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Words describing shadows of smiles have already been written and spoken of, by others for others.
And so, I will not repeat those words.
I will not repeat any words written before, by others for others.
But I want to talk about the echo of your voice in my head.
I want to tell you something.
Last night when I was blowing the cigarette smoke out the window, while being hypnotized by the clear light of the full moon, your voice entered and echoed in my head over and over again. It started in my head and found its way into my limbs … into the core of my being. I still had your taste in my mouth … I still had your scent all over me. But it was not the words that my consumed my being … no … it was the sound of your whisper.
I knew I had heard that whisper before. It was so familiar. My legs grew weak and my heart almost stopped beating when I was trying to dive into the archive of my sound-memory to find that voice.
I browsed through centuries and crossed lands and oceans.
I have heard you before.
I have held you before.
I have loved you before
You are the lost love that I have found anew, by crossing oceans of time.
You are the love that I left … that day when I died … in your arms … on that day with the merciless sun burning my face … on that day, when my life force was running out of my being in the form of red hot liquid. You were sitting on the ground holding me with my arms stretched out, hanging by my sides in the air and like a bird with his broken and wobbling wigs, my arms would jerk every time I coughed up a little more of my red blood.
I still hear your cry … I still can feel your touch … I still can taste your tears pouring down on my sunburned face … wetting my lips.
I am going away … in my last few seconds … with my last breath, I promised you to come for you again.
And so I have fulfilled my promise.
I want you to know that I am here now and this time I will stay.
I want you to know that I have erased my past and personal history, not only in this life, but in all my past lives.
I want you to feel that all of you and anything from you is sacred for me.
I want you to know that you and I have re-found our home in each other.
I want you to feel – in my nakedness and vulnerability – that I am completely yours.
I want you to know … that I love you.
And so I dare!
I dare to want to stand naked in front of you.
I dare to want to take the cloak of my persona off, and stand there with my soul bare in front of you.
Anything that is associated with my current name and presence in this world, I want to take off.
I am not going to stand in front of you as an executive, or an artist …. no … I need to stand naked in front of you … naked.
Naked, so that you can touch the skin covering the muscles and bones of my chest, hiding my heart.
I want you to be able to touch my beating heart with your soft hands and receive the love that I have held for you across millenniums, and transmit it directly to you.
Naked so that you can touch my soul and caress it.
Naked, so that you can enter the circle of my chaos and find the essence of my being … and then be dissolved in it.
Naked so that you can forgive me for my stubbornness in the past, not listening to you and get into that war, being killed and leaving your side.
I want you to feel that it is me that you have been wishing for and yearning for all along … and that now you finally found me and I have found you.
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It is uncanny how many different companies are offering juice cleaning products made from a special combination of ingredients that is supposed to clear your body of toxins and help you live a more healthy lifestyle. Scratching the surface of these claims, however, shows that they really aren’t all that they are cracked up to be.
Before going too deep into things, it’s important to note that the body has a number of organs, including the kidneys and liver, that are “detoxing” your body as you are reading this. This is the only way to detox the body. No combination of diuretics, antioxidents, and vitamins will remove vague and undefined “toxins” from the body. Keep that in mind as you read this.
That being said, there are juices that you can use to support the organs that detoxify your body.
How the Body Naturally Detoxifies Itself
The first thing to understand is what a “toxin” actually is. At its root, a toxin is a poisonous substance produced within living cells or organisms. That means that things like pesticides are not actually “toxins,” though something like alcohol, which is sugar that’s been processed through the body of living yeast, is. Your body is designed to be able to take these generally mild poisons and break them down.
This is primarily done in the liver, which uses oxygen and enzymes to burn toxins, making them more water soluble and able to be excreted by the body. Most environmental toxins, such as Benzene, are fat soluble up until this point, which makes them much harder to break down and get rid of. The liver supports this process, sometimes giving them another round of enzymes called conjugation to ensure that the toxins can be turned into bile and removed another way.
Similarly, the kidneys perform a vital detoxifying function. They each possess several things called nephrons that contain filtering units called glomeruli. These will run blood through them at about 200 quarts every 24 hours and remove waste products through a combination of chemicals that are regulated in the body. The resulting mix of chemicals and waste are excreted as urine.
The other side of excretion comes with the intestines that remove solid waste products from the body. In this case, your gut bacteria break down whatever you’ve eaten in your stomach and the resultant slush is slowly filtered as it moves through the intestines so that all that’s left at the end is stuff that can’t be used.
Juicing to Support Detoxification
Now that we’ve covered what organs in the body actually do remove toxins, it’s important to understand that our bodies do not “hold on” to toxins that must be forcibly purged. Rather, the worst that can happen is that your body can’t keep up with the amount of toxins you’ve put into it and will need you to stop for a while so it can catch up. This is what happens when somebody drinks so much it makes them sick: the body is trying to get rid of those extra toxins that it can’t process at the moment.
What a juicer can do is regularly drink items that will support the functioning of the detoxifying organs in the body.
For example, beets and beet greens and excellent for the liver. They can help it repair any damage more quickly as well as increase enzyme production. Similarly, carrots, celery, and ginger root are all great for keeping the liver in excellent shape. Finally, making sure you get enough protein in your drinks will encourage the production of glutathione to help remove specific types of toxin.
Watermelon and other water-heavy ingredients are excellent for keeping the kidneys in good working order by contributing to the cleaning of the blood. Greens, for much the same reason, also contribute to good kidney health. Some more unique but no less effective ways to make sure that your kidneys are scrubbing at full capacity are parsley, radishes, and dandelion leaves.
To keep your gut in check, try adding fennel to your juices. It’s a natural diuretic that will help grease the wheels of your digestion. The roughage in apples can help break down food more in your stomach, meaning that your intestines don’t have to work as hard, and mint leaves can kill microorganisms associated with digestive problems and soothe cramping naturally.
The Bottom Line on Juice Cleansing
There is no silver bullet that can get you healthy. Diet and exercise are the best way to maintain good health. That being said, while juice cleanses are often fairly useless, regularly drinking juices that support the parts of your body that actually remove toxins can improve their functions and give you the long-lasting health you’ve been working toward.
Don’t fall for juice cleanse hoaxes. Make juices that are good for you instead.
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Mid-Iowa Health Foundation announced that it has launched a Youth Health Philanthropy Initiative to reach out to community organizations to improve the health and well-being of children and youths in Greater Des Moines. The foundation will partner with Community Youth Concepts, a Des Moines nonprofit organization, to support the work of youth health projects through competitive grants, beginning this fall. The initiative's board will be composed of 15 high school students from across the metro area. Community Youth Concepts will provide oversight and direction to the initiative and the youth board, and Mid-Iowa Health Foundation serves as the initiative's sponsor. "We believe it is essential that we learn directly from the youth of our community about health needs that they see, and engage them in crafting the responses they believe will be most effective addressing those needs," said Suzanne Mineck, the foundation's president.
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Yes, it has happened, as of today I guess I will officially carry the titleof Soccer Mom. :).
Miles has been kicking a ball literally before he could actually walk on his own, so we thought soccer would be a fun activity for him. Lil Kickers (Arena Sports) offers soccer classes starting at 18 months, and I have to say I actually like how they operate the classes. What I thought would just be toddlers running around kicking balls is actually a bit more. The coaches try to introduce other skill building activities such as running backwards, sideways, stoping, following a course, and scoring goals. These activities all seem really good for toddlers' body control and understanding.
I think Miles was a bit confused at first because all he wanted to do was kick the ball, but he caught on quickly and did pretty well for the first class. It also didn't hurt that the coaches are cute youngish girls, which Miles always enjoys. My little flirt.
Another plus, this class actually ends up being a pretty good activity for me too since I have to run up and down the field with him.
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In the ever-popular Orlando suburb of Windermere you will find a secure, guard gated upscale community called Bellaria featuring a unique collection of custom built, luxury homes for sale.
In the entire central Florida area, the luxury Bellaria homes for sale have long been among the most highly desired. The exclusive Bellaria homes for sale in Orlando range from approximately 5000 to 7000 square feet of opulent interior living space, and are generally priced between about $1,700,000 and $2,5000,000. Some of the luxury Bellaria homes for sale are considerably larger and carry higher prices.
The Orlando area offers a wide variety of homes for sale, but few offer the great value and exclusive lifestyle you’ll find when you purchase one of these Bellaria luxury homes. As well as a secure, upscale community, Bellaria also boasts a convenient central Florida location near to everything the central FL area has to offer. Close to downtown Orlando and two International Airports, not to mention all the great central Florida attractions; you will find your secluded lifestyle is anything but isolated.
Additionally, Bellaria is under the jurisdiction of the Orange County School District which means your children would attend some of Florida’s best schools. The public schools serving the Bellaria community of Windermere include:
Whether you are buying or selling a home in Bellaria, or anywhere in Florida, contact Karen Arbutine today at (888) 727-7778 for all your Bellaria, Windermere, Orlando or Florida real estate needs.
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Re-launched Octopus Agents, letting their artists take center stage
Octopus Agents is an independent music and booking agency based in Amsterdam. Representing a wide range of artists that have one thing in common: they all produce electronic music; perform it live or DJ around the world. Together with the Octopus team we’ve worked hard on a revamp of the website.
- Art Direction
- Research & Analysis
- Wire-framing & Prototyping
- Frontend Development
- Craft CMS Implementation
“As we’re representing and working with many different artists in electronic music, it is very important every artist and his or her page has it’s own vibe. Johannes understood this very well and integrated a back-end system which is user-friendly and which we can use into eternity. Dion Verbeek, Owner
My design process involved stakeholder interviews, distillation of foundational research into user personas and a high-level strategy, collaboration on branding and ‘look and feel,’ heavy sketching, wire-framing and prototyping, visual design, and collaboration with the Octopus Team on the little details that matter.
Each artists unique
The most challenging part was the content builder. I developed a highly flexible content builder so the agents have the ability to easily compose an artist biography from scratch. They can pick from various layout options and hero styles; customize the color scheme; and organize the display of images and multimedia embeds, depending on the story they want to tell about their artists.
Modern and future proof
With Craft CMS, I could deliver the author experience (AX) and user experience (UX) that Octopus Agents was looking for, without the price tag of a complex proprietary back-end.
- Instant artist search from all pages
- Automatic presskit (ZIP) generation from selected files
- Mailchimp newsletter integration with selected news items
- Fully customizable artist pages
- Custom instagram feed
- Auto posting of news items to twitter
- Workflow submission system for interns
“…he really translated the company that Octopus is into the website. Rather than creating the standard agency website, the website ended up as a magazine with new content every day. This way we are reaching more people and integrating our news into social media, so people end up on our website more and more and also start to see the Octopus website as a source of news, new music and a kind of glossy for electronic music.” Dion Verbeek, Owner
Octopusagents.com is a website that resonates the personality of the artists. The team now produces detailed stories, and spend lots of time defining the right design for each artist. It’s beautiful. The result is a focussed portal into their music world that contains lots of relevant news features, new releases, mixes and radio shows all refreshed on a daily basis. I’m proud of what we created, and have had enthusiastic feedback from the team. The work has been energizing, to say the least.
Amazing stats since the relaunch:
- 291,93% session growth
- 317,66% more visitors
- 217,89% more pageviews
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U.S. PIRG Tax & Budget National Campaign Director
U.S. PIRG is hiring a National Campaign Director to lead our Tax & Budget program. We’re looking for an experienced political advocate who will be directing campaign strategy, influencing stakeholders, political organizing, coalition-building, evaluating policy choices, fundraising and developing staff.
The Tax & Budget National Campaign Director will be taking on one of the most important issues facing our democracy. Tax and budget decisions are the most concrete way that communities declare priorities and balance competing values. Unfortunately, government decisions about how to raise revenue and support public functions often fail to best advance the public interest.
We want to take on good government issues, where the general public will agree with our positions, and we can make real social change. It is not possible to ensure that government decisions serve the public interest unless information is publicly accessible. Transparency is key to reform. Companies should prosper based on their efficiency and innovation, not because their high-powered lobbyists and accountants enable them to use offshore tax havens and shell companies to dodge their taxes. Likewise, private companies that receive contracts and subsidies must be held to task for their actions. Spending and tax incentives should encourage actions that are good for society and the environment, while discouraging bad behaviors, like oil spills or bank scams.
- Program development: Evaluate the research on the issue, create viable policy solutions, and propose the right political strategy and messaging.
- Advocacy: Take our policies directly to key decision-makers in regulatory agencies, the statehouse, in Congress or wherever important decisions are being made.
- Campaign Strategy: Assess opportunities for building political support for our agenda through coalition-building, grassroots organizing, media coverage, and message development.
- Media Outreach: Serve as a chief spokesperson for our campaigns through tactics like media events, press releases and editorial board meetings.
- Fundraising: Write grant proposals, build relationships with foundation staff, and meet with major donors. Work with our citizen outreach staff to build and develop our membership base.
- Staff recruitment and development: Recruit new staff and volunteers. Oversee program staff to develop and implement work plans; provide training and leadership development opportunities.
Candidates must have at least 8 years of relevant professional experience. Advanced degrees like a JD or a master’s degree are preferred, but not required. Qualified candidates will have a demonstrated commitment to citizen-based social change, as well as a track record of leadership. We're looking for people who are goal-driven and results-oriented, who have excellent verbal, writing and analytical skills, the ability to speak persuasively in a charged atmosphere, and enthusiasm for the work. Experience with related policy issues and how Washington, DC or statehouses work preferred.
Compensation & Benefits
Target annual compensation for this position is commensurate with the relevant professional experience and/or advanced degrees that a candidate has. U.S. PIRG offers a competitive benefits package.
Washington, DC, Chicago or Boston.
Please apply using our online application @ http://jobs.uspirg.org/apply.html. Direct your application to Andre Delattre, Executive Director of U.S. PIRG.
U.S. PIRG is an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of race, color, national or ethnic origin, religion, age, sex, disability, pregnancy, sexual orientation, or veteran status.
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Oh Hey 2018!
I see you there with all your promise and possibility. Shiny new journals and healthy new habits and bold resolutions. You temptress, you.
I’m not ready.
Nope. And, I’m not going to fight it either. As my friend Lara Casey says, “There’s nothing magical about January 1.”
I have a celebration chaos hangover.
Maybe you feel this way, too?
Nesting Isn’t Just for the Birds
I don’t have a perfect answer, but I do have a practical solution. I’m housekeeping. Housekeeping! Doesn’t that sound all June-Cleaver-1950s?
Perhaps a more modern term is nesting. I’m simply taking care of the place that matters most to me and my people: home.
When I nest, I’m less of a task-master and more of a place-maker.
While work, goals and my never-ending-to-do-list are forming a thin layer of dust, I’m learning to count simple place-making gestures as small victories. Remember, loving our families, friends, and neighbors doesn’t require perfection. But some old-fashioned organization and preparation helps.
Hospitality is about place-making. Creating a welcome place for others to gather and belong. Before we can welcome others into our homes and lives, a little tending is necessary. Especially after a long holiday season. Here are a few tips that I’ve found helpful as I slowly ease into the new year.
- Reclaim the Fridge! I dedicated some serious elbow grease to cleaning the fridge this week. Not just a simple wipe down of the spilled messes, but a full-on turbo clean. We have plenty of food, but my kids will open the fridge door and stare aimlessly muttering, “there’s nothing to eat.” Probably because everything is shoved and disorganized. I splurged on a few freezer and refrigerator organizers and y’all. . . the fridge is like heaven. Every one of my people has commented about all the yummy food. Let it be our little secret: same food, just organized. Promise me you’ll try this one hospitality hack!
- Go through your pantry and dump the junk. Be ruthless. Even at its best, Karo syrup is a sticky mess and won’t last until next Thanksgiving anyway. Especially if you are on year 2 of the same bottle! Go ahead and clear out all the holiday madness. While you’re at it, check your spices & condiments. Spices should have a scent when you open them. If they don’t, toss ‘em. Get Shipt to help you restock! I went through my pantry with my iPhone in hand, adding each spice and condiment that was old or running low. Shipt had it to me in an hour and I could declare that task DONE.
- Nothing makes me want to turn around and run out of the kitchen faster than the mess of mismatched Tupperware and storage containers. The same goes for lids for sippy cups, Swell bottles, and Yeti tumblers. Gather all the parts together and play a little game of match-up. Let go of the hope that that missing lid will one day reappear to be reunited with its mate! When you toss the mismatches, you’ll say goodbye to one of the biggest frustrations in the kitchen – at least for a few weeks. I’m obsessed with Weck Jars and Anchor Hocking (in turquoise, of course!) for keeping food fresh and organized.
Heart of the Matter
Hospitality begins in the heart. My favorite part of place-making is soul care. After all, a calm home and a restless soul is not a good match! Here are two of my favorite tools to make sure I keep the main thing the main thing. Remember, I’m the one who’s word for 2018 is God.
- One of my favorite morning rituals starts with my Write the Word journal. Every morning a new verse awaits to be prayed, studied, and written. Don’t let the simplicity of this journal fool you– it’s one of the most beautiful and fruitful ways to learn and listen. What’s better than your Bible, a journal, and a pen?
- I’ve chosen New Morning Mercies by Paul David Tripp as my devotional this year. Tripp’s daily messages are convicting, powerful, and leave me with much to ponder and pray. My Write the Word journal has become a repository for these meditations.
What about you? Are you ready for 2018 or still lingering in the space between? I’m praying we all take the time to tend our nests and hearts as we prepare for a year of place-making at the Turquoise Table.
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Subject: Re: The bughunt is on!
To: Todd Vierling <email@example.com>
From: Scott Reynolds <scottr@Plexus.COM>
Date: 09/25/1997 17:55:35
On Thu, 25 Sep 1997, Todd Vierling wrote:
> Tools don't work if no one uses them. I browsed for a while, and oh, just
> how many idle PRs are out there with reasonable fixes... that number has got
> to be over 100.
`Reasonable' is a subjective term, and is a subset of `working', to a
greater or lesser degree. Note that the majority of `reasonable' fixes
are committed quickly... it's the PRs that are clearly going to need
more work before they are integrated that tend to languish.
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Mumbai Noir – Bombay and Its Underworld As Seen Through Literature
by Daneesh Majid
If I had to simplify the tangible traits of Bombay relative to Western cities, this would be my answer: a city with London’s topography, rife with the nocturnal vigor of New York, inhabited by people who could pass off as friendly Torontonians. Just add these ingredients into the crucible that is India, and you have Mumbai.
While true, this is a blasphemous oversimplification of the ethos of *Mumbai Nagariya, Maya ki Nagariya. Portrayals of grime-ridden streets and impoverished slums alongside the skyscrapers find clichéd prominence in many Mumbai-based Hollywood flicks. There are also imposing buildings that cast their reflection upon the Arabian Sea. Sandwiched between those two are cars and crowds going about their business on Marine Drive.
When people think of New York, the kaleidoscopic Times Square comes to mind. Similarly, Indians associate the image of Marine Drive with Mumbai. But beyond the picturesque image of a bustling financial capital by the sea is a city silently splintered along religious, ethnic, and economic lines. The year 1966 saw the rise of a Maharashtrian ethno-linguistic supremacy movement by cartoonist turned politician Bal Thackeray. His right-wing Hindu party started the process of morphing Bombay into Mumbai. After persecuting non-Marathi speaking South Indians, the party then went after Muslims. As the Shiv Sena coalesced into a budding force, the city’s predominantly Muslim underworld was undergoing a renaissance.
Old school smuggling barons of Afghan and South Indian descent retired and paved the way for a more violent class of mafiosos. They were more enterprising smugglers, drug-barons, and flesh-peddlers. At the helm of this paradigm shift was a Maharashtrian Muslim, the crafty Dawood Ibrahim. When the Shiv Sena instigated the 1992-1993 communal riots that killed many Hindus and Muslims, justice was not served for the latter, hence, Dawood Ibrahim’s multinational criminal enterprise, D-Company, extracted draconian revenge by helping orchestrate the 1993 Bombay bomb blasts. The metamorphosis of Bombay into Mumbai was complete. Bal Thackeray died in 2012 but the Shiv Sena torch had already cremated Bombay’s dead body with the riots. The subsequent bomb blasts resurrected it as Mumbai.
This coming of age story instilled in me a desire to look past the touristy locales of plush South Bombay. Besides the transformation, the intriguing underbelly itself was worth visiting.
And what better places to scout than the hotbeds of D-Company?
The flamboyance and filth that co-exist side-by-side keep the city afloat. Such grey area-ridden identities are very much ingrained in the fabric of a metropolis containing the ‘white’ skyscrapers and ‘black’ slums. Many wordsmiths have done justice to this beautiful cacophony of contradictions that is Mumbai. Movies have also delved into Mumbai gangland folklore lost in the depths of inner South Bombay. The Bollywood classic Company, depicted the gang war between Muslim Kingpin Dawood Ibrahim and the Hindu Don Chhota Rajan that spanned different countries. Other storytellers followed suit only after India’s foremost crime/terror chronicler, Hussain Zaidi, authored true crime novels Dongri to Dubai (Lotus; 2012) and Byculla to Bangkok (Harper Collins; 2014).
Film and true crime books did arouse my initial curiosity about the Mumbai underworld and its role in the city’s murky history. But it is through my travels along the rich, literary narratives that inspired them, that the city came alive as a character. I started on my journey with these books for company:
Day 1 – Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
Partially based on Roberts’ real-life experiences, Shantaram enshrined Leopold Café as a hub for cosmopolitan Mumbaikars and expats alike. Near this iconic café in South Bombay’s upmarket area Colaba, is the Gateway of India whose design amalgamates Muslim arches and Hindu decorations. But as awesome as this fusion may be, the Gateway of India does not represent the Bombay I have come here to chronicle.
Lured by the promise of a better life, every day around 2000 people flock to the country’s financial capital. Lin, an Australian fugitive, is not seeking his soul or better financial prospects, but a quick place to stopover on a journey from New Zealand to Germany. As someone who has fled from New Zealand after breaking out of an Australian prison, he embraces the city immediately upon his arrival. After befriending a resourceful cabbie named Prabhakar, Lin becomes the adopted son of a city colonized by permanent squatters. Straddling between both Bombays, he carves out many niches for himself in his new city – slum clinic operator among lepers, gunrunner, small time Bollywood casting director, passport forger, and eventually a weapons smuggler to the Afghan Mujahideeen to name a few.
After taking in the majestic Gateway of India, which is among the handful of remaining syncretic vestiges, I make the five-minute trek to Leo’s for a quick lunch. This is where Lin and other multifarious characters including the Swiss-American vixen, Karla Saaranen, conduct ‘business’ transactions. Central to Lin’s philosophical journey from outsider to adopted child is the somewhat principled Dongri-based Afghan Don, Khader Khan. Before I head back to my friend’s Slum Rehabilitation Apartment in Worli, I take a taxi to Khader Khan’s erstwhile dominion, Dongri.
I arrive in Dongri, which has gained notoriety as a breeding ground for criminals. After playing an integral role in the 1993 bomb blasts, Dawood had gained asylum under Pakistani patronage in Karachi. Although Dongri isn’t exactly as scenic as Colaba, the people are largely welcoming.
Predominantly, Muslim enclaves are often dismissed as ghettoized scars on the urban backdrop. Indian pop culture has painted a stereotypical image of big crowds and destitute conditions, but it also signifies life, and the instinct to survive and enjoy what is around you. Amidst the parade of numerous honking cabs, cart pushers, and pedestrians, I see an Urdu bookstore called ‘Maktaba Jamia’.
It is time to call it a night. The Slum Rehabilitation Authority apartment was built on what used to be a larger shantytown. This was one of the slums where the 1992-1993 communal riots took place. Because property developers cannot displace slum dwellers for lofty projects, they re-build these slums as rehabilitation apartments for large profits.
Day 2 – Part 1: Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found by Suketu Mehta
If Shantaram christened Gregory David Roberts as the city’s adopted son, then Suketu Mehta is the prodigal one. Upon returning to the Island City after 21 years in 1998, he finds that his hometown is not the one he left behind as a 14 year old. As Bombay became Mumbai, a stark metamorphosis was bought about by ‘the one man directly responsible for ruining the city he grew up in.’ To see where this transformation began, I ventured to Shivaji Park. The Maratha Empire ruler Chattrapati Shivaji’s statue greets me with a martial grandeur. Bal Thackeray named his party after the mighty Hindu king who could stand head to head with the Islamic Mughals. It is another point that Shivaji’s Army (English for Shiv ‘Sena’) has committed many atrocities in the name of a relatively secular Hindu king.
While Thackeray did alter the character of the city, Mehta sketches a fascinating portrait through a motley of other lenses such as bar dancers, dreaded gangsters, disillusioned police officers, and Bollywood barons. Regardless of whether these people are homegrown denizens or implants from provincial North India, a sense of relentless hope pervades the despondency of the Bombay bedlam.
Bala Saheb’s reach extends beyond cricket stadiums and Maharashtra’s power corridors. He exerts his influence deep into the glitzy affairs of India’s most powerful entertainers. However, there is one Hindi cinema stalwart who could withstand a Shiv Sena onslaught without apologizing, Shah Rukh Khan. Vikram Chandra constantly refers to the outspoken actor whose ascent to stardom 30 years ago coincided with the 1992-1993 riots.
Inspired by this Bollywood connection, I then meet up with a buddy from college and we take the local train from Dadar to the Bandra station. Bandra, the Bollywood bastion, is analogous to Los Angeles’ Beverly Hills.
Day 2 – Part 2: Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra
Contrary to popular opinion, not every Indian has Bollywood blood gushing through their veins. But like Los Angeles, Mumbai is the center of showbiz that oozes ostentatious glamour. Being a ‘Bollynerd’ of sorts myself, Vikram Chandra’s Sacred Games was an enjoyable read which consolidated eclectic facets of the underworld, especially the film industry’s role in the mafia-politician nexus, into a mammoth 900-pager.
Upon disembarking at the Bandra station, we pool an auto rickshaw with a few other riders for the Castella de Aguada, commonly known as Bandra Fort.
Besides the maritime view, the actual reason I am here is to witness a modern-day pilgrimage. The sea to which their city owes its fortune captivates Mumbaikars, even as it flows in reverential awe of at least one of Bollywood superstar’s palatial mansion, Mannat. During the evenings, the road leading to Mannat is congested with frenzied fans of the bungalow’s owner, Shah Rukh Khan. Like many ambitious souls, India’s most famous movie star arrived in the city with the intention of owning it.
In Sacred Games, two showbiz aspirants who unwittingly end up as pawns in a mafia-hatched conspiracy are plunged into the darkness that holds together the city of lights.
As in Chandra’s magnum opus, Mumbai is the epicenter of the intricate web that connects Bollywood figures with the dubious underworld. Rumor mills constantly suggest that stars like Shah Rukh Khan are forced into receiving mob patronage from D-Company and the Shiv Sena has unleashed slanderous campaigns against Khan several times on account of his religion. Whether or not rumors about SRK’s links to Dawood are true, one thing is clear. Even the country’s biggest superstar feels the after-effects of the watershed riots and bomb blasts more than a decade ago.
This trip to Bandra fort concludes my literary schedule for today.
Day 3 – Part I: The Mountain Shadow by Gregory David Roberts
In the Shantaram sequel, Lin’s feet are firmly planted on the saturated Bombay soil and the coastal air reverberates in his lungs. Two days in, I am intoxicated by the air I breathe in Mumbai. After breakfast, I take a taxi to the Haji Ali Shrine, one of the four important centers of Islamic life in India. This mosque and tomb are situated on the western shores of South Mumbai.
It is believed that a Bukhara (an Uzbekistan-born trader) Syed Pir Haji Ali Bukhari, renounced his wealth before making a holy journey to Mecca. He then traversed the world and settled in Bombay. During a Hajj pilgrimage, he died, but the coffin with his body was lost at sea. The coffin miraculously made its way back to the present day offshore shrine. Due to their egalitarian and non-violent means of spreading Islam, Sufi Muslim saints like Bukhari have tombs erected in their name all over the Indian subcontinent.
Unlike the chaos that dominates the roads here, the path towards Bukhari inspires people from all walks of life to file in an orderly manner. On the causeway towards the half-mausoleum, half-mosque, merchants yell in Hindi, “Baba Haji Ali will not be happy if you enter the blanched edifice empty-handed.” In the same vein as the customary offerings to Hindu deities at temples, Muslims take flowers and blankets for the saint. I resist after observing rags, layers, and petals by the floating water – now I know where my prospective purchases could end up.
Some come to atone while others seek strength for the battlefield of life. As for me, I spend a few hours in the ecstasy of prayer and Sufi devotional music known as qawalli.
That is until a former heroin-addict’s masterpiece gives way to my voyeuristic curiosity.
Day 3 – Part 2: Narcopolis by Jeet Thayil
Being an Urdu enthusiast, crime literature buff, and a carnivore, Sarvi was the next stop for dinner. Listed as one of Mumbai’s most ‘dangerous’ diners, it was a culinary retreat for the erstwhile progressive Urdu icon Saadat Hasan Manto.
Clad in a Pathani salwar kurta and flip-flops that can withstand the Bombay rubble, I start the 15-20 minute walk to the Mumbai Central Station. At 11:00 pm, while continuing on Behram Road, I can’t help but notice two scantily clad women with inviting eyes, excessively friendly nods, and provocative cues. Politely smiling back when declining their generous gesture was definitely the right thing to do.
Instead of proceeding on Behram road to catch the train from Central, I take a left into Shuklaji Marg. Entering Shuklaji Marg, I am reminded of a saying coined by a proud Delhi resident, “Mumbai is a bustling metropolis that only pretends to never sleep at night.” Well if that guy had seen what I am witnessing now, he would swallow his words.
From my previous treks through the city three years ago, I had only explored this maze during the daytime when ‘activity’ is sedate. But for the pimps, pushers and prostitutes, 11 pm is analogous to the 9:30 am opening bell for the NASDAQ trading floor. For it is the nightly lust for flesh and money that keeps predatory customers and enterprising pimps awake.
Continuing on Shuklaji Marg, street vendors along with satiated and starved men line the road. However, the human ‘ornaments’ are on display further down the Marg. Upon seeing the once-innocent individuals festooned with disheveled make-up and attire trying hard to project an air of style, it finally hits me that I have returned to Asia’s second largest red-light district. Cramped between Mumbai Central and Grant Road spans this 14-lane labyrinth of sex where ‘love’ is sold by the hour for as little as Rs. 200 ($3).
While Bombay Stock Exchange traders are planting themselves at bars or in their beds after a long day, markets have only opened for Kamathipura denizens. And to ensure she makes a killing, a hooker dressed in gingham shorts over thigh high stockings from Lane 13, heckles me, “Hey chashmish, 200 rupees.” It is hard to suppress my laughter when being called ‘chashmish,’ (which means ‘four-eyes’ or a ‘geek’).
Walking out of Lane 13, I make my way towards Shuklaji Street, the erstwhile epicenter of opium in 1970s and ’80s Old Bombay.
During the 1970s, lost souls found solace in the poetry of Shuklaji Street opium dens. Poet Jeet Thayil crafts a saga of a time when heroin took its rightful place among the courtesans in the red-light district. The epicenter of this union pictured below still stretches through the brothels of four Kamathipura *gullies.
While some reduce Thayil’s debut novel to a romanticized heroin trip, that is certainly not the crux of Narcopolis. In fact, it is a story about how the drug helps a fraternity of addicts make sense of hypocritical ironies that pervaded 1980s Bombay – be it the pathar-maar Stone Man murders, the early Hindu-Muslim riots, or the glaring contradictions of the red-light district.
The diverse bunch of tortured souls include: Rashid Bhai the polygamous *afeem-khaana owner who forgoes religion for opium and vice-versa, Dimple, a *hijra prostitute and Rashid Bhai’s concubine, Dom Ullis, an unreliable narrator and New Yorker who becomes a Shuklaji Street mainstay, Rumi, a Shiv Sena ideologue, and Mr. Lee, a refugee who fled 1940s Communist China. With his poetic prose, he provides insight into how a more chemical-based *garad heroin supplanted the mellower opium as the new high.
After a long day of sojourns in spiritual and scandalous settings, there remained a few more backdrops in which South Asia’s most progressive icon, Saadat Hasan Manto, found his muses.
Day 4 – Bombay Stories by Saadat Hasan Manto (translated by Matt Reeck and Aftab Ahmad)
On the final day, the last guiding lights for me are gritty short stories that can be considered the pioneering works of Mumbai Noir literature.
Long before the aforementioned authors were born, Progressive Urdu writer Saadat Hasan Manto had already captured the true essence of the city. If Manto’s vignettes proved to be prophetic regarding the subcontinent, then Bombay in the 1930s was his crystal ball.
And as someone who has witnessed the activity outside the Grant Road ‘playhouses’ (dilapidated theaters which have turned into brothels) and eaten at Irani cafés in Nagpada, I can say his Bombay still exists.
Sacred Games may have masterfully depicted the glorified sex racket masquerading as a modeling/talent agency that exploited Bollywood aspirants from all over India but short stories like “Janaki” had yanked the glamorous veil off showbiz much before. In that particular story, Manto channels his real life experiences as a screenwriter when the aspiring starlet Janaki inquires about the moral fiber of two exploitative heroes in the 1940s Bombay film industry. The iconoclastic writer confirms her worst suspicions about male leads by responding, “You’re right. But why does the film industry need good men?”
Before the towering Khader Bhai or the debaucherous Rashid Bhai were conceived by Gregory David Roberts and Jeet Thayil, Saadat Hasan Manto attuned readers to one of the earliest Mumbhaiyas in literature, Mammad Bhai. This benevolent thug’s word was the law in a cloistered lane that is a mere four-minute walk away from the hub of heroin and courtesans. Remember how the ruffian strong-armed Bismillah Hotel owners into forgiving Manto’s outstanding credit? That restaurant is still standing today.
In its transformation from Bombay to Mumbai, each of the authors above have only validated Manto’s foretelling of events. The film-sex racket nexus has grown with numerous actresses getting caught in scandals to varying degrees. The Hindu-Muslim divide wreaked more havoc in North Indian cities prior to independence. Yet, despite the relative restraint of Mumbai compared to that of Delhi and Calcutta during partition, Manto still wrote about the religious fissures in the city’s social landscape that would eventually change the character of his beloved city. Thus, Bombay Stories served as an apt guide to the last leg of my journey that showed that maybe Bombay was already on its way to becoming Mumbai much before the 1990s. All it needed were fringe outfits of the Mafia and the Shiv Sena to commence the violent transition.
© All photographs are from the author’s personal collection.
Mumbai Nagariya, Maya ki Nagariya – Mumbai, The City of Illusions
Gullies – Dingy Bylanes
Afeem-Khaanaa – Opium Den
Hijra – Eunuch
Garad – A nastier and destructive form of heroin
Annas – Quarters
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Daneesh Majid is freelance writer from Hyderabad, India with an MA in South Asian Area Studies from the School of Oriental African Studies, University of London. His work has been featured in the regions’ prominent outlets including The Wire India and The Express Tribune. He enjoys reading and writing about Urdu poetry/literature as well as South Asian security/cultural/political dynamics.
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Austin native Henry B. Barnhart, was a successful attorney in 1885. He was appointed Travis County Attorney in 1886. An 1887 description of Barnhart’s career included the following passage:
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Barnhart had a successful law practice for the rest of his life. He died in Austin in 1901.
(1) Daniell, L.E. Personnel of the State Government with Sketches of Distinguished Texans. Austin: Press of the City Printing Company, 1887.
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Cordyceps mushroom benefits can be powerful, which is true of many other medicinal mushrooms.
While cordyceps and other mushrooms have been used for centuries for their healing powers, we’re just starting to notice these benefits in the modern world.
What Are Cordyceps Mushrooms?
Cordyceps mushrooms are parasitic fungi that grow on the larvae of insects, which can sound off-putting but is fascinating.
When the fungi attack a host, they replace the tissue.
They then sprout long, thin stems that grow outside the host’s body.
In Traditional Chinese Medicine, the remains have long been hand-collected and dried for sicknesses, fatigue, kidney disease, and low sex drive.
Traditional Chinese and Tibetan medicine also looked to cordyceps mushrooms to help with improving longevity.
Tibetan herders working at high altitudes often took the fungi to help them with the effects of low oxygen.
In the West, the world first heard about the powerful effects of cordyceps mushrooms when Chinese female athletes attributed their record-breaking performance to their use of cordyceps supplements.
There are hundreds of discovered species of cordyceps, but two are the most consequential in health research—cordyceps Sinensis and cordyceps militaris.
Cordyceps are believed to support endurance, stamina, and vitality largely because they have naturally occurring compounds that make oxygen more available in the blood.
Some people use them as pre-or post-workout fuel or to power them through busy days.
If you’re an athlete and want a clean energy source, you might find that cordyceps give you that.
They’re also recognized for their benefits on mood and cognitive health.
The mushrooms contain amino acids, vitamins, minerals, cordycepin, and other beneficial bioactive compounds.
Cordyceps Sinesis vs. Cordyceps Militaris Extract
We should point out that while it’s grouped with medicinal mushrooms if we’re going to be very technical about things, it’s a fungus.
Cordyceps species are found around the world, on every continent except Antarctica.
Two species tend to get the most interest from a medicinal perspective.
There’s cordyceps sinesis, and there’s militaris.
Nutritionally, the two species of this fungus are almost identical.
They have essential amino acids, fatty acids, B vitamins, vitamins E and K, minerals, and trace elements.
They also have similar bioactive substances, including beta-glucans and enzymes.
The benefits are similar in that they can both support the health of the heart, kidneys, liver, and lungs, and both support healthy aging and the regulation of your sleep cycle.
Both have anti-inflammatory and immune-modulating benefits.
The differences are primarily in the research that’s been done on both species so far.
For example, in animal studies, the cordyceps sinesis species has been found to reduce oxidative stress and improve exercise endurance.
In human studies, there is research on exercise performance and wellness in older people, and in sedentary adults, this species of cordyceps has been linked to energy metabolism.
The militaris species of the fungus has been researched for supporting high-intensity exercise in younger people and cell-mediated immunity.
The cordyceps sinesis species is rare and expensive in its wild form, but the cultivated form is easier to access and less expensive.
Overall, you could take either species of cordyceps and get similar benefits. Some supplements on the market combine both species into one product.
Cordyceps militaris is sometimes called the cultivated alternative, but both species can be similarly cultivated.
Cordyceps sinesis is the most studied species, with militaris coming in behind it.
Traditional Chinese Medicine Uses
In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), this mushroom is called Chinese caterpillar fungus.
One of the uses of TCM is treating chronic kidney disease.
In traditional Eastern medicine, along with helping kidney function, cordyceps is also used for heart health, and it’s long been used to improve energy, vitality, and stamina.
Why Are So Many People Taking Cordyceps?
Briefly, cordyceps benefits can include:
- Natural energy booster
- Can protect against depression
- May help reduce fatigue
- Can help stimulate the immune system
- Reduced upper respiratory tract infections
- Boosted libido
- Improve endurance exercise performance and exercise performance
- Increased aerobic capacity
- Slowed aging process
- May help reduce blood pressure
- It may help with chronic kidney disease and kidney disorders
- Could have potential benefits for coronary heart disease, according to what research suggests
- Potential cancer protection, especially lung, skin, and blood cancers
- Promote liver health
The following are some of the cordyceps mushroom benefits backed by various research and studies.
Cordyceps for Energy and Exercise Performance
This medicinal mushroom extract is believed to boost your production of adenosine triphosphate or ATP, which delivers energy to your muscles.
The result can be improved oxygen use, especially during exercise.
Several studies have examined cordyceps’ energy and exercise performance benefits in younger and older adults.
For example, in one study of healthy older adults, participants received either three grams of a synthetic cordyceps strain or a placebo.
By the end of the study, the VO2 max had increased by 7% in study participants taking the extract. VO2 max is a measure of fitness levels.
Slows Aging and Promotes Mental Clarity
One of the uses of cordyceps in Traditional Chinese Medicine is for reducing fatigue, boosting sex drive, and improving strength in the elderly.
Cordyceps mushroom benefits include anti-aging properties.
Studies have found cordyceps increase antioxidants in older mice, improving memory and sexual function.
In one study, mice given cordyceps lived several moths more than mice who took a placebo.
Researchers think some of the anti-aging and memory-improving benefits of this mushroom might stem from the fact that they’re high in antioxidants. Free radicals are damaging and are associated with aging and disease.
May Help Fight Cancer Cells
Researchers believe cordyceps has the potential to inhibit the growth of many types of cancer cells, including skin, colon, lung, and liver.
These properties have been demonstrated in test-tube studies.
In mice, cordyceps have had anti-tumor effects on lung cancer, melanoma, and lymphoma.
There’s also a potential benefit of the mushrooms in reversing the side effects of cancer therapy.
For example, some studies have shown that cordyceps helps raise the number of white blood cells someone has when receiving cancer therapy, which otherwise lowers white blood cells and impairs the immune system.
Regulates Blood Sugar Levels
A particular type of sugar in cordyceps may help with diabetes treatment.
It can potentially keep blood sugar levels in a healthy range by replicating the effects of insulin.
In other studies on diabetic mice, cordyceps helped reduce blood sugar levels.
There’s evidence these medicinal mushrooms might protect against kidney disease, a common diabetic complication.
Cordyceps for Heart Health Maintenance
Cordyceps are approved in China to treat arrhythmia, where the heart beats too fast, too slow, or irregularly. In a study of rats with kidney disease, cordyceps significantly reduced heart injuries.
Injuries from chronic kidney disease are believed to increase the risk of heart failure, so this is important.
The reason cordyceps mushroom benefits impact the heart may be because they contain adenosine, which is a natural compound with heart-protect effects.
Enhances Sexual Function
One of the traditional uses of this medicinal mushroom throughout history is to improve sexual function and performance.
In traditional medicine, cordyceps is known as an aphrodisiac.
There’s evidence that these can improve sexual desire and arousal.
In women, cordyceps may help with sexual function, improving libido and vaginal dryness.
One reason for the sexual benefits of this mushroom is the fact that its protein structure is similar to the luteinizing hormone.
This hormone is responsible for the stimulation of sperm production.
There’s also evidence that cordyceps can enhance corticosteroid production, further increasing libido.
If someone has high blood pressure, since cordyceps can potentially lower it, it can also benefit sexual function.
Another less direct way this medicinal mushroom can potentially help with sexual function is by treating depression.
Cordyceps can help with symptoms and has an anti-depressant effect. Depression is one of the primary causes of sexual dysfunction in men and women.
Combats Stress and Supports Mental Health
Cordyceps extract from wild cordyceps or cultivated fungi may boost cognitive performance.
In a study on mice, there were statistically significant benefits for learning and reduced memory impairment associated with cordyceps.
The mushroom may have neuroprotective properties in the hippocampal region, where dementia is found. Cordyceps contains tryptophan, which is a precursor of serotonin and an amino acid.
Tryptophan may help reduce insomnia symptoms.
In studies, cordyceps militaris, in particular, has been shown to boost learning and memory, possibly by preventing oxidative damage and protecting the nervous system.
Cordyceps is known for improving the production of sex and steroid hormones, which can also improve mental health and your sense of well-being.
Chronic kidney disease impacts millions of people annually and has a high fatality rate.
In a study from 2011, researchers found cordyceps can potentially prevent renal fibrosis by stopping inflammatory pathways that would otherwise destroy the normal function of the kidneys and create fibrous scar tissue.
Another study confirmed the 2011 research, finding that a sterol produced by cordyceps can shut down the pathway promoting the fibrous growth patterns that lead to kidney dysfunction and failure.
Cordyceps for Testosterone Level Support
Sometimes this mushroom is called Himalayan Viagra because of the effects it can have on testosterone levels.
In animal research, cordyceps stimulated Leydig cells, the main source of testosterone in males.
Some compounds have been extracted from the Cordyceps sinesis mycelium that appears in animal studies to stimulate testosterone secretion.
Both cordyceps militaris and sinesis may also increase testosterone levels by directly improving levels of luteinizing hormone.
In a 2020 study, cordyceps appeared in animals to increase DHT levels, which can also raise testosterone levels.
Promotes Restful Sleep
In animal studies, cordycepin, which is a compound from both cordyceps militaris and cordyceps sinesis, has been found to help with normalizing sleep-wake cycles and increasing nonrapid eye movement sleep.
Researchers have concluded that cordyceps could potentially help people who experience symptoms of sleep disturbance.
How to Take Cordyceps Supplements
There are some great cordyceps mushroom supplements available.
You can find them as a powder, tea, capsule, or tablet.
You can also find dried whole cordyceps, which make tinctures and extracts. If you take powdered cordyceps, you can blend them into smoothies and shakes.
Currently available studies and research show that the recommended cordyceps dosage is three to six grams daily.
If you have health concerns, you should talk to a healthcare provider before trying anything in supplement form, including this medicinal food.
What Are the Side Effects?
Cordyceps is possibly safe for most people when taking daily doses of three to six grams for up to a year.
If you take large doses of cordyceps, it may cause:
- Stomach discomfort
There isn’t enough reliable information to know if cordyceps are safe if you’re pregnant or breastfeeding. If you have an autoimmune disease such as multiple sclerosis, lupus, or rheumatoid arthritis, talk to a healthcare provider before taking cordyceps because they could stimulate the immune system more.
If you’re preparing for surgery, cordyceps fungi can increase the risk of bleeding, so stop taking them a few weeks before your procedure.
There aren’t any major known interactions of cordyceps supplementation with other medications, except possibly medicines that slow blood clotting, which are anticoagulants or antiplatelet drugs. Cordyceps might slow blood clotting, which could increase the risk of bruising and bleeding.
Also, since cordyceps can lower your blood pressure, if you’re on medication for that, you want to be careful that your blood pressure doesn’t drop too low.
Cordyceps vs. Reishi vs. Lion’s Mane
Two other popular medicinal mushrooms aside from cordyceps are reishi and lion’s mane.
The three are all considered functional mushrooms with many health benefits, but they can affect you in unique ways.
Reishi is also known by the name Ganoderma lucidum, and this is one of the most researched functional mushrooms in the world. Reishi, also known as the lingzhi mushroom, grows at the base of deciduous trees.
Reishi contains compounds called ganoderic acids. Ganoderic acids have liver protective effects and can help with detoxification. Reishi might also have anti-cancer effects.
In Chinese medicine, reishi is used to boost immunity to things ranging from the common cold to cancer because it increases the activity of white blood cells. Reishi might also improve mood and alleviate anxiety and depression.
Lion’s mane is like a natural nootropic. Lion’s mane mushroom is also known as Hieracium erinaceus. This functional mushroom, like cordyceps and reishi, has been used in Chinese medicine for thousands of years.
There are compounds in lion’s mane that can promote the creation of nerve growth factor or NGF. In that way, lion’s mane can improve cognitive function by regulating and renewing cells making up the nervous system.
In a Japanese study, supplementing with lion’s mane significantly improved cognition in older adults.
Lion’s mane can help with concentration, memory, and maybe even anxiety and depression.
Lion’s mane can also combat inflammation because it’s high in antioxidants, and some people use it to help with symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome.
How to Choose Cordyceps Supplements
There are many ways you can consume cordyceps, each of which has pros and cons.
When comparing cordyceps supplementation options, you first want to consider whether you prefer a powder or capsules. You also want to consider how high-quality the supplement is.
It’s best to look for supplements that contain cordyceps mycelium.
Mycelium is the vegetative body of fungi that then produce mushrooms.
When we picture a mushroom, we think about the above-ground part. The above-ground part is the fruiting body.
The part below ground is the root system that’s also known as the mycelium.
The mycelium is the most bioactive part of the mushroom, so we say that if you can find a supplement containing this part of the fungi, it’s beneficial.
These bioactive components create an underground network that then helps to feed the mushroom.
When you find a supplement containing mycelium, it’s known as a full-spectrum option, which can have more health benefits.
There is also a difference between cordyceps extract and powder. Extract tends to be the purest and most concentrated way to supplement.
The powder form of the supplement is better if you want to mix it into teas, smoothies, or other drinks, and you find it easier to use supplements that way.
You can also check whether your supplement is sourced from organic cordyceps fungi or wild.
Our picks for the best cordyceps supplement available include the following.
Host Defense Cordyceps Capsules
The Host Defense Brand is great for all things mushroom-related. Their cordyceps capsules are no exception. These capsules are easy to take, great energy boosters, and have excellent customer reviews.
Genius Mushrooms with Cordyceps, Lion’s Mane and Reishi
The Genius brand is excellent if your goal are supplements with nootropic and mental health benefits. This mushroom supplement combines cordyceps and lion’s mane, which are great for energy and cognitive health.
Om Mushroom Superfood
This mushroom powder supplement packs a major punch. The blend includes ten different functional mushrooms, as well as adaptogens. You get a lot of value for your money.
Host Defense Respiratory Extract
We like that this extract is a liquid, which is easy to take and well-absorbed. It has cordyceps, and other ingredients to support respiratory health including reishi and chaga.
The Gaia brand is known for its excellent quality control on all supplements. We also like that this is a 100% mushroom extract, without fillers.
Cordyceps Mushroom Benefits Frequently Asked Questions
Below are answers to some common questions about the uses and benefits of cordyceps mushrooms.
What does cordyceps mushroom do?
Cordyceps mushroom is used primarily to boost energy and exercise performance. It can also increase oxygen in the body, reduce fatigue, and help with stamina and sexual performance. Certain types of cordyceps may also benefit immunological disorders like cancer and hepatic, renal, and cardiovascular disease.
Is cordyceps good for health?
There is evidence that cordyceps is good for health, vitality, and longevity. Cordyceps has potential biological activities and pharmacological potential. Folk healers use it for asthma, diabetes, cough and cold, erectile dysfunction, cancer, and more.
Is cordyceps a medicinal mushroom?
Cordyceps is considered a medical mushroom. It has long been used in traditional medicine. Researchers are starting to learn more about the pharmacological benefits of cordyceps, which are similar to conventional medicines. These pharmacological and medicine-like benefits stem from the mushroom’s bioactive polysaccharides and metabolites.
Many natural products have been identified from the fruiting bodies and mycelium of cordyceps. The major chemical constituent is cordycepic acid, and the mushroom contains other vitamins, minerals, and amino acids.
What does cordyceps do for the body?
The following are some of the things cordyceps might do for the body:
- May have anti-fatigue effects
- Increases ATP levels. ATP is a chemical that provides energy to our cells.
- Antiaging effects, perhaps because of improved antioxidative enzyme activity
- Improvements in brain function
- Better sexual function (it’s nicknamed Himalayan Viagra)
- Mimics insulin to decrease blood sugar levels
- May improve kidney function
- Could boost the immune system and help the body’s innate ability to combat new diseases
- High in B vitamins and vitamin K
When should cordyceps be taken?
Cordyceps can be taken in the morning or at night. Some people like to take it in the morning to boost their energy throughout the day and improve athletic performance. Since cordyceps can be like an adaptogen, helping balance your body, you might also be able to take it at night, and it can help with sleep. It can also be used as a natural pre-workout.
Does cordyceps raise blood pressure?
Cordyceps likely doesn’t raise blood pressure, which may have the opposite effect, helping to lower it. The cordycepin compound in the mushroom is similar to adenosine. As is true with adenosine, cordycepin may be able to relax blood vessels. When blood vessels are relaxed, it can improve circulation, which lowers blood pressure.
Cordyceps sinesis, cordyceps militaris, and other forms of cordyceps supplements have powerful health benefits that make them worth exploring.
Technically a fungus rather than a mushroom, natural cordyceps sinesis and other forms of this extract can improve exercise performance, boost energy levels, and potentially have anti-cancer benefits.
Other reasons people supplement with this fungus include cognitive and mental health, reducing blood pressure, boosting testosterone, and improving libido and sexual function. There’s evidence that cultured cordyceps mycelia taken as a supplement can help with kidney and liver conditions.
Cordyceps users often combine it with other functional medicinal mushrooms like reishi, lion’s mane, chaga, and turkey tail.
If you have questions or concerns, please speak to your healthcare provider.
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All products are authentic and arrive brand new, boxed and sealed by Emporio Armani. Have a browse through my page for other watches available; both mens and womens. Please dont hesitate to message me for more information. The item "Brand New Emporio Armani AR6088 Mens Tazio Chronograph Watch" is in sale since Thursday, July 16, 2020.
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Accudata Systems is seeking an individual with proven experience in planning, architecting, and delivering high-value IT solutions for our mid- to enterprise-level accounts throughout the Texas region. This candidate will be involved in pre-sales engagement activities as well as hands-on implementation.
In addition to the technical requirements, you must understand the business value of implementing these solutions. Your ability to clearly communicate solutions to our clients through formal presentations, create documentation, and manage expectations will be key to your success.
What you need for success:
- 5+ years of experience architecting and implementing Microsoft Active Directory and Exchange solutions (both on-prem and Office 365).
- Excellent customer service and communication skills. This is a customer-facing role.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to solve complex technical problems.
- Ability to work individually as well as part of a team.
- A passion to learn technology.
- Provide necessary written documentation and knowledge transfer to customers during and after project implementations.
- The ability to travel up to 25% (usually in Texas).
- Active Directory design or migrations
- Office 365 migrations (Exchange Online)
- Exchange 2013/2016 upgrades & migrations
Experience with the Following a Plus:
- Microsoft PKI / Certificate Services
- Microsoft Azure migrations or development
- Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS)
- System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM)
- System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
- Microsoft Hyper-V
Optional but recommended:
- 3 to 5 years consulting experience
- 4-year college degree
This position will be based in Houston, but will require some travel to support projects based in other Accudata Systems locations. Accudata offers an excellent compensation plan, a benefits package that includes medical, dental, life, AD&D, flex and 401k, and a challenging yet stable work environment.
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A Stranger in the DarkSam Kurzcek
John slept soundly in his penthouse on the top floor of Cadmium Tower, headquarters of Cadmium Technologies, one of the leading companies in technology since 2168.
A loud, strange noise at the foot of his bed woke John from his slumber. Assuming the worst, John quickly glanced to the other side of the room, careful not to make any sudden moves. At the foot of his bed stood the large blocky silhouette of an intruder. This just confirmed John's latest suspicions of foul play.
He knew he didn't have much time to react so he decided to use the element of surprise while he had it. John leaped from his bed straight at the intruder. He lowered his stance as he charged at him and drove his shoulder directly into the mystery man's stomach, knocking the wind out of him and knocking him back into the steel door to his bedroom. His assailant brought his fists down onto John's back and with a resounding thud John fell at the man's feet.
Not waiting for the intruder to recover, John rolled away from the door and got to his feet while the other man took time to regain his breath. The man quickly recovered and moved to retaliate. John turned and picked up his glass top coffee table, swinging with all his might John savagely struck the intruder's face, shattering the table and knocking him onto his back.
Taking this as an opportunity, John tossed the mangled remains of the table aside and dove onto the man before he could get up. He wrapped his hands around his throat and began throttling him. "Who sent you?! Who sent you?!" John repeated as he repeatedly beat his attacker's head into the floor, still unable to see his face in the darkness.
The man let out a few gurgling noises, seemingly in response to John's questions, but John was too busy choking him and shouting at him to notice. The intruder's hands and feet flailed around on the floor around him as the life ebbed from him. Just as his movements began to slow his hand found a piece of glass from the table. He grasped it and swung it into John's shoulder.
John howled with pain and immediately let go of his target. Taking his breaths in deep gasps the intruder threw John off of him and scrambled towards the window.
White hot pain filled John's mind as he focused on the shard of glass thrust deep into his shoulder. Every motion sent another flash of pain through his body as the shard continued to slice apart the inside of his arm.
The intruder was outlined in the dim light of the window but his face was still in shadow. Seeing the man, John became consumed with rage. His face burned red as he gripped the glass in his shoulder and ripped it from his arm. He threw the shard aside and charged his attacker once more.
The assailant moved to throw a punch at the enraged John but John ducked under it and used his forward momentum to slam the two of them into the window, sending a spiderweb of cracks across the floor-to-ceiling window.
John reared back and bashed his forehead into the bridge of the intruder's nose sending blood gushing from the attacker's face. He held his hands up to his face to nurse his shattered nose and let out a pained scream as blood ran down his hands and arms.
Sensing his attacker's weakness, John pulled his arm back and sent a wicked right hook right into the intruder's already broken nose. His head snapped back from the force of the punch and smashed into the window behind him, sending another series of cracks cascading across its surface.
The intruder let out a low moan and John's face lit up with a sick grin. Taking one giant step forward, John lifted his other foot and put all of his weight into a heavy kick right into the intruder's chest. Just as his foot struck the intruder's chest the assailant cried out, "Wait, no!" before his back met with the window for the last time.
Panting, John turned away from the window and commanded to no one in particular, "Computer, Lights," and with that the room was flooded with light. Now, John was fully able to appreciate the destruction that had been wrought on his apartment.
The frame for his coffee table sat twisted and bent against his bookshelf on the wall opposite his bed. Most of the books in said shelf had been knocked from their place and were lying unceremoniously on the ground. The carpet in front of his door was covered in a sprinkling of glass shards of all shapes and sizes. And of course, the window was very much broken.
The polished steel walls and the Persian rug on the floor were spattered with blood and other reminders of the fight that has just ensued.
John felt something hot and wet running down his arm. He lifted it up to look and remembered the injury his shoulder had received. He quickly pressed his other hand to the wound and left his bedroom, careful to avoid any broken glass on the ground. As he left, he called out, "Computer, command: Repair, Window, East. And run cleanupcrew."
He rushed to the bathroom, dripping blood onto the expensive hardwood floor of the hallway. With the forests in the state they were in, it was damn hard to find wood these days. He pulled a fresh towel out of his linen closet and began cleaning the wound.
When he was done, John tossed the, now red, towel into the corner and wrapped the cut with bandages. He then washed the blood from his hands and splashed some water on his face. He looked up into the mirror as he dried his face with a fresh towel.
What he saw was a middle-aged man with a heavy, square face that was showing the beginnings of wrinkles. Some gray was starting to find its way into his hair, but he was still in fairly good shape, as demonstrated by the fight he was just in. He carefully smoothed out his mustache and combed back his messy black hair.
Once his wound was bandaged and his appearance was to his liking, John returned to his room. When he entered, the Cadmium Technologies maintenance robots were just finishing installing his new window, and the glass on the floor, along with the table it had come from, had already been cleaned up. One lonely drone was hovering around the room scrubbing the blood out of wherever it had found its way into.
John stood admiring the little workers for a moment. He always loved to watch their small, metal forms gracefully hover about and work. John loved the precision of it, the lack of mistakes. It was a quality he wished more of his employees had.
The alarm clock next to John's bed read only 4:13 in the morning. He considered going back to bed, but with all the excitement he figured there was no point in trying. He switched off his alarm and walked over to his closet and started getting dressed.
About halfway through tying his tie, John's hands slowed as a thought crossed his mind. Who had that man been? John was used to attempts on his life, but that didn't mean that he didn't like finding out who was responsible. Besides, that was an unusual level of success, especially since he had just installed the new security system and paid the extra thirty thousand for the added flamethrower.
Once he was dressed, John checked his appearance in the mirror and adjusted his jacket a bit until he was satisfied. He turned to face the new window and calmly said, "Computer: Bring up monitor" The whole window flashed into life as readings of all kinds began showing up across it.
After taking a look at the international stock trade for the day, John decided to investigate last night's attack. The slightest touch from John's fingers moved the stock trade out of the way and expanded the security monitor for John's apartment. First, he scanned the front door to see how the intruder got in. Nothing showed up on the monitor until John himself moved into frame on his way to the bathroom, bleeding from the stab he received during the fight.
A bit disturbed, John moved the view around the apartment, checking all points of entry he could think of, and nothing seemed to move until after the fight. Finally, John checked the camera in his room. All was quiet, until the silence was broken by a loud whooshing noise, and the intruder appeared where John had found him and the fight began. The camera gave no more insight about the intruder's identity that John's own eyes weren't capable of doing on their own.
John frowned at the screen, playing the intruder's entrance over and over again. His frown deepened as he watched, becoming more and more sure as he watched. The intruder and gotten into his room using his technology. He had been testing the company's teleportation technology just the other day, and that was definitely it.
Out of curiosity, John checked the security cameras in the lab downstairs. The feed started some time the previous day so John rapidly began fast-forwarding through it. Somewhere around four in the afternoon he saw himself walk on screen. He brought the video down to normal speed and turned up the audio. This had nothing to do with the investigation but John still wanted to watch it.
John watched himself power walk past research rooms until he came to the one he was looking for. He watched the people in the rooms he passed and laughed as he saw them visibly shake with fear. The John on the screen was carrying a circuit board that he had just finished yanking out of a new robot prototype that was being developed for military purposes.
He entered the room and the technician looked up from his work with obvious fear. John angrily threw down the circuit board on top of the technician's project, shattering the board and sending bits of the project flying off the table. The technician held up his hands to shield his eyes.
The entire hall became silent as the workers fearfully waited in silence for John to finish his business and leave. Some of the braver ones peeked out of their rooms to get a better view of what was happening. John advanced on the technician, grabbed him by his shirt front and pushed him back into the wall behind him, knocking charts and papers to the ground. And then the yelling started. "Can you explain to me what a targeting chip from Millennium Technologies is doing in one of my projects?" John yelled, his face inches from that of the technician.
The technician feebly attempted to respond but all that came out were a few stuttering syllables and heavy breathing. "Well?" John inquired, tightening his grip.
Finally mustering up the courage to respond the technician feebly said, "They- they- they're- Well, you see, they work better and-"
"Better? Better! What do you mean better?" John shouted, saliva flying from his mouth.
"Using their chip we were able to add twenty meters to the effective range of the targeting system." the technician quickly blurted out.
"I don't care if it can make me shit diamonds, we do not use our competitor's technology in our products! Is that understood?"
"Design your own damn chip if you have to but never, I repeat, never bring someone else's technology into my business." John let go of the technician and walked calmly to the door. The technician slid down the wall to sit in a heap on the floor.
John looked over his shoulder at the technician. "Your punishment is a two week suspension without pay. You have ten minutes before your security clearance is revoked. If you are on the premises after that you will be considered an intruder and you will be shot on sight."
John left the room, leaving the technician sitting on the floor in shock.
Back in his apartment, John chuckled at the video, pausing at the technician's shocked expression. Once he was done having his fun, John continued to fast-forward. Nothing seemed to show up until a bit before the attack. John noticed a movement in the corner of the screen. He went back and checked it again. A man came on screen briefly before walking into another room. He had his back to the camera so John couldn't see who he was.
Sighing, John took off his jacket and walked over to his bed. He reached under the mattress and pulled out his gun. He strapped on his shoulder holster and put his jacket on. He thought back to the fight. He had actually gotten bored enough with these assassination attempts to fend this one off unarmed. Oh what a life he led. But business is a dangerous business so John figured that he should bring it with.
As he passed his window he noticed sirens heading towards his building. Someone had probably called in the body hitting the pavement. It'd probably get filed as a suicide instead of just a simple corporate killing.
Trying to spot the incoming emergency vehicles, John looked out the window. It wasn't often that he looked out the window, more often than not he was looking at it, not through it. He looked at the urban skyline before him. Buildings hundreds of stories high as far as the eye could see. The sky was a sickly kind of dark gray, the stars had been blocked out by smog decades ago. After appreciating the view for a bit, John continued getting ready to go.
They say business wasn't always this hard. That, decades ago, before corporations had taken over the government, people were rarely killed in the white collar environment. That wasn't the case any more. Corporate espionage was a serious part of every company's existence and men and women died every day fighting to protect their company's secrets.
John had gotten used to the bloodshed as CEO of Cadmium Technologies. He had killed many men on his way to the top, but all of them, or at least most of them were for the good of the company. Sacrifices had to be made for the company and John was not a man that was afraid to make them. There were whispers among the employees that John was "crazy" or "a sociopath". They knew that if John ever caught them saying such things he'd have them executed so they stayed at a whisper.
After several retinal, fingerprint, and vocal scans, John disarmed his security system and walked into his private express elevator and hit the button for the Research and Development floor. John spent the short ride thinking about his job. Sure, it was dangerous but it sure was exciting and it paid well. It had also made him a bit paranoid, but he had been paranoid his entire life so that wasn't too different.
He figured his parents had something to do with it. They raised him and his brother as rivals, always giving them incentive to outdo each other. John and his older brother were about equal for most of their childhoods. Once high school came around John found himself accepted in to a much better school than the one his brother had gotten into. It was then that his parents favor began to shift.
John was a smart kid, and he did well in school, but he had an uncanny need to be the best. He didn't care what he got on tests or assignments as long as it was better than everyone else. Instead of studying he would often sabotage those who could do better than him. It worked, and John actually had fun doing it. Once, he stole someone's girlfriend and dated her for six months, just to make him do worse on a biology final. Once the class was over John dumped the girl and moved on. John never much liked women, he thought they just got in the way, that they were distracting.
College went pretty much the same, and by the end of it he was recruited by Cadmium Technologies. He had climbed the corporate ladder rapidly.
The vicious world of modern business was the perfect place for John; his ruthless nature helped Cadmium become the powerhouse it was. John quickly became dissatisfied with his place as a worker He needed to be at the top. So, with some carefully planted evidence and a well placed bullet, the last CEO of Cadmium Technologies vacated his office. And with some more well placed documents, John took his place.
The elevator dinged as it reached his floor. The lowest floor in the tower, the lab sat several stories underground. John sighed as he walked out of the elevator and out onto the R&D floor. He headed for the experimental storage vault. He saw a man in a lab coat hurrying away from the door to the vault. Suspect number one, John thought.
John pulled his gun out and leveled it at the man. "Stop where you are!" The man stopped with a start and turned around. John recognized him as his chief scientist, Seth.
Raising his hands above his head Seth said, "Whoa there, John! Careful where you're pointing that thing."
"Someone broke into my bedroom last night using our teleportation technology. You wouldn't happen to know anything about that, would you, Seth?" John began slowly walking towards Seth, still pointing the gun at him.
"What? No, of course not. Why would I know anything about that?"
"It seems pretty suspicious, walking around the R&D department at five in the morning, Seth. What were you doing down here?"
"I never left, I've been here since last night working on some new designs."
"Did you ever go into the vault?"
"No, I've been in my office. I just left to get something to eat."
"Well, Seth, that seems like a likely story, but I'm not a man that likes to take chances."
"What are you talking about, John?" Seth began to sweat and slowly started to back away from John.
John watched him with a calm expression. "I'm talking about how many people are trying to take this company from me. All the attempts on my life. I'm talking about taking the necessary precautions to stay alive and do what's best for this company." John said, his the volume of his voice escalating as he spoke.
Seth lowered his hands and sped up his pace, a horrified look in his eyes. "You're crazy! No one is trying to take this company from you! You just think they are because you're a paranoid lunatic!"
John stared at Seth as his face slowly contorted into a hideous mask of wrath. Turning beet red he shouted, "NO ONE CALLS ME CRAZY!" He fired his gun into Seth's left knee causing him to fall to the ground clutching his shattered leg as it bled out around him.
"YOU'RE CRAZY!" he yelled. Over and over he yelled it until John came over and silenced him by unloading the rest of the gun into Seth, shouting incoherently the whole time, spittle flying from his mouth.
John continued to pull the trigger even after it clicked empty. He stopped after a few seconds, realizing that Seth was very dead and no one was calling him crazy any more.
Regaining his composure, John looked down and lamented the loss of his clean shoes that now were covered in bits of Seth. Oh well, he could get new ones. He'd have to remember to tell his secretary to send a janitor over to clean up this mess.
After wiping the excess goo off on Seth's coat John walked over to the vault. He tossed the empty gun onto what was left of Seth's body.
"Computer: Access vault entry history." A screen appeared on the wall next to the vault's door. John once again frowned at the reading. It appeared that no one had been in the vault since he had been in there yesterday.
An idea struck John. It appeared that Seth had, in fact been innocent. He supposed Seth was a good enough worker and it would be a pain to get someone else to fill the position, so John decided to kill two birds with one stone. Especially since it turned out that Seth was at least somewhat trustworthy. It was hard to find trustworthy workers, even if they did call you crazy.
John ordered the door open and entered the vault. Gadgets of all shapes and sizes sat on shelves and stands around the room. Some were large enough to stand alone on the floor. He spotted the teleporter, a small box the size of a pack of cigarettes, right where he had left it. At the back of the vault was another door.
The locks on this door were more complex, designed and built by John himself. It scanned his retina, blood, fingerprints and tested his voice to make sure he was really John, the only one capable of opening this vault.
This had been where John had spent the last six months of his work. He entered into the dark back room and turned on the lights. Against the opposite wall sat a large machine that looked very much like an upright tanning booth. John walked over to the screen on its side and punched in some numbers. When it was ready, John stepped in and closed the door.
John liked this design, it was sleek and simple. Nothing too extravagant. The walls were smooth metal and a single touch screen was used for controls.
He would prevent Seth's death and find out who his mystery assailant was all in one fell swoop. Not to mention finally getting to test his honest to god time machine. It still needed some tweaking before it would be ready to leave the vault but it would serve his purposes just fine.
This machine would put Cadmium Technologies at the head of the pack for a good, long time. Not only was it a significant scientific advancement but it made them masters of time, something that the other companies would have a hard time competing with. John was particularly fond of being able to go back in time and file his competitor's patents before they could.
Cadmium technologies was already nearing the head of the pack but John needed to be the best. He wanted to make sure Cadmium would be the best and that no other company would even have a chance to catch up with the.
John could rule the world with this thing, but for now he'd just use it for these two little errands.
The machine flooded with white light, and John had to close his eyes to shield them from it. The machine worked by converting John's mass to straight energy, excluding him from the second law of thermodynamics. With no time arrow, John could move freely though time and space. For a brief moment, John had no eyes to close, no body, no brain. Then with a loud whoosh John regained his physical form and found himself in darkness.
Disoriented, John stumbled around for a bit trying to get used to the darkness when, out of nowhere, a force struck him in the stomach and his back met a wall behind him. John quickly realized that it was a person that had hit him and he struck downward at whoever it was.
It seemed that his mystery assailant had anticipated his arrival. He stepped closer to the assailant, remembering that he should get a good look at his face first.
Before he could think about much else, something very large smashed into his face and he found himself on the ground. Next thing he knew, the intruder was on top of him with his hands around his throat. John's vision began to go dark and his hands reached around for something to defend himself with. They found something sharp and swung it up at the attacker. He released John and pulled away.
John's shoulder twinged as he tried to deal with the strangest case of Deja Vu he had ever experienced. He stood up and attempted to get his bearings. The intruder rushed towards him again. John threw a punch at him but it sailed over the attacker's head and he was pushed back into the wall behind him. He heard a cracking noise from behind on him and his face began to light up with realization. The look was short lived as the attacker's face met his and broke his nose.
John's vision flashed white as the blow struck his face and he instinctively reached up to hold his nose. Another blow struck his face and just intensified the pain. He barely even felt his head slam into the window behind him.
His vision finally adjusted to the light and John blinked through his tears to see his own sinister grin staring straight at him. The light from the window lit up his attacker's face and did just the opposite to his own.
The reality of the situation dawned on him and he only managed to cry out a desperate, "Wait no!" as John's foot struck John in the chest sending him flying through the window.
No longer caring about his injuries, John thought about what had just happened. He had a very long drop to think about it. Even now, his attacker was heading down a path that would end in the exact situation he was in now. In his last moments, John got a kind of sick enjoyment out of the twisted justice of the situation.
The irony became too much to bear, John's face split into a genuine smile for the first time in a long while as he let out a crazed laugh on his way to the ground.
Then his face split open for a different reason.
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Consumer Sales Manager - Online / Direct
North Ryde, AustraliaJob ID R18622 Date posted Jul. 09, 2019
The ANZ Consumer and Small Business Segment (CSB) is looking for a new Consumer Direct Sales Manager. Responsible for the entire Consumer Direct Segment which includes the Website, Chat and Call queues, and other extensions of Dell.com.au. The successful applicant will have +10 years Sales experience with at least 3 years in a Direct environment running online business’s and call centers. Experience in Marketing/Product Marketing & Pricing will put you at an advantage in your day to day success in role.
Reporting to the General Manager of CSB ANZ you will drive the strategic direction of the business and day to day run the business activities to ensure the Consumer segment for ANZ meets and exceeds its targets consistently every Quarter/year. Liasing with our partners and key internal stakeholders you will develop and execute the winning strategies for success in the ANZ Consumer market.
- Establish sales through direct channels and liase with Partners to drive the team to achieve the revenue and margin targets
- Provides direction, development and inspiration to team members
- Manages the hiring, staffing and maintaining of a diverse and effective workforce
- Drives Direct sales strategies and sales promotion campaigns
- Responsible for career development/planning, performance and pay discussions of team members
- Engage our internal and external stakeholders and partners to facilitate winning strategies for the Consumer segment by driving results across both direct and cross functional teams
- Directly manages field based individual contributors and may manage subordinate leaders
- Manages teams responsible for moderately complex Geographic area of responsibility
- Sets focus for Consumer direct team and helps sets focus of business both in quarter and across future years for sales success
- Drives focus with cross-business functions
- Drives business process improvement efforts
- Understands complexities of the environment and works within Dell to solve complex business issues
- Collaborates with other functions to resolve escalations/customer issues quickly
Dell provides the technology that transforms the way we all work and live. But we are more than a technology company — we are a people company. We inspire, challenge and respect every one of our over 100,000 employees. We also provide them with unparalleled growth and development opportunities. We can’t wait for you to discover this for yourself as a Consumer Sales Manager on our CSB team in ANZ.
When you’re driving human progress through innovative technology, you find every way you can to let the world know. That’s where Channel Sales comes in. Assigned to a particular territory or a specific partner, our teams are dedicated to driving sales of Dell products, systems and services. The focus is on getting the very best from a host of indirect sales channels. From value-added resellers to distributors and retailers, it’s about finding what works and constantly exploring ways to make it work even better. These relationships can change everything.
We offer highly competitive salaries, bonus programs, world-class benefits, and unparalleled growth and development opportunities — all to create a compelling and rewarding work environment.
If you have the vision to use direct sales channels to break new ground in business, this is your opportunity to develop with Dell.
Dell is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at Dell are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, physical, mental or sensory disability, HIV Status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Dell will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. Learn more about Diversity and Inclusion at Dell here.
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At first, you might be seen that Windows Explorer is not responding on your computer systems such as programs not responding or Program has stopped working message could be many and now try to troubleshoot. Internet Explorer not opening and hidden or stuck in windows. You can fix internet explorer not opening and do it by using the below solutions.
Windows Explorer is not responding in windows:
There are many reasons for it:
1. This can be caused by virus-infected your system
2. A program not getting enough resources to run the application
3. CPU taking lots of usages
4. Not enough ram to run the process
5. Running too many application in the background
Force program to close the application using right-click on it and go to process.
Check Out: How to remove YEADESK malware from windows
Click on End process
Here are some few tips :
- Restart your system and see if it works
- Try to scan your system with adwcleaner it’s very good.
- Scan your system in safe mode by pressing the f8 key before the system reboots.
You’re done.nternet explorer not opening fix internet explorer not internet explorer hidden explorer stuck in windows
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Simple Elegance. You... Simply Elegant.
Real silver jewelry, handcrafted in L.A. and styled in themes from the elements of the Earth,Water and Universe Angela Starr Designs are hand-made to order from natural silvers including Sterling, Bali, Thai or Turkish silver, Semi-precious stones, Swarovski brand Crystals and Freshwater Pearls
LETS. GO. SHOPPING.
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We all love type and use it daily, but have you ever looked really close at how it was designed? The details of a well designed typeface often go unnoticed, so lets take a closer look.
When you see a professionally designed typeface everything looks well balanced aligned and perfect. You may think that all the characters have the same height and weight but this is not always true. This effect is an optical illusion that typographers must master and is only achieved through practice and attention to detail. In general, no matter what style the type is, most typeface’s carry the same attributes for optical reasons.
Obviously it’s much less of an issue when using a more square typeface. In general the sharper the apex and vertex of your characters and how oblique, rounded, or squared your letters are makes a major difference in designing your typeface.
Now that you’re armed with this added insight, you’ll be able to appreciate a well designed typeface even more and be able to modify it into your own custom type while maintaining the elements that make the typeface work.
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The government of Ghana is said to be planning to set up a commission of enquiry into the abysmal performance of the Black Stars at the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) tournament, footballghana.com checks have revealed.
The Black Stars despite being given the needed support to succeed at this year’s continental showdown failed to impress and got knockout of the tournament at the round of 16 stage.
After emerging as leaders of Group F ahead of defending champions Cameroon at the end of the preliminary stage, Ghana suffered a shocking defeat at the hands of the Carthage Eagles of Tunisia who emerged as 5-4 winners on penalties at the end of a round of 16 tie.
Information gathered by footballghana.com has revealed that government is gutted by the poor display of the national team and will set up a commission of enquiry to find out what contributed to the disappointing campaign.
Other issues that will be looked into will include what motivated the idea of airlifting supporters and journalist to Egypt for the tournament.
According to checks, the members of the committee will be announced very soon.
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A Gentle Sleep Aid That You Can Count On
A harmonious blend of relaxing herbs, nutrients and melatonin to encourage easy, restful sleep without grogginess
We developed LUNA because we had so many people close to us who struggled with falling asleep and staying asleep from time to time. We’ve all been there - every so often, everyone has trouble with sleeping. On those days, it’s difficult to wake up fresh and energized.
We set out to create a sleep supplement with naturally sourced ingredients that the people closest to us could count on. The LUNA formula contains melatonin and a blend of calming herbs (including extracts of Valerian Root, Lemon Balm, Passionflower, Hops and more) and amino acids to help you drift off into deep, restful sleep.
Because maintaining healthy levels of certain amino acids promotes healthy sleep cycles, LUNA also includes boosters of two amino acids known for promoting a state of relaxation: L-Theanine and GABA.1-3
It’s the harmonious blend of all these gentle ingredients in LUNA that will help you fall asleep, stay asleep and wake up in the morning feeling refreshed, not groggy. LUNA is what put us on the map, and we are proud that it’s been able to help so many people.
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The Maxima Case for iPad Mini is made from thin yet durable neoprene and is an excellent items to give to people
* Who carry their tablets either in very small bags and purses or in very big bags and purses that already are stuffed with a bunch of other items
* Who would have bought laptops if they wanted devices that were big and bulky
* Who think it's adorable that the foldover top of the Maxima Case makes it look as if their iPads are tucked away in little sleeping bags
Although it's marketed as the Maxima Case for iPad Mini, its size also makes it an ideal case for an e-reader, like a Nook or a Kindle. (Please note: media devices are not included.) Order the affordable Maxima Case for the guaranteed lowest price, and make it your giveaway for the media-savvy people you'll meet on college campuses, at libraries, and at tradeshows. Call Quality Logo Products today!
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AAA has released its Diamond ratings for restaurants. And once again, the Triangle had a strong presence on the list.
In the Four Diamond category, which AAA describes as those in an "exclusive group, offering distinctive, creatively prepared cuisine, skillfully served in a notable environment." Just 2.1 percent of restaurants inspected by AAA, representing a total of 665, made the cut this year.
The 2018 recipients include:
- Vue 1913, Asheville;
- Gamekeeper Restaurant, Boone;
- Crossroads Chapel Hill;
- Il Palio, Chapel Hill;
- McNinch House Restaurant, Charlotte;
- Kimball's Kitchen, Duck;
- The Fairview Dining Room, Durham;
- Saint Jacques at Burke Manor Inn, Gibsonville;
- Chef & The Farmer, Kinston;
- 1895 Grille, Pinehurst;
- Second Empire Restaurant & Tavern, Raleigh; and
- Manna in Wilmington.
The travel club reserves its highest Five Diamond rating for those that "consistently provide leading-edge cuisine of the finest ingredients, uniquely prepared by an acclaimed chef and served by expert service staff in extraordinary surroundings." There were two restaurants in North Carolina to nab that top honor – both in the Triangle: Herons, located in the Umstead Hotel and Spa in Cary, and The Fearrington House Restaurant at Fearrington Village in Pittsboro.
Here's how AAA breaks down its rating classification on its website: "One Diamond means grab it and go. Two Diamonds mean a relaxing break with expected favorites. Three Diamonds offer a fresh and trendy dining-out event. Four Diamonds are a culinary experience to savor and enjoy. And Five Diamonds offer an entire evening of wow moments."
Several of the restaurants on AAA's list are also popular among Yelpers, as they were also on the list of the social media site's roundup of the Triangle's upscale restaurants of 2018.
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Ethics & Compliance
You may click on the icon below and be re-directed to Ethicsline, a third-party website managed by KPMG Forensics to report any actual or suspected incidents of fraud, corruption or unethical conduct.
Alternatively, you can contact the Whistleblower Hotline using the following channels:
Fax: +65 2130428
Mailing Address: The EthicsLine Manager
16 Raffles Quay #22-00
Hong Leong Building
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The Georgia State Patrol has dismissed an entire trooper cadet class for cheating on an online exam.
Colonel Mark W. McDonough said in a press conference Wednesday afternoon that the 106th trooper class was dismissed earlier on Wednesday morning. He said the class consisted of 30 troopers who graduated in August 2019.
Col. McDonough told Fox 5 they determined the troopers cheated on a “Speed Detector Operator” exam they took online. This revelation could affect more than 100 citations.
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Renty is a Car Rental & Booking WordPress Theme created for people who’d like to have (or improve) their rental sites. The thing is, it is just a well-looking thematic appearance which has no functionality. If you want to create a full-fledged car rental website, it is necessary to install Car Rental plugin additionally. It integrates with Renty theme for WordPress and adds all the necessary functionality for renting cars.
So how to create the look similar to the Demo of the theme and make it work?
Step 1: Install the theme and the plugin.
Step 2: Configure the slider.
Firstly, enable the slider in theme settings. After that, go to the plugin settings page and add the slides you’d like to be showed up. Add title and description if necessary. Don’t forget to save changes. Here is a result:
Step 3: Create pages.
Use page templates provided by the theme:
As you can see, “Home v.1” template is taken as an example. Here how it looks:
Create as many pages as you need.
Step 4: Configure Widgets.
Renty theme provides 8 widget areas for displaying them in different parts of your website. Configure them in accordance with your requirements.
Step 5: Add Cars.
Go to Dashboard > Cars, and add as many as you need.
You can include the following info in addition to the main one like Title, Content, and Featured Image:
- Car Classes
- Vehicle type
- Number of passengers
- Luggage quantity
- Air conditioning
- Average consumption
- Price per hour
That’s all, 5 steps for creating a full-fledged car rental website which is ready-to-use. Complete them now and your customers won’t be long in coming!
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A web accelerator is a piece of software which accelerates a website typically by caching content and providing it instead of the web server. Such programs could be employed for both static and dynamic Internet sites because there are a variety of accelerators that can cache both static content and database calls and responses. The best thing about using a web accelerator is that a given site shall perform significantly faster without using additional resources. Just the opposite, such a website will need significantly less resources to operate because the web accelerator will tackle most requests rather than the server. In contrast to many firms that do not offer web accelerators with their solutions or offer only one, we offer 3 different ones that will permit you to speed up your Internet sites regardless of their style or content.
Web Accelerators in Website Hosting
When you host your sites within a website hosting
account from us, you will have three popular web accelerators to pick from if you'd like to improve the sites' efficiency. Memcached is employed for database-driven sites and it caches the calls and requests between a site and its database, so it could decrease the load of such Internet sites tremendously. Varnish caches whole pages the first time a website visitor opens them and provides them from there on if the same visitor opens them again. It does that considerably faster than the hosting server, so it can raise the loading speed of any Internet site approximately 300%. Node.js is an object-oriented platform for real-time apps which operates on the web server and not within the visitor's Internet browser. It is used for accommodation booking, chats and other applications where a lot of data should be processed in real time. The availability of these accelerators depends on the hosting plan that you choose - they could come by default or as an upgrade. In each case, you'll be able to add more instances or more memory for each of them.
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- Preparation Time
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- Total Time
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Happy St. Patrick's Day! This year I am hiding out from the Irish extravaganza in Denmark, visiting relatives, but I still have a (somewhat) patriotic recipe up my sleeve.
We've just come to the end of the Seville orange season and therefore the end of marmalade season. Last year for my first ever attempt to make marmalade and I found this article by Felicity Cloake to be incredibly useful. In fact, it was so useful that it forms the basis of my own Tricolour Marmalade recipe, a three fruit marmalade that contains all the colours of the Irish flag (see the tenuous Paddy's Day link yet?)
In this recipe I've just put in the total weight for the citrus fruit needed. I made up my kilo of fruit with 3 Seville oranges, 3 limes and 4 lemons but you can try a different combination. You also need to add an additional lemon, which I listed separately to the rest of the fruit.
You can also try making a plain Seville marmalade or a three fruit marmalade made with grapefruit or even a ginger and orange marmalade. The choice is endless!
A large pot, sieve, a large square of muslin or muslin bag knife, elastic band, saucers or small plates, lots of jam jars and lids.
First assemble all your fruit (including the additional lemon) and cut it in half. Squeeze the fruit into your large pot, making sure that you have a sieve in place to catch the pith and pips.
Pull off the rest of the pith using your fingers and a knife, so that you're left with peel that has very little flesh left on it.
Put all the pith and the pips collected in the sieve into your muslin bag or into the centre of your square of muslin and seal up with an elastic band.
Add the water to the large pot and put in the bag of pith and pips. Leave to one side while you prepare the peel.
Using a sharp knife shred the peel of the fruit into the size of pieces that you prefer. Personally, I like a mixture of fine and thick peel.
Add the peel to the pot and bring to the boil. Allow to simmer for 2 hours until the peel gets soft.
After the 2 hours, remove the muslin bag from the pot and allow to cool in a bowl. It will take a minimum of 30 mins for the bag to cool enough for you to handle, unless you have heatproof gloves or asbestos hands. At this point you can leave the marmalade to stand overnight.
While you're waiting for the bag to cool, prepare the jam jars as in my Apple Butter recipe.
Once the bag is cool enough to handle, squeeze it so that lots of goop comes out. You want to squeeze out as much of this as possible into your marmalade mixture. Do be careful during the squeezing that none of the rough contents of the bag escape.
Once you squeezed lots of goop into the pot, bring the marmalade mixture back to the boil and add the sugar.
Stir the mixture until the sugar has dissolved and bring to the boil. Do be careful during this part, as boiling sugar is dangerous. If you have a sugar thermometer, now is the time to use it.
While the marmalade is coming to the boil but a set of saucers into the fridge, so they get nice and cold. This is to help tell when the marmalade is ready.
When the marmalade reaches 104°C, or, if you don't have a thermometer, after the mixture has vigorously boiled for 15 mins, take a spoonful of the mixture and put it on to one of the cold plates and put it back in the fridge for 5 mins. If the marmalade is ready, the marmalade will wrinkle when you push your finger through it. After the initial boil, try the marmalade every 5 mins until you get the wrinkle.
Once the marmalade is ready, let it stand for 15 mins before ladling it into the warm jam jars you have in the oven.
Clean the jars and seal them. Leave the jars to cool and you can label them. Check out Jamlabelizer for cool labels.
You can eat the marmalade the next day, but it tastes much better if you leave it for a couple of weeks.
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Broadening its slate of European films, NDM, the Paris/Mexico based sales company launched by Jaime Romandia’s Mantarraya and Carlos Reygadas’ Nodream Cinema, has acquired world sales rights to Norwegian Ole Giaever’s mountains-set dramedy “Out of Nature.”
The pick-up announcement comes as NDM has also revealed early sales on its two 2014 Cannes titles, both now also selected for Toronto: Bruno Dumont’s “Li’l Quinquin” and Lisandro Alonso’s “Juaja.”
Giaever’s follow-up to the 2011 Berlin Panorama-selected “The Mountain,” “Out of Nature” will world premiere at the Toronto Festival, screening in Contemporary World Cinema.
Also written by Giaver, “Nature” traces a physical, mental and emotional journey inside Martin head and out into wild nature. A family father in his 30s in a small town in Norway who feels alienated in his own life and longs to get away from his job and family, as he sets off alone on a hiking trip into the woods, up to the mountains and the audience hears his uncensored thoughts and brutally honest observations about himself and the people around him as he is forced to confront the way he lives his life.
Giaver himself plays Martin; Maria Ekerhovd produces for the Bergen/Tromso-based Mer Film.
NDM’s Fiorella Moretti tracked “Nature” since she first screened it in rough-cut at January’s Goteborg Festival Nordic Film Market where it proved one of the standouts at the works-in-progress section.
“We hear Martin’s thoughts and fantasies from the most trivial and absurd to his deepest sentiments. The plot is simple but its reach is very large, universal,” Moretti said. Ekerhovd added: “When I first presented ‘Out of Nature’ to NDM, I immediately understood that they got the film’s mix of humor and sincerity..”
“I like the way NDM works very closely with the films they sell, caring about the product, wanting to do what is right for the film. We are very excited to be presenting our film from the North of Norway to the world via NDM.”
Before directing “The Mountain,” where a bickering lesbian couple attempt a relationship reboot on a hiking trip, Giaver helmed “Tommy,” nominated for best short at the 2007 European Film Awards, and “Summer Past,” shortlisted for best screenplay at the Norwegian National Film Awards.
“Out of Nature” marks NDM’s third European pick-up as Mexico’s arthouse scene builds, bringing new energy to the sector, in and outside Mexico. Mantarraya and Nodream Cinema already produced – and NDM hanled sales on – Cannes’ best director winners two years running: Reygadas’ own “Post Tenebras Lux” and Amat Escalante’s “Heli.” They also run a highly active distribution house in Mexico, ND Mantarraya. When it launched seven years ago, it released four films a year and bowed its first film on two copies. Now it bows films every three weeks on up-to-30, Moretti recalled.
Already driving into select European titles, NDM has made early sales on Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight title “Li’l Quinquin,” from France’s Dumont, which screens in Toronto’s Contemporary World Cinema.
Argentine Alonso’s “Jauja,” starring Viggo Mortensen, which scooped a Fipresci Un Certain Regard nod at Cannes, will screen in Toronto’s Wavelengths section.
A tragicomic single movie/ four-episode TV series turning on a police investigation in a small village in northern France, “Li’l Quinquin” has sealed a U.S. distribution in a deal to be announced shortly, Moretti said.
Other first sales territories, made off Cannes, for “Quiquin”: Quebec (Reel Fun Film Festival); Mexico (Cineteca Nacional), Brazil (Sao Paolo Intl. Film Festival); Portugal (Leopardo Filmes); Poland (T-Mobile New Horizons Int.Film Festival).
On “Jauja,” NDM has sealed Japan (Broadmedia Studios Corp.), the U.K. (Soda Pictures), ex-Yugoslavia (Demiurg) and Panama, Dominican Republic and Costa Rica (Wiesner Distribution).
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Migraines are commonly treated with a wide variety of medications, particularly the Triptan family. These drugs all work to change the neurotransmitter balance in the brain and to change blood flow to the brain.
The Neuromuscular Approach to treating and eliminating migraines is very similar but instead of flooding the body with dangerous medications that have frequent side effects it works its magic by changing the neuro input into the brain. The term Musculoskeletal normalization applies to dentistry but the same basic systems apply throughout the body. Musculoskeletal Approach to treating and eliminating migraines is an extension of the neuromuscular concepts.
The Trigeminal Nerve after amplification in the Reticular Activating System accounts for well over 50% of all input into the brain. If this input is nociceptive (painful) or it is merely the wrong input at the wrong time it creates of neural flood of neurotransmitters that can cause Chronic Daily Headache, Chronic Migraine, Tension Headaches and Autonomic Cephalgias.
Control of blood flow to the brain thru the meninges is primarily controlled by the Trigeminal Nerve as well. It is universally accepted that almost 100% of all headaches are mediated by the Trigemino-Vascular System which controls the blood flow to the anterior two thirds of the brain. Neurogenic spread is based on aberrant patterns of neurotransmiter release.
The only way to eliminate or treat migraines is to control input and output to and from the brain thru the Trigeminal nervous system.
One method that can be utilized is the use of the Neuro-toxin Botox to break the connection between the nervous system and the masticatory mucles. This approach carries dangers of acute reactions but far more troubling are reports of muscle and bone wasting associated with injecting neurotoxins.
The best method to prevent migraines and other headaches will always be to control the trigeminal nervous system input. It is crucial that all migraine patients know how the Trigeminal Nerves cause headaches and migraines. The trigeminal nerve is usually considered the dentist's nerve. It innervates the teeth, the gums, the periodontal ligaments, the lining of the sinuses, the anterior two thirds of the tounge, the hard and soft plate, the muscle that opens and closes the eustacian tube (Tensor veli Palitini Muscle) and the muscle that tightens the ear drum (Tensor veli Tympani muscle). It controls the lower eyelid and the tear ducts. The muscles that move the jaw are all innervated by the Trigeminal nerve thru the motor nucleus and it is here at the neuromuscular junction where BOTOX, a neurotoxin is injected. The jaw joint including the meniscus or disk as well as the joint capsule are all trigeminally innervated.
The Trigeminal Nervous System is the largest proprioceptive input into the brain and that system coordinates chewing, smiling, talking,breathing, swallowing and position of the jaw during all of these activities. Neuromuscular Dentistry excels in coordinating the proprioception of the teeth thru the periodontal ligament with TemporoMandibular Joint and masticatory muscle function.
A neuromuscular dentist can eliminate noxious input creating relaxed muscles and a calm nervous system. This is done by combining the use of Ultra Low Frequency Transcutaneous Electrical Neural Stimulation (ULF-TENS) that relaxes the jaw muscles and the use of a Diagnostic Neuromuscular Orthotic that is used to correct proprioceptive input and maintain relaxed muscle and nerve systems.
The basic premise of Neuromuscular Dentistry is to create a jaw closure path that does not introduce nociception into the trigeminal nervous system. The is initially achieved with the orthotic or orthopedic appliance. The muscles which are relaxed by the ULF-TENS are used to intelligently find the ideal closing point for the mandible that allows the muscles to return to their most relaxed position after function.
This eliminates the negative neurotransmitter storm (referred to as chemical imbalance) which known to trigger and maintain headaches of all types.
The musculoskeletal connection is that as our posture changes so does the relation of our lower to our upper jaw. The musculoskeletal dentist must adapt the diagnostic orthotic to match healing that occurs in the patient. The reason a diagnostic orthotic is utilized initially is to allow time for healing.
Substantial Pain relief, muscle and joint stabilization, and creating a healing environment for the masticatory muscles and trigeminal nervous system must precede more extensive treatment.
The use of Spenopalatine Ganglion Blocks allows more astute neuromuscular dentists to correct the problems in the autonomic nervous system as well. This system creates anxiety, worry and depression but also controls the automatic functions of the body like digestion, blood pressure and heart rate. The Fight or Flight response is invoked when we face immediate danger and our body ramps up to fight of a predator or danger or run like hell.
It stimulates our Sympathetic Nervous System that floods our muscls and brain with blood and shuts off our gut. It speeds up our heart and increases blood pressure. If we just came face to face with a Grizzly Bear we are prepared to take action.
If these same changes take place and we are at work, school, at home parenting this Sympathetic overflow becomes an enormous stressor. The adrenaline flowing thru our veins want us to act and act now but society oes not allow it.
This creates excess strains on the musculoskeletal system exposing underlying flaws which result in pain. It may creat anxiety or panic attacks in others.
The Spenopalatine Ganglion Block is a autonomic block that turns off this build up to explosive conditions. It would not be needed if we fought the bear and won or ran like hell and escaped but living life in todays society often means living with stresses that adversely alter out autonomic nervous system. The SPG Block allows us to restore balance to the sympathetic and parasympathetic parts of this autonomic system to create a healthy space for healing. Everyone living in chronic pain is also living with a out of balance autonomic nervous system. Pain and escape from pain are both strong sympathetic nervous system stimulants.
To best understand how Neuromuscular Dentistry works and the role of Sphenopalatine Ganglion Blocks I suggest you listen to these patients and understand what they say about their pain.
The first patient is Karen who has lived in costant pain for nine years and after spending a week at Mayo Clinic was told there was NO HOPE and she needed to accept that fact. Imagine how your Sympathetic System reacts when you are told learn to live like this, there is no hope. The second video is after she received a SPG Block but is already practically pain free on a daily basis.
The third video is a physician who had excellent dental work but until balance was achieved was still suffering. After one day he felt 85-90% relief.
Additional videos are found on my you tube channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCk9Bfz6pklC7_UluWFHzLrg
Neuromuscular Dentistry combined with SPG Blocks may be your answer to problems you deal with daily. Contact us for more information on Chronic Migraine Relief, SUNCT relief, Tension headache relief, chronic head and neck pain and of course TMJ Disorders a frequent underlying cause of all of these disorders.
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1. Foodie docklands
Dining tables have replaced ships in the old hangars of the Garonne shipyards in Bordeaux. Seafood and other crustaceans are brought in fresh from local fishmongers to satisfy freshwater sailors. Why not join us? We’ve booked a chaise longue on the beach to catch the sunset.
2. Open-air state of mind
You can find Chez Alriq at the heart of Angéliques park on the banks of the Garonne (still in Bordeaux). In this open-air bar with its rural paradise vibes, you can fill your stomach with tapas in an unpretentious setting. Don’t worry, we’ve ordered some for you, too. See you in the cabin at the end of the garden for a nibble.
3. Street food on the bridge
All aboard! With its 687m² bridge, the I.Boat isn’t lacking for space. Moored in the Bassins à Flot in Bordeaux, it never weighs anchor and the tables are always set. The menu features a fresh take on street food... You’d prefer to eat inside on the deck, with a birds-eye view of the submarine base? At night, the barge becomes a techno club. See you on the dancefloor!
4. Farmer’s picnic.
Grab your picnic, grab your mates, and come join us in the Parc de l’Ermitage in Lormont. We’ll enjoy our sandwich in the shade of the trees, right by the water, before tending to the animals at the Iris petting zoo. Then we’ll climb up the belvedere and take in the view of the Cité du Vin in the distance. We can even catch the Bat3 ferry over there in time for cocktails.
5. A nautical break
La Halte in Lagruère, on the banks of the Canal du Midi south of Marmande. You can get there on foot, by bike, or by boat. What could be better? You can settle down to eat as a family, a couple, or with friends, before an ice cream at snack time or a “combinado” platter to share come evening. Don’t want to leave? We don’t blame you! And with the campsite, you don’t have to.
6. Lunch at the lock
When you’re passing Marmande, stop by La Chope et le Pichet in Villeton. Thierry and Katharina have retained the spirit of this former lockkeeper’s cottage, and unlock your taste buds as you savour their bistro-style dishes. After dessert, take a walk along the banks of the Garonne to aid the digestion.
7. Place du Tertre
See you for lunch at the top of the hill in Meilhan-sur-Garonne. Seen from this vantage point, the Garonne and its canal stand out as masters of Lot-et-Garonne. Brigitte will take care of lunch in her restaurant, Le Tertre. Then we’ll be back in the saddle and riding the middle path.
8. Cyclist’s café
A few minute’s pedal from the beautiful Agen bridge canal, we’ll see you at the Café Vélo, where bikes are more than welcome. Got a puncture? You can have it repaired in the workshop. Need tips on the best local cycle paths? Just ask at the bar when you order your organic tart for lunch. (Pedalling gives you an appetite!) Didn’t bring your bike? Not to worry, you can just hire one. Saddle up!
Places to go
To get to all of the spots listed in this article, take the Deux-Mers canal cycle path, which links the Mediterranean to the Atlantic along some 500 miles.
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BHS (BHS) Class of 1945 Alumni List
Help us Update the BHS 1945 Class List by adding any names missing from the list below:
1945 Class List
Reunions and Biggersville High School News
More 1945 alumni from Biggersville HS have posted profiles on Classmates.com®. Click here to register for free at Classmates.com® and view other 1945 alumni.
Missing some friends from Biggersville High that graduated with you in 1945? Check the list below that shows the Biggersville class of '45.
If you are a former student of Biggersville High in Corinth, Mississippi, register now to add your name.
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This delicious bread is nutritiously filling, subtly sweet,nutty, dark and moist. Serve warm or cold with a thin spread of cream cheese or jam.
Author: Maureen Celestine
21/2 cups whole wheat flour
½ teaspoon salt
2tsp baking soda
1teaspoon allspice (optional)
½ cup unsweetened dark cocoa powder
2 tablespoons poppy seeds+ more for topping
¼ cup granulated sugar
¼ cup brown sugar
¾ cup canola oil
¼ cup milk (water is fine, too)
¼ cup sour cream (yogurt or applesauce works fine)
1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract
1cup walnut, chopped
Preheat the oven to 350ºF. Lightly grease and line the bottom of one loaf pan (9″x5″) with parchment paper.
Sift together the flour, salt, baking soda, allspice, and cocoa powder into a bowl. Stir in the poppyseeds.
Mash the bananas using a masher or fork and set aside.
Mix the sugar, oil, and eggs in a separate bowl. Stir in the mashed bananas, milk, sour cream, and vanilla extract into the egg mixture. Mix until well combined. Gradually stir the sifted flour mixture into the egg mixture until well combined. Add the walnuts and fold in to combine.
Spoon the mixture into the prepared pan, sprinkle some poppy seeds and nuts on top (optional), level the top, and bake for 60-80minutes until risen and completely cooked. (To check if the bread is cooked through, insert a skewer in the middle of the bread and pull it out immediately. If the skewer comes out clean, the bread is done
if not, place it back in the oven for 10 minutes and test again.)
Remove the bread from the loaf tin and allow it to cool completely on a wire rack. Remove the parchment paper once cooled. Serve or refrigerate
**This bread freezes well, and can last up to 4 days in the refrigerator.
WHOLE WHEAT CHOCOLATE POPPYSEED BANANA BREAD https://worldlytreat.com/whole-wheat-chocolate-poppyseed-banana-bread/ June 19, 2018
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|[nonprofitdata.com] Take a survey 95444 [social page]|
GRATON COMMUNITY SERVICES PROJECT
PO BOX 110 8939 IRVING ST
GRATON, CA 95444-0110
|Question. Where is the HOME Page or CONTACT Page for GRATON COMMUNITY SERVICES PROJECT ?|
Answer. Google's local and web search top result is listed. If lucky, the TOP result (Google's 'I'm feeling lucky' result) will be the link to the home page.
Question. What is the telephone number for GRATON COMMUNITY SERVICES PROJECT ? How can I find it?
Answer. There is a good chance the first or second result here is the correct home page. Mouse around for the contact page.
Exempt Organizations || Information Underwriting ALL RIGHTS RESERVED | (256) 668-8425
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In the distance, he sees a Mermaid sitting on a rock.
He Approaches her and says; "You ever been fucked"?
"No I have not"! Shouts the Mermaid.
"You have now" Says the drunk; "The fukin tides just gone out"!
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Pest Control & Exterminator Services in Dedham, MA
Serving Norfolk County since 1984
Dedham was originally to be named Contentment, but the Massachusetts General Court overruled the decision and chose Dedham, naming it after the corresponding town in England. The current town seal, however, bears a banner across the bottom that reads “Contentment.”
Dedham is well known for its distinctive Dedham Pottery, created by Dedham resident Hugh Robinson and his family. It’s also home to the Fairbanks House, the oldest surviving timber frame structure in the country.
Clearly, if the Fairbanks House has survived for more than 350 years, it hasn’t been subjected to the ravages of termites and carpenter ants. How do we know? Because this is what termites and carpenter ants do:
Termites – Termites are more destructive than all the storms and tornadoes in the country combined, causing billions of dollars in damage to wood-framed structures annually. Unlike their destructive counterparts outlined below, termites actually consume the wood they’re destroying, meaning they’re literally eating you out of house and home. Termites don’t leave a whole lot of evidence of what they’re up to, but if you suspect you’ve got them, time is of the essence. Every day you hesitate is one more day for them to burrow deeper in.
Carpenter Ants – Carpenter ants don’t consume the wood the way termites do, but they do outrank termites when it comes to being the number-one pest in our region. Instead of eating the wood, carpenter ants excavate it, creating tiny little tunnels through which they move. This means they’re a little easier to spot than termites, since they have to dispose of their sawdust somewhere, but they’re just as insidious, compromising the structural integrity of your home’s frame and leaving it vulnerable to collapse.
If you’re in Dedham and you’re dealing with either termites or carpenter ants, be sure to call Colonial Pest right away at 1-800-525-8084.
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As their parents head out for a date in the city, the three young Thompson children – Jacob, Christopher and Sally – immediately take to their new babysitter Anna (Sarah Bolger, Into the Badlands, Once Upon a Time), who seems like a dream come true: she’s sweet, fun, and lets them do things that break all of their parents’ rules. But as the night creeps along and Anna’s interactions with them take on a more sinister tone, the kids slowly realize that their caretaker may not be who she claims to be. Soon it’s up to big brother Jacob to protect his siblings from the increasingly nefarious intentions of a very disturbed woman whose weapon is trust, and whose target is innocence.
Featuring a tour-de-force performance from Bolger and its three young leads, EMELIE is a multidimensional, nail-biting thriller that asks the question: how can you put an end to horror after you’ve already let it in?
EMELIE IS NOW AVAILABLE ON DVD & BLU-RAY!
Bonus features include:
- Making Of
“Genuinely unsettling, tapping into any parents’ worst nightmares.”Frank Scheck
“One of the finest thrillers of many a year. Sarah Bolger gives a fantastically unhinged performance.”Craig Hunter
“A tense, unnerving thriller. Highly recommended.”Adam Patterson
4 out of 5 stars
“Provocative, engaging and terrifying.”
“An undeniably impressive debut for [director Michael] Thelin and a phenomenal showcase for its child actors and Sarah Bolger.”Joshua Handler
“Pure, old-fashioned suspense.”Samuel Zimmerman
For all other inquiries, email us at email@example.com or submit the form below.
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LONDON, July 1 British online grocer Ocado
swung to a first half profit on Tuesday, putting the
firm on track to make its first annual pretax profit this year.
Ocado, whose range includes products supplied by upmarket
grocer Waitrose, said it had made a profit before tax
and one off items of 7.5 million pounds ($12.8 million) in the
24 weeks to May 18.
That compares to a loss of 1.0 million pounds in the same
period last year
Gross sales rose 15.6 percent to 442.4 million pounds,
having been up 18 percent in the first quarter.
The company has not made an annual pretax profit since it
was founded in 2000 but analysts have been forecasting one of
about 16 million pounds for its 2013-14 year.
($1 = 0.5877 British Pounds)
(Reporting by James Davey; editing by Kate Holton)
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Anna Laudel Reopened with Mehmet Sinan Kuran’s “Posthumous” Exhibition
Reopened on June 9th after COVID-19 hiatus, Anna Laudel showcases Mehmet Sinan Kuran’s solo show “Posthumous” until 29 August 2020.
The exhibition is based on the idea of humankind’s need to act and think differently around the concept of “togetherness”. With the exhibition and its name, Posthumous, meaning “afterlife” in Latin, Kuran reminds the audience that we must be together while still alive, be more sensitive than before, and have to learn new things.
Located on three floors of the gallery, “Posthumous” consists of three phases; Camel, Lion, and Child. Calling out from the third and last phase, which is the space of innocent children, Kuran emphasizes the importance of being together without any distinction between good and evil, but only focusing on the positive or negative.
Anna Laudel will accept visitors until 29 August 2020 by appointment as part of the preventive health measures for a safe gallery visit.
For further information, please visit annalaudel.gallery
Image Credit: Mehmet Sinan Kuran, Resonance, Ceramic, 18 x 21 x13 cm, 2020, photo by Kayhan Kaygusuz.
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Best Sushi Restaurants In Guntersville, AL
Apr 8, 2018
Sakura Japanese Steak House
Sakura Japanese Steak House is a restaurant located in Guntersville, Alabama at 11888 U.S. 431. They are open every day of the week. A 18 gratitude may be charged for party's of 8 people or more. Thank You! Served w. miso soup or salad, california roll & shumai. All Entree with Vegetable,Steamed Rice or Fried Rice.Sakura Japanese Steak House at Guntersville will provide you the best service and...
11888 U.S. 431, Guntersville, AL, 35976
Toke Sushi & Grill
Toke Sushi & Grill is a restaurant located in Guntersville, Alabama at 1906 Gunter Avenue. They are open every day except Tuesday.
1906 Gunter Avenue, Guntersville, AL, 35976
More Sushi Restaurants Restaurants Near Guntersville, AL
Ichiban Express is a restaurant located in Albertville, Alabama at 8604 U.S. 431. They are open every day of the week.
8604 U.S. 431, Albertville, AL, 35950
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NITDA DG Kashifu raises alarm over fake news threat to Nigeria
The Director-General, National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi, says fake news travels faster than factual stories on social media.
Kashifu raised the alarm on Friday at a digital journalism workshop in Kano organized by PRNigeria and Penlight Centre for Investigative Reporting.
He said the dominance of fake news was a threat to journalism and appealed to media professionals to act.
Assuring of NITDA’s support, the official promised that the agency “will work with journalists and organisations to promote digital literacy.”
On cybersecurity in Nigeria, Kashifu confirmed that the government had put in place structures to protect the ecosystem.
He said cybersecurity was one of the strategic pillars under the strategic action plan and listed the three things NITDA is doing.
“First, a lot of awareness so that people know the dos and don’ts of social media. That’s what will hold them to protect confidential information.
“Second, we have a centre called the computer emergency readiness and response centre working round the clock to make sure we proactively protect our digital space.
“Third, we help MDAs, private organisations and individuals to protect the data and information”, he added.
Kashifu disclosed that a team of experts are on standby to help people restore services in case systems are compromised.
PRNigeria Publisher, Yushau Shuaib, said the workshop was organized to acquaint journalists with the appropriate digital tools to promote professional standards.
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Add small group training format. Ability to add entire group stats or each person quickly
For small groups it would save a lot of time if we would add group workouts to a group of people.
This would work for small group and semi private clients.
There could be two options for tracking.
1. The clients track their own stats (ideal for small groups)
2. With in the same view/page you could add stats for multiple people in a given workout with out having to switch in and out of clients to add stats (ideal for semi private)
This is a must have feature. Right now stat tracking for more than one client at a time is so difficult that I don't even use trainerize for my semi private and small group clients. I'd spend half the session switch between clients and loading the app just to track stats.
Thanks trainerize staff. You guys are doing a fantastic job of addin new features.
Yes I agree should have a tab for each client in the group at top of page you could use the profile picture etc and just be able to click back and forth to be able to add the stats.
this would be fantastic! and to also have a calendar to tick off who attends what session would be amazing to have it all in one app instead of using so many apps on your phone while on the go.
This is a 100% must-have for us too. We run a Bootcamp and for a 6-week time period at a time, have 150 clients who have their 7-point body comp tests taken. We spent maybe 10 hours after day 1 adding individual statistics into each client area. One spreadsheet where you select the training client (up to 25 perhaps per group) would be IDEAL which then uploads into each client area automatically thereafter.
This would be the same for adding a nutrition plan to this sort of number at once, rather than again individually.
The app is working fantastically, but to keep the same level of service up at our end, and on a frequent basis, this feature of adding multiple body composition stats and other documents is a must have.
This is would a fantastic help! I love using the trainerize app but it does become a pain switching between clients to add there progress in.
Any update on the progress of this? Thanks
i suggest it also
This would be great. We provide worksite wellness program for instance brokers and have such a feature would be ideal for small group fat loss and other healthy living challenges.
Hey guys please vote for this. This is the feature that I want the most. I hope others want it too.
Amanda L. Kelly commented
Make a way for us to create a group workout while creating a group challenge . This would create a lot of comrodree inside the program.
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From: Carl W. Conrad (firstname.lastname@example.org)
Date: Fri Aug 24 2001 - 19:52:57 EDT
For what it's worth, here's LSJ on senses normally assumed by META- in
G. IN COMPOS.:
I. of community or participation, as in metadid˘mi, metech˘, usu. c. gen. rei.
2. of action in common with another, as in metadainumai, metamelpomai,
etc., c. dat. pers.
II. in the midst of, of space or time, as in metadŕmios, metadorpios 1 ;
between, as in metaichmion, metapurgion.
III. of succession of time, as in metadorpios 2 , metaklai˘, metautika.
IV. of pursuit, as in metadi˘k˘, meterchomai.
V. of letting go, as in methiŕmi, methŕm˘n.
VI. after, behind, as in metaphrenon, opp. prosthe.
VII. reversely, as in metatrep˘, metastreph˘.
VIII. most freq. of change of place, condition, plan, etc., as in
metabain˘, metaball˘, metabouleu˘, metagign˘sk˘, etc.
Carl W. Conrad
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The Detroit Red Wings unveiled special new jerseys for their February 27 matchup against the Colorado Avalanche to mixed reaction.
For outdoor games, teams tend to go bold and big for their jersey design and the Red Wings are no exception. But rather than lean on nostalgia or Red Wings history for design inspiration, the team went with a new logo and asymmetrical stripes and reaction seems to be mixed.
The team will also wear white gloves for the game at Coors Field.
Fans don’t like change, but if past experience is any indicator, the jerseys will look pretty sweet on the ice.
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I wrote a few days ago that I experienced in the Pentecost Liturgy an awareness that the whole universe was created to sing blessings to Christ. Now, being in a somewhat less exalted state of mind and spirit—I simply have to reaffirm it all the more! If it were not so, then Christ isn’t who He, the Scriptures, and the Church say He is.
Let’s decide once and for all to do away with all lowest-common-denominator-comparative-religion versions of Jesus. If we don’t have a thoroughly Christian one, with all its scandalously absolute and unique claims, we have a false one, or at least a distorted or inadequate one.
We saw a few posts back, in the series on the Book of Revelation, how all creation, heaven, earth, sea, etc, joined in a chorus of praise and adoration of Him who sat on the throne and the Lamb. This is simply an expression of what is, that is, what is the mind of God and what the final restoration of all things will look like. It’s what the angels and saints are doing as you read this. It’s a vision of what everything, if unfallen and hence unblinded, would always spontaneously do. St Cyril of
Perhaps few people today believe that the Son of God is the center of the universe—the beginning of it, the sustainer of it, the meaning of it, the destiny of it. Perhaps many do not want to believe it. Why? Because then the whole phony edifice of selfish, materialistic, hedonistic, avaricious, lustful, godless pursuits that they call “life” will have to come crashing down, that’s why! They try to save this life only to lose it, while refusing to take up their crosses and follow Jesus, losing that worthless life in order to find true life, joyous and eternal. When you finally see the truth, you can no longer live a lie, unless you choose to do so, in violation of conscience and right reason.
And when you have “once been enlightened, have tasted the heavenly gift, and have partaken of the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come” (Hebrews 6:4-5), all that the world and its vulgar media have to offer looks base and tawdry and unworthy of even passing attention. Yet for all this, the vision of Christ-All-in-all remains a vision of faith. It will not force itself on us, and it may even seem to hide from us. What we have seen and heard in the moments of clarity and light that God occasionally grants us must be sustained by prayer and sacraments and meditation on the word of God, and thus we attain the higher ground where the flood of filth and deception cannot easily reach us.
Know then, that the glory of God is all around you. The heavens tell it, as the psalmist says, and the birds sing it (did you ever notice that songbirds never sing off-key, that even if fifty species are singing their different notes all at once, they are always in harmony?—no accident!). Everything was made for Christ; to deny Him is to deny reality. He holds the universe in existence, and his joy reaches from one end of it to the other. When we receive the Holy Eucharist, we feel the Heartbeat of Heaven, and his precious blood pulses through our bodies as our own. It’s all for Him, and He would like nothing better than to share it all with us!Pray, then, to the Holy Spirit, that you may be granted to see things you haven’t seen before, that the veil may be lifted—at least a little, at least for a while, so that you can be assured that everything exists for Him, that everything is designed to point and move toward Him, and that it is a horrible aberration and departure from what is and what is meant to be, if we set out upon a path in any other direction. So find Christ everywhere; you won’t be seeing what’s not there; rather, you’ll be seeing reflections of Him Who Is.
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TANGY ROASTED POTATO MUSHROOM SALAD
Enhance your Thanksgiving dinner with this mood boosting supermushroom salad that works to take your cognitive function to the next level.
Used medicinally in Asia for centuries, lion’s mane is becoming increasingly popular in the Western wellness culture as science starts to back up its reputation and health benefits .
How Lion’s Mane Mushroom Affects the Brain
There are many compounds present in lion’s mane that provide the mushroom with its medicinal and healing benefits. The benefit that lion’s mane is commonly known for is its effect on neuronal health, including–but not limited to:
- Memory and Focus Improvement
Lion’s mane mushrooms contain compounds that stimulate the growth of brain cells and protect them from damage caused by Alzheimer’s disease.
Studies have shown that lion’s mane helps improve focus by stimulating nerve growth factor (NGF). These neurons are like messengers, sending and processing information from the brain to the rest of the body. They are a neuropeptide that help regulate growth, maintenance, and survival of neurons or nerve cells. This research also shows that it can help improve photographic and short-term memory.
- Reduces Depression and Anxiety
Anxiety and depression are two of the most common mental illnesses affecting people today.
This mushroom likely has an effect on the autonomous nervous system because of its ability to stimulate NGF. One part of this system is the sympathetic nervous system which controls fight or flight reactions.
In depression and anxiety, the sympathetic nervous system is in overdrive (while the parasympathetic nervous system is lowered). NGF can help improve the balance of the autonomous nervous system and reduce depression and anxiety.
Other Uses of Lion’s Mane
Lion’s mane is well known as a brain-supporting mushroom, but that’s not its only ability. This wonderful white and long-haired mushroom can aid in supporting the digestive system and the immune system. With the additional health benefits below, alongside the cognitive function support, makes lion’s mane an amazing overall choice to add to your next recipe or alongside your other healing herbal supplements.
Other known benefits:
Cooking with Lion’s Mane
Aside from its diverse health benefits, Lion’s Mane is a very delicious mushroom and can perfectly be a substitute for mushrooms you may usually use such as white mushrooms or oyster mushrooms. With its meatier texture, it is also commonly used as a fish substitute in many vegan dishes.
It may seem a little intimidating to try sometime new, but trust me, it will be delicious! It is easy to use and you feel great after eating whatever you make with it knowing the health benefits that come along with this white, hairy healing mushroom.
- 2 lbs. mixed baby potatoes, quartered
- .5 lbs. Lions Mane Mushrooms
- .5 lbs Shiitake Mushrooms
- 2 Tbsp. extra-virgin olive oil, divided
- ¾ tsp. Himalayan salt
- ½ tsp. freshly ground black pepper, divided
- 2 tsp CURED Roasted Garlic Lemon Pepper Spice
- ⅓ cup finely chopped shallots
- 1 garlic clove, sliced thin
- 1 Tbsp. fresh chopped sage
- ½ cup vegetable broth
- ¼ cup apple cider vinegar
- 1 Tbsp. Dijon mustard
- 2 tsp. maple syrup
- 1 Tbsp. coconut butter
- ¾ cup fresh parsley leaves
- ½ cup thinly sliced celery
- 2 peeled and sliced Granny Smith apples
- ⅓ cup dried cranberries
- Heat stove top to medium-heat with a medium-skillet.
- Place potatoes in pan with 1 Tbsp. of the oil, ½ tsp. of the salt, and ¼ tsp. black pepper. Cook for until browned and tender, place mushrooms in pan after potatoes are almost fully cooked. Cook until lightly brown and soft.
- While potatoes and mushrooms are cooking, combine remaining 1 Tbsp. oil, shallots, garlic, and sage in a medium skillet over medium-heat; cook 2 minutes. Whisk together broth, vinegar, Dijon mustard, and maple syrup; add to pan, and whisk to combine. Bring to a boil; reduce heat and simmer 10 to 12 minutes, or until mixture begins to reduce. Stir in coconut butter, and remaining ¼ tsp. each of salt and black pepper. Remove from heat.
- Combine potatoes, cider-mustard sauce, parsley, celery, apples, and cranberries in a large serving bowl; gently toss to coat.
- Top with CURED Roast Garlic Lemon Pepper Spice
- For extra crispiness, place in oven at 400 for 5-8mins
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in coastal regions and in small islands
Field Project Assessment
Environmental, social and cultural implications of a ship breaking industry, Alang-Sosiya, Gujarat, India
Short reference: Alang-Sosiya Ship Breaking Yard (ASSBY)
|10-14th December, 2001.
Assessment completed, 16th April 2002.
Mr. Derek Elias, UNESCO-CSI, Paris (not closely associated with the project).
Mr. H. Dube, Head, Department of Life Sciences, University of Bhavnagar (Field project leader);
Mr. R. Jayakumar, UNESCO Office, New Delhi;
Mr. Vidyut Joshi, Director, Centre for Social Studies, South Gujarat University;
Mr. Suman Chaudhary, University of Bhavnagar;
Mr. Somnath Bandyopadhyay, Gujarat Ecology Commission;
(all closely associated with the project)
In addition to the work of the team mentioned above, the depth and quality of the assessment was considerably enhanced by the contributions of two postgraduate students at the University of Bhavnagar, Ms. Misha Vyas and Ms. Rupa Desai Abdi, as well as Mr. Jagdish Ganatra.
The project assessment of ASSBY was undertaken on the ground between 10th
- 14th December 2001, at the ship breaking yard and its
immediate environs as well as the University of Bhavnagar.
Discussions, meetings and interviews held in Bhavnagar:
Interviews and inspections at ASSBY:
Visits to local environs:
A number of constraints were encountered in carrying out this first
Field Project Assessment
The sixteen characteristics, used to define wise
practices, are used here to assess this field project.
A qualitative scale is used as follows:
|None (0):||The field project activities to date do not comply with this characteristic and/or the characteristic is not relevant.|
|Slightly (1-3):||The field project activities to date have begun in some preliminary way to satisfy this characteristic.|
|Partially (4-6):||The field project activities to date have gone some significant way towards fulfilling this characteristic.|
|Fully (7-9):||The field project activities to date have gone the full way to
complying with this
This assessment is
based only on the activities undertaken to date, and does not include those
planned for the future.
|Have the project
activities ensured long term benefit?
Unplanned and unregulated ship breaking activities
commenced in 1983 on the beaches opposite the villages of Alang and Sosiya
in the state of Gujarat, India. Threats of sanctions, heavy criticism of
environmental and social problems, and increased competition from yards in
Bangladesh, China, Pakistan and Taiwan have not prevented ASSBY from
continuing to be one of the largest ship breaking yards in the world.
Nevertheless, there has been a substantial reduction in the number
of operational plots from 160 (out of a potential 182) in 1996, to 80 at
the end of 2001. It is important to note, that in India, government policy
for comparatively new and novel industries such as ship breaking is
developed from practice and experience.
Through dialogue with the four stakeholder groups
(Gujarat Maritime Board, ship breakers, local villagers and workers) the
project has led to a better understanding and some improvement of the
problems posed by environmental pollution, poor health and working
conditions, and the lack of basic infrastructure and services. Convergence
and dialogue are the keys for success in this process. This is
acknowledged by all of the stakeholder groups who have displayed a
willingness to address problems. Critically there has been
awareness-raising, changes in attitudes, and action which has had a role
to play in improving safety conditions for workers, recycling of hazardous
products, solid waste management and the provision of basic health
Any long term benefit is ensured through an institutionalisation of the project efforts. However, the dialogue amongst the stakeholders is but the first step towards establishment of a meaningful forum for interaction.
|Do the project activities provide for capacity building and institutional strengthening?||
The project activities are contributing to capacity building by changing the attitudes of the stakeholder groups to one another and encouraging understanding and mutual support through discussion. The project activities have contributed and helped to inform some modest improvements in the fields of education, housing, water supply, health services, occupational training, accommodation and waste management. Further stakeholder meetings and workshops are envisaged in order to capitalise on these initiatives and to strengthen both local and regional institutions. Such measures will need to be supported by policy intervention at the central and state government levels that may necessitate a focused attempt towards institutionalisation and development of norms through a participatory process.
|Are the project activities sustainable?||Partially (5)|
The activities have gone a long way in raising awareness and instituting dialogue between the stakeholder groups but will need further development to be established as an independent and on-going process. At present the activities are still, to some extent, dependent upon the partners at the University of Bhavnagar. However, there are some indications from representatives of each of the stakeholder groups that the activities are steadily coming close towards being fully sustainable. Although it is unlikely the project activities will become fully sustainable until a mechanism to continue dialogue is tested and put into place.
|Have the project activities been transferred?||
The project activities and the industry at ASSBY are unique. There are ongoing discussions concerning the establishment of other ship breaking yards in the Gulf of Kachchh and with some adaptation and modification the activities may be transferred e.g. Sachana, where a number of ship breakers from ASSBY have already commenced operations. Differences in the industrial, political, economic, social and environmental contexts between ship breaking yards within the Asian region do not easily lend themselves to simple transfer of project activities. A delegation of ship breakers has travelled to both Bangladesh and Pakistan to view activities at other yards and the project needs to examine how activities at ASSBY may be successfully transferred.
|Are the project activities interdisciplinary and intersectoral?||
The project activities involve several different disciplines including the natural sciences: environmental science, hydrology, marine biology and ecology; and the social sciences: sociology and economics. The activities at ASSBY also involve several different sectors of society including government officials and agencies, private industry and business, academic research institutions, the migrant workers and the villagers. There may also be room for the further involvement of local non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and womens associations in particular. Further attention could be focused on the social and economic circumstances of the migrant workers.
|Do the project activities incorporate participatory processes?||
A participatory process has been initiated, however, its success is limited because the lead role and instigator of the process remains the University of Bhavnagar and the process has not been transferred to another level or group. The ability of workers to participate in the project is constrained by their lack of effective representation, a result of the absence of permanent employment and their floating population. It is this stakeholder group that is the least involved in the participatory process. It is a unique challenge and needs to be addressed in an innovative manner.
|Do the project activities provide for consensus building?||
The difficulties facing consensus building are considerable
given the divergent economic, cultural, social and legal positions of the
four stakeholder groups. These obstacles to consensus building are further
compounded by the nature of two of the stakeholder groups. The local
villages (10 in all) experience the impacts of ASSBY in different ways
depending on factors such as economic base, livelihoods and their
geographical proximity to the yards and associated businesses. As a result
they have divergent perspectives concerning the development of ASSBY.
Consideration of intra-group consensus building amongst the migrant
workers, primarily from the states of Bihar, Orissa and Uttar-Pradesh,
poses a number of problems revolving around the issue of communication.
There exist considerable differences between workers on the basis of
language, culture, religion, caste and work experience which combine to
produce an overall lack of political organization.
The biggest challenge facing consensus building is to devise an appropriate mechanism and platform for communication to regularly bring the stakeholder groups together to discuss issues of mutual concern. Critically, ship breaking is a business and thus market forces are most effective in regulating the interests and behaviour of the stakeholders, in particular, the ship breakers. More attention should be accorded to how the project activities can capitalize on these forces to realise project goals.
|Do the project activities include an effective and efficient communication process?||
In terms of communication within and between stakeholder groups, and the provision and distribution of information to these groups as well as the local media, the project activities have been successful. However, further work remains to be undertaken in order to encourage communication between the various stakeholders themselves in addition to the provision of feedback and information to the project partners at the University of Bhavnagar. A critical task to be undertaken is to address the means for effective communication and dialogue, which needs to ensure the increased involvement and participation of workers and policy makers.
|Are the project activities culturally respectful?||
The project activities address the fact that there are considerable cultural variations within the three major groups of migrant workers and within the broader cultural milieu of the State of Gujarat. The activities are sensitive to the considerable variation within the working cultures of the four stakeholder groups at ASSBY. The conflicts and tensions between locals and the different migrant worker groups need further analysis.
|Do the project activities take into account gender and/or sensitivity issues?||
In terms of sensitivity issues, the cultural backgrounds of people living and working at ASSBY are taken into account by the project activities. Successfully incorporating gender issues poses a number of problems given the small percentage of women employed at ASSBY and the difficulty of ensuring their effective representation. The most serious gender issue of concern is the rise in the incidence of the number of women involved in the sex industry and the increased risk in the distribution of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).
|Do the project activities strengthen local identities?||
In India identities are based on the interplay between an individuals caste, religion and livelihood. ASSBY is clearly having a major impact on the generation of income for villagers who have found new forms of employment in transport, business and the provision of infrastructure and services. An analysis of potential changes to local identity can only be properly assessed over a considerable period of time and will be substantially affected by the duration of the yard itself and the interactions between local people and migrant workers.
|Do the project activities shape national legal policy?||
There remains a considerable amount of work to be done in terms of addressing legal and industrial policies and laws concerning the ship breaking industry in India. Currently the industry is regulated by the adaptation and amalgamation of existing legislation including customs and taxation as well as the Factory Act (1968), the Labour Act (1962) and the Law and Order Act. The National Labour Commission is currently reviewing both the Factory and Labour Acts and has already visited ASSBY. It is widely acknowledged that a broader sectoral response to the activities at ASSBY could involve other intergovernmental agencies and NGOs to inform policy makers. Guidelines have been prepared by GMB, based on the existing laws mentioned above, which could be improved through a process of consultation with stakeholders and experts. Therefore, ASSBY has the potential to influence national legal policy.
|Do the project activities encompass the regional dimension?||
Due to the nature of the ship breaking industry at ASSBY and differences between practices and experiences of other yards within both India and Asia, there are considerable obstacles to encompassing a regional dimension. The most significant regional dimension is economic and there is a need for this to be addressed more fully.
|Do the project activities provide for human rights?||
The project activities have gone a considerable way in drawing attention and responses to the basic rights of access to clean drinking water, adequate shelter, satisfactory labour conditions and issues of health and safety. These are addressed under Articles 22-25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Articles 6, 7, 8 and 11 of the Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
|Have the project activities been documented?||
The project activities have been fully documented (see list at the beginning of the summary) and have also been the subject of numerous dissertations of post-graduate students at the University of Bhavnagar.
|Have the project activities been evaluated?||
|This present evaluation is the first such exercise.|
Synthesis of main issues from the assessment
scope of the project needs to be expanded in terms of the involvement of
stakeholder groups, this includes the Gujarat and Central Governments as
well as NGOs.
project should develop a permanent forum for dialogue between the
Revised Future Project Activities
the results of the UNESCO-CSI initiative among other projects, agencies and
governments working in the region of ASSBY (including the Indian and
Gujarati ministries and authorities; Government of the Netherlands Ministry
of Transport, Public Works and Water; India Canada Environment Facility;
International Labour Organization; and the World Bank). This will include a
workshop/seminar with stakeholders and the University of Bhavnagar with the
Ministry of Ports
Departments of Ocean Development, Government of India
Department of Science and Technology, Government of India
Department of Ports and Fisheries, Government of Gujarat
Gujarat Ecology Commission
Indian Institute of Management
Iron Steel Scrap & Ship Breakers Association of India
Metallurgical and Engineering Consultants (India) Ltd.(MECON)
National Institute of Oceanography
National Environmental Engineers Research Institute
Ferrous Scrap Committee Government of India
consultation with other agencies, and with the direct participation of the
four stakeholder groups, initiate a mechanism that will involve effective
representation of all four stakeholder groups in a process of dialogue to
address issues and reduce conflicts at ASSBY, on a regular basis. This will
be in the nature of a wise practices agreement (a voluntary agreement
between the stakeholder groups). This wise practices agreement will
have as its goal the prevention and resolution of conflicts, and will also
inform policy makers.
of a CSI publication that documents the activities of the project so far,
including a synthesis of the first two comprehensive reports produced by the
project team at the University of Bhavnagar concerning the environment and
current Water-Phase contract activities (scheduled for completion in June
2002) provide for the following:
- Two postings to the Wise Coastal Practices Forum regarding the second phase activities and recommendations for implementing action to address water problems at ASSBY.
- A detailed report on topics related to water management.
- Initiation of an electronic discussion group concerning the ASSBY project.
- Involvement and interaction with the Gujarat Coastal Zone Management Authority.
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These are difficult times. I seem to be in fairly constant movement at the moment – apart from being available for the Bogstead crisis – so I am having difficulty keeping up with all the blogs and websites. But it looks pretty febrile.
I came away from our General Synod continuing to ponder what I think is one of the key challenges of leadership in a situation of conflict like this. We all have personal convictions and values which we wish to assert. If one is to do that, I think it has to be done somehow without being partisan and without excluding others.
In my past life, I did much reading on sectarianism. Not so much the ‘in your face’ stuff. But the more subtle [and more dangerous] forms of it. ‘Overlooking’ is what happens when you speak of your own group as if no other group existed. Ian Paisley used to refer to ‘the people of Ulster’ as if the catholic population didn’t exist. The Pope came to meet ‘the young people of Ireland’ as if the protestants didn’t exist.
And every time I hear somebody say, ‘We are a liberal church’ – that’s what I hear. We are a church which has within its life the divisions which are present in world anglicanism. We may be liberal in our ethos – but we are not exclusively so. And we have to keep finding ways of saying that so that we honour and respect those whose ethos is more conservative.
I told you it was difficult.
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Alfonso Cuarón and Casey Affleck are joining forces for what is bound to be one of the hottest new television series in development. Deadline reports the two Oscar winners are developing an untitled horror television series that will track the origins of a cult. The project is being developed under Anonymous Content, the production company behind “Mr. Robot,” and is being shipped around to pay cable and streaming outlets. Multiple networks are reportedly interested.
Cuarón is writing, directing and executive producing the project. He won the Best Director Oscar for “Gravity” and last came to television as the co-creator and executive producer of the short-lived NBC drama series “Believe.” The director is currently in post-production on “Roma,” his first Mexican production since “Y Tu Mama Tambien,” which is set for a release sometime in 2018.
Affleck will executive produce and star in the project, marking the first television series of his career. He’s the current Oscar winner for Best Actor thanks to his acclaimed performance in “Manchester By the Sea,” and he’ll next star in David Lowery’s “Old Man and the Gun” opposite Robert Redford. His last collaboration with Lowery, “A Ghost Story,” was released by A24 over the summer.
Given the involvement of Cuarón and Affleck, it shouldn’t take long for the horror project to find a home.
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Child Mind Institute Honors Rising Scientists
• What was your inspiration to go into the field of science? • Who were your mentors? • How did you decide on the topic? • What is your ultimate goal?
The Chapin School 2016
I’ve always been interested in in science because of the endless possibilities contained with in the field I’m constantly asking “why.” Why does this phenomenon happened or why does this approach work? Science provides a space in which I can explore these queries in a way that not only allows me to exercise my curiosity about the world but also possibly find information I could help other people too.
My primary mentor for this project was Dr. Sam Yoon, a gastric cancer surgeon and researcher at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.
I initially decided to investigate gastric cancer due to the fact that members of my family and close friends have had the disease. After I began researching, I learned that Korean such as myself have the highest rate of occurrence of gastric cancer as compared to every other population in the world. Additionally, I’ve always loved cooking and food science and as a cancer of the stomach, food is an important environmental factor. Researching how Korean food affected the proliferation and survival of gastric cancer was a perfect way to unite my passions for family, food, and science.
My ultimate goal would be to fully understand how environmental factors work with genetics to cause cancer particularly gastric cancer. I think that learning more about the relationship between outside factors and genetic predisposition’s to the disease is crucial to understanding the causes, and thus cures, for cancer.
Plainview Old Bethpage JFK High School
As I entered high school, I pursued research under the guidance of my research teacher Mrs. O’Donnell, driven by an innate curiosity about the intricate processes that allow for distinct human function. As I continued research the past several summers, I further built upon my penchant for exploring and synthesizing ideas and theoretical connections beyond the classroom curriculum.
Mrs. O’Donnell was also my mentor in identifying research opportunities and cultivating essential research skills. This past summer, I worked with Dr. Iwao Ojima at Stony Brook University.
With Dr. Ojima’s guidance, I narrowed down my research focus to the exploration of a cancer drug his research group was developing, as the mechanisms of cancer’s tenacity and the means with which scientists combat the disease has always intrigued me.
Ultimately, I hope to combine my passion for medicine and biomedical research in pursuing a career as a researcher in drug development and biotechnology as well as a physician (obtaining an M.D./PhD). #
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- 71 years old
- Year of birth: 1944
- Place of birth:
Berkeley, California, United States
- Year of passing: 2016
- Place of passing:
Walnut Creek, California, United States
Jim will forever be remembered for his big heart and kindness shown to our family. He flew all the way to Alabama when my son, Brandon A. Bard, graduated with his officer training in the United States Air Force. We were always included in family gatherings with he and Cheryl and family. It was an honor to know and love Jim, for the wonderful true human being he was. He lead by example.
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The Compulsion and P.M. aside, I actually slept in until 830am on Sunday. Granted, there were about four half-consciously bumbled trips to relieve my ever-shrinking bladder, but otherwise an impressively sound sleep.
The Compulsion wins when I am unable to turn off the barage of "what ifs". If I didn't have a car, I would have had to walk to the transit station at 6am in the pouring rain and black freezing cold while having an attack... and I would not have survived. If H.B. wasn't also currently stay-at-home-boyfriend, I would not be able to solicit his chauffeuring services on days when I don't think I'll make the bus ride home without an incident... and I would not survive. The Compulsion doesn't like to let me enjoy these small pleasures, these cosetting habits of which I take advantage, because it thinks that without them I would be lost. Thanks ever so much, Conscience, for reminding me in such anxious terms that I depend on certain luxuries in order to function.
This weekend is the first that I can report, aside from the bloated pains of having anything in my gut at all, there was no major attack. ....?!! That's right. The oxycodone bottle sat neglected on the nightstand. For the first time in 3 months. Another luxury on which I depended this weekend, without which I would not have been able to put together my journal club presentation, or edit my post-doc's manuscript, or write an already belated letter to my aunt, or put together Halloween gifts for the lab.
You know something, though? This weekend was lovely because The Compulsion and P.M. did not win. It's just not healthy to assess everything you do in life based on how easy you have it while you're doing it. I've earned my life. What luxuries it has, I've proven myself capable of functioning without before. Just because I'm living easy now doesn't mean I've forgotten how to work around obstacles when things are not so pleasant. In fact -- and hilariously -- I touted that strength in my Statement of Purpose. Never convinced that I have enough time (when I always make sure I do); never convinced that I'm not taking the easy way out (which usually results in my burning the candle at both ends). I blame P.M. for revitalizing The Compulsion, but I blame myself for letting it rule over rationale.
There is always time. There is always warrant for method.
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Background. Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are currently exploited in numerous clinical trials to investigate their potential in immune regulation, hematopoesis or tissue regeneration. The most common source of MSCs for clinical use is human bone marrow. To generate sufficient numbers of cells relevant to clinical use in most cases the high volumes (20-50 ml) of bone marrow aspirates are taken. Methods. In this pilot study, 8 healthy bone marrow donors were included. Two different MSC extraction methods were evaluated: MSCs extraction from 60 ml of bone marrow using density gradient and MSCs extraction from 6 ml using red blood cell (RBC) lysis. Results. Our results showed that after RBC lysis the efficient amount of human MSCs can be isolated from 10 times less bone marrow volume (6 ml). Moreover, using small volume of bone marrow the adequate therapeutical dose of MSCs could be achieved during similar period of time (3-4 weeks). In conclusion, we have shown that MSCs isolation using RBC lysis is an effective and more advantageous method in comparison to standard MSCs isolation using density-gradient. Using RBC lysis from small volume of bone marrow the same amount of MSCs were obtained as usually using large volume and density-gradient.
Financed by the National Centre for Research and Development under grant No. SP/I/1/77065/10 by the strategic scientific research and experimental development program:
SYNAT - “Interdisciplinary System for Interactive Scientific and Scientific-Technical Information”.
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There are some viable reasons that have made the compound Oxandrolone such a popular entity within the world of steroidal usage. As much as Oxandrolone lacks in the ability to break down fat compounds, it has been used occasionally, to suppress the bodybuilder’s appetite. On the other hand, it is able to begin the bloating where in most athletes it results into nausea as well as vomiting once the steroid’s tablets have been taken well with meals.
The steroid’s effects within an individual’s gastrointestinal tract can cause diarrhea. Some of these symptoms aid a bodybuilder in the breakdown of fat amidst making his/her muscles harder. During competitions, or for good and quality gain in muscles, a combination of Oxandrolone with other steroids, which include Winstrol, Masteron, Parabolan with testosterone propionate and Primobolan depot, is believed to work wonders. In a stack of Winstrol at 50mg within two good days, testosterone propionate at 50mg for the same period and Oxandrolone at 25mg per day has been ascertained to be highly effective in this significance.
Oxandrolone has been known to be a good compound for the bodybuilders or steroid users who have high blood pressure, as well as those individuals who are more prone to the development of the gynecomastia condition, along the glands of the thymus while taking far much stronger steroids of the androgenic nature. The Deca/Oxandrolone stack has been said to be the best alternative for most athletes and for the sportsmen who are depicting strong signs of very poor health in the act of their mass build-up instances with the use of testosterone, Anadrol or even Dianabol. For the athletes and bodybuilders who are over the age of forty, they have been strongly advised to try and make good use of Oxandrolone.
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There has been plenty to celebrate in the early weeks of pre-season for Unai Emery.
A challenging set of fixtures against Colorado Rapids, Bayern Munich and Fiorentina have brought three wins, eight goals for and just one against. The youngsters whose arrival has been heralded for so long have proven to be worth the wait.
Meanwhile senior players such as Mesut Ozil seem to be enjoying a new lease of life in Emery's second season. Perhaps they are spurred on by those new kits; no matter what happens on the pitch in the coming months at least Arsenal will look stylish throughout their highs and lows.
However the scars of last season still mark Emery and his Arsenal side. On numerous occasions during the pre-season tour he has spoken with bitter regret over the memory of those weeks in April and May when his team threw away Champions League qualification both in the Premier League and Europa League final.
Emery is desperate to ensure there is no repeat next season. Here are the questions he must answer if that is to be the case...
Who partners Sokratis?
Three wins from three is not to be sniffed at but no matter the opponent, no matter the occasion, Arsenal's defence has looked shaky at best. Against Colorado Rapids Zech Medley struggled with the ball in behind him but of course such difficulties are to be expected of a young defender.
What ought not to be is the string of errors the rest of the defence make, although we long since passed the stage where anyone was surprised to see an Arsenal centre-back make a sloppy mistake out of the blue. Shkodran Mustafi made a string of them against Fiorentina and Bayern Munich whilst Nacho Monreal was not his usual reliable self in the win over the Italians.
Of the veteran defenders only Sokratis Papastathopoulos looks in any way ready for the new season, a steadying hand at the tiller whilst others are going overboard. Reinforcements are on their way but William Saliba's arrival will not be for another 12 months.
Meanwhile Rob Holding is making a rapid recovery from his knee injury but there are no guarantees he will be sharp enough to start the season against Newcastle. Arsenal have been prepared to consider offers of around £25million for Calum Chambers for most of the transfer window though that situation was thrown into flux by the issue that has lurked in the background throughout the US tour.
In truth the best partner for Sokratis is a 34-year-old centre-back who doesn't want to play for Arsenal anymore. Laurent Koscielny is still training with the youth teams, waiting for the outcome of a disciplinary investigation that is highly likely to end with him losing the captaincy.
Koscielny wants to return to France on a free transfer. Arsenal would want a return of up to £10m before they consider doing business. No French side has yet indicated they will come near to that fee.
As such there remains an outside possibility that Koscielny will line up alongside Sokratis at St James' Park simply because he is the best of the rest, no matter how bruised Arsenal may have felt by his refusal to go on tour.
Who wears the armband?
Even Emery is talking of Koscielny as though he is an ex-captain, lumping him with Aaron Ramsey and Petr Cech when asked to discuss his five captains from last season. There will be another quintet next season though the make-up of it remains far from clear.
Granit Xhaka is Koscielny's presumptive air. The Swiss midfielder may still be plagued by reckless errors in defence but he has become a vital cog in Emery's footballing approach and began taking on an increased leadership role towards the end of last season.
For instance Xhaka opted to become the dressing room's de facto spokesperson during the string of defeats that befell the Gunners late in the campaign, a move that earned him enormous respect within the team and beyond.
Emery has also publicly added Nacho Monreal to Xhaka and Ozil on the captaincy roster and confirmed that he wants an English player - likely to be Rob Holding - as well. The fifth man could be any of Sokratis, Bernd Leno or Hector Bellerin, whose connection with the academy coud give him an edge.
There is also the matter of the hierarchy among those five. If Xhaka is club captain does Ozil, now one of Arsenal's longest-serving players, default to be his vice or does Emery consider handing the reigns to Holding, Bellerin or another of the young generation that the club hope to build their future around.
How best to organise the attackers
Is there a way to get the best out of Ozil, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Alexandre Lacazette whilst still deploying a balanced side behind them? Emery struggled to find a sustainable approach last season and the closest path he found has been closed off to him after Ramsey's move to Juventus.
The back three can at times lead to stultifying football reliant on cut-backs from Sead Kolasinac and it is clear that, though he will not say so directly, Emery would rather be able to play a back four. Yet it then seems impossible to deploy Aubameyang and Lacazette as a strike partnership.
Against Bayern Munich Aubameyang was stationed wide on the right, from where he tracked back diligently and showed an explosiveness on the counter that belied the slight injury he was carrying. Yet whilst last season saw the 30-year-old impress in flashes out wide his best position is clearly in a central role.
Perhaps there simply is no way to fit Aubameyang and Lacazette around a talent as unquestionable yet mercurial as Ozil, who appears to be approaching a rapprochement with Emery that would significantly ease Arsenal's off-field problems next season.
Still it is incumbent on Emery to try to fit these three exceptional players into one side.
Can Maitland-Niles continue to learn on the job?
Ainsley Maitland-Niles had a gruelling examination at the hands of Kingsley Coman in the 2-1 win over Bayern Munich. He was not the first to struggle against the young Frenchman. He won't be the last.
And, as Emery was keen to point out after the game, there is plenty of value to these tough experiences in pre-season.
"It's good to have this problem in the pre-season," he said.
"Today my objective with Ainsley and Sead [Kolasinac] above all; we were playing lots of matches last year with three centre-backs to allow them to go to the attacking moment. Today our target was to work defensively, the first objective is to keep the back four [protected].
"They struggled in one moment because Bayern Munich have very good wingers. But it's good."
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The question for Emery, who will be waiting several weeks before he can make use of Bellerin, is whether he will be able to play his preferred back four with Maitland-Niles patrolling the right-flank. With so much other transfer business to be done he may have no choice.
Which young players stay and which are loaned out?
Despite Arsenal's public vows to tap the rich seam of youth players flowing out of their academy the simple reality is that there is not room for all these bright young things in Emery's plans.
For some their role is secure. Eddie Nketiah will serve as third-choice striker behind Aubameyang and Lacazette whilst there should be chances afforded to Joe Willock even after Dani Ceballos' arrival. At just 17 there is still plenty for Bukayo Saka to gain from flitting between the youth team and Emery's squad.
But what of Reiss Nelson and Emile Smith Rowe, the players Emery was seemingly referring to when he said that some of the players Arsenal sent out on loan last season did not get the team time he expected? Should a new winger arrive alongside Ceballos it seems hard to envisage a regular place being available to them.
If Arsenal do loan these prospects out must choose wisely. For all that this is an exciting time for the youngsters there is a warning to be heralded.
Perhaps the best player among the Under 18s - Yunus Musah - has joined Valencia whilst Xavier Amaechi is stalling on signing a new contract amid interest from leading clubs in Germany in Spain. If there is not a future for top players at Arsenal there will be elsewhere.
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- Can you take out a parent PLUS loan every year?
- How long do you have to pay back parent PLUS loans?
- Is a parent PLUS loan a hard inquiry?
- Is Parent PLUS loan a good idea?
- Does Parent PLUS loans hurt your credit?
- Can you have 2 parent PLUS loans?
- Can you deny a parent PLUS loan?
- How do I decline a parent PLUS loan ASU?
- What is the minimum credit score for a parent PLUS loan?
- What is the maximum amount for parent PLUS loan?
- What happens to parent PLUS loan when parent dies?
- Do you have to accept parent PLUS loan?
- Can I take over my parents plus loan?
- Why can’t I accept my parent PLUS loan?
- Can Parent PLUS loans pay for off campus housing?
- Is Parent PLUS loan better than private loan?
- How do I change the amount on my parent PLUS loan?
- What happens to my parent PLUS loan when I retire?
- What is the fastest way to pay off a parent PLUS loan?
- What is a parents plus loan?
Can you take out a parent PLUS loan every year?
After the dependent student has completed the FAFSA, the parent can apply for a Parent PLUS Loan online at https://studentloans.gov under the section “Complete PLUS Request Process.” The parent will need to reapply for the Parent PLUS Loan each new academic year..
How long do you have to pay back parent PLUS loans?
The following are the available repayment plans for Direct PLUS Loans made to parents: Standard Repayment Plan—Under this plan, you’ll have fixed monthly payments for up to 10 years. Graduated Repayment Plan—Under this plan, your payments will start off lower and then gradually increase, usually every two years.
Is a parent PLUS loan a hard inquiry?
Both parents can take out separate parent PLUS loans, but the total loan amount can’t exceed the borrowing limit for the year. When you apply, the associated credit check can lead to a hard inquiry, which may temporarily hurt your credit by a few points, if at all.
Is Parent PLUS loan a good idea?
As of July 1, 2019, parent PLUS loans come with a 7.08% interest rate. … If you could qualify for a rate lower than 7.08%, you could save money over the long run. If not, then a parent PLUS loan might be the way to go. By shopping around with multiple lenders, you can find the loan with the lowest possible interest rate.
Does Parent PLUS loans hurt your credit?
Applying for a Parent PLUS Loan does not affect your credit score. … However, where a Parent PLUS Loan can affect your credit score is when it comes to repayment. As with all student loan repayments, failing to pay on time will be reflected in your credit history.
Can you have 2 parent PLUS loans?
Only one parent can be listed as a borrower on a single Parent PLUS loan. However, two parents can each apply for separate Parent PLUS loans for a single child, so long as the combined loan amounts do not exceed the annual limit. … The borrower of a PLUS loan must not have an adverse credit history.
Can you deny a parent PLUS loan?
An applicant can be disqualified and denied a PLUS loan for credit problems like recent bankruptcies, large debts more than 90 days delinquent, a recent wage garnishment or a tax lien. READ: 4 Things Borrowers Don’t Always Know About Parent PLUS Loans. ] Being denied a PLUS loan does not mean you are out of options.
How do I decline a parent PLUS loan ASU?
Parents whose Parent PLUS loans are credit declined may be eligible to receive a Parent PLUS loan by securing a creditworthy endorser or may appeal the declined credit decision by documenting extenuating circumstances. Please contact the U.S. Department of Education PLUS Credit Appeal line at 800-557-7394.
What is the minimum credit score for a parent PLUS loan?
No minimum credit score is needed to get a parent PLUS loan. Federal loans aren’t like private parent student loans, which use your credit score to determine whether you qualify and what interest rate you’ll receive.
What is the maximum amount for parent PLUS loan?
These limits are between $5,500 and $7,500 a year for direct unsubsidized loans and direct subsidized loans for undergrads, and $31,000 in aggregate.
What happens to parent PLUS loan when parent dies?
A Parent Plus loan in the parent name alone can be forgiven. … If you, the borrower, die, then your federal student loans will be discharged. If you are a parent PLUS loan borrower, then the loan may be discharged if you die, or if the student on whose behalf you obtained the loan dies.
Do you have to accept parent PLUS loan?
However, the loan will be the legal responsibility of the parent, not the child. If your child is unable or unwilling to make the payments, your credit score will suffer. Thus, you should agree to this loan only if you will be able to repay it yourself.
Can I take over my parents plus loan?
Federal parent PLUS loans can never be transferred to the student. If you borrow a parent loan for your child’s education, you’re the only one legally responsible to repay the debt. … Refinance the parent PLUS loan into a private loan in your child’s name once they can meet the qualifications.
Why can’t I accept my parent PLUS loan?
If you do have adverse credit, you will be denied for a parent PLUS loan. But you can become eligible, according to the application documents, if you complete PLUS Credit Counseling and obtain an endorser or document explaining “extenuating circumstances to the satisfaction of the U.S. Department of Education.”
Can Parent PLUS loans pay for off campus housing?
Are there loans available for my off-campus living expenses? Yes, Federal Direct Loans, including the parent PLUS loan or a private alternative loan are available to meet these expenses. Off-campus living expenses are included in your total budget, so loans can be borrowed to cover them.
Is Parent PLUS loan better than private loan?
If you need more money to pay for school, choose the loan type — Parent PLUS or private — suited to your family’s situation. Parent PLUS Loans are easier to get, but private loans might offer lower interest rates and fees. By researching both options, you can find the one that better meets your needs.
How do I change the amount on my parent PLUS loan?
Questions regarding the Parent PLUS Loan application can be addressed by contacting Direct Loans Student Loan Support Center by phone 1-800-557-7394. If requesting an increase to an already existing loan, select the option to change the loan amount.
What happens to my parent PLUS loan when I retire?
Refinance Parent PLUS loans to get retirement savings back on track. When you refinance Parent PLUS loans, you replace them with a new loan. … When you refinance the loans, you could be eligible for a much lower rate, based on your credit profile and income.
What is the fastest way to pay off a parent PLUS loan?
Refinancing. If you want to pay off parent PLUS loans quickly, refinancing to a lower interest rate can help you become debt-free faster and save you money in interest. You can refinance parent PLUS loans in your name, or the child can take over the PLUS loan by refinancing it in his or her own name.
What is a parents plus loan?
Direct PLUS Loans are federal loans that parents of dependent undergraduate students can use to help pay for college or career school. PLUS loans can help pay for education expenses not covered by other financial aid.
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This post was written by Eric Davis, who was Chris Kyle’s Sniper Instructor…and friend.
Tonight I lost another HERO
Tonight I lost another INSPIRATION
Tonight I lost another LEGEND
Tonight I lost another bedtime STORY
Tonight I lost another BOOK TO READ TO MY SON
Tonight I lost another MOVIE TO TAKE MY KIDS TO
Tonight I lost another WHAT I WANT TO BE WHEN I GROW UP
Tonight I lost another PERSON I CAN BRAG ABOUT KNOWING
Tonight I lost another COLLEAGUE
Tonight I lost another TEAM MATE
Tonight I lost another STUDENT
Tonight I lost another FRIEND
Tonight A FAMILY LOST THEIR EVERYTHING
Times like this. Times when things don’t make sense. We all tend to reflect, or at least ponder, on the what, who, when and how. But it’s the WHY that seems to elude us.
The WHY we LOST Chris can’t be answered now. It just has no answer in the moment and for that I’m deeply sorry.
The WHY we HAD Chris I can answer now, and for that I’m deeply, and forever grateful, for.
Navy SEALs have trained, operated, sacrificed and died in the shadows for many years now. “Quiet Professionals” has been their description for decades, and it is still their mantra to this day. They seek no recognition, require no reward and could care less about what we think of them. They get the job done at all cost.
Tonight when I learned that we had lost Chris, I was lucky enough to have my best friend and fellow Sniper Instructor, Brandon Webb, staying at my house. As we cracked beers and began to talk shit about Chris, the topic of his story and rise to fame as the deadliest Sniper on the planet, and in history, came up.
Brandon reminded me that Chris was my personal student and for that I should be proud. I paused and reflected and thought how lucky I was to have been in Chris’s life and to have contributed to the training that allowed him to shape the history books. As we were talking, Brandon began to share some of the challenges that our nations heroes, like Chris Kyle and Marcus Luttrell, face as they share the most intimate, painful and inspiring stories our nation has to offer. For this reason I had asked Brandon if I could take the “Floor” on behalf of these legends, and tell it like it is as I see it as their instructor, teammate, friend and most of all, as one of their biggest fans.
For me, I’m still that kid who grew up reading books and watching movies about Superheroes, Spies, and Special Forces. Kung fu was cool, Superman was pretty tough, but Rambo and the likes were God. These stories woke me up at 5:00am when I was in high school to run, bike and swim. These stories had me in Navy Boot Camp at the age of 17. These stories had me press through the most grueling training in the world. These stories had me leave my family for months on end and travel to dangerous places with a willingness to never come home. These stories had me want to give my all and drove others to give everything.
These stories shaped me and an entire generation of modern day heroes.
As you read about Chris you can quickly begin build up an impression of what type of person he was. Often times the impression we get from someone’s public persona can be very different from who they actually are. When you read about Chris it would seem that he was good old boy from Texas. Horse riding Cowboy that would carry your Grandma to church on his shoulders, stop a bully from picking on the weak kid, rope a runaway calf and change a flat tire. It would seem that he was an actual real Cowboy.
When generations ask “Where did all the real men go?,” it would seem that at that moment – almost on cue – fresh from a mission, Chris Kyle walked in sweaty and dirty, with a smoking gun in his hands, a look of concern on his face, ignoring the crowd staring at him with their jaws dropped to the floor, and simply asked “What’s for supper?”
I was blessed with the opportunity to have been Chris’s Sniper Instructor, and to get to know him as a person. Chris was an amazing student. A confident professional who was there so that he could better serve his country, community and no doubt Texas. Every time I worked with Chris I was learning as much or more from him as he was from me.
Being from California I wasn’t accustomed to working with actual “Rednecks.” To be honest, I always kind of poked fun at the stereotype; but I had no idea of the actual content and character of these guys with the funny accent and cowboy boots. Working with Chris I learned why young men played “Cowboys,” and why Hollywood produces Westerns. These guys are amazing men and spending time with them made me, and countless other SEALs, better Men.
My brother-in-law Chris Del Conte is the Athletic Director for Texas Christian University, and as a result I’ve had several opportunities to attend their games and meet a lot of “Texans.” I continue to be amazed by the Texan culture and amazing character of the people, and I can understand why they turn out heroes like Chris Kyle.
As more of our nation’s heroes tell their stories publicly, I’ve been disappointed to hear that there are people out there questioning their motives. This hasn’t made sense to me. These stories don’t belong to the authors who write them, nor do they belong to the critics who complain about them. These stories belong to America, and it is their duty to tell them. Where else would a freckled-face redhead get the crazy notion that he could be a “Top-Secret Operative” and go fight bad guys for a living?
I was reading about Chris before I wrote this and I noticed the following quote:
“As Kyle told The News in 2012 that he wrote American Sniper because “I wanted to be able to let people know about the sacrifices that not only people in the service make, but what their families go through. I knew this would give me a voice so I could speak about the guys I know who were killed. I wanted to get their story out and I wanted to raise awareness for veterans.”
So when Chris Kyle says he did something to help our Military and their families, then that’s why he did it. Like a true good ol’ boy from Texas, he said what he meant and meant what he said. Let’s not let his purpose and his mission get hijacked by all the opportunistic political commentary that is sure to come. Chris was helping veterans like he said was going to do, and that’s that.
So the Chris Kyle that you read about in books, watch on interviews, and will be reading about for years to come is not some made up public persona. The Chris Kyle that some 12 year-old kid is reading about, who believes in heroes and wants to be one someday, is who Chris Kyle really was. Chris is still telling it like he sees it – No Bull Shit.
(Featured Image Courtesy: Star-Telegram)
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PSGR Window Prob
For the last few days I've had an intermitent problem with my psgr window it would go down ok but every now and then would not go up, I'd have to press the button a few times to get it up. Now it doesn't go up at all. If I use the drivers side switch it works fine.
Anyone ever had this prob and know if I need a new switch, regulator or relay? I'd like to get an idea b4 I take it to Ford so I know how much I'm up for to fix.
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(2012 Wave 4)
Dr. Kurt Schnurr is a scientist working for COBRA® Industries. Schnurr became a bio-chemist to fight diseases in developing countries, and he believed COBRA® personnel when they assured him they would support his goal. But he discovers that COBRA® has darker plans for his research, and that even his lab partner, Dr. Monev, is not who he pretends to be.
The battle for peace and order has just begun, and your KURT "AIRTIGHT" SCHNURR figure is ready to take on all enemies! This detailed figure has rifles, a containment suit and all the technology he needs to be part of your wildest G.I. JOE adventures. When the action is over for the day, stand him on his battle base in your collection!
Figure comes with weapon accessories and battle base.
We receive both US and Canadian Cases. You will get either English, bilingual or trilingual carded figures based on availability. Please understand this before ordering.
Safety Warning: This product may contain sharp points, small parts that are choking hazards, and other elements that are not suitable for children under 3 years of age.
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I want to point out that again I live in Nashville where Forrest Gump would be the Valedictorian of the local high school and here stupid is as stupid does and there is a lot of stupid here. I doubt they even know the significance of the date.
Instead like the thermometer here, crime is escalating, largely by teenagers who are stealing cars, shooting at people and Cops (this has to be the first time in reverse here but unlike Cops the kid missed but did escape) and basically doing what they do the other 364 days of the year here. Every day the news is just that some racist dog whistle that enables everyone to live in fear. I am afraid and exhausted dealing with it, hence the sauna.
The lack of community engagement is largely due to education or lack thereof. The manta here is suspect everyone and everyone is suspect, for what? Irrelevant. Just know that everyone is a crook, a thief or a heathen. I often start conversations with: "Let's get this out of the way to eliminate the trash talking part when I walk away or in mid convo, yes I am a bitch, a heathen, a carpetbagger or whatever moniker you use to describe those who are others." The look of incredulous shock is hilarious, when you can't laugh with them, laugh at them.
I tried to explain that to a young Barista who is clearly struggling with sexual identity and the confusion that religion adds to that confusion and I feel for him. His colleagues laughed when I suggested that he was having a hard time as I suspect he may be Gay and that to be kind to someone. They laughed, so that will give you the idea of their beliefs and they are self described "Christians." And later when discussing the endless petty theft of my front porch, this weekend it was a large Chinese Ceramic pot with an Evergreen I had planted as a sort of inside joke that this girl from the land of the Evergreens would transplant herself to the land of Oaks and it was a symbol that if it lived I would stay, die and it was time to go. I guess this again is a sign that I am not dead yet but I need to go - 18 months and counting. But when I was talking about this, two men responded: "Well maybe they needed it." And mine: "Yes I need a car as I don't own one, where is yours parked?" They were of course speechless. As have I been these last two years finding endless theft of plants, small yard art and plants on my porch throughout my residency here. This is the only place I have ever heard excuse making, justification or explanation for what ostensibly is theft. Compassion is a dish served with sweet tea and biscuits here. Again these are church born and raised.
Religion in the South is complex and again by affiliation and in turn the actual denomination and church in which you belong. Only race is that divided and in turn complex as that is why few truly understand the South.
This editorial was in The New York Times describing what defines religion and the role it plays in family dynamics. I cannot stress that enough that money rules, faith dominates and gender rules the home while race and education fall way below the must list of Southern characteristics. Irony that is why children often fall between the two as many families rely on the kindness of the church and its offshoots for childcare and education as they have few other outlets in which to provide and God always provides is the motto here.
I think this explains much of the philosophy and belief system that enables Trump to take advantage of those who cannot find advantages in the larger community in which they live.
Trump’s ‘Purple’ Family Values
By Matthew Schmitz
Mr. Schmitz is a senior editor at First Things.
The New York Times| Opinion
July 1, 2018
In the months leading up to Donald Trump’s election, I noticed a divide in how my acquaintances spoke about his family values — or lack thereof.
People I knew from college or had met in New York expressed distaste for Mr. Trump’s behavior. If they were religiously conservative, they stressed his infidelity while also objecting to his insults of women. If they were liberal, they objected to his treatment of women and viewed his infidelity as a sign that his religious supporters were hypocrites. Not a single peer of mine in New York — no matter how conservative or religious — publicly supported Mr. Trump.
In contrast, almost all of the people I know in my hometown in Nebraska proudly supported him. They glossed over his infidelities and stressed that he seemed to be a good father. They were impressed by his “respectful” sons and admired the success of his daughters.
The people I know in Nebraska have the same moral views as my religious acquaintances in New York, yet they had a totally different view of Mr. Trump as a standard-bearer for family values. What made the difference? In a word, class.
In their book “Red Families v. Blue Families,” Naomi Cahn and June Carbone popularized the idea of “blue” and “red” family models. Blue families prize equality and companionship between spouses while putting a low value on childbearing. Red families tend to be inegalitarian or complementarian, viewing the man as the primary breadwinner and the mother as the primary caregiver. Early marriage and multiple children are typical.
Red families tend toward conservatism, and blue tend toward progressivism, but the models share an upper-class stress on respectability and a strong taboo against out-of-wedlock birth.
A third model can be found among working-class whites, blacks and Hispanics — let’s call it purple. In these families, bonds between mothers and children are prized above those between couples. Unstable relationships are the norm, and fathers quickly end up out of the picture.
The difference among these three family models explains three different reactions to Mr. Trump’s candidacy. Liberal professionals decried his sexism, which violated the prime value of the blue family model: equality. Elite evangelicals decried his infidelity, which ran counter to the red family model’s stress on fidelity.
Pentecostal and prosperity gospel preachers, whose denominations have the lowest average income and educational attainment in the country, were more likely to support Mr. Trump. Just as a Catholic priest at a wealthy parish would be accustomed to overlooking his parishioners’ discreet reliance on contraception (a respectable practice his Church condemns as immoral), these religious leaders were used to saying that people with messy lives now could make good.
Compare members of Mr. Trump’s Evangelical Advisory Board to attendees at a recent conference of Trump skeptics at Wheaton College, the elite Evangelical institution. Mr. Trump’s board is overwhelmingly drawn from the Southern Baptist Convention and various Pentecostal and prosperity gospel churches. Figures at the Wheaton conference were more likely to be from Presbyterian churches, or conservative offshoots of the Episcopal Church.
These denominational differences reflect a class divide. About 35 percent of Episcopalians and 25 percent of Presbyterians have a family income above $100,000. Only 16 percent of Southern Baptists and 10 percent of the pentecostal Assemblies of God can say the same. An Episcopalian is more likely to have an advanced degree than a Southern Baptist is to have a college diploma.
Baffling as it may be to elites, Mr. Trump embodies a real if imperfect model of family values. People familiar with the purple family model tend to view his alienation from his children’s mother as normal and his closeness to his children as exceptional and admirable. I saw this among my acquaintances in Nebraska. Even those from red families were more likely than my acquaintances in New York to know someone who has had a child out of wedlock or is subject to a restraining order.
Mr. Trump’s purple family values may even explain some of his populist appeal. Global leaders like Emmanuel Macron, Angela Merkel and Jean-Claude Juncker appear to have stable and loving marriages. But their childlessness makes them worse exemplars of family values in the eyes of some non-elites than divorcees who have multiple children — a category that includes Matteo Salvini, the leader of Italy’s far-right League party, and Marine Le Pen, of France’s National Rally party, as well as Donald Trump. Contempt for elite respectability is reflected not only in the respective party platforms, but in the personal lives of these populist leaders.
In her speech to the 1992 Republican Convention, Barbara Bush said, “However you define family, that’s what we mean by family values.” Debates over Mr. Trump show that different ideas of family are not so easily reconciled.
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I think the JD is totally appropriate. Sounds like you do have a fun job! We did get hit by the snow and cold recently. Last Wed. it was -14 on my drive to work (fortunately only at 10-15 minute drive). Hope you have a wonderful holiday season as well. I plan to enjoy family and, after the rush this week and next, relax a knit some. Jeanne
You asked me a few weeks about my felted hearts. The pattern is free on the Mochi Mochi blog. I think it was Kate that mentioned in one of the podcast about how she likes to follow that site. They are fast and easy to make and then just need a little needle felting to make each one special.
Did you ever visit Loopville in Homburg Square when you lived in Knoxville? Jinka taught me to knit and felt and I am completed addicted now...lol. Judy Sumner, who wrote "Knitted Socks East to West" is getting ready to begin a sock class that I hope I can attend. The next couple of weeks are so busy with finals coming!
Thanks for letting me know where to find that pattern. Once you told me the name, I know I've seen it before in the patterns section, but I like your version better, I just love the green. I think it is just the right size. Just around the belt section gives a nice clean line when they wear it. I live on the west side of Tennessee, close to the Mississippi. More fields and such than any mountains, but we are just starting to get the reds of the fall colors. I think this is going to be a particularly pretty season.
Thanks for the comment on the shawl/veil. Knitting lace, especially in the round, was scary at first. I started off crocheting, too, but learned to knit less than a year ago. So much fun! The lace is pretty easy once you get the hang of it.
By the way, I absolutely love the green vest cardigan in your pictures. Is there a pattern for it? If so, I would love a copy. It looks great!
I started Carmen on 9/18 and finished her (no clothes) on 10/12. In that time I worked on her from 1-3 hours a day for 14 days. Her undies took me 2 days & I added a little shaping to match the "booty curve" but that wasn't much really. Today is the 3rd day for her dress & I'm just short of 3" on the skirt. Don't know if this helps you, but you could most likely get a set with an outfit each done by Christmas, but you'd better start soon! Good luck & let me know if you have more questions :)
Thanks, Amy. I'll try to find the pictures of the murloc hat. That must have been the ones my son saw at Blizzcon. If you work up a pattern, I'd be glad to buy a copy from you and if I get one together, I'll send you a copy.
Thank you for your sweet comment about my bag. I made it for a friends birthday. It was my first attempt at a felted bag. There are no pockets inside but there could have been. The next bag I make I plan to have a few pockets.
I kinda made up the snow suit pattern starting with a sweater. I've made 2 now - one after comments from my daughter about how it worked out on an active grandson. The second one has opening all the way down one leg for easier access and the mittens and booties are attached with a stretchy I-cord.
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This famous symbol of goat head on inverted pentacle is an old symbol. For an inverted star pentacle is inititation even displayed by some Masonic temples, for others the inversion is an opposition of a religion. The Goat head in many eastern paths is karmic or relating to earthly unity yet for some it is the Sabbatic Goat. Make your own conclusions on the large well made pendant with raised features and fixed bale. pewter - with cord. 2". Made in U.S.A.
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The screen was cracked
The rapair went smooth the item was in great shape and thank you for packing it correctly I have brought tons of items from different companies and they never pack them
Correct so thank you for that. I could find a repair guide on your web site so I just free handed it . It was . . .
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Bossa Blue presents: A Tribute to the James Taylor Songbook
210 Restaurant & Live Music Lounge, 210 Green Bay Road, Highwood
See Bossa Blue, a band that re-imagines the music of classic rock and pop icons with a mash-up of Bossa nova, Samba, jazz and blues stylings, pay tribute to the catalog of legendary singer/songwriter James Taylor. Doors open at 5 p.m. For tickets, and more information, call (847) 433-0304 or visit www.210restaurant.com.
Skokie Valley Astronomers
Edward L. Ryerson Welcome Center, 21950 N. Riverwoods Road, Riverwoods
Adults and families with children ages 12 and up can learn about outer space, the sky and the universe in this session of the Skokie Valley Astronomers’ monthly get-together. Stargazing will be conducted after the meeting, weather permitting. No registration is required. For more information, call (847) 367-6640 or visit www.lcfpd.org.
Michael Carbonaro Live!
Genesee Theatre, 203 N. Genesee St., Waukegan
See magician/comedian/actor Michael Carbonaro, star of the hit TV show, “The Carbonaro Effect,” bring his mind-blowing illusions and tricks to the stage. To purchase tickets, stop by the box office or call Ticketmaster at (800) 982-2787. For more information, call (847) 782-2366 or visit www.geneseetheatre.com.
Crabtree Nature Center, 3 Stover Road, Barrington Hills
$5 (per child), $10 (3 children)
Kids (ages 7-11) can meet an animal and become inspired to create a work of art in a program that blends artistic discovery and nature education. Registration is required (no refunds). To sign up, and for more information, call (847) 381-6592 or visit www.fpdcc.com.
Gina Gonzalez and the Wingmen
Austin’s Fuel Room, 481 Peterson Road, Libertyville
See this Lake County-based alternative rock cover band, featuring lead singer Gina Gonzalez, who previously toured with Gary Sinise’s Lt. Dan Band. Doors open at 9 p.m. For tickets, and more information, call (847) 549-1972 or visit www.fuelroom.com.
Six To Midnight
Sideouts Sports Tavern, 4018 Roberts Road, Island Lake
See pop/dance/country/disco/rock/R&B cover band Six To Midnight perform in concert at this popular area bar and eatery. For more information, call (847) 526-7174 or visit www.sideouts.com.
Holiday Open House
Grayslake Heritage Center and Museum, 164 Hawley St., Grayslake
Stop by the museum to enjoy the Grayslake Historical Society’s annual Holiday Open House. The event includes children’s crafts, refreshments, a performance by the Warren High School Alumni Choir (2 p.m.), and photo opportunities with Santa and Mrs. Claus in the Historical Society’s vintage sleigh (2-4 p.m.). For more information, call (847) 543-1745 or visit www.villageofgrayslake.com.
STEM Kits Introduction Party
Fox River Grove Memorial Library, 407 Lincoln Ave., Fox River Grove
The library’s new STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics) kits (designed for ages 3-8) will be available for preview and play in the Youth Services Department during this intro party. The library will begin circulating the kits Dec. 13. For more information, call (847) 639-2274 or visit www.frgml.org.
The History & Fascinating Story of Santa
Aspen Drive Library, 701 Aspen Drive, Vernon Hills
In this special adult program, historian and storyteller Barry Bradford will detail the story of how Santa Claus evolved from a charitable religious figure into an international symbol of kindness and giving. Bradford will also present an overview of the development of Christmas songs in popular culture. Registration is required. To sign up, and for more information, call (847) 362-2330 or visit www.cooklib.org.
Children’s Afternoon Movie
Lake Bluff Public Library, 123 E. Scranton Ave., Lake Bluff
Kids can gather to watch a screening of the mega-hit animated film, “Frozen” (rated PG) in the Children’s Program Room. Registration is not required. For more information, call (847) 234-2540 or visit www.lakeblufflibrary.org.
–Lake County Calendar of Events Dec. 7 – Dec. 13–
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PSFK’s Trending Topic: Top Stories This Week That Have Nothing To Do With CES
Wearable tech and quantified self gadgets are not the only ones making waves this week.
Thanks to the Consumer Electronics Show this week, we’ve been bombarded with more wearable tech and quantified self gadgets than we have body parts to track. From a 2-in-1 simplified chopstick set to a pill that can correct less-than-perfect pitch, here are the top stories from this week.
Oki Sato of the Japanese design company Nendo, in collaboration with chopsticks manufacturer Hashikura Matsukan, created a simplified version of the chopsticks. The kamiai chopsticks are embedded with a magnet so that they snap together as one piece. Rassen chopsticks are separated into two for eating and joined together when not in use.
During the Super Bowl next month, clothing retail company H&M will run a 30-second ad where viewers can purchase items from David Beckham’s new collection directly from their TVs. The campaign is made possible through Delivery Agent’s TV-commerce platform, which is compatible with Samsung Smart’s latest models.
Social Print Studio created the Vinelodeon, a hand-crank machine that plays Vine videos backwards, fast or slow, and frame by frame. The machine is a white box with a small screen in the middle. The project merges modern technology and vintage design to create something new and unique.
The Reverberating Across The Divide project by Madeline Gannon of Carnegie Mellon University merges the digital with the physical through a custom chronomorphologic modeling environment. The modeling tool uses 3D scanning, 3D modeling, and 3D printing to allow a designer to create digital forms around physical bodies.
Harvard professor of molecular and cellular biology, Takao Hensch, has been testing a drug called valproate, which can restore brain plasticity and facilitate faster skill learning. The drug was given to a group of men who then went through online ear-training exercises for two weeks. Those who took the drug showed significant pitch improvement compared with those who took placebos.
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A fast-flying yellow swallowtail stopped long enough to grace our the wildflower garden yesterday.
The scene was like some botanical swing dance, with the partners tethered by the slenderest strand of spider silk. A hot summer breeze kept the seed parachute aloft, but never out of reach of its partner.
The teeny, weeny grasshopper claimed the coreopsis flower for his own after the painted lady butterfly moved on to its next nectar source. In the earlier photo on the bottom, it almost looks like the grasshopper is ducking while the butterfly feeds.
Nibbled by bugs, de-petaled by deer, this not-yet-in-full-bloom coneflower still maintains its dignity in the quiet spotlight that filters through the canopy.
A great blue heron stalks frogs and other prey in a pond near the White River in northwestern Arkansas, against tall grass spangled in wildflowers.
This little goldfinch seemed to be communing with his floral equivalent.
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A proposal to raise the rates for newcomers to rent dock space at Oceanside' Harbor ran into strong criticism from boat owners Tuesday who said they're not convinced any increase is needed.
"Show us how the city needs more money," Pat Gadbois said at a city-sponsored community meeting of boat owners. "I don't think my fellow boat owners are against paying their fair share if there truly is a need."
As initially proposed, the rate increases would not apply to boaters who already rent space at the harbor but would raise the monthly charge for people who come in after the new rates are approved, establishing a two-tier system for renters.
The monthly fee for a typical 34-foot boat would rise from $385 to $525, said harbor and beaches coordinator Frank Quan. Fees for people who live aboard their boats are slightly higher.
After many boat owners objected to the increase at an October City Council hearing, the council instructed harbor officials to meet with boat owners to determine if the plan should be revised.
An additional workshop is scheduled for 9 a.m. Saturday in the Civic Center community rooms, 300 N. Coast Highway.
Quan said the rate increases are needed to make repairs and improvements to the harbor.
The harbor is designed to be self-sustaining, relying on boat-slip rentals and other fees to cover its costs rather than relying on the general fund, which covers most day-to-day city operations.
In three of the last five years, the harbor has lost money, Quan said.
But many boaters at the workshop challenged the city's figures and wanted more proof.
Oceanside should appoint an independent commission to examine the city's figures and the harbor budget to assure boat owners that the numbers are accurate, said boat owner Bob Ford.
"I'm not seeing any clarity on why this (increase) is even being brought up," Ford said.
Bill Hughes said some harbor improvements that the higher rates would finance would come so far in the future that people who rent space now won't be around to take advantage of them.
The city should "tone it down to what the slip owners want," Hughes said. "I'm sure a lot of people could care less if a lot of these things get done."
The proposed rates would pay for improvements such as restoring rip rap that protects the shoreline and renovating or rebuilding rest rooms over a 20-year period.
Boat owner Wayne Hill said it's fine to look that far ahead for planning purposes, but in setting slip rates, he said the city should budget in five year cycles setting rates to cover only what's needed for the next five years.
"In five more years, you do another budget on what you have to do, not on what you want to do," Hill said.
Hill also said he wants assurance that once the two-tier rate system is in place, rates won't later be raised for boaters already renting dock space.
"That's a major issue for us," Hill said. "Most boaters I speak to in the harbor want a guarantee on this grandfather clause,"
Quan said he couldn't make any guarantees but his plan is for this to be the last change in the rate structure in the foreseeable future.
Some boaters objected to even having a two-tier rate system.
"To me, this is a back door way of getting in a slip increase and cutting out a lot of the opposition," Gadbois said.
Boater Bob Richmond said he's worried that the two-tier system over time would alter the character of the harbor as new renters gradually replace old-timers.
"This is a working man's community," Richmond said, "It will change it so only the affluent can afford a boat in Oceanside."
Call staff writer Ray Huard at 760-901-4062.
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Here’s a look back at some of my favorite moments. memories and people who made a difference for me in 2009 .
One year ago today, I sat, much like I am now – legs tucked up under me, late night, eyes closing, headache setting in.
I had a little website – ExtraordinaryMommy.com. When I first started it, it wasn’t a blog – it was merely a site. I wanted moms to remember that extraordinary something sitting in their soul, even on their most challenging days. So I created the site. It took months for me to understand that static content is not interesting enough to keep people coming back.
So, about 18 months ago, I began to learn about blogging. But I was overcome by questions – how do I inspire people to come back? Is the content of the site interesting? What should I write about?
I didn’t know the answers. Exactly 12 months ago, I was searching for guidance online. About this time of year, I get antsy…I start hunting for avenues to improve.
It was during this very process that something small happened. I was scouring the wide world web – looking for ‘goals’ and ‘resolutions’ to set me on the correct path towards engaging with people online. I was following a bread-crumb trail of tips. I couldn’t retrace it if you paid me.
With one last click, I landed at Jessica Smith’s site. I didn’t know Jessica – but in a particular post, she was talking about resolutions she had made the previous year (yes December 2007). She said one that had made a difference for her – committing to Twitter. I thought, “Twitter? I’ve heard of it…but what is it?”
And then, as I continued to read Jessica’s post, and the success she experienced in 2008….I snapped to attention and thought – “OK, this seems like a good start – tackling Twitter it is. It seems easy enough. It isn’t a scary, impossible, lofty goal. It is just Twitter.”
(I was able to share this story of my ‘beginning’ with Jessica last this year at the TypeAMom Conference)
I truly had no idea how Twitter worked or how it would change so many things in my world. I called a friend who could provide a little guidance. And I hit the ground tweeting. The Domino Effect has been tremendous.
It was through Twitter that I learned about Blissdom last February. And it was at Blissdom that I met dozens of amazing people who have helped to shaped this past year for me.
I set the personal goal of speaking at this very conference in 2010. (Goal accomplished – Yippee!)
Blissdom was the thread that connected me to my co-host on Why Moms Matter on Blog Talk Radio – Josh Unfried of MomFaves. And that was simply the beginning.
By far, one of the biggest thrills of my year was covering the 140 Conference at the Kodak Theater in Los Angeles for DeVries PR….it was the opportunity to get back to my reporting and video roots – and I’m grateful to Stephanie Smirnov for having faith in me.
And I can trace that very experience back to both Twitter and Blissdom.
I am grateful for the new friends I have made.
I am thrilled by how much I have learned and excited about the opportunities I have been given.
I continue to be inspired by the amazing things so many of these women (and men) have accomplished and all they continue to do on a daily basis.
Thank you for welcoming me into this Social Media Community, for embracing by quirks, and for supporting my desire to engage with you via video.
I am truly excited about the future.
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Occasionally I post a photo for the Wordless Wednesday series. I was lying in bed last night thinking about which photo to post and had a couple in mind.
How can I improve on that? I thought. So I’m not going to. Check out this wonderful post and enjoy!
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Will he do a sketch with Chris Brown? Will he go further with his flirtations with WNBA star Skylar Diggins? Before he hosts the ESPYS tonight Drake dished on his plans for the show during a teleconference with reporters on Friday.
Rumors of Drake and Chris Brown working together started swirling after a photo popped up
on Instagram last week featuring the two music stars in the studio together. While Drake did not comment on whether Chris would appear with him in the show, Drizzy did promise to give the Internet plenty to talk about.
"I think that is kind of the goal of anything in this day and age is to sort of have a life on the internet," said Drake. "That's why I'm excited. We've been working hard on the pre-tapes and on the monologue and on every aspect of the show just to make sure that it lives on past this night, which I can 100 percent guarantee it will."
As an avid sports fan, Drake will know a lot of the athletes in the room tonight, but one star that he's looking forward to meeting is Skylar Diggins. The rapper has made known his affections for the Tulsa Shock guard via social media, prompting a simple response
from Skylar's boyfriend Daniel Smith, and we could see Drake's flirtations go from 0 to 100 during tonight's show.
"I do have a growing affection for Skylar, and I'm not sure she'll be able to make it, but I'm sure I'll give you a treat if you enjoy my past references," said Drake. "I've never met Skylar. I'm sure it will be extremely awkward when I do," Drake added.
The ESPYS air tonight at 9 p.m. ET on ESPN.
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Sega reaches milestone as third-party publisher
The release of Super Monkey Ball in the US further cements Sega's position as a third-party publisher. SOA's Charles Bellfield talks to us about the milestone release and his company's relationship with Nintendo.
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Super Monkey Ball marks somewhat of a milestone for Sega of America, as it is the company's first game to be released on a Nintendo console in the North American market--the game is already available on the GameCube in Japan. The animosity between the longtime rivals is almost legendary, but the two companies have similar business practices and development philosophies, and Sega now finds itself firmly allied with the markers of Mario, Pokémon, and Zelda.
"Mario is our best friend," said Charles Bellfield, vice president of marketing and corporate communications at Sega of America, when asked about Sega's partnership with old rival Nintendo. "The two companies are actually quite similar, in fact," he continued. "In a desire to compete, we both allowed the market to evolve for so many years. Now that Sega and Nintendo have come together, you will begin to really see the fruits of our relationship. We've both shared a common heritage, and now we both share a common passion and interest. Our perspective on the industry has been very similar for many years. We are both developer- and console-centric, and our sole objective is the world of video games--we're not confused with conflicting business objectives like other competitors."
This partnership could run deeper than one might imagine, judging from the game announcements and the comments from the respective publishers. There have been persistent rumors regarding joint development projects between the two firms, and when asked if the two companies would partner in developing content for consoles or the arcade market, Bellfield refused to comment either way. "In this industry you can never say never--you never know what could happen a few months from now," he explained. "But there are always things that are too early to talk about and announce. The combination of Nintendo and Sega together is a powerful force on any platform."
While Sega continues to stress that it is still a multiplatform third-party software developer, its support for the GameCube and Game Boy Advance is headlined by several of its high-profile properties. The most prominent of these is, of course, Sonic's first appearance on a Nintendo console in the form of a GameCube port of Sonic Adventure 2. However, the company will also release Phantasy Star Online on the console, and internal studios such as Amusement Vision and Overworks are tinkering with the GameCube hardware. "We will look across the board, at all our great properties, when bringing games to the GameCube," Bellfield explained. "Sonic is a natural fit on the GameCube and is the type of game that has an affinity for that consumer base, and bringing Sonic to consoles, you can see very much the potential that Sega will have in this market. But we will look at the expertise of the specific development team, the audience, and the potential of marketing partnerships with the hardware manufacturer in selecting games for specific consoles."
As Sega transitions into its new position as a third-party publisher, it finds itself with many strange bedfellows. However, the company's partnership with Nintendo seems to be a perfect match of philosophy, as both companies' development practices are based on creating games that are both entertaining and innovative. Super Monkey Ball, which is now available on retail shelves ahead of the launch of the GameCube console, seems to embody that way of thinking. "In typical Sega style, Super Monkey Ball is a very addictive game," Bellfield said. "With games like this, we're able to innovate with a far larger installed base of consumers."
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As a principal dancer with both the Kirov Ballet and American Ballet Theatre, she has danced nearly every traditional ballerina role. A show featuring Vishneva, with her cornucopia of classical experience, in a more experimental mode promised to be interesting.
These 2,500 ballet fans were the fortunate percentage of the rumored 10,000 who had, two weeks earlier, swamped a special ticketing Web page that New York City Ballet had set up for fans to attend two open dress rehearsals of Susan Stromans Double Feature, a Broadway-style romp of a ballet. Another 2,500 would attend a second act rehearsal the following day.
Tbilisi-born Nina Ananiashvili, for many years a star of Moscows Bolshoi Theater and the American Ballet Theatre, and a guest dancer in venerable companies worldwide, was approached in May of 2004 by Georgias young President, Mikheil Saakashvili, who had taken office only five months before. Saakashvili requested a meeting with the dancer, who was then at work with ABT in New York, and told her he wanted the nations august but faltering company restored to its former glory, and that he wanted her to make it happen.
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YNN CNY: Syracuse crushes Wagner as Hunt takes control at QB
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SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) - Sophomore quarterback Terrel Hunt ignited Syracuse with five first-half touchdown drives to carry the Orange to a 54-0 rout of Wagner Saturday at the Carrier Dome.
Hunt ripped the overmatched Seahawks (1-2), an FCS opponent, completing 15 of 18 passes for 265 yards and three touchdowns.
Jarrod West caught five balls for 147 yards and a score, and Jerome Smith ran for two touchdowns.
Syracuse (1-2), which led 37-0 at halftime, gave Scott Shafer his first win as the Orange's head coach. The Seahawks dropped to 1-2.
Shafer said during the week that both Drew Allen, who started Syracuse's first two games this season, and backup Hunt would get some action during the contest. After Allen took the first three series of the game and came up with only three points to show for it, Hunt got the nod with 7:07 left in the opening quarter.
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MARY E. SHEPARD and the ILLINOIS STATE RIFLE ASSOCIATION, Plaintiffs,
LISA M. MADIGAN, solely in her official capacity as ATTORNEY GENERAL OF ILLINOIS, GOVERNOR PATRICK L. QUINN, solely in his official capacity as Governor of the State of Illinois, TYLER R. EDMONDS, solely in his official capacity as the State's Attorney of Union County, Illinois, and SHERIFF DAVID LIVESAY, solely in his official capacity as Sheriff of Union County, Defendants.
MEMORANDUM & OPINION
WILLIAM D. STIEHL DISTRICT JUDGE
This matter is before the Court after the issuance of a mandate of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Moore v. Madigan, 702 F.3d 933 (7th Cir. 2012) (Mandate issued July 9, 2013) (Doc. 72). In response to the filing of the mandate (which had been stayed by the Court of Appeals for 210 days) the parties have filed several motions which are now fully briefed and before the Court for ruling:
1. Defendants Madigan, Quinn and Edmonds (“State defendants”) filed a motion to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction (Doc. 73), to which plaintiffs have filed a response (Doc. 74). Defendant Livesay filed a nearly identical motion (Doc. 78) to which plaintiffs have filed a response (Doc. 79). Defendant Livesay has filed a memorandum in support of his motion to dismiss (Doc. 88). The State defendants have filed a supplement to the motion to dismiss (Doc. 86).
2. Plaintiffs have filed a motion for declaration of unconstitutionality and for a preliminary and/or permanent injunction (Doc. 75). State defendants filed a response to this motion as part of their supplement to the motion to dismiss (Doc. 86)
3. Plaintiffs filed a motion to expedite briefing on the motion to declare the new Illinois statute unconstitutional (Doc. 76) to which the defendants filed a response (Doc. 77).
The posture of this case is unique. The Seventh Circuit determined in Moore v. Madigan, (the lead case from the Central District of Illinois which was heard with this case) that the then-controlling Illinois laws, 720 ILCS 5/24-2; 720 ILCS 5/24-1(a)(4), (10) and 720 ILCS 5/24-1.6 (prohibiting carrying a loaded, immediately accessible, uncased gun), were unconstitutional. The court issued its opinion in December of 2012, but stayed issuance of the mandate for a period of 180 days to allow the Illinois legislature time to pass legislation allowing for the concealed carrying of firearms within the state.
The Seventh Circuit determined in Moore that the “Supreme Court’s interpretation of the Second Amendment therefore compels us to reverse the decisions in the two cases before us and remand them to their respective districts for the entry of declarations of unconstitutionality and permanent injunctions.” Id. The mandate was stayed “to allow the Illinois legislature to craft a new gun law that will impose reasonable limitations, consistent with public safety, and the Second Amendment as interpreted in this opinion, on the carrying of guns in public.” Id. That 180 day period was extended for an additional 30 days, and on the thirtieth day of the additional period, July 9, 2013, when no law had yet been passed, the Seventh Circuit issued its mandate.
Later, on the day that the mandate was issued (July 9, 2013), the State of Illinois passed comprehensive amendments to the prior laws establishing the “Firearm Concealed Carry Act, ” (“Act”) -- Public Act 098-0063, available at: http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/publicacts.
A. The Seventh Circuit Opinion in Moore
As part of its opinion in Moore, the Seventh Circuit applied the Supreme Court decisions in District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008) and McDonald v. City of Chicago, 130 S.Ct. 3020 (2010). The Supreme Court has recognized that the need for “defense of self, family and property is most acute” in the home, 130 S.Ct. at 3036. The Seventh Circuit further determined “that doesn’t mean it is not acute outside the home” 702 F.3d at 935, because “[c]onfrontations are not limited to the home.” Id. at 936.
The Court of Appeals noted that 49 states in the United States have some form of concealed carry law. The court determined “that a proper balance between the interest in self-defense and the dangers created by carrying guns in public is to limit the right to carry a gun to responsible persons rather than to ban public carriage altogether, as Illinois with its meager exceptions comes close to doing.” Id. at 940. The court further found that the “constitutionality of the challenged statutory provisions does not present factual questions for determination in a trial. . .[because] only legislative facts are relevant to the constitutionality of the Illinois gun law.” Id. at 942. The court held that the State of Illinois had failed to meet its required showing that there was more “than merely a rational basis” for the then-controlling law. (The state had asserted that “its uniquely sweeping ban is justified by an increase in public safety.” Id.)
B. The Illinois Firearm Concealed Carry Act of 2013.
A brief overview of the new Act is appropriate. The Act provides that the Department of State Police (“State Police”) shall issue a license to any applicant who meets certain qualifications, giving him or her the right to carry a loaded or unloaded concealed firearm, fully concealed or partially concealed, on or about his or her person and on his or her person within a vehicle. The Act establishes a “Concealed Carry Licensing Review Board” ...
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Middle School students had a blast at the Middle School Social sponsored by the Parents Association. Almost 60 students enjoyed food, a photo booth, and games to celebrate the end of the year. And the dance floor wasn’t empty for a moment – from the “cha cha slide” to “the Macarena,” students had such a good time with their friends. Thank you so much to our PA for this wonderful annual event.
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Ceramic Tumbler 14oz
The Ceramic Tumbler is a double-wall ceramic tumbler with a perfect fit ceramic lid to hold your favorite beverage and the heat resistant double layer is comfortable to hold and acts as an effective insulator to keep beverages hot or cold. Fits under most coffee machines and is microwave safe.
White. The MOEN logo is printed in MOEN blue.
Double wall ceramic
Fits under most corporate coffee machines
Remove lid before microwaving
5.9" H X 3.5" W X 3.5" D
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Dead Flowers Mangaデッド・フラワーズ
The death of a boy's parents has interrupted his life. Years later, he is detached from the world around him. A motorcyclist comes along with a deep sound that may help him. Will he be able to start his life anew?
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MUMBAI: Fiery Indian nationalist Bal Thackeray, who founded the right-wing Hindu party Shiv Sena, died on Saturday after suffering cardiac arrest, his doctor said.
Thackeray, 86, has “breathed his last”, his physician Jalil Parkar told a huge crowd assembled amid a heavy security presence outside the veteran politician’s house in India’s financial hub of Mumbai.
Thackeray, regarded as one of India’s most divisive politicians, had been put on a ventilator earlier in the week after his health deteriorated sharply, and Parkar said attempts to revive him when he suffered a cardiac arrest failed.
Authorities placed thousands of extra police on the streets to prevent unrest following the death of the politician, who had been widely accused of having stoked ethnic and religious violence in the past.
News of his failing health had drawn large crowds to his residence, putting Mumbai on high alert amid concern that their grief could turn to anger.
Supporters gathered there sobbed into their handkerchiefs after hearing the news of the death of Thackeray, one of the best-known figures in the Maharashtra State and its capital, which his party renamed from Bombay to Mumbai.
The funeral rites for the founder and president of the Shiv Sena or the Army of Shivaji — the Maratha king who battled against the Muslim Mughal empire — were due to be held on Sunday (today).
A massive procession was planned through the streets of Mumbai for Thackeray, known for his charismatic speaking skills and nicknamed “The Tiger” because of his fearlessness and readiness to take on any opponent.
Tributes poured in for the politician.
“He was an iron man; he spoke in the language of the masses. It worked very well because he connected with them at the very basic level. He gave them hope,” Shobhaa De, novelist and a popular columnist, told India’s CNN-IBN network.
Under Thackeray’s lead, the Shiv Sena had long fought to protect local Marathi-speaking “sons of the soil” from migrant workers.
“He was a consummate communicator whose stature in the politics of Maharashtra was unique,” said the office of Congress Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on social networking site Twitter.
The party, which has controlled Mumbai’s city council since the mid-1990s, is a staunch ally of the Hindu nationalist and main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
The BJP announced it was cancelling its attendance at a dinner to be held by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday night to show respect for Thackeray.
As rumours about his condition swirled earlier in the week, roads were unusually quiet and numerous shops shut, especially in strongholds of the Shiv Sena, a party associated with intimidation and violence in the past.
Thackeray’s son Uddhav, the Shiv Sena executive president, had appealed to the party’s supporters to stay calm.
Testament to Thackeray’s enduring clout were not only the crowds of loyalists but a stream of high-profile visitors to his home while he lay on his deathbed, including politicians, businessmen and film stars.
Bollywood veteran Amitabh Bachchan and his actor son Abhishek were among those to visit on Wednesday night, when they suffered minor injuries in the rowdy crowds.
The elder Bachchan spoke fondly in memory of Thackeray on Twitter, saying it was “difficult to imagine that he has left us!”
Thackeray had been admitted to hospital in July with breathing problems and in October his ill-health prevented him from attending a Shiv Sena rally, which he instead addressed by video link.
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Dell Home offers the Samsung 40" 1080p WiFi LED-Backlit Smart LCD HD Television, model no. UN40H5203, bundled with a $150 Dell eGift Card for $447.99 with free shipping. (The gift card is added to your cart automatically and will be emailed to you 10 to 20 days after purchase.) Assuming you'll use the gift card, that's the lowest total price we could find by $150, although we saw this bundle for $20 less two weeks ago. Features include a native resolution of 1920x1080 (1080p), WiFi, USB, and two HDMI inputs. Deal ends August 6 at 7 am ET.
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What are the possible outcomes of a complaint?
There are many different possible outcomes of a complaint, including:
A council won't take any action where it does not have jurisdiction. This includes:
- complaints about organisations that provide health services in NSW such as a hospital or clinic,
- complaints about registered health practitioners or students in states other than NSW
- complaints about unregistered health practitioners
- customer service or consumer complaints about issues such as requests for refunds or queries regarding billing
No further action following a council process
After we have looked at your complaint, we might decide that we don’t need to take any more regulatory action to manage risk to the public and protect public safety. Sometimes this is because the practitioner has learned from what has happened and we think the same thing may not happen again. Other times it’s because we interviewed or counselled a practitioner.
We will tell you what we decide to do and what has happened.
Learn more about 'no further action' outcomes.
Sometimes as a result of a complaint, a practitioner’s practice is restricted in some way to keep the public safe. This is done by imposing conditions on their registration.
The Council has the power to act quickly in urgent cases by suspending a practitioner’s registration to protect public health and safety, or in the public interest, while we make other inquiries. This is an interim step called taking ‘immediate action.’
NCAT can also suspend a practitioner’s registration for a fixed period of time, following a finding of professional misconduct.
NCAT can cancel a practitioner’s registration, following a finding of professional misconduct. You can read more about tribunal decisions.
We always monitor a practitioner’s compliance with any restrictions that have been imposed on their registration. You can read more about what we do and how we do this.
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In most of the species the head and neck are naked or nearly so. They feed chiefly on carrion. The condor, king vulture, turkey buzzard, and black vulture (Catharista atrata) are well known American species. The griffin, lammergeir, and Pharaoh's chicken, or Egyptian vulture, are common Old World vultures.
Origin: OE. Vultur, L. Vultur: cf. OF. Voltour, F. Vautour.
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US military can now strike Islamic State out of Turkey, officials say
In a deal struck Wednesday, Turkey has agreed to allow the US military to use a key base to conduct airstrikes against the Islamic State.
WASHINGTON — Turkey has agreed to let the U.S. military launch airstrikes against the Islamic State from a key air base near the Syrian border, senior U.S. officials said Thursday, giving a boost to the U.S.-led coalition while drawing Turkey deeper into the conflict.
President Barack Obama and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan finalized the deal in a phone call Wednesday, officials said, following months of U.S. appeals and delicate negotiations over the use of Incirlik and other bases in Turkey. Frustrated by Obama's focus on fighting IS instead of Syrian President Bashar Assad, Turkey's government had resisted the move, but in recent days a surge in Islamic State activity in Turkey has brought concerns about the militant group to the forefront.
American officials said access to the base in southern Turkey, not far from IS strongholds across the border in Syria, would allow the U.S. to move more swiftly and nimbly against IS targets. If the agreement holds, the U.S.-led coalition will be positioned to conduct better surveillance over Syria and act quicker on intelligence than when it was limited to launching flights from places like Iraq, Jordan and the Gulf states.
Under the deal, the U.S. military will be allowed to launch manned and unmanned flights from Incirlik; in the past, only unmanned drone flights were allowed.
Turkey has yet to publicly confirm the agreement, which U.S. officials discussed on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to comment publicly. Citing operational security, the White House declined to confirm the agreement, but noted that Obama and Erdogan had agreed to "deepen our cooperation" against IS in their phone call Wednesday.
"Turkey is a critical partner in degrading and defeating ISIL, and we appreciate the essential support Turkey provides to the international coalition across the many lines of effort," said Alistair Baskey, a spokesman for the White House's National Security Council, using an alternative acronym for the militant group.
Incirlik Air Base, located across the border from the Syrian city of Aleppo, is a joint U.S.-Turkish installation that houses the U.S. Air Force's 39th Air Base Wing. Its proximity to IS-controlled territory in Syria — including Raqqa, the group's de facto capital — makes it an attractive launching pad for U.S. airstrikes against IS. Turkey shares a 1,250-kilometer (775-mile) border with Syria and with Iraq, where IS also controls broad swaths of territory.
Turkey, a NATO ally and onetime close U.S. partner, has resisted getting embroiled too deeply in the U.S.-led fight against IS. The move to allow Turkish soil to be used to launch U.S. airstrikes appeared to mark a significant shift in approach.
Although Turkey is part of the U.S.-led coalition, it has limited its role out of concern that Washington's overall strategy for Syria is flawed. To Turkey's dismay, Obama has prioritized fighting IS over opposing Assad in Syria's civil war. For months, as the U.S. requested consent to strike from Incirlik, Turkey held off, while continuing to press Obama to broaden his mission.
It was unclear whether Turkey had extracted a commitment from the U.S. to take on Assad more aggressively in exchange for using Incirlik. But in an apparent nod toTurkey's priorities, the White House said Obama and Erdogan had also decided to deepen cooperation on "our work to bring about a political settlement to the conflict in Syria."
Turkey's shift on Incirlik came as the country is on higher alert following a series of deadly attacks and unsettling signs of increased IS activity in Turkey. On Thursday, IS militants fired from Syrian territory at a Turkish military outpost. Turkish retaliated, killing at least one IS militant. And earlier in the week, a suicide bombing that Turkey blamed on IS militants killed 32 people in southeastern Turkey, near the Syrian border.
The agreement to deepen cooperation between the U.S. and Turkey was a promising sign for two countries whose relations have grown strained in recent years. The U.S. and Western countries have long been pressing Erdogan's government to do more to stop foreign fighters from crossing through Turkey into Syria and Iraq to join IS, with some analysts suggesting Turkey was looking the other way because the Islamic State is also fighting Assad.
"Turkey has also taken many important steps to curb the flow of foreign fighters," Pentagon spokesman Capt. Jeff Davis said in a statement Thursday, adding that the foreign fighter problem is not Turkey's alone.
Turkish officials have also raised concerns that cracking down on IS operations could prompt retaliation against Turkey, a fear that gained fresh currency following Monday's deadly bombing. In the last six months, Turkish officials say, more than 500 people suspected of working with IS have been detained.
Associated Press writers Matthew Lee in Washington, Desmond Butler in Istanbul and Suzan Frazer in Ankara, Turkey, contributed to this report.
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Partnering with Breckenridge Music offers your business great visibility with a key target market and aligns your brand with high-quality live music and a commitment to the cultural fabric and quality of life in Summit County.
Our sponsorship program is divided into multiple giving categories, all of which offer valuable benefit packages.
- Festival Sponsorship
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After leaving the Camino, I had the opportunity to spend three days in Barcelona. Wow! There was so much to see in such a short amount of time. My main hope was to see as much Gaudi art/architecture as possible in those three days.
Day 1 -- Park Guell & Royal Palace Fountain
I arrived in Barcelona in the morning. I headed from the airport, directly to my hotel, dropped my bags in the luggage storage closet, and set out for Park Guell. As it turns out, Barcelona is a REALLY big city. I had a trusty map, and managed to decipher it fairly quickly. But even with my (self-proclaimed) superb map-reading skills, it still took almost 2 hours to walk to Park Guell. Now granted, I did make a few stops to oogle over other architecture and cool-Barcelona-stuff, but I don't necessarily walk slowly. hmmm...maybe the subway would have been the better option. :)
Park Guell is a fantastic oasis for Barcelonians. I suppose it could be compared to Central park in New York...a huge green space in the middle of a large metropolitan area. There, I met up with one of my Camino cycling buddies (Jeff), and the two of us spent the afternoon exploring the park, searching for the all of the mosaics and creatures created by Gaudi. It was a lovely way to spend the day!
Later that evening, Jeff and I went to the Royal Palace neighborhood to join in a community celebration there. In Spain, each neighborhood has its own week-long fiesta each year. That night happened to be the final night of the Royal Palace neighborhood's fiesta. We took a picnic of local breads, cheeses, and cured meats. We ate our picnic at the main park while we watched a HUGE fountain laser/light show. The flow of the fountain was choreographed with music and lights to create a spectacular celebration of music, water, light, and community. So very fun!
Day 2 -- Sagrada Familia
The next day was my Sagrada Familia day. I walked to the cathedral early in the morning (after enjoying some cafe con leche, of course), and stood in line for about an hour before I was able to enter the grounds of Sagrada Familia. . While waiting, I was standing beneath the enormous spires, which can be seen from any point in the city. The church was designed to be the center of the city, equi-distant from mountain and sea, and visible from the sea so that its towers could be beacons of hope for sailors and merchants.
After about 7 hours at Sagrada Familia, I took time to walk along the outside perimeter of the cathedral to take a last look at the architecture. I ended up in a park across the street from the church needing some more time for quiet reflection before heading back to my hotel. I walked in a relaxed manner through the park, enjoying some pensive meandering time in the park. Finally, I ended up sitting on a bench and spending a long time watching two groups of locals playing rollicking games of bocce. Delightful!
After walking back to my hotel, I stopped for dinner in my neighborhood and sat to reflect on the day. So much beauty!
Day 3 -- Palai Guell & St. Josef's Mercado
My last day in Barcelona was spent roaming the outdoor market in Barcelona (similar to our Pike place Market, but MUCH bigger...whoa!) and visiting Palai Guell (the Guell palace). Guell was a good friend and benefactor of Gaudi's work. He commissioned Gaudi to design and construct several buildings within Barcelona, including Guell Palace, and Guell Park. The Guell palace was one if Gaudi's first buildings and is most recognized for the whimsical chimneys on the top of the building. It was very fun to wander through the colorful and playful chimneytops that were positioned on a wavy rooftop (no flat surface on that roof).
Barcelona was remarkably different from the Galecian region of the Camino. While I fell in love with the Spanish countryside along the Camino, in Barcelona, I loved having the opportunity to stand in the places that we've been studying & learning about in the 2nd grade classroom. I'm excited to share the pictures and stories with OLG!
Well done, Spain! Well done!
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It was like a mini convention complete with raffles, door prizes and competition dolls.
Last year there was a gorgeous Ellowyne and a lovely companion doll, Amber, available as well. I'm not sure if Prudence was a centerpiece.
|2010 A Day of Ennui Souvenir Doll|
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The info for this event follows.
Ellowyne Disenchantment (Click here to Register)
DATE: Saturday, August 13, 2011
TIME: 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM
LOCATION: Wiltwyck Country Club, Kingston, NY
Limited to 150 Guests
Includes an exclusive Ellowyne, a fabulous lunch, a smile (possibly), poetry, brooding, whipped cream, therapist visit, tea and possibly a bit of Ennui.
__________On the Friday night prior to the luncheon there will be a wine, cheese and scone event with Evangeline Ghastly at the Tonner Company Store. The details for that portion haven't been figured out yet but you can be sure it will be worth spending the weekend in the area to attend both.
Did I mention that each table got a trough of whipped cream to go along with dessert? Well it wasn't actually a trough but it was a very large, trough-shaped serving piece.
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27112 Highland Drive, San Juan Capistrano, CA 92675
MLS# PW17100764 | Status: Sold | Property Type: Single Family Residence | Year Built: 1991
Perfectly situated amid the lush, rolling hills overlooking historic San Juan Capistrano, 27112 Highland Drive is a lavish, sprawling estate that artfully blends resplendent European grandeur with spacious California tranquility. Less than ten miles from the Dana Point coastline and midway between Los Angeles and San Diego, this six-acre residence offers stunning ocean views and a wealth of beautifully appointed indoor and outdoor spaces, including a fully equipped gym, guest house, tennis court and observation deck, 800 sq ft turf sport court, saltwater pool and spa, temperature-controlled wine cellar, and movie theater—not to mention, a certified-organic 430-tree lemon grove. The main house, a Venetian-style manor enriched with ornate detailing and black walnut floors throughout, is a study in classic elegance and state-of-the-art luxury.
The moment you step foot through its stately entrance—a striking, 11’2” front door, framed by decorative stationary glass paneling—onto the classic parquet wood floors of the sweeping foyer, you’re transported into a world of opulence and finery that permeates every corner of this extraordinary residence. Past the handsome and sumptuously accented parlor, a sunken, generously-lit Victorian living room awaits. Pause and relax here, open one of its many French doors to explore the formal garden, or ascend a grand staircase into an extravagant master bedroom and private sitting room, with an uninterrupted view of the expansive surrounding hillside and nearby ocean. An ideal space to luxuriate, the accompanying 420 sq ft master bath and steam room, and adjoining 308 sq ft master closet is equal parts decadence and serenity—a welcome theme that persists throughout the six bedrooms and nine bathrooms of the main house. Entertain guests in the ample heart of the home, a magnificent open-concept family room, kitchen and full bar, with travertine stone floors and beautifully crafted cabinetry and wainscoting that transitions seamlessly outdoors via floor-to-ceiling, sliding pocket glass doors. With an outdoor fireplace and year-round Southern California weather working in your favor, you’ll take full advantage of the exquisite poolside loggia, multiple covered patios, and large, Viking-equipped outdoor kitchen, which even boasts a full-size pizza oven.
Don’t be fooled by the classical elegance of this residence. Built into the house are fully integrated, top-of-the-line AMX and Vantage automation systems custom-designed by Cantara for total convenience and efficiency, operated via touchpads stationed strategically throughout the property. This includes: gate controls, HVAC customization, intercom communications, lighting, security and surveillance, shade control, pool and spa controls, and more. Sonance Symphony speakers adorn the ceilings throughout the house, gym, and guest house, as well as nearly every outdoor area, offering superior audio quality no matter where you are in the home. You’ll find most bathrooms in the main house outfitted with gorgeous Neorest washlets, and kitchens sporting Sub-Zero, Dacor and Viking appliances. Out by the lemon grove, massive solar panels do their part to provide additional power to the property. At the end of the day, feel free to curl up and watch movies with up to six people in your own private theater on an immersive 100-inch screen and iVision 30 digital projector.
As you tour the grounds of this awe-inspiring estate, you know you’re experiencing something truly unique. Everywhere you look, you see landscaping and design curated to perfection, set against a breathtaking backdrop of hillside and ocean views. More than just a home, 27112 Highland Drive is an idea fully realized and inspiringly executed, throughout the main house and beyond—from the charming guest cottage to the pristine turf sport court just up the hill. Work up a sweat in your own private gym or on your pro tennis court. Take a sunset stroll through your vast lemon grove, then make your way down by the pool to relax with some wine by the fire pit while the sun fades from reddish orange to the calm, fleeting blue of dusk. Somewhere along the way, there will be no doubt that you’re finally home
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