Coining a Greener Tea Bag

They may look like chocolate cookies, but they're actually tea coins.

They were invented by teamakers in a village in Assam in northeast India, and they're an eco-friendly alternative to the traditional teabag.

Assam is the world's largest tea-growing region and Rajesh Singpho is one of many teamakers.

And he is now making a name for himself by manufacturing the coins.

[Rajesh Singpho, Tea Coin Manufacturer]:
"We have been traditionally making it for many years now. In 2006 we started marketing this traditional tea and received a lot of positive response."

The coins are hand-pressed and are a mix of Oolong and green tea.

They've been popular in local Indian communities for some time, but now they're starting to take off internationally as well.

[Rjesh Singpho, Tea Coin Manufacturer]:
"We have already started marketing this tea here. And now even the U.S. is demanding this tea. Apart from that, we have begun marketing the tea in Hong Kong and China."

The tea-coin makers only use natural fertilizers and organic pest sprays.

People living in this region of Assam believe that drinking the tea helps to control diabetes, cancer and heart disease.

So if conventional medicine is not your proverbial cup of tea, at just over four dollars a kilogram, tea coins may just be the perfect brew.

Reserves show they are second best.

The Rangers' faithful took to the road this evening to visit Crawley Town, a team that has had some very good pre season results so far, they have claimed the scalps of Millwall, a Chelsea XI and an Arsenal XI and looked to add to their list as we traveled down from West London.

Sam was being treated to a day in the press office with Matt so they headed down early to the Broadfield Stadium and were quick to warn me of an accident that was holding up many travellers on the M25, luckily I had finished work late and managed to create my own diversion to the ground and was probably only of very few travelling fans that had an issue free journey down to Sussex. Having found out on the way down to Crawley that we were fielding a reserve side I must admit I did wonder if the effort was all worth it.... but I still decided to attend, am I a mug or just a loyal fan (like all the other R's faithful that made the effort), you decide!



Having parked up and got inside the ground early enough to find a spare seat, I sat in amongst a few Crawley fans and a few Rangers fans and listened to views as I had nothing else to do before kick off.
So the game started and within 10seconds of the start Romone Rose put a shot just wide of the post and gave us some hope into what could be a good chance for some of our fringe players to shine, but shine they didn't!
Crawley's passing play created problems for the R's defence and soon Cerny was called into action and he made two sublime saves before the inevitable first goal came.
A Crawley striker, who I really don't know, broke the offside trap with a perfectly timed run and as he was bearing down on goal a simple pass to the side gave a striker, who was frequently called 'Tubbsy', an easy tap in from close range and gave the home side a deserved lead.
The rest of the half in a blur to my memory but I can honestly tell you that the lack of detail will probably help more than anything.



After queuing up to get a drink for myself and Gobi, who I had arranged to meet for a half time chit chat and catch up on whats been going on, i bumped into to friends at the bottom of the stand and was stood chatting from the middle of half time until the second Crawley goal went in (6th minute) and then finally got up to give Gobi his drink and finally catch up on what is happening.

Tubbs had scored the second goal of the game when he was slotted through to be one on one with Cerny and the Devils striker lashed the ball home and pretty much ended the game as a contest.
The final 10 minutes of the game saw an improved period for the R's but its wasn't enough to claim anything back from a Crawley side that fully deserved their win again the R's second string.



Crawley have made an astute few signings after capturing Michel Kuipers (ex Brighton goalkeeper), Sergio Torres ( ex Wycombe and Peterborough) and Pablo Mills (from Rotherham's promoted side last season), these signings along with their lively striker Tubbs and the passing football that they displayed tonight made myself and Gobi think that this side could possibly challenge for promotion out of the Conference next year.

We move onto Plymouth at home on Friday for what will hopefully be a full strength side.

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way of previous knowledge about the history of the Hungarian Grand Prix, a must for the F1 in eastern Europe.

After

several attempts in the early 30's by the Hungarian government to have a Grand Prix in their country, finally took and held the first and only GP in Hungary before the Second War Mundial.El chosen circuit was built in the Park Népliget in the capital, Budapest and was held on June 21, 1936.

had a length of 4.898 km 20 curves and ran anti-clockwise.
Contrary to what we discussed last week's Hockenheimring in this circuit was not important engine power but the handling of the car.
Thus in this race broke the dominance of Mercedes and Auto-Union and its Nuvolari Alfa Romeo 8C-35 won the race. He also set the fastest lap that was 3m35.6, with an average speed of 83.49 km / h.

The estimated audience was over 100,000 personasEsta race was another remarkable fact, she enrolled in a woman, Miss Eileen Ellison with a Maserati, was ultimately unable to exit, but it was a pilot too important at the time that did manage to run in the South African GP 1936.

Then came World War II, Hungary fell behind the Iron Curtain, in the history books did not know what happened at that time in those countries ... but there was a thing called the "Warsaw Pact"
And Bernie Ecclestone appears in history ... you miss half of Europe of their plans, so that in the first 80 began to take steps to have GP "Communist." He wanted in the USSR, but first to Brezhnev (d. 1982) and its successors Andropov and Chernenko shooting, there was nothing to do, so following the advice of a Hungarian friend, began talks with the government of that country.

At first we studied the possibility of returning to Népliget and have another street circuit like Monaco, but in the end it was to the conclusion that it was better to build a new circuit and so in 1985 construction began on the Hungaroring (Mogyoród), which was finished in only 8 months ... less time the circuit has been built.

Thus the March 24, 1986 was held on Grand Prix of Hungary, 50 years after the last, and the only behind the "Iron Curtain" with 200,000 people in the stands.
still attracts a large number of spectators and that given its geographical location is very convenient for fans of the surrounding countries, Germany, Austria and Poland by Kubica recently as curiosity, there is always a large number of Finns ... we'll see this year without Kimi.

Since its birth has not greatly changed, in 2003, lengthening the home straight and adjust the curve 1 being symmetrical to the entrance to the home straight.
This change was motivated by an attempt to increase overtaking opportunities because they do not usually see a lot of overtaking and for example in 1990, Thierry Boutsen was able to retain all behind her career to slow Williams Ayton Senna and his McLaren-Honda.
During its construction plans to make it less sluggish with the addition of some fast corners were thwarted because of a spring underground prevented it.
The circuit is in a central European region characterized by hot dry summers so races are held usually dry, being the only GP in the last rain of 2006 and that gave us unforgettable moments.

Given the nature of the circuit, narrow, twisty and quite dirty races usually quite processional and therefore the best way to gain positions in the strategies she used to be stops. Let's see now that there is no refueling happens ... A good example was in 1998 when Ferrari (Ross Brawn) changed the strategy to be followed by Michael Schumacher of 2 to 3 stops mid-race, I just needed enough to open a gap in 20 laps to go first. They succeeded and won the race Schumi.

Two drivers were proclaimed World Champions in the Hugaroring in its 20 year history, the first was Nigel Mansell in 1992 and the second Michael Schumacher in 2001. Furthermore the Williams-Renault team also champion here in the year 1996.The 2 pilots "local" Zsolt Baumgartner, Hungary, and Poland's Robert Kubica made their debut at this track.

Many drivers like Ayrton Senna, Nigel Mansell, Michael Schumacher and Fernando Alonso have said they love the circuit and is one of your favorites or your favorite, while others complain it is too slow, hot and demanding.
in 2009 confirmed that the Hungaroring continue to hold the GP of Hungary until 2016.

These are the results of the Hungarian Grand Prix, year after year since its inception:

1986: The many spectators in the stands in the return of the F-1 at Hungary after 50 years as cute vibrated the fratricidal duel faced throughout the trial to Brazilian drivers Nelson Piquet and Ayrton Senna. The maneuver made by the first stroke to advance to second to end of line is etched forever in the annals of the history of F1.

1987: The Brazilian Nelson Piquet repeat victory at the Hungaroring after a teammate-not friend and great rival in the fight for the title that year, Nigel Mansell, he broke off a piece brake of a wheel when victory was almost in the palm of your hand.

1988: The two pilots of the McLaren-Honda team physically attached cross under the checkered flag obtaining a double victory in that triumphant season that saw them win all but one Grand Prix. On this occasion Ayrton "Magic" Senna preceded the "Professor" Alain Prost.

1989: Another fratricidal duel was experienced in the issue of having 89 players on this occasion as the fiery Nigel Mansell and Ayrton Senna. Building on the dubbing of "slow" Onyx of Sweden Stefan Johansson, the "Lion" broke leaving reaction power and with a span of nostrils to his surprised opponent who had no choice but to give in to the perfect overtaking maneuver carried out by British .

1990: Immersed in a duel to conquer the second of his world titles and knowing that at that moment a second was more important than launching into a duel over a hypothetical victory that could go badly, Ayrton Senna was limited to escort the Williams-Renault Belgian Thierry Boutsen to the finish line. Behind them, Mansell, Berger and Berger Nannini-not paying theirs.

1991: The Japanese Honda had to work a great time giving a horsepower than Ayrton Senna Mclaren so that he could break the triumphant run of victories that the British Nigel Mansell Williams-Renault had obtained in the last three races.

1992: After losing at least twice a world title merit and self-respect that would have been entitled, Briton Nigel Mansell finally get the coveted global award Magyar soil. The abandonment of his team mate Riccardo Patrese and finish in the top three was what I needed Mansell. Both circumstances occurred with the British ranked in second place after Ayrton Senna and ahead of his fellow Austrian Gerhard Berger McLaren.

1993: After losing two victories at Silverstone and Hockenheim sung, Britain's Damon Hill gets his first victory in Formula-1 ahead of Benetton's Italian veteran Ricardo Patrese and Austrian Gerhard Berger's Ferrari.

1994: Michael Schumacher scored a comfortable victory in the 1994 edition of unmitigated beating his rival in the fight for the title of this year's British Damon Hill Williams-Renault. The third spot on the podium accounted for the first time in the history of the F-1 to a Dutch driver Jos Verstappen a couple of weeks before had taken the shock of his life when his car caught fire in a pit stop during the German Grand Prix .

1995: Doublet Williams-Renault team in Hungary with Damon Hill still had hopes of being able to fight against Michael Schumacher world title that year. The German left this time with broken engine a few laps to go.

1996: Although no one considered the favorite, Canadian Jacques Villeneuve won an unexpected but deserved victory at the Hungaroring preceding the finish line teammate Damon Hill and Jean Alesi Benetton.

1997: Jacques Villeneuve Magyar repeat victory in soil in a race dominated from start to finish for the title world champion Damon Hill, Arrows-Yamaha which was practically standing on the last lap and promoting the unexpected triumph of pilot Canada.

1998: The team's Finnish driver Mika Hakkinen McLaren-Mercedes gets a tremendous victory in Hungary which was presented his credentials to a world title that finally conquered.

1999: The title world champion Mika Hakkinen and David Coulthard managed a formidable one-two for McLaren-Mercedes ahead of Eddie Irvine Ferrari Irish staged an embarrassing performance that going off track by more than one occasion.

2000: With the victory in Hungary Mika Hakkinen tried to resist the push of a Michael Schumacher who was determined and finally achieved regain a world title for Ferrari, who resisted for 21 years.

2001: With a Ferrari increasingly strong and increasingly Mclaren Michael Schumacher decline with Rubens Barrichello got a double victory for the team's "Prancing Pony." 2002: With the second place finish behind team-mate Rubens Barrichello Michael Schumacher equaled the record of five world titles of the legendary Juan Manuel Fangio. His brother Ralf Schumacher was at the podium to congratulate the success.

2003: Fernando Alonso stood with his first victory, leaving in the retina of millions of viewers overshoot (to get nothing less than a fly) the almighty Schumacher.

2004: total domain of the cars of Maranello and a new victory of the "Kaiser" Michael Schumacher ahead of Rubens Barrichello that you both get the mathematical certainty of conquering a new world constructors' title for the Scuderia. Always brilliant in Hungary, our compatriot Fernando Alonso have won the third place.

2005: McLaren's Kimi Raikkonen won the Hungarian Grand Prix this year, the 13 th of the season. This was the third win of the season for Kimi. In the second place Michael Schumacher placed preceding his younger brother Ralf and Jarno Trulli both at the controls of two separate Toyota. The Fifth went to Jenson Button in front of the Williams of Heidfeld and Webber. the last point ended up in the hands of Takuma Sato and BAR-Honda. Fernando Alonso could only manage 11 second behind Barrichello.

2006: The Flood decided to breed during the dispute of the Hungarian Grand Prix this year and the driving ability of Fernando Alonso in these conditions to surface again. The champion made a demonstration ahead of rivals in a way that was almost a mockery to them, such was their inferiority to the Renault driver. Unfortunately ill-fitting nut on the car of Alonso, during one of the pit stops, ended up out of your accommodation making the car and its driver stay out of the race.
Michael Schumacher tried to resist in their place with inadequate tires and forced situations not letting pass. Pedro de la Rosa had a major German rifirafe with brushed unsportsmanlike to keep your place. Finally, De la Rosa finished in second place and a magnificent victory, a tactic favored by very successful career, was placed in the hands of Jenson Button in this way managed to climb the top step of the podium for the first time in his career F1.

2007: The Magyar race of the 2007 season was preceded by a bitter controversy. In the session Saturday's qualifying Alonso was the pilot who set the fastest time but the commissioners decided to delay circuit five posts into English for an alleged irregularity in the final pit stop to ride the final set of tires. Alonso's car was stopped in the box more than was necessary in theory, leaving no option of completing the last attempt at his teammate.
The controversial stewards' decision conditioned the choices of the world champion was forced to battle in traffic throughout the race. Hamilton, starting from the pole won the race ahead of Raikkonen seemed to roll faster that English and to demonstrate marked the fastest lap on his last lap. The Finn eventually finished second, near Hamilton, Heidfeld was third tough and Alonso finished fourth in a race that could have won had not suffered the penalty on Saturday.

2008: First career victory for the Finn Heikki Kovalainen. The McLarens were the strongest on Saturday, with Hamilton and Kovalainen on pole second. Massa stalked them in the second row ahead of a surprising Timo Glock and Kimi Raikkonen in qualifying fatal, came sixth in front of Alonso. Kubica in fifth place, was the target of both.

2009: This edition of the Hungarian Grand Prix will be remembered mainly for two unique circumstances. The first is the serious accident suffered by Felipe Massa who was beaten in the head during Saturday practice, a spring escaped the car of Rubens Barrichello. Massa suffered a fractured skull and for some time came to fear for their safety.
The other circumstance that will be remembered this was the debut Grand Prix F1 of a English rider, Alguersuari, who also became the youngest driver to break into the premier class.

On the sports, victory went to the hands of Kimi Raikkonen Lewis Hamilton Mark Webber second and third. Fernando Alonso, who started from pole position, had to leave when he was leading the race after a litany of problems. First, he lost a wheel coming out of your tire changing. After a ride in the car on three wheels, hard compound tires mounted and loaded fuel to try to reach the final. I really came to the end then, a few laps, the fuel pump had enough of his Renault and English champion had to retire from the race.

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A professional singer In India's western Nagpur city, sings for 80 hours to set a new world record.

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Hungarian Grand Prix Team Orders

Team orders in Formula One have existed since the creation of the world championship in 1950, still exist, as was shown yesterday at the German Grand Prix, and will remain, as will be corroborated in future, despite from the 2003 season are officially banned.

Beyond that many of us disappointed, the team orders have been served since the beginning of the world championship of Formula One to promote the interests of the teams in order win or a race or the final title.
In the early years of global shared even cars and in case of failure of one of them, the pilot could retire rather than get into the car of a colleague and at the end of the test points were shared.

We have highlighted in several post, causing displeasure in any pilot having to give your car to any partner ... but the system worked well, and by signing a contract with a wise pilot Scuderia maybe I should give up a victory to succeed her partner.

In the Grand Prix of Great Britain in 1957, played in the circuit of Aintree, Liverpool, there was the historical fact of the first victory of a British car (Vamwall), driven not by one but by two British pilots.
Stirling Moss, who had achieved first place in the formation of departure, had to retire on lap 51 of the 90 that comprised the race by an engine problem and took the car from his compatriot Tony Brooks, who crossed the finish line in first position.

The crash of Lorenzo Bandini (Ferrari) and Graham Hill (BRM) in the Grand Prix of Mexico in 1964 that resulted in the removal of the second and lost the world title for the benefit of Britain's John Surtees Ferrari, was then considered by many as a consequence, extreme team orders.

The ban on team orders came at the start of the 2003 season, after two cases of difficult to substantiate, the responsibility fell on the current president of the International Automobile Federation (FIA), Frenchman Jean Todt, then sporting director of Ferrari.

In the Grand Prix of Austria in 2002, sixth round of the championship and had four wins from German Michael Schumacher. Todt ordered Rubens Barrichello to let go to Germany to further strengthen its leading position in the world. Barrichello dominated
the race and only stopped a few meters from the finish line to prove that victory was theirs and make way for Schumacher, who did not need the victory to be world champion.

was the beginning of an era extremely unpleasant for the F1, where the Ferrari driver was limited to looking after the backs of the almighty Schumacher, racing in spectacles becoming monotonous.

That same year in the United States Grand Prix at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, and awarded the title, Michael Schumacher wanted to return him to victory in Austria and let Barrichello win in the last moment.
These two races in a season dominated from start to finish for Ferrari, who won 15 of the 17 races, of which Schumacher won eleven, led the FIA \u200b\u200bto ban team orders.

However, despite the ban in 2007, the Brazilian Grand Prix, the final race of the season, Felipe Massa and had to leave his first since his teammate Kimi Raikkonen, who thanks to this won the world championship with a point ahead of Lewis Hamilton (McLaren) and Fernando Alonso (McLaren).
The following season was Raikkonen who had to pass Massa at the China Grand Prix, the penultimate global test, for this to finish second behind Hamilton. However, two weeks after Brazil lost the World Cup before his audience at the final corner of his Grand Prix.

The score difference between Alonso and Massa, 98 through 67, before the race and the fact that Fernando Alonso was fastest on Friday, Saturday and Sunday's race, forcing Ferrari to ask the Brazilian English ceded his post, in the view that this would continue to fight for the championship.
If Massa was in front of the race was because the German Sebastian Vettel (Red Bull) locked him up against the wall at the exit and left free path.

The race director Charlie Whiting, who already took its toll on the Grand Prix of Great Britain to Fernando Alonso for his advancement to Poland's Robert Kubica (Renault), held in Valencia after the race had been manipulated , sent a report to the stewards, who sanctioned the $ 100,000 Ferrari.

here to enter the technical considerations, as to the face of sport is arguably the issue of whether or not there should be orders from the pitwall ... the majority of fans we want the fight wheel to wheel not maneuvers orchestrated in advance, but definitely interesting of the F1 fans do not go hand in hand with the interests of the teams, drivers and leadership in general.

Now the case rests with the FIA \u200b\u200bWorld Council, chaired by the cause of the ban on team orders, Jean Todt (yes, yes, the one who ordered Rubens braking on the finish line) , whose decision will not in any event, that team orders continue to give more or less discretion on the part of the teams.

Rangers continue unbeaten pre season in Italy

The past week has seen the pre season preparations continue over in Italy where two more warm up games were due to be played as well as continuing the hard work ready for the start of the new season which is now only two weeks away.

Rangers landed in Italy early in the week and played their first game of the tour against Equipe Romagna. The hosts fielded a side full of former Serie A players who are free agents and looking for clubs during the pre season.
Rangers won the game 4-1 courtesy of goals from Hogan Ephraim, a Leon Clarke double and young star Josh Parker.

The hard work continued and the final game of the tour was played tonight(Sunday) against Lega Pro Prima Divisione side Ravenna Calcio.
The game was marred by some dangerous challenges and also featured two red cards, one for either side. Hogan Ephraim kept up his good form in front of goal by bagging yet another goal, Jamie Mackie scored what proved to be the winning goal. Fitz Hall was sent off for his part in what is described as a 'minor scuffle'.

Rangers' will continue their pre season build up at Crawley on Wednesday night.


On a side note, there has been a fantasy football league set up for the readers of Lofty Heights to compete in.

Go to http://fantasy.premierleague.com/ and register your team for free and join our league for a bit of fun during the coming season. To join the Lofty Heights League simply enter the league code 70073-48710 and see if you can top the table against everyone.

Maxim's 16 Hottest Cover Shoot Videos

After days of watching every single cover shoot video thrice and consulting a Magic 8 Ball, we ultimately decided on the 16 hottest videos to ever grace a computer screen.

16. Amanda Bynes (Cover Issue: February 2010)

Notice how our cameraman NEVER mentions to her that she's hanging out of her shirt. That takes years of training.

15. Vanessa Minnillo (Cover Issue: October 2006)

Vanessa, a former Miss Teen USA, channels her inner Bonnie & Clyde (mostly Bonnie) for this shoot, where she seduces a chair and hanging beads. And we're all better off for it.

14. Ashley Greene (Cover Issue: December 2009)

Because nothing says "sexy vampire" like to some pan flute-infused jazz music. Dig that vibe, man.

13. Emmanuelle Vaugier (Cover Issue: February 2006)

OK, before you send us e-mails, we know that she says she's shooting the March cover. But she was so hot we couldn't wait that long.

12. Stacy Keibler (Cover Issue: November 2008)

She's hot, knows math ("only 12 girls a year get this honor" and "my legs are 41.5 inches long") and builds up our self-esteem ("one of my favorite shoots ever!"). Oh, and she's looking for a guy who "drinks beer and burps." Stacy, welcome to the Top 12.

11. Eliza Dushku (Cover Issue: March 2009)

Sure, she reveals that she flat-out lied to her three brothers by doing this cover shoot. But after seeing her in this sexy lingerie, we could care less.

10. Sara Foster (Cover Issue: April 2005)

Those pouty looks. Those white socks. That hot pink chair. Need we say more?


9. Olivia Wilde (Cover Issue: July 2009)

We're really proud of this video. When Olivia says "It's cool that people see intelligence as sexy," our cameraman doesn't even snicker.


8. Tricia Helfer and Grace Park (Cover Issue: November 2009)

Two words: Battlestar Galacticawesomeness. (Note we didn't say they were real words.)

7. Anna Kournikova (Cover Issue: September 2008)

SHINY GOLD BIKINI! SHINY GOLD BIKINI! SHINY GOLD BIKINI!


6. Shannon Elizabeth (Cover Issue: June 2008)

Two things stand out in this video.
 

5. Kim Smith (Cover Issue: July 2005)

This L.A. shoot was all about saluting the troops. Mission accomplished.

4. Joanna Krupa (Cover Issue: August 2009)

We really want to make jokes about her being all wet in this video, but we're not going to do it.

3. Kelly Monaco (Cover Issue: September 2005)

Is it us, or does she sweat a lot....like, A LOT?


2. Eva Longoria (Cover Issue: September 2006)

After this shoot, giant furry couch sales went through the roof.

1. Marisa Miller (Cover Issue: July 2008)

She's so hot in this video that she won't even talk to us. And we don't blame her.

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