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PERTH: The on-pitch beer party by the WACA staff, hours before the Perth match, is an insult to Test cricket and a political disaster, a media report said.

An Indian TV channel showed footage of a few men and women sitting and drinking beer on the WACA pitch, the night before the Perth Test between India and Australia.

The WACA curator had said it was just a customary celebration after a good work ahead of the match.

However, a report in Daily Telegraph slammed the behaviour by the WACA staff.

Australians, it seems, will drink anytime anywhere without any respect or regard. Is there anything more sacred or central to a Test match than the pitch on the evening before the match? the report asked.

What an insult to Test cricket and the visiting Indian team, it added.

The report lauded Curator Cameron Sutherlands stupendous job in preparing a lively pitch for the match but was critical of his and his teams behaviour.

Curator Cam Sutherland, who has done a terrific job rebuilding the WACA pitch into a fast and lively strip, went out into the middle and took the covers off for 10 minutes to check his handiwork. Staff having a traditional pre-Test drink followed him out there. No big deal they thought.

But this was and is a political disaster.

Malcolm Conn stated in his article that the incident would affect Australias image and also took a dig at the so called heavy security at WACA.

The more hysterical, nationalist elements of a large and diverse Indian cricket media will jump on every opportunity to reinforce the undercurrent of Australia as an arrogant, racist country.

So when overzealous and heavy-handed security at the WACA is imposed on those outside the fence, including the 100 strong Indian media corps, what are they to think of Australians allowed to wander around on the pitch drinking?

The writer was also critical of WACA chief executive Graeme Woods remarks that his staff did nothing wrong.

Wood should know better than most about international incidents. He was part of the Australian touring team to Pakistan in 1988 which threatened to return home because of perceived biased umpiring.

Surely Wood cant honestly believe that vision of his staff drinking on the Test pitch leading up to one of the very few big days in the year at his ground is the type of image Australia should be presenting to the cricket world.

The Loyola (MD) Greyhounds take a trip north to square off with the Niagara Purple Eagles. The Greyhounds look for their third straight win after knocking off St Peters 66-54 while the Purple Eagles seek to rebound from a 71-64 defeat at Manhattan.

Loyola (Maryland) has been a surprise team in the MAAC thus far with a 7-2 record that has them in a three way tie for first with Iona and Manhattan. The Greyhounds have outscored opponents 68-65 overall which arent impressive numbers but the defense has been playing far better in conference play which has made everything fall in to place. Having said that, Loyola (MD) is not a team that is so strong at either end of the floor to win on on their scoring or defense alone but need both units on the same page which is what we saw versus St Peters. The Greyhounds game plan is to get enough small advantages in significant categories which should add up to a win and in this case it was rebounding and foul shooting. Both teams made around 42% from the floor but the Grehounds made four more free throws and held a 33-21 edge on the boards including 14 offensive pulls leading to seven more shots. Erik Etherly paced the attack with 19 points and 8 pulls with Robert Olson and Dylon Cormier adding 15 and 10 points respectively.

Niagara is several years removed from when challenging for the top spot in the MAAC was nearly a foregone conclusion. Now the Purple Eagles are trying to work their way back in to the spotlight and it has been a slow, tedious process but it does look like progress is being made. This probably isnt the year Niagara makes a move as they are just 4-5 in the conference in a three way tie for fifth. The scoring is there but the defense is not with the Purple Eagles being outscored 74-71 on the year. Interesting enough, the scoring is up when Niagara has won in the MAAC and way down when they lose which is the trend that continued against Manhattan. With both teams making shots in the 40% range, Niagara stayed competitive with ten makes from long range but Manhattan proved to be a bit too strong on the glass and won the game at the foul line 25-8. Antoine Mason led the Niagara offense with 19 points with Ameen Tanksley and Marvin Jordan chipping in with 12 points each.

Loyola (MD) is in a first place tie in the conference and is a small favorite because Niagara hasnt been bad and have beaten the Greyhounds on the road. Its tough to beat a good team twice in any league but the Purple Eagles have ability…

SCOTTSDALE, AZ, Jan 13, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) –
EmpowHER, an award-winning social health company for women, today
announces new social media properties focusing around the business of
marketing to women, and the emergence of Health 3.0 — the social
health movement driven by peer health via social networking and
health information sharing, and how marketers and healthcare
executives can understand and capitalize on this new era.

Since its launch in 2008, EmpowHER has achieved a leading position in
the women’s online health and wellness space. Today, the company is
recognized as the fastest growing social health community for women.
EmpowHER Media expects to reach nearly 40M female health consumers on
EmpowHER.com, and another 200M through a powerful syndication network
that includes a Who’s Who of the Web like: Yahoo! Health, AOL, Shine
by Yahoo!, Hearst’s RealAge, Rodale’s Healthy Living Network,
HealthGuru Media, Howdini, Fox News Health and others. This
represents 400% growth from the more than 60M women EmpowHER reached
onsite and through syndication in 2011. Health and wellness brands
and health care industry professionals can follow EmpowHER Media
through its comprehensive social media platforms including: the
EmpowHER Media LinkedIn group — where professionals can engage in
discussions and ask questions; the @EmpowHERMedia twitter handle,
where marketers can stay updated on industry stats, latest reports
and key insights in health care and social media, EmpowHER Insights:
Marketing to Women Blog, and a health marketing Facebook page.

“Social Health will reshape the marketing mix for health and wellness
brands and healthcare marketers in the next several years, and
EmpowHER is a pioneer in social health,” said Thom Brodeur
(@thombempowher), Executive Vice President, EmpowHER Media. “Women
consume 80% of the premium health content on the Web; more than a
third of them seek peer health communities for discussing their
health and wellness issues, and they make 90% of all health and
wellness buying decisions for the home. Social health platforms that
provide a safe-haven for women will be where health and wellness
marketers shift the majority of their online marketing spend in 2012
and beyond. One-directional consumer marketing from health portals
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who plan to gain share of mind and wallet will win in social health
environments where they’re participating in consumer discussions not
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EmpowHER owns the largest original women’s health content library on
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comments and posts through the company’s proprietary ASK and SHARE
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boasts 280 affinity groups where community members discuss everything
from breast cancer treatment to healthy eating to reproductive and
sexual health. The hallmark is women talking to and helping each
other manage their personal health and wellness journeys.

“We are creating opportunities for our sponsoring clients and the
brands who want to reach, engage and influence female health
consumers more effectively,” said Jamie Glass (@EmpowHERJamie),
Senior Vice President of Sales & Client Services, EmpowHER Media.
“Brands need a social media and digital marketing partner who
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Visit EmpowHERMedia.com to learn more about the evolution of consumer
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About EmpowHER Media
EmpowHER Media is an award-winning,
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and wellness destination on the Web (comScore Media Metrix). As the
online home for female health consumers, EmpowHER.com offers a unique
value proposition of a peer health community and premium, original
women’s health and wellness content. Health care professionals,
brands and agency professionals rely on EmpowHER Media for reaching
the most influential health and wellness buyer on the Internet –
women. EmpowHER reached more than 60 million women onsite and through
syndication in 2011, and expects to reach more than 250 million in
2012.

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Lake City High School junior Joshua Norwood lifts dumbbells in weight-lifting class at Lake City High School on January 4, 2011. Norwood is much like a typical high school junior, though he suffers from spina bifida which requires him to use the only handicap accessible rest room twice-a-day in the schools Health Connections Clinic. The clinic received a $500,000 grant from the Department of Health and Human Services in December for improvements to the Health Connections clinic at the school. The clinic serves up to 40 students a day, dispensing medication, providing resources to students with medical needs and registered nurses on site to provide support to the school.

A bit of a splash erupted on the Web yesterday in the form of photos showing a boat displaying two hammerheads. One was a shark. The other was the celebrity, Rosie ODonnell.

The Web quickly lit up with attacks on Rosie, saying among other things that because she brought her kids fishing for sharks, she was a bad mom.

Well, maybe. But lets dissect just a little. Im willing to cut her some slack.

First, although Im a lifelong ocean conservationist, I am going to resist quite piling onto the attack. And Ill tell you why; Ive done something rather similar, as Ill explain. Then, for what its worth, Ill tell you the two things I found distasteful. But before we get to that, Ill tell you what I thought was positive about the story and what it says about us all — in a good way.

It was good was that people attacked Rosie for killing a shark. They didnt attack her for being liberal, an adoptive gay parent, or a lady fisherman. Im just a few years older than Rosie, and I can remember when a woman on a boat was a rarity. Any woman on a boat unaccompanied by a man was so unheard of that I rather vividly remember the first time I saw such a thing (I was 18, and she, early 20s, was wearing a rather nice halter top). Further, Rosie let her daughter fight the shark — a near-unthinkable incursion into what only a few years ago was a nearly unbreachable boys bastion of angling. So good for us — we focused on the part of the person and the story that mattered: her and the shark.

Now, about that, Ill cut her just a little slack. For about 20 years, I did a lot of shark fishing. And on more occasions than I can recall, I took kids with me. There are few things as exciting for a kid as throwing chunks of fish to a large shark swimming around a boat, or feeling its incredible power on the end of a line. I still get a kick out of it. One major difference is that we released almost all the sharks we ever caught. (And we didnt just cut the wire leader; I had a hook remover.) And the several sharks we killed, we ate. (I understood less about mercury then; sharks have a lot of it.) I killed my last shark, a mako, in 1997, and no sooner had I tied it to the boats cleat than I knew it would be my last. Sharks were getting scarcer. (In my book, The View From Lazy Point, that capture and my change of heart is chronicled.) I am not ashamed of what I did then, but I wouldnt do it now. The sharks, and the world, have changed.

Ms. ODonnell, by contrast, was unrepentant, defiant, and profane in response to her shark-hugging critics. I would have preferred her to seem a little more evolved on things ocean, explaining that it was years ago and she now understands things differently. Instead, in her Twitter tweets she defended the killing by saying that hammerhead shark meat can be used to bait crab traps. Well, so can human corpses. And that reminds me of a good joke from Maine, but thats for another time.*

Probably most distasteful about the incident is that the boat captain put these photos on his web site after the state banned killing of all three species of hammerheads. That ban just went into effect January 1. Its probably no coincidence that he posted years old photos right after a ban for the species. It shows disdain for the sharks hes made a living from (where I live, a lot of boats carry paying customers for catch-and-release shark fishing), disrespect for the new law, and a certain macho desperation in trying to defy changing public attitudes towards ocean wildlife. His web site also displays a rather remarkable congenital boastfulness and an penchant for unusual capitalization (We are a better Charter Fishing Boat than the Saltwater Sport Fishing Charter Boats on the East Coast and in the Florida Keys, including the fleet of Deep Sea Fishing Boats in Key West). All of which add up to making him yet another hammerhead in his own story.

Though killing the shark a few years ago is different than catching a protected species just after a fishing ban has been instated, its not really a ton better. Its been obvious for 20 years that hammerhead sharks were among the first to get scarce after the global shark fin trade got out of control in the 1980s. (Shark fin is used as a thickener in Chinese shark fin soup, where part of the appeal is the idea of imbibing the strength and ferocity of the shark through its pulverized fins, an idea on par with thinking youd stay warm if you ate polar bear fur.) Since I started shark fishing, I never would have considered killing a hammerhead.

I did, however, see hammerheads — and various other large sharks — virtually disappear before my eyes. When I first started fishing for sharks off Long Island, NY, in the 1980s, hammerheads were common. One day I hailed a distant boat over the radio to ask how he was doing, and he replied, Plenty of hammerheads. Those days, long gone.

One boat, and one celebrity are nothing compared to the millions of sharks killed worldwide annually in commercial fisheries. But lets face it; it looks bad. Ms. ODonnell might want to consider: 1) not killing more sharks, 2) taking her kids scuba diving, 3) fishing for dinner and going home when theyve caught enough, 4) getting a nice camera and good binoculars and, when the urge to go shark fishing strikes, going birding instead. It would all seem well suited to her otherwise caring and compassionate public persona.

*Oh, yes, now about that joke… Two lobstermen are hauling a line of traps when, strangely, up comes a big mass of lobsters that simply falls onto the deck; the mate suddenly realizes in horror that the lobsters were clinging to a human corpse that has somehow become tangled on their line. In panic he yells to the captain, What should I do? Surprised at the question, the captain replies, Hell, set im again.

MELBOURNE, Australia, Jan. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ –
Applications for ICANN’s new Top-Level Domain program open 12 Jan for 90 days. ARI Registry Services provides insight into how the application period will unfold

A third of all applicants participating in ICANN’s (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) new Top-Level Domain program will come from the IT and financial services industries, according to figures released by ARI Registry Services today as the application window opens tomorrow.

ARI Registry Services is predicting more than 1000 applications will be submitted between 12 January and the 12 April 2012 deadline.

According to the new Top-Level Domain (TLD) technology provider, brands have shown the strongest interest with two thirds of all applications expected to be for a .brand new TLD. This will be followed by entrepreneurs (30% of applications) seeking to profit from generic terms like .shop or .hotel. The remaining 10% will come from governments and other groups wanting to represent their city or region online with a geographic TLD like .sydney, .paris or .tokyo.

Adrian Kinderis, CEO of ARI Registry Services, said: “Analysis of more than 400 clients we’ve engaged with globally over the past year shows technology and finance companies in Asia Pacific and the US lead the pack.”

Strongest interest has come from businesses in the Asia Pacific region (52%), followed by the United States (29%), Europe (10%), Middle East (7%) and Africa (2%).

“The first round of new domains will be dominated by technology brands (20%), as the IT industry recognises the huge opportunity to innovate. This will be closely followed by banks and other financial service providers (11%) who are jumping at the opportunity for the increased online security and trust that comes with a .brand domain,” Mr Kinderis said.

“Now’s the perfect time for brands to consider a new Top-Level Domain as part of their long-term digital marketing strategy,” he continued.

Speculating on the results, Mr Kinderis said the attractive sales and marketing benefits of new Top-Level Domains has likely appealed to the IT, finance and retail industries as a way to differentiate themselves – especially important in light of the economic downturn.

“A .brand new Top-Level Domain will deliver improved trust, leadership, customer engagement and message recall by providing a direct connection between the customer and the brand experience online. The rapid growth of e-commerce and online retail also complements the move to a .brand domain name. For example, in the near future we may see short, relevant and memorable domain names such as iphone.apple, creditcards.hsbc and shoes.nike.”

However, Mr Kinderis warned that potential applicants need to act quickly if they want to reap these benefits.

“There is a huge first-mover advantage for brands applying in the initial round. It’s taken ICANN six years to approve this program – no one knows when there will be another opportunity to apply. We are helping our clients get a head start with a progressive digital asset years ahead of their competitors. Brands which previously had to compromise their web address can now own a relevant and targeted address with huge potential search engine optimisation benefits.”

Mr Kinderis said a research report commissioned by ARI Registry Services in November found there is a low level of awareness about the program globally. Despite this, the report found significant revenue potential for entrepreneurs to own industry-specific Top-Level Domains such as .shop, .law or .hotel and commercialise them by on-selling second-level domains to relevant businesses (e.g. retailername.shop or lawfirm.law). It suggested that multi-million dollar annual returns are on offer for applicants willing to invest in a new TLD.

He noted that consumers and Internet users will see the first new Top-Level Domains appear online from early 2013, forever changing the way they’ll navigate the Internet.

Further statistical breakdowns of industry sectors and regions interested in applying for a new Top-Level Domain are available on request.

Media contact:Michael Korjen Public Relations ManagerARI Registry Services Ph: +61-3-9866-3710 Email: michael.korjen@ariservices.com
www.ariservices.com

About ARI Registry Services

ARI Registry Services (formerly AusRegistry International) is one of the top companies globally with the technology and expertise to activate, implement and manage new Top-Level Domains. Leveraging ten years of experience as a TLD registry operator, ARI Registry Services will provide new Top-Level Domain applicants with the same software and consulting services that currently drive the .au (Australia), the .ae (United Arab Emirates), the .qa (Qatar) and .om (Oman) country codes. Additionally, ARI Registry Services is the first TLD registry to operate non-Latin, country code Top-Level Domains and a global leader in the continued innovation and expansion of the Domain Name System.

Visit
www.ariservices.com or find out more about the new Top-Level Domain program here:
www.beyonddotcom.info

SOURCE ARI Registry Services

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Relying on social media, Russian activists are attempting to organize more mass rallies against the Russian government. Here, protesters staged a huge rally in Moscow on Dec. 24, 2011, alleging vote rigging in parliamentary polls.

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Russia’s largest anti-government demonstrations since the Soviet breakup of 1991 are being organized and driven by a force that didn’t exist two decades ago — social media.

In recent years, protests have been relatively rare, and Russians who got their news from state-run television essentially saw one narrative — one that relentlessly extolled the virtues of the country’s leaders, particularly Vladimir Putin.

But demonstrators took to the streets last month after parliamentary elections that were widely seen as fraudulent. And activists are trying to maintain that momentum with slick Internet videos that satirize and disparage Russia’s government.

One of those videos welcomes viewers to a mental asylum, where the inmates vote for Putin, the current prime minister. Putin has already served two terms as president, from 2000 to 2008. His decision to run for a third term in March served as a rallying point for his critics, along with irregularities in the parliamentary voting.

Some 50 million Russians are now on the Internet, absorbing these videos and using it as a forum to vent their frustration over government corruption, the top-down political system, and alleged election fraud.

Internet, Facebook, Twitter and other social media helped mobilize the protests last month. The demonstrations were enormous. Tens of thousands protested in Moscow on Dec. 24, with some estimates putting the figure at as many as 100,000.

Planning The Next Protest

The next demonstration is set for Feb. 4, and organizers are busy preparing for it on the Internet.

Alexey Kozlov, 38, peers at his laptop computer, opened to a page on Yandex, the Russian equivalent of Google. Kozlov, an executive at an investment firm in Moscow, is helping to organize online contributions for the protest rallies.

The money will pay for hot meals, a proper stage and sound equipment. Kozlov says contributions have been flooding in from all over Russia. The average contribution is 1,000 rubles, about $30. Donations shot up after Putin charged that the rallies were being backed by foreigners.

“When our authorities begin to say that this is money from the State Department, I think that the more than 5,000 people who really transferred the money, they became very angry about this,” he said.

Kozlov says organizers are also using the Internet to get input from citizens on who should speak at the rallies.

Kozlov says he sees the use of social media in Russia growing and becoming bolder. Last month, video footage showing fraudulent practices at polling stations during parliamentary elections lit up the Internet.

New Video Of Alleged Fraud

This week, Igor Drandin, a 31-year-old Web designer, recorded and posted a video showing about two dozen university students allegedly falsifying election registration forms.

Drandin says it’s useless to complain to the Central Election Commission about the forgeries. The video is more powerful. Drandin is a member of an activist group called Democratic Choice, which will start training people to be observers during the March presidential election.

“We’ll certainly recommend [they] get a video camera to record everything,” he says. “Because this is the most efficient way to struggle against those cheaters. They are afraid of video.”

All this has caught the government off guard, says Nikolay Petrov, an analyst at the Carnegie Moscow Center.

“Two months ago, Putin was saying that the Internet doesn’t deserve any real attention, and it’s the place where pornography dominates,” Petrov says. “Now he’s eager to order a bigger presence of the government and authorities in general on the Internet.”

But it’s been a rocky start — Putin’s own website was unveiled Thursday. The comments section quickly filled with calls for him to resign. Those comments later disappeared from the site.

Walt Disney Studios has tapped former Participant Media prexy Ricky Strauss as head of marketing, ending a monthslong search to replace MT Carney, who announced her departure last week after a rocky 18-month tenure.

Strauss, who spent 16 years as a marketing and production exec at Sony, comes into the job with considerably more experience than had Carney, a Hollywood newcomer who was chosen to bring out-of-the-box thinking to Disneys campaigns.

Though Strauss is a seasoned studio marketing vet, his selection by no means signals that Disney Studios chairman Rich Ross is abandoning that strategy. Ross is keen on alternative marketing through targeted outreach, social media and partnerships, a tack that Strauss took at Participant, known for its unique, socially conscious campaigns.

At Participant, Strauss had worked with the Disney team in recent months in overseeing marketing and outreach for the Touchstone-distribbed DreamWorks hit The Help.

I am happy to welcome Ricky Strauss to The Walt Disney Studios family. With 25 years of industry experience, he brings a deep understanding of all aspects of the film business as well as incredible skill in branding and cutting-edge marketing, Ross said in a statement. He will undoubtedly raise the studios creative bar as we enter 2012 and look ahead at showcasing a spectacular slate of films to audiences around the world.

In his role, Strauss will oversee global marketing for promotions, publicity, research and synergy across all distribution channels for motion pictures released under the Walt Disney Pictures (including Walt Disney Animation and Pixar Animation), Marvel Studios, and Touchstone Pictures banners, including DreamWorks Studios pics released through Touchstone.

His mandate will be to carry out Ross wish to make marketing dollars work more efficiently and last longer through campaigns that go beyond traditional ad buys and physical marketing materials.

Disney, Pixar, Ma rvel, and DreamWorks Studios are among the worlds best and brightest brands, said Strauss. I look forward now to getting to work with the exceptional team at Disney, doing some of the most innovative marketing in the industry.

After Carney failed to acclimate to Hollywoods insular culture, it comes as no surprise that Carneys replacement has a deep resume in the film biz. Strauss previously worked as a senior marketing executive and senior veep of production at Columbia/TriStar Pictures. The appointment of Carney, a marketing vet who was schooled in new media but had no film background, turned out to be a major misstep for Disney. She was one of Ross first major hires, appointed in April 2010, on the heels of his promotion from Disney Channels Worldwide boss to the film studio chief post in October 2009.

Before joining Participant in 2005, Strauss founded Sony-based Ricochet Entertainment, where he exec produced the Cameron Diaz film The Sweetest Thing, among other projects.

When Carney was hired two years ago, skeptics questioned whether a person without a background in studio marketing could fill the role. Rumors of her exit began almost immediately, but studio execs repeatedly said they were happy with her work. Since she signed on, Pirates of the Carribean: On Stranger Tides passed $1 billion worldwide, while Cars 2 hit more than $500 million — but there were also flops, most notably Mars Needs Moms.

Strauss comes on board with elaborate campaign for sci-fier John Carter already in place with a March 9 launch. Key upcoming titles for Disney are Marvels The Avengers on May 4, Pixars Brave on June 12, The Odd Life of Timothy Green on Aug. 15, Tim Burtons Frankenweenie on Oct. 5 and Wreck-it Ralph on Nov. 2.

Click here for more film news on Variety.com.

Shopping at Michael’s Arts Crafts – m4w (Tennessee) You had curly brown hair and lovely skin – I like a woman who doesn’t obsess over her weight. I couldn’t help but peek in your basket – great fabric choice. And I noticed when I followed you to the parking lot that you have a small dog – I have a small dog, too! Would love to get together sometime and share lotion.

Handsome fella in the town square – w4m (Boston) You helped me when I dropped my scarf in the mud. You looked so embarrassed when our fingers touched briefly – your cheeks turned scarlet. I’d enjoy sharing a cup of tea sometime. Ask anyone – when it comes to loving, I get an ‘A’.

sexy hobbitses – m4w (misty mountain) oh precious precious hobbitses! we loves your chubby fingers and furry feets. we will gives you a ring. we loves you, we loves you, we loves you forever!

(Pssssst. Just in case you missed one of these connections, highlight the text below…)

1. Captain Hook, Peter Pan
2. Ignatius J. Reilly, A Confederacy of Dunces
3. Kaa, The Jungle Book
4. Mrs. Rochester, Jane Eyre
5. Owen Meany, A Prayer for Owen Meany
6. Lucy Westernra, Dracula
7. Buffalo Bill, Silence of the Lambs
8. Hester Prynne, The Scarlet Letter
9. Gollum, The Hobbit

Read more at BookRiot.com

The finance ministry has put a spanner in railways minister Dinesh Trivedi’s proposal, to incorporate five projects involving the construction of 453.73 km of rail tracks at a cost of Rs 2,197.41 crore in the upcoming rail budget in March.

The finance ministry’s reservations are that, four