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Researchers are trying hard to find ways to stave off progressive brain decline by enhancing cognitive function.
One of the most devastating diseases, dementia is a general term for a group of symptoms associated with the progressive deterioration of the brain.
Although the relationship between diet and brain decline is complex, certain nutrients have been shown to promote cognitive health, which may offer some protection.
One of the most surprising findings in this area is the role that eating dark chocolate may play in enhancing cognitive function.
“There is good evidence that cocoa flavonoids can sharply improve cognitive function in humans, possibly through mechanisms such as increased cerebral blood flow,” researchers wrote in a study published in the journal Nutrients.
Flavonoids can be found in dark chocolate and cocoa, among other foods.
The aim of this study was to explore whether benefits to episodic verbal memory and mood could be observed two hours after consuming a commercially available dark chocolate bar compared to a 35g white chocolate.
98 healthy adults, aged 18 to 24, consumed either 35g of dark chocolate or a bar of white chocolate that was low in flavonoids and low in calories.
The assessment of memory and verbal episodic mood occurred before consumption and two hours after consumption.
The researchers said the results showed that dark chocolate was associated with better verbal memory performance for “several outcome measures” when compared to white chocolate. However, there was no effect on mood, the researchers said.
The researchers concluded: “These findings support the idea that daily available portions of dark chocolate may confer brain benefits in healthy consumers.”
Several previous studies have linked chocolate consumption to improved cognitive scores, but no definitive conclusions can be drawn.
A review published in Frontiers in Nutrition analyzed the evidence to date that flavanols may benefit human brain function.
Flavanols are a form of flavonoids, which are plant substances that have anti-inflammatory and antioxidant effects.
A key finding of the review was that long-term consumption may be beneficial.
One study found that among adults ages 50 to 69, those who took a high-flavanol cocoa supplement for three months performed better on memory tests than those who took a low-flavanol cocoa supplement.
Several studies have found evidence of improved brain blood flow, oxygen levels, or nerve function as measured by imaging tests or tests of electrical activity in the brain after consuming cocoa drinks.
But because these changes were not routinely associated with improved performance on cognitive tasks, it is difficult to link the results directly to better brain function.
Ultimately, the researchers suggest that while these findings are encouraging and interesting, more research is needed, especially since most studies to date have been small and many have not been able to eliminate the possibility of a placebo effect.
In addition, these studies cannot account for many other variables that can affect brain function (such as medical problems, cognitive function at baseline, or drug use).


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This post goes out to all of you kind, generous souls humoring me by requesting prior knowledge of my next AM Northwest Primetime appearance. Well, I’m here to tell you that I will be on tomorrow, May 26, at their 7:00 pm time slot on: Channel 2.2, if you don’t have cable, or Comcast Channel 302 or Verizon FIOS Channel 464. For those of you not in the Portland area who want to check out the “big event,” I’ll post the link to it on Thursday. My actual appearance will be in the mid- to second half of the show.
I’ll be making green beans with caramelized shallots which are to die for. I can’t get enough of them. And with green bean season almost upon us, this is a good recipe to have handy. You can find it here. I’ll also be making the fingerling potato recipe I’ve listed below. Even my sweetie loves this dish and he’s kind of like our “Mikey.” You know if he likes it, well…..it’s got to be good. Isn’t that right, sweetie?
Fingerling Potatoes with an Apple Cider Vinaigrette
(A twist on the ole German Potato Salad)
I have alluded to making these potatoes before here but since I’ll be showing how to make them on the show tomorrow, I needed to get an actual recipe down on paper. So here it is. I served them just last night with grilled sausages and steamed garlic spears and received rave reviews. As for the garlic spears, they were new to us. They had a mild taste like an artichoke. I don’t think I would serve them as a side dish again but I think they would be fantastic as an appetizer with a little garlic aioli.
3 lbs (or approx 8 cups) fingerling potatoes, cut into fairly uniform 1″ sized chunks
1/4 tsp kosher salt (or sea salt or whatever salt you have on hand)
2 tbsp apple cider vinegar
2 tbsp shallot, peeled and minced
1 tsp Dijon mustard
5-6 tbsp olive oil
Before you start doing anything with your potatoes, mix together the salt, vinegar and shallot in a medium-sized bowl (I like to use a 4 cup pyrex measuring cup.) Set aside and allow to “macerate” or “pickle” if you will, while you take care of the potatoes.
Put your potatoes in a large pot and fill with enough water to cover them completely. Add a pinch of salt if you’d like, cover and bring to a boil. Once boiling, reduce your heat a bit and cook for 10-12 minutes. Test with a fork at 10 minutes to see if the potatoes are tender.
Gently drain the potatoes into a colandar and let cool just a bit. While they are cooling, finish your vinaigrette. Mix in the dijon mustard. Then, while continuously whisking, slowing pour your olive oil into your vinegar and shallot mix. You want to do this slowly so the ingredients emulsify or blend together.
Transfer your potatoes to a large bowl (or back in the pot, which is what I do to cut down on dishes,) pour the vinaigrette over them and gently stir your potatoes just until they are evenly coated with the dressing. This recipe can easily be cut in half and it’s just as tasty cold. Enjoy.
Yield: 8 servings
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A life-size cardboard cut-out of the Spice Girls might not be something you would expect to find in a museum store…
National Science and Media Museum volunteer Rosemary Cole discovers the links between photography and paintings at our Poetics of Light exhibition.
You might think of 3D as brand new technology—but the surprisingly modern-looking 3D viewers in our collection date back to the late 19th century.
Emily Rees discusses how private archives, like the C.O. Stanley Pye Collection, can offer invaluable insights into the history of media in Britain.
Wearable technology isn’t as new as you think. From 1880s portable cameras to the personal radio of the 1930s, see some intriguing examples from our collection.
Dance crazes have always sparked outrage and debate, as these images from our collection prove!
80 years ago today, Alexandra Palace became the birthplace of British television as we know it.
Dr Jane Frances, Policy Adviser in Education at Changing Faces, talks about how we look at faces and how different ways of seeing are represented in our In Your Face exhibition.
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AmeriCorps NCCC (National Civilian Community Corps) is a full-time, team-based residential program for men and women age 18–24. Members are assigned to one of five campuses, located in Denver, Colorado; Sacramento, California; Perry Point, Maryland; Vicksburg, Mississippi; and Vinton, Iowa.
The mission of AmeriCorps NCCC is to strengthen communities and develop leaders through direct, team-based national and community service. In partnership with non-profits—secular and faith based, local municipalities, state governments, federal government, national or state parks, Indian Tribes and schools, members complete service projects throughout the region they are assigned. Drawn from the successful models of the Civilian Conservation Corps of the 1930s and the U.S. military, AmeriCorps NCCC is built on the belief that civic responsibility is an inherent duty of all citizens and that national service programs work effectively with local communities to address pressing needs.
AmeriCorps NCCC requires an intensive, 10-month commitment. Members serve in teams of eight to twelve and are assigned to projects throughout the region served by their campus. They are trained in CPR, first aid, public safety, and other skills before beginning their first service project.
AmeriCorps NCCC serves communities in every state. Members are based at one of five regional campuses and travel to complete service projects throughout those regions. Sponsoring organizations request the assistance of AmeriCorps NCCC teams by submitting a project application to the regional campus that covers that organization’s state. The campuses provide assistance in completing the application, developing a work plan, and preparing the project sponsor for the arrival of the AmeriCorps NCCC team.
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Our default reaction to design trends is skepticism. How long before we tire of the fad? Is it any better than the classics? But cork as a building material is one trend that we can get behind. Because cork is harvested from the bark of cork trees—no trees are actually cut down—the material is truly sustainable. And it’s durable (just ask anyone who wears Birkenstocks). Recently, we noticed a crop of design-minded home accessories made from the unfussy material. Here are some favorites.
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On her big day, every bride should feel beautiful and come to slay.
Which was exactly what went down when we spotted this gorgeous bride, Salewa Hassan-Odulake, on our Instagram feeds. For her big day she donning a Victorian style wedding dress that has simply left us speechless.
Designed by Australian duo, Jacob Luppino and Anthony Pittornio of J’Aton Bride, Hassan-Odulake took royal wedding vibes to a new level.
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The couple tied the knot in Barcelona and we’re wishing them nothing but the best in their lifetime of bliss!

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Major seeks alderman-at-large seat
John Kerstan Major has announced he will be a candidate for the Opelousas alderman-at-large position in this fall’s election.
“I was raised and currently reside in the City of Opelousas and will not leave the city. I have a vested interest in our great city,” Major said in his announcement.
If elected, he said, he would work to foster economic growth, upgrade the city’s infrastructure, work with local law enforcement for a safer Opelousas and realize the city’s Master Parks plan.
“We have to work hard to develop a strong future for our children and a strong future for our elderly. We need a strong economy here in Opelousas,” Major said. “It is time to raise the standard of living for our citizens here in Opelousas. That is what a strong economy will do.”
On the social side, Major said, he has actively volunteered for more than a decade.
“Currently, I serve as a trustee of Holy Ghost Catholic Church and as a member of the church’s pastoral and finance council.,” Major said. “I am also on the church’s capital campaign fund raising committee and serve as a Eucharistic Minister of Holy Communion.”
He is also president of the Opelousas Eliminator Select softball team and has officiated at high school basketball and football games for 18 years.
“I have served on the Parks and Recreation Master Plan Committee for the past eight years in addition to coaching Biddy Basketball for 10 years,” Major said.
“One of my most rewarding activities is co-hosting the Sunday morning Gospel radio show on KOCZ 92.9 with Brother Charles Richard,” he said.
A graduate of Opelousas Catholic School, Major has been married to the former Mercedes Thomas for 21 years. The couple has three daughters, Brianna, Britany and Brailey.
“I want to ask everyone for the vote, support and prayers in electing me as your next alderman-at-large. I will work hard for the citizens of Opelousas,” Major said.
“I will be dedicated to being the best alderman the citizens of Opelousas have ever seen. My pledge is this election is focused on you, the people of Opelousas,” he added.

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“For individuals dealing with chronic pain conditions can having a better understanding of pain management specialists help in developing effective multidisciplinary treatment plans?”
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Pain Management Specialists
Pain management is a growing medical specialty that takes a multi-disciplinary approach to treating all types of pain. It is a branch of medicine that applies scientifically proven techniques and methods to relieve, reduce, and manage pain symptoms and sensations. Pain management specialists evaluate, rehabilitate, and treat a spectrum of conditions, including neuropathic pain, sciatica, postoperative pain, chronic pain conditions, and more. Many primary healthcare providers refer their patients to pain management specialists if pain symptoms are ongoing or significant in their manifestation.
Healthcare providers specializing in pain management recognize the complex nature of pain and approach the problem from all directions. Treatment at a pain clinic is patient-centric but depends on the clinic’s available resources. Currently, there are no set standards for the types of disciplines needed, another reason treatment options vary from clinic to clinic. Experts say that a facility should offer patients:
- A coordinating practitioner specializing in pain management and consulting specialists on the patient’s behalf.
- A physical rehabilitation specialist.
- A psychiatrist to help the individual deal with any accompanying depression or anxiety, especially when dealing with chronic pain. (American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine. 2023)
Other Medical Specialties
Other specialties represented in pain management are anesthesiology, neurosurgery, and internal medicine. A coordinating healthcare provider may refer an individual for services from:
- Occupational medicine specialists
- Social workers
- Alternative medicine practitioners
- Complementary medicine practitioners (American Academy of Pain Medicine. 2023)
A healthcare provider should have completed additional training and credentialing in pain medicine and be an MD with board certification in at least one of the following (American Board of Medical Specialties. 2023)
- Physical rehabilitation
A pain management physician should also have their practice limited to the specialty they hold the certification.
The field of pain management treats all types of pain as a disease. Chronic, such as headaches; acute, from surgery, and more. This allows for applying science and the latest medical advances to pain relief. There are now many modalities, including:
- Interventional pain management techniques – nerve blocks, spinal cord stimulators, and similar treatments.
- Physical therapy
- Alternative medicine
- The objective is to minimize and make symptoms manageable.
- Improve function.
- Increase the quality of life. (Srinivas Nalamachu. 2013)
A pain management clinic will go through the following:
- Diagnostic tests, if necessary.
- Physical therapy – increases the range of motion, strengthens the body, and prepares individuals to return to work and daily activities.
- Interventional treatment – injections or spinal cord stimulation.
- Referral to a surgeon if indicated by the tests and evaluation.
- Psychiatry to deal with depression, anxiety, and/or other issues that accompany chronic pain symptoms.
- Alternative medicine to support and enhance the other treatments.
Individuals who do well with a pain management program
Individuals who have:
- Back pain
- Neck pain
- Had multiple back surgeries
- Failed surgeries
- Individuals determined that surgery does not benefit their condition.
A better understanding of pain syndromes by communities and insurance companies and increased pain studies will help increase insurance coverage for treatments and technology to improve interventional outcomes.
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American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine. (2023). The specialty of chronic pain management.
American Academy of Pain Medicine (2023). About the American Academy of Pain Medicine.
American Board of Medical Specialties. (2023). The Most Trusted Medical Specialty Certification Organization.
Nalamachu S. (2013). An overview of pain management: the clinical efficacy and value of treatment. The American journal of managed care, 19(14 Suppl), s261–s266.
American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians. (2023). Pain Physician.
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Clinton fans are scrambling to defend the former Secretary of State and damn her accusers following the publicizing by the New York Times of excerpts from an upcoming investigative volume, Clinton Cash, in which Peter Schweizer raises questions about the coincidences of foreign donations to the charitable Clinton Foundation. The Times emphasized the timing of big donations by a Canadian uranium company in the process of being bought out by a Russian company, the process requiring American approval because the company controls some U.S. uranium resources. These donations, say Schweizer and the Times, were not properly reported by the Foundation, and beg the question of their intent to facilitate government approval of the sale. More revelations, or at least more questions, will follow the publication of Schweizer's book next week.
For Republicans and Clinton-haters across the ideological spectrum, the big question is whether donations to the Foundation bought influence with the State Department during Clinton's tenure. Because Schweizer is a Republican, a former GW Bush speechwriter and adviser to Sarah Palin, and the author of some polemical works in the past, Clinton loyalists would have us dismiss his every word as a smear and the author as part of the famously vast right-wing conspiracy against the Clintons. No doubt Clinton Cash is a hatchet job, intended to undermine her presidential candidacy, but what follows from that? We can assume a lot about right-wing hacks, but we can't assume that this book is just a big lie. Presume that Schweizer set out looking for dirt on Secretary Clinton. Does that fact itself prove that there is no dirt to be found? Tell that to all the hacks on the other side doggedly investigating all the Republican front-runners. Shall we dismiss whatever they may find about Cruz, Rubio, Paul or Jeb Bush -- not to mention what Schweizer himself is reportedly investigating about Bush? Certainly Schweizer can be suspected of putting the most negative spin possible on whatever facts he's uncovered, but as long as he's found facts we should be able to interpret them for ourselves without Clintonites or Democrats telling us what they mean. And if the best they can say now is "there was no quid pro quo!" then they're no better than the Republicans and right-wing donors they denounce so often, who can and do say the same thing all the time. If we have to depend on Republican hacks to raise such questions, that's only because Democrats lack the will to inquire and others to the Clintons' left haven't the access or the power. At a point in American history when someone can be anointed the presumptive presidential candidate of a major party nearly a year before anyone votes in a caucus or primary, these are exactly the questions to be asked between the time the candidate declares and the time the people vote. If we're going to make a presidential campaign season last so long, we may as well make the most of the time we're given, and if partisans feel now that only their ox has been gored, there's still plenty of time to learn more about Clinton's competitors. Do you doubt that we will? And if these revelations and questions about Clinton threaten so many people's dreams of a woman President in 2017, then draft Senator Warren or someone else more capable of standing up to the inevitable scrutiny, or else, as such people always say to those their left, put aside your idealist demands and put the people's interests first.


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Women Farmers In Chile Join Together To Create Economic Autonomy
From left to right: Nancy Millar, Blanca Molina and Patricia Mancilla on Molina’s small farm near the town of Valle Simpson in the southern Chilean region of Aysén. The three women belong to the only rural women’s association in the Patagonia wilderness, which has empowered them and helped them gain economic autonomy. Credit: Marianela Jarroud/IPS
– More than 100 women small farmers from Chile’s southern Patagonia region have joined together in a new association aimed at achieving economic autonomy and empowerment, in an area where machismo and gender inequality are the norm.
Patricia Mancilla, Nancy Millar and Blanca Molina spoke with IPS about the group’s history, and how the land, craft making and working together with other women helped them to overcome depression and situations of abuse, and to learn to trust again.
“We have at last obtained recognition of rural women,” said Mancilla, president of the Association of Peasant Women of Patagonia. “Peasant women have learned to appreciate themselves. Each one of our members has a history of pain that she has managed to ease through working and talking together.”
“We have learned to value ourselves as women and to value our work, thanks to which our members have been able to send their children to university,” added Mancilla, the head of the association created in 2005.
Mancilla lives on a small family farm in Río Paloma, 53 km from Coyhaique, the capital of the southern Chilean region of Aysén. Her house doesn’t have electricity, but thanks to a generator she produces what she most likes to make: homemade cheese from cow’s milk.
She is also exploring the idea of family agrotourism, although thyroid cancer has forced her to slow down.
In her three years as the head of the association, she has worked tirelessly to build it up and organise the collective activities of the nearly 120 members.
Mancilla and the other members are proudly waiting for the inauguration of the Aysén Rural Women’s Management Centre in a house that they are fixing up, which they obtained through a project of the regional government, carried out by the Housing and Urban Development Service.
The centre will serve as a meeting place, where the women can share their experiences, learn and receive training, and as a store where they can display and sell their products. The members of the association hold a weekly fair on Wednesdays, where they sell what they produce.
The craftswomen who belong to the Association of Peasant Women of Patagonia in southern Chile are eagerly awaiting the opening of their own community centre, where they will exhibit and sell their products. Meanwhile they sell them in public fairs and the locales of other women’s organisations in the Aysén region. Credit: Marianela Jarroud/IPS
Sustainable production in untamed Patagonia
The southern region of Aysén is one of the least densely populated in Chile, home to just 105,000 of the country’s 17.5 million people. It is a wilderness area of great biodiversity, cold, snowy winters, swift-running rivers, innumerable lakes, fertile land and abundant marine resources.
Patagonia covers 1.06 million square kilometres at the southern tip of the Americas; 75 percent of it is in Argentina and the rest in Aysén and the southernmost Chilean region of Magallanes.
It is a region of diverse ecosystems and numerous species of flora and fauna, some of which have not yet even been identified. It is also the last refuge of the highly endangered “huemul” or south Andean deer.
And according to environmental experts it is one of the planet’s biggest freshwater reserves.
Behind its stunning landscapes, Aysén, whose capital is located 1,629 km south of Santiago, conceals one of the country’s poorest areas, where 10 percent of the population lives in poverty and 4.2 percent in extreme poverty.
Patagonian activists are seeking to make the region a self-sustaining life reserve.
“We want what we have to be taken care of, and for only what is produced in our region to be sold,” said Mancilla. “There are other pretty places, but nothing compares to the nature in our region.
“We still eat free-roaming chickens, natural eggs; all of the vegetables and fruit in our region are natural, grown without chemicals,” she said.
Farmers like Molina grow organic produce, using their own waste as fertiliser. The association is the only organisation of rural women from Chile’s Patagonia region to sell only ecologically sustainable products.
Blanca Molina proudly holds up a young squash, grown organically in one of the four greenhouses she built with her own hands on her small family farm in Villa Simpson, 20 km from Coyhaique, the capital of the Aysén region in the Patagonian wilderness in southern Chile. Credit: Marianela Jarroud /IPS
“Some say this isn’t good land for planting, but I know it’s fertile,” said Molina. “I’m always innovating, planting things to see how they grow. Thank god that everything grows well in this soil. I’ve found that out for myself and I can demonstrate it,” she said, pointing to her crops.
With her own hands she built four greenhouses that cover a large part of her land in Valle Simpson, 20 km from Coyhaique.
She points one by one to the fruits of her labour: pumpkins, artichokes, cucumbers, cabbage and even black-seed squash, not commonly grown in such cold regions.
She said the land fills her with life, and especially now, as she tries to pull out of the deep depression that the death of two of her children plunged her into – a tragedy she prefers not to discuss.
“It’s the land that has pulled her up,” said Mancilla, smiling at Molina standing by her side.
Despite the traditional machismo, women in Patagonia have always had to shoulder the burden of growing and managing their family’s food, taking care of the livestock, tending the vegetable garden and fruit trees, chopping wood, running rural tourism activities, and making crafts, besides their childcare and household tasks.
“Patagonian women had to give birth without hospitals, they had to raise their children when this was an inhospitable territory, but they also managed the social organisation in the new communities that emerged here,” social activist Claudia Torres told IPS.
“The men worked with the livestock or timber, and left home twice a year for four or five months at a time. So women got used to managing on their own and not depending on their men, in case they didn’t come back.”
Despite that central role played by women, “when government officials would go to the countryside, they would always talk to the men,” Patricia Mancilla said.
“They didn’t understand that behind them were the women, who were key to the success of production,” she added.
The look on the faces of these three women, all of them married and with children of different ages, changes as they walk around their land, where wonderful aromas arise from their crops in the plots surrounded by the Patagonian hills.
They have known each other since they and another small group of women founded the association over a decade ago, with support from the Programme for the Training of Peasant Women, backed by an agreement between the Institute of Agricultural Development and the Foundation for the Promotion and Development of Women, two government institutions.
The programme, created in 1992, has the aim of supporting women from smallholder families, to help boost their income by means of economic and productive activities in rural areas. So far, 20,000 women have benefited from the programme.
Molina said that with the help of the programme, “women now have more rights and bring in their own incomes to help put food on the table.”
Millar, who makes crafts in wool, leather and wood in Ñirehuao, 80 km from Coyhaique, concurred. “Rural women have been empowered and are learning their rights,” she said.
The three agreed that Aysén is a region where machismo or sexism has historically been very strong. “That’s still true today, but we are gradually conquering it,” Mancilla said.
They said they ran into the strongest resistance to their association, in fact, inside their homes.
“In the great majority of our cases, (our husbands) would quip ‘so you’re leaving the house?’ and when we would return they would say ‘what were you doing? Just wasting time’,” Mancilla said.
But despite the initial resistance, their husbands are now proud of them, because they see what their wives have achieved. “Now they accompany us – especially when we roast a calf,” one of the three women said with a laugh.
The challenge they are now facing “is to have a hectare of our own, for the organisation, to do the training there, and to buy a truck so we can easily go to the local markets and be available when women need a ride, especially the older women,” Mancilla said.
But there is a bigger challenge: to gain their own water rights so they don’t have to depend on a company to obtain the water they need.
Chile’s Water Code was put into effect by the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990). It made water private property, giving the state the authority to grant water use rights to companies, free of charge and in perpetuity.
It also allows water use rights to be bought, sold or leased, without taking use priorities into consideration.
“Why should we pay for water rights if people were born and raised in the countryside and always had access to water?” asked Mancilla. “Why should small farmers pay more taxes?”
The women said that each member throws everything into their products.
“Everything we do, we do with love: if we make cheese, we do it with the greatest of care; you want it to be good because your income depends on it. Nancy’s woven goods, Blanca’s vegetables – we do it all with passion,” she said.


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TVS Eurogrip, one of India’s largest manufacturers and exporters of two and three-wheeler tyres as well as off-highway tyres has awarded its Brand & Communications mandate to Mumbai based Brand & Communications consultancy, Vector Brand Solutions.
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The Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act could go the way of the Clinger-Cohen Act, according to some IT experts who attended a forum hosted by the Government Accountability Office.
The Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996 established the position of chief information officer and required the Office of Management and Budget to evaluate the risks associated with agencies’ IT investments. According to a GAO report issued April 11, Clinger-Cohen was “well intended, but not effectively implemented.”
FITARA could follow the path of its ill-fated predecessor without stronger Congressional oversight, an increased OMB presence, and participation from the Department of Defense, the report states.
“The participants believed that many of the agencies’ FITARA implementation plans did not accurately reflect the true state of CIO authority challenges that existed at those agencies,” the GAO’s report states. “The participants stressed the importance of OMB having an active role following up on these plans to ensure that they are effectively implemented.”
The GAO’s report condenses the input collected from an expert panel the agency hosted in September to glean suggestions on the best way to improve IT delivery and operations in the Federal space. Agencies’ torpor around IT modernization was one impetus for the forum. As of January, 46 percent of the 803 recommendations GAO has made pertaining to IT acquisitions have been addressed.
The purpose of FITARA is to improve Federal IT acquisitions and allow Congress to track how well agencies are modernizing their infrastructure. Civilian agencies are assessed twice a year by a scorecard that Congress releases. The scorecard evaluates CIO authority enhancements, transparency, portfolio review, and data center consolidation.
According to the GAO’s report, several of the forum’s participants asked that the Department of Defense be required to comply with FITARA criteria. DOD is the largest Federal agency and spends about one third of the Federal government’s $80 billion IT allowance, but, as of yet, does not have to comply with FITARA.
Increasing the role of CIOs was another major point of concern from IT experts, according to the report. Some Federal agencies give CIOs a small margin of influence for IT operations. One forum participant used the example of a Federal CIO who wielded authority over only $80 million of a $2 billion IT budget. The GAO’s report reflects the desire for CIOs to play an enhanced role, facilitate collaborative government, and focus on cybersecurity issues.
“Given the growing threats and severe consequences of cybersecurity incidents, the participants agreed that having cybersecurity as a priority could help to elevate the CIOs’ role and their respective authorities,” the report states. “In this regard, a participant stressed the importance of agencies establishing strong cybersecurity policies that require CIO approval before systems become operational.”


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Most suburban dwellers don’t have the space and the sun exposure required to grow pumpkins, the big round fruit has a sprawling growth habit and an unruly disposition that doesn’t endear it to its tamer vegetable companions.
If you still want to grow pumpkins, here is how: pumpkins appreciate humus rich soils that hold water well but don’t get soggy, a good amount of organic fertilizer, warmth and plenty of sunshine.
Sow the seeds in spring, after all danger of frost has passed, in hills of four or five seeds, just like you do for summer squash or cucumbers. Space the nests at least three feet in each direction, and four to six feet for the trailing varieties. After the seedlings emerge, thin them to two or three, without disturbing the roots. If you grow the trailing pumpkins on netting you will need to make hammocks to support the heavy fruit.
Pumpkins need a long hot summer to mature, they take about five months from seed to harvest. When the fruit begins to sound hollow and the stem turns hard and starts to crack it’s harvest time.
If you want to store pumpkins they need to be ‘cured’, which is achieved by leaving them in a sunny and dry location for ten days or so until their skin hardens.
According to farmers who have grown every conceivable pumpkin there is, the best variety for pie is Cinderella, whose flat, deep orange fruit is shaped like a Turkish pillow. Its flavor is strong and sweet and it is a very old variety, cultivated since the time of the settlers. It is believed to have been served at the early Pilgrims’ Thanksgiving table.


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by Brent Smith | February 8, 2016 12:03 am
Despite the lies predicated by the Obama administration regarding an improving economy, many experts are growing increasingly concerned that we may be headed for another recession.
Because of this, states may suffer mightily being that several already are carrying massive deficits in their unemployment insurance funds. “A mere 18 states have enough money in their unemployment insurance trust funds to get through a 12 month recession, according to the Department of Labor.”
The state trust funds are designed to provide 26 weeks of unemployment insurance to residents. “Strikingly, many of those state funds are actually in worse financial shape now than they were before the 2008 financial crisis.”
Not surprisingly California is in the worst shape. The state’s unemployment trust fund is presently indebted to the federal government for more than $6 billion. Yes, the federal government provides emergency loans to states that can’t cover the cost of their own unemployment insurance. It’s a huge disadvantage to states who aren’t allowed to print their own money – a problem the feds don’t have.
The Fiscal Times laments this policy. No, not of the Fed printing money it doesn’t have, or the states borrowing funds they can’t pay back. They miss the good old days where states “raise taxes in good times to finance unemployment payments in bad times, to counteract the effects of widespread joblessness.”
They’re upset that states are increasingly unwilling to raise taxes any further, because increasing taxes and throwing government money at a problem has always worked in the past.
One expert thinks it’s high time we scrap the entire state run unemployment insurance system in favor of a federal one. Wayne Vroman is an expert on unemployment insurance at the Urban Institute, a conservative think tank. Ha! Just kidding. The Urban Institute is as conservative as I am a gold toothed dreadlocked rapper.
Vroman said, “It’s increasingly obvious that in a state-level system, a lot of these states do not step up to the plate.”
By sheer coincidence, in Obama’s latest budget proposal, King Barack has “proposed shifting power away from the states and toward the federal government. He also wants to require states to offer at least 26 weeks of unemployment benefits, among other changes.” I don’t know how often it needs to be said, but it applies perfectly every time: Never Let a Good Crisis Go to Waste! And here we go again.
Of course, no one ever questions the constitutionality of federal involvement in state run unemployment insurance – just that there is a need for the Fed to fix the problems of the state – and progressive need out ways the Constitution every time.
I no longer blame the federal government for growing out of control and usurping more and more of the states constitutionally mandated authority. It’s just what they do. The founders knew it and we should to.
No, I blame the states for continuing, decades on, to take federal money every time it is offered, as if there are no strings attached.
The federal government, through land confiscation, regulation, mandates and loan-sharking are turning our once sovereign states into no more than provinces or oversized counties.
Governors and state legislators need to begin to just say no to the federal government. No, we won’t take your money and no, we won’t play by your unconstitutional dictatorial rules any longer.
The states will suffer in the short term, like the pain of drug withdrawal, but long-term, we will have a much healthier and more prosperous nation.
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Each of the 16 qualified players for the Mortal Kombat X Pro League Season 3 Finals have been slowly preparing to make the long trip to Burbank, California. Unfortunately one of those players, Harry Nightmare, has been denied his visa to travel to and compete in the United States.
Being that Harry Nightmare was the 5th seed for the European region, St9rm will now move up to take the 5th seed; which leaves one spot open to the runner-up competitor with the most ranking points. Crathen, who made an impressive leap from 55 to 155 ranking points in Week 8 of the Pro League, has now qualified for the Finals as the 6th seed.
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- I apologize for the delay in continuing/finishing the fan fiction posts. However, "real" (and unexpectedly time-critical) work has delayed the drafting of the article from which I'm condensing those posts. (And trying to put them in real, instead of academic, English.) Trust me. They're coming. I always respect my (few) readers in the morning.
- Bruce Forrest has been appointed Interim Chief Judge for the new royalty system administered by the Copyright Office. Congratulations. I think. That's the judicial position I want: Every single decision that I make is guaranteed to be appealed.
- Once again, Frank Rich has demonstrated his "talent" for laying decent groundwork and refusing to analyze it. In an article in today's NYT on Gannongate (or should that be Guckertgate?), Rich notes that:
The "real" news from CNN was no news at all, but it's not as if any of its competitors did much better. The "Jeff Gannon" story got less attention than another media frenzy that set off by the veteran news executive Eason Jordan, who resigned from CNN after speaking recklessly at a panel discussion at Davos, where he apparently implied, at least in passing, that American troops deliberately targeted reporters. Is the banishment of a real newsman for behaving foolishly at a bloviation conference in Switzerland a more pressing story than that of a fake newsman gaining years of access to the White House (and network TV cameras) under mysterious circumstances? With real news this timid, the appointment of Jon Stewart to take over Dan Rather's chair at CBS News could be just the jolt television journalism needs. As Mr. Olbermann demonstrated when he borrowed a sharp Daily Show tool to puncture the "Jeff Gannon" case, the only road back to reality may be to fight fake with fake.
"The White House Stages Its Daily Show" (16 Feb 05) (typography corrected). Of course, the real problem here is, "Who's Keith Olbermann?" He's a longtime sports anchor/commentator/host who spent time a couple of years back bouncing back and forth between Fox Sports and ESPN, and then ended up at MSNBC (which is hardly a paragon of liberal values). So what does it tell us that a sports reporter provided the best example Rich could find? A sports reporter who shares time with Brit Hume? And, most importantly, that none of this was important enough for Mr. Rich to discuss, despite the extensive discussion of the qualification and contexts of just about everyone else mentioned in the article?
- Next, Penguin is apparently trying yet another tack in the effort to raise the average price of books. Don't kid yourselves: That's exactly what it's doing. As today's Guardian notes,
The answer is obvious: publishers are to make books bigger, thereby making space for larger print on the page and solving in one swoop the malaise affecting literature. Maeve Binchey, Nora Roberts, Stuart Woods and Robin Cook (no, not that one) will be the first to benefit from the new supersized literature as Penguin launches its Premium range in the US this summer. "We think it will be a more comfortable reading experience, but still at an affordable price," said Leslie Gelbman, Penguin's president of mass-market paperbacks. The new format, which other publishers also plan to adopt in the US next year, will be half an inch taller than existing paperbacks. Moreover, the books will be printed on higher quality paper and they will sell for a figure between the price of an existing paperback and hardcover book.
Dan Glaister, "The Large Print Giveth…" (16 Feb 05) (fake paragraphing removed for clarity). Other reports indicate that the cover price on the new editions will be around $10 (as opposed to the $7$7.50 now common for mass-market paperbacks).
Frankly, I don't think this is going to catch on until men's clothing has a few years to change. The outer pocket in most parkas, blazers, sport coats, and even windbreakers is usually just barely large enough for a mass-market paperback, if that large. That means that the "compact trade paperback" (or whatever phony marketing name will actually get attached to the format) will have to be shoved into briefcases and purses, which is a helluva lot less convenient for reading on public transportation or in airports. Further, there's little preventing use of larger fonts and brighter papers in the mass-market paperback format; all this does is add yet another size to the printing puzzle. I think Glaister has it right when he concludes that "Rather than being concerned about such old-fashioned literary gimmicks as plot, character and the careful choice of appropriate language, [authors] must now recognise that the key to successful writing is to change the font size setting on their computer and to invest in some heavyweight paper at the stationers." Or maybe that comment is pointed at editors and publishers; with the single-sentence-paragraph format common to news these days, it's darned hard to tell what the antecedent of the "they" in the original really is.
- Finally, the Grumpy Old Book Man wonders whether writing MFAs are worth anything in the marketplace. He begins his ruminations wondering whether the MBA is a degree that "pays off" in higher earnings. It appears that Grumpy Old Book Man hasn't been to enough MFA sessions; they are the antithesis of writing for money at best, all too often taught by individuals who never have sold more than one or two items of the nature they are "teaching" to commercial publishers, if that many. It's even worse than law school: Even the wettest-behind-the-ears Yale graduate who jumps to academia has at least one year as a judicial clerk before being entrusted with callow first-year law students!
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“For the ghost should never be allowed to forget that his only chance of survival is in the tale of those who have encountered him.”
Edith Wharton wrote those words many years ago, but they still seem particularly apt today. Whether using the latest technology or their old-fashioned senses, visitors to The Mount during this season’s inaugural Friday night ghost tours have reported a variety of eerie experiences from unexplained taps on the shoulders to the faint aroma of flowers and cigar smoke.
During Halloween week, the time of year when according to ancient folklore, communication between the spiritual and physical worlds is at its liveliest, The Mount will be hosting a series of events to tell tales, both ancient and new, and shiver the spines of all who care to venture forth.
Halloween Week Activities:
October 26-29 (Monday – Thursday)
3:30 p.m. Daily readings by members of The Mount’s staff of stories and poems by some of Wharton’s favorite ghost story writers including Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson, M.R. James, and Edith Wharton herself. These readings are included in the price of admission to The Mount and will start each afternoon at 3:30 p.m. in the Drawing Room.
October 30 (Friday)
8:30 p.m. A reading, in collaboration with the Berkshire Theatre Festival, who made this year’s “Wharton on Wednesdays” so successful, of Edith Wharton’s famous gothic tale, The Lady’s Maid’s Bell. The reading, by BTF favorites Ariel Bock and Jonathan Epstein, will be held in the Drawing Room at The Mount. Admission is $10 and reservations are required. Please call (413) 551 – 5100.
October 31 HALLOWEEN (Saturday)
6:30 p.m. A special Halloween ghost tour of the stables and grounds to be followed by a reading in The Mount’s Drawing Room of Edith Wharton’s spine-tingling tale Kerfol performed by Ariel Bock and Jonathan Epstein of the Berkshire Theatre Festival. Price is $30 per adult and $15 for 16 and under and includes both tour and reading.
Costumes are encouraged during this special week. The tour is not suitable for children under 8, or people with limited mobility. Reservations are required, please call (413) 551-5111 or see www.edithwharton.org for more information.
“If it sends a cold shiver down one’s spine, it has done its job and done it well.”
Find out if Edith Wharton and her beloved house can still make spines shiver. Celebrate Halloween at The Mount.

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New Delhi, Jul 2: Lakhs of trucks across the country are on strike from Tuesday, July 1 midnight in response to a nationwide strike call given by the the All India Motor Transport Congress (AIMTC), New Delhi. This is to press their tax-related demands as the last minute talks with government failed.
However, movement of essential supplies including milk, medicines, vegetables, fruits, grains and LPG have been spared from the stir. Transport agencies and truckers are on indefinite strike in protest against the hike in sales tax on diesel, toll tax and court order to implement the speed governors rule.
The truckers are demanding that sales tax on diesel be removed altogether and VAT be imposed. Another demand of the truckers is reduction in toll tax. "We are going ahead with our strike call. There will be no truck on the roads from Tuesday mid-night as the talks with the government did not produce any result," Gurinder Pal Singh, who represented the All-India Motor Transport Congress, at the talks told media here after the discussions with government officials.
AIMTC officials presented a note of their demands to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi. They also presented their list of demands to Finance Ministry, Petroleum Ministry and the Ministry of Roads, Highways and Shipping.
AIMTC claims the support of all states' transport associations with a combined fleet size of 48,00,000 trucks. Officials of the Transport Ministry and the Finance Ministry were also involved in the last minute discussions.


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Larissa Nicholson Novak Djokovic has won four Open titles and Andy Murray has lost three. Sunday night's final looms as a watershed match.
Tessa van der Riet While being a ballkid sometimes seems like a thankless task on telly, those in the know say it's so much more.
Pallavi Singhal The biggest plane ever used in NSW to water-bomb fires will be in action next bushfire season, the NSW Rural Fire Service has announced.
David Sygall Michael Clarke's bid to meet a Cricket Australia-imposed deadline to be fit for the World Cup received a massive boost on Saturday when he made a successful return to batting in a Sydney grade cricket match at Chatswood Oval.
Jon Tuxworth Canberra Capitals veteran Carly Wilson admitted the team fell victim to a mental let-down in Friday's upset 79-71 home loss to Adelaide Lightning which threatens to cripple their season.
Melanie Kembrey It's sink or swim time for the Sydney Kings. The purple and gold have six games left and must win all for even a slither of a chance of making the finals.
Allison Worrall Australians should boycott knighthoods and damehoods by refusing to refer to knights and dames by their title, says former Foreign Minister Bob Carr.
Peter Hartcher, James Massola The two leading contenders to replace Tony Abbott as Liberal leader are resisting the efforts of their colleagues to draft them to challenge the Prime Minister.
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Aries & Libra
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Publication date: October 26th 2021
Genres: Comedy, New Adult, Romance
My life is great. Perfect really.
I mean, I’m thirty-two and I live with my dad…
All right, let me say this a different way. I have the best job in the world. I get to painstakingly renovate old houses—diamonds in the rough—until they’re polished gems. What woman can say that? I work alone most of the time and I like it that way.
Okay, maybe I wish I could find someone nice to work alongside me, a partner in life, or better yet, someone tall, dark, and sexy, like the guy who waltzes into my latest project uninvited. Sadly for him, he ends up with wood stain all over his face and shirt.
He startled me.
I can’t resist stopping into the huge old Queen Ann house in the town off the highway. Sure, it’s late, but I knocked.
I heard someone inside singing badly at the top of their lungs. And when I get a look at her from behind, with her hands in the air singing like her life depends on it, well, I couldn’t help myself. I had to meet her.
She turns out to be a surprise. A beauty wrapped in flannel and a tool belt. She’s nothing like the women I’ve met or even dated before with her affinity to early-bird dining and meatloaf covered in mashed potatoes. No, she’s nothing like the women I’ve known.
And I’m okay with that.
More than okay.
It’s too bad I’m only in town for a few days. I could get used to Lou Hamlin.
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“Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, Velma Lou. Here we go again.”
At the mention of my name, I glance up from my drawing of the new kitchen layout I’ve been fretting about for days to my father, Kip. It’s not like him to use Jesus and Mary like that. I mean, the guy probably says six words a day and right there was his quota.
I stare as his head slowly lifts from the small-town newspaper he’s reading, The Zodiac Hills Gazette, and turns until our eyes meet. “They’re making that goddamn show again.”
Well, sadly, that’s not enough information. He’s going to have to give me a bit more. “What show?”
Still not enough. “Dad. What show?” It hits me. “No.” I say it in a breathy, shocked way that tells him everything he needs to know. That I’ve figured it out. “Reruns?” I squeak.
Please say it’s only reruns. We’ve been through those before with only minor repercussions.
“Worse than reruns?” What could be worse than reruns of the 1980s show, 1985 to be exact, that put my little town on the map and ruined a whole lot of lives. Well, not a whole lot. Several. It ruined several lives. Like mine and my dad’s.
A few people actually got lives thanks to that show, but that’s neither here nor there, because the show Dad is talking about, Love in Zodiac Hills, turned my little town of Zodiac Hills, Nebraska, upside down and sideways. Granted, I was a young when it first aired, but I know, firsthand, the impact it had on the people here.
“They’re re-making it. So it’s new.”
“Re-making it? Who’s doing that?” Please don’t say Netfilms, because that company is huge. So big that everyone has that particular streaming service.
“That Net thing you always watch on your computer.”
Dad gives me his best scowl. He doesn’t care for my curse words even though he too cusses when it’s warranted. But “Do as I say, not as I do” is one of my father’s favorite sayings.
“Sorry,” I say with very little remorse.
“It says here, it’s coming out this April.”
I glance at the calendar. “Next month?”
“The fifteenth. They’re gonna call it Return to Zodiac Hills.”
“You read that in the paper?” The local paper.
Dad nods. “Which means, everyone will know.”
Which also means, the town is going to go apeshit crazy. It also means we’re going to get split in two. Again.
As soon as Dad heads off to work, I reach for the abandoned newspaper. I need to read it for myself. Scanning the front page, I see nothing about the show. Weird because, to me, this is front-page news. Opening our small-town paper, I search pages two and three. Since it’s a weekly paper, it’s usually only four or five pages long. I mean, how much news can a town with the population of over three thousand people generate in a week? Finally, I find the article on the second to last page.
Well, article isn’t the right word. It’s a paragraph posted in the part of the paper called Kitty’s Korner. Katherine “Kitty” Standish has been writing what she refers to as “her column” for a century. Just kidding. It’s been years and years, though. She’s got to be in her seventies by now. You can’t tell her age for sure, though, because she’s rarely seen during the daylight hours. Some speculate that she’s a vampire due to that fact, but Dad says it’s not true. According to him, “She’s a night owl. Always has been.”
I believe my pops. He’s a no-nonsense kind of man. What he says, he means, and what he means, he really means. Also, don’t piss him off, because he’s a grudge holder of epic proportions. Just ask my mom.
Well, I would ask her if she ever came back to Zodiac Hills after she ran off with that Capricorn.
But that’s a story for another day.
Lifting the paper, I read Kitty’s Korner.
Hear ye! Hear ye!
She always starts off announcements like she’s a town crier. I usually laugh but not this time.
People of Zodiac Hills, hold onto your hats!
She does that too—makes archaic references like that. I mean… who wears hats nowadays? Well, lots of people wear baseball caps, I guess.
But I’m getting off track.
Starting this April, that big movie-streaming company called Netfilms will be showing a brand-new version of Love in Zodiac Hills. (For those of you young’uns out there, that was a show they had on television in the ’80s. Sort of like that other show, The Love Boat, only it was on land.) Anyhoo, it was a program about people finding their one true love all based on their birthday which is ridiculous because what does that have to do with anything?
They’re calling it Return to Zodiac Hills.
Which means, you’d better get ready because… they’re coming.
Kayt enjoys writing steamy love stories about curvy Heroines (big H) and brawny Heroes. Sometimes they’re all about that instant-attraction, sometimes the stories are more of a slow burn. Either way, they’re hot.
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Comedy, New Adult, Romance – love this genre & the cover!
Thank you for sharing this with us.
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Carbohydrates are the fuel of the body: they are our main source of energy. On the other hand, unlike proteins and lipids, they are not essential nutrients, since our body knows how to make them from other nutrients.
They are also known as sugars, which you have probably already heard of as "quick sugars" and "slow sugars".
What it means?
When sugar enters the bloodstream, it causes a rise in blood sugar, or peak blood sugar. The amplitude of this peak can be greater or lesser, it is measured by an index, which is called glycemic index.
- The greater the amplitude of the generated peak, the higher the glycemic index. The rise of sugar in the blood has been rapid and brutal, the carbohydrate in question is digested rapidly to restore the blood sugar of origin: this is called fast sugar.
- The lower the amplitude of the generated peak, the lower the glycemic index. Since the rise in sugar in the blood has been slow and progressive, the carbohydrate is slowly digested: this is called slow sugar.
Prefer low or moderate GI carbohydrates
We have just seen that when we swallow a carbohydrate, this carbohydrate enters the blood, causing a greater or lesser glucose peak, and measured by the glycemic index (GI). Now, our body will react to such a rise in blood sugar, by secreting a hormone: insulin. Insulin has the role of making sugar penetrate our cells, in order to reduce the level of sugar in our blood
- Fruits and vegetables
- Quinoa, buckwheat, chestnuts, sweet potatoes...
- Legumes (lentils, peas, beans, etc.)
What are low or moderate GI carbohydrates?
Carbohydrates are not essential macronutrients.
Avoid or limit carbohydrates that have a high GI.
Prefer low or moderate GI carbohydrates.

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After giving us such a bad film like Die Another Day, the franchise's producers finally give us a James Bond film that can be taken seriously. Gone are the bad habits of the old days and hello to an action film that is not affraid to look boring in the eyes of many. To that matter, Casino Royale is the film that some fans of James Bond have been waiting for. It's well executed, acted and written. Above all, the film is less predictable than its predecessors.
On his first mission ever, James Bond (Daniel Craig), a British secret agent, discovers that Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen), a banker who provides services for terrorists, is behind some attacks. However, the last attack that Le Chiffre was behind failed. Since he lost some money from his clients, Le Chiffre organizes a poker tournament in Montenegro. In order to pull the rug under Le Chiffre, MI-6, the British secret service, sends James Bond in the tournament under the supervision of Vesper Lynd (Eva Green), an official of the Treasury Board. She warns Bond that if he loses the tournament, the British government would directly finance world terrorism.
For once, we have a James Bond film that is not afraid to drift away from the formulae that has defined the franchise for a long time. This means that this time, the film has a rather balanced focus on the characters and the entertainment factor (this means less action scenes). Obviously, Casino Royale owes this to the simple structure of its storyline that contains a few plot twists that will sustain your interest for the film until the very end. Is James Bond going to win the poker tournament? Besides, in case he wins, is his mission really over?
Without revealing too much, this is probably the first James Bond film in which anybody would care about the characters. For instance, it was so refreshing to see that Vesper Lynd, the Bond girl, is not just used as a sexual accessory. In fact, you'll see by yourself that she has a direct influence on how the story evolves.
Furthermore, the script allows such a character development that we rarely see in a James Bond film. Forget the performance by Pierce Brosnan in Die Another Day who couldn't look like a character psychologically marked by torture! Daniel Craig (Munich) is the best James Bond ever. Unlike his predecessors, Craig gets the opportunity to play an action hero that is full of human nuances even though some may find him monosyllabic. In his subtlety, Craig renders so well Bond's innocence, vulnerability (his ability to look like someone who is hurt in his body and soul), his ability to keep his blood cold (despite what he sees) and even paranoia at times.
Finally, while paving the way to a sequel, Casino Royale is definitely the best film in the James Bond franchise. In fact, this franchise reboot is not afraid to get rid of all the flaws that once made the franchise laughable (not that I hated the previous films). As a result of that, watching this film feels like watching a whole new James Bond: no gadgets, no Q, no Moneypenny and a larger role for M (who's brilliantly played by Judi Dench). If you didn't understand the film, watch it a second time; I'm telling that you won't regret it!
|Screenplay:||Paul Haggis, Neal Purvis and Robert Wade|
|Starring:||Daniel Craig, Eva Green and Mads Mikkelsen|


The best camera phones on the market are getting more and more advanced and are even surpassing 'proper' cameras in some cases in terms of quality and imaging technology. The good news is, we've rounded up the very best on the market today and put them in this guide, so you can check them out.
In this guide, you'll find the top camera phones available on the market, including models that are excellent for both general photography and low-light shooting. You'll find a variety of items from the newest and greatest to something a bit different that can deliver fantastic wide-angle images, ultra-clean 'Night Modes' or just a great value package, from manufacturers like Apple, Samsung, Google, Huawei, and OnePlus.
Although it's true that the best camera phones are ever-improving in terms of technology and sophistication, the engineers and designers are limited in what they can try and do, due to the size of the phones, so it's no surprise that they cannot compete with the best DSLR and mirrorless cameras. The same goes for Night Modes, too, as even the best camera phones can't keep up with the top astrophotography cameras on the market.
Having said that, bigger aperture lenses are boosting sensor quality and sensitivity in smartphone cameras. So much so that flagship phones can now capture high-quality photographs at night. Some smartphones boast huge digital zooms that can take detailed close-ups of the moon (by cropping a regular image). The software is improving yearly and can now produce relatively clean shots. See our guide on smartphone astrophotography to learn more.
If you're looking for guidance on astrophotography for beginners then you'll also want to check out our guide for the best camera accessories for astrophotography. If you're looking for quality cameras and discounts then you can also check out our round-ups of the best cameras and best camera deals. However, for the best camera phones on the market today, keep reading.
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Unsurprisingly, Apple is a big hitter in this guide and their newest 6.7-inch flagship smartphone is top-of-the-range. The advanced quad-pixel sensor on this camera phone means it produces brighter photos with up to 4x the resolution even in low light and at night. Additionally, it has a high-quality Night Mode, which makes it possible to capture decent shots of the night sky and, if you're ever in the Arctic Circle, great images of the Aurora Borealis.
That Night mode automatically kicks in when it's dark, just like the built-in high dynamic range (HDR) mode for all your shots. Simplicity is complemented by advanced hardware. Selfies and video calls are high-resolution, as is video, with 4K/60 frames per second.
The main camera has seen the biggest update from its predecessor — in fact, this is the first iPhone to use a 48MP 1/1.28-inch sensor with a Quad-Bayer color filter.
Is this the best Android camera phone? Yes, it is — and a large part of why is its incredible 108-megapixel image sensor. Although technically you can take ultra-high resolution images, that massive megapixel capability is there to improve pictures taken in low light. The 6.8-inch Galaxy S21 Ultra takes nine separate 12-megapixel images and then loses the 'noisy' pixels to create a cleaner and more detailed photo.
Although you can use that sensor to capture 108-megapixel pure photos, why would you want to? Particularly considering that you cannot expand its 512 GB of built-in storage, which would fill up pretty quickly. For photographers, the 10x optical and enormous 100x digital zooms are more appealing, which can be useful when you mount the Galaxy S21 Ultra on a tripod.
Are you having trouble choosing between Huawei's P40 Pro and P40 Pro Plus? The latter brings 10x optical zoom via an actual zoom lens — a first when it launched in 2020. This means more detail and editing options than any resolution-killing digital zoom. However, there's a lot more to get excited about on this 6.58-inch smartphone, which brings no fewer than seven lenses, including a 3x optical telephoto, ultra-wide lens and a time-of-flight depth sensor. The camera's night mode boosts dynamic range and sharpness to produce clear, vibrant photographs that most visibly reveal greater detail in shadows. It also works well on the telephoto lens, though less well on the ultrawide lens.
Unfortunately, though, there's an elephant in the room. Huawei smartphones now don't support Google Play apps and services, which may make them less desirable.
This Google smartphone is the best around for in-camera software and photo editing. Open the camera app, and you'll see all the standard shooting modes, like portrait, panorama, and a low-light setting called Night Sight, and there's also a new Cinematic Blur setting to record videos with a shallow depth of field — something the Pixel Pro 6 didn't offer. The Pixel 7 Pro also comes with Photo Unblur and Magic Eraser for removing people and objects from photos after the fact.
It may not seem like a huge upgrade from its predecessor in many areas, but the Pixel 7 Pro features a 50MP wide lens, a 12MP ultrawide lens and a 48MP telephoto lens with 5x optical zoom and 30x SuperRes Zoom, compared to the previous generation Pixel's 4x optical zoom and 20x SuperRes Zoom. With regard to the ultrawide lens, it now has a 21% larger field of view and supports macro focus.
Not much has changed, design-wise, since the iPhone 12 Pro, but some of the changes do make this handset better for photography. Though there are some crucial differences between the iPhone 13 and the iPhone 13 Pro. Although they are both 6.1 inches, the latter features a brighter screen, more battery life, and a considerably better photography suite than the mainstream handset.
Its rear camera system includes an ultra-wide and a wide lens with larger apertures, a telephoto lens (something the iPhone 13 lacks) with 3x optical zoom and a LiDAR scanner for quicker autofocus and for taking portraits in Night Mode. On the iPhone 13 Pro, it's also possible to take professional quality images using Apple ProRAW and indulge in ProRes video recording up to 4K/30 frames per second.
Does the OnePlus 10 Pro live up to its hype? A 6.7-inch handset running Android 12, it sports a stunning AMOLED QHD+ display that beats most smartphones with its color and black levels. It also has lightning-quick wireless charging and a 65W charger that can fully recharge in 30 minutes.
They've cleaned up its camera array somewhat on the rear since the previous model, with the 10 Pro having three lenses instead of the four on the 9 Pro (in what was quite a busy setup). The downside of this though, is that the 10 Pro has no macro capabilities, which the 9 Pro did. Although it's technically a step back in terms of the number of cameras, the quality of the cameras and images produced has improved since the 9 Pro. Not to mention the OnePlus 10 Pro now has the ability to shoot in RAW format for simpler editing, and it provides 10-bit color photography.
But why is there a Hasselblad logo back there, you may be wondering? The ultra-high-end medium-format camera photography company has co-developed the 10 Pro's camera array with OnePlus, with 'Natural Color Calibration' as its substance. Its cameras do an excellent job capturing skin tones, and its ultra-wide-angle lens, which corrects for edge distortion, is the photography standout. In Night Mode, the images produced on the 10 Pro have much less of a green tint than images on the 9 Pro. Although there haven't been major changes since the previous model, the 10 Pro definitely takes better, brighter, and more detailed photos.
It may not have the mighty 108-megapixel camera and 100x zoom of Samsung's flagship Galaxy S21 Ultra (opens in new tab)but the Samsung Galaxy S21 plus is kinder on the wallet, and still offers a lot to photographers despite using very similar tech to the older Galaxy S20 Plus.
Housed in a redesigned camera strip on the rear of this 6.7-inch handset are 12-megapixel wide-angle and ultra-wide lenses and a 64-megapixel telephoto lens. The latter offers 3x optical zoom and 30x digital. In bright conditions, the Samsung Galaxy S21 Plus takes colorful, vibrant and detailed photos that are equal to most other phones, while in low light, it produces images that are a touch brighter than, say, the iPhone. However, its Night Mode hugely benefits from using a tripod (or at least balancing it on a wall or similar).
Can this aging iPhone still compete? Actually, yes it can. A 6.1-inch smartphone with a triple camera setup — a wide-angle, ultra-wide and telephoto (the latter with 2x optical zoom) all capture thoroughly decent 12-megapixel photos. What may be slightly behind the times is its meager 2x optical zoom. It's nowhere near the abilities of Samsung (and other) flagship phones to capture distant subjects, but it's much better for better-composing portrait shots. Arguably, the latter is more useful on a smartphone.
The same could be said for Night Mode, which is possible via the iPhone 12 Pro's rear lenses, which are vastly improved here than on previous models. Additionally, you'll have Apple's ProRAW image format, the LiDAR depth-scanning sensor, the ability to record 4K video at 60 frames per second, and fast autofocus in low light. What you miss out on compared to the iPhone 13 Pro is the latter's Apple A15 Bionic chip, slightly faster apertures and bigger sensors, 3x optical zoom and Cinematic Mode for video recording.
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Each camera phone is carefully tested by either our expert staff or knowledgeable freelance contributors who know their subject areas in depth. This ensures fair reviewing is backed by personal, hands-on experience with each camera phone and is judged based on its price point, class and destined use.
We look at how easy each camera phone is to operate, whether it contains the latest up-to-date imaging technology, whether the camera phones can shoot high-quality stills photos and high-resolution video and also make suggestions if a particular camera phone would benefit from any additional kit to give you the best viewing experience possible.
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An elated S. B. Dissanayake yesterday (17) said that his first task after leaving prison would be to work for the improvement of the UNP.
Making a statement prior to leaving the Merchant`s Ward of the Colombo National Hospital, the former minister and heavyweight in both the SLFP and the UNP said he was very happy with the story and his pictures published in yesterday`s The Island. He said he wished to thank President Mahinda Rajapakse once more for pardoning him.
When asked whether he would quit the UNP, he said he had no such intention and added that the book he had written prison would reveal his life in jail.
Security was provided to him in the hospital ward but he continued to talk to a number of people on his mobile phone and a number of his friends and supporters came to see him almost one after another while he was collecting his things to leave the ward.


- In a cover story for The Hollywood Reporter, Tiffany Haddish revealed that she tried to convince Leonardo DiCaprio to sleep with her.
- Haddish said that they met at a party and told him she had one request — for DiCaprio to be in his "What's Eating Gilbert Grape" character.
- "I feel like that performance deserves a real reward and that reward is this [gesturing to her body]," Haddish explained.
Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, Haddish revealed that she met DiCaprio at a party a few months ago and tried to convince him that he should form a romantic relationship with her. But the conversation didn't go the way she hoped.
"I asked him if he'd let me hit that," she said.
According to Haddish, DiCaprio thought she was joking.
Haddish said: "He's like, 'Tiffany, you're so funny.' I'm like, 'I'm serious.' And then he goes, 'I mean, I'd do it, but …'"
As Haddish continued nudging DiCaprio, she said that she had one condition.
"'My only stipulation: I wanna do it with you as your character in 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape,'" Haddish recalled. "He starts bustin' up laughin.'"
Haddish explained the reasoning behind her oddly specific request, saying: "I feel like that performance deserves a real reward and that reward is this [gesturing to her body]."
The comedian went on to say that rather than respond to her request, DiCaprio digressed and talked about his role as Arnie Grape in the 1993 movie. Arnie was autistic and being cared for by his older brother, the titular Gilbert Grape (played by Johnny Depp), in the film that earned DiCaprio an Oscar and Golden Globe nomination.
This isn't the first time Haddish has spoken about her celebrity crushes. During an interview on CBS' "The Late Late Show With Stephen Colbert" in August 2017, Haddish spoke about her adoration for Brad Pitt.
Aside from acting and comedy goals, she said that one of her hopes was for Pitt to ask her to go on dinner dates.
In another interview with The Hollywood Reporter in 2017, Haddish brought up the possibility of putting together a series of sketches, with DiCaprio, Pitt, Will Ferrell, Colin Farrell, and Michael B. Jordan all playing her husbands.
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