THE history of the Community Health Centers program dates back to 1965, when teachers working at early childhood learning centers in Mississippi and Alabama funded by the then-new Head Start program, the first and still-enduring effort of President Johnson's “War on Poverty” initiative, realized that they had a problem. They could not begin to provide education services to their students, they told federal program managers in Washington, District of Columbia, until the students' profound, untreated health care needs were met. As Dr Jack Geiger, a founder of the first Community Health Center, tells it, when the War on Poverty leaders such as Dr Julius Richmond and OEO Director Sargent Shriver suggested that the Head Start teachers use some of their grant funds to purchase health care from local physicians, they were shocked to learn that the mostly white medical establishment in those states would not treat the mostly black students at any price. It was then that they realized a whole new system of care would be needed if America's poor, minority, and disenfranchised were to ever have a chance at realizing the American dream.
Just as the health centers program was born at a time of social reform, health centers will now play a major role in a post–health reform landscape. The enacted health reform legislation, the Affordable Care Act (ACA), seeks to alter the fragmented American health care system to provide access to affordable quality health care, by expanding insurance coverage and by experimenting with initiatives to integrate and improve care. The ACA, a catalyst driving toward a more integrated delivery system, positions health centers to play a critical role in America's future health care system. As they considered the changes needed to reform health care, legislators saw the unique value health centers have embodied over 45 years, and decided it was a worthy place to invest new resources to help meet the primary care needs of the nation. The ACA provides new resources that will allow health centers to serve up to an additional 20 million people over the next 5 years, and also provides funds for additional primary care providers to stem the primary care provider shortage.
HISTORY OF COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS
America's health centers owe their existence to a remarkable turn of events in US history, and to a number of determined community health and civil rights activists who fought more than 45 years ago to improve the lives of Americans living in deep poverty and in desperate need of health care. Acting on the opportunity presented by President Johnson's War on Poverty effort, Dr Geiger and other health care pioneers submitted proposals to the federal Office of Economic Opportunity to establish health centers in medically underserved inner-city and rural areas of the country based on a unique model of health care that Geiger had studied in South Africa (Davis & Schoen, 1978; Lefkowitz, 2007).
While local clinics in many communities predated this new effort, they generally were not linked together with one another and were typically stymied both by the limits of local funding sources and by often-powerful political opposition; organized medicine, for example, strenuously resisted any attempts to allow these clinics to furnish anything beyond basic preventive health care.
By contrast, the new health center model combined the resources of local communities with federal funds to establish local community-based health care systems in both rural and urban areas all across America. It has proven to be a formula that not only empowers communities to establish and direct health services at the local level via consumer-majority governing boards but also demonstrates that affordable and accessible health care can produce significant, tangible benefits.
Today, health centers serve as the medical and health care home for 20 million people nationally-–a number that is quickly growing. Health center patients are among the nation's most vulnerable populations-–people who, even if insured, would nonetheless remain isolated from traditional forms of medical care because of where they live, who they are, the language they speak, and their higher levels of complex health care needs. As a result, patients are disproportionately low-income, uninsured or publicly insured, and minority.
Nearly all patients are low-income, with 70% of health center patients having family incomes at or below the official Federal Poverty Level. Patients also tend to be members of racial and ethnic minority groups. At the same time, 38% of health center patients are uninsured, and another 37% depend on Medicaid or the Children's Health Insurance Program. In addition, about half of health center patients reside in rural areas, while the other half tend to live in economically depressed inner-city communities (Bureau of Primary Health Care, 2009).
PREVIOUS INVESTMENT IN HEALTH CENTERS
Health centers received a $2 billion investment from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), to cover the costs of caring for new patients and the capital expenditures required to meet that need. This historic level of funding included $500 million to expand health center services, while the remaining $1.5 billion was allocated for facility construction and renovation, equipment, and the acquisition of health information technology. This infusion has enabled health centers to meet increased demand for patient services in a variety of ways, including extended hours of operation, hiring more staff, adding new services, and even opening new locations and acquiring needed quality improvement tools.
With the new ARRA funding, health centers have rapidly expanded access to care and generated economic benefits for the low-income communities they serve. By the end of June 2010, 15 months after receiving the new funds, health centers are serving an additional 2.7 million patients-–93% of their 2-year target. In that same time period, health centers have served more than 1.5 million uninsured individuals, which include existing health center patients who have lost their insurance coverage and new patients who are uninsured or have become uninsured. They were quick to create or save more than 8000 jobs in their economically hard-pressed communities over that period (Bureau of Primary Health Care, 2010).
HEALTH CENTERS AND HEALTH REFORM
The ACA establishes a Community Health Center Trust Fund of $11 billion over a 5-year period providing funding for health centers as they continue to expand access to communities. The Act will transform the health landscape for Community Health Centers and for the patients they serve. The sweeping reform law is focused on 2 major challenges: reshaping the system of insurance coverage, and reinventing the health care delivery system.
Insurance coverage reform will change the way people obtain coverage. Most importantly, the ACA expands Medicaid to all individuals younger than 65 years with incomes up to 133% of the Federal Poverty Level, or $24 352 for a family of 3 in 2010, without categorical restrictions. This expansion is expected to insure an additional 16 million people. States are required to maintain their current Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program eligibility levels for children until 2019 and their current Medicaid eligibility rules for adults until new health insurance exchanges are fully operational in 2014.
Today, more than two-fifths of the patients served at health centers are uninsured; many of them will soon gain Medicaid coverage. We estimate that the percentage of uninsured served in CHCs will decrease from 38 to 22 in the next 5 years, while the proportion of patients with Medicaid coverage will rise from 34% to 45%. If recent trends in declining charity care among private practice physicians and hospitals continue, those who remain uninsured will likely have fewer places to turn for care and are expected to seek care at health centers in even greater numbers.
Health reform establishes health insurance exchanges for individuals and small businesses who do not currently have access to affordable coverage. These exchanges will link individuals and families to insurance coverage for up to 25 million low- and moderate-income people who are not eligible for Medicaid. The ACA sets a minimum benefit package for all plans sold through the exchanges that emphasize coverage of preventive and early primary health care. The law will also require insurers operating in the exchanges to permit full participation by safety-net providers in exchange plans, requiring them to contract with health centers and other safety net providers. This will ensure that, as uninsured patients gain coverage through the new insurance exchanges, the plans covering them do not exclude low-income communities and individuals most in need of access to care and the providers who serve them. As a result of the exchanges, health centers will serve fewer employer-insured patients and more with coverage from the newly created exchanges. However, these patients will face higher out-of-pocket costs and many will need help paying for their care. The health centers' tradition of discounting regular charges to low-income people to make out-of-pocket costs more affordable will play an essential role in eliminating a crucial barrier to care.
While the ACA does not expand Medicare coverage to new populations, it expands Medicare benefits to include new preventive care benefits, and it begins to close the prescription drug coverage gap known as the “donut hole.” It also revises many Medicare payment policies and will launch demonstrations to lower costs and improve the value of care.
With an aging population, health centers can expect their Medicare patient population to grow significantly in the coming years. Both those just younger than 65 years and patients with chronic conditions are the fastest growing groups of health center patients (NACHC, 2009c). Since 1996, the number of pre-Medicare patients served by health centers has grown 13 times faster than the national low-income pre-Medicare population (NACHC, 2009c). The ACA will expand the scope of services provided at health centers to include all preventive services covered under Medicare, and it revises the Medicare payment system for health centers to improve payment levels.
The Medicaid and private insurance expansions will lead to a surge in demand for primary health care, especially among those living in medically underserved low-income communities, making vitally important the law's investments in expanded service delivery capacity for the newly insured. At the same time, an estimated 23 million will remain uninsured, even after reform is fully implemented. Many of these individuals, which include undocumented immigrants (one-third of the total) and others who either qualify for an exemption from the mandate on financial grounds or who choose to pay a penalty rather than comply with the mandate, will likely depend on health centers as their principal source of care (Congressional Budget Office, 2010). It should be noted, however, that even after their significant growth under the reform law, health centers are expected to provide care to approximately 8 million uninsured persons, only 1 of every 3 remaining uninsured Americans; thus, it will be vital that other providers continue furnishing uncompensated care to other uninsured individuals.
DELIVERY SYSTEM REFORM
With US health care spending consuming 17% of the national economy and expected to grow (Truffer et al., 2010), health reform provides an opportunity to transform the delivery system to promote quality and stimulate cost savings. The law includes new programs and demonstration projects to promote patient-centered, quality, primary care delivery in a medical home setting, with the potential to impact the organization, structure, and function of the health care delivery system. Many of these new programs could benefit health center patients and health centers that are able and willing to participate. Several major demonstration programs have the potential to integrate care and provide better care coordination, including medical homes and accountable care organizations.
A medical home is a patient- and family-centered source of care that offers regular, continuous primary and preventive care for the people it serves. Medical homes have been shown to benefit patients by preventing sickness, managing chronic illness, mitigating disparities, and reducing the need for avoidable, costlier care such as emergency department visits and hospitalizations (Rosenthal, 2008; Starfield & Shi, 2004).
There are several ways the ACA attempts to integrate the medical home concept in the system, from grants to demonstration programs. Two grant programs seek to promote better coordination of services: first, a grant for medication management services to assist pharmacists treating patients with multiple chronic diseases and those who take several, or high-risk, prescribed medications; and second, grants to establish community health teams that collaborate with providers in the community to support patient-centered primary care. It also creates a Medicaid State Plan Option with enhanced Federal matching funds to promote health homes and integrated care. Under this option, enrollees with 2 or more chronic conditions may designate a qualified provider as their health home. Teams of qualified providers can include community health centers and other provider groups. The law also establishes a Medicare demonstration program to test a model of care that uses physician and nurse practitioner directed home-based primary care teams.
Accountable Care Organizations
Under the law, groups of providers who voluntarily meet certain criteria, including quality measurements, may form Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) and share in the cost savings they achieve for the Medicare and Medicaid programs. An ACO is a provider-led organization whose members engage in joint decision-making, and which manages the full continuum of care and is held accountable for the overall costs and quality of care for a defined population. ACOs come in many forms and sizes-–from large, integrated delivery systems to physician-hospital groups, multispecialty practice groups, group physician practices, and health center networks. These groups are held accountable to achieve measured quality improvements and reductions in the spending growth rate (Shortell & Casalino, 2008). ACOs will require a strong primary care core foundation to succeed in redirecting the US delivery system toward reduced cost growth and improved quality (Rittenhouse et al., 2009). Community Health Centers will be able to play a prominent role, serving as the foundation upon which ACOs need to be grounded to achieve the goal of cost-effective care, as they do today in model systems such as Denver Health in Colorado and the Marshfield Clinic in Wisconsin.
To give the primary care system the tools needed to respond to the insurance expansions identified earlier, the health reform package strengthens the pipeline of primary care professionals by expanding training opportunities and placement incentives for locating in underserved areas. One key provision provides $1.5 billion in new, dedicated funding for the National Health Service Corps over 5 years in addition to that program's existing discretionary funding. The new funding, in combination with the prior investment from ARRA, will place an estimated 16 000 primary care providers in provider-short areas by 2015, over and above the 4000 clinicians placed by the NHSC prior to the new funding, and who will continue to receive NHSC support (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2010).
In addition, the ACA creates 2 new programs designed to sustain and further develop teaching health centers (defined as community-based, ambulatory care centers that operate a primary care residency program), for which health centers and other ambulatory care providers can apply. The first is a Title VII grant program authorized at $25 million in 2010, $50 million in 2011, and $50 million in 2012. If funded by Congress, this new program would provide awards of up to $500 000 for each teaching health center for up to 3 years. The second is a Title III program that funds payments to teaching health centers for their direct and indirect teaching costs; that provision is directly appropriated at $230 million for FY2011-FY2015 and is available for health centers that sponsor or hold an accreditation certificate for the residency program (direct appropriation means the funding is guaranteed; authorized funding is subject to the vagaries of the appropriations process).
Also important will be new and expanded training of nonphysician providers such as nurse practitioners, nurse midwives, and physician assistants. Health and Human Services Secretary Sebelius has demonstrated recognition of this fact recently by dedicating key preventive and public health funding toward expanded training of these provider types. Today, health centers utilize nearly 6000 such providers, in addition to the 9000 physicians they employ.
THE FUTURE ROLE OF HEALTH CENTERS
Today's Community Health Centers stand as a proven primary care model. Both the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and the Government Accountability Office (GAO) have recognized health centers for their effective and efficient delivery of primary care (GAO, 2003; IOM, 2003). Under one roof, health centers provide comprehensive patient-centered health care and enabling services, and they engage in quality improvement initiatives and regular community-wide needs assessments. They embrace a team-based approach to preventive and primary care that has improved screening rates and outcomes for their patients and reduced health care disparities (Chin et al., 2007; Landon et al., 2007). Moreover, evidence shows that health centers provide care of equal or superior quality compared with other primary care providers (Eisert et al., 2008; Hicks et al., 2006; Shin et al., 2008).
Health centers can transform the delivery system because they operate at the crossroads of medical care and public health. Health centers improve access to timely screening and preventive services for patients who would not otherwise have access to them. For example, health center patients do not experience disparities by race, ethnicity, or insurance status in receiving preventive services (O'Malley et al., 2005). Hispanic and African American health center women needing mammograms and pap smears are more likely to receive them than their counterparts nationally (Politzer et al., 2001; Shi & Stevens 2007).
Care received at health centers is ranked among the most cost-effective anywhere. Health centers' average annual total cost of care is $600 per patient (Bureau of Primary Health Care, 2009) or about $1.64 a day per patient served, even though health centers include an array of enabling services such as case management, transportation, translation, and health education not provided in most other primary care settings. Total medical care expenses for health center patients are 24% lower ($1093 per person) compared with patients seen elsewhere (Ku et al., 2010). Most health centers also provide dental, behavioral health, and pharmacy services.
Health center per patient costs grow more slowly than national per capita health expenditures. A George Washington University study concluded that an $11 billion investment in additional federal grants for nonprofit community health centers from 2011 to 2015 will reduce total expected national medical costs by more than $122 billion over the next 5 years, including savings of more than $55 billion in federal Medicaid spending and more than $30 billion in reduced state Medicaid expenditures (Ku et al., 2010).
Quality improvement has long been championed in community health centers. Since 1998, nearly 90% of community health centers have participated in a federal initiative known as the Health Disparities Collaborative, focused on improving care for individuals with chronic medical conditions and using a chronic care model that identifies and tracks which patients need care for each different health condition, applies the most current clinical knowledge and practice guidelines, and actively involves patients in their own care, helping them learn about their condition and setting goals for their health improvement (Chin, 2010). By sharing best practices, they have narrowed disparities in asthma and diabetes care. The collaborations provide health centers with learning experiences to apply best practices to adapt, share, and generate knowledge about what works and what does not, and to spread change throughout their health centers and to others.
Health centers meet or exceed national practice standards for chronic condition treatment. They provide a wealth of knowledge regarding improving care for medically underserved patients. In fact, the IOM and the GAO have recognized health centers as models for screening, diagnosing, and managing chronic conditions such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, asthma, depression, cancer, and HIV (GAO, 2003; IOM, 2003). For example, health centers have dramatically lowered cholesterol levels in their patients (Huang et al., 2007). Health centers' efforts have led to improved health outcomes for their patients, reducing health gaps for racial and ethnic minorities, while lowering the cost of treating chronically ill patients.
Health centers are also credited with reducing hospitalizations, inpatient days, and emergency department use, generating significant returns on investment while improving community health. Their Medicaid beneficiaries were 11% less likely to be hospitalized and 19% less likely to use the emergency department for preventive conditions than Medicaid beneficiaries seen by other providers (Falik et al., 2006).
Health centers have the experience to rapidly use funds and create jobs in their community. They are an economic catalyst causing a “ripple effect” in their communities. Health centers employ people in their communities and purchase goods and services from local businesses spurring additional economic activity in their communities. Their employees purchase household and other goods further triggering economic activity.
Last year, health centers' total economic impact was $20 billion. Beyond fueling economic activity, they also produced 189,158 jobs in the nation's most economically challenged neighborhoods. By 2015, health centers will generate $53.9 billion in total economic activity and create more than 284,323 additional full-time equivalent jobs due to the ACA. This means that every $1 million in federal funding for health center operations yields $1.73 million in return (NACHC & Capital Link, 2010).
Health reform creates investments in health centers that enhance their role in the health care delivery care system. However, they need additional tools to continue expanding access to care for medically underserved patients. Those tools include sustainable federal funding, adequate Medicaid payments, continued state investment, continued investment in the primary care workforce, capital infrastructure, as well as additional specialty care and electronic record-keeping capabilities.
First, sustainable federal funding is essential to increase access. The ACA creates a $11 billion trust fund over 5 years, $9.5 billion of which to enable health centers to expand their operational capacity to serve 40 million patients and to enhance their medical, oral, and behavioral health services by 2015. At that point, health centers will serve 1 of 3 uninsured individuals and 2 of 3 individuals living in poverty (NACHC, 2010). Yet, even before enactment of health reform, 60 million persons were considered “medically disenfranchised” because of local physician shortages that prevented adequate access to primary care (NACHC, 2009a). With sustainable funding, health centers will continue expanding access to care for more medically disenfranchised individuals. While health reform attempts to secure health centers' operational margins, third party payments from both public and private payers do not always keep up with the rise in costs. Payment shortfalls divert health centers' resources away from the uninsured who will have fewer places to seek care. Sustainable funding is essential to allow health centers to focus on direct patient care.
Second, Medicaid will become a larger player in health reform. As the largest insurer of health center patients, adequate Medicaid payments are critical to their financial well-being. Medicaid represents 37% of total revenue for health centers-–the largest of any single source-–and is proportional to the percentage of patients with Medicaid coverage (Bureau of Primary Health Care, 2009). Medicaid reimburses health centers on a per-visit basis that ensures that grant revenues can be dedicated to care for the uninsured rather than subsidizing care for Medicaid patients. As a result, health centers have been able to more than double the number of uninsured patients they serve over the past 10 years (NACHC and Capital Link, 2010). Given the relationship between health centers and Medicaid, changes in one of those programs profoundly impact the other.
Third, states play an important role in sustaining health centers and must continue to invest in them. Unfortunately, many states are slashing funding for health programs in the face of budget shortfalls, and some have relied on federal stimulus and health reform funding to justify cuts that thwart health centers' expansion efforts and threaten capacity (NACHC, 2009b).
Fourth, continued investment in the primary care workforce is crucial. While health reform provides funds to expand the NHSC and to develop and operate teaching health centers, multifaceted national and state initiatives are needed to strengthen the pipeline of primary care professionals, even before they begin formal medical education, to expand training opportunities and placement incentives for locating in underserved areas, and to ensure adequate reimbursement for primary care services. Policies also need to be developed to provide short-term solutions to shortages while the primary care pipeline is developed.
Fifth, health centers need additional financing to invest in capital infrastructure. Health centers will need $10.5 billion between now and 2015 to sustain, renovate, or upgrade existing facilities (NACHC, 2008). Health centers are unable to invest in capital infrastructure, given slim operating margins, low cash reserves, complex and diverse funding streams, and lack of endowments making them difficult credit customers for conventional private lenders. Health centers must leverage other financing sources to obtain loans and mortgages. Of the $11 billion trust fund to health centers, $1.5 billion is dedicated for capital financing. These resources must remain available to leverage the private sector to ensure that health centers have the human and technological capacity to reach the millions who live without access to high-quality primary care today.
Finally, health centers are the epitome of patient-centered medical homes. Many health centers possess capacity in key medical home domains identified by the National Committee for Quality Assurance-–patient tracking and registry functions, test tracking, referral tracking, enhanced access and communication, and performance reporting. Nearly 90% of surveyed health centers possess at least 3 of the 5 domains.
Still, there are deficiencies in care coordination and adoption of advanced HIT systems. Nearly all health centers reported difficulty securing specialty care for their uninsured patients, and 71% and 49%, respectively, reported having difficulty finding specialty care for their Medicaid and Medicare patients (Doty et al., 2010). In addition, nearly 40% of health centers have electronic medical records, which parallels the use by private-practice primary care physician (Doty et al., 2010). Achieving the capacity for more advanced HIT-–electronic ordering prescriptions and tests, creating and maintaining patient registries, tracking patients and tests, and providing alerts or prompts—remains highly variable. On the other hand, significant progress has been achieved since 2006, when only 25% showed electronic health record capacity (Shields et al., 2007).
Health centers have 45 years of experience providing high-quality, cost-effective primary care to underserved communities. Health centers were able to quickly, efficiently, and successfully target their services where needed, as demonstrated with ARRA. Health center expansion will magnify their contributions to improve access and community health, while generating significant economic returns to local, state, and national health care delivery systems.
Over the next decade, the US health care system will experience a thorough transformation, from the current costly and fragmented system to one that promotes patient-centered and integrated, cost-effective care. The ACA jump-started this process by expanding access to affordable health insurance coverage and quality care for millions more Americans. The new law's investment in health centers primes them to be national leaders in comprehensive, community-based, and cost-effective quality health care. Just as health centers constituted a key answer to the country's healthcare dilemmas of the past and have proved to be a central part of addressing our most pressing problems of today, it is clear that health centers will remain at the core of America's essential response to the most crucial healthcare needs in its future as well.
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A boom in the use of methamphetamine, otherwise known as ice, is believed to be behind a 58.2 per cent increase in the dangerous stimulant in the past year.
"That's staggering," Assistant Commissioner Steve Fontana told the Herald Sun. "The greatest concern we've got at the moment is ice."
Official police crime statistics, to be released this week, will show a 21 per cent increase in all drug offences.
Drug rehabilitation workers say there has been a similarly massive increase in the demand for their services to help with methamphetamine addiction.
As well as the damage to users, there is high-level concern about ice being a key driver of property crimes, serious assaults and abductions.
Mr Fontana said there had been instances of police being seriously assaulted by methamphetamine users in the past year.
He said he had heard harrowing accounts from parents whose lives had been blighted by a child's ice addiction.
In one case, a 13-year-old addicted to the drug was committing a heavy number of thefts to feed his habit.
"That's tragic," Mr Fontana said.
He said it was clear increasing numbers of young people did not recognise the risks of ice.
"It seems to be the preference of a lot of young people," Mr Fontana said.
"More and more people are taking it and thinking that's OK. We've got to change that attitude."
Mick Hall, who runs Melbourne's Dayhab rehabilitation clinic, said that the number of people seeking his help for treatment of ice addiction had increased by 50 per cent in the past five years.
He said education was the key to easing the problem and suggested authorities send former addicts to address children on the facts about drug use.
"That holds weight," Mr Hall said.
"It would start to penetrate with 10 and 11-year-olds. The credibility is having been there and done it."
The raw figure for people caught possessing or using ice rose from 2500 to 3971.
That is likely to represent only a fraction of the number of people using ice.
Mr Fontana said the increasing number of busts of big importations of the drug to Australia showed the country's wealth had made it an enticing target for syndicates.

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Liz Vassey was born August 9, 1972. Shortly thereafter, Liz and family moved from Raleigh North Carolina to Tampa Florida. Liz began acting at the young age of nine when she played the part of Oliver in a musical production of Oliver
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Koffee With Karan season 6: Varun Dhawan, Katrina Kaif to appear together on Karan Johar's talk show
Prior to this season, Katrina graced the Koffee With Karan couch with actress Anushka Sharma while Varun made an appearance with Dulhania co-star Alia Bhatt.
Actors Varun Dhawan and Katrina Kaif will bring in some fun to the forthcoming season of Koffee with Karan with their appearance. The sixth season, hosted by filmmaker Karan Johar, will premiere on Star World on 21 October.
Karan also took to Instagram on Thursday, 18 October, to share photographs from the shoot.
"So much fun in the Koffee house today!! A riot of a combination with some great conversation," Karan shared with the image.
His chat show is hugely popular as he gets his celebrity friends and fraternity members to open up about their lives in an up, close and personal way.
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Both Varun and Katrina have signed a film based on dance with Race 3 director Remo D'Souza. The announcement of the film was made a few months ago. Prior to this season, Katrina graced the Koffee With Karan couch with actress Anushka Sharma while Varun made an appearance with Dulhania co-star Alia Bhatt.
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A Fabindia spokesperson has said the collection titled ‘Jashn-e-Riwaaz’ is not its Diwali collection. Their Diwali collection, called “Jhilmil si Diwali, is yet to be launched
Where Phools Die, and Live Again: Recycling flowers from temples leaves everyone happy, Alia Bhatt included
Since Bhatt is a household name, Agarwal is optimistic that having her financial backing will help his start-up enter new markets.
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Earlier, the chief paratrooper of the country, Colonel-General Vladimir Shamanov, said that "the use of automated control systems in incoming samples of armored vehicles allows us to implement control in a tactical and operational link at a new qualitative level." Apparently, we are talking about the Andromeda-D complex, which at the end of last year confirmed the high performance and operational capabilities of the experimental command and staff training near Ivanovo.
It was specially organized to see how new telecommunications equipment provides for the communication and control of airborne units on the ground in real time. To check all parts of the ACS at two Moscow sites - in the command of the Airborne Forces and the General Staff - deployed control centers. From there, the generals in a videoconference mode led the training and from a distance of more than 300 kilometers they observed the course of a tactical rally, in which paratroop and reconnaissance units participated, as well as the airborne troops of the 98 air defense division.
To test the complex in the field near the village of Nikolskoye in the Ivanovo region deployed two modules of the automated control system "Andromeda-D" and complexes of the automated system "Flight-K". In addition, the Rheostat automated control system and the Barnaul-T air defense system were involved in the unified system of command and control of the troops. The head of the training - the chief of staff of the Airborne Forces, Lieutenant General Nikolai Ignatov, highly appreciated its results.
“The prototypes of the control modules that we tested in a single segment of command and control of the troops ensured that all the tasks were completed with high quality,” the military commander said later. - The system works confidently and efficiently. The main thing is that we are developing the practice of using the automated control system, increasing skills in the use of high-tech equipment at all levels when performing combat training tasks.
"Andromeda-D" is a complex of automation equipment for equipping stationary and mobile control points, created taking into account the peculiarities of the Airborne Forces as a highly mobile kind of troops. This system can provide effective management of units in any situation using the most advanced digital telecommunication equipment.
Troop tests "Andromeda-D" completed at the end of 2011. And during the past year, the ACS was successfully used in the tactical exercises of paratroopers, including during the Kavkaz-2012 strategic maneuvers. There, with its help, the generals in real time led the units and formations of the Airborne Forces, which operated at a distance of over 1500 kilometers.
In addition, Andromeda-D was successfully tested for compatibility with the ACS of the Land Forces, the Air Force and higher headquarters in the overall control system of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. In total, the landing command more than 60 once used its digital telecommunications equipment and video conferencing last year.
The serial delivery of Andromeda-D and Poleta-K to the airborne troops will begin in the coming months.


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'Stephen Layton directs the performances and deserves major credit for the very high standards evident on this compilation' (BBC Music Magazine)
'This is a disc for listening to in peace, after the Christmas Day festivites are over and the visitors have gone' (Daily Telegraph)
Sing lullaby [3'10]
O Morgenstern [2'27]
A Spotless Rose [3'21]
This delightful new collection, available at budget price, brings together favourite tracks from seven acclaimed recordings: Rutter, Howells, Britten, Warlock and others—the very stuff of Christmas.
For over a decade Stephen Layton and Polyphony have been astonishing London audiences with their Christmas concert series: ‘nothing crowns the year like the annual, exhilarating eve of Christmas Eve performance of Handel’s Messiah by the choir Polyphony under Stephen Layton’. Alongside extravagant oratorio performances, the group has presented a cappella programmes of Christmas music to audiences enthralled by the range of repertoire available. This compact disc brings together music from many of these acclaimed recordings.
Also included is a tantalizing preview of Polyphony’s forthcoming recording of Morten Lauridsen’s choral music ().
Other recommended albums
For over a decade Stephen Layton and Polyphony have been astonishing London audiences with their Christmas concert series: ‘nothing crowns the year like the annual, exhilarating Eve of Christmas Eve performance of Handel’s Messiah by the choir Polyphony under Stephen Layton’. Alongside extravagant oratorio performances, the group has presented a cappella programmes of Christmas music to audiences enthralled by the range of repertoire available. This album brings together music from many of these acclaimed recordings.
Following their Gramophone ‘editor’s choice’ disc of, Stephen Layton and Polyphony have gone on to record and the disc of from which four of these tracks are taken. Arrangements of the traditional carols Silent night and Away in a manger are contrasted with the orchestrally accompanied Nativity Carol and Shepherd’s Pipe Carol to give something of a cross-section of this composer’s enormous output of seasonal favourites.
The ‘winning recipe’ of Stephen Layton’s, recorded in 1996, presents a sequence of twentieth-century carols and Sarum chant. For this compilation we have chosen two perfectly formed miniatures by Herbert Howells, Sing Lullaby and A Spotless Rose, Kenneth Leighton’s response to the harrowing ‘Coventry Carol’, Lully, lulla, thou little tiny child, and two carols from Warlock’s extensive contribution to the genre. Bethlehem Down, famously written by Bruce Blunt and Peter Warlock to raise funds for Christmas drinking, has become something of a classic; Lullaby my Jesus is an arrangement by Andrew Carter of a perfect little melody from Warlock’s suite Capriol.
William Walton, sometime president of the Peter Warlock Society, contributes two carols: All this time and What cheer? were written for the famous Carols for Choirs series published by Oxford University Press. They are taken from a recording which focuses on the composer’sand which also includes all three versions of A Litany, first crafted when the composer was just fourteen.
The music of Norwegian master Edvard Grieg and Australian maverick Percy Grainger is the subject of a fascinating musical survey,, made possible by the deep friendship which developed between the two after a chance meeting in London. The elder composer’s Ave, maris stella sets a shortened version of a Latin Hymn anticipating the joys to come from Jesus’ birth; Grainger’s version of The Sussex Mummer’s Carol, by contrast, is a textless – endearing – ramble. Stephen Layton’s championship of the music of Percy Grainger has also seen a pioneering first recording of the .
Polyphony was formed in 1986 for a concert in King’s College Chapel, Cambridge, so it is appropriate for this disc to include Stephen Layton’s arrangement of that staple of the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, The Three Kings by Peter Cornelius. The soloist’s text, by Cornelius himself, tells the Christmas story as seen through the eyes of a child, while the choir adds a Lutheran chorale in the bass; the anthem is here performed in the original German and comes from a disc dedicated to.
A recent Hyperion release of(which includes several premiere recordings) has become an immediate best-seller; O Morgenstern is taken from Polyphony’s earlier ‘landmark recording’ which included the . This Magnificat Antiphon, assigned in the liturgy to 21 December, leads on this disc into what is perhaps Pärt’s most popular work, the Magnificat setting from 1989.
The next two carols, mixing the old with the new, are taken from Polyphony’s Gramophone award-winning recording of. A Hymn to the Virgin was composed from his sick bed when Britten was just sixteen and sets an anonymous thirteenth-century text, while the Chorale after an Old French Carol casts a contemporary text by W H Auden against the traditional French hymn tune ‘Picardy’.
The remaining piece on this recording, taken from a recording of, is a triumph: Lauridsen’s response to the beautiful O magnum mysterium text was premiered in 1994 and perfectly encapsulates the joyous wonder of Christmas.
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[Ontbirds] Ottawa/Gatineau - February 13, 2014 - Recent Reports
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Thu Feb 13 23:22:31 EST 2014
February 13, 2014
Ottawa/Gatineau (Canada National Capital Region) E. Ontario, W. Quebec
Compiler & transcriber Bob Cermak robertcermak at hotmail.com or sightings at ofnc.ca
This has been an amazing winter for exceptional sightings. First ever BLACK-THROATED GRAY WARBLER in December, first January record for YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER, probably a record number of Northern Shrike in mid January, REDHEAD in January and February and HORNED and RED-NECKED GREBE in February.
Possibly due to the very extensive ice cover on the Great Lakes there has been an unusual and possibly unprecedented number of White-winged Scoters and Red-necked Grebes on the limited inland open water in north east USA and Ontario in late January and early February. Check open water for unexpected species!
RED-NECKED GREBE (2), seen since the 8th continue above and below (usually along the ice edge) the Deschenes Rapids, in the channel north of the Britannia Conservation Area and west of Bate Island. A HORNED GREBE was seen on the 8th and 9th along the ice edge above the Deschenes Rapids.
REDHEAD (5 m) were still present on the Mississippi River east of the Queen St bridge in Almonte on the 8th and may still be present. LONG-TAILED DUCK continues usually above the Deschenes Rapids.
LAPLAND LONGSPUR (6), SNOW BUNTING, HORNED LARK, BROWN-HEADED COWBIRD (4) and RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD (1) continue along Lockhead Rd W just west of 4th Line Rd SE of North Gower.
BLACK-BACKED WOODPECKER (m&f) continue along the Moodie Dr Jack Pine Trails usually near the feeder.
On the 8th one birder found RED-TAILED (18, 7 on Trail Rd) and ROUGH-LEGGED (4) HAWK and NORTHERN SHRIKE (3).
BOHEMIAN (1) with a small flock of CEDAR WAXWING near the grain silos on Lockhead Rd W on the 9th.
Continuing birds are GRAY PARTRIDGE (6) seen occasionally in the area of 4184 Moodie Dr, BARROW'S GOLDENEYE around Bate Island, LONG-TAILED DUCK (f) above and below Deschenes Rapids, GREEN-WINGED TEAL (m) on the creek along March Valley Rd east of Klondike Rd, AMERICAN ROBIN (12) and. CEDAR WAXWING (4) along Cassels St and the HERMIT THRUSH was seen again along Cassels St near Mud Lake on the 13th.
Thank you to everyone who contributed bird observations.
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Posted on June 27, 2018
Monsoon is the time to be happy. In a dry state like Maharashtra, arrival of monsoons not only brings relief to the people, but also pulls off a curtain from the landscape, covering it with lush, rich greenery. Being city animals when all you want to do is appreciate nature, its vastness and its majestic expanse, what does one do?
You take a trip off the beaten track! Just as we did last weekend with Nature Trails Resorts in Durshet, a lesser known gem located at only 95 kms from Mumbai, in the Raigad district. The idea was to get out and explore something not so far, and Sterling Holidays came to our rescue. With a motto of #joyofdiscovery , the legacy of the renowned hospitality major comes at play through its modern approach to travel. We were joined by a bunch of new faces on our journey, each of them vibrant and full of interesting anecdotes about the joy of exploring.
We set out on a rainy Saturday morning from Mumbai and reached the Durshet property in about two hours. Welcomed by the lush backyard and luxury tents, we were utterly happy that we chose the right place. Vóila!
After munching on hot Misal, we set out on a tour of the property that extends till the edge of the river Amba to the back. Being a seasonal stream, the river bed was only awaiting a little more downpour and it will be flowing, making for a great kayaking experience, in a resort near Mumbai! Who could imagine that?
It was also Father’s day the very same weekend and we met a bunch of children playing around and excited to go on an adventure trip later in the afternoon. We played cricket under drizzling skies and bonded with them before our rappeling session. The fun fact of visiting here is that we came across a large variety of travellers. Families seeking a weekend getaway, a summer camp for kids, corporate groups and friends looking for an active weekend in the jungle and people like us, who never lets go of an opportunity for a little adrenaline boost!
The real joy of exploring is in being out there, and we did exactly that after lunch. We hiked across the property’s 15 acre forest to find a rope bridge – called Burma bridge. After a wobbly walk across the structure, a sudden downpour got us drenched from head to toe. Honestly, the feeling of being in a jungle and getting completely soaked is one of the best we can recommend to you. Next up was ziplining, a short but cute stretch and J and I both had quite fun jumping off in our wet clothes. Failure however was awaiting me at the Tarzan Swing down below. I promise i tried very hard to reach the edge of the trough but it was a slip of half an inch! Result? I ended up in the pool of water below and climbed back up completely wet, again! #ExploreNatureTrails
The boys went rappeling after that and managed to beat the average record by completing the task in just above 90 seconds. What can I say, J is born with mountain instincts, I suppose!
Durshet has a curious history with the richness of being a battleground in the time of the Maratha Empire. The rivers, the meadowing valleys and strange rock plateaus added to the significance of these jungles as an impregnable land during wrfare. Such charming history led the founder of Nature Trails, Mr. Hari Divekar to look at this piece of land as the ideal location for his adventure camp 20 years back. A strong history of being an ecological conservationist, closely associated with Dr. Salim Ali and the Bombay Natural History Society led Hari to try and preserve the essence of the natural terrains of the ghats, ideal for training children in adventure activities and physical training.
So whats so special about Durshet Forest Lodge?
Nature Trails has four properties in Durshet, Kolad, Dabhosa and Sajan respectively, all in Maharashtra. With their 20 year old hospitality and adventure travel expertise, they are now a part of the famous Sterling Holidays. This adds to the portfolio of stay options and the recent addition of luxury tents, which are by the way beautiful, comes as a welcome offering for those who don’t mind paying a few extra bucks for greater comfort. Let us also tell you, the views from the brand new pool at the property is a +1! We recommend Nature Trails for families and groups of friends looking for a taste of adventure, have a chill weekend or even a day trip (yes they have that option) in the lap of nature.
You can participate in the #LookWhosChilling contest by #LookWhosTalking and win exciting prizes. Click here for more information!
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Tell us your recommendations of #weekendgetaways near Mumbai in the comments to help us explore better!
Next up on the blog: Kundalika River Rafting Camp
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It was the monsoon of 2017, that time when Bombay got almost flooded, again, remember! We were all set for our trip to Bali, all the bookings being done well in advance. Traveling to a different country for the first time ever, the excitement, caution and pre-planning gave us a lot to think about. Yes, we do not have money to travel the world just as yet!
Joy helped chalk out the itinerary for 5 nights and 6 days. The brilliant part was we were doing so many things on different corners of the island paradise in so less time. But lets keep that for another story. This story is about an impromptu plan, a bunch of crazy friends in a car and Kerala in the monsoons.
Cure to travel hangover- another trip!
We had two days left from the scheduled leaves after our return. To fill that up and cure the hangover from being mesmerised in Bali, which we were pretty sure we would, we had to plan something. It is almost impossible to head straight back home after such a long awaited trip!
So, we booked ourselves on another flight to Bengaluru the same night as our return. Crazy as it was, we did manage to come back home, drop beach bags and pick up the road trip packs, making it back to the Mumbai airport, well, just in time!.
My cousin picked us up from the Bengaluru airport on a Thursday morning, and we were joined by my school friend. We headed for Wayanad after stocking up for the road (the essentials of course and some beers).
Despite being in Bangalore for over three years, I had never really travelled to Kerala. Wayanad seemed like the best place to absorb the richness of the monsoon glory, starting our interaction with Mallu Land.
Moving on, we had some epic moments on the way right from being refused toilet access at a local resort, asked to share our beers with some local boys taking a dip in the pond beside the highway, to hunting little town markets in search of smoking papers. We could find none after hours of wandering about.
The best part was when we reached our resort in Kalpatta, little outside the main town around 7 PM. The Manager, Mr. Sunil had called us prior and told us we will have to park our car and take the resort jeep to reach our cottages. Little did we know what was in store for us all tired and jet lagged from back to back flights and a 6 hour drive. It was drizzling slightly.
A Jeep ride like never before!
Upon taking a wild jeep ride (it felt like we were in the arms of Kong, who is climbing a mountain blind! No joke.) for straight 20 minutes in pitch dark blackness, pouring sky and the eerie sound of crickets, we reached the mountain top. Mr. Sunil of Marmalade Springs welcomed us with hot coffee from the estate and an invitation to dinner. We were the only guests that night so one can imagine the lovely Malayali cook to shower us with his culinary specialties. We stuffed ourselves to the brim because the food was yummier than anything I had had in the whole of South India! Forgot to take a picture. OOPS!
Marmalade Springs Coffee Estate
The balcony of our cottages opened straight to the beautiful valley below, and we thoroughly enjoyed catching up on long lost conversations as a family for the night. Next morning started with sumptuous breakfast at the courtesy of Selva, who was thrilled to get double the amount of whatever we asked for. The view was simply breathtaking after all the rain from previous night. The lush was fresh and blooming, the mist was slowly clearing and the swans at the little pond were visibly unhappy with our arrival. It was the perfect setting for a great start to the day.
We headed out to explore a few monsoon musts after a curious and bumpy ride back to the bottom of the resort. It was only in daylight that we discovered the beautiful coffee estate surrounding us. Little coffee beans were hanging by the bunches on every bush. Sunil later explained that the coffee picking season will start in December and we must visit again to get a hands on experience of roasting and brewing the best of Nilgiri coffee!
We visited the Banasura Sagar Dam, hiked to Meenmutty and Soochipara waterfalls and got drenched in the fresh raging waters with almost all our camera gear. A speedboat ride at the dam under the monsoon sky added a special memory to our archives. Having friends who will always jump around with you with the same energy is a powerful emotion. We are glad to have such people travel with us!
The second part of this trip calls for a special treat. We have made a video for you all from the first day too! Stay tuned for updates!
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Recording under the name Ambientportal DJ/Synthesist Mykl Neufeld realizes complex and nuanced sonic renderings from the treasury of his mind. The idea of atmosphere is the seed from which his album Soundscapes (45'00) has grown. A continuously flowing piece in seven parts, this quality work of Ambient/Spacemusic expands gently through an interesting range of sculpted textures and sustained moods. With its long stretches of churning consonant tonal combinations and slowly sweeping digital wind, the energy level on Soundscapes drifts, slips and lifts in a sweet dream-like freedom. The experience is made deeper as here and there the composer drops in acoustic samples, computer grit and languid rhythmic blipping pops. Believing that randomness is full of patterns, Ambientportal engages intuition over intellect to its fullest. His musical alchemy yields a journey inward as intriguing as the journey outward.
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Kim Jong-un is said to be developing biological weapons
Chilling documents reveal that the hermit state could be developing anthrax as a biological agent as well as developing diseases cholera, plague and smallpox to wipe out its enemy.
Shock claims suggest the warmongering nation has been developing biological weapons since the early 1980s, according to US think-tank the Rand Corporation report, a non-profit institution which aims to improve decision-making and policy through research and analysis.
South Korea, the US and Japan are among the nations in the firing line.
North Korea is said to be developing diseases like cholera as a weapon
The North may also dare to launch a secret attack in the rear through its SOF troops armed with biological weapons
Dr Ken Alibek, a former senior scientist in the Soviet biological weapon programme, has said: “I'm 100 per cent sure North Korea still has this virus.
“Even in the late 80s, we had some information obtained from Soviet intelligence service that North Korea was developing biological weapons, involving anthrax, plague, smallpox and several others.”
The report, published in 2013, said: “The Republic of Korea Ministry of Defence asserts that ’the North may also dare to launch a secret attack in the rear through its SOF troops armed with biological weapons.’
“A Republic of Korea Ministry of Defence White paper, traces the initiative for North Korean biological weapons development back to the 1980s.
“In the 1980s, the military turned to the development of biological weapons according to Kim Il-sung’s directive that ‘poisonous gas and bacteria can be used effectively in war.’
China asks to NOT be held responsible for North Korea
North Korea's troops could be armed with biological weapons
“The North is also suspected of maintaining numerous facilities for cultivating and producing the bacteria of anthrax and other forms of biological weapons.”
It is warned even a kilogram could “disrupt most military targets” and could be delivered missiles and aircraft.
The report says: “Even a kilogram of many types of biological weapons could disrupt most military targets if delivered properly and this quantity could easily be delivered by special operations forces. Missiles and aircraft could also deliver this quantity of biological weapons.
“Indeed, North Korea special forces are a likely means for delivering North Korean biological weapons. North Korea has some 200,000 special forces, a small fraction of which could deliver devastating biological attacks against South Korea, Japan, and even the United States.
“North Korea could use biological agents in isolation, perhaps as an escalated provocation in which it seeks to infect a limited number of people, or it could use biological agents as the leading edge of an invasion of the ROK, hoping for thousands or even more infections to weaken the ROK’s defences and will to fight. Biological weapon use in the latter context is particularly worrisome.”
Kim Jong-un celebrated the recent missile launch
Universities and research institutes are among the places across the hermit kingdom where North Korea’s biological weapon programme is being developed, according to the Rand report.
It reads: “In 1993, the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, successor to the Soviet Union’s KGB, released a statement that said, in part: ‘North Korea is performing applied military-biological research in a whole number of universities, medical institutes and specialised research institutes.
“‘Work is being performed in these research centres with inducers of malignant anthrax, cholera, bubonic plague and smallpox.
“‘Biological weapons are being tested on the island territories belonging to the DPRK (Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea).’ Mr Gordon Oehler, director of the CIA’s [Central Intelligence Agency’s] Non-Proliferation Centre, confirmed this Russian report.’”
The information comes to light as North Korea and US relations deteriorate following Kim Jong-un’s recent successful intercontinental ballistic missile test.
World War Three fears have been growing as North Korea continues to flex its military muscle and experts warn the nation is capable of reaching Alkaska and as far as the west coast.


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Modern water supply systems convey water reliably and losslessly from the source to the application area. An adequate and reliable supply of hot water, both for heating and for sanitary facilities, is also very important.
For the drinking water supply, we only use special plastics approved for direct contact with drinking water, such as polypropylene (PP) and polyethylene (PE).
Particular requirements are made of the material used for hot water supply pipes, as it not only has to comply with strict hygiene standards, but also withstand high temperatures. Consequently, polyphenylsulfone (PPSU) is often used due to its high temperature stability. This however also means special processing requirements for the injection moulding process. With our long-standing experience and the aid of Moldflow simulations, we can produce optimum designs for the gating system and its geometry without affecting the material, for example with excessive shear. Optionally, hot runners can be integrated into the injection moulds, which ensure efficient material feed and save material, particularly in the case of PE.
On request, ifw also supports production processes with regular inspections, both before and during series production. The material tests include DSC analysis, MFR determination, tensile tests and part tests, such as time to failure under internal pressure. They are conducted in-house in accordance with various standards (e.g. ISO EN 1167, ASTM D1598/99) that form the basis for approvals by ÖVGW (the Austrian Gas and Water Association).


Laptops under $400 don't tend to have stylish looks, full 1080p displays and excellent battery life, but that's what makes the Asus VivoBook E403SA our favorite budget notebook. The VivoBook also offers a solid keyboard, a slick brushed-metal design and a USB Type-C port for power and data transfer. Its Pentium CPU and 4GB of RAM provide enough pop for solid multitasking.
It may not be the most powerful sub-$500 laptop, but the Ideapad 100S offers the most value for your money. Lenovo's 2.2-pound, 11-inch laptop combines solid performance, an attractive design, a bright screen and over 9 hours of battery life. The Windows 10-powered Ideapad 100S even comes with a free one-year subscription to Office 365 Personal.
If battery life and price are your top concerns, the $330 Toshiba Chromebook 2 CB35 is just the laptop for you. It's the only budget laptop we've tested that lasted more than 10 hours, and it has a bright, accurate 13.3-inch 1080p display. Add to that an excellent keyboard, and you've got a low-cost system that's worth more than the sum of its parts.
With its lightweight, detachable design, the 10.1-inch Miix 310 makes a great first PC for children or secondary device for adults. With Windows 10 running on its Atom processor, this affordable 2-in-1 combines solid performance with over 12 hours of battery life.
For less than 350 bucks, the Asus F555LA offers a 15-inch, 1080p display, which is almost unheard of at this price range. It's a bit on the dim side, but paired with the notebook's strong speakers and attractive design, you get a budget computer for simple tasks.


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Singer Jo Stafford was one of the most versatile postwar singers, excelling in pop, swing, bebop, country, folk, and even comedy.
A look at the early songs of Rodgers and Hart, including "Blue Moon," "Manhattan," and "Thou Swell."
Singer and television personality Dinah Shore was America's Sweetheart during World War II, and stayed in the spotlight for several decades after the war.
A mix of Christmas favorites performed by 21st-century singers like Kurt Elling, Diana Krall, Dianne Reeves, and more.
A celebration of the 100th birthday of jazz singer Joe Williams, known equally as a blues shouter and ballad crooner
The Bethlehem Record label was home to some of the best female jazz singers in the 1950s, including Chris Connor, Nina Simone, Betty Roche and more.
New vocal jazz releases from Cécile McLorin Salvant, Madeleine Peyroux, Diana Krall and Tony Bennett, and more.
The Fab Four goes jazz, featuring Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett and others performing Beatles' tunes.

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Who would have though a fish out of water could be having so much fun!
These Swimming Fish designed by Christophe Goy of Switzerland are a cross between a weather vane, a windsock, and a pet.
These wet wonders fill up with air, bob, weave and wag their tails just like a real fish!
Put several in a yard and they sensationally "school" together like real fish in the sea.
Made with fade resistant Sun Tex(TM) fabric and tough fiberglass hardware, our Swimming fish will make passers-by take notice.

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The Nintendo Switch will be released around the globe on March 3. It'll retail for $300 in the US and £280 in the UK. Australian pricing is yet to be announced, but retailers are listing the Switch for AU$470.
You can choose between a gray control option or one kitted out with neon blue and red Joy-Cons.
Here are the various parts of the front of the Nintendo Switch.
And here's what you'll find around back. Note the microSD slot for easy storage expansion.
You can attach the Joy-Con controllers to the Joy-Con Grip to form a gamepad for TV play...
...or you can attach the Joy-Cons to the Switch itself to form a handheld with a 6.2-inch screen. It also has a kickstand, so you can use it as a display with the Joy-Cons detached.
Depending on what game you're playing, you'll get between 2.5 and 6 hours of gameplay in handheld mode. Expect Skyrim to be on the lighter end of that scale.
Charging can be done via USB-C or replacing portable batteries.
There's a whole lot going on in the Joy-Con controllers, which pack NFC, accelerometers, gyro sensors and "Rumble HD" haptic feedback. You can read all about them here.
Each Joy-Con has four main buttons, a joystick, which can also act as a button, and L and R buttons.
These tiny grey buttons around back are what let you unsnap the Joy-Con controllers from their positions on the tablet or Grip peripheral.
You'll find a couple of USB 2.0 ports on the front of the Switch dock, to keep your controllers charged or plug in a USB to Ethernet adapter. (The Switch has built-in 802.11ac Wi-Fi, but Ethernet is another option this way.)
What's inside the dock? Not a lot: just one more USB port and the power and HDMI cables you'll need to get it working.
Nintendo is also offering a traditional gamepad for $70 (AU$95, £60).
Here's everything you'll get in the box.


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Almond flour is made from blanched and then ground almonds.
This superfood is low in carbohydrates and high in healthy fats, protein, vitamins and minerals. In addition, the inclusion of almond flour ensures that you feel satisfied for longer. This is due to all the proteins and fats in the flour. In this way, almond flour can help you lose weight. Finally, almond flour is high in vitamin E. This is an antioxidant that protects the body from free radicals.
Almond flour is an excellent substitute for wheat flour and is healthier in many ways. Think of all dishes for which you use wheat flour (e.g. pancakes, tarts, cakes, etc.). The flavor is fairly neutral, but making your dishes with just almond flour can add a slightly nutty side flavor to your dish. In many cases this is an interesting accent when baking, but if you want to avoid this you can mix the flour with other flour (e.g. wheat flour) and then this accent will disappear.
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Happy Friday out there everyone!
If you haven’t entered the Formulx Protein Powder Giveaway make sure you do, there is still time! Check out this post—> Beet Berry Recovery Smoothie
I decided to do a Food & Fitness Diary Friday this week to catch up on my recent eats and workouts from last week. Last week was kind of crazy because we got back late from California, so I had to rely on freezer food to get us through. I think we did pretty well though!
Breakfast from Einsteins, Southwest Egg White Turkey Sausage on a Whole Wheat Bagel Thin.
Followed by hodge podge of random food I found in our fridge to bring for lunch, plus an overnight chia parfait (all I had the energy to make when we got back late Sunday night.) I didn’t ending up eating the tomato or laughing cow.
Pistachios, like every other day and homemade protein coconut energy whatever balls.
I’m pretty sure I did Workout #4 from SSU 2014 and some cardio…. but I didn’t write it down or take any pics so who really knows.
Mahi Mahi Burger salad with goat cheese and sweet red peppers.
And some remainings of homemade almond butter
Followed by the weirdest bedtime snack I’ve been into lately, a tomato with salt and pepper.
Recycled photo- one small whole wheat tortilla with sunbutter, 1/2 banana, and chia seed jam and another small whole wheat tortilla with almond butter, 1/2 banana, and chia seed jam.
Mahi Mahi burger salad with goat cheese and red bell pepper, side of carrots. Didn’t end up eating the tomato or cheese wedge again.
Snacked on a peach
4 mile run with no pain on the tread after work
It shuts off after 30 minutes so I had to restart.
I’m sure I snacked on a few pistachios while I made a simple dinner of two fried eggs over deli chicken with broccoli (microwaved from frozen).
Dessert was more protein bites and almond milk.
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I woke up feeling a scratchy throat and thought I was getting sick, so I headed to Whole Foods before work to get a green juice.
Nonfat goats milk yogurt with stevia and chia seed jam.
Salad with peppered turkey bacon, deli chicken, sweet red peppers and goat cheese.
After work I headed to the gym to get my sweat on, I started with a .5 mile warm up, did Workout #4 from the Summer Shape Up, followed by a 20 minute HIIT workout. What I thought was crazy was that I could do 30 seconds between 7.5 to 8.0 and 30 seconds between 5.5 and 5.0 and still get in 10 minute miles. I was SUPER sweaty when I was done!
Missy trying to steal my tuna salad, I love this picture with her tongue out.
Yummy grassfed cheese from Whole Foods
I started Friday with a run, swim and PT.
Breakfast was a chocolate coffee protein shake and a banana (not shown.)
More tuna salad
Celery, sun butter and raisins, because I’m five years old.
Chicken burger and green beans
A whole bunch of dark chocolate
That’s it for me, don’t forget to enter the giveaway! Have a great weekend!


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May 16 (Reuters) - Intel Corp (INTC.O) shareholders rejected compensation packages for top executives, including a payout of as much as $178.6 million to Chief Executive Officer Pat Gelsinger, a regulatory filing showed on Monday.
About 1.78 billion votes were cast against executive compensation at the annual meeting, Intel said, though the vote is non-binding. About 921.2 million votes were cast in favor.
"We take our investors' feedback very seriously, and we are committed to engaging with them and addressing their concerns," Intel said in a statement.
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The company said it had taken specific steps to address investor questions, including linking pay to performance but added "there is clearly more work to do".
Gelsinger earned more than 1,700 times the typical employee at the chip giant in 2021, according to a regulatory filing in March.read more
Intel forecast its second-quarter revenue and profit below Wall Street expectations in April, citing weak demand in its largest market, PCs, and increased supply-chain uncertainty due to fresh COVID-19 lockdowns in China.read more
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