00 — American Jazz Quartet
- 3:30 — Chinese School Dancers
- 4:00 — Nadanta Indian Dancers
- Delicious ethnic food will also be available for you to sample
[Cultural Diversity by Fethi Mansouri is used with permission]


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I've always wanted to experience the revelry of Oktoberfest in its birthplace, Germany. Although I didn't board any flights, I came pretty close to fulfilling my dream last weekend at Q Bar, VITS Hotel, Mumbai. Over a late luncheon (almost early evening), I sampled treats from three ongoing festivals at Q Bar - Oktoberfest, the Arabian food fest and the Navratri special. This was my second visit to this pub-style eatery in Andheri East, a mere 2 minutes walk from Chakala metro station. The fact that it is housed inside a four star hotel assures you of top-notch taste and quality.
From the Oktoberfest menu, we sampled two beer cocktails but no food items as it was entirely non-vegetarian, in keeping with the authenticity of Oktoberfest.
Pictured above is the divine Captain Keg, a combination of lager beer, spicy rum and the fresh sweetness of apple and guava juice among other fruit juices. The drink was heady and satisfying. We also tried their unique Dark Knight, a caffeine-infused dark beer cocktail. It is a must try for lovers of cappuccino though I found it a tad too bitter in the latter half.
This is the Oktoberfest menu and meat lovers should not miss their array of delicious appetizers.
Arabian Food Fest
I love Lebanese food and was more than happy to try the Mezze platter which turned out to be humongous. It was a combination of most of the delicacies in the vegetarian menu. Take a look.
So in our platter, there was hummus and pita bread (excellent hummus, pita bread could be softer); innovative falafel burgers (could have had many more of these!), scrumptious vegetarian kebabs on satay sticks (the winner of the dish), bell pepper, mushroom, spinach and feta cheese open sandwiches and puffs (the perfect open sandwich - can make a meal out of these!). All this came with perfectly prepared tahini sauce and Mediterranean salad.
Navratri Special
By now, we were full but not so full that we couldn't taste a sampler of the upcoming Navratri festival at Q Bar. I've always found Maharashtrian fasting dishes to be supremely delicious and the Chef's farali (fast) kachori with fruit salsa and sweet yoghurt more than exceeded my expectations. The aloo-lined kachori had a stuffing of crushed nuts, desiccated coconut and dry fruits.
I love meals which don't follow the defined soup-starter-main course pattern but the one thing I can never overlook is a satisfying dessert. Replete with the eclectic variety of dishes the chef had prepared for us, wanted a light dessert. The baked cheesecake with blueberry sauce was the perfect ending to our meal though I felt the cheesecake could've been flakier and less dense.
While some of the above-mentioned fests have concluded, there is always something happening at Q Bar and if you haven't been there yet, schedule a visit for some TGIF vibes!
Address: VITS-Luxury Business Hotels & Lotus Resorts, Andheri-Kurla Road, International Airport Zone, Marol, Mumbai
Phone: 022 61517555 (Table booking recommended)


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The unnamed person is a Teifling Monk named Druce Tourloch. They take the rats back to the garrison and start to question them. The party quickly realizes that the rats, even when they are willing to talk are completely unable to talk about Agotha or what they are doing. The group calls Mazin who comes down and quickly realizes that they are subject to a domination spell. He casts "Protection from Evil" allowing them to speak on the subject of Agotha.
The rats were ordered, by Agotha, to find individuals, capture them and mark them with a scent that she can track. The group decides to use this to their advantage and set a trap for Agotha. That same evening they head out and hang Nysra upside down, mark her with the scent, and hide.
Shortly, Agotha arrives and realizes that a trap has been set. The party manages to defeat Agotha and Kal severs her head. The remaining rats, no longer dominated, flee.


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|2013-09-03, 16:08
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Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: Spain
Age: 28
Right now I'm suffering the exact contrary process. I am still quite casual but my interest is growing...
I know there will be a moment in my life where I'm not anymore into anime, and maybe I will be able to retake it some years later. Like everything in life, hobbies/interests are not destined to be permanent, but rather to change.
Then again if the discussion is going to be about the current state of the industry then I guess my opinion is not very reliable; since being still casual means that I'm not ready to make a proper analysis on the evolution of anime as a whole. I can say that it is equally difficult for me to find a good anime now in 2013 than back in 2009 when I got into it, but that's it. I don't specifically look for newer or older stuff when I decide what to watch, just what my mood dictates.
|2013-09-03, 17:18
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|2013-09-03, 17:23
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Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: Spain
Age: 28
I didn't say otherwise. In fact if I'm able to enjoy anime it's because it is a medium; therefore being able to fit my mood in more ways than a single genre would. But still, I think it has some cohesion as a whole. I actually equal watching anime to watching live action or whatever kind of movies, or to actively listening at music, or reading novels.
|2013-09-03, 19:55
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Join Date: Sep 2011
Age: 29
It's interesting that you make the distinction between medium and genre. It makes me think of music. Of the people I've met, the ones who were into a specific genre of music faded out their interest, but the ones who're into MUSIC as a whole are always changing and growing; keeping where they were from but exploring new places.
I can def vibe this with anime. The more open you are to different experiences the more likely you are to stick with it as a whole.
|2013-09-03, 23:41
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I don't see myself dropping it anytime in my life time.
|2013-09-03, 23:51
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Obey the Darkly Cute ...
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
Age: 61
|2013-09-03, 23:58
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Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: Hanoi, Vietnam
Age: 12
Well, I think "Change" might means that you should accept the shift in style and plotline.
But do you guys think one of the reason for manga and novel could last long is because their distingtive characteristic to each other?
|2013-09-04, 00:01
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Obey the Darkly Cute ...
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
Age: 61
I think it's because they're books. I have to wonder about someone who grows out of books.
More seriously, written works (even manga) convey subtlety and nuance better. They can cover more complex relationships, plots, etc.
That's something *any* visual medium has difficulty matching.
|2013-09-04, 00:07
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Location: Somewhere, between the sacred silence and sleep
it's not really because of which is more expressive, although sure, that's a part of it.
It really comes down to volume and range.
Manga covers a vast, VAST range of readership demographics, that there's no reason to "out grow" it.
Anime on the other hand, the vast majority of demand is for younger audience, and hence, extremely focused to cater the specific demographics. Like I said in another thread, popular seinen manga tend to become live action drama series instead of animation, largely due to the catering of demographics.
Anime can be out grown, the older you become, the less number of titles to cater to your interest, but manga is completely on different level of content.
I mean like incomparably larger. There are ten thousand different tankoubon collected manga volumes published a year.
Over 300 manga magazines are in publication.
|2013-09-04, 00:13
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I vaguely recall reading somewhere that manga in Japan cuts through all the demographic boundaries. Kids, teenagers, salarymen, adult women, College students, there are some manga aimed at each of them.
Novels, at least in the western world, are much the same. There's novels for kids, for teenagers, for adults, for every sort of genre, gender, and age category imaginable.
Manga and novels are aimed at the masses. Nobody would say they've "grown out of novels", because its widely understood that novels is for the masses of all age and gender categories. People may lose interest in novels, but they don't "grow out of it".
|2013-09-04, 01:01
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Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: Spain
Age: 28
My point is that anime is not something you can grow out of (I really hate that expression); but rather shift interests. And that it's only natural.
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Location: Planet Earth
Age: 27
|2016-02-12, 14:07
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Unleashing the Homu-Rage
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Of course, once you gain more mature tastes, you realize that the most attractive part of the female body can be summed up in two words: DAT ASS!
But in all seriousness, while some anime purely for fanservice of the breast and panty shot variety, I could see people growing out of, I doubt I will be growing out of anime any time soon. As for my thoughts on those type of anime- I always looked for something more than random flashes of breasts or panties in my anime, and generally watched for the plot or at least one or more characters I liked.
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The iDOL(ove Live!)M@STER
You're never too old to ogle Chinese cartoons. You can lose the time to ogle Chinese cartoons though
But anyway, I've seen enough people 'grow out' of this hobby when they were clearly entering the 'anime isn't fun anymore!' phase and didn't know where to look. Woe to the search engine
|2016-02-12, 18:00
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Sisterhood of the Desu
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: in a van by the river
I've been a fan for probably about fifteen years. My interest comes and goes, but I haven't grown completely out of anime quite yet....
though it's becoming more of a pain to watch everything
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The Land of Israel In The Footsteps of Jesus
A tour of Israel led by The Revd Mark Norris & The Revd Mark Madeley
23rd October—1st November 2017
Click below to download…
- A brochure
- A booking form, which can be returned to St Thomas' Church
- An application for travel insurance
For further information, contact us. Booking forms can be returned to MIB travel or to St Thomas' Church.
Our Provisional Itinery…
Day 1: Monday 23rd October 2017 Outbound flight
In the afternoon we fly from London Heathrow to Tel Aviv and then drive to the Mediterranean coast for our first night.
Day 2: Tuesday 24th October 2017 –To The North of Israel
Leaving Tel Aviv we head north to the magnificent ruins of Caesarea, the home of the first Gentile convert to Christianity and from where Paul sailed to Rome. There will be time to see the Hippodrome, Herod's Palace and the beautiful aqueduct. After lunch we head to Haifa to see Elijah's cave and then Muhraqa (on Mount Carmel) where Elijah fought the prophets of Baal.
Overnight Sea of Galilee region.
Day 3: Wednesday 25th October 2017—Around The Sea of Galilee
We spend our day around the Sea of Galilee visiting some beautiful places: The Mount of The Beatitudes, site of The Sermon on the Mount, Tabgha, possible site of the feeding of the five thousand, Chapel of Mensa Christi, possible site of the resurrection breakfast: Capernaum, the centre of Jesus' Galilean Ministry, Qatzrin where you can see biblical life, The Golan Heights, Yardenit, the Pilgrims' Baptismal site on the River Jordan and we shall have a wonderful boat trip across the Sea of Galilee.
Overnight Sea of Galilee region.
Day 4: Thursday 26th October 2017—Nazareth and Cana
Today we head for Mount Tabor, possible of the transfiguration, Village of Cana, the scene of Jesus' first miracle where He turned water into wine and Nazareth, Jesus childhood home where we see the Basilica of the Annunciation over Mary's house. St Joseph's Church the Church of Mary's Well, the Souk and the Old Synagogue. In Nazareth we shall also visit the Nazareth Village which is an excellent reconstruction of Nazareth from biblical times.
Overnight Sea of Galilee region.
Day 5: Friday 27th October 2017—Masada, Qumran and The Dead Sea
We drive South roughly following the River Jordan, to Qumran where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered after which we head to Masada, the famous rock fortress, the final resistance of the Zealots against Romans in the Jewish War of the 1st Century AD. After a relaxing time floating on the waters of the Dead Sea (the lowest point on earth), we head back to the stunning city of Jerusalem.
Overnight Jerusalem.
Day 6: Saturday 28th October—Bethlehem
We begin our day with a visit to Bethlehem to see Church of The Nativity and The Shepherd's Fields. We will also visit Herod's Bethlehem Palace. After lunch and a visit to a Christian shop to buy olive wood products, we return to Jerusalem. Today we return early to the hotel so there will be plenty of time to relax with friends, go for a walk or visit the Anglican Cathedral (near the hotel).
Overnight Jerusalem.
Day 7: Sunday 29th October—Worship at Christ Church and a tour of Jerusalem
We begin our day by joining the 9:30 a.m. service at Christ Church. Christ Church is the oldest Protestant Church in the Middle East. After the service, there will be time to look at their Heritage Centre which gives us an insight into Jerusalem's history and layout. The afternoon will be spent in the Jewish Quarter to see the ancient wall from 10th century B.C., possibly built Solomon. We shall also see the Cardo which was an ancient Roman market. The day will end with time at The Western Wall.
Overnight Jerusalem.
Day 8: Monday 30th October 2017—Jerusalem—Ein Karem & Yad Vashem
Our day begins early so that we can go up onto Temple Mount to think about the Temple in Old Testament times. Afterwards we walk through the Arab quarter of The Old City. We then drive through New Jerusalem so that we can visit Ein Karem, home of John the Baptist's parents and Yad Vashem –one of the best museums of the Holocaust.
Day: 9 Tuesday 31st October 2017—Jerusalem—The Last Week of Jesus' Life
Starting in the Mount of Olives we view the Golden City of Jerusalem and the Temple Mount. As we walk down the Mount of Olives we stop at Dominus Flevit , where Jesus wept over Jerusalem and then Garden of Gethsemane, scene of Jesus agony, arrest and betrayal. We head next through The Lion Gate to visit the Church of St Anne and the Pool of Bethesda. Next we head to Sisters of Zion Convent where Pilate may have sat on the Roman Pavement before walking along the Via Dolorosa thinking of the Stations of the Cross tracing Jesus' last steps to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and Calvary. Our day ends with a Communion service at The Garden Tomb.
Overnight Jerusalem.
Day 10: Wednesday 1st November 2017—Jaffa and homeward bound
Our day begins slowly with a visit to Pater Noster, possibly the place where Jesus taught the Lord's Prayer. Leaving Jerusalem, we drive to Jaffa, an ancient port in New Testament times. There will be time to walk around Jaffa and think of how it has progressed from an ancient sea port to its modern day status of an extension to Tel Aviv. In the afternoon we drive to Tel Aviv airport for our flight to the UK arriving in London late evening.
Please note: The itinerary is provisional and subject to change due to local circumstances. Whilst every effort will be made to visit the sites mentioned, some may need to be omitted and the order may well change. No refund is applicable for change or omission. Bethlehem is very much subject to the political situation and certainly cannot be guaranteed, although parties do usually go in at some point.
Tour Price £1,559
You can spread the cost and pay by standing order or by flexible instalments at St Thomas' Church. Ask for details.
This price assumes at least 32 people actually travel on the tour. If there are less, the price will increase. The price may increase if the £/$ rate changes by more than 2%
Final price will include:
- Good quality hotel accommodation in twin rooms with private facilities
- Half board (bed, breakfast and evening meal)
- All touring and transfers in modern air-conditioned coaches
- Professional local guide throughout
- All entrance fees,
- Flights with El Al Israel Airlines from Heathrow.
- Airport taxes and fees as known in January 2016.
Your journey to and from your departure airport, lunches and drinks are not included in the price.
A limited number of single rooms will be available at a supplement of £399.
Insurance for this tour starts at £36.50 (depending on age) . Why not upgrade your insurance to an annual policy? Price available on request—from £54.00
ATOL protected.
The tour is arranged by pilgrimage specialist Madeley's Israel & Beyond Ltd, (trading as MIB travel) a retail agent of ATOL 2893. www.mibtravel.co.uk.
Recognised by the Israeli Embassy in London & The Israel Ministry of Tourism.


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Raveena Tandon Biography
Raveena Tandon was born on 26 October, 1969 in Mumbai, Maharashtra. Her name is the blend of her guardians name Ravi and Veena. She did her educating from Jamnabai Narsee School in Juhu. She learned at Mithibai College, where she finished her first and second year of school. Later she got her first film offer and dropped her studies. This drove her to proceed with her dim vocation. She has showed up in the film "Mohra", which was the second greatest hit of 1994. She has additionally acted in couple of southern motion pictures which inculdes Tollywood. She has won number of honors for her dazzling exhibitions in motion pictures. She has embraced two young ladies Pooja and Chhaya in 1995 when they were 11 and 8 years of age individually.
Raveena Tandon was destined to the well known movie producer Ravi Tandon and Veena. Her dad was additionally a maker and chief of a few movies in the 1970s and 1980s. She has one sibling Rajiv Tandon, who had a little touch with bollywood. She is the cousin of the renowned South Indian film on-screen character Kiran Rathod. The television serial on-screen characters Reshma Singh and Vishal Singh are her different cousins. She is hitched to Anil Thadani and has swung to Raveena Tandon Thadani.
Raveena Tandon was in connection with Anil Thadani amid the making of her film Stumped, in 2003. Later they were occupied with November 2003. The pair tied bunch on 22 February 2004 in Jag Mandir Palace, Udaipur, Rajasthan in a Punjabi styles. She brought forth an infant young lady Rasha on 16 March 2005 and her second kid, an infant kid Ranbir on 12 July 2007. Raveena is great at adjusting everything at home and never put her marriage away.
Most recent News
On-screen character Raveena Tandon has kept up her quiet on doing the following venture of the Anurag Kashyap. She is supposedly going to highlight in Kashyap's "Arrival Gift", about which she said, "It's a lot in the pre (beginning) stages at this time, so I wouldn't prefer to discuss it. When they'll make the declaration, you'll know all the more about it."
In Bombay Velvet
Bombay Velvet is a Hindi film coordinated by and co-delivered by Anurag Kashyap. The film highlights Ranbir Kapoor and Anushka Sharma in lead parts. Performing artist Raveena Tandon was likewise found in the film. Raveena said, "I had no part in Bombay Velvet. It was a visitor appearance as it was only three melodies that I should do."
In Shab Movie
Raveena Tandon will soon be found in her next film with Onir, which is likely titled 'Shab'. Raveena will need to lose heaps of weight for her part and she has likewise consented to get close with her co-star Ashish Bisht on screen. As per the sources, the cozy scenes will have a great deal more than only a lip lock.
Host in Simply Baatein
Bollywood diva Raveena Tandon was seen mooring the show Simply Baatein. This was Raveena's second trip as a host after her spell in Issi Ka Naam Zindagi (NDTV Imagine). Just Baatien With Raveena was an intelligent television show delivered by GR8 Entertainment. On the show, Raveena locations issues under an aggregate unbrella of "womanhood" in a fun, skip and master exhortation from praised identities of different fields.
Raveena Tandon Profile
Name : Raveena Tandon
Nickname : Ravs
Birth place : Mumbai, Maharashtra
Date of birth/Birthday : 26 October 1974
Age : 40 years
Zodiac sign : Scorpio
Occupation : Actress, producer, TV host
Raveena Tandon Bra size/Measurements
Height in Meters: 1.66m
Height in Centimeters: 166cm
Height in Feet: 5 Feet 5 1/2 Inches
Weight in Kilograms: 57kg
Weight in Pounds: 125lbs
Body Measurement and Size: 32-27-33
Bra Size: 32B
Eye Color: Black


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You can definitely spend a life time in Prague, but for this location we'll focus on the Old Town and it's close surroundings.
Prague is a city where you can spend a life time, but what do you do if you only got little more than one day? I decided to take the metro up to the magnificent Prague Castle and then slowly criss-cross my way down to Old Town Square.
Prague Castle is the largest medieval castle complex in Europe and sure is a nice view for the keen eye with the beautiful St. Vitus Cathedral inside. Coming out of the castle area you are presented with a splendid panorama of the city. I made my way down from the hill and strolled into Mála Strana. Then stopping by the Lennon Wall, where once was a portrait of John Lennon. It is covered in graffiti, poetry, lyrics and political messages and was subject to great irritation of the old communist regime. Not far from the wall there's a small bridge crossing the little Certovka Canal. The railing of the bridge is full of padlocks and I heard it was a tradition for newly married couples to scratch their names on a padlock and lock it to a bridge before throwing away the key as a sign of commitment.
Crossing over the Charles Bridge, one of Europe's oldest stone bridges, is a bit of a struggle with all the tourists and merchants, but it really is very beautiful with its many statues and icons. The Bridge Band was of course there performing their usual routine of New Orleans jazz. At the other end of the bridge awaits the Jewish Quarter and the medieval center of Prague around Old Town Square where you'll also find the Astro Clock.
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