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I thought you would enjoy this eye candy. Really the bathrooms are my fave rooms in this house. The tile patterns and color combinations are just too good. The rest of his portfolio is mouthwatering and I may need to do another post on just his kitchens. Check him out here.
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I am going todiscuss a new term value trading in this post. It is a very interesting
concept and it was first mentioned by my good friend arpit ranka. I cannot claim any originality on this
concept, but once it was mentioned by
arpit, I started thinking about it and found a lot of validity and relevance to
my style of investing.
What is valuetrading? (my definition)
Value tradingis best described as buying a stock with the expectation of selling the same
(hopefully with a gain) in a short period of time based on the realization of a
single or multiple triggers. This trigger can be fundamental in nature such as
normalization of sales/ profit margins (from a temporary low), business event
such as launch of a new product or new capacity or change in the business
environment for the better such as moving from extreme to moderate pessimism .
In additionto the fundamental issues, the trigger could be technical in nature such as
short term overselling of a stock due to unexpectedly poor results or some
temporary event such as elections which do not really impact the fundamentals
of the business
In all thesecases, one is expecting that the trigger will occur in the short term and the
stock price will get a quick bounce (10%+) and one would be able to exit with a
nice little profit
How does itdiffer from value investing
The abovedefinition may sound a lot like value investing and I have been guilty of
mixing the two for all these years. However as I think back, I have come to
realize that they are not strictly the same and confusing the two can actually
be harmful (as I will explain later in the post)
If oneinvests with a long term horizon in
mind, then it is critical to have a good idea of the intrinsic value of the
company. In addition this intrinsic value should increase over time, if one is
to make above average returns in the long run.
So ineffect, one is playing a short term trigger in the case of value trading versus
betting on the business in the case of value investing.
Examples ofvalue trading
Lets look atsome example
I would call this ideas as a value tradingidea as this company is in a highly cyclical industry. At the time of buying
the stock, I was expecting that the downturn in the capital goods industry
would not be deep and the fundamentals of the company and its stock price would soon bounce back.
Thetrigger has yet to happen and as result the stock has slid further since the
time I wrote about it.
Istarted looking closely at this company in mid 2008 and by the end of the year
the bottom had fallen out of the commercial vehicle market (the company stopped
production for a month in dec 2008 to reduce the inventory). I purchased the
stock in early 2009 at highly depressed prices.
Thetrigger normalization of commercial vehicle sales happened quite quickly
towards the end of 2009 and the stock turned out to be a four bagger.
Inboth cases, I expected a normalization of
the fundamental performance and a bounce back in the stock price. In one
case it happened faster than expected resulting in a large gain and in the
other case the downturn has been deeper than expected and hence the stock price
continues to languish
Amara Raja Battery
Thecompany is a no.2 player in the battery industry and operates in a close
duopoly. The key insight in this idea is that the company is expanding its
competitive advantage (brand and distribution) and also benefiting from migration of demand from the un-organized to
Iwould tag this as a value investing idea as i dont expect a specific trigger
other than the fact that the company is improving its competitive position and
hence should see an improvement in profitability and growth.
The first twoexamples I have discussed should bring out the following key point In a value
trading idea, the intrinsic value may not expanding or could be declining too.
However the stock is undervalued and a set of triggers could close the gap with
the intrinsic value. You can call this mode of investing as deep value
investing or graham style investing too.
The lastexample of amara raja is more of a buffett style, high quality stock where although one is expecting the gap with the intrinsic
value to close, the bigger gains come from an increase in the value of the
The two modesof investing differ on several factors. The first factor is time Time works
against you in the case of value trading. If the trigger happens quickly, the price rises quickly to the fair value and
one can exit with a nice little profit. On the other hand if trigger gets
delayed, then the overall returns may remain the same, but the annualized
return is much lower.
In case ofvalue investing, time works in your favor. As the company continues to grow its
intrinsic value, the stock price should hopefully follow it (some times in
spurts) and thus the idea becomes a buy and hold kind of idea.
The secondfactor where these two approaches differ is the nature of the business. The
value trading approach works better in commodity and cyclical industries. If one can catch the
bottom of the cycle and bet on a tier 2 or tier 3 company in the sector, then
the gains are very high when the cycle swings back to a normalized level. At
the same time, one needs to also ensure that the stock is sold once the cycle
has turned .
Valueinvesting approach works where the economics of the business is good and the
company has a competitive advantage. In such cases, if one buys the stock at
reasonable valuations, then returns are good over a long period of time
Do not mixthe drinks !
I would saythat value investing or long term investing should occupy a larger portion of the
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The danger isreally from mixing the two approaches as I have done in the past. I have
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to it for a long time (assuming it was a long term investment). In such the
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You were thinking of a avian-inspired vehicle when you read that title? Our nursery is a multi-colored mix of polka dots, stripes, owls, birds, and whatever else our toddler decides to drag in there. This mobile, which I constructed with help from both mother and husband nearly two years ago, has yet to be hung above the crib. It currently hangs from the curtain rod. Cute, but not its intended purpose. I am determined to get it up before baby number two uses the crib.
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|by Tess Reiss and Carrie Trousil
Holton Street is an 18-block stretch of urban contrasts — from the industrial and commercial bustle of Capitol Drive on the north, to a tumble of shops, churches, bars, and gas stations, down to the bridge at Brady Street on the south end. It is chock-full of houses, both carefully cared for by diligent homeowners and careworn by negligent owners. It is a street of timeworn commercial edifices that once teemed with the interchange of neighborhood commerce. Holton Street is both a divide and a connecting point between the Riverwest and Harambee neighborhoods, between the 3rd Aldermanic District on the east side of the street and the 6th District on the west. Demographic statistics tell us people living east of Holton Street tend to have more money than people to the west, although this has changed towards the southern end. This street is where European, African, and Hispanic cultures collude and collide, where young meets old, where east meets west. Residents and neighbors have expressed growing concern for Holton Street in recent years, calling for more attention from the city and local investors to help restore Holton Street to its original vitality as a connecting point between neighbors and neighborhoods, between residents and business folk, between segregation and integration. They imagine a transformed Holton Street, vibrant and dignified, with participation from each person, each class, each culture. Just as neighborhoods fade with neglect, they can also revitalize with effort. A good place to start is with building facades — what the storefront looks like from the outside. A neighborhood in its prime isn’t usually distinguished by an array of tattered ads for Miller and Marlboros. The homey feeling disappears when window bars go up and walls start to crack. Simple actions such as removing tattered signs and reducing the amount of signage on the outside of the building can be a first step in the right direction.
Operation Storefront is a group of activists trying to enforce this first step. Their focus is documenting and reducing cigarette advertising in three targeted zip code areas: 53207, 53210, and 53212, where tobacco outlets and advertising are the most concentrated in the city. Thus Holton Street, in the 53212 zip code, is one of their target areas. Anabel Navarro, of Strive Media Institute, helped spearhead the campaign, and knows firsthand the trials of implementing such change. She explains, “There are not a lot of retailers willing to work with us mainly because there are no laws being broken.” For example Mr. Sindh, who works at S&M Food Market, says he doesn’t know about Operation Storefront, but probably wouldn’t cooperate with their guidelines anyway. He explains, “If it’s a law we have to do something, we will go with it. If not, then we won’t.” It doesn’t help, Navarro points out, that store owners get money for displaying beer and cigarette ads. Navarro adds, “It’s not an insane amount, but it’s enough. If they were to stop they would lose profits.” Operation Storefront’s parameters are not legal, but moral/aesthetic. It’s not hard, however, to find where these ubiquitous cigarette and beer ads start breaking enforceable code.
Milwaukee’s Sign Ordinance
The city passed a new storefront sign ordinance in October 2002 and revised in May 2003 that regulates and limits the number of signs that can be placed in windows or on the outside of the store. The Department of Neighborhood Services mailed a letter in English and Arabic to all convenience, gas station, and liquor store owners last fall advising them of the new sign requirements. According to the guidelines of the Department of City Development (DCD), temporary signs (typically paper or plastic signs advertising special sales and promotions — such as for Winstons or Colt 45) must be installed inside the window and not attached to the outside of the building. A few of Holton’s storefronts are clearly in violation of this provision, as they remain peppered with smoke and booze ads. Furthermore, temporary signs can only be displayed for 30 days and may cover no more than 25% of the store’s window area. These violations, although obvious, are being missed by city inspectors. To be honest, it would take a small army of enforcement to monitor the placement and longevity of every temporary sign in the city. This isn’t going to happen, according to Barney Sielen of DCD, as the number of code inspectors is actually shrinking. He says, “When I started, we had 18 inspectors, and they all had a pretty good handle on their district. Now we’re down to eight or nine, and let’s face it, it’s not so easy for them to keep as good a watch on offenders.” Most inspectors have their hands full making sure new permanent signs are up to code, because each one needs a permit. New permanent signs face stringent regulations. Our Holton Street “Bad and Ugly” examples are off the hook on this front, since unchanged legal permanent signs “pre-existing” to October 2002 are spared further inspection. This doesn’t mean, however, that there is no hope of damming the deluge of ads. Groups like Operation Storefront, insistent neighbors, and conscientious shop owners can all play a part in cleaning up cluttered and unsightly facades. Furthermore, violations can be reported to an inspector, who will investigate and issue orders to remove or correct any violations.
A Few Ways to Kickstart Holton Street’s Transformation
MAKE THE CALL
Call the construction inspectors in the Department of Neighborhood Services at 286-2513 to report excess signage on storefronts on Holton Street or elsewhere in the city. For more info on Operation Storefront, call 374-3511 x225 or email .
TAKE YOUR BUSINESS ELSEWHERE
Put your buying power to good use and don’t patronize stores that look rundown or are plastered with tobacco and alcohol signs. Tell the store owner why you won’t shop there so he/she gets the message that their rundown-looking business will eventually run them out of business. Ask them to remove excess signage and/or to fix up their storefront.
NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR
One of the Riverwest Neighborhood Association’s priorities is to assist with the revitalization of Holton Street. See RNA news for more info about their Holton Street goals for 2004. If you’re interested in being on the Holton Street Committee, contact .
FAcADE IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM
For store owners or commercial building owners interested in making facade improvements, the city has a facade grant program that will reimburse 50% of the cost of improvements, up to $5,000. For more info or application assistance, businesses in the Riverwest and Harambee neighborhoods can contact Don Sargent, the Business Support Specialist at Riverworks, at 906-9650 or email . To contact the city directly, call the Facade Grant hotline at 286-8201.
SIGN PERMIT FEES
All signs now require a permit. Permit fees are based on the cost of the sign. For a brand new sign, there is a plan review fee that is equal to one half percent of the cost of the sign with a $50 minimum, plus a permit fee of one percent of the cost of the sign with a $35 minimum. To replace the insert in an existing cabinet type sign, only the permit fee is charged. For more info on sign requirements, call the Milwaukee Development Center at 286-8210 or go to www.mkedcd.org/build.
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A US$9,000.00 donation to the endowment will support one girl in the orphanage forever. When she grows up and goes out on her own, your donation will support the next little baby girl who takes her place. Click here to go to the secure online site for deposits to the Endowment. Scroll down that page to check the line for Sittandy Yogaswami Girls' Home.
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Yogaswami Hindu Girls' Home was established in 1999 for the sole purpose of providing a brighter future for girls who had lost their parents due to the ethnic conflict and natural disasters. The administration of this home is handled by a Board of seven members, under the guidance of the Sivathondan Society. The land was donated by the London Orphanage Trust. [photo: Orphans in front of a picture of Sivayogaswami.]
Initially the hostel was home to 15 girls and was managed with assistance given by the public, in particular by Tamil businessmen of Batticaloa district. Now home to 37 girls, and 1 boy, Yogaswarmi Home still depends upon help from the public since it has not, to date, received any Government funds.
Due to the prevailing economic conditions, the home finds it very difficult to make ends meet. The average expenditure for one child is Rs. 100 (US$1) per day, so they need approximately Rs. 4,000 (US$40) per day. Hence for a month they require Rs 120,000 (US$1,200). US$9,125.00 the endowment yields approximately $365.00 a year, enough to just cover the cost for one orphan.
The 38 children are cared for by one matron, two cooks, one clerk and a night watchman. Since the home originally housed 15 girls, it is woefully inadequate for 38 children. That said, the hostel is situated on a reasonably large plot of ground, which could support extensions/outhouses.
The present building consists of one large room which doubles up as the girls' study hall and sleeping hall. Off this main room is a small reception hall in which the clerk works, and off this reception room is a storeroom (for food stuffs). To the side of the main room there is one small prayer room, and three equally small rooms which contain the girls few possessions, namely clothes and books. The kitchen is to the rear of the building. The cooking is done on an open hearth. The girls eat on the floor in the kitchen area.
There is one well where the girls bathe and wash their clothes. It is surrounded by a tin wall for privacy. In addition there is one bathroom which the older girls occasionally use. The smaller girls often bathe underneath taps in the garden when the well is too crowded, as it invariably is. There are 4 toilets. However, one has neither water supply nor light fixtures, and one has no light fixtures. Because the home was not designed to accommodate so many girls, the drainage is inadequate and cannot cope with the large amounts of water being used at the well. The dirty water streams into the children's play area where it collects in a stagnant pool.
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- Interval Training: The Best Way to See Quick Results
- Rock the Beach with the Girls of Summer
- 9 Low-Stress, Fun Summer Activities
- Test Your Trash Talk IQ!
Sweat cleanses from the inside.
It comes from places a shower will never reach.
Interval Training: The Best Way to See Quick ResultsBy Steve Edwards
There are a lot of misunderstandings about the best way to reshape your body. This is because there are a lot of trainers out there who espouse different fitness philosophies. In general, the various regimens touted all have some merit. In this article, we'll take a very simple look at various training strategies, bust a myth or two, and explain why interval training is the most efficient way to change your fitness level.
We're just about to launch a program called Insanity™, featuring Shaun T, which is a high-intensity conditioning program that's based on something we call MAX Interval Training. While it's the most intense workout program we've produced, it's not the first to use interval training to create fast results. In fact, every Beachbody® program uses some type of interval training.
What is interval training?
In short, you are interval training any time your workout includes a set wherein you perform at your maximum level, which is then followed by a lower-intensity set, which is then repeated to achieve a cumulative effect. An interval can be a set of curls, a dance move, or anything that tires you out over its given interval of time. The intervals can be short and hard, or long and easy, but they're all intervals, just so long as there is some cumulative effect (you get more tired as you go). All interval workouts aren't the same, though; the duration and intensity of the intervals are what define the workout.
Conversely, aerobic training is when you maintain a steady output at a low intensity level over the course of the workout. We do offer some workouts that do this, but they are generally either for recovery or for the second daily workout of a doubles program. This type of workout helps your aerobic efficiency but does very little for changing your body.
The myth of the fat-burning zone
It's impossible to approach this topic without debunking the term "fat-burning zone." You often hear uninformed trainers recommend that their clients reduce the intensity of their workouts so that their bodies will burn more fat. In reality, all these trainers are doing is lowering the overall effectiveness of their clients' programs.
Here's a quick explanation of the fat-burning zone. At an aerobic pace (see above), your body utilizes stored body fat as fuel to save its preferred fuel (stored blood glycogen) for more pressing matters. It sounds great because you're burning body fat. And while this is true, you're burning it at a very slow rate.
During higher-intensity work, your body turns to a limited supply of blood glycogen (often called blood sugar) for energy. While your body's burning glycogen during this more intense period, and not fat, it's breaking down more body tissue. Breakdown is a bad word for a good thing, because your body produces more hormones and increases its metabolism to repair this breakdown. As the tissue repairs itself, it builds more muscle so that next time you do a stressful workout it won't be so taxing. This process of adapting to intense exercise is where your body makes rapid change.
Continually building on this process is called progressive overload. By continually adapting to stress and then adding more (either with weight or speed or programs like Insanity), you increase your body's fitness so that it's actually burning body fat for fuel as you rest. Interval workouts should be a key component in every phase of your training.
Techie science made simple
Asked what separates serious and recreational athletes, author and fitness trainer Steve Ilg replied, "Intervals." But since "intervals" is an umbrella term for training that targets many different energy systems, it's quite a cryptic statement requiring further explanation. It's also pretty accurate. Recreational athletes like to train within their comfort zones. Interval training, regardless of the targeted intensity level, always forces you out of it. And you must be willing to leave your comfort zone if you want to see significant changes in your fitness level.
Interval levels can change dramatically. For example, HIIT (high-intensity interval training) workouts are very short, sometimes only lasting seconds, and completely anaerobic. Marathon runners will often run for 1- or 2-mile intervals, which can take many minutes and are obviously somewhat aerobic. The reason for the varying intensity of intervals is to train different energy systems in the body. These are defined by terms you may have heard of, AT (anaerobic threshold), VO2/max, etc. For our purposes, you don't need to know these terms. Here's the 101 version.
LSD. Not the hippie drug from the 60s, but rather long slow distance. This is not an interval; it's a term you're likely to hear especially if you know or are a runner or cyclist. Its purpose is for base-level aerobic conditioning. As I said above, it's not very applicable for making significant body changes, unless you do it for a very long time. Yet many trainers still recommend it. I think this is primarily because their clients won't complain about doing 30 minutes of easy exercise.
Sports-specific intervals. These can be anything, like the 2-mile example above. Interval training exists for all athletic endeavors. Since it's targeted for sports performance, we won't discuss it. You'll learn plenty about it when you join a local group to train for a triathlon or something else.
Weight training intervals. All weight training could be considered interval training, but traditionally, you rest so long between sets that you don't get a cumulative effect. All Beachbody weight training is done interval-style, which we call circuit training. During these workouts, you move from body part to body part without much rest between sets so that the workouts don't just target muscle building but also improve your cardiovascular fitness. Power 90® and Slim in 6® are good examples of this kind of training.
What defines these circuits is your targeted number of repetitions. A low target using more weight will create muscular hypertrophy, or growth. A higher number limits muscle growth (you get some muscle growth) and gives you more cardiovascular improvement.
Cardio intervals. These are what most of you probably define as interval training. First, we must define the difference between cardio and aerobic. Cardio means heart, while aerobic means oxygen. Aerobic training is most easily defined by the word "easy." It's really defined by training below your anaerobic threshold, but we're dispensing with science talk. Cardio, however, is all training that affects the heart. So it can include aerobic training but also all the high-intensity training associated with intervals.
High-intensity cardio intervals are performed in something we call heart rate training zones. Cardio intervals target these heart rate training zones for various periods of time. When you design your own interval workouts, you must do this yourself. When you have a trainer, he or she does it for you. This is why we at Beachbody always have test groups to make sure our workouts train you in your proper zone. That way, all you need to do is follow along.
MAX Intervals 'n' stuff
In general, the longer the interval, the easier the workout. Some interval sessions have long and moderate intervals with short aerobic breaks. Others have short, difficult intervals with long aerobic breaks. What makes Insanity's MAX Interval Training unique is that it combines long, hard intervals with short breaks.
The MAX Interval system is based on HIIT, though it's not HIIT. HIIT includes very short maximal intervals, followed by short breaks. It's very intense and also effective. Its downside is that it's so intense that your body can't do it for very long. You can generally only see good progress for 2 to 3 weeks at a time using HIIT workouts until you need to transition to a different type of training.
Conversely, a more traditional approach to interval training, like Turbo Jam®, that relies on various intensities of intervals (mainly moderate) can be done for very long periods of time before you need to change workouts. Your fitness improvements won't be as drastic, but they'll be steady.
With MAX Intervals, we lowered the intensity of HIIT just enough to keep the high-intensity format but to also increase the time during which you can make rapid improvements before needing a break. The result is a high-intensity interval training system that keeps yielding results for a long time before you need a transition.
How to incorporate intervals into your workout program
Like every other aspect of fitness, your starting point should be based on your current physical condition. If you aren't very fit, you'll want to start with a very basic interval program, which will still feel hard. Workouts like Slim in 6 Start It Up! or Power 90 Sweat Cardio 1-2 are perfect introductory interval sessions. If you're in doubt, start slow. It's easier to increase your workout's intensity than to go backward.
You never want to begin with HIIT or MAX Intervals, unless you've got a solid fitness base. This style of workout is so intense that you won't even be able to finish each workout, negating the whole interval aspect. And even if you do finish, training this hard out of the gate increases the risk of injury.
Intervals are the most effective way to see quick results from a workout program. If you're not doing them, add them right away. If you're already doing intervals, perhaps it's time to step up to the next level.
Got something to say? Chat with the writers and other readers this coming Monday, June 15th, at 8:00 PM ET, 5:00 PM PT, in the Beachbody Chatroom!
Check out our Fitness Advisor's responses to your comments in Steve Edwards' Mailbag on the Message Boards. If you'd like to receive Steve Edwards' Mailbag by email, click here to subscribe to Steve's Health and Fitness Newsletter. And if you'd like to know more about Steve's views on fitness, nutrition, and outdoor sports, read his blog, The Straight Dope.
Consult your doctor or health care provider if you have diabetes or before commencing any exercise program.
9 Low-Stress, Fun Summer ActivitiesBy Denis Faye
Every January, thousands of ambitious souls take a major step on the road to fitness and order an in-home fitness program like ChaLEAN Extreme® or P90X®. And every June, thousands of newly ripped, super-fit, would-be athletes buy themselves fancy new surfboards or top-of-the-line pro volleyballs and commit to taking up that summer sport they've always dreamed about.
Then something happens. Maybe a wave smacks them in the face and they eat fiberglass, or they dislocate their coccyx before that first volleyball set is even over. Or maybe they remember that they live in Montana, making wave riding or beach volleyball highly improbable. Either way, as the leaves turn brown and fall from the trees, the board and ball go back into hiding. Dreams of being a summer sports sensation fade away, unrealized.
But it doesn't need to be this way. Just because you're super-fit doesn't mean you need to surf monster 50-foot swells. Sure, there's nothing nobler than shooting for your dreams, but in between killer spikes, why not fill your time with less ambitious, but (almost) equally fun outdoor activities? And if you like them, you can dial them up a little.
Here are a few examples.
Frisbee®. It may take a few tries to master the wrist action, but once you do, Frisbee is the ultimate take-anywhere group game.
Dial it up: Back-and-forth tossing will improve hand-eye coordination, and if you have a crew that wants to get serious, try a little Ultimate Frisbee, which is sort of like rugby but with a plastic disk and less bruising.
Wham-O® Classic-Style Frisbee Disc: $3.50
Squirt guns. No, it's not politically correct, but have you seen squirt guns nowadays? They blast like 30 feet. So rad! A squirt-gun battle is a great way to cool off on a hot summer day, get your heart rate up, and party with your kids.
Dial it up: Throw what semblance of civility you still have out the window and take a crack at paint guns. You might want to leave the kids at home for this one.
Super Soaker® Vaporizer Water Blaster Twin Pack: $19.99
Hacky Sack®. Another perfect take-anywhere activity that improves hand-eye coordination. You can practice alone or with friends. If you collect three sacks, you can embark on our next activity . . .
Dial it up: Juggling isn't much easier to learn than surfing or volleyball. But you can practice anywhere and anytime. And everyone loves the guy who juggles at a party. Provided, of course, that you don't break anything.
Hacky Sack: $3.00
Hula-hoop™. Great core workout. You'll look goofy but in a stylin' '50s retro way. And if it just doesn't work for you, you can always train your dog to jump through it.
Dial it up: Get a Hula-hoop going on each arm, your waist, and your neck, then we'll talk.
Go Go Hoop (Collapsible): $12.95
Jump rope. We're not just talking double Dutch here. Jumping rope is a killer workout that will increase almost every aspect of your fitness. Plus, you can take it anywhere.
Dial it up: Rope jumping is already dialed up, but try mixing it with push-ups for a full-body challenge.
Valeo® Speed Jump Rope: $6.75
Horseshoes. Not so great when it comes to hard cardio, but you do get a little muscle control practice, and absolutely everyone, regardless of age, can play together. It's also one of those wonderful sports that requires you to hold a cool beverage in the non-pitching hand. I think it provides ballast.
Dial it up: There's no dialing up horseshoes!
Halex® Classic Horseshoe Set: $24.99
Bocce ball. Think of it as a treacherous version of horseshoes. You're supposed to throw your ball to get as close to the smaller ball—the jack—as possible, but once you get good at it, you can smack the other players' balls out of the way.
Dial it up: See horseshoes.
Spalding® Power Play Bocce Ball Set: $39.95
Croquet. The third in our "Anyone Can Play" trilogy. If you have a lawn, you have an arena. It's not exactly high impact, but it's better than sitting in that lawn chair all day.
Dial it up: See horseshoes and bocce ball. Jeez! Try to relax and enjoy yourself for once.
Franklin® Classic Croquet Set: $69.99
Badminton. Here's a competitive sport you can set up anywhere. It's light, polite, fun cardio that sharpens your hand-eye coordination—as long as you don't become a jerk about it and start slamming the birdie across the net. If you have an urge to do this, just remember your aching coccyx and how unforgiving those volleyball players were to you last summer.
Dial it up: Tennis, anyone?
Franklin® Classic Badminton Set: $39.99
Got something to say? Chat with the writers and other readers this coming Monday, June 15th, at 8:00 PM ET, 5:00 PM PT, in the Beachbody Chatroom!
Test Your Trash Talk IQ!By DeLane McDuffie
Oscar the Grouch was a prophet. Way back in 1969, he knew the world would eventually catch up with him and love trash too, but until then, he just stayed in his trash can on Sesame Street. Today, with the garbage flotilla floating in the Pacific and even floating junk in space, we see that he wasn't too far off. Last week, we learned that June is National Candy Month, which also makes it unofficially Candy Wrapper Month, thus kicking off littering season. See if you can rank the top 5 nations, according to Forbes Magazine, that are leading the charge to dirty up the planet.
United States - b) 236 million tons of waste annually.
Russian Federation - d) 207.4 million tons of waste annually.
Japan - a) 52.36 million tons of waste annually.
Germany - e) 48.84 million tons of waste annually.
United Kingdom - c) 34.85 million tons of waste annually.
Rounding out the top 10 are Mexico (32.17 million tons), France (32.17 million tons), Italy (29.74 million tons), Spain (26.34 million tons), and Turkey (25.99 million tons).
At less than 5 percent of the world's population, the U.S. produces 25 percent of the world's garbage. That averages out to just over 1,600 pounds of rubbish a year—that's per U.S. citizen!
We could start singing a sarcastic rendition of Lee Greenwood's "God Bless the USA" to celebrate this "honor," but it would only contribute to noise pollution and wouldn't fix the problem. Go green. Kermit the Frog sang, "It's not easy being green." Actually, it's easier than we think.
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Lamborghini's Brilliant active aerodynamics - Huracán performante
The Lamborghini Huracán Smashed The Nürburgring Record.
From Lamborghini's Press Release On ALA:
"The Huracán Performante adopts Aerodinamica Lamborghini Attiva (ALA): ALA is also the Italian word for wing. This patented active aerodynamic system developed by Lamborghini for the Huracán Performante provides an active variation of aero load for high down force or low drag.
The system is completely integrated into the vehicle in terms of design, weight and performance. The front spoiler integrates the electric motor of the front ALA system, built in a carbon forged frame with active flaps on the top exterior surface. The rear bonnet is designed around the air ducts to the rear wing as well as the wing pylons.
Lamborghini’s Piattaforma Inerziale (LPI) governs all the car’s electronic systems in ‘real time’ and is perfectly integrated with the ALA system, activating the ALA system flaps in less than 500 milliseconds to ensure the best aerodynamic set-up of the car in every driving condition.
When ALA is off, the active flaps inside the front spoiler are closed, generating the desired high downforce for high speed cornering and full brake conditions. When ALA switches to on the front flaps are opened by the front electric motor, reducing air pressure on the front spoiler and directing air flow via an inner channel and through the specially shaped underside of the car. This drastically reduces drag and optimizes conditions for maximum acceleration and top speed.
In the rear of the Performante four ducts are installed below the rear bonnet. The two central ducts are always open to allow underhood ventilation and exhaust cooling, while the two external ducts are connected to the inner channels of the rear wing. The air flow through the rear wing channels is controlled by two electro-actuated flaps. The entire system is 80% lighter than a traditional hydraulic system.
When ALA is off the rear flaps are closed, permitting the rear wing to act as a traditional fixed wing. Stability is enhanced in high speed cornering and full braking by creating maximum vertical downforce; 750% more than a Huracán coupé.
The LPI turns on the ALA in high throttle conditions, opening the rear flaps to allow air through the rear wing’s inner channels and directing air flow through ridges underneath the wing. This reduces drag and maximizes the car’s acceleration and top speed capabilities.
In addition, the rear wing’s inner air channel is split right and left, allowing aero vectoring for high speed cornering. Depending on the direction of the turn, the LPI instructs ALA to be switched on in either the right or left side of the spoiler, increasing downforce and traction on the inner wheel, counteracting the load transfer in rolling conditions. This in turn optimizes the chassis’ momentum, requiring a reduced steering angle and improving the car’s overall dynamic stability."
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Well, if you needed another reason to mourn Target’s departure from Canada, here’s one – Marimekko for Target collection is slated to hit the stores on April 17th, and it looks like it’ll be a good one! A really, really good one! From bikinis, to dinnerware, to teepees, this is going to be one printastic and colourful collab, and I literally want everything! The collection will feature “more than 200 playful, print-centric pieces that span outdoor décor, furniture and entertaining essentials, as well as beach and swimwear for women and girls. Standout items include the paddle board, inflatables, hammocks and swimsuits. The collection also features a number of firsts for Marimekko, including the bocce ball sets and parachutes. And best of all? Most pieces can be yours for under $50.” I mean…how amazing does it all sound?!
But don’t worry, if you live in Canada and don’t have a Target store nearby, you may still be able to snap up a piece or two over at Target Loves Canada – the international version of the e-comm site. I am not 100% sure whether the collab will be available to shop on the Canadian site, but it’s worth a try.
What do you think about the Marimekko for Target collection? Are you sad that we no longer have Target in Canada? Share in the comments.
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Release: Dec. 19, 2000
UI Community Home Care to expand
IOWA CITY, Iowa -- University of Iowa Community Home Care will acquire the
assets of Home Life Companies, two Iowa City-based firms, officials announced
Home Life, established by B. W. (Wayne) Carpenter in 1989, specializes in
private duty services. UI Community Home Care will continue to use the name,
Home Life, for those services. The personnel of the companies will become
UI Community Home Care employees.
"Home Life's mission is to provide high quality, efficient and cost-effective
health-related services to clients in their homes to promote wellness,"
said Carpenter. "I am confident that University of Iowa Community Home
Care will continue that commitment to serve our clients' needs."
Home Life's staff of more than 100 specialists includes registered nurses,
licensed practical nurses, certified nursing assistants, home health aides
"Under the guidance of Mr. Carpenter, Home Life has a tradition of
providing high quality private duty services to the community," said
Danette Frauenholtz of UI Community Home Care. "All of us are grateful
to him for his vision and leadership."
Victoria Thiede, executive director of Home Life, added, "Our staff
provides compassionate health care to our clients which reinforces and supplements
the care provided by family members. We look forward to carrying on the legacy
of caring that has helped in excess of 1,000 patients maintain their dignity,
safety, mobility and independence through care in the home."
University of Iowa Health Care describes the partnership between
the UI College of Medicine and the UI Hospitals and Clinics and the patient
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With the onset of the short session, prepare to hear a bunch about the budget.
The Charlotte Observer weighs in with an editorial supporting the Senate plan to freeze teacher raises and allow local furloughs. If you missed the Budget & Tax Center’s in-depth report on Gov. Perdue’s budget, here’s the chance for the a little light reading. Chris Fitzsimon has a preview, too.
I wanted to wait a few days before blogging this paragraph from a Washington Post article, just to be sure I wasn’t reading it rashly.
The idealized vision of suburbia as a homogenous landscape of prosperity built around the nuclear family took another hit over the past decade, as suburbs became home to more poor people, immigrants, minorities, senior citizens and households with no children, according to a Brookings Institution report to be released Sunday.
Doesn’t the Post have editors any more? One might charitably describe this passage — which is the story’s second paragraph — as a confusing conflation of three separate qualities. Homogeneity does not equal prosperity, after all, and both can exist independent of the nuclear family dynamic.
That’s if you want to be charitable. If you’re feeling a little less sanguine, you might say it betrays a troubling viewpoint about people that don’t look like Ozzie and Harriet invading the pristine suburbs.
Need a pick-me-up? The Monterey Bay Aquarium has a live sea otter webcam that streams most of the day.
Finally, I don’t want to make a habit of putting birthday wishes on the blog, but my pal Woody turns four today. You were probably in your mom’s belly for 40 weeks or so — Woody came out in an emergency delivery after 23 weeks, two days.
If you want to see one of the most amazing photos ever, here’s Woody at three days out of the womb. Note the wedding rings over his tiny arm.
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As if it wasn’t easy enough already, a WordPress plugin is now available that will make it even simpler to use the CarQuery API in your WordPress site. Just follow the simple steps below to enable the official CarQuery API plugin.
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AEM ELECTRICS LTD In Liquidation
Distribution of electricity (35130)
Private limited with Share Capital
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AEM ELECTRICS LTD is a Private limited with Share Capital company based in 211 MOIRA ROAD, LISBURN LISBURN, United Kingdom, which employs 1 people. The company started trading on the British market since 2014-09-15. Company registration number NI626671, It’s main line of business activity is Distribution of electricity and the company is listed as In Liquidation. According to their latest annual reports submitted on 2018-09-30, the company had a Total Assets of £14,367.00, while the Working Capital of -£83.00 and Total Liabilities of £8,227.00.
According to AEM ELECTRICS LTD latest financial report submitted on 2018-09-30,the company has Net Worth of £6,140.00.
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A Credit Report AEM ELECTRICS LTD is available for instant download. When we generate this report, we took into account that the company is 7 year old, Total Assets £14,367.00, Working Capital -£83.00 and the Total Liabilities of £8,227.00. Next, we took into account if there are any outstanding mortgages or Court Judgements and checked if the industry which the company is trading, Distribution of electricity, is considered a high level of corporate failures.
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There are currently people with significant control at AEM ELECTRICS LTD. STEVEN CANNING owns 1 ORDINARY shares, with a value of 1.000000 GBP each.
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AEM ELECTRICS LTD currently employees 1 people. The management level consists of 100.00% of director level.
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Made from FSC-certified natural fibres in Germany.
A strong shelter covered with a layer of hay. This provides both delicious nibbling and resting pleasure!
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Many thanks to all of you who nominated us for the 2005 Bloggies. Well the results were out this morning and The London Underground Tube Diary is in the finals for not one, but two (count em) two categories - Best British or Irish Weblog and Best Topical Weblog (funnily enough the same categories the blog made it into for 2004). I'm really pleased and I'm sure Neil n Geoff will echo this, we have some really stiff competition in both categories (especially the British or Irish category as I'm much more familiar with the blogs there - D'OH Greenfairy, and D'OH Londonist).
So more international and new visitors will be coming this way - hope you enjoy what you see and us Londoners aren't really too bad, once you get to know us.
Anyway, it's up you the voting public now to cast your votes - you have until January 31st - use your vote and tell your mates and their mates. If we win we'll share the KitKat that's on offer as one of the prizes. Thank you once again.
UPDATE - Just received the following email from the organiser:
My apologies, but I'm sending out another mass e-mail since a lot of finalists have been asking about the status of the Bloggies site. This is my first year hosting the Weblog Awards on a different server, which is why I got caught with too little bandwidth. I arranged today with my host to get some extra for the next month, so the site's back online, plus the voting has been extended to February 3 to make up for the downtime. So now voting can really commence. :) | <urn:uuid:ce1e4eb8-62a0-4647-ba01-e634a4258291> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://london-underground.blogspot.com/2005/01/vote-for-us-vote-for-us.html | 2017-01-20T03:48:10Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280774.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00271-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97054 | 341 |
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Hand poured, delicate mixtures of botanicals and therapeutic grade essential oils. Roll gently onto wrists, temples, behind the ears, inhale and relax.
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On 90 Day Fiancé: The Other Way, Corey Rathgeber’s hot air balloon proposal to Evelin Villegas crashed and burned. Well, figuratively, at least. Fans were nearly as desperate as Corey that Evelin would say “yes.”
On the last episode of 90 Day Fiancé: The Other Way, viewers were left a bit on edge. Villegas and Rathgeber first made their TV debut on 90 Day Fiancé: The Other Way when American citizen, Rathgeber, decided to leave his life in the United States behind to be with his true love in a third world country. The two have had to deal with the recent death of his father, as well as a cheating scandal, but somehow it looked like they survived the drama and were ready to move forward.
Rathgeber pulled out all the fireworks – literally – for his proposal to Villegas. The Oregon native first tried to speak with his soon-to-be-fiancé’s father who did not understand English. Rathgeber tried his best to memorize the correct Spanish, but in the end had to turn to his phone to translate between the two. His father-in-law was very happy, but warned Rathgeber that he would need to convince his daughter as she was the one who did not want to get married. In broken Spanish, Rathgeber laughed away his nerves and continued to help with the family chores.
Later in the episode, Rathgeber told Villegas that he was going to blindfold her and take her on an adventure. To Villegas’ credit, she humored her American boyfriend and happily got into their car not knowing their destination. He drove the two to an open field where a hot air balloon was waiting to take off with the two in tow. Sadly, the hot air balloon did not go high enough for Villegas to read her homemade sign that asked if she would marry Rathgeber. Villegas was actually terrified of the balloon and originally would not get into it, saying things in Ecuador are “sketchy.” After they had successfully made it back to the ground, Rathgeber walked his girlfriend over to the field where the sign was and got down on one knee. Villegas reluctantly agreed to the engagement, but quickly stated that “just because I said yes to the engagement doesn’t mean I said yes to a wedding right away.”
Viewers were less than impressed with Villegas’ reaction and still wonder if the couple has stayed together. Villegas recognized that she was very lucky to find Rathgeber and could be mean to him at times, but that did not mean she doesn’t care for him. On a sneak peek of the reunion special, fans watched as Villegas’ ex-boyfriend announced that he wanted to be in a relationship with her. Fans will have to tune in for the outcome of that debacle.
90 Day Fiancé: The Other Way airs Monday at 8pm EST on TLC.
Source: 90 Day Fiancé: The Other Way
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Adaptation. Mitochondria drive cellular adaptation to stress by retro-communicating with the nucleus. This process is known as the mitochondrial retrograde response and is induced by mitochondrial dysfunction. During conditions of compromised mitochondrial function, there are shifts in the ratio of adenine nucleotides and the best characterised cellular adaptation of an increased AMP/ATP ratio. In addition to changes in ATP and nutrient intermediates, alterations in oxidative phosphorylation can induce a stress response via changes in membrane potential. Next, the changes in metabolism and oxygen consumption potential lead to the increased production of reactive oxygen species.
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On July 19, 2017 DS Office Stuttgart,
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Sundays and Thursdays are tianguis open air market days in the ikat rebozo weaving town of Tenancingo de Degollado, Estado de Mexico. The Sunday market is the biggest and covers over four square blocks in the town center.
Most of the rebozos in the market are sold by the puntadoras, the women who tie the fringes on the hand-woven ikat textile. The cloth, or lienza, is woven by men. The puntadoras usually buy the cloth with the dangling warp thread directly from the weavers. They then spend a month, or two or three to hand-knot the loose warp fringe.
The tighter and longer the fringe, the longer it takes. If it is an intricate design with a long, tight fringe, then the rebozo is even more valuable. Sometimes a puntadora will knot the fringe and then dip it in black dye (or another color) for a uniform color that they think will complement the textile.
A famous master weaver will usually select his own puntadora who will tie the fringes for him. He will then sell the finished rebozo for between 1,600 and 15,000 pesos each. Click to convert to dollars.
The rebozo market can offer more economical ways to buy. Usually the rebozos there that are knotted with a decent punta can start at 600 pesos and go up to 2,000 pesos. Once in a while, if you take your time and look, you can find a really great rebozo in this price range. That’s why visiting the masters first helps in the education and selection process.
There is a discussion about the unsung role of the women puntadoras who contribute to at least 30-50% of the beauty of the rebozo, in my opinion.
These women are unidentified, unnamed and it is the weaver who is recognized rather than sharing honors with the woman who makes the beautiful fringe. An issue about acknowledging women and something worth exploring more, don’t you think?
I had the pleasure of traveling with Los Amigos del Arte Popular de Mexico this month on a rebozo tour of Tenancingo led by collector John Waddell. It was a wonderful experience.
That’s why I’m organizing a textile and folk art study tour set for February 3-11, 2016 — to bring you back and share this with you. In February we will focus on the rebozos of Tenancingo, traditional Taxco silver at the William Spratling jewelry workshop, and the Tree of Life pottery of Metepec. I’ll post details of this trip on Friday on this blog. Stay tuned. Or, send me an email and I’ll send you the program description. | <urn:uuid:a18e0690-a906-46a7-8b1c-0aac8d65aba8> | CC-MAIN-2019-43 | http://oaxacaculture.com/2015/09/sunday-rebozo-market-in-tenancingo-de-degollado-estado-de-mexico/ | 2019-10-13T22:46:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-43/segments/1570986648343.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20191013221144-20191014004144-00291.warc.gz | en | 0.91927 | 592 |
This is more autumn than Halloween, but it would make a great dinner before a movie night.
Fondue dippers can include cooked chicken and apple sausages, chorizo, cubed ham, or mini smokies; sliced baguette or black bread, roasted shallots, roasted mushrooms or small fingerlings or baby potatoes, pears, apples, or pretzels. Cornichon are a must.
Remember not to drink anything too cold, and no guzzling water: that cheese will turn into a cannonball inside your tummy!
This is very rich and best shared with a small crowd.
CHEDDAR AND HARD CIDER FONDUE
From Food Network Kitchens
1 (12-ounce) bottle hard cider
3/4 cup chicken broth, homemade or low-sodium canned
2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
1 clove garlic, finely chopped
1/2 pound Gruyere, grated
1/2 pound sharp Vermont or New York yellow cheddar
3 tablespoons corn starch
1/8 to 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1 tablespoon Bourbon, whiskey or apple jack, optional
Heat cider, broth, Worcestershire, and garlic in a medium pot over medium heat and simmer for 5 minutes.
Toss the cheeses together in a medium bowl. Sift the corn starch over the cheese, and toss to coat lightly.
Using a wooden spoon, sprinkle some cheese mixture into the warm liquid and continue to stir in small amounts of cheese until it is all incorporated and the fondue is smooth and melted, about 15 minutes. Stir in cayenne, salt and Bourbon, if using.
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The spirit of Christmas has consumed Mr. Lahey! The 6/10 drunk trailer park supervisor bought gifts for everyone in Sunnyvale! On Randy’s Kitchen, Bobandy serves up some Christmas Burgers, and a special guest from the park joins the show for a sippy-poo.
Lahey and Randy are still looking for ideas that will take Sunnyvale to the next level. On the latest Shart Tank, will Nova Scotian actor/mime/jaw-model Rhys Bevan-John’s win the burger of acceptance?
It’s a time for renewal in Sunnyvale and Mr. Lahey and Randy are now looking for the next great idea to take the park to another level. The first guest on THE SHART TANK is author, sailor, smuggler, and singer Tom Gallant! What does he envision for the future of Sunnyvale?
Randy is excited for Halloween (he even made brain burgers for Randy’s Kitchen), but Mr. Lahey is a wreck, due to the painful memories of Halloween 1977. Instead, Mr. Lahey would rather have a sippy-poo and share footage of a recent trip he and Randers took to Peggy’s Cove, Nova Scotia!
Lahey and Randers are back from their summer road trip through the USA! Randy cooks up a feast fit for a fiesta, and week’s special guest – Dom Carlos, liquor professor – discusses the spiritual effects of spirits!
Plus: Lahey has a special surprise planned for Randy!
This week, Randy hosts because Mr. Lahey tried to drink himself sober before the show. Bill Wood joins the show to perform some magic tricks and Randy cooks cheeseburger pancakes while Lahey recovers from a liquor s**tstorm...
The Liquor Wicker Basket is calling the shots this week! Randy and Lahey bicker over a lack of guests, this week's toast, and Randy's liquorball sandwiches. Will a sing-along make it all better? NOPE!
This week, Lahey breaks some records – and a record player – and Randy cooks up some mini English muffin cheeseburger pizzas. Actor and writer Bill Carr also returns for another interview attempt. But this time, HE'S the Liquor!
This week's guest star is Halifax Q104's Bobby Mac! He gives Lahey and Randy a lesson in radio voice-overs and samples Randy's special French toast... but is that all he's been sampling?
Coming soon to the Blandford Recreation Centre? Lahey attempts to teach Randy about theatre, and performs a scene from Romeo and Juliet! Also on the show: Randy's jalapeño burgers, a toast to TPB fans, and a submarine launch!
Jim Lahey is suing last week's guest - will he make $1 million? Also: Randy makes a mega-meat cheeseburger, we find out what a shit-o-scope is, and Lahey interviews a small guest with a big imagination!
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Own the Most Beautiful Art Glass
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With my years of experience, I have developed vast knowledge, becoming well educated in the industry of decorative arts. Even after 25 years of handling thousands of pieces, when I see an extraordinary object, my passion and excitement are as fresh as the day I began. Also, I have many contacts worldwide that allow George Sorensen Antiques (GSA) access to fantastic, off-the-market pieces of art glass, many of which have remained in private collections and have not been shown. | <urn:uuid:9c65e67f-fc45-4f58-945d-8319740998f8> | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | https://sorensengallery.com/ | 2023-12-06T13:39:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100599.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20231206130723-20231206160723-00115.warc.gz | en | 0.958953 | 425 |
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Date of Stay: August, 2014 - $30.00
Nicest park in or around NW Atlanta area that we have found. Friendly management, very decent spots. Well maintained. We camped at Allatoona Landing Campground in a Fifth Wheel.Undo
Date of Stay: April, 2014 - $32.00
This campground would be much better if not for the trains which come by every 20 minutes or so during weekdays (slightly less on weekends) and train horns are very loud and close! Lots of shady sites which would be great in summer. Lakeside sites would be nice also but no cable or WiFi back there. This park has obviously seen better days years ago and has gone down greatly since. Overall I felt a rating of 6 is generous. If we had a better choice of parks in this area I would have stayed elsewhere but we wanted conveniences of WiFi and cable TV for March Madness games. We camped at Allatoona Landing Campground in a Travel Trailer.Undo
Date of Stay: October, 2013 - $38.00
This a beautiful park but only a few sites have sewer, we booked a sewer site but ended up on non-sewer site. Went to office and asked for sewer. Was given two sites. Both were too out of level so we moved back to original site. The worst thing about this park is the trains. Every two hours a train comes within feet of the property and blows horn to make sure every one is awake. The staff was nice but we were not offered assistance to the site. Most of the sites are empty. There were level sites with sewer but we were not offered one. This park is OK for a day or two but not good for us for longer periods. Other than the trains, this is a nice park We camped at Allatoona Landing Campground in a Motorhome.Undo
Date of Stay: September, 2013 - $25.00
We selected this park for a two-night shake down of our new to us RV. The site we reserved was lakeside and we were clearly informed at time of reservation that there was no cable, sewer, and the WiFi would probably not reach. We were pleased with the site. It backed right up to the lake and was pretty. We went swimming right from our campsite. The office staff was friendly and helpful. We declined help with finding our site as it was very simple. The site was not level but considering the banks of the lake, not unexpected. We did have to use our full complement of leveling devices to get our back end up enough to reach an acceptable level. Overall, one can tell that the park was once a much more vibrant place and has since seen significant decline. Many of sites have broken paving and few are level. The restroom and bathhouse were clean and in good working order. The train tracks are nearby and very active. Expect significant train noise. It is clearly no longer as nice as the website portrays but it is perfectly acceptable. If I were to return, I would select the same slot and be content. We camped at Allatoona Landing Campground in a Motorhome.Undo
Date of Stay: October, 2012 - $25.00
Pretty campground. Caters to boaters and fisherman using Lake Allatoona. Appear to be lots of permanent units for folks using the resort. We got in late, well after dark, so the security officer handled our booking. I've never had such a fast tour of an RV park in my life. I couldn't tell a thing about the sites we'd supposedly seen. Paved sites, but they're not all level. We drove to the site we were assigned, but it was nowhere near level. We just took another one that was close to level and set up, knowing we were leaving the next morning. Campground store was well-stocked. Park is several miles off the interstate, but it's a nice place to stay. Advise getting there during daylight so you can pick out a more level spot than we did. Back-in space, but it wasn't a problem. We camped at Allatoona Landing Campground in a Motorhome.Undo
Date of Stay: November, 2012 - $25.00
This was the first we had stayed here since March of 2012, and a lot of changes have been made. The main thing is the permanents are no longer here, in fact you may not stay longer than 1 month. This makes the campground much better without looking at all the trashy units. Many of the sites are not level, and only about 21 are full hook up, although they do have gray water hookups available throughout the park. It is possible to find a level site or a site to accommodate a big rig. The train tracks are nearby, but for the Atlanta area it is satisfactory for a visit. The Wi-Fi worked well. Much, much better than in the past. We camped at Allatoona Landing Campground in a Motorhome.Undo
Date of Stay: July, 2012 - $34.00
Need to level sites. Goose droppings everywhere. Smells. We camped at Allatoona Landing Campground in a Motorhome.Undo
Date of Stay: April, 2011 - $30.00
Previous reviews are very correct. There is an extremely narrow road getting to campground. Check in very difficult, took a long time and the staff could not tell us how to get to our site. When asked how to pull onto the pull thru site she told us hook-ups were on the "right" side, meaning "correct" side but she did not know how to get there. Wifi is non existent. The campground is full of old units, seasonal. We wish someone could explain why such good ratings in the directories. Other overnight campers had same opinion as us, and would never return. We locked the door and went to bed early but that did not work due to the constant trains going through the campground. We camped at Allatoona Landing Campground in a Fifth Wheel.Undo
Date of Stay: April, 2010 - $38.00
We were absolutely appalled at what we found here, especially for the price and the false advertising. The beach, pool, buildings and other amenities have not been kept up for years. I found it very funny that the camp store in the office, has beach and pool toys/clothes galore. The staff is not helpful and do not understand what it is you have to complain about. The Wi-Fi simply doesn't work. The sites are varied, few are level in any way, only a very few FHU (many with gray water drainage only), some blacktop, some cement, few with patio area. This is a campground, not an RV park. And it appears to be a campground for trailer trash and many fulltime residents. The bathhouse was unclean and not maintained with shower heads missing. The trains are incessant, sometimes 15 minutes apart. This is an $18/night campground, not $38. We will not be back although we have family in the area. We will find something else. We camped at Allatoona Landing Campground in a Fifth Wheel.Undo
Date of Stay: April, 2010 - $37.00
This was a disappointment for a highly rated campground. Signage/office was all nice, and sites were quiet,paved and pretty enough with trees and picnic tables and fire rings, etc. (though not that level, but can forgive due to slightly hilly lakeside area), but we noticed a weird sewage type smell right away and off and on the whole weekend. The next thing we noticed is that the pretty full campground was really a trailer park for quite permanent residents as evidenced by canopies set up with stuff piled under them next to RV's, and chairs/potted plants and stuff stored under RV's that looked like they had been there awhile. It dampens the whole "vacation atmosphere" (and they kept the nice little laundry room full). We never found the "great bank fishing" area advertised, and the "beautiful, sandy white beach" was very dirty and unkempt with pine straw/cones, weeds and dilapidated dock areas and a very old broken down playground was next to the beach. The pool was covered, but the area around it was covered in tree debris. A plus-a very nice new wooden playground with porch swings for the parents was next to the office. The bathrooms looked clean/roomy with nice tile and plenty of showers with changing areas (didn't actually use), but the showers were missing their shower heads. We already knew about the train noise, so it was no surprise, but can be a real issue at night. We knew this campground was more for boaters (very nice looking marina areas), and this was a little early in the season, but some of the amenities need a great deal of work and upkeep. Also, if a campground is really mostly a trailer park with permanent residents, should it be advertised with high scores in campground directories? We are used to state parks and I am concerned that all private campgrounds that I have reserved for a big trip this summer in our new RV are going to be like this. We camped at Allatoona Landing Campground in a Travel Trailer.Undo
Date of Stay: March, 2010 - $39.00
This is a OLDER campground and long term tenants. Most of the sites have signs "not potable water" majority of the sites were not level. We noted 13 sites that were Big Rig suitable for overnight camping; of those 5 did not have sewer. The train noise was very disturbing at all hours (6pm,7pm, 9pm,12pm, 4am, 6am). For the price and condition with all the distractions they should consider this a $20 nightly rate. Walmart is a better consideration. We camped at Allatoona Landing Campground in a Motorhome.Undo
Date of Stay: October, 2009 - $30.00
We did not like this campground because of the noise of the trains. We also did not appreciate the unleveled camping spots. We also did not experience good internet connections. In addition, we did not appreciate the fact that many campers were allowed to discharge their grey water on the ground, which then ran downhill to lower camp sites. We camped at Allatoona Landing Campground in a Fifth Wheel.Undo
Date of Stay: November, 2009 - $25.00
I agree with others that this campground has a huge train problem. They roll through nearly every two hours. The staff are not eagerly willing to help when you require solutions to problems. We had very poor wireless services, which timed out regular with no corrections. Sites are very unlevel, paved but very poor to park your rig level on. The bottom sites are many times wet, as those above at higher sites, empty their grey water through water hoses from their rigs because they have NO sewer hookups at many sites. When we were here, we experienced many sites occupied by insurance people who were working from this park, attending to insurance claims in the immediate area from past storms. All run diesel trucks that are very noisy every morning. These people also over load the wireless network so it is very difficult to use for any length of time. Our experience was very poor and no one seemed to care about our concerns. We camped at Allatoona Landing Campground in a Fifth Wheel.Undo
Date of Stay: October, 2009 - $30.00
This is a beautiful park, and the people are friendly and nice. There's just one reason I didn't give them a "10"-- Trains. Lots of 'em, all night long - blowing their horns and making the ground shake because they're about 50 yards away. For a light sleeper like myself, it was a long night. Had I had access to this website when we were making our plans for the night, I would have driven a little further, I think? We camped at Allatoona Landing Campground in a Motorhome.Undo
Date of Stay: October, 2009 - $30.00
We arrived a day early and after hours however, the nighttime attendant was very helpful and was able to call and get us a site for the evening. We had to move the next day but that was to be expected. The campground is on very hilly ground and their were very few level sites. The office staff was very helpful and friendly and were able to give you a lot of information about the surrounding area for dining and entertainment. Unfortunately, as previously stated by other reviewers, there are a lot of very loud trains which go by at all hours of the day and night. The road to the campground is fairly narrow and hilly with some sharp turns but has a good surface. The campground needs a little attention to be rated any higher. Their interior roads are getting bad and there is very little room to park a "toad" vehicle. We camped at Allatoona Landing Campground in a Motorhome.Undo
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Brooke Vincent, who plays Sophie Webster in Coronation Street, was interviewed on ITV's Loose Women today about her move from the street to the skating rink. Brooke will be starring in Dancing on Ice which begins this coming Sunday on ITV.
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2/15: City unanimously calls for $550 million bond election
City Council today unanimously passed an ordinance calling for a $550 million bond election to be held on Saturday, May 12, 2007. The program focuses on basic infrastructure improvements and enhancements including streets, sidewalks, drainage, parks, athletic facilities and libraries.
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Although Maleev's covers for the series so far have spelled disaster for many of Daredevil’s allies, his depiction of Punisher is particularly masterful and subtle in its execution. If not for the blood across the steering wheel and the shattering of the driver's-side window, it would be easy to think Frank Castle was simply resting, tired of his constant war on crime. However, the details of Maleev's piece tell a different story of the Punisher's quest cut short. -- Steve Sunu
Like his sequential work, Mike Mignola’s "Hellboy" covers are nothing if not distinctive, with great swaths of shadow, with our hero frequently standing isolated (and occasionally the lone splash of color) against a field of negative space. However, for "Hellboy in Hell" #3, we’re presented with a near-monochromatic cover that’s, of course, still unmistakably Mignola but striking in how it reflects or, more accurately, trumpets Dave Stewart’s gloomy palette for Hell within. -- Kevin Melrose
Jae Lee's "Phantom Stranger" covers have been the strongest aspect of the series thus far, and the fifth issue, teasing the revenge of The Spectre, is no different. Lee continues to provide a pitch-perfect take on the Stranger and his guest stars, constructing a truly creepy image of The Spectre climbing out of the Phantom Stranger's head. The artist further lets the image do the talking with a solid background, similar to covers past. -- Steve Sunu
Mitch Breitweiser perfectly captures the tragedy of the destruction of Ape City in a single somber image: Doctor Zaius standing in a pool of water, in which floats what I presume are the Lawgiver’s Sacred Scrolls, the foundation of the apes’ system of laws and customs. -- Kevin Melrose
Wildly prolific artist Riley Rossmo -- seriously, when does this guy sleep? -- launches his new anthology miniseries inspired by the Mexican Day of the Dead with a cover that embraces the holiday’s schizophrenic blend of jubilation and solemnity. But he also plays up the supernatural aspects of both the celebration and the comic’s contents, with the skeletal figures in the top image -- a common fixture of Day of the Day festivities -- and the seemingly Aztec-inspired dragon below. -- Kevin Melrose | <urn:uuid:199be525-96fb-4a72-b605-e452c5de2c56> | CC-MAIN-2014-41 | http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=43689 | 2014-10-01T07:12:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-41/segments/1412037663365.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20140930004103-00347-ip-10-234-18-248.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939185 | 605 |
Application for the GIC Full-Term Programs for International Students in Singapore – 2019/2020. Entry is now open at the GIC Private Limited in Singapore.
This scholarship program is available for all nationalities of students. Its scholarship provides you the freedom to choose from a diverse range of courses including, but not limited to, Accountancy, Economics, Engineering, Sciences, Mathematics, and Liberal Arts. Both opportunities are including: Tuition and other related fees and allowances, Sponsorship of a range of learning opportunities including, but not limited to Exchange Programme / Study Abroad Programme / Summer School / Finance-related seminars / Third language study (subject to approval), Sponsorship of a Master’s degree (subject to approval), and Return airfare (for overseas studies); also applicable to Mid-Term Scholars who choose to take an additional 1-Year Master’s degree
At GIC, students will have the opportunity to shape Singapore’s tomorrows. Holders can access the many resources they have dedicated to learning both formal and informal to ensure your continued growth and preparation for work that’s purposeful.
The Scholarships are one of the most prestigious scholarships in the world. The aim of the program is to create a global network of future leaders committed to improving the lives of others.
GIC PROGRAMS ELIGIBILITY
Scholars are selected on the following criteria:
- International students are particularly welcome.
- The sponsorship will be awarded in any Undergraduate degree subjects offered by the Institute.
- Applications are open to all nationalities – conversion to a Singapore citizenship is not required
- Look for candidates with strong critical thinking, creativity and leadership qualities
- Seek individuals who are passionate and excited about a career at GIC
- All international applicants for whom English is not the native tongue must provide proof of competence in the English language.
GIC PROGRAMS APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS
- To be eligible for this opportunity, applicants must be applying for the Full-Term Scholarship here.Only applications that have been submitted (with the International Office and registered on the website of the scholarship) before March 15, 2020 will be considered.
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• Concomitant medications, unless they are likely to interact with the drug being given, have an antitumor effect, or meet a specific objective of the trial (e.g., are integral to a health economics/costing study).
The analysis also indicated that a subsample of about 400 patients provided adequate probability of detecting adverse events with at least a 3 percent excess toxicity. The authors suggested that the FDA should put forth a detailed guidance document with clear directives on data collection requirements for concomitant medications and adverse events for trials of supplementary drug indications.
The FDA responded by issuing a new draft guidance in February 2012 stating that targeted safety data collection akin to what was done in the ASCO study may be appropriate when the safety profile of the drug is already well characterized from prior studies, with adverse event type and frequency being similar across multiple studies, and when the expected adverse event rates in study population are likely to be similar to what was found in previous studies. In addition, the FDA specified that targeted safety data collection may be appropriate for postmarketing studies for new indications, studies required to meet postmarketing requirements, and large outcome studies.
“We’re making great progress here. We have strong data that supports the notion that for supplemental applications there can be substantial reduction in the amounts of safety data collected without missing any important safety signals. I think that’s been acknowledged in the recent FDA draft guidance on this topic,” said Schilsky.
Sherman, of the FDA, pointed out during her presentation that the purpose of the draft FDA guidance is to help clinical trial sponsors determine the amount and types of safety data that should be collected during late-stage premarket and post-approval clinical investigations. She said this draft guidance makes clear that sponsors can use a variety of approaches to fulfill their monitoring responsibilities, and that sponsors may request different reporting formats or frequencies for adverse event reporting either by describing the method in the protocol or by requesting a waiver. Either way, Sherman stressed, alternative reporting must be agreed to by the FDA in advance of the trial launch. “Before your plan is put into place, come talk to us and make sure that everyone is happy,” she said.
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The California Supreme Court has said cities and counties can decide whether to allow medical marijuana dispensaries within their borders. But it’s also suggested the legislature could – and perhaps even should – create regulations for an industry that’s legal under California law but not under federal law.
Democratic Assemblyman Tom Ammiano’s bill would do just that. “The answer to the problems that many communities are having with medical marijauna is this bill, because without this regulation, the bad actors will proliferate and the violence will proliferate,” says Ammiano (D-San Francisco).
But Republicans, some Democrats, law enforcement groups and the League of California Cities opposed the measure, with concerns about crime and local control. The measure failed twice on the Assembly floor this week. Ammiano says he’ll work to find another way to get the legislation passed. | <urn:uuid:d9472e78-13a3-495e-b574-94e431c9be28> | CC-MAIN-2015-06 | http://www.capradio.org/4044 | 2015-01-26T18:30:39Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-06/segments/1422115862015.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20150124161102-00002-ip-10-180-212-252.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957847 | 182 |
VPN Connection on Public WIFI Networks
VPN Connection on Public WIFI Networks – Many businesses require remote access to their networks and / or servers.
However, accessing your network remotely on a public wifi service or unsecured internet channel carries a lot of risks.
According to a study conducted by by Global Web Index.
Only one in 4 candidates are utilizing a VPN (Virtual Private Network) service to ensure a secure and encoded connection to prevent unauthorized access.
Furthermore, this means that many business owners are running a tremendous risk with their data.
Many of them are unaware of the threat of being hacked and having their data stolen or corrupted.
What IS a VPN?
VPN technology extends a private network across a public network.
While encrypting the connection to prevent unauthorized access to your desired site.
In spite of the VPN gives you the flexibility to access your data from anywhere in the world.
A VPN can be established on Linux, Mac, Windows, and even a smartphone if required.
Setting Up a VPN
On the one hand The first thing you need to do is enable a VPN router to permit legitimate traffic only.
Then, you must check that the server can manage an incoming VPN connection in order to access the required data.
Finally, you set up the connection by setting up the VPN connection and entering the IP address or domain of the server to which you wish to connect.
Hacking, malware, and internet security becoming more common.
Nevertheless, a number of people looking for an efficient and effective way to secure their data.
Perhaps more importantly – peace of mind) is also on the rise.
If you require support setting up a VPN for your home or small business.
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QR17535 - Store Supervisor | Qatar Duty Free | Doha
Qatar Duty Free
Logistics & Warehouse
Full Time - Permanent
Middle East | Qatar | Doha
Last date of application:
Qatar Duty Free
Qatar Duty Free (QDF) is an award winning subsidiary of Qatar Airways, the national airline of the state of Qatar and currently operates at the Departure, Arrivals, VIP and Premium Terminal of Hamad International Airport. As one of the fastest growing Duty Free operations in the world, Qatar Duty Free operates from the new Hamad International Airport (HIA). HIA is also home to the newly created QDF Food & Beverage Division which will set new benchmarks in airport hospitality.
About the job:
As a Store Supervisor you will be managing and overseeing all the functions of the warehouse and ensuring smooth operations of all activities. You will be handling and managing warehouse staff and adhering to necessary safety and legal procedures of work place. You will also ensure that all procedures and policies mentioned in the warehouse manual are followed by all staff. This position also requires the individual to work in a dynamic environment and exercise prompt decision-making and problem solving abilities. Time keeping, reports, scheduling, training, coaching and disciplinary actions also are major part of the role.
Your Accountabilities but not limited to :
- To allocate duties and workload to storekeepers and ensure that they are satisfactorily completed, undertaking spot-checks on the accuracy of all transactions concluded by the storekeepers.
- Regularly inspecting and ensuring the maintenance of all warehouse equipment and machinery & vehicles.
- Plan, manage and control staff to achieve budgeted productivity and minimize over-time spend.
- Timely reporting to management any security issues, staff issues, and incidents of property damages.
- Check all stocks received into and going out of the stores to ensure accurate records are kept in securing the company's assets.
- Implement guidelines in relation to DIA Health and Safety and immediately report any incidents or breaches of DIA Health & Safety rules to provide a safe working environment.
- Carry out regular stock-checks as well as those of the authorized stock counts, on a regular basis to provide accurate records and to identify any stock issues quickly, while also minimizing any potential losses.
- Verifies stocks against shipping authorizations for agreement as to quantities descriptions, sizes and conditions and conformance to purchase order.
To be Considered for this position you will need to have a Trade or Vocational qualification. You must have minimum of 4 years job-related experience. You have a solid Knowledge of materials handling and inventory control best practices. Good knowledge of Health & Safety legislation, general import, export and customs procedures, thorough knowledge of warehousing methods and storage distribution and perpetual inventory control as well as occupational hazards and proper safety precautions involved in warehousing operations.
Note: you will be required to attach the following:
1. Resume / CV
2. Copy of Highest Educational Certificate
3. Copy of Passport
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The Department of Family Medicine and Community Health was created by the Board of Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania in 1994 and its first chair was hired in 1996.
Richard C. Wender, MD, a longtime Family and Community Medicine professor and physician in Philadelphia, has been named chair of Family Medicine and Community Health in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
Chair, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health
The Department of Family Medicine and Community Health of the University of Pennsylvania has a proud and rich mix of academics and service.
View our faculty in Family Medicine.
The Department of Family Medicine and Community Health is committed to providing quality health care for individuals and families throughout the Philadelphia area.
Our commitment to education brings together physicians and scientists to teach students to become compassionate healers and novel visionaries.
The research at the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health drives groundbreaking clinical advances, laying the foundation for better care in the community and the world.
Penn Medicine provides free medical care in underserved local communities where health care is limited or not available.
Department of Family Medicine and Community Health
Penn Presbyterian Medical Center
Andrew Mutch Building, Floor 7
51 N. 39th Street
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Judges 19, Isaiah 41, 1 John 3 & 4
1. And it came to pass in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the side of mount Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Bethlehemjudah.
2. And his concubine played the whore against him, and went away from him unto her father's house to Bethlehemjudah, and was there four whole months.
3. And her husband arose, and went after her, to speak friendly unto her, and to bring her again, having his servant with him, and a couple of asses: and she brought him into her father's house: and when the father of the damsel saw him, he rejoiced to meet him.
4. And his father in law, the damsel's father, retained him; and he abode with him three days: so they did eat and drink, and lodged there.
5. And it came to pass on the fourth day, when they arose early in the morning, that he rose up to depart: and the damsel's father said unto his son in law, Comfort thine heart with a morsel of bread, and afterward go your way.
6. And they sat down, and did eat and drink both of them together: for the damsel's father had said unto the man, Be content, I pray thee, and tarry all night, and let thine heart be merry.
7. And when the man rose up to depart, his father in law urged him: therefore he lodged there again.
8. And he arose early in the morning on the fifth day to depart: and the damsel's father said, Comfort thine heart, I pray thee. And they tarried until afternoon, and they did eat both of them.
9. And when the man rose up to depart, he, and his concubine, and his servant, his father in law, the damsel's father, said unto him, Behold, now the day draweth toward evening, I pray you tarry all night: behold, the day groweth to an end, lodge here, that thine heart may be merry; and to morrow get you early on your way, that thou mayest go home.
10. But the man would not tarry that night, but he rose up and departed, and came over against Jebus, which is Jerusalem; and there were with him two asses saddled, his concubine also was with him.
11. And when they were by Jebus, the day was far spent; and the servant said unto his master, Come, I pray thee, and let us turn in into this city of the Jebusites, and lodge in it.
12. And his master said unto him, We will not turn aside hither into the city of a stranger, that is not of the children of Israel; we will pass over to Gibeah.
13. And he said unto his servant, Come, and let us draw near to one of these places to lodge all night, in Gibeah, or in Ramah.
14. And they passed on and went their way; and the sun went down upon them when they were by Gibeah, which belongeth to Benjamin.
15. And they turned aside thither, to go in and to lodge in Gibeah: and when he went in, he sat him down in a street of the city: for there was no man that took them into his house to lodging.
16. And, behold, there came an old man from his work out of the field at even, which was also of mount Ephraim; and he sojourned in Gibeah: but the men of the place were Benjamites.
17. And when he had lifted up his eyes, he saw a wayfaring man in the street of the city: and the old man said, Whither goest thou? and whence comest thou?
18. And he said unto him, We are passing from Bethlehemjudah toward the side of mount Ephraim; from thence am I: and I went to Bethlehemjudah, but I am now going to the house of the LORD; and there is no man that receiveth me to house.
19. Yet there is both straw and provender for our asses; and there is bread and wine also for me, and for thy handmaid, and for the young man which is with thy servants: there is no want of any thing.
20. And the old man said, Peace be with thee; howsoever let all thy wants lie upon me; only lodge not in the street.
21. So he brought him into his house, and gave provender unto the asses: and they washed their feet, and did eat and drink.
22. Now as they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain sons of Belial, beset the house round about, and beat at the door, and spake to the master of the house, the old man, saying, Bring forth the man that came into thine house, that we may know him.
23. And the man, the master of the house, went out unto them, and said unto them, Nay, my brethren, nay, I pray you, do not so wickedly; seeing that this man is come into mine house, do not this folly.
24. Behold, here is my daughter a maiden, and his concubine; them I will bring out now, and humble ye them, and do with them what seemeth good unto you: but unto this man do not so vile a thing.
25. But the men would not hearken to him: so the man took his concubine, and brought her forth unto them; and they knew her, and abused her all the night until the morning: and when the day began to spring, they let her go.
26. Then came the woman in the dawning of the day, and fell down at the door of the man's house where her lord was, till it was light.
27. And her lord rose up in the morning, and opened the doors of the house, and went out to go his way: and, behold, the woman his concubine was fallen down at the door of the house, and her hands were upon the threshold.
28. And he said unto her, Up, and let us be going. But none answered. Then the man took her up upon an ass, and the man rose up, and gat him unto his place.
29. And when he was come into his house, he took a knife, and laid hold on his concubine, and divided her, together with her bones, into twelve pieces, and sent her into all the coasts of Israel.
30. And it was so, that all that saw it said, There was no such deed done nor seen from the day that the children of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt unto this day: consider of it, take advice, and speak your minds.
1. Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew their strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near together to judgment.
2. Who raised up the righteous man from the east, called him to his foot, gave the nations before him, and made him rule over kings? he gave them as the dust to his sword, and as driven stubble to his bow.
3. He pursued them, and passed safely; even by the way that he had not gone with his feet.
4. Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I the LORD, the first, and with the last; I am he.
5. The isles saw it, and feared; the ends of the earth were afraid, drew near, and came.
6. They helped every one his neighbour; and every one said to his brother, Be of good courage.
7. So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he that smootheth with the hammer him that smote the anvil, saying, It is ready for the sodering: and he fastened it with nails, that it should not be moved.
8. But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend.
9. Thou whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called thee from the chief men thereof, and said unto thee, Thou art my servant; I have chosen thee, and not cast thee away.
10. Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.
11. Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they that strive with thee shall perish.
12. Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, even them that contended with thee: they that war against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of nought.
13. For I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee.
14. Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.
15. Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff.
16. Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the LORD, and shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel.
17. When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.
18. I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
19. I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together:
20. That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of the LORD hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it.
21. Produce your cause, saith the LORD; bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob.
22. Let them bring them forth, and shew us what shall happen: let them shew the former things, what they be, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare us things for to come.
23. Shew the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold it together.
24. Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination is he that chooseth you.
25. I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come: from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name: and he shall come upon princes as upon morter, and as the potter treadeth clay.
26. Who hath declared from the beginning, that we may know? and beforetime, that we may say, He is righteous? yea, there is none that sheweth, yea, there is none that declareth, yea, there is none that heareth your words.
27. The first shall say to Zion, Behold, behold them: and I will give to Jerusalem one that bringeth good tidings.
28. For I beheld, and there was no man; even among them, and there was no counsellor, that, when I asked of them, could answer a word.
29. Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.
1 John 3
1. Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
2. Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
3. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.
4. Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.
5. And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin.
6. Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him.
7. Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
8. He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
9. Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.
10. In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.
11. For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
12. Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.
13. Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.
14. We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.
15. Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.
16. Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
17. But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?
18. My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
19. And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him.
20. For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.
21. Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God.
22. And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.
23. And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment.
24. And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.
1 John 4
1. Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
2. Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:
3. And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.
4. Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
5. They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.
6. We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
7. Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
8. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
9. In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
10. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
11. Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
12. No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.
13. Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.
14. And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.
15. Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.
16. And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
17. Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.
18. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.
19. We love him, because he first loved us.
20. If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?
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Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 547653, 8 pages
Effect of KIOM-79 on Diabetes-Induced Myocardial Fibrosis in Zucker Diabetic Fatty Rats
Korean Medicine Based Herbal Drug Development Group, Herbal Medicine Research Division, Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine, 1672 Yuseongdae-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 305-811, Republic of Korea
Received 15 February 2013; Revised 25 September 2013; Accepted 29 September 2013
Academic Editor: Keji Chen
Copyright © 2013 Junghyun Kim et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
KIOM-79, a herbal mixture of parched Puerariae radix, gingered Magnoliae cortex, Glycyrrhizae radix, and Euphorbiae radix, has a strong inhibitory effect on advanced glycation end products (AGEs) formation. We investigated the beneficial effects of KIOM-79 on cardiac fibrosis in Zucker diabetic fatty (ZDF) rats. KIOM-79 (50 or 500 mg/kg/day) was orally administered for 13 weeks. AGEs formation and collagen expression in the myocardium were assessed by immunohistochemistry. The expression levels of the receptor for AGEs (RAGE), transforming growth factor-β1 (TGF-β1), collagen IV, fibronectin, urotensin II, and urotensin II receptor were examined in the myocardial tissue of ZDF rats. KIOM-79 treatment at 500 mg/kg inhibited the accumulation of AGEs, reduced RAGE mRNA and protein expression, and reduced the upregulation of cardiac fibrogenic factors, such as fibronectin and collagen IV, in heart of ZDF rats. Additionally, KIOM-79 ameliorated urotensin II/receptor gene expression in the cardiac tissue of ZDF rats. Our findings indicate that KIOM-79 diminishes cardiac fibrosis in ZDF rats by preventing AGEs accumulation and RAGE overexpression and by modulating the cardiac urotensin II/receptor pathway, which decreases the amount of profibrotic factors, such as TGF-β1, fibronectin, and collagen in cardiac tissue.
Diabetic cardiomyopathy is characterized by myocardial fibrosis, which leads to decreased elasticity and impaired contractile function of the heart. The link between hyperglycemia and the development of diabetic cardiomyopathy involves the accumulation of advanced glycation end products (AGEs) in cardiac tissue. Within the cells, AGEs and their precursors modify molecules and produce irreversible cross-linkages between extracellular matrix proteins [1, 2], which compromises tissue compliance and produces myocardial stiffness [3, 4]. AGEs-mediated modification of matrix proteins disrupts matrix-matrix and matrix-cell interactions, which contributes to their profibrotic properties. AGEs play an important role in cell signaling through their interaction with specific receptors, namely, the receptor for advanced glycation end products (RAGE), which activates adhesion molecules, proinflammatory cytokines, and growth factors, and contributes to the pathogenesis of diabetic complications .
Transforming growth factor-β1 (TGF-β1) is regarded as the main profibrotic factor and upregulation of TGF-β1 protein expression was observed in the myocardium of rodents with diabetic cardiomyopathy . Profibrotic factors have been pathogenetically linked to the excessive accumulation of collagenous matrix in a wide range of organ and disease states, including the diabetic heart .
Recently, the potent vasoconstrictor peptide urotensin II has emerged as a contributor to the pathology of cardiovascular disease. It has been suggested that urotensin II also plays a role in cardiac fibrosis, and it has been identified within the heart , where there is an abundant expression of urotensin II receptor . Recent studies reported that the upregulated expression of urotensin II and its receptor were accompanied with profibrotic factor TGF-β1 expression and extracellular matrix accumulation in the kidney and myocardium of diabetic animal models [10–12].
KIOM-79 is a new herbal prescription and composed of four medicinal herbs: parched Puerariae Radix, gingered Magnolia Cortex, Glycyrrhiza Radix, and Euphorbia Radix, and each herb has been used in traditional Korean medicine and other countries for a variety of medical purposes, including diabetes [13, 14]. Pueraria radix has potential medicinal benefits in diabetes and cardiovascular disease . Honokiol, a major bioactive compound of Magnolia officinalis, has anti-inflammatory and antifibrotic effects . Glycyrrhizin, a major bioactive compound of Glycyrrhizae radix, inhibited hepatic fibrogenesis . Euphorbiae radix has antihyperglycemic and anti-AGEs effects . Our previous studies reported that KIOM-79 has a pharmacological effects on diabetic condition [20–23]. In addition, KIOM-79 prevented S100b-induced TGF-β1, fibronectin, and NF-κB expression in mesangial cells cultured under diabetic conditions and the progression of diabetic nephropathy in type 2 diabetic rats [24, 25].
Thus, the aim of the current study is to examine the pharmacological effects of KIOM-79 on diabetic cardiac fibrosis in Zucker diabetic fatty (ZDF) rats, which is a genetic animal model of type 2 diabetes.
2. Materals and Methods
2.1. KIOM-79 Preparation
The cortex of Magnolia officinalis Rehd. et Wils. (Magnoliaceae), radix of Pueraria lobata Ohwi (Leguminosae), radix of Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fisch (Leguminosae), and radix of Euphorbia pekinensis Ruprecht (Euphorbiaceae) were collected from the Gamsuk province in China in 2003 after identification by botanist Professor J. H. Kim (Department of Life Science, Kyungwon University, Korea). All voucher specimens were stored at the herbarium of the Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine (Nos. 1240, 2, 7, and 207, resp.). Magnoliae cortex (100 g) was simmered with 3 g of Zingiberis rhizoma for 60 min. Puerariae radix (100 g) was stir-roasted at 75°C for 45 min; when its surface became yellow with brown spots, it was removed and cooled. Equal amounts of gingered Magnoliae cortex, parched Puerariae radix, Glycyrrhizae radix, and Euphoriae Radix were mixed, pulverized, extracted in 80% EtOH for 1 week at room temperature, concentrated with a rotary evaporator, and lyophilized. The entire procedure was repeated for four times. The quality of KIOM-79 was controlled by HPLC .
2.2. Animal Treatment
Male Zucker diabetic fatty (fa/fa, ZDF) and Zucker lean (fa/+ or +/+, ZL) rats were obtained at 6 weeks of age from Charles River Laboratory (Wilmington, MA, USA). Rats were allowed free access to water and food. KIOM-79 was dissolved in water and orally administered to the rats for 13 weeks. Animals were divided into four groups: Zucker lean rats (ZL, ); Zucker diabetic fatty rats (ZDF, ); Zucker diabetic fatty rats treated with KIOM-79-50 (50 mg/kg body weight, ZDF + KIOM-79, ); Zucker diabetic fatty rats treated with KIOM-79-500 (500 mg/kg body weight, ZDF + KIOM-79, ). The dosage of freeze-dried powder was calculated based on the human equivalent dosage of raw herbs. At the end of experimental period, the body weight and heart weight of the rats were measured. The ZDF rats were anesthetized with diethyl ether, and blood and tissue samples were taken for glucose measurement and histological examination. All experimental protocols involving the use of animals were conducted in accordance with National Institutes of Health (NIH) guidelines and approved by the Committee on Animal Care of our institute.
2.3. Western Blot Analysis
Cardiac tissue (0.1-0.2 g) from the rats was lysed with a homogenizer at 3000 rpm in a solution containing 250 mM sucrose, 1 mM ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA), 0.1 mM phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride (PMSF), and 20 mM potassium phosphate buffer at pH 7.6. Equal amounts of protein (50 μg) were analyzed with immunoblotting techniques with the indicated antibodies. The antibodies used were as follows: TGF-β1, RAGE, collagen IV (1 : 1000, Santa Cruz Biotechnology, CA, USA), and β-actin (1 : 3000, Sigma, USA). A horseradish peroxidase-conjugated secondary antibody was used and detected with an enhanced chemiluminescence detection system (iNtRON Biotechnology, Korea). Protein expression levels were assessed by analyzing the signal from the PVDF membranes using an image analyzer (Las-3000, Fuji photo, Tokyo, Japan).
2.4. RNA Isolation and RT-PCR
Total RNA was isolated using TRIzol reagent (MCRC, Cincinnati, OH, USA) according to the manufacturer’s instructions. cDNA was synthesized with 3 μg of RNA using RT-premix (Bioneer, Korea). RNA was reverse transcribed using a Takara PCR Thermal Cycler (Japan). Primer sequences are summarized in Table 1. RT-PCR products were separated by electrophoresis with 1.2% agarose gels containing ethidium bromide (EtBr), and DNA band intensities were quantified using densitometry (Las-3000, Fuji photo, Tokyo, Japan).
To determine collagen deposition in the cardiac tissue, paraffin-embedded sections were deparaffinized, sectioned, and stained using Masson’s trichrome. For AGEs immunohistochemistry, the deparaffinized sections were hydrated and treated with 1% H2O2 in methanol. Sections were incubated with anti-AGEs antibody (1 : 100, Transgenic Inc. Kobe, Japan) for 2 h at room temperature using a standard manual immunoperoxidase procedure with streptavidin-peroxidase (LSAB 2 kit, Dako, CA, USA). The stained sections were observed using a light microscopy (Olympus BX51, Japan) equipped with an Olympus DP 71 camera. The intensity of the staining tissue sections was analyzed using Image J software (NIH).
2.6. Statistical Analysis
Data are expressed as the mean ± S.E.M and analyzed by one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) followed by Tukey’s multiple comparison test or by an unpaired Student’s -test using GraphPad Prism 4.0 software (Graph pad, San Diego, CA, USA). Differences with a value of were considered to be statistically significant.
3.1. Glucose Level, Body Weight, and Organ Weight of Experimental Rats
Table 2 shows the effect of KIOM-79 treatment on the general biochemical parameters of blood glucose levels, body weight, and heart weight. Untreated ZDF rats exhibited markedly increased blood glucose levels compared to control ZL rats () and did not exhibit differences in glucose levels compared to ZDF rats treated with KIOM-79. Body weight gain in untreated ZDF rats was significantly higher than that of control ZL rats. KIOM-79 treatment did not change the body weight of ZDF rats when compared to untreated ZDF rats. There were no significant changes in heart weight in the rats in all groups.
3.2. Effect on AGEs Accumulation and RAGE Expression in Heart Tissue
Immunohistochemistry was used to determine whether KIOM-79 inhibits AGEs accumulation in the heart. Untreated ZDF rats had significantly higher levels of AGEs accumulation in the heart when compared to control ZL rats (). However, KIOM-79 treatment suppressed AGEs accumulation markedly in ZDF rats compared to untreated ZDF rats () (Figures 1(a) and 1(b)). The protein expression of AGEs in cardiac tissue is shown in Figures 1(c) and 1(d). The multiple and intensive bands for advanced glycation adducts were detected in diabetic cardiac tissues from ZDF rats. The elevated level of AGEs was significantly decreased by the administration of 500 mg/kg body weight per day of KIOM-79 (). In addition, RAGE expression in untreated ZDF rats was significantly increased when compared to its expression in control ZL rats. However, KIOM-79 treatment at the higher concentration significantly reversed the enhanced RAGE expression in ZDF rats () (Figure 2).
3.3. Effect on Accumulation of Collagen in Heart
The degree of cardiac fibrosis was assessed using Masson’s trichrome staining, and representative images are shown in Figure 3(a). Positive stained fibrotic area (blue color) was evaluated under a microscope. Collagen was detected in the interstitium of the heart of untreated ZDF rats at a greater level than in control ZL rats, and the collagen expression was lower in the heart of ZDF rats treated with KIOM-79 at the higher concentration.
3.4. Effect on Expression of Fibrogenic Factor in Heart
Expression of a cardiac fibrosis factor, TGF-β1, was assessed by western blot and RT-PCR. The expression of TGF-β1 was found to be significantly higher in ZDF rats compared to control ZL rats (). High concentration KIOM-79 treatment in ZDF rats significantly inhibited the increase in TGF-β1 protein and gene expressions in ZDF rats (Figures 4(a) and 4(b)). In addition, fibronectin and collagen are major components of the extracellular matrix that play an important role in abnormal cardiac muscle function. Therefore, we examined their gene and protein expression in heart. Fibronectin gene and collagen IV protein expression were significantly increased in the heart of ZDF rats compared to control ZL rats (). Treatment with KIOM-79 at the higher concentration reduced the expressions of fibronectin gene and collagen IV protein when compared to control ZL rats () (Figures 4(c) and 4(d)).
3.5. Effect on Expression of Urotensin II Gene in Heart
To investigate the molecular mechanism underlying the anti-fibrogenic effect of KIOM-79 in ZDF rats, we examined the cardiac expression of urotensin II and its receptor. Cardiac gene expression of urotensin II in ZDF rats was markedly increased compared to control ZL rats (). The treatment of KIOM-79 dose-dependently reduced the expression of urotensin II. In addition, the elevated urotensin II receptor level in untreated ZDF rats was also reduced with treatment of KIOM-79 in a dose-dependent manner (Figure 5).
The present study demonstrates that KIOM-79 treatment decreased AGEs accumulation and RAGE expression in the heart without hypoglycemia. Although the levels of fibrogenic factors were unchanged with low concentrations of KIOM-79, mRNA and protein levels of fibronectin, collagen IV, and TGF-β1 were significantly reduced in cardiac tissues of ZDF rats treated with high concentrations of KIOM-79. Furthermore, KIOM-79 treatment reduced urotensin II and urotensin II receptor mRNA expression. These results suggest that KIOM-79 treatment may modulate AGEs accumulation and the urotensin pathway in cardiac tissues, which may play a role in reducing cardiac fibrosis in ZDF rats.
KIOM-79 was developed based on the known ability of each herb to treat diabetes in traditional Korean medicine, and each herb also has anti-inflammatory, anti-AGEs, and antifibrotic effects [15–19]. In a 90-day repeated oral dose toxicity study in rats, the no observed adverse effect level (NOAEL) of KIOM-79 was at least 2000 mg/kg/day in both males and females (data not shown). Although the administration of KIOM-79 at 50 mg/kg body weight dose not significantly alter the level of AGEs formation and RAGE expression, our study showed that KIOM-79 dose-dependently inhibits AGEs accumulation and RAGE expression in cardiac tissues of ZDF rats. This finding agrees with the observation of our previous reports that showed that KIOM-79 has a strong inhibitory effect on AGEs formation and demonstrated beneficial effects of KIOM-79 on AGEs formation in the kidney and retina [22, 23] of diabetic rats. Consistent with these studies, the present study shows that KIOM-79 inhibits AGEs accumulation in the heart of ZDF rats.
Prior studies have shown strong evidence for the positive role of AGEs in the process of the fibrogenesis [27–29]. In addition, some of the pathogenic effects of AGEs appear to be mediated by its interaction with AGE receptors . TGF-β1 is a primary agent in fibrosis and the induction of TGF-β1 expression by AGEs results in collagen and fibronectin accumulation in the tissue, which is linked to the progression of diabetic complications including those observed in the heart [3, 6, 31]. In this study, treatment with KIOM-79 in ZDF rats suppressed the overexpression of cardiac TGF-β1, fibronectin, and collagen IV. Additionally, accumulation of collagen in the interstitium of the heart was ameliorated by KIOM-79 treatment. Our recently published study demonstrated that KIOM-79 inhibits expression of AGEs-induced TGF-β1 and fibronectin in a cultured mesangial cell line . The results presented in this study confirm that KIOM-79 prevents the hyperglycemia-induced accumulation of AGEs and the expression of fibrogenic factors, such as TGF-β1, fibronectin, and collagen IV, in the cardiac tissue of ZDF rats.
Recently, a number of studies have suggested that the urotensin/urotensin receptor system may play an important role in the pathogenesis of diabetic cardiomyopathy. Expression of urotensin II and its receptor is localized to cardiomyocytes, endothelial cells, smooth muscle cells, and cardiac fibroblast of the diabetic hearts [12, 32]. Experimental and clinical studies have revealed an increased expression of urotensin II in animals with experimentally induced myocardial infarction and diabetes and in patients with diabetes [33, 34], as well as a promotion of cell proliferation and stimulated extra cellular matrix in diabetic animal models [8, 10, 35]. Consistent with these studies, the present study shows, for the first time, that urotensin II and its receptor gene expression are increased in the cardiac tissue of ZDF rats. Interestingly, KIOM-79 treatment dose-dependently inhibits the upregulation of urotensin II and its receptor gene expression in ZDF rats. These data suggest that KIOM-79 may regulate the cardiac urotensin pathway and may be partially involved in the regulation of profibrotic factor proteins.
Taken together, our finding demonstrate that KIOM-79 diminishes cardiac fibrosis in ZDF rats by preventing accumulation of AGEs and RAGE overexpression and by modulating the cardiac urotensin II/receptor pathway, which produces a decrease in profibrotic factors such as TGF-β1, fibronectin, and collagen in cardiac tissue. These data suggest that KIOM-79 may be a promising anti-fibrogenic agent in the diabetic heart and may delay diabetes-related cardiac complication caused by fibrosis.
This research was supported by a Grant [K12010] from the Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine (KIOM).
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SOULISTRY is the coined word of a book (Soulistry: Artistry of the Soul) as well as workshops, retreats and speaking engagements all mean to help connect the ordinary with the extraordinary … spirituality and creativity … art and soul in new, playful, creative and innovative ways.
Soulistry Workshops are designed to be fun, easy, relaxing (as assists in de-stressing), creative and help make the connection between creativity and spirituality. No ‘art experience’ necessary – at all!
They can be modified to meet the needs of the group – workshop format or retreat format; day-long, weekend or week-long length; groups of 4 – 10; larger groups (10+).
Feel free to contact me for more information
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Some of the retreats and workshops offered by Soulistry include:
A Spirituality of Play (all-day or weekend workshop/retreat)
An opportunity to experience playful creativity in a safe, nurturing environment, participants will explore both several techniques and discover the “child-within” in a gentle and delightful way that deepens their sense of spirituality.
Awakening the Creative Spirit
As the ‘ordinary’ is transformed into the sacred, artistic soul-space is created, creativity is re-awakened, playful nature is released and spirituality is enriched in new ways.
Simple-and easy-to-make books will be created in a fun and playful atmosphere.
Create your own handmade cards using simple and fun techniques in an atmosphere of play, learning and fun.
Clowning (weekend workshop/reatreat)
Mime, music, creative spirituality journaling, movement, laughter and silence are interwoven in the creation of a personal clown as a ministry of clowning is nurtured.
Creative Spirituality Journaling
In a quiet and sacred experience of artistic reflection, renewal and creativity, discover how ‘sight’ becomes ‘insight’ and uncover the invisible presence of the holy in the visible world and within.
H(art)ful Spirit (weekend workshop/retreat)
Spirit captures heart and mind as joy and creativity-within are discovered while working with a spiritual advisor, published author and Creative Spirituality Artist who encourages that intangible soul-essence of life in a variety of artistic experiences.
Mandala Creative Workshop
Mandalas have been used around the world as a form of mindfulness and creativity for centuries. The Mandala (a Sanskrit word for sacred circle) is both a process and a tool that can bring us to a place of inspired creativity and deepened spirituality. The primary intention of the Mandala is to fully open ourselves to “being present” in the artistic process rather than creating a finished product. The Mandala process provides simple techniques to experience creative self-expression and feelings of stillness, peace and spiritual renewal.
Explore the child-within and play with saran wrap, shaving cream, felt markers, coloured inks, water, pastel chalks in new ways as beautiful one-of-a-kind marbled paper is created.
Through exploration of a fun, easy art technique and group discussion, this workshop encourages mothers and daughters together, to ignite their creative nature as their relationship is strengthened.
Paper Design Techniques (Stained Glass Paper; Paste Paper; Bleach Paper)
Design your own paper (using a different technique each workshop).
This fun workshop requires no art skill or training. Wonderful results turn into unique handmade cards, book covers, place cards, wrapping paper, placemats, bookmarks and more (!) helping to make the connection between creativity and spirituality.
Come to a ZenDoodle workshop and leave with a new easy-to-do artform that will delight and amaze you, nurture your spiritual journey, provide countless hours of playful and gentle relaxation and stimulate your muse in the creation of unique greeting cards, paintings, calligraphy,
envelopes and more!
Soulistry workshop and retreat participants write …
“Soulistry awakened my creativity and supported my quest for spiritual awakening, understanding and enthusiasm for life.”
Liz Carter, British Columbia
“June offered enormous generosity, many skills and procedures to help me on my way … I feel I have wings!”
Jane Fyles, Ontario
“I discovered exciting new ways to be creative.”
Krista Tearne, Victoria, British Columbia
“Soulistry has been an extraordinary breakthrough for me.”
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“I enjoyed the open and free spirit, the challenge to do a variety of things with directions, but in my own way.”
Nina Brown, Alberta
“I would highly recommend June’s workshops for anyone looking for a unique way to explore their creativity and spirituality.”
Judith Coleman, Diocese of B.C., Anglican Church of Canada
“June provided a seamless, well-organized afternoon demonstrating the skills of a master teacher. Using a combination of her own self-disclosure, literary (journal) prompts and an artistic technique, each participant was encouraged to think about and express herself in terms of her own creative spirituality. June was able to illuminate the concept in a fluid, cheerful, relaxed manner and keep us engaged in the process. We all went away much enriched in our personal spiritual and creative journeys.
Linda Dominy, Victoria
“Art is not a natural activity for me, but June’s ability to nurture the creativity within had me not only happily participating but also delighting in the freedom to express my spirituality in a new medium.”
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Magnolias & Meat Pies: New Exhibit Shines Spotlight on Natchitoches
Anyone who’s ever been to Natchitoches knows it’s the home of the famous Meat Pie. It’s also filled with Magnolia trees. Those two elements are featured in a new Tri-Centennial exhibit aptly titled “Magnolias & Meat Pies.”
The exhibit focuses on the contributions that Natchitoches has made to the heritage and history of Louisiana and beyond.
Here’s a little background on the city from the Association for the Preservation of Historic Natchitoches, which sponsors the event:
From the founding of the original fort in 1714, Natchitoches has made an indelible mark on shaping the growth of our state. The exhibit will trace the importance of the El Camino Real on the early trade and commerce of the French colony and the impact of the indigo crop to the success of early plantation economy. Generations before King Cotton was ever planted west of the Mississippi, Natchitoches indigo was being exported far and wide.
World famous Natchitoches Meat Pies, the official Louisiana State Meat Pie, are a food tradition introduced to the early Natchitoches settlers by their neighbors from the Spanish fort at Los Adaes. Visitors will receive their own copy of a recipe for Natchitoches Meat Pies that appeared in an APHN publication in 1958.
The local impact on the film industry will be noted with behind-the-scenes, never-before-seen images of the filming of “Steel Magnolias,” a movie that has become one of the most beloved films in history. Other movies to be featured include “The Horse Soldiers” starring John Wayne and “Man In The Moon” starring Reese Witherspoon.
“Natchitoches was home to The Faithful Servant, the first statue ever erected to honor of an African American on the North American Continent. And Saint Augustine Church is the first church built by African Americans for an African American congregation in the nation,” said APHN Tri-Centennial Chairman Gary Cathey. “These are but two examples of the importance of our community to African American history.”
Visitors will learn the story of the Prudhomme boys holding down General Patton’s army during the Louisiana Maneuvers in 1940, a story that became part of Paul Harvey’s”The Rest of the Story” series.
“We will highlight former Natchitoches natives like Rex Reed, the famous movie critic, and current young people representing Natchitoches on the world stage today like Max Moran, musician, Steven Rose, violinist, Colin O’Con artist, and Michael Snowden, cigar box guitar maker,” said exhibit co-chairwoman Dr. Susan Dollar.
The exhibit is open to the public and there’s no cost for admission. It’s open Saturday, July 12, from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. at the Lemee House. It’s located at 310 Jefferson in downtown Natchitoches.
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Steel Valley Woofstock
A night of Peace, Paws, Love, and Music!
Purchase tickets online at Eventbrite.
Come party with a purpose to benefit Animal Welfare League of Trumbull County
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LEANNE AND RAJMA & FRIENDS
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Enjoy the super duper basket auction, rock & roll memorabilia silent auction, VIP experience silent auction, and some far out prize give-a-ways!
Food, drink and a cash bar will be available.
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Hie everyone. I have lost 27lbs in the last year on my own, just exercising and watching what I eat. I havent lost any weight in 3 months now and I thought I would try something new. I am 38yrs young, 5"5, 162ish, GW 135. At my goal weight I would be eating 1800cal, exercising 5 days a week ( 3days ST )to mantaion that weight. I have decided to eat 1800cal and exercise 5 days. Ideally that should take me to my goal weight sometime. What do you think?
This is a very good plan. Go for it, and good luck!
I think that is a great idea and I wish more people would do exactly that. Just start eating 1800 calories a day and figure that you'll never have to change (okay, maybe you'll want to eat less when you are really old), but there will be no transitioning to maintenance, no plateaus, no mind-games. Welcome to the club of people who are trying to eat right and stay active without 'dieting'.
The only problem, I think, with eating at goal weight maintenance is that as you get closer to your goal weight weight loss is going to slow down quite a bit.
If you are only creating a deficit through eating at some point that deficit is going to get down to only 100 calories and then even less and less.
Most people do not measure the calories they eat so accurately that they can say for sure they have not actually eaten those extra 100 calories, or more, and not realized it.
That is obviously going to slow down your weight loss even more, because you could very easily eat at maintenance for your current weight instead of eat at maintenance for the weight you want to be. You could even very easily accidentally eat higher than your current maintenance and actually start gaining a little bit of weight back.
However if you are eating at where-you-want-to-be maintenance AND exercising 3-5 times a week you will create a bigger deficit and most likely get to where you want to be eventually without having to drastically reduce calories.
The key word here, however, is eventually.
Hi guys, thanks for the replies. I understand the weight loss is going to be slow, but I've been through a year of slow weight loss already, only this time I wont have to constantly jump on the scale and get disappointed. I also think this gives me more leeway with exercise without worrying about starvation mode.
At the moment my exercise plan is Charlean extreme for strength training M,W.F. (these are usually 30 min) then 30 min of cardio, this could be a jog, 30 day shred, brazillian buttlift, turbofire or revabs. On T and W cardio could be insanity, turbo fire, cathe, jillian michaels, zumba. I take the weekend off but go for leisurely walks with my friends or do a stretch video.
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Idlib, Istanbul, Turkey and the EU: Review, 30 July 2019
2019 Statistics so far
1. New arrivals by sea
2. Transfers from the islands to mainland
3. Other removals from the islands
4. Detention Centre populations
*Brackets note the entire refugee population on the island, including those outside the detention centres.
5. Sea arrivals month-by-month
*Both up to and including 29 July
6. Turkey Coastguard pushbacks
The current rate of death in the Eastern Mediterranean is significantly lower (one death for every 322(.79) people) than in 2018 (one in 187 people), but is also significantly higher than the 2016 rate, of one death for every 393 people. A total of 59 men, women and children died in 2017, just five more than have already died this year. There are five months left of 2019.
8. Land and sea arrivals
Please note: sea arrival figures are up to and including 29 July of each year, the land figure for 2019 is up to and including 28 July, and for 2018 is for up to and including 31 July.
9. Mainland Population
*This number has fallen due to requests by the Greek government that refugees are moved out of UN-financed accommodation. This process is taking place in stages, based on the moment at which asylum was granted to those within the scheme. The UN has made concessions to those with school-age children, who have been allowed to stay in their homes until the end of term.
**Unaccompanied children in Greece on 15 July 2019.
There are some significant concerns to be considered with these figures, due to the haphazard practice of the Greek government and some organisations in collecting and issuing data.
The first issue is that, as of 1 August 2017, the Greek government ceased issuing population numbers of all mainland refugee camps and detention centres, largely because its main funding source switched from ECHO, which demanded this information to be publicly-released, to AMIF (asylum and migration integration fund), which does not.
UNHCR along with partners issued two updates last year, the latter of which covered August and September 2018, but no details have been publicly issued since then. We are confident, through our research, that our numbers are accurate, but would welcome conversation on this point.
Detention centre numbers are at present based upon the capacity of Greece’s six ‘pre-removal centres’ which are currently being used to host refugees on arrival, and one mainland reception and identification centre.
As a result, we must conclude that the number of refugees in Greece are in fact significantly higher than suggested by the publicly-available data suggests. In fact, the number of new entrants to Greece in 2018, combined with the known men, women and children who had left, led us to conclude that as of 22 October 2018, there were at least 17,951 people ‘missing’ from the UN and Greek government’s data. (https://www.koraki.org/single-post/2018/10/22/Numbers-the-missing-17951).
As we noted at the time, the ‘official’ (UNHCR) estimate of the number of refugees in Greece on 1 January 2018 was 70,142 people (actually around 2,000 fewer than we believe to be the case, as above). On 18 October, that figure had been revised – downwards – to 67,100. Our own research showed this to be incorrect (see below) and revealed that there were in fact 84,858 people acknowledged to be a part of the ‘asylum system’ in Greece.
But by 18 October, the number of ‘new’ refugees to have arrived in Greece was 37,842. In absence of other data, there should have been 107,984 people recognised as asylum seekers or refugees in the country.
The EU relocation scheme, which had officially ended just weeks before, registered just 172 people had been moved from Greece in the six months to 30 October, and in total, only 5,175 people had left Greece (through relocations, removals by the EU/Turkey Deal and IOM’s AVRR scheme combined), according to official data.
This meant that 102,809 men, women and children should have been in Greece as refugees or asylum seekers, and in turn, that official accounts had ‘lost’ more than one in every six people who had arrived in Greece since March 2016.
To return to the discrepancy between the UN’s figure, of 67,100, and our own, 84,858, we should note that UNHCR includes in its documents only those people who are being ‘processed’ by the UN: other asylum pathways exist, meaning that perhaps 17,758 may be pursuing asylum via those methods.
Even so, the first major problem with this is that the ‘official’ figure quoted was, in October 2018, some 17,758 smaller than the ‘real’ figure.
The second, even greater, is that as well as this missing 17,758, ‘lost’ in conversation about asylum seekers and refugees in Greece because organisations rely solely on UN figures (again, these are not wrong, they simply don’t include everyone), there were, in October 2018, another 17,951 men, women and children, who were not listed as being anywhere in Greece.
To update this situation to 31 December 2018: by this point a further 12,669 men, women and children had entered Greece by land or sea, while 981 people were removed under the IOM AVRR programme, and 51 others under the EU/Turkey Deal.
In total, this would equal a net increase of 11,638 people, while UNHCR’s official number was 71,200, meaning that – at least according to ‘official’ available records – there was a gap of 25,296 between the number of people UNHCR cited at the time, and the number including those ‘accounted for’ under other schemes in Greece.
Simultaneously, however, the difference of 17,951 between even all those who can be ‘discovered’ (96,496) and the number including the ‘missing’ (114,447) remains.
As at 30 July 2019, the difference between the UNHCR number – of refugees with which it is working, 80,600 – and the number of ‘located’ refugees, 91,079, as above, indicates that there are in fact 10,479 more people in Greece than the ‘official’ figure suggests.
The point, once again, is not that the UNHCR figure is ‘incorrect’, just that if we are to talk about the situation here in Greece, there is no justification whatsoever for the number of men, women and children with whom the UN works to be quoted as if it is the actual number of refugees in Greece, when we know the actual location of a further 10,479.
Even more concerning is that 17,431 people have arrived since 1 January 2019, yet the number of ‘located refugees’ has increased by just 13,234 (and in fact, the UN’s has increased by just 9,400, from 71,200 on 31 December 2018) – meaning another 4,179 men, women and children are not being counted at all.
This would, at first glance, suggest that 118,626 refugees are in Greece at present, compared with the UN’s stated 80,600, and our 91,079. However, earlier this year, under an agreement between Portugal and Greece, 1,000 refugee men, women and children were moved to the former, reducing this number to 117,626.
Further to this, up to March 2019 (when IOM ceased publishing its numbers) 1,201 men, women and children had been removed under the AVRR scheme. While we cannot be certain, as this is roughly average for a three-month period, we might add a further 1,600 for the four months which have followed, reducing the ‘total’ further, to 114,425 – fewer people than the 114,447 in Greece on 31 December 2019.
Even so, this would still leave a gap between the UN’s numbers and this figure of 33,825, and between the ‘total’ and this figure, of 23,364. As things stand, there are 23,364 ‘missing’ refugees in Greece, and 33,825 more refugee men, women and children in Greece than the UN figure most widely used.
There is one final point to be made here.
On 30 June this year, the Greek asylum service had granted refugee protection (meaning people can stay in Greece for three years) or ‘auxiliary status’ to 8,223 people since 1 January. The total for 2018 was 15,188. These numbers are in fact extremely close to (although interestingly, not the same as) the ‘difference’ between the ‘total’ reported number of refugee men, women and children in Greece and the number we should expect to be here based on arrivals set against removals.
The problem with this, however, is that the UN does not ‘remove’ these people from its totals (neither should it): for example, as we already noted, there are people in the UN accommodation scheme who have had refugee protection status for more than two years – albeit that they are set to be removed from the scheme.
In short, we cannot ‘remove’ these people from the numbers, because they are still regarded as refugees, and people in need of assistance, and are treated as such.
Simultaneously, in the same period (1 January 2018-30 June 2019) 22,222 men, women and children had their claims for asylum rejected. The problem with this number – aside from it being smaller than the number whose claims were accepted, and than the difference between the ‘total located’ refugees and the numbers based on arrivals set against removals, is that this number actually tells us very little.
Because refugees may make more than one application (or appeal), having one turned down does not equate to one refugee being removed from Greece. Nor, in fact, does the number of ‘rejected applications’ necessarily correspond one-for-one with the number of people who made those applications. We cannot rely on these numbers to explain the difference. In fact, they almost certainly do not.
Without at the very least, considerably better statistical record-keeping, we must conclude that not only are there 10,479 more refugees in Greece than the standard quoted UNHCR figure, but also that there are a further 23,634 men, women and children who are at best ‘unaccounted for’ in the Greek refugee response.
2018 and 2019, brief summary
As we predicted early last year, 2018 should have served as a warning to those of us fortunate enough to be able to regard situations which ruin lives as warnings.
Significantly more people arrived in Greece via the Mediterranean and by Greece’s land border with Turkey than had done in the previous year, and war in Syria, along with ongoing conflicts involving Kurdish and Iraqi forces, and Kurdish and Turkish forces, as well as ongoing fighting in Afghanistan, terror attacks in Pakistan, and conflict across large parts of sub-Saharan Africa, combined in the latter case with the ongoing Libyan war and efforts by Italy to prevent all passage towards its borders, continued to drive people towards Greece.
This year, to date, has seen a similar general trend. The end of the Turkish ‘curfew’, the move of its crackdown on political opposition from the arrest to the trial phase (although we will mention this below), as well as greater police presence in towns and villages close to the Evros river, have reduced the number of people crossing the land border, but the number this year is still almost as high as that in 2017, with five months of the year remaining.
The number arriving by sea is greater than either 2018, or 2017 at the same point, and the highest number of refugees to arrive by sea in the 28 months since the EU/Turkey Deal was enacted, arrived in the first 29 days of July. Two days remain of the month. And with only the Turkish exception, mentioned above, all the conflicts which were taking place at the end of 2018 are ongoing today.
Equally, in both 2018 and 2019, more men, women and children have entered Greece as refugees than Italy (more than double the number in 2018, roughly seven times the number this year) and in 2018 Greece received more than four-fifths as many people as Spain, this year so far roughly a third more.
We should also note that despite the rhetoric of Greek politicians when they need a ‘boost’, and occasionally from their Turkish counterparts under similar circumstances, the Turkish coastguard last year prevented almost as many people crossing as actually reached Greece. This year, it has stopped slightly more than have arrived here.
While we all oppose the use of the Turkish coastguard as a sea-militia, ‘protecting’ the EU from refugees, we must recognise that twice as many people would have arrived in the last 19 months than have actually done so: there is no drop in need for people to get here.
That is, if there is a refugee crisis anywhere in Europe – and we are strongly inclined to argue that there is not, but only because we can work together to make sure there is not – it is taking place in Greece.
The idea, then, that the ‘problem’ has been ‘solved’ in Greece, is certainly not supported by the facts. There are large numbers of people entering the state in need of our help and support, the island detention centres are several times more full than is either safe or legal, and all over Greece there are refugee camps open which were closed in celebratory fashion two years ago – many of which are also well over their safe capacity.
There are up to 114,425 men, women and children in Greece, more than 23,000 of whom are unaccounted for.
On the other hand, we must also note that in 2018, 51,182 people entered Greece. Fewer than would fill many of Western Europe’s top-division football stadia.
So far this year, a further 23,668 have arrived: too few to fill such stadia in almost any part of Europe.
The point is, the situation is not ‘going away’ and we must continue to talk about how serious it is. But we must also note that this does not pose a ‘threat’ to Greece, which has more than 11m citizens. It also certainly does not to the wider EU, which has 508,000,000.
We need people to continue to recognise the situation here, where men, women and children who have fled war and terror need and deserve safety and security. We also need to ensure they are not tricked into believing that the 23,668 refugees threaten a nation of 11.4m, or a political bloc of close to five times that. Review – part two. Recent events
Those of you who have received these reviews in the past know that we generally attempt to offer updates from across the world, dependent on their relevance to Greece, Europe, Turkey, refugees, displacement, migration and/or international law.
Those of you who have not, know it now.
We have spent a long time on numbers, however, so in this update, we feature four matters, all connected to one another, and directly to Greece, Turkey, and the response on which we are all working.
1. ‘57,000 arrested at Greek border since January’ - Soylu
Turkey’s Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu claims Turkish police have arrested 57,000 ‘illegal refugees’ attempting to cross the land border from Turkey into Greece, since the start of the year.
Soylu, speaking during a visit to Kahramanmaraş temporary housing shelter on 27 July, did not mention where the refugees were from, though he has spoken in recent days about both Syrians and Afghans who have been removed from Istanbul in the face of public protest (see below).
His claim is interesting, however, because as noted above, only 6,237 people have so far succeeded in making the ‘land’ crossing from Turkey to Greece in the first seven months of this year, meaning that the number arrested is more than nine times larger than the number who made it across, as well as slightly more than three times higher than the number who made the crossing in the whole of last year.
Neither of these things are impossible: Turkey’s border with Greece is relatively small, involves a dangerous river crossing, and as we have noted here several times, there is significant evidence of Greek border police illegally forcing people who have made the crossing back to Turkey.
But it is also interesting because a notably high proportion (though not a majority) of those who made the crossing last year were Turkish nationals, seeking to escape what was in the first six months of 2018, an increasingly repressive Turkish government. As the ‘curfew’ – and the sackings, arrests and violence which went with it – ended, it had been expected that this number would drop considerably.
We must also consider that increasing unrest in Turkey has also led to concern amongst Syrians that they may be forced out of Turkey, with the heavy implication that they would be pushed back into Syria. Afghans, who are not even offered the ‘protected status’ provided to Syrians by the Turkish government, are at least equally vulnerable to being forced back to the state they fled.
As with most messages from this Turkish government (and Soylu is a long-term and strong Erdogan loyalist) we should also consider who it is aimed at, why it was issued now, and what the government hopes the result will be.
On this, there appear to be three major possibilities. The first is that it’s a straight statement of ‘strength’ aimed both at AKP (Turkey’s governing party) loyalists, and to those who may sense ‘weakness’ within it following the party’s loss of Istanbul to the major opposition party, the CHP.
As a statement of capacity, it works to a certain extent, but it also – particularly if Turkish refugees are among those arrested – indicates an ongoing failure in AKP’s efforts to build a Turkey in which Turkish people can feel happy and secure.
The second possibility is that Soylu is addressing his statement to Syrians, Afghans and others in the state – effectively arguing that they cannot escape Turkish ‘justice’. This message would also be considered ‘useful’ for Turkish citizens to hear, also because it creates the idea that Syrians are ‘dangerous wildcards’ who ‘don’t follow laws’ – part of a debate which has been ongoing since before CHP positioned itself as ‘anti-Syrian’ in Turkey’s June 2018 general elections.
But Syrians and Afghans already know that they may be arrested if they are caught trying to escape, which would make this little more than a ‘confirmation’ of that position.
Thirdly, the Turkish government is (also, see below) re-opening an argument with the EU regarding its role in preventing Syrians from reaching the bloc. This statement, containing as it does a far higher number than anyone would really have expected, is likely designed as a warning not just to Turkish and Syrian people hoping to escape, or as a reaffirmation of AKP’s strength for supporters and opponents alike, but also as a reminder to the EU, that it relies on Turkey in order to achieve its (far from moral, and legally murky) aims.
We must note that 57,000 is a remarkably high number, considering what has gone before, and that sea crossings are still being made regularly – in greater number than over the same period last year.
It is unlikely that 57,000 people have been arrested at Greece’s border with Turkey, though it is not impossible.
But it is an effective reminder to Turkish people of AKP’s ‘strength and commitment’, to Syrians and others of the reach Turkey’s law enforcement, and to the EU of the extent of the refugee population and Turkey’s work to prevent it reaching the bloc: work which could be withdrawn. https://www.haberler.com/soylu-edirne-den-yilbasindan-beri-yakalanan-kacak-12284568-haberi/?fbclid=IwAR276ARmkjZLnfaeKJpbBXVSpCuYufWcri3Ch8ByLGmHE2o8BEeek6h6Adc
2. ‘Liberals’ win Istanbul: but Syrian people look set to suffer
Ekrem Imamoglu, representing CHP, the main opposition party to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s AKP, won the re-run Istanbul mayoral elections, held on 24 June (he had also won the first).
He took 54 per cent of the vote, defeating AKP’s candidate and former Prime Minister of Turkey (in fact, the last, because of constitutional changes made by Erdogan), Binali Yildirim, who took 45 per cent.
His victory, by 800,000 votes, was remarkable for several reasons. First, that he had won by just 13,000 votes when the poll was first held on 31 March. That election was declared void by Turkey’s High Court for unclear reasons, and the sense of injustice may well have fed voters’ desire to see him win for a second time.
Second, it came exactly one day short of a year after AKP soundly defeated the CHP in Turkey’s most recent (snap) general elections – then, Erdogan took 52.59 per cent of the Presidential vote, beating his nearest rival Miharrem Ince of CHP, who took 30.64, while the AKP won 53.66 per cent of the parliamentary vote, against CHP’s 33.95 per cent.
But thirdly, and perhaps most remarkably, it is the first time since Recep Tayyip Erdogan won it in 1994 that Istanbul has not been controlled by Erdogan or a member of the party he was in (he set up AKP in 2001).
Erdogan himself regards the city as vital, and has stated that ‘whoever controls Istanbul, controls Turkey’, and at 15m has almost one-fifth of Turkey’s population.
Since that point, Erdogan has not lost an election seen as important to his party (though AKP has regularly lost in Kurdish regions, as well as in Izmir, the home of CHP, the party set up by Kemal Ataturk).
We could also consider, however, that Erdogan may have held Istanbul in high regard because it was the first place he won an election granting him a prominent national position, and that it has been a stronghold of his party ever since.
Either way, losing it in a local election does not significantly reduce his, or AKP’s, national power, but may well be an important symbolic moment for Turkey and its relationship with Erdogan, who has dominated Turkish politics for 25 years.
The immediate aftermath of the election saw many ‘liberals’ (CHP is a largely liberal party, by tradition) in Turkey and elsewhere, celebrate an advance in the state, but from our perspective it may be important to note a complicating factor.
Because as mentioned previously, in 2018’s general elections, CHP had campaigned on a manifesto which included removing Syrian people from Turkey, and forcing them back to Syria.
We should note here that this may have been a desperate step by a party hoping to play a ‘populist’ card after an election was sprung upon it (Erdogan had promised that no early election would be called) by a government which had arrested several of its members – including its MP for Istanbul (II) Enis Berberoglu (he was sentenced to 25 years in jail for ‘divulging government secrets’, having been found guilty of sharing photos which appeared to show Turkish officials handing weapons to Syrian rebels, with newspaper journalists. The sentence was later reduced to five years, eight months, and has been commuted because Berberoglu was re-elected in June 2018).
It is also sensible to note that the issue of Syrian refugees in Turkey is far less simple than it may at first appear.
Because Turkey, as set up by Kemal Ataturk, also the founder of the CHP, was designed to be a strongly secular state. Erdogan, who was elected in Istanbul but stripped of the office of mayor and jailed for four months for inciting religious hatred, is widely regarded as the single greatest threat to that status in Turkey’s history.
In this context, the entry of 3.5 million Sunni Muslim Syrian people – and even more, their potential to gain citizenship – is regarded by some CHP supporters as endangering Turkey’s secular status.
Whatever the reason, understandably, CHP’s position alienated it to almost all Syrians in Turkey, and led to most of those who could vote, voting for Erdogan, and many of those who could not joining celebrations on the street when his victory was announced.
It is for this reason that Erdogan – a largely conservative right-winger – is sometimes claimed to be a ‘reformist’, while CHP, for all its ‘liberal’ history, can fairly be regarded as both conservative and nationalist on some issues.
We must note that Imamoglu himself did not promise to remove Syrian people from Turkey or Istanbul, and that he would not be able to remove them from the country even if he wanted to.
However, in the aftermath of Imamoglu’s election as mayor, the hashtag ‘Send Them Home’ began trending on Twitter, and he has claimed that there are one million Syrian refugees in Istanbul (the official government figure is 547,000).
Simultaneously, the election may have affected Erdogan in a way no-one quite predicted: losing him power within AKP itself. Erdogan promised a ‘new AKP’ in the aftermath of his party’s defeat, while some within the party have claimed (with very little evidence) that AKP’s perceived ‘weakness’ regarding Syrian people in Turkey was instrumental in it losing Istanbul (this is one of the grave dangers of nationalism: if one defeats a non-nationalist, it is nationalism which is the reason: if one loses an election in astonishingly poor economic conditions, following a two-year purge, it is lack of nationalism which is to blame).
In response, Erdogan stated at the start of the month that any Syrian deemed to be a criminal by Turkey will be forcibly deported back to Syria, while last week, Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu announced that any refugee who did not return to the Turkish province where they registered in Turkey, could also be forced back to Syria. He later said that ‘all Syrians in Turkey have temporary protected status’ and so ‘would not be deported’, but it is far from clear, in that case, what his previous announcement meant.
In short – and in summary – the immediate response to the loss of Istanbul by Erdogan was greeted as a positive step by ‘liberals’ across the world (and in Turkey), but for men, women and children who have fled war in Syria, it has so far been extraordinarily negative: https://www.aa.com.tr/en/politics/istanbul-poll-election-body-announces-official-result/1528594; https://www.trtworld.com/turkey/istanbul-gives-syrians-a-month-to-return-to-home-provinces-28447; https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/.premium-in-turkey-and-lebanon-syrian-refugees-met-with-growing-hostility-1.7606715; http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/unregistered-syrians-sent-back-to-camps-in-turkey-interior-minister-145224
3. Syrian people deported from Lebanon, Turkey
a) Turkey, and the impacts of the ‘race to racism’
The above update may seem a little confusing, containing as it does several different strands of thought, some of which cross over – rather than directly leading from or to – one another.
In summary, what has happened is that because of AKP’s defeat in Istanbul, elements of the party appear to be forcing a far harder line to be taken against Syrian refugees, significantly clamping down on their freedom of movement within Turkey (though for some, this has been the case since before the Istanbul election. Syrians are banned from beaches in Gazipasa and Mudanya, for example: both cities are run by CHP mayors).
One part of this has been the demand by the Interior Ministry that all Syrian people in Istanbul must return within four weeks to the province in which they were registered, or face deportation: though Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu, as noted above later ‘explained’ that no Syrians would be deported to Syria.
This has led to 1,000 Syrians being ‘arrested’ and told they have four weeks to leave the city (they must leave by 20 August): yet another immoral and unjustifiable upheaval men, women and children whose lives have already been turned upside down by war are being forced to face.
At this point it’s probably worth noting that the ‘average Turkish person’ had very little problem whatsoever with Syrian people before roughly two years ago.
There were concerns surrounding the political and religious impact that 3.6m (well over two million more Syrian refugees allowed in by the entire EU, for comparison) Sunni Muslim Syrians might have on Turkey, and some of these were extremely unreasonable. But in general, most Turkish people understood both that Syrian men, women and children were fleeing death at the hands of a vicious dictator and/or vicious terror organisation, and in any case that Turkish and Syrian people had lived side by side for centuries without any problems.
AKP did not help matters, by claiming that international aid organisations were in fact Western intelligence agencies, spying on Turkey, or by choosing to build a wall between itself and Syria to prevent any more Syrian men, women and children entering Turkey. And the EU absolutely didn’t help, both by demanding that Syrians must be prevented from entering the EU, and effectively making that wall an attractive option to the Turkish government.
But in general, the situation was fairly widely regarded as acceptable, if not actively good for Turkey and its people (the recognition that EU money was being handed to Turkey, and that an increased demand for housing had sparked significant construction growth, both played a part here).
The major problem, as is almost always the case, was economic collapse, which struck Turkey in 2017. AKP’s increasingly nationalistic and protectionist policies caused a massive fall in international trade, which caused the Lira to collapse against the Euro, Dollar, Sterling and Yen.
The EU itself also did not help, failing (it has still failed) to pay Turkey the €6bn it had promised (the first €3bn by the end of 2017, the second by the end of 2018. So far, €3bn has been paid: it is now the end of July 2019) under the terms of the EU/Turkey Deal.
And the impact was absolutely predictable. Turkish people were laid off, and rather than blaming the economy, or the government, they and the politicians who wanted their votes instead blamed (or in some cases hinted that the blame ultimately lay with) Syrian men and women, who, it was argued, were being paid less for their labour than Turkish people were, and had therefore forced Turkish people from their jobs, rather than the economy forcing wages down and cutting jobs (another interesting point about the way in which nationalism uses capitalism: it relies almost exclusively on making people forget that no one wants to earn less than the going rate for their labour. It is depressing how often this works).
For CHP, this built on their already existent concerns about the ‘destabilisation’ of ‘secular Turkey’, while for AKP, it posed a threat to its ongoing (absolute) dominance over Turkish politics: if they were in charge when things went wrong, they might be punished at the polls, and with Syrians already beginning to be blamed, it was easier to continue this than accept their own policies caused the collapse.
In any case, the ‘arrest’ and removal of 1,000 Syrian men, women and children from Istanbul in the next four weeks, and terrifying them with the possibility that they will be deported to Syria, where they have fled chaos, terror and death at the hands of their own government (a government which is still in power) – even if the latter threat has since been ‘clarified’ – is unacceptable, and driven by this ‘race to racism’ by CHP and AKP.
Simultaneously, also as mentioned above, Erdogan himself, in an effort to ‘win’ the votes of Turkish voters, has also begun talking about deportation: this time, of Syrian ‘criminals’.
We should note that the idea that ‘criminals’ should be deported to a place in which the major likelihood is that they will be bombed or tortured to death is an absolutely unacceptable position to hold.
But even if it were not, it is almost impossible not to conclude that Erdogan was here making a statement to Turkish voters that he and AKP are ‘strong’ and will act against people who mean harm to Turkey, which also (and not accidentally) mixed with the messages on being ‘removed’ from Istanbul issued by other parts of his government, terrifying Syrian and other people of protected status in Turkey. Some medical practitioners have told media outlets that anti-refugee statements are causing regression in people they have been treating with post-traumatic psychological problems.
In order to enable these ‘deportations’ – of criminals or of people who were registered elsewhere in Turkey – to happen, cities all over Turkey have increased ‘spot checks’ designed to discover Syrian people not carrying documentation.
It is in this context that the third strand to the Turkish government’s most recent activities regarding its Syrian population becomes even more of a threat: the actual deportation of Syrian men and women to Syria.
An increasing number of aid organisations have been detailing incidents in which Syrian residents of Istanbul (and some other parts of Turkey) have been arrested by Turkish police, forced to give their fingerprints and sign documents, which they are then told are ‘voluntary deportation documents’, and are sent to Syria.
The Turkish government denies that this is the case, saying that those arrested – the number arrested in the last week is reported by Turkish government news agency Anadolu as 2,244 will be sent only to the province of Turkey in which they live – but one source who spoke to Al-Monitor said: ‘If you make problems, or draw any attention to yourself, you get deported. When there is a problem between Turks and Syrians, at the end of the day the Turks will go home and the Syrians will get sent back to Syria — a warzone.’
Another man, who spoke to Human Rights Watch, said: ‘I am from Aleppo. I had been living in Gaziantep in southeast Turkey since 2013. When my brother and I went to the police to complain about an attack on a shop we run in the city, we were arrested. The police transferred us from the Gaziantep Karşıyaka police station to the foreigners’ deportation centre at Oğuzeli. We were held for six days and forced to sign a deportation form without them telling us what it was.’ They were taken by bus to Azaz, while many others who say they have been deported have been sent to Idlib.
It is already clear that return to Syria is not safe for the majority of refugees. The Assad regime has stated that it would rather ‘10m loyal Syrians than 27m which includes the traitors we had before.’ And there are a vast number of documented cases of people being forced from Lebanon and other states, only to be arrested on arrival in Syria and never seen again, their families in a few cases receiving messages that they ‘died in custody’.
It is also extremely clear that Idlib is far from safe, as the target of an ongoing campaign by Assad and the Russian airforce which killed more children in the third week of July than were killed in the whole of 2018, which struck 24 hospitals and health centres in as many days in May and which has killed 400 people since the end of April.
The prospect of being sent there – and the clear fact that Turkish police are in some cases deporting people into a country they fled to escape war and death – is already causing mental health issues for Syrian men, women and children. It will also push many to attempt to escape – indeed, as the largest number of people to move in any month since the EU/Turkey deal was signed in March 2016 have arrived in Greece this month, it appears that they already are.
As noted previously, the situation surrounding Syrian refugees in Turkey is complicated by a number of political and religious factors, as well as basic nationalism and racism. That is not to excuse the state from its responsibilities, but they do exist.
And what is true in Turkey is magnified extraordinarily in Lebanon.
The Lebanese political system was created after a 15 year civil war which ended in 1990. Without going into too much detail (we have detailed this extensively in pieces last summer) it effectively relies upon a quite precise balance of power between the state’s Sunni Muslims, its Shi’a Muslims, and its Maronite Christian populations.
Under this system, alongside a balance in the representation of all groups at all levels of government, the President must be a Maronite Christian, the Prime Minister a Sunni Muslim and the Speaker of the House of Representatives a Shi’ite.
It is worth noting here that Bashar Al-Assad’s father, Hafez (who preceded him as Syrian President) was a leader of the Shi’a forces in Lebanon, using Syrian troops to support Hizbollah, while Bashar himself ‘learnt to rule’ in Lebanon.
In practice, the system works quite well. But the Syrian civil war has caused Lebanon and its delicate balance to change in a number of ways.
First, because Hizbollah, which fought alongside Syrian forces in the Lebanese civil war, and is now fighting in Syria in support of Bashar al-Assad, wins the vast majority of Shi’a votes in Syria.
Second, because the Sunni Islam Prime Minister Saad Hariri (and the people he represents) strongly believe that it is their duty to help the largely Sunni Muslim refugees who have fled Assad.
And third, because Maronite Christians are concerned (as are the Shi’a Muslims) about the impact on Lebanese society and politics of 1.5m Syrian Sunni Muslim refugees into a country with a population of just six million: Lebanon can (and in fairness has, repeatedly) justifiably say that increasing its population by a quarter is far more than it can possibly be expected to cope with, but there are also significant political elements to their concerns.
We should note that this problem is one of the international community – most especially the West –‘s own making. UNHCR requested in 2012, 2013 and 2014 that each developed nation should welcome 20,000 Syrian men, women and children into their countries (they made the same request on several different occasions: they didn’t ask for each state to take 60,000 in total) and this was largely to reduce the burden on Lebanon, which was in almost every way incapable of taking in so many people at once.
Almost all, including the UK, France, the US and at first Germany, refused.
However, over the years, Hizbollah, which as noted supports Assad and is fighting for him in Syria, and later other Shi’a Muslims, as well as large parts of the Maronite community, including Lebanese President Michel Aoun, have pointed to increasing infrastructure problems and hardship for Lebanese people as ‘the fault’ of Syrians.
They also – perhaps deliberately – began to reduce interaction between Lebanese and Syrian people, building walls around Syrian refugee camps citing fears for ‘safety’ in both communities.
And in the last 12 months, even Saad Hariri, who was one of the major public campaigners for Lebanon to assist Syrian refugees, has spoken less about them in positive terms and more in terms of how the ‘problem’ can be ‘solved’ (Hariri, some of you may remember, was ‘kidnapped’ by Saudi Arabia last summer: since then he has reduced his statements in support of rebels fighting against Assad, as well as in support of Syrian refugees in Lebanon. This is interesting in that Saudi Arabia is a Sunni state, and leads us to wonder whether Hariri is reacting against his ‘captors’ or whether the Saudis themselves have some plan for a Syrian future, perhaps attempting to ensure that the Sunni majority remain in and/or return to the state, on the grounds that if the Syrian civil war has been ‘won’ by Assad, it might be better from a Saudi perspective for Sunni Muslim people to continue to make up the majority of Syria’s population: in either case, it is likely that Hariri’s position is also based on pressures on him from within Lebanon, and/or are a genuinely held belief that the state cannot continue to support Syrian people indefinitely).
None of these ‘explanations’, however, excuses or makes legal (there is no excuse and the activity is not legal) recent developments in Lebanon.
The Lebanese government is increasingly claiming the ‘situation’ in Syria is now ‘calm’ and therefore refugees can ‘return home’, while a law passed in late June which states that Lebanon will put ‘Lebanese employment first’ has seen at least hundreds of Syrian workers dismissed from their jobs in Beirut and other cities.
Despite the claims of ‘calm’, however, a simultaneous policy of forced deportation has been ongoing – in effect unbroken, though often excused by different statements – since early 2018. And in May this year, at least 301 people were forced back into Syria.
Few of these people are immediately driven into Idlib (though in many cases they are ‘driven’ into Idlib later) but are instead dropped in places now under full government control, where in many cases they are arrested and never seen again.
We must remember that despite the political convenience (especially, but by no means solely, for Hizbollah) of claiming so, Syria is not only not free of war, but the person that millions of men, women and children fled to save their lives, is still in charge: he cannot be trusted to safeguard their lives, or in fact not to actually kill them, and we must not accept any pretence that sending refugees back to Syria is anything other than sending them directly to their deaths.
Simultaneously, we should remember that as soon as they can – if they are ever able to – they will make every effort to enter the EU, as neither Lebanon nor Turkey can possibly be regarded any longer as a safe space for them. We must be ready to welcome them, including by preparing the way through communication: https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2019/07/syrian-refugee-deportation-turkey.html#ixzz5vHJLrtCk; https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/07/26/turkey-forcibly-returning-syrians-danger; https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/syrian-refugees-panic-threat-deportation-rises-lebanon-190725102745367.html; https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/29/syrian-refugees-in-beirut-and-istanbul-detained-and-deported
4. UN humanitarian leader demands Security Council ‘take action on Idlib’
Mark Lowcock, the UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs has demanded the UN Security Council ‘does something’ to stop what he described as ‘carnage’ in Idlib.
He noted that at least 450 civilians have been killed in the north Syrian region since late April, more than a hundred of whom were killed in the last two weeks. Hundreds more have been injured, 440,000 people have been displaced, he told the meeting yesterday (30 July 2019).
For those of you who have not been receiving these updates, Idlib is a region of Syria which had a pre-war population of about 1.4m and now contains 3.2m (some estimates suggest closer to 4m). Some of this increase has been down to ‘standard’ displacement (we apologise for the term): that is, people who have fled from their homes to a place not yet under the control of Bashar Al Assad.
But far more has come about because each time he has ‘liberated’ a ‘de-escalation zone’, Assad has offered people a ‘choice: stay where they are and accept him as President, or move somewhere else. After the offensives against Aleppo, Eastern Ghouta and Douma, Idlib was one of the last places remaining.
We – along with a number of other commentators – warned the international community that, as Aleppo and Eastern Ghouta (among other locations) had been designated as ‘de-escalation zones’ by Russia, Iran and Assad (as well as Turkey) only to be attacked with missiles and ground forces (and in several cases chemical weapons) until they surrendered – by Assad, Iran and Russia – the ‘herding’ of people who opposed Assad into one area, Idlib, was hardly likely to end in a peaceful outcome, beneficial to the men, women and children of Syria.
To be fair, the humanitarian arms of the UN have also made these warnings, noting that the region was not safe from large-scale attack.
Nor was it designed to be. What we have seen since the major build-up of troops by the regime and its allies on Idlib’s borders in late January and early-February has been the preparation for a massacre. It is just about possible that Russia, in particular, hopes that by killing a ‘limited’ number of people (as noted, so far 450) and spreading terror and chaos among as much of the rest of the population as it possibly can, Idlib might ‘surrender’ to Assad before the deaths reach the hundreds of thousands.
This might explain why in May 24 hospitals and health centres were struck in as many days by Russian and Syrian missiles (a war crime; though so is the targeting of civilians). It may also explain why a market in Ariha – rather than, perhaps an outpost of a group which actually opposes Assad – was struck by Assad and Russian missiles on Saturday 28 July, killing at least 11 people.
But in Assad's case, this is not really even a consideration.
We must be clear: when Lowcock describes ‘carnage’ in Idlib, he is not wrong. But we may get the wrong impression. Because for many of us, ‘carnage’ implies a level of disorganisation, even chaos. But that is not what is happening in Idlib.
There, as in the later stages of Franco’s massacre of Spain, Assad has been planning this late moment of the Syrian civil war since 2015, when Russian aircraft and missiles turned the tide of war for him. He has refused surrender, and made no attempt to find peace, instead corralling those who oppose him – whether they are armed or civilians – into an area where he can, systematically, kill them.
Mr Lowcock is perfectly correct to ask, as he did: ‘You know what is happening and you have done nothing for 90 days as the carnage continues in front of your eyes. Are you going to do something about it?’
He also knows, as well as we do, that the answer is ‘no’. Not because the UN is evil, or unfeeling, but because Russia, one of the active participants not only in the Syrian civil war, but in this outrage being committed in Idlib, is a permanent member of the UN Security Council, and thus has a veto it has already used 15 times in relation to this conflict, and will use again if any serious proposal is made to ‘do something’: https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/syria/11-killed-in-government-airstrike-on-northern-syrian-market-activists-say-1.7579819; https://news.un.org/en/story/2019/07/1043471?fbclid=IwAR09Gi4PqNMgAObKH2LewvetXwlmrDD8oaXGtbHyBpxotecjijZB-X8LVaM
5. Turkish Foreign Minister declares EU/Turkey Deal ‘no longer functional’
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu announced on Tuesday that the Turkish government will no longer fulfil any of its commitments on the readmission of refugees under the EU/Turkey deal, because the EU has ‘failed to meet its own commitments’.
The Minister’s statement appeared to claim that nothing within the Deal was legitimate any longer because of what he (and the Turkish government, not unreasonably) sees as an EU failure to live up to the promises it made within it, but he stopped short of actively stating that the Turkish government will not – for example – continue to attempt to stop people leaving the state.
The EU/Turkey Deal came into effect on 20 March 2016, having been signed only days before.
It was an ‘emergency’ proposal, cobbled together after several EU member states, led by the UK, but later joined by Denmark, Spain and several Eastern European nations, rejected a previous plan to ‘divide’ refugees between EU member states.
It made a series of demands on Turkey, including that it must act to stop refugees leaving its borders – a measure which effectively turned the Turkish coastguard into a militia unit operating to ‘protect’ EU coastlines, rather than an organisation whose focus is to save lives – and that any refugees who did arrive would be sent back to Turkey (‘readmission’) and exchanged for refugees in Turkey who had made no effort to escape (an idea which makes sense as long as you go no further than thinking ‘this will discourage people to try to come unannounced’ and definitely don’t ask the question ‘who on Earth would benefit from Turkey having the refugees who have risked their lives to leave, and Europe having those who wanted to stay in Turkey?’).
The latter plan was an outright failure, as all of the statistics above make clear. It was also utterly immoral, and indeed entirely unnecessary: the EU was acting in panic, about an issue it was better-placed to deal with than literally any political body in the whole of human history, and out of that panic came the Deal: a completely unreasonable, poorly-considered, unpleasant agreement, in which the EU made a series of promises it was not only unable to deliver on, but which it would – as soon as the ‘emergency’ had stopped (in its eyes: and even then, only because the agreement had been signed) – no longer be willing to deliver on.
Chief among these commitments – made by the EU itself – were a promise to give Turkey €6bn by the end of 2018. Originally, it promised to hand over €2bn by the end of 2016, and another €2bn at the end of each of the following two years, but it never came close to meeting this deadline.
Having changed the deadline process (now the money was to be delivered in two chunks of €3bn) it did manage to meet the first, in a way. It had not handed over €3bn by the end of 2017, but it had, in the words of the EU Commission’s March 2019 report ‘EU Turkey Agreement Three Years On’ managed to ‘commit and contract €3bn… with more than €2bn disbursed.’
The report, issued three months after all €6bn was supposed to have been given to Turkey, also stated that: ‘The EU is currently mobilising the second tranche of Facility funding and has already committed €1.2 billion, of which €450 million has been contracted and €150 million disbursed.’
In other words, less than a sixth of the money which was supposed to have been handed over by 31 December 2018 had in fact even been contracted some three months later, less than one eighteenth had actually been handed over, and only just over a third had even been promised.
In working on this response, we see many sides to many organisations. The Turkish government has not been a particularly positive factor in the last three years (though it has taken more than three times as many Syrian refugees as the entire EU combined) but on this, it is possible to understand its frustrations.
However, as we noted in 2016, the money was only the smallest part of the Turkish government’s real desire from the Deal. What it wanted was Visa-free travel in Europe for all its citizens, and in the EU’s panic and desperation to save itself from innocent men, women and children fleeing war and terror, when Turkish negotiators asked for this, the EU immediately wrote it into the Deal.
We noted at the time that this was an enormous mistake. Whatever our opinions on Turkey and its membership or otherwise of the EU, the reason there was no Visa-free travel for Turkish citizens across Europe (an idea we do not necessarily oppose) was because Turkey was not a member of the EU, and the reason Turkey was not a member of the EU was that it had failed, in decades of negotiations, to meet the basic criteria for membership.
We also mentioned that in promising Visa-free travel, it was actively reducing its negotiating power with others who hoped to join, but had not yet, and was effectively showing the world that the principles for which it claimed to stand were in fact less important than preventing a few hundred thousand Syrian men, women and children from coming to Europe.
That may seem a harsh judgement. If so, we should note that we also commented that this Deal was effectively delivering Erdogan something he had always promised Turkish people, but had been unwilling to change positively to deliver, and in effect showing the country that the ‘strength’ of Erdogan was what Turkey needed, kicking the legs out from his opponents.
Finally, and perhaps most importantly, we pointed out that as soon as it awoke from its fever, the EU would realise that offering Visa-free travel in the EU to Turkish citizens would be, for most if not all of these reasons, impossible.
We would like to be clear: we do not, in principle, oppose the Visa-free travel of Turkish people in the EU. We would support, in fact, Visa-free travel for everyone, in all parts of the world. But we must note that the EU’s objections to Turkish Visa-free travel include some excellent points, such as Erdogan’s continued support for the death penalty, his effective transformation of himself into a lifelong dictator, his violence towards Kurdish and other people within Turkey and his refusal to abide by the rule of law: that is, in some very important ways, the EU’s position actually serves to protect Turkish people.
But the fact remains that the EU promised this. That we agree with its reasons for not delivering it and hope it will not, does not make Turkish politicians wrong to demand it is delivered. Neither does it make the situation any less embarrassing for everyone who agrees with the EU’s reasons for not delivering.
As we also predicted, it is this which – at least according to Cavusoglu – has led to the demise of the Deal (if, in fact, it has). He said: ‘We will not wait at the EU's door. The readmission agreement and visa-free deal will be put into effect at the same time.’
We do need – as always – to consider the extent to which an announcement by the Turkish government is entirely true, and the extent to which it is designed with several simultaneous motives in mind.
For example, we must accept that EU membership (with Visa-free travel as a distant, but nonetheless acceptable, second prize) was at the heart of Erdogan’s promise to Turkey for almost all of his career. He has covered his failure to deliver with claims that the EU is made up of ‘Nazis’ and politicians who ‘hate and fear Turkey’, but this does not alter the fact that up to now, the Turkish state has been carrying out the wishes of the EU with almost no reciprocation. This statement may well be a simple declaration that Turkey is not being ‘fooled’ any longer and things must change (again, the embarrassment is that unlike the claims about the EU’s opinions on Turkey, and the 'Nazi' accusation, the Turkish government actually does have a point).
Second, we should note that the Turkish government has not, for example, claimed it will also stop arresting Syrians at the border, or using its coastguard to prevent people leaving: that is, it seems as if the state is using its leverage to gain what it wants, rather than absolutely slamming the door shut on negotiation with the EU.
And the EU/Turkey readmissions system has hardly been a major success (in the three years March 2016-March 2019, just 2,441 people have been returned to Turkey, in part because of Greek law. Since 1 January this year, just 79 people have been removed under the agreement). The major ‘loser’ in any suspension or scrapping of the policy would probably be Nea Dimokratia, which claimed it would restart the process, even though – until now – it had never actually stopped.
Finally, we might regard it as part of an effort to embarrass, but also to threaten, not only the EU, but the wider Western world: a challenge to the West to show that it ‘wants’ Turkey. Because in the same interview, Cavusoglu said: ‘We will not leave NATO. That is impossible. But waiting at the EU’s door for more than 50 years is not possible… we will announce our new foreign policy initiatives at the start of August.’
In any case, it is worth noting that this is the first genuine negative statement about the EU/Turkey Deal to come from the Turkish government since late 2017. The major difference this time is that the Turkish Foreign Minister now states that the Deal is ‘no longer functional’. As we noted then, its criticisms are not entirely unreasonable: https://www.dailysabah.com/eu-affairs/2019/07/23/readmission-agreement-with-eu-no-longer-functional-ankara-says
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Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, on this day, as we approach the seventh Sunday of the season of Easter, which is also the World Communication Sunday, we speak about the preaching of the Apostles to the people across the Mediterranean, throughout the many cities and towns, spreading the faith in Jesus to all the peoples, by the means of preaching and teaching.
It was by communicating that the Apostles and the disciples of the Lord had become witnesses to His truth and resurrection, to all that He had revealed to them, and to all that He had done for the sake of the whole race of mankind. These faithful servants went forth and told the people who have not yet heard of God’s salvation, and therefore allowing more and more people to come to believe in the Lord and His truth.
They courageously went forth to distant lands, to the places where no one had yet known the Lord and His love, those who were still living in darkness and ignorance, all those who were still living in a state of sin. Without the courage of these Apostles, who taught and preached with zeal, many more souls would have been lost to the Lord, into the damnation in hell.
And that was what the saint whose feast day we celebrate today, had done by devoting his entire life, in order to avoid such a fate for those who have remained in ignorance of the Lord. St. Augustine of Canterbury, the founder of the Church and its architect in the lands of the Anglo-Saxons, now known as England, set forth from Rome, under the orders of the Pope at that time, Pope St. Gregory the Great, going away from his homeland, in order to be a missionary to the people who have not yet received proper guidance in the faith.
At the time, the collapse of the Roman Empire authority in Britain has left the Christian faith over there to fall into decline, as the pagan barbarians invaded, and disestablished much of the foundations of the Church in that area, which had not been strong and extensive to begin with. As a result, St. Augustine of Canterbury went to a region mostly filled with ignorance and lacking in faith in the Lord.
Nonetheless, St. Augustine of Canterbury persevered through the difficult times, and despite the challenges he faced, including opposition from the pagans and the enemies of the Church. St. Augustine of Canterbury patiently preached to the people, calling them to accept the truths as the Lord had revealed to His Church, and therefore for them to accept Him as their Lord and Saviour.
Gradually, St. Augustine of Canterbury managed to reestablish the Church in England, establishing his diocese in Canterbury, and at the same time building crucial infrastructure and foundation for the Church in that region, which eventually flourished and many people came to end up converting to the Christian faith. This is what he had done, for the sake of the Lord and for His people, all of the hard work he had done.
Brothers and sisters in Christ, on this day, all of us are called to reflect on the actions of St. Augustine of Canterbury, as well as the works of the Apostles and the disciples of the Lord, all of whom had devoted much of their life’s work and energy in order to advance the cause of the Lord, and bring more and more souls back to the Lord’s loving embrace.
All of us should follow their examples, and learn to do the same with our lives. All of us should devote our time and effort to accomplish what the Lord had commanded His Apostles and disciples to do, and which therefore had become the same command that all of us need to obey as well. This is what we need to do, in order to fulfil what the Lord had wanted us to do.
Brothers and sisters in Christ, let us all come ever closer to the Lord, and be ever more committed to Him. May He bless us all and give us the strength to persevere in this life, filled with ever more zeal and love for Him. May God be with us always, now and forevermore. Amen. | <urn:uuid:38a217ec-3c3a-40e0-a154-22a3a42e115a> | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | https://petercanisiusmichaeldavidkang.com/tag/6th-sunday-of-easter/ | 2018-06-23T15:37:12Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267865098.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20180623152108-20180623172108-00221.warc.gz | en | 0.984959 | 840 |
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Would you like to introduce your little one(s) to a new foreign language? Are your children part-Italian but don’t have a chance to practice Italian with other kids? Are you looking for a school for them to explore a new language in a fun and enjoyable way?
Our children’s lessons are stimulating and entertaining: children have fun while learning because they feel at ease with their teacher. Our Italian language teaching method is anchored in the Common European Framework of Reference and is driven by a didactic method that is the result of a decade of experience in the field.
They are encouraged to experience the language through a wide range of fun activities to help them start speaking Italian in a very natural way. But still focusing on grammar, to help them become more familiar with it and later on, being able to apply it. Each group class has no more than 7 students to make sure each one gets the needed attention. If you like it, picture your child! Vi aspettiamo!
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Recently I've gotten three new credit cards (Discover IT Travel, Citi Prestige® and, today, City Custom Cash), and were given an automated CLI with the WF Amex Propel. I used to travel around the world all the time so collecting points / miles was not only fun but quite useful and effective savings. (my last two 1st class flights, purchased by miles, Frankfurt - Ciudad de Mexico and then again Frankfurt - New York would have cost, if purchased outright, north of $15K)
But, once the COVID hit, I've lost income, my investments took a severe hit of over 95% so, back in December 2020 I already had my bankruptcy papers all filled in and ready to submit. I only waited, hoping for a miracle. (and a bit of stuborness, did not want to accept a defeat as of yet) My credit score was at 519 at its ebb and the credit utilization went up to 114% at one point. I lived the last two months of that predicament out of my remaining credit, moving the meager funds to and fro.
That truly scared me, how one's situation could go south so fast. I had ups and downs in my life before, given my unusual life style (been to 83 countries, lived for at least 6 months at the time in 14) and investment (very risky) choices but not like this. Now I am creating a conservative investment portfolio to compliment the risky ones and would love to have as much credit at hand, if something goes wrong again, as possible.
I do not plan to rely on credit for rainy days should dark clouds arrive again but those several months of not having any real money available made me appreciate having credit available. What would you guys say? Any comments?
Happy 4th of July everyone!
I think that people on this board forget that credit was created so that people could buy what they needed when they didn't have the money for it. It's definitely smart to manipulate it in such a way as to make it work for you, but you used it for what it was designed for. There's no shame in that.
To me, having ended up homeless at one time, cash on hand on my grubby little safe beats credit hands down. I don't have to pay back cash unlike credit and I refuse to do bankruptcy, not putting anyone down who does, just personal choice. That said, cash plus credit is a whole lot better. Better yet is a paid off or close to it home plus cash and credit!
Good luck and I hope it all works out for you!
Cash is king, my friend. Your emergency fund should not be access to credit cards.
You should be building up a large warchest in cash of 3-6 months expenses depending on your job stability. Do not invest these funds in bonds, stocks, or crypto. Straight FDIC or money market funds even if they basically pay nothing. Then you start investing after your emergency fund is fully funded. But don't chase investments that went down big like crypto, penny stocks and options. Just stick with simple stock index funds. When dark storm clouds come again, you will be able to fix your roof, buy a new refrigerator, or if it's really bad make your rent/mortgage payment.
Credit is bad because it saps your future income with monthly payments whether it's a 0% auto loan, student loans, or credit cards. The only good debt IMHO is a mortage to purchase your primary residence.
This from the loyal opposition here...
I am not in the camp of avoid credit for everything but a home; following that advice for some can be costly, sometimes very costly.
Just two examples:
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Who Were The Canaanites?
by Wayne Blank
The sons of Ham were Cush, from whom came the Babylonians and Assyrians (Genesis 10:6,8-11), Mizraim, from whom came the Egyptians and Philistines (Genesis 10:13), Put, and Canaan. Coincidence or not, many of Israel's most powerful enemies, from ancient times to the present, originated from the descendants of Ham.
From Canaan naturally came the Canaanite clans - Sidon, Hittites, Jebusites, Amorites, Girgashites, Hivites, Arkites, Sinites, Arvadites, Zemarites and Hamathites. (Genesis 10:15). According to the Bible account, "Later the Canaanite clans scattered and the borders of Canaan reached from Sidon toward Gerar as far as Gaza, and then toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha." (Genesis 10:19). It's in this described area that the conflict between the Israelites and the "peoples of the land" began, and has continued right to the present day. You can turn on your television news and witness this ancient Biblical struggle continuing almost any day with your own two eyes.
A vital, very often overlooked point of the struggle for the land is that the earth belongs to God. He created it, He owns it, He decides what He wants to do with it. It is His property. Although others may have been allowed to live in the land before the arrival of the Israelites, God has owned the land right from the time of Creation before any humans even existed.
If someone owns a number of houses now that won't be needed until later, rather than letting them sit empty and neglected, they are usually rented to someone who can make use of them in the mean time. But then one day, if one of the owner's children reaches adult age and needs a place to live, the owner can choose not to renew the lease to one of those houses, which the owner has every legal and moral right to do, so that the designated heir may move in.
Even though the tenants of that particular house may have been living there for many years, caring for the property as if it were their own, they would be required to move when their lease is up - either to another house that the owner has available for rent, or hopefully by then they will have saved enough to purchase their own home. The process has nothing to do with fairness or unfairness, but is simply a matter of an owner having the right to do whatever he or she sees fit with their own property.
God is not unfair to anyone. God does not play favorites. The Canaanites have the same opportunity for salvation as the Israelites. But, God does have a Plan, and that Plan requires specific people to be in precise places at exact times.
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In the 21st century, just about every party or event is considered to be incomplete without the presence of a professional DJ, who can let you dance to the grooves of some of the hottest remix tracks. All you DJs around the world, Behold! One of the most expensive turntables has now been showcased at the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest in Denver, Colorado and carries a price tag of an overwhelming $150,000. This magnificent new turn table called, One Degree Of Freedom or Onedof has been designed and developed by Aleks Bakman, a former engineer with NASA and who is also the recipient of numerous awards. Turntables in the recent years have come from a long way from simply being an instrument of the DJs and have witnessed some of the most luxurious treatments, such the burl wood turntable, Legno turntable and the famous diamond turntable from Scheu Analog.
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I voted for you; recent decisions and blatant inaction has made me, deeply, regret my decision. Okay, granted – there weren’t any acceptable options at the time and your speech writers, definitely, struck a chord but you are proving the adage, “Talk is cheap.”
I understand budgets and I know that money is allotted to various departments. I understand that if that money is not utilized, the following year, those budgets get cut. This is not license for fiscal irresponsibility. After years of Harper, social spending should have been one of the priorities – NATIONAL social spending. While I support the Clinton Foundation and its numerous good works; the world can wait while your government puts our own house in order.
The decision, by the courts, to award Khadr 10 million Canadian tax dollars is beyond absurd. Is this a pay off for information? Is it a pay off for some sort of silence? While his rights were violated; it was not by the Canadian people, yet it is us that are footing this bill, created by the Canadian Human Rights Commission – in this case, a title best described as an oxymoron. If financial compensation was to be awarded; why was it not compensation, in Khadr’s name to Amnesty International or some other global Human Rights organization? An apology on behalf of the government is fine.
There are too many victims of human rights abuse in Canada to have a man, who was involved in a war action, to be handed over my money for behaviour directed against the West and as Canada is in the West – against Canadians. He has been granted the privilege of the chance for a new life; that is compensation enough.
How many indigenous communities could have been helped with that 10 million dollars? How many veterans who fought for our beliefs could have benefited from this kind of windfall?
Sunny Ways, Mr. Trudeau? No. These are not sunny ways for Canadians. We struggle, daily, to maintain our standards of living and you? You aid in the process of throwing our tax dollars away. Your “sunny ways” are a sham; behind your picture of sun and happy times, the truth will, eventually, rip through. For all Harper’s cold-hearted cuts to social networks, for all his protection of corporate Canada, you and your government are not better, perhaps worse.
Your government’s donation to the Clinton Foundation is a glaring example of your disconnect with this country. While the Foundation provides opportunities for education in foreign lands, we have communities in your own country that need those opportunities. While the Clinton Foundation helps to provide support for women in the world; there are women in your own country that need those opportunities. Support for artisans in foreign lands – your own country has artisans that need support to help their own communities thrive.
When an indigenous child dies because there is no access to an ambulance, or sickens because of a lack of access to clean water, safe living quarters and over 10 million dollars is shoveled over to a soldier of an enemy? $10.39 for 4 litres of milk in Nunavut? And you give an enemy operative 10 million dollars? How about using Khadr’s name on a Hercules, sent up north with food – create a government store and render the parasites at Northern Stores impotent. Look after your own people first.
When a veteran must struggle to make ends meet, when a veteran cannot afford food and proper housing? You have failed. Your sun has set and the dark clouds are moving in.
Are you that blind? Are your handlers that successful in insulating you from Canadian reality?
You are failing Canada, you are failing your constituents – you are failing Canadians and in a very negative but spectacular fashion. You make me ashamed. | <urn:uuid:eef29b74-3bbf-4050-9f87-4d45163f5f8c> | CC-MAIN-2017-34 | https://wickedemerald.wordpress.com/tag/omar-khadr/ | 2017-08-21T13:43:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-34/segments/1502886108709.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20170821133645-20170821153645-00640.warc.gz | en | 0.966915 | 779 |
This ikan Power Supply System is designed to provide power to your Blackmagic Cinema Camera and devices while on-the-go. The system features a V-mount battery plate and outputs for 12V, 8V, and 5V coaxial as well as a 14.8V P-Tap port for powering your equipment. Additionally, it utilizes an adjustable 15mm rail mount for easily attaching it to your rig.
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There’s a lot cooking this week, but for those that can only spare time for one thing it should be the Wilson Street Reconstruction Public Meeting on Monday. Robbie’s blog post gives some background on the project and tips for how to participate. Another take on the project is on the Imagine Madison blog. Showing up for this public engagement meeting is one of the best ways to really participate in democracy and to help build the community you want to live in. If you’ve never come to a public meeting like this before, give it a shot and help us achieve our vision of a connected bike network for people of all ages and abilities.
Tuesday at noon, America Walks is hosting a webinar entitled Advancing Neighborhood Change through Equity and Inclusion where panelists will discuss ways to work towards positive changes that are rooted in respect and authentic engagement with residents. These are really important conversations and Madison Bikes is committed to working towards equity and inclusion in our advocacy efforts.
On Wednesday, the Bassett Street protected bike lanes that were unanimously approved at Ped/Bike/Motor Vehicle Commission last month are up for reconsideration. The Board of Public Works is the controlling body of this project and may choose to recommend a different plan to the city council for approval. Consider attending the meeting and voicing your support.
And on Thursday, the Long Range Transportation Planning Committee will take up the Transportation Ordinance Rewrite Committee’s draft update to the City’s transportation ordinance (3.14). This draft was in front of Transit and Parking Commission last month. At the end of this month, it will be considered by the Ped/Bike/Motor Vehicle Commission and may be in front of the Common Council sometime after May. | <urn:uuid:06e4109d-1ae1-449b-9fb9-19637793d561> | CC-MAIN-2019-18 | https://www.madisonbikes.org/madison_bikes_calendar_highlights_3_20_17 | 2019-04-21T01:14:45Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-18/segments/1555578530100.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20190421000555-20190421021637-00080.warc.gz | en | 0.935052 | 354 |
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Tylenol is a well-known drug. However, wrongful death does occur occasionally. It’s important to know your legal options if Tylenol played a part in the untimely death of you or a loved one.
The Definition of Tylenol
Tylenol is a brand name for the drug acetaminophen. This drug is usually used for inflammation and fever. It is available as tablets, capsules, and liquids, among other forms.
What Exactly Is Wrongful Death?
When someone dies as a result of someone else’s carelessness or malicious behavior, it is a wrongful death. Wrongful deaths can result from poor marketing, inadequate warnings, or errors in the production of Tylenol.
Tylenol and Wrongful Death
One of the safest medications is Tylenol when taken as directed. There have, however, been a few extremely rare cases of fatal liver damage and failure.
There are numerous ways that Tylenol liver injury can occur. The most common cause of liver impairment is heavy drug use. However, even when a patient takes the recommended amount, liver damage might still happen at random.
A frequent cause of damage and wrongful death linked to Tylenol is manufacturing faults. In exceedingly rare instances, hazardous materials may be an addition to the medication during the manufacturing process. Bacteria, metal shards, and other foreign objects are examples of contaminants that, if swallowed, could result in serious harm or even death. Any stage of the production process, from the procurement of raw materials through the packing of the finished good, is susceptible to manufacturing errors.
However, there can be an issue with the manufacturing machinery or a worker error. Manufacturing flaws can be challenging to spot since they can take time to become evident. The symptoms of liver disease often take weeks or even months to manifest. Due to this, it could be challenging to identify the contamination’s origin and link the producer to it.
It is important for the company to provide warnings regarding its products. Take, for example, Tylenol, where insufficient warnings could involve the failure to caution against the risks of liver damage and failure. When manufacturers fall short of delivering adequate warnings, they may be held responsible for any injuries or fatalities that may arise as a consequence.
The mishandling of Tylenol’s marketing can pose serious risks, including injuries and wrongful deaths. It is imperative for manufacturers to market their products with complete truthfulness and accuracy.
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re: Oh No-----------tell me it ain't so.......Athlon's SEC coaching thoughts... - otowntiger on 5/24/17 at 4:16 am
[quote]Just looking at that list, what coaches would you take over O? [/quote][quote]Malzahn[/quote] definitely not- the other two for sure....Jump to Post - View Topic - Replies (1)
re: LSU is Awesome - otowntiger on 5/19/17 at 5:20 am
[quote]To be determined going forward but at least future is much brighter with coach O and wade than with Les and jones who, quite frankly, didn't look like they gave a damn anymore tbh[/quote]. Agreed. ...Jump to Post - View Topic - Replies (0)
re: What's up with dri fit clothing? - otowntiger on 5/18/17 at 5:43 pm
[quote]Seems like that's all anyone sells anymore. What happened to cotton t shirts? Ridiculous[/quote]. Because no one likes those thick. scratchy, heavy,uncomfortable shirts. I never did and was thrilled that reasonable alternatives have arrived. ...Jump to Post - View Topic - Replies (0)
re: Ed's got this. No worries. Update: Drunk man pontificates on things beyond him - otowntiger on 5/8/17 at 1:34 pm
[quote]He's not Saban, Urban, or Peterson, but he will be consistent and will always invest everything he has into the university. This is his dream job, as it would be every one of us. [/quote] kinda sounds like he could be another cholly Mac type coach. And I don't think that 'consistancy' and t...Jump to Post - View Topic - Replies (0)
re: What are some mispronounced words that drive you nuts? - otowntiger on 5/4/17 at 3:08 pm
Fourth instead of force. So many people's lisps really come out today....Jump to Post - View Topic - Replies (0)
re: How much more do you make now compared to when you first got out of school? - otowntiger on 5/4/17 at 12:14 am
540% more....Jump to Post - View Topic - Replies (0)
re: one of the main reasons i like coach O and think he'll be a success at LSU - otowntiger on 5/3/17 at 3:30 pm
I don't hate O, but I'm not sure we are going to see results much different than we've seen over the last 8-10 years under Miles. We will be competitive because of our talent, we will have a solid defense as long as O keeps a solid coordinator (Aranda isn't going to be around forever, or even a ver...Jump to Post - View Topic - Replies (0)
re: Sports reporter - "This looks like the team that got Miles fired" - otowntiger on 5/3/17 at 3:26 pm
[quote]If quarterback play improves just a little bit (it has to at this point doesnt it?) we can compete with anyone[/quote] wow. How often have we heard this??? All we need is a 'serviceable' qb. All we need is a qb that doesn't make mistakes. All we need is a qb that 'manages the game'. Wel...Jump to Post - View Topic - Replies (0)
re: It's unfathomable how much talent Miles squandered - otowntiger on 4/28/17 at 4:46 am
[quote]How many games did he win?[/quote]certainly not enough For what he had to work with that's for sure. '05, 06, 07, '11 were very good- the rest were mediocre at best. ...Jump to Post - View Topic - Replies (0)
re: Can we stop comparing every coach, who struggles, to Miles - otowntiger on 4/24/17 at 7:50 pm
[quote]Can we stop comparing every coach, who struggles, to Miles by FiddleHead It's infuriating and makes zero sense [/quote] Why the heck not?? In case you missed it Miles struggled MIGHTILY over the last 9 years with the exception of 2011/ and that year ended with the mother of all struggles a...Jump to Post - View Topic - Replies (1)
re: I commented on this a month ago but Etling is getting back surgery tomorrow morning - otowntiger on 4/24/17 at 3:19 pm
[quote]That's a fact but he is the best that we had and he gave his best.[/quote] won't argue with that at all but my point is still the same....Jump to Post - View Topic - Replies (0)
re: How did KENTUCKY get better than LSU in BASEBALL? - otowntiger on 4/23/17 at 1:48 pm
[quote]The series is tied 1-1 bro[/quote]. :lol: U.K. Ahead 10-1 in 5th inning of the rubber match. So yeah they are a bit better I'd say. ...Jump to Post - View Topic - Replies (0)
re: How did KENTUCKY get better than LSU in BASEBALL? - otowntiger on 4/23/17 at 1:45 pm
[quote] It is kind of pathetic, but LSU is just not good in the big 3 sports anymore. Underwhelming sports program we have. Sucks to suck.[/quote] I believe this is true. Baseball is clearly on the decline. Basketball is abysmal, and football is struggling to stay mediocre. ...Jump to Post - View Topic - Replies (0)
re: I commented on this a month ago but Etling is getting back surgery tomorrow morning - otowntiger on 4/23/17 at 1:25 pm
Etling having back surgery could have huge implications for him and the team this fall. Back surgery of any type is very serous and can result in a long rehab period, or longer than anticipated. And it wasn't like he was all that great to begin with. ...Jump to Post - View Topic - Replies (2)
re: The offense has an uphill task ahead - otowntiger on 4/23/17 at 5:46 am
[quote]A delinquent o line, limited options at receiver and a less than serviceable QB. The defense will keep us in the games but the offense will need more time than we have imho[/quote]. Agreed. My enthusiasm for the offense(what little I had to begin with) took a hit tonight. The offense is not...Jump to Post - View Topic - Replies (1)
Lange, Baseball Pound Kentucky in Run-Rule Style
The Tigers will play again on Saturday.
Dave Aranda Is 'Hopeful' About Arden Key's Return To The Team
Key recently took some time off from the team.
Michael Irvin Has Some Advice For Odell Beckham Jr.
Odell missed Giants OTA's this week.
LSU's Season Opener Vs. BYU Set For Primetime Kickoff On ESPN
The game will be played in NRG Stadium in Houston, TX.
Kendell Beckwith Signs With The Tampa Bay Buccaneers
The Bucs drafted Beckwith in the 3rd round.
LSU Beats Missouri In SEC Tournament Opener, 10-3
The Tigers will face Kentucky on Thursday.
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This popular, widely recommended, text supports trainees on primary initial teacher training courses where a secure knowledge and understanding of English is required for the award of Qualified Teacher Status (QTS). A rigorous and focused test enables trainees to identify their strengths and weaknesses in English. This test can be revisited at key stages in their course as a tool to monitor and evaluate progress. The fourth edition has been updated in line with the new National Curriculum, includes more information on expanding and developing a knowledge of English and is linked to the 2012 Teachers' Standards.
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As in any other area of life, if you damage someone else’s property YES YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE.
We hear it every day from people who damage our roll off dumpsters, “what’s the big deal, it’s just a hole?”, or “I didn’t bend the door THAT much”, or my personal favorite “I HAD to get it all in the box”! I have been doing this for 20 years now and the look of shock on someone’s face when they realize that what they did comes with a repair bill has never changed. A few personal story about some of our “mishaps” follows the damage descriptions.
Let me preface this with the fact that we work very closely with our customers and have never had a problem that hasn’t been resolved amicably between us. As a matter of fact, one customer broke 2 of my dumpsters on 2 different occasions! Now how does one “break” a dumpster? Well, damaging the door (the latches are very precise), the locking system, punctures, ripped bars, bent walls, crushed channel steel (top rail of dumpster), all constitute “breaking” a dumpster. Let me handle each issue separately and give explanations.
Holes: Holes in the floors or walls of roll off dumpsters is NOT permitted. Dumpsters found in use with holes in them are subject to fines starting at $1500/incident. They require repair and the cost will vary depending on hole location/size.
Bent Structure (walls, door, floor): Once a wall or door is bent, the structural integrity of the container has been compromised. A simple dent in the top rail of a container can make the whole wall susceptible to further collapse as pressure and weight is applied in the future. This problem can go from mild (no fix necessary) to extensive (major repairs). If a wall is simply dented, no repair would likely be necessary, but a bowed wall could require straightening, reinforcement and bracing.
Torn Bars: The sides of roll off dumpsters often have a thin bar welded along the sides to provide a foothold for stepping on the side. Typically this is not an essential repair and would not constitute immediate repair unless it is a rail to the side ladder.
Damaged Latch/Lock: This is an immediate “Out Of Service” repair. A dumpster with a damaged locking system is both a hazard on a jobsite as well as while traveling on the highways. These repairs can range from simple to complex depending upon which parts are damaged and how they are damaged.
Bent Door: This can be a VERY expensive repair. This is usually caused by overloading the container with a machine, or hitting the door with some type of machine or vehicle.
In almost EVERY case, damage is caused when someone uses a machine to overload and crush the load into the container or someone tries to move a container with something (I’ve seen cars, trucks, tractors, excavators and HORSES!!! (I swear with my hand on a bible that is what the man said when I asked him how it got moved!)
If you are like 99.9 % of the rentals, nothing happens and everything is fine and we all move on to the next thing. BUT, nothing is 100%!
Story 1: A very good customer of mine had a 30 Yd dumpster loaded with bulk heading. That box had 9 tons of bulk heading in it and he decided to pick the dumpster up (by grabbing it with the grapple on his excavator by the wall of the dumpster) and pulling it sideways. Well, the side he pulled sure moved, problem was that the 9 tons of bulk heading and the floor of the dumpster had a different plan. They decided to stay put. That repair took 2 weeks and cost about $1500. The builders statement as he handed me the check: (chuckle) “I guess I shouldn’t have done that, huh?”
Story 2: A local marina was doing improvements to their site and they overloaded a dumpster so badly with their machine that they bent the rear door like a banana and the sides looked like a sound wave. Fortunately, they had a welding shop there at the marina and they repaired the dumpster themselves and offered a hearty apology. That repair took 1 week and since I didn’t pay for it, unknown costs to the marina.
Story 3: Let’s go to the same customer from Story 1 but 3 years later. He waffled a rear door so badly, we had to build a whole new door since the dumpster manufacturer for that particular model is no longer in business. That repair cost $3000 and the container was out of service for 1 month. His answer when I told him about the damage: “well, I really tried to get everything into that box. I guess I shouldn’t have done that, huh?” My reply: “I’m going to tattoo that on your forehead next time!”
Again, if you don’t have a machine damaging a container is very difficult. If you are using a machine, NEVER move a dumpster, and use common sense when loading it.
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Not the old GOP – thank God!
Posted By Barbara Simpson On 09/02/2012 @ 3:15 pm In Commentary | No Comments
The Republican convention in Tampa will go down in history – not because all of it was spectacular – it wasn’t – but because the parts of it that were, surpassed expectations.
Chris Christie, Marco Rubio, Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney and the women – yes, conservative women holding elected office not because of their sex or heritage but because voters considered them the best to serve.
And they gave terrific speeches, too, holding their own against the men and, in many cases, doing a better job.
But it wasn’t a competition; it was a showcase of the new generation of Republicans – the young Turks who are ready to move the party into the future.
It was their opportunity to step into the spotlight, presenting their experience with the magic that has been the history of the United States – the freedom and opportunity this country offers to those who really do seek a better life for themselves, their children and grandchildren.
It isn’t the old GOP. The time has passed when candidates are chosen because it’s “their turn.” Republicans tried that, and it didn’t work in spectacular fashion – think Dole and McCain.
There are new names on the marquee. While there are some who feel Mitt Romney doesn’t carry the “excitement” some want, he is qualified for the job and surrounded by an amazing group of individuals – and I use that word intentionally.
Mitt Romney’s choice of Paul Ryan as his running mate surprised many. He’s so young. He’s so unknown. He’s too inexperienced.
Romney showed his business-like skill in choosing someone who complements his own achievements and who will serve with a focus on the prime issue facing Americans today: the economy.
In addition to that, Ryan is smart, clever and has a sense of humor.
We need a reason to smile these days, and we aren’t getting it from the opposition in the White House.
It’s all we can do to keep from crying.
I’ve seen my share of political conventions and heard my share of political speeches.
Unfortunately, most weren’t memorable and most catered to the powers that be, assuming the numb-brained electorate would do what the consultants predicted: vote for the ticket that would give away as much of the public treasury as traffic would bear.
They assume when the pols are handing out free money, people – read that sheep-like voters – will do whatever they’re told.
There’s no better example of that than the campaign that elected the man now in the Oval Office.
You know the guy, Barack Obama. The man the GOP opposition – read that John McCain – so feared that even his legitimate middle name was verboten.
If you’ve forgotten, it’s Hussein.
Ooooooh. Be careful. Mentioning that word might stir up the people who get stirred up by reminders that certain folks in certain parts of the world have a tendency to get stirred up into what some call violence at anything they interpret as an insult or a slight.
It’s gotten so bad that the man who is president bends over backward to kowtow to those certain folks, so as not to stir them up.
It’s presented problems because while the U.S. is in the midst of the worst economic crisis ever, we’re also at war against an enemy that the man in the Oval Office can’t – or won’t – identify.
He’s always careful not to stir things up even as our troops are being killed every day, many in acts of betrayal by the people we’re told are friends.
It’s war and it’s politics and it’s something the administration avoids mentioning. One wonders how the Democrats will treat it during their convention.
Mother Nature threw a monkey wrench at the GOP with Hurricane Isaac threatening Tampa and then moving on to Mississippi and Louisiana, causing devastation.
The GOP cut a day from the schedule, but the show went on and what a show!
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was a revelation. He was strong, purposeful, humorous and to the point. The man who many expected to erupt into a Vesuvius of invective, instead stirred family values, loyalty and patriotism. He spoke of honesty and courage to do what’s right.
It gave me chills. It was so wonderful to hear a politician praise the values that made this country great and who spoke of the courage it takes to do what’s right and not just what’s expedient.
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio did the same. He had the strength to speak for the generations who came to this country with nothing and worked hard for a better life for their children.
Both he and Christie spoke for millions of Americans, and it’s about time we hear politicians speak that way.
But who would have dreamed a Hollywood icon would steal the headlines with an appearance that humorless Democrats still can’t figure out but realistic and patriotic conservatives cheered?
That’s exactly what Clint Eastwood did.
What appeared to be a haphazard presentation was, in reality, a masterful thumb-in-the-eye of the thin-skinned man who is president.
Acting casual, informal and mentally scattered, Eastwood nailed Obama on terror trials, Guantanamo, the war in Afghanistan, the economy, unemployment, the meddling of lawyers, and politicians only seeking re-election.
Then, he summed it up beautifully: “We own this country. … Politicians are employees of ours,” and if they do “not do the job, we got to let them go.”
You got that right, Clint
With those words, you made my day!
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Whether it’s football, golf, hockey, or motorsports, DOS has a rich and diverse library of sports games for everyone. There are 2D sports games, 3D sports games, and text-based sports games. Some are simulation-oriented, while others don’t take themselves too seriously and just try to have fun.
Today, I shall take a look at the 15 best DOS sports games that you must check out. Of course, there’s a lot more than just 15 in the DOS library but I’m only including the most popular and revolutionary titles here. There was plenty of cheap shovelware back then, and trust me- you don’t want to play that stuff.
John Madden Football
Initially, Trip Hawkins (the designer) approached Joe Montana and Joe Kapp to endorse his football game which would be created in the same vein as Strat-O-Matic. However, Montana already had a deal with Atari, and Kapp was charging too much. So two years go by, and guess who agreed to put his name on the box- John Madden himself.
John Madden Football was received favorably by critics who appreciated the combination of simulation elements with arcade-like features. If you wanted a simple practice run, you could hop into Quick Mode. And for those who wished to go all-in on stats and team building, there was the Standard Game mode.
Made by Konami and released for arcades in 1986, Double Dribble eventually got a PC port one year later. With a massive side-scrolling court, smooth animations, cinematics, and accurate player models, Double Dribble was considered the most realistic basketball game of its time. When a player performed a slam dunk, you’d get an animated cinematic sequence that was stylish and impactful.
The single most obscure sports game on DOS, 3D CyberPuck is what happens when you combine hockey with spaceships. After all, the only thing more exciting than hockey is hockey with rocket boosters and sci-fi gadgets. You get many exciting powerups, such as the Gravity Well which can be dropped in the middle of the play area to attract the ball.
You can also deploy a portable wall that bounces the hockey ball once before breaking. Everyone is driving a rocket ship, and you get shields that prevent your opponent from stealing your ball. Sometimes, you can even drop mines that send the ball flying in a random direction with great speed.
4D Sports Boxing
Despite the name, this isn’t a 4D game. However, it’s 3D which I feel is more than enough for most people- we aren’t quite ready for the metaphysical plane yet. This is one of the earliest games to feature 3D opponents in the ring, and they are made of polygons.
Boxers in this game are loosely based on real-world fighters and have varied stats. Some punch hard, others punch fast. If you play as the champ, you have extremely high attributes in all aspects of boxing.
The PC version of Hardball III contains more complex game mechanics compared to the SNES and Sega Genesis versions. For starters, logging your seasonal stats is a much more seamless process on a PC because you have a hard disk drive. Consoles had to go through an elaborate password-based process to do the same thing.
Upon release in 1992, Hardball III was praised for its wonderful integration with VGA graphics and modern soundcards of the era. Its animations, stat system, and team mechanics were also revolutionary for being hyper-realistic compared to the more arcade-themed baseball games prevalent during the 1990s.
Back when EA Sports wasn’t universally, NHL ’94 was one of its premier products. It’s one of the earliest multiplatform ice hockey games and is licensed by both the NHL and NHL Player’s Association. Unlike other hockey games of its era, NHL ’94 used an isometric camera angle that offered you a bird’s eye view of all the action.
While characters were still represented via 2D sprites, their animations were significantly upgraded. New mechanics like the “one-timer” were added, along with the ability to save records. All of this, combined with the 4 new game modes made NHL ’94 one of the best sports games of all time.
R.B.I. Baseball 2
The second game in the R.B.I Baseball series, it’s fully licensed and features all major league teams along with every player from the 1990 roster. If you want, you can even choose to play as one of the 1989 All-Star squads. You can play solo, 1 v 1, or a full season against every team in the division.
If you just want to have some good old-fashioned fun without getting realistic, Action Soccer is perfect for you. Its cartoonish theme is further accentuated by the comedic timing and sarcastic commentary of Jonathan Pearce. You can play solo against the computer, or against another person in 2-player mode.
The isometric 3D camera is perfect for fast-paced action, and you can choose from a wide range of unique player characters while building your team. Each character has attributes such as speed, skill, strength, etc. The weather changes during the game and adds a new layer of complexity to what’s already a very intense experience.
Grand Prix 2
It’s from 1996 and still manages to be more realistic than some modern racing games. Every aspect of the cockpit in an F1 car is rendered with great attention to detail, and you get to choose between 16 different circuits- all from the 1994 F1 season. Since this game is officially licensed, you also get all 28 drivers and 14 teams.
You can do practice, qualifying laps, and the actual race just like in the real world. Cars can be customized, and mechanical failures in the engine, electronics, frame, etc. are modeled accurately. If you want, you can turn on or turn off driving aids like auto shifting, traction control, and power steering.
Skate or Die
Long before Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, there was Skate or Die- the first game to be developed internally by EA. The game has five unique skating events that you can compete in individually or as part of a sequential tournament format. You can sign up to 8 players for the tournament, and compete with your real-life friends to see who can pull off the sickest tricks.
Unlike wrestling games you’re familiar with in the current era, this isn’t a 3D-action game. Instead, it’s a text-based professional wrestling simulator that’s licensed by the WWF. It features superstars like Hulk Hogan, Macho Man, Ted Dibiase, etc. in turn-based strategy matches where you select wrestling moves from a list of text options.
In the middle of the screen, there’s a window that shows an image of your wrestler performing whichever move you selected (taken from actual matches). Moves are divided into basic and major types, performing a finisher helps you recover HP by rallying the crowd. Before each match, Mean Gene interviews the wrestlers.
Sharkey’s 3D Pool
Most pool games from this era have a 2D table with a pool stick that you can only angle in two dimensions- left and right. However, Sharkey’s 3D Pool lets you rotate the table along all 3 axes and vary the viewpoint on your cue stick for the perfect shot. You can even set the pace, spin, and strike angle depending on where you want your ball to go.
Lakers vs. Celtics and the NBA Playoffs
The first-ever basketball video game to be endorsed by the NBA, Lakers vs. Celtics features many top stars and teams from the 1980s. Its story is rudimentary but centers around the rivalry between the Boston Celtics and Los Angeles Lakers. What makes the DOS version special is the fact that Kareem Abdul Jabbar is exclusive to this version of the game.
While Action Soccer is a cartoonish depiction of the sport that doesn’t take itself too seriously, MicroProse Soccer turns the dial all the way in the opposite direction. It’s a full-on simulation game in which you can recreate a game of football featuring 11 players on both sides. You can play the Indoor League (6-player-team), or go for a World Cup season (11-player-team).
The Games: Winter Challenge
With a name like this, it’s obvious that the developers couldn’t get an official license from the International Olympic Committee. Still, it’s based on the Winter Olympics and contains all the relevant events. You’ve got luge, downhill skiing, bobsled, ski jump, biathlon, etc.
You’ll be surprised to find that a lot of these games can still put you on the edge of your seat in excitement, with their engaging mechanics and level design. Sure, the graphics have aged very poorly and none of the control makes any sense in the modern era. But once you iron out the kinks, I’m sure you’ll find yourself immersed thoroughly in a virtual world of sports for hours on end.
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About 200 calves are born each year at Hansen’s Dairy, and Herd Manager Blake Hansen serves as a type of cattle ob-gyn for the expecting cows. While difficulties during labor are uncommon, difficult labors are very hard on the cows and can lead to diminished milking productivity and decreased fertility. For these reasons, Blake keeps a close eye on the cows near the end of their 9-month pregnancy.
Though each cow is different, Blake will see several indications that a cow is close to labor. In the week before calving, her feed intake decreases and her udder will start to swell. Young heifer’s udders can start swelling as early as 1 month before labor. Several days before labor, the ligaments on the tail head cave in slowly, then drastically when labor is only hours away.
During the first stage of labor, the calf is being forced toward the birth canal and the cervix is beginning to dilate. Because of the dilation, the base of her tail may appear to have a kink in it. At this point, the cow will be moved inside the barn to the maternity pen so she can deliver her calf in a dry, clean space.
Shortly after, the water bag will appear from the vulva. It will resemble a small reddish-brown balloon filled with water, or the bag may burst inside her. When this bag breaks, the cow will feel a release of pressure and she’ll get up to investigate. If she makes no progress for a half-hour after the water bag has appeared or burst, Blake will help the cow with her delivery.
During the second stage of labor the contractions become strong and coordinated. They will come 3 to 5 minutes apart. The cow will often lie on her side begin to push. She will be visibly straining.
Within an hour after the water bag has appeared, two small white hooves should emerge from the vulva while still in the embryotic fluid bag. After a few minutes, the nose will follow, then the shoulders, body and hind legs. The cow will immediately stand and turn to clean the calf with her tongue.
80% of births are unassisted and calves will enter the birth canal correctly, with their front feet first and nose between their knees. But sometimes, the calves may have limbs twisted, be backwards (breech) or too large.
The above picture, from Oregon State University Extension Service (http://ans.oregonstate.edu/sites/ans.oregonstate.edu/files/extension/cattle/CalvingSchool-theCalvingProcess.pdf), shows a calf entering the birth canal in the correct position.
The above picture, from Oregon State University Extension Service (http://ans.oregonstate.edu/sites/ans.oregonstate.edu/files/extension/cattle/CalvingSchool-theCalvingProcess.pdf), shows a calf in the birth canal with its front leg pinned back. A cow with her calf in this position would require some assistance during labor.
This picture, from Oregon State University Extension Service (http://ans.oregonstate.edu/sites/ans.oregonstate.edu/files/extension/cattle/CalvingSchool-theCalvingProcess.pdf), shows a calf in the backwards (breech) position. Blake must quickly deliver the calf before the cow is pushing too much, or it will be hard to reach in and grab the hind legs.
The third and final stage of labor is the passing of the afterbirth. The cow’s uterine contractions will continue in order to expel the remaining fetal membranes. This will last anywhere from 1 to 12 hours.
Some tour participants are lucky enough to witness a calf being born. It’s wonderful to see the miracle of life before your eyes!
Written by Kelby Robb
Making butter is a fun, easy experiment — it’s educational and delicious. Try this at home with your kids. No old-fashioned butter churn required!
This activity will yield just enough butter for a single piece of bread or several crackers. For larger amounts of butter, use more heavy whipping cream and a mixer to thicken the cream. As a bonus, you can also make your own buttermilk by following these directions.
To start, purchase a quart of heavy whipping cream from Hansen’s Farm Fresh Dairy.
Pour 2 tablespoons of the heavy whipping cream into a small sealable container (preferably glass, like a baby food jar).
Seal the container and shake it vigorously for 3-5 minutes. The cream will start sticking to the sides, but you’re not done yet. Suddenly, a chunk of light, fluffy butter will clearly separate from the watery buttermilk and you’ll be able to hear it start slapping around in the jar. Once you hit this point, it’s important to stop shaking the jar (don’t over shake). The cream turns to butter because of the agitation and the warmth of your hands.
The butter isn’t ready to eat quite yet. Drain the buttermilk (the excess liquid) from your container. Next, spoon up the butter left in your container and dip it into cool water to rinse the remaining buttermilk from the butter.
When the excess water is gone from the butter, sprinkle on a small amount of salt, or even some fresh herbs, and spread it onto your bread or crackers. Enjoy your homemade butter!
To store leftovers, put the butter in a sealable container and refrigerate it.
Written by Kelby Robb, Hansen’s Dairy intern
CareerCast.com recently posted their annual listing for the 200 Worst Jobs in America for 2013. The rankings were based on five factors: physical demands, work environment, income, stress and hiring outlook. “Dairy farmer” was listed as No. 6. So what do the farmers at Hansen’s Farm Fresh Dairy have to say about that?
“If everyone loved their job as much as dairy farmers, there wouldn’t be such a list,” says Blake Hansen, herd manager.
Indeed. Working with cows can be very satisfying and rewarding, and a dairy farmer has to be completely committed to his craft in order to be successful. Like other self-employed people, their whole life revolves around their business. They do what they love to provide a nutritious food group to feed America. Their livelihood relies on those animals staying alive and healthy for years. If a farmer takes proactive steps to maintain the health of his cows, he maximizes his chances of success. If he takes care of the cows, they will take care of him.
Let’s address the factors that went into creating this worst job list.
Physical demands. Dairy farmers milk their cows at least twice a day, feed them three times a day, and care for them around the clock. They deal with inclement weather, delivering calves, heavy lifting and being on their feet all day. But Blake says the physical demands are nothing compared to the mental effort. Keeping track of the needs of 375 animals in different life stages is mentally taxing.
Work environment. OK, sometimes the smell is a little overwhelming. (You get used to it.) But who wouldn’t love the wide open spaces a farm provides? The steady supply of milk right outside your door? The opportunities for your kids to learn the value of family and hard work? Our small-scale farm (375 cows from newborn to 10 years old) allows us to get to know each cow by name and temperament. Blake knows who likes to be first in the milking parlor, who loves her tail rubbed and who is ready to calve. Imagine working with a group of girls with very unique, individual personalities, and not a catty one in the bunch!
Income. We’ll agree with this one. Many small dairy farms have had to sell out because of high input costs (feed and fuel) and low income (market prices for the milk). Twelve years ago our family took a financial risk by investing in facilities and equipment to bottle our own milk, and it has paid off in a big way. But we know it would be much harder for single-family farmers to put in that kind of time, money and effort. We are grateful to be able to support five families with the size farm we have.
Stress. Every job has its ups and downs. The death of an adult cow who you saw being born, trying to get fieldwork done ahead of the rain, working side by side with family members, and managing employees can all be stressful. There’s very little vacation time. But there is nothing like the feeling of seeing a cow nursing her newborn calf that you helped deliver overnight. The life cycle is renewed, and it’s wonderful to think about that calf’s potential down the road. Our oldest cow has produced enough milk in her lifetime to fill four semi-trailers. And she’s still going.
Hiring outlook. Land prices around here have skyrocketed, so if you don’t already have a farm in the family that will be passed down to you, getting into the business by yourself is financially tough. And with large operations streamlining milk production, jobs are harder to come by. But hey, if any of you are looking for a job in the dairy industry, we usually have something available!
So, we would argue with dairy farming’s placement on the worst jobs list. The proof is bottled in a jug on your table with our name on it.
There is a global debate about raw milk happening. In several countries, including the U.S., there are serious conversations taking place about whether people should drink, and especially whether they should be able to purchase, raw milk. The point of this post is not to advocate for or against either side. The purpose is to provide you with information and to let you know our policies and why we have them.
First, a few definitions. Pasteurization involves heating milk (or any food or liquid) to a certain temperature and then immediately cooling it to slow the growth of microbes and bacteria. This keeps the product from going bad as quickly as it might otherwise. High temperature, short time (HTST) pasteurization, which is what we use at Hansen’s, kills 99.999% of viable micro-organisms in the milk (like yeasts, molds, bacteria, and pathogens). Just a reminder – although we DO pasteurize our milk, we do not homogenize it (shake that jug, folks!).
When people talk about “raw milk” they mean milk that has not been pasteurized or homogenized. Until the 1890s, everyone drank raw milk because pasteurization wasn’t common practice yet. Pasteurization became widely practiced after the development of germ theory and the discovery of bacteria. It was thought that some diseases common in cows were transmitted to humans in raw milk. Since not every farmer’s milk could be tested, it was considered safer to pasteurize all of the milk.
Some people believe that pasteurization damages nutrients in the milk (such as calcium) and kills “good” bacteria that are beneficial to the digestive tract and our immune systems. The argument for raw milk is that these good bacteria help maintain a healthy balance in our bodies and make our immune systems stronger.
Proponents of raw milk believe that if it has been “produced under sanitary and healthy conditions” it is safe and even healthy to drink (Campaign for Real Milk). An important point is that even people who advocate for raw milk believe that for it to be considered safe, the milk must come from cows that are “healthy (tested free of TB and undulant fever) and do not have any infections (such as mastitis).” Raw milk should come from cows fed grass, hay, silage, and only a little bit of grain; the cows should be milked in a clean area and the milk should be refrigerated right away.
There are three primary sources of contaminants in milk: from within the cow’s udder, from the outside of the udder, and from handling and storage equipment. Experts agree that if a cow is sick, there is bacteria in her milk. But in a healthy cow, the milk in her udder is virtually sterile. Even in healthy cows, some bacteria are present in different parts of the teats, and that bacteria can enter the milk. But it’s usually in very low levels in a healthy cow.
Why the debate? Well, you can see that raw milk has to come from pretty special cows and special farms. Most large scale, commercial dairy operations are not going to have the kind of conditions that were just described. Only 28 U.S. states allow the sale of raw milk. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration recommend not consuming raw milk. The CDC notes that 79% of disease outbreaks associated with dairy between 1998 and 2011 were due to raw milk or cheese.
Where do we stand at Hansen’s Farm Fresh Dairy? Well, first off, our cows are healthy and well-cared for. Our facilities are very clean. But we do not sell raw milk and we do not plan to sell raw milk. Most dairy farmers don’t want to put themselves at risk for liability. It’s also bad for the dairy industry as a whole, because if there was an outbreak of sick people, the media fallout would damage an industry that already has a shaky public perception. The problem is that it depends on the consumer to store and drink it safely. People can buy raw meat or eggs because the consumer can cook those foods properly to kill any bacteria. With raw milk, we don’t have safeguard. Unpredictable, unpreventable, uncontrollable things happen during milking time that can affect the bacteria content in the milk. For example: if the cow kicks off her machine, it becomes a vacuum cleaner for whatever is in the area. That’s why we drink pasteurized milk.
At Hansen’s Farm Fresh Dairy, we provide our customers with a high-quality product. Our cows are treated well and not given any hormones or antibiotics in their feed. We treat the milk as minimally as possible – very quick pasteurization and no homogenization – because we want it to be fresh, delicious, and healthy.
We don’t believe the health debate should be between pasteurized and raw milk. We believe it should be between pasteurization and homogenization. In other words, raw milk proponents blame pasteurization for everything. Maybe they should be blaming homogenization instead. Some people who claim to be lactose intolerant can drink our milk, and we think that’s because of the damage done to milk via homogenization. Read more about homogenization in our blog post about the topic.
You may have noticed a new product in the Hansen’s stores recently…or perhaps a new aroma – coffee! We are now carrying coffee from Sidecar Coffee Roasters, a new and very local business in Cedar Falls. We’ve had a lot of questions about the new coffee, so we thought we’d take the opportunity to tell you a bit more about Sidecar and the man behind the whole operation. This is the first in a series of features that we will post on the product lines we carry at Hansen’s stores. Aaron McNally, local poet, writer, grad student, and Moo Roo employee, wrote this feature on Sidecar.
When Jed Vander Zanden sets out to roast a batch of coffee beans, he has a lot on his mind.
“Every time you get a different coffee you have to figure out how to develop it,” he explains. “The longer you roast it, you gain some things and you lose some things. It’s a matter of finding the balance of time and air and heat to really get it where you actually nail it. You go way too dark, you get that carbony bitter dirt flavor. If you don’t go dark enough, it’s equally bad.”
The Ethiopian bean he’s working with today “is a wild coffee, it’s funky. It’s really good. I’ve been trying to figure out how to roast it now for it seems like forever. It’s been fun—it’s a real challenge. I’ve gotten to where I actually think it tastes good, it’s just this never-ending pursuit of making it better.” What are his goals for this particular bean? “I just wanna see if I can tweak the profile a little bit. Maybe stretch it out a little longer or speed it up. see if I can get a little more balance, a little more body, a little more sweetness. Which is a little harder in a really dark roast.”
Jed can perfectly control the freshness of his product by constantly monitoring and refreshing his inventory. His small batch coffee stands out in stark comparison to nation-wide suppliers.
Jed prides himself on controlling every element of his roasting process, from selecting the perfect beans to making sure he has the freshest coffee on the shelf. This is something that only a local, small roaster can do to perfection. In a larger operation, “the level of precision that they achieve is not anything like this,” he says. “I can adjust and modify the profile within ten to twenty seconds, just by controlling the air and temperature. The amount of variability I can create with this type of roaster is just entirely different.”
In addition, Jed can perfectly control the freshness of his product by constantly monitoring and refreshing his inventory. His small batch coffee stands out in stark comparison to nation-wide suppliers. With larger operations, “we’re talking about millions of pounds a day being roasted. Then it goes to a warehouse. Then it goes to a distribution center. Then it goes to a secondary place before making it to the shelf. Who knows? It could be three months, it could be nine months old. Coffee is perishable, like anything. The flavor compounds, the essential oils, they all dissipate, they go rancid.”
Jed says that the “sweet spot” for coffee freshness is about one to three weeks. Every bag that he has on display at Hansen’s is stamped with the roast date, so that our customers can determine for themselves whether the product is fresh enough for their liking.
“People who like really good stuff, care about it being local, people who want value but aren’t opposed to paying for quality. That’s Hansen’s.”
Beyond that guarantee of freshness, Jed is also very excited to be selling at Hansen’s Outlet and MooRoo stores for other reasons. He says that Hansen’s customers are the perfect customers for his coffee: “People who like really good stuff, care about it being local, people who want value but aren’t opposed to paying for quality. That’s Hansen’s. Really good milk, cheese, eggs, butter—all those things. Everything Hansen’s provides is stuff that I want to buy. Every week, for my shopping, I have my Hansen’s list. There isn’t a better place for this coffee than Hansen’s.”
In particular, Jed is a fan of Hansen’s whole milk, and prefers it to Half & Half in his coffee. “The milk makes this coffee taste so good. It adds a whole depth of sweetness. I always think that the fat content of Half & Half kind of coats the roof of your mouth, limiting the palate. But the whole milk seems to mix in perfectly.”
Vander Zanden moved to Cedar Falls with his wife, a professor at UNI, two years ago. He has lived in Indiana, Colorado, and D.C., though he grew up here in the Midwest—in Wisconsin. He’s very excited to be in an area where local businesses seem to be popping up and thriving. His coffee business seems to be doing very well here. “I’m loving that it’s growing organically, slowly and steadily, by word of mouth,” he explains.
Come meet Jed on March 16th at Hansen’s Moo Roo location. He’ll be performing a tasting from 1-3 p.m., and will be happy to answer any questions and explain more about his roasting process.
There is actually a lot of confusion between the terms “lactose intolerance” and a “milk allergy” or “dairy allergy.” So in this post we’re going to try to clear it all up for you. First, a couple of definitions.
An intolerance to a food or group of foods is a physical reaction that does not involve the immune system. Many food intolerances stem from something missing in the digestive tract to help a person break down that particular food. Or there might be a reaction that occurs when that food is being digested that is unpleasant to the eater.
So: In order to digest lactose, the carbohydrate in cow’s milk, the body uses an enzyme called lactase. If a person does not have enough lactase to break down the lactose, they will have a reaction (like diarrhea, abdominal pain, or gas). That is lactose intolerance.
An allergy, on the other hand, is something that involves an immune system response and/or the body releasing histamines (chemicals in the body that cause allergy symptoms like runny noses, sneezing, or a rash). When a person has an allergy to something, their body has an immune response and releases chemicals to “fight” that thing.
So: People who are allergic to milk are most likely allergic to one or more of the proteins found in milk. When their bodies try to digest these proteins their immune systems respond to the protein by trying to fight it off. Symptoms can range from the abdominal issues that might be felt with lactose intolerance to much more severe reactions like hives, a rash, vomiting, wheezing, and even anaphylactic shock.
Milk allergies are most common in early childhood (2 to 3% of infants) but for most kids the milk allergy goes away by age 3. It’s a pretty rare condition among adults.
The good news is that if you’re over age 3 and having gastrointestinal symptoms, you’re probably dealing with an intolerance and not an allergy. What’s even better is that a lot of people with lactose intolerance are able to drink Hansen’s milk because it’s less processed than most milk and non-homogenized.
Kangaroos, that’s what!
You know we have a wallaby in the Hansen’s Farm Fresh Dairy logo. My husband, herd manager Blake Hansen, fell in love with wallabies (miniature kangaroos) after visiting Australia and seeing them in the wild. He acquired three of them from an exotic animal dealer in 2002 and we decided to use them as the logo for our milk. It was something different and meant to attract the attention of kids — whom, of course, we want to consume more dairy products. We just make sure people know the milk comes from the cows, not the wallabies! They’ve been quite the tourist attraction over the years.
This year, Blake decided he wanted to raise some kangaroos, so we bought two female babies from a dealer in Texas. They flew into Cedar Rapids in early December, and now they are living in our house. Pogo is about 8 months old and Tootsie is 6 months. They both weigh less than 10 pounds and are about 18 inches tall.
What’s it like to live with kangaroos? For right now they spend a lot of time in warm little bags that simulate their mother’s pouch. They are fed a kangaroo milk replacer four times a day by bottle and eat some solid pellet food called Happy Hopper. Blake puts diapers on them, cutting a slit for their tail. They love to do laps around the house, and they are fast, jumping effortlessly over any obstacle. As I write, Pogo is jumping over the Monopoly game Blake and some of his nieces are playing!
Recently Blake and his brother Brad took Pogo and Tootsie to Hudson Elementary School. The ‘roos brought a lot of smiles to the students’ faces.
Hopefully the kangaroos made an impression on the kids and they equate that experience with drinking Hansen’s milk.
But these kangaroos aren’t drinking our milk. The irony? Marsupials are lactose-intolerant. I don’t think Blake knew that when he picked them for the faces of Hansen’s Dairy!
Written by: Jordan Hansen
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Oooh, it’s cold out. We’ve had our first snowstorm of the year! No matter how you feel about the snow and the cold, I’ll bet that a bowl of Hansen’s ice cream sounds pretty good when you’re watching a holiday movie this weekend.
Shout out your favorite Christmas carol (and the reason you love it) in the comments of this post. We will pick one person at random to win 2 free quarts of Hansen’s ice cream – your choice of flavor!! Winners will be selected on Monday morning, December 24.
Here’s Brad making ice cream at the creamery…yum!
There are just 12 shopping days left before Christmas. Sure, you can get food staples at our stores, but did you know we have some great gifts too? If you are looking for unique, local ideas for the Hansen’s milk lover or foodie on your list, here are our Top 5 Gifts from Hansen’s Dairy.
5. Sport your Hansen Dairy pride all over town with a Hansen’s Insulated Bag or T-shirt. The insulated bags are great for transporting cold goods. Just keep it in your car for a space-saving cooler. (As a bonus, you could fill the bag with our dairy products before giving to the recipient.) We also have different sizes of shirts for each member of the family. All T-shirts have our logo on the back:
All adults: “Legend-Dairy” T-shirts
Ladies: “Fresh from the Farm” V-neck T-shirts
Children: “Milk-Fed” or “Moo Roo” T-shirts
Infants: “Milk-Fed” short-sleeved onesies
4. How about an All-Iowa Breakfast Basket? Include Wildwood Farms Pancake Mix from Holland; a pound of Beeler’s bacon from Lemars, or Niman Ranch Applewood Smoked Bacon from hogs raised in Iowa; a dozen eggs from Craig and Darlene Groothuis in Nashua; in a tub of Hansen’s butter; Faber’s Pure Maple Syrup from Bert; and honey from Tim Laughlin in Grundy Center.
3. Everyone loves a gift card. We can do them in any denomination. The best part? The recipient gets 10% off dairy products when they use it. So if you give that person a $30 gift card, it’s actually worth $33 in dairy products. And when those funds have run out, they can put more money on it and continue to get the discount. (Note: Make sure to purchase the card at the store where the person will be using it. The systems don’t transfer so Moo Roo has separate gift cards from the Outlet.)
2. What better way to enjoy Hansen’s milk or egg nog than in a set of Hansen’s drinking glasses? These are new this year. They are 13 oz. clear glasses with a wide base. There are four separate designs in different colors (brown, red, black, and dark green). Buy separately for $5 each or a set of four for $16.
1. A cheese basket. Most of the cheeses come from Wisconsin (except for Hansen’s famous cheese curds). You can also include a variety of other meats, candies, nuts, jams and related items. We have some premade baskets or you can choose your own items. Great snacks for holiday get-togethers. Print the custom form from the homepage of our website www.hansendairy.com or pick up from Moo Roo in Waterloo, the Outlet in Cedar Falls or the farm in Hudson.
Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
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Rowad Al-Khaleej International School - Al-Khobar Branch - King Faisal Street - Al-Bahr District
We are thrilled to announce our growing presence in the Kingdom with an exciting new branch in Khobar! Our expansion plan is coming to fruition and we couldn’t be more ecstatic – a newly opened location on King Faisal Street of Al-Bahr District was added last year. Now, you can take advantage of all our services without worry about distance or accessibility.
Our newest branch in Al-Khobar, is here to provide an unparalleled educational experience for boys and girls up to fourth grade. Not to mention registration that will open for higher academic levels soon. At this school we strive to be a leader among our peers by providing modern curricula taught by professional teachers as well as international programs that stimulate creativity – equipping our children with the skills necessary for them when they become tomorrow’s leaders.
At Rowad Al-Khaleej School, Al-Khobar Branch, our mission is to equip the future generations with creative thinking and specialized skills so they can keep up with modern times while preserving their Saudi Arabian identity. Our educational framework follows international standards such as the American Pearson curriculum certified by Cognia International Foundation alongside a variety of local and international programs for an all encompassing experience as
- Leader in Me Program: A program based on the book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. It aims to create a leadership spirit in students and push them to take the initiative and lead.
- STEAM Program: A program that focuses on dealing with the five main sciences (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics) in a creative way, in which the student applies the practical curricula instead of memorizing and memorizing
- Pingu Program: A program dedicated to teaching children the English language in a fun way, as it relies on fun activities and simulated audio-visual materials with cartoon drawings.
- Kangaroo Without Borders Program: A program aimed at qualifying students for the International Kangaroo Mathematics Competition. It is a competition targeting students from the first grade of primary school to the third grade of secondary school.
The educational stages at Rowad Al Khaleej International School
In our early childhood program, students learn through developing their sensory motor skills, working with educational hands-on activities and materials that develop their cognition through the child’s direct experience with movement and the five senses: seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling and touching. We encourage learning through play activities that are developmentally age appropriate for our students.
Our Elementary School provides a balanced education through the combination of the American Common Core State Standards using Pearson Materials and the Ministry of Education’s Curriculum for Arabic, Islamic and National Identity. The Elementary School includes grades 1-5. Boys and girls will study in separate classrooms within the Girls School through grade 5. Starting with grade 6, boys will move to the Boys School on the same campus.
At Rowad Al-Khaleej, Our students enjoy an excellent education that has been endorsed by the Ministry of Education. Additionally, we provide a variety of engaging classes to promote learning like :
- Classes for memorizing the Holy Quran.
- Enrichment classes for English language.
- Computer classes.
- Elementary school activities.
Equip the innovators of today with the skills they need to become successful leaders tomorrow! Take advantage of this special offer and register now at our Al-Khobar branch.
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How many people actually use a personal lubricant for women? We thought this was an especially intriguing question, so we recently commissioned TNS Infratest1 to find out the answer for us. The results were as follows: In the age group of 18 to 29 years, 36% use personal lubricants very often or occasionally. For those in the group of 30 to 39 years, 21.4% use personal lubricants very often or occasionally. In total, approximately 64% of all respondents place a value on having variety in their lovemaking. For a large number of the respondents, this includes using good lubricants and stimulating intimate sprays.
We believe that a lot more people ought to spice up their love life with a personal lubricant for women and wonder whether it’s perhaps because some don’t really know how to use them 😉 Read the following to find out how a good lubricant can be used to bring a bit more spice to your lovemaking. It’s worth it!
Why use a personal lubricant for women anyway?
Basically, many women do not really create enough moisture during sex. There are many reasons for this such as stress, pregnancy /childbirth or unbalanced hormone levels. But this article isn’t about that. It is much more important to know that a good lubricant can counteract any of these problems, allowing the issue of low moisture levels to fade into the background.
Water-based or silicone-based personal lubricants for women?
Before using a personal lubricant for women, you should first decide whether you want to use a water-based or silicone-based personal lubricant. Essentially, the difference between the two is that silicone molecules remain on the surface of the skin, whereas water is absorbed by the upper layer of the skin. This means that silicone-based personal lubricants have the advantage of a long-lasting lubricating effect. Here at pjur, we recommend using a silicone-based lubricant such as our pjur ORIGINAL for long-lasting fun. But in the end, the decision is up to you – or both of you – to make.
So let’s get on with it
- If you have never used a personal lubricant for women before, it’s a good idea to first try it out before having intercourse by applying a dab to your finger to see what it feels like. Or you can try it out on yourself first to figure out how much lubricant you need or what is most pleasant for you.
- When you use a good lubricant for the first time during sex, you should apply just a dab on the tip of your finger or in the palm of your hand. In most cases an amount about the size of a hazelnut will suffice. It should be used sparingly, especially at the beginning. Next, gently apply the personal lubricant onto you or your partner’s genitals using the tip of your finger or the palm of your hand. You can also simply massage the personal lubricant for women directly onto the genital area.
- By the way: a personal lubricant for women can feel a little cool at first, but that changes quickly as the lubricant takes on the temperature of your body. The most important thing is that it feels pleasant for you.
- In addition to the genital area, lubrication can also be used on your sex toys and for mutual massaging. For this, you will need to use a bit more of the lubricant. Personal lubricants for women offer a wide array of possibilities. Let your imaginations run wild!
- Be a little cautious when using sex toys made of silicone with silicone-based personal lubricants; both products should be of the same high quality. Our silicone-based lubricants have been tested by prominent toy manufacturers and found to be suitable. We use only the highest quality silicone that is intended for manufacturing hair and skin care products. As of yet, we do not know of a single case of any complications. pjur water-based lubricants are perfect for use in combination with any sex toy made of silicone. But if your sex toy is made of another material, feel free to use a silicone-based lubricant.
- You should also be careful when using a personal lubricant for women with condoms. Be sure to read the instructions for the personal lubricant carefully. Not every good lubricant is suitable for use with condoms. Our pjur personal lubricants come with the following instructions: “Compatible with latex condoms”. All of our lubricants have passed condom testing and are safe to use with latex condoms.
- In addition, personal lubricants for women can and should be used during anal sex. This particular genital area is lacking in natural moisture, a fact that is counteracted by the use of good lubricants. In this case, you should apply the personal lubricant directly onto the penis or dildo – not directly into the anus.
- If you have chosen a water-based personal lubricant, it may dry out after a period of time as it is absorbed by the skin. Keep the bottle handy, apply a fresh layer and keep on going 😉
- You can also use personal lubricants for women for a relaxing massage. This can be purely for relaxation, rather than for sexual purposes. Why not give each other a relaxing massage and see if it leads to more. For massages, you will need a generous amount of a good lubricant.
Perhaps you should take it slow at first to see what you both find enjoyable. Some like it very slippery while others want to feel a bit more friction. It doesn’t make sense to use a lot of personal lubricant, if you like to feel some friction. Deciding how much lubricant to use and for what reason is totally up to you and your personal desires!
We hope that more people can enjoy an exciting love life with good lubricants! Perhaps this article will inspire you to try out personal lubricants and help you to use them correctly.
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Discussion in 'Stocks' started by NZDSPeCIALISt, Sep 9, 2006.
Hmm interesting choice. I would be more conservative and go with vonage, personally.
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the Exxon Mobile Chevron Hess Valero Texaco Corporation
Most likely some company that we have never heard off....
I know Google and Intel have a higher growth rate but my guess is Wal-mart
China's middle class is growing at a rate such that HALF the population will be making more than $10,000 a year by 2010. (only 1 in 5 now)
So by 2010, Wal-mart will be offering its "EVERYDAY LOW PRICES" to a target market of about 750 million people!
A company you wouldn't guess would be it now.
We could well have a major recession in between and be in a new growth phase in 2020 ... and it could be a new technology so just as Cisco Systems was briefly the highest market cap in the last boom XXXCorp of Malaysia could be the biggy in June 2020.
Re Walmart: this wouldn't be the first low cost supplier that couldn't transplant its model to other countries. It might do it but I'll be very surprised if its as good as the MBA courses used to think it was
Bank of China
A company you have never heard of and perhaps does not exist yet. Google was unheard of 10 years ago so in 2020 it will be some new company and with simple inflation and rising prices, it will have an IPO and huge run up and huge market cap. But it will be meaningless as market cap is just a reflection of an inflated price.
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Talking heads return to their talking points — along with Bush-whining, torture-baiting, football-spiking — after an all-too-brief respite.
For an all-too-brief moment after President Obama's historic announcement that the U.S. had killed Osama bin Laden, there was refreshingly little of the political posturing that usually follows major news events.
Well, that was quick.
Media personalities on both sides of the ideological aisle quickly returned to playing politics, this time with the ramifications of the slain Bin Laden.
Here's a small sample:
>> Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh — who opened his radio show the day after Bin Laden's death by praising President Obama — has since snapped back into his controversial, conservative self.
Last week, Limbaugh assured listeners who were "perhaps paranoid" that Obama's poll numbers were rising that the president's electability would still be tied to the economy, not an Osama kill.
Limbaugh then demanded an apology from the White House, Democrats and "the American Left" for undermining the efforts of the Bush Administration to capture Bin Laden. "They have sought to undermine the U.S. military, not only in Iraq but around the world," Limbaugh said. "Barack Obama campaigned against the very enhanced interrogations that has made him a hero." He also criticized Obama for not thanking the Bush-Cheney White House enough in his historic speech.
>> Bill O’Reilly
O'Reilly, host of Fox News' top-rated "Factor," praised Obama for killing Bin Laden, and said the coverage of the operation had been fair — before taking a passive-aggressive swipe at the "liberal" media. “Here’s why I think the media has been fair, generally speaking, in its reportage of this incident: Because it helps Barack Obama," O'Reilly said. "And I’m not saying that with any disdain, because I do believe the president did a gutsy, good job on this.”
O'Reilly added: “I’ll tell you what’s going to happen if the right starts attacking him — the big voices on the right on radio and television. The independents will re-elect Barack Obama. Because they will say it’s unfair.”
By Monday, a full week after Bin Laden's killing, O'Reilly — who continued to call the Obama's mission "gutsy" — was on to a new talking point: "Can President Obama really protect us?"
"There are troubling questions going forward," O'Reilly said, pointing to the Army Field Manual as the only tool Americans currently have to interrogate captured terrorists. "Terrorists do not have to answer any questions at all, and nothing will happen if they don't. So if the CIA captures a person they believe knows of a nuke attack, for example, on the U.S.A., they can't do anything to make that person talk. Does that
make sense to you?"
>> Rachel Maddow
On her top-rated MSNBC show, Maddow immediately criticized Pakistan for possibly harboring Bin Laden, and suggesting they were part of the U.S. "capture or kill" operation. "For years, members of the Pakistani intelligence service had said publicly that Osama bin Laden was dead," she said, "and now that he actually is dead, they want credit for killing him."
Then, as a guest on "The Daily Show," Maddow told Jon Stewart the Bin Laden killing was "one of those stories that is impossible to mess up unless you try to get out ahead of it," i.e., the cable news-fueled punditry we are accustomed to.
"There's plenty of time to score political points on this," Maddow said. "Osama bin Laden is going to be dead forever."
>> Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert
Stewart, who told Maddow the pundit-free, unified reaction lasted "I think 47 minutes," did first approach the killing from an apolitical perspective on "The Daily Show," choosing to focus on the absurdity of cable news anchors trying to keep the news embargoed and the gift of "Abbottabad" to New Yawkers.
Stephen Colbert, meanwhile, couldn't contain himself. "This is huge for him, and Obama knows it,” Colbert said, before rolling a slow-motion clip of the president strutting to the podium, backed by a blaxploitation soundtrack.
>> Bill Maher
On Friday's "Real Time," Maher delivered some of the sharpest political criticism, chastising the Republican party for not getting Bin Laden, or anything else, for that matter.
"The Republicans, the fiscally conservative, strong on defense party, are neither fiscally conservative nor strong on defense," Maher said. "They have to tell us exactly what they're good at. It's not defense — 9/11 happened on your watch, and you retaliated by invading the wrong country, and you lost a 10-year game of hide and seek with Osama bin Laden. And you're responsible for running up most of the debt, which more than anything makes us weak. You're supposed to be the party with the killer instinct, but it was a Democrat who put a bomb in Gaddafi's bedroom and a bullet in Bin Laden's eye."
Later, Maher asked, "Why can’t you just admit that Barack Obama is one efficient, steely-nerved, multitasking, black ninja gangster president?” | <urn:uuid:fed8a820-86f4-4d01-aea3-0a17769f8595> | CC-MAIN-2015-18 | http://www.thewrap.com/media/column-post/week-after-bin-laden-killing-media-back-political-punditry-27232/ | 2015-04-18T23:59:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-18/segments/1429246636255.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20150417045716-00015-ip-10-235-10-82.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972353 | 1,148 |
The race to bring back supersonic flight hasn't quite been unfolding at the speed of sound—the last supersonic jet, the erstwhile Concorde, was retired in 2003, and no one's been able to bring it back since. But, if news out of the Paris Air Show on Tuesday is any indication, it might finally be picking up pace: As the BBC reports, Boom Technology—a Denver-based start-up among the growing pack of supersonic innovators—announced that it had already received 76 orders from five unnamed airlines for its 55-seat passenger jet that the company hopes will be breaking the sound barrier on flights across oceans by 2023. On its website, Boom says one of its passenger jets would cost $200 million, but it's unclear whether this is the price it is charging these early adopters. Boom did reveal, however, that the 76 orders include non-refundable down payments, capital that the company will use to continue the plane's development.
Before the company can roll out the passenger jet, though, it needs to enter a long period of testing. Supersonic flight isn't exactly new, but Boom's plane does employ technology that makes it quieter, cheaper, faster, and safer than the Concorde. For testing, as was announced last year, the company is developing a small-scale version of the jet: The XB-1, or "Baby Boom," is just 17-feet across, holds two people, and can fly at Mach 2.2 speeds (1,451 mph), or about ten percent faster than the Concorde. At the Paris Air Show, CEO Blake Scholl revealed that after some small changes, the design for the XB-1 had passed a performance and safety review and that flight tests would begin next year. After that testing is complete, the company would move toward manufacturing and testing the larger aircraft.
If things go according to plan, in six years the Boom passenger jet could be shuttling passengers from Paris to New York in three and a half hours, and from San Francisco to Tokyo in a little over five. Scholl estimates that a London-New York flight would cost $5,000, or about the current cost of a business class trip. (A Concorde trip on the same route, by comparison, went for around $15,000.) Boom interiors would match the price-tag as well, with an all-business-class model, although it's unclear whether lie-flat seats would be part of that. Still, when it only takes you about as long as a viewing of The Godfather: Part II to cross the Atlantic, a good night's sleep becomes less important.
While the current list of pre-orderers is still under wraps, we do know of one customer: Richard Branson's Virgin Group ordered ten Boom planes before the prototype had even been fully designed, and it has also offered the facilities and engineering expertise of its Virgin Galactic team to help in research, development. and ground testing. With big-name competitors like NASA on supersonic quests of their own, Branson seems to be betting big that, with a little help from his own empire, a small start-up can get off the ground first. At least four other airlines seem to think so, too. | <urn:uuid:46c178db-d8a1-433e-8bbd-a40050196b99> | CC-MAIN-2021-25 | https://www.cntraveler.com/story/boom-takes-76-orders-of-its-supersonic-jet | 2021-06-21T19:58:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-25/segments/1623488289268.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20210621181810-20210621211810-00504.warc.gz | en | 0.971478 | 676 |
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The present Edition of the Complete Works of Claude Debussy is being published in 34 volumes, under the auspices of the French Ministry of Culture, the Centre national de la Recherche scientifique, and the Bibliotèque nationale de France. The volumes are divided into the following categories: 1. Piano works 2. Songs 3. Chamber music 4. Choral Works 5. Orchestral Works 6. Theatrical works In each volume, the music is preceded by a foreword retracing the music's genesis, and is followed by the critical notes describing sources, editorial method, and variants. Particularly significant variants are emphasized in the list of variants by bar references printed in bold type. All known sources (sketches, manuscripts, proofs, editions, post-publication revisions, correspondence, historical recordings) are examined in detail. The musical text proposes the comoser's final intended version, as far as this can be ascertained. In cases where a work exists in two significantly different finished versions, both are published. When such variants concern only isolated passages, the earlier versions are given in appendix. Works hitherto unpublished, and unfinished works, are published as far as the state of the sources permits. | <urn:uuid:f00bdb63-7124-4588-a95a-d2aaa0c66830> | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | https://www.musiciansfriend.com/books-sheet-music-media/editions-durand-complete-works-volume-2-critical-edition-full-score-hardbound-with-critical-commentary-by-debussy | 2018-05-21T09:11:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794863972.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20180521082806-20180521102806-00577.warc.gz | en | 0.87282 | 378 |
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