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Tips on how to travel light without sacrificing comfort and style

Washington Post 

Lee Abbamonte is known as the youngest American to have visited every country in the world. His second claim to fame should be “most efficient packer.” Unless he needs expedition gear or a suit, the 36-year-old New Yorker totes a 22-inch Osprey Meridian wheeled bag and a North Face backpack. The two pieces accompany him on trips short (a long weekend in Dewey Beach, Del.) and ultramarathon (two months circling the globe).Read full article >>

Middle Class Problems: Like flossing and drinking within government guidelines, we just don't cry in public

The Independent 

Two hours trying to rock a screaming baby to sleep in a rainstorm had left me feeling a bit fragile. So I staggered to a café to meet some friends, sat down, and burst into tears. Not subtle, droplets-meandering-down-cheeks tears. Not even a cinematic slide-down-a door moan. Nope. These tears were big, ugly, and accompanied by the kind of howls you'd normally associate with labour. Even the baby momentarily stopped screeching to watch.

Life seems to move at an unusually rapid pace for self-styled human dynamo Melanie Eydall

The Independent 

When Asked by friends and relatives how she is, Melanie invariably replies, "Very busy," "Up to my neck in it" or, with a mock-exasperated shrug of her shoulders, "Whizzing about all over the shop." Pressed for details about the unusually rapid pace at which life seems to move here on the outer reaches of Godalming, Surrey, she will happily itemise the catalogue of pressing demands on her time: the urgent request from Cassandra to ferry home her belongings from uni; the 11 people expected for... Читать дальше...



Klaus Frahm's The Fourth Wall: A new theatrical perspective - from the depths of backstage

The Independent 

The fourth wall is the imaginary structure that runs across the front of a stage, allowing actors to inhabit their own world and ignore the audience – as if there is a wall between them. It's also the name of photographer Klaus Frahm's series of shots of theatres across his native Germany. Only in his work, the fourth wall is very visible: it is the auditorium itself.

Not against quota movement: Nitin Patel

«The Times of India» (indiatimes.com) 

Nitin Patel, the number two in the state cabinet and the state government spokesperson, who was under verbal attack from a few Patidar leaders, wrote an open letter stating that he is not against any community's reservation movement.

5,000 security men for PM’s Gaya rally today

«The Times of India» (indiatimes.com) 

Around 5,000 security personnel, including about 3,000 from CRPF, SPG and NSG, will keep a hawk’s eye on the Gaya Gandhi Maidan where PM Narendra Modi will address his second Parivartan rally in Bihar on Sunday.

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Close To A Deal For Precision Castparts: WSJ

International Business Times 

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is nearing an agreement to buy Precision Castparts Corp. in what could be the company's largest purchase ever, the Wall Street Journal reported Saturday, citing people familiar with the matter. The purchase of Precision Castparts, which makes aircraft components and energy-production equipment, could be announced as soon as next week and be valued at more than $30 billion, assuming typical premiums for mergers, the newspaper said. Precision Castparts' market... Читать дальше...

At Outside Lands festival, fans revel in music and more

«SFGate» (sfgate.com) 

Marcus Mumford faced a sea of smiling, dust-caked faces as the sun dipped behind the trees on the Polo Field on Friday. Holding court at the Outside Lands music and art festival in Golden Gate Park, the front man for the British rock band Mumford & Sons had a hard time containing his enthusiasm after what felt like a perfect opening day. “I think this is one of the best festivals we've played, ever,” he said, shortly before leading the audience in a bounce-along rendition of the hit single “Believe.

OBC panel gathers info on Gujarat's backward people

«The Times of India» (indiatimes.com) 

Just as the Patidars' demand for OBC status gets shriller, the Gujarat Commission for Other Backward Classes has stated in its reply to an RTI query that it is already collecting information about the most backward communities in Gujarat.

Shaw University suspends band director, investigates conduct

«SFGate» (sfgate.com) 

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The South's first historically black university is suspending its band director days after band members protested tuition aid shifted to other Shaw University students. Multiple media organizations report the Raleigh school on Saturday suspended band director Charles Brown with pay while administrators investigate his behavior. University officials said the move is a personnel matter and unrelated to reallocating band scholarships. Band members protested outside Shaw's administrative... Читать дальше...

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Prestigious PRL award for Ramakrishnan

«The Times of India» (indiatimes.com) 

One of the most prestigious awards of the Physical Research Laboratory (PRL) for distinguished scientific contribution — given biennially on the birth anniversary of Vikram Sarabhai — will be conferred on Professor T V Ramakrishnan this year.

Report: $14M drone piloted from Ellsworth crashed overseas

«Seattle Post-Intelligencer» (seattlepi.com) 

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — A drone worth more than $14 million that was being remotely piloted from Ellsworth Air Force Base was intentionally crashed last year somewhere over the Middle East following a mechanical failure, according to a report from the U.S. Air Force. The report from the Aircraft Accident Investigation Board was released July 30. It says the MQ-9A Reaper drone made by General Atomics experienced a starter-generator failure during flight, the Rapid City Journal reported (http://bit.ly/1gTf6of... Читать дальше...

Civic body's organic food market proves wholesome for famers too

«The Times of India» (indiatimes.com) 

Ghee made from the milk of Gir cows, and organic vegetables and grams — a spectrum of such wholesome products is available at the Vastrapur organic market set up by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation.

'Chelsea move would benefit Stones'

BBC Sport 

Match of the Day's Alan Shearer believes it would be "fantastic" for the player if he moved from Everton to Chelsea.

'40 lakh Patidars will take part in Ahmedabad rally'

«The Times of India» (indiatimes.com) 

The leaders of the Patidar (Patel) quota movement are determined that they will hold a rally on the Sabarmati riverfront in Ahmedabad on August 25 whether or not the administration gives them permission.


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