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Of course, it’s only my opinion, but to me, it’s clear that “Bobby Valentin Presenta a el Cano Estremera” was Cano’s best album of his career.
Before Cano’s First Solo Album
Many of us loved many of the songs Cano Estremera recorded with Bobby Valentin. He debuted with Bobby Valentin in 1978 with the “white album” where the big hits were “La Boda de Ella” and “Muñeco de la Ciudad“.
By 1982, Bobby saw clearly that Cano needed a solo album. At the time he had 3 singers in the band, with Johnny Vazquez and Rafael “Rafu” Warner also sharing singing duties. All 3 were good Salsa singers.
Cano Estremera had won the hearts of many Salseros singing the majority of the biggest hits of the four recordings he had done with the maestro of the bass. Bobby seized the opportunity to be the one that would record him a full album. And I suppose he appeased Johnny and Rafu by recording the two of them in a separate album without Cano.
“Bobby Valentin Presenta a el Cano Estremera“
This album had the typical 8 songs, and all of them were hits. Yes, all songs were good. The biggest hits were “El Caiman” and “Awilda“, but really all songs became Salsa hits. But even the slowest song of the album, the easy son montuno “Casa en el Campo“, Cano shines in his singing, making it another great song.
For me, there were two things that really stand out of “Presenta a el Cano Estremera“.
First, the song selection was fantastic. Great lyrics of different tempos that allowed Cano to create soneos out of the good song lyrics.
Secondly, Cano had matured as a singer to the point where his wit and voice were at a peak. His voice inflections and soneos were both top-notch. The album really showcased Cano’s talent as a singer. Of course, we already knew he was a great sonero. The combination of being a great singer and great sonero with a style of his own, really made him a favorite of many salseros, including my wife and me.
The cherry on the top of this album was the music and the guest artists. If you listen closely, the arrangements are first class on the album. And although I believe they are not mentioned in the back cover credits, I heard that Bobby Valentin brought in Papo Lucca on piano and Edgardo Morales on timbales for the recording. The album has no solos, a rarity for the time, so it’s hard to tell.
After “Presenta a el Cano Estremera“
A couple of years later, Bobby Valentin recorded a second solo album with Cano Estremera, “En Acción” (1984). In my opinion, it was an ok album, but not even close to the great album its predecessor was.
After the 2nd solo album with Bobby, Cano broke up with El Rey del Bajo and assembled his own band. Although I found his first recording really bad, he later improved and recorded some good albums. I would point out the first “Dueno del Soneo” (1989) album, where he goes into Salsa Romantica, but does it in great fashion. However, none of his other solo albums were par to “Bobby Valentin Presenta a el Cano Estremera“.


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EA-98-221 - Peach Bottom 2 & 3 (PECO Nuclear)
June 11, 1998
EA 98-105 and EA 98-221
Mr. G. Rainey, Senior Vice President
Nuclear Group Headquarters
Correspondence Control Desk
P. O. Box 195
Wayne, Pennsylvania 19087-0195
||NOTICE OF VIOLATION AND PROPOSED IMPOSITION OF CIVIL PENALTY - $55,000 (NRC Inspection Report Nos. 50-277/98-03 & 50-278/98-05)
Dear Mr. Rainey:
This letter refers to the two NRC inspections conducted between February 12 and March 3, 1998, and between March 30 and April 24, 1998, for which exit meetings were held on March 4, 1998, and April 27, 1998, respectively. During the inspections, the reports of which were sent to you on March 30, 1998, and May 7, 1998, apparent violations of NRC requirements were identified. On May 21, 1998, a Predecisional Enforcement Conference was conducted with you and members of your staff, to discuss the violations, their causes, and your corrective actions.
Based on the information developed during the inspections, and the information provided during the enforcement conference, two violations of NRC requirements are being cited and are described in the enclosed Notice of Violation and Proposed Imposition of Civil Penalty (Notice). The first violation involves the failure to establish adequate instructions and procedures to prevent foreign material from entering the 3A core spray subsystem during a replacement modification of emergency core cooling system (ECCS) suction strainers in October 1997. Although the foreign materials exclusion (FME) plan developed for the modification provided FME controls for the material entering and leaving the torus, the plan did not provide similar controls for the suction strainers, resulting in foreign material, in the form of a rigging sling protector pad, being left in the 3A core spray subsystem after the modification. As a result, the second violation occurred involving the failure to maintain the 3A core spray subsystem operable in that during testing on March 22, 1998, the 3A core spray pump failed to meet discharge pressure and flow specifications. Following that test, further testing and evaluation of the pump was conducted and revealed fibrous material (from the rigging sling protector pad) wrapped around the impeller shaft and parts of the impeller vanes, as well as small bunches of this fibrous material in the piping between the suction valve and pump discharge check valve.
The NRC is concerned that adequate controls were not in place to preclude foreign material from entering the Unit 3 CS and RHR systems during the replacement of the strainers. Although your staff, at the beginning of the outage, initially logged all material that was introduced into, and removed from the torus, this practice was discontinued near the end of the outage. At the time, approximately 4000 items had been logged into the torus while only approximately 2000 items had been logged out. In place of this FME control, you enhanced your originally planned torus catwalk walkdowns and dive swim through of the underwater torus portion. While these walkdowns were capable of detecting foreign material in the torus, they were not capable of detecting foreign material inside the piping with the suction strainers. However, your engineering personnel, during reviews of the FME plan and other evaluations, apparently did not recognize this inadequacy. In addition, the engineering oversight of the modification work activities was poor in that there was a lack of accountability for FME coordination, as well as a lack of formal observation of activities by personnel other than Quality Assurance personnel.
The NRC is also concerned that even though your QA organization, while overseeing the outage, identified several deficiencies with your FME controls, your corrective actions at the time to address those deficiencies were narrowly focused on specific findings, and did not lead to earlier identification of the fibrous material in the system. For example, a QA Surveillance Report issued in August 1997, prior to the outage, indicated that no FME controls were defined in written instructions or practiced during mock-up training. Another QA Surveillance Report issued in October 1997 indicated that FME controls at the torus entrances needed to be strengthened. That same report documented several deficiencies, including difficulties with the system for accounting for items taken into the torus; omission of details in the required logs; inattentiveness by plant monitors to individuals going into the torus with material; and a lack of a copy of the FME administrative procedure at the control point. In addition, a QA Surveillance Report issued on December 22, 1997, indicated a breakdown of the FME controls during the suction strainer modification, noting that stringent FME controls in the torus were viewed as a challenge to the schedule rather than a necessary means of maintaining system cleanliness, and the contractor's acceptance of a final inspection in lieu of FME controls during work was a concern. Two days later, on December 24, 1997, during a quarterly surveillance test of the 3A core spray pump, the discharge pressure was found to be 212 psig, yet this finding was not questioned even though the observed discharge pressure during the previous five years of tests had been typically between 220-225 psig, providing indications of a degraded core spray pump which could have lead to earlier identification of fibrous material in the system.
The failure to exercise appropriate FME controls at Peach Bottom during the October 1997 outage indicates a significant lack of attention towards licensed responsibilities. This failure is particularly disturbing given the findings of your QA department, as well as the fact that the NRC had issued a Severity Level III Notice of Violation to your Limerick facility in October 1996 for the failure to establish adequate controls to exclude foreign material from the Limerick I suppression pool. That failure resulted in substantial accumulation of debris on a suppression pool suction strainer causing some cavitation of an RHR pump. In my October 17, 1996, letter transmitting the Notice of Violation for Limerick, I noted that the findings demonstrated the importance of management taking appropriate action to assure that (1) the FME program is appropriately implemented, and (2) your staff is proactive in evaluating adverse conditions identified at one facility to ensure degraded conditions do not exist at the other facility. Notwithstanding those prior cautions, adequate FME controls were not exercised at Peach Bottom during October 1997 and this represents a significant regulatory concern. Therefore, the violations are classified in the aggregate as a Severity Level III problem in accordance with the "General Statement of Policy and Procedure for NRC Enforcement Actions," NUREG-1600 (Enforcement Policy).
A base civil penalty in the amount of $55,000 is considered for each Severity Level III violation or problem. Because Peach Bottom has been the subject of escalated enforcement actions within the last 2 years,(1) the NRC considered whether credit was warranted for Identification and Corrective Action in accordance with the civil penalty assessment process in Section VI.B.2 of the Enforcement Policy. Credit for identification is not warranted, even though you identified this violation during a required surveillance test, because you had prior opportunities to identify and preclude these violations as a result of the QA findings in October 1997. Credit for your corrective actions is warranted because at the time of the enforcement conference, your actions were considered prompt and comprehensive. These actions included, but were not limited to, plans to (1) conduct an independent FME review of design and installation of modifications; (2) enhance training of staff on the FME plan; (3) benchmark other industry FME programs, including suction strainer replacement FME controls; and (4) assure accountability of all rigging material after each use. The NRC plans to continue to follow your actions closely to determine the effectiveness of your actions in precluding future problems.
Therefore, to emphasize the importance of appropriate FME controls at your facilities, as well as appropriate response to QA findings, I have been authorized, after consultation with the Director, Office of Enforcement, to issue the enclosed Notice of Violation and Proposed Imposition of Civil Penalty in the amount of $55,000 for these violations.
During the conference, another apparent violation was discussed involving the 2A reactor feedwater pump turbine high water level trip function not being maintained operable. Upon further review, the NRC has decided not to cite a violation based on information that you provided during the conference that the function was operable. Nevertheless, the NRC is concerned that this trip function exhibited degraded performance in April 1997 and November 1997, but a lack of systematic troubleshooting resulted in a failure to determine all potential causes of the degradations. Further, your corrective actions did not prevent subsequent degraded performance in December 1997 and February 1998. At the enforcement conference, you admitted that your troubleshooting was neither comprehensive nor consistent, and you provided a number of actions to strengthen this program.
You are required to respond to this letter and should follow the instructions specified in the enclosed Notice when preparing your response. The NRC will use your response, in part, to determine whether further enforcement action is necessary to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.
In accordance with 10 CFR 2.790 of the NRC's "Rules of Practice," a copy of this letter, its enclosure, and your response will be placed in the NRC Public Document Room (PDR).
|Hubert J. Miller
Docket Nos. 50-277; 50-278
License Nos. DPR-44; DPR-56
Enclosure: Notice of Violation and Proposed Imposition of Civil Penalty
D. Smith, President
G. Edwards, Chairman, Nuclear Review Board and Director, Licensing
J. Doering, Vice President, Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station
J. Cotton, Vice President, Nuclear Station Support
T. Niessen, Director, Nuclear Quality Assurance
A. Kirby, III, External Operations - Delmarva Power & Light Co.
M. Warner, Plant Manager, Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station
G. Lengyel, Manager, Experience Assessment
J. Durham, Sr., Senior Vice President and General Counsel
T. Messick, Manager, Joint Generation, Atlantic Electric
W. Henrick, Manager, External Affairs, Public Service Electric & Gas
R. McLean, Power Plant Siting, Nuclear Evaluations
J. Vannoy, Acting Secretary of Harford County Council
R. Ochs, Maryland Safe Energy Coalition
J. Walter, Chief Engineer, Public Service Commission of Maryland
Mr. & Mrs. Dennis Hiebert, Peach Bottom Alliance
Mr. & Mrs. Kip Adams
NOTICE OF VIOLATION
PROPOSED IMPOSITION OF CIVIL PENALTY
Peach Bottom, Units 2 & 3
||Docket Nos. 50-277; 50-278
License Nos. DPR-44; DPR-56
During an NRC inspection conducted between March 30 and April 24, 1998, violations of NRC requirements were identified. In accordance with the "General Statement of Policy and Procedure for NRC Enforcement Actions," NUREG-1600, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission proposes to impose civil penalties pursuant to Section 234 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (Act), 42 U.S.C. 2282, and 10 CFR 2.205. The particular violations and associated civil penalty are set forth below:
A. 10 CFR Part 50 Appendix B, Criterion V, Instructions, Procedures and Drawings, requires, in part, that activities affecting quality be prescribed by documented instructions or procedures, of a type appropriate to the circumstances.
B. Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station Unit 3 Technical Specification 3.5.1, "Emergency Core Cooling System (ECCS) and Reactor Core Isolation Cooling (RCIC) System," requires that each ECCS injection/spray subsystem be operable when in Modes 1, 2, and 3. If one low pressure ECCS injection/spray subsystem is inoperable, the subsystem shall be restored to operable status within seven days.
Contrary to the above, at some time between December 24, 1997 and March 13, 1998, while the Unit 3 reactor was in Mode 1, the 3A core spray subsystem was not maintained operable. During core spray system testing on March 22, and 24, 1998, the 3A core spray pump failed to meet discharge pressure for the given flow specifications. Specifically, the discharge pressure and flow ratio were 207 psig and 3450 gpm, respectively, and the flow curve required a minimum pressure of 214 psig for that flow rate. The minimum required discharge pressure was not met, and the pump was inoperable, because of fibrous material (a rigging sling protector pad) wrapped around the impeller shaft and parts of the impeller vanes, as well as small bunches of fibers from the protector pad being located in the piping between the pump suction valve and the discharge check valve. (01023)
These violations are classified in the aggregate at Severity Level III (Supplement 1).
Civil Penalty - $55,000.
Pursuant to the provisions of 10 CFR 2.201, PECO Nuclear (Licensee) is hereby required to submit a written statement or explanation to the Director, Office of Enforcement, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, within 30 days of the receipt of this Notice of Violation and Proposed Imposition of Civil Penalties (Notice). This reply should be clearly marked as a "Reply to a Notice of Violation" and should include for each alleged violation: (1) admission or denial of the alleged violation, (2) the reasons for the violation if admitted, and if denied, the reasons why, (3) the corrective steps that have been taken and the results achieved, (4) the corrective steps that will be taken to avoid further violations, and (5) the date when full compliance will be achieved. If an adequate reply is not received within the time specified in this Notice, an Order or a Demand for Information may be issued as to why the license should not be modified, suspended, or revoked or why such other action as may be proper should not be taken. Consideration may be given to extending the response time for good cause shown. Under the authority of Section 182 of the Act, 42 U.S.C. 2232, this response shall be submitted under oath or affirmation.
Within the same time as provided for the response required above under 10 CFR 2.201, the Licensee may pay the civil penalties by letter addressed to the Director, Office of Enforcement, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, with a check, draft, money order, or electronic transfer payable to the Treasurer of the United States in the amount of the civil penalties proposed above, or may protest imposition of the civil penalties, in whole or in part, by a written answer addressed to the Director, Office of Enforcement, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Should the Licensee fail to answer within the time specified, an order imposing the civil penalties will be issued. Should the Licensee elect to file an answer in accordance with 10 CFR 2.205 protesting the civil penalties, in whole or in part, such answer should be clearly marked as an "Answer to a Notice of Violation" and may: (1) deny the violations listed in this Notice, in whole or in part, (2) demonstrate extenuating circumstances, (3) show error in this Notice, or (4) show other reasons why the penalties should not be imposed. In addition to protesting the civil penalties in whole or in part, such answer may request remission or mitigation of the penalties.
In requesting mitigation of the proposed penalties, the factors addressed in Section VI.B.2 of the Enforcement Policy should be addressed. Any written answer in accordance with 10 CFR 2.205 should be set forth separately from the statement or explanation in reply pursuant to 10 CFR 2.201, but may incorporate parts of the 10 CFR 2.201 reply by specific reference (e.g., citing page and paragraph numbers) to avoid repetition. The attention of the Licensee is directed to the other provisions of 10 CFR 2.205, regarding the procedure for imposing a civil penalty.
Upon failure to pay any civil penalty due that subsequently has been determined in accordance with the applicable provisions of 10 CFR 2.205, this matter may be referred to the Attorney General, and the penalty, unless compromised, remitted, or mitigated, may be collected by civil action pursuant to Section 234c of the Act, 42 U.S.C. 2282c.
The response noted above (Reply to Notice of Violation, letter with payment of civil penalty, and Answer to a Notice of Violation) should be addressed to: James Lieberman, Director, Office of Enforcement, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852-2738, with a copy to the Regional Administrator, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Region I, and a copy to the NRC Senior Resident Inspector at the facility that is the subject of this Notice.
Because your response will be placed in the NRC Public Document Room (PDR), to the extent possible, it should not include any personal privacy, proprietary, or safeguards information so that it can be placed in the PDR. If redactions are required, a proprietary version containing brackets placed around the proprietary, privacy, and/or safeguards information should be submitted. In addition, a non-proprietary version with the information in the brackets redacted should be submitted to be placed in the PDR.
Dated at King of Prussia, Pennsylvania
this 11th day of June 1998
1 e.g., A Notice of Violation was issued on January 3, 1997 for a Severity Level III violation of the maintenance rule (Reference: EA 96-370).
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John Dewar & Sons, the owners of Royal Brackla, are making available 12, 16 and 21 year old expressions of this celebrated single malt in global duty free and travel retail markets.
The new range consists of the Royal Brackla 12 Year Old, Royal Brackla 16 Year Old and Royal Brackla 21 Year Old and will be available in 10 international markets from September 2015. Launched as part of the “Last of the Great Malt” series, the new permanent edition whiskies follow launches from the Craigellachie, Aultmore and Aberfeldy distilleries.
In April last year, Dewar (Bacardi) released just 100 bottles of a 35-year-old variant of Royal Brackla, which at US$15,000 was the group’s most expensive whisky to-date.
[UPDATE September 9, 2015 – Bacardi Global Travel Retail, in partnership with DFS at Changi Airport, has unveiled the world-first launch of a stunning new range of proprietary premium bottlings from Royal Brackla distillery, one of Scotland’s oldest and most venerable distilleries and imbued with a truly unique royal heritage. Following the exclusive ‘world first’ travel retail launch at Singapore Changi Airport each of the new expressions of ROYAL BRACKLA will initially be launched with DFS in their other key airport locations in Travel Retail.]
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Scotland’s Royal Brackla distillery is not a whisky brand that’s well known to single malt drinkers, mostly because much of what this facility produces ends up being used in blends. There was an uber rare and expensive 35 year old single malt released from here mid-last year, but for folks looking for more down to earth bottlings those have seldom been released. That’s changing though via three new whiskies being put out this month as part of a greater project known as the Last Great Malts of Scotland.
John Dewar & Sons (Bacardi), the owners of Royal Brackla, are making available 12, 16 and 21 year old expressions which are pricing around £46 ($70 USD), £85 ($130 USD) and £175 ($270 USD), respectively. All of this single malts herald from a distillery with a rich history, having been founded in 1812 in the Highlands region. The first to be granted a royal warrant (1835), Brackla is said to make use of notably tall stills which “run at an unusually slow pace. Their height allows plenty of reflux, with the leisurely nature of the operation increasing the contact that the spirit shares with copper, thus filtering out unwanted sulphury notes.”
“This is the one that was described as ‘The Drink Divine’ by the Royal household in the 1830s, that’s no small claim, so we had to take our time and the entire team have done an amazing job that really does justice to Royal Brackla’s incredible heritage,” said Stephen Marshall, Bacardi’s Global Marketing Manager, Single Malts, in a statement. “There’s only one whisky in the world that can be the first Royal whisky, I feel privileged to have worked on this.”
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Royal Brackla 12 Years Old, 40% ABV – Salute a superior Scotch: almonds, vine fruits, opulent spices; steeped in sherried richness. Ennobled nectar, fit for a king.
Royal Brackla 16 Years Old, 40% ABV – A royal flush of flavour: vanilla, soft caramel, ripe apricots; replete with sherry tones. Hold court with a monarch of the glens.
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Charbroiling chicken wings requires cooking them over charcoal so that the wings have a charred texture and flavor. Grilling chicken wings lets the fat drain off the poultry, giving the chicken a crispy texture. Chicken wings need grilled carefully to prevent them from burning, and to keep the flare ups under control. Grilling the wings over too high of a temperature will cause them to burn quickly, while grilling them over too low of a temperature will prolong the grilling time.
Things You'll Need
- Paper towels
- Kitchen shears
- Food storage bag
- 1 cup apple cider vinegar
- 2 tbsp. vegetable oil
- 2 tbsp. Worcestershire sauce
- 2 tbsp. chili powder
- 1 tsp. red pepper flakes
- 1 tbsp. hot sauce
- Grill brush
- Olive or vegetable oil
Rinse the fresh chicken wings under cool water. Pat the wings dry with paper towels.
Cut the wings at the joints if they remain connected. Remove the tips from the chicken wings with sharp kitchen shears.
Place the prepared chicken wings into a large food storage bag. Season the chicken wings with your desired marinade or dry seasonings. Create a buffalo sauce if you desire by combining 1 cup apple cider vinegar, 2 tbsp. vegetable oil, 2 tbsp. Worcestershire sauce, 2 tbsp. chili powder, 1 tsp. red pepper flakes, and 1 tbsp. hot sauce.
Seal the storage bag tightly and place it in the refrigerator. Refrigerate the wings for three to four hours.
Heat the grill to a temperature between 350 and 450 degrees F. Clean the grates with a grill brush to remove any debris. Allow the charcoal to burn down so that a gray ash forms. Brush the grates with olive or vegetable oil to prevent the wings from sticking.
Remove the wings from the storage bag. Pat the chicken wings with paper towels to remove any excess moisture to help reduce flare-ups. Discard the marinade and place the wings onto the grill grates. Turn the wings with tongs frequently to prevent them from burning. Close the grill lid to help the wings cook faster.
Remove the chicken wings from the grill when the center no long remains pink. Grilled chicken wings will take around 16 to 18 minutes to cook on the grill.
Tips & Warnings
- Marinating the wings before you grill them is an optional step.
- Spray flare ups on the grill with water.
- Toss chicken wings in sauce after you remove them from the grill.
- Save the leftover marinade and boil it on the stovetop for 5 minutes to kill any dangerous bacteria.
- Wash your hands and utensils immediately after handling raw chicken to prevent food-borne illness.
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- TripBuzz found 303 things to do with kids in or near Dundalk, Maryland, including 297 fun activities for kids in nearby cities within 25 miles like Annapolis, Baltimore, Columbia and Pasadena.
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Baker Park has easy walking trails, water features, baseball fields, picnic tables, and benches. Visitors can walk, jog, run, play tennis, or hang out anytime. They also usually hold concerts every July 4th.
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With the goal of preserving the county's local history, Calvert County Historical Society presents a collection of artifacts for visitors to view in its museum. The society is run by local volunteers and is supported by gift shop purchases.
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Reston Town Center Ice Rink is an outdoor skating rink open from November to March each year. Both figure and hockey skates are available to rent and they offer skating classes as well.
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Featuring eleven screens, Bow Tie Cinemas is a popular entertainment venue in Reston. The theatre shows the latest feature films and offers a full service snack bar, state of the art sound and comfortable luxury leather seats.
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Nestled in the woods, the Vernon J Walker Nature Education Center is a great place to start a bird walk, a woodland hike, or learn about numerous aspects of ecology in one of the frequent classes at the Nature House.
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We recently discussed the story of Sasha Katta and his Windows Phone challenge, where Katta was denied his prize after beating the “Smoked By Windows Phone” challenge.
The story hit the wires this weekend, and now, it’s taken off at an exponential rate, raining down bad press and negative reactions on Microsoft and their apparent “change the rules on the fly” approach. Naturally, in today’s world of Twitter and Facebook sharing, the chances such a popular story goes unnoticed by people in positions to initiate change is unlikely.
Katta’s story made it to the desk of Ben Rudolph, a Microsoft Evangelist who focuses his time on the Windows Phone brand. Over at his Twitter account, Rudolph acknowledged Katta’s issue and promised to make things right:
@sahaskatta so didn’t see what really went down. We’ll make it right though!Relax guys! I wasn’t there for the challenge with
#smokedbywindowsphone wins (and losses) 100%…even when I’m not the one doing the challenges. And always will!I stand behind
Clearly, the most important tweet was the fourth one where Rudolph reaches out to make things right. To do this, he offers Katta a laptop and a phone as a reward for beating the challenge. As for Katta’s reaction, he addressed the hubbub on his Twitter account recently:
#smokedbywindowsphone chaos.Just finished a workout, breakfast, and a meeting. And I’ll be sharing a statement shortly to address the
Does Microsoft’s capitulation to Katta’s legitimate beef ease the tension some have been expressing since the initial story broke? Or is this an example of “too little, too late?” Let us know what you think.

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Director of Conservation and Field Research
Ph.D. 2000, University of Missouri
M.S. 1988, University of Michigan
B.A. 1981, Kalamazoo College
My research focuses on the wintering ecology of Neotropical migratory birds in the Caribbean basin including population dynamics, ecological relationships, and habitat relationships at multiple scales. I am especially interested in understanding how birds respond to natural and anthropogenic change to their habitat.
My dissertation research built on previous work in which I examined the effect of fragment size on species composition and site fidelity of wintering migrants, with different-sized shade coffee plantations in an agricultural setting serving as a model for fragmented forest landscapes. For my dissertation I assessed winter population regulation of migrants in native habitats by analyzing habitat specific demographic and site fidelity data of birds along an altitudinal gradient.
My data suggested that studies of population regulation of wintering migrants should look more broadly at habitat characteristics, and should consider the effects of habitat heterogeneity and habitat seasonality on indices of survival and fitness. I also presented the first evidence that an ectoparasite can play a significant role in winter population regulation of migrant landbirds.
Current studies are assessing the value of early-successional scrub and broadleaf forests to wintering migrants and other landbirds, and the use of cenotes and other natural and restored riparian habitats by migratory birds.
Other work focuses on the distribution and effects of the avian malaria parasite (Haemoproteus and Plasmodium) in the Caribbean and North America by characterizing the geographic distribution of parasite lineages, the prevalence and intensity of infections in avian hosts among different habitats in Puerto Rico and Dominican Republic, and community relationships among parasite lineages and avian hosts on these islands.
I am also completing a study of avian reproductive success in widespread habitats in the Dominican Republic to evaluate population trends of resident species, and to assess reasons for population changes. This is the only broad-based nest monitoring program in the Caribbean region and one of only a few such studies in the Neotropics.
Previously I completed a study of endemic todies, and completed the first study of the ecology of the rare endemic Hispaniolan Crossbill which included a hierarchical habitat analysis, a model of habitat loss and population projections, and conservation recommendations. Studies of the ecology and conservation of additional Hispaniolan endemic birds are planned.
Monitoring of landbird populations is also a key part of my work. I have helped design and expand bird monitoring programs in the Caribbean, Mexico, Central America, and Ecuador. In a strategy I designed utilizing flexible protocols that incorporate standardized monitoring methods, I help build monitoring programs based on locally-defined objectives that will provide results with relevance to local management concerns, while also enabling participants to participate in wider, regional and international monitoring efforts to help determine population trends and habitat relationships of birds at a scale far greater than any single monitoring effort. These monitoring methods also allow us to address basic research questions of the ecology and natural history of migratory and resident bird species.
Beyond the obvious conservation implications of much of my work, I also use my professional standing to pursue important conservation goals, including programs of environmental education, the creation of networks of activist groups in communities around national parks, national-level avian conservation planning, and the publication of a variety of books aimed at educating schoolchildren, birdwatchers, and young professionals of the importance of bird conservation.
I design and present training workshops for biologists and naturalists in field research techniques and skills needed to interpret and apply monitoring data to conservation planning, and sponsor biologists in three-month internships to help them gain expertise to work independently and establish permanent careers in conservation biology. My goal is to build local scientific capacity to help ensure effective and successful conservation efforts for the long term.
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Improving basic education
Title: Capacity development in the basic education sector in Kosovo
Commissioned by: German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)
Lead executing agency: Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MEST)
Project term: 2010 to 2018
Since Kosovo’s declaration of independence in 2008, the country’s education system has been subject to extensive reforms. However, their implementation has been delayed for various reasons, some of which are mutually reinforcing. The education sector is underfunded and the existing budget is inefficiently deployed. There are considerable shortfalls in resources, professional skills and capacity at all levels and the quality of education is extremely low.
The deficits in the education sector can be attributed to many different factors. One of the main problems is the low quality of teaching. Teachers do not receive sufficient training to give children and teenagers the practical skills they will need in their daily lives. Children from disadvantaged population groups are not sufficiently included in the system. The importance of education for the development of Kosovo is not given due recognition, as education is treated as a marginal issue. The deficiencies in the basic education system have dramatic consequences for all subsequent levels of education, and hinder the country’s economic, social and political development.
The quality of basic education is improved.
The project takes a systematic, multilevel approach to tackling the core problems in the basic education system. The activities cover four areas:
- Transparency, accountability and public participation: Data on the education system is evaluated using international educational indicators and published every year in official education reports. In order to improve the quality of education, the project supports the work of key stakeholders such as the education ministry and the parliamentary education committee.
- Education management: School principals attend management training seminars. Parents and pupils are given more opportunities to voice their opinions, and children and teenagers are prepared for participation in student representative councils. School networks act as learning communities that encourage the sharing of experiences between teachers and foster mutual learning. An integrated planning system supports the coordination of activity and budget planning and facilitates communication between schools, municipalities and the ministerial levels.
- Improving the quality of teaching: In cooperation with private providers and universities, the project develops in-service training courses for teachers of mathematics and the natural sciences. National and international learning progress measurements are conducted increasingly to enable an appropriate and comparable assessment of the current performance level of the education sector. In 2015 Kosovo took part in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) for the first time; the results were made publicly accessible in a comprehensive report.
- Promoting inclusion, in particular for ethnic minorities and returnees: Additional non-formal educational offers facilitate access to the formal school system for the children of returnees and members of ethnic minorities, especially the Roma, Ashkali and Balkan Egyptians. As teachers, parents and municipalities become more involved, the social cohesion in the host communities grows. Extra lessons will help children who have missed a lot of schooling to catch up. The project cooperates closely with civil society organisations. The Internationaler Bund (IB Group) provides specialist support for the project.
Around 350 school principals have completed management training courses, which has improved the planning processes in the schools. So far 143 out of 148 pilot schools have approved school development plans that satisfy defined minimum criteria.
More than 1,000 teachers have taken part in various training modules for teaching mathematics and natural sciences, with most of them attending several courses. Systematic teaching observation shows that they can apply 70 per cent of the new skills and methods in their lessons.
In all, 13 learning communities involving 63 schools are benefiting from intensive exchanges and functional committees. The national PISA 2015 report was prepared in cooperation with national and international experts. The education strategy supported by the project for the years 2017 to 2021 is implementing national targets and concepts for the education sector and draws together the discussions and commitment of all stakeholders.

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If the changes kill off the cheap subcompact cars, they'll only be dealing the final blow to a segment that's long been low-margin and is increasingly becoming low-volume as well.
Experts came together in Mumbai to applaud the progress that India has made in improving road safety, following the passage of the Motor Vehicles Amendment Bill 2017 in Lok Sabha in April. The event had representatives from Global NCAP, a UK based car safety body.
With offerings such as the XC90 and S90 launched last year, and some new models like the new XC60 slated to be released this year, Volvo could gain a 10% share of India's luxury car market by the year 2020.
Audi Q5 and Land Rover Discovery scored the maximum stars in the European New Car Safety Assessment Programme
Technology assisting to prevent a crash comes under active safety. Learning from autonomous driving vehicles along with new age sensor technology and advances in computing and communications will soon see production of such cars.
Paradigms are shifting and gears changing as the auto industry prepares to sell more in tough times.
Once the vehicle crosses the speed of 80 km, there would be sounds of beeps alerting the driver, and in case the speed crosses 90 km, there would be continuous special beeps so that the driver and co-passengers both are alarmed
All new models will have "vehicle reverse gear sensor system", which helps the driver detect any object behind the car as well as "manual override" feature.
The pan-India campaign has been initiated across 15 states - from Jammu and Himachal Pradesh to Assam and Odisha - reaching out to over 5000 consumers.
The Consumers' Legal Protection Forum (CLPF) organized a state-level workshop on car safety on Sunday here. It urged vehicle manufacturers across the country to strictly comply with the standard safety norms during production. This will protect consumers' lives.
Such a long lead time is completely unnecessary as the Mexican industry already has the capacity to apply the new standards immediately and already exports cars compliant with them to Europe and the United States.
Alto 800, with the option of airbag will be available at Rs 2.62 lakh ex-showroom Delhi, whereas Alto K10 with airbag will start at Rs 3.45 lakh
This year, nearly 800 auto executives from 38 countries, including 74 executives from India, were surveyed on topics ranging from business model disruptions, connectivity and digitalisation, customer data and new products
An Indian-origin man in the US has sued American tyre major Goodyear holding it responsible for an accident that left him paralysed.
the video talks about what the safety features next generation cars could have, it starts with a peep into the minds of the drivers who would really be the ones driving these cars - children.
As part of this initiative, Volkswagen and Mumbai Traffic Police Department would install 1500 hoardings, managed by Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai
A senior Nabanna official said that tenders have been floated for the purchase of 10 bullet-proof cars and the supplier needs to provide the cars by March 1, 2016.


KAILUA-KONA — A former running back at Vanderbilt, Paul Morgan, traded in his football helmet and pads to sell insurance when he arrived in Kailua-Kona. While he is currently an agent with State Farm, Morgan’s love for football and helping student-athletes hasn’t diminished.
“When I came over, I started coaching at Kamehameha Schools, and from there it just seemed like a natural progression of being involved in the community and giving back,” Morgan said. “Back in the day, I played at Vanderbilt and played some arena football, and after so many years you can’t do it anymore, but you still want to figure out a way to help your community. So coming into the insurance industry is a way that I can still be a protector and still help people without having to worry about running through a brick wall.”
One of Morgan’s projects for community outreach is Thursday Night Lights, a benefit tailgate with local businesses and student-athletes across the island.
Businesses that want to participate would buy in a minimum of $250 to be a part of the tailgate, and in turn, that money would go to a student-athlete to be used for school supplies, clothing, food or any other needed items.
The community tailgates will be Aug. 9, 16 and 23 at Old Kona Airport Park. Thursday nights were chosen in order to avoid scheduling conflicts with high school football junior varsity and varsity games played on Friday nights.
Morgan is currently seeking businesses to participate in the tailgate. He believes the ones that have been affected by the Kilauea eruption can use the event as a way to showcase that they are still up and running despite natural disaster.
“In my mind, the timing is right for this,” Morgan said. “Even if you look at the economic perspective of businesses who are going through this down time right now, it’s a way for them to come out and rebrand their businesses about what they do.”
Businesses should bring their own tent and tables to the tailgate and are encouraged to bring information such as job and internship applications.
Kamehameha Schools football head coach Dan Lyons and assistant head coach Shaune Perry also had a hand in putting the tailgate together.
“It’s really all about life skills and getting the students involved in their community,” Lyons said. “These events help them understand the bigger picture in life.”
On the calendar is also a three-on-three basketball tournament, scheduled for April 6 of next year, and a baseball home run derby scheduled for July 13, 2019.
The $250 from these events will not just be given to student-athletes on Hawaii Island, but will be granted to any student-athlete in need, as far away as Kauai. Morgan said the money will be placed in a checking or savings account that the students can access to buy anything they may need.
“What it will be used for is, that kid can buy everything from school clothes to however they are affected. It’s their money,” Morgan said. “A lot of people donate to foundations and charities, but we want to give it where the need is right now.”
Morgan’s team— which consists of his fellow employees Pam Cheslock, Paulette Graves, Dora Ramirez and Anna White — has applied for a State Farm Neighborhood Assist grant for $25,000 to help fund the community outreach efforts. The grant is given annually to 40 different causes, which are selected by a public vote on the grant’s website. If awarded, Morgan plans for the money to be split evenly to give $250 to 100 student-athletes.
Currently, Morgan and Graves are visiting schools on the island to teach student-athletes about the importance of a financial education, with a program they call Slice of Life. They will be at Kamehameha Schools on July 16 and 17 with pizza to talk to 68 athletes and break down budgeting and other money issues with them.
“Our backgrounds are all pretty much in athletics, so helping student-athletes was a natural progression for us,” White said. “And then bringing the community in to support those athletes is just a way to bring people together in a fun way that everyone can agree upon. Let’s help these kids out and give them a chance at a better future by educating them.”


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to FJ40, FJ45, FJ55, FJ60, FJ70 & FJ75 4 and 5-Speed Manual Kit part no. MFK560CD utilises the GM flywheel and clutch (MCK605CD) along with the Toyota bell housing. Instead of a new bell housing, a flywheel housing is supplied which measures 122 mm/4.8″ long. This housing has the GM bolt pattern on the front and the Toyota 1F, 2F, and 3F, bolt pattern on the rear.
The kit has been designed to allow for firewall clearance without shifting the transmission or altering the drive shaft lengths.
The gearbox input shaft is coupled to the clutch via an input extension shaft. The shaft has the Toyota internal spline and spigot diameter on the gearbox end with the GM external spline and spigot diameter on the engine end. The front of the shaft is supported in the crankshaft by a sealed ball bearing inside an adaptor ring. The clutch is operated through a thrust bearing extension sleeve, which is supported in a machined boss located in the centre of the housing. On the front of the sleeve is a thrust bearing to suit the GM clutch pressure plate.
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- The kit can be used on HJ series vehicles however additional parts will be required including a 2F or 3F bell housing, clutch slave cylinder, clutch fork, etc


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Kristen Stewart Makes Variety’s 2012 Women’s Impact List
October 6, 2012 6:20 AM EST
Kristen Stewart was included in Variety’s Women’s Impact Report 2012 for her role in the box office hit “Snow White and the Huntsman.”
The 22-year-old “Twilight” sensation made the weekly trade magazine’s Kickin’ A-List, which “highlights femmes who have had a particularly game-changing year in their spheres”
Variety praised Stewart for her fierce portrayal of Snow White in the dark reimaging of the fairy tale. The actress stars as an orphan who escapes from captivity by the evil Queen Ravenna (Charlize Theron) and leads an army to restore peace to her homeland.
According to Variety, “in a year where Snow White could be found in many forms on the screen ... Stewart made the character her own with a steely version of the apple-loving beauty.”
Stewart joins “The Amazing Spider Man” star Emma Stone and “The Dark Knight Rises” beauty Marion Cotillard, who also made the list.
The list also recognizes female TV executives, writers, lawyers, agents and marketing mavens. Writer/director/actress Lena Dunham made the Creatives list, while E.L James and the team that helped make “Fifty Shades of Grey” a phenomenon earned a special mention.
Stewart’s role in “Huntsman” may be considered a departure from her previous work, which includes understated indie dramas like “Into the Wild” and “The Runaways.”
The actress was one of the few women to carry a film in a summer blockbuster season dominated by superhero movies, sequels and reboots, which mostly starred men.
Stewart will soon be seen in two vastly different films. In November, she’ll star in the final “Twilight” installment, “Breaking Dawn: Part 2.” The following month, Stewart will portray Marylou, a suffering 16-year-old bride, in the long-awaited drama “On the Road.” The film, which debuted at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, is an adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s classic road trip tale that is considered the definitive illustration of the beatnik era.
Early reviews have praised Stewart for her performance in the film, which features risqué scenes that include nudity and drug use. The Hollywood Reporter’s Todd McCarthy noted that the actress is “perfect in the role.”
Her brave performance in the film prompted the Huffington Post’s Michael Hogan to ask, “Is Kristen Stewart the only major celebrity of her generation who also happens to be a true artist?”
According to the Hollywood Reporter, the actress is attached to star in the drama “Lie Down in Darkness,” an adaptation of William Styron’s 1951 novel of the same name.
“Breaking Dawn: Part 2” will debut on Nov. 16. “On the Road” is set to hit theaters on Dec. 22.
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229 new cases confirmed, 7 more deaths recorded
The 229 confirmed new cases of the corona virus disease recorded in Nigeria as at Abuja on Monday, May 25, 2020 in 34 states of the federation including Federal Capital Territory, Abuja has increased the total number of cases to 8,068.
It also recorded 7 more deaths.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) when giving its daily update on Monday announced that 90 new cases were recorded in Lagos, the epicenter of the highly infectious disease in Nigeria.
Katsina recorded the second highest number of new cases on Monday with 27, followed closely by Imo with 26 new cases, and Kano with 23 new cases.
14 new cases were recorded in the FCT, while 12 were recorded in Plateau, nine in Ogun, seven in Delta, and five each in Borno and Rivers.
Oyo recorded four new cases, followed by Gombe with three, Osun with two, and one each in Anambra and Bayelsa.
There was sad news of 7 patients also died from coronavirus-related complications, according to the NCDC’s update, with the total death toll rising to 233.
48 patients who recovered from the disease were also discharged from isolation centres on Monday to resume their normal lives. A total of 2,311 patients have recovered and been discharged.
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This episode of the Pulse podcast is part of the COVID-Converted Edition audio and video podcast series. It features an interview with Jeff Borden, chief academic officer and vice president of academic affairs at D2L. In the conversation with The Pulse’s host, Rodney B. Murray, Borden discusses Education 3.0’s confluence of neuroscience, cognitive psychology and education technology. Learn more about The Pulse here.
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The Indian Army is soon going to induct Electric Vehicles (EV) in three categories including motorcycles, buses and cars, in its fleet, as this will help it reduce its dependency on fossil fuels.
On Friday, Perfect Metal Industries (PMI), Revolt Motors and Tata Motors showcased their EVs to defence Minister Rajnath Singh and other stakeholders of the armed forces about the enhancement in technology and range of operation achieved during the past few years in this area.
The companies showcased their EVs in the presence of Chief of Army Staff Gen MM Naravane, and senior officers of the Indian Army in New Delhi.
Even though the armies across the globe are still thinking about moving to EVs in their fleet, according to the Ministry of Defence statement, Indian Army Chief Gen Naravane believed that the future in transportation is EVs.
More about Indian Army’s plans to move to EV
A definite time bound road-map for introducing the EVs in the Indian Army is in the process of being formulated. This has been done based on the directions of the Chief of Army Staff and a Board of Officers was set up under Director General of Supplies & Transport (DGST) Lieutenant General Manoj Kumar Singh Yadav who was the Presiding Officer.
Earlier this week, at the Army Commanders meeting in New Delhi, Lieutenant General Manoj Kumar Singh Yadav briefed the Chief of Army Staff, top army commanders and other senior officers today about the planned introduction of EVs and the recommendations of the Board of Officers.
Several steps taken by the government to give a boost to EVs in India have been helpful — FAME I & II both policies have given a huge boost to infrastructure development which is helping in sustaining the EV ecosystem in India. Also, to facilitate EV adoption, setting up of EV charging stations has been delicensed.


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Winter-quarter enrollment at Weber State University has reached an all-time high of 14,097 students. The figure represents a 12 percent increase from the 12,581 students enrolled last winter.
Enrollment in undergraduate classes rose to 13,992 from 12,471 last winter, a 12.2 percent increase. The freshman class grew 9.2 percent; sophomores, 10.2 percent; juniors, 17 percent; and seniors, 14.5 percent."All Utah colleges and universities are experiencing enrollment increases as children born in the early 1970s baby boom reach college age," said Robert B. Smith, vice president for academic affairs. "We're getting more than our fair share of those students because more high school graduates are being attracted here since Weber State achieved university status last year."


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Mario Lopez Introduces New Son Dominic to Ellen Degeneres
Jon | On 24, Nov 2013
Mario Lopez introduced Ellen DeGeneres to his 10-week-old son, Dominic, on her show Friday.
Wife Courtney and 3-year-old daughter Gia Francesca joined Lopez, 40, for the interview.
“We didn’t know what we were having, we waited to find out. Once the baby’s here, people come and they sip on whatever they want to sip on and they see the baby. A sip and see is a party and the baby is the focus — a much cooler deal than a baby shower.”
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”Avoid White Processed Foods”
You might want to re-think eating High-carb and Low-fiber imitation food like overly-processed white bread and highly polished white rice...
...keep it off your grocery list.
If You don't want CATARACTS in your near future!!
Your risk is 77% higher if you eat white processed foods!!
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....DID YOU KNOW....
That women who become to thin can endanger their lives?
If you go to extremes to lose weight, chances are you'll go to far!!
Instead of taking the proscribed amount of diet pills....
You takes more....
Thinking more pills will take the weight off faster!!
This type of behavior....only gets you an early headstone!!
Dieting Tips for Losing WeightTweet Follow @getskinny47
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1. Drink 90 ounces of water daily.
The water fills you up and refreshes you because it flushes out the toxins accumulated in your liver and kidneys during sleep time.
When dieting this is essential.
You can drop inches this way because not only toxins get flushed so will unwanted fat.
Whatever you do, do not skip breakfast you need the energy just to walk from your car to the office.
With 3 or 4 hours to go before eating again breakfast is vital.
Dieting can be made easy just by following a few simple tricks. Water flushes fat can’t get any easier!
2. Consume 2 tbsp of coconut oil daily, you can use it in cooking or on salads.
The best way to utilize coconut oil is as a moisturizer.
That way it’s absorbed by the body via the skin pores. Some people have lost weight in 48 hours using this method.
Buy only organic coconut oil.
I am not sold on coconut oil as a losing weight tool.
If it works for you let us know firstname.lastname@example.org.
In any recipe you use drop the red meat and put ground turkey in its place.
DO NOT use ground chicken as a substitute there is no flavor and it’s like chewing on leather.
But remember some fat is necessary for a healthy body!
One of the best dieting tips you can have for your healthful dieting.
Put turkey on you shopping list and stop eating red meat, your body will thank you for it.
Or eat less meat each week and drop pounds fast, what a wonderful way to lose weight.
4. Climb 10 steps in home or office 16 times in morning then again in evening.
It raises your metabolism if you do it before you eat you’ll processes your food better and faster.
Then 1 to 2 hours before bedtime this is the fat elimination time.
You can lose 10 lbs in 3 months just doing this tiny exercise.
The best losing weight fast experience I have ever had.
Do you know how much weight you can reduce from your body just stair stepping for 15 minutes/day?
You can burn over 300 calories.
Wendy’s taco salad and only diet drinks. Try to keep fast food buys to 2 times weekly.
The best dieting advice I can give you is try very hard to limit fast food.
Even if you are eating low calorie and low fat fast food, it can be counter-productive to losing weight in that the salt content is high.
Salt has a place in our diets, but not nearly as much as we consume.
Another in the myriad of ways to lose weight.
6. Drink only milk or smoothie for evening meal 16 oz ok.
You can drink 2%, 1% or skimmed milk.
For a smoothie add 1 ½ cups of plain yogurt with any fresh fruit you like.
For a little tang add a couple tablespoon of orange juice, sweeten only with non-sugar sweetener.
I use stevia because it’s natural. You can lose 10 lbs in 3 weeks or less depending on how fast you lose.
Also end the eating of pasta or limit it to 2 times a week. You can take off ½ lb/day eliminating bread, substituting it with non- sugared cereal.
Cereal made from oats high in fiber is the best product to buy. You can also eat hot cereals they rev up the fat burning because they are hot.
Can Hunza Bread be a dieting aid?
Of course it is another losing weight tool.
The trick is you have to make it yourself and result are phenomenal, again a passive ways to lose weight.
As a dieting tip go, this is one of the easiest, because you get to eat and lose weight.
8. Without changing your diet walk 45 minutes/day and drop over 30 lbs in a year.
It may be hard at first to get into a routine of exercising, but if you persist you will find you can’t live without walking.
Something about being in the outdoors gets you hooked on exercising outside and that's a great way to lose weight and ridding yourself of depression at the same time.
Force yourself to walk you won’t regret it.
If you combine walking and a lower caloric diet you can double the 30 lbs and take off 60 lbs.
If you have a lot of weight to drop this is the exact exercise you need.
This is a good oil that has enormous benefits.
It assists in weight loss due to the fact that it lubricate you colon and you pass you food faster and healthier.
You can lose and extra 10 lbs a year consuming an omega-3 oil product.
Also eat solid organic soy butter it motivates the bowels to eliminate faster and stops bloating.
You eat less when taking some form of Omega 3 fatty acid, therefore it helps lower weight.
Your body is tricked into thinking it is burning consumed calorie instead it is burning stored fat! A really great way to lose weight and keep your breath fresh as well.
You can drop inches this way. The best brands are: Trident, Orbit, Clorets and good old Dentine.
Dieting tip of the day, chew gum and keep the stomach acids working fast and longer.
You'll be losing weight much quicker.
11. Tonalin CLA which is: Conjugated Linoleic Acid, a naturally occurring oil in beef, turkey, chicken and milk products.
I haven’t tried this myself but the reviews of people who have reduced body fat by about 10% over a year without changing their diet.
However, those who are taking it have gotten on a more active exercise program. An important way to lose weight and stay happy.
Read up on it before using and make sure you only get the kind made from Safflower oil. It allegedly blocks unwanted fat. Can cause diarrhea and stomach upset.
Tonalin CLA is a diet product that can be used along with a healthy diet and regular exercise in order to reduce unwanted body fat.
But, it has nothing on just eating less and dieting with exercise a part of you everyday habits.
12. Garcinia Cambogia is a small fruit that could be mistaken for a pumpkin and many of you may know it is the ingredient in weight loss products.
It is an appetite suppressant and helps to burn fat more easily. Allegedly it blocks carbohydrates from being turned into fat.
Please take the time to read reliable information on this product before consuming.
Garcinia Cambogia is not recommended for children, pregnant or lactating women or diabetics.
Please take the time to do some research before putting this into your mouth.
13. Here's a new tip for chronic weight gain.
Do this for at least 10 days, you should lose a few pounds and make your skin look radiant at the same time.
So, make the experience as painless as possible. Ways to lose weight are endless if you have an imagination.
14. Try this shake at night instead of a meal: 1 cup of plain non-fat yogurt; 1/2 cup apple cider; 6 to 8 wedges of frozen peaches, mix well in blender. You may need more apple cider to mix well in blender. Keep the consistency thick it tastes like peach ice cream without the fat.
15. When researcher put soup to the test using 147 people, they discovered that eating soup twice daily for 6 months reduced weight by 50% more than if not eating soup. Whereas the group who ate the same low-calorie diet but no soup only did half as well as the soup eaters.
The theory is soup fills you up faster on less calories.
Consume a broth based bowl of soup as your beginning entre'. Mix in vegetables, beans, garlic, onions, broccoli, cauliflower...you get the idea.
So take ways to lose weight to the healthy side and enjoy a large bowl of hot soup without the chemically laden crackers.Tweet Follow @getskinny47
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The bobsledders sported black-and-blue bodysuits and full helmets but the Union Jack plastered on the hull gave them away. The driver, rugby player and British national bobsleigh champion, Tom De La Hunty, and his brakeman, Peter Lund, held onto push bars to rock the bullet-shaped boblet to and fro. “One, two, three—go!” they finally shouted, leaned into the final push, and ran the boblet down the track.
The two jumped into the fiberglass cowling, and, bending as aerodynamically as possible, tucked in for the run. Twenty years after Great Britain had pulled an upset and won the race in Innsbruck, De La Hunty and Lund stood no chance against the East Germans and Soviets here at the Sarajevo 1984 Winter Olympics—they were in 18th place after two heats, halfway through the race. Snow was falling heavy for a third straight day, turning the world’s fastest track into a treacherous one.
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This way to the abandoned bobsled track, point the maps and signs and arrows. Built for the 1984 Olympic Winter Games, used as a makeshift military installation during the Siege of Sarajevo, and left to decay in the decades hence, the skeleton of the bobsled and luge track at Mt. Trebević is now a tourist attraction for war trippers and ruin porn addicts.
But over the past few years a team of locals has been working to return the track to its original purpose. Architecture professor, Sanela Klarić, is one of the driving forces behind the effort. “Sarajevo’s identity has for decades been connected with war and suffering, people talk about the past too much here,” she tells me as we walk toward the track on an unseasonably hot May day, thirty-eight years after the Olympics. Just a few minutes out of her car, sweat trickles down my back. Dressed in bright-colored summer casuals and high heels, Klarić scales the platform that housed the push-off area for the bobsled competitions with boundless energy and a seemingly perpetual smile. The athletes’ push time could decide the outcome of the run.
We’re high above the smog inversion choking the city again this week. Everything projects with throbbing clarity and the forest smells sweet. Songbirds muffle the chatter of hikers on a path above (as a mountain within city limits, Trebević is a popular spot for nature-loving Sarajevans). I squint against the midday sunlight bouncing off the concrete.
Downhill off to the right, I can see the steep concrete ramp that plunged from the luge start house where lugers sitting atop their flat steel sleds would push off the ice floor with spiked gloves, lie supine feet first, and projectile through the track channel.
As we descend the track, Klarić walks me through its history—and possible future.


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One Tree Hill Educates Fans with Music
Fans of the TV show One Tree Hill will be anticipating the upcoming release of a soundtrack of favorite songs featured on the series. The Friends with Benefit soundtrack is set to hit store shelves on February 7, 2006, featuring tunes from popular bands such as Audioslave, Tyler Hilton, Jimmy Eat World, Fall Out Boy, Hot Hot Heat and more.
However, the disc will do more than simply promote the WB Network series, according to One Tree Hill creator and executive producer Mark Schwahn who says, "We have an audience of young girls and women and selfishly, we'd like to keep them alive and healthy for years to come." Therefore, a portion of the proceeds from the Friends with Benefit CD will go to support the National Breast Cancer Foundation.
Currently One Tree Hill is featuring a storyline that has a popular character's mother battling breast cancer. The storyline and the soundtrack recognize that the vast majority of One Tree Hill fans are undoubtedly young women that may one day be touched by breast cancer. Who says educational programming can't be fun?
Read the full article here - http://www.groovevolt.com/Newswires/newswire.asp?ID=1803.


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Esperanza Cordero (The House on Mango Street)
Esperanza is the most fully developed character in the book. All our information about her comes from her; some things she tells us directly (and we must be alert to the possibility that they are perhaps true only at the moment she says them), others indirectly in her reported actions, thoughts, and feelings. Some things about her we can never know, but because her voice is both direct and intimate, we can "know" her in some ways better than her friends and family do, better perhaps than she knows herself.
On one hand, Esperanza is a typical young adolescent girl, at some moments a child and at some an adult. She jumps rope with her friends, rides three on a bike, is drawn to a good Bugs Bunny cartoon. Very late in the book, she says of a neighbor, "I like Alicia because once she gave me a little leather purse with the word GUADALAJARA stitched on it . . . " — a very childish locution, for we know that Esperanza's feelings of liking and admiration for Alicia are not at all that simple.
On the other hand, this woman-child can exhibit very mature insights. Her assessments of Sally ("all you wanted was to love, . . . and no one could call that crazy") and of Marin ("waiting for a car to stop, a star to fall, someone to change her life"), for example, show her innate ability not only to recognize another person's motives but also to empathize with others, both signs of mental and emotional maturity. They are also signs of an imaginative intelligence that marks Esperanza as something more than average. She is a very bright girl who likes to read, to learn things and put new information together, to show off what she knows. Moreover, her intelligence is specifically creative, as is shown by her poetry, her originality, and especially her characteristic way of describing things in imaginative similes and other metaphors.
Perhaps it is Esperanza's imaginative intelligence that makes her suspect the traditional path to womanhood, through courtship and early marriage, of being a trap. It is a trap that draws her, of course; like most young girls, she feels herself becoming a sexual being, and she is impatient to get away from home, to stop being her parents' daughter and start being her own person. Doing this in the traditional way, she sees, would be dangerous. Finding a new way will be lonely and difficult, for she will have to swim against the current. But Esperanza is able to employ her natural adolescent impulses and feelings in this enterprise, channeling them into independence, ambition, and the courageous refusal to capitulate to social pressures towards conformity.
In order to make these transformations, Esperanza necessarily dramatizes herself somewhat, as when she decides to become "beautiful and cruel." Such self-dramatization really amounts to forming a mental image of herself that she can adjust as needed. Part of Esperanza's self-image is one of stoicism; she keeps her feelings to herself and actually — for the narrator of a book — says relatively little, leaving the reader to infer a great deal. In "Four Skinny Trees," she seems to be working on her self-image, rather enjoying her identification with the trees in what she sees as their strength, anger, and feeling of displacement. Only in "Red Clowns" does Esperanza actually break down — significantly, not to the reader but to her own mental picture of Sally — and characteristically she returns in the next chapter in her usual terse style, as if the incident had never happened. And, in the three short chapters at the end of the book, she reveals what we might already have guessed about her: Esperanza is a person who will feel everything very deeply and will quietly channel her experiences and feelings into creative energy; they will emerge transformed, as art.
Our knowledge of other characters also comes from Esperanza, who understands them on her own level; we can know more about them, in some cases, by combining what she says with our own insights into human nature. An example is one very minor character — Earl, the jukebox repairman who lives in a basement apartment near Esperanza. Esperanza knows some things about him and probably recognizes his loneliness and displacement, but as a child, she is still unable to articulate these things; older readers will see more than Esperanza does. Other minor characters (including some, like Lucy and Rachel, Nenny, even Esperanza's mother, who appear in more than one chapter) can be "analyzed" as well; the trick is to examine the character through Esperanza's eyes and at the same time to recognize — given our knowledge of who Esperanza is — the hints she gives us, almost unconsciously, of the character she does not yet see. (It is a measure of Cisneros' talent that these hints are almost always present, but that they never intrude upon the integrity of Esperanza's character.) Some of these characters, like Earl, are really minor; the others, important as they may be in Esperanza's life, are (typically for a girl her age) both taken for granted and dismissed from the front row of people with whom she is just now most concerned. The really important people to Esperanza are girls and young women whom she sees as possible role models, a little older than she, a little closer to womanhood.


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InterContinental Hotels expected to reveal strong annual results
Hotels group InterContinental is expected to reveal strong annual results on Tuesday as demand for rooms remains buoyant in America and Europe despite the poor global economy.
IHG, headed by Richard Solomons, was one of the official sponsors of the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics with its Holiday Inn brand.
Boost: IHG was one of the official sponsors of the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics with its Holiday Inn brand
The company also owns the Crowne Plaza and Hotel Indigo chains as well as the flagship InterContinental brand. It is estimated that pre-tax profits will be about £355 million, up from £343 million the previous year, on sales of £1.8 billion.
IHG is expected to complete the £220 million sale of its Barclay hotel in New York later this year and the InterContinental London Park Lane next year for about £260 million, which could cut its debt and return £640 million to investors.
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Vibrant city living meets community charm in Ayala Land’s first township development in Bulacan.
Ayala Land continues a legacy of building sustainable growth environments with Altaraza Town Center, the first master-planned, mixed-use estate in Bulacan. Integrating vibrant natural vistas,
with a dynamic emerging urban center, the estate energizes Metro North with fresh business and lifestyle possibilities.
UNFOLDING BOUNDLESS POTENTIAL FOR BUSINESS
The flagship Ayala Land estate at San Jose Del Monte City is strategically located along Quirino Highway at the boundary of MetroManila and Bulacan. Primed for progress, bolstered by a dynamic working population, and with major infrastructure projects underway, Altaraza Town Center cultivates a contemporary community for business and investment.
THE METRO’S NORTHEAST GATEWAY
The estate opens opportunities for business and investment with commercial lots and spaces at prime locations within the estate. Dynamic environments integrate with lifestyle settings to expand
Estimated price as of April 2020 : PHP 100 – PHP 140M
Average Lot Size: 2,000 – 3,000 sqm
HLURB No. 033238
Deo L. Ignacio
Licensed Real Estate Broker REBL 1823
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