Friday, March 30, 2012

WWE Superstars encourage students to "be a STAR" at Hialeah Middle School in Miami

WWE's be a STAR rally at Hialeah Middle School in Miami, 3/29/12

WWE's "be a STAR" campaign made a pit stop on the Road to WrestleMania XXVIII Thursday, dropping by the Hialeah Middle School in Miami, where several WWE Superstars and celebrities helped to spread the word of tolerance and respect. (PHOTOS)

David Otunga, Rey Mysterio and Alicia Fox were among the Superstars representing the charitable cause. They were joined in the endeavor by Miami Sports Commissioner Jose "Pepe" Diaz, James Durbin of?American Idol fame, as well as the Miami Dolphins mascot, T.D and former Dolphins player Twan Russell. Otunga, Mytsterio and Alicia were the first to address the multitude of students assembled for the rally, each delivering the be a STAR rallying cry and preaching the values of tolerance.

?If you are being bullied, you are not alone," Otunga told the students in attendance. "Three out of every four students are bullied. Look around ... that means most of you have experienced some form of bullying.? Otunga next recounted his own experiences with bullies as a child, and reassured the students that perseverence was key in the face of adversity.

"I'm standing in front of you today because I didn?t let bullies win," he said. "As hard as it is, you can get through it."?

Mysterio, a fan-favorite and former three-time World Champion, also preached the value of fostering a positive environment in school, and advised the students to turn to a teacher, parent or guidance counselor should they find themselves the target of a bully.

Speaking about her own past, Alicia echoed her fellow Superstars' sentiments and encouraged the students to "stay confident. Help each other reach for the stars. You are stars!"

James Durbin, the rocker who shot to fame last year as a contestant on American Idol, had the most heartfelt moment of the assembly when he took the stage and discussed his childhood struggles with both Tourette's and autism, plus his own experiences with bullying, which the singer described as being relentless.

"I would go to teachers, adults ... even call the police. Anything to feel safe," Durbin said of his coping mechanisms.

Durbin's story did have a happy ending, thankfully; he re-encountered his childhood bully later in life, and the bully apologized for what he had done.

Russell, who played football for the Dolphins and currently serves as the team's Director of Youth and Community Programs, took the podium as well and addressed the assembled children emphatically: "No one should be bullied. No one should have their lives dictated for them."

The event concluded with both speakers and students taking the "be a STAR pledge," at which point Russell helped Diaz award several students with tickets to WrestleMania XXVIII and the WWE Hall of Fame Ceremony. Those lucky children will undoubtedly find themselves surrounded by plenty of friends over the next few days.

Source: http://www.wwe.com/inside/overtheropes/wweinyourcorner/be-a-star-hialeah-middle-school

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Thursday, March 29, 2012

Google Maps for Android gets bumped to 6.5, new navigation view and higher resolution map tiles in tow

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Google's has never been shy at continually iterating on its wares, and today it's Maps on Android's turn. Headlining the 6.5 release is the above ICS-only revamp of the Navigation home screen, which we're told makes selecting previous and recent destinations a cinch. Additionally, there's also support for crisper map tiles (if your device is rocking a higher resolution screen) in addition to new options for mass transit directions which can prioritize routes with fewer transfers or less walking. See it in action in the feel-good promotional video after the break, or get the full skinny at the source link below.

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Sales Coaching and How You Can Improve Business

Sales training involves identifying problems before solving them. After all, knowing a problem is the first step in solving it. When it comes to sales training, an entrepreneur?s goal is to improve the development of the enterprise by first looking out for any faults the business might have.

Any entrepreneur can apply for sales training to learn how to look out for their own flaws, which flaws to look out for, and how to work on them. This is akin to editing a written work. You look at the entire article and tweak its flaws to turn it into something better. Business is like art in this way; you may do well, but there can always be some points where you can do better.

But how can you find your mistakes? There will always be subtle shortcomings in how the business is operating.

You may prompt feedback from your consumers with little feedback ballots or make employees evaluate their managers and vice-versa.

The information you receive can serve as a marker for which points in the business you can improve on. You might be surprised that there could be some aspects in the business that needs a little tuning up. It could be the attitude of your employees or the marketing of your business. In any case, you may apply for sales training to learn how to refine faulty places.

Improving the way you run your business can require some sales training if you really want to excel. It is true that education and learning continues beyond school: you continue to learn things about yourself or your world that you did not know before. After this, you?ll be ready to march back to your business site and tighten the way you run your ship, so to speak.

Aesthetics, marketing, and consumer relationship are the three aspects of business that you might already know by the time you decided to establish your business. Sales training courses can also add something to help internal management: how you establish rapport with subordinates can greatly affect the success of the business. Establishing a clear and respectful professional relationship with the people in the company brings out the importance of teamwork.

Sales training programs also teach business owners to manage finances. This helps business owners cut down on unnecessary expenses while gathering more revenue than before. For more information on sales training, visit SellingToConsumers.com or SalesTrainingAdvice.com.

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Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Securing Your Business Productivity

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Tuesday, March 13, 2012

AK Steel reaches deal with Zanesville Works union

Union workers at AK Steel's Zanesville Works plant ratified a new labor agreement last week.

The union representing 185 hourly production and maintenance employees at AK Steel?s Zanesville Works plant has agreed to a new labor contract.

The three-year agreement between West Chester-based AK Steel Holding Corp.?

Terms of the deal were not outlined in the release, and representatives from the company and the union did not immediately return calls.

?We are pleased to have reached a new labor agreement at our Zanesville Works well ahead of the expiration date,? CEO James Wainscott said in the release. ?The new agreement continues to provide a competitive and flexible labor contract for AK Steel and our Zanesville employees.?

Union members ratified the agreement March 9.

The union representing 185 hourly production and maintenance employees at AK Steel?s Zanesville Works plant has agreed to a new labor contract.

The three-year agreement between West Chester-based AK Steel Holding Corp.?

Terms of the deal were not outlined in the release, and representatives from the company and the union did not immediately return calls.

?We are pleased to have reached a new labor agreement at our Zanesville Works well ahead of the expiration date,? CEO James Wainscott said in the release. ?The new agreement continues to provide a competitive and flexible labor contract for AK Steel and our Zanesville employees.?

Union members ratified the agreement March 9.

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Shares pause after U.S. jobs, monetary policy in focus

The MSCI Asia Pacific ex-Japan index <.miapj0000pus> eased 0.8 percent after rising as much as 1.3 percent on Friday. The index has risen about 12 percent this year.

Indian stocks <.bsesn> bucked the trend and rose 0.6 percent, after India on Friday cut the cash reserve ratio requirement for banks sooner and more sharply than expected, raising the odds for an interest rate cut this week.

Japan's Nikkei average <.n225> erased earlier gains and fell 0.2 percent, retreating from a fresh seven-month high reached earlier. The Nikkei is up about 18 percent this year. <.t>

The dollar hovered around three-week highs against a basket of major currencies. It held close to Friday's near 11-month high of 82.64 yen. The euro eased 0.2 percent to $1.3090, after hitting its lowest in about a month of $1.3085 earlier.

"The markets were due for a correction after rising too strongly so far, bringing prices to levels which wouldn't be sustainable," said Naohiro Niimura, a partner at research and consulting firm Market Risk Advisory Co.

Greece averted the immediate threat of an uncontrolled default when a sufficient number of private creditors agreed on a bond swap deal on Friday that will cut the country's public debt and clear the way for a new bailout.

Concerns about Europe's debt crisis will not fade away with the completion of the Greece debt swap deal, but the focus was shifting to global growth and monetary policy, analysts said.

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Data on Friday showing solid growth in U.S. employment suggested the world's largest economy was strengthening and in less need of further monetary stimulus from the Fed, which holds its policy meeting on Tuesday.

Economic conditions elsewhere were less rosy or clear-cut.

China's trade balance data over the weekend showed the largest deficit in at least a decade, following recent reports that inflation cooled in February while retail sales and industrial output fell below forecast.

"Aside from healthy demand for industrial metals, assessment of recent Chinese data is mixed, and more figures are needed to clarify the uncertainty," Niimura said.

Brent crude, which has risen 17 percent this year, eased 0.5 percent to $125.35 a barrel while U.S. crude shed 0.6 percent to $106.75, as traders took profit after last week's gains and China's trade deficit fanned concerns slowing exports from the world's second largest economy will hurt fuel demand.

Copper, up 11 percent this year, fell 0.6 percent to $8,450 a tonne.

"The market lacks fundamentals that can support a strong rally," said Fang Junfeng, an analyst at Shanghai CIFCO Futures.

In a wide-ranging statement highlighting its goals for 2012, the People's Bank of China (PBOC) promised to reduce state control over China's interest rates and currency markets to allow market forces to have a bigger play.

It also said Beijing has ample room to further cut the reserve requirement ratio for banks, adding that any decision would be based on market liquidity conditions and foreign exchange inflows.

The trade data "means bigger need to stimulate domestic demand - via fiscal stimulus and monetary easing. So we expect 200 bps more in RRR cuts and 50 bps in interest rate cuts later this year," said Dariusz Kowalczyk, senior economist and strategist for Asia ex-Japan at Credit Agricole CIB, in a note. Following Monday's PBOC comments, "We expect the PBOC to loosen liquidity in line with slower growth and inflation," he said.

GREECE RELIEF SHORTLIVED

Friday's Greek debt deal brought some relief to riskier assets, but poor euro zone growth prospects and fears Portugal may also impose losses on creditors were likely to limit the fall in yields on weaker sovereign bonds.

The International Swaps and Derivatives Association, the arbiter of rules governing the sale and use of credit default swaps, said on Friday Greece triggered the payment on CDS, but did not see a big market impact.

A maximum of $3.16 billion of net outstanding Greek CDS contracts could be paid out, while about 93 percent of CDS contracts are collateralized. ISDA said an auction will be held to determine the actual payout amounts on March 19.

Sentiment in Asian credit markets improved slightly, narrowing the spread on the iTraxx Asia ex-Japan investment-grade index by about 1 basis point.

(Additional reporting by Rujun Shen in Singapore; Editing by Jacqueline Wong)

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Friday, March 9, 2012

Johnny Depp's First 'Lone Ranger' Photo Arrives

Double the "Lone Ranger," double the fun! Hot on the heels of our interview with Armie Hammer comes a first look at the lead actor and co-star Johnny Depp as The Lone Ranger and Tonto respectively. Check out the full photo after the break! Producer Jerry Bruckheimer tweeted this photo out earlier today, showing Hammer [...]

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The Darwin-Wallace mystery solved: Darwin vindicated from accusations of deceit

ScienceDaily (Mar. 8, 2012) ? A National University of Singapore. study has traced historical shipping records and vindicated Darwin from accusations of deceit.

For the past four decades, Charles Darwin had been accused of keeping the essay of fellow naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace for a fortnight, thereby enabling him to revise elements of his theory of evolution, before jointly announcing the theory of evolution by natural selection in July 1858. Just recently, two researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS), supported by a private donation, reconstructed the route taken by Wallace's letter to Darwin from Ternate and provided evidence that Wallace sent the letter a month later than historians had always assumed, thus clearing Darwin of the accusations against him.

Dr John van Wyhe, a historian of science and Senior Lecturer in the Departments of Biological Sciences & History at NUS and his collaborator Dr Kees Rookmaaker, published their study, titled "A new theory to explain the receipt of Wallace's Ternate Essay by Darwin in 1848," in the Biological Journal of the Linnean Society in December 2011.

The controversy

Alfred Russel Wallace, the naturalist who spent eight years in Singapore and South East Asia between 1854 and 1862, discovered evolution by natural selection independently of Charles Darwin. Wallace had a dramatic eureka moment while living on the island of Ternate in the Moluccas (now Indonesia). He wrote up his ideas in an essay which he sent in 1858, to Charles Darwin, for him to pass on to noted geologist Charles Lyell. Darwin's accusers claim that he waited two weeks to do so, lying about the date of receipt to give himself time to revise his own ideas in the light of Wallace's.

Wallace's essay was published together with an essay by Darwin in 1858 and marks the first publication of the theory of evolution which then resulted in one of the greatest revolutions in the history of science.

How the mystery began

In 1972 a researcher found another letter from Wallace to a friend named Bates that was sent on the March 1858 steamer from the island of Ternate in modern Indonesia. The letter still bore postmarks from Singapore and London which showed that it arrived in London on 3 June 1858 -- two weeks before Darwin said he received the essay from Wallace. Thus began the mystery -- how could two letters from Wallace leave Ternate on the same steamer and travel along the same mail route back to London but Darwin received his two weeks later than Bates did? This mystery has led to numerous conspiracy theories. For example, several writers have claimed that Darwin stole ideas from Wallace's essay during the time he kept the letter secret. But most other evidence suggests that Darwin received the letter when he said he did.

So did Darwin receive the letter when he said he did, or not?

"I initially assumed that it was impossible to solve since so many historians had examined it before. But it occurred to me that we really have no contemporary evidence of when Wallace sent the essay to Darwin, only his much later recollection that he sent it by the next post after writing it in February. That suggested that the essay was sent in March 1858. But this recollection from years later seemed to me not very reliable as evidence of what really happened at the time. The other evidence that Darwin received it on 18 June 1858 seemed more likely. All of his correspondence changed dramatically after that date for example. Since that side of the correspondence was all one really had to go on, it occurred to me to trace the letter from Darwin's end, rather than Wallace's," said Dr van Wyhe.

If Darwin really received it on 18 June- how could it get there? It had come to his house in the countryside from London the day before, the 17th.

Dr van Wyhe then found that a steamer arrived in England the day before, the 16th with mail from India and South East Asia. This was surely not a coincidence -- Wallace's letter must have been on that ship. Dr van Wyhe then had to trace back the remainder of the 9,240 miles of the journey from England, through the Mediterranean, across Egypt, to Sri Lanka, Penang, Singapore, Jakarta and so on. His assistant on the Wallace Online project, Dr Kees Rookmaaker, who speaks Dutch, was an invaluable help as he was able to check the ship arrival and departure times in the Dutch newspapers and sources for the Dutch East Indies, while Dr van Wyhe went through the English newspapers. It was an exciting detective story tracing the connections that mail batch took from London to South East Asia.

"Eventually our mail itinerary was completed all the way back to Ternate and we were astonished to find that there was an unbroken series of mail connections to Ternate -- not in March as all other writers before had assumed, but in April 1858! My further research has clarified why Wallace mailed it later than we assumed and many other parts of this famous, but misunderstood chapter in the history of science," added Dr van Wyhe.

"First of all, we now know that Wallace was replying to an early letter from Darwin- and that letter from Darwin arrived in Ternate on the March steamer. We have assembled the first complete collection of all the surviving Wallace correspondence from Ternate and nearby islands. These reveal that he never replied to a letter on the same steamer which delivered it. Apparently the turn over time was too short. Therefore this is an additional reason to doubt that Wallace could have sent the famous letter to Darwin in March as so long assumed," said Dr van Wyhe.

Dr van Wyhe is currently completing a major new book on Wallace in South East Asia which aims to radically revise the traditional story of Wallace and his famous independent discovery of evolution.

Dr van Wyhe is the Director of the research project in Singapore -- Wallace Online, a website which aims to be the definitive and reliable source of Wallace's work. It will contain all of Wallace's books and article, as well as a complete collection of his specimens collected from South-east Asia, and much more, such as a revised itinerary of his whereabouts during these years and his notebooks edited for the first time to modern scholarly standards. The website will be launched in 2013, the centenary of the death of Wallace.

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FBI: Irish misstep led to conference call leak

(AP) ? An Irish police officer's email blunder led to the spectacular leak of a sensitive conference call between the FBI and Scotland Yard, U.S. law enforcement said Tuesday.

An indictment unsealed in a New York court alleges that a teenager linked to the Lulz Security group of hackers was able to eavesdrop on the call after an unnamed officer with Ireland's national police force forwarded a work message to his insecure personal email account.

The email, which apparently originated from the FBI's Timothy Lauster, invited dozens of law enforcement officers from across Europe and the United States to coordinate their efforts against LulzSec and its amorphous umbrella group, Anonymous.

The FBI's indictment said that 19-year-old Donncha O'Cearrbhail intercepted the email and used the information in it to access and secretly record the Jan. 17 call, which hackers subsequently broadcast across the Internet.

The indictment said O'Cearrbhail was charged with one count of computer hacking conspiracy, and one count of intentionally disclosing an unlawfully intercepted wire communication.

O'Cearrbhail was one of five people charged in a multinational operation targeting hackers linked to Lulz Security. His indictment was unsealed on Tuesday as authorities revealed the group's ringleader had secretly become an FBI informant and turned against his comrades.

A spokesman for the Irish police, known as the Garda Siochana, refused to comment either on the details of the O'Cearrbhail charge or on the nature of the email blunder.

There appear to be only two Garda-linked names in Lauster's email: Paul Gillen and Colm Gallagher.

Neither officer returned messages seeking comment.

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Lego Space Shuttle Nearly Reaches Space [VIDEO]

NASA's storied space shuttle program may be history but ships are still making bold voyages into space -- at least, in Lego form.

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A Romanian man built a Lego space shuttle and sent it on a mission toward the stars. And the miniature craft nearly made it to space, reaching a reported maximum altitude of 35,000 meters, or about 21 miles. Its journey is documented in an amazing YouTube video.

"My name is Raul Oaida (from Romania) and this is my LEGO tribute to the end of the space shuttle era," a YouTube user who goes by the handle "vinciverse" wrote in the video's intro. The video was posted Friday and at time of writing had gained more than 81,000 views.

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Oaida affixed the Lego shuttle to a helium-filled balloon with a GPS and video camera attached. After launch, he followed the Lego shuttle by land in a car until the would-be spaceship left GPS range. The shuttle eventually landed about 240 kilometers, or 150 miles, away from its original takeoff point in Germany.

Oaida is Romainian, but said in a blog post that his home country had too much bureaucratic red tape to make conducting the feat from there practical. So he traveled to Germany, where authorities were apparently more receptive, to launch the mission.

"I've always been profoundly inspired by spaceflight," Oaida wrote, "the Lego Shuttle was the only space program I could afford."

NASA's space shuttle program ended after 30 years when the shuttle Atlantis concluded its final voyage last July. Luckily, with people like Oaida, its spirit of innovation and exploration lives on. Check out Oaida's entire video, complete with emotive music, below.

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This story originally published on Mashable here.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/lego-space-shuttle-nearly-reaches-space-video-232807205.html

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Wednesday, March 7, 2012

ARTICLES MANIAC ? The Key To Top Performance Is Staying ...

More than anything else, what keeps top athletes going in spite of the heat and lengthy hours of vigorous physical activity is a effectively hydrated and fueled physique. In endurance sports, nutrition is equivalent to keeping oneself hydrated all the time, particularly throughout the game. If you don?t give your self the proper nutrition it wants, your game efficiency will suffer.

Sports that require special attention to endurance nutrition (and therefore assist you level up your efficiency) are: operating, swimming, triathlon, cycling, rowing, mountain biking, adventure racing, cross-country skiing, mountaineering and trekking.

Let us say that you simply have prepared yourself for an endurance sport. Your nutrition focuses on giving you sufficient fuel to last you each day of vigorous physical activity. You eat foods rich in protein to help keep your muscles fit for the game and carbohydrates to offer you enough power and fuel your muscles to run quickly, steady, and regularly. What else can you do to perform much much better in endurance sports?

Listed here are some endurance sports nutrition recommended by athletes and trainers:

Endurance Sports Nutrition Tip ? Hydrate Yourself

1. Commence the day with a complete tank of water.

Athletes do not eat during a game. But they do drink water. Studies show, of which typical individuals now know, that humans can final a month without having consuming but will die immediately with out water for three days to a single week. That is how important water is always to our physique.

Several individuals die of diarrhea because of dehydration. Hydration is an crucial nutrition component to humans, most especially to athletes involved in endurance sports. So the endurance sports nutrition tip from athletes and trainers: drink plenty of water prior to the game.

Hydration may be the key to winning endurance sports competitors. And drinking water just before the game starts puts you inside a fantastic headstart.

2. Hydrate your self frequently throughout the game.

Drink usually throughout the game. Most endurance sports nutrition guide books will let you know the identical factor. Athletes in endurance sports sweat off two quarts of water per hour particularly in hot and humid weather. So, you need to drink at the very least 4 up to eight ounces of water each fifteen to twenty minutes. Sports drink may also replace water.

Here?s some tip that endurance sports nutrition guide books could not have told you: to understand when it?s time to gulp on your water or sports drink bottle, set your timer to alarm each 15 or 20 minutes inside 24 hours.

Freeze your drinking bottles and then pack them up in insulated foams to help keep it cool. Even if you don?t sweat nonetheless do gulp down the liquid within your drinking bottle. You may not know it and may not notice it but you could have sweat more than you think of.

3. Pack up extra bottles.

Carry more drinking bottles should you can. Don?t be afraid to appear like a camel with extra hump at your back. You need all those liquids inside your endurance sport. It?ll keep you going and in shape.

Besides, you?ll drain these drinking bottles one at a time every 15 or 20 minutes. At that rate, you could not even understand that your endurance sports drinks have already been drained down your esophageal pipes.

Endurance sport nutrition question: Water or sports drink?

In endurance sports nutrition, it has debated regardless of whether water or sports drink really should be consumed by an athlete competing in endurance sports.

Researches have shown that endurance sports athletes (competing below the sweltering heat in the sun) who had been provided with water as a means of hydrating themselves replace only one and half to two thirds of fluid loss, while people who had been given with sports drink have shown hydration almost to a hundred percent.

The reason for this is that sports drink contains electrolytes (sodium, potassium and magnesium) which assist retain fluid in the physique and balance the presence of these minerals that are essential in typical bodily function.

We lose electrolytes when we sweat. Dizziness, muscle cramps, extreme exhaustion, and irregular heartbeat are the symptoms of electrolytes loss within the body.

According to endurance nutrition professionals, several athletes lose endurance as a result of low degree of electrolytes. In reality, according to endurance sports nutrition magazines, some athletes even die due to electrolytes loss.

Want to perform at your peak every time, check out http://www.compressionshortshq.com for more helpful tips on nutrition and hydration.

Source: http://articles-maniac.tk/the-key-to-top-performance-is-staying-hydrated/recreation-sports/

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Tuesday, March 6, 2012

25 Years of Britain&#39;s Best Butchers ? Somerset Food & Drink

Jon Thorner?s is donating 10p for every pack of sausages sold to the NSPCC ChildLine.

The butcher, with meat counters across Somerset, is helping to celebrate 25 years of the Q Guild of Butchers, an elite organisation representing 120 of the best butchers across the country. Between 5th and 18th March any pack of Jon Thorner?s sausages bought at their farm shop in Pylle or at their 5 other butchery counters acrossSomerset, the local businessman will give 10p to national charity ChildLine, who are also celebrating 25 years this year. This includes their award winning sausage varieties, such as the Great Taste Gold Award winners, Old English andToulouse.

Jon Thorner, who is also the South West chairman of the Q Guild, said, ?We are very proud to be part of the Q Guild and wanted to mark its silver anniversary and share the celebration with our customers.?

Since ChildLine launched 25 years ago, over 2.6 million children and young people have been counselled by the free, 24 hour service. Set up by Esther Rantzen in 1986, ChildLine now offers counselling by phone and online.

The Q Guild has been promoting traditional craft skills and award winning meat products, since 1986. Its members stretch across theUK, from Shetland toCornwall, serving ?3 million worth of meat and related products to over a quarter of a millionUKconsumers every week.

The Q Guild is aiming to raise ?14,000 for ChildLine during its 25th year.

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Monday, March 5, 2012

Perverse Poetry ? Food preparation with regard to Special events

All of us have those occasions inside our life whenever we sense that almost everything needs to be exactly right. It?s these kinds of occasions we often reference as special occasions. In relation to cooking food pertaining to special occasions, most of us find that many of us drop the actual soccer ball inside our anticipations along with believe that we?ve got destroyed the moment. While this is often can?t be entirely truthful, it lets you do will diminish the moment in several of our thoughts. For that reason, you should build up a collection, if you?ll, involving easy to help make big day cooking food dishes.

You?ll be amazed along with amazed at each of the sinfully prosperous along with delicious food along with side dishes which might be available, which might be astonishingly easy and quick to get ready. This means that you will not operate fta satellite receiver the actual much too typical disaster circumstances that you read about and will still find a way to have a great food that?s liked through just about all.

The secret to success is at choosing a rather simple meats recipe along with attire it down with the much more self-indulgent side dishes. Amazingly prosperous side dishes which might be easy to get ready tend to be higher throughout amount when compared with meats dishes which need small culinary effort. It?s also advisable to take into account the viewers on your big day. Sometimes a household favored makes the celebration seem to be far more unique when compared with a full-scale effort pertaining to fowl cordon bleu or perhaps veal Marsala. There?s no reason for going to a serious effort to create a culinary masterpiece when it is gonna be riddled with particular children proclaiming that they don?t this way or perhaps that will relating to your food.

Yet another excellent concept in terms of cooking food pertaining to special occasions is to get ready whenever you can ahead of time so that you can relieve pressure through the function and also to enable you added time to take pleasure from the big event instead of managing easy cooking the details involving food planning. The maximum present you are able to truly give yourself whenever cooking food pertaining to special occasions it?s time required so that you can take pleasure in these kinds of special occasions. This is not to express there just isn?t a number of cooking food which will should be completed.

Food that may be ready ahead of time along with reheated before helping tend to be the most effective in terms of cooking food pertaining to special occasions. You can find a myriad of party foods, main courses, along with desserts which will perform completely in this particular occasion. It is possible to discover their whereabouts through using a simple Search engine on the internet or perhaps through selecting through many of your preferred cook books in the home. The important thing is that you aren?t getting consequently caught up in the thought of cooking food pertaining to special occasions hcg diet that you forget to take pleasure in the celebration.

That?s the method that you prefer to do items that will be completely simple to comprehend. Many of us carry out blossom throughout higher strain conditions. The true secret for individuals who prefer to do each of the food planning whenever cooking food pertaining to special occasions before cooking food will be arranging properly along with permitting time pertaining to achievable problems in the operation. Problems happen when individuals really feel hurried along with in a rush within their culinary endeavours.

Yet another typical error that?s manufactured whenever cooking food pertaining to special occasions will be cooking food outside your comfortable zone. When you are planning an overwhelming formula it is best should you choose this after a moment when you?re not checking out the strain involving possible guests or perhaps insuring the best possible involving conditions. In other words, it?s best to obstacle your culinary abilities whenever you do not have an interest in success. ?On March 4 2012, the elephant runs in the wild.?

Special occasions are a great moment pertaining to family and friends. The hope is that you will have a lot of special occasions all through your health. Tend not to waste materials too much time and worrying over cooking food pertaining to special occasions. As an alternative, invest of the effort into savoring those events.

Source: http://www.perverse-poetry.com/food-preparation-with-regard-to-special-events

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Three Free Healthcare Apps That Empower Patients

11414511-mhealth-is-in-high-demandThe significant adoption of smartphones among physicians has not only led to an explosion of medical apps aimed at healthcare providers, but it has also cultivated an emerging trend of health and wellness apps aimed at empowering patients. While great innovation is happening in the health and wellness mobile ecosystem, it?s dif?cult for patients and physicians to navigate through the large database of apps to ?nd ones they can actually use. My experience reviewing health and medical apps as a writer, combined with my experiences in a high volume Emergency Department that sees a diverse patient population, has allowed me to get a unique sense of this space.

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Sunday, March 4, 2012

Internet Business ? 4 Greatest Ways to Make Money Online

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More and more people using internet to make money and very few get the fruit. It is not the very few are heavens sent and have the best talent online. The only difference is they are the people who know what is internet and where to knock. The others knock all the wrong doors and end up saying it is not as good as it looks. Internet is still a great source of information and if you use the right way to get the information and pass it on to the right Channel with near perfect ways you too can make good amount of money online. We will see the most promising five ways of making money online.

1. Search Engine Advertising is a great way to get your business noticed by many people. First thing first get your affiliate program gets as much ranking as possible using frames page template, meta tags created especially for your purposes, interesting key words and then provide very clear easy to understand links that does not make people run around looking for more information.

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Ezine Advertising is a very powerful way of advertising and creates many turnarounds for your advertisements. Hit straight to the Ezine subscribers with innovative as they are the ones look everywhere to create more money. Make the greatest your own newsletter submissions to reach all the corners in the web. Place your ads in the best possible places to get the most desirable results.

3. PPC or pay per Click is yet another great way to get attention where any little business can get its share of required attention. Go to Google and search for something you will be amazed with the quantity of PPC ads you will see. This PPC will generate a great amount of traffic on your way and you can generate the best possible business. PPCs are one of the best ways found to get the traffic towards your side.

4. List Building is yet another way to create a great Website promotion. Make your list grows as much as you can make it. It is not simple but not very hard either. You start working on the list building, your experience will show you more ways and means, and this will never stop. This inexpensive way will bring in results and it is very good in generating profit.

Now you know why only very few can master the internet and the rest can make it. It is what you do to create the money and most importantly HOW. Almost every successful internet advertising and marketing must have used everyone of the above or part of the same. Now you are ready to make a good start and happy earning.

Source: http://www.1directory.net/internet-and-businesses-online/internet-business-4-greatest-ways-to-make-money-online-12330.html

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What exactly is one serving of fruits and vegetables? | Katalin Health ...

By Katalin Rodriguez Ogren, Saturday at 9:07 am

What exactly is one serving of fruits and vegetables?

I recently read a history of how it came to be known that 5 ?servings of fruits and vegetables are required for optimum health.? Where exactly did the number 5 actually come from? ?A woman named?Linia Patel, a Sports Nutritionist also pondered this - she recently investigated this claim.

What she determined is that? 5 servings was originally named as the minimum requirement by the World Health Organization who did a study in 1991 that concluded 400g of fruits and vegetables will lower risks of chronic heart disease (including stroke, type 2 diabetes and obesity).? At that time 80g was determined to be one serving and that is how 5 servings came to be ( 400 / by 80 = 5).? This was later reinforced by a study done in the UK lead by the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition, that felt 8 was actually better, but nationally promoted 5 because it was an easier sell to the general public.

So what? is exactly considered one serving of fruits and vegetables (80g)? (Foods that contain added sugar, fat or salt do not count!)

  • 1 medium banana
  • 2 dried figs
  • 2 spears of broccoli
  • 1 medium bowl of lettuce/spinach
  • 1 glass of 100% vegetable juice
  • 2 small oranges
  • ? lg grapefruit
  • 4 dried apple rings
  • 7 cherry tomatoes
  • ? avocado
  • 1 medium apple
  • 4 tablespoons of blueberries
  • 3 tablespoons of fresh fruit salad
  • 2 kiwi fruits
  • 1 nectarine
  • 2 rings of pineapple
  • 6 prunes
  • 4 pieces of sundried tomatoes
  • 3 tablespoons of beans
  • 3 celery sticks
  • 3 tablespoons of carrots
  • 3 tablespoons of peas ? fresh of frozen
  • 6 baby corn
  • 1 sweet potato
  • 1 medium onion
  • 2 tablespoons of porcini mushrooms

Source: http://www.chicagonow.com/katalin-fitness-health-driven/2012/03/what-exactly-is-one-serving-of-fruits-and-vegetables/

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Saturday, March 3, 2012

Yoga for Fitness, Wellness, Mental health & a Flexible Body | Yoga ...

Be My Friend ? www.myspace.com Yoga for Fitness, Wellness, Mental health & a Flexible Body Cass Naumann talks about yoga, the benefits of yoga and yoga meditation & demonstrates different yoga positions and poses. A yoga workout can lower stress, improve health, increase mental wellness, give one a more flexible & sexy body. Cass is a singer, songwriter, model and actress. Cass has years of experience as a fitness instructor teaching yoga, kick boxing, pilates. You can visit Cass website at www.lovecass.com Music By Jimmy Gelhaar myspace.com youtube.com This video was produced by psychetruth www.youtube.com www.myspace.com PsycheTruth is empowered by TubeMogul www.tubemogul.com ? Copyright 2007-2008 Zoe Sofia. All Rights Reserved. This video may be displayed in public, copied and redistributed for any strictly non-commercial use in its entire unedited form. Alteration or commercial use is strictly prohibited. #15 ? Most Discussed (Today) ? Howto & Style #25 ? Most Viewed (Today) ? Howto & Style #9 ? Top Favorites (Today) ? Howto & Style #17 ? Top Rated (Today) ? Howto & Style #75 ? Top Rated (This Week) ? Howto & Style

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Friday, March 2, 2012

Health Tips, Health Faq, Don&#39;t let Hemorrhoids Hurt Your Wellbeing ...

Your work or life-style may possibly have an impact in your hemmorhoid signs and symptoms. In case you have a desk job or invest a whole lot of time sitting though you are at property, ensure to offer your self some relief by walking about for several minutes just about every hour. This will take the immediate strain off your hemroids. Also, in case your work entails a whole lot of hefty lifting, try to exhale while you tolerate the brunt with the load. Holding your flow of air puts strain within the haemorrhoids and may well lead to them to turn out to be additional painful.

Eat fiber! One of the top options to treating piles is by adding additional dietary fiber to your diet plan! Fibers will keep your stoolgentle and reduce bulk which will support lower pressuring. Studies have demonstrated the enhance of dietary fiber inside a diet program will strengthen the distress of itchiness and discomfort related with haemorrhoids.

In case you are prone hemorrhoids you could wish to look into your each day routine. In the event you find yourself for the duration of to usually then try to minimize some time intervals for the duration of which that you are sitting. Extreme sitting is actually a we ok known lead to for hemorrhoids. If sitting can?t be avoided consider standing breaks.

When coping with haemorrhoids, you ought to not be seated or stand up for too lengthy. You must attempt to vary amongst sitting and standing up all through the day. Once you sit or stand up for extended intervals of time, you?re growing the pressure on your hemroids. This could cause the haemorrhoids to develop into even worse.

If you?re struggling with this issue you?ll would like to retain even superior hygeine than typical. Think about investing in a few type of wet bathroom paper as opposed to using the regular dry one, and in addition make sure to cleanse incredibly nicely twice or perhaps more times for the duration of every day.

For those who have issues with piles or you need to stay clear of them within the long term, then it truly is recommended you raise your intake of dietary fiber. This can enable you to stay clear of bowel obstruction and straining when likely for the rest room, that are the important factors that lead to hemmorhoid improvement. Keep away from an excessive amount of wheat soluble fiber however. It?s rather coarse and can make you uncomfortable.

In case you are seeking speedy reduction of a hemmeroid flare up, you should look into a number of the over-the-counter items offered just for that objective. You will discover lotions, suppositories, skin gels along with pads that contain treatments that lessen the area. Many other medicines including Tylenol and Advil might help to lower the pain too.

Hemmoroids can be a very embarrassing problem but are really prevalent. If you will need to deal with them, there are numerous more than the countertop treatments. If they are serious and won?t go away, you can also possess a medical doctor intervene however you shouldn?t allow them to go with no treatment actually due to the fact they are simply curable.

If you have hemorrhoids, you may need to retain suitable bowel actions all the time. One of the approaches that you can facilitate this can be to consume an eating plan that is definitely substantial in fibers. Fiber will stop working the meals inside your physique and help you to feel a lot more peaceful.

A great selection to dealing with a serious hemorrhoid dilemma is by utilizing the natural herb horse chestnut. This herbal was applied in the past as a natural treatment to relieve inflammation and irritation. It might be taken as tea or perhaps in pill type. It can even be applied externally like a pack. Prior to taking any supplement, be sure that you just talk along with your druggist or medical doctor.

Source: http://healthtips-faq.com/dont-let-hemorrhoids-hurt-your-wellbeing/

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'Walking Dead' spoiler! Character's death leaked

By Drusilla Moorhouse, E! Online

Oops. So apparently there's going to be a major, shocking death on "The Walking Dead." And now, well, the cat's out of the bag.

Thanks to huge snafu on the part of the network's DVD marketing folks (the same people who coordinated the widely criticized and unanswered "Who killed Rosie Larsen?" campaign for "The Killing?"), we now know exactly who it is.

We wish we didn't. So run (don't walk) away now if you don't want to be spoiled yourself...

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Shane's (Jon Bernthal) a goner.

In the AMC website ad for "The Walking Dead" Limited Edition Season 2 Blu-ray 4 Disc Set (available in August), the bonus features are described as including "the making of the barn, an extended zombie gut scene, Shane's last episode..."

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Jon Bernthal stars as Shane Walsh on "The Walking Dead."

Eek. Heads are gonna roll after this goof -- and thanks to the zombie series, we've got a pretty graphic idea of what that looks like.

And now we know what "Walking Dead" producer Gale Anne Hurd meant when she teased the second-season "jaw-dropping" finale. At the winter TCAs, Hurd told us, "I have a feeling even with inveterate tweeters during episodes...there may be some significant periods of silence, because people may not be able to click on their keyboards."

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We dreaded Shane's death ever since Variety reported?that Bernthal was in talks to play the lead in TNT's "L.A. Noir" pilot. The period drama would reunite with the actor with "Dead's" former showrunner Frank Darabont, who abruptly left?TWD at the beginning of its sophomore season.

This shouldn't come as a surprise to readers of Robert Kirkman's original comic books -- Shane is killed early on in that series. In the most shocking manner possible.

That's all we'll say on the matter. Haven't we had enough spoilers for today?

Are you horrified by this reveal, "Dead" fans -- or did you see it coming? Drive your RV?over to Facebook?weigh in.

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Thursday, March 1, 2012

Liquid treasure or trouble? UCLA political scientist explores downside of oil wealth

Liquid treasure or trouble? UCLA political scientist explores downside of oil wealth [ Back to EurekAlert! ] Public release date: 29-Feb-2012
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Contact: Meg Sullivan
msullivan@support.ucla.edu
310-825-1046
University of California - Los Angeles

Oil-rich countries would seem to have won the mineral equivalent of the lottery, tapping into the kind of vast wealth that their counterparts with more diversified economies could only dream of.

Yet the sheer volume of these revenues can make it easier for authoritarian governments to silence dissent, including clamors for democracy. The wealth can also make these countries less stable than those without oil reserves by leading to violent insurrections when the people who live in a country's oil-rich regions seek a larger share of these immense revenues. And the volatility of oil prices can turn economies that rely too much on oil wealth into harrowing rollercoaster rides.

In a new book, UCLA political scientist Michael L. Ross ascribes these and other afflictions to what he calls "the oil curse." Ross came to this conclusion after methodically analyzing half a century of data on the political and economic lives of 170 nations around the globe, including the 25 nations that produce 90 percent of the world's oil.

While Ross found no evidence that the curse afflicts all nations with oil wealth, he isolated a troubling cluster of problems that plague countries that are poor or developing when the assets are discovered, especially if those assets are then nationalized.

"The irony of oil wealth is that those countries with the greatest social and economic deficits are also the most vulnerable to the oil curse," said Ross, a professor of political science at the UCLA International Institute's Center for Southeast Asian Studies.

In addition to being more prone to dictatorships, violent insurgencies and pronounced economic swings, countries with oil wealth tilt the labor market toward jobs for men and away from jobs for women, leaving women with less political influence and less influence in the home, Ross reports in "The Oil Curse: How Petroleum Wealth Shapes the Development of Nations," which will be published March 7 by Princeton University Press.

The dearth of economic opportunities for women in turn results in relatively fast population growth, which dilutes the per capita benefit of oil wealth, he found. Effectively sidelining half the workforce also results in less diversified and stable economies overall. Both effects, Ross said, play into a more subtle economic problem that afflicts these countries: While oil-producing nations have grown at about the same rate as other countries, most have not grown as quickly as would be expected given their wealth.

And where population explosions and workforce underutilization do not account for lackluster economic outcomes, government malfeasance does. Oil wealth tends to get squandered by bloated bureaucracies, corruption and waste, he said. The nationalization of such vast wealth, meanwhile, reduces transparency, preventing citizens from holding their governments accountable. Nationalization also minimizes a government's reliance on taxes and therefore its incentive to be responsive to pressures for accountability.

Ross, a pioneer in the use of modern political-science tools to analyze the problems of resource-rich countries, conducted research on timber in Southeast Asia before devoting five years to "The Oil Curse." He also is active in several groups of scholars, including the Political Instability Task Force and the American Political Science Association's Task Force on Democracy Audits and Governmental Indicators, that use their expertise to warn about the possibilities of conflict around the globe and provide citizen groups with effective measures for political change.

Ross traces the beginnings of the oil curse to the 1970s, when oil-producing nations seized petroleum assets from the seven international oil corporations the Seven Sisters that controlled about 85 percent of the world's oil exports in the 1950s and 1960s. Among the leaders who rose to prominence through such nationalization efforts were Libya's Moammar Gadhafi and Iraq's Saddam Hussein.

With the cost of oil having increased roughly tenfold since 1999, the incentive to explore oil reserves in poor and developing countries has grown. Today's global demand for oil is spreading the curse by pushing the petroleum frontier into ever-poorer countries, Ross warns.

"Most states in Africa, the Caspian Basin, Southeast Asia and other regions that have recently begun or are about to begin exporting oil and gas are unfortunately about to confront this vexing dilemma," he said. More than 20 countries are on that list, including Brazil, East Timor, Sierra Leone, Ghana and Cuba.

The oil curse also threatens to stall Arab Spring impulses in petroleum-producing countries, he warns.

"No country with as much oil as Libya, Bahrain, Oman, Algeria or Iraq has ever made a successful transition from authoritarian to democratic rule," he said.

In fact, he insists that pro-democratic forces in Libya would never have succeeded in overthrowing Gadhafi without NATO support. He is concerned that oil wealth may doom the chances of pro-democracy movements in Russia, Iran, Bahrain and Venezuela.

In Syria, on the other hand, oil reserves were small to begin with, and their depletion over the last five years helps explain why President Bashar Assad has been losing his grip on power, Ross said.

Pernicious as the curse may be, countries can take steps to minimize or avoid the negative fallout of petroleum wealth, he emphasizes.

To neutralize the gender inequality and population growth that can accompany petroleum wealth, Ross urges countries on the petroleum frontier to invest in fields like health and education, which benefit large numbers of women, and to follow the lead of such countries as Morocco in establish meaningful gender quotas for elected office so that women can have enough political influence to encourage their participation in the labor force.

To smooth out the inevitable booms and busts of the oil industry, he urges leaders in these countries to forgo the short-term political benefits of immediate spending in favor of the long-term benefit of sustainable growth. In particular, he advocates that countries consider such counter-cyclical steps as paying down their debts, building up their stabilization funds and fostering growth in non-petroleum sectors.

In some cases, full or partial privatization can boost government accountability by making it harder for the state to hide its oil revenues. But the step works best, he said, if the companies are publicly listed on stock exchanges, as Brazil has done. Such exchanges force companies to disclose balance sheets and adhere to internationally recognized accounting standards, providing a kind of transparency missing with nationalized assets.

Consumers also can play a role. By taking a page from the international effort to curb the market for blood diamonds, concerned citizens in the West can help by insisting that gasoline suppliers disclose their product's country of origin. Boycotting oil from "cursed" countries could bring pressure to bear on autocratic petroleum producers in much the way the 2003 Kimberley Process Certification Scheme ensured diamond consumers that their purchases were not financing war and human rights abuses.

"Just as there was a beginning to the oil curse," Ross said, "there could be an end to it."

Ross will be discussing his new book and how oil wealth shapes and warps the politics of countries in the Middle East and Africa at a Zcalo Public Square event on Wednesday, March 14, at the Goethe-Institute Los Angeles. For reservations, visit http://bit.ly/xBoghy.

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Liquid treasure or trouble? UCLA political scientist explores downside of oil wealth [ Back to EurekAlert! ] Public release date: 29-Feb-2012
[ | E-mail | Share Share ]

Contact: Meg Sullivan
msullivan@support.ucla.edu
310-825-1046
University of California - Los Angeles

Oil-rich countries would seem to have won the mineral equivalent of the lottery, tapping into the kind of vast wealth that their counterparts with more diversified economies could only dream of.

Yet the sheer volume of these revenues can make it easier for authoritarian governments to silence dissent, including clamors for democracy. The wealth can also make these countries less stable than those without oil reserves by leading to violent insurrections when the people who live in a country's oil-rich regions seek a larger share of these immense revenues. And the volatility of oil prices can turn economies that rely too much on oil wealth into harrowing rollercoaster rides.

In a new book, UCLA political scientist Michael L. Ross ascribes these and other afflictions to what he calls "the oil curse." Ross came to this conclusion after methodically analyzing half a century of data on the political and economic lives of 170 nations around the globe, including the 25 nations that produce 90 percent of the world's oil.

While Ross found no evidence that the curse afflicts all nations with oil wealth, he isolated a troubling cluster of problems that plague countries that are poor or developing when the assets are discovered, especially if those assets are then nationalized.

"The irony of oil wealth is that those countries with the greatest social and economic deficits are also the most vulnerable to the oil curse," said Ross, a professor of political science at the UCLA International Institute's Center for Southeast Asian Studies.

In addition to being more prone to dictatorships, violent insurgencies and pronounced economic swings, countries with oil wealth tilt the labor market toward jobs for men and away from jobs for women, leaving women with less political influence and less influence in the home, Ross reports in "The Oil Curse: How Petroleum Wealth Shapes the Development of Nations," which will be published March 7 by Princeton University Press.

The dearth of economic opportunities for women in turn results in relatively fast population growth, which dilutes the per capita benefit of oil wealth, he found. Effectively sidelining half the workforce also results in less diversified and stable economies overall. Both effects, Ross said, play into a more subtle economic problem that afflicts these countries: While oil-producing nations have grown at about the same rate as other countries, most have not grown as quickly as would be expected given their wealth.

And where population explosions and workforce underutilization do not account for lackluster economic outcomes, government malfeasance does. Oil wealth tends to get squandered by bloated bureaucracies, corruption and waste, he said. The nationalization of such vast wealth, meanwhile, reduces transparency, preventing citizens from holding their governments accountable. Nationalization also minimizes a government's reliance on taxes and therefore its incentive to be responsive to pressures for accountability.

Ross, a pioneer in the use of modern political-science tools to analyze the problems of resource-rich countries, conducted research on timber in Southeast Asia before devoting five years to "The Oil Curse." He also is active in several groups of scholars, including the Political Instability Task Force and the American Political Science Association's Task Force on Democracy Audits and Governmental Indicators, that use their expertise to warn about the possibilities of conflict around the globe and provide citizen groups with effective measures for political change.

Ross traces the beginnings of the oil curse to the 1970s, when oil-producing nations seized petroleum assets from the seven international oil corporations the Seven Sisters that controlled about 85 percent of the world's oil exports in the 1950s and 1960s. Among the leaders who rose to prominence through such nationalization efforts were Libya's Moammar Gadhafi and Iraq's Saddam Hussein.

With the cost of oil having increased roughly tenfold since 1999, the incentive to explore oil reserves in poor and developing countries has grown. Today's global demand for oil is spreading the curse by pushing the petroleum frontier into ever-poorer countries, Ross warns.

"Most states in Africa, the Caspian Basin, Southeast Asia and other regions that have recently begun or are about to begin exporting oil and gas are unfortunately about to confront this vexing dilemma," he said. More than 20 countries are on that list, including Brazil, East Timor, Sierra Leone, Ghana and Cuba.

The oil curse also threatens to stall Arab Spring impulses in petroleum-producing countries, he warns.

"No country with as much oil as Libya, Bahrain, Oman, Algeria or Iraq has ever made a successful transition from authoritarian to democratic rule," he said.

In fact, he insists that pro-democratic forces in Libya would never have succeeded in overthrowing Gadhafi without NATO support. He is concerned that oil wealth may doom the chances of pro-democracy movements in Russia, Iran, Bahrain and Venezuela.

In Syria, on the other hand, oil reserves were small to begin with, and their depletion over the last five years helps explain why President Bashar Assad has been losing his grip on power, Ross said.

Pernicious as the curse may be, countries can take steps to minimize or avoid the negative fallout of petroleum wealth, he emphasizes.

To neutralize the gender inequality and population growth that can accompany petroleum wealth, Ross urges countries on the petroleum frontier to invest in fields like health and education, which benefit large numbers of women, and to follow the lead of such countries as Morocco in establish meaningful gender quotas for elected office so that women can have enough political influence to encourage their participation in the labor force.

To smooth out the inevitable booms and busts of the oil industry, he urges leaders in these countries to forgo the short-term political benefits of immediate spending in favor of the long-term benefit of sustainable growth. In particular, he advocates that countries consider such counter-cyclical steps as paying down their debts, building up their stabilization funds and fostering growth in non-petroleum sectors.

In some cases, full or partial privatization can boost government accountability by making it harder for the state to hide its oil revenues. But the step works best, he said, if the companies are publicly listed on stock exchanges, as Brazil has done. Such exchanges force companies to disclose balance sheets and adhere to internationally recognized accounting standards, providing a kind of transparency missing with nationalized assets.

Consumers also can play a role. By taking a page from the international effort to curb the market for blood diamonds, concerned citizens in the West can help by insisting that gasoline suppliers disclose their product's country of origin. Boycotting oil from "cursed" countries could bring pressure to bear on autocratic petroleum producers in much the way the 2003 Kimberley Process Certification Scheme ensured diamond consumers that their purchases were not financing war and human rights abuses.

"Just as there was a beginning to the oil curse," Ross said, "there could be an end to it."

Ross will be discussing his new book and how oil wealth shapes and warps the politics of countries in the Middle East and Africa at a Zcalo Public Square event on Wednesday, March 14, at the Goethe-Institute Los Angeles. For reservations, visit http://bit.ly/xBoghy.

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