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With over than 10 years of education in law, sociology, media studies, cultural studies, and art criticism in Japan, Tomoaki Hata began his career as a photographer in 1996 at Japan's groundbreaking HIV/AIDS benefit dance parties and with candid still photography of Japan's gay porn industry. Recently Tomoaki's photography was curated by Eric Mezil, the director of Collection Lambert, the contemporary art museum in Avignon, France. Many of Tomoaki's photographic works were exhibited in "AKIMAHEN" and "EIJYANAIKA," the biggest exhibition of modern Japanese artists in France, including Takashi Murakami, Yayoi Kusama, Yoko Ono, and Nobuyoshi Araki.
Images from The Night Is Still Young, foreword by Eric C. Shiner and Simone Fukayuki. Available at PowerhouseBooks.com.
The Advocate:Why are you a photographer?
Tomoaki Hata: When I was a kid, the first thing I bought for myself from my savings was a tiny compact camera from Fuji. After that, I eventually found an old Nikon SLR camera that had been thrown away in some bushes [along with a Korean passport]. With this camera, I took pictures of my grandfather, who passed away two weeks later. It seems like I was destined to be a photographer.
What catches your eye?
I wonder if any drag queen that never catches people's eye would ever exist ...
How do you choose your subjects?
I really did not choose drag queens as subjects, they chose me. Since I had been hanging out in the Kyoto drag scene for a long time, they were comfortable with me and let me shoot portraits. Also, I think they were more open to being photographed because the drag performances were parties to benefit Japan's emerging HIV education programs.
How do you describe your work?
The drag scene in Japan is very much underground. Taking candid portraits of the performers in various stages of dress was a rare chance to share this underground scene and give publicity to the HIV education movement. No photos of this scene had ever been published outside of Japan.
What makes a good photograph to you?
To take a good photograph, I need to be a part of the event and dive into the environment. Sharing their experience of getting ready and performing, we're all having fun, and together we can capture that feeling on film.
Who are your favorite artists? And why?
Boogie, Jeff Burton, and Slava Mogutin. These artists can really capture the richness of the dark side of culture in the U.S.


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"Everything is different."
That's what my neighbor told me a couple of weeks ago after I welcomed him home from an 8-month deployment. I don't know him very well, but when I stopped to say "hello" on the street as he helped his young daughter ride her scooter, my heart when out to him. The poor man looked completely lost.
The next day, he confided even more in my husband. "My wife treats me like a child," he said. "I feel like I'm just in the way."
When my husband replayed the conversation, I couldn't help but wonder how his wife could treat him that way. Why, after 8 months of missing each other, wouldn't she do everything in her power to reacquaint him to the daily routines he was no longer accustomed to, to make him feel like a part of the family again, to include him rather than making him feel like an outsider invading on her turf?
But I knew why. Because I'd been there before. And I know that reintegration is way more complicated than sharing a romantic kiss and then automatically resuming all that was once normal.
When our husbands are gone for extended periods of time, we military spouses have no choice but to move on with our lives. We create new routines. We form new patterns of behavior. We figure out how to get through the day-to-day on our own. We don't do these things because we want to, because we'd like to live without our husbands. No, we do these things because we have to, because life doesn't stop for a deployment.
But in a way, life at home does stop for our husbands during deployments. In their eyes, the baby they left behind is still a baby, not the walking toddler he grew into. The house is still decorated for Easter, not Thanksgiving. The cereal is still stored in the top left cabinet, not the bottom right. Life for them is frozen in time like a snapshot. And when they come home, they suddenly realize that snapshot they'd been carrying around in their back pocket for months and months is no longer reality.
My neighbor really was lost that day I ran into him on the street. He had returned to a world he no longer recognized. His toddler was potty-trained and speaking in complete sentences. His three sons were all in different grades at school. He even felt strange driving a car. Everything truly was different than he remembered.
My neighbor is far from the only servicemember returning from a deployment and struggling with the feeling that he's "just in the way." So, how can we help our spouses feel like part of the family again? I'm certainly no expert, but here are a few things I had to remind myself when my husband returned from deployment and we headed into military reintegration:
Remember how to share. Somewhere along the deployment road, you realize that everything you once shared with your husband now belongs solely to you. The bed. The yard work. The television remote. The kids' homework. The daily responsibilities. But when he comes home, those things aren't just yours anymore. Learn to share them with your husband again.
Replace routines. Remember those new routines you created while your husband was gone? Well, guess what? He doesn't know them. So don't expect him to. Did you change the kids' bedtimes? Don't forget to tell him as you hand him their new favorite bedtime story so he can do the nighttime snuggle with them. Did you curl up on the sofa every night and watch "Friends" reruns while he was gone? Well, he might prefer to play Scrabble. So break out the game board before visiting with Ross and Rachel. If you can't include him in your deployment routines, create new ones that do include him.
Give yourselves a break. You're both tired and disoriented. He's not used to kids climbing all over him. You're not used to having to explain everything, especially when sometimes it's just easier to do it yourself. This reintegration business is no joke. But don't be so hard on yourselves. You can't expect the puzzle pieces of your family life to fall neatly into place again. After all, those pieces don't look the same as they once did. While you're trying to figure out how those pieces can fit in a new way, cut yourselves some slack and take a break every now and then to simply enjoy the fact that you're together again.
What are some ways you have helped your servicemember reconnect with your family after a deployment?
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While college standouts Mike Zunino and Kevin Gausman made the most noise of any 2012 Draftees last year, it's the two prep athletes selected immediately before them who have fans buzzing this year.
Carlos Correa -- still just 18 years old -- and Byron Buxton -- who turned 19 in December -- were the first and second overall picks last June. Both teens started in the Gulf Coast League and advanced to the Rookie-level Appalachian League, and they're expected to begin their full-season journeys in the Class A Midwest League this week.
Here's a look at five top prospects expected to make their full-season debuts this year, as well as two first-round Draft picks who were unable to play in 2012 and therefore will get their first taste of professional baseball when they take the field this spring.
Full-season Debuts
No. 1: Carlos Correa (SS, Astros)
The highest Draft pick from the 2012 class, Correa is projected to be among the prospects making the most noise early in the year.
Houston GM Jeff Luhnow said throughout the spring that he expects Correa to spend a large portion of the year in the Midwest League.
Correa -- ranked second in the organization (and 30th in baseball) -- signed with the Astros almost immediately after being selected, and that allowed him to log 190 at-bats between the team's Gulf Coast League affiliate and the Appalachian League, where he batted .371 in 11 outings for Greeneville.
He has the ability to hit for power and play a prime defensive position, and it's not out of the question that this teenager could reach the Cal League by the end of the year.
No. 2: Byron Buxton (OF, Twins)
Buxton made his Grapefruit League debut on March 27, and he's going to be manning Cedar Rapids' outfield on Opening Day on April 4.
He appeared in 48 regular-season games between the Gulf Coast League and Appalachian League, where he collected another 24 valuable at-bats in Elizabethton's championship run. He finished with a total of 189.
The second overall pick in the Draft, Buxton has power, speed and a strong arm in center field. He hit five homers and stole 11 bases in his rookie year, batting .248 with 10 doubles and four triples between the two levels.
• MiLB.com's Q&A with Byron Buxton from this offseason »
No. 3: Albert Almora (OF, Cubs)
Almora had committed to the University of Miami before Chicago snapped him up sixth overall last summer. The earlier signing deadline gave the right-handed outfielder -- who homered in his short-season debut -- an extra month to dip his toes in the professional baseball water, and that leaves him well prepared to start 2013 in Kane County once he returns from injury.
Almora broke the hamate bone in his left hand in a game in Minor League camp mid-March and is expected to resume baseball activities in the next week or two.
Ranked as the Cubs' No. 2 prospect (No. 39 overall) by MLB.com entering the season, the Florida native hit .321 with two homers and 19 RBIs between the Arizona League and Rookie-level Northwest League in 2012.
Almora is regarded as an excellent defensive center fielder with good speed and surprising power for a 170-pound teen. He should be back in time to play 30 or so games before the Midwest League's All-Star break.
No. 4: Tyler Naquin (OF, Indians)
Naquin was selected by the Indians 15th overall last June, and he signed a week later to get his professional career underway as soon as possible.
Though Naquin was the sixth college player taken in the Draft, he was just the second collegiate position player and the No. 1 outfielder who had not been selected at all out of high school.
Over three seasons with Texas A&M, Naquin hit .348 with seven home runs, 49 doubles, 13 triples and 112 RBIs in 187 games. He was the Big 12 Player of the Year as a sophomore and a semifinalist for the Golden Spikes Award in his junior year when he hit .380.
In 36 New York-Penn League games in Mahoning Valley, the left-hander hit .270 with 13 RBIs, 11 doubles and two triples. (A small asterisk here, as Naquin actually played with the Carolina Mudcats in their postseason run late last season.)
Naquin should start 2013 with the Lake County Captains in the Midwest League or perhaps back at Carolina a level higher.
No. 5: D.J. Davis (OF, Blue Jays)
Toronto's top non-pitching prospect has speed to burn, and he'll look to rip through his first full season in Lansing or Dunedin.
The 18-year-old Mississippi native was the 17th overall pick in June's Draft, and he hit .250 with five homers and 25 stolen bases in 60 games across three levels.
The son of former Blue Jay Wayne Davis, the center fielder projects as a leadoff hitter down the road. For now, Toronto's No. 4 prospect will spend 2013 refining his approach at the plate and cutting down on his strikeouts. Though his power is something that will likely develop as he grows and matures, the threat he poses on the basepaths is ready right now.
Pro Debuts
Matt Smoral (LHP, Blue Jays)
Ranked seventh among Toronto's top prospects, Smoral will make his professional debut in Class A Lansing later this month.
At 6-foot-8 tall and 220 pounds, the Ohio native already cuts an imposing figure on the mound. Then add in the fact that Smoral is a left-hander (and the fact that he has a three-quarter delivery) and it's possible he could fly through the Midwest League.
Selected 50th overall in June's Draft, Smoral did not pitch last season as he was rehabbing a stress fracture in his right foot that needed season-ending surgery.
Victor Roache (OF, Brewers)
Roache was selected by the Brewers 28th overall in the 2012 Draft. The outfielder missed most of last year with a broken wrist, and his absence from Wisconsin's Opening Day roster means he'll start the year in extended spring training to ensure his hamstring strain is fully healed.
Roache hit 30 homers as a sophomore at Georgia Southern University, so the power is for real. What could determine how quickly he rises through the system is the rate at which his defense improves and whether he has enough plate discipline to hit with a respectable average.
Ashley Marshall is a contributor to MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @AshMarshallMLB.


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Cue the "Little Focker" puns because Owen Wilson is gonna be a dad.
The mop-headed screen star and gal pal Jade Duell are expecting their first child, Wilson's rep told entertainment news outlets on Monday.
The little one could be "due any day," according to a secret source in Us mag, who also said Wilson, 42, has been excited to hit the baby books to research his next big role.
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Wilson and Duell have reportedly been dating for over a year.
In the past, Wilson was romantically linked to Sheryl Crow, Demi Moore and Kate Hudson.
The baby news comes as Wilson is starring in "Little Fockers" and has a handful of projects on the burner for 2011.
Both "The Big Year", opposite Jack Black, and "Hall Pass," co-starring Jason Sudeikis, are in post-production, according to IMDB.
Back in August 2007, Wilson was hospitalized for what police wrote at the time was a suicide attempt. The "Wedding Crashers" star released a statement asking for privacy and has yet to open up about the incident.
It later emerged that Wilson had suffered bouts of depression.
Fast-forward three years and he's said to be all about the prospect of first-time fatherhood.
Wilson is "very excited and involved with the pregnancy," according to Us' insider.


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Partners need to aggressively change business models in order to adopt a services–led sales approach, said Cisco Services Asia vice-president, Bo Kwang Suh, during his keynote speech at the Partner-Led event in Bangkok, Thailand.
"Our business model that is working today may not survive in the next three to five years – I believe this is the perfect time to revisit our current business model," Suh said.
Key mega trends in the ICT market are driving the shift to services including mobility and the cloud. The growing interest in cloud services and managed services, the rise of rapid consumer product and a rapid erosion of product commodity are other top business drivers.
As such, he offered advice and guidance on how to grow business through services and how to differentiate from the competition around smart solutions and smart services.
While he said statistics show up to 40 per cent of partner revenues come from services and up to 60 per cent of partner profit comes from services, many partners are still struggling with the transformative shift.
"Today is the journey to transform to this direction. We are all on the journey for this. This is going to be the future."
He said Cisco has been busy revamping and fine-tuning its services strategy in order to help partners take the necessary step towards a services-led business.
Earlier this year, Cisco consolidated 50 services programs under the Cisco Services Partner Program (CSPP), which has already been well received by the APJC partner community. He said 7100 partners have already enrolled in A/NZ, Asia and India. "The last two remaining theaters are Greater China and Japan, which are coming at the end of Q3 2013."
Highlighting partner enablement, he said 500 partners have already qualified for rebates. Cisco has paid $17 million rebates – a number that is expected to exceed $100 million in 2014.
Market moves
In taking the services journey, Suh said there are big opportunities in the areas of planning, design, implementation, integration, along with maintenance and optimisation.
"We are making money around implementation and maintenance and we call this the golden egg. But do we think this golden egg will continue to grow or will it stay there? Probably not, given the megatrends, growing competition and economic moves. We believe the eggs are going to break and become much smaller and the money where the customers used to spend in the middle of the egg will shift left and right." Customers will now spend more money on consultative sales which includes design and consultation, along with optimisation services.
He said partners can start to make moves in the market with the smart solutions and smart services portfolio. "This is a great opportunity to rethink and position ourselves today," he said, highlighting the services market opportunity in APJC is $30 billion.
He said Cisco has been fine-tuning the services play with innovation around smart services and a revamped strategy. "We have been hearing from the partners for the past few years, asking for a clear and consistent go-to-market strategy, which we have announced in the last two years. On top of that, around the service part we have certain rules of engagement."
Eyeing the commercial space, he said partners can take to market the SmartCare Services, which helps a customer address network operational challenges. The SmartCare Services have three key capabilities including install base management; alarm reporting; and device-level diagnostics.
Suh also highlighted the power of Cisco's CPS (collaborative professional services, which total around 300 service menus). The training resources for partners comes in the area of assessment services (network audits and health checks), guidance services (a review of partner design documents) and development services (network infrastructure, wireless and security information).
Suh said partners should take advantage of all support and guidance available to them as partners shift business models. "I am confident you will grow with services, you will make more money with services and you will differentiate yourself very dominantly against the alternative."
Jennifer O'Brien attended the Cisco Partner-Led Event in Bangkok courtesy of Cisco


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(I failed to take any pictures over the weekend. Boo.)
Friday was a fun evening! It was Halloween!!! Jen and Russ were in town so we did a double date with them! We went for Indian food at Himalayan Kitchen. So delish-it's one of my favorites in Salt Lake. Then we walked over to Abravanel Hall (which was a bit further than I thought…ooops) and saw the Utah Symphony play! It was really cool-they played some fun Halloween-type songs and while they were playing they had Cirque du Soleil type performers perform! It was really fun and so cool to watch. I'm amazed at what people can do!
After the symphony, Jane, Jen and I had a sleepover which was lots of fun. It was great to all be together and to catch up!
I started off Saturday the right way with a massage. I just love getting massages-I wish I could get them on a weekly basis!!
Saturday late morning/afternoon was spent crafting with Jane and Jen. It was Jen and I's 5th Annual Advent Calendar!!! We made these super cute fabric paper chain type things. Following tradition, I haven't finished mine yet, but I think it's going to turn out really cute.
Saturday night Jeremy and I had a lazy date night. It was so nice just to hang out and relax! We went to our favorite burger spot, Salt City Burger Co. Then we just went back to his place, got cozy, and caught up on Scandal. Perfect way to spend a Saturday evening!
Sunday was Sunday. It was Jeremy's brother's birthday so instead of doing our usual Sunday breakfast, we went over to his parents' house to celebrate with brother before he had to go to work.
Church was church. After church I came home and lounged for a bit. Then I made cupcakes for our Junior League unit meeting on Monday and made dinner. It was a lovely, loungy Sunday evening!!
Up Ahead…
…Junior league unit meetings, hopefully some workouts, Jeremy time, and our Favorite Things party this weekend! So excited!


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Please report any overly-slow GHC-compiled programs. Since GHC doesn't have any credible competition in the performance department these days it's hard to say what overly-slow means, so just use your judgement! Of course, if a GHC compiled program runs slower than the same program compiled by another compiler, then it's definitely a bug.
Use Optimisation
Optimise, using -O or -O2: this is the most basic way to make your program go faster. Compilation time will be slower, especially with -O2.
At present, -O2 is nearly indistinguishable from -O.
GHCi cannot optimise interpreted code, so when using GHCi, compile critical modules using -O or -O2, then load them into GHCi.
Measuring Performance
The first thing to do is measure the performance of your program, and find out whether all the time is being spent in the garbage collector or not. Run your program with the +RTS -sstderr option:
$ ./clausify 20 +RTS -sstderr 42,764,972 bytes allocated in the heap 6,915,348 bytes copied during GC (scavenged) 360,448 bytes copied during GC (not scavenged) 36,616 bytes maximum residency (7 sample(s))
81 collections in generation 0 ( 0.07s) 7 collections in generation 1 ( 0.00s)
2 Mb total memory in use
INIT time 0.00s ( 0.00s elapsed) MUT time 0.65s ( 0.94s elapsed) GC time 0.07s ( 0.06s elapsed) EXIT time 0.00s ( 0.00s elapsed) Total time 0.72s ( 1.00s elapsed)
%GC time 9.7% (6.0% elapsed)
Alloc rate 65,792,264 bytes per MUT second
Productivity 90.3% of total user, 65.1% of total elapsed
This tells you how much time is being spent running the program itself (MUT time), and how much time spent in the garbage collector (GC time).
If your program is doing a lot of GC, then your first priority should be to check for Space Leaks using heap profiling, and then to try to reduce allocations by time and allocation profiling.
If you can't reduce the GC cost any further, then using more memory by tweaking the GC options will probably help. For example, increasing the default heap size with +RTS -H128m will reduce the number of GCs.
If your program isn't doing too much GC, then you should proceed to time and allocation profiling to see where the big hitters are.
Unboxed types
When you are really desperate for speed, and you want to get right down to the "raw bits." Please see GHC Primitives for some information about using unboxed types.
This should be a last resort, however, since unboxed types and primitives are non-portable. Fortunately, it is usually not necessary to resort to using explicit unboxed types and primitives, because GHC's optimiser can do the work for you by inlining operations it knows about, and unboxing strict function arguments (see Performance:Strictness). Strict and unpacked constructor fields can also help a lot (see Performance:Data Types). Sometimes GHC needs a little help to generate the right code, so you might have to look at the Core output to see whether your tweaks are actually having the desired effect.
One thing that can be said for using unboxed types and primitives is that you know you're writing efficient code, rather than relying on GHC's optimiser to do the right thing, and being at the mercy of changes in GHC's optimiser down the line. This may well be important to you, in which case go for it.
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Marlins rip Halladay, punchless Phils to gain series split
Philadelphia, PA – Adeiny Hechavarria hit a grand slam and tied a franchise record with seven RBI, as the Miami Marlins pounded the Philadelphia Phillies, 14-2, on Sunday in the finale of a four-game set at Citizens Bank Park.
Hechavarria added a bases-loaded triple during his offensive onslaught, while Marcell Ozuna went 4-for-5 with three RBI and three runs scored. Justin Ruggiano added a pair of homers, three RBI and four runs scored for the Marlins, who had dropped three straight before taking the final two games of this set.
"We went out there and we had good at-bats," Marlins manager Mike Redmond said. "Ozuna continues to swing a hot bat and Ruggiano had a couple home runs and I think guys just kind of built off everybody's at-bats."
Kevin Slowey (1-2) struck out seven over seven scoreless frames of two-hit, two-walk ball to notch his first victory in his seventh start of the season.
After managing just one hit in Saturday's setback, the Phillies registered just four hits Sunday, with Freddy Galvis' run-scoring ground out in the eighth accounting for the team's lone run batted in.
Roy Halladay (2-4) was shelled for the second straight outing, giving up nine runs on four hits and four walks in just 2 1/3 innings.
The veteran right-hander allowed eight runs on nine hits in 3 2/3 innings against the Cleveland Indians on April 30.
Miami loaded the bases in the first without the aid of a hit, as Halladay issued a pair of walks around a groundout before plunking Ruggiano.
Ozuna followed with a double off the top of the wall in left to score Juan Pierre and Placido Polanco for a 2-0 lead before Halladay walked Greg Dobbs to reload the bases.
Miguel Olivo popped out to third for the second out, but Hechavarria cleared the bases with a triple into the gap in right center for a 5-0 advantage.
After retiring the Marlins in order in the second, Halladay ran into more trouble in the third, as he hit Ruggiano to start the frame before walking Ozuna and serving up a single to Dobbs to load the bases.
After Olivo fanned, Hechavarria smacked a fastball the other way into the first row in right field to make it 9-0 and chase Halladay from the contest.
"He just didn't have his command today," Phillies manager Charlie Manuel said of Halladay.
Ozuna added a run-scoring single in the sixth to make it 10-0 before Ruggiano launched a one-out solo shot in the eighth.
Ozuna followed with a double and scored two batters later when Kevin Frandsen's relay throw from second on a potential inning-ending double play sailed wide of first base.
Philadelphia finally broke through in the bottom half when Carlos Ruiz worked a leadoff walk and Ben Revere followed with an infield single to first. Miami reliever A.J. Ramos was late getting to the bag and then fired to third to try and catch Ruiz, but his throw was wild, allowing Ruiz to score and Revere to advance to second.
Revere scored two batters later on Galvis' groundout to first.
Ruggiano added a two-out, two-run blast in the ninth to account for the final margin.
Game Notes
Hechavarria is the fourth Marlins player to knock in seven runs in a game, joining Cody Ross (Sept. 11, 2006), Gary Sheffield (Sept. 18, 1995) and Greg Colbrunn (July 18, 1995) ... Halladay allowed five runs in the first, marking the first time he had done so since April 29, 1999 against the Angels when he was with the Toronto Blue Jays ... Miami placed outfielder Austin Kearns on the bereavement list and recalled catcher Kyle Skipworth from Triple-A New Orleans ... Ozuna made his major league debut on April 30 and has hit safely in all six games he has appeared.


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Its Confession time now and I am about to divulge few food secrets of mine. I hate to drink milk, gorge on panipuris and sevpuris atleast thrice a month, I drop in a blob of butter in pavbahji while cooking it (my hubby don't like to have butter, but he wants a restaurant like taste too….duh !), I can't resist anything deep fried, I love rice more than wheat, I go weak in my knees at the sight of samosas, I love to eat in restaurants, skip my breakfasts….so what else is remaining to list me in unhealthy eaters…..huh.?? Well these pathetic food habits had led me to loads of health troubles and I am seriously thinking of switching to ONLY HEALTHY DIET….but that's what I do…just think…never act!
But before you all sign me off as a hopeless case, let me count on some good things too, like I have just one cup of tea everyday, no hard drinks or soft drinks, no pastries, cookies, cakes, no sweets and yes I love all the vegetables right from turnip to pumpkin, from bitter gourd to broccoli. I make it a point to have at least one kind of pulses everyday and I eat rice once in two days. So that puts me back in your good books …hopefully ! But still, now when I finally decided that enough is enough, I know I will need tons of moral support and some strict watchful eyes over me to get rid of all the extra pounds that I carry with myself (my weight).
That's where Mansi of Fun and Food came to my rescue ,when she announced Healthy cooking event.
Then there is Sangeeth of letusallcook who boosted me further with her EAT HEALTHY….Protein rich food event
And ofcourse Pooja of Creativepooja who is hosting VOW-Bottlegourd event, all together forced me to come up with a healthy meal, which need not be bland,which is easy to make and yet gave me a satisfying feeling of eating healthy.
Thank you ladies for prompting me to assemble this meal..I enjoyed making it and eating it too… The meal here, consists of rice, dal, roti, salad, kadhoo ki subzi (bottlegourd),Gulabjamuns (sweet dish) and sindhi papad ….I guess its healthy enough,,what say ladies???
Dal chawal recipe is already posted here
Rotis are simple flat breads made from wheat flour.
Salad consists of chopped cabbage,carrots and boiled and chopped beetroot.
Gulabjamun ….hmmm…the recipe will be shared here soon, I promise (since this goes for Healthy cooking..lets not go into details of this fried -Khoya- in- syrup dessert)
The remaining veggie is Kadhoo, or bottlegourd(lauki)
So lets get into it's details… Kadhoo (lauki) helps in maintaining blood pressure and cholestrol, helps controlling diabetes, reduces fats so is useful in weight loss.It is a rich source of vitamins and minerals, it enhance growth of WBC and increases immunity.It has high amount of fibre, which is really necessary for healthy stomach.So just grab this humble veggie, you will surely be benefited from that (source..alibaba.com) While surfing the net about healthy stuff, I also came across Doctor NDTV
Here is some important nutrition data ,which gives a rough idea, about the calories, protein, carbs and fats in about 100 gm of each ingredient used in this meal
|Energy in kcal
|Protien (g)
|Wheat flour
The recipe is as follows
Thoom tamate mein kadhoo (bottle gourd in garlic tomato base):(this pic is for you pooja for VOW bottlegourd event)
- Bottle gourd 1 medium sized
- Ginger about an inch
- Garlic 5-6 cloves
- Salt
- Tomato 1
- Green chilly(es) 1-2
- Turmeric powder ¼ tsp
- Coriander powder ½ tsp
- Oil 1tspn
- Coriander leaves for garnishing
- Wash and peel bottle gourd.Cut it into thick slices or chunks.
- Add some salt and shallow fry these in little oil till light brown.
- Remove from pan and keep aside.
- Now take minimum possible oil in same pan and add crushed/pounded ginger -garlic.
- Saute it, till light brown and then add chopped tomato.
- Add salt (little, as there is already some salt in bottle gourd), chopped green chillies, turmeric powder, coriander powder and mix it properly
- Add fried bottle gourd and cook on medium flame for about 2 min.
- If needed add a tsp of water and let the flavors mix properly.
- Garnish with coriander leaves and enjoy this healthy, quick fix veggie
Dear Medha tagged me for meme: Here are some facts about me 🙂
What are five things on my to-do list for today (non-work related)? Just the usual ones….Ironing, helping my son with his homework, grocery shopping ,cooking and then just off to ZZZZZZZZZ (yes sleeping is also a work for me…a rather important one …lol)
What are five snacks I enjoy?
Mirchi pakora
Bread potato rolls
Vegetable sandwich (at last something healthy)
What things would I do if I were a billionaire? Well I wish to do loads of things…but the most close to my heart wish is opening a school for kids, where kids will learn important skills and gain real knowledge, not just bookish stuff..that too with lots of fun, no stress, no heavy bags, no unnecessary homework.Just lots of field work and practical knowledge.
Places I've lived:
Just Mumbai
Jobs I've had: Well I had never moved out of my comfort zone (read ..home) to work for earning money…I opted marrying a dependable guy for that 😉
So if managing a home (no matter how messy it is) and looking after kid is not a work..then guys …I am unemployed 🙁
And I wish to tag pooja,sia,Sri and shilpa for this meme
That's all folks,thanks for bearing me all this long !


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Smart tools make life safer and easier for those with celiac disease, gluten sensitivity and food allergies.ýDining OutýHome CookingýTracking HealthýFinding SupportýSocial Media
One Saturday night several years ago, Paul Antico was on a mission to find an allergy-friendly restaurant to take his two sons out for dinner. The trio had started at one of the family's go-to restaurants that served egg-free pasta but a packed weekend crowd meant more than an hour wait. So Antico decided they'd just go someplace else.
He quickly discovered it wasn't such an easy task. Antico and his sons spent hours driving around town, stopping at various eateries. They left every restaurant because Antico wasn't comfortable with their approach to allergies, nor was he quite sure how to ensure that his food-allergic boys could have a safe meal.
"The whole time I was driving, I said to myself, 'I wish there was a guide,'" Antico said.
So a couple of years later, he created one called AllergyEats, based in Scituate, Massachusetts. Launched in February 2010, the online directory allows people to rate their experiences related to celiac disease and food allergies at restaurants across the United States. The site includes restaurants' gluten-free and allergy-friendly menus, allergen lists and links to nutritional information and websites. The AllergyEats app debuted in August 2011 and won the About.com 2012 Readers' Choice Award for best food-allergy app.
Now when Antico takes 15-year-old Tucker (allergic to peanuts and tree nuts) and 10-year-old Keegan (allergic to peanuts, tree nuts, dairy, eggs and sesame) out to eat, along with his other three children, whether on a road trip or close to home, he checks the AllergyEats app on his smartphone to find safe options for his family.
Many people are now turning to apps to help navigate life with celiac disease, food allergies and asthma. There are apps to help people cook, track groceries, view pollen levels, record asthma health, find support and more. Smartphones are being used to gather information and support at any time and any place. People are also joining social media sites, such as Facebook and Twitter, to find brands, groups and information to enhance their lives.
"My smartphone is one of the best tools I have for managing my son's allergies," says Brooke Adams of Orlando, Florida. She stores medical information in her phone's notepad section about her 5-year-old son Drake, who is allergic to peanuts, dairy and beef. By touching her keypad, she can call up the medication her son takes, the tests he's undergone, descriptions of reactions and important phone numbers. She can quickly refer to the information during doctor visits and even e-mail it to a physician. And if unexpected food shows up in the classroom, her son's teacher can text her with a picture of the label to see whether it's safe.
Every time her family goes to a restaurant, Adams consults her dining apps, including AllergyEats and iCanEat OnTheGo Gluten & Allergy Free, to get an idea about which restaurants might be allergy friendly. When she arrives at an eatery, she has a starting point to talk to the management about specific menu items and restaurant practices for keeping her son safe. If she's in line at a restaurant and finds out the eatery is out of her son's favorite dish, she scans an app to find a different safe option. Apps give her family more choices when eating out, she says, along with making it easier to quickly find a place everyone can eat when going out with friends or family.
"I like having something I can check quickly and easily when we're on the go," she says.
Apps have broadened dining horizons for Elyse Hahne, 24, of Colleyville, Texas. Allergic to soy, wheat, gluten, tree nuts, peanuts, fish, shellfish and modified starches, she consults AllergyEats to find new restaurants near her home and when she's traveling. She then returns to the app to rate the establishments she's visited.
"Before the app, I wouldn't have tried a new restaurant," says Hahne, a teacher and blogger. "It's opened up options for me."
For those looking for help preparing their own meals, there are apps for that. People can use their smartphones to scan product barcodes and maintain lists at the grocery store or to find recipes and ingredient substitutions when it's time to cook.
When shopping for ingredients and convenience foods, Adams and her husband, Brandon, use the Grocery iQ app to keep track of safe brands they've purchased. When Brooke Adams finds a brand of cookies that she can safely feed her son, she scans it into her phone and puts the product into her list of favorites on the app. She and her husband sync their lists so that he can quickly find that specific brand the next time he's at the store, without wasting time searching the cookie aisle to jog his memory.
Brandon Adams is always looking for a way to whip up something other than plain chicken breasts for dinner. He often consults Cook IT Allergy Free, an app that provides customized recipes based on his son's allergies. The app substitutes the allergen in each recipe with a safe option and calculates the right amount of the replacement ingredient that's needed. If the recipe is a success, Brandon Adams saves the customized recipe to his recipe box in the app for future use.
"We're always looking for something different," Brooke Adams says. "Give us something that tastes good!"
Kim Maes of Scottsdale, Arizona, created Cook It Allergy Free website in February 2010 and launched the app a few months later to help people like the Adams. Over 17,000 people use the app today.
"I wanted to share the knowledge I'd gained through my studies and out of my own family experiences and give others the confidence to know that they can still eat amazingly well—even after being diagnosed with celiac disease or food allergies," says Maes, a certified nutrition and wellness consultant and allergy-free food coach. More than six years ago, after experiencing numerous health issues, Maes' son Connor was diagnosed with celiac disease. Connor, now 8, also is allergic to dairy. Her husband, who'd been plagued with stomach complaints throughout his life, discovered he had celiac disease after his son's diagnosis.
Maes serves her family whole, unprocessed, organic and local foods whenever possible. The recipes she includes in her app and blog are based on her clean food philosophy.
"I show people that a recipe doesn't have to be off limits, that it's possible to customize a recipe to work with their food allergies," Maes says.
Simplicity is the common thread among successful apps. When Antico developed the AllergyEats website and app, he created a system that asks just three questions about the 600,000 restaurants being reviewed, using an easy star rating.
"I want to make it as simple as possible," he says.
In a survey conducted in April 2011 about the use of health apps, the Consumer Health Information Corporation discovered that the key reason most people (over 90 percent of participants) find apps favorable is ease of navigation. The survey also found that 80 percent are more likely to use an app that can analyze information and provide feedback.
Sam Pejham, MD, FAAP, sees a lot of asthma patients in his medical practice. As assistant clinical professor at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Medical School and chief of the department of pediatrics at ValleyCare Medical Center in Pleasanton, California, Pejham was looking for a simple way to use technology to help asthmatics track their symptoms and peak flow measurements. He wanted better information with which to make decisions about their care. So he created the AsthmaMD app, a user-friendly, interactive tool that uses smartphone technology.
"People tend to carry their phone with them all of the time. That makes it an especially useful tool for managing a chronic condition that has symptoms that can appear anytime, anywhere," he says.
AsthmaMD furthers asthma research by gathering data from more than 65,000 users. The information about locations, ages, symptoms and asthma activity is collected anonymously and analyzed by researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, to discover how asthma rates correlate with certain factors, such as location and pollution. A goal is to create a system that provides early warnings by text message to asthma patients about certain triggers, Pejham says.
AsthmaMD also helps patients manage their disease. Users can log asthma activity, as well as input triggers, medications and notes about their symptoms. The app crunches the information and creates an easy-to-understand graphic representation.
"It just takes a second or two for a doctor to look at the picture to know how a patient is doing," Pejham says.
That feature has helped Hahne, who uses AsthmaMD to track her inhaler use and asthma symptoms. With a quick look at her phone, she can gauge whether she's having a good or bad week with her asthma. She brings that information to her doctor so they can discuss those times when her asthma flared.
Pejham has seen a difference in the quality of visits with his patients who track their asthma via the app.
"When they come in, it's as if I've been tracking them for months because they have all this beautiful data for me," he says. "A single visit becomes so much more powerful."
Sakina Bajowala, MD, an allergist/immunologist in the Chicago area, uses technology to help her patients. When she first gives a diagnosis to a patient, she explains the treatment plan, what to avoid, the necessary action plans for food allergy or asthma and then refers them to websites where they can find support. She asks her patients to return about two weeks after diagnosis for an educational visit to provide further guidance. That's when she brings out her smartphone or tablet to show apps that might work for them. AsthmaMD, Asthma Tracker, Pollen.com's Allergy Alert and AllergyEats are among those she recommends.
"I try to give patients as many helpful tools as possible," Bajowala says. "Apps are especially beneficial in helping teens comply with their treatment plans."
One tool that patients, especially those newly diagnosed, often need is support. Ever since she was diagnosed with food allergies in August 2007, Hahne has turned to the Kids with Food Allergies (KFA) website. She's consulted the KFA app every day since it launched in March 2012. The app provides access to support forums, photo galleries and blogs. Hahne can hold onto her smartphone while gaining encouragement from one of KFA's forums, a place where she feels that people "get it."
"Something about receiving on-the-spot support is extremely helpful," she says.
Many of KFA's 24,000 members take advantage of the online support organization's mobile accessibility. Just two months after launching the app, mobile access to KFA's website increased from 19 to 25 percent, says KFA president and CEO Lynda Mitchell.
KFA developed the app to complement its website after noticing more people were using mobile devices to try to access the site. Many members who use the new app are busy moms with smartphones. The app is also aimed at those who might not have Internet at home but have mobile devices, Mitchell says.
"This is a way to expand our reach," she says. "The whole idea of going mobile is to connect people wherever they are with whatever they're trying to do."
Hahne wishes there had been apps when she was initially diagnosed. She had asthma and environmental allergies throughout her childhood and started developing hives and rashes when she was about 15. The constant itching made her miserable, she recalls. At 17, just as she was about to embark on college life, she was tested and diagnosed with multiple food allergies.
Since 2009 when she got a smartphone, apps have helped Hahne safely avoid allergens. They've also helped her family and friends grasp the seriousness of her condition. Indeed, it was difficult for some people in her life to understand that, after years of eating an unrestricted diet, certain foods could now prompt anaphylaxis. (Some family members got wise, she says, after they witnessed her suffer a severe reaction from eating rice that had been unwittingly contaminated with fish.)
Hahne uses the MyEpiPen app to show people how to use an EpiPen, in addition to storing her current allergy information on the app. She also uses Pollen.com's Allergy Alert, which provides indexes for allergy, cold and cough, ultraviolet sensitivity and asthma, about five times a week to determine whether symptoms she's experiencing are related to her environmental allergies. When people don't understand what she's going through, she's happy to be linked to groups like KFA.
"They don't second-guess me," Hahne says. "They understand the impact of a reaction—the worry, fear and anxiety it causes."
That understanding is why many people with celiac disease, food allergies or asthma log onto social media sites, such as Facebook and Twitter.
"There are a lot of people out there struggling," Mitchell says. "It's really powerful to be connected with others and know that you're not alone."
Gina Clowes, founder of AllergyMoms.com, enjoys connecting with other moms on Facebook and Twitter. The food-allergy advocate and coach says she loves the interactivity.
"Parents and patients benefit from these conversations because we're in touch with a community of others who live in our allergy world," she says. "Allergy families often face ignorance, disbelief, even outright hostility. So it can be a great comfort to know that you aren't the only one encountering this."
Bajowala uses Facebook and Twitter to dispense evidence-based medical information. In 2009, she created her blog, "Allergist Mommy." Writing as both an allergist and the mother of children with allergies and asthma, she blogs about her own experiences with her children's allergies and her own allergy to blueberries, as well as discussing medical news that might not yet be mainstream, such as Chinese herbal medicine. Posting her blog on Facebook and interacting with people on Twitter allows her to reach more people, she says.
"I view my role as a medical specialist to be predominantly that of an educator," Bajowala says. "The Internet allows me to disperse accurate information as widely as possible."
She cautions that online interactions aren't meant to replace face-to-face meetings with doctors.
"Technology isn't going to supplant your relationship with your physician," she says, adding that information gained through reliable Internet sources can promote open communication with primary care physicians and specialists.
Hahne, who consults Facebook and Twitter each day along with the other allergy and asthma apps she uses, says she takes some information on social media sites with a grain of salt. But the product postings are helpful, she says, because they alert her to new allergy-friendly products and she can often determine if companies have changed ingredients. Hahne also follows certain allergists on Twitter to see what they recommend for patients with conditions similar to hers.
Over the past couple of years, the number of board-certified allergists interacting with patients through social media websites, blogs and support groups has increased. Over 100 allergists were on Twitter during the 2012 American Academy of Allergy Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI) meeting, with 30 simultaneously posting thousands of tweets tagged #AAAAI, according to an "Allergy Notes" blog post by Ves Dimov, M.D., an allergist/immunologist and assistant professor of medicine and pediatrics at the University of Chicago. These tweets meant that information presented to the 5,000 medical professionals at the meeting was dispersed to 250,000 people via Twitter, according to tweetreach.com.
Social media has helped Paul Antico better understand the food allergy and celiac communities. Recently, he learned that several people had been "glutened" at restaurants with gluten-free menus. Looking into it, he found that some of these eateries hadn't properly trained their staff, yet they were advertising as gluten free.
Antico would like to see restaurants post certificates that show they've been officially trained to safely serve people with food allergies, celiac disease and other special diets. On AllergyEats, he includes a logo for restaurants trained by Kitchens with Confidence, an organization that offers the program AllerTrain to teach food service organizations how to safely serve diners with special diets.
"All this helps me figure out how to better serve the community," says Antico, who sits on the boards of the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America and the AAFA New England chapter.
As millions of people navigate life with celiac disease, food allergies and asthma, they're turning in increasing numbers to apps and social media for help. Fortunately, this growing demand is being met with quick, easy-to-use ways to locate recipes and restaurants, track medical conditions and find an understanding shoulder to lean on. It all makes life easier for those on special diets.
"Keeping kids safe who have food allergies is already a full-time challenge," says Brooke Adams. "Anything that helps with that task is a great thing."


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Facebook recently went over a billion users served. In an interview with Businessweek, Mark Zuckerberg mentioned a conversation he had with Facebook board member Marc Andreessen, where Andreessen mentioned the likely only other companies with a billion users are Coca Cola and McDonald's. What does it feel like to have a billion users?
It feels like an honor. We get the honor of building things that a billion people use. I mean, there's no core need. It isn't a core human need to use Facebook. It's a core human need to stay connected with the people you care about. The need to open up and connect is such a deep part of what makes us human. Being in a position where we are the company—or one of the companies—that can play a role in delivering that service is just this … it's an honor.
The interviewers also asked about how Facebook gets its next billion users and, while Zuckerberg demurred somewhat, Quartz had a look at the version of FB designed for countries without wide smartphone adoption. It runs on WAP and is called Facebook Zero (just like Coke Zero, OMG). Users of the text-only FB are not charged for the data used, and the article posits FB is making the gateway drug argument to the telecoms:
This is because, for the telecoms networks, free Facebook represents a solution to an ever-present existential threat. Their first subscribers were relatively rich; the ones they are gaining now are ever poorer. So the revenue per user is shrinking. At the same time, the amount of data being pushed through their networks is increasing, and customers are demanding faster connection speeds, pushing up the cost of infrastructure. The networks are looking for ways to get more users, and make more money from each one of them.
"The fact is that Facebook has made a compelling argument to operators, which is 'You should give Facebook away [to consumers] for free,'" says Eagle. "I don't know how Facebook is making that case, but if I were Facebook, the argument I'd make is that Facebook is one of the most addictive things on the internet. If you have someone try out Facebook for the first time, it might lead them to want to try the rest of the web, and a lot of these other services they can charge for."
This doesn't necessarily jive with something Zuckerberg said in the Businessweek interview, and has said numerous times in the past. Facebook doesn't want to be the gateway drug to the internet, it wants to be the internet.
The whole vision around News Feed was it should be like a newspaper and shouldn't just be a list of posts your friends are making. I mean we should be able to really show you interesting trends and things that are happening. There are already trillions of connections between friend requests and all the content that's being pushed into the system. At some point, that will start to be a better map of how you navigate the Web than the traditional link structure of the Web. I think there's an opportunity to really build something interesting there.


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We all like saving money, but it's important to have a bank.
And what could be more tasteful than one that allows you to stick it in a rectum, then farts when you do?
Makes a great gift for your proctologist!
A Blog detailing the insanity of my medical practice and the stupidity of everyday life.
and a great gift for 10y.o. boys too i reckon
My boys (14, 9, and 8) would love it. But I'm thinking my husband, who never really grew up, would find it the most amusing!
Shouldn't the quarters be coming OUT of the bank rather than into it?
Too bad it's not five dollars less, It would be a PERFECT gift for a certain group exchange, but they have a $10 limit.
On my side of the pond a "fanny bank" has a totally different connotation. :-)
That puts the 'ass' in crass.
I was wondering what to get my nephew.
Wadda you think? I think millions of Chinese factory workers have a distorted view of Americans.
No kids in the house, but if it weren't so close to Christmas, I'd order one for my husband.
To "Anon" at 10:45 - Considering 4 of the first 6 comments indicated potential purchases, I think Chinese factory workers have a pretty accurate view of Americans! LOL!
I don't understand...my family is always expecting me to pull money from out of there...
I thought we were supposed to be encouraging saving?
That's wrong on so many levels
Hmm, a Fanny Bank would look somewhat different over here in the UK.
What a wonderful metaphor for the American banking industry.
This item will certainly crack people up during gift exchange...
What a gas!
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Date: Sat Dec 4, 1999 8:38 pm
Subject: Flushmounting loudspeakers
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Now a new class of governors from both parties is promising to revisit union contracts in order to put their states on firmer fiscal ground. In Wisconsin, Scott Walker, an aggressive new Republican governor, just proposed legislation that would limit the rights of public workers to collectively bargain. "You can't have one group who are the haves," Walker told me recently, meaning government workers, "and one group, the private-sector workers, who are the have-nots." Walker's move led to protests in Madison, drawing President Obama into the debate and raising the prospect of French-style labor uprisings among public workers across America.
In part, the viral movement against public-sector unions is a result of political necessity. In states all over the country, balancing the budget has become an annual exercise in Copperfield-like illusion...I don't see Christie backing away from Walker.
(And as for Matt Bai's "drawing President Obama into the debate" — I think Obama is keeping his distance!)


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An Idea Worth Trying
This past Tuesday, the IZOD IndyCar Series unveiled their procedures regarding the three double-header weekends in the upcoming 2013 schedule. On Wednesday, a change in the points system was announced, but for our discussion purposes in this post – we'll focus on the double headers. The point structure is a whole other discussion for another day.
As far as the double-headers go, there was as much celebration as there was hand-wringing on Twitter after the announcement. Some may be surprised to find me in the middle.
The three double-header weekends are at Belle Isle, Toronto and the new event in Houston. Since there are two separate races each of those weekends, there will be two qualifying sessions. For the race scheduled on Saturday, there will be a qualifying session on Friday. Then, before the Saturday race takes place, there will be a Saturday morning qualifying session for the second race scheduled for Sunday.
The Friday session will follow the familiar Firestone Fast Six format. However, the first round will be trimmed from fifteen minutes to ten. The biggest difference will be that the teams will be able to use as many tires from their weekend allotment as they want during qualifying. This is designed to minimize the chance of cars sitting in the pits for the first eight minutes of a ten-minute session, and encourage teams to utilize all the time in the session. The Saturday session will be a thirty-minute session involving all cars.
For the Toronto and Houston races, standing starts will be implemented for the first time ever in IndyCar competition for the Saturday races, while traditional flying (rolling) starts will be the rule in the Sunday events. Flying starts will be used at Belle Isle for both events, simply because the track layout is not conducive to standing starts. The series is also considering adding standing starts to a couple of other road/street course events.
Most know how much I detest change. I live by the simple rule that change is bad! Obviously, instituting standing starts into the series is a drastic change. But do I hate it? Not particularly. Am I ecstatic about it? Not really. I'm really very curious about the whole concept and that's about it.
Most drivers have encountered standing starts at some point in their career throughout the various ladder series, but it's been a while for the majority of them. Champ Car instituted some standing starts in their last year of existence during the 2007 season. Many Champ Car drivers expressed great levels of apprehension at the mere thought of standing starts. For the record, the first time standing starts were used was in Portland on June 10, 2007 and it came off without incident.
The Champ Car advocates and Formula One fans are all in favor of seeing standing starts take place in IndyCar. The old guard IRL devotees are shaking their collective heads. To them, this is just another step away from the "vision" of the mid-nineties that had an all-oval series catering to American drivers and mechanics that worked on their own engines.
For the most part, I'm ambivalent about the whole thing. I'm always opposed to changing something just for the sake of change. If there's a reason for it, I can get on board. The iPhone 5? That's change for the good. Windows Vista? Not so much. When it comes to standing starts on road/street courses, I could get on board with that if it actually improves the overall product.
If you've seen starts at Sonoma or Long Beach, you know that on flying starts, the first few rows are long gone before two-thirds of the field has even gone through the final turn before the line. If a normally fast car has had a bad qualifying run, they are likely to stay mired in the back on many road/street courses that offer few passing opportunities. With a standing start, a good driver stuck close to the back, can make a bold move on the start and be near the front before the first turn. Personally – from what we've seen from him on flying starts, I can't wait to see what magic Tony Kanaan can work from a standing start.
Our friend Pressdog mentioned on Twitter that standing starts could be "a festival of carbon fiber". Translated, that means a crash fest. But he later went on to explain that so long as drivers were uninjured, that is not always a bad thing. I agree. The series needs new fans. Unfortunately, you need to attract new fans anyway you can. If that means spectacular crashes that end up on SportsCenter – that can't hurt when trying to get new fans to tune into next week's race.
Anyone who knows me knows that I don't advocate crashes. I am always insulted when I hear people say that the only reason anyone watches racing is to watch the crashes. Statements like that come from mindless idiots that know nothing about this sport and have probably never watched a complete race from start to finish. They only see what is shown on SportsCenter and base their judgments on a ninety-second highlight reel.
But the element of suspense from a standing start has its value. The standing start to a Formula One race offers drama that is hard to match. The sound of the engines revving together in unison and then unleashed at the exact same instant in close proximity to all other cars is hard to beat. It takes a healthy combination of skill and luck to make it through the first turn unscathed. That's a wild-car variable that IndyCar is currently lacking. If Will Power or Dario Franchitti are starting from the front at Mid-Ohio with a flying start – chances are that they will be there when the checkered flag waves. The standing start makes things much more unpredictable – especially with the problematic hand clutch of the DW12.
Detractors are saying that this is a gimmick that the IZOD IndyCar Series doesn't need. If they were racing before sellout crowds and skyrocketing television numbers, I would agree. But that's not the case. The series needs help – lots of help. This is an idea that is worth trying. If it is a dismal failure, it should be tossed. But how will they know if they don't try it? Trying it at just a few events is a good way to evaluate it. Who knows? It may be a hit.
George Phillips
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I was under the impression there would be a standing start at Detroit on Saturday. Now none? I was on the fence about going that Saturday already because I am going to a race the weekend before, but this probably clinches it. No Detroit this year. Law School in Lansing is over before the summer 2014 so I doubt I ever make it back. Will still keep going to Mid-Ohio though with or without standing starts. Hopefully they add them in '14.
You're open to change? It's like you're 45 again, George.
With the double header weekend and standing starts, I think Houston could be worth the trip! I won't be able to pull it off this year, but next year I might. Count me in on this new format! What an exciting weekend.
I'm still waiting for the mid-course loop-d-loop…
I'll be watching the races with great interest regardless of how they start, but I think it would be best for Indycar to continue using only rolling starts. Part of this opinion is rooted in my personal preference for rolling over standing starts, I think they are much more interesting to watch. Part is based on my fear that standing starts are yet another thing that will exacerbate the confusion between Indycar and Formula 1 for casual fans.
Having one standing and one rolling start at doubleheaders is a nice compromise. Moving the starting line to a longer section of the track (like CART did at the first Houston street course), is something Indycar should consider to improve rolling starts at tracks where they have been problematic.
Well I am definitely old guard, old school, and just plain old (one of those 73 yo that Pressdog made fun of this week.) Having said that I am looking forward to the standing starts. I have seen them at Elkhart Lake and they were exciting to watch. Crashes were minimal. The old Le Mans style standing starts when the drivers would have to run to their cars was also exciting, but dangerous for slow runners as you might imagine.
In your second last paragraph I think you pretty well summed up the attraction for fans. I think BB King did this in response to fan requests and to simply try something new. No more complicated than that. Those strung out rolling starts on street courses are BORING!
I don't like change either, but I'm slowly warming up to the idea of doubleheader weekends. I do like the idea of different procedures for qualifying and starts on different days. I just think they should have taken the extra step and added 20 laps to Sundays race. That would have made for completely different races. I'll be curious to see the TV ratings for Houston and Toronto. I think Belle Isle, just like every other TV broadcast from there, will be a borefest. It may be an exciting race in person, but on TV the cars just look slow. Plus I don't think people have come to grips with what the disaster at Detroit did to TV ratings for the rest of the season last year. People watched the 500 and were excited by speed, the drama and thought this is something they could follow. Then they tuned next week and saw……., well what did they see, probably nothing. They didn't tune in to the subsequent three different channels to watch and they probably didn't tune in to watch the rest of the year. I would much rather have seen Baltimore get a Saturday race. But what Roger wants, Roger gets.
As I type this, 57 days, 19 hours until St Pete. I'm ready for the season to start.
Amateur hour is what standing starts mean to me! I know F1 uses them ,but this is american open wheel racing.Oh i will still watch but more of a slide into euro style racing!!
I don't understand what has taken IndyCar so long to bring standing starts to their road/street races. A standing start is what the whole world (and every F1 fan in America) is familiar with. It's also easier for Race Control to govern. How many times has a rolling start been waved off because someone jumped it? If someone goes early on a standing start, they get a drive-thru penalty. It's also easier to establish an exact time of day for a standing start. One reconnaissance (or parade) lap, get everyone grided, and start the light sequence. And NBC's Leigh Diffey already knows how to build up the excitement of a standing start!


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About 124 hot rods, muscle cars, classics and modern sports cars filled Centennial Park on Saturday, but only one likely was built from a variety of vehicle parts, made from bottom up, without a specific plan or pattern.
Florence resident Bob Evans showed off his Falcon CycleKart during the 33rd annual Cañon Car Club Car Show. He built the CycleKart, which is styled as a 1930's race car, based on a photo he saw on the Internet. After seeing the photo, he thought it would be fun to build one of his own.
Evans, a retired auto mechanic, spent about two months building the vehicle, completing it in mid-March.
"They were real popular in Europe during the war in the '30s and '40s because they were easy to drive, they didn't have to pay a lot of taxes on them and gas was hard to come by," he said. "They are making a resurgence. They are real popular on the West Coast right now."
Evans said it cost about $700 to build his CycleKart.
"The windshield was probably the most expensive part because that came from England," he said. "It's a regular Brooklyn English windshield. It cost about $80."
The windshield is a 30's style, vintage motor racing item, and the hood ornament on the vehicle is a falcon, which was donated by a trophy shop in Florence.
The front of the CycleKart is from the top of a tractor, the front springs are those used for buckboard seats and the back is cloth covered, similar to that of a biplane.
"All of the old airplanes used to be cloth covered," Evans said. "I have a 1918 airplane book, and it had the instructions for how to stretch the linen and how to paint it."
The interior seat is made from salvaged distressed leather and the 11-horse power motor is housed in the back of the vehicle which runs on gas. The CycleKart can run up to about 50 miles per hour, Evans said, noting that he drove it to a car show in Florence not far from his home. The frames are homemade, but the wheels are off of a Honda motorcycle.
Weighing in at about 500 pounds, the CycleKart is easily transported in the back of a pickup truck.
Evans and his wife, Gerre, also have a 1932 Chevrolet Roadster that they bring to car shows, but Saturday's show was the first Cañon City event Evans brought the CycleKart to. He said he has a second CycleKart almost completed, styled as a 1920's car, and he and his wife are considering building a third one. For more information on CycleKarts, visit http://cyclekarts.com.
Car Show Results:
Long Distance: Ron and Jeannie Balfour of Bloomfield, N.M.
Top 5: Jim and Georgia Peterson, 1950 Buick; Ron and Jeannie Balfour, 1929 Ford Sd.; Sid Craddock, 1929 Ford Roadster; Joe and Tina Siggins, 2013 Chevy Corvette GS; and Frank Guccione, 1965 Pontiac GTO.
Kids' Choice: Brian and Judy Braden,1932 Ford 5 window Cp.
Ladies' Choice: Thomas and Pam Logan, 1967 Chevy Camero
Rodders' Choice: Kevin and Jodee Zerby, 1955 Ford Victona


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Older stanced cars are my favourite. Whats better than showing an older chassis some love. No need to scrap them. They may not have the same part support as newer cars but they make up for it in character. Jess Kang's EF is one such example. The parts list isn't extensive. The final product that she was able to create, is certainly noteworthy. People say you can stance any old car and get internet points. Not true, your mods still have to come together in one cohesive body. If you have to mangle your fenders just to fit those RSs you bought. THAT isn't cool. If you leave the small nicks and dents your 20+ year old car have inevitably accumulated, that's just personality.
While Jess is an accomplished photographer she asked Jon Schusteritsch and Ivy League East's Brian Arthus to take over the camera duties. I've found a lot of photographers are hesitant to shoot their own cars.
White on white with black trim and retro grey interior. The woodgrain wheel brings it all together. Be it NRG, Momo or Nardi they as ways look good in a retro ride.
Your name, Your car:
Jess Kang, 1991 Honda Civic DX (EF sedan)
What do you do?
I am a Sales Lead Supervisor at White House Black Market and photographer for Canibeat
What do you love more, your boyfriend or your car?
Well right now, I'm single haha, but there's nothing I could love more than my car 🙂
When did you buy your car, and when did you start modding it?
I bought the car in May 2012. I had just moved out of home with nothing but my bags. I scrounged up the money I had and bought the car with 134k miles on it. It was stock for a week and lowered on it's stock wheels right after. A few weeks later, I received my first set of wheels and threw them on immediately.
What mods are currently on the car?
The car is basically stock besides a custom suspension. People ask me what suspension I'm on and I can't really answer them other than "custom." The suspension is a hybrid combination CRX and Accord coilovers. With the car being as low as it is, it still travels very well. My rear suspension is maxed out but the front can go lower. I also have a NRG woodgrain steering wheel that I absolutely love. My wheels are custom widened steelies.
I also have a mk3 lip on my front bumper. The front and rear bumper sits much, much higher than the actual frame of the car so the lip levels out the undercarriage. I had my motor raised but my motor mounts have been shot for a while so I'm really taking a risk everytime I drive the car haha.
Is there an older car that doesn't look better with a mk3 lip? Same goes for the wink mirror.
Do you cringe or smile when you drag frame on an obstacle?
At this point, I don't think I make any facial expressions haha. It's such a normal occurrence that I'm used to it by now. When it doesn't scrape when it should is when I start to get worried
If you didn't own your current car, what would you be driving? Would it be modded?
If I didn't own this EF, I'd probably be driving a 3rd Gen Accord Sedan with the flip-up headlights haha, and it would probably be lower. People ask me why I never considered an Euro car, and believe me I have, but I figure realistically, old school Japanese cars are better for me, and they go lower.
How long are you holding on to it?
EF sedans are pretty hard to find in good condition. I have a line of people that are waiting for me to sell this car, and maybe one day I will, but not anytime soon.
Whats next?
For the spring, I plan on coming out a little lower by switching from 175/50 tires to 165/50 tires. I also will be ordering top hats for the rear so I can drop the rear a bit more. Other than that, there's not much that I plan for the car other than normal maintenance. I want to keep it a simple and clean daily.
Shout outs.
Id' like to thank a few people for helping me with the car. I wont mention their names because of unfortunate events that lead us to drift our own ways, but I will always be thankful.
Thanks Jess, for allowing us to post you car!!


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* Changing perspectives want students to hone their skills in more than one stream of learning: Chancellor Ashok Mittal
*Engineering students can choose 'Major' for one specialization, and Minor from other offered disciplines
*Specializations in engineering are: ME, CE, Nano-Technology, Bio-Technology, CSE, IT, ECE, EEE.
Jalandhar: The demand for Multi-disciplinary studies, during a single study-programme, has been continuously increasing on the preference of Industry Employment, worldwide. Such a study provides strong foundation in allied topics of interest through coursework from multiple disciplines and participation in other skills & culture. Pacing along with the global trends and traditions for the increased employability of its students; Lovely Professional University has started with US based Major and Minor system, so as to diversify students' learning across multiple specialties.
Under this new system, LPU students can choose a specialization in ECE, CSE and Management, in addition to the core area of their study. Presently, LPU offers eight specializations in engineering- ME, CE, Nano-Technology, Bio-Technology, CSE, IT, ECE, EEE. To specialize, a student can go for two specializations- one Major and another Minor. For this, an Electronics and Communication Engineering student can take ECE as Major and, say, Computer Science as Minor. Similarly, Mechanical Engineering student can choose ME as core subject and, additionally Management or IT as Minor. This Concept of Minor, available for Engineering, will be applicable to all branches of Engineering. The minors available are 'CSE, Management and ECE'.
In this context, Mr. Ashok Mittal, Chancellor LPU stated: "This adoption of Major and Minor specializations is very common in US. During our recent visit to Harvard University and other US Universities, we observed that students benefit a lot with such system. Our Vice-Chancellor, Dr. Ramesh Kanwar, who himself has spent 35 years in US, is pushing hard on these lines to enable students to take two subjects during the same duration and fee structure. This all is because present day recruiters want professionals equipped with multiple skills. As such, keeping in view the changing perspectives, it will be extremely beneficial for the students to hone their skills in more than one stream of learning."
He added: "This system will be optional on the part of the student, and the students will start pursuing their studies for Minor from 3rd semester onwards. The students will not be charged any additional fees for choosing these additional subjects, to their core discipline of study. Under this newly designed concept interested students will have to study six additional courses. This idea has been a big hit with the students, who want to sharpen their understanding of diverse domains of engineering and management, and widen their sphere of acceptability among recruiters of various fields."