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COP19: Jessica Fritz, Red Cross, on young people and climate adaptation
Jessica Fritz , International Federation of Red Cross & Red Crescent
From Warsaw: COP19 UN Climate Change Conference 2013
COP19 (15/11/13) - Jessica Fritz from the International Federation of Red Cross & Red Crescent says the team are launching a new campaign centred around young people.
The aim is to draw attention to the humanitarian consequences of climate change and help young people to become “climate protectors”.
Fritz says the campaign will teach young people how to behave in extreme weather conditions and how they can help other people.
Events like COP helps to roll campaigns like this out to other countries.


Postwar pulp art south of the border was distinctly surreal. In Pulp Drunk: Mexican Pulp Art at Ricco/Maresca Gallery in Chelsea, the lurid art created for paperbacks in the 1960s and ’70s includes a cat man superhero surrounded by feral felines, a woman fleeing a cop while cradling a piglet, and a blonde vixen looking back in shock as a skeleton delivers her a letter.
The exhibition presents grid after grid of these vibrant, tempera-on-board works, united in their strangeness, a vivid use of color, and spaces at the top intended for sensational titles. While some are signed, others are anonymous, lost to the production process of turning out cheap books as quickly as the public could buy them. Each cover, whether it features damsels in psychedelic distress, rampaging robots, or murderous clowns, suggests some new lurid adventure. As the gallery notes in its release, the subjects “are not gallant martyrs but commoners who have found themselves confronting outlandish and startling predicaments as a result of poor decisions or risky behavior.”
But in Pulp Drunk, the individual illustrations are detached from their original narratives and arranged in one long, bizarre sequence that captures a moment in publishing and marketing in Mexico. It’s a dream version of everyday life where the absurd intrudes violently and scandalously: a gorilla storming a bedroom or a surprised maid happening upon a woman surrounded by equally startled green aliens. While American pulp fiction of this era was more focused on sex and crime, in Mexico the allure of these escape fantasies was often the invasion of oddities into the mundane.
Pulp Drunk: Mexican Pulp Art continues at Ricco/Maresca Gallery (529 West 20th Street, 3rd floor, Chelsea, Manhattan) through March 7.
Plaintiff Cheri Pierson accuses the disgraced financier of a “brutal” sexual attack at the Manhattan mansion of Jeffrey Epstein.
At the heart of What if the Matriarchy Was Here All Along? is the idea that matriarchy never really died but rather has transformed.
Larry Towell’s images reveal a little-seen, isolated world and raise questions about the unforgiving impact of tradition on families.
Mexican photographer Alfredo De Stefano’s photographs of barren deserts and other works reflecting on the climate crisis will be displayed in a not-for-sale section.
SCAD’s booth at Design Miami/ features glazed tiles by alumni artists Nicolas Barrera, Lauren Clay, Gonzalo Hernandez, Cory Imig, Abel Macias, and Nikita Nagpal.
Whether Musk’s weird still life post was an act of trolling or an act of cringe is up to you, but the memes speak for themselves.
For roughly half an hour, art collectors had to consider a world in which they didn’t get that Alex Katz work.
Join the New-York Historical Society on December 9 for a virtual conversation with Kellie Jones, Rujeko Hockley, and Cameron Shaw on the past, present, and future of Black art in the US.
From art fairs to alternative spaces that may not be on your radar, here’s a run-down of what to see (and eat and sip) in Miami. No NFTs, we promise.
Protests are erupting across the country in response to President Xi Jinping’s strict zero-COVID policy.
The unique MFASA at the Institute of American Indian Arts offers mentorships with world-renowned Indigenous artists, flexible schedules, and access to one of the US’s cultural capitals.
What does it mean when the world’s richest person trolls us?
Ghenie’s paintings of Marilyn Monroe are a relentless representation of a howling, turbulent tragedy, a face broken into crude sideways slewings and gougings and gorgings of paint.


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FORMER military Head of State, Abdulsalami Abubakar, has said Nigeria needs vibrant and visionary leaders that would steer the country on the path of glory.
Speaking when he hosted Professor Christopher Imumolen, Presidential Candidate of Accord Party in the 2023 elections, said the country was in dire need of vibrant, youthful leaders to seize the initiative and retire a fading breed of the old guard.
“I think the old ones should fade away gracefully and allow young people to take over,” Abubakar said at his Minna, Niger State capital, residence.
“What we can do as former leaders is to mentor and tutor them in whatever way we can in order for them to lead the country. As a matter of fact, this is the time Nigerians should begin to support young, vibrant and visionary leaders that would steer the country on the path of glory.”
Speaking earlier to a retinue of reporters at the home of the former leader and elder statesman, Professor Imumolen had reiterated his stance on the role the next generation of leaders like him should play in taking the country to its promised land.
“We need to reposition the country on the path of development and sustainable growth,” he said.
“And if that must be done, Nigerians should start looking at selecting those who have a track record in leadership at various levels from both the private and public sector,” he added.
Nigeria’s former military head of state, Abdulsalami Abubakar, has thrown his weight behind the candidacy of
Abdulsalami midwifed the process that ushered in the 4th Republic which began with the democratically elected government of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo in 1999.
KNTags: Abdulsalami Abubakar Accord Party Olusegun Obasanjo Professor Christopher Imumolen

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Lecturas que nos acompañan durante el invierno
Como cada mes os traemos una selección de las novedades literarias que se publicarán durante el mes de noviembre.
The Boy Between by Amanda Prowse and Josiah Hartley–1 nov
Bestselling novelist Amanda Prowse knew how to resolve a fictional family crisis. But then her son came to her with a real one…
Josiah was nineteen with the world at his feet when things changed. Without warning, the new university student’s mental health deteriorated to the point that he planned his own death. His mother, bestselling author Amanda Prowse, found herself grappling for ways to help him, with no clear sense of where that could be found. This is the book they wish had been there for them during those dark times.
Josiah’s situation is not unusual: the statistics on student mental health are terrifying. And he was not the only one suffering; his family was also hijacked by his illness, watching him struggle and fearing the day he might succeed in taking his life.
In this book, Josiah and Amanda hope to give a voice to those who suffer, and to show them that help can be found. It is Josiah’s raw, at times bleak, sometimes humorous, but always honest account of what it is like to live with depression. It is Amanda’s heart-rending account of her pain at watching him suffer, speaking from the heart about a mother’s love for her child.
For anyone with depression and anyone who loves someone with depression, Amanda and Josiah have a clear message—you are not alone, and there is hope.
Winter at Wishington Bay by Maxine Morrey–3 nov
Eighteen months ago, Sophia Jones finally walked out on her unhappy life.
With a tricky divorce ongoing, money is tight and so when friends offer her a housekeeping job while they’re away travelling, she accepts.
Nate McKinley is hesitant when his brother, Gabe, offers him the use of their home in the picturesque village of Wishington Bay. But he has a book to a write and an imploded marriage to recover from, so maybe a change of scene is exactly what he needs.
As Wishington Bay works its magic, friendship blossoms between Sophia and Nate. For Nate, finally feeling able to be himself with someone who is honest and down to earth is a revelation.
But Sophia has a secret and a jealous colleague is determined to blow her cover. Can she really keep her old life in the past or is it destined to destroy this new, happy one too?
Take a trip back to Wishington Bay this winter and find out…
The pretenders by Agatha Zaza–5 nov
I’m perfectly happy lying to myself…If it means getting to stay with you.’
Jasper is ready to surprise his brother; Holly is ready to celebrate their engagement.
Anne tags along for fear of missing out, and John might just be going for another drink.
But Edmund and Ovidia had other plans for their Saturday.
Over the course of one day, these couples must own up to the secrets they’ve been hiding from one another and the lies they’ve been telling themselves. And face the devastating consequences.
Three couples. Two exes. One day. One reckoning.
One Snowy week in Springhollow by Lucy Knott–5 nov
When old friends return, sparks ignite this Christmas in Springhollow…
Tomboy Scarlett thought Devon would be her best friend forever. He was the only person in Springhollow who supported her ambitious artist dreams. But then one winter, Devon and his parents disappear without warning to start a new life in NYC and a devastated Scarlett is left alone to face her high-school bullies and overbearing mother.
Fast-forward ten years: Scarlett is playing it safe in her childhood village with a dull PA job and a wardrobe that passes her mother’s old-fashioned standards. Meanwhile, Devon is a Hollywood heartthrob, starring in the latest superhero blockbuster. And he’s finally coming home for Christmas…
Scarlett can’t help blaming her former best friend for the way her life has turned out, but Devon’s cheeky charm and gorgeous smile prove difficult to resist. Devon always did make her feel on top of the world, but Scarlett knows her heart isn’t racing just because she has her friend back – is it mistletoe madness, or is she seeing Devon in a completely new light?
Scarlett hasn’t taken a risk in years… but this Christmas of second chances could finally be her time to shine.
The Christmas Menagerie by Minna Howard–5 nov
Amelia usually loves Christmas, but this year is her first one alone since her husband passed away – though she’s not quite by herself. Somehow, she’s been lumbered with a menagerie of pets over the holidays, no thanks to the new village vet closing the local kennels.
Between a parrot, two tortoises and god-knows-how-many baby mice, Amelia ends up seeing a lot more of Jules the vet than she planned to. And despite her neighbours’ fury for the man who shut down a local institution, she can’t help enjoying every moment she spends with Jules.
She tells herself it doesn’t really matter as surely Jules will be driven out of the village by this time next year. But as Amelia’s about to discover…
…love isn’t just for Christmas!
Gentleman Jim by Mimi Matthews–10 nov
She Couldn’t Forget…
Wealthy squire’s daughter Margaret Honeywell was always meant to marry her neighbor, Frederick Burton-Smythe, but it’s bastard-born Nicholas Seaton who has her heart. Raised alongside her on her father’s estate, Nick is the rumored son of notorious highwayman Gentleman Jim. When Fred frames him for theft, Nick escapes into the night, vowing to find his legendary sire. But Nick never returns. A decade later, he’s long been presumed dead.
He Wouldn’t Forgive…
After years spent on the continent, John Beresford, Viscount St. Clare has finally come home to England. Tall, blond, and dangerous, he’s on a mission to restore his family’s honor. If he can mete out a bit of revenge along the way, so much the better. But he hasn’t reckoned for Maggie Honeywell. She’s bold and beautiful–and entirely convinced he’s someone else.
As danger closes in, St. Clare is torn between love and vengeance. Will he sacrifice one to gain other? Or, with a little daring, will he find a way to have them both?
The Lost Village by Daniela Sacardoti–16 nov
1945, Italy. Two sisters give birth to two little girls on the same night, huddled under blankets, deep in the black woods that surround the village of Bosconero. They hold their babies close as footsteps approach. If they make even the slightest sound, the German soldiers will find them…
2006. Luce Nardini searches the cobbled streets of a remote Italian village for a house with a faded blue door. Since her only child left home, and with her estranged husband more distant than ever, she’s been completely untethered. Discovering why her mother cut all contact with her family and the village she loved feels like Luce’s last hope at understanding who she is.
Inside the house, she’s relieved to find the grandmother she never knew living out her final days. With a longing look at an ornate wooden box on her nightstand, her grandmother is just beginning to tell the heart-wrenching story of a little village ravaged by war, and why Luce’s mother swore never to return, when then the unthinkable happens: an earth-shattering disaster that shakes the little village of Bosconero to its core.
Feeling more lost than ever before, Luce fears that the secrets of her past have been buried forever. Her only hope is to win back the trust of the small community and find her grandmother’s little wooden box amongst the rubble of the village.
But will the surprise arrival of the husband she thought she’d lost help sew Luce’s family back together, or tear it apart for good? And will anything have prepared her for the devastating betrayal she finds hidden inside the box…?
On the Wings of Hope by Ella Zeiss–17 nov
As World War II draws to a close, can two young people find love, hope—and freedom?
February 1942: Terrifying reports of the Wehrmacht’s advance across the Soviet Union spread like wildfire, striking new fear into the already oppressed German families living there.
Harri Pfeiffer, now sixteen, is summoned to the forced labour camp in Chelyabinsk. With men around him dying by the hundreds, every day is a fight for survival in a world plagued with despair.
Three years later, with the war finally over, Yvo Scholz arrives in Chelyabinsk, desperate for news of her brother, who was also last seen being dispatched to the labour camp. Still uncertain of the fate of her father, it takes all Yvo’s unshakeable courage to build a new life for herself while she waits for hope to return.
When their paths intersect, Harri and Yvo find a connection they never thought possible. But faced with hostility and discrimination, do they dare to dream they will one day be free—together?
Dark Highway by Lisa Gray–19 nov
LA-based artist Laurie Simmonds disappeared two months ago, her campervan abandoned on the isolated Twentynine Palms Highway, miles from anything—or anyone. With the police investigation stalled, her parents put all their faith in private investigator Jessica Shaw to find out the truth of what happened.
Jessica and her partner Matt Connor discover that two other women are missing, their disappearances connected to the same highway. When a link emerges between these women and a group of former college friends, Jessica feels certain they’re closing in on their target.
But no sooner do they follow this up than Laurie’s parents get spooked and drop the case. Jessica is blindsided but determined not to give up: three women are missing, and many more may be at risk. She can’t turn her back on them. But the more she pulls at the threads of the truth, the closer she comes to danger. Can she find out who’s behind these crimes before they come for her?
Fallen Angel by Jenny O’Brien–20 nov
She looked like she’d drifted off to sleep, curled up in her white dress, blonde hair floating in the breeze. They called it the Angel Murder.
Eighteen-year-old Angelica Brock is found dead at a local beauty spot, dressed in a pure white nightgown, her white-blonde hair arranged around her. For years her death is a mystery, her killer the one who got away for a whole generation of police.
For DS Gaby Darin, it’s not just any cold case – the victim is intimately linked to someone close to her, and emotions are high. But just as the team finds a breakthrough clue on Angelica’s nightdress, another case crashes into the station. Could they be linked? After all this time, can Gaby finally discover what really happened to Angelica?
Love in Lockdown by Chloe James–23 nov
What if you met the right person at the wrong time?
Lockdown is putting Sophia’s life on pause – just as she planned to put herself out there and meet someone. When the first clap for the keyworkers rings out around her courtyard, she’s moved to tears for all kinds of reasons.
Jack is used to living life to the fullest. He’s going stir-crazy after just days isolating. Until the night he hears a woman crying from the balcony under his. He strikes up a conversation with the stranger and puts a smile on her face.
Soon their balcony meetings are the highlight of Jack and Sophia’s days. But even as they grow closer together, they’re always kept apart.
Can they fall in love during a lockdown?
Moonlight over Studland Bay by Della Galton–24 nov
Animal loving Samantha Jones is on a mission to ‘live the dream’.
When best friend Abby has a beautiful baby boy Sam’s priorities change and she realises she wants more from her life.
Uninspired with her dull day job Sam plans to expand Purbeck Pooches, her seaside pet sitting business into a full-time career and embarks on a mission to find her perfect man.
Sam soon hits trouble. Her boss accuses her of moonlighting. The perfect man is frustratingly elusive and her parents make a shock revelation.
The odds are stacking up against her but Sam finds that sometimes when you reach for the moon, you get a handful of glittering stars thrown in for free.


Reader alert: this w/u assumes a fairly deep background in operating system performance
in general and virtual memory
related performance in particular.
A system is suffering from a "convoy effect" if it is experiencing increased system load as a result of the time that it is taking to handle (i.e. act upon) some class of requests.
i.e. a "convoy effect" is a second order effect which is the result of an existing convoy-related issue.
At least in this context, the term "convoy" derives from the notion that a process waiting in a request queue, like the disk i/o request queue, is somewhat like a truck sitting in a long convoy of trucks.
i.e. a process in a request queue is "in a convoy".
A system which is suffering because processes are in a convoy is said to be suffering from a "convoy effect".
Just to really drive the point home: a system which is slow because of a long queue of requests isn't necessarily suffering a "convoy effect".
A system is suffering a "convoy effect" if the fact that it is experiencing long delays due to a long queue of requests is itself causing other performance related problems (i.e. the delays are causing more delays).
Gather 'round the fire everyone as I'm going to tell you an old war story . . .
I can recall a situation which I encountered on a mainframe computer system in the early 1980s.
It was a dark and stormy night and the system was experiencing quite heavy paging and disk i/o loads.
A process which took a page-fault or which issued a (non-paging related) disk i/o request would suffer quite a long delay before the page-fault or the disk i/o operation could be completed.
A process waiting for a disk i/o request to complete would often lose memory-resident pages (i.e. suffer page-outs).
Once the disk i/o operation completed, the process might then almost immediately have to take a page-fault to bring the just-paged-out-page back in.
i.e. the process was suffering extra page-faults because it was taking too long to process the disk i/o operations.
If processes were suffering extra page-faults then the paging subsystem was having to handle extra page-faults and the extra page-outs that corresponded to them.
i.e. the heavy disk i/o load on the system was increasing the already fairly heavy paging load of the system.
The system was on the verge of thrashing if not already thrashing and things were definitely getting ugly.
The system was suffering from a classic "convoy effect" as the time that it took processes to complete disk i/o operations was increasing the paging load.
The solution which was implemented (this was on a system for which we had full operating system source code) was to make a very minor change to how disk i/o requests were processed.
Instead of maintaining a strict FIFO queue of requests (i.e. always processing the requests in the order in which they were received), new disk i/o requests were randomly inserted at either the front or the back of the disk i/o request queue.
Now, obviously, this was grossly unfair as some requests would get "instant response" while others would languish on the request queue.
"Grossly unfair" though it may have been, the net result of this change was a very noticeable improvement in system performance.
The reason for the improvement in system performance was quite simple: by ensuring that at least some of the disk i/o requests got processed quickly, the number of "unnecessary" page-faults dropped (quite substantially as it turned out).
The drop in paging load meant that page-faults could be processed more quickly. It even had a second order impact that improved performance even more . . .
There was a second convoy effect tied into the paging and disk i/o load - processes would often be holding kernel locks when they made a disk i/o request.
The delays caused by the long disk i/o request queue coupled with the additional delays caused by the "unnecessary" page-faults meant that the average time spent holding these kernel locks increased.
This meant that processes waiting for one of these kernel locks would have to wait longer which meant that they were losing memory-resident pages (i.e. suffering page-outs) which they would often have to recover with extra page-faults once they held the kernel lock.
This further increased the average time spent holding these kernel locks which improved the probability of suffering a page-fault which . . . (you get the picture).
By randomly placing disk i/o requests at the front or the end of the disk i/o request queue, the paging load on the system dropped.
The drop in the paging load meant that the time spent holding these kernel locks while doing disk i/o dropped which, in turn, meant that fewer page-outs were suffered while holding the kernel locks which not only reduced the load on the paging subsystem but it decreased the time spent waiting for these kernel locks which even further reduced the number of "wasted" page-outs.
One fairly simple kernel change ended up having a pretty noticeable impact on performance.
Even better yet, nobody complained about the "grossly unfair" algorithm for handing disk i/o requests (possibly because practically nobody knew about the change and those that did understood that it worked in their favour even when it treated them unfairly).
- this w/u is entirely based on personal experience.
That said, please don't conclude that I was the "hero" of this story as I was actually just a bystander "on the inside".
- those of you who can actually remember what they learned in their queuing theory course can probably supply a "more correct" term for what I'm calling the "convoy effect".
Please feel free to tell me what the "more correct" term is but please don't hold your breath waiting for this dinosaur to change his vocabulary (grin).
- one could argue that more conventional mechanisms for dealing with thrashing would have solved the problem.
The catch with the "more conventional mechanisms for dealing with thrashing" is that they're generally at least as "grossly unfair" as the solution described above AND they tend to be much more disruptive to the system as a whole.
- the "war story" in this w/u is a classic example of a situation in which understanding what's going on is the hard part.
Actually implementing "the fix" was a pretty trivial exercise.


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Free iphone Apps for Card Games
Locate thousands of free iphone/ipad apps for Card Games.
Card Games FREE APPS
By MobilityWare released on: 2010-03-18T09:33:47Z
If you like Windows Solitaire then this is the app for you!
Drag and drop to move cards is supported as well as both portrait and landscape orientations, not all iPhone Solitaire apps support these desirable features.
This is your classic game of Solitaire for the iPhone or iPod Touch. Also known as Klondike, this is the most popular version of Solitare.
Your game is saved when you get a call or other interruption and then restored when you return to Solitaire to complete the game.
Solitaire is also known as Patience.
- Draw 1 card
- Draw 3 cards
- Drag and drop cards
- Custom card backs
- Custom backgrounds
- Leader boards
- Right or left handed play
- Game state saved when interrupted
- Unlimited undo
- Auto complete to finish game
- Standard scoring
- Vegas scoring
Solitaire is ad supported.
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By MobilityWare released on: 2008-09-04T11:47:28Z
Money won is money earned in Blackjack! Also known as 21, the card game found in casinos all over the world can now be experienced on your iPhone or iPod Touch.
Currently the most popular iPhone/iPod Blackjack/casino application, anybody can step up to the table at any time of the day and feel the thrill of trying to win BIG money against the house! Strategies such as being able to split or double down allow players to become high rollers all without leaving their seat.
In this game of Blackjack, the dealer stays on soft 17 and Blackjack pays 3 to 2.
The money used in this game is fictitious, but the strategies you will learn are priceless.
Perfect the art of counting cards without fear of losing money! Use this application to sharpen your skills before your next big trip to Vegas! Or Monaco!! Or Macau!!!
Free Blackjack is a fully-featured, but ad-supported version of Blackjack.
If you like Free Blackjack, but prefer it without ads, you can purchase Blackjack without ads from the App Store.
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By Self Aware Games released on: 2010-11-25T12:34:07Z
Blackjack, Texas Hold 'Em & Word Ace in ONE APP you can play with your friends.
Get FREE chips every day you play, and join HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of users online.
Play a hand of poker with friends halfway across the country while standing in line waiting for a sandwich. Out-spell a college professor on your lunch break. Take on the dealer or just learn the rules of Blackjack with four friends in four different states while you're watching TV. Card Ace: Casino is a game you can play with your friends anywhere, any time!
Earn FREE CHIPS in the daily lottery EVERY DAY you play!
Card Ace: Casino puts a whole new spin the social multiplayer card game! Find awesome people to play with or quickly jump into a game with your friends using the brand-new "People Grid"! Combining three of the best social multiplayer games around, Card Ace: Casino lets you play Blackjack (21), Texas Hold 'Em, or Word Ace (Hold 'Em + Word creation) online, any time, with tens of thousands of other players.
You can now play Sit & Go tournaments of Texas Hold 'Em!!!
- 5/5 - "...just plain fun." The Current Gamer
With in-game chat, a unique picture-based emote system, and the slickest interface around, Card Ace: Casino is the best social card game on the planet. Earn dozens of hilarious awards, compete for the top spots on the global leaderboards, and see if you've got the skills to become a Featured Player!
- 99/100 - "...why is this free? This game is more fun than games I've spent $3+ on, and... it's free!" panappticon.com
Yes - that's right. The game is FREE - and you get free chips EVERY DAY you play with the Daily Lottery, where you can win up to 10 MILLION chips! Card Ace: Casino's awesome graphics, optimized for the iPhone 4's Retina Display will MELT YOUR FACE OFF!
- 9/10 - EDITOR'S CHOICE - gamespot.com
Already have a Word Ace, Card Ace: Hold 'Em or Card Ace: Blackjack account? Your profile info (Chips, XP, Friends, Awards & the works) will carry over automatically into Card Ace: Casino!
(Card Ace: Casino requires an internet connection to play.)
By Self Aware Games released on: 2009-11-03T11:52:40Z
LIMITED TIME OFFER: Download the game now, and receive an extra THOUSAND free chips!!
Card Ace: Hold 'Em is the online multiplayer Texas Hold 'Em poker app that makes it easy for you to play poker with your friends!
Play online any time, anywhere, against tens of thousands of live human opponents, or use your Friend List to jump into games with people you know you love playing with. With text chat, and a unique picture-based "emote" system, playing poker online with Card Ace captures the social experience of poker night with your pals.
With a beautiful, intuitive interface, and a wealth of features not found in any other poker app, Card Ace is hands-down the best hold em poker game in town.
Build up your collections of hilarious Awards, and show 'em off to your friends online - you may have the biggest stack of chips, but you won't have true bragging rights until you've won the award for winning with one of the worst starting hands in poker!
Got Word Ace? Your Profile, Friend List, chips and XP all automatically carry over between games!
By Electronic Arts released on: 2010-12-09T08:00:00Z
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By Self Aware Games released on: 2010-02-09T05:45:07Z
LIMITED TIME OFFER: Download the game now, and receive an extra THOUSAND free chips!!
Play the #1 social blackjack game for FREE. Play online with your friends, or with tens of thousands of players worldwide!
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Card Ace: Blackjack is the social online multiplayer app that lets you play Blackjack (21) with your friends!
Play online any time, anywhere with tens of thousands of live human players, or use your Friend List to jump into games with people you know. With text chat, and a unique picture-based "emote" system, playing Blackjack online with up to four friends captures the social experience of playing cards with your pals.
With an intuitive, beautiful interface and a wealth of features not found in any other Blackjack app, Card Ace: Blackjack is hands-down the best Blackjack game in town.
Got Word Ace or Card Ace: Hold 'Em? Your Profile, Friend List, chips and XP all automatically carry over between games!
Want more chips? Every day you get free chips - but if you want more, additional chip packages are available via In-App Purchase!
(Card Ace: Blackjack requires an internet connection to play.)
By John Rouda released on: 2010-10-14T09:36:28Z
4 Classic Card games:
- The classic Solitaire game
- 5-card Draw (video poker style)
- One player Texas Hold'em (play against the 4 virtual players
- BlackJack (play against the dealer)
By Karma World LLC released on: 2009-06-25T07:00:00Z
Brand new version of the original (over 1 000 000 downloads) virtual multi touch House of Cards game! New graphics for iPhone 4 retina display, universal HD version for iPad, 3D environment, real physics, in game screen rotation (landscape mode), pinch zoom, unlimited undo (put cards back and save the house). New arcade mode with OpenFeint and Game Center achievements, solve progressively complex levels and share your results on Twitter and Facebook!
With a good technique and a little bit of patience, you can build a seven story (or even higher) card tower! With virtually unlimited set of cards, you can compete with people around the world on Game Center and/or OpenFeint.
Beautifully designed game, with accurate physic rules and an unlimited undo feature to correct mistakes not to ruin an entire tower you've spent hours to build.
By DMBC released on: 2008-11-14T01:44:14Z
Classic game of hearts
Each heart won in a trick scores 1 penalty point against the player winning the trick, and the player winning a trick containing the queen of spades scores 13 penalty points. Therefore, there are 26 penalty points in each deal. The game ends when one player reaches 100 points. Player with the fewest penalty points wins.
Take Em All
If one player takes all the penalty cards on one deal, 26 penalty points can be added to each of the other three players' scores. Attempting to take em all is a risky strategy, failure to capture even one of the penalty cards will result in the remaining penalty points (as many as 25) being added to one's score.
By myHIP.com released on: 2008-12-30T03:08:54Z
Way back when I was a kid, my Dad showed me a card trick that had me baffled for a few days until I figured it out.
In this magic card trick, 7 hands of 5 cards are dealt out. The victim is then asked to pick a card out of the ones showing, and to tell the dealer which hand their card is in.
The cards are then reshuffled, and dealt out again in 5 hands with 7 cards in each hand.
The victim is then asked once more to signify which hand their previously chosen card is in.
Magically, the dealer turns over the cards and the victims card is identified.
SPECIAL NOTE TO REVIEWERS: Yes, this is a simple card trick, so, if you figure it out right away, good for you, but please refrain from spoiling it for other folks. Don't give details about how the trick works here. It's much more fun if people figure it out themselves.
By Pavel Buchelski released on: 2010-01-26T06:07:20Z
Are you looking for an awesome Solitaire cards game collection for your iPhone or iPod Touch? If so, this application is for you. Solitaire on the iPhone and iPod Touch has never been so exciting. Get Solitaire Mania Pro Free today and join the fun!
"u2660 12 solitaire games.
"u2663 Animated backgrounds - You can download and install full-screen animated backgrounds for your game.
"u2665 Background images - Thousands of background images available for download directly from our website!
"u2666 Background colors - You can choose any color your device supports as the background.
"u2660 Cards back images - More than 60 built-in cards back images.
"u2663 No moves remaining detection - Alerts you when there are no moves left in a game, at which point you may use the undo button to replay portions of your game or start a new game.
"u2665 Favorite and hidden games folders - SMPro can track your favorite games separate from the rest.
"u2666 Filters - SMPro gives you the ability to filter the list of games according to multiple criteria, like skill level, odds of winning, etc., making it easier to find a game you'd like to play.
"u2660 Hint - SMPro can show you all available moves when you get stuck.
"u2663 Undo/Redo - You can undo even the longest game to replay any move.
"u2665 Save/Load - You can save a game to resume later.
"u2666 Auto-resume last game - When you return to SMPro, you're right where you left off.
"u2660 Drag 'n' drop/single tap play modes - You can move one or more cards by dragging and dropping or a single tap.
"u2663 Auto-jump to foundations - You can configure SMPro to automatically place cards in the foundations; this can reduce fatigue and time needed to complete a game.
"u2665 Tool bar - While playing a game, SMPro can display a tool bar with many common options.
"u2666 Game rules - While playing a game, SMPro can display the rules.
"u2660 Statistics - Detailed statistics for each game and across all games.
"u2663 Internet and local scores board - The best scores for each game and across all games.
"u2665 Animation - SMPro animates card movements, but you can disable the animation if you prefer.
"u2666 Game seed - You can control the random number generator used to shuffle the cards for each game so you can try every variation of a game or repeat the same game as often as you like.
"u2660 Restart - Restart the current game exactly as before.
"u2663 Support for portrait and landscape mode.
"u2665 Sound effects.
"u2666 Left-handed layout option.
"u2660 Background music.
If you have any technical problems, please email us at email@example.com.
Visit us at www.pdart.com for more information about Solitaire Mania Pro Free and other fun games!
By Easy 8 Software released on: 2008-10-15T01:04:12Z
Card Shark uses an intuitive drag-drop interface, which should be immediately familiar to fans of Windows Solitaire.
Card Shark is fat finger friendly - piles are automatically split following a drag-drop gesture. Tap foundation piles to autoplay compatible cards.
Card Shark supports Klondike Solitaire, FreeCell, Spider Solitaire, Canfield, Forty Thieves, Beleaguered Castle, Crazy Eights, Draw Poker, and Memory Match.
- silky smooth animations with a tasteful 3d presentation.
- photo library support for custom tables and card backs
- multiple styles of card fronts, backs, tables
- does not interfere with ipod music
- left/right handed stock placement
- optional vegas scoring
- fast load time
- sophisticated random number generator capable of dealing billions of unique hands
Are you an artist? Contact the author for tools to help you design your own decks.
If you like this game, please consider supporting further development by submitting a user review and/or upgrading to Card Shark Collection Deluxe.
"Card Shark Solitaire is currently the best free solitaire game in the App Store." - Art Of The iPhone
By Tim Jensen released on: 2009-01-05T08:00:00Z
*** The FAAD GOLD App by FreeAppADay.com introduces Monster Game Pack as Today's Featured Free App! ***
Are you ready to turn your iPhone or iPod into a great gaming machine? Download Monster Game Pack and never be bored gain. Moster Game Pack is a collection of 20 games all located under one icon and all for free. There are no lite games and no in-app purchases to get more games. They are full games and all for free!
Monster Game Pack is also integrated with Apple's Game Center so you can compare your scores on certain games with your friends and everyone worldwide!
The games are:
Color Drop - A word drops from the top of the screen filled with a color. Can you identify the color before it hits the bottom?
Slap Jack - The classic childhood game brought to the iPhone. 3 difficulty levels makes it great for kids to adults.
Bubble Pop - How many bubbles can you pop in 30 seconds? Use your Game Center account and see how you compare to your friends and worldwide.
Tic Tac Toe - A simple game with 2 difficulty levels. So easy, yet so addicting.
Slots - Spin the wheels and see how much you can win!
Sudoku - Test your smarts with this number-based puzzle game.
Blackjack - Can you win the big bucks playing this authentic Vegas game?
Color Find - You are shown 35 different color words that are filled with different colors. Can you find the words that aren't filled with the correct color?
Video Poker -Test your Poker ability with this Poker game.
Response Time - A light changes from red to green. How quick can you touch the screen after it changes?
Darts 301 - Play the classic Darts game, 301.
3 Card Poker - Play this exciting Vegas table game without risking a dollar!
Deuces Wild - Try this exhilarating Video Poker variant where all 2's are Wild.
Darts 501 - Play the classic Darts game, 501.
Jokers Wild - No joking with this fun Video Poker game. Try your luck and see what happens!
War - Is your card higher than the dealers? If it is then you win!
Darts Cricket - You must close out all the Cricket numbers before the computer. Can you do it?
Hangman - Guess the letters of the phrase before your hangman is built. Simple, yet addictive fun!
Roulette - Heading to Vegas soon? Practice with this authentic Roulette Game
## Please note that the Response Time Game Center reporting issue has been fixed in the upcoming update. ##
By Runic released on: 2010-05-07T07:00:00Z
Blackjack Lite - Popular and fun card and casino game for iPhone and iPod Touch!
Try your luck at the classic game of Blackjack!
This Blackjack game is the BEST Blackjack game out for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad.
#1 card game for iPad in Sweden, Poland, China
#2 card game for iPad in Croatia, Romania, Mexico, and Thailand
"u2713 Custom cards, buttons, and chips designed specifically for this application
"u2713 Unlimited start overs
"u2713 Split (A surprising amount of Blackjack apps won't even let you split!)
"u2713 Double down
"u2713"u2713"u2713 Made by dedicated developers who care about you
"u2713 AND MORE!
"u26a1 Customizable deck design
"u26a1 Card counting techniques and trainer
By YoYo Games Ltd. released on: 2010-12-08T12:18:21Z
Get immersed in this free version of the classic game of Solitaire. This uniquely styled version, with its natural card layout, engages the player like no other Solitaire.
* Klondike Mode
* 1 Card Draw
* 3 Card Draw
* Drag, Drop & Double Tap Cards
* Unique Visual Style Enhanced for iPhone
* Natural Card Layout
* Multiple Game Modes
* Retina display support
* Compare Scores Against Friends
* Variety of Backdrops
* Game Center
* Special Effects
* Game Statistics
* HighScore Table
* Auto Save
By Water Closet Games released on: 2009-02-24T03:30:15Z
Euchre! Lite is a free version of Euchre! which contains all of the features of the full version except is limit to only 4 points for either team.
Consider Euchre! the ultimate iPhone Euchre game. Whether you are traveling or looking for a way to kill a few minutes, you will love this classic game—the same game played at countless get-togethers and parties. Euchre! will increase your Euchre playing skills, and will be the game you just can't do without.
You will love navigating the multiple screens with the simple sweep of a finger. Adjust the speed and difficulty from Euchre!'s startup screen. The game table screen is simplistic and user friendly. Sweep your finger left to see the cards played on the last trick. Sweep your finger right to view the four players' last hand. Euchre! gives the user the popular option to hang the dealer.
- Game restore
- Hang the dealer
- Go alone
- Multiple computer skill levels
- Computer speed adjustments
- Intuitive game board design
- Score keeping
By Scott Falbo released on: 2009-07-25T06:52:08Z
The classic Hi Lo card game!
Great for a quick game by yourself when you only have a few minutes. See how many times you can guess correctly in a row!
Also great for party games with your friends! Place a challenge and see who the luckiest player is!
Just like our premium version except we've added some ads. If you'd like to remove the ads please consider purchasing our pay version. Thanks!
By MoonBeam Development released on: 2010-02-13T04:53:28Z
The Vegas Card Counting app teaches you to count cards the right way!
Counting cards is easy to pickup, but takes
practice to do well.
Along with other techniques it can give you an advantage over the house when playing.
We will walk you through the basics, and then you can be off practicing whenever you have time.
No need to bring a deck of cards just your mobile device!
There are more than 300,000 iphone/ipad apps for just about any category you can think of including Card Games you looking for.
We belive for every paid Card Games app out there there is a equivalent free Card Games app that can be downloaded from itunes free of charge. If you do not like that app you can always uninstall it without paying for it or worring about losing the money you paid for app you do not use.
Try out the free Card Games apps to see if you like it before purchasing the more expensive versions of it.
- There are thousands of iphone developers daily release free iphone apps.
- Explore different Card Games apps with free iphone apps and see if you like it before you pay for it.
- Just like trial software for non mobile operating systems, free iphone Card Games apps let you explore similar tools before you purchase the more expensive version.
- For those of you looking for particular Card Games app specific to a professional decipline search apps by Apps Popular Among Professions.
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Marvel Studios' Kevin Feige has confirmed they're in discussions to have Scarlett Johansson reprise her role as Natasha Romanoff for a stand-alone movie. Sexy ... or suspect?
Marvel announced a while back that they're planning on making films starring some of their B-list characters, and Internet wonks went bonkers trying to imagine who'd get the nod. Luke Cage? Shang-Chi? Man-Thing? Colleen Wing and Misty Knight? No, it looks like it's gonna be Black Widow.
"We've already started discussions with Scarlett about the idea of a solo movie and have begun putting together concepts," said Feige. "But The Avengers comes first."
I've gotta say, choosing Black Widow makes all kinds of sense. Plucking her from the Iron Man franchise, which has made more than $600 million domestically, means that you've got a character that people recognize, played by an actress with both style and substance. (And before you scoff at that "substance" bit, remember: This is the same woman who was in Lost in Translation, Match Point and Ghost World.) You put her in a gritty, Bourne-esque thriller that explores Natasha's past as a Russian agent and has her kicking lots of men in the face—or, hey, introduces Hydra—and it feels like a win-win scenario.
Unless, of course, Marvel gives it to a hack director who screws it up, Aeon Flux-style. So ... don't do that, Marvel.
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Why American Farmers Can’t Stop Overproducing
The peculiar difficulties associated with farming in America have created a unique conundrum: rising production and falling prices.
“We call this the irreversible supply curve,” explains agriculture economist Chris Hurt. “You get a period of higher prices where there becomes a feeling among producers that it’s a new era, and they’re willing to make big investments. It is the big fixed cost once you have invested in [new land or equipment] and you can’t reverse it.”
Here’s an example: a farmer purchases a new field to grow soybeans during a period in which the price of soybeans is high. By the time his investment has matured, supply is down or prices have dropped.
But he can’t afford not to plant the field.
“Global markets are just flooded,” complains Texas farmer Rodney Schronk. “It’s one of those situations where you choose what you’re going to lose [the] least money on. We still have to plant those acres. We have to eat. If everything works perfectly…we still can make a small profit sometimes.”
Over the past four years, the declining prices of wheat and corn have noticeably dented the economies of more than 20 states.
Farmers responded to the glut by planting specialty crops like white corn, but so many farmers did this that farmers are now being forced to sell those specialty crops at a loss.
Five years ago, a bushel of white corn could garner as much as $1 more than a bushel of yellow corn. Now, the difference is just 5 cents.
“As acres devoted to varieties such as white corn, organic, and non-genetically modified corn continue to rise, the benefits have shrunk for farmers switching to such strains,” reports Reuters.
Unlike other industries, it can take years for a farmer to respond to supply and demand. And by the time he has made thousands of dollars’ worth of changes, so have his competitors.
“If there’s a demand for watches or electronics, it’s easier for a manufacturing plant to add another shift…They can add more almost immediately. You can’t go to a farmer and tell him, ‘We need your cows to start having more babies.’ It takes time,” says University of Kentucky Agriculture Professor Tim Woods.
To make matters worse, farmers in America do not work together.
“The nation’s vast network of farmers is too disjointed to cooperate on production cuts,” reports the Wall Street Journal. This lack of cohesion exacerbates supply issues and makes it nearly impossible to convince farmers to slow production during periods when prices are low.
“Those kinds of voluntary…destruction of production never work,” explains Texas A&M economist David Anderson. “You never have enough participation, and you have very mixed feelings among farmers about whether that’s the right thing to do.”
Author’s Note: Many people want to send our extra food to starving people in other countries, but it doesn’t work that way. Lack of food is generally an economic/population problem, not a production problem. In other words, countries without enough food need to learn how to be productive enough to feed themselves. You can’t do this from the outside.
It’s like the old adage, “Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.”
If the US were to send all its extra food to another country, without also teaching that country how to increase production on its own, we would just be producing more hungry people. And that population would eventually outgrow our ability to sustain it. This was predicted by Thomas Malthus three hundred years ago and still has merit today.

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Need I say more?
Dips are something I cannot eat in moderation. Salsa’s and Hummus are ok. They can be had without restraint. Possibly some seven layer dips. But what about the warm cheesy dips? They are inviting and very scrumptious.
In restaurants, I manage to finish the dip as I eat it as is.
So much cheese can’t really be good for anyone in a single serving. But sometimes heart (or rather taste buds) don’t listen to your brain and then next think we know is that the dip bowl is empty! Now satisfaction kicks in. Later regret kicks in.
I needed something that was amazing to taste with no regrets.
That’s where a healthified artichoke Spinach dip came into picture.
Its full of veggies and using less cheese compared to traditional recipes. Thick Yogurt is what gives it extra creaminess and protein without the excess fat.
We topped it with finely diced bell pepper and ate them with veggies ( as well as multi grain toast fingers) for a filling afternoon snack.
It makes about 3 cups of dip and can be made ahead, frozen and then thawed before serving. We have a stash in our freeze for days when the baby arrives and we are hungry for “something fun/interesting”. It tastes yummy even as is out of the fridge.
Healthy Veggie Loaded Artichoke Dip Recipe
Makes ~ 3 cups of dip
- 1 can Artichoke hearts drained and coarsely chopped
- 1 cup frozen chopped spinach, thawed and water removed
- 1 cup milk , divided
- 1 teaspoon minced garlic
- 1/2 teaspoon cumin seeds
- 1/4 teaspoon paprika
- 1/2 cup grated parmesan
- 1/2 Greek yogurt
- 1/4 goat cheese
- Salt to taste
- 1/4 cup finely diced bell pepper and red onion ( for Garnish)
1. In a skillet, add artichoke hearts, spinach, 1/2 cup milk, garlic, cumin seeds and paprika. Mix well and let cook for a few minutes on medium-low heat.
2. Stir in the parmesan cheese and let cook for another 2-3 minutes till the cheese melts and is incorporated in the mixture. Lower the heat if necessary. Once cooked, let cool for a couple of minutes.
3. In the meantime, in a bowl, whip greek yogurt with goat cheese. Set aside.
4. Once the artichoke-spinach mixture is cooled, blend it till desired consistency. I like the dip to be smooth with some chunks of artichoke. Skip this step if you like the dip to be chunky.
5. Add the yogurt – goat cheese mixture to the artichoke mixture. Add salt. Mix well.
6. Top with bell pepper and red onions.
Serve immediately or freeze for later use.
Salads are basis of all diet programs. Eat more veggies!
And that’s where we falter. After a while the green salad becomes boring. We start craving carbs and bolder spicier flavors.
Before Vipul reaches that point, I made him a bold and spiced eggplant-cauliflower and chickpeas salad. Roasted eggplant and cauliflower make a “warm and nourishing” base for this salad. It has that “feel good” effect of a fulfilling meal on a cold winter night. The flavors are reminiscent of Indian curries – cumin, coriander and red chili powder. Paired with protein powerhouse of chickpeas and crunch of other veggies like celery and radishes, this was a complete meal.
I topped mine with diced cooked chicken sausage for an extra boost but any other protein would work just fine. Vipul had his as is and was blown away by the flavors of eggplant, roasted cauliflower and lemony-mustard flavors of the chickpeas.
Don’t be daunted by the long list of ingredients. The hands on prep is really easy and mostly it is the oven that does the work. It roasts and caramelizes the eggplant and cauliflower and brings out their natural flavors. This is probably the only way I will eat eggplant – ever!
Use a Chinese or Indian eggplant that has a thin skin rather than the globe one that I used. The skin was a bit tough on roasting. Or maybe I should have peeled it before roasting.
I am loving this diet phase of Vipul’s. I get to try new recipes, new vegetables ( fennel, butternut squash, and now eggplants!) and he gets a fresh home cooked meal every night! Bring it on weight loss 🙂
Spiced Eggplant, Cauliflower and Chickpeas Salad Recipe
- 1 cup cauliflower florets sliced
- 1/2 eggplant sliced into rounds ( any 1/4 inch thick)
- 2 tablespoon olive oil, divided
- 2 teaspoons cumin seeds, divided
- 2 teaspoons coriander powder, divided
- 1 teaspoon chili powder, divided
- Salt to taste
- 1 15 oz can chickpeas drained and rinsed thoroughly
- 2 celery sticks diced
- 4-5 small red radishes diced
- 1/4 red onion diced
- 1/4 cup pre-cooked edamame pods
- 1 teaspoon mustard
- 2 teaspoons lemon juice
- Salt to taste
1. Pre-heat oven to 375 F.
While the oven pre-heats, lay cauliflower and eggplant on two baking sheets in a single layer. ( I used a bowl and foil as I don’t have baking sheets in temporary accommodation here; but baking sheets will give even results). Lightly sear the eggplant in a cross hatch/tic-tac-toe pattern with knife on both sides.
2. Oil the eggplants and cauliflower. Then add the spices (cumin, coriander,, chili) and salt. Toss the veggies to make sure that the spices cover it.
(Alternately prep these in a bowl and then layer them on baking sheets)
3. Bake the cauliflower and eggplant for about 30 – 40 minutes till they are golden brown. Depending on how thick the eggplant slices are they may need additional time. Keep them in till they looked cooked and their sides curl up.
4. In another bowl, mix mustard, lemon juice and salt. Marinate the celery, edamame, chickpeas, red onion and radishes in the mustard-lemon mix. Taste and adjust seasonings. Set aside.
5. Once the cauliflower and eggplant are done, take them out. Start with eggplant as a base, layer cauliflower over the eggplant circles and then top with the chickpeas-veggie mix.
Yea, just 2 ingredients. Vegan, dairy free, gluten free, no eggs, no refined sugar. No ice-cream maker needed. Intrigued? Read on.
You guessed one ingredient -its blueberry ( in this case). And the other one is…you would know if you spend time on pinterest and foodgawker. Its the hottest trend in homemade ice creams. Its frozen banana!
Yup,instead of throwing out those ripe,ugly, black speckled bananas, stick them in the freezer for a day till they are solid. Its better to peel them before freezing. Blend the frozen bananas and frozen berries ( or any other fruit of your choice) and you have ice-cream!
It doesn’t get icy,its creamy and its almost instantaneous without any churning or stirring.
The downside, you will want to make it again and again! I already have many ideas in mind – roasted almond, saffron and pistachio, mango, chickoo, tender coconut and not to mention lychee and custard apples when they are in season. Yum!
Blueberry Icecream Recipe
- 1 1/2 frozen bananas
- 1/2 – 3/4 cup frozen blueberries (use less if you want a less blueberry flavor)
1. Coarsely chop the bananas.
2. Blend the blueberries and bananas till mixed through.
3. Freeze in an airtight container if a bit soft for half an hour
Serve with coarsely chopped pistachios or a red cherry or whipped cream.
Traditionally when my aunt used to make pudachi vadi, she used to serve it with Srikhand – a very sweet rich creamy Indian dessert. I didn’t want to make or buy anything that rich but knew that we would need a little something a couple of hours later after eating the vadi’s.
Anand brought home made rasam recently when we met for dinner and I thought rice and rasam would be a perfect complement to the hearty pudachi vadi. A twist to the traditional rasam, a pineapple rasam is a sweet and sour soup that can be served as is or with rice and a dollop of ghee. Its one of those simple dishes that make weeknight cooking a breeze and yet with its variations (tomato, garlic, ginger, lemon, sprouts, beets or even leafy greens like spinach) keep the family enthused.
I used the ingredients on hand, left out the tamarind pulp and while the rice cooked had a piping hot soup, ready to be served. This is a no fuss recipe with ample of deviations from traditional cooking. Yet its full of flavor and perfect for cool spring evenings!
Pineapple Rasam Recipe
- 1/4 cup toor dal + 1 cup water
- Pinch turmeric powder
- 1 medium tomato finely chopped
- 3- 4 slices of pineapple finely chopped
- 1 1/2 teaspoon rasam powder
- Pinch of hing or asafoetida
- 1/2 teaspoon chili powder
- Salt to taste
- 3 cups water
For the tadka or tempering
- 2 teaspoon ghee or oil
- 1 teaspoon mustard seeds
- 2 – 3 whole red chilies
- 1 spring curry leaves
1. Cook the dal with water in a pressure cooker with turmeric ( or in a saucepan with lid on for about 30 minutes till the lentils are mushy and disintegrate in the water.)
2. Add the tomato, pineapple, hing, rasam powder, chili powder and salt with remaining water and let this come to a boil. Lower to a simmer.
3. In a separate saucepan, heat some ghee. Add mustard seeds, red chilies and curry leaves and let them sizzle. Add this to the rasam saucepan. It will crackle as you add the seasonings and ghee to the soupy rasam. Let the mix boil for a few minutes.
Taste and adjust seasonings as necessary.
Garnish with coriander leaves and serve hot with rice or as is as soup.

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BALI, Indonesia – Seventeen passengers and crew have been injured when a Hong Kong Airlines' flight ran into severe turbulence on the way from Indonesia's resort Bali island to Hong Kong.
Trikora Harjo, general manager of Bali's Ngurah Rai airport, says the Airbus A330-200 carrying 204 passengers and 12 crew encountered the turbulence above Kalimantan, Indonesia's part of Borneo.
The plane returned to Bali about 2 ½ hours after it took off and landed safely at 4:34 a.m. (2034 GMT Friday).
It was the second such incident involving Airbus planes over Indonesian territory in the past four days.
On Wednesday, an Etihad Airways flight from Abu Dhabi ran into sudden turbulence as it prepared to land in the Indonesian capital, injuring 31 passengers and a crew.


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Aja Whitaker-Moore, global editor-in-chief of fixed income at Acuris Global, is leaving the organization.
“I couldn’t be prouder of the newsroom where I have spent most of my professional life,” she wrote on LinkedIn.
She has been in that position for a year. Before that, she was serving as deputy editor-in-chief at Debtwire. Initially, she started as a senior reporter and was then assistant editor, a deputy editor and a managing editor at the company.
Whitaker-Moore has also worked as a reporter at both FT Group, Mergermarket and Tampa Bay Business Journal.
She holds a B.A. in journalism from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

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The prerequisite for successful treatment is a thorough examination of the underlying causes for infertility. It is important to examine both the woman and the man.
In addition to the clinical examination, one of the basic examinations is a semen analysis for evaluating the quality of the sperm. The woman’s menstrual cycle is charted using hormone measurements and ultrasound examinations. The fallopian tubes will also be examined for possible obstructions or disease (for example, using sonosalpingography). Additional examinations that may be needed are a uterine cavity endoscopy (hysteroscopy), a testicular biopsy, a chromosome analysis and a Y-deletion test.
Endoscopic surgery (laparoscopy) is used to detach possible fallopian tube adhesions, treat endometriosis, uterine fibroids and polyps and structural faults. Laparoscopic procedures are carried out in a hospital.
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Patrick I. Borgen, MD
After nearly 30 years as a breast cancer surgeon, Patrick I. Borgen, MD, finds that the most enduring theme in the field is constant change.
“Each time we learn a new piece of the puzzle about breast cancer, we understand that it is a large complex family of diseases,” says Borgen, program chair of the 36th Annual
Miami Breast Cancer Conference®
(MBCC). “If there is a theme for this year’s conference, it’s a move away from a one-size-fits all approach to breast cancer in favor of a very targeted one. We are treating breast cancer much more specifically then we ever have.”
Borgen, chairman of the Department of Surgery and director of the Brooklyn Breast Cancer Program at Maimonides Medical Center in New York, said this year’s MBCC will maintain its signature emphasis on presenting oncology specialists across the spectrum of breast cancer care with information they can implement in treating patients.
“We are staying with the format of keeping it practical—our motto has always been ‘Hear it on Friday, use it on Monday,’” he said. “Treating the specific disease and the specific patient that’s in front of us is really what MBCC 2019 is all about.”
In that context, the expert faculty members will take an in-depth look at major developments in diagnostics, new and emerging targeted therapies, immunotherapy, imaging, and surgery, Borgen noted in an interview in advance of the event. “These are enormous advances, and we’ll be doing a deep dive on them,” he said. “We’ll be talking, most importantly, about how and when these advances will be integrated into clinical practice.”
“When I think about breast cancer from 30,000 feet, imagine that we’re attacking it in different ways surgically now than we ever did. There are different radiation options than we ever had. Systematically we can attack estrogen, or HER2, or a variety of different targets, but the key is understanding what we’re treating and matching the treatment to the disease,” Borgen added.
In terms of matching patients with therapies more precisely, Borgen said the findings from the TAILORx study reported in 2018 will have a significant impact on clinical practice. The study found that adjuvant endocrine therapy alone is noninferior to adjuvant chemoendocrine therapy in patients with hormone receptor– positive, HER2-negative, node-negative earlystage breast cancer who have an intermediate risk of distant recurrence based on the 21-gene Oncotype DX Breast Recurrence Score test.1
Borgen said those findings herald a major change in direction. “In the 1990s, almost every woman with invasive breast cancer in America got chemotherapy,” he said. “Imagine that!”
By contrast, the TAILORx results “will prevent unnecessary chemotherapy in tens of thousands of women. An estimate was made that 60% or 70% of women in this subgroup won’t need chemotherapy…[The results] have expanded the population of women who are at low risk and low benefit from chemotherapy.”
“It’s not just that we’re not seeing an escalation,” he added. “In fact, I could argue we could consider this the year of de-escalation of breast cancer treatment…Genomic profiling has changed the landscape.”
At the same time, refinements are being made in HER2-targeted therapies that also will alter the treatment paradigm, Borgen noted. As an example, he pointed to the results of the phase III KATHERINE study in which ado-trastuzumab emtansine (T-DM1; Kadcyla) reduced the risk of invasive disease recurrence or death by 50% compared with trastuzumab (Herceptin) as an adjuvant treatment for patients with HER2-positive early breast cancer who had residual invasive disease following neoadjuvant therapy.2
“That’s a game changer,” he said.
Innovations for Patients and Practitioners
In the spirit of innovation that helps drive MBCC, faculty leaders and conference planners are also introducing new features to the agenda.
For the first time, the conference will feature a patient-focused track, with a day of presentations and events designed for those coping with a cancer diagnosis, their family, and caregivers. Borgen, who will be the keynote speaker for the patient track, said including patients in the conference has been a desirable but challenging goal.
“Sometimes, doctor speak is not patient speak,” he said. “How we find a common voice, a common way to share this information, is really exciting, and patients should be in the audience. I’m a firm believer in that.”


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Be careful what you wish for is the subtext of Counting Crows’ debut single, which catapulted the American band to instant fame. “When everybody loves me / I will never be lonely,” singer Adam Duritz wrote, never for a moment suspecting his words would come back to haunt him. “You’re supposed to know that’s not true,” he said in 2013. “But you still want it – you want life to be easier, you want to be a rock star so it’s easier to talk to girls.” The “Mr Jones” of the song’s title was Marty Jones, a former bandmate of Duritz. “We went out one night to see his dad play; he was in San Francisco with his old flamenco troupe,” Duritz recalled. “After the gig we all went to this bar where Marty and I sat staring at these two girls, wishing we could talk to them. We joked to each other that if we were big-time rock stars, it would be easier. I went home that night and wrote this song about it.” Counting Crows play The Tivoli, Fortitude Valley, next Sunday.


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Being a single mother, I have faced much persecution. Not only from the judgemental thoughts of others, but from the feelings of failure, I have given myself. Life didn’t turn out like I dreamt it would be and the reality is, it’s mostly my fault.
I should have loved and valued myself more. I should have listened to my heart and waited for the one who treasured it most. But, I didn’t. Life happened and somewhere along the way, I lost sight of who I was and who I wanted to be. I transformed myself into what I thought others wanted me to be.
Thank God, I am no longer that person.
Last night, I was feeling a little down. A friend shared a few negative opinions, others had spoken about me. It was the typical, single mother stereo type. I shrugged it off to my friends, but secretly, it really bothered me. Not because I believed their opinions to be true, but because they failed to see the opposite.
This afternoon, still feeling a little down from the night before, I received this letter. It is from one of my daughter’s teachers. As I read the letter, I couldn’t help but cry. This woman knows nothing about me, but through the actions of my child, she felt the need to thank and praise me, for raising such a respectable daughter.
Reading those words, makes all of my unseen sacrifices, worth it.
Single mother, you are enough! Your unnoticed efforts, make a BIG difference in your child’s life. Keep being their biggest fan. Instill into your kids, the integrity and self respect you wish to see in the world. Shape them into a kinder, more compassionate people. Help them to achieve their dreams and goals, by believing in them.
I know your sacrifices and you are fabulous!

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'Miss Lovely' wins best Indian film award at Mumbai film fest
‘Miss Lovely’ the brainchild of director Ashim Ahluwalia bagged the best film award at the 14th Mumbai Film Festival. Hansal Mehta’s ‘Shahid’ was the runner-up while Manjeet Singh received the special jury award for Mumbai Cha Raja.
Ashim’s Film ‘Miss Lovely’ also won the Reliance Media Works CreaTech award (Creative and Technology award) that was organized by the Mumbai Academy of Moving Image (MAMI).
Let’s give some insights into the film; ‘Miss Lovely’ an Indian drama film is something that brings in admiration. The film was started as a documentary on the C-grade films of Bollywood fringes, but somehow later developed as a film script since filmmakers were not willing to speak on camera.
Alissa Simon reviewed the film by saying "Something new in Indian filmmaking, neither Bollywood nor traditional art cinema, the picture provides a unique, immersive experience...one that owes as much to documentary and experimental filmmakers as to Scorsese, Welles and von Sternberg, plunging viewers into the characters' social milieu.”
The Mumbai Film Festival is considered as one of the most promising and reputed film festivals in Asia by the veterans in cinema. The festival held by the Mumbai Academy of Moving Image and presented by the Reliance Entertainment and American Express saw the screening of around 230 films from across the world.
The closing ceremony of the festival witnessed a grand award function where the legendary actress Waheeda Rehman received the Lifetime Achievement Award from filmmaker and MAMI Chairman Shyam Benegal thus adding feathers to her honor.
Waheeda after receiving the award said, "I am thrilled to receive this award from MAMI. I dedicate it to the directors, producers, co-actors, technicians who have been a part of this journey with me." Waheeda said.
The film 'Aqui Y Alla’ meaning (Here And There) was recognized as the best film in the International Competition Category, meanwhile Dwight Henry for ‘'Beasts of the Southern Wild' got the best actor’s award and the best actress award was won by Julia Garner for 'Electrick Children'. Pankaj Kumar was awarded the jury award of technical experience for the film ‘Ship of Theseus’ while the film ‘Valley of Saints’ bagged Musa Sayeed the special jury award.
It does not end here; the evening saw the film ‘Night Boats’ judged as the best film in the ‘Celebrate Age category while the runner up was ‘The Delay’.All in all, the ceremony and the festival was something to look out for. It was a splendid show and opportunity for the cinema addicts and movie lovers.


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About 56% of Kenya’s urban population currently lives in a slum.
The rental housing market in Nairobi’s informal settlements offers its tenant households a perverse market outcome of higher prices for lower quality products
Do you want to be friends with this person?
Almost every online deception, fraud and scam – even propaganda and misinformation campaigns – begins with a fake social media profile. How do fakers get real people to agree to be friends?
A stretchable electronic device whose design is inspired by the cut-paper art called kirigami.
Doug Levere/University at Buffalo
What's the connection between kids making paper snowflakes and wearable devices that stretch and bend with your body? Engineers who find design inspirations from many sources.
Main Standfirst: Trump con los hombres que podrían reemplazarlo: el vicepresidente Mike Pence, a la izquierda, y el presidente de la Cámara Paul Ryan, a la derecha.
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El presidente no será destituido de su cargo hasta que los republicanos en la Cámara de Representantes decidan apoyar esa idea; o si los demócratas ganan escaños en las próximas elecciones de la Cámara.
Trump with the men who would replace him – Vice President Mike Pence on the left and House Speaker Paul Ryan on the left.
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The president won't be removed from office until Republicans in the House decide to support the idea – or the midterms hand the Democrats more seats.
Where do baby boomers live?
Over the last 50 years, Americans have steadily gotten older, more bicoastal and less likely to move to a new city.
Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo, left, speaks with Deepwater Wind CEO Jeffery Grybowski in 2016.
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Experts expect the wind business to remain brisk in the US and abroad, on land and offshore.
The prospect alone can make you want to avoid the person altogether.
We can disagree with co-workers in meetings. We can argue about sports with friends. A new study explores why politics seems to be an entirely different beast.
Lawmakers have been generous.
The budget bill just signed into law by the president will both make it harder for restaurants to take worker tips while reducing a form of inequality rife in the industry.
Small tankers unload along New York’s Newtown Creek in 2008.
Gentrification is not the only path for improving urban neighborhoods. A cleanup in Brooklyn and Queens offers another, more inclusive model that scholars have dubbed 'just green enough.'
DACA supporters march to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement office to protest after the September 2017 announcement that the program would be suspended with a six-month delay.
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Throughout America's history, a duality has existed: On one side, there has been the belligerent, aggressive America. On the other, the generous, amiable one.
Neuroscientists have been scanning the brains of select Super Bowl viewers to see how they’re reacting to the commercials that air.
Companies are now tracking how consumers react on social media to Super Bowl ads. They’re also studying how the brain responds to them. Could personalized Super Bowl ads be on the horizon?
While some are declaring that democracy has had its day, others see this as a time to develop more truly democratic ways of living.
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Is it really time to eulogise democracy, or are we rather on the cusp of a new phase in its long and varied life?
Where there’s smoke, there will be lava?
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How do scientists predict volcanic eruptions? To do so with accuracy, they need to know the individual volcano and its history very well.
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Excessive indulgence is the city’s unifying theme. It’s also a way to end your life. Just ask Stephen Paddock.
Without investment, fewer products will bear this ‘Made in the USA’ logo in the future.
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If President Trump really wants to restore America's manufacturing might he should invest heavily in AI, the internet of things and other emerging technologies that are changing the world.
How safe is it to use an iPhone?
Some of the iPhone's innovations have made users less secure.
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Even in areas predicted to take direct hits from hurricanes and other storms, hospitals must do all they can to stay open. It isn't an easy task, but preparation and practice help.
A photograph of Penn Station’s interior from the 1930s.
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To understand the full scale of the world's linguistic diversity, we should be thinking about languages and how speakers relate to them.