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Q: Understanding date precision on Wikidata date properties The Wikidata API provides date-based fields as a datavalue$type == "time". For example consider Harvard Universities Inception Date (Property value == P571):
$mainsnak
$mainsnak$snaktype
[1] "value"

$mainsnak$property
[1] "P571"

$mainsnak$hash
[1] "5efb5e7d891727df657771128dcb0512f7f18e10"

$mainsnak$datavalue
$mainsnak$datavalue$value
$mainsnak$datavalue$value$time
[1] "+1636-01-01T00:00:00Z"

$mainsnak$datavalue$value$timezone
[1] 0

$mainsnak$datavalue$value$before
[1] 0

$mainsnak$datavalue$value$after
[1] 0

$mainsnak$datavalue$value$precision
[1] 9

$mainsnak$datavalue$value$calendarmodel
[1] "http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1985727"

$mainsnak$datavalue$type
[1] "time"

$mainsnak$datatype
[1] "time"

$type
[1] "statement"

$id
[1] "q13371$cf938885-4a4d-697c-a957-b2d7effe8bbb"

$rank
[1] "normal"

The mainsnak$datavalue$value$time is "+1636-01-01T00:00:00Z" which when parsed to a date is 1636-01-01. But on the webpage, the only the year is displayed:

I'm sure this is because the time accuracy is only as good as the year - Harvard was founded in 1636, the day and month are unknown/ambiguous/not relevant. So my question is how do I use the API to parse just the time accuracy of this date? I suspect it has something to do with $mainsnak$datavalue$value$precision
PS the full json from Wikidata for Harvard is pulled in R with:
library(tidyverse)
wikidata_id <- "Q13371"
res <- httr::GET(url = paste0('https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:EntityData/',wikidata_id,'.json')) %>%
    httr::content() %>%
    .[['entities']] %>%
    .[[wikidata_id]]

A: Per https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:Dates precision of 9 is year, 10 is month, 11 is day.


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Power plant spinoff sees EON say farewell to coal plants: Q&A
Germany's EON SE will officially part with its fossil fuel past tomorrow, when a new company called Uniper is created. Here's what you should know about the spinoff.
What will be spun off?
The new entity based in Dusseldorf, Germany, will take on EON's commodity trading and fossil fuel power generation divisions along with a quarter of its employees. The trading business, which buys and sells commodities including power and coal, is grappling with a global slump in prices. EON moves to Essen to focus on renewables, its power grid and selling energy to customers.
Why is EON splitting up?
Germany's energy shift to solar and wind has depressed electricity prices and the profitability of conventional power plants. That's prompted the nation's two biggest utilities, EON and RWE AG, to separate their fossil fuel from their renewable generation business.
What are the prospects for the new company?
"It will be a very tough year, maybe not the best time to become Uniper as a commodity rebound doesn't look likely near- term," Elchin Mammadov, an analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence in London, said by phone. "You can still make a profit in a downward market with your trading business, but it is much harder than if prices rise constantly, where you just have to buy, hold and sell at later date."
Who will manage the company?
The managers at the helm of Uniper all bring experience of trading or generation. Klaus Schaefer, the company's new chief executive officer, became EON's chief financial officer in October 2013 after heading the global commodities unit, according to EON's website. Schaefer's successor at the commodities trading unit, Christopher Delbrueck, will become CFO while Eckhardt Ruemmler will oversee power generation and gas storage as chief operating officer after being in charge of EON's power business.
How is Uniper positioned?
Uniper wants to fill the widening gap between Europe's natural gas demand and domestic production with its reserves in Russia and liquefied natural gas contracts, spokesman Josef Nelles said by phone. Even after EON decided to keep its nuclear reactors in September, Uniper will still have have 40,000 megawatts of generation capacity, Nelles said. Of that, about 60 percent is fired by gas, with the rest mostly from coal and lignite.
Will there be a listing?
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How big is Uniper's Russian business?
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Review: The Logic of Scientific Discovery
Roy Lotz	in Books, Philosophy, Reviews, Science & Math	 June 27, 2018 July 20, 2019 1,765 Words
The Logic of Scientific Discovery by Karl R. Popper
We do not know: we can only guess.
Karl Popper originally wrote Logik der Forchung (The Logic of Research) in 1934. This original version—published in haste to secure an academic position and escape the threat of Nazism (Popper was of Jewish descent)—was heavily condensed at the publisher's request; and because of this, and because it remained untranslated from the German, the book did not receive the attention it deserved. This had to wait until 1959, when Popper finally released a revised and expanded English translation. Yet this condensation and subsequent expansion have left their mark on the book. Popper makes his most famous point within the first few dozen pages; and much of the rest of the book is given over to dead controversies, criticisms and rejoinders, technical appendices, and extended footnotes. It does not make for the most graceful reading experience.
This hardly matters, however, since it is here that Popper put forward what has arguably become the most famous concept in the philosophy of science: falsification.
This term is widely used; but its original justification is not, I believe, widely understood. Popper's doctrine must be understood as a response to inductivism. Now, in 1620 Francis Bacon released his brilliant Novum Organum. Its title alludes to Aristotle's Organon, a collection of logical treatises, mainly focusing on how to make accurate deductions. This Aristotelian method—characterized by syllogisms: deriving conclusions from given premises—dominated the study of nature for millennia, with precious little to show for it. Francis Bacon hoped to change all that with his new doctrine of induction. Instead of beginning with premises ('All men are mortal'), and reasoning to conclusions ('Socrates is mortal'), the investigator must begin with experiences ('Socrates died,' 'Plato died,' etc.) and then generalize a conclusion ('All men are mortal'). This was how science was to proceed: from the specific to the general.
This seemed all fine and dandy until, in 1738, David Hume published his Treatise of Human Nature, in which he explained his infamous 'problem of induction.' Here is the idea. If you see one, two, three… a dozen… a thousand… a million white swans, and not a single black one, it is still illogical to conclude "All swans are white." Even if you investigated every swan in the world but one, and they all proved white, you still could not conclude with certainty that the last one would be white. Aside from modus tollens (concluding from a negative specific to a negative general), there is no logically justifiable way to proceed from the specific to the general. To this argument, many are tempted to respond: "But we know from experience that induction works. We generalize all the time." Yet this is to use induction to prove that induction works, which is paradoxical. Hume's problem of induction has proven to be a stumbling block for philosophers ever since.
In the early parts of the 20th century, the doctrine of logical positivism arose in the philosophical world, particularly in the 'Vienna Circle'. This had many proponents and many forms, but the basic idea, as explained by A.J. Ayer, is the following. The meaning of a sentence is equivalent to its verification; and verification is performed through experience. Thus the sentence "The cat is on the mat" can be verified by looking at the mat; it is a meaningful utterance. But the sentence "The world is composed of mind" cannot be verified by any experience; it is meaningless. Using this doctrine the positivists hoped to eliminate all metaphysics. Unfortunately, however, the doctrine also eliminates human knowledge, since, as Hume showed, generalizations can never be verified. No experience corresponds, for example, to the statement: "Gravitation is proportional to the product of mass and the inverse square of distance," since this is an unlimitedly general statement, and experiences are always particular.
Karl Popper's falsificationism is meant to solve this problem. First, it is important to note that Popper is not, like the positivists, proposing a criterion of 'meaning'. That is to say that, for Popper, unfalsifiable statements can still be meaningful; they just do not tell us anything about the world. Indeed, he continually notes how metaphysical ideas (such as Kepler's idea that circles are more 'perfect' than other shapes) have inspired and guided scientists. This is itself an important distinction because it prevents him from falling into the same paradox as the positivists. For if only the statements with empirical content have meaning, then the statement "only the statements with empirical content have meaning" is itself meaningless. Popper, for his part, regarded himself as the enemy of linguistic philosophy and considered the problem of epistemology quite distinct from language analysis.
To return to falsification, Popper's fundamental insight is that verification and falsification are not symmetrical. While no general statement can be proved using a specific instance, a general statement can indeed be disproved with a specific instance. A thousand white swans does not prove all swans are white; but one black swan disproves it. (This is the aforementioned modus tollens.) All this may seem trivial; but as Popper realized, this changes the nature of scientific knowledge as we know it. For science, then, is far from what Bacon imagined it to be—a carefully sifted catalogue of experiences, a collection of well-founded generalizations—and is rather a collection of theories which spring up, as it were, from the imagination of the scientist in the hopes of uniting several observed phenomena under one hypothesis. Or to put it more bluntly: a good scientific theory is a guess that does not prove wrong.
With his central doctrine established, Popper goes on to the technicalities. He discusses what composes the 'range' or 'scope' of a theory, and how some theories can be said to encompass others. He provides an admirable justification for Occam's Razor—the preference for simpler over more complex explanations—since theories with fewer parameters are more easily falsified and thus, in his view, more informative. The biggest section is given over to probability. I admit that I had some difficulty following his argument at times, but the gist of his point is that probability must be interpreted 'objectively,' as frequency distributions, rather than 'subjectively,' as degrees of certainty, in order to be falsifiable; and also that the statistical results of experiments must be reproducible in order to avoid the possibility of statistical flukes.
All this leads up to a strangely combative section on quantum mechanics. Popper apparently was in the same camp as Einstein, and was put off by Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. Like Einstein, Popper was a realist and did not like the idea that a particle's properties could be actually undetermined; he wanted to see the uncertainty of quantum mechanics as a byproduct of measurement or of 'hidden variables'—not as representing something real about the universe. And like Einstein (though less famously) Popper proposed an experiment to decide the issue. The original experiment, as described in this book, was soon shown to be flawed; but a revised experiment was finally conducted in 1999, after Popper's death. Though the experiment agreed with Popper's prediction (showing that measuring an entangled photon does not affect its pair), it had no bearing on Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, which restricts arbitrarily precise measurements on a single particle, not a pair of particles.
Incidentally, it is difficult to see why Popper is so uncomfortable with the uncertainty principle. Given his own dogma of falsifiability, the belief that nature is inherently deterministic (and that probabilistic theories are simply the result of a lack of our own knowledge) should be discarded as metaphysical. This is just one example of how Popper's personality was out of harmony with his own doctrines. An advocate of the open society, he was famously authoritarian in his private life, which led to his own alienation. This is neither here nor there, but it is an interesting comment on the human animal.
Popper's doctrine, like all great ideas, has proven both influential and controversial. For my part I think falsification a huge advance over Bacon's induction or the positivists' verification. And despite the complications, I think that falsifiability is a crucial test to distinguish, not only science from pseudo-science, but all dependable knowledge from myth. For both pseudo-science and myth generally distinguish themselves by admirably fitting the data set, but resisting falsification. Freud's theories, for example, can accommodate themselves to any set of facts we throw at them; likewise for intelligent design, belief in supernatural beings, or conspiracy theories. All of these seem to explain everything—and in a way they do, since they fit the observable data—but really explain nothing, since they can accommodate any new observation.
There are some difficulties with falsification, of course. The first is observation. For what we observe, or even what we count as an 'observation', is colored by our background beliefs. Whether to regard a dot in the sky as a plane, a UFO, or an angel is shaped by the beliefs we already hold; thus it is possible to disregard observations that run counter to our theories, rather than falsifying the theories. What is more, theories never exist in isolation, but in an entire context of beliefs; so if one prediction is definitively falsified, it can still be unclear what we must change in our interconnected edifice of theories. Further, it is rare for experimental predictions to agree exactly with results; usually they are approximately correct. But where do we draw the line between falsification and approximate correctness? And last, if we formulate a theory which withstands test after test, predicting their results with extreme accuracy time and again, must we still regard the theory as a provisional guess?
To give Popper credit, he responds to all of these points in this work, though perhaps not with enough discussion. But all these criticisms belie the fact that so much of the philosophy of science written after Popper has taken his work as a starting point, either attempting to amplify, modify, or (dare I say it?) falsify his claims. For my part, though I was often bored by the dry style and baffled by the technical explanations, I found myself admiring Popper's careful methodology: responding to criticisms, making fine distinctions, building up his system piece by piece. Here is a philosopher deeply committed to the ideal of rational argument and deeply engaged with understanding the world. I am excited to read more.
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Leicestershire Woman Jailed For Cancer Scam
A woman who pretended to have cancer and claimed over £250,000 from her then husband, his family and the public has been jailed for four years, police said.
Jasmin Mistry, 36, from Loughborough, was sentenced at Snaresbrook Crown Court on Friday December 14, after pleading guilty to one count of fraud by false representation on October 24, according to the Metropolitan Police.
Ms Mistry first told her husband she had cancer in 2013, using a different Sim card to send herself fake WhatsApp messages pretending to be her doctor confirming the diagnosis in order to support her claim.
In December 2014, Ms Mistry told her husband she had six months to live after being diagnosed with brain cancer.
Using further fake messages from her doctor, Ms Mistry said she could be treated in the US but it would cost around £500,000.
Her husband then contacted family and friends to ask for donations for her treatment.
Suspicions were raised about Ms Mistry's story when her husband's friend found her brain scan on Google and said, according to the Met Police, "the tumour was so severe that it would be fatal for the person with it".
Her now ex-husband subsequently found the fake Sim cards his wife had been using to send the fictitious doctors messages and when he confronted her, Ms Mistry admitted she had lied.
She was also found to have defrauded a man she met on a dating website of £7,500, and two members of the public of £10,000 after pretending to be a trader and saying she could invest their money.
Ms Mistry was arrested in November 2017 after police were contacted and, when interviewed, she told officers she was not terminally ill and did not know why she had lied.
The total fraud amount was calculated by the Met Police as £253,122, with 20 members of Ms Mistry's extended family and eight others found to have given her money.
Detective constable Jon Bounds said: "I am glad for the victims of this deceit that they have seen justice.
"Jasmine Mistry went to extreme lengths to manipulate those closest to her emotionally and financially to defraud her now-former husband and his family out of a large sum of money.
"This is a bizarre, shocking case.
"Our investigation revealed the scale of the fraud and the severity of the offending which has resulted in a substantial custodial sentence."


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Q: How to use json array in WHERE IN clause in Postgres I have a Postgres query like this
SELECT * FROM my_table WHERE status IN (2,1);

This is part of a big query, but I am facing an issue with the WHERE IN part here. I am using this query inside a function and the input parameters are in JSON format. Now the status values I am getting in in the form of a JSON array and it will be like status=[2,1]. I need to use this array in the WHERE clause in the query and not sure how to do that. Currently, I am using like
SELECT * FROM my_table WHERE status IN (array([2,1]));

But this is giving me an error. The status column is of smallint data type. I know this is simple, but I am very much new to Postgres and could not figure out any method to use the JSON array in WHERE IN clause. Any help will be appreciated.

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Dragon Ball Daizenshuu 4: World Guide
Akira Toriyama's Best
Character Section
If you were to draw another "Dragon Ball", who would the protagonist be?
Mister Satan
"Mister Satan would be the one I'd want to make into the protagonist. How about a gag manga with him and Boo?" The world grappling champion Mister Satan. Debuting in the second half of the story, he's a cute character who took off on his own. It'd be nice if this gag manga were to become a reality!
Who would you want as your kid? Who would want as your parent?
As a kid: Dende
"He's serious and can heal his own injuries. But he looks a little strange, so I guess he'd be picked on at school."
As a parent: Bulma
"I'd be very rich, so I'd be relatively left to myself." And on top of that he'd be a genius.
Who seems like they will live the longest, and who seems like they will die the earliest?
Looks like he'll live long: Kame-Sen'nin
"It seems that he will live a surprisingly long time." He certainly seems to be the happiest character.
Looks like he'll die early: Vegeta
"Everybody dies eventually, but Vegeta seems like he has high blood pressure so he'll probably go suddenly."
If you were to be reincarnated, who would you want to be?
"It'd be nice to be the Trunks who doesn't have the painful past. I'd be rich, be able to buy lots of toys, and be real strong. That's what it looks like superficially."
Out of all your characters, which one is the most (blank)?
Cool: Goku
"I think it's Goku." The always pure strongest in the universe. Goku is #1 after all!
Gourmet: Satan
"I get the sense that he eats expensively. He's high-class, but an OK sort."
Shy: Piccolo
"I feel that the Namekians are basically a shy race."
Fashionable: Trunks
"I thought it'd be Bulma, but once she became an old lady she dresses out of fashion."
Mischievous: Kame-Sen'nin
"Of course it'd have to be this guy." Was his perverseness the deciding factor?
Settings Section
Which settings are you fond of from a design standpoint?
1 — Karin Tower
"My favorite is Karin Tower. A place built on top of a slender poll is interesting even if viewed from the center of the picture. It's good even though it gives off an unbalanced feeling. I really like building designs like this, that couldn't exist in reality."
2 — God's Temple
"There's something interesting about places that float in the air. I also like places that are unusually shaped."
If you were to travel, which place would you like to go to?
"Sure enough, it's God's temple. Just to sight-see. I want to see what's inside."
2 — West City
"I don't like cities very much, but it's OK to go just once."
3 — Kaiōshin Realm
"Something about it seems to have a nice feeling. It seems like I could pass the time peacefully. The climate looks nice as well."
What place do you think you'd like to live at?
"It seems like shopping would be a pain, but if I had a mecha to go over the water with, and as long as a typhoon didn't come, then Kame House is where I'd most like to live." He'd like to live there even more if the island was a little bigger and there was a gigantic Kame House the size of Capsule Corporation.
Martial Arts Section
If you were to choose the best shot of the Kamehameha, whose shot would you pick?
Kame-Sen'nin's Kamehameha
"The one that left the most impression was the very first one, the one Kame-Sen'nin put out. Because the history of the Kamehameha started from here. Besides, I think the shape it has when he fires it was effective."
Which techniques would you like to learn?
1 — Bukūjutsu
"It must feel good to fly freely through the sky. I think it'd definitely be a good feeling. Besides, don't you think it would be pretty useful in your daily life?"
2 — Shunkan-Idō (Instant Movement)
"Shunkan-Idō would probably be pretty good too. I could go to places I like just by thinking about them."
3 — Kamehameha
"The Kamehameha! I think it'd be amazing to break things all over the place with it. But afterwards it'd be a pain to have to go reimburse everyone."
Which techniques are you fond of?
"I really don't like techniques all that much, but with the Kamehameha isn't it neat how it stores everything up and then releases it all at once? The Kamehameha is the one I'm most fond of. It was my wife who thought up the name."
2 — Clash Ultra Boo-Boo Volleyball
"This one I liked. It's really ludicrous but amusing. I was pleased with it."
3 — Super Ghost Kamikaze Attack
"I like the ghosts too. It was crazy to have a technique with a will of it's own for the first time."
Would you tell us what battles you're fond of?
1 — Son Goku vs Piccolo Daimaō
"Piccolo Daimaō. Since it was the first battle with a truly evil guy, there was a certain something to the fight."
2 — Gotenks vs Majin Boo
"I think this was the first fight in a long time where I was able to do things my way. I drew relatively a lot of things like that during this period."
What about famous fights from the Tenka'ichi Budōkai?
Son Goku vs Tenshinhan
"Thinking of a famous fight, it'd be Goku and Tenshinhan. It's because their ability was almost exactly equal."
Science & Super Science Section
Which item from Dragon Ball do you think you would most like to have?
Hoi-Poi Capsules
"Capsules! I think I'd want some capsules if I was going on a trip. And then, when there wasn't any parking space, that's when I'd want them the most. They certainly are convenient. Since I think their weight probably doesn't change, I'd stuff anything into them. But what would happen if someone was still inside?"
What item made even you think "This is amazing!"?
"It'd have to be Hoi-Poi Capsules, I guess? Even in a manga they're convenient. At first the series was a road manga, so if they went to various places without carrying any luggage and then suddenly pulled out luggage it'd be strange. If you just put items and vehicles into capsules, then it's relatively convenient."
Who are your favorite Artificial Humans?
1 — Second-form Cell
"Cell's second form, that tough guy. When I told Kondō-san, my editor at the time, 'This is what I've come up with' he told me, 'Hey, this guy is stupid-looking. Make him into his perfect form soon.' Actually, I had planned on him having a more active role."
2 — Artificial Human No. 18
"No. 18 was a type of girl that I hadn't drawn before, so I was relatively pleased with her. I like her slanted eyes."
3 — Artificial Humans No. 19 and No. 20
"Speaking of slanted eyes, I also like No. 19 and No. 20. At first I thought I'd have No. 20 be the true enemy, but I was told that he was just a geezer so I got rid of him."
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El VI Campeonato Mundial de Piragüismo en Aguas Tranquilas se celebró en Jajce (Yugoslavia, desde 1992 Bosnia y Herzegovina) en el año 1963 bajo la organización de la Federación Internacional de Piragüismo (ICF) y la Federación Yugoslava de Piragüismo.

Las competiciones se realizaron en el canal de piragüismo acondicionado en el lago Pliva, al oeste de la localidad bosnia.

Medallistas

Masculino

Femenino

Medallero

Enlaces externos
Resultados oficiales (en inglés).

1963
Deporte en Jajce
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Rockman.EXE may refer to:

 Mega Man (character), the main protagonist of the Mega Man multimedia franchise (known in Japan as Rockman.EXE)
 Mega Man Battle Network (originally titled Rockman.EXE in Japan), part of the Mega Man franchise of video games
 Mega Man Battle Network (video game), the first game in the series (released in Japan as Battle Network Rockman EXE)
 MegaMan NT Warrior (released in Japan under the name Rockman.EXE), the anime and manga series based upon the Battle Network series

See also
 Mega Man – a multimedia franchise known as Rockman  in Japan


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The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is considered the hardest routing protocol to design, configure and maintain, but there are the 5 major reasons you need all of that difficulty in your network.
Yes, Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) has the reputation of being the hardest routing protocol to design, configure and maintain. But while this notion has some validity, there are situations where BGP is the only tool available to get the job done, or where deploying BGP throughout your network can increase its security or stability.
BGP's complexity is primarily due to the large number of attributes it can attach to a route, its complex route selection rules, and the manual configuration of neighboring routers (which are discovered automatically in most other routing protocols) needed to ensure the security of the routing information exchange. Having a large number of configuration options and BGP-specific filtering mechanisms available on routers from different major vendors doesn't help either.
In this article, I'll give you five scenarios where BGP is the best match for your network requirements.
If you're an Internet service provider (ISP), running BGP in your network is almost a must. I've seen consumer-focused ISPs that tried to get around this recommendation and used BGP solely to peer with their upstream ISPs, but they eventually had to bite the bullet and deploy BGP to increase the stability of their network, provide end-to-end quality-of-service or penetrate enterprise markets. Enterprise-focused ISPs have to run BGP from the start to support their multi-homed customers).
We've seen a variety of technologies used to implement Layer 3 VPN services in recent years, and MPLS-based VPNs have undoubtedly proven to be the most scalable solution, partly due to using BGP as the underlying routing protocol. Fortunately, you don't have to deploy BGP everywhere in your network if you want to deploy MPLS/VPN solutions. It's enough to deploy BGP on the Provider Edge (PE) routers that connect your VPN customers and on a few core devices that act as route servers (these devices should not be expected to forward heavy traffic loads).
Although I've met networking engineers trying to use BGP as the sole routing protocol in their networks, that's not how you should use it. Any decent BGP design should rely on another faster routing protocol (for example, OSPF, EIGRP or IS-IS) to provide core routing in the network, with BGP responsible for the edge/customer routing.
With the separation of core and edge routing into two routing protocols, your network core becomes more stable, as the edge problems cannot disrupt the core. This design has been used very successfully in large enterprise networks with haphazard addressing schemes that defied attempts at route summarization. It should also be used in almost all service provider environments. You should never carry your customers' routes in your core routing protocol, as customer's internal problems could quickly affect the stability of your own network.
I must note that it's amazing what you can see in the field. I saw an ISP running OSPF with its customers a few years ago. In that setup, a rogue or ignorant customer could have easily disrupted the whole service provider network.
Among other peculiarities, BGP allows you to specify any IP address as the next-hop for an IP prefix. This property is most-often used to ensure optimum routing across a BGP autonomous system. You can also use it to implement network-wide sinkholes and remote blackholes to quickly stop worms and denial-of-service attacks on your network.
Please note that you don't have to migrate your routing to BGP if you want to use these mechanisms. To implement remote blackholes, it's enough that you deploy BGP on strategic points in your network and link them via BGP sessions with a central router through which you'll insert the IP addresses to block.
Not only does BGP carry a number of attributes describing the IP routes, it allows you to add extra baggage to every IP route it advertises in the form of BGP communities that are totally transparent to BGP (unless you're manually configuring route selection rules to use them) but propagated throughout the network.
A few technologies completely unrelated to BGP allow you to use these attributes to implement large-scale designs. For example, Quality-of-Service Policy Propagation with BGP (QPPB) allows you to set QoS bits for specific BGP destinations based on BGP communities and other BGP attributes. Similarly, you can control the Web Cache Communication Protocol (WCCP)-based web caching policy with BGP.
Even though BGP is categorized as a complex and hard-to-configure routing protocol, its deployment in large enterprise networks can bring significant benefits, which is almost mandatory in a service provider environment.
Ivan Pepelnjak, CCIE No. 1354, is a 25-year veteran of the networking industry. He has more than 10 years of experience in designing, installing, troubleshooting and operating large service provider and enterprise WAN and LAN networks and is currently chief technology advisor at NIL Data Communications, focusing on advanced IP-based networks and web technologies. His books include MPLS and VPN Architectures and EIGRP Network Design. Check out his blog.


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For once it seems the great Australian press baron has got his comeuppance. Don't bet on it. This guy has more lives than Donald Trump and a lot more money. Reportedly he left the super-secret Allen Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho to tend to the mess in London. Hanging in the balance is Murdoch's effort to further expand his empire by fully taking over British Sky Broadcasting, a major television network.
It would have been great to be in London on Sunday. I would have bought every paper in sight – at least those not controlled by Murdoch – to see how they covered the demise of the NTW and the still unfolding scandal of how Murdoch family members and assorted retainers presided over a newspaper that hacked into apparently thousands of mobile voice mails in pursuit of the "scoops" that made the now defunct NTW both profitable and the very definition of yellow journalism. Those hacked include murder and crime victims and military personnel. Find Murdoch's photo next to sleazy in the dictionary.
I do love the headline in the Telegraph: Goodbye, Cruel World. That about says it.
The increasingly Tony Blair-like Prime Minister David Cameron underscores how deeply Murdoch has his claws into politicians on both sides of the pond. Apparently even Margaret Thatcher had a thing for Murdoch. Cameron, however, takes the prize for admitting the obvious. The PM had the gall to stand on the floor of the House of Commons and condemn his party and all the others for growing "too close" to the powerful press tycoon. Cameron was so close he hired the former News of the World editor to be his chief mouthpiece. That guy is now in jail. Even the Church of England owns shares in Murdoch's enterprise.
So, if you're keeping score at home, make that Murdoch owning (or renting) two of the three major political parties in Britain (his switch last election to the Tories was likely decisive for Cameron), a piece of the Church and even the Royals. Murdoch's official biographer is doing the same air brush job for the Queen Mum. In the U.S., so far, Murdoch only dominates one national political party, but recall that he did make nice with Hillary Clinton when most everyone thought she might be the Democratic candidate for president. Murdoch is an equal opportunity co-opter.
There are predictions in Britain that the phone hacking scandal will finally rattle the all-too-cozy relationship among newspapers, broadcasters and politicians. If that happens, so much the better for the future of a truly great country. Either way it ought to be a cautionary tale for those of us in "the colonies" who like our news with a semblance of fairness, if not objectivity.
If the British papers will just print the truth about the News Corporation and it's powerful, scandal and money soaked boss that should be more than enough to take care of King Rupert. But, then again, I never thought he could pull off buying – and remaking – The Wall Street Journal or get away with having half the Republican presidential candidate field on his payroll at Fox News. Nothing Murdoch does should surprise.
A book to put it all in context is Evelyn Waugh's very funny novel Scoop written in 1938. The New York Times' Nick Kristof suggests it for a good summer read and I agree. Waugh's tale – farce is one word for it – focuses on the world of London tabloids trying to outdo each other covering an obscure war in an even more obscure African country.
You'll read Scoop and laugh and then think maybe Rupert Murdoch read this, too.
The Pew Research Center for People and the Press is out with a new survey about where we're going for news and why and at least one of the findings in a little surprising to me. Pew says Americans are spending more time following the news.
Meanwhile, the Gallup organization has its own research that shows that Americans are less confident than ever in what they are getting from newspapers and television. Fewer than 25% of those surveyed by Gallup say they have "a great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence in newspapers or TV. That number represents a 10% decline over the last five years or so.
Conclusion: we are more interested than ever in what is going on and we have less belief than ever that what we see and read is the straight scoop.
The Pew survey also seems to buttress a contention of mine that news organizations are more and more appealing on a purely ideological basis. This is the news of the future, but really is a return to the past when political ideology sharply defined newspapers and magazines.
A liberal – defined, for example, in the Pew survey as one who supports gay rights – tends, big surprise, to like the New York Times and National Public Radio. Supporters of the National Rifle Association and the Tea Party are big listeners to Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Fox News. Libertarians like the Wall Street Journal. Pew also reports that more and more of us are using digital means to keep up on the world and younger Americans, those under 30, are fast forgetting what a newspaper is all about. More affluent and well-educated Americans, again big surprise, tend to shop around more using digital, print and broadcast sources for their information. Could be that they just have the time and ability to do so.
It may be a stretch to connect these two interesting surveys to some recent musings by former President Bill Clinton, but here goes. During a recent extended interview with the Times – former presidents do extended interviews, apparently – Clinton identified his favorite TV commercial of the last five years as the ESPN spot were the math nerds make fun of the jocks spewing sports stats in the high school cafeteria.
Clinton was making the point that the clever spot is a metaphor for American political life. Namely, if we cared as much about the "hard facts" that pertain to public policy as we do about football, it would be a better, at least in Clinton's view, for Democrats.
Facts are good things, but Clinton, of all people, should know that politics is much more often – like football – about emotion, feeling and raw execution. I feel Clinton's pain about the need for more focus on "hard facts" in our consumption of news, but, upon further reflection, the former president just might not be the best messenger for the "hard facts" approach to public life.
The reality of the moment is – and this is the truth – that we often place more emphasis in developing our positions on what Stephen Colbert has called "truthiness." What we believe may not really be true, but it seems close enough, particularly when we factor in our emotions and ideology.
Sounds about right. There is an element of "truthiness" in there somewhere. Just ask Rachel Maddow or Bill O'Reilly.
The photo is of Park51, the proposed site of an Islamic cultural center, two Manhattan blocks north of where the twin towers of the World Trade Center once stood.
By now, I suspect, everyone in the country – except perhaps that escaped prisoner caught late last week in Arizona with his accomplice girl friend – has an opinion on whether the so called "Ground Zero mosque" is appropriate for this site.
There are many things of interest about the hottest story out of New York since Chelsea's wedding. The "mosque issue" is fast becoming a political litmus for this year's candidates and political analysts are debating how much voicing support and then walking it back a bit it is hurting the President. Republicans, for the most part, have jumped all over the issue and made the case that this is the worst idea, well, since Mohammad demanded the mountain come to him.
President Obama, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and some of former President George W. Bush's guys have made the case that the issue must be about religious freedom and not condemning an entire religion by saying all Muslims harbor radical, violent intentions. Others ranging from Newt Gingrich to Harry Reid, in various shades of heated rhetoric, have condemned the location of the proposed Islamic center and, in many cases by extension, also condemned the religion to which 1.5 billion of the world's people adhere.
One more thing of interest in this story, a story that has dominated the news now for close to three weeks, says a great deal about how information gets disseminated and used in the digital age. It is fascinating to me just how many of the essential elements of the story lack factual basis or have been so distorted in the repeated re-telling that they have little resemblance to the truth.
Hendrik Hertzberg, writing in the August 16 edition of The New Yorker tried to catalogue some of the details that have just gotten lost, or been distorted, or are just plain wrong as the story has picked up steam and controversy.
Hertzberg went on to note, as others have, that the principal backers of the center are immigrants from Kuwait (a country we went to war to liberate) and Kashmir and the man who is now routinely referred to in press accounts as "a controversial imam," Feisal Abdul Rauf, is a Columbia University grad who has been in charge of a mosque in the Tribeca neighborhood of New York for nearly 30 years.
Rauf is so dangerous that the Federal Bureau of Investigation enlisted his help to "conduct 'sensitivity training' for agents and cops" after 9-11. Rauf is also the vice-chair of the New York Interfaith Council, which means he regularly associates with Christians and Jews, Hindus and Buddhists who, one assumes, thought enough of him to elected him vice-chair of their organization. (The founder and chairman emeritus of the Interfaith Council, by the way, is the retired Dean of the Cathedral of St. Patrick the Divine. Those Anglicans can be pretty radical.) Rauf has also often and at length, it is important to note, denounced terrorism in general and the 9-11 attacks in particular. Before it became popular for Gingrich and Rush Limbaugh to denounce him, Rauf palled around with Condi Rice and Karen Hughes of the Bush Administration.
Not quite the story that appears in the thousands of words written daily about this issue, but it does help explain, if not excuse, why so many people have made up their minds that the "Ground Zero mosque," promoted by "radical Muslims" will be a threat to all Americans and an insult to the 9-11 victims and their families. Lots of folks believe that, it's just not true.
When I went to journalism school back in the dark ages, a old prof told us over and over that reporting a story – particularly a story steeped in controversy – required more than merely recounting what "he said and what she said." That kind of journalism, the old, green eye shade guy would say, almost always ensures that "the truth goes and hangs itself." Seems like that is what has happened on the south side of Manhattan.
There us much more evidence, everywhere you look, of the truth looking for a place to die. Consider, for a moment, the President's religion and place of birth.
Barack Obama wrote two best selling books about his life and background, books that have been poured over by reporters and his political enemies for years now. Books that discuss at some length his views on religion and what it means to him to be a Christian. Obama has given interviews and made speeches talking about his faith and, in particular, how those of us not of the tradition can begin to understand the black Christian church in America.
Yet according to a new Pew Research poll 20% of Americans now firmly believe the President is a Muslim. In the same survey, fully 34% of conservative Republicans believe Obama is a Muslim.
Reading those words, one who continues to believe Obama is a secret Muslim simply has to believe he is a serial teller of untruths, which may actually help explain the 34%. The opinion page editor of the Dallas Morning News wrote about this the other day and made a telling point when declaring that the paper would quit printing letters making religious claims about the President for which there is absolutely no evidence and that are clearly not true.
Truth and logic there, but is anyone paying attention?
Another 41% of Republicans in a recent CNN/Opinion Research poll believe Obama was "probably" or "definitely" born in another country. Even when a copy of Obama's birth certificate, certified as authentic by officials in Hawaii, was posted on the Internet, the so called "birthers" continue to believe what just ain't so.
Of course, there is more. The story continues to circulate that current Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner used to work at Goldman Sachs, one of the big, bailed out Wall Street banks. Nope, the Goldman guy was the last Bush Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson.
Or, what about the now accepted notion that the terribly unpopular Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) – hated left and right in a rare show of bipartisanship about anything – was all Obama's doing. Wrong again. TARP occurred on the Bush watch late in 2008 with W's full backing, as well as that of John McCain.
What's going on here? There are lots of theories, including one called the "backfire effect." This notion holds that when a person harbors a particularly strong view, that is shown by facts and logic to be wrong, they often actually reject the facts and logic and strengthen their belief in what is false. It is a sort of "don't confuse me with the facts" response, on steroids, to something that may be personally comforting or important to believe even if it is just not true.
One theory is that some folks so dislike Barack Obama – much as some folks so disliked George W. Bush – that they need/want to believe things that reinforce their views even if those things aren't true. The human mind is a curious thing.
A political scientist, Brendan Nyhan, who is a Robert Wood Johnson scholar in health policy at the University of Michigan, has studied the "backfire effect" and recently told NPR's Talk of the Nation that misinformed people – conservatives and liberals – rarely change their minds once they are made up. Now, there's a cheery thought.
As traditional journalism declines apace, one of the promising new developments has been a greater commitment by some news organizations to good, old fashioned "fact checking." There are websites devoted to this. One of the best is FactCheck.org that tries to keep politicians and others making public claims honest. It is, after all, possible to research and find real answers to many things.
Yogi Berra was right, once again, when he famously said "you can look it up." Yes, you can, if you will.
Nevertheless, Nyhan and others say fact checking, no matter how well it is done, may not have much impact on those who simply won't be confused by, well, facts.
If, when talking or speculating about things that we believe that just aren't true, we were focused on whether Elvis is really dead or whether Neil Armstrong really walked on the moon or why the U.S. Air Force just won't come clean with all it knows about UFO's, it would be a mild curiosity. We could write it off as just a fact of life that some people will believe what they want to believe. But, when the myths continually trump the facts for a significant number of people in the every day political and policy life of the nation, it is a cause to wonder – can this be good for the country?
I've long been a believer that the best defense against what is often referred to as "the nefarious influence of money in politics" is the disinfectant that comes with vast amounts of sunshine. In short, let the sunshine in and disclose, disclose, disclose.
As long as the Supreme Court equates First Amendment rights with essentially unlimited political contributions, even from corporations and unions, full disclosure is about all the assurance anyone has that we have the means to judge who – or what – is bankrolling a campaign.
Leave it to Rupert Murdoch, The Man Who Owns the News, as his recent biographer described him, to add a new wrinkle to the long-running saga around campaign finance. Murdoch, owner of the New York Post, The Wall Street Journal and, most importantly, Fox News, just had his News Corporation write a $1 million check to the Republican Governors Association. Perfectly legal, properly disclosed by all accounts, but a further and unmistakable blurring of the lines between news and politics.
The News Corporation contribution to the Republican governors is certainly not unprecedented. GE, Disney and other "media companies" have been players in this space for a long time. What is unusual is the size of the check and the partisan implications.
News Corporation maintains the corporate side of the house made the contribution with no involvement from the guys who run the cable network where Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly and Glenn Beck hold court nightly, almost always in high dudgeon about the latest Democratic action, and where a sort of GOP shadow government – Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee and Newt Gingrich – gets paid to comment.
Predictably, Democrats were outraged and demanded disclaimers on future RGA sponsored ads taking on Democratic gubernatorial candidates. It was also widely noted that the News Corporation donation some how didn't generate much coverage on Fox News. I wonder how Fox might cover a million dollar contribution from the New York Times to a Democratic committee?
The trouble with the News Corporation explanation that this was simply a corporate decision with no connection to the hot house cable network – and let's assume for the sake of argument that News Corporation is giving us the fair and balanced truth here – is that it just doesn't pass the old smell test.
As a friend regularly reminds me, the Murdoch explanation lacks the quality of verisimilitude. That ten dollar word is defined as "the appearance or semblance of truth; likelihood; probability" As in "the play lacked verisimilitude." This play lacks.
It reminds me of the newspaper that editorially endorses one candidate over another and then says, as I almost always believe, that the editorial opinions of newspapers are totally walled off from the newsroom and news coverage. Few readers believe such explanations. They have become as cynical as many reporters. In the age of a more and more sharp edged, opinionated, point-of-view media, Fox News, or anyone else playing at the million dollar level in partisan politics, shouldn't be surprised that the explanation of separation between the corporate side of Murdoch's empire and the news side just doesn't pass the basic test of seeming to reflect, well, the truth.
Here's the real issue, I think, with Murdoch and his approach. The guy is a businessman, and a very successful one by most accounts, and he is also a committed conservative. In keeping with his personal politics and political philosophy, why not just drop the pretense of "fair and balanced" and engage in the market place of ideas in a fully transparent, genuine manner. If Murdoch would just acknowledge what everyone believes – detractors and fans, alike – that Fox is the conservative opinion network, it would be liberating. Well, on second thought, that may be a poor choice of words. It would be honest.
As I've noted in the past in this space, the news business – and it is a business – that we once knew is as dead as a dodo bird. We are going back to the future with "news" organizations becoming more and more identified with a point of view and a partisan agenda. In my perfect world – I remember Walter Cronkite – I think this is a bad trend, but it is also not likely to be reversed. It was, after all, good enough for the days of Hamilton, Adams and Jefferson and it is going to have to be good enough for the days of Obama and Palin, Fox and MSNBC.
Rupert Murdoch's big check to the RGA is all right by me as long as he plays by the rules of disclosure. I just wish he'd take the next step, conduct himself like a Hearst, a Pulitzer or a McCormick (partisan news moguls of the past) and drop the pretense that his politics and his cable news operation is anything but a major political player, in both opinions and money, in American conservative politics. Fox News regularly wins the ratings battle against left-leaning MSNBC and CNN, which finds itself in the ill-defined middle, so why not just admit that Fox is the home of conservative opinion and will support conservative causes with its really big checkbook and its really big megaphone.
I happen to think Murdoch is brilliant from a business standpoint in occupying a space where he can shape opinions and influence policy completely in sync with his own views. That is the American way, even if you are Australian. Just go the final step and admit that is what you're doing.
Now, there is some verisimilitude for you.


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Kiwanians building security posts at four primary schools
Carl Gilchrist
Lieutenant Governor, Kiwanis International Division 24, Donna Coombs (right), explains something to principal of Breadnut Hill Primary, Sheron Minott, at the construction site of a security booth at the school.
Kiwanis International Division 24, which consist of 11 clubs spread across the parishes of St Ann, St Mary and Portland, is to spend J$800,000 to construct security booths at four primary schools in those parishes.
The first booth is currently under construction at Breadnut Hill Primary School in St Ann, with others to be constructed at Trinity Primary in St Mary, one in Portland at a school to be decided, and another in St Ann.
Donna Coombs, lieutenant governor for the club, said that the booths are the main projects of her tenure.
"I decided on this project because it's the safety of the children we are concerned about. So that's my priority right now, because Kiwanis' mandate is 'Serving the Children of the World'," Coombs said.
"The cost is $800,000 for the four, that does not include labour. Most of the materials are donations from hardware stores, the roofing was donated by Vicbern Roofing Company in Manchester," she added.
The booths are to be built in separate quarters over the next year. About 25 Kiwanians, drawn from across the divisions, turned out for the first weekend of work.
Principal at Breadnut Hill Primary, Sheron Minott, said all 267 students on roll, the 12 teachers and ancillary workers were grateful for the gift.
"We are the proud recipients of the first security booth and we are really grateful that Kiwanis would have chosen to assist us with the security of our students," Minott said. "It is something we would have wanted to do, but we would not have had the funds to do it ourselves."
The school currently has a safety and security person whose employment at the school is totally funded by parents.
"This booth will greatly assist in enhancing his duties and function," Minott said.
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Counselling careers are a good option for many people. However, becoming a qualified counsellor takes a lot of time and money. Before you make the decision to enter a counselling career, you need to answer some questions to make sure that this is the right career path for you. If you are thinking about pursuing careers in counselling, here is a guide to becoming a qualified counsellor in the UK.
The qualifications needed to become a counsellor in the UK will depend on the area that you are living in. The schooling for entering a counselling career is the same. A counselling career needs you to continue your education after you have completed your courses.
This is for people who have no counselling knowledge. These programs are about 30 hours long and provide information about counselling careers, which can help you find out if you want to continue with furthering your counselling training.
Level 2 is for people who want to build on their knowledge of counselling. This is the base certificate for many of the counselling careers, which teaches the essential communication and listening skills needed to become a qualified counsellor.
Level 3 is the next course that you need to take to become a qualified counsellor. This is the course that introduces the main theoretical approaches to counselling. It also shows you what you should expect when you are working as a counsellor. In many cases, you will need to volunteer during the course to develop your counselling skills. The volunteering can help you find the counselling career that fits you the best.
This requires classroom and on the job training. In most areas, this is a two-year course that trains you for the counselling diploma. During the course, you will work as a trainee counsellor to help develop the skills that you need to work as a counsellor. Some courses will have you do your own counselling sessions to help you gain insight to work in a real situation.
Once you have completed a diploma in therapeutic counselling, you can take specialisation courses. These courses will open up more counselling opportunities. You can also take more education after completing these courses. The more courses you take the more options will become available to you. The extra education will also help you focus on building more skills, so you will be able to work with a wider range of clients.
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The majority of existing buildings does not follow present energy efficiency regulations. In order to fulfill environmental requirements it seems impossible, in this context, to consider a global demolition-reconstruction policy. Renovation programmes need to be implemented. An innovative energy efficiency improvement solution is proposed, enabling to explore urbain energy ressources presently underexploited. The concept is to add, around the building, an external envelope whose main function would be to collect energy. An optimization tool aiming at finding the optimal geometry and collectors' spatial distribution on the envelope's surface, is developed. Its validation is carried out on simple cases, it is then applied in situations showing strong contrasts: optimization during summer and winter, in Oslo and in Tunis, with close obstacles partially masking the Sun. In order to build the emerging complex geometries, the use of gridshell structures is proposed. These structures are obtained through elastic deformation of an initially plane grid made of composite material slender beams. This raises the problem of composite materials durability under sustained loading. In order to study the long-term behavior (creep and creep rupture) of these materials composed of reinforcing fibres and a polymeric viscoelastic matrix, a micromechanical model is developed. This shear-lag type model allows studying the influence of the constituents' mechanical properties on the lifespan of the composite under permanent pure traction or combined shear and traction loadings.


I have recently started a new medication and something is not right. It is one of those medications that isn't supposed to start working for 4-6 weeks. After the first week my body was already letting me know there was a new foreign substance in my system.
I hope all that changes for you soon. Take care of yourself.


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Nach Baliye winners Rithvik Dhanjani, Asha Negi off to Golden Temple
By Subhash K Jha
MUMBAI: After winning the Nach Baliye title on Saturday night, television co-stars, real-life soul-mates and dancing partners Rithvik Dhanjani and Asha Negi are now off to Amritsar to visit the Golden Temple together.
"This is our way of celebrating. Our way of saying thanks to the One who helped Asha and I to win," says Rithvik, still quite dazed by the experience.
Says Rithvik, "Maybe others in our place would think of more exotic vacationing plans. But to us, nothing at the moment would be more joyous than a visit to the Golden Temple. God has been very kind. We owe Him a visit."
The victory was not entirely unexpected. "It's not as if I didn't think I'd win. But still, when it happened it was a numbing experience.Asha and I have been working really hard, and now there's that sense of emptiness which would last a while.Ever since we bagged the trophy on Saturday night we've been surrounded by family and friends."
Rithvik then reveals that his partner was never much of a dancer. "Actually Asha had never danced before this show.So you could say she learnt dancing on the job. But I have been a passionate dancer from the time I could remember. Some people drink alcohol to unwind. I dance. As simple as that.I also participated in Jhalak Dikhla Jaa. Now after Nach Baliye I don't know where I'll find a popular platform to dance. "
Asha Negi modestly describes herself as a non-dancer. "Rithvik is a fantastic dancer.I was a non-dancer , to begin with.'Dheeli Dancer' is how judge choreographer Terence Lewis described me at the beginning of the show. He was right. Initially I couldn't dance to save my life. Rithvik not only had to manage his own dancing he also had to look out for me.Many times he had to scale down his dancing skills to match my steps.It's only because of Rithvik that I was able to sustain myself through the show right up to the finals."
Asha says she could feel the change in herself as a dancer. "As the weeks progressed I became more confident. I began to enjoy my steps. Now of course after winning I want to pursue my newly-found interest in dancing."
By the end of the season Asha felt confident enough to win. "Did I think our closest contenders Gumeet Chowdhary-Debina Bonnerjee might win over us? To be honest, that thought didn't cross our minds. Both the couples were neck-to-neck.And I only focused on Rithvik and I."
Her dancing partner and Asha have been working together in the serial Pavitra Rishta. They do plan to marry, but not right away.
Says Asha shyly, "Rithvik is my best friend and soul mate. We are buddies. We like spending time together. And to our good fortune we do get a lot of time together since we're working together in a long-running serial. So there is no urgent need to get married just to be close to one another. But yes , we do plan to get married. Rithvik wants to buy a home for us first."


What is the difference between organic and grass-fed meat?
They sure sound similar, so why aren't they the same thing?
Well, in a way, they are.
Both grass-fed and organic meat can be far superior to standard meats in terms of taste, environmental sustainability and animal welfare.
Yet there are still some important differences between the two that you can understand to help you make that decision at the supermarket!
Meats that are labelled with the grass-fed stickers come from animals that have been raised entirely from forage products.
You'd be forgiven for thinking that all cows and sheep are grass-fed, but usually they are also given a mixture of corn, grains, or other additional supplements.
The rules and restrictions in place for these products are strict, which means that only edible herbaceous plant material is allowed in the animal's diet. This can be any kind of grass, hay or haylage, but cannot under any circumstances include grains.
What this means for you is a meal with fewer calories and higher levels of vitamin A and E, antioxidants and healthy omega-3 fats than produced beef.
However, if the animal becomes sick or injured, then the farmer can administer antibiotic treatments, in which case the final product will be marketed as a produced beef rather than grass-fed.
Organic meat is even harder to produce, so organic meat suppliers have many more hoops to jump through for certification.
It takes more time, effort and documentation from the farmers but results in a product of excellent quality.
To meet requirements, animal diets can only include food that is 100 per cent organic. This means that there can be no fertilisers, pesticides or herbicides used on the forage offered to the animals.
Also, cattle and sheep must be given access to the outdoors so that 30 per cent of their daily intake comes from their natural surroundings.
In terms of taste, all that really needs to be said is that it's worth the extra effort!