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“To help our rhythms adjust, we can turn on bright lights at home when we first wake up, and have comparatively dim lights on in the two hours prior to bed. This should help our body clock adjust more quickly,” Davidson added.
We should also take extra care when driving and try to be patient with ourselves and others, she said.
“Notice the . . . changes that occur to your mood and well-being and realize this is your body clock speaking. We can be glad that we have this amazing system that allows us to be synchronized with our environment.
Being in LA these last few weeks has changed my mindset on my mind and body. Don't worry I haven't turned into a yoga loving La La Land hippy, but I have to say the lifestyle out here is much better for me than being in Chelsea.
I am in LA filming for Made In Chelsea and I have to say I am in love with the place. I just love being outside and by the water. Back in London, I am quite happy to come home from the pub, pick up a curry late at night and sleep until late the next day.
Here in LA, I have decided to be a good girl and give up the drink while I am here, which is around 8 weeks in total. It has done wonders for my skin, which is normally quite problematic and flares up all the time. I have had problem skin for a while now and I really notice that it gets worse when I have been drinking and eating badly.
So I decided to share what I have been doing over here for the last month, because I genuinely feel like a new person. Gone are the late night takeaways and I have really tried to start logging what I am putting into my body.
I really believe that taking care of your skin from within is just as important than treating its exterior. It's not just a myth, your diet truly does affect your complexion.
I can really see the difference being dehydrated makes to my skin. It feels really dry & I also feel lifeless, I have started adding lemon into my water in the morning as it helps make my skin healthy and has finally started looking what I have wanted for years – radiant and glowing. I am also loving the green juices at the moment. I know they look horrible, but genuinely they taste good. Most place you buy them from add yummy fruit to make them taste better. I also really want a Nutribullet as they are so easy and massive over here in America.
My trainer has told me to eat lots of food containing vitamin E, so at the moment I am trying to eat spinach with most meals and have almonds as my snack. This also keeps my energy levels up throughout the day.
Drinking just one cup of green tea a day can have amazing benefits for your skin. I have replaced this for one of my coffees. It is loaded with antioxidants and what I did notice is that my skin got worse before it got better as all the toxins started to come out, but stick with it.
This is a new thing for me really, as I love my cheese but I have recently cut back and found that dairy products actually are highly inflammatory on the poor old skin, which ultimately aggravates skin conditions such as acne, wrinkles and rashes. I now replace some of my daily non-diary substitutes to help with even skin tone and texture.The main product I use now is almond milk in place of milk and it’s actually really good.
Most people suffer with a lack of protein in their diets and this can quite often be why you feel hungry in the middle of the afternoon, especially if you are trying to follow a low carb diet.
I have started working on a new range called Active Woman with Bio Synergy. Being involved in the range has made me understand protein and why our body needs it so much more.
Protein is not just good for building up muscle, protein is also essential for building strong skin. Collagen which is essentially made from protein, is responsible for keeping the skin taut and less wrinkled.
I often have a protein shake in the middle of the afternoon if my energy decreases and it is great if you are exercising regularly.
A study has found that the antioxidants found in green and yellow vegetables help fight ageing. I have been trying to order lots of green salads and leafy green vegetables as well as corn into my diet as I need to keep my crow feet at bay!
Over here in LA, pumpkin seems to be everywhere and apparently cooked pumpkin is one of the best food sources of beta-carotene. I have been told that our bodies can convert beta-carotene into vitamin A, which stimulates skin cell growth. In short, this will result in smoother, softer and more youthful looking skin.
I am a massive chocolate lover, but it is not only a killer for the waistline, but also the skin. Just lately, I have been trying to substitute it for dark chocolate and it’s delicious. It is also surprisingly good for your complexion. Dark chocolate is rich in cocoa, which improves blood circulation and can hydrate the skin. This leaves the overall texture of the skin smoother and healthier looking.
This is the best news I have ever had so I am off to feed myself loads of chocolate and bake myself in the Californian sun!
The largest regional mobile telecoms operator in the US, Alltel, has struck a landmark deal with Irish software firm Arantech to deploy its technology to address call quality issues.
With a market cap of US$24.7bn and over 15 million customers as of early 2006, Alltel is the largest regional mobile phone company in America and the fifth-largest mobile phone company overall. Alltel is understood to be a rumoured Verizon Wireless acquisition target.
The company is to deploy Dublin firm Arantech’s technology to get a better insight into customer experience problems such as dropped calls and service outages.
Alltel will use Arantech’s customer experience management (CEM) monitoring technology, entitled Touchpoint, to assess the quality of its service and pinpoint areas where improvement is needed in its network.
The deal was unveiled last week at the CTIA Wireless 2007 trade show in Orlando, Florida.
It is Arantech’s first deal with a major US carrier and provides a vital bridgehead for the company to take on America.
The company, which has satellite offices in Boston, has already secured major deals with international carriers like Vodafone, Orange and Swisscom.
Two years ago Arantech raised US$10m in a second-round venture capital deal with investors Trident Capital, Ericsson, Cross Atlantic Capital Partners, Oyster Investment and Enterprise Ireland.
Hit by the Maggi noodles controversy, foods firm Nestle on Thursday announced a 60% drop in consolidated net profit for the quarter ended September ’15.
NEW DELHI: Hit by the Maggi noodles controversy, foods firm Nestle on Thursday announced a 60% drop in its consolidated net profit for the quarter ended September even as it prepares to bring back the popular instant noodles brand to the Indian market.
The maker of KitKat chocolate reported consolidated net profit of Rs 124 crore for the July-September quarter, down fromRs 311 crore a year ago, while its income stood at Rs 1,769 crore, down 31% from Rs 2,586 crore posted in the year-ago period. July-September was the first full quarter after Nestle’s biggest brand in the country Maggi instant noodles, which was contributing close to 30% to the company’s sales, was banned by food safety regulator Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) in early June on allegations that it contained excessive lead content and traces of flavour enhancer monosodium glutamate.
Nestle India Chairman and Managing Director Suresh Narayanan said the company is readying to relaunch Maggi after getting approvals from three accredited laboratories where the Bombay High Court had ordered its samples to be tested again. The new batches of Maggi need to clear a second round of testing at the three laboratories before it can be sold in the market.
“We have commenced manufacturing and after clearance of the samples to be tested by the three accredited laboratories, are keen to reintroduce Maggi noodles at the earliest,” Narayanan said in a statement. Earlier this week, Nestle said it has resumed production of Maggi noodles in Nanjangud in Karnataka, Moga in Punjab and Bicholim in Goa.
Nestle said its latest results are not comparable to previous periods because “the company is faced with an unusual situation and continued to deal with it during the quarter as well”. For the quarter ended June, Nestle India had reported a loss of Rs 64.4 crore, its first loss in three decades, due to a one-time charge of Rs 451.6 crore on account of the recall of Maggi noodles.
OK, OK, the iPod is not, in fact dead (at least not yet), but make no mistake, the world’s classiest and best MP3 player — the one that built an entire industry — is rapidly fading into oblivion. Even iPod’s parent (company), Apple can’t deny the obvious.
In its 2014 Q1 earnings call held earlier this week, Apple revealed that its revenues would take a $2 billion dollar hit thanks to a number of factors that include a strong U.S. dollar, channel inventory issues and a tumbling iPod business. Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer said sales on iPods declined by more than half and that “they will continue to decline year-over-year” in the next quarter.
In an unaudited data summary released by the company, the decline is revealed in stark numbers: In Q1 of 2013, Apple sold over 12 million iPods. This quarter, just 6 million. Revenue slipped even more precipitously, from $2.1 billion to under a billion dollars in Q1 of 2014.
The wheels have come off and the company offered no indication that there’ll be any kind of category turnaround. The fact that it hasn’t offered a single iPod update for more than a year (skipping its traditional fall update in 2013) is another clear indicator that development on new iPods has either slowed or ceased.
However, with so many different models: iPod touch, Shuffle, Nano and Classic, there’s always the chance that at least the touch could get some kind of refresh or perhaps a new name since it’s essentially Apple’s smallest iPad: Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the iPad touch.
Even if that does happen, by the end of this year we may very well be remembering the iPod. So why wait until then?
Apple launched the iPod, a 6.5-ounce, elegant little brick of a music-playing device, in 2001. It had a 5GB spinning hard drive, physical buttons, a monochrome screen and a firewire port. Plus, it only worked with the Mac. Imagine what would have happened if that had not changed in 2002.
The original iPod is displayed after its introduction by Apple Computer Inc. chief executive officer Steve Jobs during a news conference in Cupertino, Calif. on Oct. 23, 2001.
There was also iTunes, which back then was little more than a song-transfer utility that allowed you to rip (remember that word?) music from your CD collection and put it on the iPod.
The iPod was not the first MP3 player, but despite a premium price tag ($399), it was almost universally recognized as the best.
Early on, the iPod stood out for its ease of use. Yes, even before the introduction of a touchscreen, the iPod menu system and scroll wheel made intuitive sense. And then there was iTunes and, perhaps more importantly, the iTunes store — by far the easiest, legal way to buy music.
By 2007, when the one-two punch of the iPhone and then iPod touch arrived, Apple had left virtually every other MP3 maker in the dust. Somewhere in the midst of all this Microsoft launched its Zune player, which was met with almost universal disinterest. In my own home, our third-party players from SanDisk were all discarded in favor of first- and second-generation iPod touches. MP3 players become synonymous with iPods. Even retailers fell quietly into line.
On Best Buy’s website, for instance, the digital music player page is called the “iPod and MP3 Players” and if you visit it, you basically see only iPods. You’ll need another click to see music players from Sony (yes, the former leader in portable music players is still out there giving it a go), SanDisk and a company I never heard of before, Mach Speed.
In 2012, I reviewed what may well be the last iPod touch update we’ll ever see. Even then, I questioned its relevance. The differences between the iPod touch and, at the time, iPhone 5, had shrunk to a very short list that included thickness, weight and the ability to make phone calls. Otherwise, on a feature-by-feature basis, they were almost a match.
Similarly, smartphones from Samsung, HTC, Nokia and, yes, Sony, all handle apps, music, photos, video, photography and more nearly as well as the iPod touch. No adult would want to carry a phone and a music player in their pockets when they can get away with one device that actually does it all.
On the other hand, I did think that the iPod touch and maybe even the simplified nano (the most frequently redesigned product in Apple’s iPod lineup) could be great gadgets for preteens. I’m sure you’ve observed parents handing their children their iPhone to keep them occupied. It’s a stop-gap measure and I’m sure these parents would much rather hand them something that doesn’t contain critical information like personal photos, emails, texts and contact info.
What I didn’t take into account is the price. At $229, the iPod touch is probably a little too precious to hand to an 8 year old. I suspect that hurt the iPod touch during the last two holiday buying seasons, but probably not nearly as much as the emergence of mid-size tablets.
An original iPad mini, which is larger and more powerful than the touch costs $299 (just $70 more than the touch). The Retina model starts at $399. I suspect parents also took a good look at 7-inch tablets from Amazon (as low as $139), Google (Nexus 7 for $229) and even Barnes & Noble (the $129 Nook HD).
Larger screens, possibly sturdier bodies, lower prices and access to all the same music, movies and apps, games and children’s books (those images looks much better on a larger screen) likely made these products irresistible to parents who were not ready to hand their children iPhones.
By my reckoning, this trend cut the bottom out from beneath the iPod as effectively as Bugs Bunny sawing away the floor from under a hapless Elmer Fudd.
The emergence of streaming music services has also conspired to end the iPod’s reign as a place to store your music. I remember once buying an old iPod at a garage sale for $5. The guy told me it didn’t work. So I bought it on a whim and plugged it into one of my iPod dock players. (Remember those? Thank goodness for Bluetooth.) Lo and behold, the iPod came alive and suddenly I had access to the guy’s 40,000-song library. I felt guilty, so I returned it to him and told him to buy his own dock.
First of all, if you sync your iPod with the cloud, you don’t have to worry about having all your songs stored locally. Second, consumers are increasingly adopting streaming music services. Why buy and store when you can listen to all you want for free or a small monthly or yearly fee?
Even as iPhone popularity, tablet growth and the rise of streaming dig the iPod’s grave, increasingly disinterested consumers are accelerating its departure from this mortal coil.
The story is the same in my house. Now everyone except my son has an iPhone. iPods are either in a drawer or sitting in someone’s car.
It’s true, this obit is a bit premature. Apple continues to sell the iPod on its website. Six million units is nothing to sneeze at (unless you consider that the iPhone sold 51M and the iPad 26M in the same time frame), but there is no denying the trend or the underlying forces behind it.
The iPod, which loved music, photography, games and making new friends, passed away quietly sometime in 2014 or 2015. Apple asks that, in lieu of flowers, you buy an iPhone 5S.
The shopping habits of Britain's 25 million supermarket loyalty card holders could be grabbed by the Government in an attempt to halt the UK's dangerous obesity crisis, it was claimed today.
People who buy too much alcohol, fatty foods or sugary drinks would be targeted with 'tailored' health advice under plans being considered by the Coalition.
With more children than ever dangerously overweight, parents could also be contacted if their bills show they are not giving their offspring a balanced diet from their weekly shop.
Cutting obesity-related illness would help the NHS save billions.
A Whitehall unit set up to covertly change the habits of Britons has already been in talks with the major supermarkets to gain access to their huge shopping databases.
Their loyalty card systems allows them to collate detailed lists of what all their shoppers buy. Around 25 million people have these cards, with Tesco alone having 15 million members.
The head of the Government's Behavioural Insights Team said supermarkets had more information on the diets of Britons than their own doctors.
Prime Minister David Cameron is said to back these 'nudge' tactics, which are designed to slowly influence the choices of people rather than using Government legislation to force change.
But Health Secretary Andrew Lansley and other Tories are said to be opposed to the idea in case they are accused of snooping on the public by employing 'Big Brother' techniques.
American academic Richard Thaler, who is an expert on nudge techniques met the cabinet, including the Prime Minister and Chancellor George Osborne this month, to discuss the issue with them.
He told them that the information held by Britain's big businesses is key to helping them change behaviour.
The PM has already tried several ideas using nudge techniques with varying degrees of success.
A scheme to help people compare energy prices with people in their street worked as did writing to professionals to encourage them to fill in their late tax returns.
One in three doctors, for example, responded to the letters by submitting it, ten times the number a year earlier when no letter was sent.
It is not clear yet whether supermarkets will agree to share their information as attempts by Governments in the past have been rejected.
But with the issue of obesity in Britain a growing problem they may be convinced to help as they face pressure to help improve diet and lifestyle.
Short reviews of Dissident Discipleship, When Saints Sing the Blues, and Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters.
in Christ's life, death, and resurrection" is discipleship, and it will make us—inevitably—dissidents, not only in country or culture, but also in church. The question is not, "What would Jesus do?" but, "Jesus, what do you want me to do?"
Brenda Poinsett, who has written two books about women's depression (among her dozen titles), dares to identify depression as a fairly common experience among people whom God uses to perform his wonders. Poinsett refers several times to people having what she calls load limits. "Some of us have higher limits of what we can carry than others, but we all have a point at which we may collapse under the pressure of weight added to our load."
This week's featured gig poster was designed by Chicago-based artist Dmitry Samarov for the release party of this book Music to My Eyes.
Plus: Timbuck2Forever returns to Metro to honor the fallen Chicago DJ, Macabre host their 19th annual Holiday of Horror at Reggie’s, and more.
This weekend's Sound Art Theories Symposium brings with it some enticing installations and performances.
The Hideout hosts a terrific double bill with Azita and Meg Baird on Saturday; if you go, please pay attention.
Ken Vandermark performs Saturday 4/2 at a free screening of the Amazon river documentary "Roads of Water," which he scored. Also showing clips from "Roads" director Augusto Contento's in-progress post-rock-doc "Parallax Sounds."
Peter Margasak's first podcast makes an Azita convert of me.
The first Post No Bills Podcast is live, with music by Azita, Josh Berman, the Rail Band, Marcio Local, and many more.
Don't get your hopes up for an all-Azita revue on Monday, no matter what Greg Kot says.
Experimental Sound Studio launches a biweekly series of intimate solo concerts next Sunday with a set from pianist Jim Baker.
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Christine Blasey Ford, center, flanked by attorneys Debra Katz, left, and Michael Bromwich. The attorneys say that although Ford has tried to return to her life, she endures harassment.
Christine Blasey Ford is still being harassed after leveling sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, her lawyers say.
"Justice Kavanaugh ascended to the Supreme Court, but the threats to Dr. Ford continue," said Ford's lawyers, Debra Katz, Lisa Banks, and Michael Bromwich, in a statement to NPR.
Kavanaugh stridently denied the allegations about the assault and went on to win confirmation in the Senate. Ford is still working to get her life back on track, her lawyers say.
She's had to move four times, she wrote last month. She has had to pay for a private security detail. She hasn't been able to return to her job as a professor at Palo Alto University. A spokeswoman for the school did not respond to a question about whether there was a timeline for Ford to return.
Ford's accusation that Kavanaugh had assaulted her when the two were in high school — and Kavanaugh's emotional response — took place before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Sept. 27. Ford detailed the intimidation she was receiving then.
"My family and I have been the target of constant harassment and death threats," she told the committee.
"People have posted my personal information on the Internet. This has resulted in additional emails, calls, and threats. My family and I were forced to move out of our home ... my family and I have been living in various secure locales, with guards."
Although the spotlight has receded, the danger has not, Ford's lawyers say, but she is not interested in trying to turn her story into something that could make the experience lucrative.